John Bolton - October 28, 2025


We Are RULED by STUPID People - Of Course CARNEY KNEW (an election is coming)


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Length

7 minutes

Words per minute

183.37602

Word count

1,384

Sentence count

133

Harmful content

Misogyny

3

sentences flagged

Hate speech

1

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Summary

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Rob Ford's Ronald Reagan ad is a big hit in the United States of America, but what's the real story behind it? Is Mark Carney involved in the creation of the campaign? And why did Ford run it through his good buddy, Mark Carney?

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 425 AM, Tuesday, October the 28th.
00:00:08.320 I hope you're having a great start to your day today.
00:00:11.220 I do have my big blue mug of coffee with me today.
00:00:13.760 I tip it to you, and I had another video ready to go on YouTube in about five minutes.
00:00:20.100 I'm holding off on it.
00:00:21.260 I'm very proud of it.
00:00:22.060 I think you're going to like it.
00:00:23.080 I'll get to it later.
00:00:23.880 But I wanted to weigh in on the continuing saga of Doug Ford in the Ronald Reagan ad campaign
00:00:32.000 and how Mark Carney may be involved.
00:00:34.200 I've got a bit of a different perspective, I think, on this one.
00:00:38.240 I don't think this is any surprise to you, but we're being ruled over by stupid people.
00:00:43.900 You know that.
00:00:45.520 Plato said, those people who say they are too smart to be engaged in politics
00:00:50.380 are ruled over by people who are too dumb.
00:00:53.720 And folks, there's a lot of dumb going on here.
00:00:57.440 You have to look at it this way.
00:00:59.080 Somebody in Doug Ford's office, some underling, saw this 1987 video of Ronald Reagan.
00:01:04.940 It went all the way up the chain of command.
00:01:06.820 It got to Doug Ford, and he said, yeah, let's create a video out of this.
00:01:11.280 We'll allocate the funds.
00:01:12.380 We'll run it in the United States of America.
00:01:14.580 He ran it through his good buddy, Mark Carney, who said it was absolutely fine to run this ad.
00:01:20.380 Now, I initially thought that, and I said this in a video previous,
00:01:24.340 that Doug Ford was poking the bear,
00:01:27.660 that he was simply doing this because he wanted to be malicious,
00:01:30.520 because he's very critical of Donald Trump.
00:01:34.500 I think in many ways he should be critical of him.
00:01:38.240 He's got that right.
00:01:39.800 But I also thought he's been rather insulting of Donald Trump as well.
00:01:42.940 But nowhere along the line did anybody, right up to Mark Carney's office,
00:01:46.020 say, no, this is not a really good idea.
00:01:47.840 There's a guy named Robert J. Hanlon.
00:01:51.140 He's a writer and a professor.
00:01:53.160 And there's an adage named after him called Hanlon's razor.
00:01:57.280 And it goes this way, never attribute to malice, that which can be explained by stupidity.
00:02:02.580 And there's a lot of stupidity going on here.
00:02:05.940 So here is Rob Ford admitting that he ran this through his good buddy, Mark Carney.
00:02:10.800 And Carney was just fine with it.
00:02:12.420 About you and about this situation, but have you,
00:02:16.460 our relations with the Prime Minister, are things strained now because of what's happened?
00:02:20.620 No, not at all.
00:02:21.040 He saw the ad before I put it out.
00:02:22.600 So it is Chief of Staff.
00:02:24.220 They both saw it.
00:02:25.440 And we moved forward on it.
00:02:27.900 But again, we achieved our goal.
00:02:30.340 You know, as we say, mission accomplished.
00:02:32.020 It was done.
00:02:33.260 They're talking about it in the U.S.
00:02:34.960 And they weren't talking about it before I put the ad on.
00:02:38.140 So I'm glad that Ronald Reagan was a free trader.
00:02:41.840 So no one in Doug Ford's office, or Doug Ford himself, or Mark Carney's office, or Mark Carney himself,
00:02:48.640 thought this might not be a very good idea knowing Donald Trump.
00:02:52.360 We have to negotiate a trade deal here.
00:02:55.520 It's important to Canada.
00:02:57.140 It's important to Canadians.
00:02:58.280 But what's even worse is the fact that Doug Ford is standing out there and bragging about the number of hits he's got on this video,
00:03:06.180 like it's some kid in a TikTok video.
00:03:09.400 And that's the message we have to the American people.
00:03:12.820 And we're the third largest trading partner in the world, Ontario is.
00:03:17.420 And I wanted to get the message out there.
00:03:20.120 We achieved our goal.
00:03:21.880 And now we paused it.
00:03:23.940 We didn't have to spend the $75 million I thought we would, a fraction of that.
00:03:27.640 And I'll get the numbers for you shortly.
00:03:31.040 But what we did, we ended up with earned media of anywhere from 300 to 400 million people and impressions.
00:03:38.400 We call them views for the people at home.
00:03:41.000 But I was getting constituents calling me saying their relatives in India saw it, in Italy, Portugal, Scotland.
00:03:48.220 My niece in the U.K. said it was running all over in every outlet in the U.S. 0.62
00:03:52.560 So we achieved our goal.
00:03:54.300 And now we put it on policy.
00:03:55.740 You've got to hand it to Ford.
00:03:58.600 He certainly has got his money's worth from this ad campaign.
00:04:01.280 Lots of people have seen it.
00:04:02.500 But it's not having the desired effect.
00:04:04.880 To the contrary.
00:04:06.780 And there's a harsh reality coming that I'm going to talk about in just a moment for Doug Ford.
00:04:10.900 He goes on to talk about all the friends that he spoke to.
00:04:15.280 Some of them not on the same side of the political spectrum as him.
00:04:18.640 And he mentions my premier, Daniel Smith.
00:04:21.400 My champion, Wob Canoe.
00:04:24.600 He's 100% behind it.
00:04:26.160 Another champion.
00:04:27.880 Premier Eby as well.
00:04:29.940 So these are the premiers.
00:04:31.400 Total different political stripes than I am.
00:04:33.620 But we're all sticking together.
00:04:35.140 And I went right across the country and spoke to every single premier.
00:04:38.860 Daniel Smith doesn't like the ads, though.
00:04:40.380 Well, sure enough, yeah, well, of course, Daniel Smith doesn't like the ads because she's not getting her auto annihilated, her manufacturing, her steel, her life science sector.
00:04:49.880 She has a commodity called oil that the Americans need and want. 0.98
00:04:53.320 So she's going to be fine.
00:04:54.820 Ontario won't be fine if we sign a lousy deal.
00:04:57.740 I'd rather have no deal than a terrible deal that will cost jobs here in Ontario.
00:05:02.300 Daniel Smith doesn't like the ads because she's not getting her auto annihilated or her steel or aluminum.
00:05:09.940 Daniel Smith doesn't like the ads because she realizes how stupid they are.
00:05:12.860 She understands what's going on here.
00:05:14.520 And she realizes that this stupid ad campaign wasn't going to do any good.
00:05:18.280 To the contrary.
00:05:19.940 And what Doug Ford, this stupid man that you've seen on the screen here, doesn't understand is Alberta is going to sell its oil to the United States because you can't move our oil fields into the United States.
00:05:29.780 But Doug, you can move your auto sector into the United States.
00:05:34.880 It's going piece by piece.
00:05:36.080 Donald Trump's still got more than three years to go.
00:05:38.880 And all you're doing is being stupid.
00:05:40.680 I said he was being malicious.
00:05:41.940 No, this is stupidity to the nth degree.
00:05:46.440 Because what has this accomplished, Doug?
00:05:49.540 It's accomplished this.
00:05:51.320 Trump won't meet Carney for a while.
00:05:53.760 As Canadian PM says, they were close to a trade deal.
00:05:56.320 Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, another stupid politician. 0.96
00:06:00.420 The entire idea behind Premier Ford's advertising campaign, although I acknowledge ours was of a decidedly different scale, is to get the message out to Americans about the impact of tariffs on Americans.
00:06:14.260 The only people paying the additional 10% that the president announced the other day are Americans.
00:06:19.940 Their prices are going to go up.
00:06:21.560 So let's double down on the ads, says the stupid man out on the West Coast.
00:06:25.600 Let's double down on the stupidity.
00:06:27.240 Triple down on the stupidity, I guess you could say.
00:06:29.720 Now, I said that this wasn't malicious.
00:06:33.100 It was stupidity.
00:06:34.360 It can be both things, I guess.
00:06:36.360 But it might be another thing as well.
00:06:38.040 Maybe we're missing something here.
00:06:39.620 Why is this happening?
00:06:40.640 Why did no one say, stop, not a good idea, all the way up the chain of command, right to the Prime Minister's office?
00:06:48.080 Is this all done by design?
00:06:53.860 We know, you know, that Mark Carney got elected because of Donald Trump.
00:06:58.180 And if Donald Trump goes away, an election could be coming, folks.
00:07:02.100 So Doug Ford says, I'm going to put out these ads.
00:07:05.740 And Carney says, go ahead, Doug.
00:07:08.520 It just keeps the elbows up people in Mark Carney's lane.
00:07:12.920 It's all done on purpose.
00:07:16.000 Here's the pleb. 0.99
00:07:17.800 Mark Carney, let's destroy Canada.
00:07:20.020 Doug Ford, I'm in.
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