John Bolton - February 26, 2025


I'd pay a thousand Dhallas to see Ruby in a debate


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7 minutes

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1,425

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117

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Misogyny

6

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4

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After watching the Liberal Leadership Debate, I couldn't help but think about how much better the debate would have been if Ruby Dalla was on the stage. I go back and look at an email she sent me about why she should have been on the debate stage.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 524 a.m. on Wednesday, February the 26th with the big blue mug of coffee.
00:00:06.980 Hope you're having a great day today.
00:00:09.560 And I was just sitting here thinking about the debate from last night.
00:00:12.920 I hope you watched my analysis. I did it within 15 minutes of that debate ending last night.
00:00:19.540 But I was thinking how much better that debate would have been if Ruby Dalla was on the stage. 1.00
00:00:24.280 And, you know, I went back and looked at some of the email Ruby Dalla sent me.
00:00:30.060 I'm going to show you one in just a moment.
00:00:31.760 And I'm going to show you why they needed to remove her from the race. 1.00
00:00:35.540 Now here, if we look at the screen here, this is from the National Post this morning.
00:00:39.340 Liberal leadership debate recap. Mark Carney still the frontrunner after tamed performances.
00:00:44.260 Carney, Freeland, Gould, Frank Bayless faced off in a debate with just two weeks remaining before the liberal leadership vote.
00:00:49.540 Now if we go over here, liberal leadership race poll shows Freeland a close second behind Carney on first ballot.
00:00:57.360 So it looks like it will not be a first ballot win for Mark Carney, which could be promising for people like myself who will be voting.
00:01:03.940 And I'm going to show you something about that in just a moment.
00:01:06.220 But it is masterful the way this has played out for the liberals.
00:01:11.500 And I don't know that they've been able to plan it all out, but it certainly has played out to their favor in a big way.
00:01:16.380 I mean, when Trudeau resigned on January the 6th, pro-rogue government, we didn't have an election.
00:01:24.140 The way he basically gave crumbs to sing over the years in order for him to maintain power.
00:01:32.600 And then by starting off this leadership race, it's worked out perfectly.
00:01:35.920 I mean, certainly Trump tariffs were a threat.
00:01:37.720 But the only way the liberals are leading in the polls right now, which is the case, if we look over here, liberals top Tories for first time in years.
00:01:48.780 New Ipsos polling says they were up by 26 points six weeks ago, the conservatives.
00:01:54.220 They played this perfectly.
00:01:56.220 And here's the thing I've been thinking overnight.
00:01:59.440 Donald Trump is the new COVID.
00:02:01.420 I think other people have made this comparison, but you look back on COVID.
00:02:07.360 The liberal government, governments around the world, made people believe, against their better nature,
00:02:12.080 that only the government had the correct information and could protect them from a respiratory disease, for the most part, that only killed older people.
00:02:19.980 The average age here in Alberta was 79, 80 years of age.
00:02:23.420 Didn't kill young people, but they had parents scared to death their children were going to die sitting in a classroom.
00:02:28.720 The only way they could protect themselves was putting a piece of flimsy material over their face, standing on dots, staying two meters apart, and rolling up their sleeves, taking an experimental drug.
00:02:39.820 And Donald Trump is now, the liberal party is now those four things, the mask, the dot, the social distancing, and the shot against Donald Trump.
00:02:51.160 That's where we are right now.
00:02:52.360 It was like they learned so much.
00:02:55.240 It's like a petri dish, an experimental petri dish on how to control people's minds.
00:02:59.660 Because people are lining up to vote liberal again against their better judgment, after 10 years of economic ruin.
00:03:07.900 They're the people who got us in this place.
00:03:09.840 I'm not going to get into that again.
00:03:10.920 But if Ruby Dalla was in this race, imagine where we would be right now. 1.00
00:03:15.180 They had to get rid of her.
00:03:16.600 Let's take a look at email.
00:03:18.720 So this is some of the email I received from Ruby Dalla.
00:03:22.140 And let's go back to February 4th.
00:03:24.520 Canada is under attack.
00:03:25.960 It says right down here.
00:03:26.920 And we'll roll up here.
00:03:27.920 And I highlighted the part that had liberals concerned about Ruby Dalla because she was on stage last night.
00:03:35.960 This is the plan of attack she would have had against Mark Carney and the other three people on the stage.
00:03:41.720 Let's look at some more facts.
00:03:43.140 People are struggling to put a roof over their head because of the housing crisis.
00:03:47.760 Grocery prices have increased by 3-5% across Canada.
00:03:51.240 Canadians are overburdened with paying so much tax.
00:03:54.140 Crime in our country is at an all-time high with no consequence for criminals.
00:03:58.100 This is why Canadians are mad and angry. 1.00
00:04:00.380 This is why our party is at the lowest it has been in the polls.
00:04:04.460 This is what...
00:04:05.340 This is...
00:04:05.880 Pierre Polyev could have written that.
00:04:07.380 But listen to what she says here.
00:04:08.740 And this is what she would have said on stage last night that would have absolutely destroyed the four people on stage.
00:04:16.140 In particular, Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland.
00:04:19.020 The current leadership race is about replacing Justin Trudeau.
00:04:22.960 Many liberals across the country are wondering why Mark Carney, who was an advisor to the Trudeau administration,
00:04:29.280 and Chrystia Freeland, who walked out on Canadians, are trying to fix a system they broke. 1.00
00:04:34.700 I agree with many of you who have said electing Carney or Freeland would be electing Trudeau 2.0.
00:04:41.940 She sent stuff like that out, and they had to get rid of her, and it was masterful.
00:04:46.720 And, you know, the thing is, people didn't even question it.
00:04:51.320 She had these 10 things that she'd done, so we have to get her out of the race. 1.00
00:04:55.760 Boy, would it have been refreshing to see her on stage last night. 0.94
00:04:58.940 Now, here's the only thing I'm hanging my hat on right now when it comes to Mark Carney.
00:05:03.460 I mentioned earlier that it's not likely Carney is going to win on the first vote when March 9th rolls around.
00:05:11.000 Chrystia Freeland, right now, is a close second behind Carney on first ballot.
00:05:19.480 So, just to let you know, here is the Liberal website.
00:05:23.860 And if you look right here, the verification period has started.
00:05:26.900 You can now get verified ahead of the voting period opening on February 26th today.
00:05:34.080 Find the most up-to-date information below, including the verification and voting period timelines.
00:05:38.720 And if you look down here, right here, I signed up.
00:05:42.960 I got verified this morning.
00:05:45.060 Thank you.
00:05:46.480 If the information you provided matches our records, you'll receive an email with your voter ID and verification instructions.
00:05:51.840 Please check your junk emails.
00:05:53.460 And if you continue to have issues receiving your voter ID, contact Liberalsolutions.
00:05:58.100 And there's the email.
00:05:59.340 So, and I think I'm going to vote for Chrystia Freeland.
00:06:02.520 The polls say that Carney has the best chance at winning in the election against Polyev.
00:06:10.340 People are saying that Carney is the best person to negotiate with Trump.
00:06:13.140 I don't believe that at all.
00:06:14.560 As I said in my video yesterday, Pierre Polyev will destroy any of the people that were on stage last night, including Mark Carney.
00:06:21.740 He is really good at this, folks.
00:06:24.160 And the other thing I want to end on here is, liberals do not turn on each other.
00:06:31.280 They all said nothing when Dala was thrown out of the race because they wanted her gone because all that matters to them is winning.
00:06:39.900 Conservatives are turning right now on Pierre Polyev.
00:06:43.020 We can't do that.
00:06:44.640 He's been working his ass off for two years.
00:06:48.160 And only because of Donald Trump.
00:06:50.960 And I'll never forgive Donald Trump if the Liberals win the next election.
00:06:55.720 Because it's only because of him.
00:06:58.160 But Polyev deserves our support.
00:07:00.660 People are saying he sounds more like a Liberal all the time.
00:07:02.660 He's the only thing standing between us and five years of Liberal rule.
00:07:08.220 Majority or minority.
00:07:09.520 Because they're going to have a coalition government one way or the other.
00:07:12.800 So, that's all I've got to say.
00:07:15.240 God, I wish Ruby Dala was on stage during that debate last night. 1.00
00:07:18.960 It would have been far more interesting.
00:07:21.200 And some of the people on stage last night would have been exposed for the people that they are.
00:07:26.000 And they are the architects of Canada's destruction.
00:07:29.180 Whether it comes to Donald Trump or ten years of the economy, which has been tanking ever since Justin Trudeau got in in 2015.
00:07:38.360 Thanks for watching.
00:07:39.140 I do appreciate it.
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00:07:45.560 And I'll see you in the next one.