Thursday, December 30, 2021

The Kabuki Theatre that is Rebel News.

In the midst of the latest spectacular grift coming out of Rebel News, there is an oddity that no one seems to be addressing -- that Rebel's Ezra Levant has audio recordings of RBC officials even before the bank turned down his mortgage application.

Who the fuck does that?

Who the fuck has the foresight to start recording even the initial negotiations for a commercial mortgage application, unless one already knows how it's going to end, and wants all the evidence to run yet another mind-numbing grift?

In the end, it doesn't matter. In the end, Ezra is going to empty the pockets of his mentally-deficient groupies and will end up owning an entire commercial property, purchased entirely with other peoples' money. It remains to be seen only how Ezra:
  • writes it all off as a massive tax deduction, and
  • gets The Democracy Fund to issue charitable tax receipts to all of those donors
Give Ezra credit ... he's very, very good at what he does. And never with his own money.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

As you’ve pointed out in the past, the reservoir of cash raised by the “fight the fines” grift would seem to vastly exceed what was actually spent on the meager handful of procedural dismissals won by their ambulance chasers. It does open the door for speculation about where the down payment is coming from.
Interestingly, ‘fight the fines’ received an astonishing half million in contributions. Given that Ezra had to beg just months previously for money to buy a new digital switcher, one wonders;
- who are the mysterious and deep pocketed entities providing sudden and huge bags o’ cash to Ezra under the cloak of anonymity, and
- just how long has this new grift been in the works, and what portion of the revenue from some of the Rebel’s apparently foolish fundraisers - the ones that never actually go anywhere - has been squirreled away for the building fund?

Ramirezplayer said...

Is it legal to record someone without their knowledge? I'm not sure what he thinks he can do with the recording if it even exists except to use it as part of his plea for money from his fan boys.

Anonymous said...

The funny think about that recording; to anyone but the terminally Rebel-soaked, it documents a bank employee being vaguely positive to a local client, making no promises, and kicking the discussion upstairs. The poor shmuck is clearly catching on to Ezra's strategy (extract a few phrases that can wildly exaggerated as "approval"), and sounds increasing anxious as the interview unfolds. But he actually did a reasonable job staving off Ezra's bullshit and avoiding any actual commitment.
Ezra taping, severe editing, and careful reframing of the minion's actual words is aimed at the Rebel readership, who lap up whatever he shits onto their plate.