The Media Party thinks David Menzies deserved to be beaten up. They blame the victim. It's so gross. And I think there's some bizarre psychology at play. Rebel News Plus is half the price of Netflix and twice the value.
00:21:25.400The fact that he is paid by Trudeau, and he covers Trudeau, and he doesn't disclose that essential conflict of interest.
00:21:31.780So he projects his own subconscious conflict onto David Menzies as if David Menzies is out there trying to please or appease some master.
00:21:43.540The beauty of running Rebel News, when we're crowdfunded by thousands of individuals, average size of a gift, 50 bucks, is that there's no boss.
00:23:15.640And it's just, and the evidence of your eyes, like David Aiken, Terry Glavin, who's just got the perfect perch in society.
00:23:26.780He gets to tell you how noble and righteous he is.
00:23:31.520His specialty is talking about human rights in other countries, in Hong Kong, or in Tibet, or in the Uyghur part of China, or in Kurdistan.
00:23:42.440Terry Glavin is excellent when talking about human rights in other countries.
00:23:47.320And he writes for media in Canada that are Trudeau bailouts.
00:23:53.560He can't bring himself to look at police brutality against journalists in his own country because he's on the payroll of Justin Trudeau through the media bailouts.
00:24:06.540And because it would just, he can't survive in a, he can't survive without his belief system that Trudeau is noble and everything's fine.
00:24:16.160I think there's one more layer about Terry Glavin, who writes all these very earnest columns about civil liberties and human rights in foreign lands from his den.
00:24:25.380Whereas we are sending our reporters to these places.
00:24:28.460We sent twice reporters to Hong Kong to cover the uprising there.
00:24:33.560Twice we sent reporters to Iraq, to Kurdistan.
00:24:37.760The things that Terry Glavin likes to talk about.
00:25:58.980Well, if you define a vaccine as a mild dose of an illness that you deliberately take so that your body develops an antibody and protects you from the real bad thing,
00:26:14.720you could say that the Omicron variety of the COVID-19 virus is a de facto vaccine.
00:26:24.000Now, that's sort of cheating because it's catching the disease itself.
00:26:27.360But it's so mild compared to other forms that there are so few hospitalizations.
00:26:33.740And last I checked, in the entire world, just one recorded death.
00:26:37.960You could say it's tantamount to catching a cold.
00:26:42.320And yet this terrifying wave of Omicron has stampeded the public health state and their political puppets into declaring lockdowns of the strangest varieties.
00:26:57.420I saw one Canadian public health officer issue an order that waiters, waitresses and bartenders must now wear goggles, swimming goggles or other protective eyewear like a welder, maybe, to work.
00:27:23.140But one of the new utterances from the public health deep state is stop traveling, cancel your plans, no Christmas vacations.
00:27:34.760Here to join us to talk about that is our friend Andrew Lawton, whose new essay is called Screw the Travel Advisory, I'm Headed for the Border.
00:28:19.160No, and I should say that essay you mentioned is from my new substack.
00:28:23.980And I think right now it's gotten more reaction and more emails to me from people than anything else I've published in that platform.
00:28:30.920Because a lot of people, even those who have been dutifully going along with everything that's been asked of them, they didn't gather in Christmas 2020.
00:28:43.640They've done anything and everything that's been asked of them.
00:28:47.120And even a lot of these people are feeling like the rug has finally been pulled out from under them.
00:28:51.360Now, I'd say, you know, better late than never, because this is a concern that you and I and people that follow our shows have been talking about for months now.
00:28:59.860But a lot of people, I think, now at this point are saying, OK, enough is enough.
00:29:04.180There is zero evidence suggesting that Omicron is worthy of the panic.
00:29:08.180Yet you've got Ontario's chief medical officer saying that we're about to face what he's going to what he's already decided is the worst wave yet.
00:29:39.840You say that people who have dutifully followed the rules and got the double vax and all that feel like the rug has been pulled from out from under them.
00:29:48.660And they're feeling like they already followed through on their promise.
00:29:52.980And I see, for example, Dr. Jordan Peterson, who's quite a conservative public intellectual.
00:29:58.740He at first really went along with the vaxes and I think he's had I mean, I don't know if he regrets taking the vaxes, but he's saying I regret giving them the moral authority because I thought that by paying that Dane gail, I'd get rid of the Dane.
00:30:13.260I thought that they would leave me alone.
00:31:11.640The last couple of times we've spoken at the end of it, I think both of us have just like let our depression bounce off of each other.
00:31:17.680And we get profoundly pessimistic by the end of it.
00:31:21.020But but in the last week, I've started to feel a tinge of optimism just because of the volume I'm seeing of people that are finally, finally turning in some way against the the doctatorship, against this, you know, public health apparatchik that seems to be running the show.
00:31:37.980And again, I can't say it's going to be fleeting.
00:31:41.440But I do think there are more people in that Jordan Peterson-esque camp that you've just described than there were even a week ago.
00:31:48.340And I don't know if it's because people are upset about being robbed of another Christmas or if it's because people are just looking at the Omicron scare and seeing that the Omicron panic is really a media led variant of concern rather than a viral led variant of concern.
00:32:04.040You know, I see the WestJet is complaining.
00:32:08.080They're saying that this travel advisory has no scientific basis, that they're that they were given no notice, that it's dashing their plans for recovery.
00:32:19.100And I accept every word of that and I agree with every word of that.
00:32:23.040But on the other hand, I can't help but also know that WestJet, like Air Canada, enforces junk science against their own passengers and against their own staff.
00:32:36.460They refuse to make any reasonable accommodation for their staff.
00:32:40.680I know a case of a WestJet employee who has always worked from home, even before the pandemic.
00:32:47.800WestJet said if they didn't get the jab, they'd be fired.
00:33:23.240They have their own, like, anti-doctor.
00:33:26.420I don't know if they're doing this at the behest of the government.
00:33:29.140I would guess they are, since both WestJet and Air Canada have the same extremist policies.
00:33:34.200It's just a little bit rich for WestJet to complain about junk science when they've been following the government's whimsical hard line the whole time.
00:33:45.780I mean, Canadian airline employees are now getting the same service that Canadian airline passengers have been getting from these companies for the last however many years.
00:33:53.720But the reality of this is, when we take a look at all of the challenges that we're seeing here, and we'll continue to see, it underscores that unscientific nature you just spoke about.
00:34:04.860So, a couple of months ago, Justin Trudeau said the only way to make sure the air is going to be safe is if we mandate vaccination to board a domestic or international flight originating in a Canadian airport.
00:34:17.900Air Canada, WestJet, Porter, they all go along with this.
00:34:20.780Universities are saying that the only way to ensure that the campus is safe is to make sure we have a virtually 100% vaccination rate.
00:34:28.540So, campuses are supposed to be the safest places in Canadian society right now.
00:34:33.900Every single student, professor, teaching assistant, janitor, doesn't matter, is fully vaccinated.
00:34:39.320So, why then are schools cancelling exams?
00:34:41.840Why then are schools delaying a return to in-person classes after January?
00:34:46.300Why is the government telling people not to travel on the planes that they've purged of those dirty, unwashed masses of unvaccinated people?
00:34:54.380So, what the governments are doing here is doubling and tripling down on the same policies that, by their own metrics, have not yielded the outcomes they promised.
00:35:26.660Enough people are immune that it sort of stops the transmission so that those who are not immune, they're actually protected by the other folks.
00:35:37.180And herd immunity was always considered 40%, 50%, whatever.
00:35:41.660At least that's how the subject was introduced a year and a half ago.
00:35:45.300Here we are almost at the two-year anniversary of the emergency.
00:35:48.220And depending on your jurisdiction, you have vaccination rates of 80, 90, and in some jurisdictions, they actually have 100% vaccination.
00:36:02.060Gibraltar, which is a British protectorate between Spain and Morocco, is an example of that.
00:36:09.300But the more vaccinated the world is, the harsher the policy prescriptions are.
00:36:18.560Instead of easing up, they're getting harsher.
00:36:21.060We talked about basically you can't fly in this country anymore if you're unvaccinated.
00:36:43.660Well, I mean, this is the thing, is that whenever the projections or predictions or pledges or promises, whatever they are, have been proven wrong,
00:36:51.540they retroactively go back and change what the motivation was.
00:36:55.640I mean, you mentioned the two-year anniversary of the emergency.
00:36:58.720The initial plan was not to prevent anyone from getting COVID.
00:37:02.380The initial plan was not to make sure we have no COVID in Canada.
00:37:05.580It was to ensure that the spread of COVID transmission was taking place at a manageable pace so that we could get hospital capacity.
00:37:13.600That was the now proverbial, and I'd say turned into a punchline, of two weeks to flatten the curve.
00:37:19.660I mean, the curve was flattened, the curve was a straight line, and then we've had to flatten the curve over and over again every couple of months for the last two years.
00:37:27.620So all of the merchants of doom, I called them in my column that you cited earlier, all of these merchants from doom, whenever they're proven wrong, just go back and say,
00:37:37.840well, you know, it was an abundance of caution, and we didn't know what we know now.
00:37:41.560And, you know, that seems to be true, that they just don't know anything at any point.
00:37:45.600My theory that you might not like is that you've got to eliminate the control group.
00:37:53.020If 95, 99% of people have taken the jab in five or 10 years, if there's some long-term health impact that we don't know yet because we haven't done the long-term studies,
00:38:05.200and by the way, the FDA has ordered these drug companies to continue to do experimental tests on them for five or six years.
00:38:12.000So if five, 10 years from now, a side effect is discovered, if you've eliminated the control group, that is, people who didn't take the vax, you've eliminated the political problem.
00:38:24.460Although, not that it matters much because, of course, governments have indemnified them.
00:38:27.920That sounds like a conspiracy theory, but to me, it's the only theory that fits.