You really hammered⧸HURT me in the comments - The longest ballot video
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Summary
I stand by my decision to endorse Pierre Polyev in his riding of Battle River-Crowfoot. I have no connection with this riding and have no idea why he would run in it. I go through some of the comments and the reasons why I think he should have won in that riding.
Transcript
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Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 634 AM, Sunday, July the 20th, with the Big
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I hope you're having a great weekend, and I sincerely mean that.
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And today, I would like to have a heartfelt talk with you, a sincere talk with you, regarding
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And I had a thumbnail with me giving a thumbs up, saying, I endorse The Long Ballot.
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And of course, I'm talking about the riding where Pierre Polyev is running in Battle River,
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And boy, a lot of people didn't like what I had to say.
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I'm sure there are people who have been coming to this channel for months who are not here
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Now, I think some of those people didn't get my point.
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But I think a lot of people didn't watch my video to the end.
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And some people, there was one comment that came in, which I'm going to go through some
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You had some great points that I'd like to address.
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I don't take any of what I said back yesterday.
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There was one point that came in that hurt me on a personal level.
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But I don't think everybody watched the video to the end.
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You know, that probably cuts the most, but it's the most inaccurate thing people said about
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But I don't think everybody watched the video to the end where I said this.
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And I think we can just hold up this long list, which is probably going to be 10 feet
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long and say, look, how stupid this country is that it can allow this kind of thing to
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I think it's evident that I think this is all a joke.
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That came pretty close to the end of the video.
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So if you didn't watch all the way to the end, you might not have got my point.
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And some people did watch to the end and didn't get my point.
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I pointed out a number of things that are an absolute joke.
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Mark Carney comes back after 10 years of not being in the country.
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What I think is happening here, and you need to understand, I'm going to get to the comments
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You need to understand, I know where you're coming from when it comes to Pierre Polyev.
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I've said here, he may be the best prime minister Canada never has.
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I was introduced to him as a future prime minister.
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If you'd done any research, you would know that Pierre has been in Battle River Crowfoot,
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campaigning both with and without Damien Keurig.
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Your opinion is weakened by your lack of due diligence.
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You know, I did the video yesterday and I looked at it and I went, you know, I could
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He has not been in that riding prior to Damien Keurig sitting down.
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He may have been there as the leader of the Conservative Party, but he is not somebody closely
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Oh, I think Pierre should be able to run in this riding.
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What did you think when Mark Carney got parachuted into Nepean?
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I'm sure you were online going, the guy has no relationship with Nepean.
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You probably said that during the election campaign.
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He hasn't been in the country for 10 or 12 years.
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I always wondered how that could possibly happen.
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How can you go run in a riding that you have no connection with?
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And the hurtful comment is coming up right after this.
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Me and my husband are old eyes and are not what they used to be.
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To that election, we'd have to bring our best glasses and a ruler to make sure we could cross
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If the people who are doing this longest ballot thing are doing that on purpose to hurt
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people who have poor eyesight, they're bad people.
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The first guy I just talked about, the first comment, made the same point.
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I watched this channel before and even liked it.
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However, now hearing John refer to seniors and visually impaired people as complete idiots
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But if you got that impression, I do apologize.
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Personally, I don't let things bother me all that much.
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And now the only vote I want to make is for the referendum to be free from Canada.
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The only reason I will likely vote for Pierre is to block the left for as long as we are still
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John, all this political stuff is taking a toll on you.
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You maybe don't realize how bitter you're becoming just saying, I'm not bitter.
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I worked at a radio station where I talked a lot of politics.
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And honest to God, at the end, I'm getting older.
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I could not stand talking to people on the left.
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I didn't look at the comments from yesterday's video until this morning.
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But after watching this episode full of liberal bias, agreeing with this mockery, and your obvious dislike of Pierre, I'm done.
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I went out and covered when he came here to Calgary up at the airport.
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That was the second worst thing you could say to me yesterday.
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The other one was accusing me of calling seniors and people who are visually impaired idiots, which I would never do.
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Wow, I've liked and subscribed to you a long time and listen every day.
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I don't think you watched to the end or didn't get it.
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All listed candidates should have to put up a non-refundable $100,000 to be on the voter list.
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So what I commented on this, a lot of people said this, that there should be a fee.
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I think it would make it impossible for the average person to run in elections.
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Other people said, well, make it a fee so people have to pay maybe $1,000 and you might not have as many people on this long ballot.
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But the thing that I was thinking was leftists are going to mess around and there's always some advocacy group or some group that hates Pierre Polyev that's willing to foot the bill for these people to run in this election.
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So I don't think it's a good idea to make a huge fee to run in politics.
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You remember during the liberal leadership campaign, the fee was $350,000 and that's a lot of money.
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But of course they had backers that paid that for them.
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I don't think Chrystia Freeland or Mark Carney paid out of their own pocket for that.
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They probably had groups that put the money up for them.
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But I think the average person should be able to run for politics in this country and it shouldn't be such a high fee that they can't do that.
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Carney did the same thing to get a seat, but worse, he just took it.
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Damien voluntarily surrendered it because of how strongly he believes in Polyev and loves his country.
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John, your dislike of the federal conservatives has jaundiced your view.
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There are ways in which elections Canada could revise elections.
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There are very many failures made by Elections Canada and need to be investigated.
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I do not have a dislike of the federal conservatives.
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I have voted conservative in every election since I've turned 18.
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The only election I didn't vote conservative was in 1993 when the conservatives won two seats.
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Kim Campbell was the prime minister at that point.
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I don't have a dislike of the federal conservatives, but I do have a dislike of the federal government.
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So right here, I said at the bottom, I have no dislike for the federal conservatives.
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Even if the conservatives won the next election, I would still be pushing for separation.
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So cheering on non-meaningful candidates does nothing for your democracy.
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Now, near the end of the video yesterday, I just picked some random guy that was on that list and said I was endorsing him.
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He's not far from the place that rules over your lives.
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The place that never gives Alberta and the West a fair shake, Ottawa.
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Because I could have picked anybody on this list.
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I happened to pick this guy from Calendar, Ontario.
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I highly endorse Pierre Polyev in Battle River Crowfoot.
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I want to see him in the House of Commons in question period.
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I said he may be the greatest Prime Minister that Canada never has.
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It will be one of the greatest comebacks if he should be Prime Minister in the future.
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I pointed out during the election campaign the mistakes he made.
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If you left the channel and happened to see this at the end, thanks for coming back.
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If you left the channel and you're not hearing this, oh well.
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I don't live and die by the number of subscribers I have on this channel.
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And I'm sure along the way, we're going to have disagreements about things here.
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I don't agree with a lot of Conservatives on a lot of things.
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By endorsing the long ballot, I was mocking the whole system.