Rebel News Podcast - July 19, 2019


Trudeau AND Scheer condemn Trump’s tweets — Do they want to be PM, or a pundit？


Episode Stats

Length

41 minutes

Words per Minute

167.17001

Word Count

6,993

Sentence Count

540

Misogynist Sentences

11

Hate Speech Sentences

16


Summary

Justin Trudeau and Andrew Scheer both condemn Donald Trump's tweets. Is it because they don't want to be Prime Minister or a pundit? Or because they're mad at him for being mad at them? Or are they mad at each other because he's mad at Kim Jong Un?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hello, Rebels. Today, I take you through a very short but bizarre statement by Justin Trudeau,
00:00:05.160 where he condemns Donald Trump's tweets. I'm not sure if that's his job. I'm pretty sure it's not.
00:00:10.800 But he adds on a few words that aren't against Trump. It's against you and me. I find them very
00:00:16.920 troublesome, and I'll show them to you. But before I do, can you do me a favor and go to
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00:01:01.320 Tonight, Justin Trudeau and Andrew Scheer both condemn Donald Trump's tweets. Do they want
00:01:07.440 to be prime minister or pundits? It's July 18th, and this is the Ezra LeVance Show.
00:01:14.320 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:18.020 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:21.640 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my
00:01:26.680 bloody right to do so.
00:01:27.960 More than 60 million people follow Donald Trump on Twitter. He is a master of that medium.
00:01:40.900 I mean, just the other day, he tweeted to North Korea's Kim Jong-un saying, hey, let's meet up
00:01:44.780 in the DMZ. And wouldn't you know it, it happened. Unreal. Who knows what that was even all about?
00:01:51.280 Was Trump worried that official lines of communication to Kim were being cut off by
00:01:56.180 some factions around Kim, maybe even his Chinese handlers? I don't know. I wonder if we'll ever
00:02:01.420 know, but that's a pretty incredible use of Twitter, don't you think?
00:02:05.640 Trump uses Twitter to communicate directly with his base, people who want to hear from him in his
00:02:11.920 trademark entertaining way, and mainly people who just don't trust the mainstream media to report
00:02:16.860 on what he says fairly and accurately. I'd put myself in that category. So in a way,
00:02:21.900 the same is my theory about Kim Jong-un. Get away from, get around any filters or middlemen
00:02:27.500 who are trying to obscure things. And there's another big purpose to Donald Trump's tweets.
00:02:33.440 On occasion, he can, with 100% absolute certainty, throw the mainstream media into a one-two-three-day
00:02:41.580 frenzy by pushing their buttons. And I think, I think they know it by now, but they just can't
00:02:47.380 help it. They're like that kitten chasing that laser pointer. They just can't help it.
00:02:53.520 So the other day, Trump tweeted about four young radical congresswomen who were Democrats.
00:03:01.120 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the only other politician who rivals Trump in her use of Twitter. I mean,
00:03:06.860 look at this masterful video. She's got a great sense of publicity. And then there's Ilhan Omar,
00:03:14.660 somewhat less compelling. She's a Muslim extremist. She's a refugee from Somalia to America,
00:03:21.040 who seems to have committed immigration fraud, by the way, by marrying her brother in a sham marriage.
00:03:26.660 She literally mocks 9-11 and she praises Al-Qaeda. Let me show you. Here's how she describes 9-11.
00:03:33.960 Some people did something.
00:03:36.860 Some people did something. That's what she called 9-11. That's a pretty quick clip,
00:03:41.400 but that was the context. That's pretty bad. And compare that. Some people did something
00:03:46.000 for her reverence and excitement about Al-Qaeda.
00:03:52.120 And so it was, it was the thing that was interesting in the class was every time the,
00:03:58.100 the, the professor said Al-Qaeda, he sort of like, his shoulders went up and, you know,
00:04:03.540 he's in command here. Al-Qaeda, you know, has been. He's an expert.
00:04:09.540 Al-Qaeda. She's so excited by Al-Qaeda. That's really bad. She's a congresswoman now from Minnesota.
00:04:15.800 And there are two others in their little squad, as they call themselves. Now, Nancy Pelosi doesn't
00:04:20.080 much like this squad. She says, I mean, Pelosi, who has probably the safest district in America
00:04:26.300 for a Democrat. I mean, she's in San Francisco. She knows she can't just talk to the left wing
00:04:31.560 crazies in San Francisco or Manhattan. If she wants to win a majority in America, she has to
00:04:36.520 hold her nose and appeal to severely normal people in moderate places like Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
00:04:43.080 too. And the squad doesn't really do that. So, uh, Nancy Pelosi is a bit dismissive of them.
00:04:50.700 She likes to minimize the conflicts within her caucus between the moderates and the progressives.
00:04:56.660 You have these wings, AOC and her group on one side.
00:05:01.300 It's like five people.
00:05:03.600 Uh, they're just five people. Whoa. So she's quarreling with the squad a bit. I mean,
00:05:09.940 there's a bit of a war breaking out between the hard left wing Twitter stars of the squad
00:05:14.080 and the less crazy wing of the Democrats that wants to win. I mean, look at this Twitter tweet
00:05:20.340 and look at this leaked poll. I don't think it's an accident that Pelosi leaked an internal Democrat
00:05:25.620 poll showing that the squad was deeply unpopular in middle America. So Donald Trump is observing this
00:05:33.580 and he thinks, wow, my opponents are fighting amongst themselves. How can I pour
00:05:39.080 kerosene on that fire? Well, Twitter is how. So here's what he wrote four days ago. I'm going to
00:05:44.640 read these three tweets to you. So interesting to see progressive Democrat Congresswomen who
00:05:50.500 originally came from countries whose governments are complete and total catastrophe, the worst,
00:05:55.520 most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world, if they even have a functioning government at all,
00:05:59.760 now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful
00:06:06.080 nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don't they go back and help fix the totally
00:06:10.760 broken and crime infested places from which they came, then come back and show us how it is done.
00:06:18.000 These places need your help badly. You can't leave fast enough. I'm sure that Nancy Pelosi
00:06:22.680 would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements.
00:06:25.760 Boy, it's almost like he's a New York brawler who knows how to fight and provoke people. So he's
00:06:32.980 the un-Romney, the un-Jeb. Finally, a match for the Democrats. That's how he won in 2016.
00:06:38.900 Now, normally, the Democrats are the disciplined ones and the Republicans are the ones quarreling
00:06:42.860 amongst themselves. Now, it was immediately obvious, to me at least, in those tweets he was referring to
00:06:48.780 Ilhan Omar from Somalia, a failed state, no functioning government. I think he's got to be
00:06:55.600 talking about Somalia. Maybe he also met Rashida Tlaib, whose family came from Palestine. But the
00:07:01.900 rest of the squad, they sort of go along with Ilhan Omar anyways on the bizarre anti-American
00:07:07.380 propaganda, calling the U.S. government immigration detention centers concentration camps. Here, take a
00:07:14.560 look at a new Republican Party TV ad, which happens to use some footage filmed by our own
00:07:19.880 Kian Bextie, who asked several members of the squad some questions. Take a look.
00:07:25.040 The United States is running concentration camps on our southern border. Never again means something.
00:07:31.780 If this organization is as fascist as you have called it, and you have said it's fascist,
00:07:37.460 then why don't you adopt the stance to eliminate it? Your colleague who was at the border with you
00:07:44.400 compared the facilities to a concentration camp. Do you agree with that comparison?
00:07:50.220 Absolutely. You will see the light, and if you don't, we will bring the fire.
00:07:56.200 A car in the parking lot was torched. An investigator say the suspect threw flares at a
00:08:00.980 cocaine tank, trying to make it explode.
00:08:03.500 They took down an American flag and a Colorado state flag, and instead, as you see in some
00:08:08.640 of this video, they raised a Mexican flag. We are learning new details about the man who
00:08:12.960 threw explosive devices at an immigration detention center in Tacoma, Washington.
00:08:17.300 Will you condemn Antifa for attacking an ICE facility?
00:08:21.920 Will you condemn the Antifa attack in Washington over the weekend?
00:08:27.260 Will you condemn Antifa for the attack in Washington?
00:08:29.660 Thank you.
00:08:33.500 Yeah, it's a tough video. And those were tough tweets by Donald Trump, but it's been four days
00:08:46.080 since he tweeted, and those kittens are still chasing those laser pointers. I swear Donald Trump
00:08:51.740 could have invaded a small country in the last four days, and the media party just wouldn't be able
00:08:58.700 to pull themselves away from Twitter to report on it. By the way, severely normal people seem to love
00:09:04.220 those tweets. Twitter is not normal people. Twitter is journalists and pundits and people looking for
00:09:09.320 a hot take, a quick overreaction, whatever. Normal people would say, yeah, if you come here from Somalia
00:09:15.480 as a refugee, maybe stop calling us racist. I mean, after all, we took you. We saved your life.
00:09:20.760 Maybe be a little bit more humble and a bit less antagonistic.
00:09:24.380 But, mission accomplished. Sure, Donald Trump's tweets made the news, but the substance of his
00:09:30.640 tweets, shining a light on the outrageous views of the squad, that's being seen by everyone in
00:09:37.620 America now. And you know who figured out the strategy here? A Democrat named David Axelrod,
00:09:43.560 Barack Obama's first campaign chairman. Listen to him on CNN.
00:09:46.520 He wants to elevate these four young members of Congress to make them the emblem of the Democratic
00:09:53.440 Party. And he wants to be so outrageous about it that he forces all Democrats to embrace them, to
00:10:00.680 support the argument that they are the iconic figures in the party. And in the bargain, he riles up his
00:10:08.780 base with, you know, nativist language.
00:10:10.840 So, did you get that there? What Trump did is he made this radical squad that Nancy Pelosi says
00:10:19.800 just five people. He made them the face of the Democrats and the left and the media and the
00:10:24.820 rest of the Democrats just couldn't help themselves. They had to defend the squad and their crazy talk
00:10:29.580 and their extreme politics because they all hate Trump so much. They felt compelled like Pavlov's dog
00:10:37.500 to come, you know, you hear Trump, you have to do the opposite of what he said, that they came to
00:10:41.300 the age of the extremists. They made that tiny fringe, four or five first-term Congresswomen,
00:10:46.880 the official face of the Democrats. Now, they're not. Most Democrats don't really like them,
00:10:51.140 according to the poll that was leaked by the Democrats. But look, people hate Trump more than
00:10:58.040 they love their own political ambitions, I guess. So, Donald Trump managed to appoint his own
00:11:03.400 opponents. He's been laughing for four days. Now, that same reaction that David Axelrod observed,
00:11:10.840 that everyone afflicted with Trump arrangement syndrome came to the aid of these radicals,
00:11:16.120 that happened widespread. Obviously, U.S. Democrats, the U.S. media, but the media up here in Canada,
00:11:23.080 too, they find it easier to criticize Donald Trump than to criticize Justin Trudeau, perhaps because
00:11:28.380 Trudeau is paying them $600 million in bailout money. I don't know. So, just about every single
00:11:35.340 Canadian news network said that Donald Trump's tweets were racist. Now, as you know, because I
00:11:41.960 read them to you, he didn't mention race at all. He talked about foreign countries. Ilhan Omar came from
00:11:47.700 Somalia. The others in the squad were born in America, but their families were immigrants. And they
00:11:53.220 identify with their old countries. Rashida Tlaib doesn't stop talking about Palestine.
00:11:59.840 Was it racist what Trump did? I'm not sure it had anything to do with race. To me,
00:12:06.580 it sounded more like telling people that old phrase, America, love it or leave it. If you don't like the
00:12:11.880 United States, there's the door, especially if you came here from Somalia. It's tough talk. Yeah,
00:12:16.740 no doubt about it. But frankly, it's no tougher than what the Democrats say about him. I mean,
00:12:20.760 they call him racist. And really praising or at least minimizing Al-Qaeda, staying silent in the
00:12:26.980 face of anti-Fund terrorism, calling American detention centers concentration camps. Yeah,
00:12:31.780 no media outrage over that, just over Trump calling it out a bit roughly. I noted that few
00:12:38.260 of the media stories about Trump's tweets saying they were racist actually let their viewers or
00:12:45.420 readers read the tweets in full, as I have done for you. Because I think most people would read those
00:12:49.540 tweets and say, yeah, that's sort of rough talk, but it's not really racist. It's not about skin
00:12:54.340 color. It's about people bashing America, and especially people who just came here to flee
00:12:58.920 their own home country. So to uphold the narrative, the media party said, hey, guys, just believe us.
00:13:04.980 The tweets were super racist. So now let's talk about how racist Trump is. That was the starting
00:13:10.160 premise. Viewers weren't allowed to see the actual tweets themselves to make up their own mind.
00:13:14.200 I read them to you. So here we are four days into it, and guess what? Canada's patient zero for
00:13:21.440 Trump derangement syndrome, Justin Trudeau, he just couldn't keep a lid on it. He actually needs
00:13:26.700 Donald Trump very badly right now to help us out with a few things, but his love for the Democrats
00:13:30.660 is too strong. He loved Hillary Clinton, and he loves David Axelrod. Remember this clip of Trudeau?
00:13:37.000 Look at him. He's obviously drunk. Look at him wobble. Stumble. Stumble. And one more stumble to come.
00:13:42.420 Whoa. Whoa. That's four or five stumbles there. That was at a left-wing event in Chicago hosted
00:13:50.440 for Trudeau by David Axelrod. So Trudeau is part of that clique. So he couldn't shut up. He just
00:13:56.600 couldn't keep quiet. Remember how at the G20, how icy things were between Trudeau and President
00:14:03.620 Xi Jinping? That's him on the left there. They wouldn't even make eye contact. We need help getting
00:14:09.080 our two Canadian hostages back from China. Or maybe it's three hostages. We need help. The
00:14:14.040 Chinese aren't answering Chrystia Freeland's phone calls. And look at how stone-faced Xi Jinping was
00:14:18.800 sitting right next to Trudeau. Yeah, your Bolsonaro doesn't have a lot of time for Trudeau either.
00:14:24.680 So yeah, getting Donald Trump's help to lean on China is really our only hope to rescue the two
00:14:30.100 hostages, but also to get China to call off its trade war against our agriculture, presuming Trudeau
00:14:36.120 actually cares about either of those things, which is not certain. But instead of being
00:14:39.740 a grown-up, Trudeau just couldn't help himself. Look at him today.
00:14:44.660 I think the comments made were hurtful, wrong, and completely unacceptable. And I want everyone
00:14:57.860 in Canada to know that those comments are completely unacceptable and should not be allowed or encouraged in Canada.
00:15:13.620 Hang on, why is the Prime Minister commenting on this at all? He's not a pundit. He's not on a pundit's panel. He's not paid for his thoughts on every fleeting political moment. He's paid to lead our government and to promote our Canadian interests abroad. He may have private thoughts about Donald Trump, but he may have private thoughts about Donald Trump.
00:15:27.840 Donald Trump and his tweets, but to say them out loud like that, that Trump is unacceptable, that Trump's offensive and he can't say these, he's not allowed to say these things. How is that governing Canada? How is that anything other than creating yet another diplomatic incident?
00:15:42.600 Why does he feel the need to comment on it at all? How about, as Prime Minister, it's my job to work with the U.S. President to promote Canadian interests. I'll leave the political commentary to the pundits. How about that?
00:15:52.740 How about just shutting up? What was he trying to accomplish there? And seriously, I showed you the drunk clip of Trudeau with David Axelrod. Look at his bleary eyes and his slow speech. Is he high? That's a real question. Seriously. But did you catch that one part? That one part?
00:16:10.140 I think the comments made were hurtful, wrong, and completely unacceptable. And I want everyone in Canada to know that those comments are completely unacceptable and should not be allowed or encouraged in Canada.
00:16:35.480 So Trump's comments were wrong. His comments about a domestic political dispute were wrong. Is the Canadian government the arbiter of quarrels between the Democrats and the Republicans now? Are we taking sides now against a sitting president of all things? And we're the judge of what's acceptable and not in U.S. politics? Would we like it if Donald Trump chose sides in some Canadian domestic political dispute that had nothing to do with America?
00:17:03.880 Just the other day, internal, private, highly confidential memos from Britain's ambassador to the U.S., they were leaked from the British Foreign Office. To be clear, these were the most private confidential assessments of Donald Trump by the British ambassador, meant only for the eyes of a few senior government officials back in London.
00:17:23.260 You need to be able to speak candidly to your own team about world affairs, even if it means criticizing an ally. That's why I said privately, the problem wasn't with what he said. It's okay to criticize Trump, obviously. It's that someone in the government chose to leak that. And so that ambassador simply had to resign.
00:17:38.300 He could no longer have the confidence or trust of Trump or his government. It's not fair, but you can't have those kind of secret thoughts come public and still have a working relationship. Trump rubbed it in, by the way, saying he would no longer have any dealings with the ambassador, which might not be fair.
00:17:55.760 Like I say, ambassadors have to be able to privately tell their bosses back home what they really think. But once it was no longer private, you can't unsee what you've seen. He had to resign, and he did, which was the honorable thing to do.
00:18:08.300 But the point is that the ambassador said his candid and critical remarks about Trump in a top-secret memo, secret, private, just to his home country. Justin Trudeau said the same sort of things in public for no reason. He just said it. He said Trump was wrong and unacceptable. He just said it out loud. Why?
00:18:30.000 Does he propose to go around now, country by country, denouncing world leaders for internal political disputes, about which Trudeau likely knows very little? Or is it just Trump?
00:18:40.260 Well, actually, Trudeau screwed up quite a few relationships, hasn't he? Including China, India, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, just to name a few.
00:18:48.460 But that one line, you know the one I'm talking about. Listen to it one last time. What one line here is the worst? Listen.
00:18:54.020 I think the comments made were hurtful, wrong, and completely unacceptable.
00:19:02.100 And I want everyone in Canada to know that those comments are completely unacceptable and should not be allowed or encouraged in Canada.
00:19:18.900 Those comments should not be allowed. Should not be allowed in Canada.
00:19:28.700 What does he mean? Not allowed? Condemn them. That's one thing. That's bad judgment. But go ahead.
00:19:35.340 But not allowed. So they're forbidden? Not allowed means banned, right?
00:19:41.560 What does he mean? Is he saying Trump committed a legal offense of sorts? Or it should be banned?
00:19:50.580 It's hate speech or something? What does he mean?
00:19:54.380 I bet that's what he meant. It's plain language. Not allowed means banned.
00:19:58.220 We know the liberals have been calling for censorship of social media, like Twitter, for years.
00:20:03.360 Trudeau even threatened Facebook to censor his enemies.
00:20:05.500 What does Trudeau mean by not allowed in Canada? I think he didn't even mean Trump was not allowed.
00:20:12.720 Because he said, in Canada. I think he means you and I will be censored. I think that's what he means.
00:20:19.920 But let me leave you with something almost as depressing.
00:20:23.900 This guy.
00:20:25.040 I think it's, I don't think there's any place in our study for intolerance or that kind of divisive,
00:20:31.460 those kinds of divisive comments.
00:20:34.260 And I've always thought that people should be able to advocate for their views.
00:20:38.820 They should be able to criticize their government.
00:20:40.580 They should be able to advocate for their own ideas without having their background or their personal identity
00:20:45.940 or where their family might come from questioned or in any way taken into account.
00:20:50.480 So he didn't call for a ban on mean words.
00:20:56.920 But he condemned Donald Trump all the same.
00:20:59.020 He made it clear that Trump's a racist in his mind.
00:21:02.460 He didn't say it quite as forcefully.
00:21:04.340 Andrew Scheer is milquetoast even when he's trying to be tough.
00:21:07.400 He's half-hearted about everything and anything.
00:21:10.140 Who knows what he even believes?
00:21:11.900 It's all so wishy-washy.
00:21:13.180 But isn't that all the more reason to shut up if you're not really revved up by something?
00:21:18.420 Does Andrew Scheer really believe it's his role now as the leader of the opposition
00:21:22.640 or if he wins the election and becomes prime minister,
00:21:26.980 is it really his role to be a running commentator on foreign affairs?
00:21:30.740 To be a pundit?
00:21:32.180 Not just foreign affairs.
00:21:33.260 There might be a place for that, actually.
00:21:34.540 But on domestic affairs in other countries, this was a squabble between Trump and some Democrats.
00:21:38.840 Why did Andrew Scheer feel the need to denounce Trump?
00:21:42.700 Why don't you say, I'm going to have a different approach to foreign affairs than Justin Trudeau?
00:21:46.240 A little more professional, a little bit less personal slights.
00:21:50.800 Or even just what I said before, our foreign affairs will be guided by promoting Canada's interests,
00:21:55.240 not by virtue signaling about political leaders in other countries.
00:21:58.760 I'll leave that to the pundits.
00:21:59.880 Or whatever.
00:22:00.680 Or whatever.
00:22:01.740 How about just saying, that's a question I'll leave to the media.
00:22:04.700 That's a question I'll leave to Americans.
00:22:06.440 My views are well known.
00:22:07.740 I'm just even just letting it pass.
00:22:09.380 I think I know why.
00:22:12.280 In fact, I'm sure I know why.
00:22:13.240 It's because Andrew Scheer is afraid of the media.
00:22:16.300 He's afraid of what the media will say about him if he doesn't denounce Trump or whoever else that the media happens to hate that day.
00:22:23.580 Including us here at The Rebel, of course.
00:22:25.420 As you know, Andrew Scheer's senior staff have told me personally,
00:22:27.940 that's the only reason he won't give us interviews anymore.
00:22:31.740 Andrew Scheer's worried that the mean girls of the media party will criticize him if he even talks to us.
00:22:37.000 In a way, that's even more pitiful than Justin Trudeau's Trump bashing.
00:22:41.500 At least Trudeau means it.
00:22:44.060 Scheer is just copying the cool kids so they're not mean to him.
00:22:48.820 You know, one day Donald Trump and the giant elephant of the United States will notice the little mouse squeaking at them again and again.
00:23:00.240 And that elephant will swat back at Trudeau, but he'll hit all of us too.
00:23:03.740 If I worked in one of the few remaining automobile factories in Canada, I'd be worried about that.
00:23:10.440 I really would.
00:23:11.840 Stay with us for more on this with Lone Country.
00:23:14.280 I think Canadians and indeed people around the world know exactly what I think about those particular comments.
00:23:38.980 That is not how we do things in Canada.
00:23:41.120 A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian, and the diversity of our country is actually one of our greatest strengths
00:23:48.080 and a source of tremendous resilience and pride for Canadians, and we will continue to defend that.
00:23:53.980 Well, that was Justin Trudeau earlier today.
00:23:56.820 As you saw in my monologue, he went much further,
00:24:00.120 saying that Donald Trump's comments were unacceptable, offensive, and not allowed in Canada.
00:24:08.260 I'm not quite sure what that means, but I do know that trying to weigh into a domestic partisan political dispute
00:24:16.980 is the job of pundits like me, but not the jobs of prime ministers.
00:24:22.900 And it made me think of this column by Lauren Gunter in the Edmonton Sun.
00:24:27.120 And the headline is, Liberals have no clue how to avoid conflicts, solve crises they've created.
00:24:34.880 And I think this is a perfect example of that.
00:24:37.720 Joining us now to talk about the column is its author, Lauren Gunter, with the Edmonton Sun.
00:24:42.500 Lauren, great to see you again.
00:24:44.380 It's like you were prescient, because I think you wrote this yesterday,
00:24:48.360 today, and then today Trudeau doubled down on his earlier remarks, basically calling Trump a racist.
00:24:56.520 Yeah, and, you know, there's no prescience on my part.
00:25:00.580 You just write something like that about Trudeau, and within seven to ten days,
00:25:04.880 he's going to do something stupid to prove you're right.
00:25:08.500 Now, in this case, it took less than 24 hours, but nonetheless, this is just what they do.
00:25:14.800 They step in cow pies of their own devising over and over and over again.
00:25:19.940 You know, these comments are something he has no business referring to, making, passing judgment on,
00:25:27.580 because they're completely domestic.
00:25:29.440 They're entirely internal.
00:25:30.920 They are American politics, one side fighting another.
00:25:34.880 I think that what Trump said was racist.
00:25:38.000 I think it was stupid.
00:25:39.100 But I am not the prime minister, and I don't have the benefits of his office,
00:25:43.500 and he doesn't have the benefits of our jobs, where we can comment on things like this.
00:25:48.760 He has to have some form of diplomacy.
00:25:51.140 And if you want to know a practical, real-world reason why this little teacher guy
00:25:58.600 shouldn't be speaking out like this, it's what's happening in China right now.
00:26:03.580 We have two Canadians who are in prison, and I would say have been imprisoned illegally
00:26:09.220 by the Chinese dictatorship, and they are – we need the Americans' help to get them out.
00:26:15.260 Now, they are there in part because we did what the Americans asked us to do
00:26:19.840 in arresting the Huawei executive who is now under house arrest in Vancouver.
00:26:25.620 In retaliation for us doing that, at the behest of the Americans,
00:26:30.720 the Chinese arrested a Canadian diplomat and a Canadian businessman.
00:26:34.960 We need the Americans to say quietly or forcefully in public,
00:26:40.020 look, you've got to let those Canadians out.
00:26:41.540 This fight is between you and us.
00:26:42.960 They're just doing what we ask them to do according to an international treaty
00:26:46.520 of which they are a part.
00:26:48.120 Leave their people out of this.
00:26:49.460 That's what we need the Americans to do.
00:26:51.180 They're not doing that, though, because about every six months,
00:26:55.700 Trudeau can't keep his mouth shut, and he says something that offends Donald Trump.
00:27:01.820 I don't care what you think of Trump.
00:27:03.540 I don't care whether you like him or not, whether you think he's a hothead,
00:27:07.060 whether you think he should have thicker skin than to be offended by stuff Trudeau says.
00:27:13.060 The point is we need his help.
00:27:16.460 Trudeau knows we need his help, and he can't stop virtue signaling,
00:27:20.460 no matter what.
00:27:22.100 Those two guys are languishing in a Chinese prison because Trudeau can't keep his yap shut.
00:27:28.380 You know, you made me think about Stephen Harper and Barack Obama,
00:27:33.360 whose terms in office overlapped for a great period of time.
00:27:37.540 In every possible way, those men were opposites,
00:27:41.380 intellectually, aesthetically, historically, ideologically, of course.
00:27:48.080 And you never heard a single hard word from Harper towards Obama,
00:27:53.940 and you know that there were a lot of troubling issues.
00:27:58.680 And ironically, both Vladimir Putin and China's presidents,
00:28:05.720 against whom Harper was tougher than Trudeau,
00:28:09.620 they both treated Canada with more respect, too.
00:28:13.220 And last point about Obama, it's true we didn't get the Keystone XL approved,
00:28:18.580 but Obama felt like he owed Harper enough deference that he didn't actually kill the deal
00:28:23.600 until shortly after Trudeau took office.
00:28:26.580 If Stephen Harper can bite his tongue for nine years or eight years,
00:28:31.280 Trudeau could maybe practice that for six months.
00:28:34.060 Yeah, absolutely. He could try.
00:28:35.860 And you know what?
00:28:36.540 He was, of course, as we all know, a drama teacher.
00:28:40.460 He was an actor.
00:28:42.280 All he needs to do is be an actor.
00:28:44.540 He needs to act like a prime minister.
00:28:46.820 Yeah.
00:28:47.040 But he can't do that.
00:28:49.200 His operating methods are so based on virtue signaling.
00:28:55.480 Yeah.
00:28:55.700 He doesn't understand policy in particular.
00:28:58.640 He's not a deep thinker.
00:28:59.980 What he is is somebody who goes around and just virtue signals.
00:29:04.720 Oh, I'm going to show you that I care about gender equity.
00:29:08.320 I'm going to show I'm going to say things that make you think that I care about indigenous reconciliation.
00:29:13.960 I'm going to say things because you say Donald Trump is a racist and I think he is one, too.
00:29:19.200 I'm just going to say things so that you know that I'm not like that.
00:29:22.940 I'm tolerant.
00:29:24.080 I'm understanding.
00:29:25.560 I, I, I, superior, superior, superior.
00:29:27.920 It's, it's egotism in a sort of passive aggressive way.
00:29:32.860 And it's just infuriating.
00:29:34.840 Yeah.
00:29:35.060 You know what?
00:29:36.240 A lot of the people in Trudeau's cabinet come from the same circuit.
00:29:41.680 They, they all do the TED talks, which is shallow cliches that, but haven't really done things.
00:29:47.460 Chrystia Freeland, the foreign minister, is a classic case of that.
00:29:50.640 You know, in the middle of the USMCA, the, the, the NAFTA renegotiations, she went to
00:29:56.440 a rally in Toronto called, you know, standing up to the tyrant.
00:30:02.920 The word tyrant was in the title and the opening video clip was about Donald Trump and she was
00:30:07.760 on stage.
00:30:08.520 She's going to anti-Trump rallies in Toronto while she's negotiating with Trump.
00:30:14.800 And, and so many of them just think their job is being a pundit or a spokesman because
00:30:20.520 that's all they ever did before they were in, in office.
00:30:23.700 None of them actually had to run things other than run their mouth, which they're still doing.
00:30:27.900 Yeah, absolutely.
00:30:28.900 And, and as I said, the real world consequences of that are obvious in this case, because
00:30:34.400 we have two Canadians who are facing indefinite imprisonment in China under probably fairly
00:30:41.720 strenuous condition.
00:30:42.780 I wouldn't say they're being tortured.
00:30:44.200 I wouldn't say they're not.
00:30:45.360 I don't think they are, but they're not in a nice, clean, comfortable prison where they're
00:30:50.900 watching CNN International and other English language services and have contact with the
00:30:56.320 outside world and get to use their iPads.
00:30:58.340 They're, they're in basically solitary confinement in apparently in rooms where the lights are
00:31:04.480 never turned off.
00:31:05.680 You don't know whether it's day or night.
00:31:07.100 There's no windows to the outside.
00:31:09.280 And, and that is a direct result, not entirely of Trudeau running his mouth off, but we are
00:31:16.540 not any closer to getting them out as a result of the fact that the prime minister can't keep
00:31:22.360 his yap shut.
00:31:23.360 Yeah.
00:31:23.760 Yeah.
00:31:24.200 You just made me think of a quote and I just called it up on my phone here for one
00:31:28.320 second.
00:31:29.200 Uh, but 400 years ago, a British diplomat said this and, and it's, it's the truth.
00:31:35.600 What can you, what can you say?
00:31:36.780 Sir Henry Watton said, an ambassador is an honest gentleman sent to lie abroad for the
00:31:46.640 good of his country.
00:31:47.300 Now there's a play on words there, lie abroad.
00:31:49.840 That's how they used to, battleships would turn sideways and all the, the cannons.
00:31:54.500 So lie abroad.
00:31:55.780 Also, there was a double entendre there.
00:31:58.620 Oh, a battleship turning its guns.
00:32:00.740 Also, you're going abroad to lie.
00:32:03.300 So it was a, it was a British pun, but it was true that your job as a diplomat, your job
00:32:10.580 as an ambassador, your job with foreign countries is to do whatever it takes to get your country's
00:32:15.720 interests ahead.
00:32:16.460 Um, who was it who said countries don't have permanent allies, only permanent interests.
00:32:20.620 And with America, we have interests.
00:32:22.960 Get those two lads home from China, get things fixed with India, get things back on track,
00:32:28.640 whatever we, whatever that is with the Saudis.
00:32:31.940 Everything, Brazil, Brazil.
00:32:34.560 So you know what, when, when the new president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro won a stunning victory
00:32:39.720 a few months ago, Justin Trudeau's press release was so snide and curt, it refused to even mention
00:32:47.360 the president by name, let alone congratulate him.
00:32:51.060 It was, you know, the very first day he's president, Trudeau's insulting him.
00:32:56.560 Why?
00:32:57.600 Why?
00:32:58.140 You're not a pundit on Twitter.
00:33:00.140 How about just lie abroad?
00:33:01.560 How about just be, like you say, be an actor for five minutes.
00:33:05.540 And when, and when you're offline, you can vent to your staff in private.
00:33:10.100 You know, there's a very good example of, of when you can be a public virtue signaler,
00:33:16.760 uh, with, with Venezuela at the moment, because our allies in the Western hemisphere are also
00:33:25.180 prepared to say publicly that the regime in Venezuela has no legitimacy anymore and should
00:33:32.340 step aside, we can join in on that.
00:33:35.400 Yeah.
00:33:35.980 But if we're just going to sit in Ottawa and tweet as Chrystia Freeland did about the Saudis
00:33:41.620 last summer and annoy them.
00:33:44.140 Yeah.
00:33:44.940 What have we accomplished?
00:33:46.160 Yeah.
00:33:47.020 We, Freeland had tried to, well, I shouldn't say try, Freeland tweeted about the Saudis arresting
00:33:55.840 human rights activists when they arrested a woman who has connections to Canada.
00:34:02.620 And, uh, what did that get us?
00:34:05.940 Did that get her any closer to freedom?
00:34:07.960 She is probably deeper into the Saudi penal system now than she ever was before we started
00:34:13.760 mouthing off.
00:34:14.800 Yeah.
00:34:15.000 And there's sometimes you get to mouth off.
00:34:17.820 Sometimes as a leader, you get to take the hard stand.
00:34:20.740 Yeah.
00:34:20.860 Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
00:34:24.000 Yeah.
00:34:24.300 I mean, that's a very good example of it, but you don't get to, to run around and, and
00:34:30.000 just say, well, Donald Trump, he's a racist.
00:34:32.400 We all know that.
00:34:33.100 And, and, and to do it in a, in a kind of cowardly, juvenile, passive aggressive kind of
00:34:39.700 way.
00:34:40.180 Well, everyone knows where I stand on this.
00:34:43.360 And that's not the way we do it in Canada.
00:34:46.200 He wouldn't actually come out and say, no, I think Trump said racist things.
00:34:49.740 Yeah.
00:34:50.140 That would be too bold.
00:34:51.280 Yeah.
00:34:51.520 So he just does that demure.
00:34:52.920 Well, no, I'm not going to say what we all know to be true.
00:34:56.600 I, I know I wouldn't do that.
00:34:58.600 And you know, I wouldn't do that.
00:34:59.900 And isn't that what makes me better?
00:35:01.860 Yeah.
00:35:02.320 You know, I think that for the first few years of his administration, I mean, Trudeau
00:35:08.200 is surrounded by yes men.
00:35:09.380 Absolutely.
00:35:09.940 There's no older hand there.
00:35:12.240 Like there's no one in cabinet.
00:35:13.580 There's no one in his PMO who is an old gray haired man who says, you know what boss, we
00:35:20.880 got to fix this one.
00:35:21.960 The closest thing he had to that was his age mate and personal friend since college, Gerald
00:35:26.920 Butts, who's gone now.
00:35:28.000 So there's no one who's been through this for 40 years that can say, oh, we had this
00:35:33.060 case back in.
00:35:34.020 He does.
00:35:34.260 He does have Ralph Goodale.
00:35:35.820 Well, I don't know why Ralph isn't more influential on these.
00:35:38.620 Well, I mean, if that's the best you got, but I'm talking about someone, I'm talking
00:35:44.220 about a senior hand in the PMO who's looking at 10 files.
00:35:48.240 And the reason I say that is because without that internal critic and without media criticism
00:35:55.580 for three years until Jody Wilson Rabel broke the fever, the media was so loving that
00:36:01.940 I think Justin Trudeau never got negative feedback.
00:36:04.820 So he assumed all this was great.
00:36:07.120 So he would do that virtue signaling and the media would clap.
00:36:09.860 I remember stories at the CBC on his socks, story after story on his socks.
00:36:14.780 And so he'd say, oh, this is really working.
00:36:16.780 And there's that gorgeous image of him at NATO showing Angela Merkel his socks and Angela Merkel
00:36:21.680 is looking for a second.
00:36:23.140 And she must be thinking, like whatever else you think about her, she is a grave woman
00:36:28.180 with serious thoughts.
00:36:30.520 I don't like her one bit, but she's not a child.
00:36:33.420 She's not a childish girl.
00:36:35.140 No, no, no.
00:36:35.960 But you know what?
00:36:37.180 It's not just the media.
00:36:38.520 And I want to go back to an incident that happened, I think, two days after Trudeau was
00:36:43.360 sworn in as prime minister in November 2015.
00:36:46.060 He goes to the Pearson block, which is the headquarters for foreign affairs or global affairs
00:36:52.200 Canada.
00:36:52.720 And there's an atrium there and there are people lined around the rim of this on every floor.
00:37:00.120 And he walks in.
00:37:01.220 These are bureaucrats.
00:37:03.440 Their job is to dispassionately and unbiased, in an unbiased way, perform what the government
00:37:09.740 of the day asks them to do on foreign affairs.
00:37:12.380 And they erupt into cheering.
00:37:15.000 It is so obvious that they think, oh, thank God the Harper years are over.
00:37:20.600 Now we get to go back to those great, wonderful Trudeau days.
00:37:24.140 And they are so biased and so clearly in his pocket.
00:37:29.360 And that's another group that never told him no.
00:37:32.560 And that's a group that should have said to you, should have said to him, Mr. Prime Minister,
00:37:38.020 you cannot anger the US president at the very time that we need him to lean on the Chinese
00:37:44.420 to get our two Canadians out of prison.
00:37:46.620 But they don't, I think, even go after him because they are so enamored of the Trudeau mystique
00:37:54.420 that they're not even giving him good advice.
00:37:57.540 Yeah.
00:37:58.180 You know, it's and that whole India debacle, no one would dare say, hey, boss, maybe don't
00:38:04.880 dress up like you're going to an Indian wedding because Indians don't dress up like they're
00:38:10.120 going to an Indian wedding unless they're at an Indian wedding.
00:38:13.220 Bollywood star, you know, that was so embarrassing.
00:38:17.500 And they should have told him and didn't.
00:38:19.220 They just they just couldn't.
00:38:20.820 No one was there to say the emperor has too much clothes.
00:38:24.620 The emperor has the wrong clothes.
00:38:26.520 And so now it's all coming out.
00:38:27.760 I tell you, Lauren, it's a great column in the Edmonton Sun, folks.
00:38:30.540 I encourage you to pick up the Edmonton Sun and read Lauren every day.
00:38:33.500 But this is a really good one.
00:38:35.080 Well, one day Donald Trump is going to poke us back.
00:38:39.860 And I worry about that day.
00:38:42.240 And, you know, the other thing that they have to keep in mind in Ottawa, especially among
00:38:45.440 the liberals, is that I would say at this point, Donald Trump is the odds on favorite
00:38:51.960 to win the 2020 presidential election.
00:38:54.760 And they might have to deal with him for another four years.
00:38:56.860 So they had better not be smug about it.
00:38:58.680 Yeah.
00:38:59.400 Lauren, great to see you.
00:39:00.160 Thanks for giving us so much time.
00:39:02.380 You bet.
00:39:02.820 All right.
00:39:03.120 Nice to see you, my friend.
00:39:04.080 Well, there you have it.
00:39:04.600 Lauren Gunter of the Edmonton Sun.
00:39:06.820 Stay with us.
00:39:07.860 More ahead on The Rebel.
00:39:08.640 Hey, welcome back.
00:39:20.560 On my monologue yesterday about Trudeau's new anti-pipeline law, Liza writes,
00:39:24.720 we all know that there will be no pipeline with a Trudeau in power.
00:39:28.640 Yeah.
00:39:29.140 I mean, it's construction season.
00:39:31.260 It's the summertime.
00:39:32.320 Now is when you build.
00:39:34.040 And there ain't no building going on.
00:39:35.580 It was a $4.5 billion payment to kick the can down the road.
00:39:39.520 There's not going to be any pipelines.
00:39:41.740 Bob writes, another way to look at how horrible C-69 was conceived and written was the huge
00:39:47.140 number of amendments required to make it somewhat viable.
00:39:50.320 Instead, the apologists focus on the number accepted as some kind of validation of the Senate.
00:39:55.580 You're exactly right, Bob.
00:39:57.140 But as I showed you, they were trivial and incidental amendments.
00:40:00.960 The heart of it remains, the commission must use insane criteria to approve pipelines now
00:40:07.320 like sexuality and gender identity and other grievances and others.
00:40:14.320 It's right in the law.
00:40:16.500 On the imprisonment of Tommy Robinson, Stan writes,
00:40:19.760 no one is answering the question that I'm sure must be on all his supporters' minds.
00:40:23.660 Is Tommy getting enough safe food to eat?
00:40:25.880 You have contacts.
00:40:26.740 Can you get someone to answer this question?
00:40:31.000 Thank you, Stan.
00:40:32.800 I can find someone to answer the question.
00:40:35.580 And really, there's very, very few people I trust to ask the question and get it answered.
00:40:41.280 And in fact, I'm the only one I trust because I want to see with my own eyes.
00:40:47.760 And I want to ask him if he's getting enough food, if he's being tortured in any way,
00:40:53.320 if he's getting death threats.
00:40:54.660 I want to ask him and I want to see him with my own eyes.
00:40:58.880 And so, in fact, on Tuesday, I am going to Belmarsh Prison in the United Kingdom.
00:41:05.560 And I am scheduled to meet him in the prison.
00:41:08.820 I haven't been to a prison since I was a young law student.
00:41:12.880 I worked on a small criminal matter.
00:41:15.160 And I did not like going to prison.
00:41:16.600 And that was a very mild prison in Edmonton.
00:41:20.020 Belmarsh Prison is where the terrorists and mass murderers are.
00:41:22.620 And that's insane in itself that Tommy's being held there.
00:41:25.260 So I will give you a personal report.
00:41:28.280 And I will let you know how it goes.
00:41:30.080 And I will tell you the truth.
00:41:32.180 And whatever it is, if he's well treated, if he's poorly treated.
00:41:35.020 I can't believe he's well treated.
00:41:36.860 I hear he's in isolation.
00:41:38.540 I want to know what that means.
00:41:39.620 I'll give you the full report.
00:41:41.560 All right.
00:41:42.020 That's the show for today.
00:41:43.280 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,
00:41:47.560 good night.
00:41:47.900 And keep fighting for freedom while you still can.
00:41:49.840 Thank you.