The Liberal leadership race is a disaster - Christy Clark caught in big lie
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The Liberal Leadership Race is off to a strange start, but I m here to break it down for you guys today. The Liberals have guaranteed that this race is going to be an on fire clown car, there is a $350k buy-in for this race, the Liberals have finally adjusted their membership rules so people who aren t even permanent residents can t vote, and the candidates who are even higher profile have either failed to launch their campaign, or have been completely destroyed by the dumbest lie I ve ever heard in my life.
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Hello everyone, welcome back to the Wyatt Claypool Show, and well, the Liberal leadership race is off
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to a strange start so far, but I'm here to break it down for you guys today. The Liberals have
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guaranteed that this race is going to be an on-fire clown car. There is a $350,000 buy-in for this
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race. I know inflation has sucked under the Liberals, but the Conservatives got criticized
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for making their buy-in $300,000, and just a couple years later, it's $350,000 in a Liberal
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leadership race that's not even going to last more than two months. Ballots get counted on March 9th,
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which really means that voting is on, like, March 1st or 2nd, because if you don't have your ballot
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in the mail by those dates, they're probably not actually going to get counted. The Liberals have
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finally adjusted their membership rules so people who aren't even permanent residents can't vote,
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or, like, you know, Xi Jinping's son, but the thing is still going to be an absolute disaster,
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because there's almost no security on fact-checking whether or not people are really permanent residents
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or not. I don't think the Liberals have the resources to track that information down in the
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short period of time that their race is lasting for, but who am I to judge? Let's go over some of
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the weirder things that have happened in this leadership race so far. In the future, I'm
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definitely going to make a detailed video on every single candidate, what their background is, and
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kind of what lane they fill in the Liberal leadership, but let's just go over what the news of the race
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has been so far. We've had MPs we expected to jump into the race, just suddenly pull back the last
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second. Maybe that's because of the crazy high buy-in, or maybe someone told them, definitely please do not
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run. And then, though, we've had a bunch of people, we don't even know who they are, throwing their hat
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into the ring. Chandra Aria and Frank Bayless, I doubt you guys have ever heard of those two people.
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And then, the candidates who are even higher profile have either failed to launch their campaign so far,
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or, in the case of Christy Clark, she launched her campaign and then immediately torpedoed into the
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ground and exploded over the dumbest lie I've ever heard in my life. So, we're going to break this all down.
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We're going to start with the Christy Clark story, but first, I just want to remind you guys, hey, if you like
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We're trying to get to 100,000 subscribers by December of this year. But, without further ado,
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let's jump into Christy Clark's launch and then her quick dive into complete irrelevancy in this race.
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Like, maybe she's going to stick around and really do something, but I think that this basically cut
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her brakes right away. So, Christy Clark has started trying to market herself in this race as a lifelong
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liberal here to save Canada from the clutches of Pierre Polyev. The problem with that, other than
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it's completely stupid, because if you actually polled Canadians on what they want in government,
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it looks a lot like Pierre Polyev, but Christy Clark hasn't even been a lifelong liberal. In fact,
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she was just a conservative as of just a little bit more than a year ago. Check out this clip from
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the CBC when they asked her about her claims that she's always been a liberal.
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You have called yourself a lifelong liberal, but you voted in the last federal conservative
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leadership race. That would have required you to cancel your liberal party membership in order
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to join the conservative party. How long were you a member of the conservative party, Christy Clark?
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Never. But you voted in the race, did you not? No, I didn't. I didn't.
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She even has, like, the liar smile. And the thing, we're going to get into this,
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but, like, what is the point of even lying here?
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And I never got a membership, and I never got a ballot. What I did, though, is...
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I will say, Christy Clark, we reached out to the conservative party, who told us,
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It has got to be a big step for you to join the conservatives. Why did you do it?
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Because I think that we need a leader. There is only one leader who's running for office right now,
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who is going to be able to unite the country, I think, and who's going to bring a moderation
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and a willingness to talk to the people with whom he disagrees, and that's Jean Charest.
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I'm joining the party so that I can support my friend, Mr. Charest.
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It's not even just Christy Clark's word that she joined the party.
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Later, Jenny Byrne, the top advisor to Pierre Polyev, released her membership record
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showing that she became a member in 2022 and then cancelled at some time in 2023.
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By the way, when she was backing Jean Charest, she even said she was backing him
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because she needed somebody who could beat Justin Trudeau.
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Despite the fact that she's now been running around for the last few months
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pretending that she's a big fan of Trudeau, but we just need a stronger leader
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I thought the Liberal government was the problem, but apparently they're all cool now
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that they might make you the Prime Minister for like two weeks before
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Pierre Polyev absolutely caves in all of your political dreams.
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When someone lies about stuff this stupid, you gotta wonder what else they would be willing to lie about.
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Like, I don't need to read this full statement here, so I'm not going to expand it,
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but this was what Christy Clark posted after it was clear she was lying.
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Lying for no reason. Lying over something stupid.
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I have always been clear that I supported Jean Charest to stop Pierre Polyev.
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Specifically, she said she was supporting Jean Charest to stop Trudeau
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He's the most divisive politician we've seen in years,
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and I felt it was my duty as a Canadian to stop him
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and his movement forward in his attempt to become leader.
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I just feel all the consultants on her campaign telling her,
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Oh, no, no, don't say that you have any connection to the Conservative Party.
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Like, guys, the Conservatives are actually very popular right now.
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But if you're running for the Liberal Party of Canada,
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She has no claim to the center or the center-right
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She toured when she was the Premier of British Columbia,
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even though those two do not line up politically at all.
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doubling down on how liberal and progressive she is
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There is going to be a bunch of true-and-on people
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you should be trying to run away from Justin Trudeau
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I will be getting rid of the consumer carbon tax
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that absolutely undermines her credibility on anything
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because she has shown that she's willing to lie
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We have, I'm going to say Frank Bayless for a bit later.
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somewhat of an oddball kind of person to be running.
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I don't want to be rude to this guy or anything,
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oddly, a platform that I can sometimes agree with.
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So I guess if you guys are not conservative members
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And which prime minister has ever talked about that?