Wyatt Claypool talks about the B.C. NDP's campaign strategy and the lies they tell to get voters to vote for them in the upcoming election. He also talks about gun control, and why he thinks it's a terrible idea.
00:00:00.000If you've watched this channel more than once, you're probably already very well aware of the fact that I, Wyatt Claypool, do not like British Columbia Premier David Eby or his BC NDP party.
00:00:14.360They are far-left progressive activists who, you know, think that the solution to things like drug addiction in society is to give drug addicts more drugs.
00:00:24.420I do not trust them to run a lemonade stand, and I hope that BC voters end up throwing them out on October 19th.
00:00:32.440But on this channel, I also like to talk about political marketing and communications.
00:00:38.220You know, I like to see how politicians and parties present themselves.
00:00:41.780And the only thing that the BC NDP and David Eby may be worse at than public policy is political communications.
00:00:50.100These people are horrifyingly, painfully inauthentic.
00:00:54.740And I just want to play two clips to just start you off right now to show you how bad it is.
00:01:00.720This is David Eby at an event in Surrey in which they have two videos that start off basically the same of him trying to sound energized and, you know, with the people and talking about how much momentum they have.
00:01:44.040You're an incumbent government who's failing in the polls right now when you have all of the political advantages this election.
00:01:52.560It's pretty easy in Canada to be reelected as an incumbent government.
00:01:56.860The only way that you lose as an incumbent government is that you've screwed up everything.
00:02:02.240Usually, you can sort of muddle your way through a couple of elections after you are first elected.
00:02:08.180And even Justin Trudeau shows you that it's not that difficult, that you can do a bad job and still come out with a minority government.
00:02:15.020The B.C. NDP are likely to lose to the B.C. conservatives who only got 2% of the vote in the 2020 election.
00:02:24.440And it's because they suck on policy and they do stuff like this.
00:02:28.440It's just this inauthentic talking down to people.
00:02:32.240Hey, guys, are you ready to move B.C. forward?
00:02:37.040No, not with you at least because you're terrible at your job and you act like everybody's five years old.
00:02:43.540This is all of the B.C. NDP's marketing is talking to people as if they're dumb.
00:02:49.820And now I just want to go into the lying sort of, I guess, part of this show where I want to talk about all the lying that the B.C. NDP has been doing recently.
00:03:01.000I don't know why they think this is going to be a big vote getter.
00:03:04.060For context, there is about 315,000 people in British Columbia who have PAL licenses, possession and acquisition licenses for firearms, either PAL or RPAL, the restricted version of the PAL.
00:03:18.860That's a lot of voters. I'm not sure if you know that.
00:03:22.660There's a lot of people who have PAL licenses, most of those being people who can vote, because I think that you can technically have a PAL below the age of 18, but the vast majority of them are going to be people 18 and above.
00:03:34.540And if you've seen the British Columbia riding map in terms of where parties are projected to be winning or losing, there's a lot of NDP ridings with significant rural areas in them.
00:03:48.840There's like ridings that are almost fully rural with some small towns that the NDP have a chance at winning re-election in, having their MLA still get across the finish line.
00:04:02.540Because right now the NDP is on this big terror against the conservatives over this ridiculous notion that the conservatives are in favor of gangs.
00:04:11.800I don't know what this is even trying to get at.
00:04:16.140When their families send them out at the beginning of their shift, as police officers, they understand that they're taking on risk.
00:04:25.960They're putting themselves on the line.
00:04:29.200Why would we ever make it harder for those families?
00:04:35.740Also notice the weird small pauses for drama during this.
00:04:40.220It's like it's hard for him to go with those words because he just cares about those families so much, even though he's the one giving drugs to people on the streets, making police his job way harder.
00:04:49.300He's the one who used to sue the police back in the day at the Pivot Legal Society.
00:04:53.180He wrote a book on how to sue the police.
00:05:32.880He just released a plan today to basically put more B.C. sheriffs on the streets, increase police presence around high crime areas, which is absolutely what's needed.
00:05:42.260You need to have police officers around so people couldn't even commission a crime simply because they would get stopped immediately.
00:05:48.940We just need more police on the streets, and we can pass provincial laws to keep repeat offenders, both violent and nonviolent, in prison.
00:05:56.720Because just because something's not a violent offense doesn't mean you're okay with someone repeatedly doing it, like shoplifters, people vandalizing property, all that kind of stuff.
00:06:07.380If someone keeps doing it, you eventually do need to lock them up and keep them locked up for a while.
00:06:12.260And so his attack on Rustad on this is, one, again, inauthentic, if you know what the NDP is like, if you know what the NDP has been like for the last couple of decades, they've always been the soft on crime party.
00:06:28.600And him trying to take on the tough on crime stance on this particular issue just makes him look, he just looks like a liar.
00:06:44.520John Rustad says he won't enforce federal laws that keep dangerous assault weapons out of the hands of gangsters and dangerous criminals, importing lax U.S. style gun rules that make us all less safe.
00:06:55.100Going down, that was from George, this video from George Anderson.
00:06:59.340And it's really funny if you actually know that he just had a big screw up at a debate where he started talking down to the Green Party candidate saying he'd talk slower to her because she's from Alberta.
00:07:39.240You already probably know why this is wrong.
00:07:43.060John Rustad said he would not expend provincial policing resources helping Justin Trudeau and the federal government go after law-abiding gun owners because they happen to own a arbitrarily banned model of rifle, shotgun, handgun, what have you.
00:08:03.520Obviously, he's not saying that, well, if a gang has one of those weapons illegally smuggled over the border, I don't care about that.
00:08:11.320That's what he wants more resources to go towards and is saying that driving down country roads to go after a farmer for owning the wrong type of rifle that he has never used wrongly, never would,
00:08:23.580and also has done like all the correct licensing and whatnot to get that gun, that is a waste of provincial resources.
00:08:30.500There's no reason to ban in the first place.
00:08:31.980Trudeau just wanted to seem tough on guns after the Nova Scotia mass shooting, which was done by through the use of illegally smuggled guns that that's, yeah, like that's, it's ridiculous what they're trying to get at here.
00:08:45.700And I think the ratio was very, it was very apt on that post.
00:08:50.280And I don't even know why they think this is going to get them boats or something like that.
00:08:54.500Again, there's 315,000 PAL license holders.
00:08:58.520And as long as the provincial government was not assisting the federal government in going after law-abiding gun owners, a lot of those PAL holders have no reason to not vote NDP other than the fact that all their other policy is crazy.
00:09:11.460But I mean, in terms of that one category of person doesn't technically have anything specifically against the provincial government.
00:09:18.860I've even had people commenting under one of my last videos on BC when I first mentioned this problem that I'm a gun owner and I was considering voting NDP and I'm totally not doing it anymore because they're basically saying that they're going to help Trudeau take away any guns I have that are arbitrarily banned.
00:09:36.900Even Trudeau's not even trying to take away the guns at the moment because he realized that the gun confiscation plan, especially in light of Bill C-5, which lets basically gangsters get off easy on carrying actually legally possessed, like possessed guns, that all these, like that, that the current confiscation program pulls like polio.
00:09:59.900But this is, but this is, this has been like, I want to see if I can find any other posts here, but it's just been bad.
00:10:06.940The, the NDP campaign has just been bad from the perspective that it's, it's, it's, it's trying to get progressives on board for their campaign that they already have.
00:10:21.620The, the, the BCNDP doing all these advertisements and statements against Chip Wilson, the, the billionaire founder of Lululemon, a company that let's just say sells products that I consider more left-wing coded.
00:10:35.880Lululemon was always a brand that if you were shopping there, you're a little bit more likely to be center left than you are to be on the right.
00:10:42.300Like, you know, more like no guys wearing a Lululemon to go like working out or something like that.
00:10:50.560You know, no surprise there, but that's a company whose owner in effect should be maybe possibly leaning a little bit more towards a center left option because it might represent the values of the company that he started, but no, the NDP is attacking him because he called them communists because a lot of them are communists.
00:11:10.020Let's, let's be very clear in Alberta, the Alberta NDP in that provincial election, a party that's to the right of the BCNDP was running multiple communist candidates.
00:11:20.780And I mean like people posting Mao on their Facebook timelines, Mao quotes, big pictures of Mao, not ironically just flat out posting it because they like them.
00:11:31.180The BCNDP has a lot of people who just don't believe in private property or free markets or capitalism for that matter.
00:11:39.000They are not people that you, like the party going after business owners harder and saying, well, he's, I'm David Eby saying, I'm proud that I raised Chip Wilson's property taxes or his taxes in general.
00:11:53.220Like I raised the taxes on his $80 million home, even though I think that's still a municipal responsibility fully like they're, they just keep putting a hat on a hat.
00:12:04.120I want the BCNDP to lose, but it's almost frustrating to watch them make every single obvious mistake.
00:12:09.920I guess that's good because I want John Rustad to become the premier.
00:12:13.140I want the BC conservatives to have a big majority.
00:12:15.280Everything the BCNDP does is alienating of people that they need the votes of in order to win the election.
00:12:23.640Anyways, well, I guess this is a good time for me to transition to a story that I technically covered yesterday.
00:12:29.240And that was Creek Pete, this TikToker who was spreading conspiracy theories that all the polling in Canada is being rigged in favor of conservatives.
00:12:39.620And his, his evidence was David Coletto once spoke at the Heritage Foundation and did polling at Sun News, even though I believe David Coletto is actually a little bit more center left as a person.
00:12:50.740And that Angus Reid is personally a conservative.
00:12:53.000And that means all the polling is, you know, just trying to get Justin Trudeau.
00:12:56.520And I will congratulate Max Fawcett here, who I know does not like me at all.
00:13:01.260And it is because he is, he himself is a big media progressive.
00:13:05.180But I do like seeing that he did call out the people tweeting about Pete Creek, you know, fawningly because he's saying the correct liberal thing.
00:13:16.740And Max Fawcett here says, because the whole title of Creek Pete's video is, or at least the quote from it is, I think polling polls are BS and I'll tell you why.
00:13:26.360And then he goes over how he thinks there's all these conservatives in the polling industry just trying to make the liberals look bad.
00:13:31.900And Max here says, sorry, progressives, this isn't the way.
00:13:36.460Frank Graves at Ecos is very clearly not a fan of Polyev.
00:13:39.820His polls show basically the same thing as Abacus and Angus Reid Institute.
00:13:43.880Ditto Main Street, ditto Nanos, ditto Leger.
00:13:46.260And then you have GT Lem here, who is a massive liberal cheerleader online saying gaslighting and propaganda is real, Max Fawcett.
00:13:56.760And then Max Fawcett says, as are conspiracy theories, which I find very entertaining to watch.
00:14:02.820These very hard left liberal activists actually being told by another liberal progressive, who's just a bit more rational than them, that they're just completely out on the lake without a paddle.
00:14:17.300And then you have Creek Pete here then responding to Max Fawcett saying, as are conspiracy theories.
00:14:21.840And he says, what exactly is the conspiracy, Max?
00:14:24.800Are you saying with certainty that polls cannot be manipulated, especially online polls?
00:14:34.960A lot of these polls are done through IVR in terms of you get a call on a phone and it gets you to press buttons for who you're voting for.
00:14:43.620And you can't really use a bot farm to mess with polls because it's randomly selected who gets polls.
00:14:49.200Unless everyone who gets selected is secretly running a bot farm.
00:14:52.720I don't know how this actually would work.
00:14:55.680I guess, do I want to see more replies?
00:14:59.500What is the security apparatus to block manipulation like this in online polls?
00:15:03.980Many in the industry have raised concerns about poll manipulation, including Angus himself, as well as Frank and Nick.
00:15:10.080Are you saying with certainty that owners of these companies have no impact?
00:15:13.980That like saying Rupert Murdoch has no say on his media outlets push out.
00:16:09.700They're also not very well respected, and everyone will point them out to you right away.
00:16:14.000Or at least they'll say that their records aren't very good.
00:16:16.260There's, like, more legitimate claims of poll manipulation in the U.S., since there's so much money that goes into politics that there is, in theory, a reason to pay a pollster who maybe isn't even manipulating polls, but you know that they have a more pro-Democrat or pro-Republican sample that they tend to draw from, that you want their numbers to be out there because it gives your guy momentum.
00:16:39.360At the end of the day, you can't short-circuit public opinion.
00:16:42.960People vote for what they want for, for a very simple lesson at the end of this video.
00:16:47.960People vote for what they want for, what they want.
00:16:51.180If they didn't vote for you, it's because they didn't want you, a lesson to those who are running the PPC.
00:16:57.640I can even agree with a lot of PPC, like, policy recommendations or policy stances.
00:17:03.440But in general, people aren't voting for you because they don't want you.
00:17:06.680And that could be for policy reasons, for trust reasons, for the fact that you didn't show that you were working hard enough during the election to earn their vote.
00:17:14.300There's a lot of reasons for why people vote for the way they do, and very little of it is from manipulation.
00:17:20.320Could you be manipulated in terms of you believe things that are not quite right because of media narratives?
00:17:26.060But usually the people who are putting out those media narratives believe them.
00:17:29.880There's actually not that many people in politics who are just straight-up liars, who are lying about everything.
00:17:35.060Even Justin Trudeau, as scary as it sounds, believes the things that he says for the most part.
00:17:41.120He'll fibs to try and get out of tight corners, but he is a true believer in what he does.
00:17:45.820That's what makes him so scary, is that he could be failing this hard and thinking that it's just another $5 billion until his failing programs are going to turn around and we're going to be in utopia.
00:17:57.060That's what makes people like this awful.
00:17:59.240If they were rational, they would probably just start doing the right thing rather than lying.
00:18:03.380Because doing the right thing has a strange way of making you more popular than just lying about why you're doing the wrong thing.