Rebel News Podcast - Miss Understood No. 43 – China's White Paper Revolution

00:00:00.000 This one is literally the same exact issue.

00:00:03.520 It's COVID mandates.

00:00:04.640 It's extreme COVID lockdowns and COVID mandates.

00:00:06.680 Yeah, so apparently he's watching those protests very closely.

00:00:10.560 He said every, obviously, obviously, he said, obviously, everyone in China should be allowed to express themselves.

00:00:18.160 They should be allowed to share their perspectives, not your perspectives, just theirs. 0.83

00:00:22.580 No, you shut up.

00:00:23.300 And indeed, he says, protests.

00:00:25.920 We're going to continue to ensure that China knows we'll stand up for human rights.

00:00:30.980 We'll stand with people who are expressing themselves.

00:00:34.000 Come on.

00:00:35.160 Hello, and welcome to Misunderstood, the show for all you culturally and politically misunderstood lady, gent, non-binary, or Balenciaga shopper.

00:01:02.440 We're your hosts.

00:01:03.700 I'm Kat.

00:01:04.260 And I'm Nat.

00:01:05.160 And today, we're keeping the Balenciaga saga alive, bringing forth some updates on the brand's icky scandals.

00:01:11.040 Plus, people are protesting China's strict COVID zero measures, and our democracy-loving prime minister allegedly supports their right to demonstrate.

00:01:19.260 So we provide our super hot take.

00:01:21.720 But first, our patented culture shock moment of the work.

00:01:24.280 Turkey to work, Kurt. 0.58

00:01:26.540 Here's a shocker.

00:01:27.960 Big savings are on the horizon, fam.

00:01:30.660 That's right.

00:01:31.560 Great Rebel News is having a sale right now in the Rebel News store for Christmas?

00:01:36.980 I think it's Christmas.

00:01:37.780 I think it's Christmas.

00:01:38.680 It's the Advent season.

00:01:40.180 So right now, if you buy two unisex t-shirts, you get one for Frey.

00:01:44.860 Okay?

00:01:45.220 And guess what?

00:01:46.940 Misunderstood sells unisex t-shirts.

00:01:48.700 Yes, and what's the code?

00:01:50.620 Oh, um...

00:01:51.880 Christmas!

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00:01:53.420 Is it Christmas one?

00:01:54.240 It's just Christmas.

00:01:55.100 It's Christmas!

00:01:56.340 Use the code CHRISTMAS at checkout.

00:01:57.680 You have to have all three items in your Kurt.

00:02:00.120 Otherwise, the code won't work.

00:02:01.300 Yeah, so don't put two in there and say, where's my free shirt?

00:02:03.460 Yeah.

00:02:03.660 You're not doing it right.

00:02:05.060 And so make sure y'all go to misunderstoodmerch.com and browse our sexy merch. 1.00

00:02:09.520 Like, this sexy sweater.

00:02:10.760 I think this can't...

00:02:11.380 This is not on sale.

00:02:12.040 I think it is, because it's unisex.

00:02:13.760 But it's not a t-shirt.

00:02:14.540 I don't know.

00:02:15.160 Check it out and let us know.

00:02:16.120 Let us know.

00:02:16.780 Okay?

00:02:17.100 This is a new...

00:02:17.840 This is a new color...

00:02:19.100 Yes.

00:02:19.400 ...that we recently added to the store.

00:02:20.940 It's pink.

00:02:22.100 It's so cute.

00:02:22.780 And I already got soup sauce on it.

00:02:24.640 Nothing screams Christmas like a pink sweater.

00:02:26.800 With a stain.

00:02:27.420 Yes.

00:02:28.240 Yours will not come with a stain.

00:02:29.220 It also comes in black.

00:02:30.340 If yours comes with a stain, call us.

00:02:32.760 Yeah, no.

00:02:33.280 I got the stain on post-purchase.

00:02:35.780 Because I had a big bowl of soup.

00:02:38.180 If you want cat-stained sweater, 50K.

00:02:40.400 The bidding starts at 50K.

00:02:42.220 All right.

00:02:42.860 Let's get into it.

00:02:43.680 So, as y'all know, we're going to be talking about Balenciaga again, because there is...

00:02:48.760 It's still going on.

00:02:49.060 It's still going on, surprisingly.

00:02:51.440 Although, I wonder if it's going to come to an end soon.

00:02:54.400 I hope.

00:02:55.000 Do you think people are just going to forget about it as if it never happened?

00:02:57.480 They just go away before Christmas.

00:02:59.020 Yeah.

00:02:59.260 Like, as in the company just stops existing.

00:03:00.960 It completely implodes on itself.

00:03:02.760 That would be nice.

00:03:03.360 I don't think that's going to happen.

00:03:04.260 I don't think so either.

00:03:04.900 Just as a recap, for those of you who don't know, the Balenciaga gift shop campaign shot

00:03:10.680 by Gabriel Gallimberti, depicted children holding bondage-adjacent teddy bear bags, leather

00:03:15.640 harnesses, padlocks, fishnet.

00:03:17.620 And then there was a second campaign featuring Nicole Kidman and Bella Hadid, which showed

00:03:21.000 a $3,000 bag with papers about child pornography laws strewn across the desk.

00:03:25.680 All this was the Tinder that ignited the internet-wide backlash.

00:03:29.320 And of course, as we mentioned last week, there was other satanic and pedophilic symbolic

00:03:34.700 stuff riddled throughout other campaigns, including these two.

00:03:38.780 So, if you missed it, we summed it up in a 60-second clip, which you can find on our YouTube channel.

00:03:44.860 And also, if you go to watchmisunderstood.com, it's there as well.

00:03:47.760 Yeah, watch the full episode.

00:03:48.620 And it's literally 59 seconds and 23 milliseconds.

00:03:52.160 So, I'm sure you have the time.

00:03:53.380 But also, just watch the full episode.

00:03:55.180 Or watch the full episode.

00:03:56.580 Because we did a really thorough deep dive last week.

00:03:59.540 And it was amazing and incredible.

00:04:01.120 It was amazing.

00:04:01.240 And it was life-changingly stunning and brave.

00:04:03.160 It was stunning and brave.

00:04:03.960 And incredibly disturbing.

00:04:05.560 Okay.

00:04:06.080 So, the updates.

00:04:07.320 There's a lot.

00:04:07.940 There's a lot going on.

00:04:08.700 But basically, the big one for me is that Balenciaga has dropped the lawsuit against the production

00:04:13.740 company that it was suing.

00:04:16.340 It had a $25 million lawsuit against, I think, what was the North One or North something?

00:04:23.300 Yes.

00:04:23.540 The production company that shot the actual teddy bear.

00:04:27.580 Or was it the other one?

00:04:29.160 I should know these things.

00:04:30.420 North Six, I think it's called.

00:04:32.140 Yes.

00:04:32.360 North Six.

00:04:33.100 Yeah.

00:04:33.280 I don't know which campaign they actually shot.

00:04:35.520 Was it both?

00:04:36.020 I'm not sure.

00:04:36.620 But I think it's both.

00:04:38.060 I think they shot.

00:04:38.660 It could be both.

00:04:39.040 I think it was.

00:04:39.760 Yes.

00:04:40.040 Because they said, instead of doing a 180, they're doing a 180 focusing on organizations.

00:04:47.400 The fan.

00:04:48.040 We have a fan.

00:04:48.500 That benefit the protection of kids.

00:04:50.320 Lol.

00:04:51.480 So, yes.

00:04:52.120 So, they've dropped the lawsuit.

00:04:54.080 Yes.

00:04:54.280 Last week, I mentioned that I thought they would keep the lawsuit alive until the scandal went

00:05:00.340 away.

00:05:00.700 Right.

00:05:01.120 And I was wrong on that.

00:05:02.380 And it's like, I think it's probably they have even less of a leg to stand on, legally

00:05:07.520 speaking.

00:05:07.560 Well, exactly.

00:05:08.240 So, they were just like, forget it.

00:05:09.840 No, totally.

00:05:10.700 I think it's not out of charity at all that they're giving this money to a child protective

00:05:15.160 sort of charity.

00:05:16.580 They're doing it for optics and to keep people like Kim Kardashian happy.

00:05:20.400 Right.

00:05:20.660 So, that she can keep working with them.

00:05:22.520 Right.

00:05:22.900 Although, allegedly, she won't be anymore.

00:05:24.980 But we'll get into that a little bit later.

00:05:27.000 But there are some other new discoveries.

00:05:29.200 Some interesting things.

00:05:30.420 So, super gross. 0.94

00:05:31.680 You guys. 0.96

00:05:32.740 The Balenciaga Parent Company CEO owns an auction site selling sexually explicit child

00:05:37.660 mannequins.

00:05:38.420 Mm-hmm.

00:05:39.280 So, there's these two brothers named Jake and Dino Chapman. 0.92

00:05:42.260 And they sell art depicting children as sexual objects.

00:05:44.740 I'm not going to describe them. 0.99

00:05:45.700 They're really gross. 0.74

00:05:46.240 If you want to Google it, you can Google it. 0.93

00:05:47.820 I'd rather not. 0.76

00:05:48.420 Gross. 0.73

00:05:48.820 It's so disturbing. 0.98

00:05:49.720 It's worse than you think. 0.99

00:05:50.440 But basically, imagine a baby with genitalia on its face. 0.98

00:05:55.180 Well, yeah. 0.98

00:05:55.560 You just described it.

00:05:56.280 Yeah.

00:05:57.960 It's like a take on Pinocchio.

00:05:59.640 Yeah.

00:06:00.180 But it's not cute. 1.00

00:06:00.720 But with a penis. 1.00

00:06:01.460 It's really not cool. 1.00

00:06:02.280 It's not cool.

00:06:02.940 And so, what does this have to do with Balenciaga?

00:06:06.440 Well, as Nat mentioned, the owner of the parent company.

00:06:11.740 No, he's the CEO of the parent company.

00:06:14.000 Yeah.

00:06:14.320 He's the CEO of the parent company that owns Balenciaga as well as a bunch of other fashion

00:06:17.720 houses.

00:06:18.540 He owns an auction site called Christie's, which people have probably heard of.

00:06:24.080 Yes.

00:06:24.320 And on that site, they sell this disgusting art by these two people, one of which, Jake

00:06:29.380 Chapman, has been quoted as saying, he was talking about parents shouldn't bother taking

00:06:35.220 their children to art galleries or showing them art because children aren't human yet.

00:06:40.120 Oh, yeah.

00:06:40.880 I'm pretty sure he's also a father to children, which is really interesting.

00:06:44.480 There are some people who should not reproduce.

00:06:47.000 No.

00:06:47.240 Interestingly enough, too, this art sold for $189,610 Canadian and was posted on Instagram

00:06:54.740 on Jake and Dino's Instagram, which, by the way, has now been deleted.

00:06:59.000 And it garnered over 1,000 likes. 0.99

00:07:00.960 So, people actually think this is okay, not only on social media, but some rich idiot was 1.00

00:07:06.020 willing to buy this. 1.00

00:07:08.540 Is that like-

00:07:09.300 Imagine going to someone's house and seeing that and then finding out how much they paid

00:07:12.660 for it and then being like, oh, you're one of those, you're one of those people.

00:07:16.080 But how could, how could, like, why is art able to get away with this stuff?

00:07:20.480 Because it's, like, even when you think about movie ratings, for example, someone shows their

00:07:25.380 breasts, then automatically the ratings go up higher. 0.99

00:07:28.460 So, it's an R-rated movie now.

00:07:29.800 But if you see someone naked in a billboard or in a painting-

00:07:33.220 In a subway station.

00:07:34.160 In a subway station, then it's, it's okay because it's art.

00:07:37.640 Oh, the non-subway.

00:07:38.880 No, I mean-

00:07:39.940 I took that out of the way.

00:07:40.740 No.

00:07:41.100 If it's in a subway station, it's not art, but if it's on a billboard, it is art, it

00:07:44.540 makes no sense.

00:07:45.380 Right?

00:07:45.860 Like, I mean, there's this restaurant in my neighborhood and there's literally a painting

00:07:49.200 of a naked woman in the window.

00:07:50.520 And children, it's a very child-friendly neighborhood.

00:07:52.420 There are children walking by all the time and somehow that's okay?

00:07:56.140 It makes no sense.

00:07:57.660 I grew up in a house where there were paintings of naked women. 1.00

00:08:01.040 Were they, like, more tasteful?

00:08:03.760 They were tasteful, yeah.

00:08:04.520 Just like a little side boob. 1.00

00:08:05.720 No, I'm talking, like, something that's more sexually explicit, such as these, Dino and

00:08:11.680 the Chapman brothers are- 0.99

00:08:13.320 Well, they're sick. 1.00

00:08:13.940 Yeah, they're, they're pervy. 0.99

00:08:15.320 Also, this guy, his name is Francois-Henri Pinot.

00:08:18.780 Yeah, he's the CEO.

00:08:20.000 Pinot.

00:08:20.580 Yeah.

00:08:21.280 He's married to Selma Hayek.

00:08:22.960 Yeah, weird.

00:08:23.980 So, you know.

00:08:25.820 Yeah.

00:08:26.720 Disappointing.

00:08:27.200 It is disappointing.

00:08:30.100 Yeah, so that's, and this article on Rebel News, although that's not the one we're showing

00:08:34.840 right now, is it?

00:08:35.500 Anyways, we'll show it.

00:08:36.980 Rebel News wrote this story up and it was mad.

00:08:40.160 I wrote it up.

00:08:41.100 It was mad.

00:08:41.820 I wrote it, you guys.

00:08:42.920 You guys, go check it out.

00:08:44.260 It's amazing.

00:08:45.080 It's amazing.

00:08:45.600 It's the best.

00:08:46.420 And it does show images of the child.

00:08:48.300 Sorry.

00:08:49.060 She's apologizing.

00:08:49.980 I'm apologizing in advance.

00:08:50.980 She's taking my brain, you guys. 0.81

00:08:54.000 I'm so sorry.

00:08:54.980 She's due soon, you guys.

00:08:56.340 I can't think of a single word.

00:08:59.680 What's the thing that Kim wanted them to do?

00:09:02.480 Taking ownership?

00:09:04.580 Yeah.

00:09:04.880 She's doing that.

00:09:06.020 Forget it.

00:09:07.120 Guys, I'm sorry.

00:09:07.920 I need to go home.

00:09:09.220 I need to go give birth.

00:09:10.660 It's been a day.

00:09:11.420 Okay, so another really interesting discovery that people have made is how Balenciaga translates

00:09:18.960 on Google Translate.

00:09:20.880 Olivia, are we able to pull up Google Translate?

00:09:23.440 Olivia.

00:09:23.740 So if you type in Balenciaga on Google Translate with two A's, and then you put a space between

00:09:32.560 the L and the E, and then the I and the A.

00:09:36.260 A?

00:09:36.660 Yeah.

00:09:37.080 And then you make it Latin to English.

00:09:38.560 Yes.

00:09:39.080 It translates to what?

00:09:40.880 Bal is king.

00:09:42.000 Oh, gosh.

00:09:42.740 Or Bale is king.

00:09:43.340 Who is that again? 0.99

00:09:44.400 He's that demonic demon guy that just sacrifices children. 0.88

00:09:48.640 Yeah. 0.83

00:09:49.360 Yeah.

00:09:49.660 He was worshipped by the Israelites in the Bible when they went astray after the death

00:09:53.700 of Gideon, according to Hebrew scriptures.

00:09:55.220 And scriptures have nothing positive to say about this deity.

00:09:59.820 So that's great.

00:10:01.140 It's cute.

00:10:01.440 Really interesting.

00:10:02.220 I mean, it's hard to say if this is intentional or not, but given the history of their recent

00:10:07.440 ad campaigns.

00:10:08.020 It's just more creepiness.

00:10:08.660 It just, yeah, it totally adds to the demonic nature of this brand.

00:10:14.020 Yeah.

00:10:14.660 It's not cute.

00:10:15.580 It's not.

00:10:17.060 And then there's another, one other quick update, which we can talk to at length later

00:10:20.900 if we want to.

00:10:22.040 But Balenciaga has decided to keep Demna, blah, blah, blah, blah, name, last name of.

00:10:29.180 Demna.

00:10:30.400 Do you see?

00:10:31.280 It doesn't matter.

00:10:32.200 Vizalia.

00:10:32.820 Demna Vizalia.

00:10:33.940 Dem, who is the creative director there.

00:10:35.420 So we can, I guess, get to their apologies.

00:10:38.920 Yeah.

00:10:39.340 This is a man who is the creative director at Balenciaga.

00:10:42.700 And it's taken him two weeks following the immense backlash for him to make a statement.

00:10:48.500 And he has issued an apology via Instagram, which is how, you know, it's sincere when you

00:10:53.380 apologize.

00:10:53.620 Oh, gosh.

00:10:53.860 Whenever I screw up in the home, I post it on Instagram first.

00:10:58.200 Whenever I make.

00:10:58.840 At husband.

00:10:59.620 Accidental.

00:10:59.900 I'm so sorry.

00:11:00.900 Yeah.

00:11:01.060 Yeah.

00:11:02.660 So his apology is.

00:11:06.140 It's weak.

00:11:07.000 It's another weak one.

00:11:07.940 I don't have it written down.

00:11:09.400 Do you have it written down?

00:11:09.420 I do.

00:11:09.960 Yes.

00:11:10.100 I will read it.

00:11:10.880 Okay.

00:11:11.360 I want to personally apologize, apologize for the wrong artistic choice of concept for

00:11:15.660 the gifting campaign with the kids.

00:11:17.060 And I take my responsibility.

00:11:18.600 Do you?

00:11:19.200 It was inappropriate to have kids promote objects that had nothing to do with them.

00:11:23.100 You mean.

00:11:23.520 Pause.

00:11:24.120 Teddy bears?

00:11:24.780 You mean.

00:11:25.640 Excuse me?

00:11:26.400 Teddy bears have nothing to do with children?

00:11:27.860 Yeah.

00:11:28.140 That's so weird.

00:11:28.580 I think it was the BDSM.

00:11:30.240 Yeah.

00:11:30.400 I think it was.

00:11:31.140 I think it was the kind of, you know, sexual nature of the objects, not the objects themselves.

00:11:35.960 Yeah.

00:11:36.520 But also teddy bears are completely tied to children.

00:11:39.440 Yes.

00:11:39.720 Well, also apparently allegedly pedophiles. 0.65

00:11:41.700 So we'll see.

00:11:42.700 Continue.

00:11:42.900 As much as I would sometimes like to provoke a thought through my work, I would never have

00:11:47.920 an intention to do that with such an awful subjects as child abuse that I condemn, period.

00:11:53.680 Yeah.

00:11:54.100 Really?

00:11:54.620 Then you should maybe resign.

00:11:56.480 He has more.

00:11:57.360 Don't worry.

00:11:58.040 I apologize to anyone offended by the vigils.

00:12:00.760 Oh, classic.

00:12:01.920 Classic fake apology.

00:12:03.620 So if you were offended, I'm sorry.

00:12:05.780 I'm sorry you're offended by what I did.

00:12:07.040 He's not sorry about the overall concept or the subjugation of these children.

00:12:13.240 Is that a word?

00:12:14.680 I think so.

00:12:16.420 I don't know.

00:12:17.060 Anyway.

00:12:17.360 We'll find out.

00:12:17.860 We'll cut that.

00:12:19.080 He's not offended by the nature of the campaign.

00:12:23.580 Anyway, we'll continue.

00:12:25.140 So I apologize to anyone offended by the visuals.

00:12:27.180 And Balenciaga has guaranteed that adequate measures will be taken, not only to avoid similar

00:12:31.960 mistakes in the future, but also to take accountability in protecting child welfare in every way we

00:12:37.000 can.

00:12:38.380 But they won't fire you.

00:12:39.800 No.

00:12:40.660 And you won't step down.

00:12:41.660 I mean, if he were truly sorry, he would have resigned.

00:12:44.560 I completely stand by that.

00:12:46.900 I mean, really?

00:12:48.460 It's just like, and he's like, he's the creative director.

00:12:51.940 So nothing is going to go up without his eyes on it.

00:12:55.160 And even if he doesn't have his eyes on it, that's his own fault.

00:12:58.720 Nothing should go on without his knowledge.

00:13:01.440 And he's saying, oh, Balenciaga is assuring me.

00:13:04.600 Balenciaga.

00:13:04.960 It's like, you are representing Balenciaga in a creative facility here.

00:13:08.500 He's literally the face of the brand in a behind-the-scenes way.

00:13:11.940 You know what I mean?

00:13:12.420 There's no one to pass this off to.

00:13:14.720 I mean, it's his concepts that the people behind the scenes are inspired by as well,

00:13:19.100 which means that even if he had nothing to do allegedly with this campaign, how could he not?

00:13:25.380 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.

00:13:34.620 I don't know.

00:13:35.020 But anyway, I'm just wondering, like, you know how they say there's no such thing as bad publicity?

00:13:42.880 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?

00:13:49.640 Or do you think Balenciaga is not firing him?

00:13:51.800 Because it's like, you know what?

00:13:52.940 The word Balenciaga has never been spoken so much.

00:13:55.820 Is that bad?

00:13:56.660 Yeah.

00:13:56.920 And I have this later on in our notes because we're going to talk about some of the celebrity responses and stuff.

00:14:02.280 But I mean, are celebrities actually going to stop wearing Balenciaga and have the sales dropped?

00:14:07.840 I didn't.

00:14:08.500 I want to know, but because I mean, even Kim Kardashian, we're kind of jumping around a bit, but she. 0.99

00:14:15.980 Well, I guess not really.

00:14:17.460 Yeah.

00:14:18.140 We talked about the lawsuit.

00:14:19.420 She said.

00:14:21.100 OK, one sec.

00:14:23.400 OK, so she announced she was reevaluating her future with Balenciaga, but it appears she made up her mind,

00:14:29.140 declining an offer from the brand and ditching outfits she was set to wear at upcoming events.

00:14:33.500 Sources with direct knowledge of the situation tell us that the design house presented Kim an offer to do a 2023 Balenciaga campaign

00:14:40.920 before the controversial child BDSM ads went live.

00:14:45.160 TMZ was told once those ads went public, Kim made the decision to reject the offer even before releasing a statement on the issue.

00:14:53.000 And then apparently she had plans to wear Balenciaga outfits at events she's attending in coming months, but pulled the plug.

00:14:57.660 I just don't understand.

00:15:00.000 Like, that's cool.

00:15:00.740 I respect that.

00:15:01.540 Me too.

00:15:02.260 However, I think it's so weird that if that's how she feels, she didn't.

00:15:05.660 She did that and then made a statement that was super wishy-washy.

00:15:09.060 Well, that's what I might.

00:15:10.140 She's getting so much criticism for her wishy-washy statement.

00:15:12.800 And people are saying, oh, you're not canceling the brand or dropping them.

00:15:16.680 Yeah, well, she did.

00:15:18.380 That was my question, though.

00:15:19.520 Is she actually condemning the brand or is she is this all for optics?

00:15:23.540 Because we know she has probably the best PR team out there. 1.00

00:15:27.620 Yeah, and it's also a temporary measure.

00:15:29.980 Like, she's not severing ties with them.

00:15:33.280 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.

00:15:39.980 Like, that's something.

00:15:40.620 How big?

00:15:41.180 It's something.

00:15:42.520 Yeah.

00:15:42.880 But it's not a permanent solution.

00:15:44.780 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.

00:15:52.000 Yeah, that's what I was thinking, too.

00:15:54.220 But, I mean.

00:15:54.920 I hope she doesn't.

00:15:55.420 I hope so as well.

00:15:57.740 What else do we have here?

00:15:58.900 Well, there's other celebrities that have decided to burn their Balenciaga or throw it away.

00:16:05.180 I made a list of, so there's two articles that we talked about here, but all the celebs that have condemned Balenciaga.

00:16:13.200 The one that you sent was better, I think.

00:16:15.760 Was it Indy?

00:16:17.800 Or whatever.

00:16:18.380 It doesn't matter.

00:16:18.920 No, I sent a different one.

00:16:19.820 Okay.

00:16:20.160 So, from US Magazine.

00:16:21.500 Or US Magazine.

00:16:22.100 Yes.

00:16:22.400 So, there's a list here.

00:16:23.900 There's Kim Kardashian.

00:16:26.700 Allegedly.

00:16:27.580 Allegedly.

00:16:28.420 Kanye West.

00:16:29.420 So, this is their list.

00:16:30.440 They write Kim Kardashian, maybe.

00:16:32.640 Okay.

00:16:33.140 Kanye West.

00:16:34.320 No.

00:16:34.800 No.

00:16:35.180 Kanye West literally wore Balenciaga on Alex Jones, like, last week.

00:16:39.440 Yeah.

00:16:39.960 And not only did he wear Balenciaga, he wore a face mask inspired, allegedly, by Michael Borman's painting.

00:16:47.160 So, that's pretty sinister.

00:16:48.740 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.

00:16:54.520 Like, it looks more like a sock.

00:16:56.040 I mean.

00:16:56.700 It's like a crappier version of it.

00:16:58.020 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.

00:17:04.700 Yeah, and even the things he said on Twitter.

00:17:07.520 He said, I stand by Balenciaga and denounce all witch hunts, and I cancel, cancel culture.

00:17:12.300 Jesus is king.

00:17:13.100 Ending trafficking doesn't start or end with a fashion campaign, for Christ's sake. 0.99

00:17:17.140 Actually, that's just, I mean, that's a really bad take.

00:17:20.760 Ending trafficking does start and end with fashion campaigns to a degree.

00:17:24.500 Like, anything that's exploitative.

00:17:25.940 I mean, it doesn't end, but it starts, definitely.

00:17:28.540 Yeah, I think it could end, though.

00:17:29.700 You're right.

00:17:30.180 Because anything that exploits children, you shouldn't do.

00:17:33.040 And, I mean, the fashion industry in general is notorious for this.

00:17:36.000 We see models wearing, like, dressed very maturely, and they end up being really young.

00:17:41.360 You know, stuff like that.

00:17:42.360 I mean, that could be considered exploitative, too.

00:17:44.360 Yeah, absolutely.

00:17:44.580 We've talked about this before.

00:17:45.720 Many runway models are under the age of 18. 0.90

00:17:47.960 Right.

00:17:48.680 And then, of course, we know Victoria's Secret has a sinister past as well.

00:17:52.920 Just all those kinds of things.

00:17:54.140 So, just a really bad take.

00:17:55.660 It's a bad take.

00:17:57.540 He's, yeah.

00:17:58.440 He's on a tear right now.

00:18:00.120 But another person that they mention is Bella Hadid.

00:18:03.780 Bella Hadid did not condemn Balenciaga.

00:18:06.220 She simply deleted an Instagram post of her most recent campaign, which included these images.

00:18:11.340 Yeah, which is so fascinating.

00:18:12.860 I didn't know that she was in the actual campaign images.

00:18:16.040 You didn't look at the set?

00:18:17.960 So, she just quietly deleted them.

00:18:20.440 Like, oop, dip, doop.

00:18:21.540 That's not a condemnation.

00:18:22.140 But she took her money still, I'm sure.

00:18:23.540 Yeah.

00:18:23.560 Oh, yeah, for sure.

00:18:24.580 She hasn't come out and said, I've donated every penny of that disgusting campaign to XYZ child trafficking charity. 1.00

00:18:30.880 No.

00:18:31.260 That would be too big of her.

00:18:32.160 Yeah.

00:18:32.700 So, there's more people on this list.

00:18:35.360 And so, those are the ones that I put under bleh.

00:18:37.700 Yeah.

00:18:38.180 And then I put under a new category, the legit ones.

00:18:41.120 I don't know who this person is, but rapper Omi in the Hellcat?

00:18:45.740 I don't know who that is.

00:18:46.900 Hellcat?

00:18:47.360 Hellcat?

00:18:47.820 I don't know who that is either.

00:18:48.260 I don't know who you are, but thank you for your...

00:18:49.900 I think he burned his Balenciaga.

00:18:51.920 He did.

00:18:51.940 He did.

00:18:52.460 So, that's symbolic.

00:18:53.420 And then there's someone named Jason L. Dean's wife, Brittany.

00:18:56.440 I don't know who that is.

00:18:57.240 He's a country singer.

00:18:58.320 Okay.

00:18:58.680 Yeah.

00:18:58.800 The thing about these two lists are, the first ones, they don't need an introduction.

00:19:03.320 Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Bel-Hadid.

00:19:04.740 You're like, oh, I know who those are.

00:19:05.780 And unfortunately, the ones on the legit list all have to have introductions, such as reality

00:19:10.060 stars Ari Lewandowski Jr. and wife Lauren Burnham from The Bachelor.

00:19:15.420 And then there's 90210 star Anna Lynn McCord.

00:19:19.380 Well, everyone knows her because she wrote that poem about Putin.

00:19:23.300 Right.

00:19:24.100 Yeah.

00:19:24.920 And then there's the real Housewives star Bethany Frankel.

00:19:27.660 So, it's just like, it's so unfortunate that A-list people who don't need introductions

00:19:32.120 are not the ones who are actually condemning this.

00:19:34.260 And it's all these people who are like, kind of on the verge of...

00:19:37.680 Like, they're famous in their circles.

00:19:39.960 Yeah.

00:19:40.140 Just like we are with our fan right there.

00:19:42.960 Our literal fan.

00:19:44.600 Bethany Frankel suggests that A-listers have stayed quiet due to contracts.

00:19:49.000 And maybe she's right.

00:19:50.460 Yeah.

00:19:50.620 I mean, I don't know.

00:19:51.840 That sounds about right.

00:19:52.680 Sounds about right.

00:19:53.160 We don't know for sure.

00:19:54.140 Yeah.

00:19:54.440 But that...

00:19:55.040 Well, why else would you be so silent on it?

00:19:57.680 Yeah.

00:19:58.220 Why would Bel-Hadid not come out and say something about it?

00:20:00.280 Because she doesn't want to lose a very lucrative contract.

00:20:02.880 And she actually walked in a runway show in October holding one of those bears.

00:20:09.000 Yeah.

00:20:09.680 She didn't think that was weird.

00:20:10.540 Now, there were no kids in that.

00:20:13.120 But even still...

00:20:13.680 But it's still a friggin' weird...

00:20:15.180 It's a teddy bear.

00:20:15.380 It's a teddy bear.

00:20:16.060 Yeah.

00:20:16.420 That's for babies. 1.00

00:20:17.420 It's for babies.

00:20:18.120 Yeah. 0.98

00:20:19.160 And allegedly pedophiles.

00:20:20.740 Yeah.

00:20:21.160 Allegedly.

00:20:21.860 Yeah.

00:20:22.220 But...

00:20:23.220 And then...

00:20:23.860 I guess we got one more thing here on this and then we can move on.

00:20:27.420 Kylie Jenner.

00:20:28.300 Hmm.

00:20:29.120 Kylie Jenner denies covering up for Balenciaga while wearing... 1.00

00:20:34.400 Balenciaga!

00:20:35.120 Oh, my gosh.

00:20:36.220 Well, that was...

00:20:36.940 That must be interesting.

00:20:38.380 So, I actually read in another article about how Kylie Jenner also condemned Balenciaga.

00:20:43.240 Oh, really?

00:20:43.840 Oh, no.

00:20:44.060 Oh, they said she was distancing herself from them.

00:20:46.440 Oh, really?

00:20:47.320 You know how I distance myself from brands?

00:20:49.200 I just wear their boots.

00:20:50.500 Yeah, I just...

00:20:51.060 In an Instagram post.

00:20:52.480 That's what I do.

00:20:53.300 Yeah, so...

00:20:53.940 Nothing screams distance like on your feet.

00:20:56.360 Yeah, like it's like I'm distancing myself from the misunderstood brand.

00:20:59.540 Oh, oh.

00:20:59.800 By wearing this.

00:21:01.740 No, I'm not.

00:21:02.320 Not doing a great job.

00:21:03.200 I'm not doing a great job.

00:21:04.140 So, people who follow the Kar Jenners will know that Kylie Jenner had a baby about a year ago

00:21:12.420 and she has since not released the baby's name or any photos of it.

00:21:16.140 And you're like, I think that's cool because I think you shouldn't exploit your children on social media.

00:21:20.860 However, the Kardashians, apparently, this is all what I read from Reddit.

00:21:23.980 They exploit their female children, posting tons of photos like Kim uses North for her skins products. 0.99

00:21:33.220 They have TikTok together.

00:21:34.180 They have TikToks.

00:21:35.140 And so, there seems to be a disconnect between how the Kar Jenners treat their female children and their male children. 0.99

00:21:42.440 I mean, even look at their brother, Rob.

00:21:43.900 Exactly.

00:21:44.400 He's totally off the radar.

00:21:46.660 Yeah.

00:21:46.940 And even the way they treated Bruce, formerly Bruce, now Caitlyn Jenner.

00:21:50.880 Exactly.

00:21:51.220 But, so, this past week, Kylie Jenner posted photos of her kid.

00:21:56.580 Not his face, but, like, photos with him in them.

00:21:59.840 And this is the first since the child's birth.

00:22:02.560 And people were accusing her of distracting from the Balenciaga thing.

00:22:06.940 Because real fans of the Kar Jenners have been waiting eagerly to see this kid, which is creepy. 0.88

00:22:11.940 Yeah, I mean, it wasn't even on their show.

00:22:14.600 No, exactly.

00:22:15.000 This is the second season of The Kardashians.

00:22:16.300 It's super weird.

00:22:17.120 Get a life.

00:22:17.640 But, she came out and denied it and said that she wasn't trying to cover up for Balenciaga.

00:22:24.400 And people are like, oh, like, she's distancing herself from Balenciaga.

00:22:27.640 But in the exact same Instagram post with the pictures of her kid, she's wearing Balenciaga boots and sunglasses.

00:22:33.060 Yeah.

00:22:33.360 That's not, that's not, nothing more close to you than something on your face.

00:22:37.760 You know, if you're wearing glasses, that's pretty close.

00:22:40.580 Super strange.

00:22:41.900 Super strange.

00:22:42.620 Don't have, yeah, I think my thoughts on that are clear.

00:22:45.360 Yeah.

00:22:46.180 Okay.

00:22:47.000 I think that's it for that.

00:22:48.220 Actually, maybe we should just talk about why it's important to keep this conversation alive.

00:22:53.400 Why is it important to keep this conversation alive?

00:22:55.420 Well, because it's obviously gonna, the news cycle's gonna keep on cycling.

00:23:00.760 And people are gonna forget about this.

00:23:02.220 And Balenciaga's going to get away with this.

00:23:03.860 Yeah, and our society is so okay with exploiting children and glamorizing and normalizing abuse of even women and children. 0.82

00:23:12.820 And I just don't think we can let them get away with it.

00:23:16.120 I think conservatives have made a ruckus about this, and that's great.

00:23:20.500 But I don't think we should stop.

00:23:22.080 Like, I think there needs to be real justice, because this is actually so evil.

00:23:26.420 This is our January 6th.

00:23:27.520 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.

00:23:43.380 There's just, everyone hates kids in our society.

00:23:45.600 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. 0.99

00:23:54.520 Yeah, apparently nobody.

00:23:55.600 Because nobody has been charged with actually being the recipient of these young girls.

00:24:00.660 So it's, this is how we treat children in our society, like Nat just said.

00:24:04.660 And it's disgusting, and we're not gonna drop it.

00:24:07.000 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. 0.63

00:24:19.640 And I just think we can't ignore it.

00:24:22.080 Exactly, and it's not just the one, it's not like, oh, there was just one picture.

00:24:25.360 Absolutely, because we shouldn't read into symbols.

00:24:27.160 Exactly, yeah.

00:24:27.820 It shouldn't, like, oh, like, I flashed the, oh, this person's now.

00:24:31.700 Yeah, like, you know, I'm, no, Illuminati.

00:24:33.720 No, like, if there were consistently weird, satanic, pedophilic images in this show, I would urge you to stop watching it.

00:24:42.080 Yeah.

00:24:42.560 There's only, like, one or two, just kidding, there's zero, just kidding.

00:24:46.720 Okay.

00:24:48.160 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.

00:24:58.940 Yeah.

00:24:59.200 Mostly me, because of my hormones.

00:25:00.920 I don't even know where I am right now what was I talking about I forced her to come here I don't

00:25:06.740 even know what I'm saying people have the memory of a goldfish and they think that we're gonna

00:25:10.560 forget I genuinely forgot they think we're gonna forget about it but I won't because I wrote it

00:25:15.480 down yes it's here this is why we take notes yeah and I mean maybe maybe this is a good thing that

00:25:21.420 this is just that they've gone so far like the pendulum has just swung so damn far that people

00:25:26.860 are like whoa hold the phone there babe let's bring it back maybe the pendulum is swinging back

00:25:31.700 I'm not convinced I'm not that optimistic um but you know justice we need justice for this

00:25:38.780 yeah and um we're gonna switch gears a little bit but not even really that much we're still talking

00:25:44.900 about justice we're talking about China still in a way exactly because so much of what Balenciaga

00:25:50.140 produces is made in China not all of it but much of it yeah some flesh much yes um apparently they're

00:25:56.320 unisex t-shirts is one of them really well how much are those shirts yeah they're a little bit

00:26:01.500 more expensive than the ones at the rebel store and probably that not that much better quality

00:26:05.040 yeah really that's a good point so and you know where to shop you're not supporting a good cause

00:26:09.220 you're supporting a little alleged pedophiles literally satanism okay so people you know what's

00:26:15.980 happening in China right now but do you know why do you even know why I mean or do you even know

00:26:21.360 what do you even know what because I don't find it's being covered too extensively it's not that

00:26:26.460 much and yeah it's strange so right now there are huge protests going on in China the biggest ever

00:26:32.920 since Yaniman Square in 1989 where uh between hundreds and thousands of people were killed

00:26:39.100 for protesting um civil rights free speech etc so right now people are protesting in China

00:26:45.400 against the extreme COVID lockdown measures that are taking place there the ongoing testing

00:26:51.600 China has a zero tolerance or zero case yeah it's called zero COVID yeah zero COVID so they're 0.96

00:26:57.840 basically saying if there's a single case they're not going to stop um people are being separated from

00:27:03.640 their families so if someone tests positive even a child they're being literally physically removed

00:27:08.160 from their families there's a lot going on but what sparked the outrage and the protests um was a fire

00:27:15.500 in the place called Jingjang that left 10 people dead and nine people injured yes and the reason that

00:27:23.740 this happened people are alleging is because so some of these lockdown measures included people getting

00:27:30.400 physically locked in their homes there's videos chained there's there's videos of Chinese authorities

00:27:36.300 chaining people into their apartment complexes and bolting doors shut and apparently when the fire

00:27:43.440 broke out people couldn't escape yikes and there is video like I saw a video on ladder with Crowder

00:27:49.260 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

00:27:53.080 but of a woman screaming from an apartment building during the fire saying help me help me help me

00:27:57.860 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 1.00

00:28:02.680 authorities have come out and said that this that is not the case the people were free to exit the fire

00:28:08.580 but failed to do so but I don't know if I believe them and apparently people were under lockdown for more

00:28:15.940 than a hundred days before this fire in this particular building broke out yeah that's insane that is so insane

00:28:21.820 so insane and Canada responded we had a response you guys apparently uh Justin Trudeau stands with the

00:28:30.960 people quote expressing themselves and quote amid China COVID-19 protests uh lol is my first response

00:28:38.900 I don't understand how the Rachel Gilmore of all people the journalist at Global News well don't worry

00:28:45.720 if she didn't mention the convoy okay because she's literally one of the people that was like

00:28:49.920 tick-tocking herself during the convoy being like oh my god this is so I can't even work it's so loud

00:28:55.480 no she did not actually mention the convoy or how vaccine protests in Canada at all not tie those

00:29:01.920 it's not even like when we we've talked about this before like in our Justin Trudeau episode which will

00:29:07.420 air in a couple weeks um but we talk about how hypocritical it is that Justin Trudeau will literally

00:29:13.700 support any protest going on in any other country yeah except for the one in his own country that targets him

00:29:19.800 he only cares if it's not an attack on his alleged dictatorship but this one is literally the same

00:29:26.860 exact issue it's COVID mandates yeah extreme COVID lockdowns and COVID mandates yeah so apparently

00:29:32.260 he's watching those protests very closely he said every obviously obviously he said obviously

00:29:39.020 everyone in China should be allowed to express themselves um they should be allowed to share

00:29:44.380 their perspectives not your perspectives just theirs no you shut up and indeed he says protest

00:29:50.560 we're going to continue to ensure that China knows we'll stand up for human rights we'll stand with

00:29:56.720 people who are expressing themselves it's interesting because you could argue that China is kind of a

00:30:02.320 police state right now and although the emergencies act is not as extreme necessary the way it was in

00:30:10.340 you know the way it played out was not necessarily as extreme as this it was really bad like a lot of

00:30:16.380 really bad things happened during the emergencies act Alexa LaVar was shot uh bank accounts were frozen

00:30:22.580 people lost their jobs somebody got trampled medical care exactly people are still being in

00:30:27.860 denied medical care in Canada for transplants and stuff like that um and yet he needs to come out and

00:30:34.820 make this really democratic freedom loving statement it's sickening it's shocking yeah not shocking

00:30:42.200 yeah it's sickening it's sickening oh but don't worry it actually gets better okay he says we also need

00:30:47.400 to make sure that China and places around the world are respecting journalists and their ability to do

00:30:54.740 their job no you should shoot them with pepper spray canisters and then call them not real journalists 0.75

00:31:00.020 I mean who I mean you're right to to your earlier point Rachel Gilmore come on what the hell what 0.93

00:31:07.760 the hell of all people how does she type that up and like she I imagine she was writing it and in her

00:31:13.340 mind was like no don't even go there Rachie yeah because that's what she probably maybe don't go 1.00

00:31:18.240 there Rach girl don't do it don't go there just write the words I mean maybe the vaccine's gotten to

00:31:23.260 your brain maybe five boosters in you're just like a like a mess up there I I don't know these are all

00:31:30.220 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 0.67

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 1.00

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 0.50

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 0.99

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 0.99

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 0.86

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 1.00

00:40:37.460 in China but no one cares meanwhile yeah it's so true and interestingly enough the mainland Chinese 0.98

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 0.97

00:40:49.640 chunk so follow the money honey and stop stop letting these people preach at you they're hypocrites 0.97

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 0.99

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 0.98

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

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Rebel News Podcast - December 06, 2022

Miss Understood No. 43 – China's White Paper Revolution

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