Liberals drop star candidate Imam Hassan Guillet months after party warned of anti-Semitic comments
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Did you see the story about the Muslim extremist that the Liberals nominated as their candidate in Quebec? The facts were brought to light by a Jewish civil rights group called B'nai b'rith Canada. They uncovered a pattern of disturbing anti-Semitic statements made by a Liberal candidate running in the coming federal election on October 21.
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Hello, my rebels. I look at the curious case of Hassan Gyeh today. That's the Muslim imam who was
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the nominated liberal candidate in Montreal until someone just did a little Google search and saw
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all his craze, anti-Semitic craziness, like saying Jews, retweeting and Facebooking a guy who says
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Jews bake matzah with the blood of Gentile children. You know, crazy stuff like that.
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So he apparently passed the liberal vetting. I'll get right to that, and I think you'll like
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Did you see the story about the Muslim extremists that the liberals nominated as their candidate
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in Quebec? The facts were brought to light by a Jewish civil rights group called B'nai B'rith.
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They published this story, B'nai B'rith seeks disqualification of liberal candidate with history
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of anti-Semitic comment. Can I read a bit of it to you? B'nai B'rith Canada has uncovered a pattern
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of disturbing anti-Semitic and anti-Israel statements made by a Liberal Party candidate running in the
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coming federal election on October 21. Hassan Gouyeh, an Islamic religious leader who gained
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international attention for speaking out in the aftermath of the Quebec City mosque attack
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of 2017, is currently the Liberal Party nominee for the riding of Saint-Leonard-Saint-Michel
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in Montreal. B'nai B'rith is shocked by a number of his statements over the past few years
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But you see, there's this problem. This guy isn't just a liberal hero, he's a media hero.
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He's the friendly face of Canadian Muslims, the symbol of their suffering at that mosque
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a couple of years ago. So this is cognitive dissonance for the establishment left. This
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guy was supposed to be proof that Muslims aren't just like us, they're actually more noble than
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us in their dignified suffering at the hands of old stock Canadians who are a bunch of Islamophobes
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and, in one case, murderers. He's not supposed to be the racist, pro-terrorist one. He's supposed
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to be the good guy. So this will not do. But look, facts are facts, and here are the facts.
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In January 2017, Gouyeh celebrated the release of Ra'ed Salah, a Hamas-aligned activist who has
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accused Jews of staging the 9-11 terror attacks and has claimed that Jews use children's blood for
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baking holy bread. The candidate went on to hail Salah as a jihad fighter and frontier fighter
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whom Allah will surely support. Gouyeh offered his congratulations to Salah on being freed from
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the prisons of occupied Palestine and prayed that he will someday be successful in the fight
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to liberate the whole of Palestine. Salah had been serving a nine-month prison term in Israel
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for incitement to violence and racism. These posts no longer appear on Gouyeh's social
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media. So the usual. I'm not kidding when I say the usual. It is usual in places like Lebanon where
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Gouyeh is from. Jews baking matzah bread from the blood of Gentile kids they kill. That's a standard
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Arab anti-Semitic, you know, trope. Praising terrorism. That's the usual over there. And I'm not quite sure
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why we expect someone who believes those things who comes from an entire culture that believes those
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things where that's all just accepted as the truth where the government even says those things
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and his dad surely believed those things and his grandfather and so on back hundreds of years
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where it's inculcated in weekly sermons where the Quran itself is full of anti-Semitism.
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I'm just not sure why we expect someone to undo a thousand years of tradition and belief
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just because they hop on a 10-hour flight from Beirut to Canada. I mean, we don't even actually
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tell migrants to Canada to lose their own bigotries as if telling them to change their deep-seated
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beliefs is all it would take. Why is any of this a surprise what this guy said? Let me read just a
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little bit more from Benny Brith. In a late 2017 interview with Radio Canada Internationale,
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that's the CBC French, Guy called Israel an apartheid state. Guy also accused Jared Kushner,
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the Jewish son-in-law of U.S. President Donald Trump, of directing his government to support an
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Israel-first agenda. He accused Kushner of dual loyalty because of his Jewish background and
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inaccurately described him as an ultra-Orthodox and fundamentalist Jew.
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He has also stated on Facebook that the Zionists control American politics, promoting the common
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anti-Semitic trope of Jews manipulating world governments. You know, if a white guy were to
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say Jews control the world, Jews control Trump, Trump's Jew-y son-in-law Jared Kushner is a Jew
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who's loyal to America, not loyal to America, but only to the Jews. If a white guy were to say that,
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he would probably, and properly, be called alt-right, and these days probably even called neo-Nazi.
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They'd search his social media for any connection, no matter how tenuous to the Republicans or Donald
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Trump. Of course, in this case, in Quebec, there is a direct connection. He is a proud candidate for
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Justin Trudeau, who obviously passed their meticulous vetting procedure. They love this guy.
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Now, shortly after B'nai B'rith released their research into this guy, the liberals realized they had a
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problem. Normally, they don't yield to problems. The liberals brazen it out, especially Trudeau. They know
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that the media party only just play fights with them. They know that no one has any stick-to-itivity
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when it comes to the liberal fiascos, other than maybe Bob Fyfe on the SNC-Lavalin story. So the
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liberals' normal plan is just hold fast. The storm will pass. Don't lose your cool. But not on this
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one. They actually caved immediately because the liberals know that Canadians suspect something
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funny about Trudeau and terrorists. They think that maybe Trudeau is a terrorist sympathizer
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himself because I guess Trudeau is a terrorist sympathizer. I mean, here he is posing with
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Joshua Boyle, the Muslim convert who used to be married to Omar Khadr's sister and then got married
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again and took his bride unwillingly to Afghanistan to meet up with the Taliban. Trudeau gave a public
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apology and $10.5 million to Omar Khadr. Trudeau boasts that terrorists are Canadians just as much as
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you and I are. Remember this? Terrorists are against this country. The individual in question, Mr. Trudeau is a
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Canadian. Yeah. He even says we have a lot to learn from terrorists returning from Syria and Iraq. Even if
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they murdered and raped, we should listen to their powerful voice. We know that actually someone who
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has engaged and turned away from that hateful ideology can be an extraordinarily powerful voice.
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Yeah. Well, Trudeau actually hates our Canadian troops loyal to our country. He mocks them. He
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defunds them. I mean, it takes quite an icy heart to speak this way while looking at a veteran who
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lost his leg in Afghanistan. Imagine how cold-blooded you have to be to look a guy in the eye and say this
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to him. First of all, why are we still fighting against certain veterans groups in court? Because
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they're asking for more than we are able to give right now. Trudeau's got $10.5 million for Omar Khadr,
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but nothing for that guy. My point being, Trudeau and his Rasputin boss, Gerald Butts, they know
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the Canadians are onto him. So they didn't want to rope-a-dope this one because it'll just confirm
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suspicions about Trudeau. So they sacked Guy before it became a bigger deal. They didn't do
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that a lot. But funny enough, the candidate himself, he refuses to leave. And weirdly,
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he says that he was never actually told he was fired as a candidate by the liberals. He said the
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CBC told him he was fired, just in case he didn't think the CBC and the liberals are tight enough.
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Here's a quote from the CBC. CBC Montreal spoke to Hassan Guy and broke the news to him. He says he's a
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changed man. B'nai B'rith tells us they're pleased with the party's swift action. So the CBC told him,
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but hey guys, I want you to know he's a changed man and he definitely wouldn't lie about that. And
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remember, those comments he made about Israel, being an apartheid state, those comments he made
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about loving terrorists, that was in the way, way, way in the past. I'm talking, whoa, all the way back
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in, you know, 2017. I mean, he has completely transformed himself since then. Oh, by the way,
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that was after he was made into a media hero for his mosque sermon for the Quebec City mass shooting.
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So he was that way then. And that's one of the interesting things here. He's not just a liberal
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party hero. He's a media party hero. They so wanted him to be the face of Islam in Canada.
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Here's a loving story in the Globe and Mail. A former imam who gained international prominence
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with a moving speech at a funeral for some victims of the Quebec City mosque attack has won the federal
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liberal nomination in a party bastion in the heart of Montreal's Italian community.
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Hassan Guy, a lawyer and engineer who retired from Bombardier in 2006, won the nomination for the
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Saint-Laurent-Saint-Michel riding Monday night at a meeting that featured a kilometer-long lineup
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of enthusiastic supporters outside the hall. Mr. Guy, who lives in a farm country, about 40 kilometers
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southwest of Montreal, was the part-time imam of a mosque in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec,
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and a longtime Quebec Muslim leader before he gained wider prominence in the wake of the mosque attack.
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Just a small thing, but do you really think the nomination was a kilometer-long lineup?
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Do you believe that? Well, listen, forgive the Globe and Mail, their enthusiasm. They're in love,
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and they don't care who knows. Look, he was their candidate as much as he was Trudeau's candidate.
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CTV wanted them even more badly. No, no, he's ours. He's ours. Here's CTV.
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Hassan Guy, spokesperson for the Council of Quebec Muslims, imams, is most widely recognized for his
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sermon during the memorial for the victims of the Quebec City mosque shooting. No, no, no, no, no.
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Global TV claims him. He's their guy. Here's Global. Former imam-turned-federal liberal candidate
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in Montreal wants to be a bridge builder. That's hard-hitting journalism, guys. Hassan Guy won a
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contested nomination in the Saint-Laurent-Saint-Michel, becoming the first liberal candidate not to come from
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the influential Italian community since the 1988 inception of the East End riding. Isn't that just
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a perfect snapshot of the Liberal Party today? I remember in Jean Chrétien's day when Italian
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Canadians were in the front benches of government. I don't think there's a single Italian Canadian
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in Trudeau's cabinet now that I think about it. I think for some reason Trudeau doesn't like
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Italians. Maybe they're too Catholic or pro-life for him, but Muslims, you got plenty. And what a laugh
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to have an Italian riding represented by a Lebanese Muslim imam who doesn't even live in
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Montreal. It's like a chef's kiss. Perfect. Of course, no one loves this guy more than Trudeau,
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state broadcaster. I mean, come on. Put on a condom for this one. It's crazy.
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In his own words, Imam Hassan Guy's address at Quebec City funeral for three mosque victims.
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They would have hired him right there on the spot as a reporter. Now, as I mentioned, the liberals didn't
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actually fire Guy. The CBC told him the bad news. He still doesn't believe it. In fact,
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he's apparently having a press conference tomorrow where he will, I don't know, fight on. And I hope
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by fight on, he doesn't, you know, literally fight on in a Hamas kind of way like his heroes do.
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Look at this. Dumped by liberals over anti-Semitism allegations, Hassan Guy explores options. Montreal
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candidates, he was shocked by party's decision. Let's go through the wonderful choice of words
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there slowly. They're just anti-Semitism allegations? So the CBC is not willing to accept it as a fact.
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Yeah, these statements by Guy are indisputable. You can see them with your own eyes. Well,
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you could, but they were deleted quickly. Luckily, researchers took screenshots of them and archived
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them. But funny enough, over the weekend, the entire mosque's website was deleted. You go to
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there, just the whole website was taken down. Oh my, how bad must it have been? Oh, I'm sure they have
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nothing to hide, right? I mean, why would you delete a social media post or an entire mosque website if
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everything was tickety-boo? The mosque deleted their whole website. That's quite something. I can only
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imagine what was on there, but the actual social media post that Guy had, they were deleted, get this,
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before the B'nai B'rith blew the whistle here. So they were deleted weeks ago. By whom? And why? By Guy
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himself or by the Liberal Party? Did they say, yeah, this Jews eat the blood of children thing. Someone might
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misinterpret it. Better just delete that one, Hassan. But once you've deleted it, you're good to go.
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But that headline again, look at that. Dumped by liberals over anti-Semitism allegations. Hassan
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Kihei explores options. Montreal candidate says he was shocked by party's decision. That's what's so
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shocking here. The party's decision. I mean, not him. And did you see that happy picture of him?
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And the whole thing, he's not denormalized by them. He's not on the defensive. He's not a disgraced,
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bigot, and terrorist apologist. He's just some guy who's been shocked by the shocking liberals.
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They're the ones who so rudely dumped him. I think. I mean, I think the media is still on his side.
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Well, yeah, because they have to be. Because discrediting him means discrediting his mosque
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and discrediting their holy reputation as sinless lambs. And of course, he was their symbolic hero,
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the great moderate Muslim imam, who would be the first Muslim imam in parliament. Yeah,
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they're on his side, folks. And what about Trudeau and the liberals? Well, B'nai B'rith rang the alarm
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bell. But look at this Facebook post by another Jewish group called Sijia. We discovered Mr.
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Kihei's comments, and in June, registered our concerns directly with the Liberal Party. Party
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officials indicated that they would look into the matter. So this was actually brought to the
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liberals' attention in June, three months ago, and nothing? No action. I'm surprised and
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disappointed that Sijia was fine with this, that they were fine with the liberals running this
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terrorist supporter who, given the neighborhood, would surely have become an MP next month, given
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Montreal. Sijia was fine with that, I think. B'nai B'rith was not, obviously. And the liberals
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clearly were counting on the fact that they had gotten away with it for three months, just a few
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more weeks till they were in the clear. Assange is having a press conference tomorrow. That's going to be
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a doozy. But I'm really not interested in more of what he has to say. Yeah, Jews, bad. Jews did
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9-11. Jews, Jews, Jews. Got it. Got it. Unless he dishes dirt on how the liberals told him this was
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all fine. Just be quiet about it. That would be interesting. If he's just saying, oh, I'm a changed
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man. I'm not the man I was so long ago, back in 2017. Jews. I'm not interested in that. I am
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interested in who in the Liberal Party was fine with this bigot, despite having the alarm rung for
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them in June. I see a couple of Liberal MPs from highly Jewish writings who are tweeting their
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indignation. I am shocked. I'm just shocked. I'm really shocked about guys. I never saw this coming.
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Yeah, shocked to find any summits in the Liberal Party. Your party gave 50 million bucks to Hamas.
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Are you shocked? But funny enough, not a word of rebuke from the Muslims in Trudeau's caucus,
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from Omar al-Jabra, from Ahmed Hassan, from Ikra Khalidr. The rest of them, not a
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peep from them. What are you? Are you nuts? This calculated ambiguity, this double messaging,
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this speaking with a forked tongue, tell the Jews you're deeply upset, only after it hits the media,
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though, and wink at the Muslims and say, don't you worry, just stay cool. That whole making matzahs
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out of blood story could be, you know. But guys, could you just say that blood matzahs thing in Arabic
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next time, okay? And hey, other than if this candidate goes rogue tomorrow, the story's done.
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Remember a few weeks ago, some mentally ill woman or some hoaxer, we're not quite sure which,
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screamed and spat at some guy while holding a laughable Vote Andrew Scheer sign? It was so
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obviously a fake or a hoax or something. But Scheer felt compelled to rebuke it, especially after
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every single media outlet in the country went wall to wall with it. So where's that now?
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It's nowhere now. That's what it's like in Canada now, in the Liberal Party, in the Media Party,
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no big deal. An actual terrorist apologist, as an actual candidate, not just some strange person on
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the street. And the leader, who personally signed off on his candidacy. Well, look, I mean, Justin
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Trudeau was too busy hiking on the weekend to answer our questions. He was taking selfies with
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hikers, guys. I'm serious. That was the news that the Media Party had this weekend. Hey, I'm hiking,
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guys. Look, we all know that we can't trust the Liberal Party. 63% of Canadians don't trust the
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Liberal Party. But the Media Party, they are worse. Stay with us for more.
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When the president laid out his plans about how he's going to handle trade, how he's going to invest
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in our infrastructure, and how he's going to level a playing field for construction workers and all
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Americans across this country, and then took the time to take everyone into the Oval Office and show
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him the seat of power in the world. The respect that the president of the United States just showed
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us, and when he shows it to us, he shows that the 3 million of our members in the United States
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was nothing short of incredible. And we will work with him and his administration to help him
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implement his plans on infrastructure, trade, and energy policy so that we really do put America back
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to work in the middle-class jobs that our members and all Americans are demanding. Thank you very much.
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Do you remember that clip? I played it for you in January of 2017, and it has stuck in my mind ever
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since. Look at those guys. That's middle America. That's blue-collar labor union guys, steelworker
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guys, teamster guys, guys who work outside, guys who come home and their muscles ache, guys who wear hard
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hats, guys who dig and drill and mine, the forgotten people who for generations have said,
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oh, we're Democrat. We're unions, so we're Democrat. And wasn't that amazing? On the first day, I think
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that was literally the day of the inauguration, perhaps the next day, but I think it was literally
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day one. Trump took the, and they were all Democrat, at least when they walked in. And did you hear that
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man? And he said, he showed us tremendous respect. I believe that, by the way, obviously. And he
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talked about energy and infrastructure and trade. And here we are two and a half years later,
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and has not Trump kept his word on energy? America is now a net energy exporter. Coal mines are opening
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again. Steel mills are going full tilt. Chinese cheap, crappy steel that's dumped below world market
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prices is being kept out. China is on the back foot. It's almost been pushed into a recession
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by Donald Trump. Donald Trump is literally saying American factories come home. Well, that is music to
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the ears of union leaders like that. And I think, as we're now well past the halfway point in Donald
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Trump's first term, and the 2020 re-election is within sight, and here in Canada, we have an election
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mere weeks away. My hypothesis, my theory for today is workers, unionized workers, and I'm talking about real
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workers, not clerks in a government sector bureaucrats union. I'm talking about outdoors
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guys like you saw there, that they will vote for the parties of the right in particular in reaction
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and rejection to environmentalism, which has been used to kill their jobs for a decade. Joining me now
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to help discuss this hypothesis is my friend Mark Morano, the boss of ClimateDepot.com. Good to see
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It's going well. I don't know if you saw that clip from where you are. I know you heard it.
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I found it very moving. These tough dudes, these tough union bosses who went in there probably almost
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looking for a fight with the Republican president, coming out completely converted to his cause. And that
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was just with the promise. Two and a half years later, Trump has kept his promises in terms of
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He has. Now, one interesting thing about Trump. If you go back decades, the 1980s,
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Trump's economic plans have always mirrored the labor, the labor unions, economic plans,
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particularly when it comes to tariffs, particularly when it comes to China, when it comes to trade
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agreements, when it comes to the appeal to the blue-collar worker, this is the reason Donald
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Trump is president. Not only did he woo the labor bosses in the clip you just showed, but he wooed
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blue-collar America in Pennsylvania, in Ohio, in West Virginia. And these are states that were shocking
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margins, particularly places like West Virginia, which were like radical margins, what were Democratic
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states not that long ago. So what President Trump is doing, and he's not only that, but he's delivered,
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as you mentioned. We surpassed Saudi Arabia now in oil production, I think it was 2018.
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But not only that, President Trump has delivered across the spectrum for union members the lowest
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black unemployment rates of unemployment since they began in the 1960s monitoring it, the lowest Hispanic
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unemployment since they began in the 1960s monitoring it. And this has been a shock to the Democratic Party,
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and they still haven't recovered. And they're still reeling. And of course, 2020 brings its own set of
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challenges with a lot of other issues like the Green New Deal.
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You know, you're so right, because in the past, socialists and even communists, they have not disparaged
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hard work or industry or smokestacks and coal-fired this and that. They fetishized them. I mean,
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if you look at those iconic Soviet propaganda posters, you have hard work and guys, I mean,
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the hammer and the sickle were their symbols, the symbols of tools for work. They would always have
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the symbol of great pride would be smoke belching factories. They weren't ashamed of them. All they said
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is, let those factories be owned, the means of production be owned by the proletariat. They were
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not anti-factory. I think today's Democrats in the States and liberals and New Democrats and Greens in
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Canada are actually anti-factory. And just like people who say, oh, no, no, I'm not anti-soldier.
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I'm just anti-war. Well, after a while, you say, no, no, you're anti-war. And you can say,
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I'm anti-factory, but pro-worker. Yeah, no, it doesn't work that way. If you're against the
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factory, you're against the guy who feeds his family from the factory. I think, Mark,
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and I'd like your thoughts on this, that the obsession by the Democrats and by our liberals
00:24:46.880
with climate change, global warming, climate emergencies, Greta Thunberg, is causing all these
00:24:53.060
severely normal working class guys to say, you know what? I'm just not a Democrat anymore. I'm just
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not a liberal anymore. Absolutely. In fact, they're not just anti-factory. They are anti-factory
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100%. And it's not because of who owns the factory. It's because of the smokestacks. It's because
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of the emissions. The factory is evil. And it goes beyond that. The auto workers union has to look at
00:25:17.120
it and see that the environment and the modern democratic party is against the automobile, against
00:25:22.040
SUVs. They are against the modern farmer. Farmers unions have to look at this. They're against
00:25:27.080
cattle and beef and sheep and meat eating. And they want to run them out of business. We know
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this from the new UN report. We know this from Al Gore's own investment in fake meat from a laboratory
00:25:37.960
with 22 ingredients instead of the real thing. So what happened? And this predates Trump. It
00:25:43.800
actually really began in earnest under President Obama, and more specifically, Obama's second term
00:25:50.160
with all his executive orders and with his opposition to the Canadian oil sands. What happened was the
00:25:56.260
Laborers International Union, led by Terry O'Sullivan, had twice endorsed President Obama
00:26:00.860
for president. They'd had enough. They came out and said that President Obama was pandering to the
00:26:06.540
environmentalists, that they were seeking jobs, that he was giving in to extreme environmental
00:26:11.460
agenda. I mean, they went all out, started attacking President Obama. Fast forward, President Trump comes
00:26:18.400
on the scene, or the candidate Trump, and the labor unions and the union members themselves are blown
00:26:23.820
away. I actually document the labor unions and the leaders who turn around and actually started
00:26:29.860
attacking President Obama before President Trump came along. And so this is what's happened. It's not
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who owns industry. It's the fact that modern industry is allowed. And voters in the blue-collar
00:26:42.320
states, labor rank and file, rightly recognize that the modern Democratic Party is against industrial
00:26:50.160
civilization with their policies. I mean, not so much someone like Joe Biden, who's trying to skirt
00:26:56.480
this, or even a Nancy Pelosi at the moment, but against the Elizabeth Warren, the better O'Rourke's
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that, and the other Democrats who, especially someone like Warren or even Camilla Harris or Bernie Sanders,
00:27:09.200
that, unfortunately, in AOC, that is where the legislation, that is where the brain trust, if you will,
00:27:15.720
is coming. And that is what is scaring these workers, and that is what is scaring the Democratic Party
00:27:20.780
for 2020. Yeah. You know, I think that maybe I wasn't articulate enough there, Mark, because that's
00:27:26.240
my point, is the old communists, they loved the factory. They just wanted the people to own it,
00:27:31.320
so to speak. Today's communists actually hate the factory, which is crazy. They hate the means of
00:27:38.860
production. I want to show you a video, Mark, and I played this for our viewers before. This is a 2016
00:27:44.760
United Steelworkers of America ad that I don't think had very wide play. This features Jack
00:27:52.780
Tippold, who is a steelworker from Indiana. And I looked up Jack Tippold on the internet,
00:27:58.080
and I found him, and I've told my viewers just before, I found him on Facebook. We became Facebook
00:28:02.160
friends, and I've chatted with them to sort of talk to him about how he literally cut a TV ad
00:28:07.740
against Trump in 2016 over steel. And you couldn't have a more steel-friendly president,
00:28:17.020
not only in terms of industrial policy, but trade policy. I want to show you this clip,
00:28:20.740
because I find this so amazing. This guy, and he's being a little coy with me on Facebook, fair enough,
00:28:25.940
I'm a journalist, and he's got his work to do. But there is no doubt in my mind that this guy,
00:28:31.980
and 100,000 guys who look physically and who sound the same exact accent, who are sneered at by the,
00:28:39.380
you know, New York's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, sneered at by the elites. They are voting Trump down to
00:28:48.600
the man. Here, just watch this ad with Jack Tippold again, because this scared me when I saw it in 2016.
00:28:55.200
But although he won't quite come out and say it, I'm telling you one thing,
00:28:57.740
Jack's voting for Trump this time. Take a look.
00:29:00.620
My name's Jack Tippold, and I've been a steel worker for 24 years.
00:29:05.380
This election is a little bit different, and Donald Trump does talk a good game when it comes to China
00:29:11.140
and Mexico. But let me tell you a little something about Donald Trump. The Chinese have been illegally
00:29:17.380
dumping steel and aluminum into this country. The problem is that Donald Trump is buying this steel
00:29:24.580
aluminum, and he's using it in his projects. Now, Trump says he's going to rebuild the steel industry.
00:29:30.640
That steel could have been made here in Indiana, Pennsylvania, or Ohio. Another thing, Donald Trump
00:29:37.140
says our wages are too high. Let's see him go into one of our plants with his soft hands and work for a
00:29:42.920
day, and then tell us our wages are too high. Donald Trump says he uses bankruptcy as a tool.
00:29:49.780
I've seen what bankruptcy does to our brothers and sisters. I've seen them losing their houses and
00:29:55.340
their cars, unable to provide food to put on their tables, can't pay their bills. We don't have a
00:30:01.220
father that can give us a million dollars and bail us out. Look, Donald Trump is nothing more than a
00:30:06.200
boss. And when you go to pull that lever on November 8th, think if that's who you want as your boss.
00:30:12.120
I tell you, Mark, that guy ain't voting for the people who would bring in a carbon tax, who would
00:30:19.760
ban coal, who would ban fracking, who would blockade pipelines. That guy's voting for the man who is
00:30:27.660
keeping out the cheap, dumped steel. And all he can say is grow, build, dig, mine, you know, frack.
00:30:36.660
I think that that could tip 2020. And in Canada in 2019.
00:30:43.700
Yeah. And I think one of the knocks against President Trump is, oh, well, okay, he didn't
00:30:48.280
always follow the ideology he prescribed. Well, one of the things President Trump done as a
00:30:52.460
businessman, he's trying to tell Americans and he's trying to change America so that businessmen like
00:30:58.640
him can actually use American products without the unfair dumping and competition, the unfair
00:31:05.020
practices that China has done. And that's what he's been focusing on. And I think that's why he's
00:31:10.300
going to win over people like the man in the video you just showed. The other reason that's so
00:31:15.180
important, and Politico had a whole article on this today, showing that, you know, Democrats in places
00:31:20.680
like Michigan and a lot of these, you know, sort of rust belt or blue collar states are terrified of
00:31:27.140
2020. And it's a lot of it is because of President Trump, not only his governance and his good policy,
00:31:32.900
but because of his brilliant political tactics. And what do I mean by that? He's elevated,
00:31:38.960
President Trump has elevated people like AOC and Congresswoman Omar to the level of the face of the
00:31:46.940
Democratic Party. So even the Democrats now are saying they know the Green New Deal and AOC are going
00:31:52.420
to be in every ad against them. And it's not going to play well. And a lot of these Democrats home
00:31:56.780
districts. And that's the political genius of Donald Trump is he's made the party embrace the
00:32:03.040
extreme. The Democratic Party is embracing it because they can't allow themselves to support
00:32:08.700
Trump. And Trump has made it basically the face of AOC, the Green New Deal, or American prosperity.
00:32:15.180
And it's actually a fair choice, an accurate choice. And that is why 2020 presents a huge problem for the
00:32:22.180
Democratic Party. Very interesting. You know, in recent weeks, I've seen some tweets by Donald
00:32:26.460
Trump, where he pokes at the leadership of the big three automakers in Michigan. Now, it's a little
00:32:32.600
cryptic to me. I'll show the tweets on the screen here right now. I think he's alluding to some fuel
00:32:39.240
economy standards. Is that right? He's trying to get the big three to walk away from those. And for some
00:32:44.140
reason, they want them. And he's saying, why are you being ridiculous? Make cheaper car, make better cars
00:32:49.380
cheaper and sell them cheaper in America. And everyone's a winner. And am I getting that right?
00:32:54.540
Is that is that the point he was trying to make? It was odd. But obviously, he's saying something
00:32:59.300
strategically. Help me figure out what he meant. Yeah, well, what's happened here is the Trump
00:33:03.480
administration is trying to reverse President Obama's corporate average fuel economy or CAFE
00:33:08.580
standards on American vehicles. And as it currently stands, I think by 2022 and three years,
00:33:14.360
it's gonna be a 54 and a half mile per gallon in the US standard for the fleet of vehicles. Now,
00:33:20.840
this is statutorily incredibly damaging, possibly the RIP of the American SUV as we know it. And
00:33:27.820
we're already seeing heavier use of aluminum and plastics and lighter SUVs. Everything's making
00:33:33.660
cars less safe. President Trump is trying to change that. The problem is, and I've already said this in
00:33:38.880
the past, it's the best argument for California's secession. The problem is California has its own
00:33:43.940
standards that it's got an exemption. It doesn't have to follow federal. So California and a few
00:33:48.700
other states like Massachusetts are going to keep their standards very strict. So automakers are
00:33:53.700
having to face the rule of they're going to have to do two sets of cars for the states that have
00:33:58.360
really high regulatory requirements versus states that don't. President Trump is trying to get a
00:34:04.360
federal ruling to get rid of California's ability to do that. But given the state of the auto
00:34:10.220
manufacturers, they're not wanting to fight. They want regulatory certainty. They're just sort of
00:34:15.100
giving in and they're going to accept these regulations. But on the other hand, they can
00:34:19.560
also figure a way to juice it and make money out of this. But President Trump is trying to persuade
00:34:23.920
automakers to go along with overturning Obama's rules because the person that's going to hurt,
00:34:29.360
the automakers will do fine with the new regulations. It's the American consumer, both in terms of cost
00:34:34.980
and in terms of safety, as cars get lighter, smaller and more expensive.
00:34:40.440
That is so very interesting. And you mentioned Michigan. I think, I mean, listen, I don't know
00:34:47.760
auto workers. I just don't know them. But I think that they can tell the difference between someone
00:34:55.140
who's for the boss and for the workers. And it was Michael Moore himself who first flipped the light
00:35:01.540
switch on for me, that Trump was for the worker and Trump wasn't afraid to tough. We know Trump's
00:35:06.220
not afraid to talk tough to the big three CEOs because he tells them, if you think you're making
00:35:11.080
vehicles in Mexico, get ready for a monster tariff. I mean, he's been fighting with the big three
00:35:15.580
automakers forever. Very interesting, Mark. I sure hope you're right. But for every blue collar guy
00:35:22.520
looking for his political outlet, you've got all the activists and the extremists and the
00:35:29.540
grievance industries and the Greta Thunbergs clouding the debate and saying, no, no, no.
00:35:36.700
Vote for today's Democrats, the extremist campus activist types. I hope the blue collar Americans
00:35:43.980
and blue collar Canadians can see through that. Last word to you, my friend.
00:35:48.220
Well, I think you're right. But I think that process is most pronounced during the Democratic
00:35:52.580
primary process. So those activists and those people pushing the new green, and I love the Democrats
00:35:58.700
right now are all trying to outdo each other. Bernie's the king with the 16 and a half trillion
00:36:03.340
dollar Green New Deal. Others have come out with only four or five trillion dollar versions. So
00:36:08.440
they're like the weak Democrats. But if the Democratic base and activists pick someone so extreme like
00:36:13.680
Elizabeth Warren as a nominee, Trump is in heaven. Now, if he picks it, they pick a Joe Biden, which is
00:36:18.540
getting harder and harder to believe they're going to do that. They're going to have a much more
00:36:22.520
pronounced battle because Joe Biden, his nickname is Lunch Pail Joe. He envisions himself as the
00:36:28.240
champion of the blue collar worker. And he's got a great image. And I think that's going to put up
00:36:32.380
the biggest challenge for Trump among this demographic. So it all comes down to who the
00:36:37.660
nominee is and also economics. I mean, you know, right now we're riding high. If there's a blip or
00:36:42.480
some kind of a slide into a slight recession, that's going to have a big impact. There's so many
00:36:46.520
variables. It doesn't just come down to blue collar workers. But this is such a key transformation
00:36:51.640
in the electorate against the Democrats. And it began under President Obama.
00:36:56.120
Yeah, very interesting. Well, always great to talk with you, Mark. And thank you for your time.
00:36:59.780
And we look forward to staying in touch with you, not just about Trump's pro-energy policies,
00:37:05.280
pro-industry policies, but the election, because, of course, you're a real insider on those subjects
00:37:10.420
and always a value to our viewers. Thanks, my friend. We'll talk to you soon.
00:37:13.920
All right. There you have it, Mark Morano. I hope you're visiting Mark's site.
00:37:17.000
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00:37:24.200
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00:37:28.860
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00:37:30.500
Hey, welcome back on my special interview with Gavin McInnes. John writes,
00:37:45.900
That was a fun show to watch. It was like two guys sitting around shooting the shoot over pints
00:37:50.080
and trying to straighten out everything. There was some cussing, too. I hope that didn't hurt anyone's
00:37:55.280
ears. But it was fun to see my old buddy again. Dan writes,
00:37:59.580
What I really liked was what Gavin said about conservatives being crappy fighters. People
00:38:03.860
need to stand up and fight back. The battle is in your own backyard first.
00:38:12.980
Always great to hear from Gavin. I watch the show and see our TV. I've been meaning to check
00:38:17.460
out Gavin's new site. I guess I'll finally have to get around to doing so.
00:38:20.980
Yeah, it's called freespeech.tv. I was glad to see the guy. You know, I remember when I first
00:38:26.100
met him back when we were both at Sun News Network. I had a show with Sun, and he was
00:38:30.000
an occasional guest. And what I saw immediately then, and I still know now, is that he's a fountain
00:38:36.220
of creativity. He just is a gusher with ideas and jokes and sketches and concepts. I think the
00:38:42.480
fella needs an editor from time to time, because even a brilliant brainstormer doesn't get it right
00:38:46.780
all the time. But it's just lots of laughs, and always great to see him again. And in his natural
00:38:52.740
habitat in New York City, that's really his home for sure. Well, I'm glad you liked that, for those
00:38:58.080
of you who did. Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at
00:39:03.140
home. Good night, and keep fighting for freedom.