Miss Understood No. 43 – China's White Paper Revolution
Summary
Today, we re keeping the Balenciaga saga alive, bringing forth some updates on the brand s icky scandals, plus, people are protesting China s strict COVID zero measures, and our democracy-loving prime minister allegedly supports their right to demonstrate.
Transcript
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It's extreme COVID lockdowns and COVID mandates.
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Yeah, so apparently he's watching those protests very closely.
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He said every, obviously, obviously, he said, obviously, everyone in China should be allowed to express themselves.
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They should be allowed to share their perspectives, not your perspectives, just theirs.
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We're going to continue to ensure that China knows we'll stand up for human rights.
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We'll stand with people who are expressing themselves.
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Hello, and welcome to Misunderstood, the show for all you culturally and politically misunderstood lady, gent, non-binary, or Balenciaga shopper.
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And today, we're keeping the Balenciaga saga alive, bringing forth some updates on the brand's icky scandals.
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Plus, people are protesting China's strict COVID zero measures, and our democracy-loving prime minister allegedly supports their right to demonstrate.
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But first, our patented culture shock moment of the work.
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Great Rebel News is having a sale right now in the Rebel News store for Christmas?
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So right now, if you buy two unisex t-shirts, you get one for Frey.
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Yeah, so don't put two in there and say, where's my free shirt?
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And so make sure y'all go to misunderstoodmerch.com and browse our sexy merch.
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So, as y'all know, we're going to be talking about Balenciaga again, because there is...
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Although, I wonder if it's going to come to an end soon.
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Do you think people are just going to forget about it as if it never happened?
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Just as a recap, for those of you who don't know, the Balenciaga gift shop campaign shot
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by Gabriel Gallimberti, depicted children holding bondage-adjacent teddy bear bags, leather
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And then there was a second campaign featuring Nicole Kidman and Bella Hadid, which showed
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a $3,000 bag with papers about child pornography laws strewn across the desk.
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All this was the Tinder that ignited the internet-wide backlash.
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And of course, as we mentioned last week, there was other satanic and pedophilic symbolic
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stuff riddled throughout other campaigns, including these two.
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So, if you missed it, we summed it up in a 60-second clip, which you can find on our YouTube channel.
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And also, if you go to watchmisunderstood.com, it's there as well.
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And it's literally 59 seconds and 23 milliseconds.
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Because we did a really thorough deep dive last week.
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But basically, the big one for me is that Balenciaga has dropped the lawsuit against the production
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It had a $25 million lawsuit against, I think, what was the North One or North something?
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The production company that shot the actual teddy bear.
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I don't know which campaign they actually shot.
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Because they said, instead of doing a 180, they're doing a 180 focusing on organizations.
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Last week, I mentioned that I thought they would keep the lawsuit alive until the scandal went
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And it's like, I think it's probably they have even less of a leg to stand on, legally
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I think it's not out of charity at all that they're giving this money to a child protective
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They're doing it for optics and to keep people like Kim Kardashian happy.
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The Balenciaga Parent Company CEO owns an auction site selling sexually explicit child
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So, there's these two brothers named Jake and Dino Chapman.
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And they sell art depicting children as sexual objects.
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But basically, imagine a baby with genitalia on its face.
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And so, what does this have to do with Balenciaga?
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Well, as Nat mentioned, the owner of the parent company.
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He's the CEO of the parent company that owns Balenciaga as well as a bunch of other fashion
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He owns an auction site called Christie's, which people have probably heard of.
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And on that site, they sell this disgusting art by these two people, one of which, Jake
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Chapman, has been quoted as saying, he was talking about parents shouldn't bother taking
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their children to art galleries or showing them art because children aren't human yet.
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I'm pretty sure he's also a father to children, which is really interesting.
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There are some people who should not reproduce.
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Interestingly enough, too, this art sold for $189,610 Canadian and was posted on Instagram
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on Jake and Dino's Instagram, which, by the way, has now been deleted.
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So, people actually think this is okay, not only on social media, but some rich idiot was
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Imagine going to someone's house and seeing that and then finding out how much they paid
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for it and then being like, oh, you're one of those, you're one of those people.
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But how could, how could, like, why is art able to get away with this stuff?
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Because it's, like, even when you think about movie ratings, for example, someone shows their
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breasts, then automatically the ratings go up higher.
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But if you see someone naked in a billboard or in a painting-
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In a subway station, then it's, it's okay because it's art.
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If it's in a subway station, it's not art, but if it's on a billboard, it is art, it
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Like, I mean, there's this restaurant in my neighborhood and there's literally a painting
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And children, it's a very child-friendly neighborhood.
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There are children walking by all the time and somehow that's okay?
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I grew up in a house where there were paintings of naked women.
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No, I'm talking, like, something that's more sexually explicit, such as these, Dino and
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Also, this guy, his name is Francois-Henri Pinot.
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Yeah, so that's, and this article on Rebel News, although that's not the one we're showing
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Okay, so another really interesting discovery that people have made is how Balenciaga translates
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Olivia, are we able to pull up Google Translate?
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So if you type in Balenciaga on Google Translate with two A's, and then you put a space between
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He's that demonic demon guy that just sacrifices children.
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He was worshipped by the Israelites in the Bible when they went astray after the death
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And scriptures have nothing positive to say about this deity.
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I mean, it's hard to say if this is intentional or not, but given the history of their recent
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It just, yeah, it totally adds to the demonic nature of this brand.
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And then there's another, one other quick update, which we can talk to at length later
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But Balenciaga has decided to keep Demna, blah, blah, blah, blah, name, last name of.
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This is a man who is the creative director at Balenciaga.
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And it's taken him two weeks following the immense backlash for him to make a statement.
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And he has issued an apology via Instagram, which is how, you know, it's sincere when you
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Whenever I screw up in the home, I post it on Instagram first.
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I want to personally apologize, apologize for the wrong artistic choice of concept for
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It was inappropriate to have kids promote objects that had nothing to do with them.
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I think it was the kind of, you know, sexual nature of the objects, not the objects themselves.
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But also teddy bears are completely tied to children.
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As much as I would sometimes like to provoke a thought through my work, I would never have
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an intention to do that with such an awful subjects as child abuse that I condemn, period.
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He's not sorry about the overall concept or the subjugation of these children.
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He's not offended by the nature of the campaign.
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So I apologize to anyone offended by the visuals.
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And Balenciaga has guaranteed that adequate measures will be taken, not only to avoid similar
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mistakes in the future, but also to take accountability in protecting child welfare in every way we
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I mean, if he were truly sorry, he would have resigned.
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It's just like, and he's like, he's the creative director.
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So nothing is going to go up without his eyes on it.
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And even if he doesn't have his eyes on it, that's his own fault.
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And he's saying, oh, Balenciaga is assuring me.
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It's like, you are representing Balenciaga in a creative facility here.
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He's literally the face of the brand in a behind-the-scenes way.
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I mean, it's his concepts that the people behind the scenes are inspired by as well,
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which means that even if he had nothing to do allegedly with this campaign, how could he not?
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I know, but even if he didn't, the people behind the scenes who developed this concept are still inspired by his creepy, you know, things that he likes.
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But anyway, I'm just wondering, like, you know how they say there's no such thing as bad publicity?
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Like, do we think that this is now a case of this is actually bad publicity and it's like they would be better off without it?
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The word Balenciaga has never been spoken so much.
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And I have this later on in our notes because we're going to talk about some of the celebrity responses and stuff.
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But I mean, are celebrities actually going to stop wearing Balenciaga and have the sales dropped?
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I want to know, but because I mean, even Kim Kardashian, we're kind of jumping around a bit, but she.
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OK, so she announced she was reevaluating her future with Balenciaga, but it appears she made up her mind,
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declining an offer from the brand and ditching outfits she was set to wear at upcoming events.
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Sources with direct knowledge of the situation tell us that the design house presented Kim an offer to do a 2023 Balenciaga campaign
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before the controversial child BDSM ads went live.
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TMZ was told once those ads went public, Kim made the decision to reject the offer even before releasing a statement on the issue.
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And then apparently she had plans to wear Balenciaga outfits at events she's attending in coming months, but pulled the plug.
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However, I think it's so weird that if that's how she feels, she didn't.
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She did that and then made a statement that was super wishy-washy.
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She's getting so much criticism for her wishy-washy statement.
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And people are saying, oh, you're not canceling the brand or dropping them.
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Is she actually condemning the brand or is she is this all for optics?
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Because we know she has probably the best PR team out there.
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Which, again, I do respect that she's chosen to decline this offer and she's not going to wear Balenciaga at the next couple events.
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And she could easily just, once this goes away in a couple months, when people forget about it, she could easily just start teaming up with them again.
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Well, there's other celebrities that have decided to burn their Balenciaga or throw it away.
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I made a list of, so there's two articles that we talked about here, but all the celebs that have condemned Balenciaga.
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Kanye West literally wore Balenciaga on Alex Jones, like, last week.
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And not only did he wear Balenciaga, he wore a face mask inspired, allegedly, by Michael Borman's painting.
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Yeah, like, I don't actually know if that, because the mask does look different than the one that they wore at the Met Gala.
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So, the point is, I'm not actually sure if it's, like, a designer piece of Balenciaga, but he's clearly trying to invoke the same look.
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He said, I stand by Balenciaga and denounce all witch hunts, and I cancel, cancel culture.
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Ending trafficking doesn't start or end with a fashion campaign, for Christ's sake.
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Actually, that's just, I mean, that's a really bad take.
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Ending trafficking does start and end with fashion campaigns to a degree.
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I mean, it doesn't end, but it starts, definitely.
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Because anything that exploits children, you shouldn't do.
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And, I mean, the fashion industry in general is notorious for this.
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We see models wearing, like, dressed very maturely, and they end up being really young.
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I mean, that could be considered exploitative, too.
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And then, of course, we know Victoria's Secret has a sinister past as well.
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But another person that they mention is Bella Hadid.
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She simply deleted an Instagram post of her most recent campaign, which included these images.
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I didn't know that she was in the actual campaign images.
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She hasn't come out and said, I've donated every penny of that disgusting campaign to XYZ child trafficking charity.
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And so, those are the ones that I put under bleh.
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And then I put under a new category, the legit ones.
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I don't know who this person is, but rapper Omi in the Hellcat?
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I don't know who you are, but thank you for your...
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And then there's someone named Jason L. Dean's wife, Brittany.
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The thing about these two lists are, the first ones, they don't need an introduction.
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And unfortunately, the ones on the legit list all have to have introductions, such as reality
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stars Ari Lewandowski Jr. and wife Lauren Burnham from The Bachelor.
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Well, everyone knows her because she wrote that poem about Putin.
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And then there's the real Housewives star Bethany Frankel.
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So, it's just like, it's so unfortunate that A-list people who don't need introductions
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are not the ones who are actually condemning this.
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And it's all these people who are like, kind of on the verge of...
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Bethany Frankel suggests that A-listers have stayed quiet due to contracts.
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Why would Bel-Hadid not come out and say something about it?
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Because she doesn't want to lose a very lucrative contract.
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And she actually walked in a runway show in October holding one of those bears.
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I guess we got one more thing here on this and then we can move on.
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Kylie Jenner denies covering up for Balenciaga while wearing...
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So, I actually read in another article about how Kylie Jenner also condemned Balenciaga.
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Oh, they said she was distancing herself from them.
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Yeah, like it's like I'm distancing myself from the misunderstood brand.
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So, people who follow the Kar Jenners will know that Kylie Jenner had a baby about a year ago
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and she has since not released the baby's name or any photos of it.
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And you're like, I think that's cool because I think you shouldn't exploit your children on social media.
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However, the Kardashians, apparently, this is all what I read from Reddit.
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They exploit their female children, posting tons of photos like Kim uses North for her skins products.
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And so, there seems to be a disconnect between how the Kar Jenners treat their female children and their male children.
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And even the way they treated Bruce, formerly Bruce, now Caitlyn Jenner.
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But, so, this past week, Kylie Jenner posted photos of her kid.
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Not his face, but, like, photos with him in them.
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And people were accusing her of distracting from the Balenciaga thing.
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Because real fans of the Kar Jenners have been waiting eagerly to see this kid, which is creepy.
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But, she came out and denied it and said that she wasn't trying to cover up for Balenciaga.
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And people are like, oh, like, she's distancing herself from Balenciaga.
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But in the exact same Instagram post with the pictures of her kid, she's wearing Balenciaga boots and sunglasses.
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That's not, that's not, nothing more close to you than something on your face.
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You know, if you're wearing glasses, that's pretty close.
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Don't have, yeah, I think my thoughts on that are clear.
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Actually, maybe we should just talk about why it's important to keep this conversation alive.
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Why is it important to keep this conversation alive?
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Well, because it's obviously gonna, the news cycle's gonna keep on cycling.
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Yeah, and our society is so okay with exploiting children and glamorizing and normalizing abuse of even women and children.
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And I just don't think we can let them get away with it.
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I think conservatives have made a ruckus about this, and that's great.
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Like, I think there needs to be real justice, because this is actually so evil.
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It is, in a way, because, you know, it's so important, because children are, like, there's a targeted attack against children in our society when it comes to the transgender movement, when it comes to the COVID-19 lockdowns, when it comes to, like, exploiting them, when it comes to Jeffrey frickin' Epstein.
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There's just, everyone hates kids in our society.
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Yeah, well, let's remind everyone, I'm sure we all know, that Ghislaine Maxwell's currently serving a sentence in prison for pimping out children to nobody.
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Because nobody has been charged with actually being the recipient of these young girls.
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So it's, this is how we treat children in our society, like Nat just said.
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And it's disgusting, and we're not gonna drop it.
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No, especially because not only was there pedophilia in a lot of these campaign ads that they had posted, there was also really weird, satanic, and dark symbolism that was very explicit.
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Exactly, and it's not just the one, it's not like, oh, there was just one picture.
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Absolutely, because we shouldn't read into symbols.
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It shouldn't, like, oh, like, I flashed the, oh, this person's now.
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No, like, if there were consistently weird, satanic, pedophilic images in this show, I would urge you to stop watching it.
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There's only, like, one or two, just kidding, there's zero, just kidding.
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So, yeah, we're not gonna drop it, because, you know, screw this big fashion house who thinks that, because, honestly, the media cycle has a, people have the memory of a goldfish these days.
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I don't even know where I am right now what was I talking about I forced her to come here I don't
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even know what I'm saying people have the memory of a goldfish and they think that we're gonna
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forget I genuinely forgot they think we're gonna forget about it but I won't because I wrote it
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down yes it's here this is why we take notes yeah and I mean maybe maybe this is a good thing that
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this is just that they've gone so far like the pendulum has just swung so damn far that people
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are like whoa hold the phone there babe let's bring it back maybe the pendulum is swinging back
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I'm not convinced I'm not that optimistic um but you know justice we need justice for this
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yeah and um we're gonna switch gears a little bit but not even really that much we're still talking
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about justice we're talking about China still in a way exactly because so much of what Balenciaga
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produces is made in China not all of it but much of it yeah some flesh much yes um apparently they're
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unisex t-shirts is one of them really well how much are those shirts yeah they're a little bit
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more expensive than the ones at the rebel store and probably that not that much better quality
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yeah really that's a good point so and you know where to shop you're not supporting a good cause
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you're supporting a little alleged pedophiles literally satanism okay so people you know what's
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happening in China right now but do you know why do you even know why I mean or do you even know
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what do you even know what because I don't find it's being covered too extensively it's not that
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much and yeah it's strange so right now there are huge protests going on in China the biggest ever
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since Yaniman Square in 1989 where uh between hundreds and thousands of people were killed
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for protesting um civil rights free speech etc so right now people are protesting in China
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against the extreme COVID lockdown measures that are taking place there the ongoing testing
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China has a zero tolerance or zero case yeah it's called zero COVID yeah zero COVID so they're
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basically saying if there's a single case they're not going to stop um people are being separated from
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their families so if someone tests positive even a child they're being literally physically removed
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from their families there's a lot going on but what sparked the outrage and the protests um was a fire
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in the place called Jingjang that left 10 people dead and nine people injured yes and the reason that
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this happened people are alleging is because so some of these lockdown measures included people getting
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physically locked in their homes there's videos chained there's there's videos of Chinese authorities
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chaining people into their apartment complexes and bolting doors shut and apparently when the fire
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broke out people couldn't escape yikes and there is video like I saw a video on ladder with Crowder
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of I'm not we're not going to play here because it's so messed up but you can find it if you want
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but of a woman screaming from an apartment building during the fire saying help me help me help me
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I can't watch that I won't yeah I don't want to watch that I don't suggest it um but of course Chinese
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authorities have come out and said that this that is not the case the people were free to exit the fire
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but failed to do so but I don't know if I believe them and apparently people were under lockdown for more
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than a hundred days before this fire in this particular building broke out yeah that's insane that is so insane
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so insane and Canada responded we had a response you guys apparently uh Justin Trudeau stands with the
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people quote expressing themselves and quote amid China COVID-19 protests uh lol is my first response
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I don't understand how the Rachel Gilmore of all people the journalist at Global News well don't worry
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if she didn't mention the convoy okay because she's literally one of the people that was like
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tick-tocking herself during the convoy being like oh my god this is so I can't even work it's so loud
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no she did not actually mention the convoy or how vaccine protests in Canada at all not tie those
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it's not even like when we we've talked about this before like in our Justin Trudeau episode which will
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air in a couple weeks um but we talk about how hypocritical it is that Justin Trudeau will literally
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support any protest going on in any other country yeah except for the one in his own country that targets him
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he only cares if it's not an attack on his alleged dictatorship but this one is literally the same
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exact issue it's COVID mandates yeah extreme COVID lockdowns and COVID mandates yeah so apparently
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he's watching those protests very closely he said every obviously obviously he said obviously
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everyone in China should be allowed to express themselves um they should be allowed to share
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their perspectives not your perspectives just theirs no you shut up and indeed he says protest
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we're going to continue to ensure that China knows we'll stand up for human rights we'll stand with
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people who are expressing themselves it's interesting because you could argue that China is kind of a
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police state right now and although the emergencies act is not as extreme necessary the way it was in
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you know the way it played out was not necessarily as extreme as this it was really bad like a lot of
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really bad things happened during the emergencies act Alexa LaVar was shot uh bank accounts were frozen
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people lost their jobs somebody got trampled medical care exactly people are still being in
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denied medical care in Canada for transplants and stuff like that um and yet he needs to come out and
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make this really democratic freedom loving statement it's sickening it's shocking yeah not shocking
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yeah it's sickening it's sickening oh but don't worry it actually gets better okay he says we also need
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to make sure that China and places around the world are respecting journalists and their ability to do
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their job no you should shoot them with pepper spray canisters and then call them not real journalists
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I mean who I mean you're right to to your earlier point Rachel Gilmore come on what the hell what
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the hell of all people how does she type that up and like she I imagine she was writing it and in her
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mind was like no don't even go there Rachie yeah because that's what she probably maybe don't go
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there Rach girl don't do it don't go there just write the words I mean maybe the vaccine's gotten to
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your brain maybe five boosters in you're just like a like a mess up there I I don't know these are all
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I'm maybe she was a mess before allegedly allegedly but I come on it's crazy yeah the the cognitive
00:31:37.480
dissidence it takes to write something like that or for Justin Trudeau to say those words and it hasn't
00:31:42.740
fallen on deaf ears people on social media are like bae yeah hey but I do notice it's like the people
00:31:49.320
that I follow like Viva Frye well it's like calling him out like it's like yeah obviously but
00:31:53.440
what are the average Canadians who aren't super involved in politics and don't lean heavily one
00:31:58.340
way or the other thinking about this like do they see it I don't know if people want to see it because
00:32:03.120
I mean our COVID response was pretty heavy-handed obviously some of the worst some of the strongest
00:32:07.920
in the world right measures were here and obviously it's not as extreme necessarily as what's
00:32:12.940
happening in China but people didn't see it then so I don't know how they'll see it even if it's
00:32:17.920
exactly I just don't think they will and and part of the whole China thing is that the
00:32:23.440
civil disobedience there is met with super super strict retaliation this is one of the places in
00:32:30.440
the world that if you get arrested sometimes you're never seen again yeah sometimes it's like oh
00:32:34.420
they've just disappeared and you can that can happen yeah so in China protests don't take place
00:32:40.240
very often so these people are literally risking their lives holding up and they're calling it the white
00:32:44.820
paper revolution yeah which is also known as the a4 revolution it's the type of paper that they're
00:32:49.120
using um people are under such extreme censorship that they won't even write anything on the paper
00:32:54.460
it's part of it's like a protest within a protest it's like we don't even need to say it you know
00:32:58.700
what's happening and by putting words on the paper we could be endangering our lives even more so
00:33:03.620
it's super eerie and creepy yeah um and it just the the my point I think is that China is like that
00:33:12.340
because of what happened in 1989 how people then were were trying to protest yeah for civil rights and
00:33:20.980
freedom of speech they didn't want that to happen again exactly they didn't want to go down the path
00:33:24.200
that they're on now and they were all freaking literally mowed down with machine guns for it
00:33:29.120
um and it's not as like in Canada here it's not as bad as it is there but the reason that we have
00:33:36.080
to do things like what people did in February of 2022 protesting to get exactly by peacefully
00:33:42.860
protesting we cannot let ourselves go down this road right and if they're going to start shooting
00:33:47.160
people in the street like that needs to be seen hopefully that never happens in Canada and thank god
00:33:51.560
it didn't yeah but they did trample someone with a horse Alexa got shot with a canister like it's not as
00:33:57.180
bad but we can't ever let it get that bad and that's why it's important that we and even for for
00:34:01.480
protests that we don't personally align with it's so important that they take place peacefully without
00:34:06.680
being you know beaten by the police and the government it's so true it's such a it's such a gift to be able
00:34:13.500
to you know say hey I disagree with my government and to be able to gather and say it loudly and proudly
00:34:20.580
and we were just so complacent as a nation during the COVID-19 pandemic and it it really it was really
00:34:28.200
polarizing and really showed people's true colors and I it's sad because it kind of seems like more
00:34:34.360
Canadians lean on the side of trusting the government rather than you know criticizing COVID-19 measures
00:34:40.900
and it's so scary and I mean people always say oh that'll never happen here that'll never happen here
00:34:46.980
but it will yeah it is happening our freedoms are slipping away every single moment like they
00:34:52.660
really are even with the the the gun bans and all that sort of stuff yeah we should talk about that
00:34:58.160
another time yeah that's a good that's a good story this actually reminds me of um a couple I think it was
00:35:03.280
last winter when the democracy fund had one of those events um I think it's called freedom and
00:35:07.960
democracy with Tucker Carlson Carlson spoke and he talked about how statistically countries that are
00:35:14.960
colder have a more collectivist um mentality because it makes sense if you I think maybe I've mentioned
00:35:22.020
this on the show or the live stream or something but if you live and these aren't my words or theories
00:35:26.080
but anyways if you live in a place that's super super cold and you are ousted by the collective
00:35:30.900
you're going to freeze to death in the forest but if you live in like a warmer climate you might survive
00:35:36.220
more people will come you could build another community so like in Canada it might make sense that's why
00:35:40.600
people are so like I think I would venture that it's like 80 percent people are on board with this
00:35:46.460
that we're on because that's about how many people got vaccinated at the time that we I mean assuming
00:35:52.560
the numbers are accurate assuming the numbers are accurate it was about 80 20 so I would guess that
00:35:57.320
that's about maybe a representation of how people feel about this maybe things have that was you know
00:36:02.800
last year yeah a lot I'm hoping I'm hoping things have changed and I'm hoping things like this that
00:36:07.380
Justin Trudeau saying oh I stand with their right to protest their voices need to be heard
00:36:11.460
what are you talking about like what are you talking about I think he says these kinds of
00:36:16.520
things knowingly though he knows it's gonna piss off conservatives and he knows what like he knows
00:36:22.980
I think he thinks rightfully that people don't remember like we remember because we're involved in
00:36:28.920
this this is what we do but like I think like no offense mom but like someone like my mom will just
00:36:34.080
be like yeah no yeah yep they do care about democracy it's like lady where were you where
00:36:39.380
yeah like it's crazy I think people literally just live in like a two-week bubble just like the
00:36:44.300
balenciaga I mean everyone has tunnel vision too they only want to accept things that they want to
00:36:49.120
accept and see things that they want to see it's so easy to turn a blind eye you know especially when
00:36:54.520
the news cycle does move so quickly it's hard to even go back and find some of these clips of Trudeau
00:36:59.400
saying it's true because things move so damn quick and because we don't use like I don't have
00:37:05.300
a subscription to the Globe and Mail where I can be like hey look at this newspaper article that they
00:37:10.180
printed they could like the Globe and Mail could just delete yeah articles which is very Orwellian y'all
00:37:14.860
it is very Orwellian yeah I'm not saying that they did I'm just saying like it sometimes is hard
00:37:19.600
to go back and find something that you're like I know I read that I know I read that somewhere and
00:37:22.660
it's no it's scrubbed from the internet yeah and you have to look on an archive and you never find it
00:37:26.720
again yeah or tweets that people say you have to go back like one of those time like uh way back
00:37:30.900
machines the moral of the story is screenshots are really great screenshots are useful um so just
00:37:36.140
one more thing on China I guess um so Tucker Carlson Apple is now an active collaborator with
00:37:41.180
China's murderous police state yes and is in no sense American this is uh which is really messed up
00:37:46.920
I mean it's not surprising but apparently they're they've had recent efforts to aid China's communist
00:37:52.040
regime in quashing dissent and putting down a peaceful anti-lockdown movement have prompted
00:37:56.460
some to suggest that Apple takes its marching orders from a genocidal foreign power last week
00:38:00.860
on Tucker Carlson he suggested that while it is not manifestly clear whether the American news media is
00:38:06.520
compromised by a hostile foreign power we know for a fact that Apple is covering for the government of
00:38:11.640
China so basically they disabled the airdrop feature in China which means that the protesters can't
00:38:18.800
and critics of the CCP the Chinese Communist Party were unable to communicate with each other so
00:38:23.260
they cut off communication and Apple would have done that knowingly yeah of course why guys why I
00:38:28.280
wonder if it has to do with money where iPhones made where are Apple products made I'm pretty sure
00:38:34.720
it's in China for the most part yeah and it's messed up because I was I was making my notes on this
00:38:40.100
episode I was writing them on my Apple computer yeah and I was like yeah I was like how what can I do
00:38:46.160
really what like well they they have a monopoly on they do and even if I go to another brand
00:38:52.240
that's made in China too yeah and then if I go to another brand that's probably owned by a Chinese
00:38:56.980
company which is crazy because we're basically a slave to all of these manufacturers who manufacture
00:39:02.620
in China because everybody needs a phone we I mean or at least that's what we're led to believe in 2022
00:39:08.700
because we rely on it for everything we have everything on our phones I don't even know where I live
00:39:13.320
yeah I I don't remember my postal code sometimes I don't I just well I moved yeah I do know my
00:39:20.380
postal code but you know what I mean I mean you know what I mean though like there's so much
00:39:23.740
information on our phones we're still relying on it and it's like while we sit here and criticize
00:39:29.660
China rightfully so we're completely empowering them yeah to continue doing what they do and this is
00:39:37.440
why we're like oh why does Justin Trudeau not speak up why does Elon Musk not say anything like he's
00:39:43.140
he actually recently said something about how China is amazing for how many green vehicles they
00:39:48.640
produce every year it's like yeah despite the fact that they have the most emissions in the world
00:39:53.160
despite the fact that they're literally committing a genocide right now against leaders despite the
00:39:57.160
fact that they had the one child policy and forcibly aborted babies yeah despite all these and the
00:40:01.680
animal torture like racism they they empower North Korea to allow North Korea to exist basically yeah
00:40:11.080
as per yen yen park so but what can we even do it makes me really angry we can't do anything and
00:40:18.660
it's funny because all of these super large companies are always preaching at us about what
00:40:23.200
we need to do we need to do our part we need to recycle we need to and gender pronouns exactly like get
00:40:28.780
that is so unimportant we need to be more inclusive and more accepting and loving rainbows that's going
00:40:33.740
to save the world but literally we're torturing animals and killing human beings for being Muslim
00:40:37.460
in China but no one cares meanwhile yeah it's so true and interestingly enough the mainland Chinese
00:40:43.320
market makes up a fifth of Apple's total revenue that's a pretty big chunk you guys that's a big
00:40:49.640
chunk so follow the money honey and stop stop letting these people preach at you they're hypocrites
00:40:56.520
they're all hypocrites yeah so and in a way so are you for using your iPhone and so am I for using
00:41:02.400
my iPhone I'm not no I'm holding up my iPhone right now it's in those yeah okay yeah um I guess
00:41:09.040
that's the sure on a positive note we shall end let's uh find a better way to live
00:41:15.720
just I don't know we need our phones so you you really can't yeah I'm sorry well there are
00:41:21.060
companies um like Joe Rogan has talked about this at length there are companies that are in the
00:41:25.440
process of figuring out how to make an affordable American built phone yeah in America exactly that's
00:41:31.420
the problem it's extremely expensive it's not going to happen here and Apple's an American
00:41:34.920
company anyways yeah we're not there yet we're working on it though and if you find well America's
00:41:39.120
working on it America's we're not no work in Canada will probably never never know no because
00:41:43.960
Chester literally loves China yeah he's pretty open about that y'all but anyways there is hope
00:41:48.740
perhaps there's hope in like heaven and and the more people that talk about this maybe the more
00:41:54.840
like if we pull money away from these big platforms like Apple maybe we can invest it in new technology
00:42:02.180
that's grown here and built here and maybe yeah it'll cost more but maybe there is a solution
00:42:07.280
yeah I'm just saying it's not definitely hopeless and then like that said you know we'll all die and
00:42:12.940
go to heaven so it'll be fine I mean not everyone only if you accept Jesus in your heart but I'm
00:42:17.260
going to be in heaven we'll see you there you guys hopefully we'll see you yeah um if not um
00:42:21.980
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