The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - February 12, 2025


Failing NDP leader Jagmeet Singh thinks he can fight Donald Trump

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tariffs on Teslas Jagmeet Singh cringe
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Jagmeet Singh is the new Prime Minister of Canada, and he thinks he's a fighter. He's got a plan to fight back against Donald Trump and Elon Musk, and it's a plan that could cost Canada billions of dollars.

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00:00:00.000 You know, maybe we'd all find Jagmeet Singh's delusional confidence in himself cute
00:00:05.900 if he was a five-year-old thinking he can push a truck out of the driveway,
00:00:10.540 but this man is the leader of a federal party in Canada.
00:00:14.900 A federal party that is holding us all hostage and not letting us go to the polls to oust the liberals
00:00:21.160 because Jagmeet Singh needs his pension, his party's broke,
00:00:25.360 and he's probably not going to win re-election in whatever Burnaby riding he's going to run in.
00:00:31.620 My goodness, he's going around now doing this thing I was predicting that he was going to pivot into a couple months ago,
00:00:38.840 that he's going to make himself a fighter,
00:00:41.160 and he's the right guy to fight the big fights with people like Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
00:00:46.880 Again, it would be cute if he was a 10-year-old or a 5-year-old, but this is just sad.
00:00:53.140 Here is Jagmeet Singh on CNN.
00:00:56.000 What does that fighting entail?
00:00:58.340 How do you see that fighting moving forward?
00:01:01.000 Is it reciprocal tariffs?
00:01:03.920 Yeah, the first step is going to be dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs.
00:01:08.720 Impose a tariff on us, we'll impose a tariff back on you.
00:01:11.500 Again, no one wins in these trade wars.
00:01:13.940 Yeah, but we definitely lose Jagmeet.
00:01:15.920 We would lose faster than the Americans. 0.98
00:01:18.700 That's why this is extremely silly.
00:01:20.640 In fact, it's unpopular to say it, but what we should be doing in response to American tariffs,
00:01:27.840 if they do tariff us, is lowering taxes.
00:01:31.540 That is all we do.
00:01:32.480 We do not do a tariff-for-tariff, tit-for-tat war, because guess what?
00:01:36.520 We end up only shooting our own people in the foot.
00:01:39.240 We should instead make it easier to do business in Canada,
00:01:42.580 while Donald Trump makes it harder to do business in the U.S.
00:01:46.300 The best response is doing that.
00:01:49.680 Trump has that 25% tariff on steel and aluminum.
00:01:54.080 What we should do is cut the corporate tax rate of aluminum and steel mining companies,
00:02:00.540 manufacturers in Canada by 35%, 40%.
00:02:05.380 Give them an industry-specific tax cut.
00:02:08.180 That is how you do it.
00:02:09.300 But Jagmeet Singh only wants to be able to use the word fight,
00:02:12.540 so every single policy decision that he's making right now is around his ability to be perceived as a fighter, 0.97
00:02:19.600 even if it's the dumbest thing you've ever heard. 0.78
00:02:21.520 But this is not a fight that we wanted to pick. 0.95
00:02:23.700 We were happy to continue to have a strong relationship.
00:02:26.480 Donald Trump has picked this fight, so we're going to fight back.
00:02:28.920 We just announced today, what I would do is put in place 100% tariff on Tesla,
00:02:33.620 directly targeting Elon Musk.
00:02:35.360 Because Elon Musk is proudly touting this idea of the 51st state,
00:02:39.220 so let's hit back at Elon Musk.
00:02:41.160 That is so illegal, it's not even funny.
00:02:43.360 I'm not sure if the government can tax a specific man's company out of spite.
00:02:48.480 You have to have more than he's made some funny jokes about Canada, 51st state. 0.98
00:02:53.940 This is not, this is pathetic. 0.90
00:02:56.660 This is why Jagmeet Singh gets laughed at in Parliament when he says, 0.97
00:03:00.200 when I'm Prime Minister, because the man has the politics of an 18-year-old girl taking an anthropology class.
00:03:09.820 I've also said we should shut down the supply of critical minerals.
00:03:13.340 Another move that directly targets Elon Musk and his Tesla company,
00:03:17.420 the batteries that he needs require these critical minerals.
00:03:20.260 We've got tools, and we should be ready to use them.
00:03:23.320 It's not something that we wanted to do,
00:03:24.840 but if Donald Trump wants to bring this fight,
00:03:27.480 know that we are ready.
00:03:28.960 I'm putting Donald Trump on notice.
00:03:32.120 Canadian MP Jagmeet Singh,
00:03:33.940 appreciate you joining us and sharing your perspective.
00:03:35.880 I like how he didn't even,
00:03:37.360 the guy didn't even say he was the NDP leader.
00:03:40.800 Even the NDP doesn't like him.
00:03:42.560 Look at all the polls.
00:03:43.560 The NDP's base thinks that he's a complete joke.
00:03:47.380 Look at this.
00:03:48.660 They're already producing graphics around Elon Musk.
00:03:51.620 I guarantee, oh yeah, this is probably going to win Jagmeet Singh a billion votes.
00:03:55.940 Click the link below to sign in support of the NDP's plan.
00:03:59.160 Musk is threatening Canadian workers.
00:04:01.280 Sign on to put a 100% tariff on Teslas.
00:04:06.780 He's such a joke.
00:04:08.060 Yeah, that's not going to hurt our country,
00:04:09.800 where we're manufacturing EV batteries.
00:04:12.740 I don't like the manufacturing of EV batteries,
00:04:15.100 because it's all being done through taxpayer subsidies,
00:04:18.100 thanks to Justin Trudeau, Doug Ford,
00:04:20.100 as well as Jagmeet Singh, because he's propping up Trudeau. 1.00
00:04:23.000 But my goodness, this is so stupid. 1.00
00:04:26.060 And now he has this other video where, again, 1.00
00:04:28.960 he thinks that if he just keeps using the word fight,
00:04:31.800 fighting, and fighter,
00:04:33.620 you'll eventually think that he's a tough dude.
00:04:36.560 So let me tell you,
00:04:37.740 I've been a fighter my whole life.
00:04:39.920 I fought bullies in the schoolyard as a kid.
00:04:42.260 I fought the system as a lawyer.
00:04:43.860 I fought big insurance companies
00:04:45.700 as a member of provincial parliament.
00:04:47.640 And most recently, I fought like how to get you dental care,
00:04:51.040 pre-birth control, and diabetes medication.
00:04:53.360 And I'm going to fight like how to make sure
00:04:55.260 Pierre Polyev and conservatives don't cut that from you.
00:04:58.140 I'm going to fight back against conservative callous cuts.
00:05:02.780 So if you want a fighter to take on Pierre Polyev,
00:05:06.320 put me in the ring.
00:05:07.540 It's so bad.
00:05:09.260 He's so bad. 0.89
00:05:09.980 I hate Jagmeet Singh so much because he's so cringy. 0.87
00:05:13.700 The worst crime you can commit in politics 0.55
00:05:17.140 is not to be corrupt.
00:05:19.140 It's not to be like racist or something like that,
00:05:22.320 or intolerant, or, you know, a warmonger,
00:05:25.520 or, you know, a defeatist anti-patriot.
00:05:28.800 It's to be cringe.
00:05:30.360 And Jagmeet Singh commits that crime every single day.
00:05:34.120 Everything he does is trying to get like people on TikTok
00:05:37.120 to vote for him, or people on Instagram,
00:05:39.480 people who do not want to vote. 0.89
00:05:41.380 Jagmeet Singh is like tactically inept.
00:05:43.860 He doesn't seem to think that a lot of people
00:05:46.480 might in fact, you know, maybe want someone serious,
00:05:51.140 someone not purely performative.
00:05:53.620 Like here is another Jagmeet Singh tweet
00:05:56.200 about Trump and Musk.
00:05:57.760 If Trump and Musk attack Canadian autoworkers,
00:06:00.680 I would slap 100% tariff on Teslas
00:06:03.120 and give Canadians a $10,000 rebate
00:06:06.040 to buy Canadian-made EVs and plug-in hybrids.
00:06:09.060 Oh yeah, that's not going to bankrupt us.
00:06:10.660 Giving anyone who wants an EV $10,000
00:06:12.920 will hit back where it counts
00:06:15.860 and support Canadian workers.
00:06:17.780 He should have said fight 5,000 more times in this post.
00:06:21.380 Then I would have believed that he was serious.
00:06:23.320 Right now, I just don't feel it.
00:06:24.600 He didn't say fight enough.
00:06:25.920 He didn't say fight.
00:06:27.040 And now I think he's weak
00:06:28.420 because he didn't keep repeating it
00:06:30.360 over and over again.
00:06:31.040 I think I already showed this one
00:06:33.900 from a little bit ago,
00:06:35.400 but like this has been going on
00:06:37.060 since like February 5th or something like that.
00:06:40.420 Every single video is the same from Jagmeet Singh.
00:06:44.000 What Trump though is really about,
00:06:46.080 and it is very clear,
00:06:47.560 he is about making Canada the 51st state.
00:06:50.000 He's not.
00:06:51.180 I know Trump did that Super Bowl,
00:06:53.800 like Sunday video where he talked about Canada.
00:06:57.580 Oh yes, I'm 100% serious about the 51st state thing.
00:07:00.100 He's not.
00:07:01.020 Trump's kind of a guy
00:07:02.260 who's never going to say,
00:07:04.200 I'm just kidding or I'm messing around
00:07:07.140 because Trump is the type of guy
00:07:08.720 who doesn't like to be perceived
00:07:10.700 as just messing around.
00:07:12.060 But he's not doing anything
00:07:13.620 that would actually cause the 51st state to happen.
00:07:16.440 He doesn't actually care.
00:07:18.000 But Jagmeet Singh's entire political career right now
00:07:20.220 hinges on Donald Trump being orange Hitler
00:07:23.820 and that Jagmeet Singh's the only one who sees it
00:07:26.560 and he's the only one willing to fight.
00:07:28.960 That is what he is about.
00:07:30.780 He has made that very clear.
00:07:32.120 We don't need to guess about what his intentions are.
00:07:34.780 He's repeated it.
00:07:36.180 He wants to use economic pressure on Canada
00:07:39.120 to put us in a weak position.
00:07:41.340 He's been very clear.
00:07:42.580 That is what he wants to do.
00:07:44.080 So we need to fight back.
00:07:45.840 Oh my goodness, fight back. 0.99
00:07:46.980 Yeah, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight. 0.95
00:07:49.480 But why didn't Trump actually put the tariffs in place
00:07:52.160 as soon as Trudeau finally made commitments
00:07:54.460 to putting troops on the border?
00:07:55.960 And I've heard we're at 8,500 people.
00:07:57.800 So they're at least doing something about the border.
00:08:00.200 We just appointed a fentanyl czar
00:08:02.180 and he's actually not bad.
00:08:03.860 It's not a patronage appointment.
00:08:05.260 Although you really can't turn something
00:08:06.740 like being the fentanyl czar
00:08:07.860 into a patronage appointment.
00:08:09.540 Like what, is he going to have
00:08:10.520 one of Trudeau's yacht club friends
00:08:12.180 become the fentanyl czar?
00:08:13.740 So they put someone good in place.
00:08:15.400 They've been doing some decent ramp-ups
00:08:17.420 of border security.
00:08:18.520 Perfect.
00:08:19.240 And Trump didn't put tariffs on us.
00:08:21.140 Yes, the steel and aluminum tariffs are here,
00:08:23.760 but that's a worldwide tariff.
00:08:25.120 That tariffs German steel,
00:08:27.260 that does like, you know,
00:08:29.700 that tariffs like places in India and China
00:08:32.540 and Vietnam and Cambodia
00:08:34.200 from printing steel here.
00:08:35.820 I'm not sure if all those
00:08:36.760 are steel producing countries,
00:08:38.000 but it's a worldwide tariff.
00:08:39.340 And again, like I've said,
00:08:40.760 we should just cut taxes to those industries
00:08:42.560 and we'll do fine.
00:08:44.140 But Singh, again,
00:08:46.020 he's put himself in such a vulnerable position
00:08:47.940 because he has to have
00:08:49.520 all of these absurd predictions come true
00:08:52.100 in order for anyone to think,
00:08:53.860 maybe we should make that guy prime minister.
00:08:56.080 And even then,
00:08:56.720 it's his third time around
00:08:58.160 running for prime minister.
00:08:59.460 He's lost each time.
00:09:00.880 I know the NDP are never going to really win,
00:09:03.380 but he's only performed mediocre at best.
00:09:06.640 And that still is the bad taste
00:09:08.420 in everyone's mouth around Jagmeet Singh
00:09:10.120 on top of his awful socialistic politics.
00:09:13.320 In fact, the guy is so Hollywood,
00:09:15.500 it's crazy.
00:09:16.660 The guy loves being on TV.
00:09:19.040 He loves being in these fluffy softball interviews.
00:09:22.960 There's a reason why he went online on Twitch
00:09:26.160 to play Among Us with Ilhan Omar, AOC,
00:09:30.160 and that guy who said America deserves 9-11,
00:09:32.660 Hassan Piker,
00:09:33.700 who's also a pure terror supporter,
00:09:35.680 like an obvious terror supporter.
00:09:38.080 Yeah, but Jagmeet Singh loves being recognized
00:09:40.640 by the luxurious class of political media
00:09:44.440 and fashionable social media pundits.
00:09:48.800 Anyways, that should be it for me today
00:09:51.060 on Jagmeet Singh, guys.
00:09:52.500 Remember to like this video,
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00:09:55.580 and leave a comment.
00:09:57.100 What do you think is going to happen
00:09:58.700 to Jagmeet Singh after this election?
00:10:00.800 Is he going to actually do what he said
00:10:02.520 that he was going to do previously
00:10:03.880 and force a late March election,
00:10:06.520 or is he going to hold on until October
00:10:08.520 and find an excuse to work with Mark Carney
00:10:11.020 or maybe Chrystia Freeland if she happens to win? 1.00
00:10:13.940 Anyways, that's it for me today, guys.
00:10:16.220 See ya.