On this episode of the podcast, we discuss the recent election results and what we can learn from them. We also discuss the impact of Pierre Polyvorev's campaign and why we should be worried about foreign interference in our elections.
00:04:28.220But what I'm talking about specifically is Trump coming out and saying fake news and undermining
00:04:35.460the credibility of these legacy media outlets.
00:04:39.780That whole phenomenon has been transformative for a lot of different people.
00:04:44.780And the problem here in Canada is that hasn't happened yet.
00:04:47.820For some reason, all this all these legacy organizations, their credibility has not been properly attacked and properly undermined front faced with a big bull character like Trump.
00:05:00.720And, you know, it's sure you could say I'm silly.
00:05:25.300So when starting this campaign, I started a website, savefreespeech.ca.
00:05:32.000It was to educate people on Bill C-63 while making this content to educate people about the laws and about Bill C-63.
00:05:41.360And, hey, this is why this bill is bad, blah, blah, blah.
00:05:44.280I noticed that there's a very, very troubling cultural undercurrent, a cultural trend that's kind of an even bigger problem, which is Canadians are too afraid to even use their free speech.
00:05:57.640You know, it's like we don't actually have the sort of posture and attitude to even fight for free speech.
00:06:05.340Like Greg's really on to something with that.
00:06:07.300What we've been talking about for six years now is normalizing the conversation.
00:06:12.220Six years ago, people didn't even know the words to use, and we provided those words, and we provided the framing of the conversation with them.
00:06:22.620And getting large groups of people to normalize these conversations and these phrases, it's not shocking anymore.
00:06:31.380But back then, it was still shocking to people who even didn't agree with transgenderism.
00:06:36.880And they'd be like, oh, you can't say that.
00:06:39.820Like, what are you, in fucking high school?
00:06:42.100Yeah, we're going to say it because it's true, right?
00:06:45.700So we do have to normalize conversation.
00:06:49.160I just want to jump off that point real quick just because people, you know, it's easy to feel demoralized and feel like, oh, man, nothing is possible.
00:07:09.380But these, you know, elite psychopaths, they're like repeating it and they're saying it and they're repeating it and they're repeating it and they're saying it.
00:07:15.600And like, they have all these people trying to will this into existence, okay?
00:07:20.040But this is how you make stuff happen.
00:07:21.580Because before COVID, they're like, we're going to make everybody locked down and wear masks.
00:07:25.880And if you don't wear a mask, we're going to say you're a psychopath far right winger.
00:07:30.780It took like three weeks, took three weeks of media propaganda for people to be like, okay, I'm just going to wear a mask for the rest of my life and be terrified to see my family members if they haven't consumed this pharmaceutical product.
00:07:44.560You know, like, and it started with some person's crazy vision of like, hey, I think the world can be different in this way, you know?
00:07:52.460And it really is, you know, this is kind of getting deeper into the weeds.
00:07:57.780It's kind of like into like a philosophical, spiritual part of the conversation.
00:08:01.000But, you know, sometimes you kind of need to turn your intellect off and just focus on the romanticizing of what you want.
00:08:08.280Like, you need to kind of turn off the pragmatism and be like, this is what I want in my heart.
00:08:17.000I'm going to go for it because this is what I believe.
00:08:20.480You know, like, that's the type of energy that more people need.
00:08:23.700Yeah, we need people with conviction and people who are uncompromising.
00:08:27.900And this is like in a nutshell, that's why I didn't like this conservative party, why I don't like Polly F.
00:08:32.580You know, not only does he not have the conviction, not only is he not uncompromising, but he's actually encouraging people to kind of be cowards like him, encouraging people to be to compromise.
00:11:26.500And, you know, in the trucker convoy, you have a situation where you can actually see visibly huge outpouring of support from like large numbers of people.
00:11:38.460And you can imagine sort of having some confidence to be a part of that and to speak out.
00:11:44.040Or if there's a leader who looks like they're going to be in power, who's going to maybe support that you can trust is going to support your position, then you're you're you're more likely to speak out.
00:12:02.080Yeah, because otherwise, if you feel like the leaders just got this weak sort of wishy washy position on it and you you go out of your way to speak out, you're going to be afraid of being up the creek without a paddle when when when it doesn't come to pass and then you get screwed.
00:13:05.000Polly was a little bit better, but he had so much to work with between the trucker convoy.
00:13:09.920You know, the average Canadian complaining about mass immigration, you know, like there's so many things slam dunks that Polly have could have done.
00:13:17.040But instead, he just stuck with the pandering being a pussy.
00:13:19.320And I just really hope that conservatives across the country can learn this lesson with this election.
00:13:24.420There's so many issues like I think freedom is pretty left.
00:15:11.780But not only that, and keep in mind, this is in the context of, oh, he can't talk about transgenderism in schools.
00:15:18.660Oh, he can't be too aggressive on mass immigration.
00:15:21.180Oh, he can't say anything about the trigger convoy.
00:15:22.960But he can go to a podium and say it would be a gift to the world if Israel bombed Iran.
00:15:30.540By the way, we're going to do everything we can to send more munitions to Ukraine.
00:15:35.600So when it comes to encouraging foreign wars, he can speak as freely and as aggressively as he likes.
00:15:41.860But when it comes to protecting his own borders and protecting the own the demographic makeup of the country or slowing down immigration, which affects the housing crisis, which he loves to talk about.
00:15:52.500It affects the health care crisis and the drug crisis and everything that he loves to talk about the crime.
00:15:57.740But he's not going to talk about the immigration in that way.
00:16:56.900I'd love to jump on that point, which is I mean, I made a tweet earlier tonight, which was, wow, surprisingly hollow catchphrases and chicken shit conservatism didn't capture the hearts and minds of the country.
00:17:10.120And back to my point about, you know, the focus groups and being overly analytical and intellectual with how you look at politics, you lose the psychological aspect of it, because at the end of the day, human beings follow human beings.
00:17:27.800They want to resonate with the human being.
00:17:30.860And I mean, there's a lot to say on this, but Polyev is lame.
00:17:35.200And so many conservatives do not realize this.
00:17:38.020Like they don't realize how much he lacks in charisma.
00:17:41.800And that doesn't mean it was like, you know, done from the start.
00:17:44.700If you don't have the best charisma, like you need to make up for it with like bolder talking points, bolder, more aggressive, more conservative talking points like you need to make it work.
00:17:53.260And Polyev just simply did not have that.
00:17:55.920And it's something that I think a lot of right wing people don't realize.
00:18:00.180Like right wing people are kind of in this echo chamber and they're like, wow, Polyev talked about taxes.
00:18:04.680He talked about all this complicated money stuff.
00:18:07.200It's like, okay, what if he just came out and said, hey, we got to keep Canada, you know, do something more simple, like not going deep into these details.
00:18:14.840But, you know, I think a lot of people in the right wing, they don't realize the echo chamber that they're in and they kind of participated in this like delusional practice of thinking that Polyev was cool or something or resonating with more people.
00:18:30.840And it's like, no, like he comes across as kind of fake and weaselly.
00:19:22.100People who know nothing about politics pick up on that.
00:19:25.280And it really is like this, this psychological thing.
00:19:28.300And I guess it's all to say that similar to my point earlier, like anything really is possible.
00:19:33.480If you have a charismatic person on the microphone, they can make Rosemary Barton, the CBC, the entire liberal party look like a joke in two minutes.
00:19:42.580Maybe he'll say something that's two seconds rather, you know, maybe it's something that's controversial, whatever.
00:19:48.020I'm, you know, I'm referring again to like another, like sort of Trump scenario where he shows up and like says something outrageous.
00:19:53.640People talk about it, but it gets people talking and it wins hearts and minds because it's like real human being shit.
00:20:00.300It's a real human being who is being charismatic.
00:20:04.200And that's what, that's what I'm hoping to see more of in the Canadian right wing is like, just like raw passion.
00:20:10.560Real people saying, this is how I feel.
00:20:20.300And like, to me, like that is the only path forward.
00:20:23.000And I know that's kind of like sort of abstract, but, uh, you know, conviction, people speaking their mind, people being brave and, you know, not trying to constantly cater to the sensibilities of Rosemary Barton.
00:20:35.980Like, can we please be done with this delusion that right wing conservatives have?
00:20:40.220If we are not actually going out there and saying things that are upsetting the liberal status quo, then we're not doing anything.
00:20:47.100We're not going to be accomplishing anything anytime soon.
00:20:50.600And once again, it's not to say like, you know, be a loud mouth jackass who's like, you know, just making fun of people and like doesn't have any decorum whatsoever.
00:20:59.000I think to be, you know, there is, there is a thing about presenting yourself well and being professional or being, you know, somewhat charming.
00:21:05.760Um, but, uh, but yeah, it's like, you know, we, we gotta be, we gotta be brave and really speaking our mind here.
00:21:14.100You know, interestingly enough, uh, Carney, he was once asked something about the, uh, what was it?
00:21:22.940Um, some inner, uh, journalist was trying to grill him and I couldn't believe his answer was, it was just like, yeah, that's just how things are done.
00:21:34.180And so it's just, it was hilarious because we're so used to Trudeau and fumbling and being a clown and just making an absolute fool of himself.
00:21:43.120Then it's just like, this guy is just a joke.
00:21:45.180And here we have Carney is like, can take something that's completely immoral and whatever.
00:21:51.700And, and, and is something wrong going on with the finance?
00:22:20.900I did not, I know I'm a PPC guy and I'm always pressuring the Polyev to push further, but it's because I want him to be better to actually beat Carney.
00:22:27.780I don't like the fact that Carney's in Carney is very, very dangerous, you know, because Trudeau came across like an idiot, uh, who was only good looking.
00:22:38.960So he could charm like women and stupid gay men maybe, but it's like with, with Carney, you have somebody who is really, he stumbles.
00:22:48.380He says a lot too, but he's much more graceful.
00:22:52.840He's much more kind of confident with it.
00:22:55.720And it comes across really, really well.
00:22:58.640Like, like, like this Carney guy is very, very scary for this reason.
00:23:35.260And, uh, he does really feel like a textbook globalist out of a, um, you know, out of a movie.
00:23:41.920So, and, and that's why people like us, we need to do, we need to have an iron sharpens iron mentality.
00:23:48.780You know, it's fine if we disagree on things, that's actually a good thing.
00:23:52.220What we need to do is have productive debates to productive conversations about who has the better idea or who has the better approach.
00:24:00.440And I think once again, like the, the common theme that I talk about is encouraging each other to be more courageous and more outspoken and, and, you know, challenging the status quo.
00:24:11.060And it's not going to happen overnight, but, uh, you know, it's going to take a lot of hard work, but again, if there's anything we can learn from this election is that the cowardice doesn't work.
00:24:25.120There needs to be times where you need to like, you know, dial in and calibrate your message to be correct, especially when I'm talking about more sensitive issues, but like this cowardice to the liberal media and Rosemary Barton.
00:24:38.540It's like, guys, we got to throw that in the trash.
00:24:41.060We got to realize that, you know, the, the progress, the path forward is challenging Rosemary Barton and challenging the mainstream media.
00:24:49.660If we're not upsetting them, then we're not actually gaining any ground whatsoever.