Ezra Levant's Battleground： May 14 2018
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Summary
On May 14th, President Donald Trump moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, officially recognizing it as the capital of Israel. Meanwhile, a knife-wielding man in Paris stabs a bunch of folks before being shot by police, shouting Allah Akbar.
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I'm Edsel Levan, it's May 14th, and you're watching Battleground. Sorry we're a couple
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minutes late. That's how it is in live TV, unlike our produced shows at 8 p.m. Eastern time. Great
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to see you again. It's May 14th, which happens to be the Independence Day for the State of Israel,
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and it's also the day that Donald Trump chose to officially commemorate, or lay the cornerstone,
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in fact, of the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, the capital of the modern state of Israel and
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the eternal capital of the Jewish people since biblical times. You know, it's a striking,
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groundbreaking, momentous event, but it really shouldn't be. I mean, why is it strange that you
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have your embassy in the capital city of a foreign country, where they say their capital city is,
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in no other country in the world would we reject their choice of the capital in favor of an enemy's
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choice of the capital, and that's really what it was. I should know, I'm going to play some clips
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from that today. We're going to talk about a few other things, including a great video
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from Brazil of a woman using her own handgun, concealed carry, to stop a would-be robber.
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It's just a great video. It's only about 10 seconds long, but I got to show it to you
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at least twice. We want to talk also about John Kerry. While Donald Trump is busy moving the embassy
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to Jerusalem and Israel, John Kerry is busy meeting with an enemy of the West, namely the senior
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diplomats of the Islamic Republic of Iran, desperately trying to salvage Iran's position
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against Donald Trump's changes there. Also have some information on the latest from the religion
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of peace. A gun, sorry, a knife man in Paris stabs a bunch of folks, kills one before being shot by
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police, shouting Allah Akbar. The various media, though, they're still hunting for the reason
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why he could have done what he did. And of course, we'll wrap up as we often do with
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Teen Vogue, which is my favorite go-to for politics. But without further ado, let me start
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by playing. We've got, I think, one or two clips. Here is an image from Donald Trump. He was not
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there in person in Jerusalem, opening the, I don't know, ribbon cutting and foundation stone,
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an official, an official thing for moving the embassy to Jerusalem. Almost immediately after
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declaring statehood in 1948, Israel designated the city of Jerusalem as its capital, the capital
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the Jewish people established in ancient times. So important. Today, Jerusalem is the seat of Israel's
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government. It is the home of the Israeli legislature and the Israeli Supreme Court and Israel's prime
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minister and president. Israel is a sovereign nation with the right like every other sovereign nation
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to determine its own capital. Yet for many years, we fail to acknowledge the obvious, the plain reality
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that Israel's capital is Jerusalem. On December 6, 2017, at my direction, the United States finally and
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officially recognized Jerusalem as the true capital of Israel.
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Pretty obvious. I mean, you put your embassy where the other country's capital is. As Trump, most matter-of-factly
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said, that's where the legislature is, the Knesset, that's where the Supreme Court is, that's where the
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prime minister and president is. I should say, while this is regarded as a breakthrough, and I suppose it
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is, presidents going back decades have all promised that they would do this too, including, I should
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mention, Barack Hussein Obama. He promised to move the embassy. It's sort of a tradition when you're in
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fundraising and campaigning mode, promise to move your embassy. That goes over well with Jewish donors
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and with the Christian Zionists and allies of Israel who are neither Jewish nor Zionists, Christians.
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But then just bring in what was called a waiver and say, well, you know what, there's very, very tense
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and very sensitive diplomatic moves afoot, so we can't do that. Well, Donald Trump isn't much for
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sensitive diplomatic and bureaucratic things, so he's the first candidate to actually live up to that
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pledge. And it was so interesting how little the sky fell. It's like when Donald Trump withdrew the United
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States from the UN Global Warming Scheme, the Paris Agreement, nothing happened. Nothing went wrong.
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There were no riots in the streets, even in the Middle East. No one really cared. I mean, yes, the
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Hamas-run Gaza Strip has some protests, some riots, some shots, some missiles, but they always do that.
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There has been no third intifada. There has been no war. No one cares. And it shows just how timid and
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foolish the establishment consensus has been. Donald Trump smashed that consensus just as he smashed
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the consensus on the right way to deal with North Korea and is doing with Iran. I want to show you
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a little bit from Benjamin Netanyahu. He is the prime minister of Israel, and here's what he said
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on today, that momentous day. What a glorious day. Remember this moment.
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President Trump, by recognizing history, you have made history.
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There were a lot of Americans there. Donald Trump himself was not. He has other things to do. The
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Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, was not. He has other things to do, probably related to Iran or North
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Korea. The Deputy Secretary of State was there, and of course, Jared and Ivanka Trump, who themselves
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are Jewish, by the way, so they probably had a personal connection. There were a lot of congressional
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and delegates there, politicians who are either supporters of Israel or have big Jewish
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constituencies. But look at this headline in Breitbart, and I've seen this confirmed in various
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other stories as well. Not a single Democrat attended the event. Democrats are a no-show for Jerusalem
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embassy move. I thought, can that possibly be true? That's written by our friend Joel Pollack.
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And I saw it from other sources, and I just find it almost impossible to believe, because, of course,
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historically, Democrats are the party of Jews the same way that the party of blacks and other
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minorities. And surely, if you're in sync with the Jewish people who care about the Jewish people who
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care about Israel, either for American reasons or Jewish reasons or Israeli reasons, you're going to go to
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the unveiling of the cornerstone for the embassy in Jerusalem. I mean, what's that really got to do
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with partisan stripe? Well, it's got a lot to do. Where is Chuck Schumer, the Jewish senator from New York,
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who obviously has an enormous Jewish population? Where are Democrats from Florida, from California,
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from Chicago, from Atlanta? There are a number of districts. I don't think there's any district in the
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United States that is majority Jewish. But you've got almost a million Jews in New York City alone.
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Where are the senior Democrats? Where's Bill de Blasio? Well, I think it's a statement that the
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Democrat Party is no longer for the Jews. Strangely, American Jews are still for the Democrats. I asked
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Joel Pollack about that on the show. I said, he was reporting to me, and I saw this report elsewhere,
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of just how Trump-mania has gripped Israel. There's banners, there's posters. The professional soccer team
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in Israel has renamed itself the Trump Squad. They've actually changed the name of their version of
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Manchester United or whatever to add the word Trump to it. That's how Trump-mania has taken over the country.
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It's not just this embassy move, which is symbolic, but it's also the Iran thing. Israeli Jews love
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Trump, but so far, U.S. Jews are loving the Democrats. Joel Pollack explained that, saying that
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people who are nominally or ethnically Jewish likely have other identities that are more primary to them
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and issues that are more primary to them than being Jewish or support for Israel, gun control, abortion.
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Basically, most American Jews are more liberal than they are Jewish. I've seen so many Jews who
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reflexively are anti-Trump, and they find some weird excuseology for not supporting him, even though he
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is by far the most pro-Israel president in memory, I suppose, since the State of Israel was created in
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this year's, but it mainly features clips from last year's. And you might recognize Jordan Peterson
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before his Big Shot book came out, and Doug Ford. Before we throw the clip, I just want to tell you,
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I saw over the weekend that Jordan Peterson spoke to a sellout crowd in London, England,
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at the Apollo Hammersmith Theater, which holds 5,000 people. You're selling out a theater with 5,000
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that is a rock star. Anyways, that's Jordan Peterson. I was just thinking about him because
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he was at our Rebel Live event this year. Professor Peterson is not going to be in town
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on June 2nd, but Lindsey Shepard, who you might say is a disciple or inspired by him.
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We're going to discuss topics that the political elites and the media party don't want us to
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Compassion isn't enough of a principle to guide the world by.
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Perhaps we are in better touch with the pulse of the country.
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We are in this fight with you, and you're all in this fight together.
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If you see over the last few years, there's been this populist movement going around the world.
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That's the status of the left at this point, is I don't know if you're the Onion or the New York Times.
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We're simply people with another point of view.
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My point is today is the last day for those early bird prices.
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I just want to say I see that Chaz 1422 has put up his comment, which is the Jews who are Democrats
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cannot be seen supporting borders in Israel because it will appear hypocritical
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There's something to that, that Jewish leftists who have an ethnic pride,
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a residual, vestigial pride in being Jews, accept Israel as a Jewish state, which is,
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that's what it's called, it's called a Jewish state.
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Their flag is the symbol of Judaism, the Star of David.
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In fact, I put it to you that Muslims in Israel have more civil rights than they do in any other
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Muslim country, but it is a, it's an ethnic state.
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It is not, Zionism is a form of ethnic nationalism, even more than religious nationalism.
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It's not a theocracy, but it's a, it's an ethnic democracy.
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I've been mean, I've been thinking about this for more than a year, doing a video called Jews
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for Borders, because as a Jew, I believe in borders for Israel, but I believe in them for
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What makes the United States and Canada and Britain and Germany and Sweden great is the,
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And you can't swamp, you can't swamp those countries with, with people who don't share
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Obviously, Canada and the United States have been settled, they've been colonized, settled,
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and have had immigration in a way that indigenous countries like the UK and Germany have not.
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But you need to, you need to, if you want to keep the characteristics of your country,
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you have to make sure that anyone who comes into your country shares those characteristics.
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If you simply allowed anyone who wants to come to Israel to come, the Jewish fact of Israel
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We're talking about the Middle East a lot because of course, today is the historical
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What a momentous occasion for the Israeli embassy move.
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I noticed that some other small countries are deciding to move their embassies as well.
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There's some little, really little countries that, that are almost, you know, many countries
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out of the 200 countries in the world, I'd say that fewer than 10 have gone along with
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But as Joel Pollack reminded us the other day when he reported to us from Jerusalem,
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even the, even Russia, the Russian Federation now refers to Israel as West Jerusalem as
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So, you know, they're reserving some questions about the final status of East Jerusalem, but
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So, while Donald Trump remakes the world, looks like he might, well, bring peace to the Korean
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peninsula for the first time in, what, 80, 70 years, is making changes in the Middle East
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and the supposed third rails of the region, oh, you can't, you can't put anything ahead
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of the Palestinians, you can't move the embassy, he's just doing it, nothing bad is happening.
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So, John Kerry, the former Secretary of State in Bill Clinton's second, sorry, in Barack
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Obama's second term, he is meeting furiously with Iranian senior politicians, and when I
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say politicians, they're dictators, of course, it's not a free country.
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Someone was in Paris and just happened to be sitting near, look at this, I want to read
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So, John Kerry just left a meeting at Lavon U in Paris with three Iranians, Iranians.
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A friend was sitting next to the table and heard John Kerry blasting real Donald Trump.
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The Iranians had a five-person security detail and left in diplomatic vehicles.
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Is he F-A-R-A, I think that's foreign agent something, something registered.
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So, and there's a picture of John Kerry walking away.
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So, this is someone who just happened to be in Paris and saw John Kerry meeting with
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And there's one more, there's some more images.
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So, someone in Paris saw the men, and this is, it looks like they're coming into a hotel,
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The one in front is certainly Kamal Karazai, Iran regime's foreign minister from 1997 to
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The one behind the door looks very similar to Alborgasm Delphi, current ambassador to
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Please bear in mind, these people aren't diplomats.
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Okay, that last point is certainly a strong opinion, but there's some truth to it.
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I don't think these individual men themselves would, you know, be pulling the trigger or
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But, of course, Iran is the world's largest sponsor, state sponsor of terrorism.
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They've bombed places around the world, including in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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I mean, it's given that anyone who is negotiating with Iran now in, you know, unauthorized negotiations
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in Paris in 2018 or authorized negotiations during the entire Obama regime under Kerry
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and Hillary Clinton before him, of course they were dealing with a terrorist state.
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What's interesting today is not that Iran's a terrorist state.
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What's interesting is that even as Donald Trump has changed course on Iran, has said he's
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pulling out of Obama's deal with Iran as he's moving to bring sanctions back, that
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John Kerry is actively undermining U.S. foreign policy and literally meeting with the enemy
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Now, that's actually subject to a U.S. law called the Logan Act.
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We had John Cardillo talk about that with us last week, and he did a special show about
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My point is, imagine if the shoe was on the other foot.
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Well, you don't need to imagine when General Flynn, part of Donald Trump's transition team,
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simply made a phone call to the Russians saying, hey, we're going to be taking office soon,
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just want to introduce myself, don't make any sudden moves, we'll talk to you when we're
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That spurred this whole Mueller inquisition because of a legitimate phone call made in the authorized
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part of Donald Trump's transition campaign, whereas here you have John Kerry deliberately
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being contrary to America's interests with legal impunity.
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I'm going to take another comment or two, but I do have three more things I want to show
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you, including a great video taken from security cameras in Brazil.
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Spencer J. Ezra heard a terrorist found not guilty in Toronto because of a mental illness
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But, and I have no doubt that there is mental illness.
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It's mental illness combined with jihad because of he, of course, he walked into a Canadian
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So maybe it was mental illness that took away any self-control, but it was jihad that gave
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So I think we ought to be careful about simply labeling any jihadist attack crazy because only
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That's sort of like the Soviet idea that, no, no, we don't have any crime.
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Well, because to commit a crime, you've got to be crazy.
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We don't want to get into a circular reasoning where, wow, this attack is so crazy.
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They must be crazy because only a crazy person doesn't attack because that was our premise.
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He may have been mentally ill, but I don't think we should use that as a catch-all because
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That's an excuse to avoid the pathology of the jihadist movement itself.
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Speaking of terrorists, unfortunately, there was a terrorist attack again in Paris.
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Hundreds of Frenchmen have been killed in the last five years, not just in the Bataclan
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But one of the most horrific attacks was an ISIS terrorist who got behind the wheel of
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a very large truck in Nice, France, on their Independence Day, the Bastille Day.
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And all the roads were shut down because it was like everyone was gathered along the roads
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So a couple of years ago, this terrorist got behind the wheel of a truck and not just like
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a little pickup truck or a halftone, but almost like a semi truck, like a truck with a lot
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And he barreled down for miles and he murdered more than 80 people and injured more than 400.
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So he murdered or wounded close to 500 people with his truck before he was finally stopped because
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It was like a bowling ball knocking down pin after pin after pin, but a bowling ball with
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Knife man kills one before being shot by police.
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A knife man has killed one person and wounded four in a suspected terror attack in central
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French officials say the attacker was then shot dead by police.
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In the Opera District, witnesses say they heard him shout, Allah Akbar, so-called Islamic
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state, later said one of its soldiers had carried out the attack on Saturday evening.
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Well, what's so interesting here, I think this is BBC, that they actually use the word
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terror because like our own state broadcaster in Canada, they typically don't say that word.
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But I guess this hasn't been through the editor yet.
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What's so frustrating about this and so typical is that they knew about this guy.
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I've shown you headlines before from the UK that say 23,000 jihadists are walking around
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And I think it was 3,000 or 7,000 to be watched around the clock.
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You know how many police it takes to watch someone around the clock?
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It takes dozens because you've got, what, three shifts a day and you have to have managers
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Like, it takes dozens of cops to watch one person around the clock.
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Watching and just, and then watch them do the attack?
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And let me show you this story, maybe this headline.
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France defends anti-terrorism strategy after attack by man on watch list.
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The French government defended its anti-terrorism measures over the weekend after it turned out
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that the perpetrator of a deadly knife attack in Paris was on a state security watch list.
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Government spokesman Benjamin something-something said the man, a naturalized French citizen
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who was born in Chechnya, had been on the watch list since 2016.
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Okay, well, Chechnya is pretty much about as terrorist-y a place as it gets.
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I mean, I understand why some Muslim migrants would come from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia.
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They actually speak French there, and France made them part of the French Empire.
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So I can at least understand a historical, geographic, and linguistic connection.
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But why are you bringing in someone from Chechnya?
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It's also one of the worst places in the world.
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I mean, Grozny in the Islamic character of the Civil War there.
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And second of all, if he's on your watch list for two years, why?
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Well, what did he do to put him on that watch list?
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This is where we're going in North America, by the way.
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It's sort of a place where they're a majority and they have their own army and they can defend
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themselves and they're not at the mercy of being a minority perpetually in other people's
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They are a majority in Kurdistan, but that's part of Iraq.
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But the Christians in Iraq are the worst off of all, because other than little pinprick-sized
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towns and villages in Iraq that are 100% Christian.
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There's no such thing as a multicultural or multi-ethnic town in northern Iraq.
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I suppose they could have one town where you have a Christian half and a Muslim half, but
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it's not like in North America, where on the same street you could have five religions,
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And my point is, you go to these little Christian enclaves, some of which are over 1,000 years
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I mean, these folks, they still pray in Aramaic, the ancient language of Jesus.
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But there's just, what, maybe a couple hundred thousand left in all of Iraq.
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So every single place they are, they're a perpetual minority always.
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And yes, sometimes it's less brutal than others, but it's always brutal.
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I think I might have told you this story before.
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When we visited the Christian town of Batnaya, or Telescop, we visited a lot of Karakosh,
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Batnaya, Telescop, we visited a lot of these little Christian towns.
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The one we were in, in July last year, had been liberated from ISIS, but it had not been
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So we were there in July when it was liberated.
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In October, that same Christian town that was liberated was reconquered, this time by an
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Iran-backed Muslim militia called Hashtel Shadi.
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At least Israel, they've got this place to make a stand.
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You've got, what, 8 million Israelis, of whom, what, 6 million are Jews.
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They've got a place, they've got an army, they've got an air force, they've got a place.
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But the Christians in Iraq, I have to say, they do not have a bright future.
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And frankly, my view is if we're going to be taking refugees, take the Christians, take
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There is no genocide against Muslims in the world.
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And God forbid, even if there were, there's dozens of Muslim-majority countries in which
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I mean, Lebanon has a bit of a Christian community left, but a lot of them have fleed
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since Iran's colonized that country through Hezbollah.
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So anyway, that's a very long tangent on the question of our documentary.
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But I just wanted you to see that because I was excited that it's finally viewable.
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Mark B says, hey, Ezra, I spoke with Doug Ford on the phone Thursday.
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He said he would call you to discuss your perspective on his actions regarding Tanya Granik-Allen.
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There's a chance that I missed his phone call, but I will check my voicemails.
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Let me tell you, let me speak very clearly about Doug Ford.
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As you saw, he was a guest speaker at our Rebel Live last year.
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I think a friend's post would be better than Kathleen Wynne, and Doug Ford will actually
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I guess I'm saying anyone is better than Kathleen Wynne.
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And I'm not going to say the NDP is better than Kathleen Wynne, because what we've seen
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in Alberta and NBC now proves that the NDP can actually make any situation worse.
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But most importantly, I want him to maintain his healthy distrust and disrespect of the
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Because when you are afraid of the mainstream media, especially the CBC, then an interview
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It's about the CBC conditioning and shaping you.
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It's sort of like Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
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It's like if you have a drawer with a dice in it, and you want to see, well, what's
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So you can never actually measure something without changing it, is Heisenberg's uncertainty
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In the case of the CBC, when the CBC asks you a question, Doug Ford, will you disavow
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It's trying to pressure Doug Ford to give an answer.
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When the CBC calls you with a gotcha question, they're not actually doing reporting.
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They're shaping the battlefield for their Liberal Party masters.
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And it's very tempting for a conservative politician, Doug Ford, Andrew Scheer, Jason
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And so I'm going to join the mob and go after Tanya Granik-Allen or the rebel or carbon
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And my favorite moments of Doug Ford are when he disrespects the media like his brother
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Why don't you put it up and I'll just talk over it.
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And he raises his hand as if to say, please don't hurt me.
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I want you to play it one more time because I want you to see the mom and daughter scurrying
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So look at that mom who's now going to grab her girl.
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Not because I like pain or violence, but the opposite.
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And boy, he did not expect a mom to be packing.
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And then she backs away and then comes back because she's not scared.
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I actually read that she might have been an off-duty cop who's also a mom.
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It wouldn't surprise me because I think she reacted in a manner that suggested training,
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kicking the gun away, pulling the gun away, and just the presence of mind not to flee.
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Of course, I obviously don't blame the mom who fled with her daughter when things started going down.
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But if you look at it philosophically, I think it's a great equalizer.
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Had no one there had a gun, if no one had a gun, who would have won that altercation?
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Well, the thug, because biologically speaking, a young man, he looked like he was in his early 20s,
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is just plain old stronger than moms, especially moms who have to care for their little ones.
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So if it was just fists, that young man would have won.
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Now, he had a gun, which obviously is an extra degree of menace, and it's also a symbol.
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He just waves the gun around, and it's his way of saying, not only will I punch you,
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I will kill you, so give me your money, as he started to do.
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And he would cut through there like a hot knife through butter,
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and none of those women would be able to do anything.
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Even if one of them were physically strong enough, or a group of them were physically strong enough,
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But she had that gun on her, I think it was in her bag, her purse.
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And so instead of him surprising the women, oh boy, she had a surprise for him.
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So he revealed himself, and then she used the element of surprise, the great equalizer.
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There was a very quick clip, and he was still moving around a little bit.
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So, I mean, it obviously wasn't one of those huge firearms that has massive kickback.
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I mean, there are firearms that are more suited to a smaller person like a mom, it might be.
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I say again, it's not the violence that I find gleeful there.
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It's that such an evil man whose evil plans were so soundly and shockingly refuted and rebuked by a woman with a presence of mind.
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And the admiration for a mom that was truly able to defend her own child, which I didn't see there.
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That woman is a true hero in every sense of the word.
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Maybe they would, I mean, it looked like he was just an opportunistic smash and grab type thief.
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But how many times across the world does a law-abiding gun owner with a concealed gun stop a mass shooting?
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And I can understand by definition, if you stop a mass shooting before it gets to the mass part of the shooting,
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by definition, that's going to be not as newsworthy as a mass shooting that goes to term.
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And as our friend Dr. John Lott always tells us, mass shootings always end with a second gun.
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Either when a cop finally arrives with a second gun, or a private citizen, or if the shooter takes his own life.
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But the longer it takes for that second gun to arrive, the longer the carnage.
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In this case, a mom happened to be right there.
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But rather, I'm happy that an evil man was surprised by the great equalizer that is a firearm.
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Let me ask you, if no one there had a firearm, of course the strongest bully would succeed.
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Or if that woman had not been allowed to carry a firearm, and I presume that she had lawful right to use it.
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But if she had not, and if she didn't, as they say when you outlaw guns, only outlaws have guns.
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And yeah, we showed it to you four times, but I think that's about right.
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I have one more little thing I want to tell you about.
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It was Teen Vogue, which is my go-to for political ideology.
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Jason Montgomery says, we can't defend ourselves in Canada at all.
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It's illegal to hurt the guy who is robbing you.
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Not just is concealed carry almost impossible to get in Canada.
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And security guards in Canada are almost always unarmed.
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But yeah, if you do actually defend yourself, you will find yourself facing charges invariably.
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Keith McIntosh says, Mark Stein and his battle with CRTV.
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I haven't read Mark Stein's comments on the difficulties of a paywall model,
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Unlike, as I mentioned before, we receive no corporate funding.
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We were basically demonetized by Google in January of 2017.
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As so many conservative sites were that were supportive of Brexit or Donald Trump.
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Facebook's turned off the money in other ways, too.
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I don't know the particular comments you're referring to.
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In terms of Mark Stein versus CRTV, I admire both Mark Stein's journalism and CRTV's, the fact that they're trying to make a go of it with conservative media in this country.
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So I don't feel the need to take a side in that fight.
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I've known Mark Stein for, oh, I don't know, 15 years for sure.
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I mean, he used to write for the Western Standard magazine.
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I don't know if some of you remember, but going back as far as 2004, I was the publisher of a magazine called the Western Standard.
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We fought the Human Rights Commission together.
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On the other hand, I admire what CRTV is doing.
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Your question about Gavin McInnes returning, I think, is most unlikely because, of course, CRTV pays pretty well.
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Kerry Katz, who is pouring his money into a conservative media alternative.
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A lot of people, when they get super rich, their hobbies are yachts or private jets or private islands.
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Kerry Katz has poured tens of millions of dollars into a conservative media outfit.
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But we started The Rebel literally from scratch.
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We were all laid off from the Sun News Network together, and I took my severance pay, and I used it to pay the first paychecks.
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And we've been sort of crowdfunding our way ever since.
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Yeah, if I had 20 million U.S. to put into The Rebel, we'd probably be a little bit bigger and better and stronger than we are now.
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But, hey, we're three and a half years old, and we're still fighting like hell every day, and partly because of the support from folks who super chat us.
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We've got a payroll to make here, people, so super chat away.
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Okay, I'll read one more comment, and then I'll go to Teen Vogue.
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The sharpened pen murder rate higher in London than in New York City for the first time ever with strict gun control.
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Who knew you could kill people with knives, too?
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Well, knives, and there's huge acid attacks in London.
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Daya's vault says laws only have effect if you follow them, or if you feel obliged to follow them, rather.
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I mean, it's already against the law to commit murder.
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So if someone's decided they're going to commit murder or commit an armed robbery, they're probably going to ignore a paperwork crime like possessing a firearm illegally.
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Look, I'm just not going to get into that quarrel.
00:45:59.380
And, of course, I believe that we should have harmony on our side of the aisle.
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And so it's sort of by definition that the people I like and that are like me are going to be a little bit prickly porcupines sometimes.
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And sometimes if you're a prickly porcupine, you're prickly to friends as well as to foes.
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I mean, if you're boring and if you're always agreeable, you're probably a dream to work with from a human resources point of view.
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But if you're prickly, if you're a rebel, if you're a troublemaker, if you're a dissident, if you fight, maybe some of that personality comes across in an HR way too.
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And so I look at the people who got their start with the rebel.
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I mean, and some of them left us in various ways.
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But I still, even the ones who left us in a bit of a puff of smoke over the years, I still have a bit of feelings of sentimental affection for them because we helped launch a number of careers.
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And by the way, I don't think people should stay at the rebel forever if they're moving on up.
00:47:24.280
I mean, we're a great place to get started and to learn certain things about independent media.
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And I think it's appropriate for some people who want to go independent.
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I mean, Gavin moved on because he got a great offer that we simply couldn't match.
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I still talk to Gavin, I don't know, by text or by phone a few times a month.
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But so, yeah, and I believe that we have had a role as a bit of a talent factory.
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If not a talent factory, it's sort of a talent recruiter, you know.
00:48:02.200
And there's also a thing about when you find affordable talent, they're a little bit rough around the edges and they're not seasoned.
00:48:09.220
By the time they get seasoned and experienced, well, maybe you can't afford them anymore.
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It's part of the fun of being a startup entrepreneur with not a lot of dough.
00:48:20.140
And I tell you, on the whole, everything considered, including some of the bumps in the road, I love what we've done at The Rebel.
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And I love the legacy that we have already created in our alumni.
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I'm not saying I agree with everything our alumni say and do.
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We have nine more minutes before we go because I finished at 1 p.m.
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And there's something called Teen Vogue, which is, I guess, for teenage girls, and that's great.
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And, you know, teenage girls dating, fashion, makeup, music.
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Well, no, not these days because, of course, Teen Vogue is part of the Trump resistance.
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You see up there in the top left corner it says Teen Vogue.
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The communist scholar's ideas are more prevalent than you might realize.
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You may have come across communist memes on social media.
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The man, the meme, the legend behind the trend is Karl Marx, who developed the theory of communism,
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which advocates for workers' control over their labor instead of their bosses.
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The political philosopher turned 200 years old on May 5th, but his ideas can still teach us about the past and the present.
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Communism is responsible for, according to scholars, 85 to 100 million deaths over the last century.
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The Soviet Union, Mao's China, Khmer Rouge, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua.
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Is there some hellhole that does not owe some, a modern hellhole that does not owe its foul ideology to Marx?
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And in economic policies, they were certainly socialists.
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Yet Karl Marx has killed more people through his ideology than anyone else.
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So you have to put the blame for the actual murders at the hands of Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, and Mao.
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Is there any teenage girl who wants to read that?
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But that's the total infiltration and hijacking of our culture by the hard left.
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If you are reading an apology, an excuse, a promotion of Karl Marx in teen vogue, that's a sign of how far the culture has gone.
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I remember you made some super chats last week, too.
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Allie wrote, keep up the great work, Rebel, a great voice for conservatives.
00:51:38.100
I mean, I believe we're ideological conservatives.
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You put conservatives in a capital C, which may refer to the political party.
00:51:45.360
Of course, we support conservative political parties, Doug Ford, Jason Kenney, Andrew Scheer.
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We want them to beat their liberal and socialist rivals.
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But I believe we have a special duty to be good faith critics.
00:51:58.840
Those political parties I just listed have their enemies who are bad faith critics, gotcha critics,
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who turn molehills into mountains, who are unfair and have double standards, what they excoriate a conservative for, they praise or ignore in a liberal.
00:52:14.000
I'm talking about good faith criticisms, criticisms from the right.
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Because if you're trying to steer straight, if you're a conservative politician, but a hundred other media are pulling you this way, pulling you this way, the best you can do is stay on course.
00:52:31.100
But any movement is always going to be that way if all the vacuum, if all the suction is this way.
00:52:36.420
But if you have one or many media to your right, pulling you this way, it counteracts the pull that way, you can fly straight.
00:52:45.580
And so any conservative media who says, oh, the rebel, they're a hassle, Doug Ford, Andrew Scheer, Jason Kenney, whoever says, oh, the rebel, I wish they'd just stop criticizing from the right.
00:52:55.500
Or there are embarrassing cousins because they're so right wing.
00:52:58.400
Well, look, do you think it's easier to be a politician if you are the most right wing thing around?
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I mean, just rhetorically and, you know, in terms of positioning politically, if you have someone to your right, then you can say, well, I'm moderate.
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If you have no one to your right, the same position is no longer moderate, is it?
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So I agree with you that I think we have an important role to play.
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But, of course, our main role is not determined by reference to political parties.
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And if we give them the news and opinions they want.
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I'm going to read a few more comments and then we'll finish up today.
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We're going to add Facebook and Twitter Periscope soon.
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And every day from 12 noon to 1 Eastern, I come on, I kibitz, show some video clips, read some headlines.
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For those who want to chip in, you can get your comment put in highlighted ink like Ali Clark just did.
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Or you can have them amongst the rest and I try and skim them.
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Well, Starbucks, because they're such social justice warriors to the world, they've sort of ensnared themselves, haven't they?
00:54:17.000
Because some people complained that they weren't allowed to use Starbucks bathroom because they weren't paying customers and that was racist.
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Starbucks has now announced that all of their bathrooms are now public bathrooms for the public.
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So you've got your free Wi-Fi and your free bathrooms.
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I'll keep my eye peeled if I see a comment associated with your super chat.
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But I think most people will not abuse Starbucks bathroom privileges.
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And who knows, maybe someone going into a Starbucks to use the bathroom will feel some sort of moral obligation to buy something when they're in there.
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But of course, all it takes is one hobo who says, yeah, free bathroom.
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I'm going to use that for a whole bunch of things.
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Because the CEO himself, such a leftist poser, has said, free bathrooms, free Wi-Fi.
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I can never understand the constant beef against Jews.
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Well, listen, I suppose there's many reasons that people are against Jews.
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Some people just had a bad experience with some Jews.
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I can, there was something that happened over the weekend.
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There's a Jewish, a very old Jewish paper out of New York called The Forward.
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It used to be published in Yiddish in New York.
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But it's become insanely left-wing in recent years.
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The Daily Forward, it's called, it's a website now, too.
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If you can imagine, they're pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas, anti-Israel.
00:56:15.260
They did a profile on Jordan Peterson, who I would call a philo-Semite.
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I know Jordan Peterson somewhat, and I know those around him.
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And there's not an anti-Semitic bone in his body.
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In fact, he gives extended lectures on the Old Testament.
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I actually spoke on a panel with him about the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration,
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Can we call it up in the few seconds we have left?
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They photoshopped a picture of him with Adolf Hitler giving the Sieg Heil.
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And they said that he is enabling anti-Semites.
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Because, of course, Peterson doesn't propose in front of such a picture.
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If you have a group of far left-wing activists, liberals, who just happen to be Jews but are as
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about as Jewish as a ham sandwich, there's nothing Jewish about them other than a vestigial
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Like, the only thing Jewish about them is they were born Jewish, and they have a Jewish name.
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So if their only use for being liberal is to play the, for being Jewish, rather, is to
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play the Jewish card as a racist card, which is what they did to Jordan Peterson.
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They thought, well, we'll make an attack on Jordan Peterson that no leftist has done before
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because, yeah, go ahead and put it up if you got it.
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This is actually taken from a website called vdare.com.
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I guess that's the quickest place our producers found it.
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But, yeah, that's the graphic I'm talking about there.
00:58:09.420
So if you're, I mean, Jordan Peterson knows that that was just radical leftists using their
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But let's say that attack would actually work and get someone marginalized.
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So a group of liberals got you sacked from your job for anti-Semitism when you're not an anti-Semite.
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How are you not going to hate Jews because of that?
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I'm not saying it's fair, but I'm saying it's understandable if someone is attacking you unfairly
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in the name of the Jews, as was just done to Jordan Peterson.
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And let's say, God forbid, Peterson lost his job or his career over that.
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How could he not have some animus towards the Jews, since those who attacked him did it in the name of the Jews?
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I want to get into this in greater length in a future show because it's 101 already, so I have to sign off.
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I am going to go now because I've got to get to other things.
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I'll see you back here tomorrow at 12 noon Eastern.
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We're going to try and fix our notification system.
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And thanks to all of you who chipped in with the Super Chat.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,
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tune in tonight at 8 p.m. if you can for our show.
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And if not, I'll see you tomorrow at noon, same time, same YouTube channel.