Ezra Levante examines Elon Musk’s UK and Germany push, reviving Tommy Robinson’s banned grooming gangs video (41M+ views) while criticizing Keir Starmer’s alleged silence on Rotherham’s 1,400 child victims. Musk’s clash with German cancel culture—resigning Die Welt’s opinion editor—mirrors his U.S. role in Trump’s rise, but Levante questions if Europe’s political correctness can be disrupted like Brazil’s censorship backlash. Meanwhile, Canada’s Toronto protests expose Yaara Sachs, a Trudeau cabinet minister, fleeing citizen journalists while defending pro-Hamas figures and calling Israel "racist," raising concerns about weak leadership and ideological gatekeepers. Musk’s influence may shift global debates, but Levante warns of risks in unprincipled alliances. [Automatically generated summary]
Elon Musk, the world's most interesting man and by far the world's richest man, has weighed in on one of our favorite rebel topics.
Tommy Robinson, the British journalist and activist who is languishing in prison, Rebel News has been crowdfunding his legal fees.
Well, Elon Musk has taken a great interest in that subject.
I'll give you all the latest, including how Musk retweeted one of my letters.
Oh boy, did that ever go viral.
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Elon Musk's Multifaceted Ventures00:07:47
Tonight, fresh off the US campaign trail, Elon Musk turns his sights on politics in the UK and Germany.
It's January 3rd, and this is the Ezra Levance Show.
shame on you you sensorious bug elon musk i call him the world's most interesting man He reminds me of so many characters from fiction.
It's really amazing to see someone in real life that way, the world's richest man, the world's great industrialist, the founder of Tesla, of SpaceX, so many things.
But of course, in recent months, he's become very famous for his politics.
During the U.S. election, he campaigned on a daily basis with Donald Trump in the key state of Pennsylvania, a battleground state.
Elon Musk was on stage giving speeches.
He also set up a super PAC that's a kind of election third-party group.
He was giving away a million dollars a year for people to sign his petition to enforce the U.S. Constitution.
It was amazing to see him gift this money.
And I can only imagine how many names he signed up.
What an election database he has.
But I think his real gift, his largest gift, was reinstating and revitalizing conservative and freedom-oriented voices.
And in fact, all controversial voices on the medium formerly known as Twitter, now known as X.
It takes me a while to switch from calling it Twitter to calling it X. I've been on the platform so long, but not just reinstating Donald Trump, who so outrageously was deleted even as a sitting president, but many conservative and libertarian and freedom-oriented people who were also silenced.
And frankly, I feel myself that I have more confidence to tweet fully because I'm not always thinking, I better look over my shoulder in case some censor is going to delete me or suspend me.
I think, obviously, some ruffians have been reinstated on Twitter, on X, as well as other voices, but that's life.
People can have rough opinions.
And I really believe in Elon Musk's view that his limits should be the same as the limits of the law.
If something is lawful to say, should you not be able to say it in the world's new town square, namely Twitter.
And he's part of a dream team, this Elon Musk.
Think about it.
Donald Trump must have confidence in himself and his position to surround himself with such colorful characters, such powerful people in their own right.
R.F.K. Jr. as his health secretary.
JD Vance as his vice president, clearly an intelligent guy, as opposed to Kamala Harris's laughable pick of Tim Walz.
Tulsi Gabbard as the director of national intelligence.
These are interesting and controversial pics, to be sure, but I think each one of them shows that Donald Trump is putting together a dream team of sorts.
I challenge you to name a single member of Joe Biden's cabinet who is outstanding in their field in any way.
I don't think you can do it.
As you know, Elon Musk's key role in the new administration will be that of running Doge.
That's the nickname.
That's the acronym for Department of Government Efficiency.
And if there is one thing that Elon Musk knows besides how to build electric cars and how to send rockets into space, he knows how to cut the fat in a company.
You might recall when he took over Twitter and turned it into X, he literally fired 80% of the staff.
And the product got better.
How do you fire 80% of a company?
And the product is better while you know what works and what doesn't work and what's really on brand for the product and what's just barnacles attaching them to the ship.
I like what he did at Twitter and I hope he does it to the government.
And I think that will be not just cutting certain agencies back, but in some cases, actually deleting entire government agencies.
I think it's the only way to salvage the system.
I can't think of anyone less suited to work for government than Elon Musk.
Can you?
I mean, he's mouthy.
He's controversial.
He's a disruptor.
He's radical in both his words and his deeds.
That is not a place.
Government is not a place for a man such as that, which is precisely why he is perhaps the only person in America who would succeed at the head of the Department of Government Efficiency.
But apparently all these things I've just listed for you is not enough to keep Elon Musk busy.
I mean, a mere mortal would be a little bit tied up with the things I've just mentioned.
Tesla by far is the biggest automaker in the world, not by number of cars made, but by market capitalization.
That means the stock market thinks Tesla has a bigger and better and brighter future than all other car companies combined.
It's not just the electric nature of the cars.
It's how they use AI and computers, the self-driving cars.
These cars collect an enormous amount of data.
There's so many cameras on this.
I think people believe that it's not just a regular car with an electric battery.
It is a whole different way of traveling.
And I think that's why the world values Tesla over a trillion dollars.
That's enough to keep anyone busy, but he also runs SpaceX, which, as you know, sends more payload into outer space than all the rest of the world combined times 10.
But if it weren't for Elon Musk, China would be in the lead in the space race.
He also has less famous companies like the Boring Company, which is an ironic name.
It bores through the earth and makes tunnels.
There's one in Las Vegas.
He hasn't really given that the emphasis, maybe because it's too boring.
He also is the leader of Neuralink, which is about unlocking the mental abilities of people who are physically disabled, quadriplegic, for example.
I don't know that much about Neuralink, but it sounds like it would be enough to be a full-time job for a mere mortal.
So here you have a guy.
He's the boss of half a dozen important projects, some of which are world-leading, Tesla, SpaceX.
He's also in his free time.
I don't know how he has free time.
I don't know if you know this, but he is a world-ranked video game player.
I've never played the game Diablo 4.
I don't know anything about it.
But apparently, Elon Musk is one of the best players in the world.
And they're ranked and they're online.
He just goes, and when he's bored with putting spaceships into space or making electric cars, he plays Diablo 4 and he literally is one of the best players in the world.
I don't know how he does it.
Maybe Neuralink, maybe he's getting a little bit of help there or through his AI.
I don't know.
My point is he is an industrious man.
He is a doer.
And it would be foolish to bet against him as so many have.
And he has his critics, of course.
He's just a man and he makes mistakes.
But what you see so often is people who know him, people who've worked with him, whether it's Peter Thiel, the founder of PayPal and other organizations, or other, frankly, silicon billionaires, other investors.
They say never bet against Elon Musk.
They say he has a work ethic and a focus and a problem-solving orientation that they have learned to bet on him, not bet against him.
And of course, if someone had indeed bet on him in any of his companies, he would be very rich right now.
Nigel Farage's Court Contempt Defense00:15:47
And so I bring you to the point of my monologue today, that this polymath, this man of many talents, this Renaissance man, has chosen a new focus because he's bored, I guess.
And that new focus is the United Kingdom, one of my favorite countries, but a country that has terrible flaws.
I love the United Kingdom because it is where Canada came from, intellectually, culturally, legally, artistically, in terms of literature, so many things.
That is the mother of all parliaments, as they say.
And I also am interested in it because it is decaying faster than even our own country, Canada.
And one of the things I've noticed in the United Kingdom is they have a terrible problem emanating from their mass immigration, which is called rape gangs, or as they call them over there, grooming gangs.
And these gangs don't do rape in terms of snatching someone in an alley, raping them and running off.
It's a combination of undermining and exploiting vulnerable children and teens, tricking them, trapping them with things as simple as a drink of beer or even a candy or a ride in a BMW, and soon sexualizing that and exploiting them over the course of months and years.
Sometimes every single night, these girls are raped again and again.
They're blackmailed and extorted, and they're children.
They're children.
It's an absolutely terrible thing.
We've talked about it many times on the show before.
We've talked about the city of Rotherham, about 100,000 citizens where 1,400 girls were systematically raped again and again and again.
1,400 in a city of just 100,000.
Keir Starmer, the new British prime minister since July, used to be the head, the chief prosecutor in the UK.
So he would be very familiar with these things.
But there's new questions about whether or not Keir Starmer turned a blind eye to these rape gangs because they are overwhelmingly perpetrated by Muslim Pakistani men in the UK.
The victims are overwhelmingly white working class girls.
The perpetrators are overwhelmingly Pakistani men.
You can see that would be a problem for someone as woke as Kier Starmer.
And so it turns out that Elon Musk is a booster.
I'd even say a fan of Tommy Robinson.
And in the past week, Elon Musk has probably made 100 tweets about the United Kingdom, about Rotherham, about the rape gangs, and indeed even about Tommy Robinson.
As you know, Tommy Robinson was sentenced to prison for 18 months, he'll serve nine, for contempt of court for publishing a video that touches on mass immigration to the UK.
That video was published on X on Twitter, and the judge ordered Tommy not to do so.
He did so in the face of the order, and so he was sentenced to jail for contempt of court.
I was in the courtroom in the UK when Tommy had that sentence.
We were, of course, crowdfunding his lawyers.
And at the time, he had around 55 or 60 million views.
I should tell you that since Elon Musk retweeted that banned video itself, last time I checked, it had more than 140 million views of Tommy Robinson's video.
Just astonishing.
And I saw that.
So I wrote a letter to Elon Musk and I posted it on Twitter, just trying to give some background of the story.
And incredibly, he saw that and he retweeted my letter.
Elon Musk retweeted my letter.
And again, last time I checked, my little letter to Elon Musk has been seen 41 million times.
That's actually the exact population of Canada, including children and babies.
Obviously, it's not just Canadians, people around the world.
Let me read to you what I wrote to Elon Musk, and I sort of wrote it on my phone when I was, well, I wasn't supposed to be driving at the time, so I wasn't.
But like I was in the middle of things.
I wrote this thing.
If only I knew it would be seen 41 million times, I would have caught the typo that made it through.
Let me read to you my letter to Elon Musk about Tommy Robinson that Elon Musk then retweeted.
Take a look.
Dear Elon Musk, the way to free Tommy Robinson is through legal action.
While he's in prison, he's asked me to help with two urgent battles.
Permit me to describe them for you and all your followers.
Number one, Tommy was sentenced to 18 months in prison for publishing that documentary you just retweeted.
The judge specifically referred to Twitter X and the video's wide distribution when giving out the sentence.
Tommy will likely be released in nine months, but in the meantime, he is being held in segregation, solitary confinement.
No man can do nine months of solitary without major mental health damage.
It's a form of torture, like what was done to Julian Assange.
Remember, contempt of court in this case is a civil offense, not a crime.
It's outrageous and unprecedented that he be held in solitary, which is usually reserved for short-term punishments of violent prisoners who misbehave in prison.
We have hired a lawyer who is an expert in prison law to challenge the way he is being held.
We just received a reply from the prison governor refusing to move Tommy from solitary, saying that he must stay there because of, quote, the polarizing nature of his ideology.
And then I linked to where people, including Elon Musk, could, if they want, read the letter.
I wrote, we are moving quickly to appeal that prison governor's decision in a judicial review.
And then I talked about another crazy thing.
And I know this is a long letter, but I'm going to read a little bit more of it.
And 41 million people saw it, so maybe it's less boring than I think.
Number two, while Tommy is in prison, he is being charged with a bogus trumped-up charge under the Terrorism Act, a UK version of the Patriot Act.
Obviously, Tommy is not a terrorist, and police told him as much when they arrested him.
They're just using that extreme law to subject Tommy to questioning that he legally cannot refuse under the Act and to search his phone without a warrant, as is also permitted in the Act.
Tommy refused to give police the password to his cell phone without a warrant.
He had both legal and journalistic confidences in it.
So they're prosecuting him for that, too.
For each of these two battles, we need both a solicitor and a barrister.
They're different people in the UK.
So we're crowdfunding four different lawyers.
Frankly, we need help.
Tommy has been debanked and de-platformed.
So Tommy asked me in Rebel News to crowdfund his lawyers for him, which we're doing at savetommy.com.
I took the opportunity to mention it.
They really are throwing the unlimited resources of the state against him, not for a crime, but for a political and journalistic disagreement.
I don't think you'll be able to change the mind of Kier Starmer, the authoritarian prime minister who used to be the UK's chief prosecutor.
But if you could help direct attention toward our legal crowdfund, I think we have a reasonable chance to get him into a more sensible prison for the rest of his sentence and to swat down the bogus terrorism act charge.
Thanks, Ezra Levant.
Now, you have surely heard all those points before because I've told them to you in monologues and I've told them to you when I'm in the court in the UK and I've told them to you after I visited Tommy in prison.
But 41 million people had not heard that before and I think a lot of people just realized, oh my gosh, what's going on in the UK?
Of those 41 million, of course, a swath of them are Brits.
But a lot of them are people around the world who, like me, love the UK and are saying, what is going on over there?
Since then, Musk has tweeted many other stories from the UK, including our friend Lord Pierce Novranick, who had this spicy video that Elon Musk liked enough to retweet.
Here, take a look.
I would accept that if we extrapolate nationally the J report on Rotherham and other reports on Telford and Oxford, there appear to have been upwards of 250,000 young white girls raped in this century, very largely by Muslim men.
And given these girls are usually raped several times a day for years, say, my lords, what is the government's answer to the Chief Constable of Northumberland, of Northumbria, who has just said that there is every likelihood that these grooming gangs are operating in every one of our major cities?
So, my lords, what is the government doing to prosecute those in authority who turned a blind eye to all this because they were afraid of being Islamophobic and so on?
And what is it doing to compensate and help these victims mentally?
My lords, I really refute the fact that the government is turning a blind eye to those in authority.
Sorry that those in authority are turning a blind eye to this.
Noble lords from across the House have outlined the various child sexual abuse perpetrations in various parts of the country.
And my lords, one thing we can say above all else is what these people target is vulnerability.
It's not specific to race, creed, or colour.
It's vulnerability.
He's tweeted other Tommy Robinson videos.
It's like he's going back through Tommy Robbins' feed.
He's also retweeted stories about rape gangs from other media, including more prestigious media.
Musk has even got a little bit more particular, a little bit more specific, retweeting calls for different cabinet ministers to be fired.
He's even called on the King of the United Kingdom, King Charles is also our king, to call an election, sort of to prorogue the British Parliament.
I don't think that's going to happen.
There was just an election in the UK in July.
But he's talking tough.
And it's very interesting to see the pressure that a man who owns the world's largest politically oriented social media, Facebook is bigger, but Twitter feels really political.
It really is the town square for politics.
To direct that force against the UK government is fascinating to see.
It's also a challenge for the opposition parties there.
As you may know, the Conservative Party of the UK just elected a new leader, Kemi Badenock.
And, you know, she's excellent on certain issues, but she's scared of Tommy Robinson, as all British politicians are, because he's so spicy.
They call him far-right.
And even Nigel Farage.
of the Reform UK Party, I like Nigel an enormous amount.
He's afraid of Tommy Robinson, too.
So here you have Elon Musk just a bull in the china shop, and he's pushing for the normalization of someone who the political elites have denormalized.
Here's Nigel Farage today when being pressed on the question, Elon Musk supports Reform UK.
He also supports Tommy Robinson.
How do you square the difference?
Here's how Nigel Farage answers.
The party pooper should be the person who may be your biggest saviour a week ago, Elon Musk.
You called him a bloody hero on Boxing Day.
You said you were expecting a reasonably sized donation.
Do you still think that?
He's saying remarks now, attacking Britain, supporting Tommy Robinson.
Is he now a political kryptonite to you?
Well, he's attacking the leadership of Britain.
I mean, he's saying Britain's been terribly badly led and that the grooming scandal, the mass rape scandal, which has resurfaced and transcripts of what was said in court have been online, and I recommend you at home, don't read them.
You won't sleep at night.
And so, yes, he is attacking the leadership in Britain.
He's very supportive of me.
He's very supportive of the party.
He sees Robinson as one of these people that fought against the grooming gangs.
But of course, the truth is Tommy Robinson is in prison, not for that, but for contempt of court for the third occasion.
But I mean, equally, there are people in Britain who think that Robinson is a political prisoner.
That's the narrative that he's pushed out.
That's how he earns his living.
But it isn't quite true.
Would you accept Robinson as a member of your party at UKIP over the association with him last time?
No, no, no, no.
Look, you know, Robinson has been to prison many, many times for many, many things.
Mortgage fraud, passport problems, you name it.
He's got his own campaign.
We're a political party aiming to win the next general election.
He's not what we need.
Musk comments, though, about Keir Starmer as DPP, about Jess Phillips.
These are angry remarks on Twitter.
These are your MP colleagues in Parliament.
I mean, how will you face these people when you go to Parliament?
These are a guy you're backing is making.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
For Jess Phillips to say there's no need for a public inquiry, there really is.
So you're backing one.
Oh, there really is.
And then for Kemi Badnock to say there must be a public inquiry when the government she served in refused to give us one just about sums up where British politics is.
It is a uni party.
There is little to choose between Labour and Conservatives.
I want a full public inquiry with the glare of publicity.
People need to understand the extent of what went wrong in so many towns and cities across our country.
I don't know Nigel Farage well enough.
I don't have a personal relationship with him, but I've followed him very closely ever since his triumph in the Brexit movement.
He was the leader of the UKIP party that succeeded in getting the UK out of the European Union.
And then I saw Nigel Farage fight against the big banks and being deplatformed.
I have a deep admiration for Nigel Farage.
But it's clear that I think he's afraid of Tommy Robinson.
I mean, what he said there about Tommy being convicted for contempt of court, well, it's true, of course.
But the three things that got Tommy into trouble were not violence or some random thing.
It was talking about massive, largely Islamic immigration.
All three of his instances of contempt of court were for talking about these things.
So you can't just simply say, oh, he's a serial convert.
Well, yeah, three of those convictions were for contempt of court on his journalism.
But I think that Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson would have a lot of overlap, but it's simply such political correctness over there.
And the cancel culture is so strong that if either Nigel Farage or Kemi Babenock were to show any affection to Tommy or his ideas, they would be completely renounced and expelled by the political establishment.
I think there's a class system in the UK.
I mean, I know there is.
We all know that.
But you can feel it when you're there.
Even your accent, even your style of clothing, your social manners.
It's interesting to me that a classy, posh Brit like Douglas Murray can say pretty much 99% of what Tommy Robinson says, says it in prestigious books, it's prestigious speeches, and he's permitted, I think for reasons of class and style, but not Tommy Robinson.
Here's Douglas Murray himself reflecting on that on TV just the other day.
I thought it was very interesting.
So this attempt to shoot the messenger, almost literally, was something that has been a consistent aspect of this story.
And when I see people now talking about this story and trying to get onto the Tommy Robinson part of it, I can't help thinking it's yet another deflection.
Tommy Robinson is a man from a working class background in Luton.
There are many things to be said in favor of him and what he's done.
There's many things to be said criticizing some of his tactics and some of his words and much more.
But essentially, he is one of a quite large number, actually not to be underestimated, a large number of working class people in this country who saw this happen to relatives of theirs, who had girls in their families who were drugged and raped by Muslim gangs.
Working Class Voicelessness00:02:38
And when they went to the police, they didn't get any help.
When they went to the council, they didn't get any help.
When they went to their MPs, generally they didn't get any help.
If they organized a protest movement, so-called anti-fascist groups would immediately say, are far right.
Because of course, if you're working class in our country and you don't like the mass rape of young white girls, you're of course necessarily must be a Nazi.
All of this was done to make it utterly impossible for anybody to discuss this.
And particularly to crack down as hard as possible on anyone who was white and working class and felt voiceless.
And instead of giving these people any sympathy or any hearing, most of the media, most of the political class turned away.
I think there's a lot to that.
I say again that the victims of the mass rape in Rotherham were working class white British girls in the north.
They weren't fancy posh Londoners with political connections.
As Morrissey would say in a song, They're Nobody's Nothing.
And I think there's a little bit of classism there.
And I think if you add on the fact that the victims were white, and later on the DEI woke immigration and woke policing, you had the perfect storm.
You had untouchable rapists and indefensible white girls.
It was terrible.
And I think it's part of the same problem.
These working class white girls were victimized because they were working class and white.
And here's Majid Nawaz, a Pakistani British man, saying something that maybe white Brits don't feel comfortable saying other than the odd one like Tommy Robinson, which is, we've got a problem here.
Here's Majid Nawaz.
Take it from him.
Don't tell me that their Muslim identity had nothing to do with this.
I have lived and breathed this community all of my life.
I can guarantee you that it's not the cause, but a factor in the way in which these girls was treated was the culture of these men.
And as part of that culture is their religious attitude towards non-Muslims.
And that is the reason that you see almost exclusively that they are men like me, Pakistani British Muslim.
Most of them.
Some of them Bangladeshi Muslims.
Some of them Indian Muslims.
Some of them North African Muslims.
Some of them Somali Muslims.
All of them Muslims.
Almost all Pakistani Muslims.
And the victims, almost all underaged white girls.
Advertizing Love for Elon Musk00:09:58
Now, who will lead, who will defend the voiceless in this national scandal?
Who will lead the case for saying we need a national inquiry into how this would have been tolerated for so long?
In any other crime?
And even, yes, the murder of that one man, Stephen Lawrence, which set off, and rightfully so, a huge national debate around institutional racism in this country.
In any other case, you first get through the phase of being able to talk about it.
Then you get to justice where you convict the perpetrators.
Then you start looking at those who covered up for the perpetrators.
And that's what the McPherson inquiry did in the case of Stephen Lawrence.
And it deemed the police institutionally racist.
Well, I ask you now, we've started to convict people.
Yes, I listed those 27 cities for you, which is bad enough as it is.
But where's the accountability for the police who covered this up?
Where's the accountability for the labor councils who covered this up?
Where's the compensation for the victims?
Because the police deliberately shelved investigations into their statutory rape because they wanted to be politically correct.
So it's going to be fascinating because I'll tell you one thing, Elon Musk has not let up, and it'll be interesting to see what happens with an irresistible force and an immovable object, which is a majority government in the United Kingdom that hates Elon Musk.
My guess is they're going to try and ban him or ban Twitter.
My guesses are going to lash out and there will be very little self-reflection.
So that's the United Kingdom.
And if you thought that that was enough to keep a guy busy, well, Elon Musk had some free time at the end of his day, so he thought he would get involved in German politics.
Now, there is a German election coming up very quickly, and the alternative for Deutschland, the AFD, the alternative for Germany, is a party that has a similar point of view, restrict immigration, get rid of woke things.
Ironically, their leader is a lesbian woman in a relationship with a Sri Lankan immigrant.
I mean, they're not racist, they're not sexist, they're not anti-gay.
In fact, their leader proves all three of those things right there, but they're still denounced as Nazis.
Well, Elon Musk wasn't having any of that, and he had a lot of tweets about the AFD.
And he was invited to write an op-ed in a very prestigious newspaper in Germany called Dievelt, the World.
And it was fairly basic, just making the case why he supports alternative for Deutschland.
Oh my God, let me show you a story in the Telegraph.
Dievelt opinion editor resigns over Elon Musk's article.
Ava Marie Kogel quits after newspaper prints a piece from the Tesla boss that questions categorization of the political party as far right.
I mean, isn't that weird?
Doesn't that show who the real censor, the real fascist is?
You're in charge of op-eds, which I suppose typically means a range of opinions.
So they're not necessarily your opinions.
Sometimes newspapers publish unsigned editorials that are the view of the editorial board, whatever that means.
But an op-ed is typically a signed piece by someone who's a political actor or a pundit, part of the rainbow of ideas.
And Elon Musk, like him or not, he is a very consequential man.
And imagine saying, because we let him have his opinion, and because his opinion supported Alternative Deutschland, I'm going to resign in a pout.
I just find that so astonishing.
And that's what's so interesting to me about this whole thing.
Can Elon Musk normalize and revitalize dissidents in the United Kingdom and Germany as he did in America?
Elon Musk has revived suspended X accounts for odious people, people who none of us would admire or like, who were racist, but they haven't broken the law.
Now, that causes a lot of censors and woke people a lot of indigestion.
And frankly, it's even tough for me.
I don't like reading things that I hate.
Isn't that almost a tautology?
But if you believe in freedom, it's the gift you have to give your opponents if you want it for yourself.
That's how freedom of speech works.
And Elon Musk believes in that, frankly, more than anyone else in Silicon Valley.
And he has revived people from the social media dead.
And he has enlivened and encouraged a public debate, which plainly helped Donald Trump succeed.
Now he's trying to do that in the UK and Germany.
Will it work?
Can he normalize conversations about rape gangs?
Can he normalize discussions about the culpability of British politicians and even police?
Can he normalize Tommy Robinson, or if not Tommy Robinson himself, Tommy Robinson's ideas?
Can he do the same thing for the mighty country of Germany and their legitimate opposition party, the AFD?
We're about to see.
You know, cancel culture is an interesting thing, and I've studied it both objectively and from someone who has been a victim of it.
It works if someone is the tastemaker.
That is the coolest kid, the richest kid, the most powerful kid.
You can't be canceled by a nobody.
You have to be canceled by someone more powerful than you.
That's how it works.
By one measure, Elon Musk is, I don't know, the science nerd.
He's not traditionally a tastemaker, but it is pretty cool to be the man sending rockets into space and then landing them again.
It is pretty cool to be the founder of Tesla.
And of course, it is extremely cool to be the world's richest man closing in on $500 billion net worth.
That's almost a trillion here in Canada.
So yeah, he is cool.
He is a tastemaker.
With a single tweet, he can have 41 million people reading a fairly boring letter like the one I wrote.
Oh, and by the way, he's funny.
And he's a bit of a troll and he doesn't care.
Remember when Disney and others were threatening to take their ads off of Twitter?
Here's what he said to them.
Apology tour, if you will.
This had been said online.
There was all of the criticism.
There was advertisers leaving.
We talked to Bob Eigen.
Stop.
You hope.
Don't advertise.
You don't want them to advertise?
No.
What do you mean?
If somebody's going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go fuck yourself.
But fuck yourself.
Is that clear?
I hope it is.
Hey, Bob.
You're in the audience.
Well, let me ask you then.
That's how I feel.
Don't advertise.
Yeah, that's not a normal way for a corporate executive to talk, but that's a man who has his own internal compass and he doesn't care what other people say.
That's quite astonishing.
Can Elon Musk change the world?
Can he change the UK and Germany the way he helped change America with Donald Trump?
Well, we saw him fight with the tyrants of Brazil.
Remember when I went down there for one day with Efron Monsanto to study the revolt in Brazil against the tyrannical regime that had banned Twitter?
Here's a little flashback to that.
Why were you here today?
Why did you guys come to the rally?
We came here today because we are fighting for our freedom.
You know, we listened to and we saw all the things that Elon Musk showed to us and we here for fighting for our freedom.
You know, Elon Musk inspired us.
I know that both Lula and Moraes have publicly criticized Musk.
It's easy to be against the world's richest man.
It's easy to be against a foreign person.
Our ordinary Brazilians, how do they feel about Elon Musk?
Do they even know who he is?
You know, most of the people are with Elon Musk.
Elon Musk has stood up to Alexander de Moraes very noisily, and he's pushed back.
What do you think of that?
I think it's good for Brazil because he's not Brazilian, but he's going to help us a lot.
I love Elon Musk.
I love Elon Musk.
Brazil love Elon Musk.
I think Elon Musk cares about the whole world.
And of course he does because he cares about other worlds too.
I mean, the man wants to live on Mars, so it's not surprising that he has views about other countries too.
It's exhilarating to watch.
It's a little bit nerve-wracking too.
Others have tried to influence the world, including other extremely rich and powerful people.
I mean, they just do it more secretly.
Every year, you know, Rebel News sends journalists to the World Economic Forum in Davos.
And there are billionaires, multi-billionaires there.
Klaus Schwab, the boss of it, is a billionaire.
Larry Fink, the head of BlackRock, is there.
He's a billionaire, and he actually controls trillions of dollars.
Those people are meeting because they want to control the world.
They're just a little bit more audacious than Elon Musk, and they lack his sense of humor.
George Soros has given more than $10 billion to effect change, either through thugs like Antifa in the United States or even his color revolutions in Europe.
Soros has the Open Societies Foundation that recruits thousands of activists around the world.
Remember, Soros actually installed different district attorneys across America with a soft on crime agenda.
The difference is Elon Musk is much more transparent.
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He's definitely much more entertaining.
And I'd say he's been more successful in a short time than anyone else.
Not surprising from a guy who is successful at pretty much everything else he touches.
I think it's a pleasure and a delight and a miracle to have a man who shares our views about freedom on our side, at least for now.
You know, I think of Psalm 146, which says, put not your trust in princes, nor in the Son of Man, in whom there is no help.
And that's good advice.
I mean, Elon Musk is just flesh and bone, and he's vulnerable like the rest of us, and he makes mistakes just like the rest of us.
But he really is changing the course of the world, and he's changing it, in my view, for the better.
He's helped change America.
He's trying to change the UK and Germany.
Maybe he'll help us here in Canada too.
And we'll keep you posted.
Stay with us.
Well, in a way, talking about Trudeau cabinet ministers feels, you know, like you're talking about the deck chairs on the Titanic.
They're rearranging cabinet shuffles while the ship is sinking.
He really is no longer even on his B team.
He's on the C team.
These are people who are so eager for the cabinet minister's car and the cabinet minister's driver and the extra staff and perks that they're willing to affix themselves and their reputations to Justin Trudeau.
You're really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
So, I mean, the idea of catching a cabinet minister, it is still, I suppose, meaningful and exciting.
And I'm not downplaying it.
It's just everyone in the country knows that their career is measured now in weeks, perhaps even in days.
And if someone is a Trudeau cabinet minister, the most important thing about them is that they're willing to share Trudeau's reputation.
So we're talking about the lowest of the low.
This is not 2015 people.
This is 2025.
It's like milk months past its best before date.
I mentioned all that because, as you know, in Toronto, there's this intersection of Bathurst and Shepard, where every week since October of 2023, Jews and supporters of Jews have been waving flags and chanting in support of Israel and bringing home the hostages that the Hamas terrorist group seized.
Well, in the last few months, pro-Hamas counter-protesters have come to say the opposite message, to celebrate Hamas.
They even recreated some weird scene with Yahya Sinwar, the now dead leader of Hamas.
It's super gross.
They bring their swastikas, they chant for death.
That's what intifada means in Arabic, a violent riot against Jews.
Police protect the Hamas protesters.
Anyways, that was the scene where both David Menzies and myself have been arrested by police for causing alarm to the Hamas protesters.
Well, last Sunday, a citizen journalist and activist named Daniel Boardman went there.
And who did he find but a Trudeau cabinet minister, Yaara Sachs?
Not just any cabinet minister, mind you, but the one who actually flew to the Middle East to pose for a loving selfie with Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the PLO, the mastermind of the Munich terrorist attacks several decades ago.
Here's how it went when Daniel Boardman spotted Yaara Sachs in the crowd.
Take a look.
I'm here with Minister Sachs.
Minister Sachs, do you think Justin Trudeau's going to resign?
Are you grabbing my phone?
You're in public.
Mr. Sachs, do you believe that Justin Shrugged resigned?
Minister Sachs, are you going to vote no confidence in the upcoming election?
Minister Sachs, do you support the teasing of Israel-canned relations?
Minister Sachs, do you support the Java thing of Justin Trudeau's line with the government?
Yes, Mr. Sachs, why are you walking back here, Mr. Sachs?
Minister Sachs, will you be voting to keep Justin Trudeau in office or out of office?
Will there be an election coming up too, Mr. Sachs?
Minister Sachs, do you tell us the meaning of Hanukkah?
Minister Sachs, do you have any thoughts on Hanukkah, the Maccabees, Israel?
Well, joining us now to talk about that interaction, a rather one-sided interaction, is Daniel Boardman, citizen journalist and activist Daniel.
Great to see you.
Thanks for taking the time.
You were persistent, but you were not rude.
You were not threatening.
You did not make physical contact with her.
And I was jotting down the questions.
You asked several times if Trudeau should resign, if he would vote non-confidence.
You asked a question about the meaning of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.
Your questions were persistent, but they weren't rude.
The rudeness, she smacked your camera and said something about you don't have permission to film her.
What do you make of all that?
Yeah, it was pretty weird.
Like, again, your opening monologue is quite correct.
They're not sending their best.
Yeah, we're past the B team, maybe quite possibly past the C team.
Because I went up to her and immediately, like, okay, to all fairness, you are sac, yeah, she knows who I am.
She doesn't like me because twice in the last year, I've gotten the large segments and pretty much entire crowds of the Jewish community to boo and to boo her and heckle her.
Because, well, I mean, credit to her.
A lot of the reason people don't like her is because of her own actions.
So I don't want to deprive her of her glory.
But I think she expected me to come up to her and start like, you know, screaming, like, you're human supporter.
But my thought is like, okay, she's here.
Parliament's been parogued.
There's no things.
It's like, one, I'm surprised she's on this side of the road, but okay.
And I'm just going to ask her questions about the government.
And then I kind of got a bit like thrown off my game because instantly I asked questions.
She just grabbed the phone, like full-on grabbed the phone and was like trying to take it out of my hand with like some force.
I was just like, I was looking at her like, are you this stupid to just grab the phone?
Like, does no one give you any training as a cabinet minister?
Like, one thing to just run away.
Okay, I asked you questions and you just run away.
And like, that's the way things are with the media.
Oh, I don't have to answer independent media questions.
Fine.
You can't grab my phone.
You can't do that.
And so she instantly grabbed the phone.
And I was like, what are you doing?
So it was like this sort of, I'm like, okay, I'll just, I had to like remember the questions I had kind of like put in my head again because it was just so bizarre that she was that incompetent.
And that's stupid.
Yeah.
I mean, the idea that you need her permission to film her, she's a public person in a public place at a public protest, and you were asking her public interest questions.
I mean, she doesn't have to answer you.
I think it looks bad that she doesn't.
I mean, why won't she say?
I mean, we sort of know her answer in a way.
I mean, if she's in cabinet, that implies she does support Trudeau.
You know, that she wouldn't vote no on, she wouldn't vote for, you know, no confidence.
Your question about Hanukkah, she could have actually used that to give you a long ramble that was sort of non-political.
She should have taken that exit route if she wanted to.
Or she could have just said, you know, I'm at a community event.
We, you know, array, call my staff.
We can arrange to chat later.
She would never call you back.
There's a lot of things she could have done.
There's a hundred different ways that someone with a moderately competent personality could have gotten out of that.
Like, there's a hundred different outs.
And you're right, non-answers and this and that.
I'm here to promote, you know, the diversity of Canada to something, something.
Like, you just have to give me nonsense words, but she grabbed the phone and then ran away.
And I mean, it's like a microcosm of how entitled the liberals feel to just steamroll the entire country.
And like, is there a reason why the country is kind of in chaos?
Yeah, because the rules seem to not apply to anyone, like top or bottom.
If they, you know, are on the red team, of course.
You know, you mentioned that she's been heckled by the community before.
And I remember one of those instances.
There's a synagogue in North Toronto that has been targeted several times for attacks, glass, smashed, et cetera.
It's called Pride of Israel.
And they actually had sort of a rally.
I don't know if that's what it was, but there was a rule, no questions allowed.
It was super weird.
They had all these politicians attending this so-called town hall, but the rule was no one was allowed to ask anyone questions.
And a lot of people have a lot of questions.
Here's when Yaara Sachs went up to this Pride of Israel event.
And I don't know, maybe it was even you who started the heckling.
I can't remember.
But here's a flashback of that event.
We're going to be welcoming your staff to share with us.
Yeah, I mean, she is what I call a Justin Trudeau kind of Jew.
She's Jewish.
You can tell by her name.
I think she's a dual citizen with Israel.
I'm not sure if dual citizens should be in cabinet, but that's a different debate.
There are a lot of them, by the way, for different countries.
I mean, this is probably the worst example to pick because this is someone with dual citizenship who's loyal to neither of the country shared.
That's a great point.
These are the two countries she hates the most and actively undermines.
You know, we're going to make sure that she was quoted by the Times of Israel as saying that Israel is, quote, a deeply racist country.
And she's part of Justin Trudeau's cabinet.
And he says that we are not just deeply racist in Canada, we are a genocidal country.
So you're so right.
She hates both Israel and Canada, which makes her a Justin Trudeau kind of Jew.
She's a Justin Trudeau kind of Jew.
And the fact that she's Jewish makes it even worse.
But, of course, there's plenty of Muslims and Christians and atheists in Trudeau's cabinet who share her views that Benjamin Netanyahu should be arrested, that we should funnel tens of millions of dollars to the United States.
Well, I'll make this point here because I think we're beating around.
It's like her job in Justin Trudeau's cabinet is to be the Jew who whitewashes the anti-Semitism of the others.
So it's one thing to be like a useless Jew like Anthony House father, who, you know, after a synagogue's burned down, puts it to be like, oh, this is where I had my bar mitzvah, burning down synagogues is bad, right?
He's doing nothing.
But Yara Sachs' job is to actually to fly over to with Meli No Jolie to hold hands with Mahmoud Abbas to say, look, you know, for our foreign affairs and the Jewish minister, say, you know, standing with Palestinians, Yara Sachs' specific role is to use her Jewish identity, right?
The liberals and the political ass create these scenarios in which she can go into public, right?
These synagogues that agree to have like no questions asked, come in here.
We will tell the audience to sit there and shut up.
We'll bring Olivia Chow and Yara Sachs.
Who knows what the kickback deals are?
And then these people can say, oh, look, we're in the community.
We're doing stuff.
Now, the Jewish community doesn't want these anti-Semitic politicians in the community.
And this is why the crowds get restless and don't like them.
But there seems to be like this need to enforce them here.
So you see it.
Like Olivia Chow and Yara Sachs have used the, like when confronted on like, why aren't you doing anything about anti-Semitism?
They go, oh, I was at the Pride of Israel synagogue.
Yeah.
And I gave a speech.
Like Olivia Chow came in for 10 seconds, gave a speech that was nothing and ran away.
Same Yara Sachs.
And Yara Sachs' job is to use her Jewish identity to say, oh, okay, you know, as a Jew, this policy of burning down synagogues is actually kind of good for us.
So that's her role in the cabinet.
And that's why I was surprised she was on that side of the street.
Yeah.
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You know, the latest poll by Angus Reed, I've seen modeling that suggests only six liberals will retain their seats.
By the way, none are in Toronto, and Trudeau himself will lose his.
I'm not sure if I believe that.
I think that's such an extreme result.
That's like a Kim Campbell calamity.
I don't think it'll be that bad, but I think that the vast majority will lose their seats.
Yara Sachs will too.
It'll be interesting to see what the new government, if we have an election this year, I think we will.
I think we'll have one before June or maybe in June.
And I think Pierre Polyev will win a very large majority.
The problem is if it's too large, if you have two, like let me give you a theoretical.
Let's say he won every single seat in the country.
That's obviously not going to happen.
But it's a thought experiment.
If Pierre Polyev literally won every single seat in the cabinet, how would different ideas battle themselves out?
Because not everyone has the same view on Israel, on immigration, on Islamism.
If you have too many people inside the tent, you have to water things down and you have to find more ideological compromises than if you were a more clearly defined party representing a wing of the country.
Yes, you always want to make everyone feel Canadian and have a way for everyone to express themselves.
But there is such a thing, I think, of having too big a coalition that you no longer have a distinct flavor because you're too worried about internal dissent.
Maybe I have to clarify those thoughts a little bit, but what do you think about that?
I see where you're going, and I agree.
There's two ends of the spectrum here where it's like too bad.
Like the way too big open tent where you have no principles, and then you become this sort of, you know, vector for foreign interference and hostile ideologies.
And then like the Muslim Brotherhood, the Khalistanis, the CCP, whatever, bad Russian actors, they can all get in if you brought in the tent too big and you have no principles to stand on.
The same point, you can't go to the sort of like where the insane factions of you could whatever you want to call it now, alt-right, woke-right, insane people who are like, you know, we need this like hyper-focused, like hyper-Puritan, unless if anyone even wants one immigrant in the country, legal or illegal, right, kick them out, right?
You need to find this balance where if the party doesn't actually stand for something, then it's not going to grow.
And this is, I think, the biggest mistake the Conservative Party always makes is they always try and find this red to this middle ground, this happy compromise.
But this is the O'Toole flaw.
No one wants diet Trudeau.
If they're going to drink Trudeau, they'll drink Trudeau, right?
You have to convince them that there's a better drink out there called conservatism, right?
And actually have some conservative principles that stand for something.
And yes, if you're going to stand for something, it means you're going to exclude something.
You know, it might be good to exclude the grooming gang aficionados who are running through the UK.
It might be good to be seen as the party that's more hardline against things like that than more, you know, generally accepting.
And yeah, I understand the fear and I have it too of the Conservative Party sort of getting too much, you know, having the bloc as the official opposition, and then having the unelected sort of gatekeepers of the political class, which exist in all parties, basically see, oh, we have so much free reign.
And, you know, oh, this person can sign up 2,000 members and bring us in $25,000 in one week.
That's pretty good.
But then never really look into this person as like, oh, he's done this to the Liberal Party, done this to the NDP.
What are the organizations he's frequenting?
What do they say about our country?
Huh?
Oh, what's this connection to this hostile foreign government coming up right here?
Like, you worry that that, because if there's no pressure on the Conservative Party to sort of maintain and like trim the fat, that they'll get lazy, bloated, and then become the Liberal Party.
I understand that fear.
You see it, like there are hostile foreign ideologies and extremist factions that are actively trying to, they, listen, part of their existence is to infiltrate political parties anywhere they find them at any part of the world.
The Conservative Party is a political party on the planet.
So it does have these elements trying to get in.
And if you don't stand for something, if you don't have clear principles, and clear principles will exclude people.
But I've always said, like, if you have clear principles that people can glom onto, you actually win over more people.
Instead of trying to meet people in this crazy middle where no one really exists, where like no one has any principles and just floating around, if you actually had some concrete principles, defend them effectively and promote them as good values, people will then see them as such and join into you.
And I think that's the balance that the Conservative Party of Canada always has to strike because if it goes too red, Tory, far, whatever, you get Kim Campbell, and the party exploded, stands for nothing, just go to the liberals anyway.
And if you go too hyper-partisan to the right, you become undigestible to the electorate in general.
So you need a strong, principled Conservative Party to actually govern conservatively.
And there are some of those people.
I have met them in the Conservative Party, but there's also a lot of people with no general principles or intelligence just floating around the political system of all colors.
And I've met those people as well.
So Daniel, it's great to connect with you.
We got to leave it there.
Thanks for going to that event and catching Yara Sachs.
The fact that she couldn't or wouldn't answer your questions, I think, said an earful, even though she was silent.