Rebel News Podcast - DAVID MENZIES ｜ Why is Justin Trudeau so afraid of the working class？

00:00:00.000 Tonight, we all know that the Justin Trudeau liberals hate the independent press, but get

00:00:20.620 this. So does General Motors. It's Tuesday, December 6, 2022. I'm David Menzies, and this

00:00:29.300 is the Ezra LeVent Show. 0.94

00:00:34.080 Shame on you, you sensorious bug. 0.99

00:00:45.740 For what it's worth, folks, my initial experience with General Motors dates back to

00:00:50.480 1980. I was still in high school at the time, and I decided that the acquisition of a boss

00:00:56.560 car would perhaps marginally improve my dating chances. So it was that I made the single most

00:01:04.040 tragic financial decision of my entire life. I sold an appreciating asset, that would be

00:01:10.520 my comic book collection, in order to purchase a depreciating asset, that would be a used

00:01:17.980 1974 Chevy Camaro. And in the Department of Insult to Injury, in just two years, the Camaro would

00:01:26.620 be rendered a write-off. What an investment, eh? Especially given that the Chevy failed to

00:01:32.980 clinch a date. Yeah, that's right. I'm blaming my lack of romantic success on an automobile.

00:01:40.100 Maybe I should have splurged for a set of chrome-colored mag wheels. Oh, and P.S., had I held on to that

00:01:47.060 comic book collection. I could now buy a new Ferrari off the lot today. Loser. My only other

00:01:55.500 GM experience came via Lady Menzoid acquiring a Chevrolet Venture minivan in 2001 and a Chevrolet

00:02:03.520 Uplander minivan in 2009. Same van, different name. If GM believed in truth in advertising, they should

00:02:12.180 have called those vehicles the Chevrolet dump truck, better suited for hauling garbage rather

00:02:20.200 than people. Actually, a garbage hauler might be too kind. Indeed, I think of that classic Klingon 1.00

00:02:26.540 put-down of the Starship Enterprise in the episode, The Trouble with Tribbles.

00:02:31.680 Don't you think you should rephrase that? You're right. I should. I didn't mean to say that the

00:02:41.020 Enterprise should be hauling garbage. I meant to say that it should be hauled away as garbage. 0.87

00:02:49.380 Yeah, those GM minivans were cheap to acquire, all right, and the ownership experience was proof

00:02:55.800 positive that the old adage of you get what you pay for is true. Indeed, those Chevy minivans in no way

00:03:04.460 resembled such superb minivan products as the Toyota Sienna or the Honda Odyssey, which might explain why

00:03:12.620 GM got out of the minivan business more than a decade ago while its Japanese competitors still sell

00:03:18.860 these vehicles in impressive numbers. So you may ask, why am I going down memory lane vis-a-vis my

00:03:26.360 experiences with GM? Well, it's because yesterday I had my absolute worst GM experience and it had

00:03:34.980 nothing to do with a GM product and everything to do with GM politics. You see, ace videographer

00:03:43.080 Lincoln Jay and I ventured out to Ingersoll, Ontario, the site of GM's Cammy factory, which is currently

00:03:51.000 being retooled to make electric commercial vans. By the way, we weren't crashing a party here because

00:03:58.800 on Sunday evening, I was personally invited to this press conference. Stated the invite, quote,

00:04:06.680 GM officials will be joined by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Ontario Premier Doug Ford,

00:04:13.080 and Ontario Minister Vic Fidelli for an announcement, end quote. Oh, joy, I thought. GM has actually

00:04:21.000 officially invited me to an event involving the PM and the Premier, both of whom look upon Rebel News

00:04:28.080 staffers these days as being so many skunks to the garden party. But the truth of the matter, and you

00:04:35.580 won't see this reported in any legacy media outlet, folks, is I had already been tipped off by an

00:04:43.920 insider regarding some shenanigans that would be taking place in Ingersoll that day, which is to say

00:04:51.480 this, the head honchos at the plant, which is still being retooled for EV production, told about 150

00:04:59.980 construction workers and some 50 programmers to stay home that day. Why? Well, that's the thing.

00:05:08.440 No reason was given. Just that all of these tradespeople were suddenly deemed to be persona non grata,

00:05:15.360 at least for the Monday press conference event. Don't you find that odd, folks? And the workers,

00:05:21.640 I'll tell you, they were mightily miffed. Missing a day's work meant losing eight hours of regular

00:05:27.700 salary plus two hours worth of overtime. Canadians are hurting these days given inflation and rising

00:05:34.300 interest rates. So why were they being given this unwanted day off? Well, according to sources,

00:05:41.560 the unspoken strategy was simply this. Justin Trudeau is increasingly morphing into a control freak

00:05:48.400 these days. That's why his itinerary in terms of where and when he is going to be isn't typically

00:05:55.360 announced until the very last minute. That's because Justin is getting a little weary of this

00:06:02.580 sort of reception.

00:06:03.540 Take my hand holding a freedom plate.

00:06:09.540 Are you 22nd, you communist? Go Trudeau, you're nothing but a communist pig. That's what you are. 1.00

00:06:18.480 You're disgusting. We should resign. We are political prisoners. 1.00

00:06:23.040 That's disgusting. Communist. Communist. Communist. Communist. The 22nd is finished. Go back to China, you 0.98

00:06:36.000 you're a lover. You're a f**king traitor. Great to see you here. Great to see so many people 1.00

00:06:40.960 ever say. You're a traitor. You're a traitor. You're a traitor. You're a traitor. You're a traitor. 1.00

00:06:44.960 I'm glad you're here to have some haters as well. And I know I'll walk you out here with 1.00

00:06:49.600 colleagues as well. This is a moment to gather and to celebrate being able to gather once again.

00:06:56.960 We don't like you. We've been two Canadians. We've been two Canadians. We've been two Canadians.

00:07:15.920 You ever get fucked up. 1.00

00:07:17.920 Gee, it looks like even the canine contingency despises Trudeau these days. 0.99

00:07:24.880 Jolly good for Fido, I say, who is once again proving that a dog is truly man's best friend.

00:07:32.400 Now the crux of the matter regarding that one-day layoff of electricians and carpenters and assorted

00:07:38.000 other real men and women building things with their hands was this. Trudeau's handlers were terrified

00:07:45.840 that Justin would be targeted, you know, with a middle finger, or someone might heckle him,

00:07:52.320 or someone might unfurl one of those infamous F Trudeau flags. Oh, we can't have that, can we?

00:08:01.200 Justin is very sensitive, you know. So in order to protect Justin's uber-sensitive eyes and ears,

00:08:09.040 GM management actually sent home more than 200 hard-working Canadians on that Monday merely on the

00:08:18.800 suspicion that somebody might misbehave. Oh, and they weren't the only ones sent home that day.

00:08:28.480 Because even though myself and Lincoln had invites from Erin Strolovich, she, her,

00:08:34.560 a GM senior communications manager, a not so funny thing happened en route to the GM Ingersoll plant.

00:08:44.000 By the time we got there, we were deemed to be persona non grata and told to beat it. Oh,

00:08:50.400 by the way, here's a photo of Erin Strolovich, she, her. Do you think that anyone has ever mistaken

00:08:58.000 Erin Strolovich, she, her for a he, him, or a zezer, or a tempters, or a vis-vers, or an e-m? By the way,

00:09:08.880 folks, I'm not making up this pronoun crapola. I'm referencing this from some LGBTQIIAPP, etc. resource 0.54

00:09:19.840 center. Oh, death, where is thy sting? Anyway, once we arrived on site, a lady with a clipboard, 1.00

00:09:27.760 and forgive me, I don't know if this person was a she, her, or not, tersely informed us that we

00:09:35.120 weren't allowed to take part in the press event, even though we showed her the printed invitations

00:09:41.280 sent to us from Ms. Strolovich, she, her. Then along came another security person who told us to scram

00:09:49.600 or else, yeah, and you guessed it, we'd be facing trespassing charges from law enforcement.

00:09:56.960 We're not allowed access for you guys. Oh, I think there's been a mistake, sir.

00:10:02.640 Erin Strolovich, last night, that's our confirmation. This is GM property. Right,

00:10:07.920 a GM product communications person invited us. I'm just telling you this is trespassing, okay?

00:10:13.120 Even though I've been invited by a GM employee. How is that trespassing? What the hell? It seemed

00:10:18.000 like Lincoln and I had devolved from invited guests into the Batabi brothers from a night at the 0.99

00:10:25.200 Roxbury. You know, those lovable losers who can never make it past the gatekeeper because 0.94

00:10:31.520 they are never on the list. Ladies, all right, see you next week. 1.00

00:10:34.880 My good hombre. Remember us? No. Doug and Steve Batabi? Your brothers? No. Yes? Man!

00:10:46.080 It works every time. Yeah, I know. Now remember, you can't come in. It's time to play a little softball.

00:10:55.520 Hey, good man. How's it going tonight? Good. You still can't come in. Well, that's not what a friend of

00:11:01.760 mine told me. Maybe you know him. His name is Abraham. You don't know. What about his two

00:11:11.200 friends? George Washington and George Washington. Let's not forget the other boy in the band,

00:11:22.640 George Washington. He's a little lonely. He wants to join his buddies.

00:11:26.960 And look who else we got. Roosevelt. Roosevelt. And Jefferson.

00:11:36.000 Okay. Great.

00:11:38.160 Yeah, that's pretty much how Lincoln and I felt, except unlike the Batabi brothers, we were on the 1.00

00:11:46.400 list. So it was that under threat of arrest, we decided to exit the parking lot, which is indeed

00:11:53.520 private property. That's because we know that Justin Trudeau has no problem with utilizing violence

00:12:01.920 violence, as the unnecessary invocation of the emergencies act has proven. Indeed, almost exactly

00:12:09.920 a year to this day, we found out that Justin's Royal Canadian Mounted henchmen, well, they don't take

00:12:16.720 kindly to pesky independent media people who might be prone to asking impolite questions of Prime Minister

00:12:23.440 Blackface McGroper. Check out this video from last December outside the Brickworks Cider House in 0.98

00:12:29.600 Toronto. And keep in mind that Lincoln and I were on a public sidewalk and posed absolutely

00:12:38.560 no threat to anyone.

00:12:40.720 What are you doing? Get off me. Hey, I can...

00:12:46.480 Hey, this is assault. I'm on a sidewalk. What is this? I'm on a sidewalk.

00:12:55.600 I am on a sidewalk. What is this? You cannot push me. No Russian word.

00:13:00.320 Are you kidding? Are you kidding? I told you. What is this? You can't. Am I under arrest? Am I under arrest?

00:13:17.520 Am I under arrest? Because otherwise you're no right. Absolutely egregious. And the biggest question of all

00:13:25.280 is this, did Trudeau actually order his Stooges to rough me up like that? It's hard to believe that

00:13:32.160 Justin's minions would spontaneously and collectively act like that, wouldn't you say?

00:13:38.800 I can never prove my hypothesis, of course, unless one of those Mounties steps forward to do the right

00:13:45.120 thing and confess to what really happened that night. But alas, that would not be a smart financial

00:13:52.000 move for that particular Mountie now, would it? Oh, speaking of being financially compromised,

00:13:58.320 that brings us to the legacy press. As we full know, the media watchdogs have now devolved into lap

00:14:05.840 dogs. And yesterday they were, A, welcomed into the GM plant for the press conference,

00:14:13.040 and B, did not raise a fuss about the independent media being barred. And C, did not report that 200

00:14:22.720 plus tradespeople were sent home without pay. Oh, and D, did not give one second worth of coverage

00:14:30.080 to the people who assembled outside the Ingersoll plant to protest against Justin Trudeau. Here,

00:14:35.840 check it out. Well, I actually work here and I lost my job over the mandate, so this was a protest I

00:14:42.000 wasn't going to miss. Is this because you refused to reveal your vaccination status?

00:14:46.800 Yep. I was even a health and safety representative here and I was kicked out of the plant as well.

00:14:51.920 Wow. And was it suspended without pay or actual termination?

00:14:55.600 Suspended without pay. Okay, then. I got my job back in June.

00:14:58.880 Oh, so you're back at the plant then. Are you not worried they might,

00:15:03.200 you know, be offended of you speaking to us?

00:15:06.160 Ah, no. If you don't have freedom, you don't have anything. I have a little daughter at home and

00:15:11.040 means a lot to be here. Yeah, nothing to see here, folks. Oh, and by the way,

00:15:16.800 so adverse is Trudeau to protesters that his motorcade actually took back routes to the GM plant

00:15:26.080 and entered via a back entrance as opposed to the main entrance. What a soy boy wimp. 1.00

00:15:32.560 Incidentally, the very same day we were getting the bums rush in Ingersoll, Blacklock's reporter

00:15:40.240 published a very disturbing story regarding what recently happened to them. Now, if you're not

00:15:46.880 familiar with Blacklock's folks, you should get to know this superb independent media outlet. Like

00:15:52.400 Rebel News, Blacklock's doesn't take Trudeau bailout and bribe money. Indeed, this outlet often blows the

00:15:59.360 whistle on the mainstream vipers who gladly hurl themselves out to the Liberal Party of Canada.

00:16:06.400 But they are very thin-skinned, these legacy media types, you see, and they are prone to carrying out

00:16:12.880 vendettas in order to serve their political puppet masters. Check out this story entitled

00:16:21.440 Blacklock's eviction by police, quote,

00:16:25.680 Parliamentary press gallery executives accompanied by armed police on Friday evicted Blacklock's.

00:16:33.360 All questions were referred to a House of Commons employee. Blacklock said the eviction,

00:16:39.280 first of its kind in the history of the National Press Building, was clear reprisal over its continued

00:16:46.560 protests against media subsidies. Eviction followed Gallery President Guillaume Saint-Pierre's threat

00:16:55.440 to terminate Blacklock's membership. The eviction letter stated Blacklock's managing editor,

00:17:02.480 Tom Korsky, was impolite, disturbs the journalists around him, and streams parliamentary committee hearings

00:17:11.200 on his computer. The complaints were made by three reporters, Emily Bergeron and Michelle Saba of

00:17:19.200 Canadian Press and freelancer Helene Buzetti, a former Gallery president. 14 other reporters assigned

00:17:29.040 desks in the National Press Building did not sign the complaint. Failure to observe these prohibitions

00:17:36.080 actions could result in further and potentially more serious sanctions, including further and

00:17:42.240 potentially permanent prohibitions, wrote President Saint-Pierre, correspondent for the Journal de

00:17:50.080 Montreal, end quote. Oh my goodness gracious me! You mean Blacklock's employees were treated like

00:17:57.840 criminals, perhaps even terrorists, because Mr. Korsky is impolite and that he

00:18:03.920 disturbs the journalists around him? Well, off with his head then. Oh, but wait folks, there's more. 0.99

00:18:11.760 Quote, Blacklock's is the only Press Gallery member eligible for federal subsidies that neither solicits

00:18:19.280 nor accepts government funding. The eviction came one day after Blacklock's published access to

00:18:26.080 information records detailing a private meeting between 35 unnamed publishers and the Canada Revenue

00:18:33.760 Agency on distribution of $595 million in subsidies, end quote. Wow, hey, whatever happened to that old

00:18:44.400 chestnut folks? You know, the public has the right to know. Oh, that media mantra is deader than disco

00:18:51.920 when it comes to the lamestream press having its dirty laundry displayed in public. Funny that.

00:18:58.800 Every outlet from Torstar to Global News would rather Canadians not know about their filthy lucre coming 1.00

00:19:07.600 in via the PMO. What a disgrace. But Blacklock's is a lot like Rebel News in that it does not bend the 0.90

00:19:16.160 knee. It does not get intimidated. It does not fly the white flag of surrender. To it, quote,

00:19:22.720 we will now see the Press Gallery in court, Blacklock's stakeholders said in a statement. Our subsidized

00:19:31.360 competitors met in secret, plotted punitive measures over petty grievances, and served an

00:19:38.800 eviction notice accompanied by armed police. Their conduct is outrageous, end quote.

00:19:46.640 This, folks, is indeed the sorry state of journalism in Justin Trudeau's Democratic People's Republic of

00:19:54.720 Canada these days. First, he bribes the mainstream media to reinvent themselves as so many trained 0.50

00:20:02.320 seals and stenographers. And for those unaccepting of the carrot, well, out comes the stick, figuratively

00:20:11.360 and literally. And just wait to see what the Canadian free speech biosphere looks like should

00:20:20.000 the Liberals be successful with their various bills to censor the internet in the months ahead.

00:20:27.200 For our protection, of course. Trudeau more and more resembles a dictator. This great dominion

00:20:34.960 more and more resembles a banana republic. Although we don't grow bananas here, do we? So let's just

00:20:41.200 call this nation a maple syrup republic, except it's far more sour than sweet. Oh, incidentally, while Trudeau

00:20:49.920 and Ford praised the Ingersoll plant for going all EV, how odd that this would seem to be yet another case of

00:20:59.280 do as we say, not as we do. Which is to say, did Blackface McGroper and Fat Bastard show up in electric 0.98

00:21:07.200 vehicles themselves? Are you kidding? Range anxiety is for the ham and eggers out there, folks. These

00:21:14.320 esteemed leaders get around in Chevy Suburbans and Ford Expeditions, you know, V8 festooned,

00:21:21.520 supersized SUVs that aren't powered via the lithium crystals, but good old fashioned and reliable fossil

00:21:29.440 fuels. Oh, and keep the engines running, Jeeves. We wouldn't want Justin's precious arse to be greeted

00:21:36.880 by cold leather seats once the press conference wraps. Now, would we? As for what was said in that 0.99

00:21:44.240 press conference, you'll have to reference the mainstream media reports for all the self-congratulatory

00:21:50.960 details, given that, as I said, we were banished from that event under threat of arrest, even though,

00:21:57.920 as previously stated, we had been invited there. But when it comes to GM choosing to honor an invitation

00:22:06.640 or kowtowing to Justin Trudeau, well, it's really a no-brainer for the general to act unethically

00:22:15.520 and immorally, wouldn't you say? After all, should GM go bankrupt yet again and require yet another

00:22:22.960 taxpayer-funded bailout, you really don't want to make an enemy out of your Ottawa-based sugar daddy,

00:22:30.160 do you? And for decades now, GM has not been run by rocket scientists. Indeed, you go back to the

00:22:38.320 1960s and GM's North American market share for vehicles hovered around 50%. That's staggering.

00:22:46.880 Imagine that. One out of every two cars on the road was manufactured by the general.

00:22:52.000 And today, well, GM's market share is less than 16%. And consider this. The last time

00:22:59.280 General Motors skidded into Chapter 11 was 2009. According to the Harvard Business Review,

00:23:06.800 the reasons were many, including GM makes cars people don't want. GM is too slow to innovate

00:23:13.840 because of its size. GM is too bureaucratic and unable to adjust to changing markets. GM's dealer

00:23:21.200 network is too large. GM sold off its formerly profitable financing business, GMAC. Oh,

00:23:28.800 and one more thing. GM had stopped making a profit since 2005. Indeed, since 2005 to the first quarter of

00:23:37.120 2009, folks, GM had lost a staggering $90 billion US. In the here and now, GM is gambling big time on

00:23:49.760 electrification. The company has stated that by 2035, which isn't really all that far away,

00:23:56.480 100% of its vehicles will be electric. But what if this strategy does not pan out for a multitude of

00:24:05.840 reasons? What if GM again craps out on its business strategy? Well, that's where government comes into

00:24:14.080 play. GM, as the saying goes, is too big to fail. So if GM does go belly up in the years ahead,

00:24:22.720 federal governments on both sides of the border will likely yet again bail out this bloated behemoth 0.93

00:24:29.200 with your tax dollars. All of which is to say that GM unprofessionally revoking its invitations to

00:24:38.400 Lincoln and I and then threatening to have us arrested, that was a no-brainer for the company. 0.77

00:24:45.120 We're just a couple of schlubs that are part of the icky independent press. But the Liberal Party of

00:24:52.320 Canada? Ooh, you don't want to offend those cats. After all, in 2035, they might still be in office or

00:25:00.080 return to office. And if GM needs yet another bailout, it might be a really, really good thing

00:25:08.240 to play nice with those politicians cutting the checks.

00:25:24.800 A few months back, when Elon Musk began his hostile takeover of Twitter, many observers,

00:25:31.920 myself included, found it somewhat baffling that the left was losing its collective mind

00:25:38.400 over the proposed acquisition. After all, the lion's share of social media platforms are owned by

00:25:45.440 left-leaning Silicon Valley tech giants. Why should they be so concerned that a single major platform

00:25:53.040 would be veering right of center? Well, last week we received an answer to that query.

00:25:59.840 That's when Elon Musk and journalist Matt Tebbe released the first batch of emails detailing

00:26:07.120 collusion between the Biden campaign and Twitter under its previous regime. Indeed, it was revealed

00:26:14.720 that former Twitter executive Vijaya Ghadi, who headed the company's legal policy and trust department,

00:26:22.960 played a key role in the story's suppression, and that Twitter worked alongside the Biden

00:26:29.600 campaign to censor content on the platform. That is a bombshell. For this is not a conspiracy theory, folks.

00:26:38.880 Rather, this is a bona fide conspiracy period. And now this just in, Wikipedia is voting on the deletion of a page

00:26:48.080 covering this topic because its editors have deemed it to be a nothing burger, with many claiming that the story isn't

00:26:56.560 notable because mainstream media outlets did not provide it with significant coverage.

00:27:03.360 Wow. As they say in the news business, talk about burying the lead. And with more on the

00:27:09.600 ongoing story of Twitter is Rebel News reporter Ian Miles Chong. Welcome to the Ezra Levent show, Ian.

00:27:16.800 Hey, happy to be on here.

00:27:18.880 Fantastic. Ian, so much to digest here. But first of all, what were your thoughts about former Twitter

00:27:26.720 executives colluding with the Biden campaign to bury that Hunter Biden laptop scandal in the first place?

00:27:35.200 Well, it doesn't come to me as a surprise, given the predilection of these executives and the views that

00:27:41.440 they hold. I mean, they all live in San Francisco. And I think Elon Musk even said it best that San

00:27:47.040 Francisco is basically exporting its culture to the world, right? Its narratives are being exported right

00:27:53.200 now, whether it's, you know, social, you know, like how they view society, how they view gender,

00:27:59.440 for instance. And of course, it's politics as well. And if anything, they would want to protect their

00:28:04.880 golden goose, which is, of course, Joe Biden. So to have a story that is humiliating to him,

00:28:10.320 possibly damaging his chances at the election is something they would want to suppress. And that

00:28:16.720 is exactly what they did. And it's fascinating, Ian, isn't it? Because we go back to when that

00:28:23.280 happened. Twitter actually deleted or deplatformed the Twitter account of the New York Post, no less,

00:28:32.720 because they had the scoop on this story. Meanwhile, they were still they were still catering

00:28:38.640 to accounts held by the Taliban, held by the mullahs in Iran. Ian, this is astonishing

00:28:46.800 that a company based in the land of the First Amendment would go on such a journalistic jihad

00:28:54.320 in the first place. Absolutely. And I think a lot of conservatives in the U.S. have argued that

00:28:59.680 Twitters and Facebooks and all these other platforms should lose their Section 230 rights,

00:29:05.280 because they're acting as a publisher. They're behaving like editors instead of being neutral

00:29:10.480 social media platforms. And I'm inclined to agree now. However, I would, you know, given that

00:29:15.200 Elon Musk has taken over, maybe Section 230 is good after all. I think that we should be looking at all

00:29:20.880 these other platforms, Meta and TikTok and YouTube, of course, which have similarly suppressed free

00:29:29.760 speech and as well as the truth just in general. And, you know, it's so perversely ironic, isn't it, Ian?

00:29:36.640 When we go back to when Elon Musk first set his sights on Twitter and people were freaking out and

00:29:44.000 people at Twitter were freaking out. But to me, I talk about being the author of your own misfortune.

00:29:51.120 In other words, if Twitter hadn't been so blatant in its censorship, if they hadn't been so obvious

00:29:59.120 in deplatforming right of center views, this never would have aroused the curiosity of Elon Musk in the

00:30:06.480 first place. What say you, my friend? That's absolutely correct. I mean, you don't have to be

00:30:11.440 a genius, you know, looking at Twitter and not realizing that the suppression only goes one way.

00:30:17.840 They talk about trust and safety. And yet the only people affected by their decisions or moderating

00:30:24.240 decisions are people on the right or people on the center. Whereas Antifa, for instance, which is a

00:30:30.160 far left militant organization, has been allowed to organize violent actions on Twitter itself and do so

00:30:39.920 with impunity. You know, again, it is just fascinating to me. And it brings us to your most recent

00:30:47.760 story on the Rebel News site, Ian, which is about Wikipedia having a non-trivial left-wing bias.

00:30:56.000 Those are the words from Elon Musk himself. What do you make of this business of Wikipedia

00:31:02.720 thinking that this whole Hunter Biden laptop story is a nothing burger when I would argue it's the

00:31:11.520 precise opposite? Well, it's working side by side with the media. This is not the first time that

00:31:16.640 we've seen a kind of unspoken collusion between Wikipedia editors and their friends in the media,

00:31:24.240 because I don't think they openly talk about this, but they certainly serve the same agenda. And that

00:31:29.840 is what we're seeing right now. They want to suppress this story as a so-called nothing burger,

00:31:34.800 because it damages their narrative. So they will do anything in their power to ensure that the

00:31:40.240 story doesn't gain any traction or gain any legs. And they will claim that because the media is not

00:31:44.960 covering it, therefore it's not a story. And the media in turn can say the same thing. They'll say,

00:31:49.360 well, there's no Wikipedia page on it, so therefore it is not a notable story worth covering. And they've

00:31:54.720 done so numerous times. They did the same thing with the lab leak theory a couple of years ago when that

00:32:01.840 was suppressed. That was censored. And so hopefully Elon Musk comes out with his next batch of Twitter

00:32:07.600 files that will include the suppression of that story. I'm inclined to, you know, I would love to

00:32:14.160 see that, to see a bunch of people exposed, like maybe in the government or maybe with pharmaceutical

00:32:19.520 companies. Who knows? And maybe even law enforcement agencies, Ian, from what we're hearing about the FBI's

00:32:27.280 role in this, you know, the suppressing of the Hunter Biden story. But here's the thing, Ian. Elon Musk has

00:32:36.640 the fight of his life ahead of him, I think. He does. With, you know, getting control of Twitter,

00:32:42.960 warding off his enemies. We know Elon Musk, he does not wave the white flag of surrender. He does not

00:32:50.160 bend the knee to wokeism, you name it. But I'm wondering, does he have any allies in his corner?

00:32:57.760 Does he have any high powered, big financial allies that are going to come to his side in

00:33:05.680 this battle against big tech? I would say so. I mean, and even the people in big tech appear to,

00:33:12.560 some of them appear to be on his side, but they're simply too afraid to speak out against the media,

00:33:17.280 to speak out against the establishment. I mean, very recently we saw that Apple had pulled its

00:33:22.800 advertising from Twitter and Amazon had done the same and the media was cheering it on. They were

00:33:27.920 like, oh, Twitter's dead because it's lost about $200 million a year in advertising. And all Elon had

00:33:33.920 to do was take a trip to Apple to talk to Tim, the CEO there, and he immediately resumed the advertising.

00:33:40.800 So I think that he does have allies. They're just very silent about it. So I'm not too concerned

00:33:46.240 about it on that front, because I think a lot of people believe in Elon's vision for a democratic

00:33:51.600 future, one that allows for free speech. And that future cannot happen if the establishment suppresses

00:33:58.080 people and enacts tyranny on the majority of us, because we deserve to know the truth and we deserve

00:34:03.680 to be able to talk about it. And I think a lot of people understand that the future that Elon wants

00:34:09.200 cannot be realized unless there is democracy and freedom on the internet.

00:34:15.360 And you know, when it comes to democracy and freedom on the internet, Ian, I mean,

00:34:19.200 I look at the other fight that Elon Musk is having with Apple and Apple had announced it was dropping

00:34:26.080 its AirDrop app for the demonstrators in China. And I mean, there was much to demonstrate about the

00:34:34.720 Uyghur Muslim minority. There is a genocide going on right now. There are forced labor camps. There

00:34:40.880 are people being physically sealed into their apartment units. And yet, where is Apple when

00:34:47.120 it comes to speaking out against that? Or where is the NBA or Disney or Hollywood? The silence is

00:34:54.080 deafening, isn't it?

00:34:55.120 It's absolutely deafening. I mean, look at the athletes who instruct everybody to bend their

00:35:00.560 knee to Black Lives Matter, for instance. LeBron James, for instance, he is a cheerleader for China. 0.85

00:35:08.560 And at the same time, he talks about social justice in the West, but he's not concerned about the social

00:35:13.600 justice issues that are happening elsewhere, because he's more than happy to take their money and money

00:35:20.800 for him. And a lot of people like him, people in positions of power, celebrities,

00:35:26.640 they are more than happy to virtue signal. But that's all it is. It's just virtue signaling.

00:35:31.360 They don't actually care about these issues. They only go with what's popular.

00:35:35.760 Yeah. The hypocrisy turns my stomach in. It really does. One last question, my friend.

00:35:42.480 I'm going to ask you to look into your crystal ball here. If you're to look down the road, say,

00:35:47.680 three, six months, a year from now. And I know this is a fast moving story. It's changing every day.

00:35:53.760 But where do you see Elon Musk and Twitter in the months to come? I mean, does he emerge as a victor?

00:36:02.240 Is Twitter going to be a profit spending platform? What do you see, my friend?

00:36:08.480 I believe so. I think that he has a vision. He has a plan. This is a man who has some of the most

00:36:14.480 lucrative companies on the planet. We're talking Tesla. He took a company that was basically nothing

00:36:19.920 and turned it into a trillion dollar enterprises, one of the most valuable companies on the market.

00:36:25.920 It is a leader when it comes to EV technology or even the future of automobiles. So I think that

00:36:32.320 Twitter is going to be the future of social media. He does have a plan for something called X,

00:36:36.480 which is basically his idea of having a universal social media platform that incorporates YouTube

00:36:42.400 style videos, TikTok style shorts and so on, as well as long form written content, which is something

00:36:49.760 that is currently dominated, I guess, by Substack and Medium. But to be able to monetize it and have

00:36:55.600 it all on Twitter for content creators, for writers, for journalists, independent journalists like Matt

00:37:01.120 Taibbi, for instance, and Barry Weiss, who also has access to the Twitter files,

00:37:04.960 for them to be able to promote to their audience a whole bunch of content. And of course, Glenn

00:37:09.760 Greenwald, he's amazing. And he would have video content on Twitter. So I do see Twitter being that

00:37:15.840 medium. And he does have a plan for that. And speaking of Twitter itself, I mean, just today,

00:37:20.880 just a few minutes ago, Elon announced that he was cleaning house and he removed a certain individual

00:37:26.480 who was responsible for the suppression of the Twitter files when that was happening. So he is

00:37:32.560 definitely taking action to clean house and to make Twitter in general just a better place.

00:37:37.040 Well, I hope you are right, Ian. And I suspect you are. I mean, like I said, this is a fast moving

00:37:43.040 story. There's so many revelations to come, I'm sure, in the weeks and months ahead. And I would say

00:37:49.520 there are some very nervous people who haven't been outed yet in terms of their role in suppressing

00:37:57.280 certain stories and, dare I say, going against the First Amendment of the United States. Incredible

00:38:03.600 piece. Ian, thank you so much for your insight, as always, my friend.

00:38:07.040 Thanks for having me on.

00:38:08.560 You got it. And folks, that was Ian Miles Chung somewhere in Malaysia. Keep it here. More of the

00:38:15.920 Ezra LeVant Show to come right after this.

00:38:29.920 Well, folks, tons of feedback regarding Ezra's monologue yesterday. And that would be about how

00:38:35.360 Oxfordshire County in England has come up with a crackpot war on the car scheme that just absolutely

00:38:44.720 baffles the mind. Chappers04 writes, it's an incredible story which has been barely reported

00:38:52.400 on in the UK, despite or perhaps because this is being a horrific abuse of power. You know,

00:39:00.160 you're absolutely right. By the way, folks, the story in a nutshell is how Oxfordshire County

00:39:05.680 is implementing traffic filters. That's a fancy way of saying you can't drive on these particular

00:39:12.560 streets at these particular times or you'll be fined. They want people to walk, cycle,

00:39:20.160 or take public transit. Here's the thing, though. What if I don't want to walk or don't want to cycle

00:39:25.680 or don't want to take public transit? What if I can't? What if I'm picking up bags and bags of

00:39:30.640 groceries and I need my car? Oh, no, no, no. You will do what the powers that be do. Of course,

00:39:37.520 they'll likely be getting around in their limousines. What a disgrace. Viscerally Truthful

00:39:44.000 writes, traffic filter? Orwell warned us about the use of these euphemisms. You know,

00:39:50.320 you're absolutely right. You know, if there's one person from history who I could sit down with folks

00:39:56.480 and have dinner with, it would indeed be George Orwell. For his, you know, future world of 1984

00:40:04.640 to become true with every passing month and year, I'm sure would even scare him. And CHRCH writes,

00:40:15.120 gee, it's almost as if the conspiracy cooks were right again. You are watching the beginning of the

00:40:22.160 climate lockdowns. Yeah, you know what? I don't even know if the climate crisis is part of this

00:40:28.080 nonsense. Just, folks, do me a favor. Please, please, please, none of you send that story or

00:40:34.560 Ezra's monologue to Mayor John Tory. He's used the last two and a half years of the COVID pandemic

00:40:40.640 to declare his own war on the car, ripping out car lanes for bicycle lanes. We sure as hell don't want

00:40:48.400 John Tory to cotton on to this harebrained scheme. Well, folks, that wraps up tonight's edition of

00:40:55.280 the Ezreal Event Show. Thanks so much for tuning in. The big boss man, he'll be back here tomorrow,

00:41:00.720 Wednesday night. In the meantime, stay safe and stay sane. Journalist Matt Tybee released an explosive

00:41:08.320 thread detailing Twitter's decision to censor the New York Post reporting on Hunter Biden's abandoned

00:41:13.680 laptop, which revealed evidence of corruption at the highest levels of the government to the highest

00:41:19.600 levels of the FBI and big tech. Internal emails revealed that the Biden campaign in the DNC colluded

00:41:26.480 with Twitter to censor both information and their political opponents as they were given a direct line

00:41:32.160 of service to Twitter's team of censors. The executive at Twitter, who was named and playing a key role

00:41:39.040 in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story is none other than Twitter's top lawyer, Vajaya Gaddy,

00:41:44.880 the former head of legal policy and trust who has a history of being accused of censoring conservative

00:41:51.040 voices. We're a platform that serves the world. So we're a global 75% of the users of Twitter are

00:41:58.080 outside of the United States. Right, right, right. So we don't apply laws of just one country when we're

00:42:04.800 thinking about it. We think about how do you have a global standard that can meet the threshold of

00:42:11.280 as many countries as possible because we want all the people in the world to be able to participate

00:42:15.280 in this conversation. And also meet elections like the Indian election coming up as well.

00:42:19.280 Right. And my understanding is you were also accused of being biased against conservatives in

00:42:23.120 India recently. There was a report on that as well as you held up a sign that said something

00:42:28.000 offensive about the Brahmin. Mm hmm. Yeah. So in that sense, even in other countries, 1.00

00:42:34.720 you're accused of the same things that you're being accused of by American conservatives.

00:42:38.480 I think that the situations are very, very different. And I don't think that that the ideologies in play

00:42:45.280 are the same at all. Earlier this year, the Biden administration appointed Gaddy to be on the advisory

00:42:50.880 committee of the Department of Homeland Security's new Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency,

00:42:57.120 otherwise known as the disinformation team, which was ultimately disbanded after public outcry.

00:43:02.800 Gaddy's role on Biden's disinformation team was to provide advice and recommendations to Homeland Security

00:43:09.840 about how the government could better combat misinformation and disinformation,

00:43:14.640 according to The New York Post. During her time on the committee, she helped draft a report that had

00:43:20.560 similar characteristics to George Orwell's Ministry of Truth, which demanded that the government

00:43:26.960 have a greater role in censoring social media platforms of all sizes, mainstream media, cable

00:43:32.480 news, hyper-partisan media, talk, radio, and other online resources. Gaddy has also been accused by

00:43:39.200 Elon Musk of playing a critical role in Twitter's decision to ban former President Donald Trump from

00:43:45.200 the platform. Her role as Twitter's top censor reportedly made her $17 million in the year 2021.

00:43:52.960 So what exactly did the Twitter files reveal? Let's dig in. Journalist Matt Taby, who obtained exclusive

00:43:59.840 access to Twitter's internal documents, writes, The Twitter files tell an incredible story from

00:44:05.440 inside one of the world's largest and most influential social media platforms. Twitter,

00:44:10.880 in its conception, was a brilliant tool for enabling instant mass communication, making a true,

00:44:16.880 real-time global conversation possible for the first time. In an early conception, Twitter more

00:44:23.040 than lived up to its mission statement, giving people the power to create and share ideas and

00:44:28.800 information instantly without barriers. As time progressed, the company was slowly forced to add

00:44:35.520 those barriers. Some of the first tools for controlling speech were designed to combat the likes

00:44:41.280 of spam and financial fraudsters. But slowly over time, Twitter staff and executives began to find

00:44:48.160 more and more uses for these tools. Outsiders began petitioning the company to manipulate speech

00:44:54.240 as well. First a little, then more often, then constantly, Matt writes. By 2020, requests from

00:45:00.880 connected actors to delete tweets were routine. One executive would write to another,

00:45:05.840 more to review from the Biden team. The reply would come back, handled. Celebrities and unknown allies

00:45:12.960 alike could be removed or reviewed at the behest of a political party. Both parties had access to these

00:45:19.200 tools. For instance, in 2020, requests from both the Trump White House and the Biden campaign were

00:45:25.360 received and honored. However, this system wasn't balanced. It was based on contracts. And because Twitter

00:45:31.840 was and is overwhelmingly staffed by people of one political orientation, there were more channels,

00:45:38.640 more ways to complain, open to the left, to Democrats than the right. Which brings us to

00:45:44.960 the Twitter files. Part one, how and why Twitter blocked the Hunter Biden laptop story. Matt writes,

00:45:52.480 on October 14th of 2020, the New York Post published Biden secret emails and expose based on the contents of

00:45:59.840 Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop. Twitter took extraordinary steps to suppress this story, removing links

00:46:05.680 and posting warnings that it may be unsafe. They even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool

00:46:12.560 reserved for extreme cases like child pornography. White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany was locked out of her 0.88

00:46:19.280 account for tweeting about the story, prompting a furious letter from Trump campaign staffer Michael Hahn.

00:46:25.360 This led to Twitter's public policy executive Caroline Strom to find out the reasoning behind why the story was

00:46:33.200 censored. Several employees noted that there was tension between the communications and policy teams who had

00:46:39.120 little or less control over moderation and the safety trust in legal teams. Strom was told that the laptop story had been

00:46:47.200 removed for a violation of the company's quote hacked materials policy. The decision was made at the highest

00:46:54.880 level of the company, but without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey, with the former head of legal policy and

00:47:02.160 trust, Vaheya Gaddy, playing a key role. One former employee told Tabby that hacking was the excuse, but within a few hours,

00:47:11.040 pretty much everyone realized that wasn't going to hold. But no one had the guts to reverse it.

00:47:17.200 The confusion was evident in a lengthy exchange which included Gaddy and former trust and safety chief

00:47:23.600 Yoel Roth. Communications official Trenton Kennedy writes, I'm struggling to understand the policy basis for

00:47:31.600 marking this story unsafe. Yoel Roth writes, this is an emerging situation where facts remain unclear,

00:47:39.200 given the severe risks and lessons of 2016 were erring on the side of including a warning and preventing

00:47:45.520 this content from being amplified. Roth's remarks about 2016 is in reference to the FBI's investigation

00:47:53.600 into Hillary Clinton's emails, which was released close to the 2016 presidential election. Like how the

00:48:00.400 New York Post reporting was released close to the 2020 presidential election, Roth didn't want the

00:48:05.680 report to ruin Joe Biden's chance of becoming president. The former vice president of global

00:48:11.600 communications Brandon Borman asks, can we truthfully claim that this is part of the policy to which

00:48:18.800 former deputy general counsel Jim Baker advised that caution is warranted. Tybee writes that the problem

00:48:27.760 with the hacked materials ruling several sources said was that this normally required an official law

00:48:33.840 enforcement finding of a hack. But such a finding never appears throughout what one executive describes

00:48:40.320 as a whirlwind 24-hour company-wide mess. Musk says that the idea behind Twitter files is to come clean

00:48:48.560 on everything that has happened in the past in order to build public trust for the future.

00:48:54.720 Tybee concludes that there is more to be exposed, which will include answers to questions about issues like

00:49:01.760 shadow banning, boosting follower accounts, the fate of various individual accounts, and more.

00:49:08.160 So buckle up and stay tuned for the next episode of the Twitter files.

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