what does Rebel News do for us？ - Controlled Op mini
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Summary
In this episode of the Conservative Lens Podcast, I discuss the growing problem of "controlled opposition" in conservative media, and how it affects the entire conservative conversation. I also talk about why the Daily Wire is one of the worst examples of "controlled opposition" online, and why Stephen Crowder has been accused of being a fraud.
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So this is a new thing called filming while driving. I do go deep into thought while I'm
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driving and I thought wouldn't it be cool to you know just prop up my phone safely of course.
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Safely. That's a lot of sunlight. And you know pop a quick video on for the people to enjoy.
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I am a very good driver by the way. I did Young Drivers of Canada when I got my license so you
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know it's good. So you know I'm really good at it. But I really wish the reason I'm making this video
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is I wish I had more time to do controlled opposition. Because there's so much to talk
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about right now in regards to controlled opposition. And in many ways Daily Wire
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is kind of I would I would argue is one of the biggest baddest examples of controlled
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opposition. And it really gravely affects Canada as well. And it affects the entire conservative
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conversation. And we're also seeing all this weird stuff coming from Stephen Crowder as well
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which isn't unrelated. Like it's I'm not saying it's directly related but it's also like not
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unrelated either. There's this sort of uh pattern going on here. And I would even throw Rebel News
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into into this conversation where it's it's like um yeah hi the the largest so-called conservative
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heroes available online are all frauds. Like not necessarily frauds maybe that's a little far
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but it's it their their their main objective is not really the same as those who consume and view and
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fund these platforms. Uh there's a little bit of a disconnect there. You know uh recently there's
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been accusations that the Daily Wire for example largest conservative platform online is is an
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an Israeli first um platform. Which essentially means like they're not they're not putting America
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first. It's actually the interest of Israel is it's sort of like the it supersedes the political
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agenda the political priorities uh of this organization. I'm not going to go into the detail as to why that
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argument's being made but the Candace Owens thing certainly kind of lays it all out. Uh she's a
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Christian. She talks about uh putting America first. She talks about putting Christ first at the center of
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that and suddenly a number of individuals including the person who owns the Daily Wire has a problem
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with that. It's kind of weird and it's it is worth talking about and and it's it really speaks to sort
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of um well it doesn't speak to but it but it sort of cracks open the conversation of well how you know
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like what is the purpose of something like Daily Wire? What is the actual function of something like
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Rebel News? What is the actual like outcome of somebody like Steven Crowder? Because there really is
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so much rightful frustration rightful anger um discussed with what's going on in western countries.
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The incompetence the corruption the immorality the evil the hey it looks like these people are
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systematically destroying these western countries and we all know this many many people know this
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agree with this agree with what I'm saying and many of them watch Daily Wire many of them will
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consume a mug club with Steven Crowder many of them will watch Rebel News and what is what do we get
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from that what is the outcome what is the sort of conclusion other than with with with Rebel News
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it's funding more Rebel News content it's funding more fundraisers okay it's fundraisers for what
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fundraisers apparently for Rebel News and this is this is kind of important too because
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like the Rebel News fundraisers what do we get from them that's a great question because let's use
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the Coots 4 for example they started a fundraiser apparently um I actually don't know like the
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specific specific details of this but long story short
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Rebel News started a fundraiser for Coots 4 what was the result I don't know but they were in jail for
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over two years but then all of a sudden Diagalon Jeremy McKenzie and company started their fundraiser to
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get an actually good lawyer they raised over a hundred K and wow what do you know the guy got out like
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very quickly so what I'm saying is the net result of the fundraiser from Diagalon not even in
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not a corporation not incorporated whatsoever literally a club literally a podcast club
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slash community around Jeremy McKenzie that got a better return on investment and much more quickly
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by the way than the Rebel News fundraiser right because guys like I said the frustration the anger
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all of this stuff because of the you know corrupt evil people who ruining our countries like
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what what what what are the results what are we getting what are we getting for this like at least
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with a Diagalon fundraiser we got the Coots 4 starting to get come out of jail you know and people
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might say oh that was a coincidence it wasn't a coincidence like you really think that Rebel News
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their connections their funding their you know they've dealt with lawyers for a long fucking time
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and then all of a sudden like why why did why did they fucking net nothing why did nothing come out
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out of that it was it was Jeremy McKenzie and crew that that's what that's what got a result out of
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that I kind of I kind of you know went on a tangent and just kind of focused on one of these kind of
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I would argue controlled opposition sort of platforms Rebel News but that that's a really great
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example of like what do we get uh for these platforms um that get funded so much
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and the answer is like not that much I'm trying to think of an example for you know Mug Club
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Steven Crowder and the Daily Wire you know um sure we get some content from Steven Crowder
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how do we get all these laughs but it's almost seems as if uh the culture war that conservative
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people push or you know talk about like whoa look at these crazy trannies whoa the left the left is so
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backwards uh it's almost like that is becoming the distraction that is that is the bread and circus
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because uh you know again what do they give us in terms of results metaphorically not literally
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metaphorically this is a metaphor I've been watching a lot of the Game of Thrones okay
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metaphorically we want to see these people's heads on stakes metaphorically don't I don't mean that
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literally but metaphorically but metaphorically it's like we want to see these people humiliated
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exposed for corruption we want to see them taken down not violently nothing of that but like you
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know taken down politically and all these platforms do is like sell books make movies get our attention
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we're schmucks you know what I mean like we're we're kind of we're being milked like a cow like
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like our frustration our anger all that rightful stuff like I said it's getting taken advantage of
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and being monetized by these controlled opposition platforms that's a problem because that's like wasted
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energy it's taking our very legitimate qualms and and and frustration and energy and it's
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putting it into Ben Shapiro's bank account you know it's like that or Ezra LeVant's bank account you
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know like hey let's let's buy another one of Ezra's Ezra LeVant's books telling us how evil Trudeau is
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and the country's still burning but I got Ezra's book see what I'm saying we're not really getting
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much of a return on investment anyway I hope you enjoyed this video did you think my driving was
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safe I thought it was pretty I thought it was awesome I thought it was great hope everybody