The Charlie Kirk Show - January 06, 2025


America is Back, Is Canada Next?


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On this episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, host Charlie Kirk talks about the dark night of January 6th, 2020 and the events that took place that day in the streets of Washington D.C. on the night of that day.

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00:02:15.000 It is Monday, January 6. Ten years ago, January 6th didn't have any meaning.
00:02:21.000 You'd say January 6th, people would say, okay, it's no different than January 5th or January 7th.
00:02:25.000 Like, whatever, it's January 6th.
00:02:26.000 But four years ago, January 6th took on new meaning.
00:02:31.000 January 6th, of course, was the meeting date for the certification of the 2020 election.
00:02:36.000 An election that we know was full of so many problems.
00:02:40.000 So much lying and deceit and tomfoolery and fraud and nonsense across the board.
00:02:47.000 We know that...
00:02:48.000 The 2020 election was a drive-by shooting of the U.S. Constitution.
00:02:54.000 And January 6th was a meeting point of so much of that passion and that fury.
00:02:59.000 And we all remember what happened on that day.
00:03:03.000 But on that day, we had an incomplete picture of actually what was going on.
00:03:09.000 We had an incomplete picture.
00:03:11.000 It seemed as if, to an untrained eye, It was Trump supporters that got so out of control, some of which may or may not have been organized, and tried to storm the government.
00:03:21.000 We did not appreciate or understand how many FBI agents were involved, how many deep state actors were involved.
00:03:27.000 We did not know the complexities or the details of how Ashley Babbitt was murdered in cold blood.
00:03:33.000 And the Democrats and the regime, they thought they had their Reichstag fire.
00:03:38.000 They thought they had...
00:03:40.000 The moment that they could blame the opposition party for all of the problems, clamp down, put them in prison, break their will, and own the country for a generation.
00:03:54.000 Understand the bad guys thought that January 6th was a gift to them from the political gods to be able to own, monopolize, and dominate the political discourse for a generation.
00:04:09.000 And the political power for a generation.
00:04:11.000 They saw their opening and they went for it.
00:04:13.000 What ensued was the most over-the-top exercise of legal authority and the criminal justice system we've seen in the modern era.
00:04:24.000 From granny's homes being raided to patriots in Homer, Alaska being hunted down by FBI agents.
00:04:32.000 We've now learned that doors were opened.
00:04:35.000 for some of the protesters protesters even stayed inside of rope lines that this was largely an entrapment operation they said it was the biggest attack since Pearl Harbor or even worse than Pearl Harbor and they said that because they could justify declaring war on their fellow citizens there was even a talk by John Brennan Of a new Patriot Act.
00:04:58.000 In fact, can you guys get that tape of John Brennan a couple weeks after January 6th?
00:05:02.000 I think it was January 19th on MSNBC, where he said, we anti-government types and libertarians must be spied on and rooted out if our country is a chilling clip.
00:05:10.000 They were talking about expanding federal surveillance authority.
00:05:15.000 They thought they had their Reichstag fire.
00:05:19.000 And the Reichstag fire, of course, was used by the National Socialist Workers Party of Nazi Germany.
00:05:25.000 To be able to justify complete and total governmental control.
00:05:29.000 The communists did this.
00:05:31.000 Give us total control.
00:05:32.000 No more civil liberties.
00:05:34.000 No more freedom.
00:05:35.000 No more freedom association.
00:05:36.000 We're in control.
00:05:37.000 You are not.
00:05:38.000 Too bad, so sad.
00:05:39.000 They went all in on a January 6th narrative, and it was hard to escape.
00:05:43.000 And they thought that our movement, and yes, of course, the figurehead and the leader of our movement was politically dead.
00:05:52.000 They thought it was over.
00:05:54.000 They said Donald Trump is going to be put in exile, and if he dares to try to cross the line to run for political office again, we're going to lock him in prison for 700 years.
00:06:02.000 They thought they had the movement dead to rights.
00:06:05.000 They were certain on this day, four years ago, that if they compare it to Pearl Harbor and compare it to the Civil War and call it an insurrection, that they would break our will.
00:06:15.000 And a lot of people went through a lot.
00:06:18.000 I was subpoenaed by the January 6th committee.
00:06:21.000 A lot of people I know were subpoenaed by the January 6th committee.
00:06:24.000 All for nonsensical, ridiculous stuff.
00:06:27.000 Steve Bannon served federal prison time because of the illegitimate January 6th committee.
00:06:32.000 Peter Navarro served prison time because of the illegitimate January 6th committee.
00:06:37.000 Illegally constituted with Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger.
00:06:41.000 Of course, Donald Trump authorized 10,000 National Guard troops, but was rejected.
00:06:46.000 This day was a day they wanted to try to say, well, live in infamy.
00:06:51.000 It was the Pearl Harbor of those crazy MAGA folks that wear those red hats and they own guns and they go to church and they live in the countryside.
00:07:00.000 When they get too big of a voice, they try to storm the government.
00:07:03.000 But there was more to the story.
00:07:05.000 And this is where you in this audience deserve such credit.
00:07:09.000 You did not accept the media narrative as is.
00:07:12.000 You started digging.
00:07:13.000 You went to alternative media.
00:07:14.000 You went to Rumble.
00:07:15.000 You went to X. You went to...
00:07:18.000 Other social media platforms.
00:07:20.000 And remember, it was because of January the 6th that Donald Trump was kicked off of Spotify.
00:07:28.000 He was kicked off of Pinterest as if he was a big Pinterest user.
00:07:32.000 He was kicked off of Facebook.
00:07:34.000 He was kicked off of Instagram.
00:07:36.000 And he lost his Twitter account as a sitting president of the United States.
00:07:42.000 Donald Trump lost his Twitter account as a sitting Four years ago, we entered the lowest point the conservative movement has been at in 100 years.
00:07:58.000 Ever since the founding of our country, it looked completely dark.
00:08:03.000 It was the darkest midnight of winter.
00:08:07.000 The bad guys controlled the House and they controlled the Senate.
00:08:10.000 And don't forget, the night before January 6th on January 5th, The Democrats won control of the U.S. Senate.
00:08:19.000 Raphael Warnock and John Ossoff won their Senate seats in Georgia on January 5, 2021 in the Georgia runoff, which gave them the control of the Senate.
00:08:27.000 And it was just another demoralization gut punch.
00:08:30.000 They control the House and they control the Senate.
00:08:32.000 They control the presidency.
00:08:33.000 It was the dark night of the soul.
00:08:38.000 It was not a time for sunshine patriots, and you know what I'm talking about.
00:08:41.000 All these people that are all uppity, oh, I supported Trump.
00:08:44.000 No, you didn't.
00:08:45.000 You were out trying to duck and run for cover when those of us had to go lawyer up and hire up, and we were on the run.
00:08:55.000 There was a worry and a concern that the first couple days, we said, are they going to go raid the offices of Turning Point USA? Is the FBI just going to kind of show up and say, FBI, give us all your computers.
00:09:06.000 Give us all your devices.
00:09:07.000 We didn't know.
00:09:08.000 We were so directionally confused.
00:09:13.000 Because January 6th gave them that confidence where the media just would have rolled up, CNN truck, boom, turning point offices be rated.
00:09:19.000 We didn't know.
00:09:20.000 We had no idea what was happening in real time.
00:09:23.000 We, of course, did nothing wrong and we had no involvement.
00:09:27.000 That doesn't mean anything.
00:09:28.000 They had a mandate to finally go shock and awe.
00:09:32.000 To go blitzkrieg against their enemies.
00:09:35.000 And we were at midnight of the Dark Night of the Soul.
00:09:40.000 January 6th and the days and months and year and a half and two years that followed was the Valley Forge of the MAGA movement.
00:09:49.000 We stuck it out to the most trying period and it made ourselves stronger.
00:09:55.000 It was that old Nietzsche quote, what does not kill you makes you stronger.
00:10:00.000 We bent and we didn't break, but some people did break.
00:10:03.000 I remember we lost donors.
00:10:05.000 We lost supporters.
00:10:06.000 We lost students.
00:10:07.000 We lost chapters.
00:10:08.000 We lost pastors.
00:10:09.000 It was too much for them.
00:10:10.000 They didn't have the stomach.
00:10:11.000 They didn't have the spine.
00:10:12.000 They couldn't take it.
00:10:13.000 The noise was too much.
00:10:14.000 They were calling it insurrectionists.
00:10:15.000 New York Times calling them bad names.
00:10:16.000 Their friends were going to jail.
00:10:17.000 People were being raided.
00:10:18.000 They were calling it insurrectionists.
00:10:19.000 It was too much.
00:10:21.000 And I never faulted them.
00:10:22.000 I said, that's fine.
00:10:22.000 Get out of the way.
00:10:23.000 We'll call you when we get our country back.
00:10:25.000 Well, guess what?
00:10:26.000 We're here to call you on January 6th now, 2025, four years later, and we have our country back.
00:10:32.000 And it did not happen overnight.
00:10:33.000 It took a miraculous intervention by Almighty God of Donald Trump not being murdered in Butler, Pennsylvania.
00:10:39.000 It took ballot chasing and voter registration and the grit and the hustle of the grassroots work that took years and years.
00:10:48.000 It took a resolve.
00:10:49.000 It took a grittedness.
00:10:50.000 It took a cussetness.
00:10:51.000 Where we did not accept the premise and we dove deeper.
00:10:54.000 We asked the questions like, who is the pipe bomber?
00:10:56.000 Who is Ray Epps?
00:10:57.000 Who killed Ashley Babbitt?
00:10:59.000 Who killed Brian Sitnik?
00:11:00.000 Is the FBI telling us the truth?
00:11:03.000 Why have you not released the January 6th tapes?
00:11:05.000 What crime did the QAnon shaman actually break? 1.00
00:11:07.000 And we dug and we dug and we dug and we reversed course and it was like moving an aircraft carrier.
00:11:13.000 And we did it.
00:11:14.000 And you can all delight and celebrate, four years later, it is one of the greatest reversals in political fortunes in the history of the planet.
00:11:21.000 Nothing comes close.
00:11:22.000 Where a movement looks so dead to rights, so gone, that it was in complete exile, and bottom up, you rebuilt it and saved the country.
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00:12:44.000 The days after January 6th.
00:12:46.000 And that's the new day one, by the way.
00:12:47.000 The new day one is not, oh, were you there at the golden escalator?
00:12:50.000 The new day one is, did you have President Trump's back the day after January 6th?
00:12:56.000 Did you still support him?
00:12:58.000 Did you understand this movement was unbreakable?
00:13:01.000 It would have been so easy for you to surrender.
00:13:03.000 We had the tech companies against us, the major banks against us, the oligarchs against us, every major billionaire against us.
00:13:09.000 You could not even find a lawyer to represent you.
00:13:12.000 I've actually never talked about this publicly.
00:13:14.000 I was subpoenaed by the January 6th committee.
00:13:16.000 I had to go through 10 different lawyers.
00:13:20.000 10 different lawyers.
00:13:23.000 Before one agreed to represent me.
00:13:25.000 10. They said, oh no, we decided not to represent any clients that were involved in January 6th.
00:13:32.000 I wasn't involved in January 6th.
00:13:34.000 I was in Arizona on January 6th.
00:13:36.000 They said, too bad.
00:13:38.000 To understand this, that these people are willing to go represent cartels and drug smugglers and child sex traffickers, and I went through 10 different law firms.
00:13:47.000 I spent all day, when I found out that this whole thing was going to turn into a committee, like a day and a half, going from one Zoom call to the next, trying to get a lawyer to represent me.
00:13:58.000 Sorry, no.
00:14:01.000 Even after I told them all the facts and circumstances, the legal community was so...
00:14:07.000 Against representing anyone in the Trump orbit because people in the Trump world were viewed as insurrectionists.
00:14:16.000 Front page of thehill.com.
00:14:19.000 Who is Liz Peek, by the way? 1.00
00:14:21.000 Never should be taken seriously again.
00:14:24.000 Front page.
00:14:25.000 Trump's political career is over.
00:14:28.000 And just like that, the bold, combustible, and sometimes brilliant political career of Donald J. Trump comes to an end.
00:14:34.000 Trump's presidency will now go down as a mis...
00:14:37.000 Experiment.
00:14:38.000 A cautionary tale about the cult of personality and the riskiness of electing an outsider.
00:14:43.000 It is a tragedy.
00:14:44.000 It is a tragedy because among other accomplishments, Trump inspired and mobilized tens and thousands of people.
00:14:51.000 Is Liz Peake always on Fox? 0.60
00:14:53.000 What a joke she is. 1.00
00:14:55.000 Can we tweet at her?
00:14:56.000 It's just disgusting.
00:14:59.000 I mean, these people need to be held accountable.
00:15:01.000 I'm sure she's trying to warm herself back into the inauguration.
00:15:04.000 Can I get tickets to this ball?
00:15:05.000 No, Liz Peek, you don't get tickets to that ball, okay?
00:15:07.000 Sorry.
00:15:08.000 You said that Trump's political career is over.
00:15:11.000 She says here, in her piece, very bluntly, there will be a core group of loyal Trump supporters that make excuses for the events of January 6th.
00:15:20.000 The numbers will shrink as he leaves office.
00:15:24.000 And enthusiasm for his ongoing leadership of the Republican Party will decline, Liz Peek writes.
00:15:30.000 There are plenty of GOP legislators eager to fill his shoes.
00:15:34.000 Those folks will do their best to hasten Trump's decline.
00:15:39.000 This is the intelligentsia by which he's a Republican.
00:15:41.000 This was the intelligentsia of the Republican Party being taken seriously by the Wall Street Journal.
00:15:45.000 And what happened next was a deep state attempt to intimidate and demoralize our movement.
00:15:53.000 Office was going to be filled with dark-looking SUVs and a bunch of people with purple hair with FBI vests coming in and taking all of our devices.
00:16:00.000 We didn't know.
00:16:01.000 They saw their shot, and boy, did they go for it.
00:16:04.000 Thousands of people indicted.
00:16:06.000 Thousands of people indicted to set the table to try and eliminate the MAGA movement, to eliminate our movement.
00:16:16.000 And it turns out we're a lot tougher than that because we are not a movement that just, you know, we're passively involved.
00:16:23.000 It made us antifragile.
00:16:25.000 It's a term I've used many times.
00:16:27.000 In fact, I gave the first speech about antifragility back in February of 2021. The doctrine of antifragility, as authored by Nassim Taleb in his book Antifragile, is that there are fragile institutions, those that shatter.
00:16:41.000 There are tough institutions, those that do not shatter.
00:16:43.000 And then there are antifragile institutions, those that get stronger the more you attack them.
00:16:49.000 That they actually...
00:16:51.000 They grow in their resolve.
00:16:53.000 They get tougher the more that you throw at them, the more that you punch them, the more that you criticize them, the more that you smear them, the more that you slander.
00:17:01.000 And Donald Trump was up against the wall, the likes of which no political canon ever would, indicted in four different jurisdictions facing 700 years in federal prison, and many of your friends and my friends were in federal prison or facing federal prison time.
00:17:12.000 The whole regime was just surrounding us, and we beat them.
00:17:17.000 It's one of the most remarkable comeback stories ever.
00:17:20.000 This January 6, 2025, we're in charge and the regime lost.
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00:18:28.000 There's so much breaking news here.
00:18:31.000 Congress is going to certify the Trump election, which is huge.
00:18:34.000 That is then, once it's certified, it is done, absent an inauguration, which is just awesome.
00:18:40.000 Now, why we have a two-week waiting period between certification and inauguration, I mean, I am an admirer of the Founding Fathers.
00:18:47.000 I would love for them to explain why we have that.
00:18:51.000 Maybe Blake can read it in one of the Federalist Papers why we have that kind of gap.
00:18:55.000 There is a widespread Western revolt against beta male open border liberalism.
00:19:02.000 There is a widespread revolt in the West to close our borders, kick out the invaders, shrink inflation, and to restore national sovereignty.
00:19:16.000 An alpha male renaissance.
00:19:20.000 Breaking news today, Justin Trudeau is resigning as Prime Minister of Canada.
00:19:28.000 Joining us now is Ezra Levant, a Canadian journalist and rebelnews.com.
00:19:34.000 Ezra, I kind of want to say congratulations because you guys have been investigating and criticizing this maniac and this lunatic for quite some time.
00:19:47.000 I have a couple different questions I want to talk about as regards to how this all works.
00:19:52.000 But first, walk us through this breaking news, Ezra.
00:19:55.000 Sure.
00:19:55.000 Trudeau has announced that he's resigning, but not till March 24th.
00:20:00.000 Now, he's resigning just days before he was having a caucus meeting where his own Liberal MPs were going to demand that he resign.
00:20:09.000 So he's preempting them.
00:20:10.000 But he's doing a sneaky move, Charlie, in a parliamentary system like Canada has.
00:20:16.000 In Parliament, that's our version of Congress, the ordinary MPs, members of Parliament, can vote no confidence and bring the government down and force an election.
00:20:26.000 So Trudeau has asked the Governor-General, that's the King's representative in Canada, to dissolve Parliament.
00:20:33.000 It's called proroguing.
00:20:35.000 So not only did Trudeau not really resign today, he's kicked the can down the road almost three months, but he's dissolved Parliament.
00:20:44.000 No House of Commons business can happen.
00:20:47.000 No bills can be passed.
00:20:48.000 No question period where people scrutinize the government.
00:20:52.000 But mainly, Charlie, he's not letting MPs have a vote of no confidence.
00:20:58.000 So in a way, he's suspended democracy just to give himself three more months of power and perks.
00:21:05.000 So I guess one cheer, not two cheers for three cheers for what happened today.
00:21:12.000 So, just walk through the process of why this took so long, and do you believe one of the reasons he is stepping down is this Western trend that is rejecting leaders like Trudeau, Harris, Biden, and that are going towards leaders like Maroney, Malay, that are going towards leaders like Bukele?
00:21:37.000 Like Trump and maybe even Polivare.
00:21:39.000 Do you think that is playing into Trudeau's calculus here?
00:21:43.000 Well, that's part of it.
00:21:44.000 The conservative leader in Canada is pretty good.
00:21:47.000 His name is Pierre Poliev.
00:21:49.000 He's pretty right-wing.
00:21:51.000 I mean, right-wing in Canada isn't quite right-wing in the U.S., but Poliev is excellent on economics and fiscal and monetary policy.
00:21:59.000 He's gotten a lot firmer on immigration.
00:22:02.000 Not Donald Trump firm, but better than any leader we've had in decades.
00:22:07.000 He's talked about replacing the woke culture in our military with a warrior culture.
00:22:14.000 And most importantly, in my mind, Charlie, Pierre Polyev has a Trump-like approach to partisan media.
00:22:22.000 He calls out reporters in real time.
00:22:25.000 He has promised to defund our state broadcaster called the CBC.
00:22:31.000 So I'm quite encouraged about Pierre Polyev.
00:22:34.000 I think the fact that he's strong and you know, you could say the phrase alpha male, that's sort of part of it.
00:22:42.000 But I think Trudeau has had so many scandals and so much corruption and he's been so badly behaved over the last months that his time was coming up.
00:22:51.000 I mean, Trudeau has been polling so low.
00:22:54.000 Last poll I saw put him at 16%.
00:22:57.000 And his party MPs are worried they're going to be wiped out.
00:23:01.000 So they were going to vote to kick him out on Wednesday, Charlie.
00:23:06.000 This is Trudeau just buying himself three more months and leaving on his own terms.
00:23:11.000 He was going to be fired on Wednesday.
00:23:14.000 Okay, so Ezra, I want to go back in time because we're recollecting on January 6th and how far we have come.
00:23:23.000 I think there's a similar type of moment that deserves recollection where you guys had your dark winter of the soul, which was the Canadian trucker incident, which if I'm not mistaken was three years ago or four years ago.
00:23:36.000 I can't quite remember.
00:23:38.000 February 2022. Okay, yes.
00:23:41.000 Three years ago.
00:23:42.000 No, no, no.
00:23:43.000 Thank you.
00:23:44.000 Similar type of time span where that, in my personal opinion, looking as an American into your country.
00:23:52.000 Seemed as if where you guys really turned a corner into Soviet-style totalitarianism.
00:23:58.000 Walk us through this, Ezra, how those events unfolded and how you guys never gave up.
00:24:03.000 It was the most important civil liberties moment in a generation in Canada.
00:24:08.000 All of our...
00:24:09.000 Federal political parties were think-alikes when it came to the lockdowns and forced vaccine mandates.
00:24:16.000 There was a no-fly list in Canada.
00:24:18.000 If you weren't jabbed, you could not fly.
00:24:20.000 You could not get on a ship.
00:24:22.000 In the second largest country in the world, you couldn't fly.
00:24:25.000 It was very authoritarian.
00:24:27.000 And we had a weak conservative, a name-only conservative leader back then who was cool with all this.
00:24:35.000 Who was there to fight for our freedom?
00:24:37.000 No professors, no media, no political party, independent truckers.
00:24:44.000 On their own started a convoy to Ottawa because they had been hit with a vaccine mandate, which is crazy.
00:24:51.000 Truckers are the most solitary workers other than maybe a lighthouse captain.
00:24:55.000 And to say that the truckers now had to get a jab to continue to work.
00:24:59.000 So all these truckers started this long convoy to Ottawa.
00:25:02.000 And it just grew and grew and grew.
00:25:05.000 And soon it was 100 kilometers long.
00:25:06.000 And people came out just to view it with their own eyes.
00:25:09.000 It was the first real thing they saw in a year because of all the propaganda.
00:25:14.000 And because it was sort of leaderless and it was self-funded and organic, people thought this is the first real thing and it started to embarrass Trudeau because they went to Ottawa.
00:25:25.000 Now Trudeau thought, uh-huh.
00:25:26.000 This is my January 6th moment.
00:25:29.000 I'm going to play the Democrat message track from January 6th.
00:25:33.000 These are violent, insurrectionists, domestic extremists.
00:25:38.000 He tried all that, but it didn't work because the truckers were completely peaceful.
00:25:43.000 They didn't storm any building.
00:25:45.000 They had bouncy castles and hot tubs.
00:25:49.000 Their niceness, their Canadian-ness shamed Trudeau and he was starting to lose face.
00:25:56.000 So then he pulled the emergency ripcord.
00:25:59.000 Justin Trudeau brought in martial law.
00:26:02.000 He declared a national emergency.
00:26:05.000 We didn't even have that on 9-11, Charlie.
00:26:07.000 This is the first time the law has ever been used.
00:26:10.000 And it put Canada under a form of martial law.
00:26:14.000 And he and his deputy, without any legal process, started seizing and freezing private bank accounts of anyone who they could find at this protest.
00:26:26.000 Hundreds and hundreds of families, suddenly when they went to the grocery store, their credit cards, their banks were frozen.
00:26:33.000 It was an outrageous violation of civil liberties.
00:26:36.000 And who knows how far he would have gone.
00:26:39.000 That was our moment.
00:26:42.000 And I think Canadians looked into the abyss and said, whoa, what has happened to us, the true north, strong and free?
00:26:51.000 And Charlie, if you look at the polls, that was when Trudeau started to fall.
00:26:56.000 And the two and a half, three years since then.
00:26:59.000 And so that was the most terrible and wonderful moment in my lifetime in Canada when ordinary grassroots people stood up to Trudeau and stood up to the regime media.
00:27:12.000 Charlie, all the media in Canada agreed with Trudeau on martial law.
00:27:17.000 They agreed with demonizing these ordinary truckers.
00:27:21.000 They wanted Trudeau to go further.
00:27:23.000 They were happy to write the script the same way the Democrats did on Jan 6. So it was a moment where ordinary people, I would use the word the proletariat, because these were grassroots, ordinary, unfancy people. 0.92
00:27:38.000 They stared down Trudeau.
00:27:40.000 Trudeau blinked and we are freer now because of it.
00:27:44.000 By the way, last point, I mentioned that back then Canada had a conservative in-name only leader.
00:27:51.000 of the Conservative Party, and he told his MPs, you're not allowed to even meet with the truckers. 0.99
00:27:57.000 Well, his MPs had a revolt, sacked him as leader, went to hang out with the truckers, and that's when the Conservative Party of Canada chose the real Conservative, Pierre Polyev. 0.92
00:28:09.000 So the truckers not only saved Canada from Trudeau, The truckers helped renovate and rejuvenate the Conservative Party, Pierre Polyev, who is set to have the biggest election win in Canadian history if polls hold up.
00:28:24.000 He is the party leader because of the truckers, Charlie.
00:28:30.000 So, Ezra, do you believe that this can be the beginning of a more robust, conservative, common-sense realignment?
00:28:38.000 Oh, yes.
00:28:39.000 And I look forward to Pierre Polyev and Donald Trump working together constructively.
00:28:43.000 Let's be honest.
00:28:43.000 Trump and Trudeau hate each other.
00:28:46.000 It is a mutual thing.
00:28:47.000 And that would be bad for both countries, especially bad for Canada because we're the smaller partner in the partnership.
00:28:54.000 But you put a thoughtful, Canada-first, freedom-loving, conservative in office in Canada and have him and Donald Trump have a heart-to-heart, you're going to get things done for both countries on trade.
00:29:07.000 On border control, on national defense, on foreign policy.
00:29:11.000 Trudeau is being pro-Hamas. 0.78
00:29:13.000 Pierre Polyev is not.
00:29:15.000 You're going to see our two countries become best friends again, Charlie.
00:29:19.000 I'm very excited about it.
00:29:21.000 I love it, Ezra.
00:29:22.000 I have another good follow-up question, so stay right there.
00:29:25.000 Plug your website, please, Ezra.
00:29:27.000 It's rebelnews.com.
00:29:29.000 We're based in Canada, but we do cover stories around the world that touch on freedom and censorship and globalism.
00:29:36.000 So check out rebelnews.com.
00:29:38.000 Thanks for the plug, Charlie.
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00:30:44.000 So Ezra, there's this talk of us combining forces, of Canada joining the United States.
00:30:49.000 Is that the craziest idea you've ever heard?
00:30:51.000 It's not.
00:30:52.000 I mean, listen, we used to be part of the British Empire together, so we do have a history.
00:30:56.000 It was called British North America, I think.
00:30:58.000 But there are some differences that I think some of the enthusiasts are missing.
00:31:03.000 First of all, a quarter of our country is French-speaking Quebecers.
00:31:07.000 I mean, we have bilingualism in this country.
00:31:10.000 That might complicate things.
00:31:11.000 Another thing is I think most Canadians would probably be Democrats.
00:31:16.000 Places like Alberta and Saskatchewan are more right-wing.
00:31:18.000 They'd probably go Republican.
00:31:20.000 But I don't know.
00:31:22.000 I think that you could see this as a new California.
00:31:26.000 Now, if we were to swap California, I'm joking.
00:31:29.000 Listen, I think that's a fun thing to talk about and to daydream about.
00:31:34.000 But the reality is, look, we actually have the world's longest undefended border.
00:31:39.000 Now, Trudeau has made that into a problem.
00:31:41.000 We're culturally very similar.
00:31:44.000 We have a tight trade relationship.
00:31:46.000 I think we have all the pluses of being one country with the pluses of being independent.
00:31:53.000 I think that Canada can become great again and can be sort of like Batman and Robin.
00:31:59.000 You guys get to be Batman because you've got 330 million people, but we're Robin with 40 million people, but we are two separate things.
00:32:07.000 I think getting Trudeau out of the way and getting back to common sense...
00:32:12.000 I really think we're going to be your greatest ally and we're going to work together on projects.
00:32:20.000 I think we create greater Montana and Alberta becomes part of the United States.
00:32:26.000 Am I correct in saying that's good right-wing territory?
00:32:29.000 Calgary, Edmonton, those are good folks up there, right?
00:32:33.000 And that's where all the oil is, 173 billion barrels of oil in Alberta.
00:32:39.000 And that's the thing.
00:32:40.000 I don't know how that could possibly be hit with a tariff.
00:32:43.000 I mean, that would be bad for America.
00:32:45.000 We sell most of our oil exports, in fact, almost all our oil exports to America.
00:32:51.000 And that displaces conflict oil from OPEC regimes.
00:32:57.000 We actually have a role to play in American energy security, which is why the Premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith, is going To Washington for the inauguration.
00:33:06.000 I don't know if you know that, Charlie.
00:33:07.000 But Trudeau has been AWOL on this whole cross-border tariff thing.
00:33:11.000 I think he wants to fight with Trump because he hates Trump.
00:33:13.000 But the premier of Alberta, that's the most conservative oil province, has been doing her best to keep the two countries friendly.
00:33:22.000 Danielle Smith is her name.
00:33:24.000 She's off to Washington.
00:33:26.000 And I think that she's got the right idea.
00:33:28.000 Keep the countries friendly.
00:33:30.000 Keep the oil and gas and other trade flowing.
00:33:33.000 Strengthen the border.
00:33:34.000 She's gone ahead and set up sort of a provincial National Guard kind of thing.
00:33:39.000 She's got drones and cops. 1.00
00:33:41.000 She's taking Trump seriously.
00:33:43.000 And I think she wants Canada and the U.S. to be best friends, as do I, as do I think most Canadians.
00:33:49.000 I don't think we want to join America, but we love visiting there.
00:33:53.000 And as long as we're on good terms and cooperating for freedom, I think everyone's a winner.
00:33:58.000 I love it.
00:33:59.000 Ezra, God bless you.
00:34:00.000 Thank you for all the work that you do here.
00:34:03.000 What are some big dates we should be looking forward in Canadian politics?
00:34:08.000 You mentioned the resignation of Trudeau.
00:34:10.000 What else?
00:34:11.000 March 24th is when he turns over the prime ministership to some other liberal lackey who's going to get crushed.
00:34:18.000 I think that's the big one federally, but we're watching January 20th because we're going to see what Trump does to Trudeau.
00:34:25.000 Is he going to put those tariffs in?
00:34:27.000 On April Fool's Day, Trudeau is jacking up the carbon tax, which is going to make us less competitive.
00:34:35.000 Compared to the United States, which doesn't have a carbon tax.
00:34:38.000 So, I don't know.
00:34:39.000 We're just waiting.
00:34:40.000 We're looking at our clocks and calendars, waiting till Trudeau leaves and we can get on with a freedom-oriented government under Pierre Poliev.
00:34:47.000 We'll keep you posted, Charlie, because, you know, Canada can be a laboratory for bad ideas, national health care, wokeism, but I think we can also be an inspiration for good ideas, and I hope we get back on that track.
00:34:59.000 Very good.
00:35:00.000 Ezra, thank you so much.
00:35:01.000 Canada has produced the greatest comedians of a generation.
00:35:04.000 It would be good to get back to that.
00:35:06.000 It's true.
00:35:07.000 The greatest comedians come from Canada.
00:35:09.000 It's a real thing.
00:35:10.000 It's the greatest export besides lumber, oil, and comedians.
00:35:17.000 Andrew disagrees.
00:35:18.000 And Nickelback.
00:35:18.000 And Celine Dion.
00:35:21.000 Take care, Charlie.
00:35:23.000 Thank you.
00:35:23.000 One of those is very talented.
00:35:24.000 Thank you.
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