Rebel News Podcast - Three theories： Who banned (and unbanned) 'China Virus' from Amazon？

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Today I talk about a funny story that involves the rebel, in particular

00:00:04.680 involves my book, China Virus. Why was it banned by Amazon? Why was it unbanned? Why was it re-banned?

00:00:11.680 Why was it re-unbanned or un-re-banned? I don't know the word. We'll talk about that and then

00:00:17.140 we'll talk to a tech reporter about what happened to Twitter. Oh my God, there's so many things.

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00:00:57.140 So what's the deal with Amazon censoring Rebel News? It's July 17th and this is the Ezra LeVant

00:01:11.140 Show.

00:01:13.320 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:16.920 There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer. The only thing I have

00:01:22.200 to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:31.920 Why was my book about China banned from the Amazon website? And then why was it unbanned two

00:01:40.240 months later? And then why was it banned again a week later? And then why was it unbanned from

00:01:45.920 banned four days after that? That's the status right now at this moment. For all I know,

00:01:52.180 it might be banned again later tonight. I don't know. Amazon won't even talk to me about it.

00:01:58.120 But I can guess. See, the full title of my book is China Virus? How Justin Trudeau's pro-communist

00:02:08.200 ideology is putting Canadians in danger. So sure, it's partly about the pandemic, yeah. But it's

00:02:13.920 actually mainly about how Trudeau's love for communist China has corrupted Canadian politics.

00:02:19.180 We first tried to publish the book in late April. They refused it, saying it contradicted

00:02:25.320 official sources. They didn't say what that meant. So we sent them a lawyer's letter. They ignored it.

00:02:32.620 And then without explanation, they simply let us upload the book to Amazon in June. And the book

00:02:41.560 became an instant bestseller. Thank you, Canada. And then bizarrely, Amazon deleted the book from

00:02:47.180 their pages last Friday afternoon. Boom, gone. And they gave us the same weird excuse as the first

00:02:54.260 time, word for word. The book contradicted official sources. Of course, the book doesn't give medical

00:02:59.560 advice. It's not like a health care book of home remedies or something. It's a political book.

00:03:06.700 I don't know. Is that what they meant by official sources? We contradicted some official politician?

00:03:11.800 Is that the official they're talking about? Which one? Our lawyer sent Amazon another letter.

00:03:18.180 We still haven't heard back. So last weekend, when we were shut down the second time,

00:03:22.580 we set up an emergency solution. We published the book on our own special website,

00:03:28.840 ChinaVirusBook.com. We had a local publisher agree to print the paperbacks and mail them for us.

00:03:36.900 And on that website, we gave away the e-book for any tiny donation at all. And thousands of people

00:03:42.680 bought the book over the weekend, last weekend. And then a few days later, Amazon changed their mind

00:03:50.440 again. And now the book is back up for sale on Amazon for now, for now. You know, fool me once,

00:03:57.280 shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on you. What is it? Fool me three times. What's going on here?

00:04:03.100 Are they going to ban us a third time? We don't know. They've never actually explained to us what

00:04:09.700 we did wrong. They haven't even given us the courtesy of replying to our lawyer's letters.

00:04:15.300 I think that's rude. Should we even continue to sell our books on Amazon? They make

00:04:20.420 money off it. What if they ban us again? Should we just continue to sell the books on our own

00:04:25.880 website to be safe? There's some good reasons to do that. If we print and ship the books to people

00:04:32.700 ourselves, we don't have to pay Amazon's huge commissions. We would know the names and the

00:04:38.560 email addresses of all our book buyers. So we could contact them in the future when we publish new

00:04:43.260 books. That would be useful. See, Amazon keeps its list of people buying our books or any other product

00:04:48.340 secret. So there would be a few benefits to being censored by Amazon. Not for being censored, but

00:04:55.540 our solution would have some benefits Amazon doesn't even give us. But there's a downside too.

00:05:02.400 For one thing, Amazon is by far the biggest bookseller in the world. Not even close. In fact,

00:05:06.920 they now have about 90% of the e-book market. Can you believe it? And they're slowly killing off

00:05:11.780 bricks and mortar bookstores. I mean, good night. It's sad, but it's true. They're almost a total

00:05:17.080 monopoly. For better or worse, it's where book buyers go. So if we're not on that book buying

00:05:23.980 website, it's much harder for people to find us and buy us in any currency, for example. Being on

00:05:30.160 Amazon means customers might get our book as a suggestion when they buy another book. Amazon's

00:05:35.220 algorithm suggests our book. It does advertising for us to people who buy similar books. That's a

00:05:42.220 bonus. And finally, our books almost always go to the top of Amazon's Canadian bestseller list.

00:05:48.320 That's important validation. It's proof to you and it's proof to the media party that our little

00:05:54.340 company, Rebel News, actually runs circles around the boring, liberal, predictable books that

00:05:58.940 the left-wing authors write. I love the fact that my last book, The Libranos, outsold the 23 other

00:06:06.080 books about Justin Trudeau combined. I only know that because of Amazon. So we've decided to let

00:06:12.820 Amazon sell our book again, even though there are awful, awful people who have censored us twice and

00:06:19.620 may well do so a third time. We've made this decision because we want the maximum number of people to buy

00:06:25.720 and read our books, especially China virus. It's a business decision, but it's also an editorial

00:06:31.440 decision. We simply want people to read the book. You can buy the book on Amazon now. And I just

00:06:39.280 recorded an audio book version of it. So you'll soon be able to download that on Amazon too. And if

00:06:46.760 we're banned again, we'll sell this all on our own website, China virus book.com. We still don't know

00:06:53.360 why we were banned. I have three theories. The first is that Justin Trudeau did it. He hates us.

00:06:58.240 He bans our reporters from covering debates and press conferences. We're suing him over that,

00:07:02.020 by the way. And when I published my last book about Trudeau, he had Elections Canada send two

00:07:06.760 former RCMP officers after me, interrogating me for an hour about why I dared to write a book

00:07:12.260 criticizing Trudeau during an election. Yeah, because I'm a free man. So we know that Trudeau is obsessed

00:07:17.360 with us and tries to censor us. We have that on the record. My second theory though, is that maybe the

00:07:22.080 United Nations or the China controlled World Health Organization are to blame. As much as I 1.00

00:07:26.580 criticize Trudeau in my book, I criticize the World Health Organization. They're the ones who

00:07:30.820 helped China cover up the pandemic for months. Canada's feckless public health officer, Dr.

00:07:37.640 Theresa Tam, is in a terrible conflict of interest. She actually works as a WHO employee while working

00:07:43.700 as Canada's health officer. Well, to which master is she loyal? I mean, you can't ride two horses.

00:07:48.540 My book is very critical of her. Wouldn't surprise me if she and the World Health Organization were the

00:07:53.860 official sources who want my book banned. But my third guess is Amazon itself. It's now the world's

00:08:00.560 third largest company worth 1.5 trillion dollars on the stock exchange. If they stay on this pace,

00:08:09.660 they will be the world's largest company by the end of the year. Their CEO, Jeff Bezos, is closing in

00:08:15.000 on 200 billion dollars personally, even after paying tens of billions to his wife in a divorce.

00:08:21.260 I think he might be the world's first trillionaire. Amazon has nearly doubled their value since the

00:08:27.660 pandemic began because regular stores have been ordered closed by the governments. So people have

00:08:32.220 been forced to shop online and they're flocking to Amazon. The government built Amazon in that way,

00:08:36.900 didn't they? But Amazon and Bezos want more, more, more, more. He's a frustrated trillionaire.

00:08:42.040 And the only way to keep that staggering rate of growth going is cracking the massive Chinese market. 1.00

00:08:48.880 Bezos is greedy and ambitious. Now, China virus is a bestseller, but it is not even a tiny, teeny,

00:08:55.440 rounding error compared to the value of breaking into the Chinese market. And to do that, Bezos and

00:09:01.400 Amazon have to bow down to the Chinese Communist Party. That's a virus part of China virus in my book. 0.74

00:09:09.660 Would Jeff Bezos censor a book to please China? He's got a trillion reasons to do so.

00:09:18.520 So that's the state of things right now. We despise Amazon. It's just another left-wing, 1.00

00:09:23.040 globalist, censorship-prone tech company run by an oligarch with a god complex. But

00:09:28.680 that's the world we live in. And we do want a maximum number of people to read the book. So we

00:09:35.440 have to hold our nose and work with Amazon. If they ban us again, we'll sell it on our own

00:09:40.900 website. But in the meantime, we will sell the book through them. I hope you agree with my thinking

00:09:46.720 here. And more importantly, I hope you read the book itself. That's my purpose. I want you to learn

00:09:52.560 how the Chinese Communist Party has its tentacles deep within Trudeau's government. If you haven't got

00:09:58.060 the book yet, just go to ChinaVirusBook.com. If you did order the book on that website, we will

00:10:04.820 ship it to you. Let me close on one note. I don't know if you saw it. But this week, we put up a huge

00:10:10.780 billboard for the book on a major highway. It looks gorgeous to me. Our friend Sheila Gunn-Reed was there

00:10:18.520 as the billboard went up at, I don't know, 5 a.m. or something. It cost us over $2,000 for that

00:10:24.800 billboard. But it will get millions of eyeballs over the course of the months. If you want to help

00:10:32.220 us for that, you can do so at ChinaVirusBook.com. Finally, we are going to continue with our book

00:10:40.820 launch events. My first one is on Tuesday night, just outside Edmonton in Sherwood Park. I'm sorry,

00:10:47.940 it's sold out. So if you don't have your ticket, there's no room, I'm afraid. We're following the

00:10:52.800 pandemic rules about where we can meet and where we can gather. So we had to cap the attendance.

00:10:57.580 But we will do more book events across Canada as places gradually open up. I hope they do

00:11:03.400 gradually open up. You'll be able to find those events at ChinaVirusBook.com. So this is sort of

00:11:09.700 a business update, but it's also an editorial update. And it's a question, why did Amazon shut

00:11:17.580 us down? For now, I'm afraid. It's a mystery. But stay with us. Coming up next, a tech reporter

00:11:24.860 answers more curious questions about censorship and other Silicon Valley shenanigans. Our friend

00:11:31.060 Alan Bocari is next.

00:11:32.300 Hey, welcome back. Well, there's someone who knows more than almost anyone about tech companies

00:11:49.400 censoring, banning and coming up with strange excuses for glitches. I've heard that word before

00:11:55.920 that only seem to happen to conservative leaning sites. And you know who I'm talking about. It's

00:12:01.720 our friend Alan Bocari, chief tech writer at Breitbart.com. Alan, great to see you again.

00:12:07.340 Good to see you, Ezra.

00:12:08.300 Well, I appreciate you coming on. I see your story. It's just incredible. Donald Trump Jr.

00:12:13.640 and spokesman Andy Sarabian remain locked out of Twitter. Now, this was true for a day or so.

00:12:20.000 Finally, the ban was lifted. If Twitter can lock down Donald Trump Jr. and his spokesman

00:12:27.380 for, what was it, 24, 36 hours? It's quite a long time, yeah. Well, everywhere, I mean,

00:12:33.520 there was a Twitter problem. There was a hacking, but it was over within an hour. But funny enough,

00:12:39.120 Donald Trump Jr. stays banned for more than a day. I'm sorry, I'm not going to call that a coincidence.

00:12:44.540 Are you? It does seem strange that he was one of the only accounts that was locked out for such an

00:12:49.680 extended period of time. Big tech has censored his account before. He's had some problems on

00:12:55.380 Instagram previously. And we know from the past few months that Twitter is not above even censoring

00:13:02.600 President Trump himself. They've hidden his tweets. They've attached fact-checking warning

00:13:08.900 labels to perfectly accurate tweets. So this does seem to be escalating. This did happen in the wake

00:13:16.100 of a hack, as you said. And actually, all verified accounts were locked down for a while on the

00:13:21.400 previous day because a number of high-profile accounts got hacked. And we should talk some

00:13:26.280 more about that, actually, because there was an interesting leak from the hackers who gained

00:13:33.120 access to an internal Twitter console that they used to regulate accounts. And we saw from the

00:13:39.140 screenshots of that internal console that the hackers used that Twitter has something called a

00:13:44.620 search blacklist and a trends blacklist. Now, Twitter hasn't answered my questions about what

00:13:49.820 those things are, but they certainly suggest that they're covertly suppressing trends, covertly

00:13:55.900 manipulating search, something that we've suspected they've been doing for a while, but it's only

00:14:00.660 coming out now because of this hack. Yeah, there's so many layers to this. I mean, first of all,

00:14:06.500 I saw Elon Musk, a very famous entrepreneur, the boss of Tesla, and Bill Gates. They both said,

00:14:13.860 send me $1,000 by Bitcoin, and I'll send you $2,000. Hurry, only lasts for half an hour. Like,

00:14:21.400 quite an obvious scam if it were to come from anyone else. But from a gazillionaire like them,

00:14:30.080 some people believed it. And obviously, that Bitcoin address was going to the hackers.

00:14:35.840 And it looks like they made off with hundreds of thousands of dollars who thought they were going

00:14:40.000 to get double their money from some billionaire giveaway. But actually, they gave it to the

00:14:44.000 hackers. That was an interesting wrinkle. But it looks like they made that might have actually just

00:14:51.280 been a cover, a distraction for other shenanigans they got up to. If you're saying that they got

00:14:57.040 access to these control panels, who knows, maybe they even got access to private direct messages that

00:15:03.400 influential people are sending each other. That's a sort of a private form of communication through

00:15:08.460 Twitter. Who knows what else they did when they were in there?

00:15:12.420 Yeah, it's interesting because the Bitcoin scam that they employed was not the most valuable

00:15:19.120 or lucrative thing they could have done with those accounts. They could have shorted stocks

00:15:23.620 using tweets to help them make profits off the stock market to potentially make a lot more money than

00:15:28.640 that. And as you said, having access to the private messages of these prominent accounts

00:15:35.140 is also potentially a lot more valuable. But what struck me as the most interesting part of the

00:15:40.480 story was the way this hack went down, the way they got access to these accounts. They didn't

00:15:44.920 hack the accounts directly themselves. What they did was they were able to gain access to an account

00:15:50.700 owned by a Twitter employee. And this Twitter employee apparently had access to all of these

00:15:57.760 accounts. He could go in and change their passwords, change their email addresses, go in and read their

00:16:03.060 DMs, put them on a search blacklist or a trends blacklist, whatever that is. So it really revealed

00:16:08.540 something about the extent of control and surveillance that Twitter employees have over

00:16:15.400 all of our accounts. Yeah, I was thinking about that. I mean, when you say Bill, if Bill Gates were to say

00:16:23.800 I'm giving away free money, it looks iffy and weird and cheap, but nothing terrible is going to happen. But

00:16:30.340 you know, if someone were to, you know, if someone were to say this is Elon Musk's family, I saw one

00:16:37.340 Twitter critic said, what happens if they would have said instead, this is Elon Musk's family, we're so

00:16:43.340 sad to announce his untimely death. Well, you can imagine Tesla stock would have plummeted so someone

00:16:49.680 could have gone short. Or God forbid, imagine if they would have hacked Donald Trump's account

00:16:54.980 and declared war or made some announcement, an economic announcement, or a political announcement,

00:17:02.980 something to provoke China or Putin or North Korea. So, you know, what they did was actually not,

00:17:10.600 it was in some ways the least harmful scam they could think of.

00:17:14.880 Yeah, and it really raises national security questions now. Because as you say, with access

00:17:22.460 to the accounts of world leaders, they could do anything. We know from 2017 that regular Twitter

00:17:27.680 employers have enough access that they're able to delete President Trump's account. That's what

00:17:31.880 one employee did in 2017. The account was quickly restored, but he did have the power to do that.

00:17:37.480 And in the case of this hack, according to the reports, what happened was a Twitter employee

00:17:43.040 was bribed around $2,000 to give up access to their account. So that's a huge, huge security

00:17:51.360 vulnerability when we consider the fact that every world leader has a Twitter account. And we really

00:17:56.460 need to know more about the amount of power that regular Twitter employees have over the accounts 1.00

00:18:02.440 of world leaders. Can they read their DMs? Can they go in and change passwords and make tweets

00:18:08.560 on their behalf? It would seem in this hack that they absolutely can. So we need, at the very minimum,

00:18:13.100 more transparency and oversight. Yeah. When I checked about half an hour into this scam,

00:18:19.340 the Bitcoin thieves had made off with $200,000. So if they spent $2,000 to bribe someone,

00:18:25.240 that's a 100-fold return on investment for this crime. And they surely did much more than that.

00:18:34.280 But imagine that. Imagine if you're China, North Korea, any foreign spy agency,

00:18:42.140 bribing $2,000. And maybe you don't do anything. Like this was a public spectacle

00:18:47.880 hacking account. What if you hacked an account and no one ever knew? What if you hacked an account

00:18:54.580 and read all the private messages? And that was your... I mean, don't you think China would like

00:18:59.480 to read all the private messages by every U.S. senator, every U.S. congressman, every U.S. diplomat?

00:19:05.180 I mean, we hear talk in the U.S. about banning TikTok because it's a Chinese company. But seriously,

00:19:11.760 if all it takes is $2,000 to bribe a Twitter worker, it's almost impossible to think it hasn't

00:19:16.940 been done already. That a Chinese spy, or maybe Russian, maybe Israeli, I don't know,

00:19:22.780 wouldn't pay $2,000 and not basically ring the fire alarm on himself, but just quietly copy

00:19:30.500 everything and quietly leave.

00:19:33.720 Yeah, and I have heard some rumors from within Twitter about exactly such occurrences. Also,

00:19:38.680 we know for a fact that they allowed that their Saudi spy operated within Twitter for a very long

00:19:43.360 time. And another thing I'll point out about this hack is we don't know how long the hackers had

00:19:48.000 access to this account and to the accounts of all these world leaders. They could have been

00:19:51.420 access for a very long time. So they could very well have made logs of everyone's private messages

00:19:57.180 before they went public with this Bitcoin scam. So we absolutely don't know how insecure this

00:20:05.000 platform is. And I would strongly recommend against conveying any sensitive information

00:20:10.220 through Twitter DMs. It's probably one of the best secure messaging systems that big tech operates,

00:20:17.360 I think.

00:20:18.000 Yeah, for sure. I want to shift gears to our own story just for a minute, because it's very strange.

00:20:25.200 I wrote my book, China Virus. I was 99% finished by late April. So we uploaded the cover. And you know,

00:20:33.440 you can put a book on pre-order while you're just correcting typos. And you can say, all right,

00:20:37.400 it's going to be on sale one week from now. So we did that in late April. And they almost

00:20:42.600 immediately rejected it. We tried again. And they said, no, it contradicts, quote, official sources.

00:20:48.600 We had a lawyer write to Amazon. They ignored us. That was back in April. In June, suddenly they

00:20:55.340 relented. We were able to upload it. The book went to number one on Kindle in Canada, very successful.

00:21:00.540 And then a week later, they deleted the whole thing for the exact same excuse they used the

00:21:05.960 very first time, Alan. I couldn't believe it. And our lawyers wrote them a letter. They haven't

00:21:13.140 answered our lawyer's letter yet. But would you tell our viewers about your contact with them

00:21:18.820 and what happened after that?

00:21:21.420 Yeah. So you sent me the story and then I emailed them, you know, requesting comment and explanation

00:21:26.700 in case we did our own story on it. And shortly after that, they restored the book. And this is

00:21:34.760 actually the second time something that has happened. Alex Berenson, who's sort of seen as a

00:21:40.320 COVID skeptic, I'm not sure if he'd call himself that, also did his own short book about the virus,

00:21:45.720 was also blocked by Amazon. But then again, they relented after media pressure. So it seems

00:21:51.260 like censorship is the default option for Amazon at the moment when it comes to books about the

00:21:55.360 pandemic. But they do relent under media pressure. So it makes you wonder how many other books and

00:22:02.100 pamphlets and e-books have been uploaded to Amazon about the virus that have just been vanished without

00:22:07.460 a trace.

00:22:08.380 Did they give you any words? Did they give you any explanation at all? Because I should tell you,

00:22:13.100 we've written to them again, and we have not heard, they have not given us the courtesy of

00:22:17.260 even a single one-line email in reply. They just let it back up. I think they're talking more to you

00:22:25.320 than to me, the author, or our lawyers. Did they tell you anything?

00:22:29.060 They did say it was an error, yes.

00:22:30.500 An error. Okay, one of those. You know, I hear that a lot. It's a glitch. It's an error. But they didn't

00:22:36.920 even have the courtesy to tell us that, Alan. I want to let you know, you have had more communication

00:22:43.220 with Amazon about our book than we have. And I'm really grateful because I believe that were it not

00:22:47.960 for your intervention, we'd still be banned. I think they probably thought, oh, Breitbart.com is

00:22:53.820 going to do a story that'll probably be read by some Republican senators who are on our case

00:22:58.440 for censorship and collusion with China. Okay, it's not worth the hassle. I think it's precisely 0.66

00:23:04.040 because they know important political leaders read Breitbart.com, especially on the China

00:23:09.160 censorship issue. I think you actually saved my book, so thank you.

00:23:13.700 Well, hopefully that's the case. It's impossible to know with these companies,

00:23:17.760 but certainly happy to help. Well, listen, it's great to talk with you. I say again that you are

00:23:22.740 the leading journalist when it comes to issues of tech bias and tech censorship. I understand that

00:23:28.800 you may, I don't know if I'm letting the cat out of the bag, but that you may have a book coming out

00:23:33.240 in the months ahead yourself on these things. I hope I haven't blown your cover on that, but go ahead.

00:23:40.000 No big announcement yet, but yes, there is a book on the way and there'll be some announcements about

00:23:45.540 that shortly. Well, I'm very excited when that happens. Hopefully we can schedule a longer in-depth

00:23:51.540 interview about your book. And I'd love to put the whole thing on YouTube and email it to all our

00:23:56.900 viewers, because anyone who is concerned about tech censorship, you and I have talked a little

00:24:02.200 bit informally about the kind of things in your book. I know that our rebel viewers will be

00:24:07.200 extremely interested in it. And I bet we could get that thing to be a bestseller in Canada too,

00:24:13.620 you know, because you're in the States and you're with Breitbart, but in Canada, I think we have some

00:24:17.880 of those problems even worse than you do. Oh yeah, absolutely. And we'll see if Amazon bans it when

00:24:23.560 it comes out. Yeah, I sure hope they don't, but we'll do our best to promote it. Good luck. Thanks

00:24:27.420 for your time today, Alan. Thanks, Ezra. All right. There you have it. Alan Bokari, the senior tech

00:24:32.140 writer for Breitbart.com. Stay with us more ahead.

00:24:35.260 Hey, welcome back on my monologue of our plan to help the two Michaels. Pierre writes,

00:24:47.840 great idea. I'm also pledging to actively avoid buying anything made in China until the two Michaels 0.80

00:24:52.740 are home again. It is extremely hard not to buy something made in China. I might suggest it's almost 0.97

00:24:59.280 impossible unless you were going to not buy anything manufactured, not buy anything

00:25:04.780 high tech, no clothing, no gadgets, no, nothing made of plastic. It's all made in China. 1.00

00:25:12.940 I saw a video out of India that said, look, if you try and de-China-fy your life, you'll go nuts.

00:25:19.680 You can't do it, but maybe take baby steps once a month, change one thing. Buy a phone that's not

00:25:27.160 made in China, buy a TV that's not made, buy something made in Korea, buy something made in Taiwan,

00:25:33.360 buy something made in America or Canada. If you try and take China out of your life, you're not 0.97

00:25:38.640 going to succeed. It's like dieting. I'm sort of an expert in what doesn't work. If you just say I'm

00:25:44.960 going to lose all the weight, it's not going to happen, but maybe baby steps. All right, take my

00:25:48.240 dieting approach to China. Susanna writes, I can't imagine how the two Michaels must feel knowing we

00:25:53.120 have a PM who admires the basic Chinese dictatorship and won't lift a finger for them. Good on you rebel for 1.00

00:25:58.660 doing something about it when our traitor-in-chief won't. People call him a traitor. I don't think I

00:26:04.540 would use that word because I think it overplays it by a few percent. I think he's corrupt, obviously.

00:26:10.220 It's not my opinion. The ethics commissioner has made that ruling several times. I think he is

00:26:15.120 compromised. I think he ideologically sympathizes with our enemies. But I don't want to use the word

00:26:21.620 traitor. I want to wait and use that. I want to keep that word sharp like a knife that's rarely used.

00:26:26.120 I don't want to dull it by overuse because when we need to call someone a traitor, we need that word.

00:26:32.840 On my interview with Philip Slayton, Laura writes, leftists don't want to debate anything. They just

00:26:36.360 want to silence anyone who disagrees with them. That's the thing. I think there's an important

00:26:39.860 distinction between a liberal and a leftist. I think, maybe I'm making things up. Our friend

00:26:46.760 Joel Pollack made this point too. A liberal is someone who just, I want a little more taxes. I want a little

00:26:50.680 more government. I think the state needs to be a bit bigger. I'm worried about certain things. I want to be

00:26:55.440 soft on crime. But it's someone who's on the spectrum and will debate with you. But a leftist

00:27:00.240 says, no, no, no. You shut up. Shut up, he explained. That's a leftist. And Barry Weiss found out that

00:27:06.180 leftists will come for liberals too. Well, that's our show for the day. We have, we're doing more TV

00:27:13.420 than ever. We're doing more stuff than ever. We've got more teammates than ever. Well, not than ever,

00:27:17.400 but we're growing. Andrea Humphrey has joined our team. We've got other talent on TV. We're going

00:27:23.280 full guns. I'm so very excited. And I'm grateful to you for being part of it. Until next time,

00:27:28.300 on behalf of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night. Keep fighting for freedom.

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Rebel News Podcast - July 18, 2020

Three theories： Who banned (and unbanned) 'China Virus' from Amazon？

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