Unify Action - February 19, 2026


He Thought An Authoritarian Gov't Can't Be Worse Than Trump - ＂How's The U.S. Any Better？＂


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7 minutes

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1,181

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56

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In this episode, we discuss the recent trade deal with China, ICE agents, and much more. We also talk about the recent ICE agents scandal and how the mainstream media covers it up. We hope you enjoy this episode and share it with your friends and family.

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00:00:00.000 I am definitely against China. I don't like how they're harassing Canadian citizens.
00:00:04.340 I don't like that they've executed Canadian citizens in their country.
00:00:07.640 I don't like their suppression of free speech. I don't like their massacre of Uyghur Muslims. 0.76
00:00:12.240 I think they're really a horrible dictatorship. 1.00
00:00:14.680 So I would much prefer that we not trade with them.
00:00:22.480 Or at least not do trade deals, not draw closer.
00:00:25.300 But that falls out to America, right? If America increases the value of their dollar, then of course we're going to have to go to China, right? 0.76
00:00:35.360 It's just basically, if you, if it's easier for us to trade with China, then put politics aside, we're just going to go there. 0.78
00:00:44.700 Right? If Trump makes it more expensive to do stuff in America, then the Chinese are going to be a federal alternative. 0.74
00:00:55.300 Yeah, like I guess like morally and politically if it's good or not, but like if we, if Trump 0.85
00:01:04.200 does this to their economy that just pushes his countries towards China.
00:01:09.200 Yeah, so I mean it is unfortunately, but he's slapping the tariffs on because we're not
00:01:18.760 actually working with him and getting a trade deal and because we're going to China.
00:01:22.640 That's the reason he's slapping these tariffs on.
00:01:25.160 And I actually don't see Chinese, especially Chinese electronics and Chinese EVs,
00:01:31.220 we know that their EVs and the things they're producing have kill switches in them 0.95
00:01:34.320 and they have the control over these things. 0.92
00:01:35.920 The thing is, okay, we can stop doing a trade deal with China,
00:01:41.680 but America's still going to China.
00:01:45.320 Their financial secretary, Gasset, I think,
00:01:50.460 yeah he's trying to sell american debt to the chinese no one else is buying the debt right 0.55
00:01:56.080 so like then it's like oh do you want to do the deal yeah but they're still going to do the deal
00:02:09.600 all right i'm going to stop right there because he's making a point that we need to address
00:02:14.360 and we need to fact check some of these things so he is saying that the united states financial
00:02:19.480 Secretary Scott Bessett. He is saying that Scott Bessett has gone to China to get China's government
00:02:26.640 to buy U.S. debt. Now, there has been no credible reports that that is what Scott Bessett did in
00:02:33.340 China. So Scott Bessett went to China in early February 2026, and this was nothing to do with
00:02:39.940 having China buy U.S. debt. This was due to strengthening communication channels and to
00:02:45.280 work on trade deals. This was nothing to do with debt. And the reports that he was going to sell
00:02:51.880 debt to China are completely unsubstantiated in any way. In fact, we're seeing things opposite
00:02:58.300 to what he is claiming. Like fortune.com says that China is beginning to back away from US debt.
00:03:05.200 We've seen China dump about $200 billion worth of bonds, US bonds. They are not buying US debt in
00:03:11.120 any way in fact they're backing away from it so this claim that he is making we can fact check
00:03:15.360 that as false see maybe but the thing is like it's more than just trade it's honestly what are
00:03:23.440 what we were talking with the chinese with like about when the canadian like ambassadors the
00:03:30.180 prime minister and everyone else went to china it wasn't just about trade though it was about
00:03:34.320 growing closer as allies and we're now letting their state media come into our country that's
00:03:40.100 now been allowed and it's it's it's more than just trade you don't want to get what could be
00:03:46.920 on trade you don't want to get politically away from the american democracy and towards china
00:03:52.360 well if i had the choice between two countries i would pick the united states what makes the u.s
00:03:59.120 uh different than china well the fact that they're actually a free country
00:04:05.700 they they they don't suppress free speech they don't they don't massacre
00:04:10.760 who the like what do you think ice is democratic like their ways okay i'm out like i'm out my thing
00:04:23.000 is like with trump his things okay but these ice agents like i don't know okay i think all right
00:04:32.180 there are two ways that the story is being told
00:04:36.560 about the ICE agents
00:04:37.780 one is where they're telling them actually
00:04:40.320 what their ICE agents are actually doing
00:04:42.300 and one is where the mainstream media
00:04:45.520 is telling only half the story
00:04:47.000 of what ICE agents are doing 0.96
00:04:48.320 they'll tell you that oh people are being sh** 0.92
00:04:50.720 but they won't tell you that oh there was actually 0.97
00:04:53.020 acts of aggression and this person was drawing a weapon 0.80
00:04:55.280 before they were sh** 0.90
00:04:56.200 at the end of the day 0.92
00:05:00.360 the American Constitution protects them.
00:05:02.320 If those people want to do that, they should be able to do that.
00:05:05.920 They want to attack ICE agents?
00:05:08.120 Like, at the end, if the American Constitution is different from ours,
00:05:13.100 we can't do that in America, they're still protecting them.
00:05:16.200 Okay, so I've done quite a bit of study on the American Constitution
00:05:20.600 and what the Founding Fathers of the United States intended.
00:05:25.320 And their intent, with First and Second Amendments especially,
00:05:29.660 was to protect the freedom of individuals,
00:05:33.080 but it's also the freedom, the right to life is also the duty to not kill.
00:05:40.040 So the government has to make sure that their citizens have the right to life,
00:05:45.460 but they also have to protect their citizens from people who will kill them.
00:05:49.780 Right? So that is the whole thinking.
00:05:52.260 They have, like, the whole idea of justice and government
00:05:56.220 is the government makes sure that the people are safe
00:05:59.720 and that threats against their people are, like, mitigated or removed.
00:06:05.140 Right? That was the whole thinking of the American Constitution.
00:06:09.700 So if someone...
00:06:11.220 So if it is very constitutional under the American Constitution,
00:06:14.760 if there is a threat to the American people,
00:06:17.220 then they have the authority to go out and make sure that a threat is removed.
00:06:22.700 Right?
00:06:23.040 Can the authority in Canada say that?
00:06:25.480 Well, the government technically does, and it should be.
00:06:27.880 In America, the people can go against the government, we can't.
00:06:32.480 In Canada, we don't have that in our charter or anything.
00:06:35.980 That's why we have an emergency.
00:06:38.780 Yes. Yeah, I know, that was very wrong.
00:06:42.200 So, like, you know, I'm not saying we should go to China,
00:06:46.900 but I'm just saying the way our government is moving,
00:06:50.640 We seem pretty close with China compared to America, where, like, Americans have more
00:06:57.880 freedoms than us, whereas we've been losing ours.
00:07:01.460 I agree with you there, absolutely.
00:07:03.240 Because the Canadian people are fine with it.
00:07:06.720 They weren't fine with it.
00:07:07.840 They would stop it.
00:07:09.400 Well, we don't, the thing is, they don't know.
00:07:12.240 We don't realize what we've got, and then when we lose it, we don't recognize that we've
00:07:17.960 lost it until it's too late.
00:07:19.160 Because at the end, what can't normal people do to even stop us?
00:07:25.160 What can't really change what?
00:07:28.160 Well, as voters we do have quite a bit of power.