The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Canadian media backs Maduro to attack Poilievre & Trump!

00:00:00.000 I think we all knew as soon as U.S. President Donald Trump captured the communist dictator of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro,

00:00:09.160 that the Canadian media was going to support Maduro in order to spite Trump as well as Pierre Polyef, who rightfully supported what Trump did.

00:00:19.400 But I am still blown away by how blatant it has been.

00:00:23.500 Like, they have not been covering their tracks at all, and a lot of what they've been putting out has been just absolutely embarrassing.

00:00:32.580 I even later on want to get to an absolutely insane article that was published in the National Post by a writer who I think somewhat considered himself on the center-right,

00:00:44.640 but he's attacking Polyef because America bad or whatever.

00:00:48.560 The America bad narrative in the Canadian media is just tiring.

00:00:53.880 It just makes you wonder why these people cannot go find a real hobby.

00:00:58.200 It doesn't matter what the story is, if it involves Donald Trump or the U.S., even if Biden was still president,

00:01:04.800 they will find a way of making it all about how Canada is great and the U.S. is terrible.

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00:01:43.580 So let's start off with this news segment from CTV that was absolutely embarrassing.

00:01:50.900 They act as if many of the people who are protesting against what happened are just normal Canadians.

00:01:58.720 These are not political radicals.

00:02:00.560 They're just Canadians who love international law and don't like Donald Trump.

00:02:05.020 So I need to show you guys a little bit of this, and I'll pause it as we go through.

00:02:11.360 In Spain, supporters of Venezuela waved flags and sang to celebrate the ouster of Maduro,

00:02:17.180 who many believe stole the presidency.

00:02:20.040 Who many believe stole the presidency.

00:02:22.900 No, he did not steal the presidency.

00:02:24.860 He stole it twice.

00:02:26.180 He's rigged two different elections, one in 2018 and the other in 2024.

00:02:32.060 It was even leaked out that he absolutely lost,

00:02:35.020 and they just reported different numbers after the actual votes were counted.

00:02:39.760 What?

00:02:41.660 Some believe he may have stolen the presidency.

00:02:45.160 Would this ever be said if it was something another country had done?

00:02:49.720 If Canada and the United Kingdom and Australia got together and pulled off the same operation,

00:02:54.680 would we be hedging this much when we're talking about whether or not Nicolas Maduro was a communist dictator

00:03:02.400 and a murderer and a narco-terrorist?

00:03:04.980 Probably not.

00:03:05.940 But because it's America that did it, we're going to throw up all these question marks everywhere.

00:03:11.240 Maybe if Biden had done this, there would be more support from the Canadian media.

00:03:16.360 Even then, the Canadian media is so anti-American in a really embarrassing way.

00:03:21.120 They may have also attacked Biden for it as well.

00:03:24.400 But if it's Trump, they especially are going to attack.

00:03:27.440 But let's keep watching this.

00:03:30.980 Meanwhile, demonstrators in India staged protests in New Delhi.

00:03:35.420 Notice the signs, guys.

00:03:36.800 You notice how it says CPI and then in brackets in that one in the middle, M.

00:03:42.180 It's because it's the Communist Party of India Marxist, or this is the Marxist Communist Party.

00:03:49.100 Who cares what they think?

00:03:52.080 It's a bunch of hyper-urban commies who support this party.

00:03:56.860 This is not even indicative of what people in India actually think.

00:04:01.160 They're probably happy that Nicolas Maduro was taken out overall.

00:04:04.240 But CTV News is going to focus on the CPI party, which also actually engages in massive amounts of political violence.

00:04:11.940 They have an armed wing called the Naxalites that actually engage in terrorism and trying to occupy territory in eastern India.

00:04:20.060 And the CTV News is pretending like these people are normal.

00:04:25.740 Even in Kerala, where they are democratically elected, there's a lot of scandals of people who are opponents of theirs winding up getting beaten and murdered when they try and challenge CPI dominance in that one state.

00:04:37.900 But this is a fringe party overall in India, and CTV News is presenting it as normal to attack Trump.

00:04:44.240 And other cities to condemn the U.S. strike as illegal and a violation of Venezuela's sovereignty.

00:04:51.100 Canadians reacted in large numbers with rallies across the country, raising questions about how developments in South America could impact our future relations with the U.S.

00:05:01.920 and possibly spark an increase in Venezuelan refugees.

00:05:05.740 CTV's Paul Hollingsworth reports.

00:05:07.900 How would this increase Venezuelan refugees?

00:05:11.980 Nicolas Maduro was producing Venezuelan refugees like he was a factory in China. 1.00

00:05:18.220 He had so many people fleeing the country because he made it unbearable to live there.

00:05:24.200 Despite the fact that they have the world's largest proven oil reserves, he couldn't build a proper economy that could get people to stay.

00:05:32.140 People are raising questions of this could increase or cause people to flee from Venezuela.

00:05:36.680 Venezuela. How? Why?

00:05:39.320 Like basic journalistic integrity would have you at least prove that that could possibly happen before you just raise that kind of popcorn question before you go into this terrible next segment.

00:05:50.760 He has also threatened Colombia.

00:05:54.000 More than 100 people gathered in Halifax to show support for Venezuelan sovereignty.

00:05:59.600 I'm here today to denounce the role that U.S. imperialism and actually more broadly Western imperialism is playing.

00:06:07.120 Look at this figure of a man, guys.

00:06:12.160 This is who opposes what Donald Trump did.

00:06:15.700 Just some urbanite, leftist, hipster.

00:06:19.460 Yeah, we need to start rethinking our relations with the United States because Liam Kroll here, a local leftist in downtown Halifax, opposes Western imperialism.

00:06:34.180 And CTV News talked about how they're standing up for Venezuelan sovereignty.

00:06:39.460 Venezuelan sovereignty, they actually lack so much sovereignty in that country.

00:06:44.340 The person who lost the last election, the last two elections, by a landslide was still in power.

00:06:51.080 This is Western imperialism, arresting the man who is involved in dealing drugs into North America.

00:07:01.800 It is somehow Western imperialism to lock that guy up, despite the fact that he's murdered thousands of people, driven people out of his own country, causing a refugee crisis. 0.84

00:07:11.320 Yes, it is Western imperialism.

00:07:13.120 Actually, more broadly, Western imperialism is playing.

00:07:17.180 But the anti-U.S. sentiment was not unanimous.

00:07:20.400 I came for a reason.

00:07:21.700 This rally was interrupted by a Venezuelan immigrant who came to Canada in 2006.

00:07:27.200 And that's great that they actually highlighted this.

00:07:30.240 But the way they still framed that is, well, the opposition to the United States was not unanimous.

00:07:36.300 Still framing it as if it was normal?

00:07:38.620 No, no. 1.00

00:07:39.160 These idiots downtown, nothing to do. 1.00

00:07:41.780 These chronically, like, unemployed, hobby-less individuals show up downtown to whine about the United States. 1.00

00:07:50.400 If this is what you're doing on your Sunday afternoon, you need a better hobby.

00:07:55.640 You need more work to do. 0.93

00:07:56.980 Because this is a ridiculous thing to be engaging in.

00:07:59.500 But TV news acts like those people still represent the majority.

00:08:03.360 And it's just this outstanding single guy who is opposing their message.

00:08:08.680 Like, no, no, no.

00:08:09.200 But everyone in Halifax, outside of the people gathered there, probably could agree with the idea it's good for Maduro to be gone.

00:08:15.940 It was the greatest day of my life.

00:08:17.200 I only got one hour of sleep and I was so happy.

00:08:19.180 There were numerous similar public gatherings.

00:08:21.860 Look at all the communist flags.

00:08:23.060 There's a Che Guevara flag.

00:08:24.500 There is a Soviet flag there.

00:08:26.140 And there's a bunch of Marxist-Leninist flags.

00:08:28.400 Canada out of NATO is the sign right there.

00:08:30.920 Sorry, is CTV News now anti-NATO?

00:08:33.040 NATO is a very mainstream defense alliance.

00:08:36.840 And they're not going to acknowledge it.

00:08:38.800 Across the country, including in Ottawa and Winnipeg.

00:08:42.100 If Canada supports international law, then it must demand that President Maduro be sent repatriated back to Venezuela because he is the president of that country.

00:08:53.580 I love that.

00:08:55.080 Look at the little thing underneath his name.

00:08:59.020 Peace Alliance Winnipeg Chair Glenn Michalchuk.

00:09:03.500 Peace Alliance.

00:09:04.740 Yes, he wants the communist dictator who has murdered thousands of people back because he is the president of that country.

00:09:13.000 Did he win the election?

00:09:14.180 Where's the follow-up question?

00:09:15.620 Did he win the last two elections?

00:09:17.800 The U.S. operation against Venezuela has resulted in a wave of Canadian reaction.

00:09:23.160 I'm not raising alarm bells recklessly.

00:09:26.320 Mount St. Vincent University political science professor Jeff McLeod says it's a wake-up call on how U.S. President Donald Trump's foreign policy could impact other countries.

00:09:37.780 He's talked about annexing Canada, Greenland, and so many things that it's hard to recall them all.

00:09:42.760 He's talked about annexing Canada and Greenland.

00:09:47.240 How much do we want to bet that it's a joke?

00:09:50.320 Yeah, I think Trump's a little more serious about taking Greenland.

00:09:53.900 He's not going to put troops on the ground, overthrow the government of Greenland.

00:09:57.560 He's more of a joke idea that Greenland should vote to join us.

00:10:01.120 That's not annexation.

00:10:02.280 They're not going to roll tanks through, nuke Greenland.

00:10:05.500 And they're not taking over Canada despite how much people scream and pretend that that's something they actually think is going to happen.

00:10:12.020 Nobody who is saying that they worry about Trump annexing Canada actually believes he is going to do that. 0.94

00:10:20.020 These people are just liars.

00:10:21.480 So when a president of the United States muses about taking unilateral action that could impact the sovereignty of any country, you have to take that seriously. 0.91

00:10:33.000 I guarantee you that man never says anything about China threatening Taiwan.

00:10:38.080 He probably never says anything about Middle Eastern countries trying to fight each other in order to take more territory.

00:10:46.160 He probably doesn't actually care.

00:10:48.620 He only cares when he can tie it to some sort of right-wing opponent.

00:10:52.900 For some reason, people frame Russia as right-wing even though it's effectively a proto-socialist authoritarian regime.

00:10:59.460 Like, the Russian government has a lot of fingers on a lot of pies.

00:11:02.980 I know that Canada has socialistic elements to our economy and I don't like that.

00:11:07.180 But Russia, it's on steroids. 0.74

00:11:09.680 They only oppose invasions if they can actually tie it to a right-wing boogeyman, whether that's true or not.

00:11:17.120 Trump did the most pinpoint operation in Venezuela possible and these people are acting like it's the end of the world.

00:11:23.340 Immediate geopolitical implications.

00:11:25.820 There are also mounting concerns.

00:11:28.240 This action by the U.S. could further worsen the Venezuelan refugee crisis.

00:11:33.500 No, there is not. 0.69

00:11:35.880 Who wants to bet this guy's a liar?

00:11:37.920 You will see a continued pressure for out-migration from that country.

00:11:43.980 Dalhousie.

00:11:45.220 What is he talking about?

00:11:47.300 Like, substantiate your claim.

00:11:49.160 Lousy university professor Robert Hewish says,

00:11:51.940 For now, most Venezuelan refugees migrate to nearby countries.

00:11:57.140 Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Brazil.

00:11:59.640 But according to Hewish, if the U.S. tries to organize a government in Venezuela,

00:12:04.880 that could spark an increase in refugees attempting to flee away from the region

00:12:10.740 and to Canada instead in the near future.

00:12:14.860 Paul Huffingsworth sees...

00:12:16.520 So they don't even go back to him to actually provide evidence for that.

00:12:19.640 That if the U.S. tries to prop up a new government, which they already are doing,

00:12:23.840 the vice president was sworn in.

00:12:25.600 I think she understands she's not going to remain the vice president unless she plays ball right now.

00:12:30.020 How is this going to cause more people to flee?

00:12:33.020 Like, what is the triggering mechanism?

00:12:34.800 Is more violence going to break out?

00:12:36.140 Because violence and poverty was why people were leaving in the first place.

00:12:40.960 I don't think poverty and violence are going to now increase

00:12:44.060 when the U.S. government is now basically over...

00:12:47.860 Hanging over top of the vice president

00:12:50.320 and basically threatening they'll squash her if she tries to do anything dirty. 1.00

00:12:55.040 Like, what? 0.69

00:12:56.900 Okay.

00:12:57.720 But now we've got to move on to some stuff that happened online, on social media.

00:13:03.220 That CTV News segment was just deplorable.

00:13:05.560 They never acknowledge all the communists who are obviously just protesting this.

00:13:09.940 They act as if, oh, wow, there was one dissenter.

00:13:13.160 There was not fully unanimously anti-U.S. at this rally.

00:13:16.780 It's like, well, that person represents the majority of people, in fact.

00:13:21.940 In fact, the group who was out there represents the tiny minority of people

00:13:27.220 who opposed opposing Maduro.

00:13:29.080 But now we have to go over to one of our favorite liberal commentators,

00:13:34.760 and that is Laura Babcock.

00:13:36.680 And I can assure you she has not taken her lithium today.

00:13:40.760 I don't know why she posts these clips.

00:13:43.300 Like, she's the one posting this.

00:13:44.860 I'm not going through her two-hour-long boring show and finding the crazy parts.

00:13:50.500 She clips the crazy parts herself and posts them online.

00:13:54.600 But I'll let Laura just take this one away. 1.00

00:13:56.880 This for Polyev to run out of the door and say, yeah, good job, go America, 0.83

00:14:02.820 on something that was illegal against all international law.

00:14:06.340 Against all international law, deposing the dictator criminal who didn't even win the last two

00:14:14.040 elections is against all international law.

00:14:16.900 By the way, international law means nothing.

00:14:20.200 Nobody cares if it violates international law or not.

00:14:23.760 It's a meaningful concept because, obviously, Nicolas Maduro violates international law all the time.

00:14:30.180 But we're really elevated over the fact that Trump ended up arresting that guy.

00:14:34.600 I don't feel like Laura Babcock actually cares about the international legal standard.

00:14:41.500 Anyone bringing up international law about this does not care about international law.

00:14:46.260 And, by the way, you shouldn't care about international law.

00:14:48.180 There's no such thing.

00:14:49.400 What's the enforcement mechanism?

00:14:50.940 The UN is going to get mad at you? 1.00

00:14:52.440 The UN sucks. 1.00

00:14:53.500 We should always ignore them. 0.99

00:14:55.140 But I'll go back a little bit and give her a little bit of some... 0.83

00:14:58.600 Let her run up her point again, gain some momentum.

00:15:01.720 That was illegal against all international law.

00:15:05.140 And then to stay down with socialism when, in fact, Trump is keeping the socialist in there

00:15:09.420 because it's never been about democracy or getting rid of socialism.

00:15:13.640 It's about taking resources and controlling the hemisphere. 0.98

00:15:17.900 I have rarely seen a Canadian leader put out something that was so immediately condemned.

00:15:23.920 It was so immediately condemned. 0.99

00:15:26.780 Yes, dumb people condemned Pierre Polyev. 0.99

00:15:30.420 Rational people supported what he said. 0.99

00:15:33.180 It's not about democracy.

00:15:35.280 Well, Trump never actually said it was about democracy.

00:15:37.340 It was about removing a guy who was an actual threat,

00:15:40.880 who was basically helping run a cartel from his country for his own...

00:15:45.620 for the generation of wealth for his regime.

00:15:49.980 There was a lot of reasons for the United States to depose the man.

00:15:53.520 And now the vice president is in power,

00:15:55.700 but they're not going to let her keep going with the same policies, obviously.

00:15:59.540 They let her stay.

00:16:01.080 Machado, the woman who won the Nobel Prize,

00:16:02.980 is not going to become the president

00:16:04.240 just simply because there's no way to actually make her the president 1.00

00:16:07.680 because the current VP still has the military on her side. 1.00

00:16:10.340 And the U.S. doesn't really have an interest in fighting

00:16:12.880 the Venezuelan military at the moment.

00:16:15.180 They could easily beat them in like a week's time.

00:16:17.480 But the whole point is that it's easier to just let the VP sit in place

00:16:21.460 and then hang the thread over her head 0.51

00:16:23.580 that the U.S. military will smash her unless she plays ball.

00:16:28.400 That's the only reason that Machado was not in.

00:16:30.300 Maybe Machado will be in at some point,

00:16:31.940 but just not the right time.

00:16:34.160 Now I need to take you guys through a few more posts on X.

00:16:38.380 The reaction to this.

00:16:40.520 Has been ridiculous from Canada's media. 0.66

00:16:43.540 Sean Amato here, who's from CTV News in Alberta. 0.79

00:16:47.500 I believe he's from CTV News in Alberta.

00:16:49.400 Let's just double check that.

00:16:51.020 I don't think he's from like the Herald or something like that.

00:16:53.560 No, I think he, I guess he's just from,

00:16:56.520 I think he's just a freelancer.

00:16:57.700 I've just seen him at CTV News, maybe the Herald as well.

00:17:00.380 Or maybe he's from Global City TV.

00:17:02.280 He's jumping around.

00:17:03.680 Sean Amato's moving up in the world.

00:17:05.520 But Sean Amato here says,

00:17:07.380 Alberta's premier has released a statement on Venezuela.

00:17:11.400 It doesn't address Trump's statement on running the country and exploiting trillions in oil.

00:17:17.000 But unsurprisingly says this is another reason Alberta needs a new pipeline.

00:17:21.520 How is that a bad statement?

00:17:24.080 Is this man supposed to be an objective journalist?

00:17:28.400 Or is he a left-wing activist?

00:17:30.180 Now, I know the answer to that.

00:17:32.640 But he would technically, or he would pretend to be a objective journalist.

00:17:38.660 This is not reporting.

00:17:40.520 This is an attack.

00:17:42.000 Oh, she's not addressing Trump's statement on running the country and exploiting the oil.

00:17:46.500 Okay.

00:17:47.880 She doesn't have to.

00:17:49.740 I'm sorry.

00:17:50.520 I know you guys really, really love Nicolas Maduro.

00:17:54.960 And you are sad that he was deposed.

00:17:57.300 But in fact, I am not bothered and no normal person is actually bothered with the United States running the country.

00:18:04.500 Now, they're not actually going to run the country.

00:18:06.300 Trump effectively just means that they are going to be the check on the current Venezuelan government,

00:18:10.660 that they are going to reform or be replaced.

00:18:14.680 So he doesn't actually have to directly run it.

00:18:16.540 He can basically just give marching orders and the Venezuelan government will hopefully end up actually carrying them out.

00:18:22.480 But, oh, yes, why doesn't Daniel Smith mention the trillions of dollars in oil?

00:18:28.180 What about it?

00:18:29.600 And she's right.

00:18:30.440 She actually technically did address the oil issue because she's saying this is why we need a new pipeline.

00:18:34.640 There's a lot more oil coming onto line from Venezuela.

00:18:38.020 And Canada having its oil and gas industry landlocked for the most part is not a good thing.

00:18:44.140 We should have more markets we can sell oil and gas into.

00:18:47.140 So the price of oil going down because of more oil and gas coming from Venezuela doesn't negatively impact us too much.

00:18:53.640 That's a very rational stance for Danielle Smith to take. 0.99

00:18:57.480 And she's 100% right for thinking that this is a refudiation of the Carney and Trudeau liberals' hesitation on building a pipeline or not even hesitation, just outright refusal to do it.

00:19:10.940 But now we got to move on to another post. 0.70

00:19:16.580 No, let's go on to the ridiculous. 0.91

00:19:19.840 We'll start off with this segment. 0.58

00:19:22.180 This was actually a good media segment where they were talking about the issue of oil and gas and why this is demonstrating why Carney should have been building oil and gas infrastructure well before this.

00:19:34.300 He's getting caught with his pants down, having not actually allowed our oil and gas industry to flourish.

00:19:40.280 And now it looks like it could negatively impact us in the near future.

00:19:43.720 And with that oil pipeline, will this be the impetus, you think, to actually really, really, really push it through?

00:19:49.300 I mean, we hear talk, talk, talk, talk.

00:19:50.920 You think this might be it?

00:19:51.720 God knows.

00:19:52.640 God knows.

00:19:53.620 We've been listening to talk, talk, talk.

00:19:55.740 I still don't think the Carney government, the Liberal government, is a massive proponent of the Canadian oil sector.

00:20:02.140 I just don't think they understand just how hugely important the oil and gas sector is to the Canadian economy.

00:20:08.280 I think they're still stuck in the fairy tables of net zero by 2050 at a time when the rest of the world is pivoting away from all of this nonsense.

00:20:16.500 And we're one of the few countries that is impairing our industry.

00:20:19.880 Do you think the United States is using that to filter their strategy towards energy?

00:20:26.620 And so we need to get out of our own way.

00:20:29.020 We need to recognize that no public company is going to step up to build another pipeline to the West.

00:20:34.660 It will at first have to be a taxpayer initiative.

00:20:37.900 And yet it's in the national interest of all Canadians to get out of under the thumb of the United States and Donald Trump and increase our expert capacity and very, very importantly, diversify our customer base.

00:20:51.120 It is very much, it's the very definition of being in the national best interest.

00:20:56.100 Great point by that guy.

00:20:57.480 I want to find out who this was again, because someone who sent me in the clip, it's Eric Neutl.

00:21:04.360 Great point from him that basically no other country on the planet cares about the net zero targets.

00:21:13.620 The only countries that care don't have oil and gas industries, and they have the ability to not care because they aren't invested in it.

00:21:20.740 They still use oil and gas products, but because they're not the ones who are actually, you know, like pumping the oil, they can pretend to be very, you know, moralistic about the issue at the same time they still use the resources.

00:21:34.320 Here is the problem with the liberals.

00:21:38.800 You cannot be at the same time anti-American at the same time that you are hurting our oil and gas industry, that you are holding our economy back.

00:21:48.660 This has been the problem with the trade issue with Mark Carney.

00:21:52.680 He wants to be, you know, rah, rah, rah, anti-Trump, anti-American on trade, but he's not even supporting our economy enough.

00:22:00.700 He's not supporting, he's not making sure that our economy is growing.

00:22:04.060 It's so contradictory the way he deals with the economy in Canada and the way he talks about the U.S.

00:22:11.180 Well, the U.S. is evil and bad and we shouldn't be trading with them.

00:22:14.940 Well, where is the big corporate tax cut in Canada?

00:22:17.520 Where is the pipeline?

00:22:18.980 Where is all the other things that we need if we actually want to be more independent?

00:22:22.560 Now, I have no problem trading with the United States, but the liberals have a big problem with it.

00:22:27.780 And even then, they can't find a reason to deregulate and to lower taxes and to get pipelines built.

00:22:34.140 I don't even think it's exactly a project that requires taxpayer dollars per se.

00:22:38.880 If you wipe out all the anti-oing gas regulations, if you do all of that and maybe give a loan that has to be repaid in five or ten years,

00:22:47.440 you can get a private company to probably throw in to do the pipeline and then pay back whatever loan that we give them.

00:22:53.780 It's not even something that we're just going to have to throw taxpayer money on it, money at it, with no expectation of getting money back.

00:23:00.620 But now I want to finally end this video with this thoroughly ridiculous article that John Iveson wrote at the National Post.

00:23:10.320 National Post, Post Media, typically is a little bit more center-right.

00:23:15.580 But he wrote this article attacking Pierre Polyev for rightfully saying that Trump did the right thing.

00:23:22.020 Here is John Iveson posting his own article next.

00:23:24.540 And here he says, 0.75

00:23:54.540 Anti-Americanism in the Canadian media is so lunk-headed. 0.96

00:23:58.640 You can't even congratulate Trump for doing something objectively good without being accused of being like a lapdog for the Americans. 0.60

00:24:06.940 So this was my response on X to John Iveson, which made him very upset.

00:24:12.600 I said,

00:24:12.940 And so many people are deliberately missing the point.

00:24:16.460 Trying to turn Trump bagging a foreign dictator and international bad actor into an anti-Pier Polyev story demonstrates how warped thinking is among Canadian elites.

00:24:27.180 It is, in fact, good that Nicolas Maduro is no longer in power. 1.00

00:24:31.020 Trying to turn this into a Canada versus the United States story is stupid. 0.99

00:24:34.820 And so he responded to me by saying, 0.99

00:24:38.580 I have refrained from saying this, despite thinking it often. 1.00

00:24:42.000 But you, sir, are an idiot. 1.00

00:24:45.080 Wow. 1.00

00:24:45.520 He's so, he's so, he has such a way with words.

00:24:48.520 My response to this, though, and I want to talk a little bit about the actual content of the article in just a second here.

00:24:55.780 But my response to this was,

00:24:58.080 It's, in fact, anti-Canadian to try and turn something like this

00:25:27.860 into a Canada versus the United States story.

00:25:31.200 You don't actually seem to care much about Canada if you only bring up Canada in order to criticize the U.S.

00:25:36.640 It seems like more so you just hate the U.S.

00:25:39.960 It's a long, winding article, so I'm not going to read the whole thing.

00:25:43.580 If you really want to read it, you can go find it at the National Post.

00:25:46.580 But he starts off talking about how, you know, it wasn't, it wasn't that bad that Polyev congratulated Trump at the start.

00:25:53.280 And he had made some, like Polyev had talked about Machado potentially becoming the new vice president,

00:26:00.700 or the new president of the country, indicating that that would be a good outcome.

00:26:04.840 And then he says, but that all went up in flames once Trump said that Machado was not going to be the president

00:26:10.060 and it's going to stick with the vice president, the current vice president.

00:26:13.880 Yes, was the current vice president a Maduro ally?

00:26:18.680 Sure, it doesn't really matter, though.

00:26:21.240 Because, again, Trump doesn't want troops on the ground fighting the Venezuelan military to get the VP out to then install Machado.

00:26:28.800 He said that Machado does not have the respect on the ground, not because people don't like her,

00:26:33.100 but because she doesn't have the ability to order the military around right now. 1.00

00:26:37.840 Maybe Machado can be brought in as the president in some time, but not right away.

00:26:42.480 But John Iverson uses this small rub to pretend like Polyev did some massive faux pas by congratulating Trump,

00:26:51.300 because, oh my goodness, Trump should not be congratulated.

00:26:54.000 He's allowing this Rodriguez woman to stay in as the new interim president. 1.00

00:26:58.920 Oh my goodness, he's threatening or he's breaking international law and all that stuff.

00:27:03.780 It's, who cares?

00:27:06.720 Who cares?

00:27:07.460 I'm sorry, it's so easy to play Monday morning quarterback and say that Trump's not doing this absolutely right.

00:27:13.860 Why is Polyev congratulating him when everything that Trump is doing isn't perfect?

00:27:19.400 You just got to settle down, John.

00:27:21.780 But here, I want to move on to the next part. 0.98

00:27:24.320 This is completely ridiculous. 0.63

00:27:27.620 He starts praising Mark Carney's statement. 0.94

00:27:30.440 John Iverson here says,

00:27:31.620 Carney didn't issue a statement until Saturday evening, and it was pretty weak sauce.

00:27:37.020 Even as it pointed out that the United States cannot act with impunity because the rules of international law and multilateralism should still apply,

00:27:46.240 Carney posted again on social media on Sunday that Canada has not recognized Maduro's illegitimate regime since it stole the election in 2018.

00:27:54.060 He said he spoke with Machado and reiterated that Canada supports a, quote, negotiated Venezuelan-led transition, unquote,

00:28:02.120 anchored in the sovereign right of the people to decide their own future.

00:28:05.760 Trump will hold such niceties in low regard, despite Carney's a world-class leader at their White House meeting in October.

00:28:13.280 Trump sees himself as a sheriff, imposing rough justice when he deemed it required.

00:28:18.720 But at the very least, Carney has made it clear Canada will not be deputized in such vigilantism.

00:28:25.280 In very large measure, Carney won the 2025 election because voters thought he would handle Trump better than Polyev could.

00:28:32.340 The U.S. president, considered dangerous by four out of five Canadians,

00:28:36.280 and Canadians' confidence in him to do the right thing in international relations is bumping along new lows.

00:28:42.580 According to Pew Research, which has tracked such things for more than two decades.

00:28:47.380 Some might praise the conservative leader for having provided a clear, responsible position on Trump's latest adventure,

00:28:54.180 but cheerleading before all the facts we're in is unlikely to improve the perception that he often gets the big things wrong.

00:29:02.640 No, he didn't get the big things wrong.

00:29:04.780 He, in fact, got them right despite the media, despite the liberal establishment getting it wrong.

00:29:11.680 Pierre Polyev is correct.

00:29:13.460 He is not politically correct.

00:29:14.920 And that's why I like Pierre Polyev, because he decided to support Trump on something that Trump did right.

00:29:21.300 I don't always agree with Trump.

00:29:22.700 I don't like Trump's tariff plan.

00:29:24.380 I think it's not even good for the United States.

00:29:26.760 I think there was better ways of him improving trade relationships without going for the tariff route. 0.98

00:29:32.640 But the idea that, oh, Polyev is getting the big ones wrong because he's not falling in line with the media's really stupid, lunk-headed anti-Americanism is in itself getting the big ones wrong. 0.99

00:29:46.840 We are just going to decide to always side against Trump because America sucks and Canada's great. 0.99

00:29:54.300 I like Canada a lot. 0.97

00:29:55.460 And I think Canada is better when we can agree with good things that the U.S. president does.

00:30:01.400 It's simple as that.

00:30:03.100 But John Iverson is going to continue being salty.

00:30:06.060 So much of the Canadian media is revealing themselves in the wake of Trump capturing Maduro.

00:30:12.540 They don't really care about right and wrong.

00:30:14.560 They just care about anti-Trump and pro-Trump.

00:30:17.580 They are always anti-Trump.

00:30:18.860 And they are seeing who is being pro-Trump by supporting anything Trump does.

00:30:23.260 It doesn't even matter if you criticize him one day, but then you support him today.

00:30:26.460 You are just a pro-Trump.

00:30:29.220 You're a deputized pro-Trump cheerleader because you said one nice thing about him.

00:30:33.820 It's childish. 1.00

00:30:35.120 It's stupid. 1.00

00:30:35.980 And it's something that Canada has to stop doing. 1.00

00:30:38.740 And I think most Canadians don't want to do this stuff.

00:30:40.720 But those who are the elites who are currently in power in the media and our institutions are the ones who are driving the official agenda of the country.

00:30:51.240 And it's just embarrassing.

00:30:53.340 Anyways, so that should be it for me today, guys.

00:30:56.400 I will be back probably with more coverage of this specific issue in the future because it has been a wellspring of embarrassing leftist content.

00:31:05.740 And so many leftists lighting their hair on fire for a man that they would have once condemned, but because Trump took him out, well, now he must be a really good guy.

00:31:14.260 Or at the very least, that he didn't do it right.

00:31:16.260 He didn't do it right.

00:31:17.140 Why didn't he go with Mark Carney's multilateralism approach where we talk forever without getting anything done?

00:31:24.760 Whatever. 1.00

00:31:25.460 You can't fix stupid. 0.92

00:31:26.780 But anyways, thank you guys for watching, and I will see you all later. 0.95

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - January 06, 2026

Canadian media backs Maduro to attack Poilievre & Trump!

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