The Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast - Bitcoin News With a Canadian Spin - DAVOS/WEF, Carney's Plan for Canada, Chinese Military Coup | The CBP 249 Pt 2

Episode Date: January 28, 2026

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5723. I booked two interviews for February that are fucking screaming hot. And the guests are fucking so good. They are way out of our normal silo. And they are very popular. You're going to have a lot of, I mean, you may not even know who they are. I'm not going to say it. Because I'm telling people right now, I'm not going to do my interviews live anymore for two Mine is. I have our home coming on and I definitely want to do that one live. You do yours live. You do your live if you want.

I'm going to try and start doing my different times a day because the guess I want don't do stuff at night. They're doing this stuff full time and they want to do during the day. And I don't want to stream during the day for reasons that I can't get into. But I'm going to start doing those shows and then putting them out separately. I got two absolutely slamming interviews lined up. And I'm trying to get one more for maybe the beginning of March. And I might do a couple of interviews when I'm at the...

Mark Habscher? I wish. I love Hebs you, man. I was chatting with him not too long ago. He's a great guy. He's a great dude. He's 70 years old, eh? Yeah.

Yeah, he's getting old. Well, fuck, he was doing sports line with Tanty. Taddy, Jim Taddy, yeah. Yeah, back in the early 90s, late 80s. Yeah, yeah. And so like if you, you know, do the math, right? even if he was in his 30s, right? Yeah, yeah.

He's good shit. Yeah, maybe we'll get him in. He lives in, he lives in Tobico. I thought he used to live in Dundas or his girlfriend live in Dundas and he lives in Tobico now. So he's not super far, but not super close. Anyway, I'm looking forward to those interviews. They're going to be good. And then you have Mr.

Noam coming next week, I think, right? I hope to do it next week. And if not, whenever he wants to come on, the guy basically, I'll roll up the red carpet. He's been really good to me and to us. Yeah. So like, yeah, whenever he wants to come on, he's on, man. Yeah, I actually feel that way about a lot of our guests. Like, yeah, if anyone ever message me, it was like, we got to do this.

We got to do a show. Like, Joe Barbuda has done the show. I think he did like two shows in four weeks with us because he just had some stuff to get off his chest. So whatever, man, yeah, he free to come by anytime you want. He lives near me, actually. Maybe I'll have him by to the house at some point. We can talk in person.

Anyway, okay, let's... Are you going to talk about Davos? Are you going to talk about that boss? We should talk about it because... The Trump-Dabo speech really shook people up. And, you know, listening to my boomer friends and in-laws and my own parents, it's like catnip for them. They're just like clawing at their TV screen. Donald, Donald, Donald.

Are you talking about the transatlantic strength? I'm talking about everything. I'm talking about any time percent was on there. Yeah, I'm talking about Canada. You know, Mark better say sorry and act like he's thankful before he says shit like that on stage. He said a lot of stuff at that conference. And I shook up a lot of people. Twitter buzzing, all the normal, you know, pillow shrieking, talking heads, Bruce Arthur,

Andrew Coyne, you name it. Like, you know, the CBC, quote unquote panelists, all these, you know, feckless losers and clowns just babbling and bloviating about how dangerous Donald Trump is. Like just a complete misunderstanding. of the situation. It's not even a bad read at this point. It's just a dishonest interpretation trying to spin a narrative. Canada, you know, you get Mark Carney up there giving a speech. I thought it was a good speech, honestly, the Carney-Davo speech. But the problem is it's a speech that a power country gives, not a country that has a GDP the size of, you know, smaller than

Texas and GDP per capita of some of the poorest states in America. It's a country that it's a speech given by a country that has options. That's a geographic economic force, not living a parasitic existence off the back of the world's greatest nation. It's a speech of the country that contributed to and influenced and drove historic changes and history over the last 50 years gives, not a country that avoided history completely by hiding behind the legs of Daddy America anytime somebody raised their voice.

And this is the story that we know was spun and sold to us over the last 50 or 60 years by different media outlets and governments. This story of put a Canadian patch on your backpack when you go around the world. Canada's military is for peacekeeping. The pension is the golden goose. Healthcare is such a social, socially important thing. The thing is that these lies are unraveling in real time. Everyone knows now that Social Security in America pays like $2,300 a month at U.S. And in Canada, you get

about 800 Canadian from CPP. Everyone knows that health care here is, you know, as likely to banish your ankle as it is to murder you. Heaven forbid you're a wife who's pissed off her husband during a care period. They might just conspire to kill you even if you don't want to be killed. It just happened last week. I don't know if that's in the show notes or not. No, it isn't. Well, no, it is. It is. So, like, you have, like, you got that going on.

And I think it's a, it's a, it was a speech fitting, like I said, for a country that really holds a spear, not one that is, you know, washing jerseys after the game. And that's what we are. We saw, we saw, we saw a picture. Yeah, well, I'll finish painting it. And then you tell me why I'm wrong. The, the other thing, too, is that we heard a lot of talk about tariffs and, you know, Canada taking a stance on. tariffs and taxes and whatnot. The thing that the Canadians don't understand and the media doesn't understand about tariffs,

this whole idea that tariffs are paid by the consumer in the country through which those tariffs are levied, that's not really how tariffs work. Tariffs in Canada, if you try and levy American goods with tariffs, yeah, Canadians will pay those tariffs. But Americans levying tariffs on Canadian goods will not pay those tariffs. Why? because in America, everyone is trying to sell their goods. And so the goods that are not tariff to be the ones that are cheaper on the shelf and they will be bought.

The Canadian ones will sit. In Canada, we're selling everything American here. Serial fucking cars, fucking everything. Like everything we buy is American or American adjacent. There's just been this lack of understanding from all these people. And I think Davos, again, coupled with the national unity speech, which had a hint of blood and soil at the beginning, I dare say, from Prime Minister Carney, coupled with that speech, there's an attempt here to really bring people together through what they are describing as what's going to be a challenging time. I don't know if it's going to be as challenging as everyone thinks or as I think or as anyone says. but I think it's going to be more challenging than the liberal voting base thinks.

And, you know, there's going to come a time over the next few years where that Davos speech is going to be in a conservative ad. And that conservative ad is really going to land for a lot of people, especially young people, talking about we're a middle power, we have strength, we have this, we have that. We have nothing. We are at the mercy. This happened to do 20 years. Yeah, yeah.

We were at the mercy. 20 years ago. We're at the mercy entirely of the United States now. And 20 years ago, remember this, Joey. Do you remember when Jean Crechen effectively gave the middle finger to United States because we were not going to go send troops to Iraq? We had troops in Afghanistan. Yeah.

But we weren't going to be sending troops to Iraq. Yeah. Right? So it was a different. That's why Canada was a different country 20-something years ago. Agreed. I grew up in it. I grew up in it.

It was better for a lot of reasons. But yeah, are you right? And you think about it. By the way, liberal prime minister. Like maybe the best prime minister of the country has ever had. Maybe. Yeah. Maybe, like it was just a different liberal party,

different Canadian political spectrum. Different. Things have changed a lot more in the past five, 10 years, and it did in the previous 20 or 30 years, I think. And it just continually changed much faster. But yeah, the terrorists This whole trip to China Yeah

It's It's nasty work as the kids say Nasty work Trump is just chomping at the bits He sees this Why should he not be? Why should he not be? I agree Six months ago, a year ago

The narrative towards China is They're infiltrating our parliament We're not even going to be using Huawei shit we arrested Len, there are police police stations from the Chinese government in the country they're just on

there's a Chinese police force operating in Canada and no one talks about it. Why? There's a reason why nobody's talking about you know why and before we go any further we don't want to get rubbed out wait wait till uh i'm on foreign soil before i could start talking sure go to the embassy we'll finish the show there i like this board of peace stuff it's hilarious

this came out of left field it's like this where the fuck the disco by guys i'm gonna do this fucking board of peace thing you know i'm gonna do with the reconciliation of why why shouldn't he do this i love this idea they're gonna they're gonna they're gonna contribute all the military presence. Europe can't defend itself. They can't even turn the fucking lights on when it's cold over there. Okay, so they can't do it. There's really no

reason why they shouldn't be asking for at minimum a billion dollars given how much money America's already spent on securing that entire continent over the last 30 years. A billion is nothing. A billion is a bargain to get on that peace council. What was the name of it again?

Was it the Peace Council? Board of Peace. Board of Peace. Love it. A billion is just... Are you bored of peace yet? I'm very bored of it. That's just a sign of paperwork. The reality is going to cost a thousand times that. It's going to be at least in the trillion dollars dollars.

That's the way it's... But the funny thing is, or not so funny, is Canada, their application... Well, they're not revoked. Revoked. Cardi is saying was ungrateful. And, yeah, what Trump was saying, this is going to include the most prestigious board. ward of leaders ever assembled.

I love it. The framing of shit that he does. It's always such hyperbole. And he's a guy full of shit. Whatever. I'm not sure if I don't want to really talk about it, but maybe you do. It was an interesting story that the Chinese military purge took place this past weekend. We were the second in command in the armed forces.

A general Zhang Yujiya was picked out of his job. job. And I'm not sure if you want to discuss this, but there seems to be some chess pieces that are moving in China. And she is trying to position himself as the main leader over there. Make sure She moves in mysterious ways. You know what? Mark seems to think this was a huge deal. And I, maybe. I don't know. Yeah, I really don't know. But I, I am leaning toward taking Mark's side on this. I don't know one way or the other, but you got to think, I, A Chinese coup d'etat would be like, it would be immediate invasion from the United States.

No? Why would they wait? It depends. I don't think so. Here's the other side of that same coin. Did the U.S. seed that coup attempt? That's what I was going to say. If they're the ones that are behind it, why would they?

Yeah. And think about it. The only way it's something like this could be successful is if you have enough support from a strong external force like the United States. But I don't know how this could be done, given the amount of control they have in China with controlling the narrative, with controlling information.

I don't know, man. It's impossible, close to impossible. Close to it, for sure. Yeah. But I mean, hey, look, you know what? The Chinese government, that was the first real public show of weakness in what, 20 years?

30 years, 40? You want to go back to Tiananmen Square? We can go even further than that. Like, when was the last time the Chinese government showed a crack in the exterior shell? There's been protests, a few of them. Not, okay, protest is one thing. Attemptive military coup is a different thing entirely.

That's gold machine gun index type stuff. You don't see that over there. The way to do this property, I envision it, is you send over truck truck. General Len here. Here we go. General Len. You send over a truck to a specific type of truck driver.

Just have an infiltrate them. And just over time, that shit will take hold. And then, you know, shit will be all over the street. Oh, God. It'll be beautiful. There goes to the longization. And it's, you know, it's closer to home, right? Incredible that anyone wants to sponsor this program at all, let alone these days.

This next one. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So let's take a bet here on the Chinese thing. Okay. In a year, will this wind up being a big deal or not?

Nothing burger. Nothing burger. Sadly, I agree. Okay. Let's move on. Ice. Ice. You want to talk about this one?

Is killing Alex Jeffrey Bretti. The 37-year-old ICU nurse killed carrying a gun. But apparently it was holding a cell phone. I don't mean to laugh, but like, fuck, they're doing themselves no favors here, the ICE people. It just, it's whatever. I know you have an opinion on this. I don't really particularly care in the grand scheme of things because I'm checked out. Should I side with the tankies here?

I don't know. What should I do? Both sides have an argument. But man, oh man, the guy was holding up. He was armed. The guy was armed.

Wise, but he was ultimately was holding the phone, right, in the end. Do you know what the problem is? That's what it seemed like to be in a video. The problem with all this is these people think they're in a fucking movie. Okay.

I'm not the, I'm not the leader, thought leader of this particular school of analysis here. No. I mean, maybe ice too. But for sure, these other people that are like fucking protest harder, Daddy. Like all these like guys just throwing themselves into harm's way like, oh, handcuff me for social media. There comes a time where if you leave the bubble of, you know, your Disney. brain retardation about what the government can and won't, you know, can or can't do, will or won't do, wants to do in some cases with these ice guys, it seems.

And whether or not impeding a federal activity in your home state is a good idea. This is FAAFO territory for a lot of people. It was FAAFO territory for that woman who got gunned down in her car. And the best argument, the best argument, how do you fucking start going at somebody with a car? The best argument I heard from people was, well, she was trying to steer away from him. No, she wasn't. Well, here's the thing. It was right in front of the fucking car.

At the end of the day, it doesn't matter if she's trying to steer away from them. If someone is in front of your car, they don't have time to decide whether or not you're going away or from behind or going away or toward. If you're behind the car, you don't have time to decide whether she hit the guy or didn't hit the guy. You have to decide whether your life's in danger and then make a decision. And that's a decision they made. Now, the problem I have with the ICE thing in Minnesota is that, like, these guys, this is, I'm going to go on a bit of a tangent here. And I think it's an important one. And I want people to think about this for first principles.

Okay. The reason it's important that law enforcement be all men, all 15% body fat or lower, all big fucking chested, big shoulder, big neck is because when you show up to a. town like this, there can't be any doubt about who the physically dominant force in the dispute or altercation or conflict is. There cannot be. And what I see instead is these guys from ICE who are like way overweight, they don't handle like conflict comms well with the public. They're ill-equipped for situations where people are using like Reddit gotcha lines on

them and inviting further issue and they don't really know how to handle themselves and showing up on social media, they're quick on the trigger in a lot of cases because in the case of this pretty guy who looks to be like 150 pounds and pictures of him online in a fucking tutu, like you shouldn't, you don't need 10 guys to bring that guy down. You need one guy to bring that guy down, right? Maybe a second guy to hold him while you cuff him. But you don't need a group of guys trying to take down a guy who weighs 150, pounds and where's a tutu in his free time for social media. That can't be what your police force

or what your enforcement wing has to do. So that's one problem. The other problem is that there's only language of amplification from waltz and fray. There's no language of calming the situation down. You have to tell people, you have nothing to worry about if you're not an a legal alien. As much as these people have contributed to our community, what we don't want are people here breaking laws that our country has set out at the border about citizenship. This matters for all of us.

If you disagree, there are ways to voice your disagreement that will not get you killed or hurt or otherwise, you know, damage professionally, personally, whatever. But instead, you got this guy standing up there, you know, walls especially in Frey, with their police chief talking about fighting ice in the streets these guys will just fucking kill you

they have protections under the law that you don't have they have weapons you don't have they have vehicles you don't have and ultimately they are running low on patients like any person would you're pushing these guys further than they want to be pushed I'll just add one more thing here okay

there is a special kind of deeply ingrained mental shortcoming in the person who drops their kids off at school, makes a TikTok video with saving Private Ryan sound effects in the background, posts it, and then goes to a protest where they put themselves in harm's way while carrying a weapon or inviting violent force some of them. other way. And I'm, the ultimate, the ultimate problem is, you know, even though I just said all that stuff for the last five minutes, the ultimate problem is no matter what Tim Wals or Jacob Frey or Fry, whatever that guy's last name is, another guy who's, you know, anyway, I won't even say it. But like, the reason that this is so damaging and the reason that these guys have some, some blame to bear, but not all of it is because there's no reasoning with that person who does the TikTok video and shit and then goes to the protest. That person is, gone. You're dealing with that person. They're an empty vessel for some ideology that

was given to them by 4chan or Reddit or whatever. These people exist on the left and they exist on the right. And in this particular instance, there's no reasoning with them. So what's got to happen here? I'm not sure, but I suspect that this is going to continue. And again, in keeping with the theme of tonight, this sort of global upheaval and world order shifting and things like that, there's suddenly a lack of patience by the federal government for what is obviously election rigging in some of these states. If you have a bunch of states putting in laws, I think Virginia just did this, they just elected a Democratic governor, putting in laws basically overnight where you can't enforce

anything related to immigration within 400 feet of a polling center. That, to me, is obviously election related. When you're telling people in Minnesota, for example, that if one of you has ID, then 80 you can vote. If someone vets, vouches for you or whatever, that's obviously election fraud. And I think there's a certain power dynamic that's changed in the states now where the ruling party, the Republicans, no longer view it as viable to win elections when the other party is clearly cheating. Not to say the Republicans are not also cheating, but the cheating is a lot more finessed. on that side than it is here.

And all of this to say that we're in a new era now of what the government will or won't do, what power means. And the reason we're in that era, then, is because I think everybody at their core realizes this experiment's almost over with money, with democracy, with nation states. America is moving from nation to empire. And I'm going to talk with one of our guests coming up about that. The cost of empire is the first. theme of that discussion, domestically and internationally.

And I think that America is going through that phase shift right now. Where will it take them? I don't know. If you ask guys like Dahlia, he'll say that it's the end of the monetary regime and you're about to get a real turbulent time and a reset. If you ask other guys, they might say that America is one of a kind. And if anyone can weather this and make it through the black hole to the other side, it's them.

We'll see. But to deny that these things are just parts and symptoms of a larger shift is, I think, it's just dumb at this point to do that. Well, looking at that and also looking at the price of gold and silver. Yeah. Right. Nobody could look at that and say, oh, things are rosy right now. And then nothing is going to remain the way it is. Like, no.

How do fuck this gold get to $5,000? Last year, the beginning of last year, what was it, like $3,400? Yeah, I don't know exactly. I bought this chain when I moved into the same. house and gold was like $2,200. I said to my jeweler, I got this feeling. Things are going to get nuts. And he kind of laughed, but he agreed.

And now here we are. Silver. Yeah, yeah. Silver hit 110 today. I think it's at 105 now or something like that. But you know what's funny? I think that the gold price between here and $10,000, I said this to you and Mark, and I said it to a couple of other chats I'm in.

Between now and $10,000, we're going to have a $1,000 day in gold. One candle. significant I mean we already had significant moves but to move that market that much it'll be a there'll be a thousand dollar day you're talking a 20% increase or at low as 10% yeah if you're close to 10k in a day that's that'd be like incredible which which central bank is plugged into buying gold who the fuck knows yeah even if you look at what's going on in japan that's another story they mean just quickly we could the band the bonds last year last week was causing havoc with the markets. Now they went to a snap election too. Sorry, thereafter. So there's some real problems

going on there. And you had the U.S. government trying to tell them, like, you know, that's not fucking blow up the whole thing. You guys got to do what you got to do. Like, there's something going on on on a global scale. It's everywhere. It's everywhere. Yeah. I totally agree, man. And I think people are like, they're not, it's not that they're ignoring it. I don't think they're ignoring it. What I think is that there's like a clear sort of shift. in how people are like what they're paying attention to, right? Like everyone seems to be like TV-brained

where they're looking at whatever the news says. And then there's guys like me and you, people in the chat, people who are like tuned in to all this stuff. And I'm looking and just watching, like I said earlier, like the catnip, I'm watching people just scratch the TV screen, scratch the radio. Like that's not the story. The story is there's a military coup in China.

The story is the price of gold just moved again. the story is that Bitcoin, even as all these other things are happening, is not completely crashing. The story is that the U.S. dollar is facing a demand issue overseas and stablecoins are going to try and revive that demand and demand for the treasuries. These are the stories. And everyone else is kind of dealing with, you know, to make an analogy about having a cold, okay, you can either keep wiping your nose or you can try and get rid of the cold. I feel like everyone's just burning through boxes of Kleenex. They're not worried about what's actually causing the cold. They just think it's a runny nose.

Like, this is not, it is not like other times. And I realize it's saying this time is different. These are famous last words. But, man, you know, if you look at history, you know, I'm not like a crazy good student history, but I've read enough to know that this is a lot different. There's so many things now that used to take a decade to really take hold. It takes months now for some of this stuff. months. That's assuming, by the way, that we don't enter into like a crazy period of unemployment

and displacement thanks to AI and other technology, which never existed in the past. People talk about, oh, AI is going to be like the printing press. Like, fuck it is. Do you know how much different things are going to be if instead of the lowest bracket of workers going out of, you know, finding themselves unemployed, it's the fucking white collar guys. Like that class is a different animal than guys slipping burgers, right? Getting outsourced to India for a hotel check-in on an iPad instead of

at the desk at the Marriott. This is a different thing entirely, dude, entirely. Who's the V-Man or I... I know I see in the chat, V-Man. The V-Man, I'd love to know that one. I'm trying to rock my brain. Z-Man is Zelenskyy, right? Who's V-Man?

Vlad? Never said it was him. Vladimir. I could, but I don't know. I'm... Iran. Iran? Iran.

I ran V-Man, I don't know, whatever. Anyway, we're running out of time. We are, and I'm fucking so sick. Do you want to talk about conservative leadership? We can. When is the review? I believe it's next month, but the- Tell people about the story.

I was talking to Ben Schmidt about this on Twitter the other day. I want to have Ben on. I like Ben a lot. He's a fun guy to talk to. He'd be a good guest. Well, the fact that the writing, he's now the MP of his Battle River Crawford, Crawfoot, sorry. Was he was the-

well it still is now the previous guy that stepped down so pier poliov could run now wants back in this is turning into a real circuit polyev's done he's done i don't know how he could he did he did a response to the carney davos speech did you watch it i got to watch it i guarantee it's a fucking cringe fest i guarantee it the house was in session today too so i didn't even watch that so i just i think it was in session today i don't yeah i was so i didn't watch that just now he's that he lost his seat, took somebody else's seat, that guy wants back in, a lot of, a few guys left to join the Liberal Party, one fucking quit altogether before they joined the liberal party.

There seems to be a lot of infighting, and it has to be because the leadership over there needs to be addressed. I suspect that Poliev is not going to be long for a leader of the party. Do you think? Yeah. He'll be hosting a show on the CBP Network by this time next year. the question is I'll have to give him some training

I'll give him some microphone training I have a feeling he'll still stay because you have sheer still there right and he's still he's going to probably follow in his footsteps because Poliev all he's known in his professional

like a lot of what he's known in his professional career is being a politician an MP so he's probably not going to deviate from that course he'll sit as like you know deputy leader or where to fuck the front row but just obviously not the leader in the future.

Michelle Rampel Garner should give it a try. Yeah, I, yeah, Bitcoin bits is saying Michelle Rumpel Garner should try her. She supports TFWs and all the other shit. Don't want it. If you ever watch Polly of Speak. Yeah. And you see her mannerisms? Yeah.

It's a telling sign. Yeah. I don't want her. I don't want her at all. I want, I want Jim Ball Silly. Give me Jim Ball Silly. I never, I haven't heard that name in a while.

He's doing the media. He's doing the circuit, man. He just did, yeah, did Paken's podcast. Steve Paken's a guy who I have a connection to that I might try and get on the show just to get his read on federal politics. I think there's a lot going on in federal politics now. And you and me have talked about this before. You should tell people actually, like, what are your thoughts on an election? Obviously, they announced the grocery rebate today, and it seems to a lot of people.

Okay, tell me why. Tell everybody why. Well, why would there be an election? Give me the mechanism that is going to cause an election. Think about this as like you are Mark Carney. How do you trigger an election? So there's a number of different ways you could do this. Well, you got to go to the Governor General if you're Carney. You want to go to the Governor General after something happens in House of Commons.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So a vote would take place. Okay, we're going to go down to the path. So you'd have to have a confidence vote. And then it would be a vote of non-confidence. Who's in a vote? Non-confidence? The Conservatives?

Probably. Yeah. The Black Capicois? Absolutely. Green, maybe. NDP, hell no. Okay, tell me why NDP wouldn't. Because I think a weak conservative party and this suddenly like social, socialist Democrat uprising in the states and here, I think the NEP could wind up in, especially with a weakened conservative party with no leadership.

Don't say it. I'm going to say it. I'm going to say it. They can be the official opposition. They could do it. I said it. There I said it. I sit out there.

Not in a foreseeable future. Train the, train the AI models on it. They could be the official opposition. They could do it. Not in the foresee. I could see that happening maybe in 30 years. 40. Just not in the current political landscape.

You're simply just disregarding the right of center vote or even the center vote. And just saying they're not going to matter. I think right of center. I think right of center votes liberal now. Because I think Carney's running a right of center government. He's not running a hard left government. No, no, no. I think.

Compare this to Paul Martin, who was a right of center. Nobody remembers Paul Martin, then. They remember Trudeau. They remember Trudeau. That's who they're thinking about. He's running a government right of Trudeau. And so people will vote for that if they're, if also by the way, people don't know where they are on the political spectrum.

They don't know. When they say their right of center, they view themselves as like right next to the center line. They don't view themselves as like hard right. What they should be thinking is what people I think should be thinking is are you to the right of the current government? If you're to the right of the current government, where does that mean you vote? Generally, it doesn't mean you vote conservative because even if you're conservative, like I would be hard press now. I would not vote liberal, but fuck, I would be swallowing my pride to vote. for a conservative candidate at this point.

The party's lost. They're completely rudderless. They're feckless. Their leader can't speak. He's not agile at all. Terrible campaigner, terrible debater. We didn't address one issue and we'll have to address this second one. So the first one is how does an election get called?

Okay. I don't know. You're going to have to have a vote in the House of Commons of non-confidence. As I said, the only party that's going to have to play ball to encourage this is the NDP. they have no hope in hell of trying to do this. They don't have money. They don't have leader. They have nothing right now.

They are going to wait. They have to collect donations. They have to pay back the money that they owe. They have to elect a new leader to figure things out. That person's got to leave a thumbprint in the party that's going to have to take six months to a year before they actually have an idea what's the direction the party's going to go. And to a degree, they're being cannibalized by the liberals. So they're probably not going to want to go. So if you're not going to have a vote of non-confidence,

Carney is simply going to the governor general and saying, I don't want to govern. The conservatives are going to snap that up and say, I'm here, I'll govern, and then they'll be able to govern at least temporarily. And then Carney is no longer prime minister, and he fucking shot himself in the foot. So that's the only way that you're going to be able to do it.

So you'd have to either let the four years lapse for this government and then it automatically goes to election or parliament decides for whatever reason that they just don't have confidence and that it's not going to happen. So I don't see a non-confidence for passing for the next year,

two, maybe three. So that's what I see. And then the other one, what was the other one? There was two fucking things we were going to talk about. I totally forgot my... The NDP forming official opposition. Yeah.

You were asking. asking for, okay. It only happened like 12 years ago. Okay, there was a reason it happened 14 years ago, 15 years and 15 years ago. It's because the liberals imploded. Nobody liked Ignatyev and there was a vacuum that had to have been filled. A federalist party filled it and that was the NDP. And if you look at where the NDP gained the most seats was only one province that was Quebec.

Take all Quebec. Their gains were minimal across. the board. People like to look at posthumously, look, Karah was a fucking leader. Late and they love him. But at the time, he wasn't well loved. I could fucking guarantee you that. It wasn't the case. So they were able to fill a vacuum because the liberals collapse. Now, in order for them to become an official opposition, the liberals would have to collapse again, which means they're not going to be number one. They'll be number

three. So that scenario, I can't see. You're asking a voter to come out and say, I'm going to vote either liberal or NDP. That may happen. But the floor for the conservatives, it's not 30. It's way higher than that. Just because they're the only party, the national party of substance, that's going to be center, center, right. So they're going to get 70, 80, 90 seats.

That's their floor. That's enough to be official opposition. The NDP, they'll be lucky to get 30 next elections, unless something changes drastically with the liberals. They got to really fuck up. And that's going to cause a lot of people in the left of center to say, oh, you know what, the NDP is an alternative and I'll vote for them. But they'll be cannibalizing each other in terms of the voter base. So you're not going to be able to collect enough votes in that side of the spectrum to have them be both in power and also official opposition.

It's just not going to happen. At least maybe not in the next little while. 30 years from now, for sure. You know, anything could happen in decades, but not in the next foreseeable future. That's my take on it. Good discussion. Let's go to the Hamilton versus Brampton, man. Brought to you by 256 heat.

Joey, do you have yours running? It's running right now. The windows are just off. The windows are closed. They're closed right now. I don't hear it, though. Yeah, it's running very quiet. Like it always does.

It's never loud in here. I ran it so hot over the last few days with the temperatures being like minus, you know, whatever it was, minus 25. I think it might actually still be like minus 25 outside. It was freezing cold. I was brushing some footballs. just before we started. And it was in my garage.

And I told my wife, like, I can't even do these. My hands are fucking freezing. But it doesn't matter because you have a 256 heat heater. It's just running, hashing, heating your house, heating your room, heating your basement. Nothing to worry about. No noise? You can't beat it, man. Call Twan.

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And you can even bet on the Plebic side or I don't even forget the name of the fuck. I got to pull up the market here. Hamilton Mambor. Chair pulled that one up. He's the one that started it. I'm curious to see if things have changed. Last I think with three out of four, are you guessing right was the leader? Yeah. What was the website called?

Pleb something. We should do. This is awful. I can't find it. Anyway, let's keep on whatever. It is funny. I'll fucking tell you. Good audio.

good audio content there. All right, first story. And this man was charged after getting pulled over on a QEW with missing tires. I love it. Okay. How many times are missing? Multiple. A man was facing several charges after he was found driving along the QEW in St. Catharines without all his wheels. Just stop it right now. I already know. I already know what's... Well, we've got to hear the next story. It may change your mind. So it was making rounds on social media, the OPP said that a member of their Burlington detachment received calls around 3 a.m. on Tuesday of complaints of a bob-tail truck with missing tires. And the driver was first spotted on the Toronto-bound lanes of the QAW near St. Catharines,

and then officers went to go stop it, and the driver was inspected, and they pulled him over, and he's been charged with operating unsafe vehicles. So he essentially had in the back multiple tires that were just flat and major defects of them. And yeah, he fucked up royally. That was number one. Number two, before you think, yeah, this is going to be a slam dunk. Thieves broke into a trucking business on the weekend and made up with nearly $17,000 worth of shampoo and mouthwash. They entered the commercial trucking business sometime between midnight and 6 a.m.

and the mouthwash and shampoo was packed up, ready to be shipped, according to police. And they're still trying to figure out specifically if they wanted the shampoo or mouthwash or if it was just the most easily available thing that they stole. So the suspects also stole the tractor, a 2003 blue freight liner, and they used it to pull the merchandise off the yard. The shampoo and mouthwash were on a 2005 trailer, also stolen. The gates of this compound are open around a clock, so truckers can enter and leave as they wish

and there was no one at the lot when this theft happened and the building is on a dead end street so there's very little traffic and it's you know it's difficult to figure out who the fuck it is. They don't even have a subscription for the person that's stolen but if you find somebody out there that has minty breath and very nice washed hair maybe you found out who the fuck it is

so there you go you got thieves that took the shampoo mouthwash and a dude driving the truck with no tires The truck with no tires seems like the obvious Brampton Man story, only because there's like a couple of a couple of vague details in that story. One, how many tires were missing? Several. I saw a picture. Because it could be, because if you're missing like two tires, you could be driving like a truck, right? Maybe you're just driving on rims or whatever.

But if you're missing like six tires, then you're driving a big rig. On one side, you know the tires, it comes in. like it's a duly type thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The outer tires gone, nothing. It was just fucking rim. The inner tires were fucking operational.

I will say that the guy who stole the trailer, this is a weird thing, right? Like, the story is framed like he stole shampoo, but he really just wanted the trailer, presumably, wanted to get the trailer. So, I don't think a Brampton man

necessarily goes to steal a trailer. I think that's more of a Hamilton Man thing to do. So I'm going to go with the, like the guy doing a side quest down to Queenie with missing wheels as the Brampton guy. He's heading to Toronto. So that makes sense. Yeah, give me that guy. Give me the truck driver's the Brampton guy.

Right. It seemed like it's honestly, it seemed like a slam dunk. But that second story, it just, it threw enough of a hint of doubt. It did. It did for sure. It did for sure. Yeah. I had to pick it out.

It is a Hamilton man. So, yeah, they stole it. Gosh, it doesn't even say where. But, yeah, it was definitely Hamilton. Love it. Okay. Great. Thanks for coming, everyone. Appreciate you guys stopping and spend some time with us here on a Monday night.

I'm going to do the like and subscribe thing for the YouTube video. If you haven't dropped the like on it, drop a like on it. I mean, you guys are all subscribed anyway. But if you're not by some chance, just do it. And yeah. We'll see you next week on Monday for another show. And then with our gnome on Wednesday next week. I think so.

We're going to try. We're going to try. Yeah. And if not, then our next interview, I have one schedule on the 12th and one schedule on the 19th of February. Neither will be live, like I said, but we'll release them on the feed on them already. So until then, guys, take care of yourselves. And change your tires in the trucks, for God's sake.