John Bolton - April 24, 2026


These Clowns Think You're Stupid.... Don't Be Manipulated


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98

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 519 AM, Friday, April the 24th. I hope you're having a
00:00:09.440 great start to your Friday and your weekend as well with the big blue mug of coffee, which I
00:00:14.040 tip to you. Now, this is a story about manipulation and how easy it is to manipulate people. I think
00:00:21.780 governments have learned how to do this and I think they use this as guinea pigs. And there's
00:00:25.900 one thing that happened a few years ago that certainly proved that to me. Governments,
00:00:32.200 politicians, and people in power think you're naive. They think you're stupid. And you know 1.00
00:00:37.240 what? I think some people are stupid and some people are naive, but a lot of us have clued in. 1.00
00:00:42.580 Now, what am I talking about a few years ago? Well, I'm talking about the COVID years. You were 1.00
00:00:47.900 a guinea pig. You were a rat in a maze. As a matter of fact, I was doing a live stream the 1.00
00:00:53.060 other night on the Alberta Women's Independent Network with Angela Tabak. And we had Lieutenant
00:00:58.540 Colonel David Redmond on, who's been around for a long time and has got some experience with this.
00:01:04.420 And I said to the Lieutenant Colonel, during COVID, were we those rats in a maze? Were we
00:01:09.100 guinea pigs for the government to learn how to manipulate us? I mean, stand on the dot, people
00:01:13.660 did. Wear a mask everywhere, people did. Roll up your sleeve, people did. Walk in a specific
00:01:19.380 direction in a grocery store. People did because if you walked in the other direction, somehow you'd
00:01:24.800 get the virus. Were we being used? Was this some type of psyop? And he said, yes, it was, John.
00:01:30.140 They learned a lot how to manipulate people during COVID. And they're doing it today. And
00:01:34.520 every government around the world uses the same thing now. Let's look at what happened in Ontario.
00:01:40.820 Okay. Doug Ford buys a plane. The opposition parties and the Ontario legislature lose their
00:01:46.680 minds. People in the public think, why should Doug Ford have an expensive plane? I can't afford
00:01:52.300 food. Doug Ford sells the plane. The backlash continues. What does Doug Ford do? He runs to
00:01:58.140 CNN and screams Trump. And that's what he's done. Nobody's talking about the plane anymore. You have
00:02:04.720 been manipulated. And the same thing is happening in Alberta. We need to be prepared for this. We
00:02:10.480 are prepared for this. We're not going to be manipulated. Albertans are not stupid. But Jason
00:02:16.140 kenny and others are dragging out donald trump and they're trying to scare you and manipulate you
00:02:21.500 here is the former premier of alberta i am concerned that if this gets on the ballot and
00:02:27.020 it ends up on fox news every day the president is going to see this and want just he will have
00:02:33.420 a hard time resisting the temptation to create mischief on this leaning into it i can see him
00:02:41.320 making offers of absolving alberta's debt i hope the prime minister raises it with him directly
00:02:46.280 and says look i i'm not going to advocate that alaska be annexed by canada or there should be
00:02:52.880 a referendum for like this is just you cannot do this it goes too far i hope that there's
00:02:57.220 some direct words shared on this that this would be like a bridge too far this is going to be
00:03:04.300 the playbook going ahead do not be manipulated by this this is everywhere i can hardly wait 0.90
00:03:11.280 for Keith Wilson to debate this clown and rip him a new one. And you might want to play a drinking
00:03:16.840 game every time he mentions foreign interference or foreign money or brings up Donald Trump. You're
00:03:22.460 likely to be absolutely plastered by the end of the first debate. But Thomas Lukasik, the head of
00:03:28.200 Forever Canadian, does this. It's everywhere. It's spreading everywhere. It's all Donald Trump
00:03:32.860 feeding the independence movement. That is not true. Here's what Lukasik says. Forever Canadian
00:03:37.600 will win the referendum despite the premiers and foreign interference despite foreign cash
00:03:42.800 backing separatism. Eva Chipiak, how does someone who claims the moral high ground,
00:03:48.660 casting himself as a defender of the vulnerable, continue to make statements that are demonstrably
00:03:53.700 untrue again and again and still be taken seriously? Absolutely. Ladies and gentlemen,
00:04:00.860 a week ago, Mitch Sylvester asked people to contribute a bit more so they can reach their
00:04:05.640 cap of about $580,000 for Stay Free Alberta. That's it. And they have to report where the
00:04:12.960 money is coming from. Here are the receipts from my bouncy castle day. I spent $100. A friend of
00:04:19.760 mine gave me $100. Another friend of mine gave me $100. A $300 day so that I could buy some coffee,
00:04:26.700 some pizza, and put up a bouncy castle. This had to be reported. People like former Premier Jason
00:04:33.160 Kenney, former Deputy Premier Thomas Lukasik, Premier Doug Ford in Ontario. Politicians around
00:04:39.240 the world, they think you're stupid. They think you're gullible. They think you're easily 1.00
00:04:43.700 manipulated with Trump derangement syndrome. Don't buy it, folks. Albertans didn't buy it.
00:04:48.800 We're not stupid. All you have to do is look at the map from the election last year. 0.98
00:04:52.700 For those people who live out east who don't know where Alberta is, it's out here. It's this blue
00:04:56.700 part, all blue other than a couple of seats. It was the Albozos out east that voted for the demise 1.00
00:05:03.780 of Canada. Albertans saw through the TDS and voted for something better. We will again 0.91
00:05:09.060 with Albert independence. I understand there's a reluctance to sign the petition out here for
00:05:14.880 independence. There is uncertainty. I understand that there are challenges. I'd be lying to you
00:05:20.900 if I didn't tell you. You still have questions. You're not sure. But we're coming up on the final
00:05:26.380 weekend of the petition campaign here. Sign the petition. You know, I think we're going to blow
00:05:32.000 the Forever Canadian petition right out of the water. People like Thomas Lukasik and the people
00:05:36.580 who are in the Forever Canadian campaign, they only managed to get 450,000 signatures in a
00:05:42.000 province of more than 5 million people. I don't think that's a glowing endorsement for Canada,
00:05:46.420 folks. I think that's an absolute failure. And what they don't tell you, and you need to understand,
00:05:52.740 The State Free Alberta petition campaign had to get identification of these people.
00:05:57.920 People would show up.
00:05:58.880 They wouldn't have ID.
00:05:59.780 They couldn't sign.
00:06:01.060 Thomas Lukasik and his Forever Canadian people could sign up anybody.
00:06:04.600 Didn't matter their age.
00:06:05.860 Didn't matter where they were from.
00:06:07.580 So I question the validity of their petition.
00:06:12.460 It is the final weekend.
00:06:14.560 This is your final opportunity.
00:06:16.660 Go out and sign the petition this weekend.
00:06:18.620 be part of a growing movement for independence here in Alberta, and don't be manipulated wherever
00:06:25.040 you may live. Thanks very much for watching. If you like this video, give it a thumbs up,
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