Western Standard - Mountain Standard Time - July 20th, 2021

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00:01:29.980 Good morning and welcome to Mountain Standard Time. I'm your host Nathan Gita and today we'll be talking a little bit about everything. We've got some points in the news. We're definitely going to be going to the comments here, there and everywhere. But first, both my opening statement as well as our sponsors. So we'll start with our sponsor. We of course have Resistance Coffee Company. They are with us in sponsorship and letting us know that when woke causes come to town, you don't have to worry. They'll turn that frown upside down.

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00:02:29.960 And this morning, I actually usually drink water, to tell you the truth.

00:02:33.460 Most people ask me what's in here.

00:02:34.880 I've been asked that a couple of times.

00:02:35.980 There's almost always water.

00:02:37.500 The studio doesn't exactly have a dishwasher.

00:02:39.700 so you know i don't frequent coffee while i'm on air i also don't get a break on air and it's two

00:02:45.240 hours straight so tons of coffee not a good idea for a guy who doesn't have his astronaut astronaut

00:02:51.240 suit on but you know what today i felt like indulging i'm a little tired we'll get to that

00:02:55.700 in a second and uh resistance coffee you gotta love it okie dokie so let's uh get on get on the

00:03:06.440 train here the short version of the story is if we go to my opening statement i'm a little tired

00:03:16.880 and i'm a little tired for a couple of reasons but the biggest reason that i'm tired is that i

00:03:21.780 have had to go stand in front of our local parish so if i look a little exhausted this morning

00:03:29.300 it is only because i am now a part of a church watching crew that does its best to keep our

00:03:35.320 local parish from getting burned to the ground. Never thought I'd say those words

00:03:39.340 on air, or anywhere, or to anyone on earth, for that matter.

00:03:43.240 To be clear, we have no reason to believe anyone local has a particular hate

00:03:47.280 on for our particular place of worship, but with the still

00:03:51.120 as yet unstoppable arsonists throughout Canada

00:03:54.440 torching all these holy houses, we must stand on guard for 1.00

00:03:59.160 thee. The big thee, that is to say, God himself. Well, at least

00:04:03.080 Church. If the 20th century has taught me anything, it is that anything is possible when considering

00:04:09.820 the slippery slope of from bad to worse. This has been proven true on a global scale. 9-11,

00:04:17.500 the wars in the Middle East, the crash of 2008, the Euro crisis, the oil crash, and now COVID

00:04:22.440 have demonstrated that no, you know what, things can go from bad to worse in a hurry. And I would

00:04:28.460 say that for the most for most people a lot of people today they would say objectively if they

00:04:33.880 if they have an economic record to go from around 2000 or the middle of the 2000s to today

00:04:38.860 unless they're a part of a certain class things are worse than they were and things are more

00:04:44.940 tense than they were things are certainly more desperate so on a personal level too i'm guessing

00:04:50.280 many people did not predict where they are today i was raised a son of privilege today i belong to

00:04:56.080 the precariat that's mentioned in my column which went up today public school indoctrinated me to

00:05:00.920 believe in of course nothing else but the good old grist the liberal party of canada and that

00:05:06.080 they were our best hope and they were the de facto you know de facto ruling party of canada

00:05:09.740 and everything they had done was wonderful and today i understand that they are an empire of

00:05:13.720 lies second only to the chinese communist party and then a short while ago you know honestly and

00:05:20.040 having been raised in a medical family i wouldn't have any questions about vaccines and for that

00:05:24.800 matter having the knowledge of political systems that i do i wouldn't have had any questions about

00:05:28.100 elections and today i'm basically resigned to our federal election especially if there's lots of

00:05:32.940 mail-in ballots being i don't know if i want to say rigged but certainly not transparent and when

00:05:38.660 it comes to the question of the vaccines particularly when it comes to covid i never

00:05:43.560 thought i'd live in a world where i was getting mail from my government that said we've booked

00:05:48.000 a vaccine for you my beloved just got one i know some other people that have gotten them making it

00:05:52.120 sound like it's a fait accompli you you've had a vaccine booked for you you know in in soviet

00:05:57.340 canada you don't take vaccine vaccine takes you and it's like okay that's again put a put a non-lethal

00:06:05.640 uh pokey thing to my chest 15 years ago and asked me if that's where i thought i'd be today

00:06:11.880 no wouldn't have guessed that in a million years so last night because of the bodies discovered

00:06:19.220 far away and because the mainstream media's narrative and because of the cowardice of our

00:06:24.140 leaders and the foolish boldness of people who think fires are funny, I had to go stand in front

00:06:31.180 of a church like farmers do in South Africa or business owners do during a riot. I'm 31 years 0.95

00:06:37.700 old and I live in Canada and the culture war has manifested into just below a shooting war.

00:06:43.000 i'm not packing heat to be clear but i gotta tell you that i haven't seen anything that maybe

00:06:52.760 warrants it yet but i have definitely seen some activity in the night the deep deep night and

00:06:57.620 three in the morning and that sort of thing that would make you want to have some kind of

00:07:05.480 defense mechanism that was reliable i'll put it that simply um maybe not a not to be used in an

00:07:13.600 offensive capacity or in a you're going to be detained and i'm going to zap strap you sort of

00:07:17.640 thing but definitely a you know i'll put it this way i saw a guy walk by with a crossbow

00:07:23.460 and that guy definitely was not hunting for bear in downtown prince george so don't know what that

00:07:30.420 I was up to, but that wasn't cool. So to put it politely, the entire escapade is tiresome. I am

00:07:38.700 of half a mind to strategically retreat to a far more defensible position physically, spiritually,

00:07:43.620 and intellectually, if only to have the briefest amount of peace in order to relax. But that would

00:07:48.740 be conceding yet more toward territory to the banality of evil that has already captured so

00:07:53.980 much of our society. I cannot let the inmates run the asylum. That is where we're at. The inmates

00:08:00.180 are running the asylum, and we are no longer in charge of our faculties, let alone our senses.

00:08:07.620 We need to stand up in our families, communities, and polities. That's our big, well, it's not a big

00:08:12.120 word, but it's our word of the day, polities. That's how you can say multiple political places

00:08:17.580 and hierarchies in three syllables, polities. We need to demand an end to the insanity. 0.72

00:08:24.860 the lockdowns were not okay

00:08:27.260 forcing vaccinations is not okay

00:08:29.420 blatant hypocrisy from our leaders is not okay

00:08:31.880 narratives that breed violence are not okay 0.89

00:08:34.080 violent actors are not okay

00:08:36.020 and the world careening towards a fundamental

00:08:38.040 breakdown is a betrayal of everyone

00:08:40.220 who actually bothered to follow the rules

00:08:42.140 or certainly wasn't leaning on the scale

00:08:44.160 enough to break it

00:08:45.240 it can't go on like this

00:08:47.960 and when the other shoe finally

00:08:50.040 drops people are going to get hurt

00:08:51.600 and I say this as

00:08:54.000 factually as I can, people will die.

00:08:58.220 Things will get violent and people are going to die.

00:09:00.940 I'm sorry, that's the reality of it. Peace, order, and good government

00:09:04.380 were not the tallest tasks to ask of our government.

00:09:08.940 They were not cradle-to-grave social programs or visions

00:09:12.540 of grandeur. They were peace, order, and good government.

00:09:16.780 Yet we are failing even on these basics.

00:09:20.580 I'm going to say it as bluntly as I can. May God have mercy on our souls

00:09:23.700 and may we be delivered from this new bondage

00:09:26.640 and delivered back

00:09:28.140 into sanity

00:09:29.160 Nathan Gita

00:09:31.760 Mountain Standard Time, July 20th

00:09:34.620 2021

00:09:35.100 Well, thank you, we got some

00:09:42.200 people in the comments here, I appreciate your

00:09:44.380 viewership, I appreciate your support

00:09:45.900 I'm sorry if I look particularly ornery

00:09:48.240 today and particularly out of sorts

00:09:49.680 I mean, even my hair is insane, we'll see if Sheldon

00:09:52.080 comments on that later

00:09:53.140 I don't really know what else to tell you

00:09:56.340 I'm just exhausted

00:09:57.540 I'm at a couple of nights now of going out there

00:09:59.760 and watching the church

00:10:00.880 we take it in shifts

00:10:01.780 it's not like I'm the only guy doing it

00:10:02.960 I don't want to make a sound like I'm the only guy out there

00:10:04.840 but it just

00:10:05.780 things are coming to a head

00:10:08.700 things are coming to a head

00:10:10.580 and it feels dangerous

00:10:16.840 it feels dangerous

00:10:18.600 it feels tense

00:10:19.540 I think the other day

00:10:21.620 I might actually ask, I mean our producer

00:10:23.680 he produced so much of this

00:10:25.940 curated so many news articles for me to comment

00:10:28.220 on this morning, we're going to get into that in a second

00:10:30.020 don't worry, but the one I actually

00:10:32.260 kind of want to dig up is the

00:10:34.340 the Coptic Church

00:10:36.200 I think there was a Coptic Church that got

00:10:38.300 torched in Surrey

00:10:39.540 I think that happened, let me see if

00:10:41.680 I can find it

00:10:42.940 can't rely on me to find things like this

00:10:46.200 Coptic Church

00:10:48.160 Surrey, yeah that's right

00:10:49.680 uh arson attempt surrey church destroyed by suspicious fire in wally neighborhood wally

00:10:56.320 i've campaigned in wally i had to help somebody try and get elected in wally they did not get

00:11:00.260 elected but i did campaign there let's take a look here there's so many other articles we have

00:11:04.780 to talk about it oh thanks patricia you're the best that makes me feel good

00:11:11.980 uh definitely brightened up my morning what do we got here there we go share okie dokie

00:11:23.060 no thanks surrey church destroyed by suspicious fire in wally neighborhood let's see if you guys

00:11:29.620 can see that can you see that yeah okay so let's take uh let's take a stroll here

00:11:34.660 there's three people who wrote this article that's interesting

00:11:41.120 smoke and flames could be seen

00:11:43.940 for kilometers of truth battle of fire

00:11:45.960 in Surrey's Wally neighborhood early Monday morning

00:11:48.060 the St. George Coptic Orthodox Church

00:11:49.820 in the area of 103 Avenue

00:11:51.540 and 138th Street was completely destroyed

00:11:53.640 after flames broke out at around 3.30am

00:11:55.720 that is the exact time

00:11:57.340 that's the time that I keep going

00:11:59.140 to be a part of our watch

00:12:01.500 I get assigned the 3.30am

00:12:04.000 area

00:12:04.940 so that's reassuring

00:12:06.780 Surrey RCMP confirmed Monday

00:12:10.180 that they are treating the fire as suspicious

00:12:12.240 and are investigating if the fire

00:12:14.300 is related to an arson incident that happened

00:12:16.200 a week earlier. On

00:12:17.980 July 14th,

00:12:20.140 a female suspect, so that's interesting,

00:12:22.160 that was a female suspect that did that, 1.00

00:12:25.280 lit items on fire

00:12:26.340 at the door of St. George's Coptic Orthodox

00:12:28.260 Church and then left the area.

00:12:31.060 For to note that although both

00:12:32.160 the incidents are suspicious, there is no evidence they are linking

00:12:34.080 investigators. She's 5'7".

00:12:37.540 Yep, so there's

00:12:38.180 some pictures from over there.

00:12:40.180 And at the church,

00:12:42.160 Holly Quinn says she woke up

00:12:43.620 to the fire burning in the neighborhood.

00:12:45.420 Da-da-da-da-da-da.

00:12:49.640 And

00:12:50.040 over there.

00:12:52.600 And da-da-da-da-da-da-da.

00:12:54.420 Quinn says thankful.

00:12:56.220 And finally,

00:12:57.640 the church played a big role in many people's lives,

00:12:59.320 including his own, with a congregation of about

00:13:00.920 400 families.

00:13:03.520 Elm Marcy says

00:13:05.440 he's not quite sure what's next, so he's noting it

00:13:07.140 cost a lot of money to rebuild.

00:13:08.320 cool news that he believes it's deliberately set

00:13:11.680 okay

00:13:12.700 so we're going to leave that there for a second

00:13:15.860 I'm going to stop the screen share

00:13:17.460 and I am going to

00:13:20.320 speak to whoever set that fire

00:13:23.960 in particular

00:13:24.480 and I'm going to learn you something real simple here

00:13:27.720 just like

00:13:30.080 saying all

00:13:31.600 oh I don't know Africans are the same 0.99

00:13:33.700 that's nonsense all white people are the same 1.00

00:13:35.620 that's nonsense all people who have 1.00

00:13:37.660 Islam as their faith is the same. That's nonsense. 1.00

00:13:39.920 There are people who are ethnically white, ethnically

00:13:41.920 Arab, ethnically

00:13:43.000 Hispanic, for that matter,

00:13:45.740 actually, because there was a lot of crossover between

00:13:47.640 Spain and Morocco. There are people,

00:13:49.900 of course, there's a huge amount of sub-Saharan

00:13:51.860 South Africa

00:13:53.540 that's, you know,

00:13:55.780 has the Muslim religion,

00:13:57.700 has Islam as their religion, 0.98

00:13:59.580 and of course they would be black. 0.95

00:14:03.480 I'm going to try and explain this to whoever set that 0.97

00:14:05.660 fire coptic christians never ran any of the residential schools now without getting into 1.00

00:14:11.240 the residential school question at all like that's as obvious as it gets if you google residential

00:14:16.820 schools you're not going to find a single coptic christian one uh that doesn't exist um no idea

00:14:23.640 if coptic christians have anything to do with say residential like schools inside of the places

00:14:30.880 Coptic Christianity is popular, which is to say around Ethiopia, Egypt, and throughout the kind of near Middle East from basically, I guess, Antioch South.

00:14:41.380 I guess there might be some seas in Turkey still, but that was some pretty nasty fighting in there.

00:14:45.460 I don't think there's a lot of Copts left north of Israel.

00:14:49.580 But nonetheless, we're talking about something that just is blatantly false.

00:14:57.520 So it's like you're doing this out of respect or whatever for what happened with the discoveries of the children in Kamloops and in Saskatchewan.

00:15:04.820 And now there's more discoveries coming up. 0.97

00:15:07.400 You you literally could not have done a more asinine thing if you tried. 0.93

00:15:13.020 You're talking about a group of people that, as far as I can tell, are probably the most one of the most persecuted groups in Christianity still today. 0.97

00:15:19.160 They still suffer persecution and death today, like Armenian Catholics do and other other near Eastern Christians, Christians from, you know, the tip of Sudan and Egypt and Ethiopia all the way up into the Caucasus, that entire swath of Christians.

00:15:33.960 So basically all of the Middle East, really, they suffer persecution like none other.

00:15:38.460 And those people have nothing to do with what happened to the residential schools.

00:15:42.780 Bar none. End of story. Finish sentence. Delete the rest of the paragraph.

00:15:47.700 It doesn't, that doesn't make sense. And the fact that somebody torched a Coptic church, I don't really know, I don't really even know how to react to that. Like, I mean, I'm enraged, obviously, but it just, it just makes no sense. Like, it just has no rhyme or reason to it.

00:16:03.880 It would be all but the equivalent of thinking, well, I mean, Buddhist or Shinto religion, it's all Far Eastern religion, and therefore it represents the Communist Party of China, and we're going to torch a local Shinto temple or Buddhist temple, and that'll show the Chinese government.

00:16:23.760 like no yes they are all from the far east that doesn't make them all the same thing and you just 0.96

00:16:30.620 made a really big dumb dumb and what you're doing is betraying your own ignorance and i think that's 0.96

00:16:37.040 kind of if there is a not beauty in this tragedy that's that's awful but if there's a tragic comic 1.00

00:16:43.660 moment here right because everything that is tragic again if we believe in the final redemption is

00:16:48.820 comedic in its resolution. It all comes together somewhere.

00:16:52.820 The resolution here is

00:16:55.660 we are fighting a culture of ignorance, and that is why, in a sense, one must wonder

00:17:00.800 how long it is before brute force begins to seem like a legitimate option.

00:17:07.640 And that's not an exaggeration.

00:17:09.400 That's not a joke. If you're fighting a culture of ignorance,

00:17:13.360 there isn't any reasoning with it. And you're fighting with a culture of a lack of reason.

00:17:16.800 you aren't going to get anywhere if you have a cult of ignorance a group of people who are

00:17:22.800 literally just frothing at the mouth saying well anything christian is bad because of what happened

00:17:29.320 in the residential schools despite the fact that plenty of denominations didn't participate

00:17:35.320 and for that matter it it just doesn't square at all with any other kind of logic nobody thinks

00:17:43.160 nobody nobody thinks that that you know especially if for example you hate john horgan's policies

00:17:48.840 when it comes to site c or the the fracking that happens in the northeast of british columbia there

00:17:54.400 are plenty of people particularly green people on the left who hate that and that's fine they they're 1.00

00:18:00.600 entitled to their to their anger at john horgan they don't think every tom dick and harry just

00:18:05.900 wandering around in the northeast or even wandering near site c even working on site c

00:18:09.880 necessarily agrees with every single policy

00:18:11.920 and certainly they don't think that people

00:18:13.960 who might even benefit from said policies

00:18:15.920 are inherently to blame for what

00:18:18.020 happened. Nobody thinks that.

00:18:20.840 Nobody thinks that.

00:18:22.220 Reasonable people don't think

00:18:24.000 that.

00:18:25.840 Why would somebody go victimize

00:18:27.960 those people instead of trying to make

00:18:30.060 the premier wear his mistake? And it's the same thing

00:18:32.000 here. I'm not trying to invite more

00:18:34.080 scorn upon my own church, but at the

00:18:36.000 same time, if you have scorn to put somewhere,

00:18:38.340 you put it on us.

00:18:39.880 We Roman Catholics, we have something maybe to answer for, but that's a discussion that needs to develop between those who call the faith home today and those who have problems with what happened in the past.

00:18:55.340 Plenty of us have problems with what happened in the past, but we have a bit of a more nuanced opinion about it because we've met some of the people who came through that system and not every single person is a victim and not every single person who participated in a leadership role was an abuser.

00:19:08.800 that's just a statement of fact

00:19:10.540 and the fact that somebody decided to torture

00:19:14.640 Coptic church is I guess

00:19:16.880 in a sense really the final straw when it comes to

00:19:18.760 what's going on in this country because that just

00:19:20.880 doesn't have any rhyme or reason

00:19:22.600 at all and it's

00:19:24.540 downtown Surrey

00:19:25.840 there were no residential schools in downtown

00:19:28.760 Surrey not as far as I

00:19:30.820 know someone is welcome to go and

00:19:32.260 take a look for that if they want

00:19:34.900 to someone can go dig that up somewhere

00:19:36.960 if there was a residential school at some point in surrey i guess back when it was still a forest

00:19:41.740 and douglas was still governor of british columbia or maybe a more to cosmos was premier

00:19:47.040 maybe i guess that happened but for for you know for the love of all things good and holy

00:19:55.520 and i'm not being ironic there or superfluous it's like that's just nonsense that just doesn't

00:20:02.760 make sense and that's where we are though like that's i think i think if something we need to

00:20:07.500 understand on the right something that really needs to come through on the right is that we

00:20:10.600 are dealing with crazy like we're dealing with crazy we are dealing with people who do not have

00:20:17.580 any rhyme or reason in their heads none okay none we're dealing with people who are motivated not

00:20:23.820 just by emotion by by by one of the strongest emotions which is hatred and it's backed by an

00:20:30.260 unfathomable amount of deep, endless, bottomless pit of ignorance. And they don't know. They're

00:20:39.240 tearing down statues of people whose name they can't spell, right? They don't know who these

00:20:44.080 people are. They couldn't even, if you ask them to write a paragraph, a disinterested paragraph,

00:20:51.120 something where they're not allowed to use any isms or slurs or libelous comments, they just

00:20:56.120 have to say can you kind of give us the general date not even the perfect date just the general

00:21:00.140 date that johnny mcdonald lived the general timeline that he lived can you give us the

00:21:04.840 briefest biography of him which i believe he was born in scotland and came to canada i'm 98 sure

00:21:10.940 of that certainly he was you know more scottish than the scots his mother preferred gaelic to

00:21:15.380 english and can you you know state you know when when he founded canada or how he began confederation

00:21:23.440 about what time and can you can you name one of his policies some of those people would not

00:21:30.640 even be able to name the cpr i'm not joking that's not me making that up

00:21:34.820 that's what i should have done i should have put this in my thermos then it would stay warm

00:21:40.400 longer i'll do that next time um it's nonsense it's beyond nonsense um i've got something in

00:21:49.980 the private chat here.

00:21:52.320 Today marks 150 years since

00:21:53.700 Amorto Cosmos, his contemporaries have fulfilled the mission of

00:21:55.760 entering Confederation.

00:21:57.440 Is it today? Well, today, sure, but we celebrate

00:21:59.920 BC Day the other day. I'm going to let the producer

00:22:02.060 pull up any of that stuff

00:22:03.900 that he wants to. If he'd like to

00:22:05.600 pull up some more articles on that stuff, I'm going to

00:22:07.880 get rid of this quickly.

00:22:09.660 Remove. I'm going to just close that window.

00:22:12.140 So, the Coptic church thing,

00:22:14.220 it doesn't really get any more

00:22:16.080 straightforward than this.

00:22:18.060 It doesn't, this is the

00:22:19.980 the banality of evil and it's the pinnacle of ignorance you cannot you cannot reason through

00:22:26.380 burning down a coptic church it makes no sense they get that at home they don't they don't need 1.00

00:22:32.660 they don't need their churches burned here because they get burned where they're from 1.00

00:22:36.320 you're trying to make a statement about something like that that's not the church that you you do

00:22:42.380 damage to because that church already suffers with the least of these and with the underclass 1.00

00:22:47.400 and however else you want to put it, and that church

00:22:49.420 had nothing to do with

00:22:51.440 the residential school system. Not justifying 0.95

00:22:53.700 the other actions.

00:22:55.600 Saying, this doesn't make

00:22:57.380 sense. I don't know who you are. I don't know

00:22:59.340 what you're smoking. I don't know

00:23:00.940 how totally whacked out

00:23:03.240 on unreality

00:23:05.420 you are, but that was 1.00

00:23:07.240 really dumb, completely inexcusable, 1.00

00:23:09.800 and born out of 1.00

00:23:10.620 something you could have literally figured out by

00:23:13.160 looking at Wikipedia for 15 minutes. 0.98

00:23:16.040 Absolutely pathetic. 0.98

00:23:17.400 Completely inexcusable. 1.00

00:23:42.600 Oh.

00:23:48.000 Share screen was canceled.

00:23:49.380 Okay, I'm going to put on my share screen.

00:23:53.020 Chrome tab.

00:23:54.180 We had a power outage last night.

00:23:57.300 Sound is gone.

00:23:58.220 Your mic is out.

00:23:59.540 Interesting.

00:24:00.320 Give me a second here.

00:24:02.520 Give me a second.

00:24:03.320 Okay, two seconds.

00:24:04.400 Two seconds.

00:24:11.000 Let's get rid of this.

00:24:12.880 I'm back?

00:24:13.800 Okay, good.

00:24:17.400 thank god all right that was bizarre yeah that happens sometimes we we had a power outage last

00:24:22.720 night and the power outage was not good so we're gonna we're gonna cruise along here for as long

00:24:29.420 as we can if i have to go do stuff i don't have my producer in the room anymore right guys so uh

00:24:34.320 you have to remember that i'm all by my lonesome up here okay no offense to people who like

00:24:41.560 wikipedia and all that stuff but um i'm gonna level with you that that guy really looks like

00:24:47.820 he runs wikipedia okay uh that's that's all i'm gonna say about that i'm sure he's a good guy

00:24:55.020 nice guy but uh that man looks like he most certainly does run wikipedia that does not

00:25:01.660 surprise me okay let's take a look here so remember the segue that we had before my sound

00:25:09.680 went sideways, my camera went off, was

00:25:11.760 if you

00:25:15.720 were

00:25:16.080 looking for a reason

00:25:19.900 to not burn down 0.95

00:25:21.860 a Coptic church because you 0.97

00:25:23.780 needed to understand for about five

00:25:25.640 seconds that it had nothing to do with the

00:25:27.600 residential school system, the place you might have

00:25:29.580 gone was Wikipedia.

00:25:31.400 But now

00:25:33.140 obviously even Wikipedia can't be

00:25:35.580 relied upon. So here we go.

00:25:38.160 Wikipedia co-finder criticizes

00:25:39.500 a site for reliably

00:25:40.940 establishment bias, leftist propaganda.

00:25:44.320 Wikipedia co-founder

00:25:45.620 Larry Sanger said in a recent interview

00:25:47.560 the site has become little more than propaganda

00:25:49.860 and denounced what he called

00:25:51.300 its reliably establishment bias.

00:25:54.160 Speaking to online blog

00:25:55.760 Unheard last week, Sanger said

00:25:57.520 Wikipedia seems to assume that there is only

00:25:59.380 one legitimate defensible version of the truth

00:26:01.520 on any controversial question.

00:26:03.480 Adding that the predominant perspective presented

00:26:05.400 on the site is left-leaning.

00:26:07.380 The word for it is propaganda.

00:26:09.500 when it's systematic and that's

00:26:11.480 really what we're dealing with on Wikipedia

00:26:13.340 said Sanger who co-founded the site in

00:26:15.400 2001 before leaving the project and later becoming

00:26:17.420 a vocal critic you can trust it to

00:26:19.500 give reliably establishment point of

00:26:21.460 view on pretty much everything

00:26:23.600 can you trust it always to give you the

00:26:25.500 truth well it depends on what you think the truth is

00:26:27.500 Wikipedia officials didn't immediately respond

00:26:29.500 to a request by the Epoch Times for

00:26:31.400 comment

00:26:31.900 very big

00:26:35.400 nasty complex game people

00:26:37.460 wanted to push a certain perspective

00:26:39.160 Wikipedia is a pretty reliably

00:26:41.320 establishment. He said that already.

00:26:46.780 Libertarians wanted

00:26:47.420 to make a knowledge.

00:26:48.760 Example, the Ukraine scandal.

00:26:50.760 A little confined Biden article.

00:26:53.640 There's little way

00:26:54.480 the concerns we have about him.

00:26:56.780 Only one version of the facts is allowed, and that

00:26:58.380 gives a huge incentive to wealthy, powerful people

00:27:00.380 to seize control of things like Wikipedia in order to

00:27:02.380 shore up their power.

00:27:05.040 It

00:27:05.220 has 230,000 volunteers

00:27:08.700 3,500 administrators

00:27:11.040 interesting

00:27:13.340 okay so let's

00:27:15.600 let's dive right back into this

00:27:17.620 Wikipedia

00:27:19.060 now

00:27:20.300 I didn't really think we were going to get into this level

00:27:23.720 of philosophy this morning

00:27:25.280 but segueing from

00:27:27.720 how things in my opening statement

00:27:29.520 like just how tense things are

00:27:31.160 to how insane things are

00:27:32.760 that someone's going to burn down a Coptic church

00:27:34.560 which has nothing to do with the residential schools

00:27:36.280 to now the very place that I might've told you

00:27:39.360 to please look at before you went

00:27:41.160 and did something crazy

00:27:42.040 for like the most bare bones explanation of something.

00:27:45.780 That isn't reliable anymore.

00:27:49.500 We're in a crisis of knowledge, right?

00:27:51.360 We're in a crisis of what we know.

00:27:53.380 Now, if we're gonna do,

00:27:55.480 I mean, we really need our token professor on

00:27:59.040 for that entire discussion.

00:28:00.740 We have a couple of token professors.

00:28:01.840 We've had John Robson on this show.

00:28:03.540 We've had Grant Havers a couple of times on this show.

00:28:05.880 And of course, our resident left-leaning PhD, Stuart Parker, which we have to wait for that for Thursday. And Stuart would phrase this differently than I, but if I'm allowed to with just my silly little BA, if I'm going to attempt to give you the Coles Notes version of what's wrong with what's going on in the world today, we have a crisis of knowledge, which comes down to how do we know things, which is to say, how do we know things are true, right?

00:28:31.240 And this goes all the way back really to the Reformation, right? Because what we have to understand about the last 500 years of Judeo-Christian Western history is that at one point, somebody decided to challenge the consensus, the cosmology of what we understood to be the world from heaven and hell and purgatory to the spirit and all the rest of the spiritual realm, the angelic realm, the heavens themselves, the stars in the sky, right down to your own fingers and toes.

00:29:01.240 and your place in the world all of that had one contained understanding and we all operated in

00:29:07.440 that world and then somebody decided to challenge that now not unwarrantedly and we're not going to

00:29:12.840 get into that argument right now but we have to understand that fundamentally that was a crisis

00:29:18.600 of knowledge it's like well you tell us this is how things are but how do we verify that's how

00:29:23.220 things are and the whole thing started to crumble and ever since then things have never stopped

00:29:27.400 crumbling because essentially outside of being able to say two and two equal four though don't

00:29:33.840 ask that in ontario because apparently two plus two equals four equals racist but outside of the

00:29:40.580 hard sciences the idea that we could know things with certainty about our nature about well and

00:29:47.020 the nature of humanity in general the mind motivation right all those things that we used

00:29:52.000 to talk about as the soul and then human virtue got replaced with various soft sciences around

00:29:57.260 psychology and human behavior and of course uh epistemology like how do we know things all of

00:30:04.460 that kind of it all comes from the same place it all comes from the same problem how do we know

00:30:11.220 what's true how do we know what's true and in days of yore that came through a combination of of

00:30:18.380 course the tradition that had been given to you combined with your empirical experience right so

00:30:22.740 and then you balance those things out.

00:30:24.180 So this was our traditional understanding.

00:30:26.340 This new empirical evidence tells us

00:30:28.520 that maybe the traditional understanding

00:30:29.820 needs to shift slightly,

00:30:31.160 and that's the ratchet that you get to have

00:30:34.520 in your lifetime,

00:30:35.800 and everybody else has to in their lifetime

00:30:37.780 as one single kind of culture together,

00:30:42.420 slowly but surely progressing through time.

00:30:46.520 Things did not look the same in Europe

00:30:48.740 from 800 to 1500.

00:30:52.100 There was a big difference between those two time periods, and some of it was technological, and some of it was theological.

00:30:58.460 Now, what does that have to do with what we're talking about today?

00:31:01.320 What that has to do with what we're talking about is that we're in a crisis of knowledge.

00:31:05.520 And that crisis of knowledge is based in many different things.

00:31:09.200 There's many different reasons for it.

00:31:10.440 We can talk about that.

00:31:11.480 But at a fundamental level, if we're going to use just the last 15 months, two years as our base point,

00:31:16.820 as as the lockdowns came in as covid came in we we got into this trap where both the hard and the

00:31:27.220 soft sciences were never going to be able to mesh on the hard science side of things supposedly we

00:31:32.360 could test when the virus was happening and then how many people died while having the virus that

00:31:38.140 was supposedly something we could track and then that gave us a certain amount of numbers in

00:31:43.260 projection as to what was going to happen on the other hand human gut you know because the human

00:31:50.700 gut the human human intuition looking around and not seeing the pile of bodies that we saw during

00:31:56.180 the black plague and even saw during the spanish flu 100 years ago started to question very early

00:32:01.840 on what the point was of the lockdowns and what was really going on and alternative theories for

00:32:07.940 what was happening became the rule of the day so we're in a crisis of knowledge right we're in a

00:32:15.000 crisis of knowledge and people just can't know what's true what's true is this true as what are

00:32:22.580 the things i'm telling you true right like you watch my show do you think what i'm telling you

00:32:26.480 is true do you think i'm trustworthy that's what it comes down to that's what things have come down

00:32:30.280 to you can't really independently verify a lot of things that any of us talking heads say anywhere

00:32:34.460 on the internet, on Fox News, on CBC, wherever else you're going.

00:32:38.800 You can't really verify it independently, necessarily.

00:32:41.360 We're just a bunch of commenters.

00:32:42.540 We're just a bunch of pundits.

00:32:43.700 But you, in the end, have to make your own kind of intuitive decision.

00:32:47.940 And I was never much of a numbers guy,

00:32:50.920 not because I thought the numbers were always lies,

00:32:53.200 but because I thought the numbers never really gave the whole truth.

00:32:57.500 And some people, you know, they would make the argument,

00:33:00.000 they make the argument that

00:33:02.540 you know the whole bikini argument

00:33:05.020 right what they reveal

00:33:06.620 is you know what they reveal

00:33:09.160 is revealing but what they hide is vital

00:33:10.840 I never really got behind that argument when it came to

00:33:13.000 statistics and numbers and that sort of thing

00:33:14.380 it's just that it really

00:33:15.740 it really does tell you things about

00:33:18.860 margins that was always the thing that I went with

00:33:20.860 was margins kind of thresholds

00:33:23.000 and margins and so

00:33:24.500 when we come back to this question

00:33:26.900 of what's going on with say

00:33:28.220 what happened with the pandemic

00:33:29.900 where was the threshold how many how many people did you need to know had been directly directly

00:33:37.920 not with complications directly killed by the virus how many people would that have taken you

00:33:44.020 to think that that was a dangerous thing and that's never to say that one death isn't too many

00:33:49.520 when death is too many but again by that same mentality then don't get in your car and don't

00:33:56.300 eat something that you could easily choke on, only eat mushed food. Choking is a huge killer

00:34:00.940 every year. Don't, you know, don't use any kind of substance that is mood altering, because again,

00:34:08.600 they're all killers, from the legal ones to the illegal ones. So if safety is your goal,

00:34:15.400 you know, nobody works, nobody gets hurt. My beloved says it all the time. They used to say

00:34:19.040 that at work. Nobody works, nobody gets hurt. So how many deaths was too many? How many people

00:34:26.280 dying was too many i am not saying that a single person dying was okay i am saying that if i told

00:34:31.940 you that down the street 10 people died in a in a car accident and they happened to be in one 15

00:34:39.780 passenger van you would assume well that's a tragedy but clearly that driver was not in a

00:34:45.200 good way or he just made a mistake or he hit a telephone pole or whatever and everyone passed

00:34:48.860 away nobody is going to extrapolate from that obviously that every 15 passenger van is obviously

00:34:54.680 a death trap. Nobody's going to think that. If you hear that story two or three or four or 10

00:34:59.480 more times, you're going to start extrapolating that every single 15-passenger van is a death

00:35:04.180 trap, and you're going to start writing letters to that manufacturer to have a recall to figure

00:35:08.320 out why these vans are exploding and killing everybody. That's what you would do. That's how

00:35:13.120 the human mind works. That's how it verifies what is true and risk assessments, right? Risk assessment.

00:35:19.400 Well, that didn't get to happen during the pandemic because nobody was really given the choice. They were just put under lockdown and told to stay inside. And the numbers that we were getting didn't necessarily conform to everybody's sense of panic, which again is a threshold question.

00:35:38.040 What's the threshold that you feel safe at, right?

00:35:40.480 What's the threshold?

00:35:41.100 What's the amount of debt you feel safe carrying?

00:35:43.360 What is the amount of what, how, how much stuff in your canoe are you willing to put

00:35:47.640 in there before you think that your canoe is going to sink, right?

00:35:50.660 That's the way to understand that's, that's human behavior 101.

00:35:54.840 That's the discussion, right?

00:35:56.260 That's human behavior.

00:35:57.540 That's where it all gets based.

00:35:58.820 And much of that is a gut check, right?

00:36:01.540 It's not based on raw numbers.

00:36:02.980 Nobody looks even at just the weight that their canoe can carry and then starts to calculate

00:36:06.520 in their mind.

00:36:07.120 no they start piling stuff in their canoe and then they kind of look at it like well that's a lot of

00:36:11.020 stuff maybe i'll take some out and then they go for a canoe trip that's what they do that's what

00:36:14.740 human beings do all the time they're not numbers people we're not rational creatures on this count

00:36:19.160 but by our intuition by and large we have gotten pretty far in the world and for that matter we

00:36:25.640 gotten all the way to space so you got to give that credit where it's due so not saying it didn't

00:36:30.920 It takes science to get to space.

00:36:32.500 That's not the point.

00:36:34.060 But it did take guts to get to the moon.

00:36:37.420 No kidding, right?

00:36:38.900 But the point being that we're in a crisis of knowledge.

00:36:43.120 How do we know what we know?

00:36:45.020 How do we know what's really true?

00:36:46.480 How do you know what you're seeing in front of you isn't an illusion?

00:36:48.840 How do you know that the economy is even going to be there tomorrow?

00:36:53.400 How do you know your job is secure?

00:36:55.960 Do your beliefs matter?

00:36:57.220 Are your beliefs concrete?

00:36:58.600 do they have something some basis and then some paradigm that's helping keep them all together

00:37:04.580 and we'll talk like i said we'll talk about this with stewart when he gets on on thursday because

00:37:09.360 he just wrote a post about this that was actually really good and and i think that's exactly it there

00:37:14.520 are a lot of people who are afraid there's a lot of people in the darkness there's a lot of people

00:37:18.140 really worried because they just don't know what's happening and how could you know it's a

00:37:25.160 it's total chaos out there there's no there's no rhyme or reason to it so we're going to skip out

00:37:32.400 on not skip out but we're going to move from the how do we know things to the to a comment here

00:37:39.120 from john robson i'm gonna do a share screen here i did like having him on the show i might

00:37:43.400 send him another message see if he can come back on um he's he's a really good contributor actually

00:37:50.340 I really hope I get to bring them back.

00:37:52.700 Burn it all down. There we go. 0.99

00:37:54.600 Okay. 0.99

00:37:57.520 Burn it all down. 0.93

00:37:58.740 Violent language leads to violent 0.99

00:38:00.120 action.

00:38:02.740 Sorry.

00:38:04.780 And that's by John Robson.

00:38:06.500 You wouldn't think opposing burning churches would be

00:38:08.560 controversial in Canada, but it upsets a surprising

00:38:10.640 number of people, including Harsha Walia,

00:38:12.560 former British Columbia Civil

00:38:14.020 Liberties

00:38:16.700 Association head, and a bunch of

00:38:18.400 supporters. How did we get here?

00:38:20.340 that is um that's a good you got to give credit where credit's due that's a good opening

00:38:28.580 how did we get here i mean you give an inch they take a mile right and uh i think i'll get into a

00:38:37.320 little bit more but let's be honest about that like something something has gone wrong in the

00:38:41.220 21st century and it hasn't stopped going wrong hasn't stopped going wrong since september 11th

00:38:45.940 forward and that was all but year one that was 2001 because technically speaking 2000 was year

00:38:52.240 zero and 2001 was year one of the new millennium but the point being that we

00:38:59.640 things have gotten from bad to worse and that's the thing about the 21st century things just don't

00:39:08.420 seem to get better they only seem to get worse and that's not good because at some point you need

00:39:13.000 that other ratchet, the other

00:39:15.040 tick, the other wave in order to kind of

00:39:16.960 reset things, get people better wages,

00:39:19.080 get people in a better position, have social

00:39:21.200 hierarchies move a bit so

00:39:22.960 people feel like they have their turn at the

00:39:25.000 steering wheel. But that's

00:39:26.960 not what's happening.

00:39:28.560 How did we get here? As Global News observed

00:39:31.020 in a June 30 tweet responding

00:39:33.140 to a news article about a pair of Catholic

00:39:34.940 churches burning down, Wally wrote, burn it

00:39:36.940 all down. And she was immediately not

00:39:38.880 fired. Nor

00:39:40.840 two weeks later. Finally, on July 16th, the

00:39:42.780 BCCLA, grudgingly

00:39:45.400 could see that they were cutting her loose in a cowardly 0.96

00:39:47.260 act of capitulation towards a racist 0.99

00:39:49.160 mob. No, really, on

00:39:51.260 announcing her resignation with heavy hearts, the board

00:39:53.200 of directors said in a follow-up letter that

00:39:55.240 their outfit was facing inexcusable racism

00:39:57.260 and misogyny and threats to physical and mental

00:39:59.240 safety. Apparently, we encountered a wave

00:40:01.360 of hateful commentary fueled by the

00:40:03.260 fact that our executive director is a racialized

00:40:05.340 female leader, and crumbled. 1.00

00:40:08.500 They also squeezed 1.00

00:40:09.420 out the modern, I'm sorry you idiots 0.99

00:40:11.320 were offended apology allowing that burning 1.00

00:40:13.300 all down as churches burned left some people with the

00:40:15.280 wrong impression about the values and principles

00:40:16.960 to which we adhere

00:40:17.940 but basically they're the victims

00:40:21.300 you cheer on a few lousy church burnings

00:40:23.220 and the biggest come crawling out of the woodwork in numbers

00:40:25.300 we no longer dare

00:40:27.240 pose

00:40:27.720 so we're going to stop there for a minute

00:40:32.800 now some of you might remember that a certain uh contributor to this program uh has actually

00:40:45.660 defended uh harsha walia's comments insofar that she had the right to make them and i agreed at

00:40:51.260 that moment that she had the right to make them and i simply argued that what was really wrong

00:40:56.400 in this country is there's plenty of people have the right to say all sorts of ostentatious things

00:41:00.020 It's just that when they finally gaslight me into action, I'm the one who gets in trouble.

00:41:04.380 Or when they bring the thunder and I clap back and I clap back hard, they get to hide behind the skirts of our justices and I'm the one who goes to jail. 0.98

00:41:17.180 And you have to say something stupid like, oh, I'm sorry, the gun went off in my hand. 0.98

00:41:21.340 And I do believe that that was something stupid a certain person had to say, despite the fact that he had trespassers on his property who were threatening his family 1.00

00:41:28.060 and quite possibly going to do violence 0.99

00:41:30.100 to his daughters who are home alone.

00:41:31.900 So I completely, completely

00:41:33.920 understand

00:41:35.880 where he was coming from.

00:41:38.480 But let's

00:41:39.740 be clear here.

00:41:42.000 Harsha Walia had

00:41:42.860 the right to say what she wanted to say

00:41:46.000 the same way you have the right

00:41:47.860 to kind of walk around outside and explain

00:41:49.980 why you think everybody should

00:41:51.920 stand on their head.

00:41:53.380 But what went wrong there

00:41:55.160 was

00:41:57.240 or what is wrong there

00:41:59.660 is that I don't really think calling for her

00:42:01.520 cancellation helps anything. I don't think it helps

00:42:03.720 anything to make Harsha Walia not 0.99

00:42:05.620 the executive director anymore of the

00:42:07.780 BC Civil Liberties

00:42:09.820 Association.

00:42:11.580 Sorry.

00:42:13.320 I don't think that that works.

00:42:15.460 And the reason I don't think it works

00:42:16.620 is quite frankly

00:42:18.340 Harsha is a radical,

00:42:21.640 an uncompromised radical. She's just going to go 1.00

00:42:23.320 preach her gospel somewhere else.

00:42:25.140 And at least she was kind of

00:42:26.780 off in a corner there with the BCCLA and now she's cut loose and she can go cause damage 1.00

00:42:33.200 somewhere else. And again, I have respect for Harsha in a purely kind of academic sense of

00:42:38.960 like somebody who just never compromised. You have to give some credit where credit's due

00:42:43.040 for her integrity on that count. But I don't respect what she said. I don't think it was

00:42:47.980 right. And encouraging the burning down of still what is still, even in Canada, the largest

00:42:54.180 charitable organization,

00:42:55.940 the largest charitable organization on earth,

00:42:58.140 the Roman Catholic Church, and all of its 0.91

00:43:00.180 brothers and sisters in the faith

00:43:01.740 then as well. Of course, the world religions

00:43:04.020 that also contribute.

00:43:06.320 Burn it all down is not really the

00:43:08.060 phrase that's going to get you anywhere.

00:43:09.840 I don't think it's worthwhile.

00:43:12.020 I don't think it's a worthwhile thing to say.

00:43:14.460 See if there's anything else to say there.

00:43:16.840 The American Civil Liberties

00:43:18.060 Union famously

00:43:20.060 defended the right of Nazis to march in Skokie,

00:43:22.300 Illinois, in 1978 on the principle

00:43:24.020 courageous basis that sunlight destroys all evil and and i agree with this idea sunlight

00:43:28.380 destroys evil i completely agree with that if you let if you let bad ideas just out into the sun

00:43:33.280 that's good enough it seemed to work it wasn't free speech but wokeism that fueled the counter

00:43:38.960 intolerance of trumpism nowadays these outfits offer just cookie cutter hard left identity

00:43:47.540 as for instance miss wally's wikipedia book are full of anti-capitalism and noting that

00:43:51.720 she's a frequent guest speaker at campuses like conservatives who get forcibly de-platformed

00:43:56.440 in the name of fighting verbal violence with the real stuff so how did we get to this dismal past

00:44:01.180 for 60 years now we've been told to let it all hang out do what thou wilt and frankly give in

00:44:07.720 to the dark side of the force and we did as the older understanding of human nature as requiring

00:44:12.200 personal and social restraints to avoid running amok because we are all sinners gave way to an

00:44:16.420 even older one, where might

00:44:18.340 makes right and losers are mocked.

00:44:20.640 One lawyer tweeted about, well, yeah, let me be clear, 0.96

00:44:22.600 I would help her burn it all down.

00:44:24.240 That would light our way forward, and also

00:44:26.480 I would help defend anyone charged with arson

00:44:28.460 if they actually did burn things.

00:44:30.360 Adding, P.S., burn it all down, doesn't

00:44:32.400 literally mean burn it all down, but just in case,

00:44:34.640 I can also defend both civil and criminal.

00:44:36.740 Yeah, just in case. And some comedian

00:44:38.380 claimed burn it all down is clearly referring to

00:44:40.400 a challenge to historic systemic equalities

00:44:42.140 as a result of ongoing colonization and

00:44:44.420 assimilation in canada shall we then burn down his house a phrase here meaning challenge 0.98

00:44:49.020 meaning challenge ideological excuse making no absolutely not because this brutal neo-pagan 0.80

00:44:54.660 culture is not just on one side today doubtless the bcc la's incoming social media rockets over

00:45:01.620 wally's street and before were often racist and sexist internet commentary is frequently appalling

00:45:07.120 on all sides including the torrent of obscenity in place of argument and too many right-wing

00:45:11.080 pundits being sneering, self-pitying

00:45:13.560 and malevolent. Foxes, Tucker

00:45:15.300 Carson called Wally a monster. There was

00:45:17.260 no charity.

00:45:20.260 We're going to leave that alone

00:45:21.400 for a minute.

00:45:25.400 I mean, I really do need to have

00:45:27.360 Robson back on here because Robson's speaking

00:45:29.220 my language. I really do

00:45:31.220 believe that we live in a kind of neo-pagan time.

00:45:33.640 I do completely agree with that. I think we're

00:45:35.220 leaving behind those Judeo-Christian ethics

00:45:37.340 that got us as far as we

00:45:39.260 did as a civilization.

00:45:41.080 we need to understand just how rare freedom is right and and equality for that matter and for

00:45:49.440 that equal rights or protections under the law freedom under the law equal rights of the law

00:45:53.900 equal rights before the law equality before the law the right to face your accuser that is unique

00:45:59.720 stuff that's unique stuff that's stuff that still doesn't exist in many quarters of the world

00:46:07.520 In all the quarters that I don't need to list, you already know where they are. You can circle them on the map. You can draw great big circles on the map where that doesn't exist. And you can draw very, very tiny ones, minus North America, where it does, in Australia.

00:46:25.100 So equal protections, freedom, self-reliance, the idea of private property, the idea of people freely choosing their associations and freely choosing to be communities together and then come together for common projects or just common protection or just a common leisure.

00:46:47.080 That is rare.

00:46:49.080 That's beyond rare.

00:46:49.960 And at one point, we need to remember, not that long ago, 70, 80 years ago, just into the last century, in the middle of the last century, there wasn't a free democratic government outside of the English-speaking world.

00:47:08.660 All of Eurasia was under tyranny.

00:47:11.720 The Philippines were a basket case. 1.00

00:47:13.240 It was, technically speaking, a protector of the United States. 0.96

00:47:15.300 Japan was fascist 0.95

00:47:17.440 Russia was totalitarian 0.93

00:47:18.960 China was being fought over

00:47:20.680 by two radical factions

00:47:23.540 one right wing, one left wing

00:47:24.720 about what to do

00:47:25.700 Mao's China and the Chiang Kai-shek 0.98

00:47:27.940 Hitler had Germany 0.99

00:47:30.400 Franco had Spain 0.95

00:47:31.660 Mussolini had Italy

00:47:33.020 and of course Hitler had the rest of Europe 0.95

00:47:35.520 when he conquered it

00:47:36.500 from Lisbon to Latvostok

00:47:41.020 and for that matter Tokyo

00:47:43.080 there was not a free government in that contiguous continental mass outside of what was still owned by the British Empire

00:47:55.460 and then the protectorates of the French, the British took over after France fell to Nazi Germany.

00:48:02.460 That was only a few minutes ago as far as history is concerned.

00:48:06.900 That wasn't long ago, and freedom is rare.

00:48:09.320 and before the judeo-christian ethic took over that was the way it was everywhere

00:48:14.780 we had slave-based societies capture culture that happened here with aboriginals as well

00:48:20.800 my people took slaves my people did violence to other people the idea of people being treated 0.89

00:48:25.340 equally just because they happen to be made in the image of god that didn't exist

00:48:29.540 and after all of that you know the judeo-christian ethic changed those things

00:48:37.140 change things for women people want to talk about how misogynistic the judeo-christian idea is 0.89

00:48:44.400 does anybody actually want to go back to polygamy no no one wants that nobody wants to share their 0.54

00:48:52.740 spouse no matter how much they hate their spouse they don't want to share them you know it's 0.54

00:48:58.360 nonsense it's total nonsense and again it's based in a cult of ignorance let's uh finish up what

00:49:03.720 we've got here from mr robson for many years it has been canonical in the west that the enlightenment 0.94

00:49:09.020 finally pried human rights from the brutal superstitious clutches of christianity it is 0.56

00:49:13.900 absurdly a historical the causal cruelty of antiquity is in its is its most bass baffling

00:49:21.520 quality for now at least but it is also a dangerous guide forward because it assumes we can

00:49:27.460 la femme, so 1.00

00:49:29.960 throw out the baby with valor and keep beyond

00:49:31.700 prestige, genteelness, pity, and second

00:49:33.840 chances arising from Christianity's

00:49:35.660 transvaluation of all values with a

00:49:37.900 God who embraced weakness, shame, and victimization. 0.87

00:49:41.620 Cancel

00:49:42.140 culture shows we cannot. Could

00:49:43.700 Caligula be less sympathetic as the lions

00:49:45.940 pounce towards a doomed victim across the

00:49:47.920 arena sand? Or Prime Minister Justin

00:49:49.800 Trudeau's close friend and former advisor, Gerald

00:49:51.840 Butz, tweeting that burning churches might be

00:49:53.660 understandable? Which one doubts he

00:49:55.780 would say of mosques or the head of the union of bc indian chiefs and others dismissing outrageous

00:50:00.960 pearl clutching burn it all down as part of a lexicon of social movements going back two

00:50:05.320 centuries bosh like burn baby burn in the 1960s as far as gutted american inner cities the violent

00:50:11.280 language means what it says driven by violent thinking towards violent actions and these people

00:50:16.440 are not being insincere not even in the whining about microaggression but cheering as churches

00:50:21.360 burns. On the contrary, they think

00:50:23.320 fair play is weakness. Pity is for losers 0.99

00:50:25.260 and they intend to be winners. On a 0.99

00:50:27.260 charred and poisoned landscape.

00:50:30.100 That was brilliant.

00:50:31.320 Good job there, John. I'm going to send him a note

00:50:33.160 and say that was very well done.

00:50:35.820 No, this is precisely

00:50:37.220 it. And this is where we are.

00:50:39.020 This is the end of

00:50:41.140 all things, to a point.

00:50:43.540 We cannot continue

00:50:45.260 down this road because

00:50:47.200 it's going to result in a complete

00:50:49.340 breakdown of civilization.

00:50:51.360 And maybe, maybe the simplest explanation of what is somebody who calls themselves, I remember trying to explain this once to people, because people, like, you know, sometimes they try to peg my politics.

00:51:10.700 And, I mean, I have a particular set of politics in a lot of accounts, and there are some things that I believe that are pretty controversial and bizarre and whatever.

00:51:17.460 and I have some kooky ideas that are kind of innovative

00:51:20.040 but

00:51:21.400 most of the time I tell people

00:51:24.100 I'm a conservative

00:51:24.740 and according to Russell Kirk

00:51:28.340 one of the great conservative

00:51:30.120 writers of the American

00:51:31.200 milieu in the 20th century

00:51:34.160 a conservative might be

00:51:36.000 anybody who thinks himself so

00:51:37.200 because it's not a particularly ideological set of beliefs

00:51:39.920 but one of the fundamental

00:51:42.160 points that I would make is whether you're a conservative

00:51:44.180 or just somebody who wants to be a bit more of a humanist

00:51:46.560 you have to ask yourself what is the fundamental basis of all questions i would say morality i

00:51:53.420 would say and at the end most political questions are actually morality questions you social

00:51:58.260 questions even economic questions like we have to ask ourselves what is kind of the moral compunction

00:52:03.160 or at least the ethical compunction that we have upon ourselves in order to you know protect the

00:52:09.220 least of these but allow those who are stronger to have some fair play over the realm of business

00:52:14.540 property and that sort of thing and a properly free market a market where the thresholds of

00:52:20.680 entering are low and the price of goods are kept competitive through fair play that that would be

00:52:28.120 kind of some some very basic ways of me saying it but again we need to understand in no uncertain

00:52:33.860 terms that it's also dangerous it's also dangerous um we we are losing that fundamental element that

00:52:48.600 makes us a free people you can't have a free people without virtue it's very it's really that

00:52:54.660 simple or if you think that that that's me moralizing when i say all political questions

00:52:59.240 or moral questions you're not hearing what needs to be heard there you can't be free without virtue

00:53:06.700 i can't leave you alone with yourself if i think you're going to just destroy my house all the time 0.64

00:53:11.380 or denigrate your property or just you know manhandle something i can't if i if i can't teach

00:53:17.220 you to be responsible right i'm talking as like a parent to a child sort of thing right and in many

00:53:23.160 respects we we kind of have a similar relationship not necessarily with the state directly i don't

00:53:27.240 like to elevate it to that place of parent, but certainly with

00:53:31.100 the civil society that the state allows to exist

00:53:35.000 and facilitates the existence of. Morality is taught

00:53:39.200 on the soccer field. Morality is taught in the church. Morality is taught at

00:53:43.180 Boy Scouts and Air Cadets and hockey practice.

00:53:46.980 That's where morality is taught. You're taught about how to treat one another. You're taught about what

00:53:50.940 hard work is. That's where morality comes from.

00:53:57.240 And without that, without that virtue and the hard work associated with it, you are in serious danger of creating a world where there is nobody who knows how to behave properly without being watched.

00:54:13.380 and you can't watch everybody

00:54:15.320 because who's going to watch the last guy

00:54:17.440 in line?

00:54:18.740 You can't watch everybody. It's impossible.

00:54:21.300 You can't have a

00:54:23.260 observer-based

00:54:25.240 society.

00:54:28.000 It doesn't

00:54:29.080 work.

00:54:33.800 The Albertans got

00:54:35.100 something for us today.

00:54:36.820 It is tragically humorous that the

00:54:39.140 left-wing began by criticizing classical norms

00:54:41.200 for the 80s and 90s and now is

00:54:43.020 actively enforcing their own norms

00:54:44.800 through social pressure and

00:54:46.900 intimidation today.

00:54:50.340 They are

00:54:51.140 the thing they used to fight.

00:54:52.680 No, you're not wrong about that.

00:54:54.200 You're not wrong about that at all.

00:54:56.460 And the left and the right have essentially switched places

00:54:58.480 on this count.

00:55:02.260 The left and the right have switched places

00:55:06.720 on this count. Absolutely they have.

00:55:08.760 And the reason for that is that

00:55:10.720 what the left did was actually something

00:55:12.600 very brilliant. They created a new morality and then they became the arbiters

00:55:16.500 of the new morality. And that's brilliant. That's brilliant. And I think a way that they

00:55:20.540 got in there, if I may be so bold, one of the ways that the left got to where it is today

00:55:24.680 is that some of the Christianity that was running most of the mainstream

00:55:28.760 was

00:55:30.980 actually very dangerous because it wasn't

00:55:36.620 being supported by people who actually believed in what they were teaching

00:55:40.440 and preaching. So a lot of Christianity or Christian morals or Christian ideas or Christian

00:55:45.600 society, I would argue, especially in the middle of the 20th century, was not being lived out by

00:55:51.760 people who were ardent in their faith. They didn't really believe that was in there. So when society

00:55:55.860 became more permissive, so long as it still observed a lot of other norms, they were able

00:56:00.760 to just roll with it. And they didn't come down hard on it. They didn't push it back to where it

00:56:05.040 needed to go, which was traditional morality. Because what's a little of this? What's this

00:56:08.800 between friends? What's this, you know, what's a little, let the kids have their fun. And slowly

00:56:13.100 but surely everything fell apart. And that's just it, because it requires belief. But we need to be

00:56:19.100 clear, the only thing that kind of worried some of those more liberal, Christian, bougie people 0.99

00:56:26.720 at that time, the only thing that worried them more than kind of the radicals or anarchists or

00:56:32.260 whatever, a certain amount of people getting super comfy and free with some of the ideas that used to

00:56:38.140 govern Christian morality, they were scared more of the fundamentalists, and they were scared more

00:56:43.320 of people who were trying to be particularly convicted in their faith. And so they went with

00:56:47.600 the people who believed less, because they were easier to control, quite frankly. And that's where

00:56:52.020 we are today. There's still a lot of people in the leadership government. I mean, Bonnie Henry

00:56:59.000 is one of them. I don't know if Bonnie Henry believes in God or not. But Bonnie Henry is about

00:57:03.220 as you know kind of mainstream broad church you know wasp as it gets you know her from her name 0.62

00:57:12.380 to her demeanor to the way she walks and talks and the way she moves she looks like a wasp a 0.99

00:57:18.780 white anglo-saxon protestant and and of a certain kind of caliber of church where where who knows

00:57:24.680 if anybody you know they enjoy going there on sunday but who knows if anybody really believes

00:57:29.300 what's happening up there. I'm not saying that they don't. I'm just saying she just is who she

00:57:34.740 is and plays a certain role. But because she looks that way, people trust her. But because

00:57:42.680 she acts still like an apparatchik of the state and not like somebody who's fundamentally compelled

00:57:48.720 by morality, that's another thing people trust because people don't want that morality and the

00:57:57.540 questions of virtue and conviction to be preached at them there is an irony here of course we would

00:58:02.080 say well but she told us to stay home and everything else but that was preaching a new gospel that was

00:58:06.140 preaching the gospel according to covid and it was preaching the technocratic theocracy that she was

00:58:11.080 slowly but surely becoming the high priest of but but she's still displaying you see her you see her

00:58:17.100 and i and you ask someone who's not a complete ignoramus well what what church do you think she

00:58:21.500 goes to down the street and they're going to be able to pick out a church where there's a bunch

00:58:24.240 of people that look just like her without even looking inside. But she's not there. That's not

00:58:31.280 part of who she is. And that's not who she is or what she is. And she doesn't really believe that

00:58:35.640 because although she would have acted upon it, she doesn't. But she looks that way in order to

00:58:40.660 convince us to do the same. And that's what's happened with liberalism. Liberalism preached a

00:58:44.660 new doctrine, leftism. Liberalism became leftism. And leftism preached a new doctrine. And it upset

00:58:50.780 all the old order and once it became the new order it became the arbiters of morality and virtue

00:58:56.140 and it could enforce its order going all the way back to this question of knowledge earlier who

00:59:00.220 knows what people really believe who cares whether or not you believe in the great moving spirit of

00:59:04.940 the sky or if you believe in mother earth or if you're just an atheist whatever in the end

00:59:09.580 if you can enforce your non-convicting belief system that doesn't create good and bad right

00:59:15.980 and wrong, heaven and hell. You can get rid of all that stuff, but

00:59:19.840 strictly enforce your new belief system through the use of

00:59:23.760 technology. You have a powerful tool, a very powerful

00:59:27.720 tool. The Albertan just mentioned here, of course, that Trudeau is Catholic.

00:59:31.800 I'm not arguing that for a second, and I'm not trying to say that somehow

00:59:34.860 Roman Catholics are any better off than anybody else. They're not. I'm a sinner, like everybody 1.00

00:59:39.700 else. With

00:59:43.220 with with respect to our prime minister i think the biggest thing with him too is that again and

00:59:49.580 even like biden right they get to virtue signals of the fact like well they're they're this let's

00:59:54.520 like okay well they might be this but they still vote for policies that end life in the womb and

00:59:59.200 they still they still create policies that that destroy human happiness and human life

01:00:05.760 and the family and they hurt the family um you know that's that's reality and uh people need to

01:00:14.840 be honest about that so we've got a little bit off track here um we're at the bottom of our first

01:00:20.280 hour uh well we're at the top of our first hour we're gonna cruise along here as best we can

01:00:24.800 again i'm sorry about there being no guests today there was power outage

01:00:28.120 things went a little bit sideways so we're just kind of cruising along as best we can

01:00:31.700 keep the comments coming i'll be happy to interact with them a little bit more as we

01:00:37.820 get throughout um what's going on there let's see what do we got next year

01:00:43.940 american academics who is most likely interesting so we got a whole bunch of stuff on

01:00:53.080 covid here i'd actually like to i'll start off with uh i wrote my column this week and i wanted

01:01:01.260 to talk about how COVID has completely evaporated from the public discussion. And

01:01:06.960 I don't really know, I don't really even know what to compare it to, but it has literally

01:01:16.140 evaporated. So for those of us who aren't in British Columbia, I know there's a great deal

01:01:21.900 of us that tune in from Alberta, a couple of people come from Saskatchewan, and then of course,

01:01:26.300 manitoba big shout out to everybody across the western provinces and and others who tune into

01:01:31.780 the western standard we become a national newspaper that's awesome i mean you can take you can access

01:01:37.500 us from anywhere we're on the internet but particularly to my western brothers and sisters

01:01:42.440 just shout out let us know where you're at let us know uh where you're from and what you're what

01:01:47.860 you're doing there and why why you love your hometown and why you love the west uh give us

01:01:52.300 give us your two cents on that. But

01:01:53.880 if we're thinking about what's

01:01:58.300 going on in British Columbia right now, I don't know where you are

01:02:00.320 in the rest of this country or the rest

01:02:02.300 of the world, wherever you're viewing from, but in

01:02:04.260 British Columbia, we are effectively

01:02:05.960 through the pandemic,

01:02:08.440 which is to say nobody's listening to it

01:02:10.440 anymore. It all started with

01:02:12.160 the May long weekend, Save Victoria Day,

01:02:14.700 God Save the Queen. I'm a monarchist.

01:02:16.520 If you're not, I'm sorry about that, but I

01:02:18.280 like the Queen.

01:02:19.140 and and so from from victoria day onwards from the long weekend onwards it was very clear that

01:02:27.040 british columbians had kind of had enough of whatever bonnie was preaching at them and so 0.99

01:02:30.540 they had decided to en masse basically start doing things right they're going out they're going to

01:02:35.900 the cabin they're going to the lake we had a bit of an early summer in british columbia

01:02:38.540 and uh off we went and uh yeah we just went one foot in front of the other

01:02:44.080 and very slowly but surely it's pretty clear that British Columbians were not going to be paying

01:02:50.040 attention to any of these uh any of these rules anymore so what they tried to do is they tried

01:02:56.540 to put the cart before the horse or rather get back in front of the parade before it passed them

01:03:00.680 by so Bonnie Bonnie and Horgan Horgan and Henry they should really make a musical about them

01:03:06.080 Horgan and Henry sometimes Adrian Dix uh they uh they decided that they were going to get in front

01:03:13.480 of this out of control

01:03:15.160 train, this crazy train

01:03:17.580 that's going off the rails

01:03:18.560 and try and tell people how to

01:03:21.500 live their lives again. So by

01:03:23.240 structuring their exit, right? So have an

01:03:25.480 exit strategy. Always have an exit strategy

01:03:27.300 is what they tell me in business and a lot of other things.

01:03:31.760 I always thought having a plan B

01:03:33.380 just made you not commit to plan A. So

01:03:35.280 my advice to you is to never have an exit

01:03:37.420 strategy. Fight your corner, win the battle,

01:03:39.700 take over the world.

01:03:41.560 What happened was

01:03:42.600 they wanted to get ahead of the parade so what what went on was they began this four-phase

01:03:50.360 program here in british columbia and i can't even tell you what each of the phases were but the

01:03:54.820 point is phase one open a little bit phase two open up a little bit more phase three apparently

01:03:59.400 at this point is basically wide open i don't even know what phase four is supposed to look like if

01:04:04.020 you wander around in phase three right now you won't see any difference between summer 2019

01:04:10.820 and summer 2021

01:04:12.900 except

01:04:14.420 except for

01:04:16.940 there are

01:04:18.940 retail workers and other workers who are wearing masks

01:04:21.080 that's it

01:04:21.840 not saying that's okay

01:04:24.540 I don't want them to have to wear masks either

01:04:26.220 if you don't want to wear a mask at work you shouldn't have to wear a mask at work

01:04:28.720 I didn't know that your employer owned your face

01:04:31.000 your employer doesn't own your body

01:04:32.540 your employer has a right to

01:04:35.120 upon payment of you

01:04:36.840 the labor that you provide them

01:04:39.100 in their business. That's what they're right.

01:04:40.960 You're exchanging your labor for

01:04:43.000 their money.

01:04:44.920 That's what it is. You're selling your labor.

01:04:47.340 They have a right to that if you've

01:04:49.140 signed a contract and they're paying you.

01:04:50.960 They don't have a right to your face and they don't have a right to 1.00

01:04:53.080 your body.

01:04:55.820 I thought that was basic

01:04:57.220 civil liberties at this point, but apparently

01:04:58.880 civil libertarians are all about burning stuff

01:05:01.000 down now and not talking about

01:05:02.720 essential freedoms.

01:05:05.180 So,

01:05:06.000 British Columbia is essentially

01:05:08.740 fully open, legitimately have no idea what phase three even means anymore, except that phase four

01:05:13.780 is coming. I don't know what the differences could possibly be. Maybe they finally get to let

01:05:17.580 the retail workers take their masks off. I have no idea. The point that I'm trying to drive home

01:05:21.580 here, though, is that British Columbia is wide open. And with it being wide open, we don't talk

01:05:30.320 about the pandemic anymore it just it doesn't it doesn't get talked about anymore so I'm trying to

01:05:42.060 think of a way of of phrasing this as best I can but but I've just never seen anything anything

01:05:48.600 evaporate like that at that speed I've literally never seen it I've literally never seen anything

01:05:55.980 evaporate at that speed before and that worries me because if the pandemic was really that big

01:06:11.840 of a deal and to the point where we literally locked the churches and we had people stay at

01:06:16.160 home and we handed out free money to people in order to get them to to stay home and not work

01:06:23.100 If you can flip the channel on that that fast, you're not convincing me that this was very important.

01:06:32.200 The people who died, if we're going to concede that people died from the virus, which I'm willing to concede that people died from the virus, I just think almost everybody who died from the virus had comorbidities from just their age and health of their age to actual comorbidities like you're very overweight and diabetic and that sort of thing.

01:06:51.080 short of breath maybe a smoker i don't know so and i say this as a guy who's already a bit of

01:06:58.580 a bigger guy a guy who was quite a bit bigger just a little bit ago and and who definitely

01:07:02.860 smoked for a long time the point being that whatever amount of people died and this comes

01:07:11.580 back to that question that we had earlier like you make decisions based on thresholds you make

01:07:16.040 decisions based on risk assessment. This is the exact same

01:07:20.080 problem again. COVID has evaporated. Evaporated

01:07:23.860 entirely. Entirely. We don't talk about

01:07:28.080 it anymore. We don't, like, I don't know. Like, someday, I guess, someone's going to find a mask in their

01:07:32.000 pocket and they're going to start laughing about it. I don't know. People, every now and again, I guess

01:07:36.080 somebody brings up case numbers, but they bring it up the way you bring up, oh, I should

01:07:40.100 get some Christmas shopping done because it's cheap now in July.

01:07:43.080 there's no question

01:07:46.320 no question at all

01:07:48.740 that

01:07:50.280 the conversation

01:07:53.420 has completely changed

01:07:54.760 into the church burnings and into

01:07:57.120 the climate change question

01:07:58.480 but the conversation around COVID

01:08:00.800 is gone

01:08:01.680 how does something that literally affected the entire

01:08:04.820 world as far as policy is concerned

01:08:06.860 not even talking about the virus itself but the fear

01:08:08.720 of the virus change

01:08:10.460 planet Earth and the way that it

01:08:12.540 runs. And that just doesn't get talked about anymore. It's gone. I really don't know what

01:08:19.120 to say. That concerns me. It concerns me more than the realities of the virus or lack that rub to

01:08:24.780 begin with. The fact that you could just take us from total wartime mode with the virus and to

01:08:29.840 nothing in a minute, that's not. We've got a couple of articles up here on COVID. Let's walk

01:08:40.340 through them uh no sign well we can go through that quickly first

01:08:45.660 um would appear that there is not going to be a change between our relationship and the

01:08:54.920 united states is that too much see no that's good so let's take a quick look here

01:09:02.320 no sign white house plans to ease travel restrictions on canadians so

01:09:09.020 kind of obvious where this article is going but it's kind of interesting

01:09:11.780 you have to wonder

01:09:14.340 at what point is our border going to reopen with the United States

01:09:17.840 the longest undefended border on the face of the earth

01:09:20.240 something we have a lot of pride in about going back and forth

01:09:23.460 and that sort of thing

01:09:24.300 so far

01:09:26.940 so far this isn't going to change anything

01:09:31.220 let's take a look here I know somebody actually

01:09:33.320 speaking of which back in June a friend

01:09:36.340 of me and my beloved's it's actually her maid of honor

01:09:38.840 she attempted to get across the uh the border uh and she she approached her several times she had

01:09:45.160 the proper documentation and everything but they just weren't letting her through even though she

01:09:49.560 did have a spot reserved for her on the other side and that was it like i'm trying to imagine

01:09:55.980 not getting through in my own time i remember one time trying to get through the border when i was

01:10:00.100 still in university uh i had a bit of a difficulty because i was totally packed up ready to go and

01:10:05.040 they thought i was going to become an illegal immigrant i'm like oh no no i'm coming down here

01:10:08.720 to buy gas from america because i'm about to go on a trip all the way to ottawa and they're like

01:10:14.360 you gotta drive all the way to ottawa isn't that like further than chicago i'm like yeah it is

01:10:18.460 they're like you're insane i'm like well maybe but i'm legit not trying to move to the united

01:10:23.800 states i'm trying to go to ottawa because i have to go get something done and they're like okay 0.80

01:10:27.440 well whatever you weirdo the united states is not currently planning to reciprocate by easing

01:10:33.360 travel restrictions on would-be canadian visitors hoping to go south of the border

01:10:37.200 On August 9th, fully vaccinated U.S. citizens and permanent residents will be allowed into Canada, joined by the rest of the world.

01:10:44.000 September 7th, federal officials announce Monday as the country prepares to lower border barriers that were erected to limit COVID-19.

01:10:51.560 We get rid of our old friend Matthew Selle there, or Gurney, or whatever his name is.

01:10:56.580 However, when Public Safety Minister Bill Blair said he breathed Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas,

01:11:04.800 Alejandro Mayorkas

01:11:07.080 about the steps Canada intended to take

01:11:09.740 he got no indication the U.S. would be

01:11:11.640 following suit before the existing restrictions

01:11:13.540 are set for renewal on Wednesday

01:11:14.940 he indicated to me that this time

01:11:17.660 they had not yet made a decision

01:11:19.480 at this time not yet made a decision

01:11:20.760 would likely be extended on July 21

01:11:23.220 imbalance assured agro-domestic

01:11:27.440 political tensions

01:11:28.440 i think i think this gets a general point uh across i mean ultimately the border being closed

01:11:49.860 hurts uh yeah there's sheldon he's finally back i do need to get more sleep sheldon i don't know

01:11:57.060 if you've been watching the show but it's i've literally been up for way way way too long

01:12:00.900 because i have to defend my church from would-be arsonists which is not those literally not words

01:12:08.820 i ever thought i'd have to say okay back to work um we have to remember that it pays them a lot

01:12:16.760 better to keep the border closed than it does us right like they don't the last people they lose

01:12:21.200 up here for tourist dollars the more they spend in their own country and it's and canada is just

01:12:25.820 not.

01:12:28.260 Canada just isn't important to

01:12:29.860 them.

01:12:30.900 They're both day-to-day things.

01:12:33.780 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I need to get more sleep.

01:12:36.020 I'm sorry. I will do my best to get more

01:12:37.820 sleep as soon as I don't have to

01:12:39.720 go to church at three in the morning.

01:12:42.160 In all seriousness, though,

01:12:43.680 America doesn't 0.92

01:12:47.860 lose much when it comes

01:12:49.760 to not opening its border with Canada.

01:12:51.480 As long as the commercial traffic goes through,

01:12:53.600 it just gets less people stealing its milk especially in the lower mainland um it's it's

01:13:00.060 sad it's sad but it's true it's true and uh america america is a country unto itself it has

01:13:10.080 a huge amount of natural resources it has a gigantic population it still has even with the

01:13:15.700 amount of reduced uh manufacturing it has it still has a real manufacturing base unlike canada

01:13:20.480 And it's, you know, it's a country unto itself.

01:13:24.240 It doesn't need us.

01:13:25.200 It doesn't need us at all.

01:13:27.020 And that's an interesting statement, but it's a statement of fact.

01:13:31.100 And we're not going to get anywhere by getting into, you know, fisticuffs with the United States.

01:13:42.600 Doesn't sound like there's much more to that article.

01:13:45.760 So we get back to full screen here.

01:13:48.140 well let's talk a little bit more about

01:13:50.920 COVID

01:13:51.280 this is interesting why don't we go to the Jerusalem

01:13:56.920 Press it's a bizarre place to be

01:13:59.000 but

01:13:59.280 not a bizarre place

01:14:02.920 I mean Jerusalem Press is a pretty reliable

01:14:04.900 source of information

01:14:06.320 just not something again that

01:14:08.200 I never really think that I'd

01:14:09.680 I'd use

01:14:12.560 but hey why not

01:14:13.620 that's why I have a producer who helps me

01:14:16.060 alright let's read through this

01:14:18.280 who is most likely to develop severe

01:14:20.380 COVID-19 even after

01:14:22.300 a second jab 1.00

01:14:22.940 research by Israeli doctors explains how

01:14:26.080 and why some vaccinated individuals

01:14:27.560 will still end up hospitalized due to the virus

01:14:29.900 now

01:14:30.500 I guess they could say this is salting

01:14:34.080 the field right people would say that

01:14:36.120 right hey

01:14:36.680 you know

01:14:43.300 if

01:14:44.200 I got you to apologize to me

01:14:50.020 for something you did wrong

01:14:51.140 and I respond at the very end of it by saying

01:14:53.860 well I know you're going to do it again

01:14:55.640 I've both undermined your apology

01:14:58.200 and I've set the expectations

01:14:59.800 and kind of cursed you in a kind of permanent position

01:15:02.280 you've been pigeonholed

01:15:03.120 I know you're going to do it again

01:15:05.960 so I mean go ahead and say sorry

01:15:07.940 but what do I care

01:15:09.620 it's salting the field right

01:15:11.660 and the reason that I'm bringing this up is that

01:15:13.740 when it comes to this in the Jerusalem

01:15:15.580 Post, one has

01:15:17.840 to wonder

01:15:18.340 that

01:15:21.260 if you got both

01:15:23.620 vaccinations, both shots, or whatever you're doing,

01:15:26.720 you're double vaccinated,

01:15:28.140 whatever, you get your two boosters, I don't care what

01:15:29.800 they are, I don't even understand how that

01:15:31.360 is all put together, but the point is

01:15:33.760 because I didn't get it, and I'm not planning to get it,

01:15:35.800 but let's say for a moment that you had

01:15:37.820 decided to get it, and maybe you got it because workforce

01:15:39.820 you do, and so let's say you got the one

01:15:41.860 that so far as we know has had the least amount of complications. As far as I know, go ahead and

01:15:46.800 tell me otherwise, but the Pfizer, right? The Pfizer, as far as I know, has been the least

01:15:52.500 problematic. Not saying you should get it. Not saying that that's a good one. Not endorsing

01:15:56.320 Pfizer. I ain't getting paid by them. Let me tell you. Just saying from what I've heard, that's the

01:16:01.580 one that I haven't heard a ton of problems about. But let's say that you went and got vaccinated.

01:16:08.600 And let's say you did it for work or you did it for kids or you did it for your grandparents

01:16:11.060 because they're really vulnerable whatever i don't care the point is that after you did your

01:16:15.420 your duty right and got the jab would you accept that there was a way for you to still end up in

01:16:22.060 hospital from this disease you already did everything you're supposed to do and you did

01:16:26.260 the social distancing you did everything and you still end up in the hospital because of the

01:16:29.960 disease hopefully you don't die right but you're in a severe situation uh you know albert has said

01:16:36.780 we are living in the presence of a fear-based cult you are not wrong about that you're not

01:16:40.780 wrong about that so let's think about that for a minute if you already had your jabs why would you

01:16:46.780 think to yourself that it's okay to be you know to get the disease again it's like you did your

01:16:52.160 due diligence you still got the disease again at that point you have the flu shot and at that point

01:16:56.880 we're all doomed because that's that's another gigantic lie then they said that this was

01:17:03.580 different well people can get the flu shot and still get influence because they pick between a

01:17:08.460 B and C or whatever. They pick every year, they pick

01:17:10.440 a different strain, trying to predict

01:17:12.380 which is the strain that's going to show up in the

01:17:14.340 populace. Well, people

01:17:16.400 still get the flu.

01:17:19.400 So

01:17:19.800 what are you going to do about it?

01:17:23.060 Okay, start again.

01:17:24.520 Who is most likely to develop severe

01:17:26.200 COVID-19 even after

01:17:28.340 a second jab? And this is from the

01:17:30.420 Israelis. I think one of the reasons why this 1.00

01:17:32.340 is from the Israelis, to be completely honest with you,

01:17:34.860 is that the Israelis

01:17:36.540 had a very high vaccination rate.

01:17:38.140 like extremely high, like they were one of the first countries to reach all but 100%.

01:17:41.800 So let's get into it. Older individuals with many underlying medical conditions and

01:17:49.220 immunosuppression are more likely to contract coronavirus and would develop a severe case

01:17:56.380 of COVID-19 even after being fully vaccinated, according to a world first study conducted in

01:18:01.760 Israel. Question. Why 0.98

01:18:05.620 were we telling old people to get vaccinated then if it turns out that it's

01:18:09.820 not going to help anything?

01:18:14.260 I don't know what to tell you. That doesn't add up.

01:18:26.420 I don't know what to tell you.

01:18:28.080 I don't know what to tell you.

01:18:29.340 So if older people,

01:18:32.560 and whatever,

01:18:33.620 people who are elderly,

01:18:34.720 people who are vulnerable,

01:18:36.080 got their vaccination

01:18:36.960 and they're still going to get,

01:18:39.020 to what end?

01:18:40.840 What's the point?

01:18:43.080 A minority of vaccinated individuals

01:18:44.640 will contract coronavirus

01:18:45.760 and a small percentage of those

01:18:47.140 will end up hospitalized

01:18:47.940 because of the virus.

01:18:48.680 This is called a breakthrough infection.

01:18:52.000 But who are these people?

01:18:53.240 A team of Israeli doctors

01:18:54.400 led by Professor Tal Brosh,

01:18:56.260 head of the Infectious Disease Unit at Samson Astad Hospital studied 152 fully vaccinated

01:19:05.580 patients from 17 hospitals who developed COVID-19 more than seven days after they received their

01:19:10.640 second vaccine dose and required hospitalization before the end of April. The cohort was small

01:19:16.780 because not many vaccinated people who contract coronavirus with severe infection, the vaccine is

01:19:22.760 97% to 98% effective

01:19:24.520 against the standard variant, it's

01:19:26.760 proving to be almost as effective against the Delta

01:19:28.700 variant. So far, despite

01:19:30.800 a rapid spike in coronavirus

01:19:32.440 cases in Israel,

01:19:34.700 the number of serious cases seems to be climbing

01:19:36.580 slowly.

01:19:38.760 Interesting.

01:19:42.340 Overall,

01:19:43.060 we can say that the main thing

01:19:44.860 is that these are not

01:19:46.080 healthy people. Almost all

01:19:48.720 of them had comorbidities.

01:19:50.680 Heart disease, lung disease, renal disease,

01:19:52.520 dementia, cancer

01:19:53.440 dementia

01:19:55.380 okay, hold the phone

01:19:57.120 I'm not a doctor

01:20:04.100 but

01:20:07.340 can someone explain to me, perhaps Dr. Cannabis can

01:20:10.480 because he's in the comments, perhaps Dr. Cannabis

01:20:12.440 is a doctor, in all seriousness

01:20:14.440 though, if there's any medical professionals

01:20:16.340 listening in, now or later

01:20:17.780 could you explain to me please how dementia

01:20:20.380 is a comorbidity

01:20:22.240 with a respiratory

01:20:25.540 disease.

01:20:27.520 I don't understand.

01:20:29.940 I need you to explain that

01:20:31.640 to me. I don't...

01:20:33.800 I'm being a bit sarcastic and a bit

01:20:35.580 sardonic, but in all seriousness, if I'm just

01:20:37.420 totally missing the boat as to how dementia

01:20:39.600 is a comorbidity,

01:20:41.980 then go right

01:20:43.580 ahead. And dementia is being mentioned in the same

01:20:45.960 sentence. Let's try this again.

01:20:47.560 Specifically, 71% at hypertension,

01:20:50.000 48 diabetes, those are both serious

01:20:51.740 things congestive heart failure also serious chronic kidney disease also serious chronic

01:20:57.580 lung disease also serious dementia and then cancer i don't know what to tell you dementia

01:21:06.760 doesn't belong in this list dementia is not a

01:21:10.600 i yeah never mind i'm going to leave that alone somebody please explain to me how dementia is a

01:21:18.360 comorbidity for COVID-19.

01:21:20.080 That's,

01:21:21.000 that's,

01:21:22.820 yeah,

01:21:22.940 I don't know how to,

01:21:23.540 I don't know what to say to that.

01:21:24.940 Moreover,

01:21:25.460 the studies show that 40% of patients were immunocompromised.

01:21:28.820 If your immune system does not function well,

01:21:30.660 you're at higher risk.

01:21:32.820 Thank you,

01:21:33.480 Dr.

01:21:33.800 Brosh. 0.73

01:21:35.620 The median time that lasts from the second dose to optimization was 40

01:21:39.640 days.

01:21:40.640 In age of the patient was 71.

01:21:42.140 In most cases,

01:21:42.880 the source of the patient's infection was unknown.

01:21:45.060 to those who have

01:21:48.620 counts more than 90%

01:21:50.340 he said that Delta variant seems to be breaking through

01:21:52.720 if you're older and have comorbidities

01:21:55.900 and definitely if you have a lot of comorbidities

01:21:59.060 or are immunocompromised

01:22:00.600 you cannot assume you will be protected by the vaccine

01:22:02.800 I don't

01:22:08.720 i don't i don't i don't know what to say to that still with the with the dementia thing i don't

01:22:19.440 i'm genuinely i'm like you can hear me i'm all but tongue-tied like i just can't i can't express

01:22:26.020 myself i'm just shocked like it how does dementia count as a comorbidity that doesn't make sense

01:22:32.280 it's comorbidity with car accidents i guess like i mean you forget how to drive like it

01:22:37.120 i'm so glad i was raised by a doctor but did not go into the medical profession because at this

01:22:44.640 point one the inmates are running that asylum too make no mistake the managers are in charge

01:22:49.240 of everything who have no clinical experience and all need to be fired terminated their salaries

01:22:53.320 turned to frontline staff so actual people get actual help but in all seriousness here like

01:22:58.440 some of that some of that uh socratic method and and the hippocratic go then just general kind of

01:23:05.600 ideas around you know how to approach a problem particularly a biological one or a human problem

01:23:11.020 hey this is a human being they're not a linear system they have these things wrong with let's

01:23:14.720 talk about the symptoms let's talk about the diagnosis what's the prognosis and the treatment

01:23:19.660 and then what do we think is going to happen i'm lucky to have been raised around that stuff

01:23:23.920 the point being that dementia i don't i don't understand how that's a comorbidity because it's

01:23:31.660 a respiratory disease and unless like i guess the demented person needs to take medication and

01:23:37.700 therefore forgets i don't i don't understand that that makes no sense so somebody somebody help the

01:23:44.600 people writing that study because that makes no sense we're gonna move on

01:23:49.280 do i talk about mayor marjorie taylor i don't really want to get into the marjorie taylor

01:23:56.420 thing we're not going to bother with that today uh facebook says it won't be blamed for u.s

01:24:01.640 failing to meet COVID-19 vaccine

01:24:03.960 target, as if somehow Facebook

01:24:05.820 is in charge of who does what.

01:24:07.560 This is interesting. So let's do this again.

01:24:09.740 So we're already back into...

01:24:13.740 Okay, so people are

01:24:15.160 kind of helping me here. People with dementia

01:24:17.380 are often compromised with health issues, usually succumb.

01:24:20.660 Dementia was included as

01:24:21.540 representative for the... Thank you, Sheldon.

01:24:23.280 Thank you, Pamela. I still

01:24:25.320 don't see the...

01:24:26.980 For me, that's still

01:24:29.220 two steps removed as a comorbidity, but I don't

01:24:31.600 we're gonna leave that alone

01:24:33.000 we'll talk to you about that another day

01:24:35.080 I'm still just blown away

01:24:37.180 you have to remember I'm also functioning on like no sleep

01:24:39.500 so maybe I'm just getting obsessed with something

01:24:41.640 that makes no sense

01:24:42.780 okay here we go

01:24:44.140 the American Academy

01:24:47.780 of Pediatrics

01:24:49.440 recommends masks in school

01:24:51.420 for everyone regardless of vaccination status

01:24:53.560 okay

01:24:59.920 sigh

01:25:01.600 If the mask works, why the social distancing? If the social distancing, why the mask? If both work, why the plexiglass? If the plexiglass, then why the mask for the cashier? And finally, if all those things work just fine and the virus is working its way through the population building herd immunity, why the vaccine?

01:25:23.720 And if the vaccine works, why the re-implementation of masks or school closures or whatever?

01:25:32.620 These are fair, logical questions to ask based on what we have in front of us.

01:25:42.000 Based on the empirical evidence in front of us, you are allowed to cross-examine it.

01:25:45.020 Those are the cross-examination questions to ask.

01:25:47.580 And nobody, nobody, again, after almost two years, has explained it.

01:25:53.720 no one

01:25:56.720 we are now into this article

01:26:01.720 again from the Epoch Times

01:26:03.420 I guess we just do the Epoch Times all the time

01:26:05.340 you can all tell where my producer's bias leans

01:26:07.540 American Academy

01:26:09.580 of Pediatrics recommends masks in school

01:26:11.900 for everyone regardless of vaccination status

01:26:13.980 again

01:26:16.100 then why did I bother taking the vaccine

01:26:18.340 to be clear I didn't take the vaccine

01:26:20.200 I'm using the royal I 0.95

01:26:21.620 the royal we

01:26:22.460 Why did we bother to get vaccinated if this is what's going to result?

01:26:28.840 You promised me that if I played your little game with Big Pharma, I would be given my freedom back.

01:26:34.600 But now you're taking my freedom away again.

01:26:37.000 I don't think that's very fair.

01:26:38.460 That's not playing fair.

01:26:39.460 But then again, they were never going to play fair, were they?

01:26:41.620 Okay, let's roll through this.

01:26:42.680 the american academy of pediatrics otherwise known as the aap on monday issued updated

01:26:50.980 guidelines for school reopenings urging all staff and children over the age of two to wear masks in

01:26:57.780 schools regardless of vaccination status a posture that is stricter than the mask wearing guidance

01:27:03.920 issued by the centers for disease control and prevention of course the cdc is based in atlanta

01:27:09.560 georgia and we all remember that from various other things that taught us that but of course

01:27:13.220 either the game pandemic which was risk for nerds who really wanted to see what the wuhan flu would

01:27:19.000 be like 10 years before it came out well five years or whatever or uh thanks to the walking

01:27:25.660 dead show we all remember where the cdc is located but two so if you're saying two we all know what

01:27:33.540 that means if you're saying two right that means that you're talking about daycare so you're talking

01:27:41.740 about daycare you're talking about sunday school you're saying you're going to put a mask on a

01:27:47.020 two-year-old our local costco tried that trick i mean i think some people had to conform but like

01:27:54.240 how does how does that work go ahead and put a mask on a two-year-old see how well that goes

01:27:59.700 for you. That's not going to happen. The AAP called its new

01:28:03.560 guidance a layered approach, which includes recommendations for building ventilation,

01:28:07.420 quarantining, as well as cleaning and disinfection.

01:28:11.440 We need to prioritize getting children back into schools.

01:28:14.820 Play a role in making that sure it happens safely. Combining layers of protection that include

01:28:19.120 vaccinations. In-person learning is safe and possible.

01:28:23.980 Association said universal masking is necessary because much of the

01:28:27.440 student population is not eligible for vaccines.

01:28:32.500 But

01:28:33.020 we've already observed

01:28:34.780 that COVID-19 isn't

01:28:37.520 particularly deadly to

01:28:39.060 young people.

01:28:41.740 That was one of the conclusions

01:28:43.620 we reached really early on in the pandemic.

01:28:45.660 What does the Albertan have to say to Estee?

01:28:47.500 We must put the most punitive measures on the

01:28:49.420 United States at risk.

01:28:51.120 No, that's bang on.

01:28:54.160 That's bang on.

01:28:57.440 at least able to actively

01:28:59.540 disobey, which are children.

01:29:01.280 Yep. Yep. Nope. Completely agree.

01:29:03.820 This makes no sense. Let's keep rolling

01:29:05.640 here.

01:29:07.380 Universal masking. Because they aren't eligible

01:29:09.720 for vaccines. Well, what are we going to do?

01:29:11.400 Lower the vaccine rate? Good lord.

01:29:13.520 There are dozens of circumstantial studies suggesting

01:29:15.580 that masks work to stem the spread

01:29:17.680 of the CCP

01:29:19.560 virus, which causes

01:29:21.460 the disease COVID-19.

01:29:23.580 Nice. Epic times.

01:29:25.320 Chinese Communist Party virus.

01:29:27.440 Although there has been just one randomized control trial during the pandemic carried out in Denmark, the researchers found that wearing a surgical mask when outside the home, among others, did not reduce at conventional levels a statistical significance incident of infection compared with no mask recommendation.

01:29:47.200 senators in new jersey recently held a hearing to explore the efficacy and negative effects of

01:29:53.840 mask mandates in schools for children found the scientific evidence does not support such mandates

01:29:58.500 the aap's recommendation on universal masking in schools with exceptions for those with a medical

01:30:03.500 or developmental condition stricter than the cdc guidelines dr fauci uh said that the aap

01:30:11.320 stricter guidance makes sense when you have a degree of viral dynamics i don't i can't read

01:30:18.400 what she said i'm gonna i'm gonna pass out mask wearing amid the covet 19 pandemic has become a

01:30:25.660 little a hot button issue everybody knows that while generally being the mandates is minor

01:30:31.180 inconvenience well they were more than a minor inconvenience they caused high anxiety and i mean

01:30:36.900 How many times did you forget your mask somewhere?

01:30:40.780 Just getting in and out of places was a colossal waste of time.

01:30:47.760 And it still makes no sense.

01:30:49.200 It makes no sense.

01:30:50.320 Sit down at a restaurant, no mask on.

01:30:52.440 Breathe in the same air as everybody else.

01:30:53.960 But somehow when you're sitting in the restaurant, you're fine.

01:30:59.580 Pamela's got something to say about this.

01:31:01.220 so ask yourself why didn't government require these restrictions for all the other lethal

01:31:07.440 airborne diseases certainly ones that seem more lethal i think h1n1 actually probably killed

01:31:11.660 people especially younger people more frequently i'm pretty sure that's the case we'd have to look

01:31:15.180 that up but i i'm gonna pause here for a second and if you think i'm just trying to run out the

01:31:21.560 clock you might not be wrong because i am a little tired and i'm doing my best to keep this together

01:31:26.100 really wish we had a guest today sorry we don't but i thought we've had a pretty engaging day

01:31:30.680 pretty engaging

01:31:33.220 this coffee is helping

01:31:34.580 I got to clean this cup though

01:31:36.240 that's why I never put coffee in

01:31:38.280 here's the deal

01:31:42.700 nice use of the word Jacobins

01:31:48.140 Damien nice

01:31:49.340 if

01:31:56.500 we already just went through the whole

01:32:00.000 if the mask works thing and if the vaccine works thing and when do I get my freedom back thing

01:32:05.080 let's just concentrate on this again one last time

01:32:08.920 we we went through the pandemic and the way the way that I would kind of approximate

01:32:17.600 the way that say all's well that ends well

01:32:21.200 is that I'm guessing that my sound cut out for a second here because I just had my camera flash

01:32:29.160 that's what happened last time but i'm gonna keep going here because last time it reset so

01:32:32.260 if we imagine for a moment everything that we've learned the last couple of months when it came to

01:32:37.920 what was going on with covid and everything else if we've learned anything it's that basically

01:32:43.160 nothing worked really nothing and and at this point now they're admitting that even the the

01:32:48.220 vaccine might not work which is something that was being talked about in more conspiratorial circles

01:32:54.120 six months ago, like way back, way back when they were talking about possibly making vaccines

01:32:59.680 mandatory. One of the first things that came back from the other side of the spectrum was

01:33:03.180 don't you dare make them mandatory, not just because I don't want to turn into a space lizard

01:33:06.960 or have my baby get hurt because I'm pregnant or whatever, but because we all know that the

01:33:14.560 vaccine might not totally work. And indeed, the second words out of some of those lips back when

01:33:19.660 the vaccine was announced was yeah no the vaccine might not work it might not be perfect it might

01:33:25.280 not perfectly work and now we're finally having that discussion in real time and i don't think

01:33:38.960 people it hit home for people before it's kind of like yeah i know you know like sign the bottom

01:33:42.460 of the agreement there's a you know a big long list of legalities here it's oh yeah i'm sure

01:33:46.260 it'll be fine and then finally you get something goes wrong you have to look at the legalities

01:33:49.460 You're like, I didn't sign up for this.

01:33:51.640 The impression you left me with is like, oh, yeah, there's some legalities here, but I'm

01:33:54.460 still going to get paid by insurance.

01:33:55.840 I'm still going to get my benefit.

01:33:56.800 I'm still going to get what I paid for.

01:33:58.080 I'm still going to get something in exchange.

01:33:59.520 It's like, well, no, I mean, you should have read the fine print before you signed.

01:34:02.360 It's like, well, you shouldn't sell things to people that aren't true and are just bills

01:34:07.640 of goods.

01:34:09.520 Bill of goods.

01:34:11.280 So the same thing here.

01:34:13.380 We were told that if we played the game, we would be set free, right?

01:34:19.460 and that didn't happen

01:34:24.380 and again just the Albertans point there all's well that ends well

01:34:28.000 it's a way to minimize and mentally negate the destruction along the path

01:34:31.880 no I this kind of that I agree with that and so what's the

01:34:36.040 opposite of that it was the opposite of that when things don't end but all

01:34:39.660 all's bad that ends worse all's terrible that ends

01:34:43.980 even worse than you could have imagined I don't really know what to say

01:34:48.300 i don't um it's they told us and again the royal us the royal we royal i the plural

01:34:59.160 they told us guys they told all of all of y'all and all of me and all of us right that if we

01:35:06.380 played the game we would be released from the restrictions and we would be given the ability

01:35:12.880 to just walk around and do whatever we want and that the vaccine while it may not work perfectly

01:35:17.960 was certainly not going to have the problems that we thought it might

01:35:20.040 have or that whatever

01:35:21.420 and now here we are with

01:35:24.040 millions of people who have signed up

01:35:26.120 to get vaccinated and have already received a

01:35:28.020 jab or two

01:35:28.800 and in the middle of that they're telling people oh by the way

01:35:32.120 this isn't over you know how you

01:35:34.020 just thought it was over and you know that's how we got a lot

01:35:36.100 of you to come into this big big tent and start

01:35:38.040 getting jabbed with stuff

01:35:39.100 they are in the middle

01:35:41.840 of pivoting while everybody's

01:35:44.020 distracted by everything else maybe that's the

01:35:45.920 history of what happened maybe that's the secret of what happened with COVID it was getting too

01:35:49.820 long in the tooth in its current format which was lockdown lockdown lockdown at least here in

01:35:54.340 British Columbia but a huge amount of lockdowns mask mandates all this stuff so people just needed

01:35:57.700 to be let their beans get run out they needed to be released I don't know if your parents ever

01:36:01.820 used that one get your beans out that's what they always said to me that people needed their beans

01:36:05.900 out so they let them out and meanwhile they were quickly busy working on the rest of this story

01:36:13.040 which was they're already salting the field to say no guess what vaccines might not work

01:36:17.880 and even if they do work or work a little bit or there's enough there's enough problems

01:36:24.880 enough problems and who defines there's enough problems is one person dying even if they get

01:36:30.020 the vaccine is that mean we need to all do something about it is it 10 is it a thousand

01:36:35.840 in a population of how much i don't know i don't know what the answer to that question is you'd

01:36:42.200 have to ask some kind of actuary statistician guy. But the gut feeling I have for me is that

01:36:47.200 at a certain point, we can only have our seatbelts on for so long. We put on our seatbelts

01:36:54.840 and we drive our car. We don't put on five-point harnesses. We put those on kids in car seats in

01:37:00.900 the back. We don't put them on adults. And we don't put them on adults not only because of the

01:37:04.860 egregious expense and the inconvenience, but because we trust that the adults are going to

01:37:08.880 drive in a somewhat fat and somewhat you know safe manner even at speed because they want to

01:37:15.040 get home in one piece that night and they don't want their nice vehicle wrecked to crap they don't

01:37:20.160 want that so that's what we do we give people the option it comes to their safety and we expect them

01:37:26.260 to take care of the rest or else we would have to be monitoring things that are impossible to

01:37:30.500 monitor you could not pay enough people to check up on other people to make sure they were being

01:37:35.380 well behaved that doesn't exist you can't do that and so what i'm saying here is pretty simple i

01:37:47.640 don't see the way forward when you create a system where canadians feel cajoled and bullied into

01:37:56.460 getting the vaccine and then they were promised that that would get them that would get them

01:38:01.240 safely to the other side and now they're being told

01:38:03.180 oh yeah by the way

01:38:04.100 vaccine might not work 0.90

01:38:06.360 I

01:38:09.300 I don't have an answer to that

01:38:12.880 I don't have an answer to that

01:38:17.340 well we're going to come back

01:38:21.280 to this question of what do we know and what don't we know

01:38:23.260 so apparently there's one last little

01:38:25.380 tab here

01:38:26.320 Facebook says it won't be

01:38:29.320 blamed for U.S. failing to meet

01:38:31.180 COVID-19 vaccine target.

01:38:32.940 On Friday, the President Joe Biden said

01:38:34.940 should get rid of the 0.84

01:38:36.680 President Joe Biden said that social media

01:38:39.200 networks are killing people by allowing the spread

01:38:41.120 of misinformation about coronavirus

01:38:42.800 vaccines.

01:38:46.240 Facebook

01:38:46.840 Incorporated expanded on its pushback

01:38:49.280 to U.S. presidents

01:38:50.700 by July 4th.

01:38:56.800 Biden said Friday that social media networks

01:38:59.060 are killing people by the spread of

01:39:00.820 misinformation

01:39:01.960 about coronavirus.

01:39:08.360 Okay.

01:39:10.240 After the social media

01:39:11.280 giant said Friday the administration's

01:39:13.740 assertions were not supported by

01:39:15.120 facts, Facebook Vice President of Integrity

01:39:17.020 Guy Rawson posted a blog

01:39:19.020 Saturday using

01:39:20.800 customer service and other actions

01:39:23.020 the company had taken in their defense.

01:39:25.940 At the time

01:39:26.980 when COVID-19 cases were rising in America,

01:39:28.780 the Biden administration has chosen to blame

01:39:30.700 a handful of American social media

01:39:32.760 companies. A handful.

01:39:34.600 There are only a handful. There's only like

01:39:36.560 four of them.

01:39:40.780 Which you could not believe that there was sufficient

01:39:42.740 response to a life or death issue.

01:39:46.220 Should

01:39:46.660 social media be the reason that we know anything

01:39:48.780 about anything or about the virus?

01:39:56.680 I don't really think that the social media

01:39:58.580 companies are very responsible for anything that goes on there. I've seen all sorts of fake news

01:40:03.880 go on social media companies. We're going to take a brief pause here. Again, back to this

01:40:08.520 philosophical question. How do we know what we know? How do we know what we know is sure? How do

01:40:11.900 we have certainty? How do we have proof of what we know? What's our epistemology? How do we know

01:40:17.620 that we know things? Well, I'll tell you this right now. I'd be very careful with stuff like

01:40:23.100 social media because i happen to know some of the people who generate the agit prop that you find on

01:40:29.040 there right like you the stuff that you find on there that that gets your goat now some of the

01:40:36.780 memes and the meme verse and the meme wars like some of them are genuinely funny hey i love memes

01:40:40.700 they're hilarious but to that same end there are people out there who are paid mind you to to create

01:40:48.100 dissent and disruption and dissonance by sending memes into the facebook universe right sending

01:40:54.980 them into the stream sending them into your into you know finding a way to get you to like their

01:41:00.120 page or sharing it with a bot a person someone who looks like a person but isn't it's just a bot

01:41:05.160 you know it's a robot it's a program it's an algorithm whatever and and these people are all

01:41:11.000 helping run the show by creating dissonance right because i mean how can you know it's really real

01:41:15.040 how can you know what's real and if you don't know what's real

01:41:18.820 how do you move forward from there um there's a lot of people there's a lot of people

01:41:27.400 who who do produce content and put it on facebook and everywhere else and you have to parse through

01:41:33.620 that with intelligence you can't just can't just assume everything you read on facebook is true

01:41:38.660 and I don't think that Facebook has really much

01:41:41.720 of a say on that

01:41:43.740 and I don't think Facebook should have a say

01:41:45.900 on that. I don't think they should be able to censor people

01:41:47.660 on their platform

01:41:48.340 Social media influencers legitimized by their

01:41:57.700 sizable follower counts had a full year

01:41:59.820 to sow doubt about COVID vaccines

01:42:01.720 before Facebook took significant action

01:42:03.460 exploited

01:42:04.980 and a threshold

01:42:09.300 of the social media

01:42:10.020 would only cross months into a global

01:42:12.500 incarceration campaign.

01:42:15.820 Facebook is letting

01:42:16.840 anti-vaxxers scare women from COVID shots.

01:42:19.140 So far, only 55% of Americans

01:42:20.760 have received one dose of the vaccine.

01:42:22.640 Pace is falling despite White House efforts

01:42:24.640 to encourage more people to get the shot.

01:42:28.040 We employed

01:42:28.880 similar toxins in the

01:42:30.220 those countries

01:42:32.640 achieved 70%.

01:42:34.080 meanwhile

01:42:35.280 Twitter

01:42:36.000 as a COVID-19 person

01:42:38.960 do her part after health

01:42:40.620 I don't really understand what that's about

01:42:43.740 maybe there's something to click on

01:42:45.220 I guess so

01:42:46.400 let's get rid of this guy

01:42:50.120 alright 0.88

01:42:51.260 yeah

01:42:53.300 Sheldon's got a good point here

01:42:57.300 back to the old adage

01:43:00.040 don't believe what everyone tells you

01:43:02.220 they really need church

01:43:06.620 truth about things seldom matter to them

01:43:09.360 and of course

01:43:13.800 everyone who took the vax

01:43:18.860 to get their life back is a little better off

01:43:21.180 than a cage animal

01:43:21.900 I completely agree

01:43:24.220 this is the dangerous time we're in

01:43:28.040 this is the dangerous spot we're in

01:43:29.540 and again it comes back to that question of knowledge

01:43:31.900 and

01:43:33.600 one of the things that was

01:43:38.460 important with COVID is

01:43:40.120 like I've said a few times on this show

01:43:41.900 it was the great winnowing fork

01:43:43.300 it has

01:43:46.240 divided people that I thought were indivisible

01:43:48.180 it has brought out elements in people

01:43:52.220 that I didn't know existed

01:43:53.180 it's brought out elements in me that I didn't know existed

01:43:55.180 you go ask me about vaccines in 2019

01:43:58.080 I'm going to be a run of the mill

01:44:00.240 guy, a little bit of Catholic morality in there. I had just learned very late 2019 that there were

01:44:06.440 vaccines that had been procured through the use of aborted fetal material, which is to say dead

01:44:11.660 children, material of dead children. And that, of course, that was abominable. And I didn't know

01:44:21.140 that. No one had told me that. No one had told me that until very late 2019. And so I became more

01:44:26.900 cautious about it because I didn't want to have anything to do with any kind of vaccination

01:44:31.200 that may have used any of the stem cells or test cells or whatever from children that had been

01:44:37.880 expressly murdered for the purpose of using their cells for vaccine development. So I didn't want to

01:44:46.580 be a part of that. So that's very late 2019. But even so, both through ignorance and through kind

01:44:52.400 of maybe a misplaced trust in the pharmaceutical industry and the general and, you know,

01:44:56.740 medicine in general i would have said yeah no i think most vaccines are safe and whatever else

01:45:01.920 and there's no problems and and i would be willing to take most of them for the purpose right for

01:45:07.260 example if you're going to get your vaccination for hep a or whatever because of traveling right

01:45:12.440 uh good for you you know like that's that made sense you didn't want to have a nasty ice cube

01:45:18.780 and suddenly have hepatitis a or b and i'm pretty sure those are permanent i can't you can't get

01:45:22.860 rid of them but the point being that if you talk to that guy and that guy's not even two years ago

01:45:32.340 now like we're not even in fall yet we're not even in september we're not even through july yet like

01:45:36.420 that guy's only two years ago he's not not far away it's less than two years ago and and you

01:45:41.840 talk to him today he's like oh like you couldn't pay me to take the vaccine what changed what

01:45:46.040 happened that guy doesn't know this guy and i feel like that's how it is in the 21st century

01:45:53.340 with a lot of things if i look through the 21st century at my past self and my current self there

01:45:58.260 isn't a lot of agreement there's a lot of differences going all the way back to my

01:46:03.580 my uh opening statement son of privilege who now is you know part of the underclass in a lot of

01:46:10.400 ways person who would have been totally indoctrinated like every other upper middle

01:46:14.380 class kid to be a good little liberal the only thing missing was that i wasn't in french immersion

01:46:18.240 but just be a good little liberal like every other little upper middle class kid

01:46:22.360 this point now like you know i would like the liberal party of canada rounded up and tried for

01:46:28.740 all but war crimes certainly crimes against our humanity in general but specifically their 0.97

01:46:34.120 complete lack of conscience um what happened to that guy what changed how did that guy transform

01:46:41.440 I think it really bothers my grandmother, to be honest with you, because she thinks that I'm a radical.

01:46:45.680 She's still living in the old belief system, but everything's just fine.

01:46:50.620 And I would say that it links right back to that same question that we were talking about earlier.

01:46:56.520 The question of knowledge, the problem of knowledge.

01:46:59.520 How do we know things?

01:47:00.840 The things that I had been taught did not square with the reality that I met.

01:47:05.460 without getting too mopey about it

01:47:09.080 or singing my own sorrows,

01:47:12.400 the way I'd been taught,

01:47:14.040 the way that I had had things explained to me

01:47:16.660 was not, in the end,

01:47:19.360 what matched reality.

01:47:30.220 I still can't square some of those things.

01:47:33.280 some of the biggest

01:47:35.960 healing I've had to do in my life

01:47:38.260 is letting go

01:47:39.920 of the past conceptions I had

01:47:42.280 and people would be like well we all have to let go of our

01:47:44.260 preconceptions all the time

01:47:45.220 I was taught an entire orthodoxy

01:47:48.740 a secular orthodoxy

01:47:49.680 my Christian orthodoxy was pretty well attuned to reality

01:47:52.200 and then translated well into my new faith

01:47:54.840 when I converted to Roman Catholicism

01:47:56.680 but my secular

01:47:57.500 rubrics and paradigms

01:48:00.340 hard work pays off

01:48:02.240 do this do that these things go this way this thing goes that way the economy will always expand

01:48:07.500 it contracts briefly and then expands again you know there's real opportunities out there

01:48:13.140 houses can be for you live in print storage housing will always be affordable those things

01:48:19.120 aren't true anymore and and the consciousness that i grew up in only took a few what feels

01:48:28.580 like minutes but it took less than a decade to wither away into nothing and not be true

01:48:33.300 be fundamentally unsound and i don't know how to square that circle all i can tell you is that it 0.92

01:48:40.560 makes people extremely frustrated to have what they already know thrown back at them as ignorant

01:48:46.780 and perhaps even bigoted and blasphemous or whatever on top of the fact that oh by the way

01:48:51.760 here's the new translation get on board here's the completely new set of terms here's the new

01:48:57.280 ideology. Here's the new mode. And that can change in minutes. That can change every other year.

01:49:01.480 That can change every other month. What's trending this month? What's happening this month?

01:49:05.860 That can't go on. People can't be jerked around like that.

01:49:16.300 So where to from here? Well, here on the Mountain Standard Time, we always want

01:49:23.420 you guys to comment, send us your comments, questions, concerns. I'm going to throw out my

01:49:28.040 email there very briefly. And I'm just going to remind you

01:49:31.960 that we are going to go on hiatus eventually

01:49:35.980 here. Again, it's still in the air whether or not hiatus is going to happen

01:49:39.780 closer to the wedding date, which is at the end of August, or closer to now.

01:49:44.600 But it's important for you to know that I will not be here for

01:49:47.500 a time, and that things are going to change for a little bit.

01:49:53.420 Sheldon has the point of 5 out of 10.

01:49:56.960 Yeah, no, my hair isn't even washed today, Sheldon,

01:49:59.020 but thank you for bringing that.

01:50:06.740 We'll think about that.

01:50:08.500 But the short version of what's going on here

01:50:11.760 is that here on the Mountain Standard Time,

01:50:16.480 we try to be as transparent as we can be.

01:50:19.920 And so I hope that you feel like I'm transparent with you.

01:50:22.260 I hope you feel that I tell you in no uncertain terms where I'm coming from and what I'm up to.

01:50:28.440 And it is my hope that you feel respected and that whatever transpires out there, you can always come here for an honest take, not an unbiased opinion, an honest take of where I'm at with things.

01:50:42.040 So not sure what's going to happen tomorrow.

01:50:44.040 Of course, Thursday, we'll have our regular contributors.

01:50:46.440 If you have some suggestions for guests, I just had my email up there.

01:50:49.100 Shoot me one and we'll talk about it.

01:50:50.640 again thank you so much for everything that

01:50:53.840 you viewers do for me I really

01:50:55.680 appreciate it and you guys have a

01:50:57.720 wonderful rest of your day

01:50:59.000 and I'm going to go try and get some sleep

01:51:01.660 thanks for watching

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