Western Standard - The Rant with Cory Morgan October 12, 2020

00:00:00.000 Hey, welcome to The Rant. This is my weekly show where I rant, rave, get things off my chest, go on about what's annoyed me in the news this week, and tell you why it should annoy you. Usually I'm live, but local internet issues have made me record this.

00:00:17.260 One of the things to get me annoyed, kept things going on a proper rant anyways. As you can see by the turkeys behind me, this is a Thanksgiving special. I don't take days off for this. There's no holidays in the ranting world. Part of the reason is this ranting isn't just for you, it's for me. I find it therapeutic.

00:00:35.900 Because people say, why you rant so much? Well, I need to, or I'll drive myself insane, or drive my wife or other insane, and I'll explain why. I mean, part of the challenges I have as an individual, I have a handicap. I can't cry. I haven't cried since I was a little kid. Once in a while, my eyes will water if I'm, you know, tearing out nose hairs or something of the sort, but otherwise, I can't cry.

00:00:59.200 So, I mean, women seem to find it therapeutic, or many other men or whatnot, to have a good cry, get it out of their system. Well, good for them. I'm happy for you. I can't do that. So instead, I rant, and I get that out weekly.

00:01:10.540 Anyhow, who do you trust more? The person who perhaps doesn't outwardly or openly appear to care that much, or the person who pretends to care all the time? The one who cries at the drop of a hat when he's probably really not all that sorry.

00:01:25.500 So, I mean, there's more honesty and ranting, in my view, versus somebody who just uses those tears to get their way or make a political agenda.

00:01:34.180 Now, one of my favorite raging people out there, this is Islamic Rage Boy. I just want to go on about him, because he's one of my favorite guys on the internet. 0.65

00:01:41.740 This guy has made a career out of getting front and center somehow to Islamic protests all over the Middle East, and he always gets in the front row, and my God, look at the face on him.

00:01:50.220 I mean, he's magnificent. You can just see the anger, the angst, the rage. Look at him go.

00:01:55.300 And over and over, all different protests, different areas, he's got that posed down to an art form.

00:02:00.940 I mean, look at this fella. There he is. At some point, it looks like he crossed the line, and they had to take him away, but he still looks outraged.

00:02:08.540 Here's another one. I mean, other stuff that this beautiful rage fella has done. Of course, things I love. 1.00

00:02:15.040 Memes, mockery, satire.

00:02:19.360 Here he is, with a pancake on his head.

00:02:21.900 These are things that brighten my day. Other people like other little things, you know, a kitten hanging off a twig or something.

00:02:26.860 I like his Islamic Rage Boy. This guy makes me happy. He makes me feel warm inside. 0.97

00:02:30.680 Here's an art piece, you know, the scream, but through Islamic Rage Boy's eyes. 0.91

00:02:34.440 I mean, this inspires people, this guy.

00:02:36.720 And, you know, he's just going to the beat here.

00:02:38.820 Oh, part of what I'm going on about, too, is I bet you after every one of his days of raging, this guy sleeps like a baby.

00:02:44.420 He's gotten it out of his system. He feels great.

00:02:46.260 And I tell you what, after my ranting tonight, I'll have a good sleep, too, and I'll feel better about myself.

00:02:50.600 You might not, but I don't really care.

00:02:52.420 So, I'll get on to some issues here.

00:02:54.860 The Parkland Institute.

00:02:56.260 If you're not familiar with them, they are a semi-Marxist think tank who put out semi-Marxist things all the time.

00:03:04.260 I think they're based in the University of Alberta in the Arts Department or something.

00:03:07.560 I'm not sure how they get funded.

00:03:08.900 Probably some form of tax dollars, one way or another.

00:03:11.100 One of the things to show just how in touch these guys are, though, they still, and the broadcaster, the CBC, you can see the picture, happily reports on that, feel that the privatization of liquor stores was a bad idea in Alberta.

00:03:26.000 20 years later, apparently, we're still debating it. 0.98

00:03:28.520 Ah, bullshit. 1.00

00:03:29.360 We do not miss waiting in line for the five brands of crappy beer you could get at a government liquor store that was only open during bankers' hours, and those jerks went on strike every few months. 1.00

00:03:39.780 Only the Parkland Institute would think that's a bad idea. 0.93

00:03:42.620 And they tried to actually say Albertans really don't think Saskatchewan should privatize theirs because we had such a terrible experience with ours.

00:03:48.040 B.S.

00:03:48.460 Anybody who lived in Alberta during the days of government liquor stores knows that.

00:03:52.940 It's the same thing with the Parkland Institute.

00:03:54.160 They actually opposed the privatization, still go on and whine about it, of the registries, automotive registries, you know, a place where you get your wedding license, pretty much anything.

00:04:06.180 Government, you know, all those places where you have to pay your money and get government permission to do things.

00:04:09.520 It used to be, a lot of young people don't know about it or remember it, you used to literally have to take a whole day off work to renew your driver's license.

00:04:16.900 Like, you would have to go in, take numbers, sit in a room like that one that's pictured right there, waste your entire day, and then usually that bureaucrat, if he's not on strike that week, would find some reason or another why you can't do it, so you've got to book another day off the next week in order to try and do it.

00:04:28.580 Either way, these luminaries at the Parkland Institute, these people well in touch with reality, are actually putting out a thing saying, Alberta should raise its minimum wage now to $17 an hour.

00:04:39.520 I owned a restaurant, as Notley beat the snot out of us, raising minimum wage from $10.50 up to $15.50 over the course of a few years.

00:04:47.260 We adjusted, we raised our prices, we lost some sales, we laid off people, we tightened, I got rid of a dishwasher, but we got through it.

00:04:54.580 And that was pre-COVID.

00:04:56.740 Now, these clowns think, during the COVID pandemic, with these service industry businesses, retail businesses, the ones that are closing left, right, and center, the thing they need right now is another increase in minimum wage by a couple dollars an hour.

00:05:08.500 Yeah, that's going to do them wonders, you know, this is, of course, they're all just rich fat cats sitting on piles of money, that's the logic of these university people, of course, who somehow carry on with their jobs, get funding, no matter what happens in the economy, at least for now. 0.67

00:05:24.140 Hang on, guys, we will come for you.

00:05:25.680 So, they're pushing for minimum wage increases. 1.00

00:05:28.940 It's bullshit. 1.00

00:05:29.700 It's insane. 1.00

00:05:30.180 But one thing they will do, though, is bring about automation.

00:05:33.540 And automation isn't a bad thing, but when it comes out when it's fiscal, you know, an improvement in things.

00:05:38.360 In this case, when you're making labor so expensive that you force places into automation, well, it's going to come faster than you need to, and more jobs will be lost.

00:05:45.260 Which, these labor guys always claim they care about jobs, they care about the little guy.

00:05:50.580 Well, how is that the case when you know this is going to cost a lot of jobs, with businesses that will just shut down, or ones like this one, this was in Calgary just last week.

00:05:56.500 Check this out.

00:05:57.840 These guys have actually found a way to replace servers.

00:06:00.580 Have a listen.

00:06:00.980 Technology exists in so much of our lives today, you likely don't even notice some of it.

00:06:07.240 From our cars to our phones, it's typically there to make things easier for us.

00:06:12.320 Now, a Calgary restaurant owner has turned to the future for a little help serving up the dishes.

00:06:17.480 Kevin Fleming explains.

00:06:19.200 When you arrive at Clay Pot Rice, you're greeted by a smiling electronic face.

00:06:24.260 Today is opening day for the new restaurant.

00:06:26.220 Amy Sen is the manager here, and has helped with everything from tasting the new menu, to hiring staff.

00:06:32.620 There's been a lot to do to get everything ready.

00:06:35.180 I'm like a person, I have to do things on my own kind of thing, so it's like, every time I'm about to go to something, I'm like, wait, I can just get the robot to do it.

00:06:42.220 I always forget we have him.

00:06:43.620 She's referring to the second robot on staff.

00:06:46.380 This one delivers food to customers once they've ordered.

00:06:49.460 The two robots were imported from China.

00:06:51.860 The manufacturer claims this one can also take...

00:06:54.340 That's enough of that.

00:06:55.100 So, yeah, you know, you kind of get the picture.

00:06:58.160 Everybody's replaceable, and so can servers be.

00:07:00.600 I mean, I guess you'll lose that perky experience of a personable server who comes to your table, which I do enjoy.

00:07:05.440 But if you make it unaffordable for restaurants to have them any longer, these robots are going to look like a pretty darn good idea.

00:07:10.940 Along the lines of other areas with people doing more online ordering areas which put more people out of work.

00:07:16.520 Because it's just too expensive for businesses to employ people any longer.

00:07:20.420 And these entry-level, and that's all they are, they're entry-level positions. 0.96

00:07:22.780 People climb the corporate scrotum pole.

00:07:25.100 They still got to start at the bottom.

00:07:26.780 And that's what minimum wage jobs are for. 0.96

00:07:28.540 If a person makes a career of it, the person with a career at minimum wage job is the one with the problem, not the rest of us.

00:07:33.560 But now we're getting on to more of this BS.

00:07:36.400 You know, because people really take advantage of this pandemic to try and make permanent changes.

00:07:39.500 So this ties into the real push for universal basic income.

00:07:44.260 Which they seem to feel if we could really embrace and bring in some heavy-duty socialism while people aren't looking because they're all scared of the pandemic and a bug and a flu is going to get them.

00:07:51.060 But BC Research Project, and as you can see, it's the state broadcaster giving this all this airtime.

00:07:54.880 And I heard these guys on the radio and some stuff too.

00:07:57.380 Found that if they just give homeless people 75 bucks each, the results were in quotes, beautifully surprising.

00:08:02.000 So they found housing faster, they boosted food security, and they reduced spending on substances.

00:08:08.960 What? Nice.

00:08:10.700 But you've got to read a little deeper in this one because where, here we go, but they didn't do it with anybody who has a substance abuse problem or mental health issues.

00:08:19.800 Okay.

00:08:20.640 That narrows it down to a very small amount.

00:08:23.060 Plus, in fact, it was actually only 50 people that gave this cash to you.

00:08:25.840 So it's not exactly a huge study that you could really put a lot of stock into.

00:08:29.740 But go out in the streets and you're really seeing it this day.

00:08:32.720 These days, anybody going out is seeing it.

00:08:35.000 The amount of homeless people are exploding out there.

00:08:38.060 And it's depressing.

00:08:39.360 It's sad.

00:08:39.880 You go to just about any street corner.

00:08:41.260 I mean, this is hitting into the suburban areas now too, not just downtown.

00:08:44.680 I mean, you've got the guy holding the sign and you'll see them twitching and tweaking down the street.

00:08:49.040 But these aren't people who are just between jobs.

00:08:51.140 These aren't people who just need a little hand up to get rolling. 0.97

00:08:54.760 These are people with mental health problems and junkies. 0.99

00:08:57.000 The two who they did not include in this study.

00:08:59.740 Because what are those people going to do if you give them $7,500?

00:09:03.260 Well, if they survive, they're going to spend a month or two completely wasted out of their minds at best.

00:09:08.720 I'm sorry, but let's face reality.

00:09:10.920 Do you think this gal just needs a few bucks? 1.00

00:09:13.360 You know, she'll, oh, jeez, if I just had $7,500, I'd get my life together. 0.92

00:09:17.140 I'd put that shopping cart away or that cart or whatever it is.

00:09:19.940 And I'd move into an apartment and I'd move on and become a functioning member of society.

00:09:23.620 No, she needs help.

00:09:25.000 This is a disturbed person.

00:09:26.600 We need to help this person.

00:09:28.380 Absolutely.

00:09:29.220 But just handing the money isn't the way to do it.

00:09:30.740 But again, you see, the UBI people don't want us to think about it that way.

00:09:33.660 They just want to think if we just keep sucking money from some people over here and giving it to people over there, it'll fix everything.

00:09:39.520 It's funny that they claim that money's not their prime issue, yet they're the ones most focused on it.

00:09:43.000 You know, this gentleman here, I guess he could take a month off of going out and rounding up bottles and everything.

00:09:49.640 But do you think he's rounding up all of that to furnish his house or save a nest egg or plan for retirement?

00:09:54.580 Look, the guy wants to go out and get wasted.

00:09:56.060 And he's probably, again, got mental health issues that he's self-medicating with substances, whether it's alcohol, fentanyl, opiates, all sorts of things, meth, that people are getting on.

00:10:05.420 And you just can't just give them money and think they're going to get better.

00:10:08.320 He's, you know, they're going to overdose.

00:10:10.720 They're going to take this stuff and they're just going to make it worse.

00:10:13.160 I'm not saying cut these people off of money either.

00:10:14.900 But we've got to have a plan and get them off it.

00:10:16.860 I mean, he hasn't gotten nearly enough credit for a plan to add, I think it was 4,000 addictions treatment beds in Alberta.

00:10:23.640 This is the sort of thing we need to see.

00:10:25.200 I mean, we keep talking about safe consumption, giving free drugs to people.

00:10:27.940 That's fine.

00:10:28.460 That's a band-aid and that kicks that can down the road. 0.99

00:10:30.500 But unless you get them off the crap, you're not fixing anything. 0.97

00:10:34.440 And I know that drug courts and so on, they still have limited success. 0.97

00:10:37.600 But more success than people who didn't enter our program at all.

00:10:39.920 And these people need help.

00:10:40.860 If we can get them in, we all win. 0.97

00:10:43.320 Handing them all $7,500 as these clowns are trying to propose isn't going to fix a darn thing. 0.90

00:10:48.720 And as for the mental health issues, we've got a lot of people who this is part of a trend of deinstitutionalization. 0.97

00:10:53.660 It's going on for decades.

00:10:54.880 I kind of blame it a little bit on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

00:10:58.300 A fantastic movie, but it certainly made mental health institutions look awful. 0.85

00:11:02.000 And they probably were in that time.

00:11:03.900 And maybe some of them in third world countries still are, I'm sure. 1.00

00:11:07.140 But sometimes, a person does need to become a ward of the state.

00:11:10.940 They are better off in care.

00:11:13.060 And it doesn't have to be a place like that.

00:11:14.620 I mean, a lot of our facilities, our institutions, aren't places where we're giving them electroshock therapy every few days

00:11:19.580 and playing awful music in hallways and banning them from baseball.

00:11:24.200 These can be, and I'm sure often are, places with a campus where a person can live comfortably

00:11:28.900 and at least move on and be medicated and supervised.

00:11:32.820 Otherwise, they could be out on the street freezing to death and talking to themselves

00:11:35.900 and shooting them pants while walking with a shopping cart while Nancy says, oh, they just need a home. 1.00

00:11:39.860 Or somebody else says they just need $7,500.

00:11:41.920 No, they need help.

00:11:43.200 And they need intervention.

00:11:45.140 And just handing them money isn't going to do it.

00:11:47.160 But again, that's not the motivation of these people.

00:11:48.900 They're just looking for every possible way to push a universal basic income plan.

00:11:52.680 And this is just another step within it.

00:11:54.700 Now, getting on to other people, getting beyond reality.

00:11:57.740 So a bunch of students walked out in Calgary at the Catholic schools last week

00:12:03.560 in protest of systemic racism.

00:12:06.140 I'm loving that BS.

00:12:08.040 Systemic racism in the education system. 1.00

00:12:09.920 Let's give that bullshit meter up there. 1.00

00:12:11.660 Look, most high school kids, if you can find a reason to stumble out and rage, you're going to do it. 0.99

00:12:15.160 It's an afternoon off.

00:12:16.340 It's been popular these days.

00:12:17.600 It's been trendy these days.

00:12:19.200 What had happened was kids had recorded a couple of teachers using, yeah, the N-word.

00:12:25.520 But the context is what's important in this.

00:12:27.540 I mean, it's an odious word.

00:12:28.860 And I'm saying the N-word.

00:12:29.580 Because I don't like the word.

00:12:30.620 I don't think it should be illegal to say the word.

00:12:32.200 But I think people should just not tend to use it.

00:12:34.640 It's a gross word.

00:12:36.300 It's a derogatory word. 0.99

00:12:37.880 But just the word in itself is still just a fucking word. 0.99

00:12:42.720 Now, bear with me. 0.98

00:12:44.220 I'm going to play a clip.

00:12:46.240 Most people my age will have probably seen it.

00:12:47.880 Maybe some younger people haven't seen it.

00:12:48.940 Maybe some older people still haven't seen it.

00:12:50.220 But it's a must watch, especially for the cancel culture. 0.95

00:12:52.320 Beckerheads cancel it. 1.00

00:12:54.120 Blazing Saddles.

00:12:55.120 I want to play a clip from it.

00:12:56.320 And then I'm going to talk about a few things.

00:12:58.380 Because bear with me, it's important.

00:13:00.260 I do have a point in the end of this besides just playing a funny clip.

00:13:02.900 But it is damn funny.

00:13:03.760 So have a watch and a listen to about three minutes of this.

00:13:26.320 Come on, boys.

00:13:38.220 The way you're lollygagging around here with them techs and them shovels, you'd think it was 120 degrees.

00:13:46.220 Can't be more than 114.

00:13:48.600 Dock that chink a day's pay for napping on the job. 1.00

00:13:55.900 Yes, sir.

00:13:58.480 Now, come on, boys.

00:14:00.260 Where's your spirit?

00:14:01.740 I don't hear no singing.

00:14:03.940 When you were slaves, you sang like birds.

00:14:08.020 Come on. 0.97

00:14:08.500 How about a good old nigger work song? 1.00

00:14:10.440 I get no kick from champagne. 0.88

00:14:23.660 Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all.

00:14:32.440 So tell me, why should it be true that I get a belt out of you?

00:14:42.900 Some get a kick from cocaine.

00:14:52.860 Hold it, hold it. 1.00

00:14:54.120 What the hell is that shit? 1.00

00:14:57.900 I meant a song. 1.00

00:15:00.260 A real song.

00:15:01.920 Something like, swing low, sweet chariot.

00:15:09.920 Don't know that one, huh?

00:15:16.400 Well, how about the camp town lady? 1.00

00:15:21.140 The camp town ladies.

00:15:23.800 The camp town ladies.

00:15:26.920 Oh, you know.

00:15:29.240 The camp town ladies sing this song.

00:15:32.740 Do-da, do-da. 0.87

00:15:34.700 The camp town race track five miles long.

00:15:37.000 All the do-da days. 0.92

00:15:38.740 What in the wide, wide world of sports is going on here?

00:16:00.400 I had you people to try to get a little track lead. 0.99

00:16:02.980 Not to jump around like a bunch of Kansas City faggots. 1.00

00:16:06.900 Sorry, Mr. Tate. 0.99

00:16:08.060 I guess we kind of got caught up. 0.98

00:16:09.800 Listen, dummy.

00:16:10.920 The surveyors say they may run into some quicksand up ahead. 0.97

00:16:14.060 Better check it out.

00:16:15.220 Okay, I'll send down a team of horses to check out the ground. 0.92

00:16:18.520 Horses? 0.97

00:16:19.940 Why are we Tate affording to lose no horses, you dummy? 0.85

00:16:23.620 Send over a couple of acres. 0.94

00:16:25.620 Okay, Mr. Tate.

00:16:26.660 Okay, that's enough of that.

00:16:29.760 I'll explain it a little further.

00:16:31.080 At the end, that was Slim Pickens.

00:16:32.460 He was hilarious.

00:16:33.540 He was in Dr. Strangelove.

00:16:35.020 He was fantastic.

00:16:36.620 The other actor, I should have written down his name.

00:16:38.880 That first cowboy, the one who dropped the N-word, the one who's being the meanie. 0.87

00:16:42.540 There's a backstory with it.

00:16:44.020 As he was working on that movie, he was horrified about calling people the N-word.

00:16:49.880 He was very uncomfortable with it.

00:16:51.640 And that actor, the black gentleman who starred in that movie, is Clevon Little.

00:16:55.280 He passed away, unfortunately.

00:16:58.240 He had a chat.

00:16:59.120 The cowboy actor, I should have written his name down, talks to Clevon Little, says,

00:17:03.180 Look, man, I've got to use that word in this.

00:17:04.980 You're okay with it.

00:17:05.600 Clevon says, don't sweat it.

00:17:07.400 It's okay.

00:17:08.000 I'm kind of paraphrasing here.

00:17:09.220 This story is good.

00:17:10.460 He says, you know, that's what it's for.

00:17:12.000 It's in the movie.

00:17:12.700 It's perfect.

00:17:13.360 Use it away.

00:17:14.360 Use it outside the movie.

00:17:16.000 It's Fist City.

00:17:17.580 Use it in the movie.

00:17:18.800 That was perfect.

00:17:19.360 Because what he's talking about is context.

00:17:22.120 And he was absolutely right.

00:17:23.520 You use it in the movie.

00:17:24.600 You use it in that context.

00:17:25.760 You use it reading a Tom Sawyer book.

00:17:27.400 You use it speaking about somebody else.

00:17:29.320 There's lots of context where you can use that N-word and you're not calling somebody that.

00:17:33.880 You're not doing it to hurt somebody.

00:17:36.960 You're using it in a means that applies to a situation.

00:17:40.440 Use it outside of it.

00:17:41.980 And Clevon understood, I'm not going to put up with that. 1.00

00:17:44.260 I'm going to punch you in the face. 0.90

00:17:45.120 And in the early 70s, yeah, for a long time, that word's just not a good word. 0.98

00:17:49.360 And that's why it was used to affect in that Mel Brooks masterpiece.

00:17:52.980 As you watch that movie, it sure is using that word all over.

00:17:55.840 And it cancels culture, freaks, and snowflakes all melt and cry.

00:17:58.380 Because, you know, that movie uses it a great number of times.

00:18:00.740 But what it's doing is making fun of the racists in its satire.

00:18:04.240 And it's brilliant satire.

00:18:05.500 That whole movie is just beautiful with Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman.

00:18:09.200 And I've got to watch the whole thing again sometime soon. 0.86

00:18:12.580 But you see, what we're trying to do now is we've gotten so hypersensitive with this bullshit that we're taking the context out of the words. 0.83

00:18:19.620 So these teachers use those words not to call students those things, but in different contexts. 0.89

00:18:24.300 Maybe they should have chosen different words.

00:18:25.560 But either way, it's not as big a deal as these students are making it out to be.

00:18:28.260 And when you take it, it's just a word if you remove the context.

00:18:32.840 Then it's just a word.

00:18:33.580 And it's not what's important to how it was used.

00:18:36.600 You remove it and just turn it into the word in itself being an evil thing.

00:18:40.000 Well, then you actually take away the impact that people are using it in a derogatory and terrible way.

00:18:44.860 And you're giving way too much weight to it when people aren't using it that way.

00:18:48.300 As we saw with these teachers.

00:18:49.420 Or even Wendy Messley at CBC who found herself canceled because she dared to use that word.

00:18:54.200 Again, not in a cruel context in a planning meeting.

00:18:57.200 So we've really got to watch out for this trend, people.

00:19:00.240 They're just words.

00:19:01.260 It's how we use them.

00:19:02.300 Who uses them.

00:19:03.200 In which way.

00:19:04.020 Because when you take it away, it's just the word in itself.

00:19:06.160 And we've got a minefield that not many people are going to survive.

00:19:09.000 But enough about that.

00:19:10.580 The kids took their day off.

00:19:11.720 I hope they feel better about themselves.

00:19:12.980 There's really not much else to be done for that.

00:19:15.420 Let's talk about corporate welfare.

00:19:17.440 You know, a nice subject that keeps me nice and calm and happy.

00:19:20.740 So Trudeau and Doug Ford came hand in hand and said,

00:19:24.540 You know what?

00:19:24.980 We're going to put half a billion dollars into electric vehicle production in a Ford assembly plant. 0.99

00:19:31.680 You know, if this shit was viable, they wouldn't need the money. 0.99

00:19:36.180 It's as simple as that. 0.99

00:19:37.120 If electric cars were the future, everybody keeps saying they're the future,

00:19:39.780 private investors should be falling over themselves to get in on these companies to build the things. 0.96

00:19:44.580 The truth is, people don't want the damn things. 0.96

00:19:46.600 They're not economically viable. 0.97

00:19:47.960 They might be one day, but they aren't here yet. 1.00

00:19:49.960 And that's why these companies have to come cap in hand and a dumb asshole like Doug Ford and Justin Trudeau will steal that money. 1.00

00:19:56.320 And I'll call it theft. 1.00

00:19:57.300 They're stealing it from what few businesses and people are still managing to make a living and pay taxes and they're giving it to these losers. 0.97

00:20:04.100 Because we're broke. 0.77

00:20:05.760 We've got very few people working as it is.

00:20:08.240 People have been taking wage cuts.

00:20:09.320 People have been laid off.

00:20:10.060 Businesses are shutting down.

00:20:11.860 Yet the only way you can do corporate welfare means you've got to take that money from somewhere else.

00:20:15.080 And that means you're taking it from those people that are earning.

00:20:17.420 Now, they say it's for 3,000 jobs.

00:20:19.980 It's always that, you know, Alberta's losing six figures in jobs.

00:20:22.920 But, oh, if we can save 3,000 jobs with $500 million, it worked out to $200,000 per job.

00:20:30.960 You know, if, if, and I don't agree with it, but if we've really got to go into this to try and create jobs with government corporate welfare,

00:20:37.100 why don't we do it this way?

00:20:37.980 How do you think it would go if there were 3,000, $200,000 business grants that you spread out all across the entire country?

00:20:46.680 Even if there was an administration cost of $1,000 a grant, you know, to piss around, figure out applicants, this and that.

00:20:51.100 Okay, $199,000 grant to 3,000 businesses across the country.

00:20:56.980 How many jobs does that create? 0.99

00:20:58.280 How many long-term businesses would be created by creative minds or just existing businesses that, you know,

00:21:04.660 that perhaps a commercial bakery needs some new ovens or a new packaging machine or a restaurant needs renovations so they can actually socially distance people more

00:21:13.220 or somebody's got an invention that just needs that extra bit of money to bring it into production and get the patents done.

00:21:18.720 I mean, potential is endless.

00:21:20.320 You could have 3,000 mines, even if half of them failed.

00:21:22.600 $1,500, though, carried on. 0.98

00:21:23.940 We're going to do a hell of a lot more than dumping a bunch into a bunch of assholes, overpaid, making electric cars that probably won't sell in Ottawa. 0.97

00:21:32.220 Remember, what happened to the Volt? 0.98

00:21:34.720 Yeah.

00:21:35.300 Do you see them on the streets?

00:21:36.260 No, these people didn't want them.

00:21:37.780 Tesla's just a welfare war, too.

00:21:39.580 Until these things are viable, they're just going to get you sucking money out of the people who are working their butts off.

00:21:44.820 And Jerkoff's like, because I'm going to say it, yeah, Trudeau and Ford, I am not impressed.

00:21:50.520 Ford on a number of levels.

00:21:51.760 I mean, so getting on Ford and his panic, I mean, I can see it because older people in bad shape who are fat are at a much higher risk of coronavirus. 0.99

00:22:02.440 So Ford would like to use his power to lock everybody else down to keep his own fat ass safe. 0.98

00:22:07.900 So even the World Health Organization, you know, they flip-flop all over the place like a fish out of water. 0.98

00:22:15.200 Their latest one, though, is they're actually saying no more lockdowns.

00:22:17.840 Don't do lockdowns.

00:22:19.060 They're hurting more people than they're saving. 1.00

00:22:21.320 Holy shit. 0.99

00:22:22.820 Just what a lot of us have been kind of saying for the last six months, particularly now that people have stopped dying. 1.00

00:22:28.580 They are dying.

00:22:29.480 That's a big factor.

00:22:30.400 Yes, cases are up.

00:22:31.200 The cases are up.

00:22:31.800 Everybody's freaking out.

00:22:32.540 The cases are up.

00:22:33.780 They're dying. 1.00

00:22:34.580 If they're dying, that's just a fucking flu. 1.00

00:22:36.480 And yes, the flu would kill the vulnerable. 0.99

00:22:38.220 It's still something to be scared of.

00:22:39.560 It's still something that we've got to protect our vulnerable from.

00:22:41.820 It's still a thing that we have to take measures for.

00:22:43.460 These lockdowns are ridiculous and damaging. 0.56

00:22:46.100 Hey, let's have a look at Sweden. 0.93

00:22:47.740 My old buddies in Sweden.

00:22:48.920 Their cases have gone up a little.

00:22:51.240 540 cases.

00:22:53.360 Zero deaths.

00:22:54.760 It's the deaths.

00:22:55.700 And they didn't lockdown.

00:22:56.820 They don't have masks.

00:22:57.940 Their grand is looking just the same as all of ours with all the lockdowns and the masks and all of that.

00:23:02.100 And out of all of this, though, I have to give Chode of the Week to Doug Ford.

00:23:06.940 Because in his panic, as cases rose, just cases, by the way, the cases per capita are not much higher than Alberta.

00:23:12.400 We're not looking down because at least Kenny has been showing a great deal more intelligence on this issue than Ford.

00:23:17.480 Ford talked about it on last Monday, saying, I won't frivolously put people's lives, you know, in a terrible place by bringing in a lockdown if we don't need to.

00:23:26.620 We're going to take it really carefully.

00:23:27.460 And then he panicked by the week.

00:23:28.420 He's shut things down.

00:23:30.500 And he's cost, I've got to thank Anthony Bury for reporting on this constantly, 60,000 jobs just in food service that Ford has now shut down for 28 days.

00:23:39.460 In panic.

00:23:40.040 In panic.

00:23:40.480 Over cases.

00:23:41.040 Not friggin' deaths.

00:23:42.220 60,000 people thrown out of work.

00:23:43.800 That's just food service, gyms, and a whole bunch of other areas are shut down, too.

00:23:46.580 Let's say 80,000 jobs lost for a month.

00:23:49.300 A lot of those companies aren't going to put it again.

00:23:50.580 There's no bloody way.

00:23:51.200 Why would you?

00:23:51.800 When you keep getting jerked back and forth like this, you can't do it.

00:23:54.380 They're barely hanging by a thread as it is.

00:23:56.140 Now they've been shut down again.

00:23:57.060 Why would you put your sweat, tears, and misery into trying to keep that place open after this latest lockdown when you never know when Premier Peckerhead there is going to get scared again, shut you down again.

00:24:07.580 You might as well just close your doors and retire.

00:24:09.280 You know, on welfare.

00:24:10.300 Go on, you know, maybe a UBI.

00:24:12.440 It'll be coming eventually. 0.97

00:24:13.800 This is ridiculous. 0.95

00:24:14.960 It was insanity on the part of Ford and damaging. 0.95

00:24:17.960 And Fury rode on it because the evidence isn't there.

00:24:21.440 Five out of 100,000 people are in hospital.

00:24:23.480 Remember when they were saying that we just want them to be sure not to overcrowd our hospitals and our ICUs?

00:24:27.060 The numbers of people in hospitals in Ontario are saying that we're talking dozens.

00:24:31.240 There's lots of room still.

00:24:32.540 We're managing this disease. 1.00

00:24:35.300 There's no need to be shutting down and putting tens of thousands of people out of work unless you're a panicked moron like Doug Ford. 0.99

00:24:42.040 And, you know, here's some of the numbers that Doug's working on. 0.99

00:24:45.740 Their death count even includes people who didn't die of COVID and they don't even know how many.

00:24:49.900 So you're working on crappy numbers.

00:24:51.760 You're putting tens of thousands of lives on hold yet again, putting them out of work.

00:24:56.740 People aren't dying. 0.97

00:24:58.360 This is ridiculous. 0.70

00:24:59.420 For this, Doug, you are the Cho of the Week. 0.95

00:25:02.040 You earned it very much so.

00:25:04.740 I do hope you don't get elected again.

00:25:06.260 You know, it's these times that show where a strong leader and a weak leader are.

00:25:10.580 And it's clear Ford is a weak, weak leader.

00:25:14.020 And Ontario deserves better than that.

00:25:17.260 So that's enough ranting for this week.

00:25:19.580 I feel better about myself.

00:25:20.680 I will sleep well.

00:25:21.900 And on some good notes, though, the Western Standard is doing fantastic.

00:25:25.260 We are now the third most read online publication in the West.

00:25:29.880 Well, we only serve as the West.

00:25:31.020 So that's a pretty good climb for a publication that's only a year old.

00:25:34.020 We, unlike, you know, the state broadcaster and most mainstream media sources, don't take any government money.

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00:25:57.360 Either way, thanks for tuning in and being my therapy person, letting me figuratively cry on your shoulders as close to crying as I can get.

00:26:04.920 And I will see you on Wednesday for the news roundup and rant at you again next week.

Western Standard - October 14, 2020

The Rant with Cory Morgan October 12, 2020

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