Terry Glavin & Jordan Peterson Discuss Trudeau’s Rise to Power

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1. “Wither Canada” or “Whither Canada”? I guess it could be either.

   1. Heck, how about adding “whether”…or not.

2. Saw this earlier today. EXCELLENT.

   I wasn’t all that familiar with Glavin but had a low opinion of him when he enthused about the Canadian military building schools for girls in Af’stan. Eyeroll! How frickin naive!
   But he’s very good here and knows his inside baseball.
   He did mention “comrades” in Syria so I’m guessing he was keen on the saintly rebels there [read: multiple terrorist groups]. But I blocked that out.

   Also, wow, he consistently interrupted Jordan’s interruptions. I hardly ever watch a longer JP clip because he often talks more than his guests which irritates me no end. But Glavin ploughs ahead and did not JP derail the interview.

   1. It’s a better conversation when the two parties are coming from different directions.

   2. I also find Peterson to be an annoying interviewer. Besides interrupting too often he overexplains the point he is trying to raise.

      Steve Bannon is another one who interrrupts his guest and, as a result, doesn’t let the interviewee finish what he was in th middle of explaining.

3. Glavin reminded his listeners of the old saying about Islam’s murder programme: First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people.
   He said that Canada did it the other way around. Bingo.

4. I can barely tie my shoes but I take some satisfaction in seeing through both Barack Obama and Juthtin, the very first time I saw them. Arrogance is not attractive and usually is covering up some deep personality disorders.

   Narcissistic personality disorder.

   – Has beliefs about being special and more important than others.
   – Has fantasies about power, success and being attractive to others.
   – Does not understand the needs and feelings of others.
   – Stretches the truth about achievements or talents.
   – Expects constant praise and wants to be admired.
   – Feels superior to others and brags about it.
   – Expects favors and advantages without a good reason.
   – Often takes advantage of others.
   – Is jealous of others or believes that others are jealous of them.

   1. Agreed Thomas. When you add fetal alcohol syndrome which he surely has, that is Justin to a tee.

   2. Trudeau is an example to the world.
      This is what happens when mothers take drugs during pregnancy.

5. Although Glavin makes some good points, he speaks – to quote Eli Cash from ‘the Royal Tenenbaums’ – “in an obsolete vernacular” – this prissy, Pearsonian, bilingualism/national unity-obsessed, gentle anti-American conception of Canada, that seems so foreign to my understanding about – and observations of – the country.

   He also seems to apportion far more blame to the Left for the rise in anti-Semitism (although the Left are far from blameless) than to the simple fact of mass Islamic immigration, not to mention what appears to be massive unchecked foreign funding of these Palestinian protest movements.

   His obvious Trump Derangement Syndrome is also very thinly suppressed.

6. Some people only allow themselves to awaken to the true state of the world in bits and pieces. Glavin is good on indigenous issues such as the mass graves hoax, good on anti semitism, and Chinese infiltration of western society (Sam Cooper is also excellent on this front) but, as you say, Glavin remains safely wrapped up in anti Trumpism, as Trump’s rise is a phenomenon he refuses to even attempt to understand.

   At least Glavin isn’t as insufferable a never Trumper as the likes of Coyne. That guy is good for nothing.

   1. It’s amazing to watch isn’t it – i.e., how a certain generation of Canadians – and I’m not just thinking of Glavin, but of my parents and their contemporaries as well – will only give up their old worldview piecemeal, regardless of how false and/or out-of-date that worldview is and in more than a few cases, is a worldview that basically wants them dead.

      I am also a big fan of Sam Cooper, whose journalism should be more well-known.

7. Eric Strauss:

   Those are eminently fair comments and well matched my impressions of Glavin and the era to which he is attuned, which is why I was so impressed with this particular clip, which I assume was extracted from a longer interview.

   And yes, most older Canadians are stuck in 1967.