Authoritarianism is Fun ｜ The Bankas Show - #022
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 1 minute
Words per Minute
141.81302
Summary
In this episode of The Bank of Show, Ben Bankus talks about the current state of Canadian politics, authoritarianism, 9/11, and what's going on in the world, and why he doesn't believe the shit he says.
Transcript
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
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
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
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
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
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
00:01:26.180
course i believe the things i say because that's that's why i say them
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
00:01:47.840
that's what i want you listening to on your morning commute i want to i want you to hear me
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
00:03:57.260
why because i fucking lost a bet 365 game uh a bet to uh all the leaves
00:04:05.720
they can prorogue proroguing parliament apparently that's not a thing really that prime ministers have
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
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
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
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
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
00:07:31.860
going around going this is this is an inside fucking job people thought you were completely out of your
00:07:37.760
fucking mind they wanted to beat the shit out of you in the street right
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
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
00:09:17.460
these dystopian fucking bolshevik lines for shit to get booze to get drunk to forget about how shitty
00:09:29.960
lockdown was and they had these signs right before you went into the lcbo saying don't make jokes
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
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
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
00:10:02.120
but i saw those signs i remember being like what the fuck is that and the security guard doesn't
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
00:10:17.280
like lockdown happened covid happened it was enforced by minimum wage immigrants who told us that we
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
00:10:48.140
walking in public signs do not talk about that like what the fuck is that
00:10:56.640
does nobody want to question that like seriously does nobody want to fucking question the fact
00:11:05.860
that we had signs up and we still have signs up we have signs everywhere don't talk about this
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
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
00:11:27.920
that this is all articles from uh today actually these these are these are articles from literally
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
00:13:40.660
fucking flag upside down to me not enough no but seriously are we this is this is fucked up because
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
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
00:14:44.440
are fucking uh chinese what what do you what what are the odds that one third of canadians are uh
00:14:53.020
also card carrying chinese citizens the results from this poll were contained in uh
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
00:15:42.840
jews are now allowed to apply for may then fast track the applications by dropping off the
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
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
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
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
00:18:26.600
no this uh chinese lesbian she told me that you know she said i said what do you what about the
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
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
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
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
00:21:10.100
and that's another way to get them working get them um you know to fucking participate in society
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
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
00:21:57.420
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
00:22:27.120
fuck germany what a shithole what a what a shithole they've never been good at they've never been right
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
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
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
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
00:23:00.720
time ago we don't like talking about shut the fuck up you fucking nazi piece of scum
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
00:23:14.000
your friends who were like you know happen to be german i'm talking about when you meet a german
00:23:19.680
like fucking family like a tourist fucking german family and they're like
00:23:23.360
very nice country it's like you're you we know what the fuck happened
00:23:27.440
but yeah they they they rounded them up and they killed them in 1933 and is canada going to get
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
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
00:24:54.080
fucking kill them all i don't know what to tell you it's time to euthanize some more news in canada uh
00:25:00.480
obviously the bank of show canada's number one podcast because uh you know even with 900 listeners
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
00:26:09.520
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
00:26:23.280
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
00:27:11.120
when you get your equality you end up spending 11 years in
00:27:14.880
fucking prison for tax fraud you're like i want to know everything i'm in but
00:27:25.440
march 17 2023 has been ordered to be in 11 years disgraced
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
00:28:10.800
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
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
00:28:35.120
sentence on april 27th but one of reprieve with a last-minute legal maneuver that gave her more
00:28:40.880
time with her children that's really fucked up i mean that what the
00:28:52.640
u.s memorial day weekend before surrendering to authorities on may 30th to begin her more
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
00:29:16.800
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
00:29:41.040
balding and she is like a hot 32 year old 34 year old
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
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
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
00:30:29.280
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
00:30:42.080
what the fuck was her who was she was she famous what the fuck was she famous for
00:30:50.560
being uh oh she founded it after dropping out of stanford university in 2003 to found theranos
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
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
00:31:24.560
this bitch owes rupert murdoch 125 million that's amazing
00:31:34.320
but theranos's uh blood test never came back uh came close to working the way holmes had boasted with
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
00:31:50.880
fucking crazy that's happening every fucking day um and as people know i am still running for mayor of
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
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
00:32:35.200
knocking is uh it's dead nobody's fucking door knocking and
00:32:43.200
getting the vote of a younger individual right like that's a boomer tactic oh no
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
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
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
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
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
00:33:38.720
from canada you have no idea who the fuck these people are you might know teresa tam if you listen
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
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
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
00:34:42.640
whatever long lead land leases on basically all the land that they that china's building on or
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
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
00:35:00.080
the past three years since covid since we let china
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
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
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
00:35:30.320
going and maybe that's maybe they're right maybe klaus schwab is fucking right maybe you at home watching
00:35:38.400
this with your five fuck trudeau flags on your truck are wrong maybe you should learn mandarin and shut the
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
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
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
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
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
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
00:37:36.960
step one kill the homeless and then and only then can we help the poor people of scarborough
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
00:38:04.640
capable of she is in fact a short-haired chinese woman and you know if you know if she was
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
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
00:38:30.160
she's full of shit and she fucking she's right wing and whatever they say about white women
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
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
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
00:38:53.920
you know just say the same thing olivia chow is one of those chinese women that gets elected for
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
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
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
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
00:40:18.240
but to each his own olivia chow has generally not been a close friend of the chinese communist party oh
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
00:40:39.920
and with fucking eileen davila who isn't fully she she was something and she was her husband was
00:40:47.280
fucking involved and with pharmaceutical companies and eileen davila by the way i don't even know she's
00:40:54.080
she's probably still got a job she's probably still working she's like the medical she's like
00:40:58.000
the dr fauci of toronto every fucking municipality has a fucking fauci it's unbelievable and these
00:41:03.920
people all make the same amount of fucking goddamn money even if they're working for the city or the
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
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
00:41:50.560
your fucking eyeballs you have nothing to your name you own nothing and you are miserable thank
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
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
00:42:54.660
let's fucking go let's give this guy some dough so he can uh go and um
00:43:01.220
you know satisfy my dreams is that even a fucking sentence i think i have brain damage i have brain
00:43:10.660
damage from covid i have brain damage from 5g i have brain damage from medical uh government cannabis
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
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
00:45:20.320
federation of canadian chinese associations in chinese that's what it's fucking called the council
00:45:29.200
sends canadian youth on route seeking trips organized by the united front work department
00:45:34.880
the ccp branch that spearheads beijing's influence and interference efforts worldwide
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
00:46:10.480
oh yeah here we go uh charles burton mcdonald laurie institute expert on china said chow once
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
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
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
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
00:47:27.680
added gloria feng i love when the chinese people have fucking names gloria i'm pretty sure i went to
00:47:34.720
gloria feng sounds fucking there was a gloria in my middle school for sure chinese gloria feng of the
00:47:42.880
group uh canadian hong kong link a staunch critic of beijing proxies of ccp like to endorse any
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
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
00:48:30.720
see that is some fucking like that is some next level like chinese politics like chinese authoritarianism
00:48:38.480
politics that i guess that we're doing it like okay well let if we make all the fucking cities
00:48:43.840
have authoritarian politician and municipal politicians then it just it's like a trickle
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
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
00:49:22.320
compromised she's compromised she's fucking she's she is chinese
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
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
00:50:15.040
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
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
00:51:34.560
dead brother from 15 years ago's twitter that he had for a week before like it's ridiculous
00:51:43.360
emily reed lost her younger sister jessica more than 10 years ago for much of the last decade she
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
00:52:00.400
fuck it's absolutely ridiculous uh twitter became one of the places where emily processed her grief
00:52:07.120
and reconnected with a sister she describes as almost like a twin
00:52:12.960
but now the account is gone oh my god jessica who's this nameless random jessica
00:52:18.080
uh that exists in the in the abyss that this fucking new these news companies
00:52:24.880
written by wyatt grant grand fam phillips oh that's another reason i want to get my
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
00:53:13.840
this bitch said some crazy shit 10 years ago you gotta better ban that account
00:53:21.680
reed's tweet recounted her shock over the loss of the account has received tens of thousands of
00:53:27.760
responses wow the most uh anybody's given a shit about this fucking jessica reed
00:53:33.520
woman in her entire life because her dead sister's shitty tweets are gone
00:53:43.840
having these digital footprints is super important to me reed 43 told the associated press
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
00:53:53.440
fucking screenshot but it was so important to you the advent of social media has come with new way in
00:53:59.520
which people mourn returning to the place where they connected with friends family in the past
00:54:03.920
in addition to memories and physical traces left behind snippets of lives are here
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
00:54:16.000
move on forget about it uh it's something social media platforms have wrestled with for recent years
00:54:26.640
they're all those glasses are all show because they fucking hurt my head i do it for you guys
00:54:32.880
because it looks better looking at that than this face
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
00:54:50.800
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
00:55:28.000
way and also kind of fucked up because you probably are just going to make yourself more sad by doing
00:55:33.120
that the prospect of that resource disappearing can bring about a sense of mourning again gabriel said
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
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
00:56:37.920
all gonna die one day okay and it's gonna suck and stop pretending that it's not gonna suck
00:56:46.080
stop pretending that your death is going to uh you know it's the idea the reality is
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
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
00:57:23.840
shit all of these places with you know the people and the and the and the and the um
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
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
00:58:12.160
why do banks that take everybody's money that charge you interest on every
00:58:17.120
fucking thing they can think of that fuck you over that that make old people put their money in
00:58:23.840
mutual funds and not invest them properly so they can profit themselves so the the companies
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
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
00:59:08.320
this has been the bank of show everybody thank you for listening go and check out patreon there's
00:59:15.600
going to be a bonus podcast dropping in a couple days an audio only bonus podcast you can go check
00:59:21.360
that out right now on my website benbankus.com slash podcasts uh you can also come and check out my live
00:59:31.280
shows there are a bunch of shows coming up very soon may 31st ottawa ontario june 1st montreal
00:59:41.200
june 17th we have a big show in toronto at the royal theater uh it's gonna be
00:59:46.640
fucking crazy it's gonna be awesome lots of new material for you guys uh we're working really hard
00:59:52.000
on that kind of stuff stand-up stuff art stuff june 22nd in niagara falls come and check that out
01:00:00.160
that's gonna be the last show before july uh and august where i'm gonna be doing fewer shows
01:00:09.600
one show in bob cajun in july and one show in thunder bay in august and then we have a show in
01:00:16.080
september uh in hamilton which is going to be a big show and we are now booking a lot more for
01:00:22.480
september october november we're going to be doing a lot of things we're working on coming to the states
01:00:27.040
we want to come to we want to come everywhere and if you're an american fan tell me where you're
01:00:32.000
from tell me where you're listening from and uh support us support me there is no us this is me
01:00:38.880
right now in a room in a in front of a screen and i love you guys uh dearly and i love comedy and i love
01:00:48.560
telling you what's going on reading stuff talking being there for you when you wanted to listen to
01:00:56.880
somebody just talk about shit that's happening instead of reading it on fucking twitter and
01:01:01.920
scrolling it's nice to just listen and relax so thank you for listening and relaxing
01:01:09.360
with me ben bankus on the bank of show good night