Angela Vand critiques Hong Kong’s Apple Daily raid—assets frozen, staff arrested—amid CCP propaganda via Global Times’ Twitter, dismissing claims about its financial struggles and Taiwan’s Tsai Ing-wen as disinformation. She notes Canada’s foreign minister, Mark Garneau, has stayed silent since April despite past Xinjiang condemnations while comparing mask scolds like "Justin" in Toronto to NFL player Cole Beasley, framing compliance as cowardice fueled by peer pressure and legal threats rather than genuine health concern. The episode suggests censorship and social policing reflect deeper psychological manipulation and systemic overreach. [Automatically generated summary]
That little warning censorship bumper, I think we call it, is because YouTube has all these weird and arcane and ever-changing rules about what you can say and what you can't.
And they once told us that if we put like a warning label on our videos, we could have a little more freedom if we warned our viewers that we were saying bad things.
So I put that warning label up.
As you can see, we do it and we indicate we're doing it under duress.
That's just for YouTube.
But we're streaming this program on four channels.
We are on rumble.com.
We are on superu.net, which I'm just delighted about.
We are on odyssey.com, which is an interesting platform.
Did I list them all?
And YouTube.
So we try and diversify where we are to make it less likely that we can be shut down.
I'm absolutely certain we will be shut down one day by YouTube, but hopefully by then we will have put down roots in these other channels.
Let me talk.
What didn't make it?
The warning didn't make it to YouTube?
Okay.
I heard there was a glitch.
We're going to play that warning again.
You can't, you know what?
The censors at YouTube have such thin skins that we'll play this again just for them.
Take a look.
Warning.
Censorship.
Warning.
Censorship.
Warning.
Censorship.
So we put that up there to let you know that we're being censored because the worst thing to do would be to censor ourselves quietly so that you think we're not doing it.
Now, I'm going to say what I'm going to say.
Censored Conversations00:15:54
And maybe wearing that little garlic clove around my neck will ward off the vampires.
Maybe it won't.
We don't know.
It's so whimsical and capricious over there in YouTube land.
Just a quick word about our other platforms.
Right now we have 213 people watching on YouTube, which makes no sense given that we have 1.47 million subscribers there.
They're obviously throttling us.
On Rumble, we have 818 people watching, even though we have less than 100,000 subscribers there.
So you can see it's out of joint.
On the Super U free speech channel, we have 20 viewers right now.
What I like about Super U is a free speech channel.
It's sort of hardwired for freedom.
They've got the shouts, the chats, and they also have a tip function now, which Rumble and Odyssey don't have.
Odyssey, actually, I take that back.
They have it in the form of making a donation through a cryptocurrency called Library.
And we have 26 people watching from them now.
All right, enough preamble.
It is appropriate, however, that we talk about censorship because a terrible thing is happening in Hong Kong right now.
And I was just saying to Justin this morning that I've had the pleasure of being to Hong Kong several times in my life.
Once when I was in my early 20s.
I don't recall the details of it.
Actually, I don't remember how I got there.
And it's just an amazing city, truly on par with New York, London, just one of the world's great cities.
It's great because it's the best of the Chinese culture, plus the best of the British culture, plus the best of all the expats from around the world.
It's like the best people from all around the world go to this place, and the freedom and the energy and the creativity.
And, you know, I think there's 300,000 Canadians there.
I don't know the exact.
So you have so many, it's just like a perfect future place, but also deeply rooted in Chinese culture, history, food, language, but hundreds of years of British civil liberties, rule of law.
So it was just one of the best places in the world.
And my deep regret is that last Christmas 2019, the last Christmas of freedom, I had this theory that we would take the family to Hong Kong, but that wasn't really a kids-friendly Christmasy vacation.
So I was sort of outvoted.
And now it's impossible to go there.
If you are Canadian, you should not go to China.
If you are a critic of the Chinese government like me, you should never go to China.
And I would add Hong Kong into that.
I went to mainland China a dozen years ago.
Obviously, I could never do that again.
But I do not feel that I could go to Hong Kong again.
And I think a lot of good things are going to start leaving Hong Kong.
Not a lot.
No, sorry, not everything.
I mean, there's no shortage of capitalists willing to sell communists the rope by which to hang them, as I think Solzhenitsyn said.
But anything that relies on freedom and dissent, and I think you're going to see that slowly move out of Hong Kong and maybe to Singapore, maybe to Taiwan.
I want to show you what I'm talking about.
As you know, I follow a lot of Chinese social media designed like propaganda, I mean.
So it's in English.
It's written for me and other Westerners by the Communist Party of China.
So you have to really be alive to the disinformation that you're going to get.
So you have to watch it and say, what's the enemy political party, the CCP, saying today?
So you have to sort of reverse engineer it and say, well, what are they actually trying to say and do?
And how many lies are there?
How many like levels of lies are there?
Because they know that you know it's propaganda.
So how many, you know, it's like when you play that game rock, paper, scissors, and the last guy does a rock.
And so you think, okay, he did rock last time.
So he thinks I'm going to do paper this time.
So he's going to do scissors this time.
So I'll do rock this time.
But he knows that.
So he's going to do scissors.
But he knows that I know that.
So like you could go mad, right?
How many layers are there?
It's like inception.
You ever see that movie, Justin?
You see that movie?
You know, it's a good, you know, you've got to pay close attention.
It's not a movie that you can be scrolling on your phone while you're watching that.
It is an intense movie.
It's about a dream.
And in that dream, you're having another dream.
And in that dream, you're having another dream.
And I think, and there's like, I think, five or six levels of dreams.
And the whole idea is to get into someone's dream and to plant an idea in an inception, to plant an idea in their mind that they think was theirs.
It was an amazing movie.
Hard to understand, but if you sort of go with it, that's, I think, what Chinese propaganda is like.
What is propaganda and what is not?
I think you got, I mean, you got to assume it's all propaganda, but how many layers?
I don't know.
Let's go to Global Times, which is one of these propaganda outlets.
It's in English, so obviously its target is people like me and you.
It's published on Twitter, which is not even allowed in China.
So you can see it says Global Times, and underneath it, Twitter says China state-affiliated media.
It's time to shut down Apple Daily.
That's the name of a major pro-democracy newspaper.
Legal experts say it's legitimate and necessary to clamp down on poisoned apple.
Hey, guys, did you know that's a legal expert term?
It's a poisoned apple.
Do you see what we did there?
It's called the Apple Daily, and we said it's a poisoned apple.
You see how we did that there?
Legal experts say it's not just us, the commies.
As it's now the matter of this company as a whole on suspicion of endangering national security.
And you can see they're arresting a bunch of editors and publishers.
Now, can you go to their feed and scroll back?
Because I think you can see that how many people are following 1.8 million followers of Global Times in the English language.
Scroll down and find, like for the last few days, they've been given her like every couple hours on Apple Daily.
Yeah, a little bit more.
Yeah.
This Friday may probably, it may probably be the.
So what you're saying is the dictatorship that owns you told you, hey guys, it may probably be this Friday, be the final day for Apple Daily as the pro-secession tableau.
That's a lie.
That's a lie, by the way.
Struggles for funds to maintain normal operations.
You know, they're struggling for funds because the communist dictatorship seized their funds.
They're not struggling for funds.
That makes it sound like maybe no one's buying it.
They're struggling for funds.
No, they're struggling for funds because you seize their money to maintain normal operations, while observers called the shutdown long overdue.
By observers, do you mean the Communist Party observers observing you watching this?
Given its role in poisoning people's minds for 26 years.
Wow.
So it's been poisoning people's minds for 26 years, and you commies are just saying enough.
All right, scroll down a little more till we find the next one on Apple Daily.
Just pure commie propaganda all the way down, just all the way down.
Let's just find, yeah, there's a couple more.
Like, I mean, I said there was a bunch, but you can see, I mean, it's a very busy propaganda outlet here, Billie Eilish.
yeah just go a little bit further okay what's that Okay, keep going.
Xinjiang.
Boy, they're sensitive about Xinjiang.
Oh, they hate Taiwan.
They're so mad.
Keep going.
They're so mad about Taiwan.
They're trying to mock Taiwan so badly and they hate the fact.
Oh, there we go.
While, so this is eight hours ago.
So you just scrolled through around 20 tweets, right?
But that's only been eight hours.
While Apple Daily may face imminent risk of closure after some of senior executives were arrested, Hong Kong Security Bureau says it will handle the matter of frozen assets in line with law and affirms that endangering national security is a very serious crime.
Hey guys, they may face imminent risk of closure.
That's just the language, the pretzel language.
Keep going, keep going.
So we're scrolling.
So it looks like we're scrolling through a lot, but they're very prolific.
Oh, yeah, there we go.
12 hours ago.
Apple Daily may face imminent closure following the freezing of its assets.
The next digital board will meet on Monday.
That's today, I think.
to decide whether to shut it down.
Media reports say, while legal experts and observers see the shutdown is long overdue.
Is that what legal experts say?
Yeah, you're legal experts and because you're a bunch of commie propagandists.
So if this is the movie Inception, this is like the first level of the dream.
This isn't second, third, fourth, fifth.
They're just telling you what they're going to do.
Scroll down a bit more.
Yeah, oh, they just hate that Taiwan.
They just go on about Taiwan.
Oh, there we go.
After the latest arrests and police operation, Apple Daily posted a letter to its readers saying its staff would stick to the job, which former chief editor or CE, sorry, not, sorry, that's not CE.
CE CY Leung called a shame to the end and a shame of Hong Kong.
Okay, I don't know who C.Y. Leong is.
Chief executive.
That's what that means.
Chief executive of Hong Kong.
Sorry, for a second, I forgot what CE stood for.
Yeah, so they're just so furious that these people would want to keep writing.
Let's just scroll for a minute more.
They're very prolific.
Like, this is all in the last days, you see.
Oh, there we go.
There we go.
So, yeah, look at these.
That's the president of Taiwan.
Very successful president.
She seems really lovely.
I mean, I don't follow too closely, and I don't speak Chinese.
So look what they're trying to do here.
I'll read the bottom one first.
Tsai Ing-wen, that's the name of the Time News, faced a backlash for mourning Biden's lose of his beloved dog.
A message that some netizens criticized Tsai of being Biden's bootlicker while turning a blind eye to people's lives amid the island's ravaging new COVID-19 wave.
So apparently, Tsai Ing Won said something about Biden losing his dog.
Some netizens say she's a bootlicker.
Some legal experts say Apple Daily is terrible.
Some people say their imminent shutdown may happen.
And then they have another one.
Will you feel sorry for the people in Taiwan who died because of your dereliction of duty?
Have you seen the sudden deaths from AstraZeneca vaccination in Taiwan?
Were those people inferior to a dog?
Some netizens ask.
Gee, I wonder if they work for the Communist Party or maybe they even work for Global Times.
Scroll down.
Boy, they hate her.
Scroll down a little bit.
Yeah, there's the Chinese Air Force.
Yeah, Tsai Ing-wen faced a backlash.
Keep going.
Oh, yeah, they just love Machi America.
All right, so you can see they're very, very bad.
Yeah, I'll just read this.
It is, it is time to shut down Apple Daily.
Legal, hey guys, what time is it?
It's time to shut down Apple Daily, guys.
That time has come.
Legal experts say it's legitimate and necessary to clamp down on Poison Apple as it's now the matter of this company as a whole on suspicion of endangering national security.
Okay, I'm not going to make you go through any more, but it really is quite ridiculous.
Hey, can you do something different?
Who's our foreign minister now in Canada?
Is it Christopher Freeland?
Is it?
It's Mark Garneau.
Sorry.
It was Freeland, and then it was Champagne, and I think now it's Mark Garneau.
Can you go to Mark Garneau's Twitter feed?
I wonder if he has anything to say.
Because as you can see, they've been arrested.
Okay, so scroll down a little bit.
What's that first one there?
That top one.
Okay, he's talking about today.
We announced coordinated sanctions.
Okay, he's talking about Belarus.
They made a plane land, forced a plane down.
Okay, pay tribute to fathers on Father's Day.
Go back a bit.
Tigray, that's some place in Africa, I think.
Scroll down a bit.
I participate in the Brussels Forum on the importance of protecting democracy.
Pretty sure that China didn't come up.
The UN.
So we're looking, I'm looking for anything on Hong Kong.
Okay, vandalism.
There's some chairs that were vandalized.
Venezuela, okay.
You see anything about Hong Kong or China?
A mosque in Edmonton.
You know, women, peace, security.
What about Hong Kong women?
Okay, so we're just looking like how many did like we're back almost a week now, right?
Juan Guaido.
Yeah, so that's Canada's foreign minister.
Doesn't have a lot to say about Hong Kong.
He's talking about Venezuela, which I appreciate.
EU, there's just nothing.
There's just nothing here.
NATO, just like you're going back two weeks now, or not two weeks, but more than a week.
It's not there.
Sudan giving away money to kleptocracies.
What's that?
Canada-Vietnam relations?
Okay, I appreciate it.
Anything on China?
Just nothing, nothing.
Search For Apple Daily00:02:56
Hey, can you do one thing?
Can you go to, you know how to do this on Twitter?
Do search.
Go into the search from colon Mark Garneau and then the word Apple.
Do you know how to do that in the search bar?
So just to reiterate, Apple is the name, Apple Daily.
It's got nothing to do with Apple Inc., the maker of cell phones and computers.
it's the Chinese name of this newspaper in Hong Kong.
Okay.
So, yeah, by latest.
So he hasn't said the word Apple in four years.
Okay, that's maybe a bit obscure.
Put in the word Hong Kong. April.
Today I expressed Canada's grave concerns over the targeting of 10 of Hong Kong's most prominent pro-democracy activists.
Okay, so that was April, two months ago.
Since then, it's gotten a lot worse, and nothing from him.
Okay, type in China.
Do the same search as you did before.
Thank you for this.
May 5th.
I had an excellent meeting with Heiko Mas of Germany about Ukraine, China.
Okay, so he mentions it, but he doesn't say anything.
We also discussed North Korea, relations with China.
Okay, but it's not really saying what they said.
And then that's Xinjiang.
So this is in March.
Alongside allies, we have taken coordinated action on measures to send a clear message about the human rights violations and abuses in Xinjiang.
We are united in our deep and ongoing concern regarding Chinese human rights violations.
Okay.
So that was March.
Okay, here we go.
Canada is disturbed by the charge.
Yeah, I read that one already about.
Maybe I didn't.
Okay, so he's been silent really for months, hasn't he?
Would you agree with that?
That's a fair statement.
He said nothing.
And he's never said anything about Apple Daily.
He said he registered concern when Hong Kong Democratic politicians were arrested several months ago.
He's signed some group letter on Xinjiang, which is the Muslim province, Uyghur Muslims.
It's an ethnic minority in China that they are really putting into concentration camps.
I wouldn't call them death camps, although there have been deaths, but they're concentration camps, they're re-education camps, they're labor camps, and it's really a form of ethnic cleansing.
I don't think there's any doubt about that.
So, yeah, there's Canada.
Crazy Person with a Knife00:15:40
What are you going to expect?
I mean, Justin Trudeau told us that China was the country he most admires.
Why would you doubt him?
All right, well, so that's Hong Kong.
I see some comments coming in.
I'll get to those in a minute, but I want to show you something that actually really a video from a mall in the Toronto area.
I'm not sure what mall this is.
You know, they all look the same once you're inside them.
I think this is very recent.
I haven't been able to check the provenance of this.
When you're looking at videos like we're about to show you, there's a chance they could be a month-old, six-month-old, a year-old.
I don't actually think it matters in this case.
I would like to know some details.
Let's play it all the way through, and then I might take you back through it because there's a tell.
I don't know if it's not quite a poker tail.
There's something that comes up in all of these.
This is a mask-shinging video.
Someone with a mask is trying to shame someone without a mask.
There's different ways to mask shame.
When women do it, I think it's sometimes out of busybodiness and sometimes out of fear.
That's my assessment of maybe I've probably seen 20 videos like this.
When men do it, every single time there's a certain argument that comes out, not at first, not at second, but before they're done, they always make this same argument and it gives it all away.
Let's watch this through, and you tell me if you can identify it.
I'll come back and I'll show you what it was.
Take a look.
You're not allowed to security.
Well, it's children here, everything.
You're not special.
I just come to the mall.
I don't need a person like you need to psyche without a mask.
Well, you might want to talk to the security.
You might want to talk to the security.
This lady here is in the mall of the mask.
Yep, gotcha.
Yeah, that's okay.
And it's okay.
You don't have a mask on.
What is the other?
Who are you?
I've just come to the mall of the mask.
Yeah, sure.
And you are.
What is your name?
What is your name?
You're a threat.
What is that in the mall?
She's kid with a mask.
It is my business.
She's right here.
No, it's not me.
Put your mask on.
Put your mask on.
This lady, guys, on YouTube, she's causing trouble.
She has no mask on.
It's okay.
She shouldn't be on the mall.
She is exempting the kid.
No, she is not exempt.
Did you see the paper?
She's a liar.
I don't care.
Sir, everybody's complaining about her with no mask on.
Everybody's got a mask.
She told you, you believe what she says?
Yep, yeah, I don't.
The police needs to come, bro.
This is not fair.
You might get arrested, sir.
No, did you?
I'm complimenting.
I'm looking, but he's hunting for me.
I want the police to come out.
Come in, I'll show you the paper.
I'll show you the paper, but I need to say.
Boy, there's a lot going on there.
She's making trouble.
Yeah, I think that's you, mate.
I think that was you that's making trouble.
Certainly, it's you that's making a scene.
He stopped shouting at this one lady to shout at someone else.
Did you catch that?
Put your mask on.
He says to someone else.
He says she is not exempt.
Says who?
And on what basis do you say that?
And it's actually not for you to decide.
She is a liar.
You may feel that way, but you have no basis for that.
Everybody's complaining doesn't look that way.
Everybody's got a mask.
Now, that's obviously not true because he shouted at another person without one.
But here we're getting to it.
Everyone's complaining.
Everyone's got a mask.
Do you see where this it starts off?
You're a threat, you're dangerous.
But he doesn't really believe that because if someone's a danger, you don't go up to them.
If there was someone, let's say, you know, you see those strange pictures?
Give me one of these if you can, of someone who puts like a queen bee on their neck and then gets this huge beard of bees.
You ever see that picture?
Like, those are so weird.
That, I think, if I saw someone in a mall or anywhere who had a thousand bees on them, I would think that's a danger.
And yeah, like that.
Like those are really weird.
I think that's really weird.
I mean, it's cool, maybe?
It's not really cool.
It's like someone, but it's like, why are you doing that?
You love the bees and the bees love you.
And you just, it's sort of like someone who walks on, like if you're walking on hot coals, I don't even really get that either.
But let's say you saw that guy with the bees in a mall.
Would you go up to him?
Would you, Justin?
I might go near him just to look out of curiosity.
But I don't think I would go right up to him because I wouldn't want to be stung.
You would stare as you walk by.
Me too.
Okay, so maybe that's not a good example.
But I was trying to find an example of someone who really is a danger.
Because if someone really is a danger, you don't go up to them and hang out with them and engage with them.
Although if there was a guy in a mall with a bunch of bees, I would sort of go over, but I wouldn't get too close because I would be worried about the bees.
Not too worried, because they look like they're calm.
Okay, maybe the bees thing wasn't a good example.
I'm just trying to say if someone, better example, a crazy person with a knife.
There, that's a better example.
That's a better example.
A crazy person with a knife.
If there's a crazy person with a knife, do you go up to them and say, hey, you're crazy.
That knife?
Crazy.
You put down that knife, crazy.
No, you don't do that because you're genuinely scared.
You grab your kids, you grab your wife, and you get out of there.
That's what you do if you're genuinely afraid.
So thank you for indulging my five-minute B tangent.
Put the B tangent inside.
The guy, crazy person with a knife.
If you're actually scared of a crazy person with a knife, you don't go up to them, film them, and tell them that they're a danger.
Because if they are a danger, you run away from them.
Was that man afraid of that woman?
Justin, do you think he was truly afraid?
I don't think so either.
Because first of all, he's not.
You know, maybe in February 2020, when we had pure terror propaganda, no one knew what was what.
Maybe you would think that, but then he wouldn't walk up to her.
And by the way, very few people were wearing masks back then anyways, because China had actually bought all the masks up in the world and shipped them back to China, including from Canada.
Back in February 2020, if you were afraid of someone, you would walk away from them.
In June 2021, you're not afraid.
So look at how he evolved.
He didn't make the danger-based argument.
He made sort of an attempted legal rules-based argument.
She is not exempt.
Well, I say she's not.
I don't know that, I'm trying to apply the rules.
I don't know the rules well enough to cite them.
I'm saying she's not exempt.
Oh, she is.
Okay, so I'm going to say she's lying.
I don't really know the rules.
But then he gets to it.
Everyone else is mad about this.
Okay, but is she a danger?
You said she's a, the whole thing is based on she's a danger.
Everyone else is complaining.
Everyone else has a mask.
This is not fair.
That was the last thing he said, I think.
What does that mean?
Can I translate that for you?
We all know he wasn't afraid.
This was not someone wearing a bee beard.
This is not a crazy person with a knife.
Everyone knows he's not actually afraid.
And if he was afraid, well, he's got his mask on, so he's super safe.
Everyone knows that she wasn't causing the problem.
He was, and he knows it too.
He has no idea if she's exempt or not, but you see, that's got nothing to do with whether or not he's safe.
Because if you are exempt, that means the rule doesn't apply to you.
That probably means you are a danger in his mindset.
If everyone's a danger and thus they have to wear a mask and someone is properly exempt from that, well, then they're dangerous.
So he's not really worried about the underlying danger.
He's worried about the rule.
She's not really exempt.
If he was really worried about the danger, he said, I don't care if she's exempt.
That makes her more dangerous.
Look, she doesn't have a mask.
No, he went to the rules-based argument.
But what really irks this man, and one of the reasons I believe this man was going after this woman, we never see the woman who's filming, is he's a man who is submissive and puts on a mask, even though he knows, and we can tell this through his conduct, that there actually isn't a danger.
Like I say, you don't walk toward the person with the bees on them.
What really irks him, and this is, you have to get through a minute of his blather to hear it.
It's not fair that she's not doing it if I have to.
It's not fair that she is independent, free-spirited, unmasked, if I have to be.
Hang on, buddy.
I thought this was about your safety.
If you're safe, what do you care if someone else is being dangerous?
How come she gets to walk near the person with the bee beard?
And I can't.
Well, what do you care?
You're afraid of the bees.
Get away from the bees.
No, I just want her not to be able to go to the bees either if I can't.
Okay, stop talking about bees.
He is upset with this lady because she has more courage and self-respect and independence and freedom of spirit and freedom of conscience and freedom of action than he does.
And she's a woman and he's a man.
And that's emasculating.
It's emasculating for a man to be so submissive and to be confronted with the visual evidence of, look, not only is someone more courageous than you, but it's a woman.
So what does he do?
He compensates by being very bullshit, by being very macho, very brave and aggressive.
I'm going to go harass a woman, stalk a woman, shout at a woman, follow a woman, which I don't think you would do if she was like a crazy person with a knife or wearing a beard of bees.
If you're afraid of someone, you get away from them.
I've been afraid of people on the street.
There's some clearly, you know, high or like really even mentally incapacitated or person on drugs and they look like they could be.
I've walked away quickly from some.
I've run away.
But you sometimes encounter people in public who look like they may be a danger to themselves and others.
You don't go up to them and say, hey, sir, I do say you are acting like a common nuisance.
And I must protest.
No, you get the hell away from them.
If you're worried about someone, you get away from them.
You don't go up to them, follow them around, and say, you're not following the same rules I am, and that's not fair.
That's what he said.
This is not fair.
Can we play the last half of that?
Play the last half of that.
I want to make sure I heard him right.
You don't say to the crazy person with a knife, it's not fair.
Take a look.
This lady, guys, on YouTube, she's causing trouble.
She has no mask on.
It's okay.
She shouldn't be on the mall.
She is examining the kids.
No, she is not exempt.
Did you see the paper?
She's a liar.
I don't care.
Sir, everybody's complaining about her with no mask on.
Everybody's got a mask.
She's examination.
Well, she told you, you believe what she says?
No, no, I don't.
The police needs to come, bro.
This is not fair.
You might get arrested, sir.
No, did you?
Yeah, I'm coming.
I'm living, but he's hunting me.
I'll show you the paper.
I'll show you the paper, but I need to say.
This is not fair.
What does he mean by that?
He means, why am I the kind of man who's wearing a mask in June 2021?
Why am I that kind of man?
And she is a kind of woman who isn't.
I can't bear this.
So force her to submit.
I'm afraid of being forced to do things.
Call the police because I'm worried about some cosmic force.
I'm terrified of something.
Social opprobrium, the CBC being mean to me, some TV doctor saying you're going to die, peer pressure, being thrown out of a store.
There's something that worries me.
There's something that is stronger than my own conscience.
So I obey it.
Whatever that cosmic force is, that angel of death.
Worries Beyond Viruses00:05:28
And it's not actual death.
It's something that scares me.
The virus doesn't scare him.
He's going up to someone he claims is unhealthy or he's worried is unhealthy.
You don't do that if you're worried about her.
He's worried about something else.
And I think he gives it away when he says, call the police, bro.
I think that's what he's always been worried about.
He's worried, and I can understand the worry.
He's worried that if he were a man and took off the damn mask, the police would come and exert force on him.
Because that's what he wants to call down on this woman.
What's the bad thing that's going to happen to her?
Not that she gets sick and dies.
He never says that.
Lady, you're going to get sick and die.
That's what you say to someone you're worried about getting sick and dying.
Lady, oh my God, lady, what do you do?
Put on your mask.
You're going to get sick and die.
Are you crazy?
Didn't you hear this is pandemic?
Lady, put on a mask.
Oh, my God.
Hey, kids, get away from her.
Typhoid Mary.
If you saw Typhoid Mary, if you were in the Montreal smallpox epidemic, it was at 1885 or whenever, and if you saw someone with the bubonic plague, those little bulbous things, the black plague, you saw someone with leprosy.
I've never seen anyone with leprosy, and I hope I never do.
You see someone with leprosy, what do you do?
You get the hell away.
And if there's someone who's not wearing a mask, if mask, say, lady, put the mask on.
You're going to get leprosy.
You're going to get the plague.
He didn't say that because that's not what he's actually worried about.
What he's actually worried about is someone causing stress to his life like the police.
That's what he wants to rain down on this woman.
So if she won't obey him, he wants to be a little enforcer.
He wants to be a little Stasi agent.
He's impotent.
Of course he is.
He's impotent in every aspect of his life, politically speaking.
If he can't exert force on this woman, well, maybe he'll call down the lightning bolts from Mount Olympus, whatever he's afraid of, the cops.
But the security guards there say, nah, mate, we got this.
And the last thing you hear is her saying to these security guards, I'll actually show you my paper, which, by the way, is not required under law.
So there you go.
All right, let's read some comments, and then we've got a lot of other things to cover.
I spent too much time on the bees.
I was just trying to think of something.
If you saw something, what would you run away from in a mall?
Probably gunshots.
A swarm of bees.
Yeah, like the bees.
You'd run away from a swarm of bees.
Me too.
Yeah, that's the difference.
The bees on the beard are looking very passive.
They're like almost sleeping.
They're drowsy.
Let's say that.
They're drowsy bees, and he's staying cool as a cucumber.
A swarm of bees.
That you would, you know what?
There you go.
You'd run from the swarm of bees.
If it was a bee beard, you might go up to it.
In fact, it might be the opposite.
You might say, huh, he's not afraid of the bees.
I don't have to be either.
So you could actually overcome your fear of bees.
It would be like someone saying, oh, you're not wearing a mask.
Maybe I don't have to either.
So you corrected my analogy.
There was something wrong with that analogy from the beginning.
You corrected it.
It's not if the bees were passive, because then it's just like, then all you're doing is you're negotiating with your fear.
If it was a swarm of bees, then you're negotiating with an objective risk.
Okay.
So yeah, that's Toronto.
What's it like?
I don't know.
Was there any NASCAR or something?
Did we have a video of that?
B-roll, let's take a look at that.
So that's a U.S. of age.
That looks like a swarm of bees.
That looks like a bee beard from afar.
That's a lot of people.
They're just getting back to life.
That's a lot of people.
You know, there might be the odd person there with a mask, but I don't think so.
You know why?
Because what I talked about before, people afraid of something more than the virus.
No one's really afraid of the virus anymore.
Maybe if you're 80 years old and have underlying conditions and you're in long-term care home, you're afraid of the virus.
And maybe you should be.
But if you're young and healthy, you're actually not afraid of the virus.
You've always been afraid of peer pressure.
And that's why going to this kind of event, thanks, is so valuable because you say, oh, so there's no peer pressure to put on a mask.
In fact, you're sort of weird if you do.
And no cop or security guard's going to get mad at you.
Those are the only reasons you were doing it to begin with.
Here's my thesis, last point on this guy in Toronto and the mall.
Justin, if you take him out of that mall and put him wherever that NASCAR van was, where was that?
Donald's Concerns About Taiwan00:03:35
Who cares?
Somewhere in America.
Nashville.
By the end of that race, he's going to be mask off and he's going to forget he was ever a member of the cult.
You know why?
Because you've removed what was on his mind.
He was not actually worried about the disease.
He didn't mention it.
He didn't act like it.
What were his objections?
She's not exempt.
She's a liar.
Everyone's complaining.
This is not fair.
She's causing a problem.
Which is all code for if I have to do it, so does she.
Well, buddy, you don't have to do it anymore if you're in NASCAR.
So all of a sudden, he'd throw the mask away.
I believe he would throw the mask away because let's be honest, he's a bit of a coward.
And he needs for that external threat to be removed from him before he acts like a normal person again.
Let's read some chats.
On SuperU, Donald Best.
How you doing, Donald?
Spent a few days in Taiwan a while back.
Very hardworking, friendly people.
I love Taiwan.
I have been there myself and I love the people.
I love how pro-American, pro-Western it is.
It is very Chinese, obviously ethnically, linguistically.
They have their own ethnicity as well on the island of Formosa.
But of course, a lot of people there fled from Communist China after Mao took over.
So they have a spirit of freedom there.
I haven't been there in over a decade, but I really enjoyed my trip there.
When I went to Taiwan, my observation, this was a dozen years ago.
I was worried about Taiwan, not militarily, although I am increasingly worried for them now.
I was worried about the siren song of the great Chinese mainland market, because whenever China was belligerent and bellicose, Taiwan would get its backup and it would disengage.
But whenever China said, hey, we've got a billion people who speak Mandarin and you have a lot of experience in selling things and you're just off the coast, why don't you come and all get rich?
Oh, that was much more a political strategic risk to Taiwan, the siren song of Chinese money and influence, as opposed to the Chinese threat.
I believe that mainland China has dropped the mask.
They're no longer pretending to be anything but Taiwan's enemy.
So I think there's less of a suicide gene in Taiwan now.
I am worried about the military risk, though, because China's military has absolutely zoomed in the last decade.
And when we were scrolling through those Global Times tweets, you probably saw there was an air show.
Like they love boasting their military might.
Hyper Chat from Odyssey.
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Another one, take down the CCP.
I agree.
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Cole Beasley's Fight00:15:32
As we're curious who to get in touch with the fight of fine here in Israel.
Was last August, never received a fine, but got a SMS two days ago saying my failure to pay it increased the fine by 50%.
Any chance of opening and fight the fines here in Israel?
Just as the fourth lockdown is starting here.
Well, first of all, I'm very sorry to hear about a fourth lockdown.
Second of all, that's interesting to me because Israel has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world.
And the fact that you're saying they're going into another lockdown brings into question a lot of things, including the good faith of Israeli bureaucrats and the efficacy of the vaccines.
Why would they go into another lockdown if everyone's vaccinated?
But to answer your question on point, no, we just simply don't have the viewership to crowdfund lawyers out there.
Can you go to my pin tweet, Justin?
This morning I asked our Fight the Fines coordinator, Victoria Solomon, for an update on that.
Because the last time I updated everyone on how many cases we had, do you remember what the number was last time, Justin?
It's like 1,200.
1,200.
Take a look at this.
The pandemic has virtually disappeared in Canada, but prosecutions of lockdown offenses are ramping up as politicians try to sustain the panic.
We are helping 1,834 people at fightthefiance.com.
We've already won 91 cases.
I didn't know the number was that high.
Help us if you can and get a charity tax credit.
So when I say one cases, we've had very few trials.
We've had a few preliminary hearings.
In most of those 91 cases, the charges are so atrocious and outrageous and such junk policing that when we lawyer up and contact the crown prosecutor and they look at the case, they say, yeah, no, I'm not running a trial on this garbage.
You're free to go.
Can you believe that?
We've had 91 wins.
I don't think there's been a full hearing.
I think that's just a sign of how much junk law there is.
Now, our first fight defines case was in April of 2020.
It is now June of 2021.
In fact, it's almost July, June.
So we are looking at 15 months.
Did you know something?
Justin, you know, you've heard the right to a speedy trial.
You ever heard that phrase before?
Hey, call up the Charter of Rights and Freedoms if you would.
I forget what section it is, like 11 or 12.
I can't.
I know my fundamental freedoms.
That's Section 2, A, B, C, D, but I forget some of the other sections of the Charter off my heart.
You'll forgive me.
Why do we see, why do we say a right to a speedy trial?
Why do we have a right to a fast trial?
How's that a right?
Why is that important?
Well, there's some obvious reasons.
One is practical reasons.
You know, facts decay.
People's memories fade.
People move away.
People die.
Having an accurate set of facts and evidence before the court becomes less likely if you're finally getting around to a matter very, very late.
A second very important reason is the stigma of a charge, especially if it's a criminal case, hangs over you.
Well, he wouldn't have been charged if he was doing nothing wrong, where there's smoke, there's fire, the police wouldn't have charged him for nothing.
Oh, I always knew it.
Just being charged is a kind of a smear.
Now, maybe you did it.
But if you're charged with an offense in April of 2020 and the government just says, hum-num-dum-dum-dum, we're busy.
We're on staycation now.
So, no, Hey, just call it up.
I'll scroll down.
We can find it together.
No problem.
Hey, just put up the charter.
We'll scroll down and find it together.
Charter's not coming up on the government website.
Protects against unmeasable laws for a rational good reason.
Rights after arrest.
Okay, so this is just a Wikipedia entry.
Oh, that was the government's website?
I wonder why.
I don't know why I've done that.
Huh.
Okay, well, I'll send you another link to it.
And I know you're saying, well, why are you doing this?
We believe you.
But I just want to show the actual link.
I just sent you a link there.
So the Charter of Rights is part of our Constitution.
It's not the entire Constitution.
Our Constitution has, for example, the separation of powers between the federal government, French government.
So it's, yeah, so it's a part of it.
So yeah, pump it up a little bit.
So you can see Section 2 is my favorite section.
It's the fundamental freedoms.
And we've gone through this before.
There's a strategic sense.
Freedom of conscience is the very first.
That's the freedom of your mind.
Then your freedom of, or your heart, I would even say, then your mind, then your ability to express what's on your mind through media, the freedom to get together, peaceful assembly, freedom to hang out with others.
See, there's a strategic order there.
Like, that's actually a very thoughtful order.
And then scroll down a bit, and you've got, you know, some political rights, mobility rights, and then legal rights, life, liberty, security, the person.
Proceedings.
Section 11.
Any person charged with offense has a right to be tried within a reasonable time.
And look at the first one: to be informed without unreasonable delay of the specific offense.
There's a lot of rights there.
Thank you.
If you're charged with an offense in April 2020, and those are our first fight defense cases, and it is June 2021, and you haven't even got your court date yet.
So you've had the stigma and the stress and the stress.
I mean, I'm used to legal things.
We do a lot of lawyering around here.
We've got a lot of lawyers.
I'm a former lawyer myself.
So it's not that hard on me.
But for example, some of our young staff get a ticket for $880.
You're not a normal person if that doesn't cause you stress.
Am I right?
Like, we got some youngsters here who've got five tickets.
You know, how many tickets does Yankee have?
How many tickets does Efren have?
They've got five, like Mocha.
Some of these guys on our team have 10 tickets.
If those tickets range between $500 and $1,500, a normal person is going to feel psychologically stressed by those tickets, even if they pretend, oh, I'm fine.
I'm fine.
I'm going to win.
No, no, no.
It's an inordinate psychological stress.
And imagine the government holding that over you for one, two, three years.
Well, we're already into our second year because our first fight defines case was April 2020.
So section 11 of the Charter of Rights, you saw it, we read it.
Right to they didn't use the word speedy trial, they used another word, unreasonable delay or reasonable time or whatever.
The colloquial term is a speedy trial.
So we've won 91 cases already.
We have over 1,800 clients.
Now, I think a number of these cases are going to be thrown out for want of prosecution.
Hopefully, most or all of them.
But I know there are some jurisdictions where the prosecution is being absolutely abusive.
You know, I want to show you the exact opposite of that mull guy.
That mull guy, that coward.
I want to show you an NFL player named Cole Beasley.
So, Cole Beasley, just scroll over his name.
What team is he with?
Buffalo Bills, wide receiver.
It seems like a good angler, that guy.
Can you click on it?
So he just types something up.
I can barely read it.
He says, Look, I'm going to live my own life like I want to, regardless.
Everyone, hi.
I'm Cole Beasley, and I'm not vaccinated.
I will be outside doing what I do.
I'll be out in public.
If you're scared of me, then what does that say?
Steer clear or get vaccinated.
Period.
You know, my point is, I don't know how old Cole Beasley is.
I'm going to guess he's in his early 20s.
And he's in the Buffalo Bills, his professional sports team.
I'm guessing, he's 32, eh?
So he's not quite as young.
But I'm guessing he's in your top 1% of physical fitness and health.
Maybe your top 0.01%, right?
I'm guessing he eats right.
I'm guessing he works out, gets exercise.
I'm guessing he gets paid enough that he's psychologically, like he doesn't have some of the stress.
I mean, he's got other stresses too.
I may die of COVID, but I'd rather die actually living.
I have family members whose days are numbered.
If they want to come see me and stay in my house and they're coming regardless of protocol, I don't play for the money anymore.
My family is being taken care of.
Find me if you want.
My way of living and my values are more important to me than a dollar.
I love my teammates and enjoy playing ball because all the outside BS goes out the window in these moments.
I just want to win the Super Bowl and enjoy these relationships that will be created along the way.
I'm not going to take meds for a leg that isn't broken.
Huh, that's a good analogy.
I'd rather take my chances with COVID and build up my immunity.
Yeah, I mean, I talked about the men who are in the mask scolds.
I think it's all their sublimation of their emasculation that's coming out.
I think that's one reason why they're particularly mad when they see women not wearing a mask.
It's the same reaction that liberals have when they see a woman with a firearm.
Don't you agree?
I mean, there's something about women with guns that gets a reaction from left-wing men.
It's the same thing.
It's how come you're tougher than me?
And I can't really say that.
So I'm going to come up with a whole bunch of euphemisms for I hate the fact that you're a stronger woman than I am a man.
This this fella here, Cole Beasley, he's just saying, look, I'm just not going to.
I love that.
I'm not going to take medicine for a leg that's not broken.
The male scolds are speaking out of emasculation.
I have to say, and again, this is just anecdotal.
I look at the women's scolds, the Karens, as they're originally called, and so many of them, not to be mean, but I have certain license as a fellow member of the volume-enhanced community.
They're fat.
You know, they might be on like one of those mobility scooters, like in the movie WALL-E.
You ever see WALL-E?
You ever see that movie?
It's not bad.
It's not bad.
It's a bit of a kids movie.
So you're on your mobility scooter because you're knocking on 300 pounds.
And you're unhealthy.
And I can use these epithets because I myself am pretty damn close to that.
And you're scolding some healthy person, eats right, exercises right, for not wearing a mask.
Really?
That's a different impulse than the emasculated man.
That's sort of the busybody woman who's actually afraid of, who's being told, fat acceptance is cool.
We'll give you a free Dunkin' Donut.
We'll give you free ice cream.
We'll give you a free Krispy Kreme.
If you get a vaccine, we're not going to fat shame you, but we're going to shame you if you don't have a mask.
So that's just an emotionally manipulated woman who's being told that if she wears a mask, she's fine.
And she sees a healthy person not with a mask.
And she's never been able to say you're unhealthy before.
And so you got 20 years of pent up thinking you're unhealthy.
And now you've got a way to look at the 110-pound woman not wearing a mask.
You're a 250-pound woman wearing a mask.
And for the first time in your life, you have the ability to say, shame on you.
You're unhealthy.
For 20 years, you've internalized feelings of shame because you're out of shape.
You don't eat right.
You don't exercise, right?
And I'm talking about myself here.
And you see some healthy person like a Cole Beasley, but a normal person, not like a super athlete.
You see a normal person in a store.
You're in the dollar store buying the cheap Halloween candy and it's not even Halloween.
And you're in your mobility scooter because you're rotund.
And you see a healthy person, a fit person, not wearing a mask.
And uh-huh, 20 years of psychological stress, you get to finally dish it out.
You're unhealthy.
Be like me.
You've never been able to say that before.
Those are my two psychological identities.
There's many more for the schools.
The men are angry that they're submitting without a fight.
The fat women, let me say so.
It's the first time they've ever been able to shame someone else for health reasons.
Both of them are emotionally manipulated.
Neither of them, I think some people believe the propaganda that they're actually in some danger.
I don't think most people act like they are.
Because if you're afraid of someone, it would be like the swarm of bees, not the bearded bees.
It's a swarm of bees.
If you're actually afraid of a swarm of bees, you don't go up to them and say, you're dangerous.
You get the hell out of there.
These people are not genuinely afraid.
Not Genuine Fear00:05:46
I'm going to whip through some of these so quickly.
Boy, I'm slow here because I'm chit-chatting too much.
Mimage, China and Canada sitting a tree.
Yes, right.
Ryan Rostezza's good at rock, paper, scissors.
No, because you know what?
You can be great, but then you're too clever.
And then it's like being double clever is the same as being not clever, right?
And after a while, it's purely random.
Because you can, like, how many layers are clever?
You got to watch the movie Inception, Justin.
You got to pay attention to it, though.
Are you an expert at it?
You win most of the time?
Then you have figured out your opponents because could you beat you?
What if you played someone using your same rules?
We'll play after this.
We'll play just four rounds after this, nothing more than that.
Because let's see.
Let's see.
The first one's purely random.
That next one, but then the next, next one, I may be better than you think.
Buster Chops, if I have to wear it, so do you.
That's exactly what he was saying on Super You Terry.
COVID derangement syndrome.
Oh, yeah, it's going to be with us a long time.
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I think the short answer is we have limited resources, limited budget, limited time, limited bandwidth.
We have to stick to what we're best at.
Starting new product lines is hard, and we need new people to do.
I feel like I have 20 things on my to-do list.
And the problem is, you have 20 things on your to-do list.
How many of them do you do at all?
You have five things on your to-do list, you get them all done.
And that's my worry about Rebel News, is we're stretched too thin.
John Yartwee, beekeepers do it to freak the simple-minded out.
Yeah, because I mean, I think if you understand the bees, then you know how to, then you're probably not going to get stung doing that if you know exactly what you're doing.
I myself don't want to get that comfortable with bees.
Hyper Chat from the Whitfeld EM for Everything Odyssey, QA content systems over lazy.
You know what?
I like Odyssey.
No two ways about it.
I just do.
Animature, there's no need to show the paper.
Yeah, exactly.
There's no jurisdiction in North America or the UK or Australia, of which I'm aware, that requires you to show your, other than, excuse me, I think on aircraft in Canada, you have to show a letter.
There may be an exception.
You can go to unmasked.ca to learn more.
Or maskexemption.ca.
Agatha, hi, Ezra.
Have you seen the latest Project Veritas video with the newscasters whistleblowing on live news?
Have you thought about doing the same thing as PV by encouraging whistleblowers to come forward?
We occasionally do, and we occasionally do get this.
We get tips, I'd say, I mean, in some form, every day.
Most of them are not that interesting.
Rumble, Nick Monk.
Why doesn't he stay far away from her if he's so scared of a virus?
He's getting closer and causing her to talk.
If you were really scared, he'd move away.
Yeah, that's what I, my whole bee thing.
I spent 30 minutes today talking about bees, and I realized that that was the wrong metaphor.
Because if bees are sleeping on a neck, after your initial fear, you get over it and you're curious.
It was the wrong analogy.
Chrissy's Kingdom, Ezra, I would have run from that guy.
You know, I don't think he would have.
Hyper Chat, Susan Grant, Tossati.
Don't trust Jason Kenny.
He has shown his true nature.
I'm shocked by Jason Kenny.
Rebecca Henderson, 10 libraries.
Thank you.
Can you post the link for the video of the man chasing the woman out of the mall for having a mask exemption?
You know, we could post it, or you can just find it on my Twitter feed, twitter.com/slash Ezra Levant.
Rumble, John Yarder.
All the worker bees are female.
As long as they smell the queen, they're docile.
I think there's a double message there.
Hyper Chat History Club, Rebel should give Ezra a co-host to keep him on topic.
You know, you're so gentle in how you phrase that.
You know, occasionally I have a co-host.
Like, for example, when we cover election nights, Sheila's usually on with me, sometimes others.
And they do help steer me.
But you know what?
I'll be honest.
I just ignore any attempts to keep me back on target.
Would you say that's accurate, Justin?
I just sort of ignore them.
And frankly, I sometimes prickle a little bit.
Someone tell me I can't go on a 12-minute tangent about bees.
Or let's spend 30 minutes talking about some movie, some obscure movie from the 90s that I have a child's memory of.
Oh no, you really got to see it, man.
It's amazing.
My memory of watching it as a 12-year-old, oh, it wasn't that great now that I watch it again at 49.
You know, it's, I said Raiders of the Lost Ark again last night.
That's a great movie.
That movie's 40 years old.
It's a great movie.
It's 106.
I think I'm going to say goodbye.
I did cover most of the ground here.
You know, we covered half of them.
Other than the bee thing, I don't think I went too far off course today.
They only got one or two topics.
Well, we covered the Apple Daily thing pretty well, I think.