Rebels against the lockdown： Will Canada crush Adamson BBQ？
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There was an act of rebellion in Canada today. A barbecue shop in Etobicoke, Ontario decided to stay open, lockdown be damned. So were the cops. And so was the media party. That s today's episode of the Ezra Levant Show.
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Hello, my friends. There was an act of rebellion in Canada today. Very exciting.
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Our David Menzies was on the scene. There was a barbecue shop in Etobicoke, Ontario that decided
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it was going to stay open, lockdown be damned. David was there. So were the cops. So was the
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media party. That's today's episode of the Ezra Levant Show. Before I get out of the way, let me
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Menzies. Pardon me. And I think the knowledge that you're keeping our independent journalism
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going. One of the things we'll talk about today is how the media party smeared and sneered.
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And we just went and reported. All right, here's today's podcast.
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Tonight, I think that maybe, just maybe, people are rebelling against the lockdown.
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It's November 24th and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government, the wire publisher, is because it's my bloody
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Look at this story from Trudeau's CBC state broadcaster. You know them. They love lockdowns.
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They love fear. They love liberal politicians. And yet, they embarrass the mayor of Windsor,
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Drew Dilkens, who went out to a big dinner party with his friends, no masks, no social distancing,
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literally hours after demanding zero tolerance for any of his subjects doing the same.
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And look at this from lovely Huntington Beach, California. Mass public demonstrations, a street
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party, really, in defiance of Governor Gavin Newsom's curfew. After all, Newsom himself went
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out to a dinner party, no mask, no nothing. And his sociopathic explanation, he blamed his
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wife in part, naturally. But basically, he said, I'm more important than you. And my friend is more
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important than you. And it was his birthday. And that's more important than you. So shut up.
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A few weeks ago, I was asked to go to a friend's 50th birthday. My wife and I, a friend that I've
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known for almost 20 years, and a friend that had, well, put a lot of time and energy into his 50th
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birthday. It was in Napa, which was in the orange status, relatively loose compared to some other
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counties. It was to be an outdoor restaurant. And we started the, well, the program started at four
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o'clock. It was one of those early reservations. I got there a little bit late at 430. And as soon
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as I sat down at the larger table, I realized it was a little larger group than I had anticipated.
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And I made a bad mistake. Instead of sitting down, I should have stood up and walked back, got in my
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car and drove back to my house. Instead, I chose to sit there with my wife and a number of other
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couples that were outside the household. You can quibble about the guidelines, et cetera, et cetera. But
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the spirit of what I'm preaching all the time was contradicted. And I got to own that. And so I want
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to apologize to you because I need to preach and practice, not just preach and not practice. And
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I've done my best to do that. We're all human. We all fall short sometimes. Yeah. As you could see
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from those photos, even that excuse was a lie. It was all indoors. What a liar. No one believes
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the lockdowners. Ontario Premier Doug Ford goes to a wedding when he wants to, but you can't.
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So now we come to the second major lockdown. And you know what? People don't believe it anymore.
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Certainly not in the United States, land of freedom. Here's a video of one bar in the U.S. that was
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supposed to be shut down, but look at it is jammed full. No one cares. No one seems to be scared of the
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virus with a 99.99% recovery rate for people under 70. No one believes the hype. Or if they do,
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maybe those are the folks who stay home. Maybe some people even detected that it was just a little
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fear-mongering to help get rid of Trump. And that's all over now. Some places it's a little bit
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tougher. Look at these Americans here who know enough about their rights and their constitution
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to give the bums rush to the coppers. These people actually work for their money and they
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don't want to lose their livelihood. I've lost friends. I've lost family who've killed themselves.
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I've seen clients die because they've lost their livelihood. I'm sorry to hear that. I know you are.
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And I'm just, I'm asking for you to guys have some compassion for the people that have lost
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everything. We do have compassion for people. Okay. Well, you need to go have compassion out in a
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parking lot. This is private property. This is private property. This is private property. It's
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private property. Listen, man, this is private property. They're not wanted here. So do your
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jobs. Well, her job is. Well, no, no. Your job is to remove people that are not wanted here.
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We're wanted here. They're not. She's hiding her name. I'm not. It's right here. It's my name.
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They're just doing that job. There we go. You should not be wearing masks. I'm not doing anything wrong.
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Don't worry about my health. My health isn't your concern. You're meant to be wearing a mask.
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Is it going to be wearing a mask? Okay. Well, then write me up. It's the law. Okay. Then take me to jail.
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It's not the law. Then take me to jail. Show me the law. Show me the law. Show me the law.
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Well, I think we've got to go down. You have to leave. You guys have to leave. You have to leave.
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Right now you're trespassing without a warrant. You need a civil disobedience. You need a
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trespassing. You're not trespassing. You're trespassing. It doesn't matter. We have a right to be
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doesn't matter. Get a warrant. Go get a warrant. Go get a warrant. Yes, you do. Come back with a
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warrant or leave. Don't write the law. No, go on your phone outside. Go on your phone outside.
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I would really like it if you would stop shelving it. Where did you hear a request from? Okay, we
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didn't look if you didn't write the law. Leave. Who reported it? Leave. Who reported it? Who reported
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it? You know what? I don't know. It's anonymous, right? It's anonymous. It can't be anonymous.
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You need to know you're accusing. It cannot be anonymous. You gotta go get a warrant.
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It cannot be anonymous. You gotta go get a warrant. You gotta go get a warrant. You gotta
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go get a warrant. It's code enforcement. This isn't the same as that. You don't circumvent
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or subvert the Constitution. So we're calling new. Okay, meth, you need to leave.
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Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out.
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Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. That is powerful. I have watched
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that many times. I still got the chills. Good for them. It's happening a bit in the United
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Kingdom too. Pubs are now putting up posters denouncing the lockdown as a sham. Police there
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are still out of control for sure. We've shown you that for years actually. But they did that
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this morning in front of Parliament and that was their mistake. They were locking up an old
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lady and an MP just happened to see it. And watch what happened.
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You don't need to. You don't need to. You don't need to. You don't need to. I am on the order
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as police officers. You must have others. What an outrage. What a disgrace.
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What a disgrace. What a disgrace. What a disgrace. What a disgrace. What a disgrace. What a disgrace.
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Now in Canada, MPs probably would have helped the police load the old lady into the back
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of the police van. But in the UK, that MP, Charles Walker, he went right into Parliament and tore
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a strip off the government, which just happens to be his own party. He's a Conservative. Now
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the room was empty naturally, but still take a look. Charles Walker. Madam Deputy Speaker,
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I have just witnessed an elderly lady peacefully protesting with a handful of other people be
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arrested and carried spread eagle to a police van just outside the precinct of the House of
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Commons. This is a disgrace. This is un-British. It is unconstitutional. And this government,
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our Prime Minister, needs to end these injustices now. Madam Deputy Speaker, will you bring the
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Prime Minister and or the Home Secretary here today to sort this out? She was an old lady robbed of her
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her dignity for having the courage to protest about having her fundamental rights and those
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of my constituents and others removed. All right. So what about us here in Canada? Are we
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submissive and passive, as our national caricature suggests? Do we always say sorry, sorry for
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I don't know where you have to identify yourself.
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What is the ostensible policy reason in the first place of shutting down a little mom-pa operator
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like you, and yet the Costco's, the Walmart's, the Loblaws's of the world, they get to open.
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I'm just supposed to enforce it at my restaurant.
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I don't know why that's happening, but it doesn't feel right to me, and I know there's
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a lot of other people that doesn't feel right to them either.
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If we haven't sold out of some meats already, I'm sure we're going to very soon.
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We have some freedom-loving patriots that are here to support.
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Not a single fine issue today to my business, myself, or anybody who came here to support.
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Well, that's some excitement today in Etobicoke, a suburb of Toronto.
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A man standing up for himself and his family and his customers and the business he has built
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from scratch, and maybe he's standing up for a lot more people than he originally thought.
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Now, the mean girls from the media party were, they were absurd.
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How dare he speak out against the Theresa Tams and her mini-me's across the country?
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You know, these public health officers, they're doctors by training, but they have no patients.
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A lot of them are making north of $400,000 a year.
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And they're telling the working schmoes to knuckle under.
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I think the public has to know this is one of the worst-case scenarios in terms of an infectious disease outbreak
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If there are people who are non-compliant, there are definitely laws and public health powers
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that can quarantine people in mandatory settings.
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It's potential you could track people, put bracelets on their arms, have police and other setups
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Does the quality of the elites outweigh the quantity of the working class?
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The blue-collar folks, the entrepreneurs, the skeptics, the guys running a smoked meat business.
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The media, the bureaucracy, the politicians, everything, official.
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And I think they have common sense on their side.
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I trust someone these days, frankly, with a high school diploma and street smarts over a PhD,
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at least when it comes down to some of the lockdown insanity.
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Canada has its own deep state, especially on public health.
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I think they're going to try and crush this barbecue guy mercilessly.
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We're fighting for their future, so they have the same opportunities that I was provided.
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Hey, Adam, what did the police and bylaw officers say to you?
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They made sure that we, they took a look through and a little overwhelmed right now, brother.
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They made sure, they took a look at the different rules that we're supposed to be complying with.
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They found that we were in non-compliance of people eating inside.
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We have the signs posted so that the customers maintain social distancing.
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But it looks like there's a little bit of civil disobedience happening today.
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They decided not to enforce that and it sure isn't my job as a guy who cooks brisket to enforce government regulations.
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Adam, do you think you're a catalyst for so many other businesses in the same position you are,
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with your backs up against the wall, just trying to earn a livelihood, that they will look upon what you've done today
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and they will also open up in civil disobedience?
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When everybody stands up and says enough is enough, that's when we're going to see this end.
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Well, that is some footage from when our friend David Menzies went out to Adamson's Barbecue in Etobicoke.
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I have not eaten at that outlet, but I've eaten Adamson's in Leaside, Toronto.
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And believe me, as you can tell by glancing at me, I've checked.
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It looks like there was more than 100 people at the barbecue owner who wouldn't lock down.
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Well, or a CFRB News Talk 1010 would say, Ezra, about two dozen people.
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Oh, and Defiance was on the menu, and man, did it smell good.
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I'd like to say tastes good, but the fact is, boss, if I was going to bring you back that brisket you asked for, that turkey, I'd still be in a lineup right now.
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The lineup went out the store, through the parking lot, and down the street.
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First of all, people want to live a normal life and going out for a restaurant's a normal life.
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Number two, they want to support a guy who's trying to make a go of it in these tough times.
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And number three, it was a way of sticking it to the man.
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This restaurateur was a seed crystal around which others could form.
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And number four, it showed the double standard, the hypocrisy.
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If you continued walking down the road, as I did, because I had to park there, there was no street parking available, you hit a Costco.
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We're talking less than 400 meters away from this restaurant.
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How is it that a Costco, a Walmart, can stay open and serve the public?
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And ostensibly, I know what the policy reason is, it's because there are supermarkets, right?
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Well, this came up at the Premier Ford press conference today.
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Well, if you're selling groceries, you also sell electronics, you sell flowers, you sell footwear, right?
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And the Premier basically said, well, I hear what you're saying.
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And in terms of roping aisles off at the Costcos and the Walmarts of the world, it would be a logistical nightmare.
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You know what a logistical nightmare is for me, Ezra?
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It's getting bills coming in for paying the hydro, paying the rent.
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And I am being forced by the government not to open because I'm a little mom-paw shop.
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But Costco, Walmart, Jeff Bezos, heading towards trillionaire status.
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You were talking to the restaurateur with lots of filming.
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Did he kick the mainstream media off his property?
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But according to the officer at the press conference, after they complete their investigation the days down the road, there likely will be some charges.
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They probably didn't want to ticket him when there was a hundred revved up supporters there.
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And I think, frankly, wisely, because they might have, I mean, who knows what would have happened.
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The anger at, like you say, Costco down the way.
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Give them your money, but not Joe Average restaurateur.
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I want to read to you some tweets from Jennifer Pagliaro of the Toronto Star, the paper of the working man.
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They can't stop their mockery of the working class restaurateur, his staff and those who went there.
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I'm on my way to Adamson Barbecue in Etobicoke, where owner Adam Skelly, making false claims about the severity of this pandemic, has vowed to open.
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So they're demonizing him, they're calling him an idiot, even though it's the government models that are wrong.
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There are now people eating inside in direct violation.
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We've been asked to stay off the property, so I can't see what enforcement is up to.
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But I'm told one possible patron has a Trump hat on.
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There's probably, I bet you that's going to be front page of the Star.
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I just want to read, I mean, I just want to read a couple more of these, because it's just an alternative universe.
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I'm not going inside with a bunch of unmasked people who don't believe in a pandemic.
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Well, why don't you put your mask on if it's such a bulletproof vest for you, lady?
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Oh, a family with small children continues to enjoy their food at a windowside table as a country tune play.
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This person driving an official city of Toronto truck just honked and fist bumped the pro-Adamson folks.
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The working classes support having a guy making a living.
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Let me know when the Toronto Star is shut down and how quickly Jennifer Pagliaro, if she lost her income, would freak out.
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I'm actually concerned about that last tweet, because if she goes on a jihad to find out who this worker is,
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She posted a picture with that guy's license plate number.
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I mean, we know she wants to shut down the restaurant.
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Again, this restaurant is illegally allowing indoor dining and breaking city orders around mask wearing.
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But give our people a little bit of an insight.
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Did he look like he was encouraged by the public turnout?
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I go, what does it feel like to be serving up defiance on the menu?
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He can't be, in my opinion, for this to work a one man gang.
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There's a whole piece of catalyst that gets ones and twos and dozens and hundreds and thousands.
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Well, I guess the jails have room now because the Canadian Civil Liberties Association has been trying to get as many offenders out there to practice social distancing so we can get the violent offenders out of the jail.
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And we can put the restaurateurs into the jail.
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I did my show last night on the fact that for five hours news magazines were banned in Manitoba as non-essential services.
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And the Canadian Association of Journalists freaked out.
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Five hours later the province relented and then the journalists were back into the lockdown because it only affected everyone else doing less important things.
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I can go without reading Vice Magazine or the Huffington Post a lot longer than I can go without food.
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Let me just say one thing about Adamson's barbecue.
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It really is the best barbecue north of Dallas.
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In the before times before the lockdown, I would go with my family.
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It would be a half hour standing lineup to get in.
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How dare you stay open if I were the proprietor of Adamson's barbecue?
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Anyone who called for him to be canceled, they're not welcome there.
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Like, you know, you have little pictures sometimes in restaurants of someone who dined and dashed.
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Occasionally, you see those in bars or restaurants.
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I think they should put photos up of all these Toronto Star and CTV reporters who are sneering at this guy.
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They shouldn't be allowed to go to his restaurant.
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And the good thing about that, Ezra, is he doesn't need them.
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I mean, without ever having seen Adam's books, I will bet you today is the best day of his restaurant's history.
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Once upon a time in a different life, for seven years, I covered the food service and hotel business.
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The one thing I learned about that, Ezra, was never to get in the food service business.
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I believe in the first three years, 80% of startups will go out of business.
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Before times, I'm talking about a roaring economy.
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You've got to worry about shrinkage, which is another way of people saying, people eating your profits, people's hand in the tills.
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And now you've got these fancy pants saying, no more eating at Adamson's barbecue, but go eat at Walmart or the big box stores.
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But hopefully, this is a call to rebellion, a peaceful rebellion of civil disobedience.
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He's in Toronto, which is one of the most submissive, afraid cities in North America.
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Or tomorrow and then Thursday, Friday, are we going to see those similar lineups?
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That'll be important because there is a constituency.
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People were telling me, you know, our friend Jason from the Minden 50s Diner, he drove three hours just to come and buy some brisket in solidarity.
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So there's so much pent-up support, so much frustration of these lockdowns.
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And let's face it, you know, the biggest lie, I think, of 2020, Ezra, is the phrase, we're all in this together.
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While they get paid, they watch the latest Netflix series, and they put on a mask to scowl at everybody.
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I'm, you know what, I didn't grow up working class.
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I grew up, as the Brits would say, middle class.
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But more and more, and class is sort of a British concept in many ways.
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But my time in the UK has taught me there is such a thing as class.
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And there is a condescension in this country that flows from the parliament through all
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And, I don't know, it's interesting because police in their own way are working class.
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I mean, garbage men are the, it's one of the toughest jobs in the world.
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In a way, policemen, they have to deal with garbage situations sometimes.
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Things that we would, so they have a real working class ethos about them.
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And they're being pitted by their political masters against other blue collar guys working
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I wonder what those cops were thinking when they were taken off the gun crime beat, the gang
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land beat, and put on the shut down the restaurant beat.
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What I think they were thinking, Ezra, is I didn't sign up for this.
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I didn't come to put a little mom-paw business out of business.
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When, like I said, 400 meters down the road, there was a Costco jammed to the gills.
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How is he the second coming of Typhoid Mary, whereas a warehouse where people are shoulder
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to shoulder and, you know, the company, the big companies, they can say all they want.
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There are people rubbing shoulders in these places.
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But Adam Skelly's barbecue is not, no, I'm not buying that.
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And I don't, and I think the police hate being put in that situation.
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They didn't, by the way, they didn't get a rough ride, you know, coming there.
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You know, it's funny in LA County, I see all the sheriffs in the area say, we're not
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No, you know, the governor says no thanksgivings.
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There's a lot of American law enforcement officers who were saying, yeah, no, thanks.
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We're not going to obey your ridiculous orders.
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New York City police were amongst the first to say that, although some of them are relenting.
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In Canada, I'm worried our police are too political.
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I would like to see a police chief somewhere sometimes say, you know what?
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We'll leave the social virtue signaling business to, you know, the mayor can hire his own snitches.
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I think the public love and respect for police would go up.
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Next time you're out there, bring some brisket back.
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I know he's being ripped to shreds right now by the mainstream media.
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Who cares about the mainstream media if the people are with him?
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And we're with him and we'll do our best to help him.
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Including if he needs the help, we will offer him legal help.
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And whether he takes our legal help or somebody else's, we'll cover that case when it gets to trial.
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Ezra, and like I said, my wish, the dessert on this story for me would be for other businesses to look what Skelly did and say, I'm putting my open sign into the door.
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Well, and let me say to our folks, if you haven't heard of it yet, we've got a website called IWillOpen.com.
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Thanks for going out there on that important mission.
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Gilly writes, Jane Fonda, Justin Trudeau, and all the others that look at COVID as a great opportunity are vile and no respecters of life, except maybe their own privileged ones.
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And the question I keep asking still remains, what actions can the average citizen take to begin riding the ship?
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I think it starts with where it ought to start, the opposition.
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In fact, in some parts of this country, the opposition wants the government to go harder against freedom.
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So Erin O'Toole is the new conservative leader and a lot of conservative MPs.
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So I would think step one is to get them to be more conservative.
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Patricia writes, they say that the hospitals in Toronto are filled to capacity.
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But after some research, I found out that they were almost always filled to capacity before the pandemic.
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The lockdowns are to weaken us, close small businesses, get the economy ready for the socialist great reset,
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and make us more government dependent and the vaccine launcher to restrict us, tag us and perhaps even shorten our lives.
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I know for a fact that the hospitals are not packed.
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Every day, all the provinces in Canada publish how many pandemic patients, virus patients are in the hospital and how many are in ICU.
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And you can compare that pretty quickly with the stock of hospital beds, acute care beds, emergency beds in the province.
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There is no province in Canada that they're overwhelmed.
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And frankly, if there were seven months into the emergency now, shame on the health bureaucrats.
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I disagree with you when you say the pandemic was planned.
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I know that there were some people planning for a pandemic.
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And I am absolutely sure that China misled and undermined and tricked the West.
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For example, they hid the true nature of the virus.
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They cut off flights to and from Wuhan from within China, but let Wuhan citizens fly around the world.
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We don't yet know what will happen with the vaccines.
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You have the worst case scenario, and that may well happen.
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But I think we should criticize what facts we know.
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There are enough facts that we know that deserve criticizing before we engage in some speculation that goes beyond the facts that we know.
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Both segments of tonight's show prove that this Wuhan flu is a political weapon against us.
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Remember that the extreme left consider us enemies.
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Their worldview is based on envy, lies, and conquest.
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But they aren't hiding their warped agenda either.
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Well, listen, the shock doctrine of the left is take any crisis and turn it into an opportunity.
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Remember, the income tax itself was temporary just till we get through this First World War.
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If you reread 1984, he says the hope is with the common people, not the fancy pants.
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And we're fairly populist over here at Rebel News.
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Hey, can I leave you with something before I say goodbye?
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I was just surfing on the internet, and I came across this video on Twitter.
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It's only a minute and 20 seconds long, and I thought it was perfect.
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Now, I don't know the name of this young woman.
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In fact, her name, and I've got it here on my phone, is What's Her Face.
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That's what she's called on Instagram and YouTube and Patreon.
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I sent her a message saying, hey, would you want to do videos for Rebel News?
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But in the meantime, here is What's Her Face, a video she did on masks.
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It'll make you laugh, and maybe it'll give you a bit of hope, too.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here, keep fighting for freedom.
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I was wearing my mask because I just got back from a full day of being a good person.
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I love my mask because it's a simple yet effective way to display my righteousness.
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Am I concerned that two children in China drop dead because they were forced to wear masks in gym class?
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Am I concerned that we're creating a generation of children who will be socially awkward and conditioned to fear their fellow man?
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Am I concerned that I'm contributing to an impending socialist technocracy that will enslave the global population?
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Am I concerned that my mask is symbolic of my compliance to the social conditioning that will eventually lead to the forced vaccination of every man, woman, and child on planet Earth?
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I'm not concerned because I decided a long time ago that shallow and significant gestures are a much easier way to showcase my morality than actually being moral.
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Because in order to be a real good person, I gotta stand up to a real bad person.
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And I don't like standing up to or for anything.
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I've decided that it's much easier to trick my own mind into thinking compliance is a virtue instead of what compliance actually is.
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I prefer to float through life completely ignorant to the fact that every socialist takeover has always begun in the exact same way.
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With government overreach, public shaming, censorship, and a toilet paper shortage.
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Google toilet paper shortage in communist Russia.
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Did you think you were having a unique experience?
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I prefer to pretend history never repeats itself so that I can stand by and turn a blind eye every time history repeats itself.
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I prefer to call anyone who speaks up, fights back, or stands their ground a lunatic or a conspiracy theorist so that I don't feel obligated to do my own research.
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And lastly, I prefer to put on my mask and stand among a sea of masks so that I never have to be seen, be free, or reveal the deep dark shadows that lurk within me.