The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - December 12, 2023


Liberal MP's anti-Conservative attack fails spectacularly


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Justin Trudeau's Liberals give us the greatest Christmas gift ever, and that is embarrassing clips that they posted to their own social media accounts. It's quite amazing the sorts of things that the Liberals actually think are good gotchas these days.

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00:00:00.000 The set has become significantly more festive since I made my last video, and in that festive spirit, Justin Trudeau's liberals join us, because they quite possibly gave us the greatest Christmas gift ever, and that is embarrassing clips that they posted to their own Twitter accounts.
00:00:16.360 It's quite amazing. The sorts of things that the liberals actually think are good gotchas these days, they're scraping the bottom of the barrel so hard to get some attack angle on Pierre Polyev and the conservatives, they think that simply just answering a question in a slightly snarky manner equals a fantastic hit on the conservatives.
00:00:35.500 Really, all this kind of does is just prove that they have nothing and that they're increasingly just using kind of mean girl tactics to try and get Canadians to not vote for the conservatives. 0.73
00:00:45.660 Like, you're going to vote for the conservatives? Well, they're a bunch of far-right losers, so do that if you want.
00:00:50.860 But just letting you know, the cool kids are voting for the liberals. Like, that's basically the liberals' pitch these days.
00:00:56.200 They're not going to tell you that they're actually going to cut your taxes or do anything that might make your life better, but they're just going to basically throw out a bunch of snarky jabs at the conservative party
00:01:04.860 and hope that you're going to somehow come over to their side. I don't know. This is just like lunchroom-type tactics.
00:01:11.260 Anyways, but today, Karina Gould, I think, yeah, Karina Gould, the liberals' house leader, has provided us with two amazing clips of her absolutely embarrassing herself on behalf of Justin Trudeau.
00:01:23.920 Can you speak to the morale of the liberal caucus in there? Oh my god, it's so strong. It's so strong.
00:01:29.060 How so? We're all here, right? And we know why we're here.
00:01:33.400 We got elected by Canadians to stand for things that matter to them.
00:01:37.600 Like, the stuff...
00:01:39.460 I just got to quickly cut off that clip because I want to break down that start. It's hilarious.
00:01:44.360 Just a reporter asks her about the morale inside the liberal government, and she's like, oh, it's fantastic.
00:01:49.480 And the person's like, how so? Like, just like, kind of concerned and confused of why she would answer that
00:01:54.860 while the liberals are scraping the bottom of the 20s and the polls.
00:01:57.740 And she's like, well, of course we have great morale. We're all here.
00:02:02.320 Like, what does that even mean?
00:02:04.200 Like, what, you guys didn't, like, all, like, evacuate Canada and go to move to different countries in disgrace yet?
00:02:11.120 It's like, oh, we're all still in Ottawa. That means we're doing well.
00:02:14.580 I'm like, I'm pretty sure that's, like, bare minimum stand-throughs for how a party's doing,
00:02:19.000 is that you guys haven't all defected to different countries yet.
00:02:22.040 But anyways, I'll keep continuing, but that was just too bad for me to let it go.
00:02:26.320 Can you speak to the morale of the liberal caucus in there?
00:02:28.520 Oh my god, it's so strong. It's so strong.
00:02:31.160 How so?
00:02:31.800 How so?
00:02:32.420 Yeah.
00:02:32.840 We're all here, right? And we know why we're here.
00:02:35.500 We got elected by Canadians to stand for things that matter to them.
00:02:39.680 Like, the stuff that they're voting against, right?
00:02:42.900 Like, they're voting against measures to end gender-based violence.
00:02:47.020 They're voting against supports to manufacturing.
00:02:51.260 They're voting against supports to our border services agency.
00:02:55.520 Like, they are literally trying to shut down the government,
00:02:58.600 which is the page out of the extreme right Republican handbook in the United States.
00:03:03.260 Canadians have seen the dysfunction in Washington.
00:03:06.880 They don't want that here in Ottawa, but that's what Mr. Polyev is bringing, right?
00:03:10.660 That's what he's trying to do, is create that same kind of dysfunction in our country
00:03:15.240 that we're seeing from extreme right-wing politicians in the United States.
00:03:20.760 I don't even know why she thinks this is going to play.
00:03:24.180 The Liberals tried this, like, last week when the week was wrapping up with the big voting marathon that happened.
00:03:29.740 Like, look, the conservatives voted against, you know, like, acts to or, like, serve some measure to try and end gender-based violence.
00:03:39.140 Have you guys ended gender-based violence?
00:03:41.040 Have you guys done anything to make it better?
00:03:42.960 Oh, no, you actually reduced legal penalties for people who, you know, hurt women?
00:03:47.700 You have reduced penalties for gang members carrying illegal firearms?
00:03:51.560 What?
00:03:51.920 Like, the idea that these people take crime seriously is insane, but the conservatives voted against one of many measures combined into single pieces of legislation or big sort of omnibus bills.
00:04:04.260 The conservatives voted against it, more so just to hold up votes in order to pressure the Liberals into trying to put a pause on the carbon tax, and they wouldn't do it.
00:04:13.720 Nobody actually believes that the conservatives somehow, like, don't support manufacturing.
00:04:19.440 Although, to be fair, what she's really saying is subsidizing businesses that are run by liberal-friendly individuals.
00:04:26.140 That's not supporting manufacturing.
00:04:27.900 That is subsidizing friends of the liberal government.
00:04:30.760 It actually makes industry significantly weaker.
00:04:32.800 Just look at the American car industry, but when they were being subsidized in the 70s, and when they finally had to take off all the tariffs on Japanese and Korean car manufacturers and German car manufacturers, and the American auto industry almost got wiped out because they had gotten used to being terrible at their jobs.
00:04:48.720 But, again, like, I don't even know why Karina Gould thinks this is playing whatsoever.
00:04:53.960 Like, it's just like, it's a page, or she said the page, out of the extreme right-wing playbook to hold up votes in government.
00:05:00.820 Also, just letting her know, while the Republicans are holding up some votes in the U.S., the Democrats are also holding up votes, who also have members of the hard left in their wings, who, for some reason, get invited to speak at liberal and NDP events.
00:05:17.380 But, like, does she realize that American politics is very much back and forth, that because the Republicans have a majority in the House, they try and pass things, and the Democrats pretty much mostly try and block it.
00:05:28.460 And in the Senate, where the Democrats have a majority, the Republicans are trying to block stuff.
00:05:33.440 This is not something where anyone is under the impression that somehow it's, like, a right-wing thing to filibuster.
00:05:39.360 If the conservatives have a majority or a minority government after the next election, you will see the liberals doing extreme right-wing things and trying to hold up votes.
00:05:48.260 It's kind of their job to hold up votes if their own constituents don't want that stuff.
00:05:53.540 Like, obviously, sometimes, like, oftentimes, the votes get held up for cynical reasons.
00:05:57.820 I think the conservatives are holding up things for good reasons.
00:06:00.520 You should be holding up votes in order to try and pressure the liberals to give some people tax relief.
00:06:05.480 But whatever, I guess the conservatives hate Ukrainians or something, because they were holding up votes in order to try and give some tax relief to people,
00:06:12.780 and because they didn't just rubber stamp everything that the liberals put up.
00:06:16.860 Anyways, I want to get to the second clip here of Karina when she was actually in the House of Commons speaking,
00:06:23.120 because, like, the own goals here are quite amazing.
00:06:27.740 Every time that she tries to insult Pierre Paulyov and the conservatives,
00:06:31.480 it ends up just being a very bad reflection on the current state of the Liberal Party.
00:06:35.780 So check out this clip.
00:06:36.680 Speaking of Montreal, Mr. Speaker, it's nice to see the Leader of the Opposition show up for work today.
00:06:41.740 I guess there wasn't a fundraiser that he could attend.
00:06:44.860 But if you want to talk about last week, Mr. Speaker,
00:06:49.640 what Canadians saw on display was the Leader of the Opposition bringing right-wing Republican tactics
00:06:55.780 to try and shut down the government, Mr. Speaker.
00:06:59.220 Canadians don't want the kind of chaos that they see in Washington.
00:07:03.160 They want responsible leadership in Canada, and that's not what we witnessed from the Leader of the Opposition last week.
00:07:09.240 On this side of the House, we will continue to stand up for Canadians and stand up for them.
00:07:12.760 Here, here, that's the way it is.
00:07:15.400 Bullying equals the conservatives forced there to be a debate on each piece of legislation that comes up for a vote.
00:07:22.180 Bullying, I guess. That's extreme right-wing.
00:07:24.680 Regardless, we've already been over that portion of her argument.
00:07:27.760 But at the very beginning, what's hilarious is basically she just mentions the fact that the Liberal Party cannot fundraise anything.
00:07:35.940 That they are so far behind in the fundraising that it's notable that Pierre Polyev is back in the House of Commons because he wasn't out raising money.
00:07:44.760 I don't think she realizes that's not a bad thing.
00:07:47.440 It's demonstrating that Pierre Polyev is so popular.
00:07:50.320 He can go to any town, regardless if it's a traditionally conservative, liberal, or MVP district.
00:07:55.100 And I have huge crowds of people show up to see him speak and then give him money.
00:08:00.100 Do you think Justin Trudeau can do that?
00:08:01.920 He's literally having to discount tickets to events where there's supposed to be liberal influencing fundraisers,
00:08:07.300 where people who want to influence the liberal government pay maxed-out donations to come and shake hands with Justin Trudeau
00:08:13.760 and maybe tell them about a business that they want money shuffled towards.
00:08:16.720 This is not a gotcha that Corinna Gold thinks it is.
00:08:20.420 It's actually quite sad.
00:08:22.060 And you can even see it from the Twitter reactions.
00:08:23.640 I don't want to pull it up on screen.
00:08:25.400 The thing is, not only did she get fact-checked on the idea that somehow extreme right,
00:08:30.420 in order to just filibuster and force debates to happen on legislation to try and get what you want,
00:08:35.880 it's kind of the whole point of being a politician in Ottawa,
00:08:38.920 is to try and get things that your constituents want or your party base wants.
00:08:42.860 But whatever.
00:08:43.760 But the reactions to her posts in general are just people like myself just quote-tweeting and saying,
00:08:49.680 this is hilarious that she thinks this is a gotcha.
00:08:52.060 It's not conservative scrambling trying to debunk what she says because we're not worried about what she's saying.
00:08:56.820 What she's saying is pretty petty.
00:08:58.420 Who cares?
00:08:59.240 I don't even get, again, I don't get where this is going to get the liberals' votes.
00:09:04.160 Nobody also even watches like the House of Commons live on the internet unless they're like a nerd like me.
00:09:10.560 Nobody knows that the conservatives were really even filibustering.
00:09:13.400 There were some articles about it.
00:09:14.700 The conservatives were more using that attack as a tactic directly against liberal MPs
00:09:19.360 that we're going to force you to be here for 13 hours straight voting and debating each piece of legislation very slowly
00:09:25.560 if you guys want this all passed.
00:09:27.340 Or you could put a pause on the carbon tax and we'll just let everything go to a vote right away.
00:09:32.760 That's what they were doing.
00:09:33.640 It wasn't to try and win votes in the public.
00:09:35.100 They were specifically trying to pressure the liberals to actually break on the carbon tax.
00:09:40.700 The liberals are thinking that Canadians are going to be outraged by this.
00:09:44.060 Nobody watches the House of Commons.
00:09:45.820 Who cares?
00:09:46.420 But the thing is that the liberals have been so out of touch and they've not actually had to market
00:09:50.340 to Canadians directly in so long that they actually just don't understand what appeals to people.
00:09:56.040 It's supposed to be the media who's supposed to basically let them win
00:09:59.240 by like just putting out basically liberal propaganda all day long.
00:10:03.000 And because that all failed, now the liberal party actually has to dust off their political strategy books.
00:10:09.980 And they haven't been relevant in like two decades when people maybe used to care a little bit
00:10:14.620 about parliamentary procedure.
00:10:16.520 It just isn't a thing anymore.
00:10:18.600 So they're like trying to hit the conservatives on these like really weird technical points
00:10:22.840 that they're not respecting the gears of parliament, the workings of parliament.
00:10:27.280 Guys, you guys destroyed all the parliamentary norms.
00:10:30.880 How many ethics investigations has Justin Trudeau had?
00:10:33.860 Why do we care that the conservatives held you guys up so you couldn't go back home
00:10:38.740 where you're being over, like you couldn't leave your overpaid jobs early on a Friday
00:10:44.520 and you actually had to do your jobs for like a little, do a little bit of overtime work.
00:10:49.180 Whatever.
00:10:50.040 Nobody cares.
00:10:51.260 Anyways, so that should be it for me today.
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00:11:56.680 It's going to be on polling because, of course, I'm going to make a video on polling.