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

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.

00:00:12.240 I think they're really a horrible dictatorship.

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?

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.

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.

00:00:55.300 Yeah, like I guess like morally and politically if it's good or not, but like if we, if Trump

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

00:01:34.320 and they have the control over these things.

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

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

00:04:48.320 they'll tell you that oh people are being sh**

00:04:50.720 but they won't tell you that oh there was actually

00:04:53.020 acts of aggression and this person was drawing a weapon

00:04:55.280 before they were sh**

00:04:56.200 at the end of the day

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.

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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