John Bolton - April 14, 2025


Liberal ROT - One button at a time


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5 minutes

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168.98264

Word count

908

Sentence count

73


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It's Monday morning in Canada, and the internet is abuzz with the story of the so-called "button" planted by the Liberals to smear the Tories. Is this a dirty trick? Or is it part of a larger strategy to distract voters from the real issues at hand?

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. It is Monday, April the 14th, 5.33am with the Big Blue
00:00:06.020 Mug of Coffee. Hope you're having a great day today. I've got Blue with me today. Here he is.
00:00:10.820 Say hi, Blue. Hope you had a great weekend. You know, I'm back to feeling about 100%. For those
00:00:16.540 of you who knew, I wasn't around much of last week. I'm about 100% now. So I hope you had a
00:00:22.500 good weekend. And yesterday, you may have been following the button story. The crazy things
00:00:29.340 that come up in Canadian election campaigns. But yeah, there was a lot of talk about buttons
00:00:34.100 yesterday. And I woke up at one o'clock this morning thinking about buttons. And I grabbed
00:00:39.560 my phone and I started emailing myself. My wife said, what are you doing? I said, well, I'm
00:00:43.640 emailing thoughts to myself for the morning. Because I saw this story, probably like you
00:00:47.980 yesterday, and I thought about doing a video on it, but I wanted to think about it a little
00:00:51.380 bit. So I've got something a little different for you today. I'm thinking differently than
00:00:55.220 what other people probably had on the internet yesterday. And I wrote something. So I hope
00:00:59.120 you'll excuse me. There's some quotes in this that I can't remember. I wrote this
00:01:04.460 down. So I hope you'll excuse me if I do read it off the screen. So here's what I
00:01:07.500 wrote this morning on the button story. All right. The internet was abuzz yesterday with
00:01:13.560 stories and videos and pictures of the buttons allegedly planted by liberal election staffers
00:01:18.880 at the Canada Strong and Free Network Conference in Ottawa in an attempt to smear the Tories, stop
00:01:25.400 the steal, make Canada great again, free Alberta, and others were found. All the usual YouTubers
00:01:31.160 were aghast. Reporters were aghast. Politicians were as well. Conservative Michael Barrett said
00:01:37.800 it was the liberals, quote, who are attempting to bring American-style politics to our country,
00:01:43.300 unquote. And he also said, quote, one wonders what other dirty tricks the liberals are behind
00:01:49.540 as they desperately seek to distract from their disastrous record while seeking a fourth liberal
00:01:54.660 term, unquote. More on that in a moment. Calgary Nose Hill MP Michelle Rumpel-Garner tweeted,
00:02:01.300 this is the sort of divisive crap the liberals have pulled on Canadians for a decade. And she's right.
00:02:07.060 It's indicative of the rot that permeates the liberal party. The fish rots from the head,
00:02:13.400 is the saying. And the liberals rotted plenty in the years Trudeau headed the party,
00:02:17.480 now replaced by Mark Carney. The liberals say it has nothing to do with the members of their team,
00:02:22.840 but the pettiness of this probably hasn't escaped you. And another story of dirty tricks. Conservative
00:02:29.960 candidate for Nepean Barbara Ball released a video claiming the liberals were using her wooden stakes
00:02:35.460 for liberal signs at her riding. Ball is running against Mark Carney. Ball has filed a police report.
00:02:42.920 Petty once again. This button story reminded me of my thoughts when the liberals decided they were
00:02:50.400 going to micromanage our lives and ban plastic straws. And I may have mentioned this on my channel
00:02:55.520 before. Please excuse me if I have. But it came to mind again with this button story. Now, plastic straws
00:03:03.220 seem like such a small, insignificant thing, like the button story. Many people dismissing it as
00:03:09.280 meaningless, not worthy of mentioning. I think it's indicative of something much bigger. Any party
00:03:16.800 that would ban its citizens from making the choice of using plastic straws is capable of doing anything
00:03:22.960 to us. At least that's the way I think of it. Like limiting free speech, censoring the internet,
00:03:30.560 keeping resources in the ground, taxing people on carbon dioxide, freezing bank accounts. I could go on.
00:03:37.600 Not petty at all. The button story is no different to me than Carney's incessant droning on Donald Trump.
00:03:46.240 Plant the button, the Trump message, and use it to your advantage and to the detriment of your opponent
00:03:52.640 and the country. He seems gleeful every time he mentions it with his eat it grin.
00:03:59.120 I'll get back to Trump and trade and everything because we can't avoid it.
00:04:03.680 I go back to Michael Barrett's quote from above. Quote,
00:04:06.640 One wonders what other dirty tricks the Liberals are behind as they desperately seek to distract
00:04:12.640 from their disastrous record while seeking a fourth Liberal term. Unquote. Hasn't Carney,
00:04:18.720 Carney's complete campaign, been a dirty trick?
00:04:21.440 Hasn't his campaign been based on distraction? Hasn't he been metaphorically planting buttons for
00:04:29.680 people to find and use to his advantage and to the detriment of his opponent and you?
00:04:36.960 In a country that needs serious leadership and economic relief, one wonders how long Carney can
00:04:43.360 continue to beat the Donald Trump dead horse with two weeks to go in this campaign. Meanwhile,
00:04:49.440 the other guy, Pierre Polyev, is rising in the polls, talking about change and making life more
00:04:56.080 affordable and sounding more prime ministerial by the day. Carney seems like a one Trump pony,
00:05:03.920 his party rotting from the head while he plants his buttons. Let me know what you think. A little
00:05:11.840 different today. I do appreciate it. If you could share this, that would be great. Give the video a
00:05:16.800 thumbs up again, subscribe to the channel, ring the bell for notifications, and I'll see you in the next one.