John Bolton - February 26, 2025


Liberal Leadership Debate (English) - An Insomniacs Dream

Topics
economy climate change
Hosted by
John Bolton
Mentioned
Donald Trump Pierre Poilievre Mark Carney Karina Gould Frank Bayless Chrystia Freeland Candace Malcolm Jimmy Carter Ken Paxton Paulieff Trudeau Ghoul John Juno
Is Donald Trump Being A Dick๏ผŸ Mr. Poilievre It's Time To Get Dirty (or you and Canada are over)

Episode Stats


Length

8 minutes

Words per minute

197.97

Word count

1,635

Sentence count

147

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

sentences flagged

Toxicity

6

sentences flagged

Hate speech

1

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Summary

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I just finished watching the Liberal Leadership Debate and it was a tough slog. I don't agree with most of the things they said, but it's hard to hear what they have to say when you're not paying attention to what they're talking about.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hi there, it's John and welcome to the channel 818 p.m. on Tuesday, February the 25th.
00:00:05.440 I do not have my big blue mug of coffee too late at night.
00:00:08.480 I do have a mug of water here and I just finished watching the liberal leadership debate.
00:00:14.540 And oh my God, it was tough to get through those two hours.
00:00:18.180 And honestly, I started watching it and about 10 minutes in I turned it off,
00:00:23.780 but I was watching it on YouTube with Juno, Juno TV, I guess you could say,
00:00:27.740 with Candace Malcolm and Kian Bextie. And I went back to it and I watched every minute of it.
00:00:32.700 And it was a tough slog. I have to say it really was.
00:00:35.680 I don't agree with liberals and it's hard to hear what they have to say.
00:00:39.660 But somebody actually tweeted on X, this isn't a debate because it wasn't a debate.
00:00:46.180 What would you call it? And I said, ambient replacement therapy,
00:00:49.520 because I'm glad I didn't have to watch it in an Eastern time zone.
00:00:52.900 I'm in the mountain time zone. I would have been asleep by the end of this thing.
00:00:55.620 So, what did I hear from these four candidates?
00:00:59.920 We had Karina Gould, Frank Bayliss, Christy Freeland, and Mark Carney on stage.
00:01:04.880 What did I hear from them?
00:01:05.780 I heard a lot about bigger government, about more government in my life.
00:01:10.680 I heard more about programs.
00:01:12.580 I heard more about expanding on programs we already have,
00:01:15.400 childcare, dental, things like that.
00:01:17.280 And they all said they wanted to give a tax cut,
00:01:21.580 but if you are going to expand on programs and make government bigger,
00:01:25.700 and Gould's really into that.
00:01:26.940 She's an all-on socialist.
00:01:28.820 This costs money.
00:01:30.640 So, you either have to raise taxes or you have to spend more money,
00:01:33.900 which means more deficits.
00:01:35.500 And we've been running deficits for 10 years.
00:01:37.940 So, I heard a lot about bigger government.
00:01:40.000 And of course, oh my God, the first three or four questions were Trump,
00:01:43.680 Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.
00:01:44.920 They bashed Trump, bashed Trump, bashed Trump.
00:01:48.100 And then any time they had an opportunity through the two hours,
00:01:52.020 Donald Trump got thrown into the mix over and over again in his oncoming tariffs.
00:01:56.700 So, I heard a lot about that.
00:01:57.660 Now, what I didn't hear about were the things I wanted to hear about.
00:02:01.460 The things that Pierre Polyev has been talking about.
00:02:04.040 People are bashing Polyev so much,
00:02:06.520 but he's been right on point since he became the leader of the Conservative Party on so many issues.
00:02:12.740 Like drugs, the fentanyl issue.
00:02:14.560 They never mentioned it that I remember.
00:02:16.840 Maybe I zoned out for a moment, but I didn't hear it.
00:02:19.880 I didn't hear about crime.
00:02:21.160 Immigration was touched on for a second by Mark Carney,
00:02:24.660 but it wasn't even a topic tonight.
00:02:27.280 I didn't hear anything about borders.
00:02:28.860 I didn't hear about oversized government.
00:02:30.680 I mentioned they wanted bigger government.
00:02:32.400 Our government has grown between 30% and 40% since the Liberals got in in 2015.
00:02:38.800 It's too big.
00:02:40.140 Nobody mentioned it.
00:02:41.040 The dollar exchange.
00:02:42.160 Never heard about that.
00:02:43.260 They all, most of them said at one time or another that, you know,
00:02:46.340 Canadians are not buying America.
00:02:48.100 And I think it was Christy Freeland said,
00:02:49.720 Canadians aren't going south.
00:02:50.880 They can't afford to go south.
00:02:52.920 The dollar is so weak right now.
00:02:55.200 I want to go down south, mountain biking, but I can't.
00:02:57.800 I can't do that.
00:02:58.600 That's 30%, 35% on the dollar.
00:03:01.400 I can't do that.
00:03:02.480 What I didn't hear about really was the cost of living.
00:03:05.840 Of course, they said Canadians are struggling,
00:03:07.980 but they just basically had platitudes.
00:03:09.780 How are you going to get the price of this down?
00:03:11.380 I brought this as a prop,
00:03:12.480 and this is how I judge what it's costing me at the grocery store. 1.00
00:03:18.000 It's the economy, stupid. 1.00
00:03:19.500 They don't really talk about the economy when it dealt with Canadians. 1.00
00:03:22.580 The people have to go out and buy groceries.
00:03:25.360 A couple of years ago, this was $2 a liter for cream.
00:03:29.720 American friends, $2 a liter.
00:03:31.640 It's more than you're spending right now.
00:03:33.960 It's now $4 a liter.
00:03:36.520 How do we get the price of this down?
00:03:38.840 That's what I wanted to know.
00:03:40.000 I heard nothing about the cost of living that really would do anything for me.
00:03:44.000 They talked about climate change.
00:03:45.580 It was the last thing they got into before they wrapped it all up.
00:03:49.440 They're all against the carbon tax,
00:03:52.320 except Gould, who wants to continue with it now,
00:03:54.900 because she's a climate cultist to the nth degree. 1.00
00:03:57.120 I had really no idea until I watched this tonight.
00:03:59.660 The other three have never even heard about the carbon tax, from what I understand.
00:04:03.600 It's like they never even voted on this thing.
00:04:07.220 Carney said, and it's been on this channel many times, it was too low.
00:04:10.180 The other people on this stage all voted to put it up.
00:04:12.320 And from what I understand, it's still going to go up on April 1st.
00:04:15.560 I don't think it's quite been cancelled as of yet.
00:04:18.260 They're depending on their Team Canada rhetoric to pull them through this.
00:04:22.020 And it's working. 1.00
00:04:23.980 There are enough stupid people in this country that are going to vote for this party. 1.00
00:04:29.340 A number of them said that Paulieff keeps saying Canada is broken. 1.00
00:04:33.060 It is broken, folks.
00:04:34.740 And it's broken because of the Liberals.
00:04:36.860 The reason we're in this trouble for Donald Trump, I hate to sound like a broken record,
00:04:41.840 is because of the Liberals.
00:04:43.840 We would not be here right now if we'd have done all the things they say they're going to do now,
00:04:48.340 10 years ago.
00:04:49.280 Building pipelines, getting natural resources out of the ground,
00:04:52.460 building our economy, making jobs.
00:04:54.160 But they all wanted that to die because of climate change.
00:05:00.140 Now, as far as the host goes, Hamathibodeau,
00:05:02.480 she said, well, that was a great debate a number of times after they wrapped up one of their little topics.
00:05:07.940 There wasn't any debate in this at all.
00:05:09.980 She was an awful moderator in this. 1.00
00:05:12.380 You know, as a moderator, I've done it many times.
00:05:14.100 You want to be fair, but you want to ask probing questions, tough questions.
00:05:18.380 So you get some answers.
00:05:20.440 But I don't think she went into this with the right frame of mind.
00:05:24.600 Or she was told to take it easy on them.
00:05:26.660 And I think that's probably the case.
00:05:28.240 Now, as far as each of the candidates go, Carney didn't say much about anything.
00:05:33.860 He just said nothing.
00:05:37.400 He didn't really have answers on anything.
00:05:40.440 We never learned anything about how he'll be a disaster for Canada,
00:05:43.980 how he rallied banks to defund oil and gas in Canada,
00:05:47.780 defended the carbon tax, as I mentioned,
00:05:50.100 how he worked with Trudeau.
00:05:52.120 He never even heard of the guy.
00:05:53.500 And they were all critical of the government over the last 10 years,
00:05:57.940 even though three, you know, a couple of them on stage there were part of it.
00:06:01.560 All of them have supported this government.
00:06:03.680 Freeland was a big part of the disaster we've had over the last 10 years.
00:06:07.760 She seems incapable of understanding how, or that she was even part of it.
00:06:12.160 She doesn't see dead people, but she hears from four-year-olds about complex issues.
00:06:16.660 Apparently, she brought up this thing about this little kid asking about
00:06:19.720 how she can save the world, or Canada, from Donald Trump invading.
00:06:23.460 Apparently, four-year-olds ask this.
00:06:25.500 I think it was years ago when Jimmy Carter was president.
00:06:30.520 I think it was called the Malay speech,
00:06:32.180 and he talked about how he used to chat with his daughter about nuclear war.
00:06:36.040 Well, this is what Freeland says.
00:06:37.900 She has complex discussions with four-year-olds about complex issues.
00:06:41.740 Ghoul, as I mentioned, is a socialist.
00:06:43.700 She hasn't got a chance.
00:06:45.400 I don't think three of them on stage have a chance.
00:06:47.380 Although, I think Bayliss sounded the most reasonable of the four.
00:06:52.400 I think of all four, if there was one person I had to vote for one of them,
00:06:56.820 I would have voted for Bayliss.
00:06:58.180 I think he's the most reasonable person up there.
00:07:00.320 I don't think he's exciting enough.
00:07:02.160 But I think he had some good ideas that the other three didn't have.
00:07:06.520 None of them seem to remember that in some way or another,
00:07:09.960 they've been part of the problem for the last 10 years.
00:07:12.180 And that's what I got out of this.
00:07:14.620 It's really quite sad.
00:07:16.000 It was a joke.
00:07:18.680 Now, the other thing I'd like to mention here,
00:07:20.980 and I think this is something that we can all hang our hats on if we're conservatives and feel good about,
00:07:26.940 I think Pierre Polyev would destroy any of these people in a debate.
00:07:31.980 He will rip them to shreds in a debate.
00:07:35.680 And that's what I'm looking forward to.
00:07:37.380 I almost didn't watch this tonight because I really don't care.
00:07:39.820 I'm concerned about the real election campaign that's coming up and the debate between Polyev and the next leader who will likely be Mark Carney.
00:07:48.120 But Polyev will destroy any of them. 0.91
00:07:50.260 He's that good.
00:07:51.500 So feel good about that.
00:07:52.600 But, you know, watch some of the clips.
00:07:54.440 But nothing of note was really said tonight.
00:07:57.420 It was an absolute joke.
00:07:59.200 There wasn't any debate in it.
00:08:00.560 And it was really disappointing.
00:08:02.160 Thanks so much for watching.
00:08:03.860 I hope you have a great morning.
00:08:05.620 I'm going to put this one up in about six hours.
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