The Rant with Cory Morgan. September 28, 2020
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Summary
Joe Rogan is being censored by Spotify, California wants to ban gas powered vehicles in 14 years, and Ben Shapiro talks about why we should all be worried about what's going on in California and why we shouldn't be either.
Transcript
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Last week I started with something non controversial.
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Another reason to keep this man in office as president.
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This art that will be lost if this man is no longer in office.
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in office. Oh I know Joe Biden inspires some stuff too but this sort of
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beautiful thing is just too much to behold. I got to keep seeing it for four
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more years. Now I really want to hit on cancel culture this week though because
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with our polarized politics people are trying to shut down debate discussion
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exchanges on every level particularly again of course when it comes to
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conservatives and I want to look at the man with the top podcast on earth just
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about Joe Rogan. He's been running it for years he gets something like 300 million
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downloads a month. Spotify recently bought his show a big step up for a hundred
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million dollars. Now Joe Rogan continued to be Joe Rogan. The reason he built that
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tremendous giant audience he has is because he speaks his mind. His mind might
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not always be the most rational or non-offensive thing to get over. He also
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has controversial guests on a lot. That's what makes him interesting. That's why
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hundreds of millions of people have downloaded his show. So what's
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happened? Well the woke staff at Spotify are threatening to strike. They're saying
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we can't handle working for a company that has this man on here. We're gonna
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strike, we're gonna leave, censor him, get him under control or we're leaving. So
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Spotify as this National Post article says has a dilemma on whether or not to
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censor his podcast or call it free speech. I suspect that Joe's got a pretty good
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contract and if they try to censor it he's probably gonna get out of it with
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his hundred million or a big chunk of it and then he can just start up again
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elsewhere. His fans will follow him so I don't see where this is a dilemma. Leave
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him the hell alone. And if somehow he submitted to being censored like that,
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semi-cancelled, he's going to lose his listeners and followers. That's the reason
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people tuned into him in the first place. Part of what's got them so pissed off at
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Rogan as well though is he's doing what a lot of conservatives are doing and
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they're leaving California in droves because the socialism and disasters and
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lack of police and homelessness and just general outcomes that you always get
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with decades of liberal governance have gotten to them. The Daily Wire with Ben
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Shapiro moved to Texas because Texas is still that bastion of freedoms that
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appreciates these sorts of things and look at that home Joe bought himself.
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$14.4 million dollars a Lake Austin mansion in Texas. Good on him. I mean you
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earned it. Keep earning, keep entertaining us and let's have a look at here's again
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you know this just came out. This is on the standard at the news we carry we
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cover these things. Dave Kneeler writes some fantastic pieces on there. California
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says they're gonna ban gas-powered vehicles in 14 years and in fracking.
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Now California's broke. I mean they're up shit creek. They're in a lot of trouble as
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it's sitting fiscally much like the rest of the world and Canada's fast on their
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heels. But one of their revenue generating areas, Holly was shut down these days, is
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at least their their oil field. There's actually a lot of heavy oil in
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California those you know hypocritical celebrities like to forget to mention
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that. They need fracking though to keep those fields rolling so they're gonna
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shut down their oil fields. 14 years a timeline. They're gonna ban gas-powered
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vehicles. This is brilliant. This is a state that already screwed their electrical
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generation so badly that they were having rolling blackouts going because they
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couldn't keep up on air conditioning during heat waves. Now try to think
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what's gonna happen if this mythical ban of gas-powered vehicles comes along and
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you have tens of millions of electric vehicles trying to charge on that
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already overloaded grid. They're gonna turn that that state into a third world
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country. But you know maybe it's not such a bad thing. Bring it to the ground and
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then we can buy in and I can finally get a retirement place with palm trees and a
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surf at a fraction of the of the price of where it's sitting at. So staying on the
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cancel culture though we've got a story a little closer to home with Ryan
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Jesperson. For those not familiar with him he's what was a talk show radio host
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630 Ched in Edmonton. People are all lighting their hair on fire because he
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got fired from 630 Ched. At least the left is lighting their hair on fire and they
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keep saying oh he spoke for the center. No he was a bloody left just quit pissing
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around and beating around the bush. Look Daniel Smith comes to the right Ryan
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comes from the left. He got canned. Part of it it sounds like was a battle he had
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with Mike Nichol who's a controversial councillor a city councillor in Edmonton
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and Jesperson called Nichol's staff chimpanzees and people twisted that into
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saying it meant that Jesperson because apparently these staffers were not white
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and he was using a racial term personally. I don't think that was
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Jesperson's intent he was just planning on being an asshole and he's good at that.
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Whether or not it was fire worthy I don't know but he did get fired and
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there's not a lot of people gonna miss him. The thing that gets me with a Jesperson
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and I'm not celebrating his loss of a job it sucks people are losing jobs all
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over this is one more unemployed person but the hypocrisy. Ryan Jesperson reaped
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what he sowed and here's a tweet he sent at me so this was when Don Terry was
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getting wiped out for for a relatively innocuous comment and well just a
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standard John Don Terry thing where he said you people and he got fired he got
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shut down and people were discussing that and here's a tweet you can see from me
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back in November I said it's sad I mean people don't understand that you don't
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have to agree with something somebody says in order to support their right to say
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it I mean it's a twist on that that long-held belief in in full free speech
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Jesperson responds to me quote tweeting me you know says indeed also troubling out
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people don't understand a freedom of expression doesn't equal freedom from
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consequence well you sure figured that out didn't you Ryan so you know that high
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horse sure must have sucked to fall off of and he went further in that same
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discussion thread to say it's similar in the sense that I'm free and expect to
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speak my mind with the caveat and specific contract language indicating I
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guess you should have watched that contract a little more closely that I'll
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be canned if I offend or alienate enough sponsors and listeners it's business
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Cherry's job is to be controversial about hockey not immigrant Canadians well now
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Cherry's job was to entertain and part of that was I mean if he was just
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a dry hockey commentator he wouldn't have built that beautiful empire that he
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had going on there I think in my view though the case is the same with both
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these media outlets are losing a lot of money no matter what they're doing it was
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pointed out to me that since in the last two years 630 ched and Ryan just
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person that held the prime daytime hosting on that has lost a third of their
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listenership in two years so there's some big issues going on yeah it's in the
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contract if you offend people they can fire you I suspect that the chimpanzees
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comment give him an excuse but the reality was they got to get rid of you
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and try and get somebody in there who's gonna bring some listeners back is it
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because they're in trouble and as Dean saying it looks good on just person yeah
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well just person hasn't really endeared himself to a lot of people because he has
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been a bit rough online but pay so am I so I'm not gonna fault him for that so you
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know it's made a lot of people sad with him gone as you can see Rachel Notley and poor old
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Gil McGowan here are looking real sad today too and part of it's because
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they've lost Jesperson he was a strong ally of unions and and the NDP and he
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certainly loved to to run at Kenny and and another such as hard as he could but
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the reason that Rachel and Gil are really this sad today is that they
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invested weeks and weeks in fear-mongering and telling Albertans that
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Jason Kenny was gonna kill their children they're gonna kill grandmama oh life is
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gonna come to an end because we're opening the schools the kids are gonna go to the
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schools the COVID pandemic is gonna hit those schools sweep through their
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teachers are gonna die it's gonna be catastrophe oh the friggin world's gonna
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end they were sure that they caught Kenny in a corner and they were all ready to
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jump all over and when the infections went wild well it's been a few weeks
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since the schools opened up and ah shit cases are down the kids all went back to
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school and the cases went down now what the hell is she gonna do well we're seeing
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she just keeps going on about that fake corporate tax giveaway thing that she's
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always hung up on and back to her old line but they lost out on what they
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figured they were gonna set the tone for for the whole fall I'm sure they're
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still crossing their fingers hoping to see some massive outbreaks that'll kill a
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janitor somewhere in a school or something that they can jump on and
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called Kenny a murderer but in the meantime it's just not happening because
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the COVID pandemic is really not what it's been made out to be but one
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pandemic or epidemic that's happening is addiction and we have seen in Alberta and
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this is bad in a quarter there look at how the opioid deaths have spiked this is
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with our safe consumption sites this is with mitigation and I'm not wholly
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against those actually you know this is a big problem I'm not faulting any
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particular individual what is happening is we got a lot of stressed people who are
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now suddenly getting or have been suddenly getting two thousand a month and a
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lot of them have invested into into drug abuse unfortunately and that does lead to
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much more addiction and more overdoses as we're seeing right now this is a really
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big problem opioid deaths are killing more people than COVID now if we spent
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even half of what we spent pissing around with COVID on mental health
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facilities and addictions treatment I suspect we'd have saved a hell of a lot
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more people than what we're getting out of this this is trying to stop what it
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really is turning out to be a bad flu that that really harms the elderly and the
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vulnerable I mean it's still something dangerous but we've overreacted to it in
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the mean pot time suicides opioid deaths and other things are rising we've got to
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take a reality check here look at that spike that is disturbing it's embarrassing
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and it's horrible to see these are people's children dying out there so I'll
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get on to a good news thing Trump approved a 22 billion dollar railway
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between Alaska and Alberta this is fantastic it really is the potential for
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this you know I get tired of that high-speed rail futuristic crap between
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Edmonton and Calgary this is a luxury a notion an idea but a functional railway
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between Alaska and Alberta this is Alberta getting a new route to tidewater
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finally for a number of products this can happen I mean yes petroleum petrochemical
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products and you can see this this line would be starting up in the oil sands area
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can be moved out to the coast that way things can be moved down as well when you
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think that rail line can bring in shipping things from Asia ship them down
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use Albert as a distribution hub and we can ship throughout North America
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Winnipeg you know a rail hub as well I mean this line could really benefit
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Alberta what's really is the way they drew that I worked four years in the
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Arctic and I'd have to drive up there every year past Whitehorse but if you
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look at that line the Alaska highway actually crosses in and out of the Yukon
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territories and Northwest Territories in BC a couple of times before it gets up
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there it's really rough terrain but this rail line they very carefully made sure
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they're gonna cut that all into the Yukon and stayed the hell out of BC all
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together this is a great little step towards Alberta's independence in a number of
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ways whether it's a future fully independent Western Alberta or just again with our
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battles with the increasingly socialist lower mainland BC we can get our
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products right by those assholes and we won't have to worry about them anymore and
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we can import products ports can bypass Vancouver and their other issues as well
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and ship things through that rail line and get them down here hopefully this gets
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built that's a very large project at 22 billion dollars they feel they're
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bringing in private investors they've already done a lot of groundwork and
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survey and made deals with a lot of the indigenous communities up there I mean
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that's going to help along the line too for communities that haven't had many
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industries now they've got a means to bring product to market if they've got
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local resources so that's one good news story today and of course you know the
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federal government is going to find some damn reason or another try and stop it
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so we better get ready to protect this thing and soon so speaking of Ottawa
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here's our moron-in-chief right now Justin Trudeau Pierre jr and yeah he wasted the
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media's time wasted Canada's time with this post throne speech address to the nation he
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he got all the media lined up promised it wouldn't be a political speech said you know
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I've got some very important to go over typically if you address the nation in
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Canada like that if a Prime Minister does it's over a constitutional crisis or
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something to do with a war or at least something as big as dissolving Parliament
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and calling an election what was it oh infections are up a little bit now let
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me spend the next 15 minutes on political bullshit and bullshit it was so I hope
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the media has learned a bit of a lesson to pandering to this guy unfortunately
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dangles our tax dollars in front of the media to keep their goodwill but he
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screwed them that night he got himself 15 minutes of free advertising right
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across the nation Canadians tuned in thought something new was coming up it
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wasn't but he did reiterate some of his stupidity I mean the throne speech all
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that did was lay out spending in a way that is utterly terrifying massive
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increases completely unsustainable and all based on debt I mean he's on that oh
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it's just so cheap to borrow we'd be fools not to it is an NDP budget is coming
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along the ways we're gonna be paying for it for generations it's been pointed out
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that the kovat spending alone is coming up at ten thousand per man woman and child in
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Canada did you if you have an average household of four people get forty
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thousand dollars were the benefits from this so far I doubt it but you do have
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forty thousand more in debt but let's listen to Justin talk about this debt
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let's let them speak here we decided to take on that debt to prevent Canadians
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from having to do it while we're dealing with this pandemic I don't want you or
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your parent or your friend to take on debt that your government can better
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her shoulder so does this idiot really believe his own crap I I fear he
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actually does so he really does have this fiscal disconnect that is so far
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move removed from reality that he thinks that government debt isn't our debt
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it's still our friggin debt I mean he's getting better interest rates than my
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credit cards are right now we'll see down the road but he just feels it's a
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bottomless pit to borrow from he's shouldering the debt so you don't have to
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what a hero you want to do that dissolve your friggin trust fund and give it to
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the taxpayers that's how you can shoulder some of our debt Justin otherwise you're
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just borrowing us into a bloody hole and try and save your ass and another term
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from your minority government that you've already earned yourself so onto the fools
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of that minority government I'll finish up I we've got yes she doesn't like the
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name but she's earned it climate Barbie Catherine McKenna and she tweeted out
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because what they aren't liking in government of course is is a lack of
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control of the messaging that's why they dangle the media around like they have
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you know with these addresses that's why there's a six hundred million dollar
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media fund that's why the the CBC keeps getting over a billion a year to steal
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advertising dollars from what few private outlets are still trying to fight for
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them and here's Catherine going on I think there's a lot we can do but the
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social media I was at a companies themselves need to step up we don't have to
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regulate everything but if you can't regulate yourselves governments will and she
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tagged the minister who'd also talked about licensing media outlets piss off
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Catherine you know free media free speech is critical we don't need you guys
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poking into that already got her as a candidate for my show to the week award
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but oh since I chose her for that she went one step higher here
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but you know I actually gave them some real advice I said that if you actually say it
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louder we've learned in the House of Commons if you repeat it if you say it
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louder if that is your talking point people will totally believe it so just go in
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I wish that the party opposite would understand the cost of climate change right now one of the
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hardest calls I ever had to do was to a rancher in Alberta whose whole ranch burned down
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yes yes she's preaching she talked to ranchers the lady who says she rides a bike while she's wearing
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those high heels apparently in the pictures but she admits in a bar basically that old line if you tell a
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lie long enough loud enough over enough times people will believe it it was nice
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to catch her in that cabinet moment you can see her lying in the House of Commons
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quite emotionally but even that wasn't what got her the full chow to the week
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this week no that was thanks to the post-millennial who found a video of our
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virtue signaller in chief here Catherine McKenna had gone to Indonesia where she
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attended an illegal cockfight and it shows in the video that they actually had to
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bribe their way in because it's illegal they banned it Indonesia even though they
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allow some pretty early things realize that it is so reprehensibly cruel to pit
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a couple of animals to rip each other to death for entertainment and and betting
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I mean they take razor blades to the feet of these roosters and let them rip
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themselves to shreds well Catherine joined a group that actually bribed their
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way in to see it she was so dedicated to seeing that and while she was at it they
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stopped in and that's on the record as well and it is legal but she had a nice
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meal of dog meat in a restaurant while she was there yes she likes talking about
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National Pet Day and animal rights and every other kind of virtue signaling she
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can but she literally has eaten puppies and we do know that the treatment of
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dogs in these places where they eat them is a boring I'm not even fully against the
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eating just about any animal but it's our obligation as humans to treat them as
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humanely as possible before we do and those dogs are not treated well they're often
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tortured to death but that didn't stop Catherine from having another experience like you know
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it was probably important to her so that's earned her the Cho to the Week award for this
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