The Rant with Cory Morgan. November 2, 2020
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Summary
As usual, it's Monday, and as usual, there's a whole lot of stupid going on around the world. This week we have a bunch of idioms coming out of the United States, and a whole bunch of stupidity coming from the international scene, and I'm here to expose it all.
Transcript
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Hey there, welcome to the November 2nd episode of The Rant. It's my weekly show
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where I get things off my chest, go through the news, vent, get the steam out.
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Why? Because the world is stupid and I need to expose this stupidity and get it
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out so people hopefully are discouraged from participating in further stupidity,
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though I do hold low hopes in that. Either way, it's Monday, it's time to get
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through things, and as usual I didn't have to look terribly far to find a lot
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of stupid things to go on about. Might as well start with the international stuff.
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Things are big on the international scene and with the American election, yeah, so
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there's going to be a whole lot of stupidity coming out no matter who wins
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that election down south of the border. This is the sort of dialogue they're
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having. This is a Rene Graham, some sort of left-wing fruit loop journalist down
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there, puts out this picture and says, see the difference, you know, between people
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with American flags on their trucks and ISIS. Me neither.
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Like, this is the extent of the dialogue. She's comparing, again, okay, philosophically
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different conservative-minded Americans with ISIS who chop the heads off of people
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who murder people, who burn people alive in cages. But that's where it's at now, and
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we're just going to see an insane day tomorrow, I think, no matter who wins this
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election. And what's more distressing than just the fact that this moron tweets stuff
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like this is tens of thousands of people liked it, retweeted it, and agree with it.
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They really think they're in some sort of world where they're in a dictatorship in
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the States. They really need to get out a little more. Trump is not Hitler. You don't
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have to like him. I'm not particularly fond of him. But this insanity. You're in a
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place where you can democratically remove this, man. You're in a place where you can
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go out in the streets and whine and piss and moan and bitch, as you do, with barely
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any consequences. I mean, we actually, you know, they let the protests go. If you're in
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the world that you guys think you're in, if you're in that dictatorship, you would have
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been shot a long time ago. Be thankful for the rights you're enjoying in that democratic
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area. So let's talk about these idiots, because these left-wing idiots are usually the ones
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who talk about how blissful the UN is and how we should listen to it, and they're a great
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world force. This is the 2021 UN Human Rights Council list. This is the organization that's
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going to tell us whether we're properly respecting human rights of others. Look at that
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list. Every one of those countries is pretty much a shithole. I mean, they're developing,
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they're coming along. I should knock the individuals in them, but these aren't exactly the gold
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standard of nations, particularly when it comes to human rights. Oh, Russia. Is it legal to
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be gay there yet? How safe is it to talk badly about Putin over in Russia these days? They
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still have that habit of poisoning people. Uzbekistan, oh yes, always a bastion of human rights.
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I'm certain they'll have some good things to add. Cuba, yeah. Yeah, they really know how to respect
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the human rights of others. Somalia, Cameroon, China. China. Really? This is the list of human
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rights. Not one developed European nation on there. You know, you don't see Sweden or anybody on there.
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No, all these third world places that have next to nothing for human rights as it stands.
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You think that by putting these guys in charge of watching the human rights of others, they're
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suddenly going to learn how to practice them. But again, as I said, the world's stupid.
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And these are the ones that the left wants us to listen to. We're supposed to abide by the UN.
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I don't think so. That's a joke of an organization. If that's what you put together for a human
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rights council, you're a joke. It should not be taken seriously. But that's what we get from social
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justice warriors on the left. Isn't she a beaut? This one, I mean, it's just that facial expression,
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that rage, that indignance personifies a social justice warrior. That's why she's been made into
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many, many memes. Unfortunately, though, these insane, ridiculous social justice warriors are
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winning. You know, we are bending to their will. We're doing ridiculous, stupid things because of
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their ridiculous, stupid demands, even though they're a tiny minority. So maybe we're the ones
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who are stupid. I'm not sure. But it's really time to start pushing back. But this beautiful thing
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here. So a new drama is coming out. And this this actor, Turner Smith, I don't know who
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she is. Either way, maybe she's a fantastic actor. I don't know. I'm not an expert in
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those things. But I do read a fair amount of history. She's going to play the English
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Queen Anne Boleyn in a new drama. Okay, I know enough about history. And I do have eyes.
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And I think there might be a bit of a problem. Oh, yeah, virtual twins, right? You know, it's
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hard to tell them apart. Let's look back again. Oh, yeah, just a dead ringer for the role.
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You see, this is how absurd it's gotten. We're not allowed to historically, accurately even
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portray things any longer. Look, we don't accept any more somebody putting on blackface and
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playing a black character. Times with Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's playing an Asian
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man. We frown on that. It's not acceptable. Turning it around by putting a very black
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woman in a role of what was very clearly a very white woman is just absurd and stupid.
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It's not a fair play turnabout thing. It's just idiocy. You know, trying to, I'm not sure
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what you're trying to do. When I watch a historical drama, I understand you're not going to get
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a perfect dead ringer and you want to dramatize things for interest. I mean, you know, you're
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still better off getting a book to learn history than to watch it on a movie or television.
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But at least, come on guys. As I said earlier, who are you going to get to play her husband
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who was Henry VIII? You know, Jackie Chan? Like, just at least stick to some degree. But
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no, no. These guys demand that we do these things. We have to make these colors invisible.
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Pardon me. Either way. Yeah, there's a ringer. So let's get on to some more stupidity.
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And this is a bigger issue. And again, these social justice warriors, the move to demonize
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the police. The police are evil. The police are bad. The police must apologize. The police
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must be ashamed. Jeremy Farkas, the one and only counselor in Calgary City Hall, him and
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perhaps Sean Chu, who tried to put a little bit of common sense in there. He's running
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for mayor. Thankfully, I'm really looking forward to him winning it. But he's been standing up
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against the anti-police lunatics. And they really are. They're extremists and lunatics.
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Black Lives Matter Canada is calling for the abolition of the police. People keep saying,
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no, no, no. They just want funds redirected. Oh, bullshit. Go to their site. Go to Black
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Lives Matter Canada. Read their demands. They want the police abolished. They want them
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gone. And they're not talking about what they'll be replaced with. Oh, they talk about
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some community policing and some more guidance counselors and crap. But they don't have a
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realistic plan. Yet we're bending over to them. We're talking as high as 20% cuts to the
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police budget to move towards this police-free state. Meanwhile, go downtown sometime with the
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crime and the homelessness and the mess that's going on down there. Sorry, guys. The police
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aren't perfect, but we need them. So what have they done with Jeremy Farkas being the
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lone one talking against defunding the police these days? Well, they've kicked them off
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the police commission. Like, the police have some cultural issues. They've got some problems
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going on. But what you do need is a diverse police commission then that examines these
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issues, looks into them. But no, instead, City Hall tries to quell the voices that are
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going against the social justice agenda of stupidity that they're pursuing, which is following
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the agenda of extremism from Black Lives Matter and our stupidity compounds. But this is stupidity
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that gets into the dangerous zone. Because whether we like it or not, we need police. They have to do
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a tough, nasty, miserable job dealing with violent people, putting themselves at risk,
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and on our behalf. It's not the best pay. I mean, again, let's work on solving things. They can
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certainly do better. But constantly demonizing them, making them seem like they should be ashamed
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of themselves. You think that's helping? This came out, you know, the cavalry police bent over backwards
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all apologizing. So inappropriate. This little medal, it was turned out this coin that's been given out
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for years as some sort of challenge award while they're doing their firearms training. It's so
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inappropriate. It's so militaristic. It shows guns and it shows a skull. Oh, piss off, you snowflake
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weenies. I mean, so what? So what? It's a coin. It shows firearms. These are guys that do have to
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be tough. It's not saying they're going to go out and kill and shoot people. Look, we don't have a
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big police shooting problem in Alberta. We don't. We got this pretend BLM protest. Oh, God, Cal. We got
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this systemic racism going, which is bullshit. This is not a problem. But even more innocuous is the
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thin blue line patches, then. Let's get to that. This is something that police officers have been
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wearing in the States and Canada. It just shows a little thin blue line patch on their thing.
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And it represents that thin blue line between disorder and order that the police kind of walk
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and try to protect us from ourselves. And it's just a bit of a point of pride showing their place in
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society, how important they are to us, how, you know, it's a difficult thing to traverse.
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It's symbolic. Well, people are asking for them to remove them. They're offended. Who's been
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complaining? Well, her, of course, always. But why do we keep bending over to these lunatics,
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to these social justice warriors? Part of it's because we keep electing idiots and the stupidity
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keeps going from them. We've got to change that. We've got a chance this year. But yes, this thin
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blue line thing. So following up, it's not just Victoria where all the left-wing Froot Loops are.
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No, the RCMP, our federal force, has jumped out and said, yeah, you guys have got to get rid of
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wearing those while you're on duty as well. It's constantly asking police to look at their feet
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and be ashamed of themselves. It's saying, you guys are inherently evil. You're inherently racist.
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And that's what these motions are, too. Farkas stood against that. He refuses to come out and say
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that the police are a racist organization because that's what they're demanding. They're not just
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demanding defunding, too. They're basically saying, you guys are going to stand up there and admit to
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us like a little kid saying lines in class, I'm sorry, I'm actually a racist. They're not. Unless they
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did something fucking racist. Do not get on them. And they haven't done things. Some individuals might have.
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Let's get on those ones. But this constant debasing of our police forces is not helping us.
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Not a bit. And then you get this. Okay, there was an arrest video that came out in Calgary where the
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police officer got very violent with somebody. And the Calgary counselors are jumping all over this as
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their excuse to come after the police. This was one cop. Did something bad. It's unacceptable when they
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get too violent. But do you think that humiliating police all the time, cutting their budget, doing all these
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other things is what's going to make them better? Do you really think so? Who are you going to call when
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the violent person is trying to break into your house? Who's going to break up that domestic dispute? How does a
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business owner get a belligerent drunk out of their place who's assaulting other customers? You call
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the police and they have to deal with it. And it's not easy. And they also see some terrible scenes.
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They see murder scenes. They see child abuse victims. They deal with a lot of freaking problems.
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Do we want to give resources so they can help deal with those problems and get better? Absolutely.
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But this idiotic and you look at Black Lives Matter protests and they have ACAB and those signs all over
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the place. It stands for all cops are bastards. These are the people we're listening to. These are the people
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we're trying to reason with. Cut it out. Don't listen to them. They're extremists. They're lunatics.
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Let's get real on things. But no, not in City Hall. What do we do? We throw the voice off of the police
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commission who's been standing up for them. It really helps. And look, I'm not known for not having
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some run-ins with the police before in the past. That situation was rather public. It made national
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news, if I recall. And my problem wasn't so much with the police. It was with our spinalist Mayor
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Denchy at the time. But all the same, it led to a police affair. I didn't make things any worse than I
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really had to. Something I am a little ashamed of. As you see, my protest sign during that episode
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did. One of my demands was to bring back Arrested Development. And they did, which seemed like a
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great idea. But the reboot was really kind of terrible. They couldn't regain the magic. And
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it was unfortunate. But City Hall, Calgary, it's the most dysfunctional, ugly one we've ever seen.
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Rick Bell and others who've been covering it for decades are all saying the same thing. I mean,
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it's terrible. They need a flush from top to bottom. And they're trying to stunt discussion. We're going
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into the election year. And the last thing that she wants is voices, you know, and these
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incumbent city councillors that may undercut their run. This is when they'll suddenly pretend
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to be fiscal conservatives again. They pretend to be responsible. Pretend to be all the things
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they were when they got elected the first time. Ones like Keating or Ward Sutherland. God,
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he's a joke. You know, suddenly pretending to be conservative again to save their jobs.
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Let's fire them. And things that are coming up, you know, because we've got a lot of big
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discussions. And the chief paramedic, Sandbeck, put a large letter and called Nenshi out on
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bullshit. And hey, Nenshi's known for bullshit. It's funny. He claims to be the mayor and never
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lies. He's been caught in lying multiple times. Just ask how he got sued by Shane Holmes or how
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he got sued, or was probably going to be sued by Uber for his claiming that the city put sex
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offenders in there. He's in fact, perhaps almost a pathological liar. Either way, he was more polite
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than I am. He just said that Nenshi made untrue statements. So what happens? Instead of
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discussing what's going on from the chief paramedic who knows more about AHS
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and emergency services, the Nenshi, I am sure of it. Nenshi gets his chief poodle to demand an
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apology and retract a statement. No, I can't prove that. But Nenshi doesn't want to jump into the
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mix. And Drew Farrell has always been his happy little puppy to do his dirty work when it comes
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to these things. So this doesn't look at Nenshi himself demanding the apology. No, it's Farrell who's
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offended with this because she does what she's told her and Nenshi. She doesn't want to lose Nenshi
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up there in that council. But again, it comes to demanding apologies, retractions. Get the discussion
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out of there. Don't fix things. Just shut the discussion up. This is where we're at. Because we're at
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many levels of politics. But City Hall is particularly bad for it, particularly when the mayor gets upset,
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which is rather often. We've got an opportunity to change these things here. Nenshi is playing
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really coy about whether he wants to run again. The reality is he's dipping his toe in the water.
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I mean, the man makes two pensions. He's the highest paid mayor in Canada. What, $200,000 and some
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thousand a year plus a raft of benefits. Two pensions. Literally two pensions. He doesn't want
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to give that job up. But the polls are also showing that he very well might lose that job. Now his pride
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is the only thing bigger than a number of things on him. And he doesn't want to lose
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an election. That would be a big shot to his pride. But then if he leaves now, he loses that
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pension and those big numbers. It's not like there's a big pile of jobs that pay that well
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waiting for him out there. Plus, people will realize he just ran away rather than win his
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seat back. Farkas came along and gave him a good run for his money. And when the going got
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tough, Nenshi got going. But it's going to be an ugly election one way or another.
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Speaking of shutting down debate. So the NDP are playing political games. This one was
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kind of a neat one. It's if you're playing pure politics when you're looking to just
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divide. You know, you're not really actually looking to do anything productive, but you
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really want to screw with the other party. They put a motion out on private members thing
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to basically force the entire government to get up and decry support for independence within
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Alberta or Alberta within Canada. It's a loaded question, a loaded thing to ask them
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to do. It was a way to make some of the MLAs who are more supportive of independence movements
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and motions stand out from the others and possibly cause infighting. So again, from a Machiavellian
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unprincipled perspective, it is a very good way to cause some division.
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Kenny, you know, it looks like they managed to kill the debate by burying it in the order
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of papers. So I mean, hey, if you're going to start with political games, don't bitch
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when they use political mechanisms to kill the motion. And then Kenny slamming the NDP
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for insulting the independence movement. I would say that's a standard headline. And
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that's, I'm guessing that's what he was kind of saying. Well, the thing is, because you've
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got over a quarter or more and growing of Albertans who do support that. And they don't
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want to see themselves shamed and have a legislature where it's actually been shut down, the debate's
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not allowed. And then motions like that from Notley come out and say, we can't even
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talk about that point of view that 25% or more Albertans are moving towards. Again,
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non-democratic, the usual left thing, though. Shut up differing voices. Don't try to debate
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them. Don't try to beat them in a fair process. Just try to shut them up through hysterics
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and so on. But don't expect any less out of former Premier Notley. She has hit her peak,
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desperately wants to get back in that Premier's chair, and it's very, very unlikely she ever
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will. But she's going to stop at nothing to try. So we're going to see a lot more of these
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non-productive political games happening in the legislature as she plays games of gotcha
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with Jason Kinney while answering to her union masters. And when it comes to blaming Kinney
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and the Kinney government, they do a number of things wrong, a great many, and I blame them
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for that. But Trudeau's crappy popularity is not Kinney's fault. And I wish the Alberta government
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was solely responsible for that. I think that would be a great thing for us to celebrate as
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Albertans. Look at that. We are responsible for Trudeau's lagging popularity. Unfortunately,
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in central Canada, he's still terribly popular anyway. So this isn't much for him to worry about.
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But to blame the Alberta government for it? Man, that's a whole new level of pathetic even
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for Trudeau. But yeah, I think Kinney should stand up and take credit for that and say,
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well, see, here's one good thing we've done in these crazy times. And getting on to Trudeau,
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our imbecile in chief. It's been a crazy world out there. With the Charlie Hebdo cartoons,
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you know, caused a bunch of insane, extreme Islamists to murder people. They killed a bunch
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of cartoonists and journalists. There were riots before when cartoons were published by a Danish
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publication and people died over that. Macron's not taking it, though. This seems to be coming
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up again since a teacher brought up those cartoons and it caused a... well, it didn't
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cause. So that's the point. An insane extremist Muslim cut the head off that teacher for daring
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to show the cartoons. You can't blame the teacher for that. But that's kind of what Trudeau is
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doing. You see, these people talk about it. This is free speech. Macron, who's a progressive,
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he's a left-wing leader, but he's not having any of this. And he's saying, it's free speech.
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Those cartoons are out there. You can find them offensive. Fine. But that's just the way it goes.
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Suck it up. Move on. And he actually made a statement along the lines of, if you can't handle
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that sort of thing in France, you don't belong here. Get the hell out. Trudeau, on the other hand,
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Trudeau, on the other hand, I support free speech, but... Oh, wait. You know what? As soon
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you say but, then it means you don't support free speech. And then he starts likening the
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publishing of these cartoons as calling, you know, crying fire in a theater and the old
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tired old trope about limiting free speech. No, Justin. They're cartoons. And you're pandering
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to these extremists. You're cowardice. You're such a wimp. It's pathetic. You know, you've embarrassed
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this on the world stage yet again, basically. Strong leaders like Macron, even a left-wing
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strong one. I can respect that. He's standing up for his nation. Standing up for freedoms.
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Standing up against people who literally cut the heads off of people for showing a friggin'
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cartoon. And Justin gets all wishy-washy about it. You don't want to insult the terrorists,
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Justin. I don't care. By the way, here's one of the cartoons. This is the Danish one.
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Or was among them. The Western Standard actually got dragged before the Human Rights Commission.
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It was under Ezra Levant's ownership at that time for publishing these cartoons of Muhammad.
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And we've published them again because, kiss my ass, we're allowed to. It is free expression.
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It's free speech. A bit offensive. Sorry if it is. Not really sorry, I guess, but it's just
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the way it goes. Get over it. It doesn't justify violence, at least not to sane people. And
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I know the vast, vast majority of Muslims have no interest in assaulting and killing people
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over cartoons. But unfortunately, more of them do than is acceptable at this point.
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And it's got to stop. Here's another one from Charlie Hebdo. That's the other one that got
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all wound up, you know, a nice close quarters kiss in a picture. I don't even know the French
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that's in that. So here you are for your enjoyment again, these cartoons. And there's no apologizing
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for them. It's free speech. Justin, whether you like it or not, you've embarrassed us on
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the world stage yet again. Par for the course with Justin. You are the chode of the week
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this week. Well earned, as always. It was a matter of time. I'm surprised it took me this
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long to give Justin that award. He'll probably win it a few more times until we manage to
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get him unelected somehow, if we do. I suspect the independence movement might have more to
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do getting us out of Justin's clutches than Canadian federal elections. But we'll see.
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So thanks for tuning in to my rant this week. And there will be live coverage on the Standards
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Facebook page with video and a panel for the American election. Wednesday, we're going to
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be running through the news again. And we just keep expanding our digital presence out there.
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So thanks for tuning in. I'll see you tomorrow.