Ezra Levant's Battleground： September 07, 2018
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1 hour and 1 minute
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171.62051
Summary
Ezra Levant is back, and he's got a lot to talk about, including the release of Tommy Robinson from prison, YouTube's new million-subscriber plaque, and why he doesn't wear a jacket on Friday.
Transcript
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Oh, hi. It's September 7th. I'm Ezra Levant, and you're watching Battleground.
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Oh, hi, folks. It's Battleground. Every Friday, we have a little live chat on something called Google Super Chat.
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And I'm so casual this Friday, I took my jacket off. I don't mean to scare anybody.
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Sure. We've got a lot to talk about. Just a reminder of what Super Chat is, because I wasn't here last week.
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My friends Sheila Gunn-Reed and David Menzies did it. It's live, and you can make live comments as usual on the right-hand side of the screen.
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But what Super Chat is, is if you chip in a couple of bucks, your comment is made in a bright, highlighted color that I can see out of the corner of my eye.
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And it's appended also to the top of the little box there.
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So not only will every other chatterbox see it, but I will too.
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And I make a point of reading the highlighted ones, because as you may know, this is a revenue source for the rebel.
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We get to keep, I think it's 70% of the dough from the Super Chats.
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Google takes the other 30%, which I suppose is fair.
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Speaking of YouTube, we just got our million subscriber plaque.
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Can you put up the B-roll of me unpacking that thing?
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We don't have to have the sound on tape for that.
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But I would never have imagined that we could get a million subscribers on YouTube.
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Now, of course, we don't get paid for these subscribers.
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It's not like they're subscribing to our paywall.
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Imagine having a million people paying eight bucks a month.
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That's, that would be, I mean, that's not quite Netflix huge, but that would be quite something.
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No, I mean, we don't get paid, but it's a proxy for the depth and breadth of our support.
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The fact that a million people not only want to see our stuff, but actually sign up so they get notified about it.
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And I just want to show you what that looked like.
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That, um, yeah, it's rolled at any time, the B-roll.
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You can see it's sort of nice, but it's not much bigger than an eight and a half by 11 piece of paper.
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So that's me reading the hundred thousand subscriber plaque that we got.
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But skip ahead near the end there where I, yeah, right.
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I didn't measure it, but if I'm comparing it to paper, that's like an 11 by 17 piece of paper.
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And I've seen these unboxing videos on YouTube where people unbox stuff they buy.
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But what was fun was not the unboxing, but that we had earned that.
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I mean, anyone can buy something on Amazon and have it given to you, but we earned this.
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And you earned it, really, by being amongst the million.
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What's interesting is that many of our viewers are still not subscribers.
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You know, we used to do the Battleground every single day, but I just simply could not sustain that
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because I'm traveling, again, a little bit more than I did.
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I was, in fact, in London for a day this week where I met up with Tommy Robinson.
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And it was good to actually, I mean, I saw him the day he was released from prison, you may recall.
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He was released, if memory serves, on August 1st.
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And I saw him just hours after he was out of prison.
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I got to tell you, he did not look good that day.
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He told me that when he went into prison, he was about 190 pounds.
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And he's not, and he was muscle, like he was a boxer, right?
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Anyways, I saw him again on Tuesday, and actually we had lunch.
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And he's put on about 10 pounds, which is good.
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He's still, you know, and he's obviously been sleeping better.
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He's sleeping on a real bed, spending a lot of time with his family.
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And on his mind, of course, is the court case, as you recall, the Court of Appeal victory
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on August 1st that quashed the original contempt of court charges against him and freed him
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from prison and utterly rebuked the trial judge, regrettably has commanded that Tommy appear
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for another contempt of court hearing that was originally scheduled for September 4th, but
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And so on his mind is that trial, as you can imagine.
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And I will be going out there again for that trial, unless, of course, it's delayed again.
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I went to law school, U of A, practiced law for not that many years, and I sort of retired.
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I haven't done law in over a decade, but I know enough about Canadian law, you don't
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We all know this in Canada, that if the prosecution delays and delays and delays and delays your
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case, you can have your criminal matter thrown out because we have a constitutional right
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And if it's a reasonable delay, the court will say, all right.
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But if it's unreasonable, the judge will act, the court will actually say to the prosecution,
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If you actually cared about this, you would have brought it to trial now because we don't
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want the stigma of a court case hanging over someone improperly long.
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We don't, there's a lot of reasons why justice must be swift.
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But remember, Tommy was arrested for his comments on May 25th, and it is September already.
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The fact that it's, he's not actually going to have a hearing till it's June, July, August,
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And I guess that's just under three weeks from now.
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And he's, he's getting his energy back and he's, he's sharp.
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And I'm not, I'm not saying he's, I mean, he's not physically recovered yet.
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You can't lose 40 pounds in 10 weeks without that just rocking you.
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And the psychological abuse he was subjected to at the hands of the prison, if it were anyone
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else in the United Kingdom, I should tell you, there would be a, a parliamentary, a judicial
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I didn't even mean to get into the Tommy story other than I'm explaining why I cannot
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do these daily chit chats, which I've really enjoyed every day.
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Because for example, I mean, and by the way, to go to the UK from Toronto, that's a seven
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And then you got to go to your airport time and, you know, Heathrow to London is an hour
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So, you know, even though I was only in London for 10 hours, it took me about 24 hours to
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So it's, my point to you is that's why I can't do these things daily, but I like doing them
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I've got a few things I'm going to show you if, if the mood moves me.
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I have some, some images, some little vids, things I've been following, but I do like
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I'm going to go through the comments on the chat box there.
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Because when you're the boss, and boy, I'm the boss, you don't have to wear a jacket if
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You know, for some reason, I was just thinking back when I ran the Western Standard, I was
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the publisher of a little magazine about a dozen years ago called the Western Standard.
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That was, you know, the internet was starting to really pick up then.
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I mean, it was the absolute worst time possible.
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You know, the internet's growing, but you're not quite sure what it's going to do.
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And, you know, of course, it devastated the entire industry.
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I guess it would be crazier to start a print magazine in 2018, but 2004 was a rough time
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But I was the publisher of the Western Standard from 2004 till its demise three and a half
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And I was just thinking, you know, I'm the boss, the boss of a teeny tiny magazine.
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And I remember we had an event at Conrad Black's house.
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And this was when he was at the height of his empire with Hollinger.
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And so there he is, the mighty Conrad Black tycoon who had newspapers in Jerusalem, in London,
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and all across Canada, he had interests around the world.
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And I had the teeny tiny Western Standard magazine, but we were both skippers of our
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You can be the captain of a canoe and you're as much the captain of the canoe as the captain
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And so if I don't want to wear my jacket, I don't have to.
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I'm from the UK, but currently staying in the USA.
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And I can't believe how biased against Trump the US media is.
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At least they've got Fox News, at least they've got talk radio, and at least they have some
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robust internet sites, whether it's Breitbart.com, The Daily Caller is excellent.
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You know, I mean, the Drudge Report is very important.
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Rush Limbaugh, the biggest thing in radio, is very conservative.
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So America, at least there is the other side of the story.
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Not so much in Canada, and even worse in the UK.
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I see Ingrid K. Warner has chipped in five bucks for a super chat.
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So her comment is in bright green, and it's appended to the top of the box there.
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So it just popped right up, and I saw it immediately.
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Ingrid says, math scores in Ontario dropped over five years in standardized testing, yet
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Well, let me tell you, as a dad with kids in the school system, it is absolutely appalling
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And, you know, it's not much better in the private system, because you're still following
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the awful curriculum, and you're still subject to the kooky theories and the peer pressures,
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teachers, and this new style of teaching, you know, at the variety of schools where kids
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have been to, you know, you have pajama day, and sports day, and all these days, and I
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keep saying, let me know when there's a math day, or a spelling day.
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They never have them, you know, I remember the first, don't get me started, you know,
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I better stop there, because if I keep talking about, if I keep talking about schools, it's
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Ontario has the dumbest and most expensive schools in Canada.
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I'm not going to say in all of North America, because I'm sure there are examples of it being
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Jonathan Bryant says, Dave and Sheila were great.
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I actually went back and I watched it, because they had a banter, didn't they?
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They had the banter, they had the back and forth, and they obviously like each other.
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In fact, I was at the pleasure of being with both of them this summer when we went to Israel,
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and I don't think they'd actually ever spent any time together, because Sheila, of course,
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holds the fort for us in Alberta, and David's based here in Toronto.
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So I think they didn't really know each other, even though they've been colleagues for a few
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years, but I think they're sort of chummy, and I think it came across.
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I'm using that word banter a lot, but that really was what it was, wasn't it?
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Chemnitz is a town or a city in Germany where Muslim migrants have murdered Germans.
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Now, that happens all across Europe, and it's actually coming to North America, too.
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But I think it hit the tipping point in Chemnitz.
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I don't know if we can call up some B-roll of the protests in Chemnitz, including the very
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interesting protests where people wore the large placards.
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And there's one, actually, if you can get one sound on tape.
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It was some regular guy, some middle-aged German guy, who was explaining he can't even take
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He can't even go to the street downtown because Muslim migrants shout out to any undercover
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Like, it's just so, the threats of rape, the invitations to rape, give me the B-roll of
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I would have retweeted that vid, or you could probably find it pretty quick under Voice of
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I just want to show the thousands and thousands of severely normal Germans with their protest.
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And the police response was huge, massive paramilitary riot squads.
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And my first thought was, why don't you use that massive military riot squad business to stop
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the invasion of unvetted, unrestricted, unfiltered migration?
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Like, why don't you deploy your German military against invaders?
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Why are you deploying it against German citizens?
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But what was also telling, and if we can find the clip, we'll show it to you, is how the
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media has become a target for the protesters because the media, I mean, in the States, you
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do something conservative and you're called alt-right.
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So here's, they have pictures, this is one of the protests, and the police, okay, that,
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I think those are, yeah, those are the riot police.
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They're coming in with their, and you can see the headline there on RT, politicians called
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for the AFT party to be monitored for extremism.
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So the German government says, let us know, look at this, you see, these are people who
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These are all people who have been murdered or raped.
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The AFT is an insurgent party called Alternative for Deutschland, and they're concerned about
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And so did you see that little banner there on RT that said, the government wants to spy
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That's not a good look for Germany, the country that had the Stasi and the Gestapo.
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It's not a good look to be discussing spying on political minorities.
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And of course, the media denounces it as, my point I was going to say before the clip
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came up, was they call Canadians and Americans alt-right.
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Those protesters didn't look like neo-Nazis to me.
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They looked like moms and dads who were sick of their kids being murdered on the altar of
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All right, let's keep on looking at some of the comments here.
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Rami Tobinson says, yep, I'd love to go on that cruise with Katie and Tommy.
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Can we call up, we have a little short promo vid for the cruise.
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I don't know if it's on a YouTube page, but I forgot to mention this.
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Why don't you go to, I'd like to find that clip.
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Did I tell you, I mentioned the Israel trip that David and Sheila and I and Katie Hopkins
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went on with, I think it was 61 of our most enthusiastic viewers.
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We met with a member of the Knesset, that's the Israeli parliament.
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It was the graduation of the Israel Air Force Pilots Academy.
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And so, yeah, they had an air show, but it was the graduation.
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We were the only people there who weren't friends or family of the graduates.
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We went right down to Sterot, which is a town right near Gaza that all the attacks come in.
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Now, we've done cruises before the Rebel and the Sun News Network and even at the Western Standard in the Caribbean, in the Pacific Ocean.
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But the thing about big boat cruises, there's two things about them, three things about them.
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Give me one, I'll call for that clip in one sec, but let me just finish my point about the cruise we've done in the past.
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In the past, we've gone on these big cruise lines, usually Holland America.
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But we would be a small group within the larger boat, so we wouldn't have the boat to ourselves.
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Like, you do the Caribbean cruise, it's a week long.
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But there's two or three days where you're just bored.
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You're just at sea because you're just going between islands.
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And the third thing, obviously, is that you're susceptible to political interference.
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We had booked a Caribbean cruise last winter, but some alt-left trolls managed to scare off Norwegian Cruise Line from having us.
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So what we've done this year is we have booked an entire boat.
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Now, obviously, it's not this huge Holland America-style 1,800-person cruise ship.
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It's actually only 68 cabins, which means, you know, there's not going to be more than 120 people on the boat because some people will have cabins just themselves.
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Wouldn't surprise me if there's only 100 of us.
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I have a letter from the owner of the ship, the owner, saying you will not be deplatformed, I promise you.
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And because we're not on the high seas, we're not going between islands.
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First of all, you can look out your window the whole time and see things.
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And we stop and we get out and we go into the town.
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And we, you know, without further to do, let me show you a little ad we put together for this boat.
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It is time we work together to defend our history, our culture and our children's future.
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I don't want to go, adopt Sharia is alive enough.
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I didn't hear any, was there any vocals there, or was there just the soundtrack on that?
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What do you think of those gorgeous, gorgeous cities?
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Can you go to rebelcruise.com and put the map on?
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Go to, we've got this website, and I know I'm talking about this a lot, but I want to let you know,
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And you can say, we see, we sail a couple of cities.
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So you can see we're actually, we're going to a lot of different places.
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Vienna, obviously one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
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And Budapest, Hungary, that's where Viktor Orban is, and Austria is where Sebastian Kurz is, and Germany is where that alternative for Deutschland party is.
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So these countries, Slovakia, these are the countries that are on the leading edge of dealing with the mass migration that is transforming the traditional culture and demographics of Europe.
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So not only do we want to go and see, do you want to scroll up the page just to show the other things here?
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In fact, we should get Tommy's picture on there.
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And he said he wants to bring his missus, take a break.
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If you want to see more, go to the website itself.
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You can see a little hint of what the boat is like there.
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There's our itinerary, the different cities we go to.
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I should tell you, we have, we haven't even really pushed this.
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So if you are interested, you should go to rebelcruise.com and poke around.
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So we pay for the boat, but we tack on a few hundred bucks per cabin because that's how,
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so if we've got 68 cabins, that's how we're going to make money off this.
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It's one of the things we do to live because we don't get handouts from the government or
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So if you wonder what the price is, it's not cheap.
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But I think it's going to be the trip of a lifetime.
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I've never been anywhere in Slovakia, anywhere in Hungary.
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And you're coming along with Daniel Pipes, Katie Hopkins, myself, Tommy Robinson.
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And we will be meeting with local political activists and leaders.
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We're still making organizational plans for who we will meet with.
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But it is my goal that when we're in Hungary, we'll meet with people from Viktor Orbán's government.
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It's my goal that when we're in Austria, we meet with people from Sebastian Kurz's government,
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people from Alternative for Deutschland when we're in Germany.
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Other people with their finger on the pulse of what's going on in those countries.
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This is hanging out on the boat just with the hundred of us in the bar, in the lounge, whatever.
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I mean, I wasn't, I didn't really mean to go that deep on it.
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But I just thought, geez, we're going to those places.
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And I thought, shoot, we're going to be there in June.
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So my only point for raising it here is if you're considering going, think about it over the next few weeks.
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Because if we've almost sold half of the cabins and it's only September 7th,
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I think there is a chance we're going to sell them all out in the next month.
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I can tell you that people are coming from all around the world.
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I just had an email from three ladies from Australia who are considering making the journey.
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We have other Australians already booked on the trip.
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It was sort of neat on our Israel trip to see where people were from.
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V. Zick says, Britain First is suing Facebook for targeting the right.
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It does not surprise me because Facebook is becoming more and more capricious and political.
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What I didn't know is that the lawsuit was filed.
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I don't know what the likelihood of their success is because the terms of service of a lot of these companies are very one-sided.
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And in the U.K., if they're suing in the U.K., I would say good luck to them because the U.K. establishment is very censorious
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and it's very hostile to groups like Britain First.
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If there was a lawsuit in America, maybe it has a fighting chance given the First Amendment.
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I didn't mean to go on at such length about the cruise, but once I started talking about it, of course, I didn't stop.
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Okay, I'm going to read some more comments and then I've got some vids I might play, but I like the comments.
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Politico, Ezra, you should hook Tommy up again.
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You know, I'll be candid with you and I've said this before.
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When Tommy was in prison, my only role was to crowdfund for the family.
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I didn't even talk to Tommy when he was in prison.
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And obviously, he's going to spend that on his family and his lawyer.
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And they passed on messages and whatever, and I talked to his lawyers.
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And of course, I did journalism and went to the trials and the hearings.
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But now that he's out, Tommy is not built to have a boss.
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And especially a boss, what, 3,000 miles away or however far Toronto is from Luton.
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I'm happy to help him on the crowdfunding side.
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We're used to fighting legal fights, so I can give him what advice I can there.
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Happy to do some journalism with him as the need be.
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But I think the idea of actually working with Tommy in a formal business relationship,
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I just, you know, I've never been better friends with Tommy than I am now.
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We had just a great lunch on Tuesday, and it was really nice to see him.
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And we sat there right on the River Thames, obviously.
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He came into the city, and we sat right there and shooed the pigeons away as we had lunch.
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I don't want to try and be his boss, and I don't want to say, do this, don't do that.
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We talked a little bit, and I encouraged him to do things.
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And I, you know, give him whatever advice I had.
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So, no, I've never, I don't want to be his boss again.
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But nothing, you know, we're not going to get married again.
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Well, I mean, God forbid, but, you know, we'll do what we can to help keep him free, and he'll do what he can to stay free.
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Calvin Arndt, is there any reason why Rebel doesn't support Britain first the way it did Tommy?
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In your opinion, is there any real difference between them?
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Money aside, even interviewing them would help.
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I have met Jada Franson and Paul Golding once in London, and we talked a little bit about things.
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But I have to tell you, my main reason for not engaging with them is that I simply don't know them enough.
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And so I don't want, I haven't done my due diligence.
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And I think you have to be very careful about these things, because we don't want to, and so I'm not judging them.
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I'm saying I don't have enough information yet upon which to make a judgment.
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And Tommy is certainly enough to keep me busy and keep my hands full.
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Matthias Rodriguez, is Rebel Media anti-Jewish?
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Well, I hope not, because I'm Jewish, so it would be weird and uncomfortable for me if it was anti-Jewish.
00:31:57.320
Mr. White 3.0, Britain first can't make money for Ezra.
00:32:04.480
Well, it's not, it's not about making money or not.
00:32:23.740
We need to go back to free markets and currency based on gold.
00:32:29.680
I know there's a lot of real gold bugs out there, and I think that's, a lot of them have moved to the crypto currency idea, and I just wish I knew more about that stuff.
00:32:47.100
As you know, I disagreed with his decision to leave the Conservative Party.
00:32:50.280
I think he would have been more powerful within the party.
00:32:53.360
I think he would have been the leading energy in the party, both in terms of policy.
00:33:03.180
I mean, he's got a certain brio and charm and energy, and he knows how to communicate in a way that gets attention.
00:33:10.360
And my advice, which I gave publicly through my videos, was that he should have stayed in the party, you know, worked the convention, shaken hands, a thousand of them, worked the hospitality suites, worked the debate floor, and really made the parties his de facto.
00:33:32.420
And if Andrew Scheer loses the next election, which I think is quite possible, then he would be the heir apparent.
00:33:40.640
The idea of starting a new party from scratch is so monumental a task in terms of work and organizational effort and fundraising.
00:33:53.000
I don't get it, because had he stayed within the party, he would have inherited all the infrastructure, all the fundraising, all the brand value.
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And frankly, that moment of truth will come within a year, right?
00:34:09.420
So I have reached out to him twice, inviting him for an interview.
00:34:19.000
I should check to make sure his response hasn't gone to my spam folder or something like that.
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I know that in the past they've been at arm's length from him, but their new leader, Gerard Batten, who I've interviewed and who I saw at Tommy's last court case, he came to the courthouse, is much more sympathetic to Tommy.
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And I should tell you, can we call up this headline, Nigel Farage in the UK, called Tommy Brave.
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I'd love to show you a website that showed that.
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So even Nigel Farage, who has been very reluctant to be affiliated with Tommy or anything like that for fear of being called far right himself.
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When he was down in Australia, he still says Tommy is misguided, but he called Tommy Brave.
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I'd like to show that headline, Alex, if we can call that up.
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John Zeeland, Max will be naming the party next week.
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And I see that there is some report that maybe he would be talking to the Libertarian Party.
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Tommy's not built for endless meetings and processes and haggling over party constitutions and policy platforms.
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He's built for action and energy and kinetic motion and just Google Nigel Farage Tommy Robinson Brave.
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Nigel Farage calls Donald Trump a friend for life and changes tune on Tommy Robinson.
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Nigel Farage told an audience in Australia Donald Trump would be his friend for life
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before praising EDL founder Tommy Robinson as brave.
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So maybe Nigel Farage himself became a little more brave when he was in Australia
00:36:55.900
I'm just going to go through some more comments.
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I like reading the comments, even the tough ones.
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I love how Trump's trade with Mexico screwed Trudeau for backstabbing Trump.
00:37:20.880
Whether you like him or oppose him, no one can stop watching him or talking about him
00:37:25.600
because he is the chief political force in the world today.
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And Twitter's amazing because we get insights into his mind,
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sometimes scripted and planned, sometimes very off the cuff.
00:37:39.320
I remember when Trump first came onto the scene, I went back through,
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you know, on Twitter you can do an advanced search.
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So you can search for anything that someone on Twitter has said
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And I just read every single tweet Donald Trump had ever written about those key subjects.
00:38:04.660
Don't you think that's a good way of taking his temperature?
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Because while these days he's more cautious and he has staff,
00:38:11.560
things that Trump would have said or done five years ago,
00:38:17.260
would have been much more spontaneous and probably quite an accurate reflection
00:38:20.820
of his true heartfelt feelings on these subjects.
00:38:23.600
So I went back and I read every single thing he ever said about China,
00:38:35.780
He says it's about, it's a hoax, it's a Ponzi scheme, pyramid scheme.
00:38:39.420
You got to read Donald Trump on global warming.
00:38:45.000
And he hates saying climate change because he knows that's a scam, even the words.
00:39:06.400
When Donald Trump is ornery and crotchety and he's looking to pick fights with things,
00:39:16.880
Why would Canada want to get in a boxing ring with him?
00:39:21.640
And Stephen Harper showed us how to do that with Barack Obama.
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And even Jean-Claude Chen showed us how to do that with George W. Bush.
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But in both cases, the Canadian pretty much said, all right, let's do no harm.
00:39:45.360
Trudeau just couldn't keep his civil tongue in his mouth.
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And it became normalized within Justin Trudeau's circles to disparage Trump.
00:39:58.540
And Trudeau's cabinet started doing it and Trudeau's staff started doing it.
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And it became the official culture of the Canadian political establishment.
00:40:09.840
You saw it in Trudeau's state broadcaster, the CBC.
00:40:13.100
You saw it even in the government comedians in Canada.
00:40:16.540
Absolutely everyone in Trudeau's circle despises Trump and says so.
00:40:24.700
I'm sure that many of Harper's team despised Obama.
00:40:28.060
But they didn't say so because they knew what was at risk if they had a rift.
00:40:32.560
Trudeau went from being ignored by Trump to being a burr in the saddle.
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And Trump went ahead and did a deal with Mexico.
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And now he's saying, yeah, Canada, you can come into that one too or not.
00:40:45.220
And I don't know if you saw the show I did with Manny Montenegrino a few weeks ago.
00:40:50.480
Manny said, Ezra, Trump wants the deal to fail.
00:40:59.320
Trump wants the deal to fail so he can slap a 20% tariff on Canadian cars
00:41:03.220
and move those factories back from Ontario and Quebec to Michigan and Pennsylvania.
00:41:09.880
There's no electoral college seats, votes in Ontario and Quebec for Trump.
00:41:15.380
But you bring factories back from Canada into Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana,
00:41:19.700
places like that, you're going to win those things in those states in 2020.
00:41:24.900
And Trudeau bizarrely thinks it's a win for him
00:41:27.580
because he can campaign against the evil Donald Trump in the 2019 election.
00:41:31.360
So Manny Montenegrino convinced me that both men actually want this thing to fail.
00:41:36.360
Whereas if Trudeau just was a, you know, spoke no evil, you know, just shut up,
00:41:44.580
we'd probably have a NAFTA renewal deal with Trump already
00:41:54.800
Oh, Politico responds and says, yes, I understand.
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I do think you two as a combination are stronger.
00:42:00.560
Tommy boosts Rebel's membership, Rebel promotes Tommy's work.
00:42:16.380
You know, I mean, there will probably be little discreet things.
00:42:36.940
So when I was in London on Tuesday, we talked about his plans.
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He'll let you know when he wants to be the boss of that, you know?
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I don't want to say, don't do that or run that by a lawyer.
00:43:09.240
Who would want to be the one saying, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't?
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The fun thing with Tommy is saying, go, go, go.
00:43:17.280
But if you're the boss, you can't do that because all you're thinking about is keep Tommy safe from litigation, including prosecution,
00:43:25.040
and contempt of court proceedings, and keep him safe from being stabbed.
00:43:28.740
That's all you think about when you're Tommy's boss.
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Just for one second, pretend you were Tommy's boss.
00:43:39.940
All you're thinking about is what can go wrong and how can we protect against that.
00:43:45.820
And so every word you're going to say to the guy is dial it back, dial it back.
00:43:58.060
It's more fun to be a friend of Tommy than a boss of Tommy, and that's what I want to be.
00:44:08.680
See, Lord Rupert Everton, what happened to John Cardillo?
00:44:12.520
John had great commentary, and he was with us for almost a year.
00:44:22.000
But I know he's still very active on Twitter, and he also appears on Newsmax, which you can
00:44:29.180
I'm not sure if you can get that up here, but I think it's just a ratings issue.
00:44:34.880
Count Cliff, Ezra, you were just using this format to promote Israel.
00:44:42.200
We have published over 9,900 videos on YouTube.
00:44:47.200
I used to say 9,700, but we've published 200 more since then.
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Of our 9,900 videos on YouTube, I'm going to guess that 200 of them are about Israel.
00:45:11.160
I think that's proportionate, given its centrality in the news.
00:45:18.140
If you were to say, Ezra, all you talk about is Trump, I'd say that's a criticism, because
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of our 9,900 videos, at least 1,000 are on Trump.
00:45:32.220
So listen, if you're curious, if you haven't figured it out yet, we're pro-America, even
00:45:38.220
though we're Canadian, we're pro-Britain, even though we criticize it, we're pro-Australia,
00:45:45.080
we're pro-Taiwan, we've been tough on China, when others haven't been, we're pro-India,
00:45:51.200
world's largest democracy, part of the British Commonwealth, an ally against terror, especially
00:45:55.740
Pakistan, we're pro-democratic reform in India, I don't want a war against, sorry, I
00:46:02.740
meant to say Iran, I don't want a war against Iran, and we're pro-Israel.
00:46:08.220
And I'm a Jew, so I have an ethnic affiliation with Israel, religious affiliation, but I
00:46:16.480
can make the case for Israel the same way I make the case for Taiwan.
00:46:19.360
I have no ethnic, religious, or historical ties to Taiwan, but the analogy to me is a
00:46:25.000
little democratic country, surrounded by big, bad dictatorships that want to kill it,
00:46:29.780
obviously I'm for Taiwan. Same arguments with Israel.
00:46:34.900
I see another super chat from Nida, five bucks, who says, new to rebel, Canadian want to sub,
00:46:39.240
do you spend time on Canadian content? Being a conservative family in Vancouver is very
00:46:42.920
hard, we need good content. Well, Nida, thank you very much for saying that, and I'm glad
00:46:47.380
you said that, because it is true, we talk, today, haven't I been talking a lot about Tommy?
00:46:52.440
And I'm sorry, the only reason I got on that is because I was explaining why I don't do
00:46:57.660
this show daily, because I was in London on Tuesday, that's an example of traveling.
00:47:01.340
And then that reminded me of the tour with Tommy, the boat cruise, so then I'd probably
00:47:08.020
But yeah, okay, I was getting, so what's our mix? Well, go on our YouTube page, 9,900 videos,
00:47:13.120
and at least half our content is Canadian, I think. We've got, we do about two videos,
00:47:24.180
three videos a day from the UK. We do about 10 videos a day, right? Two or three a day from
00:47:31.920
the UK. And I think some of them are international themes. I mean, sometimes they're just really
00:47:38.400
UK-centric, but sometimes they're about international themes, free speech. I would say three to five
00:47:47.160
videos a day are from Canada, and probably two or three a day are from America. Oh, and
00:47:54.180
we have Tanvir Ahmed, who does videos for us from Australia, and we have Rob Shimshak, who
00:47:59.640
does a video a day from Washington, but he's got a campus focus. So that's our mix. So my show,
00:48:08.400
is about 60% Canadian. That's my guess. I saw a comment. I don't remember who made it. I'm just
00:48:21.800
scrolling up, but it just said, talk about Alex Jones. So I'm sorry, I don't recall who put that
00:48:28.260
up there, but I can answer that question without quoting who said it. I just want to say thank you
00:48:36.920
for bringing that to my attention. Oh, Amanda Joy. Ezra, can you talk about Alex Jones? I sure can.
00:48:46.200
I've talked to Alex Jones a couple times in my life, and he's a big personality. He's an info-tainer,
00:48:55.240
which is the best kind of... It's the way it is. It's Rush Limbaugh. You have to get people's
00:49:01.400
attention before you can tell them something. It's why the CBC is so awful. It's not just that
00:49:07.560
it's left-wing. It's just so bloody boring. And as I've said before, I think Alex Jones is a
00:49:16.920
omni-skeptic. You tell him something, he'll challenge you just for the sake of challenging
00:49:22.060
him. He doesn't believe anything government or the establishment says. I don't know how much of
00:49:28.860
that is a shtick or how much of it is rooted at its core. I want to give him the benefit of doubt
00:49:33.900
and say most of it is rooted by his own observations and experience. And we've shown it on Battleground
00:49:38.740
4, and I don't want to do it again today. But I encourage you to go on YouTube and look at his
00:49:43.280
documentary investigation into the Bohemian Grove. Bohemian Grove. It's a secret society in
00:49:49.200
California that he actually infiltrated with a camera and showed their crazy pagan rituals. And
00:49:53.600
I know that sounds conspiracy theory crazy, but it's real life. And it actually happened. And that's
00:49:59.680
my point, is that a lot of the conspiracies he alleges, they are conspiracy. They're conspiracy
00:50:07.920
facts, not conspiracy theories. Now the thing is, when you're an omni-skeptic, and you apply
00:50:13.220
that worldview to 9-11, to, there was a school shooting, I forget where, and you get it wrong,
00:50:24.340
it looks bad. But so what? So what? We don't shut down the National Enquirer when they go over
00:50:30.720
the top, the tabloids. That's part of the media ecosystem. If you don't like it, don't follow
00:50:36.520
it. 2.4 million people followed them on YouTube, yet they were deleted. Not just going forward,
00:50:42.600
but all their historical work was deleted. And just yesterday, Alex Jones was kicked off
00:50:46.900
Twitter because nothing he did on Twitter, but for what he did in person. But look who's,
00:50:54.820
you can see on the screen right here, Louis Farrakhan and Hamas are still on Twitter. Louis Farrakhan,
00:50:59.900
racist, crazy, he's really the black clan. And Hamas, of course, a terrorist group, they are still on
00:51:05.920
Twitter. But Alex Jones fired yesterday from Twitter for nothing he did on Twitter, but for
00:51:10.480
the fact that he accosted a CNN journalist in real life, Twitter banned him for that. Just insane.
00:51:16.120
I see a couple more super chats. The Corker, CBC News Network is carrying an Obama speech live right
00:51:22.680
now. Oh my God, I totally believe you. On the weekend, they carried the full McCain funeral,
00:51:29.020
CBC deflecting for Trudeau. Well, not just that, but Barack Obama is not the Canadian Prime Minister.
00:51:35.920
And he's not even an American president. He's an ex-president. So to actually carry that live
00:51:43.600
shows, betrays their partisan agenda so much. When was the last time the CBC carried a speech
00:51:51.040
by the actual president of the United States live? And by the way, they're very entertaining
00:51:55.480
speeches because they're not really scripted. He actually breaks news almost every time he gives
00:52:00.400
a speech, don't you think? Trump, when he goes to these huge rallies. But more to the point,
00:52:06.000
it's relevant because he's the sitting president. But that's just the CBC going full Democrat
00:52:11.940
resistance. And the McCain funeral was the same thing. Yeah, John McCain. So he's one of 100 US
00:52:19.240
senators. Why did they love him? They despised him when he ran against Barack Obama in 2008.
00:52:25.820
He was challenging the precious. But he lost. So that's their favorite kind of conservative,
00:52:30.580
a losing one. And he became an anti-Trump activist. That's why they loved him. And that's why they
00:52:37.720
covered his funeral, because it was an anti-Trump campaign moment itself, wasn't it?
00:52:42.240
Um, so thank you for that news. That's just so it absolutely doesn't surprise me at all.
00:52:50.600
Uh, let me just see. I think there's another super chat. There we go. Crypto Well, what do you think
00:52:57.680
about the Faith G media blackout during the Toronto mayor race? Also, how about them Kavanaugh hearings?
00:53:04.100
Pretty amazing, eh? Well, I've, I'm always asked about Faith Goldie on the super chats. And so I've given
00:53:10.880
the same answer probably three times before, so I'll give it a fourth time. Um, I saw a poll. Can
00:53:17.100
you find the poll, please, and put it up? Uh, there was a poll. I'm sorry, I forget the name of the
00:53:23.100
pollster on Twitter. I think Faith Goldie herself might have retweeted it. That it was the first time
00:53:30.260
I've seen, uh, an actual professional pollster, I think it's a professional pollster, um, put Faith's
00:53:36.880
name to, uh, to the test. Um, the two leading candidates for, um, mayor are John Tory, the incumbent,
00:53:47.140
who's awful, and Jennifer Kiesmat, a liberal challenger, who's awful. And then there are literally
00:53:55.480
dozens of minor candidates, independent candidates, and some of the others. You may have had
00:54:02.940
more support, like putting Faith Goldie's name to people. In my view, that would make people more
00:54:10.000
likely to say that name than just saying other. Um, and if you would have listed a fourth name,
00:54:16.020
I think it would be more likely. So I think that that is slightly enhanced. And put the other one
00:54:20.920
where they have the undecideds in there. There you go. So 43% for Tory, 21% for Kiesmat, 2% for Faith
00:54:31.620
Goldie, 1% for other, and 33% undecided. Now, if this were a key federal election, if this were the,
00:54:41.720
uh, 2016 election in the United States, presidential election, that undecided vote is likely to show up,
00:54:50.080
and I would have said at the time they would break for Trump. If this were the 2018 Ontario provincial
00:54:58.320
election, I'd say they'd show up and vote either for Doug Ford or Andrea Horvath, the NDP. But when
00:55:06.480
you have 33% of people in a boring municipal election for mayor, in a fairly apathetic town,
00:55:14.780
saying undecided, I don't believe those 33% are going to force themselves into the other columns.
00:55:21.580
I think they're just going to stay home. Um, I think historically, turnout for municipal elections
00:55:28.300
are, are low, much lower than for provincial or federal elections because, um, the issues seem more
00:55:36.220
abstruse. The differences between the candidates, not as stark. I've said before that I think Faith will
00:55:42.540
get less than 5%. I may be wrong. I saw an online report that said she's campaigning,
00:55:48.060
that she has a campaign manager now, although we don't know his identity,
00:55:52.140
that they are actually canvassing. They have seen a picture to that effect.
00:55:55.580
So it's not just a virtual campaign as it started. It's not just a Twitter campaign.
00:56:00.540
There is some door knocking going on. But, um, at this point, I mean, there's still
00:56:06.300
over a month ago. I think that my early prediction that she will get 5% or less holds. We'll see.
00:56:17.180
Uh, Ezra's first irregulars. Have you looked into norovirus? Nearby government biolab.
00:56:22.380
Discussing more on this after the battleground. Join in. Keep up the good work, Ezra.
00:56:25.740
Uh, thank you, Ezra's first irregulars, and thanks for the chip in. I've heard a little bit about
00:56:30.540
norovirus, I think. Is that the same as the Norwalk virus? Perhaps I'm revealing my own ignorance.
00:56:38.860
Uh, and I don't know any political, uh, things to say about it. So, um, I guess my answer to your
00:56:45.900
question is more accurately, no. Um, Aaron Smith. Ezra, have you seen the CBC vote compass for the New
00:56:55.420
Brunswick election? No, I haven't. I know what you're talking about. This is such an unethical
00:57:01.500
tool the CBC has. Uh, it asks you a bunch of leading questions, and if you give the right answers,
00:57:08.540
it tells you who you should vote for, and inevitably it steers you towards the state broadcaster's own
00:57:14.940
choice, which is the parties of the left. So, uh, I remember back at the Sun News Network we would mock them.
00:57:20.700
Um, um, Charles Duran, next event in Ottawa. Hey, great idea. We did an event in Toronto. We had the
00:57:31.020
Rebel Live, very successful. We're having a Rebel Live event in Calgary in November, and I'm pleased to
00:57:38.860
say we're already booking speakers. Lindsey Shepard just, uh, confirmed today, for example. Um, I'm not quite
00:57:44.940
ready to give you the details of that. We're putting together a bit of a, we're confirming a few more
00:57:49.100
speakers, but that's coming up on November 10th. So, if you are in Calgary or would make the journey
00:57:54.540
to Calgary, um, pencil that in November 10th. But Ottawa is a good city for us. Uh, in terms of
00:58:01.980
Canadian cities, our number one is Toronto. Uh, Calgary and Edmonton are sort of tied for next,
00:58:07.500
and then I think it goes Ottawa and then Vancouver. That's where viewers are. Uh, so I'm 59. I'm almost done.
00:58:12.860
I'm just checking to see if I've missed any super chats. Have I missed any super chats? No, I think I got them all.
00:58:17.180
Uh, I'll end with Dwayne Jane, who says CBC sucks, and I think that's a good way to end the show.
00:58:22.700
Um, well, there you have it. Thanks for chit-chatting with me today, and I hope you don't mind me not
00:58:28.380
wearing a jacket. I think next time I will wear a jacket because the jacket helps hide how fat I am.
00:58:36.860
So the jacket's going back on next week. Um, thank you for chatting. Thank you to everybody who chipped
00:58:41.660
in with the, uh, a few bucks here and there for super chats. We use that to help pay the bills.
00:58:46.220
I do want to say, come on the cruise with Tommy. If you've, I, you know, I'm getting, I spent a lot
00:58:52.860
of time on this yesterday. I responded to a bunch of emails. I'm getting excited about it. Uh, I think
00:58:58.460
it's going to be amazing. I've never been to Eastern Europe before. I, I would call
00:59:02.940
Czech, Czech Republic Eastern Europe, or Hungary, excuse me, Hungary, Slovakia. You can see the map at
00:59:07.820
rebelcruise.com. I want to go to Budapest. I want to see the city. I bet it's beautiful.
00:59:12.460
And I want to learn more about Victor Orban and not just from our slanted left-wing media. I want to
00:59:17.340
hear from Hungarians themselves. I want to hear from people in his own government, don't you?
00:59:21.900
And I want to be in that room, not just by myself. I want Tommy there. And I want Daniel Pipes there.
00:59:26.940
I want Kitty Hopkins there. And I want to listen. You know, there's only 68 cabins. I want the hundred of
00:59:31.900
us to have a real briefing firsthand. That's actually the most important. I mean, I could go to Budapest if I
00:59:36.860
want it for a holiday. I don't think I would, but a cruise of all these cities. And it's to be there
00:59:41.500
with Tommy and Daniel Pipes and Katie and learn these things. That's why I'm excited. I know I
00:59:46.700
talk too much about it, but that is on my mind. And you can get that info at rebelcruise.com.
00:59:51.100
All right. It's 1 p.m. Eastern time. Time to say goodbye. But if you are still so inclined,
00:59:57.500
you should tune in at 8 p.m. Eastern. I've already recorded an interview for tonight.
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It's a fun one. It's about the CBC and Justin Trudeau and Christy Freeland. If you can tune in
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tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern, I think you'll like it. Until then, on behalf of all of us here at
01:00:12.780
Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home and around the world, keep fighting for freedom. Bye-bye.