Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ If you car is self-driving, can the government turn it off for climate reasons？

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. I've got a question for you. Those self-driving cars look really cool.

00:00:04.840 But if your car is being driven by AI, and if it's all registered and connected to the

00:00:09.020 government, can your car also be turned off by AI or by the government? If they don't want you to

00:00:16.120 drive, say it's a climate lockdown, can they turn off your car? I'll tell you what I think about

00:00:23.560 that, and I'll show you some videos on the subject. But first, let me invite you to become

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00:01:08.660 Tonight, if your car is self-driving, can the government turn it off for climate reasons?

00:01:29.480 It's December 5th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:31.880 I'm interested in Elon Musk because he is so interesting. His whole family is. His mom,

00:01:53.460 May Musk, is a 74-year-old supermodel. Just stunning. And here's his unusual dad explaining

00:02:04.060 that he named Elon Musk, who wants to put people on Mars. He named Elon after a character in a book

00:02:11.960 written by the original rocket scientist Wernher von Braun about colonizing Mars.

00:02:17.980 Wernher von Braun's book, I think it was his, or it could have been Oberth's book, spoke about

00:02:23.000 that the head of the Mars colony would be called the Elon. Now, I remember that, but I never thought

00:02:31.480 of it as a name. I never thought it was a person's name. And then when May and I got married,

00:02:37.080 I was quite amazed to discover that her father's grandfather or something had been called Elon

00:02:45.780 Alderman, which just really reminded me of the stories that we had. And so I thought, well,

00:02:54.780 yes, I'd like that name for Elon. I won't go through the whole family. They are unusual.

00:02:59.780 Let me just say that. And Elon Musk is the most successful person by many measures in the world.

00:03:07.780 Tesla, SpaceX spaceships, Starlink satellite internet. Now he bought Twitter to make it

00:03:15.720 a free speech app. He's amazing. I'm not sure how he can divide his attention amongst so many projects

00:03:22.040 because while he's done his Twitter thing, Tesla has rolled out their new electric trucks.

00:03:28.920 Now, I think I'm still a skeptic of electric vehicles for a number of reasons,

00:03:32.460 but you can't deny what he's done. Look at this.

00:03:35.600 Electric car maker Tesla unveiled its new heavy-duty semi-trucks on Thursday. The trucks delivered to

00:03:43.560 PepsiCo had also completed their first cargo run. According to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who spoke at the

00:03:50.220 company's Nevada plant, the battery-powered truck has three times the power of their diesel counterparts

00:03:55.880 and could reduce highway emissions.

00:03:58.700 It's a beast. So, you know, at Tesla, we don't make slow cars. We don't make... This thing has

00:04:07.400 crazy power relative to a diesel truck. I mean, actually, especially if you don't have... If you're

00:04:13.180 not towing anything, you could zip around like... It looks crazy, basically. It looks like an elephant

00:04:18.120 moving like a cheetah. Clips from Tesla show the truck tested in different weather and road

00:04:23.480 conditions. Musk said test runs were conducted between Tesla's Sparks Nevada factory and its

00:04:29.720 plant in Fremont, California. Tesla said the over 80,000-pound truck was able to drive 500 miles on

00:04:36.980 a single charge. However, it didn't give a breakdown of the cargo it was carrying. Tesla did not offer

00:04:43.260 updated forecasts for the truck's pricing or production plans. PepsiCo had ordered 100 trucks in 2017

00:04:50.080 when initial prices and plans for the vehicle were announced. Brewer Einhauser-Busch, UPS, and Walmart

00:04:57.100 were among other companies that had reserved the semi. But what's really on my mind when I think of Tesla

00:05:02.940 isn't the electric power source. It's the driverless feature. Look at this.

00:05:08.720 That's a real video of a driverless car driving in the rain in a busy city. And I guess it's safe? I could imagine

00:05:33.740 some things going wrong. But of course, that's the difference between being a critic and being the guy

00:05:38.960 in the arena who actually gets things done, who actually invented this, isn't it?

00:05:43.400 But here's the thing about a computer-controlled car that drives on its own using artificial intelligence.

00:05:50.240 So you could theoretically have an app in the car. You could theoretically send a child

00:05:53.960 in the car without a grown-up to drive the child. There's so many ramifications. Safety is obviously

00:05:59.520 the first one that comes to mind. I would think about jobs too. I mean, there are thousands of people

00:06:05.380 who are truckers and delivery boys whose jobs might be made obsolete by this. This reminds me of so many

00:06:13.400 drones that are being deployed around the world today. Drones have done a lot of fighting in the

00:06:19.560 Ukraine-Russia war. I suppose that's better than people fighting, but the drones are killing people.

00:06:25.740 Drones dropping bombs. Drones doing surveillance. And in China, drones are enforcing COVID rules

00:06:32.580 with spy cameras and loudspeakers. There's a company in the United States called Boston Dynamics

00:06:38.900 that makes robots. I'm not going to show you the most modern ones. I don't think you'd even believe

00:06:44.340 that they're robots. I think you might think they're just computer-generated images. Let me show you

00:06:48.800 this video from four years ago because it's still unbelievable, but easy enough to still believe.

00:06:56.160 It's their dog robot, and they're testing how it does when a human interferes with it. Just watch for a minute.

00:07:18.800 ?

00:07:20.580 Hooc.

00:07:22.660 Two hours out.

00:07:24.660 One hour.

00:07:27.360 That's amazing.

00:07:29.200 This one will be good to keep up.

00:07:32.320 One hour.

00:07:37.380 One minute.

00:07:43.020 One minute.

00:07:45.460 Two minute.

00:07:46.180 Two hundred.

00:07:47.140 Rece Maß.

00:07:48.800 and that was four years ago here's a clip of today's robots again

00:08:02.520 i don't think you're even going to believe this is real i assure you this is real

00:08:18.800 i don't think you're going to believe this is real

00:08:48.800 that's not a person dressed up as a robot that is a robot we're so far down this path add in

00:09:06.400 artificial intelligence total surveillance and then throw in some totalitarianism maybe a gun

00:09:13.500 and it's all over isn't it elon musk says that's the thing he's worried most about

00:09:18.600 artificial intelligence or ai taking over the world which is interesting given that he works

00:09:25.000 with ai that's the self-driving car part that's part of his spaceships there's ai in there he's

00:09:31.860 he's got a company called neural link here's what their website says we are creating the future of

00:09:36.840 brain computer interfaces building devices now that have the potential to help people with paralysis

00:09:43.340 and inventing new technologies that could expand our abilities our community and our world i'm sure

00:09:49.020 that's true letting paralyzed people walk again that's that's amazing but i can think of a few more

00:09:55.200 uses for transhumanism besides helping the disabled i can think of much more malign uses 0.92

00:10:00.920 transhumanism that means moving beyond human and merging with computers and machines

00:10:07.020 that's the near future it might even be the present but let me show you something very real

00:10:14.060 that is happening right now as in just last week in the british county of oxfordshire where the famous

00:10:23.240 oxford university is located obviously i'll start by reading a bbc story from last week about the

00:10:28.980 subject oxfordshire county council approves 6.5 million pound traffic filter scheme traffic filter

00:10:39.040 that sounds like it could be good sounds like maybe they're i don't know cleaning the air or something

00:10:43.840 no no no they're filtering out you you're the dirt that they're filtering let me read a bit a 6.5

00:10:52.400 million pound trial to stop most drivers in oxford from using busy city routes at peak times

00:10:58.080 has been improved the six traffic filters were given the go-ahead by oxfordshire county council's

00:11:04.800 cabinet earlier it hopes they will cut unnecessary journeys and make walking cycling and public and

00:11:11.800 shared transport the natural first choice to stop most drivers just to stop them not sure what the 6.5

00:11:20.680 million quid is for and of course don't you worry it's only for unnecessary journeys it'll be stopped i

00:11:26.500 i think you yourself are a probably a good judge for yourself of what is necessary and what isn't but

00:11:32.020 no longer don't you worry your pretty little head about that those decisions will now be made for you

00:11:37.580 by the government they'll determine if your travels are necessary or not here's some more info on the

00:11:43.760 scheme the traffic filters are to be placed at height bridge street yeah we don't need bridges do we

00:11:49.960 thames street saint cross road saint clemens hollow way marston ferry road they will operate for seven

00:11:57.260 days a week from 7 a.m till 7 p.m except those in marston ferry road and hollow way which would only

00:12:03.460 operate from 7 a.m till 9 a.m and from 3 p.m till 6 p.m monday to saturday any driver going through a

00:12:10.480 filter who is neither exempt nor using a permit would be charged a 70 pound penalty

00:12:16.740 so 70 pounds that's 115 canadian dollars so if you drive into the city but some politician says

00:12:25.680 it wasn't necessary you have to pay 115 fine let me read some more liam walker shadow cabinet member

00:12:34.720 for highways said the plans were hitting residents pockets and impacting businesses he added oxford is

00:12:41.800 slowly being shut down under this anti-motorist coalition well of course of course there's going

00:12:47.420 to have many consequences many side effects some foreseen some not it's really a form of lockdown

00:12:52.680 isn't it i mean they love the covid lockdowns they they learned what they could get away with right

00:12:58.920 they're they're telling you who you can or can't visit where you can or can't go they're not pretending

00:13:04.920 it's about covid anymore it's a permanent state of affairs know your place show your papers explain

00:13:10.100 yourself is your trip necessary you must answer to the law i wonder if they'll just copy the same

00:13:18.380 rules during the lockdown are you going to a funeral are you going to a wedding well were you immediate

00:13:23.680 family are they part of your bubble in covid here's the oxford magazine quoting a local counselor who is

00:13:30.800 so excited about all this counselor andrew gant oxfordshire county council's cabinet minister member

00:13:38.720 for highways management said currently our roads are gridlocked with traffic and this traffic is

00:13:45.220 damaging our economy and our environment oxford needs a more sustainable reliable and inclusive

00:13:50.880 transport system for everyone traffic filters are an important tool to deliver a transport plan that

00:13:56.240 works for all what's an inclusive transport system is that the main point of a transport system to be

00:14:03.000 inclusive or is the main point to get people from point a to point b and how is it inclusive if you

00:14:09.240 exclude people if you if you ban people except the very rich who could always afford 115 bucks to go

00:14:15.280 into town or who are politically connected enough to get an exemption say just a guess what do you bet

00:14:22.680 that andrew gant who's very important you know he's the oxfordshire county council's cabinet minister for

00:14:29.000 highways management i mean that's an extremely important guy what are the odds he gets an exemption

00:14:35.280 because he's just so very important i mean just look at that job title his business card is probably

00:14:40.760 so long he has to fold it in half before it fits in his pocket traffic filters are designed to deliver

00:14:45.940 safer cleaner and more prosperous place to live work and visit this is not a scheme to stop private vehicles

00:14:52.200 in the city exemptions and permits available for residents and businesses will make car journeys faster

00:14:57.560 while also improving alternative transport options such as public transport

00:15:01.800 how does it make oxford more prosperous if people can't drive in to shop or go to a restaurant and

00:15:09.020 pay no attention to your lying eyes this will make car journeys faster people just like a carbon tax makes

00:15:16.200 you richer don't you know lower down in the story they actually quote someone who knows just a little bit

00:15:23.380 something about prosperity and business in oxford oxford oxford businessman jeremy mogford has publicly

00:15:30.020 raised objections to the new bus gates across the city which he claims will be like berlin walls sounds

00:15:36.820 lovely but very fitting and just a few days ago clinton pew who owns cafe coco casbar and cafe tarifa on

00:15:45.940 cali road unveiled an anti-ltn billboard on the side of cafe coco the oxford businessman and father of

00:15:54.180 hollywood actress florence pew described the move as an ill thought out traffic experiment

00:16:01.220 i disagree with one part of that the ill thought out part it's not ill thought out it appears that way

00:16:07.380 if you think its real goal is to improve the quality of life improve prosperity what else ever they said

00:16:12.820 that's just what they say the whole point of this traffic lockdown this climate lockdown

00:16:20.900 is the lockdown part the part that's hard the part that's bad the part that's punitive that isn't

00:16:27.140 the bug that's the feature that's the point that is why they are doing it it's not ill thought out

00:16:33.780 covid climate traffic whatever the excuse is whatever is necessary to say to control your life

00:16:39.940 that's what they're doing it for here's how a local radio station is covering it it's like rationing

00:16:45.780 you know they did that in the uk during the second world war and afterwards for a while too they were

00:16:50.740 so poor they rationed food now they're making you poor they're forcing you to ration your travel it's

00:16:57.540 energy poverty really transport poverty they're making it scarce here's what they say transport is

00:17:04.180 currently one of the biggest contributors to the climate crisis in order to transition to a

00:17:09.060 sustainable economy we need to change the way that people get around reducing the number of individual

00:17:13.620 journeys by fossil fuel cars and creating the conditions which allow people to travel more by

00:17:18.340 foot by bike and by public transport get on foot are you a mom with a with a new baby well get on foot

00:17:26.020 are you disabled well get on foot are you elderly just ride your bike or just don't leave your house 0.82

00:17:34.580 didn't you practice not leaving your house during the covid lockdowns we'll do that again

00:17:40.180 counselor emily care transport spokesperson for the green party group on oxford city council described it

00:17:47.140 as an important step towards fixing oxford's broken transport system transport is currently one of the

00:17:53.060 biggest contributors to the climate crisis that's what this is about it's about ideology it's not

00:17:58.660 about traffic or congestion congestion or roads or anything it's about an anti-industry anti-modernity

00:18:04.020 anti-car superstition that if we all live more poorly somehow the weather gods will change things

00:18:10.500 really no different than the aztecs sacrificing slaves to appease the gods there's another local report

00:18:16.340 my favorite line is this one take a look six new traffic filters in oxford have been approved

00:18:21.620 following a debate featuring more than 50 opinions from the public county and oxford city councilors

00:18:28.100 people representing lobby groups and standalone members of the public came forward but despite

00:18:33.460 the presence of police and security proceedings had to be paused twice because of shouting from the

00:18:39.220 public gallery one of the speakers an objector was escorted away for refusing to stop speaking

00:18:45.380 at the end of her allotted time as she shouted in the chamber at county hall calling on counselors to 0.91

00:18:51.140 resign that was partly responsible for one of the pauses

00:18:56.020 hey just a hunch here if you have to have police and security drag away peaceful citizens because

00:19:02.500 they're objecting to your traffic rationing plan maybe you might be i don't know a touch on the

00:19:07.220 authoritarian side here's a detail left out of all the other reports i showed you so far i think it's where

00:19:12.980 the money is going that 6.5 million pounds they're spying on you in case you don't know they're tracking

00:19:19.460 you it's like china the barriers equipped with surveillance cameras will prevent private cars

00:19:26.340 traveling through much of the center of the city without a permit other vehicles including buses coaches

00:19:32.020 taxis vans mopeds and hgvs will continue to have access at all times oh so so it really is the full-on

00:19:40.580 chinese surveillance state experience plus their social credit system they're not even pretending 0.85

00:19:46.260 are they so yeah i think the uk failed the test you know covid was a test what could the government

00:19:52.900 get away with what would the population put up with we all learned we all observed expect a lot more

00:19:59.780 lockdowns and and a lot more passports to go to a restaurant to go to shops or even just to use your car

00:20:05.860 oh that electric self-driving car business well about that if you drive a regular car you can still

00:20:14.420 drive it where and when you want to drive it maybe you might be spotted and arrested or given a ticket

00:20:20.820 if you're going where they don't want you to go but you're still the one driving it but those

00:20:25.700 those new self-driving cars i suppose someone could just flip a switch and those things are turned off

00:20:32.740 by the car company or or by the government the self-driving car is pretty cool but you're never

00:20:41.140 riding alone are you you're riding with the deep state right there with you watching every move you

00:20:47.140 make tracking you and if need be stopping you for the climate stay with us for more

00:21:02.740 what we're based in canada which had one of the harshest lockdowns in the world the city of

00:21:11.060 toronto i believe had the title for the most locked down city in north america montreal was vying for

00:21:17.300 second place of course they actually had curfews whether you were sick or not whether you were vaxxed 0.65

00:21:22.500 or not you were not allowed outside your home from 10 p.m to 5 a.m and of course our australian reporter

00:21:28.100 avi amini was in ground zero of lockdowns down under in the city of melbourne which was especially

00:21:34.340 punitive and even violent i never thought that the united states with its freedom culture its

00:21:40.340 constitution its bill of rights would follow the same path and indeed places like florida showed the

00:21:46.980 way putting freedom ahead of fear but what about this shocking case a restaurant in the state of

00:21:54.580 virginia they of course did not bend the knee to the covid lockdowns in 2020 and 2021 and they got

00:22:03.380 into a dust-up with the law back then but here it is almost 2023 and the restaurant owned by matt strickland

00:22:11.860 a military veteran in the united states was raided by police just this past week and matt strickland being a

00:22:20.980 savvy man of the internet filmed the whole encounter on his cell phone and posted it online

00:22:27.140 here's an excerpt from the police raid on his restaurant and i emphasize this didn't happen

00:22:33.620 a year or two ago this happened days ago take a look i've actually been found to be detrimental to

00:22:40.420 the community but you're still going to shut a man's business down over there 0.55

00:22:43.620 you're not here to discuss whether or not they're unconscious you're just here to do your job right

00:23:00.180 and you're going to enforce that regardless right yeah so you're part of the problem man i want you

00:23:05.940 to know that you're part of the problem you're part of the problem you're part of the problem

00:23:09.780 everybody in here every one of you man what's going on in this country right now the reason that we're

00:23:17.060 in the situation we're in as the united states of america you're part of the problem sir so you can't

00:23:23.460 complain about what the president's doing you can't complain about the state that the country's in right

00:23:28.020 now you can't you can't complain about how screwed up it is you're part of the problem sir you're just 0.66

00:23:32.900 doing your job so many people were just doing their job for hitler back in germany you as well

00:23:40.980 sir that goes that goes for you as well that goes for you as well that goes for all of you

00:23:47.140 that goes for all of you man there's no excuse there's zero excuse

00:23:52.340 just doing my job that's not an excuse anymore man that's not an excuse you guys just doing your job

00:23:58.900 is facilitating what's going on in this country right now you're shutting down a man's livelihood

00:24:05.380 well the voice in that footage is that of matt strickland the restaurant owner and veteran he's

00:24:12.340 actually taking his campaign for freedom to the ballot box he's running for virginia senate he joins us now

00:24:19.140 via via skype from virginia mr strickland pleasure to meet you tell us what it was like being raided

00:24:28.340 on the eve of 2023 i thought all this was long past there were at least four police officers there am i

00:24:35.300 right oh yeah there were way more than four police officers there were i think about 20 25 police

00:24:42.500 officers there um i think they know how much support i have in the community since i've been fighting

00:24:47.860 these covid mandates since the beginning and um and i do have a ton of support in the community because

00:24:53.060 of people with common sense they uh they feel like i feel they're they're fed up with the government

00:24:59.140 trying to take away our constitutional rights and our god-given rights and uh so i think they felt that

00:25:05.860 my supporters were going to show up and um and cause a scene so that's why they they brought so many

00:25:11.460 police officers i'm just guessing i don't know but they showed up in force that's for sure

00:25:15.540 yeah it's strange to me that armed police uh deal with health measures or i think what they were

00:25:22.500 doing in this case correct me if i'm wrong is they were trying to enforce a liquor license they they

00:25:27.780 took away your liquor license because of this and they were using that as a technicality uh

00:25:32.820 did any of them uh threaten to arrest you to jail you i mean i just find it an odd sight in the in

00:25:42.580 not in australia or canada but we're not as free as you are i find it a very odd sight in the united

00:25:48.500 states to see armed police tackling the great criminal hot spot of a restaurant it just feels un-american

00:25:56.660 to me well it's it's very un-american and and that's why you have so many people who believe

00:26:03.700 that there is um a higher power at play that goes outside of political parties goes outside of country

00:26:09.940 borders um you know people believe that there's this globalist power that is trying to take over

00:26:16.020 you know not just a certain country but the entire world and you know it's hard to deny it when so many

00:26:21.540 countries including the united states of america are implementing ridiculous mandates and just

00:26:27.860 blatantly stripping their citizens uh constitutional and god-given rights away right under right under

00:26:32.900 their noses but the most disappointing thing about it is how many citizens just blindly comply i i don't

00:26:39.140 get it i'll never get it and um and yes they did threaten to arrest me on uh multiple times that day

00:26:45.780 they've been threatening to arrest me for you know almost three years now but uh what they have to

00:26:51.060 understand is um i don't give a damn about getting arrested i'm not scared to go to prison i joined 0.56

00:26:56.580 the army when i was 17 years old i've been ready to die for this country since i was 17 years old

00:27:02.180 and i'll be ready to die for this country until i'm no longer on this earth so going to prison does

00:27:06.980 not scare me at all what scares me is thinking about what might be the future of my country if i don't

00:27:13.780 fight back right now because i have four children and what i'm not going to do is sit back and

00:27:19.700 live a comfortable life as comfortable as i can and pass this fight on to them i'm not doing that

00:27:26.180 i'm fighting right now to make sure i set them up for success in the future and that's my whole goal

00:27:31.220 in this now you mentioned you're a veteran i think that's a fairly well-known fact about you just

00:27:36.340 looking at the four faces in that video clip frankly they looked like i mean you can't judge a book by its

00:27:42.580 cover but those four if you could judge by their faces and the uniforms and their countenance they

00:27:49.220 look like good cops they look like people who believe in the constitution and i think you were

00:27:54.260 right to shame them for complying and going along i think you had the right angle they surely know

00:28:00.580 that you're a veteran and you've served the country it am i wrong to say they were uncomfortable

00:28:06.820 doing what they did because they seemed like the kind of guys who would normally be on your side

00:28:11.380 the side of freedom and there they were carrying out some petty mandate more suitable to an

00:28:16.820 authoritarian regime i don't want to put too much stock in what some guy looks like in the uniform

00:28:22.260 but i mean because terrible things have been done by people in uniforms throughout the sweep of history

00:28:27.540 but it looked like they were uncomfortable there and it looks like your upgrading of them got through

00:28:32.100 to them a little bit at least in their minds yeah i believe you're right you're correct i noticed the

00:28:38.260 same thing they definitely looked uncomfortable and if i had to guess i would say that uh they don't

00:28:45.140 agree with the coveted mandates and they did not want to be in there shutting my business down

00:28:49.620 but the problem is we're in this position because like i said before so many people just blindly

00:28:55.220 comply and the government and these different corporations and organizations they know

00:29:00.740 if they hang our livelihood over our head our ability to provide for our family majority of us

00:29:07.220 are going to cave they know that and that's exactly what happened but you have a choice and like i always

00:29:12.580 say we are the police we are the military we are the teachers we're the community we are the people

00:29:18.580 of the united states of america if we all stand together there's nothing that these criminal politicians 0.92

00:29:24.740 can do because we outnumber them by far and if there's nobody to enforce their ridiculous mandates

00:29:31.860 then they won't be enforced but people are just scared into complying i had a choice as well it was

00:29:37.700 uncomfortable for me i was scared as hell you know uh fighting against the mandates because i'm out here on

00:29:42.660 an island no other restaurant in virginia stood up like i stood up and fought back against the covid

00:29:48.500 mandates and if i sat here and told you that i wasn't worried about my future and what was going to happen

00:29:53.140 to me and my family i'd be lying to you but i but i but i also knew that if i didn't stand up and fight

00:29:58.500 back that whatever could potentially be the outcome of that was was uh far less worse than the outcome if

00:30:05.780 i if i just blindly comply and go along with this and let the world maybe the united states of america be

00:30:10.500 molested now uh the state of virginia is very interesting politically it's got different parts it

00:30:18.420 touches washington dc that's a particular part of virginia it's got different demographics but

00:30:24.740 it sort of made world headlines about a year ago when a republican named glenn youngkin ran on a pretty

00:30:31.940 conservative freedom-oriented platform and he won he turned around joe biden's 2020 lead and he won

00:30:40.580 for the republicans the state and i i want to ask you this doesn't seem like a glenn youngkin move

00:30:48.420 he seems cut more from the cloth of a de santis or an abbott in florida or texas someone who might be

00:30:55.380 uh might consider giving an amnesty to restaurants or other businesses like yours who may have tangled

00:31:02.580 with an inappropriate bylaw i remember in texas when there was a hairdresser who was facing prosecutions

00:31:08.180 and the governor just said i give a blanket amnesty we're not enforcing any of these local mandates

00:31:13.220 uh poof it's done and ronda santis did the same thing in florida do you think there's a chance that

00:31:19.860 your republican governor would do the same because it feels like this is not a battle for december 2022

00:31:27.460 and it's not a battle for glenn youngkin yeah i i mean he ran his campaign on the premise that these

00:31:36.980 covid lockdowns and these covid mandates were were not right were illegal and were unconstitutional

00:31:43.220 and that he would change things if he won and then he won and then he did hit the ground running and

00:31:48.260 he went to work right away and he did a lot of good things here in virginia um but he hasn't done

00:31:54.180 everything obviously and he knows about my situation because i have personally told him about my situation

00:31:59.860 multiple times face to face um through emails he was at my restaurant just about a month ago

00:32:06.340 and because we did a big event for yes lee vega who was a republican candidate for for congress here

00:32:12.100 in virginia and um so he knows about my story bottom line and why he hasn't acted you know to this point

00:32:20.020 i'm not sure i can't speak for his motivations or why he hasn't acted yet um he still has time i'm still

00:32:26.500 holding out hope that he'll jump in and rectify the situation but um but he hasn't so far and it's

00:32:33.780 very confusing to me well the fact that you say he attended a republican event is that right it was a

00:32:40.100 republican event at your restaurant that's that's very symbolic i mean he would have known where he was

00:32:46.500 going in his mere presence is a kind of moral support i mean you you wouldn't go to a place you

00:32:53.540 regarded as disreputable or morally reprehensible so the very fact that he attended your establishment

00:33:00.340 i find hopeful and you're right it is confusing if he attends your restaurant one month and the next

00:33:06.820 month there's a bunch of cops enforcing some order so maybe he just hasn't got all the facts in front of

00:33:14.980 him all right what's the state of things now do you have a lawyer fighting for you do you have a

00:33:21.060 crowdfunding campaign how how are you going to fight back yeah i do have a lawyer his name is

00:33:27.220 jonathan amord and he's one of the best constitutional lawyers here in the u.s so i'm in good hands as far

00:33:33.060 as that goes um as far as crowdfunding goes uh i just saw i mean right i think right before i came on

00:33:39.940 the show that somebody did start a uh crowdfunding like a gofundme or something like that um for my

00:33:47.220 family and i i don't i'm not sure how to access it i just found out um to be honest with you but

00:33:53.300 i don't know what the future holds and i don't know what happens next um i hope what happens next

00:33:58.100 is the governor jumps in and he saves all of this all of the businesses here in virginia that are being

00:34:04.180 prosecuted for coven mandates not sure if there's any others other than me um but i do know that

00:34:10.420 governor northam dropped the hammer on the entire state of virginia and i believe that it's time for

00:34:14.500 his past time for governor yonkin to come to to come in and uh and make sure that from this point

00:34:20.740 on no other business here in virginia is prosecuted for any of these coven mandates and that's what i'm

00:34:27.060 hoping he does and i'm hoping he does it sooner rather than later but uh if anybody you know wants to

00:34:32.580 follow my story or uh stay updated with what's going on or even help and contribute um my website is

00:34:39.300 matt for va.com and it's all spelled out m-a-t-t-f-o-r-v-a.com and then uh on social media

00:34:47.460 my handles are at matt for va so if you guys want to stay abreast of what's going on and um stay

00:34:53.220 updated that's where you can do so and if you want to contribute um you can do so um that way as well

00:35:00.420 right on well we're based in canada but we feel like we're dealing with the same issues up here

00:35:05.380 and it's a little surprising to hear it to come from the united states of america which we know is

00:35:11.060 in many ways the freest country in the world so we are interested we will follow your story

00:35:15.540 i wish you good luck with your constitutional lawyer if you've got a good constitutional lawyer

00:35:18.980 that i'm very glad to hear it and it sounds like the governor maybe just needs to get a few more facts

00:35:24.820 in front of him if he shows up at your restaurant i think that's very important that's a sign that he's

00:35:30.340 not buying into the lockdown mentality so hopefully he'll do the right thing like they did

00:35:36.260 in florida and texas we'll certainly keep in touch with you and we'll wish you good luck in your

00:35:40.260 campaign i hope that you take this freedom fighting energy that you're using for your own establishment

00:35:48.180 i hope that it grows and that you can take it into the virginia senate and wouldn't that be something

00:35:54.820 wouldn't that be take turning a bad thing into a good thing if they targeted you for the

00:35:59.540 lockdowns and the long-term outcome of that was to put a freedom fighting veteran

00:36:04.100 in the virginia senate well that would be a poetic justice i think matt strickland pleasure to talking

00:36:10.100 with you we'll have your uh contact info your website and your twitter handle below this video

00:36:15.940 for people to stay in touch thanks for spending the time with us we're in canada but we do have

00:36:20.580 viewers around the united states and we are interested in freedom everywhere so thanks for taking the time

00:36:25.620 well thank you so much for having me on and and allowing me to share my story because it is

00:36:31.460 important and i want to say hello and thank you to all of my brothers and sisters uh up north across

00:36:38.100 the border in canada we're fighting like hell for you down here in the united states of america and we

00:36:42.980 will win i promise you it's going to be a fight um and it's not going to happen overnight but we will

00:36:47.300 win down here and we'll spread that freedom and love up there to you guys in canada we won't let

00:36:52.180 them we won't let them win and uh and conquer the world and change the landscape of the world freedom

00:36:57.140 will always prevail and it's because of patriots like you and me that that will happen right on

00:37:02.260 well from your mouth to god's ears thanks for your time today and good luck thank you sir i appreciate

00:37:07.620 it right on there you have it matt strickland he's running for the virginia senate and he's fighting

00:37:11.380 for his freedom and that of his restaurant stay with us more ahead

00:37:26.180 hey welcome back your letters to me a peter story says hi ezra your show this evening was absolutely

00:37:32.020 brilliant a masterpiece you really nailed it thank you well thanks very much i think i had good

00:37:37.860 material to work with if you're talking about that journalism panel there were a lot of crazy

00:37:42.180 things said there but the craziest thing was not a flicker not a moment not a blink of an eye did they

00:37:49.060 think are we doing anything wrong as journalists no no no no no no it was the viewers they need to be

00:37:55.700 shut up they're the problem mac o is deal bh i don't know what that means but it's a name says 0.92

00:38:02.660 this whole conversation was a self-inflicted joke these people can't see that they are hilarious parody 0.99

00:38:07.300 themselves laughable oh yeah you know what that fifth generation settler colonist self-hating white 0.95

00:38:14.740 male apologist was so pitiful like if you really hate yourself so much why don't you resign and give 0.98

00:38:22.580 the job to someone who is i don't know racially or gender-wise superior to you like if you really 0.91

00:38:28.820 hate yourself why don't you quit unless it's all just bs calder 123a says she calls the new twitter

00:38:37.380 toxic but gives no examples of this alleged toxicity free speech for all is toxic also it's strange how

00:38:44.260 the left always babbles about diversity but seems no problem with limiting men who are nearly 50 percent

00:38:48.900 of the population just like their definition of diversity certainly doesn't include christian

00:38:52.900 conservatives yeah or just how about someone who's not from toronto how about someone who

00:39:00.180 is with independent media who has a different point of view um that's why they hate what's being done to

00:39:06.340 twitter actually if you believe the statistics the hate speech and the spam on twitter is reduced and

00:39:11.860 they've eliminated child porn in like one week they didn't eliminate it for 10 years under the previous

00:39:17.460 owners in one week elon musk eliminated so a lot of the toxicity is actually gone from twitter and

00:39:23.860 the result is more user engagement than ever before in twitter's history but they hate it because they know

00:39:30.580 that in twitter they don't get to control the conversation what you saw in that journalist

00:39:35.380 conference was a kind of guild a kind of you know we must create barriers to entry and not let

00:39:42.180 anyone else into the public square only we can condemn people only we can belittle people only

00:39:48.580 we can insult people in the moment they clap back we're calling the cops the lowest part of that whole

00:39:53.940 thing was sitting in the corner was the man paying for it all a liberal cabinet minister who happens to

00:39:59.060 be in charge of public safety and they repeatedly told him they wanted police to crack down on the mean 0.98

00:40:04.340 tweets and he nodded along dumbly he really is one of the dumbest guys in cabinet but the fact that you 0.97

00:40:09.220 consider yourself journalists and yet you are in league with the government shows you are not journalists 0.96

00:40:14.420 anymore you're propaganda men for the regime hey let me close with something really fun that i only saw on the

00:40:20.260 internet today someone went through the two and a half hours of that panel and spent a lot of time choosing

00:40:28.180 these great clips couple of them are put in out of order it's it's slightly tricky here but this is the funniest

00:40:33.220 thing i've seen online all day so let me leave you with this two minute highlight reel i

00:40:38.580 didn't make this i found this on twitter of that journalistic conference you'll get a real kick out

00:40:43.220 of it so i'll say goodbye to you now but take a look at this video after i say goodbye it really was

00:40:48.980 the highlight of my day until tomorrow on behalf of all of us here at rebel world headquarters to you

00:40:53.780 at home goodbye and keep fighting for freedom here's that vid i need to warn you that you're going to hear

00:41:00.980 some harsh disturbing language let me begin with the land acknowledgement as a fifth generation settler

00:41:09.780 and dismantle white supremacist colonial mindsets that journalists who are harassed online have

00:41:16.100 significantly more symptoms of anxiety depression and post-traumatic distress i went through a digital

00:41:23.780 lynching recently because i've been dealing with so much trolling that i actually disengaged and because

00:41:28.500 my brain doesn't work that great these days i wish this panel were more intersectional it does not

00:41:33.460 reflect an intersectional look i do not seek white men privileged white people especially like white

00:41:41.780 male journalists or white supremacists and that uh journalist i'm supposed to come here and act

00:41:49.620 properly and i would like to ask them if they know the definition of misogynoir it's a really tough 0.86

00:41:57.860 question which is misogyny against black women so media treats black women very poorly because as 1.00

00:42:05.460 journalists we're like constantly on twitter we're all about twitter when the queen died but i didn't

00:42:10.820 see many voices that wrote like i did who said well i'm glad the queen is dead and let me tell you why

00:42:17.780 so maybe i'll make a tick tock far right and the rise of the far right and i'm at the park with my dog

00:42:23.460 these are all either convoy people or convoy adjacent people i like pumpkin spice lattes you're 0.99

00:42:30.740 fucked you're straight up fucked maybe because i'm annoying or maybe just because i'm a journalist 0.99

00:42:37.940 how do you get those police officers to take this seriously 1.00

00:42:42.740 um but maybe that's a little something to think about you know i'm as white and middle-aged as

00:42:50.900 they get so i'm the poster boy for white privilege so i apologize for that

00:43:12.740 you

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