Jordan Peterson says Trump's threats screwed Poilievre, saved Liberals from 'extinction'
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Jordan Peterson opened up about the Liberals’ bounce back from near-“extinction,” and how Canada and U.S. President Donald Trump are “going to pay” if Mark Carney is elected prime minister.
The Canadian psychologist appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience on Wednesday where talk quickly turned to Canadian politics.
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When Rogan asks if Carney is going to win, Peterson sighs and notes the polls not only indicate that but the Liberals could even come away with a majority government.
“Carney showed up just in the nick of time to save the burning damsel from the train tracks or whatever the hell it is,” Peterson said, referring to Trump and how the American president’s threats were “so badly” timed at a time when a Conservative majority seemed like a sure thing.
Peterson commented that Tory Leader Pierre Poilievre simply “didn’t know what the electoral consequences would be,” and how Trump’s rhetoric would “shift [Canadians] to the Liberals so radically.”
The former University of Toronto professor went on to mock Carney and Liberal supporters, who saw someone who “looks like a banker from the 1990s when everything was just fine in Canada and when Canadians were just as rich as Americans, the whole country was stable and peaceful.”
And while Canadians, at one point, turned on ex-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Carney’s resume was enough to make people forget that he worked as Trudeau’s economic adviser.
“The Liberals were headed for extinction,” Peterson remarked. “It was going to be the worst defeat of a governing Canada ever. They might have lost their official party status. They were done.”
But then Trudeau resigned and the Liberals “pivoted” and brought in Carney, which Peterson said will just be more of the same.
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Peterson suggested people read the first three chapters of Carney’s book to know what he’s all about.
“Either he’s decided that every single thing he ever believed was wrong, right to the core, and hasn’t apologized or let anyone know that, and now he’s actually Mr. Industry, which is how he’s presenting himself to Canadians,” Peterson said, before adding ominously: “Or he’s believed what he’s always believed,” he added, before Rogan referred to him as “a wolf wearing grandma’s dress.”
Peterson replied: “Yeah, he’s a benevolent wolf. That’s why the wolf wears grandma’s dress, isn’t it?”
When Rogan questioned how Canada can course-correct, Peterson appeared to believe a Carney government was undeniable.
“People either correct course by waking up or by experiencing severe pain. And it looks to me like we’ve chosen the severe pain route,” predicting that Carney’s Liberals would put Canada’s economy further in decline, not to mention increase social disorder, specifically mentioning anti-Israel demonstrations and blockades that regularly play out in Toronto.
“Spiralling housing prices, a lot of social instability in Canada, especially since Oct. 7; all my Jewish friends in Toronto are terrified,” Peterson said. “That’s not fun. I don’t like seeing that. It’s awful.”
He added: “And all those psychopaths who have been parading around their moral virtue since October 7, they’re plenty emboldened. Plenty.”
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The one plus for Carney, however, is how Trump’s tariffs threats and “51st state” chatter would come back to bite him.
“He’s gonna pay for that because once Carney is elected, if that happens, Trump will not have a more seasoned enemy in the West,” he declared.
“Carney’s very well-connected, very,” Peterson added. “Especially in Europe and the U.K.”
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