John Bolton - February 02, 2025


Mark Carney - Bull$#!t Baffles Brains (re-upload)


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Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

183.14804

Word count

939

Sentence count

68

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Hate speech

1

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Trump Tariffs Day is upon us, and I'm here to talk about it. I also talk about how Mark Carney doesn't seem to understand what he's actually saying, and how he's not a communicator.

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00:00:00.080 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 8.42 a.m. on Trump Tariff Day, Saturday, February the 1st.
00:00:08.180 And I'm grinning, but it's sad that this day has come.
00:00:12.820 How we're going to get out of it is going to be very interesting over the next little while.
00:00:16.800 I've got the big blue mug of coffee today, lots of talk about Trump tariffs today.
00:00:20.540 I actually did a whole video on this. I might release it later today. I don't know.
00:00:24.880 But I wanted to talk about something that's been in the back of my mind over the last few days.
00:00:29.140 Now, for those of you who don't know me, I'm a radio broadcaster.
00:00:32.980 I was, I guess I was a radio broadcaster, 30 to 35 years, semi-retired now.
00:00:38.600 And something I learned from the time I went to school at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario in the mid-80s,
00:00:43.800 right up until the time I retired from radio, was be concise.
00:00:48.080 I had teachers, I had news directors, sports directors, program directors.
00:00:52.380 John, time is money, be concise, say what you need to say in as few words as possible.
00:00:56.360 And people, they can do that. You can understand, you believe, and you get the feeling that what they're saying is something they believe in as well.
00:01:06.040 Now, over the years, I became a big fan and an admirer of Rush Limbaugh.
00:01:10.240 And for those people who don't know, Rush Limbaugh was a huge broadcaster.
00:01:13.960 He made the words appointment listening an actual thing.
00:01:16.960 People used to set their alarms to listen to Rush.
00:01:19.900 I used to tune in at noon when I was out east, and when I came out here into Alberta, I'd tune in at 10 o'clock in the morning.
00:01:26.800 And every time I heard, my city was gone by the pretenders.
00:01:29.740 And still to this day, I think of Rush Limbaugh.
00:01:32.040 Limbaugh was a giant, completely changed talk radio the way we know it.
00:01:35.700 He said something on the radio one day that I never forgot.
00:01:39.080 And it was a quote from William Shakespeare.
00:01:40.800 It was,
00:01:41.080 Brevity is the soul of wit.
00:01:44.140 And that, in those few words, eloquent words from Shakespeare, is what all those people over the years in broadcasting tried to convey to me.
00:01:52.500 Brevity is the soul of wit.
00:01:54.300 And that's the quote I think about when I hear Mark Carney speak.
00:01:58.120 So I'm going to play a clip from Mark Carney.
00:02:00.980 Now, this is just a short section of a long description of his climate plan.
00:02:05.460 And then right after it, I'm going to play a clip from somebody who translates Mark Carney.
00:02:11.300 Somebody you know very well, who in just a few words, and who might know the phrase,
00:02:16.440 Brevity is the soul of wit, is going to tell you what Mark Carney actually believes.
00:02:21.080 So listen to this clip.
00:02:22.700 And do you believe what Mark Carney is saying?
00:02:25.740 Do you understand what Mark Carney is saying?
00:02:28.740 And does Mark Carney believe and understand what he's actually saying in this short clip?
00:02:33.780 The way the system works, it's large companies that are affected by the output-based pricing system.
00:02:41.060 So small and medium-sized companies that have relatively low carbon footprints.
00:02:45.420 This also affects them.
00:02:47.600 The carbon tax comes off them as well.
00:02:50.760 Then they get a choice, and we'll design the incentive system for them.
00:02:54.680 They get a choice whether to reduce emissions and also benefit from these types of credits.
00:03:01.020 So we'll show those specific amounts to households for the various actions, small businesses.
00:03:09.180 And then we as a government will take the emission reductions, those credits,
00:03:16.500 and we will let them be sold into the output-based pricing system market, which has a credit system.
00:03:23.100 Every time I hear Carney speak extemporaneously, when he's not on script, that's what he sounds like to me.
00:03:33.100 William Shakespeare had another quote,
00:03:35.020 Bullshit baffles brains.
00:03:37.720 No, actually, Shakespeare didn't say that, but that's true. 0.63
00:03:41.100 I had an English teacher who used to put BSBB on the board
00:03:44.500 when you were padding, you know, everything you were writing in class.
00:03:49.800 Bullshit baffles brains.
00:03:51.220 And that's what Mark Carney is doing here.
00:03:53.460 I don't believe anything he says.
00:03:55.140 I don't know that he believes anything he says.
00:03:57.580 I don't even think he understands anything he says.
00:04:00.020 You can kind of get the gist of what he's saying,
00:04:02.160 but he does not know the phrase,
00:04:04.660 Brevity is the soul of what he's not a communicator.
00:04:07.940 And he does not connect with me.
00:04:09.500 Does he connect with you?
00:04:10.480 Here, I'm going to end this video with somebody who translates
00:04:16.460 what Mark Carney just said in just a few words,
00:04:19.860 and you'll understand every bit of it,
00:04:21.760 and he's somebody we need to run our country.
00:04:24.600 I appreciate you watching this video.
00:04:26.500 Thanks so much.
00:04:27.380 If you liked it, give me a thumbs up.
00:04:28.940 Please share it.
00:04:29.600 Subscribe to the channel, and I'll see you in the next one.
00:04:32.820 He's announced that he will pause the carbon tax for a few months
00:04:36.480 right before the election to trick people into re-electing the liberals.
00:04:40.480 After the election, he will bring in a much bigger carbon tax
00:04:44.420 when he no longer needs your vote, but still needs your money.
00:04:48.420 He has said that this bigger carbon tax will only apply to businesses.
00:04:53.460 Well, that's how it is now.
00:04:55.320 When you fill up your tank today,
00:04:56.900 there's no CRA tax collector standing there waiting to collect it from you.
00:05:01.080 It applies on the wholesale industry,
00:05:03.100 which passes it on to the retail vendor,
00:05:05.440 who pass it on to you.