Ezra Levant slams Kamala Harris’s "$20,000 for black men" policy as unconstitutional and performative, mocking her "Joker-like" laughter and shifting stances—like anti-gun advocacy despite claiming Glock ownership. He questions racial criteria in loan forgiveness, cryptocurrency protections, and marijuana legalization, citing higher addiction harms in Black communities. Levant’s citizen journalism RV trip reveals gas price disparities ($100 fills 5/8 tank in Vegas vs. 1/4 in California) and anecdotes of Black voters leaning toward Trump, contrasting legacy media’s censorship with Starlink-powered uncensored reporting. The episode underscores skepticism of Democratic DEI policies and the rise of grassroots political truth-telling. [Automatically generated summary]
Tonight, Kamala Harris wants to give black men $20,000 each, but only if they're black and only if they're men.
It's October 18th, and this is the Ezra Levant show.
shame on you you censorious bug i think kamala harris is getting pretty desperate How else do you explain this announcement that she made on Twitter?
It's her black man policy.
She says black men deserve a president who cares about making their lives better.
I'll go through those points in a minute, but first, the obvious, she's been in power for three years, almost four years.
Is she saying that the U.S. government has not, does not care about black men now or for the past three years?
I mean, how exactly do you run on new promises and new ideas if you get power when you're not doing those things right now when you have power?
It's a trick Trudeau uses.
When something absolutely falls apart, he sort of positions himself as an outside commentator, like a third-party observer at arm's length, as opposed to the guy who caused the problem.
Gee, somebody really ought to do something about this problem.
We really all have some learning to do here.
People just don't buy it, and it looks awful when Trudeau does it, and it looks awful on Kamala Harris.
But I mean, really, what would you say?
Everything's going fine in America right now, inflation, open borders, immigration, foreign wars.
Here's what she said.
If anything, would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?
There is not a thing that comes to mind in terms of, and I've been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact.
The work that we have done, for example, capping the cost of insulin at $35 a month for our seniors is something I care deeply about, about allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices and bring the cost of prescription medication down for seniors, but my intention is to expand that for all Americans.
The work we have done to invest in American industries, whether it be in terms of manufacturing and creating almost 800,000 new jobs around manufacturing, those were all a shared priority.
Yikes, I mean, she's not that articulate at the best of times.
Did you see this clip?
So when we think about what's at stake in this election, whoa, it's packed with some stuff.
It's packed with some fundamental stuff.
I say rather articulately.
That cackle, it's either Joker-like cackle, which is like terrifying, so so fake, which she tries to call showing joy.
Cackle Or Scolding?00:06:10
She tried to rename her cackle.
Oh, that's just me being joyful.
It's either the cackle or the scolding.
She scolds people about everything.
Here she is scolding people for saying Merry Christmas.
And when we all sing happy tunes and sing Merry Christmas and wish each other Merry Christmas, these children are not going to have a Merry Christmas.
How dare we speak Merry Christmas?
How dare we?
Here she is scolding people about Christopher Columbus, the greatest explorer.
It is an honor, of course, to be with you this week as we celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day, as we speak truth about our nation's history.
Since 1934, every October, the United States has recognized the voyage of the European explorers who first landed on the shores of the Americas.
But that is not the whole story.
That has never been the whole story.
Those explorers ushered in a wave of devastation for tribal nations, perpetrating violence, stealing land, and spreading disease.
We must not shy away from this shameful past.
And we must shed light on it and do everything we can to address the impact of the past on Native communities today.
Scolding, hectoring, berating, or sometimes just weird.
And, you know, we have to stay woke.
Like, everybody needs to be woke.
And you can talk about if you're the wokest or woker, but just stay more woke than less woke.
Here's a compilation of Kamala Harris debating Mike Pence in the 2016 vice presidential debates.
Does the word scolding come to mind?
President wanted people to remain calm.
Well, let's go.
No, but Susan, this is important.
And I want to add, Mr. Vice President, I'm speaking.
I have to say.
I'm speaking.
Let's talk about PAC in the court then.
Let's talk about the fact.
Yeah, I'm about to.
$400,000.
Mr. Vice President, I'm speaking.
I'm speaking.
The important issue is the truth.
If you don't mind letting me finish, we can then have a conversation.
Okay?
There's something to that tone.
I think every hen-pecked husband recognizes it.
I mean, it was a debate, by the way.
You're supposed to have a back and forth.
Now, I acknowledge it's probably tough being a woman in politics, but it's also tough being a man in politics, tough in different ways.
By the way, Margaret Thatcher was very popular with male voters.
The success of many women in politics suggests that in general, Americans and Canadians are not sexists.
They care about substance.
Kamala Harris comes across as empty and inauthentic.
She changes her accent depending on who she's talking to.
Hello to all my divine nine brothers and sisters and my sorrows.
As though it is a sign of weakness.
Twas empathy.
In the Senate, well, it was late into the night.
And in the Senate, you walk onto the Senate floor and there are these big wooden ornate doors.
Let's just get through the next 64 days.
You know, the one thing about all of us is we like hard work.
Hard work is good work.
Hard work is good work.
Have you no empathy, man?
No, for the suffering of other people.
I love you, Mike.
You know, Trump says she's not black.
She's East Indian.
Of course, she's half black and half Indian.
But his point is that she claims to be someone new, depending on who she's talking to at that moment.
It's the fakeness.
She's been a firearms banner her whole life, for example.
And now she says she's a proud Glock owner.
You recently surprised people when you said that you are a gun owner.
And then there's someone came into your house.
That was not the first time I've talked about it.
That's not the first time I've talked about it.
So, what kind of gun do you own, and when and why did you get it?
I have a Glock, and I've had it for quite some time.
And, I mean, look, Bill, my background is in law enforcement.
And so, there you go.
Have you ever fired it?
Yes.
Of course, I have.
At a shooting range?
Yes, of course I have.
Yeah, I mean, then again, her running mate doesn't really know anything about guns either, does he?
It's quite right.
You have a good play, right?
Just not quite right.
How do you give it back?
Governor, what kind of gun is it?
This is a Beretta A400.
I brought, I bought it when I was shooting a lot of trap because it has a kind of their patman thing that kickoff.
So when you get old, it doesn't hurt your shoulder as much.
Let's not get into Tim Walz right now.
In some ways, he's even worse.
The cackle and the fakeness and the scolding.
Look, personality matters.
A lot of people don't like Trump's personality, but holy moly.
I don't think there's any men of any race that find Kamala Harris appealing, especially given how empty she is on policy when all she has is personality.
She's not warm.
She's not trustworthy.
She's not persuasive.
She has a real gender gap, not just amongst men, but even amongst black men.
They won't support her.
Personally, I think it's the nagging, scolding tone plus the cackle.
You know, they had to wheel out Barack Obama to do some scolding to black men to support the scolding black woman.
Man Enough to Support Women00:10:19
Did you see this?
We have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all quarters of our neighborhoods and to good news as we saw when I was one.
Now, I also want to say that that seems to be more pronounced with the brothers.
So if you don't mind, just for a second, I'm going to speak to y'all friends and say that when you have a choice that is this clean, when on the one hand you have somebody who grew up like you, knows you, went to college with you,
understands the struggles and pain and joy that comes from those experiences.
Work harder and do more and overcome.
I just don't think that's working.
I saw they rolled out a men for Harris ad.
I didn't think it was real.
It's the least masculine thing I've ever seen.
It seems so fake.
I thought it was like an AI attempt to guess what men are like.
I thought it was maybe even an Saturday Night Live sketch.
Take a look at this.
I'm a man.
I'm a man.
I'm a man, man.
And I'm man enough.
I'm man enough to enjoy a barrel-proof bourbon.
Meat.
Man enough to cook my steak rare.
Man enough to deadlift 500, then braid the shit out of my daughter's hair.
You think I'm afraid to rebuild a carburetor?
I eat carburetors for breakfast.
I ain't afraid of bears.
That's what bear hugs them for.
I'll tell you another thing I sure as shit am not afraid of.
Women.
I'm not afraid of women.
I'm not afraid of women.
They want to control their bodies.
I say go for it.
They want to use IVF to start a family.
I'm not afraid of families.
They want to be childless cat ladies.
Have all the cats you want.
Woman wants to be president?
Well, I hope she has the guts to look me right in the eye and accept my full-throated endorsement.
Because I'm man enough to support women.
Man enough to know what kind of donuts I like.
Man enough to admit I'm lost even when I refuse to ask for directions.
Man enough to not ban young women from reading little ones or one of those pants books that the sisters like.
I'm man enough to raw dog a flight.
It sucked.
Not worth it.
I'm man enough to be emotional in front of my wife.
In front of my kids.
In front of my horse.
I'm man enough to tell you that I cry.
I love action.
Goodwill hunting.
What a sad story.
Impressive.
And I'm sick of so-called men domineering, belittling, and controlling women just so they can feel more power.
That's not how my mama raised me.
I love women.
I love women who support their families.
Women who decide not to have families.
Women who take charge.
And I'm man enough to help them win.
I didn't think that was real.
That is real.
So yeah, they got a problem.
Men just don't like Kamala Harris and black men especially.
I saw a bit of that when I was doing streeters last week in Venice Beach, LA, and when I was with Avi in San Francisco, how many black men and even black women said they're voting for Trump?
I was genuinely surprised in California, of all places.
Black men make up about 7% of the U.S. population.
So that number falls by a couple of percent.
Well, that's enough to make a difference in some very close battleground states where there's a big black population and where those places used to be counted on for 90% plus votes for the Democrats.
I'm talking about places with urban areas like Philadelphia in Pennsylvania or Detroit in Michigan.
If you have black men voting for Trump, even if only 20% of all black men vote for Trump, that's still 1.5% in the polls that's going to move over.
That is enough to tip a close race.
You don't think Michigan's going to be within 1.4% moving off the Democrats to the Republicans?
It's like a 3% shift.
That's what happens if just 20% of black men vote for Donald Trump.
So here's how they plan to solve it.
That's what's behind this announcement.
It's as cringeworthy as that men for Kamala ad.
Let's take a look at it again.
I showed it to you very briefly.
Kamala Harris will create an opportunity agenda for black men.
I mean, I just doubt it.
I don't think anyone believes that the Democrats, let alone the most left-wing Democrat who's ever run for president, is going to create opportunities.
It's just inauthentic.
You could believe Donald Trump would.
I mean, he's an entrepreneur.
You could believe someone like Elon Musk would if he were to run for office.
But Kamala Harris, really, lifelong politician.
I mean, really, what is she good at other than scolding and cackling?
But look at her list of items.
Provide 1 million loans that are fully forgivable, up to $20,000 for black entrepreneurs and others to start a business.
Okay, well, a $20,000 forgivable loan is just an outright gift.
That's just free money, right?
And to do so on a racial basis, it's outrageous and it's surely unconstitutional.
It's also financially insane.
It's really a fancy way of announcing black reparations, I think.
Except just think it through for a moment.
Who is black?
Is Kamala Harris black?
Well, she's half black or a little bit less than half.
Barack Obama is also half black.
So do they get $20,000 or just $10,000?
What about someone like Rachel Dolezal or Sean King, white folks who pretend to be black?
They say they're black.
They really believe it.
Are they black enough to get the cash?
I mean, back during slavery times, they had various legal tests in the southern slave states because you had to be able to enforce different laws for different races.
It's a terrible thing.
They had to invent classifications.
I don't even want to say the words, but words like mulatto, quadroon, octoroon.
Have you heard those awful words?
I just hate even saying those words.
It feels like those words themselves are derogatory swears.
But you can see they refer to the percentage of white or black blood in your body.
Others had the one drop rule.
This is all dark stuff when you get into the racism business.
I mean, Hitler had similar rules for Jews.
He used the word mixling, mixling first degree, mixling second degree.
He would call them, I mean, if you had one Jewish grandparent, you wouldn't be killed by the Nazis, but you sure couldn't join an elite force in their military, for example.
South Africa had to do the same thing because if you have different rights and privileges based on race, you got to be able to measure race, right?
Is Kamala Harris really going to bring back a race test?
And will people who immigrate to America in 2024, if you're a black person from Africa who comes to America in 2024, you've got nothing to do with any history in America, are you still able to get this reparations or will it be restricted to foundational black Americans, the descendants of slaves?
Who gets the cash?
Can someone land at the airport and say, I'm here for my money?
I mean, these are all terrible, awful questions.
But Harris says she's going to pay black men 20 grand a pop.
So everyone's going to try to get some of that cash, wouldn't you?
Including women, of course.
I mean, I haven't seen the Democrat, a single Democrat answer the question, what is a woman, accurately in about five years.
So can trans men get the cash too?
Can a woman who identifies as a man, maybe, God forbid, gets the surgery, can they get the cash too?
You never know.
You got to ask these questions when it's a Democrat.
There are a few other nutty things on the list, by the way.
I mean, what does this even mean?
I'm reading from her list again.
Protect cryptocurrency investments so black men who make them know their money is safe.
What?
What does that mean?
So if you buy crypto, like Bitcoin, you'll be safe.
Okay, okay, safe from what?
One of the risks of buying cryptocurrency is because it's typically not backed by anything, it could be like a stock that plunges in value.
Is that what you're going to be saying?
I think that's the number one risk for cryptocurrency.
It's going to fall in value.
How do you protect against that?
How are you going to be safe from that?
And how will this apply to black men as opposed to white men or black women?
Will other races and sexes be safe too?
Does this imply that black men aren't sophisticated enough or responsible enough to mind their own business and that Kamala Harris has to come in, tell them what to do?
And on that last one on the list, legalize recreational marijuana and create opportunities for black Americans to succeed in this new industry.
You know, I just got back from spending the day in San Francisco with Avi.
It's the same in Vancouver, same in Toronto, same in cities all across the West.
It's shocking to see where we spent much of the day in something called the Tenderloin District.
It was my observation that the black community is disproportionately victimized by drug addiction and the social harms that come from it.
Theft, homelessness, violence, unemployment.
Why are you saying that black men want legal pot?
Why are you singling them out for this?
I think the black community has been hit harder than just about any other community by fentanyl.
RV Driver Impressions00:06:27
Did your Men for Harris focus group tell you to do these crazy things?
Hey, can you do me a favor?
Never, ever, ever for the rest of your life let a Democrat in the United States or a liberal in Canada or a journalist for that matter ever get away with calling anybody else racist.
They are the racest and sexist ones and they're proud of it.
And if I were a black man, I would be embarrassed that someone thought so little of me that they believed this list of pandering, half-baked ideas was all it took to keep me as a loyal voting machine for the Democrats.
Stay with me for more.
It's been eight days on the road.
You guys look a little bit road weary.
A little bit tired, yeah, but I think he's done most of the work, actually.
Lynn, you've been driving this rig for thousands of miles.
How much does it cost to fill up a tank?
We're about to find out because this is our first fill-up outside the communist state of California where gas prices were anywhere between five and six bucks a gallon.
This is the first time we've seen anything sub-four.
$3.47, $3.47 a gallon.
Of course, that's American, so that's probably $5.25 a liter.
We're probably down to about a buck 10 a liter now, but in California, $2 a liter, easily Canadian.
So it's kind of nice to finally be in a place where we can fill up and not worrying about giving all the money to Gavin Newsome.
And still afford lunch.
And still afford lunch.
I haven't seen any roadkill in a while, so we might actually have to, I don't know.
Yeah, how does he...
Stand.
How's his cooking?
We saw that one clip of him cooking up Bird.
I assume he was joking when he said it was Roadkill.
I mean, the guy knows his way around the kitchen, but is it just like the same two meals every day?
I don't want to inflate his egos.
Actually, he's not bad.
He's not bad.
I would like to go on record as saying the first five days I cooked Lincoln's stomach, 100% fine.
We have one day on the road, so we had to do a jack in the box and I forget what the first place was.
Chick-fil-A was pretty good.
One day of fast food, poor Lincoln's stomach got upset.
Well, I appreciate the fact that you guys are doing a lot of home cooking.
You're staying in the RV as your hotel.
If we were to go town by town, and if we were paying for hotel and restaurant meals every time, this Cross-America trip would be, I hate to say it, it would be 30, 40 grand.
It just would be.
So I really appreciate the fact that you guys are being economical because that's how it is when you do citizen journalism.
You got to watch the pennies.
It's wild.
And we're in America, so whether it's Canadians or Australians, it's the dollars, hearts.
Even just what we're doing is super expensive.
You know, we're taking the RV.
We're staying at an RV park.
RV parks are themselves about $50 to $100 a night just to plug in the RV and be able to work from the RV, have a bit of water, whatever.
But yeah, like you said, it would cost a whole lot more if we stayed in hotels.
Just about to fill up at $100.
That would have been an easy $200, $225 fill.
And what I'm excited about is this is the first time I'll hold a full tank of gas ultra.
He's been really trying to save the money and he's only put in enough to get us to the next gas station.
We've been living on edge, but well fed.
Or maybe $100 is all they'll give us in one fill.
Who knows?
You know how I told you why I've only been filling up so cheaply in California.
This same 350 gas in Vegas, we paid as much as six bucks in California just in taxes.
So we're going to see what a fill-up in Vegas costs.
We're just about out.
How's the driving been?
I mean, this is a pretty big rig.
How's it handling on the road?
Are you doing okay?
I saw you got into a spot of bother when you were off-roading with this thing near the Mexican border.
Other than that, dramatic moment, how's it been?
It's the RVs that Cruise America makes are absolutely fantastic.
They put a big Ford F350 on the front.
I call that the tractor.
That's maybe not language that our viewers are familiar with, but when you're driving a truck, the front part's called a tractor.
Then you got your load on the back.
So tractor's got great power.
I won't even pretend to tell you how many Vs it has, if it's a V12 or V8, or who knows?
I'm embarrassing myself now, but it's got great power on the road.
We spend a lot of our time in the left lane.
Port Lincoln is white-knuckling it when I'm going 85 miles an hour and passing other trucks.
But you got to do that when you got to get to the stories on time.
We've only had a few scary moments.
That's all I can say.
There's only been a few old man moments where we missed a couple of turns where we quickly had to take him.
For the record, I just want to say that the camera did no favors to what actually went down in that moment off-road, because what happened was we realized that the sand was really...
It was...
It was really fine sand.
So we were almost, you know, the old man drowning in two inches of water.
We almost got stuck in three inches of sand because it was so soft.
Put it in reverse for a little more power, got out of there, but we still had to cross this ravine and rail track.
And the truck did amazing.
We couldn't reverse physically.
We didn't think we were going to be able to go forward.
That's why if you listen to the audio, you hear our shock at his ability, which I'm still trying to work out whether it was more of a fluke or it was we've just got the best RV driver in town.
We'll find out by the end of this trip, I reckon.
Well, I'm grateful for you guys doing it.
I mean, it looks like a lot of fun, but it's also a lot of work.
You're all away from your home.
You're away from your families.
I mean, a trip across America sounds great to everyone, but when you're doing it, I mean, you're in close quarters.
So I really appreciate you guys doing it.
And I think you're seeing America on the ground, which is different than seeing it from 40,000 feet.
Truck Through Ravine00:11:45
Like all these pundits in New York, Washington.
You know, there is a story there, but there's also the undernews, what's happening under that national discussion.
Do you think that there's something cooking in America that the big wigs in the NBC ABC regime legacy media are missing?
Like, are you detecting any movement, for example?
I think a lot of people we've spoken to just from city to city, some of them were, you know, voted Democrat before, but they just realized that things have gotten worse.
So the general mood that I get, if that's anything to go by, the mood of the average person seems to have shifted to a pro-Trump, even if they don't want to admit it, especially not on camera.
The ones that are locked into Harris were ideologues that are, you're never going to change their mind anyways.
But who knows?
Because even every, like the one thing that's consistent, everybody says they don't know.
Whether they want Trump to win or lose, they just, they go, I don't know, whether they believe it's got to be absolutely fair.
That's their belief.
They're questioning or whether they just, they haven't got it right.
They're just because of the, because obviously the way that the American system works, it's not by the, it's by the electoral vote.
So people just here are too scared to call it.
I suppose in California, it almost doesn't matter that state's going to go Democrat no matter what.
Nevada, a bit of a battleground state.
You guys are going to be going to other battleground states.
Do you think there's a shy voter phenomenon that is?
People who say, damn it, I'm voting for Trump.
I'm sick of this.
But I'm not going to say it out loud because that's uncool.
And a whole bunch of people are saying that thinking the other guy's not going to be fine with it.
But when they're in the secrecy of the voting booth, they're going to mark their vote for Trump.
Do you think that's happening?
I think there's definitely elements of that, but I also found that there seemed to be a bit of a confident Trump vote in California that we picked up on.
And sure, there is that shyness, but I really feel that it is moving towards Trump.
If you can find Trump...
Even in California, it was like that.
I was surprised by that.
There was...
There were those that were proud to say it, didn't care.
There were a lot of people that, you know, wouldn't tell us who they're voting for.
But then as soon as you kind of broke down what policies mattered to them, it was clear that they were supporting Trump.
They just didn't want to say it out loud.
And then there was obviously what I expected from California, which was your Democrats.
I feel like California is a beautiful state.
The people there care dearly about their state, and everything they've done up to here has been wrong.
And I think that they're slowly starting to realize that, be it the minimum wage, be it the taxes, be it the green energy, be it the immigration, all these things that they thought were what they were doing to make their state great.
They're realizing that it's actually had the complete opposite effect and people are starting to wise up to that.
And it's like a laboratory of Kamala Harris's bad ideas.
And I mean, sometimes when I travel to places like the UK, I say it's a dystopian time machine.
I can see five years into the future on mass immigration, for example.
I think California is the bad ideas laboratory for America.
And that's absolutely where Kamala Harris gets.
That's her base.
That's her ideas.
That's her team.
So all the things you just listed about what's going wrong in California, that will be the national story if God forbid she wins.
Well, we're here in Vegas, which is a tourist town as much as anything.
It'll be fun to get some streeters tonight.
You're going to hit the Vegas Strip and talk to folks.
What kind of things you're going to ask them?
I haven't thought about that yet.
What we do is I kind of hit the city and I think about what's kind of the angle for this.
What's special about this?
You know, last time we were in Hollywood, it was more about celebrities and the celebrities' impact and input into politics.
And we ran into a bunch of interesting stories that unfolded in front of us.
I'm expecting here this is a swing state.
So I think we're going to focus more on that to get a real feel for what it is here, what locals are here.
But obviously, I don't know who we're going to bump into.
Is it going to be just tourists?
And so we'll just have to wait and see and you'll have to join us.
All right.
There you have it.
The lads have been on the road for more than a week.
It's tough being on the road every day.
I'm grateful to them.
And it's our sort of way a couple years later to get into the trucker vibe.
Not only do we have the RV on the roads, but up in Canada, we have the Rebel News Billboard truck.
I wish we had both of these rigs two and a half years ago when that trucker convoy was going to Ottawa.
You know, we would have been there.
We were embedded with the trucker convoy and we covered the heck out of it.
Now we're actually living the dream.
All right.
To follow these guys, go to aviacrossamerica.com.
And if you can help in to pay for gas by chipping in and our crowdfunding, I'd be grateful to you.
Thanks.
So Lyndon, it looks like that gas pump maxed out at $100 exactly.
It didn't surprise me.
A big rig like this would take more than $100 worth of gas.
How much gas did $100 put in the tank?
In Vegas, $100 got us five eighths of a tank.
In California, 100 would get us about a little over a quarter a tank.
So it'd be about $175 to fill this thing up in Vegas and almost double that in California.
Exactly.
All right, thanks.
Avi and the team are going across America.
You can follow it at abbyacrossamerica.com.
They're doing citizen journalism.
And one of the tools to be a citizen journalist, especially if you're going on the highway, is you need your own internet.
Tell me about that white panel.
It's like an 11 by 17 sheet of paper, but it's not paper.
It's an antenna.
It's just there on the gravel next to the RV.
What is that?
Tell me about it and how you've been using it.
It's unbelievable.
You think about the modern day technology, Ezra.
We're able to go anywhere and literally pan this, I guess, satellite plate out.
And we've got internet at speeds of 100 to 150 downloads.
Megabits per second.
That's an enormous amount.
Like that is so fast.
Some of these campgrounds have Wi-Fi, but it's wobbly.
It's iffy.
I first discovered Starlink when we sent a team to Maui right after the wildfires.
There was no internet there at all.
And we set it up and we gave it to the whole apartment block we were in.
It was a bit of a different system.
That one sort of looked around for the satellite.
This one, you just plunk it down and go, eh?
Yeah.
And yeah, it's that easy.
It's that quick.
And it just gives you the flexibility.
I've been to places with you where we've had to hunt for Wi-Fi or find reception on your mobile device and buy local internet, get your mobile device to a place where there is reception.
We're going so remote with this thing that in many places there is no internet.
My phone doesn't have internet, but that hasn't let us down yet.
You know, it's funny you say that because I was just thinking a few weeks ago, I went to a rally in support of Twitter or X in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
There were 200,000 people there and everyone was using their cell phone.
Guess what that did to the download and upload speeds?
You couldn't tweet any videos.
It was so frustrating because you had 200,000 people sharing the cell phone system.
If we would have had a Starlink, we could have got our stuff up there so quick.
We could have shared it with friends around us.
But even if it was just us, we could have done.
And so many times we get great footage, but we can't get it up.
Can't get it up.
That sounds funny.
Until we go to some internet cafe or something.
This solves the problem of if you can't get it up.
Thank you, Elon, for helping rebels get it up all around the world.
But no, seriously, it is a lifesaver, but it's not cheap.
I don't even know.
I'm not in that side of the business.
What I do know is that I want to thank all the viewers out there that are helping at RVAcrossAmerica.com help cover all the costs, including the RV, the park, you know, every single night we've got to pay for the power from the park, use their facilities.
It's not a cheap exercise.
And one of those things is the Starlink.
I think it was probably about $500 from memory.
Is that right?
You buy it and then there's a fee to use it, but it's not that much more than a regular internet system.
But the key is it works anywhere.
We proved that in Maui during the after the wildfires.
And it just, especially when you're in the video business, when you're sending big megabytes and gigabytes, you need this.
You can't imagine if you just were relying on campground Wi-Fi.
It's just not going to, it's going to be rickety.
This is a tool for citizen journalism.
This is a tool for citizen journalism.
And believe it or not, that RV is a tool for citizen journalism.
I really believe, Avi, that by going on the ground, doing streeters with severely normal people, you're going to get a better pulse of the nation than if you were in Washington or New York in a studio on the 50th floor of some tower in Manhattan.
And this is what you need.
You don't need, you know, I used to work for Sun News Network.
We had quarter million dollar cameras.
That's insane.
We had million dollar studios.
You don't need that.
The news isn't happening in a studio.
It's happening on the street.
And that's why I'm excited you're on this Cross America mission.
I just want to take the opportunity to thank all the viewers again for making it happen.
RVAcrossAmerica.com.
And Elon, also, you've got to think about it.
It's two levels because it's obviously getting the data across to the guys in the office and on the internet in general and on X itself.
So we know we're finally safe.
So he's actually, in a way, he's ensuring citizen journalists like us at Rebel are able to do what we do by one, being able to upload the data in real time, quickly, anywhere in the world, plus a platform where it's safe that no matter what anyone says to me on the street, I know they're not going to pull it down.
You know, the reason why Rebel News was demonetized back in 2017 is because we retweeted a Donald Trump tweet.
We didn't even retweet it.
We put it in a video and told the story about it.
YouTube demonetized us, costing us $1 million a year.
Brutal censorship.
Obviously, they're going to do that again in the 2024 election season.
That's why Twitter or X is so critical.
Your videos have gone super viral on Twitter because they're not being throttled.
I simply don't trust the regime media.
And by that, I mean big tech as well.
The crazy thing is, we see all the enity targeting Elon Musk and X.
And we don't see it targeting Facebook, Instagram, TikTok.
Why?
Because they're compliant.
So by thinking of the opposite of what Elon Musk is doing, imagine complying with the censorship in Brazil.
Imagine complying with the censorship in Washington.
I mean, you don't want to put all your hopes in one guy, but good Lord, he is the essential citizen.
Save Elon Musk, protect him at all costs.
RVAcrossAmerica.com, guys.
You can follow the whole journey all the way up until the election where we land in Mar-a-Lago.
Until then, we'll be with our Starlink, our X, our Caravan, our power, and your help.