Trudeau WANTS to lose NAFTA — so he can blame Trump in the next election
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The NAFTA negotiations just keep getting weirder. Tonight, Justin Trudeau says that a Canadian cultural exemption must stand as part of any renegotiated NAFTA deal, and that an American network should not be allowed to buy Canadian media affiliates.
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Tonight, the NAFTA negotiations just keep getting weirder.
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It's September 5th, and you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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You come here once a year with a sign, and you feel morally superior.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it
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Today looks like it's going to be an important day for Canada
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trying to negotiate our way into the new trade deal
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that Trump has officially served notice that he's canceling.
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I'm recording this video before the full day's negotiations are done,
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but I'm pessimistic anything will be announced tonight.
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Take a look at this new statement by Justin Trudeau.
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We have made it very, very clear that the cultural exemption must stand as part of any renegotiated NAFTA.
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It is inconceivable to Canadians that an American network might buy Canadian media affiliates,
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whether it's newspaper or TV stations or TV networks.
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It would be a giving up of our sovereignty and our identity.
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And that is something that we simply will not accept.
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So we've made it very clear that defending that cultural exemption is something that is fundamental to Canadians.
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And again, we will not sign a deal that is bad for Canada.
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And quite frankly, eliminating a cultural exemption would be bad for Canadians.
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Wasn't he digging in on the dairy cartel before?
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Where did this cultural industry's objection come from?
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Isn't that specifically what Chrystia Freeland said just last week,
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So when it comes to specific issues that we've been discussing
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this, as everyone knows, is an extremely intense period in the negotiation.
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that the best way to make progress is not to be negotiating in public.
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But can I show you that Trudeau clip just one more time?
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We have made it very, very clear that the cultural exemption
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It is inconceivable to Canadians that an American network
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whether it's newspaper or TV stations or TV networks.
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It would be a giving up of our sovereignty and our identity.
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And that is something that we simply will not accept.
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So we've made it very clear that defending that cultural exemption
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And again, we will not sign a deal that is bad for Canada.
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And quite frankly, eliminating a cultural exemption
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It's inconceivable that American companies could own a Canadian newspaper?
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I don't think it means what you think it means.
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Actually, most Canadian newspapers already are owned by Americans.
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Their bondholders are all New York-based hedge fund managers.
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That's the National Post, the Calgary Herald, the Edmonton Journal,
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the entire Toronto Sun chain of newspapers, 92 weekly newspapers.
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Most Canadian newspapers are owned by Americans.
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Most big online media in Canada is foreign-owned, too.
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BuzzFeed, Canada, Huffington Post, Canada, Vice, Canada.
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And on the TV side, well, obviously more Canadians watch CNN for cable news
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than watch CBC News Channel or CTV News Channel.
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And all the big shows we watch on the main networks
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are just American shows made in Hollywood or New York.
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I'm not sure what Trudeau's talking about other than, obviously, his beloved CBC
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and maybe a few other smaller handouts like that.
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I mean, the Canadian magazine industry, it's almost dead.
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McLean's magazine barely even publishes anymore.
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I think their entire staff is just a half dozen people
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from what used to be Canada's mightiest news magazine.
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All the Canadian magazines, Canadian Business, Hello Canada, Money Sense, Flair, Chatelaine, McLean's,
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all the Rogers magazines, they're being dumped.
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I don't even think Trudeau really knows what he's talking about, as usual.
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And believe it or not, in this case, that's the point.
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He's just throwing up patriotic-sounding objections to a trade deal
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so that when, not if, but when, Trudeau fails to get us into NAFTA,
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I showed you a clip from the Princess Bride movie.
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Here's Arlene Dickinson from the CBC, who writes,
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I love how suddenly everyone is a far smarter and better negotiator
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and this is about showing strength as a nation for our nation.
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I guess the India fiasco, that was just 3D chess.
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You may think it looked dumb, but it was sort of double smart.
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Don't be so superficial in thinking it backfired.
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And getting booted out of NAFTA, but the Mexicans staying in,
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Just like this disastrous Trans Mountain Pipeline court ruling
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that literally banned the pipeline from proceeding.
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In the words of Bill Morneau, the finance minister,
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Taken together, today's decisions from the Federal Court of Appeal
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are important next steps in getting this project built
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in the right way for the benefit of all Canadians.
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Hey guys, did you know that a court order banning construction
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Let me show you the latest from just this morning.
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Did you know that that's what's in question here?
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Here, let me read a little bit more from the story.
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Canada returns to the NAFTA table in Washington Wednesday
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The Trump administration's failure to secure a deal
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the White House seemed to have fallen out with an ally
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a union representing millions of working-class Americans
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now souring on President Trump's ability to deliver.
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Do you think Donald Trump is stressed out about NAFTA?
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Especially now that Chrystia Freeland's in town.
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Here's the letter that Donald Trump sent to Congress.
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And I don't know if you can see the words there.
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It's true that in the U.S., Congress has to approve any new trade treaty.
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So it is technically true that Congress could block Mexico's deal with Trump
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to limit the amount of cheap Chinese parts in their factories,
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that requires a high minimum wage in Mexican auto factories,
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that now levels the playing field between Mexican factories
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in terms of labor standards, environmental standards,
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labels, levels the playing field with American factories,
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do you think that's going to be blocked by congressmen,
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You're running as a Democrat for Congress this fall
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in the 2018 midterm elections a few months away,
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and you're running in those battleground states,
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Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, the Rust Belt.
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Can you imagine saying you're against Trump's deal with Mexico,
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but maybe it takes getting $1.5 billion a year from Trudeau,
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before you can see how amazing a negotiator he is or something.
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But Congress could kill Trump's new deal with Mexico.
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I think it's going to pass overwhelmingly by both parties,
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but hey, if that little hope gets you through the night,
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was that, well, obviously Mexico got ripped off,
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You know, Aesop wrote a fable about that called Sour Grapes.
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You know, if the fox can't reach the grapes he was trying to get,
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Both the outgoing party and the incoming party,
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and visited Jared Kushner's personal house 10 times.
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Well, if so, that's not good news for Canada, is it?
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That's what we're being asked to sign up for now
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that's already being negotiated by the Mexicans.
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We have to follow in Mexico's footsteps, I guess.
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Maybe he should have taken fewer personal days.
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Maybe Chrystia Freeland should have spent more time
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as she did all year in thinly veiled attack speeches.
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giving another anti-Trump speech to some Europeans.
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Why that he won't do a deal if it doesn't protect the CBC?
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in next year's election against the evil Donald Trump
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throwing in poison pills, as they're called in business,
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sabotaging things designed to push the Americans away.
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and indigenous matters, nothing to do with trade.
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that's where you go to talk about your carbon taxes.
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trying to jam them into a NAFTA trade negotiation.
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Maybe we actually did have 55 meetings with Trump's people,
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getting access to the US market for their auto industry
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by putting such bizarre things to the Americans.
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Our Canadian dollar is falling lower and lower and lower.
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It won't be as successful tomorrow as it is today.
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Or if you're the CBC, you could pretend it's good news
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since it's a discount on everything we sell to foreigners.
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our stuff would be even cheaper for Americans to buy.
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People would really buy our stuff if we gave it away.
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So much turns on whether or not Trudeau can get a deal.
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Justin Trudeau, the consummate business executive.
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It's going to be having our entire auto industry shut down.
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I dissent to the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh.
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when your Proud Boys were all kicked off Twitter,
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and I don't mean necessarily people being banned.
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who believes everything you say from authority,
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and challenge anything you hear from authority,
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and it's funny that you and I are talking about it,
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But both of those things are why he was banned.
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What the hell's the matter with a conspiracy theory?
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Watergate was a conspiracy theory before it was true.
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You know, Vince Foster, then breaking into his office,
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that was a conspiracy theory before it was confirmed.
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He was screaming, throwing his papers at the camera.
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And this whole war, to make everyone think the same,
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I keep talking about this radio station in Austin
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that's booting out all of these bands that might like Trump.
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where every musician feels the same about every subject,
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You know, I saw this insane essay the other day about post-comedy,
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where it has the trappings of a comedy routine,
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And that's the comedy that will be left after we get rid of the,
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Solzhenitsyn was sent to prison for making a joke in a private letter.
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That's how, I think we're getting to that kind of crazy mob rule again,
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except for it's not one tyrant, it's the tyranny of the mob.
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that was complaining about private Facebook groups.
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And they mentioned that I talked to my friends on private Facebook groups.
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They talked about anti-vaccine, anti-vaccine people.
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Now, obviously, you and I are on the same page with vaccines.
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We support them, and I'm against the idea of not vaccinating your children.
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is the concept that you're not allowed to privately criticize big pharma.
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We're now at the point now where private discussions are under siege.
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Soon they're going to be subpoenaing our texts and recording our conversations.
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Well, I mean, as you know, Robert Spencer, not Richard Spencer,
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but they just said, oh, we're not going to do any transactions with you,
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as if MasterCard has morally reviews every single expenditure.
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It would be like your cell phone company calling you up one day and saying,
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hey, we don't like some of the conversations you're having on our cell phones,
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And you have to, and by the way, all the other cell phone companies are too,
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I don't want to take too much or more of your time,
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because I know you're busy today, but let me show you a clip from those same
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There is a young woman, I think she's with the White House.
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in that she's getting hotter as she gets older.
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She's a very beautiful woman, and the name is Zina Bash,
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And let's play the B-roll of her sitting there.
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She's behind Brett Kavanaugh on the right there, as you can see.
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but it looks, I guess, if you're looking for some encoded hidden message,
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it looks like she's making the OK symbol on her finger.
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who had all these secret cryptic things at the Louvre,
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you know, these, oh, I'm just trying to remember the name of his awful
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pulp fiction novels about these Vatican conspiracies.
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Anyways, if you're looking for a secret symbol, that apparently is it.
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Look at this tweet about what Zina Bash did with her fingers.
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More context for the Zina Bash incident during the Kavanaugh hearing.
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She is sitting normally, then checks her phone to read something.
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Some are saying a text, but we have no confirmation.
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Then she holds the pose at issue for over 30 seconds with a slight smirk.
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Dan Brown, that's the name of who I'm thinking about,
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Is it Alex Jones, who's asking questions about government?
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Or is it some kook on the left who thinks that that Jewish Mexican lawyer
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They're implying that the text said something like,
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But I think you and I might differ a tiny bit on this.
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You think they're being willfully ignorant and pretending that they believe that that is a thing.
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you're saying they're calling that person a witch just because they want to kill them.
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I think they actually believe this person is a witch.
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And I saw other tweets from Occupy Democrats and big companies,
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Maybe some people believe that a Jewish Mexican lawyer,
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We've just got to step on the Brett Kavanaugh hearings.
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you know, maybe half a million people will believe it
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But, you know, I think what they're trying to do
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They're trying to Gavin McInnes-ify, Alex Jones-ify,
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an accomplished young woman Hispanic lawyer in the White House.
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they will tell you later that that character was trans
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there's this guy Josh Androsky, I believe is his name.
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And he's the one who got them kicked out of this bar in L.A.,
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that he would sneak in communist and socialist messages into SpongeBob.
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who was booted from Adult Swim because someone lied
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and said he was sneaking in secret swastikas and alt-right messages,
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So they are accusing us of doing what they do on a regular basis.
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Yeah, you know, it's so funny, the amount of outrage over this little hand symbol,
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which isn't even, like, that's the letter F in sign language,
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Louis Farrakhan, the head of the Nation of Islam,
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was sitting next to Bill Clinton at Aretha Franklin's funeral.
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But an innocent non-gesture, that's dominant news.
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I hope you keep fighting the fight down there, Gavin.
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Gavin McInnes, he has a show called Get Off My Lawn on CRTV,
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and what a pleasure to talk to him today via Skype.
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because I don't think people are watching the whole show through.
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We get statistics how long people watch the show,
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and everyone watches the monologue, more or less.
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But I don't think people are sticking around for the second guest.
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So I think we're going to do one solid guest every day,
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We haven't confirmed him, but a real fan favor.
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a 20-minute monologue and, let's say, a 15-minute solid interview,
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If you really want me to have two shorter guests, you let me know.
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But as we're trying that out for the new season, let me know.
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Here's your viewer feedback on the topic of Andrew Scheer
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and the importance of conservatives working together.
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I've also been to a few Rebel events in the Toronto area,
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which I always find informative and entertaining.
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we can't count on any splitting of the left vote
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As for being personas non grata at the conservative convention,
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Ignoring all the outstanding journalism you do,
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I could just see the CBC dragging out footage of you,
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With regard to supply management in the dairy industry,
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I believe it's highly probable the Americans will stand firm
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on that issue in the negotiating of our next trade agreement.
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I can easily see a scenario where Maxime Bernier gets his way
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without any Canadian politician having to wear it.
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If ever there were a time for conservatives in Canada
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And I see your letter is written in good faith,
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It's not actually our main objective here at The Rebel.
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although obviously we support parties of the right.
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in addition to supporting parties of the right,
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Our job is to stiffen the spine of conservatives