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Individuals haven't cornered the market on bananas conspiracy theories. The Canadian truckers who blocked a bridge to the U.S. over vaccine mandates have seized one which was debunked ages in the past about Justin Trudeau.
“There was a launch of a few of their on-line chat rooms and… they assume that Fidel Castro is definitely the organic father of Justin Trudeau, our prime minister,” Canadian creator and frequent New Irregular visitor Jeet Heer tells co-host Molly Jong-Quick.
Molly, naturally, is flabbergasted. “I assumed this was fairly silly, however I had no concept,” she says of the so-called “Freedom Convoy.”
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However wait—there’s extra. Heer explains a number of the trucker’s calls for, together with a plan to dissolve the federal government after which arrest Trudeau, who is definitely the son of late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and his glamorous spouse Margaret.
Then! Molly and co-host Andy Levy run down the “terrifying” political candidates whom billionaire Peter Thiel is backing, together with “one other tremendous libertarian, very enticing, zero physique fats white man in Arizona named Blake one thing.”
“We’ve simply entered this stage the place the billionaires have discovered that they don’t should be simply behind the scenes anymore, pulling the strings. They'll get proper on the market and attempt to get their guys elected and it’s gonna work in not less than some instances. And it kinda sucks that they figured that out,” provides Andy.
Plus, Imani Perry, creator of South to America: A Journey Under the Mason-Dixon to Perceive the Soul of a Nation, makes the case that the South ought to be a supply of inspiration. She additionally tries to clarify what drives white supremacy there.
“White southerners… their precise relative vulnerability is a part of what drives the sense that one has to guard whiteness,” she tells Molly.
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