John Bolton - October 11, 2025


The 5 Stages of LIBERAL Voter COPE

Topics
liberal cope stages
Hosted by
John Bolton
Mentioned
Donald Trump Pierre Poilievre Mark Carney Thomas Sewell Abby Lewis Maple Maga Carleton Seiko TDSer John Kohl
Government Groceries - Now with more SOCIALISM and less EVERYTHING Carney's FREE lunch - The END of Canada

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6 minutes

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181.21

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1,105

Sentence count

112

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2

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Toxicity

2

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1

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The 5 Stages of Liberal Cope: Denial, Anger, Negativity, Bargaining, bargaining, Depression, Acceptance, and Finally, the PDSers. They live in the five stages of liberal cope.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. Saturday, October the 11th. I hope you're
00:00:07.300 having a great start to your Saturday. It is 3.20 a.m. And just to prove it, here's
00:00:13.780 my old Seiko. It's called a Dancing Hands Watch. Very cool watch. It is 3.20 in the
00:00:18.800 morning. I've been up for going on two hours, I think. My wife was going to sleep as I was
00:00:25.000 getting up this morning. Couldn't sleep anymore and I thought I'll get up and shoot a video
00:00:28.120 because I'm going to have to get another hour of shut eye, probably before 6 o'clock. And
00:00:32.440 I figure if I did that, I wouldn't do a video today. And I had an idea before I went to bed
00:00:37.080 last night. By the way, I do have my big blue mug of coffee. It tastes oh so sweet at this
00:00:43.440 time of the morning. If you haven't subscribed to the channel, please click on subscribe.
00:00:47.240 So the idea I had was based on a tweet that I had in a video yesterday about government
00:00:51.340 run grocery stores. If you haven't seen it, I'll put a card at the end. Abby Lewis, who's 0.97
00:00:55.880 running for the leadership of the NDP, seems to think this is a good idea. And of course,
00:01:04.140 the liberals are going to need the support of somebody to get through the budget or there
00:01:08.320 could be a vote of non-confidence and the government will fall. So what are the liberals
00:01:12.000 willing to give the NDP? Government run grocery stores? Just because an idea is insane, folks,
00:01:16.960 doesn't mean it won't happen when it comes to politics. Thomas Sowell, right?
00:01:21.120 And what I did on that video yesterday, I had a tweet at the end that kind of explained
00:01:27.320 everything that was going on. And this guy named Kohl's, and here's the tweet right here
00:01:31.060 on the screen. This idea, meaning government run grocery stores, is not the result of increasing
00:01:36.500 general prosperity across Canada. This is a cope for a systemically degrading economy and country.
00:01:45.680 And I thought of the word cope. Now, you know about the five stages of grief. I always forget
00:01:51.720 what they are. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. So this video is the five stages
00:01:57.240 of liberal cope. So I wrote this down. I hope you don't mind if I read it off the screen. And maybe
00:02:03.000 what we can do here, a little exercise for you. Tell me if you have any additional things to add to
00:02:08.200 this list. Maybe there's more stages that I'm missing here, or there's other things that I haven't
00:02:12.960 referenced when it comes to the different stages of liberal cope. So number one, much like the five
00:02:18.500 stages of grief, you've got denial. Okay. So they deny anything is wrong. Everything is fine, you see,
00:02:24.840 despite the fact Canadian wages are falling behind other countries. Standard of living is dropping.
00:02:30.500 Food prices are rising. Deficits are astronomical. Tariffs are higher. Economic growth is stagnant.
00:02:37.240 Their country is even more divided than before. They think healthcare is free. Government is
00:02:42.620 responsible with money and the liberals are truthful and above reproach. In the mind of the liberal
00:02:47.480 voter trying to cope, everything is fine. So that's denial. Up next, we've got anger. Another
00:02:54.120 stage of grief. We've got anger. They lash out at anyone who won't accept their view that Canada is
00:03:00.860 perfect in every way. The economy is booming. The liberal party is supreme. And Mark Carney is the
00:03:07.520 smartest and most respected politician on the planet. If you disagree, you're Maple Mega, a traitor, 0.81
00:03:14.380 or a member of the Third Reich. They use words like, if you don't like it, you can always leave. So
00:03:20.880 that's the anger stage of cope for the liberals. Up next, this is something we're taking a little bit
00:03:26.720 of a different turn here, but you've got the PDSers. Now, what is a PDSer? You know what a TDSer is?
00:03:32.380 Well, these are the Polyev derangement syndrome people who live on the liberal side of the political 1.00
00:03:38.440 spectrum. Polyev derangement syndrome. Okay. They bring up where he lives. So they have to talk about
00:03:43.580 the fact that he lives at Stornoway and the taxpayers pay for his accommodations. They complain
00:03:50.260 that he lost his seat in Carleton all the time. He doesn't have his security clearance. They're still
00:03:56.140 talking about that. Has an ironclad pension, never had a job. Lash out at him for doing his job,
00:04:03.200 which they don't realize is criticizing the liberal government. He's the leader of the opposition.
00:04:09.380 They have an irrational hate for Pierre for rightfully pointing out that Canada is broken.
00:04:14.300 So these are the PDSers. And then we move on to the TDSers. Okay. So the five stages of liberal cope
00:04:21.080 is TDS. They've got Trump derangement syndrome. He lives rent-free in their brains and consumes
00:04:27.240 their lives. They blame all of their problems on Donald Trump. They voted for the liberals because
00:04:33.620 of Donald Trump. They voted for Carney because of Donald Trump. They voted against Pierre Polyev
00:04:40.200 because of Donald Trump. They ignore 10 years of Canadian decline because of Donald Trump.
00:04:47.560 They don't realize Trump is a symptom. Mark Carney and the liberals are the disease. And the final 0.97
00:04:54.480 stage of liberal cope, much like the stages of grief, is acceptance. They accept the continuing
00:05:01.540 decline of their country. They try to make Canada seem better by comparing it to the United States,
00:05:06.720 mentioning things like guns and health care and crime and education, as if dragging down the U.S.
00:05:12.000 raises up Canada. They quote, useless polls about Canada's superiority. They claim failure to negotiate
00:05:18.860 a deal with the United States is an indication of Mark Carney's superior negotiating skills. So we've
00:05:25.040 got anger. We've got denial, PDSers, TDSers, acceptance. I only hope that the liberals can have one 0.90
00:05:34.760 more stage when it comes to their politics, and that would be regret. Regret that they voted liberal
00:05:41.220 in the first place. Thanks very much for watching. Tell me what you think. Leave some comments below. I might
00:05:46.260 follow up on this one in a couple of days. If you like the video, please give it a thumbs up. Subscribe to the
00:05:51.340 channel. Ring the bell for notifications. I'm going to sit down for about a half an hour. I'm going to drink my big
00:05:56.720 blue mug of coffee and likely head back to bed around 5 a.m. to get some more shut-eye. Have a great
00:06:02.540 Saturday morning and a great weekend. I'll see you in the next one.