Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 17, 2026


The Scott Adams School - 3134 04⧸15⧸26 News Crew w⧸ BJ Dichter


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Join us as we discuss the latest in the scandal surrounding Rep. Eric Swalwell and his wife's affair with a fellow congresswoman. We also talk about the latest on the Uranus deal and why it's a good thing it's tax day.

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00:00:00.000 slightly embarrassing yeah thank you good morning good morning steven crusher jackie
00:00:10.240 bart look how good you guys good morning it's uh oh it's april 15th you know what that means
00:00:22.160 time to pay the piper it's time to pay all the sexual allegations off in uh in dc we got to
00:00:32.060 fill the coffers it's uh it's time or it's time to get your refund oh bless you people that get
00:00:40.460 refunds yes bless you people good morning to everybody except the irs yeah that's how i feel
00:00:48.900 so i hope you guys either filed your extensions or you're getting them in today by midnight
00:00:56.140 all right so welcome in you guys we have one of your favorites and ours we have bj with with us
00:01:03.100 today and who better we waited for bj to talk about ireland which we're going to get to in a
00:01:08.940 little bit um mr honking for freedom can definitely let us know what the honking
00:01:14.580 fighting irish are doing there it is where can they get that by the way uh hunking for freedom
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00:02:20.540 I hope Kyle enjoyed that.
00:02:22.080 I know, Kyle especially.
00:02:24.180 All you Kyles out there.
00:02:26.300 So you guys, welcome.
00:02:27.540 I'm Erica.
00:02:28.260 You're at the Scott Adams School.
00:02:29.880 Again, it is April 15th, 2026.
00:02:32.900 It is Tax Day in America.
00:02:36.100 So get with it, people.
00:02:38.040 I'm here with the best co-hosts in the world,
00:02:41.440 marcella owen and returning bj ditchter how lucky are we to be together right
00:02:48.940 so listen you guys i wanted to just start off um recapping our boy swalwell yesterday because
00:02:58.720 there's not too much to add to it today but i think we're going to be getting more and more
00:03:03.020 information on him but did you guys see um that press conference that i keep forgetting his name
00:03:10.620 The guy that was maybe, maybe not in the room with him, Senator Gallego from Arizona, who is his bestie and was helping running his presidential campaign, but had no idea about these things and the double life he was leading.
00:03:25.040 So he held the cringiest press conference yesterday.
00:03:28.660 And here's a little clip from that.
00:03:32.580 Ericswell lied to all of us.
00:03:35.600 He lied to the most powerful people in this country.
00:03:38.800 And they trusted him.
00:03:39.700 They trust him in some of the most sensitive spots in our government, whether it was on Judiciary Committee, Intel Committee, impeaching Donald Trump.
00:03:49.220 And that clouded my judgment, my friendship with him, our family's friendship together with him, clouded my judgment.
00:03:56.980 And I was wrong.
00:03:58.540 I deeply, deeply regret that.
00:04:01.760 Oh, he has clouded judgment.
00:04:05.820 I guess he might still have clouded judgment.
00:04:08.760 I'm thinking he might.
00:04:10.520 Do you think that was AI generated or is that just how he looks?
00:04:13.600 Oh, that wasn't him?
00:04:16.640 I don't know.
00:04:18.040 Well, he did go on to say this.
00:04:23.380 I don't know what's going on with his family, but it's definitely a horrible situation for
00:04:26.580 family.
00:04:26.820 They're using that as a cover to attack me right now because they couldn't take back
00:04:31.120 2024 because they ran a horrible race.
00:04:33.760 But now this is what they want to do.
00:04:34.960 They just want to hurt me as much as they can.
00:04:36.920 Presidents, anything else like that?
00:04:37.880 I don't care.
00:04:38.600 We're going to wait.
00:04:39.760 That's not even a thing right now.
00:04:41.020 The most important thing is I want to protect my family.
00:04:43.080 I want to protect my family's reputation.
00:04:45.520 And this is why we're talking about right now.
00:04:47.060 Senator, you've gone on trips, on vacations, officially, unofficially.
00:04:50.360 You've gone out, presumably, with the congressman.
00:04:52.920 You've never even witnessed him, I don't know, engaging in an affair?
00:04:57.680 No.
00:04:58.800 Never.
00:04:59.560 No.
00:05:00.040 How do you explain some of the photos, the one line?
00:05:01.980 I know you addressed one, but there is another one that shows both of you without shirts.
00:05:05.540 I mean, how do you address some of those compromising photos?
00:05:07.880 we were on a beach
00:05:09.640 I think you were on
00:05:11.460 the desert and on some camels
00:05:13.760 it was a beach and a camel
00:05:15.680 but it was a beach
00:05:16.620 oh my god
00:05:19.600 oh my god this guy is gold
00:05:21.940 he's so
00:05:23.260 did you notice how he shut his eyes
00:05:25.160 when he said no
00:05:26.320 to that question
00:05:27.960 I think that's one of the lie tells
00:05:30.260 when someone asks you a question
00:05:32.740 the person just shuts their eyes while they
00:05:34.920 deny something
00:05:36.680 I mean, this guy and Katie Porter could make my life complete.
00:05:41.980 Pretty amazing. 1.00
00:05:42.760 She has her own scandal coming up now. 1.00
00:05:44.740 Apparently, she's been accused of domestic abuse. 1.00
00:05:47.100 I think it was putting boiled potatoes over her husband's head or something.
00:05:51.700 They were mashed.
00:05:52.320 What a waste.
00:05:53.180 Mashed potatoes.
00:05:54.040 Okay.
00:05:54.300 Mm-hmm.
00:05:55.140 Yeah.
00:05:55.500 But it was, you know, she stepped into it just by trying to pile on to swallow.
00:06:02.960 Everyone was starting to respond with her own problems.
00:06:05.100 Oh, yeah. Her divorce documents are chock full of goodies. And I think she broke a coffee pot and chased her husband with the broken pot, the glass pot and all this stuff. But she's so fun, you guys. BJ, do you love this story or you hate it? Is it non-surprising? 1.00
00:06:22.560 uh it's not very surprising it's it's a little bit disappointing i'll tell you why uh you know
00:06:28.140 i've run in two elections before and i'm involved in other campaigns and one of the things i first
00:06:33.420 learned in politics is i was told by somebody who's quite veteran and quite seasoned he said
00:06:40.560 the problem with politics today the only way to get rid of somebody doesn't matter if they're
00:06:46.340 laundering money for terrorism if they're aligned with the ccp if they're tied to organized crime 0.97
00:06:52.040 if they're tied to the calistani movement none of that matters the only way you get rid of a 0.74
00:06:56.360 of a politician now who is seated an incumbent is with some sort of me too or sexual allegation
00:07:03.640 that's the only thing that sticks in our society right now so i get very um i don't like swalwell
00:07:10.520 of course uh but i get uneasy with these things sometimes just because i know behind the scenes
00:07:16.520 this is the tactic they use to destroy people's uh reputation i mean he didn't have much reputation
00:07:21.560 anyways no but to get them out of office and you know that's part of the reasons one of the
00:07:26.120 podcasts i i produce with a defense lawyer in canada who focuses on false allegations
00:07:33.080 because this is all over the political landscape it's it's kind of sad that it's come to that point
00:07:37.800 yeah so everything you guys these are our opinions alleged everything's alleged until proven but you
00:07:44.520 know so a good example of what bj is talking about is like what happened to mitt romney right they
00:07:48.920 said oh the binder's full of women and you know totally took his comment out of context and 0.96
00:07:55.160 that actually hurt him back then that was so stupid but that but that's a good example of 0.99
00:08:00.040 that swalwell i think these are some well-known uh secrets as usual you know there's so many people 0.97
00:08:07.400 that knew about these things no one says anything until it's politically convenient uh nancy pelosi
00:08:13.800 pretending she didn't know anything about him is rich uh you know she can predict the stock market
00:08:19.860 but she doesn't know about swalwell right there in california okay um but more importantly i am
00:08:25.700 wondering what scott would think about all of this and um let's let's see if we can we can find out
00:08:32.440 meanwhile i always tell you about the designated liars the uh ddls the democrat designated liars
00:08:42.120 So, Swalwell is one, Jamie Raskin is another, Adam Schiff is another.
00:08:48.980 There's a certain set of Democrats who will tell the big lie that is sort of part of the Nazi propaganda that regular Democrats won't do.
00:09:01.400 So, your normal Democrats will just sort of stay out of the news.
00:09:06.780 But the ones who want to be in the news, they will tell any lie.
00:09:10.540 So they're the ones saying, Trump wants to cut your Social Security.
00:09:15.480 There's literally no evidence of that, and there's plenty of evidence that he says, absolutely not, I won't do that.
00:09:22.660 But the designated liars will say it, and people will believe it. 0.65
00:09:26.940 It's part of the Nazi propaganda that they use.
00:09:31.380 Well, here's one that Eric Swalwell is trying to push.
00:09:34.880 so despite all of the election denial stuff that's happened over 2020 swalwell was on some
00:09:43.440 kind of podcast with some leftists foreign enemies allegedly stole u.s data the leak came
00:09:49.500 through elon musk starlink i mean i'm sure you've heard people based on all of this information
00:09:54.800 that's happened since then wonder if 2024 was secure now what evidence is there that starlink
00:10:02.700 was involved in any of the election stuff and certainly you know what evidence was involved
00:10:09.100 that if they were involved i don't even think they were involved in any elections
00:10:12.380 they're not part of the election system as far as i know um and what evidence would there be 0.80
00:10:18.820 that they somehow participated in helping russia get election data i mean it's just a ridiculous
00:10:26.380 this accusation so what does swalwell say elon musk has done nothing in the last five months to
00:10:33.400 make me think that we shouldn't ask questions about what the hell he was doing in 2024 in other
00:10:39.440 words swalwell the one of the democrat designated liars wants you to believe that the 2024 election
00:10:49.440 might have been rigged by Elon Musk.
00:10:56.700 Meaning technically rigged,
00:10:58.900 not just that he participated and that he funded stuff
00:11:02.240 and he was effective in the campaign.
00:11:05.340 They don't like that.
00:11:07.680 But how shameless do you have to be 0.83
00:11:10.900 to say something like this? 0.95
00:11:13.060 Well, we can't rule it out.
00:11:16.440 They certainly ruled it out in 2020.
00:11:19.440 so are we to believe that the election systems are that vulnerable
00:11:25.760 if we if we are to believe that they're that vulnerable then wouldn't they also have been
00:11:30.800 vulnerable in 2020 or did they only become vulnerable when trump won just insane lies
00:11:40.240 coming out of the designated liars oh my gosh so amazing and i love the way he says vulnerable
00:11:49.440 so um owen i'm going to come to you first actually about this um you know what are what are you
00:11:58.980 thought what are your thoughts on what's going to go on i i saw that you had an interesting post
00:12:03.900 today or you were talking to us about you know i i was thinking there's going to be like a swalwell
00:12:09.700 effect where people are going to have to drop out of things and i think it's starting what do you
00:12:14.320 tank yeah well i what i find interesting and maybe it's just a conspiracy theory it's certainly just
00:12:19.920 speculation is that you had these sort of pairs of a republican and a democrat dropping out at
00:12:26.100 the same time so you had swalwell and the other guy on the republican side and now you have rumors
00:12:30.920 that there's two more coming and it just so happens to be another democrat and republican
00:12:34.900 at the same time and kind of makes me wonder is there some kind of deal being made to say okay
00:12:40.480 we'll get rid of our guy if you get rid of your guy and to bj's point i'm sure a lot of this
00:12:46.500 corruption and sexual misconduct is pretty widespread in congress there's certainly
00:12:52.620 plenty of rumors that have been around forever about a lot of people and um none of it ever
00:12:57.540 seems to go anywhere right and so now things are going somewhere in a limited way but it it just
00:13:04.140 it seems very interesting to me that it's almost like simultaneously you have a democrat and a
00:13:08.440 Republican, both resigning from Congress. And then you have another pair coming out at the
00:13:13.100 same time, dropping out of Congress. So I'm kind of wondering if there was some backroom deal
00:13:17.240 to say, you know, okay, we'll, we'll not defend our guy if you don't defend your guy and we'll
00:13:24.160 just subtract these people from Congress. I mean, maybe. What do you think, Marcella?
00:13:29.520 um possibly but you know there's a chance that even if if there is such a deal that um whoever
00:13:40.440 is going to run for their positions it could be another party that could get in the opposing party
00:13:46.900 i actually think that the the clip you played from scott is very interesting because now i have a
00:13:53.300 theory so he has the designated liars and he always taught me like he always was like
00:14:01.320 quizzing me this is scott and he'd be like is that the signal liar is that a designated liar
00:14:06.120 now i know how you become a designated liar i have a theory about that which is that they have
00:14:13.200 we always had this theory me and scott that they were being blackmailed now yeah it kind of comes
00:14:20.660 out that the only reason that this all came out now is because they didn't need him anymore.
00:14:28.360 So the blackmail comes out, not the blackmail, but the truth comes out. But the Jamie Raskins,
00:14:35.580 the Adam Schiff, the Hakeem Jeffries that are the current designated liars, 0.92
00:14:43.680 you know, Ro Khanna, we don't know what's behind them, but it just seems like that's how you become,
00:14:50.120 because at the end of scott's clip that you just played he was saying how would somebody just say 0.50
00:14:56.260 these things like this even even politicians i see it i see it in sort of a mafia frame where
00:15:03.660 it's like the boss wants to keep themselves isolated and protected so they don't want to
00:15:07.760 be the one you know firing the gun or taking the guy out back but they need somebody to do it so
00:15:12.540 they find somebody that's expendable or somebody they have dirt on or somebody that you know for
00:15:17.420 whatever reason is not necessarily in their good graces and they just say that's your job now and
00:15:22.400 you don't have a choice you got to go do that otherwise you're going to have bad consequences
00:15:26.160 well so bj in in my opinion i think what happens is is that it's like pay for play in a way where
00:15:35.780 swalwell can do all of these you know things that are you know allegedly the all this me too stuff
00:15:43.420 and possibly drugging and raping women is an allegation we're going to see where that goes 0.91
00:15:50.620 and i think that he gets away with that because nancy's like listen um i need you to be the fall
00:15:58.500 guy for this you're going to go out and tell this lie and this story and he does it with such a
00:16:03.580 disgusting straight face knowing what a pos he is and it's kind of like a trade-off and so yeah
00:16:11.340 like you said marcella now they're done with him and they needed everybody to rally around 0.72
00:16:17.980 one person for governor in california and it couldn't be swalwell because they knew this
00:16:25.500 was all going to come out so they're like we have to get him out now and they don't really
00:16:29.740 care about swalwell at the end of the day they're like you're just you're just here as our puppet
00:16:33.740 to do what we need but now that you're problematic you have to go we need to rally around someone
00:16:38.780 else and bye-bye and so what do you think pj about that um yeah a couple of things you know firstly
00:16:45.260 regarding the blackmail you know i famously said in many kind of speeches here that the one piece
00:16:51.340 of legislation that would never pass is mandatory drug or alcohol testing for legislators because
00:16:56.700 and that's all parties that's all part they're all party animals uh many of them um but and the
00:17:02.060 black it's it's never blackmailing it's never blackmailing because i've seen it on the inside
00:17:07.340 It's, hey, we're going to have major opportunities for you in the future.
00:17:12.040 You may be able to run for president.
00:17:14.040 You may get a board seat on this company, play ball with us.
00:17:17.640 This is what the lobby structure does.
00:17:19.760 So this is why the designated liars, you'll always notice there's a parallel in their
00:17:24.900 personality.
00:17:25.600 They're also the most ambitious, and that's why.
00:17:29.080 Sorry for the fire alarm.
00:17:30.480 They're making me crazy here.
00:17:31.440 We can't hear it, I don't think.
00:17:32.620 Okay, perfect.
00:17:33.100 So that's kind of how, that's the frame in which I look at it.
00:17:37.060 Will there be any repercussions?
00:17:40.580 I think that no.
00:17:42.860 He's part of the political class.
00:17:45.000 This will die out, and he'll either be on MSNBC
00:17:47.940 or he'll be joining a board of a company like Burisma somewhere.
00:17:52.500 Perhaps.
00:17:53.240 Because they know all our attention spans are very short,
00:17:55.960 and we'll forget who he is after six months.
00:17:57.680 Alan Bragg is investigating him now.
00:18:00.860 So we'll see.
00:18:02.020 What do you think about that, Marcela?
00:18:03.580 Alan Bragg is looking into this.
00:18:05.740 Does that kind of change anything?
00:18:07.060 Well, the LA District Attorney's Office is going to file a case against him for rape, for allegations on rape. And they're already doing it. I think they're going to be doing it.
00:18:24.580 But Alan, you know, I don't know if he has anybody there that is, I think the video is allegedly from New York.
00:18:35.320 So, you know, it's hard to put on a case, even if Alan Bragg is going to do it.
00:18:41.700 It's hard to do that because you need that woman to participate and to accuse him.
00:18:47.220 And a lot of domestic violence and sexual abuse cases, they don't go forward because the sexual accuser doesn't want to go and, you know, doesn't want to accuse the person.
00:19:00.040 The one that was on with Lisa Bloom, I think her name was Annika. She is fully cooperating. And she said, she said, I'm not saying that she was drugged and that he, I'll say graped her so YouTube doesn't get mad that he graped her and that she thought she was going to die and that he choked her allegedly. So she, and she's going to fully cooperate, especially with Lisa Bloom, you know, that they're going to take it as far as they can.
00:19:28.920 and it's sad if it's true and i i do domestic and sexual abuse cases myself um and when you
00:19:38.100 in civil cases right and when you deal with those type of accusations um most of the time most of
00:19:46.300 these abusees or people that allege abuse they usually it's very hard for them to come out and
00:19:54.520 say it because they're seeing like you talked about yesterday Erica about Monica Lewinsky and
00:19:59.860 how the Monica Lewinsky scandal became the Monica Lewinsky scandal and the blue dress and all that
00:20:06.440 and we stopped talking about Bill Clinton so the same with this like the focus is not on the actual
00:20:13.680 accused but on the QC you know so I really understand that it's really hard for people
00:20:19.840 to come forward and go through all that and testify publicly and have all the you know
00:20:23.920 relive the experience but also just have people potentially saying well what did you do what were
00:20:28.480 you wearing and all these other things that should be irrelevant to the process and so I totally get
00:20:34.180 that but in terms of brag I would say that to me might just be a sign that maybe the fix is in
00:20:39.380 to keep him out of jail that you know when you have this progressive DA saying I'm going to do
00:20:44.620 this investigation it's kind of like I'm going to keep ownership of the investigation and suddenly
00:20:49.280 there'll be some mishandling of evidence or there'll be some weird thing happen and then you
00:20:53.800 know the the charges will be dropped or some deal will be made and um that to me would be what i'd 1.00
00:21:01.240 look for out of that sort of thing it'll also depend they say there's a lot more women coming
00:21:06.420 out so we'll see what happens you know stay tuned i mean this could really be what it is like this
00:21:13.380 serial abuser potentially you know with these horrible allegations and drugging people and
00:21:20.980 maybe he won't get away with it maybe he'll be the big the big fish that they fry to shut
00:21:26.220 everybody up who knows but we'll see how many more congressmen or senators or politicians
00:21:30.860 quietly resign from their positions like owen was predicting and we'll see what happens we'll
00:21:37.240 definitely keep an eye on it the other thing i would throw in there is the dog not barking
00:21:40.740 eric swalwell clearly was around a lot of these people they knew what he was doing even if they're
00:21:47.680 going to deny it but what were those other people doing you know like the guy that you just showed
00:21:53.120 in the clip and all these other things like they were there and they were probably doing similar
00:21:56.700 things and eric swalwell knows all about it and he's not saying anything about those things but
00:22:01.200 the media is also not asking why is that like they're not like who took the video i mean the
00:22:07.180 fix is always in with the media right but i i just think like he could bring a whole ball down
00:22:14.700 and he's not so i would imagine to me that's a sign that there is some deal or some talks going
00:22:22.340 on to say we're gonna make these things go away we're gonna take care of you aboard like bj said
00:22:27.880 we're gonna give you some landing spot if you just stay quiet yeah to be determined we'll see
00:22:35.340 how it goes so um all right so here's a little interstitial story so if you want to sip away
00:22:42.700 this is a good news story and then we're going to get on to what i think is really good news which
00:22:47.980 is happening in ireland i love to see what's happening there okay so you guys have you seen
00:22:53.420 this there's um a high school in oklahoma paul's valley high school and a school shooter came in
00:23:03.980 the principal kirk moore saw the guy with a gun and took him down watch this
00:23:12.860 so good the shooter's walking in the principal's going to come out from the back there and he's
00:23:19.020 like oh not today satan and the guy's got the gun in his hand look at him
00:23:27.340 obsessed i love this then another man who looks like his twin brother comes running out
00:23:33.260 how much weight is on top of that yeah exactly we're all thinking about a one
00:23:37.620 he takes the gun okay and walks away i mean amazing that's like that's what you want to see 0.99
00:23:46.220 right does anyone want to see it again let's do it one more time because that is some hero shit 0.98
00:23:50.660 right there did the principal get shot in the process no and look the gun is pointing right 0.97
00:23:57.320 at the principal when he comes out look pointing it right at him and he just said nope because i
00:24:02.680 I heard a story about this recently, and then I saw this story come across, and I skipped it because I thought it was just a duplicate.
00:24:08.560 So I think there was another principal that did something similar, but he got shot as part of the process.
00:24:13.080 Oh, yeah, no.
00:24:13.860 He got him.
00:24:15.540 So bravo to you, Principal Kirk Moore of Paul's Valley High School in Oklahoma, potentially just saved lives, right?
00:24:27.640 and and also what those kids might never have experienced seen or known including the teachers
00:24:33.660 there's a lot of ptsd that would have gone along with that and trauma so that's amazing good for
00:24:40.520 him for for being on it the other question is was that a gun-free zone in the school
00:24:45.480 i believe it is a gun-free zone yes i do so the tackle method that guy probably went to that high
00:24:53.020 school and he's like i remember and varsity football you put your head down and you tackle
00:24:59.720 the guy so but it's oklahoma right so maybe it wasn't a gun-free zone and if it was only a gun-free
00:25:04.820 zone then of course none of this would have ever happened right that's right like canada we never
00:25:08.860 have shootings because guns are illegal nothing ever happens here he's joking all right you guys
00:25:16.820 so let's get into the the fighting irish i love to call them and i say that fondly because uh
00:25:24.500 bj is going to kind of take us through uh what the backstory is and um there's protests going
00:25:31.540 on over there for a multitude of reasons um so bj i'm going to let you just kick us off and
00:25:38.260 tell us what's what's the gist okay so i've spent a lot of time as you can imagine speaking with
00:25:43.460 people in Ireland over the past a week or so. And I'm going to be in Ireland speaking next month,
00:25:50.020 which is one of those amazing simulation alerts. But it looks like right now, again, there's lots
00:25:57.620 of fog of war. Now I'm seeing it from the other side. So in the Canadian protest, I could see all
00:26:03.080 the fake narratives going out. And now I'm seeing the other side of it. And boy, are the parallels
00:26:09.200 is completely wild. It's absolutely fascinating. I think the first thing is, where are we now?
00:26:15.400 It seems to be that the protest is largely disbanded, but there are things occurring
00:26:21.120 periodically around the country, little uprisings and blocking of traffic here and there. And I
00:26:28.760 think that's probably not going to stop. But it's interesting, you'll notice, and I'm going to get
00:26:34.840 into this person uh from the very get-go there was just this vigor and uh intolerance towards
00:26:43.240 any sort of protest and activism uh but where was that with i don't know george floyd or anything
00:26:51.320 so it's interesting there's always enforcement versus interpretation depending where you are in
00:26:56.400 the political uh scale right what are they what are they protesting i'm gonna i'm gonna explain
00:27:01.380 that. Okay. So right now, the latest thing was there was a confidence vote yesterday. And that
00:27:08.380 confidence vote was defeated, basically confidence vote to bring down the government. And there were
00:27:15.140 92 votes in favor of the government supporting the government and 78 not supporting the government
00:27:22.920 people sometimes get that confused. They call it a not confidence vote. And so the idea is they got
00:27:27.860 close to maybe bringing down the government, but they didn't. And what I've been told is it is,
00:27:35.700 and this happens in politics all the time, this is largely just posturing to bring pressure off
00:27:41.320 the government to say, no, there's people here, we're listening and all that. So it's kind of
00:27:45.140 calm people's heads. All right. But right now, from what I'm told, I'm led to believe. And I
00:27:51.760 think from what we see online, that seems to be consistent. And that is about 80% of the people
00:27:57.840 are behind the farmers and the truckers this is mainly a farmers protest with some truckers there
00:28:02.900 too uh just because you know smaller islands so that's that's going to be obvious obvious
00:28:07.940 indicative of its culture but um you know the first thing i've learned in politics is everyone
00:28:14.760 cares about their money and it doesn't matter where they are in the political spectrum and
00:28:20.320 And Ireland has faced a massive spike in energy costs, so fuel predominantly.
00:28:29.680 That seems to be what the major grievance is, is that 47% spike in fuel prices over such a short period of time.
00:28:39.600 We're talking months.
00:28:41.360 And so that's 47% spike in fuel taxes, plus service fees.
00:28:46.880 Plus, if you really want to piss people off, throw on an administration fee.
00:28:51.420 It's like, what's the service fee?
00:28:53.000 To print a piece of paper?
00:28:54.860 So it's that sort of sadistic stuff.
00:28:57.460 So it seems to be around the taxation, but that's really one of the primary drivers of this.
00:29:07.140 The other primary driver that everybody knows, but nobody is saying publicly because it makes cowardly politicians uncomfortable,
00:29:13.900 is mass migration.
00:29:15.840 and particularly mass migration from the Middle East and North Africa.
00:29:20.380 And that has brought in some of the same destabilizing forces
00:29:24.640 that we see in France and England and is now in Ireland as well.
00:29:28.740 And people are fed up with that.
00:29:31.100 You can tell when there's politics that are getting involved,
00:29:34.260 when you hear them try to sneak in, oh, it's the carbon tax narrative,
00:29:38.380 like it's a bureaucrat that's running the protest, but it's not.
00:29:41.320 It's those two things.
00:29:42.100 The cost of fuel, I think, is genuine,
00:29:44.880 but it's also the migration the migration they were already fed up with the migration issue it
00:29:51.680 was sometime ireland's small you know and then all these people are flooding in who have nothing to
00:29:57.900 do with them and they were already fed up they were scared they were feeling like their country
00:30:03.160 was being lost and now with the fuel issue and is it is it like the um i don't know i don't
00:30:11.200 understand the system there but like the equivalent like democrat people are they blaming the iran war
00:30:18.820 because i hear them using trump's name that this is why their fuel costs it's funny i will get to
00:30:24.780 that funny you brought that up so um first we got to start with an individual there's uh the woman
00:30:32.460 who came out uh shauna coxson she is the uh the police commissioner the deputy police commissioner 0.99
00:30:39.220 She is an OOM, which is an honors and merit in law enforcement, meaning she kissed the right political ass. 0.98
00:30:46.080 Family and policing, I kind of know how it works. 0.97
00:30:48.380 And she's a Ph.D.
00:30:50.200 Oh, isn't that interesting?
00:30:51.140 And more on that, you can listen to my stream because I kind of outlined what's happening with Ph.D.s in law enforcement.
00:30:57.580 But what is really interesting, people didn't notice from the get go.
00:31:02.260 she came out two days in already and basically we're going to bring in the Tiananmen Square is
00:31:09.860 going to come to Ireland and we're going to crush them all zero tolerance all that sort of stuff
00:31:14.420 because you know there's no George Floyd there but what's interesting when she read that statement
00:31:19.120 and I'm going to tell you this and you're going to be wait that's true I didn't notice that
00:31:24.340 did you notice a significant lack of an irish accent listen to her again
00:31:31.920 i wish i had her up here yeah why is that well she's imported she's canadian oh you canadians 0.69
00:31:42.840 and she happens to be this this will enrage some people in canada in our politics here because
00:31:49.380 They always know way more than they think I do.
00:31:52.680 She was the lead inspector on the ground in Ottawa,
00:31:55.180 working under the RCMP and OPP's guidance to crush the protest.
00:31:59.660 She was the representative for the Toronto police squads that came up.
00:32:05.320 She is a radically woke ethno-communist.
00:32:08.760 I like to refer to that perspective.
00:32:10.680 and she was the first person to escalate and demand mass arrests in ottawa amongst the lead 0.73
00:32:21.140 inspectors right and that's what fanatics always do she's a religious fanatic she just happens to
00:32:26.720 be progressive but they always escalate which is exactly what she did and i thought this might be
00:32:32.500 a really good opportunity i wish i had a whiteboard but this isn't a whiteboard platform but
00:32:37.560 sorry I don't mean to drop but I'm sorry I had something come up I need to drop
00:32:41.020 sorry about that all right so you know Scott always talked about he'd like to
00:32:48.180 take a systems view of things and look at the systems approach and there is a
00:32:53.740 system that is used in politics and that is the capture and containment strategy
00:32:59.680 that is used right and this is where and people get uncomfortable with it this is
00:33:03.720 where the left and right political structures
00:33:06.480 scratch each other's backs, right?
00:33:09.760 This is why one thing that Scott always said
00:33:11.820 is very important to understand and remember,
00:33:14.640 it's not your opposition that brainwashes you.
00:33:17.260 It's the people on your side
00:33:19.100 that you think you should trust.
00:33:21.120 They're the ones who brainwash you
00:33:22.740 because you have your guard down.
00:33:24.380 That's how they can break through the critical faculty,
00:33:26.520 right?
00:33:28.340 And it doesn't mean this is all nefarious,
00:33:31.240 but often it is, sometimes it's not.
00:33:33.720 this is what's going on. This is why you see so many parallels. And this will, I think this will
00:33:39.480 explain what's happening. So first, there is a process that was used against us, that's used
00:33:45.400 against other grassroots movements, usually on the right, but it's sometimes on the left if the
00:33:50.860 wrong people are in charge of it. The first step is, first, they got to identify that there's a
00:33:57.020 movement, that there's a political movement. So in the case of Canada, similar in the United States,
00:34:01.300 we have what's called riding associations you have district associations and the people in in
00:34:06.180 particularly in canada ireland's the same way and i know the uk is the same way because i've spoken
00:34:09.860 to people there the people are in the riding associations they are usually the people who
00:34:15.860 are on the board seats you know what they are political lobbyists my riding association in
00:34:22.020 my camp i couldn't figure out initially why why why is everybody a lobbyist on my board on my uh
00:34:26.900 you know riding board well now that i know how it all works it makes sense so what they do is when
00:34:31.220 When they see, they use those ridings or district associations to monitor if there's any political uprising or movement in a particular area.
00:34:39.200 Once something happens, there's a grievance narrative.
00:34:43.440 Somebody in the local riding reaches out to their members and their volunteers and say, who can go help them?
00:34:51.060 Help them, meaning take them over, right?
00:34:54.220 Let's get involved.
00:34:55.320 and then what happens is step one they try to get involved and capture it and capture the momentum
00:35:01.880 to say hey our political party is there with you we're going to support you in the next election
00:35:08.520 but we need you to vote for us come volunteer and join a campaign if the people who are starting
00:35:14.380 to gather say you know what yeah you're right we're going to get involved boom success it's over
00:35:20.020 and it's done. They've now killed the early stages of political movement. But what happens
00:35:25.580 if that's rejected? And they say, no, no, we're not going to do that. Well, then the next step
00:35:31.020 they'll do, the next step in this system is they're going to bring somebody who has clout
00:35:36.420 or name recognition or prestige in the community to join in this movement. And they'll say, okay,
00:35:42.860 I'm going to reach so-and-so, a member of parliament, an activist, a business person
00:35:47.160 who's politically tied and we're going to get them them involved they're going to help you so
00:35:51.920 now people think oh star power oh now we have a star who's involved with us great and that star
00:35:57.880 power joins this new group and they will take an administration role an administration role in
00:36:05.540 their social media they'll work it for a month or so they'll help it grow and then they'll delete
00:36:11.680 and remove the founders boom gone happened with something called no more lockdowns in canada
00:36:17.660 which was an anti-covid thing it was co-opted by a member of parliament who was working
00:36:21.780 for the establishment and so now they have captured this new thing and they can either
00:36:28.800 they're going to try to cause all sorts of disorganization mixed messaging get people to
00:36:34.240 turn off of it try to bring in bureaucracy anything they can to get people to say you know
00:36:39.280 what you know i was i was with them when they started i was with wexit when they started but
00:36:43.760 you know what it's died this is going nowhere and then it disbands and it goes away so that's the
00:36:49.180 second step to success but what happens if that's rejected now that is rejected usually because one
00:36:57.400 reason the movement has significant momentum in alternative media and it won't die it's on the
00:37:03.580 podcast tour people are talking about on youtube and so the star power gets more actively involved
00:37:11.060 and tries to identify their name with the movement and they regularly engage in protests they'll go
00:37:18.680 on podcasts they'll do interviews all that so now the star power name is tied to the movement that
00:37:24.720 keeps growing that the political establishment was unable to control and then what happens
00:37:30.500 eventually the legacy media finally is called and gets involved and they'll start reporting it on it
00:37:38.260 the afternoon news maybe in the morning drive maybe on talk radio and then eventually when it
00:37:44.680 hits the evening news it's always evening news it becomes a story one of the five leading stories
00:37:49.880 that this movement is there and this person is the spokesperson what does the star power do
00:37:57.240 every time he has said something about the mid-century germans he says something about 0.69
00:38:03.600 hitler or he says something about the jews and there's a reason they do that because now they 0.84
00:38:09.340 want to associate craziness with this new movement that is anti-political establishment 0.74
00:38:15.100 and that is to gain instant dismissal of regular voting people who are passively engaged in
00:38:22.140 politics. They don't really understand what's going on. All of a sudden, they see a freedom
00:38:27.060 movement on the six o'clock news, and they're all pro the Third Reich. Okay, they're all crazy. 0.97
00:38:34.340 Dismiss them. And you've seen this in many things. No more lockdowns in Canada. 0.99
00:38:40.440 Many of the end COVID programs in many countries. The Tea Party movement in the United States. I
00:38:46.600 know some people that were involved in that. That was all co-opted with this same strategy
00:38:51.520 to to bring somebody who has some star power and then say bring in some crazy people and say some
00:38:58.400 crazy stuff and it just withers and dies who killed the tea party here or who was the star
00:39:05.160 power i don't remember i mean i remember the whole movement but yeah i don't know what i mean
00:39:10.000 when uh you know a bright bar was a big part of it i don't know who was the individual there
00:39:14.160 because i have a friend who was involved in the tea party movement we were discussing this a
00:39:18.760 couple years ago and he said everything you're describing is exactly what
00:39:22.060 happened to us and that's how it ended up being under control so look at what
00:39:27.500 happened in Ireland okay you have these Irish protesters protests that parallel
00:39:33.040 the Canadian protests right how can we identify this containment strategy
00:39:39.000 which is what it was it started off grassroots then I mentioned this in my
00:39:43.520 live stream I started to get very concerned with some of the international
00:39:46.720 political activists who started to orbit this protest and they start following everybody in
00:39:52.640 Ireland online and reaching out and sending them DMs. Oh yeah, you know, we're, and usually people
00:39:57.940 behind the scenes, you know, political people, but they're people behind the scenes. And, you know,
00:40:03.320 again, we know the primary was the excessive fuel costs, but then they'll inject a political cause,
00:40:11.140 like a political messaging, which is, oh, it's the carbon tax, which it really wasn't at that point.
00:40:16.720 but that's to make it digestible so they can get involved and what happened is after the last few
00:40:25.760 days remember this strategy step one step two and step three step three is the defamation defamation
00:40:31.600 campaign what happened two days before as they were just starting to break up the protests the
00:40:38.800 last couple of days what happened in step three a new narrative was introduced that was never there
00:40:45.600 It was about fuel prices and migration. But two days ago, what did we start to hear online? Fuel prices are high because of Israel's war. That is the weapon they use to crush everything. That is the division that they use in the West, and it dates back to the Holy Land Foundation terrorism trials. You can see it in evidence that was submitted in that case.
00:41:10.120 All right. So BJ, I have a clip about that. Okay. And this is, um, he is, this is, uh,
00:41:19.580 Michael Healy Ray. He's the minister of state and, oh no, sorry. This, oh no, this one is, um,
00:41:27.600 Ken O'Flynn. I love these names. Ken O'Flynn. So he talks about the, uh, Trump effect and the war
00:41:34.280 effect right here. And I love this man. Okay. Let's just take a quick listen and then we'll
00:41:39.000 talk about it. The reality is they've blamed Trump for absolutely everything. We've heard
00:41:44.060 government get up and stand about Trump. Donald Trump isn't in charge of Nora. He's not in charge
00:41:48.860 of the carbon tax in this country. He's not in charge of that in this country. And he's not in
00:41:52.740 charge of excise. What does Sean Canney do? He said, go out and walk or go out and cycle. What
00:41:58.540 did big Jim James Bond himself go out and do? He said, we'll turn the army on our own citizens,
00:42:04.480 which is reminiscent of something that you would hear in South America.
00:42:08.660 It is reminiscent of a Pyrrhonist.
00:42:10.760 And then we have the man that turned away from the woman in Kentark
00:42:14.600 not so long ago, but during this election, and we didn't want to hear.
00:42:18.000 And all of a sudden, he's gaslighting the country, saying he's concerned.
00:42:21.860 He's concerned about the 900,000 people on waiting lists all of a sudden.
00:42:26.880 He's concerned about the 60,000 people on housing lists.
00:42:30.880 He's concerned about the 116,000 people that are waiting for Hap.
00:42:36.880 That's what this government is concerned about.
00:42:38.720 You're concerned about nothing, only serving yourselves.
00:42:41.880 And I applaud Deputy Healey Ray and I say well done to him for having a bit of backbone.
00:42:47.380 And if those that turned up at the protests down in White Gate or anywhere else in the
00:42:51.640 country in Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael that turned up there and said, we're witchy lads
00:42:55.840 and we're going to get rid of Michal in a couple of weeks.
00:42:58.600 If any of you have any bit of backbone, join with Healy Ray and vote against this government, and let's call the election.
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00:44:06.860 Okay, now, just speaking of Healy Ray, here is Healy Ray.
00:44:12.380 He is the Minister of State, and listen to him.
00:44:18.180 and because of the fact that i believe this government have left the people of ireland down
00:44:23.680 i will be voting no confidence in the leader of the country and i will be tindering my resignation
00:44:29.400 as a minister of state from now and i would ask that future governments and this government
00:44:35.680 that they would listen that they would be kind that they would be understanding
00:44:40.700 amazing just what we were saying here right yep and you know there's one person on the
00:44:48.100 international stage who has been able to repeatedly break through this strategy of containment and
00:44:55.240 defamation of political movements that are not controlled by any, and by the way, there's many
00:45:00.000 different establishments, they're almost like political cartels. There's one person who's been
00:45:04.100 able to break through all of them, and his name is Donald Trump. And that's why they hate him so
00:45:10.480 much. I've heard this from people before in politics that this is our arena. This is not
00:45:17.620 the arena for business people. Our business is politics. If you come in here and you think you're
00:45:23.380 going to take it over, you're going to get your head cut off. That is the frame that the political 0.99
00:45:29.860 establishments use as they view the world. But Trump was able to break through it, and that's
00:45:35.300 why they are absolutely obsessed with him. But this is kind of how it works. And once you
00:45:39.700 understand this system and this process, once you can see it, you see it everywhere. And it happens
00:45:46.120 on the left too. Again, when it's not contained, it gets really difficult to shake. It actually
00:45:51.380 gets quite annoying because you become so predictive. Movement starts up. Oh yeah,
00:45:56.080 they're going to do this. They're going to do this. They're going to go to the media and then
00:45:59.600 they're going to bring in some maniac. Oh, there's the maniac. Okay. When's the maniac going to say 0.98
00:46:03.080 something stupid? Oh, here we go. Four weeks in, the maniac said something stupid and everybody's 1.00
00:46:07.540 walking away from what could have been a good and legitimate grassroots movement yeah that's such a 0.96
00:46:15.220 great uh summation bj like bravo very good everyone yeah everyone in the chat question for
00:46:23.680 you bj in regards to the opposition party sean fun isn't aren't they the opposition party that
00:46:31.200 called in the confidence vote um aren't they the left socialist party that was supporting
00:46:40.720 this movement yeah so it's it's very interesting this is where the dynamic uh it becomes very
00:46:47.440 difficult for people to shake this because we do live in this kind of binary framing of the world
00:46:53.440 that we think there is a left and right uh there's not well there is but i mean maybe
00:47:00.800 not in ireland politics there is a there's a political lobby class and what's what's changed
00:47:07.200 in the world what's causing so much problems is it used to be that the lobby firms that would
00:47:12.720 provide products to political parties like for example political parties don't come up with their
00:47:17.920 mandates and they don't come up with their election strategy they go to a strategic management firm
00:47:23.520 they do a a feasibility study they do polling and they come back and they tell you these are your
00:47:29.440 top five issues for the next election. They used to be localized. Now they're international
00:47:36.680 companies, sometimes laundering money as well for people who want to sow division in the West.
00:47:42.220 That's how you get Boris Johnson on the right and Joe Biden on the left, both saying build back
00:47:50.000 better. It's the establishment lobby class who is in power versus everybody else. And whoever is
00:47:57.300 the opposition they're just going to say and do whatever products they are given by their
00:48:02.660 strategic management firms that's going to be messaging that they think is going to resonate
00:48:06.660 with people so the fact that they are more socialist or more uh free market people becomes irrelevant
00:48:14.020 pretty wild eh what do you think oh yeah i mean it's interesting that sean feign
00:48:20.420 is uh supporting uh the and i was thinking maybe that was part of the co-opting of the movement
00:48:28.500 is to make it be like we're one with the people we're you know socialist uprising um basically a
00:48:36.580 farmer uprising that you we would see in latin america or we would even see in california with
00:48:43.700 the farmer workers union and things like that well yeah they're always going to try to co-opt
00:48:48.340 whatever they i mean the conservatives will do that as well this is why you know not many people
00:48:53.300 watched the um testimony in the the canadian trucker freedom convoy or their trucker convoy
00:49:00.140 we had a national inquiry that lasted what six weeks and i was the people one of the people who
00:49:05.660 testified this is what i was trying to explain to people but unfortunately it was so controlled and
00:49:11.960 constricted and i was the one person who was denied the opportunity to for my lawyer to ask
00:49:19.500 questions of the other 21 parties it was me versus 21 other parties everybody got to ask questions
00:49:26.300 and make assertions i couldn't i couldn't map this out for people on the record i can only
00:49:33.980 respond to questions so we kind of did our best wait why because it's so rigged everything
00:49:40.940 I mean, the judge was appointed by Trudeau.
00:49:44.560 Like, the big thing, the takeaway that people in Canada misunderstand,
00:49:48.860 and this is the cognitive biases that get assigned to us,
00:49:53.000 oh, I'm a conservative or I'm a liberal,
00:49:55.340 so I'm always going to support the conservatives,
00:49:57.660 I'm always going to support the liberals.
00:49:59.120 That becomes tribal.
00:50:00.400 The problem with that is people get blinded to see something
00:50:04.600 that was very important and very evident there,
00:50:07.080 and that is this.
00:50:08.360 the leader of the conservative party and justin trudeau trading emails and getting on the phone
00:50:15.580 and saying how they need to put an end to the protest so at one point at one side they're
00:50:21.640 trying to go on social media oh we support the truckers we support the truckers so much but
00:50:26.040 behind the scenes they're on the phone saying how can we put an end to it who do we have on the
00:50:30.260 ground that can put an end to it who can sabotage it who are the big people in the in play who's
00:50:35.500 somebody we can offer something to because the political establishment cares
00:50:39.520 about one thing the political establishment this is their business this
00:50:44.200 is what they do for a living and now these firms are in you know there's
00:50:49.600 certain firms I'm thinking of particularly Washington DC Ottawa Canberra
00:50:54.580 Australia the United Kingdom in London they're in the Netherlands they're in
00:50:58.960 all over all over Europe and France like they've become large international
00:51:04.180 corporations and that's what's causing all this chaos and everybody's going to one side or the
00:51:10.400 other around the world because it's very very profitable this is a shame uh it's a shame and
00:51:18.600 i uh my my heart is breaking for these irish people um that just want to save their country
00:51:26.240 and get back to who they were i feel like i feel like this is a common thread that can
00:51:31.580 pull this world together is that so many countries are feeling this way, you know, that we've been
00:51:38.160 taken over. Our vote doesn't matter. What we say doesn't matter. Our country doesn't matter
00:51:45.580 anymore. I mean, the fact that there's a Canadian in there in Ireland, like why, you know, and no 1.00
00:51:51.420 offense, but again, with the women, can we stop? So it's just my little joke. But anyway, but not 1.00
00:51:59.480 joke um so yeah i just feel bad because i feel like everybody like we don't know what to do we
00:52:06.360 you know even so i want to say you know we have to look at ourselves here in america you know we
00:52:10.680 see a lot of things going down this path also um without getting specific just as a whole you see
00:52:18.040 that we have less and less say or it appears to be that we have less and less of a say of
00:52:23.400 how our country is run and what happens and you know people get into office they don't listen to
00:52:28.760 one thing their constituents are saying it's like they're like oh yeah i just need to be here so i
00:52:33.640 can keep making the deals behind the scene whatever you say doesn't really matter because i have a
00:52:38.680 grander picture with my lobbyists and ngos and this and that and i want to you know pad my bank
00:52:45.320 account and everything else so i don't know i don't know the answers i wish i did um can i give
00:52:52.200 give you some positive uh framing oh yeah um all of this is why i'm so positive about the future
00:53:01.640 because now people know now i can be on this platform with this is we've known this for many
00:53:08.540 many years in politics but now it's going to become regular discourse just like you know 10
00:53:14.880 12 years ago when i would talk about a political entryism from extremist groups and all that sort
00:53:19.860 stuff and people would do this politicians didn't want to hear about it it was fringe ideas now it's
00:53:25.860 become mainstream and people are fed up and i think i'm really quite hopeful for ireland there's
00:53:31.380 always going to be bumps in the road change is not easy change has friction but um i think ireland
00:53:38.580 has a particular spirit in the fact that like not that ireland has any i don't know violent
00:53:44.260 uprisings in its past but they're not a group of people you want to screw with i have full faith
00:53:49.780 in them that i i have a and right now ireland is it's hyperbolic to use the word powder keg that
00:53:56.740 might be a little too much but i think it's fertile ground to build uh to further the opposition
00:54:03.580 movement to collectivism that we're seeing that's what donald trump represents and that is now going
00:54:09.720 to spread to ireland it's spreading in spain right now it's spreading in france we have all of latin
00:54:15.580 America, well, most of Latin America has come to a more rational, centrist perspective politically.
00:54:22.040 So this is all amazing. I can't believe we're in such a good position compared to where we were
00:54:27.460 10, 15 years ago when it was significantly worse and nobody knew about it.
00:54:33.680 Yeah. Marcella, do you want to chime in on this?
00:54:36.920 Well, I wanted to get your input on the Canadian special elections.
00:54:41.840 oh oh yeah yeah i had uh i was trying to explain to some people so canada i'm going to say something
00:54:49.920 your heads are going to explode canada is a right-wing country i'm sorry it's not a left-wing
00:54:55.240 country and if you if not you but you know if people understood the distribution of the ridings
00:55:01.020 and how it's kind of rigged a little bit they would understand it it's essentially three cities
00:55:05.900 that have you know twice as many districts as like all of alberta right like one city is like
00:55:11.520 twice as much as one of the most economically prosperous.
00:55:15.340 What are the controlling cities?
00:55:18.340 Montreal, Montreal slash Ottawa, I consider them the same.
00:55:21.640 Toronto and Vancouver, that really is what control.
00:55:23.920 They're running the country with, okay.
00:55:25.880 Yeah, and that's where all the kind of woke activism is.
00:55:28.600 All the woke money goes to the universities on those campuses.
00:55:31.660 And it's not a new strategy.
00:55:33.580 So I was trying to explain to a couple of people
00:55:36.080 who asked me about this in the U.S. yesterday,
00:55:37.820 that firstly, by-elections always go to liberal parties in Canada.
00:55:42.800 They always go to them because people who are in the more conservative side,
00:55:47.200 we're working, we're working.
00:55:48.820 Half of us don't even know that there's an election
00:55:51.120 because they're not broadcasted the same way that a general election is.
00:55:54.760 The media doesn't focus on it.
00:55:56.540 So all the on-the-grounds activist groups,
00:55:58.740 they just kind of put all their energy into it.
00:56:01.400 And by default, the conservatives never do well in by-elections.
00:56:05.260 But more importantly, what are the ridings? Remember, I explained the distribution of the ridings, and I gave this one example. One of the ridings that was 67% went to the Liberals, and everybody's like, oh my God, look, look how bad the Conservatives are doing. And I'm like, what are you talking about? That's where I ran in the first election.
00:56:25.040 I know that riding like the back of my hand. I know all the people, the gay community is there. That is the wealthiest riding in all of Canada. That's where all the hardcore, old school, old liberal money lives. I believe Carney has a house there. And Krista Friedland lives there as well. Like that is, it might as well be the campaign office for the Liberal Party.
00:56:49.500 So like, yeah, of course, it's going to go to the Liberal Party. Everybody knew that. And that's probably why the conservatives didn't focus and allocate a lot of money in this election to those ridings, because they know it's already a foregone conclusion because of business interests, as Scott always talked about.
00:57:05.920 You've got to look at the competing interests and follow the money.
00:57:09.480 The people who live in the wealthiest area of the country,
00:57:13.140 they all have business ties to the Liberal Party.
00:57:15.500 They're not going to vote against that.
00:57:16.680 Would you be crazy?
00:57:17.840 And the same thing for the other.
00:57:19.040 One riding was maybe a swing riding, maybe a conservative.
00:57:22.600 What is a riding?
00:57:24.600 Oh, a district.
00:57:25.480 A district.
00:57:25.940 Okay.
00:57:26.680 Yeah, we can call them ridings here.
00:57:27.940 I was like, they're riding a lot of horses.
00:57:30.960 Sorry, I forgot.
00:57:32.200 American odds.
00:57:32.560 So, yeah, that district is basically campaign headquarters for the Liberal Party.
00:57:37.300 Where do you think it's going to go?
00:57:38.880 So people are like, look, it's look how liberal Canada is.
00:57:41.960 No, it's a few liberal cities.
00:57:43.900 But like when you go outside out of the cities and you just start driving an hour north,
00:57:49.120 you go to Timmons or Capascasing or Red Deer, Alberta or Grand Prairie.
00:57:54.480 Those are not liberal territories at all.
00:57:58.220 so what happened i mean um i think we need to explain to to the audience is that on monday
00:58:04.500 there was a canadian special election for three writings three three different positions and they
00:58:11.560 all went to the liberal party who is ran by the prime minister mark carney and now uh he has 174
00:58:20.380 seats in the, I guess, Parliament, and there's 343 seats overall, and so they now have a
00:58:32.100 majority, and he claims it to be this big victory.
00:58:38.620 Yes, and the bigger problem was conservative members of Parliament crossing the floor and
00:58:45.680 leaving their party and going to the liberals be the equivalent of a republican leaving and
00:58:50.580 joining the democrats we've had a few of them and one of them in particular gladu i remember
00:58:55.500 telling people in our party and look i'm pretty libertarian i'm not a social conservative but i'm
00:59:00.180 very fiscally conservative and there's a couple of issues as you know i am you don't get more 0.99
00:59:04.720 conservative than i am but i was telling these people like what are you having these morons run 0.97
00:59:10.080 in the conservative party and all the lobbyists are like oh no she's really good she's got to 0.98
00:59:15.620 get an office she's on our side and what i'm like she's a liberal she's part of the liberal party
00:59:19.980 this is why they try to protect their party so much because when push comes to shove and you
00:59:24.940 have a this scenario where there's a minority government those people just jump ship and join
00:59:30.540 uh the ruling party and this particular person gladu i know some people live in a riding
00:59:35.000 the riding's going crazy because it is like a conservative stronghold and they're going nuts
00:59:40.660 Do you imagine like a conservative stronghold in a rural Texas, all of a sudden, their representative shifts to the Democratic Party?
00:59:49.920 Do they have a say? I mean, do they have any kind of say?
00:59:53.680 I know we're almost running out of time.
00:59:55.300 That's the problem. There's no demand that there is an election.
01:00:00.380 You know, it should be that people in good conscience would go to the polls again after they've shifted parties.
01:00:07.700 But that's not the law here.
01:00:09.120 See, everybody, even Canada has their Abigail Spamburgers too, right?
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01:01:16.720 That's called the other life with the jobs and all that stuff.
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