The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - March 26, 2024


Celebrities attempts to smear Alberta parental rights during Juno awards

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Wyatt Claypool
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Junos Danielle Smith Harrison Faulkner Sarah Drake Juno
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Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

175.22

Word count

1,048

Sentence count

80

Harmful content

Toxicity

9

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Hate speech

5

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Summary

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Juno Awards are a D-list version of the Oscars and Grammys, but with more virtue-signalling and a whole lot more narcissism. Tegan and Sarah are taking aim at the Alberta government, and I'm here to talk about it.

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00:00:00.000 If you thought the Grammys or the Oscars were completely irrelevant in our modern day, well, the Juno Awards in Canada are basically the D-list version of it, and it has somehow even more virtue signaling than those two American award shows, because it's full of a bunch of irrelevant Canadian music stars who are just trying to get a bunch of attention on themselves by doing as many virtue signaling things as humanly possible.
00:00:24.680 And that's how we got this clip of this music duo, Tegan and Sarah, I think they're sisters or whatever, virtue signaling about how the Alberta government is evil, nasty, and bad because they are going to pass parental rights protections.
00:00:38.340 Yes, because we are going to enshrine in law something that was basically taken for granted up until the last few years, that means the Alberta government is evil and terrible.
00:00:48.200 And when I play this clip, I'm not trying to go after them for their age, but I thought they were like 27, 30 or so.
00:00:55.480 They're 43. These are 43-year-old women making these very childish jabs at the province of Alberta, a place that they grew up, because they don't actually want to read the proposed legislation that Premier Daniel Smith is putting forward. 0.85
00:01:10.360 They just want to be angry at it. Here, take a look at this.
00:01:13.460 We share this honour with you. Receiving this recognition is meaningful, but also a reflection of the complexities our community faces today.
00:01:24.200 If the world were not so hostile to us LGBTQ plus people, we would see ourselves purely as musicians.
00:01:32.540 Advocating for our community's rights is a great privilege, and we are dedicated to confronting any form of discrimination that threatens the well-being of our community.
00:01:42.880 This is already the most just insufferable thing you've ever seen. We didn't want to have to do this. We're just musicians.
00:01:54.440 You're irrelevant musicians, and that's why you got this humanitarian award or something.
00:01:58.740 I don't know why we're giving a humanitarian award as something meant to celebrate music.
00:02:03.080 Like, it's probably because you haven't put out an album worth listening to in probably a decade, and they just had to find some way of giving you an award so you could do this speech.
00:02:10.720 Like, let's be honest here. And I don't know what they're wearing. Like, again, I don't want to go after them personally.
00:02:15.840 I don't know what they're wearing here. They look like they're like, you know, they got mugged by the 80s.
00:02:21.840 Like the Alberta government's...
00:02:23.760 Look at the one guy filming, as if he's actually ever going to watch this again.
00:02:27.080 Attempt to prevent trans youth from accessing vital care. 1.00
00:02:36.480 These attacks are harmful because they are directed at the kids who need our support the most.
00:02:43.680 Finally, we want to acknowledge that the journey to equality and acceptance will no doubt extend beyond our lifetime.
00:02:50.560 But it is this very journey that has...
00:02:53.020 It's the never-ending revolution, guys. Even when they are gone, even when I am gone, there will still be people crusading against fake discrimination and fake barriers to trans youth or whatever.
00:03:05.900 The thing is that they are actually supporting the abuse of children.
00:03:09.380 The idea that children shouldn't be let to grow up first, become adults before they make adult decisions.
00:03:14.900 No, they want eight-year-olds making adult decisions on how they, like, I don't know, what gender they identify as, how they appear in the world and whatnot.
00:03:24.900 That is not an eight-year-old decision.
00:03:26.920 Yet these random women who are on an award show, award show, nobody's watching, believes that they have the moral credibility to stand up and tell Alberta parents that they're actually bigoted for thinking that they should be in charge of raising their kids, not teachers in a public school.
00:03:42.900 Deeply enriched our lives and careers. It's added so much meaning to our existence and our band. We are so grateful. We love being gay.
00:03:53.720 And we love...
00:03:55.900 Oh my goodness, an irrelevant actor. 0.97
00:03:59.320 So gay. So gay. Try it out. Try it out. 1.00
00:04:02.260 They're very gay. 1.00
00:04:03.260 These people are just insufferably mediocre. 1.00
00:04:07.700 It's just who cares? It's just who cares? 0.98
00:04:09.860 Guys, we're so gay.
00:04:10.740 Thank you so much for this recognition.
00:04:13.580 Thank you.
00:04:16.300 Okay, goodness. And of course, if I say I don't care that they're gay, there is going to be inevitably a Press Progress article written about how I'm homophobic or something like that, because I don't care about what rich celebrities think on, like, political issues.
00:04:30.440 And I don't care about them, like, just screaming, we're gay into the microphone at the end of their, like, weird virtue signaling moments at the Junos, because that's how you get applause in Canadian legacy media these days. 0.94
00:04:42.960 You take an unthought-out stump against public policy in Alberta, and then you just declare that you're gay.
00:04:49.520 This is why nobody watches the Junos, and this is why nobody even knows who those two are. 0.69
00:04:54.060 Like, I looked them up. It looks like they had, like, a decent charting album back in 2014, 2013.
00:04:59.560 Good on them. Good on them. Good. That's good success.
00:05:01.880 I also don't know who you are. I also don't know what the Junos are, really, because apparently you don't even actually have to hand out awards related to music.
00:05:10.460 You can just hand out awards related to literally anything.
00:05:13.880 Oh, we have the biggest long jump award at the Junos. We have the humanitarian award.
00:05:19.200 We have the political science award now. Like, guys, what about the music?
00:05:22.980 And the thing is, no, and Harrison Faulkner from True North noted this, and it's 100% true, no actual famous Canadian shows up to the Junos.
00:05:30.960 Like, I don't like most modern music, but it's not like Drake or people like that are showing up to the Juno awards.
00:05:38.440 They don't care. It's a CBC love-in where they give the people that they personally like awards,
00:05:44.540 regardless if they've put out anything worth listening to over the past decade.
00:05:49.160 But whatever. I guess they were gay or something, and they don't like Daniel Smith, so they get an award. 1.00
00:05:54.820 Tiresome, I know. Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys. Have a good one. 0.88