Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Someone swore at a politician, so police are investigating — we really do live in a banana republic

00:00:00.140 Hello, my rebels. I want to let you know that someone swore at a politician this week and

00:00:04.660 the entire media political complex is apoplectic. What will we ever do?

00:00:09.640 The people are not complying peacefully. They're actually heckling politicians. Well,

00:00:16.180 obviously the police are investigating. I'll give you more details, but I think that Jagmeet Singh

00:00:21.300 and Justin Trudeau just might be cry bullies. I'll show you the tape of the hecklers in question.

00:00:27.740 But first let me invite you to become a subscriber to Rebel News Plus. You get the video version

00:00:32.980 of this podcast. That's important. So I want you to see what these hecklers looked like. I want you

00:00:38.500 to see that they were not in fact physical. They were not threatening. They didn't block anyone's

00:00:44.680 path. They weren't violent in any way. And to see the video version, you just got to go to

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00:01:04.780 And we, you know, we rely on that eight bucks because that's how we pay our bills. We don't

00:01:08.460 get any money from Trudeau. All right. Here's today's podcast.

00:01:27.800 Tonight, someone swore at a politician, so the police are investigating. We really are

00:01:33.260 becoming a man. It's May 13th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:39.420 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:42.920 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:46.980 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my

00:01:51.580 bloody right to do so. 0.57

00:01:58.240 Justin Trudeau is atrocious, which might be a reason he did not win a majority government in

00:02:03.440 the last election, but he is able to govern as if he has a majority because the NDP's weak

00:02:09.660 leader, Jagmeet Singh, has pledged to prop up Trudeau in a coalition.

00:02:14.000 It's really quite pitiful. Singh is such an intellectual lightweight. He puts out little

00:02:21.140 tweets criticizing and condemning Trudeau to give the appearance of opposition or something, but

00:02:26.480 of course, it is precisely his support for Trudeau that keeps Trudeau in power. It's almost like Singh

00:02:32.320 is deceiving you, but not everyone is deceived. When Singh was at a campaign event for a provincial

00:02:38.980 NDP candidate competing in the Ontario provincial election, Singh was accosted by a group of

00:02:45.200 protesters heckling him, much in the same manner that Trudeau is always heckled. I'm sure they could

00:02:52.420 be the very same people who heckled Trudeau too, in fact. But here's how it often is for Trudeau

00:02:58.800 these days, and it's a reason why Trudeau prefers doing photo ops in Ukraine to actually governing

00:03:05.040 here at home. I mean, here's just an example.

00:03:08.980 Here comes that communist piece of s**t. 1.00

00:03:16.040 There's that f**king piece of s**t, you communist f**k, you piece of s**t, you f**king communist 1.00

00:03:23.860 f**k. Leave all you want, you prick. 1.00

00:03:26.340 Don't stop, lover. 1.00

00:03:28.020 Yeah, sorry, it's rude, but really, we haven't had any opposition in this country for two years.

00:03:34.120 Aaron O'Toole and Jagmeet Singh saw to that in Parliament. The media party saw to that in

00:03:39.820 journalism. The cowardly judges that rubber-stamped the lockdown saw to it in the courts. So yeah,

00:03:45.580 that's really the only outlet people have to talk back to an increasingly authoritarian bully.

00:03:52.400 And I know there are some swears. I hope Trudeau's okay. But like I say, Trudeau is nothing without a

00:04:00.740 subservient, docile, passive, submissive poodle NDP. Not an NDP that fights with him. 0.94

00:04:08.300 Certainly not fighting with him about the rights of workers who were all sold out during the pandemic

00:04:14.400 by their unions, but play fighting. So yeah, Jagmeet Singh is Trudeau's accomplice. And some people

00:04:21.620 swore at him too. I hope he's okay. Here's the video of that.

00:04:26.580 You're a piece of s**t, you're a piece of s**t. 1.00

00:04:52.800 Now those are some very mean words. And they were shouted. They're not the meanest words. I think 1.00

00:05:21.000 there's a hierarchy of swears. Some are worse than others. The Brits and the Australians,

00:05:25.760 they just love saying the C word, which is like the nuclear bomb s**t over here. There's a 12-letter 0.79

00:05:32.300 s**t that's pretty bad when you hear it. Those were bad s**t they used against Jagmeet Singh,

00:05:38.540 but they weren't racist s**t. I'm glad of that. Those can really sting. And they weren't threats. 0.75

00:05:45.040 I'll kill you. I'll hurt you. I'm going to F you up. It was just generic abuse, really. Harsh heckling. 1.00

00:05:53.640 The kind of thing that Trudeau dishes out. I mean, just last week, he used a six-letter swear

00:05:58.560 that starts with F-U-C-K. And he said it in Parliament.

00:06:03.520 What we saw during this pandemic was a national tragedy of elders not being properly cared for

00:06:10.880 in every corner, almost every corner of the country. That's why we committed to working with

00:06:16.180 provinces and territories to improve the quality of long-term care for residents right across the

00:06:21.700 country. We're continuing to move forward, working with and recognizing the jurisdiction of provinces,

00:06:27.460 but also knowing that the federal government also has a role to play in ensuring that every

00:06:32.700 senior in this country is treated with the dignity and care that they so richly deserve.

00:06:39.700 And that's all the time we have for questioning period today.

00:06:43.160 And I'm seeing we have a number of points of order, I'm guessing.

00:06:48.300 I would like to recognize the Honourable Member for La Prairie to kick things off.

00:06:53.680 After the question asked by the Member for Pontiac, the Prime Minister answered his answer by saying,

00:07:01.240 shame on Quebecers. We checked, we listened to it, that's what we heard.

00:07:05.180 So, of course, I would like him to withdraw his statement.

00:07:09.920 The right Honourable Prime Minister.

00:07:12.640 Mr. Speaker, in the emotion, I forgot a word.

00:07:15.980 It was a shame on the Quebec Conservatives.

00:07:22.120 Order.

00:07:27.500 Another point of order.

00:07:28.740 For our foothills.

00:07:29.780 Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker.

00:07:31.160 I'm sure all of us in this house are used to vigorous debate, certainly during question period,

00:07:35.580 but there is a line that should be not crossed, especially when it comes to using unparliamentary language.

00:07:40.580 The Prime Minister used an obscenity, and it was not fuddle-duddle, in describing the official opposition.

00:07:46.440 I would ask the Prime Minister to stand and apologize for that language.

00:07:55.720 I can say during question period, there was a number of things that was flying back and forth.

00:08:01.980 I did not hear what the Prime Minister said, but all I can say is I heard a number of lies on this side as well.

00:08:09.080 So those are things that should not be said in this House of Commons.

00:08:12.440 And as I said before, during question period, to follow some decorum in this House of Commons,

00:08:19.720 to watch what we're saying to each other, so that we reflect what Canadians want in this House of Commons.

00:08:25.080 Okay, so that in Parliament where you're not supposed to use unparliamentary language. 0.99

00:08:29.480 And there was that time a few years back where he called Peter Kent a piece of SHIT. 0.99

00:08:34.060 Well, Mr. Speaker, my honourable colleague, if she had been in Durban, would have seen that, in fact, Canada was among the leaders in creating the... 0.99

00:08:43.900 Order.

00:08:44.860 Order.

00:08:47.620 Order.

00:08:52.540 Order.

00:08:56.020 Yeah, so don't feel too bad about Justin Trudeau hearing some swears.

00:09:00.200 He's faking it if he says he cares about profanity.

00:09:05.140 Everyone and everything about him is fake. 0.88

00:09:07.840 I mean, he's the guy who calls you racist while he's dressing up in blackface more times than he can remember. 0.99

00:09:12.880 He's the guy who calls you a sexist, but he's the one who sexually assaulted Rose Knight in Creston, B.C. 0.97

00:09:18.960 He's the guy who calls you intolerant while he segregates and discriminates against millions of Canadians based on medical status.

00:09:25.500 So, yeah, crocodile tears.

00:09:27.400 But look at this.

00:09:30.800 The CBC wants you to know something.

00:09:32.560 Police in Peterborough say they are actively investigating a protest that resulted in the profane heckling of NDP leader Jagmeet Singh during a visit to the central Ontario city earlier this week.

00:09:43.440 Look at those words there.

00:09:44.680 The police are not investigating a crime.

00:09:47.340 They're not investigating an assault.

00:09:49.180 They're investigating a protest, not an assault, not a battery, not mischief.

00:09:53.240 The hecklers didn't touch anyone.

00:09:55.160 They didn't threaten to touch anyone.

00:09:56.420 They didn't block a road, nothing.

00:09:59.060 They were just, as the CBC calls it, profane.

00:10:03.500 So police are involved?

00:10:06.160 Is that a thing now?

00:10:07.800 Well, you know, for years, I mean, just for years, F-U-C-K Harper was the thing. 0.93

00:10:15.760 I mean, this sudden concern about profanity was never a thing before.

00:10:18.420 Here's the famous celebrity, Ashley Collingwell, with her F. Harper t-shirt.

00:10:24.880 I mean, she was the toast of the town.

00:10:26.260 She was the front page of every magazine in the country. 0.76

00:10:29.140 F. Harper was pretty much the go-to campaign for every leftist in Canada for nine years.

00:10:33.960 I don't know if police ever investigated them for mean words.

00:10:38.060 I mean, there's a famous American case on the F-word.

00:10:40.240 I think I might have told you this one before.

00:10:42.980 It's an old case.

00:10:44.500 Fifty years ago, there was an anti-war activist, Vietnam War, who wore a shirt saying F-U-C-K

00:10:51.860 the draft, the military draft.

00:10:54.180 He wore that into a courtroom.

00:10:55.660 He got into trouble.

00:10:56.640 He appealed it.

00:10:57.440 And all the way up, the Supreme Court, relying on the First Amendment.

00:11:01.960 And his right to wear that profane shirt, F-U-C-K the draft, was upheld by the Supreme Court

00:11:09.720 of the United States.

00:11:10.520 Here's what Justice John Harlan said, writing for the majority.

00:11:14.060 He said, while the particular four-letter word being litigated here is perhaps more distasteful

00:11:20.320 than most others of its genre, it is nevertheless often true that one man's vulgarity is another's

00:11:26.780 lyric.

00:11:27.160 The court found that being able to say F-U-C-K was essential because that shocking rudeness

00:11:34.660 was necessary to properly express the distress and anger and urgency that this guy was feeling

00:11:40.040 in his opposition to the war.

00:11:42.220 I see this picture from time to time.

00:11:44.580 It's a joke about how Canadians protest.

00:11:47.120 I'm a little upset.

00:11:48.120 But it's true.

00:11:50.360 We are usually polite.

00:11:52.120 But after two years of having our rights flattened by a bully prime minister, a few people feel

00:11:58.080 like swearing.

00:11:59.700 I think it's because they're powerless.

00:12:02.160 You know?

00:12:04.400 Maybe it's not your style.

00:12:05.640 That's fine.

00:12:06.140 I mean, which is worse?

00:12:07.840 Hearing the profane words F-U-C-K and S-H-I-T or, I don't know, hearing this.

00:12:15.080 I want to be clear who I stand with.

00:12:16.860 I stand with the health care workers and I'm compassionate to the people that have given

00:12:20.960 so much to us.

00:12:21.860 And I denounce the fact that they are been made to be afraid to walk down the streets.

00:12:26.480 I'm compassionate to the families of people in Ottawa who are wanting to send their kids

00:12:31.360 to school that have been kept all night by people who want to overthrow the government.

00:12:34.920 I'm compassionate to workers in downtown Corp who've been harassed and intimidated by

00:12:41.060 these members of the convoy.

00:12:42.000 I'm compassionate to young people who've been harassed and verbally assaulted by this.

00:12:47.460 I'm compassionate to racialized people who see symbols of hate.

00:12:50.960 I'm compassionate to Jewish people who saw swastika and Nazi flags flying.

00:12:55.320 I'm compassionate to racialized people and Black people who saw Confederate flags and

00:12:59.100 say, how is this happening in our country?

00:13:01.760 That's who we're standing with.

00:13:02.960 We're standing with the people.

00:13:05.160 We're saying this is not Canada.

00:13:07.180 This is not what we represent.

00:13:08.880 This hate, the desecration of war memorials, the vandalizing of the Terry Fox memorial.

00:13:14.140 This is not Canada.

00:13:15.420 This is not who we stand for.

00:13:17.220 Can I get a police investigation for those profane insults?

00:13:20.940 Or can politicians insult us, but we can't insult back?

00:13:24.940 What's the rules?

00:13:26.020 How about what Trudeau says? 0.96

00:13:27.600 The truckers were all racists and Nazis. 0.65

00:13:29.660 I know you're wondering about what you saw in our capital city this weekend. 0.59

00:13:34.160 As my friend Erwin Kotler said on Saturday, freedom of expression, assembly, and association

00:13:43.120 are cornerstones of democracy.

00:13:46.360 But Nazi symbolism, racist imagery, and desecration of war memorials are not.

00:13:54.000 It is an insult to memory and truth.

00:13:57.380 Hate can never be the answer.

00:14:03.440 Over the past few days, Canadians were shocked and, frankly, disgusted by the behavior displayed

00:14:10.940 by some people protesting in our nation's capital.

00:14:13.820 I want to be very clear.

00:14:17.100 We are not intimidated by those who hurl insults and abuse at small business workers and steal

00:14:25.600 food from the homeless.

00:14:28.460 We won't give in to those who fly racist flags.

00:14:33.440 We won't cave to those who engage in vandalism or dishonor the memory of our veterans.

00:14:40.460 There is no place in our country for threats, violence, or hatred.

00:14:48.500 So to those responsible for this behavior, it needs to stop.

00:14:54.080 To anyone who joined the convoy but is rightly uncomfortable with the symbols of hatred and

00:15:01.400 division on display, join with your fellow Canadians.

00:15:06.760 Be courageous and speak out.

00:15:09.060 Do not stand for or with intolerance and hate.

00:15:16.440 Or how about when Trudeau campaigned on marginalizing millions of people based on their medical conditions?

00:15:22.040 They are putting at risk their own kids and they're putting at risk our kids as well.

00:15:30.240 Those people are putting us all at risk.

00:15:33.100 Or how about when he says we shouldn't even tolerate such people?

00:15:36.320 There are also people who are harshly opposed to the vaccination.

00:15:40.020 Who are extremists.

00:15:41.020 Who do not believe in science, who are often misogynes, often racistes.

00:15:44.640 It's a small group, but it takes a lot of place.

00:15:50.620 And there, we have to make a choice as a leader, as a country.

00:15:54.240 Do we tolerate these people?

00:15:56.760 Or do we say, well, let's see, the most people, almost 80% of the Quebecers, have done what they need to do.

00:16:02.340 They have been vaccinated.

00:16:03.080 We want to return to what we like to do.

00:16:06.020 Are you allowed to swear back?

00:16:12.200 Or do you just have to say, I'm a little upset?

00:16:16.680 Can you swear when Trudeau's police horses trample you at a peaceful protest?

00:16:23.660 Can you swear when they shoot you?

00:16:26.060 Like they shot our reporter Alexa Levy. 0.86

00:16:28.000 You know, I don't even think she swore, by the way.

00:16:29.660 How about when Trudeau's personal bodyguards beat up our reporter, David Menzies.

00:16:36.860 I don't think she swore either.

00:16:38.280 He just called them thugs.

00:16:39.180 Are you kidding?

00:16:40.500 Are you kidding?

00:16:41.300 And then there's Trudeau himself.

00:16:42.780 Hours after a judge said that we at Rebel News are accredited journalists, Trudeau said we weren't.

00:16:48.900 And we were beneath his contempt.

00:16:51.480 I have a question from Tamara Ugolini from Rebel News.

00:16:54.120 Mr. Trudeau, the only reason that I'm allowed to ask you this question is because today the federal court ruled that the government doesn't have the right to determine who is or is not a journalist.

00:17:09.200 This is the second election in a row that the court had to overturn your government.

00:17:14.320 Do you still insist on being able to make that decision and why?

00:17:17.960 First of all, questions around accreditation were handled by the Press Gallery and the Consortium of Networks who have strong perspectives on quality journalism and the important information that is shared with Canadians.

00:17:35.120 The reality is organizations like yours that continue to spread misinformation and disinformation on the science around vaccines, around how we're going to actually get through this pandemic

00:17:54.920 and be there for each other and keep our kids safe is part of why we're seeing such unfortunate anger and lack of understanding of basic science.

00:18:07.940 And quite frankly, your, I won't call it a media organization, your group of individuals need to take accountability for some of the polarization that we're seeing in this country.

00:18:22.640 And I think Canadians are cluing into the fact that there is a really important decision we take about the kind of country we want to see.

00:18:32.080 And I salute all extraordinary, hardworking journalists that put science and facts at the heart of what they do and ask me tough questions every day.

00:18:42.720 But make sure that they are educating and informing Canadians from a broad range of perspectives, which is the last thing that you guys do.

00:18:52.640 So you have an abusive government, increasingly violent against its own people, verbally abusive against its own people, you know, seizing bank accounts, martial law.

00:19:01.760 So, you know, that's all fine, but you can't swear back.

00:19:08.440 Here's what, here's what Jagmeet Singh said to reporters once he recovered from hearing the F word.

00:19:12.880 He said it was more of an aggressive and a bit on the violent side in terms of the language that was being used.

00:19:20.140 It would rank among our worst experiences.

00:19:22.780 What it does remind me is there's a level of polarization that's going on in politics, which is troubling.

00:19:29.160 What's violent language?

00:19:31.000 I think I know what violent language is. 0.99

00:19:33.540 I will hurt you. 1.00

00:19:35.000 I'm going to punch you. 1.00

00:19:36.800 It's violent language. 1.00

00:19:37.840 F-U-C-K is a violent language. 1.00

00:19:39.640 It's rude, very rude. 0.96

00:19:41.900 F-U is rude. 0.99

00:19:43.060 But what does he mean by violent language?

00:19:44.780 Because if there were actual violence or the threat of violence, the hecklers would have been arrested.

00:19:51.520 It's almost like we have a cry bully on our hands here. 0.97

00:19:55.160 He calls you a racist Nazi. 0.94

00:19:56.760 And when you shout back, he condemns you for being polarizing.

00:20:00.400 That's my favorite part.

00:20:01.880 You know who has the power to polarize and divide a country?

00:20:05.240 Not working class people fired from their jobs and banned from flying or taking the train because they won't get a jab.

00:20:10.820 Not poor people.

00:20:13.120 Powerful people.

00:20:14.160 Politicians.

00:20:15.220 Here's what the former head of CESIS told Parliament just yesterday.

00:20:19.420 I really do think that political correctness has reached the point today where it's almost impossible to have a conversation about a whole raft of issues.

00:20:28.260 And if you're frustrated with government and with society to begin with, and it's not helpful.

00:20:33.380 And I don't think that attacking views is helpful by anybody.

00:20:36.880 Not by you.

00:20:37.380 Not by me.

00:20:37.840 Not by the prime minister.

00:20:40.120 You don't say.

00:20:41.940 You don't say.

00:20:42.780 You know, I'm sure the Toronto Star is furious at those swearing poors. 1.00

00:20:49.680 They would never engage in, what's that phrase?

00:20:52.060 Verbal violence.

00:20:53.400 No, sir.

00:20:54.740 They would never engage in division.

00:20:56.920 Not them. 0.99

00:20:57.420 Look, the Toronto Star is so gross. 0.99

00:20:59.280 But look, they're just a rag. 0.98

00:21:01.320 What worries me are the police.

00:21:04.680 Because it's atrocious to censor peaceful disagreement.

00:21:08.220 But we're long past that in Canada.

00:21:10.700 We're well into arresting people now.

00:21:14.560 Jailing people now.

00:21:15.700 seizing their bank accounts.

00:21:18.960 Because you didn't protest with the right tone of voice.

00:21:23.860 Stay with us.

00:21:24.700 Information laundering is really quite ferocious.

00:21:39.120 It's when a huckster takes some lies and makes them sound precocious.

00:21:42.320 By saying them in Congress or a mainstream outlet.

00:21:44.880 So disinformation's origins are slightly less atrocious.

00:21:50.160 It's how you hide a little lie, it's how you hide a little lie, it's how you hide a little lie, it's how you hide a little lie, it's how you hide a little lie, when Rudy Giuliani shared that in town from Ukraine.

00:21:58.140 Or when TikTok influencers say COVID can cause pain.

00:22:01.140 They're laundering disinfo and we really should take note and not support their lies with our wallet, voice or vote.

00:22:07.500 Who is that?

00:22:10.440 Come on, that can't be a real person.

00:22:12.820 Well, indeed, that is.

00:22:13.620 That is Nina Jankiewicz, Joe Biden's choice to head a new disinformation board at the Department of Homeland Security. 1.00

00:22:23.380 You couldn't make it up.

00:22:24.960 Just incredible.

00:22:25.980 The treasure trove of commentaries, many of them musical, by Nina Jankiewicz that are just right out there.

00:22:34.680 The New York Post, one of the best headline writers in the business.

00:22:39.260 They had this cover story a while back.

00:22:41.320 They called her Scary Poppins, not Mary Poppins.

00:22:45.160 And the New York Post again today, a great column by our friend Ben Weingarten.

00:22:49.440 And the headline is, you couldn't have picked a worse minister of truth than Nina Jankiewicz.

00:22:55.980 But actually, I think she is the perfect minister of truth in the Orwellian sense that she'll do anything, say anything to flatter the regime.

00:23:06.780 And joining us now via Skype is our friend Ben Weingarten, who writes for The Federalist and is with the Claremont Institute.

00:23:13.820 Ben, great to see you again.

00:23:15.220 You publish so many interesting things in great titles.

00:23:20.060 You're in Newsweek sometimes.

00:23:21.220 Here you are in the New York Post.

00:23:23.280 Tell us a little bit more about Nina Jankiewicz.

00:23:25.940 I actually haven't dug into this for our viewers yet, but she is riveting in the same way a car crash.

00:23:33.160 You just can't look away.

00:23:34.420 Tell us more about Nina Jankiewicz.

00:23:35.920 Well, thanks for having me.

00:23:38.960 And this is a, in some ways, ridiculous topic, but in other ways, one of the most important topics when it comes to what I've cast as a war on wrong thing that's been going on in America.

00:23:50.560 Nina Jankiewicz, we recently found out in testimony, I believe, from the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, is chairing, serving as the czar of the so-called Disinformation Governance Board, the DGB, within the Department of Homeland Security.

00:24:07.820 And according to DHS, this department is not operational, except that it's coordinating all of its work with a slew of other clearly operational bodies, including the DHS and other government agencies.

00:24:20.480 Set that aside for a moment.

00:24:23.000 And Jankiewicz herself is, of course, the last person to serve as an arbiter of truth in an organ that should not exist in the U.S. governmental system, period, full stop.

00:24:33.520 We do not need disinformation governance boards.

00:24:35.680 We certainly don't need them housed within the DHS, that is, with an inherently domestic focus.

00:24:42.340 And this is, of course, the last administration to be telling us to be trying to separate truth from fiction when it's been one of the greatest purveyors, for example, of what it cast as disinformation with respect to the coronavirus, for example, and then ended up flip-flopping and promoting it as the truth.

00:25:00.180 And Jankiewicz herself, of course, perfectly reflects this administration on three levels.

00:25:06.280 The first is that she is the last person to be an arbiter of truth because she herself has been a prolific purveyor of disinformation.

00:25:15.120 This is someone who is a Russiagate collusion monger who's promoted the work of Christopher Steele, told the untruth that the Steele dossier, which is at the core of the entire Russiagate fraud, itself was funded by Republicans.

00:25:27.880 Not true. This is someone who is also partisan, something that you wouldn't want if you were supposed to have a neutral arbiter of truth, which, of course, again, the U.S. government shouldn't be in the business of.

00:25:39.000 This is someone who was said, tweeted, hashtag, I'm with her with respect to Hillary Clinton and quoted Hillary Clinton in 2016 with this ill-fated statement that the most dangerous thing, I'm paraphrasing here about Donald Trump, would be that he would embolden and empower ISIS.

00:25:54.080 When, of course, Donald Trump helped destroy ISIS, ultimately, someone who claimed, of course, this is the biggest promoter of untruth here, someone who claimed that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation, when, of course, that was an American information operation, in effect.

00:26:10.520 The New York Post reporting there has been vindicated, someone who was an ardent defender, actually, of Hunter Biden's work with Burisma, as well as a defender of Joe Biden, who she claimed in a November 2020 piece in Foreign Affairs was uniquely suited to combat disinformation and called for the creation in that article of a counter-disinformation czar, basically lobbying for the creation of a position in which she now sits.

00:26:37.320 Last but not least, last but not least, as for free speech, this is someone who wants people, blue checkmarks like her, enlightened blue checkmarks like her, to be able to add context, so-called, to tweets, that is to be able to edit tweets, conferring their wisdom upon them and batting down the disinformation of politicians they don't like or commentators they don't like, and who also said that she shutters, this is her word, shutters, to think about free speech absolutists purchasing social media platforms.

00:27:04.640 So on every level, in terms of herself being a partisan hack, it would seem, based upon her public positions, and then on the fact that she is not devoted to free speech, clearly, on each one of these bases, that makes her the worst minister of truth, but also the perfect minister of truth for this regime.

00:27:24.500 And this ministry that she's going to be overseeing is supposedly tasked with combating mis, dis, and malinformation regarding irregular migration, that is illegal immigration, particularly from our southern border, and then Russian disinformation going into the midterm.

00:27:38.940 So as I ask in this piece, does that mean that if you bring up the fact that the Biden administration has engaged in sovereignty, eviscerating policies with respect to our southern border, and that that thus provokes or compels people to rush those borders, are you a purveyor of dangerous disinformation?

00:27:57.500 What about if the equivalent of the Hunter Biden laptop story fell into our laps tomorrow?

00:28:02.480 Would the DHS and other agencies cast that as Russian disinformation going into a midterm election, thus interfering in that election?

00:28:09.340 All of these questions are open questions, and they deserve more than scrutiny.

00:28:14.220 This bureau should not exist.

00:28:16.220 But even more broadly, the war on wrong thing that it's part and parcel of, which we've talked about here before, should not exist.

00:28:22.600 You know, and the thing is, all of it, she puts to a show tune.

00:28:27.840 It's just like, it's all creepy and crazy to begin with.

00:28:32.020 I mean, here's a clip of her saying that, I mean, the blue checkmark, just FYI for folks, is there's so many people on social media.

00:28:38.860 But if you're a brand that can be confused, or if you're a celebrity and there's people copycatting you, most social media lets you get a little blue checkmark to say you're verified, you're legit.

00:28:49.400 But it's not necessarily a function of how large your audience is, though that is a factor.

00:28:56.260 Celebrities, politicians, journalists.

00:28:58.240 But it's not an endorsement of what you have to say.

00:29:02.100 It's not an endorsement that you're a keeper of the truth.

00:29:04.000 It's really just, this is like a VIP user of this social platform.

00:29:09.500 Here she is saying anyone with a blue checkmark, as if it's, as if it is some moral status that you have a unique perspective on the truth, should be able to go in and correct anyone else in the world.

00:29:22.020 Like she would be the, the editor for your own private thought.

00:29:26.060 You just got to see it.

00:29:26.980 Take a look.

00:29:27.480 And I am eligible for it because I'm verified, but there are a lot of people who shouldn't be verified, who aren't, you know, legit, in my opinion.

00:29:36.420 I mean, they are real people, but they're not trustworthy.

00:29:39.300 Anyway, so verified people can essentially start to edit Twitter the same sort of way that Wikipedia is, so they can add context to certain tweets.

00:29:50.880 And so just as a easy example, not from any political standpoint, if President Trump were still on Twitter and tweeted a claim about voter fraud, someone could add context from one of the 60 lawsuits that went through the court or something that an election official in one of the states said, perhaps your own secretary of state and his news conferences, something like that.

00:30:19.700 Adding context so that people have a fuller picture rather than just an individual claim on a tweet.

00:30:28.660 But of course, it's all sung.

00:30:31.100 I don't know who this lady, Nina Jankiewicz, wanted to grow up to be, but I think maybe she thought there was like some Veep or some House of Cards show that she would be perfect for. 0.95

00:30:47.360 Or sometimes it was just weird, like this strange one, where she sings, who do I have to sleep with to get ahead?

00:30:53.020 Why is she rich, famous, and powerful? 1.00

00:30:57.180 While I'm still stuck here singing Christmas songs for all of you, what does it take to be famous and powerful?

00:31:05.460 Santa, if you're listening, please tell me what to do.

00:31:08.940 Who do I find to be famous and powerful?

00:31:12.260 I don't know, it just feels like a joke.

00:31:16.200 Now, I know there were some hearings on Capitol Hill where the head of Homeland Security was asked about her, but she herself has not appeared before any confirmation hearings, am I right?

00:31:28.560 She's, I guess, a low level enough hire that she's not subjected to hearings like a judge would be or an agency head?

00:31:39.220 Yeah, my understanding is this is a non-confirmable type of position.

00:31:43.580 And that is one of the reasons why I think one of the dangers that we've seen in the evolution of the executive branch, creating all of these positions that are not subject to, in effect, the consent of the governed.

00:31:56.540 That's why they create these czarships, and that's what she serves as. 1.00

00:32:01.880 And I agree, there's a level of this which is, one of my friends, David Reboi, out there, he has this blog, this substack, and he's kind of gone with this.

00:32:13.220 He calls it late republic nonsense.

00:32:15.720 This is the perfect illustration of late republic nonsense. 0.96

00:32:18.680 It's really post-republic nonsense, post-constitutional nonsense.

00:32:22.140 But it's deathly serious because, and this is what I've been trying to emphasize when I write and speak about this, as wild and outlandish as it is that this person is running this ministry, this ministry exists.

00:32:36.220 It does have power because it is coordinating across the government.

00:32:39.400 And the DHS put out a terrorism advisory bulletin back in February, which said that the U.S. faced a heightened threat environment fueled by mis-, dis-, and mal-information.

00:32:51.340 And particularly around, of course, contentious, heated topics like election integrity, Chinese coronavirus policies, and immigration when it came to refugees primarily coming from Afghanistan, it referred to.

00:33:03.840 So they have tried to associate, debate, really, views that do not comport with the regime's views on heated, contentious issues that are supposed to be hashed out in a Republican system like ours.

00:33:17.780 They've said that if you're on the wrong side of those issues, you might be on the side of the dangerous, the terrorists.

00:33:22.500 I guess ultra-MAGA, as Joe Biden has cast some Americans.

00:33:26.820 And they have this whole apparatus that's being built to pursue it.

00:33:30.300 And it started with, as we've talked about before, the creation of the National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism, which was put out back in June of last year,

00:33:40.420 which called for the need, a whole-of-government effort to confront the long-term contributors to the great domestic terror threats,

00:33:48.180 fueled by, again, mist and disinformation and assaults on, essentially, democracy, efforts to undermine the institutions and democracy.

00:33:58.740 But the thing is, the institutions themselves are doing that undermining, and they're trying to cast critics of it who observe what we all can see with our own eyes,

00:34:07.320 the ridiculousness here, the late republic nonsense, themselves as a danger, rather than that the institutions themselves are basically serving as a danger to the country, our liberty and justice.

00:34:18.180 Yeah. You know, it used to be that in politics, we just called each other wrong.

00:34:24.700 You're wrong. You're factually wrong. Your facts are wrong, or your opinion is unreasonable.

00:34:29.700 That's how it used to be. But the remedies for being wrong are a correction or a rebuttal, a debate.

00:34:37.320 But those ideas are no longer in vogue in the left, so they've replaced, well, you're wrong, or I disagree with,

00:34:44.220 that is misinformation, disinformation, malinformation. I haven't heard that one before.

00:34:49.320 Because then you're saying, well, I don't have to fact-check you. I don't have to do the work of debating you.

00:34:53.980 I don't have to challenge you. We're not going to interact.

00:34:56.480 I'm going to just swallow everything up that you've said, and I'm going to cancel it and eradicate it.

00:35:02.300 And the fact that you would even dare disagree with me, I'm going to call it disinformation, and now I'm going to call you disloyal.

00:35:11.120 I'm going to put you in some homeland security category along with China, Russia, and terrorists. 0.84

00:35:16.380 And instead of getting into the nitty-gritty of answering your points, I'm going to say anyone who even engages in those points is morally wrong.

00:35:26.860 It's not a war room debate. It's not one of these fake fact-checks where the corporate media says, well, you can't disagree with us.

00:35:35.220 It's like a nuclear fact-check because it's government-weaponized, and there's going to be some government response.

00:35:44.180 Facebook, social media is going to be ordered to take it down.

00:35:47.780 You'll be condemned by government, not just the private sector.

00:35:51.440 I think that this whole disinformation industry is simply censorship of anyone who disagrees with the regime.

00:36:00.340 Yeah, essentially what they're saying is the science is settled.

00:36:03.600 If you don't disagree with us, your ideas are dangerous.

00:36:07.460 You're a potential danger.

00:36:09.380 We threaten to use the full force of the public sector and private sector power because oftentimes now they're working in tandem with the private sector that has embraced the regime ideology, works with the regime.

00:36:22.240 Of course, in some ways, corporate America itself has become like an arm of the administrative state in its embrace of wokeism and diversity, inclusion, equity, DI, as opposed to DEI.

00:36:32.140 By critical race theory and the rest of it.

00:36:35.400 And you're absolutely right.

00:36:36.560 It's because they do not want to debate.

00:36:39.380 They have given up on reason and persuasion, and they're going to force to try to drive their political opponents into submission.

00:36:47.880 They want to demoralize their opposition.

00:36:50.080 They want to scare their opposition into remaining silent.

00:36:53.560 And that's why I think it's so imperative to speak up, because this is really going to have civilizational consequences if this effort continues to stand and continue and the long march continues through the institutions.

00:37:04.880 You know, it's a global phenomenon.

00:37:07.300 You can see all the World Economic Forum types synchronizing on this stuff.

00:37:11.740 You can see Jacinda Ardern in New Zealand, Justin Trudeau.

00:37:15.160 So the other day in Parliament in Canada, Ben, it was revealed that a military aircraft was spying on the trucker convoy, flying overhead, probably collecting, you know, electronic data, signals, intelligence on, you know, probably ID'd every person in the crowd using their cell phone, probably logged all that info, hoovered up all the call.

00:37:38.760 I don't know what, it was a military spy plane.

00:37:41.920 For months, the government denied that happened.

00:37:44.980 It was revealed.

00:37:46.200 The military acknowledges it.

00:37:48.820 So Justin Trudeau was asked about it in our question period.

00:37:51.880 He did not answer substantively.

00:37:53.700 He lashed out, accusing the question asker, who is a member of Parliament, a member of Her Majesty's loyal opposition, whose job it is to ask questions of the government, called that disinformation.

00:38:08.080 So it's just the go-to insult, because I guess calling people racist or sexist or homophobic or transphobic isn't quite enough, because that doesn't shut anyone up.

00:38:19.320 But saying that's disinformation, now, oh, I'm scared to even repeat it, because there's something foreign and hostile to the information.

00:38:28.800 It's so bizarre and so cheap to see him use that in Parliament against the fact that his own government has admitted.

00:38:36.900 I just thought that's classic.

00:38:38.280 That just shows what this whole disinformation BS is.

00:38:42.040 It's just a new version of calling someone racist, but in a way that the words they say become toxic in a foreign affairs kind of way.

00:38:50.900 The truth is, they don't fear disinformation.

00:38:55.860 What they really fear is truth, truth speakers.

00:38:59.460 They want to silence and muzzle them, because those who speak the truth boldly and courageously threaten their power and privilege.

00:39:07.960 And all around the world, there have been movements rising up, populist movements, nationalist movements rising up against our progressive, globalist, internationalist, davoisi, whichever adjective we want to use, the global ruling class, so to speak.

00:39:23.040 And they can't tolerate that, but the whole reason that there's been this populist nationalist uprising is precisely because of the failures of these rulers to do what the people want.

00:39:35.840 And just on a very practical basis, if you ask the question, is your life better than it was 10 years ago?

00:39:41.000 If the answer is no, you have to be responsive to the public.

00:39:45.900 And they want to act as if the public doesn't matter, and that's just an impediment to their rule, and we the people can't take it anymore and aren't going to stand for it, but consequently they have to cast those who would dare speak up as a danger, try to delegitimize them, chill and silence them into submission, and that's why it's imperative not to, not to cower.

00:40:06.720 Well, it's incredible, and just because she smiles and sings doesn't make it any less terrifying.

00:40:11.700 In fact, I think that makes it absolutely terrifying.

00:40:13.900 There's a real Hunger Games vibe to what she's doing. 0.68

00:40:18.440 It's really gross.

00:40:19.720 I'm so glad you wrote about it in the New York Post.

00:40:21.580 Ben Weingarten, great to see you again.

00:40:23.340 Don't be a stranger.

00:40:24.780 Thanks for having me.

00:40:25.340 Really appreciate it.

00:40:26.240 Right on.

00:40:26.700 Stay with us.

00:40:27.920 Your letters to me are next.

00:40:29.260 Hey, welcome back.

00:40:42.080 Kevin Armstrong says, Clark did that just to make a mockery of the Conservative Party.

00:40:48.560 That nonsense should never happen again.

00:40:50.040 You're talking about Tom Clark, the absolutely atrocious moderator.

00:40:55.440 I'm not even going to call him a moderator, and I'm not going to call that a debate.

00:40:59.020 I don't know exactly what that was.

00:41:00.960 You know, I saw an opinion.

00:41:02.420 I think it was our friend Candace Malcolm who said it wasn't all Tom Clark's fault.

00:41:06.440 He was atrocious.

00:41:07.540 But it was designed to make sure there was no spicy moments for the candidates.

00:41:12.780 That was her theory.

00:41:13.860 I think Occam's Razor, have you ever heard that rule?

00:41:17.000 It's sort of a tool for decisions and philosophy.

00:41:20.280 Occam's Razor says the simplest explanation is usually the right one.

00:41:26.260 So you could say, oh, this was some complicated plan by the Conservative Party to have an uneventful

00:41:33.800 and uninteresting debate that as few people watched as possible so the party didn't get

00:41:39.080 into trouble.

00:41:39.480 I don't think that really makes sense because there are other non-official debates.

00:41:44.940 And I just think, no, I think it's what it looked like.

00:41:48.020 You had an atrocious moderator and some really bad judgment.

00:41:51.580 And I mean, I don't care if it was good TV or bad TV.

00:41:55.600 It was just a terrible debate.

00:41:58.280 It was unfair.

00:42:00.400 It revealed very little about the candidates.

00:42:03.460 And it's not surprising because you brought in a liberal lobbyist.

00:42:07.180 What's going on?

00:42:09.320 Ralph H. said, you don't have to be religious or a Christian to understand that abortion is

00:42:14.480 wrong 99% of the time.

00:42:16.460 Well, look, abortion is a real moral issue and we have no abortion law in Canada.

00:42:22.460 It's legal from conception to birth for any reason or no reason at all, including, for

00:42:28.080 example, sex select abortions.

00:42:30.080 But is it a newsworthy question in Canada today?

00:42:36.900 I don't know.

00:42:37.600 I don't think so.

00:42:38.820 Roe v. Wade, the American decision that was overturned after 50 years, doesn't touch on

00:42:43.240 Canada.

00:42:44.320 But Tom Clark was obsessed by that question almost as much as he was obsessed by asking

00:42:50.860 people what their favorite movies was. 0.89

00:42:54.820 It was ridiculous.

00:42:55.460 Greg Pentney, somebody signed Ezra up for Jeremy's Razors. 0.87

00:43:03.740 You know what?

00:43:04.200 I just want to show you what Jeremy's Razors is.

00:43:06.160 I know what you're talking about, but I don't think some of our viewers do.

00:43:10.920 Take a look at this great video by Jeremy Boring, the boss of The Daily Wire.

00:43:16.080 That's the website where Ben Shapiro does his work.

00:43:20.200 Take a look at this.

00:43:25.460 Do you remember when there were two genders and only one and a half of them had to shave 1.00

00:43:40.540 their mustaches?

00:43:42.120 Oh, hi.

00:43:43.100 I'm Jeremy Boring, CEO and God King of The Daily Wire.

00:43:46.560 Harry's Razors used to advertise on our shows.

00:43:49.000 They're a great product, and we were happy to do it.

00:43:51.780 That's before some peon who works for me went and said that boys are boys and girls

00:43:55.580 are girls, and that was just too much for Harry's.

00:43:59.600 They condemned our views, views held by millions of Americans and virtually every human who's

00:44:04.480 walked the planet until about 15 minutes ago as inexcusable.

00:44:08.420 And they dropped their ads from our network because of what they called values misalignment.

00:44:13.400 You're damn right our values are misaligned.

00:44:15.520 And it's not just Harry's either.

00:44:17.360 Gillette Razors used to be the best a man could get.

00:44:19.660 Then they decided that men are too toxic.

00:44:23.480 Unless you're the kind of man who teaches his daughter to shave her beard.

00:44:27.460 If that makes sense to you, keep buying Gillette. 0.99

00:44:32.720 But if you've had enough of the woke bullshit, and you're tired of paying companies like Harry's 0.99

00:44:37.500 and Gillette to hate you, you can buy my new razor instead. 1.00

00:44:49.820 Follow my foot! 0.96

00:44:51.120 Follow my foot! 0.80

00:44:51.960 Behold, Jeremy's Razors.

00:44:57.080 Yes, they're real.

00:44:58.260 Yes, they're fabulous.

00:44:59.740 But Jeremy, you say, you're a svelte silver fox with a salt and pepper beard that's the

00:45:05.200 envy of lesser men. 0.62

00:45:08.300 You're damn right I am.

00:45:11.700 And I want to be clear that shaving with a Jeremy's Razor won't actually make you look 0.58

00:45:15.640 more like me.

00:45:16.640 Yes, you're giving me fierce.

00:45:17.640 You're giving me power.

00:45:18.640 Could make you look more like this guy, though.

00:45:24.640 And that's the most homoerotic moment you'll ever get from a Jeremy's Razor commercial.

00:45:28.520 What kind of man shaves with a Jeremy's Razor?

00:45:33.520 I don't know.

00:45:34.520 How about cowboys?

00:45:35.520 Firefighters?

00:45:36.520 Those guys that shot Osama Bin Laden?

00:45:38.520 I mean, no, none of those guys have ever even heard of a Jeremy's Razor, but imagine how

00:45:44.400 much more manly they'd be if they had.

00:45:46.520 Right now, you're probably wondering if this whole thing is a joke.

00:46:08.520 Sure it is.

00:46:09.520 But that doesn't mean it isn't real or that it won't be the best shave of your life.

00:46:13.520 Harry's Razors doesn't want your business.

00:46:15.520 I do.

00:46:16.520 They seem to hate you.

00:46:17.520 And I, well, I can't say that I love you, but I don't mean you any specific harm.

00:46:26.520 Our country's in trouble.

00:46:27.520 Conservatives are being canceled by Hollywood, the media, universities, and now Harry's Razors. 0.99

00:46:33.520 Stop giving your money to woke corporations who don't think you deserve their product.

00:46:37.520 Give it to me instead.

00:46:44.520 Isn't that amazing?

00:46:45.520 I think it's a great way to fight back against cancel culture, but just the production value

00:46:50.520 of that.

00:46:51.520 That was such an entertaining ad.

00:46:53.520 They're doing great and congrats to them.

00:46:55.520 Yeah.

00:46:56.520 You know, I'm trying to, I'm trying to grow a beard.

00:46:58.520 I've been trying now for about three weeks.

00:46:59.520 I don't know if it's working.

00:47:01.520 I don't know if it, I mean, I just, maybe I should just give up.

00:47:04.520 I feel like I'm this far in.

00:47:06.520 I should give it a little more time.

00:47:08.520 Anyways.

00:47:09.520 Hey, thanks for joining me this week.

00:47:12.520 I hope you found it interesting.

00:47:14.520 Let me leave you with our video of the day from Juan Mendoza Diaz.

00:47:18.520 And it's an exclusive look at baby formula shortages in Miami, Florida.

00:47:24.520 Until Monday, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,

00:47:28.520 good night and keep fighting for freedom.

00:47:30.520 This is Juan Mendoza reporting for Rebel News.

00:47:33.520 With the recent amount of inflation and shortages that have been affecting Americans here in

00:47:37.520 the United States.

00:47:38.520 The prices are going up.

00:47:39.520 So even if you start making more money, if the prices are going up faster than your job,

00:47:45.520 than your wages or your salary is going up, you're actually losing ground in this inflationary

00:47:51.520 economy.

00:47:52.520 The most recent item to be facing shortages is baby formula.

00:47:56.520 We're going to take you around many grocery stores in Miami just to show you how the city is

00:48:02.520 being affected with the shortage of baby formula.

00:48:05.520 We're here at one Publix location.

00:48:10.520 And as you can see, the amount of baby formula around at this store.

00:48:17.520 It's not as much as they had.

00:48:20.520 As you can see, there's clear shelves here.

00:48:30.520 So we're here at Target now.

00:48:32.520 And at the baby formula section.

00:48:35.520 And as you can see, the supply is also very, very short here for baby formula.

00:48:41.520 And we wanted to see if it was not just Publix that was having an issue on supplying baby formula.

00:48:51.520 And as you can see, some of the shelves here, they're not completely full.

00:48:58.520 So I got here to a local supermarket here in Miami.

00:49:04.520 And they don't seem to have been impacted as bad for the baby formula shortage as other grocery stores like Target or Publix or Walmart.

00:49:21.520 We are here at another Walmart location in Miami.

00:49:28.520 And as you can see, the baby formula, there's not much left here either.

00:49:33.520 As you can see, there's definitely a shortage in this location too.

00:49:46.520 I'll see you tomorrow.

00:49:47.520 I'll see you tomorrow.

00:49:48.520 Thanks, for the rest of the day.

00:49:49.520 Take care, everyone.

00:49:50.520 Thanks.

00:49:51.520 Bye.

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Rebel News Podcast - May 14, 2022

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Someone swore at a politician, so police are investigating — we really do live in a banana republic

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