The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - December 23, 2024


Liberals are in 4th place for seats as Trudeau ignores calls to resign!


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Wyatt Claypool talks about all the hypocrisy coming out of the Liberal Party and why it's time for Justin Trudeau to step down as Prime Minister of Canada. He also talks about why he thinks Justin Trudeau can win the next election.

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00:00:00.000 Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the Wyatt Claypool Show.
00:00:04.420 To put it mildly, this has not been a very cheery Christmas season for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or his Liberal Party.
00:00:12.440 Rightfully so. But if you don't support the Liberal Party, this may have been one of your favorite Decembers on record.
00:00:18.900 Because it is objectively a lot of fun to watch all of the issues that the Liberal Party has ignored for years finally come back to bite them.
00:00:27.300 How hard is it biting them? Well, depending on the polling projection website that you look at,
00:00:33.500 either the Liberals are going to come in third place or even fourth place in terms of the seat count in the 2025 election.
00:00:41.840 And while there are a lot of Liberal MPs now saying that it's time for Justin Trudeau to step down,
00:00:46.980 he should resign and maybe be replaced by Chrystia Freeland, or we should have a leadership election, 1.00
00:00:52.240 it's too little too late, guys. All these Liberals are complete hypocrites.
00:00:56.120 They should have been out five years ago, four years ago, I'll even give them two years ago,
00:01:01.620 saying that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not fit to be the leader of this country.
00:01:06.620 But only now, when it benefits them to not lose their re-elections, do they finally come out and say,
00:01:12.540 yeah, Justin Trudeau really has to go. And who's their replacements?
00:01:16.360 Oh, Christy Clark maybe, or Chrystia Freeland. 0.87
00:01:18.800 That leadership election would be like watching paint dry. I would rather be poisoned than watch a
00:01:27.140 leadership election between Chrystia Freeland and Christy Clark. It actually makes me want Justin
00:01:32.360 Trudeau to stay on as Prime Minister, because at least he's funny in how terrible he is.
00:01:37.560 Chrystia Freeland's just annoying. She is the definition, her and Christy Clark, 1.00
00:01:42.180 of a bad politician. They are boring, they are annoying, they are dumb.
00:01:48.060 But this is a headline that just came out recently, and again, I find it so hypocritical
00:01:53.480 and funny because it probably is not going to make a hill of beans of a difference before the next
00:01:58.840 election. So we see this from Six Buzz, but they're just reporting from other news sites. They say,
00:02:04.280 Hashtag report, Liberal MP Anthony Housefather says the vast majority of Liberal caucus
00:02:10.060 wants Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to resign. But is that actually going to happen? I don't know.
00:02:16.780 Justin Trudeau doesn't have to do anything until late January now because we're on a holiday.
00:02:22.600 What, are Liberals going to leave their families on December 25th to go down to Parliament to have
00:02:27.500 meetings about getting rid of Trudeau? Probably not. Trudeau can play the waiting game.
00:02:31.860 He's played it before. And I think that the Liberal Party caucus has proven that half of them don't know
00:02:38.460 where their spines are, and the other half only sometimes make chirpy noises from the back that
00:02:44.060 maybe we don't like Justin Trudeau. Maybe he should try doing a better job. But they never really pull
00:02:49.760 the trigger to get rid of him. Plus, if you don't know this, the Liberal Party and every other party but
00:02:55.660 the Conservative Party has signed on to the Transparency Act. The Transparency Act is basically just
00:03:01.520 how caucus is governed in the House of Commons. That caucus has certain powers that allow them
00:03:07.540 to basically hold leaders and other people to account within their party. So the Liberal Party
00:03:13.100 has not signed on to this, which means that the Liberal caucus cannot vote to get rid of Justin
00:03:18.580 Trudeau. They do not have to abide by it. Technically, it's non-binding even on the Conservative
00:03:23.460 Party. But no leader would really want to say, I'm going to ignore the Transparency Act after their
00:03:28.680 caucus votes to get rid of them. But the Liberal Party can't even vote to get rid of him because
00:03:33.180 there's no procedure to do it because they've never signed on to the legislation that enables it.
00:03:38.000 It's wild. They thought this made them stronger for years. And now it's actually showing that
00:03:43.840 they're weaker than ever because they can't get rid of a bad leader because they wanted a strong man for
00:03:48.900 years. And now that strong man who nobody likes won't leave. I think Trudeau actually probably has
00:03:55.520 the gall to just wait this out so long that the Liberal Party doesn't even have time to do a
00:04:00.900 leadership election because Justin Trudeau is delusional. But I don't think he is delusional
00:04:06.720 enough to think he can win the next election. I think he wants to go down swinging so then he can
00:04:12.140 have like a comeback like his dad. That's the big delusional part because he's not going to have a
00:04:17.340 comeback. Nobody liked him. The pure Trudeau had kind of a nostalgia because while he had terrible
00:04:23.640 policies that the West hated, the East probably liked some of his policies. So they were willing
00:04:28.700 to have him come back after Joe Clark and others messed up. And so, you know, he had a path.
00:04:35.420 What path does Justin Trudeau have if Pierre Polyev becomes the prime minister for eight years
00:04:39.940 and couldn't possibly do a worse job than Trudeau? Is Trudeau going to come by and say,
00:04:45.480 you know, I could mess this up really bad right now. How about you guys reelect me?
00:04:49.420 There's no pitch here. Anyways, I want to go into some of the polling numbers because some of
00:04:54.680 these polling websites projections are insane. These polling websites are pretty conservative
00:04:59.540 in terms of their like the slowness at which they react to the polls, not ideologically conservative.
00:05:05.960 I don't think they're ideologically anything. In fact, I think some of the people who run these
00:05:10.200 places may be more default liberals, but that doesn't matter. But they don't tend to be super
00:05:15.680 anti-liberal in terms of their projections. They try and stay pretty neutral. All of these websites
00:05:20.320 now either have the liberals in third place or fourth place in terms of the seat count.
00:05:25.720 But before I get into that, I just want to remind you guys, if you like this show,
00:05:29.420 make sure to hit the subscribe button, like the video and leave a comment for me. It really helps
00:05:33.440 me out. And you can always consider donating to our legal fund linked both in the description below
00:05:37.940 as well as pinned at the top of the comments. Anyways, so I'll get the right thing on screen.
00:05:43.160 So we're going to start off with 338 Canada. 338 is hyper-conservative in terms of how slowly they
00:05:50.300 react to polling trends. If one really bad poll for the Liberal Party comes out, usually they'll
00:05:55.460 downrank it because they'll say it might be an outlier. The Liberal Party seems to still be
00:06:01.340 polling in the mid to high 20s. So if we see a poll that comes out that puts the Liberals at 21 or 22,
00:06:07.780 we will rate that one down. And that's a perfectly legitimate way of doing things. You don't want an
00:06:12.180 outlier poll to affect your overall sample, but they'll include very pro-Liberal polls like ECOS
00:06:18.720 and NANOS that tends to over-poll the Liberals. But even with all that being said, this is their
00:06:25.320 current seat projections. 232 seats for the Conservative Party with only 172 seats needed for
00:06:32.940 the majority. The Bloc would come in second with 45 seats. The Liberals would come in third at 39
00:06:39.760 seats. The NDP 25 and the Green Party of Canada with two seats. That is impossible almost to suck
00:06:47.300 that bad in Canadian politics as the Liberal Party. And this is actually the problem for the Liberal Party.
00:06:52.760 Being the natural governing party of Canada actually can come back to haunt you. Because natural
00:06:58.860 governing party meant that the Liberals were kind of everyone's default choice if they didn't have a
00:07:04.760 strong feeling about politics. So the Liberals could clean up a lot of seats in Toronto and Montreal where
00:07:09.980 people are ideologically more liberal. But in places like Vancouver and Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg,
00:07:15.900 the Maritimes, a lot of people who didn't have extremely conservative, not like extreme in a bad way,
00:07:21.680 but like they weren't like diehard Orthodox conservatives like I am. They might vote Liberal sometimes.
00:07:27.660 And so the Liberals are able to cobble together majority governments in a lot of ridings with
00:07:32.280 like 37% of the vote, not very high vote counts, 42%, which even in Canadian politics is still not
00:07:38.600 that big of a vote yet. In America, 42% is awful because it's a two-party race. So if you got 42%, 0.74
00:07:44.560 your opponent got 58%. But 42, 38 is like thin margins of victory. And the Liberals have always rested in
00:07:52.180 that little category of having very thin margins of victory in a lot of ridings. The problem with that is
00:07:57.320 if you fall to, let's say, 20% of the vote, which is not impossible for Justin Trudeau right now,
00:08:04.060 in fact, his average poll these days shows him at 20%, you basically win nothing. You win nothing
00:08:11.180 outside of the island of Montreal. You got like one seat from all the Calistanis that vote for 0.99
00:08:18.560 Sook Dollywall in Vancouver. You might get Rosedale. You might get Christy Freeland's riding.
00:08:25.900 And then it becomes really slim pickings after that. Like maybe a Winnipeg riding goes for you.
00:08:32.380 I'm like, I'm actually lost. Maybe you win a territory. You win nothing past a certain point.
00:08:37.700 And that's not even the worst polling projections for the Liberals. Polywave, which Sheree Attiste on
00:08:43.580 Twitter runs. It's a really good website. I'll link the website in the description below as well.
00:08:49.120 He actually is, you would maybe consider him a little bit more of a hawkish person for the
00:08:53.940 Conservatives. He tends to assume the Conservatives will do better than the polls tend to say,
00:08:58.240 which I think in turnout has been true. The Cloverdale-Langley city by-election just showed
00:09:04.100 that the Conservatives blew out the Liberals by 50 points. 338 Canada thought they were going to win
00:09:10.120 by 26. And Sheree Attiste, I think he reads sort of the momentum into the polls a little bit. He
00:09:16.640 assumed that they were going to do better than 25. And he was right. They ended up doing 50% better than
00:09:21.560 the Liberals. So look at this though. His current seat projections show that the Conservative Party of
00:09:27.920 Canada will get 248 seats. The Bloc 42, the NDP 26, and the Liberals coming in fourth place at 25 seats.
00:09:37.620 And I think that this is purely, this is absolutely realistic. The NDP, as much as the NDP is an utter
00:09:45.020 embarrassment, we will talk about the NDP a little bit later in the show more. The NDP is an embarrassing
00:09:50.560 party, but they still have better margins of victory in the seats that they do win than the Liberals do on
00:09:57.580 average. And so the NDP hasn't exactly fallen in the polls. Some show that they've fallen, some show
00:10:03.500 they've risen. Probably means that they haven't budged an inch since 2021. But that means that
00:10:08.920 they actually might gain seats because the NDP, when they do win a riding, it would be like a
00:10:13.980 Winnipeg Center riding. It'll be like a Hamilton riding, some of these Vancouver ridings, Vancouver
00:10:18.940 Island ridings, where they can win 58% of the votes sometimes. Really unionish towns, trade union towns,
00:10:24.860 public sector heavy areas of the country, very metropolitan progressive areas, university
00:10:31.040 towns. Those are the places that the NDP can win. If those institutions are present or those
00:10:36.620 demographics are present, they have a good ability to win seats. And now that the Liberal Party is
00:10:41.180 falling, they can now win some of these more marginal Toronto seats where they used to usually
00:10:45.600 only get 30% of the vote and the Liberals would win like 45%. Those seats are not safe at all.
00:10:51.220 They just won or they didn't win, but they got close in Montreal. They've also been close in
00:10:56.780 other Toronto by-elections recently. And I think their numbers in that recent by-election in
00:11:02.100 Winnipeg, it was a Manitoba seat, might not have been Winnipeg, showed that the NDP are at least
00:11:07.340 maintaining most of their votes, although the Conservatives are coming up on them just from
00:11:11.860 sheer popularity. A lot of Liberals are voting Conservative, not NDP. The NDP is just the Liberal Party
00:11:17.900 with more dollar signs effectively. They have more union scab, stool pigeon rhetoric,
00:11:23.300 but it's still a metropolitan progressive party. It's also really not a working class party anymore.
00:11:29.380 It's a party for people who like to do this. It's the party for people who put their fists in the air
00:11:34.420 and think they're super working class for doing so.
00:11:39.320 It's a party that frankly has contempt for people who actually work with their hands. Unless your hands
00:11:45.120 are typing up DEI reports on a computer, the NDP does not care about you, even if you're a unionized
00:11:50.860 employee. In fact, they think that you're, they don't like you if you work in a private trade union,
00:11:56.260 because you probably are in favor of oil and gas and industry and all that sort of nasty stuff.
00:12:01.820 But, so let's look at some of these other statistics from Polywave. Again, great website.
00:12:07.240 This is what he is projecting as being the vote counts, the popular vote counts, which demonstrates
00:12:13.140 my point from earlier. The conservatives are going to get 46 and a half percent, or at least projected
00:12:17.840 yet. Liberals, 20.1. NDP, 18.5. Block, 8.1. Greens, 3.6. And PPC, 2.3. Please, PPC, I'm not telling
00:12:27.360 you guys to go away because I'm like, oh, I don't want you hurting the conservatives. I don't think
00:12:31.740 you can hurt the conservatives. And that is not really something I care about. I'm not like, oh,
00:12:35.540 I only want what's good for the conservative party. Guys, do whatever you want. I voted for you
00:12:39.400 in 2021. But try harder. Try. Try to do door knocking. I had a guy on Twitter just today tell
00:12:46.700 me, well, door knocking is actually the least effective way of doing voter outreach. Are you
00:12:51.560 insane? Are you smoking the devil's lettuce right now? Because what? No, most people are not on social
00:12:59.380 media. In fact, most people don't really watch that much YouTube outside of more frivolous
00:13:04.560 entertainment. You and I are the weird ones who end up engaging with politics online.
00:13:10.120 Most people don't think about it too hard because, frankly, politics, if you think about it,
00:13:15.020 is kind of boring. I enjoy it. I find it interesting. But I'm a dork. I'm a nerd. You have to actually go
00:13:20.900 to people's homes and talk to them about politics. And not in an aggressive, hot-blooded sense, but,
00:13:26.580 hey, I'm running on this. I think we should be doing this. This program hasn't been working.
00:13:30.780 Here's my information. Check it out. Voting days on this day. It is so much more casual the way you
00:13:36.760 have to talk to an oral person about politics. They don't care what the hashtags currently are
00:13:41.360 on Twitter. They don't care about what trends are. They don't know who your favorite account is on
00:13:46.700 Twitter at all. They don't know who I am. They don't know who even some of the biggest conservative
00:13:52.760 YouTubers in the country are, or especially the PPC guys. Nobody knows who those people are.
00:13:57.320 So you actually have to doorknock at some point. But the Liberals are, again, suffering from the
00:14:02.520 fact that their vote outside of the island of Montreal is spread out very thinly. And the funny
00:14:09.320 thing is the Liberals aren't losing any seats in Montreal, really, to the Conservatives. Conservatives
00:14:13.600 can technically win Mount Royal. Anthony Howe's father's seat, the guy who's saying that the vast
00:14:18.620 majority of Liberal MPs want Trudeau to resign. Too little, too late guys. I don't mind Anthony Howe's
00:14:24.980 father in the sense I can agree with some of his opinions. I still think he's a pretty awful
00:14:29.320 individual if you look into his background. I called him out a couple of years ago, and he
00:14:34.180 blocked me on Twitter because he called Clarence Thomas effectively an Uncle Tom for his decision
00:14:41.080 on Roe v. Wade, for overturning Roe v. Wade. He basically implied that, well, Clarence Thomas
00:14:47.200 must want slavery back for Black Americans. Yes, Clarence Thomas, a Black man, wants slavery to come 0.99
00:14:53.920 back. But that's just kind of the nasty person that Anthony Howe's father can be. But he does get
00:14:58.340 this outsized respect because now he's going after Trudeau. Okay, when it's convenient for him,
00:15:03.860 it'll go after Trudeau. Once finally Trudeau has let all the anti-Semites into the party,
00:15:08.720 Anthony Howe's father kind of makes a bit of a protest about it because all those people hate
00:15:12.880 him for being Jewish. But at this point, Anthony, come on. You should have figured out you should have 0.99
00:15:17.720 done something way before this. But yeah, it is not looking very good for the Liberals. And here are the
00:15:23.100 regionals. I think he does a really good job displaying these. Sheree Attiste does.
00:15:27.520 BC, Liberals will get zero seats. NDP, six. Greens, one. And Elizabeth May's fiefdom. Alberta,
00:15:34.180 he is projecting 36 seats for the Conservatives, only one for the NDP. I declare that if you live
00:15:39.980 in Edmonton, everyone should just go to Heather McPherson's NDP riding and campaign against her. 1.00
00:15:45.160 She's awful. Prairie's, 26 for the Conservatives. Ontario's, 106 for the Conservatives,
00:15:50.020 nine for the NDP, six for the Libs, and one for the Greens. Quebec, it is just a block-centered 0.99
00:15:55.680 area. And then the Conservatives are probably going to clean up in some suburbs outside of
00:15:59.360 Montreal and Quebec City. The Liberals still get their 16, but it's pretty sparse.
00:16:04.980 Their best showing in all of this, notice how their best showing, is a third place finish
00:16:09.420 in Quebec. Technically, I guess, Atlantic Canada, but a three-seat tie with the NDP is not exactly a good
00:16:17.900 result. It's embarrassing out there. And they deserve it. They absolutely deserve it.
00:16:23.400 Because for the longest time, we were considered, like, radical, or we're just fringe for disagreeing
00:16:29.320 with Justin Trudeau on policy. Oh, actually, don't you know that the carbon tax actually puts more back
00:16:34.940 into your pocket than you pay in it? No, it's not true. I don't care about all of the fake studies
00:16:41.720 that people like Max Fawcett and Markham Hislop and all these other people come out with to try
00:16:47.520 and tell you that carbon pricing is actually very good. It's actually very good. And I'm not saying
00:16:52.260 it's like a fake study, like they're just faking data. But everyone, I can make a study to prove
00:16:57.380 anything. I could make a study today to prove that the carbon tax lowers food prices if I was
00:17:02.780 unscrupulous enough. And in fact, all the people showing that the carbon tax doesn't affect food prices
00:17:08.200 that much are unscrupulous. You know what they do? The consumer price index is the stupidest measure
00:17:14.240 of how prices are, like, increasing over time. Because what it does is it just takes a generic
00:17:20.680 basket of goods. The basket of goods that people are buying is just the average basket that people
00:17:25.580 are purchasing at the grocery store. And it's just seeing how that price changes over time. And so what
00:17:31.940 happens is because it's measured by every quarter, so the CPI is prices over the last four
00:17:38.080 quarters. What happens is that as people buy cheaper food because they're so broke, then it
00:17:44.580 shows that, well, your basket of goods went from $100 on average to $103 on average. Wow, it's only
00:17:51.620 up 3%. But if you kept buying the exact same products, it would have been $135. But they'll say,
00:17:58.760 well, see, and the carbon tax only affected 50 cents of that $3. So it's a very negligible part of your
00:18:07.140 grocery bill. But if you purchased the full $135 basket, it would have been like $5 of it. And it would
00:18:14.880 have been a pretty big part of your grocery bill increase. But then they can blame a bunch of other
00:18:19.700 factors. You can make a study to prove anything. At some point, common sense actually has to come into how
00:18:25.300 you read the data, or it's a worthless document. Now, let's talk about the NDP a little bit more, because I don't like
00:18:34.460 them. I don't like them. That's it, guys. I don't like the NDP. So we're talking about them. I'm just
00:18:38.880 going to be shameless about it. This is a great clip from Alex Soltan. He posts, appearing to lack
00:18:45.080 any self-awareness, Charlie Angus acts shocked about the Canadians being rude to him on the internet.
00:18:50.220 He then brags of mass blocking people over his morning coffee. Who could wonder why the NDP
00:18:55.740 has never really broken through into the mainstream in Canada with people like Charlie Angus as
00:19:01.340 they're like flag bearers for the past decade. He's finally leaving office. My goodness.
00:19:06.920 I've been in confrontational situations as part of my job. But what I've seen just in the last few
00:19:16.500 years is something very, very different. By the way, this man mocked that Sherry woman who died
00:19:22.960 because she wouldn't get the COVID vaccine and was denied the ability to get a life-saving surgery.
00:19:27.940 He is worried about how people are acting on the internet. It began during the final days of
00:19:35.360 COVID. It began during convoy, my first death threat, and then the second, and then the online
00:19:41.260 abuse of like sort of this toxic pool of hate that continued to build. And then it began to appear in
00:19:48.380 real life situations. So there's this atmosphere now of toxicity and rage where threat has become
00:19:57.900 a normal way of engaging with public officials.
00:20:04.580 The very first times I received online abuse, I sometimes reached out to the person and said,
00:20:11.020 well, why are you talking like that?
00:20:12.520 No, he didn't. That's a fake story. You can even tell he's trying to sound very considerate. No,
00:20:17.160 you don't. You didn't reach out to the person the first time it ever happened. Oh, I'm shocked
00:20:20.740 that somebody's abusing me. No. Also, Charlie Angus is just like Mark Gerritsen for the NDP.
00:20:27.540 He's just a loudmouth. And then he's like, well, I can't believe people are pushing back on me. I
00:20:31.400 only called them piles of garbage. I only called them racist. I only called them all every name in
00:20:36.100 the book. And now they're suddenly all mad at me. Well, what are you mad? I'm only making fun of
00:20:40.540 you. It's like, dude, you mocked a woman for dying. Oh, I can't believe all this toxic hates
00:20:46.800 around. By the way, everyone gets death threats online. I get death threats online. It's not
00:20:52.700 uncommon. By the way, who cares? Who cares? They're random anons. 0.99
00:20:57.140 But then I would be inundated. There's times when there's sort of like almost like a concerted
00:21:05.680 campaign to just drive you off Twitter or drive your Facebook into the ground. In the morning,
00:21:12.940 I get up, get a cup of coffee, and I block, block, block, block, block.
00:21:17.000 Wow. What a brave warrior. Who wouldn't want that man representing them in office? Somebody that
00:21:23.940 brave. He's just so he's so brave. I can't believe that we have people such as this in
00:21:29.680 office. My goodness, though, but we have to raise the standard of what what we expect from people.
00:21:35.400 Here's what the Liberal Party just we're just going to do the normal social media review I tend to do
00:21:39.260 and these videos. Liberal Party three hours ago, pure poly of wants to make dangerous cuts, 0.94
00:21:45.100 danger about dangerous cuts. He wants to make dangerous cuts to the programs and services you rely
00:21:49.740 on. Check our new ads with pure poly of cuts. You pay the price. Oh, my goodness. It's so it's so
00:21:57.960 boring, guys. So boring. Get a good line. This is such a 2019 ad. Andrew Scheer is going to cut the
00:22:06.640 services you rely on. That's very dangerous. Is it? Is it? Or is it the government's bloated? 63%
00:22:13.420 in the last poll I looked at might have been 65, but I'll say 63. 63% of Canadians think that the
00:22:20.040 budget's too high. Think that we spend too much money. That's unheard of in Canada. Most of the
00:22:24.900 time you ask people, and as long as the finances of the country aren't spiraling into like the void,
00:22:30.120 most people will be like, oh, of course, we don't spend enough because it sounds compassionate.
00:22:33.700 Most people when there's a union strike with Canada Post, they'd be like, oh, yes, salt worker
00:22:37.860 solidarity, whatnot, you know, and the union would get like 60% of people on their side. Most people are on
00:22:43.000 Canada Post side because the unions so are just full of bullies, bullies trying to steal. Let's
00:22:48.360 just be honest, steal taxpayer money. They do not deserve this money. It's been losing. Canada Post
00:22:54.240 has been losing money for years. They're inefficient, grossly inefficient. And then the union wants
00:22:59.060 trans surgeries to be comped as part of their demands. No, guys, fire your union bosses, and then
00:23:05.600 figure out who is not stupid to represent you. And maybe we can negotiate. And maybe just maybe a good
00:23:11.420 idea of how do you got you guys paid more is to fire all the stupid DEI ESG positions and get rid of
00:23:17.820 morons in your union. So then we can transfer money towards people who actually do work and away from
00:23:24.160 stupid HR positions that the unions in fact actually demand. Because guess what? The unions can take
00:23:29.880 loyal members off the streets, off as actual mail carriers and delivery drivers, and they can put them
00:23:35.500 in cushy HR office jobs. That's actually how unions operate in Canada. They love administration
00:23:40.720 and management. They used to not. In the 90s, there was almost a riot in the BC Nurses Union because 0.80
00:23:47.400 they found out the healthcare system, more than 15% of the budget was being spent on administration
00:23:52.620 management and HR. Because they're like, hey, guys, we're doing the actual work. Why are you spending
00:23:56.900 money on these people who aren't doing anything or who are basically just supplementary? But now it's like
00:24:02.900 half of the money in some of these institutions in the education system, healthcare system is spent
00:24:08.440 on administration, management, HR, and all that stuff. And the union upper levels don't say a word
00:24:13.520 about it because that's how they reward good nurses, good teachers to them by giving them a 0.99
00:24:19.460 co-principle job. Why do you think that Janice Irwin, the NDP MLA from Edmonton Strathcona, or I think 0.99
00:24:25.980 it's Highlands Norwood, that one, why do you think she was only a teacher for about five seconds, 0.98
00:24:30.660 maybe a couple semesters, a couple years, and then she became the co-principal of her school.
00:24:35.060 Was she qualified? No. She's just a loyal union activist. So they gave her a very cushy job 1.00
00:24:40.460 where she made probably almost 50% more than she did as a teacher to do less work. That's how this 1.00
00:24:47.100 works. Sorry for the rant, but that's my union rant there. I know some people are like, well,
00:24:51.000 unions help get people more money, blah, blah, blah. Unions have also absolutely gutted much of the
00:24:57.220 revenue from government that could have gone to actual working people in order to create stupid 0.58
00:25:01.820 HR positions because they're absolutely infected with a bunch of left-wing woke social justice
00:25:08.400 warriors. Anyways, so that should be pretty much it for me today, guys. Although I should show you
00:25:15.440 a funny photo because I thought this was funny. Brittany posted this the other day and I thought
00:25:19.880 you guys would enjoy it. And because I'm releasing another podcast with her in a few days, it's going to
00:25:25.120 be more heavily edited. So bear with me. It's going to take me a little bit longer. But I did like this
00:25:31.280 one. If you've followed that, we were at the same event. She posted that we look like Dwight and Angela
00:25:39.100 from The Office. So the similarity is stunning. And so I'll link that tweet in the description below if
00:25:46.940 you want to look at it because that's just kind of funny to me. I just wanted to mention that, but
00:25:51.080 we're going to do a podcast that I'm going to release specifically on why social media politics
00:25:56.420 is so annoying. It's kind of a response to the people like that guy I mentioned earlier saying,
00:26:01.660 you know, door knocking doesn't even work. It's like, guys, most people aren't on social media and
00:26:06.020 I'm going to show you that your own posts are very cringy and weird. So I'll be releasing that
00:26:10.900 probably in a few days. I have to update my computer and my computer rejected the update I wanted to do
00:26:15.460 of it. But once I get that done, I'm going to finally repurchase Final Cut Pro. For the longest
00:26:20.100 time, I was so broke, I couldn't even afford Final Cut Pro. And all I had was StreamYard. So
00:26:24.700 that's why I do the show in the format I do where I just hit the play button and I just talk. Even this
00:26:30.660 video, probably about 20 times I had to restart the tape before I got the first minute right.
00:26:35.540 Because if I can't get the first minute right, you would be, you know, correct in thinking,
00:26:39.680 oh my goodness, this guy's such an amateur and click off. But now I finally have the money to
00:26:44.140 actually afford Final Cut Pro. I used to use it, but my free trial a lot has ended. And so I had to
00:26:49.780 just go back to doing this. But if anything, it probably made me better at making videos because
00:26:54.840 I had to get better at putting one foot in front of the other and knowing what I was going to say,
00:26:58.540 rather than like so many YouTubers having to like jump cut between every five words because they
00:27:04.500 cannot, you know, get all the ums and ahs out and make sure that they actually have a point.
00:27:09.660 So this has been a lot of rambling towards the end of this video about how I do the show
00:27:13.680 and all the other stuff that goes on. But hopefully you enjoyed that sort of thing.
00:27:17.900 Remember to like this video, subscribe, donate if you want to the legal fund,
00:27:22.220 and I'll see you guys in the next video.