Trudeau Supporters Don't Understand Inflation
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Summary
Inflation is a problem that needs to be solved, but it's not Justin Trudeau's fault. It's not Vladimir Putin's fault that prices are high, it's the Liberals' fault that they don't know how to deal with inflation.
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today because I just saw the absolute dumbest possible thing on Twitter this morning. And
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it's Brian Breguet's fault because he highlighted the stupidest take on inflation ever. And
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it's brought me to the realization, I suppose, of just how staggeringly diluted you have
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to be in order to still be supporting Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party. So there's
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this lady, and I just want to highlight, I'll look over her like comment right now that
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Brian brought up. But this is what you have to actually believe in order to think that
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Justin Trudeau is doing a good job. And like, no wonder Justin Trudeau's polling is absolutely
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in the gutter these days. But Christine says, who, you know, fancies herself a political
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geek in her bio says, listen, I too dislike inflation. I just like that groceries are
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insanely expensive and housing is impossible to afford. But unless Trudeau is personally
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responsible for a once in a lifetime pandemic and the war in Ukraine, maybe let's admit
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it's not its fault things suck. Like, goodness, how patronizing is that to both people who
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understand how inflation work and to Justin Trudeau himself. Justin Trudeau somehow is
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never responsible for anything. This is where the sort of true and on crowd come in. Doesn't
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matter what happens in Canada. Somehow it's always someone else's fault. It doesn't matter
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that literally inflation is mostly just caused by the government's printing of money, taxation
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and spending. Somehow it's COVID-19 and Vladimir Putin's fault that prices are high. It's
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insane. It's basically like the liberal voters or people who are hardcore liberal supporters
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basically treat Justin Trudeau like he's eight years old. Like, seriously, like if an eight-year-old
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was prime minister, like, well, yeah, you can't really blame him for inflation. He doesn't
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know how his spending is affecting all of the sort of like inflationary forces on the economy.
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But they actually act like Justin Trudeau is that eight-year-old that he just, he doesn't
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know what he's doing. He doesn't know that raising the carbon tax and spending money to keep
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people at home not working. How was he supposed to know that that's how inflation worked? And the
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only place that this is actually worse is with the NBP and Jagmeet Singh. I haven't really seen
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the people like, you know, of course, there's people not online defending Jagmeet Singh because
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he's not the prime minister, although he's responsible for everything that Justin Trudeau
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is doing because he's, you know, propping him up in parliament. But Jagmeet Singh's out there.
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And this is more conspiratorial than anything you'll ever see on the right. Is Jagmeet Singh
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pretending that all businesses are colluding to raise prices in order to gouge Canadians?
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Like it doesn't even make economic sense to collude with other businesses. Because if everyone's
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raising the prices and you don't raise your prices, you're going to absorb all their business.
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And funny how it's only, businesses only decide to become greedy at the same time Justin Trudeau
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and Jagmeet Singh are blowing massive amounts of money into the economy. Like to be a liberal
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and NDP politician, you actively have to not understand how money works. You have to have
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never taken an economics 101 course. This is probably, this is basically why they got rid
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of Bill Morneau, because he actually kind of understood how the economy works. And that was
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kind of destroying the liberals pandemic spending plans because he was actually kind of pushing
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back a little bit. But you have to not understand the basic concept that if everyone makes like
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$100 a day and bread's $1.50, that if everyone starts suddenly making $1,000 a day,
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that you shouldn't be surprised if bread becomes $10.50. But the liberals and the NDP think that
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somehow all prices should be fixed at the exact same number at all times. And only somehow greed
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and somehow bombs going off in Russia and Ukraine, that's the only time prices can ever go up. That's
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the only time inflation ever comes into effect. Also, it's greed. Also, it's not Justin Trudeau's fault.
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Also, Justin Trudeau is doing a great job dealing with inflation, but also don't blame him for
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inflation, even though he supposedly has the ability to fight inflation. That's actually what
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these people on Twitter and Facebook are arguing, that Justin Trudeau has nothing to do with inflation,
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yet he's doing a fantastic job fighting inflation. The only way you could fight inflation is if you had
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control over how inflation is caused, which of course is printing money and spending money.
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Yet somehow Justin Trudeau is completely shielded from responsibility on the one end,
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but he gets all the credit on the other end for spending more money to help people deal with
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inflation, which is causing inflation. It's insane to me that people out there, and I know I keep
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saying insane, it's driven me a little insane dealing with this stuff, that they're just people
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out there who just make justifications in their head of why things are happening, and they just stick
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with them. I guarantee you, Brian Breguet is never going to get through to that lady, and I agree
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with this comment. I'll pull it back up here. I thought he had a great way of putting this. It's
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like, yes, not all inflation is Justin Trudeau's fault, but it's economically illiterate to think
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that the leader of a country has just nothing to do with what happens within the country. Again,
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there's just no agency that liberal supporters give Justin Trudeau. Good things that happen are somehow
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his doing, and bad things that happen are somehow someone in a different country's fault. It's just
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not how, it's not how the world works, but to support the liberal party, you have to believe
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that everything is just out of Justin Trudeau's hands, but everything that's good fell into his
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hands, and it's somehow something he can take credit for. And this is why the liberals are just
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absolutely suffering in the polls, because the people who out there who actually understand how
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inflation works, which I actually believe is probably a majority of Canadians, understand
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that Justin Trudeau is not helping things at all and actually making the economy worse.
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Yeah, Justin Trudeau's strategy to get out of this is effectively to accuse people of bigotry and
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racism. Again, in a Toronto Star article the other day, he said that people are only supporting
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pure poly because they want to go back to when Canada was all white, which is insane. I had people
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saying that when I wrote an article saying that Justin Trudeau was saying people were racist,
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and that's why his polling is down. They were trying to fact check me and say, well, he never
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said that. Like, yeah, what he said was literally worse. He's accusing people of wanting Jim Crow
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racism in Canada and wanting to deport people who aren't white. That's a far worse thing to say
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than what I soft-pedaled his comments into of just saying racism. But again, Justin Trudeau is failing
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because he actually fails to touch on any issues that matter to people in a way that makes sense.
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He's always talking about, he's using kind of politics, the politics he used to win in 2021,
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which is kind of dividing people, saying fear your neighbor, vote against them because they're
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unvaccinated and they're going to like somehow infect you. Like, vote for me because your
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neighbors are racist and I'm going to protect you from him by passing hate speech laws. And in 2023,
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that's not working anymore. Like, I truly believe that there's not going to be an election in 2023
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because Justin Trudeau, even as dumb as Justin Trudeau is, I don't think he's dumb enough to
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think that if he goes back to the polls within just a little bit more than a year after he went
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back to the polls last time, that Canadians aren't going to punish him. I don't think that we're going
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to see an election until at least 2024. And Justin Trudeau is just going to wait for the news cycle to
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settle out, for the media to sort of prop him back up when the economy starts naturally improving,
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because the economy, of course, is going to improve over time unless he voluntarily just
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tries to kill it himself, that they're going to give him all the bent of the credits for the fact
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that the economy is coming back, even though it's probably going to have to do more with
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US economic policy than Canadian, that that's when he's going to call an election. He knows he can't
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call one now and his strategists in the back seem to be unable to actually get over his inadequacies
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right now. So I guess this started with me talking about liberal voters, but yeah, he's always
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going to maintain his base of people who think he can't do any wrong, which is why he's always
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within that minority government position. I just don't see where he's going to ever get a majority
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again. There's not enough people out there who are willing to sort of, I guess, forget what they
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know about how inflation works in order for them to jump over to voting for the liberals. There are
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liberals out there who will maybe get even more deluded and vote for the NDP and think that if they
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just double the spending that Justin Trudeau is currently pursuing, then somehow things are going to get
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better. Somehow what Justin Trudeau is doing is making everything worse, but if the policy is
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just done more, somehow we're going to break through to the other side and we're going to
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end up in NDP utopia. But at least I'm probably never going to have to worry about the NDP forming
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government and hopefully I'm not going to have to worry about the liberals forming government for
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another decade after the next election. But here's hoping.