REBEL ROUNDUP dissects Trudeau’s divisive "not American" remark amid Trump’s 25% tariff threats on Canadian exports, exposing Liberal erosion of free speech, pro-life policies, and economic mismanagement—like blocking $1T in LNG deals while failing on housing or hospitals. The leadership race chaos, from Frank Bayliss’ $6 ventilator scandal to Karina Gould’s $370K "Digital Citizen Initiative" labeling critics as neo-Nazis, highlights systemic fraud risks like 14-year-old voters and foreign student manipulation. Meanwhile, California’s $150B wildfire disaster—fueled by DEI firefighting policies and defunding—may shift its politics rightward, mirroring Canada’s potential decline under Trudeau’s "woke" governance, where cooperation with U.S. business leaders becomes critical to avoid tariffs and preserve prosperity. [Automatically generated summary]
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Rebel News live stream here on a Friday, January the 10th, 2025.
I'm David Menzies and my co-host.
Well, let me tell you a little bit about my co-host, shall I?
You know what, folks?
Today is National Cut Your Energy Cost Day.
My co-host will not be celebrating that because that is an American invention.
Our national cut your energy cost day, well, that will be Election Day 2025.
Bye-bye, Carbon Tax.
She is the she-devil with a sword.
She is the Khaleesi of Northern Alberta.
She is the amazing Sheila Gunread.
How you doing there, Sheila?
David, I'm great.
Did you get a lot of sleep last night?
You're very energetic today.
It's also National Peculiar People Day, a day in which we celebrate the likes of David Menzies.
I thought you were going to mention Busty Lemieux.
By the way, folks, we have a new scoop coming up about that cat on the weekend.
Don't you dare miss it as Billy.
You don't want to.
Yes.
How are you doing, David?
I'm doing great.
You know what?
I think the energy has to do, Sheila, with, you know, after the holidays, after New Year's Day, typically in the news cycle, it's slow.
You know, people are just getting back.
Well, of course, our elected officials, they're still taking weeks off, whether it's federal or provincial.
But Sheila, have you ever seen in your lifetime such a jam-packed news cycle as the first couple of weeks, barely, the first 10 days, if you will, of January?
I haven't.
With all the things going on in Ottawa, with the California wildfires, you can't keep up.
That's my take.
What about you?
Yeah, that's why I'm exhausted and low energy.
You seem to be the exact opposite.
Yeah, I get up every day and I'm like, how the hell am I going to get to all this news today?
I'm trying to do videos on each of the liberal candidates for the leadership as they announce themselves.
And now we have more details about who those people are and the new changes to how the liberals are running their leadership campaign.
And they're supposed to have their new leader chosen by March 9th, as if.
But we'll see how that goes.
But I'll tell everybody what we're doing and then we'll get into the things we want to talk about because there's a ton.
Justin Trudeau manages to open his mouth and make everything worse.
And now he's doing it globally instead of just at home.
So we'll talk about that today.
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And that's what Rumble is.
If you want to watch us over there, it's very similar to the YouTube experience, minus the censorship.
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And we usually normally always make the time.
Although I can't go too, too long today with the show, David, just because I have two videos to film.
As I said, it's a very busy day and I'm exhausted from it already.
Works for me, Sheila.
I have some other things to film as well.
So let's get right to the meat and potatoes.
You know, Justin Trudeau's so-called resignation, it really is the long goodbye.
And don't think Blackface is not going to miss an opportunity, whether it's domestic or international media, to make a jackass out of himself.
Case in point, Justin Trudeau has a new whiz-bang definition for what a Canadian is.
Take it away, Justin.
That's not going to happen.
Canadians are incredibly proud of being Canadian.
One of the ways we define ourselves most easily is: well, we're not American.
There is such a depth of pride that that's not actually an issue.
What I think is happening in this is President Trump, who's a very skillful negotiator, is getting people to be somewhat distracted by that conversation to take away from the conversation around 25% tariffs on oil and gas and electricity and steel and aluminum and lumber and concrete and everything the American consumers buy from Canada is suddenly going to get a lot more expensive if he moves forward on these tariffs.
And that's something that I think we need to be focusing on a little bit more.
Yeah, so Sheila, I want to hear your take, but let me give you my take.
When you define yourself or your product or your service as something it's not, then it's not really much of an identity, a product or service.
Case in point, if you ask the Toronto May Police, what are you?
Well, we're a hockey team that hasn't won the Stanley Cup in over half a century.
Well, that's accurate.
But what are you?
You know, at least they're saying, but we're not the Habs.
You know, if you say, what's a cantaloupe?
And the answer is, it's not a banana, that's accurate.
But what's a cantaloupe?
You know what I'm saying, Sheila?
And by the way, one last point I want to make.
When you say this, well, we're not Americans, the absolute chutzpah of this prime minister, that's a slur.
That's saying to Americans, we are better than you.
We are better.
We're judged by a higher standard.
I don't know about you, Sheila.
I love the United States of America.
I love Americans.
And for Blackface to slur our biggest allies that way is absolutely egregious and outrageous.
I've got a couple of points to make, actually, probably three.
Remember when Justin Trudeau said a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian?
And that was when we were talking about taking away the citizenship of foreign-born citizens who were guilty of terrorism offenses.
He said a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian, and yet he still remains unable to define what a Canadian is.
But you know who could define what a Canadian is?
John Diefenbaker, Conservative prime minister, was certainly able to do that.
When he was asked what a Canadian was, he said, I'm a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think is right, free to oppose what I believe is wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country.
This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and for all mankind.
That's a man who understood what it meant to be Canadian.
And interestingly enough, many of the things he listed, Justin Trudeau has made illegal under the modern version of Canadians that you're not free to stand for what you're right.
Ask the Freedom Convoy to oppose what you believe is wrong or free to choose those who will govern my country.
We are currently not free to do that because Justin Trudeau has subverted that process and handed it back to the Liberal Party.
And I've got one more person who was able to articulate very clearly what it means to be a Canadian, and that was Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
I dropped the link to his video that he said many years ago, but he reposted it the other day.
This is a man who understood what it clearly meant to be Canadian and had no problem formulating it.
It seemed to be something that he thought about a lot.
Justin Trudeau has never thought about what it means to be a Canadian.
Indeed, Sheila.
And Canada is and always has been our country.
And we want Canada to be a true North that is as strong and as free as it can be in every way that matters.
The best country in the world.
That's why we're here.
That's why we strive.
That's why we serve.
Canada must reflect the true character of the Canadian people.
Honorable in our dealings, faithful to our commitments, loyal to our friends.
By turns, a courageous warrior and a compassionate neighbor.
It is our purpose that Canada must be great.
It must be great for all Canadians.
It must be a country of hope and an example to the world.
And only when it is these things, when Canada is all that it can be, only then can we say that our work is done.
Beautiful.
And you know, Sheila, we're two peas in a pod when it comes to the oratory of Stephen Harper and Diefenbaker.
And I totally agree with you.
In the 10 years we've had of Justin Trudeau, these definitions of Canada no longer apply.
They both emphasize freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of worship.
And what have we seen?
We have seen those freedoms taken away.
We have seen the invocation of the Emergencies Act to shut down a peaceful trucker protest.
We have seen law-abiding Canadians having their bank accounts frozen.
We have seen law enforcement presumably being ordered to turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to mobs of people.
Some of them aren't even citizens, chanting genocide in the street for the past 15 months every weekend.
That Canada under Blackface does not exist, I would argue.
It's even worse than that.
We've seen the delisting of pro-life charities, the leveraging of government programs like the summer jobs grants to make people conform to the worldview of the Liberal Party of Canada.
We've seen the euthanization of our most vulnerable because they are inconvenient in a medical system that doesn't allow innovation thanks to the Canada Health Act.
Like it's a nightmare.
Canada is a shadow of what it once was.
And it happened so fast, it's almost difficult to remember what it was like before.
And it is ominous how much, like, I mean, if you believe the polls, and I do, regardless of the leadership change at the helm of the Liberal Party of Canada, Sheila, I think absolutely we're heading for a Pierre Kolyev majority government.
But this isn't something we can fix or he can fix or the party can fix in a four-year mandate.
This is generational damage Trudeau and his minions have done to this nation.
I can't imagine what files you tackle first.
Hopefully, it'll be the carbon tax going the way of the Stegosaurus.
Hopefully, it'll be the CBC being put out of its misery.
Oh, and Sheila, you know, given that we're in broadcast journalism, I can't wait to go to Front Street where CBC Canadian headquarters is and start buying that equipment for five cents on the dollar.
Oh, man, Christmas in July.
You know what?
I hope that I'm able to buy the entire at-issue panel set and just turn my office into it.
I mean, they're going to be selling that stuff for pennies on the dollar like Frank Bayless ventilators.
Let's get into President Trump's reaction to what Justin Trudeau said, because he did take a stab at, you know, like the best thing about Canadians is that we're not Americans.
Imagine.
You know, and I'll tell you my thoughts on President Trump's constant teasing and threats toward us, because I'm not entirely sure he's serious, but I'll tell you why that there is a lot of truth in what he has to say.
I called him Governor Trudeau because they should be the 51st state, really.
It would make a great state.
And the people of Canada like it.
They pay lower taxes.
They have virtually no military.
They have a very small military.
They pay less than 1%.
They're about the lowest payer in NATO.
They're supposed to pay much more.
They haven't been paying.
They have a lot of problems.
And I was with Wayne Gretzky.
I said, Wayne, would you like to be the governor of Canada?
I can't imagine anybody doing any better than Wayne.
Wayne was not too interested, but I think he probably would have liked statehood.
He's a friend of mine.
He's a great guy.
He's the great one.
We call him the great one, right?
He's a great hockey player.
But I will say this.
I think that there's, you know, it was stated pretty strongly a couple of weeks ago about Canada and people laughed.
And now they're all saying, well, it's very interesting.
And I say from the standpoint of the United States, we're subsidizing Canada $200 and $250 billion a year.
We have massive deficits.
They've taken about 20% of our car business.
I'd rather do it here.
We could put tariffs on.
We don't have tariffs on them yet, but that will happen.
But they've taken about 20% of our car business.
I'd rather have it done in Detroit or have it done in South Carolina or any other state that does cars.
And we have a lot of them.
We don't need Canada for that.
We don't need Canada for lumber because we have big forests that we have, you know, not utilized.
In some cases, they're protected, which I can take that protection off.
And you take down a tree and you grow a better tree.
That's pretty common.
But we don't need anything.
We don't need their fuel.
We don't need their energy.
We don't need their oil and gas.
We don't need anything that they have.
And I said to Trudeau, I said, why are we subsidizing you $200 and $250 billion a year?
He said, I really don't know.
And I said, well, I don't know either.
I said, what would happen to Canada if we didn't?
He said, Canada would be obliterated if that happened.
Trudeau's Negotiating Tactics00:15:02
I said, then Canada should be a 51st state.
And that's where we are now.
Well, Sheila, here's my take.
I think what began truly as an off-the-cuff remark has now become a running joke.
And that begs the question, is it a joke?
Maybe not a joke, but I would say if you read Donald Trump's superb book, The Art of the Deal, I truly believe this is a negotiation tactic.
And Trump isn't even residing in the White House.
And what do we see?
We see certain Canadian provinces already beefing up border security, just like that.
And, you know, but I would say too, and this is why I think Donald Trump is being disingenuous.
Contrary to what he said, everybody is on side with becoming a state.
Well, not everybody.
There is a big liberal base here in Canada.
And Sheila, let's hypothesize that Canada becomes the 51st state, which is kind of preposterous because how can you have one new state bigger than all 50 combined?
But that's what would happen.
Here's the thing.
It doesn't fix my problems of being culturally incompatible with the rest of the country.
Carve us up three, four times if you're going to do it.
True enough.
But as much as we're likely going to have a conservative majority government this year come into office, that might not be forever and ever.
The liberals consider themselves the natural ruling governing party of Canada.
What I'm getting at, if the state of Canada has two Senate seats and those are Democratic in a razor-thin Senate margin that we see in recent years, does Donald Trump want that?
Does he want a democratically controlled Senate?
I mean, this is why the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico are not full-fledged states as much as the left wants them to be, because you know those would be left-leaning and there, bingo, overnight, you have four more Democratic senators.
So that's why I don't think for Trump's own self-interest, he wants us as a bona fide 51st state.
Well, and it's, you know, when people say that Trump is being absolutely dead serious here, I worry that they've never bought something on Facebook Marketplace before or gone to a garage sale.
You know, like you, this is a negotiating tactic to get us to do the things that Trudeau should be doing anyway, securing the border and cooperating a little bit more on economic issues.
And, you know, like who, as I said the other day in the staff meeting, who would buy a crack house?
Would Trump?
I mean, because that's sort of the analogy here.
But I wanted to just share some thoughts that I put in our company Slack channel the other day as people were like, oh my God, are we going to be crushed by tariffs?
Well, maybe.
But that's up to Justin Trudeau now, isn't it?
Do I think Trump is being completely serious?
No.
Do I wish he would stop threatening me with a good time?
Slightly.
As Premier Daniel Smith points out, Trump has a great sense of humor.
And in all of this, here's the truth in all of this.
He's making fun of Trudeau.
He's teasing him.
But in the teasing and the mockery is a really harsh truth.
And any good comedian jams the truth into the comedy.
Canada is a shell of what it used to be.
And the decay of Canadian society happened in the nine years that Trudeau was in power.
Nobody is better off today than they were nine years ago.
Trudeau has destroyed our immigration system.
And as a result, housing prices are up, wages are down.
He carbon taxed everything we do, making life and work unaffordable.
Crime has spiked.
And Trudeau has censored, arrested, and frozen the bank accounts of dissidents and critics.
Our health care system would sooner euthanize you than treat you.
Our economy is in free fall.
The Canadian people are demoralized.
Even worse, so is our military.
It's gone completely woke.
And the sad reality is that if not for the benevolence of our neighbors to the south, tariffs could crush us and we could be taken over by force and not just by the Americans, by literally anybody.
So Trump is joking, but Trudeau doesn't even realize that he's the joke in all of it.
You know, you're so right.
Donald Trump is the man of tomorrow, and that kicks in precisely on Monday, January the 20th.
And Trudeau is yesterday's man taking this long, prolonged walk in the snow to oblivion.
Still capable of doing some damage on the way out, I would argue, Sheila, much like Joe Biden is doing a lot of damage on his remaining days.
Yeah.
And like I said, this is A, a negotiating tactic that's already paying dividends, and B, a mocking of a leader that he does not like.
We know that from Donald Trump.
No respect for him whatsoever.
Yeah.
Yeah, he has no respect for Trudeau.
And that's what really this is all about.
This isn't really about the Canadian people.
I don't think Americans have a problem with us, by and large, except for the fact that some of us keep electing Justin Trudeau.
This is a mockery in which is a very difficult truth, and that is that our country is all but destroyed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Let's skip ahead to Polyev, who has no problem articulating what it means to be a proud Canadian.
We're going to take back control and put our country first.
That means rebuilding our economy, bringing home production, rebuilding our military, supporting a strong border, reinstating controls on immigration, and most of all, being proud of our country and unapologetic for our history.
We need to honor our past and our shared values.
We need to live out the dream that started with John A. MacDonald.
Yes, I said John A. McDonald, who believed in an independent and sovereign Canada.
We need to uphold our heroes, stop tearing down our symbols, remind people who come here that when they're given a Canadian flag and they land on Canadian soil, that it's the greatest gift on earth and that they should be proud to be part of the Canadian family.
That's what it means to be a proud Canadian.
That's what it means to put Canada first.
Let's bring it home.
Boy, a little bit different than we're not Americans.
Holy mackerel.
That's what you have when you have more than two brain cells to rub together and hope for a little spark of static.
Again, somebody who's completely able to articulate what it means to be a Canadian for those of us who are here, for those of us who choose Canada, Justin Trudeau, the best he can come up with is not Americans.
Just, it's an embarrassment.
And Justin Trudeau decided that he should go to the United States and tell his big bold theories to an American audience after canceling all of his media appearances before Christmas with Canadian audiences.
He goes to the Americans to speak directly to them and tell and insult them.
And another point that is sort of a side tangent, I feel like I'm Trump because he sort of goes on these little wiggly side tangents when he's talking.
Interesting choice to speak directly to the anti-Trump network CNN, which is what Trudeau did.
That's a tapper of all people.
Of all people.
Daniel Smith, even Doug Ford, who gets very little right on this topic, knows enough to go to talk to Fox, which is Trump's people, and they know that Trump watches Fox.
So, I mean, Trudeau went there to talk to Trump's enemies instead of talking directly to Trump.
Again, thanks for nothing, idiot.
You know, it's amazing.
I think that was the same press conference.
There was an interesting question asked, not necessarily a bad one, but interesting, by a member of the mainstream media.
I can't remember who it was, Sheila.
And she was saying that because Trump is hell-bent allegedly on putting in these 25% tariffs on Canada, will you, if you form the next government, you know, steer your mandate away from the carbon tax to fighting back against the tariffs?
And Polyev's answer was absolutely brilliant.
He said the carbon tax is a tariff on all Canadians right now.
And it was so coincidental while that press conference was happening because Lady Menzoid was having a conniption.
It had nothing to do for a change with anything I did to her.
And I do love to annoy her because let's face it, you only annoy the ones you love.
But Sheila, we got our Enbridge natural gas bill.
Give me 10 seconds to analyze it.
Okay, customer charge, $25.90.
Delivery charge, $3,787.
Isn't that amazing?
Delivery charge, like somebody comes along in a truck and goes, here, Mrs. Menzies, your natural gas.
It's not coming on the existing infrastructure already to your house that you paid for when you built your house.
Exactly.
Transportation to Enbridge, I don't even know what that means.
$24.19.
Here's the actual gas price, $48.86.
Now, Sheila, make sure you're seated.
Here is the federal carbon charge, okay?
$75.03.
By far, the biggest charge of all these bogus charges is that carbon tax.
Are you telling me that we don't benefit?
That millions of Canadians don't benefit if you take that 75%.
That's just on one bill.
One bill.
That's not on your electricity.
If you are natural gas electricity, like so many Albertans, that's not on filling up your vehicle.
That's not in your groceries.
That's a hidden excise tax.
Actually, we've got a clip of Pauliyev discussing the future of Canadian energy exports.
And I think he puts it just about right.
The reality is putting Canadian tariffs on American energy wouldn't do very much because they have a mass, they buy a hell of a lot more oil and gas from us than we do from them.
In fact, our entire trade surplus with the Americans is the result of oil and gas.
When President Trump complains about America's trade deficit with Canada, what he's the concern he's raising really is that Canada is selling oil and gas at a massive price discount to American refineries and LNG plants that are able to massively profit at our expense.
It is a ripoff.
We're ripping ourselves off with this approach.
We, because of fanatical and stupid environmental extremists in the liberal government and throughout the country, we are forced to sell almost all of our energy exports to the Americans.
So the answer to that is to stop being stupid and start building LNG plants, pipelines, refineries, upgraders, and other energy infrastructure so that we can sell our energy to the world without going through the Americans.
And that would allow us the independence and the sovereignty that we need to support our economy free from these threats.
But I would remind our American friends that they benefit from our affordable, reliable energy, and the alternative is Venezuela, Iran, and other foreign dictatorships.
Why would we not want to have a North American energy market that enriches us both?
You know, Sheila, what a breath of fresh air.
And even not just in terms of what comes out of the mouths of the liberals, but I was hearing a sound clip of Premier Doug Ford of Ontario speaking about the Trump tariffs.
And he gave the example of, well, you know, this is going to hurt Americans.
Say Americans are going to buy a pickup truck built in Oshawa.
It's going to be 25% more for them.
Hello?
There hasn't been pickup trucks manufactured by General Motors in Oshawa for years now.
Years, Sheila.
So can somebody buy this guy a calendar so he knows what the hell he's talking about?
My personal theory, why he's against the tariffs, as you know, come winter time, we have to import cherries.
And my gosh, can you imagine the cost of Ford for that ingredient of his cherry cheesecake?
Oh, yeah.
And that's funny because Ford is invoking some COVID era language.
We'll get to that in a second.
But Polyov could not be more right.
First of all, do I think that Trump is going to slap tariffs on Canadian oil and gas?
I'll tell you no, because once gas goes up a few cents a gallon in the Midwest, things will change pretty fast.
And then he's right to point out that the liberals have forced us into a monopoly with the United States, leaving us vulnerable to tariffs with regard to the energy sector.
Japan has come pleading to us at least twice now for liquefied natural gas.
Germany, we could offset their reliance on Russian energy if we would just sell them liquefied natural gas.
On the table, dead on arrival, once the liberals took power, Northern Gateway and Energy East, those both would have been export pipelines to get Canadian energy to Tidewater.
Right now, even with the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, much of that, well, all of that oil and gas either ends up in the lower mainland or Cherry Point refinery in Washington.
So it still goes to the United States.
We have to get access to foreign markets, and the liberals have made sure that never happened.
And here we are.
Trillion Dollar Bet00:05:19
Sheila, shame on you.
Didn't you hear what Blackface had to say to the Germans, the Japanese?
There was another country.
I forget, but there's no business case.
Yes, there's no business case.
We're now talking about when you fulfill those contracts to those three countries, I think it was approaching $1 trillion.
Yes, a trillion with a T, folks.
$1 trillion.
And Blackface says there's no business case.
This is the guy, of course, that said the budget will balance itself.
Do you want to know why?
Where's the natural gas in this country?
Northern British Columbia and Alberta.
And we wouldn't want those places that are so strongly conservative to benefit from this.
And when he does this to British Columbia, especially, he's robbing Indigenous people from way out of generational poverty.
Oh, yeah, 100%.
Well, he's a reconciliation.
Yeah.
And while he doesn't seem to mind that so many reserves have boil advisories for their drinking water.
But Sheila, the point I'm getting to, think of $1 trillion of fresh payola in the treasury.
Let's put it this way.
How many houses could we build with that?
How many hospitals could we build with that?
How is there not a business case, and for that matter, a political case, and for that matter, even a social justice case of having $1 trillion of found money?
This is absolutely disgraceful.
It's a billion dollars a hospital.
So there's the math for you.
And I know that through my friend Chris Sims from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, who happened to be my guest on the gun show this week.
Let's go skip ahead to, because I know we're long on time here and we've got an ad, a chat, and a rebel ad to read.
We have Doug Ford warns of the potential impact of a prolonged trade war with the United States.
And it sounds like civil liberties are at risk again.
This situation we're facing in January 20th, everyone's involved from, again, coast to coast to coast.
We have to make sure that we stand united.
We stand tall and proud.
We're a sovereign nation that we're proud of.
Being Canadian, we'll never give that up.
And we'll see how long these tariffs will last.
But I can tell you, I said it a month ago when he first said it.
These tariffs are coming.
And are they going to come like they did last time for five or six weeks?
That's one thing.
But if they last for months and months, we're going to have to do the same thing as what we did during the pandemic.
I'm going to have to put tens of billions of dollars into the economy to save the economy, to protect Canadian Ontario jobs.
And I don't have a mandate from the people to spend tens of billions of dollars during the pandemic.
When we passed our budget, it was unanimous.
I can tell you it won't be unanimous this time.
But let's see what happens down the road.
And hopefully, these tariffs will only last a few weeks.
Sheila, I want to hear your analysis of what the Premier just said because I have to shamefully admit I didn't hear a single word.
I was mesmerized by that man standing beside him.
That's Stephen Lecci, the invisible man, has dropped his cloaking device.
This is the former education minister who had literally run away from parents asking about transgenders in the school system, drag queen performances.
There he is.
Look at that.
There's the former Minister of Education, the most woke, cowardly education minister in Arn.
Now he's got some new portfolio.
I think it's energy.
Because you know, Sheila, in Ontario, perhaps in Canada, you fail upwards here, don't you?
You know what?
Or at least laterally.
What is he saying?
We're going to pump tens of billion dollars into the economy to save jobs.
How?
From where?
Where are you going to get the money?
If industry is ground to a halt, what are you going to do?
Give a bunch of money to the auto industry again and get them to do what?
Stockpile parts that the United States isn't buying?
How does that work?
What do you do to keep manufacturing alive if the buyer isn't buying?
What are you just going to do?
Like stockpile these parts outside?
How does that work?
Sheila, you just gave me a thought because Doug Ford has two portfolios.
He's the Premier of Ontario.
He's also the CEO of Deco Labels here in Toronto.
Do you think, me, I'm pretty sure they do a lot of U.S. exporting.
I know they've, I believe, I don't know if it's still in operation, but they certainly had a Chicago office.
Maybe that's really what's motivating Doug Ford.
The idea of his decals and labels not being competitive anymore with a tariff on them.
Yeah, I don't.
I don't, I don't know.
Are they going to slap tariffs on decals?
I don't know.
They're more likely to do it to auto parts, energy, lumber, and maybe electricity.
House Commons Debate00:13:41
We'll see.
Canada, or at least Alberta, we buy a lot of electricity from Montana and Wyoming during cold snaps.
I mean, and that's just to keep the lights on.
They could get us coming and going here.
And by the way, Sheila, in case anyone out there is saying, well, enough with the speculation menzoid, why don't you just go out to Deco Labels and ask them directly?
It's because the last time I did, they called the police on me, okay?
And kept the door locked.
That's why.
You have a lot of stories that end with, and the last time I did that, they called the police on me.
Well, let's hope 2025 is a different tune in that regard, eh, Sheila?
Yes.
Okay, I've got an ad read, and then we've got a chat, and then I think we have a Rebel News ad break.
Then we want to get into the Liberal Party leadership.
That's why I'm wearing my bright red today.
What, you're running?
No.
And anybody can.
The hell, if Frank Bayless can run, why can't I?
Anyways, we'll talk about that.
And then there's two specific stories that I want to get to in our like little extras category.
The two that I added in the chat there earlier this week, Olivia.
Just somebody asked me to talk about them, so I'm going to.
Okay, so have you heard of the recent advertising scandal?
Let me break it down.
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Rumble's not even right-wing.
I think they just let you speak your mind, which apparently is a right-wing thing to do these days.
In other words, Dunkin' Donuts has a problem with right-wing culture and wants nothing to do with it or Rumble, the blue-collar company for coffee in the United States, if you can believe it.
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Very good.
Very, very good.
To get this limited time deal.
And we've got a chat here from Billy Howard, who says, gives us five bucks and says, JT's doing U.S. legacy media tour, bucking for a high-paid media gig there.
I don't know.
Does he need that?
I don't know.
He's throwing liberal MPs and Canadians under the bus.
Liberal MPs must force election now if they want a chance at post-election relevance.
I think that ship has sailed.
It's like gone over the horizon.
The chance that these people are going to even save themselves, I think it's long gone.
Yeah, Billy, I think you're wrong.
And by the way, thank you for the $5 donation.
I think you're wrong.
Thanks for the money, but you're wrong.
Yeah, we do appreciate that.
And here's the reason you're wrong with the greatest of respect.
For Justin Trudeau to become one of the trained SEALs in the mainstream media, government-funded MSM, that would be such a catastrophic step down for him.
He still wants to be the ringleader.
He wants to be one of the elites.
I would predict, Sheila, there's something at the United Nations waiting for him, something at the World Economic Forum.
And in a worst case scenario, something at the Eurasia group, he can join his buddy Gerald Butts, who's heading that up.
But the idea of Justin Trudeau, could you imagine, Sheila?
He's on the Ottawa Bureau with some media organization and he's scrumming the next prime minister.
That ain't going to happen.
No way.
No, and he would have to whine about not having media access after jailing journalists for nine years.
Do we have, Olivia?
Sorry, I didn't see you respond there.
Oh, do we have a rebel ad?
Do we want to play one or do we just want to keep going?
Okay, let's just keep going because we've got a lot to talk about today and I don't need a break.
Let's get into the Liberal Party leadership.
So far, some people have identified themselves.
Frank Bayless of Quarter Billion Dollar Ventilators Sold for Scrap scandal.
Sole source contract.
If you don't know about Frank Bayless, I've got a video coming up about him.
Just a quick refresher.
He was a liberal MP from 2015 to 2019.
Then, oh, the pandemic hits in 2020.
Frank all of a sudden has a medical supply company.
And he gets, much like Randy Boisano, all of a sudden he's got a PPE import company when the pandemic hits.
Frank gets a $230, $240 million sole source contract to deliver ventilators for, I think, $23,000 a pop, $10,000 or so more over the other manufacturers.
And the style of ventilator was never tested.
So we didn't even know if they were going to work.
They were way over budget.
And then they were never used.
They were sold for scrap, like literally $6 a pop.
And some of them were shipped to Ukraine.
And then in the middle of all this, Bayliss gets a contract to maintain the ventilators that nobody was using for $4 million.
And now he's going to run for the leadership.
Sheila, because I'm always wary of defamation lawsuits, are you sure you don't mean the other Frank?
Oh, it could be.
Could be.
And I don't know how we got this sole source contract.
I don't know if he identifies as Indigenous or just a greasy liberal.
And I don't think it matters at the end of the day with the way that procurement works in this country and just the gall of these people.
Like you got your half or a quarter of a billion dollars out of us.
Go away.
But no, you still want to be in charge.
You still want to be in charge of stuff.
And I guess the way everybody just gets away with these procurement scandals with the liberal government, why wouldn't you?
I mean, it's so perfectly liberal.
He's the first guy to announce, and it is, it's like chef's kiss liberal corruption.
Frank Bayliss, the guy who's embroiled in the, I mean, it wasn't even a scandal.
It was like he just took the money and ran.
Now he's running for the liberal, the liberal leadership.
Melanie Jolie said that she's not running.
Dominic LeBlanc, Justin Trudeau's former babysitter, says he's not running.
Nate Erskine Smith released a ridiculous video saying that he's not running as if anybody asked him to run.
Does he have the energy?
I don't know.
But then we've got Indian Canadian MP Chandra Arya.
I just found out who this guy is.
I remember seeing him, but I just, he was so, he's such a like a backbencher-y type that I've never actually paid any sort of attention to him.
I remember a couple of weeks ago, he got in a fight with another liberal MP.
Maybe we can dig that up.
It's on Brattini's channel.
Actually, maybe I can dig it up because I sent the clip to Alexa this morning.
But anyways, Indian Canadian MP, Chandra Arya, launches a liberal campaign and they ask him how his French is.
He says, no, not good.
But and I don't mean to make fun, but neither is his English.
And I would really like it if he was fluent in one of the national languages.
How's your French?
No.
No, no French?
No French.
Okay, the Liberal Party Canada is the party of official bilingualism.
It's going to be a tough one.
I don't speak French either, so I, you know.
The point is that whether the Quebecers are English Canadians, it's not the language that matters.
It's what is that they deliver to them.
With the language matters very much in Quebec.
No.
At the end of the day, Quebecers see who delivers what.
You know, we have English-speaking, French-fluent prime ministers for all the time.
One of the things that matters to Quebecers are being a sovereign country, a sovereign republic.
And which Prime Minister has ever talked about that?
Mr., if you're going to run for prime minister, I mean, you have to know that the French language matters and French matters in Quebec.
Trust me.
Profoundly.
Trust me.
At the end of the day, for French Canadians and English Canadians, the matters most is that how the children and grandchildren are going to prosper in this country.
That is the thing that matters.
Okay, we'll leave it there.
We'll see what happens in the rules.
Come up a chance.
How's your French?
Wow.
How profound, how endearing.
Oh, and by the way, Chandra, I'll take an extra large two creams in an apple fritter.
Thank you.
Let's show these two Liberal MPs.
I put it in the chat there, Olivia.
Brattani is from Brett Worlds on X.
It's from the House of Commons.
This is where I first learned of Arya Chandra.
But again, just two Liberal MPs fighting in the House of Commons was of consequence to me.
I never paid attention to anybody's names.
So Arya Chandra was allowed to vote freely, but Sukh Dollywal is intimidating him outside of the House.
And this is the part that really irritates me: this is on completely non-Canadian topics, and it's not parliamentary to bring their religious beef into the house.
But anyways, let's listen to these two.
This was like out in the House of Commons, completely in the open, just the chaos in the Liberal Party.
A few minutes back, a member from Surrey Newton introduced a motion seeking unanimous consent, and I said no.
I believe on the way out of this chamber, the member threatened that I'll be effed up.
So another member also aggressively accosted me in the lobby.
I feel that as a member of parliament, I should be able to express my opinion, my views freely in the house, and I should not be felt threatened by any words or actions of my fellow members.
Thank you, the Honorable Member, for bringing that forward.
Wow, you know, Sheila, as someone who last year was arrested five times for practicing journalism, methinks the lady doth protest too much.
Well, and here's the thing: this has nothing to do with Canada, whatever they're fighting about here.
This is from Chandra's Twitter page or ex page himself.
He said, today the member of parliament from Surrey Newton, so that's the other dude, attempted to have parliament declare the 1984 riots in India against Sikhs a genocide.
He sought unanimous consent from all members in the House of Commons to pass this motion.
I was the only member present in the House to say no, and my single objection was enough to prevent this motion from being approved.
Immediately after this, I was threatened inside the Parliament building for standing up and saying no.
There have been several attempts both within the parliament and outside to stop me from freely and publicly voicing the concerns of Hindu Canadians.
While I'm proud in having stopped this divisive agenda from succeeding today, we cannot afford to be complacent.
Anyways, he's talking about, then he goes on to talk about the Khalistan lobby and whatever.
At the end of the day, this is not a Canadian issue.
What are you doing?
Why is it?
Why are now we have Sikh parliamentarians and Hindu parliamentarians intimidating each other and fighting each other in the Canadian House of Commons?
And we're like, we can't afford electricity.
Thank you.
Can we get back to the business of running the business here?
But you know what, Sheila?
I would respectfully disagree with you about this not being a Canadian issue.
Oh, I guess it is now.
Well, the Khalistani movement is more alive in Canada, the U.S., and the UK than it is in India.
And the Khalistanis, of course, are the ones who want a separate Sikh homeland in India.
And by the way, don't judge all Sikhs by the Khalistani minority.
And also, Sheila, lest we forget, 1986, I think it was, the greatest act of terrorism against Canadians when more than 300 people died on that Air India plane.
We've had two public inquiries that points the finger at Khalestani extremists.
So, yeah, you know, unfortunately, it is a Canadian issue these days.
Yeah.
You know what?
I take your criticism and I accept it.
I just don't know why these elected parliamentarians are bringing former homeland grudges here and making an issue in the House of Commons.
We should skip ahead to this very interesting story about the weaponization of a government policy or a government program.
It was called the Digital Citizen Initiative.
It still lives on.
I hope it's rooted out like the weed that it is in our democracy.
So I wrote this up this morning.
Karina Gould Heritage used the Digital Citizen Initiative launched in 2019 to malign critics of the liberal government using academics.
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And basically, they were trying to attack convoy supporters and conservatives.
And the goal of this woman, to link them back to neo-Nazism and Nazi, like an old school Nazism.
Karina Gould.
Karina Gould, that's the worst part.
Is I can link Karina Gould to Naziism, an old geriatric Jew killer named Yaroslav Hunka, where she is holding his hand and celebrating him and applauding him.
That's her.
And she's going around trying to link people who just simply are guilty of the crime of not being liberals to Nazism and ruin their reputation.
That's what they were doing with the Digital Citizen Initiative under the guise of fact-checking.
Well, there she is, Yaroslav.
Good job.
Wow, Sheila, let me ask you this.
What is a more embarrassing photo?
That one you just described or Carney with Ghislaine Maxwell, a photo that just...
Are we calling her that now?
Why not?
Yeah, we can move ahead to Brian.
No, it's okay.
I have a friend who says it that way too, just for spite.
So, yeah, just to wrap up on the Karina Gould thing, They gave $370,000 encouraging media and the public to avoid questioning government authority.
And they wanted to attack dissenters of the liberal government.
And they used the word like questioning the government was enough to get you labeled misinformation.
Well, of course it is.
And they used a series of quote-unquote influencers who were supposed to do their best to appear nonpartisan while just doing and saying everything the liberals wanted you to do.
We encourage Canadians not just to double check and respond to misinformation and disinformation, but to actively spread relevant information brackets, propaganda they knew was reliable, such as public health messaging.
They said a summary of the campaign detailed strategies to encourage compliance with federal advisories, including discouraging even low-risk questions about official information.
The gall, the gall of these people.
Anyways, let's move ahead to Ghillane Maxwell.
Ghillaine, that's, I think, is how you're supposed to say her name.
Oh, is that right?
Yeah.
I keep hearing it as Ghislaine.
It's how it's spelled.
Yeah.
Because these people are so obnoxious.
They give themselves names that you couldn't possibly know how to say if you were just reading it.
But last week or early this week, I can't remember, photos came out and they weren't ever hidden.
They were out there in mainstream publications like the Daily Mail and I think the London Telegraph of Mark Carney, who was, remember, for a time, governor of the Bank of England, chumming around with old Ghillaine Maxwell.
And like, like chummy, like there he is right beside her.
That's his wife who works for the Eurasia Group, Gerald Butts Racket.
That's Ghillane.
Like you can say that it isn't, but that's definitely her.
And they're like, there's, I think, photos of her like laid out on the grass and he's nearby or whatever.
So it was pretty friendly stuff.
And he says, we're definitely, definitely, definitely not friends.
Now, these photos are like post Epstein serving time in jail for offenses.
I'm trying to keep this on YouTube.
So it was well known in the circles that Ghillane traveled in what Epstein had done, had been doing.
And there she is.
Anyways, he says, this is what we should say here of what a close source to Carney told the Toronto Sun.
This is another example of how Pierre Polyaff and his advisor, Jenny Byrne, have always played politics.
And it shows how terrified they are to fight Mark Carney.
No, I think let's rumble.
A source close to Carney told the Toronto Sun when asked about the photos and any association between the Carneys and Maxwell.
As a child, the woman you reference went to the same high school.
Oh, I guess they admit more connections.
As a child, the woman you reference, Ghillane Maxwell, went to the same high school as Mr. Carney's wife's sister.
While they bumped into each other in public settings, including the 11-year-old photos you've sent, they are not friends.
Several photos from August 2013 show Carney socializing with Maxwell at an event called the Wilderness Festival.
Carney had just moved to Britain to take up a new position as the governor of the Bank of England after serving five years in the same role with the Bank of Canada.
It was at his sister-in-law's estate.
Anyway, isn't that something, Sheila?
Yeah, imagine.
Imagine Polyev in photos with, see, look, she's, they're not friends.
She's like laid out on the grass beside him.
You know, what an unfortunate angle that truly is.
I'm not going to say why.
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I knew you did that.
Thank you.
Just imagine, though, if there were polyv photos of her, the world would burn down.
Unbelievable.
All right.
What's next on the docket today?
Do we have another Rumble ad read or do we want to go into, you know what?
Let's do these couple of three chats and then we'll go into those couple of topics that I wanted to get to.
Okay.
El Dz gives us 20 bucks.
Well, thanks so much.
I think that's American money, too.
Doug Ford will get his billions to keep Ontario's industry afloat from Alberta through the equalization payments scam system embedded in Canada's largely ineffective and ineffectual constitution.
Yep.
That's true.
Your economy might crater, but don't worry, we're here to save the day.
Birdley gives us 10 bucks.
All this blue on the election map is all fine and good.
That's just until Toronto has their new liberal show they can get behind so they can make the decision on the election for the rest of us.
I don't think Toronto is going to be as red as everybody says.
Well, Sheila, that's not conjecture, folks.
If you haven't seen our video on Monday, just hours after the Justin Trudeau sort of resignation announcement, Ace Cameraman Lincoln Jay and I went into right downtown Toronto, Union Station area, no less.
And after more than two hours of doing streeters, and I made this point on the video, in case you think we're doing selective editing, leaving reams of video on the cutting room floor of people going, oh, I love the liberals.
Oh, no, Justin Trudeau is my man.
This is a tragedy for Canada.
We did not find one single solitary person who was a Justin Trudeau or Liberal Party of Canada fan.
We found one NDP supporter.
Yes, even under Jung Meet Singh.
But that's it.
So if again, downtown Toronto, Sheila, not some riding in, say, Calgary or Saskatchewan.
No, I think, and when you pull the numbers from 338 and take that for what you will, but they do aggregate poll numbers from across the spectrum.
It's going to be a wipeout for a lot of your least favorite liberals in Toronto, like Yara Sachs, gone.
Oh, gone.
You know what?
Can I be assigned to her campaign victory venue, which will be a funeral, of course.
But I would just love to see the look on that woman's face.
And by the way, speaking of Yara Sachs, we forgot to mention one quick thing about Melanie Jolie dropping out.
I think that's very important, Sheila, because if the goal of this Liberal Party reboot is to move more to the center and surely they can't get more left wing, they would get more left wing with this person.
She is totally on Team Hamas, even to the disturbance.
Shut up about him.
Yep.
Even to the disturbance of fellow liberals.
I would even say she's more on Team Hamas than Yara Sachs, who, you know, likes to get cuddly with Mahmouda Baz when they go over to the Middle East.
Oh, I'm a little disappointed that she's not running because I was ready to do a video about how she repeated Hamas propaganda about Israel bombing a hospital.
And then she was asked about it, much to her embarrassment at the Foreign Interference Commission saying, isn't this foreign interference when the foreign affairs minister repeats Palestinian Hamas, Iranian-backed propaganda as though it's the gospel truth from her government-funded account?
And she's, I'm not going to do it.
Nothing.
She didn't even apologize.
She just pretended like it didn't happen.
Her odious tweets about being pro-Hamas are still up there.
She hasn't deleted them.
They live on.
Yep.
How dare, how dare Israel attack a hospital and it wasn't Israel at all.
All right.
We have got one more chat, a rumble ad read, and then we'll try to wrap up the last few things on the day.
I do definitely want to talk about the nine-year-old getting a tattoo because I just think the outrage is kind of funny, given where it's coming from.
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And the guy who killed his entire family, who then went on to identify as a woman, male pattern baldness, be damned.
Okay, so we've got Alice BB says, stop internet voting, stop mail in voting, stop machine counting.
First things first.
The liberal leadership race is going to be largely online, like almost all online.
So, I mean, you might have the next prime minister just chosen by the online votes from people who identify themselves as supporters of the Liberal Party.
Oh, it's outrageous.
But forget that part.
How can you be as young as 14 when you must be 18 to vote in a federal election?
How can you be a permanent resident qualifying to vote for the new liberal leader when a permanent resident can't vote in an election in Canada?
I mean, I can't believe this allowance to all these other players, Sheila.
Well, it looks like the Liberal Party is trying to bring itself into better alignment with the Conservative Party of Canada.
No, the Conservative Party of Canada does allow permanent residents to vote in its leadership races, but they have to be on track to become citizens.
You just can't just be living here and working here.
You have to be on track to a citizen.
So you've got some skin in the game.
Also, money has to change hands and they have to be able to verify where the money is coming from.
You just can't pay in cash or prepaid credit cards, as was the case with one former failed leadership candidate named Patrick Brown.
So, so, yeah, but the liberals still, you know, they still have the 14-year-old requirement.
It's still largely online.
Very little vetting to be done.
So, I don't know.
I don't know.
It's still going to be a big mess.
I mean, people are registering their cats and dogs as liberals just to prove a point.
And the liberals are like, don't worry.
Don't worry.
We'll weed it all out at the end.
It's like, you guys thought there was nothing wrong with busloads of 14-year-old foreign-speaking students from a Chinese boarding school from outside of Handong's riding just showing up all to vote for Handong.
And you're like, all on board on the up and up, nothing suspicious here.
So do I trust these people to do this properly?
Hell no.
Definitely no.
Absolutely not.
All right.
Let's get, I'm just going to quickly breeze through a rumble ad read and then we'll talk about those other things on the board.
The sponsorship, this sponsorship scandal.
Boy, am I just in talking about liberals mode?
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No one thought that platforms would censor political conversation or censor opinions on COVID, but they did.
Facebook admitted they fell to pressure from the Biden and Harris administration.
And boy, they're backtracking that lately.
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Okay, that's it.
The two things I said I would talk about, and we can talk about the other things too.
David, I just can't go past 12.30 my time.
This one, Quebecer, Quebec man.
No, they don't say Quebec man because this is a lady.
Let's show the lady in question.
That's the lady in question.
Mahmoud Al Baluz was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of secondary degree murder.
He killed his entire family.
But look, I want to show you.
Okay, so he is now in a men's prison.
But look at how, what's this, is this, yeah, CTV News talks about this child killing man, a Quebecer convicted of killing her spouse and two children, is now serving life in a men's prison.
Mohamed Al-Baluz, who now identifies as a woman, was sentenced last month after being convicted of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of Cynthia Busieris, 38, and the first-degree murder in the deaths of their two kids, age five to there.
Two kids age five and two.
The killings happened September 2022 in Broussard in Montreal's South Shore.
The judge said he described the killing as a femicide.
I bet you it was an honor killing and illustrative of the sadistic character of the accused.
During the trial, Al-Baluz was held in a female institution.
Imagine being the women who are in that prison, but have also been the victims of domestic violence or otherwise, having to be in a prison with this guy who killed his wife and two kids, then game the system to pretend to be a woman.
Anyway.
You know what?
The press coverage, by the way, is despicable because if the court has ruled this is a phony baloney female, this government.
Well, Correction Services Canada has decided that he is.
That's right.
Then why is CTV still playing the gender pronoun nonsense game?
But you know what, Sheila?
In all fairness, I believe in compromise.
So I think we should give Muhammad his wish that he should be allowed to identify as female and serve out his, her, their, its life sentence in a female prison on one condition.
It's a female prison in Gaza.
Yeah.
And before we confirm that he's a bona fide female, go through all the, you know, rigamoral, he'll be held in a male prison in Gaza as a female identifying man, person, whatever.
Yeah.
What do you think?
Is that fair?
Gen pop this guy.
Stick him right in Gen Pop in the males, in the male prison.
Normally, I would say stick him under the prison, killing his wife and two innocent children.
But I don't want him under the prison.
I want him in Gen Pop because thugs and thieves still have a code of ethics, and that is people who kill children and harm women in this way are not treated kindly by their fellow inmates.
So normally, yes, under the prison, but no.
Off into Gen Pop.
Have fun in the yard.
In fact, Sheila, you raise a good point here.
Do you think the domain Let's Make Capital Punishment Great Again is available?
I'm sure it is, but probably not now that since you said it out loud in front of thousands of people.
Keep your good idea.
Yeah.
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I'm sure that 20 years ago, I invented Kleenex with lotion, but I mentioned it to too many people.
I'm sure of it.
Let's talk about this one.
Well, Sheila, as you know, I, by the way, the best brand of Kleenex is the one Sheila mentioned, folks, in terms of softness.
But I remain boycotting Kleenex because about five years ago, they had a brand called Kleenex Mansize, and one hysterical Karen complained, and Kleenex Mansize does no longer exist.
Well, it exists, but it's a different name.
So sorry.
I don't support those corporations that bend the knee to wokeism.
This next story came to me by way of my brother-in-law, who is not, I wouldn't say David Menzies' biggest fan.
There's a woman out there with you and her bloodstream for no good reason whatsoever, but he sure likes David.
And he sent this to me.
Nine-year-old's American flag tattoo sparks debate about tattooing minors.
Okay, what is this guy doing tattooing a nine-year-old to start with?
Don't go to a tattoo artist that would tattoo a nine-year-old.
That's my first advice as someone with many, many tattoos.
And I know many of you hate them, but they're not for you.
They're for me.
Don't go to a tattoo artist who would consider tattooing a nine-year-old.
But it's from Yuma, Arizona.
She came in there.
And look, I'm going to be critical of my own side for a second here.
A nine-year-old came into a tattoo shop in Yuma, Arizona, asking for a Donald Trump tattoo with parental consent.
No, stop it.
Don't.
The tattoo artist, he's not the good guy here either.
The tattoo artist talked her out of the Trump tattoo.
And instead she got an American flag tattooed on her arm.
And 10 years old now, but she came back in to get her little flag tattoo touched up.
Apparently, this is legal in the United States, or at least in Arizona.
The girl initially wanted it on her neck, and her parents were perfectly fine with that.
Again, don't tattoo your necks.
Just don't like don't do anything that you can't hide at somebody's funeral.
Like make sure that you're like able to hide all your tattoos, either under rings or clothes.
But people are outraged and people on the left in particular, because this little girl wanted a Trump tattoo and her family was like, yeah, you can have a Trump tattoo on your neck of all places.
And the left are like, can you even believe that someone would let their child modify their bodies this way?
And I'm like, no, but Sheila, let's be serious here.
The reason this is a story, and I totally agree with age of consent for tattooing.
It's got to be greater than nine.
We have age of consent for so many things, voting, liquor, lottery tickets, alcohol, and the list goes on, cigarettes.
The issue here is that it began as a Donald Trump tattoo and eventually an American flag tattoo.
And of course, the progressive left in America hate everything about America, including the flag.
Had that been a so-called pride progress flag on that nine-year-old, nothing to see here.
Actually, this is a celebration of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
That's the real story.
Well, there's another little bit of hypocrisy here, and I'm shocked that you missed it.
And I'm disappointed, actually, in you a little bit.
I should tell you, the tattoo artist, again, not the good guy here, because you don't have to do business with somebody.
He said he tried to scare the girl and her family away by overcharging by hundreds of dollars, but they still jumped at the price.
And they came from out of state because Arizona has lax laws on this.
So you're not the good guy here.
You're not a hero.
You didn't try to do the right thing.
Not only did you gouge the family of a nine-year-old who wasn't making good choices, but you did it.
But David, I'm sad that you are missing the point here.
Okay.
The left is outraged because they don't think a nine-year-old is capable of making irreparable changes to their body.
And yet these people are like, my five-year-old is trans.
Give them cross-sex hormones.
Yeah.
And you have no right to know about it as a parent or guardian.
Yeah, no, you're right.
I did miss that.
Shame on me.
Shameless.
What's the opposite of Barry Horowitz doing the pat on the back?
How do I visually indicate shame?
Kick your own ass?
I don't know.
And by the way, Sheila.
But my original point of, you know, the Donald Trump tattoo, American flag versus a pride progress flag, this wouldn't even be an issue.
Just the other night, I'm hoping to get this fellow come on camera for an interview, but a source tipped me off that this gentleman went into a lid store, allegedly.
And by the way, full disclosure, I love lids.
They sell all kinds of baseball caps and toques, especially of the sporting variety.
And you can also get custom-made caps.
So he asked if he could get, I suppose maybe he's going to the inauguration in 10 days, a MAGA hat.
And they refused him, saying it's too political.
So this fellow was thinking quickly on his feet and he said, oh, okay, can I get a Pride Progress logo?
And they went, oh, absolutely.
And he went, wait a minute, but that's political.
Political Hypocrisy Revealed00:03:53
I'll cut to the chase, Sheila.
It's a good news story.
He convinced them that they were being hypocritical.
They made him a MAGA cap.
How do you like that?
You know, I thought this would end the way many of your stories end along with like.
Yeah.
And that was the last time I was arrested.
So I'm glad that he was able to convince them because sometimes these people are so set in their ways and so anti being able to see both sides that they just say, no, get out of here.
Yeah, to the point that they don't know why they are anti-blank.
They're just told to be that way.
Do we want to keep going or we want to wrap her up?
Well, I think we should wrap it up because you have work to do.
I have work to do.
And as much as I'm enjoying myself and wow, and you know, we never even got around to the wildfire issue.
Why don't we end it on this very quickly, Sheila?
I'll cut to the chase on this one, especially since you see progressive leftists losing their minds about government incompetence.
Could this be the factor?
And remember, the toll right now in terms of houses that have been burnt out or damaged, it's now more than $150 billion with a B US dollars.
The area is greater than the size of New York City.
This is an absolute grotesque tragedy that did not have to happen.
But you know what?
We got to be worried about salamanders or some other kind of marine life so that we can't get the fire hydrants filled up with water.
My question to you, Sheila, and our beloved audience, could this be something that moves the needle so that the next time there's an election in California, it goes Republican?
And I know that seems almost like sci-fi, but keep in mind, Reagan won California in 1980 and 1984, something unthinkable today for a Republican presidential candidate.
But I think this might move the needle.
The incompetence has been so grotesque.
It might be a reality check for these liberals.
As you say, they're being mugged or in this case, singed by reality.
You know what?
There could be some truth to what you're saying, just based on the election results of the last federal election in the United States.
You could see the change of California going redder, like red Republican over the last election.
It is slowly shifting because those bad policies are causing people problems finally.
I mean, we've seen DEI firefighting there and bad environmentalist policies.
There were entire tracts of standing deadfall of trees that were supposed to be mechanically removed, much like Jasper.
And instead, it just became a fuel load in these neighborhoods.
And you're also seeing a little bit of the eat the rich mentality happening.
So a lot of people are saying, well, these are just rich people and they got other houses to go to.
That's a terrible attitude to have when you're not.
That's not everybody, though.
It's definitely not everybody.
Like a lot of people are like, oh, James Woods is a Republican.
I'm so glad his house burned.
Okay, well, what about Jamie Lee Curtis?
Then, is that bad or good?
You decide, but it's sort of, do you see some of that like healthcare CEO gets shot and everybody celebrates attitude in all of this?
And that's going to alienate a lot of big Democrat voters.
Firefighter's Dilemma00:05:18
Yep.
And, you know, two other things, Sheila.
One is the looting that is now going on.
Oh, and arson.
And remember, California is the number one state behind defund the police.
Right.
Now, suddenly, those people that were supporting that, maybe it was kind of a good idea to have some cops around to arrest the looters that are stealing what remains of your memories in your burnt out home.
And one other thing, Sheila.
Do you think the city of Los Angeles is maybe now regretting firing all those firefighters during COVID who refused to get the COVID-19 jab?
You think they might have been handy in this case?
And you're right about the DEI hiring.
And this anecdote goes back to 1990.
I'll just quickly end with this.
It was on one of the news programs in the U.S., not 60 minutes.
I think it was 48 hours.
And it was about video that was secretly shot at a firefighting training encampment in Los Angeles.
And the city of Los Angeles was under a lot of pressure to boost the number of female firefighters.
And one of the tests is going up a ladder three stories high and getting a dummy out of a burning building and doing the fireman's carry.
And the dummy, by the way, weighs 110 pounds, which I would suggest is a very generous weight on the low side, given the average size of so many Americans and Canadians for that matter.
And the female firefighter, Sheila, couldn't do the firefighters carry down three flights of steps.
Instead, they were dragging the anatomically correct dummy by the ankles so that you see on the steps, the head is bouncing off every step, right?
So yeah, maybe you've saved the person.
It may be, but they're probably brain damage.
They had a feminist on to defend the hiring quotas.
It wasn't called DEI then.
I don't know what it was called.
And she justified the warped version of the female fireman's carry by saying, Sheila, and I could not believe this, well, everyone knows that smoke rises.
So maybe it was safer for the person to be dragged lower.
Keep in mind, the head is bouncing off every step than being carried over the firefighter's shoulder.
And that was in 1990, Sheila.
Oh, my goodness.
I was just.
Sorry, I know that we're trying to wrap up, but I just dug up this video of the deputy fire chief in LA County basically saying, like, is a woman tough enough to carry your husband out of a building?
Maybe he shouldn't have been in that burning building.
Oh, okay.
So it's his fault.
DEI.
Somebody that responds to your house, your emergency, whether it's a medical call or a fire call that looks like you.
It gives that person a little bit more ease, knowing that somebody might understand their situation better if she's strong enough to do this or you couldn't carry my husband out of a fire, which my response is he got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.
You want to see somebody that responds.
Unbelievable.
Yeah, two things.
First of all, I'm not saying this to be funny or mean or both, but was that a transgender firefighter?
That's one.
Secondly, has anyone ever seen what firefighters look like when they go into a burning building?
You don't know.
They're fully mashed up.
They're head to toe in fabric that will protect them from the flames.
Does anyone know when they're being rescued?
If that's a black, Asian, brown, whatever person behind that uniform?
What a ludicrous argument.
Can you imagine?
Like you're having a heart attack.
You're in a rolled over vehicle that's on fire and you're like, I'm laying there and I'm like, no, come back when you have a small white woman with unruly hair.
I'll just lay here and bleed out until that person shows up.
Like nobody thinks like that.
You're just like, get me out of here.
Take me to the hospital.
Put my bones back together.
It's the most bizarre thing ever.
But then to blame the victim, like if I can't carry out your husband, I guess it's his fault for being in that burning building.
Like, and this is a produced video by the fire department.
They saw what she said and they're like, you know what?
Put that logo of the fire department on it.
Get that out on social media.
Use this as a recruiting video and not just a video that makes you lose faith in that fire department altogether.
If that's their recruiting video, it's no wonder that place is burning down.
Unbelievable.
Create Jobs, Stay Safe00:02:16
Yeah, that reason amongst many others.
Well, Sheila, I guess we should wrap it up so we don't have any more super chats.
I do not believe so.
No.
Well, folks, this was a fantastic live stream.
So much in the news, and we didn't even get half to half of it, which means we'll have all the more to talk about come Monday when Sheila and I will reconvene here at 1 p.m. Eastern Time.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
A special thank you to all of you who gave us some do-ray me.
That is always appreciated.
Have yourself a fantastic weekend.
And until next time, folks, as always, stay safe and stay sane.
The issue, of course, of Canada-U.S. relations also came up a number of times today.
You know, when it comes to Canada being looked at as the 51st state, let me just state it again.
That's never going to happen.
Canadians define themselves a whole bunch of different ways.
But one of the ways that we all use as shorthand is we're Canadian because we're not American.
And that is not going to change.
In regards to tariffs in the business community, I had some very good and productive meetings with a number of business leaders here in Washington, D.C. Jay Timmons of the National Association of Manufacturers, Joshua Bolton of the Business Roundtable here in the United States, to emphasize that we have become incredibly successful as countries,
as economies, as a continent, because we do things so well together.
We create jobs on both sides of the border.
We create growth.
We create opportunities for investors and business people.
Continuing to work together and avoiding unnecessary tariffs on goods and products from Canada is in our interest to continue to move forward, both from an American perspective and a Canadian perspective.
So we're going to continue to stand up for the interests of workers and consumers on both sides of the border, because there is no relationship in the world like that between Canada and the United States,