Juno News - December 11, 2023


'Frozen Communist s＊＊＊hole'： Joe Rogan blasts Trudeau’s Canada


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10 minutes

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96

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1

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What does it say about your country when the world s top podcaster calls it a frozen communist hellhole and the paid-for legacy media tell you the complete opposite? Or when the most watched journalist on American cable TV at the time routinely calls your leader a tyrant?

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00:00:00.000 What does it say about your country when the world's top podcaster calls it a
00:00:10.320 frozen communist hellhole and the bought and paid for legacy media tell you the 0.52
00:00:15.080 complete opposite? Or when the most watched journalist on American
00:00:23.700 cable TV at the time routinely calls your leader a tyrant. It's funny Trudeau
00:00:27.880 always seemed like a cheerful idiot wearing weird costumes and yammering on 1.00
00:00:32.080 about diversity. Who knew he was Mussolini? And the response is not to 1.00
00:00:36.340 investigate the accuracy of those claims but instead to ban that channel from
00:00:40.980 being aired inside of your country outright. Or when the world's richest man
00:00:44.800 says your country has no freedom of speech which is obviously true but then 1.00
00:00:48.840 the paid-off press run a story about how Elon Musk is spreading misinformation.
00:00:54.380 Now all of this is happening right now in Canada. The rest of the world is
00:00:57.820 trying to tell us that something is deeply wrong inside of our country but
00:01:01.480 the legacy media working hand-in-hand with the government is either
00:01:05.140 completely silent or instead just outright attacking and discrediting
00:01:09.580 anyone who decides to speak up against dear leader. It's all quite astonishing
00:01:13.360 really because this is exactly the type of thing that would be happening if
00:01:17.440 Canada was a communist country. The rest of the world is trying to tell us that we
00:01:21.460 are being led by a tyrant but the legacy media would never repeat those claims
00:01:25.760 because otherwise they'd go under. They'd run out of money. Since it appears that the
00:01:29.420 only people effectively criticizing the Trudeau regime are independent
00:01:32.840 journalists living in Canada and journalists in the United States and
00:01:36.260 elsewhere wouldn't it be great for Justin Trudeau if he could just censor the
00:01:40.220 internet and decide what gets through into Canada? Funny because that's exactly what
00:01:44.920 he's doing. Drop a like in the video, help us out with subscribing to the True
00:01:48.340 North YouTube channel, and the comment question for the episode is this. Is
00:01:52.720 Canada falling down the path towards communism? Let me know in the comments and
00:01:58.300 let's get into it. Pretty safe to say that it hasn't been the best of weeks for
00:02:03.160 the pro-censorship anti-freedom crowd inside Canada's legacy media. The same type who
00:02:09.040 will gladly take money from the government in exchange for telling us that we
00:02:12.240 live in some sort of socialist utopia when the truth is the authoritarian
00:02:17.040 reality of Canadian life seems to get worse day after day. The week started when
00:02:22.080 Elon Musk, a well-known target of the CBC and other Canadian legacy media outlets,
00:02:26.580 told advertisers who are boycotting the social media platform over his own tweets
00:02:30.920 what they can do with themselves.
00:02:33.000 If somebody's gonna try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go 1.00
00:02:38.040 f*** yourself. But go f*** yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is. 1.00
00:02:49.880 Then Elon Musk would turn his focus to Canada, where he reminded everyone in
00:02:53.880 attendance that Canadians don't have a constitutional right to free speech. And
00:02:58.840 you know, a lot of these, a lot of things that we take for granted here in the United States,
00:03:03.640 that don't even exist in Canada. There's not, no constitutional right to freedom of speech in Canada.
00:03:10.680 So, you know, and there's no Miranda rights in Canada. People like think like, you know,
00:03:16.040 you have the right to remain silent. You don't actually in Canada.
00:03:19.240 That is a fact, by the way. Everything in the charter can be overridden, including your Section
00:03:24.680 2 freedom of expression rights. And after COVID, every Canadian knows that the charter
00:03:30.040 isn't worth the paper it's written on. How did the Toronto Star respond to Elon Musk
00:03:35.240 speaking the truth about what is happening in Canada? Well, they published an op-ed where someone
00:03:39.960 compares Musk's misinformation to the Taliban in Afghanistan. That's right. Musk saying to Canadians
00:03:47.960 that we don't have the right to free speech, which is true, by the way, is the same as 0.64
00:03:53.000 misinformation spread by the Taliban. His misinformation contradicted all I had come
00:03:58.120 to embrace in my adopted homeland. These weren't just abstract legal concepts. They were the pillars
00:04:03.480 of the life of freedom and dignity I had sought after fleeing Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, I witnessed
00:04:09.320 the erosion of democratic values and constitutional rights, a downfall that turned a country of law into
00:04:15.000 authoritarianism and repression under the Taliban. Coming to Canada was like walking into a different
00:04:19.880 universe. Here, I found a nation that not only recognized but celebrated the very rights that had
00:04:25.240 been stripped away from me. It was disheartening, therefore, to hear Musk's incorrect assertions
00:04:29.880 about Canadian law while listening to the podcast. Now, Weed reacted with the mix of confusion and fear.
00:04:35.880 Is this the place we've come to? His eyes seemed to ask. For a moment, we were back in that world of
00:04:41.640 haziness where rights were fragile and could be swept away. Then, to add insult to injury for the 0.90
00:04:47.000 Canadian legacy media press, Joe Rogan said this about Canada on Thursday.
00:04:52.520 You live in the frozen communist hole of Canada. What they've done up there, what they did with the 0.96
00:05:00.360 trucker rally and what Trudeau's doing with guns and what they're trying to clamp down on censorship on
00:05:07.240 the internet. That guy can eat it. That place needs 100% an overhaul of government. They're sliding down
00:05:17.880 that dangerous road of communism that scares the out of me. Incredible. Millions of people around the
00:05:24.440 world heard Joe Rogan say that. Probably one of the most powerful broadcasters of our time. He's saying
00:05:30.520 that about Canada and yet there's radio silence from the Canadian legacy media over those comments.
00:05:38.760 So the world's top podcaster and probably the world's most powerful broadcaster at the moment
00:05:43.880 says the country needs a complete overhaul of government and that Canada is a frozen communist
00:05:49.400 hellhole. And yet it appears that the Canadian legacy media aren't reporting on that at all. And if they
00:05:55.080 do, it's pretty safe to assume that they're going to accuse Joe Rogan of being some sort of far-right
00:06:00.040 conspiracy theorist. After those rather direct comments about Canada by Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson
00:06:05.960 on his show on X interviewed Alex Jones. That interview between Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones on
00:06:13.400 X has over 18 million views. It also prompted Elon Musk to ask the people if they felt that Alex Jones
00:06:21.160 should be reinstated to the social media platform after five years of being banned. And after close to
00:06:27.720 two million votes, 70% of respondents said Alex Jones deserved to be back on the platform. And on
00:06:35.000 Sunday, Elon Musk responded to his own poll by writing this, the people have spoken and so it shall be.
00:06:42.280 So just like that, Alex Jones likely the harshest critic of Justin Trudeau in the United States
00:06:47.560 is back on X after a five-year suspension. Now say what you will about Alex Jones or Tucker Carlson
00:06:55.160 or Joe Rogan or Elon Musk, but one thing they can't be accused of is not standing up for free speech.
00:07:01.320 In a world in which free speech is undoubtedly under attack, these four men have come to represent free
00:07:07.000 speech. You don't have to agree with what they say or how they say it, but they consistently exercise
00:07:12.680 their right to free speech. And sometimes they get things wrong as is the case with Alex Jones,
00:07:17.720 but he has a right to get things wrong. And we as the consumers have a right to hold them
00:07:22.360 accountable for getting things wrong. Meanwhile, Justin Trudeau represents the opposite. He has
00:07:27.720 become the poster child of online censorship. Bill C-11, the online streaming act, Bill C-18,
00:07:33.640 the online news act, and the yet to be reintroduced online harms bill have made international headlines.
00:07:40.120 Online censorship is now becoming part of Canada's brand on the world stage. So I ask you, the
00:07:45.960 audience, who is more credible in their assessment of what's really going on in Canada? The world's
00:07:51.240 richest man and the world's top podcaster, or the Canadian legacy media whose very existence depends
00:07:57.240 on being bailed out by the federal government? Now, if there is to be a debate on which side is more
00:08:01.800 credible, one thing that's for certain is that there is no debate on who is winning. Because Justin Trudeau,
00:08:07.480 who represents online censorship, the repression of free speech is undoubtedly losing. And the people
00:08:13.160 that champion free speech, Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, and Alex Jones, I think it's pretty
00:08:19.400 safe to say are most certainly winning. Trudeau has a less than 1% chance of remaining in power after
00:08:25.080 the next election. Meanwhile, since leaving Fox News, Tucker Carlson has absolutely dominated the ratings
00:08:31.000 with his show on X, still at the top of his game. Joe Rogan, once again, is the top podcaster in the
00:08:38.520 world this year. With Elon Musk, what else really needs to be said? And with Alex Jones, well, he's back on X.
00:08:46.280 My True North colleague, Gruber Subramania, testified in front of the US Congress a few weeks ago,
00:08:51.640 talking in front of the weaponization of the federal government committee. In her testimony,
00:08:57.000 she described what is really going on inside Canada, the repression of free speech, the harmful impact
00:09:03.000 that it has on journalism. I'd like all of you to think of me as a time traveler from the not too
00:09:08.120 distant future, coming back to the present to offer you a glimpse of what could lie ahead for America.
00:09:12.920 I live in a time in which, in the name of fairness, you can't share the stories you write for my news
00:09:18.280 publication on social media. I live in a time in which, in the name of the common good, you can be kicked
00:09:23.240 out of your bank and online payment system simply for expressing the wrong political views. I live in a
00:09:28.760 time in which, in the name of social justice, you can commit a serious crime but get a more lenient sentence
00:09:33.560 if you happen to be the right skin color. I live in a time in which, in the name of safety, you can be arrested 0.99
00:09:38.840 for exercising your right to peaceful protest, if you happen to be protesting the wrong thing. Of course,
00:09:44.760 I'm not a real time traveler. I just live in Canada. What is happening in Canada is a gradual suffocation of
00:09:50.200 free expression. It is draped in a cloak of niceness, inclusivity and justice, but it is regressive,
00:09:56.600 authoritarian and illiberal. Rupa's testimony was picked up by the rest of the world's media. It instantly went viral. But you see,
00:10:04.840 it was a little too critical of Canada to be picked up by the Canadian legacy media. Like I said,
00:10:10.840 they are in the business of trying to tell Canadians that our country is a perfect utopia,
00:10:15.720 that everybody loves it here, that nobody takes issue with what's really going on. A perfect example
00:10:21.000 of a Canadian journalist telling the truth about how bad things really are inside Canada,
00:10:25.800 and yet Canadian legacy media want nothing to do with it. Like I said at the beginning of the show,
00:10:30.680 that is exactly what would happen in communist countries. And ladies and gentlemen,
00:10:35.160 it is happening in our beloved Canada. That's going to do it for us today on the show. Thank
00:10:39.400 you so much for tuning in. My name is Harrison Faulkner, and this is RADIO.