Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 555 ｜ Canada's Freedom Convoy, Media Myths & the End of COVID？

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00:00:27.640 So today we are talking about the Freedom Convoy. We're talking about what's going on in Canada,

00:00:33.500 as well as the pushback to vaccine mandates and vaccine passports that is happening around the

00:00:40.120 world. And we're going to talk about some of the countries that are loosening restrictions,

00:00:44.900 presumably in response to the peaceful pushback that we are seeing. Now, of course, you have

00:00:52.140 plenty of critics of the Freedom Convoy that is going on in Canada, as well as the protests that

00:00:58.900 we are seeing universally. And so we're going to talk about some of those criticisms and we are

00:01:04.140 going to analyze whether or not they are valid. And we're going to talk about, though, the truth

00:01:11.180 behind some of the narratives that you are seeing being pushed in the mainstream media about the

00:01:16.620 racism of this Freedom Convoy. It's just it's kind of tiresome and predictable at this point,

00:01:23.160 but we've got to break it down. So we will do that. Now, if you have no idea what I'm talking

00:01:27.760 about, if you have been living under a giant boulder for the past week, maybe you don't know

00:01:32.580 what the Freedom Convoy is. So let me tell you, it's a convoy of trucks. So not like pickup trucks,

00:01:39.060 but we're talking like 18 wheelers for the most part. It's a convoy of trucks from Canada's West

00:01:44.400 Coast that started driving towards Ottawa, then a convoy from the East Coast that formed to meet

00:01:51.160 the Western convoy in the capital city and protest of the vaccine mandates and the vaccine requirements.

00:01:57.080 There are vaccine requirements to reenter the country by land. So they are pushing back against

00:02:02.360 that. Now, the vast majority of truckers in Canada are vaccinated. There's only a small percentage

00:02:08.740 who aren't. But I assume that a large portion of this convoy is actually made up of truckers who

00:02:17.620 are vaccinated. But in principle, they are pushing back against this for the choice for the freedom

00:02:23.780 of their fellow truckers who don't want to get the vaccine. Now, just a reminder, as the data makes

00:02:29.740 abundantly clear, the vaccine does not stop infection or transmission. But even if it did,

00:02:36.020 these truckers are basically in isolation in their trucks, it doesn't even make any logical sense if

00:02:41.840 you still wanted to push the myth that this vaccine is stopping infection or transmission,

00:02:46.240 which we'll look at the data in just a little bit, once again, proving that. But even if you wanted to

00:02:52.360 make that mythical argument that it was stopping the virus from reproducing and transmitting to other

00:02:58.520 people, it still would not make sense to require that of truckers in order to get back into the United

00:03:05.460 States or Canada. That's the current requirements because they're by themselves. And so who are

00:03:10.620 they passing? Who are they passing the virus to? But once again, even if they do have the vaccine,

00:03:16.120 that doesn't stop them from transmitting the virus if they are around other people. And just a reminder

00:03:23.060 that our current administration is refusing to deport illegal immigrants who are crossing over the

00:03:29.740 southern border, no matter their vaccine status, as long as they are not committing particularly

00:03:37.620 egregious crimes. So being here as an illegal immigrant who is unvaccinated, maybe even who

00:03:42.740 tests positive, that's not enough to deport you. But being a trucker who is crossing over the border

00:03:47.220 legally but doesn't have vaccine verification, that is enough to keep you out of either the United

00:03:53.340 States or Canada. It's pretty crazy. So you can understand why people are pushing back against

00:03:58.620 this. And of course, those who are standing in solidarity with their unvaccinated trucker

00:04:05.760 colleagues in Canada are doing so because they don't want their friends, they don't want their

00:04:11.260 peers to lose their job over this. It just doesn't make any sense. And of course, in my opinion, it is

00:04:17.140 deeply unethical and immoral. Like I said, the U.S. has also instituted a vaccine requirement for

00:04:23.860 non-U.S. individuals crossing into the country by land. And this began on January 22nd. So the goal

00:04:30.520 is of this freedom convoy in Canada, according to Salon, which is not going to be favorable towards

00:04:38.940 this freedom convoy because it's left wing, but they describe it this way. It's a mass protest that

00:04:44.520 will gridlock. It will gridlock the city, the capital, Ottawa, the capital of Canada until

00:04:50.540 all of the country's vaccine mandates are repealed. Reuters says that it's thousands who are staging

00:04:57.240 peaceful protests in Ottawa against Canada's vaccine mandates. And so they made it to the

00:05:03.440 capital. They are now peacefully protesting. Let me show you some footage of what's going on.

00:05:10.520 What's gone on the past few days is they have been driving through the country and you've had

00:05:14.500 people in every single city, thousands of people lining the highways with their signs in support

00:05:22.580 of this convoy. And you can see this doesn't have any sound. And so if you're just listening to this,

00:05:28.060 you won't be able to see. But there are rows and rows and, I mean, a line as far as the eye can see

00:05:35.340 of trucks that are headed toward the capital. And you just see the thousands of peaceful protesters

00:05:40.640 and supporters on the side raising their signs. As one reporter described it, it's jovial. I mean,

00:05:46.660 these people are happy. They're grateful to be there. And all of the reports that you are seeing

00:05:53.620 that these are just a bunch of, you know, angry, violent writers, that's just not true, at least for

00:06:00.180 the vast majority of these people. The people that I've seen interviewed, people of all different races,

00:06:06.120 people of all different religions, all different backgrounds, all different political affiliations.

00:06:10.580 They're there with their families, with young children. They're happy. They're excited to take

00:06:17.340 this step against the tyranny that is vaccine mandates and vaccine passports. And so this is a huge

00:06:26.500 movement. And it really is just incredible to see. Now, let's talk a little bit about the criticism

00:06:32.700 that this convoy has been getting in, in regards to who set it up and who is associating with this

00:06:42.560 convoy. Are they white supremacists? Okay, so let's talk a little bit about how this thing got

00:06:49.740 started. So Tamara Lich, I think that's how you pronounce her last name. I've never heard of these

00:06:55.100 people. But of course, I heard from a lot of people in the media and a lot of people on Instagram

00:06:59.720 that these were very bad people and that they were these white supremacist groups. And that's

00:07:05.040 the foundation of this freedom convoy. And of course, this is related to racism somehow. And so

00:07:10.220 we looked into who actually started this. Tamara Lich, she's the secretary of the Maverick Party.

00:07:15.540 It's a Western Canadian separatist party. It's not widely known. She organized the fundraising for the

00:07:21.180 convoy in CBC News, which is Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. They said that, you know, she's a key player

00:07:27.900 behind the convoy. She started the GoFundMe for the truckers, which has, as of last night,

00:07:32.960 raised $8.9 million. And according to the GoFundMe page, the money raised will be dispersed to

00:07:39.300 our truckers to aid them with the cost of the journey. Funds will be spent to help cover the

00:07:43.320 cost of fuel for the truckers. First and foremost, it will also be used to assist with food if needed

00:07:47.720 and contribute to shelter if needed. And some people are saying, oh, it's just a few big donors.

00:07:53.380 This is so orchestrated. This is not some organic event. But actually, if you look at the donations,

00:08:01.220 a lot of the donations are just $50 or $75. Corey B. Morgan on Twitter said the Freedom Convoy for

00:08:10.440 Truckers has raised, this was a few days ago, said $3.2 million. But of course, like I said,

00:08:15.900 it's almost $9 million. And he said it was 42,000 donations at an average of $75 each.

00:08:23.160 So it really is just a ton of people, just your average people donating what they can. Some

00:08:29.060 people are donating $5, $10. Of course, you've got people that are donating a lot more than that.

00:08:34.500 But you've got tens of thousands of people that are donating pretty small donations. So this idea

00:08:39.080 that it's just big donors coming in with, you know, writing million dollar checks, that is simply

00:08:45.140 not true. Now, this Tamara Lich person, even though she is a part of this party, this Maverick Party

00:08:53.980 that most people don't know, it is simply not true that this has some kind of white supremacist,

00:09:01.100 fascist roots that we are hearing about. I don't know this person. I'm sure that I don't agree with

00:09:06.760 all of this person's politics. But she has made pretty clear that she wants to separate the convoy and

00:09:12.540 the peaceful protesters and what she is trying to do from the more problematic people that are

00:09:18.380 showing up at the protest. Because the fact of the matter is, is that apparently there are people

00:09:23.380 who are showing up with Confederate flags, with Nazi flags, people who are part of far-right

00:09:29.440 extremist groups. And unfortunately, you are always going to have crazy, terrible people that are

00:09:35.500 infiltrating good movements. Now, some people are pointing out on Twitter, are these just feds? Like,

00:09:42.140 are these people who are trying to make it seem like this is a problematic protest and that these

00:09:49.240 are all far-right extremist Nazis, whatever? I don't know. They could be actual people. They could be

00:09:57.700 undercover feds. I don't know. The fact of the matter is, is that at any mass event, you are going to get

00:10:04.520 people that come that are not representative of everyone there or even the majority of people

00:10:11.380 there. There are going to be fringe radicals that show up at these movements. Now, we understood this,

00:10:19.660 or some people who are now criticizing the Freedom Convoy understood this when it came to

00:10:24.440 the BLM riots. And actually, there were far more actual extremists who were burning down buildings

00:10:31.480 and perpetrating violence and who had the hammer and sickle flags and who were burning Bibles and

00:10:37.220 American flags at the BLM Antifa riots in the United States than there are seemingly bad actors at

00:10:46.380 these protests in Canada. And yet, we are supposed to characterize the entire Freedom Convoy as bad

00:10:55.580 and violent and racist. But when it came to the BLM and Antifa riots here in the United States,

00:11:02.580 even though thousands of people were perpetrating violence in the name of a left-wing ideology here,

00:11:08.860 you're not. You're not supposed to characterize the BLM movement by the literally thousands of them

00:11:14.880 who perpetrated violence. You're only supposed to look at the peaceful protests there. And look,

00:11:19.660 I am fine with not conflating the violent actors in BLM and Antifa with the peaceful protesters

00:11:25.660 who say that they were representing Black Lives Matter. I'm fine with not conflating those two

00:11:30.360 things. But you can't then conflate them when it comes to a protest or a movement that you don't

00:11:36.420 like on the right. Let's have a little bit of critical thinking here. And like I said, the person who

00:11:44.400 is kind of credited with starting this whole thing, Tamara Litch, she is really trying to separate what

00:11:49.840 she wants to do with the legitimately bad actors and with the people who apparently espouse racist

00:11:56.520 views that are showing up at this protest in Ottawa. So what's happening now? The convoy organizers

00:12:03.520 say that they have enough funds to keep trucks on Parliament Hill for two to four years. CTV reports

00:12:11.620 that Tamara, Tamara, Tamara, I don't know, Litch told a crowd of protesters on Saturday on Parliament

00:12:17.860 Hill in Ottawa, we are not leaving until all of you and all of your kids are free. Now, sweet little

00:12:27.140 Justin Trudeau, Justin Blackface Trudeau, he doesn't like this. He doesn't like that this is going on.

00:12:35.160 And he is trying to paint this mass demonstration, peaceful demonstration as just a group of extremists.

00:12:49.680 And so here is here is Justin Trudeau saying that the small fringe minority of people who

00:12:59.820 are on their way to Ottawa or who are holding unacceptable views that they're expressing

00:13:07.100 do not represent the views of Canadians. So Trudeau actually fled. He fled Canada reportedly,

00:13:15.940 and he is in hiding in the United States. And I'm like, we don't want you here. Get out of here.

00:13:21.260 He's probably with like Harry and Meghan or something like that. He's probably chilling with Gavin Newsom,

00:13:26.640 maskless in California. I don't know if you guys saw that. But Gavin Newsom was at some game over

00:13:33.420 the weekend, maskless. Everyone who he was with apparently in the picture was maskless. And this

00:13:38.780 is even as many places in Canada still have mask mandates in many places. Two-year-olds are still

00:13:44.820 having to wear masks in nurseries, in daycares. Preschoolers are still having to wear masks in many

00:13:53.600 places. And of course, Gavin Newsom, the governor of California is not wearing a mask. But who is

00:13:59.480 honestly, who's surprised at this point? So Justin Trudeau is probably there hanging out with Gavin

00:14:04.300 Newsom, chilling. But I mean, he is literally fleeing his responsibilities. There is a peaceful

00:14:10.760 demonstration there. As far as I know, there haven't been threats of violence. There haven't been threats

00:14:16.260 to hurt Trudeau as far as I have seen reported anyway. And yet he is literally fleeing a mass

00:14:23.740 peaceful demonstration that is simply trying to hold their government accountable to not be tyrants.

00:14:30.240 And he is running like a scared little boy, which is not surprising. Like that is who Trudeau is. People

00:14:37.840 who live in Canada know exactly what I'm talking about. He is just not a good leader and has not been

00:14:44.560 for the entirety of his tenure. Now, again, people are echoing, though, Trudeau's talking points. And

00:14:51.520 this is just the new narrative that is being circulated in the media. Salon says this, quote,

00:14:58.080 reporters and researchers, always reporters and researchers, very vague. The experts have also

00:15:03.460 pointed out that the convoy movement is inextricably tied to Canadian far right groups. Now, what makes it

00:15:08.340 inextricably tied? Like, why can't, you know, your average Canadian who is against vaccine mandates and

00:15:16.720 who wants to be a part of this movement, why can't they untie themselves from these, quote, far right

00:15:22.720 groups, including radical neo-Nazi linked accelerationist networks, according to Salon? Why

00:15:29.480 are they inextricably tied? Because any left wing movement is easily given permission to extricate

00:15:37.080 themselves from any extremist parts of their group. So why is it inextricably tied? Again,

00:15:42.280 why can't we have just a little bit of common sense to say, OK, yeah, there are unfortunately

00:15:46.200 going to be bad actors that hijack a particular movement. But that doesn't characterize the vast,

00:15:52.460 vast majority of people who are pushing for freedom in Canada. It's inextricably tied because

00:15:57.820 that is more convenient for leftist media, because if they can paint everything that they don't like,

00:16:03.800 every opposition to their totalitarian efforts as a racist, as white supremacist,

00:16:09.420 then they can scare people from being against them. That's what tyrants have always done.

00:16:13.980 They're no different than the tyrants of the 20th century. And the ironic thing is that they are

00:16:18.920 calling people in this convoy fascist, that somehow this is fascism to be against the unfettered growth

00:16:26.880 and power of the government. And they are the good guys. No, guys, you're the bad guys. You're

00:16:33.980 the bad guys. If you are on the side of the totalitarians of taking people's livelihoods

00:16:39.340 away because they won't get a shot that, again, doesn't stop infection or transmission. But even

00:16:43.800 if it did, I don't think it should be mandated. If you are on that side, you're the bad guys, OK?

00:16:48.920 I don't even think most people that are calling these people fascist could even tell you what

00:16:53.280 fascism is if they tried. I think they just call everyone a fascist, everyone a racist,

00:16:58.760 everyone a white supremacist that they disagree with. Again, you can say, wow, people flying

00:17:03.360 Nazi flags or people flying Confederate flags or people who are legitimately part of extremist

00:17:07.960 groups, they're really bad. They should be utterly and totally condemned. And it's really unfortunate

00:17:12.500 and reprehensible that they're showing up at these demonstrations and marring what these people are

00:17:17.720 trying to do. You can say that and still say, wow, this is a movement that is fighting for good

00:17:22.460 things. It's pushing for good things. And you know what? We're not going to be bullied or shamed

00:17:27.000 into silence or compliance because we're scared of being associated with with bad people who

00:17:33.120 legitimately are racist. That's what they're trying to do. They're trying to bully you into silence and

00:17:38.060 compliance. And at some point, you just have to stop caring about being called a bigot. You just have

00:17:44.060 to stop caring about being called a racist because it doesn't matter what you do. Like you remember,

00:17:49.180 these are the same people that called Winsome Sears a white supremacist. That is the woman who became

00:17:57.280 the lieutenant governor for Virginia, the first black woman to hold the position in Virginia, who called

00:18:05.180 Larry Elder the black face of white supremacy, who call people like Candace Owens a white supremacist.

00:18:12.980 So if they're calling those people who are black white supremacist, understand that no matter what

00:18:19.560 you do, if you are on the right and a bunch of people on the right are pushing for a particular

00:18:25.800 goal, you are going to be called a fascist. You are going to be called a racist. You're going to be

00:18:29.960 called a white supremacist and a bigot and a Christian nationalist and all of these things. It doesn't

00:18:33.660 matter. So you might as well just double down. Like if you know that what you are advocating for is

00:18:38.600 virtuous and if you are using peaceful and virtuous means to push for the policy positions that you

00:18:45.380 believe in, that you know are good and right and true, then you cannot care what you're being called.

00:18:50.180 You just can't because they are going to try to shout you down. And as soon as you start complying,

00:18:54.680 as soon as you start apologizing, as soon as you start trying to acquiesce to the demands of the

00:19:00.420 bullies on the left, they're just going to keep going. These people are sharks. They smell blood

00:19:04.880 and they attack when they know that you are feeling intimidated. You cannot be intimidated by these

00:19:10.120 people. They're liars and they're crooks. Again, that's not to excuse any bad behavior, any terrible,

00:19:16.100 legitimately, objectively bad ideology that happens to unfortunately associate themselves with the

00:19:22.780 good people of the Freedom Convoy in Canada. But again, to characterize everyone as that, it is

00:19:30.960 completely dishonest and you cannot back down because of that false narrative. One of the organizers who is

00:19:39.280 legitimately apparently far right and who is apparently a white supremacist, never heard of this

00:19:46.040 person. His name is Pat King. And so he is apparently part of this like a maverick party. Again, it's just so

00:19:55.640 hard to know what is legitimate and what is true when it comes to the media. But they're trying to

00:20:02.300 link this person with the convoy to, again, make the argument that this is all racist. But look, like I

00:20:09.020 said, I have seen people of every background who are a part of this, who are speaking out in support of

00:20:14.820 this, who don't even know who these people are who started it. Like you're telling me that if

00:20:21.160 someone started something and they have maybe a bad ideology, which again, I don't know if this is

00:20:28.980 true about Tamara Lynch. I don't know that much about her. But their goals are good and their means are

00:20:35.560 peaceful that everyone who is associated with that is then sharing or inextricably linked to the people

00:20:43.400 who started it. Is that the case, Planned Parenthood supporters? Is that the case, Antifa supporters? Is that

00:20:52.000 the case, BLM supporters? Because all of those organizations that I just listed have very problematic

00:20:58.720 and I would even argue racist origins in a lot of ways. And yet, everyone on the left seems to justify it

00:21:07.320 because, well, the ends justify the means. Or, well, we can just detach ourselves from the origins and the

00:21:14.460 problematic origins of these organizations because they, you know, support what we want, the policy positions

00:21:23.580 that we like. So again, it's just a whole bunch of hypocrisy. And actually, it's not really hypocrisy. I've said

00:21:29.560 this before. When it comes to leftist ideology, this is how they operate. Violence is okay if it's in service to.

00:21:37.320 Their goals and lying is okay. Misinformation is okay. Propaganda is okay. Government force is okay.

00:21:48.200 As long as it is in service to the things that they want. But when it's the other side doing the same

00:21:54.580 thing, well, then it's fascism. Then it's a threat to democracy. Then it's Christian nationalism. And I

00:21:59.880 don't know if that is hypocrisy as much as it is that duplicitousness is just a principle of

00:22:07.280 leftist ideology and has been for a very long time. Now, there are some people who are a part of this

00:22:14.160 convoy who are actually speaking out against the bad behavior of some of the protesters. This is

00:22:22.060 David Akin. He is tweeting this. He says that many protesters are upset by what some bad actors who

00:22:30.240 infiltrated have done at the National War Memorial. They have set their own watch around it. There are

00:22:36.200 people who are praying around this war memorial. So people were upset that the war memorial in Canada

00:22:41.840 was being desecrated and that bad actors were not representative of what the convoy was trying to

00:22:50.980 do. And so now there are other protesters who are trying to protect the National War Memorial against

00:22:56.700 these bad actors. So a Terry Fox statue was kind of it was dressed up at the Capitol and people didn't

00:23:06.620 like that. They saw it as a sign of disrespect. Terry Fox is really like a bipartisan national icon

00:23:11.580 there in Canada. And so good protesters were bad were mad that bad protesters would disrespect the

00:23:17.600 statue in that way. Like I said, some people are saying that those dressed up with the Confederate

00:23:24.400 flags and with the Nazi flags, that they are feds, that they're not people who are actually

00:23:29.940 representative of the Freedom Convoy in general. And then also, like I said, there are people who are

00:23:36.700 praying at the tomb of the unknown soldier at the war memorial. And so it's not all just these bad, violent

00:23:43.580 people who are desecrating these national monuments. Now, again, again, I like how they are acting.

00:23:52.780 The media on the left are acting like they care about federal property and care about respect or

00:23:59.100 respecting things like war memorials when we are literally tearing down statues here in the United

00:24:05.840 States, graffiti and statues here in the United States, burning them down, throwing rocks at them,

00:24:11.420 desecrating what are seen as very sacred memorials in the United States. And the left here thinks that

00:24:17.400 it's great because it's a left-wing cause. So again, the hypocrisy is just stunning.

00:24:23.700 Ezra Levant, he is a right-wing Canadian journalist. He's a podcast host. He articulated

00:24:29.160 a few days ago that he is nervous about violence potentially breaking out. He said Ottawa is awash

00:24:37.500 in actual dirty tricksters and Tifa thugs who really do get violent, who really are professional

00:24:42.620 activists and violent types, people who riot for hire, people who were the violent backbone to the

00:24:50.140 Black Lives Matter rights, for example, the professional G20 rioters. He says, I'm worried

00:24:54.480 about them coming to pick a fight and that being turned into a spark that the deep state will use

00:24:59.400 to justify their fever dream of an unlawful insurrection that proves we need to crack down

00:25:03.740 on what remaining freedom we even have. That's my worry. And so they're afraid. Canadians, I think,

00:25:11.320 are afraid of Canada saying, oh, this is our January 6th moment. This is our insurrection. And then they

00:25:19.620 use that to then crack down on the freedoms of Canadians even more. And I think that is a legitimate

00:25:27.480 fear. And of course, they don't want violence to break out because as we've seen, this is a peaceful

00:25:33.420 movement that's using peaceful means. And the left so badly want to paint it as this violent fascist

00:25:42.900 Nazi movement that, of course, I mean, they are going to be so excited if violence breaks out. And of

00:25:48.860 course, even if it's leftist agitators that start it, they are going to blame this on people on the

00:25:54.880 right. Now, the response to this has been interesting. Saskatchewan's premier, like a state

00:26:02.840 governor, Scott May, has vowed to in the VAX passport. Now, my Canadian producer tells me that

00:26:11.260 this is not necessarily surprising because Saskatchewan is very rural. There's a lot of

00:26:16.800 working class people there. And so it's more conservative than other places in Canada. And so

00:26:24.520 but this is great. It's still really good news. He says because the VAX is not reducing transmission,

00:26:30.000 the current federal border policy makes no sense. An unvaccinated trucker does not pose any greater

00:26:35.240 risk of transmission than a VAX trucker. And that is just scientifically true. Trump had a rally in

00:26:42.840 Texas over the weekend, and he endorsed the Canadian trucker convoy. He says they are doing more for us

00:26:49.060 than our own government. And so it's been getting a lot of support. Elon Musk, you know, he's got a lot

00:26:54.900 of good takes. He tweeted on January 27th, Canadian truckers rule. And by the time I'm well, yeah, by the

00:27:02.400 time that we screenshot this, it had 427,000 likes. And Elon Musk also said CB radios are free from

00:27:13.360 government and media control. And that's funny. And yeah, so he is in support of this. Brett Weinstein

00:27:22.940 tweeted in support of it. And so did Russell Brand. He talked about why it's good that this

00:27:30.400 truckers freedom convoy is happening. And apparently it's not just happening in Canada. There are also

00:27:38.980 truckers in Australia doing the same thing. And so this is turning into a worldwide movement. Of course,

00:27:46.880 there have been mass peaceful demonstrations for the past couple of years in a variety of

00:27:53.920 countries around the world. Many of you probably haven't heard of them or seen them. If you're not

00:27:58.600 on Twitter, you don't regularly listen to this podcast because the mainstream media doesn't want

00:28:02.600 to cover them. Also, it just shows that the tyranny, the threat of tyranny right now comes from the left.

00:28:09.480 As we've said many times, institutions, worldwide institutions, global institutions,

00:28:15.240 national institutions are dominated by left-wing ideology. They are the ones that are pro-censorship,

00:28:20.680 that are pro-using the power of the state to stifle dissent and to stifle peaceful demonstrations.

00:28:27.040 We've seen that in Australia. We've seen that in Canada. We've seen that in France. We've seen that

00:28:30.620 in some ways in the United States. And so, of course, the left-wing media doesn't want to see that

00:28:36.480 because they want to tell you that the threat to democracy really comes from the right,

00:28:41.000 even though the opposite is true, at least right now. That's not to say that the right could never

00:28:46.020 be totalitarian if they had power. I'm not saying that the right is impervious to that. I'm just

00:28:55.120 saying that right now, the threat of tyranny, the threat of totalitarianism comes exclusively almost

00:29:01.380 from the left. And so you're not going to see the peaceful demonstrations that have happened around

00:29:06.460 the world pushing back against the truly tyrannical mandates that have been put in place. Now,

00:29:11.540 thankfully, there are countries that are responding positively to the peaceful pushback.

00:29:16.920 And it really, because it really is the side of science. It's the side of decency. It's the side

00:29:22.520 of liberty. There's just no reason to be on the other side unless you are a power-hungry sociopath.

00:29:27.500 And so, thankfully, there are countries that are waking up to this, and we'll talk about that in

00:29:34.280 just one second. So, I saw this Instagram post from Sarah Bessie. Sarah Bessie is a Canadian author.

00:29:44.740 She would describe herself, I think, as a progressive Christian. Now, we talked about

00:29:48.640 a book that I think is called Rhythms of Prayer. We talked about it almost a year ago now,

00:29:53.180 because within it, it's a compilation of prayers written by different people.

00:29:57.680 And one of the prayers was called A Prayer to Hate White People. We'll link that episode in the

00:30:05.080 description to this episode so you can go listen to it and just hear some of the quotes from that.

00:30:09.580 So, that kind of tells you where Sarah Bessie is going to be. She did this long Instagram post

00:30:14.720 talking about how terrible this Freedom Convoy is and how racist it is and how you can be against

00:30:20.660 vaccine mandates and not be a part of this terrible Freedom Convoy. And one thing that she said just

00:30:27.180 struck me. Again, just talking about the crazy hypocrisy here. She talked about the damage that

00:30:33.580 this is doing to property and how this isn't going to do anything positive. And after the convoy leaves,

00:30:39.420 Ottawa is going to have to pick up the pieces of this because of the destruction and the chaos that's

00:30:45.960 going on there. I would just love to know what her stance is and was on the destruction of property

00:30:55.620 that happened in cities throughout the United States that will never recover because of BLM and

00:31:02.660 Antifa rioters that burned down buildings and ransacked stores. I would love to hear if she has a

00:31:10.920 consistent position on that. Now, my position is consistent. I actually think the destruction of

00:31:16.220 property and the ruining of communities and looting and arson and violence are bad, whether it's coming

00:31:22.400 from the right or the left. My position is consistent. So, let me just be on the record right now and call

00:31:26.580 out both sides, either side who is doing that. I would love to know if Sarah Bessie, who called this

00:31:31.480 fascism, who called this racist and white supremacist, and who bemoaned the reality that Ottawa is going to

00:31:39.400 have to pick up the pieces after this. Like, did she have anything to say about the destruction of

00:31:43.480 property and absolute ruining of cities that then destroyed lives and livelihoods that happened

00:31:51.200 throughout the United States from people who represent her side of the aisle? Did she have

00:31:57.640 anything to say about that? Now, maybe she would say, oh, you know, I don't talk about American

00:32:02.360 politics. I have a hard time. I have a hard time believing that. I really do. But, you know,

00:32:08.340 maybe I'm wrong. Maybe she's just sticking to Canadian protests. And if this happened on the

00:32:14.020 left, she would be speaking out just as fervently about the destruction of property if it were

00:32:20.200 happening on the left side. What happened to riots or the voice of the unheard? When anyone called out

00:32:27.580 the crowds that were stealing flat screen TVs from Best Buy and handles of vodka from liquor stores

00:32:39.720 and were, like I said, destroying cities and communities and apparently doing so in the name

00:32:48.500 of racial and social justice. Anyone who called that out and said, hey, you know, I'm not against

00:32:55.420 peaceful protests, of course, but let's not violate these communities. Let's not punish the people

00:33:01.480 of these communities who did nothing wrong. That's actually the definition of injustice.

00:33:05.200 Like these riots are bad. The violence is bad. The looting is bad. The arson is bad. There are dozens

00:33:09.980 of people who were murdered because of these riots in the United States. Innocent people murdered.

00:33:17.100 Anyone who called that out, we were just told, well, riots are the voice of the unheard,

00:33:20.440 or decontextualizing a Martin Luther King Jr. quote from the 1960s. Well, if riots are the voice

00:33:26.380 of the unheard, and they justify everything that happened in the United States, which I think is

00:33:30.080 silly, but if that's the justification, are peaceful protests not the voice of the unheard?

00:33:35.760 I don't understand. Can someone break that down for me? Why don't you just admit,

00:33:40.980 people on the left, you just don't like freedom? Like you just want the government to tell you what to

00:33:46.680 do, and you think compliance is a virtue. Well, a lot of people don't. A lot of people don't agree

00:33:52.140 with you, and thank the Lord for that. Thank the Lord that so many brave people throughout history

00:33:57.400 have not believed that compliance with an authoritarian regime is a virtue. I mean,

00:34:03.480 you wouldn't have any of the rights that you do if there weren't people who were on the other side

00:34:07.920 of issues than you are and had far more bravery than you do. The irony here, of course, is that the

00:34:17.600 people who are calling those pushing for freedom fascists are the bootlickers themselves. You are

00:34:24.460 the one who is licking boots. You like tyranny. You like the government telling you what to do,

00:34:30.660 even if it makes no logical or scientific sense. Just admit that about yourself, but I don't want to

00:34:35.240 join your cult. And thousands of other people don't either. So you can criticize, like I said,

00:34:40.980 the people who are actually doing things wrong, who are espousing bad ideology and saying bad things,

00:34:45.700 but realize that the majority of this movement, this global movement that you cannot stop is really

00:34:51.440 just about liberty, and it's about your liberty too. And so in a few years, when you look back and you

00:34:56.640 realize that you were dead wrong about all of this, we will accept your thanks. All right, let's talk

00:35:03.440 about some of the governments that are doing things correctly. So I know that a lot of people in the

00:35:08.040 UK don't like Boris Johnson because they've seen him as very weak, especially when it comes to all of

00:35:14.100 this COVID policy. But he, like we said last week, they removed restrictions. So mask mandates,

00:35:24.800 vaccine mandates, passports, all of that. But the last to go was the NHS. So their healthcare workers

00:35:32.620 now no longer have a vaccine requirement, which is really exciting. And so people are super excited

00:35:43.760 about that in the UK. That's just another restriction that is being lifted. And then in

00:35:49.580 Denmark, this is according to Forbes, they have scrapped COVID restrictions. Quote, Denmark's prime

00:35:55.340 minister met Fredriksen. I don't know how to pronounce her first, her, his first name. I don't know. I

00:36:01.980 should have looked that up before reading this. Has announced the end of virtually all COVID-19

00:36:06.380 measures within the country in what she called, I was correct, she called a milestone moment. The

00:36:11.700 removal of restrictions, including requirements for face masks on public transit and the so-called

00:36:16.180 vaccine passport to enter bars, restaurants and museums will apply from February 1st, pending

00:36:20.980 parliamentary approval. Now, here's what's interesting about Denmark. So she credits the vaccine

00:36:27.940 and to the compliance of the people of Denmark in taking the vaccine. So she said, that is why we get

00:36:38.640 to lift the restrictions because we're doing so well, because everyone took the vaccine. So let's pat each

00:36:44.020 other on the back. And it is true that a large percentage of Denmark has taken the vaccine. 81% of the

00:36:50.200 population has taken two doses. 60% has taken a booster shot. The funny thing is, though, is that Denmark

00:36:56.500 is at their all-time high of cases right now, like by far. So just last month, they said that they were

00:37:02.300 at their toughest stretch of COVID yet. They said that at the end of December. And now look at this

00:37:07.060 chart. This is just what comes up if you Google Denmark cases, and the data is from Johns Hopkins.

00:37:15.760 If you look at this chart, which we'll put up, if you're watching on YouTube, they are at by far

00:37:21.180 the highest cases that they have ever been in Denmark. From the beginning of the pandemic to

00:37:25.740 now, really, they've barely had any cases this whole time. But now they are at the highest that

00:37:31.560 they've ever been. Now, they had basically no cases before they had the vaccine and before a lot

00:37:40.400 of people had taken the vaccine. But now, like I said, 81% has taken two doses of the vaccine. 60%

00:37:46.220 has taken a booster. And they've got more cases by far than they ever had. Now, you might be saying,

00:37:52.340 well, what's their death rate? Maybe it's telling us that the vaccine is working in that regard.

00:37:57.940 Well, their deaths are not at their highest ever. So I'll give you that. Maybe that's why they've made

00:38:03.020 this decision to ease the restrictions. They were higher than they are right now in January of 2021

00:38:08.780 when they peaked. But by peak, I mean like 30 deaths, 30 deaths a day. So they were never really

00:38:15.900 that high, still extremely low. But the deaths now in Denmark are still much higher than they were

00:38:22.220 from February to November of 2021, according to this data, when the vaccination rate was much lower

00:38:28.780 than it is now. So I understand taking away the vaccination requirement because it's abundantly

00:38:34.760 obvious that the vaccine is not stopping infection or transmission. This is just one of many countries

00:38:40.780 showing that. You can just Google it again. All of this is very accessible, very available data.

00:38:48.440 I don't understand, though, crediting the vaccine as being the reason for easing these restrictions

00:38:55.920 when deaths are almost as high as they've ever been and the cases are much higher than they've ever

00:39:01.620 been. Just say that the vaccine doesn't make any sense. So that's why you're easing the

00:39:04.640 restrictions. But to credit the vaccine for that, again, that just doesn't make any sense based on

00:39:09.720 the data that you have. Norway is coming out and they're saying, I thought this was interesting,

00:39:15.720 Norwegian authorities believe that five to 11 year old children can be better protected against future

00:39:19.840 coronavirus variants if they are infected naturally instead of vaccinated. Vaccination will be an option

00:39:24.820 directed at the most vulnerable, says the major Danish newspaper Politiken. And there have been some other

00:39:31.640 countries that have said the same thing. Sweden decided, according to CTV News, decided against

00:39:37.400 recommending COVID vaccines for kids aged five to 12. That's because a lot of countries, unlike our just

00:39:45.340 toxically political United States, are looking at the data and they're saying, wow, it's basically as

00:39:52.980 close to a zero percent chance of death or even hospitalization for a kid for people under the age

00:39:58.940 of 18 as possible. It's honestly probably better for them to get an asymptomatic or a mildly symptomatic

00:40:07.020 case of COVID than it is to give them this vaccine, which honestly, we just don't have enough

00:40:12.860 long term safety data on to know whether or not it's really going to affect them. That just seems like

00:40:18.260 common sense, right? That just seems like common sense. But unfortunately, in the United States, we don't

00:40:22.480 have a whole lot of common sense. But good for these countries, good for Denmark, good for Norway, good for

00:40:27.440 Sweden, good for the UK. We'll see what happens here in the United States. Unfortunately, you've still got states

00:40:33.100 like Oregon, who are apparently going to make mask mandates permanent under Kate Brown. What? What? That's

00:40:42.860 insane. It's literally the definition of insanity. I mean, you have groups here in the United States, like

00:40:48.740 teachers unions, you've got states, you've got Democratic run governors that just won't let this

00:40:53.460 stuff go, just will not let it go because it's about power. It's not about science. So like if you're

00:40:59.040 really worried about fascism, which can be described in some ways as the wedding of corporate power and

00:41:05.960 government power, then you need to be looking at the left wing in this country. I mean, look at the

00:41:10.320 surgeon general trying to persuade Spotify to take Joe Rogan's podcast off its platform. You want to

00:41:17.820 talk about the threat of fascism? You want to talk about threats to freedom and democracy and free

00:41:22.700 speech? Look no further than this current administration. Like look at the left wing

00:41:27.420 governments around the world that are trying to stifle dissent. Even if you think that Joe Rogan is

00:41:33.500 spreading dangerous misinformation, which you're going to have to explain that a little bit better to me.

00:41:38.500 Even if you think that, like if you are on the side of deplatforming Joe Rogan for having unpopular

00:41:44.940 conversations, like you're the baddie. You're on the side of the tyrants. Just open your eyes and

00:41:50.040 realize that maybe you need to just accept that about yourself and say that you like tyranny. Again,

00:41:54.100 just own it about yourself. But you're not on the side of freedom and democracy. Like that

00:41:59.720 is just not even arguable.

00:42:01.440 All right. So I had so much more I wanted to talk about today, but I just didn't get to it because

00:42:07.580 we had so much of this subject that I wanted to talk about. So we've got lots more to cover this

00:42:12.560 week. We've got a lot of good interviews that we are going to be conducting this week that I'm super

00:42:18.020 excited for you to listen to. If you love this podcast, please leave a five-star review on Apple

00:42:24.240 Podcasts. That would mean so much. Also subscribe on YouTube if you haven't already. Thank you guys.

00:42:30.000 I will see you back here tomorrow. Go Canadian truckers.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - January 31, 2022

Ep 555 ｜ Canada's Freedom Convoy, Media Myths & the End of COVID？

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