The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - August 20, 2024


Jagmeet Singh is Canada's ultimate political hack


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9 minutes

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1,616

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104

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Jagmeet Singh is a complete political hack who thinks that grocery stores should be required to lower the price of essential items in order to make up for the fact that they're making a lot more money than they actually are. And he thinks it's a good idea to blame inflation on the grocery stores.

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00:00:00.000 As much as Canadians rightfully hate Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, I think there's a good argument that Canada's ultimate political hack is federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh.
00:00:11.920 He acts like he is the most compassionate, principled man in Canadian politics. At the same time, he is the one who is most willing to appeal to the lowest common denominator.
00:00:24.140 He just appeals directly to greed and plays into misinformation about how the economy works.
00:00:31.840 Here's a clip that he posted himself to his own X account trying to pump up his political agenda on the economy, which is basically just him spreading misinformation and just saying it's totally cool if you believe whatever misinformation you want and then vote NDP along those lines.
00:00:50.220 And our main argument is this. You go into the grocery store, you're buying your groceries, you're spending more than ever before, and you're leaving with less than ever before.
00:00:59.220 So people feel intuitively, I'm getting ripped off. And they're right. These grocery store corporations are making some of the biggest profits they've ever seen in their history.
00:01:09.280 And so we're saying, well, that's unfair. And the rules have been written to let them do that.
00:01:12.640 We're saying, let's change the rules and give people an advantage. Let's give people a little bit of a break.
00:01:17.220 And one way to do that concretely is to put in a price cap if these corporate grocery stores don't lower the price of essential items.
00:01:24.820 He is such a political hack. He knows that what he said is economically illiterate.
00:01:32.400 I know he's a lawyer and not an economist, but nobody who does that much university is unaware that no, no, no.
00:01:40.440 Grocery stores are not making more profits. They're making more revenues.
00:01:43.980 Their profit margins have, in fact, been falling over the past few years.
00:01:48.340 But Jagmeet Singh knows to sort of like the average person who doesn't follow politics that closely and doesn't know that much about the economy, saying, wow, this year, the whatever grocery store, insert X grocery store here, they made $1.7 billion.
00:02:04.800 Two years ago, they only made $1.4 billion, even though the economy, the terrible economy that the liberals and NDP have jointly created.
00:02:15.360 The amount of inflation that they've driven into the economy through massive money printing and spending has made that $1.4 million from several years ago worth more than $1.7 million.
00:02:26.840 Plus, their margins on individual products have gone down even as the price rises.
00:02:33.960 Jagmeet Singh 100% knows this. He doesn't care.
00:02:38.720 He is perfectly willing to also act like Loblaws is the source of all evil in Canada, even as they run on a 3% profit margin.
00:02:49.480 And the grocery store chain that his brother's lobby firm is working for, Metro, runs on like a 4.5% profit margin.
00:02:58.640 And guess which of those profit margins are bad?
00:03:01.520 Neither of them, because I'm a capitalist and you're allowed to make whatever amount of money you want to make as long as it's through legitimate transactions.
00:03:09.980 And nobody who goes through the doors of Metro or Loblaws or Walmart are being ripped off.
00:03:16.500 The people who are actually being ripped off is everybody in favor of whatever the government wants to do, whatever government priorities there are.
00:03:24.680 There's nobody being ripped off within the relationship between a customer going to a grocery store and purchasing groceries from that grocery store.
00:03:31.780 Nobody is being ripped off. Everyone is benefiting, and their benefits are only being slashed because of inflation caused by people like Jagmeet Singh.
00:03:40.660 And I love this quote at the start here. It's so pathetic.
00:03:44.900 You go into the grocery store, you're buying your groceries, you're spending more than ever before, and you're leaving with less than ever before.
00:03:51.520 So people feel intuitively, I'm getting ripped off, and they're right.
00:03:54.940 They're not being, but he's basically saying right here, some people have an emotional response to paying more money and getting less groceries for it.
00:04:05.280 And then he's saying, and you're right to feel ripped off by that grocery store chain.
00:04:09.420 You're having an emotional reaction.
00:04:11.280 Don't think about how this could actually be because of something the government's doing that can be proven.
00:04:16.720 No, no, no. Be mad at the person selling you your groceries, because then I can exploit the situation to gain more political power.
00:04:24.940 That's really what Jagmeet Singh is saying here.
00:04:28.320 Be mad at the grocery stores, because one, that takes away anger from being projected rightfully at myself and Trudeau, and it gives me an angle to try and win some votes.
00:04:39.780 The man is a complete political hack, and it's not just this whole grocery issue that he's been going on about for a couple years now.
00:04:48.940 It's also the fact that Jagmeet Singh has just been ripping off his base.
00:04:53.360 I am not an NDP supporter. I don't care about the NDP.
00:04:56.220 It's a weirdo, trade unionist, college town type party that I would never consider voting for.
00:05:02.460 But his supporters ask him to advocate on very specific issues.
00:05:06.420 And he's undermined, like, more than half the priorities that he ran on, and is just letting Justin Trudeau do whatever he want with his rubber stamp, passing it with his votes, because he's too much of a coward to stand up to Justin Trudeau, especially on corruption issues.
00:05:23.520 He'll make sounds about it, but he lets him get away with it.
00:05:26.700 And then you have Jagmeet Singh posting crap like this, where he's pretending that he's a big labor union guy.
00:05:33.700 I know that what I just said is that the NDP is a trade unionist party.
00:05:38.640 Trade unionism and being in favor of unions are very different things.
00:05:42.440 Trade unionism is a weirdo version of socialism that says, basically, trade unions and the government should run the entire economy.
00:05:49.820 And that is what Jagmeet Singh believes in.
00:05:52.980 And you'll always notice whenever he's around actual trade union workers, he's always deeply uncomfortable.
00:05:58.440 He's been having to work on it recently because people keep pointing it out.
00:06:01.780 But the man hates the working class.
00:06:04.460 The man goes and talks to unions out of pure obligation.
00:06:08.000 I have seen some, I can agree and disagree with many of the priorities of these unions, but it's funny that you're running a party based on unions.
00:06:16.360 And if you ever see footage of this man at a protest, at some strike, he is so viscerally uncomfortable because Jagmeet Singh only likes to talk to posh, swanky individuals like himself.
00:06:29.020 He's very comfortable around sort of fashionable university, college educated Hamas protesters. 0.81
00:06:36.200 But if he's talking to truckers, ew, that's gross.
00:06:39.380 He doesn't like that because they don't own a Rolex like he does.
00:06:42.540 That is really Jagmeet Singh's brand is it's kind of this weirdo, smooth talking, rich guy pretending that he's down with the socialist revolution at the same time that he is effectively staying in parliament as the NDP's leader, not wanting to force an election because he wants his pension and he likes being on TV.
00:07:04.720 The second part people kind of miss, they just assume he's doing it for the pension.
00:07:08.800 I actually assume he's mostly doing it because he likes being on TV and he likes being liked.
00:07:13.940 He likes just being in the cocktail party in Ottawa.
00:07:17.400 He likes kind of being part of the elite group.
00:07:20.120 And that is what Jagmeet Singh is going for.
00:07:21.840 So he's willing to undermine his own base in the NDP.
00:07:25.220 He's willing to just ignore the priorities of Canadians and then go after corporate grocery store chains because it's emotionally satisfying for some people.
00:07:33.300 Simply so that he can stay on TV and just stay relevant in Canadian politics until the very last second when the next election must be called.
00:07:43.600 That is really what is motivating Jagmeet Singh these days because he is Canada's ultimate political hack.
00:07:49.820 Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys.
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