Rebel News Podcast - Fair reporting on Wexit means hosting debates — and we're taking the deplatformers to court

00:00:00.000 tonight i'm back in alberta for a wexit forum and also to take on some bad guys

00:00:21.080 it's november 19th and this is the ezra levant show

00:00:24.660 why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer i know there's 8 500 customers

00:00:32.180 here and you won't give them an answer the only thing i have to say to the government

00:00:36.440 is because it's my bloody right to do so

00:00:40.400 don't worry i'm not hidden in some forest well it's a little bit of a forest i'm in edmonton

00:00:51.300 alberta tonight we have a forum we're calling it a wexit debate but it's more of a panel than a

00:00:58.320 debate about the future of alberta within canada what is that future is it as a province is it

00:01:05.100 to build the firewall as stephen harper and others used to say to take back rights within the existing

00:01:11.700 constitution much like quebec has done and jason kenny pledges to do is it to do something within

00:01:18.460 parliament like send a alberta version of the bloc quebecois to ottawa but really how's that much

00:01:25.140 different from what the conservative party is today relegated so much as it is to the west

00:01:30.880 is it to become an independent country is it to become some sort of affiliate with the united states

00:01:37.620 perhaps not an official state but maybe a territory or even something like oh i don't know guam

00:01:45.460 is with some trade relations we're going to have a panel i don't think anyone on the panel is

00:01:52.020 full tilt one way or the other it's going to be great we've got professor barry cooper from the

00:01:57.140 university of calgary lauren gunter and of course kian bexty and sheila gunreid from our alberta

00:02:01.700 contingent i'll be emceeing so that's why i'm in alberta tonight in edmonton and we'll be doing it again

00:02:07.860 in calgary tomorrow we'll be live streaming the whole thing on youtube if you can't make it and

00:02:14.680 are curious and i sent a note to my fellow panelists and i said the rebel i mean our hearts in the west

00:02:22.680 i'm originally a westerner i used to be the publisher of the western standard magazine my heart's there but

00:02:29.240 look i've been in toronto now for pretty much 10 years and my family's put down roots and that's just

00:02:35.380 me personally the rebel has many viewers in ontario around the country even in the united

00:02:42.500 states and around the world i mean for example our work on the tommy robinson matter has ensured that

00:02:47.140 we have a global audience so we are more than just a western rights news organization but that said

00:02:55.060 i think we're sympathetic to it not just because we have a geographical connection but because we have a

00:03:00.820 emotional and psychological and ideological connection to the hardest working most entrepreneurial

00:03:07.540 part of the country that's being treated rapaciously by justin trudeau and the bloc quebecois

00:03:14.020 so i think the way the rebel is going to position ourselves with regards to wexit

00:03:19.140 is we're going to be sympathetic to the underlying claims and we will provide a fair reportage of them

00:03:26.260 unlike most of the rest of the media we will be a house of debate where people can come and have a

00:03:32.820 conversation without being attacked immediately without being doxxed as the kids say without

00:03:38.500 being destroyed or de-platformed as the cbc or most toronto-based media would do so that's what's going on

00:03:46.180 tonight and i encourage you to tune in on youtube we'll be streaming it live and this broadcast will

00:03:53.940 actually happen after we do it so you can find it on our youtube page on our website also after you see

00:04:00.500 this if there's another reason i'm here or at least something else i'm doing while i'm in town

00:04:07.220 as soon as i'm done this i'm going down to the courthouse in edmonton where the alberta government

00:04:12.900 under jason kenny is fighting against other conservative groups who were wrongfully abused by lauren gibson

00:04:21.860 the newly defenestrated election commissioner just yesterday we learned that lauren gibson the man who

00:04:30.580 kept sending those private investigators and police to hound sheila gun reed over her book stop not 0.95

00:04:36.660 late lauren gibson who took us to court and she didn't even take us to court i wish he took us to

00:04:42.180 court he just pronounced us guilty for putting up some billboards and then when we appealed he i mean

00:04:48.340 he's just a bizarre partisan emotional man i call him emotional because look at this letter

00:04:55.460 he sent to sheila after investigating her for six months he said you're fine to go you're free to go 0.65

00:05:03.540 but you should do well to govern yourself according he says that you should be lucky

00:05:10.500 that we can only apply the law as it's written well yeah that's what the law is it's what is written

00:05:16.580 not what some you know little napoleon wishes it were what a bizarre man i'm so glad that he's gone

00:05:22.660 and i'm so unsurprised that the mainstream media is treating him like some sort of hero him like some

00:05:29.380 sort of victim like some sort of civil rights casualty rather than a destroyer of civil rights

00:05:35.060 including free speech freedom of expression treating the press freedom of association i should

00:05:39.780 tell you that even though lauren gibson is gone our legal matters that he set in motion remain

00:05:46.820 because the the uh condemnation of us the reprimand of us is on the books and we are still appealing

00:05:55.380 that in the courts and we're also challenging the constitutionality of the underlying law and here's

00:06:02.340 what's so crazy about it lauren gibson the great abuser of the law the abuser of his office he's gone now

00:06:10.180 but jason kenny's government is proceeding on his path they are blocking our constitutional

00:06:17.380 challenge to the law doug schweitzer the left-wing attorney general is sending his lawyers to join

00:06:24.420 the election commission's lawyers to fight against us and they're opposing our review of their bizarre

00:06:30.180 reprimand of us so gibson is gone but the people who take over whoever those bureaucrats are

00:06:38.180 they work for jason kenny now and they're continuing their fight against us i find the whole thing

00:06:42.020 very strange you can learn more about that fight at shave save excuse me save sheila.com but the actual

00:06:50.900 thing i'm going to the court today for i'm going to see there's a court battle involving lauren gibson 1.00

00:06:55.700 in the court today but i'm also going to meet up with our lawyers because i want to let you know

00:07:01.860 that as promised we have decided to fight back against deep platforming and you know what that

00:07:08.500 is right that's when you rent a theater in calgary and edmonton to have a book launch

00:07:14.420 you sign a contract you pay the money and the theater owner cancels on you because he is bullied

00:07:20.900 by a leftist mob that mob is very brazen and very bold they're i don't know maybe they're emboldened because

00:07:28.260 they feel like they're anonymous or they're at home on their computer on their cell phone so they

00:07:32.980 tweet a threat and they never think that they'll be you know come back to them well today it is my

00:07:37.300 friends without further ado let me show you a video it's about 10 minutes long that i'm going to release

00:07:44.260 to the world tomorrow so this is a sneak peek of our fight back i'll i'll tell you how it ends we have

00:07:54.820 sued a dozen people who induced the breach of contract we are starting the fight back

00:08:03.060 against deep platforming here here is the video that i recorded special sneak preview to you rs

00:08:09.060 levan show viewers this will go up on our youtube page tomorrow after this video i'll run an interview

00:08:16.340 i recorded yesterday with my friend joel pollack about the impeachment circus in washington dc and

00:08:22.260 i'll have more from you for you tomorrow from calgary so i'll say goodbye now next is the deep platform

00:08:31.780 informing video and finally joel pollack here you go i filed a lawsuit in edmonton this week

00:08:38.500 that might be of interest to you if you want to fight back against the new left-wing tactic called

00:08:44.820 deep platforming you know deep platforming is right it's when leftists who disagree with you get you

00:08:50.900 cancelled when they bully someone like a university or a public library into cancelling a speech from

00:08:57.540 someone they don't like it's happening more and more even the mayor of toronto tried to bully

00:09:02.740 the toronto public library into cancelling a speech by a women's rights activist the library

00:09:08.420 has its own policy with respect to when people should and should not be able to rent rooms on

00:09:13.540 their premises they have taken the decision in this case that this particular person should be

00:09:18.100 able to give their talk in a library building i don't think it's appropriate for politicians to

00:09:23.380 substitute their judgment for actually making these decisions because we have a duly appointed library

00:09:27.860 board and we have library management who oversee a written policy in this regard i simply indicated i was

00:09:33.300 disappointed in that decision my office asked the library to reconsider the decision it's happening

00:09:38.820 a lot and it happened to me last month i rented theaters to have book signings for my new best-selling

00:09:45.940 political book called the libranos i love those theaters i've gone to them for years i've done rebel

00:09:52.980 news events there before as you can see in these tweets from a couple years back we had sold out events

00:09:59.140 the staff said they were great everything was fine i love those places so i rented those same theaters

00:10:03.780 again in calgary and edmonton but this time a group of bullies swarmed the theater owner and threatened

00:10:11.860 him with dire consequences if he didn't breach his contract with us i tried to give him courage i talked

00:10:17.220 him on the phone i gave him a pep talk i hired private security at my own expense i made sure there

00:10:24.180 there were plenty of police there too but the owner caved into the mob when it came to the day of the

00:10:31.220 events he locked the doors on us and the staff hid inside with the lights off it was pitiful so i had to

00:10:38.020 give a speech outside the theaters and it was cold so we walked to a nearby pub in each city to finish the

00:10:43.300 book signing by the way in each city only a single protester actually showed up but look i'm not gonna be a

00:10:50.500 victim here i just refused to be i did nothing wrong they did something wrong we don't ban books

00:10:57.700 we don't do the equivalent of a book burning that's what canceling a book signing is like really we don't

00:11:04.340 do that in canada especially when i had a contract with the owner i paid him in full in advance he

00:11:10.260 actually hasn't even refunded that money yet so i sued i just filed a lawsuit against the theater owner

00:11:17.540 for breach of contract now that's pretty ordinary but i did something that i don't think has ever

00:11:22.660 been done before that i know of and that is i sued all the people who bullied the theater owner into

00:11:30.180 breaching the contract you can see some of their names here and some of the people we don't know their

00:11:36.500 names yet we've put them down for now as john doe but others we do know nancy lovell who is a professor

00:11:46.260 at the university of alberta jessica littlewood who used to be an ndp mla jim story he's an activist at

00:11:56.900 a left-wing pressure group called progress alberta and other names too we'll find out more names through

00:12:04.100 the discovery process of the lawsuit we'll get copies of the emails that pressured the theaters to

00:12:09.780 cancel we'll add those names to the lawsuit too we're suing these people for inducing the breach

00:12:16.740 of contract they knew we had a contract with the theater they helped cause the breach of the contract

00:12:21.940 and we suffered losses we lost thousands of dollars because of it that's against the law not just for

00:12:27.220 the theater owner but for those who bullied him that's what's new here we're not letting the mob go

00:12:33.700 we've identified members of the mob and we're suing them inducing breach of contract isn't a new kind

00:12:40.100 of a lawsuit it's often used for example of some talented entertainer as an exclusive contract with

00:12:46.580 one record company and another record label tries to get them to break that contract and switch over to

00:12:52.100 them usually it's a commercial dispute as far as i know this is the first time this law has been used

00:12:58.100 against people who induced the breach of contract just for censorship and bullying reasons i'd like

00:13:05.620 to invite you to read the whole lawsuit it's written in pretty plain english you don't need to be a lawyer

00:13:10.980 to understand it in addition to breach of contract there are some other things we're suing for including

00:13:16.340 defamation because they said atrocious things about us false things including believe it or not that i'm a

00:13:22.660 nazi even though i'm jewish we're using other grounds too including conspiracy and unlawful

00:13:28.340 interference the breach of contract cost us about twenty thousand dollars in direct cost

00:13:34.180 when they didn't let us in the theater so we're suing the theater owner and all these deep platformers 1.00

00:13:39.540 for that money and for defamation sorry you just can't publicly call me a nazi it's not true

00:13:46.180 by the way learn some history it was the nazis who were the book burners

00:13:50.900 we're also asking the court for aggravated damages if you have time i really recommend you read this

00:13:57.300 part of the lawsuit you can see the whole lawsuit at stop d platforming dot com this lawsuit was

00:14:04.580 written by our great free speech law firm in edmonton see this wasn't some commercial dispute like the

00:14:11.060 two record labels fighting over an entertainer the purpose here was censorship to infringe on our

00:14:18.260 country's political freedom freedom of the press the right to have a debate during an election campaign

00:14:23.700 the right to have a free exchange of ideas i think that's actually worse than just a quarrel over

00:14:28.580 money these de-platformers were interfering with the building blocks of our liberal democracy and in

00:14:34.740 the middle of an election no less sorry that stops now i want my money back for the theater rental and

00:14:41.300 for all the other money we wasted trying to fix this problem but it's not about 20 000 for those

00:14:46.580 costs or the other damages we're seeking that's not what it's about this is about letting the world

00:14:51.780 know you can't do this anymore not to me not to anyone i truly hope that anyone and everyone who is

00:14:59.460 unlawfully de-platformed sues not just the guy who rips up their contract but the bullies who pressed

00:15:06.740 that guy to do it the theater owner told me the threats against him were so bad he was literally

00:15:13.940 losing sleep over it don't you think someone has to tell those bullies they're wrong i really can't

00:15:19.700 believe we have a former politician and a professor on the list of people who just don't get it

00:15:25.940 but hopefully this court case will remind them of the importance of debate let me close on a sentimental

00:15:31.860 note you know when i was growing up especially when i was a student in university people who disagreed

00:15:36.740 with me well they ignored me or they debated me or they had their own events to rebut me i remember

00:15:43.860 university in the 90s being that way i loved it we all debated and heckled and argued but we were

00:15:48.980 actually sort of friends but this whole de-platforming cancel culture that's new and it's unhealthy for

00:15:54.980 the whole society it's bullying obviously and it's unfair but it actually stops us from talking to each

00:16:00.500 other as a country i mean it's unlikely that hardcore left-wingers and right-wingers would

00:16:06.100 suddenly change their minds by attending a debate with the other side but at least it would remind us

00:16:10.500 all that we're all citizens together we're all trying to resolve our differences peacefully and

00:16:16.820 hopefully through an exchange of ideas that's what university was like for me

00:16:22.340 the debating enforced some sort of mutual civility you know the concept of a public square

00:16:27.780 i don't know if you know this but my debating partner back in university of calgary was actually

00:16:32.980 naheed nenshi who's now the left-wing muslim mayor of calgary and i was a right-wing jew and we were

00:16:38.980 debating partners can you believe that that's what it used to be like before de-platforming

00:16:44.100 not anymore that's the worst part of cancel culture we don't even engage with each other anymore we don't

00:16:50.020 even try to convince our neighbors instead of friends arguing over politics for hours

00:16:55.540 we just unfriend people that's cancel culture i don't like it so we filed the lawsuit against these

00:17:04.740 bullies it's probably going to cost us a lot more to sue than anything we might win at trial

00:17:12.260 just to research the law here and put together this statement of claim cost us forty seven hundred dollars

00:17:18.420 already that's our first bill i've been through enough of these to know that a trial

00:17:24.100 where we're suing a dozen defendants is going to take at least a week in court and that and all the

00:17:29.780 preparation it's probably going to be a hundred thousand dollars to get through it obviously we're

00:17:35.220 not doing this to make money we're doing it to stop de-platforming in canada against us against

00:17:43.460 anyone against you maybe if you want to read this lawsuit for yourself go to stop de-platforming.com it's

00:17:51.140 right on there and if you think it's a good idea and if you want to help you can chip in right there

00:17:56.820 on the page to help us cover our costs ten bucks a hundred bucks whatever you can i tell you we need

00:18:01.460 the help and i'd be very grateful thanks go to stop de-platforming.com i think that maybe we can help

00:18:10.820 change the culture

00:18:23.860 and here's my interview yesterday with joe pollack

00:18:27.540 madam ambassador as you see it here before us very simply and directly do you have any information

00:18:34.580 regarding the president of the united states accepting any bribes

00:18:40.980 no do you have any information regarding any criminal activity that the president of the united

00:18:46.820 states has been involved with at all no that is a video clip from the interminable impeachment

00:18:57.460 proceedings that aren't actually impeachment proceedings i don't think against donald trump

00:19:02.500 that's a woman who was the ambassador to ukraine appointed if i'm not mistaken by barack obama a 0.99

00:19:09.300 holdover unlike obama trump didn't fire every single obama diplomat on his first day in office

00:19:16.020 something i think he probably regrets but like so many other witnesses at the so-called impeachment

00:19:21.700 hearing she doesn't actually have any first-hand information about any wrongdoing it seems to be

00:19:28.100 that she just really really disagreed with trump's point of view joining us now from the mean streets

00:19:34.660 of los angeles where we are actually joining him while he's driving stay safe my friend is joel pollack

00:19:41.220 senior editor at large of breitbart.com joel thanks for letting us grab you while you're

00:19:46.180 in uh an la commute um obviously i didn't watch a lot of this impeachment but i think it's because i

00:19:53.140 just didn't feel like there was anything there it was just all trading talking points i don't think

00:19:57.540 there was any witnesses who actually witnessed anything nobody has witnessed anything at all and in fact

00:20:06.580 the fact that ivanovich testified that she had no evidence to offer on bribery no evidence of any

00:20:12.340 other crime should have ended the hearing right there because according to the u.s constitution

00:20:16.420 you can only impeach the president for treason bribery or other high crimes misdemeanors so the president

00:20:21.380 hasn't done anything illegal hasn't taken a bribe and he hasn't done something else completely grotesque

00:20:27.300 there's no reason to have an impeachment inquiry the way that the ambassador lost her job 1.00

00:20:32.020 might seem unfortunate and she is a sympathetic person in that sense but it also doesn't belong

00:20:39.300 in an impeachment hearing that belongs in an oversight hearing so they're subjecting the country to this

00:20:44.420 entire boring as you put it detail intensive ordeal for no reason now that's not to say there was

00:20:52.820 nothing of value in her hearing it was very interesting to learn that she had been briefed by the obama

00:20:59.940 administration when they appointed her ambassador about the fact that hunter biden son of then vice

00:21:05.780 president joe biden was on a corporate board in ukraine the board of a gas company called burisma

00:21:13.220 she was briefed about it in case anybody in the senate asked her about it at her confirmation hearing

00:21:19.300 now as it happens nobody asked her about it nobody really even knew about it until last year when peter

00:21:25.060 schweitzer my colleague at breitbart wrote the book basically about how the bidens had enriched

00:21:29.940 themselves through government service but this was important enough for the obama administration to

00:21:36.580 try to head off any congressional inquiries that they briefed her on what she should say and what they

00:21:41.780 told her to say she testified last week was that they should refer all their inquiries to the vice

00:21:46.980 president's office well how convenient if they have a question about whether the vice president should be

00:21:52.660 dealing with ukraine while his son is on the board of a ukrainian company they should just ask the

00:21:58.020 vice president about that that's not a proper response i mean but basically we know that there

00:22:02.660 were queries to the vice president's office george kent testified also last week he's a bureaucrat in the

00:22:07.140 state department that he also had raised the issue with the vice president's office they told him

00:22:11.060 vice president biden is busy dealing with family emergency his other son beau biden who was a great

00:22:16.740 patriot served his country and so forth he was dying of a terrible brain cancer and everybody's

00:22:22.660 sympathetic toward that but it never was brought up again so queries about burisma and conflict of

00:22:28.100 interest joe biden which were clear as day to people who understood what was going on were never

00:22:33.140 addressed never resolved and we now know that the obama administration took extra steps to fend off

00:22:39.860 any inquiries about that conflict of interest so we did learn that from her the media don't understand

00:22:46.260 the details nobody has read all of the transcripts i have read or skimmed everything they've released

00:22:52.980 but i can tell you there are probably about 10 of us who've done it and while there are very good

00:22:58.900 staffers and so forth in congress to assist the members of congress on both sides i can tell you the

00:23:03.940 journalists aren't doing it i mean i can just tell by the questions they're asking the fact that they seem

00:23:08.660 completely ignorant about some of the details of other testimony we're handling this solely on the basis of the

00:23:15.300 democrats talking point adam schiff and the democrats have stole possession of these transcripts they

00:23:19.860 don't allow republicans to view them except one by one in the presence of a democratic staffer so that

00:23:25.220 they can't copy them and email them around or whatever so they have to go in and look at a

00:23:28.820 physical copy before they're released meanwhile the democrats and their staff have these transcripts

00:23:32.980 and they're able to pull out the quote they think are best they put it in a nice little package almost like a

00:23:38.020 legal brief and they release it to the media at the same time as the two or three hundred page transcripts

00:23:43.460 themselves nobody in the media is going to read the transcript they read what the democrats call

00:23:47.700 key excerpt of the transcript of course they leave out a lot of key information this week for example

00:23:52.820 we're going to hear from a guy named tim morrison who was a head honcho of sorts at the national

00:23:57.460 security council in the area of ukraine and european affairs and he actually said trump did nothing wrong

00:24:04.100 he was not concerned about anything that the trump administration had done that could be illegal or

00:24:08.180 whatever they leave that out of their key excerpt that they put all this other stuff about

00:24:13.780 giuliani and a computer server and all this nonsense means nothing they leave out the key

00:24:18.180 excerpt that the senior guy in the national security council on this issue and in the subject area said

00:24:23.540 he was never concerned that trump had done anything wrong he was not even concerned that trump had done

00:24:27.860 anything political he didn't interpret anything that happened in that way they leave that out of their

00:24:32.500 excerpt and republicans take several days to catch up because republicans have to read these transcripts

00:24:38.580 slowly and carefully and they have to do it after the democrats have already released their summaries

00:24:43.060 to the media so the media just repeat the democratic talking points and everybody debates those because

00:24:47.700 nobody's had time to read the entire thing yet and that's where we are with this whole thing so

00:24:52.100 you know we're dealing with a very difficult situation and yovanovitch is a sympathetic figure

00:24:57.780 she is a long-serving career civil servant she comes across well it's interesting though that she

00:25:03.940 professes ignorant about anything that democrats might have done wrong and professes concern about

00:25:09.940 anything the trump administration does that she doesn't like there's definitely a bias there she

00:25:13.860 calls herself apolitical i don't think anyone can believe that of her or any of these other witnesses

00:25:18.420 who are coming out i think that they are part of this inquiry for a reason i think that they could resist

00:25:23.700 this if they wanted to the fact that they're not doing it even even though they're being

00:25:27.460 subpoenaed i think they could resist those subpoenas i think this is an unlawful and

00:25:30.900 unconstitutional inquiry and anyway we'll see where it goes it's going to be an interesting week because

00:25:35.940 many of the witnesses are going to have more exculpatory information for the president that the

00:25:40.820 public hasn't seen and the media won't comment on because the media only comment on the talking

00:25:45.060 points but you're going to see some people start to draw these points out if you watch the hearings

00:25:49.380 you're going to see some of these witnesses testify about things that actually helped the president okay

00:25:54.580 so it's going to be interesting to watch well i got two questions for you the first is a legal

00:26:00.020 question i suppose it seems pretty clear to me that there's nothing here that will actually result

00:26:07.220 in the president being removed which is the fantasy of the uh democrats in denial those who refuse to

00:26:17.940 acknowledge the legitimacy the 2016 election they're just so desperate for some miracle some deus ex

00:26:25.380 machina as it would be called in uh theatrical terms they're so desperate for that i don't think

00:26:32.340 that's going to happen because there's nothing there but look we're we're less than a year away to the

00:26:37.700 elections anyways i don't even think hostile democrats in normal parts of the country would prefer to have

00:26:46.180 trump removed through the extreme mechanisms contemplated here they surely they would say

00:26:51.860 well let's just vote him out like i'm wondering well it's one and the same for them for them they

00:26:57.140 want trump to go into the re-election campaign with this specter of impeachment with this dark cloud

00:27:01.860 hanging over his head got it they also want to tarnish him as an impeached president as if he were

00:27:06.660 illegitimate from the beginning he never should have been elected they want to satisfy themselves and

00:27:11.380 they feel it's going to mobilize their base and it might it's also going to mobilize the republican

00:27:15.460 base in conservative district the real question are these swing district right mostly suburban

00:27:19.540 district where democrats are currently representing areas that voted for trump in 2016 and in those

00:27:26.580 districts the democrats are doing very poorly on impeachment and nancy pelosi is a very astute

00:27:32.260 politician but she climbed aboard this train and she cannot get off and it's become a big problem for

00:27:38.020 her republicans just today in fact went up with new advertising in these districts they're spending 0.99

00:27:44.100 seven million dollars a new ad targeting democrats who voted to authorize the impeachment inquiry so

00:27:50.260 i think you're going to see some negative consequences for some of those democrats that's going to affect

00:27:54.180 the process as it goes forward now in louisiana and virginia two states that uh i think should be pretty

00:28:01.540 trump friendly in state elections uh some of trump's hopes did not come true trump was rooting for the

00:28:11.220 governor in both states and if i'm not mistaken uh it was a democrat in both states and the democrats

00:28:17.220 took over the house and the senate on the state level in virginia you correct me if i'm wrong on my

00:28:21.460 facts you joel that has me worried as a trump supporter that in places like virginia and louisiana

00:28:27.700 one year out trump is having a setback should i be alarmed i don't think so well i think one should

00:28:34.580 always be vigilant but virginia is a lost cause hasn't voted republican in a very long time it's

00:28:40.660 deeply affected by trump's attack on the federal bureaucracy a lot of people who work in northern

00:28:45.300 virginia work for federal bureaucracy they work for the federal government they work for the cia they

00:28:50.500 work for the fbi and there are also a lot of changes in virginia they're demographic in nature a lot

00:28:56.180 of immigration that's making it a blue state basically so once upon a time we thought of

00:29:00.820 virginia as conservative no longer louisiana not a problem for trump the opinion polls show trump

00:29:06.260 with a massive approval rating the issue really there is the question of which candidate was going

00:29:11.060 to be better you had the democratic incumbent versus a republican who had gone very negative in

00:29:16.180 the primary and so some republicans stayed home because they didn't like him and this democrat by the

00:29:21.460 way is pro-life pro-second amendment so he's a conservative democrat one of the only pro-life

00:29:28.420 democrats left in the party and i think that's actually a signal to democrat that their presidential

00:29:33.700 candidates are far left and too far left to be elected if they want to win they need more governors

00:29:38.900 like bell edward in louisiana and fewer like andrew cuomo in new york well listen i appreciate you giving

00:29:45.780 us such thoughtful commentary as you're driving the streets of la and i say again i want you to be

00:29:50.500 safe if you had an accident because you were talking to us i know your hands free so that's great but let

00:29:55.300 me read to you something i saw today on my new favorite satirical website it's called the babylon b 0.80

00:30:03.620 it's a slightly conservative slightly christian a version of the onion it's just it's a ridiculous

00:30:09.540 absurdist site but look at this tweet it says in genius move trump supports impeachment forcing 0.52

00:30:18.180 democrats to oppose now obviously that's a fake story right but i gotta say the reason it's funny

00:30:25.060 is because it's so true whatever trump's for they're against whatever he's against they're for

00:30:29.700 and well go ahead there's something to that there's something to that because once the president is

00:30:34.820 impeached if he is impeached he has to have a trial in the senate or he may have a trial in the senate but

00:30:39.460 the senate has said they're going to take up the trial and mitch mcconnell said today that the

00:30:44.020 trial is going to run well into 2020 so what republicans who control the senate can do is they

00:30:49.860 can extend the procedure of the senate impeachment trial that means that senators who are running for

00:30:56.260 president including bernie sanders and elizabeth warren are going to have to stay in washington

00:31:01.700 because they are the jurors in a sense in the senate impeachment trial they have to take a second oath

00:31:07.060 and they are going to have to sit there quietly while this trial unfolds rather than going to

00:31:12.740 iowa going to new hampshire going to south carolina going to nevada so he's going to remove at least

00:31:18.500 two of the three leading presidential candidates from the campaign trail so what the babylon beast 0.99

00:31:23.860 said might actually come true that once democrats do the math and look at the calendar they might

00:31:28.580 realize this is not a very good idea if they want to win the white house 2020 isn't that funny listen

00:31:33.300 you've been very generous with your time although i guess you're trapped in a car i want to throw one

00:31:37.620 more thing at you since we're talking about light-hearted matters like the babylon b i i see some uh

00:31:44.340 some news about pete and i think i'm pronouncing right but a judge is that how you say his last name

00:31:48.820 the the mayor just call it mayor pete mayor pete yeah i'm i'm sorry i can't i see the name but i don't

00:31:54.500 hear pronounced a lot up here in canada and i see a poll in iowa that surprised me if i'm not mistaken

00:32:01.220 he's now polling first and and i see these awfully these cringy um cheerleaders for uh mayor pete i 0.99

00:32:12.740 just want to show our viewers a clip of what i mean

00:32:14.420 okay put aside that slightly cringeworthy cheer joel um does mayor pete the mayor of uh smallish

00:32:37.380 city um does he actually have a chance of winning and beating powerhouses like joel biden and uh

00:32:46.020 and uh sorry joe biden and uh bernie sanders and and other so-called first-tier candidates

00:32:53.540 the way to understand this is that pete buddha judge right now is leading the second tier of candidates

00:32:59.860 in national poll right now at the three-way race between joe biden elizabeth warren and bernie

00:33:05.380 sanders and pete buddha judge in the high single digit is leading the second wave now he's also

00:33:11.300 doing very well in iowa that's because he has poured everything into iowa all his volunteers

00:33:15.540 all his money he's got offices in new hampshire and other places as well but he's focusing on

00:33:19.540 iowa he's trying to repeat barack obama's 2008 strategy which is to shock the field in iowa and

00:33:25.300 then hope that that snowballs into higher polls elsewhere the problem he has is he has a very difficult

00:33:31.700 relationship with the black community he polls very poorly among african-americans partly because

00:33:36.980 he's openly gay and the african-american community tends to be more socially conservative than other

00:33:41.220 democrats but the other problem is he has tension in his hometown south bend that he theoretically

00:33:46.980 governs his tension there between his administration and the black community over police behavior in black

00:33:54.020 communities there there's also a lot of economic problems in south bend and this week or last week he

00:34:01.380 touted black support for what he calls the frederick douglas plan frederick douglas is a republican but

00:34:06.260 also very famous freed slave and abolitionist and he's touting his frederick douglas plan for black america

00:34:11.940 very good very good the only problem is that he faked the support of several people who woke up to

00:34:17.700 discover that even though they are committed for example to bernie sanders they now are listed as

00:34:21.940 supporters of pete buddha judge's frederick douglas plan and something like 40 of the people on the list

00:34:28.260 actually are white and not african-american and he used a stock photo in some sort of publicity email

00:34:35.540 about the frederick douglas plan a stock photo from kenya not of black americans but of black

00:34:43.540 africans and he's coming in for a lot of criticism there so he looks a little bit out of touch with

00:34:48.580 the black community joe biden is trouncing the field in south carolina where the black vote is

00:34:53.460 strongest in the early primary state so we'll see not impossible not impossible but he's got a long

00:34:58.660 way to go yeah the mayor of a city of a hundred thousand i mean i've heard of south band but i've

00:35:03.060 never been there um i don't know it's uh it seems like a long shot sings crazy but maybe you're right

00:35:10.020 he's the he's the tallest short guy uh is maybe the way to describe your guy well listen joe it's a

00:35:16.260 pleasure to catch up with you i think we should do this more often as long as you promise me that you're

00:35:20.580 driving safely first of all i think it's sort of cool to have your sunglasses on and having you

00:35:25.380 driving around i mean jerry seinfeld does that driving in cars with comedians thing and uh of

00:35:31.540 course uh you know it's why not if you're as long as you're watching the road maybe this is the way

00:35:38.260 for us to do it so we're not interrupting uh the rest of your work all right thanks my friend great to

00:35:43.940 see you take care okay there you have a joel pollack senior editor at large of brightbar.com we caught

00:35:48.500 him as he was driving the mean streets of los angeles stay with us we're ahead on the rebel

00:36:02.100 well that's the show for today uh please go to stopd platforming.com if you want to read our

00:36:07.300 lawsuit i'm pretty proud of the lawsuit i think it's the first time it's ever been tried and uh

00:36:12.500 we'll see you tomorrow if you're in calgary come to our event at the carriage house hotel there are

00:36:16.260 still some tickets left but not many the room only holds 500 and we'll probably sell out we've got a

00:36:21.700 few tickets left until then on behalf of all of us around the world and here in alberta good night

00:36:28.820 we'll see you tomorrow and keep fighting for freedom

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Rebel News Podcast - November 20, 2019

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