Rebel News Podcast - China humiliates America on American soil; and humiliates Canada everywhere

00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. Today, I take you through two victories for diplomacy from Beijing.

00:00:06.360 They had a great week. On one count, they absolutely humiliate Antony Blinken,

00:00:12.720 the Secretary of State for Joe Biden. I'll show you the footage of that.

00:00:16.960 And boy, do they get away with, well, I won't say murder, but kidnapping in the case of the

00:00:23.200 two Michaels. I'll show you Justin Trudeau's pitiable response. In both cases, China, 0.99

00:00:28.980 China, strong and triumphant, and the West, meek and losing. It's very sad. I'll show you the video. 0.99

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00:01:31.740 Tonight, China humiliates America on American soil and humiliates Canada everywhere. It's March 0.97

00:01:54.400 19th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

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00:02:16.820 Did you see this incredible exchange? It was in Alaska, where Joe Biden's new Secretary of State,

00:02:23.100 Antony Blinken, was meeting with his counterpart from the Chinese dictatorship. So they were on

00:02:29.060 American soil. And I just want to play a clip for you. And you tell me, who's the top dog here? Who's

00:02:35.460 the boss? Who's the superpower? Who's in charge? Who's confident? And who's on the defensive? Who's

00:02:40.620 assertive? And who's submissive? Who won and who lost? Take a look.

00:02:44.420 We'll also discuss our deep concerns with actions by China, including in Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan,

00:02:52.660 cyber attacks on the United States, economic coercion toward our allies. Each of these actions

00:02:59.140 threaten the rules-based order that maintains global stability.

00:03:03.380 Well, you can't blame this problem on somebody else.

00:03:11.740 I have to tell you, what I'm hearing is very different from what you described. I'm hearing

00:03:18.000 deep satisfaction that the United States is back, that we're re-engaged with our allies

00:03:23.840 and partners. I'm also hearing deep concern about some of the actions your government is taking.

00:03:30.040 Well, I think we thought too well of the United States. We thought that the U.S. side will

00:03:42.940 follow the necessary diplomatic protocols.

00:03:46.460 So for China, it was necessary that we make our position clear. 0.68

00:03:54.080 So let me say here that in front of the Chinese side, the United States does not have the

00:04:08.580 qualification to say that it wants to speak to China from a position of strength.

00:04:12.980 There's a lot going on there. It's not a big thing. But I know that the American aide sitting

00:04:17.680 next to Blinken had her hair dyed purple. I understand that caused a bit of a ruckus

00:04:22.320 in the White House. Now, we live in modern times and you see purple hair and pink hair quite a bit,

00:04:28.620 but I've never seen it in a high-level professional at an international summit between the world's two

00:04:34.580 superpowers at a moment of great tension. That's a meeting where everything counts, every image,

00:04:38.960 every gesture, every statement, every symbol. I'm sure they spend time negotiating the shape of the

00:04:44.060 table. Who would sit where? Who would speak first? And for how long? Who would enter the room first?

00:04:49.080 Every single detail was managed or fought over. And the U.S. sends in someone with purple hair.

00:04:55.300 That sends a message too, doesn't it? And as to Blinken himself, he's a smooth, handsome,

00:05:01.820 perfect liberal. It's like if the New York Times newspaper became a human person and could talk.

00:05:07.040 And in fairness, he did say some good things. He mentioned Hong Kong and Xinjiang and Taiwan.

00:05:11.600 I like that. But how did he think that was going to go? Cameras rolling and a smooth-talking liberal

00:05:19.900 tries to shame China. Have you ever heard of the concept of saving face? That's a concept many

00:05:27.020 cultures follow, but it's particularly strong in China, particularly strong for a dictatorship.

00:05:32.080 And China knew that was coming and they smashed him with a prepared reply. They said, 0.68

00:05:37.900 we used to respect you, but we realized that was wrong. We used to think you were strong,

00:05:42.040 but we realized you were not. And in fact, they proceeded to throw in their face, the Americans,

00:05:48.820 the Black Lives Matter claim that America itself is bigoted and racist and ethnocentric. Take a look. 0.72

00:05:57.220 On human rights. We hope that the United States will do better on human rights. China has made steady 1.00

00:06:04.280 progress in human rights. And the fact is that there are many problems within the United States

00:06:11.840 regarding human rights, which is admitted by the U.S. itself as well. The United States has also said

00:06:19.400 that countries can't rely on force in today's world to resolve the challenges we face. And it is a failure

00:06:28.720 to use various means to topple the so-called authoritarian states. And the challenges facing the

00:06:38.760 United States in human rights are deep-seated. They did not just emerge over the past four years,

00:06:45.360 such as Black Lives Matter. It did not come up only recently. So we do hope that for our two countries,

00:06:53.000 it's important that we manage our respective affairs well, instead of deflecting the blame

00:07:00.260 on somebody else in this world. That's a tactic the Soviets always used during the Cold War too.

00:07:07.000 But in a way, the Democrats were asking for it for years, maybe even decades. Democrats have said

00:07:11.740 that America is immoral. America is racist, intolerant, sexist, transphobic. Trump's motto 1.00

00:07:19.600 was make America great again. He believed in American greatness, America first. The left always

00:07:24.720 says, no, America was never great. And it's certainly not great now. So why is it surprising

00:07:30.520 that your foreign enemies quote you back to you about how bad America is? The tactic is absolutely

00:07:36.820 no surprise. It's what enemies do to Western democracies if they sense weakness. Do you think

00:07:42.600 that China, like the Soviets, like Adolf Hitler, were suddenly going to be disabused of their deeply 0.74

00:07:49.120 held bigotries in some photo op with their enemy, Antony Blinken? And what did Blinken refer to?

00:07:55.980 A rules-based order that maintains global stability. Is that going to make the Chinese dictators say,

00:08:02.660 oh, gosh, it's got a good point there, guys. Let's better stop building our fourth aircraft

00:08:08.180 carrier. Let's better stop spying on the West. Let's better stop infiltrating Western universities

00:08:13.360 and stealing military and industrial secrets. And let's get full human rights to Xinjiang and Tibet

00:08:18.200 and Taiwan and the Falun Gong. And hey, let's go full democratic. Did they think that was going to

00:08:22.420 happen? I think the lamest part of the exchange was when Blinken said, I'm hearing deep satisfaction

00:08:30.000 that America is back. That's like saying, well, I heard from my mom that I'm actually great and my

00:08:36.600 mom really loves me. As the Chinese told him, the U.S. cannot speak from a position of strength.

00:08:42.560 The fact that everyone tells the Secretary of State of the United States that they really like him,

00:08:47.700 as if foreign diplomats don't lie and flatter for a living, as if the world doesn't all see America's

00:08:53.200 weakness now compared to under Trump. And that's the point. As Joel Pollack said,

00:08:59.040 Trump was tougher on China than Biden ever was or ever will be. Yet Trump managed to avoid pointless

00:09:04.520 public confrontations, which in this case ends very bad for Secretary Blinken and Jake Sullivan,

00:09:10.320 who are clearly used to talking within the bubble of comfortable left-wing illusions.

00:09:15.700 It's a very clever point by our friend Joel. Was there anyone in history tougher on China 0.99

00:09:21.040 than Trump? And yet he knew enough about how to get things he wanted, how to negotiate,

00:09:27.100 how to deal with people he hated and who hate him. Imagine making a living in the casino industry.

00:09:33.660 Imagine the characters you meet there. Or the Manhattan real estate industry. Imagine who you're

00:09:38.140 dealing with. You're dealing with the world's toughest and even most dangerous dealers.

00:09:43.200 Did you ever see Trump in a face-to-face public meeting with China? Make them lose face? Did you ever 0.56

00:09:49.280 see that? Did you ever see him appeal to a rules-based global order? Or did you see the opposite?

00:09:56.840 Trump lavishing praise on his enemies in public while actually gutting them in private. Trump put

00:10:03.480 hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs on Chinese goods while flying over to Beijing and

00:10:09.320 looking like he loved them. And they never dared to speak back to him, did they? You ever hear them

00:10:14.620 talk to Trump the way they talk to Biden's guy? Maybe the most Trumpy moment with China, and again,

00:10:20.480 I was reminded of this by Joel Pollack. Remember when Trump invited Xi Jinping, the Chinese dictator,

00:10:26.320 over to Mar-a-Lago? That's Trump's big marina club golf course in Florida. And they were in Mar-a-Lago

00:10:34.460 eating chocolate cake or whatever for dessert. And literally during that dinner,

00:10:39.880 Trump scheduled a military attack, a bunch of missile strikes on Syria. Now put aside the

00:10:47.620 wisdom of that strike. Think about the timing and what Trump was doing in China relations. The ice

00:10:53.880 in Trump's veins. That was the point, to casually start a little war and sit down for dinner with

00:11:02.680 another enemy, Xi Jinping, who finds out, probably with an aide coming up to him to whisper in his ear

00:11:08.520 during dinner, what Trump was doing while they were having cake. Trump was launching missiles while

00:11:15.100 he was, hey, how's your chocolate cake, Xi Jinping? Imagine the self-control needed for that.

00:11:21.820 What did that show? It showed that Trump was cool and calm, that he wasn't afraid to fire off missiles

00:11:26.920 just because, that he'd do so, so casually, he wouldn't even miss dessert for it. That sent a message

00:11:33.780 to Xi Jinping. That's what China knows and respects. Strength and confidence and a tough customer and

00:11:40.880 missiles that can hit anywhere in the world. Not a high school debate club champ who's talking about

00:11:45.300 a rules-based order and how everyone tells me I'm nice. Yeah. Trump was China's toughest enemy in 50

00:11:53.300 years. But they never disrespected him. They may have hated him. Biden is completely compromised by

00:12:01.600 China, by the way. Just look at his son, Hunter Biden, basically a Chinese intelligence asset.

00:12:06.160 But they just abuse America and Blinken and Biden because they want the world to see it and know it,

00:12:13.040 and they know they'll get away with it. But the only person lower than that is our guy,

00:12:19.160 Justin Trudeau. We're so stupid, we don't even know when they're disrespecting us like this. 1.00

00:12:24.880 Restoring, refreshing, strengthening the Canada-China relationship. We're quite proud. The 1.00

00:12:31.620 Prime Minister has been given a fond nickname in China, which he is called Tudou, which I believe

00:12:39.520 means potato. And he is, I can't say the Chinese word, it's young, Tudou, little potato, because his

00:12:46.380 father, Pierre Elliott, Tudou, was senior potato. Yeah, that was an insult, you fool. I say this 0.99

00:12:55.900 because today the first of the two Michaels, Michael Spavor, was on trial in China. Now I say

00:13:01.100 on trial because that's what it's called, but it was no trial. They don't have real trials in China.

00:13:06.480 They don't have real judges. They're show trials. It's like those elections that Saddam Hussein used to 0.97

00:13:10.920 have as dictator, where he got 99% of the vote. That's not a real vote, guys. It's just the illusion

00:13:16.580 of a vote for propaganda purposes at home and abroad. The Globe and Mail's Nathan Vanderclip

00:13:22.600 was there in China, and I'm glad he was. I got to tell you, I chide the Globe fairly often,

00:13:28.700 and they're on the take for Trudeau's government bailouts. But I cannot deny that the Globe and Mail

00:13:34.440 have Canada's most skeptical coverage of the Chinese Communist Party, and I am grateful for their work on the

00:13:40.600 China file, and I say that as a reader and as a citizen. What can I say? They're doing great work.

00:13:46.280 Let me show you some of Vanderclip's tweets on the subject, because he was there. Now he wasn't

00:13:50.740 allowed inside the courtroom. No one was, because it's not a real trial. It's a sham. But let me show

00:13:56.240 you what he tweeted today, and again, I salute him for this. It takes a little bit of courage to do this

00:14:00.000 too, by the way. Trial for Michael Spavor started at 10 a.m. over by noon. No verdict.

00:14:05.800 Can you imagine a two-hour trial? It's fake. Court statement on today's two-hour trial.

00:14:13.860 Michael Spavor and his defense attorney attended the court proceedings. The Dandong Intermediate

00:14:18.460 People's Court will deliver its verdict at a later date in accordance with the law. Yes, sure. The

00:14:23.060 verdict was written in advance, folks, and it'll be given to the judge to publish. That's how it works

00:14:27.500 in China. Here's another tweet. Foreign diplomats arriving at Michael Spavor trial. China has denied entry

00:14:34.880 to everyone. Ten diplomats from eight countries. Well, I'm grateful to those other seven countries.

00:14:39.700 I'd like to know who they are. And then this tweet is both pitiful and enraging.

00:14:45.280 At the Dandong Courthouse, Canadian diplomats seeking access. Yeah. It's 10 a.m. Trial for Michael

00:14:53.080 Spavor is meant to begin now. Canadian diplomats and other diplomats in media are still outside.

00:14:58.900 Hmm. And then here's a Canadian diplomat locked outside. Jim Nickel, Canada's charge d'affaires in

00:15:07.960 China at the Spavor trial in Dandong. We are disappointed in the lack of access and the lack

00:15:12.820 of transparency in the process. China has said its domestic law overrides international law,

00:15:17.840 which in fact is not the case. You see, people, as Anthony Blinken said, there's this rule-based,

00:15:22.560 that's all you got? You're disappointed, eh? That's all you got. An anonymous diplomat, have you ever

00:15:30.160 heard of him? He's not the ambassador. He's just some guy. I'm sure he's a good guy. But he's anonymous.

00:15:35.200 He's a low-ranking guy. He says he's disappointed. Listen, I'm disappointed when it's leftovers for dinner

00:15:41.480 again. I'm disappointed that my sports team lost if I had a sports team. I'm disappointed that the

00:15:47.580 construction on the road outside my house is taking so long. That's what the word disappointed is for.

00:15:51.740 Oh, that's disappointing. Two Canadian citizens kidnapped off the streets of China more than

00:15:57.440 two years ago, held in torturous conditions, denied all civil rights and diplomatic visits

00:16:01.720 in a sham trial. And a junior staffer says, oh, I'm disappointed. At least Anthony Blinken

00:16:08.820 is the Secretary of State, not some junior guy. At least he used words to describe his concerns about

00:16:15.020 Taiwan, Hong Kong, places like that. He's a weak man fronting an even weaker president, but at least

00:16:20.640 he had a shred of morality to what he said. Here's what our cowardly prime minister had to say. 0.99

00:16:27.700 Finally, let me say a few words about Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig. Michael Spavor's hearing took

00:16:35.060 place earlier today. The court has not yet pronounced a verdict. Michael Kovrig's hearing is scheduled for

00:16:42.220 Monday. Let me be very clear. Their arbitrary detention is completely unacceptable, as is the lack

00:16:50.780 of transparency around these court proceedings. Our top priority remains securing their release.

00:16:58.780 We will continue to work tirelessly to bring them home as soon as possible. I want to thank our many,

00:17:06.400 many international partners, friends and allies for their solidarity and support. Going forward,

00:17:14.300 we will continue to be in close contact with the families during this difficult time. To their loved

00:17:20.620 ones know that today and every day, Canadians are with you and thinking of both Michaels.

00:17:27.680 Got it. So Trudeau is very upset by this. So upset, but he won't do a thing. He won't kick out any Chinese 0.98

00:17:36.380 diplomats or withdraw Canadian diplomats from China. He won't stop Canadian foreign aid to China. He won't

00:17:43.960 stop our Olympic delegation going to China. He won't stop the 100,000 sons and daughters of Chinese 1.00

00:17:51.380 Communist Party officials going to university in Canada, benefiting from our tax money for our

00:17:57.020 universities and also influencing politics on those campuses. He won't even vote in parliament to

00:18:03.900 condemn their treatment of Uyghur Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang. He won't do actually anything,

00:18:10.640 but he'll say he's very concerned about the lack of transparency. Yeah. Two humiliations dealt out in one day

00:18:20.360 by China. They're the new superpower, my friends. Stay with us for a moment.

00:18:40.640 That's President Joe Biden stumbling three times on the stairs getting into Air Force One. Here's

00:18:59.580 another view of the same thing, more dramatic.

00:19:10.640 The reason we show you those is not to be unfair, though it was certainly fair in the eyes of the

00:19:29.100 media party. Anytime Donald Trump stumbled or made a wrong step, he was actually quite sure-footed. I

00:19:34.860 remember in one moment, he stood and shook hands with American military graduates for well over an

00:19:40.720 hour in the hot sun. He was known for giving press conferences well over an hour. The guy had stamina,

00:19:46.260 even though he wasn't in the greatest of shape. But Joe Biden, maybe anyone would have stumbled on those

00:19:52.400 airplane stairs. But coming as Russia, Iran, China, and North Korea all snub the United States,

00:20:01.440 it just projects weakness. As you may know, Vladimir Putin challenged Joe Biden to an online

00:20:09.360 summit, but only if it was live streaming. Why would he do that? Well, to show that Joe Biden

00:20:16.820 doesn't just stumble physically, he stumbles mentally. I do believe that American prestige is

00:20:22.820 receding. And loved or hated Trump-commanded respect. That's gone now. Joining us now via Skype from

00:20:29.100 the United States is our friend Ben Weingarten. He joined us on the American election night,

00:20:33.560 you'll recall. He also writes for the Federalist Newsweek and for our friends at Epoch Times.

00:20:38.320 Ben, great to see you again. I don't want to be unfair. Anyone can slip on stairs. You and I do.

00:20:43.560 People of all ages do. But it just fits with the theme of a stumbling, doddering old man who's not strong.

00:20:53.660 Yeah, I think it's sort of a metaphor for what we've seen. And I think you correctly identified,

00:21:00.720 which is that all of America's worst adversaries are essentially taking us on, at least rhetorically,

00:21:08.160 with what would be reckless abandon in the face of another administration, but which in the case of

00:21:13.840 this one seems to invites it. As you noted, the Iranian regime sees the Biden administration

00:21:20.120 offering to come to the table without preconditions to work on a respawn Iran deal

00:21:26.860 with these Chinese counterparts at this debacle in Anchorage, Alaska, attacking America for purported 0.99

00:21:34.340 human rights violations and invoking Black Lives Matter and a history of human rights violations on 0.54

00:21:39.720 the American side. When it comes to Russia, as you noted, with Vladimir Putin firing back,

00:21:43.860 demanding a debate, calling the president essentially a killer as well. And North Korea,

00:21:48.500 of course, threatening potentially something far more nefarious and worse, and maybe even in the

00:21:54.420 face of a, in the form of a nuclear attack or some other kind of military strike, put all of this

00:21:59.680 together. And it demonstrates by these responses, a lack of respect or fear for the Biden administration.

00:22:07.240 And incidentally, just in terms of the sort of mental acuity questions, and then also physical

00:22:13.600 questions. Look, why is it that Vice President Kamala Harris is the one taking calls from the top 0.96

00:22:20.220 leaders in other countries, principals in other countries, presidents, prime ministers, and the

00:22:24.460 like? That's something that's very uncharacteristic of any administration that I can think of.

00:22:29.160 And it speaks to the fact that there are legitimate questions about the fitness of the president

00:22:33.960 generally. But then also, even if he is fit to be commander in chief, whether or not his policies

00:22:39.520 are befitting of a commander in chief. Yeah. You know, there was a video, we played a clip of it

00:22:44.040 the other day. I'll just show it again. Biden was in an interview with a mainstream media outlet. It's

00:22:50.660 not even important which one. He was asked a question and he gave a sort of answer. And he was

00:22:55.800 the only one in the shot, but his answer wasn't great. And then surprise, the angle was widened and

00:23:02.800 Joe Biden's wife was there. And she patched up Biden's answer. You wouldn't have known she was

00:23:09.160 in the room. She was like a nanny for him. And she weighed in on policy matters. It wasn't a personal

00:23:15.920 interview. What are the two of you like at home? What's your family? Then you don't understand the

00:23:20.860 first lady being in the interview. But it was like she was his minder. Here's a quick recap of that.

00:23:26.260 Mr. President, in five weeks you've been in office, you have been taking many actions to revert

00:23:31.800 Trump administration's anti-immigration policy. But today, the Washington Post reports that

00:23:39.100 your administration has plans to open tents at Del Rio, a town close to the border. Can you confirm

00:23:47.360 that? Right now, there's thousands of unaccompanied children coming across the border. In Texas,

00:23:51.900 they opened up one, one that was a former one used in the administration, in the last administration.

00:23:59.960 Our hope and expectation is that won't stay open very long. That we'll be able to provide for every

00:24:05.780 kid who comes across the border safely to be housed in a facility that's licensed. And this

00:24:12.880 administration is doing it in a humane way. And that's really important. I mean, we want to make

00:24:19.700 sure that these children are safe, that they get mental health services, they get physical health

00:24:25.580 services, they get education. I just think that substantive weakness is being matched with personal

00:24:35.940 weakness. And I think that's the worst of all worlds for America. Enemies are thrilled, friends

00:24:42.500 are demoralized, the world gets worse. I don't know, that's how it feels from up here.

00:24:46.720 Yeah, I think you're absolutely right. And on one level, it's incredibly disconcerting that the

00:24:53.720 commander in chief apparently seems to show these signs of needing assistance, won't take a press

00:25:00.020 conference, won't take any questions from the press. And then you add the policies to it, and it's just

00:25:05.360 cataclysmic. On the other hand, I have long felt that the president was essentially a figurehead. He was

00:25:11.780 a figurehead candidate, and not really the one running the show. And that perception seems to be

00:25:19.160 meeting reality right now. And maybe the even more disconcerting thing is, what if the reality is that

00:25:25.080 this administration is really being run by the underlings in the administrative state, the deep

00:25:30.520 state, if you want to call it that, and beyond? I mean, remember, Susan Rice is the one in charge of

00:25:34.940 the domestic policy portfolio. Secretary Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan were

00:25:41.200 longtime senior Obama administration officials. Obviously, Kamala Harris is in a position of power, 0.99

00:25:47.220 perhaps the likes of which we've never seen as a vice president. So put all that together. And the

00:25:51.800 thing that's maybe even more disturbing is that it really is sort of the machine running the show,

00:25:56.720 the ruling class running the show. And Joe Biden is there as sort of a purported,

00:26:01.240 at least superficially moderate front man, but in reality, overseeing the most radical

00:26:06.180 administration, arguably in American history. And I think that's borne out by the fact that you've

00:26:10.780 seen wokeism essentially implemented throughout the executive branch. You see the filibuster under

00:26:16.340 assault, massive expansion of the courts potentially to come. Obviously, an open borders policy and the

00:26:23.300 president's response is to tell migrants, illegal aliens, please don't come over the border,

00:26:28.220 you shouldn't be coming, and on and on. Obviously, the environmentalist policies. And then, of course,

00:26:34.020 instituting a policy of equity over equality, which really speaks to a sort of critical race theory,

00:26:41.240 identitarian, cultural Marxism-infused sort of policy, and all of which, again, is a disaster for

00:26:47.700 the country.

00:26:48.100 Yeah. You know, having a doddering, smiling grandpa character as president, I see the strength

00:26:56.480 of it from a PR point of view. He doesn't say much. He doesn't get particularly combative with

00:27:04.200 journalists. He hasn't talked to journalists in nearly two months. Journalists perhaps say,

00:27:09.620 you know, hold back their toughest punches. Donald Trump was so combative, it sort of dared

00:27:14.960 journalists to take him on. What are you going to ask Joe Biden? And he'll just sort of grin and

00:27:19.360 say, come on, man, enough malarkey. So there's that goofy, harmless grandpa guy who's not actually

00:27:26.760 the decider, but he's a decoy. He's, you know, in magic. It's all about misdirection. It's not real

00:27:35.740 magic. Just have everyone look over there at the figurehead president while we're over here quietly

00:27:42.660 doing the real work. That's scarier, I think, because people are lulled by the decoy. I think

00:27:50.520 he's a decoy. And I don't even think he's a Manchurian president. I don't think he himself

00:27:55.460 has some compromised mission. You know, I think his son, Hunter Biden, wants to cash in, sure.

00:28:01.620 But I think Joe Biden just isn't there. It really feels like that old goofy comedy movie,

00:28:06.680 Weekend at Bernie's, where they prop up a guy just for its own reasons. I don't know. How's it

00:28:11.340 going to end? Like, well, I suppose it might end if he injures himself truly. If he has a,

00:28:16.640 God forbid, a stroke or falls. Like, you can imagine if he fell and stumbled all the way down

00:28:20.780 that staircase. That could have hurt a guy. That would hurt someone half his age. I think

00:28:26.040 that there's a real chance that there will be a critical health issue, maybe even within a year.

00:28:32.380 It's disturbing to even entertain these kind of scenarios and that we're even talking about

00:28:37.780 them. And it's funny, you mentioned Weekend at Bernie's and I described his campaign as sort

00:28:42.280 of a weekend at Biden's campaign. And really, you know, look, he ran his campaign essentially from

00:28:49.360 a basement, never really interacting with people in any sort of natural, organic setting. And he was

00:28:55.820 basically this septuagenarian, hermetically sealed candidate. He's a septuagenarian, hermetically

00:29:02.240 sealed president, clearly seems brittle. And that's on both the physical side as well as his,

00:29:09.300 again, sort of mental quickness and acuity. And so to your question, I mean, look, I've long held

00:29:15.220 the theory that in a perfect world from the Democrats' perspective, Joe Biden would stay in

00:29:20.480 office for two years and one day, and then Kamala Harris would succeed him. Why do I say two years and 0.51

00:29:26.540 one day? Well, per the constitution, technically Kamala Harris could serve out this final just under 1.00

00:29:33.080 two years and then actually be reelected twice. You could serve as president for a maximum of 10

00:29:38.900 years. It's sort of a quirk of the language. So consequently, I think that would be in the

00:29:43.960 Democrats' perfect world, how the tradeoff would happen. I assume likely they wouldn't want to make

00:29:49.640 it literally two years and one day because it would just be so obvious and contrived.

00:29:53.880 But I do think ultimately, from the Democrats' perspective, that's the best case scenario.

00:29:58.500 Yeah. And they can get through the midterm elections with Joe Biden as president and

00:30:02.020 then just have the switcheroo. I think that that is unfortunately a likely outcome. Let me ask you,

00:30:08.380 how are things looking in the Congress? I mean, both the Senate and the House are in the hands

00:30:13.640 of the Democrats. It's been not quite two months yet. So they're still very early.

00:30:19.900 Do you think that the more radical elements of the Democratic far-left agenda will be manifested

00:30:28.620 before the midterm elections of 2022 that I think we'll see some, perhaps the House, perhaps the

00:30:37.260 Senate go back to Republican hands, some sort of check and balance? Because right now you've got the

00:30:41.280 presidency in both houses of Congress. You could do a lot of crazy things. You mentioned packing the

00:30:45.920 courts. Do you think that there's enough conservative Democrats? Do you think there's

00:30:51.720 enough natural inertia there to slow down the craziest ideas?

00:30:58.340 Well, I'm very concerned about this. Interestingly, Politico this week ran a story about how Ron

00:31:05.300 Klain, the president's chief of staff, held a meeting with the top leadership of the Congressional

00:31:10.880 Progressive Caucus, including Ilhan Omar, who we've talked about at length in the subject of my book,

00:31:16.680 and others. And Politico said this really demonstrates just how far the Congressional

00:31:22.320 Progressive Caucus has risen in terms of its power and ability to potentially shape an agenda. So

00:31:27.200 leaving aside for a moment what happens on the legislative side, I do believe that the executive

00:31:31.940 branch will do everything it possibly can to put forth the entire radical agenda that the president's

00:31:38.540 already done so in a number of areas in terms of purportedly expanding voting access, which is

00:31:43.460 not really what the executive or relevant executive order is about, or of course, going back to the

00:31:48.340 Paris Climate Accord, myriad other policies. Similarly, we just talked before about equity versus

00:31:55.580 equality, and that sort of infused the whole litany of policies that the president oversees,

00:32:00.340 Keystone Pipeline, obviously, as well. So but beyond that, on the legislative side, to your point,

00:32:06.320 the president himself has indicated a willingness to rethink the filibuster, who could have seen this

00:32:11.520 coming? And I suspect many in the Senate as well, including those moderates, you know, all the

00:32:16.960 pressure in the world, and to a degree, also a lot of leverage sits on Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema

00:32:22.620 and others. And in the past, they've said that they would resist. But who knows? I mean, you can foresee

00:32:27.960 a scenario where some event happens, and it's used to say, well, look, the Republicans are just so

00:32:32.100 intransigent, such a threat to democracy, so extremist that in this scenario, we have to blow

00:32:37.720 up the filibuster for the good of our democracy. You could very easily see that kind of narrative

00:32:42.680 being crafted based upon a specific situation that crops up. And obviously, you know, if you look at

00:32:48.460 where the whole ballgame lies, and there are any number of issues where this could be court packing

00:32:52.540 is one, DC and Puerto Rico statehood is another, and amnesty of sorts, if not du jour, is another area

00:33:00.220 in which you could potentially see the makings of a permanent Democrat majority, potentially

00:33:05.540 of voters. Beyond that, H.R. 1, the first bill out of the House, poses an existential threat

00:33:12.400 to the republic, I would say, because it would essentially enshrine all of the election integrity,

00:33:18.500 shattering, undermining, eroding policies that were implemented under the pandemic emergency

00:33:25.460 standards, so extraordinary measures. And it will make all of them federal law, federalizing our

00:33:31.280 elections in the first place, which is arguably unconstitutional. But then second of all, creating

00:33:36.340 a scenario where all of the most corrupt and dubious policies that we saw take place in 2020 would

00:33:42.340 happen writ large across the country. And that, I believe, is the point of H.R. 1, again, is to ensure

00:33:48.300 that if it's ever close, Democrats will always be able to, as we talked about an election night,

00:33:52.740 win, given the margin of fraud, given their ability to organize when ballot harvesting is allowed.

00:33:58.560 They're very good at machine politics, and to the extent that they completely systematically erode

00:34:03.120 voter integrity in this country. So we get as far as possible away from people voting on one election

00:34:08.480 day, identifying themselves with a signature at a voting station that favors Democrats writ large

00:34:15.980 and in perpetuity. So that bill is in some ways the whole ballgame. But of course, the Democrats are

00:34:20.720 pressing on every single possible path that they can to achieve electoral dominance.

00:34:25.580 Yeah, well, no wonder China is feeling so confident these days. I mean, just the winds for China are 0.68

00:34:32.420 racking up everywhere. And even on the domestic side, the weaker the United States is, the stronger

00:34:37.320 China is by comparison. Ben, it's great to see you again. I want to give a shout out to your YouTube

00:34:42.140 series called Bad News, co-hosted with Emily Jashinsky. From time to time, we embed those videos on our

00:34:49.620 website. We'll continue to do so. Great to see you again. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me.

00:34:54.280 I really appreciate it. Our pleasure. There you have it, Ben Weingarten. His own YouTube show is called Bad News.

00:35:00.680 And I think it's well named. That's the era we're in these days, my friends. Stay with us.

00:35:04.460 On my show last night, Bruce writes, I love your initiative, Ezra. Stephen Harper would be the man

00:35:21.000 to lead the conservative party back to victory as well as sanity. Look, tell me someone who could

00:35:27.040 match up like Donald Trump is 74. And I'm worried that by the time 2024 comes along, he might be too

00:35:32.760 old for the job if he's thinking of running again. There are younger contenders. I love that Ron

00:35:38.500 DeSantis, the governor of Florida. But in Canada, Stephen Harper's just 61. That is young. For prime

00:35:46.780 ministers, he absolutely could run next time. And don't tell me he's loving being a consultant.

00:35:52.920 I just don't think he is. Jane writes, cancel culture didn't exist when Harper was in government

00:35:58.720 in 2015. I don't know. He will have to deal with that. Yeah, but he just feels like a grown-up,

00:36:04.280 doesn't he? I just think Canadians miss that now. Gilly writes, Harper making a comeback is an

00:36:11.960 exciting proposition. Yeah, I mean, obviously I didn't talk to him about it. But I will send that

00:36:16.620 petition to him when the time is right. And I think he should come back if necessary. I think Pierre

00:36:21.880 Pauliev should have thrown his hat into the ring last time. I wish he did, but he chose not to.

00:36:25.160 Maybe it's time to bring in the guy who won a bunch of elections and gave Canada pretty good

00:36:32.240 government. Not perfect, but geez, pretty good. And right now I take pretty good over the crushing

00:36:37.460 loss that's about to be dealt to the Conservatives. That's a show for today. By the time you see this,

00:36:45.320 Sheila Gunn-Reed and I will have done a live stream of Erin O'Toole's speech to the Conservative Party.

00:36:51.000 We're starting that at 5 p.m. Eastern, 3 p.m. Mountain Time. So when you're done watching

00:36:56.420 this, feel free to click on over and watch Sheila and I have a watch party and talk about Erin O'Toole's

00:37:03.420 speech. You'll be able to find that elsewhere on our website or our YouTube channel. All right,

00:37:07.900 until Monday, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,

00:37:11.480 good night and keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - March 20, 2021

China humiliates America on American soil; and humiliates Canada everywhere

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