What’s behind the sudden wave of anti-meat propaganda？ “Follow the money…”
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Ezra LeVance asks the question: Why is there a sudden wave of anti-beef propaganda everywhere? And where does it come from? And why is it bad for the environment? And what are we supposed to do about it?
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Hello, my Rebels. So, you know, I've got a lot of opinions. Well, I've got some opinions about hamburgers.
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You know, I should tell you that when I was a kid, I daydreamed about having a talk show called
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What's Your Beef? And people would just call in and we would just start the conversation with,
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all right, Ezra here, what's your beef? And you would just have some question, comment,
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or anecdote about beef. And the show would be called What's Your Beef? And for some strange
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reason, that never took off. I don't know. It's just things, it's like a good idea to me.
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Anyway, today we're going to, in today in What's Your Beef, we talk about those Beyond Meat
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and Impossible Burgers. And let me just say this, thumbs down. Before I get out of the way and let
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Tonight, what's behind the sudden wave of anti-meat propaganda? It's August 9th,
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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'm publishing it is because it's my
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You can sometimes see an official narrative when it launches. For example, for years,
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no one talked about transgenderism. It just wasn't a thing. It was maybe an obscure anomaly,
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a curiosity. I mean, there have always been drag queens and transvestites, but it wasn't a big
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deal. And then suddenly it was. Bruce Jenner becoming Caitlyn Jenner, woman of the year.
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TV shows to little kids being dressed up in drag, dancing at strip clubs to the madness of Jonathan
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Yaniv. In five years, it's gone from nothing to the Olympics. I'm serious. You will see trans
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athletes competing against real women in the upcoming Olympics next year. Get ready for a ratings
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bust. I mean, seriously, it'll be weird and pitiful and sad watching men crush women in
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competitions. It'll be a lot of things, but it will not be sport. And my point is, suddenly the
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narrative was here. And suddenly it was everywhere, and I'm not sure where it quite came from. I see
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another narrative just launching right now. Maybe you see it too. Anti-meat, anti-beef. I mean, like
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trans issues, it was always there. But it was always really fringe, almost a joke.
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I mean, there are vegetarians for religious reasons. I get it. And there may be some health
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reasons for some people, but it's always been a bit fringe. Greenpeace is anti-meat, but they'll
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say anything for a buck. It was always marginal until really in just the last few months when
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the narrative hit. You'd see it in weird, creepy stories like the United Nations, whose executives
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dine in five-star restaurants, that UN telling the rest of us that we'll have to start eating
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bugs. And I'm not making this up. This is not an image from a satirical or parody website. This is
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actually the United Nations telling us to eat bugs. Yeah, you first, you pompous diplomat bureaucrats.
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The Washington Post loves the idea of eating bugs. Oh my God. Now here's how the owner of the
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Washington Post actually lives. Here's his luxury yacht. That's Jeff Bezos. Only the finest meats and
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other foods for him. He ain't eating bugs, but his newspaper tells you to eat bugs. Even the Weather
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Network told us to stop eating beef. The weather people, if you really want to save the planet,
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they say, you could seriously consider limiting the amount of beef you eat. They tweeted that.
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Really? That's not news. That's not science. It's certainly not weather. That's propaganda.
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Stick to telling me if it's going to rain tomorrow, guys. Practice getting that right first. Don't tell
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me what to do with my life. So weird. And then they linked, I don't know if you saw the Twitter,
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linked to a video that sounds like, well, you know, frankly, it sounds like it's pushing
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a meat alternative, like an ad. Watch this through the end. It sounds like it's everything except
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mentioning like some soy meat ad. It's like the preamble to an ad. Take a listen.
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If you want to save the planet, you might want to think about cutting back on the amount of beef you
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eat. So how much do you need to cut back? How about a burger and a half every week? That's the latest
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research from the World Resources Institute. It's all based on just how much food it's going to take
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to feed our planet by the time 2050 arrives. There is expected to be about 10 billion people on the
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planet then. In their latest report, they say Americans will need to cut back by about 40 percent
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and Europeans will have to eat about 22 percent less beef if we're going to feed everyone. So why is
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beef getting the brunt of it? Well, cows require about 20 times more land and they make more than
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20 times more greenhouse gas than growing certain plants do. Cows also grow and reproduce slower
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than pigs and chickens, so they need more food and water. Before you balk at saying bye-bye to beef,
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the report says it's actually pretty doable. Beef only accounts for a small percentage of the calories
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we eat on a daily basis. Plus, there's a lot of beef alternative options out there today.
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So it ends by talking about meat alternatives. It's priming the pump. I'll get back to that in a
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moment, but here's news just right now. Here's Canada's Environment Minister, Catherine McKenna.
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Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says the call to help combat climate change by eating more plants
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and less meat is fully in line with Canada's new food guide recommendations. It just never ends with
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these people. I mean, they literally flew their own private chef from Canada all the way to India
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for Trudeau's disastrous trip there. They'll spend seriously more than a hundred grand on meals for
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a single flight. You see that one there, 142 grand? But they're telling you immediately eat less meat.
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You know, in the past, before the Industrial Revolution, before the Agricultural Revolution,
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before the emancipation of the serfs, eating meat was a luxury reserved for the aristocracy. We don't
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live like that now. We're all allowed to eat meat and eggs and chicken and whatever the hell we want.
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It's not like the Soviet Union, where you had to queue in line for hours or bribe some communist
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official to get eggs and meat. But today, our ruling class tells us we can't, or at least we shouldn't.
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And that's Catherine McKenna coming out against beef. Just for us, the little people, though,
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I see that next month, Catherine McKenna is hosting a luxury fundraiser at Ottawa's fanciest restaurant.
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I won't call it a steakhouse because they serve much more than just steak. They serve every kind of
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meat. The restaurant is called Bekta. The fundraiser is 250 bucks just to get in. So yeah,
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you little people, can you please give up your hamburgers? Come on. For the sake of the planet,
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while the ruling class will eat its steak, Catherine McKenna says it's fine for her,
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so you can trust her. Where did this all come from? Well, obviously, follow the money.
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Everywhere you look, there are vegetarian fake meat meals being introduced onto menus,
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including by fast food restaurants like Tim Hortons, the formerly Canadian company that has
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since been bought by a Brazilian hedge fund. They're promoting their fake meat, and now they're
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fake eggs, and news media are running ads as if it's news. I mean, is this a news story? This is
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on the CBC State Broadcaster, which is part of the anti-meat campaign, but is this actually news?
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Because this appeared on CBC News. Let me read.
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Plant-based eggs join meatless options at Tim Hortons.
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Customers are buying in because the alternatives to meat taste like the real thing.
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I'm sorry, that's news? Let me read to you some more from this deep investigative journalism.
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I sense a Pulitzer Prize coming. As a committed vegan, Sally Shaker-Elma's menu choices are limited,
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so she was pleased to discover this week that her local Tim Hortons now offers its meatless
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breakfast sandwich with a vegan-friendly topping, a plant-based eggless omelet.
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It is such a step forward, says Shaker-Elma's, who lives in Kitchener, Ontario.
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Wow, that's some hard-hitting news reporting. Here's some more.
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Shaker-Elma's says Tim Hortons' eggless omelet is also tasty, just like the real thing. It's so
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really good, she said after trying it twice. They're doing something outside of the box.
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I swear to God, that was published in the news section of the CBC State Broadcaster. Is that news?
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Is Tim Hortons paying for that? And would the CBC tell us if they were?
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I mean, it's all of a sudden, I think, beef is bad, at least for the little people.
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Is this a health thing? I don't know. There might be reasons to be vegetarian, but actually,
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a fair number of media have debunked these fake meat substitutes. Just look at what these meat
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substitutes contain in them. Here's the National Post analysis. You can Google this pretty easily
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for yourself. The National Post compared a leading brand of fake meat called Beyond Meat to a real meat
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hamburger. Let me quote. A 113 grand Beyond Meat patty has 250 calories, 18 grams of fat,
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390 milligrams of sodium, and 20 grams of protein. Health Canada says 113 grams of lean ground beef
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contains 292 calories, 16.5 grams of fat, 105 milligrams of sodium, and 33 grams of protein. So that's a lot
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of numbers I just threw at you. So let me just simplify it. The fake meat has about the same
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number of calories as the real meat. The fake meat actually has more fat. That's impressive to
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achieve. The fake meat has triple the salt. I'm not surprised how else you're going to make
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processed vegetable protein taste palatable. And you're only getting about half the protein with
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the fake meat. It's hyper processed. I mean, look, there's no way you can actually say those
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Beyond Meat patties are good for you. Fat, salt, calories, whatever's in there, all the processing.
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I'm not sure why anyone would eat it. It's not going to make you lose weight. And I can't see how
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it's heart smart, all that salt. Look, I'm no doctor. And look, don't take diet advice from me. But
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I thought health foods had less salt and fat than the foods they're supposed to replace.
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If simply taking the meat out of things made them healthier, then hell, I'd eat ice cream and
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french fries all day. It would be my miracle diet. So why is everyone from the United Nations to the
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Washington Post to Catherine McKenna to the CBC telling us not to eat meat anymore?
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Well, follow the money. Just a few months ago, Beyond Meat, the company behind so many of these
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restaurants, rolling out their high fat, high salt, high calorie veggie burgers. They did an IPO,
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an initial public offering. At the stock market, they raised a quarter billion dollars,
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which put the whole company's valuation at 1.5 billion. Look at that share price. Take a look.
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The share price skyrocketed this spring and summer. It was like a rocket from $65 a share
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to $235 a share just last month. You see that on the chart? That's billions of dollars, people.
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Now, look at the last month. The stock price has actually plummeted, fallen back enormously,
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back down to $162, but still higher when they launched. But that's a billion dollars wiped out from
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their market cap. Can I ask you a question? If building up a pro-veggie burger hype would make
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you a millionaire or even a billionaire, how much money would you spend promoting anti-meat propaganda,
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pushing your gross high fat, high salt, high calorie veggie burgers? Well, if you're spending
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millions to make billions, that's just smart. I don't know what Beyond Meat's marketing strategy is
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like. I don't know if they're paying influencers on Twitter or social media. It would be nuts if
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they didn't. I know that they've been lobbying up a storm on Parliament Hill, including lobbying for
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the food guide to have more plant crap in it. But bloggers, reporters, Twitters, the Weather Network,
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the CBC, reporters on the side? I don't know. I know this. If you follow the money to the groups who
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demonize another great Canadian industry, oil and gas, the people paying for the demonization
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usually are competitors to Canadian oil and gas. It's very illuminating to me to note that, for
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example, the extremist groups fighting against Canada's oil sands, they never complain about OPEC
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oil and gas. They just never do. That's odd, isn't it? It's not odd at all. They all happen to take
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foreign funding to attack Canadian oil. Much of it laundered through the Tides Foundation in San
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Francisco, which hides the ultimate source of the funds. That's not odd at all. That's follow the
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money. I wonder if that might be afoot here. If I were a fake meat billionaire, if my vast wealth
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depended on demonizing beef, I'd push that propaganda. I'd push the lie that my sawdust burgers tasted great.
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Hell, what doesn't when you pack it with salt and, well, a burger, just make sure there's lots of ketchup and
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fixins on it and people will eat anything, right? Especially when influencers tell them,
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well, if you don't eat this expensive sawdust, we're all going to die from global warming and
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it's all your fault, millennials. I don't know what Catherine McKenna's angle is. She's probably just
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doing some virtual signaling as always. Maybe she actually believes the propaganda except for at her
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own fundraisers. Look, nobody's willing to pay $250 a plate to eat some sawdust sandwiches. That's what
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this is, though. In my mind, it's the Tesla. It's the Prius, but for meat. No one real drives a Tesla
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because they run out of battery life before you get anywhere. And it's far too expensive for a real
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family. A Tesla is a show-off car to show people not only how wealthy you are, but how virtuous you
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are. I think that's the real market here. People who eat beyond meat probably spend 15 minutes eating a
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sawdust hamburger, but 45 minutes telling everybody they just ate a sawdust hamburger. White Castle,
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the U.S. burger chain that specializes in really little, really cheap hamburgers,
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those little sliders they call them, they know what's going on. You can buy a little White Castle
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slider for 77 cents. 77 cents for a tiny little burger. But their Impossible Burger, that's another
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brand of fake meat, it's $1.99 for a tiny little slider. Doesn't taste as good, but that's not what
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you're buying. You're buying the snobbery. It's weird to buy a White Castle, but you know.
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Hey, speaking of fake weirdness and woke narratives, remember that Gillette ad that mocked men as violent
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animals? Remember that one? It was a direct insult, an attack on masculinity itself and any man who believed
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in maleness. And most weird, it was an attack on Gillette ads of the past.
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Oh, and color me shocked. Gillette just posted an $8 billion loss. How do you do that? I guess it turns out
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that men don't want to pay to be insulted for being men. I mean, imagine deciding that to sell razors to men.
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You're going to hire a creative director who is a feminist activist specializing in woke leftist
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politics? Gee, who would have guessed that wouldn't have worked? I see that so far McDonald's has
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avoided the weirdness of the veggie burger. Now, maybe they're missing the boat. Maybe they just
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don't understand their business model. Maybe the future of hamburger eaters is Prius driving,
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soy meat eating, global warming, weeping feminists with Gillette razors. It could be.
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Or maybe McDonald's actually really, really does listen to its customers and knows them very well
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because they don't want to lose $8 billion a year on some personal fad or indulgence.
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Maybe their customers, including many low-income people, maybe they just want a hamburger without all
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the preening and without paying triple for it like at White Castle for the Impossible Burger.
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And, you know, maybe they don't want salt and sawdust. And if Catherine McKenna won't eat
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that crap, why should they? Stay with us for more.
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One of the strangest things about our citizen journalism that the internet has brought us
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is that people are sharing private thoughts, things that in the past would be in a personal
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diary while they're putting them online, sometimes to spectacular publicity. Let me show you an article
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that I find shocking and repulsive. But after those emotions pass, I find that deeply, deeply sad.
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It's an article in the Huffington Post called, It Might Be Time to Cut My Right-Wing Trump-Loving
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In-Laws Out of My Kids' Lives. And it goes on at some length about how a leftist activist,
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who, by the way, happens to be Jewish, who, by the way, happens to be Jewish, is more and more offended
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by the politics of her husband's parents, who happen to be conservative Catholics, that she says,
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and she's saying this all to the public, she no longer wants them to have any access to her kids,
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their grandchildren. And I find it appalling to air this kind of family laundry in public,
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but I find it ubiquitous. Mothers writing with their real names, how they deeply regret having
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children. I say with their real names, because their children will read that article. Is this
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a phenomenon just on the left? I've only seen it on the left. I can't imagine someone who's
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conservative would say such a thing, at least not in public. Joining us now via Skype to talk about
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this is someone who's done some thinking. And talking back on this issue, I'm talking about our
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friend, Michael Knowles. He's with TheDailyWire.com, where he has a daily podcast. It's every day,
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Monday to Thursday at 1.45 Eastern time. That's 10.45 Pacific time. And we're thrilled to have him
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for about 15 minutes right now. Michael, what do you think about this article? I found it profoundly
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sad, and her children, I think, will find it sad when they're old enough to understand it, too.
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That's my hunch. Certainly, I first found this article because a left-wing relative of mine
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actually sent it to me. I think in a mostly joking manner. I'm going to choose to read it that way.
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But this is a phenomenon that is happening almost exclusively on the left. You've seen this in study
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after study. Left-wingers are much more likely to unfriend or disconnect from right-wingers on social
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media platforms than the other way around. It seems that the right is able to hear different ideas and
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keep relationships with people who have different views of the world. But the left is not able to do
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this. And I think this is for a few reasons. One, it began in the 1960s. The radicals of the 60s,
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who today are the college professors and the parents and the grandparents, were the people who said that
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the personal is the political. So previously, in this country, we had a separation between public
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and political and what we had in our personal lives. So you could fight against one another all day
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long and have political differences, but then have a cocktail at the end of the day. And the 1960s
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obliterated that. They focused much more intensely on the politics of the personal. And so you would
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have this situation in which if a family member even doesn't like the political views of another
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family member, they would cut them off. And very often, like you saw in that Huffington Post article,
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you have conservative family members who say, are you crazy? Are you really going to break up a family
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over some political issue, over some candidate or some politician? And they'll say, yes, absolutely,
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because it's about morality. And to them, to those people on the left, which has become increasingly,
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if not entirely secular over the last 50 years, the reason that they feel so strongly that their moral
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convictions are bound up in mere policies is because their politics has become their religion.
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So conservatives, people on the right, are much more likely to hold to a traditional religion,
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orthodox religious views. They go to church on Sunday, that sort of thing. On the left,
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the members of the Democratic Party in America and on the left broadly are highly irreligious. I mean,
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the numbers of people who believe in God in the Democratic Party are somewhere in the low
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20s, 22, 23 percent. And so because nature abhors a vacuum and everybody's got to serve somebody,
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we do have a spiritual inclination. We do have a religious inclination toward us. And the left has
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put that into activism and into politics. It's terribly sad because it gets the world exactly
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backwards. You know, as Andrew Breitbart, the patron saint of Hollywood conservatives used to say,
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politics is downstream of culture. Culture is downstream of religion. You know, the cult and
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the culture come from the same word. What a culture worships defines that culture. And when you look at the
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left in the way that they view things, it's exactly backwards. First is politics because the politics
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is the religion that creates the culture and it creates a vicious cycle. Terribly sad. And as
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we've seen in the past week with not just fringe people, but the mainstream left in this country,
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pundits, politicians, presidential candidates calling half of America white supremacist,
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calling the president white supremacist, calling for their murder, celebrating their murder.
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You have to come to the conclusion, a very sad conclusion, that the left doesn't nearly disagree
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with us. They actually hate us. They actually despise half of their countrymen.
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I wonder how much of that requires them to be publicly preening about it. Like I was thinking of a
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very prestigious publication where someone said she was divorcing her husband merely because he voted for
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Trump. And I found that insane and absurd. Imagine throwing away a life together with someone because
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they voted differently than you. I guess that's a reason to have secret ballots. But I thought to
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myself, maybe the writing of it, the public humiliation of it is a form of boasting, saying,
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I am so righteous, I'm so pure, that I will let the whole world know what I've done. Instead of proving
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your righteousness or purity or holiness by doing a good deed, that I can't think of a, I mean, I don't
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regard it as virtue signaling to say I'm divorcing my spouse over politics. But for someone who thinks
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that's a litmus test, well, then you've got to tell the whole world. It's like vegans. You know,
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half the fun of being a vegan is telling every bloody person that you're a vegan. Maybe when you're that far
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down the road, you have to write these things in the Huffington Post because your other friends will say,
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Of course, this reminds me of the time that a vegan, an atheist, and a soul cycler walked into a bar. The only
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reason I know it is because they wouldn't shut up about it. There does seem to be something on the left that
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requires this boasting. And you say it's not virtue signaling to brag about how you're going to divorce your
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wife over politics or divorce your husband. And of course, you're right. It's the opposite of virtue
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signaling. It's vice signaling. But we've seen in the left, especially in recent years, not just a mere
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perversion of morality, but a total inversion. So for instance, just a month ago, the left celebrated
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the biggest month of the entire secular liturgical calendar, which is Pride Month. And it's not just
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celebrating gay people or people with differing sexual preferences. It's now celebrating fat pride,
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skinny pride, slut pride, this pride, that pride, all these different kinds of pride. The key to it
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is the pride. And of course, it seems so strange to us because pride, as we remember, is the deadliest
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of the seven deadly sins. It's the queen of all sins. But in the left's perverse moral order, pride
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becomes the greatest virtue. And so conservatives who typically tend to subscribe to a traditional
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sense of the virtues would say that humility is the greatest virtue. It's the beginning of the
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virtues. So that, you know, let's say my wife votes differently than I do, heaven forfend. You know,
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perhaps we have the intellectual and political humility to say, look, I don't know everything.
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Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe she's wrong. We're all broken. Thank goodness we have someone to cling to
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in this tumultuous life that we're living in. But on the left, there's none of that. Because
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if politics is their religion, it's not a terribly satisfying religion. They have a gnawing sense of
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their own imperfection of their human nature. But there's no redemption in that leftist politics.
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There is the, you're trying desperately for redemption. You're trying desperately to recycle.
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That's one act of atonement. You're going to divorce your husband for voting for Trump. That's
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an act of atonement. But it never quite gets you there. That guilt is just always on you,
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be it white guilt, straight guilt, American guilt, whatever it is. I mean, this is a perverse
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ideology that is literally driving people mad, driving them to leave their families, divorce
00:26:12.780
their husbands and scream and shout in the streets. It's not sane. It's not stable. But in a, in a
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culture that has lost the narrative, in a culture that is, has lost the sense of its foundation,
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religion, and then culture, it's no surprise that the politics would get wacky too.
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You know, I think one reason why liberals or leftists do this more than conservatives
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is because conservatives always have to deal with liberals and leftists, even if you grow up in a
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very conservative place. I was born and raised in Calgary when it was even more conservative than it
00:26:44.340
is now. But even in a conservative place, even if you grew up in the most conservative part of Texas
00:26:50.140
or West Virginia, you would be exposed to liberal and leftist thinking all the time through the media,
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through movies, through anything that emanates from Hollywood or New York. So you're used to the
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other half. But I'm just looking, for example, at this Hannah Selinger, who wrote this grotesque piece
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against her own in-laws. Imagine writing that and being her in-laws and reading this in the Huffington
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Post. And I look at her- It's going to be an awkward Thanksgiving.
00:27:16.780
Yeah. Well, and that's something that the left always talks about, how to take on your right-wing
00:27:22.020
uncle over Thanksgiving. Like, they just try to turn these family events into political battles.
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But I'm looking at her biography. She's a lifestyle writer based in East Hampson, New York, East Hampton,
00:27:32.540
New York. And her work has appeared in the New York Times and the Washington Post. And I'm just
00:27:37.100
thinking of that book that Charles Murray wrote called Coming Apart, is how insular these elites
00:27:44.640
are, these high IQ, high income elites who only know each other. And my point is, I was growing up
00:27:52.760
in Calgary, a right-wing place. But of course, I knew the liberal lines. I had liberal friends. I had
00:27:58.560
to be exposed to liberal ideas. But if you grow up in East Hampton, New York, and all the other people
00:28:04.560
you talk to are, you know, identical to you, you don't know there is another side. So when they
00:28:10.760
impose or incur into your life, you find it outrageous because you've never had to deal with
00:28:16.220
them before. If every conservative blacklisted, blackballed, and shunned a liberal in their life,
00:28:21.840
we'd be extremely lonely. But it's possible for leftists to live 20, 30, 40 years without ever
00:28:27.540
encountering a Christian, a conservative, a blue-collar Trumpist. I think that's the difference
00:28:34.280
is that the people who call themselves progressive and open-minded often have never met someone who's
00:28:40.180
not identical to them. Yes, of course this is true. Having grown up, I've always been in liberal
00:28:46.240
places. But even if I hadn't, even if I grew up in the heart of Texas, because the popular culture
00:28:50.940
is totally left-wing, we are exposed to those ideas. So for instance, I can explain, more or less,
00:28:59.360
just about any leftist policy position. I don't agree with those positions, but I understand the
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argument. This is not because of any particular virtue of my own. I've just been exposed to it so
00:29:10.600
much that I can articulate that. And yet, the left does not know what conservatives think. I think this
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is why they get so mad. I think this is why they scream and shout. People who know what they're talking
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about, people who are confident in what they think and what they're saying, don't need to scream and
00:29:25.600
shout. We're calm. We understand what we're saying. But when you don't, you get so upset, so outraged.
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And to bring up the example of Thanksgiving dinner, you know, the left, all the way up to the Obama
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administration, all the way up to the White House when Obama was president, would send out letters
00:29:41.420
and say, here's how to convince your uncle to be a leftist over Thanksgiving. And you think, why on
00:29:46.800
earth would I do that? In that Huffington Post article, the woman sent a long text message ranting
00:29:52.280
to her mother-in-law. And the mother-in-law said, oh, thank you for your comments. The mother-in-law
00:29:56.280
hears it. She probably already knew what the kid thought and just said, okay, well, thank you. I
00:30:00.640
see you've expressed your opinion, but she didn't engage with it. And what you're seeing in that text
00:30:04.860
message, what you're seeing in this Thanksgiving table evangelization of leftist politics is the zeal
00:30:11.060
of an evangelist because leftist politics have become a religion to the left such that for me,
00:30:17.560
I'm a Catholic. I would like all of my friends and family to be baptized. I'm not going to go
00:30:23.380
out there and constantly be proselytizing, but I might, I do have an interest in that. I have an
00:30:29.140
interest in the eternal soul of my friends and family. And for the left, there is no religion
00:30:35.800
to fill that void. It's leftist politics. So they're not just trying to make sure that I get to heaven
00:30:41.620
someday. They're trying to make sure that I vote for the leftist democratic candidate come next
00:30:46.560
election. That is a much more urgent religious appeal. And it's why they have the zeal of
00:30:52.600
converts and the zeal of evangelists. Yeah, that's very sad. I think, Michael, I'm grateful for your
00:30:57.740
time. I know you've got to run. We're always, it's always great to talk with you. And I would
00:31:01.380
like to encourage our viewers to tune in the daily wire, lots of good stuff all the time.
00:31:06.600
But Michael Knowles has a show every Monday to Thursday. It's on at 1 45 Eastern. It's a,
00:31:12.160
it's called the Michael Knowles show. And I encourage you to listen. Thanks so much,
00:31:15.480
my friend. Great to see you again. Thanks so much. Thanks for having me.
00:31:18.220
All right. There you have it. Stay with it. More Head on the Rebel.
00:31:30.520
Hey, welcome back. On my monologue yesterday about an Edmonton imam preaching hate, Ron writes,
00:31:35.620
the Imam Shaban Sheriff Mehdi calls Trudeau the Najashi. Suspect he will say the same about Shir
00:31:41.900
if he gets elected prime minister. You could be right, Ron. I remember not too long ago doing a
00:31:49.380
little report to you about Andrew Shir hanging out with another imam named Subadar, Omar Subadar,
00:31:56.240
who gave lectures about the proper way to beat your wife. He had rules. And he was saying this in English,
00:32:02.940
by the way, he teaches thousands of Muslims in the greater Toronto area. So if Andrew Shir will meet
00:32:08.240
with the Toronto expert in wife beating, he could well be the next Najashi. Robert writes,
00:32:16.060
nothing to see here. Our hapless prime minister is certain this man can be a powerful voice in our
00:32:20.320
communities. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you heard him talking about the Islamic State and Mujahideen and
00:32:26.480
jihadists. And yeah, no problem. I mean, no politicians, no human rights commissions. No,
00:32:34.600
no problem there. On my interview with Lauren Gunter about the United Nations Relief Works Agency,
00:32:40.280
UNRWA, that's the Palestinian Refugee Agency, Paul writes,
00:32:44.100
Trudeau has been very generous all over the world with taxpayer money, especially when it comes to
00:32:47.940
funding terrorist organizations, abortions, and tyrants. Liberal priorities on display. Is there an
00:32:53.480
organization in the UN that isn't riddled with corruption? Yeah, of course, the UN Relief Works
00:32:59.440
Agency isn't a terrorist organization themselves, but they do subsidize and provide moral and political
00:33:05.980
cover for terrorist organizations like Hamas. They preach an apology for terrorism in their textbooks
00:33:14.860
in Gaza Strip. I think it's awful. And when you've got all these European leftists who don't really
00:33:20.620
hate Israel, when they're so grossed out by the corruption at the UN Relief Works Agency that
00:33:26.020
they're pulling out their money, you know it's got to be bad if that's happening. But no, yeah,
00:33:29.980
Krista Freeland, Justin Trudeau, it's just all about the optics, and they want to be called the
00:33:35.500
Najashi. They want that Muslim vote in Canada. If it means giving money to a terrorist-sympathizing,
00:33:42.580
corrupt organization in Gaza, they'll do that every day of the week. Well, that's our show for today,
00:33:47.540
folks. Let me give you a quick update. For those who are interested, I went to the UK last night to
00:33:53.260
visit Tommy Robinson in Belmarsh Prison. And despite the indignities of the place, I think his health
00:33:58.660
is generally good, and he's been treated generally well. They are violating some of his rights. They
00:34:03.220
haven't given him any snail mail since his very first day in prison. He's been in prison 29 days
00:34:08.120
now, but they've just refused to give him his mail. They claim the counterterrorism police have to go
00:34:13.520
through it first. It's so bizarre. But that's the state of the UK. That's what Canada will be like
00:34:19.000
for us in a few years. Hey, guys, if I get thrown in prison for my journalism, can one of you come
00:34:24.020
and maybe bring me a good, you know, smoked meat sandwich or something? Just booking ahead for when
00:34:30.420
it happens. All right, guys, have a great weekend. Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at
00:34:35.580
Rebel World Headquarters. Good night. Keep fighting for freedom.