Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Climate lockdowns have come to Europe. That was quick.

00:00:00.320 Hello, my friends. I'm going to take you through some astonishing public comments

00:00:04.080 by politicians, not just in Germany, but in America,

00:00:07.940 talking about energy lockdowns, climate lockdowns,

00:00:12.240 and in one case, an energy company forcing you

00:00:16.260 to have high heat in your home.

00:00:19.840 Sorry, let me, to have no air conditioning in your home when it's

00:00:24.000 hot out. I'll explain what I mean. I'll show you the picture of it.

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00:00:35.380 I'm going to show you some short speeches by some politicians talking about climate

00:00:39.160 lockdowns, talking about just two weeks to bend the curve.

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00:01:03.260 Tonight, climate lockdowns have come to Europe and America. That was quick. It's September 7th and

00:01:24.500 this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:26.280 You're ready for freedom.

00:01:29.200 Shame on you, you censorious bug. 0.53

00:01:43.800 Hey, look at this video. It's from Europe. Take a look.

00:01:47.440 This is what is expensive because in these peak demands, the expensive gas comes into

00:01:53.480 the market. So what we have to do is flatten the curve and avoid the peak demands. We will

00:02:01.580 propose a mandatory target for reducing electricity use at peak hours and we will work very closely

00:02:09.100 with the member states to achieve this.

00:02:12.320 That woman has not been elected to her office, but it is a very high office. She is the president

00:02:18.980 of Europe. Ursula von der Leyen is her name. Europe is not a country, of course, but it has a president

00:02:24.880 of the European Union, like a smaller version of the world's United Nations. And she's more powerful

00:02:31.420 in some ways than actual presidents elected by actual countries in the European Union. That's a big

00:02:38.040 reason why the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union a few years back. How could any

00:02:43.740 self-respecting country submit to a president and a European parliament in which their own country is

00:02:50.920 a minority, submissive to a continent of foreigners, even if they're friendly foreigners? Anyways, that's 1.00

00:02:57.420 who that is, a globalist by definition, someone who doesn't respect local autonomy or sovereignty by

00:03:03.480 definition. It's not surprising that she loves going to the World Economic Forum. It would be odd if she

00:03:10.480 didn't. They're her kind of people. She doesn't like door knocking or anything so pedestrian that we have

00:03:16.360 in democratic elections and nation states. She likes to hobnob with the oligarchs. Anyway, 0.95

00:03:22.940 you heard the woman. Flatten the curve. I can't believe she actually said that. You'll remember that from

00:03:29.800 the first few days of the pandemic lockdowns. Hey, we know it's painful. Hey, we know it's a

00:03:35.640 violation of your civil liberties. Yes, we know it's without democratic legitimacy, but it's just for

00:03:40.740 two weeks. Just let us do this just for two weeks and we'll stop. We promise. Just to flatten the curve.

00:03:47.560 Sure. Mandatory reduction in energy use. Did you hear that part? What do we need energy for? Especially

00:03:55.320 natural gas. I mean, that's really what she's talking about. Well, she used to heat a great many

00:04:00.540 homes. Just that. Cooking. Of course, natural gas is a fuel in power plants. It succeeded coal in many

00:04:09.600 cases. And although much of Europe has its own natural gas, often trapped in shale rock that has

00:04:17.780 to be fracked. Well, environmentalists have been able to scare off progressives and liberals to scare

00:04:24.960 them out of fracking their own gas into banning fracking, to ban their own energy, but to import

00:04:31.820 fracked gas from Russia. Trump warned them not to do that. Remember this amazing video mocking Trump?

00:04:40.420 Reliance on a single foreign supplier can leave a nation vulnerable to extortion and intimidation.

00:04:47.780 That is why we congratulate European states such as Poland for leading the construction of a Baltic

00:04:56.620 pipeline so that nations are not dependent on Russia to meet their energy needs. Germany will become 0.91

00:05:04.680 totally dependent on Russian energy if it does not immediately change course. Here in the Western

00:05:14.760 hemisphere, we are committed to maintaining our independence from the encroachment of expansionist

00:05:24.500 foreign powers. That's quite something. Who's laughing now? Those sophisticated Germans having a good

00:05:31.820 chuckle, a good smirk at the orange American loudmouth. Well, maybe they can laugh now to keep warm in the 0.95

00:05:39.660 cold winter that's coming. By the way, why do you think that Western environmentalist groups

00:05:44.820 almost never criticize Russian or OPEC oil or gas? Is it because it's dangerous to have a pipeline

00:05:52.200 protest in Saudi Arabia or Iran or Russia? Well, of course it is. It could be killed or at least jailed.

00:05:58.080 Only once have I ever seen Greenpeace protests in Russia. Russia, the largest oil producer in the world,

00:06:03.600 tied with America and Saudi Arabia in terms of daily production. And indeed they were arrested

00:06:09.540 and jailed in an awful jail and held for a long time. Not like Stephen Gilboa, the Trudeau cabinet

00:06:16.500 minister, the Greenpeace activist who hates Canadian energy, pulled a stunt in the CN Tower and got not

00:06:23.740 a day's jail from a liberal judge. Yeah, Vladimir Putin hits a bit different. Greenpeace has never done

00:06:31.160 another protest there again. But of course, most advocacy is not done in real life. It's done online.

00:06:38.640 I can understand why Greenpeace doesn't actually protest in OPEC or Russia or China for that matter.

00:06:44.580 They could get killed or arrested like they were in Russia. But please tell me why Greenpeace

00:06:48.760 won't even have a website about OPEC or Russian oil or a press release or have some events in London

00:06:55.900 or New York or their head office in Amsterdam. Well, I have a theory. And here it is being spoken

00:07:03.580 by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former head of NATO.

00:07:07.120 Russia, as part of their sophisticated information and disinformation operations, 0.57

00:07:16.980 engage actively with so-called non-governmental organizations, environmental organizations

00:07:23.620 working against shale gas, obviously, to maintain European dependence on imported Russian gas.

00:07:37.140 That's my interpretation.

00:07:40.160 So that's your former head of NATO saying Russia pays environmentalists to oppose fracking,

00:07:46.760 but only in the West. I'm sure they cover their tracks a bit. I'm sure they don't just issue a

00:07:51.840 check that's signed by Vladimir Putin to Greenpeace. Money probably goes from Gazprom

00:07:56.260 to some bank, to some front group in the West, and then from them to Greenpeace.

00:08:03.100 Probably some of that Gazprom money and OPEC money is working here in Canada, too, to attack our energy

00:08:08.340 sector. Whether or not Trudeau is in on it or just a useful idiot, as the communists say, is not known. 0.99

00:08:14.420 It's not really important, is it? He opposes them just like Putin would. 0.99

00:08:17.860 But these activists shut down coal, and they shut down natural gas, they shut down fracking.

00:08:24.860 Many are against nuclear power, too. And so the continent became hostage to the Russians 0.99

00:08:29.720 and their gas pipelines, including one that's called Nord Stream.

00:08:35.580 You might remember that because that's the pipeline that Trudeau literally amended Canada's sanctions on

00:08:40.300 Russia to permit. They sent their pipeline turbines to Canada for maintenance,

00:08:44.320 and Trudeau said, sure, happy to help. There is nothing he wouldn't do to help conflict oil and

00:08:49.840 nothing he wouldn't do to help ethical oil. From Canada, well, Germany's getting really weird about

00:08:56.800 this, don't you think? Their former chancellor, Gerhard Schrader, went to work for Putin at Gazprom

00:09:02.540 after he retired as chancellor. That would be like Barack Obama going to work for an oil company in

00:09:07.040 Saudi Arabia or Venezuela. And not just that, but at the same time recommending that America not drill

00:09:12.040 for oil. Imagine allowing that kind of open, overt corruption. Actually, it's not that hard to

00:09:16.500 imagine. Get a load of this German politician, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock. So she's not 1.00

00:09:23.680 some nobody, and she actually is elected, unlike Ursula. Take a look.

00:09:28.200 But if I give the promise to people in Ukraine, we stand with you as long as you need us. Then I want

00:09:38.340 to deliver, no matter what my German voters think, but I want to deliver to the people of Ukraine.

00:09:44.340 And this is why for me it's important to be always very frank and clear. And this means every measure I'm

00:09:51.080 taking. I have to be clear that this holds on as long as Ukraine needs me. We are facing now wintertime

00:09:58.680 where we will be challenged as democratic politicians. People will go on the street and say,

00:10:04.340 we cannot pay our energy prices. And I will say, yes, I know. So we help you with social measures.

00:10:11.020 But I don't want to say, okay, then we stop the sanctions against Russia. We will stand with Ukraine,

00:10:17.800 and this means the sanction will stay also in wintertime, even if it gets really tough for politicians.

00:10:24.280 She said it. She said the quiet part out loud. She said, even if it gets tough for Germans,

00:10:29.600 suck it. She's a German, but she literally will put a promise to a foreign politician above her own 1.00

00:10:38.380 voters' interests. Incredible. There was no vote on this. There was no election in which this was a

00:10:43.580 campaign issue. She's just saying it, and so is Ursula von der Leyen.

00:10:50.000 You know, not far away, 50 or 100,000 Czechs, depending on which news headline you believe,

00:10:55.200 rallied the other day to protest against this new energy poverty. I'm sure many of them sympathize

00:11:01.400 with Ukraine. Remember that the Czechs were under Soviet domination for 40 plus years during the Cold War.

00:11:06.620 There may be some pro-Putin types in the protest, too. Sure, why not? But maybe a massive crowd of

00:11:12.580 ordinary people protesting against their energy prices doubling and tripling. Maybe they really

00:11:16.840 do care about energy poverty. They're being forced to choose between paying the heat or paying for 0.63

00:11:21.360 groceries. But the millionaire foreign minister and the millionaire EU president don't really care.

00:11:27.180 You can bet their homes will be nice and toasty warm this winter. Of course there will be.

00:11:31.940 I shouldn't just pick on Germany. This is from Switzerland. They've all gone mad. 1.00

00:11:38.100 In Switzerland, they're actually threatening you if you use energy. How did that happen?

00:11:47.460 Greta Thunberg is a great symbol. Now, she didn't cause this. She was a symptom of this.

00:11:54.580 PR over substance, ignorance over science, a new religion to replace the old religion, something

00:12:00.160 to believe in. But really what gets me about Greta is that she wasn't wise. She wasn't smart. She 0.95

00:12:06.860 wasn't charismatic. Her entire appeal was that she was a child. And not just a child, but a very

00:12:12.580 young-looking child. She looks much younger than she is. And she looked slightly touched. I think she's

00:12:18.580 on the spectrum a bit. It was her very ignorance that was cast as the new kind of wisdom. 0.74

00:12:26.120 And a child shall lead them. You know where that phrase is from, right? It's from the Bible, the book

00:12:31.220 of Isaiah. The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb. And the leopard shall lie down with the kid.

00:12:38.280 They mean a baby goat. And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together. And a little child shall

00:12:43.780 lead them. Those are impossible things, though. A wolf getting along with a lamb. A leopard with a

00:12:52.160 baby goat. A lion and a calf. And a little child leading them all. That's a description of an impossible

00:12:58.820 place. Utopia. Or the promise of heaven when the Messiah comes. That's why it's in the Bible. It's a

00:13:06.420 fantastical vision of what will come after the Messiah returns. In real life, don't put

00:13:13.580 wolves with lambs. Don't do that. They'll eat the lambs. We protect lambs from wolves in real life. We

00:13:20.360 don't let children lead. Either us or wild animals, they are just children. Imagine taking that phrase

00:13:29.780 from the book of Isaiah literally and doing it. Well, I think we did. I think we let a child,

00:13:37.940 I think we let a child lead us. A real child, like Greta. And unserious, childish politicians,

00:13:45.340 too, like Justin Trudeau, who only thinks of childish things, like his hair and his socks and how he looks

00:13:50.780 and how he sounds. And the media party that loves that about him. So I guess the first thing I should

00:13:57.000 ask you is, are you feeling lucky? I mean, the entire country wants to know, what shampoo do you use?

00:14:05.260 What a disappointing answer this is going to be. Whatever happens to be hanging around at the time.

00:14:11.380 But look at what it means in real life. Look at this from Denver, Colorado.

00:14:16.580 Thousands of Excel customers locked out of thermostats during energy emergency. 22,000

00:14:24.020 people lost control of temperatures in their homes for hours Tuesday. Here's what it looked like on

00:14:30.600 their home thermostat device. You got that notice in your house, temperature was locked. You couldn't

00:14:39.400 do anything about it. Now, that didn't happen to every single person. Just low-income people who

00:14:45.700 accepted, I think it was a $25 reduction in their power bills for the right of the company to turn

00:14:50.660 off the power when they wanted. So the poor can sweat it out in the summer heat. The poor will have

00:14:56.720 to be cold in the winter. That's Colorado in the United States of America. And here is California,

00:15:03.140 the mightiest state. Here's the governor in California. We're now in a flax alert. That sounds

00:15:09.480 really cool. What does that mean? Says the governor. We all need to conserve as much energy as possible

00:15:16.900 during this record-breaking heat wave. Here's what to do until 9 p.m. tonight. Set thermostat to 78.

00:15:24.240 That's very warm, by the way. Turn off unnecessary lights. Yeah, just sit in the dark. Avoid using large

00:15:30.500 appliances. Yeah, don't wash your kids' clothes. Don't cook dinner. You know, flex alert sounds so

00:15:37.020 cool. Just don't use anything big and electric, like, I don't know, say your Tesla. Not that you

00:15:43.880 could afford it. Huh. Look at this. They're literally using those panic emergency messages that they

00:15:51.020 put on your cell phones like they do for kidnapped children, amber alerts.

00:15:55.020 Now, don't you worry. The media party has a perfectly plausible explanation for all of this.

00:16:03.620 Climate change. Climate change, overwhelming California power grid. Is that what's doing it?

00:16:10.180 But it's not climate change, and it's not even the Russians. It's that the West has committed 0.62

00:16:15.400 economic suicide by banning things that work. Coal works, oil works, gas works, nukes work,

00:16:21.540 and investing in schemes that don't instead. No one more than Germany, by the way. 0.60

00:16:27.780 I don't know if you ever heard of it. They had a thing they called, I think I'm pronouncing it right,

00:16:32.220 Energiewende, which I think means, I think I pronounced that right. I know it means

00:16:36.460 energy turn, energy transition. They spent pretty much close to a trillion dollars on it over the last

00:16:42.040 20 years. No change, though. No meaningful change other than huge, ugly, bird-killing wind turbines.

00:16:50.080 Lots of enriched lobbyists, but no change. They're more reliant on Russia than ever for natural gas.

00:16:56.320 It's a failure, not of a failure of fossil fuels. It's a failure of politicians who banned

00:17:01.900 fossil fuels, just like the last two years of our lives were a failure, not at the hands of a virus,

00:17:10.080 which was the equivalent to a bad flu year. It was a failure at the hands of politicians who locked us

00:17:17.640 down, using the virus as an excuse, using exactly the same language as they do now. Just two weeks

00:17:24.500 to flatten the curve, you guys. Promise.

00:17:26.360 This is what is expensive, because in these peak demands, the expensive gas comes into the market.

00:17:34.640 So what we have to do is flatten the curve and avoid the peak demands. We will propose

00:17:42.100 a mandatory target for reducing electricity use at peak hours, and we will work very closely with

00:17:49.400 the member states to achieve this. Yeah, they devastated our health in the name of health.

00:17:57.980 They're devastating our energy in the name of energy. Hmm. And you know, they're coming for

00:18:05.360 our farmers next, don't you? Stay with us for more.

00:18:17.820 Well, one of our most trusted Sherpas to guide us up the mountain of wisdom when it comes to U.S.

00:18:25.980 politics, especially on the Democratic Party side, is our friend Joel Pollack,

00:18:29.320 the senior editor at large at Breitbart.com. He's written books about the Democrats, I think even more

00:18:34.520 than he's written about the Republicans. It's important for us to know the other side.

00:18:39.500 And we're delighted to have him. He literally pulled over to the side of the road, hopped out

00:18:43.500 of the car. We're going to do an interview on his cell phone. So he's made time for us. I think he's

00:18:47.860 actually on vacation. Without further ado, let me introduce our good friend Joel Pollack. Joel,

00:18:52.220 great to see you in lovely California. I say it's lovely, but actually there's blackouts and brownouts 1.00

00:18:58.700 in the state that's the mightiest state of the union in terms of GDP. They can't keep the lights on.

00:19:04.520 Well, I'm here in San Francisco, and this area is one of the few that had some power problems,

00:19:11.140 but the state narrowly avoided a massive rolling blackout situation, which they had prepared

00:19:17.960 to unfold on Tuesday evening. We are out of energy. And one of the reasons we're out of energy is that

00:19:25.420 we've moved away from fossil fuels. We have pushed into renewables like solar and wind before they are

00:19:32.580 capable of making up the difference. And so our peak crisis hours are between 4 o'clock p.m. and 9 o'clock

00:19:40.660 or 10 o'clock at night. And that's because there's no solar energy. The solar energy starts dwindling

00:19:45.480 in the mid-afternoon. And by about 5.30 p.m., you've got the worst of all worlds, maximum demand for air

00:19:53.860 conditioning in a heat wave and dwindling supply because there's no solar energy coming through or

00:20:00.200 less than there is during the midday hours. So we've had eight consecutive days of what they call

00:20:06.040 a flex alert, which is a situation where the state asks people voluntarily to conserve electricity,

00:20:12.580 including by not plugging in their electric vehicles. And those are the vehicles the state

00:20:16.720 is mandating that people buy from 2035 onward. As of 2035, according to Governor Gavin Newsom,

00:20:22.520 you can no longer buy a gas-powered passenger vehicle in the state of California unless it also

00:20:27.840 has some kind of electric engine. There are a few exceptions, but basically we're all going to have

00:20:31.840 to drive electric vehicles. That means the grid's going to have to produce 30 percent more power than

00:20:35.980 it currently does. And that's with the loss of a nuclear plant in 2030. They delayed that by five

00:20:42.000 years, but still we're going to lose it before 2035. And with natural gas plants being shut down.

00:20:47.660 Ironically, the state just turned on four new natural gas plants that it built for emergencies.

00:20:53.040 So in this heat wave, electricity crisis, energy emergency, we have now activated four natural gas

00:21:00.260 plants, good old fossil fuels, in a pinch. You know, it's funny. Our friend Alex Epstein,

00:21:07.120 who wrote the great book called The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, he says, don't call them renewables

00:21:13.280 and non-renewables. That's not the proper categories. He said, use the word reliables

00:21:19.520 and unreliables. And I think that's really spot on. Nuclear power, coal, natural gas,

00:21:26.240 you can rely on them. As you just pointed out, they are the panic button for California.

00:21:32.220 You can't rely on wind when it's either too windy or not windy enough.

00:21:35.840 You can't rely on solar in the night. And even if you could, both are so much more expensive.

00:21:41.280 You'd have the kind of energy poverty you're seeing in Europe.

00:21:44.620 All I see in the media party, in the mainstream media is climate change is to blame. Climate

00:21:50.460 change, it did not shut down reliables. Politicians did. I feel like this is a disaster at the hands of

00:22:00.080 politicians, but they're trying to blame, you know, like the Aztecs trying to blame some, you know,

00:22:05.800 solar eclipse or something for their own acts.

00:22:10.820 Well, the funny thing about that is even if you assume that climate change is happening,

00:22:15.500 turning off nuclear power plants is the worst way to deal with it, right? Because you've got nuclear

00:22:19.480 energy for zero emissions. So we disconnected the San Onofre nuclear plant several years ago. That was

00:22:26.180 supplying 9 percent of the state's energy needs and I think 17 percent of the needs for Southern

00:22:30.320 California. That's gone. They were about to turn off the Diablo Canyon nuclear reactor, the last one

00:22:35.740 in the state. And then Gavin Newsom waded in and told the legislature to delay five years. That passed

00:22:42.420 last week on the verge of this crisis. So we're going to still have one nuclear power plant. But

00:22:48.580 you're right. As reliables turn off, you start to see the deficiencies in renewables. And two years

00:22:56.380 ago, exactly this time of year, we had a very similar energy crisis. And Gavin Newsom told California

00:23:01.660 consumers we needed to sober up about the limits of solar and wind because they don't work when the

00:23:07.240 sun isn't shining or the wind isn't blowing or, as you put it as well, blowing too hard, right, for the

00:23:11.680 turbines to work. And yet then just a few weeks later, he announced this mandate for everybody to buy

00:23:16.900 electric vehicles. So people are scratching their heads here, even on the left, and wondering why

00:23:21.640 we are requiring people to buy electric vehicles that were then telling them they cannot charge

00:23:27.780 in a crisis between the hours of 4 and 9 p.m. Does not make sense. You're stuck. It's crazy. And of

00:23:35.200 course, that I don't know if you saw that Excel Energy in Colorado turned off the thermostats in 22,000

00:23:41.480 in their customers' homes. Now, those people had agreed to it for a reduction in price. So basically,

00:23:45.720 the poorest people in Colorado who needed that $25 discount or whatever, well, they can bake in

00:23:52.280 the summer heat, while wealthy people can get their air conditioning. I had a premonition of many

00:23:58.620 things to come, climate lockdowns. We see in Europe them talking about mandatory reductions in energy

00:24:05.660 use, not voluntary. I'm terrified by it. But I want to ask you, I mean, there's a lot to talk about

00:24:11.500 there. But I know we only have you for a couple more minutes. So let me shift gears to what I think

00:24:16.280 was an absolutely astonishing moment in American political history. And it was this speech by Joe

00:24:23.080 Biden. And it's not just the speech. It was the staging, the setting, the color, the iconography.

00:24:29.900 It felt like it was a satire. It felt like I'm just going to say it. It felt like Nazi iconography, 0.70

00:24:39.800 Nazi color, blood red, black, armed soldiers in the background. It felt like a parody of

00:24:48.000 a Hitler speech. And I'm not comparing Biden to Hitler. I'm just saying visually it was something

00:24:54.240 that Lenny Riefenstahl would have set up. Here, take a quick look at that speech.

00:24:59.340 And here, in my view, is what is true. MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution.

00:25:07.140 They do not believe in the rule of law. They do not recognize the will of the people.

00:25:12.340 They refuse to accept the results of a free election. And they're working right now,

00:25:17.600 as I speak, in state after state, to give power to decide elections in America to partisans and

00:25:26.040 cronies, empowering election deniers to undermine democracy itself. MAGA forces are determined

00:25:33.960 to take this country backwards, backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, 0.66

00:25:42.080 no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love. 0.68

00:25:49.160 They promote authoritarian leaders and they fan the flames of political violence

00:25:53.620 that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law,

00:26:01.420 to the very soul of this country. He was angry. He called his opponents. He implied they were

00:26:08.760 fascists. He denounced any MAGA Republicans, which was, you know, any one of the millions

00:26:16.100 of people who voted for Trump. He said they were a threat to democracy. It was a fascist speech

00:26:22.800 in a fascist setting. What on earth happened, Joel? What was that all about? Did he know he was doing

00:26:29.100 it? Who approved that? What was the point of that?

00:26:32.060 So I think it is a deliberate attempt to make the election about Trump and to rally the Democratic

00:26:38.220 base to come out against Trump to frighten them into thinking that if they give congressional power

00:26:44.380 back to Republicans in the midterm elections this year, that means bringing back the evil, 0.94

00:26:49.440 bad orange man. So I think that's very much what they were aiming to do. As for the staging of it, 0.86

00:26:55.400 I think they hoped that Independence Hall would provide a patriotic setting.

00:26:58.760 They would allow Biden to champion or posture as the champion of the Declaration of Independence

00:27:06.460 and the Constitution, both of which were drafted there. But, you know, I think that the people in

00:27:12.880 the Biden administration just are at a certain level incompetent. They did not know how to stage

00:27:18.240 that speech properly. If you saw a wide angle view of the speech, it looked less ominous. So they

00:27:23.260 probably looked at pictures of Independence Hall and thought, oh, that looks great. Red, white,

00:27:26.920 and blue. They didn't realize that when the camera panned in, when it zoomed in on Biden,

00:27:32.820 all you would see is the red. Likewise, they thought that having Marines behind the president

00:27:37.400 would emphasize the patriotism of the location. Instead, it looked like they were imperial guards

00:27:43.220 from the Death Star and Star Wars. You know, it looked really bad. Plus, it was a disgrace for

00:27:48.100 the Marines to have to be exploited that way in a political speech. So I think there was some

00:27:53.820 incompetent staging. You never would have seen that at the Trump White House because, say what you

00:27:57.160 will about his tweets, he had a definite feel for stagecraft, having come from the entertainment

00:28:02.160 industry, the real estate world. So he understood how to stage a speech. And I think the staging was the

00:28:07.500 greatest failure. It really made many Americans feel like Joe Biden is actually scarier than Donald

00:28:12.580 Trump, which is quite something because Joe Biden's excuse, or the excuse made for him has always been 0.54

00:28:17.380 that he's mentally incapable of being malicious. But that speech was really scary. And the fact

00:28:23.200 that he was labeling Trump supporters as, as you put it, fascists, you know, the word semi doesn't

00:28:27.780 really change the word fascist. That's really scared people. So I think it backfired. I think

00:28:32.360 Democrats know it backfired. And Biden has spent the last several days trying to backtrack from some of

00:28:36.840 the things he said. No, he wasn't talking about all Trump supporters, just the elected ones. Well,

00:28:41.780 you know, who elects them? I mean, who elects the quote unquote MAGA Republicans? Besides which,

00:28:46.740 Trump's defense here has been basically to catch the Democrats as hypocrites. I mean, 0.97

00:28:53.080 Peter Doocy of Fox News put it to Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre that she had called an election

00:28:59.020 stolen on several occasions, 2016, 2018. So if that's extremist, isn't she an extremist? And her answer

00:29:06.000 for that was just terrible. So I think the Democrats really shot themselves in the foot here. And they've

00:29:10.120 given Trump voters a reason to come out to the polls in November. Here's that quick exchange

00:29:14.120 from the White House. I thought it was a great question and a terrible answer. You take a look.

00:29:18.400 The new attention on the MAGA Republicans. You tweeted in 2016, Trump stole an election.

00:29:25.620 I was waiting, Peter, when you were going to ask me that question.

00:29:28.420 Well, here we go. You tweeted Trump stole an election. You tweeted Brian Kemp stole an election.

00:29:33.680 If denying election results is extreme now. Yeah. So let's, let's be really clear that that comparison

00:29:42.180 that you made is just ridiculous. I have been, I have been, well, you're asking me, you're asking

00:29:46.300 me a question. Let me answer it. I was, I was talking specifically at that time of what was

00:29:52.920 happening with voting rights and the, what was in danger of voting rights. That's what I was speaking

00:29:57.900 to at the time. Well, what's the temperature? Because, uh, you know, a year is happening every

00:30:03.460 month. The news is so dense. I mean, I remember when the, uh, the overturning of Roe v. Wade was

00:30:08.820 going to be the issue for the midterms. Who knows? Maybe it will be inflation. Um, you know, the price

00:30:15.520 of energy. What is the mood out there? I, it's not too far away. We're after labor day now,

00:30:21.680 you know, October, November, two months away. Um, listen, a lot can still happen, but what do

00:30:28.500 you predict is going to be the result? Uh, can Republicans hold it together as they have felt

00:30:34.660 like for the last year that they've, they're going to have a victory in the midterms or can

00:30:38.720 Biden and the Democrats and the media party derail it? I think the best prediction would be that the

00:30:44.180 Republicans take the house and that the Democrats hold on in the Senate. There's a definite

00:30:49.640 groundswell of opposition to Biden that will fuel a lot of these congressional races.

00:30:54.140 At the same time, the Republican Senate leadership is very lackluster and has not

00:30:57.580 inspired Republican voters. So I think that Democrats may just hold on in the Senate.

00:31:03.640 However, Biden has really antagonized Republicans so much that they're much more engaged right now

00:31:07.760 than Democrats are. The Roe v. Wade decision is motivating some Democrats to come out and vote,

00:31:12.520 but they already live in liberal states. So I don't know how much of an impact that's going to have.

00:31:16.260 The best bet right now would be for a split Congress, but anything can happen.

00:31:20.900 All right. There you have it. Joel Pollack, senior editor at large of brightbar.com,

00:31:23.740 pulling over the highway in lovely San Francisco to give us an update. Thanks for interrupting your

00:31:28.180 vacation for us. I'm at work actually, but thank you as well to all your viewers.

00:31:33.940 All right. There you have it. All right. Take care, my friend. Stay with us. Your letters to me are next.

00:31:38.280 Hey, welcome back. Your viewer mailed to me. Love84111 writes,

00:31:54.100 euthanasia is a new word for murder. We will see more of this as it's cheaper for the government.

00:31:59.920 Well, that is the inexorable end to it. Protecting the system becomes more important than the system

00:32:06.000 protecting citizens. At least a private customer, private company values a customer and wants that

00:32:13.840 customer to live as long as possible. Now, maybe the private company actually wants the customer to

00:32:18.740 spend as much money as possible. Okay, fine. At least that's keeping the customer alive.

00:32:22.480 But when the money is the government's and the service provider is the government's,

00:32:25.860 they absolutely have an economic incentive to cut off anyone unhealthy. Oh my God, a hundred thousand

00:32:31.100 dollars worth of surgery. Hey, why don't we do something free and recommend that they kill 1.00

00:32:35.520 himself? That's exactly what they're doing. And the grossest part is that they're starting with the 0.99

00:32:39.600 veterans. Our 1957 Bobo, that sounds like a robot's name, says, this is disgusting. Aren't doctors 0.81

00:32:48.080 meant to have sworn an oath to protect life? Surely these people who are treating these guys

00:32:52.600 bound by the same. Yeah, the Hippocratic oath, do no harm. Obviously it's been ignored here because

00:32:58.640 they're government doctors. I mean, haven't you learned from the last two years that a great

00:33:03.060 many doctors will do exactly what the government tells them to do? Paul McCullough says, back from

00:33:09.440 30 days in Facebook jail, I'm thinking puppets like Trudeau are being replaced. We're seeing that

00:33:15.340 Centers for Disease Control and others backtracking, they did the intended damage. Now they'll take the

00:33:20.580 fall. If need be, war will be next. They have a lot of covering up to do a huge war or a series of

00:33:25.460 smaller ones will do the trick. Well, there is war overseas in Ukraine and Russia. I'm not sure if

00:33:32.720 that's actually distracting people here at home because I don't think there's, I mean, there are

00:33:36.400 a million or so Ukrainian Canadians who surely have a stake in there and others who are just

00:33:40.980 interested. But I don't think that's distracting. I think people, I think there's an economic

00:33:45.880 malaise that's coming, high interest rates and high inflation combined. That's a deadly combination.

00:33:51.460 I think they're going to have a circus where they try and turn the Emergencies Act judicial

00:33:59.200 inquiry into why Trudeau invoked martial law, trying to flip that around and put the truckers

00:34:04.280 on trial. I'm sure Trudeau has that in mind. And of course, he's not done. As I said in my monologue,

00:34:09.900 they declared war on energy. Now they're about to declare war on farmers. It's a constant state of

00:34:16.360 crisis. Somehow they profit by it. A lot of dark things out there, but we'll keep fighting. Until

00:34:22.140 next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night

00:34:26.140 and keep fighting for freedom. You know, I saw this very moronic clip the other day. Of course, 0.82

00:34:32.140 the media in Canada didn't report on the very stupid thing that Justin Trudeau said, but 1.00

00:34:36.380 the Americans did. The clip even turned up on Fox News' Tucker Carlson show. Here it is. 0.99

00:34:42.820 I'm just wondering, what do you think is behind the rise in threats that politicians are facing?

00:34:54.980 We've been through a lot as a country, as a world over these past years. Obviously, the pandemic,

00:35:01.860 increasing anxiety because of climate change, transformations of our economy, rise in mental

00:35:10.840 health and addiction problems, particularly with the opioid crisis that has been ravaging

00:35:16.700 communities right across the country. It's a lot of pressure on a lot of people.

00:35:22.240 Ah, yes, yes, yes. Climate change. That's the reason we can't get along with each other.

00:35:27.280 It has absolutely nothing to do with the perpetual stoking of hate by our Prime Minister, the man

00:35:33.000 who called my fellow Canadians things like this.

00:35:36.000 On sent que la sécurité est accrue autour de vous. On sent que c'est plus dangereux peut-être en ce moment pour vous?

00:35:42.800 On est dans un moment difficile parce qu'on est en train de prendre des choix importants. On est en train de décider que,

00:35:50.960 oui, on va s'en sortir de cette pandémie par la vaccination. Puis on en connaît tous, des gens qui sont en train d'hésiter un petit peu.

00:35:58.560 On va continuer d'essayer de les convaincre. Mais il y a aussi des gens qui sont farouchement opposés à la vaccination.

00:36:04.040 Qui sont extrémistes.

00:36:05.060 Qui ne croient pas dans la science, qui sont souvent misogynes, souvent racistes aussi. C'est un petit groupe, mais qui prend de la place.

00:36:14.640 Et là, il faut faire un choix en tant que leader, en tant que pays. Est-ce qu'on tolère ces gens-là ou est-ce qu'on dit, bien, voyons,

00:36:22.040 la plupart des gens, presque 80% des Québécois, ont fait ce qu'il fallait faire. Se sont fait vacciner.

00:36:27.540 On veut revenir aux choses qu'on aime faire. Ce n'est pas ces gens-là qui vont nous bloquer.

00:36:32.760 Maintenant, on est dans une quatrième vague qui est presque entièrement des gens non vaccinés,

00:36:38.640 qui remplissent nos hôpitaux à travers le pays. À un moment donné, il faut mettre son pied à terre pour dire,

00:36:43.860 excusez-moi, mais il n'y a pas de débat sur la science.

00:36:46.740 And yet, Trudeau just can't seem to figure out why we're all so deeply divided.

00:36:51.740 Perhaps it's because he's doing the dividing.

00:36:54.260 Seven years in power, who do you think caused this radical shift in the political culture in Canada?

00:37:00.200 For all the left-wing hyperbolists who spent 10 years crying about what an extreme fascist Stephen Harper was,

00:37:06.320 Harper didn't go around shooting journalists with riot-controlled guns.

00:37:09.420 Or trampling grandmothers in the streets, or arresting other grandmothers for opposing him,

00:37:19.080 like Justin Trudeau has done.

00:37:20.700 Oh my goodness! Look what you did!

00:37:23.140 Harper was prickly with the media, sure, but he didn't try to ban or control or censor them.

00:37:28.200 But Justin Trudeau, he knows how to fix this political division in this country,

00:37:33.160 and the hate crimes following it, because hate crimes are following it.

00:37:37.160 Take a look at this from a couple of days ago.

00:37:39.740 It's an official federal government announcement.

00:37:44.480 Justin Trudeau announced an action plan for the 2SLGBTQI plus community.

00:37:52.980 I think they switched around some of the letters there from the last time I read something on this topic.

00:37:58.120 Anyway, the action plan includes funding to build a more inclusive future for sexually diverse people,

00:38:03.500 including funding for community organizations, criminal law reforms,

00:38:08.480 funding for Canada's feminist international assistance policy,

00:38:11.980 which sounds like funding for abortions abroad, abortion colonialism.

00:38:17.000 There's also money for supporting Indigenous 2SLGBTQI plus resilience,

00:38:25.700 and resurgence, including a dedicated two-spirit senior advisor position within the government.

00:38:33.680 They want to engage everyone in Canada in fostering a more inclusive future by investing in awareness campaigns.

00:38:39.420 Friends, I've seen how Justin Trudeau engages people, and I want no part of it.

00:38:43.940 Let's keep going.

00:38:44.940 And they want to embed sexual minority issues in the work of the government of Canada,

00:38:50.340 and this will all cost $100 million over the next five years.

00:38:55.780 Look, I don't want anybody to face discrimination for any reason.

00:38:59.540 That's why I'm against vaccine passports. 0.99

00:39:01.720 But when you have been given the entire summer instead of just a week or a parade to celebrate your lifestyle,

00:39:07.180 I'm pretty sure you're not as oppressed as you think you are.

00:39:09.860 And I actually have the statistical data to prove it, so this isn't just my opinion.

00:39:14.940 Let me get the backstory for you.

00:39:17.280 Remember last year when the alleged discovery of 200-plus graves of children at a residential school in Kamloops

00:39:23.460 sparked a summer of church burnings and anti-Christian violence?

00:39:27.640 If you need a refresher on the topic, my friend Jorea Humphrey just made a documentary.

00:39:31.840 It's called Kamloops, The Buried Truth, and it's about her attempts to get to the bottom

00:39:35.900 of what really happened at Kamloops and her challenges in simply getting straight answers.

00:39:41.760 You can find it at KamloopsDocumentary.com.

00:39:44.460 But nobody needed straight answers or inconvenient facts or an investigation for that matter

00:39:50.320 for Justin Trudeau to empathize with those who were burning our churches.

00:39:55.760 He was empathizing with people committing anti-Christian terrorist arsons.

00:40:00.380 Remember?

00:40:00.680 One of my reflections is I understand the anger that's out there against the federal government,

00:40:09.040 against institutions like the Catholic Church.

00:40:11.340 It is real and it is fully understandable given the shameful history that we're all becoming

00:40:18.320 more and more aware of and engaging ourselves to do better as Canadians.

00:40:24.280 But Justin Trudeau's sympathy for the devil?

00:40:27.200 Let me show you what that looks like using government statistics.

00:40:30.640 While sexual minorities get a special secretariat and $100 million in funding,

00:40:35.780 Christians, and specifically Catholics, were on the receiving end of 260% increases in police

00:40:42.160 reported hate crimes.

00:40:43.300 Four times more than the rise in hate crimes for sexual minorities.

00:40:46.560 But no one will condemn this.

00:40:49.020 And no one in Trudeau's lapdog media will even tell you about this.

00:40:53.880 Why?

00:40:54.480 Us Catholics, we're inconvenient to the liberal agenda.

00:40:57.420 We're pro-life and we're pro-family.

00:40:59.400 And we certainly don't worship the government over God.

00:41:02.200 You know, the opposite of Justin Trudeau.

00:41:04.040 So I guess we just have it coming.

00:41:06.620 For Rebel News, I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed.

Rebel News Podcast - September 08, 2022

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