John Bolton - May 20, 2025


Alberta Separatists - This photo should SCARE YOU!


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6 minutes

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162.30797

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1,053

Sentence count

100


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I saw a picture this morning that frightened me and I need to tell you when it was taken. Two big names in Alberta politics are shaking hands and it could have been taken any time and I don t trust what I see on the internet.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 624 AM. It is May the 20th. Great to have you along today.
00:00:07.180 I've got my big blue mug of coffee and if you're here and have subscribed, thanks so much. If you
00:00:12.360 haven't, just click on subscribe and help me get to 32,000 subscribers. Pretty awesome. So
00:00:19.240 I don't want to go over the same ground again and some people may say I'm going back to the
00:00:25.980 well too often on this, but this is different. And I did not plan on doing this video this
00:00:30.860 morning. I had something else in mind, but I'm here and I want to go through with this.
00:00:35.440 I think this needs to be shared. I'm frightened. I saw a picture this morning that frightened
00:00:41.200 me. Here's the picture. And I need somebody to tell me when this picture was taken. Now
00:00:49.160 for those who don't know, this is Naheed Nenshi, former mayor of Calgary, current leader of the
00:00:54.040 NDP in the Alberta legislature. The guy on the right, former premier of Alberta, Jason
00:00:59.000 Kenney, former cabinet minister for Stephen Harper. Two big names in Alberta politics and
00:01:03.880 they're shaking hands here. Again, I don't know when this picture was taken. It could have
00:01:08.260 been taken any time and I don't trust what I see on the internet. I have a mind. I don't
00:01:12.700 need the government to tell me about misinformation and disinformation. Reagan said trust, then verify.
00:01:19.520 I think, I think you need to verify then trust nowadays. Now this was tweeted out yesterday
00:01:25.560 on May the 19th. It took a bit of time, but it looks like they're getting the band back
00:01:30.040 together, says Dusty Rose. Now I tried to figure out whether this was recent by looking at their
00:01:35.060 body mass index and the color of their hair. And just a bit of advice to these two gentlemen,
00:01:41.300 start taking care of yourself. You're at the age where you're this far away from heart attack
00:01:45.060 and stroke. You need to start taking care of yourself. I don't wish ill will on either
00:01:48.860 of these gentlemen. I disagree with Kenny on independence. I disagreed with Nenshi on
00:01:53.020 everything, but take care of yourself. I don't want to see anything happen to you. But I digress.
00:01:58.660 So I see this picture and even if this isn't a recent picture, you should be afraid of these
00:02:03.160 two guys because they're both anti-independence. Obviously, Nenshi wants to use this against
00:02:09.920 Daniel Smith, who's made it easier for separation, for a referendum. And he's using it and talking
00:02:15.380 about it all the time. The NDP, they're tweeting things about Daniel Smith as a separatist. Jason
00:02:21.380 Kenney came out. I did a video on this in early May. I'll put a link near the end so you can take
00:02:26.060 a look at it. But he's been tweeting about this. Here's a tweet from early May where he talks about
00:02:31.140 Alberta separatism and how we're a bunch of nuts. But these two gentlemen have big names in Alberta,
00:02:37.980 big voices in Alberta, and recognizable faces in Alberta. And here I am again. There's no big face
00:02:44.620 and there's no big name. There's no big voice leading the independence movement in Alberta.
00:02:48.520 Do we have some time? Yeah, but I don't see anything changing very soon.
00:02:54.060 And we need somebody to represent this movement or it's going to fail.
00:03:00.160 I appreciate the different factions that are involved here. And I appreciate you if you're
00:03:08.520 an Alberta separatist and you want independence for Alberta. But we need a leader. Let me just show
00:03:14.000 you something. This is a Jason Kenney tweet from, what's the date on this one? The 18th.
00:03:21.020 Two days ago, grifters and con artists. By definition, an independent Alberta equals
00:03:27.520 no more Canadian citizenship, no more Canadian passport, entitlement benefits like OAS, CPP
00:03:34.300 would be subject to negotiation with Ottawa dictating terms. Turns out not even the Alberta
00:03:39.600 independence movement is remotely serious about independence. And the little blue letters
00:03:44.920 there lead you to this. It's been deleted by the Alberta Prosperity Project because they
00:03:52.420 messed up. Because they don't have a plan. If you don't have a plan, the plan fails.
00:04:04.000 Now they've come back to straighten things out. Clearly this struck a chord, so we fixed it.
00:04:09.200 Take note of the disclaimer in white italics. But you put it out there, APP. And it got spread
00:04:14.480 around the internet like wildfire. Albertans saw it and they're concerned. I remember these
00:04:19.520 arguments during the referendum campaign in 1995. I remember discussions about keeping
00:04:23.980 the Canadian currency, being part of the Canada Pension Plan. All these things came up. But
00:04:28.720 there's nobody leading the way for independence in Alberta right now. Let's go back to the original
00:04:36.720 picture. These guys, these guys are formidable. Who you've got now leading, there is
00:04:44.460 no leader. The independence movement, they are not formidable. There's no communication.
00:04:53.340 There's no public relations. There's no team. Is there an office? Are we raising funds to
00:04:59.680 push this across the line at the end? No. These guys have all kinds of connections. And Mark
00:05:06.740 Carney loves Nahed Nanshi because he thinks a lot like Mark Carney. Nanshi will say he's all for
00:05:12.460 pipelines, but he's an anti-oil guy just like all the people on the radical left. And that's
00:05:17.100 what Mark Carney is. He wants, Mark Carney wants Nahed Nanshi as premier of this province.
00:05:22.140 He wants Danielle Smith to go down because she's fighting back. And the federal government is going
00:05:28.220 to do everything it can to scuttle the independence movement here in Alberta. And we've got no leader.
00:05:33.340 These guys. Can you imagine the head of the NDP of Alberta and the former conservative leader
00:05:43.900 of Alberta, premier, standing together on a podium on behalf of Canada against the independence movement?
00:05:53.340 Can you imagine if that happens? It could. And that's what scares me. Nothing glitzy today. Share this
00:06:03.020 one if you liked it. But I'm bothered this morning. Thank you very much for watching. I do appreciate it.
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