John Bolton - December 19, 2025


Winners, Losers & Absurdity — A snapshot from the world

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hostile vehicle mitigation
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John Bolton
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Doug Ford Mark Carney Scott Moe Ron DeSantis Guthrie Bondi Christopher Hitchens Elections Alberta Sheila Gunn-Reed Pierre Poilievre Rosemary Barton Airdrie Cochran Stephen Brown Stanley Cups Derek Smith Tony Abbott Diana Rogers Michael Ma Peter John
An Important Voice For Alberta Independence - Tanya Clemens (APP Board) Quebec The PARASITE of CANADA - CUT THEM OFF!!!!

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As we get closer to Christmas, John reflects on the winners and losers of the past year and the absurd things happening around the world. Doug Ford, Mark Carney, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and more!

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel. Friday, December the 19th, 5, 11 a.m. I hope
00:00:08.460 you're having a great start to your Friday morning. One day from the weekend, six days
00:00:12.840 until Christmas Day. Merry Christmas to you and yours. I tip the big blue mug of coffee
00:00:17.520 to you. Hope you're having happy holidays so far. I'm in a good mood. I hope you're
00:00:22.400 in a good mood. I hope you enjoy the Christmas holidays as much as I do because I really
00:00:27.120 like Christmas. I love putting up Christmas decorations. I've got this wreath about this
00:00:31.220 big between my door and our next door neighbor's door that lights up in the afternoon. I've
00:00:36.080 got these little Santa Clauses on my front deck on the stairs. I've got a wreath on the door.
00:00:42.160 All the Christmas decorations went up late November, closer to the 1st of December. It's
00:00:47.600 so exciting. I feel thankful at this time of year because we don't have as much government.
00:00:53.200 Government has actually taken an extra week off for Christmas this year. You'd think
00:00:56.940 they'd have spent more time over the Christmas holidays working after a year when they haven't
00:01:01.560 really worked that much. But I feel thankful that they're not there because they can't
00:01:05.340 do quite as much harm. I've been looking at some of the year-end interviews with Pierre
00:01:10.960 Paulieff and Mark Carney. Same rhetoric. I'm going to play a short clip of Carney in just
00:01:14.800 a moment. I'm going to make fun of him. So don't worry. It's not going to be that
00:01:18.060 cringeworthy. But I woke up this morning looking at winners and losers this week and some
00:01:23.780 of the absurd things that are happening even on a worldwide basis. It's just crazy some of the
00:01:30.540 things that are going on right now. It's tragic, but you have to laugh. So that's what we're going
00:01:35.020 to do today. We're going to look at some winners and losers and the absolute absurd today as we get
00:01:40.300 closer to Christmas. We're going to start off with a loser. And this is Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario. 0.94
00:01:48.120 What's the vision you get when you think of Doug Ford over the last year? The thing I think about
00:01:56.320 when I think of Doug Ford is I think of him pouring a bottle of Crown Royal out. Remember when he did
00:02:00.660 that? That's how I'm forever going to remember Doug Ford. But I'll also remember him for this,
00:02:05.860 this gaffe this week, and the follow-up from Governor Ron DeSantis. You may have seen this. If
00:02:11.260 you haven't, it's priceless. I'm doing it out of my own personal choice because I just can't do it.
00:02:20.000 But don't let this guy change your lives. If you go down and you see, you know, maybe their
00:02:24.420 grandparents are down there. Maybe they're somewhere else. So we'll get through this. But
00:02:29.260 they're hurting down there right now. They're hurting on all fronts. They're hurting on their economy.
00:02:34.340 Doug Ford continues to do what he does so often. He speaks before he thinks. And he makes himself
00:02:40.640 look like a fool because Governor Ron DeSantis followed up with this. Florida breaking records 0.99
00:02:45.300 when it comes to tourism in the second quarter of 2025. What he types here is just brilliant.
00:02:50.160 Actually, we continue to break tourism records and in brackets and win Stanley Cups.
00:02:57.360 So what Doug Ford should actually be doing is getting on the phone with his good buddy,
00:03:03.000 Mark Carney, and telling Carney to solve the tariff issue. Because you realize that this tariff thing
00:03:08.720 has been floating out there for more than a year. And this is what Mark Carney had the gall to say to
00:03:15.180 Rosemary Barton in a year-end interview regarding Canada's relationship with the United States.
00:03:21.300 We are in a stronger position today with the United States than we were at the start of the year.
00:03:27.220 That's great, Mark. But tell that to the 40,000 to 50,000 people and their families
00:03:32.020 who have lost their jobs just before Christmas because you didn't do your job. And now moving
00:03:38.400 on to the absurd. Talk about not reading the room. There's this. This is from Jihad Watch.
00:03:44.640 After Jihad Massacre in Australia, Canada's security top dog meets Muslim leader to discuss
00:03:50.480 combating Islamophobia. And this is from CSIS Canada. Just to let you know, the I in CSIS is
00:03:56.500 supposed to be intelligence. Not a lot of intelligence here. Today, Director Dan Rogers
00:04:01.980 met with NCCM CEO Stephen Brown to discuss shared interests in combating Islamophobia and keeping
00:04:08.120 Muslims safe in Canada. I like this comment down here. Rogers didn't meet with anyone to discuss
00:04:15.120 combating Jihad violence. That would have been Islamophobic. Here's a great quote from Christopher 0.89
00:04:21.680 Hitchens. Remember this one. Islamophobia, a word created by fascists and used by cowards to
00:04:27.220 manipulate morons. Speaking of morons, remember when this guy did this earlier this year, along with 1.00
00:04:32.600 Australia, France, and England? For the reasons I cited earlier, Canada intends to recognize the 0.99
00:04:38.880 state of Palestine at the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly. Yeah, moron. There is no 1.00
00:04:46.020 Palestine. Just to let you know. Moving on. Oh, sorry. You weren't supposed to see that.
00:04:51.220 Moving along to this. This is an Alberta-centric story, but good news. This is protecting children.
00:04:56.720 Earlier this year, the province of Alberta wanted to protect children from experimentation.
00:05:01.900 And that's what it is. There was an injunction. It's been held up in court. The injunction was lifted.
00:05:07.340 Good news for children in the province of Alberta. You can read the title there. Moving on to this guy.
00:05:13.820 You know, we have a problem with dividing the right. We have that in Alberta. You know, I remember when I
00:05:19.700 mentioned to you when Michael Ma walked across the aisle about a week ago, and I said to you,
00:05:24.920 what would it take you to become a liberal? And you would have thought about it for less than half a
00:05:29.240 second and thought, nothing. I couldn't become a liberal. These people are more left-wing than they
00:05:32.920 are conservatives. They've started up a new party here called the Progressive Tory Party of Alberta,
00:05:38.200 which will divide the right. Here's a little bit from Mr. Guthrie. MLA, Airdrie Cochran.
00:05:43.580 In the effect of December 18th, Elections Alberta has approved a new name. Our name is now the
00:05:51.220 Progressive Tory Party of Alberta. So that's right. There will be another conservative option on the
00:05:58.400 ballot in the next election. I commented on this tweet from Mr. Guthrie. And what did I have to say?
00:06:04.380 I said, a vote for you is a vote for Nenshi, for those people who don't live in Alberta.
00:06:08.120 The head Nenshi, former mayor of Calgary, an absolute nightmare, is now the head of the NDP
00:06:14.380 in the province of Alberta. I've got Derek Smith here, unacceptable fringe. Another vote split.
00:06:19.380 Go home, Peter. You're drunk. I'll vote for independence, not a bunch of conservative
00:06:23.160 dinosaurs from grandfathered parties. He's right. We need to grasp onto this opportunity in the new
00:06:29.180 year to vote for independence in the province of Alberta. Then we move on to another winner,
00:06:33.660 and this would be Scott Moe, the premier of Saskatchewan, here with Sheila Gunn-Reed
00:06:37.880 from Rebel News. And this was tweeted out from the CCFR. That's the Canadian Coalition for Firearm
00:06:44.720 Rights. And Premier Scott Moe saying, if you live in Saskatchewan, the feds are not going to get your
00:06:49.560 guns. When the letters go out, if they do in the new year, if the government, federal government
00:06:54.680 actually moves on this policy, you don't have to turn your firearm in in Saskatchewan because no one's
00:07:00.360 going to come get it. However, the letters will very clearly state that with the implementation
00:07:05.000 of this legislation federally, that you're now participating in a criminal act as per the federal
00:07:12.860 government. Now, I suspect at some point there'll be a government that changes this policy, and so it
00:07:16.920 won't be a criminal act forever. It would be my suspicions. However, for the time being, that may be a
00:07:23.480 problem for some individuals that are in professional careers. Well done to Premier Scott Moe in the
00:07:29.160 province of Saskatchewan for doing this, but he's right. If you do not hand your gun in, it'll
00:07:34.440 probably be the same here in Alberta because we're not going to do this either. But if you don't hand
00:07:39.680 your gun in, you'll be breaking the law. I can see this happening in the future. Just keep it in the
00:07:43.660 back of your head. You've got a law-abiding citizen from Saskatchewan or Alberta. They haven't handed
00:07:48.480 their gun in. They're going on a winter vacation to Florida. They're trying to get on an airplane. The
00:07:53.660 feds know they haven't handed in their gun. They're now in shackles, and that law-abiding
00:07:57.960 citizen goes to jail. It's tyrannical, but expect that to happen. Now we move along to the absurd 0.85
00:08:03.380 and some losers as well. The absurd is this. This is the loser, the Birmingham City Council in England, 0.97
00:08:10.760 a bunch of losers. Talk about twisting yourself into pretzels so you don't have to point out the 1.00
00:08:16.720 real problem here. Big changes for Birmingham City Center. We've installed hostile vehicle mitigation.
00:08:24.940 They've even got an acronym for it, HVM bollards, and upgraded CCTV at strategic locations to keep
00:08:34.760 everyone safe in the city center. So they have to put up bollards to keep people safe in this town.
00:08:41.360 These measures stop hostile vehicles from entering pedestrian areas so you can enjoy the famous
00:08:47.880 Frankfurt Circus Market with confidence. You're in danger without these bollards in Birmingham. I
00:08:56.220 wonder why. And here, thanks to AI for creating this hostile vehicle for me. Generally, it's the person
00:09:05.620 behind the wheel that's the hostile person. It's a great article here from Tony Abbott. For those of you
00:09:12.960 who don't know, former Australian prime minister, Bondi massacre is what happened when assimilation
00:09:19.120 fails. Islamists don't integrate. They infiltrate folks. Like Canada, modern Australia has always 0.99
00:09:26.840 been a settler nation, yet it was long expected that migrants would integrate almost immediately
00:09:31.180 by mastering the English language and participating in employment, education, and sport in the course of
00:09:37.000 eventually assimilating into the Australian mainstream, at least by the second generation. He brings
00:09:41.880 up Canada here. The failure of multiculturalism. Under the doctrine of multiculturalism, which found
00:09:48.000 its way to Australia from Canada in the 1970s, there has been a rise in hyphenated Australia's vacuous
00:09:53.860 slogans such as, our diversity is our unity, or I guess in Canada's case, diversity is our strength,
00:09:59.760 and professional ethnics with a vested interest in discerning discrimination and even racism supposedly
00:10:05.860 pervading every aspect of Australian life. This is what really needs to change. In the wake of the 0.90
00:10:11.840 Bondi massacre, as it feeds a sense of grievance, which pernicious ideologies like Islamic State 0.99
00:10:17.960 can then exploit. And then we've got this. Can you imagine tweeting this out as Toronto police trying
00:10:26.000 to find somebody and you can't even see the person's face? Apparently there is a picture with the real face,
00:10:32.020 but maybe the Toronto police didn't want to be called Islamophobic.
00:10:39.600 Just a look at some of the winners and losers right now and the absolute absurd. Thank you very
00:10:46.500 much for watching. I do appreciate it. If you liked the video, give it a thumbs up, subscribe to the
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