Rebel News Podcast - Another Media Party member moves to the Liberal Party. But that really isn’t moving much.

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Today, I talk about Marcy Ian, the CTV reporter who's now becoming a

00:00:05.120 Liberal candidate. That's really not much of a job change, though, at all, is it, come

00:00:09.120 to think of it? I take you through some of the interesting quirks and the more boring

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00:00:53.020 Tonight, another member of the media party makes the move to the Liberal Party. But

00:00:57.600 that really isn't moving much, is it? It's September 18th, and this is the Ezra

00:01:01.420 LeVant Show.

00:01:04.240 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:07.900 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:11.960 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody

00:01:16.860 right to do so.

00:01:17.840 I saw this on Twitter.

00:01:24.580 A community leader, broadcaster, advocate, and mom. For over 30 years, Marcy Ian has been

00:01:31.760 a champion for a better and more inclusive Canada, and we're excited to welcome her as

00:01:36.660 our new Liberal candidate for Toronto Centre.

00:01:38.880 You know, she's not really those things. For years, she was a news reader on CTV Newsnet.

00:01:47.100 Not really a reporter. For years, she just read the teleprompter words that were written

00:01:51.640 for her by producers. I know this because I was lucky enough to be on her show, I don't

00:01:56.460 know, a dozen times. As a pundit, we're talking 20 years ago now. Hey, no problem. It's an honest

00:02:01.860 living. And she was very nice to me. I have no beef with her.

00:02:05.060 Then she joined CTV's gossip show, a low-budget Canadian knockoff of The View called The Social.

00:02:14.280 Couldn't be more transparent a copy. It's just what it sounds like. Catty women disparaging 1.00

00:02:20.100 each other. You might recall that whole place descending into a catfight with them accusing

00:02:26.080 each other of not being woke enough. They all condemned Jessica Mulroney, Meghan Markle's

00:02:31.300 friend of not being pro-black enough. And they cancelled her one day. Here's Marcy Ian joining 0.55

00:02:38.420 in that cancel culture mob. Jessica Mulroney's white privilege caused Sasha Exeter pain and has 1.00

00:02:45.940 wide-ranging ripple effects. And then she quotes someone named Lainey Gossip. Now, I think that's

00:02:53.080 weird that Marcy Ian would stand by some gossip named Lainey Louie, that's her name, and stab in the 1.00

00:03:00.060 back her friend Jessica Mulroney. Because here's the kind of anti-black misogynist crud 1.00

00:03:06.300 that Lainey Louie publishes. Like, this is really rough anti-black stuff here. I'm just going to read 0.99

00:03:14.460 the words. Sorry, I didn't write them, but I'll read them to you. Ghetto tits, ghetto weave, ghetto belt, 0.88

00:03:20.300 ghetto color combination. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have even read her language, but that's the CTV star 1.00

00:03:27.320 saying this. I'm showing you what she said. So Marcy Ian is totally cool with that anti-black

00:03:35.400 misogynistic racism, I guess. But look, don't overthink this. Marcy Ian probably doesn't like 0.98

00:03:42.520 that talk. She's just doing what the woke mob says, whatever her bosses at CTV said. She's fine

00:03:50.100 with anti-black racism from her TV co-host because CTV told her to be fine with that. Here she is

00:03:57.020 posing deadly serious with Black Lives Matter gear. I get it. She's black. She wants to represent. I'm 1.00

00:04:03.260 fine with that. I don't believe Marcy Ian actually knows anything about the Black Lives Matter

00:04:07.680 organization itself. It's anti-Semitism. They hate Jews. It's Marxism. They really do promote 1.00

00:04:14.860 communism. It's just another brand for her to support, though, if it's okay with her white bosses 1.00

00:04:20.220 at CTV. All of this is perfect training for running as a candidate for Justin Trudeau. Now that I think

00:04:26.700 about it, I mean, imagine running for Trudeau and the Liberal Party in 2020. I mean, in 2015, I get it.

00:04:34.640 Trudeau was fresh, new, untainted. This was before the groping fiasco.

00:04:40.400 I've been reflecting very carefully on what I remember from that incident almost 20 years

00:04:47.560 ago. And again, I am, I feel, I am confident that I did not act inappropriately. But part

00:04:59.300 of this awakening that we're having as a society, a long-awaited realization, is that it's not

00:05:08.700 just one side of the story that matters. That the same interactions could be experienced very

00:05:16.640 differently from one person to the next. This was before the blackface fiasco. This was before he 0.99

00:05:24.640 came out full forked tongue liar on indigenous matters. Thank you very much. Thank you for being 0.94

00:05:31.080 here tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for being here. Thank you very much for your donation

00:05:42.300 tonight. I really appreciate the donation to the Liberal Party of Canada. This was before he sacked

00:05:49.520 a whole binder full of women of color, including Jody Wilson-Raybould and a black woman from Toronto

00:05:55.540 named Celina Cesar Chavan. Run for Trudeau in 2015? I get it. Very exciting. But in 2020?

00:06:04.460 Yeah. You really do have low standards to do that, which is a good fit for the Liberal Party in Toronto

00:06:11.180 Centre. Remember, that's the writing where Bill Morneau, the crooked law-breaking finance minister,

00:06:17.720 resigned in disgrace, not just from Cabinet, not just from the Liberal Party, but he literally quit his job

00:06:23.740 as an MP, abandoning Parliament, abandoning his constituents less than a year after running in

00:06:30.080 an election. What a disgraceful man. You know, there's a great line in Macbeth about a traitor who

00:06:35.160 was captured, but before his execution, he confessed his sins, he asked for the king's pardon, and he

00:06:42.700 repented, as in he really cleaned up the mess of his life right before he died. And here's how

00:06:49.260 Shakespeare put it. I love this line. That very frankly, he confessed his treasons, implored your

00:06:54.640 highness's pardon, and set forth a deep repentance. Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.

00:07:03.580 I think that's a beautiful line. Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it. That means he

00:07:09.600 didn't do anything well in life other than how he died. Lived a sordid life, but a clean entry into the

00:07:16.960 hereafter. Making amends on your deathbed, dying with a peaceful conscience, that's the way to go.

00:07:23.120 So the opposite of how corrupt Bill Morneau left his political career. He disgraced himself in office,

00:07:29.060 time and again, convicted again and again by the Ethics Commissioner of Corruption, broke the

00:07:34.040 conflict of interest. He's a lawbreaker. Just the worst liar on Parliament Hill. And when he was finally

00:07:39.680 caught in his last lie about the weed charity, instead of ending with grace or dignity or honesty or

00:07:46.180 clarity, he just lied his way out the door, the back door, the alley out by the dumpster. So weird.

00:07:54.220 I mean, sure, he married a billionaire heiress from the McCain family, so he's laughing all the way to

00:07:59.620 the bank, his villa in France or whatever. But his reputation is in tatters. What a total loser Bill

00:08:07.340 Morneau is. And Marcy Ian's going to run there, which is a surprise because there's a whole bunch 0.99

00:08:12.600 of actual community activists, liberals connected to Toronto Centre who wanted to run. Not just people

00:08:19.480 who read teleprompters and have middle-aged gossip girls sessions on daytime TV. I love how they call 0.99

00:08:26.300 Marcy Ian a community advocate. That's pretty creative. But seriously, real community leaders

00:08:31.100 were running for the Liberal Party nomination. They were actively selling memberships,

00:08:35.100 working on building a team. You know, too bad, so sad you're not handpicked by Trudeau. So

00:08:41.380 you can't really count on, you know, Trudeau because he didn't pick you. He's not 100% sure

00:08:48.180 he can count on you to do exactly what he wants when the chips are down. So you're out. I mean,

00:08:52.960 it's a bright young man, visible minority, hardworking guy. Sorry, get out. Here's another guy. This guy,

00:08:58.680 I think, is a bank economist. Smart guy. But is he truly obedient to his bosses like Marcy Ian is?

00:09:06.480 Same in another Toronto area riding that's having a by-election. Gary Gladstone was replaced by some

00:09:13.760 handpicked Trudeau psychophant in another Toronto area riding. So Trudeau just appointed Marcy Ian.

00:09:21.140 Just, you know, get all this democracy out of the way. I guess Trudeau knows that she wouldn't be

00:09:27.040 able to win a nomination without him giving her that affirmative action gift. He likes doing that. 0.95

00:09:32.700 He likes being the noble white man, picking up the white man's burden, as Rudyard Kipling would say,

00:09:37.700 and giving gifts to women, especially women of color. And he won't let them forget it. He mentions

00:09:44.040 that to them all the time. He rubs it in. That's what Selina Cesar Chavannes says. He loves to

00:09:48.380 close hug these women too, chest to chest, hip to hip hugs, the sort of thing that Harvey Weinstein

00:09:53.380 was known for. He loves to touch women on their behinds, especially in public moments. It's how 0.98

00:09:59.620 he shows his dominance. He makes them endure his casual groping. It's conditioning them to accept him

00:10:06.100 and whatever he says. He experiences it a little differently, of course. So yeah, imagine signing up

00:10:12.060 for being part of that team. Now, 2020, after SNC-Lavalin, after every powerful woman of color 0.99

00:10:21.100 was fired from Jody Wilson-Raybould to Selina Cesar Chavannes, after the corruption scandals,

00:10:27.160 and Marcy Ian wants to be part of that, it's pretty easy to see what her qualifications are.

00:10:32.900 She's a woman of color who will be obedient to her white master and do whatever the hell 1.00

00:10:37.500 Justin Trudeau tells her to do. So less Jody Wilson-Raybould and more Catherine McKenna.

00:10:44.140 I already made, let me just say, I'm just reading Trudeau's tweet here. This is from a couple years

00:10:49.760 back when he was asked about local democracy. He said, I already made that commitment. Open

00:10:55.860 nominations in all 338 ridings. Members will choose their candidates. It's just another broken promise.

00:11:02.040 If it were Stephen Harper breaking a promise like that, handpicking a sock puppet in defines of local

00:11:07.200 members. It would be a five alarm party and then a fire in the media party. But here, don't be silly.

00:11:12.540 The media don't hold Trudeau to account. He holds the media to account. He pays media companies bailout 0.98

00:11:20.120 money. If they don't obey him, he stops paying them. And of course, they side with their own, Marcy Ian,

00:11:26.180 a reporter. Every journalist out there thinks they too will be an MP or preferably a senator one day.

00:11:33.000 Seamus O'Regan, who was widely known as the stupidest reporter at CTV, he was appointed to 0.99

00:11:38.420 cabinet. Don't think that doesn't keep a hundred other stupid reporters hoping, quietly dreaming of 1.00

00:11:43.860 being plucked from the crowd by Justin Trudeau to have a fairytale life of privacy perks. 1.00

00:11:49.180 You know, Marcy Ian isn't really left-wing or right-wing. She's not even really a Black Lives Matter 0.98

00:11:53.840 activist. She's just obedient. She's good at reading a script put in the teleprompter. It's 1.00

00:11:59.020 her specialty. She just goes with whatever she's told. Listen, it's a job. Whatever CTV told her to

00:12:06.240 do, now whatever Justin Trudeau tells her to do. I think she'll win because it's Toronto Centre. It's

00:12:13.040 like the Wild Rose riding in Alberta. It'll vote conservative if you ran a fence post as the

00:12:18.480 candidate. I have a few questions, though. Like, how long is Marcy Ian being discussing

00:12:23.860 running for the Liberals with the Liberals while doing her TV shows? Probably for days, probably

00:12:29.940 for weeks. Bill Morneau resigned in disgrace a month ago now. How many shows has Marcy Ian done

00:12:35.280 on CTV while knowing she was going to be a Liberal candidate? Was she tailoring her comments to support

00:12:41.460 the Liberals? That's a silly question. She was tailoring her comments to support the Liberals even 0.98

00:12:46.560 before. She started her secret negotiations to become a candidate. You know, whenever this happens,

00:12:52.040 and it happens a lot, that a journalist leaves the CBC or CTV or Global or whatever to join the

00:12:57.840 Liberals, I always make the same joke. I say, how much back pay are you getting? As in, you've been

00:13:03.960 a Liberal shill for so long at your media company, really. You were already doing the partisan job.

00:13:09.960 Are they paying you for that, too? But that used to be a joke that I would tell. But given

00:13:13.600 Trudeau's massive media bailouts lately, it's not even a joke anymore, is it? Stay with us for more.

00:13:33.080 Well, there's two paths you can take in journalism. One is the path that Marcy Ian has taken. It's a

00:13:39.620 successful path for those who serve power, who massage and caress power, who never challenge power

00:13:47.840 or speak truth to power. You just keep holding out for that moment when you'll get the phone call from

00:13:53.520 Justin Trudeau. He wants to have you as a candidate, like Marcy Ian, and he'll clear the way. Or in the

00:13:59.940 case of, say, Alberta's Senator Paula Simons, he'll appoint you to the Senate, a forever job,

00:14:06.500 as one wag put it, a taskless thanks. That's one approach. The other is to actually be a

00:14:14.600 journalist. And I'm so proud of the work done by one of our newest rebels. You maybe know who I'm

00:14:20.940 talking about, Drea Humphrey, who's based in the greater Vancouver area and has covered so many

00:14:26.740 interesting stories in that city, including this one. I'm going to show you an excerpt from a larger

00:14:32.780 15-minute video that Drea did about this. I encourage you to watch the full 15-minute video

00:14:39.240 elsewhere on our website. But here's a four or five-minute sample. Take a look at this.

00:14:43.780 What's brought you here today?

00:14:45.540 Love for J.K. Rowling.

00:14:47.620 You're a fan?

00:14:48.820 Absolutely a big fan of how she's standing up for women and children and how she's not backing down.

00:14:55.440 And she gives us all sort of strength to speak up ourselves, which is great.

00:15:00.920 So do you know why this billboard might be offending some people?

00:15:05.280 Oh, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, no, it's ghoulish.

00:15:09.900 And so what do you think about some of the stances J.K. Rowling has been taking lately? 0.99

00:15:14.800 Oh, she sucks. Like, it's terrible. As far as I know, she just says pretty despicable things 0.99

00:15:22.500 about trans rights. She doesn't believe in trans rights. She seems like a terrible person. 1.00

00:15:29.260 What about free speech? Do you think that this is something people should be able to do?

00:15:34.200 Oh, yeah, definitely. I think free speech is something that we should all have.

00:15:38.420 No matter what side of the fence you're on?

00:15:40.980 Absolutely.

00:15:41.420 Are you surprised to see that the sign's been vandalized?

00:15:45.100 Not at all.

00:15:47.020 All right, so you go by Mark, SJW. And why are you here today?

00:15:53.060 To make sure that justice is served and to give an unbiased account of what's actually going on

00:16:00.100 with this genocide, this genocidal statement. I want to make sure these TERFs and TERF allies, 0.84

00:16:06.760 they're the ones who get erased for once.

00:16:09.400 Have you personally read any of the things that she's written about it?

00:16:15.120 Yeah, her tweets. That's about it.

00:16:17.580 And which one, what did you find that was transphobic?

00:16:22.900 Oh, man. Well, it's been a couple months.

00:16:26.140 I don't remember. I'm sorry, exactly. I can't quote her.

00:16:32.140 All right, so one of the things that she says is in regards to the transitioning that's happening to children 0.97

00:16:38.020 and that sometimes they might be too young to go through medical process that are going to affect them

00:16:42.560 for things like sterility and make them not fertile the rest of their life. 0.99

00:16:47.100 Do you think that children are able to make that decision for themselves?

00:16:51.060 Like, I...

00:16:53.020 Listen, children are children.

00:16:59.680 I guess, like, it's...

00:17:02.580 Children's rights have to be respected,

00:17:05.540 but I'm not sure about that. I'm sorry.

00:17:09.840 We're talking about prisons, sports that are being taken over women's sports by male-bodied individuals, right? 0.53

00:17:17.260 We're talking about women getting pregnant in prison now 1.00

00:17:20.320 from male-bodied individuals who call themselves women who are fully still bepenised, right? 0.76

00:17:27.020 Because all you need to do now is have a feeling in your head,

00:17:31.000 a thought in your head that says,

00:17:32.180 Oh, I'm a woman, and now you are.

00:17:33.780 Well, pretend to have a thought in your head.

00:17:34.680 You don't have to prove you have a thought in your head. 1.00

00:17:35.780 You could just be a rapist and pretend to have that thought in your head, 0.99

00:17:38.480 and you're good to go, and you can call me a bigot for saying anything about it, you know? 0.98

00:17:42.580 There's now no women's shelter in Vancouver, 0.81

00:17:45.420 except the funded women's shelter in Vancouver,

00:17:47.860 where you can go and not be certain that you will not be rooming with a man.

00:17:52.980 Very interesting.

00:17:54.100 I encourage you to watch the full 15-minute video of that

00:17:57.480 that you can find elsewhere on our website.

00:17:59.780 Joining us now via Skype is the reporter who did that great report,

00:18:04.120 our friend Drea Humphrey, who joins us now.

00:18:06.280 Drea, great to see you, and congratulations on so many videos

00:18:10.680 that you're just hitting the ball out of the ballpark.

00:18:13.260 Thank you for this.

00:18:15.040 Thanks for having me.

00:18:16.660 Oh, it's a pleasure.

00:18:17.540 Now, tell me a little bit more about this.

00:18:19.500 That billboard couldn't be more neutral.

00:18:21.780 I love J.K. Rowling.

00:18:24.100 She's one of the most popular authors in the world.

00:18:26.520 I'm not big into the Harry Potter series myself,

00:18:29.040 but she truly is loved,

00:18:30.880 and that apparently is cause for vandalism and tearing down billboards.

00:18:36.980 That seems crazy to me.

00:18:39.140 It does, and, you know, she's done a lot of, like, humanitarian stuff, too.

00:18:44.060 She donated a lot of the money that she has given.

00:18:48.400 And some people say she's taken herself out of billionaire status to do so. 0.88

00:18:52.600 So, yeah, I totally agree.

00:18:55.340 She's definitely lovable.

00:18:57.880 And for it to be pitted as a hate, a sign of hate,

00:19:02.380 simply because out of love she's expressing concerns for women and children,

00:19:07.380 it's just mind-boggling.

00:19:09.120 But at the same time, it aligns with 2020 quite nicely.

00:19:13.040 Yeah, I've always thought of her as left-wing. 0.99

00:19:16.000 I mean, when she weighs into politics, it's always on the left.

00:19:19.740 She's for open borders. 0.97

00:19:21.620 She's, I mean, just checklist all the way down.

00:19:24.580 But on the one, I think there's one subject that is more de-platformed

00:19:30.060 and more canceled than anything else.

00:19:32.640 I have some experience being de-platformed when you talk about radical Islam.

00:19:37.480 You've got to be very careful because if you get too politically incorrect there,

00:19:40.800 they'll shut you down.

00:19:41.480 But that is nothing compared with the transgender issue. 0.97

00:19:46.980 And that one lady you interviewed, which was quite remarkable,

00:19:50.460 who said that J.K. Rowling has been vicious and hateful towards trans people,

00:19:56.040 I haven't seen it.

00:19:57.240 All she says is that you're not actually a woman. 1.00

00:20:01.320 You can call yourself a transgender woman, but that is not the same as a biological woman. 0.92

00:20:06.660 That's as far as she went. 1.00

00:20:08.840 And for that, she's considered a hater.

00:20:10.800 And that woman on the street seemed to believe that.

00:20:13.820 Absolutely.

00:20:14.820 And she wasn't able to quite articulate why she believed that.

00:20:19.400 I think the word she used was ghoulish, which is quite an interesting way. 0.91

00:20:23.980 But I guess it fits in with Harry Potter quite nicely.

00:20:26.320 But it just goes to show a lot of people are jumping behind this sort of social justice warrior movement

00:20:33.960 and have no clue why they're doing or saying what they're saying.

00:20:38.920 And it's frightening because out here I'm seeing a lot of very young people,

00:20:43.920 young adults getting involved in that.

00:20:46.160 And what happened to critical thinking?

00:20:48.460 What happened to being a pre-thinker?

00:20:50.560 And being a leader, not a follower?

00:20:52.760 So all of these things.

00:20:55.480 And one of the things J.K. Rowling does is she refers to it as new trans, the new trans in J.K.

00:21:04.760 So I find that interesting.

00:21:06.400 She's kind of putting the word new in front to emphasize that there is a shift on that.

00:21:11.200 So I think she has been in the past more to the left.

00:21:15.120 But the left is pushing people away that, you know, are logical and caring and don't want to generalize everybody.

00:21:25.480 Yeah, there's this phrase.

00:21:26.600 I hadn't heard of it until about a year or two ago.

00:21:29.560 Turf. 0.72

00:21:30.520 It's an insult. 0.98

00:21:31.420 Trans exclusionary radical feminist.

00:21:34.140 And I can't even believe such a strange word is in mass circulation now.

00:21:40.320 That's basically what trans extremists call any women who believe that women are women

00:21:47.640 and that women only should be allowed in a changing room. 1.00

00:21:51.360 Women only should be allowed on a girls' sports team. 1.00

00:21:55.080 And I mean, I guess maybe they would be called radical feminists at one point in time, 1.00

00:22:00.580 but it doesn't seem that radical to me that only girls should be allowed to go into a girls' change room.

00:22:05.800 And if you're going to allow transgender women or men transitioning to women to be on girls' sports teams,

00:22:13.220 don't expect any girls to be left because men are just genetically, biologically, muscularly, you know,

00:22:19.740 every single physical aspect of a man is stronger than men.

00:22:23.340 That's why we have different leagues.

00:22:25.100 Just like in boxing, we have different weight classes and you wouldn't have a super heavyweight fighting a bantamweight

00:22:31.700 because that's not even sport.

00:22:33.700 You wouldn't have biological men competing against women in wrestling, let's say. 0.94

00:22:38.320 But you're called a TERF, a trans exclusionary radical feminist, 1.00

00:22:42.940 if you think women should have private spaces. 1.00

00:22:46.040 Exactly.

00:22:46.820 I hadn't actually heard of that until recently as well, the term TERF.

00:22:51.100 But I can remember in high school, sometimes we would play dodgeball with the boys and I hated it.

00:22:57.700 I hated it.

00:22:58.840 They always got the ball faster and, you know, they just wind up and just huck.

00:23:03.580 And I'm like, this isn't fair at all.

00:23:05.760 So I know that's kind of a lame example, but I mean, these are logical things to point out.

00:23:12.820 It's nothing to do with hate.

00:23:14.560 It's nothing to do with bullying or anything like that.

00:23:17.140 It's just to do with what's fair.

00:23:19.580 And there's a lot of talk about third spaces when you talk about the bathroom.

00:23:23.260 I mean, I don't know if you saw when I went to the homeless shelter out in Victoria here,

00:23:29.780 they had said recently a man let his daughter into the public park there,

00:23:35.080 which is kind of being taken over by an encampment. 0.99

00:23:38.180 And there was a man in a dress shaving his testicles in the girl's washroom. 0.98

00:23:43.740 So it's like that third space, it's not about hate. 0.99

00:23:48.260 It's not transphobia.

00:23:49.500 It's just about common sense.

00:23:51.880 You know, women and children, we need that space to feel safe when we're going and doing private things in a bathroom. 1.00

00:24:01.460 Yeah, let me play a quick clip of that.

00:24:03.560 I thought that was a shocking clip.

00:24:05.820 Vancouver is on the front lines of this issue.

00:24:09.320 Here's a quick clip from that interview.

00:24:11.700 I've heard tales of people going into the bathroom at Beacon Hill Park

00:24:16.520 and finding a person cooking with a crock pot and having a machete.

00:24:22.640 Oh, dear.

00:24:23.720 Just yesterday.

00:24:24.960 Oh, no.

00:24:25.660 Yesterday I saw a tweet and I was gobsmacked.

00:24:28.820 This father had brought his daughter to the washroom, checked out the washroom before he went in 0.99

00:24:35.460 and saw this guy in a dress shaving his testicles. 1.00

00:24:41.460 Wow. 1.00

00:24:42.940 Yeah.

00:24:43.480 I think Vancouver is really out there on that issue, but it really is everywhere.

00:24:49.960 The case of J.K. Rowling, and we saw the billboard at the beginning of the segment,

00:24:57.200 she is, in my mind, she's so huge.

00:25:01.160 She's a billionaire, the most popular author, huge box office success.

00:25:05.760 She's made so many stars who started their work with her movies.

00:25:08.880 And I thought, well, there's no way they'll be able to wobble her.

00:25:12.960 She's just too big.

00:25:13.840 She's like a mountain.

00:25:15.560 But I'm starting to see it.

00:25:17.560 Her agency, people are in protest.

00:25:21.600 The no-name actors she turned into millionaires, they're criticizing her now. 0.98

00:25:27.920 I think that there's literally no one out there that when the trans agenda comes for you,

00:25:34.480 that you'll be big enough to survive it.

00:25:36.000 I'm shocked that J.K. Rowling, down-the-line liberal, billionaire,

00:25:41.160 can be so diminished by this attack that they're tearing down her billboard. 0.91

00:25:47.580 How is this going to end?

00:25:49.580 That's a good question.

00:25:50.900 I mean, if the more people don't start speaking out, it's not going to end very well.

00:25:57.320 There's going to be a lot of silencing of free speech, and I think a lot of people can get hurt.

00:26:02.520 If you can't bring across valid concerns like children taking medical transitioning hormones 0.59

00:26:10.640 so soon that affect their ability to have children when they're adults,

00:26:15.280 if we can't even discuss that without being called transphobic, what's going to happen to the future?

00:26:22.260 Yeah.

00:26:22.640 I find it incredible.

00:26:24.000 Well, listen, Dre, we're so pleased with the work you're doing.

00:26:26.240 I just want to end with a couple of minutes from your coverage of the anti-lockdown march in Vancouver.

00:26:32.960 I was so impressed by the march.

00:26:35.520 I sometimes think of Vancouver as the left coast, and indeed it is in some ways,

00:26:41.640 but there is enough of a freedom contingent to have what I think is the largest pro-freedom march in English Canada.

00:26:48.720 Here, let's play a couple minutes of that video.

00:26:50.660 You post a video on the Facebook or any other media, they take it down, they blacklist it right away.

00:26:57.560 It's the opposition.

00:26:58.640 So if you cannot see both of the sides, what does that mean?

00:27:02.380 You have no rights.

00:27:03.820 That's exactly what the communist regime did.

00:27:06.080 You could not speak, you could not say anything, otherwise they would lock you down.

00:27:11.640 And that's what's happening here.

00:27:13.160 Very sad, Dre, very sad.

00:27:15.000 The march is on the way now.

00:27:30.520 We are currently walking up Hornby Street in Vancouver.

00:27:33.960 For those of you who might not know, BC has recently put some new COVID restrictions on.

00:27:40.800 Some of them can fine you up to $2,000 for having a gathering with not enough sanitizer handy.

00:27:50.180 Additionally, we've already begun some of the lockdown.

00:27:55.560 So places like bars as well as banquet halls are already closed.

00:28:01.860 And things like playing music or the TV too loud in public over and above a typical conversation volume is also banned in Vancouver.

00:28:14.800 So what's in store for BC Vancouver as the fall continues, as we start to see the cold and flu season?

00:28:25.500 Again, you can find the full video of Drea's coverage of that on YouTube and actually on David Menzies' show, Rebel Roundup.

00:28:33.520 There'll be a larger discussion too.

00:28:34.800 Just give me a minute on that.

00:28:36.940 Were you surprised by how many people in Vancouver came out against the lockdown mania?

00:28:42.880 Well, I wasn't surprised because I had been following the organizers and what they were saying to them.

00:28:48.540 So I had already been excited about that before I went.

00:28:52.500 However, what was actually surprising is, I'm not sure if you're aware, we have a really bad smoke issue.

00:28:59.000 If you look behind me, from the fires across the border in the U.S., we've had really, really poor air quality.

00:29:08.140 I mean, instead of the blue skies, we should be having smoke.

00:29:11.960 So that day was supposed to be horrible for air quality.

00:29:15.660 And some people were saying, sorry, I can't come.

00:29:18.080 You know, I was going to bring my kids.

00:29:19.360 So before I was a little worried, oh, you know, maybe people aren't going to show up, but they still did considering.

00:29:25.360 So that part, I was a little surprised and really proud because I too was like, oh, how come we're not showing up?

00:29:34.040 So it was really good to see.

00:29:35.560 And I heard they're working on another bigger one.

00:29:39.600 Well, listen, thank you for your coverage in Vancouver, Canada's third largest city, such an important city.

00:29:46.000 And in many ways, a bellwether.

00:29:47.460 What happens in Vancouver today often happens to the rest of the country tomorrow.

00:29:52.620 Drea, Humphrey, keep up the great work.

00:29:55.100 Thank you, Ezra.

00:29:55.960 All right.

00:29:56.320 Thank you, my friend.

00:29:57.080 Stay with us, Moran.

00:29:57.860 On my monologue last night, Jer writes,

00:30:12.220 I imagine that if you scrutinized emails from any government officials worldwide, you would find much of the same kind of cover-up talk.

00:30:18.840 The million-dollar question is, why hurt citizens and lie to them?

00:30:21.940 There is something seriously wrong here.

00:30:24.200 Well, that's the crazy thing.

00:30:25.780 Every government is doing everything like a school of fish or a flock of birds.

00:30:30.040 They all brought in the lockdown within days of each other.

00:30:33.000 They all brought in the mask bylaws within days of each other.

00:30:35.600 They're all locked out.

00:30:36.460 It's like they're moving and saying, well, what's he doing?

00:30:38.720 What's he doing?

00:30:39.380 I'd better do the exact same thing as that government and that government, so that way I won't be politically in danger.

00:30:45.800 I think that's the reason why opposition parties in Canada have been pretty silent about any excesses or any failures by the governing parties in this country.

00:30:55.340 Has there been any opposition in this country to the lockdowns, to the mask bylaws, to the extremism?

00:31:02.860 Even as deaths and hospitalizations have fallen to near zero, lockdowns are coming in a new wave again.

00:31:08.600 The second wave isn't a wave of illnesses or hospitalizations.

00:31:12.000 It's a wave of more government lockdowns.

00:31:13.600 Where's the opposition?

00:31:15.460 And if you think that's bad, look overseas.

00:31:18.020 Our friend Avi Eminey in Melbourne, Australia.

00:31:20.520 It's insane over there. 0.97

00:31:21.460 Paul writes, this scandemic is unraveling as the clowns push it are doubling down. 0.97

00:31:27.540 They can't keep people in fear forever.

00:31:29.660 And when the economic fallout fully hits, they will be running for cover.

00:31:33.620 I don't know about that.

00:31:36.100 Fear is so powerful.

00:31:38.880 I think there are people who are so afraid they'll do almost anything.

00:31:42.380 I think people will say, well, of course the economy is bad.

00:31:44.900 But it's not the politicians.

00:31:46.160 It's the virus that did it.

00:31:48.100 Well, the virus was the excuse, but it's the politicians who are killing the jobs. 0.82

00:31:52.440 And if you think our government is done yet, look at the second lockdown coming in the UK

00:31:56.240 and look at police violence in Australia.

00:32:00.060 On my interview with Brian Day, Bruce writes, tonight's show proves that it's a two-tiered system.

00:32:05.440 Money talks and ethics walks.

00:32:07.040 I couldn't even believe what Dr. Day said.

00:32:09.440 That not only judges, but actually the Attorney General of British Columbia, people from that office who are suing him to shut him down.

00:32:20.760 Well, they want to use him for themselves.

00:32:23.100 That's the government.

00:32:23.920 And if you know that that's what politicians are like, and you know they have one standard for you, the little people,

00:32:29.880 and another standard for them, the ruling class, you know they're breaking every single pandemic rule, too, don't you?

00:32:36.300 Well, that's our show for today.

00:32:37.460 On behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night.

00:32:40.580 And keep fighting for free.

00:32:41.660 We'll be right back.

Rebel News Podcast - September 19, 2020

Another Media Party member moves to the Liberal Party. But that really isn’t moving much.

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