Rebel Roundup： Guests Sheila Gunn Reid, Ben Davies & Keean Bexte!
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Justin Trudeau is building a treehouse with a zip line and a helicopter landing pad, and guess what, folks? You are funding this extravagance. Sheila Gunn-Reed shall explain all. And Ben Davies drops by to explain how network TV coverage of New Year s Eve celebrations devolved into a truly vulgar affair rife with talking heads still afflicted with Trump derangement syndrome.
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Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you, in which we look back at
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some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite Rebels. I'm your host, David Menzies.
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Well, it looks like Justin Trudeau is building himself quite the swank summer residence,
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including a treehouse with its very own zip line and maybe even a helicopter landing pad to boot.
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And guess what, folks? You are funding this extravagance. Sheila Gunn-Reed shall explain all.
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And a new Abacus poll indicates that only 25% of Albertans give the Justin Trudeau Liberals an approval rating,
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whereas a whopping 57% disapprove. Yet some media outlets are claiming that those who disapprove of
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Justin are motivated by racism, misogyny, and homophobia? What the heck?
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Kian Bexte will try to make sense of it all. And Ben Davies drops by to explain how network TV coverage
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of New Year's Eve celebrations devolved into a truly vulgar affair rife with talking heads
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still afflicted with Trump derangement syndrome. Oh, Dick Clark, we miss you dearly.
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And finally, we get your letters. We get your letters every minute of every day. And I'll share
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some of the letters we received regarding my commentary about a progressive Toronto neighbourhood
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that is absolutely aghast at the prospect of a daycare operation setting up. Yep, suddenly the
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same people who condemn NIMBYism are now subscribing to it. Those are your rebels. Now let's round them up.
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But some of the demands are sort of petty and a little ridiculous. For example, look at this line
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item here. Potable water. To improve the quality of the drinking water, Canadians paid $3.5,000. Now,
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if the drinking water was bad and undrinkable, of course, we want that fixed. But that's not what
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the problem was. If you go up to page 47, you can see that the problem was that the water was
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quote unquote, too soft for the Trudeaus. So taxpayers spent $3.5,000 so that the drinking water
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was hard enough for the likings of delicate Mr. Trudeau. But in all of this, I see that Trudeau has
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aspirations of live action role playing as a farmer, but he doesn't want to actually do any
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of the hard work. The first inkling I get that Trudeau might want to be a farmer is here on page
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48, where bureaucrats are looking into regulations regarding livestock on the property. God help the
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livestock. Now, right here on page 49, you can see that Trudeau insisted on becoming a bee farmer.
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Now, to get the bees, two hives actually all set up, it costs $9,000. And then it's going to cost
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$3,000 every single year going forward to keep Trudeau's novelty dreams of running an apiary alive
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because the work is now being contracted out. Further to Trudeau's agricultural dreams,
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taxpayers spent $4,000 to build him an organic garden. And then we get to pay $2,000 every single
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year going forward to pay someone else to garden the garden for him because we can't have his nails
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getting dirty, even though we made the water harder for him so that it's a lot more fun for him to wash
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his hands. Oh, and then taxpayers spent a total of $13,500 to repair the garden fence, which will be
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used to keep the deer from eating Trudeau's expensive organic garden. And then we get into some of the more
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ridiculous demands, if that were even possible, of Canada's man-child prime minister. Trudeau wants
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a treehouse, but not just any treehouse. He wants one with a zip line. To be fair, it's unclear who
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ended up paying for the treehouse in the end. But the email discussing the construction of the treehouse
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So even if Justin Trudeau actually sprung for the treehouse himself, now we've got government safety
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and civil engineers examining the plans. And I can't imagine that that runs cheap.
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Hey folks, it ain't easy being a trust fund baby come prime minister. I mean, one gets quickly
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accustomed to a particular lifestyle, as in the lifestyles of the rich and infamous. For example,
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when it comes to the PM's summer residence, there are numerous watercrafts Justin has taken a fancy
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to. And there's that pressing need for an organic garden. Oh, and there's that treehouse with its own
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zip line, of course. And while Trudeau has taken a dim view of President Trump wanting to build a wall
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along the U.S.-Mexico border, Justin has absolutely no reservations about building a $13,000 plus fence
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on his property. All the better to keep the riffraff out of that organic garden. And best of all,
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as far as the Trudeau clan is concerned, all of this whiz-bang groovy stuff is being paid
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for, by you, the hapless taxpayer. Because apparently, when it comes to being an ever-entitled
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Trudeau, to quote the American Express tagline, membership has its privileges. And with more on
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the PM's summer home spending spree is the host of The Gun Show, Sheila Gunn-Reed. Welcome to Rebel
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Roundup and a happy new year to you, my friend. Thank you, David. Thank you for having me.
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Always a pleasure. So, Sheila, for starters, I'm scratching my head here. Justin is spending
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taxpayers' money on himself at a rate that would make a drunken sailor blush. Yet, this is the same
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guy who last year claimed that injured military veterans are asking for too much money? What the
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hell gives here? Well, and it's all novelty stuff, too. It's crazy things. Like, he has these dreams of
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being a farmer. When I was reading through the access to information documents, at one point,
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I saw bureaucrats nattering back and forth the way government bureaucrats do, talking about having
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livestock on the property, and that scared me. So, I kept reading, and he had them install an apiary.
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He wants to be a bee farmer. The taxpayers paid several thousand dollars for him to have two hives
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installed on the property, which is over and above what bees cost, because you can get them down at the
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Peavey Mart if you order them in March. And then, we're also contracting a beekeeper to take care of them
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in, I guess, perpetuity. We also paid to install an organic garden for him. Again, several thousand
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dollars, and then several thousand dollars every single year, because heaven forbid, the Lady Trudeau
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run out there and yank some weeds away from her organic onions. And then, thirteen and a half
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thousand dollars to build a fence to keep the deer away from the organic garden that the Trudeaus aren't
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even tending. And then, you know, you talked about the treehouse. He's having a treehouse installed.
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It's not clear from the documents who paid for the treehouse. But I know that Canadian taxpayers did
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pay for the environmental assessment around the treehouse, and then the hazard risk assessment
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from civil engineers regarding the zip line that he wants installed on his mega treehouse. One of the
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funny things I found, though, in the documents was that he wanted a tree swing installed somewhere
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on the property. But you could see the bureaucrats nattering back and forth because they wanted to
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find a tree strong enough, which leads me to believe that it's not the Trudeau kids using the tree swing.
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Oh, my God. You know, Sheila, a couple of things from what you just said. First of all, when you refer to
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Lady Trudeau removing the weeds from the organic garden, are we talking about weeds such as thistles
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and dandelions or weeds such as the base product for the wacky tobacco that is now legal in Canada?
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And secondly, who in blue hell is having beehives on their property unless you're a beekeeper,
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a professional beekeeper? Forgive my ignorance, Sheila, but is there a honey shortage in the greater
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You know, I'm from the honey capital of Canada. So if they want honey, they can get it from Alberta.
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We would love to give the rest of the country honey the way we would love to give them oil and gas.
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You know, I don't know what's in the organic garden. It wasn't clear.
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But I did express some concern for Justin Trudeau's brain cells in my video because we did pay a pretty
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hefty cost to repaint one of the garden sheds that's on the property at Harrington Lake because
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they were removing the lead paint. And I think it cost about $5,000 to remove the lead paint.
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But Trudeau's a guy who cannot spare a single brain cell. So, you know, I would spare no cost to
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remove lead paint at Harrington Lake. That's one of the things I think that we should do for
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You know, Sheila, since you mentioned that Alberta is the honey capital of Canada, I'm just wondering if
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if we proposed a pipeline for honey to be transported, if that would get through all the
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regulatory hurdles other than that, you know, demonic oil that always seems to be stymied.
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But I digress. You know, just breaking today, I'll hold up this paper. It's Justin Trudeau on the
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front page of The Sun wearing a beanie cap with a propeller on top of it. And the story is about
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heavily redacted pages in an FOI search that The Sun did, indicating that it looks like there might be
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a helipad being installed on this increasingly palatial cottage, even though the airport is a
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mere 25-minute drive away from this cottage. He's hardly in the hinterland of Tatayatak.
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You know, Sheila, I mean, it's yet more excess, as far as I can tell. And I'm just wondering why
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this isn't getting picked up by the mainstream media. I hearken back to the days when the media
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lost their minds about the Mike Duffy scandal, which totaled, what, $92,000. And yet he gets a pass on
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this. What's your take on that? It is absolutely the mainstream media bias that allows Trudeau to
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get away with the excesses at Harrington Lake and really anywhere else in his life. Let's look at one
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of the other prime ministerial residences. The main residence at 24 Sussex, excuse me, Harper couldn't
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even change the wallpaper there because someone would be scrutinizing his expenses. And it would
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seem as though Trudeau or Harper at the time was trying to enrich himself and and turn it into a palace
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for his family. He realized that there were very serious negative optics for a conservative to
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upgrade these prime ministerial residences to the point that that place is a little bit dilapidated
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now, whereas Trudeau knows that he can absolutely get away with anything he wants to at the prime
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ministerial residences. I found an email where Trudeau himself was there for the original meeting with
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the groundskeepers and the people in charge of official residences. These were demands that he
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was making, specifically him, for his family at this official residence. I found an email where they
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talk on and on about upgrading the ice surface at Harrington Lake. It cost taxpayers $2,000 to upgrade
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the ice surface, but that ice surface was used so infrequently they didn't have skates for anybody
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at Harrington Lake. They were running around trying to borrow them because I guess when you're the
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prime minister, you can pay bureaucrats to borrow skates and find free skates for your family while
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at the same time you're in the House of Commons repealing the child fitness tax credit to help the
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rest of us offset the cost of skates for our kids. Great point. And I know you made that point in your
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commentary too, Sheila. And I think what really rubs people the wrong way is that this is not a family
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lacking in resources. They're millionaires. They can afford all of this and they should pay for it.
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These are entitlements to improve their summer getaways. And I'm just wondering, Sheila, if this
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has legs as the year moves on. I know October is an eternity away being 10 months from now, but do you
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think this sort of stuff is going to get more coverage and it's going to stick to them or is this
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just going to, you know, deflect off the prime minister and it'll be forgotten by next week?
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Well, I guess the difference would be whether or not the opposition conservatives bother to run with
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this. I mean, when we have Justin Trudeau saying that he's an advocate for the middle class and those
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trying to become middle class all the time, that's his major talking point. It sure makes him look like
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a hypocrite and a bald faced liar when he does these sorts of things. So I guess it remains,
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you know, it remains to be seen, but $600 million in a subsidy from Justin Trudeau for the mainstream
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media sure buys a lot of silence. Oh, it sure does, Sheila. And it's only going to get worse as the
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election cycle kicks in full time. Listen, we have to wrap it here. I go back to what I said
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in my opening preamble, the audacity of this individual when he claims that people that put
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their lives on the line, true patriots fighting for Canada, asking for too much to cover medical
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expenses while he, you know, lives high on the hog at a summer residence using our money. It is
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absolutely egregious. So great work on covering all those documents, Sheila. I know you'll have
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more for us in the weeks and months ahead. I will. There's so much more to this access to
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information document. Indeed. Thank you so much. Folks, that was Sheila Gunn-Reed from Alberta and keep
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it here. More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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Abacus Data just released a poll and the results were from the end of 2018 and they summarized
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Canadians' opinions of Justin Trudeau and his government. Not to most people's surprise,
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only a quarter of Albertans approve of the Trudeau government. That is, of course, contrasted
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by the much higher support in eastern Canada. But what was perhaps the most interesting was that
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57% of Albertans outright disapprove of the Trudeau Liberals. Of course, this didn't make the
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mainstream media very happy. The star Metro Edmonton reported on these numbers and made
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sure to characterize Albertans who didn't support Justin Trudeau as, well, racists.
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Not only that, according to star Metro Edmonton, Albertans who didn't, don't approve of Justin
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Trudeau and his government think women's issues are a joke and ran some mental gymnastics to connect
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a vague question about homosexuality being a choice to people's opinions on the performance
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of the government. I wonder how big the check is that Justin Trudeau cut to the star Metro
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Edmonton because this was some real hard-hitting journalism right there.
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Astonishing. Not the fact that the Trudeau Liberals have a woeful 57% disapproval rating in
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Wildrose Country, but the fact that some Alberta media are chastising Albertans for having the
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temerity to express such a negative opinion. Again, absolutely astonishing. And joining me now
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with more on these poll results and the media spin job is Kian Bexte. Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Kian.
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Always a pleasure. Now, Kian, for starters, being disapproving of the Trudeau Liberals
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is apparently an act of racism. Can you kindly explain to us how the star Metro Edmonton came
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to such an inexplicable conclusion in the first place? Well, it was a bunch of mental gymnastics
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from what I could see. They threw around a bunch of numbers and a bunch of weird questions that
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they asked, like, do you think being gay is a choice? And then somehow they connected that question
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to do you approve of Justin Trudeau and his government? And they, it's hard to explain
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their methodology in figuring this out because it was so confusing. But they said because more
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Albertans said, answered one question positively than, and answered the Justin Trudeau question
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more positively, that somehow correlated, indicating that for sure, 100% Albertans are racist,
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Albertans are misogynist, Albertans are homophobic. It was, it was ludicrous.
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You know, that's amazing. And it's unethical. It's the kind of flawed logic, Kian, that, I mean,
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this is the kind of, you know, flawed, disingenuous, logical process that they're coming to when they,
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you know, cherry pick certain facts and, you know, present that as a newsworthy conclusion.
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But what I found amazing is that later in your video, and I urge our viewers to go see it in its
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entirety, you went out onto the streets and asked Albertans, you know, what do you think of these
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approval and disapproval ratings? And the most common answers that I heard every day working
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Albertans say they're, they're upset with the higher taxes, the lower Canadian dollar, and the fact that
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the Alberta economy is being stymied by pipeline paralysis. So what I'm saying, Kian, didn't sound
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like a whole bunch of misogynists and homophobes and racists attending a KKK convention. At least it
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It sure isn't. You know, Alberta, in Alberta, we're upset about a few things, right? We're upset that we
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can't get our natural resources to Tidewater to sell them to international markets. We're upset that
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the federal government is taxing us with a carbon tax that doesn't do anything environmentally. It's
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just economic pain. Those are the things that we're upset about. It has nothing to do with,
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I'll read out one of their questions. They said, are you fed up with all of the emphasis on promoting
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women's interests? And they said, would you feel better if there were no Muslims here? That's not
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something that crosses Albertans' minds. You see, we care about pipelines. We care about our economy.
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And Justin Trudeau is just failing on that. And that's why you see those poll numbers. Frankly,
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a lot of the people that I talked to were surprised that they were as good as they were. They said that
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25 percent was too high. So Abacus Data might have some explaining to do. Personally, I'm surprised by
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that figure, Kian, to tell you the truth. It's a 25 percent approval rating. But you know, the Star
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Metro Edmonton, I don't know anything about the people there. Obviously, this is part of the
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Torstar Corporation that's centered in Toronto. I'm just wondering, what kind of influence does it have?
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Because I just find, you know, their coverage of this poll so condescending and downright insulting
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to Joe and Jane Albertan by saying, because you don't adore the Trudeau liberals, therefore there's
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a undercurrent of racism or homophobia or misogyny here. I mean, does this newspaper have any currency
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in Alberta? Well, I don't know about Alberta, but when you have an Albertan newspaper, the Star
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Edmonton, capital city of Alberta, and someone reads an article like this in BC, perhaps, or Ontario
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or Quebec, then it stereotypes Albertans. And it seems to have some sort of credibility because
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it's actually from Alberta. So when we're trying to get pipelines built, when we're complaining about
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the carbon tax, it's easier for them to brush us off as redneck Albertans who hate Muslims, hate
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women, hate gays. So it's bad for Alberta in that other people can read it and that stereotypes us.
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But I don't think Albertans give it much credibility because they know what they think. So they're not
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too worried what the Star thinks of them. I'm just astonishing. I mean, astonished by this,
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Kian, in terms of not knowing your audience. I mean, I think Albertans are quite used to being
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preached to by the media mavens based in Toronto. But when it's coming out of Edmonton, that's a bit
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rich. But the other point I want to make on this spin cycle, I think this is yet another piece of
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tangible proof that with that $595 million government taxpayer funded bailout of media companies,
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it's a different kind of narrative that's going to emerge this year with the election coming up,
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isn't it, Kian, where you even have an Alberta-based paper lecturing Albertans about their negative
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attitude to Mr. Trudeau? Because, hey, he's the one signing our checks for our bailout, isn't he?
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Oh, that's absolutely true. I'm scrolling through the article right now, and this is staged completely
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as a news article. Actually, if you scroll to the top of the page, I'm going to screenshot this and
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send it to you because it says, subscribe now for complete progressive coverage of local, national
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and global news. This is stunning. How did I not notice this? Well, the quote aligned from Jerry
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Maguire, you had me at progressive. And when I say you had me at progressive, I mean, you had me at
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cancelling my subscription to the Star Metro Edmonton. Kian, we have to wrap it here. Good job and good
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for you for going out and interviewing the common man and woman in the streets of Alberta to show that
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they're not a bunch of racist and xenophobes and all sorts of other negative isps and phobes that the
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Star Metro Edmonton is painting these people as. So thank you, my friend.
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No problem. Thanks for having me. Oh, right. And folks, keep it here. More of Rebel Roundup to come
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You don't really know someone until you have a few drinks with them. Well, the moral arbiters of the
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mainstream media and their guests showed us exactly who they were and confirmed all of our suspicions
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at the New Year's celebration. Let's kick things off with your boy, Anderson Cooper, who threw back
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shots of tequila while millions watched on. Now, I'd be tempted to give Anderson a pass if he didn't
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take down the shot like a 12-year-old girl choking on a box of movie theater Sour Patch. But what's
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even better is a few moments separated CNN contributor Randy Kaye bonged champagne while
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millions watched. Now, it's not the fact that Randy completely shows up Anderson live on TV or the fact
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that CNN and its host look like a college frat house bringing in the New Year. It's the fact that
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these are the same people who decried Brett Kavanaugh an alcoholic unhinged monster for
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liking beer. Yeah, wait, do you remember that? I remember that. Pepperidge Farm remembers that.
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But not to be outdone, Anderson goes on to talk about his mother's sex life live on TV. I mean,
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who doesn't want to hear about that, right? Right? Can the ball please drop now? But just when you think
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you couldn't be more ready for 2018 to end live on TV, Chrissy Teigen goes out to throw more lighter
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fluid on the dumpster fire by going on a tangent about steaming her vagina. Now, gather around,
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kids. Let's talk about appropriate conversations on TV. And bonus fail just to, you know, get ready
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for the New Year. Actress and comedian Tiffany Haddish vowed to wear fur every day until, quote,
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police stopped killing black people. Wait, how does that work? Are there no crimes ever? Anyway,
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well, maybe she didn't think that through, but she definitely didn't think through her comedy set
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on New Year's. That she bombed so hard her fans actually walked out after paying and she had to
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publicly apologize afterwards. Ah, what a great year, Rebels.
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Well, judging by the TV coverage ushering in the New Year on the eve of December 31st,
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2019 is certainly off to a perfect start. Um, actually, no, it's not. Because what was served
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up by the mainstream media on New Year's Eve was essentially a vulgar wine fest by those nattering
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nabobs of negativity still suffering from Trump derangement syndrome. I guess some things never change,
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regardless of the date, on the calendar. And with more on a cringeworthy start to 2019
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is our Tinseltown-based rebel, Ben Davies. Hey, keeping with the spirit of the progressives,
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Oh, right. Thanks, man. I really appreciate it. I can't think of a better way to bring in the New
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Yeah, pardon my French. So, Ben, whatever happened to the good old days when, you know,
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the New Year was ushered in with some mirth and merriment via Dick Clark?
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Oh, yeah. Dick Clark just bringing it in. You can still hear the carols in the background.
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Everything's looking great and beautiful. No, now we're subject to people binge drinking on TV and
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doing all kinds of shenanigans, missing the ball drop, and having to tell your kids, uh, I'm sorry,
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we're gonna have to talk about this tomorrow because we have to, to tell you what you just
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witnessed and explain it to you. It was absolutely ridiculous. I can't wait to get into it.
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Well, you know what? It, I just heard about this today. Um, but evidently there are some
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websites you could visit if you had little children that fake the ball dropping on New Year's Eve.
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So it's like 8 30 at night and you can say, there you go. You've stayed up to midnight. Now it's time
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to go to bed. And I guess maybe that's a prudent parental guidance suggestion, given the kind of
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vulgarity that you had to sit through on New Year's Eve, eh, Ben? That would be a great cheat code. I
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never thought that I would miss Kathy Griffin taking her shirt off on New Year's, but somehow I did
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watching this. It was absolutely unbelievable. I think it reached its high point when they brought
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Chrissy Teigen out and she started talking about steaming vaginas and how she steams vaginal
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steaming and steaming her vagina. And you see the host trying to divert, trying to end the
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conversation. She keeps going into it to explain this. And I can just picture the producers,
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one of two things are happening either. Oh my gosh, how do we cut away from this? Or yes,
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more of this? Cause they're just so insane over there. I can't believe it. And now kids are going
00:27:43.020
to have to talk to their parents about what vaginal steaming is. Cause this family show or formerly of
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is no longer there. Now it's just madness on TV. Ben, that sounds not that I have one,
00:27:54.700
but that sounds incredibly painful steaming that part of the female anatomy. For what purpose does
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one steam a vagina? Makes you ask some questions, doesn't it? It also makes you question what CNN's
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policy of public drinking is. What I loved about it is you have the same people that were just completely
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destroying Brett Kavanaugh, calling him an unhinged alcoholic monster. And here you have their host
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acting like they're at a college fraternity, new year's party, taking shots of tequila. And then
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they have a Randy Kane, another contributor, bonging champagne in front of them. I mean, it was just,
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it was just so great. It just sums up 2018 so perfectly. You know, isn't it amazing saying the,
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the benchmark of a half a century of network TV, Ben, how far we've devolved in terms of
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standards. I mean, uh, I did a commentary late last year about, uh, the 50th anniversary of the first
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U S network interracial kiss between captain Kirk and a Lieutenant Ohura. Um, and that was a really big
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deal. And just in case the fecal matter hit the fan, the NBC executives had an out, which was,
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oh, they were both under mind control control. There's no way a white captain would ever kiss a
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Negro, uh, subordinate. Um, you know, even though, uh, Kirk was going around the galaxy shagging every
00:29:18.720
female alien there was in the galaxy in the universe, but we've gone from that kind of sensitivity,
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you know, and having, uh, you know, Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore, even though they're supposedly
00:29:30.720
a married couple sleeping in separate beds because sharing the same bed, that would be,
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you know, too sorted to the stuff you talk about in your commentary where, you know, people are
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talking about steaming their private parts for whatever reason. How, how low are we going to go
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in the years ahead, Ben? It's weird. Like everything goes apparently on the left, as long as they are
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the ones doing it. Like, as long as if a judge drinks in college, like, oh my gosh, he's the worst
00:29:58.300
person ever. We're going to slam shots on national TV in front of people when we should be keeping it
00:30:02.280
together and keeping it classy. Likewise, like you said, all that, the, the, the kiss and their
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excuse and how racist that was on the left. Now it's like, okay, racism is totally bad. You're such
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a bigot. Now all you white people get out of here. Like all you people of this color, you're in it.
00:30:15.060
You need to apologize. You have privilege. It's just like, they can be racist. They can be horrible
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on TV. They can condescend and say terrible things. Even bringing Cain Curtin on to do her new
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year's resolution when she said she wants to kill the Republican party. That's okay. But if you say
00:30:29.800
anything negative, if you do anything, then you're a horrible person. We're going to call
00:30:33.060
you out constantly. It's just that classic double standard on the left. Indeed. The double standard
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and the hypocrisy, I think is only going to get worse as we head towards the next U.S. federal
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election. But you know, this business, Ben, of suddenly being very flamboyant about drinking alcohol
00:30:50.820
on camera, as you said, they crucified Brett Kavanaugh for his, his love for beer. And even something
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you didn't mention, um, good old Pocahontas was doing a New Year's Eve address where she
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said, you know, I, I've got to go get a beer now. And it was kind of like, uh, she was reaching
00:31:09.700
into her inner deplorable. You see, I'm just like one of you all, uh, you know, a good old
00:31:14.600
gal that likes a beer every once in a while. What's going on here? I don't, it's like, who
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advises them to do this? Like Warren, Warren is just comedy gold. Like it's just kind of
00:31:27.600
be like, you know what? Yeah. I'm going to, I'm one of you kids. Let me just grab this
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real quick. Absolutely ridiculous. But what's even the best, the best part of it. I hope
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she keeps doing stuff like this because I don't know if you saw the meme today that
00:31:37.840
president Trump tweeted out, but it's like Warren born. And then underneath it, it's one
00:31:42.160
slash 2020, like 120, 2020th. It's so, it's like, it just like when she was trying to claim
00:31:47.980
Native American heritage, she was like one, one thousandth. Now it's like 120. It's so
00:31:52.880
great. I hope she just keeps, keeps putting herself in the mainstream so they can make
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memes about her and see how ridiculous all this is. Oh, wait a minute, Ben. What do you
00:32:00.940
mean claim? She took the DNA test. She's 1,250th Cherokee. I guess I'm, I think I'm
00:32:09.200
Cherokee too. I once drove a grand Cherokee made by Jeep. I guess that makes me more of an
00:32:13.740
Indian than Elizabeth Warren, but. And the best, the best part of that is they don't
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even, it could also be South American as well. You can't even like, it's, it's so
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vague. I guess it's so perfect. Like it is so stupid. I can't believe she actually put
00:32:25.560
that out there for people to mock. Well, you know, Ben, I guess we'll have to wrap
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it here. I, you know, in one, on one hand, I'm glad I watched zero network television
00:32:34.240
on New Year's Eve, but you know, now that I think about it after looking, you know, seeing
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your commentary, I'm kind of looking forward to next New Year's Eve. You know, there's
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a certain kind of movie. I'm sure you're familiar with it where it's so bad. It's
00:32:48.260
actually brilliant. And maybe for 2019 into 2020, they're going to reach that benchmark
00:32:54.980
where it actually is so bad. It is a work of art. What do you say, my friend?
00:33:01.560
I think we're definitely on that track. I don't see where else this train's going to
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land except right there. Well, there you go. Well, Ben, thank you so much. Hopefully
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we'll have you on in the new year. I understand you, you took in the, the film Aquaman. Let's
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see if DC can get a superhero movie, right? And all the best to you in 2019, my friend.
00:33:22.640
You too, brother. Appreciate it. Thank you so much. And that was Ben Davies in Hollywood.
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And folks, keep it here. More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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You know, the left usually hates nimbyism. You know, this idea of not in my backyard resistance.
00:33:44.120
That's the sort of philosophy that deplorables embrace when it comes to, say, a safe injection
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site or a halfway house. Because all citizens should be welcoming of such facilities into
00:33:55.400
their hoods. It's all about caring and compassion after all. Even if one's property value is about
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to go into the dumpster. But here's the thing. What's good for the goose certainly isn't sauce
00:34:07.340
for the gander. Because just check out the ongoing controversy in the gentrified Toronto neighborhood
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of Cabbage Town. Now, once upon a time, Cabbage Town was a rundown slummy part of the city.
00:34:19.620
Hence its dubious name. But that's not the case anymore. In the last few decades, Cabbage Town has been
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revitalized and gentrified. And it tends to exist as a progressive haven chock full of government
00:34:33.760
workers and CBC types and hipsters. But now comes word that someone wants to convert her
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Cabbage Town house into a much needed daycare facility. And whoa, hold those horses. Suddenly,
00:34:48.080
the enlightened and entitled people of Cabbage Town are really going to town in terms of derailing
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this suddenly odious idea. Indeed, the same sort of chattering classes who clamor for more daycare,
00:35:01.320
especially publicly funded daycare, are now instantly appalled that such a daycare facility
00:35:07.880
might end up in their precious neighborhood. I mean, think of the traffic. Think of all those
00:35:14.340
snot-nosed, noisy kids. Oh, the horror. The horror. The trials and tribulations of the Cabbage Town
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meltdown were recently chronicled in Hogtown's Bible for upscale progressives, Toronto Life,
00:35:28.080
which featured an article chock full of Cabbage Towners expressing dismay and disdain
00:35:33.280
for a proposed daycare in their corner of Emerald City. 50-year-old librarian Bill McCaskill had this
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to say, quote, I'm not against the daycare, end quote. And yes, naturally, in the very next breath,
00:35:46.840
Billy goes on to explain why he is against the daycare, quote, I think the parking is a legitimate
00:35:53.000
concern. Even if they put in four parking spaces to drop people off, everyone knows that come drop-off
00:35:59.760
time, cars are going to block Sackville because to go around to Amelia is a bit of a pain, end quote.
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Oh my God. I mean, think of the planet, folks. All that extra carbon, I guess. Meanwhile,
00:36:12.400
Christos Doulas is surely the runner-up for most jaw-dropping comment. He's a 47-year-old mining
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executive. He had this to say, quote, this daycare is standard issue capitalism run amok, end quote.
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Did I mention Doulas is a mining executive and he's averse to capitalism? Really? What does he mine?
00:36:39.660
And pixie dust and dilithium crystals? Well, knock me down with a feather. Once again,
00:36:45.320
the rank and file of Club Progressive just can't help themselves when it comes to being
00:36:50.180
shameless hypocrites, which is to say these cats are all about caring and compassion when it comes
00:36:57.220
to preaching about the need for various social services coming into our neighborhoods. But when
00:37:04.200
somebody has the temerity to propose a small daycare facility in their neighborhood, whoa,
00:37:10.660
Nellie, suddenly embracing nimbyism isn't such a bad idea now after all, is it? In any event,
00:37:18.460
here's what some of you had to say about the progressives yet again demonstrating that their
00:37:23.580
unofficial slogan seems to be, do as I say, not as I do. Reggie Reg writes,
00:37:30.820
liberals love diversity, just not in their neighborhood. Yeah, and don't forget, Reggie,
00:37:37.000
while they claim to be pro-diversity, that does not include diversity of thought.
00:37:43.500
121 Jones writes, how about instead of a daycare, the city puts in housing for irregular border
00:37:50.440
crossers and third world migrants into this neighborhood? They could stay there all the time
00:37:56.380
and would not need to be picked up and dropped off every day. That would be okay with the people
00:38:01.060
of Cabbage Town, right? Well, Jonesy, trust me, as much as those progressives love to preach that
00:38:07.660
diversity is our strength, if that sort of diversity happened in this particular Toronto neighborhood,
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Cabbage Town would suddenly become ground zero for white flight. Jay Edwards writes,
00:38:20.480
how many kids would be allowed at this proposed daycare? 10, 12, 15? So there would be, what,
00:38:26.880
a dozen cars coming by in the morning and evening? Wow, what a traffic nightmare. Indeed. And who says
00:38:34.640
all the clients would be driving? This is an area well served by public transit. And of course,
00:38:39.760
I'm sure there are some people who live close enough who could walk to the daycare. But you're right,
00:38:45.400
Jay. By pitting the blame on real or imagined traffic congestion allows the progressives to
00:38:53.600
play the environment card when it comes to taking a stand against this daycare. After all, so many of
00:39:00.220
the people who live there worship upon the altar of David Suzuki and Al Gore. And Casey Houston writes,
00:39:08.360
this is exactly why we cannot take these loony leftist elite seriously. They want to appear
00:39:14.740
virtuous and enlightened, but only at the expense of those who are subservient to them by offering up
00:39:21.260
their tax dollars and neighborhoods. But if they actually have to make any sacrifices, then it is
00:39:27.240
excuses and fake platitudes. Wow, couldn't have said it better myself, Casey. I mean, really,
00:39:33.280
when you even have a mining executive referring to a small daycare operation as being akin to
00:39:41.460
capitalism running amok. Methinks we just splashed down on the bizarro planet. Well, that wraps up
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another edition of Rebel Roundup. Thanks so much for joining us. See you next week. And hey,
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folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory. Good night.