UK liberals embrace physical violence in their election campaign. How long until that comes to Canada？
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A man threw a milkshake in the face of a politician in the United Kingdom and got away with it. Could that happen in Canada? And why is the mainstream media praising the man who did it? Is he a hero?
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Hello, my rebels. You know I talk about the United Kingdom partly out of personal interest,
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partly out of friendship with Tommy Robinson, but partly because it is my own dystopian time
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machine to see our fearful future five years from now. Today, I talk about the milkshaking
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of politicians that Tommy Robinson, Carl Benjamin, and Nigel Farage. Milkshaking
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is a new verb. It means going up to a politician you don't like and throwing a milkshake in their
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face. Milkshakes for now, but as I'll show you in a moment, plenty of other people have other ideas
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like acid or bricks. That's the UK in 2019. I say to you, that's Canada in 2024, maybe sooner.
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Tonight, liberals in the United Kingdom embrace physical violence in their election campaign.
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Could that come to Canada, too? It's May 21st, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
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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'm publishing it is because it's my
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Yet again, let me take you back into my personal dystopian time machine five years into the future
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here in Canada, or just hop on a plane to the United Kingdom right now, because what's happening there
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will happen here, because if you don't change the direction you're going, then you're likely to end
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up where you're heading. As usual, it starts with our friend Tommy Robinson. As you know, he's running
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for public office. He's running to be a member of the European Parliament since the UK Conservatives
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haven't kept their promise to follow through on the Brexit referendum. They're stuck in there,
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and it's time to elect new members of the European Parliament, MEPs, as they're called.
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So Tommy is running in Northwest England, and he's got a chance because the top eight names on the
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ballot in that region will win, so he only needs 10% or even less. He's got a chance.
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So a few days ago, he was talking to voters on the street in a town,
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and one Muslim man came up to him, was shouting at him. You could see repeatedly a group of
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left-wing activists with him. Now, Tommy being Tommy, he tried to talk to this man, and he did,
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until the man just threw a milkshake in his face.
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It was as premeditated as can be. He wasn't there to debate.
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That man was there to cause damage, cause humiliation, cause a ruckus.
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The cameras were rolling. He threw it in Tommy's face.
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And yet the media, the mainstream media, turned that man into a hero. The Guardian newspaper,
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I'm not serious. I mean, I'm not kidding. I'm not making this up.
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Look at this loving picture they have of the man.
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They said the milkshake slipped out of his hand by accident. That is what was reported in the
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Guardian newspaper. The media made the assaulter into the victim, but not before police did.
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Police actually helped the attacker get away, as you know. They literally gave him a ride to the
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train station, as you know. Not to the police station, the train station. And he got in the
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cabin. I think I showed you this a few weeks ago when it happened, but this is just step one in
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our story today. He boasted about what he did and praised Allah. I think I showed this to you
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before. Take a look. Yes, bro. Yes, G. How are you, man? Respect. BB1. Did you even get nicked?
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No, bro. Yeah, man. Everything's blessed. Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. Alana shukar.
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He's pretty excited about it. Praise Allah. So the five pre-P professionals, as Daniel Pipes calls
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them, the establishment, the elites, you know, the press, the politicians, the police, the prosecutors,
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the professors, they all love this. Not only did they not oppose what this guy did, they
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cheered it. The police and the prosecutors did not arrest him or charge him. The press
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turned the criminal into a hero. Professors opined about it. Politicians said it was dandy.
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Ha ha, so funny. Humiliating people by assaulting them. It is an assault. If you doubt me, try doing
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it to a policeman. Try doing it to the prime minister or someone that the five P professionals
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haven't decided is an un-person yet. Police have decided that Tommy is an un-person. And
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why not? So has Facebook. So has Twitter. So has PayPal. So have the courts who threw him
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in prison for doing journalism. So Tommy, for sure. But then slightly less controversial
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people than Tommy started getting assaulted. This guy named Carl Benjamin, who has the online
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nicknamed Sargon of a cat, he's running for the UKIP party. They've milkshaked him too,
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as the new verb goes. And then Burger King UK, or the woke 20-something leftist who runs their
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Twitter account, wrote this tweet over the weekend. Dear people of Scotland, we're selling milkshakes
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all weekend. Have fun. Love BK. Just saying. They were a bit oblique, but I don't know if you can
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see what's going on here. They confirmed it to a few other Twitterers by liking their interpretation
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that they were actually encouraging assaults on people they didn't like. So that's a multinational
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corporation based in Brazil. Multi-billion dollar company. Actually owns Tim Hortons too.
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And they're saying, yeah, go ahead. Use our milkshakes to assault someone who is unfashionable
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to the left. And wouldn't you know it, less than 24 hours later, a leftist did milkshake
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a candidate of the right. First it was Tommy. Then it was UKIP. Now it's Nigel Farage, leader
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of the Brexit party. Former UKIP leader, the Brexit party. Actually polls show we'll win the MEP
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elections with the most seats. Now I'd say that Nigel is actually part of the establishment.
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But so what? Just like when Hollywood shouted about punching a Nazi in the face,
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they define Nazis as anyone they wanted to punch in the face. It was circular that way. So
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Yeah, just an assault. No surprise, it's some loser who was a remainer, as they call the pro-eer.
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EU people who lost the referendum election. He's a Jeremy Corbyn labor fan. So he's a leftist. And
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like the Democrats in the United States who kept ranting about how Donald Trump isn't our legitimate
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president, he didn't really win the elections, or the Russians stole it, or whatever. This guy
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didn't believe Brexit should happen, even though the Leave side won. So he takes to violence now.
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Now Farage was restrained and thoughtful. He pointed out in a tweet that democracy only works,
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let me quote, for a civilized democracy to work, you need the loser's consent.
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As in, if Obama agreed to leave the office, if the remain side agreed to accept the Leave victory,
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that's the only way democracy works. That's the thing. Like so many rules and customs and laws,
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the left now only supports those rules and customs and laws when it benefits them. Free speech is an
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obvious example. They love it for themselves, take it away from their opponents. Democratic votes,
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obvious example. And now, the rules, customs, and laws against violence. They're selective,
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it seems like. The media response was instant. Throwing milkshakes at someone is not an act of
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political violence, says the new statesman. Look at that guy. Of course it's violence. Of course it
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violates your personal, your person. Throwing something at someone is assault, battery. Throwing
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something that messes them up is assault, even it's mischief. It doesn't have to deeply hurt you to be
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violence. It's still illegal. It's still violent. The test is not how badly you hurt someone. It's if you
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commit a crime deliberately violating someone's personal integrity. And Tommy was the test case,
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and then was Carl Benjamin of UKIP. So yeah, of course, Nigel Farage is next. It did hurt him,
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though. Obviously, it physically dirtied him and his suit. But of course, the goal was humiliation,
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which is much worse than a dirty suit. It was personal humiliation in the moment at the place he was,
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and it was national, international humiliation on video. And that loser thug was thrilled with him,
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himself. I effing did it. It was Farage. I can't believe I did it. He was so excited. He was boasting
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about it. Other media instantly agreed. They were so excited. It wasn't just funny, said the
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Independent. It's absolutely hilarious. But hang on, that's violence. It's the literal definition of
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violence. But it's fine to the left when it's done to the right. So actual violence is not violence
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now. But mean words, that to the left is violence. And not just to the left of the five Pete
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professionals. This man here, James Goddard, a self-styled leader of the Yellow Vests in the
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United Kingdom, he once accosted a leftist MP named Anna Soubry, walking with her near Parliament
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and shouting at her that she's a Nazi. Now that's over the top. She's not a Nazi, and neither
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is Goddard either. And it's not nice to shout at someone. But it's nothing that isn't shouted
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at any conservative on any given day. But he didn't throw anything at her. He didn't milkshake
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her. Nonetheless, he was charged with a crime. And he was immediately banned from the city
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of London, before he was convicted, by the way. There are 23,000 jihadis in the United
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Kingdom, as you know, just running around. They're not banned from London. Police say they're
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watching them. You can't watch 23,000 people. But they're not banned from London. But this
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one guy shouts at an MP, and he's banned from London? How'd that work? So nonviolence
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is now violence. But violence is not violence. Well, they were just getting going, my friends.
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Here's a brewery that said milkshakes are fine, but you know, hit them over the head with a brick
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as is traditional. And wouldn't you know it, in fact, some leftists did throw a brick at Tommy's
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campaign vehicle TV screen and broke it. Police arrested him. He said he would happily do it
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again. There's the thug there, a leftist. Here's some gentle, caring leftist who said,
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you know, milkshakes are fine, but really, I'd prefer acid. But milkshakes will do for now.
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That's a thing in the UK, by the way, throwing acid in people's faces. It happens several times
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a day. Isn't that strange? But back to Tommy, because they start with him, and then they move
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towards the center from him. They see what they can get away with with him. Then they set the
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precedent, and then say they can expand it by moving to UKIP, and then to the Brexit party,
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always going step by step. Obviously, you can't start with the prime minister. Start with Tommy.
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See if you can get away with it. So look at this. From when Tommy Robinson was campaigning
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in the town of Oldham, more than 100 Muslim men, many wearing masks, some shouting Allah Akbar,
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threw rocks and bricks and stones and bottles at men and women and children who were peaceful
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Tommy Robinson campaign event attendees. They swarmed into the town. They had come in from out of town.
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They called themselves the Muslim Defense League, masks, Allah Akbar, throwing rocks at kids.
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Tommy personally put the kids at the campaign event in the back of a campaign van so they wouldn't
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be hurt, while police just stood around. But here's the craziest video of all. Crazier than the rock
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throwing or the swarming. It's the Muslim Defense League, that's what they called themselves,
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wearing masks, literally being escorted for more than a mile by police directly to Tommy and his campaign
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event. As in, these Muslim activists who came in from out of town, they didn't know where to go
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exactly. They were fairly far away. There's 100 of them. They couldn't hop in a cab. And instead of
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being held back or being asked to de-mask or put the rocks down, police walked with them right to
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where Tommy was. That happened. But look at how that was all reported in the media. Police cars
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were smashed. Police cars were damaged. Violence erupted. I love that passive tense.
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Violence erupts. It just broke out, folks. It's like a case of the measles. You never know how it
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happened. They never tell you. The only name, they say, in fact, is Tommy Robinson. Is that what
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happened? Did violence erupt at a Tommy Robinson campaign event? Or did a group of 100 Muslims,
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some masked, some saying Allah Akbar, attack Tommy in this peaceful rally with rocks, with the police
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escorting them, which is true. That is why no one trusts the media anymore. But it's not just the
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media. It's the police. It's the prosecutors. It's the politicians. It's all of them. The entire
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establishment has decided that you can do these things with impunity to Tommy Robinson because he's
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a non-person. Now they're trying it on Nigel Farage. I don't know how that will work. Hey, how long
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before political candidates in Canada are attacked by Antifa thugs, with police standing by passively?
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How long until political candidates are attacked in Canada with police literally acting as guides
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and escorts to the thugs? Five years, I'd say. Stay with us for more.
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If you're like the party opposite, you're worried about debt. You're worried about cost. You should be
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worried about the cost that we are passing on to our kids, the cost of climate change. We have got an
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emergency here and the party opposite is not telling the truth to Canadians. We are paying. We've gone from
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$400 billion a year to over $2 billion to $400 million to $2 billion because of the cost of climate change.
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Why don't they step up? Why don't they step up for climate action? Why don't they step up for the
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economy in the future and stop misleading Canadians?
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Holy moly. You know why my colleague Sheila Gunn-Reed calls her old yeller. I'm sorry,
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that's just too funny. Sheila, of course, coined the phrase climate Barbie. But Barbie is sweet
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and endearing. That was shouty and angry. And she's had a series of furious tweets linking to
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profanity laden excoriations of people who don't like paying more for their gasoline. I wonder if
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it's going to work. I think that the liberals are flapping around looking for some issue to go into
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the election on. I don't know if it'll be the economy. I don't think it can be. They've trotted out
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some, I don't know, some trial balloons on abortion. I'm not sure if that'll fly. Calling all their
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opponents neo-Nazis. Not sure if that'll work. I think this is their default. Just rant about
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how they need attacks to change the weather. I don't know. Joining us now from Edmonton with his
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point of view is our friend Lauren Gunter, senior columnist with the Edmonton Sun, whose recent column
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is entitled, Why the Liberals Are Getting Unhinged on Climate Issues. Lauren, great to see you again.
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Good to see you. I like that. That's Sheila. She's great with the nickname. She's almost Trumpy like
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that. Sometimes it's good to be outraged. Righteous anger. There is absolutely a place for that in
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politics. But being angry at people who don't want to pay a tax, that's sort of being angry at voters.
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The idea is to reflect voter anger at something, not your anger with voters that they don't want
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to pay your tax. I think she's aiming the anger at people she's trying to win over. And that just,
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And you know, they're stuck in the middle. They really are. Because
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the scandals have damaged the liberal brand and damaged the Trudeau brand. I think irreparably,
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certainly over the next four or five years, it's going to be hard for them to recover the brand,
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the shininess on their brand. So they're looking for ways of appeasing people they need to keep in
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the fold. I think they've sort of given up the idea of expanding beyond their coalition. I think
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they're even worried that they don't have the same coalition they had in 2015. So they're just
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looking for ways of scaring the people who are still in the liberal camp into staying in the
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liberal camp. You know, there's scary beasts out there in the dark. Don't go out there. There are
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people who don't believe climate change is happening. There are neo-Nazis. There are people who want to
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put their rosaries on the ovaries of women again. I mean, all of those things that are really just
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scare tactics. And that's what was used by the NDP in Alberta. It was all scare tactics. And that
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worked in Edmonton, where people don't have to focus on the economy like they do in the rest of
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the province, because so many people are employed in the public sector in Edmonton. And so they were
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able to allow themselves the luxury of being scared into voting NDP. But I don't think that that can work
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on the broad reach in Alberta or the broad reach in Canada. So I think the liberals are really stuck.
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And they see the NDP now moving further to the left and deeper green. And they see the Green Party
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perhaps as an alternative with lefty voters who are disgruntled with the liberals and the NDP.
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And they're just pulling their hair out trying to figure out what to do. So they've gotten really,
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really shrill on a number of things, including on the climate file.
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Yeah. I mean, look, there's different ways to go hard left. And I agree with you.
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The Green Party seems well placed to be the anti-establishment voice of the left.
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We saw them doing well in Newfoundland and PEI. They won that federal by-election seat
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in Nanaimo. The liberals came in fourth with 11%. So I understand going new green deal like
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the States. But she is particularly charming. I mean,
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I think that she's a socialist. I think she's very shallow. But she's likable. She's funny.
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She's got the social media prowess, second only to Trump. So that's a certain approach to climate
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change, green extremism. The happy warrior. I mean, listen, I've got my quarrels with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
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but she's a great communicator. What we showed in that opening clip was a shouting.
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And I think that, like I was looking at the latest Angus Reid poll a couple months ago,
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that Trudeau's support with men is almost down to 20%. And I think you have a shouty
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woman hectoring. I just, I think it's a turnoff for, and why do I say men? Because men have to pay
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the bills. Men are generally the breadwinners. And they're thinking this shouting woman is demanding
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more taxes. I think it's, it's a tonal thing. I just don't think, I just, let me, let me use a
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curling analogy, if you will. My family are long time curling fans. My grandfather was a very good
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curler. My uncle, my mother, my, my, uh, my sister, all devoted curling fans. And almost all
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of them turn down the sound when they're watching the Scotties, which is the women's national
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championship. But they don't turn down the sound when they're watching the briar. It's got nothing
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to do with men being breadwinners or women being stay at home or anything like that. It's the sound
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of Catherine McKenna. You could, unfortunately, whether it's fair or not, you could probably have
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a male environment minister who was just as yelly and the tone wouldn't bother people as much,
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but people tend to tune out the tone or the, the, the style that they dislike. And she, I mean,
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you watched her in that clip, she throws her shoulders into the finger pointing, you know,
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it's so over the top. A lot of people are going to be put off by that. And I also think that,
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you know, now that you have the carbon tax and it's not popular, about two thirds of Canadians
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oppose it. You're starting to see people increasingly supportive of some sort of pipeline,
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preferably Trans Mountain. You, you saw the Senate, the Senate rise up and defy the House
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of Commons, or at least Senate committees defy the House of Commons. We yet to see whether the Senate
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as a whole will continue the revolution that started at the committee to defeat bills C-48 and C-69,
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the anti-tanker, oil tanker bill and the anti-pipeline bill. I just think that there's an increasing
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number of people in, in Canada. It might only be 45 or 50%, might be slightly less than that,
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but you've seen the largest plurality of voters who are now starting to question whether or not we can
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actually afford the environmental dreams, the green dreams of the Rachel Notley's and, and the Justin
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Trudeau's and the Catherine McKenna's and the, and the John Horgan, the BC premier. They're starting
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to question that. And I don't think the way to assuage their fears is to get more shouty.
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Yeah. Well, I mean, my point about referring to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could be applied to
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Rachel Notley too. It's, it's possible to be a powerful, persuasive woman in a brutal election
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campaign. In fact, at the end of the Alberta election campaign, really the ballot proposition
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was, was don't you like and trust Rachel Notley as a human more than Jason Kenney? And, and I mean,
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that's certainly how their messaging was put. So I just think that at the end of the Alberta election,
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I honestly think two years ago, uh, you had held the vote, the same result would have happened.
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Uh, but I actually think at the end of the Alberta election, people outside Edmonton were so eager
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to have, uh, an economically grownup group back in charge in Alberta that you could have found,
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uh, video of UCP candidates involved in ritualistic satanic cults. And that's, they still would have
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won, but, but nonetheless, you were right about the message. At the end, the NDP put all of their
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eggs in the Rachel Notley basket and said, look, she's just so much more charming than, than Jason
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Kenney. And the voter said, yeah, so what? She's charming, but she's running the economy into the
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ground. We got to get somebody else. Well, let me ask you this, because there was a clip of, uh,
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of Trudeau at the United Nations, um, at a UN forum the other day on, um, on being a feminist. Did you see
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that clip, uh, Lauren? He was boasting about how he's going to keep saying he's a feminist until he gets
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no reaction because it's completely normal. Here, let's play a quick, uh, clip of that.
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Well, I'm going to keep saying loud and clearly that I am a feminist, uh, until...
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...until it is met with a shrug. Uh, why does every time I say I'm a feminist, uh, you know,
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the Twitterverse explodes and, uh, news medias pick it up. It shouldn't be something, uh, that creates
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a reaction. It simply is saying, I believe in the equality of men and women, and I believe
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that we still have an awful lot of work to do to get there. That's like saying the sky
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is blue and the grass is green. Um, and now I know that's talking about something else,
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but that's that smooth, charming pick-up artist approach that worked like crazy in 2015, um,
00:25:15.400
because everyone was flattered that this handsome boy was paying attention to us and he said all
00:25:19.700
the right things. Now that he's revealed to be an imposter, especially on women's issues,
00:25:24.520
he can still get a round of applause on that from the UN who hasn't been following his treatment
00:25:29.400
of Jody Wilson-Raybould or Jane Philpott. But watching that now, it's so, such an imposter.
00:25:36.880
It's creepy. It's so, he's such an imposter. He's creepy. And this is, that's the funny thing. I mean,
00:25:43.180
I once remember interviewing a specialist in sexual harassment in the workplace. And what she said
00:25:51.300
was that good looking men get away with things that less well looking or less good looking men
00:25:58.980
can't get away with saying things in the office. Uh, you know, a good looking man asks a woman out
00:26:05.480
on a date. She's not interested, but she feels flattered that this really charming guy asked her
00:26:10.340
out. Uh, the ugly guy from accounting asks, and she just so creeped out by it. She, she calls the
00:26:17.280
sexual harassment officer in. And, uh, you know, Trudeau has gone since 2015 from being the handsome
00:26:23.740
guy in the office who's flattering you with his attention to the guy now who, no matter what he
00:26:28.320
says, it just comes off kind of icky. And you, you, you just want to jump in the shower after you've
00:26:34.380
heard him talk. Well, and that's the thing. And I, and I come back to that cover story in
00:26:38.440
Maclean's magazine written by Paul Wells, the imposter. And I keep pointing out the imposter
00:26:44.320
is a reflection on the author. The author was fooled. Now the author is disillusioned and the
00:26:51.200
author is angry because he was tricked. Justin Trudeau is the same. Justin Trudeau he's always
00:26:55.960
been. Paul Wells just realized. And you used to call him shiny pony. You weren't tricked.
00:26:59.980
But a lot of people were. And, and that's my point is that if they play the sunny ways,
00:27:06.040
we're different, we're more transparent, we're more democratic, we're more open.
00:27:10.420
We believe in, um, we believe in diversity of opinion that played in 2015, but I don't think
00:27:17.540
it's going to work in 2019. And so you see the shouty Catherine McKenna. It'll work with some of
00:27:23.500
their core people who are afraid that, uh, you know, Andrew Scheer is going to, uh, return us to
00:27:31.200
the stone age. They'll buy into those sort of tactics. But, uh, but if you say, no, no, no,
00:27:36.860
look, he is a real feminist. He, he keeps saying it. He wants, he's been saying it all along, but
00:27:41.900
every time, uh, a powerful woman confronts him with an opinion contrary to his own, he fires her
00:27:48.360
or he demeans her or he tries to explain away why he groped her. Uh, you know, all of that simply
00:27:56.440
puts a lie to, to the image. And so the only people I think are going to be left to buy into
00:28:03.200
his sunny ways. I'm a feminist, uh, ickiness. I just keep coming back to that word. It's kind of
00:28:10.820
icky. Uh, are the real true believers. And that's, I think now where the liberal war room is at is that
00:28:18.240
they realize they have to keep the true believers on board because they've lost just about everybody
00:28:24.940
else. I mean, look at what they did the other day with, with the, uh, agreement with, with Legault,
00:28:30.400
the premier of Quebec to allow Quebec to decide who the Supreme court justices will be from,
00:28:37.140
from that province. Uh, you know, in, in the Meech Lake accord, there was a, there was a clause
00:28:42.780
offered to all the provinces that the prime minister would pick Supreme court justices from
00:28:48.200
short lists provided by the provinces, all the provinces. Now there's an agreement with,
00:28:54.800
the federal government and the Quebec government that Quebec gets to tell the prime minister
00:28:59.420
the number one choice they want for Supreme court justices appointed out of Quebec. No other province
00:29:06.300
gets that. And you, you know, they're going to say stuff like that because it, that helps them win
00:29:13.340
votes in Quebec. And so they're really looking at micro selecting strategies all the way across the
00:29:20.060
country. Yeah. Incredible. You know what? I, I didn't believe until in the last month that Andrew
00:29:29.240
Scheer could win. I just thought, you know, the Jody Wilson-Raybould thing, it'll fade and you still
00:29:34.740
have six months and you got the media bailout. But I think the Mark Norman thing solidified some of the
00:29:40.020
corruption. And then when I was in Ottawa, uh, reporting on his, the day he was, um, released from
00:29:46.600
charges. I observed as much the media party journalists in the room, as much as Mark Norman
00:29:53.060
or his lawyer. And I could tell that none of them were any more in love with Trudeau. That's not to
00:29:58.400
say they liked Scheer, but the love is gone. They've been, they've been disillusioned too. And I actually
00:30:05.200
think that no matter what the liberals throw at Andrew Scheer, unless there's some huge intervening
00:30:11.520
act, I actually believe Scheer is going to win maybe just a minority. I'm willing to go on the
00:30:16.840
record. Go ahead. That's where I'm at at the moment. Yeah. He said, I think we're looking at
00:30:21.160
a conservative minority. I don't think they'll be able to win over enough people to actually get a
00:30:26.780
majority. But, but I think you, you could easily see a conservative minority. And, and this is
00:30:32.260
exactly when you're talking about the, the, the media party journalists in the room at the Mark
00:30:38.700
Norman press conference. That's exactly what was happening in Alberta. You had all of these
00:30:44.600
journalists who loved Rachel Notley, but they could see that it was over. And while they were
00:30:51.180
being very friendly in their coverage of her and very complimentary, they had already seen the
00:30:59.640
handwriting on the wall. They were not trying to make excuses. The only exception I would say in Alberta
00:31:05.360
was the CBC, which had at some time seven reporters trying to dig up dirt on Jason Kenney.
00:31:12.260
Yeah. But, but this is, I think the same thing that's happening now nationally is that the press
00:31:17.740
gallery, which was, and has been in love with Trudeau for a long time now realizes when they wake up
00:31:24.280
that, that he's the gigolo who's going through their purse looking for cash. Yeah. You know, let me
00:31:30.220
leave with one more point. And we used to cover Australia a little bit more closely here at the
00:31:35.160
rebel when we had Mark Latham working for us. Now he's actually an elected legislator again, which
00:31:40.720
is interesting. They recently had an election where the governing liberal coalition. Now they say liberal,
00:31:50.120
that's actually the right wing party versus the labor. Every single poll said that the labor was going
00:31:56.420
to win. And a big part of their push was global warming, climate action, carbon tax, and nope.
00:32:04.600
Defying the pollsters, the liberal coalition, that's what they call their right wingers there,
00:32:10.400
won. Won with a, you know, it was so many points more than, I forget the exact number that the pollsters
00:32:17.880
predicted. I think that people tell pollsters, yeah, I really care about global warming, man.
00:32:24.280
But at the pump and in the ballot booth, they mark an X honestly.
00:32:29.960
I think that's exactly right. I mean, they, they, they, this is a moral panic, climate change. And so
00:32:36.720
most people will say, well, yeah, sure. I'm worried about climate change. My gosh, that would be awful
00:32:41.760
if, you know, 70 or 80 years after I'm dead, the temperature around the globe is up by two degrees.
00:32:47.300
Oh, you know, so they do. But I think you're right. I think they do. They, that, that,
00:32:52.140
that is the answer that's expected at cocktail parties. It's the answer that's expected when
00:32:56.960
somebody puts a microphone in front of your face. And so people say, oh, yes, of course,
00:33:00.940
I'm very concerned about it. And then they get mad when they see a 4% or 4 cent increase per liter
00:33:07.060
on, on a gas pump. And, and they go into the ballot box and say, I don't need this. And they vote,
00:33:14.960
at least a majority will vote against that. So I think the liberals are going to find that.
00:33:19.240
But I really think, and I also hope the liberals are going to go deeper green between now and
00:33:25.300
October. And as a result of that, we're, we're, we're going to see a conservative minority.
00:33:31.980
Well, from your mouth to God's ears, Lorne Gunter, great to see you again. Thanks for your
00:33:35.360
time, my friend. You too. All right. There you have it. Lorne Gunter's column in the Edmonton Sun,
00:33:39.820
I recommend it. It's called Why the Liberals Are Getting Unhinged on Climate Issues. Stay with us.
00:33:45.200
More ahead on the rebel. Hey, welcome back to my monologue yesterday about the United Kingdom.
00:34:00.040
Boy, I'm talking about that a lot these days. Betty writes,
00:34:02.960
I keep waiting for the moment when the British people decide they've had enough.
00:34:07.000
Well, I think they decided they had enough Betty in Brexit, but they were ignored.
00:34:10.660
I think they're going to decide they've had enough on May 23rd when the election is. I know
00:34:14.980
Nigel Farage is going to win the most seats. Tommy has a chance, but I think that a disarmed people
00:34:22.500
are no longer citizens, they're subjects. Because at the end of the day, what are they going to do?
00:34:27.360
I'm not saying that Americans would rise up in a revolution, but the fact that so many Americans
00:34:32.200
actually do have firearms means the government can only push them so far. I think that if the
00:34:36.340
government in the United States, like if Barack Obama simply refused to move out of the White House,
00:34:41.080
despite Donald Trump's victory, I think that people would have risen up with rivals. The
00:34:48.680
government would never have done that because they would have known that was a possibility. In
00:34:51.380
the UK, that's exactly the analogy, as if Obama wouldn't have left the White House. Brexit,
00:34:58.040
the Leave side of Brexit won 17.4 million voters, the highest vote in British history.
00:35:04.060
And the government just said, yeah, we'll take that under advisement. Thanks very much. Three years
00:35:08.480
later, they're still in. So yeah, what will it take for the Brits to rise up? We'll rise up with
00:35:12.600
what? Butter knives? Philip writes, you strenuously caution that the decline of personal freedom in
00:35:19.400
the UK is coming to Canada. It already has. Look no further than the situation in Caledonia, Ontario,
00:35:24.880
where police not only stood by while native protesters terrorized local citizens, those same police
00:35:29.700
brutalized citizens standing up for their rights. I think we can probably name several instances
00:35:36.180
like that. I'm familiar with the Caledonia case. I can name others in other provinces too. What I see
00:35:43.480
in the United Kingdom is system-wide. In fact, I think all the real cops have retired or just have stopped
00:35:51.220
fighting. And now there's a whole new generation of feelings cops. Like I said, there's 900 cops in the
00:35:57.600
Metropolitan Police of London alone who are on the Facebook beat. 900 specifically on that beat. So
00:36:04.100
it's not episodic or ad hoc as it is in Canada. On my interview with Joel Pollack, Robert writes,
00:36:11.360
with respect to China, Trump is taking advantage of the simple fact that the U.S. buys far more from
00:36:15.820
China. China has been in a trade war with the U.S. decades and it is only now Trump has engaged them
00:36:20.160
in a meaningful manner. I agree. And that's Trump's phraseology too. We've been in the war.
00:36:25.380
We just haven't fought back. And at the end of the day, America is such an industrial engine and
00:36:30.920
their growth is so high. Yeah, I mean, they're saving a few bucks here and there by buying cheap
00:36:35.780
goods from China. But, you know, I don't think that it's going to pain the average American
00:36:43.500
more than a few bucks here or there to displace, to substitute other goods for Chinese goods.
00:36:52.260
That's what these terrorists do. These terrorists slap an extra cost on Chinese imports. And so
00:36:58.280
American importers can either sell that Chinese stuff at a marked up price or source it from
00:37:03.820
India, Vietnam, Taiwan, Korea, whatever. So at the end of the day, it is true that your American
00:37:10.520
consumer is maybe paying a few bucks more for this or that. But America's economy is growing so fast,
00:37:16.700
Americans don't notice it. That's a point Joel make. But 300 million Americans pay a small price.
00:37:24.500
China pays an enormous price. I think Trump is going to make him blink. As Joel thoughtfully
00:37:30.480
pointed out, even Democrats who hate Trump realize he's the only guy brawler enough,
00:37:36.560
like Conor McGregor, who could take on China. I think that's exactly right.
00:37:41.220
Well, that's the show for the week. It is interesting that our friend Tommy is running
00:37:46.120
for parliament. The election is Thursday. Can you believe it? I think the guy's got a chance.
00:37:53.340
We'll see. I might scoot over there and be there on election night. All right. Till next time,
00:37:58.180
on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night and keep fighting for freedom.