Rebel News Podcast - Rebel Roundup： Guests Amanda Head, Keean Bexte, & Sheila Gunn Reid!

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00:00:14.720 What a turn of events.

00:00:17.140 Jussie Smollett looked like he was going to be doing some time in the slammer 0.97

00:00:20.700 for that outrageous hoax he masterminded.

00:00:24.280 But then all charges were dropped.

00:00:26.280 Amanda Head will explain why it's very convenient to have friends in high places these days 0.85

00:00:31.760 and why this story is far, far from over.

00:00:35.920 And are you transphobic?

00:00:37.860 Well then, take the transphobia quiz in a new book called Transphobia.

00:00:43.380 Deal with it and be a gender transcender. 0.97

00:00:47.140 But get this, the propaganda in this book is now being foisted on 11-year-old kids in Nova Scotia schools.

00:00:53.680 Kian Bexte has all the unbelievable details.

00:00:58.200 And our resident troublemaker, Sheila Gunn-Reed, while she's been crisscrossing Alberta with her Stop Notley signs, 1.00

00:01:04.660 she dropped by Nisku recently.

00:01:06.480 And judging by the crowd's mood, it would appear that major regime change shall be occurring in that province in the weeks ahead.

00:01:14.380 And finally, letters, we get your letters, we get them every minute of every day.

00:01:19.080 And I'll share some of your responses regarding my brief interview with Jordan Hunt,

00:01:24.740 that Toronto male feminist who seems to have a fetish for physically assaulting women

00:01:30.180 who espouse opinions that differ from him, his.

00:01:34.440 Spoiler alert, he didn't lay a hand on me during our encounter.

00:01:38.400 I wonder why.

00:01:40.300 Those are your rebels, now let's round them up.

00:01:42.720 We'll be right back.

00:02:12.700 It was her assistant, Joe Maggetts, who dropped the charges after Smollett completed 16 hours of community service

00:02:19.460 and relinquished his $10,000 bond amount.

00:02:22.960 As if $10,000 would cover all of the costs associated with this case.

00:02:26.280 Whatever.

00:02:27.100 But apparently, Fox was trying to avoid Chicago PD involvement from the very beginning.

00:02:31.740 She knew that CPD Superintendent Eddie Johnson wasn't going to let this go.

00:02:36.080 So early on, she tried to finagle the case away from CPD to get it over to the FBI,

00:02:41.840 which would be, quote,

00:02:42.840 a huge victory, as she said, in text messages recovered by the Chicago NBC affiliate via a Freedom of Information Act request.

00:02:50.260 Make no mistake, this is not an exoneration.

00:02:52.400 As reported by Daily Mail,

00:02:54.260 Assistant State Attorney Joe Maggetts thought Smollett was guilty,

00:02:58.400 but that based on the facts and circumstances of the case and his lack of criminal background,

00:03:02.320 the decision was made not to pursue the 16 felony disorderly conduct charges that a grand jury returned.

00:03:08.660 Well, it's not quite like getting away with murder a la O.J. Simpson,

00:03:13.740 but my goodness, it sure looked like Jussie Smollett was done like dinner regarding that outrageous hate crime 1.00

00:03:21.460 against them that many believe, of course, never actually happened.

00:03:25.200 But instead of a trial and going to the local crowbar motel pending a guilty verdict,

00:03:32.240 which seems certain, Smollett is now free as a bird after all 16 felony charges against him were miraculously dropped.

00:03:41.200 But the question remains, why?

00:03:44.340 And joining me now to further discuss the shocking turn of events regarding Smollett

00:03:49.140 is our L.A.-based Hollywood conservative, Amanda Head. 0.90

00:03:52.540 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Amanda.

00:03:54.180 Thanks for having me.

00:03:56.460 Always a pleasure, my friend.

00:03:57.680 So, Amanda, I thought James Woods really nailed it in a tweet when he said something along the lines

00:04:03.220 that Smollett can now team up with O.J. to help him look for the real killer.

00:04:08.040 So, Amanda, what in blue hell is the unspoken story regarding Tuesday's shocking announcement?

00:04:16.620 Yeah, so I think we all woke up Tuesday morning kind of bewildered because this kind of came out of the blue.

00:04:21.880 His next court appearance wasn't scheduled until the middle of next month.

00:04:26.260 But this was an emergency hearing held after Smollett had apparently participated in 16 hours of community service.

00:04:35.720 We don't actually have any proof that that happened.

00:04:38.060 And he surrendered his $10,000 bond as though that's going to cover the cost of this investigation.

00:04:45.320 But what has been uncovered since then is the fact that Kim Fox, the state attorney who said that she recused herself from the case,

00:04:54.460 although we have now found out that she never actually did officially recuse herself.

00:05:00.020 But prior to that announcement that she would be recusing herself due to a personal relationship with Jussie Smollett as well as his family members,

00:05:07.920 we found out that she tried to wrestle this investigation away from Chicago police and hand it over to the FBI. 0.89

00:05:15.600 Now, I don't know who her contacts are within the FBI, but it became apparent that she had reasons for wanting Chicago police department to no longer handle this investigation.

00:05:26.220 Likely because she saw Eddie Johnson's initial comments about this and knew that Eddie Johnson, being the superintendent of CPD,

00:05:33.560 was not going to let this go because the situation is that Chicago has a lot of problems, most of them pertaining to crime.

00:05:40.600 And this is just something that it was going to be a really, really dark blotch on Chicago's reputation.

00:05:46.400 And I think that Superintendent Eddie Johnson was not willing to let that go, and she knew that.

00:05:51.280 And then via a Freedom of Information Act request from NBC Chicago,

00:05:56.820 we have now seen these text messages between a Michelle Obama affiliate and Kim Fox herself,

00:06:04.540 basically proffering the notion that this investigation should go to the FBI.

00:06:08.160 And Kim Fox in these text messages says, and I quote, that would be a huge victory.

00:06:13.600 So she obviously felt like there was something to benefit from by sending this over to the FBI instead of CPD.

00:06:20.440 But it's getting deeper and deeper, and now it's looking like the feds are going to get involved,

00:06:24.900 not only because of the mail fraud charge, but also because of this shady situation with state attorney Kim Fox.

00:06:31.880 So it's going to be interesting. I don't think this is the end of it.

00:06:34.980 Oh, far from the end. It's just the beginning of a new chapter, and it's going to be a scandal.

00:06:39.880 I mean, you know, Amanda, it's funny how the left always likes to go on about white privilege.

00:06:43.800 When it comes to Chicago, I think I'd gladly trade my white privilege for black, gay, liberal, democrat privilege,

00:06:53.560 because that is really what's going on here, isn't it?

00:06:55.840 There is somebody in power that spoke to somebody else in power, and they said, drop those charges.

00:07:04.660 And I think that is at the root of this.

00:07:07.480 And when that proof can be forthcoming, this is just the very beginning of a terrible scandal.

00:07:13.640 Yeah, and like I said, it doesn't look good on Chicago, but the difference is there is no longer a two-tier justice system.

00:07:22.460 If you are a normal private citizen, just regular old Joe Schmo middle American, 0.99

00:07:27.980 there is one system of justice for you and then for the highly connected and privileged,

00:07:33.160 which would be Jussie Smollett, because not only is he black, not only is he gay, not only is he liberal,

00:07:38.220 not only is he a Trump hater, but he's also a celebrity.

00:07:41.480 So he has this intersectionality, identity politics force field around him that has protected him.

00:07:47.620 And now this connection with Michelle Obama is making, is showing that the tentacles run even deeper.

00:07:55.220 And, you know, you combine that with the college cheating scandal.

00:07:59.240 And this is why Donald Trump won in 2016.

00:08:01.820 And I don't think people are really talking about this in connection with it.

00:08:04.380 Donald Trump won in 2016, and he pulled people over from the left because he spoke to this notion,

00:08:11.500 this current climate, and this negative feeling that Americans have that people within the Beltway in D.C.

00:08:17.420 and people who are well-connected to those people don't ever suffer any consequences for their actions.

00:08:22.680 And this is exactly what we are seeing with Jussie Smollett.

00:08:25.940 He not only lied about the situation, he tried to smear 62 million Americans,

00:08:32.520 people who voted for Donald Trump, and seemingly, as of Tuesday, he's getting away scot-free.

00:08:38.060 But I don't think it's that quick because, you know, they still have this letter in their possession

00:08:43.020 that might have DNA where Jussie Smollett licked it or where he licked the stamp, allegedly.

00:08:48.460 So, and that's a federal charge, so we'll see.

00:08:50.920 Yes, hopefully Smollett isn't a fan of forensic files because that's one of the things I noted.

00:08:56.360 If you're sending any extortion materials out, don't use your tongue for some DNA off the stamp or the envelope slip.

00:09:03.560 But, you know, President Trump rightfully, Amanda, called this an embarrassment to the entire country.

00:09:09.940 And he's right because, I mean, I think of the iconic image of Lady Justice, you know,

00:09:14.400 with the scales and the blindfold on.

00:09:16.380 Well, in this case, she's not wearing a blindfold.

00:09:18.220 She's wearing X-ray glasses.

00:09:19.580 And for all the reasons, in terms of identity politics that you mentioned, this is at the root of why he got off.

00:09:27.220 So I think that, depending on how this investigation unfolds, and if it's a proper investigation,

00:09:33.520 I think there's going to be some powerful people seeing their heads roll over this.

00:09:37.460 And they're going to have to ask themselves, was Jussie Smollett, of all people, worth this?

00:09:42.580 No, I know.

00:09:44.560 And, you know, my feelings about the FBI overseeing a further investigation into Kim Foxx and her relationship to the investigation and to Jussie Smollett,

00:09:55.520 I have a few different kind of opposing opinions about that.

00:09:59.020 My first concern is sending it over to the FBI.

00:10:01.780 That is who she initially wanted to take over the case. 0.99

00:10:04.640 So it concerns me that there could be some people involved who are on her side and are going to do the same thing that they did with the Clinton email investigation,

00:10:14.380 which is just kind of make it go away.

00:10:17.240 On the other hand, the FBI is suffering some major reputational problems right now.

00:10:22.700 And this might be their opportunity to kind of, you know, I guess, revive their reputation among the American people.

00:10:28.900 It could go both ways.

00:10:29.840 I hope it's the latter.

00:10:31.140 You know, that's an excellent point, and I agree with you.

00:10:33.940 And, you know, Amanda, one last question, though.

00:10:36.400 I think what's rubbing people the wrong way is that, let's face it, Jussie Smollett landed on the go to jail, 0.52

00:10:45.460 go directly to jail square on Community Chest, and somehow he ended up in free parking.

00:10:50.620 And you think that would be such a victory and he would fade quietly, happy that he's not doing jail time,

00:10:56.780 happy that he's not paying six figures in fines, whatever that guilty verdict would have entailed.

00:11:02.200 Yet instead, Amanda, he is boastful.

00:11:06.400 He's saying, see, I told you so, and he's carrying on like, you know, that he was a victim because of these false accusations that it was a hoax.

00:11:17.240 But I point to a couple of loose ends.

00:11:19.400 Well, is he going to sue those two Nigerian bodybuilders for libel based on what they said, if he's telling the truth? 1.00

00:11:25.420 And what about those two white guys with the noose and the bleach? 0.76

00:11:31.100 I guess they're still at large.

00:11:32.620 So shouldn't there be a manhunt in Chicago right now for those guys?

00:11:36.520 Yeah, in fact, that's actually one of the issues that I saw in an interview.

00:11:41.260 I think it was either this morning or yesterday afternoon.

00:11:43.600 Jussie Smollett's attorney saying that, no, Rahm Emanuel, the city of Chicago does not deserve an apology.

00:11:49.880 Jussie Smollett deserves an apology.

00:11:52.000 And in that interview he did right after the court proceedings, he said that he had been truthful since day one.

00:11:57.660 And as a lawyer, you advise your client when you are given such an immense amount of leniency and grace in something like this, you keep your mouth shut.

00:12:06.740 This was not smart.

00:12:08.180 He is he is enraging the wrong people with this.

00:12:12.000 And I assure you in this, if this Monopoly game that you were talking about converted to a video game, I guarantee you he wishes that he could hit the reset button.

00:12:21.580 Oh, absolutely.

00:12:22.520 Well, Amanda, like you said, this is not the end.

00:12:26.020 This is not vindication.

00:12:27.660 This is not a victory for Jussie Smollett.

00:12:29.780 This is just the beginning.

00:12:31.560 And I think there are going to be some other people doing the prep walk of shame when we find out how exactly this miscarriage of justice, and that's what it is, how this miscarriage of justice came into being.

00:12:44.200 Amanda, thank you so much for another great commentary.

00:12:46.860 Thank you.

00:12:47.600 Okay, and that was Amanda Head in Tinseltown.

00:12:50.700 And keep it here, folks.

00:12:51.660 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:12:57.660 Hey guys, cut the book.

00:13:03.320 I'm excited to read it to you.

00:13:04.780 I'll just move my biology textbooks out of the way for this one.

00:13:07.980 Let's get started.

00:13:09.180 I am excited.

00:13:10.760 I don't know about you.

00:13:12.020 So here's the cover.

00:13:14.300 Transphobia.

00:13:15.040 How to deal with it.

00:13:15.900 There's a quiz in here that 11-year-old kids in Nova Scotia were taking.

00:13:21.180 It was in their classroom.

00:13:22.500 And it tells 11-year-old kids whether or not they're transphobic.

00:13:29.200 It says don't use the word tranny.

00:13:32.680 Really.

00:13:34.020 All right.

00:13:34.680 I found the quiz.

00:13:35.560 Here it is.

00:13:37.440 Are you transphobic?

00:13:38.480 A quiz for children.

00:13:40.280 You don't even know anyone who's trans, it writes.

00:13:43.520 And if you did, you wouldn't be phobic or afraid of them.

00:13:46.940 But think about how your assumptions and stereotypes cause hurt and upset others.

00:13:53.660 Take this quiz to see how you measure up.

00:13:56.380 Well, I'm going to tell you right now.

00:13:58.300 I know that there's no way to come out on the other end without being labeled transphobic.

00:14:03.200 So let's just have some fun and take the quiz anyways.

00:14:05.960 Start with question one.

00:14:07.540 I think there's only two genders and you're born into one or the other. 1.00

00:14:11.580 Well, that's low-hanging fruit.

00:14:14.080 Question two.

00:14:14.840 To be respected, girls should look and act like girls and boys should look and act like boys.

00:14:21.320 Look, I think that respect is something that is earned.

00:14:24.420 And I think that the SJW who wrote this book is projecting just a little bit here.

00:14:29.600 If you're too much of an insufferable SJW for people to like you, I think that's your own problem.

00:14:35.540 Well, that transgender quiz will never be mistaken for the sort of material one might come across in a typical Jeopardy! episode. 1.00

00:14:44.100 But the question arises, why is such an activist's manual on transgenderism being embraced by Nova Scotia schools?

00:14:53.500 And is this material truly appropriate for 11-year-olds?

00:14:59.300 And with more on the preachy prose that permeates the book Transphobia, deal with it and become a transcender, is our Calgary-based rebel, Kian Beckstay.

00:15:10.940 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Kian. 0.99

00:15:13.480 Hey, thanks for having me, David.

00:15:14.940 Always a pleasure, my friend.

00:15:16.020 So, Kian, as you point out, it seems that the term transphobia covers a lot of ground.

00:15:22.880 But for me, the jump the Sharknado moment is when the author stated that if someone merely accuses you of being transphobic, then obviously you must be a transphobe.

00:15:35.780 Can you even begin to explain the logic here, given that we live in a society in which one is supposedly innocent until proven guilty?

00:15:44.480 It's stunning, and what's even more stunning is this was a book with this quiz in it sent to 11-year-old kids, prepubescents. 1.00

00:15:56.760 And the mere accusation of transphobia, and I think that logic from the SJW should apply to everything, racism, what have you.

00:16:10.940 If you're accused of something, you're guilty.

00:16:13.180 And that's what they're teaching children, which is, I think, a terrible thing to do, because it makes them feel guilt for things that they're not guilty of.

00:16:21.360 Maybe they're a little bit judgmental.

00:16:22.760 So they could be a lot of things, but they're not transphobic, and just because a book tells them they are doesn't mean they aren't.

00:16:29.960 You know, I agree, and I was watching your video.

00:16:34.140 I was taking the test.

00:16:36.020 It felt like I was back in high school because I failed miserably, I guess.

00:16:40.740 I might be a transphobe.

00:16:42.440 But as you point out, Kian, is that, you know, when you look at some of the questions, they're almost designed to make people go against human nature.

00:16:53.940 And by that, there was that one question you referred to.

00:16:57.660 It was a statement that read, I think the sight of a man in a dress is funny, true or false. 0.87

00:17:03.140 Well, you know, Kian, I'm sorry, yeah, it is funny to see a guy with big hairy armpits, you know, in a red dress. 0.98

00:17:12.320 And it's just human nature, you know, to laugh at that.

00:17:16.360 It doesn't mean that you've got any kind of phobia, fear, or, you know, urge to violence against such an individual.

00:17:23.160 There was also that question about, have you ever told jokes about trans people?

00:17:29.380 Well, I'm going to be honest with you, Kian, yes, I have, but I've also told blonde jokes. 0.97

00:17:34.840 I've told Newfie jokes.

00:17:36.240 That doesn't make me blonde-phobic, Newfie-phobic.

00:17:39.620 And yet, it's designed in such a way as that if you answer affirmative to those questions, this is so-called transphobic behavior.

00:17:48.760 Where do you weigh in on this?

00:17:51.820 I mean, same thing as you.

00:17:53.880 I've told jokes about Justin Trudeau.

00:17:56.660 I've told jokes about white people. 0.74

00:17:58.200 Well, that doesn't mean I'm scared of white people or our prime minister.

00:18:02.400 See, these SJWs who write books like this and distribute it to children, they are eager to collect sympathy.

00:18:10.300 So they want everyone to feel guilty.

00:18:12.380 Everyone in the world has to feel guilty for them.

00:18:15.060 So by casting the net as wide as they possibly can, they win.

00:18:20.320 You know, they teach kids that it is always transgender people that are the victim, no matter what scenario, no matter if you just told a joke, no matter if you're concerned about your daughter being in a bathroom with an old man. 0.87

00:18:32.860 No matter any of these things, you are the perpetrator of hate and fear, and it's your fault when I don't think that's the case.

00:18:43.980 But they're teaching it to kids, so there's certainly a problem here.

00:18:47.460 Yeah, and you know, Kian, first of all, we are talking about a percent of a percent of a percent of the population.

00:18:55.440 And yet the narrative is, you know, if it's trans, it's good. 0.79

00:18:58.840 If it's good, it's trans. 1.00

00:18:59.920 But let's be honest, my friend, there is a dark side to transgenderism. 1.00

00:19:04.760 A couple of examples in the news we've seen lately, men becoming women and going into elite athletics and from cycling to wrestling, just slaughtering the natural born woman there because they have an inherent disadvantage biologically. 0.68

00:19:21.000 They are men.

00:19:21.860 And then we had this week, the story broke, about a pedophile who has raped little girls.

00:19:28.720 He's been tried and convicted multiple times, now posing as a woman and living in a Brampton halfway house where he leaves unescorted.

00:19:37.360 And I would assume that now that he's a woman, that gives him better opportunity to get into places where women and little girls are.

00:19:44.980 I think this is bad.

00:19:47.100 I think this is wrong.

00:19:48.440 And yet if you call it out as such, you are a transphobe, aren't you?

00:19:55.500 There's lots of anecdotes like that, right?

00:19:58.480 And the SJWs who write books like this, they want to polarize the discussion.

00:20:03.660 They want people to take that quiz.

00:20:06.240 People like you need to take this quiz and get angry because then we look bad.

00:20:11.440 And really what the problem is, is the folks that write the books in the first place shouldn't be so polarizing about it and they shouldn't be teaching our kids.

00:20:19.520 This is a problem.

00:20:20.140 I know, I know, I don't want to say dozens, but I know a handful of transgender people and all of them are stand-up individuals, actually.

00:20:28.300 None of them are pedophiles.

00:20:30.440 None of them are burdens on society.

00:20:33.820 They're all just trying to live their life, but the way that these condescending authors of these books put it, it's like the whole world's out to get them and telling a joke about them is going to destroy their lives when that's not the case.

00:20:48.720 They tell jokes about themselves all the time and they just want to be treated as humans.

00:20:54.840 And putting people in a box saying you can't make fun of them or these people are special and you need to take extra precautions, it's dehumanizing.

00:21:04.260 People want to be able to be made fun of.

00:21:06.440 If you can't be made fun of, you don't feel like everyone else.

00:21:10.960 So I think that transgender people themselves should be upset with this quiz with how polarizing it is and how it teaches children that transgender people are an exception and don't really fit in and need to be, social concessions need to be made for them.

00:21:28.560 No, that's a good point, Kian. 0.76

00:21:29.760 And by the way, just to be clear, I'm in no way alleging that if you're trans, you therefore are a pedophile.

00:21:36.860 It's the other way around, there is a faction of that group.

00:21:42.540 I mentioned the Brampton pedophile and I mentioned men being women to compete in sports where they're winning championships, whereas if they were in the men's division, they wouldn't even make the team.

00:21:55.200 I guess what I'm getting at is that there are certain people in the trans community, whether it's Corrections Canada policies or the world of sports, that are gaming the system and getting away with it. 0.89

00:22:08.880 They're cheating and I think that's wrong.

00:22:10.960 You're absolutely right about that.

00:22:14.180 And transgender people, generally speaking, at least the ones that I know of, they reject that.

00:22:19.320 They don't want to compete in women's sports because they understand basic biology. 1.00

00:22:23.020 They understand that the hormone supplements they're taking gives them an advantage.

00:22:27.560 They are frustrated when people take advantage of their plight for personal gain.

00:22:36.240 And it's frustrating to them and it's frustrating to us.

00:22:38.940 You're certainly right about that.

00:22:40.080 And we're almost out of time, Kian. 0.97

00:22:42.800 One last question, if I can get a quick answer for you.

00:22:45.300 I've always been of the opinion that I've never understood really why the gay community is aligned with the trans community.

00:22:52.480 We see, you know, the, you know, the initial gram LGBT. 1.00

00:22:57.360 And I've seen people in the gay community come out and say that the L's and the G's and the B's should distance themselves from the T's because it's a completely different agenda.

00:23:10.080 Where do you weigh in on this issue?

00:23:12.360 A short and sweet answer is I completely agree.

00:23:16.580 I think that there's sexual minorities and then there's minorities that have gender dysphoria or some related issue.

00:23:32.360 And I think that their plights are two completely different things.

00:23:36.700 Gay people, they, you know, they fought for marriage equality and they fought for a bunch of different things.

00:23:40.960 But a lot of the stuff that transgender individuals are fighting for, gay men have no concern over. 0.94

00:23:48.440 They're two different people.

00:23:49.980 You might as well – it's the whole intersectional argument.

00:23:52.520 You might as well associate the plight of black people and the legacy of slavery with gay people in the mind of an SJW because victimhood is victimhood to them. 0.99

00:24:02.120 And they can't really distinguish between the two.

00:24:03.960 But when you're looking at it from the perspective of a regular person, they see a huge array of different problems between the different groups.

00:24:14.040 And I would say they're not related at all.

00:24:17.420 And I kind of hold contempt for the name LGBT, actually.

00:24:23.080 I think that they should be separated.

00:24:24.640 Well, this will be a continuing debate in the years ahead.

00:24:28.660 It's going to be fascinating stuff.

00:24:30.420 Kian, thank you so much for a superb commentary, as always.

00:24:34.340 Thanks for having me.

00:24:35.240 You got it.

00:24:36.280 And that was Kian Beckstay in Calgary.

00:24:38.680 Keep it here, folks.

00:24:39.420 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:24:48.840 Sheila Gunn-Reed for the Rebel.media.

00:24:50.680 I'm here in the parking lot of Black Jack's Roadhouse in Nisku, Alberta.

00:24:54.780 We're doing one of our pop-up sign stops for our beautiful StopKnotley.com signs to help promote my book, StopKnotley, the case for throwing out the NDP.

00:25:06.340 I haven't been back at Black Jack's, unfortunately, since they hosted that record-breaking truck convoy a few months back in support of pipelines and against Trudeau.

00:25:16.720 And when we got here, there were people already waiting in the parking lot.

00:25:20.300 It's not even six yet, and my daughter is behind me frantically trying to assemble signs for the people who are waiting for them.

00:25:28.620 And I'm going to talk to the people and see why they showed up, and then I'm going to help my daughter.

00:25:43.160 Why'd you come down to get a sign today?

00:25:44.600 Well, I think it's pretty obvious.

00:25:46.380 We've had four years of an accidental government, and they've gotten us deep into debt.

00:25:51.060 Nobody ever talks about the interest on the debt.

00:25:53.480 That's putting our future in jeopardy for me, my grandchildren, and my children.

00:25:58.660 So, time to stop her.

00:26:00.300 Oh, golly, she's got to stop this girl. 1.00

00:26:02.660 She's just destroying the province. 1.00

00:26:04.840 It's, uh, what?

00:26:07.360 The economy.

00:26:08.680 I really do.

00:26:09.360 And integrity and accountability is missing.

00:26:11.340 I think that's, you know, we've got to make some changes there.

00:26:14.220 Why did they come down and get a sign?

00:26:15.700 Because we need to stop Notley.

00:26:17.520 I'm helping support the rebel and get rid of Notley.

00:26:20.420 What's the worst thing she's done?

00:26:22.540 Well, everything that she says pretty much is wrong.

00:26:25.460 Well, what can I say whenever I come across someone wearing a bright red baseball cap that

00:26:31.020 states, make Trudeau a drama teacher again?

00:26:34.440 Well, I know I'm in friendly territory populated by reasonable people.

00:26:40.160 And wow, am I ever getting the vibe that in the weeks ahead, we are going to witness major

00:26:46.860 regime change in Wild Rose country.

00:26:49.360 And with more on her ongoing Fire Notley campaign that is ruffling the feathers of

00:26:55.300 Albertan SJWs is the host of The Gun Show, Sheila Gunn-Reed.

00:27:00.660 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.

00:27:02.880 Hey, David.

00:27:03.420 Thanks for having me on.

00:27:04.380 Always a tremendous pleasure.

00:27:05.740 So, Sheila, I noticed you enlisted your lovely daughter to help assemble your Fire Notley signs.

00:27:13.000 Are you now worried that some NDP supporter is going to make a formal complaint against you

00:27:18.440 for using unpaid child labour?

00:27:22.040 You know what?

00:27:22.740 The NDP supporters love to make complaints about everything.

00:27:26.420 They complained about my Fire Shannon Phillips billboard, which sparked an investigation that

00:27:33.680 actually wasn't happening.

00:27:35.600 And now Elections Alberta has to spend the next seven days apologizing to us on the internet.

00:27:41.480 So, you know, I wouldn't put it past the NDP supporters to do something shifty like that

00:27:46.480 and complain that I have forced my lovely daughter to give up her entire spring break

00:27:52.440 to assemble signs.

00:27:55.620 You know, yeah, I think with this government and their bureaucracy that seemed to be their

00:28:00.360 lapdog, Sheila, it's kind of like playing chess.

00:28:03.040 You have to think two or three moves ahead and nothing would be surprising.

00:28:07.480 But you know what I loved about your video, Sheila, is that there were such a congregation

00:28:13.340 of normal people, like people that, you know, they're the salt of the earth.

00:28:19.400 They just want to work.

00:28:21.280 You know, they're not radical in any way.

00:28:23.300 I get, you know, it's the polar opposite of what I encounter when I do a Generation Trudeau

00:28:27.580 streeter.

00:28:28.300 And I guess it must be so refreshing to come across such people who I assume are a major

00:28:34.500 part of our subscriber base.

00:28:37.460 Well, I guess it is refreshing and it isn't refreshing because unlike, I suppose, the rest

00:28:43.480 of people working in media in Alberta, that's the world in which I live.

00:28:48.440 So it's not unusual for me.

00:28:50.540 I'm a normal person.

00:28:51.920 I'm a farmer's wife.

00:28:53.220 I'm an oil patch wife. 0.87

00:28:54.520 I'm a busy mom of three.

00:28:56.300 Um, so it's not unusual to me to be with those people, but for the rest of the mainstream

00:29:02.380 media, those people may as well be on another planet.

00:29:04.900 I was thinking about, I was thinking about it actually on the drive home last night, the

00:29:10.000 very long drive home last night from Bonneville, where I was giving out more signs.

00:29:14.400 And I was thinking, you know, when you're in the pressure cooker of hate, that is the

00:29:19.680 internet or Twitter.

00:29:21.660 And it's one of probably one of the smarter things that you do, David.

00:29:25.040 You don't spend a lot of time on social media, like spending a lot of time, um, doing real

00:29:30.040 people stuff and marrying that lovely wife of yours, probably the smartest things you've

00:29:34.280 ever done.

00:29:35.240 Um, but you know, when you're out there talking to normal people, you remember the internet

00:29:41.820 isn't real.

00:29:42.500 All those people yelling and screaming at you about how much they hate you.

00:29:46.340 They are such a small microcosm of what's really unfolding here in Alberta.

00:29:52.600 Uh, people just want to get rid of Notley.

00:29:54.860 And while the mainstream media might be reporting on Twitter outrage every single day, I'm out

00:29:59.860 there talking to the real people and hearing their real stories.

00:30:02.820 But you know, Sheila, I kind of wish you never mentioned the word Bonneville.

00:30:06.540 When I worked as a reporter at the St. Paul Journal, I was going to Bonneville one night

00:30:11.100 and I incurred such a massive speeding ticket and I had no money, um, that I had to do three

00:30:16.700 days of community service, which was picking up trash.

00:30:19.780 So Bonneville's got a, Bonneville's not so Bonny to me when I think of what happened to

00:30:25.180 me in my car that night, but I digress.

00:30:28.100 Um, Sheila, your signage, what is the reaction you're getting?

00:30:32.500 You know, uh, you had another video of course, where you're running around Edmonton, planting

00:30:36.740 them in what I would call hostile territories.

00:30:40.120 Um, and of course we saw your interaction with a senior bureaucrat, but do you ever sort of

00:30:45.280 hang around and see what passersby are saying when they see the signs?

00:30:50.660 You know, we usually just set up shop in a public space, like, um, a rec center parking

00:30:56.300 lot or a tourism information center so that, you know, it can be a little bit embarrassing

00:31:01.300 if a private business kicks you off.

00:31:03.860 So we try not to do stuff like that.

00:31:05.320 Um, and people are, even people who don't know about our sign drop off, they will honk their

00:31:12.900 horn, get out of their truck and come take three signs. 0.99

00:31:15.280 Um, because they, uh, that's the reception.

00:31:18.500 So even people who aren't normally rebel subscribers, who aren't getting the emails to say where we're

00:31:23.420 going to be and when to drop off those signs, those people are happy to see us.

00:31:27.860 They're running up there, taking the signs and they're sending me pictures about, of their

00:31:32.540 beautiful signs in their yard.

00:31:34.060 So, I mean, the response is overwhelming.

00:31:36.720 I haven't had one single person say that they support Notley or that I shouldn't be there

00:31:43.120 handing out the signs or, you know, the usual, like, Hey, you work for the rebel, you're

00:31:47.080 a garbage person.

00:31:48.040 I haven't had that even once.

00:31:50.020 Well, that's good to hear.

00:31:51.020 And that furthers the argument.

00:31:52.780 I know, as they say in sports, there's no such thing as a sure thing, but I would say that

00:31:57.660 Jason Kennedy is going to, uh, coast a victory, uh, in, I think that is indeed a sure thing.

00:32:04.300 And I want to, you know, go back a few years, as I mentioned, I, you know, in the eighties,

00:32:08.560 I was in Alberta for a few years, Sheila.

00:32:10.900 This was during the progressive conservative dynasty going back decades.

00:32:15.980 And the idea, certainly in the mid eighties, that, uh, this dynasty could ever be derailed.

00:32:22.500 And secondly, that an NDP government could be ruling the province was like something out

00:32:29.420 of a science fiction novel.

00:32:31.340 Can you give, uh, our viewers who don't live in Alberta an understanding of how the Rachel

00:32:38.500 Notley NDP government got into power in the first place?

00:32:41.900 It seems like such a cosmic fluke.

00:32:45.680 Well, it really was.

00:32:47.260 It was a perfect storm of a number of different things.

00:32:51.000 The progressive conservatives had been in power for four decades.

00:32:55.240 And as you know, most political parties, um, when they become stagnant like that, they drift

00:33:01.280 left.

00:33:02.600 And we had seen, you know, a lot of cronyism, um, after four decades, I mean, the, the government

00:33:10.300 was just so, um, entangled in the private sector too.

00:33:15.460 And people were fed up with that.

00:33:17.240 People who were closely linked to the PCs were getting all the contracts.

00:33:20.400 So people were very fed up with that.

00:33:23.120 Um, and because they had moved so far left, they made Rachel Notley seem like not so crazy,

00:33:29.140 not so far away from our governing progressive conservatives, um, with her socialist ideas. 0.99

00:33:34.620 It's just how things drifted.

00:33:36.220 But at the very same time, um, the Wild Rose, which was the upstart, um, other conservative

00:33:43.620 party, um, the leader at the time decide, um, decided that she should, um, join the PCs.

00:33:52.400 And that was the best way to unite the conservatives.

00:33:55.860 Um, but she didn't ask the membership.

00:33:59.260 So, um, there was a massive floor crossing, which basically nuked the Wild Rose party.

00:34:04.700 And then I think it was about 35 days, um, from the time the Wild Rose party had to choose

00:34:11.780 a new leader and put themselves back together to a general election.

00:34:15.800 And in the middle of that, the new leader that they chose, his name is, was Brian Jean.

00:34:21.060 His name still is Brian Jean, but he's no longer the leader.

00:34:23.520 His son died.

00:34:25.140 So, and some people say that that contributed to a robotic performance in one of the debates.

00:34:30.500 It was just this really perfect storm, this vote split on the right, a disaster in the

00:34:36.520 two right-wing parties, and this drift left by the conservative movement, which made Rachel

00:34:42.680 Notley seem pretty normal, pretty nice, and not all that radical.

00:34:47.280 And as it turns out, she's none of those things.

00:34:49.640 She's very radical and not all that pleasant.

00:34:52.260 And Albertans have suffered the last four years because of it.

00:34:56.020 Yeah, you know, I agree with you.

00:34:57.280 The Wild Rose party, uh, element for sure, uh, Sheila, uh, Daniel Smith, uh, who, who I

00:35:02.700 met and is a very nice lady.

00:35:03.760 And I, so I'm not, what I'm going to say is not to be meant taken personally, but I think

00:35:08.780 in the last 10 years of Canadian politics, she wears the crown of the biggest political

00:35:13.440 loser in terms of the timing of, if she had stayed where she were and her colleagues,

00:35:20.580 I think that would have been the go-to choice of the majority, uh, of Albertans.

00:35:25.760 But, um, anyways, we can't undo the past.

00:35:28.660 Uh, it looks like, uh, you know, last question, Sheila, I get the vibe out there that people

00:35:34.420 are so fed up, uh, with, uh, the NDP and with what Rachel Notley has done to the province

00:35:40.540 and by extension, what's happened in Ottawa in terms of their policies, uh, for, uh, for

00:35:47.300 Alberta and the oil patch that they just can't wait for regime change. 0.93

00:35:51.640 Uh, you know, since probably the first of the year, people have been saying, Rachel call

00:35:58.780 the election, Rachel call the election because they just want it to be over with.

00:36:02.960 And it's funny because, uh, everything people want to vote out with Rachel Notley, the insults

00:36:09.140 to regular Albertans, the, um, welfare, corporate welfare that she just keeps handing out, the 0.99

00:36:15.140 massive social programs we can't afford.

00:36:17.800 Her campaign is based on doing more of those things, the character assassination, the big 1.00

00:36:23.600 spending, and she thinks it's helpful and it's just not.

00:36:26.660 The more she makes these announced expensive announcements and attacks the character of Jason

00:36:31.840 Kenney for things he said 30 years ago, her poll numbers keep dropping.

00:36:35.740 Um, so, you know, I was predicting, uh, Jason Kenney to get about 60 seats in the next election.

00:36:41.620 But, um, by the time Rachel Notley's done campaigning, I would not be surprised to see him somewhere

00:36:47.880 up around 70.

00:36:49.000 Wow.

00:36:49.780 Well, we'll have to set an over-under, uh, line, uh, prior to the election and see who,

00:36:54.340 see who wins that office pull.

00:36:56.280 Sheila, thank you so much.

00:36:57.300 I, I have a feeling that you and your lovely daughter are going to be extremely busy this weekend,

00:37:01.180 putting up more of those signs.

00:37:03.100 So, uh, be careful out there and we'll, uh, we'll talk next week.

00:37:06.880 You bet.

00:37:07.520 I'm just going to plug my book real quick.

00:37:09.360 Of course.

00:37:09.800 Um, I think it's number two on Amazon right now.

00:37:13.040 I'd like to see it get to number one, uh, just to annoy the NDP. 0.73

00:37:16.960 If you want a copy of the book, go to stopnotley.com.

00:37:22.420 And if you want to sign up for one of those beautiful orange lawn signs that my, um, sign

00:37:26.940 slave daughter and I are handing out all over the province, you can reserve one there at

00:37:31.200 stopnotley.com.

00:37:32.380 Be sure to sign up for our emails too.

00:37:35.240 That way you can find out where we're going to be and when, because we're adding new dates

00:37:39.060 all the time.

00:37:39.920 Kian's covering the South. 0.99

00:37:41.020 I'm doing the North and we're working really hard to make sure that everybody gets the sign

00:37:44.220 they want.

00:37:44.740 Fantastic.

00:37:45.820 Well, Sheila, congratulations on the, uh, fantastic success of your latest book.

00:37:50.640 And, uh, again, uh, thank you for weighing in on what's going on in Walbro's country right

00:37:56.060 now.

00:37:57.080 Thanks, David.

00:37:57.780 Have a great weekend.

00:37:58.600 You too, my friend.

00:37:59.480 And that was Sheila Gunn-Reed in Alberta.

00:38:02.240 Keep it here, folks.

00:38:03.060 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:38:05.440 So, we're going to see if, uh, we get any resolution to this today.

00:38:17.280 And, uh, regardless, when, uh, Jordan Hunt comes out of the court, we're going to attempt

00:38:23.040 to ask him some questions.

00:38:24.640 So, Jordan Hunt, can I ask you, why did you assault, uh, Ms. Bissonette?

00:38:30.600 No answer?

00:38:32.480 Why did you kick a woman? 1.00

00:38:33.600 What does your family think about your actions?

00:38:39.260 Are, I'm sorry, are you real news?

00:38:41.120 Oh, that's right, yeah.

00:38:41.840 David Menzies with Rebel Media.

00:38:43.420 We're just, we're just wondering.

00:38:46.000 We're just wondering why you chose to hit a woman.

00:38:50.020 Are you going to do a roundhouse kick on me? 0.84

00:38:51.820 Do you know what a publication ban is?

00:38:53.560 I'm in public right now with you.

00:38:55.520 Yes, the publication ban.

00:38:57.460 So, what are you going to say sorry to Ms. Bissonette?

00:39:00.060 You're not real news.

00:39:01.820 What are you?

00:39:03.420 I'm a person.

00:39:04.740 Why did you push somebody into traffic?

00:39:06.560 You're reporting somebody, and you're not supposed to.

00:39:08.840 Well, isn't that special?

00:39:11.340 Feminist Jordan Hunt, who allegedly has a perverse fetish for violently assaulting women

00:39:16.540 who take part in pro-life rallies, well, he's somewhat camera shy these days.

00:39:22.640 Is it because when the person standing next to him isn't female, that he realizes he might

00:39:29.360 suffer some consequences himself?

00:39:32.100 Or maybe it has something to do with the fact that he is already facing multiple assault charges?

00:39:38.880 What a creep.

00:39:40.400 In any event, here's what some of you had to say about this.

00:39:44.700 But HZ writes, nothing allegedly about it.

00:39:48.500 It's on film.

00:39:49.300 And Chompy said, allegedly, LOL, the blank, tried to throw a woman in front of a truck.

00:39:57.720 Yes, indeed, guys.

00:39:58.680 Unless that was a Jordan Hunt doppelganger, the coward caught on camera is surely Jordan Hunt.

00:40:05.300 But until there's a conviction, we have to go with allegedly.

00:40:09.200 Oh, and how's this for insult to injury?

00:40:11.580 Somehow his lawyer managed to secure a publication ban, so we can't even report what's happening

00:40:19.000 right now in the courtroom.

00:40:21.140 Just incredible.

00:40:22.960 Little Kitty writes,

00:40:24.040 Oh, I agree, little Kitty.

00:40:44.080 And would it be too much to ask this person to man up and at least apologize to the woman

00:40:50.740 he has allegedly assaulted thus far?

00:40:54.200 Well, yeah, apparently that is too much to ask of this guy.

00:40:58.820 Josip Braz Tito writes,

00:41:01.300 That's not very feminist-like of him.

00:41:04.480 Indeed, Josip.

00:41:05.360 And do you see a bit of a pattern emerging here when it comes to so-called male feminists, 1.00

00:41:10.400 such as Dion Buse, who assaulted my colleague Sheila Gunn-Reed at a Edmonton Women's March

00:41:15.780 a couple of years ago?

00:41:17.140 And then there's our very own PM, a.k.a. the Kokanee Groper. 0.88

00:41:21.300 Gee, with feminists like these, who needs misogynists? 1.00

00:41:26.420 And Grindr McGee writes,

00:41:28.860 Kudos to Rebel for being there to cover this POS.

00:41:32.860 This should be national news.

00:41:35.060 Shame on MSM. 1.00

00:41:36.540 Indeed, Grindr.

00:41:37.340 And get a load of this.

00:41:38.720 When the kicking incident happened last year, his victim, Marie-Claire Bissonette,

00:41:44.300 first reached out to the CBC.

00:41:47.120 What a scoop, right?

00:41:48.540 But guess what?

00:41:49.900 CBC actually declined to cover this story.

00:41:53.540 But I ask you this.

00:41:54.360 If a woman had been assaulted at a pro-abortion rally,

00:41:58.760 how much do you want to bet that such a story would lead every CBC newscast?

00:42:04.720 Shameful.

00:42:05.720 Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.

00:42:08.360 Thanks so much for joining us.

00:42:10.100 See you next week.

00:42:10.980 And hey, folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory.

00:42:14.900 Good night.

00:42:15.280 Good night.

00:42:16.480 Good night.

00:42:19.580 Good night.

00:42:21.040 Good night.

00:42:21.640 Good night.

00:42:29.380 Good night.

00:42:34.680 Good night.

00:42:35.480 Good night.

00:42:35.840 Good night.

00:42:36.420 Good night.

00:42:36.780 Good night.

00:42:37.380 Good night.

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Rebel News Podcast - March 30, 2019

Rebel Roundup： Guests Amanda Head, Keean Bexte, & Sheila Gunn Reid!

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