The Media's Framing of Politicians vs. Reality ｜ A Critical Compass Clip
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Summary
In this episode, the guys talk about the current state of the conservative movement in Canada, and what it means to be a conservative in the 21st century. They also discuss the recent "humanizing" clip of Polyana Vaynerchuk talking about his non-verbal daughter, and whether or not it was a good or bad thing.
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I don't think people have gone through the same process, like a good chunk of people have not
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stress tested their ideas. They get emotional when somebody disagrees, and we've seen this
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with friends and family. And so there's a lot of incentive to kind of stick within your own circle.
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And as soon as we step outside of the circle, I think a lot of conservatives forget how it feels
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to be inside one bubble, because we're outside of that bubble. And if a lot of our interactions are
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with people who also believe the same things, let it be on mandates, or how COVID went, or with kind
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of the financial side of where Canada's going, or kind of where we need to go with governance and
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immigration and all these other policies, we're in a totally different bubble.
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So, but I'm wondering, how strong is that bubble? And what is the minimum that people need
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to vote on? Is it a, is it, maybe it's a simple misconception? Could it be, Pierre is going
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to take away abortion rights? That could be, and that's not true. And that's enough of a
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misconception that a uninformed, unengaged, left-leaning voter might even vote on that.
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We were talking before we hit record here about how that little clip that came out this week about,
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or maybe late last week, of Polyev talking about his nonverbal daughter, and how that was kind of a
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nice little, like, humanizing kind of moment, you know, to, maybe for somebody who, you know,
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who views Polyev as a, you know, a Trump light or something like this, like, you know, obviously
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couldn't be farther from the truth, but, you know, a lot of conservatives in Canada wish he was like
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a Trump light, but, you know, unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, depending on your opinion,
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Um, but to see, you know, a little, a little human, humanizing type of a segment about this,
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where he's talking about his little daughter, who's like, you know, obviously I think nonverbal
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probably means like, she's somewhere on the autism spectrum probably. And, you know, they've
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just, she was just a small comment on like how they communicate, they find different ways to
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communicate and like how nice it is when she like, cause she really wears her emotions on her
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sleeve. Cause she can't really, you know, she, you know, she'll, she'll, she experiences the,
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the extremes of emotions. And so when she shows, you know, caring and love, you know, that's like
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a, it, it means a little, it means so much more cause it's so, you can tell that she really means
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it kind of thing. I think that was the gist of the little comment, but like, I have a hard time
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believing that, you know, even the most hardened, like Polyev, like liberal Polyev hater could see
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that and be like, ah, you know, maybe he's not so bad. You know what I mean? Like, it's like when
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you see somebody you hate and you know, or like a politician or an actor or somebody you don't like
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and like you see them interacting with their dog or something or their kids and you're like, ah,
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yeah, maybe he's all right. You know what I mean? Like one of those little breaks the fourth wall
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kind of things. Is that enough to undo months or years of, of demonization? I doubt it. I doubt it.
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Because here's the thing. You can, you can find clips of Trump being like him interacting with his
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grandchildren. Yes. You could see his heart come out and he's so happy to see them and he's
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interacting and the way he interacts with children. Those are all green flags of like, if it's,
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if you're comparing between different political figures, there's examples of people who are creepy
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around children. Yeah. Um, maybe a couple, too many sniffs. Um, yeah. Old sniffing sleepy Joe. Yeah.
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I was just going to say like, that's a, it's a perfect example because it's like, you look at how
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you look at how the media tried to portray Joe Biden and his family for the last four years,
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for the last, like, you know, even going back into the, you know, late two thousands, you know,
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or rather, uh, yeah, late two thousands, early 2010s as, as the vice president. And like his
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family is a disaster. Like they're just awful people. And like, what a mess. And then you look
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at Trump and Trump's supposed to be this like irredeemable, like scourge on the earth. And
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like his kids love him. They're all like high powered, you know, professionals. They all like,
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they all work with him in some capacity. The grandchildren love him. Like his family unit is
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like very intact. So it's like, Oh, how do you, how do you square these two things?