How the Liberal media reacts to popular black man supporting Donald Trump
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Is a popular, successful Black man allowed to support Donald Trump? I ll show you the liberal media s reaction. It s October 12, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show, where I talk about Kanye West s support for Donald Trump.
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Tonight, is a popular, successful black man allowed to support Donald Trump?
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It's October 12, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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You come here once a year with a sign, and you feel morally superior.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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In the United States, black voters vote Democrat.
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A chart of U.S. presidential exit polls going back a generation shows it.
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In 1980, even the great Ronald Reagan, so gentle and amiable and friendly, not a harsh edge to him,
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In 1984, a year when Reagan won a massive re-election, he won 49 states,
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his share of the black vote actually fell to 9%.
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Republicans never exceeded 12% of the black vote.
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And in 2008, when Barack Obama ran, he got 95% of the black vote.
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But look at 2016, when Trump was running against super-white Hillary.
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Now, blacks are about 12% of the U.S. population, so to lock up 90%-plus of that vote,
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that's a strong electoral advantage when you're living in really a 50-50 America.
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And black votes are not spread out evenly in places like Maine or Oregon.
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They're concentrated in urban centers like Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit.
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And that's a big reason why states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois are considered locks for the Democrats,
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though Trump managed to squeak through in Pennsylvania and Michigan this time.
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So what would happen, just to brainstorm, if the Republican vote amongst black Americans went up a bit,
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say, to 20%, say to 30%, let's get crazy here, 40%, I mean, let's not get carried away,
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but let's say it was no longer considered a sure thing to the Dems.
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That could shave off a few percentage of the total vote.
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And like I say, a lot of the states that are close, they just wouldn't be close anymore if they have a large black population
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Now, there have always been black conservatives, and I'm not even talking about 150 years ago
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when it was the Republicans, the party of Lincoln who freed the slaves,
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while the Democrats were the party of slavery in the KKK.
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I'm talking about Clarence Thomas and Thomas Sowell, scholars, intellectual stars,
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The stars, the leaders of the black community in recent years,
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are often celebrities in the field of entertainment and sports.
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Frankly, black conservatives can come across as that square cousin
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in that old sitcom, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
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Nerdy, almost white in style and manner compared to the hip Will Smith,
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Whether it's Colin Kaepernick and the Black Lives Matter votes,
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protests rather, or Jay-Z and Beyonce and other pop stars,
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they were all for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
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Sorry, Clarence Thomas just isn't going to beat that in the popular culture.
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He's a very successful music star, rapper, merchandiser, visionary.
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He's a little bit like Elon Musk of Tesla, except for with music and words.
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He's sort of far out, sort of open-minded, experimental.
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Kanye West, he's as big as it gets in what I think you could call urban culture,
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And he happens to be married to a celebrity supermodel, Kim Kardashian.
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she actually has more followers on Twitter than Donald Trump himself.
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Now, Kardashian recently visited the White House to plead for clemency for a black woman who was given an onerously long prison term for her nonviolent role in a drug offense many years ago.
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Trump listened and carefully commuted her sentence, setting the woman free from prison.
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Trump and Kardashian seemed to have a serious conversation about the serious issue of prison reform.
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When any and every celebrity would visit Obama and the White House.
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But they didn't like it one bit when a celebrity visited Donald Trump, even though she actually achieved some real success for, in this case, a black woman.
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That, by the way, obviously Obama himself didn't help.
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Kanye has posted selfies of him self-wearing that recognizable Make America Great Again hat.
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He went on Saturday Night Live just a couple weeks ago.
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And when he started riffing on Trump, they cut him off and they booed him.
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They would never do that to a Democrat ranting for Hillary, would they?
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So Kanye's been going rogue a bit, and the left does not like it.
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An opinion poll by Rasmussen, reputable pollster, published here in USA Today just last month, about six weeks ago,
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showing that Donald Trump's approval amongst American blacks was 36%.
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For decades, 36% on Election Day would mean the destruction of the Democratic Party in several states.
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And it's a sign that maybe some other blacks feel emboldened and feel that maybe it's okay to publicly identify,
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if not as a Republican, at least for Trump, if not for the party of Lincoln,
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that maybe some blacks think the last 50 years of urban leftist policy, welfare, crime, affirmative action,
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And maybe the president, this president, who's obsessed instead with job creation instead of virtue signaling and identity politics,
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maybe this job creator is actually better for blacks than Democrats who take blacks for granted.
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And so Kanye West went to the White House yesterday, the same way his wife did a few months ago.
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And Trump invited in the cameras, and Kanye West rift in a free-flowing way, a stream-of-consciousness way,
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sort of like Elon Musk smoking a joint, but a bit more fantastical even, a bit poetic,
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something you might expect from a singer-rapper, I guess.
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It's unusual for a U.S. president to make peace with North Korea.
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It's unusual for a president to pull out of the U.N.'s global warming scheme.
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It's unusual for a president to riff and rant himself on Twitter.
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So maybe the Kanye West meeting wasn't quite so unusual after all,
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but I'd like to play some clips for it for you.
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You don't have to like this guy, but he's interesting to look at.
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Whether you like it, whether you don't like it,
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What message does that send to black Americans everywhere?
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I'm not a black American, but I can imagine it normalizes the possibility of liking,
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maybe even loving Trump, which is a place Trump actually held in black pop culture until he ran
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Literally dozens of rap songs idolize Trump, name check him for his wealth and style and
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Maybe Kanye is saying, hey, guys, it's OK to like Trump like you did before.
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there are issues that plague the black community.
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He had something nonpartisan to say, I think, talking about wishing a country's president
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well, because that reflects on the whole country.
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But you know what I don't like about it's not that I don't like what I what I need Saturday
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night live to improve on and what I need the liberals to improve on is if he don't look
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He has to be the freshest, the flyest, the flyest planes, the best factories.
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We have to bring jobs into America because our best export is entertainment and ideas.
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But when we make everything in China and not in America, then we're cheating on our
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country and we're putting people in positions to have to do illegal things to end up in
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Now, this next part is very important, I think, and very personal and I would imagine
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You know, a great many black families don't have a dad in the house.
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Conservatives would argue that the welfare state has enabled that.
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They've exacerbated that by, you know, provided for whatever reason.
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Trump means to him what a great America means to him.
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I think it's the bravery that helps you beat this game called life.
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You know, they tried to scare me to not wear this hat.
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So I didn't have a lot of male energy in my home.
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And also, I'm married to a family that, you know, not a lot of male energy going on.
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I mean, Donald Trump has successful kids who themselves seem to have successful kids, even though they're little.
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I'm not saying that Donald Trump's the perfect husband.
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But I think he did pretty well as a dad, all things considered.
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Is it wrong for Kanye West to talk about masculinity and dads?
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I mean, we certainly hear a lot about feminism and women.
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But the campaign, I'm with her, just didn't make me feel as a guy that didn't get to see my dad all the time.
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It was something about when I put this hat on, it made me feel like Superman.
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For me, also, as a guy that looks up to you, looks up to Ralph Lauren, looks up to American industry guys.
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Non-political, no bullsh**, put the beep on it, however you want to do it, five seconds delay.
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Look, if Hillary Clinton obsessed about her own gender for two years, is it not fair for some people to say,
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Is it not fair for people to say, you know, I'm a bit sick of that.
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I really don't want to talk about gender all the time.
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But if you make me do it, I guess I'm a man and I like manly things and Trump's pretty alpha male.
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But this next line is what terrifies the black Democrats and the white Democrats who seek to control the black Democrats,
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One of the moves that I love that liberals try to do,
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the liberal will try to control a black person through the concept of racism
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because they know that we are very proud, emotional people.
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So when I said I like Trump to like someone that's liberal, they'll say, oh, but he's racist.
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You don't think you reject those who say he's racist.
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I don't answer questions in simple sound bites.
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You better play 4D chess with me like it's Minority Report because it ain't that simple.
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I don't know if you remember, but Barack Obama's Vice President, Joe Biden,
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actually said, with a straight face, that Republicans would put black people back in chains.
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He said the Republicans would make black slaves again.
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He's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules.
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Him in front of all of these white people, mostly white people, embarrassing himself and
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embarrassing Americans, but mostly African Americans, because every one of them is sitting
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either at home or with their phones, watching this, cringing.
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I had to turn the television off because it was so hard to watch.
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Him sitting there being used by the president of the United States, the president of the United
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States, exploiting him and I don't mean this in a disparaging way, exploiting someone who
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needs help, who needs to back away from the cameras, who needs to get off stage, who needs
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And if anyone around him cares about him, the family that he mentioned today or whomever,
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his managers, maybe some other people who are in the music business who know him, they
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need to grab him and snatch him up and get Kanye together because Kanye needs help.
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And this has nothing to do with being liberal or conservative.
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And we have to stop pretending, sitting here on these CNN panels or on whatever network
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panels and pretending like this is normal and let's have this conversation about Kanye
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We really don't know what a minstrel show is in Canada in 2018.
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It's white people doing a shtick, a vaudeville style show in blackface.
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That's what CNN thinks of a conservative black man or just anyone who likes Trump, I guess.
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Kanye West is what happens when Negroes don't read.
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And now Donald Trump is going to use it and pervert it.
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And he's going to have somebody who can stand with him and take pictures.
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Could you imagine anyone saying that about a black person?
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And basically, if you're black, you have to be a Democrat or else you're crazy or a stupid
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You know, people expect that if you're black, you have to be Democrat.
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I have a I have conversations that basically said that welfare is the reason why a lot
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They say, you know, first of all, it's a limit to amount of jobs.
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So the fathers lose the jobs and they say, we'll give you more money for having more kids in
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MSNBC shaming him for talking about his feelings about a father figure.
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Well, OK, I'm doing this for everybody who's watching us who turned their volume down.
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But if you think you're going to get a thoughtful play-by-play and political analysis, you're not.
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Because that was an assault on our White House.
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You can't analyze some of that stuff that was said.
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As we warned you at the top, there was a little bit of profanity.
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How he talked about he had a lack of male role models in his life growing up.
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Not a lot of male energy in his house, he said.
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The reason he was drawn to MAGA was because of the male power.
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When he put that cap on, he felt like a guy who could play catch with his son.
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Because he didn't have that opportunity, which was stunning.
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He now hosts a late-night show, low-rated, in the United States.
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He came from South Africa, but he seeks to lecture American blacks about their experience
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As you probably know by now, there was a ranting lunatic in the Oval Office today.
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And he had to sit there quietly as Kanye West did this.
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At the White House today, a presidential sit-down like we've never seen before.
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Kanye West met with President Trump in the Oval Office, and he had a lot to say.
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But the campaign I'm with her just didn't make me feel like a guy that didn't get to
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see my dad all the time, like a guy that could play catch with his son.
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It was something about when I put this hat on, it made me feel like Superman.
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The iPlane 1 is a hydrogen-powered airplane, and this is what our president should be flying
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So there's theories that there's infinite amounts of universe, and there's alternate universe,
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Would you build a trapdoor that if you mess up and you accidentally, something happens,
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All we really have is to get, over and over and over again, the eternal return, the hero's
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And he might not have expected to have a crazy mother like Kanye West.
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I'll tell you what, that was pretty impressive.
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You know, Trump's mouth said, that was impressive, but you could see he was thinking, is it racist
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And I'm not a fan of this new Kanye West, but I will say I really enjoyed seeing Kanye
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make Trump feel the way Trump makes us feel every single day.
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Isn't it gross, though, that all the white-owned, white-dominated networks dispatch just their
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African-American hosts, or mainly their African-American hosts, to destroy Kanye West?
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Even our own Canadian state broadcaster, Trudeau's CBC, got into it.
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They played more the insanity angle, since there really aren't any blacks who are allowed to
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They didn't have blacks who could attack the rogue Republican black.
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Here's a CBC newsreader from The Atlantic saying how much she cares about mental illness.
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And hey, guys, don't stigmatize people who are a bit off balance.
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Oh, but unless it's Trump-lover Kanye West, whom she not only diagnoses as mentally ill,
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Less courageous critics in Canada merely said that the president abased and debased his office.
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That's what Ali Velshi, the Canadian who's now down at MSNBC, said, didn't he?
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Funny, I didn't hear that same concern for the dignity of the office when this lady, Glozell,
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She's famous for filling up a bathtub full of cereal and sitting in it and eating it, don't you know?
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That dignified young lady was invited to interview Barack Obama.
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But Kanye West talking about maybe supporting Republicans, that's crazy.
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Now, look, it is all a bit unusual and a bit tawdry.
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These Democrats saying to a black man, a successful black man, a thinking black man,
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But let me end with the most thoughtful comment of the day.
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It wasn't just Kanye in the Oval Office, though.
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He got most of the ink and airtime because he's the biggest star.
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But another star, or at least a star a generation ago in the NFL, was this man, Jim Brown.
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I'm going to end with his comments after the White House visit.
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He sat in silence while Kanye West riffed for the cameras.
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I'm going to run this for more than two minutes, but I loved listening to it.
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Well, we had the opportunity to meet with the President of the United States,
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And with me, at 82 years old, the only thing I could talk about is how to help other people
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and how to help our young people in this country, the violence,
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and how to deal with life skills, education, which American program promotes,
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which is a program I've been working with for 30 years.
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So what did you, what recommendations did you give as a place to the Black community,
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Well, I'll tell you, I gave him my opinion of the overall community in this country.
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I'm a Black man, of course, but my life has not always been around Black people.
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I have some wonderful white people that have helped me as a child,
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helped me as an adult, made up for the fact that I did not have a father.
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So I express my desire to bring a plan along with his plan on how to help people.
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Did you find any chance to deal with the issue of taking the knee?
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Things that I've overcome in this country allows to make me a better person.
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I don't think that we should take knees in protest instead of standing up for our flag.
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I think we should work out our problems as a family.
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And that's what I would advocate to my children, to all the young people that I deal with.
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Did you make any specific policies to the president?
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I mean, he's a beautiful human being, but I can't speak for anyone.
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Mr. Brown, what's your reaction from the football?
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Mr. Brown, what's been the reaction from members of the football community to your support for this administration?
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I really, and I don't really care because this is the president of the United States.
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He treated us beautifully, and he shared some thoughts, and he will be open to talking when I get back to him.
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So I'm happy to say on that, it's been very successful.
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I think they're going to manufacture accusations of racism the same way they just finished manufacturing accusation of rape against Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
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But look, bullying so far hasn't worked on Kanye West or Jim Brown.
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This is going to be interesting to watch as we head into the U.S. midterms, won't it?
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Have you read the U.N. report this week, a warning about climate change requiring drastic action?
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And I want to look at who drew it, you know, which group drew it.
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Because I can give you reports that are fabulous and I can give you reports that aren't so good.
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Donald Trump asked by reporters about the new report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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He very wisely says, yes, he's received it, but he wants to know a little bit more about who wrote it.
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Of course, Donald Trump has been a major skeptic of the theory of man-made global warming.
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Even before he was president, it was something he would tweet about constantly, calling global warming a scam.
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He would use that language and laughing at the fact that it was trying to be rebranded by the left as climate change.
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Remember Donald Trump, when he pulled the United States out of the U.N. scheme for global warming,
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I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.
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That's a reference to the U.N. convention in Paris, where the world got together and said they were going to reduce carbon.
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Well, maybe not so much, but they were going to certainly scare us.
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Joining us now to talk about Donald Trump's reaction to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.
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Here's our friend Mark Morano, the boss of ClimateDepot.com.
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Thanks for joining us from the streets of Washington, D.C., not too far away from the White House.
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Donald Trump a little less combative than he has been in the past about global warming,
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but still having a healthy dose of skepticism that former presidents, both Republican and Democrat, never showed.
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What President Trump did, and those reporters asking him, was just a phenomenal development here in Washington.
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No previous president would have said what he did.
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And I mean no even potential previous president.
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No President Romney, no President McCain, no President Bush, no President Dole, no President Obama.
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And following up on that, the House Republicans all basically shrugged their shoulders and paid no attention to it.
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This is making the climate activists and the media just get shriller and shriller.
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The New York Times, the Washington Post, they're beside themselves that we have a president who just doesn't care.
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And what Donald Trump said is scientifically accurate.
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He can show you reports that show the Earth is fabulous.
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What he means by that is that there's nothing unusual going on.
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And it's not just reports that skeptics would gather.
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We're talking about the peer-reviewed literature shows that sea level's not accelerating, that polar bears aren't in danger,
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that there's no increase in extreme storms despite the most recent hurricanes, that global temperature is not unusual.
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So Donald Trump is scientifically accurate, and he's politically accurate by just completely dismissing the U.N. and being skeptical.
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One of the lead authors quoted was Barbara Streisand, funded by Barbara Streisand for a quarter million dollars.
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Michael Oppenheimer, he's also an activist with the Environmental Defense Fund.
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The U.N. is in charge of the problem, and they're in charge of the solution.
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So Donald Trump gets it, doesn't even spend a lot of time getting it.
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And this is making them get just pound their heads there in Washington once again.
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Another great moment for President Donald Trump.
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You've really clarified it for me there, because the opposite of love is not hate.
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And so these passionate reporters who deeply believe in global warming, even the question, if you heard it by the reporter, oh, it's catastrophic.
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Trump just sort of said, well, I got a report, and yeah, I could show you reports either way.
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So it's not like he fought back ferociously, because then you would meet fire with fire, meet passion with passion.
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And I think not only is that the healthier, normal answer, but you're so right.
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Trump doesn't even feel the drive to rebut it, because he's pulled America out of the global warming circuit.
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And if these reporters have some hobby horse, well, he'd rather talk about jobs and drill baby drill and digging coal.
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I love the fact that he actually doesn't care, because he's the president.
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He doesn't need to care about what they care about.
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Yeah, in fact, when the report came out, it was actually the day that he was doing the ceremonial swearing in of Brett Kavanaugh.
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He actually, with the White House, was asked for an official comment, and they said, we have no comment today.
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You had this U.N. report coming out with all this bluster, all this just utter nonsense, tipping points,
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and just boring nonsense about how we're all doomed and we have 10 years to act.
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So the media, since that time, they're now saying that anyone who voted for Donald Trump,
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anyone who voted for the Florida governor, Rick Scott, any climate skeptic there,
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is in deep trouble with Mother Nature, because they are now facing the wrath of Mother Nature.
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And we have actual professors and scientists coming out and saying that they are going to,
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that people, by voting for Republicans, that more hurricanes are going to come.
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It's much closer to superstition than to any science I know.
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You know, it's funny down there because you're in the United States and Donald Trump is so focused on jobs
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I think it's, I don't think it's unfair to say Donald Trump is obsessed by jobs and economic growth.
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It's such a contrast, Mark, because up here in Canada, our environment minister is the opposite.
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She's obsessed with this global warming report, and so is the Canadian media party.
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We live in an alternate universe up here in Canada, but I suppose at the end of the day, it's sort of impotent.
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One thing that caught my eye, Mark, is that Donald Trump just casually introduced a major new program
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to clean up actual, real pollution in the oceans.
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So not harmless, colorless, odorless carbon dioxide that, you know, you and I are exhaling,
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Trump's all about cleaning up actual pollution.
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He's not going to waste time talking about how many puffs of CO2 dance on the head of a pin.
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Yes, in fact, right before President Trump famously met with Kanye West and the former
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NFL great Jim Brown in the White House, he had, of all people, Democrat Senator Sheldon
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Whitehouse at the signing ceremony for this cleaning up the ocean campaign that President
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And as you mentioned, this is a real environmental problem that government can actually do something
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that's going to be putting sanctions and pressure on the governments, particularly in Asia,
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that are responsible for most of the ocean pollution and plastics and all the issues that
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In other words, not using plastic in Starbucks is going to do nothing for the ocean, but actually
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using U.S. international force to pressure these countries in Asia to clean up their act
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So you had Senator Whitehouse, the number one global warming alarmist in the Senate, praising
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You know, it's funny because, of course, and again, I just want to tell you our Canadian
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Our environment minister just did a TV interview where she brags that at her house, they don't
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have plastic straws, they have metal straws, which, of course, need to be washed in detergent
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So she's so boastful about banning straws and plastic straws and she's on this jihad against
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But of the 10 worst polluting plastic dumping rivers in the world, eight are in Asia, two
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So the cabinet minister in Canada, who's virtue signaling about her metal straws, it's just
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Trump's taken the fight to these actual polluters.
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I can't, it's so funny that he's actually doing the real ocean cleanup, but she's the one
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Have you been following our Canadian environment minister at all?
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I'd love your thoughts on her if you have, or maybe she's just one of a thousand squawkers
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Well, I think, you know, this is when you mentioned virtue signaling, that's what everyone is into
00:35:51.800
I will give Senator Whitehouse credit, though, for actually saying and praising Donald Trump
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and being there, shaking his hand, giving Donald Trump that photo op.
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And, you know, at least Selden Whitehouse was actually there and was able to swallow hard
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But most of when you're talking about these other environmental issues, it's all virtue
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And the Canadian prime minister, the environmental minister that you're mentioning, you know,
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I don't think she would have had, would have been willing to ever stand on a podium with
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Donald Trump to actually do something about real reduction in environmental waste.
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And I think this is where, in my book, I actually talk about that, where scientists lament the
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fact that real environmental problems are going by the wayside because the environmental
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movement has been hijacked by global warming concerns.
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And Donald Trump, by the signing ceremony yesterday with Senator Whitehouse, the lead
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global warming alarmist, is showing that America actually cares about real environmental
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And other than this goofy new plastic straw obsession of our environment minister, I've
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really never heard her talk about anything other than global warming.
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And that's a shame because there are real environmental issues.
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I mean, they're not top of mind for most Canadians.
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But it's like 99% of what she talks about is global warming.
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And for those who don't tune it out, they probably think, well, wouldn't it be nice if we actually
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Let me ask you, is there any truth to our government's contention, Justin Trudeau, our
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prime minister, and the same Catherine McKenna, our environment minister, that there are still
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powerful pockets of global warming activism in the United States at the state and city level?
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I know there's lots of virtue signaling, to use that phrase again, by the likes of the governor
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Do the states and the cities have power in America to actually do the same craziness as
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They have a lot of power to do a lot of bad things that have nothing to do with climate
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Yesterday, I did an interview on Fox News about this.
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Nevada, they're actually having a ballot measure pushed by none other than Tom Steyer, the climate
00:38:13.460
billionaire activist, in the state of Nevada, where they're going to have, I think it's 50%
00:38:20.420
And they want to alter the state's constitution in order to do that.
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So you have the state of Nevada stepping up, allegedly because Donald Trump won't, and
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they're going to be hindering and radically restructuring Nevada's energy supply, all in
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the name of virtue signaling about global warming.
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Hawaii has passed similar ones, 100% renewable energy by X date.
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And it means nothing in the next couple of years.
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But these are real things that are on the books now that are going to start basically cutting
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down energy that's proven work, fossil fuel-based energy, and start mandating energy that doesn't
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work or it's not ready to take over, renewable, so-called renewable solar and wind.
00:38:59.060
So yes, in terms of what the economic damage they can do around states, they're doing it,
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and it's increasing around all the 50 states where Democrats are in control.
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We know from the example of Detroit, that was once the leading industrial city in America,
00:39:16.580
highest wage, it was a magnet for workers, and we now look at its devastation, is that
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America really is a laboratory of 50 competing jurisdictions.
00:39:30.020
Nevada is a state, I think a lot of Canadians love it because we're familiar with its vacation
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It has that style and brio and over-the-top energy.
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Wouldn't it be a shame if Nevada was the next Detroit and some other state was the new
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But that's the miracle of the United States of America, 50 little jurisdictions, each with
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I wish sometimes we had that provincial autonomy in Canada, too.
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Do you think, other than this brief puff of empty rhetoric from the left, do you think this
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latest U.N. global warming report will go anywhere?
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They say we're all going to die in the year, you know, 12 years from now or whatever.
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Does anyone even believe that anymore other than a few pundits?
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In fact, you know, Michael Mann, the former, you know, the U.N. scientist, came out and said
00:40:21.260
that Donald Trump is the greatest threat we face.
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They're just trying, they get more and more shrill.
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And as they do that, it's becoming more and more irrelevant.
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The problem is, because this report is out, if the next election in the United States
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goes to a Democrat, they will take up this report and they will use it.
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Just like I mentioned, Nevada, California, Hawaii, they use these reports in order to
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start state intervention into the economy, which is what the socialist left always want
00:40:53.040
So right now, it means nothing for the next couple of years in America as a whole.
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But this could mean something in a few years if the White House shifts to another party.
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Mark, we're really grateful to you for your information and your arguments, as always.
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I know you're actually holding the camera up as you're right.
00:41:12.320
You're actually very close to the White House, which I think is symbolic.
00:41:16.760
The restaurant came over here and they took away my tripod stand at their table.
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I mean, I'm not a fan of everything he says or does.
00:41:52.400
I thought he was outrageous when he said, George W. Bush hates black people.
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I don't know if you remember he said that back in Hurricane Katrina.
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So I'm not saying everything he says is rational.
00:42:10.640
It's so risky just to try out ideas when you have millions of people parsing your every word.
00:42:17.980
I think he does that because that's, in a way, what rap is.
00:42:20.720
You know, you don't sit down and write the perfect rap the first time through.
00:42:28.480
I think Kanye West is used to brainstorming and having a hundred ideas thrown at the wall and only one works.
00:42:37.240
If blacks can break out of the grip of the Democratic Party, not only do I think it will be better for their own communities,
00:42:45.240
because not only do I think Republicans actually are better for blacks,
00:42:48.560
but it'll make the Democrats actually pay attention to black community needs even more.
00:42:54.820
You'll have Republicans and Democrats both trying to woo black voters.
00:42:59.200
You know, I'm a Jew and I'm a conservative, and for a long time that was a rarity in Canada, too.
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I think the migration of the parties of the left to the anti-Semitic and anti-Israel side
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has made more Jews in Canada wake up to the reality that the conservatives are the friends of the Jews,
00:43:19.880
In America, I think Jews still vote for the parties of the left,
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but nothing like blacks vote for the Democrats.
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Maybe one day, maybe one day, Kim Kardashian might actually run and be the first female president of the United States.
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Until Monday, on behalf of all of us here at the Rebel World Headquarters,