April 8, 2025 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
02:02:20
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| Donald Trump is threatening a 50% increase on the tariffs against China. | ||
| This comes on the heels, or it came this morning, I believe, when the stock market has been going crazy. | ||
| It was up, it was down, and it ended kind of flat today, so we're going to discuss that. | ||
| We have information on Jaguar and, what is it, Volkswagen. | ||
| Both have decided to end imports, and they're holding their vehicles in, I believe they're holding them in customs and stuff because of the tariffs. | ||
| We've got a lot of stuff to talk about with the tariffs. | ||
| We've got some information. | ||
| Canada is saying that the new Prime Minister for Canada is saying that it's time for the friendship with the United States to be over. | ||
| I don't know that that's actually going to be the case because I hear he's walked it back since he made that remark over the weekend, but we'll talk about that. | ||
| Also, our good friends at Rumble and Rebel News have decided to sue the MP Sachs and others for conspiring to violate Canadians' free speech rights. | ||
| So we'll discuss that and we have some guests here that we'll talk about that with. | ||
| But before we get to that, the Supreme Court has had a couple different decisions. | ||
| The Supreme Court lifts orders blocking Trump from deporting Venezuelans under the alien So, we've got some breaking news on the court front, | ||
| and... RFK has decided that he's going to tell the CDC to stop recommending fluoride in drinking water. | ||
| There's evidence that fluoride in drinking water has been actually decreasing IQs. | ||
| So we'll discuss that. | ||
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| If you like chickens, this is the one for you. | ||
| The 28th Amendment. | ||
| Chickens being necessary to the security of a free state. | ||
| The right of the people to keep, bear, and breed chickens shall not be infringed. | ||
| And that just speaks to the fact that we're free people and we can provide ourselves with food. | ||
| And it's a play on the Second Amendment because we're, as free people, we can actually provide for our own defense. | ||
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| So to talk about this and so much more, we have two guests today. | ||
| We have Chris Pavlosky. | ||
| I'm sorry about that. | ||
| And Ezra, how you doing from Rebel News? | ||
| How are you doing today? | ||
| Well, you know what? | ||
| It's going to be here in the heart of Freedom of Speech America, First Amendment land. | ||
| It's a big deal, isn't it? | ||
| We were talking about that before the show. | ||
| I wish we had that in Canada. | ||
| I think it could change one thing about Canada. | ||
| It would be our lack of freedom of speech. | ||
| I bet the Brits would say the same thing. | ||
| In case you don't know, Chris is the CEO and majority owner of Rumble.com, correct? | ||
| Is that the Rumble? | ||
| Yeah, not majority. | ||
| I guess I have voting control, but one of the largest shareholders of Rumble. | ||
| We have a new shareholder in Rumble called Tether. | ||
| Tether bought in earlier this year. | ||
| So yeah, they're also one of the largest shareholders at Rumble now as well. | ||
| Awesome. Well, thank you guys for joining us today. | ||
| Shane, how you doing? | ||
| I'm good. | ||
| It's good to be here. | ||
| Shane Cashman, host of Inverted World Live. | ||
| We go live on YouTube and Rumble every Sunday at 6 p.m. | ||
| Last night, I had the great Chris Carr on. | ||
| We talked about the CIA allegedly remote viewing the Ark of the Covenant. | ||
| And Mars from a million years ago. | ||
| So check that out. | ||
| What's up, Brett? | ||
| What's going on, guys? | ||
| Brett here. | ||
| Pop Culture Crisis, Monday through Friday, 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. | ||
| But we got a lot to get into. | ||
| Let's do it. | ||
| All right, so the BBC reports, Donald Trump has threatened China with an additional tariff of 50% on goods imported to the U.S. if it does not withdraw, a countermeasure as global markets tumbled for a third day. | ||
| Speaking at the White House on Monday, U.S. President said that he was not considering a pause on new tariffs to allow for negotiations with other countries. | ||
| We're not looking at that. | ||
| We have many, many countries that are coming to negotiate deals with us, and they're going to be fair deals, he said. | ||
| Trump reiterated his threat of 50% duties on Chinese goods. | ||
| If Beijing did not retract its counter-tariff plans by Tuesday, if imposed U.S. | ||
| companies bringing in certain goods from China could face a 104%. | ||
| So, do you guys feel like there has been Well, I think Trump is a master of getting the other guy to | ||
| blink. I don't know him as well. | ||
| Look, I'm a foreigner, and I know from the Canadian point of view, he's put terror in the political class in Canada. | ||
| By the way, I think that's boosted the fortunes of Canada's Liberal Party, which is not something I think Trump wants for the long term. | ||
| But look, there's a volatility about him, and you can see the countries that want to mitigate that. | ||
| Taiwan, Israel, a lot of countries are saying... | ||
| We know how the story can end. | ||
| Let's just fix it right now. | ||
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I don't know. | |
| I'm hopeful. | ||
| I'm hopeful that he knows what he's doing because it's pretty radical. | ||
| I take a pretty strong opinion on the fact this is the only way to get everybody in the negotiating table. | ||
| And he needed to do this in order to make America a lot better than it was. | ||
| As a Canadian, and Ezra knows this firsthand, Every industry in Canada is controlled by an oligopoly of a sort. | ||
| You have the telcos, there's only a few of them. | ||
| You have the banks, there's, you know, they'll make the argument, oh, the U.S. banks are there. | ||
| You walk down the street, there is no retail U.S. banks. | ||
| They're like Schedule II or Schedule B banks. | ||
| They're not part of the retail, the big five that are out in Canada. | ||
| But the Canadian banks, they're all over here. | ||
| You see TD, you see BMO, you see Scotia, you see RBC. | ||
| They're all in the United States. | ||
| But the U.S. banks are not... | ||
| If you're in the retail crowd in Canada, you're not going to be able... | ||
| You're not going to be getting a debit card from any of those U.S. banks in Canada. | ||
| And then you have the dairy industry. | ||
| Sapudos all over the United States. | ||
| They're nowhere... | ||
| You don't see any U.S. milk companies or cheese companies coming to Canada. | ||
| I think Canadians don't see that. | ||
| They don't understand that. | ||
| And in order to drive everybody to the negotiating table, you have to... | ||
| Do what Trump did. | ||
| I think it's brilliant. | ||
| I think it's the right move. | ||
| I think if you're in the interest of America, that's the right move. | ||
| You want to make a better deal with every single country out there because markets like Canada are closed to a very large extent, from telcos to media to banking. | ||
| There's no healthcare system. | ||
| That's owned by the government. | ||
| Even as small as, well, not small, but even the dairy industry and the food industry is... | ||
| Is so regulated in Canada, US companies aren't there. | ||
| So, this... | ||
| Gives the opportunity for America to make better deals for the American people. | ||
| And I think it brings a lot back home to America. | ||
| It's good for America. | ||
| It's not so good for the rest of the world and not so good for the very rich. | ||
| I have a question then. | ||
| So you said, do more countries need to come to the table before they start negotiating? | ||
| Is that something he's looking to do all at once? | ||
| Or is it not something that they can handle one country at a time, one negotiation at a time? | ||
| From what I can gather, he's not looking to do things individually. | ||
| He's looking to get a bunch of countries to the table, and actually we've got a bit of audio and video from Scott Bessette, the Secretary of the Treasury. | ||
| He was on Fox News, and we'll go ahead and play that now. | ||
| Let me jump this thing up. | ||
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Larry, I can tell you that there are 50, 60, maybe almost 70 countries now who have approached us. | |
| So it's going to be a busy April, May, maybe into June. | ||
| And Japan is a very important military ally. | ||
| They're a very important economic ally. | ||
| And the U.S. has a lot of history with them. | ||
| So I would expect that Japan's going to get priority just because they came forward very quickly. | ||
| But it's going to be very busy. | ||
| And if President Trump, again, gave himself maximum negotiating leverage, and just when he achieved the maximum leverage, he's willing to start talking. | ||
| Yeah, and so apparently Netanyahu was at the White House today talking about the tariffs as well. | ||
| I believe they've decided that they're going to go zero for zero. | ||
| I don't get the sense that they're looking to do it piecemeal. | ||
| I think that because of the US relationship with Israel, they typically have a very close relationship. | ||
| So I think because of that, they might have made an exception for Israel. | ||
| They make exceptions for Israel all the time. | ||
| So I don't think that... | ||
| That's representative of how the Trump administration wants to act more broadly. | ||
| And he believes with large-scale leverage right now that he has the ability to do this, which is why I think the media, at least the corporate media, is working so hard to put pressure on them by announcing the downturn in the stock market and all these things because it's bad for globalist interests. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, if you look at the... | ||
| I don't have it here, but if you look at the results or the days numbers from most of the stock markets globally, they were mostly down by 5-10%, whereas the United States is like the only country that's flat. And I think that has a lot to do with the administration talking about a 90-day pause coming possibly, the whole buy the news or buy the rumor, sell the news kind of thing. | ||
| It's probably why they actually had the day that they did. | ||
| So, I mean, if they are, if they do have this many countries that are looking to have a conversation about it and actually ready to come to the table, do you guys think that this is, that, again, now, is that the time? | ||
| If they've got, you know, 70 countries is a lot of... | ||
| I think that's what Bessette wants. | ||
| He talks about having three categories of countries, right? | ||
| In like the green bucket, the yellow bucket, and the red bucket, and the green bucket are the countries that will be favorable to. | ||
| Red Bucket would be something like China. | ||
| So it seems like they're going towards that route to do one giant sweep. | ||
| But it's going to be more pain, I think, until we get there. | ||
| Yeah. Do you guys feel like that's going to be something that's going to happen quickly? | ||
| Or do you think that Trump has the wherewithal? | ||
| Or do you think that Congress will act? | ||
| Because technically, the president doesn't actually even have the authority to do this. | ||
| This is the... | ||
| The justification that he's using to actually have these tariffs or implement these tariffs is a little specious. | ||
| Congress is who is supposed to make, you know, add tariffs if there are, and Congress has threatened to act, and I'm wondering, considering the influence that the, you know, people with money have on the government in the United States, the people that are... | ||
| Hurting the most are the people that have stocks, as opposed to Gen Z, who doesn't really have a lot of skin in this game. | ||
| It's okay, boomers. | ||
| You're just going to have to cut back on the avocado toast. | ||
| I feel like that's millennials more than anything. | ||
| Sorry, you're going to have to pull yourself up by the bootstraps. | ||
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There you go. | |
| It's interesting that the administration sounds like they're being very receptive to Japan. | ||
| There's probably some non-economic reasons for that, too. | ||
| Japan is probably the biggest bulwark, along with India, to China. | ||
| And I think one of the things Trump is trying to do is reorganize the world to make peace with Russia and then contain China. | ||
| And obviously, Japan's going to be a key to that. | ||
| I think of Canada, too, because believe it or not, the Canada-US trade relationship is even bigger. | ||
| I mean, you might not think of it that way, but it is. | ||
| And it's also a very free trade agreement. | ||
| Trouble is, in Canada right now, there's an election campaign on. | ||
| And so you're not having sober-minded negotiations on the other side. | ||
| In fact, it's turning into a bit of a contest of which Canadian politician can be, I hate to say it, the most anti-American. | ||
| And there's a deep strain of anti-Americanism in the Liberal Party to begin with. | ||
| And this goes back to... | ||
| Pierre Trudeau, who was pretty anti-American. | ||
| You remember he was hanging out with Fidel Castro and going to the Soviet Union, going to Communist China. | ||
| So I'm worried that right now you've got this new prime minister in Canada. | ||
| His name is Mark Carney. | ||
| I call him like Trudeau 2.0, but he's smarter and harder working than Trudeau. | ||
| And he's practically declaring war on America. | ||
| It's shocking. | ||
| I don't think it actually speaks for Canadians, and I don't want Americans to take Mark Carney too literally. | ||
| I hope this passes, but there's an ugly battle going on right now. | ||
| Isn't Carney like a career banker, too? | ||
| Like, has this passed? | ||
| Absolutely. In fact, he left Canada about a decade ago to go and be the governor of the Bank of England. | ||
| Right. And he's got three passports. | ||
| He hasn't been back in Canada in a decade, and he's sort of come back, and he became prime minister without an election. | ||
| Right. I remember seeing a Daily Show interview with him, and he billed himself as the outsider. | ||
| His signature is literally on the money. | ||
| He's so much of an outsider. | ||
| One of the things I find most interesting about Canada's response to everything to do with Trump is it's instilled this weirdly nationalistic sense in their celebrities and their politicians, which I didn't notice before. | ||
| But Canada as a whole has always done a good job of looking out for Canada itself. | ||
| If you look at the Canadian entertainment industry, they have quotas on how much music has to be played on a Canadian radio station. | ||
| I honestly believe that Trump would love that. | ||
| And he would actually love to do that in America because he has that same faith, that same love for America that they seem to want to instill in Canadians. | ||
| So it seems almost hypocritical when they... | ||
| ...boast themselves as being hyper-nationalistic now in response to Trump when I think that their general idea is something Trump would actually support just for Americans and not for Canadians. | ||
| Well, Chris talked a bit about some of the trade barriers. | ||
| I mean, you can't get a mortgage in an American bank. | ||
| You can't get a T-Mobile or you can't get a U.S. cell phone contract, which we need badly because in Canada we pay some of the highest cell phone data rates in the world. | ||
| We have huge protectionism for certain kinds of agriculture. | ||
| Dairy, poultry, eggs. | ||
| And you might think, who cares? | ||
| Well, that doubles or more the price of those things. | ||
| It hurts poor Canadians the most. | ||
| My hope is that some of the things that irritate Trump, that he's trying to negotiate away... | ||
| Are things Canada should get rid of anyways? | ||
| I want more competition in the banking sector. | ||
| I want more cell phone companies to bring down the rates. | ||
| And I don't think that we should have double the price for food. | ||
| If you want to talk about what helps working people, get the cost of food and fuel down. | ||
| So I'm hoping that one of the takeaways, one of the end games here is that Canada removes... | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| One thing that Trump talks about a lot? | ||
| Canada has one of the lowest expenditures on military ranked by our GDP in all of NATO. | ||
| You know that balloon? | ||
| It came over Canada before it went to the States. | ||
| We didn't take it down. | ||
| I don't know if we even could. | ||
| I think Trump is right when we say Canada's been having a free ride. | ||
| Now it hurts Canadians to hear that. | ||
| But Canada should do that for our own reasons. | ||
| Forget about Trump. | ||
| Canada should get more grown up about those things. | ||
| The military spending in Canada and what Canada's military actually looks like in reality has been a topic that we've discussed a couple times here. | ||
| The fact of the matter is, and this is... | ||
| Probably something that Canadians don't really want to hear, but Canada relies heavily on the United States military. | ||
| And it doesn't really have to do anything other than say, well, we don't have to worry about it because the U.S. is going to do it anyways. | ||
| The United States doesn't spend the amount of money that we spend on our military in order to protect Canada. | ||
| We do it because of the global implications, because we're the global hegemon. | ||
| And Canada just says, well, you know. | ||
| We're right next to the U.S., so we're safe. | ||
| And reasonably, that's a reasonable opinion. | ||
| And it is something that if Canada is going to move away from the United States, which there's, you know, we can actually bring this up right now. | ||
| The Canadian, Canada says its friendship with the U.S. is over now. | ||
| And I don't understand. | ||
| What it is that they're thinking is actually over. | ||
| But this is from Politico. | ||
| It's over. | ||
| After a century and a half of building an economic and military partnership that survived two world wars, the Great Depression, the Cold War and the 9-11 attacks, the United States and Canada are breaking up. | ||
| So said Prime Minister Mark Carney in a national televised address to 41 million Canadian citizens from Parliament Hill last week. | ||
| And it is almost all because of President Donald Trump's tariffs. | ||
| The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over. | ||
| Carney declared on March 27. | ||
| We must fundamentally reimagine our economy. | ||
| We will need to ensure that Canada can succeed in a drastically different. | ||
| world to me and again I don't want to sound condescending but that sounds like complete like sounds like it's completely and totally just posturing because Canada's proximity to the United States means that there they will forever have the ability to rely on the United States defense budget as its own defense budget to a great great extent and Canada is our biggest trading partner so the idea that they can just say well we're not going | ||
| I think that that... | ||
| That's a little outside of what you could consider reasonable. | ||
| Yeah, and just to add salt to the wound, I think like only a week or two weeks ago, China imposed agriculture tariffs on Canada of 100%. | ||
| Did they? | ||
| And Carney, I don't think Carney made even a comment. | ||
| He hasn't even said a word about it. | ||
| No one has in the Canadian, any of the Canadian politicians for that matter. | ||
| So it's in a direct assault to the United States all the time right now for... | ||
| Political purposes. | ||
| There's no benefit to talking about it for them. | ||
| 100% tariffs. | ||
| Think about that. | ||
| To me, it makes my hair stand. | ||
| It really, genuinely upsets me. | ||
| And what he's talking about here is America over, however, two world wars, 9-11, all these things, the moment they start looking out for their own economic interests, we now have to cut bait and run away. | ||
| You know, what bugs me about this story is the headline, Canada Says. | ||
| Canada didn't say that. | ||
| A prime minister who's been PM for, what, two weeks? | ||
| And like I say, he's been away from Canada for a decade. | ||
| What did Mark Carney, and I know most of your viewers have never even heard that name before because he just sort of showed up and now he's speaking on behalf of all Canadians. | ||
| I'm saying our century and a half alliance is over. | ||
| Who the hell are you? | ||
| Do you think having a Trudeau 2.0 will do? | ||
| To Canada, what Biden did to this country and the population against it? | ||
| Worse because Trudeau 2.0 is smarter than Trudeau 2.1, 1.0. | ||
| But the thing is, who was this Mark Carney? | ||
| He was the chairman of something called Brookfield Capital, which is like a mini BlackRock. | ||
| Once you know that, and once you study what Mark Carney did for a decade... | ||
| China just put 100% tariff on Canada and Carney hasn't said a word. | ||
| Mark Carney, Canada's new prime minister, I'm talking weeks ago, took out an enormous quarter billion dollar loan for BlackRock from the Chinese government. | ||
| He's met with President Xi Jinping. | ||
| He says China is the future. | ||
| Carney has not actually sold off his holdings in Brookfield. | ||
| It would be like Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock, decides to run for president but doesn't sell his stock. | ||
| Are you operating as an oligarch or are you operating as a president? | ||
| Ms. Mark Carney is so democratically illegitimate. | ||
| Give me 30 more seconds on that. | ||
| Sure, please. | ||
| Like I say, he was chosen as the leader of the liberals. | ||
| How? It wasn't voted on by ordinary Canadians. | ||
| The Liberal Party had an internal vote. | ||
| They allowed non-citizens to vote. | ||
| They allowed children as young as 14 to vote. | ||
| So you had 14-year-olds voting for Canada's new Prime Minister? | ||
| Is that brand new? | ||
| For the first time, 14-year-olds voting? | ||
| I don't know how the Liberal Party did it for Trudeau, but believe me, I paid attention to this. | ||
| Here's the crazy thing. | ||
| 400,000 people registered to vote. | ||
| Only 150,000 of them were verified. | ||
| Who were the other 250,000? | ||
| When you've got more than half of the votes spoiled, you can't trust the result. | ||
| So you're saying we should conquer Canada? | ||
| You know what? | ||
| There's one more thing that I have a beef with in this political story. | ||
| It's not the tariffs that have made Canadians mad, in my view. | ||
| It's the indecent proposal. | ||
| When Trump says, hey, come join us. | ||
| That's like saying to a married woman, ditch your man and come with us. | ||
| It sort of wounds the pride. | ||
| It's an emotional hurt. | ||
| And I think what Trump meant is sort of a jab at Trudeau when he first said it. | ||
| I think too many Canadians are taking that literally. | ||
| And they feel, you know, like their pride is wounded. | ||
| How dare you say I should break up with my man and join America? | ||
| So I think that's actually has fueled a lot of the baby. | ||
| If you look at Carney's support, it's baby boomers who are insulted by that. | ||
| Indecent proposal. | ||
| Is the opposition to Carney, like the opposition party calling out the tariffs from China? | ||
| Like is that at least one side? | ||
| Yeah. That's crazy. | ||
| You're probably right. | ||
| There's a large portion of the population that doesn't understand that Trump's rhetoric works a specific way. | ||
| Whether he's looking to distract from one story and push something to somebody else, he knows how to get a rise out of people. | ||
| And a lot of the population, especially the boomers, don't understand that type of political tactic because they've been led into this false belief that you're supposed to be all polite in politics despite the fact that that's really a misnomer and hasn't been true for a very long time. | ||
| So, in a lot of ways, Trump's diplomacy can sometimes have a hiccup when it comes to the way he speaks because it may work politically if he's trying to, you know, push forth the big ask. | ||
| And something like that. | ||
| And he's got economic leverage, but as far as public support and getting people on your side, that can be a barrier. | ||
| It's just that most people that support him, they don't care anymore. | ||
| They're past caring about whether your feelings are hurt by someone's rhetoric. | ||
| It's a bunch of people. | ||
| If you're my age, and you're like, I was never going to own stock. | ||
| I was never going to own a home. | ||
| I do not care anymore. | ||
| The wailings of boomers don't matter to me. | ||
| I want somebody to fix this, or at least try something outside of the uniparty proper to do something about it. | ||
| The boomers are offended by the rhetoric. | ||
| Newer generations don't care as much. | ||
| In Canada, I think there's a lot of that. | ||
| Housing prices in Canada are twice what they are in America. | ||
| Try being a young person. | ||
| You have no chance. | ||
| Young people living with their folks until they're well into their 20s, even 30s. | ||
| That is normal in Canada. | ||
| Cost of living. | ||
| And we've had mass, mass migration. | ||
| It's just depressed wages. | ||
| Pushed up housing. | ||
| And so actually when Trump says, hey, become the cherished 51st state, I love how he says cherished. | ||
| Because when was the last time Ottawa said to certain Canadian provinces, we cherish you? | ||
| Like Trump knows what he's doing. | ||
| Young people were the most receptive to Trump's offer. | ||
| Young men in particular. | ||
| And, you know, let me just say this to my American friends. | ||
| I don't think you want... | ||
| Canada is the 51st state. | ||
| You're going to get another California in terms of the electoral college. | ||
| It's going to vote Democrat. | ||
| I don't know if you know this, but a quarter of our population speaks French and they insist on bilingualism. | ||
| Are you guys ready for that? | ||
| So I would say, look, let's get past this quarrel. | ||
| And there's actually, I think, Trump can get what he wants from Canada without a fight. | ||
| He negotiated in the last USMCA trade deal. | ||
| The oil sense. | ||
| I think that's really what Trump wants. | ||
| He wants defense, and he wants the oil. | ||
| And I think he can get both of those things without, you know, the 51st state business. | ||
| What if we just give you guys California, and we get the oil and the defense? | ||
| You'd have to give them the entire West Coast. | ||
| Yeah. You'd have to give them... | ||
| I mean, because... | ||
| Washington and Oregon are not considerably better politically than California. | ||
| And to be honest with you, Southern California, whereas the politics in California are terrible, I don't feel comfortable giving up California because that is some beautiful, beautiful, beautiful land. | ||
| The cities in California are terrible. | ||
| There's a lot of red areas in California. | ||
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We'll give them Sacramento. | |
| I'm not comfortable giving up San Diego. | ||
| 29 Palms is out there. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| Sure, sure. | ||
| Give me two minutes. | ||
| Sure, sure. | ||
| Why does Canada have such a big trade surplus with America? | ||
| Why is Trump... | ||
| He's mad about the trade surplus. | ||
| Because we sell you oil. | ||
| That's by far our largest export to you. | ||
| Why? Because America still imports foreign oil. | ||
| And my point is, it's better for you to buy Canadian oil, I call it ethical oil, rather than OPEC conflict oil. | ||
| I mean, if you have to spend... | ||
| 50, 100 billion dollars a year on oil from someone. | ||
| Don't give it to the Qataris. | ||
| Don't give it to the Nigerians or Venezuelans. | ||
| Buy it from your friends in Canada. | ||
| First of all, you don't need to station the U.S. Navy in the Persian Gulf to act as, you know, Globocop. | ||
| The U.S. spends 50 billion dollars a year patrolling the Persian Gulf sea lanes. | ||
| How about just build that Keystone XL pipeline and get the oil from Canada without a fuss? | ||
| You'd save $50 billion a year just in your Pentagon. | ||
| And if you wanted to still mess around in foreign affairs, you could do so electively. | ||
| And all that dough, well, it could go to Canada, and then you could say, okay, Canada, we expect you to rejuvenate your military with this. | ||
| I don't think Canada needs to fight with the States. | ||
| And you put a tariff on that oil, it doesn't really make sense because you put tariffs on a factory. | ||
| Okay, you get the factory to move to America. | ||
| You put a tariff on Canada's oil sands. | ||
| That's where all the oil is. | ||
| You can't move the oil sands into America, so it's not really going to work. | ||
| It's just going to increase the price to those American refineries. | ||
| So I think you've got to think of it like a real estate mogul. | ||
| How would Donald Trump look at Canada with his America First real estate deal on? | ||
| He's talking about Greenland in sort of the same way, but the real action is those Alberta oil sands. | ||
| 170 billion barrels worth of oil. | ||
| If you double the production of that and sell it to the states, you completely displace any other foreign oil imports to America. | ||
| It's a $10 or $12 or $13 trillion deal, depending on the price of oil. | ||
| 50 years, America doesn't have to buy any foreign oil from anywhere else specifically. | ||
| Yeah. It's already free trade covered by the USMCA. | ||
| I think that's the deal of the century. | ||
| Bigger than Greenland. | ||
| And there are a lot of people that are talking about the electrical output of China is going to, I think they're going to go up by like, I think it's going to triple or quadruple over the next 20 or so years. | ||
| They're building a dam in China that's bigger than the Three Gorges dams and the output of that, just this one dam would be enough to power Germany. | ||
| And in the future, in the next 20-30 years with AI being possibly the leader of global tech and stuff, that is extremely energy intensive. | ||
| And in the United States, it's impossible to get any kind of significant generating I've heard a lot of people talking about nuclear power, which I think is great, but you're still talking about five to ten years if they just got rid of all the permitting and just rubber stamped everything and expedited everything, you're still not going to get any electricity out of a nuclear plant for at least Is that mostly because of red tape? | ||
| Yeah, if I understand correctly. | ||
| If you remove the red tape, how long does it take? | ||
| I think the construction is five years. | ||
| So to actually build the necessary infrastructure to... | ||
| Go and take care of a nuclear plant is something like five years. | ||
| And then with the red tape, I want to say it's like 10. But again, I'm not an expert. | ||
| This is just what I've read. | ||
| But even still, the U.S. is lagging behind China when it comes to power generation. | ||
| And Ezra, the stuff that you were talking about with oil production and stuff, that would be at least some help for actually generating power here because we still do a lot of coal-fired plants and stuff in the U.S. | ||
| And petroleum products are what a lot of our infrastructure runs on. | ||
| I mean, most – not most, but a lot of houses use just diesel fuel for heat. | ||
| You know, home heating oil. | ||
| They call it home heating oil. | ||
| But it's just diesel fuel with a dye in it. | ||
| Rumble and Rebel News sue MP Sachs and others for conspiring to violate free speech rights. | ||
| This is from Rumble. | ||
| Toronto, April 7th, 2025, Globe Newswire. | ||
| Rumble, Canada. | ||
| The high-growth video platform and cloud service provider has joined Rebel News Network and its founder, Ezra Levant, in suing the Government of Canada, Member of Canadian Parliament Yara Sachs, and other officials for conspiring to deprive them of their constitutional right to free expression. | ||
| The lawsuit filed today in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice alleges that the defendants unsuccessfully tried to block two lawful and peaceful public gatherings celebrating free speech in the Toronto area last year. | ||
| simply because they disagreed with the political points of view of the organizers and participants the suit alleges that the official Donald J. Trump So, | ||
| and 80 cents for the excessive security costs, $250,000 in punitive damages and legal expenses and have requested a trial Chris, tell me more! | ||
| Yeah, so we hosted an event with Ezra and Rebel News Live back in, was it the summer of last year? | ||
| And it was a great event, packed event, sold out event. | ||
| We had Viva Frey come out, we had Glenn Greenwald come out, we had Donald Trump Jr. come out, Kimberly Guilfoyle. | ||
| We had a great lineup. | ||
| And it was really just advocating free speech and promoting the Rumble shows, and it kind of dovetailed into the Rebel News Live event. | ||
| And we ran into some obstacles prior to the event, and from my point of view... | ||
| It was very odd and something didn't make sense. | ||
| And it wasn't until post-event that Ezra was able to unravel quite a bit. | ||
| And since he was behind a lot of the Freedom of Information requests and what he found, I'll let him take it from here and kind of explain what we found. | ||
| Sure, thanks. | ||
| Every year we do this fan gathering of our most enthusiastic viewers. | ||
| And there's never a problem, of course. | ||
| This year we held it at a venue that was on a former Canadian military base. | ||
| About 30 years ago it was an Army base or Air Force base. | ||
| Now it's sports venues, event venues. | ||
| I didn't think about that, but that's important. | ||
| Hold that thought for a second. | ||
| So we go ahead and we do a deal with the event venue and we add in, as we often do, a little free speech clause in the agreement saying you can't cancel us just because some people don't like us. | ||
| Because sometimes Antifa tries to shut us down. | ||
| So we signed this great contract. | ||
| We're all excited. | ||
| Sold out. | ||
| Wow, Don Jr.'s coming up to Canada. | ||
| But then the operator of the venue says, guys, I'm being told that you need an extra 40 grand in security. | ||
| What? There's no need for that. | ||
| That's insane. | ||
| We already have security. | ||
| Let's just add that we already spent a ton on security just for our own purposes. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| We hired police. | ||
| We did everything that was required to do. | ||
| Some VIPs like Don Jr., but I mean, it was a very secure thing. | ||
| And 40 grand, like there's no way the conference would have been able to support that. | ||
| And the venue operator, he said it's the landlord, the underlying landlord, because it used to be a military base, it's still owned by the government of Canada. | ||
| So the government agency that owned like the substratum. | ||
| Heard about this event, and it was only later when we did Freedom of Information requests of this government landlord that we found hundreds and hundreds of pages of emails. | ||
| How do we stop this? | ||
| These are undesirables. | ||
| We've got to find something in the lease. | ||
| We checked the lease. | ||
| It's clean. | ||
| We can't get them that way. | ||
| We'll try this. | ||
| Okay, we'll say that there's protesters coming. | ||
| They put that stuff in emails? | ||
| They put it all in writing. | ||
| If you scroll down a little bit, it'll actually have some quotes. | ||
| If it happens on or near a property, we might attract an undesirable crowd, wrote one official in an email to colleagues. | ||
| I am wondering if you think there is any language within the lease agreement that would permit us to stop this event from happening, wrote another. | ||
| Based on my review, I don't think there is, but I would appreciate your opinion. | ||
| It's remarkable that they would put that in electronic communications at all. | ||
| Considering that you have something like a FOIA request in Canada. | ||
| Yeah, I was surprised you even had FOIA requests there. | ||
| Honestly, that kind of shocked me. | ||
| Legitimately. I don't think, like, this is the government agency that manages real estate for the government. | ||
| I don't think they get a lot of freedom of information requests. | ||
| Did you get pushback on the FOIAs? | ||
| No, well, actually, they blacked out most of them. | ||
| So what we see here is the stuff they're least ashamed of. | ||
| Oh my! | ||
| And the thing is, in the lawsuit, they will not be able to black out anything other than legally privileged material. | ||
| So if this is the tip of the iceberg, and then... | ||
| They kept saying to us, oh no, there's going to be this massive police threat. | ||
| We have freedom of information from the cops, who as late as the day before said we haven't heard anything. | ||
| Not even chatter. | ||
| All the Antifa types in the city were at the University of Toronto Hamas encampment. | ||
| They weren't going to schlep up to this military base. | ||
| So the whole thing was made up. | ||
| It was designed to get us to cancel the event. | ||
| And I gotta say, It would have worked, because Rebel News doesn't have an extra 40 grand kicking around for BS security. | ||
| But Rumble stepped up and said, this event's got to happen. | ||
| In the name of free speech, we can't be hounded out of Canada. | ||
| And so Rumble stepped up, and I was honestly of two minds. | ||
| On the one hand, I was thrilled the event went forward. | ||
| It was a great event. | ||
| But on the other hand, to pay a ransom was against my fiber. | ||
| But we found out what went on through these FOIA requests, and now we've named five different bureaucrats, plus the local member of parliament. | ||
| That would be like a local congressman saying, tear up that contract. | ||
| It's none of your damn business. | ||
| Was it finding out where it was located that made you look into it and want FOIA requests, knowing that it was government property? | ||
| I never even thought of that. | ||
| Like, who thinks about who owns the substratum when you're doing an event? | ||
| I never even thought of it. | ||
| It's called the Canada Lands Company. | ||
| I mean, I barely knew what they were. | ||
| But when they started making threats, our venue operator was scared. | ||
| They were bullying him. | ||
| He's a normie. | ||
| He's a normal guy. | ||
| He's not used to this. | ||
| When we had him sign this non-deplatforming agreement, I don't think he really knew. | ||
| What it would be like. | ||
| And when the government of Canada says, you cancel that! | ||
| And you're a normal guy, you get scared. | ||
| And only because of Rumble were we able to go through with it. | ||
| And the very last day of our event, the local member of parliament does this rant on Twitter about how we're racist and we're not allowed in the district. | ||
| Who the hell are you, lady? | ||
| So we'll have a chance to find out her answer to that question, who the hell are you? | ||
| Because we named her in the lawsuit. | ||
| I feel great about this. | ||
| And I'm giving Chris a shout out because there's no way we would have had the means to do this on our own. | ||
| And I know he's fighting for free speech in Brazil and in France and other semi-free countries. | ||
| I just never would have thought we need... | ||
| But this is what I said earlier. | ||
| We need the First Amendment in Canada. | ||
| That's something that I want to touch on. | ||
| But Chris, he mentioned that you've got multiple... | ||
| I know about the one in Brazil, right? | ||
| Because the Supreme Court of Brazil is coming down on Rumble because of people that you host, right? | ||
| Yeah, so Alexander, the Supreme Court Justice Alexander Moraes... | ||
| Yeah, the guy that dresses like he's from Star Wars. | ||
| Yeah, he went and shut us down in Brazil completely because we didn't censor... | ||
| It's actually, the story dates back many years ago, and we actually shut down Brazil and walked away from that market because they were telling us that we needed to take down craters, and we said no. | ||
| So at that moment, we decided, all right, you know, We're American. | ||
| We're based in Sarasota. | ||
| We're going to follow American law, not Brazilian law. | ||
| We're not going to be subject to Chinese law or North Korean law or Russian law. | ||
| Glenn Greenwald, he does a lot of his content on Rumble, and he's in Brazil, correct? | ||
| Yeah, but he broadcasts to an American audience. | ||
| The restriction they wanted us is to block in Brazil, of which we did not comply. | ||
| We ended up shutting down completely, and then They sent us a notice, and they said, you're allowed back in Brazil. | ||
| The notice that we sent you does not stand anymore. | ||
| And it was with respect to one of the creators, Monarch. | ||
| Didn't something like this happen with X in Brazil? | ||
| Yes. They took a completely different approach. | ||
| They're completely complying with the Brazilian government right now. | ||
| Whereas Elon withstood it for about a month and then caved and then ended up complying. | ||
| What we ended up doing is they sent us a letter saying monarchs allowed like this old order that we sent you is no longer valid and no longer needed to be enforced. | ||
| So we open up Brazil on Friday or Saturday. | ||
| Saturday morning. | ||
| By Sunday night, we get another letter saying, you need to shut down this guy now. | ||
| I'm trapped. | ||
| And we're like, we already opened up and we've already done this once. | ||
| And this was like, we decided to sue them. | ||
| In a U.S. court. | ||
| So we ended up filing for a TRO, an injunction, in a U.S. court. | ||
| And nevertheless, Justice Morea still pushed through on his courts to shut us down at the telco level in Brazil. | ||
| So we're completely inactive. | ||
| And he's fining us daily, I believe, in the Brazilian market for not... | ||
| He wanted us... | ||
| To provide data. | ||
| We're a U.S. company. | ||
| To provide data to him about a user that's in the United States. | ||
| And he wanted all the data from that user in the United States and all the subscribers and people watching him from within the United States. | ||
| And that's just totally not tolerable. | ||
| I believe that same request went out and they fined X for that, too. | ||
| I don't know what X's approach was on that. | ||
| But I know what our approach was. | ||
| We're like, go pound sand. | ||
| See you later. | ||
| We're not going to comply with this type of stuff. | ||
| So we've dealt with Brazil. | ||
| We're dealing with the same thing in the courts of France as well. | ||
| We're shut off in France, so we're not available in France. | ||
| And the French story is ironic. | ||
| Two years ago, we had every media organization write about how Rumble supports Russia and we're Russian puppets. | ||
| And about a year ago... | ||
| It's the standard line. | ||
| Yeah, it's the standard line all the time. | ||
| And it was because we wouldn't shut down, you know, political channels that were supportive of Russia because it didn't violate any of our policies. | ||
| And we told France, no. | ||
| So we shut down France. | ||
| And, you know, a year later, the Russians come to us to shut down channels and they end up shutting down Rumble entirely because we don't comply with the Russian request. | ||
| So that narrative of us being Russian puppets went... | ||
| Right to the garbage pretty quickly. | ||
| Meanwhile, YouTube was still functioning at the time in Russia, so obviously they were complying, and Rumble was not complying with the Kremlin, so I find that ironic. | ||
| And then now we've taken the battle to the Canadians up north with Rebel News, so we're pushing as much as we can. | ||
| We've also done a lot of work here on the legal front in the United States. | ||
| We fought Letitia James in New York State against one of her censorship Sure, sure. | ||
| it was something on the lines of moderation and forcing us to, you know, take requests. | ||
| I don't know the exact details, but it was like, it was something that definitely violated like, you know, the first amendment. | ||
| Sure. Sure. | ||
| And in, It was Rumble and the fire organization that fought back against the New York State. | ||
| And we won that, which was awesome. | ||
| And then she appealed, obviously. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| And then we did another one. | ||
| There's so many of them that we've been fighting. | ||
| But it's a battle. | ||
| And now the battle's in Canada. | ||
| I think we're at a real interesting juncture. | ||
| Worldwide politics, now that Trump has won the election, he's kind of resetting the game, and a lot of these, you know, I don't know what to call it, but like this globalist agenda that is around the world, from Canada to Brazil to France to Europe, They all kind of like, you know, have one set way of doing things that is very pro censorship, very anti free speech. | ||
| It's about grabbing as much control as possible. | ||
| Now there's like, you know, a real fight against that with the United States. | ||
| The United States is there's nothing more. | ||
| There's nothing more important than that constitution. | ||
| Like after seeing the whole world and having a you know, you might have a good constitution in other country, but you might not have a justice system that's defending it properly. | ||
| You actually have a justice system that is. | ||
| You know, the Supreme Court is making the right rulings around the First Amendment for the most part. | ||
| So that's really important. | ||
| But after seeing that in America and seeing how it is in the rest of the world, we don't realize how great it is here. | ||
| It is a fantastic thing. | ||
| And we need to push that. | ||
| And, you know, I do believe it's in the Canadian Bill of Rights. | ||
| It's one of the things we're... | ||
| But it's been trampled on and it's not being upheld. | ||
| So what is the actual, you know, the freedom of speech protection in Canada? | ||
| How's it worded and what's the backstory on it? | ||
| Section 2 of our Charter of Rights looks great. | ||
| Talks about freedom of thought, belief, faith, expression, media, freedom of association, freedom of assembly. | ||
| That all sounds great. | ||
| But Section 1... | ||
| ...says subject to such limitations as may be demonstrably justifiable. | ||
| So in Section 1 of your Constitution or your Bill of Rights, it says anything that follows this is all dependent on the state. | ||
| Section 1 says we reserve wiggle room, but other than the wiggle room, we really like these freedoms of speech. | ||
| So if the government can demonstrably justify their infringement, they can do it. | ||
| So we have... | ||
| A lovely freedom of the press until the government says, well, something's more important. | ||
| And we saw that during the pandemic. | ||
| We saw so many atrocious violations of civil liberties. | ||
| And the truckers, who were peaceful, by the way, they just honked their horns. | ||
| There were some parking violations, I grant you that. | ||
| And they honked their horns. | ||
| The Canadian government brought in martial law. | ||
| The Emergencies Act, which had not even been used during 9-11. | ||
| And they... | ||
| Deployed riot horses. | ||
| They seized bank accounts without legal process. | ||
| I believe that if we had a First Amendment, that wouldn't happen. | ||
| Now, by the way, later on, about a year later, our federal court said, okay, that was unconstitutional, even under the wiggle room charter. | ||
| Canada does not have the culture of freedom that Chris was talking about. | ||
| You've got to have that in your law schools, your law professors, your judges, your lawyers. | ||
| And it's such a battleground in America right now. | ||
| Like, who is the boss? | ||
| These district court judges are Donald Trump. | ||
| But it's not just Donald Trump. | ||
| It's Trump, the winner of the election. | ||
| Or can any one of 600 district judges veto him? | ||
| In some ways, that's more powerful than a Supreme Court judge, because they've got to work in packs of nine. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| I mean, so to have that culture of freedom in your law is so important, and the bad guys have had a long march through the institutions. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, the articulation in the First Amendment in the United States where it says, Congress shall make no law, that is impactful. | ||
| And I think that most Americans don't think about how important that language is. | ||
| Because it's... | ||
| Our Constitution puts the people before the government. | ||
| And I don't know that... | ||
| I'm not familiar enough with other countries to say whether or not that's the case, but it sounds clearly like in Canada, the government gave itself room to... | ||
| To violate whatever laws and rulings it wanted right in the first clause. | ||
| And in the U.S., like I said, it says Congress shall make no law. | ||
| And that language is extremely important. | ||
| And the Patriot Act did a lot of damage to us as well. | ||
| Well, there's times where, yes, I agree completely. | ||
| And there's times where we've fallen short. | ||
| But we have generally been pretty good about correcting the errors as well. | ||
| That's another thing that I think that, again, I'm not, this is not in any way trying to say that any of the violations of our Constitution are okay, but by and large, we've been pretty good about correcting them. | ||
| There's a couple things that jumped to the top of my mind that they haven't managed to fix yet here in the U.S., like, for instance, civil asset forfeiture that goes against the due process clause. | ||
| the government can just take your stuff and say, well, we think that you're in the business of dealing drugs or whatever, so we're going to take your stuff. | ||
| And then instead of actually having a court case against you, they have a court case against your inanimate object stuff. | ||
| If you're traveling with cash, well, we can just take this. | ||
| And so that's one of the more egregious things. | ||
| But there really are only a few that don't get correct. | ||
| The Supreme Court saying that it's acceptable for Nazis to demonstrate in a mostly Jewish town, which is, you know, I don't think that, I'm not sure that that would stand today in the United States. | ||
| And I know that it wouldn't stand anywhere else in the world. | ||
| But those kind of precedents... | ||
| They matter here in the U.S. And like you said, it does speak to the culture that we have here. | ||
| I do think that there was a concerted effort after the Patriot Act was passed to remove that culture, not just in the institutions, but amongst the citizenry to get them, you know, what was the saying was always like, well, if you're not doing anything wrong, what the heck are you worried about? | ||
| And that was something that was instilled in whether it was millennials, you know, for the sake of safety and their parents and Gen X, that they wanted you to believe that, you know, in the name of safety, Getting rid of those founding principles is okay because we're the government. | ||
| We're not going to abuse it. | ||
| And that's something that I think they underestimated just how much the love of those beliefs truly did run in the country. | ||
| I hate that phrase because they always redefine what's wrong. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| They always move the goalposts. | ||
| And I remember seeing the breakdown in Canada with free expression during the compelled speech argument. | ||
| That was insane. | ||
| What was that, Bill C-16 or something? | ||
| 17. Yeah, that was crazy. | ||
| How was that, dealing with that? | ||
| Well, that's getting worse than ever. | ||
| Really? And now judges are being trained in that. | ||
| So once the judges are being trained with that ideology, how do you even have a fair hearing? | ||
| The institutions are captured. | ||
| You know, can I tell you one of the things I love about America? | ||
| Of course. | ||
| It's a 1971 court case. | ||
| And in some ways, it feels like the apex of freedom of speech. | ||
| I'm going to swear here. | ||
| There was a fellow who went into a court. | ||
| In California with a shirt that said, fuck the draft. | ||
| And he was found in contempt, and it went all the way up to the Supreme Court. | ||
| And the Supreme Court said, you know, one man's profanity is another man's lyric. | ||
| They said he needed to say the F word, because that is what captured the depth of his emotions. | ||
| He didn't want to say, ew, excuse me, I do object to the draft. | ||
| He needed to say, no, fuck the draft. | ||
| And imagine a Supreme Court saying no to a lower court. | ||
| You must accept a man saying fuck the draft on his shirt. | ||
| That is so far out there, but isn't that America? | ||
| Ain't that America? | ||
| What is the Canadian public's view on these types of things? | ||
| As a whole, what does the citizenry feel of these types of things? | ||
| Do they care as much as Americans do? | ||
| I'm afraid that Canadians probably think, well, we're more polite, so we would not accept that. | ||
| Well, that's a soft tyranny. | ||
| I go to the UK from time to time. | ||
| I follow the case of a journalist and activist named Tommy Robinson, who is in solitary confinement right now because a judge ordered him not to post a video to Twitter, and he did anyways. | ||
| Nine months in solitary. | ||
| You're not supposed to spend nine months in solitary. | ||
| It'll drive you mad, which is what they're trying to do. | ||
| I come back every time, and I say, when I go to the UK... | ||
| It's like I've got this dystopian time machine. | ||
| I can see our future if we don't correct the path. | ||
| I say, well, we're five years down the road from the UK. | ||
| Maybe Americans are ten. | ||
| But I would, you know, the cases that Chris talked about in Brazil, maybe there's no way an American would say, well, that's just like us. | ||
| No, Brazil's hard to understand. | ||
| They speak a foreign language. | ||
| It's very far away. | ||
| You probably don't know anyone from Brazil. | ||
| But you know people from Canada. | ||
| You probably know people from the UK, and I would say study that. | ||
| Because I put it to you that the UK used to be wonderful for free speech, but it's eroding. | ||
| And there's a bunch of reasons for that. | ||
| The Times of London just did a study. | ||
| On average, every day of the week, 30 people in the UK are arrested for something they do on social media. | ||
| 30 a day! | ||
| How far until America is there? | ||
| We were talking about this a little bit before the show, and you mentioned, or someone mentioned, that it's possible that not even 30 people in Russia are arrested per day. | ||
| In Russia. | ||
| For social media? | ||
| I wouldn't be surprised. | ||
| The UK, look, they've got some real issues of race. | ||
| Now, granted, in Russia, you know... | ||
| Putin kills people, so it's not to say that Russia's better than the UK. | ||
| The UK doesn't... | ||
| People poison themselves, I thought. | ||
| No, I don't believe it. | ||
| I think Putin's actually the culprit behind that stuff. | ||
| But it does speak to the... | ||
| The UK may be softer in its punishment, but it's not more lenient to people that break the rules. | ||
| If there was a Russian named... | ||
| I don't want the Russian of Tommy Robinson. | ||
| But if there's a Russian Tommy Robinson, a journalist, sentenced to nine months solitary confinement for putting a video on social media, I think he would be championed by Western civil rights groups. | ||
| No? Amnesty International, the like. | ||
| Why did we turn a blind eye to him? | ||
| But you don't have to pick Tommy Robinson. | ||
| I mentioned 30 a day. | ||
| Douglas Murray is spot on in the UK. | ||
| He says that there's some massive problems because of race and mass immigration. | ||
| And they have a phenomenon there called rape gangs that I don't want to talk about at length right now. | ||
| Douglas Murray says it's very difficult to talk about those primary problems, to fix those primary problems. | ||
| So the government prefers the secondary problem of people being rude and people being mean on social media. | ||
| It's easier to arrest someone who talks about a rape gang. | ||
| If I understand correctly, there are problems with policing the rape gangs because they're afraid of being called racist. | ||
| And some of the rape gangs have been in operation for upwards of a decade? | ||
| Is my understanding correct? | ||
| It is. | ||
| There's a city called Rotherham. | ||
| About 100,000 people, depends on how you measure the city. | ||
| 100,000. | ||
| So there's 50,000 women in that town. | ||
| And then do the math. | ||
| How many women between a certain age? | ||
| 1,400 girls were raped in that town. | ||
| 1,400. | ||
| And they kept it under wraps for years. | ||
| And later there was a government inquiry. | ||
| How the hell did this go unreported? | ||
| And if you look, I read the report. | ||
| You can find it online. | ||
| Just type in Rotherham, R-O-T-H-E-R-H-A-M, inquiry. | ||
| Again and again. | ||
| The nurses, the social workers, the police, they all said, I was afraid I would be called racist because 80% of the rapists were Pakistani Muslim men and the girls were white working class girls. | ||
| So it was the perfect storm of political correctness. | ||
| If you complained about it, you would be called racist. | ||
| And so they didn't complain and thousands of girls were turned over. | ||
| ...to these rape gangs for years. | ||
| And you know what they're doing about that now is they're working with Netflix to make the show Adolescence available for everyone to watch there, despite the fact that it's taking one very specific issue and making it about something completely different, mainly what they call incels. | ||
| That thing is rife with problems of its own. | ||
| A 13-year-old kid... | ||
| ...is the subject of the show, and they're calling him an incel. | ||
| A 13-year-old kid has no business having sexual intercourse in the first place. | ||
| Incel means involuntary celibacy. | ||
| You should not be even hoisting that phrase on a kid, first of all. | ||
| And second of all, the kid was, in the story, the kid was being bullied by the woman, the girl that he killed. | ||
| So she was bullying the kid mercilessly. | ||
| That has nothing to do... | ||
| You avoided the central fact. | ||
| It's based on a black killer, and they made him white in the Netflix. | ||
| The creator of the show didn't specify any one incident, so that's not necessarily true, but you're right, but you're not... | ||
| Right. But the point is that Keir Starmer is making this a huge part of what's going on in Britain right now. | ||
| He's literally prescribed this. | ||
| Exactly. And what you're saying is that you're saying that they're focusing on one thing when what they should actually be focusing on is something else. | ||
| They're distracting you with this when the problem is something much, much different, much more easily defined, but much, much harder to talk about. | ||
| Yeah, it's tough over there. | ||
| You know, there was horrific stabbing in a town called Southport. | ||
| Someone went in to, it was a Taylor Swift themed party for young girls. | ||
| He went in and stabbed and stabbed and stabbed. | ||
| And it led to race riots. | ||
| Yes. And Keir Starmer, the prime minister who used to be the chief prosecutor of the UK, set up 24-hour-a-day courts to pack through as many people as possible. | ||
| No, no, I'm not talking about the stabber. | ||
| I'm talking about people who talked about it on social media. | ||
| And he was sentencing people to two years in prison for having a bigoted reaction to this stabbing by a Muslim convert. | ||
| You're not solving the original problem. | ||
| You're trying to mask it. | ||
| That's why I call it a dystopian time machine. | ||
| Look what's happening there and think, do I see the trend over here? | ||
| I feel it in Canada. | ||
| I can only imagine the places you deal with, how far it is down the line. | ||
| You know, Canada's an interesting place. | ||
| To answer your question a little earlier, I think there's a good base of Canadians that think very similarly to Americans. | ||
| I would say like 20%. | ||
| But when I start watching the political discourse in Canada now during this election that's coming up and watching the Conservative Party and then watching the Liberal Party and having a tough time knowing the difference, it makes me think maybe it's not 20%. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| The trucker protests and all the previous things that have happened in Canada over the last four or five years, I think it's a good 15 to 20%. | ||
| Ezra, what would you say? | ||
| You know, and it depends on the region. | ||
| I'm originally from the west, from Alberta, which is sort of the Texas of Canada. | ||
| And it's very free-loving. | ||
| The provincial motto is strong and free. | ||
| Other parts of Canada, not so much. | ||
| I mean, I just wish we had more of that. | ||
| Rebellious nature, that revolutionary passion. | ||
| But remember that when you had your revolution, people who sided with the king, they moved north. | ||
| They were called United Empire Loyalists. | ||
| So there is a bit of a history of Canada being a little more submissive, a little more obedient. | ||
| And by the way, it's led to a wonderful country. | ||
| Canada is a pretty great... | ||
| But over the last 10 years especially, oh my God, have we made some wrong turns. | ||
| And I'm really worried about things. | ||
| I mean, personally, I've spent a lot of time in Canada. | ||
| I've been all over Canada, from Vancouver up to Nova Scotia, and probably been there 20 different times in my life. | ||
| I mean, I've toured and played in, you know... | ||
| From Thunder Bay to, you know, small little towns out in Saskatoon and Calgary and stuff. | ||
| And it really is very, very similar to the U.S. There was a time where I would say that Canada was like... | ||
| I guess like the U.S., it's very much like the Midwest. | ||
| If you're in Fargo or you're somewhere in Michigan or up in Minnesota or something, it's very, very similar. | ||
| You could be in Calgary and mistake yourself for being in the United States very, very easily if you weren't looking at the actual dollar bills, you know? | ||
| Wait, I'm from Minnesota. | ||
| Does that mean I was basically living in Canada the whole time and I didn't know about it? | ||
| It's similar, man. | ||
| It is similar. | ||
| My slur for Canadians, by the way, was frostback, if you're wondering. | ||
| I'm not saying you should call them that, but that's my slur for Canadians. | ||
| That's a great word. | ||
| But it's true. | ||
| Canada, it really is a great... | ||
| A great country and it's a lot of fun and the people are great and stuff and it does, you know, it is really rough to see things like, you know, being so, you know, deciding that freedom is not important and that's kind of the way, there was a time where people would say, oh, well, you know, it's for safety, etc. | ||
| And I think that, you know, me and Shane talked about this on the show a couple days ago. | ||
| One of the things that COVID did without saying, I mean, I hate to say that it actually did anything good, but it really did wake a lot of people up. | ||
| There are far more people that are skeptical of the government. | ||
| I think this is probably... | ||
| Globally, but definitely in the US, and I assume it's the same in Canada, that people are far more skeptical of the government. | ||
| And there are more people that are like, you know what? | ||
| No, it's really important that we speak our minds, especially when the government says we shouldn't. | ||
| And I do think that there... | ||
| I speak to my friends that are international, and whereas there was a time when they would look at me and some of my friends and be like, oh, you guys are kind of gun nuts and blah, blah, blah. | ||
| And there are a lot more people internationally that are far... | ||
| We're less critical of our Second Amendment now because of the way that some other countries have behaved. | ||
| If I go back to the very first thing we talked about, tariffs. | ||
| I don't know if you saw this, but Trump said to the UK, if you want a trade deal, free speech has to be part of it. | ||
| And if you remember when Keir Starmer, the British PM, met with Trump in the Oval Office, J.D. Vance said, hey, you're not respecting freedom of speech. | ||
| Sort of put Starmer on the back foot a bit. | ||
| My hope... | ||
| Is that Trump's trade wars aren't just about trade. | ||
| They're about checking the totalitarian instincts of other countries. | ||
| And I'd be very interested in what Chris thinks about Zuckerberg. | ||
| Because remember when he sort of had his conversion. | ||
| If you remember his public sort of statement. | ||
| Where he said he was going to lay off the fact checkers, where he said he was going to allow misgendering and other things. | ||
| There was one thing I remember him saying that really perked my ears up. | ||
| He said they were going to stand for freedom, not just in America, but Chris, he said, in other countries, with the help of the State Department. | ||
| Did you catch that part? | ||
| So that told me, because like you say, you operate in different countries, you've got to follow those laws of those different countries. | ||
| And Zuckerberg was really saying, I'm going to fight for freedom now, but I need the help of the State Department because a company cannot win a fight in another jurisdiction. | ||
| And so my prayer is that Donald Trump, with his audacious, you know, take on the whole world at once attitude, that one of the things he leaves the world with is stronger freedom. | ||
| If he did that, that would... | ||
| That would make him a great man of history. | ||
| I don't know if you think that's going to happen, Chris. | ||
| I can say unequivocally, there's not a single platform doing what we're doing outside of the United States, and it's not even close. | ||
| Not X, not Facebook, not anybody. | ||
| They are all capitulating to the other governments in a far... | ||
| in a much more way than we are. | ||
| Zuckerberg's rebrand felt like it was a fraud. | ||
| It's still early, let's hope, but... | ||
| It could be. | ||
| It could be just for business interests. | ||
| It could be for all kinds of different interests. | ||
| But definitely, from my perspective, from what I can see, it's unequivocal that none of these platforms are... | ||
| They're complying. | ||
| They're complying with Marais in Brazil. | ||
| Everyone is complying with Marais in Brazil. | ||
| They're paying their fines. | ||
| They're... Complying with censorship requests. | ||
| They're not doing anything. | ||
| It's happening in Turkey. | ||
| It's happening everywhere. | ||
| On Rumble, we don't. | ||
| Unless it violates our policy, if it violates our policy, we're taking it down. | ||
| But if it does not violate our policy, if it's political speech and it's just a perspective from someone else, that's not coming down. | ||
| And we'll pull out of your country faster than we'll pull it down. | ||
| We're not pulling it down. | ||
| But no other platform is doing it, unfortunately. | ||
| I still think it's early in terms of the State Department to, let's say, Meta or X or these other platforms to follow and follow the lead of the State Department and then putting pressure on governments to move a certain way. | ||
| I still think it's early, so we can hope that things will change with these other platforms. | ||
| As of right now, it has not happened. | ||
| Do you have any... | ||
| Do you feel like you're getting help from the State Department or have you been in contact with anyone at State about these lawsuits and stuff? | ||
| I definitely feel like there's definitely a lot of help compared to what we've ever had. | ||
| In terms of them being concerned and hearing what we have to say, it's only been a couple months, right? | ||
| You've heard their public statements. | ||
| They've made great public statements already. | ||
| They've made even executive orders. | ||
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In my opinion, I think... | |
| For the first two months, they've done quite a bit, and I'm very happy with what I'm seeing, and that's why I want to give it more time for these other companies before passing judgment on them. | ||
| I can say that they haven't done anything yet, but... | ||
| He just looks inauthentic to me. | ||
| When I hear him talk, I don't believe anything he says. | ||
| And I'm willing to give him grace. | ||
| You just don't like him because you think he's a robot. | ||
| I don't trust cyborgs. | ||
| You don't? | ||
| I knew you were going to say that! | ||
| I like that he says these things, but there's a lot of people who have been locked out of their accounts and still haven't been opened up. | ||
| Yeah, no, there's definitely... | ||
| Platforms haven't moved much at all, if any, from my opinion. | ||
| But also, I don't feel like the rest of the world is in the position to accept free speech in more of a way than they were six months ago. | ||
| But I do see the markings from this administration that are incredibly helpful. | ||
| For Rumble and for pushing free speech. | ||
| There's been pressure with the Brazilian government. | ||
| The U.S. Embassy came out in defense. | ||
| The Congress came out in their defense. | ||
| That was awesome to see. | ||
| All the branches of the U.S. government were like... | ||
| Against any type of censorship by Brazil. | ||
| We didn't have that kind of air support back a year ago. | ||
| You have a platform of dissenting voices. | ||
| That's usually a threat to all these governments. | ||
| To Ezra's point earlier, we were talking about the person that owned the land that you were doing the stuff on. | ||
| When the Canadian government, you know, kind of leans in, it tends to move people because just the fact that the Canadian government is paying attention, like that matters. | ||
| And I can only imagine, and you hear people talk about this when they actually have to go up against the U.S. | ||
| government, the federal government of the United States of America, when they say things, countries move. | ||
| Countries respond because whether or not, you know, whatever some politician says on TV and in a speech or whatever, that's one thing. | ||
| They don't have to threaten anything. | ||
| Generally, they don't have to say, oh, we're going to hit you with sanctions or we're going to do this or blah, blah, blah. | ||
| Just the United States State Department calling and saying, it is the position of the United States of America that such and such, that. | ||
| Actually does produce results for a vast number of different topics. | ||
| And that's all a company like Rumble wants. | ||
| We're not dependent. | ||
| We don't want to be dependent on a government. | ||
| We don't want to force the government to do anything. | ||
| When it comes to a specific value like the First Amendment... | ||
| Say it out loud to the rest of the world. | ||
| And we'll try to expand in those markets where that's appreciated. | ||
| And unfortunately, it's not very appreciated in much of the world. | ||
| But it's finally nice to have a government and an administration and power that's actually saying it out loud. | ||
| And that's all I can ask for. | ||
| And there's a trade element to that, too. | ||
| Because, of course, Rumble is not just... | ||
| A free speech principle, it's a company. | ||
| Yes. And, you know, in Canada, a bill was moving through our parliament until parliament was dissolved called the Online Harms Act. | ||
| And it would have applied to Rumble and YouTube and Twitter and all these. | ||
| And it would have required... | ||
| 24-hour takedown notices. | ||
| Like, if you didn't take something down within 24 hours, you would be subject to fines as much as 8% of your global revenues. | ||
| Insane! Obviously, that's an attack on an American company. | ||
| It's not just an attack on what's going on in Canada. | ||
| But if they 8% fine based on your global revenues, how is that the business of the Canadian government to tax you on money you make in America? | ||
| So... I think there is a free speech nobility argument, but there's also, I mean, how many social media companies were created and started in Europe? | ||
| I can't think of any. | ||
| TikTok's in China, but the rest are American, really. | ||
| I mean, Rumble started in Canada. | ||
| It's American headquarters now. | ||
| And that is, I mean, it's sort of like the intellectual property. | ||
| It's not just a noble idea, but it's the business of Hollywood. | ||
| And so when America fights against counterfeits in China, it's dollars and cents things, too. | ||
| We can probably see that clearly. | ||
| But when Rumble fights for freedom in Brazil, it's about American prosperity. | ||
| It's not just about free speech. | ||
| That's what I like about Trump, is for the first time in years, you got an American president standing up and saying, we want some respect, too. | ||
| We want respect and prosperity. | ||
| And because Biden... | ||
| Let everyone in the world walk over him. | ||
| And it was painful to watch as an Americophile, just to see how this, it felt like an old warrior was tired, and it felt like a lion was running out of energy and the jackals were nipping it. | ||
| And you say, lion, get up and roar! | ||
| And the lion was sort of sickly. | ||
| And now the lion's roaring at every damn thing and people don't understand what it means, but it's a pleasure to see the jackals on the back foot. | ||
| Yeah. So last week we had a friend of the show, and I'm sure you actually know who he is, Carl Benjamin from the UK. | ||
| Great, great guy. | ||
| I consider him a friend. | ||
| He's actually the guy that led me to Tim's podcast and stuff. | ||
| I was watching Carl's stuff probably 10, 15 years ago. | ||
| But he was here, and we were talking about how the relationship with the UK, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, how that really is special and important, like the relationship of these five countries. | ||
| We all kind of have the same genesis from the UK, and I think that on the global scale, the world is better when we remember the common ground that we have. | ||
| From my perspective, I look at the United States as the fulfillment of... | ||
| I look at the United States Constitution as the fulfillment of what was started with the Magna Carta 500 years ago in the UK. | ||
| Or maybe 600 years, I'm not sure exactly. | ||
| But anyways, we're all familiar with the Magna Carta. | ||
| It was the first time that subjects were said no, made a statement, we're not subjects, and you actually have to listen to us. | ||
| And that... | ||
| That kind of idea then progressed and progressed and progressed through English common law. | ||
| And then when the United States was formed, the Constitution that we wrote here really was the fulfillment of that promise. | ||
| And I think that that's something that's valuable not just to the United States, but to Canada and to the UK and to Australia and to New Zealand, to the countries that are, you know, brothers on planet Earth. | ||
| I think that the Canadian Prime Minister, | ||
| who was, you know, Who is installed. | ||
| I think that he's ridiculous to even make that comment. | ||
| And the idea that Canada should make a shift towards China, I think that's not just a mistake for Canada, but it's also a mistake for the world. | ||
| Because I think that the United States and Canada and England and Australia, I think that... | ||
| Our relationship is so much deeper than just economics and trade deals. | ||
| Yeah, but right now, I think a lot of people believe that... | ||
| Oh yeah, but me? | ||
| The liberal economic order has seen that the US has been taken advantage of gratuitously, both militarily, economically, and the moment they tried to push back on anything like that, suddenly it's not fair to look after your own self-interest. | ||
| And you mentioned Biden, and it felt like America was being walked all over. | ||
| That's gone on far longer than that. | ||
| Like maybe there was a respite in 2016 when Trump was pushing back against NATO and the UN and all of these things. | ||
| And my generation hadn't heard of it. | ||
| anything like that. | ||
| It's not like that was ever a focus of discussion during the Obama years or even really the Clinton years. | ||
| In a lot of ways, America has been used by the rest of the world, and people aren't really aware of just how much bargaining power an economy the size of America has, a military the size of America has. | ||
| And when they start to push back, they start calling it bullying. | ||
| That's why so much of the media frames what America's doing right now as bullying. | ||
| No, self-interest isn't bullying. | ||
| And right now, everybody's trying to figure out where everything stands with a country that's no longer alive. | ||
| My bigger concern is that, you know, depending on how Americans take this, and certainly the media is doing its best to frame what's going on right now negatively to try and shift public perspective. | ||
| I mean, we were talking recently, I saw something earlier, there's a sign out front of like one of the buildings around here where it's like a stop sign to stop Musk on it. | ||
| I saw somebody put it in Slack, but that's been there for over a month now. | ||
| So they're trying to shift public perspective to try and get somebody else in office that offers – they want a Democrat in office in the next election cycle. | ||
| And then everything starts over again and we're right back where we started. | ||
| And I don't know if there's a way to fix that so simply. | ||
| And I think the bigger problem here is that what we're seeing is a pushback from globalist interests on an America that's just trying to actually take care of itself and fix the problems that have been festering for decades and decades and decades. | ||
| But a lot of that is on the foreign aid side, the National Endowment for Peace or whatever. | ||
| I can't even remember all the names of these different groups. | ||
| Well, that money is spent around the world. | ||
| It's spent in my country, too. | ||
| So the insanity that's based in America, it's tentacles around the world. | ||
| Elon Musk explains how George Soros leverages. | ||
| He puts in a little bit of his own dough, but he gets an enormous amount of money from the government for these NGOs. | ||
| That has impacts in Canada, throughout Europe. | ||
| One of my favorite things is how when these are shut down in America, suddenly the most insane projects around the world say we're out of dough. | ||
| And what a pleasure that is. | ||
| So the anger from those people is the death rattle of the money faucet being turned on. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| And suddenly we realized we were living with sort of a false consciousness. | ||
| We thought, oh, that was just part of the political landscape of Canada. | ||
| Like, it's not even the third world. | ||
| You're colonizing the politics of places like Canada, the UK, and France. | ||
| And we didn't realize how much, maybe we felt surrounded by bad guys. | ||
| It was just the same NGOs from the same pocket. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I'm excited about paring that back. | ||
| It's like cleaning the barnacles off a ship that's been at sea for decades, and suddenly the ship glides in the water so much more smoothly. | ||
| Yeah, and the rest of the world will benefit from that too, I tell you. | ||
| Why don't we jump to this story here? | ||
| The Supreme Court lifts order blocking Trump from deporting Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies Act. | ||
| From the Hill, the Supreme Court vacated a judge's order temporarily blocking the Trump administration from using the Alien Enemies Act. | ||
| ...to deport Venezuelans, enabling the administration to resume removals under the wartime powers. | ||
| The matter before the Supreme Court was not whether the Trump administration properly used its wartime power to expel those it has accused of being gang members, but from where those challenging their removal must launch their suits. | ||
| While the order requires those challenging Trump to use the Alien Enemies Act to do so in Texas, where they are being detained, the court dealt a blow to the Trump administration's swift removal of migrants without hearings. | ||
| The court said Venezuela So, the long and short of it is there had been an injunction and the Supreme Court has, I mean, there's multiple cases that are actually need the Supreme Court to make a ruling on. | ||
| But this one in particular, they the Trump administration had has been looking for been using the Alien Enemies Act, which I believe is from what was it? | ||
| There was another one that I saw from 1798. | ||
| Reuters was saying the Supreme Court lets Trump pursue deportations under the 1798 law with limits. | ||
| So this is an old law. | ||
| And that was part of the reason why some in the in Congress and Democrats in Congress were kind of worked up about it. | ||
| I personally think that whatever means the government can use to remove illegal aliens, I think, is acceptable. | ||
| They're here illegally. | ||
| And whereas I understand there is there are due process questions. | ||
| They're the only people that actually have a legitimate... | ||
| Now, I understand most of the people that have come here illegally, they've been instructed go to the, you know, find the nearest border guard or, you know, and tell them that you're looking for asylum. | ||
| But that is, that's illegal anyways. | ||
| You're supposed to go to a normal port of entry and request asylum. | ||
| You're also supposed to go to, you're supposed to stop in the nearest safe country. | ||
| Trump promised to use this. | ||
| Law. Yeah. | ||
| Like, multiple times on the campaign trail. | ||
| And we should do, yeah, like you're saying, whatever we can. | ||
| Yeah. We were invaded. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, look. | ||
| We gotta get rid of a lot of people. | ||
| Yeah, I'm of the opinion anything we can do to get rid of people that are here illegally, we should do. | ||
| You know, but I'm wondering if you, if our Canadian friends have opinions on this. | ||
| I'm gonna add, like, one of the disappointing things here is that it was a 5-4 vote. | ||
| And Justice Barrett dissented. | ||
| Yeah. And, you know. | ||
| I find that disappointing, that she did that. | ||
| She's had a few of those. | ||
| Yeah. I think that's the bigger, one of the bigger stories here, but, you know, obviously this went the right way, but that is very disappointing. | ||
| I mean, I'm not saying we should repeal the 19th, but it was the men versus the women, you know? | ||
| The court's makeup is, you know, five to five, you know, allegedly conservative. | ||
| People would say that the... | ||
| The men on the court are conservative. | ||
| I'm not so convinced that Roberts is actually conservative. | ||
| I think that he's as likely to come down on the progressive side as he is to come down on the conservative side. | ||
| But Justice Amy Coney Barrett, she is certainly not a reliable conservative. | ||
| But this is something that we see regularly. | ||
| We know where the left is going to come down. | ||
| They're going to side with the government or they're going to side with whatever the left would side with. | ||
| And there's not going to be – there's not any question about it. | ||
| There's not – nobody's ever surprised with – Well, the conservatives, there's always a surprise. | ||
| Yeah, which to me, honestly, that... | ||
| In my opinion, makes me think, okay, well, the conservatives are actually judges, and the progressives are just ideologues. | ||
| If you can always tell where someone's going to come down, you kind of know that they're ideologues. | ||
| So maybe... | ||
| It's the balance of the scales. | ||
| That's why they want to stack the court. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| That's why they want to stack the court, because they know they're a monolith. | ||
| Yeah. I mean, maybe you could say the same thing about Justice Thomas, even though I would clone him eight times and we could have eight Justice Thomases on the Supreme Court. | ||
| Perfectly happy with that. | ||
| But maybe you could say the same thing about Alito. | ||
| But the other three, you know, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Coney Barrett, and Roberts, it's a crapshoot. | ||
| You don't know what they're going to decide. | ||
| What were the other two cases? | ||
| You said there was a couple that Amy Coney Barrett dissented on. | ||
| There was another one that I remember was the border in Texas. | ||
| I forget, it was recent. | ||
| Yeah, I'm not sure. | ||
| It's like last year it had to do with... | ||
| It was a couple weeks ago, I thought. | ||
| I'm thinking of one like last year where it was like the border in Texas ran through federal land or something like that. | ||
| It was a while back. | ||
| I don't know and I wouldn't know where it's... | ||
| Let me see here. | ||
| How much... | ||
| A woman makes bad decisions. | ||
| Oh, no. | ||
| Imagine being the first name that comes up when you look like that. | ||
| Yeah, it's her face. | ||
| It'd be amazing. | ||
| Typically The View. | ||
| Yeah, I'm not sure what decision she has come down on the wrong side, but she is kind of, you know, it is a question mark as to whether or not she's going to come down with what would be considered a sober reading of the... | ||
| The law or whatever. | ||
| Most of the time you can expect the conservatives to say, okay, this is what the law plainly states and this is how it's going to be. | ||
| This is where my judgment's going to come down and these are my reasons. | ||
| They're going to seem reasonable. | ||
| The progressives, you can... | ||
| Never tell what their reasoning is going to be, but you always know where they're going to land. | ||
| I mean, it's one of the sad things, right? | ||
| When people talk about how the Supreme Court was never supposed to be political, you know, in and of itself. | ||
| You wouldn't want to know the political affiliations of any of these judges. | ||
| You want them to judge based on constitutional law. | ||
| And to see it turn that way, it actually does scare a lot of people. | ||
| Because like you said, I see bumper stickers that literally say, pack the courts. | ||
| And it's crazy that you see the amount of people. | ||
| Yes. There's | ||
| a strong possibility that Donald Trump gets to appoint two more people. | ||
| Clarence Thomas is getting up there and he's likely not going to want to do what Ruth Bader Ginsburg did and stay on longer than... | ||
| Then he can, you know, reliably stay. | ||
| Let Trump put up someone. | ||
| Yeah, he would want Trump to pick someone. | ||
| And also, I believe it's Sotomayor who has some health issues. | ||
| So it was New York versus Donald Trump, the case. | ||
| Okay. She dissented with Roberts as well. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| But again, Roberts is someone that's, he's not, he's definitely not a reliable conservative, which, I mean, to be honest with you, I'm fine with him not being a reliable conservative, just so long as the reasoning is sound. | ||
| It's not a surprise when it's Amy Coney Barrett coming down and siding with the progressives. | ||
| Let's see. | ||
| Also, John Roberts from Politico. | ||
| John Roberts lifts midnight deadline for US to bring back man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador. | ||
| Just hours before a midnight deadline Monday, Chief Justice John Roberts gave the Trump administration a reprieve from having to immediately bring back the US man who was illegally deported to El Salvador last month. | ||
| Roberts acted shortly after the Trump administration filed an emergency appeal of a district judge directive. | ||
| That U.S. officials return Kilmar Abregeo Garcia. | ||
| I think I pronounced that right. | ||
| Abregeo. The administration deported Abregeo Garcia despite an immigration judge's 2019 ruling that he not be sent to his home country of El Salvador because he would likely face persecution there. | ||
| Roberts issued a terse administrative order indefinitely lifting the deadline of 1159 Eastern time to return. | ||
| Abrago Garcia set by U.S. | ||
| District Judge Paulina Zinnes. | ||
| The Trump administration had said the deadline was impossible. | ||
| Now, this speaks to one of the questions that we've been discussing here. | ||
| Do lower courts have the right or the power to pass an injunction that... | ||
| Essentially prevents the administration from acting. | ||
| So this is something that has very little historical precedent prior to, I think it was the Obama administration in 2008. | ||
| So there was some in the 60s and 70s and 80s, but it was infrequent that this was used. | ||
| And prior to the 60s, it was never used. | ||
| FDR had passed. | ||
| He issued many, many, many executive orders, and there was no thought that a district judge would be able to say, no, you can't do that, Mr. President. | ||
| It was thousands, I think, right? | ||
| I mean, look, I don't know. | ||
| That's like 4,000 executive orders. | ||
| That's the most I think of any president. | ||
| You could totally be right. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I know there was a boatload of them. | ||
| If we want to say thousands, great. | ||
| I'm going to say a million. | ||
| Millions and millions is what FDR passed. | ||
| He almost broke his hand signing those executive orders. | ||
| But yeah, there was no precedent prior to the 60s and it was an infrequent thing in the 60s, 70s and 80s and 90s and then when Barack Obama got into office there was a lot of injunctions and now It's almost everything the Trump administration tries to do. | ||
| Now, I mean, look, I'm sympathetic to the idea that the executive actually should have limited power, that the Congress should be passing laws, but the way that Congress works and behaves now, and the way that the presidency has become the action... | ||
| Branch, I suppose you could say. | ||
| This is just the state that we're in. | ||
| And that being the case for the conservatives to say, well, we're going to try to do the constitutional thing and we're not going to try and do this stuff. | ||
| Then you're only allowing the left to exercise power because Barack Obama had said it himself. | ||
| He's like, I have a pen and a phone and they're going to act when they have the opportunity. | ||
| So I think that it's it is. | ||
| Incumbent upon the Trump administration to act as expansively as possible until Congress steps in and says, no, you can't. | ||
| Well, you have to worry about that now, given, you know, what happened in Wisconsin. | ||
| They're already talking about we're going to be getting impeachment articles written up in 2026 or 2028, excuse me. | ||
| Yeah, if there is a, if there is a, you know, a Democrat Congress, then you know they're going to. | ||
| Try to impeach him again. | ||
| So beyond just not getting anything done, they're also going to actively interfere. | ||
| Yeah. Trouble is, if you have a million or 10 million or whatever, I've heard up to 30 million illegals, like an invasion, to quote you. | ||
| You're going to have a million trials and a million appeals. | ||
| No, you're not. | ||
| It's not going to happen. | ||
| You know, you want to have some sort of rule of law. | ||
| America is not a wild place. | ||
| But if you are serious about getting this done, some of it will have to be done en masse. | ||
| And folks who came in so evidently just strolling across the border, I don't know, I was just puttering with some math here. | ||
| If there's 250 seats on any given airplane, you do 40 flights a day. | ||
| That's basically a flight from every big city in America. | ||
| There's still only 10,000 people a day. | ||
| So let's say three and a half million people a year. | ||
| And that's not happening right now. | ||
| Like, I'm impressed with what is happening. | ||
| First of all, the invasion has been stopped. | ||
| You know, first rule of holes, when you're in one, stop digging. | ||
| Okay, that's been achieved. | ||
| But you've got to deport. | ||
| And it's got to be done en masse. | ||
| Here's an idea, and I'd like your feedback. | ||
| And I say this as a foreigner, but I believe very much in borders. | ||
| I believe that you should be able to... | ||
| Keep out a non-citizen for any reason or no reason. | ||
| It's your country. | ||
| It's like your house. | ||
| You don't need a good reason to kick someone out of your house. | ||
| It's your house. | ||
| Some European countries, I think Sweden or Denmark, I forget which one has tried this. | ||
| And I know it sounds offensive at first, but keep in mind how many planes you need to deport people. | ||
| What if you said, here's 10 grand, get out and promise never to come back. | ||
| Now that's a lot. | ||
| 10 grand. | ||
| For 10 million people, that's $100 billion. | ||
| Well, hang on. | ||
| That's a sliver of what that many illegals cost the country. | ||
| Yeah. $100 billion? | ||
| It's not even a trillion dollars. | ||
| I mean... | ||
| Shift the money over there from USAID. | ||
| Let's do it. | ||
| Even 50 grand each, it's still only half a trillion. | ||
| Isn't $100 billion, isn't that one B-2 bomber? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I think so. | ||
| I think you need the carrot, but I think you need the stick, but also the carrot. | ||
| And it sounds absurd that someone would self-deport, but you've got to, I mean, it is a time-limited thing we have here. | ||
| And when I see stories like that, justice this, bring back the man from El Salvador, I think if that's how they're reacting to the first... | ||
| Is it even in the thousands? | ||
| It's probably not in the tens of thousands. | ||
| You got 10 million, 20 million folks. | ||
| Your country has been overrun. | ||
| Yep. And you have to think like that. | ||
| So the Alien War Act or whatever of 1798, yeah, that probably fits a little bit better than some, you know, dainty legal process from the 1970s. | ||
| Or previous administration. | ||
| ...encouraged the invasion. | ||
| I reported from Yuma, just a small sliver of the wall. | ||
| And when I was down there, this was during Biden. | ||
| Biden, it's like soft TSA. | ||
| People walk across the border, the TSA, the Border Patrol, gives them a tag for their luggage, water bottle, a ride to their headquarters, phone call to whoever they know in the country, if someone picks up and knows their name, flight to that place. | ||
| And that's happening daily. | ||
| Not to mention all the fentanyl that's going across the border through the tunnels and drones. | ||
| And it's a whole industry. | ||
| I don't know if you saw James O'Keefe's movie on that. | ||
| I didn't know. | ||
| It is an industry. | ||
| There are NGOs, again, with your tax dollars just waiting. | ||
| Waiting with lawyers. | ||
| And get them away from Texas. | ||
| Get them into the country. | ||
| Not just NGOs, but the federal government itself. | ||
| The Health and Human Services Department had a program called the... | ||
| What was the program called? | ||
| The refugee resettlement program and people were actually being shipped throughout the country specifically to purple states in the hopes that they would vote, that they would manage to get social security cards, which has now been proven to happen. | ||
| So a year ago, you know, I was talking about this particular plan, the refugee resettlement plan, how the actual federal government was using taxpayer dollars. | ||
| The Democrats were using taxpayer dollars to ship people throughout the country. | ||
| And they were intending on doing two things. | ||
| One, first, it's to get them into the census because the congressional districts are drawn up by the census. | ||
| And additionally, those people were being given Social Security numbers and they were being given driver's license and they were being allowed to vote. | ||
| Now, technically, it's illegal. | ||
| but Let me give you a 60 second anecdote. | ||
| I like to travel to other countries to see what it's like there. | ||
| Let me tell you a very short story from the little village of Dundrum, Ireland. | ||
| It's a village of 200 people. | ||
| It's the prettiest place you've ever seen in your life. | ||
| And there's one sort of hotel country club in town where everyone goes for their cycle of life events. | ||
| Gorgeous. 200 people in the whole town. | ||
| And then one day the hotel signs a deal with the federal government. | ||
| It's not going to be a hotel and country club anymore. | ||
| It's going to take 240 military-aged migrant men. | ||
| So they shut down the tourism, shut down the social hub of the town, and in one fell swoop, the Irish are now a minority in Dundrum. | ||
| Who are these men? | ||
| How long are they staying? | ||
| All this is secret. | ||
| It's the most astonishing thing. | ||
| And who's pushing for this? | ||
| U.S.-funded NGOs. | ||
| There's over 100,000 in this tiny island of Ireland with 5 million souls. | ||
| And I say again, why is that interesting? | ||
| Well, because sometimes they try out things over there that then they bring in over here. | ||
| Like they did to Haiti. | ||
| Our government, you know, we destroyed Haiti over many decades. | ||
| It was like an experiment on what they want to do to destroy this country. | ||
| And then that thing you're talking about happened in New York City. | ||
| I'm from New York. | ||
| A lot of family in the hotel and trades union. | ||
| So they work in all those hotels. | ||
| And all those hotels just became migrant facilities. | ||
| Totally insane. | ||
| And not to mention, they were giving, like, debit cards to illegal immigrants as they showed up into New York City. | ||
| Banana. You're a hotel owner. | ||
| You love it. | ||
| You don't have to worry about reservations anymore. | ||
| You got one client who always pays the bill. | ||
| No dine and dash. | ||
| You're set. | ||
| Yeah. It's crazy. | ||
| All right. | ||
| We're going to go to Super Chats. | ||
| So smash that like button. | ||
| Share the show with all your friends and become a member at rumble.com slash timcast. | ||
| Let's see here. | ||
| Lurch685 says, The response to that, I think, is with what? | ||
| That's the response you're getting from most young people, at least. | ||
| Let's see. | ||
| Sean H. says, welcome back to the world. | ||
| The Dire Wolf. | ||
| Did you guys hear about that? | ||
| They've cloned the Dire Wolf. | ||
| We're actually going to talk about that in the after show today. | ||
| Clint Russell said maybe that wasn't a good idea. | ||
| What? I saw him on Twitter today. | ||
| He said maybe it wasn't a good idea to do that. | ||
| I'm like, I agree. | ||
| I mean, maybe. | ||
| We saw Jurassic Park. | ||
| Yeah, you did. | ||
| But, you know, they're not dinosaurs. | ||
| But they're wolves. | ||
| They're wolves. | ||
| Dinosaurs weren't real, but I don't want to derail the conversation. | ||
| I appreciate that, Shane. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Let's see. | ||
| Afuera Media says, Canada is a manipulative ex that's mad you aren't letting them get away with it anymore. | ||
| How do you guys feel about that? | ||
| You know what? | ||
| I really want to be the best friend of the United States. | ||
| I don't want to be American. | ||
| I love America. | ||
| I want to be the best friend of America. | ||
| And I really, I think it could be frickin' amazing. | ||
| I just hope this passes. | ||
| Is that okay to say? | ||
| Am I too Pollyannish here? | ||
| I mean, I personally, I agree. | ||
| I don't want... | ||
| To have animosity with our largest trading partner. | ||
| And I know we've got to fix things. | ||
| We've got to fix our military. | ||
| Any Canadian should be ashamed of that. | ||
| You know, in World War II, we were right next to you. | ||
| You had Omaha Beach and Utah Beach. | ||
| We were there in Juneau Beach. | ||
| You guys were dying right along with the Americans. | ||
| You know, we had the third largest Navy in the world at the end of the Second World War. | ||
| I know that's hard to believe. | ||
| We were there. | ||
| We were there in Korea. | ||
| We were there in Afghanistan. | ||
| But we're not lifting our load. | ||
| And I say this, without Donald Trump, I think we've got to be a serious country again. | ||
| We're not right now. | ||
| And maybe Donald Trump shines a light on our weaknesses in a way that prickles people. | ||
| He does. | ||
| My God, he can find your weakness in a second and zero in on it. | ||
| But sometimes, though, you need to hear your critics. | ||
| I'm not saying everything Trump says about Canada is right. | ||
| I don't think he's right when he says we're nasty. | ||
| But there are some flaws we have to fix, and Chris listed some of them. | ||
| I just hope we get past that. | ||
| I think it's the fact that you guys haven't won a Stanley Cup in so long. | ||
| I think you're cranky. | ||
| You haven't won a Stanley Cup in a really long time, and hockey is such a big part of the country. | ||
| Let's see. | ||
| Michael O. Pinkerton says, Israel's been making a fortune on the tariffs. | ||
| They charge us to sell them weapons. | ||
| Can anyone confirm or deny that? | ||
| I don't know if that's true or not. | ||
| Because... The United States does give a lot of weapons to Israel. | ||
| I know we buy all our drones from China. | ||
| Well, yeah, that's because... | ||
| That's very concerning. | ||
| American drones coming from China? | ||
| Yeah, because the FAA, and it's because of regulation, the United States... | ||
| You mean like the civilian drones? | ||
| Our military drones. | ||
| Yes, civilian drones. | ||
| Oh, I thought it was military drones, too. | ||
| One of the speeches I saw about this guy saying... | ||
|
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I don't think they'd allow that. | |
| Yeah, I don't think they... | ||
| I saw someone talk about it. | ||
| Maybe it was Eric Prince. | ||
| I forget who it was. | ||
| Talking about how this is obviously a security issue. | ||
| That's terrifying. | ||
| It was true. | ||
| Let's look that up. | ||
| I... I don't think so. | ||
| I will say that they definitely are getting the chips that go in them from Taiwan. | ||
| Chips are already an issue. | ||
| That's an issue that we've actually talked about. | ||
| Whether or not people believe that the Trump tariffs are going to bring the industrial capacity back to the United States, it's really important for the United States to have the ability to make the semiconductors that we need for our military here in the United States because right now, and COVID... | ||
| You know, really showed us we can't rely on China for the things that our country needs. | ||
| 90% of the world's medicines, pills, vitamins, supplements are made in China. | ||
| That seems like a bit of a security lapse, too. | ||
| Terrible idea. | ||
| Exactly. Let's see. | ||
| Let's see. | ||
| Mr. Barefoot Blue Jean says, Carney is Trudeau's cousin family. | ||
| Carney gave a billion to Jake. | ||
| Kirchner? Carney's friends with Ghislaine Maxwell. | ||
| Trump endorses Carney. | ||
| Wonder why no Epstein files. | ||
| I'm not sure that Trump endorsed Carney. | ||
| He made a tweet that sounded like he preferred Carney. | ||
| It was an interview, I think. | ||
| Really? It wasn't an endorsement, though. | ||
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Okay. How do you word it? | |
| It was something like, you know, I'd prefer to deal with a liberal. | ||
| Or negotiate with the liberals? | ||
| Oh, I saw that, yeah. | ||
| Do you think that that might have been in response to Pierre kind of having to criticize Trump? | ||
| Here's my issue with the whole thing. | ||
| I would have loved to see Pierre Polivier come out and be the guy that said, I'm going to be able to be the only guy here that can do a deal with Trump. | ||
| America's our best friend. | ||
| I want to work with America. | ||
| They're our biggest trading partner, and I'm the only guy that's going to be able to make a deal with them. | ||
| Instead, he took a different approach, and he distanced himself from Trump a lot. | ||
| And it became like a hating contest with Carney of how much we hate these tariffs, and Canada's got to be on the other side of it. | ||
| I didn't love that approach. | ||
| Obviously, I don't like that approach at all. | ||
| So it's... | ||
| You know, it's been disappointing to watch the Canadian politics, all of them move away from the United States and, you know, let's see who can hate Trump the most and be most anti-American. | ||
| That really, really upset me a lot. | ||
| I think it's the wrong move. | ||
| And, you know, it puts Canada in a weird position now. | ||
| Like, who's going to be the guy to win? | ||
| And when they win, who's going to do the deal with the United States? | ||
| Because we need to do it. | ||
| Hey, can I talk about the other part of this? | ||
| Please, chap. | ||
| Like I say, Mark Carney left Canada more than a decade ago. | ||
| He moved up in life and he became the governor of the Bank of England. | ||
| While he was over there, he hung out with Ghislaine Maxwell. | ||
| He did. | ||
| There's photos of him and his wife hanging out with Maxwell. | ||
| You know who I'm talking about. | ||
| Epstein's sex driver. | ||
| And then while he's over there, Mark Carney, now the Canadian Prime Minister, Epstein's client, Prince Andrew throws a lavish party for Mark Carney at Buckingham Palace and picks up the tab. | ||
| What the hell's that all about? | ||
| And then the last piece, I mean, you know, once is an oddity, twice is, you know, a concern. | ||
| Third fact, Mark Carney's wife, her family is in Epstein's Black Book. | ||
| Now, you know, one of these things you might be able to explain away, too, is a raised eyebrow. | ||
| What the hell is going on? | ||
| I mean, he's operating... | ||
| I don't have any evidence beyond that, but I think the lad has some explaining to do. | ||
| I mean, I would imagine so. | ||
| What the hell is his wife's family doing in Epstein's Black Book? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I mean, obviously we have... | ||
| When are we getting those files anyways? | ||
| Is that supposed to come out? | ||
| What's Pam Bondi doing? | ||
| That's exactly what the Super Chat was asking. | ||
| We're going to do some of the rumble rants now. | ||
| Can we get a Rumble music app like YouTube Music Player? | ||
| Maybe a few famous musicians like Tom McDonald or someone else could be the first to sign on or make some deal. | ||
| Is that something that Rumble's working on, Chris? | ||
| Sorry to put you on the spot. | ||
| No, that's fine. | ||
| We're developing a lot of things. | ||
| Rumble music is something that I think is going to be very important to Rumble in the future. | ||
| And how we design that and who we get to lead that I think is very important. | ||
| Obviously, that's a very inexpensive endeavor. | ||
| Licensing all the content and bringing it all into the platform is going to be very expensive. | ||
| But it's something that we're working on and we're very much thinking about and how to bring in that content. | ||
| And I hope to have something this year on that front. | ||
| Not a separate app, per se, but at least start driving the content and the music content on Rumble, because that will be, I think, very important for any platform that's competing against YouTube to have that. | ||
| That's a lot of YouTube's consumption right now, so it's something that would be very good to have. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Billdozer74 says, As a small creator, I just want to say thanks to Chris for the Rumble Creator Program. | ||
| I'm hosting episode 89 of my show tonight and I'm extremely proud to be part of the free speech movement. | ||
| So, uh... | ||
| Thank you on behalf of Bill Dozier. | ||
| That's awesome. | ||
| No, the Creator Program is something that we launched a couple months ago. | ||
| It just wrapped up its first month. | ||
| It's where if you meet certain criteria and certain metrics, you're going to get paid a lot more for your contributions to Rumble. | ||
| And I have to say, after the first month, it has been an incredible success. | ||
| I never thought Rumble would be in the position where we'd be having more live streams, more average concurrent live streams on Rumble so quickly after the election. | ||
| Election night was like a record night for us in many regards, in many respects. | ||
| And then a month later, we hit another record on December 9th or something like that. | ||
| And then we continued to hit records in Q1 for average concurrent streams. | ||
| And it's... | ||
| It's been incredible to watch the gaming community expand on Rumble and the small creators expand on Rumble. | ||
| It's been a real big hit and it's here to stay. | ||
| Awesome. Jones asks, can we please hear more about Rumble's partnership with Tether? | ||
| Also, Phil's a great host. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Do you have any more information that you can give to the viewers on the Tether deal? | ||
| So yeah, Tether invested $775 million. | ||
| We closed that deal in February of, you know, just a couple months ago, February of this year. | ||
| The reason why I think that Tether That's how big they are. | ||
| One of the largest shareholders of Rumble now. | ||
| They've taken a huge stake in us. | ||
| And the best part about the Tether guys, like, I've gotten to know the owners of Tether, and I don't believe I've met people. | ||
| And this is, like, odd because you don't think that that could be possible. | ||
| Like, if, you know, let's say Fox wanted to come into Rumble or another company wanted to buy into Rumble, you're not going to have that free speech ethos that... | ||
| You know, Rumble has to its core as it is right now. | ||
| But the Tether guys... | ||
| These guys are so next level free speech and so for it. | ||
| It was the perfect marriage for what we believe in. | ||
| And the best part about them, though, I would say that's the best part, but the second best part about them is how ambitious they are to take on Google and take Rumble to really take on Google across all the product suites. | ||
| So they're not just looking for Rumble to beat YouTube. | ||
| They want us to beat Google on the cloud side. | ||
| They want us to have an email product. | ||
| They want us to have a browser product. | ||
| And let's be honest, they have deep pockets too. | ||
| And when they have that kind of ambition, things can get pretty real. | ||
| And we did capitalize with them. | ||
| So we put a lot of money on the balance sheet. | ||
| And these are things that we're planning out. | ||
| now. We really want to face Google on the ecosystem front, not just on the single side of the YouTube front. | ||
| Our product with Rumble has come leaps and bounds over the last couple of years, and it's going to continue to improve. | ||
| So the investments now that we're really looking to make are in our product, in the people at Rumble, in the product, so we can have something better than YouTube, have something better than Google Cloud, have something, you know, launch other things, the Advertising Center to compete against Google Ads. | ||
| So having them as partners has really unleashed us in a way that we haven't before. | ||
| It's the most exciting thing that's happened to Rumble in its history, is having them as our partners. | ||
| I hope that answers the question. | ||
| Congratulations. Carlos Y. says, Ezra, are you on team Alberta autonomy, independence, or statehood, assuming Carney wins? | ||
| Alberta is, like I say, the Texas of Canada. | ||
| It's where all those oil sands I was talking about are. | ||
| Boy, if Carney wins again, he's going to be brutal. | ||
| I told you about some of the things he did before he came back to Canada a few weeks ago. | ||
| He was the co-chair of something called the Glasgow Net Alliance for Net Zero. | ||
| You know what Net Zero means? | ||
| Stop using carbon. | ||
| Keep the oil in the ground. | ||
| Keep the coal in the ground. | ||
| Don't drive. | ||
| Don't fly. | ||
| You'll own nothing and you'll be happy. | ||
| Oh, I didn't mention. | ||
| He was a board member of the World Economic Forum, this Mark Carney. | ||
| He is the most dangerous prime minister we have had. | ||
| There have been bad prime ministers, but this guy, it's like he's a supervillain. | ||
| And I am afraid he will so torment Alberta, he will take net zero seriously. | ||
| He will demonize Alberta because he never gets votes from it. | ||
| And I think he just might drive Alberta out. | ||
| In Canada, there was... | ||
| Two referendums on Quebec separatism. | ||
| The last one came within half a percent of winning. | ||
| Was it that close? | ||
| 49 and a half percent. | ||
| How long ago was that? | ||
| Was it 10 years ago? | ||
| About 30 years ago. | ||
| Here's what happened. | ||
| The parliament passed something called the Clarity Act and the Supreme Court reviewed it. | ||
| In America, some states seceded. | ||
| That caused the Civil War. | ||
| In Canada, it is legal to separate. | ||
| As long as you have a clear question. | ||
| With a clear result. | ||
| So, to answer your viewer's question, if Mark Carney does to Alberta what I fear he will, if Alberta simply calls a referendum, I think there is a real chance that Albertans would say, we're out of here. | ||
| And frankly, if Alberta went, so would Saskatchewan. | ||
| And it would be a domino effect. | ||
| Boy, that would be tough. | ||
| But maybe, I mean, I don't want to take a stand now because I want to hope for the best. | ||
| But Mark Carney might wind up granting Donald Trump his wish. | ||
| Oh, please no. | ||
| Just to add, I think that the Premier of Alberta is the best politician in Canada that Canada has right now. | ||
| I think she's great. | ||
| But I'm going to say what Ezra, I think what you said is right. | ||
| I think that if Carney wins and he does those things... | ||
| So is it your sense that Carney would actually take retribution on Alberta for not... | ||
| Because there's... | ||
| So back in 80 when Ronald Reagan was elected, there were only two states that he didn't get. | ||
| And Massachusetts was one of them. | ||
| And that's the state that I'm from. | ||
| And there were a lot of people that felt like the Reagan administration did what it could to punish Massachusetts. | ||
| It wasn't anything that you would notice unless you were from Massachusetts. | ||
| But there were some military bases that got closed and did some things that economically hurt the state. | ||
| Fort Devens being one, Westover Air Force Base, they went from being fully active to being reserve bases. | ||
| And so the number of people on the base dwindled. | ||
| And so that meant the economies of the surrounding towns felt the hit and stuff. | ||
| Is it your sense that he would retaliate against Alberta should he lose? | ||
| He would call it net zero. | ||
| Yeah. Net zero is so insane. | ||
| Yeah. By the way, if every human being stopped using energy... | ||
| It would not change the world's temperature. | ||
| Even the United Nations, their Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Earth has been very slowly warming for 10,000 years since we emerged from the last ice age. | ||
| And I mean, it is very slightly warming. | ||
| There's nothing we did to start it, nothing we can do to stop him. | ||
| So people who say, and here's what's so dangerous about Carney, is he has not sold his Brookfield assets. | ||
| So he's invested in oil. | ||
| All these companies that are at odds with Canada, and especially at odds with this oil sands I mentioned earlier, that's the place, 170 billion barrels of oil. | ||
| China has been sniffing around the oil sands. | ||
| China would love those oil sands, or at least to deprive America of them. | ||
| Sure. And Carney is like, that was Xi Jinping. | ||
| I tell you, you want to talk about a national security threat to the United States of America, imagine having a Xi Jinping asset. | ||
| You think I'm talking crazy talk? | ||
| Yesterday... Canada's election integrity monitor said that the government of China was doing pro-Carney propaganda using the app called WeChat that millions of Chinese Canadians use. | ||
| I don't know if you heard of WeChat. | ||
| WeChat is in Canada. | ||
| Oh, big time. | ||
| That's where a lot of Chinese Canadians get their news. | ||
| And that is being used to push Mark Carney. | ||
| What more proof do you need? | ||
| There was a candidate running for Mark Carney in the city of Markham. | ||
| He says... | ||
| In a press conference at Chinese media, he says, my opponent, Joe Tay, is wanted back in China. | ||
| There's a million-dollar bounty for him. | ||
| If you catch him and turn him into the consulate, you'll get the money. | ||
| He says it three times. | ||
| What the hell? | ||
| He was dropped, and they bring in a replacement Chinese-Canadian who, it turns out, was singing songs of praise to communist China. | ||
| CSIS, our version of your CIA. | ||
| Found that there were 11 districts in Canada where the Chinese Communist Party interfered and meddled. | ||
| I mentioned earlier 400,000 people registered to vote for Carney, only 150,000 did in the end. | ||
| Are you telling me that the Chinese Communist Party wouldn't be able to hack an online vote to select the leader of the country? | ||
| I don't have evidence that they did, but I want to know who these quarter million who were disqualified. | ||
| We've got ourselves a five-alarm fire in terms of national security in Canada. | ||
| I didn't realize how close the ties were with Carney and China. | ||
| Oh my God, and we don't even know all of it. | ||
| Yeah. Imagine if BlackRock, Brookfield was like a mini BlackRock. | ||
| Imagine if Larry Fink one day installed himself as your president. | ||
| He has not won a single election in Canada. | ||
| Foreign nationals were allowed to vote. | ||
| He's like an oligarch collecting countries, and you might say, oh, that's overheated language. | ||
| Is it really? | ||
| This guy only came back to Canada a few weeks ago. | ||
| Wow. That's wild. | ||
| When's the next election? | ||
| April 28th. | ||
| Okay. How's that? | ||
| A few weeks from today. | ||
| Who's the... | ||
| The other guy's conservative candidate named Pierre Pauliev. | ||
| Okay. Is that the guy with the Apple interview? | ||
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| I think he's great. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| He was impressive. | ||
| But it's statistical dead heat, the polls now, because Trump's getting people agitated. | ||
| Wow. Alright, William Dean says, Phil, what is your ideal diet for maintaining optimal mental and physical wellness? | ||
| Honestly, like, eat clean, you know, high protein, low carbs, or at least lay off the sugar, complex carbs, and I'm not... | ||
| Particularly afraid of fats. | ||
| I eat a lot of eggs. | ||
| Eat the whole egg. | ||
| Eat the yolk. | ||
| Don't just go with the egg whites. | ||
| Unless you're trying to lose weight, then you might want to think about it. | ||
| But even still, a couple yolks are good. | ||
| And you have to go to the gym for that mental wellness. | ||
| You know, the actual exercise is what actually releases the endorphins in your brain. | ||
| It's what makes you feel good. | ||
| So even if I know people that struggle with getting out of the house, you know, they're just like, just getting my shoes on is rough and stuff. | ||
| And there are times where I feel it today. | ||
| Me and my girlfriend, she had to go to the doctor this morning, and then we came back, and I had a headache because I didn't have a coffee in the morning. | ||
| I didn't have my caffeine, and I still had to drag my butt out of the house and go to the gym. | ||
| And once I did, I felt better. | ||
| But, Chris, Ezra, thank you guys for coming. | ||
| Why don't you tell people where they can find you? | ||
| I'm going to plug something. | ||
| Now's your chance. | ||
| Alright, you can find me on Instagram, on X, at Chris Pavlovsky, on True Social, at Chris, and on Rumble, Chris Rumble. | ||
| I work for RebelNews.com and we put the lawsuit that Rumble and Rebel did, we put it on a special website called Stop Deplatforming. | ||
| StopDeplatforming.com If you want to read the whole thing, it's 21 pages. | ||
| And I just want to say thanks again to Chris. | ||
| There's no way Rebel News on our own could have taken this on. | ||
| But it's sort of fun to team up with the big guys. | ||
| Chris is doing wonderful things for free speech. | ||
| Yeah, it's really true. | ||
| Sweet. You can find me online at Shane Cashman. | ||
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