John Rustad and the BC Tories were victorious in the Global News-British Columbia debate last night. David Eby, on the other hand, looked like a complete idiot the entire time. I break down the entire debate and give my thoughts on what went wrong.
00:00:00.000Last night, the Global News-British-Columbia provincial election debate was a decisive victory for John Rustad and the BC Conservatives over Premier David Eby and the BC NDP.
00:00:12.700But don't take my word for it, just check the BC NDP's own social media.
00:00:18.060As you scroll through this, you can see them posting some clips from this debate, but they really don't post that many.
00:00:25.440And if you go through them, the ones they have posted are actually the same clips, some of them.
00:00:31.060This was not a good performance for David Eby.
00:00:34.260He was petulant the entire time. He talked down to people. He was smug and superior.
00:00:40.360They mostly only posted stuff like this, which was just text summations, the best possible summation of how a certain segment of the debate had gone for David Eby.
00:00:51.780The entire debate, if you watched it, and I encourage you to watch the full thing for yourself if you haven't, or you're skeptical if I'm only saying this because I am a conservative supporter.
00:01:03.380The entire debate, David Eby sat like this, terrible posture, staring at the person that he was debating on his left or right, whether he was looking at John Rustad or Sonia Firstano.
00:01:19.160And I'm going to get to Sonia Firstano later as well.
00:01:22.260I have a lot of people in the pundit class on social media saying that, oh, she was the clear debate winner, which I find is like the most typically Canadian thing to say,
00:01:32.800that the irrelevant third-party left-wing lady or Jagmeet Singh, the irrelevant left-wing guy, was the winner of the debate because they sounded very confident and strong in the utterly crazy garbage that they were saying.
00:01:47.620Again, I will get to that a little bit later.
00:01:50.600John Rustad won because he was the adult in the room.
00:01:57.040He doesn't get extremely passionate and emotional when he speaks.
00:02:01.080And if anything, that's a big advantage because David Eby was adolescent the entire time.
00:02:07.580It was like being in a car ride between a parent and their teenage son, and their teenage son has become a left-wing, yappy socialist who won't let their parent actually finish a sentence before jumping in and trying to correct little things that they said that are absolutely technically, you know, they're technically wrong, but the person's still absolutely correct.
00:02:32.740And if you think that this was going to be, this is going to turn any moderate, undecided voters towards the NDP, like, you're not watching the same debate as I am.
00:02:42.800I want to sort of queue up some clips here.
00:02:46.600Like, we'll start off with a couple of clips that I think really highlight just how bad the look was from David Eby.
00:02:54.760I'm going to be playing some clips from the B.C. Conservatives' social media, but I'm going to be playing some from other accounts as well.
00:03:02.260This is a good general view of what the debate looked like and the sort of answers that John Rustad was giving.
00:03:09.440In British Columbia, David Eby has had seven years.
00:03:14.060We have seen, for example, in Surrey, where people are being blackmailed and threatened on a regular basis.
00:03:20.260We're seeing gangs and gang activity happening at an extraordinary level, people being killed by these gangs.
00:03:26.280We have not seen any action that has actually taken anything.
00:03:30.340And David Eby, we have seen in some of these safe supply locations, we have actually seen people arrested and distributing drugs in those facilities.
00:03:41.620These sort of things need to be shut down when that happens.
00:03:45.640We have to have a zero-tolerance policy for this type of an approach in British Columbia.
00:04:01.220I guarantee even as I'm playing this clip, if you're watching it and not just listening along, you're probably staring at David Eby the entire time in a bad way.
00:04:14.560He cuts in with stuff that you can't even barely hear.
00:04:17.920Just kind of because he's not facing the podium where his mic is.
00:04:21.180So he's just jabbering at John Rustad there, like he's a senile man who just walked into the debate and started talking over the television.
00:04:33.320I'm going to keep going and looking at more of these clips.
00:04:36.540I think they did a really good, like, also John, despite not being a fiery speaker, had really good moments, had really good lines that he got up during the debate.
00:04:46.260And the debate is always about the clips in the modern era.
00:04:49.640So many people don't actually watch the debate live.
00:04:53.620They consume the debate through the clips that are posted to social media.
00:04:59.600Even that clip, one of them that the NDP had shared, it was processed by Luke LeBrun from Press Progress, a Marxist rag, where he claimed that John Rustad had said something paternalistic about indigenous people, acted like their children.
00:05:16.160No, he said that we want to create more opportunities for future generations on indigenous land and that every parent wants that for their kids in British Columbia.
00:05:28.000That's literally describing a parent-child relationship between indigenous parents and their children.
00:05:34.080But, oh my goodness, I guess John Rustad's a big old racist because we can reprocess all of his words into, not even the worst interpretation, into a brand new sentence that was never said.
00:05:45.140But here's John Rustad getting off a line about safe supply drugs, or sorry, not safe supply drugs, although this would be, implicate those.
00:05:53.560Talking about plastic straws being banned, but drugs being okay.
00:05:56.700We just need to get rid of the stuff that sucks in BC. Paper straws suck. I'm sorry, we've got to get rid of those. It doesn't work for people in BC.
00:06:05.460You know, there's a little meme I saw where there was two lines of white powder, supposedly cocaine, and a plastic straw, and the bottom sign said, one of these is illegal in BC.
00:06:16.740And that, to me, tells a great story in terms of David Eby's British Columbia.
00:06:20.360No middle-class person is watching this debate thinking that, John, you're being simplistic.
00:06:27.660And that's the delivery that Eby had in response to John the entire time.
00:06:31.480Well, John, you don't know quite what you're talking about.
00:06:55.940The Green Party leader, who's supposed to, in theory, also be opposing David Eby, is there saying that John's, like, some capitalist fear-monger.
00:07:05.120And when I say it in that way, I'm being pretty serious that she actively, like, was just the most openly socialistic person I've ever seen during a Canadian debate.
00:07:17.040Like, take a look at this, where she says that LNG is worse than coal.
00:07:21.320But under the NDP, we've gone from zero LNG facilities to a potential of seven.
00:07:27.200We have a government that is all in on a fuel that is now proven to be worse than coal.
00:07:33.080How? It has, like, I think, like, a third or a quarter of the emissions of coal.
00:07:40.240I don't know where she's getting this stuff from.
00:07:42.640I guess she thinks that we are going to propel this province to the future on the backs of farmers markets or whatever her Green Party plan is.
00:07:51.400Like, she reminds me of the type of person who repeats this dumb line, that we should be investing more in the education industry.
00:08:19.980Now, Rob Shaw, like, I want to maybe go see if I can find this tweet from me because I thought it was a good way of putting it.
00:08:26.540But, like, Rob Shaw, a reporter for the Orca and other, I think, the Vancouver Sun as well, said that it was a, that Versano won the debate despite the fact that she said stuff like that and also condemned resource development because it was part of the boom-bust economic cycle.
00:08:44.740Because I guess her plan is just to bust all the time so that there's no technically boom-bust because it's always just a big flat line.
00:09:19.820And overall, he did way better in contrast to how bad David Eby was, who Rob Shaw had classified as the debate meh candidate, that Eby just had a meh performance.
00:09:33.580He had the performance that everyone was staring at for bad reasons people were staring at how David Eby was doing because it was weird.
00:09:41.580His debate performance was very odd, and you got the impression that David Eby thinks he's smarter than you in a toxic way.
00:09:49.220Not because he is smart, but just because he thinks it.
00:09:52.580Anyways, I actually have to throw in my charge here.
00:09:54.980For some reason, I didn't notice my laptop was about to run out of power.
00:09:57.720But I want to get back to some more of these clips.
00:10:03.260Maybe let's watch some more of these clips because I think they're quite good.
00:10:06.600Here's another one where it's David Eby and John Rusted on the split screen and Eby looking absolutely lost on stage.
00:10:16.360And John just saying things that everyone agrees with.
00:10:19.340Everyone agrees with what John is saying in these clips.
00:10:21.860And that's why, actually, I think David Eby is acting so irritable and making little snide jabs and looking weird with the camera.
00:10:29.320Because he's trying to, like, almost implicate or, like, insinuate that whatever John is saying is bad.
00:10:35.900At the same time, nobody watching at home, especially undecided voters who care about affordability, crime, drugs, and all these things, that they're going to agree with him.
00:10:45.320So you can't tell these people that whatever John's saying isn't rational and common sense.
00:11:14.400And so this is the reality we're facing in British Columbia.
00:11:16.940That is more money just in the carbon tax saving alone than what he is proposing with his taxes.
00:11:21.880And for him to come out and say that $900 right away for the rest of that rebate in terms of rent.
00:11:28.200And in terms of mortgages, those are people, hardworking people in British Columbia that will get that benefit right away.
00:11:34.040And I wish we could bring the whole thing in, except that the fiscal mismanagement and a $14 billion deficit being proposed by David Eby will take away the future of people.
00:12:08.680This reminds me of another BCNDP candidate that at their local debates actually said he will talk slower to the Green Party candidate because she's from Alberta.
00:12:18.640And then they made a jab at her because he got the former Green Party leader's endorsement.
00:12:24.080Just obnoxious children are running for the BCNDP.
00:12:28.860And unfortunate to say, an obnoxious child is currently running the government.
00:12:34.320David Eby didn't even win a leadership race to become the premier.
00:12:39.700They bullied other BCNDP MLAs out of the race so that David Eby would win because even the party radicals who preferred Eby at the top of the party,
00:12:50.480they knew he probably could not win or at least win with confidence over a backbench MLA.
00:12:57.920That's how crappy David Eby is as a politician.
00:13:01.360And he has the audacity to, like, you know, throw his eyes at other people.
00:13:06.280This is what I said during the debate.
00:13:08.680And I had a lot of people liking this comment and viewing this comment because it was true.
00:13:13.900I said, the split screen on David Eby is so bad.
00:13:17.220He keeps staring at John Rusted and making really annoying snide jabs and adolescent interruptions.
00:13:23.180Just a terrible performance from someone who is supposed to be the premier.
00:13:26.400Rusted actually comes off like a real adult.
00:13:29.740And 21,000 people had seen that and 1.1 thousand people liked that.
00:13:34.480That's way more than we're liking comments from people like Rob Shaw and other media pundit hacks who were pretending that Eby had a good performance.
00:14:06.400The first to know would say something sanctimonious and Eby would stare at her and jab at her.
00:14:10.460Rusted would say something rational and Eby would stare at him and jab at him.
00:14:14.180And then when it was Eby's time to talk, it was just the idea that, you know, times are tough out there, guys.
00:14:20.480But we can't listen to the person to my left or right because they don't have rational solutions.
00:14:27.680And then he would just natter on about how what the government's already done is good enough and you should just be thankful that David Eby's in charge.
00:14:37.980Here's another clip of Sonia first to know if you want to know why I'm not talking about her all that much.
00:14:44.740What they don't want to focus on is the lack of investments under the B.C. Liberals, the cutting back of services that got us here.
00:14:56.160And they don't want to focus on the fact that for the last seven years, the NDP have not responded to this crisis in a way that actually averses.
00:15:21.120Yeah, it is a solvable problem that you can make everyone a little bit more poor so that nobody's driving a Lamborghini down a street where someone's homeless.
00:15:28.960We're all just walking because it first to know destroyed the economy.
00:15:33.320That was a really telling clip from her, too, because she even said the B.C. Liberals would cut a lot of the social services that got us here today.
00:15:44.260We are worse off because government service spending does not actually create wealth.
00:15:49.560And obviously, the B.C. Conservatives are not going to cut things like health care and basics that you had for 100 years.
00:15:55.700They're going to cut wasteful programs, programs that nobody needs, fake jobs, make work programs for government bureaucrats to be paid six figures to do nothing.
00:16:08.980And first, I know right there is just endorsing like basically like socialism straight out that she doesn't actually care if poor people get better off.
00:16:18.560She just wants poor people and the wealthy to look more similar because she doesn't want people like Chip Wilson having a nice house.
00:16:26.200That's her actual priority right there.
00:16:28.080If you know what she's saying, she her real goal is that she doesn't want the Lamborghinis on the road.
00:16:34.320Not that she doesn't want the person being homeless.
00:16:36.840That's that's on your first nose perspective.
00:16:39.380And also, most people in B.C. are homeless because of drugs and mental health issues.
00:16:44.480And so that is an issue that you'd have to solve through things like involuntary treatment.
00:16:49.940But she doesn't want to do that because she believes in the vision of safe supply and safe injection sites and homeless encampments.
00:16:58.540She's fine with it because it's egalitarian to just let people take over the streets, use any drugs they want and have the government pay for that lifestyle.
00:17:06.180Oh, and so here's a clip between where John, where Rustad was being attacked by by Evie.
00:17:15.480And I think he had a really good response here.
00:17:21.820You know, John Rustad and his candidates were providing donations to people who were protesting outside of hospitals, anti-vax convoy members.
00:17:31.120He's still an anti-vaxxer. He appeared in front of a group of people that called the so-called you called it the so-called covid vaccine.
00:17:38.960You said you wish you'd never been vaccinated.
00:17:40.300And then when someone said, do you think that public health professionals should be tried like Nazi war criminals?
00:17:46.580You said, well, we wouldn't do that in B.C., but we would support an international effort to do that, John.
00:18:13.100The reality is in British Columbia, I also promoted and supported people getting vaccinated, especially for seniors, especially for seniors in our communities.
00:19:47.920And Rachel Notley looked stupid because of all the crazy rhetoric that led up to that debate where you didn't notice anything that Rachel Notley was talking about in the way that Smith acted.
00:20:00.260And if anything, it made you think that Notley, rightfully so, was a liar.
00:20:04.780And this is the same type of situation.
00:20:11.380And then John shows up as the most rational person in the room who is the most professional and, like, well-kept person there.
00:20:20.620And you have David Eby throwing his arms around staring at people and attacking all the time, looking like the weirdo, looking like the erratic weirdo, while he's trying to pretend that the conservatives are crazy.
00:20:33.800I guarantee you there are going to be a lot of people in the next days who were undecided before that debate who are going to be siding with Rustad because they can't get over just how, like, Eby cannot learn.
00:20:47.680He comes across like someone who already has all the answers, and he's just here to point out how everyone's dumber than he is.
00:20:54.000At the same time, everyone knows his record.
00:21:00.040So why wouldn't you let John Rustad have a chance at becoming the premier?
00:21:06.120Unless you want, like, Commandant First to know over there.
00:21:09.040I'm not sure about you or I, but I don't think BC needs the killing fields or whatever she was proposing there to shut down oil and gas and logging and send us all out to, like, I don't know, just cultivate community gardens or whatever.
00:21:25.680At least they're probably going to rip away some crazy NDP voters who think that the NDP hasn't gone far enough at the same time that Rustad's taking all the common-sense rational voters who want something different.
00:21:37.400Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys.
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