The U.S. military kills the head of a terrorist organization, and the left loses its mind. Iran flexes its muscles in Canada, Ricky Gervais roasts the audience at the Golden Globes, and Justin Trudeau is our part-time Prime Minister.
00:00:29.440We've got a new set here, and I think it looks pretty good.
00:00:31.960We've got a lot of news to get to, so let's jump right to it.
00:00:34.940Probably the biggest story that happened over the break and over the last weekend
00:00:37.820was a U.S. military drone strike in Iraq, which killed Qassam Soleimani,
00:00:43.900who is the head of the Quds Force, which is basically a terrorist organization within the Iranian military,
00:00:50.460which, by the way, has been designated a terrorist organization by the government of Canada since 2012,
00:00:56.060by the government of the United States since 2007.
00:00:58.800That's the individual Quds Force, which is basically in charge of waging covert operations and proxy wars throughout the Middle East and beyond.
00:01:07.640So the Quds Force has long been determined to be a terrorist organization.
00:01:11.180And then the broader organization, the IRGC, was just recently designated as a terrorist organization by the Trump administration.
00:01:18.640So no matter which way you look at it, this individual, Soleimani, was a terrorist.
00:01:24.540His 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.
00:01:33.300They do proxy wars, not even just proxy wars.
00:01:36.340Soleimani was present in Lebanon in 2006 during that siege, during the war between Israel and Lebanon.
00:01:42.980He was on the ground coordinating and instructing troops and basically just running the war.
00:01:48.880And he's done that in subsequent wars.
00:01:50.440They've used that blueprint over and over and over again from Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq.
00:01:57.200Soleimani was basically the main warmonger of the Middle East.
00:02:00.820And that's why it's so surprising to see the left all of a sudden.
00:02:03.760You know, this kind of always happens.
00:02:05.700Whenever 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.
00:02:12.720And then as soon as a Democrat comes into office, they all just disappear.
00:02:16.160They 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.
00:02:37.700The last thing the United States wants to do is get wrapped up in another country's business.
00:02:42.400All that being said, it's not warmongering to wipe out the head of a terrorist organization.
00:02:46.420That is something that we should all celebrate when it happened with Osama bin Laden under Barack Obama when he authorized that strike in 2011.
00:02:52.580Left and right, Democrats and Republicans all came together to celebrate the end, at least a symbolic end to that leadership under Al-Qaeda.
00:06:27.320Colin Kaepernick, the washed up quarterback, the former San Francisco 49er who refused to stand for the national anthem.
00:06:34.260Well, this is what he had to say about the situation.
00:06:37.040There is nothing new about American terrorist attacks against black and brown people for the expansion of American imperialism.
00:06:46.180So again, for the woke intersectional left, this is all about race.
00:06:49.720They 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.
00:07:10.280It 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.
00:07:19.640And that's that's what this attack was.
00:07:21.620But don't expect a washed up quarterback who's just dying for the spotlight, dying for attention to understand that.
00:07:27.840And the deranged response, not just coming from the woke left and the far left.
00:07:31.500There's actually a sort of strain of the right, like the libertarian far right.
00:07:40.640But they take this strange sort of deranged understanding of Iran.
00:07:45.060They look at Saudi Arabia and they hate Saudi Arabia.
00:07:47.440They don't understand why the U.S. has that alliance with Saudi Arabia.
00:07:51.120And because they don't like Saudi Arabia, the enemy of Saudi Arabia, which is Iran, must somehow be good.
00:07:55.880So 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.
00:08:05.320And here we have another person that's doing that, Stefan Molyneux, who is sort of a right wing figure.
00:08:11.540He says, can you imagine living in a country that hadn't started a war since 1946?
00:09:04.380And I just don't understand people who think that Iran is such a great country.
00:09:08.780Look, Iran is the foremost state sponsor of terrorism.
00:09:12.940They also have an absolutely gruesome human rights record.
00:09:16.120They assassinate people left, right and center, not just in their own country, but throughout Europe.
00:09:19.920They had a huge assassination campaign in the 90s.
00:09:23.660They lead the world in executions, including executing minors, executing gay men, executing religious minorities.
00:09:31.720They're just an absolute wicked country any way that you look at it.
00:09:34.960And 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.
00:10:12.300So this was a piece that appeared in the Globe and Mail.
00:10:15.280I know it's an Associated Press piece, but there's just so much about it that really just sparks you as wrong.
00:10:21.720So the headline reads, Who is Qasem Soleimani and why is he an icon in Iran?
00:10:27.480And the piece basically just goes through this very romantic kind of regime led perspective on this general.
00:10:35.060And 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.
00:10:43.500For 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.
00:10:55.960Soleimani 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.
00:11:07.900And then they basically just tell his life story, including like poetry that he was interested in.
00:11:14.680There's a couple of lines of poetry and they're kind of just painting Trump as this evil figure.
00:11:21.220And then somehow, you know, these poor Iranians are just trying to fight back and have their own country, which is historically illiterate.
00:11:30.460The attention the West gave Soleimani only boosted his profile at home.
00:11:33.920He sat by Khomeini, which is the supreme leader, the Ayatollah of Iran.
00:11:38.740He sat by Khomeini's side at key meetings.
00:11:41.620Polling data routinely showed that Soleimani raided more favorably than other public figures, according to the University of Maryland.
00:11:48.860Other public figures, what, in Iran or other public figures globally within the Islamic Republic?
00:11:54.140It'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.
00:12:07.980Soleimani's greatest notoriety arose from the Syrian civil war and the rapid expansion of the Islamic State group.
00:12:15.100Iran, a major backer of Assad, sent Soleimani to Syria several times to lead attacks against ISIS and others opposing Assad's rule.
00:12:22.840While the U.S.-led coalition focused on airstrikes, several ground victories by Iraqi forces featured photographs of Soleimani leading them without a flak jacket.
00:12:32.120Soleimani has taught us that death is the beginning of life, not the end of life.
00:12:40.200So again, just a really kind of weird way to sort of eulogize someone who was a terrorist.
00:12:45.620Sure, 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.
00:13:01.540So really just a distorted way of looking at it.
00:13:04.600Pretty disappointing that the Globe and Mail would run this kind of stuff and that Associated Press would put it out in the first place.
00:13:40.120In 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.
00:13:53.620So basically you had these pro-regime Iranians setting up shop and creating vigils for this terrorist leader across the country.
00:14:03.560I found this really concerning just from an immigration standpoint.
00:14:06.120You think of people who would be fleeing Iran, which Iran is one of the world's greatest adversaries.
00:14:11.280They are one of the world's wickedest regimes.
00:14:13.520And 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.
00:14:22.520You wouldn't want to come to Canada and celebrate it.
00:14:25.220I 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?
00:14:35.040That's basically a parallel with regards to these two regimes.
00:14:39.180So the fact that there are so many pro-regime people in Canada that are from Iran, it's concerning.
00:14:45.220I think that that's something that our immigration system should look at a little more thoroughly.
00:14:49.140If 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.
00:15:42.560And the guy jets off to Costa Rica for personal reasons for almost three entire weeks.
00:15:48.980So according to his press secretary, she said the Prime Minister is enjoying personal time in Costa Rica with his family for the holidays.
00:15:57.580We saw a picture of Trudeau surfing with the president-elect of Uruguay.
00:16:01.160And 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.
00:16:15.980They 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.
00:16:25.000This 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.
00:16:36.260And they like talking about his personal appearance and what's going on with him and his appearance.
00:16:42.100So, 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.
00:17:11.040And basically, he roasted the entire audience.
00:17:15.120He said all the things that so many of us think.
00:17:17.420You know, you think of these award shows.
00:17:19.060You 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.
00:17:30.280And they look down their nose at most people, and they don't understand the day-to-day concerns of regular people.
00:17:34.700They really live in this isolated bubble of sort of far-left groupthink.
00:17:38.880And now you add the kind of woke left attitude on top of that, and it's just so insufferable.
00:17:44.560And, 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.
00:17:54.300And they've been moaning and groaning about it ever since.
00:17:56.300Well, Ricky Gervais kind of put them in their place, and it was super amusing.
00:18:25.500I 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.
00:18:36.080I 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.
00:18:45.980They're not very informed, but they just feel the need to lecture everyone all the time.
00:18:49.660And so, you know, we still heard a lot about climate change.
00:18:52.240We still heard a lot about how President Trump is a warmonger, blah, blah, blah.
00:18:56.260But, 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.