John Bolton - November 25, 2025


“WHO CARES？” — Carney’s Base Cheers the Shrug - They don't care either


Episode Stats

Length

9 minutes

Words per Minute

180.14368

Word Count

1,630

Sentence Count

142


Summary

Who Cares? is a question that has been on everyone s mind since Prime Minister Paul Ryan said it on the House of Commons floor. Is it really so hard to care about something that doesn't matter to most people?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 For your information, there are a lot of people in this country who don't care. It's not just the
00:00:05.060 Prime Minister. Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 352 AM, Tuesday, November the 25th.
00:00:15.100 Just before I get into this video, which I hope isn't very long today, I just wanted to let you
00:00:20.220 know that I care. I really do. Got my big blue mug of coffee. I hope you're having an awesome day
00:00:29.260 today. I've been up since just after two o'clock this morning. Yesterday, I didn't pay a lot of
00:00:36.280 attention to the news, so I guess I owe you an apology for that, because something's happened
00:00:40.900 over the last, I guess, 24 hours or so that I kind of ignored yesterday. We got a lot of snow in
00:00:46.120 Calgary yesterday. Here's a picture out the back of my house at about 2.30 this morning. There were
00:00:50.700 probably people in my neighborhood wondering why there was lightning. I was taking some photos with
00:00:55.740 the flash this morning, but we got 10 to 15 centimeters of snow, maybe 4 to 5 inches of
00:01:00.400 snow for those of you who still like that old imperial scale, which I do. But I didn't pay
00:01:06.280 a lot of attention to the news yesterday, and there's a big story that popped out. I kind
00:01:09.540 of got wind of it, but I was out keeping up with the snow yesterday. I was out early. I got
00:01:14.120 rid of some snow, but it just kept coming down. I went out there with my neighbor in the afternoon
00:01:17.640 and cleared out snow. So I didn't spend a lot of time on the news yesterday, but this
00:01:22.700 was the thing that got a lot of people's attention yesterday.
00:01:25.940 I'm sorry. Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? I mean, it's a detail. It's a detail. I spoke
00:01:33.640 to him. I'll speak to him again when it matters. I mean, the sort of, comme j'ai dit, nous sommes
00:01:39.820 très occupés. You know, I'm always happy to, sorry, I slipped into French because I anticipated
00:01:45.620 the en français thing. I look forward to speaking to the president soon, but I don't have a burning
00:01:55.060 issue to speak with the president about right now. When America wants to come back and have
00:02:02.300 the discussions on the trade side, we will have those discussions.
00:02:05.520 Who cares? And you're right to go after this uncaring prime minister for a flippant remark
00:02:14.060 like that. Who cares? And I'm going to show you, I've got a different take on this. I'm
00:02:19.720 going to show you in just a moment why this doesn't matter at all. It doesn't make any
00:02:25.700 difference that he said this. It makes a difference to you. It makes a difference to the conservatives
00:02:31.420 who got a gift here. This is a gift. I'm going to show you a possible scenario for the conservatives
00:02:37.320 in just a moment. All right. But you could tell he realized he made a mistake here because
00:02:43.680 he went into the French. I left a little bit in that clip, edited out most of it. And
00:02:47.680 then he made a joke about it at the end, right? Everybody's ha ha ha ha. But then he goes on
00:02:51.560 to say something even worse, I think, or at least as bad as who cares. I don't have a burning
00:02:56.820 issue to speak with the president about right now. Now it wasn't a burning issue when he
00:03:01.740 said this, but his staff is saying, Mr. Prime Minister, you messed up. You effed up big time.
00:03:06.860 They're trying to set up a meeting with Trump now because it is a burning issue. It's a big
00:03:11.420 burning issue. But this doesn't matter at all. There's a lot of people in the country,
00:03:14.620 like I said, right off the top of this video, a lot of people in this country who don't
00:03:18.540 care that he talks to Trump, who don't care that we have a trade deal with Trump. These
00:03:24.420 are the people who live next door to you, probably family members. If they cared, they wouldn't
00:03:28.520 have voted for Mark Carney and the liberals on April the 28th. Now, as I said, Paulie have
00:03:36.620 the conservatives, they have got a gift here. Now, it wouldn't look like this, but you might
00:03:42.460 have a commercial that sounds a little bit like this.
00:03:46.140 Mr. Prime Minister, people are living on the streets.
00:03:49.740 Who cares?
00:03:51.340 Mr. Prime Minister, deficits are too high.
00:03:54.660 Who cares?
00:03:55.980 People can't afford homes.
00:03:57.980 Who cares?
00:03:59.340 The cost of living is too high.
00:04:01.500 Who cares?
00:04:02.780 Food prices continue to rise.
00:04:05.300 Who cares?
00:04:06.980 People are losing their jobs.
00:04:09.380 Who cares?
00:04:10.820 Inflation is too high.
00:04:12.820 Who cares?
00:04:14.100 Expect a commercial that sounds something like that.
00:04:16.900 Paulie has already on this.
00:04:18.740 Here he is in the House of Commons.
00:04:20.340 Since he took office, not only has he failed to get the promised deal, but American tariffs
00:04:25.620 on aluminum, autos and steel have doubled.
00:04:29.380 On forestry communities, they have tripled.
00:04:32.660 The Prime Minister says, who cares?
00:04:34.820 All of us on this side of the House care about the communities that are being emptied out in
00:04:39.780 our forestry.
00:04:40.900 The steel workers in Hamilton who don't have jobs to pay their mortgages.
00:04:45.460 We care about those people.
00:04:47.060 Why doesn't he?
00:04:48.340 We care about those people.
00:04:50.980 Expect to see the conservative who cares commercial on your phone, your tablet, your TV soon.
00:04:58.980 It was a gift to the conservatives, their right to use it.
00:05:02.020 It charges up the conservative base.
00:05:04.180 People are pissed off that he would say something like this.
00:05:07.860 But again, it makes no difference to the people who voted for the Liberals.
00:05:10.740 Here's Warren Kinsella on X.
00:05:14.660 I've gone over this in my mind a few times and I still can't think of a single reason
00:05:18.180 why it was advisable for Carney to say, who cares about meeting Trump?
00:05:22.260 Was he having a bad day?
00:05:23.300 Was he drunk?
00:05:23.860 Was he bored?
00:05:24.500 Really, really bizarre.
00:05:25.460 I don't know that he was having a bad day.
00:05:28.180 I don't think he was drunk.
00:05:28.980 I don't think he was bored.
00:05:29.780 I don't think it's really bizarre.
00:05:30.980 I think this is the way he's been programmed since January to use Trump to his advantage.
00:05:35.700 This charges up his base.
00:05:37.700 They're happy that he said this.
00:05:40.820 Here's Thomas Mulcair on PowerPlay discussing this.
00:05:45.700 And this is exactly the sentiment of most people who vote Liberal and who hate Donald Trump.
00:05:50.820 Fair enough, but I'm not quite ready to give up on my take on who cares, Mike.
00:05:57.140 And I'll simply say this.
00:05:58.260 I found it wonderfully refreshing.
00:06:01.060 And I found it the exemplar of elbows up.
00:06:04.500 It's like, I'm not going to worry about that blubbering fourth grader who dominates the news cycle
00:06:09.700 day in, day out.
00:06:11.060 I'm going to talk to him when we have something substantive to talk about.
00:06:14.100 And by the way, the talks are continuing behind the curtains.
00:06:18.740 That's exactly the message.
00:06:20.580 I find it wonderfully refreshing, says the former leader of the federal NDP.
00:06:26.260 Oh, for Christ's sakes, Tom.
00:06:28.020 It's the exemplar of elbows up, he says.
00:06:30.820 But this is pretty much the opinion of the people who heard Mark Carney say, who cares?
00:06:36.580 They don't care.
00:06:38.900 They care more about hating Trump than they do about their own country.
00:06:42.420 If you're to go online right now, just go to X, put in who cares.
00:06:47.460 Now, I just grabbed a couple of screen captures from the first 10 things that popped up.
00:06:52.260 Here's one right here.
00:06:53.140 Sounds like a strong leader to me, someone not willing to put up with Trump's BS.
00:06:56.900 Here's another one right here.
00:06:58.260 I replied to this guy, people who live in this declining country care, you obviously don't.
00:07:03.540 Here's another one here.
00:07:04.740 He calls Trump a P over and over and over again.
00:07:19.620 Canada.
00:07:21.860 There's this one.
00:07:22.500 Mark Nixon put this one out.
00:07:24.020 Mexico has officially passed Canada as America's top export market.
00:07:27.620 Who cares?
00:07:28.980 You'd rather we kiss Trump's ass?
00:07:32.420 That's the attitude of people who heard this the other day.
00:07:34.980 It matters not one bit.
00:07:36.500 And I saw this online today.
00:07:37.860 I thought I'd show this to you.
00:07:39.220 This, I put the stages of liberal voter cope.
00:07:42.580 That's what this is labeled in my computer.
00:07:44.980 You can see it up there in the top corner.
00:07:47.700 But this is where we were back before the election.
00:07:50.420 Only Carney can get a deal.
00:07:52.420 He said he'd get one by, what, July 31st?
00:07:55.300 And then they moved on to, it won't be perfect, but we'll get a deal.
00:07:59.700 Now we got to, if we don't get a deal, it's not Carney's fault.
00:08:03.140 And here we are now, no deal is the best deal.
00:08:06.420 So really this matters not at all that he said, who cares, but expect the commercials
00:08:10.980 from the conservatives.
00:08:14.260 Now, what I do care about, I care about the independence movement.
00:08:18.820 I've got an interview in about three hours.
00:08:20.980 It's just three to four hours with Jeff Rath, lawyer for the Alberta Prosperity Project.
00:08:26.900 I'm going to be talking with the Saskatchewan Prosperity Project as well.
00:08:31.540 The independence movement is on the rise in Saskatchewan now.
00:08:36.900 It's going on out in Quebec too.
00:08:38.980 The country's coming apart at the seams right now.
00:08:40.660 So expect interviews in the next week on those different things.
00:08:44.820 Maybe Jeff Rath tomorrow.
00:08:46.420 But these are the things I really care about.
00:08:49.940 Even though Mark Carney doesn't care very much about his country right now and you.
00:08:55.380 Let me know what you think in the comments.
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