The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Trudeau Supporters Don't Understand Inflation

00:00:00.000 today because I just saw the absolute dumbest possible thing on Twitter this morning. And 0.95

00:00:05.260 it's Brian Breguet's fault because he highlighted the stupidest take on inflation ever. And 1.00

00:00:10.440 it's brought me to the realization, I suppose, of just how staggeringly diluted you have

00:00:17.040 to be in order to still be supporting Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party. So there's

00:00:21.080 this lady, and I just want to highlight, I'll look over her like comment right now that 1.00

00:00:24.300 Brian brought up. But this is what you have to actually believe in order to think that

00:00:28.520 Justin Trudeau is doing a good job. And like, no wonder Justin Trudeau's polling is absolutely

00:00:33.000 in the gutter these days. But Christine says, who, you know, fancies herself a political

00:00:37.420 geek in her bio says, listen, I too dislike inflation. I just like that groceries are

00:00:42.840 insanely expensive and housing is impossible to afford. But unless Trudeau is personally

00:00:46.980 responsible for a once in a lifetime pandemic and the war in Ukraine, maybe let's admit 0.99

00:00:50.660 it's not its fault things suck. Like, goodness, how patronizing is that to both people who

00:00:57.420 understand how inflation work and to Justin Trudeau himself. Justin Trudeau somehow is

00:01:02.460 never responsible for anything. This is where the sort of true and on crowd come in. Doesn't

00:01:07.040 matter what happens in Canada. Somehow it's always someone else's fault. It doesn't matter

00:01:11.580 that literally inflation is mostly just caused by the government's printing of money, taxation

00:01:16.440 and spending. Somehow it's COVID-19 and Vladimir Putin's fault that prices are high. It's

00:01:23.320 insane. It's basically like the liberal voters or people who are hardcore liberal supporters

00:01:27.480 basically treat Justin Trudeau like he's eight years old. Like, seriously, like if an eight-year-old

00:01:32.160 was prime minister, like, well, yeah, you can't really blame him for inflation. He doesn't

00:01:35.540 know how his spending is affecting all of the sort of like inflationary forces on the economy.

00:01:40.940 But they actually act like Justin Trudeau is that eight-year-old that he just, he doesn't

00:01:45.620 know what he's doing. He doesn't know that raising the carbon tax and spending money to keep

00:01:50.140 people at home not working. How was he supposed to know that that's how inflation worked? And the

00:01:54.980 only place that this is actually worse is with the NBP and Jagmeet Singh. I haven't really seen

00:02:00.140 the people like, you know, of course, there's people not online defending Jagmeet Singh because

00:02:03.380 he's not the prime minister, although he's responsible for everything that Justin Trudeau

00:02:06.680 is doing because he's, you know, propping him up in parliament. But Jagmeet Singh's out there.

00:02:11.200 And this is more conspiratorial than anything you'll ever see on the right. Is Jagmeet Singh

00:02:16.280 pretending that all businesses are colluding to raise prices in order to gouge Canadians?

00:02:21.780 Like it doesn't even make economic sense to collude with other businesses. Because if everyone's

00:02:25.240 raising the prices and you don't raise your prices, you're going to absorb all their business.

00:02:28.920 And funny how it's only, businesses only decide to become greedy at the same time Justin Trudeau

00:02:34.280 and Jagmeet Singh are blowing massive amounts of money into the economy. Like to be a liberal

00:02:39.460 and NDP politician, you actively have to not understand how money works. You have to have

00:02:46.060 never taken an economics 101 course. This is probably, this is basically why they got rid

00:02:50.360 of Bill Morneau, because he actually kind of understood how the economy works. And that was

00:02:54.320 kind of destroying the liberals pandemic spending plans because he was actually kind of pushing

00:02:58.140 back a little bit. But you have to not understand the basic concept that if everyone makes like

00:03:02.660 $100 a day and bread's $1.50, that if everyone starts suddenly making $1,000 a day,

00:03:07.540 that you shouldn't be surprised if bread becomes $10.50. But the liberals and the NDP think that

00:03:13.420 somehow all prices should be fixed at the exact same number at all times. And only somehow greed

00:03:21.340 and somehow bombs going off in Russia and Ukraine, that's the only time prices can ever go up. That's

00:03:28.600 the only time inflation ever comes into effect. Also, it's greed. Also, it's not Justin Trudeau's fault.

00:03:33.420 Also, Justin Trudeau is doing a great job dealing with inflation, but also don't blame him for

00:03:38.600 inflation, even though he supposedly has the ability to fight inflation. That's actually what

00:03:44.620 these people on Twitter and Facebook are arguing, that Justin Trudeau has nothing to do with inflation,

00:03:51.600 yet he's doing a fantastic job fighting inflation. The only way you could fight inflation is if you had

00:03:56.740 control over how inflation is caused, which of course is printing money and spending money.

00:04:01.860 Yet somehow Justin Trudeau is completely shielded from responsibility on the one end,

00:04:07.280 but he gets all the credit on the other end for spending more money to help people deal with

00:04:12.600 inflation, which is causing inflation. It's insane to me that people out there, and I know I keep

00:04:20.080 saying insane, it's driven me a little insane dealing with this stuff, that they're just people

00:04:24.040 out there who just make justifications in their head of why things are happening, and they just stick

00:04:29.980 with them. I guarantee you, Brian Breguet is never going to get through to that lady, and I agree

00:04:35.720 with this comment. I'll pull it back up here. I thought he had a great way of putting this. It's

00:04:39.280 like, yes, not all inflation is Justin Trudeau's fault, but it's economically illiterate to think

00:04:46.780 that the leader of a country has just nothing to do with what happens within the country. Again,

00:04:50.860 there's just no agency that liberal supporters give Justin Trudeau. Good things that happen are somehow

00:04:56.440 his doing, and bad things that happen are somehow someone in a different country's fault. It's just

00:05:01.940 not how, it's not how the world works, but to support the liberal party, you have to believe

00:05:07.900 that everything is just out of Justin Trudeau's hands, but everything that's good fell into his

00:05:13.060 hands, and it's somehow something he can take credit for. And this is why the liberals are just

00:05:19.420 absolutely suffering in the polls, because the people who out there who actually understand how

00:05:23.660 inflation works, which I actually believe is probably a majority of Canadians, understand

00:05:27.460 that Justin Trudeau is not helping things at all and actually making the economy worse.

00:05:33.640 Yeah, Justin Trudeau's strategy to get out of this is effectively to accuse people of bigotry and

00:05:38.800 racism. Again, in a Toronto Star article the other day, he said that people are only supporting

00:05:43.820 pure poly because they want to go back to when Canada was all white, which is insane. I had people

00:05:48.620 saying that when I wrote an article saying that Justin Trudeau was saying people were racist,

00:05:52.120 and that's why his polling is down. They were trying to fact check me and say, well, he never

00:05:55.360 said that. Like, yeah, what he said was literally worse. He's accusing people of wanting Jim Crow

00:06:00.220 racism in Canada and wanting to deport people who aren't white. That's a far worse thing to say

00:06:08.460 than what I soft-pedaled his comments into of just saying racism. But again, Justin Trudeau is failing

00:06:15.640 because he actually fails to touch on any issues that matter to people in a way that makes sense.

00:06:21.040 He's always talking about, he's using kind of politics, the politics he used to win in 2021,

00:06:26.420 which is kind of dividing people, saying fear your neighbor, vote against them because they're

00:06:31.220 unvaccinated and they're going to like somehow infect you. Like, vote for me because your 1.00

00:06:35.700 neighbors are racist and I'm going to protect you from him by passing hate speech laws. And in 2023,

00:06:40.660 that's not working anymore. Like, I truly believe that there's not going to be an election in 2023

00:06:44.960 because Justin Trudeau, even as dumb as Justin Trudeau is, I don't think he's dumb enough to 0.98

00:06:49.400 think that if he goes back to the polls within just a little bit more than a year after he went 1.00

00:06:54.880 back to the polls last time, that Canadians aren't going to punish him. I don't think that we're going

00:06:59.260 to see an election until at least 2024. And Justin Trudeau is just going to wait for the news cycle to

00:07:04.880 settle out, for the media to sort of prop him back up when the economy starts naturally improving,

00:07:09.700 because the economy, of course, is going to improve over time unless he voluntarily just

00:07:13.740 tries to kill it himself, that they're going to give him all the bent of the credits for the fact

00:07:18.080 that the economy is coming back, even though it's probably going to have to do more with

00:07:20.920 US economic policy than Canadian, that that's when he's going to call an election. He knows he can't

00:07:26.060 call one now and his strategists in the back seem to be unable to actually get over his inadequacies

00:07:31.840 right now. So I guess this started with me talking about liberal voters, but yeah, he's always

00:07:37.440 going to maintain his base of people who think he can't do any wrong, which is why he's always

00:07:41.240 within that minority government position. I just don't see where he's going to ever get a majority

00:07:46.760 again. There's not enough people out there who are willing to sort of, I guess, forget what they

00:07:52.960 know about how inflation works in order for them to jump over to voting for the liberals. There are

00:07:58.320 liberals out there who will maybe get even more deluded and vote for the NDP and think that if they

00:08:02.860 just double the spending that Justin Trudeau is currently pursuing, then somehow things are going to get

00:08:07.200 better. Somehow what Justin Trudeau is doing is making everything worse, but if the policy is

00:08:11.880 just done more, somehow we're going to break through to the other side and we're going to

00:08:15.740 end up in NDP utopia. But at least I'm probably never going to have to worry about the NDP forming

00:08:22.300 government and hopefully I'm not going to have to worry about the liberals forming government for

00:08:25.920 another decade after the next election. But here's hoping.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - January 26, 2023

Trudeau Supporters Don't Understand Inflation

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