On this week's episode of The Bongino Army, the boys discuss why Alberta needs to secede from Canada and why it should become either part of the United States or part of Canada. They're joined by Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen Polling to talk about fake news and why the latest polling is fake news.
00:02:30.000It's the base of all romance languages, which translates to roughly...
00:02:34.000So today, we're going to be talking about a couple things.
00:02:40.000The Canadian elections allow me to make the case, as a half-Canadian, I was born in the States but raised there from 3 to 18 years old, Why Alberta needs to secede and why Alberta should become either a territory or part of the United States.
00:03:12.000Align yourself with the United States.
00:03:14.000Alberta is much closer to our values than the rest of Canada at this point.
00:03:18.000This is a tectonic shift for the country, and I think there's a case to be made, and I think there's one that could be accepted.
00:03:24.000We also have Mark Mitchell from Rasmussen Polling who's going to be on the show to talk about Donald Trump's first 100 days and why the latest polling is fake news.
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00:06:22.000You know how some people, particularly the lead lady in that this is the Last of Us show, they have like their face is too small for their head.
00:06:29.000They look like someone projected a face onto a screen but didn't get the focus ring right where it's like...
00:07:53.000I know you have something prepared for us today, because before we get to Mr. Mitchell, and by the way, it's because I know I'm accidentally going to say Mike, even though I know it's Mark.
00:08:28.000I have been growing increasingly ashamed of the country, and now it is a stain on the history of North America.
00:08:36.000And there are a lot of Canadians who feel the same way.
00:08:38.000Look, Canada is a Marxist hellhole, and if you look at this new man, Carney, they are aligning themselves quite openly with communist China.
00:08:48.000When they have the option of playing ball and being fair with the United States, Alberta?
00:08:53.000And potentially Saskatchewan, but certainly Alberta, there's a case to be made, and I want you guys to listen.
00:09:17.000You know, he called for the impeachment of Donald Trump and he outlined seven articles of impeachment.
00:09:22.000I don't know if we need to show all of it because it's pretty damn silly, but this person is an actual representative and looks like the missing link.
00:11:46.000Number four on my list of weirdest-looking congressmen, Missouri Democrat, and star of the upcoming Lethal Weapon 6, Congressman Emanuel Cleaver.
00:15:18.000I was too young for the Korean War, but I like their small feet.
00:15:24.000By the way, Dinesh D'Souza said this about Sri Tanadar.
00:15:27.000He said, if this guy lived in India, he would be a municipal clerk or waiter, which is a really weird flex.
00:15:35.000I guess it's a caste system flex, where it's like, ha, you wouldn't be homeless, but you would be working menial labor that would be insignificant.
00:15:46.000You would make enough to live, but not very comfortably.
00:15:50.000When I was in India, we had an outhouse, and we had snakes to defend us from the cats.
00:16:36.000He's pro-union, pro-abortion, anti-Second Amendment, wants pathway to citizenship for illegals, and in a plot twist, he is surprisingly pro-H1B.
00:17:44.000Not when people of Detroit are electing that unironically.
00:17:48.000Can you think of someone in this country as a working American who represents your values less than a $40 million net worth, potentially dual citizen?
00:18:02.000Indian who takes pictures with furries, believes in doing away with the Second Amendment, and uncapping as many H-1Bs coming in from India as humanly possible.
00:18:12.000How is that man a representative of any portion of the American public?
00:18:17.000They don't put pictures on the ballots.
00:18:19.000Well, if they did, people would be like, what?
00:19:27.000Well, besides the thing where I had to go to dinner with my daughter, and I got some chicken stuck in my teeth, and it was hurting all the time, and I had to go to the choir concert.
00:21:56.000And this is a genuine plea and a case that I want to make to people of Alberta, maybe some folks in Saskatchewan.
00:22:02.000Let's get past the trolling and the idea of being the 51st state.
00:22:04.000There's a way to make this work where you no longer have to be shackled to the communists of your country, who, by the way, are yoked with the communists of China.
00:23:00.000The Liberal Party led by and the charter written by Trudeau, but now their current representative, empty suit Mark Carney.
00:23:07.000And to give you an idea, Canada is so insignificant and so ineffectual in comparison to the United States that it would make no difference if Canada were to elect Mark Carney or an actual Carney.
00:23:20.000We wouldn't be able to discern the difference.
00:23:23.000And Alberta, you don't want to hitch your wagon to that.
00:24:07.000A Liberal comeback with a first-time politician as leader.
00:24:11.000You're looking live there at the Liberal Party headquarters right now.
00:24:15.000Yeah, the conservatives didn't do very well.
00:24:17.000Poilievre lost his own seat, the man running for prime minister.
00:24:22.000And, of course, a lot of them have blamed Donald Trump because of the tariffs and have put them in an unwinnable position.
00:24:27.000But, you know, you can't say that you are your own nation going your own way and then blame your national election results on the country to the south of you if you're truly independent.
00:24:37.000And Carney, who is, I would argue, and make the case, and, of course, laying the brain here, has been on this like a dog on a bone.
00:25:43.000Aluminum, lumber, energy, and all other businesses quadruple in size with zero tariffs or taxes if Canada becomes the cherished, very cherished, 51st state of the United States of America.
00:25:59.000No more artificially drawn line from many years ago.
00:27:32.000Two days ago, Politico ran this headline, the quiet threat to Canadian unity isn't Quebec, it's Alberta.
00:27:41.000And the reason, when I grew up in Quebec, right, Quebec wanted to separate all the time from Canada and they would have these referendums, but it never really happened.
00:27:56.000I think that number can get quite a bit higher.
00:28:00.000If we cut through the fog a little bit and actually get to the reasons that Alberta, I would argue, not should, Albertans, Canadians, and if anyone else wants to take a sober look at yourself right now, you need to leave Canada.
00:28:18.000Canada is not what you thought it was.
00:28:54.000Ottawa does not share your values whatsoever.
00:28:58.000Ottawa, for those who are American, that's basically their equivalent of Washington, D.C. It's kind of silly to us Americans, but I get that it matters to you.
00:31:56.000It would also, by the way, allow Alberta to negotiate, if let's say they become some kind of a territory, not the 51st state, to negotiate independently with the United States.
00:32:06.000That would be really, that would be a huge benefit considering the energy industry in Alberta and how that is dictated by the rest of Canada, by people in Ottawa who, by the way, don't want Alberta to have their thriving energy industry.
00:32:22.000If they were a territory and they had to negotiate trade between the United States and do the same thing with Canada, they would learn quickly that it would be easier to deal with us.
00:32:30.000You want your energy going at rock-bottom prices to China with a wink and a nod?
00:32:35.000Or do you want to be in control of your own destiny and choose to trade and choose to engage in trade as far as your energy with the United States?
00:32:43.000Or, again, be a state where I can't imagine a more prosperous Alberta.
00:33:04.000There's also sometimes you can get crude oil and then it has to be refined and sent back.
00:33:08.000Wouldn't it be nice to just be able to do business together?
00:33:13.000Wouldn't it be nice to not have to go through Ottawa?
00:33:16.000To go back to you guys, to then maybe deal with the states, even though now people like Carney don't want you to because of reciprocal tariffs.
00:33:22.000It would also allow the United States, by the way, to have access to far more oil and energy and not have to open up new drilling because you guys already have the capabilities.
00:33:30.000It would be a benefit to the United States.
00:34:30.000Who voted for conservative change 2-1.
00:34:33.000An op-ed from the Toronto Star was titled, Perhaps it's time for Alberta, sorry, perhaps it's time Alberta does go it alone and says goodbye to Canada.
00:34:43.000In the article, this author raged at the Alberta premiere, Danielle Smith, for wanting to expand your own pipelines.
00:35:03.000If Smith has any sensitivity to people elsewhere in Canada, including indigenous peoples, who might object to having pipelines traversing their land, she doesn't show it.
00:35:16.000I mean, how much Windex do you guys need to huff?
00:35:20.000You can't have pipelines going through your land?
00:35:24.000Well, should we go back to living off the land and...
00:35:27.000Hunting the buffalo to extinction and having zero respect for nature, burning all of our crap and trash like many Native American tribes did?
00:35:35.000Or should we go back to their law of the land where they were warring with each other and scalping women and children alive?
00:35:40.000You guys looked into the Algonquin and Iroquois, which is, these are the primary tribes in eastern Canada.
00:35:52.000So because of indigenous people, in other provinces, Toronto and Ottawa should tell you, Alberta, what you can and can't do with your energy.
00:36:02.000Oh, and by the way, we're also going to tell you where it goes.
00:36:04.000We're going to sell it at rock-bottom prices to China because America bad.
00:36:08.000This seem like people who represent you?
00:36:48.000Part of the people that are coming against them, essentially, because 20-plus billion dollars, I believe it was last year or two years ago, was what they basically sent out above the benefits they received from the federal government.
00:36:59.000So they're subsidizing all the rest of these people's lives to be able to do this.
00:38:28.000So Canada effectively spends nothing on its military.
00:38:34.000And as Trudeau said, being the horrible neighbor that he is, and Carney's an extension of Trudeau, Canada won't even reach its 2% commitment to NATO, which they agreed to initially.
00:41:55.000Do you want your people to benefit economically and to have a future for your children that isn't stifled socially, culturally, economically?
00:44:48.000Well, we will check back in with him because we have, coming up soon here, Rasmussen's Mark Mitchell, friend of the show, pollster, data expert extraordinaire, and you've seen some polls recently saying Donald Trump is underwater.
00:45:02.000This is the lowest approval rating of...
00:46:01.000For being the worst, the American people do not like what they are seeing at this point from Donald John Trump.
00:46:07.000New polling shows that Trump has the lowest 100-day approval rating of any president in modern history.
00:46:12.000Trump was like, all I heard was approval rating and 100.
00:46:15.000There are new poll numbers out as President Trump is nearing 100 days in office, and the show is approaching that benchmark moment with historically low approval numbers.
00:47:23.000We want to look at major private investments into the United States.
00:47:28.000Depending on the numbers, you use anywhere from $4 to $5.5 trillion.
00:47:32.000There have been some major moves made.
00:47:34.000They haven't necessarily come to fruition yet, although we have seen inflation cool quite a bit, and we have seen employment do quite well.
00:47:41.000Egg prices are down, but the left is still using that talking point.
00:47:44.000The big issue, immigration, which would seem...
00:47:48.000Obviously to be reflected in the polls because the vast majority of Americans support being stricter on immigration.
00:47:53.000And they even support, by the way, for the first time this last year, mass deportation.
00:47:56.000So if you look at the border, migrant crossings are down 99.99%.
00:48:15.000Deportations have been 100,000 so far.
00:48:17.000Two judges have been arrested for aiding and abetting illegals, including some illegal immigrants who, by the way, have assaulted, beaten, in some cases killed people.
00:48:26.000So a significant portion of these people deported are violent criminals or certainly felons in addition to being here illegally.
00:48:33.000As far as national security, which a lot of people don't talk about, you know, going after the Houthi, putting some pressure on Iran.
00:48:38.000Increased pressure, you know, in Asia and the whole Pacific region with Hegseth prioritizing that over never-ending money to Ukraine, ousting China from the Panama Canal.
00:48:49.000There's a 75-day extension on TikTok, so we don't necessarily know what's going to happen with that.
00:49:43.000How do you add all of that up and get the worst approval rating in history?
00:49:48.000And by the way, we're going to bring them on, but if you are not yet someone who has downloaded the Rumble app, that's the best way to stay in touch.
00:50:02.000And this next man, who's an expert, I just pretend to be one here in polling, and I make the references available so you can become an expert.
00:50:08.000But this guy actually, like, this is what he lives, eats, breathes, and he's one of the best.
00:50:12.000It's time to bring on from Rasmussen Reports, Mark Mitchell.
00:50:20.000For those who want to follow him, it's HonestPolsterOnX.
00:50:23.000He's the head pollster for Rasmussen Reports.
00:50:26.000And, oh, he's also on Rumble Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 9 p.m. Eastern.
00:50:41.000And what you do here, you really are a specialist.
00:50:43.000So in these cases, you're incredibly valuable because you and I both know that, and I don't believe there are lies, damn lies, and statistics.
00:51:49.000I think he's going to drift around 49%, 50%, and that's where you'd expect in a really highly divisive country, but it's not this sudden thing.
00:51:59.000What they're trying to do is convince you that all of a sudden he poked the economic bear, and now he's plunging and circling the toilet train, and that's just not the case.
00:52:08.000If you strip out the first six months of Obama...
00:52:11.000In 2009, Donald Trump pretty much polls in our numbers exactly like Obama.
00:52:21.000Now, the big discrepancy is how much ubiquitously positive media coverage Obama got and how ubiquitously horrible the coverage of Trump has been.
00:52:31.000But the standout in our numbers is Biden.
00:52:34.000And he just sucks compared to both of them.
00:54:48.000And so everybody's been piling into these panels like Ipsos or YouGov, and they suck.
00:54:53.000They're run by leftist corporations and community managers with pronouns in their bios.
00:54:58.000They only have 50,000 or 60,000 people.
00:55:00.000And what they generally do is create an image of America that they want to see.
00:55:04.000And it doesn't actually represent America.
00:55:07.000If you look at the ABC, Washington Post, Ipsos poll, the one that had that headline, worst polling in 100 years or whatever, they had Trump underwater six points on the issue of immigration.
00:55:41.000And so I think that's one of the reasons we're still good.
00:55:44.000They're getting a whole bunch of non-political normies, people from Nigeria with VPNs, and we're still getting a lot of real Americans, and that's why I think our numbers are better.
00:55:53.000Can I ask you, is that by design, do you think, or is that just laziness?
00:55:57.000Usually things progress as far as any industry becoming better, more efficient, you fine-tune.
00:56:27.000But here's how you know that there's something nefarious going on.
00:56:31.000When was, in my opinion, the peak response bias, the peak amount of lefties that were super mad right now, was about three weeks ago when the market started to take a hit, right?
00:56:41.000But what you see now is that the polling's bad.
00:57:06.000I'm just going to save up this little turd for Trump's 100 days.
00:57:09.000And they dropped it right into the Sunday news cycle.
00:57:12.000And then what you also see is if you look at the Google search trend or organic search volume for the word Trump approval, he's been on the political stage for like 10 years now.
00:58:21.000Trump is actually kind of like well viewed positively in many measures.
00:58:27.000His approval index, which is like strong approve minus strong disapprove.
00:58:31.000So that's you take all the lovers and subtract the haters.
00:58:34.000His numbers are routinely higher than Obama's were throughout both his terms.
00:58:38.000And then also, if you look at just the percentage of the eligible voting population that Trump got to turn out for his second time, well, you know.
00:58:46.000His second win, we'll just say, right?
00:58:52.000He only got 28% of the electorate in Term 1. He got 32% this time, which was higher than Obama 2, higher than JFK, higher than Reagan 1, higher than Bush 1 and 2, higher than both Clinton terms.
01:01:52.000Yeah, and just to be clear, when you talk about in the November election, if you do split up Generation Z between men and women, the young men did go for Trump, I believe, like an actual net positive.
01:02:01.000And overall, as a demo, it ended up being a couple points for Harris.
01:02:03.000But that's because the young female vote counterbalanced the male more significantly.
01:02:12.000Like, there is a big gender divide where young people are not getting married.
01:02:16.000Men are checking out of the dating pool because feminism, their view, has ruined dating prospects.
01:02:21.000And then, I mean, you know, young feminists are the only group who can create a social movement around banning catcalling and then bitch about the fact that no men are hitting on them anymore.
01:02:31.000So I think young men are like, ah, well, we stopped catcalling and we don't care.
01:02:39.000There's a lot going on, and it's really hard to slice up the demos into usable signals.
01:02:46.000And without doing massive, massive mega polls, right?
01:02:50.000So what might be going on in the cultural zeitgeist is happening among 18 to 25-year-old men, but we're polling 18 to 39-year-old men and women, and those people have parents mixed in, so there's a lot going on.
01:03:02.000In our polling, the 29 to 39 age group is really the most conservative, and it's because they're trying to – although the 18 to 29-year-olds are still way more conservative than they've ever been.
01:03:11.000These are people that went for, like, Hillary Clinton, 40 or 50 points.
01:03:14.000So it's just a complete, complete – But then there's other things, too.
01:03:18.000In our polling, the women were about 20 points less conservative than the men, but when we added in pet ownership, and the real crazy ones are the single women cat owners, and they went...
01:03:31.000Kamala Harris and our polling by almost 40 points.
01:03:34.000So there's funny little signals in there.
01:03:43.000Yeah, I know, and I can think of fewer people who add net value to the United States fabric who add less than 40-year-old single cat ladies who bitch about men.
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