00:00:00.000Hey, everybody, a Canadian trucker update as the protest in Ottawa continues.
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00:01:22.000At some point, everyone reaches their breaking point.
00:01:27.000Our friendly neighbors to the north, the Canadians, they seem to have reached their breaking point over the weekend.
00:01:34.000Now, if you have not heard about this news story, I just want to emphasize the power of the activist press to be able to suppress and to be able to distract and cover up legitimate stories that are happening in real time.
00:01:55.000The trucker convoy that has happened all across Canada is nothing short of miraculous.
00:02:01.000Traveling thousands of miles to the capital city of Ottawa, the Canadian truckers, supported by millions of their fellow Canadians, waltzed right into Ottawa to demand an end to the vaccine mandates.
00:02:18.000Now, this has been covered, if at all, by the media as trying to propagandize you to believe that this is some sort of fringe minority.
00:02:27.000Justin Trudeau himself called this a fringe group with unacceptable views.
00:02:33.000You might wonder, where is Justin Trudeau?
00:02:35.000Well, Justin Trudeau, despite being triple vaxxed, boosted, and masking all the time, he has contracted COVID.
00:02:43.000It's funny how those vaccine mandates work.
00:02:45.000Justin Trudeau tweeted out, he said, I have COVID, now go get vaccinated.
00:02:53.000Maybe that's just an excuse not to address the people in the streets of Ottawa.
00:02:59.000Now, what's happening in Canada is nothing short of a revival of the citizen.
00:03:06.000You see, the people need to be rulers of their civilization, not subjects.
00:03:12.000It is the people who are the sovereign.
00:03:15.000The representatives, like Justin Trudeau, are supposed to serve at the will of the people.
00:03:22.000That paradigm has been upside down for quite some time.
00:03:26.000And Canada is a very interesting example.
00:03:28.000And Canada is no different, by the way, than San Francisco or Seattle or Portland or New York City in this regard.
00:03:33.000Which is the very same hand that gives you the stimulus check is the same hand that will force the jab into your shoulder.
00:03:44.000The very same hand that will make you feel safe for the time being by locking everyone down at home is the same hand that will put a mask on your six-year-old daughter.
00:03:57.000Put simply, the hand that feeds you is also the hand that will mandate you.
00:04:03.000So, Canada is an interesting example for a variety of different reasons.
00:04:07.000One of which is that Canada has always had this kind of very pleasant atmosphere of living, of existing as neighbors to one another, a very peaceful people, one might call it.
00:04:51.000But at the back end of every liberal movement or the liberalization of people is the inevitable clenched fist that is going to terrorize you.
00:05:06.000You see, Trudeau positions himself to the people of Canada as a tolerant, almost a 1970s hippie who went too far north in Woodstock and somehow stumbled into the lands of Canada and he's never left.
00:05:21.000He positions himself as someone who says, we are an accepting, open-minded people.
00:05:25.000I could play tape after tape after tape after tape of Trudeau saying, we as Canadians, our values are open-mindedness and global thinking.
00:05:35.000But almost immediately, when their power is threatened or when they see an opening, they go from someone who is allegedly very tolerant and very open-minded to a third world dictator, saying that we're going to shut down the entire country.
00:06:21.000The demonstrations were initially aimed at pushback against vaccine mandates for truck drivers crossing the U.S.-Canada border.
00:06:29.000But the movement escalated into an expression of disapproval with the Canadian government's COVID-19 policies.
00:06:37.000Officials say several investigations are underway into reports of severe vandalism and criminal behavior, including the desecration of national monuments.
00:06:48.000Now they have met the enemy, and the enemy, their enemy, is themselves, because they've become what they hated.
00:07:06.000These are truckers that are trying to fight for their freedom.
00:07:09.000My heart goes out to them because it's just a matter of time before the Canadian government really locks down on them, clamps down on them.
00:07:16.000The question is, will the Canadian police and the Canadian military actually take the orders?
00:07:24.000Play cut six, convoy protesters carefully clean and take care of the Terry Fox Memorial in downtown Ottawa, the exact opposite of what they are told is happening.
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00:11:52.000The very same group of people that the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, George Soros, Bezos, all these people have total contempt for.
00:12:04.000What you are seeing happen in Canada is a blue-collar revival.
00:12:11.000We need truckers to keep our entire supply chain together.
00:12:18.000Also, just from like kind of a lack of wisdom perspective, Trudeau, not exactly smart to antagonize truckers when you already can't get food and things on the shelves.
00:12:28.000Not exactly wise, but he doesn't care.
00:12:32.000Trudeau came out of hiding to prophesy that there will be three more months of winter.
00:13:06.000This morning, I'd like to address the millions of Canadians who are making responsible decisions to ensure their safety and the safety of their lives.
00:13:16.000I know that this pandemic has been frustrating.
00:13:19.000After two years, the battle against COVID-19 is still dominating so many parts of our lives.
00:13:57.000And right now, they're trying to win popularity by targeting what they perceive as an unpopular minority and to spread fear, keep everyone afraid for as long as possible is what the Liberals are doing.
00:14:10.000So we have to replace that fear with freedom and optimism.
00:14:36.000He was born into a political family, never worked an honest day in his life.
00:14:42.000He's been the worst prime minister of my life of Canada.
00:14:44.000I don't follow Canadian politics that closely, but he has been just so incredibly tyrannical and out of touch with the people of Canada for quite some time.
00:14:57.000And he almost has no self-awareness of how shallow he is, what constituency he's serving.
00:15:13.000I have attended protests and rallies in the past when I agreed with the goals, when I supported the people expressing their concerns and their issues.
00:15:23.000Black Lives Matter is an excellent example of that.
00:15:26.000But I have also chosen to not go anywhere near protests that have expressed hateful rhetoric, violence towards fellow citizens, and a disrespect not just of science, but of the frontline health workers and, quite frankly, the 90% of truckers who have been doing the right thing to keep incredible.
00:16:50.000You look at somewhere like New York, California, even out in the Pacific Northwest, Oregon, New Mexico.
00:16:57.000What Democrats are generally doing, which we should have expected because people like Alyssa Slotkin openly said they would.
00:17:04.000Mark Elias and company and the Driple C are using more urban votes to carve out the swingy areas and also more right-leaning areas to basically dilute those votes with larger urban votes.
00:17:18.000Now, their argument is it's all about population, Charlie, but it's not.
00:17:23.000I mean, every state can be a little bit different.
00:17:26.000Some states have a legislature doing it.
00:17:28.000Others like California have a commission doing it.
00:17:31.000The bottom line is, and Virginia, by the way, Sean Trendy from Rookie Politics was on that.
00:18:02.000They were trying to go as low as two Republican seats.
00:18:05.000But what they're doing, and they did this in New York, is either completely miss the deadline, Charlie, or wait until the very last minute.
00:18:12.000And that is to avoid public commenting.
00:18:16.000So, or at least to shorten it so they don't get completely battered by the public over it.
00:18:22.000But they're planning to win, and Republicans are playing timid, as always.
00:18:42.000They basically carved Portland up into three different areas.
00:18:46.000Actually, I think the latest map was four to dilute some of the member Dino Rossi.
00:18:52.000He's another one out in Washington state where they tried to basically use the more urban areas, but Albuquerque, New Mexico is another one.
00:18:59.000They split it right down the middle, basically diluting the rest of the vote statewide.
00:19:04.000And in California, Devin Nunez was completely written out.
00:19:08.000And I have the inside story because I was involved there.
00:19:11.000At the very last minute, the deadline, the commission completely blew past it.
00:19:16.000They had all of these different iterations that received public comment.
00:19:20.000And then at the very last minute, the establishments from the parties and special interest groups, which I don't know what LGBT special interest groups have to do with redistricting, but they came in and they just wrote a totally new map.
00:19:33.000And that's the map the commission adopted.
00:19:35.000Devin Nunez was still written out of that map, but also David Valadeo, his seat is now D plus 10.
00:19:42.000I don't know how he, even in a good year, it may be hard for David to hold on.
00:19:47.000And, you know, Kevin McCarthy's sitting pretty, but that's really those maps are designed to keep challengers out to benefit the left and then keep out challengers.
00:19:58.000Now, aren't there some court rulings, though, that show they can't explicitly gerrymander or the Democrats just ignoring that and they're going ahead and doing it anyway?
00:21:00.000This is the, it's really when it comes down to it, you know, voters, Republican voters need to demand more from their leaders because they just roll over, buddy.
00:22:16.000That's how you end up on that commission.
00:22:18.000And the reason I don't like them is because in Virginia, for instance, if the voters of Virginia don't like that map and they're mad, they can hold their state legislature accountable.
00:22:32.000So they just completely take this power out of the hands of voters and put it into the hands of commissions, which everybody, everybody got a say in who gets on it.
00:22:42.000And then everybody gets a call into their buddy to make sure that their seat is either shirt up or another challenger is drawn out.
00:23:25.000Somebody on the left probably would not like what happened in North Carolina, but that's, you know, like you said, every 10 years we get the census.
00:23:33.000The general consensus in North Carolina was that Eastern North Carolina did not get surveyed properly.
00:23:41.000Republicans are fighting in a state like that.
00:23:43.000But Florida, which is getting more and more Republican every day, they just, I mean, the governor has to come out and say, this is what the map should look like.
00:23:53.000I mean, that's how ridiculous Republicans are.
00:23:55.000That being said, even in the latest poll we just put out a few days ago, it's Republican plus seven on the generic ballot.
00:26:39.000So in Florida, it could really turn out, Charlie, where Democrats get at least one seat, maybe two, that they really shouldn't have anymore.
00:26:46.000And by the way, just so everybody, I really have to mention this.
00:26:50.000This is why Trump wanted the census to ask about immigration status.
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00:28:45.000Joe Biden is always in mired in the 20s with that number if he's lucky.
00:28:50.000Strongly disapprove of the job Joe Biden is doing.
00:28:53.000Charlie is now at the number Trump and Obama had for people who love them, who strongly approved of them.
00:29:00.000So, after COVID, it became clear on COVID where he did have high marks in our polling for a while.
00:29:06.000But after it became clear that he wasn't really going to be better at handling the pandemic and that approval started to fall, it all collapsed for him.
00:29:24.000There is still some goodwill there over the pandemic, but we have him now, he fell into the low 40s for the pandemic, so and a good 55% disapproving.
00:29:35.000So, you know, you can almost overlap those two trends.
00:29:38.000And there's right now, what we saw in this poll was a crack in the Democratic base.
00:29:43.000The liberal, the far more left-wing side of the Democratic Party is joining with the very few remaining conservative Democrats in disliking him.
00:29:53.000So, Democratic approval now is almost 20% in our poll.
00:30:15.000As relentless they attacked Trump, his base only grew.
00:30:17.000It never fractured, it stayed with him throughout the entire presidency.
00:30:21.000So, we have about three minutes remaining, Richard.
00:30:23.000What do you think that means for the midterms?
00:30:25.000And what is the Democrat strategy going to be?
00:30:27.000Because they're going to try to do all sorts of different tricks and all sorts of different surprises because they're not going to accept these numbers.
00:31:03.000If you look at that poll, Charlie, that we did, we asked about shortages, we asked about inflation, and on typical grocery store items, inflation is now overtaken.
00:31:13.000Jobs and the economy is the number one issue.
00:31:15.000Coronavirus is a very distant number three and almost tied with immigration.
00:31:20.000So, and when we asked people about COVID, why did you pick COVID?
00:31:25.000Only about half of them said that's because they think we're getting too loose.
00:31:30.000We need to get more strict mitigation measures.
00:31:33.000The other half picked it because they can't stand the mandates.
00:31:36.000So it's not even a universally positive issue for Democrats at this point.
00:31:40.000We asked about those shortages and, you know, over 70% are experiencing shortages when it comes to things like paper goods.
00:31:49.00080% of the country is paying more for meat and poultry.
00:33:25.000Richard, thank you so much, People's Pundit and big data poll.
00:33:27.000Richard Barris, thank you so much for joining us.
00:33:30.000Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
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