The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - December 02, 2024


Hypocrisy： Champagne Socialist NDP attack Poilievre as billionaire puppet


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Wyatt Claypool talks about being a hypocrite in politics and why Jagmeet Singh is one of the biggest failures in the history of Canadian politics. He also talks about why the federal NDP is a crock of shit and why the Tories are the real winners in the election.

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00:00:00.000 Hello everyone, Wyatt Claypool here.
00:00:03.120 Without a doubt, in electoral politics, the worst thing that you can be is a hypocrite.
00:00:09.240 It's worse than being a liar, it's worse than being a thief, it's even worse than being cringy and embarrassing.
00:00:16.300 Because a hypocrite can never make an attack on a political opponent that's actually going to stick.
00:00:21.700 In fact, whenever they attack other people, it hurts them and undermines their own credibility.
00:00:26.680 It's the whole people who live in glass houses type of an effect.
00:00:30.820 You can't exactly throw rocks at other people when if you have a rock thrown at yourself, everything's going to shatter.
00:00:36.860 And this is exactly why the federal NDP have gone absolutely nowhere with Jagmeet Singh leading the party.
00:00:44.820 They got absolutely clobbered in 2019, only picked up a couple extra seats in 21 because of both the liberals and the conservatives basically bleeding support.
00:00:54.820 And now in the federal election in 2025, they are going to get beaten up once again, even though, in theory, they should be gaining massive amounts of support.
00:01:05.280 The liberals are only a half step to the right of the NDP, and I would describe Justin Trudeau as a very orange liberal leader.
00:01:13.520 But Singh, because he's a hypocrite, can never actually make an attack on another political opponent in order to then gain support to himself.
00:01:23.560 Every time he tries to make a play for power, everyone just points and says,
00:01:28.260 Well, aren't you the Rolex guy?
00:01:30.160 Well, aren't you the one who's been propping up, Trudeau?
00:01:32.680 Well, aren't you the one who used to be sort of like an ambulance-chasing lawyer?
00:01:37.060 Aren't you the one who was a failed Ontario provincial politician?
00:01:40.400 Jagmeet Singh and many of the NDP MPs have no credibility.
00:01:45.620 They're just whiny malcontents.
00:01:47.480 They are champagne socialists, which itself is a hypocritical label in terms of, like, describing a hypocrite.
00:01:55.040 Here is something that the NDP posted on their own ex-account today, which has had a big boomerang effect on them,
00:02:01.920 trying to attack Polyeb as being a puppet for billionaires.
00:02:05.360 Here we go.
00:02:06.860 This post reads,
00:02:08.360 Pierre is a billionaire bootlicker.
00:02:10.560 He's a puppet for greedy CEOs and doesn't care about the relief people need now.
00:02:15.900 And it's a graphic with Pierre Polyev as a puppet, and it says billionaire bootlicker,
00:02:20.420 this being a term that the NDP is using from one of their MPs, Leah Gazzan, who is an absolute left-wing radical,
00:02:28.860 somebody who maybe might make a good MP one day if she learns to care about Canadians just as much as she hates Israel.
00:02:36.240 But moving on from there, the reason this post doesn't work is because it's, in fact, the NDP,
00:02:42.160 which has been assisting the Liberals, who they also accuse of being corporate shills and serving greedy billionaires.
00:02:50.320 So what is it?
00:02:51.920 Which one is it?
00:02:52.700 Are the Conservatives serving the billionaires, and are the Liberals not?
00:02:57.920 Well, the NDP attacks the Liberals for serving billionaires all the time,
00:03:01.520 and the NDP are currently propping up and serving the Liberals.
00:03:05.800 Plus, this doesn't even make sense.
00:03:07.760 This is all over a GST, HST vote, where the Conservatives didn't vote with the government
00:03:14.300 to basically pause the GST and HST for two months because it's a bait-and-switch.
00:03:19.920 The NDP are pretending the Conservatives aren't in favor of tax relief
00:03:23.360 when the NDP are, in fact, only voting for two months of tax relief
00:03:27.220 right before the HST and GST come back in effect in February,
00:03:31.420 and then the carbon tax doubles in April.
00:03:34.480 The NDP are hypocrites.
00:03:35.620 They don't actually care about tax relief.
00:03:38.360 They voted against every form of tax relief proposed over the last several years,
00:03:43.580 probably for decades now, because they really just care about getting the government more money
00:03:48.640 and only having temporary handouts or pauses in taxes to pretend that they care about tax relief,
00:03:56.200 but will always vote against the permanent tax relief measures that the Conservatives propose,
00:04:00.980 like getting rid of the carbon tax.
00:04:02.760 I want to move on to a video of Jagmeet Singh, because he is really,
00:04:07.500 or I'll start off with the Conservatives' video about him,
00:04:10.560 because I think this was a really good slam on Jagmeet Singh,
00:04:15.100 and the fact that Pollyov has sort of zeroed in on this being the main attack on Jagmeet Singh
00:04:20.540 is very telling, because Jagmeet Singh is a hypocrite,
00:04:24.500 and the Conservatives realize that this is his biggest Achilles heel.
00:04:27.820 Jagmeet Singh is used to getting what he wants.
00:04:31.320 He went to a high-priced American private school in Beverly Hills,
00:04:35.160 Rolex watches, BMWs, Versace bag.
00:04:39.220 But now he's got a problem.
00:04:41.340 He needs to delay the election till next year when he qualifies for his $2 million pension.
00:04:46.220 So he sold you out, signed on with Trudeau, to raise taxes, crime, and housing costs.
00:04:52.660 Sell out Singh. 1.00
00:04:53.920 He gets his pension.
00:04:55.560 You pay the price.
00:04:56.620 That's a great ad.
00:04:59.140 And I'm not just saying, well, it's a great ad because I'm Conservative,
00:05:01.660 and I like things that Conservatives say.
00:05:04.160 I've gone after bad Conservative messaging in the past.
00:05:07.520 This is so effective because people hate it when politicians play games.
00:05:12.040 People hate it when politicians tell them one thing but are basically doing the other.
00:05:17.200 And Jagmeet Singh is a champagne socialist.
00:05:20.260 He is somebody who revels in wealth and yet attacks other people for actually gaining wealth.
00:05:25.520 That is something that people cannot stand when people pretend or pretend humble.
00:05:31.700 Pretend humble just makes you the most gratuitously obnoxious person on the planet.
00:05:38.620 The fact that Jagmeet Singh has to flash his Rolex in pretty much every photo that he's in is just showing that he has no political skill.
00:05:46.980 That's always the thing I never get about Jagmeet Singh.
00:05:49.640 The man has been at this for like a decade at this point, being in politics in one capacity or another,
00:05:55.820 and he still cannot figure out how to appeal to normal middle class people.
00:06:00.680 He's in the party where they're supposed to be good at appealing to the working class,
00:06:05.260 but he doesn't like them.
00:06:06.520 He finds them grubby.
00:06:07.580 He doesn't like people who work with their hands.
00:06:09.860 And so when he goes and stumps for unions,
00:06:12.020 it's usually public sector unions or compulsory government-enforced unions
00:06:16.320 with mostly HR workers and people who work white-collar office jobs.
00:06:20.660 He doesn't like oil and gas workers.
00:06:22.320 He doesn't like people who work at manufacturing plants.
00:06:24.940 The day he started this pure poly of as a bootlicker for billionaires push,
00:06:29.240 he showed up driving a Maserati, I believe.
00:06:32.880 I think that's what that is.
00:06:34.380 Yeah, a Maserati carrying like a very expensive leather bag in a bespoke suit with an expensive coat.
00:06:40.380 And guess what?
00:06:40.860 I don't care.
00:06:41.960 But the problem is his rhetoric makes him a hypocrite
00:06:45.360 because he pretends like he rejects all the trappings of wealth,
00:06:50.080 that it's actually Polyev who's like serving the gold-plated type,
00:06:55.420 like the gold-plated metropolitans,
00:06:57.420 when Jagmeet Singh is a gold-plated metropolitan.
00:07:01.020 He is a very wealthy lawyer who got into politics because he loves being on camera.
00:07:05.540 That man, I don't even think he really wants his pension.
00:07:08.160 Yes, he wants his pension because everyone wants their pension.
00:07:10.740 Even if you say you don't want your pension, you want your pension.
00:07:12.920 Come on.
00:07:13.200 It's like, you know, it's money.
00:07:15.400 But Jagmeet Singh, I think he just likes being fashionable.
00:07:20.240 He likes going on streams with people like Hassan Piker and AOC and Ilhan Omar.
00:07:24.420 He likes going on legacy media shows because it makes him feel popular.
00:07:29.260 But this is something that Jagmeet Singh also said just today.
00:07:32.260 He says,
00:07:32.580 Pure Poly and the Conservatives voted against a GST holiday for Canadians,
00:07:36.400 but happily voted to cut corporate taxes that cost Canadians $60 billion.
00:07:40.640 Well, this is corporate tax cuts like back in the day when Harper was in power.
00:07:48.600 But this graphic right here says,
00:07:50.020 Pure Poly have voted against a GST tax break.
00:07:52.800 It's not a tax break.
00:07:54.080 It's a temporary tax freeze that quickly rolls into a massive carbon tax increase.
00:08:00.200 And also, of course, the GST and HST comes back in February.
00:08:03.940 Plus, it only really applies between December 17th and February 17th after most holiday shopping is over.
00:08:13.640 In fact, it's kind of a bit of a bait and switch because people tend to spend the least after Christmas.
00:08:19.340 That's when everyone, you know, is worried about paying back all their credit card statements and they start really restricting their spending.
00:08:26.240 And so all this 5% tax reduction on the GST side of things, and it's bigger if it's the HST in certain provinces, up to 14% in places like New Brunswick or something like that,
00:08:38.400 that, yeah, you will save 14%, you'll save 5% during the month when you're going to be deliberately spending as little as possible already.
00:08:47.440 And again, corporate tax cuts would actually do a far better job at reducing prices and saving people money.
00:08:53.220 Plus, isn't it kind of stupid to say that pure poly is a bootlicker for billionaires because he won't vote for the GST holiday?
00:09:02.400 Well, one, the conservatives already know it's going to pass.
00:09:04.760 So they're symbolically opposing it because they are basically saying, why don't you guys do permanent tax relief?
00:09:09.920 We're not voting for this because you guys are trying to entrap us into pretending the government's doing good things when it's taking not even half measures.
00:09:16.340 It's taking like quarter measures to try and solve the problem and only temporarily.
00:09:20.820 How is it looking for billionaires to vote for a tax pause that only affects government tax revenues?
00:09:30.020 This doesn't actually go after billionaires.
00:09:32.620 It doesn't hurt billionaires at all.
00:09:33.940 It doesn't help billionaires at all.
00:09:35.580 If anything, the liberals and the NDP are helping billionaires and large corporations by making people shop more by reducing sales taxes.
00:09:43.400 And that's fine. I don't care if people make more money.
00:09:46.840 I've never been bothered by how much wealth other people have.
00:09:50.060 But this doesn't even track well.
00:09:52.260 The NDP are in fact the people who are going to make Galen Weston and Loblaws more money.
00:09:59.340 But here's also a video that Jagmeet Singh released yesterday.
00:10:03.100 It's a longer version of something I've played before.
00:10:05.700 And again, it's just whiny.
00:10:07.820 He comes across like somebody who's doing politics on a college campus.
00:10:11.480 Pierre, Paul Yev and the conservatives are bootlicking for the billionaires again.
00:10:16.100 Let me explain.
00:10:17.260 Every single conservative just voted against a GST holiday this winter.
00:10:22.580 They voted against taking the GST off of essentials.
00:10:25.960 Essentials like grab and go food, children's diaper and clothing.
00:10:29.720 They voted against giving working class people relief.
00:10:33.340 But they voted in favor of giving their billionaire buddies a big tax break.
00:10:37.800 So it's clear.
00:10:38.960 Yeah, back in the day they voted in favor of that.
00:10:41.240 Again, I don't even have a problem with lowering corporate taxes.
00:10:44.980 But I don't get this whole point he's trying to make here.
00:10:47.720 Like that anything that the conservatives voted for like 14 years ago is equally relevant to things that are going on right now.
00:10:55.260 We could all pull up the record of the NDP and what they voted for and what they've said in the past three decades.
00:11:01.920 We could be like, did you know that the NDP once voted for a tax relief?
00:11:05.960 The fact that Jagmeet isn't voting for it is very telling.
00:11:08.680 And again, he's propping up the liberals who he say are also like corporate stooges and whatnot.
00:11:15.280 So this all doesn't actually come across as Jagmeet Singh thinks it should.
00:11:19.740 When Pierre Pauly of the conservatives talk about tax cuts, they mean for their billionaire buddies, not for the working class.
00:11:25.700 Reducing taxes for anybody reduces taxes for everybody.
00:11:31.020 There's no such thing as a tax that only one person pays or there's no such thing as a tax cut that only affects a specific group of people.
00:11:39.220 Every tax cut affects everybody because it puts more money in the economy.
00:11:43.080 Many corporations like grocery stores would be able to lower prices, service prices would go down, everything would go down.
00:11:50.320 That's where I advocate for lower taxes across the board.
00:11:53.820 But Jagmeet Singh is in the world where economics don't work like they do in the real world.
00:11:58.400 And by picking up a bucket of water from one side of a bathtub and not the other actually doesn't cause the entire level to go down or adding a new bucket of water in.
00:12:06.600 It actually, for some reason, makes one side of the bathtub go down and not the other because Jagmeet Singh doesn't understand taxes or fluid dynamics, apparently.
00:12:15.700 The liberals made this temporary.
00:12:17.380 When I'm prime minister, I'll make the cut to GST for the working class, permanent, and I'll include monthly bills. 0.99
00:12:24.040 Conservatives.
00:12:24.960 Wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:12:26.060 Why don't you, Jagmeet Singh, right now, because you're the only party, you're NDP, you're the only party keeping the liberals in power right now.
00:12:34.960 How will you fight for that now?
00:12:36.860 If it's so important, why don't you fight for it now and make it so that if the liberals don't make it permanent or at least extend it for an entire year and then we'll negotiate on if we should extend it for another year, just getting rid of the GST, not the HST side of things.
00:12:51.540 See, this is why Bill Van Der Zand was right about the HST, about rejecting the HST in British Columbia, because it doesn't cause all these weird problems when the government wants to suspend GST for a bit.
00:13:03.920 But why don't you have them pause it for longer?
00:13:07.520 How about you get a win out of this?
00:13:09.560 Jagmeet Singh cannot get a single political win because he lacks the political talent to apply pressure where he needs to and actually make credible threats.
00:13:18.080 Because Jagmeet Singh is not a threatening person.
00:13:21.020 He comes off like somebody who can easily push around because, again, Jagmeet Singh's number one priority is being on camera.
00:13:28.560 It's being popular and known.
00:13:30.400 So he will do nothing that puts at risk his political relevance because as soon as an election is called, he is on the timer for when he loses the election once again and the NDP rejects him as the leader and he goes back to doing whatever he does.
00:13:45.740 I think his political career is over.
00:13:47.440 So he's just trying to drag this next election out as far as humanly possible and maybe, just maybe, try and keep the conservatives from getting a majority.
00:13:57.300 But that ain't happening.
00:13:58.800 Conservatives are obviously going to be getting a majority.
00:14:01.960 And, but yeah, I just don't get, like, what they're doing.
00:14:05.500 The NDP are so politically incompetent.
00:14:07.320 It's crazy.
00:14:08.180 Like, I'm a conservative.
00:14:09.900 I'm obviously conservative, you know, want, like, deep cuts to immigration, want tax cuts, want spending cuts.
00:14:16.700 I'm socially conservative, all these things.
00:14:18.580 But I still almost feel bad for the NDP watching them because they're led by such a donkey who cannot actually get a win out of anything.
00:14:27.600 You couldn't hand Jagmeet Singh a win.
00:14:29.660 He'd, like, slap it out of your hand and call you a billionaire bootlicker or something like that while he's wearing, like, five Rolex watches on each arm.
00:14:37.140 He's a ridiculous human being.
00:14:38.920 Anyways, that's it for me today, guys.
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