On our first show back in the normal studio, let's talk about the CBC, specifically Power and Politics host David Cochran, making a complete fool of himself carrying water for the liberal agenda of the CBC's power and politics show.
00:00:00.000Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. It's great to be back on the normal set after being in hotel rooms for the last three weeks.
00:00:08.700That was getting a little bit depressing, and so it's going to be nice to be just here for a couple of months,
00:00:15.300not having to shift around and set up makeshift podcasting studios.
00:00:20.640And today, on our first show back in the normal studio, let's talk about the CBC,
00:00:26.660specifically power and politics host David Cochran, making a complete fool of himself carrying water for the liberals.
00:00:35.560Now, in this clip I'm about to show you, he's literally responding to somebody who themselves is a liberal.
00:00:41.800Robert Fife is not exactly a conservative dude. He is a stalwart liberal.
00:00:47.980Yes, he's a journalist and he would say he's neutral, but everyone kind of knows he's liberal.
00:00:52.160Well, David Cochran, in the face of just irrefutably true things, starts arguing because you just cannot have a conservative narrative
00:01:03.580be presented in front of the public without someone trying to naysay it, including the supposed neutral host of the show.
00:01:12.380Anyways, I want to stop belaboring this intro. Let's get into David Cochran looking like a fool.
00:01:19.060It's still, it's sort of energizing people towards an actual project that they might be able to support,
00:01:26.240but it actually gives them some idea that the economy is growing.
00:01:27.820You know, it's important to point out, too, that Canada's contribution to greenhouse, global greenhouse gas emissions is one and a half percent.
00:01:35.440Yeah, per capita, we're pretty high, though.
00:01:48.880Like, I, maybe, like, immediately he's starting to try to argue with his fellow liberal on the panel because he said something that was conservative-tinted,
00:01:58.820i.e., just a factual statement that if China and India, you know, Vietnam, all the other manufacturing hubs,
00:02:05.880if they started using Canadian natural gas to power factories and whatnot, that would, in fact, displace coal.
00:02:13.000And he's like, well, you know, it could happen, but it also couldn't, it could also not happen.
00:02:17.440It's like, what are you possibly talking about?
00:02:19.880The countries are using as much energy as they currently want, and displacing it with cleaner energy is just smart,
00:03:15.060Sorry, does China have a current energy deficit?
00:03:18.360Like, they're only able to have 80% of their factories online because they just don't have enough energy.
00:03:25.460Yes, they keep putting more coal on the grid, but it's not because they are missing energy.
00:03:31.760It's just because they are expanding their productive capacity.
00:03:35.380Having natural gas show up in as much of a quantity as China wants doesn't mean they're just going to slot it in with the coal.
00:03:42.780Most companies, if they're smart, would want to swap from more expensive coal to cheaper natural gas.
00:03:49.520Now, coal actually has a lot of other uses, and they'd probably just put it to those other uses, but probably not as their primary energy if they could have natural gas as it.
00:03:58.820But again, there's just all these dumb equivocations, or not even equivocation, just stupid deflections by David Cochran, who, let's be clear, doesn't know what he's talking about at all.
00:04:08.900This is like an 18-year-old college student taking sociology, trying to argue back against somebody just because they're an environmentalist, and they can't possibly conceive of a reason to ever export natural gas.
00:04:37.180But it's interesting, just more on the abacus data from Coleto.
00:04:42.160Let's just quickly move on there, David.
00:04:44.900You know, just got caught having absolutely no clue what you're talking about and shilling really hard for Carney's liberals, setting up the narrative reason for why it doesn't really matter that much if we don't actually get a pipeline built.
00:04:58.420If all this is happening in the context of the memorandum of understanding that Prime Minister Mark Carney signed with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, it's probably not going to actually turn into a pipeline.
00:05:12.720I think Danielle Smith probably knows it's also not going to turn into anything.
00:05:16.000But she has to play her cards very carefully here because she's walking a tightrope where she can't be too arm-in-arm with Carney or tick off a lot of her base, naturally.
00:05:26.440And also, at the same time, if she sounds skeptical of the project, Carney and the media will just say, well, see, that's why there's no project.
00:05:34.420She didn't believe in Tinkerbell enough, and so the project died.
00:05:37.260It's like, well, that's not how that works.
00:05:40.740Like, the thing is, Danielle Smith has been, like, wanting to bend over backwards to make a project work for years.
00:05:48.260And so, but again, she lives in a world where if she doesn't seem 100% willing to, like, accept everything that Carney says, then it's her fault if the pipeline doesn't get built.
00:05:59.380She even had to sign on to some kind of silly stuff, but again, it only really comes into effect if the government actually gets a pipeline project going.
00:06:07.260I just wanted to talk about another clip here just before we sign off.
00:06:12.740We will be talking more about the MOU and the sort of games the Liberals have been playing with it and how the Conservatives are countering them on another episode.
00:06:19.900I just really do need to jump over to one of our favorite podcasters, that being Laura Babcock, to talk about this clip from her OSHO here,
00:06:30.640where she is talking about, like, this conspiracy she has that MAGA is secretly taking over Canada.
00:06:38.500Everything under the surface that she does not like is secretly MAGA, except when Mark Carney is bending over backwards to please Trump.
00:08:25.360Danielle Smith doing something smart and trying to smooth over the candid U.S. relationship does not make her an agent of the Americans.
00:08:33.880These are obviously just double standards.
00:08:36.360Really, Laura Babcock has no standard.
00:08:38.860It's not like she applies one standard to the Conservatives and one standard to the Liberals.
00:08:42.960She doesn't have a standard because her standard will shift so that she is always mad at the Conservatives and always friendly towards the Liberals.
00:08:50.600They can literally do contradictory things day to day that completely throw her talking points in the trash.
00:08:59.960Party and the Conservatives are somehow the evil American party that's in league with the Trump MAGA movement, something, something, fascism.
00:09:09.320Can't pretend it doesn't matter because if this hemispheric spheres of influence thing gets any more traction, watch what's happening with Venezuela.
00:09:17.860You know, what's to stop it from going on to Mexico or to Canada?
00:09:21.540So we are in a serious, serious ass time here, people.
00:09:50.380I don't like the tariffs, obviously, but that's just a policy issue that will eventually work itself out.
00:09:55.040But these people hate America so much.
00:09:57.120They will side with actual communist dictators, killers, people who literally rig elections to stay in power and use the military to, like, get rid of dissidents.
00:10:09.620Nicolas Maduro is the good guy in the battle between Trump and himself because Laura Babcock doesn't like Trump.
00:10:17.900Trump's not even going after Nicolas Maduro.
00:10:21.360He's going after drug traffickers using Venezuela as a haven to, like, manufacture drugs and then try and speed both of them into the United States, killing lots of people.
00:10:32.880I would hope that we would be tough on drug traffickers, but Trump's going after drug traffickers, ergo the drug traffickers are actually all just Aladdins who are selling drugs to feed hungry children.
00:10:44.100They have to do this or the hungry children of Aqaba will all die.
00:10:49.140I hate this way that liberals will look at crime simply to oppose a party or some entity that they don't like.
00:11:15.800It's literally just holding the liberals accountable.
00:11:18.600There's a plan the conservatives have to try and embarrass the liberals on their MOU because all of their West Coast or pretty much all their West Coast MPs do not want the pipeline built.
00:11:28.640People like Tlaib Nur Muhammad and Jonathan Wilkinson and some of these other guys on the West Coast.
00:11:34.520And so the conservatives are just going to put forward a motion vote saying, hey, will you vote to approve a pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast and suspend the tanker ban in order to make sure that they can actually export?
00:11:47.920Because the MOU was just, in my opinion, Carney pretending to be serious while never actually having to follow through.
00:11:54.620So let's at least get them to actually sign on paper that this is actually what they want to do.
00:12:00.200It's not just some vague memorandum of understanding where we might eventually get to some sort of a pipeline maybe someday.
00:12:06.040Let's actually, on paper, have you guys vote on the record what do you guys actually want this pipeline to be done.
00:12:25.200I just have no confidence that he's actually going to get one done because he's the fool who thought he understood Donald Trump before the election.
00:12:32.240And we are now nearly at the time when Carney started making noises about how he was going to be the guy to make a deal.
00:12:39.580We are almost a year to that point where he started signaling hard about being the one man who knows how to deal with men like Donald Trump.