David Menzies, a Rebel News provocateur, staged a 2017 "transpecies" cat identity stunt at Canada’s National Cat Show, but security mistook him for an animal octopus before ejecting him—video shelved to avoid backlash. He links this to Renee/Cody Detremont’s shelter scam and later cat persona, arguing leftist embrace of fringe claims like "trans-speciesism" blurs satire lines. Menzies condemns Toronto’s "Queers Against Israel Apartheid" for anti-Semitism, despite Israel’s pride parades and democratic values, while criticizing youth indoctrination into blind hatred of Western nations. The episode underscores how radical activism erodes credibility, leaving satire obsolete in an era where extremes become normalized. [Automatically generated summary]
Welcome to a very special abbreviated version of The Gun Show.
We're here in Israel on a fact-finding mission.
But I'm joined by my friend Digmenz because you were sort of an oracle on the trans issue long before we are where we are now.
Tell us about the trans cat video that didn't see the light of day for a very, very long time.
Indeed, Sheila, six years in the making.
I feel like I'm Nostradamus, although I wish I could translate the prediction to Super Bowl winners.
But that aside, you might remember back in the early days of Rebel News when we were rebel media, we went out to the Canadian Cat Show.
When I say we, that was me and super producer and cameraman Ephraim.
And the idea was, you know, transgenderism in 2017 is kind of say, isn't it?
It's kind of been there, done that.
What is next in this crazy world where men are saying they're woman and vice versa?
And I thought, you know what?
Why don't I enter a cat in the Canadian National Cat Show, which was part of Pet Expo.
But I don't have a cat.
No problem.
I'll identify as a cat.
And sure enough, I went in there.
It was kind of quiet at first, Sheila, and then all hell broke loose.
Quite frankly, I think they thought it was an animal octopus as opposed to a trans cat, right?
But it was never explained.
I was frog marched out of there by security.
And the thing is, is it never aired, as you know.
And I think, you know, what I did.
But I thought it was too risky.
And we were trying to save you from yourself.
I want to preserve some of your dignity, David, even if you don't.
Sheila, my dignity, that ship sailed up many moon ago.
But yeah, but that, you know, that is the truth of the matter.
You know, Sheila, and back then, Hannah was part of deciding who got on it, what got on air.
And it just seemed to be less of a news item and more of something from Monty Python work in 1972, something that didn't quite make it to prime time.
And then what happened?
Well, Sheila, the world caught up with us, right?
You know, we came across Renee Detremont, aka Desiree Anderson.
And this is a guy who identified as a woman.
If you check out his picture, he's not even, I mean, at least Busty Lemieu puts on the fake boobs and the blonde wake.
This is just a guy with an Adams apple and five o'clock shadow, kind of like Ash Davis, the rugby player.
And he identified as a woman with the ostensible policy reason to get into a woman's shelter in Windsor.
And of course they let him in.
And shockers, within days, Sheila, he is charged by the Windsor police with sexual assault, turns himself in.
By the way, to this day, we went back to that shelter.
I think it was back in July to do a stand-up.
We weren't even on the property.
We were on the sidewalk.
And the young 20-something woman who worked at the shelter came out and they started doing the chant, trans women are real woman.
This is even after this fraudster allegedly sexually assaulted another shelter resident.
Can you imagine what is the most ultimate safe space for women?
Some of these are women that are fleeing from physical violence.
Right.
And this is also the believe all women crowd.
Yeah.
And you know, and that's a very good point, Sheila, because even if you believe trans women are real women, and I certainly do not, what about a nefarious male who's a grifter, who's a misogynist, who's just using the trans excuse to get into intimate spaces of women?
Do these social justice weirdos ever consider that?
No.
But the twist of the story, when we were in Windsor, we found out so he's gone from men to female to feline.
Cody Detremont, aka Desiree Anderson, now identifies as a cat.
We spent a weekend looking for him.
We spoke to eyewitnesses.
They've seen him.
He has little Halloween props like pointy ears and a tail.
And he walks up and down the streets of Windsor.
And I'm sure the people at the women's shelter think this is another great example of diversity, equity, and equity.
Animal shelter.
And you know what?
I'd hate to be a shelter employee, the animal shelter, that is, Sheila, because in this day and age of acceptance, or else you're a bigot, a hater, a transphobe, they would probably say, oh, you're a trans.
Okay, come on in.
What the heck?
Pride, Apartheid, and Acceptance00:05:53
Right.
You know, and the thing is, Sheila, so I guess it was six years in the making, like some Cecil Demonville movie.
But again, I guess the moral of the story, no matter how insane we can pick something, this crazy world will catch up to us.
You know, and you see it all the time on the internet.
You can't even tell the joke because people think you're serious because the left is truly beyond parody.
You can't even make fun of them anymore because even your most outrageous fever dream, they've done something more extreme than that.
100%.
And I think one last point, Sheila, is that once upon a time, people like Cody Detremont, they weren't hailed for diversity.
Luck.
Exactly.
For his protection and ours.
But we deinstitutionalized so many mental patients over the years.
We closed down the asylums.
We said, here are some medications.
As long as they stay on their meds, everything will be fine.
That's a big if, by the way.
And here we are, where I mean, it's not quite the inmates running the asylum, but more like the inmates advising the asylum.
And if you have a problem with that, you're not trying to help somebody who has probably mental illness.
You are, as I said before, a hater, a bigot, a transphobe.
And now it's not transgenderism or transvestite, you know, being a transvestite.
It's trans speciesism.
Yeah.
Right.
Unbelievable.
Now, we're in Israel.
Yes.
Even though we're talking about trans issues, which I, you know, I remarked last time we were here in 2018 that all the young people are normal here.
I think it makes me an advocate for mandatory military service because there's no weird young people here.
But this is our first like full day on the ground here.
What's the most interesting thing you learned today?
You know what?
On the theme of Israel and trans, if you will, I couldn't help but notice I spotted at least three pride flags as we drove out of Tel Aviv into the countryside.
And why that's notable?
I mean, that's no big deal back where we are.
I mean, now pride season will be pride year, for goodness sake.
The bank is gay, the grocery store is gay.
And then it's way beyond June 30th.
But Sheila, I think there is a profound point here, and that is we had for several years in Toronto at the Pride Parade a group called Queers Against Israel Apartheid, Queers Against Israel Apartheid, condemning the hateful state of Israel, condemning its so-called apartheid policies.
There are but two pride marches in the entire Middle East, in this entire neighborhood.
Both of them take place in Israel.
And by the mere sight of seeing those rainbow flags, that is something that would get you in mutual hot water in this neighborhood of the world.
Right.
Some other countries.
That is not tolerated.
Even other parts of Israel that are controlled by the Palestinians.
And I'm just saying, this is how insane the far left is, is that you are condemning a nation for apartheid, and yet you are queer, but the only pride parades are in that so-called apartheid state.
You know as well as I do, Sheila, that Israel is not an apartheid state.
Well, it is, but for the Jews.
There are places that the Jews can't go.
I remember when we went to Bethlehem last time, we had to take out our Jewish tour guide and get a Christian one so that we could go to Bethlehem because he couldn't go behind the security wall.
100%.
But the idea that if you're Arab, if you're gay, that there's some sort of apartheid system, it's absolute nonsense.
It's poppycock.
And what I think is interesting, if that group queers against Israeli apartheid and it's since disbanded, right?
Thank goodness.
But if the name of your organization, right, apartheid, is based on a lie, because there is no apartheid in Israel.
It's quite the opposite.
Then what is the real motivation back when that group existed during the Toronto Pride Parade?
I would say it's this, Sheila.
Good old-fashioned garden variety anti-Semitism.
Because as I said, there is no apartheid.
Apartheid is part of your name.
You are really just haters of Jews and haters of the Sikh of Israel, even though this is the only neighborhood where you do see pride parades in the Middle East.
Yeah.
And I think Joel Pollock, who is with us on the trip, Joel Pollock from Breike Bart, he sort of hinted on the fact that young people today are told to hate wherever they live.
They're told to hate the United States and think of it as a genocidal state.
Yes.
And so why wouldn't you then hate the most American part of the Middle East where liberty reigns true, a place that was sort of founded the same way the Americans were of war, of war of independence.
Same thing.
This is a place where democracy reigns, human rights reign.
So why wouldn't you hate it as an extension of hating the United States?
100%.
And I think it's worse than that, Sheila.
It's the fact that they're told to hate some people, someone, some nation, and they don't even know why.
They just said, I hate them.
And they go, yes, boss.
Yeah.
Unbelievable.
It's true.
Kean behind the camera has given me one of these, which means that we have to get back on the tour bus.
Thank you to everybody at home who was very patient with me as we filmed this sort of on the fly.
We have a real tight-packed sausage of a week here, as David Mentee says.
Thanks to everybody in the studio who will put this together very quickly, dealing with our very slow upload speeds here as we travel.