Jesse Watters
So Our neighbors to the North are clearly loosing it. The Prime MInister who needs a history lesson and a haircut has declared war on Canadian citizens like they're an ISIS caliphate. Emergency powers, freezing bank accounts and threatening to take away protesters’ dogs and children. Dina Perino is very upset. It's getting so bad up there, government forces are even targeting innocent Gelato shops like this one here in Ottawa, Canada. Turns out the owner of Stella luna Cafe made a giant mistake. She privately supported the Freedom Truckers convoy with a $250 donation. Her donation then leaked and was made public. Her Gelato shop was then Doxed and began receiving threats. Lunatics threatening her with violence and vandalism. Treating her like a Salem Witch. All because she showed her support for freedom. The owner of Stella Luna Gelato Cafe, Tammy Giuliani, no relation to Rudy. Is here with us now. Right, Tammy, what exactly is going on up there with your shop?
Tammy
Well. I should preface by saying that I have a tendency to think with my heart and not with my head. And does that get me in trouble? A lot! And would I change that about myself? Not in a million years. And when I heard about a group of people that were willing to drive all the way across the country in below 30, whether to gather peacefully in front of Parliament and to stand up for their beliefs and to say, you know, maybe this whole mandating the existence out of everyone needs to be revisited. My heart said no, and I don't think anyone, and I certainly don't think anyone could have imagined that it would be transformed into something like we're witnessing today.
Jesse Watters
Yeah, we're witnessing complete chaos, and I don't know how to describe it. But you probably know better than I do, since you're up there. What has been the blowback for you and your shop, and what kind of threats and harassment have you faced after that donation was made public? Well, you need to understand it's still a Stella Luna is our livelihood and my husband and our children and son-in-law all work for the business. It's how we pay our rent. It's how we keep our lights on. It's how we eat. So we feel very passionately about eating. And um, we’ve pushed really hard over the past two years trying to keep this business alive. So we have this, this passion and it just keeps going on and on so I reached into my personal pocket and I pulled out 250 bucks with my personal money and I gave a donation to fill a gas tank of someone so they didn't have to sleep in minus 30 in the cold that night, and I think that decision speaks to my humanity and not to political beliefs, but attacking our children, attacking our team. That's unconscionable.
And I think never in my 56 years have I ever experienced a country so divided. So full of hatred towards friends and neighbors. Sorry, so full of hatred towards their friends and neighbors. You know, they may have opinions that differ from theirs, but they're so willing to publicly shame and humiliate and spew forth angry vitrol. Um you know, we have been called terrorists. For the first 36 hours we were inundated with hatred, with threats of violence, people threatened our team on the phone telling them we're coming to get you. We're going to throw bricks through your window, you'll pay for this you Nazi supporter. I personally have been called a disgusting pig of a woman and that I should rot in hell. Our rural shop out in Merrickville, Ontario, someone draped a large bed sheet over our sign. I'm sorry. It's been, It's been a tough few days. You know, and the sign read “Tammy supports terrorists” Now, Mama Bear is gonna dig out her claws on that one, and we're getting the video surveillance of the incident, and we will pursue that with the police.
But late yesterday afternoon, messages of support and encouragement started to arrive and people from coast to coast to coast throughout Canada and the US. And you know, even buying gift cards online and calling themselves guardian angels. So you know, we're going to use those funds to help pay the staff for their miss shifts and get some security guards in and make sure everybody is safe and that they feel safe coming to work. But the phone has been ringing off the hook all day today from calls all over Canada all over the U S sharing stories of losing their jobs because of bankruptcy or because they refused to get vaccinated, losing their homes. Now we've heard the tragic stories. I didn't think it was gonna be this hard. You know, we've heard so many stories from people calling to support us because you know, we're pretty insignificant. We're just a little Gelato shop and all we wanna do is bake really good Gelato. And so, to have our you know to be targeted and have our staff targeted and our children targeted because I decided to reach in my pocket and, you know, fill the gas can of some guy, I didn't want to see sleep in the cold overnight. You know, but our kids arrived at the shop today and there were heart-shaped balloons hanging from the door handle, and the window was covered with little sticky notes. And there were all these inspirational messages of encouragement. I think our favorite, which sums it up in a nutshell so to speak was somebody said
"Pistachios before politics."
Jesse Watters
That's wonderful. Well, Tammy, you are such a perfect person. I love you. The audience loves you. You're a total sweetheart. I can see how hard this has been for you, but how inspiring you've been for us and for the community up there and we're at Jesse Watters Prime Time, we're gonna order a boatload of pistachio. I don't care how we get it here. We're gonna get it here. We're gonna order a hell of a lot of it. So, you know, keep up the good fight.
Tammy
Can I tell you one thing
Yeah. One, one message I wanna leave people with ensure. Truly thank you so much for everyone. For all over. For, for contributing buying gift cards. We all need a healthy dose of positivity and love and respect, and we all need a whole lot less judgment and hate. And I think if people would just before they open their mouth or they start tapping away on their keyboards. If they could just listen to their hearts and find their humanity, the world would be better served.
Jesse Watters
Well said Tammy for prime minister of Canada.
Tammy
Never!
Jesse Watters
Thank you so much, Tammy you're the best that was very very moving and we support you
