The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Trudeau Liberal donations dry up & Canadian leftists adopt ＂weird＂ strategy

00:00:00.000 I'm just going to say it outright. It's been a fun day. I just noticed that some new fundraising

00:00:06.540 numbers have come in for the federal parties, and with no shock whatsoever, the liberals are

00:00:13.160 doing horribly. In a relative sense, they're effectively broke at this point. Yes, they're

00:00:18.800 bringing in millions of dollars, but compared to the conservatives, they cannot mount a federal

00:00:24.800 election campaign. This is the real reason that there isn't going to be a snap election anytime

00:00:31.460 soon. Trudeau isn't motivated to do it. Jagmeet Singh definitely isn't motivated to do it because

00:00:36.960 he's even brokered than Justin Trudeau is. He's only benefited from the fact that nobody expects

00:00:42.200 the NDP to do very well at all, so he only has to compete for maybe 40 or 50 ridings in a real way

00:00:49.420 where Trudeau has to try and compete across the entire country because the liberals are supposed

00:00:53.900 to be the natural governing party of Canada, and he does not have the money to do it at all.

00:00:59.840 In fact, the liberals' fundraising numbers are closer right now to the NDP than they are to

00:01:05.980 the conservatives. So here are the numbers right here. $20.5 million has been raised by pure

00:01:11.940 probably the conservatives so far in the year 2024. That's the first and second quarter's fundraising

00:01:17.880 numbers. Justin Trudeau and the liberals have only raised $6.9 million, and Jagmeet Singh and the NDP

00:01:23.780 have raised $2.5 million. I want to check my math on this, but I'm pretty sure I am right that I

00:01:30.160 checked it a little bit ago. So the liberals have only raised 33.6% of what the conservatives have

00:01:38.580 raised, but how much have the NDP raised of the proportion of what the liberals have brought in?

00:01:46.860 Yeah. And the NDP have brought in 36% of what the liberals have brought in, which means that the

00:01:54.200 NDP has brought in like, you know, 15% or so of, or like 13% of what the conservatives have brought in. 0.94

00:02:00.820 Absolutely pathetic, even more pathetic for the liberals who, again, are competing for second 0.96

00:02:07.100 place at this point with the Bloc Québécois and the NDP. There's just no bright spots right now for the 0.99

00:02:13.700 liberal party. The last polling that came out, it had the conservative party ahead by not just 19

00:02:19.860 points. The liberals were within the margin of error with the NDP. I still, I still think they're

00:02:26.100 going to beat the NDP because never underestimate the incompetence of Jagmeet Singh and the new

00:02:32.180 Democrats, because the problem is, is that they are a party who does not have the money and know how to

00:02:37.640 actually mount proper campaigns. The liberals do. So it doesn't matter how high the NDP polls,

00:02:42.600 they are going to absolutely scuff it and just fall down to like 16%, 17% on election day because

00:02:49.240 they're terrible at getting their own people to vote for them. They're, the problem is they rely

00:02:53.460 very heavily on that 18 to 29 year old demographic, a very low propensity voting group where the

00:03:00.040 liberals rely on 60 plus voters. That's where they disproportionately do well. So they have a voting

00:03:05.540 block that actually does show up, but the conservatives benefit the most because not only do they have

00:03:10.720 the most money, everybody likes them across all demographics. They're in first place on all

00:03:14.860 demographics, women, men, age groups, different minority groups. They're winning all of them,

00:03:20.020 but they also are disproportionately popular with middle-aged people who are the largest voting

00:03:25.440 portion in the country who also are very likely to show up and vote. It's fantastic for them. And in

00:03:32.840 response to all this, the liberals are just still flailing around trying to attack Pierre Paglia

00:03:37.720 with very, just weak stuff. It's just complete weak sauce. Here's what the liberals posted just

00:03:44.100 today, 25 minutes ago. It says, pure Paglia has no plan to solve the housing crisis. And that really

00:03:50.560 sucks. And he says, young people can't afford a home. That really sucks. Trying to go after Paglia 0.99

00:03:55.700 as if he is being dismissive and then listing some things he voted against. It's stupid. That's all I can 1.00

00:04:02.820 really say. It's stupid. Thinking that this is going to be a solid attack line. When you've been 1.00

00:04:07.240 in government for nine years and you haven't done anything for housing. In fact, housing has like

00:04:13.000 doubled in price over the past nine years. And you're going to say, we have a plan, but Mr. Paglia,

00:04:19.380 he doesn't have a plan. He just has rhetoric. Like, yeah, he's not in government and he voted against

00:04:25.020 your policies because they're bad policies. There's nothing wrong with these, you know, housing,

00:04:30.820 housing saving programs. He probably voted against them because you guys tried to package them up

00:04:36.000 with a bunch of other stupid policies that he opposed. But again, he can't take any of the blame 1.00

00:04:41.680 because, you know, spoiler alert, he wasn't in government at all during this entire time.

00:04:47.980 Nobody is convinced by this. But now in the, like, you know, the afterglow of knowing that they're going

00:04:55.460 to probably lose the next election, the liberals online are in a bit of a tizzy and they're trying

00:05:01.540 to find a new attack line on Paglia. This is actually generally how politics works in general

00:05:07.460 when it comes to marketing strategies. It's tried out in the trenches first. A lot of online anonymous

00:05:13.940 accounts and lower level MPs will try a few attack lines and see if they work. And then they'll kind of

00:05:20.580 filter up to the party brass and then they'll be putting it out as like official attack lines.

00:05:25.860 You always kind of try them in a small market first and then you bring them up to being like

00:05:30.880 an official party sort of position and strategy. And now the new left-wing Canadian strategy on social

00:05:37.880 media is to call Paglia weird because apparently it's working really well for Kamala Harris going 0.99

00:05:43.720 after Donald Trump and JD Vance. So the liberals are going to try it in Canada. It's not actually

00:05:50.780 working well for Kamala Harris in the US because it's only bringing attention to the fact that she's 1.00

00:05:56.260 a fairly weird person too. But here's a quick mashup of all these clips of the media in the United States

00:06:02.600 saying weird in regards to the Republicans. And then I want to compare it to all the left-wing

00:06:07.980 Canadians on social media now trying to make fetch happen and use the weird moniker in regards to

00:06:15.580 the conservatives and pure poly. But here's this mashup. Some of what he and his running mate are

00:06:21.440 saying, well, it's just plain weird. These guys are just weird. That's who they are. Not as weird and

00:06:29.360 creepy as JD Vance. Super weird idea from JD Vance. Yeah, it's not. I mean, it's quite weird.

00:06:36.160 Just plain weird. Just plain weird. Just plain weird. That stuff is weird. They come across weird

00:06:42.320 and then they start being weird. Yeah, they're weird. Being a really weird. He's such a weirdo.

00:06:46.700 Donald Trump and his weirdo running mate are weird. Deeply and profoundly weird. They are weird. 0.99

00:06:51.720 These Republicans just being weird. It's just weird. It's really weird.

00:06:54.980 Republican weirdness goes even deeper. And by the way, this happens with all parties

00:07:01.120 in all politics, no matter what country you're in. I hate it. I hate this garbage where you're

00:07:07.160 emailed in the morning about what talking points to use for specific issues. The great thing is I'm 0.97

00:07:12.660 currently in British Columbia helping the British Columbia Conservative Party. They don't do that,

00:07:16.660 which is great. But you get a lot of other parties on the left and the right where they're like,

00:07:20.620 just use the word weird a lot for our opponent. Just use the word like irresponsible or whatever.

00:07:27.260 And that will be like, frankly, it happened on the federal level with the word wacko. Everyone

00:07:31.080 started using the word wacko. I even used it a couple of times, but it was an actual good attack 1.00

00:07:35.580 line. Good attack lines will be used organically. Wacko wasn't something where anyone was ordered

00:07:41.500 to say it, but it worked. But parties and people, whether they're told to directly or indirectly,

00:07:46.300 they just kind of assume that that's the new line, will start using it. The weird line in the US is

00:07:51.500 so bad. And especially that one clip of Tim Waltz there from Ohio, or I think it was a different

00:07:57.800 state, but it was such a bad use of it. It's so artificial when he's like, they say weird things

00:08:03.600 and they start acting weird. Like he's just trying to jam the word into his clip as much as possible.

00:08:09.040 A lot of these people's, their points don't really call for the use of the word. And they like

00:08:14.340 bend the script to try and jam in the word weird. And it frankly just makes them look weird. But now

00:08:21.800 we have the trend migrating up into Canada. We have all of these popular leftist accounts

00:08:28.220 using the whole weird line. Oh, pure Polly of his weird. Look at, look at Polly of standing there,

00:08:34.820 you know, fiddling around a little bit because they're waiting for an event with Vladimir Zelensky

00:08:40.240 to start. Yeah. Oh, look, he's, he's like adjusting his suit a bit. Give someone's a

00:08:44.640 thumbs up. Yeah. This is pure Polly of, this is peak weird in politics. I'll move up a little bit

00:08:51.260 here. Polly of his weird. Christopher Burns is using this thing on these are popular accounts.

00:08:57.120 They're getting thousands of likes, thousands of reach or a hundreds of retweets and comments.

00:09:01.480 This is what they're trying. This is the new line. They're going to try and push in Canada,

00:09:04.760 pretending that this can work. Uh, we have the, the stupid Polly of thing. It's such, it's so 1.00

00:09:11.440 clunky. There's this one account, Roddy. I love seeing his posts. I don't follow him, but he pops

00:09:16.960 up a lot. And I always find that he has the clunkiest version of whatever the liberals or MVP's new

00:09:23.780 talking points is. Here's another person saying Polly of is the Canadian version of JD Vance. This guy

00:09:29.380 is weird. Why? Why? He's holding wood, showing inflation. He's showing the, he's showing how

00:09:35.000 inflation works. Oh, he has glasses. So they reminded him of Millhouse or whatever. Oh,

00:09:40.280 you know, a Polly of is weird. And then showing a cartoon that has like nothing to do with Polly

00:09:45.380 of supposedly being weird. Um, and like some other stuff, you know, JD Vance is weird. Pure Polly of

00:09:51.440 is weird or this guy from some liberal strategy firm. And so, yes, there are a lot of liberal

00:09:57.360 strategists who are already trying to march out this point, retail it around, see if it can work.

00:10:01.800 And if the liberals or the new Democrats should be using it, it's not, it's not a good point. And

00:10:07.820 he's like, you know, a big mashup of conservatives and people that leftists are trying to attach the 0.63

00:10:12.540 conservatives to and saying this person under the name, the rude cat, you want to elect weirdo, 0.77

00:10:19.200 pure Polly. Do you want a government run by his strange group of weird MPs with their weird 0.86

00:10:24.180 anti-Canadian ideas? Are you interested in having a prime minister that hangs out with the, uh, uh,

00:10:30.280 fring, fringer insurrectionist movement? I don't even know what this person trying to say.

00:10:35.820 Uh, whatever these, like I wish, and this is a person running a parody account of Danielle Smith's

00:10:41.300 calling, you know, like pure Polly of weird. And then Mark Gerritsen, one of the most desperate

00:10:46.900 liberal MPs saying, just your friendly reminder that just last week, the national post was celebrating

00:10:52.860 pure Polly of is the JD Vance of the North. And to be fair, that is a kind of a point against the

00:10:59.440 national post. Stop comparing Canadian politicians to American politicians. There's really no

00:11:05.500 equivalent for a lot of American politicians in Canada. And frankly, JD Vance, other than some

00:11:11.580 slight similarities in their personal backgrounds, in terms of pure Polly of being adopted and JD

00:11:17.820 still growing up in a broken home, which is not equivalent because like pure Polly of and his

00:11:22.900 brother grew up in a two parent household. That doesn't make any sense, but whatever. I don't,

00:11:28.120 I don't like it when people start trying to always need to be like, you know, they're trying to find

00:11:32.440 like, Oh, this thing's happening in America. And this is the equivalent in Canada. Like oftentimes

00:11:36.200 there's no equivalent guys, but Mark Gerritsen here by calling out the idea that he's been compared

00:11:42.460 to JD Vance is starting to try to start up the weird engine inside the liberal party so that they

00:11:48.100 can start calling pure Polly of weird. It's a bad attack because Justin Trudeau and the liberals have

00:11:54.580 not done a good job in office. And when you haven't done a good job in office, when everything is worse

00:11:59.940 after nine years of your government, you can't just go to your opponent and say, he's weird. Let's

00:12:05.140 pretend that pure Polly of is weird. He's actually like very extremely normal. He is an extremely

00:12:11.920 normal politician. He's the type of guy who makes you think he probably reads books at night before

00:12:17.800 he goes to sleep. He's not a particularly like energetic and eccentric man. And so going after

00:12:24.220 him is weird. Even if he was weird is weak because you're bad at your jobs. If the liberals said, you

00:12:30.000 know, on these five points, we've done really well. And the vast majority of Canadians could at least

00:12:34.220 somewhat agree with that. Then you can go after your opponent as a bit odd, you know, a bit of an

00:12:39.080 odd ball, you know, we'll stick with the consistency that Justin Trudeau gives us. The problem is the

00:12:44.380 consistent effect of the liberals on Canada has been making things worse. And when everything is worse,

00:12:52.120 your opponent being weird is not a real attack. That's the problem. That's also probably why it's

00:12:57.880 going to fail in the US. When Kamala Harris, who is objectively much weirder than JD Vance,

00:13:02.480 JD Vance is really not that weird. When you're a bad vice president, when your administration has

00:13:08.940 done a bad job on pretty much every area of public policy, it's hard to just go after your opponents

00:13:14.680 is weird. It just doesn't work. That's why I think that in the United States, that's that talking

00:13:19.540 point is going to die off. I think it's actually going to start being used a lot in Canada as time

00:13:24.240 goes on. It's already being used a lot. When I looked up pure poly of weird or poly of weird,

00:13:28.260 and I just start scrolling down through all the recent usages of it, it's like, it's like dozens

00:13:34.120 and dozens of posts every single hour. If the liberals, they really want to be the Democrats in the

00:13:41.400 United States, because at least the Democrats are somewhat competent in running campaigns compared to

00:13:45.580 the liberals. I guarantee they try to adopt it or adopt something like it to use against poly of it's

00:13:51.760 not going to work. It's not going to work in the US is not going to work in Canada. And it's all

00:13:56.320 motivated by the fact that the liberals are clearly not catching a moment. Their fundraising numbers

00:14:01.480 are down. Their polling numbers are down. Even Justin Trudeau, when you poll him against other

00:14:06.240 liberals for the liberal leadership comes third place, buying Christian Freeland a charisma vacuum

00:14:11.420 and Mark Carney, who nobody knows. Nobody cares about who Mark Carney is. He's only considered like

00:14:17.540 the more competent, stable option compared to Trudeau and Freeland, which is why he polls well.

00:14:23.540 People don't know a single thing about the guy. He's also has every attack open to him, though,

00:14:29.360 that Mark, that Michael Ignatieff had. He's lived in the UK for a large portion of his life. He hasn't

00:14:34.580 really been that invested in Canada. So he wouldn't be a very smart choice to put it and put in as the

00:14:40.040 prime minister. It just looks like the party's trying to bring in a ringer from not only like outside the 0.57

00:14:44.540 party, but outside the country. It would be a horrible look. And so when Trudeau is literally pulling

00:14:49.700 third in his own party, guys, turn off the lights, end it now. Just find a way of calling a snap

00:14:54.940 election. Even if you lose, it would be better for the health of the liberal party to lose now

00:14:59.740 than hold on for dear life. Really dig the claws into your desks and wait until you're removed in

00:15:05.340 October of 2025. It's the same problem that ended up killing off since I've been BC, a good BC reference.

00:15:11.600 It's what killed off the social credit party in British Columbia. When Bill Vanderzam stepped down as a

00:15:18.140 leader and then they just appointed a new person to lead the party and be premier and that person

00:15:22.740 didn't immediately call snap election and they held on for dear life to the last second, people

00:15:27.280 resented them. And that meant that they wouldn't be willing to come back around to the party after

00:15:31.720 the election. They had burned all the bridges. I think the liberals have a little bit more lasting

00:15:36.900 power than social credit, even if they do hold on. But they could end up being in the woods for a

00:15:42.280 couple of election cycles just simply from having such a contempt for the Canadian people.

00:15:48.140 public opinion about them. Everyone doesn't like Trudeau, but they're willing to just treat

00:15:53.140 you like you're stupid and just keep motoring through acting like everything's fantastic and 1.00

00:15:58.400 okay. Nobody will ever trust these people again with power, at least for the next eight years, 1.00

00:16:03.400 if they don't end up calling an early election and just easing everyone's pain by having it end

00:16:09.600 faster than it would have. Anyways, that's it for me today, guys. If you want to donate to my legal fund,

00:16:15.320 it's in the description below. It's the Give, Send, Go link. I'm being sued by a Chinese billionaire 0.97

00:16:20.100 for defamation or myself, the National Telegraph. It's nonsense. They have no point. They haven't

00:16:25.800 even filed any evidence in the last two and a half years that this case has been going on.

00:16:29.840 So if you live in Canada, obviously, you can donate to that Give, Send, Go campaign. And if you're in

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00:16:40.500 money to beat the BC NDP and get David Eby out of office. It is easily the most far left government

00:16:46.720 in Canada right now, provincially speaking. And so if you guys live in BC, if you donate $100,

00:16:52.660 you get $75 back in a tax credit. So it only costs you $25 to give the Conservatives $100 so that we can

00:17:00.440 beat the NDP. Link below if you want to donate to Abbotsford South. We're going to be distributing

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00:17:09.760 and then putting it out to the ridings that need it who we know that have a good chance of winning.

00:17:15.000 Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys. Have a good one.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - July 31, 2024

Trudeau Liberal donations dry up & Canadian leftists adopt ＂weird＂ strategy

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