The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Jagmeet Singh is a coward not a leader

00:00:00.000 I absolutely love federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh. He is so uniquely bad at politics,

00:00:07.720 he makes Canadian politics far more entertaining than it should be. It's only been two days since

00:00:13.900 he ripped up the supply and confidence agreement between his party and Justin Trudeau's federal

00:00:19.040 liberals, and the man's already folding in the face of basic questions from the media,

00:00:24.720 because he had no plan. What Jagmeet Singh saw in the polls is that his party has been absolutely

00:00:31.440 stagnant, if not underperforming. The liberals' support has collapsed. At last election,

00:00:37.520 they were at 33%, and now in many polls, they're only at 21%. And the NDP has basically hovered

00:00:44.120 around its polling from the last election, and Jagmeet Singh just needed to disconnect himself

00:00:50.280 from Justin Trudeau, because the main problem with Jagmeet Singh is people just see him as Justin

00:00:55.260 Trudeau's loser assistant. I think that's a line from Kian Bextie that I'm going to steal. It's a

00:00:59.700 great way of summing up Jagmeet Singh. He's just Justin Trudeau's assistant these days.

00:01:04.900 And so he wanted to rip up the supply and confidence agreement to show that he's a tough

00:01:09.200 guy. He's going to fight for labor and against the corporations or whatever silly NDP narratives

00:01:14.400 out there. And then the media start asking him, are you actually serious about this? And Jagmeet

00:01:20.160 Singh hadn't thought what to say if people actually ask him about triggering an election or voting

00:01:25.920 against Justin Trudeau in confidence motions or confidence votes, or if he's going to start

00:01:31.920 opposing his agenda. Because Jagmeet Singh, one, doesn't really oppose the agenda of Justin Trudeau.

00:01:37.540 The difference between the liberals and the NDP is the liberals want to burn a billion dollars,

00:01:42.840 and the NDP wants to burn $1.2 billion. They are only separated in the scale of big

00:01:49.780 policy that they want. They don't care if it's effective or not. It's frankly in the wheelhouse

00:01:54.400 of the liberals and the NDP to make bloated, useless programs and then just dicker over how

00:01:59.640 much it should cost. But here's a great clip of Jagmeet Singh being asked one of these basic

00:02:04.840 questions that he was not prepared for. I want to play two clips today. This one's a bit shorter,

00:02:09.220 and then I want to jump over to a CTV News interview by Vashik Fellows. Before I get into that,

00:02:14.240 just a couple things. One, go and follow Alex Zoltan, the amazing Zoltan, on Twitter. He's the

00:02:20.740 one who's been clipping some of this stuff with Jagmeet Singh. He's doing a really good job

00:02:25.120 of that. So I'm going to link his profile in the description below if you're on Twitter

00:02:29.540 slash X. And then also, I'm right now here in BC, and I just want to make sure that if any of you live

00:02:36.880 in BC, please donate to the BC Conservative Party. I have the Abbotsford South constituency

00:02:41.820 donation in the description of this video below. The only way that David Eby's NDP provincially is

00:02:48.720 going to hold on is if the Conservatives have way less money than them and the NDPs effectively rigged

00:02:54.820 how they can basically get taxpayers to hand them over money. So without further ado, let's get into

00:02:59.840 this clip of Jagmeet Singh. But again, if you're in BC, make sure you donate because we can't complain

00:03:04.860 if we lose if we have money. You've said about a dozen times at least that you've ripped up the

00:03:10.080 agreement and that that makes an election more likely. But you've been asked several times and

00:03:14.240 you won't answer. Do you have confidence in the Trudeau government as they stand now?

00:03:21.480 I will be clear again. We have absolutely ripped up the agreement with an election. It's more likely

00:03:26.180 that's not clear. You're immediately just cannot answer the question saying, well, I have ripped up

00:03:33.820 the agreement. Yeah, the journalist is aware of that. You've ripped up the agreement. But does this

00:03:38.080 mean anything? And then Jagmeet Singh just sort of slips in there. So you could say an election's

00:03:42.860 a little bit more likely than it used to be. Oh, shut up. Shut up. It's not. It's not. Jagmeet Singh,

00:03:48.060 one, Jagmeet Singh's NDP is broke. They don't even have the money to have an election. I know this

00:03:53.360 because I actually subscribe to the federal NDP email list every single day. They are begging for

00:03:59.840 money. Like all parties ask for money, but I've never seen it on the scale of desperation for the

00:04:05.580 federal NDP. At one point, they were trying to like show these radical empathy shirts. And I was

00:04:10.060 almost so tempted to donate to the NDP just to get one because it was so embarrassing to own. I will

00:04:14.840 like have it up behind me. But like the NDP has nothing to stand on here. And if Jagmeet Singh was

00:04:21.340 smart, it wouldn't matter if he had money or not. He would throw his weight around. He would say,

00:04:25.560 I'm willing to hit the nuclear button, even if it might hurt my party to go into an election,

00:04:29.240 just to hurt Justin Trudeau more to get what I want. I don't want Jagmeet Singh to get anything that he

00:04:34.140 wants because what he wants is somehow even worse than what Justin Trudeau is already doing.

00:04:38.540 But he has no political instinct. Jagmeet Singh is a perfect example of why smart people,

00:04:47.360 quote unquote, intellectuals are not very good at politics. He lacks the killer instinct to demand

00:04:53.100 what he wants and push forward for it, you know, hell or high water. This is why Donald Trump is

00:04:57.700 actually quite good at politics. Donald Trump is not very verbose in how he talks about politics,

00:05:02.480 but he he says what he wants. He's very serious about it. He pushes forward for it. That's how

00:05:07.080 like Donald Trump is, if any way, in in certain sense, describes things very dumbly at times.

00:05:13.420 But he's a good negotiator because he's good at getting the big ask. Jagmeet Singh can't even get

00:05:19.100 a small ask from Justin Trudeau. Election, whenever that election comes, we'll be ready to fight it.

00:05:25.560 Hi, Mr. Singh, Laura Stone, Globe and Mail. I think a lot of Canadians watching this right now might be a

00:05:30.880 bit baffled by the political posturing that's going on. You've propped up the government for two years.

00:05:36.480 Now, all of a sudden, they're terrible because of some vague notion of corporate greed. And you're refusing

00:05:41.260 to say whether you'll bring down the government at the first opportunity. What is the point of all this, sir?

00:05:47.500 We have been very clear. We accomplished some significant things for Canadians.

00:05:52.860 He's been very clear, guys. Jagmeet Singh's been very clear. Also, if he's been able to accomplish a lot of things

00:05:58.440 for Canadians, why are the Liberals bad? And she is right. It was just his tearing up the agreement

00:06:04.260 was predicated on the idea that the Liberals have sold out Canada to corporate greed and corporate

00:06:09.820 interests. Well, Jagmeet and Justin Trudeau have both been passing policies against price gouging and

00:06:16.920 all this stuff, this nonsense about the Canadian Grocery Code of Conduct, which is trying to blame

00:06:22.500 grocery stores for the inflation that Singh and Trudeau have caused. He's gotten everything he wants.

00:06:27.800 So yeah, he's literally pulling the trigger on ripping up this agreement over nothing.

00:06:32.640 He's gotten pretty much everything he wants. When I say everything he wants, I mean, in the sense that

00:06:37.160 Trudeau and him both want the same things, but he's never really gotten anything extra. He's not going

00:06:40.940 to push for anything extra because he's pathetic. And now Jagmeet is just sort of doing this whole

00:06:46.060 like kabuki theater about how, oh, we might end up, you know, an election might happen, blah, blah,

00:06:52.020 blah. Are you going to actually pull the trigger? And he's not even willing to say it.

00:06:54.740 If I was Jagmeet Singh, for some reason, I'm a stupid socialist in this world.

00:06:59.120 I would say a hundred percent we're pushing for a new election. We're going to try and get it as

00:07:03.020 soon as possible. Because guess what? Even if you don't want an election to happen, the Bloc 0.96

00:07:07.260 Quebecois doesn't want an election to happen just as much as the liberals. They've never had it any

00:07:12.080 better than they currently do. They don't want the conservatives to have a majority because the

00:07:16.300 Bloc loses its position in the government. Because whenever the NDP doesn't vote for something,

00:07:21.580 the Bloc tends to vote for it. So the Bloc gets a lot of concessions. So if I was Jagmeet Singh,

00:07:26.460 I would pretend every single day I want to have an election. I'm calling for confidence votes.

00:07:31.800 And then you actually seem like a pit bull. You seem like somebody who's actually going after

00:07:36.080 Justin Trudeau's job, that you're going to be the new left-wing leader in Canada. Still not,

00:07:41.780 because nobody likes the NDP. But still, that would be a smart way of doing it. But let's move on to

00:07:47.400 this absolutely disaster of an interview. So I'm just getting over being sick, so I sound a bit

00:07:51.660 strange. This disaster of an interview that he did with Vashi Kavelos, again, Alex Zoltan clipped

00:07:57.760 this. Make sure you go give him a follow. And once again, he just has nothing. Whenever he's being

00:08:03.680 asked questions, he just turns into platitudes. He is the most platitudinous politician I've ever

00:08:09.000 seen in my life. Everything's just vague statements, very nicely flowery worded statements

00:08:14.840 that actually don't mean anything. It is word salad.

00:08:19.180 Hi, Mr. Singh. Good to see you. Thank you so much for making the time.

00:08:22.940 My pleasure.

00:08:23.720 In the comments you made today, you called the liberals in the government more specifically

00:08:27.680 weak and selfish.

00:08:29.000 They are too weak and too selfish.

00:08:32.760 They've let Canadians down.

00:08:34.640 Justin Trudeau has let Canadians down.

00:08:37.820 They've abandoned Canadians and that they have led to endless disappointments. 1.00

00:08:42.960 It's endless disappointment.

00:08:45.080 Can you ever support them going forward after saying that?

00:08:49.620 Well, we've torn up the agreement with Justin Trudeau. I've torn that up.

00:08:52.740 You can't stop mentioning it. Yes, we know it. The agreement meant nothing.

00:08:56.500 And I know that that means election is more likely than before. And it was really clear

00:09:00.900 to me.

00:09:01.480 Is it?

00:09:01.820 It's mounting evidence that Justin Trudeau and the liberals were just too weak to take

00:09:06.400 on corporate greed. They were too beholden to corporate interests to stop big corporate

00:09:10.720 grocery stores and corporate landlords from ripping people off.

00:09:14.120 But ripping up the agreement is just ending the formality of it. You explicitly said, for

00:09:17.740 example, in that video that you will continue to consider whether or not to support the government

00:09:21.960 on matters of confidence on a case-by-case basis. Again, I'll put the question to you.

00:09:26.880 You have told Canadians they are weak, they are selfish, that they have abandoned the

00:09:30.980 very people who put them in office. You just described a host of reasons why you don't

00:09:34.880 want to be a part of any formal agreement. How can you reconcile for Canadians watching

00:09:38.600 now that you're still willing to vote with them and keep them in power on a case-by-case

00:09:43.120 basis?

00:09:44.520 Well, I don't know what the votes are going to be.

00:09:46.160 I have to also ask you, Mr. Singh.

00:09:47.820 He's so bad at this. He's so bad at this. He is a weakness personified. This is only a little

00:09:53.420 bit of this video. So maybe if you guys go and follow The Amazing Zoltan on Twitter, that

00:09:57.900 will be the link in the description below for him. So you can go follow him and then

00:10:00.940 go watch the rest of that. He doesn't know what to do in the position that he's currently

00:10:05.260 in. He is a turtle up on top of a fence post. He doesn't know why he's up there. He doesn't

00:10:10.160 know how to get down, but he's going to pretend that this was all according to plan. And even

00:10:14.680 when he first pitched the Supply and Confidence Agreement a couple of years ago, he did it

00:10:19.460 under the guise that, well, it's not a formal coalition. We're not a coalition government.

00:10:24.680 We'll work on a case-by-case basis. And in order to keep the government together, Justin

00:10:29.080 Trudeau will give me some of what I want. Well, I don't even really see how Justin Trudeau

00:10:32.920 violated that agreement. It's a stupid agreement. It's bad for Canadians in general. But from

00:10:37.520 a pure just political strategy point of view, he didn't even really wait for a moment where

00:10:43.100 Justin Trudeau betrays the NDP and doesn't give them what they want. If I was NDP, I would

00:10:47.760 have made like an audacious ask and then have Justin Trudeau deny it and make it along some

00:10:53.700 sort of corporate theme or whatever. And then I would pull out of the agreement and say,

00:10:58.080 Justin Trudeau has betrayed the agreement. I'm out and I'm going to vote against them in the next

00:11:02.540 confidence potion. And then knowing that the block's probably going to prop them up so it

00:11:06.140 changes nothing. He won't do that. He's just bad at this. Jagmeet Singh couldn't score on an

00:11:12.760 open net. This guy doesn't know what he's doing. He lacks confidence. I'm not a particularly

00:11:18.440 confident guy. I'm not like super charismatic, but I could at least talk the talk a little bit

00:11:24.620 when it comes to being like being able to pull off the aggressive political fighter type,

00:11:30.540 like a persona. Jagmeet Singh can't. He comes off like some sort of downtown Toronto,

00:11:36.520 Metropolitan Ponce. He is not very good at politics. It's startling. Justin Trudeau is way

00:11:44.220 better than Jagmeet Singh and Justin Trudeau sucks. But Justin Trudeau has energy. Jagmeet Singh has

00:11:49.460 like uncomfortable, you know, elite nervousness. He doesn't like he belongs in a wine bar showing

00:11:57.360 people his new watch. That's where he belongs. He does not belong on primetime television talking

00:12:02.480 about political stuff. Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys. I will be back later today

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The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - September 06, 2024

Jagmeet Singh is a coward not a leader

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