The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - August 08, 2024


Liberal Media attacks Poilievre to distract from Trudeau failures


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In this episode, I talk about the possibility that the Conservative Party of Canada used a bot farm to create a fake buzz around an event that was taking place on Kirkland Lake in northern Ontario. I also talk about why I think this could be a fake story.

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00:00:00.160 As we all know, the liberal media in Canada is deeply corrupt.
00:00:05.220 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party of Canada are also very unpopular.
00:00:10.760 And that's how I think we get stories like this coming up,
00:00:14.180 because the media is swinging at the fences at every single story
00:00:18.360 that could potentially put federal Conservative Party leader Pure Polly up in a bad light. 1.00
00:00:23.460 There is no polishing the turd that is Trudeau's Liberal Party anymore,
00:00:27.480 so the media is just trying to throw mud at the Conservatives
00:00:31.000 and take attention off all of the failures of Trudeau and his government.
00:00:36.160 And so now we're talking about this really dumb hypothetical story
00:00:40.840 on whether or not the federal Conservatives might have used a bot farm
00:00:45.040 to create a fake buzz over an event that was taking place on Kirkland Lake in northern Ontario.
00:00:52.320 I'm just going to break down the general facts of what's going on here
00:00:56.300 and then talk about why I think this is effectively a fake story.
00:01:01.820 Could it be true that someone in the Conservative Party used a bot farm
00:01:05.000 to try and create fake hype around Polly up for a single event? 1.00
00:01:08.520 Sure.
00:01:09.440 Also, there are probably better motivations for this to be completely fake,
00:01:13.520 to generate anti-Conservative smear stories,
00:01:16.040 because anyone can do this.
00:01:17.460 It's not like the Conservative Party is the only one who could put out bots
00:01:21.660 to say nice things about them.
00:01:23.260 Literally anyone with effectively $100 could have done this.
00:01:27.260 But here are the tweets in question.
00:01:29.340 I'll zoom in on a few of them here.
00:01:31.360 So these are all basically the bot tweets that came out after this Kirkland Lake event,
00:01:37.120 you know, from random accounts just with fake people on them.
00:01:39.900 And they all basically say a version of,
00:01:42.920 I was in Kirkland Lake last night and witnessed firsthand the energy and passion of the crowd
00:01:47.120 at Pure Polly's Rally.
00:01:48.900 As a northern Ontario resident, it's refreshing to see a leader who truly understands our unique challenges.
00:01:54.820 Just had the opportunity to attend Pure Polly's Rally in Kirkland Lake,
00:01:58.300 and I was blown away by the energy.
00:02:00.460 As a woman from northern Ontario, it's refreshing to see a leader who truly listens to our concerns
00:02:04.520 and understands our way of life.
00:02:05.760 And you go throughout, there's a lot of specific words that they all use.
00:02:10.120 There's a few different versions.
00:02:11.360 You always see the word buzzing somewhere in most of the posts or people talking about the energy.
00:02:16.940 It's obviously fake.
00:02:18.400 It's obviously from a bot farm.
00:02:21.240 Now, what was kind of suspicious about this whole thing is a few different reasons.
00:02:26.020 Let's go through them.
00:02:27.160 One, let's just start off with motives.
00:02:29.360 Is a party motivated to create fake buzz?
00:02:32.160 Sure, that happens a lot.
00:02:33.740 There's a lot of parties who will pay people to even show up at rallies, hold signs up for them.
00:02:38.820 Happens a lot in the U.S. where there's a lot more money in politics,
00:02:41.320 so every harebrained scheme from a campaign could potentially get funded.
00:02:45.760 In Canada, there's actually not that much money in politics.
00:02:49.540 So if you've ever worked for a party, I'm currently helping work for the B.C. Conservatives
00:02:54.540 to try and oust David Eby and the NDP.
00:02:57.120 If you want to help us out, if you live in B.C., donate below to the Abbotsford South Riding.
00:03:01.480 We're trying to win the entire Fraser Valley, and we're using this riding as the anchor riding
00:03:04.940 to collect money and distribute it out to other campaigns that need it.
00:03:08.540 Shameless plug right there. 0.97
00:03:09.980 But parties are very tight-fisted with money.
00:03:12.580 Even if you're the federal Conservatives and you do not have money problems,
00:03:15.820 they are currently way outpacing the Liberals and the NDP for fundraising.
00:03:20.040 The Liberals are somewhere around like $6.7 million fundraised this year,
00:03:24.640 and the Conservatives are at $20.5 million.
00:03:27.100 It's crazy.
00:03:28.400 But the Conservatives are also 20 points ahead of the Liberals in most of the polls.
00:03:33.020 Yeah, some of them only put them 17 points up, but other ones put them 21 points up.
00:03:37.380 Some of the polls put the Liberals within the margin of error with the NDP.
00:03:42.000 I think they'll still be able to outpace the NDP because Jagmeet Singh is absolutely focusing
00:03:47.460 on increasing his incompetence stat every single day.
00:03:50.820 It's like other people grind for knowledge.
00:03:54.380 They try and make themselves more charismatic.
00:03:56.700 Jagmeet Singh every single day is trying to focus on being more incompetent.
00:04:00.540 But the Conservatives, why would they now?
00:04:03.320 They've never done it for other events because if they did it for other events,
00:04:05.820 I guarantee an internet sleuth would have already figured it out that for some event
00:04:10.400 in Ottawa or Montreal or Calgary that the Conservatives had used bots to try and pump up
00:04:15.840 the number of people talking about the event.
00:04:17.880 But so the Conservatives are going to use a bot farm with around 300 posts, 270 posts.
00:04:23.520 It was in that ballpark to try and pump up a Kirkland Lake event in Northern Ontario.
00:04:28.500 A town with, I'm going to say like 9,000 people.
00:04:32.700 I believe it's not even that much.
00:04:34.800 It's only 7,900 people.
00:04:37.360 Obviously, people from neighboring counties and towns will show up for the event.
00:04:42.260 But this is a small event.
00:04:43.540 And nobody was expecting, nobody expects there to be thousands of social media posts
00:04:48.920 coming out about an event like this.
00:04:51.440 Polyev also does not have trouble getting attention on himself, posting about the event
00:04:56.340 himself and having thousands of people like it, hundreds of people retweet it, quote tweeting
00:05:01.220 it, and all that stuff.
00:05:02.760 It's not difficult for him to get attention.
00:05:05.440 So why would they use a bot farm for this specific event?
00:05:08.960 They're way ahead.
00:05:09.860 They're not desperate.
00:05:10.860 They have a big money advantage.
00:05:13.740 So yeah, they could pay for it.
00:05:15.100 But the thing is that it's a small town event with nobody expecting it to create a big social
00:05:20.120 media explosion.
00:05:22.240 So, but we get all these posts from bot accounts with, you can tell nobody's seen these, 26 views
00:05:28.180 for some of these, 25 views, 12 views, 41 views.
00:05:32.280 Bot farms don't work.
00:05:33.660 And that's another reason why people, frankly, don't use them.
00:05:37.300 Bot farming does not actually get you real support.
00:05:42.360 I could see, and I'm not trying to say that they do it all the time.
00:05:45.560 Someone might have done it to the liberals too. 0.71
00:05:47.080 I've seen other posts and we can show them right here.
00:05:49.900 The pleb reporter and someone else was posting these.
00:05:52.920 There are a lot of these posts that you can see that the liberals have also used.
00:05:56.960 So every party is technically motivated to do it, but I don't understand it in the case
00:06:02.120 of the conservative party.
00:06:04.300 Now, if you're a left-wing activist or journalist, what stops you from paying $200, $150 to get
00:06:12.340 all these bot accounts posting this stupid, you know, buzzing type thing about how, oh,
00:06:18.580 I just went to a polyv rally and I'm absolutely buzzing.
00:06:21.200 One of the things behind this story that also doesn't make sense is if you go through and
00:06:26.100 people have a lot of these bot accounts, because oftentimes the bot farm doesn't just create
00:06:30.920 the account, post a few things, and then delete it a week later.
00:06:33.280 They keep reusing them.
00:06:34.420 If you go back in their history, they were posting pro-environmental activist type stuff,
00:06:39.820 pro-carbon tax type stuff.
00:06:41.640 That doesn't mean it's a liberal who first created these bots.
00:06:44.740 It just means a lot of people use them.
00:06:46.940 And it means that they're not exclusively been created for the conservatives.
00:06:51.220 And again, even the fact that they said something nice about polyv does not mean it's a conservative
00:06:55.060 thing.
00:06:55.440 Again, if you're a journalist, you want to get thousands of eyes on your website.
00:06:59.080 I'm not saying this is what happened.
00:07:00.300 But if you wanted to get thousands of eyes on your website, you could just pay $100, you
00:07:05.580 know, make it look polyv look pathetic and insecure, because look at all these bots praising
00:07:09.580 them, and then write a story about it.
00:07:11.460 And I find the fact that the whole media is triangulating on this story very suspicious,
00:07:17.340 because this is a non-story.
00:07:19.320 Let's even pretend someone in the conservative party approved this, and it was from the
00:07:23.920 conservatives.
00:07:24.720 That guy's going to get fired in five seconds, because this is a stupid idea.
00:07:28.520 I don't know who would have approved it.
00:07:30.080 That person should be fired, too, if it did come from the conservatives.
00:07:33.180 But I find it suspicious that so many people have started covering this from different media
00:07:38.520 outlets, CTV News, CBC, Aurelia Matters, or whatever, some small town paper.
00:07:43.880 And then even below, you can see the federal NDP saying, federal NDP requests Elections
00:07:49.460 Canada to investigate bot farms.
00:07:51.220 Really, we need a federal investigation, because 100, 200, 300 bots posted something about a
00:07:59.480 stupid pure poly of rally. 0.99
00:08:01.520 And again, we've seen it for liberals in the past, liberal bot accounts posting things.
00:08:07.080 And it doesn't mean that the liberals paid for it, but accounts pretending to be liberal
00:08:11.980 supporters were posting the exact same things over and over again about how I'm a Canadian
00:08:16.520 and I support Justin Trudeau.
00:08:17.980 I think he's doing a fantastic job.
00:08:19.980 And I find it also just petty and silly that you have people like Maxime Bernier, the leader
00:08:26.020 of the federal PPC, posting about this.
00:08:29.340 I'm not one of these people who thinks that the PPC is a front for the liberals.
00:08:33.220 You know, they're funding the PPC in order to try and hurt the conservatives.
00:08:36.520 If that was true, why is the PPC's fundraising just been absolutely plowing into the side of
00:08:42.000 a mountain over the past year?
00:08:44.180 I think they're actually behind the Bloc Québécois now in terms of fundraising.
00:08:48.120 And you could say, well, it should be easy for the Bloc to fundraise.
00:08:50.820 They are, you know, they have multiple MPs.
00:08:53.340 Well, the PPC also gets to fundraise across the entire country because the Bloc doesn't 1.00
00:08:57.240 really have a lot of Albertans giving them money.
00:08:59.280 And now they're falling behind even the Bloc.
00:09:04.040 So it's a dead party.
00:09:05.100 They've only raised like $300,000 this year so far compared to the conservatives, $20 million.
00:09:09.620 And the fact that Bernier is, like, amplifying this is pathetic.
00:09:15.540 It's sad.
00:09:16.980 It doesn't mean anything to.
00:09:18.880 Again, even if we just say for a second, it's true.
00:09:21.500 Polyev is truly, even from his office, he said, can you have 300 bots say my Kirkland
00:09:28.120 Lake event was fantastic?
00:09:30.220 Okay.
00:09:30.580 Does this affect anything?
00:09:31.740 And the media is trying to do this whole, well, actually, this demonstrates that Polyev's 0.96
00:09:36.480 very bad and evil and whatever.
00:09:38.720 And it's like the story goes nowhere.
00:09:41.220 It's just that the media doesn't want to talk about Justin Trudeau.
00:09:44.080 There are thousands of stories that could be talked that could be written about Justin
00:09:49.040 Trudeau's terrible liberal government, their support for the safe supply program in Toronto,
00:09:54.380 their support for the ongoing safe supply program in BC, the terrible performance of the
00:09:59.100 Canadian of like of the Canadian economy.
00:10:02.200 Mass immigration, the housing shortage, the failure for the government to actually create
00:10:07.860 more housing starts.
00:10:09.080 Yes, housing starts are slightly up across the country, but it depends on the province
00:10:13.340 you're in.
00:10:13.720 So in some provinces, it's down.
00:10:15.340 Some provinces, it's up, like this chart shows right here.
00:10:18.420 So it shows the national programs not creating uniform results.
00:10:21.800 And the results aren't uniform, then it probably is more of a provincial matter on whether houses
00:10:26.280 are actually getting built or not.
00:10:28.120 And we're just burning money.
00:10:29.280 Sean Frazier, our housing minister, is just burning money pretending that he's trying to
00:10:33.360 help the situation, while also the government is bringing in 1.3 million people in just the
00:10:39.000 year 2023 alone.
00:10:40.320 But no, this is a great story for all the left-wing media who wants to pretend to be super sleuths and uncovering
00:10:47.700 conservative corruption.
00:10:48.660 So now I'm going to jump over to our favorite internet super sleuth, Steve Boots, who is here to make jokes on
00:10:57.380 Pierre Polyev's expense because I don't know his speculation that this is something Polyev did is enough
00:11:05.160 evidence in order to indict him, I suppose.
00:11:08.200 But here's Steve Boots trying to make hay out of this story of absolute nothingness.
00:11:15.920 Conservative leader Pierre Polyev, pictured here making a new Twitter follower, has a bit of a bot problem.
00:11:21.520 You see, his rally in Kirkland Lake last week was heavily promoted by an absolutely massive number of online bots.
00:11:28.400 Hundreds of them saying that they were excited to be at the rally.
00:11:31.120 And a few that said they braved the cold, despite the fact that it was almost 25 degrees.
00:11:35.960 Shouldn't that tell you?
00:11:37.460 And he's going to go on to just pretending like it's just confirmed that it must be some conservative doing this.
00:11:43.880 Wouldn't it tell you that it's probably not the conservatives doing this if they were stupid enough to have them say,
00:11:51.480 I braved the cold going up to northern Ontario.
00:11:53.980 Like maybe it's a bot farm in India or some warm country and the only thing they know about Canada is it's cold.
00:12:00.220 So like I braved the cold to get there, even though it's the middle of August.
00:12:04.140 I don't, again, I don't think this is real.
00:12:06.960 I don't, there's just nothing here that makes me think that it's actually the conservatives doing this.
00:12:11.580 But activists online want to talk about it because it's, it's a, it's a, oh man, Polyev's an idiot, dunk on him kind of a story.
00:12:20.580 72% of them identified as being from the United States.
00:12:23.520 And predictably, the Polyev campaign is claiming ignorance, saying they have nothing to do with it.
00:12:28.420 Now, I hate coverage like this.
00:12:32.460 What a, what just a smug, like a smug fool sitting there being like, and predictably they denied any involvement.
00:12:41.260 Yeah, they might not be involved, idiot.
00:12:43.440 Of course they're going to deny involvement.
00:12:45.080 Of course, of course the Polyev campaign denied involvement.
00:12:48.680 What, do you think, it's like the whole, you know, if you, if you say you're innocent, then that you're just covering up the fact you're actually guilty.
00:12:59.100 Like, give me a break here.
00:13:00.620 I think this is actually an easier way of seeing the video because of the way his stuff is clipped.
00:13:04.340 But also saying they don't want to investigate it.
00:13:08.260 Nothing to hide, but don't investigate.
00:13:10.420 Because the NDP has requested a formal independent third party investigation from the elections commissioner.
00:13:16.000 Conservatives are saying no.
00:13:17.740 They, do you know why a major party would say no?
00:13:21.340 Because why would you subject yourself to an investigator going through the back end, all your data for your party to find out if potentially 270 bots might have been purchased by your party.
00:13:36.340 It's a, you know, darned if you do, darned if you don't kind of a situation.
00:13:41.280 You don't want them snooping through your party's back end data because of course you don't.
00:13:46.340 And it's over something where even if you did something and they purchased the bots, what?
00:13:52.340 What?
00:13:52.680 The liberals have had bots tweet stuff in favor of them.
00:13:55.080 I guarantee the NDP, the Greens, the Block, the PPC have all had bots boosting their content.
00:14:00.960 But we're going to use this ginned up story that doesn't make any sense to then let investigators snoop around the conservatives.
00:14:08.320 And then they get to the media can have updating stories about investigators interviewing people.
00:14:13.380 And they're trying to get to the bottom of this stupid story.
00:14:16.280 At the same time, the liberals just have billions of dollars sometimes go missing.
00:14:21.580 They don't know.
00:14:22.300 Like, it's not been like gone missing like it was stolen.
00:14:24.380 But they just don't know what we spent it on.
00:14:26.580 That's an actual story worth investigating.
00:14:29.480 A few hundred bots that only make the Conservative Party look bad.
00:14:34.620 Again, I don't think they actually were the ones who purchased them.
00:14:38.220 That we'd be like, it doesn't even make the conservatives look good.
00:14:41.940 They're pretending like they're investigating the conservatives for, like, stealing.
00:14:45.420 You know what I mean?
00:14:45.800 Like, fraudulent donations or something like that.
00:14:48.180 Or they created fake accounts or fake stories to smear their opponents.
00:14:54.020 Like, this is only something that makes the conservatives look bad.
00:14:56.480 And they're getting investigated for it?
00:14:58.880 They deny any role in it and are attacking the NDP for criticizing it.
00:15:03.120 Saying, quote,
00:15:03.580 It is unsurprising that the NDP is once again spreading baseless conspiracy theories.
00:15:08.440 They're not baseless.
00:15:09.560 We've seen the bots.
00:15:10.700 It's baseless because, you know, that's surface level.
00:15:17.100 That there is bots that exist that said something nice about Polyev.
00:15:21.240 That is surface level.
00:15:22.980 A base to the story would be a connection to the Conservative Party that demonstrates that there's something here.
00:15:30.420 There is actual smoke here.
00:15:32.140 This just shows that bots said something out of the Conservative Party.
00:15:35.600 So, in theory, I'm going to have to explain this to Steve because apparently his beanies on too tight.
00:15:41.440 But if I wanted to create, based on the rules he is setting here, a bad story for the NDP, what I could do was pay for 200 bots to say that Jagmeet Singh is a gentleman and a scholar.
00:15:54.100 And he totally never has been a Kalistani in his entire life. 0.98
00:15:57.320 And then, because I noticed those bots myself, well, now the NDP needs to be investigated.
00:16:03.440 We need their offices raided.
00:16:05.780 We need Jagmeet Singh to show up in front of hearings and say, I did not use the bots.
00:16:11.020 Well, why did the bots say something nice about you?
00:16:13.600 It seems like somebody from your campaign might have purchased these bots.
00:16:17.420 It's a stupid story.
00:16:19.760 That's obviously a nonsensical way of viewing this.
00:16:25.420 That you're basically, because somebody, because bots said something nice about you, that only makes you look, which only embarrassed you in the time.
00:16:33.960 Now we get to investigate you.
00:16:35.620 They're incredibly obvious.
00:16:37.260 They say, quote,
00:16:37.960 The CPC does not pay for bots and has no idea who is behind these accounts.
00:16:42.140 We are seeking the support of actual Canadians, as witnessed by large in-person turnouts at our events.
00:16:47.420 Always with the crowd sizes, to be very clear.
00:16:50.820 Yeah, because they can actually get crowd sizes.
00:16:53.480 Steve would be bringing up the crowd sizes of liberals if they actually had good crowd sizes, or the NDP, or whatever flavor of the month party he's supporting on the left.
00:17:01.360 But, yeah, they have good crowd sizes.
00:17:03.360 So, again, that's a good piece of counter-evidence.
00:17:06.220 Why would the conservatives need bots if they're not down the polls?
00:17:10.160 Again, we have liberals using bots. 0.99
00:17:12.380 Oh, sorry, that's the wrong one.
00:17:13.620 We have liberal bots here. 1.00
00:17:15.520 Not that the liberal party purchased them.
00:17:18.100 I don't know who did.
00:17:19.540 But the liberals have far more motivation to try and buy fake support than the conservatives do, because the conservatives have real support that could win the majority government.
00:17:28.160 The liberals are fighting to stay above the Bloc Québécois in the projected seat counts.
00:17:32.600 If the conservatives actually had nothing to hide here, why would they be against investigating it?
00:17:37.900 Like, if there are online bots...
00:17:39.060 Because you don't want people snooping through your party over baseless claims, or it would incentivize more baseless claims as a form of harassment.
00:17:49.000 Online bots hired by a third party to interfere with our elections.
00:17:53.040 Why don't they want to look into it?
00:17:54.640 An important reminder that in this sort of situation, the folks fighting against the...
00:18:00.100 I'm going to pause it.
00:18:02.620 I haven't seen it.
00:18:04.400 I'm going to pause it that Steve Boots is not much of an anti-CCP hawk who wants liberals investigated for potentially working with the CCP to win re-election in 2021 and 2019.
00:18:17.780 I'm just going to pause it that.
00:18:19.320 I don't think he actually cares about election interference.
00:18:22.400 I think he cares about election interference, 300 stupid bots, when he can make an argument that the conservatives should be investigated.
00:18:31.660 Does he want the NDP investigated for potential ties to the Calistani movement, basically intimidating people into trying to vote for Jagmeet Singh?
00:18:40.540 Going to do that?
00:18:41.160 No, he's not.
00:18:42.000 Because it doesn't affect a party.
00:18:43.640 It would affect a party he likes.
00:18:45.080 This investigation are the ones with something to hide.
00:18:49.080 They got caught.
00:18:50.240 They're scared it's going to look worse for them.
00:18:52.300 Because the conservatives insist they didn't hire these bots.
00:18:54.420 And that is quite likely.
00:18:55.720 But it sure seems like they don't want us to find out who did hire them.
00:18:59.260 Wonder why that might be.
00:19:01.300 Hmm, we can just act skeptical.
00:19:03.500 I hate this garbage.
00:19:05.100 I've said this a few times in the video.
00:19:06.580 I hate this smug skepticism crap that makes someone feel intellectual.
00:19:11.280 Hmm, I wonder why someone wouldn't want to look into this.
00:19:15.080 Do you have anything?
00:19:16.700 Or is it just smugness?
00:19:18.480 Smugness is an intellect.
00:19:20.240 Good thing Steve Boots is no longer a teacher in Saskatchewan.
00:19:23.500 He recently quit his job or whatever to be an influencer online.
00:19:29.380 And, you know, the IQ of Saskatchewan children has no doubt already gone up a point or two.
00:19:33.860 Liberals and the NDP are both calling for independent investigations here.
00:19:37.680 Conservatives aren't.
00:19:39.240 Hmm.
00:19:39.960 And if you're a Poiliev supporter and thinks that that's just fine, I want you to imagine for just a moment that Justin Trudeau got caught being supported by a massive bot farm, completely proven that it happened, and he blocked investigations.
00:19:52.060 Would you say, that's perfectly fine?
00:19:54.680 That is an acceptable behavior from a political leader?
00:19:57.280 Or are you only going to cut that sort of slack to Poiliev?
00:19:59.580 Yeah, I've actually already said this, and I don't actually view Steve's entire videos before I put them on the show.
00:20:06.340 I don't want to, like, you know, take notes on the full two minutes of what he says and then figure out what I'm going to say at each time code.
00:20:13.520 I watched the first 20 seconds to see if it's generally on topic for what I want to talk about today, and I react to it raw.
00:20:19.920 I have already said, yeah, there are liberal accounts.
00:20:23.340 He makes it sound concretely or whatever he said about, like, you know, it's proven that they are supporting him.
00:20:30.940 Well, we have accounts showing that they support the liberals.
00:20:34.500 They're bot accounts that support the liberals.
00:20:36.400 And guess what?
00:20:37.080 I don't think the liberals should be investigated over it because who cares?
00:20:41.120 Who actually cares?
00:20:42.100 Again, we can go back to the chart of all the bots supporting Poiliev.
00:20:47.640 They're getting 14 views.
00:20:49.480 Nobody's looking at this stuff.
00:20:50.780 It's not creating, it's not getting any eyes on it.
00:20:53.320 And think about that, that the people who even found the bots, even when they found them, no one had viewed them.
00:20:59.440 And the only people who have actually, the only way most people have seen the bots are people creating the big charts of all the accounts and taking screenshots of them.
00:21:07.580 Nobody actually organically saw the posts in the first place.
00:21:11.520 You think if the conservatives were using bot accounts, they would then have real accounts start retweeting and liking those posts and boosting them to show that locals on the ground like them.
00:21:22.420 And you think they would at least require that the farm they were purchasing them from actually label the accounts as being Canadians and living in the area.
00:21:32.000 They didn't.
00:21:32.960 It's stupid.
00:21:33.840 Nobody would pull off some sort of political op this terrible on behalf of the party that the bots were meant to support if they did it.
00:21:41.400 So, yes, I'm not calling for the liberals to be investigated over any of this.
00:21:45.460 I want them maybe investigated over actual foreign interference concerns around Handong and other CCP influencing of votes in certain jurisdictions in Canada because that's a major issue.
00:21:57.260 But overall, I don't really care about bot farm issues.
00:22:02.300 I don't really care about these stories because bots are never going to make a party popular.
00:22:07.480 They're not.
00:22:07.940 They're never going to.
00:22:09.560 Anyone would see this and say, this looks very fake.
00:22:12.860 And if they found out how much a party, if a party was actually using bots, was using them, they would just point and laugh.
00:22:20.020 There's nothing.
00:22:21.080 You can't purchase support.
00:22:22.960 Michael Bloomberg in the 2020 Democratic primaries has proven that money does not actually buy you election victory.
00:22:30.560 Name recognition, brand recognition buys you victory.
00:22:33.680 Not buys, but, you know, it helps.
00:22:36.380 Your personality, your policies, your brand recognition, your name recognition.
00:22:40.140 Money helps get your vote out.
00:22:42.440 That's where you can actually win an election with a deficit in money.
00:22:46.140 That's, you know, Donald Trump won the 2016 election with a deficit of cash.
00:22:53.660 Joe Biden won the 2020 Democratic primary with way less money than many of his opponents.
00:22:58.980 Yes, he had the most money by the end of the primary, but you usually win about halfway through and then the rest of it becomes a walkover and everyone starts giving you money.
00:23:07.240 He beat Michael Bloomberg.
00:23:08.340 He beat Bernie Sanders.
00:23:09.260 He beat Tom Steyer.
00:23:10.460 All these other campaigns, you had more money than him.
00:23:12.280 I'm not a Joe Biden fan, but just a good example.
00:23:15.580 This does not.
00:23:16.360 You can't AstroTurf support.
00:23:17.780 Either the support exists and the money can help you turn that support out or identify the support or it doesn't.
00:23:23.460 There's always a billionaire or a millionaire trying to run for president or trying to run for some office, even in Canada, and they fall on their face because you can't beat actually having organic support.
00:23:34.760 Anyways, so that should be it for me today, guys.
00:23:38.220 If you live in BC, again, I'm going to plug the Abbotsford South riding for you guys to donate to.
00:23:44.440 If you donate $100, you get a 75% tax credit.
00:23:47.940 So it only costs you $25 to donate $100.
00:23:51.400 The BCNDP, because of a lot of institutional policies and whatnot that gives a lot of money from taxpayers to parties that do well in the last election, they have a big advantage over the conservatives.
00:24:04.000 We're in a situation where we have less money, but more people like us, but they have fewer people liking them, but they have more money so they can drive out their vote more efficiently.
00:24:12.900 So if you live in BC, donate so we can actually get our supporters out.
00:24:15.780 And if you don't live in BC, consider donating to my legal fund in the description of this video below.
00:24:21.760 It's the Give, Send, Go link.
00:24:23.260 We have a Chinese billionaire suing myself and the National Telegraph, and I've paid over $32,000 into defending myself.
00:24:31.360 It's a baseless defamation claim.
00:24:33.540 He hasn't even provided any evidence over the two and a half years this case has been going on.
00:24:37.880 He assumed that he'd file his statement of claim, throw out a few pieces of, you know, rhetorical, you know, legal threats, and that I would apologize to him so he can pretend that he's big and powerful and anyone ever saying anything bad about him is just lying and they don't know what they're talking about.
00:24:54.480 And he's a gentleman and a scholar.
00:24:55.980 So it's costed me a lot, but we don't give in to bullies.
00:24:59.380 So if you guys can contribute anything to that, it helps us keep, it helps keep me in the fight here.
00:25:04.140 And, you know, other than that, I'll be here for another video later.
00:25:07.780 Hopefully you guys like the content, me reacting to other people's videos as a part of me covering the news.
00:25:13.680 I think it's fun.
00:25:14.680 It keeps everything fresh.
00:25:15.640 I get to bounce off the magnetic personality that is Steve Boots here.
00:25:20.660 There is just something so uncanny about left-wing guys who then immediately adopt the scruffy, beard, like black, thick-rimmed glasses and beanie as their personality.
00:25:32.080 But, you know, live and let live, I suppose.
00:25:36.040 Have a good one, guys.