Rebel News Podcast - THE MENZOID： Do you think there are Antifa drag queen story time events in Russia？

00:00:00.000 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you, in which we look back at

00:00:05.080 some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite Rebels. I'm your host, David

00:00:09.780 Menzies. Well, our Seattle-based correspondent, Katie Davis-Court, went to cover a drag queen 1.00

00:00:16.860 event at a brew pub last weekend. It was all about promoting perversity, or I mean diversity, 1.00

00:00:24.220 as well as love and tolerance and all the rest of that. But outside the restaurant,

00:00:29.020 more than 100 Antifa types were on hand, and they swarmed and physically assaulted Katie,

00:00:37.460 stealing her phone in the process. We're not going to let this stand, and Katie will join me

00:00:43.640 to explain everything. And what's really going on in Russia these days? Well, our New York-based

00:00:49.940 reporter, Jeremy Lafredo, he just got back from Moscow, and his conclusion, if you're getting

00:00:56.440 your information from the lamestream media, it's best you take that info with a shovelful of salt

00:01:04.240 and letters. We get your letters. We get your letters every minute of every day. And you had

00:01:10.260 plenty to say about General Motors inviting Rebel News to a press event at their Ingersoll, Ontario plant,

00:01:17.740 only to disinvite us once we got there. Gee, why would that be? Were they acting on a request from

00:01:26.060 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who were also in attendance? If so,

00:01:33.860 GM's egregious behavior totally makes sense. You don't want to make enemies of those in political

00:01:40.460 office in case GM needs another taxpayer-funded bailout in the near future. Those are your

00:01:48.100 rebels now. Let's round them up. 0.92

00:01:59.780 Dozens of kids came to hear Sylvia Reed Christmas classics, many of them coming for the first time.

00:02:05.380 She's awesome. I just wanted to be a part of it, right? I wanted to, like, even if it was not the

00:02:09.740 year, we'd still show up. Because all we're doing is trying to teach young children that it's all right

00:02:14.080 to be reaching out and spreading love and acceptance to everybody, which I think is the best

00:02:18.540 message to everybody.

00:02:30.020 What's up, Katie? You and your shit-ass bedhead again, man! 1.00

00:02:35.580 Okay, anytime they try to step up and try to step themselves, remind us everything's on time. 1.00

00:02:42.160 Umrella crew out.

00:02:48.800 Of course, you took Katie Davis. Look at all the Antifa following me!

00:02:53.440 They stole Katie Davis Court's phone.

00:02:56.000 In Renton, Washington, outside the Brewmaster's taproom, I'm a journalist, and Antifa robbed me. 1.00

00:03:01.120 They stole my phone and assaulted me, and I need the police to come.

00:03:04.580 I want to call the police.

00:03:05.960 Oh, you can call the police. If you want to, feel free.

00:03:10.300 How? I don't have a phone.

00:03:11.300 Oh, you have your phone.

00:03:12.780 I'm not getting it out.

00:03:13.520 Yeah, no, don't. You're a fascist, Katie. 1.00

00:03:16.040 Antifa swarmed me with her umbrellas, and then one of them robbed me. They stole my phone and assaulted me. 1.00

00:03:25.100 Katie Davis Court here with Rebel News USA. Unfortunately, over the weekend, when I was

00:03:29.920 covering a Drag Queen Story Hour protest near Seattle, Washington, I was mobbed and robbed

00:03:36.260 by members of Antifa. Militants stole my phone as the group mobbed me and swarmed me with their

00:03:41.760 umbrellas to prevent me from reporting on the event. We have a plan to find the perpetrator,

00:03:47.040 so please follow along and chip in, if you can, to support this endeavor at StandWithKaty.com.

00:03:54.020 For those who might be new to my reporting, since I only recently joined Rebel, I am a

00:03:58.580 Seattle-based, independent journalist and made a name for myself in the Pacific Northwest

00:04:03.660 covering the Defund the Police movement, and I'm one of the only brave enough reporters left

00:04:08.640 to continue covering Antifa extremism. So I guess let's break down what happened on Saturday.

00:04:16.420 A conservative group had posted a call to action earlier in the week for people to protest a Drag 1.00

00:04:22.940 Queen Story Hour event that was taking place at the Brewmaster's Tap Room in Renton, Washington.

00:04:28.840 Now, we have all seen the grooming and vile predatory behavior at these events, which was the

00:04:34.340 group's reasoning for protesting the event. The protest was called off after the owner of the

00:04:40.460 restaurant claims that an unknown suspect fired a single round with what appears to have

00:04:46.300 been a BB or pellet gun into the window of the restaurant, according to the Renton Police

00:04:51.840 Department, and this happened only a few days after the call to action. So after the incident occurred,

00:04:58.700 Antifa called on their comrades to show up to the event and protect the drag queen and the restaurant

00:05:04.780 from any right-wing individual that planned to protest. Since Antifa has been extremely low on numbers,

00:05:12.200 as they have had a lot of infighting due to the vast majority of the public rejecting their views

00:05:17.860 and their comrades have been hit with criminal charges for extremism that they carried out in 2020,

00:05:24.000 I was shocked when I drove by on Saturday and saw hundreds outside the Brewmaster's Tap Room,

00:05:31.120 which included dozens of armed Black Block Antifa militants guarding the restaurant.

00:05:36.960 That's why I decided to play it safe and report from across the street. I briefly went over to the

00:05:44.540 other side to get a quick video of the crowd to include in my report, and despite the extremely

00:05:51.000 minimal time that I was near the crowd, it was enough for Antifa to target and rob me. Antifa militants

00:06:00.380 began to swarm me with their umbrellas, and that's when one of them came up to me from behind and

00:06:05.960 stole my phone out of my hands as I was recording and assaulted me in the process.

00:06:12.540 Okay, any time they try to step up and try to step this out, remind us every single time.

00:06:19.700 What's up, Katie? You and your shit-ass bedhead again. 1.00

00:06:23.520 Outside the Brewmaster's Tap Room, I'm a journalist, and Antifa robbed me. They stole my phone 1.00

00:06:28.300 and assaulted me, and I need the police to come.

00:06:35.960 And there goes the Antifa flashlight. They stole Katie Davis-Court's phone. It's all on camera.

00:06:44.720 I know this song, and I stole my phone.

00:06:47.020 I'm a good boy.

00:06:48.860 Okay.

00:06:50.740 Yeah, this is out of control.

00:06:54.620 They stole my phone, and after the robbery and assaults, I asked two local news reporters

00:07:09.260 for help, and they both refused to help me call the police.

00:07:13.260 Absolutely beyond the pale. And once again, the Soy Boys and assorted other Marxists who make up 1.00

00:07:20.480 Antifa prove they are oh so strong and brave when they assemble like a pack of hyenas or jackals.

00:07:27.880 And wasn't that really so brave of them to assault a lady who was simply exercising her First Amendment rights?

00:07:34.580 But then again, Antifa hates those who disagree with them.

00:07:39.120 And for that matter, Antifa hates America, too.

00:07:43.240 And joining me now is the target of their ire, and that would be Katie Davis-Court. 0.99

00:07:48.420 Hey, how are you doing there, Katie?

00:07:50.580 David, thank you for having me on. It means a lot.

00:07:53.560 It's always a pleasure, my friend.

00:07:55.360 You know, Katie, in the past two years, as you might know, I've been manhandled by everything

00:08:00.860 from savage dogs to Justin Trudeau's Royal Canadian Mounted Henchmen.

00:08:06.580 I try to take it in stride and not get angry, but seeing what happened to you made my blood boil.

00:08:13.220 The first question, Katie, is that given that there were so many Antifa types wearing trouble 1.00

00:08:20.580 on their shirts, so to speak, where in blue hell was the police?

00:08:25.940 Yeah, so I was told by a source in the Renton Police Department, Renton is a city right outside

00:08:33.900 of Seattle. I was told by a source that the city government told department heads to have

00:08:40.400 police not intervene that day if anything were to happen.

00:08:43.860 But Katie, that is egregious. I mean, police shouldn't be directed by any kind of political

00:08:52.840 process. They're there to serve and protect. They are there to uphold the law. And it sounds

00:08:59.080 to me like you're telling me that there are politicians in your neck of the woods that for

00:09:06.120 political reasons are basically telling the police to stand down and not uphold the law.

00:09:10.980 How did we get to this point, Katie? Right. That is a great question. Our city

00:09:15.940 governments have been overtaken by Marxists and socialists. It is there. They are trying

00:09:21.580 so hard to defund the police and make a police state. It's what's happening in the state of

00:09:28.020 Washington. And we were seen at first in Seattle, but it's now the entire King County. So our

00:09:34.020 politicians have full control over our police departments now. And now our police has to abide

00:09:39.880 by whatever our politicians say. It is the defund the police movement and they're in full control.

00:09:46.360 So I wish I knew how we got here. This is the United States of America, not the Soviet Union.

00:09:54.360 And we have to keep fighting back against it and exposing what's happening. That's why it's so

00:09:58.920 important to have independent reporters on the ground. And Antifa essentially acts with impunity

00:10:05.320 here in the Seattle area and in Portland because our city governments are so corrupt now.

00:10:11.400 Well, you know, this is very disturbing to me, Katie. And I mean, it seems that it's irrelevant

00:10:17.720 to defund the police in your neck of the woods. It looks like they're already neutered. As they say in

00:10:22.760 Alabama, this dog don't hunt. I mean, if they're not going to where the trouble is and, you know,

00:10:31.640 you know, fulfilling their vows to uphold the law, then, you know, why is there a police force to begin

00:10:37.040 with? But the other angle here that also made me extremely angry was the fact that once you had

00:10:44.880 your phone stolen by these cowards, you went to members of the mainstream media. And I believe we

00:10:53.840 talked off camera a few days ago, you said there was one person there that you had gone to bat for

00:10:59.520 in a helpful way. And you merely asked them if they could phone in

00:11:03.360 uh, uh, to the police that you had been assaulted and robbed. And, uh, no, sir. Uh, they, they weren't

00:11:11.280 even going to do that much. How do you explain that? Yeah. So I've had some scary moments in the

00:11:17.920 field before I've been covering Antifa and these protests for a few years now. And this was by far

00:11:24.080 the worst, not being robbed. You know, I can get over it because Antifa, I just look at them as pure evil

00:11:31.840 terrorists, which is what they are. They're acting as the modern day brown shirts. But I had no idea 1.00

00:11:37.360 that, um, when I went up and asked mainstream media for help, as you could see in the video,

00:11:44.560 I was in pretty much acute distress and they denied me basic human decency. They told me that

00:11:51.440 they wouldn't phone the police for me. And one report, one photographer with King five pretty much

00:11:57.120 mocked me and said, um, I'm not going to get my phone out. And I said, and he goes, well, you can

00:12:02.400 call the police on your own. And I said, well, how am I going to do that without a phone? And he goes,

00:12:08.240 that's for you to figure out. And our mainstream media here is basically just a political arm for the

00:12:14.960 left-wing government. They are so, um, one-sided. They do not report accurately. I went and when I got

00:12:22.720 back home, I went to see what their reports were for that day and they made it seem like,

00:12:28.400 oh, the community came out in force to stand alongside the drag queen and the protesters to

00:12:35.680 stand against hate. So I just thought it, it was so ridiculous that they are pretty much fronting for 0.69

00:12:42.560 left-wing hate groups. 0.98

00:12:43.520 Absolutely shameful, Katie. And you know, we've, we've spoken about this before. When we look at Antifa,

00:12:48.880 Antifa, uh, Antifa, that's a contraction for anti-fascists, but I would argue they should

00:12:56.240 just be called FA for fascists because these people employ the methods of fascism. They use

00:13:04.000 physical violence. They use coercion, intimidation, vandalism. They severely injure people. These aren't

00:13:11.280 anti-fascists. These are just fascists playing out. And I would say this, Katie, I think it was most 0.68

00:13:16.720 unfortunate that when Donald Trump was in the white house, he never took the time. And I know there was

00:13:23.680 a lot on his plate, but it would have been great if he could have declared this entity, a domestic

00:13:30.560 terrorist group. What are your thoughts on that? Oh yeah, I absolutely agree. So before he did exit 0.99

00:13:36.480 the white house, he mentioned that he was going to designate Antifa terrorist organization. And I'm,

00:13:43.200 I'm hoping that if a conservative governor gets back in the white house and just to make note,

00:13:49.920 this should not be a Democrat Republican issue. This is a radical terrorist group acting in our

00:13:56.720 streets. So this should be, everyone should be standing against Antifa. But if a president gets

00:14:04.240 back into the white house, that looks at this group as an issue, then I would love to go before 0.96

00:14:10.800 Congress alongside my former colleague, Andy Ngo, other independent reporters here in Seattle who

00:14:16.880 are working so hard to expose Antifa. I would love to go share my experience of what it's really like

00:14:23.200 being a journalist here in the Northwest and being frequently targeted by them. These people have come 1.00

00:14:27.920 to my home, put up flyers of my family members. They are the terrorist groups. I would love to go

00:14:33.040 before Congress and try to get them to actually do something about this group.

00:14:37.920 It's absolutely despicable. That's the only word that comes to mind, uh, regarding your encounter,

00:14:44.560 uh, with these scumbags and sort of use that word, but I think it does apply. Luckily, Katie, 0.97

00:14:50.320 you and I work for a boss who doesn't bend the knee, who doesn't wave the flag, the white flag of

00:14:57.120 surrender, who doesn't say, oh, well, in the field stuff happens. And that is a Ezra Levent. He was

00:15:03.360 as mad about this as I was. We're going to pursue, uh, everything we can in order to identify those

00:15:11.440 thugs, pursue criminal charges, pursue civil litigation. Can you tell our viewers, uh,

00:15:18.000 what new website we've established to help you out on, on this quest for justice?

00:15:23.360 Yeah. Thank you guys. Please go to stand with Katie.com. That way we can continue funding

00:15:29.440 security for me because it's way too risky to be out in the field here in Seattle without security. So

00:15:35.520 stand with Katie.com. If you think that this work is content is important to continue to reporting on,

00:15:40.720 but also we are going to, at standard Katie.com, you can, um, pitch in to help us with our bounty.

00:15:47.680 We are offering a $500 bounty to find this Antifa militant that robbed me. We're also hiring

00:15:53.680 the lawyers to go after the Antifa militant and to hold the district attorney and prosecutors

00:15:59.440 accountable to actually prosecute. And if they fail to prosecute, we're going to hire

00:16:03.760 a civil lawyer to go after the prosecutors. So we are not going to, we're standing up to them now.

00:16:09.040 We're not going to let them continue to assault us with impunity and it's time that they're,

00:16:13.840 that they're held accountable. So stand with Katie.com. And I guess going forward, Katie,

00:16:19.120 there's, um, you know, nothing else to say other than if there is another event in which it's likely

00:16:25.040 Antifa might show up, we're going to have to have a bodyguard for you. I mean, I've gone to

00:16:30.880 protests where those types show up, uh, without a bodyguard only because I know there's going to be 1.00

00:16:37.200 security guards and the police in attendance, and they're going to keep an eye on things to make

00:16:43.120 sure shenanigans didn't happen. I think that might've been your assumption at this thing.

00:16:47.680 But as we previously discussed, uh, whether they're being politically motivated or not,

00:16:53.520 uh, looks like the Seattle police force is just not concerned all that much with upholding the law.

00:16:59.200 So I think that's the sad reality. We're going to have to send you out there with protection

00:17:03.520 because no story is worth getting beaten up on about or, uh, or, or even worse, God forbid.

00:17:10.960 Last word goes to you, Katie. Yeah. Thank you guys. Um, just standing with Katie.com because

00:17:16.560 I've been reporting on this group for about five years now, and I want to continue the work and we

00:17:22.720 need to start holding these people accountable because there's a terrorist group, uh, freely

00:17:27.760 acting in the United States. So not many people report on it and it's one of the most important

00:17:32.720 things to report on. So thank you guys. Fantastic. Well, Katie, you are a brave lady indeed. And

00:17:39.440 like I said, we're not going to let this stand. We're going to find out who's who in the zoo. We're

00:17:44.000 going to find out who to charge, who to sue. Uh, you cannot get away with this, especially in a nation

00:17:50.560 that has as part of its constitution, the first amendment. Katie, you have a wonderful weekend and

00:17:55.760 stay safe, my friend. Thanks, David. You too. Thank you. And that was Katie Davis court in Seattle.

00:18:02.400 Keep it here, folks. More of rebel roundup to come right after this.

00:18:09.280 I'm Jeremy Lafredo for rebel news in Moscow, Russia. In late February, when Russia launched

00:18:14.160 its military operation in Ukraine, Western corporations began to pull out of the country.

00:18:18.960 Perhaps these companies were truly morally appalled by Putin's actions, or perhaps they were just virtue

00:18:23.680 signaling. Because helping the Russian economy by continuing to do business in its market during

00:18:28.160 the war could be bad publicity. As Putin continues his merciless assault, the United States and our

00:18:40.400 allies and partners continue to work in lockstep to ramp up the economic pressures on Putin and to

00:18:45.840 further isolate Russia in a global stage. Coca-Cola, Microsoft, IBM, Spotify, and Intel have all pulled out

00:18:53.200 of the country, citing their concern for human rights. But these aren't the only companies that

00:18:57.840 left. Among the most popular brands to leave Russia include Starbucks and McDonald's.

00:19:03.040 Well, McDonald's is selling its business in Russia in response to the war in Ukraine.

00:19:07.360 McDonald's said today it will be closing all of its restaurants in that country for good.

00:19:13.200 The other thing I wanted to ask you about today, Bertha, is Starbucks, the latest company,

00:19:17.760 big company in this country to exit Russia completely as the war with Ukraine goes on.

00:19:22.880 There's a lot more American companies are distancing themselves from Russia. I mean,

00:19:26.720 one of the major companies is Starbucks. They just closed all 130 of their stores over there.

00:19:32.160 There's always Dunkin' Donuts, but Putin was like,

00:19:34.560 that's what America runs on.

00:19:36.400 McDonald's released a statement that explained Russia's invasion of Ukraine led McDonald's to

00:19:40.240 conclude that continued ownership of business in Russia is no longer tenable,

00:19:43.840 nor is it consistent with McDonald's values. Officially, the two fast food organizations sold their

00:19:48.960 companies. But while I'm in Moscow, I thought it would be interesting to go to these places.

00:19:52.960 Do they still exist? Has anything changed? Does it taste different? Do Russians miss the old 1.00

00:19:57.840 and the real McDonald's and Starbucks? Do they believe they're coming back?

00:20:01.440 First, I went to McDonald's. It's now called delicious and to the point.

00:20:05.120 Virtually nothing, aesthetically, has changed. The restaurant looks like a normal McDonald's,

00:20:09.840 and the menu looks the same. It definitely smells the same.

00:20:12.560 But is anything different? How do the Russian people feel about it?

00:20:15.440 You know, now it's better, more free, more democratic prices. I'm a good service.

00:20:22.960 Well, I don't know. To be honest, McDonald's liked a little bit more.

00:20:28.400 The interior. Well, it changed, I don't know. Maybe it's not a recipe,

00:20:33.200 maybe the ingredients changed, maybe the suppliers changed. But it became not worse or better,

00:20:38.800 it became just a little different.

00:20:42.560 What kind of market is to lose?

00:20:44.560 I understand that if they were left, they would lose by the world,

00:20:48.320 probably, more because of the sanctions, because the people are there differently,

00:20:53.040 than we are here in Russia. But we will be sure everything will be fine,

00:20:58.800 and we will be sure to come back to us. So we will be sure and hope and hope and hope.

00:21:04.160 Probably, no. I don't know.

00:21:07.280 I don't know.

00:21:09.280 But I can't do nothing especially.

00:21:13.280 Like, a whiteちゃん. 0.95

00:21:16.240 The bowl puedes be just out of the fridge.

00:21:18.160 No, there was nothing in the Old MacDonald's.

00:21:20.880 There was only more of that as a component here.

00:21:24.080 And it went all out.

00:21:25.160 That's it, as a Jeep?

00:21:26.040 No, there's nothing else tomorrow for the environment.

00:21:27.920 No, nothing.

00:21:29.200 There is nothing the same.

00:21:30.880 A lot of piccolo, nice.

00:21:32.680 and then i went to starbucks coffee i mean stars it's called stars coffee now it looks the same

00:22:01.400 same branding same look i got a coffee and i asked some people what they thought

00:22:05.720 i just tried cappuccino and the cappuccino didn't change the difference i didn't see any difference

00:22:17.000 i didn't buy anything but i like the place i often come here

00:22:22.280 do you think starbucks didn't come back?

00:22:24.280 oh no, it's hard to think, but i think it will come back

00:22:34.280 well, if the situation will come back, then why not? i think it will come back

00:22:38.280 i can't say exactly, it's the same for the taste

00:22:44.280 i asked the barista if it's all the same employees and she explained that it's everyone that used to

00:23:05.160 work there it's just a different branding name well, knock me down with a feather officially

00:23:10.440 at least two us-based fast food organizations sold off their russian assets but if you were led to

00:23:17.400 believe that these restaurants were shuttered well as you just saw it's business as usual

00:23:24.360 given that all of the mcdonald's and all of the starbucks locations in russia are still open with

00:23:30.600 identical menus albeit operating under slightly different names so what other misinformation

00:23:38.280 are we being told to embrace during the russia ukraine conflict well here to shed some light

00:23:45.640 on the situation is our new york-based rebel jeremy lafredo who just got back from moscow

00:23:52.200 how are you doing jeremy thank you david i'm doing well thanks for fantastic so jeremy as i mentioned

00:23:58.840 i and i think a lot of other people well we thought when the likes of starbucks and mcdonald's

00:24:05.320 uh said they were getting out of russia that these shops these restaurants were going to be

00:24:10.840 mothballed but that's not the situation at all so jeremy what's going on here yeah um you know there was

00:24:19.560 a big you know media frenzy when we heard that you know hundreds of brands and hundreds of corporations

00:24:25.160 are leaving um are leaving russia but it turns out that a lot of them have actually stayed but they've

00:24:32.120 stayed um and they're now operating under you know um russian uh influence our russian business

00:24:39.480 so you know in our attempt to hurt the russian economy by taking all of our business out of there

00:24:43.800 we've actually strengthened it believe it or not because now um the money is going to russia instead

00:24:49.480 of going you know four thousand miles uh back to the united states you know and that is the thing

00:24:55.640 isn't it uh jeremy the crux of the matter of these sanctions so called is that we're going to hurt the

00:25:02.440 russian economy um in terms of food there's going to be food shortages there's nothing like um hungry

00:25:10.360 citizens uh that might bring about uh regime change but that's that's not happening the ruble is very

00:25:17.880 strong right now i understand uh russia has a trade surplus and there's another video where you

00:25:23.720 go to russian supermarkets and that blew me away because they are packed there are no empty shelves

00:25:31.800 and what's more the prices compared to what we're paying on this side of the pond look really really

00:25:39.080 decent to me so again why are we being told by the likes of the new york post uh i'm sorry rather the

00:25:46.440 the new york times and the washington post jeremy that um we are starving the russians

00:25:53.720 into defeat that's clearly not happening it's not happening and i mean it's just you know it's

00:25:59.320 simple economics when you sanction you know a country that is a primary exporter and producer

00:26:06.280 of food and energy you might as well be sanctioning yourself because you're now going to have to pay a

00:26:12.120 lot more money for these things so you know it doesn't take a genius to understand what's going on

00:26:16.840 um we just don't know how to you know punish um you know this giant uh country um that you know

00:26:24.600 is the size of a continent and has more resources and more um more uh productivity than you know a

00:26:31.400 lot of other places we don't know how to how to shut them out of the global economy and how to shut 0.93

00:26:36.200 them out of their own economy um you know trying to shut them out of the global economy they just flip a

00:26:40.840 switch they have a lot of domestic productivity there they make a lot of food there they make a lot of energy

00:26:45.400 there it's hard to to take that away from them you know so um you know we've we've gotten ourselves in

00:26:51.080 in quite a pickle yeah and not to mention the fact that what you alluded to uh russia's energy

00:26:56.920 independent in fact so many european countries depend on russian oil and gas to meet their energy

00:27:02.920 needs so um this is far from you know a nation that is about to bend the knee uh quite the contrary

00:27:12.760 jeremy you spoke literally to hundreds of russians during your mission uh over to moscow uh and i know

00:27:21.240 you have i guess categorized them into three different camps uh can you explain that please

00:27:29.400 sure um so yeah uh i would fit them ideologically i mean and first i'll say you know um this idea that

00:27:37.720 you know the people of russia um are you know a political monolith they all think the same you

00:27:42.840 know politically because you know they're just hounded by state propaganda it's very similar to

00:27:46.920 the us of course there's there's propaganda everywhere you turn but if you actually talk

00:27:51.400 to people you they have tons of different views on tons of different things and you know there were

00:27:54.840 people who opposed putin because x and there were people who opposed putin because of y there were

00:27:58.920 people who supported him because of x there were people who you know there's tons of different

00:28:02.360 political opinions there much like any other country um but the three main categories that i

00:28:07.960 would put people in um their opinions first you have you know russian patriots um they would call

00:28:14.760 themselves that they say you know i'm willing to sacrifice you know the sanctions are affecting you

00:28:19.640 know the way that we can send money or receive money from overseas um they're affecting you know some

00:28:25.080 of the tech things that we enjoy like adobe premiere or like netflix or like spotify we're willing to

00:28:30.120 sacrifice all those things because we truly believe that you know there are ethically russian people

00:28:38.280 in the donbass region in ukraine that have been being attacked by their own government since 2014

00:28:43.320 and it's our responsibility to protect these people i'm not saying this this is what they say it's our

00:28:48.200 responsibility to protect these people because they're ethnically russian they're one of us so it's

00:28:51.880 our duty as russians to do this then there's another um group of people you know they're more maybe

00:28:56.680 you would just say they're liberals they oppose the the war because they oppose the sanctions

00:29:02.040 and they oppose the sanctions because they're not allowed to take their vacations to europe and

00:29:06.200 they're not allowed to um receive money from um from abroad and they're you know the the the things that

00:29:13.080 they like to do maybe they like to watch netflix the things that they like to do are are hampered down

00:29:17.640 and um they're not opposing the war from any you know um revolutionary um anti-war um moral stance it's

00:29:25.640 more because they um they want to go back to to the things that they enjoy which uh the sanctions

00:29:31.160 have uh stopped them from enjoying uh and then there's another group of people that they they're

00:29:36.120 neutral and they can't even tell that there are any you know types of economic warfare being directed

00:29:41.880 towards their country they they go to the grocery store things are fine they get gas things are fine

00:29:47.000 um they don't notice anything and they're not very political and so they're neutral so that's the three

00:29:52.920 interesting jeremy and on this side of the pond can you explain why there's this dereliction of duty

00:30:00.120 if you will amongst those in the mainstream media such as the aforementioned new york times and the

00:30:05.480 washington post why are they not telling the truth about what's really going on in russia today

00:30:13.720 yeah i mean that's that's a great question um i mean you know they're much like they do with

00:30:19.400 all sorts of uh policies they are supporting government policy and going to great lengths

00:30:26.360 to do so and you know um putting out extraordinary propaganda to do so and you know we just had uh

00:30:32.840 the new york times um they were um doing reporting on what's going on in ukraine and they didn't even

00:30:39.720 let their readers know that the entire time that they were there they were embedded with a um

00:30:46.440 with the military they were embedded with the government and so you know this and you know

00:30:51.000 if someone was to go to russia and be embedded with the government it would be you know propaganda

00:30:55.000 which it would be but it's funny that it's not called propaganda when it's done on the other side

00:30:59.720 that's fascinating and just so our audience is clear jeremy when you went to moscow you weren't

00:31:05.960 being led around by some government agent or a spokesperson or what have you this was all independent

00:31:12.680 journalism being carried out uh on your part without any strings attached is that correct

00:31:19.320 no strings attached david um it was just me and um and my cell phone and um you know you can see the

00:31:25.480 videos it's just it's my cell phone and i went everywhere i went to grocery stores i went to rural

00:31:29.160 areas i went to the city um you know just documenting what i thought was uh interesting well certainly

00:31:35.960 seeing is believing i guess uh an exit question for you uh jeremy when it comes to this ongoing

00:31:41.960 conflict with the ukraine um when you spoke to the average russian on the street um well let's put it 0.57

00:31:50.280 this way if there was to be a referendum in terms of uh putin's moves against ukraine um does he get a

00:32:00.360 passing or failing grade i think it's about 50 50 from what i from the people i could i would speak to

00:32:07.880 it's funny the people who oppose putin they actually oppose him for the exact opposite reason

00:32:13.080 that the west would oppose him they they believe that he should have launched this military operation

00:32:17.400 this war sooner um so they say he's a coward for for bending a knee to the west for all these years and

00:32:23.960 not not taking these parts of uh ukraine uh back to russia so the opposition is mostly um actually from

00:32:30.280 the other side than you would expect but the young people that i spoke to um they oppose putin just

00:32:36.200 how the people here oppose putin they say you know he's um he's authoritarian he uh he should leave

00:32:43.160 ukraine alone and so the young the young people are very much um you know i think they're consuming 1.00

00:32:48.680 western media and they they are under the impression that putin is bad and then the other people are

00:32:53.560 consuming russian media and they're under the impression that putin is good so you know it's it's it's very

00:32:57.720 nuanced it's a very interesting situation and um i only i went there and i only became you know more

00:33:05.800 more um more confused by some things like you know i i just i i couldn't understand some stuff and

00:33:13.800 i i think that's what when you go somewhere and you you go um try to investigate something that's what

00:33:18.520 ends up happening well that is interesting about younger people consuming western media because i think

00:33:23.480 when it comes to the new york times and the washington post i think you might get more

00:33:27.400 truth out of pravda uh than those two media outlets so holy mackerel well jeremy i want to congratulate you

00:33:35.560 on excellent journalism it was just superb what you did showing people what the reality on the ground

00:33:42.520 is and regardless of one's politics and who they're supporting in this conflict uh your videos

00:33:49.080 really served as a much needed anecdote to the kind of propaganda we've been served up these last

00:33:55.720 several weeks by the mainstream media so thank you for that jeremy and you have a wonderful weekend my

00:34:01.080 friend thank you david you got it and that was jeremy lafredo in new york city keep it here folks

00:34:07.800 more of rebel roundup to come right after this

00:34:10.280 david menzies for rebel news here in oshawa ontario and folks i'm at the under renovation

00:34:19.880 headquarters for general motors of canada and the reason why i'm here well it's to give a letter and

00:34:27.000 an invoice to miss erin strolovich she her she is the gm executive who last sunday invited us

00:34:37.320 to go to the ingersoll gm plant it was for an announcement by the prime minister and the

00:34:43.160 premier and there was going to be a plant tour ingersoll is the plant that's being retooled

00:34:49.960 and they're going to be producing soon um ev commercial vehicles however a not so funny thing

00:34:57.240 happened on the way into the plant basically within the space of less than 24 hours our invitation

00:35:06.840 became a disinventation here check out the video evidence rebel news is not allowed to

00:35:13.720 oh you've been told no yes oh hang on a second i think there's been a mistake here i've got um

00:35:20.680 a confirmation from erin strolovich she her yeah hang on i'll find out we're not allowed access for

00:35:28.520 you guys oh i think there's been a mistake sir um erin strolovich last night that's our confirmation

00:35:37.000 see and that came in last night at 5 41 p.m and we've driven two hours to get here so i i let me

00:35:46.120 confirm okay thank you you're not allowed in why is that sir huh why is that you're just not allowed

00:35:53.080 in rebel news no access okay well this confirmation says differently my supervisor says differently too

00:36:01.400 who is your supervisor my supervisor is inside oh yeah and his name would be you you want to talk to

00:36:09.000 him i would like to because i think there's been a mistake i've got here in writing from erin strolovich

00:36:14.120 it she her that we are confirmed right there confirmation cammy ev assembly grand opening

00:36:20.600 i just i just asked them right now there's no access right now okay why why would somebody late

00:36:25.960 last night on sunday approve us we drive here two hours to a media event we are media and then

00:36:34.040 is somebody inside this building who you don't even give me his name says we're not

00:36:37.960 alex shoe alex shoe you can talk to him okay you go try and get a hold of him you're you're blocking

00:36:44.040 the line no no no you're blocking the line you're holding up the line uh no no you're holding up

00:36:50.600 no this guy's holding us up no you are no no this guy who are you who are you so yes uh my uh ace

00:36:58.200 cameraman lincoln jay and i were suddenly deemed to be persona non grata or at least media non grata

00:37:05.720 we were not only disinvited for no good reason or for any reason for that matter but we were told

00:37:13.000 to leave the premises under threat of trespass unbelievable in any event we thought this was

00:37:21.080 highly unprofessional at best vindictive at worst i mean what happened was gm told uh by the prime

00:37:31.000 minister or the premier or both that we are not media to be entertained and that is why we got

00:37:38.920 the heave ho uh if so that's disgraceful although i do understand gm's um strategy here folks if that

00:37:46.600 was the case well you know the next time gm goes belly up you want to have friends in high places

00:37:53.240 to give you that taxpayer funded bailout and certainly gm is really rolling the dice i think

00:37:59.720 and it's plans to go 100 percent electrical in the years ahead so when gm needed help we gave them

00:38:06.760 300 from every single canadian and after that nearly 11 billion dollar bailout gm continues to expand in

00:38:14.360 mexico leaving workers out in the cold but we look upon this business of being invited and then

00:38:20.840 disinvited at the last moment as essentially being a breach of contract it's kind of like making a

00:38:27.880 reservation at a restaurant and then not bothering to show up so we decided to calculate the time

00:38:36.840 incurred by lincoln and i the mileage that we both drove uh the 407 etr tolls and we have an invoice

00:38:45.720 here it's for the neighborhood of sixteen hundred dollars and i'm going to drop it off uh to miss

00:38:52.520 strolovich she her and uh hopefully they'll make good on that payment and if not hey as the saying

00:39:00.120 goes see you in court well wouldn't you know it aaron strolovich she her as well as all the other gm

00:39:07.640 executives apparently work from home these days so we ended up emailing the letter and invoice to miss

00:39:14.440 strolovich she her and if gm decides not to make reparations we will indeed sue the general in small

00:39:23.000 claims court as far as we're concerned we were robbed of our time and our resources and we will

00:39:29.480 not let this stand folks oh and another thing if this does go to court i'll be doing cartwheels because

00:39:37.800 during the process of disclosure maybe then we'll get to find out who ordered gm to disinvite us was

00:39:46.120 it prime minister trudeau or was it his new best boyfriend premier doug ford or maybe both hey guys

00:39:53.000 you want to play hardball let's play hardball in any event you had plenty to say about gm's egregious

00:40:01.640 public relations strategy west can writes gm has lost our business for good we have two vehicles

00:40:09.720 that their leases are up on april 1st 23 and we will be returning those two vehicles and going with

00:40:17.400 another car manufacturer because of their fascist woke policies and trudeau got that trudge like she 0.57

00:40:25.960 heard to invite you to the event and then canceled on you these people are the evil we are fighting in

00:40:33.320 the world today my wife and i love rebel news and appreciate all that you do for canadians well you

00:40:40.200 know what that is absolutely fantastic i really appreciate your support sir and isn't it wonderful

00:40:46.840 that gm certainly doesn't have a monopoly there are so many great car companies and great cars to choose

00:40:54.280 from you won't be disappointed and mm beer writes i saw more than a few guys on gm's twitter site go

00:41:03.640 on there and let gm know that they had canceled their truck orders if this was this was due rather

00:41:10.360 to gm announcing that they would no longer advertise on twitter as musk had just purchased the platform

00:41:17.800 one guy made a point of saying that as soon as he found out that gm did not believe in the first

00:41:23.720 amendment he immediately canceled his truck order and had already placed an order with ram for the

00:41:31.400 truck he wanted yeah imagine that gm somehow finds it offensive that elon musk is standing up for freedom 0.86

00:41:39.160 of speech and the first amendment but what woke cowards they are eh that's the thing about gm if

00:41:46.040 their marketing plan and business strategies flop and the company goes belly up big deal they'll just 0.98

00:41:53.720 lobby the governments on both sides of the border for yet another taxpayer funded bailout pathetic roger

00:42:01.160 moses writes i'm really getting sick and tired of people claiming rebel news is not media or journalists

00:42:07.960 and keeping their employees out of the loop they give much better accounts of current events than cbc global

00:42:15.640 ctv etc well thank you kindly roger and there were two sidebar stories taking place at the gm ingersoll

00:42:24.680 plant that day that received absolutely zero mainstream media attention for starters there was an anti-trudeau

00:42:32.680 protest taking place outside the main entrance no coverage and get a load of this about 200 trades people

00:42:41.000 and programmers who are still working on refurbishing this plant were told to stay home that day missing

00:42:49.240 out on eight hours worth of work plus two hours worth of overtime they were not given a reason why they

00:42:56.040 had to stay home but apparently the unspoken reason was that gm did not want anyone to give trudeau the bird

00:43:04.040 or display one of those f trudeau flags and you know how sensitive prime minister blackface mcgropa is

00:43:12.120 when it comes to well-deserved criticism these days john grice writes who else was invited and got

00:43:19.960 canceled or was this personal to rebel news you know that's an excellent question john i can tell you

00:43:26.440 this we didn't see any other media turned away that day in fact the likes of the cbc were practically

00:43:33.080 given the red carpet treatment but here's the thing if they didn't want us there why'd they invite us in

00:43:40.360 the first place ellis 89 writes lol you can't resist twisting the knife with that she her inclusion can you

00:43:48.840 david hey alas 89 if the wokesters out there continue to flag their gender pronouns or whatever

00:43:57.720 in their personal bio who am i to be so insensitive when it comes to acquiescing to their demands and

00:44:06.040 finally up north writes thanks david great report as a die-hard chevy slash gm supporter i will never

00:44:13.480 buy again from this woke company too bad gm was a great company years ago rip gm well up north it is

00:44:24.200 sad isn't it my first vehicle was a chevy and i truly want the domestic auto industry to succeed i

00:44:31.000 really do i want them to build good products and employ thousands and thousands of canadians and americans

00:44:37.400 but for decades gm has suffered from grotesque mismanagement i mean you go back some 60 years

00:44:44.440 ago and gm's market share in the us and canada hovered around 50 percent i'm unbelievable but these

00:44:51.160 days it's less than 16 percent that's brutal and a big part of the reason for this decline is that for

00:44:59.080 decades now gm has been building too many cars in too many factories that too few people want to

00:45:07.080 buy in an automotive sector that is uber competitive these are self-inflicted wounds 0.69

00:45:14.360 by the general by the way and then they pull a stunt like this it is pathetic beyond words oh and

00:45:21.640 another thing how dare that the new corvette is offered only with an automatic transmission

00:45:28.680 how can you manage manufacture a six-figure sports car without giving buyers the option of having a stick

00:45:35.480 shift men gm they just keep blowing it don't they well that wraps up another edition of rebel roundup

00:45:43.720 thanks so much for joining us and have yourselves a fantastic weekend see you next week of course and

00:45:49.240 hey folks never forget without risk there can be no glory good night

00:46:03.480 nice

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Rebel News Podcast - December 16, 2022

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