Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ The blue checkmark journalists on Twitter are losing their minds – and it's amazing!

00:00:00.200 Hello, my friends. It is election night in the United States.

00:00:03.920 That's of great interest to us, the greatest friend, ally, and neighbor of the United States.

00:00:08.360 And how the United States goes today, we often go the next day.

00:00:11.440 I think Joe Biden is going to get a thumping at the polls.

00:00:15.980 We'll talk to Katie Davis Court about that. 0.99

00:00:17.560 But before we do, I want to tell you the latest about Elon Musk's plan to democratize Twitter.

00:00:22.720 Oh, the elites don't like that very much.

00:00:25.100 That's today's show.

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00:00:56.280 All right, here's today's show.

00:00:58.860 Tonight, it's amazing to hear journalists try to explain why they're better than you.

00:01:16.040 I'll show you some examples.

00:01:17.480 It's November 8th.

00:01:18.300 This is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:19.580 You're fighting for freedom.

00:01:22.880 Shame on you, you sensorism bug.

00:01:25.980 By the time this is posted online, we'll be having our U.S. midterm election live stream.

00:01:40.280 So if you're listening to this on Tuesday night, feel free to tune in.

00:01:43.400 We stream it on rumble.com, YouTube, Getter, and other platforms.

00:01:47.920 I'm excited about it.

00:01:48.880 After two years of bad news under the Democrats, I think America is going to swing back to the Republicans, both the House and the Senate.

00:01:55.800 Of course, I'm worried about the margin of cheating, but I'm still optimistic.

00:02:00.260 In a moment, we'll talk with Katie Davis Court about some of the interesting races.

00:02:04.780 Perhaps the most curious to me is this oddity, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania.

00:02:11.820 His name is John Fetterman.

00:02:12.720 He's got quite a unique look, doesn't he?

00:02:15.600 He's got that shaved head, that goatee, the tattoos, always in a hoodie.

00:02:20.960 It's a tough guy look, but he's not really working class.

00:02:23.900 He's more sort of Marxist, woke-ist.

00:02:26.740 I think of a prisoner more than a worker.

00:02:30.100 But that's not the weird thing.

00:02:31.200 The weird thing is he had a stroke, and he tried to keep it a secret.

00:02:35.160 And the media helped him keep it secret until finally one reporter, actually from the mainstream media, sort of just said the opposite. 0.87

00:02:42.480 And holy moly, was she battered by the Democrat trolls. 0.99

00:02:47.560 She said the obvious, that is. 0.93

00:02:49.620 She just said what he was lying.

00:02:52.420 Take a look.

00:02:52.740 Not a typical candidate interview.

00:02:55.420 No, Lester.

00:02:56.440 Because of his stroke, Fetterman's campaign required closed captioning technology for this interview to essentially read our questions as we ask them.

00:03:04.420 And Lester, in small talk before the interview, without captioning, it wasn't clear he was understanding our conversation.

00:03:11.620 Can voters stress that you will be able to do this job on day one?

00:03:17.180 Yeah, of course.

00:03:18.680 Say you're on the road to full recovery.

00:03:21.900 But right now, voters really have to take your word for it.

00:03:26.500 We've asked for your medical records.

00:03:29.240 We've asked to have a conversation with someone from your medical team to interview your physician.

00:03:33.600 You've declined those requests.

00:03:36.120 Why?

00:03:38.440 Well, I feel like we have been very transparent in a lot of different ways.

00:03:42.460 When our doctor has already given a letter saying that I'm able to serve and to be running.

00:03:49.100 I mean, respectfully, that letter from your physician, that was six months ago.

00:03:53.800 Holy cow. 0.89

00:03:54.640 Did the left ever get angry at her for that?

00:03:56.820 Well, it just gets crazier.

00:03:58.440 I mean, Fetterman is running against TV's Dr. Oz, who's running for the Republicans, sort of a TV celebrity.

00:04:05.580 That'll be interesting one to watch.

00:04:06.920 But I'm really worried about Democrat Election Day shenanigans in Pennsylvania.

00:04:12.720 Election Day.

00:04:13.520 Who's kidding?

00:04:13.920 Whom?

00:04:14.540 That only happens in first world countries. 0.61

00:04:16.660 Third world countries like the United States now take days or weeks to count the ballots.

00:04:21.300 All the Democrat-leaning media are saying, this is normal.

00:04:25.480 This is completely normal.

00:04:27.340 Nothing to be worried about.

00:04:29.020 It's really crazy.

00:04:29.900 Anyways, that's tonight's live stream on our YouTube and Rumble channels.

00:04:34.080 But back to the monologue today.

00:04:35.440 I want to talk about Twitter.

00:04:36.520 And I know that most of you probably don't even have a Twitter account.

00:04:40.700 It's just a shorter, meaner Facebook built for quarreling with people as opposed to sharing family photos or invitations to barbecues,

00:04:47.620 which is probably more of a Facebook thing.

00:04:49.300 But even if you are not on Twitter, and I very strongly recommend you do not join it if you're not already trapped in it,

00:04:55.740 here's why Twitter is still important to you.

00:04:57.540 It's what journalists and politicians love.

00:05:00.480 It's where they brainstorm.

00:05:01.980 It's where they chat amongst themselves, but you can listen in.

00:05:04.580 It's where, like birds in a flock, they subconsciously, unconsciously assemble in formation.

00:05:10.500 You can see journalists whip each other up and iron out a narrative.

00:05:13.720 You can see what all the pundits are pushing together.

00:05:15.720 And because it's so short and quick, it's often a more honest reflection of what they think than a scripted video or a written essay. 0.97

00:05:22.320 People say dumb things on Twitter.

00:05:24.060 It's the danger, but it's also the fun of the place. 0.96

00:05:26.700 You can debate anyone.

00:05:27.880 You can heckle anyone, engage anyone.

00:05:29.760 And you never know who will engage back.

00:05:31.400 I did a tweet once that Donald Trump himself replied to when he was president.

00:05:35.160 I got a real kick out of that.

00:05:37.020 In a way, it's a kind of meritocracy.

00:05:39.220 If you have something smart or funny to say, it can go viral no matter who you are.

00:05:44.340 That's the internet for you.

00:05:45.940 Power to the people.

00:05:47.020 We take it for granted now, but before the ubiquity of smartphones with their built-in cameras,

00:05:52.080 it was rare to catch some crisis in action on videotape.

00:05:55.840 I mean, in the olden days, pre-internet, pre-smartphone,

00:05:59.000 there were some people who were real photography buffs who carried a real camera around with them.

00:06:02.840 But that was really rare because what a hassle, right?

00:06:05.460 And very few people had a video camera.

00:06:07.100 Now, think about all the important news these days that's captured by ordinary people

00:06:11.260 just in the right place at the right time on their cell phones.

00:06:13.980 That's the kind of journalism.

00:06:16.620 Twitter lets citizen journalists publish videos and photos and comments,

00:06:20.480 and the emphasis is on speed and engagement.

00:06:23.240 So it truly is the public square for politics in 2022.

00:06:26.320 It's also good for sports or entertainment, following celebrities, that sort of thing too.

00:06:29.880 But I think its real value is politics and news,

00:06:32.180 or maybe that's what I use it for.

00:06:34.580 That's certainly the value to various governments and spy agencies.

00:06:38.460 Twitter's a bounty for spies to get information on dissidents,

00:06:42.760 who they are, what they're saying in their private messages, for example.

00:06:46.260 That's all owned by Twitter.

00:06:48.640 So as you know, Elon Musk, the billionaire, bought Twitter, and he took it private.

00:06:53.740 He mustered $44 billion U.S.

00:06:57.080 That's almost $60 billion Canadian dollars.

00:06:59.340 And it was a fascinating dance.

00:07:01.360 He made the offer.

00:07:04.420 And then several of the board members denounced the offer.

00:07:08.360 But then when Elon Musk pulled back, saying Twitter misled him,

00:07:12.820 in that there's a large number of customers that Twitter pretended were real,

00:07:17.120 that were actually fakes, they were robots or bots.

00:07:20.020 Twitter then sued Elon Musk, demanding that he close the deal anyway.

00:07:26.280 They went back and forth, and in the end, he bought it.

00:07:28.800 And in the first week or so, he fired half the staff.

00:07:32.620 Now, how can you fire half the staff of any company?

00:07:35.920 If it were another kind of business, like say a restaurant,

00:07:38.200 how can you fire half the staff in a restaurant?

00:07:40.200 Would you get rid of cooks or dishwashers or waiters? 0.91

00:07:42.300 I mean, it's tough to imagine there being that many useless people in a real business, 0.92

00:07:46.260 like a restaurant.

00:07:47.300 I mean, I guess you could do what McDonald's and other restaurants are doing,

00:07:51.180 having touchscreen tablets to order food, which I suppose gets rid of some cashiers.

00:07:56.780 But that's not half the people.

00:07:58.280 Or imagine an airplane, an airline.

00:08:01.320 How can you get rid of half the people? 1.00

00:08:02.840 Pilots, flight attendants, mechanics, refueling people, baggage people.

00:08:06.560 You'd be terrified if they got rid of half the people, right? 0.99

00:08:09.000 And the thing about that McDonald's tablet idea is that that's using high-tech ideas

00:08:13.640 to replace labor.

00:08:15.020 What is Twitter other than a high-tech idea?

00:08:18.180 There's no Twitter store you go to.

00:08:20.620 It's not shipped to you in a van like Amazon stuff is.

00:08:24.080 There's something you physically touch.

00:08:25.700 It's just an app on your phone or your laptop.

00:08:29.340 So it's already as efficient as it could be, right?

00:08:31.960 As scalable, as they say.

00:08:33.440 You don't have to build more buildings like a McDonald's franchise.

00:08:36.900 How on earth can you sack half the staff at Twitter and have customer use actually grow

00:08:42.180 as it has over the past week?

00:08:44.000 How did they, who did they fire?

00:08:47.660 Well, that's the amazing and shocking part. 0.92

00:08:49.040 Twitter was absolutely chock full of useless political bosses, political activists, censors, 0.82

00:08:56.920 regulators, public policy experts. 0.80

00:08:59.140 Nothing to do with the actual app itself.

00:09:01.740 Nothing to do with the technology.

00:09:03.140 Gee, they were like barnacles on a ship and there were more barnacles than ship.

00:09:08.640 They had attached themselves to the profitable, useful technology and just brought in their

00:09:13.480 woke agendas.

00:09:14.340 They colonized the place.

00:09:16.060 Half the staff at Twitter were political bosses.

00:09:21.400 I mean, look at this incredible statement by a former Twitter employee fired by Elon Musk.

00:09:25.940 She was fairly senior.

00:09:26.900 She said, yesterday was my last day at Twitter.

00:09:30.220 The entire human rights team has been cut from the company.

00:09:34.660 I'm enormously proud of the work we did to implement the UN guiding principles on business

00:09:41.040 and human rights to protect those at risk in global conflicts and crises, including Ethiopia.

00:09:46.680 And her list goes on.

00:09:49.060 Hang on.

00:09:49.380 You had this whole human rights team implementing United Nations principles.

00:09:57.120 Did you know about that?

00:09:58.500 I didn't know about that.

00:10:00.200 Twitter's imposing some foreign globalist regulations on its app.

00:10:05.240 What?

00:10:05.900 I mean, I don't even know if I believe it.

00:10:08.600 When you look at, I mean, talk about United Nations human rights rules.

00:10:11.480 I mean, in some ways, every dictator in the world has a Twitter account from Iran to China

00:10:17.060 to Venezuela.

00:10:17.800 So much for human rights principles.

00:10:20.560 And look at this investigation by a journalist named Li Fang.

00:10:25.240 Documents show Facebook and Twitter closely collaborating with the Department of Human and

00:10:29.300 Security, FBI, to police disinfo.

00:10:33.940 Plans to expand censorship on topics like withdrawal from Afghanistan, origins of COVID, info that

00:10:39.120 undermines trust in financial institutions.

00:10:40.920 Yeah, if you don't love your bank, you're a disinformation expert.

00:10:46.360 So that's what Twitter's thousands and thousands of political enforcers were doing.

00:10:51.720 Running errands for the UN, for the military, for big banks.

00:10:55.560 Here's more from Li Fang.

00:10:57.100 FBI agent Laura Demlow was in communications with Facebook that led to the suppression of

00:11:02.000 the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020 over the false allegation that it was disinfo.

00:11:06.920 This year, she met with Twitter DHS to stress,

00:11:09.300 we need a media infrastructure that is held accountable.

00:11:13.140 So they're basically political censors who also let the police just come right on in and

00:11:16.840 silence people using the app.

00:11:18.400 No trial, no rule of law, no U.S. Constitution, First Amendment, just a crazy secret relationship

00:11:25.540 with the police.

00:11:26.220 I'll read one more.

00:11:26.760 Facebook and Twitter created special portals for the government to rapidly request takedowns

00:11:32.640 of content.

00:11:33.140 The portals, along with NGO partners, used to censor a wide range of content, including

00:11:37.980 obvious parody accounts and content disagreeing with government pandemic policy.

00:11:43.040 By the way, portals like that that give you direct access to an app secretly.

00:11:46.800 That's what the Chinese government does to its internet companies like TikTok.

00:11:50.400 And we condemn that.

00:11:51.640 But that's what Twitter was doing all along.

00:11:53.960 That's what half the people at Twitter were doing.

00:11:57.960 You might have laughed at me the other day when on the show I called Twitter a CIA operation.

00:12:03.020 But literally half the people working there had nothing to do with computer science or

00:12:07.380 engineering or the user experience.

00:12:09.400 They were spies, either gathering information on people or silencing people working for hidden

00:12:15.100 masters.

00:12:15.600 Now, obviously, if someone is fired, that's bad for them.

00:12:19.060 And we mean no harm to anyone in particular.

00:12:21.180 Just because we disagree with them doesn't mean we want them to be unemployed and not make

00:12:25.140 their rent.

00:12:25.980 And of course, if they enjoyed their work friends, that's a sad development, just speaking on

00:12:29.840 a personal level.

00:12:32.080 Let me read this guy's tweet. 1.00

00:12:35.080 Getting rid of public policy people when you're claiming to do real free speech is the stupidest 1.00

00:12:40.620 move ever. 0.99

00:12:42.380 Love who you work with.

00:12:43.760 I'm sorry that he's out of a job, but that's pretty self-serving.

00:12:48.660 All these censors and regulators and filterers were not doing free speech.

00:12:54.060 They were all shaping and regulating and hiding and tweaking and eliminating other people's

00:12:58.680 free speeches.

00:12:59.220 And it wasn't free anymore.

00:13:00.900 Public policy people working at Twitter?

00:13:02.560 Why?

00:13:03.460 Twitter ought to be like a bulletin board.

00:13:05.060 People can put things on it.

00:13:06.580 You don't need thousands of staff standing around taking down things from the bulletin board

00:13:10.220 that real people put up and putting up what you want them to see instead.

00:13:13.780 Public policy people?

00:13:15.100 Look, if you're in a public policy like I am, well, then get a Twitter account and make

00:13:18.560 your case.

00:13:19.160 Don't secretly silence from behind the scenes and the chutzpah to call yourself a free

00:13:22.720 speecher.

00:13:24.220 I'm sympathetic to this person that's an individual, but I'm glad their job is gone.

00:13:28.440 It was the job of a censor.

00:13:29.720 Some of the tweets were just lamenting the end of a cushy, well-paid career, but others

00:13:35.000 had an ominous warning to them.

00:13:36.620 You'll regret this.

00:13:38.020 We were the last bulwark against Russian propaganda.

00:13:40.760 We were the last thing stopping you from believing misinformation and disinformation.

00:13:44.260 This is a trick.

00:13:48.180 Everything was true until now, but now that I'm fired, you will be in a sea of lies.

00:13:53.640 No, not really.

00:13:54.900 But look, I can see how Twitter, a Twitter censor who censors every day using artificial

00:14:01.700 intelligence and algorithms to censor by the thousand or by the million to censor whole

00:14:06.860 ideas or words, I can imagine how that person can say that their absence will change the

00:14:12.540 world.

00:14:12.860 In a way, it will.

00:14:13.980 We will hear more points of view now, not just the approved ones by a left-wing Silicon

00:14:18.420 Valley company's woke leftist.

00:14:19.780 We might hear alternative points of view on the pandemic or the vaccines now that were

00:14:24.100 always silenced before.

00:14:25.040 So actually, the world will change a bit.

00:14:26.640 Those people actually will be missed by their friends at Pfizer or the Democrats or the

00:14:32.520 FBI or the CIA or whatever.

00:14:34.840 But what about another thing that Elon Musk has done?

00:14:38.640 That little blue checkmark next to your name.

00:14:40.560 Again, if you don't have a Twitter account, you may not know what I'm talking about.

00:14:43.100 It's called a verified checkmark.

00:14:45.140 It supposedly verifies your identity.

00:14:48.800 Now, that's not someone impersonating you.

00:14:51.640 That's you because you got that blue checkmark.

00:14:54.380 It's useful for public people.

00:14:55.820 But in fact, it wasn't treated like a true verification mark because anyone can get verified

00:15:01.120 by showing ID and proving they are who they are.

00:15:04.200 Think about what you had to do to get your online banking going.

00:15:07.980 You can do it.

00:15:09.640 And yet you yourself might not even be famous.

00:15:11.980 My point is the blue checkmark for Twitter was not in practice about verifying your identity.

00:15:17.460 It was about whether or not you would be invited into an elite club of influencers and approved

00:15:22.000 pundits.

00:15:23.020 I have no idea how I got my blue checkmark.

00:15:25.120 I didn't ask for it.

00:15:26.440 One day it came.

00:15:27.340 And I suppose I'm glad.

00:15:29.240 Maybe it's because I run a news company and even our critics on the left acknowledge that

00:15:32.800 we're a thing.

00:15:33.420 But the blue checkmark community has a kind of identity, a group identity.

00:15:38.220 They're the fancy people.

00:15:39.320 They're the official people.

00:15:40.400 They're the approved people.

00:15:41.920 It's not just verified.

00:15:43.300 It's approved.

00:15:45.720 In fact, Twitter has in the past punished people by taking away the blue checkmark.

00:15:49.240 How does that make sense if it's just about verification?

00:15:51.080 Are they not still the person they were yesterday?

00:15:54.140 No.

00:15:54.760 Of course they are.

00:15:55.440 It just means that they've lost Twitter's seal of approval.

00:15:57.720 It was always a snob thing.

00:15:59.100 A club, a cast, an elite, us versus them.

00:16:02.880 Again, I have no idea how I got it, but I got it somehow.

00:16:07.000 But look, Elon Musk has now said he's going to let anyone get themselves verified in that

00:16:11.140 little blue checkmark for eight bucks a month.

00:16:13.780 You too can get that blue checkmark.

00:16:15.400 That's not just a source of income for Twitter, which it is.

00:16:19.020 It's a way of reducing spam and bots.

00:16:21.160 Spam and bots, robots, are anonymous accounts, sometimes made by the hundred or by the thousand.

00:16:26.980 And they are artificial.

00:16:28.400 They're like what a laugh track is to a TV comedy.

00:16:31.420 They're fake.

00:16:33.000 You can have thousands of fake bots promoting or opposing something or someone.

00:16:38.860 It's what Elon Musk didn't like about Twitter when he called off his bid.

00:16:42.300 He said there's too many robots there.

00:16:43.860 He said one solution is to make everybody pay eight bucks a month to go through the verification

00:16:48.340 process to eliminate bots.

00:16:50.400 I mean, you wouldn't likely see someone buying 10,000 bots if it was eight bucks each per month,

00:16:56.740 even if they could provide the verification information, which they probably couldn't.

00:17:00.360 So it's about improving the user experience, about moving away from ads and towards a membership

00:17:05.280 fee.

00:17:05.700 But it's also about democratizing it.

00:17:09.160 Now, the peasants can look just like the kings on Twitter.

00:17:15.080 And oh, does that make the blue checkmark aristocracy furious? 0.99

00:17:19.440 I think I showed you this the other day.

00:17:20.720 Stephen King, the millionaire, was arguing with Elon Musk, the billionaire, about not wanting

00:17:25.540 to pay eight bucks a month.

00:17:27.460 Look, it wasn't about the money for Stephen King.

00:17:29.640 It's that Stephen King is special.

00:17:31.460 And because he's special, he wants a freebie that only he gets.

00:17:36.820 Because don't you know who I am?

00:17:38.180 I'm Stephen King.

00:17:40.300 But what really made me roll my eyes was seeing Canadian journalists saying that their blue

00:17:44.960 checkmark and the inability of the little people to buy a blue checkmark was essential 1.00

00:17:50.440 to democracy.

00:17:52.000 It was all that was keeping journalism in Canada safe.

00:17:54.640 They were like Twitter's own censorship and United Nations squad.

00:17:58.900 And really, they are.

00:18:00.720 The blue checkmark journalists are part of the elite club that suddenly, well, they're 0.91

00:18:04.580 not going to be cool anymore.

00:18:06.920 And they're furious about it.

00:18:08.540 If everyone can have the blue checkmark, it's not fancy anymore.

00:18:11.080 This is my favorite example.

00:18:12.500 So Elon Musk himself said, widespread verification will democratize journalism and empower the voice

00:18:19.240 of the people.

00:18:20.660 He sounds like a rebel.

00:18:21.580 So Canada's very own Rachel Gilmore, a young woman at Global News, whose specialty is short

00:18:27.560 TikTok videos, said, that's very dangerous, you see.

00:18:32.180 She said, making every single persona a verified source of reliable information is a really great

00:18:38.400 way of poisoning the well.

00:18:40.600 This won't democratize journalism.

00:18:42.660 It'll silence it.

00:18:44.320 Bad actors will drown out reliable sources.

00:18:47.420 So letting ordinary people be verified is poison.

00:18:50.140 It will silence people.

00:18:51.900 That part isn't explained.

00:18:53.240 But, you know, free speech equals silencing people. 0.55

00:18:56.700 Drown out bad, bad actor.

00:18:59.100 I don't even understand.

00:19:00.260 And by implication, Rachel Gilmore is certainly none of those bad things.

00:19:04.140 She's not poison.

00:19:05.060 She's not a bad actor.

00:19:06.160 And you know that's true because she has the blue checkmark.

00:19:08.920 We just went through this.

00:19:10.160 She has a blue checkmark because she's book good.

00:19:12.140 And she's good and has a blue checkmark.

00:19:14.900 And that's how it works.

00:19:17.600 Now, if she's anything like me, she did not have to fill out any forms or take any tests

00:19:22.120 to get it, get any reference studies.

00:19:23.880 She just got it like I did.

00:19:25.220 But if you're part of the club, you just sort of know you're part of the elite.

00:19:28.660 You're special now.

00:19:29.480 So we should believe her that she is none of those bad things simply because of the blue

00:19:34.540 checkmark.

00:19:35.060 It's proof.

00:19:36.540 Here's Rachel Gilmore, by the way.

00:19:38.940 Are you going to invite your unvaccinated relatives to sit at the dinner table with you this Thanksgiving? 0.99

00:19:44.420 Experts are saying you might not want to risk it.

00:19:47.340 Here's why.

00:19:48.500 According to one expert from McMaster University, vaccines are super effective.

00:19:53.120 But they're most effective when you're surrounded by other vaccinated people.

00:19:59.040 If you invite someone who isn't vaccinated, there's a risk of having a breakthrough case.

00:20:03.120 Now, breakthrough cases are pretty rare.

00:20:05.300 There's only ever been about 8,000 in Ontario.

00:20:08.020 But kids can't get vaccinated yet.

00:20:10.260 So part of keeping those kids as safe as possible is telling that one uncle who chooses not to get vaccinated

00:20:15.100 that he might have to sit this one out.

00:20:17.020 Yeah, that blue checkmark is the seal of approval for quality journalism.

00:20:21.280 So I wrote back, and that's half the fun of Twitter is the banter.

00:20:25.360 I said, look, journalism is not a profession or a trade.

00:20:28.620 It's an activity that anyone with a smartphone and a Twitter account can do.

00:20:33.040 The democratization of journalism outrages the elites because it takes away their monopoly.

00:20:37.920 That blue checkmark was their proof that they're better than you.

00:20:43.260 And the banter to which Gilmore replied, this coming from Ezra explains so much.

00:20:49.280 It does explain so much.

00:20:51.600 It explains why we citizen journalists over here have 1.58 million YouTube subscribers

00:20:56.460 and millions more in other social media, because we know that a blue checkmark isn't what makes

00:21:00.880 a journalist doing journalism is.

00:21:04.640 Here's a reporter with Canadian press, Rosa Saba, who says journalism isn't an activity.

00:21:10.020 It's a job.

00:21:11.540 That doesn't really make sense.

00:21:13.300 Of course, it can be a job or not.

00:21:16.800 I replied, that's not a dichotomy.

00:21:21.620 It is an activity that can also be a job.

00:21:25.300 Whether or not you're paid for it doesn't determine if it's journalism.

00:21:28.120 In fact, if you cash a check from Trudeau, as 99% of Canadian journalists do, I'd argue

00:21:32.180 that the job part undermines the journalism part.

00:21:34.540 I mean, what does getting paid or not have to do with journalism, except that if you get

00:21:39.660 paid by Trudeau, odds are you're compromised.

00:21:43.400 I like this one by a journalist with a blue checkmark who said, firefighting is not a profession

00:21:50.040 or a trade, he meant to say.

00:21:52.280 It's an activity that anyone with a garden hose can do. 1.00

00:21:54.760 The collapse of our republic dovetails perfectly with the lie of citizen journalists and the 0.99

00:21:58.500 rise of unvetted, organized disinformation. 1.00

00:22:01.320 And listening to morons like this one. 1.00

00:22:04.420 Actually, firefighting requires some special skills and special equipment more than a garden 1.00

00:22:08.660 hose. 0.52

00:22:08.960 You need a truck.

00:22:09.560 You have to have some strength and you have to know what you're doing.

00:22:12.480 Journalism doesn't.

00:22:13.620 You've got a phone with a camera and a social media account.

00:22:16.680 There are no barriers to entry.

00:22:18.540 You're a journalist.

00:22:20.780 This journalist read my comment and said he was scared.

00:22:25.060 This is frighteningly wrong.

00:22:27.920 Yeah, no, not really.

00:22:29.440 I said journalism is not a profession.

00:22:31.980 A profession has legal barriers to entry.

00:22:34.340 Think of doctors or engineers.

00:22:36.680 A governing body with authority to sanction members.

00:22:40.200 The power to exclude competitors.

00:22:42.460 None of that is compatible with freedom in the press.

00:22:44.660 Sorry if that's frightening to you.

00:22:47.560 None of the advocates of keeping blue checkmines for the fancy people are telling the truth.

00:22:51.280 They're not actually worried about disinformation or misinformation or unethical people.

00:22:56.580 Those are just insults.

00:22:58.700 The mainstream media takes care of those unethical behaviors on their own, by the way.

00:23:03.520 How many conspiracy theories do they serve up from their lies about the origin of the virus to their lies about the efficacy of the vaccines to their lies about the convoy?

00:23:13.280 This is my favorite.

00:23:13.900 You know, given Canada's support of Ukraine in this current crisis with Russia, I don't know if it's far-fetched to ask, but there is concern that Russian actors could be continuing to fuel things as this protest grows, but perhaps even instigating it from the outset.

00:23:33.820 That CBC anchor actually got a promotion after that.

00:23:38.640 All we heard out of the Trucker Commission of Inquiry from last month from every police source is that the truckers were peaceful, contrary to what the mainstream media said, and that the media itself was the source of the lies.

00:23:49.540 The blue checkmark media was the source of the lies.

00:23:51.920 Not us, the citizen journalists.

00:23:54.640 Rachel Gilmore is a TikTok journalist, for crying out loud. 0.94

00:23:57.500 And I'm not sure if that's even a thing, but I won't get snobby on her.

00:24:00.880 I'm just saying she craves that blue checkmark because it gives her validation she so dearly wants.

00:24:07.120 So she's not just another influencer showing just enough skin on social media to get views. 1.00

00:24:13.200 It's her claim to being classy and important and real and authoritative because her work alone doesn't afford her that.

00:24:19.740 And it's a way of marginalizing her enemies and her critics.

00:24:23.720 I have validation and you don't.

00:24:25.740 Well, now the world's richest man says everyone can buy that elite status.

00:24:32.800 From here, I don't care too much.

00:24:34.280 I mean, I have the blue checkmark.

00:24:35.440 I suppose I'd rather have it than not.

00:24:36.860 But I love that the scarcity of it is about to end and that the grubby peasants will be able to buy these what these princes and princesses had bestowed upon them once.

00:24:49.120 Now we can all buy it for eight bucks.

00:24:50.580 But doesn't that say at all?

00:24:53.240 The media party really is a club.

00:24:54.940 A party, as I call it.

00:24:56.700 It's about a team, about friends and enemies and whose side you're on.

00:25:01.660 That's what all these blue checkmarks are raging about.

00:25:04.880 And I am loving every minute of it.

00:25:07.840 Stay with us for more from Katie Davis Court.

00:25:10.340 Well, we post the Ezra Levant show at 8 p.m. Eastern time, 6 p.m. Mountain time every day.

00:25:21.200 So by the time you see this, we will actually have started another show, our live stream for the U.S. midterm elections.

00:25:29.680 We love covering U.S. presidential elections.

00:25:33.600 And I think this midterm election is certainly a premonition of what could happen in 2024.

00:25:39.360 It's really the first time Americans have had a chance to, I don't know, have a referendum on Joe Biden and his leadership, if it even is his leadership.

00:25:50.320 I think the woke squad of the Democrats are really in control, at least ideologically.

00:25:56.740 There are a lot of problems in the U.S. economy right now.

00:25:59.600 Inflation, the cost of energy.

00:26:01.920 There's even the looming threat of war in the distance, Russia, Ukraine and America's involvement.

00:26:08.300 But I think that Joe Biden has just come across with a kind of Jimmy Carter style malaise.

00:26:14.480 And I think that Republicans see opportunities around the map, not just at the state level where there are some governorships up for grabs, but the Senate and the House of Representatives.

00:26:25.200 I think conventional wisdom is that the Republicans will win that back and have a real shot at taking the Senate.

00:26:31.400 There's a few places we will watch on the live stream.

00:26:34.580 I'm very interested, of course, in the success of Ron DeSantis.

00:26:37.700 I think it's almost a foregone conclusion he will be reelected in Florida.

00:26:40.940 Will he run in 2024 is a real question.

00:26:44.440 Arizona, which is sort of a purple state, red or blue.

00:26:47.880 I think it's trending red.

00:26:48.920 You have a really American first Republican, Blake Masters, affiliated with Peter Thiel, probably the only libertarian in Silicon Valley, a big Trump supporter.

00:26:59.360 Carrie Lake running for governor there. 0.97

00:27:01.540 Pennsylvania, fascinating battle between John Fetterman, a Democrat who had a stroke versus the Republican, Dr. Oz.

00:27:09.400 Not a particularly right wing man, but certainly telegenic.

00:27:13.040 That's one to watch.

00:27:13.720 Even New York State, New York, one of the most progressive places around, such a crime wave there.

00:27:20.600 And their incumbent governor, having not been elected, remember, she was selected when Governor Cuomo was run out on Me Too allegations.

00:27:28.600 There's actually a chance the Republicans could pick up New York City.

00:27:31.760 It's all very exciting.

00:27:33.460 And so if you're watching this on Tuesday night, maybe push pause on it and flip over to our live stream on Rumble and YouTube.

00:27:42.820 And one of the guests I will be having in real time is my friend Katie Davis-Gore, one of our U.S. correspondents.

00:27:49.160 And she joins me now from downtown Seattle, where she's driving around, taking a look at things from street level.

00:27:55.500 Katie, great to see you again.

00:27:56.360 How are you doing?

00:27:57.520 I'm doing great.

00:27:58.380 Thanks for having me on, Ezra.

00:27:59.540 It's obviously a big day in the United States, so excited to be covering it from start to finish.

00:28:04.920 Yeah, Seattle is part of the Pacific Northwest.

00:28:07.720 We have a great affection for that.

00:28:09.220 At least I grew up in Alberta and B.C.

00:28:11.540 There's a closeness to Washington State and B.C.

00:28:16.240 Seattle and Portland, Oregon, really have been trending towards the woke left in recent years.

00:28:22.980 Does that show any sign of boomeranging back?

00:28:26.560 I know there have been some places where they're soft on crime.

00:28:30.000 Attorneys General have literally been thrown out.

00:28:32.200 Even San Francisco is saying, whoa, we've gone too far.

00:28:35.860 How is it in your hometown of Seattle and the place you haunt so much, Portland, is there any sign that even progressive Pacific Northwesterners are saying, we've gone too far to the left?

00:28:49.360 You know, that is a great question, Ezra.

00:28:51.940 I think that they are really reaping the effects of these failed progressive policies.

00:28:56.820 You know, their policies have created severe lawlessness, high crime rates.

00:29:01.660 There are the most recorded homicides ever in both cities, such as Seattle and Portland.

00:29:08.820 But when I was on the street, we did a USA team did a U.S. midterm street or video.

00:29:15.940 And I went and I asked voters in Seattle how they plan to vote.

00:29:19.900 And they are still Democrat stronghold voters.

00:29:22.940 And they said that their main issues were abortion and January 6th.

00:29:27.660 And so it's not going to be voters in Seattle and the voters in Portland that are going to make a change.

00:29:35.260 It's going to be the people in the outside cities, the rest of the people in our states, that the progressive policies in Seattle and Portland have began to affect where they live.

00:29:45.600 So it is personal for a lot of people because Washington and Oregon are both states that are not deep blue.

00:29:52.400 They're only deep blue because of Seattle and Portland.

00:29:54.740 The rest of the states are pretty much solid red.

00:29:59.220 And so this election cycle has awakened the voters across the state that normally wouldn't even turn out to vote.

00:30:08.160 But I think that there's talks of a red wave across the state or across the country.

00:30:14.740 I'm remaining skeptical because I don't necessarily trust the way that our elections are run in the country.

00:30:23.860 You know, Washington and Oregon both have strict mail-in voting.

00:30:27.900 You can't even have the option to vote in person.

00:30:30.320 So it's really going to be interesting to see how it plays out.

00:30:33.360 But the main races to watch in the state that I am in is Senate candidate Tiffany Smiley and Republican candidate for House Matt Larkin.

00:30:43.840 They have the chance to actually flip their districts.

00:30:46.660 So Senate candidate.

00:30:48.620 So Tiffany Smiley is running against longtime incumbent Patty Murray, who has been a congressman, congresswoman for over 30 years. 0.57

00:30:57.720 And she has only passed nine bills her entire 30 years.

00:31:01.540 And so Tiffany Smiley actually is pulling ahead of Patty right now. 0.71

00:31:06.180 And it's going to be interesting to see what comes tonight.

00:31:10.160 And Matt Larkin, he has a great chance to flip the eighth congressional district, which is actually in King County, where Seattle is.

00:31:16.860 And so if he flips that district, it just shows that Republicans actually might have a voice come 2024.

00:31:24.740 Wow.

00:31:25.500 You know what?

00:31:26.280 You make a good point that, I mean, you sort of stunned me when you say that people are actually raising January 6th, the insurrection, as an issue.

00:31:33.480 You know you're in Seattle when you're hearing that CNN talking point.

00:31:37.840 I don't think I've ever seen an organic, normal person raise that out of the blue.

00:31:41.900 But you so I know you're deep behind enemy lines.

00:31:43.880 But there are some places where crime, in particular, meets, you know, a strong Republican candidate.

00:31:52.060 I mentioned Pennsylvania.

00:31:53.760 You have, you know, Philadelphia, which is a lot of crime.

00:31:56.040 And you've got John Fetterman, who suffered a stroke running against Dr. Oz, who's a great communicator.

00:32:02.660 I just want to show you some clips from their debate.

00:32:05.700 And the unusual thing is that Fetterman, I guess he can't hear things clearly.

00:32:10.920 So he needs to read subtitles of what people are saying in real time.

00:32:16.460 Like he really is disabled and I'm not making fun of him at all.

00:32:20.100 It's just shocking to me that someone who had a cognitive injury through a stroke is being high.

00:32:26.940 I mean, for an intellectual job that requires him to hear and speak and operate and think.

00:32:34.460 And I just find it very odd. Take a look at this debate clip from Dr. Oz versus Fetterman.

00:32:41.100 Fetterman's the Democrat. They're standing by him. Take a look.

00:32:44.020 I absolutely support fracking.

00:32:45.880 In fact, I live across the street from a steel mill and they were going to frack to create their own energy in order to make them more competitive.

00:32:52.500 And I support that living closer to anybody else in Pennsylvania for fracking to myself.

00:32:58.060 I believe that we need independence with energy.

00:33:01.580 And I believe I've walked that line my entire career.

00:33:04.920 I believe Democrats.

00:33:06.060 Mr. Mr. Fetterman, I do have a specific question, which you can continue on this topic.

00:33:10.740 But you have made two conflicting statements regarding fracking.

00:33:14.120 In a 2018 interview, you said, quote, I don't support fracking at all.

00:33:19.860 I never have.

00:33:20.860 But earlier this month, you told an interviewer, quote, I support fracking.

00:33:25.500 I support the energy independence that we should have here in the United States.

00:33:29.620 So, Mr. Fetterman, please explain your changing position.

00:33:33.260 60 seconds.

00:33:35.660 I've always supported fracking.

00:33:37.680 And I always believe that independence with our energy is critical and we can't be held, you know, ransom to somebody like Russia.

00:33:47.620 You know, I've always believed that energy independence is critical.

00:33:52.260 And I've always believed that.

00:33:53.900 And I do support fracking.

00:33:55.020 I've never taken any money from their industry.

00:33:58.600 But I support how critical it is that we produce our own energy and create energy independence.

00:34:05.440 I must correct the record.

00:34:06.560 Just a second, Mr. Oz, I do want to clarify something.

00:34:10.100 You're saying tonight that you support fracking, that you've always supported fracking.

00:34:15.120 But there is that 2018 interview that you said, quote, I don't support fracking at all.

00:34:20.140 So how do you square the two?

00:34:22.120 I think that's a real possible winner.

00:34:24.920 And incredibly, New York State, where Lee Zeldin is running, I think he's got a chance.

00:34:31.980 I would, I mean, I don't think there's been a Republican governor of New York State since Pataki.

00:34:38.420 And that was like 30 years ago.

00:34:40.520 Do you think it's possible?

00:34:43.360 Yeah, you know what?

00:34:44.220 I do think it's possible.

00:34:45.240 And I think that the Biden administration has awakened the rest of America.

00:34:51.360 You're seeing high crime rates.

00:34:53.900 You're seeing the effects of what happened during COVID when the tyrannical leaders started taking over and started dictating what people did with their children.

00:35:01.980 started dictating, you had to get a shot to keep your job.

00:35:07.680 They went full dictator.

00:35:09.560 And that has awakened the rest of the rest of the country.

00:35:12.440 And that is why there are talks of red waves, because this election is personal.

00:35:17.180 It is people that have lost their jobs, their livelihoods, their children can't go to school.

00:35:24.580 They've masked their kids.

00:35:26.860 And this is, in the United States, you know, we have the United States Constitution, where it grants everyone the individual rights to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.

00:35:38.300 And we saw these dictator governors really take that, really, we saw these governors really use, go against the United States Constitution.

00:35:51.600 And that is why it is possible that New York could very well elect a Republican governor.

00:35:59.840 You know, it would be such a shocking symbol to the country that the pendulum really is swinging back.

00:36:07.400 Now, last night, Donald Trump had another rally.

00:36:10.300 He's really being in campaign mode.

00:36:11.920 He has had more rallies than Joe Biden has had.

00:36:15.020 And I can't even believe it.

00:36:16.620 How is Trump looking younger?

00:36:18.540 And I'm not saying that as out of flattery.

00:36:20.820 Here's a picture that I saw posted online today.

00:36:25.460 Just, I mean, the guy looks like he's Benjamin Button, like he's going backwards in time.

00:36:32.600 That's from Benny Johnson there, who hopped a plane with the former president.

00:36:37.300 I thought that maybe Donald Trump was going to make an announcement last night that he was going to run for president in 2044.

00:36:44.440 I think his team was sort of teasing that.

00:36:46.420 It was like a taunt to get people to watch.

00:36:49.140 He didn't make that announcement.

00:36:51.340 And I'm sort of glad because I think that if Trump would have announced that he was running, that would have been the only headline in the newspapers today.

00:36:57.720 And that really would have motivated Democrats to get out because Democrats hate him.

00:37:02.020 Yeah.

00:37:02.160 But I think that Trump has telegraphed to us that he will announce his candidacy in about a week or so.

00:37:10.360 First of all, do you think he is running?

00:37:12.360 And second of all, do you think he should run?

00:37:14.080 And I guess third of all, if he does run, will he win?

00:37:17.380 That is a great question.

00:37:18.480 I think he is definitely going to be announcing on November 15th.

00:37:21.800 I think the reason why he didn't announce last night was because he did make a comment about DeSantis that was kind of in a negative manner, the rally before last night.

00:37:31.980 And I think that that didn't go well over with DeSantis' base.

00:37:37.840 And so I think his team was smart in having Trump hold off on announcing because, like you said, all the headlines would be all about Trump winning and Democrats hate him to death.

00:37:50.440 So they would absolutely turn out more in voting in this midterms.

00:37:56.200 But if he does run, I think that he actually – it's just a great question.

00:38:02.560 I think I personally would love to see him run because we did get – the Republican side did get robbed of the 2020 election.

00:38:09.820 And there's a lot of bad blood still.

00:38:11.720 I mean, we saw January 6th happen, and there's just way too much people that don't agree with how the 2020 election went.

00:38:20.460 So if Trump does win, I think it's going to be a victorious moment.

00:38:25.780 And I think it's going to be interesting.

00:38:29.920 I think if he runs, he'll win the primary nominee.

00:38:33.400 I don't know what's going to happen if in 2024 he'll get enough votes.

00:38:40.200 I think it's possible, but we'll just have to see.

00:38:43.420 I think, you know, 2020 everyone saw the United States kind of go up to the plane political violence-wise.

00:38:49.340 I'm a little concerned about what's going to happen in 2024.

00:38:53.700 I think that we're going to see 2020 kind of on steroids, and it's going to – January 6th is going to look like a little party compared to what would come.

00:39:03.440 Well, it's going to be a real battle to the death, and we don't know who the Democrats are going to run.

00:39:09.360 I don't think anyone believes Joe Biden will run again.

00:39:11.740 He's failing cognitively, not quite as spectacularly as John Fetterman.

00:39:15.480 But there's no way that Biden will be the nominee.

00:39:17.580 I can't imagine it being someone as unlikable as Kamala Harris. 0.99

00:39:21.100 I don't know.

00:39:22.040 I mean, who knows?

00:39:22.700 Maybe it'll be a Hillary Clinton-Donald Trump rematch. 0.99

00:39:26.160 I'm convinced it's going to be Hillary Clinton, and I think it's going to be Hillary versus Trump again.

00:39:30.420 Oh, my God.

00:39:31.720 Well, I just want to play for you that one clip because you mentioned a snide remark that Trump – Trump is great with nicknames.

00:39:37.520 I mean, he's a master at it.

00:39:39.260 That's that New York sense of humor and, frankly, a little bit of meanness. 0.98

00:39:43.100 I mean, you know, crooked Hillary, lying Ted. 1.00

00:39:47.620 Like, he just sums people up. 0.96

00:39:49.420 Little Marco, low-energy Jeb.

00:39:52.300 I mean, they're so famous, the put-downs, and they stick because there's a grain of truth in them.

00:39:58.440 He tried out a nickname on Ron DeSantis the other day, and I don't know how well it went over.

00:40:03.160 I didn't like it because I love Ron DeSantis.

00:40:05.280 I think he's got the best qualities of Trump.

00:40:07.980 He's skeptical of the media.

00:40:09.680 He's bold.

00:40:11.000 But he has other good qualities.

00:40:13.640 Like, I think he's less wild, has less own goals.

00:40:17.840 He's a perfect fit for Florida.

00:40:19.800 I'm a super fan of Ron DeSantis.

00:40:21.620 I would like it to be like Batman and Superman, who are friends.

00:40:25.580 I don't want Batman and Superman to fight.

00:40:28.240 But here's Donald Trump giving a nickname to Ron DeSantis that, to me, sort of surprised me coming out of nowhere.

00:40:35.100 Take a look at this.

00:40:35.980 But I used to come out, and it used to drive the fake news crazy.

00:40:39.380 But today, I have the highest poll numbers I've ever had, perhaps partly because the Democrats are doing so badly running our country, and people want our tremendous success of no inflation, energy independence, military victory.

00:40:54.820 Remember, I defeated ISIS 100%.

00:40:58.260 Remember?

00:40:59.100 Al-Baghdadi, and so many other things, including crime.

00:41:03.360 We had it weighed down.

00:41:04.880 But we have the best poll numbers.

00:41:06.400 Where are they?

00:41:06.880 Are they putting them up on the screen?

00:41:08.180 I think so.

00:41:08.760 Put them up.

00:41:09.380 Look.

00:41:09.540 Yeah, we're putting them up.

00:41:14.340 We're winning.

00:41:15.560 We're winning big, big, big in the Republican Party for the nomination like nobody's ever seen before.

00:41:23.100 Let's see.

00:41:23.860 There it is.

00:41:24.460 Trump at 71.

00:41:26.280 Ron DeSantis at 10%.

00:41:29.540 I'm not even sure if that fits.

00:41:31.820 Does Sanctimonious, I don't know if, I mean, maybe there's a touch of that tone to him, but when I think of Ron DeSantis, Sanctimonious is not the chief characteristic.

00:41:40.360 I think he's, I think Trump has dialed that back a bit.

00:41:43.560 I hope he got the message from the party, don't shoot at our best governor.

00:41:49.260 Right.

00:41:49.980 And it felt like a weak and defensive statement for, like, is Trump afraid of Ron DeSantis?

00:41:56.840 That's, that's what a nickname suggests.

00:41:59.700 I hope that these two guys don't battle it out because I like both of them.

00:42:03.840 I hope so, too.

00:42:05.160 And, you know, I think that Trump needs to actually watch what he says this time around because he is under a severe microscope in media.

00:42:14.220 You know, he's media's number one enemy.

00:42:16.400 And so anything he says, they're going to take and run with.

00:42:19.760 And the Republican Party, they need to be united more than ever.

00:42:23.140 I know a lot of people even want DeSantis to be the nominee.

00:42:25.880 And so if Trump is on, come campaign time, if Trump is on the election stage,

00:42:32.180 shaming Ron DeSantis, that is just not going to go over well with really any Republican across the country.

00:42:38.840 So we're just going to see what happens.

00:42:41.920 But he is someone now.

00:42:43.880 And I'm actually a big fan of Trump.

00:42:45.800 I think he's hilarious.

00:42:46.940 I love that he fights back against everyone.

00:42:49.660 You know, no one's safe under Trump.

00:42:51.120 But he actually does need to watch what he says this time around.

00:42:53.740 Yeah, very exciting.

00:42:55.920 I think it will be a red wave, as you called it.

00:42:58.380 I think it will be a turning point.

00:43:00.160 I think both the Congress and the Senate will move into the Republican camp.

00:43:04.640 And I think it's about time.

00:43:06.000 Great to see you, Katie.

00:43:06.760 And we'll see you on the live stream, which will air simultaneous to this.

00:43:10.420 Thanks.

00:43:11.680 Thanks, Ezra.

00:43:12.500 Great talking to you.

00:43:13.420 Right on there.

00:43:14.000 You have a Katie Davis score, one of our American rebels. 0.99

00:43:17.060 Stay with us.

00:43:18.620 More ahead.

00:43:19.220 Hey, welcome back.

00:43:27.580 About yesterday's show and that NDP MLA who was convicted of hacking into the vaccine

00:43:35.240 passport database.

00:43:36.460 I mean, what a story.

00:43:38.120 Heather Jones says, as an Albertan, I would like to know whose info this criminal exposed.

00:43:42.820 Well, from what we heard, he made over a million queries into this database.

00:43:48.520 I don't know if he did anything with it other than Jason Kenney's.

00:43:52.720 Local guide says, shame on those cops. 1.00

00:43:54.860 They are a disgrace. 0.98

00:43:55.560 No doubt they were just following orders. 0.79

00:43:57.860 You're talking about police from around the world engaging in bad behavior during the lockdowns.

00:44:04.580 And I have to tell you that bad behavior continues.

00:44:07.300 I was down there in Lethbridge on the weekend for a court hearing involving three peaceful

00:44:12.360 truckers.

00:44:13.360 And it wasn't until I left, I heard some abusive police conduct at the truckers barbecue.

00:44:19.100 The truckers had a big barbecue.

00:44:20.380 I went and had a hamburger.

00:44:21.640 And I didn't see this, but they had some porta potties there. 1.00

00:44:24.600 And the police refused to let the trucks offload them and made the men pull them by hand.

00:44:29.220 It was just an outrageous little petty abusive thing.

00:44:32.740 Those cops are out of control.

00:44:34.480 They're still out of control. 0.96

00:44:35.800 It really is a disgrace.

00:44:39.020 Nico Paul says, Nuremberg 2, no excuses, no amnesty, never forget.

00:44:44.280 Nuremberg is one of the names of the, well, there were the Nuremberg trials after the

00:44:50.240 Second World War where war criminals were put on trial, including for the Holocaust, including

00:44:54.480 the Nazi doctors trial.

00:44:56.040 And if you don't know about that, I've done a show on it before.

00:44:59.160 I encourage you to Google it.

00:45:01.080 Um, the Nazi doctor trials were putting the doctors on trial because the doctors committed

00:45:06.080 so many atrocities in Nazi Germany.

00:45:08.280 And it came up with a code, the Nuremberg code of things we must never do in the name

00:45:12.680 of medicine and how doctors have a special obligation towards patients or anyone they

00:45:17.720 do medicine on.

00:45:18.860 And we absolutely threw the Nuremberg code out to get forced vaccinations through.

00:45:24.680 It really was Nazi-like in that regard. 0.87

00:45:28.740 That's our show for today.

00:45:29.700 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, see you at home.

00:45:33.800 Good night and keep fighting for freedom.

00:45:36.200 Is there anything you like about Tiffany Smiley?

00:45:38.820 Is there anything I like about her?

00:45:40.060 Yeah.

00:45:45.700 Yeah, again, you can, like, yeah, show me the evidence that what she's saying will work.

00:45:52.460 I'm more liberal than Joe Biden.

00:45:53.900 Katie Davis Court reporting for Rebel News just ahead of the United States midterm elections.

00:46:02.680 King County elections promoted an event that bribed the Hispanic community with free tamales

00:46:08.980 and special gifts to teach them how to fill out their ballots.

00:46:13.120 Now, the event that they promoted was being hosted by Washington Environmental Council, a

00:46:17.980 progressive nonprofit activist organization that aims to eliminate fossil fuels and heavily

00:46:24.280 promotes democratic legislation and policies.

00:46:27.060 Now, since King County elections is supposed to be fair and non-biased, I searched their

00:46:31.760 accounts to see if they had promoted any conservative events and came up short.

00:46:37.020 Now, my investigation will most likely make a lot of conservative voters and candidates angry

00:46:43.200 and rightfully so.

00:46:44.220 So, take a look to see what happened.

00:46:46.080 I walked into the Mill Creek room at Kent Commons where a small group of people were gathered.

00:46:50.980 They were eating tamales and discussing midterms.

00:46:54.560 It wasn't a large turnout, which was most likely due to the severe storms that we have been having

00:46:59.260 in the area.

00:47:00.540 After I was bribed with free tamales and was entered into the special giveaway, I walked over

00:47:06.600 to the table they had set up where you could check your voter registration and even print

00:47:12.140 out your ballot. On the table were two voting guides. The first guide was for candidates endorsed

00:47:18.940 by Washington Environmental Council, while the second guide consisted of a list of progressive

00:47:24.660 candidates. But there were no guide for conservative candidates or their policies.

00:47:31.300 After I was offered, or should I say bribed, with free tamales, in walked a woman that I knew 1.00

00:47:36.580 named Michelle Lee, who runs a conservative organization called Washingtonians for Change,

00:47:41.700 who also came to infiltrate the event. Michelle and her friend both brought their ballots

00:47:45.860 with them, and we all sat down with one member of the organization who guided us through the

00:47:50.740 ballot and the candidates.

00:47:52.180 I work for Washington Environmental Council.

00:47:55.820 While he didn't mark our ballots for us, he told us which candidates he voted for,

00:48:01.540 why he voted for them, and when Michelle and her friend pressed on conservative candidates

00:48:07.400 and their issues, he had zero knowledge and used rhetoric that could easily persuade an ill-informed

00:48:14.200 or first-time voter away from the issues that they care about.

00:48:18.280 Did you vote Pramila?

00:48:20.760 I'm not in her district.

00:48:21.960 Oh, you're not in her district. Okay.

00:48:23.280 I would if I were there. It's a stretch to say that I'd support her, but I would prefer her over

00:48:29.280 Clifton.

00:48:29.820 We should vote for Patty? 0.98

00:48:30.860 So Patty is basically pro-gun control, pro-union, and pro-choice. And Tiffany Smiley is basically 0.99

00:48:37.620 running on, like, my perspective on the Republicans running on crime is, like, because she is running

00:48:45.360 on it, like Tiffany Smiley. She's like, oh, crime's getting so bad in Seattle. It's like,

00:48:48.980 you never come to Seattle. Whatever. I'm not really seeing, I'm not hearing, like, solutions.

00:48:56.880 You know what I mean?

00:48:57.900 Okay.

00:48:58.160 I, if I'm hearing that, and they talk a lot about the border. To me, what border are you

00:49:05.540 talking about? So all she talks about is the U.S. border with Mexico. And I'm like, we're

00:49:12.060 in Washington state. So I'm not hearing, so Tiffany Smiley is basically running on what

00:49:16.720 you're saying. She's, like, running on crime, and she is hearing that people are concerned

00:49:20.300 about it, but I'm not hearing the solutions. I thus far have not heard solutions.

00:49:25.160 Is there anything you like about Tiffany Smiley?

00:49:27.100 Is there anything I like about that?

00:49:33.920 I'm pulling up her agenda to see.

00:49:36.160 I'm glad you're going through all this.

00:49:37.780 Ah. Okay, so here's the thing. Sometimes she says things that are good, but then there's

00:49:43.060 no detail, which makes me concerned, which goes for a lot of politicians, right?

00:49:46.360 Okay.

00:49:46.760 So, like, reducing wasteful spending that cause inflation. I'm like, okay, but then I don't

00:49:51.840 see any detail. So I don't know. Okay, here's one. I would support bipartisan

00:49:56.860 legislation that gives parents the options to advance child tax credit payments to help

00:50:04.900 families after the birth or adoption of a new child. Okay. So that's the solution, right? 0.50

00:50:11.800 Yeah. So, but it's both the Republicans and the Democrats are for. So. Oh, okay. So it's

00:50:17.860 just, they're both foreign, is actually what I'm reading. She mentions closing the border and

00:50:24.960 the border with the Mexicans. Right. But that's where most of the criminal activity is coming 0.94

00:50:34.380 into the country. Yes, there's a Canadian border. I'm more liberal than Joe Biden.

00:50:40.100 I'm more liberal than Joe Biden. I'm more liberal than Joe Biden. I'm more liberal than Joe Biden.

00:50:51.980 I'm more liberal than Joe Biden. That's illegal immigration. Right. That's what you got to 0.56

00:50:52.600 be careful. You got to be very careful. Instead of trying to say.

00:50:56.320 yeah something that is not going to be addressed

00:51:02.900 yeah again like yeah show me the evidence that what she's doing will work 1.00

00:51:12.600 actually support right so i personally support which one are you supporting well the idea that

00:51:17.480 we should have attacks on aircraft i personally support so what are your thoughts on king county

00:51:22.700 elections promoting this event well first of all they have no business promoting this event because

00:51:27.540 you know it's non-partisan if they're going to do something they should be on have representative

00:51:32.640 from both sides but clearly what i found tonight was it's very one-sided all the questions all the

00:51:39.100 candidates that we brought up were leaning towards the liberal democrats you just have to wonder why

00:51:45.800 king county elections would ever promote this event it is blatantly biased and if they're promoting

00:51:52.560 a democrat organizations event they should also be promoting a republicans but i think that most

00:51:57.920 would agree that they just should not promote either side and stick to fair and secure elections

00:52:03.020 thank you guys kitty davis court rebel news

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