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Aug. 1, 2017 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin

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Justin Trudeau's Cult Of Personality

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	Hey guys, Dev here from the Short Fedo Taku channel.
	Sargon's gone away for a while, presumably thrown in the slammer due to his many, many tweets that are abusive towards Islam.
	So, I'll be taking over this time around.
	And today we're going to cover a topic rarely gotten to in-depth on this channel.
	Canadian politics.
	Hold on, hold on, hear me out.
	I know that Canada is pretty unassuming and generally considered by your average Joe to be unimportant on the world stage.
	I mean, look at the G8.
	You've got America, fuck yeah.
	You've got the well-established civilizations of Europe.
	You've got Russia, everybody's favorite scapegoat.
	There's Japan, the Far East's greatest beacon of democracy.
	And then there's Canada?
	Seems a bit out of place, doesn't it?
	But we are a middle power militarily, an economic powerhouse, and a stable, functional, growing democracy.
	That last bit, the democracy bit, is probably the most important point to today's video, because we're going to be talking about the cult of personality that sprung up around Justin Trudeau, and how it's not conducive to a healthy democratic government.
	And I do think this is important, because allied governments tend to take cues from each other as issues evolve, and with the internet acting almost as a cosmopolitizing force on people that would otherwise be relatively isolated, what happens in Canada does affect the rest of the democratic world, believe it or not.
	So, there are two primary points of interest in discussing Justin Trudeau's emerging cult of personality, his popularity and his politics.
	Let's talk about the first one, Justin Trudeau's popularity among Canadian citizens.
	Pierre Trudeau, Justin's father, spent his formative years in the 1940s as a left-leaning student of political science and law, occasionally flirting with Marxism, but eventually settling into Keynesian economics as his primary worldview.
	He was elected as Canada's 15th Prime Minister and held the office during two separate periods, from 1968 to 1979 and later from 1980 to 1984.
	Pierre was largely seen as a relatively youthful hippie, even throughout middle age, in an era where Canadian politics was dominated by men a generation older than him.
	His popular, left-leaning positions on a wide variety of issues, coupled with his friendly, down-to-earth personality, ensured his spot on the list of Canada's most popular politicians of all time.
	Justin Trudeau grew up around Parliament Hill, as his father was either the Prime Minister or the leader of the opposition from birth until he was 14 years old.
	Justin earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from McGill University, and a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of British Columbia.
	Before entering politics, he spent his adulthood teaching social sciences, French as a second language, and dramatic arts, as well as occasionally appearing on Canadian TV as a news pundit.
	When Trudeau entered politics, he ran in the riding of Papineau, a riding with a strong history of trending towards the Liberal Party, but had no suitable Liberal candidates lined up.
	As one might expect, his name carried him through the party's nomination proceedings, through the election, through the party leadership convention, all the way into the office of the prime minister.
	Let's compare.
	Pierre was a lawyer.
	Justin is a high school arts teacher.
	Pierre won elections based on charisma and popular political positions.
	Justin won elections because of his family name and the Liberal Party making way for him.
	It's starting to sound like Daddy Trudeau got into the Prime Minister's office based on his merits, while Junior Trudeau got into it based on a form of dynastic nepotism.
	Is there any part of Justin Trudeau's popularity that's legitimately his own?
	Well, sure, I think so.
	There's his good looks, for one.
	He certainly didn't inherit them from Pierre.
	Nobody can deny that the man takes good care of himself as well.
	Nothing like having a prime minister that can box his way out of a situation.
	His smile certainly seems genuine, at least if you go back to pictures of him before he became the prime minister.
	And he certainly tries to be personable and down-to-earth like his dad.
	I don't think we ever saw Stephen Harper or Jean Cretchen simultaneously holding the office and photobombing somebody's wedding, or kayaking up to a random dude on a river somewhere to talk to them about environmentalism.
	I don't know though.
	There's something just a little fake about it all.
	Ever hear Justin Trudeau go off script before?
	Check it out.
	Prime Minister, it's about the event who attended yesterday in the morning and some progressive, what I guess I would call progressive feminists, who very much support your work for gender equality and very admiring of that work, were disappointed that you attended a gender-segregated event.
	And so I guess my question would be, how do you reconcile your brand as a self-styled feminist Prime Minister with attendance at a gender segregated event?
	The fact is, the values that define Canada include respect and openness towards our full diversity.
	Indeed, understanding that diversity is a source of strength, not a source of weakness, is why I think that politicians need to be focused on bringing people together rather than fomenting divisions.
	And that's why I am happy to attend community events in churches, temples, synagogues, mosques.
	I'm happy to engage with Canadians where they are and talk about the full range of opportunities that we're working hard to create.
	Opportunities for growth for the middle class through investment, through putting more money in the pockets of hardworking families, through lowering taxes for the middle class.
	And the fact is, working hard to highlight that our greatest source of strength remains in the different perspectives and backgrounds that come together around shared values here in Canada.
	You'll notice that he didn't actually answer the question, even though it absolutely deserved it.
	He simply returned to the checklist of talking points that he regularly rattled off a year and a half earlier while on the campaign trail.
	For every drop of genuinity within Justin Trudeau, there's an equal amount of freeze-dried, pre-packaged, plasticky politician.
	In the end, I think Justin Trudeau's popularity is largely not his own.
	It was inherited from his father.
	During the heights of Pierre's popularity, the Canadian media dubbed the absolute frenzy of young people that would flock to him as Trudeau Mania.
	Pierre had a sort of a cult of personality spring up around him, based entirely on how much Canada legitimately loved the man.
	However, this is not the case with Justin.
	Don't get me wrong, he does have a cult of personality surrounding him as well, but it's of a different sort.
	And to get into that, we have to get into the second point of interest, Justin Trudeau's politics.
	The politics of Justin Trudeau are what you'd expect.
	He's the center-left leader of a center-left political party.
	He and the Liberal Party are ideologically related to the USA's corporate-friendly third-way Democrats, in that they pay lip service to the left's pet social issues, but have no problem with throwing the middle class under the bus every now and again.
	The story of the Canadian middle class under the Liberals is nearly identical to the American version, right down to the geographical locations.
	Here's a map of Canada.
	British Columbia over on the West Coast is roughly analogous to California both geographically and culturally.
	It's got its regressive left metropolitan powerhouse in Vancouver and its center-left rural wilderness.
	The Northern Corridor and the GTA are equally similar.
	And then you've got the rest, disparagingly called flyover states in the USA, where most right-wing voters live, and also where most of the middle and working classes live as well.
	Canada has the same problem as America.
	Upper-class, left-leaning regressives sitting on their high horses in highly urbanized environments, looking down upon the nation's hinterlands even as they are unknowingly supported by them.
	So it should be no surprise to anybody that when Justin Trudeau makes a pit stop in Alberta after trying to dismantle Canada's energy sector, he gets a reaction like this.
	You've been saying two different messages.
	Down east, you've been telling people that you want to kill the single biggest employer in our province.
	You're in Alberta right now, sir.
	You're not in Ottawa.
	Yet when you come to Calgary, you tell people you're sorry.
	Well, I'm sorry, I'm a little confused.
	There is one of two things, Mr. Prime Minister.
	You're either a liar or you're confused.
	And I'm beginning to think it's both.
	I have been extremely consistent in what I've said to Canadians over the past years.
	I have said, repeatedly, in many situations...
	Okay, you can ask.
	If you're going to ask me a question, you might want to hear the answer.
	This sort of thing seems to follow Trudeau around wherever he goes.
	And it's not a coincidence.
	It's a direct result of his politics.
	Let's take the Trans-Pacific Partnership, for example.
	Here's Justin's position on the TPP before he got elected.
	I think anytime you have a deal that involves three of our five largest trading partners, it's something that really has to be very, very seriously considered.
	I think the trade is good and important, and it's a creator of good jobs.
	We know that export-intensive industries pay 50% higher wages than non-exporting industries in this country.
	Canada is a country with lots of resources and not too many people.
	We're always going to need to be engaged in international trade.
	It's what has helped Canada become the successful country that we are right now.
	We need to continue to do it, and it's important that we get it right, which is why I'm going to take a very careful look at the provisions and listen to Canadians from across the country and have them get an opportunity to express their concerns in committees and before Parliament as we seek ratification of this deal.
	But the fact is, the Liberal Party has always understood how important trade is, and we will continue to stand for trade and for engaging with the world.
	Is that a yes?
	That is, I look forward to seeing the details of the deal, but we go into it from a position of being resolutely and consistently, I might add, pro-trade.
	Sounds okay, right?
	He has to look it over, but restates his position as being pro-trade for whatever that's worth.
	But only two days after the Canadian election that put him in office, Trudeau's got no problem telling the Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, that Canada is committed to the TPP.
	You really had to look it over, eh, Trudeau?
	Was two days really enough for you to get done reading the entire billions of pages that made up the TPP, as well as formulating a full government policy on it?
	Are you the best speed reader the world's ever seen, Justin?
	Or are you just a liar?
	Or how about that ridiculous motion 103, the anti-Islamophobia motion from a few months back?
	You know, the motion that gave Islam a special status in the government's efforts to combat discrimination going forward?
	The motion that commanded the government to collect data to contextualize hate crime and present recommendations to the House of Commons no later than 240 calendar days.
	I'd love to hear those recommendations.
	But the deadline for them is November 18th.
	I'm sure both Sargon and myself will be talking about them when they come out.
	But on Islamophobia, Justin Trudeau had this to say.
	Well, if M103 condemning Islamophobia actually gets people to notice that there are people uncomfortable with that idea, that there are people who still have problems with the idea that we would condemn discrimination against Muslims.
	Then we have to know.
	We have to expose that and we have to deal with it as a society.
	So do we have a problem with Islamophobia in this country?
	Yes, we do.
	Do we have a problem with anti-Semitism in this country?
	Yes, we do.
	Do we have a problem in this country with discrimination and hatred?
	Yes, we do.
	And we need to talk about this.
	And we need to challenge each other to be better on this.
	We need to recognize that we still have a problem because there are men out there who will not say, yes, I am a feminist.
	We need to lay open wounds to sunshine and disinfectant.
	That is also the role that we have in this House and that we have as active, engaged citizens in this country.
	Oh, we have to know, do we?
	What would sunlight and disinfectant actually consist of from a governmental point of view, Justin?
	Would it sound anything like this?
	Fear is a dangerous thing.
	Once it is sanctioned by the state, there is no telling where it might lead.
	It is always a short path to walk from being suspicious of our fellow citizens to taking actions to restrict their liberty.
	Oh, oh, oh, that's you before you became Prime Minister talking about your Conservative opponent, Stephen Harper, isn't it?
	In my seven years in Parliament, I have heard the Conservative Prime Minister accuse two different leaders of the NDP of sympathizing with terrorists.
	The Conservative Party of Canada accused notable McGillian Erwin Cotler of anti-Semitism, and the former public safety minister to declare, you're either with us or you're with the child pornographers.
	Yeah, for that particular effort, the Prime Minister eventually rewarded him with a judicial appointment.
	This, my friends, is not your parents' Conservative Party.
	Their approach to politics might work in the short term, but it is corrosive over time.
	It's almost like you had values before you had any real power, Justin.
	And the minute you got power, all those values straight out the window.
	Unfucking believable.
	The one that bugs me the most personally, but is admittedly probably the least interesting Trudeau walkback, is electoral reform.
	A cornerstone of Trudeau's campaign was his intention to reform Canada's electoral system.
	This had widespread support among Canadian citizens.
	We were all frankly pretty tired of the strategic voting that a first-past-the-post system inevitably leads to when more than two political parties are dominant within an election.
	But do any of you think that Jessen kept his word on that?
	Does anybody want to place bets on this one?
	Mr. Speaker, over the past year, we consulted with hundreds of thousands of Canadians to hear their views on transforming our electoral system.
	It's very clear, as people in this House know, I have long preferred a preferential ballot.
	The members opposite wanted a proportional representation.
	The official opposition wanted a referendum.
	There is no consensus.
	There is no clear path forward.
	It would be irresponsible for us to do something that harms Canada's stability when, in fact, what we need is moving forward on growth for the middle class and support.
	Honourable member for Outterman.
	The Prime Minister obviously never read the report, Mr. Speaker.
	The My Democracy Charade didn't even ask Canadians if they wanted to change the voting system.
	But you know what?
	At almost every single one of the Prime Minister's town halls, someone asked him about democratic reform.
	So as the Prime Minister now fabricates evidence to claim Canadians didn't want what he got elected on, my question is, what expression from Canadians would have been sufficient to get the Prime Minister to respect his own promise?
	You know, this wasn't even a hot-button issue or anything.
	This isn't like Trump saying he's pro-trans and then dismantling bathroom laws or removing the right to serve in the military.
	This is actually a pretty boring topic.
	It's one that normally people don't care too much about.
	It's not like race or gender.
	It's not like the economy or the environment.
	It's not something that's going to be brought up every 30 seconds by everybody under the sun.
	It's electoral reform.
	It only became a serious issue when Trudeau brought it up himself at every single fucking stop in the campaign trail.
	And he couldn't even bring himself to do it.
	Even when it's a talking point entirely manufactured by himself, even when there's no political stakes involved, even when it's only a net good for him, he still couldn't even bring himself to do it.
	And this is all taking a toll on both Trudeau and the Liberal Party.
	Popularity for the entire lot is slipping.
	In British Columbia, the Green Party and the NDP came together in a coalition to oust the provincial Liberal government from power.
	Both of the federal budgets the Liberals have introduced since taking power have been widely criticized by both the electorate and by economists.
	And even the Liberals themselves admitted that they're going to be spending way, way more money than initially promised.
	With Justin having the audacity to say that the budgets will balance themselves.
	So in this economic climate, how committed to a balanced budget would you be right now?
	Were you to go into deficit in this current climate to, as you say, put more people to work?
	The commitment needs to be a commitment to grow the economy, and the budget will balance itself.
	Here's the honest truth about Justin Trudeau's cult of personality.
	He's never been as popular here at home as he appears to be in the USA or overseas.
	When Justin Trudeau got elected, here's who he was up against.
	Stephen Harper, the conservative incumbent, holds a degree in economics, led Canada through the 2008 Great Recession mostly intact.
	When his party had a minority government, he was actually mostly okay.
	When his party managed to get a majority government, he very quickly transformed into an unpopular tyrant who destroyed his own party and ensured its loss during the next election.
	Then there's Tom Molcair, a sleazy, scummy, goony beard man who replaced the much-beloved Jack Layton as NDP leader.
	Jack Layton was probably Canada's most popular politician in history to never actually become Prime Minister.
	Molcair took the lead after Layton's untimely death and promptly squandered any goodwill that came with being his successor.
	And then there's the leaders of the Green Party and the Quebec Separatists, who really had next to nothing to contribute.
	So, Trudeau versus two nobodies and two grubbling politicians who destroyed themselves before the campaign cycle was even over.
	Trudeau's parliamentary majority is technically a mandate, but it wasn't based on him.
	There was simply nobody better to pick.
	And that still hasn't changed.
	The woes of the Liberal Party in Canada are largely self-inflicted.
	From grotesquely inflated budgets, to self-made scandals, to hypocrisy and lies, to the appeasement of those that want us dead and the censorship of those that speak out about it, to loading up a fucking wheelbarrow full of money, lighting it on fire, and launching it into Omar Kader's house, it seems that Justin Trudeau can't help but shoot himself in the foot.
	Pierre Trudeau's cult of personality, his Trudeau mania, was grassroots and genuine.
	Justin Trudeau's cult of personality is reinforced through social engineering.
	He's not that popular of a leader here.
	Oh, he's talked about by our national media like he is.
	He's presented overseas like he is.
	They even try to shoehorn the Trudeau mania label onto him in the news like his dad.
	But he's not like his dad.
	From beginning to end, everybody simply stood aside to allow him to ascend the throne.
	Like the parting of the sea, his opposition either willingly stood aside or self-destructed all the way from joining the Liberal Party as a backbencher to the office of the prime minister.
	And why?
	Because his center-left third-way politics is exactly what the global establishment wants.
	That's why he's on the cover of Rolling Stone, with the lamenting byline of, why can't he be our president?
	That's why Joe Biden, upon Trump's election, said of Trudeau that genuine leaders are in short supply and that the world is going to spend a lot of time looking at you, Mr. Prime Minister.
	Viva la Canada, because we need you very, very badly.
	But I personally think another quote describing Justin Trudeau is more accurate.
	And this one's from his father, Pierre.
	When Justin was just four months old, President Richard Nixon visited Canada on an official trip.
	During a gala, Nixon stated, I'd like to toast the future Prime Minister of Canada to Justin Trudeau.
	And Pierre said in response, not knowing just how on the money this would later be, I hope Justin has the grace and skill of President Nixon.
	That about does it for me, guys.
	Special thanks to Sargon for giving me a platform to ramble on about Canadian politics.
	I really do believe that they're important internationally, not just domestically.
	And if you think otherwise, man, what was going on with Justin Trudeau a decade ago is what's happening with Chelsea Clinton right now.
	And hopefully after this video, you'll know exactly where that road leads.
	If you're interested in this Canadian politics stuff and want to get a bit more in-depth with it, I've recently done two videos on the topic.
	The first, The Trouble with Trudeau, is a more detailed look at Justin Trudeau's life.
	The second, on the July 1st Unsettling Canada 150 protests, is a look at antifa activity within Canada, specifically related to their recent protests on Canada's 150th birthday, as well as their connection to Canada's social justice and Aboriginal activist communities.
	These videos, as well as others on SJWs, Gamergate-related topics, and so on, can be found on my ShortFatoTaku YouTube channel.
	I also maintain a Twitter account where you can aggressively tweet at me and get introlled by Jack if you like, and I also stream around four times a week on average over on Twitch TV.
	All of which happens under the name Short Fattotaku.
	Feel free to come by and say hi.
	Alright, that's the end of it, pals.

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