Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Who is on the Twitter board of directors that rejected Elon Musk？

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Today, I'm going to take you through the biography of one of Twitter's

00:00:03.920 directors of the board. I thought they would be all sort of young tech guys and Silicon Valley

00:00:10.880 experts, maybe in their 40s or maybe in their 50s, but basically young guys like Mark Zuckerberg or

00:00:16.500 Jack Dorsey. I was so surprised to see an ancient political name on there, someone by the name of

00:00:23.800 Bob Zellick, and you've got to be in your 60s to know who he is. He's like sort of a slightly

00:00:29.440 younger, Henry Kissinger. What is a, you know, former deep state diplomat doing on Twitter's

00:00:38.260 board? The guy's never used Twitter himself. His account literally has zero tweets. I'll take you

00:00:43.120 through it. I've got some theories on it. I'll introduce you to one of Twitter's directors,

00:00:48.420 probably relevant to Elon Musk's offer to buy the thing. But before I do, let me invite you to become

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00:01:16.560 Tonight, who is on the board of directors of Twitter that rejected Elon Musk? It's April

00:01:32.500 20th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:37.460 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:41.160 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:45.240 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody

00:01:50.120 right to do so. We've talked a couple times now about the $43 billion offer that Elon Musk made

00:02:03.880 to buy Twitter. Of course, some of it is just that Musk is one of the world's most interesting people.

00:02:09.680 He's the richest person, at least for now. He's a businessman with some real success. Tesla

00:02:14.660 Tesla is worth a trillion dollars, according to the stock market. That's more than GM and Ford

00:02:21.300 and Chrysler combined, if you're counting. Now, you may not think that's right, but millions of

00:02:27.200 investors seem to. So he's not just a businessman. He's a bit of a mad scientist, too. Not just his

00:02:33.400 electric cars idea, but his spaceship's idea. He has a company called the Boring Company that's about

00:02:40.020 tunneling underground for cars, hence the word boring. It's a double entendre. He's cheeky.

00:02:46.320 He's a bit of a mad scientist. He made flamethrowers and sold them. I'm not sure why, but he did.

00:02:52.780 He's a bit of a pundit, a bit of a philosopher. He seems to love pot. He smokes it while talking for

00:03:00.820 hours with podcasters like Joe Rogan. He meets with the comedy writers of the Babylon Bee. I think

00:03:07.320 they're the funniest conservative website around. So, of course, Elon Musk himself is fun to talk

00:03:12.320 about. I'm sure the fact that I'm obviously addicted to Twitter personally makes me more

00:03:16.920 interested than a normal person would be who isn't on Twitter. But that's the thing. Who is on Twitter?

00:03:23.300 It's big, but it's not that big. I mean, it has 400 million users. So, sure, that's enormous. But

00:03:28.680 Facebook has, what, 2 billion users? TikTok and Instagram are more than a billion.

00:03:33.520 Twitter doesn't make a lot of money. And it's not really growing that quickly either. So,

00:03:39.860 why is it so important? Why are people fighting over it? Because the number one reason users say

00:03:45.560 they have Twitter is to get the news. Yeah, sports, comedy, celebrities, entertainment, of course,

00:03:51.080 that's important too. But Twitter is about the news. It's about politics. More importantly,

00:03:56.300 it's, maybe more accurately, it's about news makers and news creators and news writers and news editors.

00:04:02.620 News shapers. If you're a billionaire, you can go and buy yourself a newspaper.

00:04:09.640 You can buy yourself a TV news station. Elon Musk probably could. But if you have Twitter,

00:04:15.320 and by that, if you control it, well, you sort of have every news network in your hand because

00:04:20.220 they all use Twitter to propagate stories and videos. More importantly, all the journalists are

00:04:26.560 on Twitter. They're hooked on Twitter. They're obsessed with Twitter, checking Twitter always. It's

00:04:31.860 the clubhouse for journalists. It's where PR companies live. It's the public square, the town

00:04:37.400 square. Twitter calls itself that. So sure, it has a financial value, but its value is much deeper than

00:04:43.760 that. It's the bulletin board that every political and media person in the world uses, not just Americans,

00:04:49.080 but Canadians. The Chinese, the Russians, the Ukrainians, the Iranians, everyone. Now,

00:04:55.220 you can't use Twitter itself in China or Iran, but the Chinese and Iranian dictators use Twitter.

00:05:03.620 You see my point? That's their value that they place on it. And Twitter's top hashtag last year,

00:05:10.180 that means a little tagline that users type out on the stories to help people searching,

00:05:15.040 find them, was COVID-19. Are you getting it? Let's say you wanted to control the entire

00:05:22.820 national discussion. Actually, the global discussion. Say you wanted to talk about Ukraine

00:05:27.800 and Russia, not just in English, but in many other languages. You could try and buy newspapers

00:05:32.740 in every country, TV stations, whatever. But why not just own the public square, own the meeting place,

00:05:38.200 own the medium that they all use, and then subtly build in a few filters, call them algorithms.

00:05:45.840 Pump up the voices you want promoted, boost them. Show them to more people. And do the opposite

00:05:52.100 to voices you don't want seen. Demote them. Show them to fewer people. Put warnings on the accounts

00:05:59.540 of people you don't like. Ban them even, which is exactly what Twitter has done. And that's what

00:06:05.760 they say they've done. Their new CEO, Parag Agrawal, famously said, they're not so much interested in

00:06:11.500 free speech, but rather deciding who gets attention to their speech. So everyone can shout into the wind,

00:06:16.680 but only Agrawal's friends will have their shouts heard by anyone. So if you're Pfizer and Moderna,

00:06:24.600 that's extremely valuable. You need to boost tweets that promote vaccines. You need to de-boost

00:06:29.880 throttle tweets that are skeptical. Call that misinformation, even if it later turns out that

00:06:35.640 they were right. Now, normally it's subtle. You might not even notice it. Sometimes it's just too much not to

00:06:41.560 notice, like when they literally suspended a sitting president of the United States, or when they suspended

00:06:47.720 the mighty New York Post, one of America's oldest newspapers, for posting a completely true story about

00:06:53.000 Hunter Biden's laptop just before the election. What's the value of that? If that censorship moved the needle

00:06:59.460 a couple of percent in the election, did they lose it for Trump and win it for Biden?

00:07:04.460 What's the value of that? It's got to be trillions. Think about what China or Russia or frankly Pfizer

00:07:12.800 or Moderna would do for that kind of control over the discourse. There was no war for four years under

00:07:19.640 Donald Trump. You know that? I mean, he didn't invade anybody. He lobbed a few missiles in Syria for

00:07:23.780 effect, but he started no new wars. Russia and North Korea were pacified during that time too. In fact,

00:07:30.200 Trump made peace between the Jews and the Arabs. I wonder if any, oh, I don't know, arms dealers

00:07:35.540 wanted Trump gone. I wonder what the value of owning Twitter, the massive censorship machine

00:07:41.520 would be to them. That's what Twitter is. It's a filter. It's a subtle censor. And do you doubt that

00:07:49.000 they compile everything you look at, every message you sound? Don't doubt it. It's in their terms of

00:07:53.460 service. It's a business model. So imagine everything that every politician and every journalist

00:07:58.360 writes and reads being owned by Twitter. But more than that, Twitter has private messages you can

00:08:04.580 send people that the public doesn't see. They're called DMs, direct messages. Do you doubt that Twitter

00:08:10.260 staff read those secret messages between politicians, journalists, diplomats, etc.? I've had some pretty

00:08:15.560 frank discussions with sitting politicians over Twitter direct messages, sensitive for them, maybe for me

00:08:21.580 too. I don't know. But do you doubt they're being read by Twitter's left-wing staff? Again, let me

00:08:27.680 disabuse you of your naivete if you do doubt it. Look at this story from the Washington Post, no less.

00:08:35.440 Former Twitter employees charged with spying for Saudi Arabia by digging into the accounts of kingdom

00:08:40.720 critics. Well, there it is. And it just so happens that Prince Al-Waleed of Saudi Arabia is one of the

00:08:45.640 largest investors at Twitter, has been for a while. He says, I don't believe that the proposed offer by

00:08:51.820 Elon Musk comes close to the intrinsic value of Twitter given its growth prospects. Being one of

00:08:57.500 the largest and long-term shareholders at Twitter, Kingdom HC and I reject this offer. Now here's Elon

00:09:04.800 Musk's reply to the Saudi prince. He says, interesting. Just two questions, if I may. How much of Twitter does

00:09:10.800 the kingdom own directly and indirectly? What are the kingdom's views on journalistic freedom of speech?

00:09:17.780 Elon Musk is right. He's pointing out that a foreign prince of a dictatorship is calling the shots at an

00:09:22.860 American company. But his second point, while spicy, isn't quite right. I don't think the main value to the

00:09:29.720 Saudi regime of owning Twitter is spying on domestic political activists. Of course, that's part of it, for sure. 0.90

00:09:36.540 But Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Twitter ownership can spy on everyone in the world, on the West. 0.85

00:09:40.800 Spy and Throttler Boost tweak the algorithms to show people more of what the owners want them to see and less of

00:09:47.120 what the owners don't want them to see. It's sort of obvious. If you're using a free service like Facebook or

00:09:53.780 Twitter, it's because you're the product that's being bought and sold. All of which brings me to this. I saw this the

00:10:03.020 other day. It's a list of Twitter's board of directors. Someone put a spreadsheet together showing just how few shares

00:10:09.360 they own in Twitter. These directors get paid about a quarter million U.S. a year.

00:10:14.740 Elon Musk is

00:10:15.680 in for a bad time, says this guy. Not sure he's prepared to take on a couple of PhDs, a few MBAs,

00:10:21.700 and a baroness who use Twitter once a year to reset their passwords and collectively own 77 shares of

00:10:27.920 the company. Well, I don't know if that's sarcastic or not, but here's what Elon Musk said in reply.

00:10:32.680 Wow, with Jack departing, the Twitter board collectively owns almost no shares. Objectively,

00:10:38.800 their economic interests are simply not aligned with shareholders. And then he said that if he

00:10:43.380 takes over, he'll stop paying directors, saving the company three million bucks a year.

00:10:49.060 But it's obviously not about the money. It's about the other thing, their interests,

00:10:55.520 the director's interests versus the shareholders' interests. If these directors own almost zero stock,

00:11:00.460 why are they directors? Not to make money. I mean, if you don't own it, why do you care about it?

00:11:07.680 Well, like I say, because you care about other things than money that Twitter gives you.

00:11:13.460 I saw this name on there. I was glancing at that list on that tweet, and I recognized the name

00:11:19.220 because I'm a political person and I've been following politics for years. I recognize that

00:11:24.020 Bob Zellick. I bet very few people other than political watchers in their 50s know who he is.

00:11:30.660 He looks a bit like Steve Buscemi. I'd call him a bit of a mini Henry Kissinger.

00:11:36.540 Here's his Twitter account. He's never tweeted, not once ever. Here's his page on the Twitter board

00:11:44.080 of directors, his official biography there. Can I read his whole biography for you? It's quite

00:11:49.860 impressive. Let me do it. Give me a minute. Robert Zellick has served as a member of our

00:11:54.840 board of directors since July 2018. From May 2017 to April 2019, Mr. Zellick served as the chairman

00:12:01.560 of the board of directors of Alliance Bernstein Holding LP. Since August 2013, Mr. Zellick has

00:12:08.180 served as a board member of Temasek Holdings Private Limited, a Singaporean corporation principally

00:12:14.860 engaged in the business of investment holding. Since May 2017, he has served as a senior counselor

00:12:20.680 to the Brunswick Group, a global public affairs and communications firm. Since July 2012, he has

00:12:27.080 also been a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard

00:12:33.080 University's Kennedy School of Government. From October 2013 until September 2016, Mr. Zellick served as

00:12:40.320 chairman of the board of international advisors at the Goldman Sachs Group. From July 2007 until July

00:12:47.880 June 2012, he served as president of the World Bank Group. From 2006 to 2007, he served as vice chairman

00:12:56.380 international and a managing director of Goldman Sachs. Mr. Zellick served as the deputy secretary for the

00:13:03.160 U.S. Department of State from 2005 till 2006 and as the U.S. trade representative from 2001 to 2004.

00:13:10.300 From 1985 to 1993, Mr. Zellick held various posts in the U.S. government, including counselor to the U.S.

00:13:16.980 Secretary of the Treasury, undersecretary of state, and deputy chief of staff at the White House.

00:13:23.360 Mr. Zellick holds a B.A. from Swarthmore College, a J.D. from the Harvard Law School,

00:13:27.320 and an MPP from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Oh, my God. I think that's a dictionary

00:13:35.280 definition of the deep state. I mean, obviously, he cares about money, Goldman Sachs, that kind of thing.

00:13:43.300 But it's much more than just money. This guy is the government. He's the world. He's the globe. He's

00:13:49.760 a... It's globalist money. It's money with a certain political point of view, isn't it? It's not mom-and-pop

00:13:55.380 shops. World Bank, deputy White House chief of staff, international diplomat, Harvard. He really

00:14:02.660 is a master of the universe. He's a senior big shot at Brunswick Group. I'd never heard of them.

00:14:09.520 I went to their website. Now, apparently, there are communications firm, but they call themselves

00:14:14.280 critical issues. It's their focus. What does that mean? What's a critical issue? I spent a fair amount

00:14:21.020 of time on their website, and I don't really think I know any more now than I did before.

00:14:26.160 It's quite a style of communicating they have. If you look, they're huge, actually. They're all

00:14:33.200 over the world, from Beijing to London to Dubai to Washington. Can I show you a two-minute video

00:14:39.140 on one of their pages that explains what they do? I don't understand it. You tell me if you

00:14:44.980 understand a thing here. Can you watch this? You tell me. This is the boss of Twitter. Take a look.

00:14:51.020 Brunswick. Brunswick. Brunswick is the world's leading. Brunswick is the world's leading critical

00:14:56.080 issues firm. We work with the leadership teams of the great value-creating organizations around

00:15:01.600 the world. From huge multinational corporations to non-profits and to up-and-coming disruptors.

00:15:08.740 Because we recognize their value to society, and we recognize how important it is that they tell

00:15:13.880 their story in a meaningful way. That is what a critical issues firm is all about. Brunswick can

00:15:19.420 provide the full suite of services to clients. We can sit in a boardroom advising around major

00:15:25.980 geopolitical issues down to drafting a simple press release. We're not just advising a company

00:15:32.500 on a deal or an IPO. We're advising them on an opportunity to tell their story to the world.

00:15:38.520 In terms of thinking through how they engage with their stakeholders.

00:15:41.400 Which are very broad and span across the regulatory, political, financial, and social spheres.

00:15:49.180 And help companies make the right business decisions and then communicate them effectively

00:15:53.640 to those various stakeholders. Allow them to play their role in the world, but also to meaningfully,

00:15:59.400 and that's really important, to meaningfully engage with all their stakeholders.

00:16:02.960 We support them in becoming the kind of company that they want to be. Brunswick's purpose.

00:16:09.420 Our purpose. Is to help clients play. Brunswick's purpose is to help clients play their role

00:16:14.720 in society most successfully. And we do that by working with them on their most critical issues.

00:16:20.380 But to do it in a way that contributes to not only their bottom line, but also contributes to

00:16:26.080 the advancement of society as well. I truly believe that businesses are a key force for good.

00:16:31.780 We help people understand not just challenge and risk, but we help them understand opportunity.

00:16:38.620 And we help them position for a better future.

00:16:46.460 What does that mean? Are they like a private CIA? They can't tell you? Do they do things like spy?

00:16:56.060 I don't know. I mean, in a good way even? Or a bad way? What are they doing in Beijing?

00:17:00.860 I have no clue. And I think that's by design on their part. I don't know. Do they do nasty things

00:17:08.360 for nasty people for a lot of money? They operate in a lot of nasty places. They know how to stop 1.00

00:17:13.680 people like Elon Musk, though. They really emphasize that. Take a look at this. I found this page on their

00:17:19.380 website. Shareholder activism, an integrated team equipping clients with communications tools to

00:17:25.480 defend against activists. I'm going to read every word on this page to you because this seems to be a

00:17:30.720 fit with Twitter. Give me a minute, okay? Let me read this. The surge of shareholder activism sweeping

00:17:36.680 through the corporate world is only accelerating, and virtually no company is immune. Brunswick works

00:17:43.280 hand-in-hand with clients facing the increasingly complex threat of activist investors, from defense

00:17:49.320 preparation before an activist establishes a public position in the stock, to a full-blown proxy fight.

00:17:55.960 In the planning stages, we work with executives across a client's organization to identify possible

00:18:01.420 areas of weakness that could be exploited by an activist investor, determine appropriate reactive

00:18:07.380 messaging, and establish the detailed protocol and logistics needed to respond quickly to the wide

00:18:13.140 range of public and private activist approaches. When a fight turns public, Brunswick has the global

00:18:19.800 media and shareholder engagement expertise to launch extended campaigns, all underpinned by our in-house

00:18:26.020 digital, creative, and market research teams. Strategic use of social media, such as Twitter and

00:18:31.300 LinkedIn, can provide a company with a powerful campaign advantage. So what do they do? They protect

00:18:38.480 companies from investors? The right team at the right time with the right experience, we know that a

00:18:44.360 company's ability to hold off an activist will depend on how well you conduct your campaign and

00:18:49.080 convince investors you are right. We have a team of former lawyers, bankers, analysts, and journalists

00:18:55.340 who have successfully advised on many of the highest-profile activist fights, as well as behind-the-scenes

00:19:00.420 preparation for clients large and small. So yeah, that's who's on the board. Elon Musk is up against

00:19:07.360 some big operators. They sound like the kind of people who have their hands in a million things.

00:19:13.640 I don't know. Maybe they helped get this article published today in the Toronto Star.

00:19:18.240 Could be. The headline you can see right there, Elon Musk's attempt to buy Twitter should be setting

00:19:24.040 off alarm bells in Ottawa. Here's the thing. Elon Musk can offer these people a hundred million,

00:19:29.660 a hundred billion dollars. A trillion dollars. They're not going to sell.

00:19:33.320 Well, Twitter isn't worth that much as an ad platform. It's only worth that much as a political

00:19:41.540 spy machine, a message censorship machine, a mass formation psychosis machine.

00:19:50.300 If they really were about freedom of speech, things would be different. I wonder if Trump would

00:19:58.860 still be president if Twitter wasn't politically corruptible. We'll never know the effect of

00:20:03.100 throttling the Hunter Biden laptop story. I know that things would have been a lot different about

00:20:08.500 the pandemic, that's for sure. The vaccines, discussions about ivermectin, alternative treatments,

00:20:12.920 whether you agree with them or not. These were all subjects that were throttled or banned by Twitter.

00:20:17.560 That's pretty valuable to Moderna and Pfizer, isn't it? Well, Twitter is not about freedom,

00:20:23.060 hasn't been in a long time. It's about control. That's why Bob Zelleck and the Brunswick, I don't

00:20:28.880 know, what even is that company? That's who runs it now. Bob Zelleck doesn't tweet, but why would he?

00:20:36.040 I bet he reads a few tweets. If Elon Musk were to buy Twitter, not only might he stop their censorship

00:20:42.380 and the twisting of the world's perception of things, but I think he'd probably unearthed things

00:20:48.960 they've been up to all these past years but haven't told us about. Jack Dorsey, the founder and the

00:20:55.840 past president of the place, he seems to have something he wants to say. Someone asked him on Twitter,

00:21:02.240 this is actually a reporter for CNBC, serious question for Jack. If you think the Twitter board

00:21:07.740 is or was so dysfunctional and kept that company from being great, as you imply, either through your

00:21:13.160 own tweets or replies to others, why didn't you do anything about it when you ran the company for

00:21:17.960 several years? Well, Jack replied. He said, so much to say, but nothing that can be said. Yeah, I don't

00:21:27.080 know. I might be wrong. Bob Zelleck might just care about freedom of speech in his own way and making

00:21:33.700 good old-fashioned money. Nothing wrong with that. He's smarter than that Saudi prince who weighed in

00:21:38.760 in public on Twitter. What a fool showing his cards like that. I have no idea what Bob Zelleck is really 1.00

00:21:44.440 doing, either at Brunswick or at Twitter. But then again, I had no idea he was on the board. It really is

00:21:51.440 like a mini Henry Kissinger, isn't he? I'd never have guessed it. There's a lot we don't know about our

00:21:59.340 American oligarchs. I think they like it that way. P.S. I don't think that even the world's richest man

00:22:07.380 can beat them. Stay with us for more.

00:22:10.180 Because the core problem with housing in Canada is we just don't have enough housing. It's just a

00:22:29.140 mathematical thing. Canada has the fastest growing population in the G7. That is fantastic. That is

00:22:35.820 actually a huge driver of economic growth. And it is one of Canada's competitive advantages.

00:22:42.580 But we cannot have the fastest growing population in the G7 without also having the fastest growing

00:22:51.900 housing stock in the G7. And we don't have that right now. We have a shortage of homes.

00:22:57.480 There's some truth to it. The map doesn't lie. Price is dependent on supply and demand.

00:23:02.260 Since Justin Trudeau became prime minister, the pricing of an average house in the country

00:23:08.560 has doubled. And it is much worse in the number one destination for newcomers to Canada,

00:23:15.140 namely Toronto and Vancouver. In fact, in the last year alone, the prices in Toronto have gone up nearly

00:23:20.580 30% in one year. Here to join us to talk about it is our friend Spencer Fernando, whose latest article

00:23:28.200 is called Freeland admits federal immigration policy has driven up housing costs. Spencer,

00:23:34.080 great to see again. I think this is a kind of breakthrough. It's one of the first times I can

00:23:41.180 remember a liberal actually acknowledging that immigration is driving demand, which is driving

00:23:47.220 price. I mean, whether or not the liberals admit it, it is how supply and demand words. But I think she

00:23:53.860 admits it. Having the highest immigration policy of the G7 is causing the highest housing prices of the

00:24:00.040 G7. Yeah, it's interesting to, you know, see her say that. You know, I've seen people on Twitter

00:24:05.880 noting that if a conservative politician were to have said something similar, they'd be, you know,

00:24:11.820 tapped as anti-immigrant, anti-immigration, racist, bigoted, all of those things. And so it's

00:24:17.140 interesting that she's saying that. But she is correct, obviously. I mean, you know,

00:24:20.280 it is a simple supply and demand issue. The only problem is, of course, after she acknowledged

00:24:26.140 the truth, she basically went on and said, oh, this is great. And this is how we're growing the

00:24:29.780 economy. And obviously, thinking that you're growing the economy just by bringing in more

00:24:34.060 people as opposed to having per capita GDP growth is obviously a serious problem. And it's concerning

00:24:39.000 to see the finance minister kind of falling into a logical trap like that. Yeah, that's a great point.

00:24:45.360 I mean, when you add people to an economy, when you bring people, when you do any activity,

00:24:49.800 it is GDP. But it's like the broken windows fallacy. And I'm not comparing it to immigration. 0.98

00:24:54.460 I'm just comparing the logical flaw. Sorry. I mean, if you break a window, if you have a car

00:24:59.680 accident, you have a car accident, the GDP goes up. But it's not productive GDP. If you smash a window,

00:25:05.900 okay, you created a job for a glazier, but you haven't improved people's wealth, you burned it up.

00:25:11.560 Immigration can be a tremendous source of growth and wealth, actually, but it depends on who's 0.91

00:25:18.020 coming. And one of the things that Trudeau boasts about is that while there are some economic,

00:25:24.320 you know, economically strong, like professional class immigrants, the plurality of the immigrants

00:25:32.680 under Trudeau's current immigration scheme are people who are either family members or they're

00:25:38.700 refugees. They're not economic. So while we may be bringing in, say, 200,000 people a year who are 1.00

00:25:45.220 probably net positive on the GDP side, we're bringing in 150,000 a year who are who are not

00:25:51.160 investor class or professional class.

00:25:54.800 Yeah, I mean, it's obviously a balance, right? Because you have, you know, for example, someone

00:25:58.600 has a large family, they may be an entrepreneur, and then they bring over a relative and they can help

00:26:03.040 take care of their children. So, you know, there can be benefits there as well. But I think,

00:26:07.160 you know, the deeper problem is that we don't discuss immigration in this country in a mature

00:26:11.740 way. You know, a mature country is able to have people who say, well, I think we should have more

00:26:15.980 immigration. Other people say we should have less immigration. But somehow in Canada, it's become

00:26:20.460 almost everybody in the political establishment basically feels pressured to go along with whatever

00:26:25.460 the current highest number is. You know, as I note in the article, if someone supports, say,

00:26:30.360 about half the immigration level we have now. So say they said they want 230,000 or 240,000 people

00:26:36.080 to come into the country every year. As a percentage of our economy, that would give us

00:26:41.760 one of still the highest immigration rates in the world. And that would be in most countries kind of

00:26:46.840 the maximalist pro-immigration position. Whereas, you know, the other side of it would be people 0.90

00:26:51.900 saying they want much less. Whereas in Canada, if someone says, oh, we should, you know, have 240,000

00:26:56.640 people come in every year, that's considered a huge cut to immigration. And they will be called

00:27:01.160 an anti-immigrant in many cases. So I think the fact that the debate on immigration in Canada

00:27:05.480 has become so, it's emotional, it's political, everybody demonizes everybody. I think that's a

00:27:11.400 real drawback for the future of the country, because we should be able to have, you know,

00:27:15.320 a logical and reasonable and balanced debate about this issue.

00:27:19.180 You know, Angus Reid is one of the few pollsters who regularly test that question.

00:27:23.740 Actually, I'm sure all pollsters do. But Angus Reid is one of the few who publish it.

00:27:27.600 And overwhelmingly, Canadians say either we have enough, or the number is just right, 0.99

00:27:34.480 or the number is too high. Very, very few, always less than 10% say we need more. And yet,

00:27:41.400 Trudeau increases the number every time. I think this is one of those issues where if

00:27:46.080 a politician were to say it very gently and very carefully, and in a way that allowed no

00:27:51.740 misinterpretation that it was a race-based thing, but rather on an economic basis,

00:27:56.600 if we've just doubled the cost of housing in this country, you know, don't tell me how this is

00:28:01.800 wonderful for our GDP if inflation is now close to 7%. No young people can get a house. You know,

00:28:08.560 the fact that the GDP is doing well, but no one can afford to buy a house, you know, that might work

00:28:14.100 in Chrystia Freeland's world, but I don't think it works for ordinary Canadians.

00:28:17.360 Yeah. And I think there's also the issue of, I guess you could say economic illiteracy is obviously

00:28:24.480 a serious problem, even apparently at the higher echelons of the liberal government. But this idea

00:28:30.220 that, you know, if you make the economy bigger overall, that you're actually benefiting people,

00:28:33.960 like that's not really how it works, right? You know, say somehow we decided tomorrow that we were

00:28:39.440 going to double Canada's population. You know, people from every part of the world came in,

00:28:42.920 and we got to, I guess, what would be 74, 75 million people or so. Okay. Well, we'd probably

00:28:49.980 have a much bigger GDP than we do now, certainly, but everybody else would be much poorer on an

00:28:55.500 individual basis, right? Everything would massively increase in price. There would just be chaos in

00:29:00.480 the country. And so sure, the overall economy would be bigger, but we'd all be worse off.

00:29:05.020 And so, you know, that's, that's the issue with immigration is you'd have to have it at a level 0.55

00:29:08.360 that is benefiting the country and reducing some of the drawbacks that, you know, very high

00:29:12.540 immigration can cause. And we just, we just don't have that discussion. As you said, you know,

00:29:16.760 polls show a lot of Canadians want to see a change in the immigration numbers. People either think

00:29:21.260 it's, there's enough people coming in yearly already, or there should be fewer people coming

00:29:24.900 in. And very few people in the political, you know, the political class in this country

00:29:29.440 are willing to actually talk about that. You know, it seems sort of obvious to me that

00:29:33.920 just like spending in a country can go up and down depending on the economic cycle,

00:29:39.340 immigration can too. I mean, if, if immigration is leading to a depression in wages and an increase

00:29:45.860 in housing prices, it seems like a lever that you can adjust. You know, if, if you're in a recession

00:29:52.240 or if you're in boom times that you can adjust government spending too. I mean, the whole theory

00:29:57.340 of Kenzie and economics was that when times are amazing, the government puts the brakes on a bit

00:30:02.100 and maybe runs a surplus. And in tough times, the government, you know, it's counter-cyclical.

00:30:07.740 So if things are tough, well, maybe that's when the government spends more. And I'm not necessarily

00:30:11.100 a Keynesian, but the point is, it's not always run a deficit. And the thing about immigration is

00:30:18.120 it's not always more, more, more, more, more. There may be times when less is the answer,

00:30:23.040 when, when their wages can't keep up with, with the cost of living, when housing has doubled

00:30:29.300 in four years, there may be a time to pump the brakes. Um, I, you know, the funny thing about

00:30:33.940 Christy Freeland, I just remembered it when she came back to Canada from New York, where she had

00:30:38.420 been working for years, she bought a house so that she could say she lived in her neighborhood in

00:30:43.860 Toronto. She had to get her dad to co-sign the mortgage. Now I'm not making a lot of fun of her,

00:30:50.600 although I think it is sort of a little bit odd that a woman in her forties in the cabinet can't,

00:30:54.500 you know, doesn't have the credit to get her own house. But if the deputy prime minister herself 1.00

00:31:00.780 needs help to buy a house, she's a bit glib with people who are not of her station in life,

00:31:07.980 who need help to buy a house, or frankly, there's no hope for them at all.

00:31:13.000 Yeah, I think a lot of what's happening is the liberals have kind of backed themselves into a

00:31:16.720 corner because of, you know, the overtly ideological nature of how they govern the country. I mean,

00:31:22.140 immigration will be one example. You know, they keep increasing the immigration number every year.

00:31:26.620 The carbon tax, obviously, their anti-energy sector policies, these are all policies that cause,

00:31:30.860 you know, issues in the economy, obviously inflation. The carbon tax is, you know, a

00:31:34.640 deliberately inflationary policy. It's designed to make things more expensive, and it makes them

00:31:38.980 more expensive every year. And so they can't really actually do anything about these problems

00:31:44.700 without admitting that, you know, their ideology is the cause of many of these issues. And so they're

00:31:49.520 forced to kind of play the game where they say, oh, we're very concerned about inflation, and we're

00:31:53.320 very concerned about housing, and we're very concerned about the cost of living, and we're going to do

00:31:57.480 everything we can to help people. But they can't really do anything because that would have been

00:32:01.520 involved in admitting they were wrong in their overall policy focus for the last, what is it,

00:32:05.880 six or seven years? And so I think that that's kind of what's happening now is they're just trying

00:32:10.620 to, you know, muddle along, pretend they're concerned, hope people focus on other things. I think,

00:32:15.260 you know, that's one of the reasons Pierre Polyev is doing so well. He's one of the only politicians

00:32:19.140 who's offering an agenda that is ideologically very different than what the liberals are offering.

00:32:24.020 And he's saying, look, here's the problem, here's a solution, here's what I'm going to do.

00:32:27.380 And it's very different than what the liberals are talking about. And so I think that's why the

00:32:30.560 establishment really is going after him so much, because he represents a real alternative.

00:32:35.860 And if he was to get in and have very different policies and make things better for people,

00:32:40.060 a lot of people would say, you know, why were we putting up with these, you know, these supposedly

00:32:43.680 brilliant and, you know, supposedly progressive policies over the past, you know, years. And so

00:32:48.640 I think they're very concerned. They want to stop him from getting in power because they know his

00:32:52.680 ideas will probably actually work. You know, it's interesting. He is getting criticisms because

00:32:58.420 his crowds are so large. I mean, if his crowds were small, he'd be getting criticism for, ha ha,

00:33:03.860 he can't draw a crowd. He's had events on an Indian reserve in Alberta. He's had events that

00:33:09.860 seek in Chinese cultural locations, but he's accused of being too white. I mean, the criticisms

00:33:17.460 about him seem pretty desperate. The one thing I like about Pierre Polyev is his command of fiscal

00:33:24.440 policy, but also monetary policy, which is a little bit hard for, I think it's something that

00:33:29.260 most ordinary folks don't think about a lot, but he really has thought a lot about it and inflation

00:33:34.400 and how it's really attacks on everything because it devalues your money. I mean, the fact that he's

00:33:40.060 into crypto, but not in a, not in sort of a, you know, a hype kind of way, but he, he sees it as a

00:33:46.440 way to solve some of the problems of government inflation. I really think that's thoughtful. And

00:33:50.960 he's also good at putting it in layman's terms. I think that in Pierre Polyev, you've got a guy with

00:33:56.920 a lot of substance on cost of living issues. And Trudeau, I mean, he famously bragged,

00:34:03.160 he doesn't think about monetary policy. I don't know if you saw this clip from, um, his pre prime

00:34:08.380 minister days, here's Trudeau saying he's never really been good with numbers and it's a learning

00:34:14.040 disability. He claims, I don't know if you saw this, take a look at this. I have a little confession

00:34:19.080 to make. I have a slight learning disability. I am dysnumeric. What that means is I have an inability

00:34:30.160 to handle small numbers and little calculations. Those easy things that people do so well. 13

00:34:38.620 plus 14.

00:34:42.580 7. Under pressure, it's even worse. So I mean, if I pick up numbers and try to do it,

00:34:46.620 2 plus 3 minus 1 times 2 minus 4 plus 2. How many people follow that?

00:34:57.420 Now, I'm not looking to make fun of anyone for a learning disability. I have a hunch that

00:35:02.460 that's just a fancy term given to a bad student in the case of Trudeau. But when he says he doesn't

00:35:09.720 follow monetary policy, when he says the budget will balance itself, when he says that you grow the

00:35:15.360 economy from the heart out. And when he says he's dysnumeric, a guy tells you four times he's not

00:35:20.220 good at numbers. We should probably listen to him. It's sort of terrifying that he's the guy in

00:35:25.080 charge of the economy right now.

00:35:27.380 Yeah, it's quite concerning. And I think, you know, a lot of it is in many ways a luxury that

00:35:31.940 the Western world has had from a period of, you know, peace and prosperity that went on really for

00:35:36.840 historic, you know, amount of time. You know, if you look at history, this has been a long time

00:35:42.060 of, you know, economies growing and the world being relatively peaceful. And a lot of that's

00:35:46.320 obviously starting to change. And so I think what's happened over time is people, obviously

00:35:50.400 people like Justin Trudeau, who had a very privileged upbringing, but, you know, the society in many

00:35:54.780 ways, you know, at large and our political institutions, there's been so much, you know,

00:36:00.300 wealth created that people kind of lost the understanding that at the end of the day, you still

00:36:05.040 have to produce real things. You still have to make, you have to produce food, you have to transport it,

00:36:09.880 you know, you have to fill your cars with gasoline, you have to drive around, planes have to get where

00:36:14.660 they're going, you have to, you know, extract minerals and, you know, things from the earth to

00:36:18.520 build things. And there's been this idea where, oh, we don't really need to produce things, we just print

00:36:23.520 more money and give out the money, and then we're richer, and then we're all doing better. And so I think

00:36:28.280 that's starting to slowly shift. You know, Paul Yev, as you talk about monetary policy, that would be,

00:36:32.960 he's an example of someone who's starting to, you know, help people kind of get out of that

00:36:36.400 mindset. But Trudeau is obviously still very much in the way of thinking that, oh, well,

00:36:41.680 there's a problem, you know, the government just, you know, creates some money and gives it out to

00:36:44.560 people and, you know, money fixes the problem. So there's no issue. Obviously, that just devalues

00:36:48.880 the currency and makes everything more expensive, as we're seeing across the country and much of the

00:36:52.800 world. But, you know, he's not going to get it. You know, Chrystia Freeland, you know, I wouldn't be

00:36:57.520 shocked if at some level she does understand it, but politically she can't admit that these are terrible

00:37:02.100 policies and reverse any of them. So she's just going to keep going along with it as well.

00:37:05.580 And so I think until there's a change of government and until hopefully it's someone

00:37:10.340 like Pierre Polyev, not someone like Jean Charest, until that happens, you know, Canada is going to

00:37:15.320 be stuck in a set of policies where the government says, oh, we're very concerned about these issues,

00:37:19.460 and then their policies make all these issues worse. You know, I wouldn't put too much stock in

00:37:24.000 Chrystia Freeland. I sat down and read her last book, and I have to say, I didn't find it thoughtful or

00:37:29.520 philosophical. It felt like sort of a lifestyles of the rich and famous. And her work at

00:37:35.540 Reuters, Thompson, not only did she nearly destroy a whole enterprise, like she was a disaster as a 1.00

00:37:44.840 manager. I just, I think that she is puffed up in a way like Trudeau himself is. I don't think there's a

00:37:53.900 lot of there there, but compared to Trudeau, she looks like a, you know, a PhD professor. I don't know.

00:37:59.460 I mean, Pierre Polyev's phenomenon is interesting. And here's my theory on that. And I know we're

00:38:05.760 shifting gears from the original immigration and cost of living question, but it is quite something

00:38:11.740 for a guy to get a thousand people out in small towns in on short notice, like he's getting a

00:38:19.480 thousand, five thousand, seven thousand people out. And he's not even the leader yet. And my theory is

00:38:26.280 for two years, there's been anti-gathering rules. You can't gather in public. The political

00:38:34.100 accountability of our system has been reduced as well. Parliament has not sat in the normal way.

00:38:40.540 Politicians have been cloistered. And because of the quote emergency, I think the political classes

00:38:49.240 and the courts have sort of agreed with each other. They've sort of huddled together. They've

00:38:54.220 circled the wagons. And so for the first time in two years, people can express themselves. And I

00:39:00.140 think you have pent up two years of disagreement, two years at anything over the last two years has

00:39:06.240 bothered you. You've never really been able to act on it. Even the last election, all the candidates

00:39:12.800 were so similar, including Aaron O'Toole. I think you're not just seeing Pierre Polyev, you're seeing

00:39:17.600 that the fake political media consensus of the last two years was indeed fake. And that someone

00:39:25.580 who takes on the system, whether it's the lockdown system or the monetary system or the housing system

00:39:32.180 or the media system, is really tapping into something that the media has missed. It's that populist

00:39:38.300 undercurrent that was sort of papered over for two years. That's what I think Pierre Polyev has tapped

00:39:43.820 into. Maybe that's sort of obvious, but I think you're looking at two years of fake news that

00:39:50.160 everyone was going along with this crisis from Trudeau. And a lot of people are saying, no, we're

00:39:55.080 completely sick of it. And the establishment has failed us in every respect. What do you think?

00:40:00.220 Yeah, I think if you look at what happened to Aaron O'Toole, that's it's all part of the same

00:40:04.200 pattern, right? I mean, he was basically, you know, he campaigned as one thing in the leadership race,

00:40:09.620 obviously offered something very different that a lot of people were not too pleased about.

00:40:13.660 But when he became the leader of the party, and a lot of what he did was basically, as you say,

00:40:17.520 create a false political consensus, right? He made it appear as if even the largest opposition

00:40:22.480 party was completely in favor of most of the things the liberals were doing, except with maybe a few

00:40:27.340 tweaks and it'll be, you know, marketed a little differently. And so Polyev, you know, I think

00:40:33.420 another reason he's getting big crowds, in addition to the points you raised, is that he's been talking

00:40:37.200 about these issues for some time. And I wrote recently in the National Citizens Coalition how he has a lot

00:40:41.820 more credibility than most people, because he was talking about the danger of government spending

00:40:45.540 and money printing two years ago, when those policies were extremely popular, when almost

00:40:50.620 everybody else was afraid to, you know, utter any criticism of the government spending massive amounts

00:40:55.840 of money, he was still out there talking about, you know, this is going to cause a problem. This is

00:40:59.120 why, you know, the government needs to get its fiscal house in order. This is why it's dangerous for

00:41:03.320 the Bank of Canada to print so much money. And so I think the fact that he's been talking about that for

00:41:08.640 such a long time, gives him credibility. And then, you know, in some ways, you know, the moment

00:41:12.580 has worked out well for him. Unfortunately, it means that there's obviously issues going on

00:41:17.940 in the country, because people are obviously upset. But I mean, if you're talking about,

00:41:22.640 you know, the danger of government policy and spending and, you know, monetary policy,

00:41:26.480 and then people see their prices going up all over the place, they're going to look and say,

00:41:30.020 who is somebody who's offering something different? We know what the liberals and NDP offer. It's just

00:41:33.780 more spending, more government intervention, you know, the same problems that have caused this mess.

00:41:38.720 Who's someone who's actually offering something different? So I think all these things are kind

00:41:41.860 of coming together. The false consensus that the Conservative Party tried to impose on people

00:41:46.240 through O'Toole, you know, the media suppressing a lot of different viewpoints. Yes, the fact that

00:41:49.940 people couldn't gather. And then the fact that Paul Yev is offering something different and has been

00:41:53.880 relatively consistent for two years, I think it's all kind of coming together and really forming a

00:41:58.660 movement, not just a political campaign, but a movement across the country.

00:42:01.600 Yeah. Well, we're in very interesting days. And I dare to have a little bit of hope as well.

00:42:07.660 Spencer Fernando, great to catch up with you folks. You can follow Spencer as I do at

00:42:12.020 spencerfernando.com. He's one of the few journalists in this country who is not on Trudeau's payroll.

00:42:17.460 Take care of Spencer. Thank you.

00:42:19.240 No problem.

00:42:19.920 All right. Cheers. Stay with us. More ahead.

00:42:31.600 Hey, welcome back. Your Viewer Mail. Sean Roberts says, when the Canadian government lets unvaccinated 1.00

00:42:38.980 refugees in, but actual Canadians aren't allowed to travel unvaccinated, mask mandates are the least

00:42:43.900 of my concerns. I'd wear a mask on a plane if it meant I was allowed to travel. That's an excellent

00:42:48.980 point. At what point is it just pure abusiveness? I mean, they're not testing anymore if you're,

00:42:57.840 if you have symptoms, if you're, if you're sick, you're allowed to, like, if, if you are sick,

00:43:03.580 since they don't ask for testing, and I guess you wouldn't have to tell them, you're allowed on the

00:43:07.640 plane. But if you're unvaccinated, you're not allowed on the plane, even if you're not sick, even if you

00:43:12.600 got sick and have natural immunity now, it's just about punishment.

00:43:18.800 Howard Tannenbaum says they will make the motions of an appeal or registering their objections.

00:43:24.120 He's talking about Biden and the American mask ruling. I don't think that Biden

00:43:27.340 wants to appeal. What happens to the Dems if the mandate is reinstated? More fuel to hate on them.

00:43:33.320 He was done a favor by this judge. I think so. But yesterday, Biden sort of flip-flopped. At first,

00:43:37.480 he said it's fine, but then they suggested they might appeal. It's very interesting what's going

00:43:41.440 on in that party right now, the Democrats. Scott Cook says great news for the USA, but when do we

00:43:47.040 in Canada get our freedoms back and the criminals arrested for violating our rights?

00:43:50.980 Like I say, our Supreme Court has not even weighed in on the pandemic. It has been more than two

00:43:56.780 years. And our Supreme Court has not had a thing to say about it. And our Charter of Rights has not

00:44:02.980 protected us in one way. What's the point of it? Like, what a joke it is if in the worst civil

00:44:09.300 liberties bonfire in our history, the Charter of Rights was never used to protect us. What is the

00:44:14.000 bloody point? That's our show for today. Let me leave you with our video of the day from Tamera

00:44:20.300 Ugolini. Now vaccine injured, this former believer in vaccine speaks out. This is a tough story to see.

00:44:29.220 Until tomorrow, folks. Good night and keep fighting for freedom. Here's Tamera's video. Bye-bye.

00:44:34.600 Tamera Ugolini here with Rebel News, and I continue to hear absolute silence from mainstream media

00:44:40.320 about the reactions that Canadians are suffering from as a result of COVID-19 injections, which makes

00:44:47.400 the story that I'm bringing you today even more shocking because a mere few months ago, 47-year-old

00:44:53.860 Saskatchewan resident Trina Huss was an avid mainstreamist. She relied on the mainstream media

00:45:00.020 as her daily news source and was terrified into submission by their incessant and exaggerated

00:45:07.100 COVID reporting. They report on this idea of long COVID, but completely ignore the vaccine reactions

00:45:13.960 that are happening. And Trina knew after only one dose of this injectable that her body wouldn't be

00:45:20.820 able to handle anymore. And then she got COVID and because she didn't die, despite technically being in

00:45:27.720 a high risk category with comorbidity, she began to question what was happening in the mainstream.

00:45:32.200 Listen to her story. So Trina, tell me why you decided to get the injection and what brand,

00:45:39.800 what manufacturer you went with. I got the vaccine a year ago. And the reason I got it was SHA,

00:45:48.380 Saskatchewan Health Authority, sent me a letter telling me I can get the vaccine before my age group

00:45:54.500 due to my health conditions, autoimmune disease. But I took a month and I thought about it. And then I

00:46:01.380 finally was like, Hey, I better do this because I'm scared. I'm terrified. I'm going to get COVID

00:46:06.940 because the news is saying like, if you get it, you're going to die. Doctors are saying you're

00:46:13.040 going to get it. You're going to die because you're immune compromised. So they, they literally had me

00:46:17.760 scared and I got the vaccine April 23rd. And the very next day I started having reaction. It blared up

00:46:28.540 my arthritis and created, uh, more, more back issues than what I was dealing with before.

00:46:35.700 And did you, you landed up in the ER? Is that correct?

00:46:39.360 Yes. I ended up going to the ER, uh, twice and they say, said, well, there's no evidence that the

00:46:48.980 vaccine has done this. Uh, so we really can't help you basically.

00:46:55.360 Tell me what the follow-up's been like. You've, you've gone to a few different specialists,

00:47:01.120 you know, it's been a year. Tell me a little bit about what that's looked like.

00:47:06.740 The, the internalist, uh, was no help. Basically said there was no evidence that the vaccine is

00:47:14.340 doing this to you. Said that I need a neurologist and to see my rheumatologist. So I am still waiting

00:47:20.920 for a neurologist appointment. Haven't heard anything. And this was back in September when

00:47:28.380 she put the requisition in, but I've seen the rheumatologist now twice and they, she put me on

00:47:36.200 new medications that are helping to a point. And then just recently saw her again. And she recently

00:47:43.180 just put me on another medication to see if it'll help even more with the pain that's going on in my

00:47:49.280 body due to the vaccine and like my health issues before it does. The vaccine triggered it even more.

00:47:57.540 What was, I understand that the tone or the tune rather of your rheumatologist has changed since

00:48:05.300 the previous time you saw her. And then you saw her again, just a few days ago. Can you elaborate on

00:48:09.840 that? Yes. Back in October, again, there was no evidence that the vaccine has done this to you,

00:48:17.360 but since seeing me, she has also seen more patients like me come into her due to the vaccine,

00:48:25.960 which I had was Moderna. And, um, she's now agreeing that the vaccine has caused my issues

00:48:36.240 to be worse. And she's now getting the ball going and getting more imaging done for my back where 0.78

00:48:43.380 the pain won't go away. It's 24 seven. So she's while I'm still waiting for the neurologist appointment,

00:48:52.340 she's going to get things going. Now, how has this affected your daily life,

00:48:58.220 this pain and this inflammation that you, you deal with chronically?

00:49:02.880 I had to stop working. I cleaned houses and businesses for a living before,

00:49:08.360 which my body hurt after I was done, of course, because of my issues, but I still was able to

00:49:13.860 work. I wasn't completely crippled to where I can't, where now I can't work. I can't even do my

00:49:20.580 own dishes. I'm bent over the sink while doing dishes now to get them put in the dishwasher.

00:49:28.240 And then by the time I'm done that, I got to sit before I could even continue to do any other kind

00:49:33.700 of housework, you know? So I basically, it takes me a week just to clean my whole house doing fits

00:49:42.100 every day. You and your husband, you, he, so he chose, opted not to, and, and, you know,

00:49:50.360 correct me if you don't want to discuss this on camera. Um, but what's the difference there

00:49:55.460 health wise between the two of you, someone, you know, living in the same household, someone who

00:49:59.120 chose to, to get the first dose and someone who didn't. He's, he's fairly healthy. Like he's got

00:50:07.020 his blood pressure problems, but otherwise he's healthy and he was possibly going to get the vaccine.

00:50:14.460 But after I did and saw my reactions, it made him, no, I'm not doing this. And now that he's also

00:50:23.960 have had COVID three times, why get it when he has all the antibodies? You haven't had COVID. Is that,

00:50:31.060 do I remember that correctly? I did have COVID just recently. We both recently got over it a couple

00:50:37.020 weeks ago. We had it March, end of March, beginning of April. The first two times he had COVID, I didn't

00:50:44.520 get COVID. And that the second time was in August and I had my shot in April. So this was in August

00:50:54.440 when he had COVID. And then in October, we did our antibodies test. My antibodies test came back that I

00:50:59.960 had no antibodies, which I should have, if I had a vaccine. So I asked the doctor, I said, okay, when

00:51:08.880 we did our antibodies test, his came back that he had two strains. I, mine came back. I had nothing,

00:51:15.920 which why didn't I, if I had the shot? And she said, well, it leaves, it runs out or leaves your body

00:51:24.020 within three months. So then that would have been by August. I should have not been, the vaccine

00:51:31.540 should have been gone. So then I asked her, well, then why didn't I get COVID? Because then the

00:51:35.840 vaccine would have been out of my body. And I slept with my husband, like we shared everything in the

00:51:40.760 same house. I took care of him. And she's like, well, that's because you're vaccinated. Well, you just

00:51:46.000 finished telling me that by the time August comes around, I was no longer vaccinated, but yet I was

00:51:52.500 protected because I, the vaccine was in my body. Like you just turned your words around.

00:51:59.320 Like, it's really hard to follow some of this, this logic. It seems very illogical. Um, exactly.

00:52:05.940 What was, what was the main deciding factor for you not to get or to proceed with the second dose?

00:52:13.280 Because of all the pain, what's the second dose going to do to me? You know, the first one did this

00:52:19.480 to me, is it going to inflame my arthritis and everything, all the other issues going on inside

00:52:24.500 my body, even worse. And then also like when I got the shot two months later, I had my last monthly

00:52:36.500 and I'm thinking like, okay, well it must be due to the menopause I'm going through. So I just brushed

00:52:40.980 it off. But when I got COVID and nine months later, my monthly started and then it got worse and worse

00:52:50.100 and worse while I had COVID. And then it got better when I was better from COVID. So I had no period for

00:52:57.720 nine months. So it seems to be a lot of anecdotal discussions around that. And then when I did go to

00:53:05.360 a doctor about that issue, um, he did agree that the Moderna did do that to me.

00:53:12.560 But no one has formally documented this as a reaction and they won't give you any further

00:53:17.720 exemption for other doses? No. The one doctor I asked if I can even get disability, he just said

00:53:26.820 to me, no, because there's no evidence the vaccine did this to you. You basically have fibromyalgia.

00:53:31.340 So just deal with it. And then, and then he said, and then that's a rheumatologist appointment. So

00:53:36.520 talk to your rheumatologist and tell her what I said. So when I did tell her on Friday that he

00:53:42.060 basically told me to tell her that I have fibromyalgia and I have to just deal with it.

00:53:46.460 She got kind of mad and she was going to rate some kind of complaint. It must be on a forum that they,

00:53:52.420 they have and was going to put in a complaint about doctors sending patients to her,

00:53:58.340 just saying you have fibromyalgia, just deal with it. She said, no, there is fibromyalgia. She goes,

00:54:03.520 but I don't like to diagnose that because there is a route to what's going on. And we got to find

00:54:09.200 that. Interesting. Well, hopefully you can get very interesting as well. Yeah. Well, keep me posted.

00:54:17.240 Hopefully you can get to the bottom of, you know, whether or not she ends up documenting this and

00:54:21.600 maybe at that point you would be eligible to receive the government. There's a federal grant

00:54:26.460 program out now for vaccine injured. I just, have you heard anything on mainstream media? I understand

00:54:34.040 that you were a heavy consumer of mainstream media. Did you hear about any of these reactions

00:54:38.220 through the media or how did you find others? No, I didn't hear any of it on the media. It was all

00:54:44.960 through following all the live feeds from the convoy and then people commenting about their reactions

00:54:53.200 from the vaccine. And I relate to many of those people. We all are in the same situation.

00:55:02.020 We're all vaccine victims and it's a real thing. We're not people out there lying just to get

00:55:10.240 attention. This is real. And these doctors need to deal with it.

00:55:15.580 Do you have a message for the mainstream media who may be instilling this fear of COVID and

00:55:22.700 simultaneously not acknowledging that the injections are causing damage to some people?

00:55:30.540 Coming from someone who has been watching mainstream media, Global News, the one I've been

00:55:37.360 watching since I was little, which started out as ITV. Please start listening to us. Listening to the

00:55:46.560 ones who are hurting because we're in pain due to this vaccine. Everyone's still getting COVID even with

00:55:56.880 this vaccine. Whether you have it or not, we're all getting it. We got to live with it. Stop putting people through hell.

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Rebel News Podcast - April 21, 2022

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