John Bolton - February 01, 2026


Something’s Off… Are We Repeating Last Year’s Chaos？ - Are we in a DOOM LOOP？

Great Speech Pierre... But A Major Lost Opportunity & Why It Doesn't Matter INDEPENDENCE gets a BOOST from an unexpected source - Rath sets the record straight

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I have this strange feeling we re reliving last year over again, and I ve had it for a week. I m going to show you what started this feeling of deja vu for me about a week ago, and why I think we re in a "doom loop".

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 502 AM, Sunday, February the 1st. I hope you're
00:00:07.940 having a great start to your Sunday and the first day of February as well with the big
00:00:12.620 blue mug of coffee. And this one might get a little bit weird, but stick with me on this.
00:00:19.840 I have this strange feeling we're reliving last year over again. And I've had this feeling
00:00:25.660 for about a week. And I'm going to show you what started this feeling of deja vu for me
00:00:30.620 about a week ago. And I'm going to play some clips here, but trust me, they're all really
00:00:34.380 short to keep this video down to a minimum. But I feel like we're reliving last year over
00:00:39.680 again. I'll explain more about that in a moment. But I woke up this morning at about two o'clock
00:00:43.540 this morning, I sent an email to myself and I sent two words and it was doom loop. Okay.
00:00:50.560 Stick with me. What is a doom loop? Well, it's a self-reinforcing cycle where one
00:00:55.540 negative event or condition triggers another, exacerbating the original problem and causing
00:01:00.040 a downward spiral. As a matter of fact, when I sent that email, I thought about an episode of
00:01:05.880 Star Trek The Next Generation. And for those of you who know the program, you might remember an
00:01:11.660 episode called Cause and Effect. At the beginning of the program, the Enterprise is destroyed and
00:01:17.700 you're seeing that video on the screen right now. But after they come back from the opening credits,
00:01:22.380 you see the Enterprise is fine, but it gets destroyed many times throughout the program
00:01:26.780 until they figure out how to get out of this loop and they save the Enterprise. And I'm going to
00:01:32.160 provide you with a solution to the doom loop at the end of this video. But that's how I feel things
00:01:37.100 are going. Now, why do I feel this way? Why have I had this feeling of deja vu and that we're reliving
00:01:43.540 last year over again? Well, where were we at this point last year in Canada? Carney had been around
00:01:51.540 for a couple of weeks. He announced his liberal leadership run on the 16th of January, if I
00:01:56.080 remember correctly. The conservatives were still riding pretty high in the polls, but everybody
00:02:01.320 was so excited about the conservative party. Everybody was so excited about Pierre Polyev because
00:02:06.860 we thought we were going to win a huge election. These people were really excited, save a few of them
00:02:11.920 who dropped out of this event, were really excited about the prospects for a conservative government
00:02:16.820 that were coming up. And where do we stand right now? Well, we've got Carney as the prime minister and
00:02:22.600 we just had the conservative convention over the weekend and everybody's so excited about Pierre Polyev.
00:02:28.740 Everybody's so excited about the conservative party. These people are excited about the conservative
00:02:34.120 party, save a few of them that dropped out. And everybody think there's a bright future coming
00:02:38.640 because an election's on the horizon, which we thought exactly the same thing last year.
00:02:43.500 And the crazy thing about it is everybody right now is saying exactly what they were saying last
00:02:51.740 year, which we heard a hundred times, which I talked about here on the channel, which you're well aware
00:02:56.740 of. But where this really started to dawn on me that we were reliving the same thing over again
00:03:03.400 and that we're getting into a doom loop was when Mark Carney put out a video about a week ago
00:03:07.820 that I called an election ad. And again, this is exactly what he was saying last year. Just a short
00:03:14.660 clip here for you.
00:03:16.060 Canada's new government is doing the same with our new by Canadian policy. We're on a mission to build
00:03:22.900 big for millions of homes that will improve affordability to major projects that will
00:03:28.280 transform our economy.
00:03:29.780 Those are basically the same things Carney has been saying since January 16th last year when he became
00:03:35.260 a candidate to run for the liberal leadership. And then we got the conservative convention here in
00:03:40.660 Calgary over the weekend. Everybody's high on the conservative party and Pierre Polyev wins 87.5%
00:03:47.180 of the vote. He did a great speech the other night. I was very complimentary of his speech,
00:03:51.820 but it was the same thing he's been saying over the last year or so. I got that feeling of deja vu again.
00:03:57.440 You probably did. I broke this great speech down, which went on for about 35 minutes to about 15 seconds
00:04:04.060 just to help prove my point.
00:04:06.240 We won the debate in the last election on every single one of the big issues on carbon taxes,
00:04:12.120 inflation, housing, resources, crime, drugs. And soon we will be proven right once again
00:04:18.380 on the wasteful and insane liberal gun grab.
00:04:21.640 And what was Pierre Polyev saying over the last year?
00:04:24.940 The liberals drove a half a trillion dollars of investment to the United States, mostly
00:04:29.960 by blocking our resource sector.
00:04:32.540 Mark Carney promised when he took office.
00:04:34.960 Canadians will hold account by their experience at the grocery store.
00:04:38.200 Our youth need homes, jobs and hope. This prime minister only offers them broken promises.
00:04:45.580 And Mark Carney has said he will not change any of the catch and release liberal laws.
00:04:49.980 They want to go ahead and take nearly a billion dollars away from border security and police officers
00:04:58.000 to go after licensed, law-abiding, trained and tested hunters and sports shooters.
00:05:02.900 And there were others there this weekend who had the same message that they've been saying for the last year.
00:05:08.420 Danielle Smith, very high profile. She only spoke for 10 minutes, but I can use her as an example as well. 0.55
00:05:14.200 They placed a production cap on our nation's most valuable strategic asset, the Alberta oil sands.
00:05:21.880 And along with it, an effective moratorium on the pipelines and oil tankers needed to take that oil
00:05:27.700 to markets around the world.
00:05:30.340 They put a Greenpeace activist, Stephen Guibault,
00:05:33.900 thankfully no longer at the cabinet table,
00:05:39.180 in charge of this assault on Canada's economy.
00:05:41.600 Conservatives believe in enhancing economic opportunity for indigenous communities
00:05:46.780 by providing ownership stakes and assets that will create billions of dollars in revenue
00:05:51.640 every single year, like pipelines and mines and countless other projects.
00:05:57.000 And here is some of what she was saying last year.
00:05:59.860 Measures like the emissions cap, the net zero electricity regs,
00:06:03.380 the net zero electric vehicle mandate and the energy industry advertising ban
00:06:07.180 must be stopped now.
00:06:09.040 So extremist former environment minister, Stephen Guibault, is still in cabinet.
00:06:14.360 I want for us to be able to build economic corridors.
00:06:17.780 I want us to be able to develop all of our resources from oil and gas
00:06:21.000 all the way through to critical minerals and beyond.
00:06:23.720 I will give you that they're very short clips,
00:06:26.500 but I could have made them much longer to prove my point.
00:06:28.780 I just wanted to make sure this video didn't get to be too long.
00:06:31.680 But things seem oddly familiar to me right now.
00:06:35.060 Maybe they're feeling that way for you as well.
00:06:37.360 The Conservatives are very high on themselves right now.
00:06:40.000 They had a convention this weekend.
00:06:41.540 They felt that way last year.
00:06:43.080 They're very high on their leader right now.
00:06:45.320 He just had a leadership review and did quite well.
00:06:47.860 They felt that way last year.
00:06:49.560 There's an election possibly coming.
00:06:51.740 They're feeling good about that.
00:06:53.080 They think they can win it.
00:06:54.440 Everybody's saying the same thing,
00:06:56.020 the Conservatives and the Liberals, as they did last year.
00:06:59.440 Feels oddly familiar, doesn't it?
00:07:01.100 But we're in a doom loop.
00:07:05.340 And we need to get out of the loop.
00:07:08.060 And what needs to happen to get out of the doom loop?
00:07:11.760 Well, a number of things.
00:07:12.640 And I think Polyev blew a golden opportunity the other night
00:07:15.740 to address one of the big ones.
00:07:17.740 And I said this during my analysis of his video the other day.
00:07:21.020 He didn't address the baby boomers.
00:07:23.340 The fate of the Conservative Party and Pierre Polyev are in their hands.
00:07:27.680 He didn't address them the other night during his speech.
00:07:29.980 Lost opportunity.
00:07:31.100 But the baby boomers have got to get their head straight. 1.00
00:07:33.780 They've got to start thinking logically and not emotionally.
00:07:36.300 They've got to start thinking like a Conservative and not like a Liberal.
00:07:40.240 The Conservatives have got to win an election.
00:07:43.500 But more importantly, they've got to win a majority.
00:07:46.500 Because if they win a minority, the first opportunity, the other parties vote non-confidence in the government.
00:07:54.240 And the government falls.
00:07:56.080 And we have another election cycle.
00:07:58.320 And the doom loop continues.
00:07:59.960 Do you think the Conservative Party and Pierre Polyev can win a majority government when we have an election?
00:08:13.820 I think it's highly unlikely.
00:08:15.960 Here's a prediction for you.
00:08:17.100 By the end of this year, Pierre Polyev will either be Prime Minister of Canada
00:08:21.360 or he will be in the category with Joe Clark of one of the biggest political losers of all time.
00:08:28.220 That's my prediction.
00:08:29.840 What do you think?
00:08:30.800 Kind of weird.
00:08:31.580 But I think we're in a doom loop.
00:08:34.480 And we need to get out.
00:08:35.740 Thanks for watching.
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