John Bolton - March 07, 2025


Canadian politicians - Drunk on power (no booze for you)


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10 minutes

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2,053

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164

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The Big Blue Mug has become a microcosm of the stupidity that is going on in our government right now. Doug Ford has taken all of the U.S. liquor off the shelves in Ontario and other provinces across the country. Is this a good or bad thing?

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. Thursday, March the 6th, 4.02am. Hope you're
00:00:05.120 having a great day. Big blue mug of coffee. Before I go anywhere, I do anything, I want to say hi to
00:00:10.260 Linda. Last night I'm at South Setter Mall here in Calgary with my wife on the food court.
00:00:14.880 This nice lady leans over and said, are you the guy on YouTube with the big blue mug? 1.00
00:00:20.120 And my wife, her jaw dropped. I'm a pretty modest channel here, approaching 11,000 right now
00:00:25.680 subscribers. But hi to Linda, thanks. It's nice talking to you last night. And get me to 11,000
00:00:29.980 click on subscribe right now. So question for you right off the top. Do you feel like you're
00:00:35.500 living in cloud cuckoo world right now? And the reason I ask this is I find myself in agreement
00:00:43.080 with people I would never agree with. And the people I usually agree with, I don't agree with
00:00:47.820 at all right now. And I'm going to start off talking about Danielle Smith, the premier of Alberta. Now,
00:00:53.680 if you're in the rest of the country or the rest of the world, you can relate to this. Okay. I think
00:00:59.220 booze. Alcohol has become, is the word microcosm the correct word? It's become a symbol of the
00:01:05.780 stupidity that's going on when it comes to government right now. I really believe that.
00:01:10.940 Now, I want to, I want to, I want to say this so it relates to everybody. Do you remember at the
00:01:18.120 beginning of the pandemic? In fact, we're approaching the fifth anniversary of them announcing the pandemic.
00:01:23.820 It's coming up in the next week or so, but you remember at the beginning of that, and then they
00:01:28.360 started mandating wearing masks. And I hated that. I really hated being told what to do. And you
00:01:33.700 probably felt the same way if you're at this channel right now. And I remember saying during
00:01:37.600 the pandemic, cause I quit wearing a mask, but I said, would you have felt differently if the
00:01:41.580 government, somebody from the government had walked out a health minister, a premier, a prime
00:01:45.600 minister at that point. And they'd said to you, listen, there's this pandemic, there's this bug going
00:01:49.480 around. It can kill people. We would appreciate if you wore a mask, you know, you have the choice to
00:01:54.580 wear a mask, but it might help. You probably were more likely to wear it and not felt pressured and
00:02:01.500 not felt like the government was telling you what to do. And that's the way I'm feeling about what's
00:02:06.000 going on right now when it comes to our provincial premiers, when it comes to the federal government,
00:02:10.500 when it comes to politicians of all stripes, when it comes to this tariff issue. Now, Danielle Smith came
00:02:16.140 out yesterday and she had a news conference, and this is what she had to say about booze. And 0.94
00:02:22.020 remember, I think this is a symbol of what's going on right now here in Canada. Second, no further
00:02:27.880 purchases of U.S. alcohol or new VLTs will be permitted through the AGLC until further notice.
00:02:35.620 We'll just have to drink a bit more BC wine and Alberta craft beer and spirits, and that's just fine
00:02:40.320 with us. So Danielle Smith is now lockstep along with other premiers who aren't going to 1.00
00:02:46.000 buy booze from the Americans anymore and video lottery terminals. That's what VLTs are.
00:02:52.720 And I think a lot of people have made some very good points. They saw Doug Ford pulling all the
00:02:57.520 booze off the shelves the other day, and they made some very good points, but one point's being missed
00:03:02.320 here. And I'm going to get to that in just a moment. But before I do, Canada is totally preoccupied
00:03:10.000 with Trump tariffs right now, scared to death of Trump tariffs. So are American citizens,
00:03:15.520 folks. They're scared to death about what's going on here in Canada. Here is Tim Poole on his show
00:03:21.840 last night talking about booze. Check this out. Check out this clip from Brian Krensenstein. It
00:03:26.960 says scenes from Ontario, Canada, making America great again by making the world hate us and not buy
00:03:31.520 from us. This is American liquor produced in red states that has been ordered to be taken off the
00:03:36.140 shelves across Ontario. You know, I don't think he realizes. I laughed my ass off when I saw this
00:03:40.540 video. Watch. You've already paid for it, you idiots. Look, so it's just, there comes, there comes
00:03:45.780 all, what, what, what, what brand is that? Can you tell? Is that bullet? It doesn't hurt. It doesn't
00:03:52.680 hurt. I was like, dude, there's no tariff on it. You have it already. You can sell it. They're like,
00:03:59.040 oh yeah, we'll show you. We'll take all the stuff we own and get rid of it.
00:04:01.800 They're laughing at us. They think it's a big joke. They're not concerned about this at all.
00:04:07.380 We seem to think we're going to bring down the United States. I don't think that's going to
00:04:10.780 happen, folks. And they rightfully point out what everybody else has pointed out.
00:04:15.140 The booze is already paid for. So you're losing out on all that money. Now, Doug Ford, you know,
00:04:20.540 he brags about Ontario being the biggest purchaser of booze in the world. That's because it's government
00:04:26.120 run. I mean, Daniel Smith can't pull the booze off the shelves in Alberta because mom and pop
00:04:30.660 shops sell that stuff. It's sold in every corner store here. And she'd be taking money right out 0.57
00:04:35.760 of their pockets. So she can't do that. But Doug Ford, I mean, it's all performative art. He's not
00:04:42.500 sacrificing anything, folks. Because he's putting the stuff in a room out back. He's just going to
00:04:47.600 sell it later. So he's not sacrificing anything. And here's the thing. People like Doug Ford and
00:04:53.260 Daniel Smith at this point, I guess, and other politicians, including Trudeau, all think we're part
00:04:57.500 of Team Canada. We're all jumping aboard Team Canada and we're not. See, they can't leave the
00:05:01.880 stuff on the shelves because somebody with a phone is going to walk in in a couple of weeks and notice
00:05:06.760 that people are buying the American products because they want to buy it, because they like it, because
00:05:10.620 they want the choice, because it's a better deal. If it goes off the shelves, then the whole Team
00:05:15.640 Canada thing goes poof. If they were so sure Team Canada was a thing, they'd leave it on the shelves.
00:05:22.420 It would collect dust and they wouldn't have to buy it anyway. And that's where the stupidity is here,
00:05:27.120 folks. That's where it is. Now let's take a look at Danielle Smith's ex-feed from yesterday.
00:05:32.080 So here is her ex-account from yesterday. And actually, just before I move on here, you know,
00:05:36.720 I honestly think, we're getting back to, we're talking about booze here. I think we need more
00:05:41.760 booze in the country because in order for us to get through this, we're all going to need to be blind,
00:05:46.420 staggeringly drunk. I do not think that's the case. But over to Danielle Smith here. 1.00
00:05:50.980 Uh, she spoke, she spoke for about, uh, 10 minutes. Other people spoke here. Uh, I'm sure
00:05:56.980 the, uh, news media had questions, but I watched her, um, talk about the booze and whatnot, and 0.99
00:06:01.740 she's just getting beaten down. Look at this. The government should stop telling citizens what
00:06:06.800 they can and cannot do. We didn't vote you in for this. Buy America and take your Team Canada and
00:06:11.500 shove it where the sun don't shine. Why did you flip-flop on this? So then Amazon, Walmart, Lowe's,
00:06:17.280 Costco, Home Depot should all be forced to stop bringing in products. You know, I mentioned
00:06:21.740 this the other day. Should they, they should be stopping American hockey teams or selling
00:06:25.960 their products here in the country? We've got hockey games coming up. Should we just cancel
00:06:29.660 all those games? I mean, this is, this is the kind of stupidity we're getting. I disagree
00:06:33.080 with the people who I normally agree with, and I'm going to agree with somebody in just
00:06:37.380 a moment who I normally disagree. One of the few people that's speaking sense here.
00:06:41.500 And then let's move along. Danielle Smith has turned her back on Alberta, now fully supporting 1.00
00:06:45.840 Justin Trudeau. Call a GM. You're done. You promised a referendum and to fight Ottawa.
00:06:52.420 Now you're carrying water for them. You know, and here's Don Braid in the National Post. Don
00:06:56.280 Braid, Danielle Smith stands as squarely for Canada as Doug Ford does, and I'm wondering
00:07:00.440 if people who were calling Danielle Smith just a couple of weeks ago a traitor, whether they're
00:07:05.040 jumping aboard the Danielle Smith train now. I just wonder. Kat Kennedy yesterday on X, liberals
00:07:10.460 and conservatives telling Canadians not to buy American goods and not to go on vacation in the
00:07:14.840 U.S. in response to the tariffs. Will you be listening to your leaders and boycotting U.S. goods?
00:07:19.020 Well, as far as going on vacation, who can afford to pay the dollar exchange rate? The liberals have made
00:07:23.540 such a mess of our dollar. What is it, 30 to 35 cents on the dollar? Nobody could afford a vacation
00:07:28.480 there unless you're rich. And over here, this kind of goes back to what I talked about yesterday.
00:07:33.220 Now that we've seen all the Canadian party leaders react to the U.S. tariffs and politics of the last
00:07:37.540 month. Who would you, who had best to be serving as Canadian Prime Minister? And people are saying
00:07:41.660 Maxime Bernier. This is not a scientific thing, but folks, we need Pierre Pauly. Maxime Bernier
00:07:47.180 is never going to be the Prime Minister. Now, here's somebody I actually agree with, and I vehemently
00:07:54.280 oppose to this man. This man is against pipelines going through his province, but he's making sense.
00:08:00.140 I am far from being certain that threatening the United States not to supply them with electricity
00:08:07.400 is such a good idea. We've got to keep in mind that after a crisis, they will still have
00:08:15.340 to be business partners. They will, or we want them to keep buying our electricity. So it seems
00:08:24.680 a strange idea to me to threaten them of being a bad partner. Sometimes I understand that
00:08:33.340 in a crisis, we want to show muscles and say big words, but sometimes it's not the best
00:08:42.800 thing to do.
00:08:43.800 Yves-François Blanchet, he's the leader of the Bloc Quebecois. I never agree with this man,
00:08:48.680 as I said, but he's talking good sense there. You know, shutting off power to 2 million people
00:08:52.800 in the United States during wintertime. Mr. Ford, probably not a good idea. You could kill
00:08:56.760 a few people and you've got the world's biggest superpower sitting right across the border.
00:09:01.260 This is Doug Ford putting on an act. Now, to give Danielle Smith a little credit, she
00:09:05.460 did say this about our oil.
00:09:08.860 And as for existing oil and gas sent to the United States, Alberta does not and will not
00:09:14.480 support cutting off or taxing Canadian companies on existing energy exports to the United States,
00:09:22.080 and that's for two key reasons. First, doing so will hurt Canadians, far worse than Americans,
00:09:28.380 should the US retaliate in kind, which they will.
00:09:31.540 She's absolutely right. It would hurt Canadians. But remember, any tariff on the United States
00:09:37.240 is a tax on you. Now, before I leave, completely unrelated, but in three days, we're going to
00:09:44.540 have a new Prime Minister. The Liberals are going to pick a new leader. That person will be the Prime
00:09:47.840 Minister, probably Mark Carney, how long before they cancel the carbon tax? They've all been
00:09:52.580 saying they're going to do it. Don't you think it should come to an end? And how magnanimous
00:09:57.500 are they going to act? Like they're doing something good for you when they do this, after screwing
00:10:01.980 you over for six years. Think about it. Thanks a lot for watching. I do appreciate it. Give
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