Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ What have they done to you？

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. I'm going to talk to you a little bit about some details, but I'm actually

00:00:04.020 going to go big picture today and talk about what the last year and a half has done to us

00:00:08.700 psychologically. I found a very interesting article online about the technical and medical

00:00:14.680 definitions of psychological torture and how what we've been going through has a form of that.

00:00:22.180 The isolation, the gaslighting, the threats and the blame. I think there's some truth to that.

00:00:28.860 And have we rewired our own minds and we think of ourselves now as prisoners or subjects as

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00:01:04.100 Tonight, what have they done to you? It's August 6th. This is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:24.320 I get bogged down into details sometimes. That's where the devil is, they say. And it's true. The

00:01:50.960 details are important. Important details I've been looking at lately include the fact that in

00:01:55.880 Ontario, for example, there are just over three million minors, people under age 20. And since

00:02:01.440 the pandemic began, there have been a grand total of four minors who have died from the virus. So

00:02:07.140 that it's about one in a million. That's a useful detail to know. It reminds us that our first

00:02:12.720 reaction to the pandemic back in March of 2020 was wrong. It's not something that affects all of us

00:02:18.300 equally. It practically spares the young, at least in terms of serious health effects.

00:02:24.820 Another detail we've learned helps explain the anomaly we all saw dating back to March 2020.

00:02:30.600 Why does Quebec, which is a quarter of Canada's population, have half of the deaths?

00:02:35.740 Is it particularly unhealthy over there? Well, you could start to guess when last year we saw

00:02:42.520 headlines like this. This was in the Toronto Star, May of 2020. Just two months into things,

00:02:47.460 really, when some of the least curious reporters, you expect all of them to be curious, but there

00:02:55.160 were a couple who were interested. They started to notice that it wasn't young people who were at

00:03:00.660 risk, and it wasn't even just seniors in general who were at risk. It was that small sliver of seniors

00:03:07.800 in long-term care homes. 82% of deaths there, when only about 1% of Canadians live in such facilities.

00:03:17.000 But it wasn't actually, again, Quebec. It was in Quebec mainly, not Ontario, pardon me.

00:03:24.660 So why? Well, here's what I wrote almost exactly a year ago.

00:03:29.040 In Canada, COVID-19 is not a health problem, it's a euthanasia problem.

00:03:35.160 Quebec has Canada's most aggressive pro-euthanasia laws. Quebec has 24% of the population,

00:03:40.640 but 63% of the deaths. I'm not sure if that's accurate today, but that's how it was back then.

00:03:46.300 Almost all of them very old people in institutions with do-not-revive orders. 0.99

00:03:50.200 You don't have to be terminally ill to access state-assisted suicide in Quebec. It's like

00:03:55.540 Planned Parenthood took over the seniors' homes. I'll read just one more.

00:04:00.940 Quebec has a culture of death. They have the highest abortion rate in Canada,

00:04:04.920 though they no longer publish the data. Abortion is common birth control even for college students.

00:04:11.120 I go on a bit, but it's pretty clear to me there's nothing in the air or water in Quebec.

00:04:15.600 Their hospitals aren't remarkably better or worse than the rest of Canada. They just have laws

00:04:19.900 that let people pull the plug so easily.

00:04:24.140 And that was confirmed in recent weeks by nurses and doctors confessing

00:04:28.460 when people in those places got sick, they didn't try and make them better. They just put them on

00:04:33.600 morphine to numb the pain and started to basically turn off the switch. Why? Because they were very

00:04:38.860 sick anyways and very old and on the brink of death because they didn't know what else to do with

00:04:43.720 them because they were pressured or scared or politicians with an eye to budgets or I don't

00:04:49.860 know, their own kids ready for grandma and grandpa to kick the bucket already. I don't know.

00:04:54.620 But for whatever reason, that's what happened. Sorry, I don't blame a virus for that. That's

00:04:59.560 politics. That's a culture of death. It seems so obvious to me now. Here's what the Toronto Star

00:05:05.380 article back in May 2020 said. New data reveals the overwhelming toll on elderly Canadians in long-term

00:05:12.460 care during the COVID-19 outbreak, showing they make up 82% of all deaths. The National Institute

00:05:18.140 on Aging says that of May 6th, 3,436 residents and six staff members of long-term care settings

00:05:25.140 have died of COVID-19, representing 82% of the 4,000 deaths reported as of Wednesday.

00:05:30.260 Dr. Samir Sinha, research director of the Institute, says it is a staggering figure,

00:05:36.420 given the roughly 400,000 residents living in care homes represent just 1% of Canada's population.

00:05:42.820 Yes, some of them died from the virus or naturally, but the Globe story says many of them were

00:05:48.280 effectively euthanized. It's a version of what Hansy Andy Cuomo did in New York. He basically

00:05:55.020 wanted to get rid of these people. So I think the details help us see things.

00:06:01.840 I noticed changes in phrasing how the powers that be talk about the pandemic these days. Two weeks to

00:06:07.940 flatten the curve. Remember all that? That meant we can't all get sick at once because that would

00:06:12.700 swamp the hospitals. The curve would go like that. Flatten the curve means like that. Doesn't mean we

00:06:20.440 won't get sick. It just means it happens at a slower rate. We all will get sick, but not at the same

00:06:26.260 time. So the hospitals can treat us. Doesn't mean zero COVID. It means managing COVID. Well, the good

00:06:34.360 news is no hospitals in Canada or from what I know, the U.S. or U.K. or Australia were ever swamped.

00:06:40.760 Just never happened. We know that anecdotally from all those cute TikTok videos that bored

00:06:48.580 nurses and doctors did. See, they kicked out everyone else from the hospital waiting for the 1.00

00:06:54.140 wave that never came. So they passed the time by making these videos. Some of them incredibly elaborate.

00:06:59.600 Some of them using drones. Some of them had over a hundred people participating in these TikTok videos.

00:07:07.040 They told us that they were swamped, but we could see from these videos that they weren't swamped.

00:07:12.580 So in statistics in Ontario, intensive care units and hospitals actually had more vacancy during the

00:07:19.960 pandemic than before because so many people just didn't go to the hospital. So they don't say 14

00:07:26.040 days to flatten the curve anymore because the hospitals are nowhere near full and they never

00:07:30.560 really were. I showed you that in half of Canada's provinces and territories, there hasn't been a death

00:07:37.240 in a week in a country of 38 million people. So the establishment is shifting from measuring hospitals

00:07:46.120 to measuring cases, but those are falling too. So now they're measuring, if you take an experimental

00:07:53.500 medicine called a vaccine, I call it experimental because it hasn't finished its clinical trials yet.

00:07:58.780 None of the vaccines have. None of them have been approved by the FDA yet. It's only been authorized

00:08:04.900 for emergency use. So that's the measure they talk about now. Percentage of people who are

00:08:09.860 vaxxed because if you were to measure the number of sick people or dying people or people in the

00:08:14.920 hospital, you'd know the pandemic is statistically over. The curve isn't just flat, it's gone.

00:08:22.480 And yet the lockdowns are moving into high gear in a way with vaccine passports. They're becoming 1.00

00:08:27.620 permanent. Vaccine passports are really a way of digitizing your entire life, connecting your every

00:08:34.200 private detail to your political rights, your economic rights, your health information, even the

00:08:39.300 most private things, linking it now to your legal ability to shop, go to a restaurant, to live, to rent

00:08:47.060 an apartment, to go to school, to travel, everything. It's really not about COVID-19 anymore, is it?

00:08:53.940 Enough talk about details. Let me show you two more generic thoughts. Let's pull the camera out a bit. 0.99

00:08:59.720 The first is a clip from Neil Oliver, a commentator in the United Kingdom with GB News. He comes out

00:09:07.720 with a new video every weekend. It's the best thing on TV. Let me play for you just one minute of it.

00:09:13.020 He talks about, you know, parents' idle dream of never letting your kids go because you love them

00:09:19.120 too much and you're afraid of the world and how that dream has actually come true in the lockdown and

00:09:25.260 it's shown itself to be actually a bit of a nightmare. Freedom is not negotiable. You're either

00:09:30.560 free or you're not. Freedom is not even safe. Those who've been imprisoned are often terrified of

00:09:37.920 freedom. All those choices, all of that personal responsibility. This is why ex-cons often re-offend

00:09:44.760 so they can go back behind bars where it feels safer out of harm's way.

00:09:48.580 I have three children. They're growing up fast. Teenagers all. Often I think I would like to keep

00:09:57.400 them close by me forever where I can stop them doing stupid things, dangerous things. If I kept 0.99

00:10:04.260 them in the house, no stranger could hurt them. But that would be no life, not for them and not even

00:10:09.840 for me. I would be their jailer and they would be my caged birds. As it happens, this past year and a

00:10:16.860 half has let me see what happens to children kept safe in the house. It's not good. It's not good at

00:10:22.460 all. And so if I didn't know it before, I know now that I have to let them go out into a world that is

00:10:28.640 full of all manner of things, danger included. Isn't that a great point? But it's not just children

00:10:35.640 who are locked down. It's all of us. And I read this essay in American Greatness and I just want to

00:10:42.120 read a lot of it to you now. It's by Peter Dabrowski. He wrote it. You can find it online. I'm just going

00:10:46.820 to read a chunk of it to you, not out of laziness, but out of recognition that he really phrased it in

00:10:51.480 a way that I don't think I can meaningfully improve upon. Call the COVID hysteria what it is. There's a

00:10:57.720 reason why you might be noticing the tactics and effects of psychological torture in your everyday

00:11:04.620 life. I'm going to read this to you. Do you know what one of the most common psychological torture

00:11:11.040 tactics is? Isolation. Other common tactics of psychological torture, according to the Center

00:11:17.760 for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas at the University of California, Davis, include

00:11:22.720 indefinite detention and a sense of futility. Threats of death are also a common tactic

00:11:28.660 psychological torturers use. So is degradation and sensory deprivation. Torture is defined as the

00:11:35.880 deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or other persons

00:11:40.780 acting alone or on the orders of any authority to force another person to yield information,

00:11:45.660 to make a confession, or for any other reason. Medical professionals make no definitional

00:11:51.500 distinction between psychological and physical torture. Do any of the above tactics of psychological

00:11:57.980 torture sound familiar? They should. Your government leaders at the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci and the

00:12:04.220 U.S. Centers for Disease Control have been inflicting them upon you for almost 18 months. Obviously,

00:12:09.980 it's the same thing in Canada. Lockdowns are the obvious example of isolation, but

00:12:15.820 subtler is the suggestion, which is once again becoming a major talking point among our public

00:12:20.220 health and elected officials, that if you do dare to leave your house, standing close to another human

00:12:24.560 being or gathering in groups could be dangerous even deadly. I think that's so true, don't you? I think

00:12:32.260 this is a giant game of psychological manipulation. I think that if you didn't watch the media and if

00:12:38.900 you didn't listen to experts, you probably wouldn't even know there was a pandemic going on. In fact,

00:12:43.940 if you didn't know someone in a euthanasia-risky long-term care home, if your life wasn't spent with

00:12:51.620 people in their 80s and 90s, you probably wouldn't have even known about the pandemic at all other than

00:12:57.940 the fact that it was on TV and there were government lockdowns. I'm going to read some more.

00:13:03.380 Are you feeling a sense of futility yet? If you've refused the vaccine, you might be. How many times

00:13:08.500 can you explain to the brainwashed masses that you have good reason to avoid taking an experimental drug?

00:13:14.020 How long will the hysteria last? How can these mindless leftists possibly continue blindly to 0.58

00:13:18.500 follow the immoral authority of the CDC and somehow have the audacity to label themselves intellectuals?

00:13:24.660 Will we ever return to pre-COVID norms where a virus didn't dominate our daily lives?

00:13:30.820 You might also feel a sense of futility if your employer, at the behest of your government torturers, 0.76

00:13:36.180 is coercing you into taking the vaccine under threat of unemployment. The threat of losing your

00:13:40.260 livelihood is in itself part of the torture. They're hoping that the idea of financial ruin

00:13:45.780 will break you and that you'll finally give into their demands. On the topic of degradation,

00:13:51.140 what could possibly be more degrading than becoming a guinea pig for an experimental drug? Bear in mind

00:13:55.460 that such drugs are normally tested on lab rats. They have to be tested on you. Masks are an obvious

00:14:01.780 form of degradation too. Being forced to wear a dirty cloth diaper over your face for months on end

00:14:06.260 sounds like a fraternity hazing ritual. Only it wasn't. It was the official policy mandated by nearly

00:14:10.900 every U.S. governor at the behest of the CDC. Now it's the official recommendation. I've read a lot from

00:14:17.780 this essay. I just didn't think of it that way. Or maybe I did, but he put it into words. On the topic of

00:14:24.740 masks, I've called masks the flag of lockdownism, the ideology, the philosophy. Wearing that flag, that mask,

00:14:33.460 it's a sign that not only have you surrendered to the powers that be, and not only that you submit,

00:14:39.700 but that you will fly their flag. You will help keep people in a state of agitation and fear.

00:14:45.700 And in so doing, you will help enforce it even if you don't really mean to. You'll just keep

00:14:49.460 reminding everyone else, we're in a crisis. That your mask at the very least is a moral condemnation

00:14:56.100 of those who don't wear one. And it'll actually help in the peer pressure to crush anyone and

00:15:00.980 marginalize anyone who doesn't wear one. Okay, I'm going to read you just one last excerpt.

00:15:07.060 And what about threats of death? Have you heard more than a few people over the past 18 months

00:15:10.900 tell you that if you don't follow the infallible word of Fauci, that you'll die? Or worse,

00:15:15.540 that you'll cause the death of someone you love? Of course you have. That messaging is ubiquitous.

00:15:21.940 I think he's talking about the worst part of this lockdown. I've mentioned it before,

00:15:25.140 how we treat each other, how we look at each other, how shopkeepers treat customers,

00:15:28.980 how we treat each other on the street. Now, the mask isn't just bad for the obvious reasons.

00:15:33.620 It gives us a sense of anonymity so we can behave more poorly in person than we normally do. Normally,

00:15:38.900 the worst behavior comes out online when people are anonymous because you don't have to face someone

00:15:43.700 down. But imagine being face to face in the store and shrieking at someone, put on your mask.

00:15:48.420 If you're wearing a mask, you're half hidden. And maybe that gives you a boldness because you're

00:15:52.260 removed from the immediate social consequences of your misconduct.

00:15:54.980 Remember, the lockdown itself is a medical experiment. The lockdown was prescribed by public health

00:16:02.740 doctors. But never before have the healthy been locked down, never in history. It was a

00:16:07.940 word reserved for prison rights. The prison's in a lockdown. Never before were innocent people treated

00:16:14.580 as criminals. House arrest. Never before were families told they couldn't meet, console each other at a

00:16:21.620 funeral. Couldn't meet even if grandpa was dying. This is all new. This is all experimental. And it's

00:16:29.380 also obviously directed by the World Health Organization. We know that because we're told

00:16:34.180 that because they say that both by obedient repeaters like Theresa Tam, who actually worked 0.98

00:16:39.700 for the World Health Organization for the first half of the pandemic, and also by vicious censors like

00:16:45.460 Facebook and YouTube, who explicitly say in their terms of service that if you dispute the World Health

00:16:50.820 Organization, you will be suspended. They say that. They've deleted elected officials from

00:16:57.780 Derek Sloan in Canada to the president of Brazil, Yair Bolsonaro. But of course they did. They deleted

00:17:03.860 the sitting president of the United States, Donald Trump. So it's the details, sure. But pull the camera back.

00:17:11.140 Get a wider view. It's the entire socialization of the entire population to think of themselves as

00:17:20.180 prisoners, or at least as subjects, not citizens. Permanent, perpetual obedience, obey politicians, and

00:17:29.940 until now, anonymous health bureaucrats that no one ever heard of. Few, if any, of these lockdown rules have been

00:17:36.180 debated, let alone voted on. Vaccine passports aren't being voted on, but they're here now.

00:17:44.660 Our entire society has been rewired. Everything is being changed. And it started and continues with

00:17:49.700 rewiring you and how you think and how you feel even about yourself. We've all been brainwashed in a

00:17:57.380 way, haven't we? And if you say, no, no, you haven't. Well, look at your life. And if you think that,

00:18:03.540 maybe you're so far gone, you're numb to it. Maybe you don't even notice it anymore.

00:18:10.100 Stay with us for more.

00:18:22.580 Welcome back. Well, the lockdownism, the virtual house arrest, the bans on foreign travel and jet

00:18:29.700 travel. In fact, in some places, banning people from traveling even outside their homes or beyond

00:18:35.620 a few kilometers. Well, that is what the climate apocalyptics always wanted. They wanted us to be

00:18:43.300 under a form of house arrest. They wanted the deindustrialization of the world. The climate

00:18:50.420 folks never got it, but boy, the coronavirus folks got it. In many cases, it's the same people. Greta

00:18:57.540 Thunberg suddenly couldn't jaunt around for her climate strikes. Sorry, her climate strikes,

00:19:03.460 so she tried to reinvent herself. It's a bit of a coronavirus activist. People weren't buying.

00:19:08.420 But the climate movement is trying to catch up. Let me read from an article in The Guardian.

00:19:16.660 Three Americans create enough carbon emissions to kill one person, study finds. And they go on saying 0.68

00:19:23.460 that climate change should be a cause of death. And we should have climate lockdowns, or at least

00:19:30.420 climate rollbacks. Joining us now to talk about this is our friend Mark Moreno from

00:19:33.620 climatedepot.com. Mark, they're really trying to piggyback on the coronavirus lockdowns. They're

00:19:39.220 trying to blur the two, aren't they? They are. I mean, how long can climate activists,

00:19:44.980 from Greta Thunberg to UN officials to John Kerry to Jane Fonda, the professors in academia, sit by

00:19:52.340 and watch their coveted solutions? They were for economic lockdowns long before COVID came along.

00:20:01.140 I've interviewed Kevin Anderson from the Tyndale Center a decade ago at these UN conferences,

00:20:06.180 begging for planned recessions to fight global warming, begging for the degrowth movement to catch

00:20:12.100 on. And lo and behold, it all happens. But COVID gets the credit. So they've had it.

00:20:17.300 So the climate activists are out there now. This is published in the journal Nature Communications.

00:20:22.500 So it's peer review, Desiree. You can't challenge it. You don't have the science credentials to

00:20:27.780 challenge this study. Basically, Americans are killing three to four people. If you eat a hamburger

00:20:33.940 this afternoon, you just killed a Kenyan. If you drive an SUV to the supermarket, 1.00

00:20:38.100 you just killed a Bangladeshi. That's how bad it's become. They want to make it so that there's a 1.00

00:20:43.940 daily awareness of Americans that everything we do that involves energy with fossil fuel,

00:20:49.540 we're murdering people. We're no better than the unvaxxed, unmasked person who's murdering grandma

00:20:55.860 by not following COVID protocols. We need to follow the climate protocols, which tells us,

00:21:02.020 and one of your own Canadian academics could ban the pick-up truck, ban private ownership of car,

00:21:09.060 ban the internal combustion engine, ban short-haul flights, make flying only justifiable when you can

00:21:16.500 go to a government official and it's morally justified. You have to come up with your reason.

00:21:20.980 This is it, Desiree. They've figured it out, and they're going forward. And I see nothing stopping.

00:21:25.700 I'm certainly not here in the US. Head of the Republican Party says climate's a problem,

00:21:29.940 we need a solution, but just not one as bad, not one as encompassing as the Green New Deal.

00:21:35.940 You know, Dr. Patrick Moore, the co-founder of Greenpeace, who's a skeptic about

00:21:40.340 many of these things, he sees one of the commonalities between climate change as an apocalypse

00:21:46.740 and coronavirus as an apocalypse, is that both are invisible menaces. And you have to trust officials.

00:21:54.580 And there's a lot of jiggery-pokery involved. And I think he's exactly right. Both are just

00:22:00.580 terrifying. You've got to believe us. I think for the longest time, people didn't really believe the

00:22:05.860 global warming stuff. I mean, they said they did in polls, but they weren't willing to live like it.

00:22:12.340 I think this coronavirus apocalypse is the first time people have actually said, oh,

00:22:17.540 I actually will wear a mask. I actually will not leave my house. I actually am scared, so scared I'm

00:22:25.140 going to turn on my neighbor in a way we've never seen before. They managed to make the invisible

00:22:30.500 coronavirus more terrifying than the invisible global warming GHGs. They did it. They managed to do it.

00:22:38.260 They did it. And they did it brilliantly. And they did it with one factor, maximum fear. And why

00:22:46.740 coronavirus succeeded, where 50 decades of environmental scares failed, beginning with

00:22:51.460 overpopulation, and then global cooling, and resource scarcity, and famines, and peak oil,

00:22:56.900 and deforestation, Amazon, all that failed. Climate change failed to scare. A virus scares you. They

00:23:04.820 raised the specter of the 1970, 1918 Spanish flu, and the Middle Ages plague, the bubonic plague.

00:23:12.980 And they told people that unless we did this, we were all going to be doomed. And they were able,

00:23:17.940 because what cuts across partisan lines, ideological lines, personal health issues. You may be a

00:23:24.580 conservative libertarian against the Green New Deal, but somehow if you believe that your health is

00:23:30.660 threatened or your children's health or your parents' health, suddenly that's how they did it. And they

00:23:35.060 realized that. The climate activists know that. So they're trying to ape the same things. Calls to

00:23:39.700 add it to death certificates. Now, every time an American uses energy, we're murdering people

00:23:44.180 around the world because of our greed and selfishness. But what's most interesting is all these studies,

00:23:50.340 and the Washington Post has detailed them, it showed up in peer-reviewed journals,

00:23:53.540 Hollywood Actions. If we don't take care of climate change, we're going to get a lot more

00:23:58.500 worse viruses than COVID-19. Bill Gates has said climate change will cause more deaths than any

00:24:03.780 virus. But if we don't take care of viruses, we'll get more. So they're trying to morph the

00:24:08.100 two together. And this latest study in the journal Nature is another example of that. And again,

00:24:13.540 they are having nothing but wild success. Why shouldn't they? We have New York City vaccine

00:24:18.580 mandates, California considering it. Where I live in Virginia, outside of Washington, D.C.,

00:24:23.060 every school district is masking up kids because of the new variant out there. They're never letting 0.88

00:24:28.580 this go until we resist. And I don't see it resisting. I have never been more pessimistic

00:24:34.740 in the cause of liberty and fighting unscientific nonsense in my entire life, Ezra. I'm not ready to

00:24:41.300 throw the towel in yet, but I'm just telling you, I don't see it. I don't see victory. I see years,

00:24:46.660 decades of loss. I feel like we're Poland in 1946 and we have to wait another four decades to even

00:24:53.780 get a chance for the Soviet Union to collapse. This is not going away anytime soon. 0.93

00:24:58.660 Wow. Very depressing. I think you're right. I mean, holy cow, did they ever manage to shift

00:25:02.580 from two weeks to flatten the curve, which was not to say eradicate the virus or COVID zero. It was,

00:25:08.500 let's just not all get sick at once to, you now have to be triple vaxxed, annual booster shot,

00:25:14.260 you need vaxxed passports, masking, you know, no matter what case counts are like that. It's not

00:25:19.620 even about the problem anymore. It's about our solutions that we have cooked up for you.

00:25:26.020 Now, let me ask you, because you're in America, you know, these things closer than we do up here

00:25:30.420 in Canada. The one thing I'm holding out hope for is the two major states of Texas and Florida. I mean,

00:25:38.980 California is the largest state. And luckily that governor is somewhat on the back foot because

00:25:44.100 of the recall petition. And I think his lockdownism is a reason for that. New York, their governor,

00:25:51.620 Hansi Andy, is, you know, also reeling from his own sex scandals. So other than California

00:25:59.780 and New York, two of the most populous states and politically and economically important states

00:26:08.500 are Texas and Florida. And both of them, especially Florida's Rhonda Santis,

00:26:14.340 seems to be pushing back in very meaningful and clear ways, not just as a speaker, but using the law.

00:26:22.420 And I want to tell you, and Mark, I hope you agree with me, that I'm putting a lot of hope in those two

00:26:28.180 states that they could hold the fort until the 2022 elections and the 2024 elections.

00:26:34.740 Am I engaging in wishful thinking? No. Okay. First of all, Governor DeSantis,

00:26:40.980 you are absolutely right to praise him. In fact, there have been reports and journalistic analysis

00:26:47.060 and COVID analysis. Without Governor DeSantis, he quite literally saved America from COVID tyranny,

00:26:54.500 because at least he made it, he was able to save half of America. Because so including Texas,

00:27:01.460 including Georgia, including South Carolina, these are Republican states run by governors,

00:27:06.740 Arkansas, they were all locking down too terrified to challenge the expertise of the public health

00:27:12.900 on COVID. Ron DeSantis and Ron DeSantis alone, I'm going to even, I'm not even including Christy

00:27:19.140 Noem in this. I've done some investigative work there, researching it. And the legislatures in

00:27:24.660 South Dakota, we're never going to let them lock down. And actually, early on,

00:27:29.300 she was not as strong as she makes herself out to be right now. But there's only one clear leader

00:27:35.060 among governors. And it's not just like, oh, he edges them out. He stands alone as Ron DeSantis.

00:27:39.700 Not only did he act Trumpian in his attitude and take on the media and the academia and the public

00:27:45.940 health. But he did it in a way that I wish Trump would have done more as president. He did it with

00:27:51.140 intellectual firepower and science, actual science meetings. Remember, I was the one who urged, begged,

00:27:58.900 pleaded, lobbied every Trump administration official to do this climate committee, where you would put

00:28:04.100 together two dozen world renowned scientists, former UN scientists, all together to come up with the

00:28:09.460 first ever report challenging the UN climate consensus. They didn't do it. Trump said yes,

00:28:14.740 and the staff delayed it. Well, what Ron DeSantis did, taking that model, he brought in a Nobel Prize

00:28:22.260 winning epidemiologist, award winning ones, brought them to Florida, had press conferences, went right

00:28:27.300 to the heart of the case counts, of the lockdowns, of mask mandates. And he just shut it all down in the

00:28:33.860 media's face every day to the point where Bill Maher, the liberal HBO host, actually said, praise

00:28:40.820 DeSantis because Bill Maher is with us on all this anti-COVID stuff. He wants to end social distancing,

00:28:45.700 mask mandates. He wants young people to spread the virus and get herd immunity. He praised,

00:28:50.980 Bill Maher praised DeSantis as being really smart and reads a lot of scientific journals. So he is the

00:28:57.940 model for all Republicans. Texas, I'm sorry, I'm not that impressed with the Texas governor. He had a mask

00:29:02.900 mandate and effect statewide until like April of 2021. He is a follower, not a leader. He is coming

00:29:10.340 around now. He's very strong, Governor Abbott, but I don't trust him. I only trust pretty much Christy

00:29:16.580 Noem at this point and Governor DeSantis. Everyone else are leaders and they're still terrified.

00:29:21.460 Yeah, and Christy Noem, I saw this tweet from her the other day saying that as far as VAC's passports

00:29:27.860 go, South Dakotans can go get another job. I was disappointed that she didn't step in and

00:29:34.820 ban VAC's passports like Ron DeSantis did. I want to praise DeSantis a little more and it's tough to

00:29:40.180 put so much hope in one guy. It's a very dangerous thing. But listen, better one guy than zero guys.

00:29:46.420 You know, the White House has been sparring with DeSantis. They know that he's a likely challenger for

00:29:50.820 2024 presidential. I want to show you a quick clip from Joe Biden when he pretends he's not

00:29:59.860 concerned at all, doesn't even know the name, Ron DeSantis. Look at this.

00:30:04.340 Yeah, they're obsessed with DeSantis. Jen Psaki, the spokesman talks about him every day. But I

00:30:23.060 want to show you Ron DeSantis. And this is that Trumpian flourish that you're referring to. But

00:30:28.660 but but like you say, intellectual firepower. So the day after Joe Biden said,

00:30:33.780 DeSantis who? Here's how DeSantis answered. Do you have a comment about the comment that President

00:30:39.700 Biden made recently? Well, I guess I'm not surprised that that Biden doesn't remember me.

00:30:48.420 I guess the question is, what else has he forgotten?

00:30:53.380 Biden's forgotten about the crisis at our southern border, I can tell you that.

00:30:57.780 Biden has forgotten about the inflation that's fighting the budgets of families all throughout

00:31:02.900 our country. Biden has forgotten about the demonstrators who are fighting for freedoms

00:31:08.500 down in Cuba. Biden's even forgotten about the Constitution itself, as we saw with what he did with

00:31:13.860 this moratorium. And I can just tell you, I'm the governor who protects parents and their ability

00:31:20.980 to make the right choices for their kids education. I'm the governor who protects the jobs and education

00:31:27.700 and businesses in Florida by not letting the federal government lock us down. I'm the governor who

00:31:33.780 answers to the people of Florida, not the bureaucrats in Washington.

00:31:38.180 First of all, that's very funny taking on Joe Biden's forgetfulness. I think that's a jab.

00:31:48.340 But what I like so much about Ron DeSantis is he's not saying it's me versus Biden. He's saying

00:31:54.580 Florida parents can make their own choice. And he said that Florida businesses can make their own

00:31:59.300 choice. This is a personal choice. And we're not going to let them crush businesses. And I love how

00:32:04.660 he always managed to throw it back to the power of the people. And as opposed to perhaps a more

00:32:11.620 egocentric politician who would say, no, I will stop you. No, he's saying I'll defend

00:32:17.380 these individual Floridians. I find it a very appealing message. I think it's got to be expanding

00:32:23.060 DeSantis' base to other communities that don't traditionally vote Republican. I love how he's

00:32:28.820 doing. And he's so, like you say, he's intellectually strong. He's my hope because

00:32:33.540 how Florida goes, these other states go, and maybe they'll hold the fork till reinforcements come.

00:32:40.420 Yes. One of the things I liked is when I guess it was either Biden or the Biden administration said

00:32:44.820 Governor DeSantis is get out of the way if you're not going to help us. And one of the things he said,

00:32:49.940 and what's so important here is how you control the narrative. Because the people in the middle

00:32:55.060 and the moderate Democrats who we need, if it's ever going to stop this, have to know,

00:33:00.340 immediately have to have it reframed because otherwise they're just like, oh, well, it's

00:33:03.460 safety. We have to do it. But he said, I will stand in the way of your tyranny. I will stand in

00:33:08.740 the way of your vaccine passport. I will stand in the way of your mandates. That's exactly what we do.

00:33:13.620 When they say, get out of the way and let us do it. No, because even people like Dan Rather,

00:33:18.100 the former CBS newsman, tweeted out, he pinned a tweet. He was so proud of this. He said,

00:33:22.500 you know, if we're going to ban masks in school, we should also ban, you know, helmets for sports.

00:33:28.420 And the thing is that people were saying, hey, Dan, no one's banning masks. They're just not

00:33:33.060 mandating them. This is what the left doesn't understand. If you, they don't understand that

00:33:38.100 unless government forces you to do something, they think then somehow it's tyranny or it's a form of

00:33:44.180 fascism. It's completely bonkers, Ezra. Again, we have, but here's what I want to put in one comment 0.62

00:33:50.020 here. We have DeSantis. We have Congressman Chip Rory. We have Rand Paul. We have Ted Cruz.

00:33:54.900 There's a lot of good congressmen and senators who are now stepping up. And one of the things to watch

00:34:00.260 is the House ban on the House mandates on masks for House members of the US floor,

00:34:07.060 because many Republican congressmen are going to risk thousands in fines every day by not following it.

00:34:12.020 And also they're talking about a vaccine passport on the Congress. So we need the Republicans to stand up.

00:34:17.540 I personally am doing my part. I'm fighting it on, you know, my kids go to a school that don't

00:34:22.420 require a mask. I have an aunt who's in a nursing home. They told me I had to get either a vaccine,

00:34:27.540 a show of vaccine, or I have to get a test every time I visit. And you know what I said? I'm not

00:34:33.780 going to do it. I'm coming and you'll see you. I was prepared. I'm prepared to get arrested

00:34:38.420 if I have to. They backed down and they gave me the, they gave me a N95 mask to wear,

00:34:44.660 which I said I would do that when I visit. But there's no way I'm going to get a COVID test every

00:34:48.580 time I go visit. It's just madness at this point. I'm not, it's, we have to stand up individually.

00:34:53.860 You have to fight this and you have to make it uncomfortable for people. I'm telling everyone,

00:34:58.980 public school kids, parents, organize, show up the first day on masks with kids not wearing masks,

00:35:04.980 make it uncomfortable. It's too easy to pull your kid out and say, I'm leaving. Stay and cause

00:35:10.180 nightmares for the bureaucrats there and the teachers and the principals.

00:35:14.580 You know, it's, it's the conformity. And that's the, one of the national identities of Canada,

00:35:20.180 not universally, but Toronto's the worst for it. Rhonda Sanis, we both are in his fan club in Canada,

00:35:28.020 Alberta premier, Jason Kenney held the line very well for the first six months. Then he absolutely

00:35:33.700 collapsed and became the most punitive. He's the one who threw four Christian pastors in prisons 0.94

00:35:39.620 for not closing their churches. I'm pleased to say though, Mark, that on July 1st, all the

00:35:45.300 lockdowns were lifted, the mask mandates, and now they don't even have, you know, quarantining or

00:35:50.820 track and trace. They're treating it like it's the annual flu. So Alberta, other than some

00:35:56.420 revenge, revenge lawsuits they're doing against a couple of these pastors and businessmen,

00:36:01.380 they are now Florida free. And it'll be interesting to see if Alberta can withstand

00:36:07.700 pressure from the rest of the country, because just like Rhonda Sanis is a good role model for 0.64

00:36:12.660 Texas and those other Southern states, Alberta could not only be a role model for other provinces,

00:36:19.540 but could attract COVID refugees. And by that, I mean, people who are sick of masks and sick of 0.95

00:36:25.940 lockdowns and sick of that, if they're mobile, then move to Alberta. And I'm not just talking about

00:36:31.060 elites who find it easy to move like, like wealthy business people, even regular folks. Like if you're

00:36:37.540 a waiter, but restaurants are locked down in Toronto, why not go to Calgary or Edmonton and work in a

00:36:42.980 restaurant? That's not an elite person, but that's just someone who wants to work. If Alberta can hold the 1.00

00:36:47.940 line, it can be again, the Florida of Canada. I just hope Jason Kenney doesn't have a relapse like he

00:36:53.940 did before. Last word to you. Yeah. Ground zero is what you're saying, Ezra. Where are people going to

00:37:01.060 move? How are they going to stay and fight? The place to watch besides Florida is New York City right

00:37:07.140 now. Their mayor is literally a fascist nut, Mayor de Blasio. Watch New York City. I can't imagine the 0.98

00:37:16.180 large black community and the mom and pop businesses that are left, not many, are going

00:37:21.780 to allow a vaccine passport to be imposed upon them. So let's see how that goes. I almost want 0.98

00:37:26.420 to travel to New York just to defy the vaccine passport. I have not gotten vaccinated, have no

00:37:30.820 plans to get it. I'll say publicly, I would rather risk getting COVID than that vaccine. So there you go,

00:37:36.180 giving out personal health information on the air. Yeah. Well, you know, it's funny because I followed

00:37:40.900 when de Blasio announced that vaccine passport and what he's like. And my first question was,

00:37:45.460 who's going to enforce it? I mean, the New York City Police Department, which is one of the finest

00:37:49.540 police departments in the world, they're already stretched thin. They've had a terrible year in

00:37:55.460 terms of real crime egged on by the Democrats, including the mayor. And the thought that they

00:38:01.620 would be enforcing this is laughable. I just don't really think the NYPD would do that. So what are you

00:38:06.740 going to do? You're going to hire a new core of enforcers? Or are you going to actually expect all the

00:38:12.420 little mom and pop? Like New York is famous for a little shop on every corner, mom and pop style,

00:38:18.020 often an immigrant family, all, you know, mom, dad, and all the kids working there. The idea that

00:38:24.340 these folks would become health fascists and drive away customers to please the mayor is very hard for

00:38:30.580 me to believe. I hope that that de Blasio finds resistance in them. We'll see in the months ahead.

00:38:37.140 Great to see you again, Mark. Have a great weekend. Thanks for being here. Thank you. All right. There

00:38:41.220 you have it, Mark Morano. He's the boss of climate depot.com. Boy, we covered a lot of ground there. Stay

00:38:45.860 with us. More ahead.

00:38:58.340 Hey, welcome back on my show last night. Rudy writes, I understand the disappointment from people

00:39:02.980 after seeing the mirage too. It was the hope we all crave for. Thanks for your straight talk,

00:39:07.780 Ezra. I think I've spent too much time on this issue, but it's just, it's been the number one

00:39:12.820 thing people have referred to me. And when I say, well, it actually isn't the reason the lockdown

00:39:17.220 was lifted and actually all his legal gambits failed, people are angry. And I'm thinking, why are

00:39:23.140 they angry? They don't know this guy. They've never heard of Stu Peters. They've never heard of Patrick

00:39:27.300 King. Why are people mad at me? And I think it's because they are so bloody desperate for hope.

00:39:33.380 Janet writes, thanks for clarifying what material evidence means in this context.

00:39:38.980 Patrick King was on trial for a $1,200 lockdown fine for violating the anti-gathering rule.

00:39:44.900 That's what was going to be heard in that court in Red Deer. It was not going to be about the virus

00:39:49.620 itself. It wasn't because Patrick King didn't give notice to anybody that that was going to be his

00:39:55.140 chartered challenge defense. He just showed up in court completely unprepared. So when he subpoenaed,

00:40:02.900 Dean of Hinshaw, it was for information about his own trial. He never gave notice that he was going

00:40:07.940 to talk about any other issue. So material evidence meant his arrest and his ticket in Red Deer.

00:40:16.100 Albert writes, why were the restrictions lifted then in Alberta? Well, I think there's a number of

00:40:21.700 reasons. Their official reasons are that case counts, hospitalizations are way down and immunization is

00:40:30.340 way up. And they sort of laid out their milestones and they met them. I'm not sure the immunization

00:40:36.740 rate in Alberta, but it's quite high. And the hospitalization rate last I checked is very low,

00:40:41.540 fewer than one person per hospital. And the ICU rate last I checked is around 20 people in the

00:40:47.460 entire province. That's what they said. I think it's more than that. I think they were under enormous

00:40:53.620 political pressure. You might recall that Jason Kenney had a mutiny in his caucus. More than a dozen

00:41:00.820 MLA said they were opposed to lockdownism, including members of his own inner circle. So I think he wanted to

00:41:07.300 get out of that lockdownism, which he had avoided for so long. So my answer to you is they claim

00:41:13.540 they lifted the lockdown because their stats are better. I believe it was enormous political pressure

00:41:18.500 on them. But whatever it is, it happened on July 1st. And Patrick King was not in court for his great

00:41:25.940 victory lap until three weeks later. It just didn't happen. And I get it. I get it. Boy, wouldn't it be

00:41:32.340 great if there was some miracle solution, a silver bullet, a button we can press to fix everything?

00:41:39.140 Alas, that just simply isn't the way it is. That's our show for today. Until next week, on behalf of

00:41:47.140 all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night. And keep fighting for freedom.

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Rebel News Podcast - August 07, 2021

EZRA LEVANT ｜ What have they done to you？

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