Dakota Christensen and Ian Miles Chong expose Justin Trudeau’s $600K influencer payouts and vaccine mandates—$75M set aside for injuries but only five claims approved—as tools to silence dissent, comparing them to China’s movement passports. They critique Western media’s selective outrage over Ukraine’s Azov Battalion war crimes while ignoring NATO’s past conflicts, argue "wokeness" spreads like a virus through cultural self-censorship, and dismiss CRT as divisive hypocrisy. The West’s internal fractures, they claim, empower adversaries like Russia and North Korea, leaving freedom eroding but still worth fighting for—live daily at noon Eastern. [Automatically generated summary]
Good afternoon all and welcome to the Rebel News Daily Live Stream.
My name is Dakota Christensen and today I'm joined by the one and only Ian Miles Chong.
How's it going Ian?
How you doing today?
Hey, happy to be here.
Happy to be here.
Yeah, yeah.
It's good to be chatting with you.
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So we're going to jump basically right into it because there's a lot of stuff going on here, you know, as ever.
Crazy world.
So, you know what?
Let's see.
First thing we want to talk about here.
You know what?
Let's see.
Trudeau Liberals here.
Let's start with a nice bit of Canadian news.
Trudeau Liberals gave $600,000 to influencers to praise the government.
I mean, I'm not super surprised here.
We've seen so much of this sort of thing happening lately because – Yeah, with Biden, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, like with Biden, with those TikTok influencers.
Exactly.
So, I mean, governments are having a perpetual PR problem.
And so, of course, let's just social media is the way to go.
Pay out these influencers and try to pump Trudeau a little bit because clearly he's been suffering.
I mean, I imagine yesterday, I missed yesterday's live stream.
I imagine we talked quite a bit about Trudeau getting eviscerated in the, what was that, an EU council that was going on?
Yeah, the EU, the European Parliament.
Yeah, where there is just, you know, yeah, member of the European Parliament one after another coming up and just ripping into him for, you know, how he treated his own people.
They're on the trucker convoy and all of that.
One of them was wearing a t-shirt, which is like pro trucker.
Yeah.
It's so good.
Because, I mean, like, well, the whole time that Trudeau has been in Europe, he's been going on about having to stand together strong with NATO to defend democracy.
And, you know, he stands with the people to defend democracy and all of that.
Just gaslighting so hard.
Absolutely.
But his international image has been destroyed, right?
Nobody likes him.
I mean, he buys his own nonsense.
And yeah, his followers buy it, but nobody else does.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, you know, it depends.
Like, I feel like if you're diehard, someone who's really into the Canadian news cycle and you're getting all this gaslighting coming through you, like, I can imagine some being like, yeah, you know what?
Trudeau really isn't too bad.
He is a champion of democracy.
Nothing, yeah, all that stuff.
Ah, that's just all crazies.
Yeah, exactly.
Black, oh, you know what?
We all make mistakes, right?
Don't worry.
It's okay.
We can forgive him, even though if a conservative did that or anyone else, they would be, yeah, they'd be so dumb.
Cancel culture comes for everyone, except for Trudeau, of course, because the greatest.
They're canceling Russia.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
And so, you know what?
That's great.
Great thing to see.
Your tax dollars hard at work there helping pay for the essentially PR campaign of Justin Trudeau and his family government.
So yeah, don't believe your lying eyes.
Canada is doing great.
Your government loves you.
We're spending your tax dollars effectively.
You're having the best time of your life.
Housing prices aren't going up.
Prices of food, gas, everything, that's not going up.
You're living the happy paradise of your life.
One day you will own nothing and you'll be happy.
Exactly.
That's the way things are.
Oh, yes.
And I mean, so, like, our overall theme, the headline we gave to the live stream today is, I believe it was the West is self-destructing.
Which, I mean, this is just a common, it's a common theme, right?
That we've been seeing over the past years now.
It's a trend that the West is just, it's imploding.
We are tearing ourselves apart, right?
It's lost itself.
Yeah, exactly.
It used to have an identity, right?
The West used to stand for something.
I mean, the West is responsible for Western philosophy, and now they're trying to erase that.
They're erasing, you know, classical authors.
They no longer teach Aristotle or Plato in some universities because they're white men.
It's absurd.
Exactly.
It's the sort of things that Trudeau is out there championing out in Europe, pretending to champion out in Europe, saying I stand for democracy and liberal values and all that.
But what he actually is really shoving down every single person's throat is completely illiberal, anti-Western values, the things that, you know, that all these basically Marxist ideologies is pushing, whether it's within gender or race or economic Marxism, no matter what it is, they're all just different variations of Marxist theories that are pitting people against one another.
Because real communism has never been tried yet.
Yeah, never been tried.
And we're just destroying the Western identity.
And so we got so many stories and clips today that help really show that.
Just in the most recent news cycle, what's been going on?
So, you know, yeah, let's throw to one of our videos here.
Because you mentioned Russia, and of course, all lies are on Russia and Ukraine.
Let's throw up that vid of Putin citing a cancellation of J.K. Rowling as an example of the West cancel culture.
Because there's some interesting stuff I like to talk about there.
But yeah, let's throw to that clip, shall we?
They canceled John Rowling recently, the child, the children's author.
Her books are published all over the world.
Even just because she didn't satisfy the demands of gender rights, then they're trying to cancel our country.
They canceled John.
Yep.
So, I mean, because we were talking about this a little bit earlier when we were off camera here, but it's interesting because we were mentioning how everything Putin says, it's as if he can never say anything right, right?
Because he's the villain in this situation.
Anything that comes out of his mouth must be evil or wrong and must be the antithesis of truth, right?
That's because people watch too much Marvel movies, right?
They watch too much Disney.
This is their brain on Star Wars.
He's the ancient evil.
He's Darth Vader.
He's got to be stopped.
Everything he says is wrong.
Everything he does is evil.
He's a madman.
He's in steroids.
He's suffering from five different illnesses.
He's about to die.
They're just coming with every single reason to demonize this man.
And not only that, I mean, it'd be one thing if they just went after him.
They're going after every single Russian.
You know, you speak Russian, you're a Russian author, you're dead for 50 years.
They're still coming after you.
They're canceling you.
Yeah, exactly.
And I'm sure it is, of course, is very well in Putin's political interests to be pointing out the hypocrisy of the West and to be pointing out, like, hey, guys, J.K. Rowling is being canceled because she's standing up for women and pushing a more classical ideal of feminism when she's pushing against some of the more radical trans ideology, like men being in women's sports and that whole sort of thing.
And so it's just, yeah, it's funny to see that no matter what, because, of course, people going on about this, right?
Because, oh, this just really helps to affirm that they're right because Putin is the one pointing out the West hypocrisy.
Therefore, that hypocrisy must not exist because Big Bad Evil Putin is pointing it out.
That's right, yeah.
And then you have people who agree with them, but they're afraid to say so because he said it.
Or they'll say, well, you know, he's being a cynical politician.
He has never said this before.
It's like, well, actually, if you listen to his speeches for the past 20 years, he has been on this culture war thing for 20 years, I would say.
Exactly.
He knows.
Since the 90s, even since the 90s.
So this idea that he's just banking in on this and being a cynic, I don't think so.
No.
This is his thing.
Yeah.
And it's interesting.
I think it like it takes someone from the outside to really show us just how muddled their own thinking has become in our own internal debates here.
And so even if it is someone like Putin, who we paint as the eternal villain, it's like, yes, he's doing all sorts of terrible, evil stuff, as any, you know, dictator guy would do.
He's invading Ukraine right now, all sorts of stuff.
But it's like, there are also so many things we're doing wrong.
And I mean, like, that's right.
I mean, it's like the issue is that the West likes to point fingers and says, look, Putin's doing this.
Putin's invading this.
What about when the West invaded Baghdad?
What about when it invaded Belgrade and it bombed it and 5,000 people died?
I mean, wasn't that just as bad, if not worse?
Yeah, exactly.
And it's like, we also.
50,000 people died in Baghdad in the first month and no one talks about it.
It's like, oh, I guess they're Iraqis.
They're brown.
So therefore, it's okay.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
And again, that's like, oh, but of course, we're not racist.
We're anti-racist.
We're more progressive.
Yeah, we're doing this for democracy.
For democracy.
And again, even like looking at Putin and we're like, oh, how evil he is.
And so we paint him as the villain.
But then Zelensky himself and all of Ukraine, like that thing, it was Candace Owens in the New York Times thing.
I imagine you would have seen that.
I saw that.
Yeah.
I thought that was so cool because it really helps illustrate the point of like for so long, all of these mainstream large news outlets have been reporting on the corruption and all of the really sketchy dealings going on in Ukraine.
And so, but suddenly, Putin invades Ukraine.
And since Putin's the bad guy, Ukraine is suddenly the saint state of their perfect idyllic democracy.
Yeah.
They're like superheroes.
They're Captain America.
You know, Zelensky's Rambo.
I mean, they're making up quotes for him nowadays.
They're saying that, you know, he's like, give me a gun and, you know, give me a ride or something.
Like, come on.
Yeah.
He never said that.
He never said that.
And even admitted it later on.
There was a delete made up by some State Department.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because that was the, I don't need a ride.
I need, I need more ammo or something like that.
Yeah, which I figured that was like, sure, he said that, but that's just him doing, you know, a nice PR thing.
Like, yeah, that'll be a nice, you know, church hill.
Interesting.
It was.
Yeah.
And if you look into, I think MidPress News did a pretty good article on this.
It's massive, right?
I mean, if you've got the time for it, go to midpressnews.com and check it out.
It goes on about how they're selling you this war.
They have hired marketing firms like Edelman.
Edelman's like one of the largest PR firms in the world.
And they're doing PR for Ukraine.
It's like, yeah, okay, that's the first thing.
Yeah.
It's just, it's the sort of thing where it's like, yes, Putin's bad.
Russia is bad.
They're invading Ukraine.
But it's like, it doesn't mean Ukraine is, you know, this saintly perfect thing.
Doesn't mean so much.
No, he's always had problems.
Exactly.
Yeah, I mean, they are corrupt to the core, right?
And people like to claim that Putin's playing up the whole Azov battalion angle, you know, how they're Nazis.
But if you actually look at the New York Times as reporting and you look at the United Nations as reporting, the Office of Human Rights, it says here they have been guilty of war crimes for the past eight years.
They've been murdering journalists and murdering civilians, torturing people.
I mean, there's one of a crucifixion of innocent people.
And I mean, people have been convicted over it, but Ukraine somehow clears these people and they work in the government.
I mean, the chief of police of Kiev is a neo-Nazi openly with tattoos.
Yeah.
I think that goes back to the thing where it's like, oh, well, if Putin said it, then of course it's wrong or evil.
It's like, you know, if he's his justification for invading Ukraine is, oh, to denazify Ukraine.
Well, of course, that's just another lie by Putin.
There are no Nazis in Ukraine.
Like, if you point out the fact that there are actual, real modern-day neo-Nazis in Ukraine, then you're just playing into Putin's side.
You're just pro-Putin.
It's like, okay.
You're putting up fake news.
It's like this New York Times fake news.
Yeah, really.
Exactly.
And then of course, of course, and the eternal rebuttal of, well, Zelensky is Jewish.
So there can't be neo-Nazis in Ukraine.
They've got a Jewish president.
It's like, oh, okay.
Or whatever.
Yeah.
That's not a rebuttal at all.
I mean, if you just follow the money, you'll see that they themselves are funded by an oligarch, right?
Yeah.
And he's using them as his personal bodyguards.
It doesn't matter.
I mean, the fact is they're good soldiers.
They're amazing fighters.
They're hard to defeat.
The Russians are having a hard time with them.
And they're the best defense that Ukraine has.
And that's why they cling to them.
And they also have an undue amount of power over the government because of how much military power they have in the country.
Yeah, they may not have a lot of parliament seats, but I don't think it really matters.
It's Ukraine we're talking about here.
It's not like it's a democracy.
Exactly.
Well, that's the funny thing is we've painted Ukraine as this perfect democracy.
I think the bottom line there is, okay, so we've got two sketchy, corrupt, you know, Eastern European Russian powers.
One invades the other.
And so like we have to take sides on black and white, you know, good versus evil.
And it's like, what good, you know, what good country tortures prisoners?
I mean, you had a guy from the medical brigade going on TV, on television, on Ukrainian television and saying that he has given the order to his doctors to castrate every single Russian male that they come across.
I mean, wow.
Right.
And so when I posted that, because, you know, it was forwarded to me, some people are like, oh, that's fake news.
That's fake news.
He didn't say that, but he actually literally said it.
He even admitted it on Facebook that he had said it.
And then there were people who were saying, well, it's fine, you know, because it's war.
Bad things happen.
It's like, okay, why do we even have the Geneva Convention if that's the case?
Yeah, exactly.
And those same people saying it's war, bad things happen are the ones who would be wildly outraged if anything else happened.
Like this is a breach of international law.
These are war crimes.
How dare they?
They cross the border.
They cross state lines.
They cross state lines.
Oh, exactly.
So, I mean, like, yeah, again, like my allegiance, I would say, or my, you know, my sympathies, my heart goes out to the innocent civilians, the people caught in between this.
Like we've got two, two corrupt warring states, massive militaries going at it, you know, a couple of.
If we count America.
Yeah, it's true.
Canada states.
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Belarus, we could throw in there.
Right.
Yeah.
But I mean, I mean, there are no clean hands here.
European Union, NATO, United States.
I mean, what was your mind on?
I mean, it was a color revolution staged by the United States of America.
Yeah.
Right.
And it overthrew the government that was there.
And yeah, it was probably corrupt.
But, you know, why did they meddle?
And this idea that, you know, Putin's just this evil man who's invading another country for no reason.
Well, come on.
You know, let's be realistic here.
Nothing happens without a reason.
Yeah, I think everyone's so obsessed with taking sides over these dividing lines between nations and governments when it's like, all right, guys, let's remember the real divide is sport.
Yeah.
It's like, all right, guys, there's the people and there are these corrupt governments.
Let's remember to support the people who are actually getting caught in the middle of this, the suffering civilians, the refugees, people who are dying so needlessly over so much stuff.
Where it's like two heads of state decide to battle it out and millions die.
It's kind of the theme of humanity over the past.
Even more could die.
Now they're saying, you know, you have these warmongers in Congress who are saying, let's enact a no-fly zone.
Let's put boots on the ground.
Let's fight Russia.
It's like, what do you think is going to happen?
First of all, the civilians are going to get caught in a crossfire.
Secondly, you're probably going to cause the deaths of tens of thousands of troops if that, and that's the minimum.
And beyond that, I mean, it could actually be nuclear war at that point.
Is it worth it?
Exactly.
We're going to all die for Ukraine.
Because that's the factor.
That's the factor we didn't have in previous world wars is nuclear capabilities.
It's like, all right, guys, we can't keep appeasing Hitler.
We got to go in.
We got to invade.
We got to stop him before he goes further.
It's like, at this point, there is that extra factor to take into consideration.
All right.
And also, Putin's not Hitler.
He's obviously ill.
He has told the West what he's up to for about a decade now.
And they're like, oh, no, we're just going to keep expanding NATO.
What do you think is going to happen?
He told you what was going to happen.
Yeah, exactly.
I'm not saying it's okay to invade any other country, but he did tell them.
Yeah.
He gave them a choice.
Yeah.
So basically, things are not nearly as black and white as you'd see.
And this is something we've repeatedly talked about here.
But I mean, so as, you know, because we see Russia, who is making their moves, China has always been kind of in the back burner, building up and helping to push the West further along into its death.
And we have us in here.
Of course, we have our adversaries in the Middle East who would love nothing more than to see the death of America and the West.
Let's dive in a little more into how the West is slowly killing itself.
So something that I would love to actually, you know, on that topic of our enemies, North Korea as well.
Let's show people that Kim Jong-un ad because it's so good.
It's amazing.
Let's just roll that and we'll talk about this after.
This is...
It's just so good.
It's in the 1980s.
Yeah.
It's like a bad movie from the 1980s, like a parody of a bad movie.
Yeah, exactly.
I feel like that's some really sweet clip out of Thrown Together on iMovie back in the day for my YouTube channel doing some cool 80s movie parody.
But no, that is a real ad from Kim Jong-un himself.
And that is a real nuclear bomb or whatever.
Yeah, exactly.
I'm not going to laugh at it.
Not really.
Yeah, because that's the thing.
He's what you've got this child in charge of this totalitarian state showing off his nuke.
So yes, as I was saying, because I just thought that was a nice little segue there.
Like, literally, the enemies of the West are all just sitting there looking at us, laughing as we tear ourselves apart.
They've got nukes.
They've been building up their nations.
They've been doing whatever necessary, especially when it comes to like China, right?
And we see all that China's been doing to help promote so many, essentially, values of strength within its own society to make sure its youth are doing actually good productive things while making us actually succeed at schools, math, not be weird.
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I mean, they have banned certain kinds of media.
They're like, oh, yeah, this kind of stuff where you're promoting gender ideology.
Yeah, it's banned.
Yeah.
They're banning it.
Yeah, exactly.
Meanwhile, they like to help push and nudge us, encourage us in all the insane stuff we've been doing.
It's the same with Al Jazeera, right?
Like AJ Plus, you know, that's Qatar, right?
And they're like the least place on the planet.
And meanwhile, they have AJ Plus, and all they do is promote gender ideology.
Geez, I wonder why.
Exactly.
I wonder why.
Exactly.
Which, on the topic of gender ideology, I would love to show Matt Walsh's what is a woman trailer.
Because, I mean, let's give a little context before we show this, all right?
Like, okay, Ian, I think you'd be good.
Like, explain the whole what is a woman thing for Matt Walsh and sort of, yeah, what's what's inspired this, you know, give a little context before we show the trailer.
Okay, so Matt Walsh, you know, daily wire host, he went on Dr. Phil in, I think, January, and he had a debate with a bunch of people there, you know, some weird people.
And he asked one of them, what is a woman?
And they couldn't answer it.
No one could answer that question.
I mean, it's just a basic question, right?
And he found that through asking that question, many people, especially progressives, are unable to give you a straight answer.
They can't just say, oh, you know, a woman's got a uterus and a man doesn't, right?
Like, they won't just say that.
They will try to, you know, discombobulate the whole argument.
And, you know, he found that by traveling across the world, asking that question gets a lot of interesting results.
Yeah, exactly.
And so, yeah, let's go ahead and roll that.
I have traveled all over the world for the past year asking one simple question.
What is a woman?
What is a woman?
What is it?
What is it?
I don't know.
People are laughing.
Is that a dumb question?
I've been asking everybody this, and almost nobody can answer it.
What is a woman?
What is a woman?
That's a great question.
If one person could tell me what a woman is.
Congressman, thank you for being here.
I think this interview is over.
Let's start off the cameras.
I just wanted to know what is a woman.
And you're not going to find out.
It's not a complicated question.
Oh, man.
I can't wait to actually watch that full thing.
It looks so great.
It's great.
Yeah.
Because the full issue there, though, is like, it really just goes, it kind of comes back also to like the J.K. Rowling being canceled for promoting womanhood.
Womanhood.
Yeah, she said that, you know, because in Scottish legislation, you know, they're trying to make it so that women no longer are classified as women and that, you know, anyone who identifies as a woman could basically access women's spaces, particularly in prisons, where it is an issue.
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You know, there is history of sexual abuse by male-identifying inmates.
Well, female-identifying male inmates.
Yeah.
It's like we're at the point where the modern day progressives are at the point where they are destroying the very thing that classical progressives fought to defend.
Like women's rights and women's spaces are now under attack by modern day so-called progressives.
Like, you know, racism, like critical race theory itself is instituting segregation.
It is promoting, it's saying, you know, we have to segregate because inherently, if you're just promoting racial equality, right, then you are perpetuating racism because the white people are inherent oppressors and black people are inherent victims.
And so we need to separate them and shove one down and lift the other.
And, you know, they can't intermix or else, you know, they're going to be mean to one another.
Like, it just, it blows my mind.
Microaggressions.
Yeah.
And it's not just, you know, like regular insults or something.
It's microaggressions.
It's like, oh, you, you complimented a person.
Well, that's racist.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
It's like that subconscious, like unconscious bias training is now a thing that's like in all of our governments now.
Home depot, right?
Home Depot too.
Conscious bias training.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I saw, yeah, the Home Depot.
That was the unpacking your privilege thing.
I was looking at that.
Right now, there's this like video I'm planning to do.
It's like a primer on critical race theory because there's this bill in Ontario that's really pushing it, Bill 67.
That we've been kind of campaigning against.
That's like next level instituting critical race theory in all of our schools and everything.
Cause the destruction of Canada.
Yeah, exactly.
And so, like, yeah, we're working on a video for that, and I was looking at a bunch of critical race theory stuff.
And that was one of the things.
I'm like, oh, yeah, that Home Depot thing of unpacking your privilege and the unconscious bias training.
I mean, it's just, it's crazy to see that.
Because, like, when you focus so much on all of these racial differences and divides, like, you are inflaming these divisions.
You are pushing racial dividends.
Problems.
You're creating problems where none exists.
I mean, this is why it's banned in Russia.
By the way, Russia has like a hundred different minorities.
It's not white people.
Yeah.
Many different minorities.
And they know, like, more than any other country that inflaming racial divisions is how you get terrorist attacks.
I mean, look at Chechnya a few years ago, right?
I mean, they were bombing schools and such, and that was because of racial divisions.
And they got rid of it, obviously.
Exactly.
And it's like, it goes back to the whole thing of Death West.
Like, how better else to destroy Western society than to push these divisions and watch it, you know, the infighting?
Because you have to.
And I don't even know they're the ones doing it because, I mean, it's college professors.
It's preschool teachers in schools telling kids you're racist.
Exactly.
Parents racist because you're white.
Yeah.
I'm just saying, like, it could not be more perfect, right?
Like, in terms of like if your goal was to watch.
They don't even have to do anything.
They can sit back and watch.
It's like these harmful ideologies creep in.
They just infect all the schools.
And it's like the host is just tearing itself apart from the inside.
This is a study done by these woke progressives in a social studies department in, I think, the University of Arizona, where they do, in fact, describe wokeness as a form of virus.
And they say that this is how you get more people to spread it.
Basically, you find a bunch of hosts, willing hosts, like male feminist allies, for instance, get them to promote it.
And then they become activists.
And then, you know, they will transmit this mind virus, you know, meme, so to speak, to a whole bunch of other people.
I mean, Hideyo Kojima talked about this in Metal Gear Solid.
Wow, that's a really cringy reference.
Incredible.
This is what it is.
I mean, anyone who's studied, you know, sociology knows that this is what it is.
And they're exactly doing this.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it's like, because there's the thing, like, critical race theory, going back to that, is literally the inverse of the initial, because, you know, going back to saying modern-day progressives are literally fighting against what classical progressives fought.
Like, I always say, like, if I was living in the 60s, honestly, I'd probably be a liberal at this point if we were to just take my current views where I hold and put it back to where we were.
Like the so-called far-right rebel news and most of the views we all hold here.
It's like, in the 60s, we would be left-wing progressives.
Like, it's wild.
But, like, it's like critical.
Moderate, moderate conservatives, right?
That's what we really are.
Yeah.
Exactly.
I call myself a hardliner.
I'm a bit, you know, a bit of a loose cannon wildcard out there.
Oh, yeah.
But definitely not far right.
I mean, exactly.
But I mean, like, critical race theory itself is literally fighting against like the civil rights movement in terms of trying to push like racial equality, like Martin Luther King, in terms of the iconic, you know, treat you by contentary character rather than, you know, your race than the color of your skin.
And now, if you treat someone based off of their individual character and not the color of their skin, you are being racist and harmful.
And you need to see race first and acknowledge that and then take that into account and say, do the calculation in your head.
Oh, if they're white, then they're privileged and you need to treat them this way.
But if they're a person of color, then they're victimized and you need to treat them this way first because of their experience is different.
And it's just, it's like so inflaming and divisive.
And it's literally a sickness.
It's a kind of bigotry, right?
Yeah.
Bigotry of basically thinking less of people.
Like, oh, you're a minority, therefore you're dumb.
You didn't have access to the same education I did.
Oh, boo-hoo.
You know, it's disgusting.
Exactly.
And so, like, I just think of looking around and just thinking, like, man, there's so many things I would love to do and go and be like thinking about, you know, just in terms of life's past.
Like, oh, what if what if I end up a career in this place?
You're going to this place.
It's like, man, if I did that right now, like, if I had ended up going in this direction and I had been in this place, I would just be sitting there bathing in woke ideology right now.
Like, I'd be sitting there being, you know, shamed for being white.
Or like, it's just crazy thing.
It's like, and if also, if I'm raising a family in this, you know, I would not want to be raising children, sending them to school where this is the order of the day.
Like, it's just crazy.
It's impossible to live in that environment.
I mean, I was trapped in it for a while, right?
Yeah.
I used to do entertainment journalism.
Everybody was woke.
You know, well, almost everybody, but most people were woke.
And publicly, you had to be woke.
You had to purchase a signal.
And when you're in that environment, man, you feel scrolling through Twitter, just as an example, it's non-stop people complaining about microaggressions.
It's just one complaint after the other.
It's like this show is problematic because the main character is a woman who suffers in one episode.
And why do you have to make women suffer?
And the other one's like, oh, there's not enough trans characters in this game or this movie.
And it's like, oh, God.
Like, you just want to yell at these people.
You want to shake them, be like, wake up.
Just, it's a movie.
Enjoy it.
Holy crap.
You know, not every movie review has to be about this.
Jesus, God.
Exactly.
Like, sometimes I stop and think, like, I forget sometimes how privileged I am myself to be working where I am in terms of like I'm working somewhere where I don't have all this, you know, woke Marx's nonsense being shoved down my throat all the time.
It's like, like, you know, sometimes I step back and I think, yeah, I forget what it was like being outside of this sometimes.
And I realize, like, man, if I was working literally anywhere else, it would be having this non-stop shift.
You're always looking over your shoulder, always having to be careful of what you say, what you think.
You know, it's just a matter of time before you, you know, step in a landmine.
And you're exactly walking on eggshells, just, you know, before you get canceled, before you say the wrong thing.
Yeah.
I've known a few people.
I mean, I've interviewed game developers, movie reviewers, movie directors.
They would share an opinion about something totally innocuous.
And suddenly it's like, oh, you're not getting jobs anymore.
I wonder why that is.
And I mean, they talk to me.
They're like, yeah, they suspect that it's because they shared an opinion that was not shared by other people.
That's why.
It's like we are strangling our own, like free speech is being strangled.
Like, you know, there's the whole issue of big tech censorship and government censorship and all of that, which is, you know, a huge threat in and of itself.
But even just culturally, we are strangling ourselves in terms of what you can and cannot say.
It's like this societal self-censorship is what is, yeah, we are, we are censoring ourselves because if you step out of line, you're going to get canceled.
You're going to get, you know, you're going to lose your job.
You're going to do this.
And it's like a lot of people cannot afford to speak freely in the same way that so many people can't afford.
Like if you did not want to take the vaccine for whatever reason and you, you know, you didn't want to, but can I afford to not take the vaccine and get kicked out of my job?
Like in Canada, until like now we're dropping most of our vaccine mandates, most of them, but most of them.
But we got to the point where it's like, well, even if you, even if you had a legitimate medical issue, if the government didn't recognize it, it's like, well, I guess I'm just going to roll.
I'm going to roll the dice here and be like, you know, is it worth losing my job or should I just, you know, should I roll the dice here?
And, you know, maybe I'll have some terrible reaction to this because it's a possibility because this medical disorder, but hey, I'll go for it.
Oh, but then you get injured.
And, you know, so in the government, we did a story on this the other day that because the government set aside $75 million, the Canadian government set aside $75 million for vaccine injury payout.
This was something they announced.
And that was, they'd earmarked the $75 million for five years to pay out vaccine injuries.
And so far, I think we A-tipped this.
Only five people in all of Canada have so far been recognized under this program as being eligible for it.
Yeah.
So that's that article there, you're pulling up there.
$75 million for the vaccine injury program.
And then another article, I believe it was Sheila who's writing this up.
Yeah, only five people in Canada have so far been recognized under that.
And we're getting contacted all the time by so many people saying, you know, they have this.
And their doctors are just refusing.
To acknowledge this right, and it's because the doctors are afraid of getting canceled exactly.
It ties right back into that report.
The doctors themselves are afraid of losing their licenses because they themselves can get canceled by their own boards that you know, the College OF Physicians AND Surgeons and whoever regulates the doctors, they themselves.
If they end up recognizing this, then they're stepping out of line and it's just.
It's so insane to see how this whole kind of twisted system works.
It's cancel culture.
Yeah, this is what Putin's talking about.
And when people they take it so literally, they're like well, he's invading a country, it's not the same.
Well, it is the same actually, because cancel culture, this is canceled culture writ large.
It's all over the place.
You step out of line and suddenly every aspect about you, or in this case, his whole country, is getting canceled.
Yeah, it's nuts.
Yeah, exactly.
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And you know what I was?
Just, we are destroying ourselves over it.
You know yeah, it's not just that we're canceling one person, it's like we're destroying everything.
Like, look at comedy these days.
When was the last time you laughed at a?
You know, like a, like a, like a sensitive joke on tv?
They don't do that anymore.
It's cancelable, literally exactly, or it's cancelable, quite literally yeah, but also it's like I was just thinking of, like underground comedy shows are literally a thing now, where it's like they're a thing.
It's like we got species again.
Yeah, it's like roaring 20s, exactly.
It's like you have to go because the venue itself is scared of being canceled for hosting someone who's offensive and you have to, like find somewhere where you can low-key hide from you know the world and have these yeah, like literal speakers underground.
Yeah exactly, prohibition is back.
I mean, it's not about booze anymore, it's about speech.
Yeah yeah, it's, it's wild and so I hate it.
Yeah yeah it's, it's awful.
I want to be done with it.
I want to go back to normal.
Damn, exactly.
But it's so true.
But the worst thing is, is the media egging this on right?
It's like the perpetual drivers of it.
Yeah, it's.
It's like the corporate media.
It's like they're relishing in this death of the west that we've been talking about, where it's like they want nothing more than to just see us all kick the can and die.
Like article I saw the other day what was it?
I think it was from CNBC I I literally just had it on my phone.
It was something like like working out and like being fitness obsessed is like a symbol of the alt right or something like that.
Yeah yeah yeah, that's right.
Yeah, I literally can't remember exactly where, but I know the article you're referring to.
It's like yeah, being fit and being, you know, health conscious is basically just like Nazism.
And then the article literally cites Adolf Hitler and how he had like an exercise regimen, you know, and how he told young German soldiers to exercise uh, instead of learning how to shoot guns, because it was better for their health and and, and they tied it somehow yeah to uh, you know, to modern health exercise, You know, lifestyles.
It's like, really?
Yeah, it's like we're at the point now where the media is perpetuating literally like they're advocating for the opposite of anything that's actually good for your own self-progression, right?
Where it's like, oh, you want to, you want to improve yourself, you want to go and work out, improve your fitness.
Like, nope, sorry, that's bad.
That's all right.
That's Nazism.
You want to, like, you want to enjoy time with friends and build good relationships, like, have a good, healthy family life, good relationships.
No, that's bad.
It's like, it's like they want us to be SSRIs.
Yeah.
It's like they got them filled.
Yeah.
They want us to be like lonely, depressed, fat, sitting at home, no relationships like.
They celebrate it to relish it, right?
Yeah.
They have these cry sessions.
You know, if you've ever been a part of any sort of leftist group, they encourage people to talk about their traumas.
And so they'll be telling embarrassing stories.
You know, like, oh, here's a thing that happened to me when I was a child, meeting me really cry.
And they celebrate it.
It's like, wow, that's disgusting.
Why are we celebrating this?
Yeah.
It's one thing to have.
It's one thing to have a support group and be like, all right, this is something that I want to get off my chest.
And it's like, oh, man, that sucks.
I'm here for you.
But no, this is like, oh, congrats.
That's how you get credit, guys.
The trauma Olympics.
Who had the worst experience?
Who can claim the most?
But yeah, like they will brag about it.
They'll be like, well, my dad, you know, molested me.
They'll say stuff like that.
And everybody, you know, starts throwing a pity party and they make stuff up too.
Because exactly.
If that's the situation, if the pressure is pushing you that direction, why not?
Yeah, like my mom raised me to be a serial killer.
Yeah, exactly.
How do you beat that?
Exactly.
It's like, but we're at the point where it's like, they want you to be sitting at home.
They want you to be fat and out of shape, lonely, isolated, depressed.
Like, oh, you want to be married and have a good family?
No, that's bad.
Don't do that.
Don't work out.
Being beautiful is bad.
Yeah, being beautiful.
Being good, healthy, attractive.
Yeah, that's all toxic.
That's bad for you.
And this comes from feminism in the 90s.
This idea that beauty is bad and ugliness is good comes from the whole, you know, what is it?
The like objectifying a woman's body, you know, that whole line of thought.
I guess it would be in the 1970s, right?
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But that somehow translated into the world that we live in right now.
I doubt the feminists are thinking that far.
They were thinking, oh, make yourself look ugly.
Be overweight on purpose.
They weren't thinking that.
They were thinking, you know, don't put on makeup.
You know, like, don't just cake your face with makeup just to please the men.
You know, do it for yourself.
And that is fine.
That's empowering.
But nowadays, it's like, oh, you should get like a million piercings.
You should tattoo your face.
Make your hair cut like the worst thing ever.
Yeah.
And it'll look ugly even to you.
And that's a beautiful thing.
Yeah.
Really?
I mean, I was thinking about that sort of concept the other day of where it's, it's almost, I think it's almost like the political pendulum sort of thing, but it's like we take for granted sort of the system that we're living in already.
Like the things that we already have in place around us, we kind of take for granted.
It's like, oh, well, you know, a good working, functioning economy and free speech and all of our social institutions.
Like they're the points like, okay, that's that's already a given.
So when they think, oh, how can we make this better?
How can we progress?
It's in like, oh, well, you know, we should, you know, fix this small thing here.
It's like rather than rather than point out, hey, guys, there's this thing here and we need a little more nuance in this area.
I understand this is all good, but maybe fix this.
It's like, no, they need to push as hard as they can in this one direction to correct this.
Dismantle everything.
Abolish the police.
But the over-correction ultimately happens.
Close the prisons.
Yeah.
Everybody.
For any crime, any crime.
Let's see.
And so, yeah, all of that stuff you're listing there that we're seeing now is literally, it's like that over correction, but it's just like it's gotten out of control.
It's the runaway train of there was this one small grievance that at one point needed to be fixed, but then sure, that grievance got fixed, but now it just keeps going.
Like every single one of these critical Marxist theories we're seeing is literally the overcorrection of it's like, all right, we had the civil rights movement of trying to push for equal rights and equal treatment, you know, regardless of race.
But then like you get to that point where it's mostly gone.
And then it just keeps going and going, swinging the other way in terms of now we're reverse discrimination.
He said it's necessary that you cannot be anti-racist unless you discriminate against the other guy.
Yeah, exactly.
He wants the pendulum to sort of swing back.
It's like, come on, this is ridiculous.
This is, you're making society hate itself.
You're basically promoting genocidal speech is what you're doing.
And I'm sure he recognizes it.
I mean, these are not good people.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
It's all that design.
Just looking down here at our list of headlines, there's another race one that I thought was really interesting.
It kind of sparked a good point in my mind on this.
It was from Black Locks Reporter talking about there's held no firings for office racism.
we could pull that up i i find this shocking in terms of it's like you're white right I'm assuming.
Yeah, no.
So here's the thing.
It's like there are legitimate instances of racism listed in this article here.
So no firings for office racism where they're talking about people like overtly being racist to black people in the office, calling them racial slurs and stuff and making jokes.
Like there's this predominantly black department they were calling it like, oh, it's the ghetto or whatever.
And like calling people the N-word to their face and all that sort of thing in the workplace here.
That's really bad.
And so and stuff like that.
But I kind of realize if you're looking through the lens of critical race theory and it's to the point where racism is like ingrained in the white person, where it's your subconscious racism that you just cannot training.
Yeah, but then it's like sort of this person who's being questioned by this MP basically was of the attitude where it's like, well, you know, we're all imperfect racists.
And so, you know, like, well, we're going to try and push for this.
We know this is something that needs to be corrected.
But, you know, with more training, we can all overcome our inherent racism.
And so at the point where it's like, it's like with that, you push this critical race theory enough, we become like racist apologists where it's like anytime you see.
Yeah, look at Russia again.
People are apologizing for the Nazis.
Yeah.
Oh, isn't it?
Exactly.
They're doing, you know, they're doing what's necessary.
It's like, really?
Yeah.
Actually defending war crimes.
So we're at the point now where like you cry wolf enough, right?
Where it's like, oh, you're racist because you're doing this.
Where when actual racism shows up, it's downplayed.
It's like, oh, well, you know, we see, we see if you see racism.
Yeah.
If you see racism every day, then.
Yeah.
Like you see actual, you know, like I have black friends and they experience racism publicly and so on.
And someone will point it out, they'll point it out, and then you'll see people on our side who are, you know, normally quite opposed to actual instances of racism.
You'd be like, oh, that guy's crying wolf.
It's like, no, he's not.
He's literally being discriminated against right now by racist and you're like, okay with it just because the left has cried wolf so much.
Obviously the left is there because black guy happens to be conservative.
So they're more than happy to just keep spewing their hatred.
Yeah, exactly.
But it's like when you see like racism as it's defined in our critical race theory, which is not racism at all in terms of like, you know, the microaggressions we were talking about and all of that, where it's like, when racism becomes a part of your everyday life where you just look around everywhere and all you see is racism and every institution is just racism.
When real racism is slapping you in the face, it's like, well, we've already acknowledged that our society is inherently racist in every corner of its being.
And so you know what?
Like there's no point firing people over it because we're all racist.
So we just need to give them some more education and training.
Like it's just, it's crazy.
So yeah, it does.
They go after the mild cases.
Yeah.
The cases where a person's not actually a racist.
Just, I don't know, said something that was a microaggression, and then that guy gets fired for it.
But the guy who's overtly racist gets away with it.
I mean, hello, Justin Drudeau with a blackface.
Yeah, exactly.
And it gives you the opportunity then where when everything is racist, you can just be politically selective about it and punish the ones who you want.
You can literally punish anyone because of anybody's guilty.
If everyone's guilty, then you can just suddenly point out, oh, you are guilty because of this, and then punish them because it serves your political interests.
And I think we've been seeing that all the time here in Canada in terms of just yeah, you can just find an excuse to punish your political enemies and then go for it.
You know, I think the Soviets are the term for that.
It's like, find me the man and I'll make up the crime.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
So, yeah, so that's, you know, it's really great to see.
But as the West is killing itself, I do have, you know, small glimmers of hope here and there, right?
We're starting.
DeSantis.
DeSantis, exactly, because we're seeing a lot of pushback because people are waking up to this, right?
Like, they're all seeing it.
And I feel like before, like, we got to this place because we had so many people who were so apathetic towards this.
They just kind of put their head down and it's uncomfortable to address.
It's uncomfortable to point out.
It's disheartening.
So, you know what?
Like, I'm just going to keep my head down, do my own thing, sort of ignore it, whatever.
You're like, oh, you know, I'll just, I'll just, I'll buy a gun and live on a, on a ranch somewhere.
Yeah.
Exactly.
What about your kids?
Yeah.
That's the thing.
You can't think about your kids.
You can't just do that.
You can't run away because they're coming for you.
Yeah.
Exactly.
So I feel like what's happened now is we're at the point where it's gotten so extreme where you cannot be blind to it at this point.
We're at a point in life where all of society is forced to take sides now.
I hate the fact that we're at that point of polarization and it's like politics is in everything, but it is like politics has come to the forefront.
It is political.
Yeah, the personal is political.
The culture war and politics have kind of merged together and they're all at the forefront of everything.
And in real war too, you know, in literal war that we're seeing experiencing now, it's all blending together.
And I hate it and I love it at the same time because I've like lived for this, right?
I mean, it's like everything I've ever said coming through.
I bet Alex Jones loves his life right now.
He's like, I was right.
I was right all along.
Let's just say in like, you know, 2010 or something when Tumblr was a thing, right?
And all this woke ideology was making its way through.
I used to warn people.
I was on the left back then.
I was like, guys, we got to put a stop to this.
These people are insane.
I mean, they are canceling other people in Tumblr, you know, so no big deal.
But look, they're going to force their way into regular society.
They're going to grow up.
They're going to get jobs and they're going to get into HR departments.
And everyone's like, nah, they'll grow up.
They'll join the real world.
And turns out they joined the real world and they made the real world bend to them, right?
CEOs are afraid of them.
Like the old people, they're like, they'd rather just ignore them and let them do their thing and run their corporations to the ground and actually deal with it.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
Like you see all the world.
Slack is the only one that's.
Yeah, you know, Slack, right?
Yeah.
They're the only ones that put their foot down.
They're like, no, we're going to fire you guys.
Like, you cannot do this to our company.
We don't want you here.
You're not useful.
Yeah.
Get out.
Yeah.
That's the way it's done.
That's the way it's done.
Because otherwise, you see all the world corporations bowing to the mob.
And it's like, yeah, everyone's had their heads down buried in the sand in this, just going with the flow.
But we're at the point now where it's like, of course, you can still do that, but then you start to have real repercussions coming from that.
But then like people, I feel waking up to this and they're starting to be able to push back on it.
They're giving opportunities to push back on this is the big thing.
And so, I mean, I have hope for expecting the big, yeah, like the school board thing, expecting like the 2022 midterm elections in the states happening that are expected to have a big old red wave because like all of these major issues of these woke politics, like this whole culture war stuff has come to the forefront.
And that's like what people are voting on.
Like critical race gender theory in schools.
Yeah.
There was a poll yesterday in Florida.
It was done in a Democratic district.
So the majority of applicants there were like Democrats.
And they asked them, and these are parents, like, what is the biggest issue for you?
And they found that an overwhelming majority of Democrat parents, as well as, you know, obviously Republican parents said that CRT was a problem.
CRT is a problem.
So regular voters, like people who are not in politics, just regular people who are raising their kids, happen to be liberal, they don't want to see their kids demonized for the color of their skin.
Yeah.
Whether they're black or white or Hispanic, they want their kids to be seen as individuals, not as black and brown bodies or whatever.
Yeah.
And like, and I think that speaks to also like it's waking up to the full gaslaying of the media, as we were saying as well.
Like he's like waking up to all this and then seeing like the distrust in media has become astounding.
And that is also kind of playing into this in terms of it's like, okay, where do you turn to for your information?
Because there's so much information out there.
And people are starting to realize you can't just trust something because it's been a big name in news for decades now.
Right.
They've been lying to you for decades.
I mean, this is the thing.
They lied to us for the past two or three years over, you know, whether it was elections or whether it was the pandemic or, you know, or the lockdowns or, you know, literally anything.
Like the trucker convoy.
Look at how the media just lied about those guys, right?
Yeah.
Called them Nazis and so on.
And now they're lying about Ukraine.
They're saying Ukraine is this good thing.
And it's like, I don't understand how people who can be so critical of the media.
You know, I've seen a lot of people very critical of the media still fall for this Ukraine narrative.
It's like, guys, they're lying to you.
They've always been lying to you.
Like the past, I would say 30 years, they've been lying to you.
The Gulf War was a lie.
The whole thing was a lie.
And it's time to wake up.
It's time to realize that the media is not your friend.
Yeah.
Well, that's the thing.
It's like we're at a point now where we're able to have, there is so much information.
Like previously, like if you look back at other times, like you only had the propaganda that the government and the media were putting out on you, right?
Like in terms of there were way to talk to other people.
Yeah, exactly.
There were these handful of outlets.
Yeah, like the handful of outlets that would just like put out these pre-prepared press releases and headlines and they would feed you the narrative and you'd accept it because that's all that was given.
And now there's so much information out there and there's the ability to turn to alternative sources.
And of course, that means there's a lot more genuine fake news out there and a lot of conspiratorial nonsense.
We're all adults.
Yeah.
But there is that opportunity to actually be able to sift through.
And of course, the more susceptible will fall prey to the nonsense out there.
But for the discerning mind, there is the opportunity to actually look for the truth out there.
Have conversations.
Yeah, have conversations.
And so it's ironic almost that like while free speech is being throttled so much, it's still like, it's like the free market of information is still, it's never been more strongly diverse.
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It is, it's struggling.
It's being clamped down.
It's pushing back.
Right.
Because it's like if they were, you know, if the if the truth didn't scare them, they wouldn't try to silence it.
Exactly.
Right.
It's like Elon Musk said last night that, you know, it seems as though Twitter, and I'm paraphrasing here, that Twitter is not adhering to the principles of free speech.
And in doing so, it's hurting democracy.
Yeah.
I mean, whether that's a hint at, you know, maybe he's going to start a new platform.
I hope he is.
But the fact is, everybody's noticing it because the vast majority of people who answered his poll said that, yeah, Twitter and all these other social media platforms are censoring free speech.
They're preventing people from having these discussions that are necessary for a healthy democracy to thrive.
Yeah.
Well, yeah, exactly.
And that's that's what it is.
We go back to Trudeau talking about, oh, democracy, but then he's the one who wants to censor all of us.
He's an authoritarian.
Yeah, exactly.
It's in terms of like, if you want a rich democracy to thrive, you have to have free speech.
The First Amendment for a reason, guys, those of you who are in the States and hear that.
Like, it's just, yeah.
You have the Charter of Rights in Canada.
You know, we do.
It's in there.
Free speech is in there.
And yet somehow it's overridden.
Yeah, exactly.
Like, I look at the Charter of Rights now, and it's like, all right, how much meaning does that really have on our side?
Like over the past two years, I think it's been overridden so much where it's like, you know what?
Is it really worth the paper it's printed on at this point?
Like it's, it's just, it's so sad to think, you know?
And people are like, well, the Constitution is just a piece of paper.
Right.
They call it a living constitution nowadays because they want to alter it, obviously.
And it's so sad because, you know, people fought and died for this, you know, hundreds of years ago.
And for, I would say, you know, a couple of hundred years, America, Canada were held up as bastions of liberalism.
Maybe not liberalism, but bastions of democracy, bastions of freedom.
Bastions of liberal democracy.
Right, yeah.
And now it's like the opposite.
Now it's like, you know, maybe liberalism was a mistake.
It's gone too far.
Yeah.
You know?
And I mean, like, I think, I think of the U.S. and like the U.S. Constitution, it is literally the bedrock of their society, of their government.
Like when you have, say, I don't know, a law enforcement officer who swears an oath to the Constitution in the United States, like that in American culture and society, like it permeates all the way through, and that really means something.
What's really sad to me is in Canada, we don't quite have that.
Our Charter of Rights and Freedoms didn't really come to us until the 80s and like until it was formally written down.
And for us, it really doesn't mean that much.
If someone were to say to a police officer, oh, the oath you swore to the Constitution, be like, oh, yeah, you know, sure, that oath I swore to the Constitution, you know, you sound like some nut who's, you know, going on about some, you know, fantastical idea of, oh, yeah, swearing an oath to the Constitution.
But like, I don't know, I was thinking about that.
Like, I was just, I was, I was listening to, I think it was a book or a podcast or something.
And it was literally just like, you know, someone talking about, you know, an American officer who'd sworn an oath to the Constitution, how that really meant something.
And it just, I don't know, it's sad to me how we don't have that same reverence for a constitutional document that is in the states.
And like in the states, you can, you can really like turn to that and pick, no, I stand for these principles set out here in this document.
And that is the bedrock of our society.
And like, it's something you can always turn to.
And now it's under attack, of course.
But I don't know.
We could probably thank Joe McCarthy for making the Constitution a bedrock of American culture, you know, in the 1950s.
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I know the guy's got a bad reputation.
Again, the media lied about him.
He was right all along.
But, you know, he put, you know, in God we trust, you know, because obviously America, God, it's like, you know.
And the Constitution was there.
I mean, like, obviously Americans believed in the Constitution before, but he solidified it, right?
He solidified it.
And obviously, after he died and all that, you know, people demonized him.
They made his name synonymous with cracking down on free speech.
And it's ironic, given that they're the ones doing that.
They purposely tied his name to it to make him seem like the bad guy.
When in reality, you know, he was defending America.
Yeah, that's interesting.
I mean, I don't really know too much about him.
Like, I'm not really sure the history there.
So that's it.
That's fascinating.
It is, yeah.
I mean, it tells you how the media just lies about people, about people in history.
Like, I mean, like, whoever writes the history books, I mean, they're the winners, right?
They're the ones writing it.
And obviously, progressives won that battle.
So they get to write history about him.
It's true.
It's crazy.
It's crazy stuff.
I'm thinking, I'm looking out at the time.
I'm realizing we haven't read any of our chats.
So let's throw some chats.
We still got a few minutes here left on our hour.
Let's throw to some chats here.
See if we got any list here.
All right.
Soaring Eagle.
You gents are very talented.
I bet my friends before the podcast began that I would contribute a dollar each time I heard the word literally mentioned.
There's still time left, so go easy on me.
That is literally the truest thing.
Oh, yeah, literally.
Oh, that's great.
I, I, you know what?
Touche.
Oh, that's so good.
It's fun being having that stuff pointed out.
It's like, yeah, you said the word incredible a million times that interview, or oh, you literally said literally so many times.
So many times.
You've literally misused the word literally a million times.
Oh, that's so good.
Well, yeah, and sorry, we keep saying it, but I literally don't care.
Spend all your money on it.
You're going to be broke after this.
Oh, that's so good.
Oh, man.
All right.
Let's see.
Any other chats in here?
Not at the moment.
Okay.
I'm looking at an old chat.
All right.
Just the one chat.
You know what?
Final Chat: Helping Refugees00:08:14
All right.
That's cool.
I was expecting a little more, but hey, no worries.
Appreciate it, my friend.
We still do have a couple minutes as we wind down this stream.
So if there's anything anyone wants to get out to us, send us a chat.
We'll address it.
And, you know, in case there's anything burning on your mind you want us to talk about in our final five minutes of this live stream.
But yeah, actually, I think we did a pretty good job of covering most of the stuff going on.
I'm looking at my list here of headlines and videos that we want to talk about.
Pretty much hit it all.
I mean, actually, we did touch on vaccine mandates still being on a Canada.
I didn't touch this one headline video.
Maybe this will be a video we end on.
Basically, Trudeau's transport minister saying, because that's the one big vaccine mandate that is in place in Canada is the federal one for transport.
If you want to go on a plane or a train, it's about the trucker strike was, yeah, like the border one for trial.
That was what sparked it.
Like, I mean, the truckers thing was ending all mandates, right?
But it was sparked from the cross-border thing for travel.
But this is literally like, if I want to get on a plane and fly to Alberta from where I am, I'm in Toronto right now.
If I want to fly west, just a few provinces over to Alberta, I would have to be vaccinated just to get on a plane and fly domestically.
Or if I want to get on a train and go to Ottawa a couple hours to the east, I can't because, sorry, you got to be vaccinated to get on a train.
Like, it's wild that that's still in place.
Well, we're dropping the mandates everywhere else.
And they haven't even given any indication to that, right?
In terms of when.
Basically, saying, oh, well.
You don't want to drop it.
Yeah.
I'll tell you why.
I mean, and some people say, oh, it's a conspiracy theory.
And it's because it's a movement passport.
It's got nothing to do with health.
It's a movement passport.
Like, China has this.
They call it an internal movement passport.
Literally.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
It's true.
It's like you got you got to comply if you want to move around within the country.
Like it's, you know, sure.
They can lock you down, right?
Yeah.
They don't like who you are.
You're a persona non grata.
You're an enemy of the state.
Well, they'll cancel your movement password.
And guess what?
You can't move around anymore.
You can't go to a job in a neighboring province.
Exactly.
That's how it's done.
Yeah.
So it's like pretty much every province now, I think, has dropped their vaccine mandates.
And most like their restrictions, at least, you know, like where I'm in Ontario.
Most countries.
Yeah.
Like most countries.
Look at Europe.
Like Europe may have dropped most of its mandates and so on, but guess what?
Movement password is still there.
Yeah.
Oh, I wonder why.
Right?
This was the point.
This was the point.
It's never about health.
It's about putting this damn passport in there.
Yeah, exactly.
It's like, well, you know, the science is all good for where you are locally.
You can still gather, no masks, no vaccine mandate.
No problem.
But if you want to start traveling, people.
Yeah.
You're going to be killing everyone as soon as you get on a train or a plane.
You deserve it.
I'm still grandma.
How dare you?
Exactly.
As Trudeau says, you deserve to be able to know that the person beside you on the plane or train is vaccinated and has done the right thing.
So I hate that man.
And you do an amazing impression of him.
God.
Because 90% of truckers did the right thing.
He always gets that really pompous, sort of, oh, you know what?
Oh, he's so full of it.
Yeah, he's so full of it.
He's so fake.
Yeah, we could go on ranting for hours about how awful Justin Trudeau is, how fake he is, how hypocritical.
He's an actor.
He's like Zelensky.
Yeah, exactly.
And that's the other thing.
It's like that made me turn my actors.
Yeah.
That's the thing.
It's like when Zelensky, I'm like, oh, he's also an actor.
Interesting.
And then when he said that Trudeau was his inspiration to get into politics, ooh, damn, okay.
Red flag.
Red flag.
Oh, maybe I need to reassess this Zelensky character and maybe start doing my own digging rather than the media narrative of guys.
He's a tertillion hero.
He banned opposition political parties.
Yeah.
He banned opposition media.
Like, you're only allowed to have like one media channel that disseminates the official story to all the others.
Yeah, I found that.
What a real democracy.
Amazing country.
We've got to shed some blood for it.
You know, why don't we just give up our arms, you know, give millions or even billions of dollars to Ukraine?
Let them defend themselves.
It's like, oh, God.
It's like, why are we spending all this money?
Like, let the war end.
Stop the war.
You know, the fastest way to end it, stop giving them arms.
Stop giving them the arms.
No, but we also have to do our patriotic duty as well to pay higher food and gas prices and all that and to suffer our own battles here.
Why can't we just give humanitarian aid?
Help the refugees.
Invite them in.
Like, take a million of them.
Why not?
Honestly, that's the stuff that I think really matters: humanitarian aid, refugees, do all that.
Quit funding the war machine.
That's what I see.
It's money, right?
Like, no one's talking about helping the refugees.
We're all only talking about bombing Russia or fighting Russia or giving them weapons.
You know, it's like, okay, what happened to the refugees?
So every other war, it's always help the refugees, help the refugees.
Here it's like, ah, to hell with them.
Yeah.
Screw them.
Exactly.
Let Poland handle them.
It's like, that's not fair to Poland.
What the hell?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because they shoulder this burden.
It's like they're the only ones taking care of them.
And, you know, we could be doing more.
Like, every country could be taking tens of thousands of Ukrainians.
Why not?
Yeah.
Like, I know, I know in Canada we are taking some in.
I'm just not sure.
But not enough.
Just how many people?
Some people say other countries, like Syria.
Yeah.
Like all these European countries, we're more than happy to take like a million Syrians.
But when it comes to Ukrainians, they're like, eh, you know, like, eh, we don't need them.
Yeah, it's true.
Well, our time is coming to a close here.
It's been a good, it's been a good chat here.
Basically, final.
Oh, sorry.
Oh, two more chats.
All right.
Getting signals from the producers here before I start whining down here.
Another soaring eagle, Touche.
Okay.
Okay.
$7.
Wow, thank you, Soaring Eagle.
Yeah, before I prematurely end things here.
And make a BC.
Our government hates every single one of us.
Oh, yeah.
Yep.
You are nothing more than serfs.
Yeah.
These people.
You're walking wallets, and one day you will own nothing and you'll be happy.
You'll just rent from the government.
Yeah.
Or BlackRock.
Exactly.
The government doesn't care about you, cares about your compliance and your money.
I think that's a lesson there.
I think you'll get the occasional diamond in the rock, that one golden politician who can be a genuine champion of the people.
It's very hard to get one of those actually into a position of power and not get them to corrupted.
But yes, you get those rare gems.
And then, of course, every establishment will fight tooth and nail to get them out of there, to demonize them, to slander them, to get them out.
Because I think that's also a pretty good marker.
You've been in the media.
You've been in the media at Tucker Carlson, for example.
Compare him to, say, Hannity.
Hannity's a shill.
Yeah.
Sounds like a shill.
Exactly.
On the other hand, everybody hates him now.
He's daring to speak the truth.
Exactly.
Or yeah, even someone, even just someone outside of the establishment, like who's so threatening, like Joe Rogan, who is dwarfing all the other media, even when he himself isn't in the media establishment.
Do everything they can to cancel him.
Yeah, Russell Brand.
Yep.
So, uh, Jordan Peterson, yeah, exactly.
Anyone who's, you know, good face faces the most opposition there.
Tim Poole.
Tim Poole.
Yeah, people hate him.
Yeah, seriously.
You get so much.
Like, I'm so grateful that there's so many good people in our site.
We are like blessed to have them.
You know, honestly, without their voices, we'd be screwed.
Yeah.
It's so true.
So, I mean, I guess, yeah, final note: keep fighting the good fight.
Keep putting up the opposition.
And, you know what, enjoy the freedom.
You know, yesterday I went to a mall.
I recently after dropping our mask made.
I was just walking around.
I'm like, half the people were still all masked up and people were a little sketchy.
But for the most part, there were people laughing and eating and going into stores and masses.
I'm like, ah, yes, good old American freedom, capitalism, the good life.
You know what?
And I was just thinking, you know what, the West may be eating itself, but at least I'm going to enjoy it while it's still altogether there.
I hope it lasts.
So, yeah.
I mean, on that note, I would just remind everyone that our live streams, this one may be ending, but we do return every single weekday from noon until 1 Eastern time.
Make sure you join us.
It's been good chatting with you, Ian.
And until next time, as Menzies likes to say, stay sane.