The Rant November 16, 2020
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The Rant for November 16, 2019. I rant about a pandemic that has been rising all over the place in Alberta and the usual suspects are going postal on social media. Also, I talk about the Steelers and the Dallas Cowboys.
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hey welcome to the rant for November 16th pushing through this winter of misery in
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this year of misery might as well start out with some good news the Steelers nine and oh I can put
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on this Steelers wear with a lot of pride this year I was wearing it in past years but now it's
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feeling better and better sorry about those rat birds this weekend guys and yeah Dean still my
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condolences for Dallas either way Super Bowl bound mark that here now now on to last week's
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show that I had my weekly show I go on I rant I get stuff off my chest I bitch about the news I do
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those things I make jokes for those who haven't seen it before those who have you know what to
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expect out of this last week I had some people pissing and moaning about my rant which I enjoy
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I love the crabby feedback I'm not here to make you happy I'm here to make me happy so as long as
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you're watching I don't care whether you're happy or not but one was a guy going on about how I was
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hurting the cause because I had ranted about some of the actions of Peter Downing and his little group
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with their idiocy with this Alberta first endgame with their confederate flag and then maybe leaves
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in it and such yeah I'm hurting the cause really really this is the way western independence is going
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to come about is is by putting a ridiculous uh graphics like that that have nothing to do with
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western Canada and uh just alienate people but I'm hurting the cause yeah whatever the other thing
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got people wound up because I did say I am supportive of a vaccine so yes the anti-vax conspiracy theorists
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and I'm sure there's some listening tonight got upset with me well too goddamn bad um I'm not worried
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about polio or smallpox or or or a number of things because of vaccines they do work they were a
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fantastic invention in human history and I I am going to be supportive of them now you know I
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have concerns about ones that are being rapidly developed and I'm not sure I want to be the first
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one to be uh getting one when the time comes perhaps if one's ever does come out for for covid but
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uh as it is right now there's vaccines that are coming up they're looking promising and we need to do
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something about this goddamn pandemic and if this proves out to be decent I'm looking forward to
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getting mine and other rational people getting theirs too it's not going to control your mind
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it's not a UN conspiracy it's going to stop you from getting the fucking thing so we can get our
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economy back in order those who have a problem with those statements that's fine you can suck my balls
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that's uh the typical thing it has been an ugly week for covid I mean it's it's it's rising all over
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the place in Alberta of course the usual suspects here is going postal on twitter thankfully twitter is
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absolutely nothing like the real world I mean if it was we would have had an Alberta party government
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in Alberta for some years now and the NDP certainly would have maintained their uh position of power
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within Alberta but all the same it's a loud hysterical world that does influence the press
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and they're just going nuts because covid cases and deaths and that is concerning I'm concerned about
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this too now deaths are spiking following the case rises I mean they've been screaming about cases
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for months now and and ignoring the fact that the deaths were virtually flatlined the deaths are
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starting to creep up we had 20 just recently in Alberta that's a lot of people again you got to
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remember there's 4.4 million survivors from this like we've got to look at the whole friggin province
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it's a concerning number drill down into them though one of those was over 100 years old most of them
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were in their 80s and 90s again I'm not saying we should just kill off the old I'm not looking to
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kill your grandma spare me the tropes and the bullshit guys but thankfully this disease predominantly
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kills the dying that at least is one small blessing in it if your young chances are it's not going to do
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much to you but the thing is with the hysteria you know people say lockdown lockdown lockdown wait a
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minute because we're not having much bloody good evidence that lockdowns are going to do anything
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for this thing either we do know where the vulnerable are we see that with these deaths
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they're elderly these are sickly people these are people with pre-existing conditions we need to work
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harder to isolate them this stuff is getting into the senior centers it's getting into the hospitals
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that is a problem that's a big problem let's focus on that locking up all the healthy people
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from we're looking in other jurisdictions doesn't do a damn thing anyways but you know they're
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screaming why because we have a hysteric left opposition in Alberta that desperately wants to
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use this crisis to make Kenny look bad that's the bottom line don't worry there's lots of valid
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things to bitch about the UCP government with and I will but the the COVID response what decimating
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our economy and the deaths will carry on I mean we should look at all the other problems because
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they keep acting like Alberta is the only province that has got this problem going on no in fact
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everywhere in the developed world these cases are spiking this is happening everywhere no matter what
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the degree of lockdown might be what does this tell us tells the lockdowns aren't doing a hell of a lot
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of good I hate to say it but if they aren't doing any good then why would we want to do them because
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we do know that they do a lot of damage again it's not saying do nothing but just to scream and dive in
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and shut down the economy when we're not really seeing much evidence I mean look at that Doug Ford
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panicked and did cartwheels and freaked out and and locked down Ontario's restaurants and and things
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a month ago their cases are still going through the roof their deaths are still going up again 29 out
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of a province as big as Ontario it tragic for those 29 people and their families but this isn't the
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plague this isn't the Spanish flu or anything even close to it Quebec again same kinds of numbers
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all these provinces have different policies they have different levels of restrictions lockdowns
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and again their their trend lines their deaths really all seem to be just about the same so let's not quit
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pretending as if the Alberta government's sitting on some sort of magic bullet and they just refuse to use it
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it's not that simple that there's no bloody magic bullet that's the problem closest thing we can come to that
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will be there's only two ways that this thing's going to end two that's it either it's going to run its course
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and those are vulnerable to it are going to pass on which is unfortunate and terrible and the rest of us
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will gain herd immunity because it will have run through our ranks and then we build the antibodies
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to it or a vaccine will come out and we can skip the step of making it run the course of everybody
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but you got to remember a vaccine might be a long ways away how much do we want to bankrupt ourselves
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waiting for again when it might not help so think harder before screaming for lockdowns guys especially
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when they might not do any bloody good I mean even none of it's trying to lock down now they know they
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did a hell of a lot up there in winter anyways I spent time in the Arctic either way they're shut down
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because it's spiking up there even but we are seeing a lot of political games being played
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over this COVID and some people really want to exaggerate as much as possible and there's few
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political opportunists worse than his worship Nahed Nenshi and uh he of course he's getting
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Samson to do his bidding and basically talk round about like saying he was on a one month long lockdown
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in Alberta and he was even saying things like if I were premier when I went down with ass well you know
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what you're not thank fucking god and you're not gonna be what it is though is he's trying to position
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himself he's down in the dumps in the polls he desperately wants to keep his mayoral throne
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because there's not a lot of options ahead of him he was talking to Trudeau the other week so maybe
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he's trying to negotiate a cushy landing I'd hate to say I have a very good chance we might be seeing
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Senator Nenshi one day at least he can't do a lot of damage he can just sit and bitch off of a new
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overpaid throne but he's making the most of this pandemic and the worse he feels he can make
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uh um the provincial government look the the more he could try and say he's the the hero who's trying
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to save Calgarians and in light of the evil uh you know uh Kenny I was gonna say mustache tweaking
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but I don't think I've ever seen him with with much rather than scruff on his face either way it's just
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kind of gross to watch this this going on but not terribly surprising and uh let's get on to
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somebody who's taking the most frightening advantage uh of this this circumstance to try and impose
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some very frightening changes we saw some transparency out of Trudeau in a way
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that I wish I hadn't seen because what he's talking about is outright terrifying it's like
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the veneer slid off but either way I'll play the video clip and we'll go from there building back
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better means getting support to the most vulnerable while maintaining our momentum on reaching the 2030
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agenda for sustainable development and the SDGs Canada is here to listen and to help this pandemic
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has provided an opportunity for a reset this is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts
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to reimagine economic systems that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty
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okay so yes there was a skip ahead in the middle of that that thing it wasn't photoshopped or edited it
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wasn't to take them out of context come on people those words were pretty clear it's just that
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it was a long uh you know speech and and the two major parts would need to be highlighted on what
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what he was going on about uh one of which was the the 2030 united nations agenda on sustainability
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and the reset the term reset it's a loaded term both of these things they exist they're out there
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they've been out there people have talked about them for quite some time but they've been dismissed as
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conspiracy theorists again I was in the middle it wasn't a conspiracy it's right there on the UN site if you
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want to see it this 2030 agenda which would bankrupt us as a first world nation if we really pursued
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this to the maximum of what they want to do and that's the goal tear down the rich to make everybody
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equally poor that the equal distribution of poverty is the basis of socialism and the UN is a socialist
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organization dominated by dictators you can see that in the list of people they put on the human rights
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council for crying out loud what a joke I mean even China's on there China so either way there's that
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agenda then there's the great reset which is a big thing that some again hardcore socialists have been
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proposing and that thing's been around for a while it's it's a theory that comes down to you know the
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world is inherently flawed and if we could just get a big enough crisis to tear everything down to its
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roots we could build a socialist paradise out of the wreckage and it's the big reset new economic
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systems the things that Pierre jr was just talking about there he was being quite blunt about that I mean
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so to bring about and induce if you really want to see this this reset and he says it's going to fix
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the climate we're going to have new economic systems read socialism look to venezuela see how
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well that paid off you know that look at that country beautiful climate could have had a giant
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tourism trade some of the biggest oil resources in the world some some skilled people for a time
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well placed for international trade they're broke they're literally eating their own fucking dogs
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robbing zoos for food that is what a great economic reset brings about
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trudeau i was just shocked that he spoke directly about these things maybe because most people just
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don't pay attention or care or understand but i tell you what it's chilling the timing for him to
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take advantage of saying that i mean if he really is pushing for the great reset then he will want to
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accelerate our economic collapse because we really want to make the shit hit the fan before you can
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rebuild it that's how a reset works and boy a lot of us are going to suffer uh along the way to this
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goal uh some others pointed out you know come on justin's too damn stupid to come up with something
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that that profound you're probably right but you got to remember the people standing behind him
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whether it's butts or others are beaking in his ear and these are not stupid people they're ideologues
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and they are not well-meaning but they're not stupid um again there are a lot of liberals who are quite
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still you know business friendly and so on and which again astounded me that they'd stand by while
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trudeau's putting this crap out i guess when trudeau's more reliant on you know jagmeet singh's
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socialist support than anybody else is to keep himself on the prime minister's chair for now
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he's not afraid of dipping so deeply into the waters of insanity of things like the 2030 un agenda
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and the great reset uh this is this is really disturbing stuff um people i'm not reading too much into it
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that language is brutal and uh we're economically up shit creek badly enough as it sits today
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going into that stuff is it's going to send us into the dark ages we're not going to crawl out it's
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not going to be a reset it's just going to shut us off either way onto a mixed story here so there
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was a remembrance broadcast the world is all broadcast now you know we don't get to meet each other see
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each other talk to each other we broadcast everything people are getting real slow on figuring out this
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whole zoom uptake though if you're going to do a zoom things like you don't allow page sharing we've
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seen this with council meetings and other things and that the big joke on it is always to put porn
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images up there to be honest if i was in high school and i could have done this you know many years ago
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remembrance day ceremonies were important and it was important to let students know what happened and
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everything else but they were also definitely boring often for us and if i would have done something of
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the same so either way for you people running zoom meetings and public meetings please turn off the
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page sharing or you're gonna i think there was already term for they're calling it porn bombing
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you're gonna have it happen to you so get control of your meetings guys the world is different and in
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an ugly way uh but you're going to be the victim of a mixed like i said i kind of laugh at this and i
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had to go back because it's remembrance day but but pay attention getting on to the world is stupid
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it's a big world there uh quebec yeah they're stupid you know speaking of succession i really
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wish they'd go they would just do us all such a favor so they're heading down towards banning gas
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powered vehicles uh you know california san francisco i think it was ban natural gas and new houses up
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there they're having brownouts because they can't even generate enough fucking power right now as it is
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and they're banning further sources you know for for cooking water heating it and what little heat
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you need in san francisco area and now quebec says they're going to ban gas powered vehicles
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this shift this push this this is myopic idiocy you're trying to stop the only way the world's
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going to shift the only way it's going to change is if you change the demand you you otherwise you're
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just playing whack-a-mole for your ideological agenda if you really want to see an end to gas
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powered vehicles you want to see an end to petrochemicals we're going to make computers
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out of hemp and and uh cars are going to run on unicorn piss or something fine you can have that
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agenda but until the consumers want the hemp computers and the unicorn piss cars they're going to stick to
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the current tried and true you got to change the demand trying to cut off the supply won't change
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it all it will do is shoot out the cost for the people who are still demanding these vehicles any
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economist worth their salt is saying there's 10 20 30 more years of growing demand for oil in this
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world it's going to grow it's not going away that might change in 40 years that might be finally the
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curve we might finally hit the peak oil that they've been falsely warning us is coming for the
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last 70 years but until then quit kicking ourselves in the balls we need this the vast majority of
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vehicles are gasoline we don't have the infrastructure to go electric do you know what kind of upgrading it
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would take to change a city so that every house could charge its vehicles do you know what kind of
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mining and lithium is required to make the millions and millions of electric vehicles to do this
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you know the kind of money what it would do to your electric bill this is the fun part i have
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and it shows it and i love quoting him over and over and i'll quote him over in other shows as well
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hayek my favorite economist said if socialists understood economics they wouldn't be socialists
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that statement alone really does say what it's all about because you know you watch these green people
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online oh boy you know it would just be so much cheaper if we went electric and everything too and so
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much greener yeah i don't need to take the bus look even if you don't have a vehicle and you and you do
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take the bus or even if you walk to work that's fine but do you understand what is going to happen
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if you increase the demand for electricity a thousand fold because that's what will happen if
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we got rid of all the gas cars and it all went electric and if we somehow damned up enough rivers and
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made enough nuclear plants and do whatever the hell we had to because don't wind and solar won't do it
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not even close they're fart in the wind they're nothing so we did all that we somehow managed to
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come up with enough electricity but still the cost then for having built all that and upgrading the
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infrastructure even you who doesn't use a car rides a bike to work or whatever your electric bill is
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going through the roof so if you want the lights on at night and your heat because you shut off natural
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gas so you're gonna have to get electric heat you're gonna pay a fortune welcome to supply and demand
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peckerheads we saw this in the past too and some people learn that you convert old cooking oil
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you know it's funny to watch these hippies learn this lesson i remember reading an article about
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that that they were going around and they they had a system set up at home and they could convert old
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cooking oil from restaurants into diesel and they were burning it in a in a diesel engine of a vehicle
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and they were going around getting free oil behind restaurants because normally restaurants trying
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to dispose of that stuff but it got popular and eventually what happened with the restaurant
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restaurant saying well you know what i'm going to charge you for that i want some money for that
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well you lost it oh you capitalists best well now there's a demand welcome to reality i owned a
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restaurant i sold it six months ago i had a service that would provide me the bin they would collect all
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that restaurant grease off me and pay me 10 cents a liter on top of it whereas before a restaurant
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used to have to pay to get rid of this stuff but that's reality guys it wasn't a capitalist conspiracy
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if you go out and start building a demand for it the price is going to go up so you know what you got
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to do you got to build a demand for your hemp computers and your unicorn piss powered cars
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until then it's not going away all you're doing is hurting everybody by trying to force us into
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something that we can't do speaking of those kinds of idiots yes we have gretchen whitmer she's the
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governor of michigan hard hard left lunatic she shut them down over there again all sorts of issues
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with her and she's got some big issues with uh the enbridge uh gas or uh well pipelines that go
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across into from canada down and across and into michigan never mind that they need it they need
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they never mind that the price shocks that are going to come if that pipe actually gets shut down
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and by the looks of it it won't every time these clowns try to shut it down it goes to the courts and
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they lose but they just don't stop trying again they just feel if we could just stop pipelines enough
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people all just stop driving gas cars no they won't all you're gonna do is hurt them you're just
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gonna make their cost of living go up you you're just gonna put more people out of work uh you know
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that the pipe's been there longer than she's been alive but it won't stop her these ideologues
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that's earned her the title it's my first foreign one i think i've given out of a chode of the week
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yes she really is a chode she is a sad sort of thing i did an interview a podcast interview of jason
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kenney by the way last week it was popular one of the things he did was he talked about those efforts
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to stop alberta lions in michigan as being brain dead and everything uh and then uh and here she
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went shortly afterwards and and moved to stop these pipelines i don't think she listens to my podcast
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this is on the works already but some people were already tweeting oh look at you and kenny you're
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just screwing alberta by you know what kind of diplomacy is this god i only wish my reach was that
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strong either way gretchen you're the chode of the week i've had enough ranting for this week i feel
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better now i'll sleep well i'd say i hope you do but i don't really care uh wednesday regular western
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standard news things are going on subscribe on the youtube if you want to see more of this it's not
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just ranting we also do some uh straightforward interviews subscribe to the western standard
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itself online you know we we always need a base it's really growing as a western publication out
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there and uh we you know dave naylor and and derrick philibran and some others get some
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fantastic news uh scoops and tips going on either way i will see you again