Western Standard - Is the Pride movement becoming irrelevant？

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00:02:00.000 good day welcome to the cory morgan show well we're into june i i'm looking forward to a

00:02:25.040 beautiful day out here in calgary i think it is in most areas i always start with the weather

00:02:28.640 Unless you guys get logged on and talking, you know, but it's a nice benign area to start before I rant and rave and get on to all the other things going on out there.

00:02:37.100 But, you know, I'm not a winter person.

00:02:39.120 I'm not.

00:02:39.580 I despise winter.

00:02:40.500 I despise the snow, the mud, the darkness, the rest.

00:02:44.200 So I'm going to sit and enjoy it and keep pointing out how great it is when we're into summer and enjoying this weather right now.

00:02:50.660 And I'll take it.

00:02:51.540 I'll take every bit of it that I got.

00:02:53.360 So I've got a good show, as always, I like to think, going on today.

00:02:56.240 A little later, I'm going to have guest Dave Bradley on.

00:02:59.380 He was one of the founders of Bitcoin Well.

00:03:01.800 He's part of Bitcoin Brains.

00:03:03.320 He's Bitcoin everything, this fella.

00:03:05.260 And they've got a thing coming up called Bitcoin Rodeo.

00:03:08.000 It's a big gathering in Calgary.

00:03:09.380 So we're going to talk about, well, of course, Bitcoin and the upcoming event.

00:03:13.280 He's got J.P. Sears coming out to that.

00:03:15.320 If you don't know who J.P. Sears is, check him out, actually.

00:03:17.800 He's a fantastic comedian, very, very funny guy.

00:03:21.940 And there'll be other things going on at the Bitcoin gathering.

00:03:25.000 but that'll certainly be one of the highlights there.

00:03:27.540 All right, well, let's get on to what I'm going to start my ranting about.

00:03:30.140 I might as well start something benign, non-too-controversial or anything like that.

00:03:33.660 Let's talk about Pride Month.

00:03:35.380 Yes, it's June, and it is Pride Month.

00:03:37.860 Okay, it doesn't bother me.

00:03:39.160 It really doesn't.

00:03:40.000 I don't care.

00:03:41.020 And that's the thing.

00:03:42.300 So, I mean, it got me thinking on some things, though.

00:03:44.100 And it's something that recently happened with me. 0.90

00:03:46.620 I realized that Liberal Cabinet Minister Seamus O'Regan is gay.

00:03:51.900 Okay, I know it's not a profound revelation.

00:03:54.000 It's been common knowledge for quite some time, and Oregon hasn't made a secret of it.

00:03:57.780 But despite myself being a rather avid political watcher, I actually didn't know Oregon's sexual orientation.

00:04:04.720 I doubtless must have run across references to it over the years, but it never really stuck in my memory.

00:04:09.260 Because you know what? It doesn't matter.

00:04:11.700 The only reason I suddenly noticed Oregon's orientation was that he gave a rant in Parliament a few weeks ago

00:04:16.740 about how people like him had rights suppressed in his lifetime.

00:04:19.940 and i was wondering myself how's this privileged white man from newfoundland going on about it

00:04:25.540 there wasn't much irish oppression and i had to think about it look into it then i realized

00:04:28.820 oh he's not straight okay well i'm utterly indifferent to oregon's sexual orientation 0.55

00:04:34.100 just as i am with everybody else's and it's a great development though because things haven't

00:04:38.660 always been this way if you might remember some of the older political watchers former ndp

00:04:43.620 MP Sven Robinson. He was the first openly gay member to serve in Parliament when he came out

00:04:49.940 in 1988. Now, for most of his term, whenever Robinson was mentioned in news or commentary,

00:04:56.120 his status as a gay MP was almost always mentioned. Not necessarily in a derogatory way,

00:05:01.260 but it was considered an oddity. His sexual orientation ended up defining who he was in

00:05:05.980 the public eye for most of his time in office, whether he liked it or not. At least until he

00:05:09.960 convicted of stealing a ring and was thereafter remembered as a petty thief. Canada's evolved a

00:05:15.500 lot in the last few decades and mostly for the better. Most of us don't reference a gay MP or 0.95

00:05:20.000 a same-sex marriage anymore. It's just an MP and it's just marriage. It's not a gay couple. It's 0.63

00:05:24.000 just a couple. This is where we need to be. This didn't happen overnight though. It took decades

00:05:29.140 of effort from activists within and outside the LGBTQ community. The pride movement was an integral

00:05:34.680 part of what fostered the changes in societal attitudes towards LGBTQ people. I was dragged

00:05:41.020 down to a pride parade by a girlfriend in the late 1990s, and the reason I was dragged wasn't

00:05:45.060 quite because I was terrified of gay people, but yeah, I was still awkward and squeamish on the

00:05:48.900 issue, as most of the people who grew up in the 1970s were. When I went to school, I would have

00:05:53.900 been sent to detention for swearing in class, but wouldn't have gotten much more than a finger 0.99

00:05:58.040 wagging if I'd have called a fellow student a fag. The word was in popular use back then, 0.97

00:06:02.200 even on TV and in movies, believe it or not. Spending a day around people from the LGBTQ

00:06:06.240 community was good for me. It helped me grow out of my intolerance. The term pride is appropriate

00:06:10.900 for the movement too. I mean, LGBTQ, boy, those letters get to me though. We're constantly told

00:06:16.040 they should be ashamed of who they are and that they should keep their sexuality hidden and 0.99

00:06:20.120 suppressed. I can understand why they want to celebrate who they are loudly and without shame

00:06:25.420 at events. So yeah, pride's the right word. Pride parades and gatherings allowed for that.

00:06:30.120 It's come up to now, though.

00:06:31.440 Sexual orientation is protected by law.

00:06:33.720 And LGBTQ people enjoy all the same rights as straight people do.

00:06:38.080 More importantly, most people, anyways, most, have learned to set aside prejudices and accept people for who they are.

00:06:43.660 Sure, there's still some acts of intolerance and some hateful people out there, but that's a dwindling subset of society.

00:06:49.840 But this led to a different problem.

00:06:51.560 This has left radical activists with a quandary.

00:06:54.300 They've reached the goal line.

00:06:56.560 But instead of being content and stopping,

00:06:58.820 they're now continuing to push the line farther down the field.

00:07:02.360 They're angry, they thrive on protest,

00:07:04.240 and they're running out of things to protest for.

00:07:06.600 That's why they're insisting on getting more militant at Pride events

00:07:09.500 and, ironically, exclusionary,

00:07:11.220 as they're starting to pick and choose who's even allowed to attend them.

00:07:14.120 People don't want to take their kids to a parade

00:07:16.640 where a nude man is going to simulate sexual acts

00:07:19.220 as activists keep working to push the shock envelope.

00:07:22.780 As the movement embraces more radical stances,

00:07:25.480 they've begun eating their own. Edmonton canceled a Pride Parade a couple years ago because Black 1.00

00:07:30.200 Lives Matter activists got upset, and Philadelphia had their Pride Parade disrupted by the ridiculous 0.91

00:07:35.080 Queers for Palestine movement. This week, Winnipeg's Pride Parade was reportedly temporarily blocked

00:07:41.240 by Queers for Palestine activists. Queers for Palestine, really guys, really think a little

00:07:46.520 harder. And this was apparently in the traditions, this is though there was, of two-spirit queer and 0.70

00:07:51.640 trans resistance. What the hell does that even mean? Are we really expected to embrace and respect 1.00

00:07:56.780 groups this nutty? It isn't enough to be tolerant or accepting anymore. Activists now are demanding

00:08:01.460 open displays of support for their cause. Businesses are shamed if they don't have

00:08:05.580 enough rainbow flag stickers on display and public figures are called out if they dare miss even one

00:08:10.260 of the many, many pride events that happen in every city now. It really is reminiscent of the

00:08:15.180 Seinfeld episode where Kramer wanted to take part in an AIDS march but didn't want to wear the

00:08:19.000 ribbon. I don't know if you guys remember watching that. He was eventually chased by an angry mob

00:08:22.380 for literally not wearing his allegiance to a cause on his jacket. The pride movement went

00:08:27.020 from being a brave minority, and they were, to becoming accepted by the majority, to now

00:08:33.020 starting to get dominated by a fringe minority. There's always room for a society to evolve

00:08:38.080 further, and further there's always going to be pockets of intolerance to battle. If the hill now,

00:08:43.300 though, for pride activists to die on has become the perceived right for elementary school children

00:08:46.760 to change their gender pronouns, I think we can safely conclude the pride movement has run its 0.69

00:08:52.260 course. Maybe it's time to set that aside and move ahead. Well, that's where I'm sitting on those

00:08:59.040 things as pride month comes along. Either way, I hope the events go well. And yeah, it's just, 0.99

00:09:04.180 you know, we've got to distinguish between the activists and the people they purport to be

00:09:09.380 speaking for because the activists tend to ruin things for sane people quite often, especially

00:09:14.980 when they don't find anything better to do. All right, let's do a news check in with Dave and see

00:09:19.140 what else is going on out there. Hey, Dave, how's it going? Yeah, it's going great, Corey. It's got

00:09:23.140 to be the nicest day of spring so far. Yeah, no, it's beautiful out there. It was a great walk in

00:09:27.860 here. How are the things out of the compound? How are the bees coming along? How's the great dog?

00:09:33.220 Oh, the bees are doing great. The dogs are jerks and no, everything all is well. They bark their 0.99

00:09:39.680 brains out out back. The bears haven't been around. I really thought I'm going to complain

00:09:43.480 about a bunch more things in the show.

00:09:45.320 I've got nothing to complain about at home right now.

00:09:48.340 Yep. Oh, awesome. That's great. Great news.

00:09:50.420 Do you have Oilers fever, Corey?

00:09:52.420 No, I couldn't care less about them.

00:09:54.660 Oh, man. Not even that woman flashing?

00:09:59.700 That was outstanding.

00:10:02.060 Yeah, I did see that coming along.

00:10:03.940 Well, I guess if somebody's going to come along

00:10:06.000 as a new celebrity out of Edmonton,

00:10:07.360 she's earned her place.

00:10:09.400 Yeah, well, we've got our Jonathan Bradley

00:10:10.880 on the scene in Edmonton.

00:10:12.180 And before this week, he knew little to nothing about hockey, believe it or not, but he's learning fast.

00:10:19.120 So he's got an Oilers notebook that'll be up there every day with three or four tidbits on the game and the atmosphere surrounding it.

00:10:27.900 And that young woman who did lift her top has been offered $100,000 by a U.S. porn site to come and maybe audition for stuff down there. 1.00

00:10:40.060 So, yeah, there's money to be made in that, Corey.

00:10:43.040 Well, isn't something similar when it was during the Calgary Stampede

00:10:46.020 and there was that one young lady in an alley who got herself sort of pierced 0.80

00:10:49.440 from a couple directions? 0.90

00:10:50.420 She did some porn after that as well.

00:10:52.020 I don't know if it was a good lifetime direction for her,

00:10:54.200 but she profited from it.

00:10:55.600 Yeah, she became a stripper on the D circuit, I think. 1.00

00:10:58.960 Oh, wow.

00:11:00.180 Lots of good news happening today, Corey, other than the Oilers.

00:11:05.940 WestJet has introduced a new ultra-low fare, which they say is, you know,

00:11:14.060 you can basically just book a seat at the last minute.

00:11:19.480 You have no choice of to where you sit.

00:11:21.380 You sit at the back of the plane and you get to board last and no hand luggage

00:11:26.600 and all that sort of good stuff.

00:11:29.360 Air Canada, on the other hand, countered today with an offer of free food and booze on all Canadian flights.

00:11:37.640 So they obviously saw a marketing opportunity there and I think quite brilliantly jumped on it.

00:11:44.500 The big news story of the last couple of days, Corey has been dominated by the spy scandal happening down in Ottawa,

00:11:52.060 where it's been revealed some of our elected MPs are actually spies for foreign countries.

00:12:00.080 So our Jen Gerson has got the latest on that. 0.94

00:12:03.600 If you're planning a European holiday,

00:12:05.700 foreign affairs has just increased the terrorism alert for Italy of all places

00:12:11.620 and other places in Europe.

00:12:14.500 So we've got that story up.

00:12:17.920 Mike Thomas, our real estate expert, is taking a look at the Bank of Canada dropping their prime rate today by a quarter point.

00:12:26.200 And he's got a story on what it will mean for your mortgage if you'd hold a variable rate.

00:12:33.040 And that's sort of the head scratcher of the day, Corey, is the head of the Canadian Medical Association, says vaccine injured people don't exist.

00:12:41.760 She says there's no such thing as a vaccine injury, which I find quite strange because the government's been paying out, you know, lots of money for people who are vaccine injured.

00:12:50.920 So for Canada's top doctor to say that it doesn't exist, doesn't happen, quite frankly, is astonishing.

00:12:58.840 Yeah, I mean, I can understand some of the debate on the degree of risk or the degree of injuries or anything, but to say they aren't outright happening whatsoever, well, then they should close that hole for all those payouts they've been doing.

00:13:08.580 Oh, exactly. Exactly. It's a strange thing to say, for sure.

00:13:13.720 We'll be, I'm sure, talking about that whole pandemic and government response for many years to come yet.

00:13:19.700 I don't know if we're on the ocean.

00:13:21.940 Probably also on the pipeline tonight, too.

00:13:24.860 More than likely. All right. Well, I'll let you get back to gathering all that good news stuff there for us, Dave, and I'll see you after the show.

00:13:32.440 Thanks, Corey.

00:13:32.920 All right. This is our news editor, Dave Naylor. And yes, as you see, lots of stories busy as always, all sorts of things going on out there. This is where I like to remind everybody the reason Dave's out there, Jen, Jonathan Bradley, all those folks is because you guys have been subscribing. We don't take government dollars, guys. We thrive on advertising and subscriptions. So if you haven't subscribed yet, get on there. Westernstandard.news slash subscription, $9.99 a month, $100 a year, just like a newspaper subscription. It's well worth it. And it keeps us rolling.

00:14:03.360 And yeah, there's just lots and lots to cover.

00:14:05.680 And we put more news stories out

00:14:07.480 than pretty much any other publication.

00:14:09.540 I know we put out more in the West at this time

00:14:11.400 with this full newsroom.

00:14:13.040 So yeah, I see a commenter, Cheryl Dawn,

00:14:15.040 they're saying, what happened to the pipeline?

00:14:16.280 Couldn't find it on the Western Standard Rumble channel.

00:14:18.160 I'm not sure.

00:14:18.560 I don't go to the Rumble channel that much.

00:14:20.420 I do know if you go to the YouTube channel

00:14:22.380 and under our channel in live,

00:14:26.500 you'll be able to find all the pipelines there though.

00:14:28.520 I imagine it should be on Rumble somewhere,

00:14:30.900 but I'm not too sure to Cheryl,

00:14:32.280 but hopefully you can find it. Cause yeah, we, that's the show that we'll be on later where we

00:14:36.180 break down with a panel and discuss a few other things. It was interesting with WestJet and

00:14:40.360 they're talking about that and you know, they've basically come to a point of absolute no frills.

00:14:45.320 So yeah, even if you want to carry on back now, you'll, you'll have to pay a little extra for that.

00:14:50.660 But you know, I, people get upset with airlines and I can understand cause I'm not a big fan of

00:14:54.900 them. In my past incarnation, when I used to travel all through the States, I used to get

00:14:59.520 some of those horrible flights with 10 connections. And it was just not an enjoyable experience,

00:15:04.960 you know, bad customer service, a bad time in general. But at the same time, flying in a lot

00:15:11.040 of ways, even though it might not feel like it to some people, it's cheaper than it's ever been,

00:15:14.040 guys. It's not like it was when I was a kid. When you're, 30 years ago, flying was a luxury. It's

00:15:18.720 something you rarely did. You didn't hear about people now who, oh, I'm going to fly out to

00:15:22.000 Toronto for a couple of days and come back after the weekend. You didn't do that unless you were

00:15:26.680 getting way up in the ultra-rich. But the reason is because airlines have been responding. That's

00:15:30.700 why they've been getting rid of those frills all the way along. The old days, too. Yeah, you know,

00:15:34.480 you used to fly on Ward Air and get proper silverware and, of course, an endless drink

00:15:39.100 service coming to your table. But it was extremely expensive relative to the incomes of that time.

00:15:45.300 And now we've pushed it down to the point where everybody's enraged at the lack of service.

00:15:49.720 But that's the only way you're going to get the cheap prices, too. It's difficult. I don't know.

00:15:53.360 WestJet, it's too bad. They're not really the up and comer anymore. They used to be. I mean,

00:15:56.760 they're another big airline that kind of happens with a successful company. You're not

00:15:59.820 the little cottage place anymore. You've turned into who you were fighting to begin with. But the

00:16:04.940 good sign to see is of all places, Air Canada responding and competing because that's the way

00:16:10.980 to solve these issues. Competition, that's the way to do it. That's why Air Canada used to be so

00:16:15.380 horrible 30 years ago. They didn't have competition. They were a government run airline back then.

00:16:19.840 and they're still sort of coming out of that attitude just to see the two of them kind of

00:16:24.440 going at it and competing for the amount of service they can offer you for what prices

00:16:28.460 i think it is good for us actually in general though flying these days again still is miserable

00:16:33.600 i like the idea of fewer people having carry-on luggage because that's one of the things i used

00:16:37.360 to hate you land on the tarmac the guy in the seat next to you gets up and he's standing with

00:16:41.760 his butt in your face and he's trying to get his giant bag that he stuffed into the overhead 0.77

00:16:45.520 compartment out of there and it's still 10 minutes before they're going to open the bloody door 0.99

00:16:49.800 If there's no bags at all, I'm happier with that.

00:16:52.500 It makes the flight a little less miserable and unpleasant.

00:16:55.240 All right, I'll be miserable and unpleasant on some more things in a little while,

00:16:57.820 but it's time to get to our guest, and that's Dave Bradley.

00:17:00.640 He was on a couple of years ago, I believe we've had him on before.

00:17:04.340 And now I see he's listed as the strongest and best-looking Bitcoin entrepreneur in Canada, apparently.

00:17:10.120 And I'm not sure who bestowed that title, but it's a modest one without doubt.

00:17:15.280 But Dave Bradley is the authority on all things Bitcoin.

00:17:18.020 There's no doubt about that.

00:17:19.200 So welcome to the show, Dave.

00:17:20.880 Thanks for having me.

00:17:22.500 So I brought you on because you've got the upcoming, and it's not your first one, but this Bitcoin Rodeo is coming up in Calgary.

00:17:29.820 You've got a huge list of speakers.

00:17:32.000 This event's going to be going on for a while.

00:17:34.200 I guess if people are interested in all things Bitcoin, that's going to be the place to go?

00:17:39.000 Yeah, so it's a conference that we're putting on July 2nd and 3rd.

00:17:43.160 It's downtown Calgary at the Grand Theater.

00:17:45.140 it's a great great venue that we've done um some conferences in the past there as well

00:17:49.980 and uh yeah we've got a an amazing lineup headlined by jp sears who is like the most

00:17:56.380 famous guy that nobody knows who he is or nobody knows what his name is he's that comedian um with

00:18:01.520 the long red hair who's always making fun of the government um you most people have probably seen

00:18:07.060 him on tiktok and uh and instagram and whatnot and uh yeah we've got a an amazing lineup and

00:18:12.440 we're aiming to really put on a conference that kind of answers the question of like,

00:18:17.640 why Bitcoin? You know, it's easy to get lost in a technical topic like this, but we're making this

00:18:23.960 a non-technical conference designed really for people that are kind of in the boat where you're

00:18:29.900 at, Corey, where it's like, you know, you're a little bit aware of Bitcoin, but more importantly,

00:18:34.600 you and probably a lot of your listeners, and this is something that I've experienced in sort of like

00:18:39.120 the the freedom community in alberta is that people have identified the problem that bitcoin

00:18:44.620 solves and namely that problem is the out of control um printing and then spending of money

00:18:51.000 by our our federal government and you know we're all sort of starting to feel that bite now like

00:18:56.760 a couple years ago probably even last time i was on your show um if we were to talk to an average

00:19:01.820 person about inflation you know people have heard of it um maybe some people knew what it was but

00:19:07.480 it was kind of like this nebulous thing that the government reports on that like didn't really hurt

00:19:12.100 most people and nowadays it's like you know if you've been to the grocery store you can feel it

00:19:17.680 right like a steak is triple what it was five years ago and so now I think with the you know

00:19:26.180 very overzealous and ridiculous response that the governments of the world had to COVID

00:19:30.440 there are a lot more people that are sort of starting to wake up to this idea that maybe we

00:19:35.680 shouldn't listen to everything that they tell us. And Bitcoin, I think is kind of the tip of the

00:19:41.220 spear of the response to that. So if you don't trust Justin Trudeau, why would you use money

00:19:48.480 that he can print for free? Absolutely. And it's certainly growing these days. But I mean,

00:19:55.040 one question I have then, Bitcoin's kind of, it's the big one. It was the first one on the block,

00:20:00.000 but there's a number of other currencies out there why is bitcoin the one to gravitate to

00:20:05.920 versus the other ones yeah so the other currencies cryptocurrencies that they're called are um

00:20:12.160 generally anywhere between a really bad idea and a scam and a lot of them are fueled by a lot of

00:20:18.320 techno babble trying to dazzle people with technical terms that make them sound important

00:20:24.080 interesting but really what it all comes down to is just a single thing that separates bitcoin both

00:20:28.800 from all of those other currencies as well as all of the fiat currencies of the world and that's

00:20:34.720 the fact that there's no one in charge so there's no one who can be like i'm going to change the

00:20:39.320 supply of bitcoin whereas with ethereum for example the number two they have a literal conference call

00:20:44.400 where they decide what the supply of the of the currency is and so instead of central bankers you

00:20:49.840 have basement nerds deciding what the the currency supply is and that might be better um but it's

00:20:56.460 still a problem because if you give someone the power to print the money that you use they will

00:21:01.900 they'll print the money and spend it every single time and so bitcoin is unique in that there is no

00:21:07.160 one in charge and part of the reason for that is because very early on it was worth basically

00:21:12.740 nothing and so the founder either i mean a lot of people think he may have died but the founder

00:21:17.660 has disappeared and certainly abdicated control of the project whereas all the other ones have

00:21:22.600 a founder who's there they have a board of governance they have a corporation behind them

00:21:26.880 in most cases and really they're they're just uh in most cases more like a ponzi scheme than uh

00:21:33.920 you know an actual currency yeah so bitcoin i mean i actually took part in a program we had

00:21:40.020 here at the western standard where part of my salary would go towards uh come to me in bitcoin

00:21:43.480 and the standard was matching with it a few years ago and i didn't really pay much attention to it

00:21:48.280 We just kind of let it build up and go. And, you know, we had a look, probably we started watching about six months ago. Whoa, I mean, that's a healthy little fund that built up off to the side there. Though, I mean, Bitcoin had its ups and downs and some volatility in the short term. The general trend has been up, but is that what somebody should look at Bitcoin for as more of a longer term place to put money or is there more practical short term use for it too?

00:22:11.560 Yeah, I mean, I would say that the most effective way to use Bitcoin is a long term savings tool, because it is very volatile. And most things that we use are priced in dollars. So it's important to us that our spending power in dollars is pretty constant over time.

00:22:28.620 So if you need to buy something major in a month, storing it in Bitcoin until then might not be the best idea because your purchasing power could go up drastically or down drastically in that month.

00:22:38.720 Whereas, like you said, over a longer period of time, you know, there's never been a time when you couldn't buy Bitcoin, wait five years and be massively up in dollar terms.

00:22:48.320 And part of that is, you know, the price of Bitcoin is going up as more people are speculating.

00:22:52.560 It's easier to buy.

00:22:54.200 We have ETFs around the world.

00:22:55.480 but really the big driver to that is not actually that bitcoin is going up it's that the dollar is

00:22:59.920 going down right our dollars are becoming more and more uh plentiful with the canadian government

00:23:06.860 has printed an absolutely unprecedented amount of money in the last four years we've printed more

00:23:12.300 than any other g7 nation and we've really got addicted to this free cheap money and you can 1.00

00:23:17.600 see that with the the bank of canada decision today where you know we're the first g7 nation

00:23:22.460 to raise or to start to lower our rates in a time when um you know governments all over the western

00:23:29.000 world really all over the world have been battling this inflation bug and you know we we we hear

00:23:35.300 numbers like inflation is down and people assume in a lot of cases that means the prices are going

00:23:40.740 to go back to where they were that just means they they're not going up as fast as they were

00:23:45.060 last year and there's also a lot of questions about how they measure that inflation and i think

00:23:50.000 most people would agree that we're not in an economy where we're in a reasonable inflation

00:23:54.980 rate at all right now. You know, if you're spending money on the regular basis, you can

00:23:59.280 feel those costs going up and up and up. And this move back towards lower interest rates is just

00:24:05.500 going to make that worse. Yeah, well, and it gets into a complicated realm. Like they talk about

00:24:11.360 the preferred inflation rate. There's an assumption among economists that our society is supposed to

00:24:16.040 work with a constant inflation rate. It should always, the value of the buying power of the

00:24:20.100 currency should always essentially be going down. And you've just got to hope then that your own

00:24:24.800 income or investments or something is rising by more than the, say, they figure 2% to 3% is a

00:24:29.920 good inflation rate. But it means you're always kind of climbing uphill no matter what you do.

00:24:35.580 Yeah. And I mean, people can argue about whether a 2% inflation rate is good or not.

00:24:40.800 But I think the actual fallacy comes down to this idea that, you know, you can have some ivory tower

00:24:45.960 economists pulling levers and managing the entire economy right like that's just ridiculous and i

00:24:51.260 think that's a fallacy that we've seen from our leadership around the world in a lot of areas

00:24:55.240 where they believe that you know we can model we can control um we can understand these extremely

00:25:01.680 complex systems like the climate an ecosystem the ocean the economy like these are these are

00:25:08.180 systems with way too many inputs for humans to understand let alone control or effect in a

00:25:14.520 meaningful, deliberate way. And this particular fallacy is it goes right back to that same idea,

00:25:22.280 the idea that the government can just control the entire economy by moving interest rates up and

00:25:27.380 down. And somehow that, you know, is going to lead to more prosperity for everyone. I think

00:25:34.020 that's a ridiculous idea. And I think that the idea of taking money away from the people who 0.95

00:25:38.940 spend the money is is really the path out of this for us yeah so the practicality of bitcoin i gotta

00:25:47.740 admit i i just took the simple route though i got it set up it just goes in it goes uh i've never

00:25:52.140 actually drawn from it i mean eventually presumably i'll want to convert it or use it for something it

00:25:58.380 is getting more accepted and easier to do but it's still kind of foreign to a lot of us uh is there's

00:26:05.180 there's more businesses accepting that or able to convert that now or?

00:26:08.440 Yeah. And so there, you know, we, we've been through the first 15 years of Bitcoin's life.

00:26:13.280 The main use case has been to store value. And that's the core function of money really is it

00:26:18.560 needs to be able to take the value you create with your time and store it so that you can use it

00:26:22.740 later somewhere else. And then once your money can do that, you want it to be a medium of exchange,

00:26:28.880 which is what you're talking about now and being able to spend it at different places.

00:26:32.080 and you know some some companies that i'm involved in like bitcoin well um that's been a sponsor of

00:26:37.480 western standard um you know one of the main things that we do is we facilitate that transfer

00:26:43.740 so with bitcoin well for example you can buy just about any any major gift card on the website

00:26:48.080 you can pay any of your your bills that you can pay in your online banking all with bitcoin so

00:26:53.320 we've got a bunch of tools to facilitate that stuff but there's actually another movement coming

00:26:58.220 sort of in a grassroots way that that's going really well here but is popping up all over the

00:27:04.500 world and that's sort of this like circular economy spending and so we're putting on an

00:27:09.940 event actually a little little market that's free to attend it's kind of like a flea market

00:27:13.500 farmer's market type thing we're going to be doing on on Canada Day on July 1st the day before our

00:27:18.720 conference and you know we have a bunch of vendors come out that sell you know everything from beef

00:27:24.360 to honey and knickknacks and whatnot and everybody takes bitcoin and part of where this came from

00:27:31.160 was this this idea that we've got within the bitcoin community that you know we can see

00:27:36.200 um a lot of the like sort of communist dystopian policies that the governments of the world are

00:27:41.960 planning for us you know with the central bank digital currencies and the climate lockdowns and

00:27:46.680 all this stuff that you know when they tell us what they're going to do we should believe them

00:27:51.800 and i think the idea that at some point we won't be allowed to buy more than a certain amount of

00:27:57.480 red meat is not at all far-fetched and so that was literally like that that that idea is where

00:28:02.680 the market came from is we're like i want to be able to have a place that i can buy my meat

00:28:08.200 with money that the government can't stop and so you know buying beef from an alberta rancher

00:28:15.720 using bitcoin not in in the government's currency at all they're not involved in that transaction

00:28:21.000 whatsoever and if they try to say you can't have red meat they're going to have a hard time stopping

00:28:27.200 us yeah so there's going to be yeah it's a great way to get off the government's grid basically i

00:28:32.680 mean the old way might have been i guess store some gold under your pillow and try and barter

00:28:36.400 with your neighbors but we've moved beyond that i guess the international uh value of this i mean

00:28:42.060 this this coin doesn't recognize borders right you can go country to country and it'll still be

00:28:47.380 a useful currency for you in some ways. Yeah, exactly. And we've seen that in a lot of places

00:28:51.820 that have been troubled around the world. Ukraine, Venezuela was a big one. There was a lot of people

00:28:56.740 escaping from Venezuela because they had Bitcoin. They were able to get out of the country as it

00:29:01.740 descended into the communist hellhole. And, you know, Bitcoin is one of only two currencies that 0.88

00:29:10.040 is really accepted everywhere in the world. Every single country in the world, you can spend

00:29:14.880 bitcoins you can spend us dollars you can find someone to change your bitcoins into the local

00:29:20.600 currency and that's not true for any other currency really and so bitcoin is a really

00:29:24.780 global currency but it's also a censorship resistant currency which is important in cases

00:29:29.040 like what i described before you can walk across a border with a memorized set of 12 words that's

00:29:36.300 just as good as carrying your wallet and there's no way for anyone to even know that you have those

00:29:41.280 words in your head, let alone stop you. True enough. I mean, you can't pickpocket somebody's

00:29:46.520 Bitcoin typically unless you're doing something really stupid. So just back to the rodeo before 0.99

00:29:51.860 we wrap up. I mean, JP Sears, I'm enough of a political dork. Actually, I recognize that name 0.72

00:29:55.280 the second you said it. But for those who aren't familiar with him, I mean, you're not going to go

00:29:59.080 wrong by watching him. He's just hilarious. I love that guy. But I mean, some of the other

00:30:04.360 sessions you got going on, I mean, there's a whole giant list of speakers. Are you going to

00:30:08.680 be covering things like for people who are bitcoin beginners or is this kind of advanced or is there

00:30:12.620 a bit of both uh what are people going to get out of this yeah so it we're aiming for it to be

00:30:17.620 mostly targeting to people that are not yet bitcoiners that are potential future bitcoiners

00:30:22.060 and so we're going to have a lot of topics like like one of the ones that i think is going to be

00:30:26.880 really good is um why your small business should hold bitcoin you know so we've got a lot of

00:30:32.900 topics that are about how bitcoin can be useful to normal people in the real world

00:30:37.200 and then we've got some topics that are also about like how bitcoin uh is is changing the

00:30:43.560 world and how how fiat currency is changing the world so another one that i'm really excited for

00:30:47.580 is about how uh the debasement of money around the world is affecting our culture

00:30:51.960 and i think if you if you follow the logic on that argument you can trace it right down to

00:30:57.060 you know all the ridiculous stuff that you guys were talking about in the in the in the lead in

00:31:01.600 there where um you know how ridiculous does stuff have to get how how much credibility do we have 0.86

00:31:09.420 to give these people that are are are performing all these ridiculous this ridiculous acts and and

00:31:16.240 this debasement of our culture ultimately comes back to the fact that our money which is supposed

00:31:23.200 to create a link between a person's actions and the outcome for their lives is broken it doesn't

00:31:28.800 do that the idea of like the american dream so to speak where you can work harder earn more money

00:31:34.100 and have a better life doesn't work if a huge percentage of the value of the money that you're

00:31:38.900 earning is being stolen by the federal government and spent on their pet projects and when people

00:31:44.460 feel that lack of connection between their efforts and their outcome it leads to kind of this this

00:31:50.820 general malaise that you can see all across society and it it actually plays a role in this

00:31:55.860 entire meltdown that we're going through in terms of um you know the the the crumbling of our cities

00:32:02.900 this all comes from fiat currency so we're going to hope to talk a lot more at the conference about

00:32:08.180 what this actually means and and how important this is to everyone and i think people in the

00:32:14.420 sort of freedom community people who've woken up to the idea that we don't necessarily need

00:32:17.940 to trust the government that's like that's our ideal audience and so we've got a uh we've got

00:32:23.620 We've got a promo code, promo code Western Standard.

00:32:28.020 Anyone can get tickets on BitcoinRodeo.com, and that's good for $50 off with that promo code.

00:32:34.940 Oh, right on.

00:32:36.000 So, yeah, I didn't know about the promo code.

00:32:38.340 Okay, I'm glad you threw that in while we were here.

00:32:40.580 And, yeah, I was just going to ask on closing then.

00:32:42.260 So, you know, one more time, the date is going to be in Calgary, and BitcoinRodeo.com is where to sign up?

00:32:50.280 Yep, July 2nd and 3rd.

00:32:52.360 July 2nd and 3rd.

00:32:53.180 Well, thanks, Dave. I appreciate that. I hope the conference goes fantastically. I'm sure it will. This isn't your first rodeo. And I appreciate you breaking all that down for us. So, well, we'll look forward to the conference there and talk again soon.

00:33:10.000 Yeah, thanks for having me.

00:33:11.040 So that was Dave Bradley. As I said, all things Bitcoin. And yes, the Bitcoin rodeo is coming. And, you know, there's some good questions I saw in the comments.

00:33:19.200 scroll. I don't want to get into a debate about it because there's a lot of debate on the whole

00:33:22.760 things with all that. I wanted to speak mostly on the upcoming Bitcoin rodeo conference. It's a good

00:33:28.740 spot if you had more questions about it as well. Don asking about, yeah, you know, that was a good

00:33:33.980 question about how's El Salvador doing with that national Bitcoin thing because El Salvador got

00:33:38.260 so messed up. I think they decided to make Bitcoin like their national currency. I'm not sure actually

00:33:42.880 I'll have to look in to see how that all kind of came out. Joseph, you know, has certainly got some

00:33:46.740 strong doubts about it. But one of you mentioned is, what if the internet crashes? How do you

00:33:50.680 access your money? Well, you know, realistically right now, all of us are so dependent on the

00:33:56.260 internet. I don't carry a heck of a lot of cash in my wallet anymore. If the internet crashes like

00:34:01.280 so badly that it's gone for weeks, well, we're going to be in a catastrophe anyways, because

00:34:05.080 my banks won't be able to give me any cash or money or do any transactions or anything anyways.

00:34:10.160 So we're just as hooped. One thing I'll say, and when you talk about government control and you

00:34:14.700 said any government can control Bitcoin. Well, the government really wanted, I'm sure, to get

00:34:18.160 everything they could when they seized people's bank accounts in the past, but they didn't get

00:34:21.640 anybody's Bitcoin. I'm not going to say that Bitcoin's bulletproof. Who knows? But it seems

00:34:28.520 to be safer than keeping your money in the bank in Canada these days. Anyways, I wouldn't advise

00:34:32.600 everybody, of course, put all your money into Bitcoin. That's not my role. I'm not a financial

00:34:35.860 advisor by any means. I found it kind of neat, like I said, that just a little bit of a came

00:34:39.840 off my check and went into that Bitcoin account we started a few years ago. And Bitcoin has really

00:34:44.140 gone up like a crazy amount this last few years. So that did quite well. But if you look at the

00:34:48.080 chart over the last few years, too, the Bitcoin value still has some, you know, it's generally

00:34:51.880 goes up, but it's got some big dips. So if you're using it week by week to buy things,

00:34:55.380 you can kind of hoop yourself, you know, because you buy something with it one day, and it turns

00:35:00.000 out that the value of the Bitcoin went up 20% the next day or 10, right? Yeah, it's not quite that

00:35:04.060 fast, you know, shot up, you might not do well with your purchase on it. But it's an interesting

00:35:09.800 development and anything. I think personally, I like it as a hedge, you know, for what I've got.

00:35:14.880 I know I've got something that's in a side savings account that is independent from the fiat currency

00:35:20.140 of our current government. Similar, I guess, though. I mean, as Joseph said, you know, metals,

00:35:24.220 they're a good idea. Gold, silver, things like that have something that's outside of the government

00:35:30.760 control. You know, maybe they'll end up controlling it later. I don't know. Our government's too

00:35:36.060 stupid, I think, to break into Bitcoin. They can't figure that out. I mean, again, look at the prime 1.00

00:35:39.700 minister. But, uh, either way, if, if you're interested, hit that conference, don't forget

00:35:45.040 Western standard. That's the, the, the promo code to put into it and you'll save yourself 50 bucks

00:35:50.340 because there's like gotta be a couple dozen speakers over those couple of days. So they'll

00:35:54.560 answer a whole heck of a lot of questions on it much better than I would be able to. But, you know,

00:35:59.240 speaking of economic retardation and, uh, foolishness, let's talk about the NDP, uh, 0.70

00:36:05.620 Jagmeet Singh, you know, the champagne socialist who likes to stand up there in his $2,000 tailored

00:36:11.680 suits with his Rolex, you know, next to his sports cars to tell us all to tighten our belts and live

00:36:16.700 in a nice socialist world. But they've got their big thing. They've made it their hill to die on

00:36:21.360 the whole grocery pricing thing, the issue. And it's just so frigging stupid. I'm getting 1.00

00:36:28.440 sick to death with people losing it at grocery retailers. I know Galen Weston isn't a nice guy.

00:36:37.480 I know that Loblaws had a record profit. Who cares? Buy shares in it then, you wimp.

00:36:43.280 God, bitching about somebody making a profit, it's not a bad thing. And guess what? That record 0.99

00:36:47.720 profit, yes, it's in like a one or two billion level. But the margin, people, the margin,

00:36:53.740 use your economic common sense. Their margin is under 4%. The reason the profit is in the billions

00:37:00.020 is because they're selling hundreds of billions because there's hundreds and hundreds of outlets

00:37:04.360 across the country selling groceries to millions of people. They don't have much room to move on

00:37:09.780 the prices. We have a problem with higher prices. We covered a little of that when talking to Dave.

00:37:15.620 It's because our idiot government is printing money and borrowing money so fast that your 1.00

00:37:20.040 dollars aren't worth a crap, and everything goes up, including your food. The reason people get 1.00

00:37:24.680 upset about it when it comes to food is, of course, food's a need. It's not one of those things you

00:37:28.400 can say, well, I'll just stop buying groceries for a couple of months until things stabilize or I get

00:37:32.780 a little more money. No, you have no choice. You've got to keep buying it, and you end up finding

00:37:37.320 yourself buying less or buying, you know, stuff of a quality you wouldn't want because you can't

00:37:42.000 afford it. You get concerned. Fair enough, but direct your ire in the proper direction. It's not

00:37:48.220 the retailers, guys. It's not. It's been studied. The Competition Bureau dove into it. Even Prime

00:37:54.480 Minister Ding Dong thought, we've got something here for sure. So he directed the Competition

00:37:57.700 Bureau to investigate and dig in. The Competition Bureau came out with a report and they said,

00:38:02.440 yeah, their profits are actually modest. It means they don't have room to cut the prices.

00:38:08.740 But Jagmeet Singh's putting another motion in Parliament today. It'll probably fail. I hope so.

00:38:14.140 even the liberals aren't this stupid, but basically saying they want to force grocers 1.00

00:38:18.420 to either reduce the prices of their food. Yeah, force them to reduce the prices of their product, 0.99

00:38:24.420 or they're going to cap food prices. This is the height of stupidity. This is dumber than anything 1.00

00:38:30.240 I even expected out of Jagmeet, and he's pretty friggin' dumb. Anybody who's a socialist can't 1.00

00:38:33.780 be that bloody smart, at least not economically. How well did they eat in Russia, guys? The food 0.83

00:38:40.180 prices were capped there. Venezuela capped their food prices too, guys. How did that go for them?

00:38:45.920 Oh, yeah. In Venezuela, they literally ate their zoo animals. That's how bad it got. You got to

00:38:52.720 leave the supply chains alone. This government is incompetent. This government is, any government's 0.99

00:38:58.320 incompetent. Keep them out of your food supply chains. You cap the prices on these things. You

00:39:04.020 take away the profit from the retailers. Guess what's going to happen? They will close their

00:39:08.520 doors. It's as simple as that. They are millionaires or billionaires who own it. But people also

00:39:13.880 forget who's the majority shareholders? Pension plans. You own those grocers too. The Canadian

00:39:19.340 pension plan owns a whole pile of Loblaws stock. So if you plan to take CPP, actually a little bit

00:39:26.620 of that profit's actually coming to you. You're a shareholder in them. But if they can't make money,

00:39:31.400 they can't. And when you're running a lower than 4% profit margin and you've got a foolish 0.99

00:39:36.760 government that forces you to lower prices you close your doors they're not a charity so then

00:39:41.980 what happens where does our food come from whose sources when you go into a store and find literally

00:39:47.840 thousands of items and brands who's going to organize that once the big retailers say we're

00:39:54.020 done we're out we're pulling out you got to remember the again you know the fart catchers

00:39:58.160 of Trudeau who felt he he was on to things and smart and you know constantly um villainizing

00:40:05.180 our grocery chains and such and trying to imply that they're gouging Canadians and screwing them 0.99

00:40:10.080 and that there's huge money being made and huge record profits. And they came out publicly said,

00:40:14.780 we're going to get some big European grocery chains to come out here to Canada and set up

00:40:18.660 shop and compete with these guys. Guess how many European chains have come out so far?

00:40:23.420 Yeah. Goose egg, zero, not a single one. Who in their right mind would want to relocate to a 1.00

00:40:28.460 country with a government that's talking about forcing you to cap your prices at a certain range

00:40:34.300 with a government that's going to call you virtually a criminal for having a profit margin

00:40:40.180 of under 4%. If you've got a problem with profit margins, fine. Check out the banks.

00:40:47.200 Their profit margins are around 20%. Look at the margin. That's when you know if you're getting

00:40:51.920 screwed as a consumer or not. Not the gross profit number. Look at the margin because that's where

00:40:57.160 they got room to move on the price if they're going to have room to move on the price. And I

00:41:00.540 don't want government to intervene on large profit margin area of business either. I'm just saying if

00:41:06.560 you are ticked off about paying too much for things in the world, look in the right directions.

00:41:12.040 You want to know one of the highest profit margin industries in Canada? Dairy farmers. Yes, they're

00:41:18.720 well over 20% profit margins because they've got that protected supply management system where they

00:41:23.960 literally make it illegal to sell more than a certain quota and it forces the prices to stay

00:41:28.800 higher and it keeps their margins higher. Is that better? Because that's what happens when

00:41:32.660 government controls the price. Then the best lobbyists get the money and the consumers,

00:41:38.480 as always, take it up the tailpipe. Because we've got some of the most expensive dairy 0.90

00:41:43.700 on the planet in this country. We have huge agricultural country, all these lands,

00:41:48.900 and we pay a fortune for it. That's what happens when government starts getting into the food 0.84

00:41:52.320 business just on a micro level. Now think of if these dingbats manage to make Loblaws pull out 1.00

00:41:57.560 or Walmart. And they will do it eventually. We've seen it in the States, you know, with some of

00:42:02.000 these, um, it wasn't the price controls going on, but it's when you had these idiotic areas like 0.99

00:42:07.140 San Francisco and Portland and progressive areas that again, villainize the large business owners. 0.99

00:42:12.920 And they basically said, we're going to let the shoplifting go. We aren't going to intervene,

00:42:17.340 intervene. We're going to let the thieves just keep stealing from you.

00:42:21.720 So they closed, they closed. They said, well, that happened in Chicago too. Well, we're out,

00:42:26.160 were gone. They closed. Then the community doesn't even have a large one. And then you listen to the,

00:42:31.220 it shows the stupidity of the progressives. It shows the stupidity of the identity politics. 1.00

00:42:35.460 Because I remember some of the howlings too, they're saying they're all moving out of the 1.00

00:42:38.460 racialized neighborhoods and it's racism is why they closed the doors. No, it's not. It's because

00:42:43.780 they were getting robbed blind. And the government was saying, we're not going to protect you.

00:42:49.300 They were saying, essentially implying that you have a moral right to steal from them. We had a

00:42:54.560 movement in Canada here, when they've been doing that boycott Loblaws crap for a while, it obviously

00:42:58.620 failed, but they've been talking about having this national shoplift from Loblaws Day. They really

00:43:04.160 were. There was people trying to organize that. You have people organizing, trying to get other

00:43:08.440 people to break the law. What the heck is our society doing? What have you gotten to there?

00:43:13.720 And we're not talking about some obscure law, parking tickets, or something that's questionable.

00:43:17.480 stealing the property of another simple basic law it cannot be allowed to happen yet i didn't see

00:43:26.440 anybody charged for trying to organize that i mean wouldn't that be trying to counsel committing a

00:43:29.920 crime is it impossible to track down who was trying to organize that though i don't think it

00:43:33.860 amounted to anything anyways because thankfully most people weren't bloody thieves anyways 1.00

00:43:37.160 but just this this foolishness so when when dave was talking about you know how stupid government 0.99

00:43:43.280 it is and, you know, wanting to keep your funds as clear of them as possible. There's one of the 1.00

00:43:49.220 examples. Here's another one. This has been a good one too, right? So the CRTC, this is one of the

00:43:53.100 big areas of the Trudeau regime in the last few years too, controlling information, controlling

00:43:56.620 media, controlling the messaging. Of course, any dictator wants to do that. They don't like hearing

00:44:02.480 outside voices. So now the CRTC emboldened by crap like Bill C-68, C-11, all these other controlling 0.91

00:44:09.660 bills has said they're going to require online services to contribute 5% of the Canadian revenues

00:44:14.460 to support the Canadian broadcast system. In other words, we're going to steal 5%. I'll call it

00:44:19.220 theft. They're going to steal 5% of what they make from Netflix, Disney. See, it gives us that

00:44:24.220 you know, that demonization of other service. Well, Netflix is big and Disney's big. Well,

00:44:29.420 guess what? The little mom and pop streamers don't exist, guys. There's only big ones. And

00:44:34.000 you all wind your heads off when Netflix raises their prices by a dollar or two a month. Well,

00:44:38.700 why do you think they will? So when the government's going to steal 5% of their revenues,

00:44:42.660 they're going to raise the prices even further. And then, oh yes, they're going to give that to

00:44:46.880 support the Canadian broadcasting system. Oh good. So that'll go towards more, you know,

00:44:53.240 what CBC style gems of crap that nobody wants to watch. That's the only way those things get 0.96

00:44:58.360 produced. They don't get produced based on people actually wanting to consume the content. They just

00:45:02.520 get produced because they get a grant from somebody in the government and they've stolen

00:45:06.480 that money from the streaming services. So nobody cares. They'll make a stupid documentary or a bad

00:45:12.720 comedy or whatever that nobody's going to view. But as long as they got the paycheck from stealing 1.00

00:45:16.760 5% from the streamers who actually provide citizens with what they want to watch,

00:45:22.240 the grifters will come out and they'll make those things. As Ian Leslie said, somebody's got to pay

00:45:25.420 for the CBC. Yeah. And this is above and beyond the right. The CBC is already taking what? $1.4

00:45:30.000 billion a year in tax dollars, 1.4 billion. And then they steal and I'll call it stealing again,

00:45:35.200 Because if you get that much in tax dollars just to pay for your operations, they sell advertising for hundreds of millions a year, too.

00:45:42.080 But that's stealing it from the private market because the private broadcasters can't compete with them on advertising dollars.

00:45:47.460 I mean, when you get a billion in the bank, you can really undercut the advertising rates.

00:45:52.180 And this disrupts the market.

00:45:54.360 This makes for worse content.

00:45:57.020 This is the cycle.

00:45:58.200 This is what it leads to.

00:45:59.820 The incentive, again, isn't to make a better production that people want to pay for

00:46:03.920 or that streaming services want to carry.

00:46:06.720 Now the incentive is, what's the best application I can put forward to the heritage department

00:46:12.680 to get my grant to make my production?

00:46:14.560 They don't worry about whether people want to watch it.

00:46:16.180 They just want to make sure all the DEI checkboxes are hit. 0.64

00:46:19.200 And then they'll get their check and they'll make some piece of garbage that nobody will watch. 1.00

00:46:22.840 But you will get to pay for it, guys. 0.99

00:46:24.980 You.

00:46:26.080 Because, again, Netflix, Disney, Prime, they're charities.

00:46:30.360 So when the government starts stealing more of their earnings, revenue, and profit,

00:46:34.600 they're just going to pass it down to you.

00:46:36.320 And here's another one, the liberal NDP bill,

00:46:39.140 getting back to that speech, getting back to control.

00:46:40.880 They want to ban pro-oil speech.

00:46:43.640 They really do.

00:46:44.340 This was stuff that Charlie Angus, one of the nuttier NDP MPs, came out with a while back.

00:46:49.020 Said he wanted to make it illegal for oil companies to say nice things about what they do.

00:46:52.520 Well, this liberal NDP bill now,

00:46:55.540 Angus was shut down because,

00:46:56.740 oh my God, that's too insane.

00:46:57.700 That's over the top.

00:46:58.260 It's over the edge.

00:46:58.720 Well, now that Singh and Trudeau

00:47:00.680 were cuddling in bed together

00:47:02.360 and thinking about it,

00:47:04.040 hey, we could control those oil companies.

00:47:06.820 So yeah, they want to basically

00:47:08.620 fine oil companies for daring

00:47:10.980 to point out on how they've been reducing emissions

00:47:13.180 or how they've been doing anything good.

00:47:15.060 They want to gag them.

00:47:16.180 They want them to look at their shoes

00:47:17.180 and apologize for giving you a service

00:47:19.180 that keeps you from freezing to death in the winter.

00:47:21.300 It keeps your lights on and keeps your vehicle running.

00:47:24.200 And, of course, employs hundreds of thousands of Canadians, brings billions and billions into the economy, 0.99

00:47:29.680 funds all your bloody social welfare programs, but we've got to call them jerks for having dared done so. 0.99

00:47:39.080 And they are not allowed to defend themselves. 0.99

00:47:41.260 That's scary.

00:47:41.960 The government's banning self-defense verbally for these companies.

00:47:45.640 This is insane.

00:47:47.220 But, again, insane, right?

00:47:48.660 The other thing, one thing I'll leave off on another note, every party dead silent on foreign

00:47:54.080 interference. It sounds like every party might have an MP or two who's been compromised by foreign

00:47:59.520 interests. I don't care which party it is. Name the bloody names. This is insane. The stuff we

00:48:05.140 got going on in this country. All right. Well, I'm all out of ranting time. I have one comment

00:48:10.320 from one of our commenters. I'll read one more time. Are they going to ban the Edmonton Oilers

00:48:13.120 because it promotes oil? We'll see. I wouldn't put it beyond them anymore. So either way,

00:48:18.520 guys again. Make sure to take out a subscription, westernstandard.news slash subscription. This is

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Western Standard - June 06, 2024

Is the Pride movement becoming irrelevant？

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