Rebel News Podcast - Globalist CEO latest to push the narrative that Albertans should shut up about Wexit

00:00:00.000 Hey, Rebels. In today's podcast, I take on some questions, some comments from Ed Sims,

00:00:05.920 the WestJet CEO who was taking on Wexit. And it reminds me of what I've observed about the

00:00:13.980 Brexit. And I talk a bit about Brexit and the Quebec experiment with separatism and even

00:00:18.880 Czechoslovakia. I hope you find it interesting. I think we can learn from those other separatist

00:00:23.920 movements for what to expect here in Canada. Can I invite you to become a premium subscriber?

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00:01:00.000 Tonight, a globalist CEO says Albertans should shut up about Wexit. They have nothing to complain

00:01:06.400 about. It's December 10th and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:09.700 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:15.520 There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:19.580 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody

00:01:24.460 right to do so.

00:01:25.460 Last month when we had our Wexit town halls in Edmonton and Calgary, great events by the way,

00:01:35.880 almost a thousand people came between the two events. Great questions and comments and it was

00:01:39.900 pretty snowy out there. So great turnout. Well, one of the things I said on the panels was that we

00:01:45.280 could all learn from how separatist movements have succeeded or not succeeded around the world.

00:01:51.880 The separation of the Czech Republic from Slovakia, used to be called Czechoslovakia,

00:01:58.580 was done in a shockingly quick time. I mean, depending on exactly how you measure,

00:02:04.240 it was really done in six months. Both sides had just sort of got tired of each other, I think.

00:02:10.880 They had different political parties in their parliament already representing different regions.

00:02:14.680 There were definitely some economic issues, almost like our Canadian equalization issues,

00:02:19.920 but actually not even as dramatic as the difference between, say, Alberta and Quebec.

00:02:24.140 But really, I think they just wanted out. And part of it was that the Berlin Wall had just come down

00:02:29.200 and the idea of dissolving artificial national boundaries was normalized. And they just did it.

00:02:36.640 Fast, not really acrimonious. My cursory research suggests it was done very quickly,

00:02:43.060 almost presented as a fait accompli. In fact, I don't know if it could honestly be said to have

00:02:49.340 been done fully democratically approved. It was just, it was sort of shotgun, but it happened.

00:02:55.620 Now, compare that to Quebec separatism, the opposite in so many ways. I mean,

00:02:59.000 seriously, it's been almost 50 years since the FLQ crisis alone. That was an actual terrorist group,

00:03:05.460 Front de Liberation du Québec, that planted bombs, kidnapped people. They even committed murder.

00:03:13.460 It's hard to imagine. The whole place was put under martial law by Pierre Trudeau. That's when he said,

00:03:18.320 just watch me, you know. Well, Quebec is still part of Canada. And so you'd think it was a failure,

00:03:25.240 but really by every other measure, the FLQ and the legal Parti Québécois and the federal Bloc Québécois.

00:03:32.360 By the way, today, in 2019, they're still the third largest party in our parliament.

00:03:38.920 By any other measure, you must say the Quebec separatist movement is a roaring success. Sure,

00:03:44.880 they're still part of Canada, but they only get the good parts, I think. Massive recipients of

00:03:50.500 equalization. I mean, Quebec's provincial government has a multi-billion dollar surplus,

00:03:55.920 while Alberta is in a multi-billion dollar deficit. But Alberta still sends them equalization money.

00:04:01.640 I mean, riddle me that one. Quebec has a guaranteed one-third of the seats on the Supreme Court,

00:04:07.440 even though they have less than 25% of the population. Quebec has control over everything 0.50

00:04:12.000 from their own provincial police force, to their own immigration policy, to their own pension fund.

00:04:18.080 I mean, they're even bringing in anti-hijab laws, and no one in Ottawa dares question it. They have this 0.97

00:04:25.200 Teflon on them. It really is like a divorce from Canada, but with bedroom privileges, as many have

00:04:32.760 called it. So yeah, probably more successful than if they actually were to separate and become an

00:04:38.400 economically weak ethnostate, sort of like the Greece of North America. Quebec's got it all figured out.

00:04:44.960 Well, what's to learn from Quebec? For a Wexiteer? Well, Quebec got so many things because they had an

00:04:53.160 or else. There was always a threat of separatism that was more terrifying to the rest of Canada

00:04:59.120 than actual separatism probably would have been. I despise the FLQ terrorists, and I am utterly

00:05:05.480 against them in any way. But I think it worked. I think it was all a dance, actually, where one

00:05:12.100 Quebecer in Quebec City would play fight with another Quebecer in Ottawa, the Prime Minister,

00:05:19.000 to decide how much payoff was to be paid to Quebec. I mean, right there, out of the past 50 years or so,

00:05:25.520 there's been a non-Quebec Prime Minister for what? Like, if my math is right, 14 years out of the last 50?

00:05:33.580 But the comparison I'd like to make now is that of Brexit. Everyone was against Brexit. The media,

00:05:41.020 the pollsters, the pundits, big business, the globalists, fancy people, all the political parties,

00:05:45.520 including the Conservative Party, which actually called the Brexit referendum because they assumed

00:05:49.940 it would fail, and then people like Nigel Farage would finally shut up about it. Everyone was against

00:05:54.860 it except the people and the amazing Nigel Farage. You have the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance

00:06:01.660 of a low-grade bank clerk. And the question that I want to ask, the question that I want to ask,

00:06:08.040 that we're all going to ask, is who are you? I'd never heard of you. Nobody in Europe had ever heard

00:06:14.760 of you. I would like to ask you, President, who voted for you? And what mechanism? Oh, I know democracy

00:06:24.620 is not popular with you lot. And what mechanism to the peoples of Europe have to remove you?

00:06:30.720 Mr. President. Is this European democracy? Well, I sense, though, that you're competent

00:06:37.220 and capable and dangerous. And I have no doubt that it's your intention to be the quiet assassin

00:06:43.060 of European democracy and of the European nation-states. You appear to have a loathing

00:06:48.960 for the very concept of the existence of nation-states. Perhaps that's because you come from

00:06:54.720 Belgium, which, of course, is pretty much a non-country. So Brexit was won by the leavers

00:07:00.920 over the remainers. But, of course, that was in 2016. It was even before Trump won. And here we are

00:07:06.900 almost 2020. And the UK is still not out of the European Union because the remainers simply refuse to

00:07:13.460 abide by the democratic results. So they stalled by any means, legal or illegal. Parliamentary,

00:07:18.960 means, judicial means, excuse after excuse. I think they'll finally be out when Boris Johnson

00:07:24.540 wins the UK election, as it seems he's set to do. But it almost wasn't so. And certainly until these

00:07:31.100 very final moments, the establishment is cooking up ways to stay. And I bet they're still going to

00:07:35.680 try even if Boris Johnson wins. The Remain side actually named their strategy Project Fear

00:07:41.480 to terrify Brits into voting to remain. It failed. They said there would be mass layoffs. They would

00:07:48.480 trade. No one would want to trade with the UK, the essential trading nation. That was the dumbest

00:07:52.860 thing I ever heard until the British Sandwich Association said, I'm not even making this up, 0.97

00:07:59.600 that if Brexit were to pass, there just wouldn't be any tasty sandwiches in the UK anymore.

00:08:04.760 But certainly there would be serious problems in terms of some of the fresh ingredients we bring

00:08:09.800 in from the European Union and also from overseas, particularly if we have problems at ports

00:08:15.520 and we can't get ingredients through because they're all fresh and don't have a very long shelf

00:08:21.720 life. And we've got no chance to stop piling fresh ingredients. So I think the answer from the

00:08:27.420 sandwich industry is going to be that it's going to limit the amount of choice that consumers have if

00:08:31.520 we suddenly crash out of Brexit in the way that it's being talked about.

00:08:35.980 Imagine saying that with a straight face. That's when I ripped up my lifetime membership in the British

00:08:40.760 Sandwich Association right on the spot, by the way. My point is, learn from these other places.

00:08:46.380 Learn from Czechoslovakia. Learn from Quebec. Learn from Brexit. If there were a genuine Brexit

00:08:51.520 movement in Alberta, what would it face? It would face Project Fear times 100, I think.

00:08:58.100 It would face everyone lying about what a tough time Alberta would have on its own.

00:09:02.420 There would be no appeasement as there was for Quebec. 0.98

00:09:04.420 It would be lies and smears and attacks and meddling. Make no mistake about it.

00:09:09.960 Which brings me to today's news. A story in the Financial Post. It doesn't cite anyone. All of it's

00:09:16.300 off the record. No one's quoted. It's all rumors. But they ran it anyways. They claim that a high-tech

00:09:22.140 company called Watchpad, I'd never heard of it, chose to locate in Halifax instead of in Calgary

00:09:27.780 because of the threat of Wexit, which, by the way, is a Facebook page right now. I'm serious.

00:09:33.660 Someone told someone who told someone. And so there you have it, guys. You see what your

00:09:37.960 Wexit talk is doing? Uh, Wattpad isn't coming to town. That would have revolutionized Alberta's

00:09:43.120 economy. Let me read from the Financial Post gossip column. That company was Toronto-based

00:09:49.140 Wattpad, a tech firm with fewer than 200 employees that hosts user-generated fiction. Sounds like a

00:09:56.240 moneymaker. The platform has over 80 million monthly users, according to a source familiar with

00:10:01.640 negotiations but not authorized to speak publicly. The firm outlined its concerns in a written

00:10:06.340 statement sent to CED. That's Calgary Economic Development. Earlier this year, Wattpad issued a

00:10:11.680 request for proposals to cities interested in housing its second headquarters. Oh, boy. Calgary,

00:10:17.820 you missed out on it. There's less than 200 workers there, and they got this cool blog where

00:10:22.220 people can write fiction. I mean, that would have transformed your Alberta economy.

00:10:25.620 Yeah. I don't know. And it sounds like the Financial Post doesn't know either. But that's

00:10:31.380 the narrative. It's Project Fear. Come on, guys. You didn't get a few jobs of a fiction website

00:10:37.500 company. Shame on you. And that totally outweighs the, you know, 200,000 six-figure oil and gas jobs

00:10:44.720 that were lost in the oil past. Come on, Alberta. You could have had some cool jobs coding for fiction 0.97

00:10:50.440 blogs. Give up your oil and gas obsession. Leave it in the ground and get with the Trudeau program.

00:10:55.620 Learn how to code. Well, here's WestJet's CEO to say the same thing, really. WestJet's CEO on Wexit,

00:11:06.660 I won't tolerate that kind of language. WestJet's CEO, Ed Sims, said talk of Alberta separating from

00:11:12.460 Canada runs counter to the economic interests of both the Calgary-based airline he leads and the

00:11:17.360 province as a whole. You know, Ed Sims really is the president of WestJet, so I guess he

00:11:24.560 finally lives in Canada now. But he really is a globalist of the first order. He's lived and

00:11:29.980 worked around the world wherever the headhunters sent him next. He's got that great British accent

00:11:34.640 that I've learned to love from my trips over there. He lived in the UK. Then he lived and worked in New

00:11:40.460 Zealand for a bit. Then he switched companies down there. Now he's up here in Canada for a bit. Who

00:11:45.160 knows where he'll go next? He's that globalist, CEO, borders mean nothing to him, gazillionaire. He's

00:11:51.980 exactly the kind of guy who would be a Brexit remainer, remainer. And so don't be surprised

00:11:57.040 that he's rolling out Project Fear here too. And he's lecturing Albertans about what they can

00:12:01.780 and can't say about their lot in life. He's doing just fine, Jack. Multimillionaire. He was lured here.

00:12:09.340 Big paycheck, big bonuses. Don't you unemployed oil men speak up about your lot. You might upset his

00:12:16.900 sweet, sweet gig. Let me quote again. I won't tolerate that kind of language, Sims said when

00:12:22.180 asked in an interview for his thoughts on Wexit, the movement that promotes an independent Alberta,

00:12:26.480 and that has come into the spotlight in the aftermath of the recent federal election.

00:12:29.780 Okay, got it. So guy moves to Canada two years ago. So I guess he's not a citizen yet, right?

00:12:36.340 But he's got some stern instructions for citizens.

00:12:39.180 Having come from the UK, I've seen three years of total economic paralysis and stagnation

00:12:45.180 caused by Brexit, Sims added. I don't envy our UK colleagues trying to deal with attracting people

00:12:50.860 to a UK that feels very divided. And there's no reason for Alberta to feel divided from the rest

00:12:55.660 of Canada. Oh, shut up, you prat. First of all, he's lying about the UK, or at least uninformed. I'm not 1.00

00:13:02.300 sure which. The UK actually has the strongest economy in the European Union. He's lying when he says it's

00:13:08.120 being rough. How would he even know? He's been in New Zealand for a decade. And hey, he just came

00:13:13.940 to Canada to run an airline, so maybe he didn't bother to learn about Canada and the Energy East

00:13:19.980 Pipeline being cancelled, and the Northern Gateway Pipeline being cancelled, and the Trans Mountain

00:13:23.840 Pipeline being delayed or cancelled, or the carbon tax or any of that because it all happened before

00:13:28.460 he came here, or when he was busy running the airline and not running his mouth. If we are not careful,

00:13:34.140 we will start using the language of a depression rather than a recession, he said. I worry because we,

00:13:39.640 WestJet, are a Canadian operation headquartered here. Hey, you unemployed oil men down there. Stop

00:13:46.100 talking about your situation because you see, according to this guy, your talk is why Alberta's in a 0.97

00:13:52.920 recession. Because you're talking about it? Because you're unhappy with your lot in life? You're unhappy

00:13:58.620 with the carbon tax? You're unhappy with the blockade on the pipelines? Take it from this Brit 1.00

00:14:03.100 who followed the cash to New Zealand and now is ringing the bell here in Canada with WestJet,

00:14:08.760 but he has his eyes on the main chance wherever it is he's going to go next. So in the meantime,

00:14:13.140 can you please shut up, you guys? I mean, you heard the man, I won't tolerate that kind of language. 0.89

00:14:19.060 Yeah, mate, I don't know how it is, where you come from. I don't even know where that is anymore,

00:14:24.320 and maybe you don't either. But here in Canada, foreigners don't usually tell Canadians to shut

00:14:30.480 up. Of course, there is one more possibility. Maybe this Ed Sims is secretly working for

00:14:38.240 Wexit. Because like Project Fear and that idiot from the Sandwich Association, nothing will push 1.00

00:14:47.180 people towards separatism like a condescending blowhard, telling the little people to shut up. 1.00

00:14:55.820 Stay with us for more.

00:15:08.340 Professor Carlin, you gave $1,000 to Elizabeth Warren, right?

00:15:14.020 I believe so.

00:15:14.820 You gave $1,200 to Barack Obama?

00:15:18.760 I have no reason to question that.

00:15:20.640 And you gave $2,000 to Hillary Clinton?

00:15:22.980 That's correct.

00:15:23.820 Why so much more for Hillary than the other two? 1.00

00:15:26.040 Because I've been giving a lot of money to charity recently because of all of the poor

00:15:29.620 people in the United States.

00:15:30.760 You can't wait for calmer times. The time for you is now. And I would say that what Trumbull

00:15:39.760 said has even more bearing today. Because I believe that this is much like the Johnson

00:15:45.580 impeachment. It's manufactured until you build a record. I'm not saying you can't build a

00:15:51.260 record. But you can't do it like this. And you can't impeach a president like this.

00:15:55.660 Kings could do no wrong because the king's word was law. And contrary to what President

00:16:01.180 Trump has said, Article 2 does not give him the power to do anything he wants. And I'll

00:16:05.560 just give you one example that shows you the difference between him and a king, which is

00:16:10.400 the Constitution says there can be no titles of nobility. So while the president can name

00:16:15.160 his son baron, he can't make him a baron.

00:16:18.100 Well, those are short clips from the impeachment circus in Washington, D.C. They're all entertaining.

00:16:27.080 The whole story is so complicated. I think that most Americans simply aren't following it. I have

00:16:33.740 some proof. Look at this. It is the Google search trends for two different words. One is

00:16:41.100 impeachment. And the other is Peloton. What is Peloton, you might ask? Well, it's sort of like

00:16:48.280 a home exercise bike that's connected to the webcam and the internet. There was a slightly quirky

00:16:55.520 Peloton internet ad that got the whole country talking. My point is people are not watching the

00:17:04.860 circus, but the circus continues. Joining us now via Skype from Breitbart World Headquarters

00:17:12.300 is our friend Joel Pollack, the senior editor at large down there. Joel, you have been following

00:17:18.060 this meticulously. I think you're one of maybe, maybe 50, probably 20 people in the whole country

00:17:24.960 that's actually going through this meticulously.

00:17:27.700 My point about the Peloton versus impeachment is that I don't think this has gripped the

00:17:35.480 nation in the way that, say, Bill Clinton's impeachment did a couple of decades ago.

00:17:41.840 Well, your point about the Peloton is actually interesting because I missed all of the initial

00:17:47.560 excitement over the Peloton ad. By the way, if you've ever seen these bikes, they're pretty

00:17:52.140 intense. I actually was on an elliptical machine during the Houston Democratic debate a few

00:17:58.560 hours before, and there was a guy next to me on a Peloton. That Peloton is pretty serious.

00:18:02.560 Anyway, the Peloton ad is actually completely unobjectionable. There's nothing wrong with it,

00:18:09.940 except that at one point, the wife in the ad, who is getting the Peloton as a Christmas present,

00:18:17.460 is looking back at the camera, and she has sort of a look on her face, that critics, particularly,

00:18:26.880 I guess, those of the feminist persuasion, interpreted as almost a cry for help or some 0.74

00:18:34.740 kind of disingenuous glance as if to say, thank you, husband, for giving me the ability to shape

00:18:43.380 my body to suit your whims. But in other words, the criticism was based on interpretations of an

00:18:49.200 expression.

00:18:50.080 Oh, yeah. I thought it was a very quirky ad. I didn't find it. I had to study it twice to see

00:18:55.700 what the offense was. I think in that way, the ad was a huge success. It got everyone talking about

00:18:59.620 the Peloton.

00:19:00.840 Right, right. So the impeachment is pretty much like that Peloton ad because there's nothing actually

00:19:07.500 wrong with what Trump did. But the Democrats are interpreting a kind of inflection in their own

00:19:14.060 imaginations in what Trump might have said to the Ukrainian president or might have suggested,

00:19:20.660 you know, implicitly with some kind of signal that there was something amiss.

00:19:26.360 You know, that's a great, I didn't make the connection, but you're so right. I mean,

00:19:29.780 I watched the ad and I thought, well, there's nothing wrong here. And that's what the impeachment is.

00:19:33.540 You've got to have some intuition that something's wrong because there's nothing more than that.

00:19:39.080 Well, not even intuition. You've almost got to be kind of coached to see it. I mean,

00:19:43.600 I can tell you that when my wife encouraged me to go to the gym, I had an experience like that woman

00:19:50.000 in the ad. You know, it changed my life. I mean, you know, I don't stand before you here as a

00:19:57.680 quivering mass of muscle, but I definitely feel healthier than I was before. So, you know,

00:20:03.080 it's something nice to do for your spouse. I don't see anything wrong with it. I don't see

00:20:07.740 anything particularly gendered about it because my wife was the one going to the gym and, you know, 1.00

00:20:12.300 I was not. So, you know, I didn't see anything objectionable about it and something one spouse

00:20:17.740 should do. Now, of course, they're all interpreting this woman's expression as somehow an indictment of

00:20:23.500 the husband. And in the same way, Adam Schiff used that whistleblower complaint, not the transcript

00:20:28.880 of the conversation, but used the whistleblower complaint to launch this investigation. Of course,

00:20:33.320 Trump released the transcript and that wasn't really part of the plan. They didn't expect him

00:20:39.140 to do that because they figured from the whistleblower complaint that whatever Trump said must have been

00:20:42.880 terribly damning. And so they were primed to interpret what Trump said in the worst possible

00:20:48.040 light. But of course, Trump didn't say anything damning or illegal. In fact, Trump was doing his job.

00:20:52.000 And so when they introduced this issue into the House Intelligence Committee,

00:20:56.940 Adam Schiff gave a dramatic reading to the transcript. He basically invented words, invented

00:21:01.860 things, sort of a mob dialogue that simply wasn't there. So in a way, the Peloton ad is exactly right.

00:21:09.600 And you said it's complicated. It's actually not complicated at all, except Democrats have made

00:21:13.800 it complicated. You know, if this were simple, they wouldn't have to make it complicated. If the

00:21:18.660 president had done something wrong, it'd be very clear. And you'd have no disagreement from

00:21:23.320 Republicans. There are plenty of never Trumpers in the Senate, especially who would love to impeach

00:21:29.400 the president and pretend the last three years never happened. They want to keep all the judges

00:21:33.520 and they want to keep the low taxes and they want to keep the economy and so forth. But they don't want

00:21:39.580 to acknowledge that he did anything, especially the Mitt Romneys of the world. They can't stand that

00:21:43.560 this guy, won what they couldn't win and did what they promised to do, but probably wouldn't have.

00:21:49.160 And so they want him out of the way. But the Democrats gave these never Trump Republicans

00:21:54.960 nothing to work with. There's no case. Basically, the first article of impeachment, which Democrats

00:21:59.520 released Tuesday morning, alleges that he abused his power, get this, by asking a foreign government

00:22:07.100 to help us with an investigation that the Democrats' own witnesses said was probably necessary.

00:22:14.480 Now, they didn't like the fact that Trump was the one asking for it. They said it should have gone

00:22:18.640 through, you know, the department or whatever, but it wasn't illegal to ask for it. So they're going

00:22:23.140 to impeach him because they say he abused his power because Joe Biden happened to be a political

00:22:27.780 opponent. There is no immunity, as Trump learned, against investigations if you happen to be running

00:22:33.600 for election. Trump got investigated for alleged ties to Russia, which he didn't have. Joe Biden

00:22:38.640 actually has ties to Ukraine. So there's that. Article two is that Trump obstructed Congress.

00:22:46.000 Now, this is a bogus charge. In fact, both charges are bogus. They picked the two articles of impeachment

00:22:51.240 that Cass Sunstein, Obama's, one of Obama's White House advisors, you know, Cass Sunstein's a liberal,

00:22:56.980 married to Samantha Power, very left-wing guy. He came out with a book called Impeachment,

00:23:02.800 A Citizen's Guide, in 2017, when all of the liberals, all the people on the left,

00:23:07.340 they were really interested in impeaching Trump for whatever reason they could find.

00:23:11.020 And Cass Sunstein, even in that feverish atmosphere, wrote in that book that abuse of power

00:23:15.960 and obstructing Congress are not valid reasons to impeach the president because every president

00:23:22.200 has abused the power by definition, has abused their power because every president gets sued for

00:23:26.700 overstepping the bounds of their authority. And, you know, it's very hard to find grotesque abuses of

00:23:31.060 power. But unless you've got some other crime that it's linked to, you can't just impeach a

00:23:35.600 president for abuse of power. It's a term of art, really. It's not really anything impeachable.

00:23:39.080 It's certainly not in the Constitution. And then obstructing Congress is not impeachable

00:23:43.080 because otherwise Congress could just come up with any farcical investigation and then impeach

00:23:49.480 the president for refusing to cooperate with it. So they chose to introduce an article of impeachment

00:23:55.680 on obstruction of Congress, basically saying President Trump should be impeached for asking

00:24:00.800 the courts to do what the courts are supposed to do, which is to adjudicate disputes over document

00:24:05.260 and witness production between the executive branch and the judicial branch and the legislative

00:24:09.820 branch. It's ridiculous. 0.98

00:24:10.700 And your American system, even better than ours, checks and balances the president is supposed to. 0.61

00:24:17.700 The Constitution counts on him to push back at Congress and vice versa and the judiciary.

00:24:23.680 These are branches of... I mean, it's the balance of power. We don't have that in Canada where our

00:24:29.820 parliaments, like the executive and the legislature are combined. I wish we had the ability for

00:24:38.600 Congress or our parliament to fight with the executive and vice versa, but they can't. I don't know.

00:24:44.240 It sounds pretty weak to me, but you make a good point. If you have such a complicated accusation,

00:24:50.260 it's probably to hide the fact that you don't have a simple accusation.

00:24:55.240 Right.

00:24:55.900 When Richard Nixon...

00:24:57.400 It would take so many words to explain a very simple accusation. That's why Democrats wanted to charge

00:25:03.600 Trump with bribery, because the public understands bribery.

00:25:06.580 Right.

00:25:06.940 There's only one problem. It wasn't any bribery.

00:25:09.760 Right.

00:25:10.480 One witness after another was asked, did you see a bribe? Did you know about any bribe? They all said no.

00:25:16.160 Yeah.

00:25:16.940 And after going through these Intelligence Committee hearings, there was just no evidence

00:25:21.360 of bribery. So Democrats dropped that in their articles of impeachment. So yeah, bribery is simple,

00:25:27.360 but probably there was no evidence.

00:25:28.980 Yeah. I mean, everyone could understand, okay, Richard Nixon approved breaking into the Democrats'

00:25:36.780 campaign office, if that's what Watergate was, I think. I mean, that's pretty clear to understand.

00:25:41.480 But Trump was just his blustery self on a phone call. I don't know. Let me ask you how it's

00:25:48.820 playing out, because I know that the edgy wing of the Democrats, the squad, they were all very

00:25:57.140 bullish on this Tom Steyer, just dumping buckets of cash. But Nancy Pelosi was sort of hesitant.

00:26:04.280 They're all locked in this now. Do they regret it? Is this backfiring on them? I see polls from

00:26:10.600 across America suggesting that Trump and the Republicans are pulling ahead, and that maybe 0.94

00:26:16.700 grassroots Americans are saying, this is ridiculous. This is a setup. We're less than a year away from 0.91

00:26:22.140 the election. Stop these games. Am I misinterpreting? Am I cherry picking my information?

00:26:28.980 Well, let me put it this way. I think Pelosi was forced into the impeachment by the left wing of her

00:26:35.560 party. And I also think she was forced into making a decision on the US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement

00:26:43.460 by Trump, because Trump repeated over and over again that the Democrats were failing to move ahead

00:26:50.220 on things that are important to Americans, like the USMCA, because they were busy with impeachment.

00:26:55.220 So it was a win-win for Trump, right? Because if Pelosi didn't pass the USMCA, he could blame her for

00:27:00.680 focusing on impeachment. And if she did pass the USMCA, which looks likely now, he could say he

00:27:05.520 achieved this major rewriting of NAFTA, one of his core election promises, something the unions have

00:27:10.940 wanted. I mean, the AFL-CIO is endorsing it now. And that's the Democratic core. I mean, that's their

00:27:17.360 turnout machine. So win-win for Trump. And I think Pelosi essentially had to stay in the impeachment

00:27:24.820 fight to stay on top of her caucus, because the left was really advancing and gaining in strength and 1.00

00:27:30.500 power. And she, I think, successfully bargained for time and for additional power by giving the left 0.99

00:27:36.720 what they wanted. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been relatively quiet since the impeachment started.

00:27:42.800 And in that sense, I think Nancy Pelosi scored a victory here because she was able to defang one of

00:27:50.120 her most important rivals and bring her into the tent. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is causing far fewer 1.00

00:27:57.560 problems for everybody, including Pelosi, but also Trump, since this impeachment started. So in a way,

00:28:04.640 Pelosi did what she had to do politically and is now the beneficiary of this process. Although I think

00:28:09.880 in the long run, this is possibly going to take the gavel out of her hands. I think the Trump supporters

00:28:16.280 are so angry about this and independent voters are so angry about it that Democrats have now placed

00:28:22.320 their control of Congress in jeopardy. Oh, and by the way, it's a census here next year. So if Democrats

00:28:27.660 get swept at the polls next year, Republicans will largely be in control of redrawing the

00:28:32.900 congressional districts if the Republican voters also show up for state legislative elections. So

00:28:39.400 let's just put it this way. Nancy Pelosi is making decisions under duress. They happen to be clever 1.00

00:28:46.740 decisions because she's a very canny politician. But her strategy, as opposed to her momentary tactics, 1.00

00:28:53.160 her overall strategy is a dead end. She has no way of getting out of this. Trump and the left have

00:28:59.580 boxed Pelosi in, which does not bode well for the future of her leadership. Now, I've underestimated her

00:29:04.280 before, so I want to be careful before pronouncing any sort of end to her political career. But

00:29:09.020 I don't see how she and the other members of the Democratic establishment, Adam Schiff,

00:29:14.060 Jerry Nadler, I don't see how they last much longer after this impeachment. They are going to lose power

00:29:19.340 in the next Congress, whether Democrats hold the gavel or not. Interesting. I got one last question

00:29:24.660 for you. I appreciate your time. You and I have been talking about Kamala Harris, the California senator

00:29:31.380 who we both thought had the winning combination, but she bowed out in recent days. And the new entrant,

00:29:40.600 Mike Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, he's jumped in with a shocking amount of money. He

00:29:51.540 is spending $20 million per week in ads. I mean, if he keeps that up, he'll be at a billion dollars.

00:30:00.380 That's his own personal wealth. The guy's worth more than $50 billion. He's in his 70s,

00:30:05.260 so I guess he's thinking, what else do I got to spend it on? Harris is out. Bloomberg, I think he's

00:30:13.100 unacceptable and unpalatable to most of America. But if you're willing to spend a billion dollars of your

00:30:18.900 own money, more than every other opponent combined, do you think he's actually got a shot of things?

00:30:24.920 No. Bloomberg has no shot. And that's for a variety of reasons. But one of those reasons is

00:30:34.140 that I don't think Democrats look to him for leadership in what's called the moderate lane

00:30:41.760 of the party now. And now, you know, Bloomberg's now moderate, even though he's all in on climate

00:30:46.140 change and so forth. The decline of Joe Biden's fortunes does not automatically benefit the other

00:30:54.980 moderate candidates. What it means, basically, is that the party establishment is shoved out of the

00:31:01.300 way. So actually, it may create more room for candidates on the left. And if there's to be any

00:31:07.180 sort of moderate candidate who benefits, it's likely to be South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg,

00:31:12.320 who's rising in the polls, not Michael Bloomberg, age 77, 40 years older than Pete Buttigieg. I mean,

00:31:18.840 Democrats have always gone for younger candidates, but Buttigieg is also just more exciting.

00:31:23.220 He's also going to be the first serious gay presidential nominee if he wins the nomination.

00:31:29.160 Now, Bloomberg would be the first Jewish nominee. So there's kind of, you know, historical significance

00:31:33.580 in that. But I just think his age, in a sense, disqualifies him. And he is not, and has never been,

00:31:39.840 actually, a leading ideological voice within the Democratic Party. He's also a former Republican.

00:31:45.460 So all of this basically makes life much harder for Bloomberg. Biden's decline doesn't mean

00:31:50.700 Bloomberg's gain. If I were one of Bloomberg's heirs, I'd be calling dad or granddad right now

00:31:55.840 and telling him, why are you squandering the family legacy on a vanity project? You're 77 years old. You

00:32:01.820 should donate money to foundations and build buildings and contribute in a civic way, which he's

00:32:07.720 going to do anyway. And at least if you're on the left, he's been giving a lot of money to your

00:32:12.080 favorite causes. But this is a vanity project. He's not even getting on the ballot until Super

00:32:17.420 Tuesday, which is the fifth contest. His opponents are going to get a month of free media coverage

00:32:22.560 in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina. Oh, and here's another thing. This ties back into

00:32:28.300 impeachment. And this is just delicious. The Senate conducts the trial. The senators all have to be

00:32:36.960 there. You know, you watch Congress and members float in and out. They're there. They're not there.

00:32:41.460 They have to sit there during the trial because they are members of a jury, essentially. And so

00:32:46.100 all of the senators have to be in the Senate chamber during the trial. It's within Republicans'

00:32:51.540 discretion, since they control the Senate, when to schedule this trial. Now, they've said they want

00:32:56.120 to get it done quickly, but they've also hinted they could do it over six to eight weeks.

00:33:01.100 Either way, Republicans are going to be able to force the senators to sit in Washington during

00:33:06.940 a crucial part of the buildup to the Iowa caucuses in the New Hampshire primary.

00:33:11.560 So they're going to force Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Amy Klobuchar,

00:33:16.120 Michael Bennett, and anybody else to sit in Washington while Pete Buttigieg gets to go and

00:33:23.020 use his vast army of volunteers and his big money war chest to campaign in Iowa and New Hampshire.

00:33:30.420 So, by the way, Biden's also going to have to be in Washington because he might be a witness.

00:33:35.140 He says he'll defy a subpoena. Yeah, good luck with that. Biden is going to be called as a witness.

00:33:39.940 And even if he's out on the trail, he's going to be asked questions about this impeachment trial.

00:33:43.320 So essentially, impeachment takes most of the other candidates out of the race for about two or three

00:33:49.260 weeks, let's just say conservatively. And you get Biden also taken out. So that means you have

00:33:54.760 Buttigieg, Andrew Yang, and one or two others who will have free reign. And so Republicans can

00:34:02.360 really mess with the Democratic primary because of the Democrats moving forward on impeachment. So

00:34:07.020 it's really funny. I mean, and I get angry about this stuff, too. But at some point,

00:34:11.800 you have to laugh because it really just is comical. This is not a serious impeachment,

00:34:15.560 but it does have a very funny side.

00:34:17.640 Yeah. Well, it's quite a circus. And we enjoyed our role, even though we were in Canada,

00:34:25.820 we certainly covered the Trump campaign in 2016, more so than any other Canadian outlet. I think

00:34:31.420 that's how we really got a lot of U.S. fans. And I look forward to us playing a similar role in the

00:34:37.440 2020 election. We have a new reporter joining us who's actually from Hawaii, Tulsi, a Gabbard

00:34:44.140 country. And I look forward to ramping up our own coverage of the 2020 campaign. And Joel,

00:34:50.280 thank you for being so generous with your time every week to give us the update from your point

00:34:54.600 of view. It's great to see you again.

00:34:55.980 You're welcome.

00:34:56.440 All right. There you have it. Joel Pollack, senior editor at large of Breitbart.com. Stay with us for

00:35:01.680 more.

00:35:11.020 And what do you think about that WestJet CEO? I mean, listen, I believe that corporate leaders

00:35:16.200 can have something to say about our country. Absolutely. And WestJet's an important company.

00:35:20.920 Absolutely. I don't think Ed Sims is a Canadian yet. And I think it's really gross for him to

00:35:28.660 tell unemployed Albertans they have nothing to bitch about. And then in fact, it's their 0.94

00:35:33.000 complaining that's leading to the bad economy. I think he owes all Canadians and Albertans in

00:35:39.460 particular an apology. What do you think? That's the show for today. Until next time, on behalf of all

00:35:44.980 us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night and keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - December 11, 2019

Globalist CEO latest to push the narrative that Albertans should shut up about Wexit

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