Quote Of The Day

"Now comes the mother of all adverse effects — and what it brings with it is a regime that will be ignorant of economic policy and hostile to any effort to make it work," Krugman wrote. "So we are very probably looking at a global recession, with no end in sight. I suppose we could get lucky somehow. But on economics, as on everything else, a terrible thing has just happened."

Paul Krugman, 2016.

Well, that didn't age well.

When does baseless fear mongering and pissing on the people ever do?

Remember folks: Top. Men.

On Impeachment

From what I'm reading....

The American public shouldn't believe a single word from the Democrats and the mainstream media - who once again are sleeping at the switch - until they open up the process.

Right now, in sum, it's a kangaroo court being conducted in secret with one person leaking out information to give the appearance of a consistent story.

All the while the President has been denied due process, the right to counsel, and to present witnesses.

This is American democracy?

More like a tin pot dictatorship. Pelosi claims this is about 'the constitution'. No, it's not. It's about taking one man down for what really doesn't amount to an impeachable offence if our readings of the Framers views on it and past history are a guide.

They've basically weaponized impeachment as a political tool.

And this this a terrible precedent to set.

Americans should reject their cynical ploy.

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Another example of abuse of power and abhorrent totalitarian behaviour from the left comes by way of Alberta and its Election Commission office headed by a known left-wing agitator. It was an office created by the NDP.

Pay close attention to their tactics on their attacks on Rebel Media:



Keep in mind we have a Prime Minister that obstructed the rule of law and neither the government or the RCMP have done anything about it. Worse, Canadians put this person back in power.

In all cases, this is tin pot dictator banana republic stuff.

Courtesy of the Democrat, Liberal and NDP parties. 

Take That For Derp: Wokespin Edition

“Until the University of Texas realizes you have to have a black quarterback, and nothing against Ehlinger, you got to have a talented, black quarterback,” Campbell said. “All these schools that are winning, even in the pros, have black quarterbacks. When guys are not open, something can still happen.”

Let's rework this. /sticks tongue out of corner of mouth. Spins propeller on hat.

“Until the University of Texas realizes you have to have a white quarterback, and nothing against Ehlinger, you got to have a talented, white quarterback,” Campbell said. “All these schools that are winning, even in the pros, have white quarterbacks. When guys are not open, something can still happen (ie whites aren't athletic like blacks).”

Thoughts woke people and ESPN?

A racist comment is a racist comment. And this is as racist as they come. Period.

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Another woke athlete. Washington Nationals pitcher Sean Doolittle doesn't want to go the White House because he doesn't like how Trump talks.

Snowflake.

Let’s keep in mind everyone and team who declined to go to the White House the next time a DEMOCRAT President is in power and people choose to not go.

Let’s sit back and watch the reactions. 

*Please see Tim Thomas for an example. I remember liberal sports writers losing their minds over this decision.

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The NYT confirms there's indeed a deep state. Whoops! Our bad.

Except they're not a cabal or anything like that. They're just patriotic public servants.

Is that the spin you're going with because I gotta tell ya, there's not enough gravol in Venezuela to help with the dizziness.

Reminds me of the time when Trump claimed the Obama administration was spying on his campaign and making for a rough transition the media and wokesters laughed at the idea. Then Politico and other news outlets found out it was true. And not only were they spying on Trump but all Americans.

Yet, it didn't garner outrage as it ought to have. Rather, they still treat Obama as the second coming of Cincinnatus and Cato.

It's nauseating.

I link to The American Conservative as opposed to directly linking to NYT but their articles are behind a paywall and I ain't paying for that. You can look it up if you so desire. 

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Emotional lift’ to steal from someone’s wealth?

Is that how they describe envy now?

I appreciate articles like theses. It helps me to teach my daughter on how not to think about success.

When others do better than you, taking from them to assuage yourself is electrifying.

Another bizarro version of this is 'the state taking care of you makes you free.' For example, by making health care 'free' leads to more free time to start businesses. 

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"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day..." 

"...I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false."

Thomas Jefferson. Geez, sounds like he snuff out CNN before it was a thing. 

You're better off not reading or watching the news. It's a conclusion I arrived at about 20 years ago. The media fills us with so much BS no wonder the populace seems confused and divided.

Think of it. They're willingly accepting leaked information from ONE person conducting an impeachment inquiry without due process in SECRET.

No one is taking issue with this, you know, crucial point. 

Instead, they're consuming a narrative being formed by Democrats and passing it off as objective journalism and fact. It's propaganda of the worst kind.

This alone should leave pause something isn't right.

Also. It's a bit of a joke how many corrections Wapo and NYT issue. They print a whole lot of conjecture and sloppy facts to convey a narrative (see Covington) and then when called out, they 'retract' (we regret the error) but the damage by then is done. It's almost as if they do it on purpose.

Or they're just that plain incompetent.

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Good on the University of Michigan for doing the sane and right thing by dismantling their Bias Response Team. I get shivers every time I type those words or think about it.

Score one for the good guys.



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How Democrats and progressives treat The Constitution:



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Good article from Quillette on the state of journalism and dubious reporting at CJR.

Not too long ago, Bill Moyers penned an article at CJR basically calling for all media outlets to speak as one voice and bash climate change skeptics.

It was a foul read.


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Even in the UK (not exactly a bastion of free speech and objective journalism these days) they notice something is amiss with journalism in Canada.

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How about some verbal diarrhoea mixed in with a lack of self-awareness courtesy of The Atlantic?

C'man. You know you want it:

“Americans with a more conservative, or “fixed,” orientation value obedience in their children and strength in their leaders. They often fear the world around them, and prize stability and tradition over experimentation and change. By comparison, Americans with a more liberal, or “fluid,” worldview strive to raise independent, curious children and see empathy and tolerance as the most noble qualities a leader can embody. They believe in questioning authority and abhor performative shows of toughness.”

So much rubbish in such a small paragraph, however, let's unpack.

First off, let's get one thing clear. Progressives aren't liberals. What we understand liberalism to be is actually classical liberalism and this liberalism is being conserved in the conservative and libertarian ranks. Progressives are collectivists and illiberal. History, it seems. for the left began with Howard Zinn.

Moving on, there's a whiff of 'Me, the lefty writer has attained self-axtualisahun and therefore consider my thoughts to be good and final, while you, the far-right extremist in the deplorable camp, are too stupid to vote in favor of your own interests.

It's a bunch of unsubstantiated pseudo-intellectual word salad to support a priori conclusion.

This is a flock that likely thinks along the lines of: How can you vote for Trump? and No one I know voted for Trump and I would never befriend a Trump voter!

The irony is, it's not 'Trumpistas' who are acting with intolerance. It's the side that has refused to respect the result of a lawfully contested election. So much so, they tried to usurp its legality and taint the result through a manufactured crisis in the form or 'Russian collusion and hacking' and whatever else it absurdly devolved into.

"They believe in questioning authority and abhor performative shows of toughness.”

Until you question theirs. 

This statement belies the well-documented facts and reality of what's going on at 'street level'. The left has proven to be every bit the reactionary and intolerant whenever someone expresses disapproved opinions as we've seen on social media and college campuses.

Be it in school or at the ballot box, they have a collective meltdown whenever something doesn't go their way or someone has the audacity to challenge their orthodoxy.

And in cases when this behaviour is acknowledged, they then move to disingenuously make a claim of 'both sides do it'. Essentially dragging down others to their level. 

Shorter version: Diversity (based on skin not intellect thus not diversity of ideas) and tolerance (of a peer group that submits but not of differing opinion). In other words, they despise diversity and tolerance that doesn't hinge on approved thought and speech and the collective narrative. 

Ironic, given they sure love MLK yet espouse a distorted and disfigured version of his philosophy. 

Theirs is less about questioning authority in search of truth and more about bullying someone into thinking like them. Diversity and tolerance with us or bust! 

I would further add and end with, this notion ‘conservatism = fear’ and ‘liberals = reason’ is no longer tenable; if it ever was. It completely (and willfully I think) ignores the fact maybe – just maybe – smart, forward looking people with ‘fluid world views’ voted for Trump.

Gee, I wonder who are the ones living in fear really?

Or.

Get your head out of your asses because you may not smell your own shit but the rest of do.

Climate Change: A Cottage Industry That Demands We Suspend Critical Thinking And Bow To Its Commands

It doesn't take a genus to see what's going on. It just blows my mind how people insist on letting themselves be duped.

It's quite literally the world's perfect business scam.

Impeachment: Entrenched Interest Takes On Donald Trump

From the onset, the deep state (which is real) attempted to orchestrate a soft coup - to which Obama played a part - against Donald Trump. Calls for his impeachment started from January 2016.

And they have not stopped.

First came the fabricated Russia narrative now since obliterated for the lie it was and now comes Trump and whatever it's being alleged with the Ukraine.

Impeaching a President is a massively serious thing. That's why it has only happened three times before. The most recent being, of course, Nixon and Clinton. But this one is different. They're denying the President due process and to have counsel.

Removing a lawfully elected President in this manner is dubious. It should be  done with the utmost care and respect for the law.

But this is not what's happening.

Not by a long shot.

In The Federalist Papers, in the articles discussing how the Framers envisioned how impeachment should be handled, Alexander Hamilton expressed concern that impeachment could be used for solely political expediency. I do need to brush up the Federalist Papers.

They thought of everything didn't they?

It does seem Hamilton's fear are being played out. Pelosi and the Democrats are engaging in a cynical game of misdirection and disinformation carefully making sure what information comes out of the SCIF in the form of leaks to give the appearance of a consistent message that Trump did something that warranted impeachment. They control the narrative and what the public and press see.

And it's working.

So far.

In addition to them clearly wanting to take down Trump before he did anything, they're accusing him of something but are looking for the evidence to prove their conclusion.

Without according him his right to due process.

Witnesses and whist blowers are interviewed in secret. The White House hasn't been able to cross examine them nor have they been permitted to defend themselves by presenting their own evidence.

It's a kangaroo court in the most powerful nation in the world. They're basically saying you're a witch and why do you want to defend yourself against our accusation? Play nice and shut up because we're the deep state and we don't like you.

That's it.

There is no crime here. Simple as that.

If there's sufficient evidence to warrant an investigation then why not let the FBI do it? Let them investigate and report their findings?

And the stuff he's being accused of? Nothing out of the ordinary or rises to something serious enough to be impeached when the annals of American history is concerned.

Interestingly, the GOP could have played the same game with Obama when they had the House but chose against. In the end, they simply accepted the will of the American people. The irony is there was probably more to impeach Obama.

The other interesting thing is Trump doesn't believe he did anything wrong and has so far not put together a War Room to deal with this. He seems to be winging it and putting faith and trust that he will be vindicated.

The Democrats better be careful moving forward because they may just hurt American democracy. As for the Republicans, hopefully they can stretch this out and just get it to the election. Let the people decide. Ultimately though, the Senate will have final say. I just don't see this going beyond the play to formalize impeachment proceedings absent concrete evidence.

I could be wrong.

I do know one thing. Trump is attempting to chart a whole new path for American diplomacy that diverts from Bush and Obama.

This is not popular among the mandarins.

Trump wanted to drain the swamp. The things in it are lashing out.

Can he survive it?

I'll Huff And I'll Puff I'll DERP Your House Down

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Dear me what a week WAPO. First, this crap:

Makes you wonder how dumb the editorial staff is - commies.

Elizabeth Bathory, pioneer of anti-aging cosmetics for women, dies at 54 peacefully in an austere, windowless room.

Then they publish the atrocious commie dreck of Richard Stengel basically pissing on the 1A.

That's the sound of lefties ripping up The Constitution like Homer did the Hallowed Sacred Parchment.

"But as a government official traveling around the world championing the virtues of free speech, I came to see how our First Amendment standard is an outlier. Even the most sophisticated Arab diplomats that I dealt with did not understand why the First Amendment allows someone to burn a Koran. Why, they asked me, would you ever want to protect that?....It’s a fair question." 

No, it's not. Fuck off.

Yes, because when I think human rights and free speech, I look to the Arabs for pointers.

He was an Obama official.

If it quacks like a duck....

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Ontario is a mess.

Tread carefully business owners. You're targeted for woke re-education camp.

Absolutely ridiculous ruling.

Don't make any mistakes because you will be fined.

Welcome to the tyranny.

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Surprising, but a good firing. Not enough of these if you ask me.

I bet you he believes Trump concentration camps are real though.

Blacks can't be racist, right?

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Democrats are socialists. Crazy am I, am I? They call for a national 42% sales tax.

I just...can't....I don't know what to say anymore about the state of affairs in the party.

Nah. They don't want to confiscate wealth.

Remember when progressives would say conservatives were paranoid and that the Democrats didn't want to take your guns?

Guess what? They do.

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The American left are seriously not well these days. They'd rather defend a terrorist piece of garbage degenerate than shut up about Trump.

Oh, the House voted to begin proceedings on impeachment against Trump.

Good luck with that fools.

Unbelievable.

Remember when Max Boot had a hard on for neocons?

I 'member.

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How Millennials think communism is good points to their illiteracy. They sure travel a lot and get them fancy tattoos but it's quite an illiberal and ignorant lot.

"Kristian Niemietz holds uncool low-status opinions

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Next time, the Gulags will be run by cool and trendy people, in a cool and trendy way.

They will be called the Coolags."

Word.

We all should be starting off from the same point regardless of generation: FREE SPEECH IS ABSOLUTE, due process, rule of law and that communism/socialism is an impractical, murderous death cult designed to keep people in servitude. 

All three are no longer agreed upon and it's troubling. 

Gen X is still the coolest generation.

Fight me.

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How you should respond to the lynch mob. 

"Dave Chappelle: "Political correctness has its place... I, personally, am not afraid of other people's freedom of expression. I don't use it as a weapon. It just makes me feel better. And I'm sorry if I hurt anybody. Etc., etc. Yada, yada, yada. Everything I'm supposed to say."When will '1984' arrive? Dudes, I submit it's already here. Just pay attention."

This blog has been arguing that we're in a Dark Age and that 1984 arrived for a few years now. You can't look at Canada, Belgium, the UK and increasingly the USA and not conclude this is the case. JUST TAKE WHAT THE PROGRESSIVE LEFT says at FACE VALUE.

They say they want to 'kill the billionaires" that's not a bug but a feature. Think Kulaks. Always remember, Hitler telegraphed his intentions and beliefs in a BOOK called MEIN KEMPF. Lenin was who he said he was going to be. Same with Mussolini and Stalin and Mao.

Sticking your heads up your asses is not a defense or an argument. It's shoving your face in shit. 

And no. Nope. Both sides aren't equally as bad. It's ALL the fault of the left. They and they alone attack the 1A and 2A. They attack free speech and censor people on campuses. They're the creators of 'safe spaces' and 'woke culture'. Them. Not conservatives. Not libertarians.

They'll attempt to drag others into their abyss of madness - because destruction is what they do best - and death cults but don't be fooled. 

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I like this quote:

"Which social media genius decided to film Bernie Sanders --the presidential candidate people accuse of being a socialist -- in front of empty grocery shelves."

Because it points directly to the cowardice of the left. Accuse? IT'S HOW HE DESCRIBES HIMSELF. He's been part of the communist fricken party. Why, because he sticks the 'Democratic' descriptor in front of his name all of a sudden it's an 'accusation'?

No. He's a socialists. Now go out and debate in good faith and be honest about it. If you're ideas are so damn good present them and see if the people vote for it.

Spare us all the bull shit.

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Coming headlines in the age of 'Why won't we listen to the children' and 'Let them vote!' 

The disturbing world of Great worshipping makes me vomit.

Headlines coming:

‘Were children right all along?’
‘What people kind has missed: The wisdom of children”
‘Children aren’t just our future; they’re our conscience and mirror into a better world.”
“Why children should sacrifice adults”
“Make children great again: McGa!”
“Adults can no longer ignore the children.”
“Children won’t accept being asked to leave the room: And they’re right.”

Fuck you David Suzuki.

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Canada DOES NOT have free speech.

We have limited speech.

Your words and thoughts belong to the state.

This is not an advanced or  progressive ideal; it's a regressive one.

USA 1

Canada 0.

Obama's Cynical Cognitive Dissonance

As a Canadian, let me first say I didn't appreciate Obama - who hasn't shut up since 2016 - sticking his two cents and meddling into Canadian affairs by endorsing easily one of the most corrupt leaders in this country's history.

I guess misery loves company and the corrupt cover for one another.

That Obama is brazen in his public proclamations despite a long record of dubious actions while President and questionable rhetoric is now par for the course at this point.

I think he's one of the least scrutinized Presidents in my lifetime despite the laundry of scandals under his administrations.

Among those was the soft coup he helped orchestrate against Trump.

Remember when Trump said he was being spied on and everyone laughed?Yeh, that was true. And remember when Trump said there was a 'deep state' (which by the way - wink - everyone knew was true) and everyone laughed and said he was crazy? The NYT reported there's indeed a 'deep state' spinning it into a positive by claiming they're patriots.

With these proven relegations, the Russian narrative should come closer into focus now. For those who have been paying attention something stank from the very beginning.

Now comes this priceless story about Obama scolding the wokes.

On its surface, this is a welcomed added voice to the sordid world of woke culture from insufferable late night talk comedy to cancel culture to  faux-outrage and pseudo-intellectualism of toxic masculinity and cultural appropriation.

But dig a little and one realizes Obama played his own part (much like Ellen did when she had to explain to the totalitarian progressives in her camp her friendship to Dubya. How about 'fuck you mind your business? and never apologize?) in helping to create this foul and divisive culture of woke.

The biggest victims have been CEOs (I think this madness can be traced back to Mozilla firing their CEO over something he said), campus students and associations who lean conservative and of course comedians.

People's lives have been ruined because of this lynch mob looking for its pound of flesh. Either through being doxxed, attacked by Antifa or worse, killed by BLM militants.

The intellectual climate has taken a huge step back with the first casualty being free speech as critical thinking has been eroded to alarming levels.

Yet somehow the myth that Obama was a uniter who backed free speech and civil discourse persists. Take this quote from Reason's Robby Soave that encapsulates it:

"Obama has always been an eloquent defender of the culture of civil discourse and tolerance."

Has he now?

Did he do it through his support of BLM - who ended up killing officers in Louisiana, New York and Dallas? If Trump is (speciously of course) blamed for El Paso, then an even stronger case can be made linking Obama to BLM and their actions one could argue.

Was it through Title IX? His comments about Trayvon and uttering 'police acted stupidly?' Was it characterizing the terrorist murders at Fort Hood as a 'workplace accident?' Was it through lying about 'you can keep your doctor?' Was it through his failure to quell Ferguson? Was it through calling people 'bitter clingers'? Was it through comments like 'you didn't build that' and questioning how much is enough when he himself accords himself access to untapped wealth? Was it through his spying on Trump and American citizens? Was it through him suing Catholic nuns for not bowing to his demands on contraception? Was it through the tolerance of the Black Panthers? Was it through his shallow comments about American history being 'racist' and the legacy of the Crusades? Was it when Michelle said she was *finally* proud to be American after Barry's election? Was it when he asked people to politicize family gatherings during the Holidays to talk about Obamacare or when he threatened Supreme Court justices to toe the line?

As was always the case with Obama, he talks like he's Cincinnatus or Cato but he was more Alinsky and Marx. His administration pushed "Dear Colleague or comrade" letters to subvert due process and criminalize speech.  In truth, Obama has always been a coward full of shit on this topic. 

So excuse me if I take his comments with a grain of salt. You can't miss this cynical play on his part. His comments would have been far more useful when he held actual power but he couldn't do that since he had to protect his brand. Like he 'evolved' on gay marriage (the gay community gave him a pass for this), he's playing the same act here.

These are just some examples of the top of my head.

I'm failing to see how Soave - who writes for a LIBERTARIAN magazine - could come to such a ridiculous conclusion.

This reminds me of Justin and Trudeau up here. Talk about being civil only to engage in highly divisive rhetoric in practice. When they talk about 'diversity' it's based on the content of the skin. Not 'diversity of ideas' which is far more critical to the heath of a culture where intellectualism is concerned. The term 'diversity is our strength' is a meaningless catch phrase if the ends are 'quota systems' and results in canceling talks on school campuses with people one disagrees with.

Somehow they miss the point made by MLK. They celebrate him while seemingly oblivious to the fact they violate his dream.

It's no secret the progressive left have excelled at claiming to 'when they go low, we go high' only to actually go lower.

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There's but one way and one way only to kill woke culture corroding institutions and corporations.

Never apologize and tell them to fuck off.

So when illiberal banshees come for you and they want you to grovel on The View you tell them to GO TO HELL.

Millennials need to straighten up, stop with the tattoos, knock it off with the service dogs, leaving the safe spaces and toughen the hell up before it's too late.

Dave Chappelle: "Political correctness has its place... I, personally, am not afraid of other people's freedom of expression. I don't use it as a weapon. It just makes me feel better. And I'm sorry if I hurt anybody. Etc., etc. Yada, yada, yada. Everything I'm supposed to say."

Exactly. The more who do it, the more we quell the witch hunts, the more these assholes like Richard Stengel (who was in Obama's administration by the way) can go fuck themselves.

Democrats aren't hiding the fact they do want the guns and to subvert the 1A.

Which led to another Chappelle comment many have already made but coming from a comedian it's refreshing when he said something like 'the second amendment is needed in case the first one fails'.

Bingo.

And guys like Stengel and most Democrats like AOC, Sanders, Warren and even Obama must NEVER know where the guns are.

This isn't 'right wing extreme' talk. This is backed up by the laws of nature and world history.

'Kill the billionaires' or 'soak the rich' = filling the productive peasants like those Kulaks.

Of Hypocrisy And Apathy: The Inexplicable Decision Of Canadians To Re-Elect A Man Who Obstructed The Rule Of Law

I've written three long blog posts about the recent elections in Canada, and rather than bore you with my blustering blathering and other blistering babbles I'll just summarize in point form my thoughts and impressions.

Before I begin, Justin went where no PM had ever dared. He and his cronies arrogantly obstructed the rule of law. The just and honourable thing would have been to resign. Instead, he engaged in cynical politics. Where people who care about such things were dismayed if not appalled, enough Canadians shrugged their shoulders and cast their votes in favour of Trudeau.

Such people forfeit the right to ever speak of 'muh democracy' again.

Onto my observations:

1) The conservatives dropped the ball badly. To me, these results show Justin was there for the taking. The equivalent of an own goal.

2) Part of the problem was the conservatives, rather than stick to conservative principles, opted for a 'middle of the road, wishy-washy' strategy that tried to appeal to everyone and pleased nobody. Scheer showed himself to be too weak to stand up for conservative values. You're pro-life? Don't shy away. Make your case.

3) Bernier was the bravest of all the politicians. He took a stance and while he faced unjust criticisms and outright hostility (The Globe & Mail recently ran an article that claimed Canadians rejected his 'politics of fear'. H

4) had the conservatives made him leader as proper, it's hard to imagine him not improving on the gains made by the conservatives both with the seats and popular vote (Justin got the lowest popular vote in Canadian history. But you don't anyone on the left mentioning this. Who can forget the chants of '66% of Canadians didn't vote for Harper!). Wrong leader, wronger strategy.

5) The Liberals, NDP and Greens should just form one party and call themselves the Progressive Party already. There's noting 'liberal' about Trudeau.

6) I hope the People's Party sticks around. They did speak for many Canadians despite the disappointing result. But first they have to rebrand. Perhaps the 'Not Justin Party'? Wrinkles and disappointments were bound to happen.

7) Strange how Beauce didn't vote for Bernier. At least they didn't flip and stayed conservative.

8) Woke Toronto handed the Liberals their minority.

9) Atlantic Canada dd the same. Dudes.

10) The Bloc went from listless and pointless with 10 seats straight to 32 seats. How's that for unity under Justin?

11) Alberta and the Prairies went solid blue.

12) Quite a rebuke without losing power. And quite an inducement of how polarizing Justin is. His claims of representing all Canadians is tenuous at best. He'd be wise to govern accordingly.

13) Justin and wisdom are mutually exclusive. It takes skill and some humility to run a minority government. Justin is all about hubris and vacuous social virtue signalling.

14) #Wexit scares me more than Quebec independence for one reason. Alberta is the wealthiest province. As such, it pays most into the equalization transfer scheme of which....Quebec is the net beneficiary and chronic under performing province. Quebec has found itself a niche extorting Canada. That's why.

15) Quebec is anti-pipeline and doesn't buy it's oil from Alberta. Ostensibly, this is about principles. Yet, the province buys its oil principally from Saudi Fricken Arabia and the United States. Some independence! Some principles!

16) (Rant alert) But this is a very Canadian thing to do. We run perhaps one of the most inefficient economies in the West. For all our access to the greatest economy in the world in the USA, one could assert we succeed in spite of ourselves not taking full advantage of this.

Australia would probably exploit it better.

17) Don't under estimate the 'I won't vote for Scheer because he can be like Trump' vote.

18) Canadians talk a mean 'free speech' game but this is a country that has 'hate speech' laws and unelected Human Rights Tribunals doling out fines against free Canadian citizens. Trudeau has done his ideological bit to further limit speech through Bill C-16, Motion 103 and his preposterously stupid attack on law abiding gun owners though Bill 70. Not to mention Bill 69.

19) Canadians who voted Liberal have also forfeited the right to call others as insensitive or racist as a result of his Blackface scandal.

20) More forfeiting to claim to stand by our military after the treatment of Admiral Norman and our Veterans. Not enough money for them but there was enough to give $10 million of our tac dollars to Omar Khadr. A convicted terrorist who killed American soldiers. It's worth noting Trudeau defended his policy of repatriating ISIS fighters by preposterously claiming with a false equivalence they face discrimination not unlike Italians when they arrived to Canada.

21) This is beginning to sound like a record in the making. Canadians also forfeit to speak of a free press and a commitment to protecting a free one after the appalling treatment of Rebel Media (a news organization Justin decided as one of his first actions after the election to sue them. You were saying he would govern wisely and for all Canadians?) and True North. The conservatives also shamelessly played this game. This was part of my contention Scheer trying to please everyone. The Leaders' Debates Commission - the commission charged with accrediting news outlets - was formed in 2018 and has acted like a creature of the Liberal party.

22) The Liberals gave a $500 bribe to media outlets. They returned the favour in kind (as did social media) by shilling for the Liberals. It's claimed the conservatives played dirty but in fact, it was the mainstream press and the Liberals who did tying to censor opinions and engaging in cheap shot hit pieces. The CBC - binding all Canadians from coast to coast - decided to sue the conservatives (recall Justin threatened to sue Scheer over the SNC-Lavalin scandal even though it was true) on copyright grounds claiming they used their images for campaign purposes. You know, like all political parties do. The main lackey named in the cynical suit is Rosemary Barton.

23) Canadian Liberal voters have forfeited the right to scold others about ethics and civic virtue because Trudeau was found guilty of FOUR ethics violations.

24) They've also forfeited the right to lecture us about women's rights and feminism after groping allegations. And no Justin, it wasn't a 'teachable moment for all of us'. You're the one the acts inappropriately. To try and drag men who never did anything like this to your level says a lot about you. It's worth noting Finance Minister Bill Morneau called conservative MP Lisa Raitt a 'neanderthal' during a hearing promoting.....women in positions of leadership.

Other hits:

-They badly misplayed their negotiations with the USA and chose instead to unproductively antagonize Trump.
-His India antics and relationship to the Aga Khan.
-His refusal to answer questions and governing over one of the least transparent governments in history.
-His impetuous and inappropriate reaction in Parliament racing on the floor of the House of Commons culminating with him elbowing a female conservative MP.
-Constant attempts to erode our ability to create wealth be it in the form of attempting to tax capital gains, increase taxes and remove useful tools like income splitting. All strategies and benefits that help the middle-class.
-The unwelcome interference of Obama endorsing Trudeau. Somehow when they interfere in an election it's okay.

Some laundry list, eh?

But above all, to come back to it, his biggest transgression was his obstruction of the rule of law.

In the West, the rule of law is what differentiates us from all nations. It's a cherished concept no leader dared to attempt to violate.

Trudeau did.

This is how you foster cynicism in a populace. There's enough people out there who are troubled by it to bring into question the very integrity of the people who rule this country.

On this alone he should have been booted and fired.

Update: Woke Montreal Mayor Postpones Halloween

I don't know what to think anymore.

We're literally an unthinking, emoting, scared shitless society now.

Mayor Plante has decided it makes sense to postpone Halloween today.

Talk about a state of confusion that wasn't necessary.

Green Plante (my nickname for her due to her hyper-green policies) should just focus on the mess that is Montreal construction and make sure all works are finished on time.

Halloween is October 31 come hell or high water. You can't just postpone it because of weather.

If it's bad, people will decide for themselves if they should go out. For the love of God, must government intervene on every level?

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The big bad storm that scared Montreal and other municipalities enough to impractically postpone Halloween didn't come to pass...yet. But the weather is expected to be worse the next day. The weather could still take a turn for the worse and isn't great to begin with but it certainly didn't warrant government intervention. This is a classic case of nanny-statism hinged on the precautionary principle. An issue best left to the parents and not bureaucrats.

This in a province that holds the mantra 'il vaut en profiter' (we must take advantage) whenever the weather is such that we can be outdoors. My parents at the daycare are pretty testy and safe violent weather they want their kids outside as much as possible.

Mayor Green Plante Vert:

Valérie Plante‏Verified account @Val_Plante

Valérie Plante Retweeted Ariane Moffatt

Disons que l’#halloweengate est un cas classique de « Damn if you do, damn if you don’t » Traduction libre: critiqué si on le fait, critiqué si on ne le fait pas

Except, this wasn't a damn if you do situation. It was clearly a don't. No one asked you to step in.

I don't understand this 'I support what you intended because of the safety of kids' angle. As if we can't do this ourselves. Some people just can't get enough of government babysitting. I don't harbour any anger towards Mayor Plante but I hope this serves as a lesson for here. M'es tes affaires as we say.

Here are some comments:

• Replying to @Val_Plante
  Ou pas. Si vous ne faites rien, les parents des enfants sont capable de prendre des décisions eux même et surement meilleur que les votres concernant leur propres enfants.By update, they mean censoring speech.

PasTesAffaires‏ @AffairesPas 2h2 hours ago

Replying to @Val_Plante

Il parait que l’année prochaine, tous les bonbons d’halloween devront etre bio, vegans, sans sucre ajouté et sans cholestérole. Sans compté que les costumes devront etre fait de matieres 100% recycler et recyclable et fait au quebec

Nadia Lapointe‏ @Fenelle31 2h2 hours ago

Replying to @Val_Plante

Franchement, je trouve aussi que les villes ont mieux à faire que de se mêler d’une fête d’halloween. Laisser nous juger de la sécurité de nos enfants. Merci

One final thought. We all make fun at how notorious weather predictions are wrong. If it says rain, bring sun glasses. Here, we have the added feature of a government official taking the weather prediction and attempting to micro-manage lives around Halloween. It was bound to be froth with potential unintended consequences.

And these people profess to *know* what needs to be done with climate change? Climate patterns are even more difficult to predict despite all the noise around it.

Rough Week For Journalism

For the past three years, all we've heard was about the alleged plot to kill the press - among so many other things including deliberately wants to crash the markets and eliminating gay rights - by Literal Hitler Trump.

That is not to say bad things aren't happening to the press. There are.

It's just that it's not coming from Trump. Here are a couple of examples in Canada and the USA.

In California, the political class saw in its infinite stupidity to eliminate free lance journalism. This is what you get in a state ruled by one party. You get stale and increasingly - by the day it seems - tyrannical laws. It's no surprise or secret California is experiencing a net loss in migration as people flee the state. Sadly, they're likely to bring the same shitty politics to 'backwards' places they invade.

I don't feel bad for these journalists. They probably cheered years of various invasive and dictatorial Democrat laws. They always thought they'd be safe. And now the long vicious tail of Leviathan has come for them.

During the election in Canada, the CBC (can I get a "Defund the CBC wut, wut?"decided to sue the conservative party for copyright infringement claiming images used during the were for political purposes. 

Serving the interests of all Canadians my ass.

What's particularly galling is the casual manner to which liberal journalists call people 'trolls'. Peter Mansbridge in defending Barton said as much. Apparently, concerned Canadians are 'trolls' now. Just like those who are upset by the SNC-Lavalin scandal are depicted as 'trolls' by those in left-wing media protecting Justin.

That's some lazy, pompous shit from Peter.

Truth is, they don't like the people all that much. Especially when they challenge their narratives. Hence, all this 'alt-right' and 'white supremacy is on the rise' unsubstantiated nonsense.

You can forgive, of course if people see nothing but cynicism here given media was given a bribe to the tune of $600 million by the Trudeau Liberals. Fair or not, the optics aren't good. In fact, they're terrible.

According to Rebel Media, as soon as the election ended, Justin then turned around and sued Rebel Media (NDP leader Rachel Notley did the same when she was busy running Alberta into the ground as all socialist parasites are wont to do. It takes a special talent to destroy things that which you didn't build I suppose). The dictatorial baby doesn't like RM because it pretty much asks 'mean' questions.

I do take RM with some grain of salt but I also feel they do a good service. Regardless, it's freedom of the press and feel compelled to defend it on those grounds alone.

There's also the shenanigans from the Leader Debates Commission - a creation of the Liberal party that acts accordingly knowing the hands that feeds it and the comical Rosemary Barton - Donna Brazile North - feigning 'objective' moderating during the debates. I wouldn't mind some actual journalism looking into the LDC.

The conservative party wasn't above abusing RM when they played games with their accreditation. Scheer: You won't win points playing nice with the left. They don't care. Grow a pair and a spine and actually advance conservative values. People will respect you. Who knows? Maybe they'll vote for you.

These are just a couple of examples I've been reading. I don't like all these games. The interesting thing is all the attacks on the freedom of the press aren't by the hands of conservatives or Trump.

It's from the left.