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June 7, 2023 - Viva & Barnes
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Jussie Smollett 2.0? Government Tax Laundering? The Ukraine Problem & MORE!!! Viva Frei Live!
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Democracies are not defined by our bad days.
We're defined by how we come back from bad days.
Oh, come on.
Is that all we got?
Hold on.
Is that all we got?
Oh, here we go.
I want all Americans to be able to trust the work this committee does and get the facts out there free of conspiracy.
Is he going to cry again?
This cannot continue to be a partisan fight.
Ah, whatever.
I missed it.
Forget it, people.
There's a reason why I'm starting with that.
There's a reason why I'm starting with that, people.
First of all, there's a longer clip of Adam Kinzinger.
I don't make fun of people for crying.
I make fun of people for lying.
And Adam Kinzinger's cry was a lie.
It was a theatrical...
I mean, he was trying to squeeze...
He was trying to squeeze just a drop.
Just a drop out of his eyes.
You guys did it.
You won.
You beat them.
They tried to cry.
Anyways, why am I bringing that up?
Why am I bringing that up?
He finally blocked me.
Oh my gosh, people.
Hallelujah.
Testify he finally blocked me.
Adam Kinzinger has finally, once and for all, blocked the Viva Fry because I dropped one truth bomb too many.
Do I see what his tweet was?
I don't think I can see what the original tweet was anymore because I think because I'm blocked, I can't see the original tweet.
Oh, I wish I could.
I forget what it was, but I had to remind...
Adam Kinzinger, that his prior assessments and his prior analysis specifically of the war in Ukraine have been so wildly on point, his opinion is one to be trusted.
For those of you who don't know, this is a real tweet from Adam Kinzinger in response to a real tweet from John Noble.
Throughout the conflict in Ukraine seen today, there is one Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jet that is soaring through the skies of Kiev.
This single fighter jet has already earned itself an alias, the Ghost of Kiev.
And it's already downed six, all caps, Russian aircraft.
To which Adam Kinzinger, military analyst, senior CNN analyst, military man, to the Ghost of Kiev, we raise a glass.
Here's to even more.
Buffoonery.
Absolute buffoonery.
He finally, finally blocked me.
Look, it's not to say...
I will not hide the fact that I do get satisfaction when a coward on Twitter blocks me.
It is true.
I mute people who are headaches, and I mute people who are otherwise destructive to my focus and to my sanity.
That's not to say I don't read the mute messages, because I do.
I also mute the Autobots, because there's this one, like, pro-Trump.
Just automatically insta-replies to everything with a link to some nonsensical thing.
I mute people.
Other people can still see their rubbish if they so choose.
I do get pleasure out of being blocked by people because it means they just cannot handle it.
And not only can they not handle it, they don't want their crowd seeing what I have to say.
I say blocking is not so much for the blocker.
It is more for the...
Subs and the followers of the blocker because the blocker doesn't want their subs seeing the truth.
When they block, it's not to silence you.
It's to prevent their following from being exposed to the truth, which is why I do get some sick, childish satisfaction out of being blocked, whether it's by Canadian parliamentarians, doctors who refuse to answer basic questions, and now, added to the list, Adam Kinzinger.
Some of my most notable blocks.
I think Kathy Griffin, Pink, Questlove, well, this guy here, Turnbull.
There's a bunch of Canadian parliamentarians.
Cowards, liars, and political degenerates.
All right, people.
Late show start today because some of you have not yet started Summertime for the Kids, but I have.
So it is a fine balancing act between tending to two dogs, Tending to three kids.
Trying to remain productive and trying to remain sane while also squeezing in exercise, family time, and all the other stuff.
Ooh, have we got a show today, people.
I thought it was going to be a boring show, and then the news just keeps piling up.
Before I get started, I should be clear in the format for those of you who might be viewing me for the first time.
I am Viva Frye.
We start on YouTube and Rumble.
I have an exclusive agreement.
I have an exclusivity agreement with Rumble.
And what that means is that after a little while on YouTube, I end the stream on YouTube and we conduct and carry on this stream exclusively on Rumble and Locals, vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
The link to Rumble is in the pinned comment in the chat.
It's not there because I didn't put it there yet.
I knew I was forgetting something.
Let me put that there right now.
And that's the format.
Every day, pretty much the same thing, unless for whatever the reason, to interrupt the stream.
Would distract from the stream and it's not worth doing in terms of link to Rumble.
That's the way it works every time, people.
Let me go pin this comment here.
Pin.
And now, the link to Rumble is in the pin chat.
Now, before I keep going, let's just make sure that we are simultaneously streaming on the Rumbles.
Are we not good on rumble?
We're good on rumble.
Thank you.
No, it says offline.
Hold on one second.
Are we not good on Rumble?
Is this the day where Rumble still...
Okay, hold on one second, people.
No, it's working.
You're good.
Oh, okay.
Why isn't it working?
Okay, hold on.
I'm going to go to Rumble.
I need to see it on my own here.
Okay, so here it is.
Okay, there we go.
Oh, I'm seeing an ad for how to escape the heat if you don't have an air conditioner.
Okay, cut open some Coke bottles and stick some ice in.
All right, people, sorry.
It says restricted or private Little Rock.
I think it's back up now.
And now, hold on one second.
Little Rock, I tried to message you by email earlier or through locals.
None of it worked.
Locals wanted $100 a month to message you.
That doesn't sound right, Little Rock.
I did set up the Twitter subscription, and I put it at $100 a month as a joke because I don't want any subscriptions through Twitter.
I'll look into that.
Let me screen grab that and see what's going on.
So we are simultaneously now streaming on Rumble, on YouTube, and on Locals.
Where we look good.
Oh yeah, boys.
Okay, we're good.
Okay, so on the menu for today.
Amazing stuff.
We're going to go over an article in the New York Times that seems to confirm everything that people have been saying about the Yahtzee problem in Ukraine, which was widely reported on a decade ago, widely demonized a year ago, and is now being quietly admitted as truth again with a little bit of a spin that will make your head spin.
We're going to get there.
Jussie Smollett, I'm sorry.
Elliot...
Paige, Ellen Page, however anybody wants to refer to the former actress from Juno, who has now taken on the name Elliot Page and has gone full in as much as anybody can change their physical appearance to appear as the different biological sex from that to which they were born.
Paige purports to be the victim of a hate crime.
It kinda smells Jussie Smollett-ish.
We'll get there.
We're also going to break down some news out of Canada as relates to the forest fires and the generous, benevolent government promising to triple whatever donations anybody makes to the Canadian Red Cross to help with the forest fires because apparently the 50-plus percent taxes that some of us have paid in Canada or continue to pay in Canada are not quite enough.
So the government's going to take your taxpayer dollars and triple donations to the Canadian Red Cross instead of doing what the government collects taxes to do in the first place.
We'll get there.
It still says restricted or private is the link in YouTube.
Hold on.
I'm watching it right here, Little Rock.
Let me try this again.
Everybody, hold on one second.
Sorry, guys.
Link to Rumble.
You might have to refresh, Little Rock, but I think...
Okay, this is definitely the one that I'm...
Now, replace pinned message.
It's working.
I can see it on my channel here, so it has to be good.
Let's just see this here.
The link your YouTube goes to private.
Arkansas crime attorney.
I'm looking at your Rumble rant.
I went to Rumble and searched.
It should be good now.
All right, and before we even get into any of the stories, you may have noticed...
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Okay, what do we want to start with?
I think we're going to want to start with...
We're going to start with Elliot Page.
And we're going to start with this, and then we're going to go over to the rumbles.
And also, just so everybody understands how this works, after we go over to rumble...
I either post the entire stream on the main channel or snippets and clippets either on the main channel, Viva Fry, or on the Clips channel, Viva Clips.
I also put the podcast audio version up on...
It's on everywhere.
On Podbean.
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No, it's VivaBarnesLaw for the People.
And you can find it on podcast.
All right, so let's get to the story because it's interesting.
And we must believe all people.
You say believe all women.
Until it became, believe all Democrat women.
And then it became, don't believe the Democrat women if they criticize Joe Biden.
And then it became, victims of sexual abuse or alleged sexual abuse, when it's done by your political leader, have to become Russian assets.
Threaten them with prosecution.
Threaten them other ways.
And then when they flee the country, mock them for having fled the country.
This, for those of you who don't know, I'm talking about Tara Reade.
This is from the New York Post.
And just what I find remarkable about the article in the New York Post is the absence of any qualifying language, not alleged.
What I find fascinating is that the New York Post article, not that the New York Post is a bastion of journalism, but they're decent and they've had some good breaking stories like the Hunter Biden laptop.
There's no doubt.
There's no suspicion.
There's no hesitance.
Foregone truthfulness of the statements, much in the same way we saw with Jussie Smollett before people started asking questions, which we're going to have right here.
Elliot Page reveals chilling transphobic attack outside LA Hotel.
I'm going to effing gay bash you, F word, the six-letter F word, not the four-letter one.
Actor Elliot Page has shared he was verbally attacked and threatened by a crazed transphobic man who shouted that there was the reason, that he was the reason, quote, I need a gun, end quote, in Los Angeles.
Last year!
I thought they said last week, actually.
Well, now I've got even more questions.
Holy crap, apples.
I thought that said last week.
And then when I said, you know, surely they're going to have some video surveillance of this outside the shop, to which everyone responded, they won't, and stop calling them Shirley.
Last year, just coming forward with this now.
Okay, interesting.
There's a convenient timing to this story as well.
Page 36 was standing on a corner in West Hollywood on his way to Pink Dot's convenience store when the enraged and hateful stranger approached him, shouting obscenities, according to the Los Angeles Times.
I'm going to effing gay bash you.
You F-A-G-G-O-T, I presume is the word.
The man yelled, forcing the actor to bolt toward the store in fear.
Employees at Pink Dot escorted a terrified Page into the shop with a man allegedly followed him and stood at the store's doorway.
This is why I need a gun, the maniac reportedly yelled at Page through the glass door.
Page, whose dead name was Ellen Page, revealed he was transgender in 2020.
Now he says he no longer feels safe in Los Angeles.
is.
This story occurred last year.
The New York Times article is dated June 4th this year.
So...
We're now just coming forward with this story a year after the incident in time for Paige's new book.
Okay, we got that part.
Now when I'm in Los Angeles, I don't feel comfortable like I used to for walks, the Canadian-born entertainer said.
The ordeal has shaken the actor, but he acknowledged that he has the privilege to stay in safer hotels and higher security if needed, unlike most people living in LA.
Doesn't mean it's not traumatic, but yadda yadda yadda.
Okay, the Juno star's recounting of the alleged verbal assault and threats comes in the wake of another story he recently shared in his upcoming memoir, Page Boy, about when a famous a-hole told him being gay doesn't exist.
Okay, we got another story here coming out of the book.
The actor added that another celebrity whom he described as an acquaintance insisted...
Okay, some other stuff.
Here we go.
That was it.
Cage Boy, the book, was released today with a brief tour promoting the memoir at venues all over North America from June 6 to June 14. Okay.
So that's the story.
Unless I'm misunderstanding something about the story.
Now, I misunderstood originally.
This is a story that occurred a year ago.
Paige is detailing events in Paige's memoir and comes out with one about an incident that occurred a year ago.
I guess we're not going to get any surveillance footage of this because it's probably...
Too far in the past to verify, so we're just going to have to trust the story because we no longer have the ability to verify.
That being said, probably like Mars Gold says, nobody's safe in LA.
Oh, so that's the news.
That's the latest story.
So I wonder how much book promotion stunt is the obvious question.
The thing is, I'm reading these stories about Paige recounting all of these.
Making an inventory of incidents where people were assholes.
I mean, that's it.
I do have a long-running theory, you know, like people aren't racist, they're not fat-phobes, they're not trash.
People are just nice, tolerant, or they're assholes.
And if someone's an asshole, they're going to find a reason to hate someone.
It's going to be because they're fat, black, Jewish, white, whatever.
People who are a-holes will find a reason to hate.
And so Page is putting together a list of incidents where people were a-holes, allegedly, even if assumed the incidents are accurate.
I could put together a list as well if I were so inclined.
I could put together a list of that time when I used to work at the bike shop and the floor manager told me not to speak English on the floor because it made the French employees feel uncomfortable.
I can think about that time when I was in Quebec City driving a friend home after law school and the friend told me that what makes Quebec City a nice place is that they have no Jews.
I can think of that time also in Quebec City.
Where I went to a Palestinian conference to hear what the attendees were saying, and when I tried to partake in the conversation, an elderly French-Canadian man looked at me and said, Le monsieur là, the man over there, clearly an Israel supporter, if he's not Jewish himself.
Everyone can make a list, an inventory of the time someone did something wrong to them.
The question is, how long do we hold on to that list for, and what do we allow it to dictate in terms of defining who we are in the present?
People are assholes.
We're going to have to understand that.
There are some.
Others are good.
We're going to have to understand that.
We're going to have to move on without keeping an inventory of victimhood that we can bring it up anytime so we can say, value what I have to say now because of my victimhood and not because of other stuff.
And that's all I have to say about that.
All right.
The lists can be dangerous.
They can be dangerous.
They can also be absolutely useless.
And they can be useful.
In terms of creating crutches for yourself, excuses for what's held you back in life, excuses for why you wear it.
Get over it.
Grow up.
Avoid it in as much as possible.
And appreciate that something's never changed.
There will be jerks.
There will be bullies.
There will be beauty.
There will be heroes in this world.
Okay, let's do this.
Let's go over now to Rumble exclusively.
Why?
Because I want to deal with that New York Times article, and I want to clip it as a highlight.
Because the New York Times article on Ukraine, when you read it, it's going to blow your mind.
And there's a particular aspect of the story that drives me particularly nuts, that I find particularly offensive.
And it's where partisan politics defeats logic.
It's where partisan politics becomes the guiding motivation of reason.
We're going to get there.
So, what we're going to do now, everybody, I'm sending the link to Rumble.
It's back in there in the chat.
Let me see how we're doing on Rumble.
Oh, and if anybody didn't watch yesterday's stream with Natalie Jean Beisner, watch it.
It was fantastic.
Tomorrow, Sean Spicer.
Coming up soon, Chef Gruul.
Coming up soon, other people who I don't want to make them commit before I get there.
But we're going to have a bunch of goodness coming up on the menu.
Now, okay, hold on.
Actually, before we go over to Rumble exclusively, the Arkansas crime attorney, either your tip finger is broken or you intended to do this.
I hope this is all intended.
Arkansas crime attorney, Little Rock on YouTube.
I'm not trying to dictate your shows.
It's a legal matter and you and Robert are excellent at that.
Attorney, he says, you guys may have covered it.
I haven't been able to follow you guys as closely as I was before the new job.
It is dealing with Miles Guo.
I'm going to screen grab this.
I had something I wanted you and Barnes to check out if you have time.
I just saw it today and it blew my mind.
I could not believe it.
Okay, I'm going to go look at this, Arkansas Crime Attorney.
And thank you very much for the support.
Now stop it!
You're going to make me feel guilty.
Okay.
Arkansas Crime Attorney, thank you very much.
Now let's go over to Rumble.
Exclusively.
Ending on YouTube in 5, 4, 3...
Two.
One.
Okay.
Oh, let me crack my back.
Crack my elbows.
Make sure everything's good.
We good?
Arkansas Crime Theory says, I read them in reverse.
Yep, because I read them top down.
All right, everybody.
Mosey on over.
Well, you're already there now.
All right, so let's pull up this article because you just won't believe it.
You all remember, a decade ago, if you go to YouTube CNN videos from 2014, the...
Right-wing nationalist issue in Ukraine was a real problem.
The presence of Nazism in the Ukrainian government, the Ukrainian military, was a real problem.
It was a problem until it...
Oh, that's not at all where the camera needs to be.
It was a problem until the Russia invasion of Ukraine...
And it became a problem when Russia invaded Ukraine because all of a sudden the media needed to depict the Russian invasion of Ukraine as though it was the beginning of a conflict starting in 2020.
No, it was 2022.
2022, sorry.
So this problem, which had been historically a known problem, was the subject of much reporting, had to be erased, memory-hold, in the Orwellian fashion from the interwebs because...
The existence of this problem that had been well documented for over a decade, if it continued to persist, might bring people's awareness to the fact that the Russia invasion of Ukraine is not where this conflict began.
And so it was effectively erased from the internet.
But some people didn't forget.
Now, did I not actually bring this article up?
I'm going to have to bring one of them.
Here we go.
Here we go.
I'm going to bring up the New York Times article itself.
We'll go through it quickly and then we're going to go through my tweets on it because I highlighted the important part.
You...
Oh, don't do it, you son of a...
Okay, well, we're going to read the tweet and I'll just go to the highlighted sections anyhow in my tweets because that's all that really matters.
The article...
Is in a tweet.
The tweet says, the decision by some Ukrainian soldiers to wear patches with Nazi icons threatens to reinforce Russian propaganda used to justify the invasion.
It also could give the symbols mainstream life after the West's decades-long efforts to eliminate them.
Read that five times.
That's the tweet.
The article is entitled, Nazi symbols on Ukraine's front line highlight thorny issues of history.
But let's just read this tweet.
One more time.
The decision by some Ukrainian soldiers to wear patches with Nazi icons threatens to reinforce Russian propaganda used to justify the invasion.
What was the Russian propaganda?
That its military incursion, invasion of eastern Ukraine, was an attempt to denazify Ukraine.
Why might the decision of some Ukrainian soldiers to wear Nazi symbols on their uniforms Well, my goodness, if it's actually true, then maybe it's not quite Russian propaganda and it's actually just Russian justification.
The idea that it's Russian propaganda would mean that it's based on something of a political lie.
But if they're actually wearing Nazi icons on their uniforms, well, it does throw a wrench in the narrative that it's Russian propaganda if it actually exists.
The problem of Ukrainian soldiers wearing Nazi symbols is not that the Ukrainian soldiers are wearing Nazi symbols.
It's that it's going to actually lend legitimacy to Russia's purportedly propagandist pretext to having invaded eastern Ukraine the way it did.
But, you know, let's go to the article, just pick out some highlights, which I've screen grabbed just in case they decide to do some real Orwellian memory holing.
Ukraine has worked for years through legislation and military restructuring to contain a fringe, far-right movement whose members proudly wear symbols steeped in Nazi history and dispose views hostile to leftists, LGBTQ movements, and ethnic minorities.
But some members of these groups have been fighting Russia since the Kremlin illegally annexed part of Crimea back in 2014.
And are now part of the broader military structure.
My goodness, I remember people saying this, and I remember them being called Russian shills, Putin shills.
Some are regarded as national heroes, even as the far right remains marginalized politically.
Can someone explain how they can be both national heroes and marginalized politically?
Because it seems that those two things are mutually incompatible.
It's sort of like a flat hill.
Sort of like a jumbo shrimp.
Sort of like an honest lawyer.
That joke will never get old.
They're national heroes, even though they remain marginalized politically.
Sorry, if they become national heroes, by definition, they're not marginalized politically.
The iconography of these groups, including a skull and crossbones patch worn by concentration camp guards and a symbol known as the Black Sun, now appears with some regularity.
On the uniforms of soldiers fighting on the front line, including soldiers who say the imagery symbolizes Ukrainian sovereignty and pride, not Nazism.
In the short term, that threatens to reinforce Mr. Putin's propaganda.
Do we not appreciate that if something's true, it's not propaganda?
Propaganda necessarily implies dishonesty, exaggeration, or weaponizing of falsehoods for political profit.
If it's true, I don't think it can be propaganda.
Maybe I'm wrong.
And giving fuel to his false claims that Ukraine must be denounced.
Can you understand this?
This is the most egregious form of motivated reasoning you can possibly imagine.
It's marginalized, but they're national heroes.
There's not so many of them doing it, but they've worked their way up.
What did they say here?
Fighting on the front line.
It appears with some regularity.
Marginalized, no one's ever seen it, but it appears with regularity on the front line.
The problem with all of this, not that it exists, it might reinforce Putin's propaganda.
I mean, you have to be an idiot.
You have to be an idiot to buy this dribble.
Hold on, there's one more here.
Let's see what this one says.
This is also, they might not be in the order in which they appeared in the article.
Oh, that's right.
One of them said, don't worry, the images.
Yeah, it's Nazi stuff, but don't worry.
They're only wearing it because it's a rock band.
The image, while offensive, is that of a musical band, Mr. Hyman said.
This is a guy, I think, from the ACLU.
One of them.
It's not a big deal, guys.
It's just a misunderstanding.
It's a band.
The band now uses the photograph posted by the Ukrainian military to market the Totenkopf patch.
Totenkopf.
That has to do with something with the head.
The New York Times asked the Ukrainian defense military on April 27 about the tweet.
It's a tweet with a military man with the patch.
Several hours later, the post was deleted.
After studying this case, we came to the conclusion that the logo can be interpreted ambiguously.
Nothing to see here.
That's fine with me.
Your explanation satisfies my curiosity.
Thank you for providing it, and we can move on and pretend nothing ever happened.
That's not even the worst part of it.
This is the absolute worst part of it.
Let me see here.
And this one is the one.
I think this is it.
This is the one that really irritates me.
Listen to this.
This is, by the way, the exact same rationale Lisa Bloom invoked to not discredit Tara Reid because she didn't discredit her, she confirmed her story, but to set it aside.
Lisa Bloom, for those of you who don't know, Gloria Allred's daughter, put out a tweet which I brought up multiple times, saying Tara Reid, Tara Reid who alleged that Joe Biden sexually assaulted her back in the early to mid-90s when she was working on the Biden campaign.
Apparently mentioned it at the time.
Lisa Bloom, who also purports to be a lawyer for victims, says, I believe you, Tara Reade.
We all knew that Joe Biden was handsy.
You're not asking for money.
You're not asking.
You just asked to be heard.
We believe you, and we have very much sympathy for you.
But we need to fight Trump.
So we're going to defend one genital grabber.
To fight the other alleged genital grabber.
That's it.
We're going to defend our enemy.
We're going to defend a known enemy to defeat our ideological enemy.
Listen to this, if you haven't already read it because it's been up the entire time.
Even Jewish groups and anti-hate organizations that have traditionally called out hateful symbols have stayed largely silent on the Ukraine-Nazi problem.
Why?
Privately, some leaders have worried about being seen as embracing Russian propaganda.
Talking points.
The motivated reasoning behind this is mind-blowing.
It's a foregone conclusion.
It's Russian propaganda talking points, which means it can never be true, even if it turns out to be true.
And because it's never true, even though it's turning out to be true, you can't condemn it because then you'd be condemning something that's true that can never be true because it always has to be a Russian propaganda talking point.
And so you have Jewish groups.
Which typically call out the presence of Nazi symbols.
You know, that's sort of what they do with like the OK hand symbol.
They call out Nazi symbols when they don't exist.
And then they don't call them out when they do exist because they don't want to affirm their existence.
Because in affirming their existence, they'd have to admit it's not a propaganda talking point anymore.
It's just a problem.
And so Jewish groups say nothing about it because they're scared that if they say something about it, they'll be accused.
Of being Russian propagandists, Russian shills.
It's amazing.
They're afraid that they'll be accused of that which they accuse others of doing for calling out fact.
Much like Lisa Bloom says, we're not going to call out Joe Biden and we're going to protect his crimes because we don't want to lose sight of our target.
Questions over how to interpret such symbols are as diverse as they are persistent and not just in the Ukraine.
In the American South, some have insisted today that the Confederate flag symbolizes pride, not its history of racism and secession.
And yet, the same media would say that anybody flying a Confederate flag is a racist.
Anybody doing the okay sign is flashing a white...
Oh...
Oh, this one came before the last one.
The Anti-Defamation League considers the Totenkampf...
A common hate symbol.
But Jake Hyman, a spokesperson for the group, said it was impossible to, quote, make an inference about the wearer or the Ukrainian army based on the patch.
Only when you want to be willfully blind, you shameless hypocrites.
Oh my goodness.
I'm sorry.
Can it get worse than that?
Hyman says, I can't make any interpretations about why a military battalion with a history of ties to Nazi symbolism.
Nazi history.
Who wear this?
There's videos all over the place of doing bad things.
I can't make any inferences as to why this guy was wearing it on his sleeve.
But my goodness, I can sure as heck say that when Jack Posobiec gave the OK sign, it was racism.
And yet these groups wonder why they have not just no credibility, but why people view them as tools for evil.
I don't want to come to any conclusions about why they had Nazi iconography.
My goodness.
And then meanwhile, a Jewish person gets lambasted on Wikipedia for running with the People's Party of Canada.
Oh no, I don't want to make any...
Now, now, now, now, let's not jump to any conclusions.
He might just be promoting the rock band as they go to war.
Maybe.
If you're an idiot.
Okay.
I'm angry now.
Sorry.
Okay, now hold on.
We'll see something here.
Uncle Kenny has the old Irish poem, It Can Always Get Worse.
I'm just going to bring it up here.
It can always get worse.
And then they say, well, Ukraine can't have a Nazi problem because they've got a Jewish president.
The same people that say that Ukraine can't have a Nazi problem because they have a Jewish president look at Larry Elder and call him the black face of white supremacy.
These are not serious people.
I mean, I should say they are serious people.
They are seriously ideologically driven, which makes them actually politically disingenuous and politically dangerous.
That's all I have to say about that article in the New York Times.
But New York Times, thank you for now saying the quiet part out loud, but your spin is absolutely beautiful.
Your spin amounts to now, now, now, let's not jump to any conclusions.
There could be many, many good reasons why that's...
Why that's on their sleeve.
Ah, yes, my beautiful tweet.
The same people saying Ukraine can't have a Nazi problem because the president is Jewish call Larry Elder the blackface of white supremacy.
All right, dudes, I think that's the end of that story.
Now, what else do we have?
Oh.
Let me go to the chat and just see if there's any good chat in there before I see what's going on here.
Zelensky being a Jew hates Russians and Germans?
That is surefire AI.
Arkansas Crime Attorney says, I tried to do a screenshot of locals asking for $100 a month to message you.
I clicked the message Viva Barnes button and it won't let me upload.
I'm going to email right away just to make sure that that's not the case, because that would be crazy.
And...
Okay, I'm going to go find...
Arkansas Crime Attorney, I'm going to find out what that deal is about there.
All right.
In other news, remember that guy who said...
Damn camera got activated.
Hold on.
Remember there was the...
Pride Month is really bringing up a lot of interesting information.
There was one beautiful tweet that I replied to yesterday, which said, you know, when did anybody ever think that someone else's gender identity was any of their business?
Because it's not.
And I'm like, I mean, that would be an amazing thing to say if we actually weren't in the midst of Pride Month, which consists of drag shows for children or drag shows at which there's child participation.
Drag reading story time hour.
It's none of our business, and it's none of your business, despite the fact that it is literally being screamed at everyone by bullhorn, flown to the tops of flagpoles of parliamentary buildings, co-opting corporations, co-opting fast food, co-opting beer, co-opting merchandise, but it's none of our business.
But look at me, look at me, look at me, but stop looking at me.
So there's an amazing thing here.
This is coming from Chantal Fall, who is an Ontario teacher, who says there was a pride party at Pringle Creek P.S. Elementary School.
Printouts with affirmations written on them were scattered around students to color.
Quote, I can change exactly how I'm referred to by the people in my life.
And this can change at any time and for any reason.
Quote, my body is the gender and sex I say it is.
Quote, my sexual identity is not determined by the sexual experiences I have or haven't had.
My sexuality, my sexual identity is not determined.
By the sexual experiences I have or haven't had.
Now I'm going to zoom in on this.
My body is the gender and sex I say it is.
That one I can read.
Family dynamics are often...
That looks like it says complicated.
Okay, I don't know why they're talking about that.
And I had trouble believing whether or not this was real.
And then it seems that...
The school has put their tweets on Protected for reasons which I can easily imagine.
If not only for the public ridicule, which they might not exactly want, they might not be getting nice messages from people who say, this is indoctrination of children of the highest order and of the most egregious order.
And it's an amazing thing, but for the fact that it's Pride Month that is being rubbed in everybody.
I have...
Zero problem with homosexuality, with any of this.
They force people to state the obvious.
I have no problem with what adults do of their own free will among consenting adults to the extent it does not harm anybody else.
Full stop, period.
Very libertarian of me.
This Pride Month has gone from...
I attended the Pride Parade in Montreal in 2018.
I did a vlog on it.
And what started off as a festive occasion has now become forced ideological feeding of the unwilling.
Like, when you want to fatten a goose up, you know, you just, like, jam food down its throat.
Pride went from being, you know, a St. Patrick's Day parade to a month-long of indoctrination of children, targeting of children, and if anybody speaks out and complains about it, well, then they get labeled as some form of a bigot.
And if someone draws attention to what we're now seeing, they get accused of, you know, unwillingly putting people who just want to live on blast when it's quite the exact opposite.
This is indoctrination of children of the highest order and of things that are going to confuse even a well-balanced adult.
Imagine telling a kid, you can change your gender whenever you want, whenever you want.
And then what happens?
If you've deadnamed somebody.
Then what happens if you refer to someone as he yesterday and today they say she or they or she or she?
And then if you actually disagree with it, shut up, it's none of your business while we tell you to...
Shut up, it's none of your business while we jam it down your throat like food for a goose and purport that we are now the victims of pushback.
We're the victims of discrimination and erasure while we're literally flying the flag over government buildings.
Yeah, so that's it.
But it is an amazing thing because it is almost like it's been co-opted specifically for the purposes of causing divide among groups that...
There hadn't really historically been that much of a divide among them.
I remember people, even in 2018, where a lesbian individual that I knew that I was quite close friends with said, the Montreal parade is a lot more tame than the Toronto parade.
This individual said, don't take your kids.
Back in the day when people actually had a conscience about this, when it wasn't politically weaponized, in order to say, if you don't take your kids to this, you're a bigot.
Back in the day, even members of the community were aware, were conscientious of the fact that some pride parades were a little less kid-friendly than others.
And I was specifically told, if you're going to go and you have a plan of taking your kids, the Montreal parade.
Pride is a little more kid-friendly than the Toronto.
I didn't go with my kids.
I went alone.
It was a festive occasion, much like the Irish St. Patrick's Day parade.
But my goodness, does that 2018 vlog differ in terms of what we are seeing today?
Faithless says there was outrage when Janet Jackson had her costume failure.
I remember that.
Her nipple showed.
And now they can have gay orgies in the streets and consider it wholesome.
They're literally wearing sex paraphernalia while purporting that there's nothing sexual about this.
And again, no one ever had a problem with drag shows.
No one ever had a problem with trans...
I don't know.
Whatever you want.
Cross-dressers, transvestites, transgender.
No one ever had a problem with any of this.
When the hell did people think it became a good idea to force this?
When did drag storytime reading hour become a good idea to people?
When did drag shows for kids become a good idea to people?
And yeah, it doesn't matter.
I'm preaching to the choir.
If this were a live and let live issue, there would be...
Absolutely no outrage about it, but when one gets cynical, one thinks that this has been co-opted by corporations who stand to profit a lot, or at the very least lose a lot if they make some wrong gambits, and politicians who stand to profit a lot.
Why?
Drive the wedge of division into society, and then you can go and create incidents, create division, create animosity, and then politically exploit that animosity for what?
To further empower the government.
Well, we need more laws on speech because we're seeing a lot of rise in hate speech ever since we've started pushing trans reading hour and drag shows on kids.
We're seeing a lot of hate speech online.
We better make some more rules about hate speech, online censorship, because we've created a problem that we're now purported to try to solve.
Okay, that is all I have to say on that.
All right, now, speaking of politically convenient events...
To be weaponized.
You all know that there are wildfires going on in Canada?
You know the wildfires in Canada are a big deal when Casey Neistat is complaining that he cannot jog in New York because the northeasterly winds are blowing the smoke from these forest fires all across the east coast, Ottawa, Montreal, apparently down to New York.
Looking out the window here.
It's pretty...
You know, smoky.
It's like there's a milky cloud, milky sky.
There's a lot of forest fires burning.
There are a lot of people who are floating some theories which I think are less tenable than others.
I'm not going to name any names because I'm not trying to put anybody on blast, but people promoting space laser theories which I personally do not believe in.
Although, not believing in something?
Is no longer a basis for ridiculing it as a concept.
I would always just say, why would anyone go through such complicated measures to start forest fires by using space lasers to do it from outer space?
If that were the motivation, I mean, in theory, you can go hire someone for $12 an hour to start fires, or you can just rely on human stupidity to go set off fireworks in the forest at a campground, not put out your fires properly, or you can actually have eco-terrorists.
Do it willingly, unpaid.
I mean, do we remember there were people who were actually starting fires, causing problems, so they can then say, look at the problem we have to solve?
So there are some people floating the idea of space lasers.
I do not subscribe to that, full stop.
It could just be plain old arson.
It could just be plain old human stupidity.
But there's a lot of forest fires that have started burning in Nova Scotia, now in Quebec.
And it's causing some air problems.
Okay.
How has it been weaponized by the powers that be?
Let me get this here.
Where do I want to start?
I want to start with Jagmeet Singh.
Don't go anywhere, people.
Hold on.
Stop, stop, stop, stop.
You must stop that.
Okay, hold on one second.
Instagram...
This flipping camera.
One day...
No, it's not...
Okay, one day I'll figure out how to...
Stop tracking!
That's too far down.
Oh, come on.
Stop.
Stop!
What are you doing?
Come down.
Stop.
There we go.
All right, let's bring up Jagmeet Singh.
Never let a good crisis go to waste, people.
Never let a good crisis go to waste and...
Double down.
Double down until you can no longer double.
I'm in Ottawa today and just over my shoulder, that's Gatineau.
Now, it may look in the camera that there's some fog covering the city.
It's not fog.
It's actually smog.
So, by the way, if I don't want to get semantical with jug meat, or anybody for that matter, I'm not sure that, technically speaking, the air pollution you would get from raging forest fires qualifies as smog.
I think I might be wrong.
If only colloquially speaking, smog refers to pollution, ambient pollution, not pollution that has a specific punctual cause.
So I'm not sure that forest fire smoke qualifies as smog.
It sounds to me like we are trying to conflate natural disasters with generalized pollution problems, or we're at least trying to use one to exploit the other.
But I might be wrong.
Chat, let me know if you think smog does include forest fires or there is a distinction between punctual, spontaneous natural disaster air pollution versus chronic pollution, which is typically what we refer to as smog.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Okay.
But there's smog.
There's smog.
You can see it everywhere.
It's because the forest fires are so bad in the surrounding areas that the smoke from those fires has now filled the air.
This is the first time that people have told me they can recall.
That forest fires have been so bad in this area.
In this area.
Smelling the smoke in the air.
You're seeing the smog.
The sky is obscured.
And it's proof that the impacts of climate crisis are hurting us now, not in some distant future.
It's also proof that we need a response to firefighting across the country as wildfires rage in unprecedented numbers.
Unprecedented numbers.
I think that that's factually incorrect.
I think.
Early in the season.
Oh, sorry, sorry.
I didn't realize he qualified that otherwise factually incorrect statement.
Fighting across the country as wildfires rage in unprecedented numbers so early in the season.
They're raging in unprecedented numbers so early in the season.
So let's just, let's just, you know, statistics never lie, but liars statistically, whatever the hell that expression is.
Let's just say you have, I mean, there's so many ways to game that statistic.
So many fires this early in the season, well, if they average out over a longer season, you could take one bad week and then say, statistical anomaly, climate change.
But anyway, it doesn't matter.
We need to respond with a better approach to firefighting across the country.
And we also need to do everything we can to fight the climate crisis and reduce our emissions.
Our planet depends on it.
Here, you're seeing the smog.
The sky is obscured.
And it's proof that the impacts of climate crisis are hurting us now, not in some distant future.
A forest fire now is proof of climate crisis.
If it were to be revealed that the forest fire was in fact the result of arson or human activity, as the majority of forest fires are apparently actually in British Columbia, 60% of forest fires are caused by lightning strikes.
40% are caused by human activity.
In California, apparently 85% are caused by human activity.
I forgot my thought.
Oh, yes, that's right.
This is proof.
A forest fire is proof of the climate crisis.
It's like the political flowchart for racism.
If you see race, you're a racist.
If you don't see race, you're a racist.
Too many fires?
Climate change.
Too dry?
Climate crisis.
Too wet?
Climate crisis.
Too hot?
Climate crisis.
Too cold?
Climate crisis.
Hurricanes?
Climate crisis.
Myocarditis?
Climate crisis.
All roads lead to climate crisis with these buffoons who will not hesitate to seize on a natural disaster which might be totally unrelated, might actually have arson as the cause, as I believe there is hard evidence for now, climate crisis.
We need to battle these forest fires.
We also need to battle climate crisis.
We need to have a better response because apparently we're not able to contain these fires.
We also need to reduce emissions.
As if Jagmeet Singh trusts the science, a boy can be a girl and a girl can be a boy and he is she and whatever the heck they want and it can change from one day to the next.
Trust the science.
Their science says CO2 leads to forest fires.
Unprecedented amount at this early stage of the season.
A qualifier that means absolutely nothing.
All right, that's one.
Oh, here's another one.
Never let a good crisis go to waste, people.
Here we got Leah Proud Lakota.
NP for Winnipeg Center.
Instagram.
Okay, media contact, yada, yada.
Sign up for our e-newsletter, yada, yada, yada.
MP, that's a member of parliament for Winnipeg Center, Leah Proud Lakota, she, her.
Okay.
Science.
Science, people.
Trust the science.
I need Leah Lakota to specify her pronouns.
I presume that she's an actual...
No, let me see here.
Can you see anything?
Looks like a she, her, from what I can see there.
What does Leah Lakota, she, her, have to say?
Trust the science.
Ottawa, this morning.
You know, I remember in the year 2001, someone's going to fact check me on the year of this.
I used to go for road trips with my wife every summer.
We went to British Columbia.
We did a trip up Mount Robson.
It's where I caught a Dolly Varden in a river, the best experience of my life.
It was in the wake of some serious wildfires.
I remember in my life wildfires that occur and you see and smell the smoke in the ambient area.
I think there was one that just happened.
I want to say California.
I forget when.
I think it was during COVID.
I remember thinking, now's probably the scientifically justified time to wear masks.
Ottawa this morning.
Let's hear it.
It's hazy.
It's almost like there's a forest fire burning and the wind has blown some of the smoke over mass distances.
If only we had reduced our carbon emissions, none of this would be happening.
Camera work is terrible.
May I just recommend to Abe Borgie, you do not need to zoom in on a phone.
You can optically zoom afterwards, but when you optically zoom, when you record the video, you lose video quality.
Leah Proudfoot, she, her, says, this is not normal.
This is what a climate emergency looks like.
We need climate action now.
Jagmeet Singh, forest fires, climate crisis.
Leah Proud Lakota, she, her.
Forest fire, climate crisis.
Don't, but wait!
But wait, there's more.
Who's the other one?
Oh yeah, it's Gilbo.
Let me just go ahead and find where it is here.
Oh.
Thank you.
Oh, Tabernouche.
I can't find it.
I don't have Gilbo.
It doesn't matter.
I'll bring up Justin Trudeau's response.
Let me bring it up before people get mad at me for my tweet because the people who get mad at me clearly display the average intelligence of a Trudeau supporter.
Let's bring up the tweet.
No, that's not the tweet.
The tweet is in the background right here.
All right.
Just announced.
This is not Justin Trudeau's ego.
This is not a parody account.
This is Justin Trudeau.
Father, husband, liberal party.
Wait a minute.
Justin Trudeau doesn't have the pride flag in his bio.
He doesn't have his pronouns in his bio.
I have never seen such an act of intolerance.
Silence is violence, and there's a lot of silence in this violence of a profile.
My goodness.
It doesn't matter, though.
Look at this.
Just announced.
Every $1 donated to Red Cross Canada's Nova Scotia and Atlantic Canada fires appeal, it magically becomes $3!
How?
Because government and the provincial government are matching your donations to support those...
Oh, I'm trying to figure out how it got to $3.
Okay, so if you donate a dollar, federal will match your dollar, that becomes $2, and provincial will match your dollar, it becomes $3.
Where did they get that money from?
Oh, God.
Can you imagine the juvenile ignorance and shameless audacity it takes for a man or a woman, for a politician, to say, we're giving you, we're going to match your money.
This is a child spending someone else's money.
That's what it is.
That's all that the government really is.
Children spending other people's hard-earned money that has been Taken out of their back pocket before they can even count it.
Dustin Trudeau, he's a benevolent dictator.
He's spending my money.
What's he spending my money on?
Well, I shouldn't say that.
He's spending historically my tax-paying dollars.
What's he spending it on?
He's donating it to a charity to do what the government should be doing with the tax dollars it's already taken out of our back pocket.
I mean, are we forgetting the fact that those who pay taxes have already paid?
Anywhere between 40% and 60%, all things included.
And if you think I'm exaggerating on the 60%, if you pay 45% income tax, and then you pay an additional 15% sales tax, and then you pay an additional property tax, and then you pay for your license, and then you pay for mutation tax, or what they call the welcome tax, and then you pay for estate tax, tax, tax, tax, everything.
You're well over 50% at the end of the day.
What the hell did you do with that money, Trudeau?
How is it, you might ask, that the government is so incapable of doing what it collects taxpayer dollars to do that it has to outsource it to a third-party charity and then give more of our tax dollars away to match the donations going through that charity?
What the hell are you doing with the money that you already took, Trudeau?
Why aren't you able to actually deal with this problem on its own right now?
Hold on a second.
I actually see my tweet there for the first time.
Let me bring that up.
Justin Trudeau just announced.
Oh, here we go.
See here, let's just take Samuel, for example.
Not to make fun of an individual.
They're entitled to their opinion.
Tax money that's going to help Canadians as it's supposed to.
Didn't they already take that tax money?
Let me see if anybody...
Exactly.
Okay, let me see.
I love just...
I love going through the profiles.
Yeah, tax money going to help...
Canadians, as it's supposed to.
Which Canadians might that tax money be going to help right now?
Does everybody understand how charities work, by the way?
It doesn't seem that people know how charities work.
I was involved in a file as a lawyer back when I was a practicing attorney, which was an early, early red pill.
And it taught me how charities work or how they don't work.
Charities collect a lot of money.
They need to get donations.
How do they get donations?
They have to have fundraisers.
How do they make fundraisers?
They pay for those fundraisers.
What do they pay for those fundraisers with?
With money that they've raised for charity.
So in every charity, you have expenses related to fundraising activities.
In every charity, you have expenses related to operating costs, salaries.
There's a website.
It's called Charity Navigator, but I think there's another one called...
I'm going to bring it up in a second.
That rates charities overall.
Does everybody know?
Does everybody understand what the CEOs of some of these charities get paid?
Let me bring up a window here just to show you this.
I don't really think people are aware of how much these executives from charities get paid.
We're going to go with not the Canadian Red Cross, Red Cross CEO salary.
Fact check.
Now let's go USA Today.
Oh, yeah.
This is great.
I remember this one.
Fact check.
American Red Cross salary spending claims in old meme are false.
Okay.
The claim.
American Red Cross pays its CEO nearly $652,000 while spending nine cents of every dollar it collects on people in need.
This claim has been floating around on social media.
But it really started getting traction.
Okay.
It's not true.
Let's hear what's not true about it.
How much does the charity spend?
So how does the charity spend its money?
Nonprofit groups in the United States have to publicly report what they earn.
Okay, good.
The most recent data shows it spends 88% on program services.
Most of that money, $1.7 billion, went to, okay, whatever.
I want to know the CEO's salary.
I guarantee you one thing.
Evans left the nonprofit in 2005.
Gail McGovern is the Red Cross's current CEO.
She's led the nonprofit since 2008.
Her annual salary in 2018 was $694,000 US.
So, I'm sorry, when they said in the beginning, the CEO has paid nearly $652,000 while spending.
Yada, yada, yada.
You see how you can join a sentence so you can say it's false even though a material portion of that statement is true.
Her annual salary in 2018, $694,000.
Some of you are going to say, well, if you want to recruit the best, you got to pay the best.
Bullcrap.
Okay?
And this is not because I'm not a capitalist.
This is because if you want to work as a CEO for a not-for-profit, you should not expect to get paid $700,000 a year.
There's nothing wrong with getting paid a million dollars a year, $10 million a year.
But like my father brought me up to have some sense of responsibility, if you want to be a school teacher because of a passion for the job, don't have a propensity for portions.
You want to be a teacher?
It's fine.
Don't expect to get paid $500,000 a year, even if you think teachers deserve to get paid $500,000 a year, because I genuinely personally believe teachers deserve to get paid a buttload more.
Teachers should get paid a ton more.
I think that with the offset of getting paid a ton more, maybe there shouldn't be such powerful unions and teachers can be hired and fired more easily based on skill, talent, and dedication.
Pay them more to attract the best.
And then maybe we wouldn't be living through this...
Ideological nightmare that we're living through.
Okay, set that aside.
And also, if we have billions of dollars to fund proxy wars in foreign lands, we have more to pay teachers here.
Set that aside.
Reality is what it is.
If you want to drive a Ferrari, do not become a teacher.
If you want to make $700,000 a year, I would say don't become the CEO of a not-for-profit because someone is making a buttload of money by raising money under the pretext of helping those in need.
$700,000.
That's American Red Cross.
So, Justin Trudeau is using our taxpayer dollars.
Here.
Who's helping here?
Let's see this.
So, pulled up an article.
This is McLean's.
When is this article from?
It's a little old because some of this stuff is...
Oh, where is this article from?
So, it looks like it's from 2022, give or take, whatever.
Here.
Where's the Red Cross in this?
Well, we got to go with...
Let's go with Cross.
Here.
Canadian Red Cross, 10%.
Go up to here.
The 10% refers to percentage of donations spent on fundraising costs.
So they spend 10 cents on every dollar to raise another dollar.
Who gets those event organizer costs?
Let's say, McLean says that they use 10% of all monies raised to raise monies.
Okay, fine.
Somebody is enjoying that contract.
So that's to say now the government is going to give another $2 of our taxpayer dollars.
So 20 cents now is going to go, presumably.
I don't know how they're going to exactly divvy this up among the Canadian Red Cross.
Maybe they're going to say 100% of this is going to go to fight the forest fires.
But understand how charities work.
Understand that maybe our tax dollars should not be going to the government to fail at doing their job so that it can then also be...
Passed along to third-party charities who are going to pay their CEOs a hefty ton of money, who are going to use a portion of that, says 10% there.
I think I saw 15% elsewhere.
But why is this?
Here's an article, by the way, that everything makes sense in reverse.
Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards.
This is an article from 2022.
Red Cross calls for civilian force, less reliance on military for disaster response.
This was after, I think it was after.
Canada needs a new civilian force to respond to natural disasters and other emergencies as such events become more common and severe.
The head of the Canadian Red Cross said Tuesday, in an interview, CEO Conrad Sovey, we're going to get to his salary in a bit, but spoiler alert, it's well over $300,000, compared Canada's current approach to responding to emergencies, to fighting a fire without any previous planning or preparation.
We're trying to sort things out after the fire has started.
Right now, Sovey said we're not paying for the firehouse.
The result is that governments at all levels across Canada are relying more and more on both the Red Cross and the military whenever a disaster or other emergency strikes, which is putting a strain on both.
We need to build that standby capacity, he said.
That civilian capacity needs to be built up so we have deployable capacity that's not military.
Governments at all levels have been increasingly turned into the armed forces for assistance after various disasters, most recently in the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona in Atlantic Canada where more than 700 troops are currently deployed.
So they're basically saying the government can't do it.
They're not doing it.
They need to build up something else.
And when disaster strikes and your tax dollars have already been squandered because they've already collected them, well, now they're going to take more of your tax dollars, go to these third parties who may or may not spend that money entirely efficiently to deal with a crisis that ordinarily you would expect the government to be prepared to respond to, but they're not for whatever the reason.
So just give more money away.
But hold on.
We want to get the numbers proper here, right?
Here we go.
Some people are giving me a hard time for the tweet.
Don't you understand that's what tax dollars are supposed to do?
So after the government has collected your tax dollars for the military, after they've collected your tax dollars for healthcare, and after they can't do it, they're going to go donate more of your tax dollars to the Red Cross so they can deal with crises and disasters that the government has failed to respond to.
Okay, you're a selfish bastard, Vivo.
Here we go.
This is what I found.
Charity Intelligence.
Canada.
This seems to be like the predominant one.
A while back, I knew it was Charity Navigator.
Now it seems to be Charity Intelligence Canada.
Canadian Red Cross is a major 100 charity, one of Canada's largest charities in terms of donations.
In 2021, it received more than $149 million in Canadian donations and special events revenue.
It also received $391 million in government funding, 70% of total revenue, which represents a 139% increase.
From 2020.
My goodness, it seems like the government's already giving them money.
Administrative costs are 3% of total revenue, excluding investment income.
Fundraising costs are 24% of Canadian donations.
So again, one site says 10%.
This one says 24% of Canadian donations, so I don't know if they're measuring it differently.
This results in total overhead spending of 26%.
For every dollar donated to the charity, 74 cents goes to the cause.
That's very interesting.
So for every dollar the government, federal, and provincial are giving, that's to say now, between the two of them, 50 cents are going to administrative costs or fundraising, unless they've figured out a nice way to split it up differently.
This is within CI's reasonable range of overhead spending.
Canadian Red Cross has $215 million in funding reserves, yada, yada, yada, $2.2 million in them.
Excluding donor-endowed funds, the charity's funding reserves can cover annual program costs for around six months.
In 2021, Canadian Red Cross paid external fundraisers $5 million to collect $16.9 million donations, meaning it costs...
30 cents to raise a dollar using external fundraisers.
Okay.
It's interesting.
Maybe people might want to know that.
And then we go here.
This is 2016.
I only assume it's gone up.
Top salaries, Ontario Sunshine.
What is this?
Conrad Sovey, Canadian Red Cross, President and CEO, $321,000.
I had no idea.
I didn't appreciate they got so much of their funding already from the government to begin with.
Government's being real generous.
They're going to get more.
Why is it a problem?
Who gets those fundraising activities?
Who gets those fundraising contracts?
Administrative expenses are very good for administrators, very good for CEOs, CFOs, CLOs, who get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The government's just willy-nilly giving your money away because it's failed to do what it already took your money purportedly to do in the first place.
And if you complain about it...
The bootlickers call you the selfish bastard.
Mm-hmm.
Oh.
There might have been a little more here.
Let me just make sure I got all the articles in the backdrop here.
Executive leadership team.
I also just want to know if there's any connection between anyone in Justin Trudeau's milieu and the Canadian Red Cross.
Conrad, Sauve, Larry Mills.
I want to go cross-reference all of these names.
To see what ties they have to the Liberal Party.
To see what donations they might have made to the Liberal Party.
I'm curious.
I know what I think.
I know what I think.
You think they're going to vote Conservative or Liberal after the Liberal government basically just said, we're going to give you money.
In addition to all the money we already give you, we're going to give you more.
Vote Conservative.
This is how the insidious touch of corruption works.
They don't need to be told what to do.
This is just how it works.
It's discreet.
It's le clin d 'oeil.
It's the wink of an eye.
Oh, Canadian Red Cross.
This is their overall review, so that's it.
Just go give them money.
I think that covers it for that.
Oh, my goodness.
We're going to end on the 10 myths of COVID that have now been debunked.
Let me just make sure I think we got all of that.
I'm going to get to the liberal hypocrites.
This looks like it's Elliot Page.
Yeah, okay.
We can close that down.
Okay.
That ends it for the debacle that is the Canadian government.
If one is cynical, one would just come to the conclusion that governments and tax collecting has become nothing but a game of laundering the money of others that has been taken out of their back pocket at proverbial gunpoint and sometimes at literal gunpoint.
And if you complain about paying...
Too much in taxes.
You're a selfish bastard who doesn't care about the kids.
All right.
That's it.
I think I did something useful yesterday.
I think I actually got Mike Sinkton community noted.
Where did the community notes go?
Excuse me.
Where did the community notes go?
There was community notes on it.
Well, son of a beasting.
Doesn't matter.
I think there was community notes, and if they've been taken off because they were rated not useful by a Mike Sinkton brigade or a anti-Trump brigade, we're now seeing the problem with community notes, a problem which we, you know, sort of know exists already.
Doesn't matter.
Mike Sinkton.
Sinkton.
Mike Sinkton?
Mike Sinkton?
Senior executive at NBC Universal.
Retired.
Who would have thunk this shameless, fat-shaming...
Dishonest propagandists would have worked at NBCUniversal.
Hollywood's ultimate insider.
Entertainment, pop culture, and lifestyle expert.
Kind of looks like Stifler.
Okay, whatever.
Mike Sinkton.
The new face of the PGA Tour.
Just a reminder, everything Trump touches dies.
I said that picture looks a little funny.
It looks like it's photoshopped, but it's not quite clear enough from the picture.
Some people are going to say the original's not much better.
The dude got community noted.
No, so look, I see the community notes there, and where do they go?
Look at this.
This is very interesting.
The community notes is there on the tweet before, and I'm not sure that it's there now.
And I said, in an act of progressive, loving liberalism, Mike Sington shares a photoshopped image with the appearance of the fat-shaming Donald Trump.
But some people can say he doesn't look good here.
Anybody who's played golf on a hot day knows you don't always look beautiful.
You're not always wearing GenuCell skin products.
Maybe Donald Trump could use some GenuCell skin products.
All right, he doesn't look good here.
He looks a little tired, looks a little sweaty.
Looks a little like he's been in the heat of the sun for the better part of the day.
But Photoshop is Photoshop, you lying propagandists.
It's fitting that you work at NBC.
Because that's Photoshop, okay?
That's Photoshop right here.
Whether or not it was so obvious that Mike Sinkton didn't have to say it.
Oh, that's his new...
That's his...
Oh, it's photoshopped.
Of course it is.
So I'm just making fun of fat people is basically what he's saying.
Oh, I'm not making fun of fat people in general.
I'm just making fun of Donald Trump in particular is what the intellectually dishonest hypocrites would say.
This is, at worst, fat shaming and Photoshop propaganda.
And at best, it's fat shaming.
Congratulations, you...
Propagandist, fat shamer, Mike Sinkton, you are what you accuse others of being.
But the community notes are very interesting there, people.
I don't know if they've disappeared from the original post, and I'll see if they did in a second.
Now, before we go on to what will be the final story, because I have to pee so badly.
I'm holding it in.
And if you see me all of a sudden go, and then keel over, it's because my bladder has exploded.
That doesn't happen.
I mean, it does happen, but it's not going to happen now.
I've got a big bladder.
All right, let's go here.
The climate crisis is real.
It is possible like JS spouting this nonsense into otherwise good air.
Okay, hold on a second.
The climate crisis is real.
It is possible like Jagmeet Singh spouting this nonsense into otherwise good air.
I think I get that.
Arkansas crime attorney.
What would happen if we tried to do a strip act with women at the school or had a stripper to story hour at the library in a thong?
I would not agree with this either.
Uncle Kenny, back to the road.
It can always get worse.
It's the old Irish jig.
It's like, if you're worried about getting sick, don't worry.
If you get sick, it's not the end of the world.
You're not dead.
If you die, it's not the end of the world.
You're in heaven.
You're having a beer with somebody.
Yeah, it's a question of perspective.
A little nut-cracking.
Knuckle-cracking ASMR.
All right, people.
Prepare to get frustrated.
Everything they have said from the beginning of the pandemic...
Now, I am attributing intent to it, because we now know enough to know that they were not just wrong, they were lying.
I am very reluctant to attribute intent to what could otherwise have an innocuous explanation, and until I have definitive, or at the very least sufficient, grounds to impute intent, I won't.
I have sufficient grounds to impute intent.
They were not just wrong.
They were liars.
And pretty much everything they told us from day one has been wrong and has been a lie.
The irony is that someone who sent this to me, I don't know if they thought they were educating me or if this was like sort of waving the white flag.
Okay, Viva, you were right.
You've been right.
You haven't been right all along because I wasn't right as early as other people were right.
To them, I say, you got right by luck.
You made a guess and you were right.
You didn't have sufficient information.
I got right.
I'm joking.
Ten myths told by COVID experts, now debunked.
Get those flipping goggles out of there.
I don't want to see that.
Oh, no.
Okay, there we go.
Ten myths.
Okay.
In the past few weeks, reports published by highly respected researchers have exposed a truth about public health officials during COVID.
They're effing liars.
This is from February.
2023.
So February to March, April to May to June.
Four months ago.
In the past few weeks, a series of analyses published by highly respected researchers have exposed the truth about public health officials during COVID.
Much of the time they were wrong.
They were not wrong.
They were liars.
And now why do I say that they were liars when someone can say, well, being wrong doesn't make you a liar.
Positively affirming something as fact when you know it's wrong makes you a liar.
Positively affirming something as a fact when you have no reason to believe that it's true or when you have insufficient reasons to know that it's true makes you a liar as well.
If I say the center of the earth is filled with liquid gold, I'm lying because I have no bloody reason to purport that as a fact.
If I say the middle of the earth is filled with Swiss cheese, I'm lying because I know that that's physically impossible because the core of the earth, as far as I believe, As far as I remember, it's hotter than the surface of the sun, so cheese would not last longer.
I think maybe...
What was I about to say?
I think maybe liquid gold might be scientifically more pleasant.
I'm getting sidetracked.
To be clear, public health officials were not wrong for making recommendations based on what was known at the time.
That's understandable.
You go with the data you have.
And if you say, in the absence of data, this is what we absolutely have to do, Because that's what the science says, that makes you a liar.
But let's just go through this list because it's just fantastic.
Misinformation number one.
I mean, in fairness, Fauci was right before he was wrong because back in the day he said there's no greater vaccine than infection.
The clip is out there.
I found that clip multiple times.
Misinformation number one.
Natural immunity offers little protection compared to vaccinated immunity.
Yeah, Lancet's study looked at 65 major studies in 19 countries on natural immunity.
The researchers concluded that natural immunity was at least as effective as the primary series of COVID vaccines.
In fact, the scientific data was there all along, which means they weren't wrong.
It means they were liars.
Fauci said it before he said the opposite.
They were not wrong.
They were liars.
Misinformation number two, masks prevent COVID transmission.
Cochran reviews are considered the most authoritative and independent assessment of evidence in medicine.
And one published last month by a highly respected Oxford researcher team found that masks had no significant impact on COVID transmission.
When asked about this definitive review, CDC Director Rachel Walensky downplayed it, arguing that it was flawed because it focused on randomized studies.
But that was the greatest strength of the review.
Randomized studies were considered the gold standard of medical evidence.
They weren't wrong.
They lied.
Misinformation.
School closures reduce COVID transmission.
Ignored evidence does not make you wrong.
It makes you a liar.
Misinformation number four.
Myocarditis from the vaccine is less common than from the infection.
I believe I had this argument with people.
Public health officials downplayed concerns about vaccine-induced myocarditis or inflammation of the heart muscle.
They cited poorly designed studies that undercaptured complication rates.
A flurry of well-designed studies said the opposite.
We now know that myocarditis is 6 to 28 times more common after the jab than among the infection among 16 to 24-year-old males.
Tens of thousands of children likely got myocarditis, mostly subclinical, as though that means it's not serious.
From the jab, they did not need because they were entirely healthy or because...
I just had a family event.
I just had a family event.
I talked to people and every single person I talked to knew at least two or three young people who had adverse reactions from the jab.
At least.
One person's like, oh yeah, my friend's son dropped dead after taking the jab.
Not a teenager.
This person was in their 40s, 50s.
Another person, young person.
Oh yeah, my best friend got myocarditis after the jab.
No big deal.
The doctor told them not to do sports for six months.
No big deal.
Every single one of them knew two to three people who had adverse reactions to the jab, and many of them were young people.
Misinformation number five.
Young people benefit from a vaccine booster.
Ultimately, White House, whatever.
Misinformation number six, vaccine mandates increase vaccination rates.
Oh, boy.
Misinformation number seven, the origins from the Wuhan lab.
Oh, we all remember that one.
The Lancet.
The Lancet published an article in the early days saying that it was a racist suggestion that's hampering the ability of scientists to fight.
COVID.
No basis for it.
It's an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory.
18 months later, The Lancet publishes another article saying, it's always been a perfectly plausible explanation.
And now it is widely accepted as being the most plausible explanation for the origins of the virus.
Did I skip one?
Misinformation number eight.
It was important to get the second vaccine dose three or four weeks after the first.
Data was clear in spring 2021, just months after the vaccine rollout, that spacing the vaccine out by three months reduces complication rates and increases immunity.
They were not wrong, people.
They lied.
You know why the CDC said not to aspirate the needle?
To get blood in it to make sure that you weren't sticking it into a vein?
Because they didn't want people to become vaccine hesitant by having the jab take longer than it should take if you just stick it in and plunge it down.
Which meant that people were getting the jab injected directly into veins sometimes, which meant that all of that stuff that was supposed to remain localized was being circulated throughout the body, including into the heart.
They didn't get it wrong.
They lied.
Misinformation number nine.
Data on the violent vaccine is crystal clear because of those eight mice that they tested it on.
Dr. Ashish Jha famously said this despite the bivalent vaccine being approved using data from eight mice.
To date, there has never been a randomized controlled trial of the bivalent vaccine.
Saying something you have no reason to know is true, is a lie.
Misinformation number 10. One in five people got long COVID.
What's most amazing about all the information conveyed by the CDC and public health officials is that there have been no apologies for holding on to their recommendations for so long after the data became apparent that they were dead wrong.
Pun intended.
At a minimum, the CDC should come clean and Yeah, I don't think so.
I don't think the Trista Martins.
The Sean Hartmans of the world are going to give a sweet bugger all about a too-late mea culpa from a corrupt institution that lied to their faces, that compelled people to put this shit on their children.
You apologize?
I'll accept the apology after some of these people responsible for this have done time for what they've done.
All right, well, that's it.
Everybody, let me see if I...
Oh, no, there's a couple more.
That's it.
All lies.
All lies.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
Tucker Carlson.
Hold on.
Tucker Carlson did his first show last night, and it was so wildly successful, liberals are melting down.
This is amazing.
Ann Applebaum.
Who is going crazy on this?
Taylor Lorenz is having a meltdown on the whopping success of Tucker Carlson's first episode on Twitter.
I am a little suspicious about how they're counting views on Twitter.
My understanding, and it goes back also to the what is a woman, is that they're counting a view based on something like seeing 50% of the screen for two seconds as you scroll through your Twitter feed.
So I'm not sure how they're counting views.
I'm not sure that I place a lot of stock.
In the wildly high numbers of views.
That being said, I have no doubt that it got a wild amount of views.
What is a woman and Tucker Carlson's first show on Twitter.
But Tucker Carlson's first show on Twitter got so many views.
Taylor Lorenz is having a meltdown.
Ann Applebaum, staff writer at The Atlantic, which should tell you everything you need to know, says Tucker Carlson's lies.
Cost Fox $800 million.
This is a lie, Ann Applebaum.
Tucker Carlson was the only one at Fox News who was calling out Sidney Powell for the nonsense about the election fornification.
He was the only one keeping people in check for the lack of evidence of the Kraken that actually never came.
So, funny enough, you're lying right in your own tweet accusing Tucker Carlson of lying, and the settlement was for what Fox News said and other pundits on the channel said.
Although Fox News tried to make it look like it was Tucker Carlson's fault by firing him at the time of the settlement.
And apparently, if the rumors are true, Dominion insisted on the firing of Tucker Carlson as part of their ridiculous $787.5 million settlement.
Okay.
Tucker Carlson's lies cost Fox News $800 million.
Lie.
Now he is still lying.
Lie.
And Twitter will eventually pay that price too.
Hmm.
Sounds like a threat.
To which I just, you know...
Google for five seconds.
Just five seconds is all you need to know.
Excuse me, I inhaled something.
This is a tweet from Ann Applebaum.
Well done, Ann Applebaum, for declining.
Christy works, I don't know what the hell this is, to claim Trump-Russia collusion.
No collusion in the latest charges.
But Ann Applebaum has got to cling to the lie of the Atlanta.
You've got to cling to the fact that you've been fooled or that you're a liar.
But collusion has not been excluded.
And it is increasingly difficult to believe that Trump campaign, which was in contact with multiple Russians, had no idea what they were doing.
You know who was in contact with multiple foreign assets and probably Russians?
The Clinton campaign.
The DNC.
But she pushed that lie too.
And here's her opinion piece.
The case for Trump, Russia collusion.
We're getting very, very close.
To which I have to say, have you paid for your lies yet?
Of course you haven't.
Because when you are wrong, It's an honest mistake.
Or it's always going to be true.
When you say someone else is wrong, they have to be a liar.
Spoiler alert, Tucker Carlson has been righter than you, Ann Applebaum, more often.
Spoiler alert, Ann Applebaum, Alex Jones has been righter than you.
The Atlantic, MSNBC, CNN, AL.
I forget exactly how I started that sentence to know how I was going to finish it, but you know what I'm saying.
Camera down here.
Boom.
Stop it there.
And then there were some more meltdowns, which I don't think we really need to get into.
You know what we're going to end with today?
We're going to end with something because I want a white pill before going over to locals exclusively.
First of all, hold on one second, people.
I'm going to give everybody the link to locals where we can go and carry on this after party, take the locals' tips, and have an exclusive locals...
Something exclusive for the locals community.
The above average, wonderful locals community.
But thank you all on Rumble for, you know, going crazy with me in real time.
By the way, so tomorrow, Sean Spicer.
I'm going to probably be on Freeway Frank, for anybody who knows him, on his podcast again sooner than later.
And Friday, I'm going back to Ottawa.
And I'm going to be live streaming.
There's going to be a big event there.
So I'm going to live stream the event.
I'm going to meet Josh Alexander in person.
I think I'm going to meet Billboard Chris in person.
I'm going to be live streaming it.
It's going to be beautiful.
If there are Nazi flags galore, you will see them live, people.
So stay tuned for that.
We're still looking at GenuCell.
So you all got the link for vivabornslaw.locals.com.
If you want to get merch, you can go to Viva Fry and get some merch.
I want to end with my fish story because this makes me...
It's the happiest.
You know, when I say...
I'm going to put it on mute.
When I say that there are...
I have top five moments in my life.
Marriage, kids...
Stop that.
Stop that.
Marriage, kids...
Stop it, is what I'm saying to you.
Don't play again.
Marriage, kids, catching a drone, catching a fish with a drone, and this fish story here.
When I close my eyes at night, this is my happy place.
And catching the drone with the fish.
Catching the fish with the drone.
We're going to end with this because this is the white pill.
These moments still exist and these moments can still be had, but they are few and far in between.
Last night I was walking the dog and I took Pudge out and I had her in my hands and I'm scratching her neck and she leans over and sniffs my ear and licks my face.
It was just a split-second moment of beauty.
They still exist behind all of the madness.
But I do think, like prayer and like meditation, they take practice to find, which I'm not good at.
But every now and again, I find them.
So we're going to end with this, my fish story.
If you've already seen it, bear with me.
If you haven't seen it, go share it and share your fish story.
But I'm going to share one more time the Locals link, and then I'm going to play this to play us out.
And we're going to go over to vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
Everyone.
Enjoy this and I will see you in 2 minutes and 22 seconds exclusively on Locals for our Locals community.
You are looking at the face of the happiest person on the planet Earth.
A person who just experienced something so great it can barely be put into words.
But I will do my best.
This is my fish story.
And it is 100% true.
For those of you who don't know me, I like fishing.
A lot.
I will fish all the time, anytime.
And I especially love fishing with my family.
I love fishing so much that the folks at Len Thompson actually made me a custom lure.
But that's not where this story starts.
This story starts in British Columbia 2004 with my girlfriend and now wife, Marion.
Look at how young we were.
We've done a lot since then, such as had one of these.
Had another one of those.
We have three in total now.
And we can't forget about these.
But this story starts well before any of this.
It starts in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, back when we actually had maps made out of paper.
And photographs made out of photo paper.
The trip out west was a life-changing experience.
It is impossible to grasp the beauty of the Rocky Mountains until you've seen them, smelt them, felt them.
It was the first time I ever had a moment of clarity.
We woke up one morning and took a roadside hike to the top of a mountain where we stared down a glacial divide and I for the first time knew what it meant to feel like I was part of the cosmos.
That afternoon we pitched our tent by a creek near Mount Robson.
I cast my line into the waters and on my first cast hooked a monster so big I thought it was a beaver.
After a brief fight it snapped the line and disappeared into the water and I was heartbroken.
I was determined to find that fish.
I took my shirt off.
Jumped in the water.
Marion looked at me like I was an absolute madman, and I saw it sitting under a rock.
I grabbed it by the tail, hauled it out of the water, put it on the picnic table, carefully removed the hook, snapped this unbelievable photo that if I didn't have it, I would never be able to remember this moment as clearly as I do.
Every time I look at it, took the picture, put the fish in the water, it disappeared.
Look at that face.
That is the face of someone who just experienced something.
Look at those shoes and pants.
Oh, my.
And that is my fish story.
And I'm sticking to it.
Peace out.
It's a true story, people.
I look crazy.
All right.
With that said, everyone, I'm ending on Rumble right now.
Oh, that was good.
Okay.
See you on Locals, people.
Hold on.
How do I end the stream here?
Okay.
Rumble, thank you all.
See you tomorrow.
Sean Spicer.
I'm going to put up a list of questions in our Locals community.
And that is it.
On to Locals.
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