The Candice Malcolm Show - February 08, 2020


The Candice Malcolm Show： Canadian energy projects grind to a halt...again


Episode Stats

Length

34 minutes

Words per Minute

176.4021

Word Count

6,060

Sentence Count

322

Misogynist Sentences

7

Hate Speech Sentences

9


Summary

A desperate Justin Trudeau splurges to win a Security Council seat at the United Nation, while Canadian energy projects grind to a halt again, and the left shows his true character by attacking Jordan Peterson in his time of need.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 A desperate Justin Trudeau splurges to win a Security Council seat at the United Nations,
00:00:04.580 Canadian energy projects grind to a halt again, and the left shows his true character by attacking
00:00:09.580 Jordan Peterson in his time of need. I'm Candace Malcolm and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.
00:00:19.720 Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning into the program. I am audio only this week,
00:00:24.920 there'll be clips and there'll be other footage for the videos, but I don't have my camera with
00:00:30.840 me. I am on a little sabbatical. I'm down in California with my family, spending some time
00:00:35.600 relaxing, also working on a few bigger projects for True North. So bear with us for the next few
00:00:41.020 episodes. We will not have video, but hopefully you will enjoy the show nonetheless. So today I
00:00:46.840 want to talk, let's talk about Justin Trudeau trying, desperately trying to create a legacy for
00:00:51.820 himself. So he is splurging, spending money, spending taxpayer dollars, trying to win a seat
00:00:57.640 on the Security Council at the United Nations. To me, this is sort of a useless, this is a useless
00:01:03.340 endeavor. This is just, you know, maybe one at one point in the past, the United Nations Security
00:01:09.060 Council was a very important place to be and a very influential place where you could, you could
00:01:14.500 really have an impact and assert yourself and create a real impact on the global stage. Well,
00:01:21.120 the United Nations is just sort of a mess. Everybody knows this. It's a real corrupt body
00:01:27.360 full of sort of the world's worst dictators and despots meeting together. It really, you know,
00:01:33.560 it's a place for people to feel important, but they don't really do anything. You know, the real
00:01:38.860 players, the real actors on the world stage are the individual nations, you know, especially with a
00:01:44.200 strong leader like Donald Trump in the United States, who's actually putting forth ideas and putting
00:01:50.080 forth policies and plans to try to build a better world. If you look at, you know, his deal of the
00:01:55.280 century that he just announced, creating a state, proposing a state for the Palestinian people and a
00:02:00.620 peace deal with Israel. I mean, that's action. That's, that's the sort of legacy deal that you
00:02:04.940 create. Whereas, you know, with Justin Trudeau, you just sort of see this desperate politicized
00:02:09.820 attempt to try to get a seat on the United Nations Security Council. It became politicized and
00:02:14.940 political. Recently, it didn't used to be a thing. It used to be that sort of, you know, all the parties
00:02:19.540 in Ottawa would come together to help support a bid for the United Nations. Well, the Liberals severely
00:02:25.880 undermined the Conservative bid. So under Stephen Harper, the Conservatives tried to have a bid back in
00:02:30.200 2011. The Liberals at the time undermined it. They said that the Conservatives didn't deserve it.
00:02:35.200 Michael Ignatyev was the leader of the Liberal Party. He's sort of a big wig in terms of foreign policy
00:02:40.420 and international relations theory. And so as a sort of major player on the world stage himself,
00:02:46.360 him casting doubt over Canada's ability to sit on that seat with Harper, a lot of people blamed that
00:02:52.580 for the reason why Canada didn't get it. Also, Canada didn't really do what it needed to. I don't
00:02:57.520 think that Conservatives really placed the same amount of value as the Liberals do on something
00:03:01.980 like this. The idea was that, you know, in order to get a seat on the UN Security Council, you have to
00:03:07.620 kind of wine and dine the worst people in the world, the worst people under the planet, not just
00:03:13.440 UN bureaucrats, but you have to convince other nations that you are worthy of their vote. So you
00:03:18.680 have to sort of, you know, schmooze with these corrupt dictatorships and just really, truly horrible
00:03:25.040 people. And that's what we're seeing right now. That's what the Liberals are doing. So Justin Trudeau
00:03:30.240 has just committed $10 million to African nations, of course, to help promote gender equality.
00:03:36.620 And this really is just, you know, a bid to sort of help bribe people, bribe these nations that may
00:03:43.720 consider voting for Canada on the United Nations Security Council. Canada spent millions and millions
00:03:48.480 of dollars trying to get this seat under Trudeau. Basically, the council has 15 members, five are
00:03:56.780 permanent, and then 10 are elected by the Assembly for two-year terms. So this year, there are three
00:04:03.000 different countries that are bidding. It's Ireland, Norway, and Canada. So the three countries will bid
00:04:09.740 for the two seats. And so, you know, you have to assume that all the European countries are going
00:04:15.600 to vote for either Ireland or Norway, which is why Trudeau has his eyes set on Africa and bribing those
00:04:21.840 African nations for a seat. This is reading from John Iveson's recent piece in the United Nations.
00:04:28.380 This is really just kind of cringeworthy, the kind of stuff where, you know, this is where Canadian
00:04:35.320 taxpayer dollars are going. So this is from Iveson's piece. It says, Trudeau will attempt to make deals
00:04:40.480 with leaders from countries like Tanzania, which Amnesty International recently accused of ruthlessly
00:04:46.560 disemboweling its human rights framework. The Democratic Republic of Congo, which stands accused
00:04:53.000 of despoiling tropical forests and endemic violence. South Sudan, where the UN says war
00:05:00.240 crimes have taken place, and Kenya, where Human Rights Watch says police have been responsible
00:05:04.960 for disappearances and extrajudicial killing. Iveson notes that Canada already sends nearly
00:05:11.100 two billion dollars in overseas aid to a host of countries in Africa, including the four above
00:05:18.440 listing. So not only is Canada spending millions of dollars directly on the bid in terms of like
00:05:25.040 sending staff over there to try to schmooze, to try to wine and dine, all the costs of just trying to
00:05:31.300 get the seat, add that to the billions, two billion plus dollars that we send in aid to sort of try to
00:05:37.140 appease and bribe all these countries. I mean, you just have to imagine, like, what is this all for?
00:05:42.200 What is the end result other than Justin Trudeau desperately trying to create a legacy, create
00:05:48.000 a sort of name for himself? But really, what does Justin Trudeau stand for? What is his legacy?
00:05:53.160 What does he even believe in when it comes to foreign policy? I mean, there was so much talk
00:05:58.000 when he got elected, all the sort of, sort of arrogant, braggy, boasting, saying Canada is back,
00:06:06.680 the kind of equating the Liberal Party is Canada and Canada is the Liberal Party. So, you know, you kind
00:06:12.380 of at least expect him to have some kind of a foreign policy. But really, what have we what have we
00:06:17.420 seen from Justin Trudeau? We saw him severely embarrass the entire country when he went to
00:06:22.000 India. Not only did he dance around in ridiculous costumes and literally dance before giving a
00:06:28.940 speech, but he also brought a terrorist with him as part of his entourage, which was exactly the thing
00:06:34.860 that the Indian government was criticizing him for, was snubbing him for, was refusing to meet with
00:06:40.540 members of his inner cabinet because they said, look, you don't take the threat of Kalisani terrorism
00:06:46.500 seriously. Justin Trudeau was in India to try to sort of say, oh, yeah, we do. We do take it
00:06:51.960 seriously. And lo and behold, he brought a terrorist with him on a mission. So that was just completely
00:06:57.640 embarrassing for all of Canada on the world stage. That's far from the only time that Trudeau has
00:07:03.160 totally missed, had a misstep on his foreign policy. I mean, look at what's happening with China.
00:07:09.240 Look at the, look at the extradition of the Huawei executive that came to Vancouver. I mean,
00:07:14.860 why was she even permitted to come into Canada if there was an outstanding warrant for her in the
00:07:20.320 United States? And look at the situation with the two Michaels, the two Canadian men being held
00:07:25.040 hostage basically as political prisoners without charges in China. Trudeau is just completely impotent
00:07:31.100 at dealing with that. And then again, it's just one of a hundred examples. He was basically laughed
00:07:37.540 out of the trade deal with NAFTA. Trump turned his back on him and Trudeau was placed in a situation
00:07:42.700 where he had to beg and grovel just to be able to be part of the new NAFTA deal. You know, Canada
00:07:48.240 has again and again and again failed to walk away with trade deals when it comes to, you know,
00:07:55.400 Japan, New Zealand, China, Australia. We've had major issues and a total inability to get that done. So
00:08:02.300 Trudeau's policy, Trudeau's legacy is just really not that much. And so you kind of see this as,
00:08:08.620 as a desperate attempt, you know, we know Justin Trudeau is a feminist, we know he loves to brag
00:08:13.180 about himself and talk about how great he is at these sort of international meetings. But again,
00:08:18.280 when it comes to policy, there's not much there. So we're left bribing the worst of the worst in
00:08:25.020 terms of right now, African despots, giving them money to supposedly what focus on building gender
00:08:32.780 equality. I'm sorry to say, I think that that is a probably a pretty low priority when you're dealing
00:08:38.000 with a tinpuck dictatorship that allows no economic freedom, you know, human rights abuses,
00:08:45.420 warring factions, terrorism, terrorist insurgencies, all of the issues that some of these African nations
00:08:52.120 face. The idea of, you know, enhancing gender equality is probably pretty low on the list. I think,
00:08:57.580 you know, securing basic safety, the rule of law, you know, creating jobs, those are probably a bit more
00:09:04.820 high on the priority list, as opposed to what making sure that there are equal political representation
00:09:11.280 of men and women. I mean, it's, it's silly, you know, you could say, making sure that there's
00:09:17.580 education available to both boys and girls would be a good start. But, you know, to many of these
00:09:22.780 countries, they don't even have the basic education for anybody. It's not like it's one sided. So,
00:09:27.720 again, this is just sort of a fool's errand. And I find it really desperate and pathetic. Trudeau is
00:09:34.200 so focused on this institution that really lacks credibility, really lacks influence. It's not the
00:09:40.300 United Nations that it was, you know, a few decades ago. And having a seat at Security Council doesn't
00:09:45.620 doesn't do anything. It doesn't create any kind of impact on the world stage. And, you know, Trudeau is
00:09:51.140 just kind of grasping at straws these days to try to stay relevant, and try to do anything that would
00:09:57.880 kind of impress Canadians. I don't know if you saw recent polling found that only four out of 10
00:10:02.400 Canadians approves of Justin Trudeau, and his role as Prime Minister. And, you know, it's not surprising,
00:10:09.040 he's not really doing anything. He's just not very relevant these days. And things aren't going very
00:10:15.580 well for him. Okay, moving on, I feel like we talk about this topic a lot on the program. But
00:10:21.000 you know, there's just new stories that pop up every single week that again, just illustrate this
00:10:25.840 point that Canada is a country that is fundamentally broken, we cannot get things done, we cannot get
00:10:31.460 things built, we can't build the critical infrastructure needed to get the economy moving to
00:10:38.040 get our resources to market to have a functioning country with a functioning economy. And so over the
00:10:46.040 weekend, there were sort of headlines that dominated over protesters who were protesting against the
00:10:52.460 coastal gas link pipeline, which is a $6.2 billion pipeline that would transport natural gas from
00:11:00.360 northern British Columbia, northeastern British Columbia, out to the coast. Well, as we've seen over
00:11:05.740 and over and over again, there are just a couple of very, you know, well organized, well funded,
00:11:11.660 media savvy protest groups that just tend to use the hecklers veto, they they insert themselves right in
00:11:20.140 the middle of the project, they prevent Canadian workers from doing their jobs, which again, create creates
00:11:25.920 this sort of domino effect of Canadian jobs being put at risk, Canadians being unable to go to work,
00:11:33.300 because they cannot get their products to market. And instead of, you know, society in our country
00:11:40.460 viewing these people as they are, which is basically a thorn in the side of our economy that is causing
00:11:46.580 great economic turmoil for untold numbers of families, of families that are unable to, you know,
00:11:54.960 have the livelihood that they once had because of these essentially spoiled brats throwing a temper
00:12:00.180 tantrum. We don't view protesters with this sort of disdain that we should, they're undermining the
00:12:05.120 rule of law, they're undermining faith in the market, they're undermining the ability of our
00:12:10.240 country to function. And instead of viewing them as they are, they sort of get celebrated, they get
00:12:16.180 held up as these sort of heroic figures. And the media really, really, really does a disservice to
00:12:22.200 this. So over the weekend, there were a lot of media stories, because there were protesters who
00:12:28.540 were blocking the train tracks near Belleville, Ontario. So these protesters got on the train
00:12:34.520 tracks, blocked Via Rail, which is a commuter train that takes folks from, you know, Toronto up to Ottawa
00:12:40.420 over to Montreal, and they blocked the train. So Via Rail had to suspend its service between Toronto and
00:12:47.380 Ottawa on a Sunday afternoon. In, you know, what does it what does a pipeline going from
00:12:53.500 northeastern British Columbia out to the coast, the west coast, what does it have to do with Ontario?
00:12:58.920 Why is Ontario, you know, why are they blocking critical infrastructure in that part of the country?
00:13:04.760 It really is mind boggling why they do these kind of things. But again, instead, you know, this was all
00:13:10.320 over the news. And instead of treating these people with absolute scorn, for undermining the rule of law for
00:13:16.080 blocking people's ability to, you know, get home to their families and get and get to work or get,
00:13:21.900 you know, get to where they need to go. And, you know, these these people are permitted, you know,
00:13:28.340 they're permitted, and they get these positive stories written about them as if they're some kind
00:13:32.520 of hero. So the protests were told, we're in support of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation, which is the
00:13:40.920 place where the original protests are taking place, people that are trying to block that
00:13:46.060 pipeline in British Columbia. They claim that the RCMP have raided the camps full of protesters,
00:13:52.320 and those people are working to stop that gas line pipeline in British Columbia. So supposedly in
00:13:58.640 solidarity with the people in British Columbia, we have crazy, crazy people out in Ontario, again,
00:14:05.860 blocking train tracks, commuter train tracks, and stopping people from being able to carry on with
00:14:11.060 their lives. There are a couple of major issues. So sure, some First Nations communities don't approve
00:14:17.680 of natural resources, they don't want to see it happen. Some of them have valid concerns about the
00:14:21.960 sort of safety of the projects and concern about preserving the natural environment. Fine. A lot of
00:14:28.100 them, you know, it's really just people being transplanted in, flown in, you know, very ideological,
00:14:34.420 anti-development, anti-resource people being flown in to just cause chaos. So in Ontario, the people that
00:14:41.720 blocked the train were part of the First Nation community. And so the media kind of, you know,
00:14:47.680 focuses in on that, the fact that there are First Nation protesters. What they don't really mention is
00:14:51.980 that there are 20 elected First Nation communities that support this pipeline, that support Canadian law,
00:14:59.160 that don't recognize the jurisdiction of the one individual First Nation community in northern
00:15:05.120 British Columbia, the Wet'suwet'en community, and their law that they say is going to, you know,
00:15:10.720 block this pipeline. So 20 First Nations communities support the pipeline. And also, a hereditary chief
00:15:18.460 of the Skintai Nation also supports the pipeline. So this is the hereditary chief, her name is Helen
00:15:25.420 Michelle of the Skintai Nation, and she supports the pipeline. I don't know why they protest. And
00:15:32.880 we walked in that area on foot through a consultation with LNG. And there was no buildings there. There was
00:15:42.400 nothing. After the approval of LNG, they started building facilities there. And it's only one big
00:15:50.300 family that used that. And a lot of the protesters are not even Wet'suwet'en people.
00:15:56.780 So you hear that. She says that a lot of the protesters aren't even from that First Nation.
00:16:01.580 She doesn't understand why they oppose it. Here is another member of that community. Her name is
00:16:07.140 Shirley Wilson. She's also a Wet'suwet'en Nation member. And she does not agree with the protests. But
00:16:14.640 again, you don't really see the media holding up these voices, holding up these strong women who are
00:16:19.400 speaking out against the corruption and against the foreign-funded protesters that have been sort of
00:16:25.760 dropped in to mislead the people about what's happening.
00:16:30.180 I don't agree with the protests at all because, for one thing, it's all one-sided. It's more like
00:16:37.340 one family, one little group from a family from Morristown. Most of them come from Morristown
00:16:43.740 and maybe a few from Hazleton. I'm not sure of who's all there. And also, the protesters that are
00:16:50.660 there, a lot of them come from out-of-area places. There are people I've heard that are from the east
00:16:58.400 of Canada, some from the United States, and some that follow the protest field throughout North America.
00:17:06.960 They jump around. I don't know where they get all their money to fly around and do all these things.
00:17:11.300 But I just don't agree with it. I think they brought a lot of disruption and disunity and
00:17:16.960 everything to our culture. We also care for the land. But we have to live a balanced lifestyle.
00:17:23.840 It's not reality for every person to live out in a canvas tent.
00:17:28.340 Well, there you go. Speaking truth. And again, why aren't these kind of voices promoted in the
00:17:32.400 mainstream media? Why do they focus so much on highlighting the sort of angry anti-industry people
00:17:39.660 when there are also, you know, there are people on both sides and it's important to show both sides?
00:17:44.880 You can get the protesters side of the story by tuning into the mainstream media. We try to bring
00:17:50.160 you the other side of the story. And this is just one example of, you know, things not being able to
00:17:56.120 get built in Canada. There was just really a shocking story that came out in the Huffington Post last
00:18:02.120 week. And I want to go through it. It's from Althea Raj. And the headline says,
00:18:06.420 Liberal MPs urged Trudeau to reject massive Alberta oil sands mine. Liberals are concerned
00:18:13.900 the $20 billion project would undermine a pledge to be net zero by 2050. So according to Raj,
00:18:21.600 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau heard an earful from his Liberal caucus Wednesday with MPs passionately
00:18:27.280 urging his cabinet not to approve Tech Resource Limited's massive $20 billion frontier oil sands
00:18:34.340 mine project in Alberta. So basically, if you have been following the economic situation in Alberta,
00:18:41.420 following the sort of decline of the oil and gas sector and the subsequent, you know, just collapse
00:18:47.560 of jobs, of industry, of all the things that are connected to that in the province of Alberta. I mean,
00:18:54.100 this project is giving people hope with all the holdups, all the pipelines that haven't been built,
00:18:58.840 all the companies leaving Canada and going elsewhere. This project is being held up by so many who sort
00:19:04.700 of see it as a glimmer of hope, light at the end of the tunnel, you know, a big $20 billion investment
00:19:10.600 creating lots and lots of jobs. The plan would be to create the proposal. The proposal is to see the
00:19:19.580 mine north of Fort McMurray operate for 41 years, cover more than 29,000 hectares and produce about
00:19:26.400 260,000 barrels of bitumen a day. So from a jobs perspective, from an economic perspective,
00:19:34.100 this is really good news. This is really exciting for all those folks who have been laid off, who are
00:19:38.780 desperate to work or trying to get back in the action. And again, this is a little bit of hope,
00:19:44.220 but politicians in Ottawa do not see it that way. No, no, no. The thing that Justin Trudeau was getting
00:19:49.380 an earful over was the fact that apparently liberals are concerned about a 2050 pledge to be net zero in
00:19:58.920 terms of our CO2 emissions. So apparently Trudeau is getting pressured by the leftists in his caucus
00:20:05.300 to turn down jobs today, to say no to people who want to get back in the economy, say no to a huge
00:20:12.600 project that would pour billions of dollars into the Canadian economy, say no to that because of some
00:20:18.360 hypothetical plan to reduce our CO2 emissions in 30 years, 30 years from now. I mean, who knows what
00:20:27.660 is going to happen in the next 30 years in terms of the science, in terms of technology, in terms of,
00:20:34.820 you know, what we believe about the planet, what we know about the planet. Are there other ways to
00:20:38.980 reduce our CO2? Perhaps we'll have new information. Perhaps the planet will stop warming and start
00:20:44.560 cooling. I mean, there's so many variables that we don't know. What we do know about this project,
00:20:49.020 though, is that it will create 7,000 jobs during the construction phase, another 2,500 jobs after
00:20:55.420 that. It will create about $70 billion worth of taxes and royalties, which will go to local,
00:21:01.860 provincial and federal governments. So this is, again, a big project. It is creating a big capability.
00:21:08.300 And yet, supposedly, we're told that the prime minister is getting pressure from environmentalists
00:21:14.100 in his caucus. I think that this is just sort of signaling so that Justin Trudeau has an opportunity
00:21:19.560 to say no. Like, he can say, well, I wanted to, you know, allow this project to go forward, but I was
00:21:25.380 getting all this pressure. I see this piece as sort of pre-positioning in some way. I don't know exactly
00:21:31.220 what is going to happen, but I really, really, really hope that Justin Trudeau sticks with his guns
00:21:35.760 and allows this project to be approved. The project's already been approved. It's already
00:21:39.620 gone through all of its, jumped through all of its hoops. It's been approved. The idea now that
00:21:45.640 politicians are talking about pulling it back, I mean, this would be absolutely disastrous. I mean,
00:21:50.540 as bad as things are in Alberta, as many voices as we hear talking about Alberta independence or
00:21:56.060 Western separatism, if Justin Trudeau and the Liberals actually stopped this project, I don't even know
00:22:03.060 what would happen, but it would be very, very bad for Canada and very, very bad for Justin Trudeau
00:22:09.020 and his Liberals. And speaking of those Liberals, we had Bill Morneau go on Power Room Politics with
00:22:15.620 Vassie Capella over the weekend on CBC. I mean, this guy is just so arrogant and he explains things
00:22:22.560 with such spin. Watching him talk about what's going on in Alberta, basically, it makes it seem like
00:22:27.380 he's the savior that came in to save Alberta and he stepped in because this big, bad American oil
00:22:33.920 company, what he says, abandoned Alberta. I mean, you know, in order to create a narrative like that
00:22:40.140 and to believe this, I'll play the clip so you can see what I'm talking about, but man, this guy is
00:22:45.180 just so arrogant. You know, really, we've got to think back to why we're here. We're here in this
00:22:50.500 project because there was a lack of ability for the private sector to deliver. We had a...
00:22:55.260 You know the conservatives blame that on your government. Well, we had a Houston company
00:22:58.340 that went back to Houston and basically abandoned Albertans and abandoned Alberta. And so we had
00:23:04.700 to step in. Did they abandon them? I mean, they were facing huge amounts of political uncertainty,
00:23:10.740 right? You got a new government in BC that's saying, we don't want this pipeline here. Lots of
00:23:17.240 indigenous communities saying we're willing to do what it takes to stop this. I mean, if you were
00:23:21.640 running that private company, would you take on that risk? Well, actually, you've pointed it out
00:23:25.980 perfectly. Those were the reasons. Well, no, she didn't point it out perfectly because she only
00:23:29.980 described the government in British Columbia as well as, again, the media always does this. They
00:23:34.920 highlight the native, the First Nations communities that oppose the pipelines and ignore all the voices,
00:23:40.960 like the ones I talked about earlier in the show, that promote the pipelines and promote
00:23:45.160 Canadian industry. And so, of course, Bill Morneau is going to say, yeah, you hit the nail on the
00:23:49.200 head. That was a political uncertainty. Well, no, Bill Morneau. No, it was the federal government
00:23:54.980 that created the uncertainty. It was the feds that blocked the pipelines. It was the feds that banned
00:23:59.560 tanker ships off the West Coast. So if you're talking about the political uncertainty, you cannot
00:24:04.600 just simply ignore the federal government and the role that Justin Trudeau has played, and not to
00:24:09.660 mention the carbon tax, not to mention the just total inability, again, of things to get done in this
00:24:15.900 country. And for Bill Morneau to just sit there and say, oh, this Houston company abandoned Alberta.
00:24:20.620 No, no. The federal government abandoned Alberta. The feds abandoned Alberta. They created
00:24:25.720 a regulatory situation where it's just hostile to businesses, and you can't really blame the
00:24:32.860 businesses for leaving Alberta when you have the type of governance that we have in Canada. The
00:24:38.000 Trudeau government is just so clueless. They're so clueless. OK, let's move on. This is really a sad
00:24:43.500 story. I mean, the whole thing is just really a bit distressing and upsetting to watch. Jordan
00:24:49.720 Peterson seeks emergency drug detox treatment in Russia. So, I mean, Jordan Peterson sort of had this
00:24:55.920 just huge rise to sort of fame and notoriety. He's an incredibly thoughtful, incredibly powerful
00:25:03.380 presenter. And, you know, he kind of started delivering the right message at the right time
00:25:08.360 to kind of combat, you know, just all kinds of stuff that's happening in our society. Helps explain
00:25:14.020 things in just a very succinct and clear way. He kind of created a big following for himself. He put
00:25:20.020 out his book and then he became a huge target for the left where they were just, you know, constantly
00:25:24.380 attacking him, turning his words, twisting his words, making it seem like he was saying things
00:25:29.520 that he wasn't. And they kind of created a controversy out of him. I mean, Jordan Peterson is
00:25:34.740 incredibly influential. He's really just an inspiring human being. Unfortunately, he's just
00:25:41.200 had a really tough go of it lately. The last, I would say almost a year, things have been really
00:25:47.200 sad for him. You know, he's usually really public. He's usually out there, you know, doing a lot of
00:25:51.820 interviews, doing, you know, a lot of speeches, a lot of events. I've seen him speak publicly a couple
00:25:57.640 of times and it's just phenomenal. But, you know, so what happened was that his wife got diagnosed
00:26:02.880 with cancer. He was having a tough time dealing with that. And so he was subscribed a potent
00:26:09.140 anti-anxiety medication. Apparently, the medication had the opposite effect that it was supposed to.
00:26:14.600 And he became not only sort of dependent and addicted to that drug, but it was also having
00:26:19.400 the opposite effect that it was supposed to. So last time I, last thing I heard from him was that he
00:26:25.620 was in a sort of rehab center in New York somewhere. That was an update that his daughter gave.
00:26:32.320 She's just given a new update. So Michaela Peterson posted a new video where she describes
00:26:38.740 what has been going on with her father. It's a very somber video. She says that he's been in
00:26:44.140 unbearable discomfort and that he went to Russia, which was a decision made in extreme desperation
00:26:51.780 because they couldn't find a better option, basically saying that he had had several failed
00:26:56.140 attempts and with treatments in North American hospitals. And so him going to Moscow, you know,
00:27:03.400 pretty, pretty desperate, pretty sad stuff. So let's play a quick clip of Michaela Peterson doing
00:27:09.680 the Peterson family update for February 2020.
00:27:12.660 Dad was put on a low dose of a benzodiazepine a few years ago for anxiety following an extremely
00:27:18.620 severe autoimmune reaction to food. He took the medication as prescribed. Last April, when my mom
00:27:25.220 was diagnosed with terminal cancer, the dose of the medication was increased. It became apparent
00:27:31.060 that he was suffering from both a physical dependency and a paradoxical reaction to the
00:27:35.160 medication. For the last eight months, he's been in unbearable discomfort from this drug
00:27:40.340 made worse when trying to remove it because of the addition of withdrawal symptoms stemming
00:27:45.100 from physical dependence. He experienced terrible akathisia, which is a condition where the person
00:27:50.160 feels an incredible, endless, irresistible restlessness bordering on panic and an inability to sit
00:27:56.000 still. The reaction made him suicidal. After several failed treatment attempts in North American
00:28:02.520 hospitals, including attempts at tapering and micro tapering, we had to seek an emergency medical
00:28:08.400 benzodiazepine detox, which we were only able to find in Russia. It was incredibly grueling and was
00:28:14.880 further complicated by severe pneumonia, which we've been told he developed in one of the previous
00:28:19.520 hospitals. He's had to spend four weeks in the ICU in terrible shape, but with the help of some
00:28:26.880 extremely competent and courageous doctors, he survived. The decision to bring him to Russia was
00:28:32.400 made in extreme desperation when we couldn't find any better option. The uncertainty around his recovery
00:28:37.840 has been one of the most difficult and scary experiences we've ever had.
00:28:40.880 Wow. So pretty intense stuff. Our prayers are with the Peterson family during this just incredibly
00:28:47.520 difficult time. And, you know, as we're watching this and learning about this, it's just incredibly
00:28:53.300 sad and disturbing to hear about. You know, of course, Twitter is just a terrible place and this kind of
00:29:01.660 stuff, you know, you just almost expect it to happen. But of course, the left is attacking Peterson at
00:29:08.620 this point, you know, when when he's truly at rock bottom and suffering from what sounds like a pretty
00:29:14.600 awful, you know, a pretty awful condition. You have, you have people on social media and people
00:29:22.600 generally on the left sort of celebrating it and using it as an opportunity to kick someone when
00:29:27.620 they're down and virtue signaling. So here we have someone who says that they are a professor of law and
00:29:34.100 medicine at the University of Ottawa named Amir Atran. So he posts this on Twitter hashtag karma, Jordan
00:29:41.680 Peterson, Oracle to gullible young men, preacher of macho toughness, and hectoring bully to snowflakes is
00:29:48.580 addicted to strong drugs and his brain riddled with neurological damage. He deserves as much sympathy as he
00:29:54.960 has shown others. I don't really know what that means, because I've seen and understood Jordan Peterson to be a
00:30:00.180 very sort of caring and sympathetic person, very compassionate and what seems like a very, you know,
00:30:06.920 committed father and husband and, you know, public intellectual who really takes time out to mentor and
00:30:14.440 help young people, specifically young men, because that's who, you know, resonates with his with his
00:30:19.580 speeches. But, you know, I'll tell you, I really, really appreciate and like Jordan Peterson's lecture as well. So it has
00:30:25.380 the ability to reach a broader audience than just sort of young men. But regardless, again, so this, you know, this
00:30:31.400 individual, he posts this story from a source called the varsity, which, you know, is just, you know, a left wing
00:30:36.820 source that probably took whatever Jordan Peterson said out of context. So the article says, I don't think that men can
00:30:45.020 control crazy women. And again, I don't even want to go into the details of it, because I'm sure it was just, you know,
00:30:52.000 Jordan Peterson speaking the truth and someone taking it out of context and making it seem like
00:30:58.300 he was trying to say that all women are crazy or attacking all women when, you know, he was probably
00:31:02.580 talking about something specific. And this guy goes on and on and on with sort of Peterson derangement
00:31:09.440 theory. He was far from the only one to do this. We also saw Nora Loretta chime in. Nora Loretta is
00:31:16.760 sort of known for just being kind of heartless and saying horrible things just to get attention.
00:31:24.400 You might recall, she put out a pretty horrific tweet in the aftermath in the immediate days
00:31:31.320 following the tragic bus crash that killed members of the Humboldt Broncos, making a comment about how
00:31:37.720 the only reason that Canadians really cared was because they were young white boys. Again, trying to
00:31:43.700 mix sort of identity politics and again, get attention by just, you know, it's like she takes
00:31:52.620 joy in saying really, really stupid things and getting a bunch of conservatives worked up and
00:31:58.200 upset. So she's doing her shtick. She says, I hope for years of hell in perpetua for Jordan Peterson,
00:32:04.380 you have that many captive young men and you turn them on to nihilism and misogyny. Sorry,
00:32:10.120 but nah. Okay. I mean, sometimes it's not even worthwhile to give these people attention,
00:32:15.540 which is why I didn't bother, you know, commenting about this on Twitter. Jordan Peterson's whole
00:32:20.780 thing is that he turns people off of nihilism. He tries to convince people that that life has meaning
00:32:25.840 and that they can they can live meaningful lives by taking steps to have, you know, a positive impact
00:32:33.220 for the world around them. He's literally fighting against nihilism. He's not turning people on to
00:32:38.760 nihilism. But again, Nora Loretta just loves attention and she loves to be sort of a bully
00:32:43.500 saying mean, hurtful things. You know, it's kind of sad. Someone comes out, you know, Michaela
00:32:50.320 Peterson comes out and shares a very personal story of what her family is going through. Clearly a very
00:32:55.620 painful time. And what do the left, what does the left do? What do members of the left do? They jump up
00:33:00.740 and try to kick him when it is down. We saw this last week with Rush Limbaugh when he announced that he had
00:33:05.880 cancer. There were so many people on social media that were sort of, you know, mocking him and
00:33:11.520 cheering him on. It's just it's really despicable. It shows the true character of these people.
00:33:16.460 And sadly, Twitter has just become this home for, you know, horrible, mean comments, as well as
00:33:23.620 sort of absurd levels of censorship that are pretty one sided. So, you know, I don't really have a lot of
00:33:29.160 time for Twitter these days. I don't think it's the best way to communicate. And, you know, it kind of
00:33:34.280 rewards bad behavior, rewards people who are doing the kind of thing that Nora Loretta does,
00:33:39.440 which is say horrible, mean things just for attention, just, you know, so that she can kind
00:33:44.960 of egg on people and create a stir for herself, create a name for herself and try to grow her
00:33:50.100 audience. So, no, you know, I'm not going to fall for it. I don't think I don't think you should
00:33:55.560 either. I think we should ignore that kind of bad behavior. But it is sad to see. And it does show
00:33:59.800 who these people truly are. Well, thank you so much for tuning into the podcast. Don't forget
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