Rebel News Podcast - Toronto virus cases fall to new low, but the left-wing mayor wants to make masks mandatory

00:00:00.000 Hello Rebels. You know, I'm pleased to tell you that we flattened the curve.

00:00:04.440 In fact, in Toronto, the number of new pandemic cases is the lowest it's been since March.

00:00:10.240 And Toronto's public health officer made a stunning admission, anyone who dies for any 0.98

00:00:15.120 reason at all, if they also have the virus, it's chalked up as a virus death, even if that's not

00:00:23.660 what they died from. So I don't even know if there are any virus cases in the whole city.

00:00:31.000 I take you through the official stats and show you that now, five months after the virus came to town,

00:00:37.100 only now does the city council want to make wearing masks mandatory. What a laugh. I'll take

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00:01:22.040 Tonight, Toronto virus cases fall to a new low, but the left-wing mayor says he wants to make

00:01:42.340 masks mandatory. It's June 30th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:46.680 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:52.520 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:56.600 The only thing I have to say to the government, the wire publisher, is because it's my bloody

00:02:01.460 right to do so.

00:02:07.280 Great news for anyone who was worried about the coronavirus pandemic. We have flattened the curve.

00:02:12.000 We actually did that two months ago. Now the curve barely exists. Look at that. This is the number

00:02:17.380 of cases of the virus in Toronto, the biggest city in Canada. It's almost July now. The number of new

00:02:23.380 cases in the city hasn't been this low since early March. The peak of the pandemic in Toronto

00:02:29.460 was April 15th, when there were 293 new cases. The last few days has been bouncing around between

00:02:37.240 seven and 26. Seven cases. Not 700. Seven. The greater Toronto area has more than six million

00:02:45.100 people in it. Those are cases. So if someone tests positive when they get tested. But many people get

00:02:51.620 the coronavirus and show no symptoms. They actually don't even know they have it. So I think a more

00:02:56.320 useful measure is how many people die from it. How many people are in the hospital, in intensive care,

00:03:01.840 that sort of thing. Those shows the serious cases. Every death is a tragedy to the deceased and their

00:03:07.760 family, of course. The death of someone who is 90 is still deeply sad. But without diminishing that,

00:03:14.640 90 is still a pretty full life. Of course, if you're 90, you want to live to be 91, 95, 100, whatever.

00:03:20.840 The average age of the deceased in Canada from this virus is over 80. That's the gray bars there on

00:03:28.440 this chart. And it's not random. This virus basically kills people who are in seniors' homes.

00:03:35.060 Now, I don't want any group or another to die from it, of course. But I think it's noteworthy and

00:03:40.320 encouraging, or at least useful, to note that in the entire city of Toronto, greater Toronto area,

00:03:46.640 six and a half million people, there have been a total of three fatalities under the age of 40.

00:03:52.220 Those are the gray blips. They're so small you can barely see them. Now, seven people have passed

00:03:57.280 away between the age 40 and 49. So grand total in the fourth largest city in North America,

00:04:02.900 that's Toronto, grand total of 10 people under age 50 have died from the virus in the last five

00:04:11.020 months. Ten people! So crossing the street is more dangerous in Toronto. For comparison,

00:04:19.240 the Toronto police have a handy website dedicated to gun crimes. I know, how can there even be gun

00:04:25.220 crime anymore? Didn't Trudeau ban guns like two or three times now? According to the Toronto police,

00:04:30.840 there have been 211 shootings in Toronto this year so far. 93 injuries, 22 deaths. That is 19% more

00:04:39.660 shootings than last year. 47% more shooting deaths than last year. Obviously, it's mainly young people.

00:04:46.120 You could call it an epidemic. It's certainly more deadly than the coronavirus, at least if you're

00:04:51.060 under 50 in Toronto. Here's the stats for the whole province of Ontario now. I can do this for every

00:04:56.300 province. It's the same across the country, except there are some provinces that literally have not

00:05:00.980 had a single death. This is the death toll in Ontario itself. I think it's one person yesterday.

00:05:08.680 Again, I'm very sorry for that person and their family. But in the province of Ontario, population 15

00:05:16.180 million. One person passed away yesterday. One. I don't know who it was. Statistically speaking,

00:05:23.560 it was likely someone over the age of 80. There still are new cases, but they seem to be foreigners

00:05:29.520 coming to Canada with the virus, especially temporary foreign workers being brought into Canada to work

00:05:35.400 cheaper than Canadians, which I find odd given Canada's extreme unemployment rate. Here's a story

00:05:40.620 from yesterday. Migrant Advocacy Group demands Ontario shut down agricultural sector amid COVID-19

00:05:47.620 spike. The advocacy organization Justice for Migrant Workers is calling for an immediate shutdown of

00:05:53.700 Ontario's entire agricultural industry until every workplace is fully sterilized to stop the spread

00:05:59.920 of COVID-19 amongst its workers. This is racism, said Justice for Migrant Workers organizers Chris

00:06:05.840 Ramziroop. This fiasco has to end. Hey, so just shut down all the food in Ontario. No, Chris, I don't

00:06:12.560 think it's racism. I think it's a virus. But I will accept the claim that the temporary foreign workers 1.00

00:06:18.180 program itself has a tinge of racism to it, maybe even systemic racism, as the left says, because it

00:06:24.360 brings in foreign workers, always visible minorities, specifically and explicitly to work for less money 1.00

00:06:32.400 than Canadian citizens are allowed to do under law, as in it is legal to pay these foreign people less.

00:06:38.720 So they're not slaves. I mean, we still pay them. They're definitely not slaves. They're more like

00:06:44.020 indentured servants, and they are all visible minorities. Now, they're not being infected on

00:06:50.340 purpose, of course, but they're usually bringing infections with them into Canada. And of course,

00:06:55.280 being indentured workers, they often live together in bunkhouse-style accommodations just to be cheap, 0.99

00:06:59.900 against something that Canadians would likely not accept or even legally be allowed to do. But hey,

00:07:05.500 your strawberries and apples cost five cents less a pound, so it's worth it, right?

00:07:11.000 Look at this. 300 Mexican workers in Canada have the virus. Their government pushed pause on the

00:07:16.180 program, not ours. Trudeau and the provinces are going full tilt with the cheap foreign labor. I don't 0.98

00:07:21.080 understand it, other than corporate greed by farm operators, who would rather pay a few bucks an hour

00:07:25.620 less than hiring Canadians. But what's the cost to our larger society, our larger economy,

00:07:30.660 if the pandemic lockdown is extended by weeks or months, because some corporate farms don't want

00:07:36.200 to hire locally? And I get the odd email from farmers saying, well, don't pick on us. Listen,

00:07:41.880 there's 20, 25% effective unemployment in Canada. You can hire Canadians to pick some crops. It really is 0.95

00:07:49.580 not a high-skilled job. I'm not saying it's a low-skilled job. I'm saying you can train Canadians.

00:07:55.600 We've been doing agriculture in Canada for 400 years. So yeah, it's a problem, but it's a very

00:08:01.000 specific problem with very obvious solutions. Stop bringing in cheap foreign migrant workers. 1.00

00:08:06.080 Close the border to virus hotspots as we should have done four months ago.

00:08:10.040 Maybe put Canadian workers first. I'd pay five cents a pint more for strawberries, would you? 0.99

00:08:14.820 But look at this. It's a tweet from Toronto's public health officer. Individuals who have died

00:08:21.340 with COVID-19, but not as a result of COVID-19, are included in the case counts for COVID-19 deaths

00:08:28.820 in Toronto. What? Let me read that again, slowly. This is a real tweet, verified. Individuals who have

00:08:36.020 died with COVID-19, but not as a result of COVID-19, are included in the case counts for COVID-19 deaths

00:08:43.520 in Toronto. So if you had the virus, but you weren't sick from it, certainly not in the hospital or

00:08:48.700 intensive care. Maybe you didn't even know you had it. But if you had it at all, but died for any other

00:08:53.260 reason, it was marked as a virus death. It would be like having a cold and then getting hit by a car

00:08:59.620 or shot by a gun and it being chalked up to the virus. So even the falling numbers I showed you

00:09:06.520 earlier, they're greatly padded. So not only is the pandemic over, it was probably over weeks ago.

00:09:14.320 One more stat. This is the list of causes of death in Canada. Cancer is number one, heart disease

00:09:19.780 number two. I think accidents are number four, actually. It's interesting. Suicide is the ninth

00:09:25.200 most common. But the latest stats for this are from 2018. In that year, 3,811 people committed suicide.

00:09:32.760 What a tragedy. I bet for this year, 2020, it's going to be double that because of the pandemic,

00:09:36.740 the lockdown, the unemployment, the stress, the mania in the media, the shutdown of life.

00:09:41.780 But look at the number for influenza and pneumonia, the flu. Each year, it's the sixth largest cause of

00:09:48.520 death in Canada. 8,511 deaths in 2018. 8,511. And as of yesterday, according to the federal government,

00:09:57.440 the total count of deaths from the virus is 8,566. So almost exactly the same. And that includes

00:10:05.820 padding the numbers with anyone who had the virus gets counted. And the pandemic is over. I suppose

00:10:11.820 there will be a few more deaths. Certainly, public health officials will continue their policies of

00:10:16.260 calling any death a virus death for funding and political reasons. They just admitted it.

00:10:20.900 And yeah, look at this. It's June 30th. Today, the year is half over. The pandemic is done. You saw

00:10:30.040 the curve. But look at this.

00:10:32.620 Well, good morning. Today, excuse me. Today, a city council will consider a report from Dr.

00:10:46.900 Eileen de Villa to effectively make it mandatory for people to wear masks or face coverings inside 0.99

00:10:52.500 businesses or public facilities. Dr. de Villa's recommendation worked out with city legal after

00:10:58.780 careful consideration of the legal landscape would give clear direction on face coverings to help

00:11:04.280 stop the spread of COVID-19. So masks will be made mandatory a week from now. So in July,

00:11:10.560 the pandemic arrived in Toronto on January 25th, by the way. That was the first case that flew in from

00:11:15.360 China five months ago. It's run its course now. And only now they're bringing in a mask requirement in 0.69

00:11:24.460 July. They didn't close the borders. They still haven't closed the borders. They could have made 0.66

00:11:30.580 masks mandatory, I suppose, if they actually believed masks stopped the virus. And I suppose

00:11:35.000 in some cases, like close contact indoors, it does. Taiwan, they have masks for everybody.

00:11:41.180 But to wait only until now? What on earth are they doing? They're being politicians. That's what

00:11:49.260 always remember that. Look, public health officers may have a medical degree,

00:11:53.180 but they're not like doctors who see patients. They don't treat individual patients. It would be

00:11:58.300 nuts to wait five months after diagnosing a problem before you prescribe a prescription.

00:12:03.900 These aren't people acting like real doctors. These are just politicians who happen to have a medical

00:12:08.300 degree. Like politicians, they lie. Like politicians, they lust for power. Here's the queen of them,

00:12:14.380 Theresa Tam.

00:12:15.720 I think the public has to know this is one of the worst case scenarios in terms of an infectious disease

00:12:21.580 outbreak in that their cooperation is sought. If there are people who are non-compliant, there are

00:12:27.740 definitely laws and public health powers that can quarantine people in mandatory settings.

00:12:37.900 It's potential you could track people, put bracelets on their

00:12:41.020 arms, have police and other setups to ensure quarantine is undertaken.

00:12:48.140 Yeah, no thanks. It's all of them. Here's Trump's guy, Dr. Fauci, admitting that he lied a few months ago

00:12:55.660 when he said masks didn't work because he wanted all the masks just for the doctors.

00:12:59.820 You said as late, and I got a newspaper article that as late as March 31st, there was no consensus

00:13:09.260 on wearing masks. And the president, as you know, relies on your expertise. Do you now regret not advising

00:13:18.380 people more forcefully to wear masks earlier?

00:13:25.420 Okay, we're going to play that game. Let me explain to you what happened back then.

00:13:31.420 It should be a yes or a no.

00:13:32.700 No, there's more than a yes or no by the tone of your question. I don't regret that because let me

00:13:37.980 explain to you what happened. At that time, there was a paucity of equipment that our health care

00:13:45.580 providers needed who put themselves daily in harm's way of taking care of people who are ill.

00:13:53.420 We did not want to divert masks and PPE away from them to be used by the people.

00:14:01.260 Now that we have enough, we recommend. I think that's clearly what happened in Canada too.

00:14:05.820 Trudeau gave all her masks to China. So Theresa Tam said masks didn't work. They make you sick.

00:14:10.620 Putting a mask on an asymptomatic person is not beneficial. 1.00

00:14:16.220 So masks make you sick. But now, not only do masks not make you sick,

00:14:21.020 but you have to wear them under the law, even though the pandemic is over now. You know,

00:14:26.460 maybe we should have worn the masks in February, March, April. I'm sorry, my friends,

00:14:30.700 you can't believe a single word these power-hungry politicians say. And if they'd lie to you about

00:14:34.940 life and death issues, what else would they lie to you about? Last word, do you actually believe

00:14:41.180 these politicians will follow the mask rules themselves when they think the cameras aren't on?

00:14:49.820 Stay with us for more.

00:14:50.780 Well, these days, a week can feel like a year in politics, especially in the United States,

00:15:09.020 whether it's the pandemic or a Black Lives Matter protest, Antifa riots, statues coming down,

00:15:15.020 even a threat to the Mount Rushmore monuments, once unthinkable, now nothing less than the

00:15:22.380 Democratic Party itself, tweets a story suggesting that all four faces on Mount Rushmore, including

00:15:31.420 Abraham Lincoln, the emancipator of four million slaves, and Teddy Roosevelt, the first U.S. president

00:15:38.540 to dine with a black man in the White House, George Washington, the founder of America itself,

00:15:43.580 Thomas Jefferson, who wrote that all men are equal before God. Imagine that. That is now

00:15:49.580 in the conventional discourse that Mount Rushmore itself should be dynamited. Well, things are crazy.

00:15:57.180 Donald Trump, he tweeted a cryptic tweet,

00:16:01.740 the lone warrior exclamation points. What does it mean? Well, someone who might have an insight

00:16:08.620 is our friend Joel Pollack, senior editor at large of brightcard.com. Joel, great to see you again.

00:16:14.380 Good to be with you. What does that mean, the lone warrior? Does Donald Trump feel alone? Does he feel

00:16:20.700 like the party has abandoned him, the people? What does that mean?

00:16:26.460 Well, I can't speculate as to what the president was thinking. I think that many people have said

00:16:31.980 that Trump is the only thing that stands between America and the mob. When you have the Democratic

00:16:37.500 party, as you say, tweeting something crazy. I don't know what was in their minds either. I think

00:16:42.060 they just will tweet about white supremacy ad infinitum and try to associate it with Trump or,

00:16:48.300 in this case, Mount Rushmore or whatever. You have one guy who's basically got the courage to stand up

00:16:53.500 to it. And I think that's what he was conveying. They tweeted a little while later that they're not

00:16:59.180 after me. They're after you. And I'm just in the way. I think that was more or less what he meant

00:17:05.660 with the original tweet. I don't know exactly what he meant. But I do think also that when he

00:17:12.860 said the lone warrior, he may have been thinking about the political situation he's in. He's being

00:17:17.180 attacked from the left and also from the right. On the left, obviously, you've got Black Lives Matter,

00:17:21.740 the Democrats, the media, the tech companies, everybody, the usual suspects that are always

00:17:26.460 attacking him. And then on the right, you've got some who have said, well, he needs to be doing

00:17:30.940 more. He needs to take firmer action against Antifa and restore law and order. Well, law and order has

00:17:38.060 actually been restored. Trump has done a pretty good job at that. He's also done what he can do within

00:17:43.900 the limits of his constitutional power. He can't really just march into downtown Seattle with federal

00:17:49.340 troops. Theoretically, he can. Politically, it's basically just impossible. And that's

00:17:56.300 pretty much the extent of what Trump can do, what he's done so far. And if you look around

00:18:00.540 the country, the riots have actually calmed down. The statue attacks have also largely stopped,

00:18:06.460 number one, because Trump issued an executive order on it. And number two, because Democrats

00:18:11.020 started to realize it looked terrible for the party. I don't know what the internal polls were on

00:18:14.140 the statues. We know public polls show that Americans don't even want the Confederate statues

00:18:18.540 removed. People tend to think that what's up there for the sake of history should stay there.

00:18:23.580 And if you're going to take it down, you should do it peacefully and properly, not through mobs and

00:18:27.580 vigilantism and vandalism. So the American public are on the president's side on this one. And so I

00:18:34.940 think the Democrats have basically sent the word out that if you keep doing this, you're going to reelect

00:18:38.380 Trump. So I think he feels perhaps a little bit in battle because Republicans are saying he needs to do

00:18:43.660 more, but he's done the extent of what he can do and he's been successful. They're just not seeing success

00:18:47.500 success because, number one, I think there are certain commentators who are certainly piling on

00:18:53.020 for their own reasons. And number two, I think that people aren't shown the success. It's also

00:18:59.500 been very traumatic for Republicans. The statue attacks have stopped. The riots have mostly stopped,

00:19:05.100 except in a couple of places like Seattle. But the other thing is people can continue to feel this

00:19:11.180 sort of pressure at work. I mean, I was at the grocery store earlier today just buying groceries,

00:19:15.500 and a kid at the teller had a Black Lives Matter face mask. Now, I'm sure that the business owner 0.80

00:19:20.140 does not support Black Lives Matter just because I know the politics in that particular community. But

00:19:26.700 he hires whoever is available to be a cashier or work in the stock room or whatever. And he's not

00:19:33.020 going to tell people, I suppose, what they can wear politically. But, you know, I have felt like

00:19:38.060 walking out of the store because I don't want to support that. But I just ignored it. It's just a kid

00:19:42.700 who doesn't know any better. And I don't want to punish the business owner for something that the

00:19:46.060 cashier is wearing. But you have to understand that Trump supporters are encountering this now

00:19:50.220 everywhere. The workplace online. Michael Flynn's lawyer was was suspended from Twitter. They've

00:19:56.060 kicked the Donald off of Reddit. We are seeing a purge of conservatives at a variety of institutions.

00:20:02.460 And so even though Trump has done what he can to stop the violence and the disorder,

00:20:06.620 the Democrats and the corporate world who are terrified of Democratic pressure are coming down

00:20:14.220 really hard on Republicans and conservatives right now. So people are living in a state of terror,

00:20:18.460 literally. This feels like we're going through a kind of French Revolutionary terror. And nobody is

00:20:24.700 being guillotined yet. But they did bring a guillotine outside Jeff Bezos' house in Washington,

00:20:29.820 D.C., which just goes to show there's no amount of appeasement you can do to satisfy the mob.

00:20:33.900 We're in an environment where people are basically being canceled. People are having their careers

00:20:38.860 ended, their speech taken away effectively. And that's what people are reacting to. I think

00:20:45.740 people are angry and they're angry at everybody who's unable to help them get out of it. So to an

00:20:51.340 extent, there's some public sentiment on the right behind some of the criticisms of the president,

00:20:56.380 although I think they also know he can't do more than he's done. He's the target of all this.

00:21:00.780 So he's in a bit of a bind. And I think it probably does feel a little bit alienating. But I think

00:21:06.380 what he also knows or ought to know if he doesn't is that there are millions of people who also feel

00:21:11.660 just as isolated. And in a sense, in that isolation, everybody's together. And what they're waiting for

00:21:16.620 is for him to lead Americans out of that and past this present moment.

00:21:21.260 I think you're so right on that. You know, at least social media was gripped by that couple,

00:21:27.020 the McCloskeys, I think their name was, in St. Louis, in a beautiful home, like a stunning home

00:21:33.580 in a private neighborhood with a private gate, private property. And a whole bunch of masked

00:21:39.340 Black Lives Matter protesters broke through the gate. And according to the McCloskeys, came up to their 0.59

00:21:45.020 house, threatened them with violence, threatened to burn their house, threatened to kill their dog.

00:21:50.460 Ma and Pa McCloskey come out, he's got an AR-15, she's got a pistol. And they basically scared away

00:21:56.860 the mob from this glorious house that must be worth $5 million, $10 million bucks, I don't know.

00:22:00.860 And they were instantly demonized and doxxed online by the left. And of course, it was a

00:22:10.540 fabulously splendid, opulent home. But I think all of a sudden people said, oh, the rioting isn't just

00:22:17.900 downtown Seattle, downtown New York City in very Democrat, maybe radical areas. They're coming into

00:22:25.740 the burbs and breaking down the gates. And where are the cops? I don't know. You'd better get a

00:22:30.700 gun. This is end times kind of survivalist stuff, pick up a gun to save your family kind of stuff.

00:22:37.180 I found that, I mean, obviously, I don't live in a gorgeous home like that. But in a way, I

00:22:44.540 sympathize, I projected myself into what would I do if they actually came to my leafy home, you know,

00:22:52.940 private family home, a mob like that. And I think maybe that's what you talk about the feeling of,

00:22:58.540 where's the help, Mr. President? Where's the help for this family? They help themselves. They'll

00:23:03.660 probably be destroyed in some economic or social way, the McCloskeys, because they were such a symbol 1.00

00:23:09.340 to the left. But maybe that's what you're talking about, that everyone feels vulnerable.

00:23:13.900 And where's the man pushing back to protect us all and smash these riots?

00:23:18.060 Right. Well, the McCloskeys came out with their weapons drawn and they represented a lot of 0.99

00:23:26.140 suburbia, regardless of race and people in the inner city as well. There's basically been a breakdown

00:23:32.780 of law and order. Gun sales are through the roof and people are arming themselves because the police

00:23:39.580 have withdrawn. They've been demonized. There is very little they can do without getting into trouble.

00:23:43.980 They do try to respond to crimes in progress. They risk losing their jobs or worse. So the police

00:23:50.620 are backing off and people are terrified because there are mobs of looters and other people coming

00:23:56.860 through. That was a private road. Apparently the home apparently is part of an historic site,

00:24:03.180 a national historic site. And there apparently is a priceless art collection inside the house that

00:24:09.260 the McCloskeys have been collecting for quite some time and restoring and that sort of thing.

00:24:15.020 So they felt there was a real danger to their home and their property. And they came out with weapons.

00:24:19.980 And one of the weapons was the dreaded AR-15 rifle, which you can see how effective it is. He didn't

00:24:24.780 have to point it at anyone. He just had to hold it. And it basically deterred people. They say they were

00:24:29.500 being threatened by some of the protesters who were armed, in fact. And the McCloskeys basically speak for a 0.99

00:24:36.700 lot of America. Now, they were made fun of in the media. They were attacked by the left. And they've

00:24:41.660 become a kind of symbol of white suburban paranoia. But let me tell you, that paranoia is real. It's

00:24:48.860 based on the fact that looters have destroyed cities and they've attacked homes in some places. I happen

00:24:54.380 to know personally people who are involved in private security who stopped looters from going into private

00:24:59.740 streets and private homes in Los Angeles during the riots last month. And the McCloskeys basically 0.99

00:25:05.340 symbolize the future of America, that people are going to be armed and they're going to take matters

00:25:10.300 into their own hands. It is a miracle that fewer people have been shot as few people have been shot

00:25:15.740 because there have been some shootings by protesters of protesters. There was one set of shootings that

00:25:23.660 happened early on against police officers and security guards. And there was a pawn shop owner early

00:25:29.420 on who shot a burglar or two. But aside from that, there haven't been many shootings. There will be.

00:25:34.540 There will be. If this continues, there will be. And I think the president took a risk in sharing the

00:25:40.140 video of that a couple of McCloskeys. But at the same time, he also promoted public order. If people know

00:25:46.300 that attacking homes is going to get you shot, they'll stay away from the homes. So look, we're in a pretty

00:25:53.100 bad place right now in terms of public dialogue and civic discourse. The police in some cities are

00:25:59.500 completely demoralized. They've been attacked by politicians. They're being abandoned by the

00:26:05.500 community. There's silent reservoirs of support. Interestingly, particularly among Hispanics who

00:26:12.940 feel abandoned entirely because they're not really on board with Black Lives Matter and they don't want 1.00

00:26:17.100 the police to disappear either. So the country is in a real bad state and it's really going to become

00:26:25.740 a contest. This election is going to become a contest about who can restore it. It may be that

00:26:30.940 people decide Democrats win the election because these are Democrat mobs and maybe the Democrats can

00:26:37.580 control their mobs. If Republicans are in charge, the mobs will continue. That's been the pattern we've

00:26:43.020 seen for the last decade. Every time Republicans win something, the mobs show up. So

00:26:47.100 people not realizing that they'd be rewarding that behavior might simply yield to the blackmail,

00:26:52.780 yield to the terrorism essentially and vote for Democrats to get rid of the mobs. But what you'll

00:26:58.860 see happen in that case is kind of a slow atrophy of economic and social life as conservatives simply

00:27:04.700 withdraw. So we have to decide in the next few months what kind of country we're going to be.

00:27:08.780 It's not clear to me right now what that decision is going to be. Well, that is terrifying. Now, I don't

00:27:14.780 know my American mid-20th century history that well, but I saw the other day someone said,

00:27:21.580 how did the riots and unrest of 1968 turn out? Well, you elected Richard Nixon.

00:27:28.060 Okay, but America demographically was very different back then. I think that this mood is,

00:27:36.860 they didn't have the mass cancel culture. It wasn't, I don't, I mean, I wasn't around,

00:27:41.740 but it didn't seem as terrifying. Lose your job for saying the wrong word. Lose your job for saying

00:27:47.260 the wrong word 10 years ago in a tweet. I think you're right. There is a terror out there. You

00:27:53.500 see self-denunciations. You know, some lighthearted comedian, Jenna Marbles, 0.58

00:28:00.940 extremely successful for self-deprecating comedy skits on YouTube, just says, you know what?

00:28:07.020 A bunch of years ago, I did some jokes I'm not proud of. I'd better cancel my entire channel

00:28:11.980 before it's done to me. Like I, there's, there's almost a suicide, uh, suicidal feeling

00:28:18.060 to the self-denunciation. I don't think that was around in the sixties. It's a, it's a cultural

00:28:25.820 self-doubt of which I've never seen in my lifetime. Is that, is that precedent of elect a strong man to

00:28:33.500 fix the problems? Was that accurate? What happened in 68 and what had happened in 2020?

00:28:38.780 There's a couple of complicating factors in 68 and I don't really address this in my book,

00:28:44.700 read November, but you know, in general, I, I do present this dilemma you're talking about. I don't

00:28:50.060 get so into 68. Um, but let's talk about 68 for a second. So yes, you're correct that the riots of

00:28:55.820 1968 did help Richard Nixon win the presidency. He had two other factors on his side. One, the fact that

00:29:03.660 there was a third party candidate running who was a former Democrat. Remember the Democrats were all,

00:29:08.460 not all the Democrats were, well, the segregationists that existed, they were all Democrats.

00:29:13.980 Of course, not all Democrats were segregationists, but segregationists were almost all Democrats.

00:29:18.700 And you had George Wallace break away from the democratic party when it abandoned segregation.

00:29:24.540 So there was a small rump of segregationists in the South. Um, he didn't really make much of a wave

00:29:29.980 and he was, uh, shot in the middle of the campaign, unfortunately, although maybe that was his 72 campaign.

00:29:34.700 He was shot. Um, but there was a third party that was taking some support away from Democrats.

00:29:39.100 The other thing is that Dick Nixon wasn't in power. He wasn't in office when he ran against the

00:29:43.980 Democrats. Really nobody was in office because Lyndon Johnson was president, but he decided not to run

00:29:48.540 again. So there were riots, but there was also just a sense that it was an open seat and the Democrats

00:29:56.220 couldn't control the violence. They were also victims of the violence. Remember Bobby Kennedy

00:29:59.820 was assassinated right after he won the California primary in June, 1968. So Richard Nixon was

00:30:05.500 appealing because he was an outsider. Trump has a couple of different challenges. Obviously no

00:30:09.980 third party candidate. He's also in office, uh, right now, which means that you're not bringing

00:30:16.060 someone in from the outside right now to restore order. You're dealing with order that has collapsed

00:30:20.620 while he's in office. Now it's not because of him. It's happened in Democrat cities. It's not

00:30:25.500 happened in Republican states. It hasn't happened in Democrat, in Republican run cities. It hasn't

00:30:30.940 happened in Washington DC. When it started in DC, Donald Trump brought in the national guard,

00:30:34.780 which he's entitled to do because it's governed by the federal government, uh, even though it has a

00:30:38.700 local mayor. The issue for Trump is this many Americans wonder whether what's driving the chaos is

00:30:48.380 conflict and Trump pushes back, Trump fights back. So there's a sense that some Americans have,

00:30:56.060 including conservatives, that Trump keeps the temperature up on these confrontations

00:31:02.060 because he resists because he fights back. And so unfairly, because he's trying to fight back

00:31:08.940 against the people who start the violence and start the terror. Um, there are people who say,

00:31:13.580 why are you fighting? Just give up and this will go away. Um, other people are saying you need to

00:31:17.980 fight harder and crush it. So he's in an impossible dilemma where if he takes steps that look stronger

00:31:25.660 like he did in the early days. And I think those steps were effective, as I've said, then he will

00:31:29.740 get castigated as some kind of a dictator or authoritarian. Uh, in effect, the military has told

00:31:34.620 him he can't do it. I mean, all these generals and ex generals coming out and distancing themselves

00:31:38.220 from the president, it's really remarkable, uh, undemocratic, I would say. And also it's tied his hands.

00:31:45.340 He can't really do much more than he, than he, um, has already done. And then of course,

00:31:49.740 on the other side, you have people saying, well, we need Trump to compromise, to reach out a hand

00:31:53.820 in reconciliation, turn the temperature down. But every time he does that, it gets rejected.

00:31:58.220 Democrats are fomenting this outrage. They're denying the president and ability to achieve

00:32:03.580 any kind of reconciliation. Look what they did last week with the prison, uh, excuse me,

00:32:07.420 the police reform bill. Tim Scott, Republican proposed police reforms the president supported,

00:32:12.860 and the Democrats wouldn't even allow a debate on the bill. They don't want to solve the problem.

00:32:16.300 They don't want to take the temperature down. This suits their political interests, they believe.

00:32:20.380 So if the American people choose Trump on a law and order basis, it's only going to be because

00:32:27.820 the left goes too far, these attacks on the statues and the attacks on free speech,

00:32:33.180 and because they feel that Biden is essentially the puppet of the left, that there's nothing he can

00:32:38.060 do to stop it. And I think that that might actually be a winning argument in the sense that

00:32:42.460 Joe Biden does not seem to be an effective leader of anything. He does seem to be more moderate in

00:32:48.380 temperament. He does seem to be taking the coronavirus seriously, although, uh, in a hysterical sort of

00:32:53.660 sense, you know, never really emerging from his basement, wearing a mask all the time. You know,

00:32:58.300 people want to see their leaders taking precautions. Maybe some people would prefer to see Trump wearing a

00:33:02.940 mask on occasion. But Biden is selling people a version of the future that's governed by fear.

00:33:08.220 And he's not really leading anyone out of that fear. So I think if there's anything that Trump can

00:33:14.060 can gain from this, it's the sense that the party as a whole is, is just completely off the rails,

00:33:20.380 the Democratic Party, and that Joe Biden can't rein it back in. Well, I am very scared about how

00:33:28.940 things will go in November, not just for America's sake and Canada, because we're your next door

00:33:34.220 neighbor and closest friend, but everywhere around the world, from China to the Middle East, to Iran,

00:33:42.220 to North Korea, to India, the entire world. There's so many evil forces rooting against Trump,

00:33:52.060 but I'm sure more, I mean, we had the whole Russian misdirection for three years about Russian

00:34:00.060 influence. I think there really is some influence in the United States. I think China would like

00:34:04.380 nothing more than to get rid of Trump. He's the first president to ever stand up to them. I am very

00:34:09.340 afraid as a foreigner for what will happen. I think Donald Trump's re-election is actually more

00:34:15.500 important to Canadians than whether or not Trudeau is re-elected. I know that sounds

00:34:20.140 in some way self-abnegating or something, but no, I think Trump's re-election is economically,

00:34:28.460 and in terms of peace and civilization, actually more important than Canada's own election for

00:34:35.180 Canada. Last word to you, Joel. Well, we are staring down the barrel of a red November,

00:34:41.100 and I don't see how we recover from that politically if Trump loses, because Democrats have made it clear,

00:34:46.620 I mentioned the Tim Scott bill. They're not interested in solving the problem they've identified with

00:34:51.020 policing. They just want the issue. So that tells me they want to keep fomenting this sort of unrest.

00:34:55.500 Then they started defunding the police in various cities. They've abandoned policing in the Oakland

00:35:01.420 School District. They're disbanding the police in Minneapolis. They are cutting a billion dollars

00:35:06.300 from the New York City police budget, and even that's not enough for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. So

00:35:10.540 they're going to dismantle institutions of law and order. And finally, they are going to permanently

00:35:16.620 alter the rules of the game. The proposal to make Washington, D.C., at least partially a state,

00:35:21.980 to make a 51st state, was passed by the House of Representatives last week. They know it's not

00:35:26.780 going to pass the Senate under Republican control, but if Democrats win the White House and the Senate,

00:35:30.540 as well as the House, they will pass D.C. statehood. They will create a 51st state,

00:35:35.020 which they can do under the Constitution. And that will mean permanent additional two senators

00:35:41.900 from the Democratic Party because D.C. is so heavily Democratic. They will elect two senators

00:35:46.460 from this tiny, tiny state who would be smaller than most American cities. And they will have two

00:35:52.380 senators from this little place that will create an almost permanent majority for Democrats in the

00:35:59.500 Senate. So what they're going to do is a complete socialist revolution. You know, before I thought

00:36:04.780 maybe it was a little whimsical to suggest that, now I believe it's 100 percent true. They're going

00:36:09.020 to create a new Democrat-held Senate. They're going to knock away the filibuster, so get rid of 0.99

00:36:15.660 minority protections in the Senate. And they're just going to pass whatever they want. It's going to be 0.65

00:36:19.420 Green New Deal, amnesty for illegal immigrants, you name it. This is going to be a socialist revolution.

00:36:25.020 They'll rewrite the histories afterwards so that those of us who remember things a little differently

00:36:29.020 will be called racist. We won't be published. We won't be heard. And they will tell themselves,

00:36:33.900 the country and the world, that this was the second American revolution, that this was the

00:36:38.060 socialist revolution to correct all of the flaws in the original model. That's what they can taste

00:36:43.740 already. That's what they feel is happening. The Democrats want a second American revolution.

00:36:49.580 And on current trends, they're going to get it. Unless there's a silent majority out there that stands

00:36:57.260 up, that connects to one another, despite the attempts to shut down social media, to shut down the

00:37:03.180 Reddit pages, to kick people off Twitter, to ghettoize people in conservative-only media spaces,

00:37:10.940 if people can overcome that and people can still go into the voting booth or vote by mail,

00:37:15.740 if they have the courage to do it without fearing that their vote's not going to be counted because

00:37:19.820 of all the schemes the Democrats have cooked up for coronavirus, then Trump can be reelected. He will

00:37:25.100 probably be reelected again as a minority president in the sense that he won't win the popular vote. He'll

00:37:31.020 have to win the electoral college. But right now, the pressure on him and his supporters is so relentless

00:37:37.420 that this feels like a bitter and difficult struggle. And you asked me about the president's

00:37:42.700 tweet, the lone warrior. He's not alone. There are a lot of people fighting with him. But the feeling of

00:37:47.580 being under siege is palpable. And we are living through a time of terror that will only get worse.

00:37:55.740 The violence may stop. The riots may stop. Protests may stop. But the fear will continue if Democrats

00:38:01.740 win. I do think this is a world historical moment that the success or failure of our democracy depends

00:38:08.300 on this election. And I didn't think that you could get more consequential than 2016. But I do think this

00:38:16.460 is a test of whether we can keep this republic. You know, Nancy Pelosi likes quoting Benjamin Franklin,

00:38:22.700 a republic if you can keep it. She's busy destroying it. And that quote is the tribute

00:38:28.940 that vice pays to virtue. Essentially, we're in a situation where the country is going to sink if

00:38:36.060 Democrats win. They've made their intentions absolutely clear. We're facing a second American 0.78

00:38:40.700 revolution. And it's something that worries us constantly now on the right. And a lot of the

00:38:47.660 anxiety you see comes from a productive place. People are anxious about finding solutions for

00:38:53.580 this. There's still time to turn it around. But the degree of isolation, I think, that individuals

00:39:01.660 feel right now comes out of a sense of being unable to communicate with one another through the media,

00:39:06.780 through social media. The search engines have changed. Google and others are quashing traffic. So we

00:39:12.940 are engaged in a war where almost all of the weapons are on the other side. And all we have

00:39:18.780 are principles and reason. Well, that is the most terrifying thing I think I've heard this year.

00:39:25.660 And I can't disagree with a word of it. By the way, Joel's new book is called Red November. Will the

00:39:32.700 country vote red for Trump or red for socialism? And we'll put a link to the Amazon page where you can buy

00:39:39.820 that book if you want to be terrified as I am right now. Joel, great to see you. Thanks for your

00:39:46.860 sobering words. Boy, I think you're right about that. Red November. Go ahead and get it on Amazon

00:39:52.540 and the link below. Thanks, Joel. Great to see you again. Thank you. All right. Stay with us.

00:39:56.540 Hello, my friends. Welcome back. On my monologue last night, Tyson writes,

00:40:13.340 does not matter who you are or what you have done. If you say the wrong things, they destroy you. If

00:40:18.220 you say the right things, then momentarily say a wrong thing, they destroy you. I think that's

00:40:23.980 generally right. But there still is a special pass given to the fancy people. I mean, Justin Trudeau,

00:40:29.580 the blackface prime minister, still sits as prime minister. Gerald Butts, his right-hand man,

00:40:35.180 made an extremely racist post the other day talking about white Congo and rape central 0.96

00:40:41.100 and no consequences for him. So I think there's a lot of double standards, too. 0.79

00:40:46.620 Bruce writes, peaceful protesters, eh? That's like saying somebody was peacefully assaulted.

00:40:50.780 And I wish all good Canadians had guns to defend themselves from this increasingly crazy world.

00:40:55.020 I envy Americans and their right to bear arms. There's a limited right in Canada to bear arms.

00:41:00.940 It's being infringed constantly by politicians. But the way you have to store your guns here and

00:41:05.340 your ammo there and under lock and key, it almost makes self-defense impossible. Unless you're breaking

00:41:12.700 the law on how you store your guns, you'll probably be charged.

00:41:15.420 On my interview with Leighton Gray, Wendy writes, Mr. Gray needs to push back and restore his

00:41:20.700 reputation, not for himself, but for all of us. Yeah, you know, I mean, who am I to tell an

00:41:25.900 accomplished judge? He's a queen's counsel. That's what QC means. So he has been bestowed that title

00:41:32.380 from the justice minister for excellent service, excellent lawyering. So he's a senior guy. You can just

00:41:37.260 tell. He was on the Judicial Appointments Committee. He was on the Law Society Committee.

00:41:44.940 He, I think it's so clear, he was falsely defamed. And it was a hit job by a left-wing lawyer and the

00:41:51.580 CBC. They're really going after any minority who's conservative. But I can't make him sue. He's a lawyer,

00:41:59.180 for goodness sakes. He knows more about the law than I do. If he won't sue for defamation,

00:42:03.740 what can you do? I wish he would. Maybe he's not conflict-oriented in that way,

00:42:07.260 although he is a litigator. I hope he sues. Frankly, I hope the thing is made right.

00:42:12.940 And the only way I see that happening, frankly, is for Jason Kenney to appoint him to the provincial

00:42:17.580 court. And I'd like to see Rachel Notley and the other left-wing progressives demand that an 0.53

00:42:25.020 aboriginal lawyer not become a judge. Actually, I wouldn't like to see that. I would hate to see 1.00

00:42:29.580 that, but that's what we would see. Well, that's our show for today. Until tomorrow. We'll have a

00:42:35.020 show tomorrow. We always have shows on holidays. We record them in advance sometimes. Have a happy

00:42:40.060 Dominion Day tomorrow. Canada Day, as others call it, or as the Halifax Chronicle Herald calls it,

00:42:45.980 a triggering event. I don't know if you saw that. Did you see this front page of the Halifax Chronicle

00:42:50.460 Herald and other newspapers published by that odious company? They take millions of dollars from

00:42:55.340 Justin Trudeau's media bailout, but they literally publish a trigger warning. Hey guys, inside is the

00:43:01.900 Canadian flag for July 1. They won't even say Canada Day or Dominion Day. They have a trigger

00:43:08.220 warning for the maple leaf, the most innocuous symbol. There's no historical cross on it like the

00:43:15.980 old red ensign. There's just a maple leaf, but they give you a trigger warning. I look forward. I

00:43:24.620 shouldn't say this, but I look forward to when all those newspapers close because we don't need that

00:43:32.140 anti-Canada hate speech. Am I doing that right? All right. Until tomorrow. Keep fighting for freedom.

00:43:54.620 Self-repair.

00:44:03.740 Do that right now.

00:44:11.740 Smart quoted.

Rebel News Podcast - July 01, 2020

Toronto virus cases fall to new low, but the left-wing mayor wants to make masks mandatory

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