Rebel News Podcast - Millennials claw back support for LGBT： Is it Trump, or is transgender ideology to blame？

00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. Today, I look at a study. It came out a few months ago. I didn't see it until

00:00:05.280 yesterday. Conducted by GLAAD, which is a gay rights group, on how support for LGBT politics

00:00:15.560 has fallen in half amongst millennial men. It's fallen from 60-something support to 30-something.

00:00:24.440 I'm shocked by it. I've got a theory, and I hope you'll listen to my theory, and I'd like to hear

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00:00:49.100 Okay, here's my podcast about this interesting study.

00:00:54.440 Tonight, a survey shows that the number of millennials who describe themselves as LGBT

00:01:13.020 allies has fallen nearly in half. Why? It's December 9th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:19.940 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:25.760 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:29.820 The only thing I have to say to the government, the wire publisher, is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:35.680 I came across a survey yesterday. It's a few months old, so it's not breaking news, but I hadn't seen it reported before, so maybe it's news to you like it was news to me.

00:01:51.340 It's an annual survey sponsored by a leading gay activist group in America called GLAD.

00:01:58.420 GLAD was founded in the 1980s, and it stood for Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. GLAD.

00:02:06.360 But they changed it just to GLAD. They no longer spell it out, because they forgot the B and the T in LGBT.

00:02:16.340 B stands for bisexual. You don't hear a lot about bisexuality in sexual politics. It really isn't that different than gay politics.

00:02:24.180 But the T, well, GLAD was missing the T for trans. 0.55

00:02:29.260 And that's about the biggest sin around these days. I mean, just the other day, our own Kian Bexty was out in Vancouver at a courtroom there where a trans activist born Jonathan Yaniv, who calls himself Jessica Yaniv, well, he's on trial for weapons offenses.

00:02:45.040 Pretty crazy. He brandished an illegal weapon, a taser, on a YouTube video, so he's been charged with a crime.

00:02:52.660 And as you can see, the name on the courtroom was the Queen versus Jessica Jonathan Yaniv.

00:02:57.880 So, according to the actual court of law, he's known by both names, which is obviously true.

00:03:02.880 And his own mother calls him him.

00:03:06.720 Here, take a look at this video showing that.

00:03:09.200 Huh? 0.99

00:03:09.620 Are you crazy? 1.00

00:03:11.940 You! 1.00

00:03:12.440 That's assault! 0.56

00:03:13.420 Go away! 1.00

00:03:13.960 You just smashed your cane over my head! 0.99

00:03:15.880 No, he did not!

00:03:17.040 So I tell you all this, because whenever Kian would tweet something about the trial, it would be immediately taken down by Twitter. 0.97

00:03:26.660 And Kian would get a message saying that unless he deleted that tweet, he would be suspended.

00:03:33.540 I think this happened five times to him.

00:03:35.900 And it was for the high crime of misgendering Yaniv, even though that's simply an accurate report of what the courts say and what his own mom calls him.

00:03:45.440 Or then there's dead naming.

00:03:47.180 That is when you refer to someone by their former name.

00:03:49.180 But, like I say, that's what the court calls him.

00:03:52.640 Kian was just reporting what other people were saying.

00:03:54.960 But trans politics is so extreme that Twitter literally censored Kian five times.

00:04:02.400 Another reporter named Anna Slatz from the Postmillennial was censored, too.

00:04:05.880 It was crazy.

00:04:06.320 But now you know why GLAAD doesn't spell out its name anymore, gay and lesbian, etc.

00:04:12.460 Because they'd be ripped to shreds by the trans activists because there's no letter T in GLAAD. 1.00

00:04:18.820 The letter T.

00:04:19.540 I'm going to come back to that in a moment.

00:04:21.040 But first, this survey from a few months ago that I didn't see until yesterday.

00:04:26.300 It's called Accelerating Acceptance.

00:04:29.620 It's an annual report, a large public opinion survey commissioned by GLAAD, and conducted by a reputable polling firm called Harris.

00:04:39.880 The title Accelerating Acceptance, pretty self-explanatory.

00:04:44.020 They want to accelerate the acceptance of gay rights.

00:04:48.080 So they ask questions that I think are interesting, I think.

00:04:51.960 They ask non-gay people, for example, if they'd be comfortable or uncomfortable in certain situations, having someone gay at your church, seeing gay wedding pictures, learning a family member is gay.

00:05:05.120 Those are good questions, interesting questions.

00:05:07.480 You can see the issue that gets the most pushback is learning my child has a lesson on LGBT history in school.

00:05:18.380 You can see 39% of people would be uncomfortable with that.

00:05:23.660 Now, what does that mean?

00:05:25.180 How old is the child at school?

00:05:27.280 Is it a child of tender years, kindergarten, grade one, grade two?

00:05:31.380 Or a child in high school, 16, 17, 18?

00:05:35.240 Would it be a genuine neutral history?

00:05:38.360 Here's what happened, here's what happened.

00:05:40.320 Or an advocacy-style history?

00:05:43.280 I think those are important details, don't you?

00:05:45.640 And I'm not surprised that 39% of people are wary, and in fact, I bet the concern is actually higher, that people are shy about telling upholsters something they know is contrary to the fashion.

00:05:57.100 All across Canada and the United States, there is a new fashion of having something called transvestite, or drag queen story time, in schools and libraries with children of very tender years, very young kids.

00:06:13.060 Is that what they mean by that question?

00:06:16.780 Or is it a high school class for 18-year-olds?

00:06:19.500 I see why some people are nervous.

00:06:20.960 I think most people can be woke about what grown-ups discuss, but those same people could be against the early sexualization of young people talking about sex, either straight or gay.

00:06:34.140 Just leave the kids alone. 1.00

00:06:35.580 I think that is the source of so much opposition to sex ed curriculums these days.

00:06:41.380 Leftists have been pushing. 0.99

00:06:43.440 Probably it's the junk science. 0.96

00:06:45.100 I mean, like the Ontario government's position that there are six genders. 0.98

00:06:48.400 Can you name them?

00:06:49.200 By the way, being gay isn't a gender.

00:06:50.720 Can you name the six genders?

00:06:51.640 I bet you can't.

00:06:53.400 It's not even science. 0.99

00:06:54.280 It's junk science. 0.98

00:06:55.540 But also, why are you talking to grade one kids about sexual things? 0.98

00:06:59.060 They're in grade one.

00:06:59.940 That's how early Ontario sex ed started. 0.63

00:07:03.800 That's a fact.

00:07:04.800 But here's what's interesting.

00:07:05.940 Here's what's new, or at least what was new to me.

00:07:09.060 Look at the number of millennials who describe themselves as LGBT allies.

00:07:15.300 That's the phrase that's in popular use.

00:07:17.980 So just to explain these charts, you can see there's three bars together.

00:07:21.780 The top very dark line is 2016.

00:07:25.080 The middle line is 2017, and the bottom line in each case, in light blue, is 2018.

00:07:32.140 So look at that.

00:07:33.160 The number of 18 to 34-year-olds, those are millennials, who are allies.

00:07:38.760 So start at the top.

00:07:40.020 In 2016, 63% of millennials said, I'm an LGBT ally.

00:07:46.220 Now it's 45%.

00:07:48.140 That's a plunge.

00:07:50.160 It was almost two-thirds.

00:07:51.400 Now it's not even half.

00:07:52.280 It's fallen for young millennial women from 65% to 52%. 0.86

00:07:57.740 And for young men, it's almost fallen in half.

00:08:01.960 From 62% of young men in 2016 to 40% the next year to just 35% now.

00:08:09.120 That is almost falling in half.

00:08:10.840 What's going on?

00:08:11.780 I mean, I'm curious.

00:08:12.680 I'm surprised.

00:08:14.400 See, support for LGBT hasn't plunged like this for all groups.

00:08:19.900 It's just young people.

00:08:21.220 Middle-aged people, senior citizens, they haven't suddenly fallen out with LGBT politics.

00:08:31.380 Senior citizens, who you might think would be less pro-LGBT because they were born and raised in a more traditional era,

00:08:39.740 their support hasn't fallen in half.

00:08:41.440 What's going on?

00:08:42.000 Why do millennials support LGBT rights less than their own grandparents?

00:08:49.720 Well, here's what the president of GLAAD says.

00:08:51.960 With the knowledge that erosion in acceptance was primarily happening among younger males,

00:08:58.280 GLAAD launched a program dedicated to working with the video game industry on LGBTQ inclusion

00:09:04.260 to bring LGBTQ characters and stories to a world where male audiences were consuming content.

00:09:11.240 Really?

00:09:12.580 So you think it's video games.

00:09:15.200 You're seriously blaming video games.

00:09:17.100 Which apparently were only invented in 2017 or something.

00:09:22.420 I tell you what, that's not going to make young men more pro-LGBTQ.

00:09:28.280 It'll probably make them less so.

00:09:30.160 Imagine having political lecturing imposed on your video games.

00:09:34.200 Video games.

00:09:34.920 I don't play video games, but I'm pretty sure that people who do,

00:09:38.540 they do so for escaping from the BS of our real world.

00:09:43.380 To get away from politics.

00:09:44.760 Imagine trying to inject woke politics into video games.

00:09:48.780 It's the reason why Star Wars movies have done so poorly lately.

00:09:52.480 Stop being woke.

00:09:54.640 Here's more.

00:09:56.240 We have taken that idea for granted, and this year's results show that the sharp and quick rise

00:10:01.320 in divisive rhetoric in politics and culture is having a negative influence on younger Americans.

00:10:08.540 That's their way of blaming Trump.

00:10:10.380 In fact, GLAAD has a whole campaign to demonize Trump.

00:10:14.980 If you look here, they say hundreds of anti-gay incidents have happened on Trump's watch.

00:10:20.620 All right, maybe not hundreds, but 123 of them.

00:10:25.420 And I started going through the list.

00:10:28.360 Okay, so I guess they're not actually by Trump.

00:10:30.900 This guy, Joe Walsh, he's an anti-Trump, never-Trumper.

00:10:35.180 He's challenging Trump.

00:10:36.300 How can you blame Trump for what this anti-Trump guy says?

00:10:41.220 Here's a video by PragerU that's Social Conservatives with a YouTube website.

00:10:46.920 How's that, blaming Trump?

00:10:49.380 Trump?

00:10:51.120 First of all, are those actually anti-LGBT incidents?

00:10:54.740 That people are critical of trans-extremism or something?

00:10:58.520 If that's the worst you've got out of a thousand days of Trump, that you got this website here

00:11:06.160 and this guy, I'd say you're in a golden era.

00:11:09.700 If that's the biggest gripe you can come up with.

00:11:12.040 In fact, Trump appointed an out-of-the-closet gay man, Richard Grinnell, as one of his most

00:11:16.720 senior diplomats in the world, as ambassador to Germany.

00:11:19.300 Here's Trump campaigning in 2016 with a flag that says LGBT right on it.

00:11:25.880 He's even got the T on there.

00:11:27.360 Honestly, can you even remember Trump saying anything about L's or G's or B's or T's?

00:11:34.580 He won't stop talking about J-O-B-S, jobs and trade and getting NATO to pay more and wrestling

00:11:40.800 with China.

00:11:41.380 Do you really think that LGBT issues are even in his top ten? 0.99

00:11:46.340 Again, you've got to hate Trump pretty bad to blame anything on him if you're a gay

00:11:51.500 rights activist.

00:11:52.340 I just don't even think he cares one way or the other, frankly.

00:11:56.680 I think it's pitiful to claim that he's hostile to gays.

00:11:59.160 Look, he's from Manhattan.

00:12:00.920 If you're not comfortable with gays and Jews and Italians and the Irish and Puerto Ricans, 0.95

00:12:06.620 you're probably living in the wrong borough if you're from Manhattan. 0.64

00:12:09.820 Trump just doesn't care, I think.

00:12:13.040 How pitiful that GLAAD is trying to blame him for things.

00:12:17.200 But, of course, so is Canada's media party, mind you.

00:12:21.180 This was a story in Global that I missed when the study came out.

00:12:24.020 Global News found some academic to say this.

00:12:28.400 We have to think about the Trump effect and how it is legitimizing anti-minority or anti-equality

00:12:34.200 discourse, some professors said.

00:12:36.260 That's a factor that would not just affect LGBTQ2, so now we've got a two in here, issues,

00:12:42.640 but potentially others, too.

00:12:44.540 The Trump effect.

00:12:46.080 In this professor's view, Trump's willingness to speak out against minority groups like the

00:12:51.140 LGBTQ2 community has emboldened American citizens to voice their own discriminatory opinions.

00:12:59.780 Got it.

00:13:00.440 I mean, blame Trump.

00:13:01.880 Why not go the whole way and blame the Russians? 0.91

00:13:05.560 I'm not sure how the blame Trump theory handles the fact that it's millennials who are turning

00:13:10.760 against the LGBT politics.

00:13:13.320 I have a theory on this whole thing myself.

00:13:16.140 And it goes back to Jonathan Yaniv.

00:13:18.960 See, this GLAAD survey described millennials as people 18 to 34.

00:13:24.560 That's what they define as millennials. 0.92

00:13:25.780 So that's people just finishing up high school, going to university or college, or starting

00:13:31.740 out in life, a job, starting a family.

00:13:35.600 I guess if you're at the higher end, like in the 30s, you'd have small kids now, maybe

00:13:39.480 kids in school, maybe joining school sports teams.

00:13:43.560 So what do millennials still in college see?

00:13:47.820 What do they hear?

00:13:49.780 Well, you heard part of it from the president of GLAAD.

00:13:51.880 They're having woke lectures force-fed to them in video games and everything else, but

00:13:56.920 mainly in the classroom, woke culture on campus, men identifying as women and demanding that

00:14:03.940 you call them she or zur or she or whatever.

00:14:08.160 You might recall a group a couple of years ago when there was a group protest against Jordan

00:14:13.200 Peterson at the University of Toronto by a bunch of trans activists shouting at him, demanding

00:14:19.540 that he be fired, demanding he be silenced.

00:14:23.160 One of the trans activists even physically assaulted our reporter at the time, Lauren Southern.

00:14:28.760 What do you think other college kids, millennials, think of that?

00:14:34.060 See, you'll notice that all of my commentary has been about LGBT or LGBTQ or LGBTQ2.

00:14:42.780 I didn't say gay or lesbian, just like GLAAD doesn't say gay or lesbian anymore because it's

00:14:51.520 the T in LGBT, trans.

00:14:55.500 I think that many millennials are allies of gays and lesbians because they largely don't care.

00:15:03.980 There have been some societal changes because of the increasing publicity and prominence of

00:15:10.360 gays and lesbians.

00:15:11.480 And you can be against that morally, but in practical terms, hasn't been a major imposition.

00:15:20.000 There's plenty of gays and lesbians in sports, for example.

00:15:24.200 There are even some sports that are stereotypically gay.

00:15:26.900 I don't think that bothers most people.

00:15:29.900 But what about when a trans man, the T in LGBT, when a trans man insists he's a woman, but then 0.87

00:15:41.520 insists on competing against girls? 0.97

00:15:45.160 Typically, it's some loser who can't cut it as a man competing against men. 0.97

00:15:49.540 So, presto, he declares he's a woman, and now he keeps winning because he crushes the girls. 0.98

00:15:55.740 That super gross cycling champion? 0.76

00:15:58.080 Oh, and if you dare to speak out against any of this, you'll be demonized, you'll be punished,

00:16:03.640 you'll be called a bigot.

00:16:05.300 Here's a student who was kicked out of a classroom by his teacher for saying,

00:16:10.800 there's only two genders. 1.00

00:16:13.680 Which, you're saying that there's no such thing as anyone other than male or female.

00:16:17.420 Scientifically, they're just...

00:16:18.740 Look, most people don't want to, you know, debate or argue with other students, or certainly

00:16:25.120 not their teachers.

00:16:25.960 That kid was an anomaly, and he had the wits to tape it.

00:16:28.400 But look at this one.

00:16:29.820 This is very different.

00:16:31.620 Look at this trans student who won a school board vote to force the school to let him change 1.00

00:16:39.400 in the girls' changing room with all the girls, to get naked with the girls. 0.72

00:16:43.780 Watch his joy, and the joy of the school bureaucrats who come to hug him.

00:16:50.120 Then look at the fear and sorrow in the eyes of a girl who says, well, she changes in there

00:16:55.560 naked for sports every day.

00:16:57.480 But yeah, she's not sure if she wants to do that anymore.

00:17:01.020 Take a look at this.

00:17:02.200 I'm ecstatic.

00:17:03.700 I feel uncomfortable that my privacy is being invaded.

00:17:19.180 As I am a swimmer, I do change multiple times naked in front of the other students in the

00:17:24.460 locker room.

00:17:24.920 And I understand that the board has an obligation to all students, but I was hoping that they

00:17:33.700 would go about this in a different way that would also accommodate students such as myself.

00:17:38.560 I think that millennial or generations at Z, the Zoomers, that guy who was kicked out of 1.00

00:17:46.440 class and that girl scared to change in the change room, if you ask them what they think

00:17:52.680 of gays or lesbians, the L's and the G's, I don't think they'd care much. 1.00

00:17:57.380 Just guessing.

00:17:57.960 But if you ask them what they think of the T's, the trans, I think they might say they're 1.00

00:18:06.060 being bullied, politically bullied, socially bullied, and for that young woman, physically

00:18:13.280 bullied, change in front of me.

00:18:16.380 No, no, no.

00:18:17.140 I don't think she's an ally of the T's. 0.81

00:18:20.860 And if you ask them if they were still allies of the LGBT, I'm not surprised at all that you

00:18:27.940 would find those numbers plummeting.

00:18:30.000 But hey, it's easier to blame Donald Trump, isn't it?

00:18:33.660 And just to keep banning anyone who calls Jonathan Yaniv Jonathan or a man, except for

00:18:41.340 his own mother, I guess.

00:18:43.160 Stay with us for more.

00:18:44.060 Thank you very much, Madam Speaker.

00:18:58.400 Could you please describe the process of acquiring a gun in the City of Toronto?

00:19:06.400 By that, I mean a legal gun, of course.

00:19:08.480 So I would defer to either SDF&A police or legal.

00:19:14.060 So no, I do not know the answer to that question.

00:19:24.120 How do you purchase a gun?

00:19:27.120 That was the question.

00:19:30.520 A legal gun.

00:19:31.860 A legal gun.

00:19:32.440 How do you acquire a legal gun in Toronto?

00:19:38.400 Does anybody know?

00:19:43.260 Oh, we've got some hands up in the audience.

00:19:45.660 I don't think anybody knows.

00:19:51.740 So, Speaker, it really then, if you could just hold my time for a moment then, please.

00:19:56.740 It really speaks to an issue, I think, that we need to have a better understanding of.

00:20:02.760 That is City Hall in Toronto.

00:20:06.540 That clip was excerpted by the Canadian firearms, one of the firearms groups, because you wouldn't

00:20:13.940 find that news anywhere else.

00:20:16.140 City Hall wants to ban guns, make them tougher to get.

00:20:18.660 But they literally have no idea how to get one now.

00:20:23.100 They just know for sure that whatever it is now isn't enough and they want to do something,

00:20:27.880 or at least to be seen to do something.

00:20:30.080 Joining us now via Skype from Edmonton is our friend, Lauren Gunter, senior columnist at

00:20:34.020 the Edmonton Sun.

00:20:35.280 Lauren, I was deeply embarrassed, but absolutely unsurprised that Toronto City Council is so 1.00

00:20:43.120 stupid, and such showboats, and knew less about this matter than the general public in the audience. 1.00

00:20:52.820 But that's the whole thing, like declaring a climate emergency. 1.00

00:20:56.420 It's not about fixing anything.

00:20:57.660 It's about swanning for the cameras.

00:21:00.260 Right, exactly.

00:21:01.160 And, you know, this is about we are so smart and so concerned that we know what the solution is,

00:21:09.760 even though we have no idea what the problem, none.

00:21:14.040 And, you know, we don't, we have no idea what the controls are like now, but we know we need

00:21:18.220 more controls, and because we are the most enlightened people who've ever walked the face

00:21:22.420 of the earth, and we're progressive, so our hearts are in the right place, then you can

00:21:27.340 just trust us that you need more controls.

00:21:29.900 They're about to go after law-abiding gun owners for another time.

00:21:36.020 This is like the third or fourth major time since the early 90s, with no chance that it's

00:21:42.300 going to improve public safety.

00:21:43.680 None.

00:21:44.100 Not one.

00:21:45.300 Like, they're going to, there's the rumor now out of Ottawa is that they're going to ban

00:21:48.620 a rifle called the AR-15, because this has become the cause celeb of people like the chair

00:21:56.400 and the panel in Toronto.

00:21:58.380 It's a dangerous gun.

00:21:59.860 It's an assault rifle, you know.

00:22:01.300 It's very, it is owned by almost 100,000 people in Canada, legally registered, owned

00:22:08.660 by almost 100,000 people in Canada, never once used in a violent crime.

00:22:13.800 Yeah.

00:22:14.700 But they're going to ban it, because that will solve the gun problem. 0.98

00:22:19.160 No.

00:22:20.280 The gun problem in Toronto is based on two things, drug trade and gangs.

00:22:24.620 Yeah.

00:22:25.120 Now, those probably are one thing put together, but you know what I'm saying.

00:22:28.420 Yeah.

00:22:28.580 Well, either gang-related or drug-related.

00:22:31.440 And now they're going to go after duck hunters and sports shooters.

00:22:35.340 I remember in his first election, Mike Harris, who was premier of Ontario for eight years,

00:22:43.620 said, how come it is that anytime someone's killed in a fern bar in downtown Toronto, and

00:22:49.740 that was a famous murder in Toronto in the 90s, how come it is that every time somebody's

00:22:55.980 killed in a fern bar in downtown Toronto, they go after duck hunters in North Bay.

00:23:00.400 And that's exactly what this mentality is all about.

00:23:03.680 We're told, too, that Bob Blair, who is the public safety minister now in charge of the

00:23:11.700 gun file, has said that they're just going to ban a whole bunch of guns by ordering counsel,

00:23:18.680 by cabinet decree.

00:23:19.580 They're not going to debate this in parliament.

00:23:21.500 They're not going to call witnesses in the committee.

00:23:23.480 They're not going to ask for amendments.

00:23:25.460 The cabinet is simply so intelligent, and it's made up of people exactly like that group

00:23:29.320 you saw in Toronto.

00:23:30.220 Yeah.

00:23:30.420 They're so intelligent that they can know what we need and just dictate it.

00:23:35.020 Yeah.

00:23:35.180 And this, you know, you want to understand why there is frustration with the Liberals outside

00:23:42.120 of the greater Toronto area.

00:23:44.000 This is exactly the example.

00:23:46.060 Yeah.

00:23:46.360 You know, it's funny, you mentioned that as far as you can find, not a single violent

00:23:52.420 crime has been committed with an AR-15.

00:23:54.440 And I have tried to research that myself.

00:23:57.020 I've even asked John Lott, the firearms scholar, if he had any information.

00:24:03.420 And I don't think one has ever been used.

00:24:06.180 And I don't know the gang scene very well, but I follow on Twitter the Toronto Police Operations

00:24:13.240 Twitter feed, which is sort of like listening to the police scanner, but not as exciting.

00:24:22.580 Every day, another shooting, one, two, three people.

00:24:27.280 It's just a, it's a battlefield.

00:24:29.260 It's a little bit like Chicago up here.

00:24:32.320 And I can assure you, they're not using the long arms, the long rifles and shotguns.

00:24:38.740 It's not anything like Chicago.

00:24:40.620 Okay.

00:24:41.160 It could be worse than we're used to in Canada.

00:24:44.600 But the south side of Chicago, about a 14 square block area in the south side of Chicago

00:24:50.740 will have as many as 3,000 shootings this year.

00:24:53.600 It's just, it's a war zone.

00:24:55.300 Okay.

00:24:55.500 I won't make the comparison.

00:24:56.860 No, but I'm saying that, you know what, it's bad.

00:24:59.580 But one of the things we have to keep in mind as Canadians when we're talking about gun control

00:25:04.420 is that even at our worst, we aren't anywhere near what it's like in the United States or

00:25:11.220 South Africa or Russia even.

00:25:13.560 The Russians have an awful lot of gun violence as well.

00:25:16.020 I take your point.

00:25:16.500 My point is that we shouldn't overstate the problem because then that is, that's the fake

00:25:25.500 demand for the fake solution.

00:25:27.560 I guess what I was driving at is there are violence, there's gun violence quite frequently

00:25:33.600 in Toronto, but it is never with the rifles and the shotguns that they're seeking to go

00:25:39.740 after.

00:25:40.420 It's a completely different thing.

00:25:42.500 I guess they just have the same word gun in them, but they don't care because I think

00:25:48.040 they sort of like taunting farmers and ranchers because they like the pushback so they can

00:25:53.760 say to their fancy Toronto and Montreal voters, look, we've antagonized those rednecks. 1.00

00:26:00.520 You hate them.

00:26:01.620 Well, we must be doing something right.

00:26:03.880 And look at the reaction.

00:26:04.840 So we know we were right because they acted in a hostile, hotheaded manner in return.

00:26:10.580 I mean, you and I talked about this one time before.

00:26:13.360 Michael Warnick, who was the clerk of the Privy Council during the Jody Wilson-Raybould

00:26:17.840 SNC-Lavalin scandal, once gave this testimony to the House of Commons Justice Committee, was

00:26:25.220 off balance.

00:26:26.420 He said, I don't know what's happening.

00:26:28.800 There's a real threat of outbreak of violence and almost like revolution.

00:26:33.920 And I thought, what is he talking about?

00:26:36.000 But these guys had thought that the Yellow Vest protests, there were protesters who are

00:26:41.820 driving from Western Canada to Ottawa, were definitely going to try and kidnap the Prime

00:26:48.520 Minister.

00:26:48.840 Yeah, they thought it was a kidnap.

00:26:49.920 Here, let's play a quick clip.

00:26:51.040 Here's Warnick.

00:26:52.560 Absolutely apropos of nothing.

00:26:55.180 Just, I have no idea what this was, but it was the grossest thing I've ever seen.

00:27:00.920 And to think this guy was in charge of the internet censorship panel.

00:27:04.300 Here, here's a quick clip of Warnick.

00:27:06.400 I worry about the rising tide of incitements to violence.

00:27:10.080 When people use terms like treason and traitor in open discourse, those are the words that

00:27:15.420 lead to assassination.

00:27:16.860 I'm worried that somebody is going to be shot in this country this year during the political

00:27:20.020 campaign.

00:27:21.080 Now, let me just ask you very quickly about that.

00:27:22.900 Sorry, before you go on, that's what I'm talking about with this panel in Toronto.

00:27:27.420 This is uninformed.

00:27:29.140 It's over the top.

00:27:30.400 They have no idea what they're talking about.

00:27:32.140 They don't know how to solve a problem, but boy, they've got solutions, and they're going

00:27:35.660 to pile it on the backs of ordinary law-abiding citizens.

00:27:38.260 And they know who the enemies are.

00:27:39.460 But let me ask you this, because Warnick's no dummy.

00:27:42.800 I have a theory that that was a deliberate provocation and a misdirection by Warnick to

00:27:50.560 change the channel, change the subject, make him seem like a guy who was dealing with

00:27:58.280 the weightiest problems in the world, and oh my God, stop holding me to account, we've

00:28:02.480 got to worry about armed insurrection from the West.

00:28:05.160 I think he knew it was fake, but he was deliberately trying to, like an illusionist, make people

00:28:12.400 look elsewhere.

00:28:13.500 Misdirection?

00:28:13.860 I think you're giving him too much credit.

00:28:15.300 I don't think that he had that depth of understanding.

00:28:19.280 I honestly think that there are an awful lot of people who've lived these cloistered urban

00:28:23.540 lives among academics, senior civil servants, and lobbyists, special interest groups, NGOs,

00:28:31.380 who really don't understand anything beyond that sheltered little world.

00:28:35.420 And they see everyone beyond the boundaries of their life as dangerous threats to civilization.

00:28:43.000 If they don't stand in the way, the country will descend into chaos.

00:28:49.240 And I honestly think that they're that delusional.

00:28:52.860 Yeah.

00:28:53.380 Now, I think a lot of them are.

00:28:56.520 If every time they called for a gun ban, if drug gangs in Toronto were to squawk and say,

00:29:04.700 no, that's not right, then I would say, oh, good, it's actually hurting them.

00:29:09.160 But first of all, drug gangs don't talk to the media.

00:29:12.000 They don't, you know, they don't use the political democratic process.

00:29:16.760 And most importantly, they don't care what the law is.

00:29:18.980 They've decided to break it anyways.

00:29:20.980 It's, by definition, the law abiders who are going to be squawking about it.

00:29:26.280 It's a perfect trick or trap that the liberal, I mean, even though the liberals are so truly

00:29:30.840 clueless, they know the feedback loop.

00:29:34.180 Law abiding Western conservatives will squawk.

00:29:37.000 And then that is their proof that they're doing something good, even though the problem

00:29:41.200 is the gang bangers in Toronto.

00:29:42.820 But let me take you back a week, Lorne.

00:29:45.280 I have in front of me your column from the Edmonton Sun called UCP Firearms Motion, First

00:29:51.220 Step in Firewall Against Feds Meddling. 1.00

00:29:53.520 And the UCP, of course, is Jason Kenney's Conservative Party.

00:29:56.280 The United Conservative Party.

00:29:58.960 You had mentioned that you thought Bill Blair and Trudeau would introduce their gun bans

00:30:04.760 just by a cabinet order, ordering counsel, as they're called, just by fiat.

00:30:09.560 No debate, just announce it.

00:30:12.540 Your article a week ago says that another approach might be for them to authorize cities to do this.

00:30:19.520 How?

00:30:19.660 Tell me about that option also.

00:30:23.880 Well, if they don't want to take the political fire themselves, and I think they probably don't

00:30:30.400 in a minority situation, they could authorize municipalities.

00:30:35.420 And in fact, they're starting to use the term communities, which is ill-defined and nobody

00:30:39.360 really knows what they're talking about.

00:30:40.480 But they could authorize municipalities to ban guns or certain types of guns, or maybe

00:30:47.600 all handguns or all automatic rifles or semi-automatic rifles or whatever.

00:30:52.660 They could choose categories that municipalities could ban if they want to.

00:30:57.260 The fly in that ointment when it comes to Alberta is that, of course, municipalities all across

00:31:03.980 the country are the creations of their provincial governments.

00:31:07.520 They don't exist legally without authorization from the provinces.

00:31:11.080 And so Alberta, what they did a week ago was pass a motion saying, we stand with law-abiding firearms

00:31:18.900 owners in Alberta, and we encourage or certainly support the legitimate use of firearms, whether

00:31:27.800 for sport or for vermin control, whatever you need.

00:31:31.240 And we support all that.

00:31:33.580 And that was a signal that should Ottawa give legal authority to municipalities to create

00:31:40.560 gun bans, Alberta will stand in the way in Alberta.

00:31:44.160 The municipalities here, Calgary and Edmonton would probably be the only two who'd ask for

00:31:47.860 it.

00:31:48.900 But they will not be given permission by the provincial government to bring in gun bans.

00:31:54.500 So that I thought was a very good step.

00:31:57.020 The other thing the province has been talking about is appointing its own chief firearms officer.

00:32:01.240 I think that's absolutely crucial, because now that the CFOs across the country are appointed

00:32:07.660 by the federal government, the feds pick people who will enforce the firearms laws as Ottawa

00:32:13.400 wants them enforced.

00:32:14.860 And if the province came in and appointed its own chief firearms officer, that person would

00:32:20.300 be able to say, you know, our community standards are different.

00:32:23.340 We don't believe that law-abiding gun owners are the problem in violent crime.

00:32:28.500 So we are not going to start seizing weapons left and right.

00:32:33.500 They would be bound by any sort of federal law that you can't change that.

00:32:37.740 But the interpretation of those laws, the time limits for handing things in, the exemptions

00:32:44.620 for different activities.

00:32:46.100 For example, if you can still get a sidearm license in Alberta or in Canada, it's not very

00:32:51.700 common.

00:32:52.080 But if you work in an area where there are a lot of bears, you can apply to the federal

00:32:57.400 government for a sidearms license, and you may get one.

00:33:00.480 Those sorts of things have been devolved to the provincial firearms officers who Ottawa

00:33:06.040 can count on because they're loyal appointees of the federal government.

00:33:09.520 Alberta could easily appoint someone and say, no, you know, we're not going to tell the police

00:33:14.080 to rush on to everyone's property who's used a firearm in self-defense against midnight

00:33:20.440 robbers on their farm and seize all their firearms.

00:33:23.820 We're just not going to do that.

00:33:24.840 We'll let the legal process play out.

00:33:27.340 And that would be very different from what the federal CFOs are doing in all the other

00:33:31.660 provinces.

00:33:32.040 So there are some good steps being taken here to try and shield us from the insanity of that

00:33:37.800 panel in Toronto and the people in Ottawa who think exactly the same way.

00:33:41.560 Yeah, you know, during the election, our friend David Menzies went to Bill Blair's house to

00:33:48.020 ask him, why aren't you living in the neighborhood that you're running?

00:33:53.560 He lives in one of the fanciest neighborhoods in Toronto, but he represents a riding with a

00:33:59.140 much higher crime rate.

00:34:00.220 And David tried to ask if that's why he wasn't living there.

00:34:05.040 Here, here's a quick clip of that.

00:34:06.520 Yeah.

00:34:06.860 Is this not the home of Bill Blair?

00:34:08.900 Uh, why would you want to know who lives here?

00:34:11.720 Okay.

00:34:12.100 My name is David Menzies from Rebel Media.

00:34:13.960 And we were doing a story about why, um, Mr. Blair doesn't live in the riding that he's

00:34:21.080 running in.

00:34:21.720 Well, I think when you can find Mr. Blair and find out where he lives, you can ask Mr.

00:34:25.240 Blair that yourself.

00:34:26.700 This is not his house, then?

00:34:27.860 I'm not going to say whether it is or not.

00:34:29.740 I'd like you to get off my property.

00:34:31.380 I had a neighbor come and knock on my door and tell me someone was standing across the

00:34:34.580 street taking photos of my home.

00:34:36.060 So I'd like to leave my property.

00:34:37.540 Okay.

00:34:37.920 That, well, that's precisely why I asked if it was okay to come on your property, but

00:34:40.960 I'll walk off.

00:34:41.920 I don't know.

00:34:42.540 I think that this whole thing is a ruse.

00:34:44.360 I don't think that it's actually going to fix the problem.

00:34:47.020 I think maybe they're choosing to focus on firearms instead of global warming, because

00:34:50.880 maybe that's going to backfire as our economy slows down.

00:34:54.140 I don't know.

00:34:54.500 I think this whole thing is such a bad faith adventure by Justin Trudeau.

00:34:59.480 I don't think it's a real solution to a real problem.

00:35:02.520 You know what?

00:35:02.840 They don't care about real solutions.

00:35:04.200 They care about virtue signaling, and they're signaling that, like that panel in Toronto,

00:35:09.100 they are more virtuous than the rest of us because they care, and they're prepared to

00:35:14.340 do something dramatic to solve the problem.

00:35:17.640 It doesn't matter that none of the science or the statistics or any of the evidence supports

00:35:22.820 what they're doing.

00:35:23.780 They're showing that they care.

00:35:25.500 And for progressives, that more than anything else is the goal, just to prove that they

00:35:32.420 are morally superior to everyone else.

00:35:35.260 They care, and they are prepared to take bold words.

00:35:40.460 You know, I think that's all.

00:35:42.760 I don't give them any depth of intellect.

00:35:45.000 I don't describe to them any nasty hidden agenda because I just don't think they think that

00:35:51.120 deeply.

00:35:51.740 I really don't.

00:35:52.640 Yeah, I think you're right.

00:35:53.940 Well, we'll see what happens.

00:35:55.300 I remember the big fight 25 years ago to license the National Firearms Registry, and I know that

00:36:03.200 not only did it agitate the West, but it cost a significant number of rural liberals their

00:36:09.700 seats.

00:36:09.960 I wonder if Justin Trudeau will go down that same path.

00:36:12.480 Lauren Granter, it's great to catch up with you.

00:36:14.820 You bet.

00:36:15.340 All right.

00:36:15.720 Thanks, my friend.

00:36:16.900 Stay with us.

00:36:17.560 More Ahead on the Rebel.

00:36:26.100 Hey, welcome back.

00:36:26.940 What do you think about this study from GLAAD that shows a cratering of support for LGBT amongst

00:36:36.340 millennials?

00:36:37.540 I think it's the T.

00:36:38.840 I think most people are live and let live, libertarian, don't tread on me, mind your own

00:36:44.880 business, just don't bug me and I won't bug you, I won't ask you about your sex life, you 1.00

00:36:49.560 don't ask me.

00:36:50.060 I think that's the vibe for millennials and Generation Z, the Zoomers, but that's not what 1.00

00:36:56.880 the trans agenda is about.

00:36:58.320 That's not a leave me alone.

00:37:00.200 That's let me change your world.

00:37:02.540 Let me compete against girls in sports. 1.00

00:37:05.160 Let me change in girls, change rooms. 1.00

00:37:08.760 I think that's a whole different thing.

00:37:10.880 And if GLAAD is detecting the backlash, oh, I think it's big and I think it's very real.

00:37:16.640 I think that there's room to respect and protect or at least tolerate people who say they're

00:37:24.240 something that's different than how they were born.

00:37:27.020 I would say do no harm, don't pick on anyone, don't punish anyone, don't be mean to anyone.

00:37:34.020 Anyone who, until just a few years ago, would have been diagnosed with a psychiatric condition.

00:37:40.220 It was a mental illness to call yourself trans just until a few years ago.

00:37:45.280 Don't pick on these people. 0.98

00:37:46.160 Don't fight with them.

00:37:46.960 Don't be mean to them.

00:37:48.460 But what's happened now is the Jonathan Yanivs of the world are forcing themselves into change rooms 0.89

00:37:54.140 onto estheticians saying, wax this.

00:37:57.220 Yeah, it does not surprise me that support is falling.

00:38:01.200 And if I was an L or a G in the LGBT, I'd be worried about that.

00:38:08.320 That's our show for today.

00:38:09.360 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night.

00:38:13.840 Keep fighting for freedom.

00:38:18.460 Keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - December 10, 2019

Millennials claw back support for LGBT： Is it Trump, or is transgender ideology to blame？

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