Juno News - July 14, 2020


Political polarization： Trudeau and Trump


Episode Stats

Length

8 minutes

Words per Minute

208.06528

Word Count

1,768

Sentence Count

3

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

3


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 well the prime minister has found himself in some hot water once again but this video isn't about
00:00:11.800 him it's about his supporters you see if you are a diehard trudeau supporter still to this day a
00:00:18.500 diehard trudeau supporter you actually have a lot in common with diehard trump supporters that's
00:00:24.200 right you probably don't think so you might think i have absolutely nothing in common with anyone
00:00:29.500 who supports donald trump the man is evil he's a nazi he's hitler anything you want i have nothing
00:00:34.080 in common with him but you do you really do and that's what i want to talk about today i want to
00:00:39.780 talk about the political polarization that has caused both extremes to really go bananas and lose
00:00:46.080 everything now i was really inspired to make this video by watching candace malcolm and dave rubin on
00:00:52.740 the final episode of the true north speaker series it was a really really great interview and if you
00:00:57.800 don't know who dave rubin is you definitely should check him out candace did a great job interviewing
00:01:01.740 him but during the interview they spoke a lot about what has happened to the left and the fact that you
00:01:07.400 need two political parties and dave's words to sort of paraphrase you need that tension between a
00:01:12.660 reasonable liberal party and a reasonable conservative party to both preserve the things
00:01:17.540 that built the foundations of this country and made the country great but also to say you know there's
00:01:22.120 a new horizon there let's see what's over the hill maybe we can change something make something
00:01:25.960 better enhance our freedoms enhance the way of life that we have going on right now so i thought of
00:01:31.720 this and i said you know what that sounds really familiar a lot of these people that i'm seeing on
00:01:36.300 twitter kind of like this professor who will check this out here but you know we have to remember again
00:01:41.380 in the context of the times we're at if any canadians watch american news or follow what happens in the
00:01:47.020 united states even this this is nothing this is like a nothing event compared to the statements that the
00:01:53.820 u.s president has on a daily if not hourly basis so when we judge our prime minister against others
00:02:00.920 he still looks pretty good even though this seems fishy um at the end of the day they had good
00:02:06.580 intentions and that's here so this really epitomizes what i'm talking about compared to donald trump
00:02:13.640 this looks good donald trump is so horrible so atrocious of a human being that compared to him
00:02:21.660 awarding almost a billion dollars of taxpayer money to an organization which again for all
00:02:27.780 intensive purposes employs your mother your brother and your finance minister's two daughters in addition
00:02:33.540 to you know god only knows what else is going on there so compared to trump it's fine because they
00:02:38.700 had good intentions this is really the epitome of political polarization this is you're so far
00:02:45.660 into the ideology that you you have stopped thinking rationally you cannot say you know what
00:02:51.820 yeah that was a bad move that was a bad move you know you still want to throw in some shade at
00:02:55.860 donald trump yeah that was a bad move but you know at least we're not at least we're not americans
00:02:59.220 ha ha ha you know at least we're not americans we don't have donald trump as our president ha ha
00:03:02.400 okay but really this you know this is no big deal especially when compared to donald trump
00:03:08.040 this is just no big deal this is just some window dressing put up by the conservatives
00:03:11.300 this this is the serious problem this is the problem that we're having in canada and i i'm
00:03:17.360 i'm kind of shocked by this because with the u.s you say okay we have donald trump so we have trump
00:03:23.520 he's the focal point of all this anger there was general anger republicans the same way that in
00:03:27.640 canada there's a lot of popular anger and you know pop culture and media there's a lot of anger
00:03:31.180 at conservatives or anyone basically not towing the the uh what is the latest left-leaning party line
00:03:36.280 but here we don't have this sort of polarizing leader i mean fine we had stephen harper for
00:03:42.020 10 years he was he was the prime minister fine he was you know he might have been very polarizing i
00:03:46.320 don't think you can say that he did anything remotely uh again forget policy wise but you know
00:03:51.920 the man himself committing him to trump is just there's just no comparison there um in any of the
00:03:56.940 crazy negative stuff that you want to that you want to bring out but i really like this is all you
00:04:02.680 can say that the trudeau scam is not a big deal because it's not as bad as what trump is doing
00:04:08.740 so again what's going to happen here there's there's no conservative leader officially right
00:04:12.740 now and fine andrew shears on the way out but there's no conservative leader so we're going to
00:04:16.700 just demonize the next person well you know trudeau yeah sure love scam when all these other scams
00:04:21.580 were they were pretty bad but at least at least he's not you know peter mckay aaron tool less than
00:04:26.100 lewis um um uh derek sloan like at least he's not one of these people thank god that's when you've
00:04:32.220 lost it that's when you have officially you know jumped the shark whatever whatever nice analogy
00:04:36.600 you want to use that's when you've jumped the shark and you have stopped thinking rationally
00:04:39.980 because you are so so deep into ideology that you simply cannot see anything else and and this is
00:04:45.740 something that i personally am refusing to do i i am not interested in being so blind to say
00:04:51.720 that i have no criticism of my party leader whichever party i support i have no criticism
00:04:57.280 of my party leader i have no criticism of you know trump or sheer or trudeau or whoever that i i have
00:05:03.580 no problem with what they did because the other side is so terrible i refuse to believe that we can
00:05:07.620 have people who are corrupt who have sexual allegations who may have rape allegations or i don't
00:05:13.080 know what other kind of allegations against them i refuse to believe that it's simply a choice
00:05:16.680 between the evil you know nazi fascist communist whoever the most terrible people you can think of
00:05:23.100 and someone who's corrupt and perhaps has some you know really really bad allegations sexual
00:05:29.140 allegations or something against them i refuse to believe that this is the two you know that this is
00:05:33.400 the this is a choice that i'm left with and so i have no problem with saying okay the left and it's
00:05:41.200 true the far left the really far left is not interested in dialogue dave and root and candace
00:05:46.720 spoke at length about this you should really check out this video the far far left is out of control
00:05:52.040 and it's very hard to tell where does the far far left begin and where does the moderate left or the
00:05:57.860 mainstream left or the center left you know where is that line i think i think it's a bit easier
00:06:02.220 with conservatives or with the right that's what i've always found um with the right the far right
00:06:07.480 it tends to just be more you know racialized stuff you got your neo-nazis white supremacists
00:06:11.140 maybe outright racist that kind of stuff that's pretty easy of a line to to draw around that
00:06:16.240 group but with the far left where is the line not really clear and so they definitely have gone out
00:06:22.900 of control but if you're going to say i'm willing to accept anything literally anything as long as
00:06:28.540 it's not that as long as it's not the destruction of you know destruction of the world destruction of
00:06:32.940 society that's a really bad situation and i i just refuse to accept that that's going to be the
00:06:37.780 premise so i'm interested in having real debate real dialogue real leadership i understand when
00:06:44.860 it comes down to the ballot box i might have to choose between you know crap and and poo not to
00:06:49.380 not to drop some bad you know some four letter words but you might have two really crap choices you
00:06:54.200 have to choose between and fine at the ballot box i'm choosing between two which one is the least
00:06:59.020 crappy option but right now there is no election there is no there's nothing that can be nothing
00:07:07.400 that can be affected by me not at the very least internally internally criticizing and saying you know
00:07:11.840 what man this is this is the same this is the same thing that i i brought up uh previously on the
00:07:16.940 true north update with with my uh good friend andrew where was the cabinet where were the people
00:07:21.660 around that table making the decision when uh the we scam happened where where were they
00:07:25.040 so clearly they've gone into this ideology or they've been silenced for some other reason it
00:07:29.260 seems but um that's not something that we should do that's not something that we as rational
00:07:34.120 canadians should do that's not something that something that we should let happen in this country i i
00:07:38.740 think there are a lot of things that we need to be on guard for uh that we need to pay attention to
00:07:44.920 we need to ensure are not going to happen in this country we're not going to start losing our
00:07:48.860 fundamental freedoms and i think this is a time right now with everything that's been going on that we
00:07:53.200 do need to have that conversation we do need to have introspection and think about where our country
00:07:57.980 is going and what is it going to look like at the end of this sort of short-term road that we're on
00:08:02.560 but i again you know i refuse to believe that it's simply a choice between the most horrible people
00:08:07.420 and another group of the most horrible people it's just it's not a choice that i'm willing to live
00:08:12.160 with and something that i would like to speak out against so for true north i'm sam ashkenazi thank you
00:08:17.440 so much for watching let's keep up the dialogue let's keep up the debate and have yourselves a great day
00:08:21.680 to appreciate it
00:08:24.980 thank you
00:08:26.640 thank you
00:08:29.200 so