The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - July 16, 2024


BC NDP media ally attack Rustad and Poilievre for Trump response!

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Wyatt Claypool
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Pierre Poilievre Donald Trump Paul Wilcox John Diefenbaker John Rustad David Eby Thomas Matthew Crooks Robert Pickton B.C. N.D.P. Crook
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In the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, the far-left in Canada are rejoicing in the fact that an active shooter was not only killed, but also that Canadian politicians were happy that the shooter didn t get killed.

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00:00:00.000 I think you can tell a lot about a politician or a party based on the allies they keep.
00:00:05.700 And in British Columbia, the BCNDP has all of the wrong allies.
00:00:10.400 They're such a flamboyantly left-wing party that they don't really seem to be that bothered by just flat-out far-left elements, both within their party as well as those outside the party but who are supporting them.
00:00:22.840 And the BCNDP's media allies have been having the worst time covering the attempted assassination of Donald Trump because for some reason, out of this moment of political violence where overheated rhetoric has very likely led to an assassination attempt, they are still upset with Pierre Polyev and John Rustad being happy that the shooter of Donald Trump died, which I don't know why you would have a problem with that.
00:00:52.280 But that's where the far-left is in Canada right now.
00:00:55.000 I want to read this article for you because of how wacky it is and just know, while I'm reading this, how close of an ally the tie is to the BCNDP.
00:01:07.960 This article is headlined, What is Wrong with Canada's Conservatives?
00:01:11.300 Yes, you read that correctly.
00:01:16.020 This title is wondering what's wrong with Canadian Conservatives in the exact same piece that this man, Paul Wilcox, is going to have issue with Conservative leaders in Canada, John Rustad and Pierre Polyev, liking the fact that an active shooter was killed.
00:01:33.080 I'm going to read this to you effectively in full.
00:01:35.940 It's mesmerizingly funny content of just how out of touch many of these left-wingers, these BCNDP allies are.
00:01:44.440 It reads, how exactly did today's Conservatives devolve from serious people into members of a populist cult, missing basic moral principles?
00:01:53.860 Remember, this article is about them being happy Donald Trump didn't get assassinated and the shooter was killed.
00:02:00.160 They are out of touch and they're part of a cult.
00:02:03.420 My goodness.
00:02:04.880 When Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt on Saturday, politicians were quick to condemn the attack and wish him well, even fierce political opponents.
00:02:13.020 Federal Conservative leader Pierre Polyev went further.
00:02:16.080 Quote, I condemn in the strongest terms the attempted murder of former President Trump today.
00:02:21.020 I am relieved he is safe.
00:02:22.360 My prayers are with the innocent people harmed or killed by this heinous attack, he tweeted.
00:02:27.060 Quote, I am also happy the suspected shooter is dead.
00:02:30.160 He said, democracy must prevail, unquote.
00:02:32.680 And now Paul goes back to say, that's sick.
00:02:35.280 It would be barely tolerable from a ranting right-wing uncle at a family dinner.
00:02:39.500 Really?
00:02:40.660 Really, Paul?
00:02:41.800 It wouldn't be out of place outside of some far-right uncle ranting at a family dinner.
00:02:48.120 That he's happy that more people didn't die.
00:02:50.900 Because that is what the shooter getting killed symbolizes.
00:02:54.080 It symbolizes the ceasing of violence.
00:02:57.860 That there wasn't going to be more bullets fired into a crowd loaded of people, loaded with people, where a man was hit in the head and died.
00:03:05.120 So I don't know where this guy gets his ethics from.
00:03:08.000 But apparently, just every life is precious.
00:03:11.240 Coming from people who also are radical abortion supporters.
00:03:14.780 Every life isn't precious.
00:03:16.080 Once you start killing people, your life becomes very non-precious, at least in my mind.
00:03:21.820 Moving on, he says, I'll just start over from there. 0.98
00:03:25.300 That's sick.
00:03:26.260 It would be barely tolerable from a ranting right-wing uncle at a family dinner.
00:03:30.520 But this was a considered public message on a major public platform.
00:03:34.300 A signal of Polyev's attitudes.
00:03:36.580 No one should be, quote-unquote, happy.
00:03:39.160 A 20-year-old suspect had been shot dead.
00:03:41.720 Especially a conservative politician who supposedly believes in the rule of law and sanctity of human life.
00:03:47.740 But how does it show that Polyev opposes the rule of law by him wanting the police to shoot an active shooter?
00:03:57.040 I don't know that.
00:03:57.900 That's a mystery you're going to have to solve for me, Paul.
00:04:01.300 The Secret Service response was unavoidable.
00:04:03.660 That's their job.
00:04:04.880 Anyone with a moral compass should recognize the killing was necessary, but not a cause for glee.
00:04:09.840 Certainly, it's not for the family of Thomas Matthew Crooks, who are now left trying to understand how their son could go from high school grad to would-be assassin.
00:04:18.400 And anyone who believes in the rule of law would hope Crooks would have been arrested and tried, not shot dead.
00:04:24.000 Well, it kind of fast-tracks the punishment, considering we're not under the impression that there needs to be further justice served in terms of a courtroom of figuring out what was going on and seeing whether or not he was truly guilty or not.
00:04:37.580 He was guilty.
00:04:38.260 He effectively stuck his hand up and elected for himself to die there.
00:04:42.400 So I don't see this being a tragic situation where justice was stolen.
00:04:47.720 Justice was given out pretty quickly.
00:04:51.940 I'm happy for it.
00:04:56.800 But because we would not learn more about the causes of his actions, whether he acted alone and how he was able to come so close to successfully carrying out a political assassination,
00:05:05.660 and we would have the important knowledge at a critical moment for democracy, with Crook's dead, dangerous rumors and conspiracy theories are running wild.
00:05:14.180 Yes, the problem with the shooting was the conspiracy theories coming out of it.
00:05:17.900 Everything from theories that Trump staged the shooting to it being a deeply state, being a deep state plot.
00:05:24.060 The very real risk is that more violence will flow from this act.
00:05:28.000 Polyev's tweet also raises the question of whether the killing of other suspects will bring him happiness.
00:05:34.120 Which crimes would he like to be solved with a shooting instead of a trial?
00:05:37.620 B.C. conservative leader John Rustad echoed Polyev.
00:05:40.340 Quote, I condemn a reprehensible attempted assassination of former President Trump, he tweeted.
00:05:46.120 Quote, we pray for his recovery and for the family of the innocent bystanders who lost their life at the hands of this individual, unquote.
00:05:55.000 Quote, I am relieved to hear the assassin behind the heinous act is dead, unquote.
00:05:59.520 Not quite as gleeful as Polyev, but it's nonetheless disturbing that a politician would express satisfaction in the death of a young person. 0.61
00:06:07.340 Again, he stopped being a young person.
00:06:10.860 This really demonstrates the B.C. N.D.P. frame of mind.
00:06:14.040 Yes, Paul Wilcox is not a B.C. N.D.P. candidate.
00:06:17.700 If you look, though, at his timeline of the articles he writes, he is definitely a B.C. N.D.P. ally,
00:06:23.260 and he has been a full-time attack dog against the B.C. conservatives.
00:06:27.000 This is not a man who's somewhat a moderate, but felt like this was just too far in terms of the language Polyev and Rustad use.
00:06:33.460 He will use literally any excuse to attack the conservatives, and this is what an excuse used.
00:06:39.480 But this demonstrates that the B.C. N.D.P. inherently view everyone as a victim.
00:06:47.560 The shooter, Thomas Matthews Crooks, was a young man, and that means he's a victim because he was shot.
00:06:52.520 And isn't that tragic that someone died at the age of 20?
00:06:55.800 The funny thing is I haven't really noticed that the writer of this article has really said much about Trump being hit
00:07:02.200 and that it's something that was horrific and that he wishes Trump the best.
00:07:06.440 He said that. Other people have said it, but he doesn't said it.
00:07:09.280 He doesn't say anything about the bystander that was killed.
00:07:12.040 If he does say anything, it's a bit late in the article or the other people who were hit and still in hospital.
00:07:17.300 But they effectively view criminals as victims.
00:07:21.080 They view this assassin as a sort of victim because he was young.
00:07:24.580 The N.D.P., the B.C. N.D.P.'s view of morality is completely warped.
00:07:31.120 And I think their media allies are the ones who are best capable of articulating what their view is.
00:07:36.640 A lot of politicians can be a little bit dull because they're simply good at very cheap rhetoric.
00:07:42.560 They're good at campaigning, but they're not like the eloquent ones.
00:07:45.260 This is the eloquent B.C. N.D.P. expressing that they believe an active shooter is somehow still a victim.
00:07:51.600 Anyways, moving on from here, Polioff and Rustad's possessions are dangerous and far from the historical conservative approach to state killings.
00:08:02.480 The death penalty was largely ended in Canada in 1976.
00:08:06.200 You know, a bit of a tragedy, in my opinion, when Parliament repealed the sentence for his sentence for most crimes.
00:08:11.680 But the direction was set by conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker from 1957 to 1963.
00:08:18.580 The court sentenced 63 people to death in his time as Prime Minister.
00:08:21.780 Diefenbaker, a former defense lawyer who believed it was too easy for the state to kill a innocent person, commuted 55 of these death sentences to life sentences.
00:08:30.080 Every year or so, someone had to die to show the government had not abandoned the death penalty, a move that considered politically and then considered politically unacceptable.
00:08:38.000 Well, in a certain sense, I think Diefenbaker also probably believed in those who were being executed still, simply because, like, if you're a serial killer, Diefenbaker is not going to say, well, that felt a little bit too easy for somebody who maybe committed, like, second-degree murder and, like, a heat-of-the-moment thing.
00:08:54.500 But if you're a first-degree murderer, I don't think Diefenbaker would have taken the foot off the gas.
00:08:58.200 You know, the biggest tragedy in the world was that Robert Pickton got to live out a long time in prison rather than just being executed on the spot for being the most obvious candidate for, like, a hanging over the electric chair.
00:09:12.700 But, you know, but I digress.
00:09:15.500 Diefenbaker, a conservative icon, what would he make of Polyev's joy in the killing of a young man?
00:09:21.120 You mean the shooting of an attempt of an active shooter?
00:09:24.960 Not a young man. Stop calling him a young man.
00:09:27.060 This is what leads to the BCNDP supporting policies where they're going to scrutinize the police for the racial backgrounds of people they arrest.
00:09:35.660 If they're arresting people disproportionately too much from one demographic group, you could get investigated as an officer or a department.
00:09:43.060 So David Eby has already made it clear that you're not actually supposed to be dealing out justice or trying to enforce the law as a police officer.
00:09:51.020 You're there to support, like, you know, enforce social justice, to make sure that everything feels very equitable in the enforcement of the law.
00:09:59.020 Much more importantly, what should Canadians make of this strange man's celebration of death?
00:10:06.520 You seem like a bit of a strange man, Paul, if you can't actually be happy that the active shooter was taken down quickly.
00:10:12.480 It's a serious question.
00:10:13.840 Does Polyev support police killings of suspects generally or just in this case?
00:10:18.060 Will he bring back capital punishment?
00:10:19.700 How far will he go?
00:10:22.640 This is insane.
00:10:24.320 This is very much the BCNDP's view of morality and justice.
00:10:30.380 And I think that you can't be that, like, you can't be confused that crime has gone up every single year that the BCNDP has been in power in British Columbia.
00:10:41.000 Yes, some years go down, but it's generally along the same upward trend.
00:10:45.020 It's just one year was so bad, the next year couldn't possibly be that bad, but it was still going to continue going up.
00:10:50.240 But you can't be shocked that crime is as bad in British Columbia and Canada generally, because I think this man also represents what the federal liberal and NDP are very much like on these issues.
00:11:00.200 When somebody considers that an active shooter is just a young man, that's disgusting to me.
00:11:05.880 That's a fringe opinion.
00:11:07.400 They will try and call you fringe.
00:11:08.900 This is fringe stuff.
00:11:11.200 In British Columbia, very much I would say that the government is run by the left-wing fringe.
00:11:17.120 People who have views of justice and morality and drug policy and taxes and spending and blah, blah, blah, all this stuff.
00:11:25.780 Very much of somebody who is maybe a one in a hundred type of a person.
00:11:31.320 Most middle class people would consider this quite odd.
00:11:34.700 But the tie is very much the paper that speaks to the BC NDP's more radical base.
00:11:40.760 And so if you live in British Columbia and you live in Canada generally, if you live in Canada generally, do not vote for the liberals, but I'm not under the impression any of you like them.
00:11:48.180 But in BC, make sure you vote and donate to the BC conservatives.
00:11:52.920 People who represent the values of people like Paul Wilcox cannot be in government anymore.
00:11:57.400 Or Wilcox, I don't really care.
00:11:59.260 So if you're in BC, I have a donation link in the description below.
00:12:03.420 You actually can't donate very much in British Columbia.
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00:12:07.440 You get 75% tax credit back so that we can push forward and make sure that the NDP gets defeated.
00:12:13.460 David Eby actually has to go find a real job for once in his life.
00:12:16.380 And John Rustad, the man who actually knows that it's right to kill active shooters, can become the premier of British Columbia.
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00:13:09.980 That should be it for me today, guys. Have a good one.