EZRA LEVANT ｜ Canada’s airports enter a total melt-down. And Trudeau doesn’t care.
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An American journalist tells the story of being stuck in Pearson Airport for six hours waiting for his flight home from Toronto to Boston. And a former Air Canada executive shares his point of view on the situation. Ezra explains why Canada's airports are in a total meltdown, and why Trudeau doesn't care.
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Hello, my rebels. Today, I'm going to take you through the absolute fiasco that is Toronto's
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international airport. It's called Pearson Airport. Just an incredible mess. And I want
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to show it to you through the eyes of an American journalist who tells his unbelievable story.
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And I'll also quote from a former Air Canada executive, show you his point of view. Very,
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very interesting. And I got lots to say because, of course, I haven't been allowed on a plane in
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quite a while, along with millions of other Canadians. That's ahead. I think it's a fun
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Tonight, Canada's airports enter a total meltdown and Trudeau doesn't care. It's June 7th,
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and this is the Ezra Levant Show. Shame on you, you censorious bug.
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I haven't flown on a plane in a very long time. When we sent a team of journalists to Davos,
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Switzerland a few weeks ago to cover the World Economic Forum and the World Health Organization
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Assembly, you might have noticed that none of them were Canadians. Our reporters were from Australia,
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the United Kingdom and America, because our Canadians are banned from flying. It's outrageous.
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It's illegal. It's unconstitutional. It's treating healthy people like sick people. It's
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treating innocent people like guilty people. And it makes no sense. It is now conventional wisdom.
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It's well-documented that even people who take the COVID vaccines can still get sick and can still pass
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the illness on to others. It would meet no traditional definition of a vaccine. Here's the
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biggest vaccine monger himself saying so. The idea of checking if people are vaccinated,
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you know, if you have breakthrough infections, what's the point?
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Makes even less sense given that the unvaccinated can still travel on buses, which aren't as well
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ventilated and obviously take a lot longer, keeping people together a lot longer than a plane would.
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There's no science here. No other country in the world does this, with the possible exception of
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China. But I'm not even sure about that. The fact that the entire establishment in Canada just
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accepts this is deeply depressing and it shows just how shallow the roots of liberty have become
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in our Canadian soil. So it's with a small degree of schadenfreude, that's a German word for
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taking joy in someone else's misery, that I see stories like this from airports, especially the
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Toronto airport. Now, I have no malice towards those who are flying while I am not allowed to do so.
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I don't wish to deny them their right to choose to take the jab, just as I don't want my own right
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not to take the jab to be denied. But if I'm in the cast of untouchables, if I'm segregated,
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if I'm a second-class citizen, I can at least comfort myself by knowing that those who have
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complied with Trudeau's demands, whether for their own reasons or his reasons, they're not really doing
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a lot of flying themselves. Because look at that, look at our airports, they are in a meltdown.
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Look at this video from yesterday. This is an American. I think he used to be an NHL player. He's
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a sports journalist for Barstool Sports, great guys. He was simply trying to get home from Edmonton to
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Boston. Listen to this story, this video, as I say this, by the way, has had just under two million
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views in the past day. It's a tweet. He says, I live at Toronto Pearson International Airport,
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the worst place on earth. I smell so bad. Watch the video.
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Hey guys, Whit here. I don't even really know where to explain. So for people telling me to drive,
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I can't drive. They have my bags, they won't give them back. So I had Edmonton to Toronto
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yesterday. I landed around three. I then had Toronto to Boston at 8.30. Customs was about three hours,
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got through, flight canceled from Toronto to Boston. All right. At this point, now I go and I see there
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is a 400 person line with two Air Canada workers. There's a million canceled flights. Everyone's
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just panicking. So I waited in that line about six hours. At near the end of the line,
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LA, you know how much my feet hurt? But at near the end of the line, they closed it. They just said,
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oh, you have to go somewhere else. We had to reenter Canada. We'd go through Canadian customs.
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So by the time I finally see someone from Air Canada, it's 1am. I said, can I just get my bags?
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I had a ride to Buffalo all set up and I had a jet blue flight from Buffalo. I just need to get out
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of this country, out of this airport. This is the worst airport on earth. I'm telling you,
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there's no other airport like this. So they say, no, no, no, you can't have your bags. Your bags are
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already like in the middle and no man's land. You can't have your bags. So we have a 8.50 flight for
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you from Toronto, Boston for this morning. This is last, this is at 1am. Okay. I be here at 5am.
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They said, so I got here at 4.55. I wanted to be five minutes early. So I wanted to be three hours
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and 55 minutes early. I get here. This woman says, oh, we booked you actually on a flight from
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here to Montreal and then Montreal to Boston. But that leaves in 50 minutes and you can't make it.
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They never sent me an email. They just, I started laughing. I mean, what are you,
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what are you going to do? It was either that or like cry. So now I'm on a, so now I'm on a 10am,
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but there's nobody really around the gate. Um, yeah, I'm just, I'm so in shock at this place.
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It is the biggest disgrace known to man. He had other videos too on the same subject.
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He says, Pearson airport is hell on earth. The worst of the worst. This is customs line to reenter
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Canada after I went through U S customs seven hours ago. Now, if you don't understand why you would be
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doing that, you're not alone. A number of people said, what are you talking about? And here's
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Whitney's attempt to explain it. He says, bro, that is the line for Canadian customs. I arrived
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from Edmonton and went through U S customs in Toronto. The flight was then canceled. Air Canada
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brought us to no man's land and waited for six hours in line to then have to reenter Canada after we
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were given new flights. Can you believe that? He had to go through customs. He was flying from
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Edmonton to go through American customs, but then Canadian to get back. Can you believe that?
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It had a few more tweets that were painful and unbelievable, except he was showing it. Um,
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here's how it finally, finally ended. He says, it's over. I want to thank everyone for their T's and
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peace, thoughts and prayers and the amazing chicklets. That's what he calls his listeners
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who reached out to help best fans on earth. The exact opposite of Pearson international airport.
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God bless anyone who ever has to step foot in that hell hole.
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I'm not sure if those are the words of someone who is in a rush to come back to Canada. And of course,
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even if he was in a rush to come back to Canada, it sounds like he couldn't come in a rush.
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He would be trapped in a Kafkaesque nightmare of lineups. I was reading about schadenfreude. It's
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a weird word, isn't it? Lots of big, long German words like that. Gloating is probably the closest
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word in English. And psychologists say that schadenfreude comes from three things, aggression
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or rivalry or justice. Aggression is in you, you hate someone. You want to see him fail. It's just,
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you know, you don't like someone. Or rivalry. That's it. You have a competitor. So it's personal.
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And then the third one, justice. It's sort of like karma. You think he had it coming. Ah,
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you know, there's some justice in the world. Now, none of those three things apply here,
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right? I mean, this seems like a good guy. I'm not aggressive towards him. He's a foreign
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reporter who had the worst travel experience of his life. So I guess I take it back.
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I don't feel schadenfreude watching his story. I'm not taking joy from his suffering. I'm not a rival
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of his. There's no justice in it. What's he got to do with it at all, actually? He's an American who
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wanted to visit us. Seems like a fun guy, actually. Any of the worst experience, and now millions of
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people know about it. What a laugh. Just a week ago, the transport minister, Omar al-Jabra,
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launched some lame government PR attempt to rekindle international tourism in Canada.
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Yeah, like you can have a little Twitter ad, but I don't think that's going to rebut
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millions of people watching Whitney's videos, especially Americans seeing and hearing the truth
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for themselves. And I don't think even really, you know, feel schadenfreude for Canadians who are
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flying. I mean, why should they be punished for wanting to get back to normal like we all do?
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The fact that Trudeau treats them like first-class citizens legally, and he treats me and millions of
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others as second-class citizens, it's not really the fault of the first-class citizens. I mean,
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it might be nice to see a bit of solidarity, but really, if the people whose job it is to stand up
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for civil liberties, if they don't, why should you expect normal people to do so? The media,
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they don't care. The courts, they don't care. The public health doctors, they don't care. The airlines
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themselves, if they're silent, why should a normal person speak out? I mean, to do the right thing is
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the answer, of course. But what about those who are literally duty-bound to fight against this
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injustice? Where's the CEO of Air Canada himself? We saw that brave tweet from the WestJet CEO the
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other day. Remember, he's new to the job, new to Canada. I think he only started in February, so
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he doesn't even know that the Canadian way is to be compliant and submissive. Air Canada knows that
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better than anyone's so much for corporate citizenship in Canada. That just means being
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obedient. I thought this was a riveting statement by a tourism official, though. The bravest thing I
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had heard to that point. You take a listen for a minute. This is really about facilitating the smooth
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travel process. So this is backing up arrivals at our border. You're talking about, you know,
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if you just take the example of Pearson, 30,000 people coming through per day through our international
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arrivals into our facility. And it would normally take a customs agent 30 seconds to process that
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passenger when they're at their desk. It's, you know, it should take an international standard would
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be about 20 minutes to get through the line. And we're seeing much longer lines. We're seeing
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people backed up waiting on planes anywhere from 30 up to 75 minutes at peak times. So this is just
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unacceptable in terms of entry into Canada. And the reason is, is because each person has to be
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vetted in terms of health questions that are asked multiple times, both in the arrive can app, also at
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the machine by the customs agent at the desk. And then we need to decide, or the government agency needs
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to decide who is going to be randomly selected for testing. 4000 people a day are randomly selected for
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testing. But we need to vet all 30,000 of those passengers into Pearson, 50,000 into our country.
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It's slowing down the process in terms of smooth arrivals into our country. Our airports were not
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built to facilitate public health requirements. They were built for the smooth, you know, transiting
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of passengers welcoming, welcoming into our country. So this is really what's backing up the system at our
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international arrival. She's so right. There are mass public health facilities in the world.
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Ellis Island, as a place in New York City, near the Statue of Liberty, where new immigrants to America
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over a century ago, were inspected for disease and quarantined when they arrived by ship from Europe.
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A mass health inspection station, a mass immigration station, and a jail. All in one, you know, 12 million
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people passed through Ellis Island. Just huge. But that was its purpose. It was built for that.
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Regular citizens didn't go through there. It was just for these newcomers. Now, Justin Trudeau has asked
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Pearson International Airport in Toronto, by far Canada's busiest airport, with an enormous number
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of foreign flights to boot, especially from the United States. So suddenly you're asking a busy airport
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to change from being a busy airport into an Ellis Island. How is that possible? Even changing a 30-second
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document inspection to a two-minute document inspection, as if that's all it was,
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that alone can back things up hours. Think about it. If you have hundreds of people coming off a
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plane, that's hours. The vaccine checks on foreigners whose home countries no longer require them to
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carry their vaccine cards around, including America, of course. Seriously, who on earth would come up
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here unless they absolutely had to? Did you see that video from that Whitney guy?
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Now, Duncan D. is the name of a former chief operating officer of Air Canada about a decade ago.
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His job was literally to make the planes fly on time.
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He knows logistics and schedules and all the behind-the-scenes planning.
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I'd like to read a series of tweets from him to you, each one a fascinating lesson,
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something that Trudeau and his transport minister have no clue about. Ready?
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Airlines are not configured to deal with three- to four-hour security and customs delays.
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That crew that was scheduled to operate your flight?
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They're out of duty time because the flight they operated this morning was held off-gate for two
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hours. Isn't that interesting? That aircraft that was scheduled to operate your morning flight?
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Sorry, it missed its scheduled maintenance last night because it couldn't offload its passengers on
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time because the customs hall was full, so it can't be operated until the maintenance is completed.
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It's taking your bags a couple of hours to be delivered? Sorry, but the crew that was supposed
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to offload your bags is delayed taking the bags off another flight that customs held off-gate.
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Why are there no staff to help you rebook your canceled flight when there are 400 people in line
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ahead of you? Sorry, the agents who were scheduled to start the customer service counter are still
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boarding their last flight because it took travelers three hours to get through security.
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You missed your connection because customs took two hours? The airline took off without you and the
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next flight with space isn't for two to three days? Sorry, but if the airline held the flight for you,
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the travelers using the aircraft on the return leg would have missed their connections.
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You arrived at the airport three hours before departure, but there isn't an agent to check
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your bag in? That's because the agent who was assigned is meeting a flight that was waiting for
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at a gate since the last flight that was assigned to it was held off-gate because customs was full.
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And then he concludes by saying the government may want to minimize the fallout from its poor planning,
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but airlines are not configured to handle 65 plus days of delays. They are there simply not enough
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crews, staff, aircraft, or empty seats to fix the government's mess. Whoa, did you and I just learn a
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lot about running an airplane there? And you add hours of delays. Imagine the domino effect of that.
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He's right on all those points, of course. I mean, think about any place where there are lineups that have to
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move pretty quickly and things need to move on time. A bus stop is a small example, a train station,
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a gas station, a grocery store, checkout line, a restaurant, a movie line, anything. And then
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imagine adding a government bureaucrat asking stupid questions about unscientific things for which they
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are poorly trained and understaffed. Nothing would work. Like imagine a gas station where you have to
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talk to someone for five minutes before you're allowed to pump your gas. Or a grocery store
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checkout where someone held you up for two minutes before you got it. Like imagine any other place
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in the world that we would break down. Blaming the airlines doesn't make sense, though it is fair to
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ask. How many senior experienced staff did Air Canada fire because they didn't get jabbed? A hundred?
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A thousand? I wonder if losing hundreds of competent, experienced staff might have added to this mess.
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Just a crazy thought. They should be rehired, apologized to, and compensated.
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So where is Trudeau? He doesn't care. He flies on a private jet courtesy of you. He doesn't care.
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So where's Omar al-Jabra, the transport minister? Well, I took a look at his Twitter feed and it gives
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some idea of what he's up to. Here he is busy with very important business for a transport minister
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in meeting with the Ukraine government, apparently. Oh, here he is calling Canadians racist. That's
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his part-time duties in cabinet. And here he is, busy meeting with children from his writing.
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That's a Trudeau specialty because children typically don't ask tough questions.
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Yeah, so I'm not happy that anyone is being stuck for 6, 12, 8, 24, 36 hours at Pearson Airport.
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I retract that whole Schadenfreude thing. No one deserves this except for maybe the people who voted,
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for it, the people who agreed with Trudeau when he said we shouldn't tolerate the unvaccinated.
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There are also people who are openly opposed to the vaccination.
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They don't believe in science. They are often misogynes. They are often racist.
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It's a small group, but they take place. And there, we have to make a choice as a leader,
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Yeah, I'm sort of happy that people who voted for him are delayed. If you voted for Trudeau
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or for his enabler, Jagmeet Singh, yeah, you kind of asked for this. So yeah, no sympathy for me,
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but most Canadians did not. But maybe that's important. Maybe once liberal voters, mask lovers,
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maybe the people who thought the punishments would just be on the unvaccinated, maybe it's
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actually essential that their travel plans are absolutely destroyed. Because maybe Trudeau will
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listen to their calls for help. Trudeau did all this. He kept all these abusive rules as a vengeance
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on the unvaccinated. That's the delay they're talking about. No other country does this.
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It's a vendetta against the unvaccinated. It's a punishment. There's no science behind it.
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The only question is how much collateral damage is Trudeau willing to do to other people, his own
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people, bystanders, Canada-US trade, the airlines themselves, before he must bend the knee and get
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rid of his vaccine rules like the rest of the world has done. I don't know the answer to that. I've never
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seen Trudeau acknowledge that he was wrong before on anything. I've never seen him apologize or admit
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failure. This is the guy, remember, who sexually assaulted Rose Knight in Creston, BC. And when asked
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about it, said, well, she just experienced it differently. And the media bought that.
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I've been reflecting very carefully on what I remember from that incident almost 20 years ago.
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And again, I feel I am confident that I did not act inappropriately. But part of this awakening that
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we're having as a society, a long-awaited realization, is that it's not just one side of the story that matters.
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That the same interactions could be experienced very differently from one person to the next. And I am
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not going to speak for the woman in question. I would never presume to speak for her. But I know that
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there is an awful lot of reflection to be had as we move forward as a society on how people perceive
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different interactions. Like I said, I do not feel that I acted inappropriately in any way. But I respect
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the fact that someone else might have experienced that differently. And this is part of the reflections
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that we have to go through. Yeah. Why would he bend the knee on this? But look at this. Look at this. Just
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today. Toronto mayor says delays at Pearson Airport, unacceptable, after video of ex-NHLers ordeal
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goes vile. He's talking about that video we showed. Now, there is no greater coward in politics, no
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greater follower as opposed to a leader, no more conventional thinker in this country's political
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political world than the mayor of Toronto, John Tory. And he was a masked fetishist of the first order.
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He's the weirdo who drew circles in public parks and you had to stay in your circle.
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On the lawn, you're crazy. So if he is calling for change, you know the tide has turned. I mean,
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naturally, he cares more about an ex-NHLer than an ordinary person. He's a snob, naturally. So yeah.
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I look at the pain and disaster and dislocation, the destruction of business plans, of family plans.
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And I sort of laugh because I can't be part of that. And I hope that those who are being unfairly
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punished by it, and liberals who are too stupid to anticipate the consequences of their own votes,
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hopefully their discomfort and inconvenience is enough to change the rules in a way that our
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courts and our media and our public health officers would not do. Stay with us for more.
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Welcome back. Well, there's a crazy phenomenon these days called drag queen story hour,
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where outrageously dressed drag queens read books to school children, typically in schools or libraries,
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children of tender years in the most astonishing displays. It wasn't very long ago where transvestites
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and drag queens were an exotic and very adult production, a very obscure taste. And the idea that
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children would be involved was unthinkable. Now it's moved from drag queen story hour to actually
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recruiting kids to participate in stripping. Take a look at this of a drag queen event at a gay bar
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in Dallas, Texas. Note the sign that says it's not going to lick itself.
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Children are encouraged to tip the strippers. Now, some might say this is anti-gay to criticize this. I think
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if you put aside the issue of homosexuality, come to the main question, would it be any better, would it
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be any different if these were eight, nine, ten-year-old girls at a heterosexual strip club?
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The answer is, of course not. Putting aside any question of homosexuality or heterosexuality,
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why is there any sexuality at all being foisted on young children in this way?
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It's truly wokeness gone mad, and who better to challenge it than this man? Look at him in full
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flight, giving it what for to a town council dressed playing the part, I guess a form of drag,
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playing a leftist demanding action. Take a look at Alex Stein. Hello, how you guys doing, council?
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Um, so my name is Alexandria Stein, and I'm here today to call out transphobia here in Plano.
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I'm currently being restricted from swimming in the city of Plano Swim League against the women,
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even though it's clear that I reassigned my gender last week. Like, for example, do I look like a man?
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Obviously I'm not. This is a woman. But they're not going to let me swim and compete against the
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ladies because of transphobia. So what I need you guys to do is I need you to wake up. We have
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champions like Leah Thomas. She's an NCAA champion, the best swimmer in college today. I can't get a
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scholarship unless I'm able to send a recruiting tape to these colleges. So they say, oh, oh, you have
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an unfair advantage, Alexandria. What, what looks like, does this look like an unfair advantage to y'all?
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Does this look like an unfair advantage? There's nothing unfair about this. I mean, look at me.
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I'm freaking, I'm the same as a girl. It's really hard to tell if that was satire or if that was
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a real woke activist. These days it's tough to tell. I can tell you that it was satire,
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political comedy, sort of Jonathan Swift style. And we're joined now by Alex Stein. He's actually in
00:28:14.040
the studios of The Blaze in Dallas. He was outside that strip club on the weekend when
00:28:21.640
those shenanigans went down and he joins us now. Alex, what a pleasure to have you on the show.
00:28:25.640
Well, Ezra, thank you for having me. I really appreciate you. And I know you're doing such
00:28:29.400
a great job with Rebel. You know, I know you live in a country where free speech is going to be
00:28:33.240
limited at any time. So you are a real rebel for speaking against the establishment. So I really want
00:28:38.520
to applaud you. And now let's talk about me. I am primetime 99. I'm a comedian. But see, you made
00:28:43.880
a good point. I like to consider myself to be the Andy Kaufman-esque, the political version of Andy
00:28:49.240
Kaufman, because what I want to do is I want to blur the line of reality and fiction so that people
00:28:54.120
question the reality in which they live. So that's why I do this astroturfing or culture jamming.
00:28:59.720
I'm trying to highlight the most absurd parts of our culture and jam it in people's face so they
00:29:04.360
can get a better idea of what's really happening and what the agenda of these evil people or this
00:29:09.720
establishment is really trying to make us follow. Well, it's a tried and true form of satire. I mean,
00:29:15.240
remember, Jonathan Swift, hundreds of years ago, he wrote a story about called a modest proposal,
00:29:22.040
which was, of course, that to eat the poor. He didn't mean it. It was just so absurd. And it was
00:29:27.480
a thought experiment. It was satire. It was political commentary. I think you are the modern version
00:29:32.680
of Jonathan Swift, but you don't just write it. You act it out. You live it out. Tell me what you
00:29:37.480
did in Dallas on the weekend at this drag queen strip event for kids. I mean, I really don't care
00:29:43.640
what adult people do in a club at night, consenting adults and all that. But to get kids involved,
00:29:52.600
gay club, straight club, it just seems really strange to be targeting young children.
00:29:57.000
Ezra, you nailed it. Listen, like a lot of conservatives are ultra conservative and they
00:30:01.800
are really against gay marriage and they're against, you know, the gay agenda. But for me,
00:30:05.400
I don't really I don't mind. I mean, if a person wants to be homosexual and do that in their private
00:30:09.560
life, I actually don't care. And if a person wants to drag and go to a drag club and have drag brunch,
00:30:14.760
go ahead. This is a free country. I'm a libertarian in that mindset. But once you target children,
00:30:19.240
because that's what this was, this was like I imagine in college or at high school when a drug dealer
00:30:24.520
gives a kid their first drug, the first drug is always free because they're trying to get you
00:30:28.840
hooked. That's the kind of vibrational energy this had like come into this bar. Because I remember
00:30:33.880
in a car when I was in college, going to a bar was the coolest thing ever. So you indoctrinate these
00:30:38.520
kids making it think, oh, well, if I'm gay, maybe I'll get to hang out at bars. I'll get to dance.
00:30:43.000
And you had these parents. See, this is the problem. Having a trans kid is a lot like having a vegan cat.
00:30:48.840
It's not the cat or the kid making the decision. It's the owner or the parent.
00:30:52.440
And that was the problem here is the lack of parental guidance. And the parents should be
00:30:57.080
held accountable more than the kids. But you nailed it. They were insinuating stripping that
00:31:01.720
it's not going to lick itself. All this was sexualized. It wasn't just some simple family
00:31:06.520
outing. This is a sexual indoctrination of young children and toddlers, Ezra.
00:31:11.720
You know, transvestites, typically men dressing as women is is centuries old, really.
00:31:18.440
And but it's a very adult thing. I think the decision to target children is what is the crisis
00:31:29.720
here. And it's a cover for pedophilia. And these are not subjects that we talk a lot about on this
00:31:37.080
show. I find them distraithful to talk about. But I think what they're doing is they're using the
00:31:42.040
political momentum of pride and gay pride and gay equality and gay marriage, which is all about
00:31:47.720
adult things. And they're and targeting children is a stowaway. It's sneaking in. I mean, if you look
00:31:57.160
at the modern pride flag, there's so many colors on there. It's much more than just the rainbow.
00:32:02.440
I think they're trying to have a little stowaway. If you're getting eight, nine,
00:32:05.560
ten year old kids involved, that's not gay or straight anymore. That is pedophilia.
00:32:10.680
And I can't even believe I'm using these words. But I really think that's what it is.
00:32:15.720
Well, Ezra, you're not wrong. Listen, Prince Andrew, the queen's son, there's evidence that he was
00:32:20.440
sleeping with an underage person hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein. Bill Clinton, one of the most
00:32:24.360
popular presidents in the United States, was on the Lolita Express 26 times with no secret service.
00:32:29.160
Dennis Hastert, Secretary of the State, excuse me, Speaker of the House, was a convicted pedophile.
00:32:34.520
So there are people in high, powerful positions that have attacked children. So this is a bigger
00:32:40.600
issue than just, oh, gay or straight. This is an attack on young kids that are the most vulnerable
00:32:46.120
and the most easily to indoctrinate. You know what I mean? They're the biggest, they're the kids that
00:32:51.640
are the biggest victim. When we come to the COVID policies, they're the ones that still have to wear
00:32:55.000
the mask. They're the ones that, you know, aren't, they're all behind in all of the standardized
00:32:59.160
testing here in America, what a kid should be doing in the third grade. You know, they're not even doing
00:33:03.480
it up until a freshman in high school. So a lot of what is going on in America and across the world
00:33:10.200
is targeted in order to destabilize these kids' youth and take it away as soon as possible.
00:33:15.240
Yeah. And you know, you added, you had a list of people who were well known to consort with Jeffrey
00:33:20.760
Epstein. I think you left out Bill Gates and his repeated visits to meet with Jeffrey Epstein were
00:33:27.480
so odious that even his wife Melinda divorced him for that reason. Here's just a quick reminder
00:33:35.400
to our viewers of Melinda Gates saying that's why they divorced. Take a look at this.
00:33:40.600
You know, it was also widely reported that Bill had a friendship or business or some kind of contact
00:33:46.760
with Jeffrey Epstein and that you were not, that that was very upsetting to you. Did that play a role
00:33:51.880
in the divorce at all in this process? Yeah. As I said, it's not one thing. It was many things.
00:33:59.160
But I did not like that he'd had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein, no.
00:34:04.680
And you made that clear to him? I made that clear to him. I also met Jeffrey Epstein.
00:34:09.960
Exactly one time. Did you? Yes. Because I wanted to see who this man was.
00:34:15.000
And I regretted it from the second I stepped in the door. He was abhorrent. He was evil,
00:34:22.920
personified. I had nightmares about it afterwards. So, you know, my heart breaks for these young
00:34:28.520
women because that's how I felt. And here I'm an older woman. My God, I feel terrible for those
00:34:33.800
young women. It's awful. You felt that the moment you walked in? I didn't realize it. He was awful.
00:34:37.640
Yeah. And you shared that with Bill and he still continued to spend time with him?
00:34:42.840
Any of the questions remaining about what Bill's relationship there was, those are for Bill to
00:34:48.200
answer. Okay. But I made it very clear how I felt about him. So, so it's not, it's not a conspiracy
00:34:54.280
theory there. These predators, I'm going to call Bill Gates a predator.
00:35:01.320
They have enormous financial influence, but of course, some of them have cultural
00:35:05.000
and political and journalistic influence too. You went down there. Tell me a little bit about
00:35:09.320
that because you, you're an activist. I'd almost call you a performance artist.
00:35:12.920
I am a performance artist. Sorry, Ezra. I am, but I had to cut you off because I had to make one
00:35:17.400
point about Bill Gates too. This is another thing we don't talk about. His dad, William Gates Sr.,
00:35:21.240
started Planned Parenthood with Margaret Sanger. So Bill Gates is not, not only is he a mass vaccinator,
00:35:27.160
not only does he have the worst computer program that is just infected with viruses that he stole,
00:35:31.640
literally, you know, he had a plan that IBM could have made the software and he actually bought that
00:35:35.640
software in Seattle from another developer. And he made it, he made his billions of dollars off the backs of
00:35:40.440
other people. So the Gates family, in your opinion, I agree with you a hundred percent.
00:35:44.760
So now let me get a little bit to this event. I am a performance artist. I try to keep things light.
00:35:49.880
I actually want to, we're under constant trauma-based mind control is what I call it,
00:35:54.440
Ezra from the media. When you turn on CNN, it's always going to be a death scroller. It's always
00:35:58.280
going to be a negative story, breaking news, school shooting, this and that. Yet in Chicago,
00:36:02.920
where the shooting is absolutely terrible, they don't cover that because they do that on purpose
00:36:06.680
in order to put forth an agenda because it fits their political narrative. So what is happening
00:36:11.480
in this day and age, when I go there at these meetings or I go to these events, I'm literally
00:36:16.360
trying to culture jam. I'm trying to expose what's really happening. So if I wouldn't have gone there
00:36:20.120
and I'm not trying to virtue signal, I'm not trying to pat myself on the back, but if people wouldn't
00:36:23.560
have gone there and actually did what we did, there's other cities that have had these similar
00:36:27.080
events that got no attention. So that's what we have to do. We have to start standing up for ourselves
00:36:32.040
because nobody's going to stand up for for you unless you do it yourself.
00:36:35.960
All right. Well, we've got a clip from your visit there. Let's play a few minutes of it
00:36:39.960
and then we'll come back on the other side and you can explain what we saw here. Take a look. This
00:36:49.720
I'm taking shots at the enemy. I'm gonna make it to the top, leave a legacy. If I got something to
00:36:57.320
say, you better let me speak. Turn it up another degree. Bitch, you ain't seen anything.
00:37:02.200
They're denying me intrigue. They're being bigoted. They're bigoted. They're not letting me in here.
00:37:07.800
I can't believe they're not letting me in a gay bar. I thought you guys were inclusive, babe.
00:37:12.200
Are you just trying to be inclusive? They're not letting me in a gay bar.
00:37:15.320
Look how inclusive this is. Look how inclusive they are here. You can't even go into a gay bar.
00:37:24.520
You guys are biggots. These guys are biggots. They won't let us in a gay bar. They're just
00:37:30.920
gonna have a bunch of children dressed in here and dragged. They're gonna come here and groom a
00:37:37.080
bunch of children. They're gonna groom a bunch of children in here. They won't let me in here,
00:37:42.680
but they're gonna let children. They're gonna let a bunch of children on here. Look at that.
00:37:48.920
Look, isn't this funny? Look, I'm not allowed in here, but they let children in here, babe.
00:37:53.880
If you guys don't think that's weird, it's right.
00:37:57.880
You know that I never lost. I got tracks and some music that you never guessed. I don't slack,
00:38:03.080
don't lose when you're less together. When I get to choose what I do, I'm like a weapon.
00:38:07.080
I'm a shark, this man even got hard. I'm ready to change scars to envy to win. Large and plenty.
00:38:12.680
I like to play faster, but change back. Come in, come in, out. I'll pay back.
00:38:16.680
The clip goes on for a bit. Where can we watch the full video, Alex? What's the best place for
00:38:38.680
people to watch the whole thing? Well, unfortunately, right now I'm locked out of my Twitter account for
00:38:43.240
this same video because I call these people psychopaths and in order to get my account back,
00:38:47.720
my account back, I have to admit that this was hate speech. So now I'm kind of in a Babylon B
00:38:52.440
situation, but this is on my Instagram and it'll be on my YouTube. Of course, I had to wait to post
00:38:57.160
it on YouTube because I had to blur out the faces of the children, but it's all over. If you type on,
00:39:01.160
on, uh, on Twitter, it's still on my account, Alex, nine 99. You can still view it. The count is still
00:39:05.480
up. But what I'm saying is in the video, we didn't even get to the drag part. That was just me trying
00:39:09.640
to get into the event. But the inside, there's more footage of the kids dancing, of the kids
00:39:14.440
walking on the stage, sashaying with the drink, with the transgenders and giving them money,
00:39:19.240
insinuating and simulating like they're at a strip club. Okay. Let's take a look at that. You know
00:39:23.320
what? Let's go back in. I was going to ask you about what we were seeing there, but tell me,
00:39:27.400
it looked like Antifa were on the outside. I think you pulled the mask off someone's face.
00:39:33.000
Was that Antifa? Why were they there? What did they say and do?
00:39:38.040
Well, Ezra, those Antifa, they know me because I've, I've been to many protests in Denton,
00:39:43.560
Texas at what is called the university of North Texas, which is a very liberal college,
00:39:46.760
even though it's a state school. And so they know me, they have a thing called the John Brown
00:39:50.840
gun club, which John Brown was a guy that went around and shot people that he was, you know,
00:39:55.880
had disagreements with that he considered conservative. So yes, they were carrying their
00:40:00.200
Antifa. They call themselves anti-fascist. Now, what they try to do is they try to counter protest
00:40:06.200
people that are protesting against, you know, trans or against some sort of weird event.
00:40:10.200
So they're at all the events. That's why when you hear the audio, it's not that great from my end,
00:40:14.120
but they're like, Oh, Alex Stein. Oh, this is Alex leave Alex. They all know who I am.
00:40:18.360
And as a matter of fact, I lost my mom recently. There's videos on my YouTube where they're talking
00:40:21.800
about my dead mother. These people are sick. They're, they're the actual evil ones because
00:40:25.640
they have no, they have no empathy because the problem is a lot of these people were abused
00:40:29.720
themselves Ezra. So it's very cyclical. So that's why they want to pay it forward with the abuse
00:40:34.760
that they received. They want to abuse other people. Wow. Well, you know what,
00:40:37.960
let's go back in and watch a little bit from inside the club. Take a look at this.
00:40:41.880
I'm taking shots at the enemy. I'm going to make it to the top, leave a legacy. If I got something
00:40:55.080
to say, you better let me speak. Turn it up a new degree. Bitch, you ain't seen anything. I pop off
00:41:01.080
with the new rock. Electronic. I'm too honest when I take a few shots. They're too toxic. Need to take
00:41:09.560
a new song. You can not save me. Cause I don't need saving. It's everything I've been chasing.
00:41:19.720
Fall here for the taking. Don't want to test your luck with me. I think I've had enough disease.
00:41:27.240
You know, it's incredible. I say again, if that were a heterosexual strip club,
00:41:34.440
it would be no less odious. And I think police would have less trouble shutting it down. I mean,
00:41:39.960
in Canada, if you're a minor, you can't even go into a bar, let alone a strip club. If there was a
00:41:47.960
strip club in Toronto and Vancouver, wherever, where children were being taken by their parents
00:41:54.040
or on their own or some way, that club would be raided, shut down. Nothing to do with the
00:41:59.320
sexuality, hetero or homo. It would have to do with why are you bringing children into such a place of
00:42:04.920
disrepute? I think precisely the fact that it is trans and male is the reason why police aren't
00:42:12.280
shutting that down. The vice squad is giving them a pass.
00:42:15.240
A hundred percent. They don't want to come across as homophobic. And the only cops that went into the
00:42:20.600
establishment, you know, seem to be homosexual cops. I think it was a lesbian cop because we asked her
00:42:26.040
and she did say she was a lesbian. Now, at the end of the day, these police, they're afraid to go in
00:42:31.400
there because they're, you know, very liberal. We're in Dallas, which even though Texas is a
00:42:36.520
conservative state, Dallas is pretty liberal. But you're right. This is a 21 and up establishment
00:42:41.240
where they're having young children. And in Texas, they have a law. You can go into a bar with a
00:42:45.400
parent. You can actually have a drink. But that is meant for kids that are in their teens, 16, 17,
00:42:50.760
18, 19. Not for preteens, not for toddlers. There's no bar in America where toddlers are supposed to hang
00:42:56.560
out when there's loud bass music. All those toddlers did not have ear, you know, earplugs in. They
00:43:02.160
probably have hearing damage. I mean, this is literal child abuse. And I'm not saying that like
00:43:06.540
hyperbolically, this was actual concrete evidence of abuse of a toddler in a setting where they should
00:43:13.340
be in a nursery, not in a gay transgender strip club. Yeah, I find it deeply troubling. I think
00:43:19.340
that they're trying to destroy so many institutions, destroy the family, of course, but destroy the very
00:43:25.180
idea of an age of innocence. I mean, of a presexual child, some sort of, you know, they're trying to
00:43:35.180
blur and destroy any limits. And I think that I don't think it's innocent. I don't think it's
00:43:41.520
accidental. And I think what used to be a conspiracy theory, powerful people who were pedophiles,
00:43:50.160
I think the Jeffrey Epstein case and just how vast that network was and the fact that all the clients
00:43:56.200
have remained secret, I think that shows that this is not accidental. I find this very troubling
00:44:02.280
as a citizen and as a dad. Last word to you, Alex Stein. First of all, congratulations
00:44:07.620
for your work in general. And I know you are a performance artist and a comedian,
00:44:11.740
but I think you have a lot of very serious things to say too. Is this just the beginning or is there
00:44:16.720
a backlash coming? I think that most people don't really know this is going on or they can't believe
00:44:22.220
it. Is there a reaction to this or is the momentum all on the side of these drag queen story hour
00:44:29.240
strip clubs? Well, that's a two part answer because first of all, Brian Slayton, who's a
00:44:34.200
Texas representative, has now put in legislation that they're going to try to get past banning kids
00:44:39.320
from attending drag events. And at the same time, this is just the beginning for me. Now I'm a
00:44:43.160
Blaze TV contributor. I'm working with the Blaze. I'm creating even more content. So for me, I think
00:44:48.220
this is just a start where I'm going to be able to culture jam and expose a lot of this stuff. And I
00:44:51.760
appreciate you saying that I'm not a total dummy. My dad would disagree. He'd say I'm an idiot,
00:44:55.920
but this is the problem, Ezra. We got a society where they're going to give you every inch of the
00:45:00.220
Amber Heard and Johnny Depp trial. They're going to show you the actual turd and say Amber turd all
00:45:04.900
day long, but they're not going to show you one frame of the Ghislaine Maxwell trial. They're not
00:45:08.140
going to show you one frame of Jeffrey Epstein's interior cell footage. Nancy Pelosi's husband gets
00:45:15.140
a DUI and luckily the police officer's body cam was not on. So it's rules for thee, but not for me.
00:45:20.660
We live in a society where we have to expose these one percenters that rule the world,
00:45:25.160
the one percent that has 99 percent of the wealth that make our lives terrible and that
00:45:29.200
it's destabilizing the middle class. So I appreciate you having me on. And I do believe
00:45:33.460
we are making a headway in the culture war, but this was just a cultural battle win in a long
00:45:39.180
culture war. There you have it. Alex Stein, very thoughtful. What a pleasure to meet with you and
00:45:44.440
talk with you. And I'm thrilled to learn that you're working with the Blaze, good friends of ours down
00:45:48.460
there. Take care of my friend and keep up the fight. There he is, Alex Stein from theblaze.com.
00:45:54.100
Doing great work on the street. Stay with us. Your letters to me next.
00:46:09.400
Hey, welcome back. Your viewer mail, Nigel Waterhouse says, congratulations, Ezra and Carrie.
00:46:15.240
This is a big win for the rebel and an even bigger win for Canadians. I'm really glad you feel that way.
00:46:20.080
I'm really excited. I don't know Carrie that well other than through the media. I know he's been a
00:46:25.180
fighter for conservative values in journalism, in Edmonton City Hall, and as a federal conservative.
00:46:32.140
So he's got a lot of experience in politics, a lot of experience in journalism. You know,
00:46:37.020
the average age of a rebel news reporter is probably in the 20s. So it's good to have someone
00:46:42.280
with a bit more seasoning. I think he's going to do great stuff. Of course, I love our young
00:46:46.880
reporters too. I think it is a big win. So thank you. Someone with the nickname Black Medicine says,
00:46:53.340
loving the new quality videos, Ezra. Keep rebel news growing. Thank you from your mouth to God's
00:46:59.800
ears and credit to our editors and our staff. I hope you saw our documentary. We're doing some
00:47:04.680
documentaries these days. I'm very, very excited about them. Someone with the nickname Enoch was
00:47:10.720
right, says, I like how in the USA they have a vetting process for Supreme Court nominees. Yes,
00:47:17.300
Democrats have turned into a circus, but they at least have some kind of checks and balances in
00:47:23.140
Canada. I guarantee you that 99% of Canadians can't name even one justice on the court. We have no idea
00:47:29.520
who these people are and what they stand for, which is the way they want it. Extreme liberalism via
00:47:36.280
subterviews is how they rule. You are exactly right. And I think I could name all nine U.S. Supreme
00:47:44.800
Court judges if I had to. I don't know if I could name five Canadian ones. And I'm a Canadian and I'm
00:47:51.640
a former lawyer and I follow this stuff. It's because we don't scrutinize them. We didn't scrutinize them
00:47:58.200
to get on the court. We don't scrutinize their highly political judgments. They're like a priestly
00:48:04.320
class. I use the phrase the media party, but the court party predates the media party by decades,
00:48:11.600
doesn't it? Well, that's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at
00:48:16.780
Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.
00:48:20.980
This is Juan Mendoza reporting for Rebel News. We're here in Dallas at the Young Women's Leadership
00:48:25.580
Summit. And today I have with me Ms. Lauren Chen. Thank you very much for talking with us.
00:48:31.220
Yeah, for sure. Love the work the Rebel does. Always happy to speak with you guys.
00:48:35.100
So what motivated you to come here speak at the event here?
00:48:39.220
Well, first off, I think it's so important that Turning Point USA is working with women
00:48:42.680
specifically because right now, obviously, the left kind of has not quite a monopoly,
00:48:47.620
but they really have a grip on women's politics in general. They really control the language.
00:48:52.420
They control the narrative. When it comes to things like abortion, you know, even a lot of what's
00:48:56.680
going on in schools and everything like that. So I think reaching young women and letting them
00:49:00.840
know that conservatism is for them like it is for everyone is really important. And specifically,
00:49:05.100
the panel I'm going to be talking on today is about women in the media. And I think the media
00:49:09.740
is one of the main reasons why so many young women are going down the path of leftist politics,
00:49:14.920
of feminism. And, you know, we see all of this, all these TikToks coming out of young girls
00:49:20.020
claiming to be whatever gender, even getting some mastectomies. I blame the media for a lot of that.
00:49:25.200
So the opportunity to have this platform and to speak out against it and to raise awareness for it,
00:49:31.780
And so as a Canadian, I'm assuming you're, you're keeping in like aware of the actions
00:49:37.880
that are happening right now with Trudeau and Parliament there. So what are your thoughts
00:49:42.020
right now? I mean, recently he's been trying to get like a handgun ban there.
00:49:46.300
We're introducing legislation to implement a national freeze on handgun ownership.
00:49:53.720
What this means is that it will no longer be possible to buy, sell, transfer, or import handguns
00:50:06.620
And there's other actions that have been controversial there. So what are your thoughts
00:50:12.100
Well, gun owners in Canada have known for a long time that Trudeau is coming for their guns.
00:50:16.740
And for anyone who's not aware right now, Canada has very, very strict gun control already.
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So to get a gun, just like a long gun, we're talking about a rifle and things like that,
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you need to pass a course and a background check. You need to have references and all
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of that. And not to mention, we already have very strict limits on the number of rounds you
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can have in a magazine. It's limited to five if it's semi-automatic. And there were already
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further restrictions on top of that if you wanted a handgun specifically. The only way you can have a
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handgun really is if you also belong to the range. And the only official reason for owning a
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handgun in Canada is sportsmanship to shoot it at a range. And it's another, I guess, course and
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another intensive background check if you want your restricted gun license. And so for Trudeau
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to say, OK, now we're just banning it outright. Well, obviously, the already very strict gun
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measures we have in Canada are not working on crime. We see gun crime rising in Toronto and
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unfortunately, Montreal as well. So really what Trudeau is doing here is just punishing law-abiding
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Canadians who have for a long time had their right to defend themselves, just be trampled