Juno News - Tucker Carlson triggers Ottawa AGAIN

00:00:00.000 Welcome everyone to Ratioed. My name is Harrison Faulkner. Well, everyone remembers that one kid

00:00:12.600 in high school, right? That one kid who just couldn't take a joke. When everyone else could

00:00:16.320 see a joke, when everyone else could see humor in something, to that one kid it was an attack

00:00:20.320 on their very existence, on their very being, and they must confront it. Well, Canada's NDP,

00:00:25.740 who are quite used to embarrassing moments. When I'm Prime Minister, I will keep my promises.

00:00:32.640 Is that one kid in high school? When all of Canada can see a joke, when all of Canada can laugh at

00:00:38.240 comments made by a right-wing media personality, to the NDP, it is an attack on the existence of

00:00:44.260 this country. It is an attack that must be condemned in the House of Commons. Last week, Tucker Carlson

00:00:49.980 sent Canada's socialist left into a complete frenzy, a complete meltdown, when he jokingly

00:00:56.020 said that Canada should be liberated from Justin Trudeau by the United States. Now, the reaction

00:01:00.760 to Carlson's comments are both hilarious and sad at the same time. We've got all the cringe,

00:01:04.700 all the embarrassment, loaded up and ready to go on this show. And as always, on Thursdays,

00:01:08.900 we hand out the Ratio of the Week award to someone truly deserving of the prize. Drop a like in the

00:01:14.300 video, help us out by subscribing to the True North YouTube channel. And the comment question for the

00:01:17.980 episode is this. How bad do things need to get in Canada for you to be in favor of the US liberating

00:01:24.020 us from our government? Maybe you're already there, maybe you're like me and think the idea is

00:01:28.500 hilarious, or maybe you're gearing up for an 18-12 rematch and you're ready to get it on. Let me know

00:01:33.440 in the comments and let's get into it. So all of this begins over the weekend when Tucker Carlson on

00:01:37.940 his daytime Fox Nation show, Tucker Carlson Today, was interviewing Hillsdale College professor and

00:01:43.480 Montreal-born David Azarad. And you tell me if this sounds serious or if it sounds like a joke.

00:01:50.380 Maybe the laughing might give it away. So I have to ask you about Canada and what we saw happen

00:01:56.500 there last winter, the trucker protests and then the crackdown by the authoritarian government of

00:02:01.160 Canada. What struck you about that? I thought you were going to ask me whether Trudeau is Castro's

00:02:06.460 son. He very much obviously is. And I'm completely in favor of a pig's operation to liberate that 0.98

00:02:13.100 country. I mean, why should we stand back and let our biggest trading partner, the country with which 0.74

00:02:18.180 we share the longest border, and actually, I could just say a great country. I love Canada. I've always

00:02:22.480 loved Canada because of its natural beauty. Why should we let it become Cuba? Like, why don't we 1.00

00:02:27.300 liberate it? We're spending all this money to liberate Ukraine from the Russians. Why are we not 0.99

00:02:31.440 sending an armed force north to liberate Canada from Trudeau? And I mean it.

00:02:34.320 Well, I don't know. But then you don't have to answer that. I don't know that I'm there yet with

00:02:38.840 you. I'm just talking myself into a frenzy here. Now, like any normal person who watches that clip,

00:02:46.440 you would put the hysterical laughing and the absurd comments together, and that equation would

00:02:51.680 equal a joke, right? That's what normal people would do. And that's what pretty much everyone else

00:02:56.840 did, except for, of course, the radical left. Both in the United States and in Canada, radical leftists,

00:03:03.300 either politicians or media people, use the opportunity to embarrass themselves. To expose

00:03:08.560 themselves as people who simply can't differentiate jokes from statements of opinion. Now, we could,

00:03:14.500 of course, spend the show talking about how leftists in Canada embarrassed themselves over

00:03:18.260 these comments and did their best to fight back against Tucker Carlson's dangerous rhetoric,

00:03:23.340 but that would be giving them far too much airtime, I think. I also want to talk about the media

00:03:27.240 personalities on the left who also took these jokes and couldn't understand that they were

00:03:31.540 obviously jokes. Take the young Turks in the United States, the embarrassing sad shell of a former 1.00

00:03:37.880 leftist progressive news outlet. They took these comments and just were beside themselves. Oh my

00:03:44.800 God, Tucker Carlson really thinks Canada should be liberated by the United States. Oh my God,

00:03:49.600 a Republican politician is going to start saying this immediately. The scary part about Tucker Carlson is

00:03:54.520 that he is so influential with the right that if he wants to keep this up, if he wants to continue

00:04:01.140 saying invade Canada, we'll be like two weeks away from a Republican politician showing up at the UN

00:04:06.720 with a little vial saying, uh, I just, I, this is Canada. They've, they've got these weapons of mass

00:04:13.000 destruction. We need to liberate them, you know, to, to save. I mean, that is sadly how influential

00:04:19.980 Tucker Carlson could, could be and is actually the last thing I do is pretend somebody is serious

00:04:26.800 where they're joking. Right. And I would never say like a joke and then go, I mean it. And then leave

00:04:34.460 it at that because then you would think that I mean it. Right. No, he's not joking. Isn't that hilarious?

00:04:41.280 Cenk Uygur saying the last thing I'm going to do is pretend someone is serious when they're

00:04:45.800 obviously joking. A Cenk, he's joking. You think Tucker Carlson is really trying to lobby for a 1.00

00:04:52.820 Bay of Beavers style operation in 1812 rematch. Now that was our little daily dose of American media

00:04:58.680 reaction. There's plenty of Canadian media reaction, but I just wanted to show that because

00:05:02.280 they're all like this. They all think the same way. They all hear the joke and all take it seriously.

00:05:09.300 Now even Post Media picked up this story. The Toronto Sun, National Post, the conservative

00:05:14.640 newspaper in Canada, as we all know, they picked up the story and they too didn't seem to kind of

00:05:20.100 get the joke either. Take a look at how they covered it. Tucker Carlson said U.S. should send

00:05:24.520 troops to liberate Canada from Trudeau. Carlson said he was completely in favor of a Bay of Pigs

00:05:29.840 operation in Canada, not acknowledging that the operation to overthrow Castro's government was a

00:05:34.460 failure. Legacy media in Canada, even the allegedly conservative legacy media outlets are embarrassing.

00:05:41.480 So all of this brings us to the pinnacle of embarrassment. Peak cringe for this story. When on

00:05:47.620 Tuesday, NDP MP Matthew Green thought that Tucker Carlson's comments were so dangerous, so awful to

00:05:55.920 Canada, that parliamentarians in the House of Commons had to unanimously condemn Tucker Carlson's

00:06:02.080 comments. Because let's be honest, if there's anything that's going to stop the American military

00:06:05.820 from invading Canada, it's knowing that these brave parliamentarians, these brave socialists like

00:06:10.820 Matthew Green are going to stand up for Canadians. It perfectly captures just how out of touch 1.00

00:06:16.380 Canada's Ottawa elite are from the people. Like we really care what Tucker Carlson says when we can't

00:06:22.040 even afford groceries, when we're all going to food banks, when we can't even afford a house, when crime is

00:06:27.300 so out of control that women in Toronto are afraid to go on public transit. This is what we pay our 1.00

00:06:33.120 parliamentarians to do. Mr. Speaker, after consultation with the parties in the House, if you seek it, I

00:06:38.860 believe you will find unanimous consent for the following motion that given the rise of far right and

00:06:44.860 associated violent extremism led to the attempted insurrection in the United States. The House condemns

00:06:50.980 recent comments made by Fox News personality Tucker Carlson in which he suggests U.S. Armed Forces

00:06:58.520 liberate Canada from the current Prime Minister. All those opposed to the honourable member moving the

00:07:06.680 motion will please say nay. I'm afraid we don't have unanimous consent. Thank God that the Conservatives in

00:07:16.760 the House of Commons voted against this stupid motion. Because could you imagine what the American 1.00

00:07:21.680 right-wing media would do to us if they knew that our House unanimously voted to condemn Tucker Carlson?

00:07:27.620 That alone would be just cause for the United States to invade Canada. And you might think that

00:07:31.980 that is where this story would die. But you'd be wrong. Because liberal MPs, MPs in government,

00:07:37.860 actually took this to heart. And they themselves also got in on the action. Of course, they all voted in

00:07:43.080 support of this motion. But Mark Garrison, like I always say, a very cringeworthy Twitter politician

00:07:48.300 in Canada, also got in on the action. And look at what he wrote. Watch how Conservative MPs reject an

00:07:53.880 NDP motion to call in the House of Commons to condemn comments made by Fox News personality Tucker

00:08:00.000 Carlson to use the United States Armed Forces to liberate Canada of Justin Trudeau. So Matthew Green

00:08:06.180 himself also took to Twitter after Conservatives voted against his motion. Again, not being satisfied with

00:08:12.500 this level of cringe. He just has to bring on more to himself. Never forget that when far-right,

00:08:17.760 ideologically motivated, violent extremists are radicalized to the point of so-called

00:08:21.960 lone wolf attacks and insurrection, it's not random. I believe it's fueled through anti-democratic

00:08:27.860 rhetoric from the likes of Tucker Carlson and Fox News. Now, both Garrison and Green are getting

00:08:33.400 ratioed hard right here. At the time of this recording, Garrison has 2,488 replies to only 1,928

00:08:41.980 likes. Garrison usually shuts down his comments on Twitter because he's too afraid to have to hear

00:08:47.240 what Canadians respond to him. But for whatever reason, Garrison thought this tweet deserved to

00:08:51.320 have open comments. He really wanted the ratio here, guys. And this is what people have to say to

00:08:55.880 him. Have you nothing better to do in the House than make motions that have zero to do with inflation,

00:09:00.220 crushing interest rates, costs of food, fuel, and household goods, completely out of touch with

00:09:06.900 the masses? Exactly. These Ottawa elites who have their nice cushy pensions, who have nice $100,000

00:09:13.500 salaries, couldn't care less about the issues facing real Canadians, and instead are more swept up and

00:09:20.180 are more concerned about comments made by American media personalities. Why don't you focus on fixing the

00:09:25.220 economy instead of, oh no, a mean TV personality hurt our feelings? Grow up. Demotion is a complete

00:09:32.160 and utter waste of time and does nothing more than give everyone a virtuous pat on the back.

00:09:37.080 I can't stand Tucker Carlson, but there is work to be done, Mark. Matthew Green, 828 replies to only

00:09:44.120 302 likes. A brutal ratio to go along with all the embarrassment he suffered this week.

00:09:49.220 Sorry, Matthew, but is this really how you want to spend your time? When people can't afford

00:09:53.240 basic survival, we need better. Give it up, scared little man. Everyone is laughing at you.

00:10:00.080 Holy man, real alarmist, aren't you? When someone tells you a knock-knock joke, do you go actually

00:10:05.020 check the door? This is exactly what politicians in Ottawa need. When they're so out of touch that

00:10:10.460 they spend their time trying to condemn comments by American media personalities, instead of challenging

00:10:16.120 the government, instead of making the lives of their constituents better, solving problems that

00:10:20.700 you're paid to solve, you deserve to be ruthlessly mocked. And that is exactly what Tucker Carlson did

00:10:26.180 on Wednesday night. Because all the people who care about their own rights have left, Canada under

00:10:32.120 Justin Trudeau has become effectively a dictatorship. And we don't like dictatorships, we're America.

00:10:37.300 We liberate dictatorships. That's what we do. So we ask the obvious question, why don't we just liberate

00:10:44.420 Canada? It's a fair question. And honestly, we thought the Canadians would be flattered because

00:10:49.200 they're always flattered when you talk about them. They're like stalkers. You don't know they exist, 0.83

00:10:54.300 but they've got pictures of you in their dorm room. So if you do a Canada joke on TV, they go

00:10:59.720 absolutely crazy. They don't really know how to handle it or what it means, but it doesn't matter.

00:11:05.440 They're excited. And that's true even in the Canadian Parliament. Apparently there's so little

00:11:11.020 going on in Canada, like civil liberties, that if you tell a joke about Canada, they go bonkers.

00:11:17.380 Watch this Canadian, quote, member of Parliament trying to get some kind of resolution passed

00:11:21.600 condemning this show. Mr. Speaker, after consultation with the parties in the House, if you seek it,

00:11:27.540 I believe you will find unanimous consent for the following motion, that given the rise of far right

00:11:33.480 and associated violent extremism led to the attempted insurrection in the United States,

00:11:38.740 the House condemns recent comments made by Fox News personality Tucker Carlson, in which he suggests

00:11:45.680 U.S. Armed Forces liberate Canada from the current Prime Minister.

00:11:52.420 All those opposed to the Honourable Member moving the motion will please say nay.

00:11:58.040 Nay, I'm afraid we don't have unanimous consent.

00:12:03.480 By the way, it failed, and we don't want to be too picky or anything, but we did not suggest

00:12:09.940 the armed forces liberate Canada. You're flattering yourself, Canadian Member of Parliament.

00:12:15.380 We wouldn't need the armed forces. A couple of your college roommates just run up the sled dogs 0.97

00:12:20.740 and you wouldn't be able to move. We're not actually going to do it just yet.

00:12:25.220 There's something to think about. Settle down.

00:12:26.760 Now, for whatever reason, the NDP in Canada seem to be really taking Tucker Carlson's comments

00:12:32.220 personally. They're not even in charge. They're not even in government. They're not even the third

00:12:36.020 largest party in the House of Commons because it seems as though the Liberals, rightfully,

00:12:40.360 don't care about these comments because it's a joke. But the NDP are so upset about Tucker Carlson's

00:12:46.660 comments that they've made their own website about Tucker Carlson's comments. No kidding.

00:12:51.400 They are fundraising off of Tucker Carlson saying the United States should liberate Canada and

00:12:57.640 that Conservatives voted against their motion to condemn those comments. This is from the NDP on

00:13:01.800 Twitter. Yesterday, the Conservatives blocked our motion to condemn Tucker Carlson, who called for

00:13:07.160 U.S. armed forces to invade and liberate Canada. Instead of standing up for Canada, the Conservatives

00:13:13.240 sided with Tucker Carlson and his attack on our democracy. Shame on you, Mr. Polyev. 1.00

00:13:18.720 The NDP are now grifting off of Tucker Carlson's comments. They set up a fundraiser website,

00:13:24.200 a fundraiser page for this. Look at this. Tucker Carlson's hate isn't welcome in Canada.

00:13:30.780 Let Tucker know that Canadians don't support his hateful rhetoric. Put your first name,

00:13:35.520 last name, email, and your credit card number here. Please, please, we'd really support the

00:13:38.640 donation. Oh my god, it's so, so embarrassing. Ratio of the week time, and we have a short list of

00:13:45.680 contenders this week. As we already discussed, Matthew Green and Liberal MP Mark Gerritsen,

00:13:51.260 they get in on the action, but they weren't able to defeat another MP in the House of Commons for the

00:13:56.840 award this week. I'm talking about Jenna Suds. Jordan Peterson is spreading far-right misogynistic 1.00

00:14:03.140 rhetoric in my writing tonight. Instead of condemning Peterson's hate, Pierre Polyev is defending him.

00:14:08.660 You can tell a lot about someone by the company they keep.

00:14:11.480 Well, long-time viewers of this program will know you don't win the award for nothing,

00:14:15.900 and you've got to put up some serious numbers to take home the prize. Sure enough, she did.

00:14:19.760 Take a look at this ratio here. 5,180 replies, only 2,293 likes. Liberals are terrified of Jordan 0.60

00:14:29.420 Peterson because he's offering people an alternative way to live, which doesn't make them more dependent

00:14:33.980 on the government, and he's super popular for it. Tickets to see Jordan Peterson are sold out all

00:14:38.960 over the world, and in Canada are $500 to $1,000 a seat on the resale market to hear a few hours of

00:14:46.040 his obvious genius. How much would people pay to hear you speak for two hours? People can't afford

00:14:52.080 to eat because of your party's reckless inflationary spending. Sometimes you just got to keep these

00:14:56.780 liberal MPs honest. Don't let them get away with saying stupid, absurd things on Twitter without 1.00

00:15:02.120 reminding them of what they're doing to Canadians. All right, that's going to do it for us this week 1.00

00:15:05.520 on the show. Thank you so much for tuning in. My name is Harrison Faulkner, and this is Ratio.

Juno News - February 02, 2023

Tucker Carlson triggers Ottawa AGAIN

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