The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - December 23, 2023


Trudeau admits he doesn't understand economics


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8 minutes

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186.96953

Word count

1,520

Sentence count

101

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Misogyny

1

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Hate speech

1

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Justin Trudeau admitted to the fact that he doesn't actually know what the economy even is or how it operates. In a bizarre interview, he tried to paint a picture of the economy as somehow being the economy of Canada. It's not.

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00:00:00.000 We all already knew it, but Justin Trudeau came out graciously yesterday and admitted to the fact that he doesn't actually know what the economy even is or how it operates.
00:00:11.140 In this really odd interview where I think he's trying to be more like Kirpalov by being more freewheeling and pretending like he's willing to do all-access interviews,
00:00:20.520 basically described every single thing that's not the economy as somehow being the economy of Canada.
00:00:27.120 It's really hard to explain without me playing the clip, but here it is.
00:00:30.940 It's confusing, but by the end, you'll understand that Trudeau doesn't understand anything.
00:00:35.500 When we got elected in 2015, you remember this.
00:00:39.400 We were talking about fighting climate change and protecting the environment.
00:00:43.500 We were talking about women's equality.
00:00:47.900 We were talking about inclusion and diversity.
00:00:52.940 We were talking about reconciliation.
00:00:54.660 And people sort of looked at me and said, well, when are you going to start talking about the economy?
00:01:00.660 I said, duh.
00:01:03.180 Climate change is the economy.
00:01:05.240 Women in the workforce is economy. 1.00
00:01:07.560 Inclusion and diversity and bringing in more immigrants, that's the economy.
00:01:11.840 Reconciliation, you want to get lithium mines built?
00:01:14.700 You want to be able to export our hydrogen and build energy solutions in a net-zero world?
00:01:19.640 We need to rebuild trust with indigenous people in order to get these projects built.
00:01:24.820 It's all the economy.
00:01:26.240 And right now, eight years in, not only are people beginning to see, oh, yeah, that sort of comes together, but the world is seeing that.
00:01:35.780 Okay, let's be very clear.
00:01:40.240 Nobody is beginning to see somehow like the liberals' agenda starting to work.
00:01:44.760 If anything, what Justin Trudeau just said there is that only now are people coming around to his ideas.
00:01:51.920 And again, there's no evidence anyone's actually coming around.
00:01:53.940 So what he's actually saying is no one has actually seen how the liberal plan works.
00:02:00.280 And even now, he's just having to lie about people kind of understanding his vision.
00:02:04.720 But none of that stuff is actually the economy.
00:02:07.100 You can say it's important, it's good, but it's not the actual economy.
00:02:11.680 They're like, this tree behind me, this Christmas tree, is not the economy.
00:02:15.160 This painting is not the economy.
00:02:17.200 But any objects or just vague concept to Justin Trudeau, if he can draw the thinnest line between that and the economy, that is the economy.
00:02:26.940 And, you know, he thinks this is a great get a jail free card for never actually putting out a coherent plan on how the liberals are going to grow the economy, create jobs without just, you know, buying jobs through subsidies.
00:02:41.000 He can't actually tell you how he's going to deliver any of this stuff.
00:02:44.460 So he's just decided to say, you know, all that random social issue stuff I've been doing and failing on, like, has he gotten one energy project built on indigenous land?
00:02:54.480 He's the one who usually attempts to block them.
00:02:56.680 So I don't even know what he's on about there.
00:02:58.160 But he hasn't done, accomplished anything.
00:02:59.860 So he at least wants to pretend all his social crusading is somehow economic adjacent or related.
00:03:05.820 It's not.
00:03:06.420 But you might think because that whole video was clipped as if it was just grabbing out a quote and then reposting it on social media and it wasn't actually the original interview clip.
00:03:17.820 It might have been a conservative account that was taking a ridiculous statement by Justin Trudeau and trying to embarrass him.
00:03:23.200 This was an actual clip that was made up from the interview that the Liberal Party of Canada posted itself.
00:03:29.840 They thought this was good.
00:03:30.920 They thought this was building up your confidence in Justin Trudeau continuing to be the prime minister.
00:03:36.460 There was another great clip that was also posted.
00:03:40.240 This one was by Ontario Proud, or I think Canada Proud, which is indeed an anti-liberal organization.
00:03:47.660 But Justin Trudeau apparently does not want to resign.
00:03:51.000 And if anything, I actually think that's a good thing.
00:03:53.040 I think Canadians want to see Justin Trudeau out of office, not by his own hand, but by Canadians voting him out.
00:04:00.000 But here's that clip.
00:04:01.080 You have, you got a lot of fight in you.
00:04:04.260 It's, it's, you're not going anywhere, are you?
00:04:07.200 You know, everyone talking about, talking about, oh, maybe it's the walk in the snow.
00:04:12.460 This coming leap year, right?
00:04:14.000 It's like, Jesus Christ.
00:04:15.420 What a pain in the ass that thing turned out to be for you, eh?
00:04:18.320 But, you know, okay, first of all, when my dad was my age, he still had 12 years of prime ministering ahead of him.
00:04:35.160 Like, the idea that somehow because his dad was in politics more, it's ridiculous that I'm going to leave office.
00:04:43.900 Like, your dad was also not a very good prime minister, but he was at least professional and somewhat charismatic.
00:04:50.220 Justin Trudeau, I've never voted for him, never wanted to vote for him.
00:04:53.500 But you could at least admit he started out as more charismatic at the start of his career as the leader of the Liberal Party.
00:04:59.460 And then he has sort of declined heavily.
00:05:02.480 There's just nothing left for him to do.
00:05:04.400 And I was, I love the fake laugh there.
00:05:06.620 This is the most set up scripted interview you'll ever watch.
00:05:10.020 It's this freewheeling thing where Justin Trudeau is like lounging back and they're drinking IPAs or something like that.
00:05:15.260 But then they're like talking about, and they want to see me take a walk in the snow.
00:05:18.820 Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.
00:05:21.160 I don't know what's going on here.
00:05:22.800 It might be just some spasm that I'm unaware of that both of these gentlemen have.
00:05:26.320 But this is not authentic in any way.
00:05:29.160 It doesn't come off that way.
00:05:30.680 And you can tell it's a bad interview when the conservative media accounts are taking clips out of it and posting it even before the Liberals posted their clip.
00:05:40.300 I saw so many people clipping stuff from this interview because it was just, it was very, it's an entire video of Justin Trudeau trying to act like he actually could come back and win.
00:05:51.300 And the Liberals are starting to create this narrative that, you know, Justin Trudeau's ascendant and pure poly of might have bewitched Canadians and made them support him temporarily.
00:06:00.540 But Justin Trudeau is coming back because look how confident he is.
00:06:03.940 He knows he's going to win.
00:06:05.400 Justin Trudeau knows he's going to lose.
00:06:06.660 He just doesn't want to lose so badly that he embarrasses himself in 2025.
00:06:11.540 And he also wants to stay in office longer than his father was.
00:06:15.880 So, you know, it's not, it's not a great look for him.
00:06:19.120 But I guess he thinks that this is going to sort of re-energize his base, like, you know, his moment to see, like, you know, pretend he's still in charge and is inflappable.
00:06:28.980 Even though, if you've actually noticed in the past few months, Justin Trudeau has not been doing a lot of interviews as has been staying off camera as much as possible.
00:06:36.840 Because he realized, and the Liberal Party realizes, the more Canadians see him, the more they do not like him.
00:06:42.980 And that's a great place for the country to currently be in.
00:06:45.760 Anyways, that should be it for me today.
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00:06:52.940 I'm being sued by a billionaire.
00:06:54.500 I'm $25,000 deep in a lawsuit defense that I'm waging.
00:06:59.140 I'm easily winning this case.
00:07:01.620 The guy suing me literally has no evidence that myself or TNT did anything wrong or a guest writer.
00:07:06.620 He's suing over an article that they wrote.
00:07:09.980 But, you know, whatever.
00:07:11.060 We'll fight it out as long as we have to.
00:07:13.140 Because, you know, bending to these sorts of people ends up just emboldening them to sue more people for frivolous reasons.
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00:08:04.200 But that should be it for me today, and I hope everyone has a great Christmas season.