EZRA LEVANT ｜ The blue checkmark journalists on Twitter are losing their minds – and it's amazing!
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Summary
It's election day in the United States, and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is in a pick-me-up situation. We'll talk to Katie Davis-Court about why she thinks Biden is going to lose to Republican challenger Jon Fetterman. Plus, the latest on Elon Musk's plan to democratize Twitter.
Transcript
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Hello, my friends. It is election night in the United States.
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That's of great interest to us, the greatest friend, ally, and neighbor of the United States.
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And how the United States goes today, we often go the next day.
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I think Joe Biden is going to get a thumping at the polls.
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But before we do, I want to tell you the latest about Elon Musk's plan to democratize Twitter.
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But before I get to it, let me invite you to become a subscriber to Rebel News Plus.
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You get my nightly show and the other shows we have on our paywall, too.
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And the reason we need that is because we don't take any money from Trudeau.
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He's the number one revenue source for Canadian media.
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But my view is you can't take money from Trudeau and report on him independently.
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Tonight, it's amazing to hear journalists try to explain why they're better than you.
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By the time this is posted online, we'll be having our U.S. midterm election live stream.
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So if you're listening to this on Tuesday night, feel free to tune in.
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We stream it on rumble.com, YouTube, Getter, and other platforms.
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After two years of bad news under the Democrats, I think America is going to swing back to the Republicans, both the House and the Senate.
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Of course, I'm worried about the margin of cheating, but I'm still optimistic.
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In a moment, we'll talk with Katie Davis Court about some of the interesting races.
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Perhaps the most curious to me is this oddity, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania.
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He's got that shaved head, that goatee, the tattoos, always in a hoodie.
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It's a tough guy look, but he's not really working class.
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The weird thing is he had a stroke, and he tried to keep it a secret.
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And the media helped him keep it secret until finally one reporter, actually from the mainstream media, sort of just said the opposite.
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And holy moly, was she battered by the Democrat trolls.
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Because of his stroke, Fetterman's campaign required closed captioning technology for this interview to essentially read our questions as we ask them.
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And Lester, in small talk before the interview, without captioning, it wasn't clear he was understanding our conversation.
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Can voters stress that you will be able to do this job on day one?
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But right now, voters really have to take your word for it.
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We've asked to have a conversation with someone from your medical team to interview your physician.
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Well, I feel like we have been very transparent in a lot of different ways.
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When our doctor has already given a letter saying that I'm able to serve and to be running.
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I mean, respectfully, that letter from your physician, that was six months ago.
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I mean, Fetterman is running against TV's Dr. Oz, who's running for the Republicans, sort of a TV celebrity.
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But I'm really worried about Democrat Election Day shenanigans in Pennsylvania.
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Third world countries like the United States now take days or weeks to count the ballots.
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All the Democrat-leaning media are saying, this is normal.
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Anyways, that's tonight's live stream on our YouTube and Rumble channels.
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And I know that most of you probably don't even have a Twitter account.
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It's just a shorter, meaner Facebook built for quarreling with people as opposed to sharing family photos or invitations to barbecues,
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But even if you are not on Twitter, and I very strongly recommend you do not join it if you're not already trapped in it,
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It's where they chat amongst themselves, but you can listen in.
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It's where, like birds in a flock, they subconsciously, unconsciously assemble in formation.
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You can see journalists whip each other up and iron out a narrative.
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You can see what all the pundits are pushing together.
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And because it's so short and quick, it's often a more honest reflection of what they think than a scripted video or a written essay.
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It's the danger, but it's also the fun of the place.
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I did a tweet once that Donald Trump himself replied to when he was president.
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If you have something smart or funny to say, it can go viral no matter who you are.
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We take it for granted now, but before the ubiquity of smartphones with their built-in cameras,
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it was rare to catch some crisis in action on videotape.
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I mean, in the olden days, pre-internet, pre-smartphone,
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there were some people who were real photography buffs who carried a real camera around with them.
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But that was really rare because what a hassle, right?
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Now, think about all the important news these days that's captured by ordinary people
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just in the right place at the right time on their cell phones.
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Twitter lets citizen journalists publish videos and photos and comments,
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So it truly is the public square for politics in 2022.
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It's also good for sports or entertainment, following celebrities, that sort of thing too.
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But I think its real value is politics and news,
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That's certainly the value to various governments and spy agencies.
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Twitter's a bounty for spies to get information on dissidents,
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who they are, what they're saying in their private messages, for example.
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So as you know, Elon Musk, the billionaire, bought Twitter, and he took it private.
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And then several of the board members denounced the offer.
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But then when Elon Musk pulled back, saying Twitter misled him,
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in that there's a large number of customers that Twitter pretended were real,
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that were actually fakes, they were robots or bots.
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Twitter then sued Elon Musk, demanding that he close the deal anyway.
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They went back and forth, and in the end, he bought it.
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And in the first week or so, he fired half the staff.
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Now, how can you fire half the staff of any company?
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If it were another kind of business, like say a restaurant,
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how can you fire half the staff in a restaurant?
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Would you get rid of cooks or dishwashers or waiters?
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I mean, it's tough to imagine there being that many useless people in a real business,
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I mean, I guess you could do what McDonald's and other restaurants are doing,
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having touchscreen tablets to order food, which I suppose gets rid of some cashiers.
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Pilots, flight attendants, mechanics, refueling people, baggage people.
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You'd be terrified if they got rid of half the people, right?
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And the thing about that McDonald's tablet idea is that that's using high-tech ideas
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It's not shipped to you in a van like Amazon stuff is.
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So it's already as efficient as it could be, right?
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You don't have to build more buildings like a McDonald's franchise.
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How on earth can you sack half the staff at Twitter and have customer use actually grow
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Twitter was absolutely chock full of useless political bosses, political activists, censors,
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Gee, they were like barnacles on a ship and there were more barnacles than ship.
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They had attached themselves to the profitable, useful technology and just brought in their
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Half the staff at Twitter were political bosses.
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I mean, look at this incredible statement by a former Twitter employee fired by Elon Musk.
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She said, yesterday was my last day at Twitter.
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The entire human rights team has been cut from the company.
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I'm enormously proud of the work we did to implement the UN guiding principles on business
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and human rights to protect those at risk in global conflicts and crises, including Ethiopia.
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You had this whole human rights team implementing United Nations principles.
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Twitter's imposing some foreign globalist regulations on its app.
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When you look at, I mean, talk about United Nations human rights rules.
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I mean, in some ways, every dictator in the world has a Twitter account from Iran to China
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And look at this investigation by a journalist named Li Fang.
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Documents show Facebook and Twitter closely collaborating with the Department of Human and
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Plans to expand censorship on topics like withdrawal from Afghanistan, origins of COVID, info that
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Yeah, if you don't love your bank, you're a disinformation expert.
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So that's what Twitter's thousands and thousands of political enforcers were doing.
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Running errands for the UN, for the military, for big banks.
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FBI agent Laura Demlow was in communications with Facebook that led to the suppression of
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the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020 over the false allegation that it was disinfo.
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we need a media infrastructure that is held accountable.
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So they're basically political censors who also let the police just come right on in and
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No trial, no rule of law, no U.S. Constitution, First Amendment, just a crazy secret relationship
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Facebook and Twitter created special portals for the government to rapidly request takedowns
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The portals, along with NGO partners, used to censor a wide range of content, including
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obvious parody accounts and content disagreeing with government pandemic policy.
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By the way, portals like that that give you direct access to an app secretly.
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That's what the Chinese government does to its internet companies like TikTok.
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That's what half the people at Twitter were doing.
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You might have laughed at me the other day when on the show I called Twitter a CIA operation.
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But literally half the people working there had nothing to do with computer science or
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They were spies, either gathering information on people or silencing people working for hidden
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Now, obviously, if someone is fired, that's bad for them.
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Just because we disagree with them doesn't mean we want them to be unemployed and not make
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And of course, if they enjoyed their work friends, that's a sad development, just speaking on
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Getting rid of public policy people when you're claiming to do real free speech is the stupidest
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I'm sorry that he's out of a job, but that's pretty self-serving.
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All these censors and regulators and filterers were not doing free speech.
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They were all shaping and regulating and hiding and tweaking and eliminating other people's
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You don't need thousands of staff standing around taking down things from the bulletin board
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that real people put up and putting up what you want them to see instead.
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Look, if you're in a public policy like I am, well, then get a Twitter account and make
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Don't secretly silence from behind the scenes and the chutzpah to call yourself a free
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I'm sympathetic to this person that's an individual, but I'm glad their job is gone.
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Some of the tweets were just lamenting the end of a cushy, well-paid career, but others
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We were the last bulwark against Russian propaganda.
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We were the last thing stopping you from believing misinformation and disinformation.
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Everything was true until now, but now that I'm fired, you will be in a sea of lies.
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But look, I can see how Twitter, a Twitter censor who censors every day using artificial
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intelligence and algorithms to censor by the thousand or by the million to censor whole
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ideas or words, I can imagine how that person can say that their absence will change the
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We will hear more points of view now, not just the approved ones by a left-wing Silicon
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We might hear alternative points of view on the pandemic or the vaccines now that were
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Those people actually will be missed by their friends at Pfizer or the Democrats or the
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But what about another thing that Elon Musk has done?
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Again, if you don't have a Twitter account, you may not know what I'm talking about.
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That's you because you got that blue checkmark.
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But in fact, it wasn't treated like a true verification mark because anyone can get verified
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by showing ID and proving they are who they are.
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Think about what you had to do to get your online banking going.
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My point is the blue checkmark for Twitter was not in practice about verifying your identity.
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It was about whether or not you would be invited into an elite club of influencers and approved
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Maybe it's because I run a news company and even our critics on the left acknowledge that
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But the blue checkmark community has a kind of identity, a group identity.
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In fact, Twitter has in the past punished people by taking away the blue checkmark.
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How does that make sense if it's just about verification?
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Are they not still the person they were yesterday?
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It just means that they've lost Twitter's seal of approval.
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Again, I have no idea how I got it, but I got it somehow.
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But look, Elon Musk has now said he's going to let anyone get themselves verified in that
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That's not just a source of income for Twitter, which it is.
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Spam and bots, robots, are anonymous accounts, sometimes made by the hundred or by the thousand.
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They're like what a laugh track is to a TV comedy.
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You can have thousands of fake bots promoting or opposing something or someone.
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It's what Elon Musk didn't like about Twitter when he called off his bid.
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He said one solution is to make everybody pay eight bucks a month to go through the verification
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I mean, you wouldn't likely see someone buying 10,000 bots if it was eight bucks each per month,
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even if they could provide the verification information, which they probably couldn't.
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So it's about improving the user experience, about moving away from ads and towards a membership
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Now, the peasants can look just like the kings on Twitter.
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And oh, does that make the blue checkmark aristocracy furious?
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Stephen King, the millionaire, was arguing with Elon Musk, the billionaire, about not wanting
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Look, it wasn't about the money for Stephen King.
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And because he's special, he wants a freebie that only he gets.
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But what really made me roll my eyes was seeing Canadian journalists saying that their blue
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checkmark and the inability of the little people to buy a blue checkmark was essential
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It was all that was keeping journalism in Canada safe.
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They were like Twitter's own censorship and United Nations squad.
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The blue checkmark journalists are part of the elite club that suddenly, well, they're
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If everyone can have the blue checkmark, it's not fancy anymore.
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So Elon Musk himself said, widespread verification will democratize journalism and empower the voice
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So Canada's very own Rachel Gilmore, a young woman at Global News, whose specialty is short
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TikTok videos, said, that's very dangerous, you see.
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She said, making every single persona a verified source of reliable information is a really great
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So letting ordinary people be verified is poison.
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But, you know, free speech equals silencing people.
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And by implication, Rachel Gilmore is certainly none of those bad things.
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And you know that's true because she has the blue checkmark.
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She has a blue checkmark because she's book good.
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Now, if she's anything like me, she did not have to fill out any forms or take any tests
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But if you're part of the club, you just sort of know you're part of the elite.
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So we should believe her that she is none of those bad things simply because of the blue
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Are you going to invite your unvaccinated relatives to sit at the dinner table with you this Thanksgiving?
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Experts are saying you might not want to risk it.
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According to one expert from McMaster University, vaccines are super effective.
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But they're most effective when you're surrounded by other vaccinated people.
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If you invite someone who isn't vaccinated, there's a risk of having a breakthrough case.
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So part of keeping those kids as safe as possible is telling that one uncle who chooses not to get vaccinated
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Yeah, that blue checkmark is the seal of approval for quality journalism.
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So I wrote back, and that's half the fun of Twitter is the banter.
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I said, look, journalism is not a profession or a trade.
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It's an activity that anyone with a smartphone and a Twitter account can do.
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The democratization of journalism outrages the elites because it takes away their monopoly.
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That blue checkmark was their proof that they're better than you.
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And the banter to which Gilmore replied, this coming from Ezra explains so much.
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It explains why we citizen journalists over here have 1.58 million YouTube subscribers
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and millions more in other social media, because we know that a blue checkmark isn't what makes
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Here's a reporter with Canadian press, Rosa Saba, who says journalism isn't an activity.
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Whether or not you're paid for it doesn't determine if it's journalism.
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In fact, if you cash a check from Trudeau, as 99% of Canadian journalists do, I'd argue
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that the job part undermines the journalism part.
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I mean, what does getting paid or not have to do with journalism, except that if you get
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I like this one by a journalist with a blue checkmark who said, firefighting is not a profession
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It's an activity that anyone with a garden hose can do.
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The collapse of our republic dovetails perfectly with the lie of citizen journalists and the
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Actually, firefighting requires some special skills and special equipment more than a garden
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You have to have some strength and you have to know what you're doing.
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You've got a phone with a camera and a social media account.
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This journalist read my comment and said he was scared.
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A governing body with authority to sanction members.
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None of that is compatible with freedom in the press.
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None of the advocates of keeping blue checkmines for the fancy people are telling the truth.
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They're not actually worried about disinformation or misinformation or unethical people.
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The mainstream media takes care of those unethical behaviors on their own, by the way.
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How many conspiracy theories do they serve up from their lies about the origin of the virus to their lies about the efficacy of the vaccines to their lies about the convoy?
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You know, given Canada's support of Ukraine in this current crisis with Russia, I don't know if it's far-fetched to ask, but there is concern that Russian actors could be continuing to fuel things as this protest grows, but perhaps even instigating it from the outset.
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That CBC anchor actually got a promotion after that.
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All we heard out of the Trucker Commission of Inquiry from last month from every police source is that the truckers were peaceful, contrary to what the mainstream media said, and that the media itself was the source of the lies.
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The blue checkmark media was the source of the lies.
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Rachel Gilmore is a TikTok journalist, for crying out loud.
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And I'm not sure if that's even a thing, but I won't get snobby on her.
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I'm just saying she craves that blue checkmark because it gives her validation she so dearly wants.
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So she's not just another influencer showing just enough skin on social media to get views.
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It's her claim to being classy and important and real and authoritative because her work alone doesn't afford her that.
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And it's a way of marginalizing her enemies and her critics.
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Well, now the world's richest man says everyone can buy that elite status.
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But I love that the scarcity of it is about to end and that the grubby peasants will be able to buy these what these princes and princesses had bestowed upon them once.
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It's about a team, about friends and enemies and whose side you're on.
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That's what all these blue checkmarks are raging about.
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Well, we post the Ezra Levant show at 8 p.m. Eastern time, 6 p.m. Mountain time every day.
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So by the time you see this, we will actually have started another show, our live stream for the U.S. midterm elections.
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And I think this midterm election is certainly a premonition of what could happen in 2024.
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It's really the first time Americans have had a chance to, I don't know, have a referendum on Joe Biden and his leadership, if it even is his leadership.
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I think the woke squad of the Democrats are really in control, at least ideologically.
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There are a lot of problems in the U.S. economy right now.
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There's even the looming threat of war in the distance, Russia, Ukraine and America's involvement.
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But I think that Joe Biden has just come across with a kind of Jimmy Carter style malaise.
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And I think that Republicans see opportunities around the map, not just at the state level where there are some governorships up for grabs, but the Senate and the House of Representatives.
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I think conventional wisdom is that the Republicans will win that back and have a real shot at taking the Senate.
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There's a few places we will watch on the live stream.
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I'm very interested, of course, in the success of Ron DeSantis.
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I think it's almost a foregone conclusion he will be reelected in Florida.
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Arizona, which is sort of a purple state, red or blue.
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You have a really American first Republican, Blake Masters, affiliated with Peter Thiel, probably the only libertarian in Silicon Valley, a big Trump supporter.
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Pennsylvania, fascinating battle between John Fetterman, a Democrat who had a stroke versus the Republican, Dr. Oz.
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Not a particularly right wing man, but certainly telegenic.
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Even New York State, New York, one of the most progressive places around, such a crime wave there.
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And their incumbent governor, having not been elected, remember, she was selected when Governor Cuomo was run out on Me Too allegations.
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There's actually a chance the Republicans could pick up New York City.
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And so if you're watching this on Tuesday night, maybe push pause on it and flip over to our live stream on Rumble and YouTube.
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And one of the guests I will be having in real time is my friend Katie Davis-Gore, one of our U.S. correspondents.
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And she joins me now from downtown Seattle, where she's driving around, taking a look at things from street level.
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It's obviously a big day in the United States, so excited to be covering it from start to finish.
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Yeah, Seattle is part of the Pacific Northwest.
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There's a closeness to Washington State and B.C.
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Seattle and Portland, Oregon, really have been trending towards the woke left in recent years.
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I know there have been some places where they're soft on crime.
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Attorneys General have literally been thrown out.
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Even San Francisco is saying, whoa, we've gone too far.
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How is it in your hometown of Seattle and the place you haunt so much, Portland, is there any sign that even progressive Pacific Northwesterners are saying, we've gone too far to the left?
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I think that they are really reaping the effects of these failed progressive policies.
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You know, their policies have created severe lawlessness, high crime rates.
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There are the most recorded homicides ever in both cities, such as Seattle and Portland.
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But when I was on the street, we did a USA team did a U.S. midterm street or video.
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And I went and I asked voters in Seattle how they plan to vote.
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And they said that their main issues were abortion and January 6th.
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And so it's not going to be voters in Seattle and the voters in Portland that are going to make a change.
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It's going to be the people in the outside cities, the rest of the people in our states, that the progressive policies in Seattle and Portland have began to affect where they live.
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So it is personal for a lot of people because Washington and Oregon are both states that are not deep blue.
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They're only deep blue because of Seattle and Portland.
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The rest of the states are pretty much solid red.
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And so this election cycle has awakened the voters across the state that normally wouldn't even turn out to vote.
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But I think that there's talks of a red wave across the state or across the country.
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I'm remaining skeptical because I don't necessarily trust the way that our elections are run in the country.
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You know, Washington and Oregon both have strict mail-in voting.
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You can't even have the option to vote in person.
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So it's really going to be interesting to see how it plays out.
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But the main races to watch in the state that I am in is Senate candidate Tiffany Smiley and Republican candidate for House Matt Larkin.
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They have the chance to actually flip their districts.
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So Tiffany Smiley is running against longtime incumbent Patty Murray, who has been a congressman, congresswoman for over 30 years.
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And she has only passed nine bills her entire 30 years.
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And so Tiffany Smiley actually is pulling ahead of Patty right now.
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And it's going to be interesting to see what comes tonight.
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And Matt Larkin, he has a great chance to flip the eighth congressional district, which is actually in King County, where Seattle is.
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And so if he flips that district, it just shows that Republicans actually might have a voice come 2024.
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You make a good point that, I mean, you sort of stunned me when you say that people are actually raising January 6th, the insurrection, as an issue.
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You know you're in Seattle when you're hearing that CNN talking point.
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I don't think I've ever seen an organic, normal person raise that out of the blue.
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But you so I know you're deep behind enemy lines.
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But there are some places where crime, in particular, meets, you know, a strong Republican candidate.
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You have, you know, Philadelphia, which is a lot of crime.
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And you've got John Fetterman, who suffered a stroke running against Dr. Oz, who's a great communicator.
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I just want to show you some clips from their debate.
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And the unusual thing is that Fetterman, I guess he can't hear things clearly.
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So he needs to read subtitles of what people are saying in real time.
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Like he really is disabled and I'm not making fun of him at all.
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It's just shocking to me that someone who had a cognitive injury through a stroke is being high.
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I mean, for an intellectual job that requires him to hear and speak and operate and think.
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And I just find it very odd. Take a look at this debate clip from Dr. Oz versus Fetterman.
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Fetterman's the Democrat. They're standing by him. Take a look.
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In fact, I live across the street from a steel mill and they were going to frack to create their own energy in order to make them more competitive.
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And I support that living closer to anybody else in Pennsylvania for fracking to myself.
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I believe that we need independence with energy.
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And I believe I've walked that line my entire career.
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Mr. Mr. Fetterman, I do have a specific question, which you can continue on this topic.
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But you have made two conflicting statements regarding fracking.
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In a 2018 interview, you said, quote, I don't support fracking at all.
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But earlier this month, you told an interviewer, quote, I support fracking.
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I support the energy independence that we should have here in the United States.
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So, Mr. Fetterman, please explain your changing position.
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And I always believe that independence with our energy is critical and we can't be held, you know, ransom to somebody like Russia.
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You know, I've always believed that energy independence is critical.
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I've never taken any money from their industry.
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But I support how critical it is that we produce our own energy and create energy independence.
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Just a second, Mr. Oz, I do want to clarify something.
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You're saying tonight that you support fracking, that you've always supported fracking.
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But there is that 2018 interview that you said, quote, I don't support fracking at all.
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And incredibly, New York State, where Lee Zeldin is running, I think he's got a chance.
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I would, I mean, I don't think there's been a Republican governor of New York State since Pataki.
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And I think that the Biden administration has awakened the rest of America.
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You're seeing the effects of what happened during COVID when the tyrannical leaders started taking over and started dictating what people did with their children.
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started dictating, you had to get a shot to keep your job.
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And that has awakened the rest of the rest of the country.
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And that is why there are talks of red waves, because this election is personal.
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It is people that have lost their jobs, their livelihoods, their children can't go to school.
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And this is, in the United States, you know, we have the United States Constitution, where it grants everyone the individual rights to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.
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And we saw these dictator governors really take that, really, we saw these governors really use, go against the United States Constitution.
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And that is why it is possible that New York could very well elect a Republican governor.
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You know, it would be such a shocking symbol to the country that the pendulum really is swinging back.
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Now, last night, Donald Trump had another rally.
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He has had more rallies than Joe Biden has had.
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Here's a picture that I saw posted online today.
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Just, I mean, the guy looks like he's Benjamin Button, like he's going backwards in time.
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That's from Benny Johnson there, who hopped a plane with the former president.
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I thought that maybe Donald Trump was going to make an announcement last night that he was going to run for president in 2044.
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And I'm sort of glad because I think that if Trump would have announced that he was running, that would have been the only headline in the newspapers today.
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And that really would have motivated Democrats to get out because Democrats hate him.
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But I think that Trump has telegraphed to us that he will announce his candidacy in about a week or so.
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And I guess third of all, if he does run, will he win?
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I think he is definitely going to be announcing on November 15th.
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I think the reason why he didn't announce last night was because he did make a comment about DeSantis that was kind of in a negative manner, the rally before last night.
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And I think that that didn't go well over with DeSantis' base.
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And so I think his team was smart in having Trump hold off on announcing because, like you said, all the headlines would be all about Trump winning and Democrats hate him to death.
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So they would absolutely turn out more in voting in this midterms.
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But if he does run, I think that he actually – it's just a great question.
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I think I personally would love to see him run because we did get – the Republican side did get robbed of the 2020 election.
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I mean, we saw January 6th happen, and there's just way too much people that don't agree with how the 2020 election went.
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So if Trump does win, I think it's going to be a victorious moment.
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I think if he runs, he'll win the primary nominee.
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I don't know what's going to happen if in 2024 he'll get enough votes.
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I think it's possible, but we'll just have to see.
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I think, you know, 2020 everyone saw the United States kind of go up to the plane political violence-wise.
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I'm a little concerned about what's going to happen in 2024.
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I think that we're going to see 2020 kind of on steroids, and it's going to – January 6th is going to look like a little party compared to what would come.
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Well, it's going to be a real battle to the death, and we don't know who the Democrats are going to run.
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I don't think anyone believes Joe Biden will run again.
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He's failing cognitively, not quite as spectacularly as John Fetterman.
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But there's no way that Biden will be the nominee.
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I can't imagine it being someone as unlikable as Kamala Harris.
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Maybe it'll be a Hillary Clinton-Donald Trump rematch.
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I'm convinced it's going to be Hillary Clinton, and I think it's going to be Hillary versus Trump again.
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Well, I just want to play for you that one clip because you mentioned a snide remark that Trump – Trump is great with nicknames.
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That's that New York sense of humor and, frankly, a little bit of meanness.
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I mean, they're so famous, the put-downs, and they stick because there's a grain of truth in them.
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He tried out a nickname on Ron DeSantis the other day, and I don't know how well it went over.
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Like, I think he's less wild, has less own goals.
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I would like it to be like Batman and Superman, who are friends.
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But here's Donald Trump giving a nickname to Ron DeSantis that, to me, sort of surprised me coming out of nowhere.
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But I used to come out, and it used to drive the fake news crazy.
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But today, I have the highest poll numbers I've ever had, perhaps partly because the Democrats are doing so badly running our country, and people want our tremendous success of no inflation, energy independence, military victory.
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Al-Baghdadi, and so many other things, including crime.
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We're winning big, big, big in the Republican Party for the nomination like nobody's ever seen before.
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Does Sanctimonious, I don't know if, I mean, maybe there's a touch of that tone to him, but when I think of Ron DeSantis, Sanctimonious is not the chief characteristic.
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I think he's, I think Trump has dialed that back a bit.
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I hope he got the message from the party, don't shoot at our best governor.
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And it felt like a weak and defensive statement for, like, is Trump afraid of Ron DeSantis?
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I hope that these two guys don't battle it out because I like both of them.
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And, you know, I think that Trump needs to actually watch what he says this time around because he is under a severe microscope in media.
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And so anything he says, they're going to take and run with.
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And the Republican Party, they need to be united more than ever.
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I know a lot of people even want DeSantis to be the nominee.
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And so if Trump is on, come campaign time, if Trump is on the election stage,
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shaming Ron DeSantis, that is just not going to go over well with really any Republican across the country.
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But he actually does need to watch what he says this time around.
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I think it will be a red wave, as you called it.
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I think both the Congress and the Senate will move into the Republican camp.
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And we'll see you on the live stream, which will air simultaneous to this.
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You have a Katie Davis score, one of our American rebels.
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About yesterday's show and that NDP MLA who was convicted of hacking into the vaccine
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Heather Jones says, as an Albertan, I would like to know whose info this criminal exposed.
00:43:42.820
Well, from what we heard, he made over a million queries into this database.
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I don't know if he did anything with it other than Jason Kenney's.
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You're talking about police from around the world engaging in bad behavior during the lockdowns.
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And I have to tell you that bad behavior continues.
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I was down there in Lethbridge on the weekend for a court hearing involving three peaceful
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And it wasn't until I left, I heard some abusive police conduct at the truckers barbecue.
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And I didn't see this, but they had some porta potties there.
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And the police refused to let the trucks offload them and made the men pull them by hand.
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It was just an outrageous little petty abusive thing.
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Nico Paul says, Nuremberg 2, no excuses, no amnesty, never forget.
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Nuremberg is one of the names of the, well, there were the Nuremberg trials after the
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Second World War where war criminals were put on trial, including for the Holocaust, including
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And if you don't know about that, I've done a show on it before.
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Um, the Nazi doctor trials were putting the doctors on trial because the doctors committed
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And it came up with a code, the Nuremberg code of things we must never do in the name
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of medicine and how doctors have a special obligation towards patients or anyone they
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And we absolutely threw the Nuremberg code out to get forced vaccinations through.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, see you at home.
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Is there anything you like about Tiffany Smiley?
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Yeah, again, you can, like, yeah, show me the evidence that what she's saying will work.
00:45:53.900
Katie Davis Court reporting for Rebel News just ahead of the United States midterm elections.
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King County elections promoted an event that bribed the Hispanic community with free tamales
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and special gifts to teach them how to fill out their ballots.
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Now, the event that they promoted was being hosted by Washington Environmental Council, a
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progressive nonprofit activist organization that aims to eliminate fossil fuels and heavily
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Now, since King County elections is supposed to be fair and non-biased, I searched their
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accounts to see if they had promoted any conservative events and came up short.
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Now, my investigation will most likely make a lot of conservative voters and candidates angry
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I walked into the Mill Creek room at Kent Commons where a small group of people were gathered.
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They were eating tamales and discussing midterms.
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It wasn't a large turnout, which was most likely due to the severe storms that we have been having
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After I was bribed with free tamales and was entered into the special giveaway, I walked over
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to the table they had set up where you could check your voter registration and even print
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out your ballot. On the table were two voting guides. The first guide was for candidates endorsed
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by Washington Environmental Council, while the second guide consisted of a list of progressive
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candidates. But there were no guide for conservative candidates or their policies.
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After I was offered, or should I say bribed, with free tamales, in walked a woman that I knew
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named Michelle Lee, who runs a conservative organization called Washingtonians for Change,
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who also came to infiltrate the event. Michelle and her friend both brought their ballots
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with them, and we all sat down with one member of the organization who guided us through the
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While he didn't mark our ballots for us, he told us which candidates he voted for,
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why he voted for them, and when Michelle and her friend pressed on conservative candidates
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and their issues, he had zero knowledge and used rhetoric that could easily persuade an ill-informed
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or first-time voter away from the issues that they care about.
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I would if I were there. It's a stretch to say that I'd support her, but I would prefer her over
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So Patty is basically pro-gun control, pro-union, and pro-choice. And Tiffany Smiley is basically
00:48:37.620
running on, like, my perspective on the Republicans running on crime is, like, because she is running
00:48:45.360
on it, like Tiffany Smiley. She's like, oh, crime's getting so bad in Seattle. It's like,
00:48:48.980
you never come to Seattle. Whatever. I'm not really seeing, I'm not hearing, like, solutions.
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I, if I'm hearing that, and they talk a lot about the border. To me, what border are you
00:49:05.540
talking about? So all she talks about is the U.S. border with Mexico. And I'm like, we're
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in Washington state. So I'm not hearing, so Tiffany Smiley is basically running on what
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you're saying. She's, like, running on crime, and she is hearing that people are concerned
00:49:20.300
about it, but I'm not hearing the solutions. I thus far have not heard solutions.
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Is there anything you like about Tiffany Smiley?
00:49:37.780
Ah. Okay, so here's the thing. Sometimes she says things that are good, but then there's
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no detail, which makes me concerned, which goes for a lot of politicians, right?
00:49:46.760
So, like, reducing wasteful spending that cause inflation. I'm like, okay, but then I don't
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see any detail. So I don't know. Okay, here's one. I would support bipartisan
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legislation that gives parents the options to advance child tax credit payments to help
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families after the birth or adoption of a new child. Okay. So that's the solution, right?
00:50:11.800
Yeah. So, but it's both the Republicans and the Democrats are for. So. Oh, okay. So it's
00:50:17.860
just, they're both foreign, is actually what I'm reading. She mentions closing the border and
00:50:24.960
the border with the Mexicans. Right. But that's where most of the criminal activity is coming
00:50:34.380
into the country. Yes, there's a Canadian border. I'm more liberal than Joe Biden.
00:50:40.100
I'm more liberal than Joe Biden. I'm more liberal than Joe Biden. I'm more liberal than Joe Biden.
00:50:51.980
I'm more liberal than Joe Biden. That's illegal immigration. Right. That's what you got to
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be careful. You got to be very careful. Instead of trying to say.
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yeah something that is not going to be addressed
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yeah again like yeah show me the evidence that what she's doing will work
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actually support right so i personally support which one are you supporting well the idea that
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we should have attacks on aircraft i personally support so what are your thoughts on king county
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elections promoting this event well first of all they have no business promoting this event because
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you know it's non-partisan if they're going to do something they should be on have representative
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from both sides but clearly what i found tonight was it's very one-sided all the questions all the
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candidates that we brought up were leaning towards the liberal democrats you just have to wonder why
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king county elections would ever promote this event it is blatantly biased and if they're promoting
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a democrat organizations event they should also be promoting a republicans but i think that most
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would agree that they just should not promote either side and stick to fair and secure elections
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