Joe Biden’s first act as president could be cancelling the Keystone XL Pipeline
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Joe Biden threatens to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline on his very first day on the job, a move that would be a direct attack on U.S. energy independence and a direct assault on global warming and climate change.
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Hello, my rebels. Today I tell you the scary but not surprising news that Joe Biden is threatening
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to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline his very first day on the job. I don't know if that's possible
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given that the pipeline actually crosses the Canada-U.S. border already, but we'll see what
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comes of it. One thing I'm pretty sure we'll see is Justin Trudeau smiling quietly and Aaron O'Toole
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Tonight, Joe Biden's first act as president could be the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline.
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If you dub the Trudeau is smiling, it's January 18th 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. The only thing I have to say to
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the government of a wire publisher is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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Look at this. It's a photo of a briefing note for what Joe Biden apparently intends to do on his
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very first day in office. It's a symbolic day. The whole first week is symbolic, actually.
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You might recall that when Trump was in his first week, he ripped up the Trans-Pacific Partnership
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trade deal. He gave the green light to various oil and gas projects, pipelines mainly, including the
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Keystone XL pipeline. Well, no surprise, Biden is reversing so many signature symbolic Trump
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initiatives, at least the ones he thinks he can do without Congress's approval. You see, a U.S.
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president can do a lot of things just through executive orders. And of course, they can be undone.
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in the same way. So look at that wording. Inauguration day and four crises. They're telling
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you that there are four emergencies going on. They want you in a perpetual state of panic
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and crisis. They want a permanent state of emergency so they continue operating in an extreme manner
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that would not otherwise be tolerated by Americans. It's what they're doing up here in Canada too.
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So there is no climate crisis. And by the left's own measure, the pandemic lockdown has flattened
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oil and gas use and demand and emissions. But it's a crisis. Never let a crisis go to waste. So
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look at what is written there. Rejoin the Paris Agreement. Of course, the Democrats love the United
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Nations and global warming scheme there, most of all. Announce date for U.S. hosted Leaders Climate
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Summit. I can't tell you how excited Trudeau must be. He might even shave his beard and put down the
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bong and have a shower and straighten up before going down. He's got his mojo back. He's outlasted
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Trump. And third, roll back Trump enviro actions via executive orders, including rescinding Keystone
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Excel pipeline permit. And why not? Obama killed it with a word. Trump revived it with a word. Now Biden
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seeks to kill it with a word. That pipeline was first proposed, I think, back in 2008,
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more than a dozen years ago. I wonder how it's going to work, though, given that the pipe already
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crosses the border. They built it. They finished that last spring. Here's a video of that moment.
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My name's Samantha Fernandez, and I'm the project manager for the Keystone XL border crossing pipeline.
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I think it is a huge achievement to have the opportunity to be able to build KXL.
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The day we crossed the border between U.S. and Canada was a brutally cold day. It was probably
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nine degrees with 50 mile an hour winds. And it was a monumental time for everybody. It was really
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exciting time for both Barnard and TC Energy for us to be able to achieve that milestone. It was one of
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the most significant wars we've ever done in TC Energy's history. So I guess that's one difference
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between Obama's executive order nixing it and Trump's executive order reviving it. And now
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it's actually built. What would removing a permit look like? Are you going to ban oil from being put
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in it and crossing the border? I've got to think that a lot of people would reject that. Not just the
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company that would surely sue under the U.S. MCA trade deal, but the unions building the pipeline
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and local politicians along the route, Democrat or Republican, the pipeline will be the largest
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property taxpayer in many of the counties through which it goes. Such a direct attack on U.S. energy
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independence benefits OPEC. But then again, after China, the country most excited about Joe Biden
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winning is surely Iran. They've got lots of oil and they would like to sell it to America
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instead of Canadian oil going south. Here's the socialist Bernie Sanders celebrating.
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The Keystone pipeline is and always has been a disaster. I'm delighted that Joe Biden will
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cancel the Keystone permit on his first day in office. With all the major crises facing America,
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we must never lose sight of the most existential threat facing our planet, climate change.
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Yeah, but they're just going to swap it out for Venezuelan oil. And they're a socialist
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dictatorship. Yes, yes, that's the point. Bernie Sanders probably prefers all oil from OPEC
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countries. Major rival Russia, perhaps. As shocking and bizarre as it sounds, Bernie Sanders actually
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went on his honeymoon to the Soviet Union during the Cold War. I'm not talking about after the fall
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of the Berlin Wall. It was during the height of the Cold War, Bernie Sanders went to Russia for his
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honeymoon. He truly loved the Soviet Union. He participated in propaganda films. How about
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Justin Trudeau? Justin Trudeau claims he supports the pipeline, but I don't believe him. Remember,
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his right-hand man, Gerald Butts, said it wasn't about this route or that route. It's about getting
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off oil altogether. Here's Gerald Butts on the Northern Gateway pipeline.
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Truth be told, we don't think there ought to be a carbon-based energy industry by the middle of this
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century. That's our policy in Canada, and it's our policy all over the world. You can choose to fight
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this fight on locking us into a high-carbon economy for five decades. I think that's a very reasonable
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perspective to take. In fact, it's one we do take. We think that the oil sands have been expanded too
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rapidly without a serious plan for environmental remediation in the first place. That's why we
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don't think it's up to us to decide whether there should be another route for a pipeline, because
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the real alternative is not an alternative route. It's an alternative economy. Butts and Trudeau killed
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off three Canadian pipeline alternatives, Northern Gateway, Energy East, and Trans Mountain. Keystone
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Excel was the last one. Well, mission accomplished. I've said time and time again, and you're all tired
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of hearing me say it, you can't make a choice between what's good for the environment and what's good
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for the economy. We can't shut down the oil sands tomorrow. We need to phase them out. We need to
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manage the transition off of our dependence on fossil fuels. Trudeau hates Alberta, and he hates the West,
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and he hates oil. Not his own use of oil, but any of it made in Canada. He's fine with the OPEC stuff,
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as you may know. Trudeau does not tax oil from OPEC. It doesn't get dinged with the carbon tax when it
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arrives here from Saudi Arabia in tanker ships. Only Canadian oil gets taxed that way. But if you
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think Trudeau is bad, here's Stephen Gilboa, a convicted criminal, convicted of a crime for a
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Greenpeace stunt. Trudeau appointed him to cabinet. Look at this. The guy's an anti-Keystone Excel
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maniac. He's been opposing the pipeline since 2013. He must be loving it today. So where's the
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opposition? Aaron O'Toole put out a four-sentence statement on the subject. I checked, and the
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conservative energy critic didn't have a word to say. Do you know who the conservative energy
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critic is? If you don't, I'm not going to tell you because I just want you to think about how
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incredible that is, that you don't know the name of the conservative party's critic for energy,
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or their environment critic, or health critic, or foreign affairs critic, or defense critic.
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And it's not because you don't follow the news. You probably follow the news more than 99% of people
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do. It's because the conservative party is hiding, scared of its own shadow. Here's Aaron O'Toole just
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last month. Conservatives know that protecting our environment is critical. We agree with the goal
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of reaching net zero by 2050. Let's protect our environment and natural spaces. Pretty sure you
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can't get to net zero emissions in 29 years. That's where 2050 is. Without shutting down oil and gas and
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fossil fuels. Well, at least the Toronto Star is happy with Aaron O'Toole. Conservatives have ignored the
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climate crisis at their peril. And party insiders say Aaron O'Toole knows it. Now, Jason Kenney was
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the first out of the gates last night with a reply to the CBC and report. They're the ones who broke
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the report about Joe Biden. It's a good letter from Kenney, very substantive. And it points out that
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Joe Biden's own climate plan contemplates America using oil for many decades to come. Biden is simply
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choosing OPEC oil over a NATO ally. I mean, it makes good points. Kenney is gentle with Trudeau in his
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letter. I think that means Kenney believes Trudeau can still be an ally in this. Well, you saw those
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clips of Trudeau and Butts. Do you really think it's going to help? I guess Kenney thinks may as well
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try. I like the last line in Kenney's letter. He says, should the incoming U.S. administration
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abrogate the Keystone XL permit? Alberta will work with TC Energy to use all legal avenues available.
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To protect its interest in this project. Hopefully that would work. I would have to think a judge
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looking at a $10 billion project nearly done, already permitted, already crossing the border,
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would be pretty skeptical about just ripping it up. I'd have to think the union workers would have
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some words about this too to their Democrat allies. But there is nothing that a U.S. president
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can't do in a situation like this if he's prepared to pay a fine or compensation for what is
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essentially expropriation. That's really what it would be. Would Biden pay $10 billion or even $20
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billion to TC? They're not even called TransCanada anymore. To destroy the pipeline? Sure he would.
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I mean, they're throwing around trillions of dollars these days to destroy the most iconic
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oil sands pipeline? Money's no object to these people. Hey, all of you dainty conservatives,
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the ones who don't like the fact that Donald Trump would sometimes swear and Donald Trump would
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sometimes say mean things? How do you like your Joe Biden now? Do you miss Trump yet? Profanity and
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all? We've just been talking about oil. Look at what else is on that leaked memo for the first day.
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A national mask law. Whole of government racial effort announcement and executive order. Send
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immigration bill to Congress. They're going to legalize 11 million aliens who will all vote Democrat.
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Muslim ban executive order. Terminating border wall. It's all coming, but hey, at least Joe Biden
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won't make any dumb tweets, so at least the anti-Trumpers will have that to hold on.
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Move back! Move back! Move back! Move back! Move back!
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And then their kids are going to grow up and remember them!
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They threw the Charter of Rights out the window.
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And we're not vandalized stuff or burning stuff or anything like that or mom and pop place where these buggers do and they get away with it.
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Well, that is footage from downtown Toronto this Saturday.
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A peaceful protest was smashed by Toronto police.
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What a difference between that and the reception that the Black Lives Matter protesters got.
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You'll see here Toronto police literally taking a knee.
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As Churchill said about the Hun, as he called them,
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I don't want to be too dramatic, but it seems like John Tory's police have the same approach to peaceful protest.
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My spidey senses were tingling, Ezra, because going back to, I believe it was April 26th,
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Everything has been going, well, far from the police clamping down.
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We've even seen the police escort the march up the streets, blocking off intersections,
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But that Saturday, my spidey senses were tingling, like I said,
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because in the morning the Toronto Police Service issued a tweet and it basically,
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I won't read the whole thing, but the key element was participating in large gatherings,
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including protests, is not just in contravention of these orders, the emergency orders,
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but also puts attendees and the broader community at risk.
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And like you said, there was no asterisk in that sentence.
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If it's a racial injustice protest, like Black Lives Matter, Afro-Indigenous Rising,
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And then John Tory, our illustrious Mayor, Ezra, he tweeted out that morning,
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And I'm so happy to have colleagues that on their own free time, we didn't have one,
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we didn't have two or three, but we had four cameramen there.
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And I say exclusive, Ezra, because the mainstream media, they sat this one out.
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Well, if anything, they would be cheering on the violation of civil liberties.
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There's a lot of things that were visually appalling.
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But perhaps even more terrifying was this statement by police.
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Police are dispersed from this area, ladies and gentlemen.
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You know, in a police state, the police do get to say when a protest is,
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And in fact, part of protesting, perhaps even the main part,
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is protesting when the authorities don't want you to protest.
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I'm happy you mentioned cheerleading because I said that on camera
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And I thought, Is this the end of the fourth quarter in an NFL game?
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And I thought, what happened to, you know, just a week ago,
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Ezra, we premiered our Nathan Phillips Square dossier
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where we revealed the city was spying on us for covering an illegal,
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You know, nobody with the anti-lockdown site erected tents
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and got cooking stuff out and defecated and urinated on the square,
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And when I confronted the mayor, maybe we have a clip of that in November,
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why he saw us as the, I guess, instigators to violence for just being on the square
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and was taking a blind eye to the protesters or the campers
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who are breaking 11 sections of the Trespass Act,
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he said words to the effect that everybody has the right to peacefully protest.
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I call him Canada's worst mayor and I know people in Victoria, Calgary, Edmonton,
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you know, and other places will disagree with me.
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But really, here's John Tory lying through his mask.
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Just wondering, why is it illegal to practice journalism in Toronto
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and Nathan Phillips Square, yet you can have illegal occupiers
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Well, I don't accept any of your assertions about people that are, you know,
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And I have no idea what you're talking about in terms of people
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not being able to be journalists in Nathan Phillips Square.
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It's a square that is open to the people and it's open to journalists
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and all citizens of the city and I'm proud of that.
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Well, Mr. Mayor, you know that your own security force at Nathan Phillips Square in June
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were trespassing us for the egregious practice of practicing journalism,
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yet you had a group of violent people called Afro-Indigenous Rising occupying the square.
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You must know this, Mr. Mayor, they were there for three whole weeks
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and they were breaking 11 sections of the Trespass Act
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and yet the police and the security were coming after us for covering this.
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I can't speak to how the security people dealt with you.
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I don't direct what they do, but I will say to you that, you know,
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unlike you who wants to sort of foment confrontation,
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the people left the square peacefully that were there for a period of time.
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They were engaged in a protest and they left and they went somewhere else.
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And so, to me, that is the way things are supposed to work in the country
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where people can protest and then they can eventually leave public property.
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And I can't speak to what happened to you because I'm totally unfamiliar with it.
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But I certainly can't accept your characterization of the people
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who were engaged in a legitimate protest for a period of time in Nathan Phillips Square.
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Well, Mayor Tory, I can send you the video footage that we shot.
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And then when they did leave, they illegally occupied Dufferin Grove Park for several weeks.
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So, are you serious? The police actually said two-minute warning.
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I believe the words were, you have two minutes.
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Two minutes, but they kept extending it, you know, because nobody was moving.
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This was early on, Ezra, around afternoon, I would say.
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Normally, these protests are from noon till 2, but they started cracking down even before the protest,
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which is why I was glad I got down there about 11.20.
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And, you know, I just want to make another mention, too, since you're talking about Canada's worst mayor, John Tory.
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Whoa, what a hell of a benchmark that is, given all so many of the other jokers.
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Remember when Rod Phillips, the former finance minister, got caught in St. Barts?
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The home, I think, according to Condé Nasté, of the best beach in the world.
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And pretended to be doing these fireside chats from his writing.
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I don't know if we have this clip or not, but this is what he said.
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I think people who know me also know I especially stand by my friends when they make mistakes and when they're in trouble.
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You have to do that. It's not about the actions. It is about the person.
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In other words, hey, if you're a friend of mine, I'll protect you.
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Yeah, like it's a racket. Here, I think we do have that video.
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Comments this morning about Minister Phillips calling it a mistake.
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Wondering if your personal feelings might be affecting you here.
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Would you not be really angry to learn that a counselor defied public health advice by yourself and Dr. de Villa
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and just went off on vacation and didn't tell anyone?
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Minister Phillips made a mistake, a serious mistake.
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He has admitted his own deep regret at making that mistake.
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But I think people who know me also know that, you know, I especially stand by my friends
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when they make mistakes and when they're in trouble because I just think that you have to do that.
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It's not about the actions. It's about the person.
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He's a human being and he made a mistake and he'll pay a price for that.
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But I think, you know, now it's in the Premier's hands and he'll deal with it.
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He and Mr. Phillips will deal with it as they see fit.
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You know, one of the things that separates a dictatorship from a democracy or a constitutional authority
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is the rule of law as opposed to the rule of man.
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The police don't go up to someone and say, are you a friend of the mayor?
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Are you a friend of the mayor? Okay, no problem.
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Are you a friend of the mayor? No, you're an enemy of his.
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It applies to Black Lives Matter or these anti-lockdown protesters.
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I mean, the extreme policing of Adamson Barbecue, who dared to defy the mayor, I think policing is terrible.
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And I think the worst thing that I saw this Saturday from downtown Toronto was police reaching in the crowd,
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grabbing people, plucking them out and pummeling them.
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That reminds me of the G20 policing a few years back in Toronto.
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A policing disaster, mass violations of civil liberties,
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And you might have this mild-mannered, bland, vanilla mayor,
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You know, that decision, Ezra, and I saw it all throughout the day
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when police were determining who they were going to arrest and ticket,
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and it was so arbitrary, and it wasn't based on them, you know, being called a slur.
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It wasn't based on any kind of illegal activity.
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It was almost reminiscent of me, given who some of the victims were,
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such as literally a little old lady, a grandmother carrying a cross.
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It was like a herd of lions, you know, in the savannah,
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and they're looking at the antelope, and they go,
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well, those big bruises, we can never outrun them.
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And they were picking out the easiest targets to manhandle,
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you don't take instructions from police about when you protest over and done.
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They specifically went after this lady giving a speech.
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So she was doing nothing different than anyone else
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other than expressing an opinion that the cops didn't like.
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That's Kellyanne Wolfe, that's right, of the Hugs Over Mass people.
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when the sun was setting and the line was moving,
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so they were forcing them off Yonge-Dundas Square,
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off the sidewalk, off the road, onto the other side,
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But maybe if you leave, everybody will leave, too.
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Well, it shows that they have lost the consent of the people.
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One of the principles of modern policing outlined by, you know, the Bobbies,
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like they're named after, you know, modern policing,
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Professional, independent, nonpartisan policing with a light touch,
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suitable for a civil liberties-loving jurisdiction.
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And the essence of it is you must have the support of the people.
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You must have them willingly obeying the laws almost all the time
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so that when force is needed, they are there with you
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because they agree that something, so you are their hand.
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And the anecdote you just told me about the lady cop saying,
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shows that the police have lost the consent of the policed.
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And as a backhanded compliment, or a fronthanded compliment,
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And I think that that police officer should think about what she said
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and think about why it is that people are disrespecting her authority.
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She is a representative of the city, a representative of the law.
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It's because they no longer feel that she is a police officer
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And she should think more about that, but I doubt she will.
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And you might be right on the nail with that one, Ezra.
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I just want to go back to your original premise.
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And it's the idea that police, during the summer when there were the Black Lives Matter protests
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of far greater numbers, were not only not discouraging it or giving tickets,
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but like you said, they were taking the knee, including the chief of police,
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You're taking a knee against yourself, just like the prime minister did.
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When we go out to the likes of a John Tory or a Doug Ford, and we ask them,
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It's got the good housekeeping seal of approval on it, but the anti-lockdown protest,
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this is like a gathering of modern-day typhoid Marys.
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Is it that this Wuhan virus is so super intelligent, it realizes that the protest for racial injustice,
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Ooh, anti-lockdown people, what kind of yahoos are that?
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If that's the case, then, Ezra, we are dealing with the most super intelligent virus in the history of mankind,
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Well, Occam's Razor says the simplest explanation is often the best explanation.
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We could be dealing with the smartest virus in the history of viruses,
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or perhaps Occam's Razor would say a simpler option is that we're dealing with the dumbest political class
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Congratulations on your courageous work on the streets.
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I was so proud to see you, as well as four other rebel staff out there.
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Everyone just knew that was where the news was.
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And like I said, Ezra, there was no other media outlet there,
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even though Citi TV is literally meters away from young Dundas.
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Folks, if you want to help us, as you know, we provide lawyers,
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civil liberties lawyers, to anyone who gets a lockdown ticket.
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If you didn't get a ticket, go to fightthefinest.com,
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because we crowdfund the legal bills, and they're getting large, but we'll keep fighting.
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and other countries block their platforms in favor of their own national ones.
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Boy, it sure sounds like Mexico wants to do that.
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Those are all pretty serious places when you get right down to it,
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But Canada, I read in the Globe and Mail today,
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Who do you think they're going to target first?
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It's time to wake up to what's really happening to us.
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Media has lied to us, and big tech has denied us our right to free speech.
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because when we sign up, there's an agreement we are supposed to read
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First of all, if a company is going to be immune from lawsuits under a U.S. law called
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the Communications Decency Act, they can't act like a publisher.
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The whole reason why people don't sue Twitter, Google, YouTube every day
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is because of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act,
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which says that web companies are treated like bulletin boards where anyone can put something
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So if there's something really mean on the bulletin board, you can't sue the bulletin board
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Sort of like if someone's talking on a pay phone, you can't sue the pay phone company
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for what the person says if you're a neutral platform.
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But I put it to you that the way these tech companies are operating, they're not neutral
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I'll probably tell you this story tomorrow, but there's a major lawsuit against Twitter
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that succeeded in its first round in B.C. just last week.
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Big tech will be seen as a security issue in any country, as well as their own globalist
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Useful idiots are seen as potential counter-revolutionaries by the people they put in power.
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Yeah, well, I mean, look, Russia has its own version of Facebook called VK, I think.
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China obviously bans Western apps and has their own versions.
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I would rather have 200 different social media apps to choose from rather than three
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or four controlled by the same clique in Silicon Valley.
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I think we need competition, and I think it's being abusive, this monopoly, and I think we
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need a trust bust like Teddy Roosevelt did to the big oil companies.
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Trouble is, I think Joe Biden loves the oligarchs because they're on his side.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,