EZRA LEVANT ｜ What have they done to you？
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What have we done to ourselves psychologically over the past year and a half? Have we rewired our minds to think of ourselves as prisoners, or subjects, as opposed to citizens? In this episode, I talk about what the last year and half has done to us psychologically.
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Hello, my friends. I'm going to talk to you a little bit about some details, but I'm actually
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going to go big picture today and talk about what the last year and a half has done to us
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psychologically. I found a very interesting article online about the technical and medical
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definitions of psychological torture and how what we've been going through has a form of that.
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The isolation, the gaslighting, the threats and the blame. I think there's some truth to that.
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And have we rewired our own minds and we think of ourselves now as prisoners or subjects as
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opposed to citizens? So I'll talk about that. Let me invite you to become a subscriber to what we
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Tonight, what have they done to you? It's August 6th. This is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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I get bogged down into details sometimes. That's where the devil is, they say. And it's true. The
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details are important. Important details I've been looking at lately include the fact that in
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Ontario, for example, there are just over three million minors, people under age 20. And since
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the pandemic began, there have been a grand total of four minors who have died from the virus. So
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that it's about one in a million. That's a useful detail to know. It reminds us that our first
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reaction to the pandemic back in March of 2020 was wrong. It's not something that affects all of us
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equally. It practically spares the young, at least in terms of serious health effects.
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Another detail we've learned helps explain the anomaly we all saw dating back to March 2020.
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Why does Quebec, which is a quarter of Canada's population, have half of the deaths?
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Is it particularly unhealthy over there? Well, you could start to guess when last year we saw
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headlines like this. This was in the Toronto Star, May of 2020. Just two months into things,
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really, when some of the least curious reporters, you expect all of them to be curious, but there
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were a couple who were interested. They started to notice that it wasn't young people who were at
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risk, and it wasn't even just seniors in general who were at risk. It was that small sliver of seniors
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in long-term care homes. 82% of deaths there, when only about 1% of Canadians live in such facilities.
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But it wasn't actually, again, Quebec. It was in Quebec mainly, not Ontario, pardon me.
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So why? Well, here's what I wrote almost exactly a year ago.
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In Canada, COVID-19 is not a health problem, it's a euthanasia problem.
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Quebec has Canada's most aggressive pro-euthanasia laws. Quebec has 24% of the population,
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but 63% of the deaths. I'm not sure if that's accurate today, but that's how it was back then.
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Almost all of them very old people in institutions with do-not-revive orders.
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You don't have to be terminally ill to access state-assisted suicide in Quebec. It's like
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Planned Parenthood took over the seniors' homes. I'll read just one more.
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Quebec has a culture of death. They have the highest abortion rate in Canada,
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though they no longer publish the data. Abortion is common birth control even for college students.
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I go on a bit, but it's pretty clear to me there's nothing in the air or water in Quebec.
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Their hospitals aren't remarkably better or worse than the rest of Canada. They just have laws
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And that was confirmed in recent weeks by nurses and doctors confessing
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when people in those places got sick, they didn't try and make them better. They just put them on
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morphine to numb the pain and started to basically turn off the switch. Why? Because they were very
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sick anyways and very old and on the brink of death because they didn't know what else to do with
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them because they were pressured or scared or politicians with an eye to budgets or I don't
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know, their own kids ready for grandma and grandpa to kick the bucket already. I don't know.
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But for whatever reason, that's what happened. Sorry, I don't blame a virus for that. That's
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politics. That's a culture of death. It seems so obvious to me now. Here's what the Toronto Star
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article back in May 2020 said. New data reveals the overwhelming toll on elderly Canadians in long-term
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care during the COVID-19 outbreak, showing they make up 82% of all deaths. The National Institute
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on Aging says that of May 6th, 3,436 residents and six staff members of long-term care settings
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have died of COVID-19, representing 82% of the 4,000 deaths reported as of Wednesday.
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Dr. Samir Sinha, research director of the Institute, says it is a staggering figure,
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given the roughly 400,000 residents living in care homes represent just 1% of Canada's population.
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Yes, some of them died from the virus or naturally, but the Globe story says many of them were
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effectively euthanized. It's a version of what Hansy Andy Cuomo did in New York. He basically
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wanted to get rid of these people. So I think the details help us see things.
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I noticed changes in phrasing how the powers that be talk about the pandemic these days. Two weeks to
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flatten the curve. Remember all that? That meant we can't all get sick at once because that would
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swamp the hospitals. The curve would go like that. Flatten the curve means like that. Doesn't mean we
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won't get sick. It just means it happens at a slower rate. We all will get sick, but not at the same
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time. So the hospitals can treat us. Doesn't mean zero COVID. It means managing COVID. Well, the good
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news is no hospitals in Canada or from what I know, the U.S. or U.K. or Australia were ever swamped.
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Just never happened. We know that anecdotally from all those cute TikTok videos that bored
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nurses and doctors did. See, they kicked out everyone else from the hospital waiting for the
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wave that never came. So they passed the time by making these videos. Some of them incredibly elaborate.
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Some of them using drones. Some of them had over a hundred people participating in these TikTok videos.
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They told us that they were swamped, but we could see from these videos that they weren't swamped.
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So in statistics in Ontario, intensive care units and hospitals actually had more vacancy during the
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pandemic than before because so many people just didn't go to the hospital. So they don't say 14
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days to flatten the curve anymore because the hospitals are nowhere near full and they never
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really were. I showed you that in half of Canada's provinces and territories, there hasn't been a death
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in a week in a country of 38 million people. So the establishment is shifting from measuring hospitals
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to measuring cases, but those are falling too. So now they're measuring, if you take an experimental
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medicine called a vaccine, I call it experimental because it hasn't finished its clinical trials yet.
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None of the vaccines have. None of them have been approved by the FDA yet. It's only been authorized
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for emergency use. So that's the measure they talk about now. Percentage of people who are
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vaxxed because if you were to measure the number of sick people or dying people or people in the
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hospital, you'd know the pandemic is statistically over. The curve isn't just flat, it's gone.
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And yet the lockdowns are moving into high gear in a way with vaccine passports. They're becoming
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permanent. Vaccine passports are really a way of digitizing your entire life, connecting your every
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private detail to your political rights, your economic rights, your health information, even the
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most private things, linking it now to your legal ability to shop, go to a restaurant, to live, to rent
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an apartment, to go to school, to travel, everything. It's really not about COVID-19 anymore, is it?
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Enough talk about details. Let me show you two more generic thoughts. Let's pull the camera out a bit.
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The first is a clip from Neil Oliver, a commentator in the United Kingdom with GB News. He comes out
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with a new video every weekend. It's the best thing on TV. Let me play for you just one minute of it.
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He talks about, you know, parents' idle dream of never letting your kids go because you love them
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too much and you're afraid of the world and how that dream has actually come true in the lockdown and
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it's shown itself to be actually a bit of a nightmare. Freedom is not negotiable. You're either
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free or you're not. Freedom is not even safe. Those who've been imprisoned are often terrified of
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freedom. All those choices, all of that personal responsibility. This is why ex-cons often re-offend
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so they can go back behind bars where it feels safer out of harm's way.
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I have three children. They're growing up fast. Teenagers all. Often I think I would like to keep
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them close by me forever where I can stop them doing stupid things, dangerous things. If I kept
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them in the house, no stranger could hurt them. But that would be no life, not for them and not even
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for me. I would be their jailer and they would be my caged birds. As it happens, this past year and a
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half has let me see what happens to children kept safe in the house. It's not good. It's not good at
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all. And so if I didn't know it before, I know now that I have to let them go out into a world that is
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full of all manner of things, danger included. Isn't that a great point? But it's not just children
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who are locked down. It's all of us. And I read this essay in American Greatness and I just want to
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read a lot of it to you now. It's by Peter Dabrowski. He wrote it. You can find it online. I'm just going
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to read a chunk of it to you, not out of laziness, but out of recognition that he really phrased it in
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a way that I don't think I can meaningfully improve upon. Call the COVID hysteria what it is. There's a
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reason why you might be noticing the tactics and effects of psychological torture in your everyday
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life. I'm going to read this to you. Do you know what one of the most common psychological torture
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tactics is? Isolation. Other common tactics of psychological torture, according to the Center
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for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas at the University of California, Davis, include
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indefinite detention and a sense of futility. Threats of death are also a common tactic
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psychological torturers use. So is degradation and sensory deprivation. Torture is defined as the
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deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or other persons
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acting alone or on the orders of any authority to force another person to yield information,
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to make a confession, or for any other reason. Medical professionals make no definitional
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distinction between psychological and physical torture. Do any of the above tactics of psychological
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torture sound familiar? They should. Your government leaders at the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci and the
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U.S. Centers for Disease Control have been inflicting them upon you for almost 18 months. Obviously,
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it's the same thing in Canada. Lockdowns are the obvious example of isolation, but
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subtler is the suggestion, which is once again becoming a major talking point among our public
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health and elected officials, that if you do dare to leave your house, standing close to another human
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being or gathering in groups could be dangerous even deadly. I think that's so true, don't you? I think
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this is a giant game of psychological manipulation. I think that if you didn't watch the media and if
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you didn't listen to experts, you probably wouldn't even know there was a pandemic going on. In fact,
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if you didn't know someone in a euthanasia-risky long-term care home, if your life wasn't spent with
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people in their 80s and 90s, you probably wouldn't have even known about the pandemic at all other than
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the fact that it was on TV and there were government lockdowns. I'm going to read some more.
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Are you feeling a sense of futility yet? If you've refused the vaccine, you might be. How many times
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can you explain to the brainwashed masses that you have good reason to avoid taking an experimental drug?
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How long will the hysteria last? How can these mindless leftists possibly continue blindly to
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follow the immoral authority of the CDC and somehow have the audacity to label themselves intellectuals?
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Will we ever return to pre-COVID norms where a virus didn't dominate our daily lives?
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You might also feel a sense of futility if your employer, at the behest of your government torturers,
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is coercing you into taking the vaccine under threat of unemployment. The threat of losing your
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livelihood is in itself part of the torture. They're hoping that the idea of financial ruin
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will break you and that you'll finally give into their demands. On the topic of degradation,
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what could possibly be more degrading than becoming a guinea pig for an experimental drug? Bear in mind
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that such drugs are normally tested on lab rats. They have to be tested on you. Masks are an obvious
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form of degradation too. Being forced to wear a dirty cloth diaper over your face for months on end
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sounds like a fraternity hazing ritual. Only it wasn't. It was the official policy mandated by nearly
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every U.S. governor at the behest of the CDC. Now it's the official recommendation. I've read a lot from
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this essay. I just didn't think of it that way. Or maybe I did, but he put it into words. On the topic of
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masks, I've called masks the flag of lockdownism, the ideology, the philosophy. Wearing that flag, that mask,
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it's a sign that not only have you surrendered to the powers that be, and not only that you submit,
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but that you will fly their flag. You will help keep people in a state of agitation and fear.
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And in so doing, you will help enforce it even if you don't really mean to. You'll just keep
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reminding everyone else, we're in a crisis. That your mask at the very least is a moral condemnation
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of those who don't wear one. And it'll actually help in the peer pressure to crush anyone and
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marginalize anyone who doesn't wear one. Okay, I'm going to read you just one last excerpt.
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And what about threats of death? Have you heard more than a few people over the past 18 months
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tell you that if you don't follow the infallible word of Fauci, that you'll die? Or worse,
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that you'll cause the death of someone you love? Of course you have. That messaging is ubiquitous.
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I think he's talking about the worst part of this lockdown. I've mentioned it before,
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how we treat each other, how we look at each other, how shopkeepers treat customers,
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how we treat each other on the street. Now, the mask isn't just bad for the obvious reasons.
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It gives us a sense of anonymity so we can behave more poorly in person than we normally do. Normally,
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the worst behavior comes out online when people are anonymous because you don't have to face someone
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down. But imagine being face to face in the store and shrieking at someone, put on your mask.
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If you're wearing a mask, you're half hidden. And maybe that gives you a boldness because you're
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removed from the immediate social consequences of your misconduct.
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Remember, the lockdown itself is a medical experiment. The lockdown was prescribed by public health
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doctors. But never before have the healthy been locked down, never in history. It was a
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word reserved for prison rights. The prison's in a lockdown. Never before were innocent people treated
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as criminals. House arrest. Never before were families told they couldn't meet, console each other at a
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funeral. Couldn't meet even if grandpa was dying. This is all new. This is all experimental. And it's
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also obviously directed by the World Health Organization. We know that because we're told
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that because they say that both by obedient repeaters like Theresa Tam, who actually worked
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for the World Health Organization for the first half of the pandemic, and also by vicious censors like
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Facebook and YouTube, who explicitly say in their terms of service that if you dispute the World Health
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Organization, you will be suspended. They say that. They've deleted elected officials from
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Derek Sloan in Canada to the president of Brazil, Yair Bolsonaro. But of course they did. They deleted
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the sitting president of the United States, Donald Trump. So it's the details, sure. But pull the camera back.
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Get a wider view. It's the entire socialization of the entire population to think of themselves as
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prisoners, or at least as subjects, not citizens. Permanent, perpetual obedience, obey politicians, and
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until now, anonymous health bureaucrats that no one ever heard of. Few, if any, of these lockdown rules have been
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debated, let alone voted on. Vaccine passports aren't being voted on, but they're here now.
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Our entire society has been rewired. Everything is being changed. And it started and continues with
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rewiring you and how you think and how you feel even about yourself. We've all been brainwashed in a
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way, haven't we? And if you say, no, no, you haven't. Well, look at your life. And if you think that,
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maybe you're so far gone, you're numb to it. Maybe you don't even notice it anymore.
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Welcome back. Well, the lockdownism, the virtual house arrest, the bans on foreign travel and jet
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travel. In fact, in some places, banning people from traveling even outside their homes or beyond
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a few kilometers. Well, that is what the climate apocalyptics always wanted. They wanted us to be
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under a form of house arrest. They wanted the deindustrialization of the world. The climate
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folks never got it, but boy, the coronavirus folks got it. In many cases, it's the same people. Greta
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Thunberg suddenly couldn't jaunt around for her climate strikes. Sorry, her climate strikes,
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so she tried to reinvent herself. It's a bit of a coronavirus activist. People weren't buying.
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But the climate movement is trying to catch up. Let me read from an article in The Guardian.
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Three Americans create enough carbon emissions to kill one person, study finds. And they go on saying
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that climate change should be a cause of death. And we should have climate lockdowns, or at least
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climate rollbacks. Joining us now to talk about this is our friend Mark Moreno from
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climatedepot.com. Mark, they're really trying to piggyback on the coronavirus lockdowns. They're
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trying to blur the two, aren't they? They are. I mean, how long can climate activists,
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from Greta Thunberg to UN officials to John Kerry to Jane Fonda, the professors in academia, sit by
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and watch their coveted solutions? They were for economic lockdowns long before COVID came along.
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I've interviewed Kevin Anderson from the Tyndale Center a decade ago at these UN conferences,
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begging for planned recessions to fight global warming, begging for the degrowth movement to catch
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on. And lo and behold, it all happens. But COVID gets the credit. So they've had it.
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So the climate activists are out there now. This is published in the journal Nature Communications.
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So it's peer review, Desiree. You can't challenge it. You don't have the science credentials to
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challenge this study. Basically, Americans are killing three to four people. If you eat a hamburger
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this afternoon, you just killed a Kenyan. If you drive an SUV to the supermarket,
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you just killed a Bangladeshi. That's how bad it's become. They want to make it so that there's a
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daily awareness of Americans that everything we do that involves energy with fossil fuel,
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we're murdering people. We're no better than the unvaxxed, unmasked person who's murdering grandma
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by not following COVID protocols. We need to follow the climate protocols, which tells us,
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and one of your own Canadian academics could ban the pick-up truck, ban private ownership of car,
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ban the internal combustion engine, ban short-haul flights, make flying only justifiable when you can
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go to a government official and it's morally justified. You have to come up with your reason.
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This is it, Desiree. They've figured it out, and they're going forward. And I see nothing stopping.
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I'm certainly not here in the US. Head of the Republican Party says climate's a problem,
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we need a solution, but just not one as bad, not one as encompassing as the Green New Deal.
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You know, Dr. Patrick Moore, the co-founder of Greenpeace, who's a skeptic about
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many of these things, he sees one of the commonalities between climate change as an apocalypse
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and coronavirus as an apocalypse, is that both are invisible menaces. And you have to trust officials.
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And there's a lot of jiggery-pokery involved. And I think he's exactly right. Both are just
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terrifying. You've got to believe us. I think for the longest time, people didn't really believe the
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global warming stuff. I mean, they said they did in polls, but they weren't willing to live like it.
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I think this coronavirus apocalypse is the first time people have actually said, oh,
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I actually will wear a mask. I actually will not leave my house. I actually am scared, so scared I'm
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going to turn on my neighbor in a way we've never seen before. They managed to make the invisible
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coronavirus more terrifying than the invisible global warming GHGs. They did it. They managed to do it.
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They did it. And they did it brilliantly. And they did it with one factor, maximum fear. And why
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coronavirus succeeded, where 50 decades of environmental scares failed, beginning with
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overpopulation, and then global cooling, and resource scarcity, and famines, and peak oil,
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and deforestation, Amazon, all that failed. Climate change failed to scare. A virus scares you. They
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raised the specter of the 1970, 1918 Spanish flu, and the Middle Ages plague, the bubonic plague.
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And they told people that unless we did this, we were all going to be doomed. And they were able,
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because what cuts across partisan lines, ideological lines, personal health issues. You may be a
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conservative libertarian against the Green New Deal, but somehow if you believe that your health is
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threatened or your children's health or your parents' health, suddenly that's how they did it. And they
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realized that. The climate activists know that. So they're trying to ape the same things. Calls to
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add it to death certificates. Now, every time an American uses energy, we're murdering people
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around the world because of our greed and selfishness. But what's most interesting is all these studies,
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and the Washington Post has detailed them, it showed up in peer-reviewed journals,
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Hollywood Actions. If we don't take care of climate change, we're going to get a lot more
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worse viruses than COVID-19. Bill Gates has said climate change will cause more deaths than any
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virus. But if we don't take care of viruses, we'll get more. So they're trying to morph the
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two together. And this latest study in the journal Nature is another example of that. And again,
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they are having nothing but wild success. Why shouldn't they? We have New York City vaccine
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mandates, California considering it. Where I live in Virginia, outside of Washington, D.C.,
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every school district is masking up kids because of the new variant out there. They're never letting
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this go until we resist. And I don't see it resisting. I have never been more pessimistic
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in the cause of liberty and fighting unscientific nonsense in my entire life, Ezra. I'm not ready to
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throw the towel in yet, but I'm just telling you, I don't see it. I don't see victory. I see years,
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decades of loss. I feel like we're Poland in 1946 and we have to wait another four decades to even
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get a chance for the Soviet Union to collapse. This is not going away anytime soon.
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Wow. Very depressing. I think you're right. I mean, holy cow, did they ever manage to shift
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from two weeks to flatten the curve, which was not to say eradicate the virus or COVID zero. It was,
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let's just not all get sick at once to, you now have to be triple vaxxed, annual booster shot,
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you need vaxxed passports, masking, you know, no matter what case counts are like that. It's not
00:25:19.620
even about the problem anymore. It's about our solutions that we have cooked up for you.
00:25:26.020
Now, let me ask you, because you're in America, you know, these things closer than we do up here
00:25:30.420
in Canada. The one thing I'm holding out hope for is the two major states of Texas and Florida. I mean,
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California is the largest state. And luckily that governor is somewhat on the back foot because
00:25:44.100
of the recall petition. And I think his lockdownism is a reason for that. New York, their governor,
00:25:51.620
Hansi Andy, is, you know, also reeling from his own sex scandals. So other than California
00:25:59.780
and New York, two of the most populous states and politically and economically important states
00:26:08.500
are Texas and Florida. And both of them, especially Florida's Rhonda Santis,
00:26:14.340
seems to be pushing back in very meaningful and clear ways, not just as a speaker, but using the law.
00:26:22.420
And I want to tell you, and Mark, I hope you agree with me, that I'm putting a lot of hope in those two
00:26:28.180
states that they could hold the fort until the 2022 elections and the 2024 elections.
00:26:34.740
Am I engaging in wishful thinking? No. Okay. First of all, Governor DeSantis,
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you are absolutely right to praise him. In fact, there have been reports and journalistic analysis
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and COVID analysis. Without Governor DeSantis, he quite literally saved America from COVID tyranny,
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because at least he made it, he was able to save half of America. Because so including Texas,
00:27:01.460
including Georgia, including South Carolina, these are Republican states run by governors,
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Arkansas, they were all locking down too terrified to challenge the expertise of the public health
00:27:12.900
on COVID. Ron DeSantis and Ron DeSantis alone, I'm going to even, I'm not even including Christy
00:27:19.140
Noem in this. I've done some investigative work there, researching it. And the legislatures in
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South Dakota, we're never going to let them lock down. And actually, early on,
00:27:29.300
she was not as strong as she makes herself out to be right now. But there's only one clear leader
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among governors. And it's not just like, oh, he edges them out. He stands alone as Ron DeSantis.
00:27:39.700
Not only did he act Trumpian in his attitude and take on the media and the academia and the public
00:27:45.940
health. But he did it in a way that I wish Trump would have done more as president. He did it with
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intellectual firepower and science, actual science meetings. Remember, I was the one who urged, begged,
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pleaded, lobbied every Trump administration official to do this climate committee, where you would put
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together two dozen world renowned scientists, former UN scientists, all together to come up with the
00:28:09.460
first ever report challenging the UN climate consensus. They didn't do it. Trump said yes,
00:28:14.740
and the staff delayed it. Well, what Ron DeSantis did, taking that model, he brought in a Nobel Prize
00:28:22.260
winning epidemiologist, award winning ones, brought them to Florida, had press conferences, went right
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to the heart of the case counts, of the lockdowns, of mask mandates. And he just shut it all down in the
00:28:33.860
media's face every day to the point where Bill Maher, the liberal HBO host, actually said, praise
00:28:40.820
DeSantis because Bill Maher is with us on all this anti-COVID stuff. He wants to end social distancing,
00:28:45.700
mask mandates. He wants young people to spread the virus and get herd immunity. He praised,
00:28:50.980
Bill Maher praised DeSantis as being really smart and reads a lot of scientific journals. So he is the
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model for all Republicans. Texas, I'm sorry, I'm not that impressed with the Texas governor. He had a mask
00:29:02.900
mandate and effect statewide until like April of 2021. He is a follower, not a leader. He is coming
00:29:10.340
around now. He's very strong, Governor Abbott, but I don't trust him. I only trust pretty much Christy
00:29:16.580
Noem at this point and Governor DeSantis. Everyone else are leaders and they're still terrified.
00:29:21.460
Yeah, and Christy Noem, I saw this tweet from her the other day saying that as far as VAC's passports
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go, South Dakotans can go get another job. I was disappointed that she didn't step in and
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ban VAC's passports like Ron DeSantis did. I want to praise DeSantis a little more and it's tough to
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put so much hope in one guy. It's a very dangerous thing. But listen, better one guy than zero guys.
00:29:46.420
You know, the White House has been sparring with DeSantis. They know that he's a likely challenger for
00:29:50.820
2024 presidential. I want to show you a quick clip from Joe Biden when he pretends he's not
00:29:59.860
concerned at all, doesn't even know the name, Ron DeSantis. Look at this.
00:30:04.340
Yeah, they're obsessed with DeSantis. Jen Psaki, the spokesman talks about him every day. But I
00:30:23.060
want to show you Ron DeSantis. And this is that Trumpian flourish that you're referring to. But
00:30:28.660
but but like you say, intellectual firepower. So the day after Joe Biden said,
00:30:33.780
DeSantis who? Here's how DeSantis answered. Do you have a comment about the comment that President
00:30:39.700
Biden made recently? Well, I guess I'm not surprised that that Biden doesn't remember me.
00:30:48.420
I guess the question is, what else has he forgotten?
00:30:53.380
Biden's forgotten about the crisis at our southern border, I can tell you that.
00:30:57.780
Biden has forgotten about the inflation that's fighting the budgets of families all throughout
00:31:02.900
our country. Biden has forgotten about the demonstrators who are fighting for freedoms
00:31:08.500
down in Cuba. Biden's even forgotten about the Constitution itself, as we saw with what he did with
00:31:13.860
this moratorium. And I can just tell you, I'm the governor who protects parents and their ability
00:31:20.980
to make the right choices for their kids education. I'm the governor who protects the jobs and education
00:31:27.700
and businesses in Florida by not letting the federal government lock us down. I'm the governor who
00:31:33.780
answers to the people of Florida, not the bureaucrats in Washington.
00:31:38.180
First of all, that's very funny taking on Joe Biden's forgetfulness. I think that's a jab.
00:31:48.340
But what I like so much about Ron DeSantis is he's not saying it's me versus Biden. He's saying
00:31:54.580
Florida parents can make their own choice. And he said that Florida businesses can make their own
00:31:59.300
choice. This is a personal choice. And we're not going to let them crush businesses. And I love how
00:32:04.660
he always managed to throw it back to the power of the people. And as opposed to perhaps a more
00:32:11.620
egocentric politician who would say, no, I will stop you. No, he's saying I'll defend
00:32:17.380
these individual Floridians. I find it a very appealing message. I think it's got to be expanding
00:32:23.060
DeSantis' base to other communities that don't traditionally vote Republican. I love how he's
00:32:28.820
doing. And he's so, like you say, he's intellectually strong. He's my hope because
00:32:33.540
how Florida goes, these other states go, and maybe they'll hold the fork till reinforcements come.
00:32:40.420
Yes. One of the things I liked is when I guess it was either Biden or the Biden administration said
00:32:44.820
Governor DeSantis is get out of the way if you're not going to help us. And one of the things he said,
00:32:49.940
and what's so important here is how you control the narrative. Because the people in the middle
00:32:55.060
and the moderate Democrats who we need, if it's ever going to stop this, have to know,
00:33:00.340
immediately have to have it reframed because otherwise they're just like, oh, well, it's
00:33:03.460
safety. We have to do it. But he said, I will stand in the way of your tyranny. I will stand in
00:33:08.740
the way of your vaccine passport. I will stand in the way of your mandates. That's exactly what we do.
00:33:13.620
When they say, get out of the way and let us do it. No, because even people like Dan Rather,
00:33:18.100
the former CBS newsman, tweeted out, he pinned a tweet. He was so proud of this. He said,
00:33:22.500
you know, if we're going to ban masks in school, we should also ban, you know, helmets for sports.
00:33:28.420
And the thing is that people were saying, hey, Dan, no one's banning masks. They're just not
00:33:33.060
mandating them. This is what the left doesn't understand. If you, they don't understand that
00:33:38.100
unless government forces you to do something, they think then somehow it's tyranny or it's a form of
00:33:44.180
fascism. It's completely bonkers, Ezra. Again, we have, but here's what I want to put in one comment
00:33:50.020
here. We have DeSantis. We have Congressman Chip Rory. We have Rand Paul. We have Ted Cruz.
00:33:54.900
There's a lot of good congressmen and senators who are now stepping up. And one of the things to watch
00:34:00.260
is the House ban on the House mandates on masks for House members of the US floor,
00:34:07.060
because many Republican congressmen are going to risk thousands in fines every day by not following it.
00:34:12.020
And also they're talking about a vaccine passport on the Congress. So we need the Republicans to stand up.
00:34:17.540
I personally am doing my part. I'm fighting it on, you know, my kids go to a school that don't
00:34:22.420
require a mask. I have an aunt who's in a nursing home. They told me I had to get either a vaccine,
00:34:27.540
a show of vaccine, or I have to get a test every time I visit. And you know what I said? I'm not
00:34:33.780
going to do it. I'm coming and you'll see you. I was prepared. I'm prepared to get arrested
00:34:38.420
if I have to. They backed down and they gave me the, they gave me a N95 mask to wear,
00:34:44.660
which I said I would do that when I visit. But there's no way I'm going to get a COVID test every
00:34:48.580
time I go visit. It's just madness at this point. I'm not, it's, we have to stand up individually.
00:34:53.860
You have to fight this and you have to make it uncomfortable for people. I'm telling everyone,
00:34:58.980
public school kids, parents, organize, show up the first day on masks with kids not wearing masks,
00:35:04.980
make it uncomfortable. It's too easy to pull your kid out and say, I'm leaving. Stay and cause
00:35:10.180
nightmares for the bureaucrats there and the teachers and the principals.
00:35:14.580
You know, it's, it's the conformity. And that's the, one of the national identities of Canada,
00:35:20.180
not universally, but Toronto's the worst for it. Rhonda Sanis, we both are in his fan club in Canada,
00:35:28.020
Alberta premier, Jason Kenney held the line very well for the first six months. Then he absolutely
00:35:33.700
collapsed and became the most punitive. He's the one who threw four Christian pastors in prisons
00:35:39.620
for not closing their churches. I'm pleased to say though, Mark, that on July 1st, all the
00:35:45.300
lockdowns were lifted, the mask mandates, and now they don't even have, you know, quarantining or
00:35:50.820
track and trace. They're treating it like it's the annual flu. So Alberta, other than some
00:35:56.420
revenge, revenge lawsuits they're doing against a couple of these pastors and businessmen,
00:36:01.380
they are now Florida free. And it'll be interesting to see if Alberta can withstand
00:36:07.700
pressure from the rest of the country, because just like Rhonda Sanis is a good role model for
00:36:12.660
Texas and those other Southern states, Alberta could not only be a role model for other provinces,
00:36:19.540
but could attract COVID refugees. And by that, I mean, people who are sick of masks and sick of
00:36:25.940
lockdowns and sick of that, if they're mobile, then move to Alberta. And I'm not just talking about
00:36:31.060
elites who find it easy to move like, like wealthy business people, even regular folks. Like if you're
00:36:37.540
a waiter, but restaurants are locked down in Toronto, why not go to Calgary or Edmonton and work in a
00:36:42.980
restaurant? That's not an elite person, but that's just someone who wants to work. If Alberta can hold the
00:36:47.940
line, it can be again, the Florida of Canada. I just hope Jason Kenney doesn't have a relapse like he
00:36:53.940
did before. Last word to you. Yeah. Ground zero is what you're saying, Ezra. Where are people going to
00:37:01.060
move? How are they going to stay and fight? The place to watch besides Florida is New York City right
00:37:07.140
now. Their mayor is literally a fascist nut, Mayor de Blasio. Watch New York City. I can't imagine the
00:37:16.180
large black community and the mom and pop businesses that are left, not many, are going
00:37:21.780
to allow a vaccine passport to be imposed upon them. So let's see how that goes. I almost want
00:37:26.420
to travel to New York just to defy the vaccine passport. I have not gotten vaccinated, have no
00:37:30.820
plans to get it. I'll say publicly, I would rather risk getting COVID than that vaccine. So there you go,
00:37:36.180
giving out personal health information on the air. Yeah. Well, you know, it's funny because I followed
00:37:40.900
when de Blasio announced that vaccine passport and what he's like. And my first question was,
00:37:45.460
who's going to enforce it? I mean, the New York City Police Department, which is one of the finest
00:37:49.540
police departments in the world, they're already stretched thin. They've had a terrible year in
00:37:55.460
terms of real crime egged on by the Democrats, including the mayor. And the thought that they
00:38:01.620
would be enforcing this is laughable. I just don't really think the NYPD would do that. So what are you
00:38:06.740
going to do? You're going to hire a new core of enforcers? Or are you going to actually expect all the
00:38:12.420
little mom and pop? Like New York is famous for a little shop on every corner, mom and pop style,
00:38:18.020
often an immigrant family, all, you know, mom, dad, and all the kids working there. The idea that
00:38:24.340
these folks would become health fascists and drive away customers to please the mayor is very hard for
00:38:30.580
me to believe. I hope that that de Blasio finds resistance in them. We'll see in the months ahead.
00:38:37.140
Great to see you again, Mark. Have a great weekend. Thanks for being here. Thank you. All right. There
00:38:41.220
you have it, Mark Morano. He's the boss of climate depot.com. Boy, we covered a lot of ground there. Stay
00:38:58.340
Hey, welcome back on my show last night. Rudy writes, I understand the disappointment from people
00:39:02.980
after seeing the mirage too. It was the hope we all crave for. Thanks for your straight talk,
00:39:07.780
Ezra. I think I've spent too much time on this issue, but it's just, it's been the number one
00:39:12.820
thing people have referred to me. And when I say, well, it actually isn't the reason the lockdown
00:39:17.220
was lifted and actually all his legal gambits failed, people are angry. And I'm thinking, why are
00:39:23.140
they angry? They don't know this guy. They've never heard of Stu Peters. They've never heard of Patrick
00:39:27.300
King. Why are people mad at me? And I think it's because they are so bloody desperate for hope.
00:39:33.380
Janet writes, thanks for clarifying what material evidence means in this context.
00:39:38.980
Patrick King was on trial for a $1,200 lockdown fine for violating the anti-gathering rule.
00:39:44.900
That's what was going to be heard in that court in Red Deer. It was not going to be about the virus
00:39:49.620
itself. It wasn't because Patrick King didn't give notice to anybody that that was going to be his
00:39:55.140
chartered challenge defense. He just showed up in court completely unprepared. So when he subpoenaed,
00:40:02.900
Dean of Hinshaw, it was for information about his own trial. He never gave notice that he was going
00:40:07.940
to talk about any other issue. So material evidence meant his arrest and his ticket in Red Deer.
00:40:16.100
Albert writes, why were the restrictions lifted then in Alberta? Well, I think there's a number of
00:40:21.700
reasons. Their official reasons are that case counts, hospitalizations are way down and immunization is
00:40:30.340
way up. And they sort of laid out their milestones and they met them. I'm not sure the immunization
00:40:36.740
rate in Alberta, but it's quite high. And the hospitalization rate last I checked is very low,
00:40:41.540
fewer than one person per hospital. And the ICU rate last I checked is around 20 people in the
00:40:47.460
entire province. That's what they said. I think it's more than that. I think they were under enormous
00:40:53.620
political pressure. You might recall that Jason Kenney had a mutiny in his caucus. More than a dozen
00:41:00.820
MLA said they were opposed to lockdownism, including members of his own inner circle. So I think he wanted to
00:41:07.300
get out of that lockdownism, which he had avoided for so long. So my answer to you is they claim
00:41:13.540
they lifted the lockdown because their stats are better. I believe it was enormous political pressure
00:41:18.500
on them. But whatever it is, it happened on July 1st. And Patrick King was not in court for his great
00:41:25.940
victory lap until three weeks later. It just didn't happen. And I get it. I get it. Boy, wouldn't it be
00:41:32.340
great if there was some miracle solution, a silver bullet, a button we can press to fix everything?
00:41:39.140
Alas, that just simply isn't the way it is. That's our show for today. Until next week, on behalf of
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all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night. And keep fighting for freedom.