Juno News - The Candice Malcolm Show： The US military kills a terrorist and the left loses its mind

00:00:00.000 The U.S. military kills the head of a terrorist organization, and the left loses its mind.

00:00:04.740 Iran flexes its muscles and shows off its influence in Canada. 0.94

00:00:07.880 Ricky Gervais roasts the audience at the Golden Globes, and it's amazing.

00:00:11.680 And Justin Trudeau is our part-time Prime Minister.

00:00:14.720 I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

00:00:21.980 Hi, everyone. Welcome back.

00:00:23.380 Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and a wonderful New Year celebration with your family and with your loved ones.

00:00:28.240 We are excited to be back.

00:00:29.440 We've got a new set here, and I think it looks pretty good.

00:00:31.960 We've got a lot of news to get to, so let's jump right to it.

00:00:34.940 Probably the biggest story that happened over the break and over the last weekend

00:00:37.820 was a U.S. military drone strike in Iraq, which killed Qassam Soleimani,

00:00:43.900 who is the head of the Quds Force, which is basically a terrorist organization within the Iranian military,

00:00:50.460 which, by the way, has been designated a terrorist organization by the government of Canada since 2012,

00:00:56.060 by the government of the United States since 2007.

00:00:58.800 That's the individual Quds Force, which is basically in charge of waging covert operations and proxy wars throughout the Middle East and beyond.

00:01:07.640 So the Quds Force has long been determined to be a terrorist organization.

00:01:11.180 And then the broader organization, the IRGC, was just recently designated as a terrorist organization by the Trump administration.

00:01:18.640 So no matter which way you look at it, this individual, Soleimani, was a terrorist. 0.53

00:01:23.360 He was a head terrorist.

00:01:24.540 His entire job, his entire existence within the Iranian regime has been to turn that wing of the military into what is essentially a terrorist organization. 0.80

00:01:33.300 They do proxy wars, not even just proxy wars.

00:01:36.340 Soleimani was present in Lebanon in 2006 during that siege, during the war between Israel and Lebanon.

00:01:42.980 He was on the ground coordinating and instructing troops and basically just running the war.

00:01:48.880 And he's done that in subsequent wars.

00:01:50.440 They've used that blueprint over and over and over again from Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq.

00:01:57.200 Soleimani was basically the main warmonger of the Middle East. 1.00

00:02:00.820 And that's why it's so surprising to see the left all of a sudden.

00:02:03.760 You know, this kind of always happens.

00:02:05.700 Whenever there's a Republican in office, there's huge anti-war protests and anti-war movements all over the United States, all over North America.

00:02:12.720 And then as soon as a Democrat comes into office, they all just disappear.

00:02:16.160 They all just kind of like turn a blind eye when Barack Obama was doing the exact same stuff when he was doing drone strikes throughout Pakistan and Afghanistan that were not authorized by Congress.

00:02:26.560 There were no protests.

00:02:27.580 There was no war protests.

00:02:28.860 Those all just kind of disappeared.

00:02:29.960 But now that we have a Republican back in office, those resurface and they're back.

00:02:34.220 Again, and I'm sympathetic to them.

00:02:35.660 I don't want a war.

00:02:36.460 I think war is a horrible thing.

00:02:37.700 The last thing the United States wants to do is get wrapped up in another country's business.

00:02:42.400 All that being said, it's not warmongering to wipe out the head of a terrorist organization.

00:02:46.420 That is something that we should all celebrate when it happened with Osama bin Laden under Barack Obama when he authorized that strike in 2011. 1.00

00:02:52.580 Left and right, Democrats and Republicans all came together to celebrate the end, at least a symbolic end to that leadership under Al-Qaeda. 0.83

00:03:00.520 We should feel the same way.

00:03:01.540 So sure, Iranian government can replace Soleimani and put in a new general.

00:03:05.560 But Soleimani has been leading that charge since the late 90s.

00:03:08.500 He really has been the one that has put forth this strategy to push this covert war.

00:03:13.440 You know, Iran has imperialistic desires.

00:03:16.160 They want to spread their Shiite ideology across the Middle East. 0.96

00:03:20.400 They want to be the sort of dominant hegemon in the region. 0.95

00:03:23.200 They're kind of going back and forth against Saudi Arabia in a Cold War.

00:03:26.880 And it really was Soleimani that was pushing that.

00:03:28.980 So if you know Iranians, if you have Iranian friends, you probably noticed that they were excited.

00:03:33.420 There was a lot of celebration.

00:03:34.580 There was a lot of people just breathing a sigh of relief over the death of what was truly a wicked individual and a warmonger.

00:03:41.700 But of course, because it's Donald Trump, when there's anything to do with Donald Trump, there's always a deranged response.

00:03:48.060 So I'm going to go through some of the most deranged responses right here.

00:03:51.980 But first, let's start by looking at what the Canadian government put out.

00:03:55.040 The Canadian government released a statement.

00:03:57.360 A statement from Foreign Minister, Minister Champagne.

00:04:00.920 He says, Canada is in contact with our international partners.

00:04:04.160 The safety and well-being of Canadians in Iraq and the region, including our troops and diplomats, is our paramount concern.

00:04:09.520 That's fair. That's a good response. But this is the part that's concerning.

00:04:13.120 We call on all sides to exercise restraint and pursue de-escalation.

00:04:17.800 Our goal is and remains a united and stable Iraq.

00:04:21.140 Canada has long been concerned by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force, led by Qassam Soleimani,

00:04:27.540 whose aggressive actions have had a destabilizing effect in the region and beyond.

00:04:32.100 So, OK, fine.

00:04:33.340 They acknowledge that Soleimani is a warmonger, basically.

00:04:36.300 But then they said they call on all sides to exercise restraint.

00:04:38.600 This is the weird liberal fixation on being the honest broker in foreign policy,

00:04:43.400 that they never want to take a side, that they just kind of want to be in the middle between two sides.

00:04:47.580 But here you have the United States, a Western liberal democracy,

00:04:51.020 and Canada's most important trade partner and ally, and a terrorist organization.

00:04:56.460 And you're literally saying, we're calling on all sides to show restraints.

00:04:59.840 Canada can't even take a moral stance when it comes between our top ally and a terrorist organization.

00:05:06.080 They have to have this kind of wishy-washy approach.

00:05:09.520 That's really just the least of our concerns.

00:05:11.600 Look at Jagmeet Singh, the leader of the NDP.

00:05:14.300 He got roasted on Twitter for what he said.

00:05:16.460 He said, quote,

00:05:17.120 First of all, the airstrike happened in Iraq, where the United States has authorization to be,

00:05:35.000 and it has military authorization.

00:05:36.620 So people saying that this wasn't authorized, well, the United States does have authorization to be in Iraq,

00:05:41.740 which is where the strike took place.

00:05:43.220 Jagmeet Singh didn't even get the country right.

00:05:45.180 And again, this just shows what the approach of Soleimani was in Iran.

00:05:49.860 You know, he's not just a guy sitting in a corner office in Iran.

00:05:53.480 Iran's entire strategy is to have itself all over the Middle East and have its proxies and have its armies

00:05:59.180 and have its generals all over the place because they are this imperialistic force in the Middle East.

00:06:04.360 So, you know, the guy wasn't even in his own country.

00:06:06.820 He was in Iraq making him fair game for the United States.

00:06:09.680 And Jagmeet Singh just gets his basic fact wrong.

00:06:12.300 And then again, you know, not to be drawn into this situation, into the path that President Trump is taking us.

00:06:16.900 What exactly is that?

00:06:17.800 What exactly is the path?

00:06:18.940 Trump wiped out a terrorist.

00:06:20.740 We should be at least united and celebrating in that. 0.98

00:06:23.320 But no, the left is deranged.

00:06:25.840 And again, that's just the beginning.

00:06:27.320 Colin Kaepernick, the washed up quarterback, the former San Francisco 49er who refused to stand for the national anthem.

00:06:34.260 Well, this is what he had to say about the situation.

00:06:37.040 There is nothing new about American terrorist attacks against black and brown people for the expansion of American imperialism.

00:06:46.180 So again, for the woke intersectional left, this is all about race. 0.98

00:06:49.720 They boil it down and, you know, make it seem like it's like, you know, a white U.S. president being mean and attacking and killing black and brown people in the Middle East, which is just so such a bad take. 0.97

00:07:00.460 It's so far from the truth. 0.95

00:07:01.740 First of all, Qasem Soleimani is not black or brown.

00:07:04.400 He just isn't.

00:07:05.480 And the fact that this is all for the expansion of American imperialism.

00:07:09.240 No, no, quite the opposite.

00:07:10.280 It is America trying to stop Iranian imperialism and trying to encourage Iran to stay within its own parameters, stay within its own borders and not reach out. 0.73

00:07:19.640 And that's that's what this attack was.

00:07:21.620 But don't expect a washed up quarterback who's just dying for the spotlight, dying for attention to understand that. 0.95

00:07:27.840 And the deranged response, not just coming from the woke left and the far left.

00:07:31.500 There's actually a sort of strain of the right, like the libertarian far right.

00:07:36.520 It's really anti anti-war.

00:07:38.420 That's fine.

00:07:38.960 You can be a libertarian anti-war.

00:07:40.640 But they take this strange sort of deranged understanding of Iran.

00:07:45.060 They look at Saudi Arabia and they hate Saudi Arabia.

00:07:47.440 They don't understand why the U.S. has that alliance with Saudi Arabia.

00:07:51.120 And because they don't like Saudi Arabia, the enemy of Saudi Arabia, which is Iran, must somehow be good. 0.96

00:07:55.880 So we saw this back in the early sort of libertarian movement rise with Ron Paul, where he had this very distorted idea of Iran and he would kind of push lies about the regime.

00:08:05.320 And here we have another person that's doing that, Stefan Molyneux, who is sort of a right wing figure.

00:08:11.540 He says, can you imagine living in a country that hadn't started a war since 1946?

00:08:16.740 Iran. 0.94

00:08:18.220 This was just such a silly tweet that I didn't even know where to begin with it. 0.96

00:08:22.360 But you have to have such a naive worldview to think that Iran hasn't started a war. 0.92

00:08:26.760 Their entire strategy is doing these covert wars and doing these proxy attacks.

00:08:31.180 And they have their fingerprints all over the Middle East, not just the Middle East, but beyond.

00:08:34.760 They were part of a they were part of a covert plan a couple of years ago.

00:08:38.900 They hired a Mexican drug cartel to try to murder a Saudi Arabian ambassador in Washington, D.C.

00:08:44.060 They were involved in the Amia bombings in Buenos Aires in Argentina that killed scores of Jews at a Jewish community center.

00:08:51.040 Iran is everywhere.

00:08:52.460 They're part of so many wars.

00:08:53.720 And so the idea that they hadn't started a war.

00:08:55.840 Sure, they don't do conventional war.

00:08:57.600 That's fair.

00:08:58.320 That's true.

00:08:58.900 But instead, they have these terrorist proxies. 1.00

00:09:01.620 So it's just such a naive, dumb take. 0.98

00:09:04.380 And I just don't understand people who think that Iran is such a great country. 0.99

00:09:08.780 Look, Iran is the foremost state sponsor of terrorism. 0.66

00:09:12.940 They also have an absolutely gruesome human rights record. 0.71

00:09:16.120 They assassinate people left, right and center, not just in their own country, but throughout Europe.

00:09:19.920 They had a huge assassination campaign in the 90s. 0.82

00:09:23.660 They lead the world in executions, including executing minors, executing gay men, executing religious minorities. 1.00

00:09:31.720 They're just an absolute wicked country any way that you look at it. 0.96

00:09:34.960 And so to sit in North America and look at Iran and try to paint this picture that somehow they're this harmonious, peaceful society is just incredibly naive.

00:09:43.040 Pick up a book.

00:09:44.060 Read something about Iran before you want to spout out.

00:09:47.240 This is the final point I'll touch on with this issue.

00:09:50.540 But the way that the press has painted this issue is just really disturbing.

00:09:55.220 So many parts of the mainstream media have just really thwarted it.

00:09:59.560 And this kind of goes back to like, you know, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

00:10:03.500 So they hate Trump.

00:10:04.320 And then because Iran is like now an enemy of Trump, they think that somehow Iran is an ally.

00:10:10.800 It's just really wrong.

00:10:12.300 So this was a piece that appeared in the Globe and Mail.

00:10:15.280 I know it's an Associated Press piece, but there's just so much about it that really just sparks you as wrong.

00:10:21.720 So the headline reads, Who is Qasem Soleimani and why is he an icon in Iran?

00:10:27.480 And the piece basically just goes through this very romantic kind of regime led perspective on this general.

00:10:35.060 And they paint him as a sort of martyr and this hero who fought against U.S. interests and who stood up for the Islamist interests in Iran.

00:10:43.500 For Iranians whose icons since the Islamic Revolution have been stern-faced clergy, General Qasem Soleimani was a popular figure of national resistance in the face of four decades of U.S. pressure.

00:10:55.960 Soleimani survived the horror of Iran's long war in the 1980s with Iraq to take control of the Revolutionary Guard's elite Quds Force responsible for the Islamic Republic's campaigns abroad.

00:11:07.900 And then they basically just tell his life story, including like poetry that he was interested in.

00:11:14.680 There's a couple of lines of poetry and they're kind of just painting Trump as this evil figure.

00:11:21.220 And then somehow, you know, these poor Iranians are just trying to fight back and have their own country, which is historically illiterate. 0.99

00:11:30.460 The attention the West gave Soleimani only boosted his profile at home.

00:11:33.920 He sat by Khomeini, which is the supreme leader, the Ayatollah of Iran.

00:11:38.740 He sat by Khomeini's side at key meetings.

00:11:41.620 Polling data routinely showed that Soleimani raided more favorably than other public figures, according to the University of Maryland.

00:11:47.540 That's sort of an odd figure.

00:11:48.860 Other public figures, what, in Iran or other public figures globally within the Islamic Republic?

00:11:54.140 It's not that hard to be a popular figure within a very hated regime full of mullahs and the sort of old Islamist leaders that the country has really grown tired of. 0.98

00:12:05.680 So that's like a weird data point.

00:12:07.420 It goes on.

00:12:07.980 Soleimani's greatest notoriety arose from the Syrian civil war and the rapid expansion of the Islamic State group.

00:12:15.100 Iran, a major backer of Assad, sent Soleimani to Syria several times to lead attacks against ISIS and others opposing Assad's rule.

00:12:22.840 While the U.S.-led coalition focused on airstrikes, several ground victories by Iraqi forces featured photographs of Soleimani leading them without a flak jacket.

00:12:32.120 Soleimani has taught us that death is the beginning of life, not the end of life.

00:12:36.980 One Iraqi militia commander said.

00:12:40.200 So again, just a really kind of weird way to sort of eulogize someone who was a terrorist.

00:12:45.620 Sure, he helped defeat ISIS, but in a lot of ways he was the problem in Syria because he helped destabilize the entire country and lead to a prolonged civil war where hundreds of thousands of people were killed and millions of people were displaced because of his backing of Bashir al-Assad.

00:13:01.540 So really just a distorted way of looking at it.

00:13:04.600 Pretty disappointing that the Globe and Mail would run this kind of stuff and that Associated Press would put it out in the first place.

00:13:11.080 Okay, final thing with Soleimani.

00:13:12.400 On the Saturday night, a couple of Iranian organizations within Canada organized a protest outside the U.S. consulate in Toronto.

00:13:21.100 So they basically planned a pro-regime protest.

00:13:26.260 Some journalists were concerned about it, so they talked about it on social media.

00:13:31.080 And then there was a counter-protest of Iranian sort of dissidents and freedom fighters who protest against that.

00:13:37.280 The two sides clash.

00:13:38.500 It wasn't just Toronto, though.

00:13:40.120 In Edmonton, this is Edmonton Sun, Edmonton Journal reporter, tweeted out at a small rally on the Alberta legislature grounds with about 20 Iranian Canadians showing their support of Qasem Soleimani.

00:13:53.620 So basically you had these pro-regime Iranians setting up shop and creating vigils for this terrorist leader across the country. 0.94

00:14:03.560 I found this really concerning just from an immigration standpoint.

00:14:06.120 You think of people who would be fleeing Iran, which Iran is one of the world's greatest adversaries. 0.99

00:14:11.280 They are one of the world's wickedest regimes.

00:14:13.520 And when you flee that country and come to a free democratic society like Canada, presumably you would renounce that regime and you would be leaving that regime to get away from it.

00:14:22.520 You wouldn't want to come to Canada and celebrate it.

00:14:25.220 I mean, how would we feel if there were North Koreans who had fled North Korea but then turned around and, you know, done celebrations for Kim Jong-un?

00:14:32.980 That's basically the same.

00:14:35.040 That's basically a parallel with regards to these two regimes.

00:14:39.180 So the fact that there are so many pro-regime people in Canada that are from Iran, it's concerning. 0.98

00:14:45.220 I think that that's something that our immigration system should look at a little more thoroughly.

00:14:49.140 If you are supportive of a very wicked terrorist regime that's an adversary of Canada, you probably shouldn't be permitted to immigrate and come to Canada.

00:14:58.540 Okay, moving on.

00:14:59.880 This was an exclusive over at TNC.news.

00:15:03.980 Justin Trudeau's Costa Rica vacation entered its third week.

00:15:08.360 So according to the Prime Minister's official itinerary, Justin Trudeau was in Costa Rica for personal reasons from December 20th, 2019.

00:15:17.880 And he just returned this past weekend, which means that he was there for into its third week.

00:15:23.540 This was a top story over at TNC.news.

00:15:26.680 No one really knew what was going on with Prime Minister Trudeau.

00:15:30.580 It really seems like this guy is a part-time Prime Minister.

00:15:33.720 I mean, what kind of leader of a country?

00:15:36.000 He's supposed to be leading the charge, leading the Canadian government, leading the country.

00:15:40.660 After a big election, he just won.

00:15:42.560 And the guy jets off to Costa Rica for personal reasons for almost three entire weeks.

00:15:48.980 So according to his press secretary, she said the Prime Minister is enjoying personal time in Costa Rica with his family for the holidays.

00:15:57.580 We saw a picture of Trudeau surfing with the president-elect of Uruguay.

00:16:01.160 And then, of course, this infamous photo, which surfaced last week on Twitter, of the Prime Minister looking disheveled, standing in some kind of a bodega with what seems like bottles of alcohol not looking his best.

00:16:14.440 Well, he is now back in Canada.

00:16:15.980 They posted another picture of him, and now everyone seems to be concerned or interested in whether or not Justin Trudeau has a beard and his facial hair.

00:16:25.000 This is all just total nonsense, the kind of puff pieces that you expect from the mainstream media, which really don't care whether Trudeau is doing a good job as Prime Minister or not.

00:16:33.160 No, no.

00:16:33.760 He's just a model. 0.72

00:16:35.160 He's a poster boy.

00:16:36.260 And they like talking about his personal appearance and what's going on with him and his appearance.

00:16:42.100 So, again, pretty disappointing that the Prime Minister of Canada is pretty much just, you know, a pin-up model and a part-time Prime Minister.

00:16:50.220 And then just a final thing. 0.98

00:16:51.180 I don't usually care at all about what's going on in Hollywood or any of these stupid award shows. 0.99

00:16:55.300 I don't watch any of them. 0.96

00:16:56.340 I'm not really even familiar with the people that they're featuring.

00:16:59.300 But this was making the rounds on social media, and I really enjoyed it.

00:17:02.740 So the Golden Globes were held on Sunday night, and Ricky Gervais was the host.

00:17:07.280 He is the creator of The Office, and he's a comedian.

00:17:10.040 He's a really funny guy.

00:17:11.040 And basically, he roasted the entire audience.

00:17:15.120 He said all the things that so many of us think.

00:17:17.420 You know, you think of these award shows. 0.88

00:17:19.060 You think of just a bunch of really ignorant, far-left movie stars, actors, who think that they're so important, who think that they're so smart, that they want to get up on their podium and preach to us. 0.89

00:17:30.280 And they look down their nose at most people, and they don't understand the day-to-day concerns of regular people. 0.96

00:17:34.700 They really live in this isolated bubble of sort of far-left groupthink.

00:17:38.880 And now you add the kind of woke left attitude on top of that, and it's just so insufferable.

00:17:44.560 And, you know, that's why, despite having all of the endorsements and all of the sort of Hollywood and pop stars and everyone endorsing Hillary Clinton in 2016, she's still lost.

00:17:54.300 And they've been moaning and groaning about it ever since.

00:17:56.300 Well, Ricky Gervais kind of put them in their place, and it was super amusing.

00:18:00.200 So let's play part of that.

00:18:01.560 If you do win an award tonight, don't use it as a platform to make a political speech, right?

00:18:07.220 You're in no position to lecture the public about anything.

00:18:10.260 You know nothing about the real world.

00:18:12.240 Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg.

00:18:15.340 So if you win, right, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent and your God.

00:18:21.280 So good for Ricky Gervais.

00:18:25.500 I mean, it takes a lot of sort of courage to get up in front of like a room full of super powerful, super famous people and just tell it like it is and mock them and mock all their sort of false idols like Greta Thunberg. 0.96

00:18:36.080 I mean, despite what Ricky Gervais said, if you look at some of the speeches and some of the acceptance speeches, they still just droned on about their stupid political opinions and they don't really know very much. 0.91

00:18:45.980 They're not very informed, but they just feel the need to lecture everyone all the time. 0.97

00:18:49.660 And so, you know, we still heard a lot about climate change.

00:18:52.240 We still heard a lot about how President Trump is a warmonger, blah, blah, blah.

00:18:56.260 But, you know, good for Ricky Gervais for saying it like it is and saying what so many of us are thinking and what we're saying at home.

00:19:02.720 OK, I'm going to leave it at that.

00:19:03.700 Thank you so much for tuning in and we will be back with another episode on Thursday.

Juno News - January 07, 2020

The Candice Malcolm Show： The US military kills a terrorist and the left loses its mind

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