THE MENZOID： Do you think there are Antifa drag queen story time events in Russia？
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Rebel Roundup is a weekly show where we look back at some of the best commentary from the past week by your favourite Rebel Writers. This week, we have a story about an Antifa attack on a reporter covering a drag queen event in Renton, Washington, and a General Motors boycott of a Rebel News event in Ontario, Canada. We also discuss the growing problem of anti-Semitism in the Russian media, and why you should take all the information you get from the lamestream media with a grain of salt.
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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 favourite Rebels. I'm your host, David
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Menzies. Well, our Seattle-based correspondent, Katie Davis-Court, went to cover a drag queen
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event at a brew pub last weekend. It was all about promoting perversity, or I mean diversity,
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as well as love and tolerance and all the rest of that. But outside the restaurant,
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more than 100 Antifa types were on hand, and they swarmed and physically assaulted Katie,
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stealing her phone in the process. We're not going to let this stand, and Katie will join me
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to explain everything. And what's really going on in Russia these days? Well, our New York-based
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reporter, Jeremy Lafredo, he just got back from Moscow, and his conclusion, if you're getting
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your information from the lamestream media, it's best you take that info with a shovelful of salt
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and letters. We get your letters. We get your letters every minute of every day. And you had
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plenty to say about General Motors inviting Rebel News to a press event at their Ingersoll, Ontario plant,
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only to disinvite us once we got there. Gee, why would that be? Were they acting on a request from
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who were also in attendance? If so,
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GM's egregious behavior totally makes sense. You don't want to make enemies of those in political
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office in case GM needs another taxpayer-funded bailout in the near future. Those are your
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Dozens of kids came to hear Sylvia Reed Christmas classics, many of them coming for the first time.
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She's awesome. I just wanted to be a part of it, right? I wanted to, like, even if it was not the
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year, we'd still show up. Because all we're doing is trying to teach young children that it's all right
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to be reaching out and spreading love and acceptance to everybody, which I think is the best
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What's up, Katie? You and your shit-ass bedhead again, man!
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Okay, anytime they try to step up and try to step themselves, remind us everything's on time.
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Of course, you took Katie Davis. Look at all the Antifa following me!
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In Renton, Washington, outside the Brewmaster's taproom, I'm a journalist, and Antifa robbed me.
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They stole my phone and assaulted me, and I need the police to come.
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Oh, you can call the police. If you want to, feel free.
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Antifa swarmed me with her umbrellas, and then one of them robbed me. They stole my phone and assaulted me.
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Katie Davis Court here with Rebel News USA. Unfortunately, over the weekend, when I was
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covering a Drag Queen Story Hour protest near Seattle, Washington, I was mobbed and robbed
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by members of Antifa. Militants stole my phone as the group mobbed me and swarmed me with their
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umbrellas to prevent me from reporting on the event. We have a plan to find the perpetrator,
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so please follow along and chip in, if you can, to support this endeavor at StandWithKaty.com.
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For those who might be new to my reporting, since I only recently joined Rebel, I am a
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Seattle-based, independent journalist and made a name for myself in the Pacific Northwest
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covering the Defund the Police movement, and I'm one of the only brave enough reporters left
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to continue covering Antifa extremism. So I guess let's break down what happened on Saturday.
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A conservative group had posted a call to action earlier in the week for people to protest a Drag
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Queen Story Hour event that was taking place at the Brewmaster's Tap Room in Renton, Washington.
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Now, we have all seen the grooming and vile predatory behavior at these events, which was the
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group's reasoning for protesting the event. The protest was called off after the owner of the
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restaurant claims that an unknown suspect fired a single round with what appears to have
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been a BB or pellet gun into the window of the restaurant, according to the Renton Police
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Department, and this happened only a few days after the call to action. So after the incident occurred,
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Antifa called on their comrades to show up to the event and protect the drag queen and the restaurant
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from any right-wing individual that planned to protest. Since Antifa has been extremely low on numbers,
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as they have had a lot of infighting due to the vast majority of the public rejecting their views
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and their comrades have been hit with criminal charges for extremism that they carried out in 2020,
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I was shocked when I drove by on Saturday and saw hundreds outside the Brewmaster's Tap Room,
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which included dozens of armed Black Block Antifa militants guarding the restaurant.
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That's why I decided to play it safe and report from across the street. I briefly went over to the
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other side to get a quick video of the crowd to include in my report, and despite the extremely
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minimal time that I was near the crowd, it was enough for Antifa to target and rob me. Antifa militants
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began to swarm me with their umbrellas, and that's when one of them came up to me from behind and
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stole my phone out of my hands as I was recording and assaulted me in the process.
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Okay, any time they try to step up and try to step this out, remind us every single time.
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What's up, Katie? You and your shit-ass bedhead again.
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Outside the Brewmaster's Tap Room, I'm a journalist, and Antifa robbed me. They stole my phone
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and assaulted me, and I need the police to come.
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And there goes the Antifa flashlight. They stole Katie Davis-Court's phone. It's all on camera.
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They stole my phone, and after the robbery and assaults, I asked two local news reporters
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for help, and they both refused to help me call the police.
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Absolutely beyond the pale. And once again, the Soy Boys and assorted other Marxists who make up
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Antifa prove they are oh so strong and brave when they assemble like a pack of hyenas or jackals.
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And wasn't that really so brave of them to assault a lady who was simply exercising her First Amendment rights?
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But then again, Antifa hates those who disagree with them.
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And for that matter, Antifa hates America, too.
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And joining me now is the target of their ire, and that would be Katie Davis-Court.
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David, thank you for having me on. It means a lot.
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You know, Katie, in the past two years, as you might know, I've been manhandled by everything
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from savage dogs to Justin Trudeau's Royal Canadian Mounted Henchmen.
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I try to take it in stride and not get angry, but seeing what happened to you made my blood boil.
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The first question, Katie, is that given that there were so many Antifa types wearing trouble
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on their shirts, so to speak, where in blue hell was the police?
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Yeah, so I was told by a source in the Renton Police Department, Renton is a city right outside
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of Seattle. I was told by a source that the city government told department heads to have
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police not intervene that day if anything were to happen.
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But Katie, that is egregious. I mean, police shouldn't be directed by any kind of political
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process. They're there to serve and protect. They are there to uphold the law. And it sounds
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to me like you're telling me that there are politicians in your neck of the woods that for
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political reasons are basically telling the police to stand down and not uphold the law.
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How did we get to this point, Katie? Right. That is a great question. Our city
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governments have been overtaken by Marxists and socialists. It is there. They are trying
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so hard to defund the police and make a police state. It's what's happening in the state of
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Washington. And we were seen at first in Seattle, but it's now the entire King County. So our
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politicians have full control over our police departments now. And now our police has to abide
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by whatever our politicians say. It is the defund the police movement and they're in full control.
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So I wish I knew how we got here. This is the United States of America, not the Soviet Union.
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And we have to keep fighting back against it and exposing what's happening. That's why it's so
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important to have independent reporters on the ground. And Antifa essentially acts with impunity
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here in the Seattle area and in Portland because our city governments are so corrupt now.
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Well, you know, this is very disturbing to me, Katie. And I mean, it seems that it's irrelevant
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to defund the police in your neck of the woods. It looks like they're already neutered. As they say in
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Alabama, this dog don't hunt. I mean, if they're not going to where the trouble is and, you know,
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you know, fulfilling their vows to uphold the law, then, you know, why is there a police force to begin
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with? But the other angle here that also made me extremely angry was the fact that once you had
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your phone stolen by these cowards, you went to members of the mainstream media. And I believe we
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talked off camera a few days ago, you said there was one person there that you had gone to bat for
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in a helpful way. And you merely asked them if they could phone in
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uh, uh, to the police that you had been assaulted and robbed. And, uh, no, sir. Uh, they, they weren't
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even going to do that much. How do you explain that? Yeah. So I've had some scary moments in the
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field before I've been covering Antifa and these protests for a few years now. And this was by far
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the worst, not being robbed. You know, I can get over it because Antifa, I just look at them as pure evil
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terrorists, which is what they are. They're acting as the modern day brown shirts. But I had no idea
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that, um, when I went up and asked mainstream media for help, as you could see in the video,
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I was in pretty much acute distress and they denied me basic human decency. They told me that
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they wouldn't phone the police for me. And one report, one photographer with King five pretty much
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mocked me and said, um, I'm not going to get my phone out. And I said, and he goes, well, you can
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call the police on your own. And I said, well, how am I going to do that without a phone? And he goes,
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that's for you to figure out. And our mainstream media here is basically just a political arm for the
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left-wing government. They are so, um, one-sided. They do not report accurately. I went and when I got
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back home, I went to see what their reports were for that day and they made it seem like,
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oh, the community came out in force to stand alongside the drag queen and the protesters to
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stand against hate. So I just thought it, it was so ridiculous that they are pretty much fronting for
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Absolutely shameful, Katie. And you know, we've, we've spoken about this before. When we look at Antifa,
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Antifa, uh, Antifa, that's a contraction for anti-fascists, but I would argue they should
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just be called FA for fascists because these people employ the methods of fascism. They use
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physical violence. They use coercion, intimidation, vandalism. They severely injure people. These aren't
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anti-fascists. These are just fascists playing out. And I would say this, Katie, I think it was most
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unfortunate that when Donald Trump was in the white house, he never took the time. And I know there was
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a lot on his plate, but it would have been great if he could have declared this entity, a domestic
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terrorist group. What are your thoughts on that? Oh yeah, I absolutely agree. So before he did exit
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the white house, he mentioned that he was going to designate Antifa terrorist organization. And I'm,
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I'm hoping that if a conservative governor gets back in the white house and just to make note,
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this should not be a Democrat Republican issue. This is a radical terrorist group acting in our
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streets. So this should be, everyone should be standing against Antifa. But if a president gets
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back into the white house, that looks at this group as an issue, then I would love to go before
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Congress alongside my former colleague, Andy Ngo, other independent reporters here in Seattle who
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are working so hard to expose Antifa. I would love to go share my experience of what it's really like
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being a journalist here in the Northwest and being frequently targeted by them. These people have come
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to my home, put up flyers of my family members. They are the terrorist groups. I would love to go
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before Congress and try to get them to actually do something about this group.
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It's absolutely despicable. That's the only word that comes to mind, uh, regarding your encounter,
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uh, with these scumbags and sort of use that word, but I think it does apply. Luckily, Katie,
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you and I work for a boss who doesn't bend the knee, who doesn't wave the flag, the white flag of
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surrender, who doesn't say, oh, well, in the field stuff happens. And that is a Ezra Levent. He was
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as mad about this as I was. We're going to pursue, uh, everything we can in order to identify those
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thugs, pursue criminal charges, pursue civil litigation. Can you tell our viewers, uh,
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what new website we've established to help you out on, on this quest for justice?
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Yeah. Thank you guys. Please go to stand with Katie.com. That way we can continue funding
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security for me because it's way too risky to be out in the field here in Seattle without security. So
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stand with Katie.com. If you think that this work is content is important to continue to reporting on,
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but also we are going to, at standard Katie.com, you can, um, pitch in to help us with our bounty.
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We are offering a $500 bounty to find this Antifa militant that robbed me. We're also hiring
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the lawyers to go after the Antifa militant and to hold the district attorney and prosecutors
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accountable to actually prosecute. And if they fail to prosecute, we're going to hire
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a civil lawyer to go after the prosecutors. So we are not going to, we're standing up to them now.
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We're not going to let them continue to assault us with impunity and it's time that they're,
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that they're held accountable. So stand with Katie.com. And I guess going forward, Katie,
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there's, um, you know, nothing else to say other than if there is another event in which it's likely
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Antifa might show up, we're going to have to have a bodyguard for you. I mean, I've gone to
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protests where those types show up, uh, without a bodyguard only because I know there's going to be
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security guards and the police in attendance, and they're going to keep an eye on things to make
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sure shenanigans didn't happen. I think that might've been your assumption at this thing.
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But as we previously discussed, uh, whether they're being politically motivated or not,
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uh, looks like the Seattle police force is just not concerned all that much with upholding the law.
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So I think that's the sad reality. We're going to have to send you out there with protection
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because no story is worth getting beaten up on about or, uh, or, or even worse, God forbid.
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Last word goes to you, Katie. Yeah. Thank you guys. Um, just standing with Katie.com because
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I've been reporting on this group for about five years now, and I want to continue the work and we
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need to start holding these people accountable because there's a terrorist group, uh, freely
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acting in the United States. So not many people report on it and it's one of the most important
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things to report on. So thank you guys. Fantastic. Well, Katie, you are a brave lady indeed. And
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like I said, we're not going to let this stand. We're going to find out who's who in the zoo. We're
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going to find out who to charge, who to sue. Uh, you cannot get away with this, especially in a nation
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that has as part of its constitution, the first amendment. Katie, you have a wonderful weekend and
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stay safe, my friend. Thanks, David. You too. Thank you. And that was Katie Davis court in Seattle.
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Keep it here, folks. More of rebel roundup to come right after this.
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I'm Jeremy Lafredo for rebel news in Moscow, Russia. In late February, when Russia launched
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its military operation in Ukraine, Western corporations began to pull out of the country.
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Perhaps these companies were truly morally appalled by Putin's actions, or perhaps they were just virtue
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signaling. Because helping the Russian economy by continuing to do business in its market during
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the war could be bad publicity. As Putin continues his merciless assault, the United States and our
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allies and partners continue to work in lockstep to ramp up the economic pressures on Putin and to
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further isolate Russia in a global stage. Coca-Cola, Microsoft, IBM, Spotify, and Intel have all pulled out
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of the country, citing their concern for human rights. But these aren't the only companies that
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left. Among the most popular brands to leave Russia include Starbucks and McDonald's.
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Well, McDonald's is selling its business in Russia in response to the war in Ukraine.
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McDonald's said today it will be closing all of its restaurants in that country for good.
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The other thing I wanted to ask you about today, Bertha, is Starbucks, the latest company,
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big company in this country to exit Russia completely as the war with Ukraine goes on.
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There's a lot more American companies are distancing themselves from Russia. I mean,
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one of the major companies is Starbucks. They just closed all 130 of their stores over there.
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There's always Dunkin' Donuts, but Putin was like,
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McDonald's released a statement that explained Russia's invasion of Ukraine led McDonald's to
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conclude that continued ownership of business in Russia is no longer tenable,
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nor is it consistent with McDonald's values. Officially, the two fast food organizations sold their
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companies. But while I'm in Moscow, I thought it would be interesting to go to these places.
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Do they still exist? Has anything changed? Does it taste different? Do Russians miss the old
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and the real McDonald's and Starbucks? Do they believe they're coming back?
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First, I went to McDonald's. It's now called delicious and to the point.
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Virtually nothing, aesthetically, has changed. The restaurant looks like a normal McDonald's,
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and the menu looks the same. It definitely smells the same.
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But is anything different? How do the Russian people feel about it?
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You know, now it's better, more free, more democratic prices. I'm a good service.
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Well, I don't know. To be honest, McDonald's liked a little bit more.
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The interior. Well, it changed, I don't know. Maybe it's not a recipe,
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maybe the ingredients changed, maybe the suppliers changed. But it became not worse or better,
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I understand that if they were left, they would lose by the world,
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probably, more because of the sanctions, because the people are there differently,
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than we are here in Russia. But we will be sure everything will be fine,
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and we will be sure to come back to us. So we will be sure and hope and hope and hope.
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There was only more of that as a component here.
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No, there's nothing else tomorrow for the environment.
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and then i went to starbucks coffee i mean stars it's called stars coffee now it looks the same
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same branding same look i got a coffee and i asked some people what they thought
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i just tried cappuccino and the cappuccino didn't change the difference i didn't see any difference
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i didn't buy anything but i like the place i often come here
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oh no, it's hard to think, but i think it will come back
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well, if the situation will come back, then why not? i think it will come back
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i can't say exactly, it's the same for the taste
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i asked the barista if it's all the same employees and she explained that it's everyone that used to
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work there it's just a different branding name well, knock me down with a feather officially
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at least two us-based fast food organizations sold off their russian assets but if you were led to
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believe that these restaurants were shuttered well as you just saw it's business as usual
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given that all of the mcdonald's and all of the starbucks locations in russia are still open with
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identical menus albeit operating under slightly different names so what other misinformation
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are we being told to embrace during the russia ukraine conflict well here to shed some light
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on the situation is our new york-based rebel jeremy lafredo who just got back from moscow
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how are you doing jeremy thank you david i'm doing well thanks for fantastic so jeremy as i mentioned
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i and i think a lot of other people well we thought when the likes of starbucks and mcdonald's
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uh said they were getting out of russia that these shops these restaurants were going to be
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mothballed but that's not the situation at all so jeremy what's going on here yeah um you know there was
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a big you know media frenzy when we heard that you know hundreds of brands and hundreds of corporations
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are leaving um are leaving russia but it turns out that a lot of them have actually stayed but they've
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stayed um and they're now operating under you know um russian uh influence our russian business
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so you know in our attempt to hurt the russian economy by taking all of our business out of there
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we've actually strengthened it believe it or not because now um the money is going to russia instead
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of going you know four thousand miles uh back to the united states you know and that is the thing
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isn't it uh jeremy the crux of the matter of these sanctions so called is that we're going to hurt the
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russian economy um in terms of food there's going to be food shortages there's nothing like um hungry
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citizens uh that might bring about uh regime change but that's that's not happening the ruble is very
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strong right now i understand uh russia has a trade surplus and there's another video where you
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go to russian supermarkets and that blew me away because they are packed there are no empty shelves
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and what's more the prices compared to what we're paying on this side of the pond look really really
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decent to me so again why are we being told by the likes of the new york post uh i'm sorry rather the
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the new york times and the washington post jeremy that um we are starving the russians
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into defeat that's clearly not happening it's not happening and i mean it's just you know it's
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simple economics when you sanction you know a country that is a primary exporter and producer
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of food and energy you might as well be sanctioning yourself because you're now going to have to pay a
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lot more money for these things so you know it doesn't take a genius to understand what's going on
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um we just don't know how to you know punish um you know this giant uh country um that you know
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is the size of a continent and has more resources and more um more uh productivity than you know a
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lot of other places we don't know how to how to shut them out of the global economy and how to shut
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them out of their own economy um you know trying to shut them out of the global economy they just flip a
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switch they have a lot of domestic productivity there they make a lot of food there they make a lot of energy
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there it's hard to to take that away from them you know so um you know we've we've gotten ourselves in
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in quite a pickle yeah and not to mention the fact that what you alluded to uh russia's energy
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independent in fact so many european countries depend on russian oil and gas to meet their energy
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needs so um this is far from you know a nation that is about to bend the knee uh quite the contrary
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jeremy you spoke literally to hundreds of russians during your mission uh over to moscow uh and i know
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you have i guess categorized them into three different camps uh can you explain that please
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sure um so yeah uh i would fit them ideologically i mean and first i'll say you know um this idea that
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you know the people of russia um are you know a political monolith they all think the same you
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know politically because you know they're just hounded by state propaganda it's very similar to
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the us of course there's there's propaganda everywhere you turn but if you actually talk
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to people you they have tons of different views on tons of different things and you know there were
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people who opposed putin because x and there were people who opposed putin because of y there were
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people who supported him because of x there were people who you know there's tons of different
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political opinions there much like any other country um but the three main categories that i
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would put people in um their opinions first you have you know russian patriots um they would call
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themselves that they say you know i'm willing to sacrifice you know the sanctions are affecting you
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know the way that we can send money or receive money from overseas um they're affecting you know some
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of the tech things that we enjoy like adobe premiere or like netflix or like spotify we're willing to
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sacrifice all those things because we truly believe that you know there are ethically russian people
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in the donbass region in ukraine that have been being attacked by their own government since 2014
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and it's our responsibility to protect these people i'm not saying this this is what they say it's our
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responsibility to protect these people because they're ethnically russian they're one of us so it's
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our duty as russians to do this then there's another um group of people you know they're more maybe
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you would just say they're liberals they oppose the the war because they oppose the sanctions
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and they oppose the sanctions because they're not allowed to take their vacations to europe and
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they're not allowed to um receive money from um from abroad and they're you know the the the things that
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they like to do maybe they like to watch netflix the things that they like to do are are hampered down
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and um they're not opposing the war from any you know um revolutionary um anti-war um moral stance it's
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more because they um they want to go back to to the things that they enjoy which uh the sanctions
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have uh stopped them from enjoying uh and then there's another group of people that they they're
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neutral and they can't even tell that there are any you know types of economic warfare being directed
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towards their country they they go to the grocery store things are fine they get gas things are fine
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um they don't notice anything and they're not very political and so they're neutral so that's the three
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interesting jeremy and on this side of the pond can you explain why there's this dereliction of duty
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if you will amongst those in the mainstream media such as the aforementioned new york times and the
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washington post why are they not telling the truth about what's really going on in russia today
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yeah i mean that's that's a great question um i mean you know they're much like they do with
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all sorts of uh policies they are supporting government policy and going to great lengths
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to do so and you know um putting out extraordinary propaganda to do so and you know we just had uh
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the new york times um they were um doing reporting on what's going on in ukraine and they didn't even
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let their readers know that the entire time that they were there they were embedded with a um
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with the military they were embedded with the government and so you know this and you know
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if someone was to go to russia and be embedded with the government it would be you know propaganda
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which it would be but it's funny that it's not called propaganda when it's done on the other side
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that's fascinating and just so our audience is clear jeremy when you went to moscow you weren't
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being led around by some government agent or a spokesperson or what have you this was all independent
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journalism being carried out uh on your part without any strings attached is that correct
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no strings attached david um it was just me and um and my cell phone and um you know you can see the
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videos it's just it's my cell phone and i went everywhere i went to grocery stores i went to rural
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areas i went to the city um you know just documenting what i thought was uh interesting well certainly
00:31:35.960
seeing is believing i guess uh an exit question for you uh jeremy when it comes to this ongoing
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conflict with the ukraine um when you spoke to the average russian on the street um well let's put it
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this way if there was to be a referendum in terms of uh putin's moves against ukraine um does he get a
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passing or failing grade i think it's about 50 50 from what i from the people i could i would speak to
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it's funny the people who oppose putin they actually oppose him for the exact opposite reason
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that the west would oppose him they they believe that he should have launched this military operation
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this war sooner um so they say he's a coward for for bending a knee to the west for all these years and
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not not taking these parts of uh ukraine uh back to russia so the opposition is mostly um actually from
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the other side than you would expect but the young people that i spoke to um they oppose putin just
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how the people here oppose putin they say you know he's um he's authoritarian he uh he should leave
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ukraine alone and so the young the young people are very much um you know i think they're consuming
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western media and they they are under the impression that putin is bad and then the other people are
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consuming russian media and they're under the impression that putin is good so you know it's it's it's very
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nuanced it's a very interesting situation and um i only i went there and i only became you know more
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more um more confused by some things like you know i i just i i couldn't understand some stuff and
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i i think that's what when you go somewhere and you you go um try to investigate something that's what
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ends up happening well that is interesting about younger people consuming western media because i think
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when it comes to the new york times and the washington post i think you might get more
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truth out of pravda uh than those two media outlets so holy mackerel well jeremy i want to congratulate you
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on excellent journalism it was just superb what you did showing people what the reality on the ground
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is and regardless of one's politics and who they're supporting in this conflict uh your videos
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really served as a much needed anecdote to the kind of propaganda we've been served up these last
00:33:55.720
several weeks by the mainstream media so thank you for that jeremy and you have a wonderful weekend my
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friend thank you david you got it and that was jeremy lafredo in new york city keep it here folks
00:34:10.280
david menzies for rebel news here in oshawa ontario and folks i'm at the under renovation
00:34:19.880
headquarters for general motors of canada and the reason why i'm here well it's to give a letter and
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an invoice to miss erin strolovich she her she is the gm executive who last sunday invited us
00:34:37.320
to go to the ingersoll gm plant it was for an announcement by the prime minister and the
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premier and there was going to be a plant tour ingersoll is the plant that's being retooled
00:34:49.960
and they're going to be producing soon um ev commercial vehicles however a not so funny thing
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happened on the way into the plant basically within the space of less than 24 hours our invitation
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became a disinventation here check out the video evidence rebel news is not allowed to
00:35:13.720
oh you've been told no yes oh hang on a second i think there's been a mistake here i've got um
00:35:20.680
a confirmation from erin strolovich she her yeah hang on i'll find out we're not allowed access for
00:35:28.520
you guys oh i think there's been a mistake sir um erin strolovich last night that's our confirmation
00:35:37.000
see and that came in last night at 5 41 p.m and we've driven two hours to get here so i i let me
00:35:46.120
confirm okay thank you you're not allowed in why is that sir huh why is that you're just not allowed
00:35:53.080
in rebel news no access okay well this confirmation says differently my supervisor says differently too
00:36:01.400
who is your supervisor my supervisor is inside oh yeah and his name would be you you want to talk to
00:36:09.000
him i would like to because i think there's been a mistake i've got here in writing from erin strolovich
00:36:14.120
it she her that we are confirmed right there confirmation cammy ev assembly grand opening
00:36:20.600
i just i just asked them right now there's no access right now okay why why would somebody late
00:36:25.960
last night on sunday approve us we drive here two hours to a media event we are media and then
00:36:34.040
is somebody inside this building who you don't even give me his name says we're not
00:36:37.960
alex shoe alex shoe you can talk to him okay you go try and get a hold of him you're you're blocking
00:36:44.040
the line no no no you're blocking the line you're holding up the line uh no no you're holding up
00:36:50.600
no this guy's holding us up no you are no no this guy who are you who are you so yes uh my uh ace
00:36:58.200
cameraman lincoln jay and i were suddenly deemed to be persona non grata or at least media non grata
00:37:05.720
we were not only disinvited for no good reason or for any reason for that matter but we were told
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to leave the premises under threat of trespass unbelievable in any event we thought this was
00:37:21.080
highly unprofessional at best vindictive at worst i mean what happened was gm told uh by the prime
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minister or the premier or both that we are not media to be entertained and that is why we got
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the heave ho uh if so that's disgraceful although i do understand gm's um strategy here folks if that
00:37:46.600
was the case well you know the next time gm goes belly up you want to have friends in high places
00:37:53.240
to give you that taxpayer funded bailout and certainly gm is really rolling the dice i think
00:37:59.720
and it's plans to go 100 percent electrical in the years ahead so when gm needed help we gave them
00:38:06.760
300 from every single canadian and after that nearly 11 billion dollar bailout gm continues to expand in
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mexico leaving workers out in the cold but we look upon this business of being invited and then
00:38:20.840
disinvited at the last moment as essentially being a breach of contract it's kind of like making a
00:38:27.880
reservation at a restaurant and then not bothering to show up so we decided to calculate the time
00:38:36.840
incurred by lincoln and i the mileage that we both drove uh the 407 etr tolls and we have an invoice
00:38:45.720
here it's for the neighborhood of sixteen hundred dollars and i'm going to drop it off uh to miss
00:38:52.520
strolovich she her and uh hopefully they'll make good on that payment and if not hey as the saying
00:39:00.120
goes see you in court well wouldn't you know it aaron strolovich she her as well as all the other gm
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executives apparently work from home these days so we ended up emailing the letter and invoice to miss
00:39:14.440
strolovich she her and if gm decides not to make reparations we will indeed sue the general in small
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claims court as far as we're concerned we were robbed of our time and our resources and we will
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not let this stand folks oh and another thing if this does go to court i'll be doing cartwheels because
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during the process of disclosure maybe then we'll get to find out who ordered gm to disinvite us was
00:39:46.120
it prime minister trudeau or was it his new best boyfriend premier doug ford or maybe both hey guys
00:39:53.000
you want to play hardball let's play hardball in any event you had plenty to say about gm's egregious
00:40:01.640
public relations strategy west can writes gm has lost our business for good we have two vehicles
00:40:09.720
that their leases are up on april 1st 23 and we will be returning those two vehicles and going with
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another car manufacturer because of their fascist woke policies and trudeau got that trudge like she
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heard to invite you to the event and then canceled on you these people are the evil we are fighting in
00:40:33.320
the world today my wife and i love rebel news and appreciate all that you do for canadians well you
00:40:40.200
know what that is absolutely fantastic i really appreciate your support sir and isn't it wonderful
00:40:46.840
that gm certainly doesn't have a monopoly there are so many great car companies and great cars to choose
00:40:54.280
from you won't be disappointed and mm beer writes i saw more than a few guys on gm's twitter site go
00:41:03.640
on there and let gm know that they had canceled their truck orders if this was this was due rather
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to gm announcing that they would no longer advertise on twitter as musk had just purchased the platform
00:41:17.800
one guy made a point of saying that as soon as he found out that gm did not believe in the first
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amendment he immediately canceled his truck order and had already placed an order with ram for the
00:41:31.400
truck he wanted yeah imagine that gm somehow finds it offensive that elon musk is standing up for freedom
00:41:39.160
of speech and the first amendment but what woke cowards they are eh that's the thing about gm if
00:41:46.040
their marketing plan and business strategies flop and the company goes belly up big deal they'll just
00:41:53.720
lobby the governments on both sides of the border for yet another taxpayer funded bailout pathetic roger
00:42:01.160
moses writes i'm really getting sick and tired of people claiming rebel news is not media or journalists
00:42:07.960
and keeping their employees out of the loop they give much better accounts of current events than cbc global
00:42:15.640
ctv etc well thank you kindly roger and there were two sidebar stories taking place at the gm ingersoll
00:42:24.680
plant that day that received absolutely zero mainstream media attention for starters there was an anti-trudeau
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protest taking place outside the main entrance no coverage and get a load of this about 200 trades people
00:42:41.000
and programmers who are still working on refurbishing this plant were told to stay home that day missing
00:42:49.240
out on eight hours worth of work plus two hours worth of overtime they were not given a reason why they
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had to stay home but apparently the unspoken reason was that gm did not want anyone to give trudeau the bird
00:43:04.040
or display one of those f trudeau flags and you know how sensitive prime minister blackface mcgropa is
00:43:12.120
when it comes to well-deserved criticism these days john grice writes who else was invited and got
00:43:19.960
canceled or was this personal to rebel news you know that's an excellent question john i can tell you
00:43:26.440
this we didn't see any other media turned away that day in fact the likes of the cbc were practically
00:43:33.080
given the red carpet treatment but here's the thing if they didn't want us there why'd they invite us in
00:43:40.360
the first place ellis 89 writes lol you can't resist twisting the knife with that she her inclusion can you
00:43:48.840
david hey alas 89 if the wokesters out there continue to flag their gender pronouns or whatever
00:43:57.720
in their personal bio who am i to be so insensitive when it comes to acquiescing to their demands and
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finally up north writes thanks david great report as a die-hard chevy slash gm supporter i will never
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buy again from this woke company too bad gm was a great company years ago rip gm well up north it is
00:44:24.200
sad isn't it my first vehicle was a chevy and i truly want the domestic auto industry to succeed i
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really do i want them to build good products and employ thousands and thousands of canadians and americans
00:44:37.400
but for decades gm has suffered from grotesque mismanagement i mean you go back some 60 years
00:44:44.440
ago and gm's market share in the us and canada hovered around 50 percent i'm unbelievable but these
00:44:51.160
days it's less than 16 percent that's brutal and a big part of the reason for this decline is that for
00:44:59.080
decades now gm has been building too many cars in too many factories that too few people want to
00:45:07.080
buy in an automotive sector that is uber competitive these are self-inflicted wounds
00:45:14.360
by the general by the way and then they pull a stunt like this it is pathetic beyond words oh and
00:45:21.640
another thing how dare that the new corvette is offered only with an automatic transmission
00:45:28.680
how can you manage manufacture a six-figure sports car without giving buyers the option of having a stick
00:45:35.480
shift men gm they just keep blowing it don't they well that wraps up another edition of rebel roundup
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thanks so much for joining us and have yourselves a fantastic weekend see you next week of course and
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hey folks never forget without risk there can be no glory good night