KINSELLACAST 343: Happy New Year with Lilley, Kheiriddin, Mraz, Belanger, Vuong, Bennett - plus the best killer riffs of 2024!
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Summary
In this episode of The KinsellaCast, Warren talks about the current state of awfulness in the world, and why the left has become anti-Semitic. He also introduces a new segment, "The Best Riffs of '20," featuring some of his favourite songs of the past decade.
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It's the KinsellaCast, starring Warren Kinsella.
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Hey, it's Warren. Welcome to KinsellaCast and Happy New Year.
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Although it hasn't been a very happy new year, has it?
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I'm starting off with an Islamist terror attack in New Orleans, my dad's favorite city,
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by an all-American boy born and raised in the United States in the South.
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I don't know if I pledged allegiance to ISIS and killed 15 innocent people on New Year's Eve.
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It was not the way I think any of us want in 2025 to start.
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But it is where we are at now in the world, so I'll talk about that in a minute.
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Other things that we will be talking about on this, the first podcast of 2025,
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the KinsellaCast, is with Brian Lilly, talking about just the absolute circus
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that has befallen the Trudeau Liberals in Ottawa.
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All of that stuff. He's been in the States for the past few weeks,
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so he'll probably have some insights about that.
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John Mraz and I talking about Ukraine, talking about Israel, talking about Canada.
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We've got the CFRA panel with Tasha Carradine, Carl Blanger,
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mainly talking about the circus in Ottawa and the clowns who populate it.
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We've got Kevin Vong and I talking about the future Liberal Party.
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Jill Binning and I talking about the same thing.
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And on the West Coast, and also the candidate, I think, that would have the most prospects,
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which is Christy Clark, and some amazing music.
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So what I've done is I've gone through, I did a massive period, I've done 11 of these.
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Basically, I put together the music that we have on this show,
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I went through all of 2024 for the most killer riffs.
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And you can find it on Spotify, you can find it on my website,
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Martin Dixon kindly put it together, curated it over on Spotify,
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And so I've got Bass Drum of Death kicking things off
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Well, yeah, of course I did, because it's big songs in 2024.
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She's gone off in different directions in the past few years,
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And then N.J. Lenderman with She's Leaving You,
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which I've played at least a couple times on this show,
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But, you know, talking about 2025 and what's coming.
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that Israel is a white supremacist empire,
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And we're back, and Happy New Year to my buddy and colleague, Brian Lilly, who's still down south.
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It's warmer than you, but, you know, it's a little chilly right now.
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I don't know what Toronto's like, but the county was just lots and lots of snow.
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And I got to go out with Stackwood, Ronald Reagan style.
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As you and I were just talking offline, I think we really need you back because my view is the big story is not so much Justin Trudeau.
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The big story is the Liberal Party of Canada is falling apart.
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But as far as the Liberal Party falling apart, you've got Patsy Cline's I Fall to Pieces in My Head Now.
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Not normally your musical style, but, you know, maybe you could use it.
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All of this, going back to December 16th, is we don't have a prime minister anymore.
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He's ghosted, but he hasn't relinquished power.
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And I think he uttered two sentences to the media on the way out, talking about what a great cabinet meeting he just had.
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With people he had just given new jobs, titles, and pay raises, along with, you know, the car and driver and all of that.
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Of course, they loved being in their very first cabinet meeting.
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He flies to B.C. in a silent, then comes back and holds another meeting virtually of the Canada-U.S. Cabinet Relations Committee on Friday.
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Donald Trump may, as well, already be president.
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That's the way the United States and the markets are treating him.
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We've got a border plan from Daniel Smith and the province of Alberta.
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We've got plans put forward by Francois Legault in the province of Quebec.
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We've got Doug Ford talking about paying for helicopters in the Niagara region and boats in the Windsor region.
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But, you know, the Liberal Party falling apart, the Atlantic caucus, the Quebec caucus, the Ontario caucus, all want them gone.
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Yeah, we've got premiers conducting foreign policy because they see no other option because it's precisely what you say.
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And what I said on CFRA this morning, we do not have a functioning government at the national level in Canada.
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You know, I don't have a lot of confidence, nor does anybody else, that the Trudeau guys would be representing us well with Trump on the tariffs.
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But, you know, it would be helpful if they did something, and it doesn't look like they're doing anything.
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It looks like we're just drifting towards absolute disaster, doesn't it?
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Look, it's not just the Liberal Party that's heading for disaster.
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I know there is a view that, you know, kind of the Louis XIV, the I am the state, the state is me, the Liberal Party is Canada, Canada is the Liberal Party.
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One of the things that I love that Pierre Pauliev said in his interview with Jordan Peterson, which maybe we'll chat about in a minute, is 41 million Canadians are not obliged to sit around and wait for the Liberal Party to get their shit together before we have an election.
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We don't need the Liberal Party to gather in private, in secret on Wednesday for six hours to talk about what their future looks like.
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What we need is an election, because what is required right now is to have a functioning government with an actual mandate to deal not only with Trump, but everything else going on in the country.
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This guy doesn't have the confidence of his own party.
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My understanding is that he wants to somehow find a way.
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You know, the Lawrence Martin argument aside, one of the things I've heard is that he's trying to find a way to stay on until June so that he can chair the G7 meeting in Kananaskis.
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Is that a reason to hold the country hostage, you want to chair the next G7 meeting?
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I don't think he would be your first choice to be prime minister.
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But let me assure everyone, he's not going to wreck the place.
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Well, I remember, you know, I was one of the ones in our paper years ago saying, oh, watch out if Harper gets a majority.
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And then I ran into Harper after one of his speeches and he came up to me and he's like, hey, Warren, how are you doing on your prediction about abortion and gay marriage?
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So I had to eat a shit sandwich on that one.
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Liberal Party puts an ad out this week with Justin Trudeau front and center and just pathetic.
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Meanwhile, Jordan Peterson has this interview with Polyev.
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Now you can say, oh, well, you know, some of them are just, you know, three second views as you scroll by.
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And then all the little clips of a minute to five minutes that are being shared by people, they've been seen by millions more.
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But look, I just did an interview a couple of weeks ago with Polyev.
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In fact, I think it was two days before this one based on something they said in the interview.
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And they were quite impressed that they got about a million views from all the different formats that I released the interview in.
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Which, by the way, is far bigger than they would get with CBC or CTV or anywhere else if they went.
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That's just with me more than a million plus the people that read the columns that came out of it.
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Jordan Peterson comes along and knocks it out of the park.
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Once you add it all up, it's probably about 45 million different views.
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You know that a bunch of them are American because Peterson works for the Daily Wire in the United States.
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But there are millions of Canadians that saw this and are going to listen and come to the same conclusion that I came to long ago.
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What I've been telling everyone about Paglia for a long time is, if you just think he's an angry man all the time, then you don't know him.
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You're just getting the clips that David Cochran wants to show you on CBC.
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He's a likable, affable guy who laughs an awful lot of the time.
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It's like people who think, you know, well, Lily's just angry.
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And what, you know, the people who are freaking out about Paglia, it's like what I told conservatives about Trudeau.
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So, the guy, no one is ever as bad as their detractors, right?
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And you've got to take them for who they are and what they are.
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That's what every leader and, you know, countries will outlive bad governments.
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The bad governments will do some damage, but they're going to outlive them.
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And even if Paglia does make mistakes, the country will survive.
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But he shows himself in this interview and to anyone that talks to him to be a reasonable, rational person who has points of view that you can agree with or disagree with, but he's not going to wreck the place.
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Because this interview to me was like passing the audition where mom and dad know they want to go away for the weekend and can they leave you at the house alone or are you going to throw a keg?
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Well, 42 million, you know, 42 million people can't be wrong.
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Well, I guess some of them can be, but like it tells a story.
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Maybe we should end here because, you know, you, people should pay attention to you.
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I say to them all the time, not just because you know how to laugh, but also you are a media machine.
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You know, you're not only just producing news and opinion columns.
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You know, Brian is doing videos, folks, all the time that attract many more views than the at issues panel on CBC gets.
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And you look what happened with Jordan Peterson and Pierre Polyev and the way in which the Republicans in the presidential campaign conducted their media and focusing on podcasts and alternative media and obviously worked out for them.
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The media, Adam, has, has split a million times, hasn't it?
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Like everything's changed and political parties have to change too, don't they?
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And I know you read a piece by Carville in the New York Times about this.
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Jeff Ballingall wrote a piece for the Toronto Sun about this, about how the landscape has shifted.
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And look, once upon a time, the Democrats got that.
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The liberals were brilliant in the 2015 campaign where they ended up looking brilliant by having booked well in advance.
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They were down with male voters and well in advance of the Blue Jays doing a playoff run in the fall of 2015.
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They had booked a bunch of ads at a very low price because no one expected the Jays to go as long as they did on Sportsnet.
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And they ended up hitting an awful lot of male voters and closing the gap because they went to where the voters were.
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But in 2012, I remember everyone was laughing at the fact that Obama was not doing interviews with serious political journalists.
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You know, Mitt Romney was talking to all the right serious political journalists.
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And Obama was going on music programs hosted by people like DJ Pimp with the Limp.
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And I was like, why are you doing interviews with them?
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Well, the, you know, audiences are still there.
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They've moved around to different places and different people.
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And, yeah, I wish I had Jordan Peterson's size of audience.
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But, you know, on my LinkedIn, it says Canada's most read political columnist.
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And I put it there to annoy people who don't like that that's true.
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But also all the other things, the videos that you mentioned, the podcast and all, it all adds up.
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And I don't think the Trudeau liberals have figured that out.
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They used to know where it was, but government's age, party's age, and you get stuck in ruts.
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The gatekeepers in the gallery up in Ottawa that want to stop him from getting in, they wouldn't give him the time of day.
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But you put him in front of an audience and people will eat it up.
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It's why he's at 45% of the latest Angus Reid poll.
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And I love that the star did something on the follow-up poll that showed that Freeland is the most viable option to replace it.
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So, look, there's no good option left for the liberals.
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They've got to spend some time in the wilderness, figure out the media landscape again, but also figure out where Canadians are at.
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We need you back here reporting and opinionizing on all of this stuff.
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I think it is going to be a crazy week and we need your analysis.
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I'm watching one of my last sunrises here in Palm Springs and I will be back in Canada freezing my tookus off shortly.
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Well, not excellent about freezing your tookus, but we do need you back here.
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And I will be talking to you probably tomorrow to see if Lawrence Martin is right.
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I think I'm never smiling because you're so untied.
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You stand on the shore as I was dreading water.
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Happy New Year, looking forward to a better year
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Against Hamas and Hezbollah and the Houthis
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All of those wars, while Israel is dominating
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In fact, there are reports that Hamas has been quite successful
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In recruiting new people to their war effort against Israel
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What's your sense, what are your contacts saying to you
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About the situation in Israel against Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, and so on?
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Well, the war that Israel is fighting is a war against an idea
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It's not a war against a people or a nation state or a region
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And the idea is that Jews shouldn't live in the Middle East
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And that they shouldn't have a single centimeter of land
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When Hamas invaded, I guess God, it was so long ago
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Who'd been indoctrinated since Hamas came into that area
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How about the people of Gaza continue to believe that
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And they have the support of many populations in the area
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Okay, well then let's talk about another battlefront
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Which side is going to get exhausted most first
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What is the state of play in Ukraine and Russia
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Well, I think economically both countries are bleeding
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Ukrainian economy, of course, is in tatters as well
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I mean, they would say it's six or four billion dollars
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Has just shipped them a shitload of new weapons
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And I want everybody who hasn't been to that area
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Attracted by the rattle winds of longer raining summer nights
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Like sugar and smoke that's fading, memories keep blurring
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Nothing really matters, all my baggage that way
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Nothing really matters, all my baggage that way
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Closing dreams are dashing by while I'm free falling from cloud nine
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Nothing really matters, all my baggage that way
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Nothing really matters, all my baggage that way
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Bill Hidfeous flow, all my Jessica, bringing it lighter
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Bill Hidfeous flow, I guess we're throwing itなん
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Tasha Carradine, political columnist for the National Post
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Somebody actually just mentioned that on the text board
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If Justin Trudeau were to come out and see his shadow
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And obviously social media is in overdrive right now
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But why do you think that this simply needs to end right now?
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The Liberal Caucus is now having yet another meeting
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And they are hamstrung because the biggest issue
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You know we have one in ten Canadians now using food banks
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And we have Donald Trump coming into the White House
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So someone has got to be with their hand on the steering wheel
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And we are not dealing with the issues that we have to deal with
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Because all we can think about is the narcissistic preoccupations
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It is something that has been sticking around for the last two weeks
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It is something we were even talking about before we went for the break here
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And I know Warren you wrote about this last week as well
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Kind of continuing your prediction that Justin Trudeau will go
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When is he going to make this decision in your estimation?
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Is they don't have a mechanism to get rid of him
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But they don't have a leadership review mechanism anymore
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Does he realize what his legacy is going to be?
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That's the worst showing for the Liberal Party of Canada
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But these meetings of the various Liberal caucuses
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The country doesn't have a leader at the moment
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I had a rolling, a lonely night of alcohol and cigarettes
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And that means that we're almost in an election year
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To deliver $10 a day childcare, dental care and pharmacare
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Our work to build a strong economy that works for all Canadians isn't done
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With Care Polyev and Conservative Party pushing for deep cuts to the programs Canadians rely on
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And only with your support can we keep building a better future for everyone
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Speaking about the things that he believes he's done for the nation
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And his legacy and the things that he wants to continue to fight for
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But that doesn't sound like somebody who plans on stepping down
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President of Daisy Group and former political strategist for Jean Chrétien
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Like that doesn't sound like he's getting ready to resign
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Like I just, what is the matter with these guys?
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You know, I'm talking about leading with your chin
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And he knows that the numbers are really, really bad
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And they have been for more than a year and a half
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He may actually end up being in fourth place in the House of Commons
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Something that's never happened to the Liberal Party before
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As you know, in the month of February and March
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He's facing a few from all of the different parties
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And I suspect, you know, one thing that supports your position on that
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Is the fact that the entire Atlantic Liberal Caucus
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And all of the things that, you know, you've worked so hard for
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So basically, you know, the house is falling apart
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Who, you know, has been very close to him forever
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They're saying to him, you've got to stick around
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I'm not sure what their argument could possibly be
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How much longer it takes for him to realize that
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But Warren, thank you for coming back on the show
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It falls apart. We all got work to do. It gets dark. We all got work to do. It gets dark.
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We all got work to do. It falls apart. We all got work to do. It gets dark.
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We all got work to do. It gets dark. We all got work to do. It gets dark. We all got work to do.