Rebel News Podcast - Rebel Roundup： Sophie Trudeau's freebies, Disney does trigger warnings

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00:01:36.740 in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite rebels.

00:01:41.300 I'm your host, David Menzies.

00:01:43.480 So, who's the biggest swag hound in the Trudeau clan?

00:01:47.800 Is it Prime Minister Justin?

00:01:49.740 Is it Mama Margaret?

00:01:51.500 Oh, well, actually, it turns out that wife Sophie might just have the most insatiable appetite 1.00

00:01:57.900 for speaking fees and gifts.

00:02:01.160 Sheila Gunn-Reed shall have all the details.

00:02:04.380 Trigger alert!

00:02:05.160 Trigger alert!

00:02:06.060 Disney is now slapping trigger advisories on some of its classic animated fare from yesterdecade.

00:02:13.540 Apparently, everything from Peter Pan to Lady and the Tramp is somehow racist.

00:02:20.860 Andrew Chapados will weigh in on this latest virtue signalling from the House of the Mouse.

00:02:27.320 And finally, letters.

00:02:28.500 We get your letters.

00:02:29.340 We get your letters every minute of every day.

00:02:31.400 And I'll share some of your responses regarding last Saturday's huge Yahoo Nation lockdown protest

00:02:38.300 at Toronto's young Dundas Square.

00:02:40.780 Hey, Premier Ford, listen to the people put down that cherry cheesecake already

00:02:46.860 and open up the economy, will you?

00:02:49.640 Those are your rebels.

00:02:51.040 Now, let's round them up.

00:02:57.420 Now, Trudeau's family has been waist, maybe neck deep, in the We Charity scandal from the very beginning.

00:03:03.940 With the government choosing the Liberal-linked charity as the only one in the entire country,

00:03:12.020 so the Liberals did their best to tell us,

00:03:14.520 with the capacity to deliver the proposed nearly $1 billion pay-for-volunteerism student bailout program.

00:03:22.840 The government wanted Canadians to believe that the charity that has paid the Trudeau family

00:03:30.540 hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking engagement fees for We Day events

00:03:37.900 and that Trudeau's wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, hosted a podcast for

00:03:42.840 and that has paid former Finance Minister Bill Morneau's luxury-volunteerism vacation costs,

00:03:49.660 oh, and employed one of Morneau's kids,

00:03:52.240 was the only one with the ability to deliver the program in the entire country,

00:03:56.720 that the organization was paid at least $30 million in advance to do.

00:04:01.680 I mean, it's pretty clear.

00:04:03.040 The whole thing was just a bailout to Trudeau's friends,

00:04:06.540 the Kielberger brothers, who, when you think about it,

00:04:10.120 had been bailing out the Trudeau family for years with speaking engagement fees.

00:04:14.760 And we know this because once the scandal broke of paying Trudeau's friends

00:04:19.040 to run a program designed just for them,

00:04:22.220 caused the cancellation of the student bailout program,

00:04:25.600 the We organization just shut down its Canadian operations,

00:04:30.320 citing money problems as one of the main reasons for the closure.

00:04:34.640 Now, in a newly released list of payments and disclosures,

00:04:41.180 we now know the full amount of payments the We organization made to Sophie Gregoire Trudeau

00:04:48.020 in speaking fees and reimbursed expenses.

00:04:52.200 Just look at this.

00:04:53.560 Between February 2012 and March 2020,

00:04:58.200 Sophie Trudeau attended a total of eight We Day events.

00:05:01.780 She received a one-time speaking fee of $1,500 in 2012.

00:05:09.380 The total amount of expenses in hospitality costs,

00:05:13.520 including hotels, car service, and flights,

00:05:17.500 covered for Sophie Trudeau over the eight events she attended

00:05:22.100 was $23,940.76.

00:05:27.160 An additional $240 in gifts was provided to Sophie Trudeau during this time.

00:05:33.840 Translation?

00:05:34.820 Never has so much money been paid for so little talent.

00:05:39.560 But when it comes to the salivating swag hound that is Sophie Trudeau, 1.00

00:05:45.220 this is a woman who has an absolutely insatiable appetite for free stuff, 1.00

00:05:52.440 even if that free stuff is coming from the coffers of a charity

00:05:57.000 meant to help kids in impoverished third world nations.

00:06:02.000 How shameful can you possibly get?

00:06:05.640 And joining me now with more on this despicable tale

00:06:08.960 of greed, gluttony, and self-glorification

00:06:11.760 is Sheila Gunn-Reed.

00:06:13.360 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.

00:06:15.580 Hey, David.

00:06:16.060 Thanks for having me on the show.

00:06:17.180 It is always, always a pleasure.

00:06:19.100 Sheila, let's just cut to the chase here. 0.54

00:06:21.620 Sophie Trudeau is a privileged, wealthy woman,

00:06:24.720 so why can't she keep her snout out of the charity trough? 1.00

00:06:30.740 You know, she is the perfect wife for Justin Trudeau,

00:06:33.520 so it's sort of strange that they seem to be estranged most of the time

00:06:40.220 because she is really just as entitled as he is.

00:06:45.640 I mean, he loves to indulge himself on the taxpayer's dime.

00:06:51.080 We've seen that when we pull access to information on what goes on

00:06:56.160 on those taxpayer-funded Challenger jets.

00:06:59.080 We've taken a look at the menu, and we've taken a look at the liquor bills

00:07:03.660 for the Challenger jets.

00:07:06.420 I mean, Justin Trudeau has his special expensive vodka

00:07:08.780 that he insists on the taxpayer keeping in the jets.

00:07:12.900 And really, you know, when you look at it, she's just as bad.

00:07:16.700 Her job basically is to have no job and just do charity work. 1.00

00:07:20.940 That's her job, really.

00:07:22.240 And, you know, she insists that we pay for extra nannies 1.00

00:07:26.320 because she's so busy giving selflessly of her time

00:07:30.560 to do all this charity work.

00:07:32.320 And yet, she's just milking these charities for luxury vacations, 1.00

00:07:37.260 and then when she gets to the location,

00:07:39.480 she donates, I guess, 15 minutes of her time to give a speech 0.87

00:07:44.360 that I guarantee you kids don't care about at these We Day events.

00:07:48.680 No, that's the thing, too, though.

00:07:50.880 It's not as though you're getting some world-renowned author

00:07:54.520 or anything like that.

00:07:55.620 She's just famous for having a famous surname. 0.98

00:07:58.720 And, you know, the Sophie Trudeau story I most remember, Sheila,

00:08:02.020 we talked about it from a couple years ago, of course.

00:08:04.380 You remember the famous family vacation to the Aga Khan's resort.

00:08:08.560 And then she followed that up, if memory serves me,

00:08:12.440 where I guess there was an open invitation to come back.

00:08:16.360 And the Aga Khan and his family, they weren't going to be there. 0.99

00:08:21.060 And basically, she said, oh, that's okay.

00:08:22.940 Me and my girlfriends will just fly in for a weekend.

00:08:26.460 Like, what chutzpah is that?

00:08:29.360 Well, yeah, that's the thing. 0.96

00:08:30.880 She's really the grifter in this family. 0.93

00:08:33.780 She's the one just milking that last name for everything that it's worth. 0.82

00:08:39.520 She was the one who arranged the Christmas vacation at the Aga Khan's island 0.99

00:08:44.660 when the Aga Khan and his family wouldn't be there

00:08:47.700 because she just wanted a private luxury vacation.

00:08:52.420 She was using her connections that she's got

00:08:54.600 by having that famous last name and that famous husband. 0.88

00:09:00.680 That's how she got that.

00:09:02.100 She was the one making the connections.

00:09:04.860 It wasn't even Justin Trudeau. 0.99

00:09:06.780 She's the grifter there. 1.00

00:09:08.220 And she's the one with her hand out all the time to get all this free stuff. 0.85

00:09:13.060 Yeah, and it's also Mama Trudeau too, Sheila. 0.95

00:09:16.200 I mean, you know, she's getting these speaking gigs as well.

00:09:20.500 And, I mean, you alluded to the fact that you can't imagine the youth

00:09:24.980 being that into Sophie Trudeau.

00:09:27.020 Well, can you imagine how not into Margaret Trudeau they are?

00:09:30.900 I mean, when was she last relevant in the days of disco going to Club 54 in New York City?

00:09:36.140 I mean, and yet, it's like nepotism rules the roost there, doesn't it?

00:09:42.400 Well, just look at Margaret Trudeau. 1.00

00:09:46.240 She's been Margaret, Sinclair, Trudeau, Sinclair, Kemper, and then back to Trudeau.

00:09:55.600 Because that's where the money is.

00:09:57.920 Like, that's a lot of last names there.

00:10:00.400 I have two.

00:10:02.020 But she's got, I mean, she's got three times more than me.

00:10:05.600 Because the money's in the last name.

00:10:07.480 And nobody pays to hear Margaret Kemper talk. 1.00

00:10:10.820 Nobody pays to hear Margaret Sinclair talk. 0.98

00:10:13.320 No, I think nobody would probably hear or pay to hear Margaret Trudeau talk about her life

00:10:22.140 experience, especially kids, except for the fact that it garners them favor with the prime

00:10:28.100 minister.

00:10:28.640 And the prime minister is the guy dishing out all the money right now.

00:10:31.560 Indeed.

00:10:31.840 And, you know, Sheila, I can hear the cynics out there saying, why are you obsessed with

00:10:36.840 $24,000 in expenses, $250 worth of gifts for Sophie Trudeau?

00:10:43.160 In the grand scheme of things, when we're talking about budgets in the billions, even

00:10:47.660 approaching a trillion dollars in debt and deficit, what's the big deal?

00:10:52.780 Here's what I think is the big deal.

00:10:54.840 This is the stuff we know about the WE Charity.

00:10:58.120 And as we all know from recent days, there was almost an election triggered over this

00:11:05.220 about a committee going in to investigate really who is on the take, I think, with this

00:11:11.700 charity.

00:11:12.180 Now, it might be as clean as the driven snow, Sheila, but the more the Trudeau liberals try

00:11:18.200 to hide and shut down committees and investigations, the more I think, and why wouldn't you, that

00:11:23.940 there's a lot of rotten stuff there.

00:11:26.800 And this is just an example.

00:11:29.580 This indeed might be just chump change.

00:11:32.220 There must be some, I think, really awful six, seven, eight figure payouts from that charity that

00:11:41.400 really didn't go anywhere near a third world nation to help children.

00:11:45.500 Well, we know that Justin Trudeau used to charge charities speaking fees.

00:11:50.260 Yes.

00:11:50.500 Um, when he was an MP, here's the thing with the, I mean, $24,000, it, it isn't a huge amount,

00:11:59.220 like you say, in the grand scheme of things, all things considered and all things being

00:12:03.100 relative, but this is money meant for a charity.

00:12:07.580 And instead, it went to Justin Trudeau's pampered and privileged, very rich wife, um, to fly first 0.96

00:12:17.680 class so that she can speak for 15 minutes and say something nobody wants to hear. 1.00

00:12:22.180 Um, it's just a make work project so that she can get, you know, a first class trip to London

00:12:27.580 or wherever she went.

00:12:28.900 There are kids who are fundraising or were at the time, we now closed their Canadian operations

00:12:36.620 since the, uh, gravy train with biscuit wheels pulled out of the station.

00:12:40.620 Um, but there were kids fundraising for we, the Kiel Burgers organization, selling bracelets,

00:12:48.680 doing extra volunteer work, whatever to get money to we, because they thought it was going

00:12:56.080 to help impoverished kids on the other side of the world.

00:12:59.580 And in this instance, it went to Justin Trudeau's very rich pampered wife. 0.68

00:13:04.200 You know, great point, Sheila, and it just shows you how odious this whole story is.

00:13:09.360 And, and, and as I've always said too, in the big, big picture, what this We Charity scandal

00:13:15.140 has done, I think, has caused, um, an air of suspicion unfairly about all charities.

00:13:22.860 There are so many charities out there and you really should do your homework, folks, in terms

00:13:27.260 of finding out how much of your dollar goes to administration costs and how much actually

00:13:31.820 goes to the charitable cause.

00:13:33.740 But there are good charities out there.

00:13:35.260 But I think the average Canadian, after hearing about We, Sheila, is saying, uh, you know,

00:13:40.420 charity XYZ has, uh, is asking me for a $50 donation.

00:13:44.600 Do I know if my money is going to help people in need?

00:13:47.680 Or is it to, uh, pad, uh, a luxury vacation, uh, bill, uh, you know, when, when my check

00:13:54.860 or visa number gets to them, what are your thoughts on that, Sheila?

00:13:59.180 Well, it's very interesting how Justin Trudeau spent the first part of his prime ministership

00:14:05.000 demonizing Christian charities.

00:14:06.960 So Christian charities usually have a low overhead, um, low labor costs because they rely mainly

00:14:12.820 on volunteer work.

00:14:14.020 The people who, um, work for these organizations are, they feel, they feel called by their religion

00:14:19.740 to do this sort of work and give of themselves to these sorts of organizations.

00:14:24.680 Justin Trudeau made sure that they couldn't qualify for the Canada Summer Jobs Grant because

00:14:28.800 they wouldn't sign an attestation to the liberal values around abortion and gender theory.

00:14:34.160 These organizations chose not to violate their conscience because for them, it's, it's, uh,

00:14:42.020 a matter of their, their, uh, their soul really.

00:14:46.380 And yet Justin Trudeau goes now and crafts a nearly $1 billion program so that his friend's

00:14:54.820 charity can administer it.

00:14:57.680 Um, so if there are stigmatizations about charities, well, it started with Justin Trudeau.

00:15:03.620 It happened a long time ago.

00:15:06.000 He did it to Christian charities and now he's basically tainted the entire charitable industry

00:15:11.280 here in Canada.

00:15:12.360 And there are a lot of charities doing good work that don't have anything to do with the

00:15:16.720 Trudeaus.

00:15:17.340 You know, Sheila, thank you so much for reminding me about that.

00:15:20.260 I almost forgot.

00:15:21.340 And it just, what you just said, it just, it's just another example, isn't it, my friend,

00:15:26.520 of how upside down everything is in 2020.

00:15:30.260 I can't wait for this year to end, although I don't think 2021 is looking that much better

00:15:36.160 in terms of the long range scanners.

00:15:39.160 You know, I hope, uh, President Trump wins, um, in a few weeks because that will be the

00:15:45.200 bright spot in 2020 that we need.

00:15:47.440 And it will offer a ray of hope for 2021.

00:15:50.340 That's for sure.

00:15:51.640 Absolutely.

00:15:52.080 I don't even want to contemplate the other fellow with me.

00:15:57.160 Sheila, thank you so much for weighing in on this.

00:15:59.820 And, uh, uh, you have a wonderful weekend, my friend.

00:16:03.640 Thank you, David.

00:16:04.240 You too.

00:16:04.640 You got it.

00:16:05.460 And that was Sheila Gunn-Reed up in Northern Alberta.

00:16:08.880 Keep it here, folks.

00:16:10.060 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:16:12.420 Whether it's girls screaming after Trump is sworn in, or the character affectionately

00:16:21.660 known as Trigglypuff, we've all seen our share of triggering over the last few years,

00:16:25.780 and it seems as though Disney has reached their limit.

00:16:29.540 Starting immediately, Disney Plus subscribers will see racial trigger warnings on plenty of

00:16:34.100 their content on the menu screens.

00:16:35.780 Nothing is safe, not Peter Pan, not Jungle Book, even the cats are racist now.

00:16:42.300 As part of our ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion, we are in the process of reviewing

00:16:46.540 our library and adding advisories to content that include negative depictions or mistreatment

00:16:51.440 of people or cultures.

00:16:53.320 Now, if some of these warnings actually make sense, and some of them are very silly, as

00:16:57.180 you can imagine, here's the generic warning across most of the movies on their preview screen.

00:17:01.580 This program includes negative depictions or mistreatment of people or cultures.

00:17:06.740 These stereotypes were wrong then, and they are wrong now.

00:17:09.720 Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from

00:17:13.720 it, and spark conversations to create a more inclusive future together.

00:17:17.880 It kind of sounds like they're actually saying, we used to be racist, and this stuff is still

00:17:22.820 racist, but instead of taking it down, we're just admitting we're racist, and we hope this

00:17:26.780 sparks a conversation between, I don't know, two eight-year-olds watching cartoons in their

00:17:30.520 living room.

00:17:32.120 Take Lady and the Tramp, for example.

00:17:34.300 This apparently needs a warning, because the Siamese cats perpetuate Asian stereotypes.

00:17:39.300 Now, I watched this as a kid, and I don't recall thinking negatively of Siamese people afterwards.

00:17:44.940 Siam hasn't even been a country for like 100 years, and the only place you're going to 1.00

00:17:48.980 come across it is on the board game Risk, and I think kids are going to be okay on this

00:17:53.860 one.

00:17:54.860 The same goes for Peter Pan.

00:18:03.180 It allegedly portrays Native people in a stereotypical manner that reflects neither the diversity

00:18:08.500 of Native peoples, nor their authentic cultural traditions.

00:18:11.460 Maybe that makes sense, but the only thing I found really offensive was Robin Williams' performance

00:18:16.420 in the movie version of this.

00:18:22.060 Oh, there you are, Peter.

00:18:24.720 Now, of course, Aladdin is on there as well, not because of Will Smith's genie, but probably

00:18:30.680 because of the whole flying carpets thing.

00:18:33.380 Whoa, who knew that flying carpets are culturally insensitive?

00:18:39.000 Well, not to me.

00:18:39.820 I would think that a flying carpets would be an aviation breakthrough for the ages, but

00:18:45.080 really, why does Disney feel these disclaimers to be so necessary?

00:18:50.540 Surely there is a realization out there that standards have changed over the years, and

00:18:55.600 really, if these cartoons are so gasp-inducing racist, why doesn't Disney simply vault them

00:19:03.740 as in forever?

00:19:04.940 Let me guess, social justice is one thing, but at the end of the day, that mouse is beholden

00:19:12.240 to the shareholders.

00:19:14.260 And joining me now with more on Disney's trigger warning policy is Andrew Chapitose.

00:19:19.840 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.

00:19:22.740 Thanks for having me, David.

00:19:23.740 You know, I'm always glad to come on and talk about cartoons with you.

00:19:26.720 Well, you don't trigger me, but I'll tell you what does trigger me.

00:19:29.620 Trigger warnings trigger me.

00:19:31.480 Ironic. 0.93

00:19:31.880 I have to say, though, given the choice, I'll take a trigger warning, as silly as it

00:19:38.740 may be, over outright cancellation, censorship, what have you.

00:19:43.440 But what do you think is really behind this, Andrew?

00:19:46.820 I think it's an easy way for them to appease people who are offended by, I don't know who's

00:19:52.400 going back and watching cartoons and being offended by them, what adults are doing that,

00:19:56.360 but it's an easy way for them to appease the offended bodies while still, as you mentioned,

00:20:00.780 making money off of their catalogue, because children aren't going to pay attention to

00:20:04.920 this when they're watching it, and they have a large catalogue, obviously, of children's

00:20:09.060 movies that they're going to want to watch, and they're now inappropriate.

00:20:13.480 Yeah, I mean, that's the thing, and you said it well in your commentary, Andrew.

00:20:16.280 I mean, they are woke, but not too woke.

00:20:19.240 And by that, I mean, we recognize this as a racist or culturally insensitive depiction

00:20:24.680 of a person or a group of people, so we want you to be aware of it.

00:20:29.640 It's not too insensitive, mind you, that we're going to obliterate it from the catalogue,

00:20:34.900 ostensibly because I think there's still money to be made off this.

00:20:39.460 Well, it's interesting that they admit that basically a lot of their content was racist

00:20:43.380 in their own mind, and so much of it that they clearly can't just delete it from the videos

00:20:49.340 without taking away large portions of the movie itself.

00:20:53.660 So they want to take away any responsibility they might have to have for it while still

00:21:00.760 making money off of it.

00:21:02.080 Here's the thing, Andrew.

00:21:03.560 Are we really, and I'm talking about the general populace, are we really that sensitive, that

00:21:09.480 fragile, that when we see something that's being depicted as culturally insensitive, we

00:21:15.400 gasp, we fret about it?

00:21:17.040 Let me give you an example.

00:21:19.140 My background, it's of Scottish heritage.

00:21:21.380 I can tell you, my friend, in the advertising industry in this nation, if you want to depict

00:21:26.920 the quintessential cheapskate, put them in a kilt and give them a Scottish accent.

00:21:32.380 It's true.

00:21:33.040 I have so many examples.

00:21:34.820 That doesn't bother me, you know, and I mean, I can, I think it's a matter of I can laugh

00:21:41.200 at myself, I can laugh at my family, I can laugh at my culture.

00:21:44.960 And I would argue if you were to depict a caricature, like say in The Simpsons, Apu, the convenience

00:21:53.060 store owner, the Indians I know in my circle, no one's offended by that.

00:21:58.800 They get a laugh out of it.

00:22:00.920 So are we being, are the companies like Disney being overprotective that what they think is

00:22:08.520 so horrendous, it, in the, in reality, it really isn't?

00:22:13.140 Well, yes.

00:22:13.620 And I would say at some points, it's a form of reverse racism when you're saying, oh,

00:22:17.720 this reminds me of natives or something.

00:22:20.520 So, and this is what all natives are like. 1.00

00:22:22.200 So you must be offended.

00:22:23.320 I'm sure 99% of the time it's people who aren't of that ethnicity or background that

00:22:27.980 are offended on their behalf.

00:22:28.960 There's been studies done multiple times about native names for sports teams, for example,

00:22:33.960 the Washington Redskins, the Eskimos is one we've talked about.

00:22:37.200 And then the native population overwhelmingly says we don't care.

00:22:40.400 And there's often, I know around here, if you look at places like Iroquois, these are 0.99

00:22:45.280 places that are named by the teams, a team of natives naming themselves and using these

00:22:50.900 logos and they don't have a problem with it.

00:22:52.260 But it's these Torontonians that have a problem with it, probably.

00:22:56.080 Oh, Andrew, far from don't care.

00:22:59.100 They actually like it.

00:23:00.060 I can tell you there was a 2016 Washington Post survey and I'm amazed that it saw the

00:23:07.040 light of day being published because it surely wasn't, I think, what the Post was hoping to

00:23:11.660 prove.

00:23:12.200 But they asked natives, exclusively natives in this poll, what do you think about the Washington

00:23:17.820 team's nickname and logo?

00:23:19.660 And I believe it was 91% approval, you know, and I went to an area of Toronto where there

00:23:27.660 were natives congregating at a Washington Redskins hat.

00:23:30.460 The comments I was getting, no, they said, we love it.

00:23:33.500 You know, they, so it's almost, I think, like white social justice warriors, maybe of a certain

00:23:40.860 age, getting offended for others and therefore implementing trigger warnings or ultimately

00:23:47.320 censorship and cancellation.

00:23:48.820 At this point, I wouldn't target it just to white people.

00:23:51.680 I think it's more of an age group or a class group, the university class of younger women

00:23:57.540 and the men who want to get with them under 25 years old in a sad, sad circle of life where

00:24:03.400 the girl presents this terrible viewpoint and in order to get their attention, the sad beta 0.55

00:24:09.000 male or soy boy, if you will, does and agrees with whatever they say.

00:24:13.880 Well, you know, I guess we should count our blessings as merely just a trigger warning as opposed

00:24:19.560 to changing content.

00:24:20.980 And Andrew, that's not outrageous.

00:24:23.160 I look back at the Star Wars example, you know, the original Star Wars film from 1977.

00:24:28.540 It shows Han Solo shooting the bounty hunter that's after him.

00:24:32.960 Who shot first?

00:24:33.820 Yeah.

00:24:34.100 Many years later, director George Lucas tweaked that scene to make the bounty hunter shoot first

00:24:40.340 at Han Solo.

00:24:41.300 So you see, he was acting in self-defense.

00:24:44.700 I mean, to me, that's crazy.

00:24:47.040 It's bowing to political correctness.

00:24:48.620 Would you like to see filmmakers go back into the past and basically whitewash what was already

00:24:56.220 produced?

00:24:57.340 No.

00:24:58.040 And I struggle with this idea.

00:25:00.080 And I actually had a conversation with producer Justin about this of deleting anything.

00:25:05.400 Personally, I say let everything fly.

00:25:07.800 I'm not offended by any form of art.

00:25:10.520 But if this own company, which is Disney, is saying that their own stuff is racist, it's

00:25:15.820 kind of weird that they're not deleting it.

00:25:17.800 It's kind of weird that they're allowing it to be out there.

00:25:19.620 And their excuse is, we want to spark a conversation.

00:25:22.420 Little Timmy and Jimmy in the living room, we're going to have a heated debate about race

00:25:26.700 and cultural appropriation about two cats saying that they're Siamese, which I thought

00:25:31.620 was very clever of me to remark that Siam hasn't been a country for 100 years.

00:25:36.540 But you will see it on a risk board, people.

00:25:38.780 There you go.

00:25:39.280 Well, I would say this, Andrew, that behind that Mickey Mouse costume is Attila the Hun

00:25:46.420 when it comes to making money.

00:25:48.500 And they're making billions of dollars.

00:25:50.480 They own the Star Wars franchise, Marvel Comics, and they're not going to start giving up content

00:25:55.440 regardless of who it offends, if anything.

00:25:58.760 I can tell you, years ago, I was at Disneyland in California.

00:26:02.800 And you talk about...

00:26:03.580 David's got that money, people.

00:26:05.860 Press trip.

00:26:07.360 And you talk about Disneyfication on Walt Disney himself.

00:26:12.580 There's a picture of Walt Disney in his office circa 1950-something.

00:26:16.380 And his fingers are like this.

00:26:19.780 And basically, it's explained, once upon a time, there used to be a cigarette between

00:26:25.320 those fingers.

00:26:26.240 They actually airbrushed out.

00:26:28.160 So let's just hope Disney and other content makers don't alter, don't airbrush out things

00:26:34.000 because then we get into, I think, the even bigger problem right now.

00:26:38.220 Statues are being pulled down by the cancel culture mob.

00:26:41.640 They're trying to erase, literally, history.

00:26:44.060 Well, unfortunately, that's just the motif of communism when you've got to erase the

00:26:49.940 colonialists and the evil capitalist history and replace it with, I don't know, what transgender 1.00

00:26:55.740 Mickey Mouse now?

00:26:56.720 We'll just combine Minnie and Mickey and he goes fluid between both of them. 0.80

00:27:00.960 Now, we're joking about all of this, but I do have to admit that the one scene in Dumbo

00:27:05.400 is pretty questionable where they're working on a railroad and talking about how they're

00:27:09.400 going to waste all their money as soon as they get their paycheck.

00:27:12.060 I'm like, what the hell is this?

00:27:13.020 But isn't it noted that Walt Disney was kind of a bad guy?

00:27:18.280 Well, yeah, there is that part.

00:27:19.600 Maybe that's why there's so much of that stuff.

00:27:21.540 And then the sexual messaging, that was a big conspiracy 10, 15 years ago where Aladdin

00:27:27.040 covers and in Lion King and such, they had subliminal messaging.

00:27:31.200 Yeah, and there's something about the Little Mermaid too.

00:27:33.580 And, you know, you can get into that minutia.

00:27:36.060 But I just wonder how, you know, how it's going to proceed in the years to come.

00:27:41.120 But I guess bottom line, at least the content is still out there and we'll put up with trigger

00:27:45.200 warnings.

00:27:45.760 And thank you so much.

00:27:46.820 It was great commentary, Andrew.

00:27:48.020 And I'll tell you, folks, I had a viewer pass on to me a couple of days ago that CHCH TV

00:27:55.020 and Hamilton, they were playing an episode of Green Acres, if you can imagine, and it involved

00:28:01.480 a native in that episode.

00:28:05.080 And they put before the episode, word for word, the Disney trigger warning about, you know,

00:28:13.120 stereotypes and what have you.

00:28:15.420 So I guess it's already spreading.

00:28:18.280 But like I said, the good news is it's not being canceled, unlike some of our statues that

00:28:23.300 are being torn down or stored away forever.

00:28:25.880 Keep it here.

00:28:26.640 More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.

00:28:28.760 I'm more of an Omni TV guy, David.

00:28:30.460 Great commercials.

00:28:37.380 Wow.

00:28:38.220 Ford Nation, or did I say Ford Nation?

00:28:40.980 Not anymore.

00:28:41.560 Yahoo Nation is more energized than ever, as Premier Doug Ford continues to shut down more

00:28:50.400 parts of the economy, the Ontario economy.

00:28:53.800 Rage is taking lease in the land.

00:28:56.840 I'm at Yonge-Dundas Square.

00:28:58.100 You can see there is a huge turnout of people that are, well, they're, quite frankly, they're

00:29:04.260 pissed by how things are going.

00:29:06.180 And you can understand the frustration just a few days ago.

00:29:09.820 So none other than the World Health Organization stated that lockdowns of the economy is not

00:29:17.640 the way to go to eradicate this virus.

00:29:20.740 They've done a flip-flop.

00:29:21.880 So why is ostensibly a Conservative Premier locking down the economy?

00:29:28.240 A Premier that ran on the campaign slogan, Ontario Open for Business, back in 2018.

00:29:35.200 Well, as the saying goes, it's a dog-eat-dog world out there, and I'm wearing milk bone

00:29:39.840 underwear.

00:29:40.620 Now, you know, I'm a little averse to dogs these days.

00:29:42.800 I got chewed up by one last month, sir.

00:29:44.780 But what is the story of this incredible canine mask?

00:29:49.200 Well, this is the only mask that I could wear because you have to wear masks in Canada.

00:29:54.020 So I decided to wear this one.

00:29:56.860 I said all the police officers in Canada and Quebec, stop doing all the stuff they're

00:30:03.280 doing.

00:30:03.900 We don't give tickets to those people.

00:30:05.780 USA!

00:30:06.420 USA!

00:30:07.920 They're not entering their home.

00:30:09.880 This is illegal, guys.

00:30:12.340 You know, it's funny.

00:30:13.140 Here's a gathering of thousands of people in downtown Toronto.

00:30:16.600 Where is the mainstream media when it comes to covering this?

00:30:19.440 Why are they able?

00:30:20.160 Aren't we just in front of their central cutplotters and they're completely ignoring

00:30:25.800 everything that's going on since we started gathering in March?

00:30:29.580 I think you're the only media coverage that actually came and covered the truth.

00:30:33.040 We've been coming almost every single week since late April, absolutely.

00:30:37.200 But, I mean, why is it that they have chosen not to cover this?

00:30:42.440 Is it because the narrative being espoused by you and the other people here, that's not

00:30:47.560 their narrative, so we're simply going to black it out?

00:30:50.160 They're getting direction from up above to spread the fear and all they're talking about

00:30:55.660 cases.

00:30:56.380 We have over 400 hospitals in Ontario and there's only 30 to 50 hospitalized people in

00:31:02.980 ICU, so they're just really narrativist to spread the fear.

00:31:07.980 And we got to, I think we have to flatten the fear.

00:31:11.540 You know, and it's funny too because, again, on the media angle, Doug Ford is so chummy with

00:31:18.260 the mainstream media and just a few years ago when they were harassing his brother, the

00:31:24.200 late, great Rob Ford, he had nothing but, you know, wicked words for the mainstream media.

00:31:30.300 Now he's all chummy with them.

00:31:32.000 What happened to Doug?

00:31:33.060 What happened to Doug?

00:31:34.140 I don't know.

00:31:34.680 I think he ate too many of those cherry cheesecakes.

00:31:37.760 Too many cherry cheesecakes, Dougie.

00:31:39.720 Well, to paraphrase that old Helen Reddy song, they are Yahoos, hear them roar in numbers 1.00

00:31:45.600 too big to ignore.

00:31:47.580 Well, okay, maybe the mainstream media is ignoring them, but is that a surprise to anyone?

00:31:53.500 In any event, that anti-lockdown protest by the rank and file of Yahoo Nation last Saturday

00:31:59.240 in Toronto might have been the biggest one of its kind in Ontario to date, and little

00:32:05.100 wonder why, given how more and more cities and regions in Ontario are being thrown back

00:32:10.780 into stage two lockdown mode.

00:32:14.580 Businesses are going bankrupt.

00:32:16.460 Ontarians are being thrown out of work.

00:32:19.120 Hey, Premier Ford, whatever happened to those 2018 campaign slogans such as, oh, I don't

00:32:25.060 know, Ontario Open for Business and for the people, who could have imagined the precise

00:32:30.980 opposite would come true in 2020?

00:32:34.340 And without further ado, here's what you had to say about the latest uprising of Yahoo Nation.

00:32:41.080 Rob Guerri writes, RIP, Rob Ford.

00:32:45.080 Shame on Doug Ford.

00:32:46.500 Rob would never let this happen.

00:32:48.380 You know, you're right, sir.

00:32:49.420 I think that with the passage of two years, we have all discovered, sadly, that Doug Ford

00:32:56.280 is not Rob Ford.

00:32:59.280 Liberals R. Cucks writes, Toronto, you voted Tory and Trudeau.

00:33:03.300 What do you expect?

00:33:05.360 Well, true enough, but it is the province that's responsible for the stage two lockdowns, and

00:33:11.260 Doug Ford was supposed to be better than those other two.

00:33:15.320 But as the saying goes, look good on paper.

00:33:19.980 True Christian writes, late, great Rob Ford.

00:33:22.940 You mean great at smoking crack in the hood? 1.00

00:33:25.640 Really stupid statement for Menzies there. 1.00

00:33:28.420 No, true Christian. 1.00

00:33:29.860 Rob Ford was a fantastic mayor and city councillor.

00:33:33.160 He got so much done, yet was downright bullied by the mainstream media, perhaps bullied to an

00:33:39.220 early grave.

00:33:40.540 Now, was Rob Ford a flawed man?

00:33:42.760 Of course he was.

00:33:43.640 We all have our flaws.

00:33:45.580 Even great men and great women are flawed.

00:33:48.240 To think otherwise. 1.00

00:33:49.360 Now, that's stupid. 1.00

00:33:51.460 Brianna C. Reacts writes, whoa, that dog mask is impressive. 1.00

00:33:56.900 Oh, and better yet, Brianna, Catherine McKennell was nowhere to be seen that day.

00:34:02.460 A voice in the frequency writes, Doug Ford, a liberal in conservatives clothes.

00:34:07.220 Sad, isn't it?

00:34:08.000 I mean, going back to January 2018, that was the reason crybaby Patrick Brown was ousted from

00:34:14.220 the PC party in a palace coup.

00:34:16.960 It was clear Brown was a conservative in name only.

00:34:21.020 Ford was the savior.

00:34:23.220 So, what happened?

00:34:25.000 Indeed, why is it that Patrick Brown actually goes to Ford's residence for dinners now?

00:34:31.320 I mean, how weird, how bizarre, how creepy is that?

00:34:37.200 And Ryan Zak Music writes, great to see happy, courageous, loving people getting together.

00:34:43.840 I agree, Ryan.

00:34:45.140 Despite the justifiable anger out there due to the lockdowns, there is always such a great

00:34:51.040 vibe in the air at these Yahoo Nation protests.

00:34:53.880 I wish I could say the same when it comes to leftists getting together.

00:34:59.740 Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.

00:35:02.760 Thanks so much for joining us.

00:35:03.980 See you next week.

00:35:04.740 And hey, folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory.

00:35:09.100 Good night.

00:35:09.500 Good night.

Rebel News Podcast - October 24, 2020

Rebel Roundup： Sophie Trudeau's freebies, Disney does trigger warnings

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