Rebel News Podcast - SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Leftists furious as Avi Yemini uses their own electoral tricks against them

00:00:00.000 The left in Australia has been abusing the electoral system for far too long.

00:00:05.940 Avi Amini joins me today to explain how he plans to use it to his benefit and then maybe

00:00:12.760 burn it all down so that it might be fixed. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.

00:00:30.000 at first glance you would think that my friend and colleague avi amini in australia has suddenly

00:00:41.820 switched teams from being a former member of the idf the israeli defense forces to now being a great

00:00:52.100 Palestinian liberation politician. But that's not exactly the case. There's a quirky electoral

00:01:02.300 system in Australia that I think was designed with good intentions to prevent

00:01:10.340 fringe parties or even not the preferred choice of the electorate to sort of run up the middle

00:01:21.320 thanks to a vote split on certain sides of the spectrum. And there is a strong Canadian

00:01:29.000 connection to this in that in the 2021 election, the vote split between the two conservative parties,

00:01:37.060 the People's Party and the Conservative Party, resulted in approximately 21 ridings going to

00:01:44.760 the Liberals. Now, that's not enough to sway the outcome of the election, but it sure made sure

00:01:48.540 that some pretty good MPs were not sent back to the House of Commons and then here in Alberta where

00:01:55.020 I am in 2015 a vote split on the right between the Wild Rose Party a conservative party and the

00:02:04.140 less conservative albeit still I mean depends on who you talk to conservative party the progressive

00:02:10.540 conservatives resulted in the fringe socialist NDP forming government. So joining me now in an

00:02:19.440 interview we recorded yesterday to explain that system and how he is using it for once to the

00:02:28.420 benefit of the right as a great Palestinian liberation politician, at least on paper,

00:02:38.440 is my friend and colleague, Avi Amini.

00:02:41.260 Take a listen.

00:02:49.080 Joining me now is my friend and colleague

00:02:51.040 from Australia, Avi Amini,

00:02:53.660 and he's going to explain to us his efforts

00:02:55.660 to become a great Palestinian liberation hero.

00:02:58.840 Avi, thanks for joining the show. 0.53

00:03:03.420 Canadians, I don't think, quite understand 1.00

00:03:05.900 the quirk of what you're doing so you know hold our hands walk us through um first uh i guess the

00:03:15.420 structures that allow you to do what you're going to do and what you intend to do i i know i just

00:03:20.120 gave you a lot there but take your time all good thank you sheila thanks for having me and uh i'm

00:03:25.220 thank you for still calling me a friend i don't think i've had that many people in my life that

00:03:28.900 known for that long that still refer to me as a friend so much appreciated much needed

00:03:33.200 but I am now the leader of the well last week it was the fastest growing political party in

00:03:41.100 Australia called the Free Palestine Party and essentially what it is is we have we have a

00:03:47.240 preferential voting system across the country here I'm not sure how yours is structured but

00:03:51.980 that's that's our system so basically you get to select who you want first and then you number

00:03:58.640 you know second third fourth fifth preferences and basically if your first one misses your vote

00:04:04.120 goes into the next person now the system itself I don't mind because it basically means if you

00:04:10.260 look at something like the UK at the moment where you have a party rise out of nowhere like Nigel

00:04:18.140 Farage's party and you don't want to split the conservative vote because most of the people

00:04:22.780 would that you know they might vote reform but they'll put labor last they want to give reform

00:04:29.120 a chance but they don't want to completely lose their vote so essentially what happens now is

00:04:34.620 that that conservative vote is getting split because you have people vote for reform people

00:04:39.080 voting for conservative and then people voting for um for labor and so labor's kind of got a

00:04:44.360 leg up because the other side is splitting their own vote so it's a way to kind of combat that now

00:04:49.780 Now, what we also have, and it's been scrapped in most states, is a group voting ticket in the

00:04:58.560 upper house, in the Senate. And so the way that works is it's the same idea, but people, most

00:05:07.020 people vote above the line. When you vote above the line, it means you don't put your preferences

00:05:12.380 says uh one two three four five you just put the party you want to win and then the party

00:05:18.020 behind closed doors can make deals on preferences to how to allocate them and what they what it

00:05:25.960 allows in reality to happen is that parties that don't represent anyone you know there are parties

00:05:31.520 like animal justice which you know some people vote because of their name but when you really

00:05:35.620 look at their policies it's like as far left as you can go um but it doesn't even matter they

00:05:42.220 make deals with, there's a guy in Australia who's well known called the Preference Whisperer. He

00:05:47.460 actually sells this. You have to join his little club. You pay $5,000, I think it is off the top

00:05:54.660 of my head, just to join. And then another $50,000 when you win a seat per seat. So he's really

00:05:59.620 raking it in. And he makes these backroom deals where he allocates all the preferences. So

00:06:03.600 it's completely undemocratic because your vote is not going according. So the reason why I like

00:06:09.240 preferential voting system is because if i believe in something i'll go for what i really want like

00:06:14.620 i want one nation to win but i know that they may not win the primary popular vote so they may not

00:06:20.520 get the seat so you know i'll put the concert you know the the uni party conservative part of the

00:06:26.660 uni party you know at the bottom of my um my conservative list and at least i know that it

00:06:33.340 ends there before it goes to labor or the greens or something like that um but they're not doing

00:06:38.500 that. They're basically making these background deals. Till now, that system has been exploited

00:06:44.500 by the left, by especially the Labour Party. The Labour Party and these minor fringe extreme

00:06:52.260 left parties like Animal Justice. And the Labour Party in their defence has been using it mostly

00:07:00.140 to fight off the Greens. But it hasn't helped conservatives because those seats have ended up

00:07:07.280 going to these other lunatic parties but it stopped the Greens which to them is there is probably their

00:07:14.220 biggest competition when it comes to like a communist state like Victoria but right now um so

00:07:20.480 this year we've decided we're going to use the system in the very same way that they do except

00:07:26.320 for conservatives and now the Labor Party is stuck between a rock and a hard place they on one hand

00:07:32.660 don't want the Greens who poll at about 10, 12% picking up any of their seats or any potentially

00:07:42.380 a couple of their seats, but also these minor fringe parties that are so desperate to work

00:07:46.940 with the government that they can control them better than if you have a block of Greens.

00:07:51.660 But now also we have One Nation, which is a real conservative party, polling at about 20 to 30%.

00:07:59.500 There was a by-election of the weekend, which most people just looked at as a gauge to see other polls true.

00:08:05.180 And even in Victoria, we saw it play out in South Australia recently, and it proved it right.

00:08:09.820 And then here, even in Victoria, 25% they got, which means that without this group voting ticket,

00:08:15.640 so this group voting ticket will stop the One Nation Party from getting a bunch of their seats,

00:08:20.220 because you have to hit a certain quota.

00:08:22.140 I'm not going to bore you with the details, but it's the percentages all added up.

00:08:25.480 And these preferential deals allow people to make the, to get these seats that they probably shouldn't.

00:08:31.860 Like you're talking about people, you know, you'll have somebody get a seat with 1% while somebody with 13, 14% won't get a seat.

00:08:39.640 That's how ludicrous this system is.

00:08:41.860 So now we've launched, so we're launching, well, I'm personally, because you can only legally be the leader of one party.

00:08:49.480 So Monica Smith started with Save the Environment Party, trying to capture the climate alarmists.

00:08:58.600 Because you've got to think about it.

00:09:00.060 Like when people walk into the voting booth, they see the party name, they see the logo.

00:09:07.340 And most people are not like you and me.

00:09:10.300 They're not watching, even if they watch the news.

00:09:13.300 But tomorrow they forget the story.

00:09:15.080 It's not that important to them.

00:09:17.020 but everybody has an issue they care about at least uh they like to think they care about it

00:09:23.460 enough to vote for it on a slogan and the left is very slogan based this is what's uh terrifying

00:09:29.500 them at the moment so she set up save the environment capture that one i saved up i

00:09:33.580 thought when she did that i thought what a fantastic idea i just reported on it she got

00:09:37.340 the numbers you got to get 500 members at least so you aim for 750 they're going to be verified

00:09:41.580 500 members to have a political party, and I thought, what a fantastic idea, but I want to

00:09:48.340 level this up. What is the one issue that brings all the crazies together, and people that aren't

00:09:54.540 very deep on critical thinking, or looking behind a slogan, trying to work things out,

00:10:02.280 they're just the most gullible people, is the Free Palestine Movement. And it's not only

00:10:06.380 confined to the left, while the left is a big one. You've got the fringe right as well,

00:10:11.460 that would do a protest vote for that.

00:10:13.280 You've got, you know, a big chunk of the Islamic community.

00:10:16.400 They'll do it.

00:10:17.580 So we launched this Free Palestine Party.

00:10:20.460 And, you know, I was hoping within a couple of weeks

00:10:21.980 to get the quota, the 500 members.

00:10:24.020 So we went for 750.

00:10:25.680 In two days, we got 1,000.

00:10:28.080 And I thought, this is insane.

00:10:30.600 And obviously, you know, people are quite upset

00:10:33.960 that suddenly all, you know, ABC, ABC Radio

00:10:40.120 invited me on to discuss it, thinking they're going to gotcha, you know, you're being deceptive,

00:10:44.380 which is funny to me because I feel like I'm being the most honest about this. I'm the first

00:10:48.220 guy telling you what I'm doing with it. In the last election, there was a party called

00:10:52.060 Sack Dan Andrews that popped up on the ballots and it was preferencing Dan Andrews. Remember Dan

00:10:57.460 Andrews, a dictator from COVID times. So the system has been exploited forever, but they've

00:11:03.980 never cared about it until we've done it. And, you know, they invited me on thinking they're

00:11:08.660 gonna beat me at this little game and i'm like dude like yeah it's a it's an ultimate troll

00:11:14.880 that look how ridiculous the system is and for me i'm sitting in a position where it's a win-win

00:11:19.200 either scrap the system one nation will pick up the seats that the people of victoria the will

00:11:25.580 of the people will actually um prevail and they'll win what they deserve to win based on the

00:11:31.820 democratic election or we're probably going to funnel a bunch of seats so yesterday we launched

00:11:37.440 or two days ago, we've now launched,

00:11:39.920 so somebody else launched,

00:11:42.020 he's going to come on camera later this week.

00:11:43.600 Yeah, somebody in the inner circle

00:11:44.960 has launched Muslim Votes Matter,

00:11:48.660 which was based on a political activist group

00:11:52.760 that last election was trying to undermine the elections

00:11:55.820 by propping up candidates.

00:11:58.760 So without starting a party, propping up candidates 0.54

00:12:01.040 that were really un-Australian and, you know, everything.

00:12:04.620 and the logo of it is the the islamic crescent you know so like even when you go into a voting 0.82

00:12:12.280 booth and you got migrants that have come to australia that haven't bothered to learn the 0.91

00:12:15.400 language um they're going to still be able to have somewhere to vote because they will just 0.71

00:12:20.360 recognize that symbol and think oh yes i believe in that's what i care about number one that's

00:12:26.100 the idea um we're hoping by the election we're going to have you know four five six different

00:12:31.680 parties targeting different voting blocks and funneling like even if you get a percent or two

00:12:39.000 like the Muslim one for example Muslims make up only like four percent of Victoria however in 0.96

00:12:46.800 certain electorates they're like 50 percent right so all you need to do is get a couple of percentage 1.00

00:12:51.900 and then you're funneling them you're harvesting those votes and we're giving it straight to one

00:12:56.840 nation so the free palestine people are actually voting to like with that one at least i could go

00:13:02.040 like free palestine from hamas like i'll do it under my breath whatever but you know even the 0.95

00:13:06.900 muslim votes matters people they're voting for a party really that believes that they should ban 0.95

00:13:12.780 the burqa or they should you know we need to stop islamic immigration um we've got a few other ones 0.95

00:13:17.900 like stop the refugee uh let refugees in also like there's a bunch of different parties it's 1.00

00:13:22.440 gonna be like a cannabis one because even here like there are some that are more true than others

00:13:26.000 cannabis party where there are people that do believe in um you know there are people that

00:13:31.300 believe in freedom of cannabis whatever you want to call it but unfortunately in australia there's

00:13:36.560 only one party that advocates for that and they are also a far left-wing party so you get a lot

00:13:40.800 of conservatives or libertarians that's the number one issue and they end up voting for this party

00:13:45.480 that stands against everything else they believe in so we are also hoping to tap into legitimate

00:13:51.240 things. But the idea is really harvesting votes from the left and funneling them to the right

00:13:58.200 and using a ridiculous system that should be scrapped.

00:14:04.140 I think it's fascinating. And I love that you're so upfront about it. You know,

00:14:07.880 the other people are doing it too, but you're just completely upfront about it. I want to talk

00:14:11.320 to you about some of the... Sorry, go ahead. I was so upfront about it that Ezra called me when

00:14:18.340 And he goes, do you think not like, I don't know what the rules are there because he got worried like you because I know you guys are in the electoral commission.

00:14:26.900 And he said, like, are you sure we shouldn't be just leaning more into free Palestine from Hamas and then you can argue and, you know, save the environment from whatever. 0.60

00:14:37.100 And I said to him, I'm playing with that.

00:14:39.460 But the point is what we're doing is actually so legal here.

00:14:43.760 And that's how crazy it is because every media outlet went to the VEC, to the Victorian Electoral Commission, complaining, trying to get me that it was trending where everyone, all the lefties were tagging, all the people, by the way, that were very silent until now when Sackdown Andrews was funneling the votes to Dan Andrews, they had nothing to say.

00:15:01.300 Everybody was complaining and the VEC said, there's nothing we could do.

00:15:04.560 That is completely, completely legal.

00:15:06.820 Your name doesn't have to match your policies.

00:15:09.140 the rules around deceptiveness. There is a rule around deceptiveness, but it's about trying to

00:15:13.900 deceive somebody that you're another party's name. So you can't have another party or insinuate or

00:15:18.940 pretend or make using that you're another party. But aside from that, what we're doing is completely

00:15:23.480 legal. And I'm encouraging them to complain, but they should be complaining to the party that has

00:15:29.420 the power now, their friends, to change the rules. You know, so Ezra, to be really consumed by the

00:15:35.840 electoral rules, we have a meeting every day, just to make sure that we're not breaking them

00:15:41.060 here in Alberta, where I am as we hurtled towards our secession referendum. I want to talk to you

00:15:47.240 about the media reaction, because I've been watching it from afar. And you are right, like

00:15:52.960 the things that other people have been getting away with on the left, that they just completely

00:15:58.420 turned a blind eye to, they are lighting their hair on fire, because somebody on the right is

00:16:03.620 finally forcing everybody to play by the rules that only the left have been able to abuse for so

00:16:09.960 long yep and and and it's funny because i laugh about it to their faces that abc interview that

00:16:17.160 i did i feel like was best combative mainstream interview i've ever done well maybe it's just

00:16:22.260 that i had so much fun doing it because by the end of it you could see how triggered he was and

00:16:27.720 you know usually doing what i don't know if you're like me because you're so you're perfect i'm i'm

00:16:32.980 the most imperfect person and i go away from every single interview at the end and i watch it back

00:16:37.700 and i think i should have said i know and there was not much i could fold i guess when he because

00:16:44.480 they keep trying to say don't you feel like it's deceptive and uh like i answered it well but i

00:16:51.600 should have also said actually i'm the least deceptive person like i said to you here like

00:16:56.560 because i actually got that thought from the watching it back thinking hold on why is everyone

00:17:01.700 calling me deceptive I'm literally the only person doing this saying I'm doing this you've never had

00:17:07.220 a problem with the people that were doing it that didn't say that and then you had the premier of

00:17:12.380 Victoria so Dana the person that took the place of Daniel Andrews um she was asked about it and

00:17:19.700 it's funny you just see as soon as my name gets mentioned her face goes bright red and then she

00:17:25.880 she she couldn't even say my name she says that commentator because the journalist asks that

00:17:32.780 there's a commentator of your mini and she's like that commentator but you know and then she goes

00:17:37.420 on to this whole rant about how the elections should be about transparency and and what the

00:17:42.380 other word was but like like any victorian watching that is thinking whether you like

00:17:48.800 were you like her or not those are two words that you could not use it was transparency and some

00:17:54.540 other, you know, honesty and transparency. And it's like the two words you cannot possibly believe

00:18:01.760 the Labor Party could go in the same sentence as the Labor Party. And it's funny because she's

00:18:06.720 talking about it in about an issue where I'm the one that's being honest, that's being transparent.

00:18:14.800 It's her party. She's, look, I don't know if she's in power because of it, but they certainly played

00:18:19.740 that game and they certainly had a much wider or you know some form wider mandate because of this

00:18:27.820 game that they've played for so many years and the scandals that have been in the labour party

00:18:31.760 like this has gotten more outrage than actual scandals in the labour party that got them

00:18:37.320 elected this this is the same labour party only four years ago were you in 2014 sorry so 10 years

00:18:44.800 ago and then it took about four years till any anyone actually really reported on it it was

00:18:48.840 called the red shirt scandal where they were paying political staffers to campaign you're

00:18:53.680 not allowed to do that political staffers right that are in government have to work on their work

00:18:59.960 to go work on donated and then it has to it has to be separate but that essentially because what

00:19:06.560 happened was you have this massive government that has all these staff and then they basically

00:19:11.240 pushed all those stuff that are being paid by the taxpayer to campaign for them to win the next time

00:19:16.120 And that, like, nobody can compete against that because they have unlimited resources.

00:19:22.000 And they got found out about that.

00:19:23.200 The media was nowhere near as interested in 2014 when it was happening, when they were essentially stealing the election for four years until a criminal investigation actually opened the election after.

00:19:37.300 So, yeah, like you say, these people that have played these games, these people that are truly deceptive are suddenly outraged.

00:19:44.660 and i can't say i don't find that very very fun yeah it's hard to say that a guy is being deceptive

00:19:51.380 when he's on the national broadcaster telling everybody exactly what he's doing how he's doing

00:19:57.300 it and why he's doing it and yet they still say that you're misleading people um i think sometimes

00:20:03.340 you have to break a system to fix the system and i think you might be the guy to do it i think it's

00:20:11.780 going to happen and i said to the abc journalists i go you better give me credit at the end of all

00:20:15.580 this you know when they end up suddenly uh banning the system and you know his response to that he's

00:20:23.040 like every politician wants to take credit for it mate you're literally talking to i was i've never

00:20:28.000 i haven't been on the abc for seven years because i've been black even though my uncle is the boss

00:20:34.720 of abc i'm blacklisted i've never been invited on but i'm being invited on to talk about this issue

00:20:39.860 because you thought you would be able to bury me

00:20:42.120 and it didn't kind of play out the way he expected.

00:20:44.400 But you're not even going to give me the credit

00:20:47.380 of destroying the system that you're suddenly so angry exists.

00:20:52.400 It's just laughable.

00:20:53.820 But yeah, I will take absolute credit for it

00:20:56.460 and I'll give our audience the credit

00:20:58.660 because they're the ones that helped us

00:21:01.060 just get those numbers so quickly.

00:21:05.140 People are excited by it because it's been annoying.

00:21:08.960 comes around every election cycle and then somebody points out one party that's doing it

00:21:13.240 and all the backroom dodgy deals that's happening. And the fact that, you know, people that actually

00:21:17.800 should have a mandate to get at least one or two seats are not getting anything. And these

00:21:21.980 fringe lunatics that suddenly, you know, you see this animal justice is a perfect example because 0.98

00:21:27.440 they've got the most crazy politicians that end up being given, you know, at least state, 0.98

00:21:37.180 if not national platforms for the four-year tenure

00:21:40.740 and to be taken seriously just because they won

00:21:44.660 on less than 1% of the vote half the time.

00:21:47.640 You know, there's a guy, Transport Matters,

00:21:49.780 he won on 0.5% of the vote.

00:21:53.720 Like, he got a seat and was taken seriously

00:21:55.720 for four years in Parliament.

00:21:58.380 So I think it's levelling the playing field.

00:22:01.500 And like I said, either way, I think in this election,

00:22:04.540 it's a win-win.

00:22:05.060 We're either going to embarrass them by using their own system against them, or they're going to change the legislation.

00:22:13.540 And I'm all for the preferential voting system, but just not one where dodgy deals can be done in the background without the honesty and transparency they're so desperate for.

00:22:25.280 Right.

00:22:26.100 The ranked ballot system sounds delightful.

00:22:29.960 Frequently, we have a vote split in Canada, both at the provincial level, but at the federal level.

00:22:35.780 I think in 2021, the Conservative Party lost 21 seats.

00:22:39.160 Now, it wasn't enough to swing the balance of the election in their favor, but some really good MPs lost their seats because of a Conservative vote split. 0.61

00:22:45.540 And then in 2015, in the most conservative place in the entire country where I live, a vote split between two conservative parties, one conservative and then one more conservative, allowed the Socialist Party to run up the middle and terrorize us for four horrible years.

00:23:03.840 That's what the system is designed, supposed to stop happening.

00:23:07.400 But it's being abused.

00:23:09.300 And now it's being abused back.

00:23:12.520 I'm abusing it, yes.

00:23:13.760 but legally absolutely legally you know what i don't have a lot of uh empathy for elections

00:23:20.840 bureaucrats so if you're terrorizing them along the way i'm fine with that uh how many sorry go

00:23:26.140 ahead getting all these applications now uh you know every they've gotten two so far they'll get

00:23:31.840 another one in a few days this is something that they're you know maybe every election cycle they've

00:23:36.300 got to do two or three suddenly they're going to be doing 10 or i love it yeah it's it's it's it's

00:23:43.440 it does give me uh it's a delight so how many members do you have so far can you say yeah no

00:23:50.880 no we can say but so we stopped like the free party you only you don't need more members you

00:23:55.900 need minimum more votes yeah five yeah so i just to get the party registered you need 500 verified

00:24:03.620 members so we were aiming for 750 um the free palestine one got a thousand like i said over

00:24:09.620 a thousand within two days so we shut that off and now we're working redirecting well we're not

00:24:15.740 we've just got it's actually not a bad idea but um actually thank you tell them the url because

00:24:23.620 um but we're we're now uh i think we're a few hundred into the third party so hopefully in a

00:24:31.340 few days um and and i think uh people are going to laugh when because we haven't even interviewed

00:24:36.860 the registrar of that party who people are going to find uh who are going to be super excited about

00:24:44.340 who it is it is a fellow rebel let's just in in a way in a way he's worked in a circle um but it's

00:24:51.240 just so funny because he's leading the muslim votes matter party and it's just i think i know

00:24:56.500 i think i know do i know i think i know uh maybe maybe you might it's it no it's probably it's not

00:25:03.840 it's not the latest rebel it's somebody uh who's worked with me in listen i you know what forget

00:25:09.480 it you guys deserve it this is your show daniel jones my bodyguard is going to be the leader of

00:25:15.080 the muslim votes matter party nice that's wonderful i'm just excited to do an interview

00:25:20.340 with him as to why muslim votes matters so much to him i it's this is just uh a cheeky little

00:25:29.340 perfect avi yamini scheme that is going to expose a problem and then hopefully fix a problem and i

00:25:36.200 just i'm watching with bated breath to see the impact that you have on this next election oh i

00:25:41.440 had an idea for like a an indian votes matter but i'd like i don't want to like mock the indians i

00:25:46.360 actually really think the indian community get used and abused here by the labor party um basically

00:25:52.260 they end up voting yamin because labor's lacks immigration but on many of the other issues

00:25:57.420 They're actually quite conservative.

00:25:59.440 It's just the immigration thing that they end up voting.

00:26:01.740 So, you know, Labor imports them and then locks in their community vote. 1.00

00:26:05.980 So I thought like a good idea would be finding an Indian to register 0.99

00:26:10.160 and do Indian votes matter and then, you know,

00:26:13.260 funneling it to a group that would,

00:26:16.060 that they would essentially agree with on everything else

00:26:18.980 besides for the immigration.

00:26:21.880 But, you know, I think it's probably better for them in the long run anyway. 0.99

00:26:26.140 So I don't feel bad about it, but we're going to find,

00:26:28.660 there's so many,

00:26:29.400 the problem that we have also is that there's a cutoff

00:26:32.180 in about, I think it's four weeks,

00:26:35.760 three or four weeks to get these parties registered.

00:26:38.940 So I wish I had more time because I would just keep going

00:26:41.760 and like, I'd make it my objective to get, you know,

00:26:45.520 20 parties and you kind of,

00:26:49.560 there's kind of draw of the luck in it too.

00:26:51.440 Cause imagine the more parties you have,

00:26:54.120 it'll your chances of being placed on the ballot somewhere at the front you know somewhere great

00:27:00.100 that just cap catches the eye it gets higher every time so having a bunch of different parties and

00:27:06.480 then just people reading them and in australia i think because it's mandatory i don't know if

00:27:10.600 voting in in canada is here it's mandatory so you have to vote so people go in and vote and

00:27:16.120 sometimes they just vote the most ridiculous thing so they can post it online so you kind of

00:27:21.220 want to play all these different groups uh and and free palestine like i feel like it's just

00:27:25.740 there there are so many 18 year olds that are you know educated on tiktok they will not know

00:27:33.120 their deploy they wouldn't even care they just want that instagram photo of going yes i voted

00:27:37.660 for palestine i did my part yeah yeah i i look forward to your network of political parties

00:27:48.980 the funniest outcome would be it's not going to happen but it would be hilarious because it has

00:27:54.760 happened in the past where you know candidates that went up for a joke end up winning but it

00:27:58.900 wouldn't be the seat that i'm putting my name down for because you've obviously got to have

00:28:04.820 on the ballot you've got to have somebody behind each party um so i'd be running it's all you know

00:28:11.900 paper uh what do they call paper candidates or whatever yeah so that it could be on the ballot

00:28:16.720 but you know the one that I select and imagine I end up winning my seat as the leader of the

00:28:22.300 free Palestine party where I was meaning to because basically your votes only get passed on

00:28:27.720 if you don't win if you don't win yeah yeah so but imagine I just get a high primary vote and

00:28:33.480 win my seat that would be brilliant I'd be a mini for the free like I'd be on tv every time I'd be 0.75

00:28:39.600 mini free Palestine party could you imagine the ultimate troll I think that that should be my 0.66

00:28:45.580 campaign like a great campaign vote for me the ultimate troll the best that can happen is i get 0.83

00:28:54.420 to parliament as the free palestine leader what a delight it should be i know what you're thinking

00:29:01.760 sheila it should be illegal to have this much fun at work please don't tell ezra no seriously

00:29:07.800 sometimes it's hard to believe that uh we get paid for this job for example today i took the

00:29:13.180 billboard truck through with anti-temporary foreign worker messaging through the drive-through

00:29:20.040 of the restaurant in canada that is the worst offender for bringing in temporary foreign workers

00:29:26.140 and driving down wages and unemploying canadian kids and we took it right through the drive-through

00:29:31.900 and ordered a coffee and what was their reaction people from inside came outside to like say like

00:29:41.660 yeah right on like someone's gotta do something it was the funnest they are

00:29:47.060 patrons of the restaurant came out ordered it because they don't realize do they not know that

00:29:55.900 where they are is the worst offender well i think everybody does but and canadian viewers know it's

00:30:02.680 tim hortons it's so ubiquitous in canada it is everywhere there's one on every single corner

00:30:09.140 They cloak themselves in nostalgia, patriotism, Canadiana, but then they don't hire Canadians.

00:30:15.660 They don't hire Canadians.

00:30:16.780 And so people just, they go because that's the coffee shop that they've gone to for 50 years. 0.98

00:30:21.180 You know, there's one everywhere.

00:30:22.440 Your coffee always tastes the same, slightly gross, but people still go.

00:30:28.140 And the patrons came out and they're like, you know what?

00:30:30.120 Yeah, somebody's got to do something about this.

00:30:32.020 And I was thinking, yeah, why not you guys?

00:30:33.940 Why are you still patronizing here?

00:30:35.860 But, you know, whatever.

00:30:37.080 So take the sport where you can get it.

00:30:39.140 Yeah. I guess that's the moral of your campaign to just take the support where you can get it.

00:30:44.460 That's right. Yeah. Well, Abby, thank you.

00:30:49.800 We've got a little bit of an international lag here. I'm going to wrap up, though.

00:30:56.880 Abby, thanks so much for coming on the show. Best of luck in your political aspirations.

00:31:00.880 Although selfishly, I hope you don't win, but I do hope that you do pull enough votes to do some serious damage to the bad guys.

00:31:09.140 there thank you sheila well as always last portion of the show goes to you because we'll never take

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00:31:58.580 anything. If you are a premium subscriber to the show, look, you're already helping us. So

00:32:03.920 we appreciate you for that. So today's comments come from my video on exclusive Act for Alberta

00:32:12.560 polling data. Now I should tell you Act for Alberta is a registered third party advertiser

00:32:21.540 here in Alberta and I am the person of contact for it. So I just, every time I talk about Act

00:32:29.000 for Alberta, I just want to be in full disclosure. Regular viewers of the show know that I am a

00:32:34.780 fourth generation Western separatist. And I think it would be unfair to you if I didn't divulge

00:32:42.000 that bias. Look, I'm not the CBC. I don't hide my bias, then do reports where it's clearly evident

00:32:48.520 and then try to gaslight you and insult your intelligence into thinking that I'm anything

00:32:54.140 other than bias on these issues. I think everybody has bias. I just prefer to be completely honest

00:33:01.260 about them. So much so that I wrote a book called Independence Blueprint, what Alberta can learn

00:33:06.740 from Quebec available at independenceblueprint.com. Now that that's out of the way, these viewer

00:33:13.560 comments come from the YouTube comment section on my report on what our polling data showed about

00:33:21.880 conservative voters, Conservative Party of Canada voters, and their leanings in Alberta towards

00:33:31.440 Western separatism. It's over half of the party base, like 60-ish percent. So Pierre Polyev,

00:33:40.140 who is now an Alberta MP, would be wise to be less aggressive in his condemnations of Western

00:33:47.600 separatism. I think he should take the more Danielle Smith approach, who also says she is

00:33:52.720 a Federalist, but that she does not discount the grievances of people who are to the point now

00:34:01.400 where they would rather leave the structural institution of Canada than stay within it.

00:34:07.000 and she is completely stepping out of the way to let Albertans have their say and then deal

00:34:13.260 with the reality of whatever happens after October 19th in whatever way that uh the results may go

00:34:23.660 and look I think we all know how I want the results to go but and I realize Polyev has to

00:34:29.980 walk a fine line because he is a federalist insofar as he wants to become the prime minister

00:34:37.540 of this country and if you want to become the prime minister of this country then you kind of

00:34:42.040 have to be in favor of confederation so i don't i don't condemn him for that but he should just

00:34:49.340 take the foot off the gas pedal here and maybe check his tone a little bit you know don't and

00:34:56.500 And that is to say, he's not a wild-eyed federalist a la Jason Kenney, who is out there on the internet calling his former base names all over the place.

00:35:09.720 His volunteers, his donors, his sign captains during his campaigns, he's calling them kooks and crazies right now.

00:35:18.260 I don't think that's the best approach to deal with disgruntled Albertans who have absolute legitimate grievances.

00:35:24.880 So I did a report on what our polling data showed, and that is 60% of federal conservative supporters in this province would vote to leave, like today, without hesitation.

00:35:38.880 So let's go to the comments.

00:35:41.020 Nicholas Akerson says, I don't blame Alberta.

00:35:43.480 This federal government needs to go.

00:35:45.580 All they care about is money and power.

00:35:47.460 Yes, I've said that repeatedly, actually.

00:35:49.420 I think the Liberals' ideology isn't an ideology at all.

00:35:54.300 they'll do whatever it takes for them to hang on to power and right now that means um out of

00:36:01.300 control immigration and appeasing elbows up eastern and central canada toronto area boomer types

00:36:13.300 and if you're a boomer that voted conservative please don't write me a letter i'm not talking

00:36:17.120 about you you know exactly who i'm talking about the ducats says anyone else hope things

00:36:23.600 fall faster i'm just tired of waiting for the slaughterhouse while being milked like a cow

00:36:27.260 there are a lot of people who feel that way who they they would say you know what i don't care

00:36:34.460 burn it all down because albertans we will rise from the ashes uh i understand that but i think

00:36:44.020 the majority of western separatists don't hate canada or what canada used to be they hate what

00:36:51.340 Canada is becoming. And the act of casting a vote for Western independence is an act of

00:36:58.220 self-preservation, but also preservation of those values that used to exist in the rest of Canada

00:37:04.180 that still remain here. Unknown Guy says, federal conservatives will never make the structural

00:37:13.060 changes we require because Ontario and Quebec will never allow it. Yes, that is true. Therefore,

00:37:17.960 our place within Canada will never change unless we leave Alberta independence is our only choice

00:37:21.920 for real change self-determination and a brighter future uh yeah I mean it was things were better

00:37:28.380 when we had 10 years of stable stable good governance under the Harper era but that's

00:37:39.000 that's a changing thing right like as soon as Harper was gone we went back to the same old

00:37:44.000 thing. And when the conservatives were in power, they didn't actually change the structural

00:37:48.420 problems that continue to plague us. Now, what is it? 121 years since we joined Confederation.

00:38:00.360 Hobbit 247 says fifth generation Alberta here. Let's get the FO out of this tyranny.

00:38:06.260 yeah i'm a fifth generation albertan too i'm raising the sixth and uh my vote my vote will

00:38:17.820 be for their future i want them to love alberta for the same reason my

00:38:26.500 fifth generation ago ancestor came here and settled on this very same land for opportunity

00:38:33.520 where you can take care of yourself and your family and achieve your goals through hard work

00:38:43.820 and self-determination. I want to preserve that for them. Pitbull Syndicate 93. Everyone I talked

00:38:51.920 to in my shop, over 200 guys, never signed the petition. They are all saying they'll vote for

00:38:58.600 independence in a heartbeat. Yeah, there's a lot of people who never put their name on that petition

00:39:03.220 because they're concerned that they don't want to be on a list somewhere.

00:39:06.620 Now, I have more confidence in the integrity of Elections Alberta

00:39:13.180 than I do have of Elections Canada,

00:39:15.160 but there are a lot of people who saw what happened to the Freedom Convoy

00:39:18.180 and said, I am a Western separatist.

00:39:20.200 I will vote to leave on an anonymous ballot on referendum day, October 19th,

00:39:29.000 but I'm just not putting my name and address on that petition.

00:39:32.780 And it shouldn't be. It shouldn't be that people are scared to participate in a democracy, but that is the case in Mark Carney's Canada.

00:39:41.360 Last one, Laser Guy ES, as an Ontarian, I'm just saying vote for independence, Alberta. Vote for a prosperous future for your country.

00:39:49.560 There are a lot of Ontarians and people in the central part of this country and eastern part of this country who completely understand why Albertans like me feel the way that we do.

00:40:01.420 and i think if given the choice they would make the same one as well um this is our one chance

00:40:07.300 in a generation maybe in a lifetime because you know what will happen if the vote doesn't go the

00:40:13.380 way the separatists want the laws will change both federally and maybe provincially maybe not

00:40:19.440 provincially actually i'm confident that danielle smith wouldn't change the law but i do think that

00:40:24.340 the federal government would start tinkering with certain things that would prevent a province from

00:40:30.800 seceding come from confederation okay well everybody that's the show for today thank you

00:40:37.140 so much for tuning in i'll see everybody back here in the same time in the same place next

00:40:40.700 week and as always friends don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think

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Rebel News Podcast - May 07, 2026

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