The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - January 10, 2024


Liberals' election strategy： ＂Trump Trump Trump Trump＂

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media bias
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Wyatt Claypool
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Donald Trump Pierre Poilievre Justin Trudeau Bezhan Erin O'Toole Smalls Chrystia Freeland Steven Guilbeault David Menzies Adolf Hitler Speaker
Canadian police deliver coffee for anti-Western protesters Trudeau's Liberals fall off a polling cliff!

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Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party of Canada are desperate ahead of the 2025 election, so they are now doubling and tripling down on their dumbest communication strategy ever: Trump, Trump, Donald Trump. They keep trying to link Donald Trump to Justin Trudeau, even though there is no connection between them.

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00:00:00.000 Way down in the polls and the fundraising numbers, the Liberal Party of Canada and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are increasingly desperate ahead of the 2025 federal election.
00:00:09.180 So they're now doubling and tripling down on their dumbest communication strategy ever, which is Trump, Trump, Trump, pure poly of Donald Trump, Donald Trump, pure poly of Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. 0.96
00:00:20.360 Assuming that Canadians, I guess, are stupid and will pull the lever for Justin Trudeau and the Liberals in 2025 simply because they keep very dumbly trying to associate Trump's name with pure poly of. 0.98
00:00:31.340 Every time I see this tactic being deployed over and over again on social media from Liberal Party accounts, I just think to myself, what about Trump? 0.98
00:00:40.580 You have to actually name a policy that Trump has, explain why it's bad and then show that pure poly of has the same policy.
00:00:47.760 The Liberals can't do this, or maybe they just can't, they're just too lazy to even try.
00:00:52.820 But all they do is just compare, like, similar words that pure poly of and Trump use that everyone uses, pretending as if that's a substantive connection.
00:01:03.140 It's like saying, hey, Justin Trudeau and Adolf Hitler are very similar because both men drank water.
00:01:08.280 I'll play you some of the most ridiculous clips I could find, these being posted not only by the Liberal Party official account, but Liberal Party MPs and even ministers. 0.59
00:01:17.760 We're spending $170 billion for faraway land. 0.66
00:01:21.380 He'd rather spread falsehood about faraway foreign lands, Mr. Speaker.
00:01:25.820 Mr. Smalls.
00:01:27.160 Mr. Smalls.
00:01:28.120 Mr. Bezhan.
00:01:29.980 Mr. Bezhan.
00:01:31.140 Mr. Bezhan.
00:01:32.040 During question period, I heard in one of the questions from the leader of the opposition,
00:01:37.540 his reckless use of the word crazy as a pejorative for one of our cabinet ministers.
00:01:43.040 To be fair, people should call Stephen Gilboa crazy more often, the environment minister who openly called himself a proud socialist in Parliament.
00:02:00.080 But I don't know where the Liberals are trying to go with all this stuff.
00:02:03.420 How many Canadians are going to see these two clips and say, oh, Donald Trump and Pierre Polyev both sometimes use the word crazy?
00:02:10.180 Both of them said something vaguely around the topic of Ukraine.
00:02:14.900 You know, Pierre Polyev and Donald Trump actually being far more hawkish on foreign policy than Liberals are.
00:02:20.040 The Liberals just had David Menzies, a rebel news reporter, arrested because he tried to ask Christy Freeland about the Liberal soft on terrorism policy.
00:02:27.680 But I guess because Donald Trump's name was invoked that we're all supposed to have our eyes start bleeding and running around panicking because Pierre Polyev and Donald Trump both wear pants.
00:02:37.860 Pierre Polyev and Donald Trump once said hello to somebody at seven o'clock in the morning when they went to work.
00:02:43.780 I don't know what, like there's nothing here.
00:02:46.020 There's literally zero substance. 0.99
00:02:47.840 And the latest one is even more pathetic. 0.96
00:02:50.220 So, you know how not all reporters always tell the truth or sometimes they, you know, twist the facts or they are too aggressive or they, you know, they try and twist the words of a politician or spread misinformation. 0.96
00:03:04.340 That thing that happens all the time.
00:03:06.640 Well, Pierre Polyev is like Donald Trump for even noticing it and calling it out because if Donald Trump has an issue with fake news, that means you're not allowed to have an issue with fake news.
00:03:16.160 Justin Trudeau, Chrystia Freeland, all the Liberals, they can still have an issue with fake news.
00:03:19.960 But if you're a conservative, you're no longer allowed to call out fake news, misinformation and slanted questions by the media because Donald Trump has done that in the past, whether rightfully or wrongfully.
00:03:31.780 I don't know why this is a talking point by the Liberals, but this is all they got left because there are 14 points down in the polls in the latest ones that I've seen.
00:03:39.820 You are attacking our news organization.
00:03:41.640 Can you give us a chance?
00:03:42.680 Your organization is terrible.
00:03:43.800 You are attacking our news organization. 0.99
00:03:44.760 Your organization is terrible.
00:03:46.240 We have basically a liberal heckler who snuck in here today. 0.98
00:03:51.000 These newspapers and the media are totally dishonest people, folks.
00:03:54.280 Remember them.
00:03:55.120 Contrary to the false and dishonest reporting of the liberal media.
00:03:59.380 Yeah, I think the media is the opposition party in many ways.
00:04:02.140 I think CP should stop acting as the communications arm of the PMO.
00:04:06.000 You know, when I look at the media, how one-sided it is, how biased it is.
00:04:10.560 Well, first of all, your question was typical of CBC, biased again.
00:04:14.480 You see, Pure Polyev is a deeply nasty human being because he takes issue with media pitching very slanted questions at him, either trying to accuse him of being far right with nothing to back up the premise of the question, or because they basically just act as stenographers for the liberals and come in to say, well, hey, the liberal minister or Justin Trudeau said this.
00:04:39.560 So why are you saying this, Pure Polyev?
00:04:41.420 That's all the questions that Pure Polyev seems to get.
00:04:44.400 It's always pushing the idea that somehow he's in the wrong because the liberal government said this.
00:04:50.020 So why are you opposing them?
00:04:51.440 We have a very oddly pro-institution media that whoever is in charge of the institutions, if they say something, contradicting them is very vulgar and nasty.
00:05:02.180 So they act like Pure Polyev is vulgar and nasty because he calls out the Bank of Canada for putting out bad information or for printing too much money and contributing to the massive amount of inflation in this country.
00:05:13.880 He goes after the environment minister and calls him crazy.
00:05:18.020 And he actually calls out media for lying or trying to smear him.
00:05:22.660 And that's considered a nasty thing to do because you don't attack the media institutions.
00:05:27.480 You do not attack government institutions.
00:05:29.300 As a conservative opposition leader, your job, like Aaron O'Toole, is to lose with grace, not actually challenge any money and make good reforms in government.
00:05:38.840 You're just supposed to sit there, make minor complaints, and at the end of the day, bow out and let the liberals win.
00:05:44.120 And it's stuff like this where they think that Pure Polyev is in the wrong.
00:05:48.860 Notice that they didn't add in the Apple clip because that actually, because, you know, that is so viral of a moment they don't want to bring more attention to it.
00:05:56.960 On the topic, I mean, in terms of your sort of strategy currently, you're obviously taking the populist pathway.
00:06:05.060 What does that mean?
00:06:07.260 Well, appealing to people's more emotional levels, I would guess.
00:06:12.200 I mean, certainly you tap very strong ideological language quite frequently.
00:06:19.520 Like what?
00:06:21.920 Left wing, you know, this and that, right wing, you know, I mean, it's that type of ideological thing.
00:06:27.560 I never really talk about left or right.
00:06:28.860 But anyways, a lot of people...
00:06:29.420 I don't really believe in that.
00:06:30.560 Okay.
00:06:31.360 A lot of people would say that you're simply taking a page out of the Donald Trump book.
00:06:36.680 Like which people would say that?
00:06:38.160 Well, I'm sure a great many Canadians, but...
00:06:42.600 Well, apparently only the communications team in the Liberal Party of Canada actually says those things.
00:06:48.200 And isn't it telling when someone is actually pressed with a substantive, like, page that Pure Polyev takes out of Donald Trump's playbook?
00:06:55.300 The only thing we can ever get out of people is either ums and ahs like that reporter, or we get people like the Liberal Party of Canada basically saying Donald Trump and Pure Polyev both said the word crazy in their lives.
00:07:06.960 Ergo, I don't know.
00:07:09.300 They're both trying to destroy Canada and America or something like that.
00:07:12.200 I don't get it.
00:07:12.800 But anyways, that should be it for me today.
00:07:15.940 My usual fundraising link is in the description of the video below.
00:07:20.480 It's a give, send, go link.
00:07:21.420 I'm being sued myself and the National Telegraph being sued by a billionaire.
00:07:25.040 It's a completely frivolous lawsuit based on us printing things that had been known about the person for years before and were not at all false.
00:07:32.900 But he's just trying to go after us, assuming that we could not pay for the lawsuit and that he can dig a false apology out of us to pretend like everything ever said about him has actually proven to be untrue.
00:07:44.100 It's just bullying behavior.
00:07:45.680 And then also I'm running for the Calgary Signal Hill Conservative Party nomination.
00:07:49.360 So if you live in Calgary Signal Hill or if you live in the west side of Calgary, check which riding you live in.
00:07:53.800 Because if you live in Calgary Signal Hill, buy a membership and vote for me number one on your ballot.
00:07:58.300 We need real conservatives in a new conservative government.
00:08:01.520 Too many red Tories will mean that there's going to be a lot of people sitting around the government pumping the brakes whenever substantial reform is going to be made.
00:08:08.920 You can't, you know, we can't improve Canada with too many O'Toole types sitting around the party. 0.51
00:08:13.340 So if there's a nomination in your riding, even if it's not Signal Hill, check who the candidates are and make sure you get a pro-reform MP in your riding.
00:08:21.980 Anyways, that should be it for me today.
00:08:23.820 I hope everyone has a great rest of their evening.