Two new polls reveal what people really think of China
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Two new polls, one in Canada and one in the US, measure support or lack thereof for China. In the Canadian one, a list of statements are read to people, and they are asked if they agree or disagree with each of them.
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Hello, my Rebels. Today, I take you through two opinion polls, one in Canada, one in the
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States, measuring support or lack thereof for China. They're two very interesting polls,
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quirky questions in the Canadian one, basic questions in the American one. I feel smarter
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for having read it, and hopefully you will too. You'll be able to drop these stats with
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your friends with great authority. Anyways, let me invite you to become a Rebel News Plus
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the video version of the show where I will show you charts. Okay, here's the podcast.
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Tonight, two new polls ask people what they think of China. Very interesting. It's May 21st,
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody
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I've got two new polls for you about China. The first is from a company called Research Co.
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They're based in BC. I hadn't heard of Research Co before, but I had heard of their pollster,
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Mario Canseco, and he's always struck me as a very smart and very honest guy, so I put a fair
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bit of stock in this poll. There are some great pollsters in BC, including Angus Reid. As usual,
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there are a ton of stats in a poll, so I'm only going to focus on a few questions that I think are
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the most interesting. So you can see what they do is there's a list of statements that they read to
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people, and then Canadians were asked, from what you have seen, read, or heard, do you agree or
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disagree with each of the following statements? All right, I'm going to skip the first question,
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and I'll come back to it later. So let's start with this one. The government of the People's Republic
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of China should take responsibility for its role in the COVID-19 outbreak. So then people are asked
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if they agree or disagree. Pretty straightforward and to the point, isn't it? And look at these
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amazing answers. Strongly agree, 40%. Moderately agree, another 32%. So that's 72% who agree in some
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way. That's overwhelming. Only 9% of Canadians moderately disagree, and only 9% strongly disagree.
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In the next column, you can see that men are slightly more critical of China than women are.
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Women are slightly less sure, but the numbers are pretty similar by sex. By age, there's a little
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bit more of a difference. Let's compare millennials. 37% strongly agree. People my age, Gen X, it's 46%.
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But again, it's overwhelming in every age group. And look by regions. British Columbians are likely to
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strongly agree that China's to blame. 42%. That's one than any other region except the Atlantic. It's
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interesting, because there's such a large Chinese-Canadian population in BC. I guess they know what China's
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really like. Last point, by political persuasion. So how people voted in the previous election, conservatives
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are the most hostile to China. 47%. Strongly agree. But liberals aren't that far behind. 42%.
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Those are Canadians who say they strongly agree China's to blame. Add in the moderately agree
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Canadians. Liberals are at 73%. Conservatives are at 81%. So again, both are very high. It's not
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unanimous, though. But I challenge you to show me something else so overwhelming like this, so lopsided
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like this in public opinion, other than the obvious and perhaps related question of restricting out-of-control
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immigration, which is also in this 80% range. Now let me show you the next question on the poll,
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which is a bit radical, a bit cheeky, probably a legal non-starter. But so what? It's a good
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barometer for public opinion. And that's what we're doing here. From what you have seen, read or heard,
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do you agree or disagree with each of the following statements? The government of Canada should consider
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launching legal action against the People's Republic of China on account of the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Like I said, we don't really sue countries. Countries have something called sovereign immunity,
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but it's not unprecedented. And I think we can use suing countries as a proxy for other legal means
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like sanctions or taking away certain trade privileges from treaties with China. So it's a bit
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radical, but let's look anyways. 20% of Canadians are strongly for this. Another 11% are moderately for
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it's a total of 31%. It's not a majority, but it's a sizable chunk. 22% are against it. 27% of
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people are strongly against it. So 49% of people are against this. Not quite half, still more than
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those who want to sue China. But the very question would have been unthinkable four months ago.
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Don't you think? This shows that Canadians are open to radical solutions to deal with China,
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even if this isn't the right solution. It's very interesting to me. The one group of Canadians
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that's ready to rumble is not surprisingly conservatives. They're a total of 42% of
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conservative voters strongly or moderately support the idea and 38% oppose it. Here's a quirky BC style
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question that was thrown in. Do you agree that more people will consider adopting vegetarian or vegan
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diets after the COVID-19 outbreak ends? Now, that's sort of confusing to me. I guess that implies that
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bats were at the root of this or the wet markets where people in China go to buy and eat wild animals
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and things like that. That's a Vancouver question asking about vegetarianism, isn't it? Not a lot of
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people say yes to that, but funny enough, the highest numbers in Alberta and with conservatives.
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Now, I said I'd come back to the first question and here it is. Do you agree or disagree with this?
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It is acceptable to refer to COVID-19 as the Chinese virus or Chinese flu. Well, overwhelmingly people
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said no. 53% of people are strongly against that and 22% more are moderately against that. NDPers are
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the most adamant. Quebecers and conservatives have the highest support for using those words. I'm not
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too surprised by this. First of all, most people just plain old say the virus or coronavirus or
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COVID-19. So it has a name that's becoming commonplace. And I think Chinese virus is a
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deliberate verbal weapon that was deployed by Donald Trump for political reasons only after
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and in specific reaction to China. Incredibly, when they tried to blame the U.S. for the virus,
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they were doing that. They were actually still doing that. And the thing with Trump is if you poke him,
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oh, he's going to poke you back five times harder. Why do you keep calling this the Chinese virus?
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There are reports of dozens of incidents of bias against Chinese Americans in this country.
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Your own aide, Secretary Azar, says he does not use this term. He says ethnicity does not cause the
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virus. Why do you keep using this? A lot of people say it's racist. It's not racist at all. No,
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not at all. It comes from China. That's why. It comes from China. I want to be accurate.
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So yeah, I don't even think Trump says China virus very often, just when he wants to poke at China.
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I think there's also a shyness effect in this poll. People don't want to tell a pollster
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an answer they think is politically incorrect or wrong. So those are Canadian numbers. But you heard
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Gordon Chang on my show the other day. He said Pew Research had new U.S. numbers out too. And indeed,
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they do. I didn't know that until Gordon said that on the show. And Pew are real pros. They tilt
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liberal, yes. But I actually really trust their methodology. I think they put accuracy first.
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They're very comprehensive. So let me just show you some details from the new Pew Research Info
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just last month. It's probably worse because this is in late April. Let me read their headline.
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U.S. views of China increasingly negative amid coronavirus outbreak. Republicans more negative
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than Democrats towards China, though unfavorable ratings have climbed among both parties.
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Okay. So let's go through it. It's so comprehensive, I'm only going to touch on some highlights. But if
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you're curious, you can find it pretty quick on the internet. So this is the percent of people who say
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they have a positive or negative view of China. Look at it during the Obama years. It really rose high.
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When Trump took over, it started to fall. And this year, it just plunged.
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66% of people are negative. 26% are positive. That's the virus. It's also trade wars. It's also
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Huawei and 5G and hacking and spying and a Chinese aircraft carrier and human rights and Tibet and
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Uyghurs. It's everything. This graph breaks it down by party. Red is Republican. Blue is by Democrats.
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So yeah, Republicans are and always have been more skeptical of communists. But the Democrats seem to be
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moving in lockstep a little bit lower, but they're moving the same trend. 62% of Dems are still anti-China.
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That's a big deal. You could definitely call this a bipartisan issue. Here it is by age. Young people
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are more China-friendly. Really, no one else is. And young people don't really vote. This one's
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interesting. What is it about China that you think are problems? Very serious or somewhat serious? So
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91% say that the environment, isn't that interesting, the number one issue, the environment. It's amazing
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that people know that, though, because Greta Thunberg and the United Nations, they never criticize
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China. That's a hopeful result, isn't it? We're not all fooled, unlike, say, Justin Trudeau.
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There's a level of admiration I actually have for China, because their basic dictatorship is allowing
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them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say, we need to go green as fast as we
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need to start, you know, investing in solar. Yeah, you have to be dumb as Trudeau to believe
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China's good on the environment. Cyber attacks are in second place, followed by trade and jobs,
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then China's military, then human rights. Isn't that all very interesting? Here's one more. This
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is the question, who is the world's leading economic power? Blue is China, green is the U.S. Look at that.
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Almost immediately after Obama became president, remember, he was elected in 2008, inaugurated in
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January 2009, America said that China pulled ahead. But that started to change in the dying days of
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Obama's administration. And then America has zoomed under Trump, according to Americans. Seriously,
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in 2013, only 40% of Americans said America was number one, now 59% do. That is not an accident,
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is it? And this chart shows that both Republicans and Democrats generally agree. Last question.
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The first question is, is the world's, is the United States the world's leading military power?
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83% say yes. 6% say China is. I don't even think that's a matter of opinion, at least for now.
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Obviously, America has the superior army quantitatively and qualitatively. But the second
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bar is this. Is it better for the world if the U.S. is the leading power, or if China would be?
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Now, that's 91% to 4%. Couldn't be more lopsided. And you know what? I bet if you ask Canadians that
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same question, they'd more or less answer the same way. Stay with us for more.
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Peter, I just want to get one final thought from you. Are there words that are used to describe men
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that offend you? Not particularly. And if there were some I don't like, I certainly wouldn't want
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them banned. But it goes, you know, it always goes back to that old adage, sticks and stones may break
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my bones, but there will always be something to offend a feminist. Peter Lloyd. No, that's just
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obnoxious. You have to give me a chance to respond to that. That is ridiculous. That, no, hang on,
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I won't do your show again if you don't let me respond to that. Go on, Kate, have a word. Come on,
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that's ridiculous. You know what? I watch that at least once a month. It just puts a smile on my
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face. And it's a reminder that the battle of the sexes has been going on forever. As, you know,
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someone in a different, less politically correct generation would say, women, you can't live with
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them. You can't live without them. It's been a challenge for every young man and young woman to
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figure things out. In the past, they were called hopeless romantics, or in the 80s or 90s, maybe emo,
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short for emotional. But now, young men and women who are having trouble finding a mate, they're
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called incels, involuntary celibates. All right, fair enough. But now it seems that political
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activists are trying to turn that into some sort of ideology, some sort of terror group. And in fact,
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here in the city of Toronto, there has been terror charges laid against a 17-year-old man for murder
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in a, quote, erotic massage parlor. He killed a 24-year-old woman, allegedly. Is that a crime of
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passion? A hopeless person wrestling with his own demons? Or is it a terrorist act? Well, joining us
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now is the man you saw in that clip. Peter Lloyd is his name. He's an author and journalist in the UK,
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and he joins us now via Skype. Peter, it's great to see you. Thanks for coming on the show.
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Great. Thanks for finally having me. This is my debut on Rebel, so it's great to be here.
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Well, it's a pleasure. And I saw you were published in RT. You had a great column on the subject. And the
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very fact that you were in RT, I want to remark on that because your point of view is considered,
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I mean, you're, I would call you a, I don't know, a men's rights activist might be too much. I'll let
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you describe yourself. But your point of view is generally pushed out of mainstream media in the
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West. It doesn't surprise me that you have to go to a foreign outlet like RT to say the things you say.
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Right. I mean, that is a telling sign of the state of journalism. I've worked for a number of
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newspapers and magazines in my time. I'm nearly 40 now. And I've reached the point where I just no
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longer want to try and fight to get column inches in a paper where my view isn't going to be kind of
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respected or treated with, with any kind of reverence. So now I've gone to one of the outlets
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that will give me the freedom to say what I believe is true and to let the audience decide for
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themselves. That's one of the great things about RT, which allows people to do that.
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It's so unusual that we have to go to foreign press to have the freedom to say things in our
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own countries. Well, Peter, let me know what you think about this Toronto case. You're in the UK,
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but it looks like you've done a lot of research into it. I mean, being a teenager is a phase. It's
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hormones. It's figuring things out. It's how do I relate to women? Or am I gay? Or what's going on?
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There's a lot of questions to turn that into some sort of terrorist ideology seems a bit of a stretch
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to me. Yeah. And me too. I'm totally with you on that. I mean, my first reaction when I heard of
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this case, if I'm honest, was to cringe. I thought, my God, just when you think Canada can't get any
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more woke, it surprises you. I mean, obviously, look, this crime was terrible. It was a brutal homicide.
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It was made worse by the fact that this woman was young. She was an innocent victim. And she was also
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the mother to a young child. So it's terrible on all fronts. Nobody would disagree with that.
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But it's clearly not terrorism. I mean, I've witnessed terrorism firsthand. I was 12 when the IRA
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detonated bombs in my local town centre. I was on the London Underground when 7-7 happened. And about
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two years ago, my niece was at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, where an Islamic extremist
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detonated a bomb and killed more than 20 youngsters. So I know, to some degree, what terrorism looked
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like and what it resembles. And this was not it. It wasn't nowhere near on the same scale.
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9-11, as the Bataclan massacre, or any of those other atrocities which are performed crucially
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with a political motive. As you said earlier, what happened in this case, it's clearly either
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some kind of derangement or mental illness crossed with a crime of passion. I think it's really
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important that we maintain the integrity of the word terrorism, because the West is going to experience
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a lot more of it over the next few decades. And we need to be able to have a term that accurately
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describes it and does those events justice. Yeah. You know, my theory for why they're trying to
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rebrand a young emotional man's violence, sexual frustration as right wing, they're trying to
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brand it as terrorism so they can have another cudgel to go after right wingers. I don't see anything
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right wing or left wing about, in this case, a 17-year-old guy. Crime of passion, confusion.
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I don't know if he was right wing or left wing. I think people of all political stripes and no
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political stripes have curiosity and frustration and hope and sorrow and are figuring things out.
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I think it's sort of a trick to try and say, we're going to brand all young, emotionally brooding
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men as right wing to demonize all right wingers. That's my theory.
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Yeah, I actually think it's, I think it's broader than just right wing men. It's just
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young men in general, specifically young, white, straight men. I think that is really the target
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group. I mean, if this charge of terrorism is successful in Canada, it will be the first time
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that that code of criminal conduct has been used against someone who wasn't an Islamic extremist.
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So I think it's two-pronged. I think really they want to try and find a new category to criminalize
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straight, white, young men. And I also think they want to try and make terrorism look less connected
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to Islam than it actually is. I mean, if we face reality, all of the major events that have been
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terror related have all been connected to Islam. You know, that's a very good point. You're right.
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It's not even right wing, left wing. It's just men. And as you say, I mean, we don't, I don't think
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we know the identity of this 17 year old because he's, his identity is shielded. Although there was
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another case of an incel attack in Toronto. It looked like a Muslim man of age 30. But I think
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you're right. I think they're trying to de-Islamify the crime of terrorism. And they're trying to take a
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swipe at all men at masculinity itself. I think they're trying to turn masculinity into a political
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ideology and say, if you're too masculine, your toxic masculinity is a form of extremism.
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That's exactly what it is. And I view it as a form of kind of almost chemical castration. It's like
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the social castration of a way. It's saying, well, you're, you're only allowed to be so masculine
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and you're only allowed to have certain views about feminism and you're only allowed to have
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certain views about certain women in your life. Uh, and if you, you violate those boundaries,
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then we're going to define you as a terrorist. Meanwhile, women can say whatever they like
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about men. They, women can attack their boyfriends and their husbands and they say whatever they like
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on social media or in person. And they are beyond reproach. Nothing happens to them. So that alone
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is proved that this is clearly driven by some gender agenda, as I would say.
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Now I, I follow you because I think you're a very entertaining and articulate speaker. I get a kick
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out of your video appearances and I just, I have a mouth like a sailor sometimes.
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Well, that's half the reason I like you. No, I'm kidding around. You've, you're, you're. So when I saw
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that you were talking about something Canadian, I thought, well, we got to get Peter Lloyd on. Um,
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let me ask you, you're in the UK, which is a very politically correct place. I mean, in some ways
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it's worse than Canada. Um, have you ever seen this kind of thing? I, I think you hinted at it
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before that this is new. Have you seen this in the UK or in other jurisdictions? Uh, maybe, maybe in,
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in Holland, maybe in France, uh, maybe in the European union. Is this new? Like is Canada on the
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leading edge of this, this wokeness or is this coming from somewhere else? Uh, I think it's
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maybe slightly ahead. I mean, you know, you've got Trudeau, so that's a, that's a pretty powerful
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woke force you've got there. Um, but I know that here in, here in Britain, there have been
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politicians who've been trying to make misogyny a hate crime, which is kind of a very similar
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category to what we're talking about, what's happening in Canada. Um, they're literally trying
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to make a dislike of feminism, a criminal offense, which is punishable by a custodial
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sentence. I mean, it's all well in, you just wouldn't believe that this was a potential
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reality. And what really scares me is that in my lifetime, I fully expect that it will
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be women and feminists will be allowed to say whatever they want about men. They will
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have complete free speech, but men will not have free speech and they will have their actions
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ruled by legislation, which essentially castrates them. It will just, it will curtail their opinions
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and their thought. It's like the thought police that all are used to, you know, wrote about
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it. It really is. We are approaching that situation.
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Let me ask you one more thing, because one thing I would say, you mentioned Islam and I
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don't think that wokeness has affected Muslims, uh, at least not on mass, at least not those
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who identify as Muslim, certainly not the ones that I have come into contact with in
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the UK or Canada. It's typically a post modern, uh, Western post liberal, like it, it just feels
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like it's the residue of the, a decaying Western liberal empire. Um, is there something about
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the fact that Muslim men are confident, maybe physical, certainly not emasculated and the
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Western man, uh, is not allowed to show any manly traits? How do those, I mean, obviously
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we don't want certain manly traits. We want violence to be channeled and governed and, and,
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uh, used only properly. I mean, there is, there, there are crimes that have an aggressive
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masculine hue to them. Um, do you have any thoughts on that? Because this, I think you're
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right that this is targeting meek male feminists who up talk and who are woke and who take women's
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studies degrees. And I think there's something there. I don't know quite what it is. Have
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you done any thinking on that? I mean, it's hard to analyze and kind of quantify those theories,
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but I think you're definitely onto something. Men who exist within the religion of Islam and the
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community of, of, of fellow Muslims, that society still respects men and masculinity, whether that
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be as fathers or as sons or as, you know, people in the workforce or in the, in the masks or the faith,
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men are still, are still respected and they are subjected to the same level of kind of misandry
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and man hating that I think a lot of Western men are, uh, uh, Christian men, Jewish men. And I think
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that is the crucial difference is because really the venom that we see in the press from a lot of
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like feminist, uh, columnists and, you know, celebrities, most of, most of the venom is directed
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at straight white men, which is what I was saying before. And, uh, that they are now the one demographic
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that it's, that it's okay to kind of abuse. And this is what I was going to say as well is that
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a lot of people are talking about the existence of these so-called incels, but really maybe we should
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be asking why do these people exist in the first place? I mean, it's clearly some kind of mental
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derangement, but what is driving people, young men to, to, to that level of despair, whether,
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but they are feeling that level of hatred to women and they're acting out on it to the point where
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they're, you know, they're killing somebody, they're committing homicide. Maybe we should be
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asking ourselves that, you know, the question culturally, what is leading men down that path?
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What is forcing them to feel so disenfranchised and so resentful of women that they would do those
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things? I mean, I would suggest perhaps it's the level of man hating the media and society.
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Maybe that has got a role to play. You know, that's a great question. If there was another
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terrorism, there was another ideology that was manifesting itself in terrorist violence,
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we would say, what are the root causes? What, where has society done wrong? Who pushed them
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away? Could we have been more welcoming? Could we have a day of the year, a week of the year to
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celebrate their masculinity, you know, to make, there would have been some way to include them in the
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vibrant rainbow of society. But I think even the word incel is a disparaging way of saying a guy who's
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having trouble, you know, with the opposite sex, it's loaded in a negative way from the outset.
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Last word to you, Peter, it's been great to catch up with you. Do you think we're going to see more
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of this? Do you think we'll see more personal crimes of passion rebranded as incel terrorism?
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Yeah, I do. Unfortunately, I think so. I think, you know, this is a war that's being waged by
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woke politicians on the left. And unfortunately, masculinity and men are the quarry. They are in
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the crosshairs of the gun. And I think we're just going to see more and more of it. It could be scaled
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back. Maybe we could try and avoid it. And we could limit these kind of instances. But I think we'd have
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to have a bit of a cultural revolution where we start treating men and boys with a little bit more
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common decency and not humiliating them and degrading them at every given opportunity.
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All right. Well said. Well, Peter Lloyd, what a pleasure to catch up with you.
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Great to see you. We hope to have you back on again.
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Yeah, I'll buy you a pint next time you're in London, Ezra.
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Hey, that sounds great. Hopefully that'll be soon. Well, there you have it. Peter Lloyd,
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an author and journalist. And he goes by the nickname, the Suffraged Gentleman,
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which I get a kick out of. And you should follow him on Twitter on the handle on your screen. Stay
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Hey, welcome back on my monologue yesterday about temporary foreign workers. Guy writes,
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there's a shortage of work. Canadians deserve these jobs. Yeah. And you know what? I'm just the
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excuses that were in the Globe and Mail felt like reheated leftovers, like excuses that they've
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been using when unemployment was 6% or 7%, not when unemployment was 15% or 20%. You know, it's time
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to hire Canadians. We don't need to bring in foreign workers in the middle of a recession. That's just
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crazy, especially deliberately underpaid foreign workers. Ian writes, there are plenty of Canadians who
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are willing to do this work. I'm a veteran on a pension. And I would have no problem going out
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and picking fruit and vegetables. You know, I think some people would like physical labor,
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especially young people. I mean, when I was in college, it was a thing to go out and tree plant.
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That's backbreaking work. You know, there's a lot of young, I bet you a youth unemployment,
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because all the waiters and waitresses and bartenders and retail clerks, they're all hit the
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hardest. I bet you, I mean, I haven't seen the youth unemployment stats yet, but I bet you it's
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25%, 30%. Of course, some of them would like to work on a farm. On my interview with Jim Carahelios,
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Harry writes, I'm thoroughly disgusted at what the conservatives and you did to Jim. I also find it
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cringeworthy when you told Jim to his face that he could not win. With these kinds of actions, my opinion
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of the conservatives and the rebel has changed. With your influence, do you realize how many people you
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could have discouraged to vote for Jim and how Jim must have felt when you said that? I think you
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need to apologize to Jim and your audience. Wow. Okay. You know what? I see your point. I guess I
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should have kept that thought to myself, but you know what? I mean, I like Jim, if it's not obvious.
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I like his issues. I like his style. But do I not owe you, the viewer, my candid thoughts?
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I don't think Jim can win. I think he's a small, you know, army of one kind of thing. He doesn't
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have a big network or a team that I can detect. Now, he says he has people working here and there,
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and he did raise the third largest amount of money. So he is in that, you know, he's third out of five,
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I suppose. I don't know. I mean, if my affection for Jim was not evident, let me clarify that I feel
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affection for him. And I'm rooting for him. And that's what, my third or fourth interview with him
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on this subject. But I suppose I could have been a little bit more polite in person, though I didn't
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feel rude saying him. I just want to be honest to you, the viewer. I don't think Jim can win because
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of how the rules are. I don't think they're going to let Jim win. And whoever wins, I don't see them
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beating Trudeau. I'm sorry. That's just how I feel. Maybe I'm wrong. Hopefully I'm wrong.
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Dave writes, I thought you guys may like the lawn sign I had made up. Enjoy. Take a look at that.
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Ah, good for you. You know, I should get back in the lawn sign business. We had some fun lawn signs
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ourselves in the day, didn't we? Well, folks, that's our show for today. Until next time,
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on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night,