Bankas Podcast - Authoritarianism is Fun ｜ The Bankas Show - #022

00:00:00.000 buongiorno buongiorno everybody welcome to the bank of show welcome to my new beautiful studio

00:00:16.160 where there's a bit of an echo we're working on that we've got a i think the only answer 0.95

00:00:22.500 to echoes is you have to uh jump off the balcony guys i i don't know what the fuck to do 0.97

00:00:29.800 when you spend a whole day setting up a studio and then uh all you hear is an echo part of me you 0.97

00:00:42.700 know honestly it could just be uh like a mental illness that i don't that there's an echo in my

00:00:49.700 head which would explain a lot at this point okay because i'm a stand-up comedian a lot of people

00:00:57.360 don't know this i'm a stand-up comedian they go who the hell is ben bankus who the hell is this 0.99

00:01:01.900 asshole doing all this fucking stuff and the answer is i'm a stand-up comedian now do i believe the 0.99

00:01:15.900 things i say pardon me while i take a sip of san pellegrino uh do i believe the things i say of 1.00

00:01:26.180 course i believe the things i say because that's that's why i say them

00:01:28.800 oh have you ever tried san pellegrino

00:01:38.160 with lime cordial you just open it right up out of the fridge you pour a pour a nice half ounce

00:01:45.960 lime cordial right in there 0.96

00:01:47.840 that's what i want you listening to on your morning commute i want to i want you to hear me

00:01:58.140 drinking out of a san pellegrino but honestly

00:02:00.680 welcome to the show everybody welcome to the bank of show we've had a crazy week for uh just

00:02:10.660 things happening in you know uh the world to be honest with you and uh just in terms of

00:02:20.100 you know canada is sliding into i don't i don't people call it authoritarian

00:02:30.140 authoritarianism what's funny to me is that trudeau flies around uh he flies around the country

00:02:37.560 and he says that authoritarianism is on the rise you know which to me is just kind of insane just

00:02:47.540 based on the fact that he like a lot of people argue could argue that he's authoritarian himself

00:02:54.460 so the idea that he's going around going guys i think authoritarianism might

00:03:02.580 start being a problem at some point the guy is being authoritarian i don't know if you and i you know

00:03:10.840 just from the sense of he's using everything within this liberal democracy that is canada's

00:03:19.800 you know limits he's doing things that almost no other prime minister has ever done i'm pretty sure

00:03:31.060 the only other prime minister um maybe i'm wrong i was reading that harper did like an 85 day election

00:03:42.440 because apparently one of the powers that the prime minister has people don't know this but they

00:03:46.060 have the power to call an election at at any time i guess that's a prime ministerial power

00:03:52.600 in canada you as a prime minister you just go we're doing an election tomorrow 0.62

00:03:57.260 why because i fucking lost a bet 365 game uh a bet to uh all the leaves 0.95

00:04:05.720 they can prorogue proroguing parliament apparently that's not a thing really that prime ministers have 0.96

00:04:14.500 like apparently australia's prime minister can do that but has to have some sort of approval from a

00:04:22.640 committee or a commission and then um i think the uk as well as prime minister has the power to do that

00:04:29.200 with like another body's permission pardon me we said steak

00:04:36.500 i'm just saying that uh that's that's just a thing that's happening in the background

00:05:06.440 and most people after the pandemic uh you know just blindly going through life don't really ask too many

00:05:16.000 questions a lot of the new uh immigrants to the country are afraid to ask questions because this 0.78

00:05:23.780 is such a great country still like canada is still a great country even an authoritarian canada

00:05:29.200 is going to be sick because there's like a certain level of freedom of speech like they want to say

00:05:36.580 there's no freedom of speech anymore no i mean there's some freedom of speech for sure there is i mean

00:05:43.740 at least on uh on paper so i don't know that's a thing that everybody's just kind of going through

00:05:53.680 now after the pandemic is just this authoritarianization of everything um

00:06:01.200 pretty sad really when you put it like that but because we have some freedom of speech we're allowed

00:06:11.080 to have me here on whatever platform you're watching me on which maybe soon i i won't be allowed to

00:06:19.880 i don't know that's what people tell me but those people are also kind of insane when i talk to them

00:06:25.580 so i don't really know if i believe those people i don't know if i believe the people trying to tell me

00:06:31.740 that like people will be like oh you're on youtube i'll never go and watch you it's a free platform

00:06:37.600 like anybody can sign like what kind of shit do you need me to say somebody who today was like if you 0.88

00:06:45.040 if you haven't got banned off youtube yet you're not speaking the truth um i mean is that is that true 0.99

00:06:52.780 like can you not say certain things like if i say uh 9-11 was an inside job done by the by the jews

00:07:00.900 which i have no evidence for personally i'm sure there's evidence potentially out there but if i say

00:07:08.840 that do i get banned now what if i guess that's okay you can talk about nine once whatever happened

00:07:15.520 whatever fucked up thing happens 10 years go by then we can talk about it right then we can go oh yeah 0.92

00:07:23.180 9-11 inside job and everybody's like ah but right after a 9-11 like if you were day two after 9-11 0.99

00:07:31.860 going around going this is this is an inside fucking job people thought you were completely out of your 0.99

00:07:37.760 fucking mind they wanted to beat the shit out of you in the street right 0.99

00:07:41.420 which is what basically i did and a lot of people did with covid because covid happened and then it was 0.99

00:07:51.880 basically just like yeah uh i went you know people went nuts immediately 9-11 i feel like the real

00:08:02.580 people didn't go nuts with the conspiracies right away did they or maybe we just didn't have the internet

00:08:07.520 so we couldn't see what people were thinking we didn't have twitter

00:08:12.320 i'm just saying that covid happened people were going nuts right away and that was their

00:08:26.880 way of of basically shutting everybody up and censoring everybody was saying like oh you know

00:08:33.780 don't it's dangerous to say that it's not that dangerous because it's dangerous so we have to

00:08:39.560 lock everything down and take away your right like i remember during the pandemic it almost feels like

00:08:46.800 there was more censorship at certain points of making jokes i mean there were signs at liquor stores

00:08:55.860 in ontario at the lcbo there were signs saying no joking about covid

00:09:04.360 no joking about it said that no joking about covid or coronavirus like in the lot people are waiting in 0.99

00:09:17.460 these dystopian fucking bolshevik lines for shit to get booze to get drunk to forget about how shitty 0.96

00:09:29.960 lockdown was and they had these signs right before you went into the lcbo saying don't make jokes 0.99

00:09:36.880 about covid um and people didn't bat an eye i mean i'm i did because i'm i'm a fucking i'm a g i know 0.99

00:09:46.520 what the fuck you know i i know what bullshit looks like sorry it might be fat sorry entertain it might 1.00

00:09:54.360 be a fat piece of shit but i can see bullshit as well maybe that that helps being fat seeing bullshit 1.00

00:10:02.120 but i saw those signs i remember being like what the fuck is that and the security guard doesn't 1.00

00:10:09.320 know they're like you know some indian guy don't even talk about any nobody like what the fuck like 0.98

00:10:17.280 like lockdown happened covid happened it was enforced by minimum wage immigrants who told us that we 0.93

00:10:30.600 were not allowed to make jokes about coronavirus in the lcbo so there was that kind of censorship

00:10:41.220 right off the bat then there was the censorship online of like that was that was out in the open public 0.98

00:10:48.140 walking in public signs do not talk about that like what the fuck is that 0.98

00:10:56.640 does nobody want to question that like seriously does nobody want to fucking question the fact 0.97

00:11:05.860 that we had signs up and we still have signs up we have signs everywhere don't talk about this 0.82

00:11:11.700 no discrimination no the blah blah blah don't you like it's we're like doing full opposite hitler like 0.96

00:11:20.480 we're rainbow hitler how the fuck are we doing that and here you know there's some evidence of that 0.86

00:11:27.920 that this is all articles from uh today actually these these are these are articles from literally 0.86

00:11:38.860 today that i that i found on on twitter so the national post which if you're not from canada

00:11:46.040 the national post it's like one of the main um big newspapers national newspapers in canada that

00:11:54.480 was originally owned by conrad black who i believe went to jail at some point so the article uh it says

00:12:05.140 here one-third of canadians fine with prescribing assisted suicide for homelessness

00:12:09.960 um roughly the same number told a poll they were fine with approving made for someone whose only

00:12:19.780 affliction was poverty so apparently you know that which i love when uh liberals come up with ideas like

00:12:30.060 because uh because uh because it it shows their true colors but it also it's it's also calling

00:12:41.540 it's almost like calling right-wing people on their bluff you know what i mean one third of canadians

00:12:52.460 prescribed that was just a picture of um the article it wasn't the actual article this is the actual

00:13:02.120 article one-third of canadians fine with prescribing suicide for homelessness roughly the same number

00:13:08.160 told a poll they were fine with approving made and here's a picture of course of uh

00:13:14.640 a homeless encampment in canada at least they have a canadian flag although it's upside down which

00:13:23.560 apparently according to some uh very patriotic people that is a very offensive symbol um you know

00:13:31.600 almost similar to a swastika would be the upside down canadian flag yo doggy you can't put a 1.00

00:13:40.660 fucking flag upside down to me not enough no but seriously are we this is this is fucked up because 0.99

00:13:55.380 if you've been watching my live act uh or my instagram which i believe i posted a little bit of the bit 0.99

00:14:02.400 that i have about this i literally talk about how you know it's nice you know in vancouver they have so

00:14:08.940 many homeless whereas you know toronto and winnipeg we have you know we have winter so you know that

00:14:14.600 kills off a lot of them as a joke which people laugh at and i'm assuming the people who laugh also

00:14:20.940 believe that uh we should be euthanizing the homeless a homeless encampment in vancouver a new research

00:14:26.320 co-poll finds 28 percent of canadians are fine with approving a homeless person's request for assisted

00:14:33.500 suicide even if they don't have any health afflictions one third um one third of canadians 0.98

00:14:44.440 are fucking uh chinese what what do you what what are the odds that one third of canadians are uh 0.98

00:14:53.020 also card carrying chinese citizens the results from this poll were contained in uh 1.00

00:15:01.500 uh research co probing just how comfortable canadians were with the current state of the

00:15:07.680 country's medical assisted assistance in dying that's what made stands for in case you don't know

00:15:12.980 medical assistance in dying uh starting in march 2021 canada became one of only a handful of

00:15:22.080 countries to legalize assisted suicide even in instances where a patient does not have a terminal

00:15:27.600 illness ever since a canadian can be approved for made simply for having a grievous or

00:15:33.180 irredeemable medical condition like being ugly or being homeless or being uh jewish 1.00

00:15:42.840 jews are now allowed to apply for may then fast track the applications by dropping off the 1.00

00:15:51.680 bar mitzvah certificates um research co found that 73 percent of poll respondents favored the current

00:15:58.980 regime and only 16 percent opposed it pollsters also found not insignificant numbers of canadians

00:16:06.780 who favored assisted suicide in cases where no medical condition of any kind was present

00:16:11.860 featured comments featured comments there's a lot featured comments david needham probably this is

00:16:21.620 definitely a jew that sometimes my comments are featured on the national post uh on the website go to

00:16:31.600 www.uh national post david needham if this is true which

00:16:41.460 based on the comments i've read below i somehow doubt then we are indeed adrift in a sea of apathy

00:16:48.940 towards those less fortunate there's something wrong with our system when the labor force is screaming

00:16:53.860 for labor yet we still have homeless and drawing welfare uh yeah i mean what are the options folks

00:17:06.920 kill them or leave them i don't know what to say let's start putting down the home let's try putting 0.69

00:17:14.180 down the homeless for a little bit and just see how it goes and if it doesn't go well then we'll you know 1.00

00:17:21.060 we'll say whoops and we'll stop doing that and we'll continue the free um fentanyl and that's going to be

00:17:31.260 how the liberals will play it too and they start euthanizing the homeless and i'll be like this is

00:17:34.920 this is humane you know when you put down your dog because it's sick these people are sick

00:17:40.880 and a lot of people on the right will be like you know what i like this this uh justin trudeau

00:17:46.820 he's euthanizing the homeless he's gassing the homeless i like this guy by the way in china they 0.56

00:17:53.840 don't have homeless people i actually asked a chinese person on the street a chinese lesbian we were

00:17:59.720 doing a street interview one day i never posted this i probably should post it

00:18:04.680 should probably write down to post that

00:18:07.960 post video with chinese lesbian talking

00:18:22.600 about homeless

00:18:26.600 no this uh chinese lesbian she told me that you know she said i said what do you what about the 1.00

00:18:33.580 homeless problem what's going on here and she goes at least you can still see them you can see the

00:18:40.080 homeless she said in china they just take them in the middle of the night they just come if you're

00:18:44.700 homeless if you're on the street they just take you and they take you somewhere they take you to some 0.99

00:18:49.280 camp and some you know but that does beg the question that how else do you get these people

00:18:56.060 to work if they're not going to work you got to put them in a labor camp come on

00:19:00.440 is this a liberal democracy or not put them in a camp put them all in camps get them working get them 0.52

00:19:11.740 get them used to you know 8 a.m let's go come on no crack no heroin no fenty and get them on get them

00:19:20.580 on the treadmill like a you know like guinea pig on the thing and get them going and and maybe then

00:19:27.740 at noon you give them a little bump you give them a little couple bumps of meth right and you just say

00:19:33.080 look you can do a little bit of meth here and there we're gonna give it to you and get to work

00:19:39.580 right it's like first of all i grew up with the book holes okay i don't know who remembers the book

00:19:46.100 holes but in the book holes shia labeouf is taken from his family to a juvenile detention center in the

00:19:54.220 middle of the desert and he is forced to dig holes with a black kid named zero okay and that is that is 1.00

00:20:04.520 the story that i watched as a child and that i now understand to be how we should deal with the homeless

00:20:10.940 people of this country specifically the ones in vancouver that you know unfortunately i feel bad for the

00:20:21.160 people of vancouver because all of the homeless people want to go there because it's the warmest

00:20:24.660 place in canada there's got to be options folks what about sending them to mexico what about what if

00:20:33.700 the what if the canadian government rents out a an entire resort a couple maybe like four resorts

00:20:42.340 in mexico port of vallarta right just an old dilapidated resort canadian government buys it in

00:20:53.880 mexico and puts homeless people there and gives them drugs and and hooks them up with the cartels

00:21:01.320 and the cartels can then they the cartels can use canadian homeless people to smuggle drugs and weapons 0.96

00:21:10.100 and that's another way to get them working get them um you know to fucking participate in society 0.99

00:21:19.580 okay but in all seriousness should you know the nazis did do this am i wrong about this did what did 0.97

00:21:31.000 okay let's just look at this up uh nazis and the homeless

00:21:36.700 in 1933 the nazi party passed a law against habitual and dangerous criminals which allowed for the

00:21:46.520 relocation of beggars homeless and unemployed to concentration camps

00:21:50.300 wow wow wow wow wow

00:21:57.420 currently homelessness in germany is a significant social issue one of that is estimated to affect

00:22:08.460 around 678 000 people since 2014 there's been 150 increase in the homeless population within the

00:22:15.840 due to the inclusion of refugees reportedly around 22 000 of the homeless population are children

00:22:22.240 in germany in beautiful in brussels 1.00

00:22:27.120 fuck germany what a shithole what a what a shithole they've never been good at they've never been right 1.00

00:22:35.520 about anything they're always on the wrong side of everything fuck them to this day fuck germany i don't 1.00

00:22:43.520 know why it's like have you ever met people from germany you're like oh yeah world war like you feel that 1.00

00:22:48.400 pride when they're in canada and they're from germany like yeah we fucking fucked you up by the way remember 0.99

00:22:53.360 that because you guys suck fuck germany and you guys killed all the jews right and then that was very long 1.00

00:23:00.720 time ago we don't like talking about shut the fuck up you fucking nazi piece of scum 1.00

00:23:06.800 i don't know there is do people not feel this with like f like i'm not talking about like 1.00

00:23:14.000 your friends who were like you know happen to be german i'm talking about when you meet a german 0.99

00:23:19.680 like fucking family like a tourist fucking german family and they're like 1.00

00:23:23.360 very nice country it's like you're you we know what the fuck happened 1.00

00:23:27.440 but yeah they they they rounded them up and they killed them in 1933 and is canada going to get 0.97

00:23:38.960 there no but we're going to talk about it because the homeless people the homeless problem is

00:23:45.200 significant and it's not just homeless people used to be homeless when i was a kid

00:23:50.640 we had homeless people and you could talk to them they actually you could talk to them and be like

00:23:54.640 how are you today like i'm pretty good just you know whatever you they'd have a conversation

00:24:01.040 with at least my mom would have conversations with them which i don't know why potentially that 0.99

00:24:05.520 may have been her early onset dementia but i was under the impression that some of the homeless

00:24:11.680 people if not most of the homeless people 20 years ago were fairly like you know approachable and

00:24:19.520 probably just needed a couple pharmaceuticals and they'd be back on their feet but now it's like

00:24:27.120 these criminal homeless people it's these like it's like these rogue agents of just evil walking around

00:24:36.560 looking angry angry at people who are living society in a normal way and that's the worst possible

00:24:42.560 thing that can happen uh with homeless people is if when they become violent and jealous of people living

00:24:49.760 their normal lives so 0.99

00:24:54.080 fucking kill them all i don't know what to tell you it's time to euthanize some more news in canada uh 1.00

00:25:00.480 obviously the bank of show canada's number one podcast because uh you know even with 900 listeners 1.00

00:25:07.920 some weeks that is the number one podcast in canada i believe unfortunately there's a couple

00:25:13.280 other podcasts that people listen to but they're unbearable to listen to for me but i think this is

00:25:19.120 should be top five at least on cbc's podcast to watch list convicted murderer escapes from federal

00:25:27.120 prison in kinkston this happened today uh kinkston ontario for those that do not know

00:25:32.880 kinkston ontario is uh where all the prisons are a lot of the big prisons in uh in ontario

00:25:42.480 so uh convicted murderer escaped from federal prison

00:25:47.040 uh minimum security unit at a federal prison uh

00:25:53.440 police spokesperson bill dixon says 42 year old inmate

00:25:57.520 was taken into custody without incident on wednesday police had said earlier that prison staff

00:26:02.240 discovered the inmate was missing during a formal count at the collins bay institution on

00:26:07.040 tuesday

00:26:09.520 the man was serving an intermediate sentence for second degree murder

00:26:14.000 kingston police were contacted immediately after he escaped and

00:26:17.600 a warrant was issued for the man's arrest dixon says the man has been charged with being

00:26:21.840 unlawfully at large

00:26:23.280 i like i like the the sound of that unlawfully at large

00:26:31.040 might have to steal that for my next comedy special to be honest

00:26:35.680 some more canadian news i like the canadian news is like so scary and awful nowadays um i think this is

00:26:42.640 this is i think this is no this is is this u.s news

00:26:49.520 tyrannos founder elizabeth holmes ordered to begin 11 year prison sentence may 30th

00:26:56.080 look at this woman she's like kind of like a hot 1.00

00:26:59.360 kind of 30 something year old ceo

00:27:03.760 see ladies this is what happens when you uh 1.00

00:27:11.120 when you get your equality you end up spending 11 years in 0.98

00:27:14.880 fucking prison for tax fraud you're like i want to know everything i'm in but 0.98

00:27:21.600 former theranos ceo elizabeth holmes seen here 0.99

00:27:25.440 march 17 2023 has been ordered to be in 11 years disgraced

00:27:29.280 ceo uh u.s district judge edward davilla

00:27:34.240 said holmes's revised prison reporting date after her lawyers proposed it

00:27:38.960 in a wednesday filing it came after a federal appeals court late tuesday rejected homes

00:27:44.720 bid to remain out of a prison while she attempts

00:27:47.920 to overturn her january 2022 conviction um

00:27:52.400 okay

00:27:59.280 well that's that's pretty intense

00:28:06.800 punishment also includes 452 million dollar

00:28:10.800 u.s restitution bill that davila ordered holmes to pay in a separate ruling

00:28:15.840 holmes's lawyers asked davala davila to approve the may 30 prison reporting time to give her two 0.81

00:28:22.160 weeks to sort out several issues including child care for her one-year-old son william

00:28:29.680 and three-month-old daughter invicta holmes had originally been ordered to begin her prison 0.91

00:28:35.120 sentence on april 27th but one of reprieve with a last-minute legal maneuver that gave her more 0.93

00:28:40.880 time with her children that's really fucked up i mean that what the 1.00

00:28:46.480 fuck did this crazy woman do 1.00

00:28:52.640 u.s memorial day weekend before surrendering to authorities on may 30th to begin her more 1.00

00:28:57.120 than 11-year prison sentence

00:29:01.040 what the

00:29:01.600 the father of both children is william billy evans

00:29:08.960 whom she met after breaking up with her former romantic and business partner

00:29:13.840 ramish sunny balwani

00:29:16.800 who began serving a nearly 13-year prison sentence last month in southern california

00:29:22.640 balwani 57 was convicted uh 12 felony counts of fraud and conspiracy committed while he was a

00:29:31.520 theranos chief operating officer and living with holmes holy 0.98

00:29:35.680 shit this dude is an old fat short indian guy 1.00

00:29:41.040 balding and she is like a hot 32 year old 34 year old 1.00

00:29:47.200 with that's just so insane ramish sunny balwani

00:29:56.560 guy was living with this woman just doing crime 1.00

00:29:59.200 fucking this 1.00

00:29:59.920 fucking hot white chick that's pretty sick 1.00

00:30:02.720 honestly 1.00

00:30:04.160 saga sparked pop culture portrayals at wednesday's filing homes as lawyers didn't disclose the location of the prison that she was 1.00

00:30:11.680 assigned to serve her sentence but they noted that she had to prepare

00:30:16.240 to travel outside of california where she had been living in uh the san diego area while free on bail

00:30:22.400 the villa has recommended that holmes be imprisoned in brian texas

00:30:27.760 huh

00:30:29.280 when holmes is finally incarcerated it will bring down the curtain

00:30:33.040 on a saga that cast a bright light on a dark chapter in silicon valley that brought her fame and fortune before her scandalous downfall 1.00

00:30:42.080 what the fuck was her who was she was she famous what the fuck was she famous for 0.97

00:30:50.560 being uh oh she founded it after dropping out of stanford university in 2003 to found theranos 0.99

00:30:57.440 while still a teenager holmes promised to revolutionize healthcare with a technology

00:31:01.840 that she promised would be able to scan for hundreds of diseases 0.98

00:31:05.520 and other potential problems with just a few drops of blood

00:31:08.960 the idea helped her raising nearly one billion us from sophisticated investors that included

00:31:14.080 oracle co-founder larry ellison and media mogul rupert murdoch who owed

00:31:20.160 who is owed 125 million dollars us under the restitution this 0.92

00:31:24.560 this bitch owes rupert murdoch 125 million that's amazing 1.00

00:31:34.320 but theranos's uh blood test never came back uh came close to working the way holmes had boasted with 0.98

00:31:40.080 the support of bowani resulting in the company's collapse and the tail that has been the subject of a

00:31:45.680 book bad blood and an hbo documentary blah blah blah blah pretty 0.97

00:31:50.880 fucking crazy that's happening every fucking day um and as people know i am still running for mayor of 0.98

00:31:59.360 toronto i'm still running as a legitimate candidate i am on the ballot i am a legitimate candidate and you 0.99

00:32:05.680 can vote for me and i don't think i'm going to step down from the candidacy i don't think i'm going to

00:32:15.600 step away from uh from it all people are asking what do you uh you know are you

00:32:22.800 doing what are you doing to make sure that you win mayor and uh the answer is pretty much nothing except

00:32:28.640 making very funny videos which nowadays i could probably win with just that i think that door 0.96

00:32:35.200 knocking is uh it's dead nobody's fucking door knocking and 0.98

00:32:43.200 getting the vote of a younger individual right like that's a boomer tactic oh no 0.99

00:32:50.880 come on down like it's no it's a boomer thing to go to a house and you knock on the door and

00:32:56.320 the uh the politicians are here you want i mean it's a very good idea and it's very 0.99

00:33:01.600 old school democratic uh but uh fuck that if olivia chow came to my door right now i'd be like yo 1.00

00:33:10.000 bitch i'm running too i'm on the ballot so it's another 300 people there's like the most people i 0.99

00:33:17.760 think ever i don't know i think i don't know if it's ever for any mayoral um thing ever but it's like 0.95

00:33:25.360 the most for toronto that they've ever had is over 100 people running for mayor which is absolutely

00:33:31.760 insane but yes olivia chow is the number one uh person if you're not from toronto if you're not 0.90

00:33:38.720 from canada you have no idea who the fuck these people are you might know teresa tam if you listen 0.99

00:33:43.360 to me and you watch my shit on the instagram and twitters and all that olivia chow is like uh is to 0.99

00:33:50.560 teresa tam what a uh heirloom tomato is to a tomato they are uh one is good on salads one is good on 0.96

00:34:02.880 the past no um they're both chinese uh i don't know if you know about chinese people but they exist

00:34:10.480 in very large numbers in canada uh because canada is essentially a new province of china much like most of

00:34:19.520 africa the african countries that are now basically enslaved to china and or uh have been colonized by

00:34:26.080 china and china's built all of their infrastructure and roadways and railroads and shopping centers and

00:34:34.160 stadiums and ports and in exchange for that they have given china like a hundred year long or 200 year 0.94

00:34:42.640 whatever long lead land leases on basically all the land that they that china's building on or 0.88

00:34:49.440 whatever the fuck and so yeah they're colonizing the shit out of the rest of the world and it makes 0.97

00:34:54.240 sense that they're colonizing us too and that's why we're seeing such a rapid change in our society over 0.99

00:35:00.080 the past three years since covid since we let china 1.00

00:35:06.880 spread covid throughout the world with impunity with no

00:35:13.840 what was the consequence of that for china what did they have any consequence for letting their people 0.98

00:35:19.680 fly around and then if if or we're working with china and we're trying to fucking fuck over everybody 0.98

00:35:25.920 because the richest people want to be even richer and they they just see that this is how the world's 0.94

00:35:30.320 going and maybe that's maybe they're right maybe klaus schwab is fucking right maybe you at home watching 0.99

00:35:38.400 this with your five fuck trudeau flags on your truck are wrong maybe you should learn mandarin and shut the 0.99

00:35:46.080 fuck up but i don't know i'm not saying that you should i'm saying that maybe you should because 0.99

00:35:53.520 maybe klaus schwab is right and uh we should all learn mandarin and just give it a rest that's one option 0.99

00:36:03.040 that should be a olivia chow campaign uh that should be we they we we think china is right

00:36:09.600 in uh not only their murdering of homeless but anyway this is an olivia chow a woke olivia chow tweet

00:36:20.320 she's standing next to a woman in some sort of hijab type garb

00:36:30.720 as a member of the provincial parliament for scarborough southwest

00:36:33.760 at dolly beegum is a champion for scarborough at queen's park she knows that we need a mayor who 1.00

00:36:41.520 will be focused on getting results for scarborough i'm proud to have her support now of course scarborough

00:36:47.920 is an area in toronto which is a kind of a shitty area that everybody makes fun of who lives here kind of

00:36:56.240 similar to i guess in this if you're in new york uh it's like whatever what's the shitty part of new

00:37:04.240 york the bronx the what's the shitty part of la it's compton i'm maybe it's not as bad as compton but

00:37:12.320 scarborough uh needs a champion right now and olivia is just the person for the job 0.99

00:37:17.200 she cares about her community and people trust her to stand up for scarborough and make sure

00:37:23.040 people here are treated fairly at city hall yeah that's what we need to worry about guys 1.00

00:37:28.960 fuck who gives a shit about all the you know let's kill all the homeless people that's olivia chow's 1.00

00:37:36.960 step one kill the homeless and then and only then can we help the poor people of scarborough 1.00

00:37:46.240 start to also uh use the euthanasia clinics the maid clinics the medically assistance medical

00:37:54.080 assistance in dying clinics otherwise known as vaccine clinics um i have no idea what this woman is 0.96

00:38:04.640 capable of she is in fact a short-haired chinese woman and you know if you know if she was 0.99

00:38:14.640 if she was if she was white you could you could if if olivia chow was white you could say olivia chow 0.58

00:38:23.360 is a one of those short-haired white women you see them all the time you know and she's blah blah blah 1.00

00:38:30.160 she's full of shit and she fucking she's right wing and whatever they say about white women 1.00

00:38:36.800 but she's chinese so you if you're not white you can't really shit on like any white person can 1.00

00:38:42.080 shit on them and be like and they're white for god's sakes but she's chinese so i'm just going to 0.99

00:38:47.600 give her the benefit of the you know i'm just going to treat her equally here in the same sense that 1.00

00:38:53.920 you know just say the same thing olivia chow is one of those chinese women that gets elected for 1.00

00:39:01.520 parliament or gets some sort of government high-paying high-profile job that doesn't deserve it

00:39:09.440 and she gets money from the chinese commerce party she's one of those chinese women uh i don't know 1.00

00:39:18.400 if that's true that's a stretch and legally i'm in the race for mayor so i could be held liable for

00:39:26.080 saying something like that so i'm going to make it very clear that i am uh 100 joking but at the same

00:39:32.160 time there was an article about this what was the article about olivia chow china

00:39:43.840 toronto mayoral candidate olivia chow meets with group aligned with china a chow supporter says such

00:39:51.760 meetings are a necessary evil to reach chinese immigrants while other cautions not to jump to any 1.00

00:39:58.720 conclusions here she is oh here she is in all her glory so oh this is a chinese dining hall mark

00:40:07.200 this is where i go she she looks pretty good i'm not gonna lie hard to believe that her ex-husband 0.98

00:40:12.400 jack layton had to go to rub and tugs to get jerked off by a woman who looked identical to his wife 1.00

00:40:18.240 but to each his own olivia chow has generally not been a close friend of the chinese communist party oh 0.82

00:40:24.240 i hope so i don't mean i don't know i'm racist so i see china i just go yeah she's oh the number

00:40:33.920 one mayoral candidate after everything that we've fucking been through with covet and with theresa tam 0.84

00:40:39.920 and with fucking eileen davila who isn't fully she she was something and she was her husband was 1.00

00:40:47.280 fucking involved and with pharmaceutical companies and eileen davila by the way i don't even know she's 0.99

00:40:54.080 she's probably still got a job she's probably still working she's like the medical she's like 0.99

00:40:58.000 the dr fauci of toronto every fucking municipality has a fucking fauci it's unbelievable and these 1.00

00:41:03.920 people all make the same amount of fucking goddamn money even if they're working for the city or the 1.00

00:41:08.480 the country or the state or the province they make the same money they're making millions and so it's 0.99

00:41:12.800 and they're all rich i want to be rich look livia look i want to be rich too i want to hang out with

00:41:20.720 you i just have to make fun of you right now to get rich so the people sign up for patreon they give

00:41:26.320 me six bucks a month that's how it works in canada and us and all over the world you have to support

00:41:31.840 the artists that you like personally you have to go to their website or to their patreon and sign up

00:41:38.000 patreon.com slash ben bankus six dollars canadian a month that's like four dollars us it's nothing

00:41:44.720 with inflation it's fucking nothing money's meaningless anyway you're all in debt up to 1.00

00:41:50.560 your fucking eyeballs you have nothing to your name you own nothing and you are miserable thank 1.00

00:41:56.800 you klaus you were right we are and should be lining up to the maid clinics but before you line up to the 1.00

00:42:04.160 maid clinic and while you still have a lot of debt and you but you still have you still alive you still

00:42:09.140 have a credit card in your name you still have the ability to spend money and you should spend money

00:42:14.420 on me because i will help keep you alive come over to patreon patreon.com slash ben bankus i am

00:42:20.180 doing wonderful wonderful things i'm healing people with uh my words we're doing five minute

00:42:26.740 motivational videos once a week we might make that twice a week if we get another 20 patrons this week

00:42:34.260 uh we will uh 100 percent get that going to twice a week and start really motivating you guys by

00:42:41.860 telling you about how good or bad my day was and um telling you what's really going on behind the scenes

00:42:48.580 that's what patreon's all about it's the behind the scenes ben bankus what's going on let's 0.62

00:42:54.660 let's fucking go let's give this guy some dough so he can uh go and um 0.99

00:43:01.220 you know satisfy my dreams is that even a fucking sentence i think i have brain damage i have brain 0.99

00:43:10.660 damage from covid i have brain damage from 5g i have brain damage from medical uh government cannabis 0.97

00:43:16.260 and and government alcohol and cigarettes they've destroyed my brain but i am here for you guys so

00:43:23.840 please while you're alive uh and before you take your own lives at a medically assisted death uh center

00:43:29.760 please sign up for patreon uh back to talking about our beautiful olivia chow uh the woman that i'm

00:43:40.000 slowly slowly but surely transitioning into the veteran ndp politician has been in the past organized

00:43:47.440 events defending democracy activists in hong kong was uh among a handful of mps who stood in the house of

00:43:53.680 commons and commemorated the tandem and square massacre that's pretty sweet that she's on our

00:44:00.320 side she's not a full commie and or maybe she wasn't but now she's like china different now now i make a 0.87

00:44:06.880 rot of money they give me a condo but i wrote a front but the leading contender in toronto's mayoral

00:44:14.480 by-election is raising some eyebrows after speaking to and being welcomed with a gift from a group that has

00:44:20.560 aligned itself repeatedly with the chinese government and some of the most controversial policies the

00:44:25.360 council of newcomer organizations founded by liberal mp gang pan my name of gang pan uh claims its

00:44:34.960 goal is to unite all canadian ethnic communities so how can he be racist if he wants to unite all

00:44:44.800 you can eat in ethnic communities and for the native people

00:44:51.600 and has received 160 000 in funds from federal departments over the years

00:45:01.200 it is also issued a public statement harshly criticizing pro-democracy protesters in hong kong

00:45:07.760 before that movement was all but crushed by beijing and decrying a parliamentary motion in 2019 that

00:45:13.840 accused china of perpetrating a genocide against its muslim uigur minority they called uh called the 0.74

00:45:20.320 federation of canadian chinese associations in chinese that's what it's fucking called the council 0.82

00:45:29.200 sends canadian youth on route seeking trips organized by the united front work department 0.61

00:45:34.880 the ccp branch that spearheads beijing's influence and interference efforts worldwide 1.00

00:45:40.480 two former presidents of the group attended official events in china recently at the invitation of ufwd

00:45:47.040 in an australian report profiled the group as a case 0.98

00:46:01.200 the fucking pages anyway 0.97

00:46:10.480 oh yeah here we go uh charles burton mcdonald laurie institute expert on china said chow once 0.99

00:46:19.520 invited him to take part in an event featuring in hong kong critic of beijing he said he was surprised

00:46:24.800 she would associate with the council i think it's regrettable that she attended this meeting and

00:46:29.520 received a gift from them burton said the whole thing is puzzling i just don't understand i'm puzzled

00:46:35.280 that she would be so involved with a group that seems to have such close ties with chinese consulate

00:46:42.080 so pretty much the video that i made about me being the chinese uh chosen by china political candidate 0.62

00:46:50.080 to be mayor was true like it's fucking actually happening guys i mean i hate to be that guy i don't 0.95

00:46:57.280 want to be that guy i want to be like oh it was wrong everything's great tell you um i think it's 0.90

00:47:03.920 regrettable that she attending uh the blah blah blah a supporter of chow's who asked not to be identified

00:47:11.600 said she also wished she had not met with the newcomers organization but the person said such

00:47:15.360 meetings were a necessary evil for any politician who wish to reach out to toronto's community of

00:47:22.560 mainland china immigrants i'd be cautious not to jump into any conclusion at this point in time 0.76

00:47:27.680 added gloria feng i love when the chinese people have fucking names gloria i'm pretty sure i went to 0.95

00:47:34.720 gloria feng sounds fucking there was a gloria in my middle school for sure chinese gloria feng of the 0.96

00:47:42.880 group uh canadian hong kong link a staunch critic of beijing proxies of ccp like to endorse any 0.91

00:47:50.320 candidate with winnability that does not necessarily imply the candidate they endorse has been

00:47:57.280 compromised interesting interesting um i do does this mean that i have no winnability is this why

00:48:05.680 china is not talking to me is this why china is not giving me the green light the council did not 0.57

00:48:13.840 respond to a request for a comment by deadline shirvan resvani uh spokeswoman for chow said the group did

00:48:22.320 not invite her to the meeting and did not endorse her she arrived midway through and brought greetings 0.86

00:48:30.720 see that is some fucking like that is some next level like chinese politics like chinese authoritarianism 0.98

00:48:38.480 politics that i guess that we're doing it like okay well let if we make all the fucking cities 0.98

00:48:43.840 have authoritarian politician and municipal politicians then it just it's like a trickle 0.93

00:48:49.040 up effect but that's actually insane that her spokesperson basically said like i can't even hear somebody

00:48:55.280 saying that without a chinese accent even though their name is resvani which i'm assuming is like

00:49:00.320 persian or something she arrived midway too and brought greetings like it's very olivia chai was always

00:49:09.440 stood up for the forces of freedom human rights democracy here in canada and china and beyond said resvani 0.97

00:49:14.880 since 1989 olivia stood side by side with pro demo oh shut the fuck up she went to the meeting she's 1.00

00:49:22.320 compromised she's compromised she's fucking she's she is chinese 1.00

00:49:30.880 sorry i know she's hong kong i i doesn't uh donald trump don't trust china china is as 1.00

00:49:38.400 ho that's a hong kong but i get it but listen to this the council was cited by australian economics

00:49:45.440 in a report last year on how chinese government tries to mold world opinion about weaker issues

00:49:50.160 like this woman is in bed with people who are uh potentially

00:49:59.120 you know potentially

00:50:02.880 like she's like aiding and abetting

00:50:06.400 legitimate genocide right um

00:50:15.040 pretty insane and that's the number one candidate in toronto here's a fun video of a

00:50:19.440 guy getting drop kicked outside of uh one of those lcbo's the liquor stores in ontario that i was

00:50:24.560 talking about earlier where they during covet they had signs up that said no joking about covet

00:50:35.760 that's always fun to see a guy get drop kicked uh broad daylight

00:50:39.440 here's another uh article about twitter twitter obviously has been going through a lot of changes

00:50:49.120 with elon musk taking over and changing things and probably staying up late and doing a bunch of

00:50:57.120 crazy things are trying to bring back the live feature on on twitter

00:51:01.040 all all kinds of stuff that he's doing and one of the things that he's doing is trying to get rid of

00:51:07.680 all the uh dormant accounts there's a lot of dormant accounts that people do not use on twitter

00:51:14.160 and a lot of them are from people who are dead or died and now those dead people's accounts are being

00:51:21.360 deleted and their family members who haven't thought about them or given a 0.67

00:51:26.240 shit that they died for years are now perking up their ears and going hey how dare you take away my 0.99

00:51:34.560 dead brother from 15 years ago's twitter that he had for a week before like it's ridiculous 0.99

00:51:43.360 emily reed lost her younger sister jessica more than 10 years ago for much of the last decade she 0.92

00:51:48.320 visited jessica's twitter page to help keep her memory alive yeah every five minutes go to your dead

00:51:53.600 relative's twitter page that's really going to help you uh uh you know grieve or whatever the 0.94

00:52:00.400 fuck it's absolutely ridiculous uh twitter became one of the places where emily processed her grief 0.85

00:52:07.120 and reconnected with a sister she describes as almost like a twin 1.00

00:52:12.960 but now the account is gone oh my god jessica who's this nameless random jessica 0.77

00:52:18.080 uh that exists in the in the abyss that this fucking new these news companies 0.92

00:52:24.880 written by wyatt grant grand fam phillips oh that's another reason i want to get my 0.99

00:52:32.320 i hate when people have hyphenated names my kid has one it's just ridiculous

00:52:38.240 last week owner elon musk announced twitter would be purging accounts that have had no activity for

00:52:42.480 several years that decision has been met by an outcry from those that have lost or who fear losing

00:52:50.080 the thoughts and words of deceased loved ones linked to now inactive accounts read immediately

00:52:56.480 returned to jessica's page as she had done a day or two earlier after learning of the purge in place

00:53:01.440 of jessica's page was an account suspended message that suggested it may be in violation of twitter's

00:53:07.520 rules imagine dying and then getting banned from twitter like 10 years after your death or like 0.94

00:53:13.840 this bitch said some crazy shit 10 years ago you gotta better ban that account 1.00

00:53:21.680 reed's tweet recounted her shock over the loss of the account has received tens of thousands of 1.00

00:53:27.760 responses wow the most uh anybody's given a shit about this fucking jessica reed 1.00

00:53:33.520 woman in her entire life because her dead sister's shitty tweets are gone 1.00

00:53:43.840 having these digital footprints is super important to me reed 43 told the associated press 0.66

00:53:48.640 then why didn't you take a screenshot of it when you had it for 10 years you didn't take one 0.80

00:53:53.440 fucking screenshot but it was so important to you the advent of social media has come with new way in 0.96

00:53:59.520 which people mourn returning to the place where they connected with friends family in the past 0.98

00:54:03.920 in addition to memories and physical traces left behind snippets of lives are here 0.98

00:54:09.360 honestly if you're going back to fucking social media to grieve like that's dark you shouldn't do that 1.00

00:54:16.000 move on forget about it uh it's something social media platforms have wrestled with for recent years 1.00

00:54:24.480 fuck these glasses are oh 0.99

00:54:26.640 they're all those glasses are all show because they fucking hurt my head i do it for you guys 1.00

00:54:32.880 because it looks better looking at that than this face 0.92

00:54:37.360 twitter backed off an attempt to purge inactive accounts in 2019

00:54:41.760 before musk arrived due to a similar backlash other social media sites have found ways to allow

00:54:46.320 people to mourn those they've lost

00:54:50.800 facebook and instagram allow users to request an account to be deactivated or

00:54:54.880 memorialization of the account a memorialized account show the word remembering next to the person's name

00:55:02.480 in this modern age we have these electronic reminders of people including little snippets

00:55:09.120 of a thought they had on a particular day or pictures that they shared said shira gabriel professor

00:55:16.080 of psychology at university of buffalo looking through a late loved ones social media can be both a healthy

00:55:22.560 way to process grief and gather as a community remembrance i thought i was gonna say a healthy 0.98

00:55:28.000 way and also kind of fucked up because you probably are just going to make yourself more sad by doing 0.95

00:55:33.120 that the prospect of that resource disappearing can bring about a sense of mourning again gabriel said 0.98

00:55:38.880 there's a real psychological cost of getting rid of his digital uh this digital uh footprint rather

00:55:46.960 that was left behind and the ability for community members to gather at one spot it's unknown if musk

00:55:52.880 will backtrack on the decision to purge the billionaire ceo of tesla's launch policies that have

00:55:57.280 rattled users and advertisers like and shown little interest amending those policies in response

00:56:03.440 musk named a new ceo last week linda giaccarino a former nbc universal advertising executive

00:56:10.960 who will have her hands full with a platform seemingly now in the perpetual state of chaos 0.68

00:56:15.920 deleting inactive accounts can be seen as fulfilling a promise musk made when he bought the company

00:56:22.960 particularly winnowing down junk accounts and bots at samuel william assistant professor at uft

00:56:29.760 at austin's school of journalism media i mean i don't know leave the dead people's accounts alone we're 0.92

00:56:37.920 all gonna die one day okay and it's gonna suck and stop pretending that it's not gonna suck 0.99

00:56:46.080 stop pretending that your death is going to uh you know it's the idea the reality is 0.99

00:56:59.280 if you're not rich now you have about five years to get there before

00:57:05.120 the nuclear war starts before the uh fake alien or whatever next thing i think it's five years we got 0.91

00:57:15.760 a little bit of time make some money get the fuck out of the cities get the fuck out of all of this 0.99

00:57:23.840 shit all of these places with you know the people and the and the and the and the um 0.99

00:57:33.280 like i don't i don't want this to sound homophobic but i want to just drive in a direction until i 0.99

00:57:40.320 don't see a pride flag is that at a bank i'll on your front yard i feel like you can't escape that

00:57:47.920 even in the middle of nowhere but at a bank why do the banks need so many pride flags does anybody

00:57:56.320 they're not even the pride flags anymore they're just straight up like trans pride lgb

00:58:01.360 why do we what about banking what about banking is so interconnected with the pride movement 0.99

00:58:12.160 why do banks that take everybody's money that charge you interest on every 0.99

00:58:17.120 fucking thing they can think of that fuck you over that that make old people put their money in 1.00

00:58:23.840 mutual funds and not invest them properly so they can profit themselves so the the companies 1.00

00:58:32.080 that make you go in debt from a young age for student debt for credit card debt for um everything

00:58:41.920 the people that you owe the most that that steal the most of your money besides the government 0.53

00:58:47.920 or the banks why do the banks have such an invested interest in having trans and gay

00:58:54.800 flags all over the place at all times somebody explain it to me

00:59:02.000 you can't because that's a society that we're living in now you can't explain it i'm trying to

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Bankas Podcast - May 18, 2023

Authoritarianism is Fun ｜ The Bankas Show - #022

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