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.
00:00:03.120Without a doubt, in electoral politics, the worst thing that you can be is a hypocrite.
00:00:09.240It's worse than being a liar, it's worse than being a thief, it's even worse than being cringy and embarrassing.
00:00:16.300Because a hypocrite can never make an attack on a political opponent that's actually going to stick.
00:00:21.700In fact, whenever they attack other people, it hurts them and undermines their own credibility.
00:00:26.680It's the whole people who live in glass houses type of an effect.
00:00:30.820You can't exactly throw rocks at other people when if you have a rock thrown at yourself, everything's going to shatter.
00:00:36.860And this is exactly why the federal NDP have gone absolutely nowhere with Jagmeet Singh leading the party.
00:00:44.820They 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.
00:00:54.820And 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.
00:01:05.280The liberals are only a half step to the right of the NDP, and I would describe Justin Trudeau as a very orange liberal leader.
00:01:13.520But Singh, because he's a hypocrite, can never actually make an attack on another political opponent in order to then gain support to himself.
00:01:23.560Every time he tries to make a play for power, everyone just points and says,
00:07:54.080It's a temporary tax freeze that quickly rolls into a massive carbon tax increase.
00:08:00.200And also, of course, the GST and HST comes back in February.
00:08:03.940Plus, it only really applies between December 17th and February 17th after most holiday shopping is over.
00:08:13.640In fact, it's kind of a bit of a bait and switch because people tend to spend the least after Christmas.
00:08:19.340That's when everyone, you know, is worried about paying back all their credit card statements and they start really restricting their spending.
00:08:26.240And 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,
00:08:38.400that, 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.
00:08:47.440And again, corporate tax cuts would actually do a far better job at reducing prices and saving people money.
00:08:53.220Plus, 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?
00:09:02.400Well, one, the conservatives already know it's going to pass.
00:09:04.760So they're symbolically opposing it because they are basically saying, why don't you guys do permanent tax relief?
00:09:09.920We'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.
00:09:16.340It's taking like quarter measures to try and solve the problem and only temporarily.
00:09:20.820How is it looking for billionaires to vote for a tax pause that only affects government tax revenues?
00:09:30.020This doesn't actually go after billionaires.
00:10:38.960Yeah, back in the day they voted in favor of that.
00:10:41.240Again, I don't even have a problem with lowering corporate taxes.
00:10:44.980But I don't get this whole point he's trying to make here.
00:10:47.720Like that anything that the conservatives voted for like 14 years ago is equally relevant to things that are going on right now.
00:10:55.260We could all pull up the record of the NDP and what they voted for and what they've said in the past three decades.
00:11:01.920We could be like, did you know that the NDP once voted for a tax relief?
00:11:05.960The fact that Jagmeet isn't voting for it is very telling.
00:11:08.680And again, he's propping up the liberals who he say are also like corporate stooges and whatnot.
00:11:15.280So this all doesn't actually come across as Jagmeet Singh thinks it should.
00:11:19.740When Pierre Pauly of the conservatives talk about tax cuts, they mean for their billionaire buddies, not for the working class.
00:11:25.700Reducing taxes for anybody reduces taxes for everybody.
00:11:31.020There'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.
00:11:39.220Every tax cut affects everybody because it puts more money in the economy.
00:11:43.080Many corporations like grocery stores would be able to lower prices, service prices would go down, everything would go down.
00:11:50.320That's where I advocate for lower taxes across the board.
00:11:53.820But Jagmeet Singh is in the world where economics don't work like they do in the real world.
00:11:58.400And 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.
00:12:06.600It 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.
00:12:26.060Why 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.
00:12:36.860If 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.
00:12:51.540See, 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.
00:13:03.920But why don't you have them pause it for longer?
00:13:09.560Jagmeet 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.
00:13:18.080Because Jagmeet Singh is not a threatening person.
00:13:21.020He comes off like somebody who can easily push around because, again, Jagmeet Singh's number one priority is being on camera.
00:13:30.400So 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.
00:13:47.440So 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.
00:14:09.900I'm obviously conservative, you know, want, like, deep cuts to immigration, want tax cuts, want spending cuts.
00:14:16.700I'm socially conservative, all these things.
00:14:18.580But 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.
00:14:27.600You couldn't hand Jagmeet Singh a win.
00:14:29.660He'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.