Trudeau jeopardizes our relationship with India (again)
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Today is Pearl Harbor Day, and Ezra uses that as a news peg to talk about a story of Justin Trudeau getting involved in the smallest battle in history, a quarrel between India and its farmers. I don t know why Trudeau is taking a stand, but he says some curious things.
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Hello, my Rebels. Today is Pearl Harbor Day. It's the anniversary of that fateful day
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that got the United States embroiled in the largest war in history.
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I use that as a news peg to talk about a story of Justin Trudeau
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getting involved in the smallest battle in history, a quarrel between
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India and its farmers. I don't know why Trudeau is taking a stand, but he says
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some curious things that I'd like to expand on. It's a strange
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story, but you'll hear it in a moment. Before I do, let me invite you to become a Rebel News
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Tonight, why should you care about farmers in India? I've got a few reasons. It's December
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody
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It's Pearl Harbor Day today, a day of infamy, as Roosevelt called it. It was enough to turn
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America from an isolationist country to the world's biggest warrior. A Japanese admiral
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I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
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That's true, but remember that it took that much to rouse America to the war. It was already
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December 7th, 1941. The war had been raging for more than two years. America was participating
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rather passively, sending weapons to the UK, but for two years, the British Empire and its allies
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pretty much fought alone. The Battle of Britain was in 1940. Germany actually turned around and
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invaded Russia in the summer of 1941. Neither of those things sent the US to war. Only Pearl Harbor did.
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There's a noble tradition of the United States staying out of world affairs. You might laugh
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about that because America now has more military bases around the world than all other countries
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combined. America has a more powerful military force than all countries combined, at least
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qualitatively, at least for now. But the tradition is non-interventionism. Here's Thomas Jefferson
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at his inauguration as president in 1801. He said,
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peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.
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That's what Trump has tried to do. He just simply hasn't started any new wars.
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And he's done his best to end some of them, bringing home many troops from places like Afghanistan and
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Syria and Somalia, doing a peace deal amongst Israel and some of its Arab neighbors, trying to do a deal
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with North Korea. I much prefer that approach to the bullying, smash-everything-in-sight approach of
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Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, which we will surely see again if Joe Biden becomes the next president.
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Yeah, that cackle. That woman turned Africa into a terrorist continent and launched millions of refugees
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into Europe and the West with that cackle. You break it, you buy it. She broke Libya and Egypt and
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the rest of the Arab world, but didn't stick around for the mess. There's a lot to be said for
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non-interventionism. Are you really going to invade every country in the world with whom you disagree?
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Are you a policeman to the world now? That's an empire, not a country. And there is such a thing
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as imperial overstretch. Afghanistan is already America's longest war. May I ask what has been
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accomplished by that staggering expenditure of blood and treasure, including, by the way, 158 Canadians who
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died there? Why again? Those are heavy thoughts to look at the latest international gaffe by Justin
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Trudeau, who is a real lightweight. No, don't worry, he hasn't started a new war. But for some reason,
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he felt the need to weigh into another country's domestic affairs. Here's a story about a disagreement
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in India in regards to its farmers. Now, I'm not even going to research it. You can if you care about it.
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I don't know which side is right. I don't even know what the different sides are. There might be
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more than two sides. I just know deep in my bones that it has nothing to do with me and my life and
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nothing to do with Canada. It's very lively over there, I grant you that. But it is not our affair.
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Just like we wouldn't want India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, however much we might admire him,
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we wouldn't want him to weigh in on any matter regarding our Canadian farmers. It's just not
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his business. It's not India's business. And yet, here we are. I would be remiss if I didn't start
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also by recognizing the news coming out of India about the protest by farmers. The situation is
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concerning. And we're all very worried about family and friends. I know that's the reality for many of
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you. Let me remind you, Canada will always be there to defend the right of peaceful protest.
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We believe in the importance of dialogue. And that's why we've reached out through multiple
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means directly to the Indian authorities to highlight our concerns. So Trudeau isn't just weighing in
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to the matter of Indian farmers. Say, do you think he actually knows anything about it? Do you think
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he's read up on it? Being briefed on it? Canvassed the issue deeply? Learned his history? Of course not.
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He doesn't even read Canadian matters that deeply. It would be absurd for him to learn that subject
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inside out instead of, say, I don't know, learning about the lack of clean drinking water on Canadian
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Indian reserves? A broken promise five years old now? But boy, he had his strong opinions.
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So does Narendra Modi, though. Trudeau has already insulted India so many times,
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including during his bizarre trip there where he dressed up every day like a different Bollywood
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dancer and made a fool out of himself. Oh, and he just happened to bring along a convicted
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terrorist too. Nice touch. By the way, Trudeau managed the feat of simultaneously not knowing what
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he was talking about and also lying. I would be remiss if I didn't start also by recognizing
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the news coming out of India about the protest by farmers. The situation is concerning and we're all
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very worried about family and friends. I know that's the reality for many of you. Let me remind
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you, Canada will always be there to defend the right of peaceful protest. We believe in the importance
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of dialogue. And that's why we've reached out through multiple means directly to the Indian
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authorities to highlight our concerns. You see, he in fact does not allow peaceful protests. He does
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not stand up for protests. His personal staff instructed the RCMP to kick out our reporter,
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Kian Bextie, from a press conference. That's not even a peaceful protest. That's just reporting.
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Trudeau won't allow that. So he was ignorant and lying. Hey, maybe I can get Narendra Modi to
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name and shame Trudeau over that. The way Trudeau is poking Modi about the farmers. Maybe Trudeau would
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care more about civil liberties here at home. But yet I see that many Indian expats here in Canada
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are revved up about this farmers issue. They're obviously following the news back in their home
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country. I get it. Nostalgia maybe. Maybe some family connections. Maybe some lingering partisan thing.
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Or perhaps just as likely they don't like Modi. And so they want to embarrass him like Trudeau wants
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to embarrass him. Look, if you live in Canada and you want to protest farming policy in India,
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I'm not going to complain too loudly. I mean, compared to some of the other expat protests we see in
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Canada, farmer policy is about as peaceful as it gets. I mean, remember this protest that David
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Menzies covered here in Toronto. What would happen to a gay couple in Gaza? They executed according to
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Islamic law. Islam doesn't endorse gayism. Islam doesn't endorse homosexuality. Okay, so would you
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like to see Sharia law in Canada replace Canadian law? At some point it will. You know, because we are
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we have families. We are making babies. You're not. Your population is going down the slump. Right?
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By 2016 Muslims will be the biggest religious group the world over. Right. What are you going to do
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then? Actually. You can go post Sharia even then? So if you haven't picked up my point yet, I don't
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really care about farming in India. I generally support Narendra Modi, but it's none of my business.
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I think the protests here may be in good faith or maybe political opponents of Modi's. Again, I don't
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really care. I am more worried about Canada's farmers, to be candid. But Trudeau weighed in,
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the fool, jeopardizing our relationship. Again, that fool. But my real concern is this. Look,
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look at this. Hundreds, maybe thousands of people protesting about Indian farmers and not a single
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ticket. No ticket for illegal gatherings in the pandemic. No lack of social distancing. No organizing
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a get-together. No, no tickets at all. I mean, you didn't really think that Justin Trudeau's RCMP
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under his handpicked RCMP commission was going to ticket Trudeau's political allies. Or let's be
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candid, ticket any visible minorities or immigrants. Did you? I mean, that would look terrible on Prime
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Minister Blackface. Trudeau literally took a knee with Black Lives Matter, a U.S. pressure group with
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no roots or ties to Canada. Trudeau's RCMP take the knee too. They don't give out tickets to Black
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Lives Matter protests. They don't ticket hundreds of farmers protesting this weekend or non-farmers
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protesting farmers back in India, whatever. But police were very busy this weekend handing out
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tickets to citizens who were sitting in their cars, windows rolled up, all alone, going to a church
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service where they literally parked in a parking lot and listened to the pastor on their radios.
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So maybe the police were too busy ticketing them. Or in Calgary, ticketing a small anti-lockdown
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protest there. There's tickets for restaurant owners. There's tickets for gym owners. There's
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tickets for anyone the government doesn't like. There are a lot of tickets for Christians at church.
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Hey, you know what? I think, I think, I think, now that I think about it,
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I think, I suppose those, I support those Indian farmers after all. I take it all back.
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Hey, you guys, when you have your next 500 car rally in support of Indian farmers,
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can you do us a favor and do it in a church parking lot? I'm serious. I'm sure they'd welcome you.
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Because that's the only way I can think of to get Justin Trudeau and his political RCMP to stop
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Welcome back. Well, we've spoken several times with our friend, Alam Bokhari,
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the senior tech correspondent at Breitbart.com, about how the big tech companies ranging from the
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search engines like Google, YouTube's also a search engine, by the way, also owned by Google,
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and the rest of them, Twitter, Facebook, put their thumb on the scale and shifted potentially
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millions of votes away from Donald Trump towards Joe Biden. But that's not the only tilting of the
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playing field that happened. A new e-book written by Alam's colleague, our friend Joel Pollack,
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senior editor-of-arge of Breitbart, makes the point. The new book available out tomorrow
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is called Neither Free Nor Fair, the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. And joining us now to talk
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about what he means is our friend Joel Pollack. Joel, great to see you. Congratulations. You move
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quickly. I see on Amazon, the book's a 178-page e-book. That's a lot of writing for just a few weeks.
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Tell me the different sections of your book. I see in your blurb, you say, even without voter fraud,
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which as of this writing remains unproven, the conditions of the election violated the free
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and fair standard. Putting aside voter fraud, tell me how this election was not fair.
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Well, first of all, voter fraud happens during the voting. The voting is obviously the most important
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part of an election, but it is the last thing that happens aside from the counting, voting and
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counting. Those are the last things that happen. An election is actually much longer than that. It's a
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process. And we judge the quality of an election based on the entire process, not just the polls and
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the counting. And if you look at the U.S. presidential election overall, there were several
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things that made it unfree and unfair. The most important of these was the widespread adoption of
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vote by mail at the behest of Democrats and over the objections of Republicans right in the middle of
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the election. So that made it unfair from the start. But there were other factors as well. One of them
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was political violence. We had widespread political violence in this country, largely carried out by
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the left and covered up or excused by the media. They say, well, only a small percentage of the Black
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Lives Matter protests were violent. Well, that's hundreds of riots. And they took place in 48 out of
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50 large U.S. cities. So that had a definite impact, especially when you combine it with the cancel
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culture. Seventy seven percent of Republicans reported they were afraid to share their political
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views. And if they did, they feared losing their jobs. They feared losing their security. They feared
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losing their social media accounts. So this is not an environment in which you can really conduct a free
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and fair election. Then you've got the censorship. And Alam talked about big tech intervening in the
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election through changing search algorithms and other kinds of interventions. But we saw it right out in
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the open with the Hunter Biden laptop story when Twitter and Facebook suppressed that story and
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suspended the New York Post, in Twitter's case, from using its own account for more than two weeks.
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Even people who shared the story, like Kayleigh McEnany, the press secretary for the president of the
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United States, she was locked out of her account. We've never seen anything like this in the history of
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American elections or really at any other time other than war. You can think of maybe the Civil War and
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Abraham Lincoln imposing various kinds of censorship, martial law, that sort of thing, just to keep the
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country in line during a civil upheaval. But we've never seen anything quite like this. And you added a
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whole bunch of other factors. The fact that the Commission on Presidential Debates, for example, was slanted
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against Trump. One of the moderators conspired with one of Trump's most vociferous public opponents. All of this
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added together made the election unfree and unfair. Now, that doesn't mean we should throw out the results
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because most of these things that happened were also legal. The abuses were legal. There are some
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exceptions. The violent riots and so forth, that was illegal. But you can argue that those were answered
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by their own backlash. There's significant evidence that voters, particularly Hispanic voters, pushed back
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against the whole defund the police movement and the riots by voting against Democrats, as did other
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voters. So in that sense, Democrats' failure to denounce the violence had a self-correcting feature
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in that voters turned out against Democrats. But other aspects of this could not be corrected. How do
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you correct the censorship? How do you correct the extreme media bias? How do you correct the Commission
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on Presidential Debates? Do you try to have other debates? I mean, this is a real problem. And we have a lot
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to do to fix our elections going forward. Yeah. I mean, I remember we talked about this before,
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changing the rules of the game mid-game. And it explains so much about the pandemic mania. I mean,
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there was a period of time when the pandemic was deeply unknown. The risk was unknown and anything was
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possible. That was March, April, May. But by the time November came around, and by the way, Black Lives Matter
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protests, every left-wing activist on the street sort of proved that even that side wasn't really taking
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the risk seriously. But if that was used as the premise to say, OK, we get to mail in votes now,
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all of a sudden the pandemic mania starts to make a lot more sense, not just to politically throw
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controversy at the president, to depress the economy, but to allow millions and millions of vote-from-home
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vote-by-mail. I think you're right. Let me ask you, do you think that these problems exist for the
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Georgia senatorial runoffs? It couldn't be closer in the Senate, two seats up for grabs in Georgia.
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If the Democrats take it, they have the House, the Senate, and the presidency. They hint that they'll
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change everything, including the Supreme Court. Do you think some of the problems you've just outlined
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are at play in this crucial, crucial Georgia Senate runoff?
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Yes, they are. There is evidence that tech companies, for example, are suppressing conservative
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news about the Georgia runoffs. Georgia also has a flawed election system that was made flawed by
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Democrats who sued the Georgia state government and obtained these ridiculous settlements, we call them
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consent decrees that imposed new rules on the voting. They made it almost impossible to check absentee ballots
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against the signatures on file for those voters. That's unconstitutional. There are also many ways in which
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private actors are investing in Georgia to help Democratic counties turn out the vote. That's unfair, probably
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illegal, and also unconstitutional. All these things are still in place. Plus, you have the conviction among many
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American voters that the election is rigged, and that's going to depress turnout. I mean, whether
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you want to boycott the vote to send a message, which is a terrible idea, but some people have talked
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about it, or you want to vote to send a message that you don't stand for voter fraud, this question of
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whether the election was fair or not really hangs over everything. Now, people are focused on the
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Dominion voting machines and some of these other challenges, ballots in suitcases under tables.
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I think that's a way of talking about a real problem with examples that might not actually
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pan out. I think the real problem is that the election was unfree and unfair, and the way people
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are expressing that is by focusing on specific examples that they believe to have been abused
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or cases of abuse. But I think that the fact that Republicans are convinced the election was rigged
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in November is definitely a disadvantage heading into the January 5th runoffs. The Democratic candidates in
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this election are really rather poor. Neither has held political office before. Neither is particularly
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good at anything. John Ossoff is basically a perpetual candidate running and losing. This guy,
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Raphael Warnock, is a reverend from a church. He's well-liked, I guess, in the faith community,
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but he's got radical political views that really don't belong in Washington. These are very weak
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candidates, but they're going to be helped by the Democrats' turnout operation, by rules the Democrats
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have sued to make that given advantage to the Democrats, and also by this demoralization among
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Republican voters that even with a red wave like we saw in November, they can't seem to win.
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Yeah. I know that Donald Trump just had a big rally, and he said, hey, everybody, go out and vote. This
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is the most important election in memory for the Senate, I think he said. Is there a defeatism? Are
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people saying, well, he's a lame duck president, he's done, he's lost, who cares? We lost, let's just
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go home. Is that the demoralization? Or are people saying, no, let's fight one more time for our hero?
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Like, what's the mood for Republicans? It's a mix of both. I think President Trump did a great job
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on Saturday in energizing the base and making it clear to them that he considers a vote for these
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Republican Senate candidates to be a vote for him as well. And there's a lot of anger among Republicans
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at the Georgia state officials who ran the election, but they're not on this ballot. This is a runoff
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election only for the Senate candidates. So Trump is saying, send a message to the Georgia state
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officials you don't like by voting for these Republicans you do like in the Senate race.
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So Trump is helping. But there is also a sense that no matter how much we do, we can't win. And
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it's very, very frustrating for Republicans who are trying to turn off the vote.
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Joel, I see today that Sidney Powell, the lawyer who worked for General Flynn and who has been
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making very audacious statements about Dominion voting machines and fraud, I see that two of her
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lawsuits have been rejected. Are there other lawsuits by the Trump campaign that you think
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have a valid shot of winning? Sidney Powell can tell a dramatic story that is very politically
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motivating, but it sounds like it didn't get through the legal hurdles. Are there any more
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legal challenges out there that you think have a shot? Yes, I actually have an appendix in this
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ebook, which lists all of the major legal challenges in the key battleground states. And I do think there
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are a few challenges that have a chance once they get up to the higher levels in the federal courts.
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And we have to look at some of the changes that were made in Pennsylvania, some of the changes that
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were made in Georgia, and some of the problems in Nevada. Again, the common issue with, I think,
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the most likely legal challenges is that rules were added or changed without the consent of the
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state legislature. Or if they were made by the state legislature, they were unconstitutional. So
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in Pennsylvania, for example, there is a case involving Act 77, which is their vote-by-mail
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statute. And the Republicans who sued said, hey, this law is unconstitutional according to our state
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constitution. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court said, yeah, you're right about that, but you brought this
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lawsuit too late. So they're going to appeal that to the U.S. Supreme Court, which is going to
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take another look at that interpretation of the Pennsylvania state constitution in light of legal
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principles and say, well, wait a minute, you can't really rule this out just because they filed it
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late. Not in terms of some kind of filing deadline, but the argument is they didn't bring up the
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objection when the law was first applied. So they can't bring it up now. There's a doctrine called
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latches in law, and the Supreme Court might say, you know what, it doesn't really apply here.
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So I think where there are legal and constitutional issues involved, that's where you see the Republicans
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and the Trump campaign with their best case. Where you're looking at voting systems, that sort of
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thing, not so good, not so good. Let me point out some of the legal cases filed by the Thomas
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Moore Society. They have this project called Amistad, which has specifically taken up the
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issue of private actors, Mark Zuckerberg in particular, giving hundreds of millions of
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dollars to local governments in democratic counties to improve voter participation. Ostensibly
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nonpartisan, but because these contributions were overwhelmingly spent in democratic counties,
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they violate arguably because of the 14th. So we have, I think, a lot to see in those cases as to
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whether they go further. That was the issue, by the way, that the Gore recount in Florida violated the
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Equal Protection Clause. So these cases have some merit. Time is running out, and we'll know soon enough.
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Well, Joel, listen, I'm thrilled that you've got this book out so quickly. Folks, it goes on sale tomorrow
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as an e-book. You can get it at Amazon. We'll have the link below this story. Very exciting, very nerve-wracking.
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I'm very nervous about Georgia, and I'm not even an American. My God, if the Democrats have all three
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levels, the White House, the Senate, and the House, I think our world is going to change up here in
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Canada, not just in the States. Joel Pollack, good congratulations. The book is called Neither
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Free Nor Fair. I can hardly wait to read it myself. Thank you, Ezra. Thanks for the opportunity.
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All right, all the best. There you have it. Thank you.
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Joel Pollack, Senior Editor-at-Large on Breitbart.com. Stay with us.
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Hey, welcome back on my show on Friday about Brian Pallister. Stewie writes,
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calling people that he's supposed to work for idiots doesn't make you popular. What a surprise.
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Yeah, I don't know if folks outside Manitoba know this, but Brian Pallister has a lovely getaway in
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Costa Rica, and he's always going down there. In fact, there's a bit of a scandal because he
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covered up just how many, I think it was months, a year he spends at his getaway. And listen,
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I mean, I think when your primary job is taking care of, you know, a million and a half people
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in Manitoba, you should probably be in Manitoba. How about go to Costa Rica when you're retired?
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But all of a sudden, his obsession with Costa Rica takes on a new light, given the fact that he's
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telling everyone, don't go outside, don't open your store, don't travel, don't gather.
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Do you really think he's going to skip the love of his life, his Costa Rican getaway this
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Christmas? I don't think so. I just have a hunch. Karen writes, naming and shaming just one of the
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moves before a communist takeover. People say communist, and it brings up images of Soviets with
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their, you know, marching in their hats and their medals or even Chinese communists. But I think
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authoritarian or even totalitarian regimes, we're there already. Tracking people on your smartphone
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app, writing down people's license plate numbers and giving them tickets, snitching on neighbors,
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snitch lines, bizarre rules about who you can and can't celebrate Christmas dinner with.
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That really is what they did in communist Russia and what they do in communist China. So it's,
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the word communist sounds so shocking. It's almost like the word Nazi. It's so loaded historically, but
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communism is sort of what they're doing. Maria writes, yeah, he's the man telling us to stay away
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from our families, yet you can be sure he will be with his own. Not just that, but I wonder which
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country he'll be in, Canada or Costa Rica. You know, we're setting up a website, hopefully it'll be up
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soon, maybe tomorrow or the next day, called photobounty.ca. And what I'm saying to people
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up there is if you capture these politicians in a photograph or hopefully in a video, breaking their
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own rules, send it to us exclusively and we will pay you a bounty like your paparazzi. In the past,
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we had to hire paparazzi to do that. And when I mean we, I mean people in the media 20 years ago,
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smartphones are only about 10 years old, but now everybody can be a paparazzi. If you see a
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politician breaking their own rules, capture it on camera and send it to us and we will have a bounty
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that we pay you. We'll have the website up shortly. All right, folks, that's our show for today. Until
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next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, see you at home. Good night.