Rebel News Podcast - DAVID MENZIES ｜ Emergencies Act inquiry rolls on, and the red wave that never materialized

00:00:00.000 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you, in which we look back at

00:00:04.400 some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite Rebels. I'm your host, David Menzies.

00:00:10.000 Well, the Emergencies Act inquiry continues to soldier along and par for the course.

00:00:15.360 Some of the testimony has been downright jaw-dropping, such as the information regarding

00:00:20.760 the Ottawa Police Service hiring a crisis management firm, Navigator Limited, for help.

00:00:27.460 Help for what? To bolster their public image? Yikes! Hey, OPS, how about carrying out proper policing

00:00:35.200 instead of acting like modern-day Keystone cops? That might make for a PR solution.

00:00:42.420 Rebel News chief reporter Sheila Gunn-Reed has all the details. And stateside, the much-anticipated

00:00:49.260 red wave did not materialize on Tuesday, as so many predicted. So what went wrong? Our Seattle-based

00:00:56.320 reporter Katie Davis Court will offer her analysis, and she will also speak about her undercover report

00:01:02.680 in which a supposedly nonpartisan organization in Kent, Washington, was bribing members of the

00:01:10.360 Hispanic community with free tamales and backpacks. The quid pro quo being, wouldn't it be jolly if you 1.00

00:01:18.120 folks, you know, voted Democrat? Ay caramba! And letters, we get your letters. We get your letters

00:01:26.180 every minute of every day. And you had plenty to say about those striking education workers who

00:01:32.040 descended upon Queen's Park last Friday. Question, why are so many education workers so angry and vulgar

00:01:40.400 and completely unable to articulate their position? They are education workers, right? Or maybe they

00:01:48.960 really need to go back to school. Those are your rebels. Now let's round them up.

00:01:53.100 Do you know who or what Navigator is? If you've been paying attention to politicians in trouble in

00:02:09.140 Canada for the better part of the last decade, then you've been exposed to some of Navigator's

00:02:14.660 messaging sometimes, however, unwittingly. If you're a politician or a bureaucrat or a

00:02:19.940 politically connected person in this country and you get into some sort of public relations

00:02:26.040 catastrophe, you call in Navigator, the well-connected crisis communications firm.

00:02:31.820 Now in Ottawa, the police service in the city did exactly that last winter when the Convoy for Freedom

00:02:39.900 rolled into town to protest vaccine mandates and other COVID mandates. Those demonstrations,

00:02:45.060 albeit annoying for some but still peaceful, went on for nearly four weeks.

00:02:49.940 That is, until Justin Trudeau hit the nuclear button of the Emergencies Act and never before used

00:02:56.440 counter-terrorism law on peaceful anti-regime demonstrators like he was some sort of

00:03:02.100 Iranian mullah with especially delicate feelings. Trudeau pulled the old Ahmadinejad on the most

00:03:09.360 effective political opposition he's ever faced in seven years. It was a reputational national 1.00

00:03:14.240 emergency for Justin Trudeau, but really, nothing more. Anyway, as chaos unfolded and the Ottawa City

00:03:21.600 police were engaged in internal power struggles and palace intrigue at the top when they were

00:03:27.020 mishandling nearly every piece of operational intelligence that came their way from the RCMP

00:03:33.000 and the Ontario Provincial Police, as the convoy rolled across the country toward Ottawa,

00:03:39.180 the Ottawa City cops became increasingly less worried about actual policing and more worried

00:03:46.360 about their reputations. So, they called in the slippery eels at Navigator to the tune of $185,000

00:03:53.920 for allegedly 384.5 hours of work. We know this because right now the Public Order Emergency

00:04:01.480 Commission is unfolding in Ottawa to examine Trudeau's actions in invoking the Emergencies Act,

00:04:07.800 and documents are being entered into evidence. You can see and support our independent coverage at

00:04:13.420 truckercommission.com. What do we need to do more? More arrests? Tickets? Use of force? Then what?

00:04:23.200 Go to the politicians? Go into big lockdown mode? Massive show of police presence and then hold hands and

00:04:30.120 come together? Or two? Bigger lockdown of city for weekend. And then you'll see Aaron at the bottom.

00:04:40.000 Aaron is from Navigator or ASI? ASI, sir.

00:04:46.300 Job is to keep the peace and keep people protected. When you take a hard line, citizens of Ottawa want

00:04:53.140 this, but not everyone need to acknowledge not everyone represents or resonates as fringe group.

00:05:03.900 This is a national problem and Prime Minister needs to get us out of it.

00:05:09.740 Now, we know from other documents that Navigator was deeply involved in the grotesque and evil strategy

00:05:17.700 to threaten parents within the convoy with seizure of their children by social services agencies.

00:05:25.000 I take it, sir, that you are aware of the February 8, 2022 media briefing that the Ontario Police Service gave

00:05:34.400 where it was said to the media and in the public that OPS had concerns for the children of the protesters in Ottawa

00:05:41.400 and OPS wanted to discuss enforcement with the Child Aid Society of Ontario. You're aware that happened?

00:05:48.880 So, you said the Ontario Police Service. I believe you mean the Ottawa Police Service?

00:05:53.660 Ottawa Police Service, yes.

00:05:54.660 Do you have a document we can reference with that media release or is that a clip?

00:06:00.420 It's a clip.

00:06:01.660 So, I do recall. I don't specifically recall references to enforcement, but I do specifically recall the discussion

00:06:09.780 around our concerns with children in the footprint, particularly as the situation there was becoming more volatile.

00:06:18.320 And now, through documents again being presented to the Commission that apparently only a handful of journalists like me are reading,

00:06:24.640 I can tell you that part of the work Navigator was doing for the City of Ottawa and the Ottawa Police Service

00:06:30.320 was identifying sympathetic Trudeau colonized journalists who hated the convoy as much as the Mayor Jim Watson did.

00:06:39.320 I'll show you right here in black and white. It starts on page 8.

00:06:44.460 We can see that Navigator started a supportive stakeholder list of people who were not supportive of freedom,

00:06:50.300 but rather of busting heads in the convoy, not supportive of free speech or free assembly or free expression.

00:06:57.860 Amazing. The more we learn about the inner workings of the Ottawa Police Service,

00:07:02.680 the more this law enforcement agency comes across as a real-life modern version of the Keystone Cops.

00:07:09.360 But instead of improving their egregious policing,

00:07:13.500 their strategy was to hire a politically connected crisis communications firm

00:07:19.640 in order to help bolster the public image of the OPS. 0.99

00:07:24.200 And the plan was to employ the useful idiots in the mainstream media to achieve this PR goal? 1.00

00:07:31.180 Wow. For some reason, the phrase putting lipstick on a pig springs to mind. 1.00

00:07:37.220 Oh, and check out the cost of that PR exercise.

00:07:41.520 The OPS paid Navigator Limited almost $180,000 for less than 400 hours worth of work.

00:07:50.000 As always, folks, your tax dollars hard at work.

00:07:54.960 And joining me now for more on this jaw-dropping slice of testimony at the Emergencies Act Inquiry in Ottawa

00:08:01.180 is our chief reporter, Sheila Gunn-Reed. How are you doing there, Sheila?

00:08:06.520 David, I'm doing great. And unfortunately, this wasn't actually testimony.

00:08:10.220 It's just paperwork that ends up as evidence.

00:08:13.500 And there's a handful of people in the country who are going through it.

00:08:17.060 And I'm one. I think Andrew Lawton at True North is one.

00:08:20.520 And of course, our friends at Black Locks, they're doing the same.

00:08:23.420 These documents are really a treasure trove of what happens behind the scenes

00:08:29.240 in police services and with politicians.

00:08:32.660 You get to see the things that they say in quiet,

00:08:37.260 that they think the world is never going to hear.

00:08:40.540 It's one of the reasons I like access to information.

00:08:42.680 But these are things that I think that these people never thought would see the light of day.

00:08:49.080 And I'm able to go through it and see all of their opinions and things

00:08:53.300 they probably should have kept to themselves and not put in writing for other people to see.

00:08:58.740 It's very, very interesting.

00:09:00.320 You know, Sheila, thank you for the clarification.

00:09:02.320 Because really, an inquiry, it's kind of like an iceberg, isn't it?

00:09:05.960 That, you know, 10% of the iceberg is visible, but 90% is underwater.

00:09:11.560 And these were just documents that there's a mountain of them

00:09:15.920 that don't even make the light of day in terms of oral testimony.

00:09:19.760 But nevertheless, I think this is stunning stuff, Sheila.

00:09:23.820 In fact, I don't think I can ever recall a police force hiring a PR firm

00:09:30.660 to bolster its image via friendly journalists.

00:09:33.780 Now, call me a crank, Sheila, but shouldn't a law enforcement agency be more concerned with,

00:09:40.040 oh, you know what, carrying out good and proper law enforcement

00:09:43.960 as opposed to fretting about its public image?

00:09:48.180 Yeah, this is the Ottawa Police Service.

00:09:50.500 So I'm not sure that was even remotely on their radar.

00:09:55.260 As the convoy rolled across the country, they were ignoring or just failing to look at

00:10:02.880 intelligence reports that were coming in to them from the RCMP and the OPP.

00:10:08.920 They had those intelligence reports, although the plan to deal with the convoy,

00:10:14.440 they admit, was not built around these intelligence reports.

00:10:18.900 And the public started to notice and chaos ensued on the streets.

00:10:25.200 It seemed like there was no real plan to deal with the convoy.

00:10:29.860 The convoy seemed far more organized than the Ottawa Police Service.

00:10:34.800 There was all kinds of backdoor dealings and palace intrigue within the Ottawa Police Service,

00:10:39.920 where at one point the two deputy chiefs were sort of kneecapping Chief Peter slowly

00:10:46.520 and appointing people and doing things behind his back.

00:10:50.180 And they hired crisis communications firm, the slippery eels of Navigator.

00:10:57.280 They're very well connected politically.

00:10:59.920 And they started doing reputational audits on the police service.

00:11:06.840 And then they realized what we all know, but it was very interesting to see it in writing,

00:11:12.440 that the Trudeau-polluted mainstream media are just full of, as you rightly put it, 1.00

00:11:18.880 a bunch of absolute useful idiots. 1.00

00:11:21.700 And they started going about the business of, as they say, identifying journalist targets 1.00

00:11:27.720 that were friendly.

00:11:29.880 And they were also identifying friendly stakeholders, friendly politicians.

00:11:33.460 But politicians will be politicians.

00:11:36.740 That's just politics.

00:11:38.340 The journalists are supposed to hold the politicians to account.

00:11:41.600 But Navigator realized there are helpful journalists to our cause out there.

00:11:47.500 And we better start leaking them information.

00:11:49.960 And while I was reading these documents, I thought,

00:11:52.760 there's a bunch of journalists out there who are thinking,

00:11:56.060 I'm so smart.

00:11:57.260 I'm so good.

00:11:58.200 I'm so trusted.

00:11:59.140 I got this big, fat scoop.

00:12:01.060 But you didn't get a big, fat scoop because you were a good journalist. 0.99

00:12:03.920 You got a big, fat scoop because you're a terrible journalist.

00:12:07.320 And Navigator identified you as such.

00:12:09.620 Yeah, I think in boxing, Sheila, they call that rope-a-dope. 1.00

00:12:16.000 But you know what?

00:12:16.660 Before we get into Navigator and what they're all about,

00:12:20.120 I want to go back to something you said.

00:12:21.720 And it's very important.

00:12:22.500 The Ottawa Police Service ignored intelligence reports by the OPP and the RCMP.

00:12:28.920 Now, the question begs, why did they ignore those reports?

00:12:32.080 Maybe they thought those reports were not credible.

00:12:35.540 Here's what I'm going to propose to you, Sheila.

00:12:37.340 If I was the chief at the Ottawa Police Service,

00:12:40.720 what I would do, because clearly there was a huge convoy headed to Ottawa,

00:12:45.360 I send an officer to go undercover, embed him in the convoy,

00:12:50.720 and get my intelligence directly from that person.

00:12:54.880 But I guess, is that too much of an out-of-the-box policing suggestion, Sheila,

00:13:01.500 when it comes to the OPS?

00:13:04.060 That's not an out-of-the-box policing suggestion.

00:13:06.980 It's literally what CSIS did.

00:13:09.060 And CSIS was also giving their reports to the OPS.

00:13:13.260 And again, the OPS was ignoring them.

00:13:15.520 But it was political moving behind the scenes. 0.97

00:13:19.740 And besides the fact that the journalists were played for fools here, 0.97

00:13:23.560 which brings me a little bit of joy. 0.97

00:13:25.940 But one of the most stunning parts in all of this is that

00:13:29.980 you can see the police are clearly political.

00:13:33.640 And they're not supposed to be political in Canada.

00:13:36.160 That's why we don't have elected police chiefs. 0.99

00:13:39.080 They're supposed to apply the law to you, whether you're left or right, equally.

00:13:45.500 Justice is supposed to be blind in this country.

00:13:47.840 And there's no means by which to hold a political police chief accountable

00:13:52.920 the way you can in the United States through elections.

00:13:56.960 These cops were behind the scenes,

00:14:01.340 stabbing each other in the back,

00:14:03.320 cutting each other off at the knees. 0.98

00:14:04.960 And you can see it in their emails.

00:14:07.600 The person, the cop who took the place of the police chief

00:14:13.260 who lost control of everything, Peter Slowly,

00:14:15.780 was Steve Bell.

00:14:18.280 And guess who was in charge of the intel

00:14:21.600 and passing it up the supply chain?

00:14:24.840 Steve Bell.

00:14:26.520 You want to talk about sabotage?

00:14:28.960 I don't know if it's me being a conspiracy theorist or not.

00:14:32.140 But the guy in charge of accepting the intel

00:14:35.200 and drafting a plan around the intel

00:14:37.340 wasn't feeding it up to the cop who needed it.

00:14:40.700 And then he takes the place of the cop

00:14:42.880 who lost control of everything because of a lack of intel.

00:14:45.720 It's crazy stuff.

00:14:47.040 But at the end of the day,

00:14:49.500 ineptitude and political policing

00:14:52.220 does not justify the invocation

00:14:55.100 of a never-before-used counterterrorism law

00:14:58.340 on peaceful protesters causing a traffic snarl

00:15:01.140 in the nation's capital.

00:15:02.840 And Sheila, we would be remiss

00:15:04.880 if we don't again mention

00:15:06.720 that this is the same Steve Bell

00:15:08.660 that the Sunday press conference the OPS held,

00:15:13.260 that was the day after Alexa was shot by that canister.

00:15:18.580 And that made, that was a viral news item.

00:15:21.460 It ran around the world.

00:15:22.780 In fact, just an hour before the press conference,

00:15:25.040 Alexa was getting interviewed by Russian television,

00:15:28.680 if you can imagine.

00:15:29.940 And we went there and I asked Acting Chief Bell

00:15:34.040 about what the status of the investigation is

00:15:38.720 with Alexa Lavoie being shot.

00:15:41.800 And he said he was not aware of it.

00:15:44.660 There's only two possibilities. 1.00

00:15:46.920 This is really one hell of an ignorant 0.99

00:15:49.600 law enforcement officer, Sheila, 1.00

00:15:52.380 or he was lying through his teeth

00:15:55.140 because this was going around the world.

00:15:57.440 What was your take on that answer? 0.99

00:16:01.420 He's an absolute liar and I'll tell you why. 0.87

00:16:05.920 First of all, we have filed for access to information 0.96

00:16:10.460 for police records and police communications

00:16:14.120 during the time of the convoy.

00:16:16.220 They say they can't release them to us

00:16:18.120 until after the commission wraps up.

00:16:21.320 And I think that means after Judge Justice Rollo

00:16:24.960 makes his ruling.

00:16:26.520 And the reason they're doing that

00:16:27.900 is because they don't want us to fact check them

00:16:31.120 in real time.

00:16:32.280 And I can tell you that Navigator

00:16:33.600 was not the only crisis communications firm

00:16:36.640 working for the city of Ottawa

00:16:39.180 and the Ottawa police.

00:16:41.100 And one of those firms,

00:16:42.280 which I'm doing a story on it today,

00:16:43.740 and I'm so glad you reminded me

00:16:45.180 of his chief Bell's interim former police chief Bell.

00:16:52.420 I want to be clear there.

00:16:53.700 He's no longer the interim chief. 0.99

00:16:56.640 His ignorance, his feigned ignorance 0.97

00:16:59.420 about what happened to Alexa. 0.94

00:17:00.980 One of these crisis communications firms,

00:17:03.200 one of their only jobs

00:17:04.500 was to monitor social media

00:17:06.060 for police reputational blowback.

00:17:08.680 And I have the documents

00:17:10.020 on one of these audits

00:17:11.680 where it's police,

00:17:13.760 like the public's response

00:17:15.580 on social media to the police is negative.

00:17:18.800 They were monitoring the responses

00:17:20.120 to every police tweet.

00:17:22.640 And so for them to say

00:17:24.080 that this story that was so huge

00:17:26.860 around the world,

00:17:28.520 they didn't have a clue about,

00:17:30.080 absolutely, utterly unbelievable.

00:17:32.780 And if they really didn't have a clue about it,

00:17:34.900 it's a wonder

00:17:35.920 did any crime ever get solved in Ottawa 1.00

00:17:38.560 because those cops are useless. 0.99

00:17:42.140 It's absolutely incredible. 0.99

00:17:43.620 And let's talk a little bit

00:17:45.000 about who Navigator is.

00:17:46.940 And before we do, Sheila,

00:17:47.860 I want to throw to a clip.

00:17:49.040 It was from a monologue

00:17:50.160 I did a few years ago

00:17:51.440 when one of the principals of Navigator,

00:17:54.860 she went on a talk radio tour

00:17:58.260 crying that she was a victim

00:18:01.560 of a form of sexual assault.

00:18:05.160 What was the incident?

00:18:07.500 She thought when she was crossing the street,

00:18:11.220 a construction worker

00:18:12.440 might have looked at her.

00:18:14.960 I wish.

00:18:15.300 She thought.

00:18:16.260 Check it out, folks.

00:18:18.080 Amanda, who likens herself

00:18:19.880 to animated princesses

00:18:21.460 on her Twitter feed,

00:18:23.080 is walking down Richmond Street

00:18:24.700 in broad daylight, I tell you.

00:18:27.260 And she was brutally, 0.76

00:18:30.220 sexually assaulted.

00:18:31.580 And Amanda,

00:18:33.300 being a communications professional,

00:18:35.600 she tweeted about it,

00:18:37.480 about how Toronto the good

00:18:39.300 became Toronto the terrible.

00:18:42.600 Here goes.

00:18:43.320 Quote,

00:18:43.600 I just walked through

00:18:45.620 around a dozen men

00:18:46.820 lining the sidewalk

00:18:47.880 at 85 Richmond Street.

00:18:50.560 They didn't say a word,

00:18:52.400 but they openly leered at me.

00:18:55.140 I felt so uncomfortable.

00:18:57.340 I did not make eye contact.

00:18:59.980 I don't know who runs this site.

00:19:02.280 See photo.

00:19:03.720 But this is not okay.

00:19:05.980 End quote.

00:19:07.080 How can this be?

00:19:08.780 Those men,

00:19:09.560 they leered at precious Amanda.

00:19:12.380 Moon of my life,

00:19:13.540 my sun,

00:19:14.140 my stars,

00:19:15.480 my Khaleesi.

00:19:17.340 Oh,

00:19:18.100 what evil lurks

00:19:19.440 in the hearts of men.

00:19:21.460 Oh,

00:19:21.780 the toxic masculinity

00:19:23.280 of it all.

00:19:24.420 Look at them,

00:19:25.120 just looking at her. 1.00

00:19:28.760 Damn it. 1.00

00:19:29.620 No Gillette shavers 1.00

00:19:30.620 for those insensitive 1.00

00:19:31.800 sons of bitches. 1.00

00:19:33.340 So there you go, 1.00

00:19:34.560 Sheila.

00:19:34.860 First of all,

00:19:35.480 if the construction workers

00:19:36.860 are behind you,

00:19:37.460 unless you have eyes

00:19:38.140 in the back of your head,

00:19:39.340 how do you know

00:19:39.960 they're looking at you?

00:19:41.220 And of course,

00:19:42.120 you know,

00:19:42.440 she made the media rounds

00:19:43.840 and the construction company said,

00:19:45.860 we're going to get

00:19:46.560 to the bottom of this

00:19:47.500 and have these workers

00:19:49.220 undergo sensitivity training.

00:19:51.500 I mean,

00:19:52.120 what in blue hell?

00:19:53.420 So not only are these, 0.84

00:19:55.520 is this company 0.99

00:19:56.440 sucking from the taxpayer teat, 0.99

00:19:59.180 they seem to be comprised 1.00

00:20:00.920 of so many snowflakes as well.

00:20:04.340 What is your take

00:20:05.580 on Navigator,

00:20:06.660 Sheila?

00:20:07.460 First of all,

00:20:08.820 I'm a woman

00:20:09.340 of a certain vintage.

00:20:10.640 If a construction worker

00:20:11.740 hoots and hollers at me,

00:20:13.240 it's a good day.

00:20:15.180 But Navigator

00:20:18.320 is so politically connected

00:20:20.020 that there came a time

00:20:21.720 in Alberta

00:20:22.340 that they were the recipients

00:20:23.740 of so many

00:20:24.720 sole source contracts

00:20:26.400 for crisis communications

00:20:27.740 under the Redford PCs

00:20:29.260 that when Jim Prentice

00:20:31.080 took control of the party,

00:20:32.260 he banned them

00:20:34.000 from being able

00:20:36.740 to get any more

00:20:37.760 crisis communications contracts,

00:20:39.720 particularly sole-sourced ones.

00:20:41.640 These guys have,

00:20:43.240 if you are a politician

00:20:44.540 or a public servant

00:20:45.900 and you get yourself

00:20:47.500 into some sort of

00:20:48.640 real scandal,

00:20:50.860 you hire Navigator

00:20:52.160 to run your communications

00:20:53.740 and sometimes

00:20:54.880 even do a hatchet job

00:20:56.580 on your critics.

00:20:57.500 And you can tell

00:20:58.980 through their social media

00:21:00.000 monitoring.

00:21:00.780 But also,

00:21:01.360 I should point out,

00:21:02.540 one of the most egregious

00:21:03.500 things that happened

00:21:04.100 during the convoy,

00:21:05.700 it was an announcement

00:21:06.700 from Steve Bell,

00:21:09.520 interim former police chief

00:21:11.380 Steve Bell.

00:21:12.320 He announced that the parents

00:21:15.000 in the convoy,

00:21:16.460 if they had their children

00:21:17.200 with them,

00:21:19.260 Children's Aid Society,

00:21:21.000 Social Services

00:21:21.680 and the rest of the country,

00:21:22.800 they would be moving in

00:21:23.800 to seize those kids.

00:21:25.400 Now,

00:21:25.760 Children's Aid Society said,

00:21:27.400 we don't know anything

00:21:29.240 about that.

00:21:29.940 The police have not

00:21:30.640 engaged us on this.

00:21:31.700 This is not something

00:21:32.840 that we would do.

00:21:34.940 And as it turns out,

00:21:36.560 that was a communications

00:21:38.180 tactic

00:21:39.500 from Navigator

00:21:41.820 to use

00:21:43.880 the children

00:21:45.620 of good parents

00:21:46.760 against them.

00:21:47.500 And it's so egregious

00:21:48.520 because many of those parents,

00:21:50.620 if you had asked them

00:21:51.460 and we did,

00:21:52.960 the reason they were there

00:21:54.240 was for their children's futures.

00:21:56.860 And to call them

00:21:57.820 bad parents

00:21:58.660 because they stood

00:21:59.660 against the

00:22:00.380 Justin Trudeau regime,

00:22:02.020 that was a navigator

00:22:04.160 communications strategy.

00:22:06.540 It was a talking point

00:22:07.620 that Steve Bell ran with

00:22:09.280 in a press conference.

00:22:10.160 Absolutely shameful

00:22:12.440 and egregious

00:22:13.440 to the Mac,

00:22:14.100 Sheila.

00:22:14.340 And you know,

00:22:14.700 it seems to me,

00:22:15.680 and this is the latest

00:22:16.340 example,

00:22:16.960 Sheila,

00:22:17.240 that Ottawa seems

00:22:18.720 to be a special

00:22:19.520 kind of place

00:22:20.300 where institutions

00:22:21.740 are more concerned

00:22:23.280 about their image

00:22:24.780 to the public

00:22:25.600 rather than

00:22:26.560 doing something

00:22:27.840 based on merit.

00:22:29.620 And I go back to,

00:22:30.500 remember in 2017,

00:22:31.740 Canada's sesquicentennial,

00:22:33.640 there was that project

00:22:34.960 for a hockey rink

00:22:36.380 on Parliament Hill.

00:22:37.540 It cost millions

00:22:39.080 of dollars,

00:22:40.180 went over budget,

00:22:41.640 it was only temporary,

00:22:43.580 there was no reason

00:22:44.760 for it,

00:22:45.440 Sheila.

00:22:45.900 And I'll never forget

00:22:46.760 in some of the

00:22:47.600 reams of FOI data

00:22:49.500 that you obtained,

00:22:51.080 there was this remark

00:22:52.340 by one bureaucrat

00:22:53.960 to another

00:22:54.620 in an email thread

00:22:56.080 that,

00:22:56.940 hey,

00:22:57.120 I just noticed

00:22:57.880 for the end boards,

00:23:00.340 we don't have

00:23:01.120 any netting

00:23:02.080 there

00:23:02.920 in case there's

00:23:03.700 an errant puck

00:23:04.660 that gets shot out.

00:23:06.500 And do you remember,

00:23:07.400 and this is a true story,

00:23:08.400 it's a tragic story,

00:23:09.820 there was,

00:23:10.500 you recall in Columbus

00:23:12.140 at a Blue Jackets game,

00:23:13.780 a 15-year-old girl

00:23:15.540 was killed

00:23:16.260 by an errant slap shot.

00:23:18.800 And basically,

00:23:19.940 the conclusion was

00:23:21.260 that would be

00:23:22.080 a bad look

00:23:23.180 for us

00:23:23.960 if a kid got killed.

00:23:25.660 No,

00:23:26.100 not the kid dying.

00:23:27.360 They're not concerned

00:23:28.060 about the kid dying.

00:23:29.420 They're concerned

00:23:29.960 about the optics

00:23:30.980 of the bureaucrats

00:23:32.800 behind this hockey rink.

00:23:34.060 And this is what

00:23:35.620 I liken to

00:23:36.380 with the Ottawa

00:23:37.260 Police Force

00:23:38.060 hiring Navigator,

00:23:39.900 Sheila.

00:23:40.420 Again,

00:23:41.040 let's just create

00:23:42.640 some false

00:23:43.600 positive narrative

00:23:44.880 as opposed to

00:23:46.160 doing a good job

00:23:47.320 to begin with.

00:23:48.980 You know,

00:23:49.660 it's all about optics

00:23:50.820 in Ottawa.

00:23:51.580 And again,

00:23:52.000 from the outside looking in,

00:23:53.200 I avoid Ottawa

00:23:54.140 like the plague.

00:23:55.140 So,

00:23:55.680 just take this

00:23:57.100 as just my anecdotal

00:23:58.580 experience

00:24:00.100 from watching the convoy

00:24:01.360 and watching the testimony

00:24:02.360 of the locals

00:24:03.180 and the other

00:24:04.740 busybodies

00:24:05.380 in and around

00:24:06.200 the bureaucratic capital

00:24:07.860 of this country.

00:24:09.420 They don't,

00:24:10.660 they really are concerned

00:24:11.840 about optics.

00:24:12.700 It's one of the reasons

00:24:13.420 they didn't want

00:24:14.020 all those yucky

00:24:14.740 blue-collar trucks

00:24:15.700 mucking up

00:24:17.280 their downtown core,

00:24:18.620 right?

00:24:19.080 Like,

00:24:19.320 they didn't,

00:24:20.360 they thought it was

00:24:21.240 an eyesore.

00:24:22.980 And I see that turn up

00:24:23.980 in documents

00:24:24.600 over and over again.

00:24:25.420 This is an eyesore.

00:24:26.460 This is an eyesore.

00:24:28.100 Instead of,

00:24:29.080 this is the single

00:24:29.820 largest human rights

00:24:31.060 protest in Canadian history,

00:24:33.120 which it was.

00:24:34.160 The people in Ottawa

00:24:35.060 thought it was,

00:24:35.880 you know,

00:24:36.420 yucky,

00:24:37.300 a little bit blue-collar,

00:24:38.620 they're a little rough

00:24:39.180 around the edges,

00:24:39.920 they might even be

00:24:40.880 playing country music

00:24:42.000 and barbecuing things,

00:24:43.220 my lord.

00:24:44.340 But they didn't see

00:24:45.320 the convoy for what it was

00:24:46.600 because they only care

00:24:47.560 about appearances.

00:24:50.300 Unbelievable.

00:24:50.840 And one last question,

00:24:52.000 Sheila,

00:24:52.360 because it was in the news cycle

00:24:54.080 and Fastly fading out of it.

00:24:56.620 As you know,

00:24:57.320 last Friday,

00:24:57.980 the Doug Ford Ontario PCs

00:24:59.940 invoked the notwithstanding clause

00:25:01.900 to make the CUPE education

00:25:03.880 workers strike

00:25:04.820 an illegal one.

00:25:06.380 Within the space

00:25:07.240 of 72 hours

00:25:08.740 on Monday morning,

00:25:11.140 Premier Ford

00:25:12.000 revoked

00:25:13.180 the notwithstanding clause.

00:25:16.040 And it was,

00:25:16.620 I found it fascinating

00:25:17.940 because when

00:25:18.640 Lincoln Jay and I

00:25:19.940 went to Queen's Park

00:25:20.900 and spoke to

00:25:21.960 those teachers

00:25:22.980 who would speak to us

00:25:24.080 as opposed to

00:25:24.720 flipping us the bird

00:25:25.640 and dropping F-bombs,

00:25:28.220 I was saying,

00:25:29.840 is it an overreach

00:25:31.300 to have the notwithstanding clause?

00:25:33.140 Oh, absolutely.

00:25:34.180 It's an attack on democracy.

00:25:35.580 It's an attack on workers' rights.

00:25:37.040 Was it an overreach

00:25:37.940 in February

00:25:38.540 when Justin Trudeau

00:25:40.360 invoked the Emergencies Act

00:25:41.880 against peaceful protesters?

00:25:43.540 Oh, well,

00:25:44.100 that's apples and oranges,

00:25:45.460 you understand.

00:25:46.720 Sheila, 0.95

00:25:47.320 the hypocrisy 0.99

00:25:48.240 is off the charts.

00:25:49.600 What was,

00:25:50.200 what's your take

00:25:51.160 on the double standard,

00:25:52.720 at least when it comes

00:25:53.600 to the rank and file

00:25:55.200 of CUPE?

00:25:57.140 Not even the rank

00:25:58.180 and file of CUPE.

00:25:59.340 Let's talk about

00:26:00.340 the rank and file

00:26:01.320 of the Liberal Cabinet.

00:26:02.880 We've got the likes

00:26:03.740 of Seamus O'Regan

00:26:06.080 in the running 1.00

00:26:07.060 for one of the dumbest 1.00

00:26:08.620 MPs in Ottawa 1.00

00:26:10.520 and the bar is really low.

00:26:13.300 He's out there

00:26:14.120 blabbering on

00:26:14.940 about human rights

00:26:15.980 and the right to protest

00:26:17.920 and I'm thinking,

00:26:19.040 didn't you people just

00:26:20.140 invoke a wartime law

00:26:22.340 on peaceful protesters

00:26:24.200 in the nation's capital?

00:26:25.960 And then

00:26:26.320 the hypocrisy of CUPE.

00:26:28.360 I saw a sign 0.92

00:26:29.720 which I thought

00:26:30.140 was kind of funny.

00:26:31.580 They were,

00:26:32.400 it was the CUPE protesters

00:26:33.760 and the sign said like,

00:26:35.620 honk if you support

00:26:36.860 public education.

00:26:38.200 I'm reliably informed.

00:26:40.340 Those people think

00:26:41.400 honking is a war crime.

00:26:42.860 I'm like,

00:26:43.080 so it's fine

00:26:44.320 if you honk,

00:26:45.480 not a war crime,

00:26:46.700 but if right-wingers

00:26:47.980 honk for freedom,

00:26:50.020 war crime.

00:26:50.460 Sheila,

00:26:51.480 that is spectacular

00:26:52.300 because isn't there

00:26:53.440 one liberal MP?

00:26:55.680 She mentioned that

00:26:56.960 honk honk 0.91

00:26:57.940 is code

00:26:58.580 for Heil Hitler. 0.92

00:27:01.060 Yeah,

00:27:01.220 that's Ezra's MP

00:27:02.600 by the way,

00:27:03.220 unfortunately for him.

00:27:04.640 Yeah.

00:27:05.540 Oh,

00:27:05.860 well,

00:27:06.060 well,

00:27:06.220 I'll tell you what,

00:27:07.000 judging by the amount

00:27:08.800 of honking I hear

00:27:09.700 on the Gardner Expressway

00:27:10.940 and the Don Valley Parkway,

00:27:12.560 it would seem that Toronto

00:27:14.080 was infested 0.85

00:27:14.840 with Nazis. 0.55

00:27:16.000 Sheila,

00:27:16.320 I don't know

00:27:16.920 how else does that make sense of it.

00:27:20.900 Sheila,

00:27:21.380 wonderful commentary

00:27:23.020 as always,

00:27:24.060 my friend,

00:27:24.840 and before we wrap things up,

00:27:27.260 was there any other piece

00:27:28.680 of testimony

00:27:29.240 this past week

00:27:30.460 that stood out for you

00:27:32.500 as a Spockian

00:27:34.200 eyebrow-raising moment?

00:27:37.160 Yeah,

00:27:37.280 I think it was the mayor

00:27:38.220 of Coutts, Alberta.

00:27:39.740 He was called to testify,

00:27:40.920 and you know,

00:27:43.140 you don't get elected

00:27:43.860 in Coutts, Alberta

00:27:44.740 unless you have

00:27:46.360 some sort of

00:27:47.080 conservative leanings.

00:27:48.180 It's a village

00:27:49.020 of less than 300

00:27:50.380 and he,

00:27:52.280 in text messages

00:27:53.360 with,

00:27:54.160 I think,

00:27:54.560 a CBC reporter,

00:27:57.280 because his text messages

00:27:58.440 ended up in evidence,

00:27:59.820 again,

00:28:00.360 I love it

00:28:01.140 when these people

00:28:01.840 write down things

00:28:02.880 they probably

00:28:03.440 should have just said,

00:28:05.340 but he said

00:28:07.620 the people

00:28:08.480 blocking the border

00:28:09.660 at Coutts,

00:28:10.920 were domestic terrorists

00:28:12.340 is what he said

00:28:13.120 when he was speaking

00:28:13.780 to the CBC.

00:28:17.000 But then,

00:28:17.940 when,

00:28:18.600 you know,

00:28:19.100 he's giving his testimony,

00:28:20.640 he said 70%

00:28:21.880 of his town,

00:28:23.280 in his own experience,

00:28:24.980 supported the convoy.

00:28:26.140 Now,

00:28:26.320 that's not a whole lot

00:28:27.340 of people,

00:28:28.520 you know,

00:28:28.960 it's,

00:28:29.880 he's only got a town

00:28:30.800 of less than 300,

00:28:32.360 but you're the mayor

00:28:34.180 of a town

00:28:34.740 that supports

00:28:35.780 domestic terrorists?

00:28:37.700 Like,

00:28:38.080 you know what I mean?

00:28:39.480 Like,

00:28:39.640 I was just,

00:28:40.060 I looked at him

00:28:41.160 and I thought,

00:28:41.760 if you were the mayor

00:28:43.880 of a town

00:28:45.140 that supported

00:28:45.940 homegrown Al-Qaeda 0.77

00:28:47.960 to the tune

00:28:49.080 of 70%,

00:28:50.060 wouldn't you resign

00:28:51.220 if you really

00:28:51.820 believed that?

00:28:52.740 Or was that just

00:28:53.540 something you said

00:28:54.340 to be liked

00:28:54.880 by the CBC

00:28:55.860 so that they didn't

00:28:56.680 come down hard

00:28:57.520 on you

00:28:57.840 in their article?

00:28:59.140 Or,

00:28:59.440 Sheila,

00:28:59.700 the mayor can choose

00:29:00.600 what's behind

00:29:01.200 door number three,

00:29:02.700 which is to

00:29:03.800 pick up the phone

00:29:04.860 to a certain

00:29:05.840 crisis communications

00:29:07.280 firm based on,

00:29:08.760 based in King Street

00:29:09.720 in Toronto

00:29:10.180 and get some

00:29:12.240 rebranding done

00:29:13.640 for him,

00:29:14.420 given that he's

00:29:14.940 going against

00:29:15.540 70% of his constituents.

00:29:17.880 Hopefully,

00:29:18.500 Amanda Galbraith

00:29:19.400 is no longer

00:29:20.300 in the fetal position

00:29:21.540 after imagining

00:29:22.840 construction workers

00:29:23.860 were leering at her.

00:29:25.740 Sheila.

00:29:26.180 Those cowboys 0.61

00:29:26.820 will leer at her,

00:29:27.600 no problem.

00:29:28.320 You want to feel

00:29:28.780 good about yourself,

00:29:29.660 go to Coots.

00:29:31.880 Sheila,

00:29:32.600 great piece

00:29:33.260 and you have

00:29:34.060 a happy weekend,

00:29:35.660 my friend.

00:29:36.800 You too,

00:29:37.200 David.

00:29:37.420 Thanks a lot.

00:29:38.060 Okay then.

00:29:38.960 And that was

00:29:39.680 Sheila Gunn-Reed,

00:29:40.780 the chief reporter

00:29:41.560 at Rebel News

00:29:42.320 somewhere in the

00:29:43.440 northern hinterland

00:29:44.460 of Alberta.

00:29:45.780 Keep it here,

00:29:46.340 folks.

00:29:46.720 More of Rebel Roundup

00:29:47.640 to come

00:29:48.000 right after this.

00:29:51.920 Katie Davis Court

00:29:52.920 reporting for Rebel News

00:29:54.420 just ahead of

00:29:55.400 the United States

00:29:56.280 midterm elections.

00:29:57.940 King County elections

00:29:58.940 promoted an event

00:30:00.100 that bribed

00:30:01.200 the Hispanic community

00:30:02.320 with free tamales

00:30:03.820 and special gifts

00:30:04.940 to teach them

00:30:06.140 how to fill out

00:30:07.100 their ballots.

00:30:07.980 Now the event

00:30:08.480 that they promoted

00:30:09.180 was being hosted

00:30:10.080 by Washington

00:30:11.100 Environmental Council,

00:30:12.700 a progressive

00:30:13.360 non-profit

00:30:14.460 activist organization

00:30:15.560 that aims

00:30:16.560 to eliminate

00:30:17.560 fossil fuels

00:30:18.380 and heavily promote

00:30:19.620 democratic legislation

00:30:21.140 and policies.

00:30:22.340 Now since King County

00:30:23.240 elections is supposed

00:30:24.140 to be fair

00:30:24.920 and non-biased,

00:30:25.920 I searched their accounts

00:30:26.920 to see if they had

00:30:27.700 promoted any

00:30:28.800 conservative events

00:30:30.100 and came up short.

00:30:31.500 Now my investigation

00:30:32.860 will most likely

00:30:34.100 make a lot

00:30:35.120 of conservative voters

00:30:36.320 and candidates

00:30:37.240 angry and rightfully so,

00:30:39.220 so take a look

00:30:39.980 to see what happened.

00:30:40.920 I walked into

00:30:41.580 the Mill Creek room

00:30:42.380 at Kent Commons

00:30:43.320 where a small group

00:30:44.320 of people were gathered.

00:30:45.820 They were eating tamales

00:30:47.120 and discussing midterms.

00:30:49.400 It wasn't a large turnout,

00:30:50.840 which was most likely

00:30:51.700 due to the severe storms

00:30:52.880 that we have been having

00:30:54.120 in the area.

00:30:55.360 After I was bribed

00:30:56.720 with free tamales

00:30:57.740 and was entered

00:30:58.900 into the special giveaway,

00:31:00.620 I walked over

00:31:01.460 to the table

00:31:02.080 they had set up

00:31:02.940 where you could

00:31:03.940 check your voter registration

00:31:05.480 and even print out

00:31:07.240 your ballot.

00:31:08.260 On the table

00:31:09.160 were two voting guides.

00:31:11.180 The first guide

00:31:11.920 was for candidates

00:31:12.900 endorsed by

00:31:14.360 Washington Environmental Council,

00:31:16.480 while the second guide

00:31:17.600 consisted of a list

00:31:18.780 of progressive candidates.

00:31:20.740 But there were

00:31:21.860 no guide

00:31:22.780 for conservative candidates

00:31:24.180 or their policies.

00:31:25.680 After I was offered

00:31:27.140 or should I say

00:31:28.080 bribed with free tamales,

00:31:29.940 in walked a woman 0.51

00:31:30.820 that I knew

00:31:31.420 named Michelle Lee

00:31:32.540 who runs a conservative

00:31:33.780 organization called

00:31:34.920 Washingtonians for Change

00:31:36.540 who also came

00:31:37.360 to infiltrate the event.

00:31:38.660 Michelle and her friend

00:31:39.580 both brought their ballots

00:31:40.720 with them

00:31:41.180 and we all sat down

00:31:42.240 with one member

00:31:43.100 of the organization

00:31:43.900 who guided us through

00:31:45.280 the ballot

00:31:45.860 and the candidates.

00:31:47.020 I work for

00:31:48.480 Washington Environmental Council.

00:31:50.680 While he didn't mark

00:31:51.680 our ballots for us,

00:31:52.920 he told us

00:31:53.660 which candidates

00:31:54.640 he voted for,

00:31:56.380 why he voted for them,

00:31:57.860 and when Michelle

00:31:59.340 and her friend

00:31:59.860 pressed on

00:32:01.260 conservative candidates

00:32:02.180 and their issues,

00:32:03.280 he had zero knowledge

00:32:05.180 and used rhetoric

00:32:06.100 that could easily

00:32:07.280 persuade an ill-informed

00:32:09.100 or first-time voter

00:32:10.260 away from the issues

00:32:11.920 that they care about.

00:32:13.260 Did you vote

00:32:13.900 Pramila?

00:32:15.500 I'm not in her district.

00:32:16.840 Oh, you're not in her district.

00:32:17.720 Okay.

00:32:18.120 I would if I were there.

00:32:20.220 It's a stretch to say

00:32:21.040 that I support her,

00:32:22.460 but I would prefer her

00:32:23.860 over Clifford.

00:32:24.700 We should vote for Maddie.

00:32:25.920 So, Kelly Bird is basically

00:32:26.220 like pro-gun control,

00:32:27.700 pro-union,

00:32:29.340 and pro-choice.

00:32:30.820 And Tiffany Smiley

00:32:31.660 is basically running on,

00:32:33.300 like,

00:32:33.620 my perspective

00:32:34.780 on the Republicans

00:32:36.820 running on crime

00:32:37.980 is, like,

00:32:39.280 because she is running on it,

00:32:40.500 like Tiffany Smiley.

00:32:41.600 She's like,

00:32:42.020 oh, crime's getting so bad

00:32:43.020 in Seattle.

00:32:43.680 It's like,

00:32:43.860 you never come to Seattle.

00:32:45.460 Whatever.

00:32:45.860 I'm not really seeing,

00:32:50.140 I'm not hearing,

00:32:50.780 like,

00:32:50.940 solutions.

00:32:51.720 You know what I mean?

00:32:52.740 Okay.

00:32:53.300 Like,

00:32:53.320 if I'm hearing that,

00:32:56.180 and they talk a lot

00:32:56.820 about the border.

00:32:57.540 To me,

00:32:58.380 what border

00:33:00.120 are you talking about?

00:33:00.860 So,

00:33:01.100 all she talks about

00:33:01.660 is the U.S. border

00:33:02.720 with Mexico.

00:33:04.440 And,

00:33:05.200 I'm like,

00:33:06.720 we're in Washington still.

00:33:08.320 So,

00:33:08.840 I'm not hearing,

00:33:09.940 so Tiffany Smiley

00:33:10.700 is basically running

00:33:11.260 on what you're saying.

00:33:11.960 She's, like,

00:33:12.260 running on crime,

00:33:12.960 and she's hearing

00:33:14.400 that people are concerned

00:33:15.140 about it,

00:33:15.640 but I'm not hearing

00:33:16.460 the solutions.

00:33:18.100 I, thus far,

00:33:18.640 have not heard the solutions.

00:33:20.000 Is there anything

00:33:20.520 you like about

00:33:21.260 Tiffany Smiley?

00:33:22.320 Is there anything

00:33:23.020 I like about it?

00:33:23.640 Yeah.

00:33:28.760 I'm pulling up

00:33:29.580 her agenda

00:33:30.120 to see.

00:33:31.000 I'm glad you're

00:33:31.460 going through all this.

00:33:32.640 Ah.

00:33:33.700 Okay,

00:33:34.000 so,

00:33:34.460 here's the thing,

00:33:35.120 is sometimes

00:33:35.560 she says things

00:33:36.320 that are good,

00:33:37.320 but then there's

00:33:37.900 no detail,

00:33:38.660 which makes me concerned,

00:33:39.680 which goes for

00:33:40.240 a lot of politicians.

00:33:41.200 Okay.

00:33:41.600 So,

00:33:41.820 like,

00:33:42.000 reducing wasteful

00:33:43.080 spending that

00:33:43.800 cause inflation.

00:33:44.780 I'm like,

00:33:45.320 okay,

00:33:45.960 but then I don't

00:33:46.700 see any detail.

00:33:48.240 So,

00:33:48.500 I don't know.

00:33:49.280 Okay,

00:33:49.680 here's one.

00:33:50.520 I would support

00:33:51.220 bipartisan legislation

00:33:52.400 that gives parents

00:33:54.080 the options

00:33:54.560 to advance

00:33:55.520 child tax credit

00:33:56.640 payments

00:33:57.240 to help families

00:34:00.380 after the birth

00:34:01.780 or adoption

00:34:02.320 of a new child.

00:34:03.620 Okay.

00:34:04.540 So,

00:34:04.800 that's a solution,

00:34:06.040 right?

00:34:06.640 Yeah.

00:34:06.840 That's a solution?

00:34:07.460 So,

00:34:07.680 but it's both

00:34:08.320 the Republicans

00:34:09.080 and the Democrats

00:34:09.860 are for it.

00:34:10.940 So,

00:34:11.100 they're both

00:34:13.980 foreign

00:34:14.280 is actually

00:34:15.100 what I'm reading.

00:34:15.800 She mentions

00:34:16.920 closing the border

00:34:18.660 and the border

00:34:21.020 with the Mexicans.

00:34:22.900 Right.

00:34:23.880 But that's

00:34:24.700 where most

00:34:25.460 of the criminal

00:34:27.660 activity

00:34:28.480 is coming

00:34:29.240 into the country.

00:34:30.460 Yes,

00:34:30.900 there's a Canadian border.

00:34:32.320 I'm more liberal

00:34:34.220 than Joe Biden.

00:34:35.340 The people

00:34:35.860 come across

00:34:36.560 personal event

00:34:38.280 to come here

00:34:39.680 and that currently

00:34:41.060 says,

00:34:41.420 even if you can't

00:34:42.660 get a paycheck,

00:34:43.740 it's not going to be

00:34:44.160 going to be

00:34:44.600 That's illegal immigration. 0.72

00:34:46.160 Right.

00:34:46.740 That's the way

00:34:47.520 you've got to be

00:34:48.340 very careful.

00:34:49.840 They're trying to say

00:34:51.160 you know,

00:34:52.840 that's not going to be

00:34:53.240 addressed.

00:34:53.720 Yeah,

00:34:55.680 something that

00:34:56.320 is not going to be

00:34:57.300 addressed

00:34:57.760 by what she said.

00:35:01.600 Show me the evidence

00:35:05.180 that what she's saying

00:35:06.880 will work.

00:35:07.740 Actually,

00:35:08.060 support,

00:35:08.560 right?

00:35:08.780 So,

00:35:08.940 I personally

00:35:09.480 support.

00:35:09.960 Are you supporting?

00:35:11.340 Well,

00:35:11.640 the idea

00:35:12.140 that we should

00:35:12.620 have a tax

00:35:13.260 on aircraft,

00:35:14.620 I personally support.

00:35:15.600 So,

00:35:15.900 what are your thoughts

00:35:16.420 on King County

00:35:17.540 Elections promoting 0.97

00:35:18.300 this event?

00:35:18.860 Well,

00:35:19.120 first of all,

00:35:19.660 they have no business

00:35:20.640 promoting this event

00:35:21.800 because,

00:35:22.480 you know,

00:35:22.800 it's non-partisan.

00:35:23.980 If they're going

00:35:24.360 to do something,

00:35:25.160 they should be

00:35:25.960 on,

00:35:26.740 have representatives

00:35:27.480 from both sides.

00:35:28.640 But clearly,

00:35:29.140 what I found tonight

00:35:30.240 was it's very one-sided.

00:35:32.540 All the questions,

00:35:33.680 all the candidates

00:35:34.400 that we brought up

00:35:35.860 were leaning towards

00:35:37.580 the liberal Democrats.

00:35:38.860 You just have to wonder

00:35:40.240 why King County

00:35:41.200 Elections would ever

00:35:42.540 promote this event.

00:35:44.240 It is blatantly biased

00:35:45.740 and if they're promoting

00:35:47.420 a Democrat organization's event,

00:35:49.320 they should also be

00:35:50.120 promoting a Republicans.

00:35:51.840 But I think that most

00:35:52.760 would agree that they

00:35:53.600 just should not promote

00:35:54.600 either side

00:35:55.560 and stick to fair

00:35:56.680 and secure elections.

00:35:58.060 So,

00:35:58.380 folks,

00:35:58.720 how do you like

00:35:59.320 those tamales?

00:36:01.120 Perhaps Kent Washington

00:36:02.600 makes for an isolated

00:36:04.060 example of why

00:36:05.440 there was no red

00:36:06.740 tidal wave

00:36:07.540 in the U.S.

00:36:08.100 midterm elections

00:36:09.040 on Tuesday.

00:36:10.480 Which is to say,

00:36:11.480 perhaps one of the reasons

00:36:12.800 that wave

00:36:13.540 failed to materialize

00:36:15.060 is due to the amount

00:36:16.680 of leftist

00:36:17.860 indoctrination

00:36:18.740 out there.

00:36:19.720 Most of the mainstream

00:36:20.500 media in the United States 1.00

00:36:21.880 serve as useful idiots 1.00

00:36:23.700 for the Biden administration. 1.00

00:36:25.900 Ditto for Hollywood.

00:36:27.340 And then we have

00:36:28.180 organizations

00:36:28.880 such as

00:36:29.700 King County Elections,

00:36:31.060 which is supposed

00:36:31.700 to be nonpartisan,

00:36:33.280 but clearly is not.

00:36:35.340 Not when it takes part

00:36:36.860 in an event

00:36:37.640 in which members

00:36:38.760 of the Hispanic community

00:36:40.100 are bribed

00:36:41.320 with free tamales

00:36:42.340 and gifts.

00:36:43.800 And what was

00:36:44.980 the ostensible

00:36:45.560 policy reason?

00:36:47.080 To teach Hispanics 1.00

00:36:48.580 how to fill out

00:36:49.280 their ballots?

00:36:50.540 How bloody

00:36:51.240 condescending is that? 0.53

00:36:52.640 And talk about

00:36:53.540 the fix being in.

00:36:55.060 The fact that

00:36:55.720 this event

00:36:56.200 was hosted

00:36:56.780 by the Washington

00:36:57.760 Environmental Council,

00:36:59.200 a left-wing

00:37:00.300 non-profit

00:37:01.280 activist organization

00:37:02.580 that seeks

00:37:03.620 environmental

00:37:04.340 and racial justice

00:37:06.200 through the elimination

00:37:07.580 of fossil fuels?

00:37:09.660 Oh, I'm sure

00:37:10.600 achieving that goal

00:37:11.720 would help

00:37:12.240 so many Americans

00:37:13.420 who are already

00:37:14.380 dealing with

00:37:15.560 hyperinflation.

00:37:17.380 Unbelievable.

00:37:18.880 And join me now

00:37:19.600 for more on this story

00:37:20.820 and her analysis

00:37:21.860 of Tuesday's

00:37:23.100 midterm election results

00:37:24.640 is our Seattle-based

00:37:25.900 reporter,

00:37:26.680 and that would be

00:37:27.500 Katie Davis-Cord.

00:37:28.640 How you doing there,

00:37:29.600 Katie?

00:37:30.540 I'm doing great,

00:37:31.400 David.

00:37:31.920 Thanks for having me on.

00:37:33.220 It's always a pleasure.

00:37:34.740 Now, Katie,

00:37:35.440 before we get into

00:37:37.000 the red wave

00:37:38.160 that wasn't,

00:37:39.320 your visit to that event

00:37:40.840 was most revealing.

00:37:43.060 As the spokeswoman

00:37:44.240 for Washington's

00:37:45.660 For Change

00:37:46.720 remarked,

00:37:48.280 King County Elections

00:37:49.360 was offside

00:37:50.360 in promoting this event.

00:37:51.820 So, since you caught them

00:37:53.460 red-handed on camera,

00:37:55.480 will there be

00:37:56.220 any repercussions

00:37:57.520 for the folks

00:37:58.440 at King County Elections?

00:37:59.880 You are absolutely correct,

00:38:02.440 and I hope that there

00:38:03.380 are some repercussions

00:38:04.360 because King County Elections

00:38:05.700 is supposed to be

00:38:06.480 fair and neutral,

00:38:08.200 and they were engaging

00:38:09.220 in a bipartisan event.

00:38:14.040 They are,

00:38:14.800 or nonpartisan,

00:38:15.680 I'm sorry,

00:38:16.320 they are actively

00:38:17.280 stooping to new lows

00:38:19.340 by promoting a radical

00:38:21.940 left-wing organization event.

00:38:23.740 They are not just a Democrat,

00:38:25.460 they are progressive,

00:38:27.260 and they are

00:38:27.940 the typical

00:38:28.940 Seattle organization

00:38:30.780 seeking to indoctrinate

00:38:32.360 and take over

00:38:33.160 with their progressive agendas

00:38:35.080 that have destroyed

00:38:35.880 our entire state.

00:38:37.240 And so,

00:38:37.620 the fact that King County Elections

00:38:38.920 would promote this event,

00:38:40.620 and people in Washington State,

00:38:43.240 not just across the country,

00:38:44.480 but in Washington State,

00:38:45.460 they do not think

00:38:46.600 that we have fair elections,

00:38:48.600 and Washington State

00:38:49.880 has all mail-in ballots.

00:38:51.380 We are the main model

00:38:52.880 for mail-in ballots.

00:38:54.520 Biden's Secretary of State

00:38:55.780 that he chose

00:38:56.400 came from Washington State,

00:38:57.880 and ever since

00:38:58.560 we have had mail-in ballots,

00:39:00.480 not a single Republican

00:39:01.740 has been elected

00:39:02.640 as governor

00:39:04.100 or as in Seattle's,

00:39:08.140 Seattle Council,

00:39:09.060 King Council,

00:39:10.160 and so,

00:39:11.660 they are,

00:39:12.580 they promoted this event

00:39:13.540 that bride Hispanics, 1.00

00:39:14.920 and when I saw them

00:39:15.640 promoting that,

00:39:16.660 I've been basically,

00:39:17.980 what I do during elections,

00:39:19.320 I see if anything

00:39:20.840 is unusual,

00:39:22.400 if there's going to be

00:39:23.000 any non-partisanship,

00:39:25.000 and so,

00:39:25.580 I was scrolling

00:39:26.100 their Facebook page,

00:39:26.980 and I saw them

00:39:27.620 promoting this graphic,

00:39:29.520 and I go,

00:39:30.380 whoa,

00:39:31.140 this is way wrong

00:39:32.300 that King County Elections

00:39:33.140 is promoting this,

00:39:33.900 and so I kept searching

00:39:35.000 to see if they were

00:39:36.700 promoting any

00:39:37.380 conservative organizations' events,

00:39:39.460 and I came up short,

00:39:40.660 didn't find that,

00:39:41.340 so I said,

00:39:41.820 I have to go investigate,

00:39:43.460 and when I walked in,

00:39:45.260 you guys played the video,

00:39:46.400 but when I walked in,

00:39:48.080 they were,

00:39:49.300 there were not that many

00:39:50.380 Hispanics there,

00:39:51.360 and we've been having

00:39:52.140 severe storms,

00:39:53.120 so I think that that

00:39:53.860 deterred a lot of people,

00:39:55.320 but also Hispanics,

00:39:56.620 this time around,

00:39:58.380 midterm elections,

00:39:59.340 a lot of them

00:39:59.860 have actually voted

00:40:01.880 alongside the Republicans,

00:40:03.260 because the Hispanic community,

00:40:05.620 they're all about faith,

00:40:06.780 family values,

00:40:07.740 and they,

00:40:08.740 the Democrat Party

00:40:09.660 does not represent that now,

00:40:11.000 so I went in

00:40:12.100 to investigate,

00:40:12.800 I was offered

00:40:13.340 free tamales,

00:40:14.000 I was entered

00:40:15.120 into the special giveaway,

00:40:16.240 which I ended up winning,

00:40:17.440 and I was trying so hard

00:40:18.520 not to laugh

00:40:19.220 when I,

00:40:20.040 when they announced

00:40:20.460 my name that I won,

00:40:21.880 but,

00:40:22.240 and Michelle Lee, 0.98

00:40:25.040 like you mentioned,

00:40:25.680 she came in

00:40:26.440 with her ballot,

00:40:27.460 and I had

00:40:28.420 my camera rolling,

00:40:30.280 and

00:40:30.740 a representative

00:40:32.140 of Washington

00:40:32.880 Environmental Council

00:40:33.860 was slamming

00:40:35.520 Republican candidates

00:40:36.680 while

00:40:37.320 going through the ballots

00:40:39.060 and having Michelle

00:40:40.040 fill it up,

00:40:41.320 and I was just

00:40:42.000 sitting there shocked

00:40:42.920 how kinking elections 0.79

00:40:44.080 would ever promote

00:40:44.980 an event like this

00:40:46.400 when there's

00:40:48.040 representatives

00:40:48.660 saying who they

00:40:50.200 voted for,

00:40:50.900 why they voted for them,

00:40:52.100 but also tarnishing

00:40:53.020 the names of

00:40:53.960 Republican candidates

00:40:54.900 as they were

00:40:55.480 dropping their ballots,

00:40:56.400 and if you were

00:40:57.380 Hispanic,

00:40:58.320 because they made it

00:40:59.380 seem like,

00:40:59.900 oh,

00:41:00.060 we're going to try

00:41:00.740 to indoctrinate

00:41:02.660 the Hispanic community

00:41:03.520 by doing this event,

00:41:04.600 so we'll just,

00:41:05.880 if you're an

00:41:06.500 ill-informed voter

00:41:07.440 or a first-time voter

00:41:09.060 and we're sitting

00:41:09.740 with this representative,

00:41:11.520 you could be

00:41:12.200 easily persuaded

00:41:13.180 into thinking

00:41:13.940 that these

00:41:14.440 Republican candidates

00:41:15.420 were bad

00:41:16.660 and their policies

00:41:17.460 were bad

00:41:18.900 because of

00:41:19.680 what he was saying,

00:41:20.720 and it is just

00:41:21.540 disgusting that

00:41:22.520 King County 0.89

00:41:22.920 promoted this event.

00:41:24.500 I don't think

00:41:25.480 that there will be

00:41:26.240 an investigation.

00:41:27.640 I mean,

00:41:28.960 the Republican Party

00:41:30.460 here,

00:41:30.940 Republican lawmakers,

00:41:32.280 they have gone

00:41:32.920 after King County

00:41:33.640 elections before,

00:41:35.040 and it is just

00:41:35.680 so corrupted

00:41:36.440 that this state,

00:41:39.120 it's pretty lost.

00:41:41.400 I'm a positive person,

00:41:42.700 so I'm remaining

00:41:43.720 on hope,

00:41:44.380 but there was no,

00:41:46.280 this midterm election,

00:41:48.160 it was,

00:41:48.900 I was expecting,

00:41:51.040 I don't listen

00:41:51.540 to the polls

00:41:52.060 because I just,

00:41:53.400 you know,

00:41:54.240 we've been

00:41:55.060 disappointed in the past,

00:41:57.680 so there was

00:41:59.940 a red wave,

00:42:00.820 but there was

00:42:01.180 no red tsunami.

00:42:02.640 I think that

00:42:03.420 the Republicans,

00:42:04.440 they're absolutely

00:42:05.160 taking back the House,

00:42:06.500 I'm excited to see

00:42:07.100 what they do with that,

00:42:08.060 but the Senate,

00:42:09.040 it remains up for grabs,

00:42:10.340 you have to win

00:42:10.820 two more seats,

00:42:12.040 and I don't think

00:42:12.620 we're going to know

00:42:13.180 until December

00:42:14.640 what happened

00:42:15.300 to the Senate

00:42:15.740 because it's going

00:42:16.320 to end up being

00:42:17.140 the runoff in Georgia.

00:42:19.120 And, you know,

00:42:19.860 Katie,

00:42:20.220 just the whole premise

00:42:21.580 of this little powwow

00:42:23.360 that happened,

00:42:24.500 you know,

00:42:24.840 educating Hispanic voters,

00:42:26.780 by the way,

00:42:27.220 did they refer to them

00:42:28.280 Hispanic or Latinx,

00:42:31.180 which always sounds

00:42:32.440 like a spin-off

00:42:33.800 of the X-Men comic book series

00:42:35.520 that Marvel Comics produces

00:42:36.960 because I've never met

00:42:38.260 a Latino or a Latina

00:42:39.940 that has embraced Latinx,

00:42:41.660 but that's a story

00:42:42.340 for another time.

00:42:43.540 I mean,

00:42:44.020 this idea of choosing

00:42:46.620 certain nationalities,

00:42:48.740 certain races,

00:42:49.500 I mean,

00:42:50.140 were they,

00:42:50.940 did they have a seminar

00:42:51.780 to teach black people

00:42:53.360 how to vote, 0.87

00:42:54.000 Asian people,

00:42:54.780 for that matter,

00:42:55.440 white people how to vote?

00:42:56.480 I mean, 0.95

00:42:57.200 it seems just so preposterous

00:42:59.480 to me.

00:43:00.300 And you've got to wonder,

00:43:01.660 is the real agenda here,

00:43:03.100 we see more and more Hispanics

00:43:05.220 drifting away from the Democrats

00:43:07.080 and voting Republican.

00:43:09.180 The Democrats consider

00:43:10.680 the Hispanic vote their turf. 0.99

00:43:13.060 So is this what's happening

00:43:14.860 really that there's like

00:43:16.240 a re-engineering going on

00:43:17.860 to bring them back

00:43:18.660 to the Democratic Party?

00:43:21.160 Yeah.

00:43:21.980 I actually looked at the event

00:43:24.020 and said,

00:43:24.460 this seems a little racist to me.

00:43:26.240 You have to bribe

00:43:27.180 the free tamales.

00:43:29.480 I mean,

00:43:29.840 why couldn't it be

00:43:30.720 a pizza party?

00:43:31.560 It seemed very targeted

00:43:32.780 towards the Hispanic community.

00:43:35.360 And like you said,

00:43:36.600 there is a huge shift.

00:43:38.860 The more Hispanics 1.00

00:43:41.320 and black voters

00:43:42.180 voted Republican

00:43:43.020 this midterm elections

00:43:45.420 than ever have.

00:43:46.120 And we saw that happen

00:43:47.180 in Florida.

00:43:48.740 Governor Ron DeSantis,

00:43:50.420 he flipped Miami-Dade County,

00:43:52.460 which is 70% Hispanics.

00:43:56.100 Yeah.

00:43:56.920 Yeah,

00:43:57.600 we haven't,

00:43:58.400 Republicans haven't won

00:43:59.320 that county

00:44:00.360 in, I believe,

00:44:01.580 30 years.

00:44:02.440 And so the fact that

00:44:03.520 the Hispanic community,

00:44:04.640 they are well on board.

00:44:06.680 These are people

00:44:07.420 that have escaped

00:44:08.660 their countries

00:44:09.560 to come to America 0.87

00:44:10.380 for freedom.

00:44:10.900 And they see

00:44:12.020 that the Democratic Party

00:44:13.500 is trying to pay

00:44:14.660 the American values

00:44:16.380 that they came here for.

00:44:17.460 So that is why

00:44:18.560 the Hispanic community

00:44:20.160 voted alongside Republicans

00:44:21.880 this time around.

00:44:23.840 No,

00:44:24.360 indeed.

00:44:24.940 And,

00:44:25.180 you know,

00:44:25.460 why don't we look

00:44:26.040 at the election

00:44:26.760 as a whole,

00:44:29.400 Katie,

00:44:29.660 what happened

00:44:30.180 on Tuesday night?

00:44:30.860 I'll give you my take

00:44:32.040 and I want to hear

00:44:32.660 what your take is.

00:44:34.040 I've got to tell you

00:44:35.100 for the last several weeks,

00:44:37.140 you kept hearing

00:44:38.040 red wave,

00:44:39.560 red wave,

00:44:40.080 and then it got upgraded

00:44:41.040 to red tsunami,

00:44:42.700 a red tsunami,

00:44:43.800 right?

00:44:44.180 And certainly,

00:44:45.440 as someone who's conservative,

00:44:47.160 you want to see that happen.

00:44:49.140 But I was cringing

00:44:50.920 at these predictions

00:44:52.440 because,

00:44:53.260 hey guys,

00:44:54.200 as the old saying goes,

00:44:55.580 don't count your eggs

00:44:56.620 before they're hatched.

00:44:58.100 And I think

00:44:59.340 when there was this

00:45:00.560 mindset out there,

00:45:02.480 oh,

00:45:03.020 it's a slam dunk,

00:45:04.720 it's in the bag,

00:45:06.340 what you have,

00:45:07.120 and I think,

00:45:07.700 you know,

00:45:08.080 given the voter turnout,

00:45:09.280 I think there's some

00:45:09.940 substance to

00:45:10.860 my prediction,

00:45:12.840 Katie,

00:45:13.840 that you have someone,

00:45:15.340 you know what,

00:45:15.760 I've got to take the kid

00:45:16.540 to soccer practice,

00:45:17.620 I don't know if I'm going

00:45:18.240 to be able to get

00:45:18.820 to the polling station,

00:45:21.540 you know,

00:45:21.820 it's going to be a red wave,

00:45:22.940 it's going to be a red tsunami,

00:45:24.120 what does my one vote mean?

00:45:26.320 And you know what,

00:45:27.400 this is the thing,

00:45:28.240 Katie,

00:45:28.740 once you start

00:45:29.680 going by the premise

00:45:31.000 that it's in the bag,

00:45:32.760 well,

00:45:32.880 I've got news for you,

00:45:34.100 it falls out of the bag

00:45:35.340 really quickly,

00:45:36.360 what do you say?

00:45:38.360 Oh,

00:45:38.780 I totally agree with you,

00:45:40.080 that's why I said

00:45:41.240 in the beginning,

00:45:41.800 I don't go off of the polls

00:45:43.180 because I think,

00:45:45.220 yes,

00:45:45.760 there was a red wave

00:45:47.020 and that was in

00:45:47.900 the poll's predictions,

00:45:49.460 but the red tsunami,

00:45:51.180 like you mentioned,

00:45:52.680 I think that liberal media

00:45:54.520 and Democrat politicians

00:45:56.840 were playing up

00:45:58.000 the red tsunami

00:45:58.900 as much as they could

00:45:59.780 to deter Republicans

00:46:02.280 for coming out to vote

00:46:03.280 thinking that,

00:46:04.500 like you said,

00:46:05.320 they had it in the bag

00:46:06.200 and so,

00:46:07.780 I think that Republicans

00:46:09.480 did turn out

00:46:10.560 and there are elections,

00:46:13.460 they are still shady,

00:46:14.560 I mean,

00:46:15.000 why don't we have

00:46:15.840 Arizona counted yet?

00:46:17.540 And when,

00:46:18.140 in Arizona,

00:46:18.980 when they went up

00:46:19.760 in the controversial

00:46:20.640 county of Maricopa,

00:46:22.620 they,

00:46:22.900 the polls were down,

00:46:24.640 they were down

00:46:25.260 for almost all day

00:46:28.020 until the evening

00:46:29.100 and so,

00:46:30.120 Republicans,

00:46:30.920 they show up

00:46:31.620 on election day,

00:46:32.580 Democrats vote early

00:46:34.060 by mail-in ballot,

00:46:35.580 Republicans,

00:46:36.540 if you can vote in person,

00:46:38.460 they show up

00:46:38.940 on election day to vote

00:46:39.780 and so,

00:46:41.580 you know,

00:46:42.400 there was

00:46:43.220 no red tsunami,

00:46:44.660 I knew that there wasn't

00:46:45.580 going to be a red tsunami

00:46:46.540 and that is why

00:46:48.680 you still have to mobilize

00:46:49.860 the Republican base

00:46:50.780 but also,

00:46:51.620 I don't think anything

00:46:52.680 in this country

00:46:53.200 is going to change

00:46:53.960 until election integrity

00:46:55.780 laws get implemented

00:46:56.740 and that is what,

00:46:58.100 that is why

00:46:58.660 Florida had the red

00:47:00.560 wave,

00:47:01.080 had the red tsunami,

00:47:02.360 they were the only

00:47:03.040 state that had the tsunami

00:47:04.140 because Governor DeSantis

00:47:05.200 did a great job

00:47:06.020 getting voter integrity

00:47:07.460 laws,

00:47:08.040 he blocked

00:47:08.680 the Biden administration's

00:47:10.400 attorney general

00:47:11.100 from entering

00:47:12.080 the voting polls

00:47:13.840 and we saw

00:47:15.660 the red tsunami

00:47:17.360 in Florida.

00:47:18.220 America and Florida.

00:47:19.640 Yeah,

00:47:20.180 and you know,

00:47:21.140 Katie,

00:47:21.420 hopefully all the

00:47:22.080 analysts out there

00:47:23.100 and like even the likes

00:47:24.260 of Newt Gingrich,

00:47:25.100 I believe he made a

00:47:26.060 prediction of the

00:47:26.960 Republicans winning

00:47:27.720 56 Senate seats,

00:47:29.160 that's not going to

00:47:29.800 happen.

00:47:30.940 Maybe for the next

00:47:32.420 election cycle,

00:47:33.660 let's not make

00:47:34.720 predictions like

00:47:35.740 it's a football game,

00:47:37.620 let's just say,

00:47:39.240 I hope for this

00:47:40.100 but,

00:47:40.760 you know,

00:47:41.060 don't pretend

00:47:41.880 anything is written

00:47:42.840 in stone.

00:47:43.380 But we got to look

00:47:44.480 at the,

00:47:44.900 you know,

00:47:45.520 the plus side,

00:47:46.820 at least heading

00:47:47.880 toward the 2024

00:47:49.600 presidential election,

00:47:51.100 Katie.

00:47:51.540 I understand

00:47:52.180 in the House

00:47:53.640 there were

00:47:54.420 something like

00:47:55.180 20 incumbent

00:47:56.520 Democrats

00:47:57.200 that won

00:47:58.800 by far less

00:48:00.400 than 5%.

00:48:01.820 And of course,

00:48:02.940 when we look

00:48:03.480 at Florida,

00:48:04.560 wow,

00:48:04.940 that was a bloodbath

00:48:06.520 for the Democrats.

00:48:08.420 I know a week

00:48:09.740 in politics

00:48:10.640 can be an eternity,

00:48:11.660 so two years

00:48:12.780 from now,

00:48:13.380 that's multiple

00:48:14.880 and infinite

00:48:15.800 eternities.

00:48:16.980 But how do you

00:48:18.000 see this playing

00:48:19.000 out the next

00:48:19.580 two years?

00:48:20.460 What do you think

00:48:21.460 we're going to see

00:48:22.620 come 2024,

00:48:24.180 Katie?

00:48:25.500 That is a great

00:48:26.440 question.

00:48:27.100 I think that

00:48:28.160 the Republicans,

00:48:29.500 they won back

00:48:30.120 the House

00:48:30.540 this time.

00:48:32.160 I think that is

00:48:32.860 what it's going to

00:48:33.520 be.

00:48:34.380 And I think

00:48:35.560 things are going

00:48:36.000 to get really

00:48:36.520 exciting.

00:48:37.800 They plan to

00:48:39.040 retire House

00:48:39.860 Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

00:48:41.160 That is going to

00:48:41.700 be one of the

00:48:42.220 biggest accomplishments,

00:48:42.920 but they're

00:48:43.320 also going to

00:48:43.920 start looking

00:48:44.440 into President

00:48:45.800 Biden and Hunter

00:48:46.880 Biden's shady

00:48:48.020 foreign business

00:48:48.720 dealings.

00:48:49.260 So we're actually

00:48:49.780 going to start

00:48:50.260 seeing them go

00:48:51.420 after the Biden

00:48:52.060 administration

00:48:52.540 because they

00:48:53.360 will have a

00:48:53.780 majority in doing

00:48:54.680 so.

00:48:55.560 If the Republicans

00:48:56.520 do end up winning

00:48:57.280 back the Senate,

00:48:58.300 you know,

00:48:59.060 at extra bonus point,

00:49:00.620 we'll actually be able

00:49:01.440 to go after the

00:49:02.380 Biden administration

00:49:03.160 and we'll hold

00:49:04.660 them to account.

00:49:05.420 But come 2024,

00:49:08.180 you know,

00:49:08.660 you saw Republican

00:49:10.220 Governor Ron

00:49:11.040 DeSantis have an

00:49:12.620 amazing win in

00:49:13.560 Florida,

00:49:14.080 but then you also

00:49:14.660 have former

00:49:15.800 President Donald

00:49:16.500 Trump.

00:49:17.620 He's going to make

00:49:18.260 his announcement

00:49:18.760 on November 15th,

00:49:20.200 but after Governor

00:49:21.020 DeSantis' win,

00:49:22.740 he is kind of

00:49:23.600 going,

00:49:24.020 he's posted on

00:49:24.560 social media,

00:49:25.640 kind of slandering

00:49:26.440 Governor DeSantis,

00:49:27.320 and that is not

00:49:27.900 going to fly over

00:49:28.880 with DeSantis' base

00:49:30.520 and a lot of

00:49:31.120 Republicans and

00:49:31.900 independent voters

00:49:32.680 because DeSantis

00:49:34.520 actually won over

00:49:35.440 a lot of the

00:49:35.880 independent voters.

00:49:36.860 Trump slamming

00:49:38.540 DeSantis,

00:49:39.520 overwhelmed for him.

00:49:40.520 So I think

00:49:41.900 primaries for

00:49:43.100 Republicans are

00:49:43.840 going to be 0.99

00:49:44.420 very crazy,

00:49:45.560 and I think 0.98

00:49:46.240 if Trump is

00:49:47.440 the nominee,

00:49:48.240 which most

00:49:49.260 likely will

00:49:49.780 probably be

00:49:50.940 the situation,

00:49:52.580 I think that

00:49:53.260 2024 is going

00:49:54.380 to make 2020

00:49:55.580 look like a

00:49:56.860 little kids

00:49:57.960 party.

00:49:59.100 And one last

00:50:00.220 question,

00:50:01.340 Katie,

00:50:01.960 I mean,

00:50:02.680 when I look

00:50:03.620 at American

00:50:04.460 politics,

00:50:05.240 as much as

00:50:05.900 I loathe

00:50:06.640 the Democrats, 0.99

00:50:07.640 I will give

00:50:08.120 them this,

00:50:08.760 they play

00:50:09.560 as a team.

00:50:10.960 Everybody is

00:50:11.780 on board

00:50:12.480 pulling the

00:50:13.100 same direction.

00:50:13.820 When I look

00:50:14.240 at the

00:50:14.440 Republican Party,

00:50:15.820 there are

00:50:16.120 all these

00:50:16.620 factions,

00:50:17.620 there is

00:50:17.920 so much

00:50:18.380 infighting.

00:50:19.980 I mean,

00:50:20.200 the fact that

00:50:20.880 George Bush,

00:50:22.400 Jeb Bush,

00:50:22.900 they didn't

00:50:23.160 even come

00:50:23.600 out and

00:50:24.080 support any

00:50:24.980 candidates

00:50:25.620 in the

00:50:26.600 midterms,

00:50:27.420 you know,

00:50:28.000 which I found

00:50:28.760 really weird.

00:50:29.780 You've got

00:50:30.220 talk now of

00:50:31.380 if DeSantis

00:50:32.400 is the

00:50:33.200 candidate in

00:50:34.000 2024,

00:50:35.380 I mean,

00:50:35.740 I'll be

00:50:35.980 monitoring

00:50:36.520 American

00:50:36.980 talk radio

00:50:37.640 and I hear

00:50:38.020 people going,

00:50:38.760 well,

00:50:39.320 Trump should

00:50:39.840 form the

00:50:40.700 MAGA party

00:50:41.420 because that's

00:50:42.040 who I'm

00:50:42.300 going to vote

00:50:42.760 for.

00:50:43.060 I'm loyal to

00:50:43.720 Donald Trump.

00:50:44.540 If that

00:50:44.960 scenario happens,

00:50:45.740 that's Christmas

00:50:46.560 Day on steroids

00:50:47.520 for the Democrats

00:50:48.740 because that will

00:50:50.120 clearly split the

00:50:51.080 vote.

00:50:52.320 Maybe is there

00:50:53.460 a lesson here

00:50:54.580 in terms of

00:50:55.380 the red

00:50:56.040 tsunami not

00:50:57.280 materializing

00:50:58.160 that the

00:50:58.940 Republicans

00:50:59.520 need to

00:51:00.240 get their

00:51:00.720 house in

00:51:01.440 order.

00:51:02.000 They need

00:51:02.480 to be

00:51:03.060 one cohesive

00:51:04.720 team,

00:51:05.420 much like

00:51:06.040 the Democrats

00:51:06.520 are.

00:51:07.780 Yeah,

00:51:08.380 there's no

00:51:09.000 time for

00:51:09.460 infighting.

00:51:10.120 We need

00:51:10.380 to be

00:51:10.920 united

00:51:11.580 because our

00:51:12.840 entire country

00:51:13.480 is at stake

00:51:13.980 for Constitution

00:51:14.540 and if we

00:51:15.520 can't,

00:51:16.240 if the

00:51:16.400 Republican

00:51:16.640 Party

00:51:17.000 can't get

00:51:17.780 it together

00:51:18.940 then we're

00:51:19.800 going to

00:51:19.960 lose our

00:51:20.220 country.

00:51:20.740 You know,

00:51:21.040 I,

00:51:21.760 going into

00:51:22.120 midterms,

00:51:22.640 I looked at

00:51:23.060 midterms as

00:51:23.720 this was kind

00:51:24.200 of our last

00:51:24.640 shot because

00:51:25.760 you see what

00:51:26.260 the Biden

00:51:26.520 administration did

00:51:27.260 in two years

00:51:27.820 absolutely

00:51:28.240 destroyed a

00:51:29.480 lot of

00:51:29.900 our nation

00:51:30.280 orders,

00:51:32.220 high crime,

00:51:33.620 they're making

00:51:34.020 people dependent

00:51:35.060 on the government

00:51:35.640 which is exactly

00:51:36.280 what the

00:51:36.520 Democrat Party

00:51:37.140 wants.

00:51:37.600 So this was

00:51:38.180 really our

00:51:38.500 last chance

00:51:39.160 as the

00:51:40.860 Republican side

00:51:41.760 to be united

00:51:42.920 and start

00:51:43.480 fighting back.

00:51:44.420 Unfortunately,

00:51:44.900 I think we're

00:51:45.840 going to fall

00:51:46.720 up a little

00:51:47.180 short since

00:51:48.100 still up for

00:51:48.640 everyone else

00:51:49.580 but if

00:51:51.520 Republicans can't

00:51:52.540 get behind

00:51:53.120 the nominee

00:51:54.140 and if it

00:51:55.360 is Trump

00:51:55.940 and the

00:51:57.220 anti-Trumpers

00:51:58.160 and the

00:51:58.420 Trump derangement

00:51:59.180 syndrome,

00:51:59.620 Republicans, 0.58

00:52:00.420 the rhinos,

00:52:01.140 if they can't

00:52:02.540 see what

00:52:03.420 they're doing

00:52:04.040 in helping

00:52:04.700 the Democrat

00:52:05.120 Party,

00:52:05.640 then I

00:52:06.160 think that

00:52:06.900 the Democrats

00:52:08.660 2024 will

00:52:09.720 just be handed

00:52:10.260 to them.

00:52:11.580 And Katie,

00:52:12.580 I'd be remiss

00:52:13.580 if I didn't

00:52:14.100 ask you the

00:52:15.120 most important

00:52:16.060 question of

00:52:16.680 all,

00:52:17.300 how did

00:52:17.620 those tamales

00:52:18.260 taste?

00:52:18.800 I think

00:52:26.100 that a

00:52:26.740 Hispanic

00:52:27.160 actually

00:52:27.680 made them

00:52:28.160 so that's

00:52:29.520 probably why

00:52:30.020 they were

00:52:30.320 extra good.

00:52:31.500 There you

00:52:32.180 go.

00:52:33.060 Well,

00:52:33.420 Katie,

00:52:34.040 great job

00:52:34.580 on that

00:52:34.920 undercover

00:52:35.420 work.

00:52:35.920 It really

00:52:36.480 peeled back

00:52:37.600 a layer of

00:52:38.240 the onion

00:52:38.560 skin to see

00:52:39.300 how these

00:52:39.660 organizations

00:52:40.360 operate and

00:52:41.820 thank you so

00:52:42.540 much for your

00:52:43.020 analysis on

00:52:43.820 what happened

00:52:44.540 on Tuesday.

00:52:46.020 Thank you,

00:52:46.660 David.

00:52:47.340 You got it.

00:52:47.980 And that

00:52:49.260 was Katie

00:52:49.880 Davis-Court

00:52:50.680 in Seattle,

00:52:51.680 Washington.

00:52:52.200 Keep it

00:52:52.420 here,

00:52:52.660 folks.

00:52:53.040 More of

00:52:53.440 Rebel Roundup

00:52:53.980 to come

00:52:54.340 right after

00:52:55.060 this.

00:52:59.380 Why do you

00:53:03.040 say that?

00:53:04.140 Why do you

00:53:04.540 say that?

00:53:05.320 Because you're

00:53:05.940 a bunch of 1.00

00:53:07.020 right-wing trolls. 1.00

00:53:08.480 F*** you. 1.00

00:53:09.700 Hi, sir. 1.00

00:53:13.580 I'm just

00:53:13.880 trying to make

00:53:14.280 sense of your

00:53:14.780 side.

00:53:15.940 Oh, really?

00:53:16.480 You don't talk

00:53:16.840 to fascists?

00:53:17.420 Who would the

00:53:18.180 fascists be

00:53:18.660 here?

00:53:19.020 You, rebel

00:53:19.580 dude.

00:53:20.100 Okay.

00:53:22.360 We're fascists.

00:53:27.380 Coupie, that's

00:53:28.380 the plant-eating

00:53:29.380 dinosaur, right?

00:53:30.560 Yeah.

00:53:31.120 You know

00:53:31.320 they're far

00:53:31.700 right.

00:53:32.620 Oh, what does

00:53:33.040 far right mean,

00:53:34.200 sir?

00:53:34.540 It's all, but

00:53:35.240 turn the map

00:53:35.920 upside down, and

00:53:37.020 which way is up?

00:53:38.540 Okay, just

00:53:38.980 letting you know.

00:53:40.020 There's been an

00:53:40.520 intervention by

00:53:41.240 Mr. Dressup.

00:53:42.200 You're signed

00:53:42.620 here.

00:53:42.780 What is

00:53:43.220 eco-socialism?

00:53:44.080 To your 0.85

00:53:44.420 scab reactionary

00:53:45.500 fascistic media, 0.88

00:53:46.620 so get lost.

00:53:47.900 How am I a

00:53:48.480 scab by doing

00:53:49.600 journalism on the

00:53:50.400 lawns of

00:53:50.760 Queen's Park,

00:53:51.360 sir?

00:53:51.700 Yeah, that's

00:53:52.740 it.

00:53:53.060 We're done.

00:53:53.780 I said 0.99

00:53:54.840 f*** off. 0.99

00:53:55.640 Oh, that's 0.99

00:53:56.120 not very

00:53:56.900 ladylike.

00:53:57.540 Talk to this

00:53:58.000 guy.

00:53:58.840 You can have

00:53:59.660 nothing.

00:54:00.320 Go away.

00:54:01.360 Oh, that's

00:54:01.780 not very

00:54:02.220 communist of

00:54:02.980 you.

00:54:03.580 I thought

00:54:04.160 it's all about

00:54:04.600 sharing the

00:54:05.160 wealth.

00:54:05.540 Just go away. 0.98

00:54:06.260 Can you say

00:54:08.060 sounds without

00:54:08.700 using profanity? 1.00

00:54:09.680 Yeah, f*** you, 1.00

00:54:11.980 you right-wing 1.00

00:54:12.600 asshole. 1.00

00:54:13.480 I don't think he 0.99

00:54:14.200 understood the

00:54:14.760 question.

00:54:15.700 Yeah, I did. 1.00

00:54:16.480 F*** you. 1.00

00:54:18.220 F*** you. 1.00

00:54:19.560 Why? 1.00

00:54:20.020 Why are you

00:54:20.900 like that? 1.00

00:54:21.340 I f*** you. 0.99

00:54:24.600 So, folks, how 0.99

00:54:25.940 do you like those

00:54:27.040 education workers?

00:54:29.140 So keen to utter

00:54:30.400 profanity and flip

00:54:31.640 the bird, and yet

00:54:33.120 so completely unable

00:54:34.580 to articulate their

00:54:35.820 actual positions.

00:54:37.520 What lovely role

00:54:38.700 models for our

00:54:39.620 children indeed.

00:54:41.160 In any event, you

00:54:41.880 had plenty to say

00:54:42.880 about these striking

00:54:44.480 scholars who

00:54:45.340 descended upon

00:54:46.160 Queen's Park last

00:54:47.760 Friday.

00:54:49.540 CDXX writes,

00:54:50.940 CUPI marched

00:54:51.820 against us truckers

00:54:53.240 in Ottawa during

00:54:54.460 the convoy.

00:54:55.600 They now want us

00:54:56.480 to support them

00:54:57.420 while their

00:54:58.200 freedoms are being

00:54:59.380 stripped.

00:55:00.300 Isn't that rich?

00:55:01.900 Oh, I agree.

00:55:02.900 The chutzpah is

00:55:03.760 off the charts.

00:55:04.420 And while

00:55:05.180 CUPE whines that 1.00

00:55:07.120 it was offside for

00:55:08.420 the Doug Ford

00:55:09.060 PCs to invoke

00:55:10.760 the notwithstanding

00:55:11.800 clause in terms

00:55:13.900 of declaring the

00:55:14.600 latest education

00:55:15.440 workers strike

00:55:16.220 illegal, they 1.00

00:55:17.580 could barely

00:55:18.600 contain their

00:55:19.520 glee when

00:55:20.180 Prime Minister

00:55:20.880 Blackface 0.99

00:55:21.620 McGroper invoked

00:55:23.020 the Emergencies

00:55:23.840 Act to shut

00:55:24.580 down a peaceful

00:55:25.800 protest.

00:55:26.660 Wow, what a

00:55:27.280 double standard.

00:55:28.880 Louis Sasbo

00:55:29.940 writes,

00:55:30.440 after refusing to

00:55:31.980 teach our

00:55:32.580 children for the

00:55:33.460 last two years

00:55:34.400 and now they

00:55:35.780 want more money

00:55:36.760 to do what?

00:55:38.580 Not teach them

00:55:39.480 for another two

00:55:40.660 years?

00:55:41.120 We are going

00:55:42.080 through horrific

00:55:42.960 trying times and

00:55:44.780 now they decide

00:55:45.820 to hold our

00:55:47.060 kids for ransom

00:55:47.880 again?

00:55:48.800 They get pretty

00:55:49.620 damn good pay

00:55:50.720 compared to most 0.99

00:55:51.680 jobs and they

00:55:52.500 definitely get more

00:55:53.500 time off than any

00:55:55.080 other profession.

00:55:56.360 Part-timers make 0.91

00:55:57.340 $39,000 per year,

00:55:59.200 a great pension

00:56:00.140 benefits up the

00:56:01.580 Wahoo and it is

00:56:02.960 never enough.

00:56:04.460 Makes me sick to

00:56:05.680 my stomach.

00:56:06.880 You know, well

00:56:07.240 said, Louis, and

00:56:08.120 don't forget that

00:56:09.260 before classes were

00:56:10.840 skewered due to

00:56:12.160 COVID-19 the past

00:56:13.420 two years, Ontario

00:56:14.940 teachers were in

00:56:16.340 work-to-rule mode

00:56:17.680 during 2019 into

00:56:19.420 2020.

00:56:20.540 And thank you for

00:56:21.800 pointing out the

00:56:22.680 most egregious

00:56:23.840 propaganda being

00:56:25.080 promoted by QP

00:56:26.100 that some education

00:56:27.720 workers are earning

00:56:28.680 $39,000 a year.

00:56:30.600 Hey, I could never

00:56:31.800 get by living in

00:56:32.780 the GTA on a

00:56:33.780 $39,000 a year

00:56:35.300 salary, but that

00:56:36.780 number refers to

00:56:37.840 part-time, not

00:56:39.060 full-time work.

00:56:40.620 And even the

00:56:41.160 part-timers get

00:56:42.060 gold-plated benefits

00:56:43.120 and a lofty

00:56:43.980 pension.

00:56:44.860 So what exactly is

00:56:46.320 QP's position?

00:56:48.100 That part-timers 1.00

00:56:49.300 should receive

00:56:50.220 full-time salaries?

00:56:52.420 These public

00:56:53.320 sector unionists

00:56:54.500 are beyond

00:56:55.800 delusional.

00:56:56.700 Jeff Taylor

00:56:58.560 writes,

00:56:59.300 the amount of

00:57:00.440 increase that

00:57:01.520 these unions

00:57:02.120 demand is

00:57:02.960 insane.

00:57:04.100 Taxpayers will

00:57:04.800 pay and pay and 0.78

00:57:05.980 pay until there's

00:57:06.920 nothing left to

00:57:07.900 give.

00:57:08.440 Indeed, Jeff,

00:57:09.420 public sector

00:57:10.060 unionists feel

00:57:10.920 that the taxpayer

00:57:11.900 trough is

00:57:12.680 bottomless.

00:57:13.880 It is not, as

00:57:15.000 Ontario's debt

00:57:16.360 clearly indicates.

00:57:18.260 And what the

00:57:19.160 hell happened to

00:57:20.020 Doug Ford?

00:57:21.220 On Friday, he was

00:57:22.480 invoking the spirit

00:57:23.500 of Ronald Reagan

00:57:24.420 circa 1981.

00:57:26.080 That's when the

00:57:26.640 late, great

00:57:27.200 President Reagan

00:57:28.160 issued an

00:57:29.060 ultimatum to

00:57:29.880 some 11,000 air

00:57:31.380 traffic controllers

00:57:32.280 to either get

00:57:33.360 back to work or

00:57:34.400 you're fired.

00:57:35.620 And it was not a

00:57:36.700 hollow threat.

00:57:37.980 And so many of

00:57:39.300 those air traffic

00:57:40.480 controllers were

00:57:41.480 indeed fired 48

00:57:43.100 hours later.

00:57:44.220 But on Friday,

00:57:46.000 Premier Ford

00:57:46.720 invoked the

00:57:47.400 notwithstanding

00:57:48.280 clause, making

00:57:49.720 the QP strike

00:57:50.840 illegal.

00:57:51.360 and massive

00:57:53.260 daily fines

00:57:54.340 were also

00:57:55.060 threatened.

00:57:56.340 But by Monday,

00:57:57.720 Premier Ford

00:57:58.280 caved.

00:57:59.480 He withdrew the

00:58:00.520 notwithstanding

00:58:01.160 clause.

00:58:01.960 He said,

00:58:02.400 quote, I don't

00:58:03.560 want to fight,

00:58:04.680 end quote.

00:58:06.060 Premier Ford,

00:58:07.240 you are no

00:58:08.120 Ronald Reagan.

00:58:09.100 Indeed, you have

00:58:10.280 a spine that is

00:58:11.520 softer than

00:58:12.600 week-old

00:58:13.480 cherry cheesecake.

00:58:16.400 Sulkinar writes,

00:58:18.080 aren't these the

00:58:18.840 same guys who

00:58:19.640 supported mandatory

00:58:20.800 jabs and did 0.98

00:58:21.820 nothing for

00:58:22.460 members who

00:58:23.080 refused?

00:58:24.540 Oh, you are

00:58:25.220 correct, Sulkinar.

00:58:26.760 And these people

00:58:28.040 also subscribe to

00:58:29.300 the mantra,

00:58:30.500 my body, my

00:58:31.680 choice.

00:58:32.440 But alas, as

00:58:33.420 we've discovered,

00:58:34.240 that seems to

00:58:35.300 apply only to

00:58:36.840 terminating a

00:58:37.700 baby's life as

00:58:39.100 opposed to

00:58:39.740 refusing to

00:58:40.960 being jabbed

00:58:42.000 with an

00:58:42.360 experimental

00:58:43.100 vaccine.

00:58:44.160 What a world.

00:58:46.240 Well, that

00:58:47.040 wraps up another

00:58:47.780 edition of Rebel

00:58:48.640 Roundup.

00:58:49.200 Thanks so much

00:58:49.860 for joining us.

00:58:50.800 Have yourselves

00:58:51.620 a fantastic

00:58:52.580 weekend.

00:58:53.740 See you next

00:58:54.380 week.

00:58:54.720 And hey, folks,

00:58:55.580 never forget,

00:58:56.980 without risk,

00:58:57.860 there can be no

00:58:58.620 glory.

00:58:59.260 Good night.

00:58:59.660 Let aufください.

00:59:09.340 Good night.

00:59:10.720 Good morning.

00:59:11.680 Good night.

00:59:11.760 Good night.

00:59:13.700 Good night.

00:59:14.400 Good night.

00:59:14.440 We'll be right back.

Rebel News Podcast - November 12, 2022

DAVID MENZIES ｜ Emergencies Act inquiry rolls on, and the red wave that never materialized

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