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This week, Abdul Malik (@SocialistRaptor) helps us explore the Canadian response to coronavirus lockdown--in this case a wealthy "Texas style" BBQ restauranteur and his fans literally fighting the cops to preserve his rights to keep dine-in service Also: a breakdown of Canada's conception of "the working class," Daily Wire Christmas ornaments, and doing ironic identity politics to own the libs Music: Cursed - Friends in the Music Business Support the show at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult and get a bonus episode every week Follow The Off Court Podcast on twitter, launching January 3rd
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We got a wonderful one today.
We have just Some complete derangement from somewhere else other than America, which is kind of nice.
Kind of nice to visit that.
Here to give us a tour of said derangement is Abdul Malik of the upcoming Off-Court Leftist Sports Podcast.
How you doing, Abdul?
I'm doing great.
Thank you so much for having me on.
I'm very stoked to talk about this as it is my hometown and as a not-so-proud Canadian.
Yeah, it's gonna be a good one.
Yeah, so what happened, I guess what has been happening over the past week is a man named Adam Scully, who is about a 33-year-old Texas BBQ restaurant owner in Canada.
Skelly yeah, who is radio name about a 33 year old Texas barbecue restaurant owner in Canada.
He owns a Texas barbecue restaurant in Canada was refusing to lock down his business as per the order of Rob Ford like Am I understanding that correctly?
Doug Ford.
Rob Ford is dead.
Rest in peace to a real one.
His brother Doug Ford was elected Premier.
For those who don't know, that's the Governor of Ontario, Canada.
Yeah, Dougie Boy is leading the charge in Ontario right now.
This is why we have you here.
Is Doug Ford supposedly, like, less conservative than Rob Ford was?
Like, how does that work?
He's more conservative.
He's, like, he's got the same politics of Rob Ford but without the, like, populist bent that Rob Ford had.
He's a lot more of, like, a classic, like, hardcore ideologue when it comes to, like, conservative politics, where at the very least, like, Rob Ford was ostensibly for the people.
Right, he could do crack with the best of them.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
Okay, I'll put it this way.
Rob Ford did crack with people.
Doug Ford actually sold hash.
So, you know, he's like big into the entrepreneurial space, whereas Rob Ford just wanted to hang out with his cool friends, right?
Why is Doug Ford locking down Toronto if he's this conservative?
Why is he putting these harsh regulations?
I was led to believe that's a liberal thing.
That's a leftist communist thing.
I mean, his hand was forced because a lockdown should have happened Should have happened, like, months and weeks ago.
This is basically a measure of last resort, because the COVID situation in Ontario really is that bad.
And even then, like, the lockdown rules are pretty weak, you know, all things considered.
They're much stronger.
Like, I'm from Toronto, but I live in Alberta now, and Alberta still hasn't implemented, like, a full lockdown, despite having the most cases in the country.
Um, but yeah, no, it's, it's, well yeah, it fucking sucks, um, but like, yeah, like, it's, it's, it really is a measure of last resort, and it took him a long time to get to this point, and even then, like, I think, I think there's a whole bunch of exceptions in his, Lockdown measures, specifically aimed to placate business tyrants and stuff like that.
He's also gotten a bunch of blowback, by the way.
There was a ton of people outside his house every night.
um slamming him for having a lockdown because they thought he would be in their camp and now they're accusing him of being part of the uh liberal order not a real conservative not a real freedoms guy and because it's the Ford family because they're so fucking outspoken and if you could say one thing about the Fords they don't really mince words so now he's screaming at them on his lawn calling them buffoons um and they're screaming at him for locking down the province uh it's it's funny because yes of course like
Rob, or Doug Ford, as far as I understand Canadian politics, is a liberal, right?
He's a neoliberal, he's a classical liberal who wants, like, as many regulations as it takes to keep capitalism functioning.
Right?
Absolutely.
Capitalism needs these workers to go in and risk their lives, but they also need to keep enough of us alive that we don't all die.
And it's this compromise that, whether you're a, you know, quote, progressive Democrat or a Neoconservative, it's this compromise that both of those types of politicians are going to make because they both pretty much have the same interests when it comes to economic issues.
So, nobody's happy.
Nobody is happy when these fucking centrists come up with- when they meet- when they have their meeting of the minds and do bipartisanship.
And it's not even the, like, Larry David or whoever he quotes when he says, you know, a compromise is when both parties are dissatisfied.
It's like, no, the parties are satisfied.
It's just every- literally everybody else in the world is dissatisfied.
Everybody it affects is dissatisfied.
And it's not only that, right?
But, like, the willingness to, like, throw workers to the fucking, like, grist on the fucking mill, right?
Because, um, he's locked down, but there's no, like, social safety net.
There's no supports outside of, like, what already exists, which wasn't good enough.
Like, he's locking down knowing full well that in the interests of, like, good governance or good finance or whatever he calls it, like, people are going to get laid off en masse, right?
Yeah.
Lockdown Toronto and Peel which is the most densely populated that's if I remember it's like six million people right like that's a that's the largest most densest area of Canada in terms of population and it's like okay so you're you're basically looking at tens of thousands of people you know being laid off very quickly um and you're not introducing any supports to for them you're just like you can stomach the lockdown you can stomach the lockdown if you can't like
You know, sorry, goodbye, right?
Stuff on the streets.
I don't know, when I made fun of Canada on Twitter for doing a flyover for essential workers and then dying during that flyover...
When I made fun of that Canadian pilot, well, I didn't even really make fun of her.
I was just like, well, this is ironic.
This is fucking funny.
I was told by about 10,000 Canadians that Canada is actually good for laid-off, quarantined workers and that I needed to worry about America.
So what do you say to that, Abdul?
Uh, that's absolute trash.
They introduced something called the CERB, the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit, which you would apply to and get an income top-up if you were laid off or under a certain income bracket.
It's pretty much over now and has been rolled into EI and stuff like that.
If it isn't, it's going to be very soon.
And also, like, now the CRA, like our version of the IRS, is already going after people and talking about how, like, if you committed CERB fraud, we're going to go after you very quickly, very soon.
Like, you're gonna have to return that money if you Uh, if it turns out you didn't qualify and stuff like that, right?
So it's like, they're gonna get that back.
Yeah.
Um, and it's, it's completely half-assed.
Like, yeah, I guess, objectively speaking, it's better than what the United States did.
It's better than, you know, one-time $1,200 payment or whatever, but it's still... Yeah, much the same way that, like, Biden is better than Trump, I guess Canada is better than America.
Yeah.
It's a little smoother face is all.
Let's go into this particular story, which is, again, the owner of a Texas-style rib joint in, well, it's a chain restaurant called Adamson BBQ.
I guess named after Adam's son?
I think maybe?
This guy's name is Adam Skelly.
So, this is the Atobicoke?
Okay, I was closer than I thought I would be.
I would be willing to have a little bit of sympathy for, you know, a quote small business owner who needed to keep his business afloat to survive.
But again, this is like The compromise.
Dude was allowed to do carry out under the health guidelines.
He was allowed to basically keep his employees, like, as slaves to him.
I'm sure he wouldn't have fucking kept paying them if they didn't feel safe to, uh, to go into work, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Uh, but...
Because this is a chain restaurant, because of what we're going to learn about Adamson, I am disinclined to feel that sympathy.
And he just opened up his restaurant, continued to serve people inside the restaurant, despite Canada saying, you know, oh no no no!
And then they also say the French no as well.
No!
Yeah, and uh...
he just did it he just did it like twice in a row and they were like mad the first time and then they were like really mad the second time and then the third time they finally like sighted him and shit and so they changed the locks on his barbecue on this particular barbecue joint and What happened is he had like protesters outside.
The cops came to like prevent anybody from dining at the barbecue restaurant.
Yes.
And they let him in the back of the restaurant.
They let him in the back of the restaurant to get some personal items or whatever and then this video is what happened.
Surrounded by his supporters, there was a big smile on Adam Skelly's face as he was handcuffed and taken away by police.
A scuffle breaking out after one of Skelly's supporters attempted to push police off of him.
More on that supporter later.
That supporter was the second man arrested here today.
Here's the moment that led to Skelly's arrest.
Go, Adam, go!
Pushing past...
Okay, what's happening in the video is Adam is in, like, the back room, I guess, of his barbecue joint.
And he walks up to one of the pieces of drywall and kicks through it to the other side while a supporter says, Go, Adam, go!
Let's go, Adam!
And he kicks down the plywood or the drywall to get through.
And then once he's inside the actual restaurant, he bursts through the front doors that had the padlocks changed.
Let's continue to listen.
At least he broke into the restaurant and damaged the locks.
Let's go, Adam!
Let's go!
Let's go!
At this point, officers could take him in for trespassing.
Shit is so poggers.
Shame on you!
Shame on you!
After the owner of Adamson BBQ was taken away, the crowd grew even larger.
Supporters with anti-mask and anti-lockdown sentiments yelling absurdities like, the pandemic isn't real.
Yeah, so you can see that this isn't just people who want their BBQ, right?
This is just like, it's just like a smorgasbord for every fucking crank in like a 60 mile area to come out with their signs that say things like, COVID is slavery to communism.
That's actually the whole part about the barbecue joint that is Texas.
The food's not Texas at all.
It's just their attitude is very Texas.
So they were obligated to go about it this way.
And, like, Canada has a very specific sort of, like, in the U.S.
it's all about the Constitution, right?
The Canadian Constitution exists.
Goddamn right.
Oh, hell yeah.
No, it's important.
I love the American Constitution so much.
Can we get some pogs in the chat for the Constitution?
But, like, you know, a lot of people think Canada doesn't have one, which it does, but, like, the thing people keep referring to... It's not a good one, though.
It's not a good one.
Yeah, no, it's terrible.
People keep referring to something called the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, right, which is, like, basically the guideline that outlines Canadian civil rights, and all of this stuff, like, even the most, like, diehard Canadian chuds will always speak to, like, oh, this is a violation of Charter rights, right?
So they're basically trying to cite the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to explain away this guy's barbecue needing to stay open or that, like, you know, lockdown laws are anti... are, like, you know, anti-charter or whatever.
I'm surprised there's been, like, no legitimate, like, lawsuit that's gone, like, through a court yet about this.
I'm sure they exist, but nothing that's, like, made waves in the news.
Um, so I think to, in order to like talk about this, in order to process what's actually going on, we should learn a little more about, uh, Adam Skelly.
And thank you so much, uh, Abdul for, for, uh, compiling a lot of research for this that was just so illuminating.
I saw the video of a bunch of dudes, uh, screaming about, you know, uh, barbecue and like, you know, they're gonna, they're gonna dump the barbecue over the side of, of their Neighborhood, neighborhood.
in order to protest or whatever you guys got going on up there.
And I was like, okay, this is cool.
And then you were like, you have no idea just how cool it is.
And you sent me just a lot of good info about Adam Skelly.
We have an article here from 2016 that's called Leaside, which is a city.
Leaside is now...
Neighborhood.
Neighborhood.
Okay.
It's a neighborhood.
Sorry, I shouldn't correct you, but yeah.
I don't want to come across as not knowing anything about my hometown.
Well, okay.
Leaside, the neighborhood, parentheses the neighborhood, is now cool, hip, and happening.
And then, are you going to correct me on that part?
Is it cool, hip, and happening?
I don't want to misrepresent your hometown.
It's where my parents like moved when they first came to Canada.
No, it sucks.
It's the most boring suburban like part of sort of like the downtown middle Toronto core, right?
Like it is not cool, not hip, and not happening in the slightest.
I think his restaurant in that area in East York was like down the street from a Home Depot, like a power center with tons of like big box stores and shit like that.
You can get a lot of hip stuff at Home Depot.
You can get a lot of work wear at Home Depot.
You can get some gloves and overalls there and shit.
That's true.
Carhartt?
I don't want to tell you about your own situation, but I'm looking at a picture of a person with a backwards hat on.
And that is very cool.
Holding a slice of pizza.
Maybe you just don't... I don't know.
He's holding a slice of pizza, which is the coolest food.
It does look like a very cool piece of pizza.
That piece of pizza looks great.
Two marks against Abdul here.
I don't think he knows quite as much about his home neighborhood as he thinks.
No, okay, yeah.
It's a photo of Adam Skelly, like, smiling earnestly with a five o'clock shadow and, like, a drooping piece of cartoon Ninja Turtles pizza in his hand.
And let me, I'm gonna read a little bit from here.
When you think cool hip and happening, which is something I think about frequently and I try to attach... All the time.
A township to that.
I try to attach a neighborhood to that thought.
When you think cool, hip, and happening, Leaside may not be the first place that springs to mind.
Ossington?
Corkton?
Distillery District?
Definitely.
Oh, for sure.
For sure.
Oh yeah, for sure.
Corktown?
Yeah, fucking Corktown.
The Distillery District, by the way, is like this part of Toronto that's like historic that they didn't tear down where the breweries used to be, and they've rebranded a chunk of it into something called Liberty Village, and it has the highest rents in Toronto.
I once did a job where I dressed up as a Christmas elf.
for the Distillery District's Christmas Market for two months, which they would have every Saturday and Sunday outside a fucking antique shop, limiting the amount of people who could come into the store at once.
It was the worst job I've ever had.
That sounds pretty brutal.
It doesn't sound very hip, no offense.
When someone you know who's just going there on a date sees you in your big green elf costume, and they look at you and they know who you are, it is the most humiliating thing I think I've ever experienced.
Oh, you mean for them when they're like, hey dog, let me cut real quick, and you're like, I can't let you cut, bro.
I can't let you, you gotta wait in line to see Santa.
That's what embarrasses them.
Yeah, or like when I went to- when I was getting a job at Subway, and I knew another guy who worked at that same Subway, and he was like, hey, I know what you're thinking, like, what's a smart guy like me working- doing- working at a Subway?
And I was like, dog, I'm like gonna be working here too.
Yeah.
Fuck you, man.
Okay, Leaside.
Leaside's a big lame, you know?
Yet, that's exactly where Leasider Adam Skelly chose to set up a barbecue business in April.
A barbecue business that I guess, like, barbecues pizza?
I don't know.
That's where he chose to set up a barbecue business in April that is attracting notice well beyond the neighborhood.
Neighborhood is spelled with a U here, folks.
Adam's family are Leasiders through and through.
His father owned a business in the Leaside industrial area and Adam and his life and business partner Allison Hunt lived just over the Leaside Bridge in East York.
Quote, I grew up in Leaside, but it isn't where I wanted to locate my barbecue, says the 29-year-old.
His father had offered him a generous industrial space at 176 Wicksteed, but Adam had other ideas.
After a year of futile searching for the perfect location, Adam decided to take his dad up on the offer.
What was the point of that evening?
Listen, I wanted to make it cooler, but you know what?
I couldn't.
I love that Adam had other ideas.
They were all bad.
Adam had other ideas, but he still needed Daddy.
Yeah, his dad just owned an industrial space in the most expensive city in the country.
I love it.
Like, yeah, he had to, you know, Adam didn't have a lot of choices.
He tried to make, he tried to make it out there, but you know, it's hard.
And so he had to fall back on his backup plan, which was a free industrial space in the, like you said, the most expensive part of the city owned by his dad.
Um, yeah, like, you know, that's...
The streets of Toronto, Ontario are very hard.
You know what I mean?
Like, I think it just needs to be asserted and said.
You know, there's Hood knowledge, which Adam did not have.
And then there's Leaside knowledge, which his dad definitely did have.
Yeah um so that's that's kind of who this guy is he's he's from wealth he was able to fucking start his own uh brick and mortar business at 29 because his dad just already owned it you know it's it's cool to start a business that somebody already owns uh it's pretty great so Again, fairly hard to sympathize with Adam Skelly, who's just a small business owner trying to support his family, right?
There's Instagram videos since the arrest.
He's out on bail now, of course, for $50,000.
Where he's holding his son the whole time while he talks about, yeah, you know, I knew the fight wasn't going to be easy, alright?
I knew it was going to take a lot of conviction of character from myself to do this, but I'm doing it all for him.
I'm doing it all for this little guy, because hey, if I didn't have this business, then I would just have to move back home into one of my dad's properties.
I think the real working class aesthetic comes out at the end of the article when he says, I work 16 hour days and don't really enjoy time off, which is a very normal and not at all psychopathic thing to say.
When we opened in April, there were four of us working at the business, including one part-time.
Now we're up to seven and I want to hire two more.
Yeah, like, it's stuff like that that just gives me pause.
Like, you probably should have hired more at the beginning for 16-hour days if that's what you're making people work and shit like that.
How much is he paying those people?
Probably minimum wage.
Yeah.
Fuck this guy.
Fuck this guy up his stupid ass.
I will say, hopefully he was just talking about himself because I know that when you do open a business yourself, if you're the owner, you better be busting your ass so that the people you are paying are being treated fairly.
I get that.
But it's just so weird to...
I have that whole, I'm doing this for the future of my child's freedom, you know?
And it's weird because I have that same sentiment for a lot of things that I do.
But it's the exact opposite direction he's going.
So it's like, well shit, we both think we're doing it for these reasons.
It's so... He's like, you know, I want... I'm thinking he's almost talking about it as if he's one, you know?
He has won.
He was born winning.
Like, he has fucking won.
But it's not like his business isn't open right now.
You can't go get barbecue from him right now.
Yeah, but you can buy fucking t-shirts online.
You can buy a customized spatula that says, don't grill on me or whatever.
Hustling, hustling.
But yeah, so the cops are taking him away after he broke into the building like in two different areas and like basically nearly started a riot, right?
and uh he's being led away by cops with grinning ear to ear knowing he's a nuke the new cause celebra and uh a dude comes up and tries to de-arrest him but like doesn't really know what that is or how to do it
It's like, it's like, it's like, you know, kind of a big black dude in a suit and he goes up to when the cops are carrying him away and he just kind of like goes up and grabs, uh, Adam Skelly's shoulders and is like trying to yank him away from the cops, you know, or something like that.
And then he gets, uh, arrested pretty immediately.
What is the, uh, I might've just deleted it.
What, what is the... Michael Arana.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the guy's name, Michael Arana, but in the reporting it says he was arrested for assault for like six, six, what do you call it, six counts of assault against police officers for spitting on a police officer and for issuing death threats to a police officer.
Which, again, would be cool if it wasn't about this rich kid's Texas barbecue business in fucking Canada.
Honestly, I really respect the Michael Arana thing, because in the video, at the end of it, he's literally trying to throw hands with cops.
You know what I mean?
It starts with a shove.
But then he starts going off and they, you know, throw him to the ground or whatever.
And I remember in the initial, like, when this video came out, everyone thought he was, like, an anti-Adam Skelly counter-protester.
I wonder why they thought that.
Like, they thought he was just some black dude who showed up to be like, and they're like, oh man, look, the cops.
Yeah.
They thought he was a normal black guy, therefore bad.
It would have been cool if he was like, no, no, I don't like Adam, I just hate cops.
That would have been cool if that was his stance, but it was not.
Yeah, he's like, when you tried to grab Adam's shoulder, he wanted to kill him.
Like, that was the initial intent.
But no, he was trying to save him.
And again, just imagine this happening in America at a Black Lives Matter protest or any sort of populist left-wing protest where people are actually protesting a murder, where people are protesting a loss of life, where people are where people are protesting a loss of life, where people are protesting grievous injury caused by the
Picture them arresting a young black kid and then another young black kid coming up and assaulting the cops while that arrest was happening.
And try to picture that and not also picture like 12 cops unloading their guns into both parties.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like this happening, but there's all of a sudden there's like 40 cops and everyone's getting arrested.
Yeah.
Um, so you, you showed us that, uh, this fellow here say his name again, Michael Arana.
Michael Arana has a YouTube account, uh, that is called Arana Nation.
Yes!
Very interesting name, uh, for his YouTube account, uh, given, like, his background, like we said.
I wonder why he didn't go with, like, Arana Knights.
You know, or Arana Brotherhood.
I mean, it's, those are both there.
It's just interesting he went with this one.
Like, he has 14,000 followers on YouTube, which I honestly, I don't think I actually believe, because his videos have like, you know, maybe a thousand views on average, if even that.
But yeah, he's like a big, like, Great Reset, New World Order... What does Great Reset mean for our listeners here?
I of course know what that means, but...
From my understanding, the Great Reset is, you know, that thing of, like, technology outpacing everything else and, you know, capitalists taking over the world via Internet of Things, 5G, like, technological progress as a form of control and enslavement, which, I guess, am I saying it right?
Like, am I correct in this?
I don't know.
I mean, it sounds like Ted Kaczynski shit, which is, you know, a branch of right-wing thought, so...
Yeah, I might be like explaining it extremely poorly, but yeah, like that was my understanding of it, that it's like, yeah.
Anyway, the video that you sent me was great, okay?
This video, we're gonna listen to just a little bit of it because it's so fucking good.
The title of this YouTube video is Trump should pick a black woman for Supreme Court and watch liberals, BLM and feminists burn crosses.
And then this is this.
Here's some audio from it.
I mean, I think it should be a woman because I want the left.
I want the left to destroy themselves and shoot themselves in the foot by attacking, brutally attacking a woman.
and then And then we can say, hey, look at how they treat women.
I thought women were supposed to be good and this.
Remember the Women's March and all that stuff and, you know, empowering women.
But look how you're treating this woman who's on her way to the Supreme Court.
Just stop it real quick.
What accent is he trying to hide?
It sounds like it might be a Jamaican accent or something.
It comes out when she's a woman.
There's more.
It'll come out more later.
Just listen to it.
I don't want to color the audience's ear.
I'm hearing a subtle accent here that doesn't sound Canadian as best as I can interpret it.
But I have said that it shouldn't just be a woman.
I think it should be a black woman.
And the reason I'm saying that is not because I think it should be all black all the time.
I'm not that kind of person.
I don't care who it is, but there's optics to this.
Not only will it show everybody that The left doesn't care about women, but it will show everybody that the left doesn't actually think that black lives really matter.
Because I'm going to tell you something, Patriots.
The left is going to destroy anybody who Donald Trump puts.
Destroy.
I don't know.
I love this because he's saying, hey, everybody, let's do identity politics.
to own the libs.
Yeah.
And he's also talking about a different country, of course.
He's saying, hey, Patriots for that other country.
Listen up.
If Donald Trump would have put up a black woman to the Supreme Court, he would have won.
He would have won the election.
People would have been like, oh shit.
The libs would have been stoked.
My favorite thing about this breed of videos like this is that it really is just fanfiction.
He's just making up a perfect scenario in his head that he loves that's describing, okay, Donald Trump will nominate a black woman.
This is how Bernie can still win articles that are in perpetual rotation for years and years.
It's, it's like, it's pop culture fandom, uh, mindset, but with a politician from another country.
Like, it's bad enough to be like that about politicians or fucking Supreme Court justices from your own country.
Uh, let al-, you know, this is, this is, uh, Ian Miles Chong shit right here.
Um...
It's funny that he's saying, hey, let's do a black woman.
Not because I like black people.
Like, that's not what I'm saying.
I'm not saying I want... I'm not one of those people.
He says that.
I'm not saying I want to see a black woman up there.
I'm saying the left don't want to see a black woman up there.
It's about optics, right?
And it's like, yeah, you're talking about identity politics, dude.
Like that's what you're fucking- you're talking about optics, which is what identity politics boiled down to.
It's like the act of seeing someone who represents- that's not the extent of identity politics, but representational identity politics is what we're talking about here.
And...
That's what you're talking about, and it's just funny for him to be like, no, like, I want to do it to, like, to, like, own them or whatever, because, uh, you know, I-I-I don't care about it, but they care about it, and the optics would look good, even though, like, the good optics is the only reason the liberals are doing it in the first place.
It's funny to see, like, them adopt exactly the same talking points and think they're owning liberals or the left somehow.
But it is this whole like let's give them a taste of their own medicine because they're gonna like they're gonna choke on it because they hate Donald Trump so much they're gonna attack whoever it is.
He also says because they don't think black lives matter they'll get mad because they don't actually think black lives matter implying that in order for black lives to matter you have to put a supreme court justice a black supreme court justice Up there.
And that's the exact same argument that liberal Black Lives Matter activists are making.
We need a black vice president because that's how you show that black lives matter.
Meaning more streets painted and more representatives in, like, the House.
And I mean, like, this is part of a strand of, like, Canadian politics as well that's, like, completely contradictory to what he's even talking about, right?
Because, like, Justin Trudeau, um, you know, for, you know, he's a lib centrist wonk who loves identity politics, right?
And he, like, made a Sikh guy into Turban, the head of, um, you know, his cabinet minister for, Uh, military affairs, right?
He made sure that the cabinet was, like, half women at all times and shit like that.
Like, you know what?
A lot, like, Canadian leftists still called him out for talking about how dumb and shitty that was and, like, you know, people were pretty willing to turn on him if they found out a lot of those cabinet ministers were being paid less or were just created positions.
Positions were created!
that were basically like there to like equalize the cabinet and people like um people like you know Michael Arana were definitely being like man we should not have a Sikh have a Sikh uh Indian man and everything that entails in charge of uh you know our military right So it's like, yeah, it's also just like a counterintuitive argument on its face because, like, he should know that it clearly will not happen.
You know what I mean?
Like, if anything, Libs would love it more if Trump appointed, like, a black woman to the Supreme Court.
But again, it's the one good thing.
It didn't matter.
Like, that's another thing, too.
That's the funniest part about this whole, like, identity politics, this specific brand of identity politics is, like, What the fuck are you talking about?
Trump put up whoever the fuck he wanted to put up and it got passed because it's about, like, power and who controls it and who's willing to wield it.
It's not about, like, optics, you know?
And it's just funny to be this- Ann still got praised because she's a woman.
She still got praised by Liz.
It's still, like...
It's funny to be on the winning side.
On the winning side and still, like, wring your hands over optics this badly.
It's like, it's a uniquely pathetic position to be in.
Speaking of sickening, the artwork that this event has inspired is fantastic.
You sent me a couple Instagram posts that are just Wonderful!
The first one is from the Politox underscore six spelled with a six instead of an S. It's like a weird sort of woke infographic format where like the background is like a light pale pink.
There's a skull, a black skull in the center, like a physical, you know, skull with
Magenta hot pink wax dripping down it and then on the left it says in black font Adamson barbecue cannot just be the only one open everyone must open Yes, right side it says there are more of us than police and govern line break and Man it's funny cuz it actually like looks it looks pretty sick and
Like, there's a good font choice, the layout's interesting, the colors are tight.
That line break sucks, I'm sorry.
That line break is terrible.
Make government a smaller font or something, get it all on the same line.
You know where the 6 comes from, right?
The 6ix?
No.
Oh, that's the Drake.
No, that's the Drake thing because he calls Toronto he calls Toronto the six.
Yeah So like it's it's it's in vogue that if you want to be hip cool and happening like a Lee Sider you must write Toronto 6ix That's what I'm saying.
Like that's why more more of the black community is flocking to conservative and right-wing politics is because Uh, Drake is like, you know, he's, he's saying you gotta, you gotta grind.
You gotta, you gotta open up a barbecue place.
You gotta, you gotta protest the government to get, to get your bag, you know?
Yeah.
But also, also like that sentiment of there are more of us than, than police and government.
Like, I love that.
That's my favorite sentiment.
Except it doesn't work when you're talking about small business owners.
I don't think that's true.
No, no, that's not exactly.
It's like a legit call to, like, hey, hey, like, you need to go to work for minimum wage, because, hey, there's more of us than them, and if we all just go to work for minimum wage, we can overpower them and continue to work for minimum wage.
Wouldn't that be great?
Wouldn't that be awesome?
And, like, the skull graphic, while being cool, also makes no sense in the context of what's being said.
Like, I'm not quite sure what a skull with paint on it means in the scope of, like, keeping things open.
It's just an aesthetic.
It's a vibe.
You don't mess it up.
Yeah, the vibes are good.
I know the app they made this in.
I use it all the time.
That's why the letters are the way they are.
The Better Post is from an account called Debunked Daily, which is apparently a podcast.
It's a podcast called Debunked Daily, but their artwork just says podcast in it.
They have like Like a logo that's designed, it looks like a neon sort of, you know, 50s diner type sign, but it just says podcast.
It's a mic, it's a neon mic.
They just googled the word podcast imagery.
I want to say, like, I want to be charitable.
There's like concentric circles around the podcast mic in the center.
I want to say that that's supposed to be a D facing to the left and a D facing to the right for debunked daily.
I think I might be thinking harder about it than Debunked Daily Podcast is.
Yeah, you might be being very generous.
The post is... It's like a webcomic style graphics that has obviously been edited after the fact to be about this news story.
And it's a guy standing on the hood of a police car holding a spatula.
Uh, and then over the speech bubble that was initially in the webcomic, uh, has been like a square, you know, like plain text inserted over it that says, we're not closing.
And then there's another protester behind him who looks to be like an old man with a scarf and a white mustache who's been edited to have a hamburger in his hand.
I guess they're unfamiliar with Adamson BBQ.
I don't know if they serve hamburgers in there.
This is cool, man.
This is a cool thing to like actually get on top of a police car about for your small business having to serve carryout.
Yeah, right?
They didn't have to close down, they just had to pivot a little bit.
But no, that's not what it's about.
I gotta be able to sling my meat, bro.
There's also another one where he's like being arrested away, like being taken away by Toronto Police.
Yelling, free the brisket.
But like the background is his actual restaurant, like he's clearly been photoshopped into some other cartoon or some other graphic.
Well, and it took me a while to realize free the brisket was a pun on free the nipple.
I think that's what that's what they're referencing.
Yeah, so like having a body is the same thing as having a small business that your dad bought for you.
Yeah, so let's move on to comments here, okay?
These are responses from the Daily Wire, which were just fascinating.
Oh, one of the tweets was real funny.
One of the Twitter responses was some guy said, What started as a standing up for small businesses, which I fully support, turned out to be like a rally of losers.
The guy looks like he needs a shower.
So meaning Adam here, Adam Skelly, the guy looks like he needs a shower.
Always wanted to visit this restaurant, but we'll take a pass.
And I'm like trying to, I'm trying to get in the mindset of somebody who's like, yeah, small businesses are the backbone and the heart of America.
And like, these are the real heroes, like, you know, owning stuff day in, day out, you know, just like waking up at the crack of dawn to own shit, you know?
And, uh, but then also looking at them being like, this guy's got shaggy hair.
This guy's no, no business guy.
This guy doesn't own anything.
How could he possibly own something with a five o'clock shadow and like, you know, a gruff exterior?
Honestly, that's not a particularly weird thing, especially in places like Toronto where most people are living in the suburbs and commuting into the city and never have to interact with someone outside of their neighborhood bubble.
Much like Leaside, actually, right?
Or they live in the suburbs outside.
You know, like any big city, most people live outside of Toronto proper.
Where I grew up, Mississauga, is like 600,000 people and I don't think there was a single person with that look in the street or in the neighborhood where I grew up.
You know what I mean?
Listen, I support small businesses.
I think they're fucking great.
I would love I would love to work for a small business someday, like donate, you know, for free.
I would donate my time and effort to their gains, but not if they're going to look like an actor from the movie Out Cold.
If they're gonna look like, if they're gonna look like, um, oh fuck, who's, there was a paid actor, um, who was hired by the conservative government where I live, um, to pretend to be working class and, like, represent working class values.
Uh, Bernard the Roughneck.
Yes.
That rules.
Is that like Joe Sixpack?
He's a-- OK, I'm going to send you this photo, because you've got to see.
I know this is a massive tangent, but this really is the Canadian ideal of working class people when right wing pundits talk about the working class.
This dude pretended-- What? --pretended to be-- He pretended to be a guy who spoke for oil patch workers and represent what they're feeling.
He looks like if Weird Al was dressing up as a mine worker.
Oh my god.
Like it looks like it looks like if Weird Al did a cover of Brandy and Monica's The Boy Is Mine.
The boy is in a mile.
Yeah, and he's so dirty!
This is him speaking in a government building, by the way, speaking to press about the, after meeting with like, with like the opposition or whatever, right?
With the conservative opposition.
The dirt on his face looks like predator camouflage face paint.
Yep, yep.
Yeah, he went to... But that's really the idealization of working class people, right?
I love it.
But see, Adam Skelly in this, he just looks like a fucking snowboarder.
He doesn't look like a ruffian or the meme of what a homeless hipster guy looks like.
He's just wearing a hoodie and he's got shaggy hair and a hat and a little beard or whatever.
He looks like everybody looks now.
Anyway, so... He looks like a soft beer porter.
So I just think it's funny that this, like, boot licker pulled his support because the boot wasn't shiny enough.
Like, you're supposed to polish it yourself, dude.
That's how it works.
And somebody responded to him, some woman who's I think like a Christian farmer was in her, like, profile.
Uh, she was like, was it a little hard on your ego to realize a dude who quote, looks like he needs a shower has more courage and backbone than you do?
Isn't it odd how hardworking men look like they need a shower?
Wonder why that might be.
Dot dot dot dot dot.
I guess none of the pampered desk sitters would know.
But the person saying this is definitely a pampered desk sitter, but like, you know, this is this is perennially like a very Canadian thing where it's like this idea of like the Canadian working class, especially like oil rig workers or people who work in like, you know, trades or or like industry or like mining or blogging, right?
Like we have this image that they just don't shower when they leave the work site or that they don't wear coveralls.
Or that they don't care about hygiene and like people thought Bernard the Roughneck was a real fucking person right like it's like this concept that That this is what working-class people look like and if they don't they're not working class Which I'm sure is pervasive in the US, but it seems to have like when you say working class you mean like blue-collar Yeah, like everyone is everyone who works and has a boss is working class, right?
I But like, again, this very Canadian sense of working class implies people who work in our major logging and fishing industries, right?
Yeah.
Working class is working so hard that when you have a press conference you have to wear your coveralls and you can't take your helmet off because you can never clock out.
A press conference, by the way, 5,000 kilometers from the place you're pretending to work.
Yeah, yeah.
Is that a long distance?
Is that far?
Yeah, that's like a 20-hour drive.
Okay.
So I was looking at the Daily Wire article about the Daily Wire write-up about this where it was like, you know, jackbooted thugs arrest a young father for merely trying to feed the town of, you know, whatever.
Artichoke or whatever it's called.
And, uh... Before I could look at the article, I got a pop-up ad for Daily Wire Christmas Ornaments.
Which, uh, the ad itself is fucking amazing.
Because it shows like... So sick.
It shows like a lined box, you know, like a cushion-lined gift box that's been opened and it says Daily Wire, you know, embossed on the top of it.
And then... I wouldn't even call it photoshopped.
Like, again, like a webcomic cell animation hand drawing of Christmas ornaments have been pulled, like, dragged and dropped so that they're hovering over the box.
These are like just the worst cartoons like like legit like fifth grade level cartoon drawings where you just fill in the lines with like you know right click fill with uh foreground color type shit.
They're just spit emojis.
They're bitmojis, essentially, of all the staff at the Daily Wire.
I don't need to read the description here.
It's like they're ornaments with cartoon characters of the staff, okay?
And they cost $55.
It's that time of year.
Time for salted caramel leftist tears, gingerbread safe spaces, and Christmas tree decorations from the Daily Wire.
They missed a fucking opportunity because no one cares about salted caramel.
The obvious joke is pumpkin spice.
You know what I mean?
Like is a pumpkin spice latte.
Like you can't even get that right.
They're trying too hard.
This is like, this is like nerd mindset.
They thought salted caramel, tears are salty, gotta go with that one.
Overthought it a little bit.
I think they also like pumpkin too much to like attach it to it.
These metal ornaments come in a five pack featuring Ben Shapiro, Andrew Clavin, Michael Knowles, Matt Walsh, and God King Jeremy Boring.
Santa's effervescent elves.
Limited quantities are available, so get yours before they're gone!
And yeah, they're dressed up as, like, elves.
They're dressed up as freakish little, like, sub-South Park cartoon character elves.
And if you zoom in, like, it gives you, like, a shot of, like, what, like, these are, like, What's that, what's that word like, uh, like spec models of like what, like they're not showing you anything.
They're showing you a drawing of what the ornament might look like when it's done.
If you zoom in on the individual characters, uh, one of them, I think it's the bald guy, uh, with the giant fucking alien head is, uh, holding, I thought it was a Bible with like, you could read the, the name of the Bible on the spine.
But it's not, it's like a glass, but it's an opaque black drinking glass that says South Pole Elf Tears in like a white font on it.
He's drinking his own tears.
Like, is that the implication here?
No, the South Pole is the other pole.
Yeah, because they're North Pole.
It's the opposite of Elves Tears.
It's possibly the most tortured pun I've ever read on this show.
These are so far removed from the actual product that I'm surprised that they went ahead and committed to them being metal.
I'd be surprised if they actually did commit to them being metal.
We don't know that.
It says metal on here somewhere.
Yeah, that's what it says.
I haven't seen a metal ornament yet.
No, no one's seen a metal ornament.
It's just gonna be them printed on a 12x12 metal sheet and you have to cut the metal yourself.
This is a comment from the comment section.
Okay.
Way to repeat yourself, buddy.
The left are not the party of tolerance.
They are the party of instituting games for you to play against your will.
Socialist games.
Pandemic games.
Wealth redistribution games.
Gun control games.
They are the party of dictating your life, and the people of Toronto and Canada voted for that.
The fact, and again, like who's the fucking Premier of Canada, you know?
Premier of Toronto, rather.
The fact that the city police and politicians had the police sneak over there in the night and cut the locks off and replace them and arrested him for merely trying to enter his own property, question mark, is indicative of such.
The left had to have no boundaries and they will keep pushing until these people push back.
And I don't mean three people, I mean significant numbers.
And the more violent the pushback, the better the message will come across.
You see, the left values, quote, safety.
The right values freedom.
And so when the right finally leverages violence and grievous bodily harm in large numbers to people who focus on, quote, safety, then they will have a greater voice.
The solution is put the left's votes to the test.
to the test.
Is the 51% or the 55% or the 57% capable and willing to do the horrors that the other faction are willing to do?
All they have to do is prove to them that they aren't and the smaller faction has won. - Amen.
So this is like, this is like, the left are pussies and we can just kill them.
Even though there's more of them, and of course when he says the left he means like, you know, every, Rob Ford, his, uh, Doug Ford, his dead brother Rob, like and everybody to the left of them.
Yes, they outnumber us in this democracy.
Yes, they're a higher number of voters, but they value life.
They value the sanctity of life, whereas we value property and our money, right?
We can just keep killing them until they realize that they're going to lose more lives than we are going to lose money.
Okay?
And that's all we have to do.
I also want to like push back, like I know it's a Daily Wire comment, but 30% of Toronto voted for a Nazi in the last mayoral election, like an outright, like Faith Goldie got 30% of the fucking vote.
Right so it's like this idea that the left are not the party it's like it's not even talking about a specific party or an institution it's just talking about like anything that has an attack on like because here he's conflating like Doug Ford you know the second most right-wing polit like big politician in the country with the left at this point like the window
Consistently moving against all of this is like a really, like, I know it's concerning, but it, yeah, it's really like weirdly troubling to see that like, oh, what is your limit here?
And like, you know, obviously the comment suggests that there is none, right?
Yeah.
We see this stuff, like, all the time, and it's always a little bit, like, unsettling to see Minions Law happen, but then when they, like, do the math for you, it's, like, really, it's like, no, listen, we can just, we can just pick them off until they have to give up.
And it's funny that he's, he's, like, I don't know, giving this idea out like it's a new idea, or, like, it's something he, like, figured out.
You know what I, you know what I just thought of?
We can kill him.
I just thought of this.
We can kill them and then they can't vote anymore.
And the whole thing is like, that's kind of always been like the unsaid thing.
That's always been the underlying, like, that's the unspoken rule there.
But the whole thing is, yeah, we just, you don't have to talk about it because that's so obvious.
Alvaro Nido says, on what authority do they change the locks of someone's property?
And then MTWAD replies, it's called COMMUNISM!
I wish.
And it's just funny how like, these people, this was like a huge response.
How dare they come in and steal another man's property.
This is his property.
This is his domicile.
Just proving that, like, all these fanboys, again, to this, like, culture of fandom crossing over into our political lives, just not actually, like, knowing how a business works, not actually knowing what, like,
I don't know leasing a property is like who other than his dad in In whatever the name of that hip vibrant city was owning that industrial building Most restauranteurs do not own the fucking building that they work at no no That's rare and weird.
It's also that disconnect, right?
Because the stuff this perpetuates is like, first they're going to come for your property, or your business, which of course you dilly wire commenter will never own, and then it's like the next logical step is communism will take your house, right?
It's like it's a classic toothbrush.
They're coming for your toothbrush bullshit, which is Like if it wasn't so sinister and like upsetting in terms of like what they're calling for it would be sad You know I mean like it would it would be so close to being kind of tragic Well, it's just it's it's the right wing like living like you said none of these people are ever gonna own a fucking franchise own like a Company with multiple franchises or multiple locations chain locations.
Yeah It's this like It is this sort of temporary embarrassed millionaire thing.
It's like why Elon Musk has all these fucking idiots supporting him because they just, they think he like built the rockets.
They think he did the math to build the rockets or whatever and it wasn't, it's not just that he's rich and bought the name of the company.
It's not that he's just rich and bought the name of Tesla or whatever.
And it's just being so disconnected from something that you are ostensibly in love with, something you supposedly love.
It is very sad and in like, you know, a specific way.
It also trickles to the Adam Skelly thing, because in the articles and like promotional pieces about Adam Skelly, it's like, oh, he went to Texas and took some of the recipes that he learned there and made them worse, right?
Like this dude, Never actually fuckin' created a recipe he was proud of in his... I went through every single one-star review his restaurant had on Google Reviews and, like, there's two things there, right?
One, him saying, oh, we just season our barbecue with salt and pepper so you can taste the meat, which, from my understanding, is not how...
like good barbecue is done but also just like not taking any personal responsibility for people liking not liking his food which is a recipe didn't even come up with in the first place it's a technique he stole because he's like when people are like yeah the meat sucked he's like oh sorry bro you got a cut of lean whatever the fuck that means right it's like Yeah, like Adam Skelly never did anything.
He had a rich fucking dad, and then he went to Texas.
This is why it really pisses me off when people say you can't be racist against white people.
Like, this dude went down to Texas and essentially colonized it for himself.
Just, like, stole the hard work of, like, you know, salt-of-the-earth ranchers who had been, you know, developing this barbecue and then stole it for his even whiter, even whiter country.
I am gonna have to go ahead and step in here and, like, Historically, historically, barbecue is black.
It was black people who were being forced to cook it in the beginning and made it taste good from then on out, and now it's been very white.
But barbecue is very black.
Maybe I should tell people that I was joking.
I mean, it's something people don't talk about.
Black representation in American food is something people don't acknowledge at all.
For sure.
Yeah, and like, you know, the English Canadians bought all of Quebec for 30 ounces of maple syrup.
You know, there is a colonial argument to be made here.
That joke did not land, but I tried.
I don't know, I mean, you know, I don't know the exchange rate for maple syrup up there.
James Matisse had an issue with how the news was framing the protesters out front of Adamson's barbecue.
Again, like the right-wing cranks who don't give a shit about barbecue, don't give a shit about Adamson other than, you know, he represents, he like, he does the identity politics thing for them that like Kamala Harris does for other people.
He's a white guy who owns money and a business or whatever, so he's them.
A bunch of people in the crowd, you know, saying things like, you know, the media is lying to you, the coronavirus is fake or whatever, and James had an issue with, you know, the reporter saying that these people are saying things like that.
He says, yeah, that's what we call a straw man argument, claiming that those who are against severe and capricious lockdown restrictions are coronavirus deniers.
Yeah, it's a real thing, it's just being embellished.
that remark infuriated me.
Of course COVID is real.
Not a soul on this planet would deny it.
What's fake are the stats and the panic.
The panic porn.
Yeah, so of course the virus is real.
What's fake is all the effects from it.
Yeah, it's a real thing.
It's just being embellished.
It's like, you know, there was a guy whose name was Saint Nick.
But everything else, that's too much.
I'm curious as to.
What part of COVID do you think is real?
Do you think it's a deadly virus?
If you think it's a deadly virus, then where did you hear that it was a deadly virus?
Possibly from statistics of people dying.
I'm curious as to where a lot of these comments are coming from, because I'm seeing this even with my partner's dad who lives two hours away from the nearest town in the middle of the wilderness by himself, right?
Oh yeah, COVID's real, but, uh, everything- He says exactly this shit, right?
But, like, he lives in a place that no one wants to go to ever.
Alone.
Right?
Like, he has no- It's like if it's not in front of you, you're incapable of, like, seeing or understanding that people are dying or getting ill or sick.
Because it doesn't, like, affect you personally.
I mean, even, like, people that we've seen and we've talked about on the show who, uh, are COVID deniers and they get fucking sick, uh, they'll still deny it while they're fucking sick.
While they're sick, they'll still say that it's being blown out of proportion.
They'll type that out because audible speech is something that they're not capable of anymore.
I think it is mostly, oh it's real, but it's fake in the sense that I haven't died from it yet.
I think that's mostly what these people are talking about, or that it's real, but people I care about aren't gonna die from it.
It's only people that I don't care about, like my employees, or, you know, other people's family members, or maybe just old people.
I just don't give a shit about fucking old people or sick people in general.
It's also that thing of, like, you might not be geographically in a place where you experience coronavirus, you know, you're one of the lucky ones, but you are feeling all the effects of, like, our government's shitty ability to react to it, right?
Like, you're losing jobs if you're, you know, living, like, again, I go back, like, my father-in-law, he's, like, a machinist who has much less work right now, right?
So it's like you're seeing the runoff effects and you're reading Great Reset bullshit, but you're not seeing the actual thing this is a response to.
It does point to, on top of just selfish, shitty people, it also does point to systemic inadequacy in terms of dealing with it.
I mean, this, uh, this comment gets to that.
This, uh, from, from mgoodmanraw, I don't know, it says, uh, people are losing their livelihoods.
Government is overreaching.
Their stimulus is nothing and the taxes and rent are still due.
Rise up!
Yes, yes, King, go off!
It's like, I empathize with this sentiment a lot.
People are losing their livelihoods, and it's not fucking rich-ass small business owners.
You know, people are genuinely suffering.
Government is, in my opinion, not overreaching.
I don't think that that's applicable here.
Their stimulus is nothing, correct?
Absolutely correct.
Amen.
And the taxes and rent are still due.
Absolutely correct.
Yeah, amen.
People still have expenses, you know, they can't go to work or they get less hours or whatever.
How are they fucking gonna say, oh cool, that rent payment gets just deferred and bundled up into something you're gonna be paying interest on for the rest of your life because you had to go to a payday lender in order to afford You know, a $12,000 back pay for your rent at the start of the new year.
Like, what the fuck is this helping anybody, you know?
And I'm starting to see even, like, my more liberal friends rejecting the democratic solution to this.
The Big D democratic solution to this.
I'm seeing more normie you know people who are politically engaged sort of like yes yes queen type type political observers who are like They're not letting us do anything that, like, makes life worth living, but they're still making us do the things that are absolutely shitty as essential workers.
We have to put our lives on the line every day, and we have to wear masks, and we have to wash our hands fucking 12 times a day because, uh, you know, it's so important that people be able to, you know, shop online or get door- door delivery of- of whatever, uh, and yet, They're not doing anything to actually alleviate the pandemic, the spread.
They're not, they're not giving us any money to stay in place or anything like that.
And so, I don't think they've gone this far yet, but it is like, I do understand why people are freaking out about this.
I do understand why people are like, fuck it, I'll just die.
I want to, I want to like go to a bar.
You know, like it's, it's, it's like somewhat, uh, I, I can empathize with it.
It's and in Ontario and Canada like this really does lay into the like the Joe Biden solution to things right because Doug Ford did pass a rent freeze law for 2021 but a Toronto is a brutally expensive city to live in just to begin with right like think New York or Seattle or San Francisco for that matter but also did not Like the laws are so loose and it's like there's a ban on- A freeze isn't a forgiveness anyway.
Yeah.
Right?
It's just you don't have to pay right now.
That's all it means.
Yeah.
And there's a ban on commercial evictions till like, I think it was till like October or November 30th, but that says nothing about landlords being able to like evict Tenants for a bunch of other reasons or like renovate them or yeah, of course, there's no fucking rent forgiveness, right?
Like this is the most tepid response you could do is introduce a rent freeze to of the maximum allowables like 1.5% it's like You know, you're gonna see people in the U.S.
and, like, you know, especially in, like, you know, Democratic cities, like, introduce very similar legislation, call it a win, right?
Like, it's gonna be one of these things where it's like, we saved you, yeah.
We have that in Seattle, but it's like, and I think in California, there's a statewide moratorium on, I'm not sure, but it's the literal definition of kicking the can down the road, you know?
Yeah, absolutely.
It's gonna be 3% in 2022, and it was also done in consultation with landlord groups and small businesses first, right?
Absolutely.
Just last two comments that I think are really interesting are from makebarf619 said, in the US you are a citizen, in Canada you are a subject, in the US all rights are God-given, in Canada all rights are government-granted.
And then Ron Fillmore replies, All rights are becoming government granted in the U.S. as we speak.
This nation is rapidly becoming no longer the land of the free and the home of the brave.
And this is so fascinating to me.
This is like, it's an old conservative argument that, you know, the government isn't what grants you your rights.
These are granted by God, right?
And the left is trying to replace God with government by guaranteeing those rights?
Very insane argument.
And it's very funny that somebody in Canada is like, Yeah, man, God, like, gave all you guys the rights down there, but, like, up here, like, he hasn't visited in a while.
What does this shit mean?
It's like, God granted Americans rights.
How are those rights enforced?
I haven't seen that motherfucker do anything about it.
But, like, it's the key, the key word here is, like, in Canada, you are a subject, right?
Because it's like... I love that.
We're still Commonwealth.
The Queen is on all of our money.
You know, you're still subject of the fucking crown.
Which, you know, the Queen is definitely not historically appointed by God.
It's not like the Queen is a middle manager in the Citizen God paradigm.
Right?
But this is very typical of Canadian chud, right?
Where it's like, even on my street, there's a dude with a Confederate flag on his truck, a coal roller, and by the way, And a massive thing on the back of his truck window that says, God Bless John Wayne.
Hell yeah!
And it's not atypical, right?
Like, even in Ontario, where I grew up, like, this very metropolitan, like, very, you know, normal, quote-unquote normal, like, everyday big city, like, Confederate flags are not out of place.
This, like, veneration of, like, America as being, like, a more inherently free place is not out of place, right?
Like, the propaganda about, like, Canadian healthcare, which, to be fair, is not great, given what it could be, in the U.S., about, like, it taking forever to get an appointment and die, which doesn't actually happen, trickles back home, right?
And people start believing this, even though they've never actually been sick in that way in their lives and shit like that.
Like, there is definitely this, like, cult of, like, this inferiority complex about America that pervades uh canadian politics and especially canadian right-wing political discourse where it's like we should be more like them because we don't like what's here now right i just don't know what the difference is between a god-given right and a government granted like like the like i guess the argument is like oh a right given by the government can be taken away right Right?
That's like the argument.
But it's like, well, what if I think that God gave me that right?
What if I just think that?
Then they didn't take anything away from me.
Like...
Like, in America, like, so you thinking that it's a God-given right to, like, freedom of the press or whatever doesn't mean anything.
Like, it doesn't make any fucking difference.
It's just like a way of saying, uh, I don't want the government to do anything, uh, because, like, you know, God gave me, uh, God gave me a big parcel of land and a rich father that allows me to buy a bunch of guns and make sure, uh, that, you know, you can't infringe on my rights, I guess.
Is God in the American National Anthem?
Yeah.
I don't think he always was, though.
I think he got added.
He's also in the Pledge of Allegiance.
And the National Anthem, yeah.
Okay, because there's a line in the Canadian National Anthem that, God keep our land glorious and free.
Like, it's not like we're, you know, divorced from this idea of, like, God-given rights and, like, very Christianized fucking freedoms, right?
Like, it's, yeah, it's the mental gymnastics here are absolutely staggering.
God was added to the National Anthem, like, after World War II to combat communism.
Like, literally, that's...
What it was there for.
Because it was one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all, and now it's one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
And it's just like, yeah, that made it so much realer.
You sang like no take backsies, God did it.
Like that's a real thing you just did.
Okay, well, thank you so much, Abdul, for giving us a tour of your wonderful province.
What are you guys called up there?
It's a country that has provinces.
I'm from the province of Ontario, but I live in the province of Alberta now, and I'm moving back the second COVID is over.
Great.
Well, why don't you tell people about your upcoming podcast?
Yeah, you can follow me on Twitter at Socialist Raptor.
I do a lot of journalism stuff in Lake Jacobin and Canadian Dimension, a bunch of other publications mostly about sports and the politics of sports, and I have a podcast coming up called the Off Court Podcast at OffCourtPod on Twitter about the political economy of sports.
It's a sports podcast for people, for like lefties and socialists who don't Care or find sports interesting and like why you should care and why they are like a vital political apparatus and yeah there's some really cool stuff in there and it's part of the Harbinger Media Network which is the Canadian left quote-unquote is launching a
Super cool network of, like, left-wing podcasts and left-wing analysis, headed by Rob Rousseau, who is an absolute king, and a bunch of other people.
And it's a really nice, like, communal, you know, spirit and that, and we're very excited to see where it goes.
But yeah, no, if you're interested in what I have to say, both about Canada and the world, yeah, give me and my podcast a follow, at Socialist Raptor, at OffCourtPod.
It's gonna be a fun one and thank you guys.
I know we went long, but thank you guys so much for having me on I'm super super happy to have to be on had a really good time.
Yeah fun time Abdul is a friend of the show highly recommended follow Rob Russo also a friend of the show very excited about that that podcast network you guys are cooking up and the off-court podcast coming up next year and What's gonna rule?
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