John Bolton - April 06, 2025


AC⧸DC convinced me... the election is OVER


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John Iveson, Max Fawcett and Brian Breguet join me to talk about the loss to the Lib Dems in the Alberta election, and why I think this is the end of the road for the Tories.

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00:00:00.560 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. It is 5.30 a.m. It is Sunday, April the 6th. I do have my big blue mug of coffee always with me, my companion, first thing in the morning. I hope you've got a cup of tea, a cup of coffee, a nice big glass of orange juice this morning.
00:00:16.160 And it's going to be a great day here. If you could help me out a little bit by clicking on subscribe, we'll make it to $25,000. Boy, that would be an accomplishment.
00:00:26.360 And if you could like the video, that really helps out the channel. Thanks so much again for being here today.
00:00:31.620 So, I had the great misfortune of looking at X first thing when I woke up this morning, grabbed my phone, went on X, and all the Mark Carney stuff comes up.
00:00:40.860 And people seem to think we're getting flooded with more Mark Carney propaganda.
00:00:44.680 I think it's because I read that stuff and the algorithm just feeds it to me.
00:00:48.280 But very discouraged this morning, I have to say. You're not going to like this video, probably.
00:00:53.760 And it's because of ACDC's Thunderstruck.
00:00:58.020 Okay, I'll get to that in a moment.
00:01:00.640 This is how I think a little bit different here on this channel.
00:01:03.700 I hate to tell you this, but I think this is over.
00:01:08.160 I really do.
00:01:12.420 Because your logic on how you're voting is not permeating Canadian society right now.
00:01:18.800 It really isn't.
00:01:20.440 And it has to do with ACDC's Thunderstruck.
00:01:23.360 I think it's over.
00:01:24.460 You know, we've got 20, what, 22 days left before the election.
00:01:28.500 Polyev, he needs a huge knockout punch at the debate.
00:01:32.860 Those things very rarely happen.
00:01:34.440 And something has to happen for him to turn the poll numbers around.
00:01:37.420 I just think the polls are correct.
00:01:39.960 And I think they're getting worse by the day.
00:01:41.880 You know, I'm starting to worry about some ridings here in Alberta that they might go liberal.
00:01:46.400 And if Alberta goes, folks, it's really over.
00:01:48.920 But anyway, I hate to discourage you, but I want to run through a few things here.
00:01:52.600 And we'll get to ACDC's Thunderstruck in just a moment.
00:01:55.680 So let's go over here.
00:01:58.760 And you probably feel like this.
00:02:00.620 And this is where you probably are.
00:02:02.280 You're probably like me.
00:02:04.660 John Iveson, who is a writer.
00:02:07.120 You may see him on the National Post.
00:02:08.820 He writes this.
00:02:09.620 This is reprehensible from someone I've admired since watching him campaign in London, Ontario.
00:02:14.780 More than 30 years ago, democracy is not a game where you say, if we lose, we're not playing.
00:02:20.980 Remember that, okay?
00:02:22.680 So what's he talking about here?
00:02:24.500 He's talking about this article, which I referenced the other day, from Preston Manning.
00:02:28.500 Mark Carney poses a national threat to unity.
00:02:31.560 I read this article all the way through.
00:02:34.900 And I believe every bit of it.
00:02:36.800 Mark Carney is a threat to national unity.
00:02:39.300 This is a great article from Preston Manning.
00:02:42.680 John Iveson says, if we lose, we're not playing.
00:02:46.120 Okay.
00:02:46.700 Max Fawcett, another writer, responding to Brian Breguet here.
00:02:52.000 Let me read this to you.
00:02:53.200 I'll be honest.
00:02:53.880 I'm currently doing my best to avoid American products, and I'm not going there.
00:02:57.780 But if my fellow Canadians decide to reward the lost decade party with a majority, I won't care anymore.
00:03:04.700 You feel that way, like Brian does.
00:03:06.800 I'm not showing solidarity with people who want another lost decade.
00:03:10.980 I feel that way as well.
00:03:13.160 Max Fawcett, quitting on your country if the party you support doesn't win an election is the very opposite of patriotism.
00:03:20.360 That's very telling in itself.
00:03:22.120 I don't normally vote for patriotism, but people like Max Fawcett, John Iveson, and all the people who are voting liberal, that's what they're voting on.
00:03:30.760 And thunderstruck by ACDC.
00:03:33.020 Hang on a second.
00:03:34.240 But if you look down here, I responded to this myself.
00:03:37.280 And maybe you feel the same way.
00:03:39.940 You don't get it.
00:03:41.580 People are not quitting on their country.
00:03:43.540 They feel the country quit them.
00:03:48.260 And I think you feel that way for the same reason I do.
00:03:51.540 Now, I'm an Albertan.
00:03:52.700 I quit on this.
00:03:54.340 What's going on with the Liberal Party right now has nothing to do with why I feel I want out of the country.
00:04:00.040 I started feeling that way years ago.
00:04:01.480 I started feeling that way when I moved to Alberta because I started to understand what people in Alberta have been going through.
00:04:08.080 But I think the country has quit me.
00:04:11.160 I have not quit on my country.
00:04:13.400 And that's what the rest of the people don't get.
00:04:15.760 What are the things that are really important to you right now?
00:04:18.540 Here's just a little list.
00:04:22.200 I just wrote these down.
00:04:23.140 There's probably others.
00:04:24.040 A cost of living.
00:04:25.300 Taxes are too high.
00:04:26.400 The carbon tax.
00:04:27.380 The consumer is somewhat gone.
00:04:28.960 It probably will come back.
00:04:30.840 Industrial.
00:04:31.800 The industrial carbon tax will break us.
00:04:33.740 Crime.
00:04:34.220 Military spending.
00:04:35.260 Not taking advantage of our potential.
00:04:36.920 Meaning natural resources.
00:04:38.640 Anti-growth.
00:04:40.340 ESG.
00:04:41.460 DEI.
00:04:42.100 The housing shortage.
00:04:43.220 Net zero.
00:04:43.740 And we've heard a lot during this election campaign.
00:04:46.360 Our GDP sucks here.
00:04:47.680 And we're falling behind when it comes to income by a long shot when we're compared to the United States.
00:04:52.620 These are the things that are important to you.
00:04:54.960 And you also know what Mark Carney is about because you're clued in to what's going on.
00:04:59.080 I bring to your attention Moose on the Loose.
00:05:02.000 Now I don't know if you watch Moose on the Loose on YouTube.
00:05:04.280 But Moose on the Loose has done some great work.
00:05:06.420 Very, very smart young man.
00:05:07.820 Digging into Mark Carney and what he is all about.
00:05:10.840 This man is a dangerous human being.
00:05:13.160 And as Candace Malikin on Juneau News said the other day, he hasn't been really vetted.
00:05:17.220 Generally, when somebody runs for office, they run for the nomination.
00:05:21.100 We learn about them.
00:05:22.220 And then they win the nomination.
00:05:23.660 And then they may have to go through a campaign where they are vetted and you learn more about them.
00:05:29.580 And there's all these processes before they actually become the leader of a party like Mark Carney has become.
00:05:36.820 And then the Prime Minister.
00:05:37.800 He has not been vetted.
00:05:39.000 And we're learning about him as we go along.
00:05:40.820 I've known about Mark Carney for years because I'm clued in.
00:05:43.340 You probably are too.
00:05:44.700 Moose on the Loose doing a great thing.
00:05:46.240 Telling people about Mark Carney.
00:05:47.580 But he's pissing up a rope.
00:05:49.480 Because of ACDC and Thunderstruck.
00:05:53.320 Why do I keep bringing that up?
00:05:54.860 Because this is the kind of stuff I see online.
00:05:58.540 Now Judy Trin is a reporter.
00:06:00.640 I think she's following Mark Carney right now.
00:06:02.720 She's from CTV News.
00:06:04.680 She's a national reporter.
00:06:06.860 And she's not as clued in about what's going on as you are.
00:06:09.700 And she certainly didn't dig into ACDC's Thunderstruck.
00:06:12.800 But she writes this.
00:06:13.960 Workers at Martin Real NT take a group photo with Mark Carney.
00:06:18.060 After he toured the site, the company makes auto propulsion technology for GM and Stellantis vehicles.
00:06:24.580 ACDC Thunderstruck was Carney's warm-up song when he played hockey.
00:06:28.040 And you've probably already read the tweet above it.
00:06:31.160 But people are voting on emotion here.
00:06:33.020 They're not voting on logic.
00:06:35.120 And being clued in to Mark Carney and the danger that he opposes for the country.
00:06:39.960 And not fixing the actual problems we have here.
00:06:42.260 Oh my God.
00:06:42.940 Just when I thought I couldn't like him more.
00:06:44.680 I am Thunderstruck.
00:06:46.580 Keep Canada strong and vote Carney for PM.
00:06:50.120 Never, ever, never, Polyev. 0.97
00:06:53.000 This is what we're up against, folks.
00:06:55.580 This is almost impossible to turn around.
00:06:58.240 Yeah, it's the economy, stupid.
00:07:00.520 I think it was James Carville who worked for Bill Clinton who initially said that.
00:07:04.660 And yeah, but not in this election, folks.
00:07:06.680 That's why I think we're screwed.
00:07:08.320 But here's the kicker.
00:07:10.540 Let's go over to another reporter.
00:07:12.320 This is Mackenzie Gray who is, I think, with Global.
00:07:15.640 And let's just read her.
00:07:16.860 She's got a similar tweet to Miss Trin, right? 0.65
00:07:19.380 Yeah, she's a Global National reporter.
00:07:21.140 Mark Carney has come to meet auto parts workers at Martin Ray in Vaughan, Ontario.
00:07:25.300 And he walked out to Thunderstruck by ACDC.
00:07:28.300 And believe me, I've seen a lot of tweets.
00:07:30.280 People saying, oh my God, Mark Carney likes Thunderstruck.
00:07:32.960 He used to play that song when he was a minor hockey player.
00:07:36.360 Oh, I love him so much.
00:07:37.720 And that's what they're saying online.
00:07:39.140 This is why we're lost.
00:07:41.340 Just wait.
00:07:42.260 He walked out to Thunderstruck by ACDC, which Carney said was his warm-up tune when he played minor hockey.
00:07:47.760 But folks, there's this thing called the internet.
00:07:51.520 We'll just go to Pascal Engelhardt here.
00:07:53.900 Remember, no, Mark Carney could not have warmed up to Thunderstruck by ACDC while playing minor hockey.
00:08:00.580 And here's why.
00:08:01.820 He was born in 1965, like me.
00:08:04.940 So his minor hockey years would have been roughly 70 to 83, ages 5 to 18.
00:08:10.040 Thunderstruck was released in 1990.
00:08:13.300 Just wait.
00:08:14.760 There's more coming, folks.
00:08:16.140 So we know Mark Carney has lied to us on a lot of occasions.
00:08:19.680 Let me just run through a few of them here.
00:08:21.140 This is why we're lost, folks.
00:08:22.640 School papers, apparently plagiarized.
00:08:26.820 That's lying.
00:08:27.720 Moving Brookfield to the United States, lied about that.
00:08:30.400 Helping Kretchen and Martin with their economic issues, lied about that.
00:08:33.900 Wasn't even around at the time.
00:08:35.400 Solving the economic crisis in 2008.
00:08:37.800 No, that was Jim Flaherty, who is dead, by the way.
00:08:40.280 Can't speak up for himself.
00:08:41.820 So shame on Mark Carney for doing that.
00:08:44.420 And he said he had no, there was no recession in 2009.
00:08:48.540 And he's on camera saying we're in a recession.
00:08:51.260 The guy lies about everything.
00:08:52.680 Folks, we are screwed.
00:08:54.040 Because if you look at this article right here.
00:08:56.520 Let me go over here.
00:08:58.780 Canadians more likely to trust Carney to keep campaign promises than Polyev Nanos Survey.
00:09:05.500 Folks, we are screwed.
00:09:11.780 This is what we're up against.
00:09:15.400 Good luck, Mr. Polyev, and good luck to Canada.
00:09:18.100 We have not given up on Canada.
00:09:23.080 Canada gave up on us.
00:09:24.840 That's how I feel.
00:09:25.700 Let me know if you feel the same way.
00:09:27.700 Thanks for watching.
00:09:28.460 I do appreciate it.
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00:09:36.520 I'm going out bike riding today.
00:09:38.300 I'm going to stay away from politics for the rest of the day, for God's sakes.
00:09:41.620 Probably tomorrow morning I'll get up and do another one of these.
00:09:44.200 Maybe be depressed.
00:09:45.360 Maybe I'll be feeling better.
00:09:46.480 Who knows?
00:09:47.240 Let's hope for a knockout punch in the debate. 0.95
00:09:49.100 Or something big to come up between now and the 28th of April.
00:09:53.400 Hopefully people learn who Mark Carney really is, but I have my doubts.
00:09:57.280 They're more concerned about Thunderstruck by ACDC.
00:10:01.240 I'll see you in the next one.