Shaun Newman Podcast - Mashup 114

Episode Date: July 6, 2024

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And, oh, I should kick everybody off first. Oh, well, this is, uh, this is her keep bobbing our heads. Or we could just cut it out and go to the show. Ladies and gentlemen, Sean is not with us today. Thank God. We've got, I know he's watching. We have Chuck Prodnick on here. Deplorable North.

You've seen him on military roundups. You've seen him doing solos with. Sean, you've probably seen them in a live event or two. Chuck, thanks for coming on and filling in. How are you doing? I'm good. Things are going well here. If you hear a bunch of loud noises,

my AC guys are putting in the AC downstairs right now. And the secret bunker? In the secret bunker, yeah. That's not here. Oh, okay. That's at another location. okay well we'll we'll film the next one at that one yeah that might not be a bad idea so anyway I'm sure you know how this goes but we're just going to hit it fast and we're

going to go through just what's been going on this week in the news and uh and as the uh as the comments come in we're going to read off some of them i'm going to be reading off the headlines this week because it's going to be better for um for the tech you got going on. So, I mean, it sucks because I don't get to surprise you with how funny these are. I already know how funny they are. Although, I mean, there was one that I wrote that I was literally laughing out loud when I was writing it. Yeah.

All right. Well, it's a good thing I didn't make anything too embarrassing for them. That was true at the end. Here we go. Here's the first one. Finding the right women. So this is the far right women contributing to threats against democracy. according to an RCMP report.

Yeah. I saw that one actually the other day on Twitter and anything now that isn't straight up communist as far right as far as as a concern. But I mean, we all have heard about women's intuition, right? And I think intuitively right now, women are women and men,

but, and what really is a woman? But women right now, it's funny they never really asked that question not before no so not you know now it doesn't matter what it is but um say say you're the one that goes out and does and i'm not trying to stereotype here because i'm the one in my household that does it all but um you're going out to do groceries or you're going out to pay bills or you're doing whatever everything costs more and there's only one factor that we can all point at that's doing that and that's Trudeau and his government.

And I mean, there's that trend you see now on wherever you're looking on social media and it's people who are taking their, you know, hitting repurchase on like a Walmart bill from four years ago. And it's gone up by 70, 80, 90 percent in some cases are higher, depending, you know, so everybody was doing. The official inflation rate's only 2.6 percent. amazing yeah because my groceries aren't reflecting that neither's my bills nothing's reflecting that and we all know we all know this they can put it whatever

numbers they want but i i do wish that i'd have gone you know thought of it at the time you know in in hindsight this would be a great thing to do and i don't know maybe i should just do it today and start doing it you know the best time to plant a trees 20 years ago the second best time is today. Yeah. But just go through maybe like make a 10 minute video at a grocery store and be like, here's what you're paying and here's how much you're getting, you know, going through a whole bunch of items and then do it a year later and a year later and a year

later. And then when they come out with the official inflation numbers, they're like, motherfucker, I've got receipts. Well, and this is kind of like one of those, I don't want to say it's a nail in the coffee. It's just one more nail in a big old coffin. these repurchase things that people are going, like, this is, this is my, this isn't some made up factor.

This is like me repurchasing groceries from whatever store. Walmart's a big one. And your bill is four times what it was four years ago. And we're all feeling it. We all know it. And it doesn't even take into account shrinkflation either, right? You're buying one box of craft dinner. Yeah.

But is it even the same size? Yeah, exactly. Well, you look at two, like, my kids are in their 20s. And it's funny to hear them speak like, whole. people now because they'll be like, I only bought this six months ago and it's already gone up a buck. Whatever the thing is. Back in my day. Back in my day. And it's like, you know, I'm 52. So for me, back in my day was a while ago. But for them, it's months ago. And these are the, this is the generation that I'll never own a home. You know, even if you're employed, have good credit and all this

other stuff. Good luck. Like I just went through the struggle of selling and buying a home here in Alberta. And, you know, we were just talking about it. The blind bidding on homes is causing stuff to go for 50 to 100 pay over in this region. And a lot of it is selling site unseen. You can't, you don't even get a chance. If you really want to be a serious bidder on a home, there's a lot of times where there's no home inspection allowed. You're getting at site as is. One of the homes I went for actually was this kind of a thing. And good luck, because people are desperate. There's nowhere to live right now. We have too many people. and not enough.

So if you're, to go back to the original headline, a woman who's got to look after a family and you're struggling like we all are, well, there's only one place to point that finger. And that makes you far right. Makes you far right to want to look after your family at this point, support your family.

Yeah. Although I would say it's funny. Like, this is, it's an interesting thing that they've, they've gone and compiled this list of far right women. You know, if you end up back on the dating scene again, wouldn't it be nice to have that list?

I've got a list. Okay, all right, well, you probably help make the list. Oh, shoot, I got to do buzzer this week, don't I? Where the hell's the buzzer on this thing? Ha ha, ha, this is fun. All right. Oh, by the way, we got people loving the new Sean. Oh, and some clown here says new Sean looks good.

All right. A Smith in review. Are we talking with Danielle here? Yes. Yeah, we're going to bring her up again a little bit later on. But for right now, Daniel Smith looks to solidify support ahead of a possible leadership review in November. And so she's already calling around trying to make sure that she's got people on her team and on her page that are going to support her. if and when this leadership review comes around.

Yes. Well, look, she hasn't gotten everything right. In fact, she's gotten a few things wrong. And we all know that here in Alberta. Recently,

they came up with their, I forget how much the surplus is in the budget right now. 4.6, I think. 4.6, yeah. Give us a break here then. Like, you give us a break. Just cut us some slack at the pump. Cut us a little slack wherever.

give us, I don't care. I'm not looking for a rebate. I'm not looking for some. Don't give me 500 bucks back in my. You don't want, you don't want Smith bucks? No, I don't want,

I don't want Smith bucks. I want a real break at the pumps. Like, I want a real, we need something to be knocked down somewhere. If you have got the surplus to do it, let's do it. And that was something she campaigned on was,

you know, she campaigned on lower taxes. There hasn't been any. No. We don't have our own police force. Yeah. She's done, I would say that they have done probably the worst possible job in terms of selling the idea of the Alberta pension plan. Yeah.

Which should like literally, you just get somebody breaking down some numbers and the thing sells itself for Albertans. For everybody else in Canada, they're like, we can't let this happen. But for Albertans, it's a no-brainer. It's so simple. and yet they still haven't sold everybody on it. Like, it astounds me that she hasn't even been able, like you'd think that the NDP and the UCP would be able to go together on this.

And let's be like, hey, you know what? This is going to make all of our lives better, unequivocally. You would think even the NDP who are for the people, this would be for the people. This would be something they could do bipartisan and just wrap it up. be done. Like I said, she's got a long way to go to convincing a lot of us who

are supporters of her, and I'm still a supporter of her, but she's got to really do some concrete stuff here other than flipping pancakes and stampede. Well, I mean, if she wants everybody to support what she's doing, she should be doing things that people support. Yes. All right. Say, Jan, it ain't so. This fucking guy. Chuck. Why don't you lead us through this, the ongoing debacle?

So for those who don't know, and I don't know how you wouldn't at this point in Canada, this guy got busted years ago stealing valor. He was essentially laying claim to things that he had no part of, no part of. And those of us that knew better, either from being on the same tours, or having friends who were in positions that did know better, and I had several, we knew he didn't plan nothing. He was a reserve officer. You're not planning shit overseas as a reserve officer.

You might be involved in certain parts of it, basically photocopying, I would say. But you're not planning anything. You're not the guy moving dots around on the map going, and here's where we will send A unit and B unit and C. No, not a thing. But he was doing some overseas interviews, got busted, finally owned out to it.

How he didn't get fired or resigned with some shred of decency at that point. None of us can tell. Kind of lays low for a while. And then he gets, you know, that Robert Fife article comes out last week, busting him for essentially ordering our special forces, our JTF2 guys over there to stop, drop the operations they were doing to get Canadians and our interpreters out. And in the last 24 hours, uses these guys to get these Afghan Sikhs out.

Now, look, I don't have a... problem with trying to rescue whoever but that wasn't our responsibility not when we're leaving if we'd gotten all the Canadians out and as many of our turps out as we could and he's like there's another group here that's in real danger from the taliban an interpreter um if if that was the case i still wouldn't really have a great feeling about using our boys to go do it it's it was already the wild west when we were there it was a complete gong show that last last couple weeks. Well, I mean, you had videos of people like clinging to,

uh, what do you call it? The, the landing gear on planes is they're taking off and then letting go a few hundred feet up in the air because that's, that was better than being caught by the Taliban at that point. Yeah. Yeah.

That's how bad the Taliban are. You know, the Taliban were the original ISIS. Like, ISIS learned all their shit from the Taliban. Like, and at certain points, even the Taliban went,

ooh, the ice is pretty bad. But like, so this guy, I essentially ordered our guys to go after this group. And then it's revealed, which is bad enough, bad enough. You used our guys as marks at this point. Yep.

And then it's revealed that that same week that this is happening, he took donations to from the World Seek Organization, from certain members of that group into his campaign. Yeah. well I mean you're doing pay for play with people's lives our soldiers lives for political gain for political game our citizens are left behind

our interpreters are left behind those are something like 1,250 Canadians were stranded there and had to be extracted by third party measures that people don't talk about because it embarrasses the government but third party you know affiliates had to come in and get them out the ones that didn't get caught.

They don't talk about that either. And that's all hushed straight up. So this is a guy with zero honor, says, oh, no, this story's utter bullshit at his interview. Well, no, it's not utter bullshit. And then now he's hiding behind cabinet confidentiality on it. Yeah. Yeah.

Behind the privacy thing. Yeah. Now, here's the, when it comes to this, we have talked about easy a dozen instances of something looking guilty as hell. and the liberals saying, well, we'd love to show you that we're on the up and up about this, but we can't because of cabinet confidentiality.

So you just have to take our word for it. Yeah. Well, this is the same guy who that week or when he was questioned about how horribly that evacuation went. He said, well, I wasn't checking my emails. He wasn't. He claimed that's new to me.

That's new. That was 100%. That was all over the news. as his excuse. That was on like the mainstream. He actually said when he was questioned, how come you're not, you know,

directing this evacuation? How come you're not like, how is this so bad? Is essentially why he kept getting asked. He was, I wasn't checking my emails. Well, he apparently was checking his emails.

We know this now because. He was checking his emails from, he was checking his donation numbers. He was certainly checking his donation numbers. And he was certainly, you know, directing the leaders of our special. forces to do what he wanted them to do.

That alone should bring that government down. There has been easily, easily about 20. That alone should bring the government downs with the liberal over since they took over. And Zane Southgate says, Cabinet confidentiality, the perfect cloak of incompetence. See, here's, I mentioned that I wanted to talk about this a little bit when we were chatting the other day.

Yeah. I feel like somebody needs to make a good, counterpoint to this, because otherwise I think it's the way to go, is just you are, in terms of being a public representative, you're guilty until proven innocent. Yeah.

Right? Yeah. So it's like, just, just prove to us that you actually did this right. Instead of, show us your whole lot. Instead of, instead of being like, this looks dirty as hell,

and you being like, well, it's not. And I'm not going to give you the proof. Uh, and then because I'm not going to give you the proof. There's nothing to point at me being a bad guy, so I guess I win. Yeah. No. Okay. Look, you are dirty.

You are guilty. And you can show us whatever evidence you want to prove that that's not the case. Exactly. The cabinet confidentiality has been used as a as a smoke screen for these guys for way too long. And I'm fucking sick of it. especially with for me personally especially with this guy like this is a former officer you know they swear we all swore an oath the officer swear an oath this guy swore another oath as an MP to the world Sikh organization apparently you probably swore when I mean if you look at the

breakdown of some of the who's who's married to who in that organization you know the two mayors here in Alberta him um yeah it's so it's so incestuous you you wonder, like, they're all now running it kind of a thing. And he had his finger on the levers that were moving our military around. And this is a guy who used it for pay to play. Used our guys as Merck's. He threw the lives of Canadian soldiers at his political donation fund. Well, it was worth more to him to do that than rescue actual Canadians.

That's how bad it is. Yep. Evidence freeze on hiring freeze. So we talked about this lady a little bit before. I'm going to pull a page out of Sean's book and butcher her name. But Amira El Gababwe, who is the federal consultant for the reduction of Islamophobia or something very similar to that, had said that. she basically said that Palestinian activists are not getting hired for work

and they're facing it's impacting their careers. And there's job bands where people just don't want them working for their company because they're Palestinian activists. And she cited exactly zero examples of this. well they don't have to cite anything it's like again showing your homework there's no there's no data to back that up it's a feeling you know so they're the most recent disgusting thing they did was uh waving the swastika at a protest i get some i guess there was a

jewish baseball kids baseball game going on i think in montreal and uh and a bunch of the protesters showed up there because how dare the Jewish kids play baseball and they're waving swastikas like billboard or uh poster boards with swastikas on it's you know comparing them to Hitler again which is their favorite thing to do and then they wonder why there's pushback it doesn't have to be any form of Islamophobia I don't like the it's just pushback any form of pushback is now considered Islamophobia that for the Jews push back push push back if when the Jewish community said, like, you're, you're shooting our synagogues, you're firebombing our synagogues and our schools, and now you're showing up to protests with literal swastikas.

Yeah, which is interesting. I mean, one swastikas shows up for five seconds during a three-week protest in Ottawa, and everybody there's a white supremacist. Yes. And meanwhile, you've got everybody at this protest showing up with swastikas in a prolonged manner. And it's Islamophobia. You don't notice, isn't it interesting how anything critical of that is Islamophobia and anything critical of Judaism is just anti-Semitism? It's not even anti-Semitism. But Islamophobia?

Yeah, yeah. Anti-Semitism. Oh, yeah. But you don't even, yeah. Yeah. They can do whatever they want at this point, it seems like. They can literally walk around and chat from. the river to the sea, which is called Intifada to kill all the Jews,

wave swastikas around with shitty slogans on their poster boards. And there's nothing. The cops don't intervene. The government doesn't say anything. Very few of them say anything, I should say. The media doesn't cover it. But like you said, you throw one swastika by some random plant at the Freedom Convoy for about a minute. Are we sure that he's a plant when he was wearing a tank?

Tuk, he had a bella clava and big sunglasses on. He was there for about 30 seconds and then left. Are we sure that that was a plan? And he was photographed by Trudeau's photographer. It's a weird thing. It's a weird thing. I mean, Trudeau's photographer photographs

all kinds of stuff all the time. It's completely fair. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Oh, here we go. By the way, Lee's Blay, I would not call it incompetence. People like Seijian are working against our country, they should be

prosecuted. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. I like this, Glenn, the hargitter of doom. I might borrow that, yeah. That is, that is pretty good. And then one race, human race, I'm, I'm on board with that. Yep. A pressing presser. So there was a few of these with this. I think I'll maybe show a few you show a few clips out of this.

But this was Trudeau's press conference he did at a hockey rink. And you can see here, here's everybody just spaced right out so that when the camera's on them, it looks like it's a crowd full of people. But really, you can do it with like six. And then just watch this lady in the background. Are you willing to stay on and lose them? Just watch. I think the conversations that I'm having with...

Look at that. Fuck my life. The bobbleheads in the background, which we've talked about a lot on the show. And it's always like, oh, yes, oh, that's interesting. Oh, it's so good. They basically look like Christopher Freeland all the time in the background. And meanwhile, this lady is just...

Who presumably was handpicked for this. Yeah. there's only like 10 people on that whole sheet of ice. And even she's just like, oh my God, are you kidding me? Yeah. Well, and that's how we all feel at this point. Like, I can't listen to the guy. I, it just can't be done.

Yeah, there's a rally in Montreal the other day with 80 people. 80 people at his fundraiser or whatever it was in Montreal. 80 people in Montreal, dude. I know. That's crazy. You know, the other crazy thing about this is that he started, I don't have any examples to pull up, but he started tweeting about Papano.

Yeah. He never really did that very much because it's always just been like, hi, I'm Trudeau and I'm doing something really important on a national scale. And now I think he's looking down the barrel of possibly losing his seat. It's possible.

Well, because finally he's starting to give a rat's ass about Papano. Yeah. Well, fine. He doesn't ever, like you said, he never mentions it any other time. But now I think he's, he's gotten so many, even his little bubble that protects him, like the PMO's office and his little handlers that protect him and say great things to him every day about how much the current... Well, he's hired everybody who tells him the truth. Exactly. But there's, it's starting to leak in now. Like it's, and the media has actually hit back a little bit at him, a little bit recently. So he's, he's got to be a little shell shocked and wondering, well, where's this? all coming from. Then they lost in Toronto last week. So he knows, I mean, he's a complete Muppet, but he knows that things are not turning the way they should for him. So yeah, he's

going to look at Papano. I mean, and then he sees the writing on the wall, how things are turning hard to the right in Europe, minus the UK. That was a shit show yesterday. But yeah, you look down in the States, too. He's got to be watching that, you know. I can't wait for him and Pierre to have their debates. Dude. It's going to be just like what happened in the States more or less.

It's basically going to be the same thing. You know what? I don't know if this is controversial or not. You make me, you know, gun to my head, pick one. I would take Biden over Trudeau.

Ooh. Yeah, maybe. Only because he's, he doesn't really know what he's doing anymore instead of it being a... Are we sure about that?

It's his handler's running it now. He doesn't know if he, he can't, He came out to an interview yesterday with food all over his jacket. Like, it's just a shame at this point. Like, the guy doesn't know where he is. He claimed to be the first woman president yesterday in an interview. Like, he's just, you know, he's Joe Biden all over the place.

He's just, it's bad. And I know people are going, well, he's got dementia. He shouldn't make fun of him. No, he's got 50-year track record of being an absolute shitty human. I'm going to make fun of him. I don't care. Yeah. All right.

The greatest show on Earth. I'm on it. Calgary. Thanks, man. I was speaking specifically of the Calgary Stampede and how they're making the stampede by not having Trudeau attend this year. Yeah. Well, it's interesting, too, that, so his handlers didn't know what to do about that,

or at least his information people, because he was supposed to go. Like, there was no, there'd never been. It's an established tradition. It goes back decades. Like, I tried to figure out exactly. how far back it went. And once you get into Creschen, there just isn't enough internet there.

Yeah. But like even Paul Martin used to go before Harper went. And then Harper being in Calgary, went every year. And then Trudeau went every year except for 20 and 21 because of COVID. But I mean, when I say went, it's very loosely.

Like even last year, we talked about the glowing article that was incredibly dishonest where, You know, it said that there was people clamoring to get selfies with him during the stampede. He went before it opened, before the stampede opened in the morning. And he did a few pictures with Bissanol and Shahal and Jodhaw and Jody Gondek. And then he got a couple pictures with a couple basically plants. And then did a pancake breakfast right by the airport and then was on a plane and gone before anybody knew he was there. 100%

That's him showing up for the stampede And the Calgary Herald never called him out on it And then even this article They were talking about the same thing That happened last year But still being incredibly dishonest about it And so You know, I'd heard a rumor

That he was actually going to be in the parade I was like, oh, that would be so awesome Because it's televised What's that? You mean the parades last week not those parades the stampede has a parade yes

yes and so anyway and then I imagine that he just kind of said well I need something to turn this around so I'm going to go in front of the parade and his handler probably found a very delicate way of saying that that would be more

or less fucking political suicide yes in Alberta cowboys around like no the absolute demographic that hates you the most. Don't. Yeah. Don't braid yourself in front of them. But now some of it, I saw on the Twitter this morning that some of his handlers are trying to play it off as like, well, he's doing some stuff with NATO. He's meeting some NATO people. Yeah, there's that NATO summit that's

happening over two days. And he's going to be there for four days. Yeah. And the stamp he goes for, I think, 11 or 12 days. 11 or 12 days still. Yeah. Yes. So, so no matter how it fits, there's still a really big window. And keep in mind, this is during the summers, they're not even sitting in parliament. He has nothing but time for this. And it involves two of his favorite things. One, flying somewhere for fucking free and two, dressing up in a stupid costume. Yeah, 100%. Which really are his favorite things is delving into that tinkle trunk, which is probably why

Sophie left him. But he's, nobody at NATO gives a shit that he's there. Like, everybody at NATO has now come out at some point or other than the last couple years and said, dude. Just step up funding. You step up your funding. Make an actual military. But no, no, no. We got a new, we have a new CDS now who's.

We're going to get to that. Yeah. All right. Okay. But yeah, so that's what's going on with the stampede. By-election reflection. Mm-hmm. And here's a little bit more of that whole.

We would like to say people kind, not necessarily mankind. It's more inclusive. There we go. Oh, exactly. Yes, thank you. And the budget will balance itself. Man, you are one pathetic loser. Great movie, by the way.

What's that? Great movie, by the way. Oh, yeah. Phenomenal movie. So the liberals, after their stunning and brave by-election loss in Toronto, like right in the middle of it. That was probably the best part. It's like the riding right in the goddamn middle of the map of Toronto.

Yeah. Where they had, I think, 16 cabinet ministers on foot knocking on doors, trying to shore up support, which tells me, by the way, that they knew leading into this that it was going to be a loss. Yeah. And they, national news watch. Liberal MP suggests party needed.

stronger ground game in Toronto St. Paul's vote. How much stronger did they lose? They think they lost in Toronto, St. Paul, because they didn't get enough people knocking on enough doors, despite the fact that they had 16, not even just backbenchers, which they probably had all kinds of them, but they had 16 cabinet ministers knocking on doors. And then you've got all this fallout now where all the liberals want to, sit the fuck down with Trudeau and figure out what the fuck's going on. Because out of the, I don't know, roughly 150 of them, roughly 100 are looking down the barrel

of losing their jobs. Exactly. And as much as Trudeau is the face of the liberal party, when two thirds of that thing are going to stop existing, they're probably, I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop on this as to when the all out fucking revolt happens. well that's a good question i think we're all waiting on that and part of it might be already this trickle of former MPs in the last two weeks another one uh another one this morning and i don't oh it was uh garno you know in his uh tell yeah he released memoirs he's i think i don't know if

they're all out yet but the excerpts are and uh he's got nothing kind to say about trudo and it's funny now these everybody wants to go like good for you garno or good for you whoever came out. They all propped them up when they were there. Years. Years. Just towing the company line. Proping them up. Yep. Proping them up. And I understand it on one part where Garneau says, I'm paraphrasing

here, but he says, you know, I tried to give him some input. I tried to give him advice. He wouldn't hear it. His handlers wouldn't even let us get near him. So on one level, I kind of get it. You got to play that, right? But I would hope that the conservative MPs would break rank at that point.

Go be independent. Go citizen independent. If you don't be heard. Last election, last election, Erdole said that the conservative MPs needed to each individually support the carbon tax and if they didn't,

they were out of the goddamn party. Every single one of them went along with it. It's true. Including my MP, Blake Richards, who's the party whip. It was his job as, party whip, my fucking MP, to go around and make sure that everybody was on board with that.

Yeah. And then you look at all the, all the weird stuff that's happening in the conservative nomination races, where people who actually, it seems like the people who would want to represent their local constituents get edged out in favor of handpicked people who were just going to tow the line. Yeah. Well, this, O'Toole was a big problem for a lot of years. and he got a buy because he's ex-military.

Well, everybody who was ex-military that I knew is like he was a fucking Air Force captain. He didn't deploy anywhere. He has no medals. Well, he's got his CD, but that's a gimme. I did 12 years good for me. Like, that's a showing up for 12 years type thing, which he did, which isn't particularly hard in the Army because you can't really get fired. So give me a break.

Like, we all knew. Like, I'm not knocking the air. Air Force here. I'm just saying he was a captain in the freaking Air Force with no tours. Like, give me a break. This is good. There's no leadership there. You might as well be just that you're it's.

He may as well just be a PFC or something. 100%. You're essentially a glorified corporal in the in an army trade. Like that's, there's so many captains in the Air Force, they don't want to do with them all. But his leadership style reflected that too. Like he was so waffling and not just

about that, that thing, but even the gun thing. He waffled about that at the end, too, and we're all like, are you kidding me, dude? Like, you got to, there's no light between. This one's a slam dunk. Yeah. The dude is just junk. He's utter junk.

But, yeah, I don't know what to say. There, I think that, I think that the Leslie Church getting trounced out of there the way she did, especially with the ground game that those, those cabinet members gave her, very publicly gave her, It shows the trend that's coming, thankfully. Yeah. All right. Unmarked grave stories need to be put in an unmarked grave. Yeah.

So from the Aboriginal people's television network, it's shocking. Pimisica Kamik, I screwed that up. I'm sorry. Cree Nation says 187 anomalies discovered at former school. And it goes on to say that they're proof of genocide. They're proof of nothing. They're proof of nothing unless you got bones and bodies. I mean...

Dig a hole. Dig a hole. Like, you're doing everybody a disservice. Yeah. In this. It's not... Because you know what?

You, me, and pretty much most other people out here in Canada understand that they've been mistreated for generations, that the residential school thing was a fucking horrible idea. Yep. A horrible liberal idea, by the way. Yep. Also a great point to make. But it does them a disservice.

Look, I've got a lot of experience with mass graves, a fair bit more than the average person with mass graves in several different countries. And I can tell you, just using Kosovo as an example, they brought in forensics teams to prove certain things in certain areas. We had to go guard these guys when they were doing it. Some of them were from that famous FBI FBI dead farm, you know, where they watch bodies. Oh, where they put them out in different places and let them decompose for a while. In different situations.

Yeah. So some of these guys are those guys. It's fascinating. These guys are really interesting yet morbid dudes to talk to. Anyway, they had all, so this is back in 99. They had all the equipment you needed to tell within minutes what was in the ground. they knew and then they do some digging and they'd be like oh here's what we're dealing with or there's fuck all here um look we i'm surety sure in what are we to 2020 for we have the technology

or maybe even a shovel to dig some stuff up and find it because if there are dreams we should all know about it and somebody should roll for it somebody absolutely but to sit there and do this bleh, this blur, you know, this nobody is all crying wolf now and nobody's going to believe it. And you're turning people off of all kinds of other things. Mm-hmm. Oh, well, first they were complaining about the unmarked graves and now they're complaining that they don't have clean drinking water.

Mm-hmm. And there goes all of your sympathy and goodwill. Yeah. Right? And look, they don't need our sympathy. They need actual progress. No, no, no, no, I know what you're saying. Yeah.

I'm just saying you're 100% right. They are going to lose that empathy that most regular Canadians have for people and for them. But there'd better be some digging and find something. Or don't find something, but don't just throw out this blanket. And then talk it, and then especially to talk to it as definitive proof. And it's interesting, like there was this CBC article. Okay, history of residential school cemeteries is evidence of genocide. well I mean technically it's not but they so they're talking about all these mass graves and they've got these pictures that are disturbing this is a picture from 1908 and it says in the bottom students in the Dunbo cemetery blah blah blah but where else was it it sorry it says it in the article Maria highlighted three images in the report that she described is highly sensitive the faces of children in the photos are blurred in the

the report to hide their identities. This is a photo of children from 120 years ago. And you're going to do this to hide their, who in the world is going to look at a 120 year old photo of a child and be like, oh, yeah, I know that's, that's Bill. No, like it's just, it's so silly.

And then here's the next pictures. So they're talking about how this is just all these pictures are evidence of mass graves. and they've got a minister and then a whole bunch of children, pallbearers, carrying a casket. Now,

you're an expert on mass graves. How many caskets are in most of the mass graves? I didn't see a one. No. Well, that's exactly it. I would expect to see zero caskets in a mass grave. No, you just see people piled into each other.

So I'm not, because this one hasn't been, hasn't been physically dug up yet, And I don't know if they intend to or if they just want to leave that overhanging narrative going. I don't know what they're going to do with that. The mass graves I've dealt with, they weren't laid out pretty. They weren't laid out individually. They were dumped in literally like you would dump in anything.

Yeah. Have you seen that movie Civil War? Captain America's Civil War? No, no, no. The new one that came out there about the American Civil War, like about the modern American Civil War. There's a mass grave scene in that that's actually shockingly realistic as to how it happens. That's what mass graves are.

Now, I'm not, did they, did some people get buried somewhere around there? Maybe possibly. Are there a hundred? I would be surprised if there weren't. I would be too, because that's, I grew up on a dairy cattle farm, a 400 acre dairy cattle farm. There were families from previous farmers. from 100 and something years ago buried out there.

And we all knew where the markers were. That's not uncommon across Canada, you know, if you were to look hard enough. But this, they need the definitive proof. And then, yeah, go hang somebody for it. I'm all for that. I have some of that. But don't leave the narrative hanging forever,

like this last one out in BC. Right. Grooming is a good thing. We're going to go to the CBC here for a minute. large proportion of military disliked relaxed rules on personal grooming survey fines. So that was an interesting one. It was stupid that they did it in the first place. But I think that when they broke it down by.

What did they do? And what's that? What did they do? Well, they broke it down. So they broke the survey down by Element, the one that I saw. And I think it was like over 56 or 60% of the ones in the Army. So this is stupid. and then you had like the Navy and Air Force were like oh this is not a bad thing is like they were more more uh they were more uh they were more accepting of it because they're what what what was it what was it

basically you could have face tattoos you could grow whatever stupid beards you wanted and hair all over the place like um you didn't they're uniforms you can just see in pictures of these guys now they looked like civvies that had been put into uniform it's we used to make fun of the Dutch military because they have a union and they all looked like slabs and they kind of worse because if you look like a slob you're a slop that's the army and so they took this look it's called dressing deportment so how you dress and your deportment goes a long way to how you're going to perform it's a building block it's a military building block i don't care when you go to work wherever you work i'm sure most people show up and there's a dress and deportment like there's you can't have rips in your jeans you can't if you're wearing should have a shower at some point in a couple days leading up to your shit. Pretty critical.

They probably don't want to let you have a face tattoo depending on your job. Depending if you're wearing personal protective equipment, you probably don't get to have a big shaggy beard. You know, well, in the Army, you couldn't, you had to be shaved because you wear gas masks for training and for real life shit. But they didn't care. This was just, let's see who we can get in the Army with this and who we can retain because we're letting them look like sloths. Well, as soon as you take that building, now I had friends who've just recently. retired, who I served my whole career with, they were in 30 plus years. They were in charge of units. These were dudes who weren't still pushing brooms. These were due to in charge of units

who had given up hope. They're like, we can't reprimand anybody for anything anymore. The second we do, there's always some sort of harassment suit or harassment investigation. These guys are just showing up. They look like shit. They act like shit. You can't train them to do shit. And that's the state of our military. Now, you look at the guys over in Latvia. right now, and I'm not saying all of them. But such a large portion of them are guys who would have been on remedial PT because they're fat slabs who look like slabs. And these are a front line guys. Are you kidding me? No.

Do you think it was the Chinese and the Russians that infiltrated the military and got us to switch over to a lackadaisical attitude so that we'd be pushovers and oncoming conflicts? I think, I think the Chinese more than the Russians. The Chinese have definitely obviously infiltrated our government. We know there's at least 11 members who are now beholden to them. We know this. And all they had to do was influence enough of the culture in the military. Everybody talked to a culture in the military.

Like it was some horrible, horrendous thing. This male patriarchy bullshit that they go on about. Listen, were there issues there? Are there always going? Yeah, it's the military. but it needs to be tough, it needs to be exclusive, and it needs to be something that isn't for everybody. Look, I went up against the Taliban a lot

with dudes who were probably not that shiny and boy scouting, and they weren't bad dudes, and I'm not a bad dude, but we weren't boy scouts, and that's what you want going up against the worst people in the world. We go send these, these guys in Lafayette, they're going to get speed-rolled by the Russians, if that ever comes to the fruition it looks like made of wants.

They'll get bumped. They're going to be rolled over. You think the Russians give a fuck about your dressing department? Like, dude, they're going to roll over our guys who are to fat, out of shape, look like shit, act like shit and can't train for shit.

Oh, and Rainbow Camo isn't really a great way to deploy. I wish, look, I talk this way because I wish our military wasn't in this condition. it doesn't need to be in this condition. It should be difficult. You should want to do it, and it should be exclusive.

I'm not saying male exclusive or white male exclusive. Look, I serve with dudes from every conceivable background. You look at any picture of me in the Army or the documentary. There's dudes from every background represented. But they were the best at what they could do. They were tough. They could haul their weight. They didn't care about their feelings getting hurt.

Because when the Taliban's yelling over the wall, telling you in broken English we're coming for your head. You're misgendering me. Yeah. Please stop throwing the grenades at me. You know, that, it's,

those are the guys that you want facing off, whoever we're going to face off against next. Not this broken out of shape, dysfunctional thing. See, and that, I mean,

that just seems like a, a staff sergeant, obvious thing to me. Mm-hmm. Well, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

All right. Uh, here we go. What's the worst that could happen? All right. We're going to put this up here real quick. This, oh, shoot. This is some attempted arsonists who I've obviously never lit a burning barrel in their lives. Mm-hmm.

Because they threw a bunch of gas on it, lit themselves on fire. Well, the one guy lit is his pants are on fire and it's all burning. Like I haven't even, I haven't seen somebody with pants on fire like this since the last time Trudeau opened his fucking molly. Yep, yep. And the cops are on the lookout for them. Did they not, didn't go to a burn unit somewhere? Like,

that's not rubble little butter on it type of burns. That's like your skin's coming off. So I don't know. That smells like, it smells like a barbecue. Yeah. And I mean, obviously dudes got friends and family. Are they not going to notice him show up with like charcoal legs now

at this point or is junk burned off? It looks like it goes. Well, yeah, that's, that's exactly it. be like, yeah, we're going to put out an APB. Has anybody had their dick burned off recently? Yeah. I don't know. Like, it seems like they put out these, please help us tweets all the time. Like, please help us find this guy.

And you're like, my guy. Like, you're not looking very hard. How do you not find this guy? Yeah. Yeah. Legacy media's unexpected demise. Oh, that was a beauty there. This one's got to come up again here.

So the headline reads, This is CTV. An Afghan woman wanted to be a doctor. Now she makes pickles as the Taliban restricts women's roles. And the picture, for those of you listening along, is a woman in a hijab at a sewing machine. Yeah, it's pretty relevant. Yeah, I don't understand.

She's making pickles with a sewing machine. When I saw this one the other day, I had to read it a couple times. like I must be missing something here. Is there a pickle on this machine somewhere? Am I like what's going on? Yeah, it's the weirdest. They couldn't pull a better picture,

but they couldn't. Like, just have a jar of pickles or just a generic woman in a job. Instead of a woman at a sewing machine, this is how dumb our legacy media is. And we pay for this. We give them subsidies to continue doing this. which I mean it's nice for us because now we've got something to talk about but seriously

I mean you deserve a better class of it is it is articles like this that do kind of still break my heart and most a lot of other veterans heart to in the times that we were there you could see some progress with for the females and you know I got asked in an interview by some reporter somewhere we used to we always used to have reporters embedded with us at least until the fighting started and then they found somewhere else to be. They asked, like, well, how are you going to win this war, this overall war? And I remember it wasn't just me.

There's a bunch of us. We're like, unless you give women internet access and, like, cell phones and all this other shit and give them that ability to organize, there will be no change here. This is a Stone Age culture, Afghanistan, I'm talking about specifically in Afghanistan. They still live in a way in most of the place. places that have not changed in 2,000 years, women have no chance there. They just have no chance unless they have an ability to organize.

And they can't now. They could while we were there. They're done for now. I mean, they're back to the storage again. Well, and it's not like they can drive somewhere else. No, because they're women. No, no. They get stoned to death.

They'd be killed out right. Yeah. That's probably just the insurance companies, though. Yeah. I feel bad for, yeah, I feel bad that they weren't able to stand that country up. There's a lot of, I mean, yeah, it's, this is the same legacy media that during that botched evacuation three years ago. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A new day, you know, a new dawn for, for the women in Afghanistan because the. Oh, it was. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. And they got it incredibly right in the worst possible way. But you know, one of my other favorite Shons is Sean Ryan with the Sean Ryan show, a former ABCOF CIA guy down in the States. He recently had a guy on with inside knowledge who talks about that the Biden government literally airlifts cash to the Taliban every week, like 35 to 40 million a week, just to keep them from going crazier, basically. It's basically, please behave money.

It's extortion money. It's extortion money. It's a shame if something was to happen to this Stone Age culture. Yeah, yeah. It's they had such a, you look at Afghanistan going back to the 60, 70s, pre-Russian time in the 80s, women were running around in jeans. They could go to university.

They could do stuff. The country as a whole was, doing okay for where it is, what it is. And then things happened. And, yeah. There's no going back. No. Well, even this.

So Canada Revenue Agency, they've deleted this tweet for some reason, but CRA, literally your tax people, bellow banana, babble choppa, mukalaka, unana, hashtag Canadian tax, hashtag despicable me for. It sounds like a Biden quote. well played i saw i saw that too this is what we pay for this is what we pay for you know they come after for me and you if we're you know i always wind up owing i just always do it's uh i can't hide enough of it but the uh there was a big article a couple weeks ago about the 64 million dollars that they'd lost in a scam basically and they're not even trying to get that back like they gave up on

it like you know well mark cuban law a bunch in a scam recently too. Yeah. Our Cuban fell for the Nigerian prince thing. Yes, yes, he did. And he's such a smart man, that guy. Yeah. All right.

Next one. Olympic racial segregation. So the Olympics are coming to Paris right away. We were talking before about the high levels of poop in the river and how that might affect the swimming events. Mm-hmm. And this is the latest thing. They had decided that they weren't in an effort to save the environment.

They weren't going to air condition any of the rooms that the Olympic athletes were staying in. And so all of the normal-ass countries said, okay, well, we're just going to bring in portable air conditioners. Yeah. And countries like Uganda, which is specifically named here, said, we can't afford that. we don't have deep pockets. And so now now you've got this two-tiered system in the Olympics

where only the rich people get air conditioning and Uganda doesn't, which I mean, to be totally fair though, they're probably used to the heat. You would think, but I see what they're saying too. For one, this climate bullshit about the AC thing, it's just virtue signaling that's now

gotten away from them. So they're stuck with either letting people have they're rich people AC where you don't get no AC or they go backwards and give everybody AC where they look like even bigger fools. But the thing is, the thing is with this right now, they're not going to win anybody over. They've now gone so far down the middle with it all. Nobody's on their side because it's now pissed off the poor countries that can't afford AC. So the virtual signaling there is lost.

and the rich people who can afford it are just going to put them in there anyway and still virtue signal but this is parents what do you expect? I couldn't have put it any better myself unions fucking up everyone's shit this has been a hell of a week for unions

you've got the West Jet mechanics that went on strike so recently Seamus O'Regan and the liberals with the NDP passed this no scab law it's illegal for when workers are on strike. It's illegal for companies

and federally regulated companies, I think it is, to bring in scabs. And they love throwing the term scab around. Yes, they do. Here's the thing. I don't know who needs to hear this, but a scab is a body's natural reaction

to an infection, to trauma. Yeah. It's how it heals, how it's, how it makes itself whole again. A scab is not a bad thing. A scab is healing. Yeah. And it's the opposite of a union.

I don't think they're getting the same message that they think they're getting across. No. No. You know what? Yeah. I think people are getting sick of big unions at this point. That's all I hear from anybody is like it's just not.

You look at the WestJet one, the LCBO one that's happening now in Ontario. That's the other one here too now is that they said they're going to close down all the liquor stores for two weeks. I thought liquor stores. were essential. Didn't I remember hearing something like that a little while ago? They wrote specific policy to leave those open and shut down like food, you know, gyms.

But the LCBO needed those liquor stores open. Well, they're federal employees, which I don't think I truly understood them. You know, I was raised in Ontario, but I don't think I truly understood what that meant. Like,

they're basically cashiers on a federal pay scale, you know, is what they are. And so anyways, But they're mad because they think that once Doug Ford opens it up so that other places of business, convenience stores, grocery stores, whatever else can also sell alcohol that people are going to choose to buy it there instead of their store. And that that's going to mean that fewer stores or fewer shelf stockers or whatever else are needed. And there's going to be job losses. And I just find it interesting that their solution is, is we need to be getting. guaranteed our jobs. Yeah.

Well, what if you're not doing anything? Well, what do we, what do we have you do? And instead, instead of saying, well,

we're all going to lose our jobs because no one's going to want to work at our, no one's going to want to shop at our shitty store if they have choices. Mm-hmm. None of them are saying, well, you know what? The unions,

the unions aren't saying, we need to look at this and try and make these stores as good and competitive as possible. That's how you do. do it. That's how you solve it. But it's, because it's a government run thing that's not how they're their mindsets. Yeah.

It's totally, it's totally out to lunch. Like the, oh, this, I might get in some trouble for this. Uh, so the, the trucker, um, the blue collar round table, that was all truckers that Sean had the other day. It was really good. It was interesting. But the one guy

was dead set that trucking needs to be recognized as a trade. And he talks about the amount of knowledge that's out there and how it's not being transferred. And he never really asked himself, are there any alternatives that could have the same effect? And the interesting thing is that he could make $7 million if he just wrote a book that had all that knowledge in it.

He could create a course. And then that course, if it's done well and received well, becomes the gold standard for the industry and everybody adopts it. But his knee jerk response was well. we need to get the government to solve this problem. Yeah. I'm like, no. You're sitting on not only the solution,

but a way to make a shit ton of money at the same time. You've got this golden opportunity. Go for it and tell the government to look at something else entirely while you just make off like a bandit while improving the entire industry at the same time. Yeah. It isn't, but people feel like there's, guaranteed money if the government gets involved. So if he brings this thing to the government

that's why do you think that is Chuck? Well, because because there's guaranteed money every time the government gets involved. Yeah. That's what it is. All right. Oh, shoot. There we go. All right. Experts on everything

but accountability. Oh, and by the way, the Cargill strikers are running out of money because they've been striking so long. And now they're going to the food banks. From the Toronto Star, which is always a bastion of quality journalism.

Excuse me, especially from Bruce Arthur, who put it nicely as a piece of shit. I hope you're listening to this, Bruce. People should be afraid. Pierre Pollyab's conservatives have been targeting experts. Is this just the beginning? And then the

article talks about this doctor who was testifying about safe supply and and very loosely skirting around a truth that anybody with two brain cells is going to figure out when when the safe supply stuff is being stolen or sold to drug dealers and then making its way all the way across Canada to be distributed illegally and she's saying well no it's it's not happening to kids, the kids aren't getting a hold of this stuff. Just because there's no direct evidence of it, which it would be really hard to get direct evidence of something like that. And just because there's no concrete evidence, it's very easy to say that if some kids are buying drugs and a lot of the drugs are coming from the safe

supply places, there's going to be logically speaking, at least a few instances where this happens. And then they talk about how he was, Pauliev, was calling out the economists who were being paid by the liberals to say these things. And for anybody that's listening to the last few mashups, we even broke down how some of the economists get paid by other economists who get paid by the government. And then even a few weeks before that, how Dwayne Bratt was saying that if the government of Alberta, specifically in that case was getting too involved, people are going to be worried because they're going to be required to say

what the people giving them the funding have to say. Yeah. Which is exactly the point we've been making this whole time. And how many times have you seen the word experts in a tweet or an article, Chuck, and just been like, fuck, here we go again? The word has lost all meaning since the, you know, when happened like four years ago. that that word means nothing to anyone anymore it's you might as well be a used car salesman or you know whatever it means nothing because it just means that you're being paid for by the

government to say something at this point that's all it is yeah and then the government touts you out as being an expert yeah and it's never pointed out in any of these news articles or news clips or anything like that that the guy that's saying this thing from the liberal party and the guy who's coming on to back up what he's saying, have a financial relationship between the two of them. Well, and that's just it. Your government funded expert is on the government funded media telling you what the government funded narrative is.

So that's, yeah. And go back to the safe supply thing. Like, from what I understand and I could be wrong, one of the reasons they didn't want to make trackable, the drugs trackable, depending on the, the, the, the, the, the, the media that the medium that the drug is given to you in whether it's pill form needle form whatever the heck there are methods that they could have used to put a signature on the stuff essential yeah they from what i understand they chose not to because then you would know within ounces and kilograms how much is hitting the illegal market they already know that a lot

of it is i mean yeah some of the people that they're busting are like well i got this from so and so you know and this is yeah well i mean we we've covered there was this big bust in ontario of stuff that came from bc a few weeks ago yeah and then and then you've got this lady dr andrea sereda physician safe for supply subscriber and here's she's even got tattoos on her arms i don't want i don't want somebody with tattoos to to be my doctor like it's just it's just despicable I don't want them cooking my food I don't want them on my show

too late biggest burgers ever so Bidonomics 4th of July family cookouts reach record high of 7122 so this is one of the things that I actually like in terms of price tracking is that because it stays

apples to apples year over year. It's not the random bag of goods. It's not how Trudeau in 2019 changed the way the poverty calculation was made

so that all of a sudden there was a drop in poverty. He went from the old method used to be that it was the amount of people living below half of the median income

were in poverty, which roughly speaking meant that 25% of Canadians would always be literally living in poverty. Because if it was the percentage of them living under 25% of, well, living under half of the median income. So you'd expect under a population distribution and under an even population distribution that that would always be roughly 25%. And then he said, okay, well, let's move to this mixed basket of goods calculation. and then after that, oh, our poverty rates are way down. Yeah, but it's completely different math.

Whereas this, it's an annual thing in the states they do where they say, how much money does it cost for you to cook up a bunch of food for the 4th of July? Yeah. And it's at a record high of $71 and $22 for 10 guests. And so beef is up 11%. Sorry? If you could feed 10 people for, 71 bucks for a meal.

I wish I had their grocery problem. That's US dollars too, though, right? Still. Call it 100 then. And it's also the idea is that you're making this stuff from scratch, right? Because you're looking at ground beef. You're not looking at, you know, buying pre-made burgers, which, I mean, make them yourself. They're way better anyway, right?

Always better. Yeah. But this is nice. I like the fact that there's little nuggets of this. stuff every once in a while that you come across where, oh, hey, we can have a consistent conversation about what this actually looks like year over a year. Because even though their official inflation rate is somewhere right around ours, like, okay, well, this is up 11% and that's up 12%.

And then the two exceptions were chicken, which is down 4% and potato salad, which is down 4%. So, yeah, I mean, the potatoes are always cheap. C-sis paratrop. Oh, I missed one. Shoot, this would be a really good one too. We're not at Cis-Pera drop yet. We're about the intoxicated Cootney Man chooses jail over going home with wife. I didn't see that one.

Okay, all right. I just put it in this morning. Oh, yeah. But here's actually, you know what? I'll read the whole thing because it's a very short article, but quite telling, if you will. Police in the Kootenies say a man opted for the drunk tank rather than home during an interaction with officers last month. RCMPs say they were called on June 23rd for a report of an intoxicated 26-year-old trail man,

stripping down and causing a disturbance in the 1,100th block of Bay Avenue in downtown trail. The officer located the man face down on the pavement and refusing to go home despite being surrounded by wife and wife. friends. R.C. And P say the man's wife and friends were willing to take care of him at home. However, the man declined and chose jail. The officer arrested and lodged him in the cell block at the trail detachment until sober. He was released to his wife the next day when he was sober. I'd probably, I'd probably would have stayed in the cell block for my own safety if my wife was waiting for me after a night like that. He probably chose why. Mike was sent to which in a news release.

I mean, that's a pretty Canadian story. The guy probably chose wisely. Oh, my wife's going to kill me. No, no, no, I'll go to jail instead. Yeah. Yeah, probably, probably a smart move. Okay. Now we're at the CESIS paratrop.

So this is David Vignal. The director of CESIS is now stepping down after having been there for 20 years. Yeah. It's interesting. They've had a very tumultuous past year or so. Yes. Even Trudeau going so far as to call them liars. Yes.

I was going to say, whenever he needs to shift something, he'll be like, well, CES has said, but whenever he needs to go the other way, he immediately is like, well, you can't trust what they say. That's why I don't read their notes. Like, he doesn't read their notes. But he knows what they said. He knows what they said, yeah. I mean, Marco Mendocino. specifically said that they invoke the Emergencies Act because of CIS's recommendation.

And CIS said, no, we did not say that at all. And so, yeah, after I'm surprised, the only thing that really surprised me about this is that it hasn't happened sooner. And actually, the second thing is that it was very polite. It wasn't, this place has become a shit show. our government has lied multiple times. We are hamstrung from doing our job. There's no fucking point in me showing up to work every day. So I fucking quit.

Peace out. Good luck, you fucking pricks. Other than his very grammatically horrible resignation letter that he did. I mean, he's got,

I think he's misspelled Canadian in it as well. He actually, it's a pretty bad. Yeah, he did actually. Canadian with an E. Yeah. He might. He might have been in such a fury to just write this thing and get out the door.

He might have just, you know, we all do it when we're tweeting or whatever. But I'm surprised, but not surprised that he was polite on the way out the door because who knows what the repercussions could be. But the, I expect we'll hear from him at some time in the future. Maybe he'll write his own memoirs. I would say that it would be interesting if he did, yeah. It's interesting timing. Interesting timing, him leaving now.

Yeah. And then Tricia Rue was talking about the last article. He knew jail would be easier than the wrath of his wife. Yeah. Tricia. I wonder if Sean's ever had a similar instance. Not Sean Newman, her husband, Sean. But Sean Newman, actually, now that I'm wondering about that.

The next one, immigration problem solving itself. Sure. Nearly 40% of new Canadians say they're considering leaving their province or Canada over high housing costs. Well, we were just talking about, like, good luck. I'm an established adult human who can buy things and I had a very difficult time getting a home. Like, it's not easy right now. It's great if you're selling and of course to buy your selling usually. but I mean, so if you're an immigrant who isn't maybe as founded here or not or as established here.

Established, yep. It's like our younger generation. Good luck. Like really good luck. Oh, they're totally fucked. Like basically their only chance for owning a home is to get gifted a small parcel on the edge of a farm and build it yourself. Yeah. Which, I mean, to be fair, there's lots of people that did that back.

in the day. My parents are still in Ontario on 400 acres wanting me to go build a home there and I'm like, you know, it's fucking Ontario. I'm not going back there. But, you know, that's kind of how things were done or you would

pass a piece of property down and now you see, you know, not to go off on a different thing, to stay on the immigration side of it, I guess for now, but look, they're even buying a hotel, they're looking to buy up hotels in Ontario to house because there's no way of put them.

You know, there's just, I have a solution to that. Don't let them in or send them back. Because why should you and I fund purchasing? Would it really be the end of the world for us to say, you know what, we're full? Check back in in a few years. Yeah. Come back in a few years. And this isn't racist because it's not like, oh, we don't want any of the Mexicans coming in,

but we'll take in the Puerto Ricans and the El Salvadorians. Yeah. We're saying everybody can just fuck off for a little bit. Give us a minute to catch our breath. Check back in in a little bit. And if we've freed up a few spots, sure. But it's no longer merit-based immigration. It's these visas, these student visas.

It's always, I mean, it's rocks and road. It's all kinds of things that are just irregular immigration. This is summertime job. Every guy I know, every person I know, family I know with kids who are like just out of school for the year. can't get a job. And there's a reason for that. And we all know what the reason for that is. It's because we brought in

about 800,000 extra people a year for the last several years. There are no summer jobs available. There are, you notice, I didn't see it. I might have missed it. But you know, remember every year that liberals would roll out this big summertime job program and we're going to get you a summertime job

fucking raking leave somewhere, whatever it was? They don't roll that out anymore because there's no, there are no summer jobs. There are no, you know, kids aren't going to work at the local pool anymore or the local Timmy's anymore. Well, because there's somebody else who's taking that job. They're taking our jobs. They're not taking our jobs, though. They're taking our kids jobs.

They're taking our kids jobs. The argument's a little bit different. Okay. I'm calling an audible. We're going to go. We're going to circle back to Biden real quick. But I feel like this is going to factor in real well with what we were just talking about. and that is public sector blowing the fuck up.

So what's driving Canadian wage growth, all those federal government employees. It talks about how the public sector since 2019 has grown by over 17% and business sector grew by, or grew by, I think, 3% over the same amount of time. all the new jobs that are being created are government jobs.

And I did a little quick math, which is aside from this article. And since 2019, according to our official numbers, which are probably right the fuck out to lunch, by the way, we've grown by about 10%. So, so, you know, everybody's saying like, well, I mean, we've got all these new people coming in. So we need to offer them the services and everything like that. And that's why our public sector has gone up so much. Our public sector has gone up at about twice the rate of our population growth. Yeah. Meanwhile, our private sector job growth is growing at half the rate.

Yeah. It's just a story that it links back to essentially our immigration. You look at our health care. You look at everything else. We are not the only way to government-created jobs aren't real jobs. jobs you and I fund. No, no, they're, they're just, they're, they're fluff. Here's the thing, okay, if you had on a scale and you've got two ends to the scale,

think like roughly laugh or curve idea, right? On one end, you have zero percent of people. There are no public sector jobs and everybody works in the private sector. You would have, you would have a lot of extra money rolling around. Okay. And on the other end, if you had 100% of the jobs in a country were all government jobs, nobody would be building anything. Nothing will get done. Nothing would be accomplished. Now, you can't have zero people working in a government because then it would not be a government anymore. It would be anarchy, which, which I mean really would it be that bad of an idea.

but assuming that there's going to be a government, the further you can get towards that one side where nobody works for the government, i.e. the smallest government possible, that would be better. And we keep going the opposite direction. There's three and a half, it's something like three and a half private sector jobs

for every one public sector job now, which is astoundingly high. You look at the leader of Brazil who got in, what, a year ago or so, his name's Milai, how are you say his name? He slashed his government by Argentina. Argentina, sorry. He took a chainsaw to his government, ripped it apart, and it's actually functioning better than it ever has. He's cut all this crap out.

And he's actually, his country's turned around their economy in less than a year. So it can be done. I mean, not that Twitter was a government, but you look when Musk took it over, he slashed it by something like, what is it? 90 some percent. 90 something percent. And it's still running.

And it's running better. Yeah, it's running better. Yeah. Well, Argentina. You know what? We're going to jump around all over the place. Argentina. Of course, Argentina is in a recession.

Argentina enters technical recession as job losses mount under Millet. Of course they have a shit ton of job losses. Almost everybody in Argentina six months ago worked for the government. Yes. And they've all been fired. And that was artificially expanding the economy. The actual numbers were far less reflective of what the actual economic reality was. Yeah.

Numbers are coming down to something more realistic. Look, if you have whatever it was, half the people in Argentina say, working for the government and you fire almost all of them. Of course you're going to have high unemployment numbers. And of course you're going to have a recession because the government just kept on pumping money into the economy that it shouldn't have and didn't need to be there. And it made the numbers artificially high. And then you have people like this idiot bitch, Mary 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, this fake, like when people talk about the paid liberal accounts. This is guaranteed one of those.

That didn't take long. Don't say we didn't tell you. Conservative cuts to spending don't fucking work. We avoided a recession in Canada with Trudeau's spending because it helps the middle class and drives the economy. These idiots always end up with the same predictable results. Well, yeah, they're predictable results. I mean, we said that from the start. Like, they're going to go through a recession and they're going to have really high unemployment

because they have all these people doing nothing jobs that are no. longer going to be doing those nothing jobs. This is literally just fucking common sense. And in no way is it reflective of liberal spending being a good thing. But they're just grasping in whatever damn straws they can find.

Exactly. All right. Okay. Now, I had thoughts about Biden, but I forgot what they were. Look, we touched on it earlier about, you know,

dude's obviously got dementia right now and we were, but I don't give a shit. Look, he's got a 50 year track record as a shitty politician, a horrible human being. Shitty human being with a shitty family. He literally disowned his granddaughter and took her to court to stop her from using

his last name. Yeah. He's got, his granddaughter. His son, his felon son, his co-ke head, you know, pedophile. who is now at the White House daily. You know, it's like daily he's there now. You know, was it today or yesterday? It was the one year anniversary of when they found Coke at the White House

and they still don't know whose coke it was. Whose could it have been? Could it have been the guy who literally said in an interview that he was going through the carpet finding crumbs of parmesan crumbs to smoke? Yeah. This guy. Okay. And then so after the after you've still got the media running protection for Biden.

Oh yeah. Like here's here's the AP news. Biden at 81 often sharp and focused, but sometimes confused and forgetful. That's literally their headline. What did you see yesterday? I thought so I go through telegram a lot because I get a lot of news from telegram. because it's generally more on the ground type news

for the stuff that I look at. And I saw this article saying that Biden had just told some governors that he's going to take more naps and he won't be working after 8 o'clock, 8 p.m. And I thought this has got to be like some sort of Babylon B thing or something. Yeah. So I did a quick Google and I'm like, shit, like a couple hours ago, this just got, like he's really just told these people the president

that he's going to take more naps as opposed to how he's taking right now. And he's not going to really work after 8. So if you're North Korea, I guess it's 805, we're safe, boys. Yeah, we'll send the nukes. Because Camal is in charge right now.

So she's worse than him. Well, I mean, that's what Trump was saying. Like, here's this video of Trump from golfers the other day. What did they do with the debate the other night? It's amazing. That all broken down pile of crap. Yeah. It's a bad guy.

He just quit, you know, he's quitting the rest. Is that right? Yeah, I got him out of it right. And that means we have Kamala. I think she's gonna be better. She's so bad. She's so pathetic. It's so much.

It's just so fucking bad. So, can you imagine that guy with dealing with Putin and the president of China, who's a fierce person. He's a fierce man, a very tough guy. And they see them, they go over a little. They just announced he's probably quitting. All right.

So there's Trump, who by the way, shoots Taylor Maids, which aren't always the easiest to hit well. He can hit anything, though. Like, sorry? I don't know. I don't know if Biden will drop out or not. He's got, there's a segment of that Democratic Party that will hold onto him and wide that ship.

They know the ship is going down, but they would rather ride it down with him. And then you have the other branch of the Democrats who are like anything but Trump, obviously, which they all are, but I don't know what they're going to do. And Biden is stubborn. Like he's a stubborn old and he's being handled

by his wife who's equally as stubborn. I'm surprised that he hasn't been Arconcited yet. I'm really surprised that Hillary Clinton hasn't just and it wouldn't take much. All you'd have to do is

just have a little bit of loose carpet at the top of the stairs going up to Air Force 1 and that problem just takes care of itself. It does. You don't have to tie him to a tree, shoot them in the chest with a shotgun, with no shotgun left lying around

and then have a rule of suicide. You don't have to shoot them in the ass while you're out hunting with them. You just, all you'd have to do is just maybe don't cut up his chicken quite as finely as you do before you feed it to him. You don't even have to be like Obama's

personal chef going swimming or anything. Yeah. Yeah. There's so many easy ways to kill a man that old and frail. But you know what they're they're not going to Clinton him because Kamala is worse. And that's the only

saving grace for Biden right now is that his replacement is actually worse than him. Think about that for a man. How bad must that be just a kick in the junk? If you're Kamala Harris, and you're like this daughtering, senile old man who has shat himself on international television multiple times, is seen as a better candidate than I am.

She was polling at less than 1% when she was running, you know, as a candidate four years ago or whatever time it was now. that she was in her unfavorables like how much she was actually disliked were in like the 70s 80s which is and then they had Tulsi Gabbard they could have had Tulsi Gabbard as VP they could have had a pylon as VP and they would have been like you know what the pylon is in we're taking the pylon yeah i don't know that he's actually going to leave i don't think he will i think trump is kind of just he just he's shit talks that's what he does but he brings up a good point these are the people that are talking to world leaders like Z, Putin. You think they take him, they don't take him seriously.

That's like Putin rolled when he rolled. You know, he knew he had four years essentially to roll. That's what he's done. Now, I don't know if you saw the interview, I don't know which cast it was from, but these were two dudes that used to work for Trump doing negotiations with the Taliban. Oh, it's funny you should mention that. Well, there is. President Trump was still the president.

President Trump wanted to get out of Afghanistan, but he wanted a conditions-based withdrawal, meaning that you do what we tell you to do, and then we'll start pulling troops back slowly as long as you abide by our rules. It's President Trump and Mike Pompeo, and they are talking to Taliban leadership in the room, and they had one translator in the room.

President Trump looked at the Taliban leader and said this, I want to leave Afghanistan, but it's going to be a condition. conditions based withdrawal. And translator translating. And he said, if you harm a hair on a single American, I'm going to kill you.

And translator goes, and Trump goes, tell him what I said. Tell him what I said. Reached in his pocket, pulled out a satellite photo of the leader of the Taliban's home and handed it to him. Shut up. Got up and walked out the room.

Oh, that's that's how you handle negotiations. That is how you do. You be that right amount of crazy where they're like, I don't know, maybe he's full of shit or maybe he's going to drone strike my family. And look, even so Putin in an interview, because you remember now Zelensky's all over Trump about how are you going to stop the war? You keep saying you're going to stop the war.

We need to know how you're going to stop the war because it's our war. Well, for one, you just turn off the money tap. The war is over. But Putin yesterday in an interview was asked for his reaction to Trump saying that he will stop the war because he got brought up at the debate the other day. And so Putin said, look, I'm interested in hearing what Trump has to say. I respect what he has to say. And we can work within a framework and end this war. Basically, I'm paraphrasing here.

But he said nobody's approaches about ending the war. So if Trump's got a solution to this, let's hear it, you know, kind of a thing. So it's one of those things where who do you want now? It is also funny that if the best they can do is run Biden versus Trump in America, they've got other issues. But I'll say this, Trump was effective as a president. You can hate him and a lot of people do, but he was effective. He spent way too much money, but I mean, you know, everything else is most everything else.

I like the idea of him going in for his second and final term and just going scorched earth on the swamp. I think that would be absolutely wonderful. I would love to see that. All right, we're jumping around here. So groceries in Canada explained. Now, I've got to find where this is because everything's all out of order.

But, Charlabois, Sylvain Charlebois, who's been on the S&P before, talks about, this is an interesting article. He breaks down exactly why nobody's interested in entering the grocery market in Canada and why Canadian grocers are looking to expand outside of Canada,

which is really interesting because, I mean, they've got it locked up here. There's only a few entities where you can get groceries without, by the way, folks going to things like farmers markets where there's actual farmers or just going directly to people who grow your food. which is also an option.

But it's, shoot, I had a few interesting things I wanted to pull from it, but it's hard to highlight things when you're clicking through. One of the things I thought was really interesting was they talked about the red tape. And how, for example, you can't transport alcohol at night in Alberta, and you can't transport alcohol during the day in BC. I did not know that. but they're right next to each other. So transporting alcohol from Alberta to BC or from BC to Alberta ends up being a little bit fucking difficult because you have these different rules for adjacent provinces, which are supposed to have free trade between them.

And it's exactly the kind of law that I would expect our governments to put in place. Yeah. And to not fix. Yeah. and you'd think that one of them, like the Alberta has this minister of red tape production. So I think it was the first time I was ever on Sean's podcast, like way before the mashup.

He said, well, if you could have some cabinet position in the government, what would you say? And I said it would be the minister of getting rid of red tape. Yeah. And then a few months later, Alberta came out with this minister of red tape production. I thought it was really interesting and funny.

And I really would have liked them to have given me a bit goddamn credit for it. But aside from that, this is exactly the kind of thing where you'd say, okay, well, look, why don't we just get rid of the stupid rules? And why don't we get rid of the stupid rules in between provinces? And this is the kind of shit

that brings up the cost for your supply chain. And, uh, yeah, that's, uh, that's basically it. Well, that, that, also a very Canadian story. Like, like, and you know what? I'd be curious to what red tape has been cut.

Like, where's the benchmark? Where's the scorecard? So they actually do have a website where they keep track of it. We haven't really talked about it that much because the last time I looked at it, there was nothing really mind blowing. With all the

amount of stupid rules, like fundraisers for the AGLC, if you want to have a lottery for a fundraiser for a nonprofit, you can use it for operational expenses, but you can't use that money for capital expenses. So you can use it to pay for your power and your gas for an existing building, but you can't

use that money you gain to pay for a new building. Yeah. Which is just stupid. And then, um, so Kit Scottie went through this, uh, with their clunker dunker,unker fundraiser. And that's, that's how I know about that one specifically. But there's all kinds of silly rules like that. And you're like, well, just explain to me the logic behind it.

Okay. And if you can't explain the logic, move up the food chain until somebody says, well, look, this is just how the rule is. You say, okay, well, you know what? If you can't give me a good reason for it, can you at least give me an exemption? But that's- Even the exemption would be nice, yeah. The NDP are not a serious party. Gonna blow your guys as goddamn brains on this one.

So this is just a follow up from in Alberta, then she got 85% of the popular vote. Yeah. So this guy who's never been affiliated with the NDP before, he actually had to get a special exemption to even run because he wasn't a member. He goes in and beats a bunch of women. And he gets 85%. And then Sarah Hoffman,

who people had kind of assumed was going to be the logical winner. that's something like 2% and then the best one I think was 4% sorry and then Kathleen Ganley did 8% out of nowhere and I think a lot of it had to do with their polling numbers during the

run there was a poll that we talked about it, go back a month or something like that you can find it but basically it said if this person was the leader how likely would you be to support the NDP

and they went through all the people going through the leadership. The worst one by far was Gail McGowan who didn't even stick it out to the end because he couldn't fundraise enough to do it. Yeah. President of QPy. But Nenshi was the least

bad. All of the people would have the NDP polling lower, but Nenshi was the least bad. And now you have the conservatives being projected right now at up 11 seats and the NDP down 11 seats after this. And Edmonton, which was an absolute stronghold of NDP,

is losing around the outsides. Calgary, which was contentious, but favoring NDP is now kind of a wash. And there are nowhere else other than Banff and Lethbridge in the entire province. This is the problem with democracy, by the way. you look at this and even though

this map is almost entirely fucking blue with one semi-rural writing being BAMF coming out orange and yet there's still enough power in the two small places

to almost throw the whole thing. Yeah and that's yeah well it's funny when you look at a map of the U.S. where they're electoral stuff and you see that there's just a little blue fringes around both coastlines, the rest of it's red, for the most part. And it's, I mean, look, look at our, look at the country we have as a whole.

And I've, it's something like 78% underneath that red line in Ontario control. Yeah. 70% of the entire country. Our big old country here, you know, not the maple leaf. Yeah. The maple leaf, maple trees don't grow. west of Ontario. And yet that's our fucking flag.

Yeah. You look at this stuff. You've got these people, like you're saying, the GTA or the, the Ottawa, Kitchener, Waterloo, Toronto and Montreal. They decide all our elections.

Before the polls have even closed in Manitoba, they'll call who won our federal election. Meanwhile, geographically, half the fucking country hasn't even finished voting yet. And they're like, well, don't even bother. It's already decided. Yeah.

Right. And this place is so goddamn broken. So I'm a separatist. I feel like Canada should be cut into as many small pieces as possible. And everybody can figure their own shit out. And if you've got some good ideas, run with them. And if you've got garbage ideas, you're not bringing everybody else down. As somebody who has fought for this country.

and for the ideas that this country represents and who has a lot of friends who died doing this. How does it feel when people say, I don't want to be part of this place anymore? Yeah, I get asked that a lot for the reason that everybody asked it. I guess is usually the same reason. And look, this country turned its back on me well before I turned my back on it. I also think that separating Alberta should separate. I do. I 100% do.

This country, I think even if Pierre gets in, are we salvageable? No, no, I don't think we are. I don't, will he slow things down or maybe fix a few things?

I think he will. I think he genuinely will. Maybe I'm being a little bit naive, but I think he genuinely will. Try to anyway. We'll drive off the cliff at a medium pace. Yeah, there's that too.

Can Alberta do it? If we separate out, can we make a run of it with our industries here and kind of establish ourselves as the powerhouse we could be? Yeah, we could. And people would be like,

well, Canada's been around for 150, I don't give a fuck. Go to Europe and read some European history. Those things change borders all the time. They change borders. You know, they've changed borders so many times. Our history is new. So we think that this 157 years means something.

Well, it does. I mean, we were, Canada was born in World War I essentially. Like when we, the Canadian soldiers did what they did. You know, Canada became a nation, technically, not technically, but was people when they did that. That was they, they were on the map. But World War I put them on the map. Put them on the map. Yeah.

And World War II, much the same thing, you know, kind of reist out. We had the third largest Navy in the world at one point. after World War II. Third largest navy in the world. We couldn't float a canoe right now. You know, Afghanistan, for a very short period of time, Canadians again, around the world, at least in the military spheres,

were recognized as like, these are war fighters again. And it almost takes that recognition to make a country a country again. And I'm not saying, let's go to war and do this again. But we don't have any of that now. And worse, we have an economy that's been purposely sabotaged by,

Ottawa. There's no, we should be the economic driving force in the world right now with all our resources. We aren't. And that's on purpose. We can do it here in Alberta. We can maybe team up with parts of Saskatchewan and parts of BC, you know, carve it what we want. It would probably be a bit messy. And I don't mean violently messy. I just mean it wouldn't be the, the clear cut provincial lines. Because BC would say take us with you. And we would say, we don't want Vancouver. No. We'll take the north. Yeah.

You cut it in half and we'll take the top half. And then the bottom half can figure itself out, whether it still wants to be part of Canada and be the only remaining powerhouse and pay for everything. Or it can become its own little micro nation, kind of a Singapore type thing. And it would be the same thing on Manitoba. Because Manitoba would be like, well, we're not going to get as many free shit anymore because there's no more Alberta and Saskatchewan money. so why don't you guys take us with you who be like no you guys fucking suck but we'll take

the top half and we'll take access to Hudson Bay and Winnipeg that can go back to being remember I'm sure you've probably heard of the whole postage stamp province that Manitoba used to be that postage stamp province can stay with what used

to be Canada because we're going to keep the name by the way because if we pay the mortgage it's our fucking house and and Ottawa and fucking Quebec can figure out what the hell they want to call their new country. Look, and

I love this country. I do, like, pretty much all of us do. I've done things for this country that, you know, that I did. I've lost a lot of friends for this country. And I,

not one of them would have regretted what they did. I know that I know this. But I also have to look to the future for my kids. And my kids, will not have a future in Canada as it is. And I'm not, I mean, people will have

well, let and leave, go to another country. Well, there's nowhere else to go. Look, there's no safe bastion somewhere. You know, there isn't some all shining island somewhere that we can all run to and be like, oh, we figured it out. No, we have to figure it out here. We have to carve out our chunk here and take this here.

And if they have to do a referendum on it, let's vote on a referendum on it. And if I'm wrong and people say, oh, we're not doing this. Okay, I'm wrong and I guess we'll just go down at a medium pace driving off the cliff. But I think most people here, when I talk to Normies out here, they're like, why in the fuck are we letting Ottawa decide this? Why are we letting Ottawa decide this? You know, go back to 1776 when the Americans said, you know what, we're not letting Britain decide this anymore. We're going to do our own thing.

We're letting Ottawa. That was over a 2% tax, by the way. Two percent tax. A 2% tax. You know, we just talked about buying and selling homes here a few times and before we've got on the air. Could you imagine now, because the liberals are really floating this idea now, going after your home. The equity tax. Right.

So, you know, for me, that was a large portion of my ability to retire. Like that and canceling Disney. Yeah, Disney plus. Yeah. Huge. financial savings there. Thanks for you. But if you can you imagine now if they were to take and I'm not rich. Most of us aren't rich people, but that amount of money, I have a level of freedom with the money I was able to save over time. We have my own risk buying and selling property. Same as you. Same as everybody that's

listening probably. And every is in their own situation. But can you imagine now the government takes a chunk of that, like a large chunk of that, and you try and gift that then. There's a woman who was just recently in the news who got dinged by CRA 40 grand for trying to gift property. Are you kidding? To a grandkids. To a grandkids. These, this is, if Canada was built on anything, I mean, it's built on many things, but

being able to pass on a legacy, property is a legacy, but that's what they're trying to do away with now. And you're starting to see on Twitter, a lot of these Muppets come out of the woodwork saying, well, if you've got a four-bedroom home and you're a boomer, you should think about downsizing. Yeah, you should be willing to give up some of those bedrooms to people who need them. Yeah. I don't give a shit if you want them or not.

I fucking paid for them. I paid for them. And this is where we're heading. So when people say, well, Chuck, how can you, you killed for this country? You know, you did this, how can you think about breaking up this country? Well, that's how. My kids have no future in this country. They don't.

my kids, you know, they're bright, they're employed, they can, they have money in the bank, but they don't have, oh, they're far right supremacists. Essentially, yeah, they're traditional supremacists. Yeah, they, they, we own cats and dogs too. No, like hunting. You know, it's, it's, we're crazy, we're crazy, crazy right wingers, but it's, there's no future for them. So my own future is fairly secure. But even if I try to pass on my legacy.

to my kids, like my financial legacy, I mean, how much are the government going to take that that I earned? No, then break up the country. Have a referendum. No, no, no, if you want to keep going, you keep going. This doesn't have to be a messy, violent thing. I'm not talking about that. I'm not talking with that at all.

I've been to enough of those places in my life not to ever want that here. And I don't think we would get there, or at least I hope we wouldn't. I would hope we'd have a referendum like Quebec did many years ago. And you take the vote for what it's worth and you go by the wishes of the people. And at the end of that, if you're here in Alberta or the West and you're like, well, I didn't sign on for this. I want to be Canadian.

Then go, go east. Go east. But we're done paying for the east. We're done paying for your shitty heat pumps that they had to do a week on. Yeah. You know, we paid. That ended up on the cutting room floor this week. We pay for their heat pumps, and then they get a carbon, they don't even get whatever the federal.

They get the, they get an exemption. Exemption. And we here in the West, who paid for that, because believe me, they didn't pay for shit out there because we still pay for everything out there. We don't get the exemption. Are you kidding me? Like, then why are we part of Canada if we're not going to be all treated the same? Because we're not being treated the same. Nope.

You want my wallet open, but tell me I can't have any of that money back? I think no. Well, okay, here's the thing. Like, if if Alberta, Saskatchewan, pick one, existed as a separate country today.

And Canada went to them and said, we want you guys to join. All right, well, what do you got to offer? Well, you get a vote. Oh, cool. So we get to help decide who's in charge?

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Like, it's just a formality. We're going to decide who the fuck is in charge. we're going to decide how the money gets spent. You get a vote, but it doesn't count for anything. You say, well, that doesn't sound awesome. Okay, well, I mean, you're going to make it worth our while financially, though, right?

No, no, we're going to take literal billions from you every year. Okay, all right, but we're going to, yeah, but we're going to have coastal access for our exports, right? No, no, we're going to stymint legislation. We're going to unilaterally shut down application. and we're going to make it so that you can't get anything fucking built. Okay, well, that doesn't sound awesome. Okay, but, you know, our retirement, right? We're going to, the money that we're putting away for retirement,

we're at least going to have access to that once it's all said and done, right? No, no, most of that is going to go to New Brunswick, actually. Mm-hmm. Um, but we'll give you a tiny stipend. Okay, so you want to join or what? Yeah. Yeah. Like nobody in their right fucking mind would take the deal that the Prairie

provinces have right now with Canada. And that's the thing. In, in a relationship, like, let's say me and you were dating, Chuck. You'd be so lucky. We would, we would, we would, want to every day we would want to say okay well you know what i want to be the kind of person and i want this to be the kind of situation that the other person wants to continue to be with right because you don't want to say okay well look you just i'm not going to let you leave that's an abusive

relationship you would want to have it so that both parties are trying to make it as good as possible for everybody involved so that everybody wants to stay together you wouldn't say look i'm just going to be in fucking charge and I'm going to waste all the fucking money on everything. Leave you nothing and I'm going to treat you like shit. Yeah. And if you want to leave you're the asshole, that's an abusive relationship.

Yeah. And nobody would want to take that. And, you know, I still have a lot of Eastern friends, you know, Ontario and east of that and family out there and they can't understand the mindset that we have here of being like, we're just, we're kind of

over it. We're over it. And you explain essentially what you explain in a roundabout way or my own way of explaining it. And I'm like, why would we want to stay? We don't get a vote. We really don't get a vote. By population, we should be, you know, comparable with representation, at least to what these East Coast provinces have. Well, PEI has one, one MP for every 32,000 people. And we're the worst.

Alberta is the worst. And it's something like one MP for every 120,000. thousand. So roughly speaking, I get the fact that there's some rounding there, but roughly speaking, a vote in Prince Edward Island counts four times as much as a vote in Alberta. Exactly. And that's a problem for me. And people don't, maybe don't, they don't either understand that or don't care about it.

But if you're east, you don't really give a shit because you're being, You're getting free money. Who cares? Free money. They don't care. If you're Quebec, man, this is a great goal for you. If you're an eastern province, and I'm, they're beautiful provinces. and great people.

I'm not knocking that, but you're being funded by Alberta. You've been being funded by Alberta for a very long time. I'm just kind of over that. Yeah. Absolutely. I'm over it because my kids,

my kids don't have a future in this country the way it is anymore. No. Okay. Well, let's move on to lighter things. Iraq, Chuck's brain, about the lieutenant general. You're talking about the new CDS?

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So the Canadian Armed Forces is proud to welcome Lieutenant General Carnignan, as our next chief of defense staff. Yeah. Lieutenant General's career spans over 35 years, including commanding two combat engineer regiments

and the second Canadian division, as well as NATO mission, Iraq. Now, tell me anything and everything you want to about this. Okay. So there will be, I'll get into it as much as I can right now. There are, look, she failed upwards. She failed so poorly, so horribly that they had to create a position, a DEI position for her to basically look after misogyny in the army or whatever the fuck they called it.

Some made up position that hadn't existed. They gave it to her to basically woke the army even further than it was being woke. Her time in Iraq will come out. I know in the background right now there are still serving members who have to be very careful who were there, who I know, who have some of them are speaking to certain media. Can you give us the scoop? How much of a scoop can you give us? I'll say this.

She didn't perform very well when things got rough there. And essentially there's more worried about getting her gear out than humans at a certain point. Americans had to intervene and basically say get back to work. it's shocking to me that the mainstream media hasn't done anything about this. Like this, here's the thing. Anytime there's like combat or some major event overseas, there's always generally media around. And if they're not,

even if it's American or Canadian or the combination of the two like this kind of a situation, the stories get out. They always get out. that this one didn't get out is mostly because most of those guys are still in. Like this was a fairly recent thing

that happened. Oh, really? Well, she doesn't look young. I assume that the story that you're telling was fairly old one.

I'm going to get the year wrong, but it was like 2020-ish or something like that. It was when Trump droned that Iranian bad guy. So it had been... Oh, yes. It was it 2019, 2020,

something like that. So things started to go slip sideways really hard in Iraq at that time because that's what happens because there's always a residual follow-on effect. Her performance was all I'm going to say, because I'm pretty sure the story will actually break sooner than later, and I mean pretty soon, is she did not perform well, very, very, very poorly. How much of that, look, I know one of the guys who was there. And if his story comes out the way it's been told and his isn't the only version of what I've heard,

yeah, I don't know how they're picking these people. I just don't. The thing about being in the military, especially at that senior officer core level, your whole resume is there. Like, it's there. You know, you want to go ask somebody about what this senior officer did overseas. there are you can go to any other host nation any other like partner nation i should say and ask them you can ask all the staff around you you have access to all their emails and

correspondence it's all there you can find out how they did like this stuff is all there you know i i i know that there'll be pushback like oh it's not provable it's not provable yeah and oh it's misogyny yeah some some bullshit like that and i'm like you know what if she was a great i don't care that she's woman i don't care that she's woman i don't give a shit. There were lots of great female officers in the military. Don't care about that. It's that she's

she failed so hard they created a position for her. Like, people can look at that. They can go and see the position they made up for her. Like, and now this. It's another reason why how did the Harbinger, Sageon or whatever, how did, how he got through to where he got through to, I can't under.

Part of it is it's a very closed community, the military. It's very, so unless you want to go dig in and actually asking, which shocks me that media don't. I mean, it's what they get paid to do, but. You would think. So go find out what this guy did overseas. But you know what they did? They ran fluff articles calling them the badass and the architect.

Yeah. And then people, that's when people got upset. You know, you want to call a badass? Go ahead. The guy never pulled the trigger in his life. He doesn't know how many pounds of square range. He'd never been on a two-way range, but he's a badass. Are you kidding me?

But so guys like me were like, oh, fuck. Look, they're running this Muppet here, so they're going to fluff him. But then the architect thing. That's when guys who were actually there said he had nothing to do. He's stealing valor at this point now, which he owned up to. He admitted he did. How do you look? I know so many great officers, fantastic men and women,

who could have done such great jobs. but they didn't play the politics they didn't play the politics no okay this is our independence day we have this is so july 4th just happened kind of a big day for people down in the south they all um shit their pants when they meet the pope on on july 4th you know it's it's a it's an established tradition and here by the way is is Mark Zuckerberg playing Bruce Springsteen, wakeboarding, drinking a beer, and waving the American flag while wearing a tuxedo.

America. Mark Zuckerberg of all people. I don't get it either. I don't know what to say unless the lizard people are really trying to fit in now. I don't know. Well, they are amphibious. So there's that. Very true.

Yeah. I don't know. I think it's almost becoming vogue again to be a patriot. So maybe the left is trying to grab that. I don't know. It's unusual. It's good to see. Yeah.

Yeah, you like to see people being happy about where they're from. Yeah. But it definitely is, it is interesting. It's interesting. All right. Danielle Smith irritates twos. of the week. Every goddamn week, Chuck.

So now Alberta is launching new AAP pathway for law enforcement professionals, which means that if you get into law enforcement as an immigrant, they will fast track your citizenship. I don't even know where to go with this aside from that. Well, so here's interesting because I know several British people who've immigrated here years ago it was difficult, really difficult for them to, and they're in law enforcement, very difficult for them to get into law enforcement.

As a British immigrant, becoming a Canadian citizen, it was like barrier, barrier, barrier, barrier, barrier, barrier, barrier. These were all people who had actual, several of them, had former either military or law enforcement and experience in Britain, sometimes like both. But if you come here from some other place, and you're not even actually a Canadian citizen and you want to go get into our law enforcement,

much like the military now, we're going to fast track you. And that shouldn't be a thing. It should never be a thing. It absolutely shouldn't. And here's like, it's been an ongoing issue for several years that our law enforcement

has been seen as an increasingly unappealing job. Because it's one of those jobs where anybody who would be good at it doesn't want anything to do with it. And now you get off the boat. Here's your gun. Here's your badge. Here's your horse. You're going to Ottawa.

It's not the way to run things. Actually make it something. Instead of trying to do this, why don't you focus that time, energy, and money towards making law enforcement something that people would be proud to do. And that's the problem. I was at this I just I'd gotten off early one day

and there was this job fair nearby and I'm like okay I'll just pop in real quick see if there's anything interesting. So you know amongst all the other booths and stuff right next to each other there was a fire department and the RCMP and the fire department one was lined up all the way down the aisle

if I'd have wanted to talk to them I'd have probably been waiting an hour. And the RCMP guy was just sitting there looking like the Maytag repair man. Yeah. Just bored, twiddling his thumb, scrolling his phone. Nobody even stopping by to say hi. Well, and it's, it comes down to atmospherics and reputation. And we've seen such a, my brother's a cop.

I have family who are cops and friends, lots of ex-military buddies of mine who are cops across the country. they feel it, they know it. Everybody who's got a friend or family member who's in law enforcement, they feel it, they know, the ones that have, you know, a sense of self-awareness, they know that that pedestal, and they should have been, they need to be on some extra layer of a pedestal to have that, you know, respect and everything that they should have. But it's lost. It's gone now.

It's totally gone. It's unbelievable. So who are you going to attract? You're not going to attract somebody who wants to do well or do well for their community. Most of the guys, I think of women and guys that I knew that got into it, got into it to do something for their community. They really did at a fundamental level thought they'd be giving back to their community. And that's how it should be. That's not the case when you start to do this immigration.

This is not going to solve any of, this is a Band-Aid, but it's not even so much a Band-Aid. it's there's a hole in the boat and so you cut out a bigger hole to patch over the small hole that's what now you've got a bigger hole in the boat which is what government does whenever they solve any fucking problem yeah daniel smith i don't know what the hell happened you know i said from the start i was like this is a woman whose legacy in politics is an out of nowhere floor crossing that completely decimated the province for half a decade. And we're going to pick her to be in charge of things. I have qualms.

And now, like every week there's something new. And it isn't really that hard. If she wants a roadmap, what could she do to do a good job in her position? Well, what if she just did some of the shit she said she was going to do when she was trying to get people, to support her in her pursuit of that position. That's all she has to do. And she has done none of it. And instead, she's going backwards and doing random shit like this.

And every week, that's why it's the Daniel Smith irritates twos of the week. Like conspiracy theory, we're going to put on a tin foil hat here. She crosses the floor. She's basically looking down the barrel of being the next premier. And out of nowhere, for no particular reason, she crosses the floor and does this. this media scrum, whatever, press conference, where she basically looks like a hostage. You know, she's got that, I'm reading a script

while someone's got a gun to my head look in her eyes. And then that never got really, whatever the hell happened with that, never saw the light of day. And she goes back and tries to be revisionist about it. Well, you know, I knew that we needed to unite the right wing parties to face the left wing. threat, which is bullshit because the highest the NDP had ever pulled

before that was 15%. You could have split the wild rows and the conservatives down the middle at about 35% each, and they would have had more than double the left wing support, and it would have been a sweep regardless. But to go back and revision it looks even worse. And so now it's just

like every week, it's something new. And part of me wants to say, what the hell does somebody have on her that she goes in, says she's going to do these things. And then when she gets in, does absolutely none of them. And in fact, does the exact opposite in a lot of cases. And when she does try and half-ass roll out some of them, she drops the bad, so bad, the ball so badly that you think it has to be on purpose. At what point do you say that maybe, maybe, maybe somebody is coercing her?

definitely a possibility. We know politics is that dirty, but I wonder too, with her, is she just, is she just lazy about it at this point? And she's thinking, well, I'm not the NDP.

So blue, Blue Alberta. Medium voter theorem? Yeah. So she'll get, you know, the blue voters are going to vote for me just because I'm conservative.

And you know what? We proved we wouldn't do that with Redford. You know, we either didn't show up or people actually voted, voted orange just to get rid of Redford or to get rid of her. Sorry, yeah. It'll happen to Danielle too.

Like she doesn't understand like we all, we're paying attention now more than ever. Like this is a more than ever paying attention thing. It was okay when we're all kind of making money and living was easier because we weren't being taxed to death. Yeah, it didn't really matter that much. Oh, no, there's an extra 2%. Oh, I guess, you know what?

I'm still going to go on the vacation. Yes. But I'm not going to drink seven bottles of champagne on the flight. Yeah. It's only going to be five. This is it. This is exactly it. But it matters now.

We're all paying attention now because I ain't taking vacations right now. And, you know, everybody's living, only living because they're really paying attention to their bank accounts and what's going on in our government. And she's better wise up or she's not going to make another turn. Well, she's got the leadership review coming up in November. And like I said before, if she's got something to support, maybe she'll get some support. But in the meantime, what the fuck is she doing? Because it's not this. Yeah.

All right. The gays aren't much in a fight. Where are we going with this one? Thousands sing, dance, and celebrate at pride parade until protesters, strand marchers, and floats mid-root. So what happened was the Toronto Gay Pride Parade got busted up by about 30 Palestinian protesters. You have got all these people on floats and walking around in stilts. And all these people dressed up like gay Maori tribesmen. And 30 Palestinian protesters shut the whole thing down.

Like, dude, you are literally in gay New Zealand battle garb right now. Yeah. with purple sunglasses on and you cannot fight off 30 people. They're pretty fierce. And so anyway, what it ended up happening was that the two pet causes of the left, the gays and the Palestinians got in the lightest possible dust up. And all the gay people had to tuck their tail between their legs and go home, which I mean was easy for some

because they were probably already tucking regardless. Could you imagine if that was like 10 guys and plaid shorts or some extreme church group sitting out there? It would have been media for media for weeks. Just imagine it's,

I don't know, me, you and a dozen of our closest friends walking down the street, protesting, whatever stupid thing the liberals have done lately, pick one. And then a bunch of people get in our way? Look, I appreciate the enthusiasm. This is hilarious, but we're going to need you to move. Yeah.

Yeah, I don't understand it either. Right. The reasonable cost of online censorship. Mm-hmm. Creating proposed online harms regulators could cost $200 million, according to the budget watchdog. So the parliamentary budget officer estimates that staffing up the new regulators in the Liberals Online Harm's Act will cost around $200 million over five years. It does later go on to say that that doesn't take into account the out-of-pocket cost reductions that will be incurred because they're presumably. going to be able to keep the penalties that they find people with.

So not only is it going to cost $200 million for this bullshit idiot stuff, but they've got a budgeted incentive to find as many people as possible now too. This is basically the radar speed trap of free speech. And that's, we're, we're paying them to censor ourselves. Yeah, that's where we are as a country. Yeah. And the incentivization part of it is almost the scariest part of it. It's like, you know, people always wonder at Veterans Affairs, like, how is it that they can deny your claims?

Like, just, you know, deny, deny, deny, say it's not part of it. It's not service-related. And like, well, because they're incentivized for the amount of money they save by not giving you claims. Like, we know this. individually or as an organization? As an organization and probably at the senior management level, they are incentivized as well. Like they get bonus out,

what I'm guessing. So you don't ever get to see what the KPIs are for bonus structure? No, not to my knowledge. I could be wrong. That's pretty bad. Yeah. So it's one of those things where like, you know, take my hearing,

which is horrible after 21 years and lots of gun battles and bombs. Both ears or just your one? Both. The right ear is worse, but the left ear is not good either. Do you shoot left? No, no, but I've had several concussive events overseas that really affected the right ear. The, they said, no, it's not certain. So my audiologist is like, well, you need hearing aids.

You're hearing so bad, like, you know. So Ottawa, like Veterans Affairs is like, nope, not service related. I'm documented as having been in dozens of fights here. I'm on video in dozens of fights. I've been blown up on video. So it's like, so somebody's getting paid back.

Somebody's getting a kickback. We know this. Like they're, we know. And that's the same for this kind of thing. You incentivize people to grab money. That's what they're going to do. They're going to find a way to do it.

Jesus Christ. I wonder if anybody's, like I know you've talked about the hearing loss of Sean before but that bonus structure it would be I wonder if anybody's tried to access to information that I don't know probably maybe somebody smarter than me has tried to do it I mean yeah I would hope you would think that you know it's never even really occurred to me before

but now that we're going through this like even the CBC excuse me sorry I'm just getting over this cold it was everything COVID was supposed to be Biden just had that. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we, we smashed Medicare. Yeah. Oh, sorry, sorry.

So anyway, you know, even CBC or, you know, any, any management or anybody who's eligible for a bonus that's government funded, I want to see those KPIs. Mm-hmm. I do too. I do too. Across the board, but especially Veterans Affairs. Yeah. Why do you think they were offering made? They're still offering made left and right. You don't have to pay off these veterans, you know.

Did you get offered made yet? No. No. I know they have not. Honestly, my caseworker, and I'm fortunate to have one, has been brilliant. But he's only got so much control over when the board sits and they're like, they look at my MRIs for my hips or knees or back or whatever and they're like, for all. all this stuff that they get from the doctor and they're like, not service related. They have,

they have granted a couple because there's like, you can't dispute sometimes with an x-ray or MRI says and then correspond that to specific events. You know, they, they do, but the hearing loss one shocked me. Like,

that one shocked me. Yeah. But whatever. You didn't hear that one coming. I did not even see it coming. Happy. news. All right.

So this is a bit of a story here. I didn't bother fact checking it, but it just sounds wonderful. This is Frank, and he has had a coffee stand at the top of the steps at Bethnal Green Tube for as long as I can remember. This is in London. When the new restaurant slash coffee

shop next door opened alongside with another high street outlet opening across the street, Frank suddenly found that his license from the council had been revoked, and he was chucked off his stand. I believe it was to make way for these shops to take his regular custom. They didn't need him in the way of gaining maximum profit, so Frank was gone.

Well, the locals were having none of it, and a petition started demanding his return. How dare they do this to him? How dare these people smash his business and leave him with nothing? After a lot of pressure, the council backed down and Frank had his license and pitch returned to him. But sadly, by that time, Frank had sold his equipment to feed his family and try to survive. So he gets his business back on paper, but he's already sold it off. So the good people of Bethnal Green started crowdfunding, and here's the result. Frank back in business on his old pitch with brand new equipment and even a little hut now to shelter him from the rain.

He's truly the happiest man in East London, and it's wonderful to see. It really goes to show if we all stick together, stand up to them and just say no, the little guy can win. If you're in Bethnal Green, come have a coffee with this lovely man. And so there it is. you can see it if you're if you're looking it's frank's coffee i wish to thank all my customers for all your support it says on the side it says bethnal greens best loved coffee something something somebody's blocking it and so anyway yeah the the community stood behind this guy who had a longstanding business that got fucked over by corrupt town council and uh and they eventually got

enough pushback that they went back on it. Now, interesting thing, to be fair, though, this is probably one of the first instances that I have ever heard of that a petition actually got something done. Now, here's the other thing. If you have sensitive eyes, maybe just don't watch the screen for a little bit. But French feminists are

mopping topless to protest right-wing success in elections. Finally, a protest I can support. and so there's a bunch of women in skirts with their boobers out doing a whole bunch of mopping and cleaning right by the Eiffel Tower. Now, they do this, they go topless for every protest they're in. And it's another French thing,

I guess. I don't know. And it's funny. They're protesting the right wing, which is a female leader. You'd think they'd be all on board for it. It's just, they have to protest something.

Yeah. Yes. But I will say the female leader gets in. What's his French ass gets out. And within a day of the new right-wing female leader getting in, you've already got topless women cleaning in the country. You love to the democracy in action. It is.

The votes matters. Yeah. So anyway, that's just about it for us. Oh, community events. Community notes. Sorry. I totally dropped the ball on this. Let's bring this over.

We have got Sean Newman asked if we could mention that he is touring all around. He's in BC right now and he's going all the way down to Idaho. And if anybody is roughly on the way and they want to reach out to him, he'd definitely pop in for a coffee or something like that. Terrick Elnaga, my buddy went pro team roping this year. He was Erdry. Me and a few other people went to watch him, cheer him on. and he fell off his fucking horse.

I saw him boast about that, yeah. Anyway, good on him, though. I'm still pretty proud of him, but I do have to mock him a little bit and the horse he rode in on. Adam's not. It's great that he chose Alberta as his home. He's like, you know, he kind of,

he went full cowboy. Oh, yeah. It's good to see. It's like his heartwarming to see, right? Like he's embraced this place. and, you know, it's making Alberta what it is. He basically is, I don't know, he's everything that,

he's everything that you would think about Alberta, provided, of course, that you don't live in Ottawa. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Entrepreneur, hardworking, gets in the rodeo, friendly, great, great guy to go have a beer with. Yeah.

He's one of the best people to go have a beer with that you ever absolutely. He's just class act up and down. All right. Adam Stock Music Festival, August 16th and 17. Julian Austin, B.C. D.C. Sweet tequila, Braden, King, Stonegate, and putting on the foil. And that's in sundry. And that's about all we got for community notes. It is Airborne Friday, by the way.

So shout out to Jamie if you're still listening. and Kuwaiti 2 is 873 days at this point. Other than that, you got anything else for us, Chuck? No, I appreciate you having me on. And Sean, I hope you're having a safe trip, buddy. You have a lot of fun out there. Yeah, if you never come back, I'm fine with that. All right.

This, I think, is the longest mashup yet. Yeah, we went a while. We did. So thank you very much for that, Chuck. Yeah, buddy. Thanks, everybody. See, yeah. How do I, how do I end this damn thing that pushes the fight?

See ya.