The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - August 16, 2024


Clueless： Liberal MP shares anti-Liberal cartoon!

Topics
liberal memes and political cartoons
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Wyatt Claypool
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Mark Gerritsen Justin Trudeau Chrystia Freeland Hillary Clinton Laurel Collins Bernie Sanders Pierre Poilievre Donald Trump Andy Andy Burke JD Vance David Eby Cult MTL
Trudeau has presser freak out over Poilievre's manufacturing policy Premier Eby whines at BC Conservatives for opposing mandates

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6 minutes

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1,127

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58

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2

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4

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1

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Mark Gerritsen, the Liberal MP for the Kingston and the Islands riding, is a complete idiot. He can't even understand memes and cartoons, and has become a professional anti-Pure Poly on the internet. He's also the only Liberal MP who seems to still be in love with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

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00:00:00.000 About two months ago, NDP MP Laurel Collins, barely serving the riding of Victoria, came out swinging, trying to claim the mantle as Canada's most embarrassing current MP. 0.82
00:00:13.240 And she did this weird display in a committee meeting where somebody used the word hysterical and she claimed that was sexist,
00:00:20.780 and then said that she was proud to be hysterical and that climate change is like trying to kill women and girls or whatever.
00:00:28.260 I have no clue what she was on about, but she embarrassed herself and for a moment became Canada's most embarrassing MP. 0.99
00:00:34.880 But out of the shadows has reappeared the rightful owner of that title, Kingston and the Islands MP for the Liberal Party, Mark Gerritsen,
00:00:45.040 who doesn't understand how memes work and really has just become a professional anti-pure poly of liberal troll online.
00:00:53.400 I don't know what work he does. I don't know if he serves on a committee.
00:00:56.380 I don't think anyone would let him within five feet of having any real responsibility.
00:01:02.740 But the man is sweaty and desperate, just like fighting it out online, trying to get Justin Trudeau to notice him so he can make cabinet before the entire government collapses.
00:01:14.000 He's like the only liberal MP who wants to be closer associated with Justin Trudeau.
00:01:19.100 Most MPs with a clue try and stay away from Trudeau and never be pictured with him unless you're Christy Freeland and you kind of have to be.
00:01:26.340 But Mark Gerritsen truly still is in love with Justin Trudeau.
00:01:30.380 It's Trudeau mania 24-7 in his world.
00:01:33.460 And because of that, he can't understand basic memes and basic political cartoons, even from his own side.
00:01:40.760 So Mark Gerritsen here says, well, someone has to say it under this data cartoon that portrays or depicts Justin Trudeau writing weird across the forehead of pure poly of this being a typical tactic of the Democrats in the US when they go after Donald Trump or J.D. Vance.
00:01:59.880 Just call them weird and try and project some sort of like, you know, unappealing nature in of themselves to middle class voters so they might vote for you instead. 0.93
00:02:10.480 But Mark is so clueless that Andy Brooke here, you should go give him a follow if you want to follow a man doing the Lord's work here.
00:02:18.360 He just pointed out that Mark is so clueless he didn't even realize this meme was actually making fun of the liberals right there on the newsstand in the cartoon.
00:02:28.320 There are not many words in this cartoon.
00:02:30.840 There is weird, there is news, and there is what is being written on the newsstand.
00:02:34.900 And it says liberals steal the Democrat playbook, pointing out how lazy the federal liberals have gotten under Trudeau, how desperate they are for some sort of anti-conservative messaging, that they are just copy and pasting whatever the Democrats do down in the United States and then try and use that against the federal conservatives in Canada.
00:02:55.100 This also coming from a party that constantly fear-mongers against the conservatives as Americanizing Canadian politics, or they're going to bring in American-style health care, or they're using Trumpian mega-political rhetoric.
00:03:08.540 And it's only ever the liberals in the NDP who actually use American-style political rhetoric and tactics.
00:03:15.420 I remember that Hillary Clinton literally showed up to the last liberal party AGM, Bernie Sanders at the last NDP AGM.
00:03:24.280 They constantly meet up and talk with Democrats, even the most far-left progressive Democrats.
00:03:31.140 And while conservatives don't even hang out with any Republicans at all, somehow we are always labeled the more American party when it's literally the liberals always using American DNC talking points and tactics.
00:03:43.100 But now, I don't want to make this a very long video, but I think we should end it off pointing and laughing at Mark Gerritsen a little bit further, because the man is probably going to lose his seat.
00:03:54.760 He is serving Kingston and the Islands, as I said before, and even though six months ago it still showed him with the edge in this riding,
00:04:02.180 it is now currently a toss-up between all three major parties, with it being a 44% chance that the conservatives will win it in the next election.
00:04:12.260 Really, I think it's a 100% chance the conservatives are going to win it, because Mark has a terrible record.
00:04:18.440 He has not done a lot to serve his own constituents, and the conservatives have way more money than the liberals and the NDP combined.
00:04:26.020 I think it's about double the amount of fundraising the conservatives have done so far in 2024, compared to the combined totals of the liberals and the NDP.
00:04:37.160 Just absolutely embarrassing.
00:04:39.900 I don't even know how these people survive, or why the mainstream media doesn't cover the antics of Mark Gerritsen as much,
00:04:46.220 because there are so many people that the mainstream media will harp on in the conservative camp for doing the most minorly, not even scandalous, but just controversial things.
00:04:57.880 And we have Mark Gerritsen here, absolutely acting like a psycho, and nobody seems to ever notice it.
00:05:04.160 He shared this article from Cult MTL, saying that Pierre Polyev was not congratulating Canadian athletes at the Olympics,
00:05:11.840 because he doesn't want to contradict his Canada's broken rhetoric.
00:05:17.240 At the same time, this is complete nonsense. It's placed on just naked speculation.
00:05:22.160 And Mark Gerritsen just takes it as gospel truth, because Mark Gerritsen has never seen an anti-conservative narrative that he has not fully believed in.
00:05:29.820 He is a left-wing conspiracy theorist.
00:05:32.220 If you come up with any theory about what the conservatives are maybe doing, even without any evidence,
00:05:39.040 sight unseen, Mark Gerritsen will believe it.
00:05:42.280 But yeah, that's it for me today, guys.
00:05:44.780 If you want to support the show, you guys can go down to the Give, Send, Go link in the description below,
00:05:49.760 and contribute to the legal fund if you want.
00:05:51.940 And if you live in BC, I'd encourage you to go to the description as well, and donate to the BC Conservatives.
00:05:58.220 This is to a specific riding, but it would be redistributed to the other ridings, as other ridings need funds.
00:06:04.080 I'm helping out the BC Provincial Conservatives.
00:06:06.420 We need to take out David Eby. 0.99
00:06:07.540 So if you live in BC, make sure to donate something, because the NDP and United have all these stupid taxpayer-funded political finance advantages. 1.00
00:06:17.160 It's absolutely ridiculous. 0.99
00:06:18.800 And unless you donate, we're not going to be able to overcome it, 0.70
00:06:21.640 even though the BC Conservatives on paper are far more popular right now than the NDP.
00:06:27.060 Anyways, see you guys later.
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