On today's show, we discuss the latest in the trade war between the United States and China, as well as some breaking news from the Supreme Court and the CDC. We also hear from Ezra and Chris from Rebel News about the Canadian government's lawsuit against the MP's for violating free speech rights.
00:01:07.000Donald Trump is threatening a 50% increase on the tariffs against China.
00:01:13.000This comes on the heels, or it came this morning, I believe, when the stock market has been going crazy.
00:01:21.000It was up, it was down, and it ended kind of flat today, so we're going to discuss that.
00:01:27.000We have information on Jaguar and, what is it, Volkswagen.
00:01:33.000Both have decided to end imports, and they're holding their vehicles in, I believe they're holding them in customs and stuff because of the tariffs.
00:01:41.000We've got a lot of stuff to talk about with the tariffs.
00:01:46.000Canada is saying that the new Prime Minister for Canada is saying that it's time for the friendship with the United States to be over.
00:01:54.000I don't know that that's actually going to be the case because I hear he's walked it back since he made that remark over the weekend, but we'll talk about that.
00:02:01.000Also, our good friends at Rumble and Rebel News have decided to sue the MP Sachs and others for conspiring to violate Canadians' free speech rights.
00:02:11.000So we'll discuss that and we have some guests here that we'll talk about that with.
00:02:15.000But before we get to that, the Supreme Court has had a couple different decisions.
00:02:19.000The Supreme Court lifts orders blocking Trump from deporting Venezuelans under the alien So, we've got some breaking news on the court front,
00:02:42.000and... RFK has decided that he's going to tell the CDC to stop recommending fluoride in drinking water.
00:02:51.000There's evidence that fluoride in drinking water has been actually decreasing IQs.
00:05:38.000All right, so the BBC reports, Donald Trump has threatened China with an additional tariff of 50% on goods imported to the U.S. if it does not withdraw, a countermeasure as global markets tumbled for a third day.
00:05:50.000Speaking at the White House on Monday, U.S. President said that he was not considering a pause on new tariffs to allow for negotiations with other countries.
00:08:43.000I think if you're in the interest of America, that's the right move.
00:08:48.000You want to make a better deal with every single country out there because markets like Canada are closed to a very large extent, from telcos to media to banking.
00:09:25.000So you said, do more countries need to come to the table before they start negotiating?
00:09:29.000Is that something he's looking to do all at once?
00:09:32.000Or is it not something that they can handle one country at a time, one negotiation at a time?
00:09:36.000From what I can gather, he's not looking to do things individually.
00:09:41.000He's looking to get a bunch of countries to the table, and actually we've got a bit of audio and video from Scott Bessette, the Secretary of the Treasury.
00:09:52.000He was on Fox News, and we'll go ahead and play that now.
00:10:32.000And if President Trump, again, gave himself maximum negotiating leverage, and just when he achieved the maximum leverage, he's willing to start talking.
00:10:42.000Yeah, and so apparently Netanyahu was at the White House today talking about the tariffs as well.
00:10:51.000I believe they've decided that they're going to go zero for zero.
00:10:57.000I don't get the sense that they're looking to do it piecemeal.
00:11:00.000I think that because of the US relationship with Israel, they typically have a very close relationship.
00:11:06.000So I think because of that, they might have made an exception for Israel.
00:11:09.000They make exceptions for Israel all the time.
00:11:13.000That's representative of how the Trump administration wants to act more broadly.
00:11:17.000And he believes with large-scale leverage right now that he has the ability to do this, which is why I think the media, at least the corporate media, is working so hard to put pressure on them by announcing the downturn in the stock market and all these things because it's bad for globalist interests.
00:11:36.000I don't have it here, but if you look at the results or the days numbers from most of the stock markets globally, they were mostly down by 5-10%, whereas the United States is like the only country that's flat. And I think that has a lot to do with the administration talking about a 90-day pause coming possibly, the whole buy the news or buy the rumor, sell the news kind of thing.
00:12:05.000It's probably why they actually had the day that they did.
00:12:15.000So, I mean, if they are, if they do have this many countries that are looking to have a conversation about it and actually ready to come to the table, do you guys think that this is, that, again, now, is that the time?
00:12:29.000If they've got, you know, 70 countries is a lot of...
00:13:06.000The justification that he's using to actually have these tariffs or implement these tariffs is a little specious.
00:13:14.000Congress is who is supposed to make, you know, add tariffs if there are, and Congress has threatened to act, and I'm wondering, considering the influence that the, you know, people with money have on the government in the United States, the people that are...
00:13:32.000Hurting the most are the people that have stocks, as opposed to Gen Z, who doesn't really have a lot of skin in this game.
00:15:46.000One of the things I find most interesting about Canada's response to everything to do with Trump is it's instilled this weirdly nationalistic sense in their celebrities and their politicians, which I didn't notice before.
00:15:57.000But Canada as a whole has always done a good job of looking out for Canada itself.
00:16:02.000If you look at the Canadian entertainment industry, they have quotas on how much music has to be played on a Canadian radio station.
00:16:09.000I honestly believe that Trump would love that.
00:16:14.000And he would actually love to do that in America because he has that same faith, that same love for America that they seem to want to instill in Canadians.
00:16:21.000So it seems almost hypocritical when they...
00:16:25.000...boast themselves as being hyper-nationalistic now in response to Trump when I think that their general idea is something Trump would actually support just for Americans and not for Canadians.
00:16:34.000Well, Chris talked a bit about some of the trade barriers.
00:16:37.000I mean, you can't get a mortgage in an American bank.
00:16:39.000You can't get a T-Mobile or you can't get a U.S. cell phone contract, which we need badly because in Canada we pay some of the highest cell phone data rates in the world.
00:16:51.000We have huge protectionism for certain kinds of agriculture.
00:18:02.000Canada should get more grown up about those things.
00:18:05.000The military spending in Canada and what Canada's military actually looks like in reality has been a topic that we've discussed a couple times here.
00:18:14.000The fact of the matter is, and this is...
00:18:17.000Probably something that Canadians don't really want to hear, but Canada relies heavily on the United States military.
00:18:25.000And it doesn't really have to do anything other than say, well, we don't have to worry about it because the U.S. is going to do it anyways.
00:18:32.000The United States doesn't spend the amount of money that we spend on our military in order to protect Canada.
00:18:39.000We do it because of the global implications, because we're the global hegemon.
00:18:46.000We're right next to the U.S., so we're safe.
00:18:49.000And reasonably, that's a reasonable opinion.
00:18:53.000And it is something that if Canada is going to move away from the United States, which there's, you know, we can actually bring this up right now.
00:19:03.000The Canadian, Canada says its friendship with the U.S. is over now.
00:19:17.000After a century and a half of building an economic and military partnership that survived two world wars, the Great Depression, the Cold War and the 9-11 attacks, the United States and Canada are breaking up.
00:19:29.000So said Prime Minister Mark Carney in a national televised address to 41 million Canadian citizens from Parliament Hill last week.
00:19:37.000And it is almost all because of President Donald Trump's tariffs.
00:19:41.000The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over.
00:19:51.000We must fundamentally reimagine our economy.
00:19:54.000We will need to ensure that Canada can succeed in a drastically different.
00:19:58.000world to me and again I don't want to sound condescending but that sounds like complete like sounds like it's completely and totally just posturing because Canada's proximity to the United States means that there they will forever have the ability to rely on the United States defense budget as its own defense budget to a great great extent and Canada is our biggest trading partner so the idea that they can just say well we're not going
00:21:10.000And what he's talking about here is America over, however, two world wars, 9-11, all these things, the moment they start looking out for their own economic interests, we now have to cut bait and run away.
00:21:21.000You know, what bugs me about this story is the headline, Canada Says.
00:21:26.000A prime minister who's been PM for, what, two weeks?
00:21:30.000And like I say, he's been away from Canada for a decade.
00:21:33.000What did Mark Carney, and I know most of your viewers have never even heard that name before because he just sort of showed up and now he's speaking on behalf of all Canadians.
00:21:42.000I'm saying our century and a half alliance is over.
00:21:46.000Do you think having a Trudeau 2.0 will do?
00:21:49.000To Canada, what Biden did to this country and the population against it?
00:21:53.000Worse because Trudeau 2.0 is smarter than Trudeau 2.1, 1.0.
00:21:58.000But the thing is, who was this Mark Carney?
00:22:03.000He was the chairman of something called Brookfield Capital, which is like a mini BlackRock.
00:22:08.000Once you know that, and once you study what Mark Carney did for a decade...
00:22:13.000China just put 100% tariff on Canada and Carney hasn't said a word.
00:22:20.000Mark Carney, Canada's new prime minister, I'm talking weeks ago, took out an enormous quarter billion dollar loan for BlackRock from the Chinese government.
00:24:34.000There's a large portion of the population that doesn't understand that Trump's rhetoric works a specific way.
00:24:41.000Whether he's looking to distract from one story and push something to somebody else, he knows how to get a rise out of people.
00:24:47.000And a lot of the population, especially the boomers, don't understand that type of political tactic because they've been led into this false belief that you're supposed to be all polite in politics despite the fact that that's really a misnomer and hasn't been true for a very long time.
00:25:02.000So, in a lot of ways, Trump's diplomacy can sometimes have a hiccup when it comes to the way he speaks because it may work politically if he's trying to, you know, push forth the big ask.
00:27:25.000Washington and Oregon are not considerably better politically than California.
00:27:31.000And to be honest with you, Southern California, whereas the politics in California are terrible, I don't feel comfortable giving up California because that is some beautiful, beautiful, beautiful land.
00:27:41.000The cities in California are terrible.
00:27:43.000There's a lot of red areas in California.
00:28:29.000First of all, you don't need to station the U.S. Navy in the Persian Gulf to act as, you know, Globocop.
00:28:38.000The U.S. spends 50 billion dollars a year patrolling the Persian Gulf sea lanes.
00:28:44.000How about just build that Keystone XL pipeline and get the oil from Canada without a fuss?
00:28:50.000You'd save $50 billion a year just in your Pentagon.
00:28:54.000And if you wanted to still mess around in foreign affairs, you could do so electively.
00:28:58.000And all that dough, well, it could go to Canada, and then you could say, okay, Canada, we expect you to rejuvenate your military with this.
00:29:07.000I don't think Canada needs to fight with the States.
00:29:10.000And you put a tariff on that oil, it doesn't really make sense because you put tariffs on a factory.
00:29:16.000Okay, you get the factory to move to America.
00:29:19.000You put a tariff on Canada's oil sands.
00:30:16.000And there are a lot of people that are talking about the electrical output of China is going to, I think they're going to go up by like, I think it's going to triple or quadruple over the next 20 or so years.
00:30:30.000They're building a dam in China that's bigger than the Three Gorges dams and the output of that, just this one dam would be enough to power Germany.
00:30:40.000And in the future, in the next 20-30 years with AI being possibly the leader of global tech and stuff, that is extremely energy intensive.
00:30:52.000And in the United States, it's impossible to get any kind of significant generating I've heard a lot of people talking about nuclear power, which I think is great, but you're still talking about five to ten years if they just got rid of all the permitting and just rubber stamped everything and expedited everything, you're still not going to get any electricity out of a nuclear plant for at least Is that mostly because of red tape?
00:31:40.000But even still, the U.S. is lagging behind China when it comes to power generation.
00:31:45.000And Ezra, the stuff that you were talking about with oil production and stuff, that would be at least some help for actually generating power here because we still do a lot of coal-fired plants and stuff in the U.S.
00:31:59.000And petroleum products are what a lot of our infrastructure runs on.
00:32:04.000I mean, most – not most, but a lot of houses use just diesel fuel for heat.
00:32:33.000The high-growth video platform and cloud service provider has joined Rebel News Network and its founder, Ezra Levant, in suing the Government of Canada, Member of Canadian Parliament Yara Sachs, and other officials for conspiring to deprive them of their constitutional right to free expression.
00:32:48.000The lawsuit filed today in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice alleges that the defendants unsuccessfully tried to block two lawful and peaceful public gatherings celebrating free speech in the Toronto area last year.
00:33:00.000simply because they disagreed with the political points of view of the organizers and participants the suit alleges that the official Donald J. Trump So,
00:33:25.000and 80 cents for the excessive security costs, $250,000 in punitive damages and legal expenses and have requested a trial Chris, tell me more!
00:33:35.000Yeah, so we hosted an event with Ezra and Rebel News Live back in, was it the summer of last year?
00:33:43.000And it was a great event, packed event, sold out event.
00:33:47.000We had Viva Frey come out, we had Glenn Greenwald come out, we had Donald Trump Jr. come out, Kimberly Guilfoyle.
00:33:57.000And it was really just advocating free speech and promoting the Rumble shows, and it kind of dovetailed into the Rebel News Live event.
00:34:06.000And we ran into some obstacles prior to the event, and from my point of view...
00:34:15.000It was very odd and something didn't make sense.
00:34:20.000And it wasn't until post-event that Ezra was able to unravel quite a bit.
00:34:27.000And since he was behind a lot of the Freedom of Information requests and what he found, I'll let him take it from here and kind of explain what we found.
00:34:59.000So we go ahead and we do a deal with the event venue and we add in, as we often do, a little free speech clause in the agreement saying you can't cancel us just because some people don't like us.
00:35:11.000Because sometimes Antifa tries to shut us down.
00:35:41.000We did everything that was required to do.
00:35:44.000Some VIPs like Don Jr., but I mean, it was a very secure thing.
00:35:48.000And 40 grand, like there's no way the conference would have been able to support that.
00:35:53.000And the venue operator, he said it's the landlord, the underlying landlord, because it used to be a military base, it's still owned by the government of Canada.
00:36:05.000So the government agency that owned like the substratum.
00:36:11.000Heard about this event, and it was only later when we did Freedom of Information requests of this government landlord that we found hundreds and hundreds of pages of emails.
00:36:42.000If you scroll down a little bit, it'll actually have some quotes.
00:36:46.000If it happens on or near a property, we might attract an undesirable crowd, wrote one official in an email to colleagues.
00:36:52.000I am wondering if you think there is any language within the lease agreement that would permit us to stop this event from happening, wrote another.
00:36:59.000Based on my review, I don't think there is, but I would appreciate your opinion.
00:37:03.000It's remarkable that they would put that in electronic communications at all.
00:37:08.000Considering that you have something like a FOIA request in Canada.
00:37:12.000Yeah, I was surprised you even had FOIA requests there.
00:38:34.000But on the other hand, to pay a ransom was against my fiber.
00:38:41.000But we found out what went on through these FOIA requests, and now we've named five different bureaucrats, plus the local member of parliament.
00:38:50.000That would be like a local congressman saying, tear up that contract.
00:39:29.000And when the government of Canada says, you cancel that!
00:39:34.000And you're a normal guy, you get scared.
00:39:37.000And only because of Rumble were we able to go through with it.
00:39:40.000And the very last day of our event, the local member of parliament does this rant on Twitter about how we're racist and we're not allowed in the district.
00:40:13.000We need the First Amendment in Canada.
00:40:15.000That's something that I want to touch on.
00:40:17.000But Chris, he mentioned that you've got multiple...
00:40:20.000I know about the one in Brazil, right?
00:40:22.000Because the Supreme Court of Brazil is coming down on Rumble because of people that you host, right?
00:40:28.000Yeah, so Alexander, the Supreme Court Justice Alexander Moraes...
00:40:32.000Yeah, the guy that dresses like he's from Star Wars.
00:40:35.000Yeah, he went and shut us down in Brazil completely because we didn't censor...
00:40:43.000It's actually, the story dates back many years ago, and we actually shut down Brazil and walked away from that market because they were telling us that we needed to take down craters, and we said no.
00:40:53.000So at that moment, we decided, all right, you know, We're American.
00:40:59.000We're going to follow American law, not Brazilian law.
00:41:03.000We're not going to be subject to Chinese law or North Korean law or Russian law.
00:41:07.000Glenn Greenwald, he does a lot of his content on Rumble, and he's in Brazil, correct?
00:41:13.000Yeah, but he broadcasts to an American audience.
00:41:15.000The restriction they wanted us is to block in Brazil, of which we did not comply.
00:41:23.000We ended up shutting down completely, and then They sent us a notice, and they said, you're allowed back in Brazil.
00:41:32.000The notice that we sent you does not stand anymore.
00:41:38.000And it was with respect to one of the creators, Monarch.
00:41:42.000Didn't something like this happen with X in Brazil?
00:41:45.000Yes. They took a completely different approach.
00:41:48.000They're completely complying with the Brazilian government right now.
00:41:51.000Whereas Elon withstood it for about a month and then caved and then ended up complying.
00:41:57.000What we ended up doing is they sent us a letter saying monarchs allowed like this old order that we sent you is no longer valid and no longer needed to be enforced.
00:42:08.000So we open up Brazil on Friday or Saturday.
00:42:58.000To provide data to him about a user that's in the United States.
00:43:02.000And he wanted all the data from that user in the United States and all the subscribers and people watching him from within the United States.
00:43:11.000And that's just totally not tolerable.
00:43:13.000I believe that same request went out and they fined X for that, too.
00:43:19.000I don't know what X's approach was on that.
00:43:53.000Yeah, it's the standard line all the time.
00:43:56.000And it was because we wouldn't shut down, you know, political channels that were supportive of Russia because it didn't violate any of our policies.
00:44:11.000And, you know, a year later, the Russians come to us to shut down channels and they end up shutting down Rumble entirely because we don't comply with the Russian request.
00:44:24.000So that narrative of us being Russian puppets went...
00:44:30.000Meanwhile, YouTube was still functioning at the time in Russia, so obviously they were complying, and Rumble was not complying with the Kremlin, so I find that ironic.
00:44:41.000And then now we've taken the battle to the Canadians up north with Rebel News, so we're pushing as much as we can.
00:44:49.000We've also done a lot of work here on the legal front in the United States.
00:44:53.000We fought Letitia James in New York State against one of her censorship Sure, sure.
00:45:09.000it was something on the lines of moderation and forcing us to, you know, take requests.
00:45:16.000I don't know the exact details, but it was like, it was something that definitely violated like, you know, the first amendment.
00:45:44.000I think we're at a real interesting juncture.
00:45:48.000Worldwide politics, now that Trump has won the election, he's kind of resetting the game, and a lot of these, you know, I don't know what to call it, but like this globalist agenda that is around the world, from Canada to Brazil to France to Europe, They all kind of like, you know, have one set way of doing things that is very pro censorship, very anti free speech.
00:46:14.000It's about grabbing as much control as possible.
00:46:17.000Now there's like, you know, a real fight against that with the United States.
00:46:20.000The United States is there's nothing more.
00:46:23.000There's nothing more important than that constitution.
00:46:26.000Like after seeing the whole world and having a you know, you might have a good constitution in other country, but you might not have a justice system that's defending it properly.
00:46:34.000You actually have a justice system that is.
00:46:38.000You know, the Supreme Court is making the right rulings around the First Amendment for the most part.
00:48:22.000They seized bank accounts without legal process.
00:48:26.000I believe that if we had a First Amendment, that wouldn't happen.
00:48:30.000Now, by the way, later on, about a year later, our federal court said, okay, that was unconstitutional, even under the wiggle room charter.
00:48:39.000Canada does not have the culture of freedom that Chris was talking about.
00:48:43.000You've got to have that in your law schools, your law professors, your judges, your lawyers.
00:48:48.000And it's such a battleground in America right now.
00:49:39.000I'm not familiar enough with other countries to say whether or not that's the case, but it sounds clearly like in Canada, the government gave itself room to...
00:49:49.000To violate whatever laws and rulings it wanted right in the first clause.
00:49:54.000And in the U.S., like I said, it says Congress shall make no law.
00:50:00.000And that language is extremely important.
00:50:04.000And the Patriot Act did a lot of damage to us as well.
00:50:07.000Well, there's times where, yes, I agree completely.
00:50:09.000And there's times where we've fallen short.
00:50:11.000But we have generally been pretty good about correcting the errors as well.
00:50:16.000That's another thing that I think that, again, I'm not, this is not in any way trying to say that any of the violations of our Constitution are okay, but by and large, we've been pretty good about correcting them.
00:50:30.000There's a couple things that jumped to the top of my mind that they haven't managed to fix yet here in the U.S., like, for instance, civil asset forfeiture that goes against the due process clause.
00:50:41.000the government can just take your stuff and say, well, we think that you're in the business of dealing drugs or whatever, so we're going to take your stuff.
00:50:50.000And then instead of actually having a court case against you, they have a court case against your inanimate object stuff.
00:50:56.000If you're traveling with cash, well, we can just take this.
00:50:59.000And so that's one of the more egregious things.
00:51:02.000But there really are only a few that don't get correct.
00:51:10.000The Supreme Court saying that it's acceptable for Nazis to demonstrate in a mostly Jewish town, which is, you know, I don't think that, I'm not sure that that would stand today in the United States.
00:51:24.000And I know that it wouldn't stand anywhere else in the world.
00:51:29.000They matter here in the U.S. And like you said, it does speak to the culture that we have here.
00:51:34.000I do think that there was a concerted effort after the Patriot Act was passed to remove that culture, not just in the institutions, but amongst the citizenry to get them, you know, what was the saying was always like, well, if you're not doing anything wrong, what the heck are you worried about?
00:51:48.000And that was something that was instilled in whether it was millennials, you know, for the sake of safety and their parents and Gen X, that they wanted you to believe that, you know, in the name of safety, Getting rid of those founding principles is okay because we're the government.
00:53:51.000I follow the case of a journalist and activist named Tommy Robinson, who is in solitary confinement right now because a judge ordered him not to post a video to Twitter, and he did anyways.
00:55:09.000We were talking about this a little bit before the show, and you mentioned, or someone mentioned, that it's possible that not even 30 people in Russia are arrested per day.
00:55:59.000I don't want the Russian of Tommy Robinson.
00:56:01.000But if there's a Russian Tommy Robinson, a journalist, sentenced to nine months solitary confinement for putting a video on social media, I think he would be championed by Western civil rights groups.
00:57:44.000The nurses, the social workers, the police, they all said, I was afraid I would be called racist because 80% of the rapists were Pakistani Muslim men and the girls were white working class girls.
00:57:58.000So it was the perfect storm of political correctness.
00:58:00.000If you complained about it, you would be called racist.
00:58:02.000And so they didn't complain and thousands of girls were turned over.
00:58:09.000And you know what they're doing about that now is they're working with Netflix to make the show Adolescence available for everyone to watch there, despite the fact that it's taking one very specific issue and making it about something completely different, mainly what they call incels.
00:58:25.000That thing is rife with problems of its own.
00:59:19.000Exactly. And what you're saying is that you're saying that they're focusing on one thing when what they should actually be focusing on is something else.
00:59:25.000They're distracting you with this when the problem is something much, much different, much more easily defined, but much, much harder to talk about.
00:59:51.000Yes. And Keir Starmer, the prime minister who used to be the chief prosecutor of the UK, set up 24-hour-a-day courts to pack through as many people as possible.
01:00:01.000No, no, I'm not talking about the stabber.
01:00:04.000I'm talking about people who talked about it on social media.
01:00:07.000And he was sentencing people to two years in prison for having a bigoted reaction to this stabbing by a Muslim convert.
01:00:18.000You're not solving the original problem.
01:00:48.000But when I start watching the political discourse in Canada now during this election that's coming up and watching the Conservative Party and then watching the Liberal Party and having a tough time knowing the difference, it makes me think maybe it's not 20%.
01:01:07.000The trucker protests and all the previous things that have happened in Canada over the last four or five years, I think it's a good 15 to 20%.
01:02:02.000I mean, personally, I've spent a lot of time in Canada.
01:02:04.000I've been all over Canada, from Vancouver up to Nova Scotia, and probably been there 20 different times in my life.
01:02:13.000I mean, I've toured and played in, you know...
01:02:17.000From Thunder Bay to, you know, small little towns out in Saskatoon and Calgary and stuff.
01:02:23.000And it really is very, very similar to the U.S. There was a time where I would say that Canada was like...
01:02:33.000I guess like the U.S., it's very much like the Midwest.
01:02:37.000If you're in Fargo or you're somewhere in Michigan or up in Minnesota or something, it's very, very similar.
01:02:48.000You could be in Calgary and mistake yourself for being in the United States very, very easily if you weren't looking at the actual dollar bills, you know?
01:03:16.000A great country and it's a lot of fun and the people are great and stuff and it does, you know, it is really rough to see things like, you know, being so, you know, deciding that freedom is not important and that's kind of the way, there was a time where people would say, oh, well, you know, it's for safety, etc.
01:03:35.000And I think that, you know, me and Shane talked about this on the show a couple days ago.
01:03:40.000One of the things that COVID did without saying, I mean, I hate to say that it actually did anything good, but it really did wake a lot of people up.
01:03:52.000There are far more people that are skeptical of the government.
01:04:15.000I speak to my friends that are international, and whereas there was a time when they would look at me and some of my friends and be like, oh, you guys are kind of gun nuts and blah, blah, blah.
01:04:24.000And there are a lot more people internationally that are far...
01:04:27.000We're less critical of our Second Amendment now because of the way that some other countries have behaved.
01:04:35.000If I go back to the very first thing we talked about, tariffs.
01:04:38.000I don't know if you saw this, but Trump said to the UK, if you want a trade deal, free speech has to be part of it.
01:04:44.000And if you remember when Keir Starmer, the British PM, met with Trump in the Oval Office, J.D. Vance said, hey, you're not respecting freedom of speech.
01:04:52.000Sort of put Starmer on the back foot a bit.
01:04:56.000Is that Trump's trade wars aren't just about trade.
01:04:59.000They're about checking the totalitarian instincts of other countries.
01:05:04.000And I'd be very interested in what Chris thinks about Zuckerberg.
01:05:09.000Because remember when he sort of had his conversion.
01:05:11.000If you remember his public sort of statement.
01:05:16.000Where he said he was going to lay off the fact checkers, where he said he was going to allow misgendering and other things.
01:05:22.000There was one thing I remember him saying that really perked my ears up.
01:05:27.000He said they were going to stand for freedom, not just in America, but Chris, he said, in other countries, with the help of the State Department.
01:05:37.000So that told me, because like you say, you operate in different countries, you've got to follow those laws of those different countries.
01:05:44.000And Zuckerberg was really saying, I'm going to fight for freedom now, but I need the help of the State Department because a company cannot win a fight in another jurisdiction.
01:05:54.000And so my prayer is that Donald Trump, with his audacious, you know, take on the whole world at once attitude, that one of the things he leaves the world with is stronger freedom.
01:07:27.000But no other platform is doing it, unfortunately.
01:07:30.000I still think it's early in terms of the State Department to, let's say, Meta or X or these other platforms to follow and follow the lead of the State Department and then putting pressure on governments to move a certain way.
01:07:42.000I still think it's early, so we can hope that things will change with these other platforms.
01:07:51.000Do you feel like you're getting help from the State Department or have you been in contact with anyone at State about these lawsuits and stuff?
01:07:59.000I definitely feel like there's definitely a lot of help compared to what we've ever had.
01:08:06.000In terms of them being concerned and hearing what we have to say, it's only been a couple months, right?
01:08:28.000For the first two months, they've done quite a bit, and I'm very happy with what I'm seeing, and that's why I want to give it more time for these other companies before passing judgment on them.
01:08:38.000I can say that they haven't done anything yet, but...
01:09:30.000All the branches of the U.S. government were like...
01:09:35.000Against any type of censorship by Brazil.
01:09:39.000We didn't have that kind of air support back a year ago.
01:09:43.000You have a platform of dissenting voices.
01:09:44.000That's usually a threat to all these governments.
01:09:47.000To Ezra's point earlier, we were talking about the person that owned the land that you were doing the stuff on.
01:09:56.000When the Canadian government, you know, kind of leans in, it tends to move people because just the fact that the Canadian government is paying attention, like that matters.
01:10:07.000And I can only imagine, and you hear people talk about this when they actually have to go up against the U.S.
01:10:12.000government, the federal government of the United States of America, when they say things, countries move.
01:10:20.000Countries respond because whether or not, you know, whatever some politician says on TV and in a speech or whatever, that's one thing.
01:12:02.000Like, if you didn't take something down within 24 hours, you would be subject to fines as much as 8% of your global revenues.
01:12:09.000Insane! Obviously, that's an attack on an American company.
01:12:13.000It's not just an attack on what's going on in Canada.
01:12:16.000But if they 8% fine based on your global revenues, how is that the business of the Canadian government to tax you on money you make in America?
01:12:25.000So... I think there is a free speech nobility argument, but there's also, I mean, how many social media companies were created and started in Europe?
01:13:10.000That's what I like about Trump, is for the first time in years, you got an American president standing up and saying, we want some respect, too.
01:13:22.000Let everyone in the world walk over him.
01:13:24.000And it was painful to watch as an Americophile, just to see how this, it felt like an old warrior was tired, and it felt like a lion was running out of energy and the jackals were nipping it.
01:13:44.000And now the lion's roaring at every damn thing and people don't understand what it means, but it's a pleasure to see the jackals on the back foot.
01:13:50.000Yeah. So last week we had a friend of the show, and I'm sure you actually know who he is, Carl Benjamin from the UK.
01:14:02.000He's actually the guy that led me to Tim's podcast and stuff.
01:14:08.000I was watching Carl's stuff probably 10, 15 years ago.
01:14:12.000But he was here, and we were talking about how the relationship with the UK, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, how that really is special and important, like the relationship of these five countries.
01:14:26.000We all kind of have the same genesis from the UK, and I think that on the global scale, the world is better when we remember the common ground that we have.
01:14:41.000From my perspective, I look at the United States as the fulfillment of...
01:14:46.000I look at the United States Constitution as the fulfillment of what was started with the Magna Carta 500 years ago in the UK.
01:14:54.000Or maybe 600 years, I'm not sure exactly.
01:14:56.000But anyways, we're all familiar with the Magna Carta.
01:14:58.000It was the first time that subjects were said no, made a statement, we're not subjects, and you actually have to listen to us.
01:15:09.000That kind of idea then progressed and progressed and progressed through English common law.
01:15:14.000And then when the United States was formed, the Constitution that we wrote here really was the fulfillment of that promise.
01:15:22.000And I think that that's something that's valuable not just to the United States, but to Canada and to the UK and to Australia and to New Zealand, to the countries that are, you know, brothers on planet Earth.
01:15:39.000I think that the Canadian Prime Minister,
01:16:10.000I think that he's ridiculous to even make that comment.
01:16:14.000And the idea that Canada should make a shift towards China, I think that's not just a mistake for Canada, but it's also a mistake for the world.
01:16:28.000Because I think that the United States and Canada and England and Australia, I think that...
01:16:36.000Our relationship is so much deeper than just economics and trade deals.
01:16:43.000Yeah, but right now, I think a lot of people believe that...
01:16:47.000The liberal economic order has seen that the US has been taken advantage of gratuitously, both militarily, economically, and the moment they tried to push back on anything like that, suddenly it's not fair to look after your own self-interest.
01:17:01.000And you mentioned Biden, and it felt like America was being walked all over.
01:17:17.000It's not like that was ever a focus of discussion during the Obama years or even really the Clinton years.
01:17:24.000In a lot of ways, America has been used by the rest of the world, and people aren't really aware of just how much bargaining power an economy the size of America has, a military the size of America has.
01:17:36.000And when they start to push back, they start calling it bullying.
01:17:39.000That's why so much of the media frames what America's doing right now as bullying.
01:17:46.000And right now, everybody's trying to figure out where everything stands with a country that's no longer alive.
01:17:52.000My bigger concern is that, you know, depending on how Americans take this, and certainly the media is doing its best to frame what's going on right now negatively to try and shift public perspective.
01:18:03.000I mean, we were talking recently, I saw something earlier, there's a sign out front of like one of the buildings around here where it's like a stop sign to stop Musk on it.
01:18:11.000I saw somebody put it in Slack, but that's been there for over a month now.
01:18:14.000So they're trying to shift public perspective to try and get somebody else in office that offers – they want a Democrat in office in the next election cycle.
01:18:24.000And then everything starts over again and we're right back where we started.
01:18:28.000And I don't know if there's a way to fix that so simply.
01:18:31.000And I think the bigger problem here is that what we're seeing is a pushback from globalist interests on an America that's just trying to actually take care of itself and fix the problems that have been festering for decades and decades and decades.
01:18:53.000But a lot of that is on the foreign aid side, the National Endowment for Peace or whatever.
01:19:00.000I can't even remember all the names of these different groups.
01:19:03.000Well, that money is spent around the world.
01:19:07.000So the insanity that's based in America, it's tentacles around the world.
01:19:14.000Elon Musk explains how George Soros leverages.
01:19:16.000He puts in a little bit of his own dough, but he gets an enormous amount of money from the government for these NGOs.
01:19:23.000That has impacts in Canada, throughout Europe.
01:19:27.000One of my favorite things is how when these are shut down in America, suddenly the most insane projects around the world say we're out of dough.
01:20:06.000It's like cleaning the barnacles off a ship that's been at sea for decades, and suddenly the ship glides in the water so much more smoothly.
01:20:15.000Yeah, and the rest of the world will benefit from that too, I tell you.
01:20:23.000The Supreme Court lifts order blocking Trump from deporting Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies Act.
01:20:30.000From the Hill, the Supreme Court vacated a judge's order temporarily blocking the Trump administration from using the Alien Enemies Act.
01:20:39.000...to deport Venezuelans, enabling the administration to resume removals under the wartime powers.
01:20:44.000The matter before the Supreme Court was not whether the Trump administration properly used its wartime power to expel those it has accused of being gang members, but from where those challenging their removal must launch their suits.
01:20:55.000While the order requires those challenging Trump to use the Alien Enemies Act to do so in Texas, where they are being detained, the court dealt a blow to the Trump administration's swift removal of migrants without hearings.
01:21:07.000The court said Venezuela So, the long and short of it is there had been an injunction and the Supreme Court has, I mean, there's multiple cases that are actually need the Supreme Court to make a ruling on.
01:21:35.000But this one in particular, they the Trump administration had has been looking for been using the Alien Enemies Act, which I believe is from what was it?
01:21:46.000There was another one that I saw from 1798.
01:21:50.000Reuters was saying the Supreme Court lets Trump pursue deportations under the 1798 law with limits.
01:22:19.000And whereas I understand there is there are due process questions.
01:22:24.000They're the only people that actually have a legitimate...
01:22:33.000Now, I understand most of the people that have come here illegally, they've been instructed go to the, you know, find the nearest border guard or, you know, and tell them that you're looking for asylum.
01:23:28.000Yeah. I think that's the bigger, one of the bigger stories here, but, you know, obviously this went the right way, but that is very disappointing.
01:23:37.000I mean, I'm not saying we should repeal the 19th, but it was the men versus the women, you know?
01:23:43.000The court's makeup is, you know, five to five, you know, allegedly conservative.
01:25:03.000That's why they want to stack the court, because they know they're a monolith.
01:25:05.000Yeah. I mean, maybe you could say the same thing about Justice Thomas, even though I would clone him eight times and we could have eight Justice Thomases on the Supreme Court.
01:26:06.000Yeah, I'm not sure what decision she has come down on the wrong side, but she is kind of, you know, it is a question mark as to whether or not she's going to come down with what would be considered a sober reading of the...
01:28:21.000But again, Roberts is someone that's, he's not, he's definitely not a reliable conservative, which, I mean, to be honest with you, I'm fine with him not being a reliable conservative, just so long as the reasoning is sound.
01:28:36.000It's not a surprise when it's Amy Coney Barrett coming down and siding with the progressives.
01:28:51.000John Roberts lifts midnight deadline for US to bring back man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador.
01:28:57.000Just hours before a midnight deadline Monday, Chief Justice John Roberts gave the Trump administration a reprieve from having to immediately bring back the US man who was illegally deported to El Salvador last month.
01:29:09.000Roberts acted shortly after the Trump administration filed an emergency appeal of a district judge directive.
01:29:14.000That U.S. officials return Kilmar Abregeo Garcia.
01:29:20.000Abregeo. The administration deported Abregeo Garcia despite an immigration judge's 2019 ruling that he not be sent to his home country of El Salvador because he would likely face persecution there.
01:29:32.000Roberts issued a terse administrative order indefinitely lifting the deadline of 1159 Eastern time to return.
01:30:32.000He issued many, many, many executive orders, and there was no thought that a district judge would be able to say, no, you can't do that, Mr. President.
01:30:59.000Millions and millions is what FDR passed.
01:31:03.000He almost broke his hand signing those executive orders.
01:31:06.000But yeah, there was no precedent prior to the 60s and it was an infrequent thing in the 60s, 70s and 80s and 90s and then when Barack Obama got into office there was a lot of injunctions and now It's almost everything the Trump administration tries to do.
01:31:27.000Now, I mean, look, I'm sympathetic to the idea that the executive actually should have limited power, that the Congress should be passing laws, but the way that Congress works and behaves now, and the way that the presidency has become the action...
01:31:57.000And that being the case for the conservatives to say, well, we're going to try to do the constitutional thing and we're not going to try and do this stuff.
01:32:06.000Then you're only allowing the left to exercise power because Barack Obama had said it himself.
01:32:11.000He's like, I have a pen and a phone and they're going to act when they have the opportunity.
01:35:02.000I think you need the carrot, but I think you need the stick, but also the carrot.
01:35:07.000And it sounds absurd that someone would self-deport, but you've got to, I mean, it is a time-limited thing we have here.
01:35:16.000And when I see stories like that, justice this, bring back the man from El Salvador, I think if that's how they're reacting to the first...
01:35:39.000So the Alien War Act or whatever of 1798, yeah, that probably fits a little bit better than some, you know, dainty legal process from the 1970s.
01:36:01.000People walk across the border, the TSA, the Border Patrol, gives them a tag for their luggage, water bottle, a ride to their headquarters, phone call to whoever they know in the country, if someone picks up and knows their name, flight to that place.
01:36:41.000The refugee resettlement program and people were actually being shipped throughout the country specifically to purple states in the hopes that they would vote, that they would manage to get social security cards, which has now been proven to happen.
01:36:58.000So a year ago, you know, I was talking about this particular plan, the refugee resettlement plan, how the actual federal government was using taxpayer dollars.
01:37:08.000The Democrats were using taxpayer dollars to ship people throughout the country.
01:37:13.000And they were intending on doing two things.
01:37:16.000One, first, it's to get them into the census because the congressional districts are drawn up by the census.
01:37:22.000And additionally, those people were being given Social Security numbers and they were being given driver's license and they were being allowed to vote.
01:42:54.000That's an issue that we've actually talked about.
01:42:56.000Whether or not people believe that the Trump tariffs are going to bring the industrial capacity back to the United States, it's really important for the United States to have the ability to make the semiconductors that we need for our military here in the United States because right now, and COVID...
01:43:12.000You know, really showed us we can't rely on China for the things that our country needs.
01:43:18.00090% of the world's medicines, pills, vitamins, supplements are made in China.
01:43:23.000That seems like a bit of a security lapse, too.
01:44:19.000I would have loved to see Pierre Polivier come out and be the guy that said, I'm going to be able to be the only guy here that can do a deal with Trump.
01:44:57.000You know, it's been disappointing to watch the Canadian politics, all of them move away from the United States and, you know, let's see who can hate Trump the most and be most anti-American.
01:45:46.000And then while he's over there, Mark Carney, now the Canadian Prime Minister, Epstein's client, Prince Andrew throws a lavish party for Mark Carney at Buckingham Palace and picks up the tab.
01:47:13.000Rumble music is something that I think is going to be very important to Rumble in the future.
01:47:17.000And how we design that and who we get to lead that I think is very important.
01:47:21.000Obviously, that's a very inexpensive endeavor.
01:47:25.000Licensing all the content and bringing it all into the platform is going to be very expensive.
01:47:30.000But it's something that we're working on and we're very much thinking about and how to bring in that content.
01:47:37.000And I hope to have something this year on that front.
01:47:40.000Not a separate app, per se, but at least start driving the content and the music content on Rumble, because that will be, I think, very important for any platform that's competing against YouTube to have that.
01:47:54.000That's a lot of YouTube's consumption right now, so it's something that would be very good to have.
01:48:27.000It's where if you meet certain criteria and certain metrics, you're going to get paid a lot more for your contributions to Rumble.
01:48:37.000And I have to say, after the first month, it has been an incredible success.
01:48:41.000I never thought Rumble would be in the position where we'd be having more live streams, more average concurrent live streams on Rumble so quickly after the election.
01:48:51.000Election night was like a record night for us in many regards, in many respects.
01:48:56.000And then a month later, we hit another record on December 9th or something like that.
01:49:00.000And then we continued to hit records in Q1 for average concurrent streams.
01:50:14.000And the best part about the Tether guys, like, I've gotten to know the owners of Tether, and I don't believe I've met people.
01:50:24.000And this is, like, odd because you don't think that that could be possible.
01:50:28.000Like, if, you know, let's say Fox wanted to come into Rumble or another company wanted to buy into Rumble, you're not going to have that free speech ethos that...
01:50:36.000You know, Rumble has to its core as it is right now.
01:50:42.000These guys are so next level free speech and so for it.
01:50:47.000It was the perfect marriage for what we believe in.
01:50:51.000And the best part about them, though, I would say that's the best part, but the second best part about them is how ambitious they are to take on Google and take Rumble to really take on Google across all the product suites.
01:51:03.000So they're not just looking for Rumble to beat YouTube.
01:51:07.000They want us to beat Google on the cloud side.
01:51:10.000They want us to have an email product.
01:51:12.000They want us to have a browser product.
01:51:14.000And let's be honest, they have deep pockets too.
01:51:18.000And when they have that kind of ambition, things can get pretty real.
01:51:24.000So we put a lot of money on the balance sheet.
01:51:26.000And these are things that we're planning out.
01:51:30.000now. We really want to face Google on the ecosystem front, not just on the single side of the YouTube front.
01:51:37.000Our product with Rumble has come leaps and bounds over the last couple of years, and it's going to continue to improve.
01:51:43.000So the investments now that we're really looking to make are in our product, in the people at Rumble, in the product, so we can have something better than YouTube, have something better than Google Cloud, have something, you know, launch other things, the Advertising Center to compete against Google Ads.
01:51:58.000So having them as partners has really unleashed us in a way that we haven't before.
01:52:06.000It's the most exciting thing that's happened to Rumble in its history, is having them as our partners.
01:53:58.000So, to answer your viewer's question, if Mark Carney does to Alberta what I fear he will, if Alberta simply calls a referendum, I think there is a real chance that Albertans would say, we're out of here.
01:54:17.000And frankly, if Alberta went, so would Saskatchewan.
01:56:09.000Yeah. By the way, if every human being stopped using energy...
01:56:14.000It would not change the world's temperature.
01:56:17.000Even the United Nations, their Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Earth has been very slowly warming for 10,000 years since we emerged from the last ice age.
01:56:27.000And I mean, it is very slightly warming.
01:56:30.000There's nothing we did to start it, nothing we can do to stop him.
01:56:34.000So people who say, and here's what's so dangerous about Carney, is he has not sold his Brookfield assets.
01:56:44.000All these companies that are at odds with Canada, and especially at odds with this oil sands I mentioned earlier, that's the place, 170 billion barrels of oil.
01:56:56.000China has been sniffing around the oil sands.
01:56:59.000China would love those oil sands, or at least to deprive America of them.
01:57:04.000Sure. And Carney is like, that was Xi Jinping.
01:57:09.000I tell you, you want to talk about a national security threat to the United States of America, imagine having a Xi Jinping asset.
01:57:18.000Yesterday... Canada's election integrity monitor said that the government of China was doing pro-Carney propaganda using the app called WeChat that millions of Chinese Canadians use.
02:00:26.000So even if I know people that struggle with getting out of the house, you know, they're just like, just getting my shoes on is rough and stuff.
02:00:35.000And there are times where I feel it today.
02:00:37.000Me and my girlfriend, she had to go to the doctor this morning, and then we came back, and I had a headache because I didn't have a coffee in the morning.
02:00:44.000I didn't have my caffeine, and I still had to drag my butt out of the house and go to the gym.