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Feb. 14, 2025 - Viva & Barnes

01:21:09

Meanwhile in Canada: Ostriches at Risk, Teslas for Sale & Mystery Guest? Viva Frei Live

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	I believe there is nothing more urgent than mass migration.
	Today, almost one in five people living in this country moved here from abroad.
	That is, of course, an all-time high.
	It's a similar number, by the way, in the United States, also an all-time high.
	The number of immigrants who entered the EU from non-EU countries doubled between 2021 and 2022 alone.
	And, of course, it's gotten much higher since.
	And we know the situation, it didn't materialize in a vacuum.
	It's the result of a series of conscious decisions made by politicians all over the continent and others across the world over the span of a decade.
	We saw the horrors wrought by these decisions yesterday in this very city.
	And of course, I can't bring it up again without...
	Thinking about the terrible victims who had a beautiful winter day in Munich ruined, our thoughts and prayers are with them and will remain with them.
	But why did this happen in the first place?
	It's a terrible story, but it's one we've heard way too many times in Europe and unfortunately too many times in the United States as well.
	An asylum seeker, often a young man in his mid-20s, already known to police, rams a car into a crowd and shatters a community.
	How many times must we suffer these appalling setbacks before we change course and take our shared civilization in a new direction?
	No voter on this continent went to the ballot box to open the floodgates to millions of unvetted immigrants.
	Oh, that's sort of an odd mid-sentence to end that particular clip.
	But I think we can understand the sentiment.
	Make Europe great again.
	Mega, unfortunately, even has a better ring to it than MAGA.
	That, I mean, I think we can all agree.
	We're looking at the president in 2028.
	JD Vance is amazing.
	We are entering or re-entering.
	I'm just going to close this.
	We're re-entering the realm where logic and good reason shall prevail.
	You know, JD said it was one in five, I think, in Europe.
	In Canada, it's one in four as of 2021, and it's only gotten worse since then.
	This is, you know, the great replacement theory, the racist conspiracy theory, but it's good that it's happening.
	It's not happening, but it's a good thing that it is.
	And there was another incident.
	It's people have had enough, like just.
	Outright had enough.
	So much so that a great many of them are changing teams.
	Good afternoon, everybody.
	I think I was 30 seconds late because I was trying to get my exit in the shouting match over on Laidback Law.
	It was an interesting discussion.
	I would love to partake in it.
	We're going to talk about the Eric Adams and what it means.
	We covered the letter of the dismissal of the charges.
	The question is...
	As was being asked, formulated, and debated over on Laidback Law, is it quid pro quo in a nefarious sense, dismissing the charges without prejudice, as we talked about earlier this week when we went over it, or not?
	In a nefarious, corrupt sense?
	That is the question.
	Now, I did say in this header here, by the way, we're going to have a mystery guest at 1 o'clock-ish.
	And I say mystery guest, I'm a little nervous, because it's someone that I've started interacting with on Twitter.
	I don't really know who the person is, except he seems to have an interesting story.
	Retired Marine, online safety expert.
	I think that's a joke.
	Professional troll.
	Followed by people that I know, Marco Polo and others.
	And we've had some back and forth.
	At one point, we were treated.
	I was like, let's have a discussion.
	And at least I'll get to know this guy.
	So it's a mystery guessing that I actually don't know who the person is in any meaningful sense.
	But we're going to have a fun one and then talk about what the hell's going on in the world.
	Canada is, I think, beyond the event horizon.
	You know, before we get into the sponsor of the day, because we have a sponsor, I just want to not to be negative, not to be contrarian, not to complain for the sake of complaining.
	I'm observing what is objectively a big effing problem in Canada.
	In America, the complaint is that you have a two-party system.
	In Canada, the complaint is that you have a parliamentary seven-party system.
	The problem in Canada?
	If you thought you had a uni-party problem in America, you've got a uni-party problem in Canada.
	I'd make the jokes.
	I'd poke the ribs of Canadians.
	I'm still Canadian people.
	That conservatives are liberals driving the speed limit.
	I think I stole that from Michael Malice.
	If it's not his, I stole it from somebody.
	Conservatives in Canada are ne'er different than the liberals of Canada.
	They'll get you to the same shit and it'll just take a little bit longer.
	Share screen.
	Viva Frye.
	Typo. Because that's me.
	Poster without comment.
	No, it's supposed to say posted without comment, you jackass.
	Accept that comment.
	Ha ha, that's a joke.
	And this one.
	I mean, who said it better?
	And who said it first?
	Christopher Freeland or Pierre Poilievre?
	Leader of the Conservative Party.
	I'll give you a hint.
	It looks like Pierre Poilier is plagiarizing off Chrystia Freeland at this point.
	This was at 4.31 p.m.
	February 13th.
	That's yesterday.
	Today's Valentine's Day.
	Before we leave, remind me I've got to go get my wife a present.
	4.31 p.m.
	Chrystia Freeland.
	As long as I am Prime Minister.
	Is she suggesting that she was Prime Minister now?
	Man, if I had the audacity to be a stand-up comic, my delivery on that would be, bitch, when did you become Prime Minister?
	But I won't say that because I'm reasonably polite.
	As long as I am Prime Minister, you're not, unless you haven't and we didn't know about it.
	And you never will be.
	Well, you might be if you actually beat out the other WEF globalist piece of trash, Mark Carney.
	You have trash battling trash for the leadership of the Liberal Party.
	And then you've got Pierre Poilievre, who is ne'er better nor different than the Liberals.
	As long as I'm Prime Minister, there will be no invitation for Russia to join the G7 table in June this year.
	We will not turn a blind eye to war crimes and attacks on other countries' sovereignty.
	Excuse me, you dumbass.
	If you don't invite someone to the table, if you look the other way, are you not turning a blind eye?
	Oh, no, no, we're not going to turn a blind eye.
	We're going to address it by refusing to enter into diplomatic relations.
	That's amazing.
	It's amazing.
	It's amazing that the liberal thing now, Is no diplomacy, no negotiations, no discussions, sanctions, and whatever else.
	But bottom line, that's Christopher Freeland.
	Who said it better?
	And who said it first?
	It was...
	Christian Freeland said it first.
	Russia should not be welcomed back into the G7.
	It was a conservative government that led the charge to kick Russia out of then G8 because of their illegal invasion of Crimea in 2014.
	Russia's exclusion from the G7 is every bit as justifiable today.
	So that's great.
	Wonderful. We're really going to get the problems of the world solved when the conservatives think basically the exact same way as the liberals.
	Oh, no, no, no.
	They don't think the same way on gender ideology.
	Oh, no, that's right, of course, except they voted unanimously for the conversion therapy ban law of Canada.
	Oh, no, they're against censorship and online.
	Yeah, they're going to fight against Bill C-11 after it gets passed.
	Mother efforts, how about you just fight getting that bill passed and don't support internet censorship?
	We're dealing with a uni party.
	There is barely a difference between the Conservatives of Canada and the Liberals, and everybody's, you know, hoping.
	The Trump of Canada.
	Trump of Canada, yeah.
	Pierre Poilier, who talks about fighting back a tariff war with the United States.
	You know who else is singing that song these days?
	Oh, the other guy who's barely different than any of the leaders in Canada.
	Jagmeet Singh.
	Hey, Jagmeet, tell me, where'd you learn how to fight?
	I learned how to fight in Windsor.
	I bring that fight with me everywhere I go.
	Right now, Donald Trump's already announced that he's going to bring in steel and aluminum tariffs.
	So first, on that steel and aluminum tariff...
	We've got to fight back.
	We've got to punch back.
	That's step one.
	We also have to put in place supports for the workers impacted.
	Did you notice what he said there, by the way?
	Fight back, punch back, retaliate.
	Like an idiot.
	Like me punching Mike Tyson.
	I've got to fight back Mike Tyson.
	No. What I would do to Mike Tyson if we had a neighborly dispute, I'd say, I'm sorry, Mike, how much of your front lawn would you like me to mow this week?
	Fight back, punch back, retaliate.
	Sounds a little violent.
	Oh, I learned how to fight in Windsor?
	Windsor, Ontario?
	What the hell?
	And the way he talks, his zhloobby, lazy...
	I learned how to fight in Windsor, and I'm bringing that fight with me everywhere I go.
	Right now, Donald Trump's already announced that he's going to bring in steel and aluminum tariffs.
	Fight, fight, fight.
	That's what the smaller deal in relations does.
	We've got to fight back.
	We've got to punch back.
	Let's see how that works.
	Jug meat.
	Idiots. So that's what's going on in Canada.
	It's a downward spiral that seemingly has no bottom because Canadians seem to be content defining themselves as being anti-American, un-American.
	No, I shouldn't say that.
	Not un-American.
	And it's not anti-American as in against America.
	Canadians define themselves, and I sincerely believe, think it's a praiseworthy trait as being...
	Antithetical to America and Americans.
	We're going to get into a story in a bit of a dude who's rich enough to afford three Teslas, two Teslas and a Cybertruck, who loves the environment so much, but he hates Elon just that much more.
	But before we do any...
	Oh, by the way, he hates Elon in that he's going to go and cancel his...
	Tesla Cybertruck order and return and sell his two other Teslas.
	And he's going to go buy something from China or buy a gas guzzling thing because, you know, we'll get into that in a second.
	Before we even get into that, because I forgot to do, not forgot to, I had the sponsor yesterday and then we had a problem setting up the stream with Lindy Lee.
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	Oh, I feel like...
	No, that's on the other side.
	It's not a heart attack, people.
	It's rib cage issues.
	I went for a longer jog than normal this week because...
	Yesterday and today because I'm feeling...
	The way I feel about my physique is greatly affected by the way I feel internally.
	It's been a stressful, irritating, upsetting week.
	We'll get into it in a bit.
	But we're going to start with Canada.
	And by the way, we're going to end this, give or take, after the two Canadian stories, head on over to Rumble, VivaBarnesLaw.locals.com and talk about that.
	Here, Viva, your legal opinion on whether provinces other than Quebec can secede from Canada.
	So I had to refresh my memory on this.
	I've lived through one.
	No, has it been two referendums or one?
	It was one referendum.
	The one in 78 was before I was born.
	The one in 95 or 96 was the referendum for Quebec to secede from Canada.
	As far as I recall, what has to happen is the province has to vote, but it has to be basically approved by the king, the queen.
	And so, you know, there is...
	Hold on a second.
	Here, just want to refresh my memory.
	It has to have a referendum at the provincial level, and it has to be approved at the federal level.
	The argument is that...
	Yeah, here.
	Complex legal process under Canadian law.
	They had a Clarity Act of 2000.
	Was the referendum in...
	Yeah. No unilateral secession.
	Referendum requirement.
	A province must hold a referendum.
	A clear question of secession because there was an issue as to whether or not the question in 96 was clear enough.
	It's got to have a clear majority.
	It's amazing.
	And then it has to be a constitutional amendment which has to be approved by the Federals, I think.
	Let me see here.
	International, I forget.
	Constitutional amendments.
	Secession requires amending the Constitution.
	There's no existing mechanism for a province to leave the Confederation.
	Constitutional amendments typically require the approval of the federal parliament and a significant number of provinces.
	The 750 rule or unanimity, depending on the issue, the process ensures that secession is not unilateral and respects the rights of all Canadians.
	So, what was the question again?
	Bibi, your legal opinion on what the province...
	Any province can secede.
	The only question is how does the mechanism get implemented, ratified, and whether or not it's practically possible.
	I know the talk about the 51st state is becoming increasingly serious and concerning some. The fact that Justin Trudeau, Maybe I'm the idiot in all this.
	The fact that Justin Trudeau thinks Trump is serious about Canada becoming a 51st state is a testament to how stupid and what a terrible negotiator Justin Trudeau is.
	But maybe I'm wrong and maybe Trump actually wants.
	All of Canada as the 51st state.
	A country that's as big, I think it's actually territorially bigger than America.
	The population of California with as many distinct provincial identities, cultural identities, racial identities, political identities, as you have in America.
	And as if Donald Trump would want, and forgive me for painting Ontario and Quebec with broad brush strokes.
	As if Donald Trump would want...
	A province that fought to separate from the Federation already, that would be Quebec, and a province like Ontario, which is perhaps more left-leaning than Michigan and New York.
	More anti-Second Amendment than Michigan and New York.
	The West, however, wants out.
	And I absolutely understand this now.
	In Canada, they have these things called equalization payments.
	Where they basically, you know, the provinces pay their provincial taxes up to the feds and the feds redistribution is what it's called.
	And the feds take all of those provincial taxes from their various enterprises, you know, natural energy, natural resources, and then it takes them and then it divvies them out and pays them out to the provinces on an as needed basis.
	So the more impoverished provinces get more of the equalization payments and the more productive provinces that pay into it get less out.
	And so you have the West.
	With its natural resources, which are absolutely shit upon by the federal government, paying up into the feds, that money gets basically stolen and redistributed to the poor provinces, that being Quebec and the Maritimes.
	Why are those provinces poor?
	Not because of lack of resources, people.
	It's the welfare system at a large-scale provincial application.
	So you get the welfare provinces who don't feel any need to exploit their natural resources, their tourist industry, for the purposes of generating revenue, because they get subsidized by the provinces that do.
	It's like individual welfare state at a provincial level.
	That was a long-winded answer for that.
	That was my answer for that.
	But get to the story, Diva.
	What the hell are you talking about?
	I can rant all day.
	Here. The idiocy...
	I know some people after yesterday's interview with Lindy Lee are saying, yeah, you know, liberalism is a cult.
	The Democrat Party, it's a cult.
	And you got to treat them accordingly.
	I was having a discussion with someone who genuinely says, yeah, it is a cult.
	And I'm like, okay, it's nice.
	We use the term colloquially, it's a cult, you know, because it operates on similar tenets.
	But when it comes to assuming responsibility for one's actions...
	It's a very easy thing to say, well, it's a cult, and so I can't be blamed for my actions.
	I was in a cult.
	I'm talking about this guy right now, the Canadian man who sells both Teslas, cancels Cybertruck order to boycott Elon Musk.
	Let me ask you a question.
	What's his name?
	Alain Roy?
	We've got to watch this.
	By the way, bear in mind, who's reporting this trash?
	State-funded propaganda.
	What are they reporting?
	Propaganda. Anti-American, anti-Elon.
	Why are they reporting it?
	Why the hell would a South Shore man in Quebec give a rat's ass about Elon Musk Doge in America?
	Why? Probably because he's mentally ill, mentally unhinged, or I haven't been able to track this man's identity to the sense of, is he a government player?
	Is he a political operative?
	And is this all just one big fat political ploy to foment public opinion up in Canada so that everyone in Canada is like, oh my goodness, look what Elon is doing so bad.
	My kid just did all of his 9 multiplications to 9 in 33 seconds.
	Sorry, that is sufficiently important to interrupt my rant.
	I don't know who this guy is if he's a political operative.
	Let's just watch this because I haven't actually watched the video.
	Alain Roy absolutely loves his Tesla Model Y, but even though it's packed full of high-tech features, the South Shore resident can't stand driving it anymore.
	By the way, South Shore, for those of you who don't know, it's not quite the Westmount of Quebec, but it's pretty damn close.
	Very, very, very affluent neighborhood.
	Beautiful homes.
	He's got a nice deck.
	He absolutely loves his Tesla.
	It's great for the environment.
	But fuck that and fuck the environment because I hate Elon so much.
	My hatred for Elon is greater than my purported love for the environment.
	Lunatics. Do you like the car?
	It's a mascot I don't like.
	Juan has a Tesla, his wife has a Tesla, and he was in the midst of ordering a Cybertruck.
	This is privilege, people!
	His love affair with the company founded by Elon Musk officially ended on Donald Trump's inauguration day when Musk delivered the infamous gesture that many described as a Nazi salute.
	You know who described it as a Nazi salute?
	State-funded propaganda lie.
	This is actual news in Canada, people.
	Americans, you're watching this.
	Understand, this is what informs the substantial portion of Canadian...
	Political knowledge.
	This shit.
	We're watching this and this is like straight out of Starship Troopers.
	This is like government propaganda that is comical, farcical, except it's so damn real up in Canada.
	This is what the majority of Canadians use for their information.
	That Nazis sign up, that was too much for me.
	Yeah, but you're an idiot.
	You're an idiot.
	You're either dumb...
	You are either brainwashed, you are either absolutely ignorant, or you are a pathological malicious liar and potentially a political operative, and or any combination of all five of those.
	Too much for me.
	Too much.
	I mean, I cancelled immediately my Cybertruck, and both of my Tesla are absolutely up for sale right now.
	Like many, Hua was a big Elon Musk fan for years, but since Musk took a right turn and became the head of the Trump administration's Department of Government Deficiency, Hua has been growing uneasy.
	By the way, what the hell?
	Why is he standing two meters?
	Are they still operating on the social distancing?
	It's funny.
	Hua, not Hua, Elon took the right turn.
	It's not this jackass who took the commie turn.
	It has been growing uneasy.
	Tariff threats.
	Talk of Canada becoming the 51st state.
	The Quebecer is done with Tesla and he's not alone.
	Sales have been slumping in Europe, United Kingdom, Australia and other markets.
	Do you want to know why I happen to know that this is propaganda bullshit?
	The sales have been slumping since before.
	He didn't tell you since when the sales have been slumping.
	I'll get you the exact dates because I'm certain it predates.
	Trump's election, and I'm fairly certain it even predates Elon getting very politically involved.
	It's just too much, actually.
	Some Canadians, Quebecers, and even some U.S. people.
	Are doing the same thing.
	Do you know that?
	David Elmosnino of the Quebec Tesla Club argues that the company has thousands of brilliant employees, not just Musk, and says he won't deprive himself of a Tesla because of the CEO's views.
	I've seen him do crazy things before that I was not comfortable with, but it really comes down to the product.
	He thinks the anti-Tesla trend was accelerated by bumper stickers reading, I bought this before Elon went crazy.
	Let's face it, me not buying a Tesla tomorrow in no way is going to affect Musk personally and no way going to change his behavior.
	But Roy disagrees.
	We might cause a big movement that's going to affect some people, yes.
	He's also canceled his Amazon account, his Costco membership, and scrapped a trip to Disney World with his wife.
	With retirement on the horizon, he was thinking about buying a condo in Florida.
	Not anymore.
	Good. You know what I love?
	It's like, meme it, people.
	It's going to be a cartoon.
	Somebody starving to death naked.
	Can you understand this?
	He doesn't want to buy a Tesla because of Musk, but he'll buy an Apple iPhone despite slave labor in China.
	He'll buy all of his products from China despite their human rights abuses.
	He'll buy Venezuelan oil, Saudi oil, but this jackass thinks he's taking the morally righteous stand by boycotting Tesla.
	Oh yeah, the Quebec market's really going to have an impact on Tesla's market share.
	Holy hell.
	The clown is there.
	I will never buy it in Sorda.
	He's in the midst of deciding which brand of electric car to replace his Teslas with.
	Dan Spector, Global News, Saint-Constant, Quebec.
	With that clown?
	And I need to know if this guy's a political operative.
	What did he say here?
	With that clown?
	I don't know in Florida.
	Not anymore.
	The clown is there.
	I will never buy it in Sorda.
	Good riddance to bad rubbish, Alain.
	Stick to your snowy, commie paradise.
	I don't even need to read the article after that.
	I mean, that's the gist of the article.
	These idiots are more consumed with hatred than benevolence.
	They're more driven by hatred than they are by love.
	And that pretty much defines the progressive capital L liberal, capital D Democrat left.
	I have not decided which one I'm going to buy because tabarnak, ils vont être tous Chinois.
	Oh yeah, that's right.
	I'm going to buy Chinese because they're better than Elon.
	Moron. This is the level of stupidity that lives in my Canada.
	Crab apples.
	He's paid to the hilt, Viva, Maureen Brown says.
	The thing is, the difficulty is Alain Roy.
	First of all, Roy, as far as anybody knows, it means...
	Alain is the most common French-Canadian last name.
	Alain is probably among the most common first French-Canadian last names.
	So it's not like if there was a David Freiheit who appeared in that.
	You'd be able to find out whether I'm a political operative real quick.
	Alain Roy, you go Google Alain Roy, it's impossible.
	There might actually be already 12 Alain Rois involved in politics.
	That reeks of absolute state-funded propaganda.
	And that's what news is up in Canada.
	And some people still don't appreciate it.
	You never read comments.
	What are you talking about?
	Irony! Unless you're not talking to me.
	Let me go over to vivabarneslaw.locals.com and see what's going on here.
	Don't trust China, China asshole, says Bill Brown.
	Lefson says, I remember going up north of Cetil and the person with the Tesla had to hire a person with a generator to come over and charge his car to get it back south to civilization.
	I'd never have an electric up there unless I towed a generator.
	Yeah, the other problem is the weather is just, you know, the cold.
	Not that it kills the batteries, but it's not a long road trip car up in Canada, and even less so in winter.
	There was a bunch of tip questions up here in vivabarnslaw.locals.com.
	Bill Brown says, you nailed the exit of laid-back news, Viva.
	Thank you very much.
	DTQC, who I know is up in Canada.
	If the federal government taxed the citizens differently based on their province, then everyone would revolt.
	But if you give money back to some provinces, then it's called an equalization payment.
	It's theft.
	They penalize the West for their energy policies, steal their money and redistribute it to the provinces that don't exploit their natural resources, and it's theft.
	And the only politician who ever spoke out about it...
	Was actually the People's Party of Canada leader, Maxime Bernier, who was running in a rioting in Quebec called La Beauce.
	Which, let me think of an analogy here.
	Taking a political position against equalization payments in La Beauce, where Maxime was running, is about as politically unpopular as...
	Let's see.
	Taking a pro-Second Amendment right...
	It's not even going to be that good.
	Basically, it's like being pro-police in San Francisco.
	You cannot get a more politically unpopular opinion in the writing than Maxime Bernier saying enough with this theft from the West and pillaging by the East in La Beauce in Quebec.
	Bill Brown says that's the mad minute we did back in school.
	Good job.
	Amen. And DTQC...
	With a meme.
	Let me see what the meme is.
	I can't see it.
	It's a book, and it's The Tragic Consequences of the Quebec Act of 1774, Untold History of Canada.
	Well, that's part of what's going on in Canada.
	The other part of what's going on in Canada involves the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, who have gone bat-fit crazy and are insisting that universal ostrich farms in Edgewood, British Columbia...
	Slaughter over 400 healthy ostriches.
	Now, I've got a copy of the appeal.
	Am I going to be able to do this?
	I think I will.
	It's going to be a little bit of a difficult thing to bring up.
	Two, three, is this going to be able to do this?
	Three, four.
	Okay, here we go.
	I may not have all of this.
	So, I had Katie on from Universal Ostrich Forum, and I hope the other person's not going to be offended.
	I can't remember their name right now.
	Their legal liaison.
	This is the story out of British Columbia where an ostrich farm, which has been in existence for three and a half decades, had a bunch of ostriches die, tested two of the corpses.
	They allegedly, based on a CPR test, which will find COVID on a cell phone, it's so sensitive, or some might say falsely sensitive.
	Two were detected to have had the avian flu, H5N1 allegedly.
	CFIA, which is a federal agency, a Soviet agency, it's all that it is.
	An administrative body comes in and says, all right, we issue an order, you got to slaughter.
	All of your healthy ostriches by February 1st.
	Ostriches weigh over 300 pounds.
	They are...
	Katie described them as intelligent.
	I think they're tremendously stupid, but she has more experience with ostriches than I do, but I have actually a fair bit of experience.
	One way or the other, they're majestic.
	And they are dangerous.
	They can kill you with one kick.
	They weigh 300 pounds.
	They've got talons on their legs.
	And they kick and slide down with their hooks and disembowel.
	It's 50-50.
	One-on-one between a lion and an ostrich.
	Fact check me on that.
	CFIA comes and says, you've got to slaughter all of them by February 1st.
	And they say, go to the steaming bowels of hell, you inhumane pieces of rubbish.
	They go to a court.
	And they get a temporary injunction which stays the order from the CFIA pending a rehearing on said order.
	All they want to do is not slaughter their now healthy animals which have no trace of the avian flu as if this would do anything to prevent the spread of the avian flu to the extent that it's anything of an actual risk.
	They wanted them to slaughter the ostriches.
	Bury them on their property.
	They gave them protocols for how many can go into each pit.
	It would have involved digging five or six nine-meter deep pits so that after the ostriches are slaughtered, and how the hell do you do it?
	Your guess is as good as mine.
	They bury the apparently fearful of infected bodies in the ground.
	So I don't know what, even assuming they're contaminated, what that does in terms of burying them in all of their waste.
	Corpses get dug up by animals.
	They decay and rot and go into river systems, whatever.
	They're not sick.
	That's the point.
	I don't know how you kill an ostrich if that says.
	I mean, you could chop its head off with a machete and you have to do that 400 times.
	That's going to be one traumatizing day.
	If they're anything like chickens, you chop their heads off, they're still going to run around for a good 30 seconds.
	Run around kicking, whatever.
	They run around, cause panic in the other 399 ostriches.
	You've got a freaking ostrich.
	I don't know, like a rave.
	You shoot them.
	That's good.
	You kill one ostrich.
	You got $399 and they're now freaking out because someone just shotgun blasted their brother or sister.
	The federal government, which will fight to your last dollar because they're fighting with your dollar, appealed the decision and this is a copy of the appeal order.
	I might be in the wrong page's order on it, but just to bring it up and just to bring it to the awareness of the people out there who say, oh yeah, how do I do this?
	I got the document in the back.
	Oh, cripe.
	Let me go ahead and put this down here.
	Okay, there we go.
	If I can do it like this, I think.
	Don't die.
	No, I don't want to do the entire screen.
	Oh, here we go.
	I got this.
	So this is page one.
	Let me see here.
	Yeah, this is it.
	Okay, good.
	Here, look at this.
	We're going to look at this in real time.
	We are going to...
	What the heck is going on here?
	We are going to look at this and document this in real time.
	There we go.
	Universal Autos for Arms Canadian and Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
	Upon applicants motion for injunction prohibiting the execution of the notice issued by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency on December 31, requiring the applicant It's funny.
	They can call it the execution of the notice, but they don't call it the execution of the animals.
	They want to euphemize that.
	It's the disposal of the animals.
	Yada, yada, yada.
	Oh, I can just do it like this.
	Now do we see the second page?
	That's beautiful.
	Okay. Go back down.
	And upon considering that a party seeking injunction must satisfy the following three-part test.
	One, the application for judicial review raises a serious question to be tried.
	Am I looking at the order?
	Two, the moving party will suffer irreparable harm.
	And three, I think we might be...
	This is the order.
	Yeah, let's get this one out of here.
	Wow, I wish I knew how to use my freaking screen.
	Stop share screen.
	I'm going to read it off my bloody phone, people.
	The CFIA is appealing.
	And what they're saying is this.
	Get ready for, oh, Viva without glasses.
	The grounds of the appeal.
	The motion judge aired in law and in principle and or seriously misapprehended the facts in what?
	In one.
	A. Of finding that irreparable harm in the form of the closure of its 25-year-old business and the loss of the respondent's decades-long effort in cultivating a unique herd of ostriches would flow to the respondent if an injunction were not granted, notwithstanding that the injunction motion was only in respect of the notice and not in respect of the minister's authority to dispose of the ostriches pursuant to subsection.
	If you can understand that, God bless you.
	But they're arguing that there was no irreparable harm, that they were ordered to slaughter their animals by February 1st.
	Two, the second B, I should say, finding that the balance of convenience favored granting the injunction, including by, one, erroneously concluding that not issuing the injunction would render the underlying application moot, and two, finding that the applicant has a range of options under the HAA, the Health of Animal Act.
	To address its concerns.
	Three, failing to account for a seriously misapprehended fact concerning public interest factors that overwhelmingly favored not issuing the injunction.
	To the extent that the motion judge made an order in joining the minister.
	In joining the minister from disposing of Universal's ostriches under Section 48.1.
	Disposing of.
	Killing them.
	The applicant filed a motion for federal seeking clarification on the scope of the order, including whether the order was intended to enjoin the minister from disposing of the ostriches under the section of the act.
	They want to kill them.
	They want to murder the animals.
	And they won't be happy until it's done.
	Because it's how they terrorize the population.
	It's how they manufacture the numbers for a bullshit, fabricated pandemic 2.0.
	They fudged all...
	Once you understand, they lied about all of the numbers in COVID 1.0.
	I don't even know if we'll call it that, but COVID.
	Remember, it went from, like, deaths to hospitalizations, to infections, and then you realize, oh, yeah, they were never even determining whether it was hospitalized with versus hospitalized from, but they had the Chiron, or the Chiron, however you pronounce it.
	The Terror Chiron.
	And now they need to do the same thing with H5N1.
	Oh my god, there's another new case.
	One case out of Alberta.
	Well, that's not a big enough number to scare people.
	Oh, we've had to slaughter 175 million chickens.
	Yeah, that's a bigger number.
	It's so serious.
	We have to slaughter millions of birds.
	But the egg price thingy thing is Trump's fault.
	So that's what's going on with the ostrich farm.
	Put it on blast.
	Shud it from the rooftops.
	They're not going to kill those ostriches.
	Shut up.
	Some of them are 35 years old.
	They've been in that family for three and a half decades.
	All right, people, now I see that we've got the guest in the back, or at least he was there about a second ago.
	We're going to bring him in, but I want to bring him in on YouTube, Commitube, and the other platforms.
	But then we're going to go over to Rumble.
	We're going to vote with our feet and vote with our eyeballs.
	but what I wanted to do here was just see if there were any, uh, rumble rant, super chats.
	Bird flu is another says abrasive rumble SARS.
	Covy to fake and the gay says Q T 17.
	Uh, anyone who mentions the bird cold deserves to be.
	Okay.
	I don't know where this is going to go.
	I don't know how this is going to go.
	He looks like a nice man.
	Let me see.
	I'm going to analyze some body language.
	Is he smiling yet?
	No, he's chin up.
	Okay, he's looking good.
	Based in bias, you ready to come in?
	Dude, I don't even know what your name is.
	All right, we're going to do the intro here, and then we're going to end on Commitube and come on over to vivabarnslaw.locals.com or Rumble.
	And by the way, vivabarnslaw.locals.com, we're going to maybe do a supporter interview afterwards during our exclusive part.
	Here, coming on in, based and biased.
	Sir, we've never met in real life.
	I see your mute button is on.
	You might want to deactivate your microphone or activate your mic.
	Can you hear me?
	I can hear you now.
	Dude, who are you?
	I can't hear you.
	I'm having some audio issues.
	Okay. Yeah, I think it's on my end.
	Let me...
	Let me drop out.
	I'm going to come back.
	I'm going to try to reset this thing here.
	And while you do that, I'm going to show...
	Okay, I'm going to bring him out.
	I'm going to kick him, actually.
	That's going to be not banned, but just kick from studio.
	Kick, yes, and he'll come back in a second.
	Based and biased over on the Twitterverse.
	I'll show you this present, just so we know who he is.
	Because at one point he tweeted out, it's like, how would 1775 feel about sponsoring a veteran for a YouTube channel or a Rumble channel?
	Sorry. And, you know, I say that they don't, I don't think that's how they do things and I don't know the people there, but I wanted to get to see who this guy is.
	Okay, hold on a second.
	We're going to do great news.
	Austrians will be saved if they get a jab and wear a mask.
	You laugh.
	But it's pure tyranny up in Canada.
	Well, actually, while we do that, we can just watch a beautiful, beautiful...
	First of all...
	Am I crazy or do you think Kathy Hochul bought Kamala Harris's...
	First of all, Kathy Hochul?
	Kamala Harris?
	KH for both of them?
	Did I just put that together?
	Did she buy Kamala's presidential garb at a discount?
	Because it really looks like Kathy Hochul is wearing Kamala's uniform here.
	At 141 today, this office received an order of extradition for a New York doctor, an abortion provider who lives upstate in the state of New York.
	And my direction.
	And my direction.
	We have put in place strict shield laws that anticipate this very situation.
	That in the aftermath of the overturning of Roe v.
	Wade, the established law for 49 years that gave women rights, that my mother's generation had to fight for, that my generation took for granted, that are no longer there for my daughter's generation, after 49 years of having the established law of the nation overturned by this Supreme Court.
	We knew that in the state of New York that we had providers who could be vulnerable.
	Louisiana has changed their laws, but that has no bearing on the laws here in the state of New York.
	Doctors take an oath to protect their patients.
	I took an oath of office to protect all New Yorkers, and I will uphold not only our Constitution, but the laws of our land.
	I would like to remind Kathy Hochul, she took an oath to...
	Protect the Constitution?
	Dexter Taylor is still currently rotting away in Coxsackie Correctional Facility for having peacefully exercised his Second Amendment constitutional rights.
	In a case in which the judge said, don't bring your Second Amendment into this courtroom.
	There's no Second Amendment in the state of New York.
	It's such a wild thing where the radical left has fallen so far off the cliff that where once upon a time...
	Overturning Roe v.
	Wade was never really an option, a realistic one.
	Then it happens.
	And then you realize, oh, Ruth Bader Ginsburg didn't like that decision to begin with.
	Oh, that's right.
	It doesn't take any rights away, but rather just kicks it back to the state level.
	And then you have these demonic beings fighting tooth and nail for everything that is anti-human, unhuman.
	Death. Abortion.
	Child general mutilation.
	Men getting the right to beat the shit out of women in women's sports.
	And at the same time they do all of this, they claim to be upholding the Constitution, which they are desecrating in real time.
	That being said, I do understand that there are state rights in terms of extradition and whatnot, and I can maybe even agree with Kathy Hochul in principle that...
	Hauling a citizen from one state to another based on that state's laws.
	I can appreciate there might be some constitutional issues there, but you respect the whole Constitution and not just piecemeal the parts you want.
	All right, I want to bring back in based in bias to see if his audio is working.
	I can see he's getting nervous.
	Sir, can you hear me?
	I still can't hear.
	I don't know why.
	Don't worry about it.
	Take it out.
	Unplug. I've tried turning it on, turning it back off again.
	No, hold on here.
	Actually, no, I'll do it.
	I'll go to...
	Unplug. Trying to unmute here.
	Yeah, unplugged.
	No, we're going to make this happen because I've got to ask what's going on in the backdrop.
	I can hear outside of StreamYard.
	I can hear you on a live stream on X, but I can't hear you through StreamYard is the problem here.
	So I'm not sure.
	You want to do it on your phone?
	Do it on a phone?
	Yeah. Let me try that.
	Let me try that.
	Okay. We're not going to have this get screwed up a second time because I got questions about what's going on in the backdrop.
	Let me see what's going on in vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
	All. Andrew Cuomo, the frontrunner for New York City Mayor.
	I don't think so.
	Well, actually, while we're on the subject of New York.
	So you've heard what's happening with Eric Adams.
	Trump's DOJ instructed whoever the prosecuting attorney was there at the SDNY to dismiss without prejudice the charges against Eric Adams without prejudice, which Barnes and I discussed last Sunday means they can bring him back whenever they want, in theory.
	I had a clarification request from the Calci markets because the question was whether or not that qualified as a pardon.
	Commutation or reprieve.
	Because the instruction to dismiss without prejudice, the New York Times described it as a reprieve.
	The question is now, why?
	They're going after Eric Adams yet again, he's in the news, hold on one second, where they're arguing that there's something of a corrupt quid pro quo as a result of Trump's DOJ withdrawing the charges without prejudice, but basically saying, you play ball with us.
	On the one hand, you go ahead and do your election.
	We don't like prosecuting people when there's an election time, and the Trump administration is obviously very sensitive to that.
	And you play ball with us on the immigration stuff, and we'll revisit this potentially in November.
	The letter that we saw, and this is what we were discussing back over on Laidback Law, where Nate was saying, this reeks of...
	Corrupt quid pro quo, because in the letter ordering the dismissal of the charges without prejudice, three conditions that Eric Adams agrees to not claim legal fees, a couple of other things, that they say, we're not looking at the evidence and we'll reassess this in November.
	And so people are crying, this is corrupt quid pro quo.
	They're quite clearly trying to get Eric Adams to play ball.
	And if he doesn't on the issue of immigration, then they'll recharge him in November.
	The whole issue was that they never needed to specify any of that.
	In the dismissal, because dismissal without prejudice necessarily means the charges can be re-brought at a later point in time.
	With prejudice means they cannot bring those same charges again.
	So that's what's going on in New York, but it's a full-on...
	Let me see if we can read this one here.
	It's a full-on crisis out there.
	Order to drop Adams' case prompts resignations in New York and Washington.
	Good! It's the trash taking itself out.
	We don't get our way.
	We're out.
	The interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District and five officials with the Federal Public Integrity Unit quit after the Justice Department ordered charges against Eric Adams to be dropped.
	Who's this one?
	Danielle Sassoon.
	Videl Sassoon's granddaughter.
	She makes a very nice hair product.
	A departure from the Manhattan Federal Prosecutor's Office came days after she was ordered to drop the case against the mayor.
	Remember, everybody, It was a corrupt prosecution from the get-go.
	And now that they were corrupt in the sense that it really looked like a reprisal for Eric Adams speaking out against Biden's immigration policy.
	And now they're like, what the hell?
	We don't get to follow through on our corrupt prosecution?
	That's bullshit.
	We're out.
	I'm going to come back to this in a second.
	Let's see if we can get based and biased to get in here.
	Hey there.
	I can hear you now.
	Can you hear me now?
	I can hear you.
	Awesome. Dude, so...
	Who are you?
	You're watching me learn this in real time.
	I'm going to get...
	Hold on.
	I'm going to see if our community is going to tell me if the audio levels are balanced here.
	Okay. So, it's very funny.
	I know you from Twitter.
	You're followed by people who I like and respect.
	Not that that changes...
	But you don't like and respect me, so you're just wondering how...
	No, dude.
	I don't know you from a hole in the wall.
	Who are you?
	Well... Actually, I'm just a guy down in North Carolina.
	I'm a retired Marine.
	I was medically retired after 10 years, and so I'm a disabled veteran.
	Can I ask what medically retired?
	I know what it means in theory, but how does that happen?
	Is it from a specific injury over the course of time?
	Yeah. It could be a traumatic injury, or it could be an injury that develops over time, which is more like what happened with me.
	I have nerve damage, a lot of neurological damage in my neck, and a lot of that's from flying on the V-22 Osprey.
	There's a lot of whiplash involved, being a crew chief.
	I was a crew chief, so I flew in the back.
	I wasn't strapped down like a pilot would be.
	The difference between the Osprey and a helicopter is it can actually pull a lot of Gs and do some pretty hard maneuvers.
	It wore down.
	My neck, I've got a couple of herniated discs in my neck that have to get worked on.
	So what happens is if you get injured to the point where you can't do your job anymore, and what was happening with me is I get tingles in my arms and hands, but also I have a lot of dexterity issues.
	So one of my jobs was to work on the aircraft as a mechanic.
	I drop things a lot now.
	I don't know my own grip strength a lot of times.
	It's hard to explain, but I could be holding on to something and all of a sudden it just falls out of my hand and I just don't even expect it.
	What happens is if you get injured to the point where you can't do your job anymore, whatever job that is in the military, then you can get medically retired.
	I'm essentially retired.
	I get all the retirement benefits.
	I'm considered retired.
	I don't make any retirement pay, though.
	So if I had done a full 20, I would have been able to get retirement pay plus my VA benefit pay.
	But right now, I just get the VA benefit.
	This is something that I just don't think people fully appreciate, what veterans have to deal with in terms of the VA.
	But before we proceed, two questions.
	Can I ask you your name?
	Yeah, my name's Matt.
	It's Matt Hamm.
	Your last name is Ham?
	Ham. H-A-M-M.
	H-A-M-M.
	May I ask how old you are, Matt?
	I'm 39. 39. Okay, everybody get your butts on over to Locals or Rumble because I'm going to end this on Commitube.
	And do it now because we're going to continue this.
	This is going to be fantastic.
	Okay, we're doing it now.
	Ending on Commitube.
	Get your butts on over.
	Rumble, vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
	Yeah, get on over there.
	And I'll get on Locals soon.
	You're born and raised in North Carolina?
	No, I'm actually born and raised in Kentucky.
	I'm from Louisville, Kentucky.
	Okay. And like family origins, how many generations American is your family?
	So on my dad's side, I've got family going all the way back to the revolution.
	And, you know, they kind of came, the Scots-Irish, from the mountains.
	So the mountains of Kentucky is where a lot of my family on my dad's side is.
	They're actually French-Canadian.
	I don't really like to admit that out loud a lot of times.
	From Quebec or from New Brunswick or Nova Scotia?
	That end of my family lives up in the upper peninsula of Michigan.
	I'm not close with my Canadian family.
	They would come to family reunions.
	I didn't speak any French, but they would be over there speaking French.
	It's hard for me to...
	I get to know them.
	But yeah, I mean, I don't really know them very well.
	I'm not close with that side, but I do have a little Canadian in me.
	So you did 10 years in the Army or 10 years in the Marine Corps.
	Where did you go?
	Well, I did two deployments.
	One was a MU, which is basically a ship deployment.
	So yeah, at all times, the Marine Corps has two main They're mobile expeditionary units, so it's basically a full fighting unit contained on a small ship.
	And at any point, we can deploy about 5,000 troops to an area in the world that needs it.
	And a lot of times what you've seen is disaster relief.
	So when there was the Puerto Rican hurricane a few years back...
	That was one of our Mews that went down there and did the relay for that.
	Also, the Haitian earthquake as well.
	Also, we'll respond to any kind of crisis.
	When they got Osama Bin Laden, the SEALs, they deployed off of a Mew.
	They went off of the ship.
	It was actually the ship that I was on right after that deployment.
	And then the other deployment was called a Special MAGTAF, and that was moving around a lot.
	I did a lot of time in Western Africa on that deployment.
	The Special MAGTAFs were something, and I'm sorry, I'm using terminology here.
	Yeah, I was going to ask for the MAGTAF.
	Yeah, I'm sorry.
	Marine Air Ground Task Force.
	So the Marines are an all-encompassing.
	We have air, ground, and sea.
	The Navy helps us out.
	The Marines' job is usually to deploy from the sea to wherever we need to go.
	We're the landing force or the amphibious force.
	The MAG-taps were set up after Benghazi to be able to respond to a Benghazi-like attack.
	Quickly. So, the Magtaps are muse, essentially, but they're just stationary.
	And we had, I don't think they do them anymore, but we had one in Spain and one in somewhere in the, I think it was Jordan, but somewhere in the Middle East.
	But during those Magtaps, we would just go around.
	And like I said, I spent a lot of my time in Northern and Western Africa.
	And that was a lot of fun.
	I enjoyed that.
	Are you married with kids now?
	Yep, I'm married and I've got two boys.
	I've got a 12-year-old and an 8-year-old.
	So you do 10 years.
	That 10 years was what, 2008?
	No, am I totally off on the decades?
	No, you're not.
	It was 2009 to 2019, actually.
	Are you married when you're out in the middle of nowhere?
	When you're on tour, are you married and you have kids at that time?
	Yeah. Even when I wasn't deployed, that's the thing.
	The nature of my job was you're just gone all the time.
	That was something that was a blessing.
	Of course, I didn't want to get out of the Marine Corps.
	I was planning on going to Okinawa.
	I had already plans for my next moves and everything.
	I really enjoyed what I did, but that's not the way life works out all the time.
	But it was a blessing because really I miss so much of my kids' lives in their early years.
	And so it's been great.
	It's been a learning experience, too.
	And just really appreciating how important fathers are in kids' lives and how important it is for me to be there, to be present.
	I'm reading a chat here over in our locals community.
	So you do 10 years, you get out.
	Neurological damage.
	I mean, I presume it's the same feeling as if you wake up with, you know, slept on your arm and it's dead.
	You don't know how hard you're squeezing things, and over time, the nerves, you do end up losing grip force as a result of the nerve damage.
	Yeah, and so eventually, too, the nerves just die out, I guess.
	So the nerves that are coming out of my neck into my arm on both sides are getting squeezed, and so what happens is...
	Eventually, when nerves aren't getting any signals, they just die.
	So what has happened is some of the nerves that have gone down all the way through my arm are just not functioning anymore.
	They're atrophying, essentially.
	And this is from flying in the Osprey in particular?
	Yeah. Is it the Osprey?
	Am I wrong?
	What was the helicopter that just crashed into the plane in D.C.?
	That was a Blackhawk.
	That was a helicopter.
	So the Osprey is the tilt rotor.
	It's the one that can fly like an airplane and a helicopter.
	It's the one that recently Pocahontas Warren was trying to talk crap about.
	And I don't even like calling her Pocahontas.
	I prefer Sasquatch because Pocahontas was real.
	And, you know, I think she doesn't deserve that name.
	And I want to get into the VA a little bit, but what are you doing these days now, sir?
	What do you do these days?
	Right now, I'm really just trying to figure out my next steps in life.
	In the meantime, I'm trying to take care of my kids, take care of my house.
	My wife is a CPA, so she works full-time.
	That was another fortunate thing, that she's able to work from home.
	I'm just here trying to take care of things and really just trying to figure out exactly what I want to do the rest of my life here in this second.
	Chapter, I guess.
	What's it like dealing with the VA?
	We've got a number of veterans in our locals community.
	I've got a number that are close friends that have become close friends now.
	And without sharing their stories, we hear a fine mix between it's a nightmare and people have good experiences.
	What is it like dealing with the VA as far as that being an issue that's come up recently during the last election?
	Fortunately, I don't have to deal with the VA.
	I will actually hear pretty soon because I deal with TRICARE because it's another benefit of being retired is I get access to the military healthcare still.
	So I don't have to rely on the VA.
	But with that said, in order for me to get the surgery that I need, it looks like I am going to have to rely on the VA because TRICARE won't approve the neurosurgeon that I want to use.
	So I don't know what it's like dealing with them trying to get healthcare, but I do know.
	A bit about going through the process of trying to get benefits because when I started going through the process myself, nobody is there to help you.
	Nobody tells you how to do things.
	One of my things that I'm good at is just reading into things and just going in and reading the actual jargon that they have.
	The secret with the VA is you don't have to lie to them about anything.
	You just have to use the right words.
	You have to use their words.
	It's just learning how to describe your different things in VA terms.
	I guess that was my biggest learning curve.
	If anybody needs help with that, just tell them to message me and I'll be more than happy with it.
	You're based and biased on Twitter.
	How did you come up with the name?
	Well, so, you know, I base that on the Constitution.
	So when I look at things politically, and when I look at how things should be run in our country, we have to have a basis for that, and I think that should be the Constitution.
	And then the biased part is that I'm a Christian, and so everything that I look at, I'm going to look at through a biased lens of, you know, that Christ is...
	My savior and that Christ died for my sins and that it's just a Christ-centered worldview in my mind.
	So I just want, I don't think it's bad to be biased.
	I think everybody's biased and I think it's important to understand what your biases are and to understand that are they really legitimate or not?
	Because not all biases are obviously the same or equal, I think.
	So you're in the Army 2008 to 2018.
	Marine Corps.
	And you're a Canadian, so I'll give you some forgiveness.
	For me, it's all one.
	Marine Corps, the Navy, it's all one big thing to me.
	We're seeing now that Pete Hegseth gets into office.
	We've seen the transition, and I almost want to say no pun intended.
	What was your observation of...
	The evolution or devolution of the Marine Corps and, say, the system at large in the decade that you were involved with it.
	So, you know, I was in a space recently and I was talking to, I think it was Colonel Rob, man.
	And we were, you know, he was talking about how the whole DEI stuff had really taken hold within, you know, throughout the military, throughout all the ranks and everything.
	And I got on there and I said, I don't know one Marine throughout.
	You know, from private to senior officer who believes in this DEI stuff.
	And he said, you know, that's true.
	And apparently the Marine Corps is just different when it comes to...
	And the Marine Corps has always been a little bit different.
	And, you know, when I was in, we never...
	And we made a big point of not basing anything off of the color of somebody's skin.
	You know, they called it...
	You know, we don't have black and white.
	We have green and dark green.
	Race, whenever somebody is on the battlefield and they're bleeding, the blood's going to be red no matter what stone color you are.
	You have to be able to depend on the person next to you with your life.
	Nobody cares about what somebody looks like when they've got rounds flying or they're missing an arm and they have to get to safety.
	Race, of course, there was a lot of different races.
	It more became, like, if there was any kind of, like, racial things, it was people would joke around, you know, people would make white jokes and whatever, but it's not, it was never, like, there was never anything clicky that I noticed.
	There was never anything that, you know, it's really, because the Marine Corps is really more merit-based than anything, and I think that was the model that I saw for the world that I thought really worked out, and I thought, You know, this is really the way we should look at life as a nation.
	You said you were in North Carolina, right?
	Yes. How far from the devastation of the recent hurricanes?
	Well, I'm right on the coast.
	So, it's about a four or five hour drive across the state over to the mountains where all that was.
	I was actually heading out there that weekend.
	I was supposed to go to a conference and I got right to The town right before all the bridges and everything washed out.
	We ended up turning around.
	We didn't get hit by that.
	We got hit by a hurricane here a few years back.
	I had to deal with a lot of issues.
	That was actually right when I was getting out of the Marine Corps at the same time my house got destroyed by a hurricane.
	That was a really interesting time in my life.
	You're closer to the action, but the internet makes everything pretty darn close.
	Do you know what's going on now?
	We're hearing still that people are living out of trailers, still FEMA, doing nothing if actually not doing harm.
	Do you know what the situation is there now, as of the current date?
	Yeah, I've been really just, depending on people that I know personally online, and I would say just...
	Margo in West North Carolina.
	Margo in WNC.
	I think it's her handle.
	She's a good source of news for what's going on in Western North Carolina.
	She's got her finger on the pulse there.
	She is good at cutting through the BS.
	They don't like to...
	Whenever these lies...
	Because there were a lot of lies being spread at first.
	Not just about what...
	FEMA was not doing, but there were also lies about where FEMA was blocking off roads from people being able to send help and everything.
	So a lot of that misinformation she was helping to kind of misspell, but FEMA, I can tell you from here, when we had the hurricane here, I don't think I got anything from FEMA.
	I think they came, they did an inspection of the house, and I think When they had come, the damage hadn't taken full hold yet because what had happened is a lot of rainwater had come in through the roof.
	And so they had come, they looked at the house, and it really didn't look that bad after the storm.
	But then, I think it was like a few days later, my roof started caving in, or the ceilings started caving in all over the house.
	And so what had happened is the water just kind of sat up there.
	There was just so much water that...
	It soaked into everything and it just started falling apart.
	But then, you know, it was too late by that point because FEMA had already come and done their inspection.
	But I've never had any...
	There was a lot of people who lost their houses out here.
	And I remember our biggest problem was trying to find a place for us to stay and FEMA had no trailers available.
	And our insurance company wouldn't...
	Give us money for another living situation because FEMA wouldn't write them a letter saying that they wouldn't give us a trailer.
	That was one of our biggest problems, I think, that we ended up having with FEMA.
	They wouldn't communicate that they wouldn't give us a trailer to our insurance company in order for our insurance company to approve extra housing for us after the hurricane.
	They're useless as far as I'm concerned.
	So now you say you're looking, you're trying to figure out what to do now, and as a tweet, you floated an idea of starting something of a podcast.
	I mean, 10 years military experience, you're going to obviously have singularly unique insights there.
	What is the plan?
	You're on Twitter, Based and Biased.
	Do you have a Rumble channel yet?
	I've got a YouTube channel, and it's been around for a while.
	I haven't uploaded there for a while.
	I kind of slowed down on that.
	You know, I'd like to try to get it going again.
	It's just, you know, it's kind of a decision I'm trying to make of what, you know, do I want to put my focus into that or do, you know, what do I need to really focus my time into moving forward?
	But, you know, I think it's something that I really enjoy.
	It's something that I'm passionate about getting the truth out and trying to cut through the BS.
	And, you know, just to let you know, just how I know you, I didn't just randomly find you one day.
	I've been...
	Following you since back in the car days when you were doing your vlogs in the cars up there in Canada.
	I really saw myself agreeing with a lot of things you said.
	I like the way that you view things.
	I've made a lot of jokes on X about you stalking my posts because a lot of times I'll say something and then you'll end up posting something that's almost the same thing.
	And I know, I'm just joking.
	I know you're not.
	Well, no, I know.
	I know that.
	The other thing is like, I don't often, I try actually not to read too many replies in Twitter because it'll really, it can mess with your head and put you in a bad mood for no better reason.
	But then I also don't like feeling like I'm ignoring the critique because it's an easy thing to do.
	And not that yours was critique, but it's been a while then.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I've been following you and I just, I thought it was cool to, it was just cool watching your whole.
	Transition. And I want to say, I did start growing my hair out before you did, so that wasn't...
	That's another thing I'm pretty sure you were stalking me on, but...
	Well, no, it's phenomenal.
	Also, like, you know, I have a...
	I mean, everybody should have something of a, not a soft spot, but a deep respect for veterans.
	And it's something that I'm sort of not mildly obsessed with, but, like, very intrigued by is...
	How veterans come back to civilian life, like, live a life that is traveling, intensity, combat, see things that 90% of civilians don't see, come back to a population that's largely hostile.
	I'd say not large, it might be too much, but depending on where you are.
	Apathetic is more, I think, the apathetic is more the disappointment.
	You've got to reintegrate, and many veterans have, like, even if, I don't know if you've seen, You know, violent combat, but veterans, just by virtue of the training, just by virtue of the experimentation that comes with being a tool of the government, have lingering lifelong issues that they have to contend with and that the civilian population largely doesn't recognize.
	Yeah, it's one of the biggest problems that I had, and it's something that I didn't even really see coming, is, you know, when you get out, it's very structured.
	No matter how high of a rank you are, somebody is telling you what to do.
	And you may think that you're the boss, but really you're just following what somebody else is directing you to do.
	Well, when you get out, you no longer have anybody to do that.
	And so you do feel this lost feeling.
	And that really kind of threw me for a loop.
	And then the whole lack of adrenaline, I think.
	That's a huge one.
	I was talking to a friend of mine the other day.
	I would go from 4 o'clock in the morning until late at night, just moving constantly.
	Whether I'm flying or working on a plane or doing something else, you're busy.
	You're working 15- to 18-hour days.
	Then you go from doing that to nothing.
	It's a shock.
	It's a real shock to the system.
	Yeah, and you have a lot of issues with, or me personally, I know a lot of veterans do, but a lot of people identify themselves with the military, and they take a lot of pride in that, which is deserved.
	But, you know, it's hard to try to, you know, what else could you really do after that to try to have that same sort of, That feeling of satisfaction in what you do, or that, you know, I'm hoping I'm making sense here, but it's hard to find something that is as fulfilling as when you're doing something like being in the military.
	Because, you know, honestly, you know, the other thing, too, is you have these young kids, 18 to 25 years old is the bulk of the military, and these young kids are trusted to do very dangerous.
	responsible jobs.
	And that's one thing that really impressed me is just seeing, wow, this 18-year-old kid, of course he's an adult, but from our standpoint, he looks like a kid, is over here fixing an aircraft that's about to go fly and four lives are going to Well, especially when you hear the people, the world poo-pooing Elon Musk's young team of Doge experts.
	Well, they're only 19, 20. They probably have a more A more thorough analysis understanding of technology than, I mean, I would say than people older than them, but than 99.9% of the population.
	Yeah, they screwed up the system so bad and made it so complicated that now it takes a genius in order to make a computer system to be able to unscramble it all.
	Well, it is amazing.
	Matthew, I'm going to go back to the news now, but go back to the news.
	It's been fantastic finally meeting you.
	Now, I'll DM you after this.
	I'll DM you something about Twitter, but get on.
	You have a unique set of skills.
	You have a unique set of experience, and there is always a demand for thoughtful, insightful analysis.
	You understand.
	Ten years in the military, that is an asset that 99% of Americans don't have.
	It's useless having a channel if you don't upload, and it's useless having a skill if you don't use it.
	Do it.
	Like Casey Neistat said, just keep uploading, but you'll find your way as you start walking.
	Yeah. Well, I appreciate it, Mr. Viva.
	And finally, nice meeting you two.
	And I didn't want to come off as too desperate, so hopefully that didn't happen.
	No, forget the desperate.
	I just hope everything gets misconstrued on Twitter.
	We're like, everything gets misconstrued on Twitter.
	But it's always nice talking to real people.
	Yeah, well, no, I've been a big fan of yours for a long time, and I don't agree with you all the time, but that's the good thing.
	Well, let me ask you, do you think I was an ass yesterday with Lindy Lee?
	No, actually, honestly, I thought you gave her a lot more deference than I would have.
	It's a very weird thing, and not that I'm picking, I think it was, if I had to say, it's like 20% said I was mean and aggressive.
	I know you were a firm.
	Which is good.
	Yeah, but treating an adult like an autonomous person, like an adult, I think is a good thing.
	First of all, you give softball questions and you're going to get chewed out like Joe Rogan with, what's his face?
	Joe Rogan with Jack Dorsey.
	Jack Dorsey, yeah.
	And I don't think, it wasn't like, I didn't think I was, I thought, but anyhow, it's very easy to get fixated on the negative comments, especially when you are in a bad mood, which I've been in a bad mood for a week, so.
	I can tell.
	I'll get out of it sooner than later.
	I think it's because I had a bit of a cold.
	When that goes away, I'll get back to it.
	Matthew, it's been great meeting you.
	We're going to keep in touch.
	I'll see you on the Twitterverse.
	I'll put the link in the thingy thing later on.
	That's all right.
	I appreciate everybody who follows me.
	If you go to the YouTubes, they call me Tubes.
	I don't know if you can find me at Based and Biased on Rumble.
	I have a Rumble.
	Start uploading.
	Start sharing it on Twitter.
	Start sharing it on X. That's where...
	No, it's good.
	Your value added to most of the exchanges that I've seen on Twitter.
	Oh, well, I appreciate that.
	Thank you.
	All right, man.
	Have a good one.
	All right.
	See you.
	Bye. Now, we got our special guest for the lineup in Locals afterwards, but let's finish a little bit of the news because there was...
	Okay, hold on.
	So we're going to go back to Eric Adams.
	I'm going to be a little bit out of order and accused of being all over the place.
	And then we're going to have Danielle Sassoon.
	Just bringing it back to the Eric Adams.
	Sorry about the order, people.
	Manhattan U.S. Attorney, they resigned after an order from top Justice Department officials to drop the corruption case against New York City.
	We're witnessing, in real time, an actual implosion of the corrupt system.
	The trash is taking themselves out.
	I noticed that George Takei was back on Twitter for some reason, and I can't understand that.
	Read through this.
	Justice Department officials transferred the case to the Public Integrity Section in Washington, which oversees corruption prosecution.
	The two men who led that unit also resigned.
	According to five people with knowledge of the matter, several hours later, three other lawyers in the unit also resigned.
	I'm a little skeptical of the according to, but the serial resignations represent the most high profile public opposition so far to President Trump's tightening control over the Justice Department.
	They were a stunning repudiation of the administration's attempt to force the.
	Can you imagine this?
	First of all, well, these are federal charges, so that explains it.
	Let me see something here.
	It's a federal case so he can, you know, the feds have off jurisdiction.
	I'm trying to think of a way that they can use this type of pressure to get Dexter Taylor out of jail.
	The agency's justification for dropping the case was explicitly political.
	Mr. Bove had argued that the investigation would prevent Mr. Adams from fully cooperating with Trump's immigration crackdown.
	Bove made a point saying that Washington officials had not evaluated the strength of the evidence or the legal theory behind the case.
	It is interesting in the letter, which we looked over earlier this week, they did say we haven't looked at the evidence.
	And that, to me, just read as, we're not adjudicating on guilt or innocence.
	We're just dismissing this without prejudice.
	And that's pissing off the corrupt forces that were using that prosecution to ensure compliance for American citizens.
	You have to understand this, and I just actually pieced it together in my own talking out loud.
	They're accusing Trump of using the dismissal and the sword of Democles to coerce.
	Participation, collaboration with Eric Adams.
	The Biden administration was using the prosecution to ensure that Eric Adams would comply with their Sanctuary City open border policy.
	They accuse you of doing what they are doing, and that's pretty much how you know what they're doing and why they're accusing you of what they're accusing you of.
	And it's actually stunning.
	And they're so pissed off about it, they quit.
	Get the F out.
	Sassoon, in a remarkable letter.
	What is this?
	Editorializing to Pam Bondi said that Mr. Bove's order to dismiss the case inconsistent with my ability and duty to prosecute federal crimes without fear or favor and to advance.
	Get out!
	I have always considered my obligation to pursue justice impartially without favor to the wealthy or those who occupy important public office or harsher treatment for the less powerful, she said.
	I therefore deem it necessary to the faithful discharge of my duties to raise the concern expressed in this letter with you and to request an opportunity to meet and discuss further.
	Sassoon, 38, made a startling accusation in her letter.
	She wrote that the mayor's lawyers had, quote, repeatedly urged what amounted to quid pro quo.
	Oh, where have we heard this before?
	Indicating that Adams would be in a position to assist with the department's enforcement policies only if the indictment were dismissed.
	Well, if that's the case, he did one hell of a shitty job in negotiating that if they can only dismiss it without prejudice with the fear of bringing it back if he doesn't collaborate or cooperate properly.
	Quid pro quo.
	They used the same tools over and over and over again.
	A lawyer for Mr. Adams, Alex Spiro.
	Oh, you know this guy's name.
	Spiro's big.
	I forget what he did.
	The idea that there was a quid pro quo is a total lie.
	We offered nothing and the department asked nothing of us.
	Every time, and this is what Joe Nierman, GoodLogic, was saying, every time there's an agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant, there's a quid pro quo.
	Plead down to a lesser charge.
	We'll drop the bigger charge.
	Quid pro quo.
	They're using quid pro quo like it's, by definition, an impeachable offense.
	We were asked if the case had any bearing on national security and immigration enforcement, and we were truthfully answered it did, he added.
	In her letter, Ms. Sassoon said that Mr. Bove had scolded a member of her team for taking notes during the meeting and ordered that the notes be collected at the meeting's end.
	Sassoon also wrote that her office had proposed a superseding indictment.
	Oh, they had more charges against him to punish him?
	That would have added a charge of conspiracy to obstruct justice.
	The charge, she wrote, would have been based on evidence that Adams destroyed and instructed others to destroy evidence and provide false information to the FBI.
	Oh, who is it then that's holding another further charge, like a sword of Democles, to ensure cooperation from somebody?
	Oh, is it the actual corrupt idiots that just resigned?
	Yes, that's the answer, people.
	It would have also included additional accusations about his participation in a straw donor scheme.
	How do we go further here?
	We've got the highlighted letter we saw that earlier.
	Spear responded saying if the prosecutors had any proof whatsoever that Mayer destroyed evidence, they would have brought those charges as they initially threatened to do, but didn't over months and months.
	This newest false claim is just a parting shot of a misguided prosecution.
	Get the F out.
	My goodness, how long does this rubbish go on for?
	Okay, we're done with it anyhow.
	Whatever they accuse you of is what they are doing themselves.
	If they're faulting you for not being able to take notes, that's because they...
	They've probably done the same thing.
	Or they were taking self-serving 302s where they're going to lie on, look, this is what we talked about during the meeting.
	Holy crap, we've been going for an hour and 20 minutes.
	Let me see something here.
	We're going to have our after party at Locals.
	It is a non-supporter only on Locals.
	And we're going to have another discussion with a member of our Locals community there.
	So if you want to come...
	Come on over, people.
	And it's going to be fun.
	We're going to end this here.
	Valentine's Day.
	You guys didn't remind me.
	I almost forgot to get my wife a present.
	I got to go get my wife a present.
	Link. Come on over to vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
	But before we do that, because there's three crumble rants over in Rumble.
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	Excuse me.
	All right, people.
	We're going to end this on Rumble as well, and come on over to vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
	Ending on X, live Sunday with the Sunday show.
	And we're off on X, and we're going to end on Rumble.

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