00:01:07.500Donald Trump is going to be the next US president and it seems the world is healing.
00:01:13.280And one of the closest places to the United States, Canada, seems to already be undergoing this healing process before he's even assumed office.
00:01:24.440And this is a news story from the 30th of November.
00:01:28.140Trump praises very productive Mar-a-Lago meeting with Trudeau.
00:01:31.540And of course, this was prompted, this meeting, because Trump had threatened to impose a 25% tariff on Canadian goods.
00:01:38.780And of course, Canada sends about 75% of its total exports to the US.
00:01:43.100And this would absolutely devastate the Canadian economy.
00:01:46.200And so, it was significant enough that Prime Minister Trudeau had to come down and talk to Trump about it.
00:01:53.300And of this meeting, apparently, they discussed many important topics.
00:01:58.560And Trump apparently wrote that this included fentanyl, illegal immigration and trade.
00:02:05.340And this is, of course, significant as well because part of the reason that they were, well, Trump was putting forward this 25% tariff on Canada is the sort of porousness of the border.
00:02:19.380And as this article from recently admits, Canada admits people can simply hop over the US border as Trump demands crackdown.
00:02:28.120And of course, there's no use Trump cracking down on the southern border if your northern border is equivalently porous.
00:02:36.740And people can just come in and hop the border.
00:02:38.960And, you know, even if he solved the Mexican border issue, which I think is a big ask in and of itself, if Canada is still a viable route to the United States, it will simply be the case that people will switch to go there.
00:02:52.540Because, of course, people like George Soros are flying in people to Mexico so they can cross the southern border.
00:02:59.240And what was interesting, a few weeks after Trump was elected, was that Justin Trudeau made an announcement that he is going to do a temporary halt on immigration and he is going to revise his immigration policy.
00:03:14.460So this is yet another element of what you're saying that the world seems to be healing and how he is someone who is anxious about.
00:03:24.880Yeah, I don't think he's necessarily had an ideological change of heart.
00:03:28.340It's just a pragmatic move to try and cling on to power by trying to appeal to people's concerns.
00:03:35.240But I think it's too little, too late.
00:03:39.200So what Trump is doing with this 25% tariff is that he's using the threat of the tariff as a bargaining chip.
00:03:45.840I'd be surprised if it got to the point where they actually implement this 25% tariff.
00:03:50.680Although, it is very effective as a bargaining chip because you either get what you want in the bargaining or you can justify it by saying you're protecting American industries.
00:04:03.580And Trump's in a unique position to capitalize on that because he's sort of the candidate most associated with this notion of America first and protecting American businesses first, American jobs.
00:04:15.400Because he's been trying to hammer this rhetoric home and therefore it helps him galvanize his support and build support further.
00:04:24.420And although, of course, he's not running for election again, it's still useful for him to have national support because it makes his life easier.
00:04:32.020And also, of course, Trump has introduced protectionist policies for things like American steel before.
00:04:38.780And so it's not even a baseless threat because he's not unheard of using these protectionist moves to benefit America.
00:04:47.020And so he's sort of got it both ways here and Canada's in a bit of a bind about it.
00:04:53.440I don't want to use a sort of a lefty commie traitor talking point, but...
00:04:59.260That border is ridiculously massive and through insanely rugged country sometimes because it's like essentially a straight line.
00:05:10.060It just cuts across mountain ranges and ravines and rivers and everything.
00:05:15.160So just physically, logistically, it'd be quite difficult to actually do that.
00:05:22.160I think what's probably going to happen is that the United States is going to try and leverage its dominant position as world hegemon basically, you know, questionable perhaps.
00:05:32.200But they're going to try and get Canada to adopt a similar immigration approach as the United States will adopt under Trump.
00:05:40.980That's what's probably going to happen because that way Canada will be in a comparable situation to the United States in that they're not necessarily letting in hundreds of thousands of Indians like they're doing.
00:05:54.400Although they're not necessarily the ones crossing the southern border because they can go the legal route.
00:05:59.040But if they're preventing, say, massive processing of asylum seekers, which Canada has a massive problem with, as well as the massive legal migration as well, then that's probably going to curb the problem.
00:06:12.720And America, just by merit of sharing a large border with Canada, is probably going to pressure them to reduce immigration by that route, rather than actually just building a massive wall.
00:06:26.520Because that's the easier way of doing it, isn't it?
00:06:28.600I know that there are a specific few bridges where nearly all people come across from Canada to America and back somewhere.
00:06:34.960But if you really wanted to, if you wanted to go out to the Pacific Northwest and hike across the border, there'll be hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of miles where there's nothing there.
00:07:19.340Now, the normal Canadian people had the absolute mickey taken out of them by Trudeau.
00:07:25.440It's nearly 10 years now, I think, and very few people have good things to say about him.
00:07:29.980I've got a decent amount of family out in Canada as well.
00:07:31.860But one thing Trump did say, and this is sort of old news, but it ties into current news, is the fact that Trump suggested Canada could become the 51st state after the tariff would kill the economy.
00:07:47.880And lots of media outlets have pointed out that he's joking, which I found interesting as well, because normally people just take him at his word.
00:07:55.800But everyone's sort of like, okay, we know he's having a laugh here.
00:10:01.740But apparently in this poll, where was it?
00:10:06.520It said, people in the Atlantic provinces, women and Canadians over the age of 55, were least likely to support it, which I thought was interesting.
00:10:14.380So men and young men in particular were most likely, seemingly, as that's the inverse of those figures.
00:10:20.740So it's also worth mentioning as well that the day before they were meant to release a budget or propose a budget, the deputy prime minister resigned, who was also in charge of releasing the budget.
00:10:36.700And so then the position went to the industry minister, who then resigned on the spot.
00:11:04.060In the scheme of things, in the scheme of sort of cabinet government, to have your deputy and then your head of finance or whatever it was, the finance minister, who's the second person to resign?
00:11:14.840Well, she was deputy and the head of finance.
00:11:27.020Decades ago, certainly a generation or two ago, you would just resign out of embarrassment, out of shame.
00:11:34.040That just shows your government is imploding.
00:11:36.300I doubt Trudeau will because he's the type that, until the WEF tell him he's allowed to resign, he would never resign.
00:11:43.140Well, we'll get to Trudeau's situation in a bit because it might be a case of just sort of a bit of foreshadowing here where he might not have a choice.
00:11:53.420But, you know, with these things, there's always potential for alternatives.
00:13:18.080It's more that people are happy that Trudel shows that he can run the government.
00:13:23.940Also, here she is smiling about freezing people exercising their right to protest.
00:13:30.280So you're confirming that accounts have been frozen, both personal and corporate, but you're not releasing the information.
00:13:36.020And the actual follow-up is, I'm just wondering whether the bank accounts will be targeted of individuals who donated to the Give, Send, Go and the GoFundMe campaigns.
00:13:45.280Are they considered designated people under the Emergencies Act, meaning that their credit cards could be...
00:13:49.760You get the idea, right? I'm not going to linger on this for a long time.
00:13:52.980She's a bad person. I think that's fair to say, certainly from our perspective.
00:13:56.860She's abandoning ship, but it was a ship that she really liked.
00:14:01.980That's a very roundabout way of putting it, yes.
00:15:21.860It's also worth mentioning as well, many of the current ministers have had to adopt two or even three different roles because there's such a shortage of people that want to be in it, in the cabinet.
00:15:33.000I wonder why that is. Is it because they're so unpopular? I think it might be.
00:15:38.840I don't know how he won the last election.
00:15:42.460We can leave that question there, I think.
00:16:18.840There has also been a little bit of pushback.
00:16:21.500And this is Ontario's Premier Doug Ford saying, we'll go to the extent of cutting off their energy, going down to Michigan, going down to New York State and over to Wisconsin.
00:16:32.820Americans are going to feel the pain as well.
00:18:06.580So, obviously, the head of the Conservative Party, Pierre Polivare, has called for a no-confidence vote against Trudeau because of all of this.
00:18:58.900My cynicism is my defence mechanism against disappointment against the world and I'm quite often disappointed.
00:19:05.700Also, the leader of Canada's New Democratic Party, Jagmeet Singh, was also calling on Trudeau to resign.
00:19:14.560He's going to be the sort of new favourite of the left, I imagine, because, of course, he's trying to flank them from the left, as far as I'm aware, at least.
00:19:22.220Is he saying that Trudeau is far right?
00:19:24.020I don't think it's got quite to that point yet.
00:19:29.780But outlets like Visegrad were saying, Justin Trudeau will likely be forced to resign.
00:19:35.800Announcement could come within a few hours.
00:19:37.800And this was more than a few hours ago.
00:19:41.980And lots of people say this sort of thing.
00:19:43.780I'll believe it when I see him handing in his resignation and addressing the nation.
00:19:51.040Until then, I think it is difficult to say.
00:19:55.020However, things aren't necessarily looking that good for him because you can have a look at other outlets like the BBC, for example.
00:20:02.060Trudeau in peril after Trump's bat sparked political crisis.
00:20:05.560That's pretty strong terms for an outlet that would be sympathetic towards him.
00:20:10.360And even CNN, Justin Trudeau is facing a political crisis made worse by Donald Trump.
00:26:21.720So, what we know is that the teenage student and teacher were pronounced dead at the scene while another teacher and five more students were wounded.
00:26:30.120Two of the students are in critical condition with life-threatening surgeries.
00:26:35.440And Rupnow sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound and was pronounced dead on the way to the hospital, according to Barnes, who is the chief of the police.
00:27:17.440And it's very difficult and dangerous because there are lots of people who just do it for clicks.
00:27:23.080They are just circulating any kind of narrative that they want to push forward that has nothing to do with the facts.
00:27:30.320It's kind of gross to me, really, that people can basically jump on a tragedy and then try and shift the narrative to whatever their pet topic is rather than approaching it honestly.
00:27:44.100And I think that with something as sad as this, where innocent people die and a 15-year-old girl was driven to this or had mental problems that went unaddressed, we don't know yet.
00:27:58.700But either way, I think my overwhelming emotion towards this whole thing is just sadness that the world is like this and that people are so willing to do harm to each other when they've clearly not done anything wrong.
00:28:14.360And the fact that people jump on that and try and basically push their own agenda to make money is sickening.
00:28:22.960I think our feeds must be very different.
00:29:41.980I don't know if it is hers, but I will say the way I see it, it does seem to me to represent a sort of sentimentality that would do something like this.
00:29:52.180Because a lot of people are saying, no, don't rush to say that the manifesto is hers and that it describes her behavior.
00:30:01.580But on the other hand, no one who doesn't have any issues just wakes up one day and does something like this.
00:30:08.040But again, we don't know if it is actually hers.
00:30:11.480Well, there's some sort of document out there.
00:32:07.140You know, you become so feminist that you start hating women.
00:32:10.360That's an interesting angle, but it certainly is possible.
00:32:13.860And it's also worth mentioning as well that people quite often criticize others for speculating about the motives of people who do this sort of thing.
00:32:24.340And I think that that, if anything, should be the main focus of public discourse because the motives help best address how you prevent this happening in the future, don't they?
00:32:33.640Because then you can predict what kinds of people are most likely to do this and how best to mitigate against that.
00:32:42.320And there is the issue of, I would say, stochastic terrorism.
00:32:45.720Because if young children, but also not necessarily young children, also, you know, young adults, are exposed into a narrative that is essentially hating people.
00:32:57.080And it's, you know, human men are bad, women are bad, or, you know, white women are bad, white men are bad.
00:33:05.640It's all this seems to me to create a polarization in culture that spreads a kind of hatred and tells, communicates the message that you can't reason with those people.
00:33:19.260You should just hate them and you should just, you know, there is no way you can ever live with them.
00:33:26.140Well, political rhetoric now has been so totalizing, and as I said, with such certainty, that I think older people are, generally speaking, intelligent enough to at least take it with a pinch of salt and see that it represents something that could resemble the truth, but is stated a lot more strongly than otherwise be.
00:33:49.500I think that you speak to your average person, and that's probably what they would say.
00:33:54.220Whereas when someone is younger, they can't necessarily understand that you're not meant to take it at face value, or at least that's how most people would interpret it.
00:34:05.660And so they take things at face value, as said, and I think that's what makes them more susceptible to more extreme actions, as well as the fact that, generally speaking, you know, people under the age of about 25, the cutoff when the brain sort of, on average, stops developing, tend to be the most prone to doing these sorts of violent acts in the first place.
00:34:27.960Exactly. And it's good to mention that civilization requires a sort of self-restraint when it comes to passions.
00:34:33.960And young people are, on average, less self-restraint than older people.
00:34:41.960And this narrative of victimhood that is pushed forward by wokeness, where it splits the population into oppressed and oppressors, and it sort of legitimizes violence within that framework.
00:34:53.960Because it says, these are the oppressors, and they are oppressing you, so you need to do something about it.
00:35:00.960Well, it's sort of left empty to be implied, isn't it? It sort of operates in the confines of the law, but it leaves a blank space that you're meant to fill in.
00:35:08.960It says that self-defense is somehow justified, because you are a victim.
00:35:14.960In some people's minds, if you're 15, it's a qualitatively short jump from punch a Nazi to shoot a Nazi.
00:35:23.960Actively encouraged to punch a Nazi not too long ago, wherever you find them.
00:35:29.960But it strikes me that 15 is remarkably young. I mean, it's not that there's no precedent for child killers.
00:35:35.960Of course there are lots, even much younger than that even, but 15, I mean, no disrespect to anyone who's 15 or younger out there,
00:35:44.960but you don't know your ass from your elbow. You was a little kid yesterday.
00:35:47.960In fact, you are still a child. You're a child.
00:35:50.960So it's terrible that her mind has been warped, or perhaps she had a chemical imbalance and was actually clinically insane or something.
00:35:58.960I don't know. This is the first time hearing about it, but 15 is remarkably young to have to be so sure of your views that you're going to go and do something like this.
00:36:08.960My experience from knowing all about different school shootings is sometimes, often they're just completely indiscriminate.
00:36:14.960What springs to mind is the Virginia Tech dude who just hated the world, things like that.
00:36:20.960Sometimes they're very specific, like they go there and they murder a teacher that they've got a beef with and then go on a bit of a spree or whatever.
00:36:28.960So sometimes it's targeted, sometimes not at all.
00:36:33.960I don't know if we know any of those details yet, probably not exactly yet, but just 15 is so remarkably young.
00:36:41.960Like when I was 15, I look back on the things I thought when I was 15 and it's mad.
00:36:47.960It's a weird madness you're in when you're in your teens like that.
00:36:52.960The most important thing to me at 15 was like dating girls.
00:36:56.960And that was, that's pretty much it. Maybe my exams as well, secondarily to that.
00:39:52.960But she definitely had seems to have had presence in in areas of the discourse where these terms were using.
00:40:01.960And she's using a language that you would expect from the enthusiasts you mentioned before about men as being effing parasites.
00:40:09.960And what is written there, every single male must be wiped out from babies to the elderly.
00:40:16.960Now, I find these incredibly sick, sick statements.
00:40:21.960And here we have allegedly that she had a handle crossics here.
00:40:29.960And they say that these are that's what Andy Ngo says, that we can see her on commenting on several videos about that involve people harming themselves.
00:40:41.960And allegedly she was an enthusiast and she was, you know, sexy Indian dude.
00:40:47.960She's commenting on sexy Indian dude hanging himself.
00:40:55.960But also the they have been saying that she was also enthusiastic about school shooters, that she was obsessed with them, that she was also obsessed with with all sorts of killers.
00:41:05.960And you don't sometimes, you know, what goes around comes around when people are.
00:42:29.960I think the responsibility lies on the shoulders of their family members and to a certain extent, I suppose, their friends as well.
00:42:38.960In that quite often, you know, these bad sorts of things that teenagers can get into are either the influence of friends or it's an absence of sort of supervision from parental figures or family members.
00:42:57.960And I think the antidote to a lot of these problems is just responsible parenting and, you know, making sure that people are aware of the impact of what they're doing.
00:43:10.960Yeah. So there have been some allegations that she also wrote on that manifesto that her parents were scum.
00:43:25.960But let me say one thing that it could be the case that her parents were incredibly abusive.
00:43:34.960It doesn't seem to me that you just one day you wake up, you're a 15 year old and you do something like this.
00:43:40.960But also, it could be the case of radicalization by social media, not by that, the house, because a lot of a lot of these narratives that we're constantly criticizing are essentially harming the family and are trying to infiltrate the family and essentially reduce parental rights by constantly telling.
00:43:59.960Children and communicating to children that unless your parents, for instance, agree with everything you want to say, they're bad parents and maybe the state should take away from you.
00:44:14.960It's just that it's so complex and so messed up that we have to mention all of the we have to mention all of the angles.
00:44:21.960Well, I think you can certainly say she was disturbed, whether it's an actual chemical imbalance, actually sort of clinically insane, or merely disturbed for whatever reason.
00:44:32.960I think you can certainly say she was disturbed.
00:44:34.960Well, just by merit of what she did, yeah.
00:45:25.960Anyway, he says Congress must pass common sense gun safety laws, universal background checks, a national red flag law, a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines.
00:45:34.960And as he says, we can never accept senseless violence that traumatizes children, the families and tears, tears entire communities apart.
00:48:21.960It's a Christmas jumper, but it's got England flags on it, you see.
00:48:26.960And it's got the English lion as well.
00:48:28.960So it's got patriotism and Christmas together, which is a blend I didn't know I needed.
00:48:33.960Bald Eagle 1787 says, the parents of the victims should sue all mainstream media, Democrats and social media personalities for brainwashing that kid into thinking there's no hope.
00:49:59.960That's the best thing you can say about the people you're pardoning, then it's a pretty big list of deplorables to quote a certain female, Hillary Clinton.
00:50:10.960You can still do pretty despicable crimes that are non-violent, in my opinion.
00:50:18.960Yeah, the White House said that, well, even Bernie said, Bernie Sanders said that it sets a dangerous precedent, particularly pardoning his son.
00:50:28.960So, first up then, Hunter Biden, of course.
00:50:31.960So, one thing I want to say straight off the bat is there's two things.
00:50:34.960There's a presidential pardon, and then there's the commuting of a sentence.
00:50:38.960And they're two completely different things.
00:50:40.960And completely in the president's power.
00:50:42.960So, a presidential pardon is quite an extraordinary thing, really.
00:50:48.960We haven't got any equivalent of it in Britain.
00:54:10.960I wonder what Kamala thinks about that, because obviously she prosecuted lots of people for marijuana charges.
00:54:16.960But one thing to mention is that most people think, and it is usually the case, that presidents do their presidential pardons and commuting of sentences right at the very end of their tenure.
00:55:21.960That was the original 18th century idea, which it should be very, very rare.
00:55:26.960A president sees that there's been a true injustice and they reverse it rather than they don't agree with a whole law and just...
00:55:37.960Well, in fact, I was going to leave it to the end to do the historical look, but let's just do that now.
00:55:46.960Well, George Washington did only 16, and you can see in the early presidents there's relatively small numbers, although kicking up to quite a few quite quickly as well, though.
00:59:13.960Um, that's a great example of it working as intended, as I imagine it was intended, in that they're people who are politically persecuted and then you can basically wipe the slate clean when a new person assumes office.
00:59:26.960And I think that that has a good stabilizing effect as Stelios pointed out.
00:59:31.960One thing I'll say is about a pardon is that, yeah, your, your, your slate is wiped entirely clean, entirely clean.
00:59:38.960Um, but whereas if you just commute the sentence, you still have a criminal record and you, your conviction still stands, but you're let out of, you don't have to actually do the sentence.
00:59:49.960Or if you sometimes often people are already in jail for the thing and you commute the sentence, so they just let go, but the criminal record still stands.
00:59:56.960So they're two very, very different things.
00:59:58.960Um, of course you would want the pardon, wouldn't you?
01:13:14.960NBC has said that a former law partner from Illinois, Paul de Gerdas, was convicted of overseeing fraudulent tax shelters at a cost to the government of more than $1.63 billion.
01:13:27.960The scheme generated over $7 billion of fraudulent deductions, according to prosecutors.
01:13:32.960His law firm agreed to pay a $76 million penalty.
01:13:35.960Prosecutors called de Gerdas, quote, the most prolific, pernicious and utterly unrepentant tax cheat in United States history.
01:13:45.960While the judge described the case as the biggest tax fraud prosecution ever, according to Forbes, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2014 and Biden has commuted his sentence.
01:14:17.960It's like this person has done a legit crime, been found guilty for it through due process and should serve their sentence.
01:14:24.960This is the worst one for me, because I've got loads more I could say about it, but we're running on for time.
01:14:28.960I'll probably leave it in and around here.
01:14:30.960This one, I actually found myself getting proper annoyed about when I read this one.
01:14:37.960Judge Jim Carlson, the Star Tribune said, Jim Carlson, a head shop owner found guilty in 2000...
01:14:47.960Oh sorry, this is not the one I was particularly annoyed at, but I'll tell you anyway.
01:14:51.960It was a head shop owner found guilty in 2013 on dozens of felony charges after experts said he sold enough synthetic drugs to cause a public health crisis in Duluth.
01:15:01.960He had his sentence commuted Thursday on one of nearly 1,500 convicted criminals granted clemency by Joe Biden.
01:15:08.960Carlson received a 17 and a half year sentence after a jury found him guilty on 51 of 55 felony counts for selling synthetic drugs from his store in downtown Duluth.
01:15:18.960Prosecutors called Carlson, alleged Carlson, sold synthetic drugs that were misbranded as incense, potpourri, bath salts and glass cleaner, while using employees as guinea pigs to test how the unregulated drugs worked on customers.
01:15:33.960And these synthetic drugs, I know a little bit about this, are some of the most dangerous stuff you can possibly get.
01:15:39.960Like lots of the drugs that are most damaging on the streets these days started off their life as these sort of experimental synthetic drugs.
01:15:50.960That guy's a full-blown, amoral psycho.
01:15:53.960Shouldn't really be on the streets, I think.
01:16:35.960So there's a thing, there's like for-profit detention centers, right?
01:16:38.960When you get the inmates to manufacture things, whether it's sort of, you know, making number plates, license plates or, you know, stamping out rivets or whatever it is.
01:16:48.960Digging drainage ditches for the local community or whatever.
01:16:50.960It's some sort of for-profit organization, right?
01:16:53.960So he had over 4,000 juvenile convictions, so young people as well, overturned on the strength of his conviction.
01:17:04.960Because he'd taken, and this is not my words, he'd taken millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks.
01:17:12.960In exchange for millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks for sending, unfairly, over 4,000 juvenile people to detention centers for profit.
01:17:25.960Basically ruining young people's lives.
01:17:27.960He probably did something relatively minor if it was being disputed.
01:18:33.960And the last thing to say is just, yeah, that Trump, just to end it on this note, Trump has said that, quote, within hours of becoming president, he'll pardon or commute the sentences of the quote-unquote J6 hostages.
01:19:10.960People who think that Hunter has been trapped into incriminating his father have forgotten that time or not answer to any uncomfortable questions.
01:19:17.960I have no recollection of that, Senator.