The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - December 11, 2024


Jagmeet Singh can't be this stupid ｜ The NDP fails again

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Jagmeet Singh GST-HST freeze attempt
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Wyatt Claypool
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Jagmeet Singh Justin Trudeau Jag B. Singh Pierre Poilievre Pure Poly Julian
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123

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Jagmeet Singh is a political clown. He doesn t know what he's doing, but he thinks he can get away with his own political play this week. And it just didn't work, and now he's whining about it.

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00:00:00.000 Out of pure formality, I'm going to have to say what we're all already thinking. 0.99
00:00:06.100 Jagmeet Singh is a political clown. 0.99
00:00:09.020 He doesn't know what he's doing. 1.00
00:00:11.080 He's weak, pathetic, and basically just Justin Trudeau's executive assistant at this point. 0.99
00:00:17.720 But Jagmeet Singh somehow still believes in himself. 0.99
00:00:21.700 And he truly thought he could get away with his own political play this week.
00:00:27.280 And it just didn't work at all.
00:00:28.960 Nobody cares.
00:00:30.520 Nobody's talking about it except for Jagmeet Singh, who is whining into his phone screen as he walks around filming himself.
00:00:38.600 First, I want to get into what he attempted to do this week.
00:00:43.040 So you know the whole GST-HST freeze?
00:00:46.800 Well, Jagmeet Singh, as we all know, was supporting the Liberals' play on this from the very beginning,
00:00:52.520 attacking the Conservatives for not voting for it and saying that this is going to be a great bit of tax relief for Canadians.
00:00:58.960 Until he started getting called out for basically just helping the Liberals pull a bait and switch on increasing the carbon tax greatly in April.
00:01:08.460 And using this short two-month tax break on the GST-HST as a way of trying to buy goodwill for later.
00:01:16.660 And then Singh suddenly pops out and says, actually, we should be making the GST freeze permanent for certain essential items.
00:01:23.520 And I can even kind of agree with that.
00:01:25.740 It's not too bad of an idea.
00:01:27.340 Although I'm wondering why he hasn't voted to get rid of the carbon tax or he hasn't voted to lower any other tax throughout his entire career.
00:01:35.800 This is obviously all just a momentary bit of opportunism on Singh's part.
00:01:41.600 And now he is trying to, I guess, talk about or shame other parties because they didn't vote for his last-minute proposal.
00:01:50.060 But I'll let Jagmeet Singh characterize what happened.
00:01:53.440 So he says, today, Pure Poly, I've had a chance to permanently cut the GST tax on essentials.
00:01:59.200 You know what he did?
00:02:00.500 He fled the House of Commons and voted electronically, hoping no one would notice.
00:02:05.060 He voted against giving you a break on your monthly bills.
00:02:08.100 And it keeps going, and it's really whiny.
00:02:11.260 And really, I'm going to explain why this didn't work a little bit later.
00:02:14.760 But this was a motion put forward from the NDP to modify this tax bill, this tax relief bill, at the very last second.
00:02:22.800 And guess what?
00:02:23.580 Singh still voted to pass the other version of it that he didn't like.
00:02:27.460 His ultimatum meant nothing.
00:02:28.740 All those in favor of the motion will...
00:02:31.740 Please rise.
00:02:33.800 Mr. Singh.
00:02:34.700 Mr. Singh.
00:02:35.600 Mr. Julian.
00:02:42.060 Oh, wow.
00:02:43.240 The liberals and conservatives voted against it?
00:02:45.620 Who could have guessed why?
00:02:47.000 It's almost like you tried to throw a curveball at the last second, and you also have no power, so nobody has to care.
00:02:53.100 Speaker, during this important vote for the NDP to ensure that the GST was taking off family essentials and home heating and telecom, the leader of the official opposition ran away.
00:03:05.500 He fled the scene.
00:03:06.920 The NDP have just become the opposition to the opposition.
00:03:10.820 Was Justin Trudeau present for the vote?
00:03:12.760 I don't know, but Jagmeet Singh doesn't care if Trudeau was president or not, because Jagmeet Singh only cares, apparently, about what the conservatives are doing.
00:03:22.060 He'll criticize the liberals all day long in front of, like, press conferences, in front of podiums, but when it actually comes down to doing something to hurt the liberals to extract some sort of benefit for your own party, he always, like, wimps out.
00:03:36.900 He was posting for the last three days that, well, I'm going to have a vote on this on Monday or Tuesday.
00:03:42.880 I think they end up having to push it to Tuesday, but we're going to have a vote on making the GST freeze permanent on essential items, and the people better pay attention.
00:03:53.820 I'm not backing down, and then his whole thing gets defeated, and then Jagmeet Singh just leaves.
00:04:00.140 He just kind of goes away. 0.60
00:04:01.420 Okay, here's what then Jagmeet Singh follows up with, and this is where it gets really silly.
00:04:06.900 The man thinks, the man doesn't know he lost.
00:04:10.360 He is still convinced that he did a good thing.
00:04:14.040 Here's Jagmeet Singh in his own ex-post a couple hours ago saying, I'm fighting like hell to get you relief.
00:04:20.540 I'm fighting like hell.
00:04:21.340 That's why he won't actually threaten to collapse the government.
00:04:23.700 This week, we forced a vote on a permanent GST tax cut on essentials, but the liberals and conservatives said no.
00:04:34.060 Wow, really?
00:04:35.020 It didn't work out for you?
00:04:36.100 Why didn't it work out, Jagmeet?
00:04:38.500 The conservative leader didn't even have the guts to vote in person.
00:04:42.320 He ran away before the vote began.
00:04:44.200 It didn't have the guts, or you are an especially insignificant person, and he doesn't care about your power play at the last minute to pretend as if you're standing up for working-class Canadians and middle-class people trying to make ends meet.
00:05:01.280 Jagmeet Singh could have said, you know what?
00:05:03.080 I'm going to vote in favor of the no-confidence motion unless Trudeau gets down here, and he tells me that he will vote to make this permanent, this GST cut permanent for all these essential items.
00:05:14.640 He didn't do it because Jagmeet Singh lacks a backbone.
00:05:18.780 Get this.
00:05:19.600 Yesterday, we put a vote to the House to permanently take the GST off of the daily expenses and monthly votes.
00:05:26.660 By the way, it is not me making these sounds.
00:05:29.080 This is actually what he and the five-year-olds who edit his videos decided to include here.
00:05:34.540 With your cell phone bill, your internet bill, your home heating bill, your daily essentials like clothing for kids, diapers, snow seats for kids, and if you go to the grocery store, grab-and-go food.
00:05:46.600 And the conservatives voted against it.
00:05:50.260 Pierre Polyev voted against it.
00:05:53.580 How wild is that?
00:05:54.820 This guy is all for show. 0.98
00:05:56.480 He's fake.
00:05:57.060 When he talks about tax cuts, he's talking about billionaires, not you, not your family, because he voted against permanent relief.
00:06:05.420 And the leader did, too.
00:06:06.640 Not surprising.
00:06:07.540 Always buries the lead that the party who would have been more likely to work with you on something didn't do it.
00:06:13.240 But he only includes the attack on Justin Trudeau at the very end.
00:06:16.340 Neither of these guys have your back.
00:06:18.700 What is this?
00:06:21.160 Because I guess we're using clips and sound bites or whatever to portray our reactions, this is my reaction to Jag B. Singh.
00:06:31.940 I don't care!
00:06:33.380 Every single thing he does is performative.
00:06:38.600 He's awful at politics.
00:06:41.020 The man doesn't know how to actually apply pressure.
00:06:45.200 Take a hard position.
00:06:46.680 Fight for it.
00:06:47.500 Make people join your side.
00:06:49.260 And then move forward from there.
00:06:50.940 I don't like the NDP at all.
00:06:52.880 I am a conservative.
00:06:53.860 I'm a very orthodox conservative. 0.98
00:06:56.440 But Jagmeet Singh just makes me weep for all the NDP supporters who are foolish enough, frankly, to give this party money. 0.99
00:07:04.780 They are terrible at their jobs. 0.98
00:07:07.000 Jagmeet Singh consistently shows that he can be bullied even though he is in the position where he could bully Justin Trudeau.
00:07:14.720 It's like, again, I think this is a perfect image to sum up what the NDP has been like with Justin Trudeau.
00:07:22.440 I posted this, and maybe I'll link it in the comments below, my tweet using the Grok AI image creator.
00:07:31.920 I said Canadian politics right now with Jagmeet Singh giving Justin Trudeau a piggyback ride.
00:07:38.160 Because this sums it all up.
00:07:39.800 Jagmeet Singh is there to carry Justin Trudeau on his back through all of these votes.
00:07:44.860 And Jagmeet Singh doesn't want the government to collapse.
00:07:47.800 He is more invested in Trudeau's government staying solvent because his party is broke.
00:07:54.100 His MPs want their pensions in October of 2025.
00:07:57.780 And Jagmeet Singh is, frankly, just motivated because he likes being the center of attention.
00:08:03.620 Every once in a while, he gets to pretend to be tough on Trudeau.
00:08:07.440 And all the legacy media companies come over with their giant cameras and film Jagmeet Singh.
00:08:14.220 And their audience is about 12 people get to watch Singh sitting there saying, well, Justin Trudeau is not fit to be prime minister.
00:08:22.140 This government is killing for corporations and billionaires. 0.74
00:08:25.940 And then he does absolutely nothing because Jagmeet Singh's motivation is just merely to have that soundbite, but not actually act on any of the threats that he sort of makes.
00:08:37.120 Whatever. 1.00
00:08:38.820 Yeah, so Jagmeet Singh is still impossibly stupid and still extremely bad at politics. 0.99
00:08:44.560 I think it would have been good for Canadians to get some GST tax relief permanently. 0.99
00:08:50.040 But Jagmeet Singh fumbled the ball because this had nothing to do with tax relief and it only had to do with him grandstanding.
00:08:57.180 Anyways, that's it for me today, guys.
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