Sen. John Kennedy calls out Canada’s ‘tyranny of the managerial elite’

February 16, 2022:

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., weighed in on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s response to the Freedom Convoy on “Jesse Watters Primetime.”

SEN. JOHN KENNEDY: Let me say a word first about Canada, and I want to make it clear I support peaceful protests. I don’t support breaking the law, but what I think we’re seeing in Canada is the tyranny of the managerial elite over the working-class majority. I don’t know Prime Minister Trudeau. I’m sure he is a warm and loving human being, but his leadership has been underwhelming. He’s misjudged the situation. As to the truckers, their protests are not about the vaccine. Most of them are already vaccinated. Here’s what I hear the truckers say. They’re saying, “Look, Mr. Prime Minister, we’ve been through two years of pandemic restrictions. Our lives have been turned upside down. Our livelihoods have been threatened. Our kids have lost months, maybe a year, from their education. You say, ‘follow the science.’ Mr. Prime Minister, let’s follow the science. We look around. We see the old omicron variant, its virulence waning. Most of us … have immunity. We’re either natural or we’re vaccinated. So what, Mr. Prime Minister, is your roadmap for getting government off our backs and allowing us to get back to normal?” Now, here’s the prime minister’s response. Instead of saying, “Fair question, let’s sit down and talk about it,” his plan for convincing the truckers that they are wrong is by saying, “You’re a bunch of stupid idiots.” Here’s what I hear the prime minister saying to the truckers: “Look, truckers, I’m smart, you’re not. I’m educated, you’re not. I drink caramel frappuccinos, you don’t. I eat bacon-wrapped dates and tuna tartare. You don’t even know what that is. So sit down and shut up.” And, you know, the truckers’ response to the prime minister? Well, it’s predictable as well. They’re bowing up. Now, I would gently say to the prime minister … How can I put it? If you’re going to be a smarta–, first you have to be smart … otherwise you’re just an a–, and I think he needs to recalibrate and realize what this is all about.

WATCH THE FULL INTERVIEW BELOW:

Source link

tags

Abkhazia Afghanistan Africa Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Curacao Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic East Timor Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Finland France French Polynesia Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guam Guatemala Guinea Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kosovo Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria North Korea North Macedonia Northern Cyprus Norway Oman Pakistan Palestine Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Republic of the Congo Romania Russia Rwanda Saint Lucia Samoa San Marino Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Korea South Sudan Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Uganda UK Ukraine United Arab Emirates Uruguay USA Uzbekistan Vatican City Venezuela Vietnam Western Sahara Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe