John Bolton - January 14, 2025


Who The Hell Is Running The Country？


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In this episode of the Big Blue Mug, John talks about his optimism and pessimism about the future of our country and what's going to happen in the election. He also talks about Kevin O'Leary's interview with the Toronto Sun's Brian Lilly and why he should be our Prime Minister.

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 451 AM on Tuesday, January 14th, with the
00:00:05.360 big blue mug of coffee.
00:00:06.620 Hope you're having a great day today.
00:00:08.540 I certainly am, but I am feeling both optimistic and pessimistic at the same time.
00:00:16.200 I'm optimistic because a couple of videos I saw yesterday, and I'm pessimistic because
00:00:20.240 of the same videos I saw yesterday.
00:00:23.480 So as far as the optimism goes, an interview that Premier Daniel Smith of Alberta, my premier,
00:00:29.840 had with some people on the phone.
00:00:31.820 It looked like she was in a hotel room, perhaps still in Florida, because she was down there
00:00:35.340 talking to Donald Trump about working with the United States when it comes to our oil
00:00:39.760 and gas industry.
00:00:40.660 Very important.
00:00:41.520 So very optimistic because she's down there speaking on behalf of my province, and I believe
00:00:47.160 speaking on behalf of our country as well.
00:00:49.560 Now, the other thing I saw yesterday was an interview with Kevin O'Leary.
00:00:54.300 Brian Lilly did a masterful job talking with Mr. Wonderful for the Toronto Sun.
00:00:58.780 Link in the description.
00:01:00.200 It's about 16 minutes long.
00:01:02.040 O'Leary pulls no punches at all.
00:01:04.140 It's fantastic.
00:01:05.360 Now, as far as Kevin O'Leary goes, incredibly optimistic and pessimistic at the same time
00:01:10.620 because of him as well.
00:01:12.060 Now, I did a video a little over a month ago where I brought him up when it was talking
00:01:18.100 about the Department of Government Efficiency in the United States.
00:01:21.660 Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy.
00:01:23.740 The video was called, Mr. Polyev, call Kevin.
00:01:28.000 We need a Department of Government Efficiency.
00:01:30.720 And I had this to say about Mr. Wonderful.
00:01:33.520 Really?
00:01:34.020 We don't have anybody of the stature of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy?
00:01:38.200 No, we do.
00:01:39.300 We have Kevin O'Leary, you know, the Shark Tank guy.
00:01:43.220 He's, you know, I see him on Fox News, but he's on CNN.
00:01:46.600 He does hits all over the place, business networks and whatnot.
00:01:49.460 A millionaire, he's a watch guy.
00:01:52.400 I'm a watch guy.
00:01:53.320 Of course, he has a lot more expensive watches than me, but he's the guy that should head
00:01:58.500 up the Department of Government Efficiency in Canada.
00:02:01.080 So O'Leary may not be leading up a Department of Government Efficiency, but at least he's
00:02:05.580 out there speaking on behalf of Canada, trying to make some deals.
00:02:08.560 He says in that interview that he worked with Premier Daniel Smith.
00:02:12.560 They've got a $70 billion investment coming to Alberta.
00:02:16.440 So that is fantastic news right now.
00:02:18.580 Now, I'm very pessimistic for another reason, because these two people, O'Leary and Smith,
00:02:25.300 are great leaders.
00:02:27.000 One is a politician.
00:02:28.260 The other is a business person.
00:02:30.200 But we have no leadership in this country right now.
00:02:33.080 Who the hell is running our country right now?
00:02:36.700 It's not Justin Trudeau.
00:02:38.520 He's a lame duck.
00:02:39.520 He's basically disappeared.
00:02:41.000 We don't have any leadership.
00:02:42.520 All we're doing is talking about leadership.
00:02:44.580 And I guess I'm guilty of that, because I've been talking about the liberal leadership campaign
00:02:49.080 for days now.
00:02:49.920 Everybody is.
00:02:50.840 What loser liberal is going to get into the race? 1.00
00:02:54.420 The names right now would be Freeland and Champaign.
00:02:57.340 We've got a couple of no-names who have their name in for the leadership right now.
00:03:01.820 And the actual leader of this country, Justin Trudeau, the lame duck, all he's doing is leading
00:03:07.900 his team behind Mark Carney.
00:03:10.040 The same architects of destruction are leading up a man who will just lead us farther down
00:03:16.980 that road of destruction, including a guy named Gerald Butts.
00:03:20.660 Watch the O'Leary interview with Lilly.
00:03:23.380 This is what he had to say about Gerald Butts, who is backing Mark Carney right now.
00:03:28.480 Gerald Butts, by the way, is behind Mark Carney's campaign to become the next liberal leader.
00:03:34.540 Yeah, no, I've heard that rumor, and if that's true, people should understand in Canada, Gerald
00:03:40.540 Butts is Canada's antichrist.
00:03:43.880 He is beeligible.
00:03:44.780 Those are strong words.
00:03:46.320 No, no, no, it gets worse.
00:03:48.040 He has blood on his hands because he impoverished 25% of the Canadian population.
00:03:53.840 They're now living below the poverty line.
00:03:56.160 He wiped out the economy of Canada.
00:03:58.100 He is sheer evil, and the fact that he would come back, I mean, I've got to let every Canadian
00:04:04.420 know, the only reason I'm able to bring capital back is I've told them, Trudeau's gone, Butts
00:04:10.440 is gone, liberals are gone, we're going to open the country back up.
00:04:13.740 If he gets near government, the country will go bankrupt.
00:04:18.680 Unbelievable.
00:04:19.740 Gerald Butts is the antichrist, and Gerald Butts is one of the people pushing Mark Carney
00:04:24.740 to be our new prime minister.
00:04:26.160 You see why I feel pessimistic?
00:04:29.820 Meanwhile, we've got Melody Jalee, our foreign affairs minister, threatening energy export
00:04:35.960 restrictions.
00:04:36.920 Energy from Alberta.
00:04:38.960 Here's what Premier Danielle Smith had to say about her.
00:04:42.260 First of all, it's oil and gas that's owned by the provinces, principally Alberta, and we
00:04:49.020 won't stand for that.
00:04:50.320 And you should never, ever threaten something you cannot do.
00:04:54.420 And I would encourage the minister to look at a map of where Line 5 goes.
00:05:02.660 Line 5 comes down through Michigan to get to Sarnia, and then that feeds the bulk of the
00:05:10.680 supply needed for Ontario and connects with Line 9, which feeds the bulk of the product needed
00:05:17.700 for Quebec.
00:05:19.700 And so if you cut off that line, you are cutting off Ontario and Quebec.
00:05:24.760 So I would encourage the ministers to either understand how our integrated pipeline system
00:05:31.940 works and start looking at ways that we would be able to practically respond.
00:05:39.540 Because there's no point in making empty threats that cannot be executed on.
00:05:46.040 So Premier Smith is basically saying, hands off Alberta's oil.
00:05:50.560 I won't put up with it.
00:05:51.880 Neither will Albertans, which includes me.
00:05:54.540 She says, you don't understand pipelines and don't make empty threats.
00:05:59.400 It was Trudeau Sr. who likened Canada to a mouse and the United States to an elephant.
00:06:03.920 We're going to get stepped on in any situation like this.
00:06:07.260 Meanwhile, you've got a businessman who makes quite clear in the interview with Lilly, he's
00:06:11.260 not speaking on behalf of the Canadian government, but he's showing some leadership.
00:06:16.080 What did he tell Donald Trump about our current situation politically here and the people who
00:06:20.680 are actually supposed to be speaking on behalf and leading our country?
00:06:24.220 Listen, I went down and asked Trump personally, look, cut some slack for Canada.
00:06:27.880 Give us a chance.
00:06:28.700 Give us a few months to elect a leader.
00:06:30.720 He may not do that.
00:06:32.000 I have no idea, but he understands our dilemma.
00:06:33.820 We have no leadership.
00:06:34.960 There's no point in negotiating with a minister who's going to get wiped out in the next election.
00:06:39.600 O'Leary basically saying what everybody knows.
00:06:41.880 These people are going to be shown the door.
00:06:43.480 They're not going to have a job very soon.
00:06:45.080 That includes Melanesia Lee, our foreign affairs minister, who's going to make a mess of 1.00
00:06:50.340 things if we don't have some real leadership, which we don't have right now when it comes
00:06:53.660 to our federal government.
00:06:54.800 Thank God we have people like Kevin O'Leary and Danielle Smith speaking on behalf of
00:07:00.520 Canada right now and trying to make some deals.
00:07:03.980 I voted for Danielle Smith.
00:07:05.800 I believe in her.
00:07:06.920 I think she's a good leader.
00:07:07.960 You've got the, you know, the regular liberals and far leftists online totally disgusted that
00:07:13.260 Kevin O'Leary and Danielle Smith could be talking to Donald Trump.
00:07:16.760 Their Trump derangement syndrome gets in the way every time.
00:07:20.620 They'd rather have a trade war with the United States of America than try to work this thing 0.91
00:07:25.300 out.
00:07:25.640 What is Kevin O'Leary saying about Danielle Smith?
00:07:29.200 You know, frankly, Danielle Smith is a very, very important person in North America.
00:07:35.620 There's more or there's more oil and gas in Alberta than all the United States.
00:07:40.600 She is the trade deficit.
00:07:43.220 She's way ahead of anybody else in Canada right now.
00:07:45.840 She's smart to have done that.
00:07:48.080 And so, you know, you've got everybody throwing barbs at Trump.
00:07:51.140 They don't have a relationship with him.
00:07:53.120 One day they might.
00:07:54.500 But right now, she's the leader of the pack. 0.70
00:07:57.700 So O'Leary is really high on Danielle Smith.
00:08:00.180 She's a leader, which we need right now.
00:08:02.620 Time's running out, folks.
00:08:04.040 And it frightens the hell out of me because there are enough stupid people in this country
00:08:10.800 that will continue to vote liberal and vote for what I call the architects of destruction.
00:08:16.220 It's frightening.
00:08:19.220 And that's why I have a certain amount of pessimism as well as a little bit of optimism.
00:08:24.400 Thanks very much for watching the video.
00:08:26.060 I do appreciate it.
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