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May 13, 2022 - Viva & Barnes
01:10:24
Elon PAUSES Twitter Purchase; Canada Police State Continues; And Canada Stuffs! Viva Frei Live!
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Small fringe minority of people who are on their way to Ottawa or who are holding unacceptable views that they are expressing do not represent the views of Canadians who have been there for each other, who know that following the science and stepping up to protect each other is the best way to continue to ensure our freedoms, our rights, our values as a country.
They are putting at risk their own kids, and they're putting at risk our kids as well.
Those people are putting us all at risk.
Those people are putting us all at risk.
The behavior on display this weekend does not represent you.
Yes, we're going to get out of this pandemic.
We all know people who are trying to hesitate a little bit.
We're going to try to convince them.
But there are also people who are seriously opposed to the vaccination.
Who are extremists.
Who don't believe in science.
Who are often misogynes.
Who are often racist.
It's a small group that takes place.
And there, it's a choice as a leader, as a country.
Is it on these people?
Or is it on the most part of the people, almost 80% of the Quebec people have done what they should do.
They want to vaccinate things.
They want to do things that we want to do.
These people are not going to block us.
What do you think about the people that are going to do?
Oh, have you guys been seeing me?
Have I been on screen the entire time?
I'm an idiot, people.
I'm a bonafide idiot.
Hold on, let me just remove this.
Have I been on screen the entire time that that started?
If I have been on screen the entire time that started, did I do anything embarrassing?
Oh my goodness.
Well, you have seen me in my natural habitat.
I swear to you, I did not realize that I was on screen the entire time.
Holy cows, what was I doing?
Did I do anything embarrassing?
Was I pulling at my facial hair?
Okay, it doesn't matter.
Now everyone's going to go back and see.
Kid's taking a soft drink.
Get out and go ask mom.
Go ask mom.
What did she say?
She said.
She said what?
She said.
Go ask.
I'm texting her.
She said.
Get out of here.
Go.
She said.
So, I wanted to go live earlier today.
I picked my nose.
I did not pick my nose and eat it.
I'm not...
Jeez Louise.
Now I'm actually sweating that I was doing something...
And as you've seen me, absolutely in my natural state because I'm an idiot.
And today I've been an idiot pretty much the entire day.
I wanted to live king.
Live king.
I wanted to live stream the Pad King hearing.
And so I had the link.
I was calling in the Zoom line repeatedly.
I waited on hold until it disconnected me.
And then my kid calls me up or texts me and says, I forgot my trumpet at home and I've got music class this afternoon.
Can you drop it off at school?
So then I start driving to school to bring it to her.
And then as I'm driving, I had noticed a little blur on my eye, like one of those floaters, those little globs of whatever.
You move your eye and you track it around.
And as I'm driving, it starts getting really, really, really bad, where it looks like a lightning bolt of rainbow in an arc shape around my eye.
Then being...
Obsessively compulsive neurotic.
I start convincing myself that I'm dying.
That I'm having a stroke.
And that I better call my wife and pull over.
And she's going to have to come and get me.
I'm not having a stroke.
Heart rate's fine.
Pulse is fine.
Then I start convincing myself it's a detached retina.
Because I've known family members who have had them.
And this is exactly what they described.
So then I'm like, I'm freaking out.
Detached retina.
Google detached retina.
They say you've got to go and have it checked out right away.
So once I got past the stroke, and it was like, it was there, it was not going away, and it was there for an extended period of time, I call up the autometrist, they say, well, take you right away, come on in.
I go in.
They put the little drops in my eyes to dilate my pupils, and then they look and they say, it's fine.
It was what she referred to as an ocular migraine.
Yeah, there you go.
Optical migraine, ocular migraine.
And now that I'm thinking about it, I think I've had them before, and back then thought I was having a stroke as well.
But then the dilating stuff, the optometrist is like, yeah, you're going to be sensitive to light for a bit.
And I thought she was joking.
I was like, that's fine.
I'll be fine.
I'll drive home.
Holy cows, I was walking out of there like someone stumbling out of a, I've never done it, a strip club at sunrise when you've been in the dark for 12 hours straight, like straight out of Hangover.
Anyhow, so the bottom line is...
What do they call it?
Ocular migraine.
It's not a detached retina.
And the bottom line also, there was no way to join in on the Pat King hearing.
The update people on the Pat King hearing, apparently from my inside source, it's extremely difficult to even find the courtroom for the hearing.
It's not on the standard docket.
The call-in number that I was calling in never worked.
I was on hold indefinitely, then it would disconnect me.
But apparently it was just a scheduling type thing to see where things were at, if there had been any developments.
And no news.
And no news, but don't trust me.
Like, I messaged McGregor, the CTV journalist who's been covering it.
I don't think he's going to respond to me.
I DM'd him.
McGregor, if you get it, let me know.
Where was it that I was just Googling it?
Pat King.
You know, it's nuts.
There's no updates for this.
Probably because there was no news today.
And it's just a question of, you know, has anything changed?
Are there negotiations with the Crown?
And they're going to schedule the substantive bail hearing three months after he's been in jail.
But there's no news.
Bottom line.
Like, Pat King couldn't find the link, couldn't get in.
No news.
But now we're going to come back to the intro, people.
It's good.
Let me just see here.
Aura migraine.
Ocular migraine.
Viva Fry, does your facial hair grow like that?
Like Joe Dirt?
Well, yeah.
That's what it looks like.
Before we get into there, standard disclaimers, people.
No legal advice.
No election fortification advice.
No medical advice.
Especially stressing, no medical advice.
Because we're going to cover a story.
Particularly interesting.
Particularly interesting.
Superchats.
YouTube takes 30%.
If you don't like that, we are simultaneously streaming on Rumble.
They take 20% of their Rumble rants.
Better for the creator.
Better to support a platform that supports free speech.
And if I don't get to your Superchat like such, and you're going to feel miffed or rooked or shielded or grifted, don't give the Superchat.
I don't like people feeling bad.
Hey Viva, did you know about the upcoming WHO vote takes sovereignty away from 194 nations, including the US?
Michelle Bachman mentioned this on Steve Bannon's show, predictably not being reported by MSM.
I presume that has something to do with their global pandemic response for the future, to which nations are going to voluntarily adhere.
Why is it when someone speaks French, it sounds like even they don't know how to speak?
It's like he has that laid-back French, a forced laid-back French-Canadian accent.
For anybody who doesn't know what it is, it's a thing that Anglo and French-Canadians know.
It's like trying to be too cool for school.
But let's bring that back for a second.
Let's bring back the nauseating intro of Justin Trudeau.
Mais je pense que c 'était celui-ci.
The small fringe minority of people who are on their way to Ottawa or who are...
Ils sont farouches, train d 'hésiter un petit peu.
On va continuer d 'essayer de les convaincre.
Mais il y a aussi des gens qui sont farouchement opposés à la vaccination.
Ils sont extrémistes.
They're extremists.
By the way, let's just see if we've been demonetized yet because of Justin.
Justin Trudeau's voice tends to get videos demonetized.
Let's just see.
Yep.
Demonetized.
I don't want to go back into that because it's so ugly.
It's so ugly and unpleasant to listen to.
It will make your stomach turn.
It will make you puke.
But it was in the context.
Of what?
That I responded to Justin Trudeau with this tweet.
Look at this, by the way, because we're getting into the first story of the day.
It wasn't a rocket science prediction.
They were going to exploit what happened to Jagmeet Singh, the heckling, to pull another January 6th on those rude hecklers who gave him the finger and approached his car, and I don't think it was good.
I think they should not have done it.
And someone, in response to one of my tweets, said...
How do you know that's not another, like, false flag, Yahtzee-carrying dude making the news so they can then, you know, do what they want to do?
I'm ashamed that I didn't even think about that possibility, but it doesn't matter.
Change is nothing.
Change is nothing in my position.
Bad to do it.
Don't do it.
Because they're going to do what they're going to do.
Called it yesterday.
They're doing it today.
But setting that aside, we'll get there.
This is Justin Trudeau, who's responding to Jagmeet Singh, who said, thank you to everyone that has reached out to me after yesterday's incident.
Can you imagine, by the way, if I referred to every time someone on the internet said F you or called me a shill, a Zionist, a Mossad, an a-hole, a moron, a right-wing extremist, a left libtard snowflake.
Imagine if I referred to each and every one of those things as an incident, as opposed to recognizing that unfortunately it's par for the course when you get out and put yourself out in the public and share your opinions and try to be...
Value added.
When you try to be value added, you're going to piss somebody off regardless.
But imagine the incident.
The incident of a few rude individuals swearing, flipping the bird, and approaching the vehicle.
And I think that's where this is going to hinge, but we'll get there.
Now I'm thinking the ocular migraine, by the way, the optometrist said it might have to do with stress, anxiety, staring too much at a computer.
And I was like, yeah, check, check, check.
This is Jagmeet reflecting on...
The incident in Peterborough, where people said, traitor, I've got kids, you're not going to touch them.
F you, F you, approached his car, flipped him the bird.
Here are my thoughts and reflections.
Thank you to everyone that has reached out to me after yesterday's incident in Peterborough.
To those that have asked, I'm in Shardikala, rising spirits.
I want to especially say to the people of Peterborough.
I have visited many times and I know your community is filled with good people who want the best for each other.
Those might have been the people that were there even though they chose the wrong way to express it.
Let that sink in in your moment of clarity, your moment of lucidity if you have one.
Sadly, polarization and disinformation are real dangerous to our society.
This coming from the guy.
Polarization.
This coming from the guy who referred to people who oppose mask mandates as right-wing extremists who don't care about community and are, frankly, dangerous.
This is the guy now lecturing on polarization.
While disagreements are fundamental to a thriving democracy, hatred, violence, and wishing death upon others threaten it.
Maybe he deems it to be a threat when they call him a traitor.
I didn't hear anybody wishing him dead, but someone might have said it.
Politicians must remember the consequences when they stoke fear and division.
By the way, I think he's taking a jab at Justin Trudeau right here.
But Justin Trudeau, the ignoramus, lacking self-reflection buffoon that he is, doesn't understand that in his comment, Jagmeet is calling out Trudeau.
Politicians must remember the consequences when they stoke fear and division.
Those people?
Are putting us all at risk.
They're putting at risk their own kids, and they're putting at risk our kids.
But I don't even think Trudeau understood it.
That Jagmeet, who has sworn a holy, let me rephrase, who has sworn an unholy alliance with Justin Trudeau, is calling out Justin Trudeau.
It's schizophrenic politics.
But when hate is given a space to grow, it spreads like wildfire.
I actually disagree with that.
I think if hate is left out there, people will call it out.
I don't think hate grows.
I think actually what grows hatred is oppression.
That's what I think.
Government oppression, which the people of Canada have been living under, but how, for the last two and a half to, is it three years now?
No, it's two and a half years.
Peterborough, I love you.
Don't worry.
I'll be back.
You might be greeted to a similar welcome, but maybe people are going to be a little more tactful about it.
But that's his reflections on the incident.
His thoughts?
Fine.
And then this is Justin Trudeau chiming in.
The hatred and vitriol you were subjected to the other day was absolutely disgusting, Jugmeet.
By the way, when I want to console someone about an incident, I always go to Twitter to do it.
I mean, it's the first place I go.
I don't call them up.
I don't text them or, you know, email them directly.
I go to Twitter.
Because if I'm going to pretend to be a good person, Twitter's the place I want to go to do it.
For full virtue signaling points.
I agree with you that we must confront it and condemn it.
It has no place in politics or anywhere in Canada.
This coming from this guy.
Small fringe minority of people who are on their way to Ottawa or who are...
Holding unacceptable views that they're expressing do not represent the views of Canadians who have been there for each other, who know that following the science to ensure they are putting at risk their own kids and they're putting at risk our kids as well.
Those people are putting us all at risk, represent you.
They're in the middle of the day.
We're going to continue to convince them.
But there are also people who are very strongly opposed to vaccination.
They're extremists.
Who don't believe in the...
They're extremists.
And they're extremists, the people who don't want to wear a mask.
They're extremists.
Prime Minister of Canada demonizing the people he was elected to represent because they disagree with him.
And then he comes out like a bald-faced hypocrite liar that he is and says, divisiveness and vitriol and hatred has no place in Canada.
The hatred and the vitriol that I had been promoting at the very least for the last six months to a year.
Unacceptable views.
Those Canadians holding unacceptable views.
And for those of you who don't know, when I was in Ottawa during the protests, And at the end of one of the days, someone came up to me and said, wait until you're done.
I don't want to be on camera.
They were Chinese.
They were Chinese from China.
And they said, when Trudeau used the term, a small fringe minority with unacceptable views, he was like, that is verbatim.
I don't know who the leader was at the time.
Their communist leader.
That is verbatim.
How their communist leader referred to the Chinese population.
And this individual who came from China, he said, when I heard that, it was like hearing the echoes of what I left in China.
Verbatim.
Fringe minority.
I don't know how to translate it.
With unacceptable views.
And he's like, Trudeau must have been listening to them.
He must have been inspired by that basic dictatorship that he's so often praised.
So that's it.
I mean, that was one of the more memorable events.
It happened off-camera because I wanted to respect an individual who clearly knows the threats of communism and doesn't want his face being known to Justin Trudeau.
Small, fringe minority with unacceptable views.
And this is the jackaninny that's now lecturing the rest of Canada on the hatred and the vitriol that he himself has bred for the last year and a half.
Now it's already up to a year and a half.
So that is it.
That's that of the...
We have to listen to it.
We have to remember it, and we have to be reminded that Justin Trudeau is what he warns us about.
He is the divisive force of Canada.
He is the hatred.
He is the peddler of misinformation.
He is the peddler of vitriol.
He is the promoter of divisiveness, period.
Do my eyes look dead today?
I still think my pupils are totally back to normal.
It was amazing.
It was a very interesting experience.
Can you get double demonetized?
I hope Turdface saw your tweet reply, Viva.
He has to have seen it now.
Now I know, by the way, I know that Mark Garneau knows I exist because Mark Garneau, the man who defeated me in Westmount.
He won with 53% of the vote.
He never responded to one of my tweets, ever, until he responded to one of them.
I asked him, how many Canadians are in Afghanistan after the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan?
How many Canadians are there?
I tweeted him every day for like a week.
Admittedly, it might have been...
Irritate.
Hey, he might have considered that to be harassing tweets that I dare tag him every day and say, how many Canadians are in Afghanistan?
How many Canadians are currently in Afghanistan?
Good.
You're talking about bringing in Afghani refugees.
That's fine.
That's all fine and well to the extent we can deal with that.
How many Canadians are left?
Never got a response.
He's out on the campaign trail.
I was like, nice.
You're at a coffee shop taking pictures of people.
How many Canadians are left in Afghanistan?
Never got a response.
Never got a response until I said, put out a tweet that said, Everybody hates Trudeau.
Even Marc Garneau hates Trudeau.
Then I got a response.
A response a la me thinks he doth protesteth too much.
How dare you use my name in a tweet?
Delete that tweet immediately.
There I got a response.
By the way, everybody knows, within the political world, the friction that exists among the various politicians.
Everybody knows.
Some people might think that, you know, being appointed to, what's it called?
Ambassadorship in France.
At a certain age of your life is not a promotion.
It's actually a political reprisal.
But setting that aside, me thinks he doth protest.
Never responded to one tweet on substance of Canadian politics.
But I dare say tongue-in-cheek to anybody with half a brain, although, you know, truth in jest.
Everybody hates Trudeau.
Even Mark Garneau.
How dare you use my name?
You took the Lord's name in vain.
Delete that tweet.
Oh, yeah.
No, I saw the clip of Joe Rogan on Trudeau.
Everyone would obviously love to go on Joe Rogan and talk about it, but maybe one day I'll have a story to tell.
Yeah, so that's it.
I know that they know I exist.
Mark Gono replied to a tweet.
Jagmeet Singh at one point accidentally or deliberately hearted one of my tweets.
And I have no doubt that Justin Trudeau knows I exist, because after all, you know.
My name found its way onto an appendix of some government-subsidized, government-sponsored research paper from Simon Fraser University.
Okay.
Delete your Twitter.
Delete it now!
You used my name?
I am your government.
How dare you use my name?
You get my name out of your mouth.
Oh, classic.
Anyways, we're going to get into the big story, which is...
The big story is one of which is Jagmeet Singh incident.
Elon Musk and New Brunswick is coming out with some very, very shocking numbers.
Viva, you were my gateway drug into LawTube.
Started with one video every few weeks, then it was one a week.
Now I'm subscribed to multiple channels and watch every day.
I can't stop.
What have I become?
Mike Pierce, I can tell you one thing.
You have become more informed than 90% of the people out there.
The LawTube thing...
Is amazing.
And the beautiful thing is, it is truly the embodiment of a rising tide lifts all ships.
We haven't even scratched...
Let me just take this one down for a second.
We haven't even scratched the surface of the market, of the world, that doesn't yet know LawTube exists, so that they can actually get their news in long-term, long-format, meaningful discussion, and, you know, people actually fact-checking other people.
This is how it works.
People, we fact check each other.
We have diverging views, diverging voices.
We keep each other in check and we keep each other factually based.
Hey, Freedom Family, can you please pin us and be with us?
We in Australia, the biggest protest today, be with us.
We need you.
River table.
People out there.
The world needs more peaceful freedom rallies.
But by the way, and when I say that the law tube keeps everyone in check, and it keeps everyone factually correct, when they make a mistake, you know how to correct it.
I put out a tweet today about theorizing as to why Jagmeet Singh might have formed his unholy alliance with the Justin Trudeau government, hypothesizing that it might have to do with a pension.
Six years as an MP.
You get pension either at 55 if you get your six years before a certain date or at 65 if you get your six years after a certain date.
I made a mistake.
Someone corrected me and I gladly retweeted out Jagmeet Singh would be eligible not at 55 but at 65. But the date of the pension wasn't the issue.
It was the pension itself which might explain why Jagmeet Singh who takes...
He jabs at Justin Trudeau every chance that he gets, decides to form a holy alliance with him.
But the news of the day, I called it yesterday, you give them an excuse, they will take it.
And the other big problem is, which motivates people to do bad things, even if you don't give them the excuse, they fabricate the excuse and then they take it.
But the people who approach Jagmeet Singh, in as much as people feel that they were morally and righteously justified, It was obvious what they were going to do.
And lo and behold, they're doing it.
This is from Peterborough.
Updated.
Peterborough police launch investigation into, the buzzword of tyrants, unacceptable harassment of federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh at Ontario election campaign stop.
Throwing in the word unacceptable would suggest...
That there's a form of acceptable harassment.
So it's a useless, and I would even dare say, telling use of a term.
Unacceptable harassment.
So it's not the harassment that was problematic in this, according to the Peterborough police.
It was the fact that the harassment was unacceptable, which would suggest that there's types of harassment which is acceptable, right?
I guess.
Depending on who the protesters are protesting, some harassment, according to the Peterborough police, is acceptable.
You knew they were going to do it, and they're doing it.
Let's just see what the article says.
And by the way, I'm telling you now, I haven't read the full article.
It's going to have to do, not with the middle fingers and the swear words, but approaching the vehicle.
That's where they're going to take issue with this.
You know, it would have been predictable from the beginning if the protesters had counsel, or at least if they had had me as counsel.
If you're going to give the finger, do it from a fair distance away.
Don't approach the vehicle of a politician as he's fleeing, tucked, tailing, and running.
Police in Peterborough, Ontario, say they are actively investigating after actively investigating.
After NDP leader Jagmeet Singh received a barrage of insults and harassment as he made his exit from a provincial election rally.
Singh was in the area on Tuesday to promote the NDP, yada, yada, yada.
As he made his way into the SUV, Singh was met by a flurry of expletives from an awaiting group of protesters who accused the federal leader of being a traitor.
And by the way, some people might think that that's an understatement of an individual who was hired for the people, to promote the pro-choice, the fighting big government, the fighting...
Big Pharma, the fighting big business.
He has become what he purported to fight against.
He appeared calm and unfazed during the up-close-and-personal verbal attacks.
Anyone who sees this video should find it disheartening, morally unacceptable, and lacking in respect.
And lacking the respect each resident and visitor deserves.
Well, I'm sorry.
Lacking respect is not illegal.
Unacceptable is not illegal.
Certainly morally unacceptable is not illegal.
Lacking the respect.
Disheartening is not illegal.
So, Peterborough police, are you going to get to a crime or are you now into morality policing?
Because that's what it sounds like.
But they're going to go with the angle of approaching the vehicle.
Farquharson said the Peterborough police will use every investigative tool possible to deal with their...
There's gun violence in Ontario.
Toronto has had a spike in gun violence, the likes of which, it's so serious, it calls for stricter gun control on long arms.
But they're using every investigative tool possible to deal with their actions.
The investigation was launched after the police received a complaint from a member of the public.
Oh, yeah.
I...
Anyhow, that's it.
You knew they were going to do it.
And they're going to use this as an excuse.
To persecute or prosecute, depending on which way you see it, the individuals involved, to come up with new laws.
Now you're not going to be able to protest within a certain vicinity of a political rally.
You knew they were going to do it, which is why it was a silly strategy to begin with that would accomplish nothing except give them the excuse they were looking for, which now leads me to wonder whether or not, you know, I would entertain the idea that these could have been paid agitators.
I would entertain that a little more now than I would have previously.
On Dexter.
JT does not represent me.
Thank you, truckers, bikers.
Seize the day.
Good to see you again.
And Korg427 says, Back in the day, there were saints, theologians, philosophers.
They were banned as it today, it's just called conspiracy theory, to big tech to ban.
Lawtube.
Vivians.
Hello?
I think there might be some Vivians in the world who might not like that.
The cup matches the exact color of that super chat.
So anyways, they're doing it.
Called it yesterday.
They're doing it today.
And we'll see how far it goes.
They're going to use all their resources to...
Can you understand this?
I mean, you've got...
I was going to say a tyrant, but I just mean a leader.
You've got a leader of a nation.
Leader.
Justin Trudeau.
Who admires the basic dictatorship of China.
It's a culture.
It's a culture of basic Chinese dictatorship.
Prevent protest, prevent freedom of speech, regulate the internet, unacceptable views.
It's not a coincidence that the police force is using the term unacceptable when Justin Trudeau has used it to describe views.
And it's not like Trudeau's telling them to do this.
It's just the culture, the culture of vitriol, divisiveness, hatred that is coming from the top down and the administrative state is obliging.
But whoever did what they did at that protest, in as much as it might have made them feel good in the moment, you know, people said they embarrassed the truckers, they embarrassed the movement itself that had remained peaceful and polite for three weeks.
They've given the police an excuse and they've given the general public an excuse to say, look at that rabble.
They don't represent me.
I don't tell politicians that I hate to F off.
You know what was happening?
My friend's nephew...
Tara, did your nephew survive two weeks ago?
I hope...
Yeah.
No, no.
It's everywhere.
It's not a coincidence.
It's terrible.
But no, no.
They've got...
They've got time to use all of their resources to go after someone who said F you and flipped a bird to Jagmeet Singh.
Now you're taking a popsicle.
Get out of here.
That's the first story.
We knew it was going to happen and it happened.
Now, the second story.
Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter is on hold.
Now, I don't know if it's the ocular migraine that has been speaking for an extended period of time.
I have been having difficulty reading things too literally, but I think it's like now I'm entered that once bitten, twice shy stage of things where when I misread something which is satire and I take it as true, I'm now more inclined to read something which is...
I'm now inclined to just not trust my reading of things.
Anyway, bottom line, I read a story.
It was Elon Musk who put out a tweet and said, let's see if I can get the tweet.
The tweet was this.
Are we seeing it?
I think we're seeing it.
Let me just make sure.
The tweet is halfway down the article.
And it's right here.
Okay.
So I'm dense.
I have no problem admitting when I'm dense.
And it might have to do with fatigue.
It might have to do with stress.
It might have to do with not having had my morning cup of coffee.
I read the tweet from Twitter, the tweet from Elon on Twitter, and it says, And I was like, oh, I read this as Elon Musk affirming that spam fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users.
So I was like, okay, the deal's on hold.
Pending details supporting the calculation that they do indeed represent less than 5%.
And I was like, oh, if he does recognize that they do indeed represent less than 5%, that's a good thing.
That's not a bad thing.
Why would he put the deal on hold?
Because the details support the fact that, yeah, the fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5%.
Because I'm an idiot.
And I was like, am I misunderstanding this?
And I was misunderstanding it in that he wasn't affirming it.
He was just saying, the deal's on hold until I get confirmation that as per Twitter's statements and public disclosures, fake bot and spam accounts do represent less than 5%.
And the reason why, I mean, it's obvious.
It's obvious that, obviously, if...
We'll get to the misrepresentations in a second because I think that's the actual Easter egg in this.
From a purely business perspective, if...
If the company says we have 5% fake accounts, we know it.
Okay, that's not a big deal if it's accurate.
If it turns out that it's 10%, well, that's 10% of the users who are not real accounts, not actually going to be legitimate targets of advertising.
So that would devalue the advertising dollar if it's not 1 out of 20 people who is a fake account, but it's actually 1 out of 10. Well, in theory, you're reaching...
Less with your same advertising dollar, so it becomes worth less.
So just as a value of the company, if it's in fact more than 5% who are fake accounts, it devalues the company to the extent that the company's only source of income is advertising revenue.
Okay, so that's still committed to acquisition.
That's fine.
So the question is this now.
If the number is in fact higher than the 5% that Twitter warranted in its disclosures, in its, you know...
In its due diligence documents provided to Elon, well, on the one hand, Elon will get to negotiate the price down.
It's a good business.
It's a good strategy, especially to make it public.
But I think there's more to this.
Anyways, this is from Fox News.
Take it for what it's worth.
It's still decent.
Let me see something here.
Twitter CEO expects Elon Musk's acquisition to close.
Addresses spending cuts.
Fine.
Musk awaits details supporting calculations that spam fake accounts represent less than 5% of Twitter's users.
Fine.
There's really not much more to that except this.
In the first quarter of 2022, Twitter's monetizable daily active user base grew by 15.9% year over year to 229 million, including 36 million daily active users and 184 million international viewers.
The question is, if that's not true.
The question is, if, you know, someone had wisely said, I wish I remember who said it.
If anyone knows who said it, remind me.
You know, Elon is not buying a company.
It might have been Cernovich.
Or it might have been Posobiec.
Elon is not buying a company.
He's buying evidence.
Because, you know, we're all like, we all want to know the algorithmic suppression.
We want to know what goes on internally.
When you buy a company, you buy the assets of that company, depending on if it's a shareholder or asset purchase, but whatever.
You buy the company.
You buy the paperwork of that company.
So Elon comes in.
Let's just say he buys it.
Overnight.
Boom.
And they don't shred documents.
Well, he's got policy.
He's got memos.
He's got course.
He owns everything that was an asset of that company.
And that includes what could be potentially incriminating information.
And so, like, you know, buying the company.
Are we seeing the same thing?
Yeah.
Buying the company.
You get the assets of the company.
And you might get some inculpatory evidence.
You might get, you know, some things that have been...
Not kosher, so to speak.
And so, he might be buying some evidence.
But the issue on the 5%, well, it's relevant from a share purchase perspective.
It's also relevant from a potential evidentiary perspective, public disclosures.
If the company has been misrepresenting, not just to Elon Musk, but to the general public, to the SEC, in its public filings as a publicly traded company, You know, core issues that would affect the share price.
There could be not only, you know, a down...
There could be a reduction in purchase price because there could also be some very, very serious exposure.
And by the way, if that exposure does exist now, if there is exposure for, let's just say, alleged shareholder fraud, shareholder misrepresentation, the company knowingly misrepresented...
The number of spam accounts and bot accounts, that exposure doesn't go away if Elon buys the company.
In fact, Elon buys that exposure.
So if Elon acquires Twitter and Twitter has been misrepresenting the number percentage of bot accounts, well, Elon has bought himself into that class action lawsuit.
And so it's a big issue.
It's a big issue because it might not only affect share price, it might...
It might make it impossible for anyone to acquire that company knowing that if they deliberately or if they in fact misrepresented that figure for any period of time, anybody who acquires the shares of that company is going to acquire that lawsuit itself.
Now, hold on.
I pulled up an article from the National Post.
Okay, here we go.
National Post.
What year is this from?
Two hours ago.
Do Spambots...
Financial Post.
Sorry, not National Post.
Do Spambots really comprise under 5% of Twitter users?
Elon wants to know.
In 2013, since 2013, Twitter has downplayed the spread of fake accounts on its platform, holding that, quote, false or spam, end quote, accounts, make up less than 5% of its user base, even as independent researchers said the number could be three times higher.
This is a big issue, especially if it's existed since 2013.
I mean, that is the crux of it.
Is it true that the number actually is in excess of 5%?
If it is true, did Twitter know about it?
If Twitter did know about it, as of when did they know about it?
And as of when did they know about it, did they make material misrepresentations to the general public in filings, in disclosures, that would create a massive liability for anybody who would be thinking of taking over this company?
So it's very cool.
And then, you know, let's see what it says.
That discrepancy could now affect the outcome of Elon's...
Oh, it could do more than affect the outcome of Elon Musk's $44 billion cash deal.
After the billionaire tweet on Friday that the takeover bid was temporarily on hold.
While this may be little more than a negotiating tactic.
No, no, no, Financial Post.
This could be massive.
What is clear is that almost nothing is certain when it comes to how these accounts are defined or dispersed with or dispensed with.
According to the current employees and independent social media.
By the way, you know, lies, damn lies, and statistics.
Well, how are bot accounts defined?
How is spam defined?
Change the definition, and you can change the number in a heartbeat.
Now, the question is going to be, what would the internal memos show?
Ooh, we don't like that winner, so let's exclude that winner of the poll.
We don't like those results, so let's exclude those respondents to the poll based on...
Whatever criteria we want to now implement.
If they do research and it says, according to this definition, we have 10% to 15% spam or bot accounts, let's change the definition and let's reduce that number.
If there's memos and there's paperwork and that consideration actually went down, there's not only a problem to Elon Musk's acquisition of the company and at what price.
There could be massive, massive issues.
Okay, whatever.
That's it.
So it's an interesting play because people are going to say it's negotiating tactics, etc.
The light is going to be very fuzzy, people.
Sorry about that.
People are going to say it's a negotiating tactic, which it is.
But it would be the ultimate billion-dollar troll because Elon Musk still has his shares.
It would be a billion-dollar troll if the goal were to show that this company has been a fraud for the last 10 years.
It would be, you know, whether or not Elon Musk will have gotten a billion dollars of advertising or marketing out of all of this, it would be, if you're worth $66 billion, you know, maybe you throw away a billion to out a company as having been fraudulent misrepresentations to its shareholders for a decade that has been running, you know, interference with certain...
Democratic processes, at the very least, with news processes.
Define fraudulent.
Well, that depends on what your definition of fraudulent is.
But when you have all that much money in the world and you want to make a point, it might even be worth it.
Deal falls through because Elon Musk is not going to spend $44 billion on a massive class action lawsuit.
He walks away, he loses some value on his shares, and Twitter has now been outed.
As a fraudulent company, having made fraudulent misrepresentations for a decade.
Okay, Super Chat.
It's Super Chat time.
It would certainly be nice if Big Tech would add the Sark mark to our keyboards.
Looks kind of like the at symbol with a dot that the A is.
I would love it.
Because, man, I've been losing my ability to detect sarcasm.
Is Kurt in the house?
Let me see here.
Kurt, part of the LawTube verse.
Uncivil law, people.
Yeah, but you can just do the hashtag, not hashtag, sorry, forward slash sarcasm.
I'm going to bring it up because I'm so uncertain with my own sarcasm reading capabilities.
Let me just go to Twitter for one second.
Someone said, Viva...
You're way off with Mark Levin.
He's one of us, and I don't know what that means.
And I was like, I don't give a sweet anything if he's one of us.
I don't know what one of us means.
I don't have anything except truth and honesty.
I don't play the tribal stuff.
Even if he's on my side, if he says something outrageously idiotic, I'm going to call him out on it.
So the person said, He's one of us.
I was like, oh my goodness.
Was his entire tweet sarcasm?
When you go back and read it, and if you read it as if it was pure sarcasm, I was like, holy crap, apples.
This might make sense.
So this was Mark Levinson's show being sarcastic, trolling with this tweet, and everyone, including myself, fell for it.
And I'm not saying this is not a troll.
If I misunderstood the tweet, I might apologize to Mark Levin for having railed against him, for having misunderstood his tweet, although I would blame him for putting out a tweet that is sarcastic, but indiscernibleably so.
And I don't like these sarcastic tweets anyhow, because if you're a news sort of information outlet, and you're putting out sarcastic tweets that are parody-ish, but so bordering on real that I can't tell, that's kind of like when Tim Pool said, if you're a news-ish outlet and you're playing April Fool's jokes...
I don't unfollow people for that, but check this, people.
Let's read this tweet as though it's total parody.
For the Putin ass kisses out there who say, why don't we focus on the baby formula crisis rather than Ukraine?
The baby formula predates the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
If you read this as Levinson being sarcastic and saying, it's such a stupid argument.
To say that it predates it and that if you raise that question, you must be a Putin ass kisser.
If you read it as though it was intended to be sarcastic, it makes sense.
And if I've misunderstood this tweet and it was intended to be like 4D level sarcasm that fools pretty much everybody, I'd correct myself.
But if you read it like that, for everybody who's talking about that baby formula thing, that predates Russia.
And if you raise it, you must be a Putin ass kisser.
If you read it like that, it almost makes sense.
Oh, and it's not about federal funding, you dumb bums, you damn fools.
It's about government incompetence.
Those are two very different things.
This can be actual sarcasm.
This can be actual parody.
Or it can be his actual position.
So Mark Levinson, if you're watching, let the world know if this was a serious tweet or not.
Let the world know if this was sarcastic.
Now, people who do watch the show regularly, I do not, say that, no, it's not sarcastic.
This is his position.
And in which case, everything I said stands.
But if there were an obligatory sarcasm emoji so that it would eliminate all doubt, that would eliminate some serious misunderstandings.
Who was it that I totally misunderstood?
Herzog.
Hold on a second.
Let me just see if I can find it.
Let me search Herzog.
I think her name is...
Here we go.
Katie Herzog.
At one point tweeted...
If Elon buys Twitter, I'm moving to Canada.
And I wasn't familiar enough with her Twitter feed, and I thought she was being serious.
And I was like, well, enjoy lockdowns, enjoy curfews, enjoy free Medicare that's not free and not good, all because you didn't want free speech on Twitter.
I had no idea she was being...
Well, it was the nature of her Twitter feed.
So Katie Herzog, my apologies for having wrongly jumped to the wrong conclusion.
For not having done my due diligence.
But when it comes to Levinson, man, I don't know.
I now read that as though it was intended to be an entirely sarcastic troll.
And it actually makes more sense than if it wasn't.
Let me just see what's going on in the chat.
See if the chat has any insights that are going to make me feel less stupid.
Okay, that makes me feel a little better.
Okay, hold on a second.
Mark Levine was not being sarcastic.
I heard his show the other day and he was brutal about this.
Then he's an idiot.
Then I reaffirm my assessment.
He might be...
I don't know what one of us means anymore because all that I want is intellectual honesty and logic.
How bad is the lighting, people?
If it's on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being the worst, 10 being the best, how do you rate this lighting?
Bearing in mind that I can't do anything about it, so don't say it's one.
Everyone put in a five, so I won't feel...
Have I got Jimmy Dore?
No, I haven't gotten Jimmy Dore yet.
We'll see if that happens.
But Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, is on next Wednesday's Sidebar.
It's going to be amazing.
6. And now I know that you guys are...
Teriyaki, you're lying.
2. I know you're telling the truth and I wish you'd be lying.
3.2.
I can deal with that.
2. Thank you.
Thank you, Miss...
Misty Knight.
What's on those feet?
Cool!
That can't be a tattoo.
That would be...
That would be the most painful tattoo on the base of your foot.
Anyhow, you know what?
The lighting will not make a difference for the audio.
Which goes on to podcast.
And for everybody who doesn't know, actually, I don't maybe, you know, say it as often as I should.
The sidebars and the weekly streams with Robert go on to podcast.
It's called Viva and Barnes Law for the People.
And I've been putting on the daily streams as well.
So, you know, for that, it won't make a difference.
The bad video quality will not affect the audio, but the audio is decent.
The audio is built-in mic on the Mac.
It's pretty amazing.
So anyways, Levinson, if you're being serious, you deserve to be called out.
I don't care if we're ideologically aligned on certain things.
It's a stupid take on all fronts.
The idea that one catastrophic problem predates another...
Something that we shouldn't necessarily be doing.
That's an idiotic argument.
It's just idiotic.
One real problem predating a foreign problem, when it comes to how you have to deal with your own citizens, the fact that that problem's been around for a little while, irrelevant to me.
Especially when it is a problem of newborns not having enough formula to eat.
And the fact that the problem, according to you, is not...
Government funding but government incompetence?
That's a double idiot statement.
Because basically what you're saying is we're giving $40 billion.
Our incompetent government is giving $40 billion to a foreign nation to fund a foreign war.
And so that's how we reward government incompetence.
Okay.
No, no, no.
Not yet.
Not yet.
It's my mother-in-law's studio.
Now the lighting is going to get better, actually.
Once the sun totally goes down.
But that's it.
It's Levine.
Levine.
Okay, I'm sorry.
Levin.
Well, you know what?
Yeah, okay.
I'm not doing that to be funny, but now I might just have to do it to be funny.
It's going to be Levin, it's going to be Stetler, and it's going to be Jagmeet.
So yeah, a sarcasm thingy would be good.
Let's get to another story.
Let's get to this story, by the way, people.
I'm going to be sure this is no medical misinformation and this is no medical information.
But before that, I'm going to just get to the super chat.
Britt Cormier says, first words I hear from Viva on the stream are, it is just idiotic.
Well, that could be any of the topics posted in the title.
It is all of them, Britt.
And wait until you hear this one, people.
Let me see here.
Wait, no, hold on.
I got to take that.
Well, I was thinking, like, what can I do from Canada?
I can't ship baby formula.
I can't go to the grocery store and buy baby formula and then find people to send it to him.
I railed about it yesterday, so I won't do it again today.
Give myself some more credibility.
Get a haircut.
Dude, I specifically saw pre-stream chat.
Someone said, if you get a haircut, Viva, I'm unsubscribing.
And I believe that that person meant it.
And I trust that person's judgment.
Start pumping.
This almost started on a story time.
A story time for another day, people.
All right, but here's the next story.
Because it's just, you know, you'll connect your dots.
But this is an article that someone sent me today.
What's up?
Okay, putting ice cubes in the freezer, people.
This is...
It's from the CBC News.
So don't trust me.
Trust the CBC News.
Excess deaths in New Brunswick not due to COVID.
The period was from July to November 2021.
And to avoid any issues, I will not read the rest of that.
This is a screenshot of the article.
The article is entitled Mysterious...
No, no.
Get out of here.
Get out of here.
This is adult conversation.
Mysterious Spike.
In New Brunswick deaths in 2021, not due to COVID, health minister says.
Health department unsure what caused 636 excess deaths over 20 weeks.
Now, 636 as a number seems almost insignificant, except the population of New Brunswick.
Hold on, let me see what the population is.
Oh, let's do this.
Before I look it up, chat, what's the population of New Brunswick?
I'm going to guess 1. Two million for the province.
It might even be less.
It might even be less.
New Brunswick population, 2021, 780,000.
Okay, so 780,000.
And if you're talking about an excess death of 636 over a four-month period, that's serious.
But let's just go to the article.
CBC News?
It's not me.
YouTube?
It's not me.
I'm not even going to commentate.
I'm not even going to pronunciate.
That's going on a shirt.
Pronunciate.
I'm not even going to commentate on this.
I'm just going to read it.
Mysterious spike in New Brunswick deaths in 2021.
Not due to COVID, health minister says.
Health minister, health department, unsure what caused 636 excess deaths.
That's not 636.
That's 636 excess.
A mysterious spike in excess deaths in New Brunswick that began last summer as the COVID-19 Delta variant began spreading in the province saw 636 more deaths than normal over a 20-week period according to new estimates.
That is an apparent mismatch with the 79 COVID deaths reported during the 20 weeks.
Bear in mind, we'll get there.
On Wednesday, Health Minister Dorothy Shepard She doesn't know why, but she doubts it was caused by undetected COVID cases.
This is the health minister saying this.
This is not me.
This is not any of my wild, wacky ideas.
This is the health minister.
We have been extremely transparent with our COVID-19 numbers and our COVID-19 deaths, Yeah.
You might now have actually been too transparent.
In an ongoing study of what it calls provisional death counts and excess mortality related to the COVID-19 pandemic, Statistics Canada reported new figures this week.
The figures show that beginning the week of July 17, 2021, and extending through Let me just see if there's anything that's more relevant in here.
There is evidence of excess mortality when weekly deaths are consistently higher than the expected number, but especially when they exceed the range of what is expected over several consecutive weeks.
It writes in an explanation of the significance.
I'm going to clip this and you guys can go read it if you want.
So that's that.
I just happen to have known certain things because you will recall that last summer, around that time, it was our road trip when I had to cross into New Brunswick.
They had imposed certain requirements.
Their maritime bubble had certain requirements.
For interprovincial travel.
And again, let me just see here.
I'll have to go back to Twitter for this.
They had certain restrictions, and I remember, you know, I'm that, according to that Simon Fraser University research paper, I'm on the appendix of conspiracy theorists, and they've called me the COVID?
Far-right COVID?
I don't even forget what they said.
I'm the most double-vaxxed COVID conspiracist you can imagine out there.
I'm the most double-vaxxed anti-vaxxer you can imagine.
But I remember what was going on that summer.
What am I doing here?
I remember what was going on that summer because I lived it.
This is the most frustrating thing.
My dad says, you know, like, when you're old, you don't have knowledge because you're smart.
You just have knowledge because you lived through experiences.
I remember what happened that very summer at that particular time.
And let's just pull up an article from that time.
Just pull up an article from May 4, 2021.
New Brunswick expands a certain rollout.
Reports four new COVID.
New Brunswick reported four new cases.
Not deaths.
Cases.
Halifax.
New Brunswick Public Health announced Tuesday that people 50 and older...
Are we seeing the same thing here?
We are.
50 or older.
As well as people age 16 or older who have...
Who have with two or more chronic...
What does that mean?
Am I reading this wrong?
Who have...
I don't know.
I guess that means two or more chronic conditions can book an appointment for the vaccine.
Due to the large influx of vaccines expected over the coming weeks, we are able to open eligibility by 10 years to those 50 to 59 and also begin vaccinating those 16 and older with two chronic conditions, Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Dominique Cardi said in a news release.
This is an important step forward in our vaccine rollout and will help protect vulnerable young New Brunswickers.
I remember this because I lived through it, because I had to show papers.
The papers.
Then I was crossing into the borders in my own country.
I had to show the papers.
I was turned back at the New Brunswick border.
I was turned back at the New Brunswick border and told to go back to my province, to Quebec, to register online, to give proof to the government I didn't do what I did to my own body, and I didn't make that decision.
Whether or not it was in full awareness of fact and law is a different thing.
I didn't make that decision to travel.
I made that decision for reasons which I explained at the time, which might be bad reasons to some people, and I can appreciate if people feel that way.
I made the decision to get vaccinated because when I was running for office, for federal office, and I enjoy...
I don't want to say playing with the kids in the park.
My kid was in a daycare and I was the cool, you know, I was the fun dad who would come out with fossils and stuff and entertain the kids in the park.
Hearing judges in New Brunswick say that they were going to be, you know, hearing a judge in New Brunswick say that if someone attends an illegal party, gets their grandmother sick and she passes away, that they're guilty of manslaughter.
Running for office, I didn't want to worry about that.
And I didn't want...
I also, from a social perspective, and call me weak and call me whatever you want, and I don't, you know...
Not that I don't care.
It might hurt me.
But it might hurt me because I might feel that the part of it is true.
Maybe I was just a coward and did it to avoid the social stigma.
Maybe I just did it for my own neuroses, which is probably more the case.
I wouldn't have wanted...
If there were an outbreak at the daycare and they traced it back to that eccentric YouTube guy...
I would feel bad.
So I said, look, one way or the other, I'm taking personal risk.
I'll make my own decision.
And anyone who shames me for that, too bad.
But I remember this at the time.
I didn't do this so I could travel.
And I was actually shocked and enraged when I was told that I had to show papers to cross into New Brunswick.
And let me just see if I can find the actual video.
Hmm.
Hmm.
That's why I remember.
I'm trying to find the video while we're on the backdrop here.
Ten months ago.
Here we go.
Let me see if I can find this.
So, I knew it was happening.
And now, I'm sure you can connect those dots.
They can be totally unrelated.
But, yeah.
Excess deaths.
636 over a 20-week period in a province of a population of 780,000.
Viva, have you read Anatomy of the State?
No, but I've listened to Enema of the State by Murray Rothbard.
The state isn't us.
It's a parasite.
Thank you for the super chat.
By the way, when I'm sitting there in the car today...
You know, thinking I'm having a detached retina or a stroke.
And I was like, God, if I, if I, everyone wants to politicize stuff, if something happens to me, I have no doubt it will be politicized.
I was like, that will be, that'll be the ultimate kick in the teeth irony.
Above my pay grade.
I know your name now.
How you doing?
Thanks for your honesty.
If y 'all want to support a military guy who is trying to spread the truth to his peers, check out Above My Pay Grade.
I'm going to have to go look at your channel one of these days, but thank you very much for the support and the super chat.
So that's it.
I mean, it's just news.
It's just coming up.
Don't know why.
I agree.
New Brunswick has been very transparent with their numbers.
And they might have been...
Some might say they've been a little bit too transparent because they're going to have some splaining to do.
Let's see if I can do this here.
Here.
Yeah.
Let's see.
This is me.
This is me.
No thanks.
Alright, this is leg one of the tour Chute de la Chaudière with poutine and burgers by the river.
And people.
Mm.
And that's all I need.
There's an adult, there's a joke that the kids will get later here, but check it.
Much longer than I thought.
I remember the dish towels and a hat.
Get in!
We're just wasting our time.
We're just wasting it for three days!
Well, three days with five people and a lot of people eat and a lot of people sleep.
I brought so much food we could stay a week.
Okay.
We don't have to stop.
We don't have to stop.
Move this.
Move this.
This is blocking the...
People, this is the camping reset.
The camping reset.
Not the great reset.
You don't even get the joke.
You'll get the joke when you're older.
That's not the right video, but that's funny nonetheless.
Yeah, so that's it.
When I was asked for papers...
To cross the border from Quebec to New Brunswick.
I wasn't just...
I was enraged to the point of absolute silence.
One incident, which I'll share in due time, where I got so enraged, it was seething anger that was totally...
The only effect it had is utter silencing.
I couldn't talk.
I couldn't talk.
It was...
I was so enraged.
And I had another similar incident, which I'll share sooner than later, but not just yet.
So that's it.
Hold on, let me see here.
I see a super chat.
That was a good road trip.
That wasn't the long road trip.
That was a three-day road trip to Ile d 'Orléans, which is a small island just east of Quebec City.
Beautiful.
If anybody's in Quebec, go there, but I would not ever, you know, I don't know who's traveling to Quebec anymore.
Is it just me or are the right and the left actually unifying against the establishment powers?
Rare and beautiful.
I think you might be right.
I just tweeted something out to that effect.
I'll have to go through my Twitter timeline of my diary of life now.
But I think you're right.
And I think it's finally happening.
Because, you know, the left.
Jagmeet Singh's base is the left.
And if they, I have a feeling they're revolting against Jagmeet Singh.
And if they don't, you know, they're going to get what they deserve.
It is high time for the left and the right, the left and the right.
You know, it's a high time for the citizens to realize that these hypocrite politicians in office, they have one interest.
And it is ensuring that they have a job.
And they don't have a job if there's no crisis to manage.
They don't have a job.
If they don't make work for themselves.
Government is a make-work project.
No work.
You have to shrink the size of government.
You have to make the problem.
You have to make a problem to regulate.
You've got to regulate the problem.
In so regulating the problem, you create another problem.
You create another problem the government's got to manage.
They create a solution to that problem.
And it's a vicious cycle of garbage.
Oh, hold on a second.
I just saw something in French.
Bonjour, viva.
Did you know James Topp?
Oh, yeah.
So I was supposed to have James Topp on today.
But then they had a problem and I had my ocular migraine, which I mistook for a stroke.
So yeah, we'll have him back on.
There's a rumor that he got arrested or fined for speaking out against the Fauci Jews in uniform.
It's an older story, so it's not actually totally accurate, but we'll get there.
But what I was coming here to talk about was another story.
Speaking of La Belle Provence, you know, the only thing that makes Quebec...
You know, the only thing that ruins Quebec are the politicians.
Supreme Leader Francois Legault, the Premier of Quebec.
There's an election coming up in November.
And Francois Legault, as you all might know if you follow my Twitter feed, he supports freedom of speech.
But he won't debate in English.
Francois Legault will not debate for the upcoming election in English.
And wait until you hear the reason why.
I mean, I think you could probably imagine it, but there's going to be debates for the next Premier of Quebec, and François Legault is refusing to partake in the English language debate.
Some might say it's because his English is embarrassingly bad, and that if he were forced to have a debate in English with other reasonably bilingual potential leaders, like, I don't know, Eric Duhem, for example, that the atrocious level of his English...
Might illustrate some of the idiotic policy consequences of the very policy that he's trying to implement now.
Some might say that, but no.
He's refusing to debate in English out of principle.
English leaders' debate axed after snub by Legault and the PQ.
This is from Montreal Gazette.
News that the Premier had declined the invitation spread fast with a mix of disappointment and anger in the Anglophone community.
Look at that guy.
He has become the absolute 1984 movie villain.
This man, oh my goodness, I was talking, let me just bring this down for one second.
We're going to come back to that.
I was talking with someone today about the prospect of the beauty of moving to Florida.
And I said to this person who happened to be American, you know, Florida's looking good.
And this person said to me, without batting an eye, And serious.
But, oh, didn't you see what DeSantis is banning books in Florida?
He's banning books in Florida.
I was like, well, yeah, I don't know.
You know, I know that there's some issues with books, from what I understand.
They're banning books in California.
Banning books, you know, keeping books out of schools is not necessary.
I have mixed feelings on it.
I would tend to let the American psychos in school reading, but that's just me.
But to pretend that any book banning is a DeSantis Republican Florida problem, they're doing it in California!
So that's one idiotic aspect of the take.
But this person, who has lived in Quebec, was a neighbor of mine for the last, I don't know, 10 years, takes issue with DeSantis allegedly banning books from high schools.
We had a five-month curfew!
In our province, where we could not leave our houses after 8 o 'clock, and you think that the relevant threshold for an inhospitable place to live is banning a few books from school?
I mean, what the heck is wrong with people?
What is wrong with people?
Can you imagine that they're banning books in Florida?
We've had a curfew for five months during winter.
We've had mandatory face masks on kids in grade one and up.
We've had vaccine passports to get into Walmarts.
But they're banning books in Florida.
That's extreme, by the way.
That's extreme to some people.
But a five-month curfew is not a sign of insufferable government extremism that must be fled at all costs.
They're banning books in Florida.
They just stripped...
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