Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Ontario decides math is racist

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Today, I take you through Ontario's new math curriculum. I'm very excited

00:00:04.720 about it because there's not a lot of math in it, which is good for people who aren't good at math.

00:00:09.840 But it's not good for people who are good at math. And I think there's a little bit of weird

00:00:16.240 anti-math racism going on. If you wonder what the heck that could do with anything, well,

00:00:21.560 I'll tell you, I'll show you, I'll quote from the curriculum itself. You're not going to want to

00:00:26.180 miss this. But let me encourage you to get the video version of this podcast because I literally

00:00:30.020 take you line by line through the curriculum. And I don't think you're going to believe me

00:00:33.800 if you just hear me read it on a podcast. I want you to see with your eyes the curriculum from which

00:00:39.040 I read. We got some crazy math is racist thing going on in Ontario. I want to show it to you.

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00:01:07.340 Tonight, Ontario has decided that math is racist. So, like spelling, geography, and history,

00:01:28.680 they're pretty much taking it out of classes. It's July 12th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:33.740 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:39.640 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:43.700 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody

00:01:48.580 right to do so.

00:01:54.260 Hey, can I show you something? This is Canada's national team in the Math Olympics. That's a thing.

00:02:00.860 Smart kids.

00:02:04.760 Here's a team that was specifically for girls to encourage young women to go into math. This is

00:02:23.780 their team. It's more diverse. Anna Krokin, and then Elaine Liu, Jennifer Wang, and Emily Zhou.

00:02:33.980 Now, I've checked other years for this same team. The demographics are about the same.

00:02:41.160 Can I say it? It's mainly Chinese kids. I mean, that's just a fact. Why? 1.00

00:02:47.060 I have some theories, none of which are racist. A lot of these kids come from immigrant families

00:02:54.300 who take a very keen interest in their kids' education, who came to Canada for opportunity,

00:03:00.040 and they're not going to let their kids just slough it off. No gender studies or vegetarian 0.97

00:03:04.900 studies for their kids. No just playing video games and smoking pot all day. Study, study, study,

00:03:10.600 make the family proud. It's that immigrant mentality. And that's part of it. I think another part that's

00:03:16.960 related is if you immigrate to Canada, maybe your English isn't so strong. It's not your first

00:03:21.940 language. So perhaps math is something that you can excel at no matter what your native tongue is.

00:03:28.840 And a related answer, and I think this is important, is math is not subjective.

00:03:32.600 You either know the answer to a math question or you don't. There's no wiggle room.

00:03:36.660 There's no favoritism. It's a pure meritocracy. Other things in life aren't. It's about who you know,

00:03:43.980 not what you know. Does anyone believe that Justin Trudeau would be our prime minister now

00:03:48.380 if he didn't have any of the luck of being Pierre Trudeau's son? Math doesn't work that way. You know

00:03:54.720 it or you don't. So those are three theories as to why Canada's math teams are overwhelmingly Asian.

00:04:03.960 Frankly, I'll tell you that out of ethnic pride, I had hoped to see a Jew on one of those teams, but

00:04:09.540 I guess it wasn't to be. This does cause some policy issues in places that care about race-based 0.92

00:04:16.020 outcomes. One of the most racist places in the world these days are universities. So whether this

00:04:22.800 is nurture or nature, it's happening. Asian kids are great at math and science. So if you're a school

00:04:28.220 that insists on checking people's race and having racial proportions in the name of affirmative action

00:04:35.220 or whatever you're doing or whatever you're calling you now, you're going to have to discriminate against

00:04:39.340 Asians. It happens like crazy in elite schools. California is the worst. They explicitly penalize

00:04:46.840 Asian kids. They make them have to have much higher test scores to get into school. You know, they used to 1.00

00:04:53.280 do that to Jews too, even here in Canada. About 70 years ago or so, they limited the number of Jewish kids who

00:04:59.620 were admitted to, for example, McGill for the law school and the med school. Now they're doing that

00:05:04.780 to Asians. My point is math isn't just not racist. Math is anti-racist. Math is where you can go for a

00:05:15.780 refuge from racism. Because math doesn't care if you're black or white or Asian or Jewish or Gentile or

00:05:22.000 whatever it is, a meritocracy. So imagine saying that math is racist. Well, if that idea is new to you,

00:05:31.220 you haven't been paying attention. Focusing on the correct answer in maths is racist. That's from the

00:05:39.160 Times of London. That's the theory. It's not just some crackpot pundit who's saying that. It's part of a

00:05:44.240 massive program bankrolled in part by Bill Gates, of course, to racialize math instruction. Here's how the

00:05:51.340 Times Union describes it. They say, objectivity is particularly toxic, and practices that perpetuate

00:05:58.940 and reinforce objectivity must be dismantled. Focusing on the right answer can lead to underdeveloped

00:06:04.700 reasoning skills and a failure to grasp the complexities of math. Consistent with this,

00:06:10.540 perfectionism is to be dismantled, as it also places too much value on getting it right.

00:06:16.220 The notion that new learning comes from the teacher is a paternalistic, power-hoarding method

00:06:20.720 to perpetuate white supremacy. That's a pretty good summary of it. They're criticizing it,

00:06:26.160 but that's a great way to sum up this new math business. Now, let's stop for a moment to remind

00:06:31.060 you why math is important. Not for everyone, I acknowledge. I mean, if most people don't know

00:06:36.700 math, the worst that's going to happen is, I don't know, they don't know how to live within a budget or

00:06:40.620 how to do their taxes or they don't know how to count their change or they get bamboozled by some

00:06:45.240 payment plan or don't understand their credit card interest, for example.

00:06:50.660 But if you're trying to be excellent in math, like those math Olympians who are not even that great, 0.96

00:06:55.220 but just really good so maybe you can get a certain job in engineering or architecture or something,

00:07:01.040 if you get it wrong, you could have a high-rise fall down or a bridge fall down. In fact,

00:07:07.520 that's the story behind the iron ring that engineers wear. It's allegedly made from the steel of a bridge

00:07:13.820 that fell down because of bad math. It's like an airline pilot or a brain surgeon. You want the

00:07:19.780 best person, no matter if they're male or female or whatever their race, please don't mess around

00:07:25.560 with those things, okay? Which brings me to the atrocious government of Ontario. We already know.

00:07:31.300 They don't care about schools. I think they're the last jurisdiction in North America to still ban

00:07:36.900 children from going to schools in person using the pandemic as the excuse. Seriously, they're on

00:07:42.460 Zoom calls all day. No schools, no kids' sports. And it's not even certain that'll end this September.

00:07:49.300 Kids who have the lowest mortality rate for this virus are being punished by the lockdown itself

00:07:54.240 in Ontario. And the biggest children's hospital in Ontario says it's causing an epidemic of

00:07:59.100 depression and suicide, but the Ontario Conservative government doesn't give a damn.

00:08:03.760 So really what I'm talking about should not come as a surprise to you. They don't really care 0.58

00:08:07.940 about school to begin with. But here is the Ontario math curriculum for grade nine.

00:08:14.560 You know you're in trouble when the word algebra appears just once, but the phrase human rights

00:08:21.460 appears five times. I counted. Human rights, equity, and inclusive education in mathematics

00:08:28.320 research indicates that there are groups of students. For example, indigenous students,

00:08:33.260 black students, students experiencing homelessness, students living in poverty,

00:08:38.500 students with LGBTQ plus identities, students with special education needs and disabilities

00:08:44.380 who continue to experience systematic barriers to accessing high level instruction in and support

00:08:52.020 with learning mathematics. Let me just stop for a moment. Are they saying that gay people are bad

00:08:59.880 at math? Where did that come from? And why are we even talking about this? Why are we defining entire racial 0.99

00:09:06.780 and demographic groups as victims and saying they can't learn? What are we doing? This is math, people.

00:09:13.980 Students bring abundant cultural knowledges, experiences, and competencies into mathematical learning.

00:09:20.820 Okay, what's that got to do with algebra or the Pythagorean theorem or a long division or fractions?

00:09:26.060 In mathematics classrooms, teachers also provide opportunities for cross-curricular learning

00:09:32.760 and for teaching about human rights to create anti-racist, anti-discriminatory learning environments.

00:09:38.600 All educators must be committed to equity and inclusion and to upholding and promoting the human rights of every learner.

00:09:45.600 Hey, guys, sorry to interrupt. I think I might have found our problem here.

00:09:49.940 I think I might have found out why all these victim groups are doing so poorly in math.

00:09:56.640 I think it's because we're not teaching them math.

00:10:01.380 Challenging Eurocentric ideas about learning mathematics is key to a CRRP approach.

00:10:07.220 That's cross-cultural or something, something.

00:10:10.260 In an anti-racist and anti-discriminatory environment, teachers know that there is more than one way to develop a solution.

00:10:16.080 And students are exposed to multiple ways of knowing and encouraged to explore multiple ways of finding answers.

00:10:23.420 I'm going to send all those Chinese kids a stern letter for them to stop using Eurocentric ideas about math. 1.00

00:10:31.300 Put aside all the BS language for a moment.

00:10:33.900 This is where it gets real. Look at this.

00:10:36.380 An equitable mathematics curriculum recognizes that mathematics can be subjective.

00:10:40.940 Mathematics is often positioned as an object of impure discipline.

00:10:46.280 However, the content and the context in which it is taught, the mathematicians who are celebrated,

00:10:51.240 and the importance that is placed upon mathematics by society are subjective.

00:10:55.780 Mathematics has been used to normalize racism and marginalization of non-Eurocentric mathematical knowledges.

00:11:02.460 And a decolonial, anti-racist approach to mathematics education makes visible its historical roots and social constructions.

00:11:12.680 The Ontario Grade 9 mathematics curriculum emphasizes the need to recognize and challenge systems of power and privilege,

00:11:20.800 both inside and outside the classroom,

00:11:22.360 in order to eliminate systemic barriers and to serve students belonging to groups that have been historically disadvantaged and understood in mathematics education.

00:11:33.480 But they said math is subjective.

00:11:36.420 That is not correct.

00:11:37.260 Two plus two is not five.

00:11:39.200 There's no wiggle room.

00:11:41.640 I don't know why they're doing this.

00:11:42.960 One answer, for real,

00:11:44.900 is anti-Asian racism.

00:11:47.820 Stop the kids

00:11:48.820 who keep getting the right answers

00:11:50.680 from winning all the time.

00:11:51.900 I really think there's a lot of anti-Asian racism involved.

00:11:56.720 Another reason is it's easier for the teachers.

00:11:59.360 It's easier to teach this political BS

00:12:01.760 than to teach calculus.

00:12:03.520 That's tough.

00:12:04.540 It's easier to mark and give out grades.

00:12:06.820 You just hand out marks based on feelings,

00:12:08.520 not on achievement.

00:12:11.220 Hey, can you do me a favor?

00:12:12.540 If any graduate from this curriculum

00:12:14.260 wants to design a bridge or a high-rise,

00:12:16.980 can you stop them?

00:12:19.240 Stay with us for more.

00:12:21.900 What do you think would you do? 1.00

00:12:23.460 Let's shoot. 0.98

00:12:30.720 How do you do it with theвигinups? 0.99

00:12:32.780 Go do you do it! 0.93

00:12:36.760 Come do you do it!

00:12:37.260 Very exciting, very encouraging, very inspiring.

00:13:01.060 If you heard, they were saying libertad, which is Spanish for liberty.

00:13:05.280 I don't know if you saw, there was an American flag there.

00:13:07.520 Those are protesters in the prison island of Cuba doing something that is illegal in Cuba.

00:13:13.700 They're speaking against the communist regime.

00:13:16.740 I love to see those people, but I'm terrified for them

00:13:19.580 because I fear that they may face a fate that others who have protested have found on Cuba,

00:13:25.700 imprisonment or even death.

00:13:27.360 It reminds me in some way of the protests in Hong Kong,

00:13:31.880 which were suppressed, or God forbid, the protests in Tiananmen Square.

00:13:38.160 This is the first time in memory there have been mass protests in the streets

00:13:43.340 against the Castro regime.

00:13:46.380 It's a remarkable moment, and the Biden White House chose to mark it by downplaying it.

00:13:54.240 Let me read to you a tweet by a very minor official, which in itself says something.

00:14:00.720 Julie Chung is the acting assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs.

00:14:06.400 You couldn't get any lower on the totem pole than that.

00:14:08.920 And she says,

00:14:09.620 We commend the numerous efforts of the Cuban people mobilizing donations to help neighbors in need.

00:14:30.520 Do they have the right to peaceful assembly in Cuba?

00:14:36.140 Was this really they were mad against COVID cases?

00:14:41.080 The New York Times followed Julia Chung's lead.

00:14:46.220 They say those protesters were protesting against not any person or dictatorship.

00:14:51.860 They were denouncing misery,

00:14:54.880 hoping that misery would perhaps hear their chants and see their placards,

00:14:58.840 and that misery would decide that it was wrong. 0.93

00:15:01.700 What a ridiculous approach to freedom protests.

00:15:06.140 Joining us now via Skype from California is our friend Joel Pollack, 0.59

00:15:09.760 senior editor-at-large at Breitbart.com.

00:15:12.520 Joel, I don't think they were protesting a lack of vaccines, although they may want them.

00:15:18.160 I don't think they were protesting against someone called Mr. Misery.

00:15:22.340 But holy cow, was that quite some response by the New York Times and the Biden White House, wasn't it?

00:15:28.840 Well, let me give them a little bit more credit.

00:15:32.540 The rest of the article in the Times is clear that the protests were against the communist regime.

00:15:39.280 So while the headline tried to spin it in a way that was about general economic malaise,

00:15:45.640 frustration with coronavirus, which is, after all, something all of us feel,

00:15:49.520 the article itself made it clear that activists believe this is the most significant outpouring of popular outrage

00:15:55.340 since 1959 when Fidel Castro led the revolution.

00:15:59.360 So the article itself was better.

00:16:00.940 Often with these mainstream media outlets, these establishment outlets,

00:16:03.660 you find that the headline is terrible and the truth is buried somewhere inside the article.

00:16:08.400 So you have to read five or six paragraphs down, but they eventually get to the point.

00:16:11.800 This is an anti-communist protest.

00:16:13.900 As for the Biden administration, the official that you mentioned,

00:16:19.780 I don't know if it's entirely her fault that her tweet was so weak, but yes,

00:16:23.220 her message was abysmally poor as people are marching in their thousands against a communist regime

00:16:30.540 to tell the world that you empathize with their concern over COVID death cases or whatever.

00:16:36.900 However, it's like saying that the protest in Cuba is very much like the outrage of Democrats in America

00:16:45.960 against President Donald Trump during the coronavirus.

00:16:48.560 It's an extension of the Biden campaign message,

00:16:50.860 and it's an attempt to circumvent any kind of discussion about Obama's policy in Cuba,

00:16:57.280 which Biden supported, of normalizing relations with the regime.

00:17:01.340 So they tried to paint it as some kind of a health protest.

00:17:04.340 Now, I don't know that it necessarily helps the left to paint it as a health protest.

00:17:09.020 We've been told for decades that the great achievement of Cuban communism was its health care system,

00:17:14.420 that Cuba was so successful in health care that the Cuban regime was able to export doctors

00:17:19.420 who, it turned out, were working essentially as slaves for the regime abroad.

00:17:23.660 But nevertheless, Cuban health care was held up as the example.

00:17:26.980 So for the left to resort as a last-ditch argument to the idea that the protests are about health care

00:17:33.320 doesn't really help their long-term cause of propping up the Cuban communist regime.

00:17:37.580 But the fact is that the protests were against communism.

00:17:41.820 They weren't about COVID cases.

00:17:43.980 And I think the Biden White House went some way toward repairing some of the damage

00:17:47.980 by issuing a much more strongly worded statement,

00:17:50.840 you know, the stereotypical strongly worded statement on Monday.

00:17:55.520 Now, it doesn't really mean they're going to do anything.

00:17:57.500 And I think if Biden fails to take this opportunity, it will be a real error,

00:18:02.080 because this is a chance to oust the regime.

00:18:05.080 The Castros essentially are gone, but communism remains.

00:18:08.420 It's kind of an empty hulk.

00:18:10.040 And the people of Cuba are showing us that they're brave enough to take on the regime.

00:18:14.400 This is a moment of immense weakness for Cuban communism.

00:18:18.820 And once you deal with Cuba, you can enable freedom. 0.99

00:18:22.480 And in Venezuela, you can do so many other things.

00:18:25.220 This is an amazing moment.

00:18:26.680 I hope the Biden administration will seize it.

00:18:28.960 Yeah, I think you're right.

00:18:30.140 I mean, put aside the partisan questions.

00:18:33.000 I mean, I think it's awful.

00:18:33.960 Like you say, it undermines the Democrats' message.

00:18:36.380 I think it strengthens Republicans in Florida,

00:18:39.080 where there's a lot of refugees from Cuba and Venezuela.

00:18:43.040 And I think the Republicans picked up a lot of support from them.

00:18:46.960 That's why that state, I think, went red.

00:18:49.720 But you're right.

00:18:50.560 This isn't just about Democrats or Republicans.

00:18:52.440 This is about a prison island that I know Canadians like to go there for cheap vacations. 1.00

00:18:58.340 But it is like a prisoner's island where they have some pretty beaches.

00:19:03.060 So Canadians get cheap vacations instead of going to Hawaii or Mexico.

00:19:06.820 And wouldn't that be amazing to end?

00:19:09.680 And just talk about a country that, if it was liberated, all the Cuban Americans who have made it big would go and fix up their homeland and pour wealth in it. 1.00

00:19:23.440 Not through some government marshal plan, but that country could thrive again.

00:19:30.040 You're right.

00:19:30.400 This is a wonderful moment.

00:19:31.820 Now, I agree with you that Biden did undo some of the damage today.

00:19:37.480 Joe, let me play you two clips.

00:19:38.580 The first is from Jen Psaki, who just can't let go of this COVID line.

00:19:45.420 Here's a little exchange from the White House Press Gallery.

00:19:47.820 And then on Cuba, you're talking today about how some of these protests are inspired by people exhausted with the government.

00:19:55.780 Why is it that yesterday the State Department was saying that this was all happening out of concern about rising COVID cases?

00:20:02.400 Well, I would say first that the protests were just happening yesterday.

00:20:07.340 We're still assessing what is motivating and, of course, and driving all of the individuals who came to the streets.

00:20:13.380 But we know that when we say exhaustion, the manner by which the people of Cuba are governed, that can cover a range of issues,

00:20:23.160 whether it's economic suppression, media suppression, lack of access to health and medical supplies, including vaccines.

00:20:30.860 There are a range of reasons and voices we're hearing from people on the ground who are protesting.

00:20:35.180 So when these protesters are yelling freedom and enough, there are people within the administration who think they are saying freedom from rising COVID cases.

00:20:43.440 Again, I would say that when people are out there in the streets protesting and complaining about the lack of access to economic prosperity,

00:20:54.040 to the medical supplies they need, to a life they deserve to live, that can take on a range of meetings.

00:21:00.260 There's a global pandemic right now.

00:21:02.120 Most people in that country don't have access to vaccines.

00:21:04.700 That certainly is something we'd love to help with.

00:21:06.880 Go ahead.

00:21:07.620 Yeah, I just think that's tone deaf.

00:21:09.780 Joel, let me play one more clip for you from Joe Biden, and I'm going to bring you back in, Joel.

00:21:14.240 So here's Joe Biden, who I think is marginally better.

00:21:17.160 Take a listen.

00:21:18.660 Folks, I want to start by recognizing the remarkable protests that are taking place in Cuba.

00:21:24.700 The Cuban people demanding their freedom from an authoritarian regime.

00:21:29.700 And I don't think we've seen anything like this protest in a long, long time, if quite frankly ever.

00:21:37.920 And the United States stands firmly with the people of Cuba as they assert their universal rights.

00:21:45.420 And we call on the government, the government of Cuba, to refrain from violence.

00:21:49.940 There are attempts to silence the voice of the people of Cuba.

00:21:53.160 So I was just taking some notes there, Joel.

00:21:55.720 Joe Biden called Cuba an authoritarian regime and called on the government to refrain from violence or silencing the voices.

00:22:04.480 That's getting firmer.

00:22:06.280 And he wasn't talking about COVID vaccines there.

00:22:08.800 So I say that was an improvement over 48 hours ago.

00:22:12.620 So three things that you can learn from just those two video clips.

00:22:17.300 One is that Joe Biden has long had a more hawkish personal view on Cuba than the Obama administration would allow.

00:22:26.220 During the 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden claimed that he had been tough on Castro.

00:22:30.940 That was not true as regards his behavior during the Obama administration.

00:22:34.540 It was true with regard to his behavior in the Senate.

00:22:38.200 When Joe Biden was a senator, he had a much tougher policy on Cuba.

00:22:41.480 He then shelved that policy as he was part of the Obama administration, stood right by Barack Obama during the normalization of relations with the Cuban regime.

00:22:51.060 And Jill Biden even went to soccer matches and so forth with Cuba. 1.00

00:22:56.040 So they were part of this normalization.

00:22:58.960 Now you're seeing Joe Biden revert to his prior policy.

00:23:02.780 But that's one part of this.

00:23:05.160 The other part is that Joe Biden doesn't work on Sundays.

00:23:07.520 It's really interesting how much less activity there is at the White House on Saturday and Sunday.

00:23:13.520 And I think part of the problem here is that they just could not raise the guy on Sunday to make any kind of a statement.

00:23:19.140 They had this junior official roll out some boilerplate about COVID cases because Joe Biden is not like Donald Trump.

00:23:25.740 Joe Biden does not react to things in the moment.

00:23:28.100 He's not on board fully 24-7.

00:23:30.900 He is doing whatever he needs to do to store up energy for the week, but he's not always at the helm.

00:23:38.540 So that's another reason you saw a response that was very lackluster initially from the administration.

00:23:44.120 And the third thing is you see Jen Psaki trying to square those two different kinds of statements. 1.00

00:23:48.460 On the one hand, about COVID cases on Sunday and then on Monday talking about freedom and the right to protest and so forth.

00:23:54.720 And what she says, if you watch the whole briefing, is that President Biden's constantly being briefed about this or that.

00:24:03.620 She's constantly at pains to reassure the reporters that Biden is being told about everything.

00:24:08.100 Her language implies that he's not really running most things.

00:24:12.280 And I'm not making a statement necessarily about his mental capacity and that kind of thing.

00:24:16.320 But I do think the Biden administration is run by committee, that there are people at a senior level, many of whom are veterans from the Obama administration, like Psaki, like Susan Rice, people from the Clinton administration, both Clinton administrations, Clinton administration that would have been if Hillary had won.

00:24:32.660 And, of course, Bill Clinton's administration.

00:24:34.900 I think people are sitting around and they bat these issues around.

00:24:40.100 And I do think there's a reluctance among some of the people in the room to acknowledge that Obama's outreach to Cuba was a failure.

00:24:45.540 The demonstrators in the street are telling the world that the regime itself is the problem.

00:24:51.060 That flies in the face of Obama's assumption.

00:24:53.460 Obama went along with the idea that it was the American embargo that was the problem.

00:24:57.760 It was the American resistance to the communist regime that caused poverty.

00:25:01.680 And there are a lot of Democrats, not left-wing crazies, but real solid party members for whom Cuba is always a little romantic spot in their imaginations.

00:25:11.680 They want to preserve the idea that socialism can work in some place, maybe if you have nice weather, let's say, not like Russia or something.

00:25:19.300 And they want to hold on to the idea that it's only because of American intransigence that Cuba has suffered and failed.

00:25:25.140 Well, this is the reason that Psaki is dancing around when you see Peter Doocy of Fox News ask her those very direct questions.

00:25:33.340 She's trying to square the two different statements Sunday to Monday, but she's also trying to represent a very divided group that is making the key decisions in the Biden administration.

00:25:44.920 Very interesting. And you're so right. I mean, we're used to Donald Trump.

00:25:51.280 You know, he would play a few rounds of golf throughout the year.

00:25:55.160 But other than that, I don't think he ever took a vacation.

00:25:59.020 He would never take a vacation.

00:26:00.720 He just didn't. And even when he was playing golf, it was either, you know, play a game of golf, but then he was working out of Mar-a-Lago or whatever.

00:26:10.800 And, you know, he was writing his own tweets. I think we all know that.

00:26:15.140 So and those never stopped. And those and you could even see when he got up and went to bed because, you know, that's when the tweet stopped or started again.

00:26:23.780 The guy was never off. He was never low energy.

00:26:27.660 I mean, he invented that phrase, high energy, low. He he called his critics low energy.

00:26:32.420 Joe Biden is snooze button like you're you're right. He just I think you're exactly right.

00:26:37.480 I think they didn't know what to say on the weekend. They knew they had to say something.

00:26:42.140 And so they rolled out the lowest key person they could just to avoid.

00:26:46.540 I don't think it's going to work. I don't think you can be the president of the United States of America in these crazy times and work a 35 hour work week.

00:26:57.100 Yeah, Donald Trump would combine his leisure activities with his work.

00:27:02.040 So he never really took a vacation and play a round of golf and go right back to work.

00:27:05.580 He doesn't seem to need much sleep either. But one thing is certain.

00:27:08.820 He was absolutely clear about the need for freedom in Cuba and Iran and other places.

00:27:15.220 Another thing that's also interesting that a lot of Americans are noticing is that the Cubans are marching with the American flag,

00:27:22.480 as are demonstrators in Hong Kong and demonstrators in Iran when they can.

00:27:28.300 And it's interesting that the American flag is still the freedom symbol for people who are oppressed around the world.

00:27:35.240 Our own elite doesn't seem to think so. You know, our some of our Olympic athletes don't want to stand for the anthem and some of our highly paid professional athletes want to kneel when they fly the flag at a football game.

00:27:45.200 But the people who really care about freedom still believe in the American flag.

00:27:49.360 It's very interesting.

00:27:50.640 Yeah, I think it was the New York Times just the other day saying the New York, the American flag is now a divisive symbol.

00:27:56.840 They have this whole story about how only sort of hicks and hillbillies fly it.

00:28:01.880 But I don't think those are hicks and hillbillies in Havana or Hong Kong or other places like that.

00:28:08.680 You know, you just said something and I've just been thinking about it, that Jen Psaki is going to lengths to assure reporters that Biden's being briefed on things. 0.99

00:28:18.200 I don't think anyone had to reassure people that Trump was being briefed.

00:28:24.880 Trump would grill people. Trump would have a command of certain not on every issue.

00:28:28.480 I mean, it's the same way with our former prime minister, Stephen Harper.

00:28:32.600 You felt that he had total command of the file, at least of those things that really that he really cared about.

00:28:38.820 Like it was so clear that Trump was intimately involved in any foreign affairs negotiation, whether it was the USMCA trade deal or with the North Korean deal or with NATO.

00:28:51.720 Like Trump, you know, was he briefed? Yeah, but he could give the briefing.

00:28:55.720 So you wouldn't have to have had a spokesman saying, hey, guys, I just want to let you know, we really did brief Donald Trump on this really well today.

00:29:04.420 Like people would say, why are you telling us that the fact that Jen Psaki has to reassure people is, in fact, the strongest proof that it's not happening.

00:29:12.540 I don't know. I just I'm just worried about it. And you're right. There's a hollowness.

00:29:16.220 Let me ask you one last question. I put this to to our viewers the other day.

00:29:19.480 I think that Kamala Harris would like Joe Biden to retire before the end of his term so that she can try on the clothes of president, 1.00

00:29:30.240 both to head off a serious challenge in the Democratic presidential primary and also so she could go into the general election saying, no, I am a president.

00:29:40.960 I've actually done it. So you don't have to try hard to imagine it. You you've seen it.

00:29:48.420 How about that tension in the White House? I know some pundits say there's tension between Team Harris and Team Biden.

00:29:56.420 Do you think that's just gossip or do you think it's real?

00:30:01.000 I don't think the tension is between Team Harris and Team Biden.

00:30:04.220 I think it's between Team Harris and the Democratic Party.

00:30:06.580 The Democratic Party wants Kamala Harris to know that she works for them, that they're the ones who put her in power. 1.00

00:30:12.620 It's not even Joe Biden. She was selected to add to the ticket, but she ran a terrible campaign. 0.93

00:30:19.060 She was on a road to political oblivion. 0.61

00:30:21.480 She is supposed to do what the party tells her to do.

00:30:25.800 What's interesting is that the Joe Biden administration has given Kamala Harris the most unenviable and unaccomplishable tasks in the administration, 1.00

00:30:32.740 like securing the border, for example, or dealing with the border when they don't enforce the border laws.

00:30:39.080 She is not allowed to succeed. She's been given assignments in which she can only fail.

00:30:45.620 And that's interesting. That's not necessarily a Biden decision.

00:30:50.080 Initially, I think the approach to her was to give her no particular portfolio.

00:30:53.960 So she looked like she could train for the job in general. 1.00

00:30:57.300 She could attend every meeting, look over his shoulder.

00:30:59.320 She looked more like a president in waiting. But then she got this border job. 1.00

00:31:03.160 She started getting other jobs as well, which are very specific in particular and which cannot be done well.

00:31:08.280 They just can't. So it looks to me like someone in the Democratic Party or in that politburo, for lack of a better term,

00:31:15.200 that's running the administration. Somebody decided she was getting too big for her britches. 1.00

00:31:18.520 And they have decided to undermine her by giving her assignments that make her look bad.

00:31:22.940 She knows she's getting the worst assignments.

00:31:25.060 Now you're seeing leaks to the press that her staff are unhappy.

00:31:28.600 I think Kamala Harris would love Joe Biden to step down because it is the only way that she will gain some leverage in this situation. 1.00

00:31:35.920 I don't know that she's a shoo-in for 2024, even if she is the president running for re-election or for election, I guess,

00:31:42.740 since she won't have been elected at the first term. 0.97

00:31:44.780 But it depends on what happens in these midterms.

00:31:47.400 I think if the Biden administration loses one or both houses of Congress,

00:31:53.060 I think that not even Kamala Harris is going to be able to save the party.

00:31:57.380 And there will be a primary challenge.

00:31:59.880 They'll look for another stronger candidate.

00:32:02.500 Very interesting.

00:32:03.640 Well, Joel, it's great to catch up with you.

00:32:05.280 Thank you for joining us, as you always do.

00:32:07.320 And you covered the Democrats so well in the last presidential primary.

00:32:12.560 I can hardly wait to see you cover this administration in the months and years ahead.

00:32:17.300 Take care of yourself.

00:32:17.880 Thanks for your time.

00:32:18.960 Thank you.

00:32:19.660 All right.

00:32:19.980 There you have it.

00:32:20.420 Joel Pollack, senior editor at large of Breitbart.com.

00:32:22.940 Stay with us.

00:32:23.760 More ahead.

00:32:35.720 Hey, welcome back.

00:32:36.700 Your letters.

00:32:37.480 Alfonso writes,

00:32:38.480 The vaccines are experimental and for emergency use only.

00:32:41.700 The long-term consequences and side effects are yet to be determined.

00:32:45.480 Why would you need a booster of the unknown?

00:32:48.500 Yeah, I mean, I just really think that if this was any other lobby group,

00:32:53.500 any other billion-dollar industry, we would be very skeptical.

00:32:58.500 We would be grilling these executives.

00:33:00.740 We're cheering for billionaire oligarchs now who aren't.

00:33:05.200 I mean, listen, billionaires are billionaires.

00:33:06.600 Some of them give us something of great value.

00:33:08.540 This is being forced on us.

00:33:10.140 They're billionaires because this is mandatory.

00:33:12.680 Where's the skepticism?

00:33:15.140 Paul writes,

00:33:16.240 Huge victory for Redeemer.

00:33:17.740 Great to see.

00:33:18.700 You're talking about that Redeemer University.

00:33:21.420 You're right.

00:33:21.880 It was great to see.

00:33:22.920 I was quite surprised because the courts are not friendly to Christian institutions.

00:33:27.560 And not only to give them a win, but to give them six figures in legal expenses.

00:33:32.720 I've never heard of that before.

00:33:34.040 But you heard the crazy news there that even though they won in court,

00:33:39.220 they're still being given the runaround by the government.

00:33:41.280 They're getting their summer jobs funding six months after the summer's over. 0.75

00:33:45.260 It's just ridiculous.

00:33:46.900 Well, that's our show for today.

00:33:48.360 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:33:51.220 to you at home, good night.

00:33:52.640 Keep fighting for freedom.

00:33:53.580 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - July 13, 2021

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