Media is attacking Polievre after polls show he is popular!
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Summary
Wyatt Clunis goes on a political rant about how the media and legacy media are spinning a false narrative about the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada and why it s time for Patrick Polyvencing to go.
Transcript
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because I've been seeing so many stupid things coming out from the legacy media
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as well as naysayers of the conservatives that prove why political narratives are so stupid.
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Whenever someone's aggressively trying to spin a political narrative,
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it probably means that whatever they're trying to tell you is the opposite of the truth.
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Here, Polyev and the Conservative Party just had three different pollsters come out over the past two days
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showing them with really good numbers, and more importantly, Mark Carney with bad numbers,
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and suddenly we have all of these news articles and individuals coming out
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saying that here, Polyev's leadership of the Conservative Party is on the rocks,
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and that his position is untenable, and that he's super unpopular and all this stuff,
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and it's almost like they're only spinning this anti-Polyev narrative because he is in fact succeeding.
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Was the last election loss a setback? Definitely.
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Is having people like Michael Ma cross the floor and join the Liberals bad?
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Yes, whoever greenlit that candidate for an appointment should never be allowed to vet candidates again.
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But, overall, is the Conservative narrative and their election prospects weak right now?
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Not at all. A lot of people are not impressed with Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberals.
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There's a lot of people who still like them, and that's mostly just a consequence of the fact
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that we've kind of entered an era of Canadian politics where we've gone back to, like, a two-party system
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like we used to at the start of Confederation, where it's pretty much just the Liberals and the Conservatives.
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And so that means if people don't like Conservatives, they're mostly just going to vote Liberal.
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But even in the scenario where Mark Carney, the Prime Minister, and he's able to do a lot of stuff to try
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and buoy his popularity, you know, cut taxes or cut regulations, try and get the economy going,
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he's failing to do it because, in his heart, he's a leftist.
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He doesn't want to make the budget more responsible.
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He doesn't want to get to a trade agreement with Donald Trump and the Americans.
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In fact, he's trying to make trade deals with China and European countries we don't really trade with all that much.
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He's just been doing a lot of busy work, and I think people notice that.
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And because Mark Carney's popularity is falling off by quite a bit in the Main Street poll,
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he's literally in negative numbers now when it comes to his overall approval rating,
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now the media needs to attack Polyev and make him the big bad boogeyman where,
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if there's an election, remember, guys, we can't let this guy get into office
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because something, something, vague accusation.
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This is patently insane that this was written and published in the last 12 hours.
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From National Newswatch, posting this on X, it says,
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And she is some advisor to a cabinet minister, or maybe he, I don't know, back in 2008.
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So apparently someone who used to be like the chief of staff or some advisor to a cabinet minister
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back in 2008 says that Polyev's not so cool, and you better not vote for him
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upon the leadership review in January at the Calgary Convention.
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By the way, I will be at the Calgary Convention as a delegate alternate,
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which is actually kind of nice because it doesn't mean I have to vote on anything.
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Polyev, from my estimation, is probably going to win his leadership review by 80 to 90%.
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Maybe I could see a scenario where some people are getting cold feet over some silly stuff,
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and he gets only 75, but he'll be in a fine position.
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Yes, there are people who are upset with how the nominations were handled before the last election.
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As you guys know, with my lore, I was kicked out of the nomination in the riding of Calgary,
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Signal Hill, but I never thought that that was pure Polyev's fault.
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I thought that was the fault of advisors who have mostly been either demoted or completely sidelined since then,
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and the party has actually fixed the nomination process,
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and they're severely limiting the amount of people that the leader's office can appoint.
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With the 90 appointments, it wasn't like Polyev was going around and picking guys he likes.
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It was probably his staff saying, you should appoint this guy,
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and then he did it because, well, he has to get back to actual work,
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and they were supposed to pick good candidates.
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But regardless, other than some people who think, like, Polyev needs to be more like Doug Ford or Tim Houston,
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And it would be very difficult to name anyone that you think could do theoretically a better job.
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And you may even think that someone may do a better job, but are they electable enough?
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And I'm not saying electable like, oh, they're too conservative,
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but, like, they don't have the name recognition or brand recognition.
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I like Jamil Javani and Pierre Polyev probably about equally.
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but he's not really at the level yet where he has the name recognition to do it,
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and I think he knows that, and I don't think he's actually gunning for leadership in any way.
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But this is going to take me to the next stupid thing that I've seen recently.
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It's people trying to, again, gin up this idea, this narrative,
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that somehow Jamil Javani is now trying to undermine Pierre Polyev,
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because he offered to help Mark Carney with Donald Trump
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because of Jamil Javani's personal friendship with, what is it, J.D. Vance,
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Watch this one-minute clip, and then I need to show you the post that,
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Rupa Supramania had made, basically trying to gin up this narrative
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that somehow there is trouble in conservative land because of what Jamil is doing here.
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I haven't talked to him a lot recently when we have spoken to him
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about our fantasy football team, which we are going through the playoffs right now,
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But, yeah, I mean, look, it's a difficult situation,
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just like the politics, right, because if my party were in power
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and I could actually reach out to people in Washington and say,
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okay, can we try to resolve some of this trade dispute or get a deal going,
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there's not an obvious way for me to inject myself into that conversation.
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Now, I will say, I have offered Mark Carney to help,
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look, we need a multi-partisan, all-hands-on-deck approach.
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And, frankly, we saw with the whole Doug Ford commercial debacle
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what happens when there's not a good strategy in place
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Maybe that means there's a way that I can help.
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And, you know, my constituents in Bowmanville, Oshawa North
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the prime minister has to make that decision, not me.
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but you guys just need this context for what Jamil Giovanni said.
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And before I actually go to what Rupert Supramania said,
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And I think you'll notice that the narrative that Rupa is trying to spin
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is pretty much the exact same narrative that David Cochran
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and the liberal cheerleaders on the CBC are trying to spin.
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But does Pierre Polyev know he's offering his services to Mark Carney?
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Because it seems like there's a skip being stepped to say
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how involved was the leader's office in this interview?
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And I tell them I will happily talk to any MP who wants to talk to me,
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regardless of whether or not they get a sanctioned approval to speak with me.
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It's just an interesting offer to be made to the prime minister.
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In the sense that I know what they're trying to do.
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And it's kind of intelligent, trying to create this public rift
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Jamil Javani and Pierre Polyev do not have a problem.
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If they do have a problem, it wouldn't be known to anybody or any of them.
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Here's what, I need to go back to what also what David Cochran's doing at the start of this.
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And they're using the fact that they have nothing to try and spin a controversy.
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Does Pierre Polyev know he's offering his services to Mark Kearney?
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Does Pierre Polyev know he's offering his services to Mark Kearney?
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People have been asking questions if this was sanctioned or not.
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They literally don't have any information to suggest it was unsanctioned.
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But they're just, oh, we're just, it's basically the conspiracy theorists just asking questions.
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David Cochran is a liberal conspiracy theorist.
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He's there being like, oh, well, I'm just asking questions.
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Just tell, David, just put out the smear directly.
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Just say that I'm accusing Jamil Giovanni of going behind Polyev's back and trying to undermine him.
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So Rupert here put out this post, reacting to the original clip of Jamil talking.
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Four possible interpretations of Jamil's offer to help Carney with the U.S.
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citing his personal friendship with J.D. Vance.
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One, did this offer to help Carney have Polyev's blessing?
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If not, he's doing an end run around the leader, suggesting that Polyev's grip on the caucus may be weakening further.
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Number two, he's telegraphing leadership ambition within the CPC, the Conservative Party of Canada.
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Number three, he could be signaling openness to crossing the floor, though it's unclear why he would want to do that.
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As ideologically, he's way further to the right than Carney and the Liberals.
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In other words, I don't believe he's a red Tory.
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And I look at this, and like, can we even go, I think I have my post right here about it.
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We're not going to read through my thing, just so this doesn't just become the Wyatt Claypool reading hour.
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Rupert cannot rub a couple brain cells together and think,
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do you know what the obvious explanation for what Jamil Giovanni's doing right here is?
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He's trying to embarrass Mark Carney, because guess what?
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Mark Carney is not going to accept Jamil Giovanni's help.
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And as Mark Carney keeps fumbling the trade talks with the Trump administration,
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They're going to look really, really bad not accepting the help of the man who shared a dorm room
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Maybe not best, best friends, but, you know, like, very, very solid friends.
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What you do is you offer your opponent to help when you know they will say no,
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and then they will look even worse as they keep failing,
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having not accepted the hand that you were giving them.
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But, again, Rupa and the CBC and many other people are trying to spin this narrative
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Did he ask Pierre Polyev if he was allowed to wear that tie in that interview?
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we just got word that Arnold Veersen ate a steak dinner at wherever.
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Because we had three pollsters come out recently,
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two of them showing the conservatives win the election,
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and Mark Carney's approval rating in Main Street,
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Mark Carney's approval rating slowly dropping in line with the lack of achievements.
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And now he is literally at a negative position.
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who is always kind of able to hold on to a positive approval rating.
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But he's incompetent enough, apparently, to hate now.
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when previous pollsters were showing him at, like,
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and a lot of the conservatives are going to say Polyev.
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And the Conservative Party is, by the way, not a cult.
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well, I like Carney, but I still vote Conservative
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People take that question to mean too many different things.
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The only questions that really matter in Canadian politics
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Do you approve or disapprove of this specific individual,
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but do you like this person or dislike this person?
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And then if you ask people very specific policy questions,
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Who do you trust more when it comes to international relations?
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when the conservatives are actually having a lot of good news come out,
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a bunch of influencers on X start trying to hit the bug lights
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well, this actually shows that Polyev is really unpopular.
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why didn't he call the Christmas election during the budget?
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Well, it still didn't matter even if all the conservatives voted for the budget,
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because no one's stupid enough to do a Christmas election.
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It's only been seven months since the last election.
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And you would look bad by calling a Christmas election.
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forcing them to vote in an election they did not want.
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The average person would see an election get called
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I'm going to vote for the liberals out of spite or stay home.
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I have the membership program on the channel now
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And it makes me less reliant on the YouTube algorithm
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It's kind of ridiculous that they even allow AI content