The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - December 08, 2023


Jyoti Gondek's political career is over

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Hanukkah scandal and Gondek's politics conservative candidate nomination
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Wyatt Claypool
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Jody Gondek Jeremy Farkas Ken Paxton Hanukkah Gondeks
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Calgary Mayor Jodi Gondek has finally exposed herself, and her political career is probably coming to an end. I think that really what she did recently with this Hanukkah scandal is proven that she is not just a lady with bad policies, but with the heart of a tolerant idealist. She proved that she's a deeply petty and gross person who also happens to come with very bad policies.

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00:00:00.000 It's fantastic to see that Calgary's mayor Jody Gondek has finally exposed herself and her political career is probably coming to an end right now.
00:00:08.000 I don't actually think that Gondek is going to respond to the calls for her to resign and leave office early, but I think that even if she attempted to run for re-election at this point, there is zero chance that she could be re-elected.
00:00:21.060 I think that really what she did recently with this Hanukkah scandal is proven that she's not just a lady with bad policies, but with the heart of a tolerant idealist.
00:00:32.820 She proved that she's a deeply petty and gross person who also happens to come with very, very bad policies. 0.94
00:00:39.800 Her time as mayor has been horrific. 1.00
00:00:42.100 The crime, the property taxes, the ridiculous calls for things like a climate emergency, killing the arena deal that we are about to close on just to try and prove a stupid environmental point. 0.99
00:00:53.800 It's been awful. 0.99
00:00:55.100 But now this whole Hanukkah scandal has really demonstrated that it's not just that she's a silly idealist or something like that. 0.99
00:01:02.700 It's that she actually kind of has a bit of a black heart. 0.97
00:01:05.800 She is not someone who actually is tolerant, sensitive, or understanding of other people.
00:01:10.560 She is a hyper-progressive who only understands people who already 100% agree with her.
00:01:17.180 And this whole her trying to weasel out of a Hanukkah event based on the idea that the event has become political was just an excuse to basically try and serve her base, who is extremely anti-Israel. 0.96
00:01:29.540 Basically what had happened here was that there was the menorah lighting ceremony that was going to take place at Calgary City Hall.
00:01:36.720 Traditionally, the mayor can show up.
00:01:38.580 I don't think that any politician should have to show up to any religious-style event.
00:01:43.580 It's not because he maybe shouldn't show up, but I don't really think politicians should have to show up.
00:01:49.220 But the problem here is Gondek had gone previously and that she wasn't just not going today because, hey, I'm busy, or, hey, I can't make it, or I don't really want to come.
00:01:57.920 No, she wasn't coming purely because the event was not anti-Israel, which is one of the most anti-Semitic things that you could possibly think of, that somehow this menorah lighting ceremony is somehow political because the Jews who are hosting it do not hate the only Jewish state on earth.
00:02:15.700 That somehow it has become corrupted by the fact that the Jewish people do not hate Israel. 0.94
00:02:21.220 That is completely ridiculous. 0.92
00:02:22.560 I think that everyone knew what Gondek was saying was an excuse because she's fundamentally anti-Israel as a person. 0.94
00:02:29.020 And I think that she sort of understands that her hyper-progressive base in becoming mayor, her union base, because we've seen a lot of unions expose themselves as anti-Semitic, that they were going to basically roast her if she went to this event and took part in it as normal.
00:02:45.880 So she had to find an excuse as to why this event, having a raffle on behalf of Israel, was too political, even though this entire event that's been going on more than 30 years has done that in the past.
00:02:58.040 She's using this now as an excuse to say that the event is unacceptable and I'm not showing up.
00:03:04.520 Jodi Gondek, I think, as a person, is one of those people who, I think as a progressive, doesn't have the political tact to hide what her views are.
00:03:14.060 Nenshi, when he was mayor, was as hyper-progressive and out of touch as Gondek was.
00:03:22.020 But he could temper what he believed.
00:03:24.660 Gondek is actually a very dangerous true believer.
00:03:27.700 That's why she's gotten herself into this mess, because she will basically say what she believes.
00:03:33.180 Indirectly or directly, she does still say it.
00:03:35.920 And in this, like, whole Hanukkah fiasco, she basically demonstrated that she, in her sort of, like, hierarchy of identity groups, thinks that somehow Jewish people are lesser than other Calgarians.
00:03:49.860 And you're never going to have a conservative do this.
00:03:51.700 Conservatives aren't from that equity frame of mind where we start ranking people based on what we think their position in sort of society is socioeconomically or from some SJW frame of mind.
00:04:03.320 Gondek just laid it all out on the table and basically just said, Jews don't matter to me compared to, like, Palestinians or something like that.
00:04:11.000 That because I feel bad for Palestinians, which you can. 1.00
00:04:14.620 It's Hamas' fault Palestinians are dying right now. 0.99
00:04:17.180 But because she feels bad for Palestinians, that Jews don't get to have even just the slightest bit of, like, ceremony in the city.
00:04:24.940 She doesn't, she's not going to show up for that.
00:04:26.900 Because how dare Jews like the only, like, the only Jewish state on earth. 1.00
00:04:31.260 Like, Gondek might have just, well, co-signed her statement excusing why she wasn't there by just ending off with saying, from the river to the sea. 0.98
00:04:38.740 It was pretty ridiculous.
00:04:40.740 But I just want to talk a little bit about the other things Gondek has done.
00:04:44.260 Because there's a reason that even before this happened, her approval rating was only 36%.
00:04:49.700 And what we need to do in future to avoid more Jodi Gondeks from getting into office.
00:04:56.520 Now, one, her actual low ratings, and we're, sorry, way too late in the video.
00:05:03.100 I'm not restarting because I coughed.
00:05:04.180 But Gondek is one of those people, because I mentioned before, she's a true believer, did not hold herself back from pushing, putting all of her cards on the table of what she believes.
00:05:14.640 So as soon as she entered office, she did the climate emergency declaration.
00:05:18.780 She immediately started going softer on crime.
00:05:20.540 She'd berate Calgary police for moving homeless encampments.
00:05:23.480 She is someone who just does not hide her views and is smug about it at the same time.
00:05:28.100 That's also what's made this Hanukkah thing so bad. 0.98
00:05:30.360 It wasn't that she found an excuse not to go.
00:05:32.320 It's that she's smug and she's better than you for not showing up.
00:05:35.700 That she was disappointed in the organizers for making this political or whatever.
00:05:40.280 It wasn't political at all, for one thing.
00:05:42.240 But then she's also trying to stunt on everyone by basically saying, I'm a better person than you because I don't support the state of Israel.
00:05:48.960 That was what made it gross.
00:05:50.300 It's not that she just doesn't support the state of Israel or something like that.
00:05:53.620 It's that she is a deeply more moral person than you because she doesn't think that Israel has a right to exist.
00:05:58.940 And even today, after everyone's mad at her and it's very clear what she did was wrong.
00:06:04.540 She's still coming up with new with new and I was going to say better new and worse excuses as to why somehow the entire event was a big like, you know, con to try and to try and basically bait her out and cause a scandal or something like that.
00:06:20.000 That they put hidden messages into the posters that I was going to take post political and I wasn't going to show up.
00:06:25.680 She might as well call the organizers a bunch of crafty Jews trying to make me look bad. 0.98
00:06:30.720 It's really, it's really disgusting. 0.76
00:06:33.180 But if we don't want a Gondek in the future, what Calgarians have to do is we have to call out the progressives when they're running initially and not sort of feed into their idea that they're the tolerant, progressive person who just cares about everyone.
00:06:50.240 All these candidates that the unions put up are always this kind of way.
00:06:55.440 Nenshi is also a deeply unpleasant, nasty person. 0.95
00:06:58.540 Gondek is too. 0.99
00:06:59.360 If there's another progressive candidate in the next Calgary mayor race, they're also going to be a deeply nasty person.
00:07:05.820 You've got to call out the fact that they have this character flaw where they believe they are morally better people than you for what are very morally reprehensible positions they take against things like Israel, against things like the police, against things like actually enforcing drug laws.
00:07:21.380 They're not good people.
00:07:22.520 They actually have fairly disgusting views that need to be called out.
00:07:26.480 Do not take these people at face value.
00:07:28.040 This is where Jeremy Farkas fell on his face in the mayor's race.
00:07:31.900 He let the media get to him saying that he was too disruptive, too divisive in counsel.
00:07:38.640 And so as soon as he started running for mayor, he became boring because basically the media dared him to be boring.
00:07:44.280 You should be more conciliatory and nice.
00:07:46.760 So he was nice to Gondek when he should have pointed out that she was a defund the police person, that she has nasty views, that she is not someone who just is trying to build a more inclusive, loving society in Calgary.
00:07:59.680 No, she wants a more inclusive society only for the people who share her views and everyone else can basically go pack sand. 0.99
00:08:06.720 She is not someone who should be running a city because she actually has no compassion for anyone else. 0.73
00:08:12.720 Unless you are a carbon copy of Jodi Gondek, she does not care about you.
00:08:16.820 She attacks parents for not wanting drag queen story hours at their libraries they pay taxes for. 0.99
00:08:23.000 She attacks people for actually wanting her to do her job in terms of the police.
00:08:28.560 Remember when she wouldn't even answer Kian Bextie's question during the provincial election as to why the province had to basically come in and save her with more police resources and why she voted against the police when she was on council?
00:08:40.960 She won't do it because, again, she gets mad when people even just point out her record because unless you love her record, you've done something wrong to her and you've been bullying.
00:08:49.900 That's where all of her allies went after Kian for even asking those questions as if he had done something wrong. 0.84
00:08:56.120 Completely ridiculous. 0.53
00:08:57.300 But conservatives also not only need to call out these progressives, they need to run a real conservative candidate. 0.52
00:09:03.620 In the last mayoral elections, we've had people who are calling themselves the conservative candidate, but there's never a guy who is just a prominent enough character running for the mayor's office who is undoubtedly unapologetically conservative.
00:09:19.900 We always have these apologetic conservatives running for mayor, five of them run, and we don't consolidate behind any one of them.
00:09:26.140 It's not our fault for not consolidating.
00:09:27.720 It's their fault for not taking a very strong stand as a conservative so that we can all identify the person we should get behind.
00:09:35.060 That's where I don't really like this whole vote splitting narrative when it comes to federal politics or municipal politics.
00:09:41.780 If we were splitting up our votes, it's probably because none of them particularly deserved the consolidation to happen.
00:09:48.160 So this next mayor's race, an actual conservative needs to run for the mayor's office, and they need to not back off any of their conservative positions.
00:09:56.480 If they push their conservative positions really hard, we'll all know who to support and we'll line up for them.
00:10:01.960 That doesn't mean if some random fringe guy we've never heard of starts running any of good conservative positions that we're going to vote for.
00:10:07.340 Obviously, you need a little bit of a profile, but if one person with a profile steps up with a good amount of money backing them and they actually take conservative positions, we can end the vote splitting issue.
00:10:19.140 Anyways, that should be it for me today.
00:10:21.360 You can donate to my legal fund in the description of this video.
00:10:25.120 I have the Give, Send, Go campaign linked there.
00:10:29.380 I'm being sued by a billionaire currently winning the lawsuit, but he's basically just trying to try to get out in court and cost me money.
00:10:34.120 So any donation really helps. And then I'm also running for the Calgary Signal Hill conservative party nomination.
00:10:40.280 So if you want to buy a conservative membership and vote for me, if you live in this riding, it really helps me out.
00:10:44.900 Put me number one on your ballot if you're a conservative member.
00:10:47.420 And other than that, I hope everyone has a great day and hope Gondek does resign early, but I'm not going to pretend that that's likely.