There's some good news for Canadian conservatives

Canadian conservatives need to hear this:

Jordan Peterson makes my second point about Trump's bad call

I spoke about this earlier:

Canadian Election Disaster Trilogy

This is not the total disaster I had feared. Liberal, World Economic Forum golden boy Mark Carney was parachuted in to save the Liberal Party of Canada from the disaster known as Justin Trudeau. Notice he wasn't parachuted in to save Canada, but to save the Liberal Party. Pick your theatrical villain, this guy is it: 

Yep, that's him with the associate of you-know-who.

Sadly, Canada is full of uninformed people (due largely to our lock-step Leftist media), weak-willed cowards with a knee-jerk reaction to president Trump's tariffs.  

Going into the election, the Conservative party had a somewhat charismatic (in an understated way) leader unafraid to take on the media, unafraid to talk common sense. He was winning so much support, it looked possible that the Liberal party could be actually wiped out entirely. Less than four months ago, Conservatives were a certainty. Meanwhile the Liberals had historically unpopular Justin Trudeau. A global laughing stock of a leader.  After a decade people tend to tire of the incumbents, that's true anywhere not just Canada. 

There was a lot that went wrong with Canada's populist revival, and it was a perfect storm of sh@% that resulted in a Liberal 4th consecutive term, albeit barely. What happened? Three things mainly.

One - Too soon, too personal

Well the first problem was the Conservative party's strategy worked too well. Once Pierre Poilievre was elected leader of the party the strategy to demonize Justin Trudeau starting years before the election date worked. It worked so well, that along with Justin Trudeau's own contribution of ineptitude and horrible policies,  the Liberals approval ratings were near flatline. The problem though was twofold. Firstly they started way too early. The other problem; it was too Trudeau-centric. The Conservative popularity soared and Trudeau's waned abysmally as he deserved. But because this happened a year before the mandated latest election date, and because it was so closely tied to Trudeau, the Liberal party was able to jettison Trudeau and solve both problems at once.  A 'fresh' 'new' face cleared punted the problem for the Liberals. 

True, nobody wanted Trudeau, not even liberal voters. But he was no longer on the ballot. The Conservatives were a victim of their own early success. Liberals had time to present themselves, along with a compliant media as revitalized and different.  It's not true, as has often been pointed out, but it became the perception. Liberal voters flocked back to Liberal support, abandoning the other parties (mostly the NDP) they had drifted towards.

 

Two - I have to say it; Donald Trump

At one point probably 60% of conservative voters in Canada were very much pro-Trump for America. President Trump coming in and going after Trudeau with tariffs was a real miscalculation. Canadians didn't see it as an attack on the Trudeau they for the most part detested. They saw it as an attack on Canada. We've been a loyal friend to the United States for over a century. This about face made no sense. There are trade issues on both sides for sure, but we're not China.

Trump created a climate of fear in Canada that permeated the election cycle. It was now about Canadian sovereignty. That gave Pierre Poilievre a no-win hand to play. Endorse Trump and seem anti-Canadian to most of the country or talk tough and say Canada First. He had to chose the latter or get decimated in the election. But choosing the latter meant that he was just like the Liberals. This may have also been a strategic mistake. There was probably a third path; a path of reconciliation with America.  A path of let's address the concerns of both countries. But it would have taken an enormous campaign to get that message through and per point one; the Conservatives went through a lot of budget before the election even got started and probably couldn't muster the resources to carry that off.

President Trump inserted himself into a Canadian election in a way that hurt Conservatives' election chances. It may have been a deliberately gamble to help the Conservatives but if so, it failed. Badly. While addressing trade grievances and fentanyl issues are certainly important and admirable, this was ill-timed and will end up hurting working class and middle class Canadians who are suffering badly already thanks to their Liberal overlords. I know, I am one of them. The Canadian economy for ordinary Canadians is on the ropes. This could spell the death of Canadian middle class. 

Three - Jagmeet Singh

The clown of a leader for the New Democratic Party (socialists), Jagmeet Singh was so self-serving that for years he propped up Justin Trudeau, holding on as long as he thought was possible. If he had had any backbone, Canada could have held an election any time over the last two years. Didn't happen. He kept Trudeau in power long enough to give the Liberals time for an alternative. Singh earned himself enough tenure for a lucrative lifetime government but he lost his own seat in parliament in the election as a result. He decimated his own party to a rump in parliament with virtually no power anymore. And it cost Canada. If he'd been less a Trudeau lacky Canada would have had a conservative Prime Minister and his NDP party would have been better off too. His selfish and progressive ambitions have made Canada a country on life support.

There's your trilogy of reasons for the disaster. There's a trilogy of disastrous outcomes for Canada, we are stuck with more World Economic Forum leftist leadership. We have a squandered opportunity for conservative populism and for a reinvigorated relationship with the United States

Not all is lost

I started by saying this was not the complete disaster it could have been. It's true.  The Liberals do not have a majority government in parliament. Support from the ruined NDP party won't be enough to keep them in power now. They are subject to a non-confidence motion and a snap election at any time. The conservatives and the Bloc Quebecois (who don't like the Conservatives but detest the Liberals) will likely see to it that the government lasts 18 months or less. My gut says 9 - 12 months. People will have time to see Carney is every bit the villain that Justin Trudeau was. A conservative majority is still a looming possibility, perhaps merely delayed.

Good luck Poilievre

Ergo, good luck Canada, tonight.

USA is beating China in the trade war

What president Trump is doing is a long overdue China reset. America has been in a fever dream, gutting it's middle and working class and building up China's. Remember, China is a communist country of 1.3 (ish) billion people. America has not just allowed them to become an economic superpower, they enabled it. They facilitated it. If the path the global economy was on had not been intercepted, America's decline would become inevitable, and China's rise to preeminent superpower would also be. 

Remember the Chines Communist Party are belligerent, aggressive and evil actors with a facade of fair minded global players. What president Trump has done was 100% necessary.  So how is it working?

A bit of Gospel Blues for a Sunday

This is quite nice:

Sunday verse

 

NBC claims constitutional crisis because Trump...

This is the flimsiest case for a constitutional crisis I've ever heard. Just because it's a judge, NBC (and not likely alone in this), says it's a Trumpian induced constitutional crisis. This judge was harboring an illegal. Sorry NBC, your take is stupid.

Epstein witness unalived

Suspicious?

Am I reading this wrong? Is it just me?

Is this a backhanded compliment from president Trump?

Why do I say that?

Truth will out

Even with leftist liberals, eventually, eventually, the truth will come to light.

Canada's Liberal Party's secret tax - incoming

The Liberal 'savior' Mark Carney decided to do away with the carbon tax that he supported for years as a copycat move from Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre to win voters. Really original Mark. In any case, he's a globalist and very anti-carbon. So instead, in secret he's going to make it impossible for Canadians to buy cars unless they are expensive all-electric cars.

Democrat infighting; will it get worse?

Sitting on the sidelines watching Democrats vs Democrats, I certainly hope the infighting gets worse. There's reason to believe this is the path that is being followed.  I'm not sad.

So Klaus Schwab was indeed evil?

Who knew?😉

Trump endorses both candidates in Arizona race

Well played Mr. President, well played!

More Canada stuff: Liberals have sucked for a long time

Canada's lost decade thanks entirely to Liberal idiocy. My fellow Canadians, pay attention and do not vote Liberal:

Megyn Kelly lawyers Democrat

Well played:

Canada's future will be decided in one week

I've been focusing a lot on Canada lately, and it's because I am truly scared for the future of my country, the soul of my country, and the survival of my country. We will know in less than a week.

Canada is really struggling

 Thanks Liberals, this is all on you. Actually, idiot voters; this is all on you.

Tim Pool schools mainstream media - at the Whitehouse!

Go Tim:

Tariffs are a smaller threat than China

Megyn Kelly, and Kevin O'Leary discuss tariffs and China.  China is the real problem.

Cringe worthy

I guess cringeworthy is standard for Elizabeth Warren.

Judicial Coup D’Etat

Via The Federalist:

The Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports there had already been at least 17 national injunctions against the Trump administration between Inauguration Day and March 27 — on everything from the firing of federal workers to Trump’s executive orders taking on disastrous DEI policies. There have been more since.

D.C. Courts have been particularly unfriendly to Trump’s efforts to close the southern border his predecessor, President Joe Biden, pushed wide open. Efforts to use executive branch enforcement tools to deport even known violent criminals and terrorists have been routinely rebuffed by federal courts in the D.C. bubble. Chief among the Trump halters is Judge James E. “Jeb” Boasberg, an Obama-appointee who became Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court, District of Columbia, in 2023.

Over the Easter Weekend, a courage-deficient, seven-justice Supreme Court issued what dissenting Justice Samuel Alito described as a “middle of the night” ruling temporarily blocking the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan illegal immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

“Both the Executive and the Judiciary have an obligation to follow the law,” Alito, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, wrote in his stinging dissent, adding that the majority’s decision to countenance the far left American Civil Liberties Union’s emergency appeal was “unprecedented” and “hastily and prematurely granted.”

Luckily congress is not sitting idly by:

 The Republican-controlled House is trying to check what members like Onder believe to be a constitutional crisis created by an overreaching judiciary. Earlier this month, the House on a party-line vote passed the No Rogue Rulings Act of 2025 (NORRA) aimed at limiting the use of national injunctions. The bill, now before the Senate Judiciary Committee, basically bars U.S. district courts from issuing injunctive relief orders unless they apply to specific parties bringing a complaint.

Let's hope this has legs.

Pope Francis passing and legacy

Pope Francis has died. Via the BBC:

Tributes have been pouring in for Pope Francis from around the world.

The pontiff had been ill for several weeks, but appeared in public yesterday to give an Easter Sunday blessing in St Peter’s Square.

Yesterday, he also briefly met US Vice-President JD Vance, who shared his condolences this morning.

And what might be his legacy? I tend to agree with this take from The Spectator, or at least this portion of it:

Modern popes, for better or for worse, tend to be defined in soundbites.

John Paul II’s clarion call of “Be not afraid” became emblematic of his invitation to young Catholics to embrace their faith and his rallying of the West against the specter of international Communism. Benedict XVI’s great theological career, and his term as a pope in the model of priest and professor, remains summed up in his simple declaration that Deus caritas est. For Francis, the world will likely remember, in the immediate weeks after his death anyway, his often quoted, though often misrepresented, motto of “who am I to judge?”

Uttered during one of his habitual in-flight press conferences in response to a question about gay clergy who sought to live their ministry and their lives faithful to the Church’s teaching on human sexuality, it became a shorthand for a pope committed more than anything to a radical posture of welcome – a “Vatican Council II pope,” he was dubbed in the media, dedicated to throwing open wide the Church’s doors to Catholics, and indeed to everyone, without censure or reservation about their complicated lives.

Sunday verse

 

Wishing everyone a wonderful Easter

Amazing Grace. 

Canada following behind America again?

Canada moving back to the right, right before the election. After the left's post-Trudeau euphoria blasted the Liberals back into first place in the polling, polls have done a U-turn. Hopefully a strong enough one that Pierre Poilievre wins big. We'll see. Canada needs some common sense back.

Pierre Poilievre MUST win the Canadian election!

Here's why. The contrast here is so stark:

Good Friday wishes

 

I must have missed this

AZ Governor Katie Hobbs was always suspicious, this is no surprise:

China struggles for friends

An economic alliance against the United States, fronted by the most predatory economy in the world? What could go wrong?

I guess the hand is on the other foot

 Letitia James getting heat for the same thing she tried to nail Donald Trump on.  Oh well, so sad...

Border crossings should go down now

Military at the border:

The absolute gall of AOC

Where was she when Nancy Pelosi or even Hillary Clinton was doing nefarious stock trading? AOC = hypocrite. This could be the next impeachment saga in 2026 if the Democrats win congress. To be fair, AOC might not even have been in diapers when Hillary Clinton was trading cattle futures.

Canadian Liberals, still cheating

I'm fearful for my country. We truly are one impending election away from the point of no return.

Will the Trump tariffs end the CCP?

I'd like to be optimistic enough to believe that the Chinese Communist Party collapses from the new tariffs. I'm certain it will hurt their economy, but I'm skeptical that it will have that profound an effect. I hope it does, but I'm more convinced that it just hurts the Chinese economy and hurts the CCP. I'm convinced it will help America in the long term more than it hurts China. I hope I'm wrong, I hope it does both.  As the ironically named 1980's band Asia once said, Only Time Will Tell.

THIS IMBECILE DOES NOT SPEAK FOR CANADA

If Mark Carney wins the next election in Canada, we are lost.  We don't deserve to be a country anymore.  Take the hint America.

Sunday verse

 

LOLZ! So good!

LOL: Inflation, stagflation, jobs, all doing better than the 'experts' expected. And by experts I mean the hand chosen leftist media darlings.  Anyone with common sense knew better.

Kid Rock, peacemaker?

Kid Rock arranged a meeting between far leftist Bill Maher and president Trump. It actually went well. Via Tim Pool:

Look in the mirror lady

She's saying let some other race do the bad jobs? Democratic rep. Jasmine Crockett is a horrible person.

Is China past peak?

According to Marco Rubio, and clearly president Trump's intentions, it could be on the downside of the slope.

Gordon Chang on China tariffs

Gordon Chang on China tariffs:

Executive order on Susman Godfrey

It's been a hectic week for me. Even though there's been a lot happening and there's a lot of things to post about (like the EU pausing their retaliatory tariffs), I found this story the most interesting today.

In Canada, conservative leader is recovering from post Trudeau leftist bump

In Canada the next federal election is on April 28th. Justin Trudeau's replacement (the equally awful Mark Carney), saw a massive polling swing in favor of the Liberal party, just because it was no longer Justin Trudeau running. The conservatives, who had been poised to win a massive super-majority, and provide a strong ally for Trump going forward, got swamped in polls post-Liberal-leadership-change and post-Trump-pronouncements. 

But as time wore on, the polls have started revert to the previous state. The question is will the trend have enough time to continue moving before election day.  Make no mistake a Liberal win here is terrible news for Canadians but also bad news for America as they will turn the tariff situation into an all out trade war. That's bad for everyone.

Sunday verse

 

Trump on Le Pen ban in France

He's not wrong:

How desperate do you have to be CNN?

Orange man BAD isn't working so CNN tries to change the emphasis to ORANGE man bad:

Full Liberation Day speech

For those who missed it.

This is not an April Fool's Day joke

I wish it were. In France the popular party leader Marine Le Pen has been banned. Why? Because she's been deemed "Far Right".  Europe is pretty much dead. Maybe not Italy and Eastern Europe but the traditional Western Europe is anything but Western now. Maybe it is a joke; not the story, but rather Western Europe.

$40 Billion program resulted in ZERO broadband connections

Confronted with this, liberal John Stewart still fails to make the connection that DOGE is a necessity.  The Let's Go Brandon program was a WASTE American taxpayer's hard earned money.

Warning: lot's of swearing.

Sunday verse

 

Joy Behar's TDS on full display

Yet again, The View self owning but unaware of it. The Trump Derangement Syndrome is in full effect here.  Joy Behar will not remember the Let's Go Brandon bashing as bashing, she will remember it as simply speaking the truth. The ladies on The View are full of something that doesn't smell good.

CNN on their heels.

CNN is getting called out more and more often by guests sick of their lying, and leftist spin:

The left continues to eat itself

They have gone so far off the rails that the more they try to do as propaganda, the more they anger themselves and turn against themselves. We all knew this was unsustainable, now that they are starting to turn on themselves, maybe some of them will come over to the side of common sense. The dwarves are going after Snow White now; only in La-La-Left Land.

An entire political party vs. a private business

Democrats have fostered an environment that encourages people to attack a company. They are encouraging political violence. So I guess it's okay to go open season on George Soros' interests too? This is not a way to engage in politics it's a way to muster an entire country against an individual. They are fostering tyranny. Shameful.

NPRs CEO's Marxism

Defund the NPR.

Canadian Healthcare: no Utopia

When American leftist celebrities want to move to Canada because Donald Trump won the election, I'm like "No thanks, we're good." But then I see stuff like this and I start to wonder...

Jokes aside, this is no laughing matter. And to be honest, this is not an exaggerated story.  Wait times for even emergency room visits are abysmal. Healthcare in Canada, despite having many excellent doctors, nurses and other health care workers, is truly sub-par. When you can go to the hospital for anything for free, demand skyrockets. Resources get spread thin; be it doctors, Xray technicians, MRI machines, operating rooms, or whatever else. Wait times skyrocket. And while people wait, they get sicker. 

The upshot is that 'free' healthcare means bad healthcare. And for the record; it ain't free. Our taxes are abysmal too. Someone has to pay all those costs, and it turns out it's the taxpayers.

Voting in federal elections? Proof of citizenship needed

It's about time this happened.  Sure it'll end up in court like pretty much every Trump order (his next order should be something about the activism in the judiciary but that's for another day). Pretty much every country in the world requires voter ID and one that proves citizenship.  Why not the U.S.?

Government waste = 0%

You'd think everyone would be onboard with eliminating wasteful government spending. No one wants the government paying $800 for a hammer. Right? Right?  You'd also think that not one single person believes that the government is 100% efficient, right? I mean, even Democrats can't argue that; if it was 100% efficient, every program they'd ever set up would no longer be necessary. Poverty would be eliminated by now, education would be top notch. But the Democrats' approach to spending is the Billy Idol adage; "More, more, more!"  

If you think about it, the Democrats could squeeze more results from the existing spending if the government were more efficient and less wasteful. So how can they be against DOGE if all it's trying to do is eliminate government waste? With regards to pollution (e.g. recycling and carbon dioxide) they want 0% waste.  Eliminating waste is a good thing.

Not if you're a Democrat. Either they believe that government is already running at 0% waste, or it's something else. We know waste is not 0%; every year the Government Accountability Office discovers waste. Democrats refuse to acknowledge this. They would be smart to agree that cutting waste is a good thing and then try to argue for what they believe is wasteful and needs to be cut. They are instead reflexively firebombing Tesla dealerships. 

Have you ever asked yourselves why? The Democrats are not asking themselves why. They would rather lose standing in the court of public opinion than try to shoehorn themselves into the side of the American people. There can only be one reason for this.  They have a vested interest in continuing the wasteful spending.  They are benefiting from the fraud and the abuse of the American taxpayers. They are self serving in their stance.

The demarcation between the two parties cannot be more clear.  Those who support continued wasteful spending are not on the side of any American; they are self serving, period.

Until government waste actually is 0%, or as close as governmentally possible, Elon Musk and DOGE's work, is an ethical, and indeed honorable pursuit.

How is she even in Congress?

This is vile behavior, and it's just the tip of the vile behavior iceberg:

Bill Maher on woke Snow White

Bill Maher discusses woke Snow White. Via Dave Rubin:

Bernie cancelled?

On the Left, you are allowed to say exactly zero things good about president Trump. ZERO.

My fellow Canadians

Yes, I'm Canadian.  Yes, I'm pro-Trump. But I'm even more a conservative and anti-leftist.  Here's a well thought out argument as to why Canada needs to get back to common sense:

Bernie Sanders' rage quit

The thing that most interests me here is not the interview rage quit, but rather that he claims there are 100 progressive Democrats in the House. They only have 212 seats (including 3 Delegates). That's almost half of the Democratic representatives as socialists. It sould scare me if the party wasn't so out of touch with voters now. My hope is actually for the party to remain this divided, or even better, split into two parties.

All that said, Bernie's rage quit is still a popcorn TV moment.

This man has to win Canada's coming election

Sunday verse

 

Bad actors at the IRS

The treasury secretary calls out ‘several bad actors’ at IRS, vows to make agency ‘behave fairly’. This should not come as a surprise to anyone outside of the leftist media bubble:

More unintended consequences on Trump Canada tariffs

Just an FYI, this is worth the watch from a party that was sincerely and strongly pro-Trump just months ago:

CNN vs. Gavin Newsom

OR, is it Gavin Newsom vs Gavin Newsom?

China executes Canadians

I would not be surprised if those executed were fentanyl mules working for the CCP used to sneak the substance into Canada and the U.S.  They happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time; with Canada seeking to appease the Trump administration on stopping the flow of deadly narcotics into the U.S.  Maybe the executions were designed to destroy the chances of potential disclosure of that fact in light of the tariff pressures. 

The execution of foreign nationals is not to be taken lightly, but Canadians (and Americans) would do well to recognize that China is the real enemy here. 

More cleanup gets done

 FTC chair is just more clean-up being done.

John Bolton is not a fan of peace

John Bolton: "Oh no, a ceasefire! I'd better spin this as a loss for Trump."

Trump's fallout in Canada is horrible

The Conservative party in Canada as recently as December had a 29 point lead in the polls. This is what has happened since Trump's tariffs pronouncements.

Canadians have rallied around the Liberal government and it's new leader in response to what they perceive as a bully. Canada had the potential to elect a strong leader who would be an effective and strong ally of the United States. That opportunity may now be lost. The leftist Liberals have surged not only back into the race but potentially have enough support to win in a landslide. With a multi-party system, 42% is enough to dominate parliament.

I have been a strong Trump supporter since 2016. I cannot think of any other issue where I would not back him. His approach to Canada is the one area he has been wrong.  Unless Trump did not want an ally and was serious about annexation he's made Canadians' lives, already bordering on miserable, far worse. And I don't think he's serious about annexing Canada. 

I still back Trump. I simply think his approach here has been horribly wrong.

Canada's Future-Failed Prime Minister

Mark Carney will be worse than Trudeau. Polling in Canada for the leftist Liberal party has soared in response to president Trump's tariff threats to Canada. What was inevitably going to be our version of Trump (Pierre Poilievre) this year is in definitely jeopardy. 

Should Mark Carney continue as Prime Minister past the election, Canada is destined to fail. Fast. Canada's failure would not be because of Trump, but rather failed and disproven Liberal socialist policies. Trump may be the boogeyman to Canadian media but the real monster is the power hungry, socialist monsters running our nation for the last decade.

Democrats continue tanking

Schadenfreude anyone?

The tariff long game

What is president Trump doing with tariffs? This is the long game.

Canada's new (interim) Prime Minister heads to Europe

Justin Trudeau is finally gone. His replacement Mark Carney is from the same school of leftism. He's headed off to Europe to make friends, and avoid dealing with president Trump. Thankfully this man's tenure should be very short.

From the government-funded, ultra-liberal CBC's nightly news propaganda:

This guy is just a placeholder until the impending next election. The conservative party leader Pierre Poilievre should win big in that election, though president Trump is not making it any easier for him. 

Sunday verse (bonus)

Sunday verse

 

Democrats in chaos

This is great popcorn drama:

Canada: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Meme Friday #2

Maxine Waters is the worst ____________. The worst what? Fill in the blank, you won't be wrong.

Meme Friday

Just for fun:

Canada's new Prime Minister: same as the old boss

To our American friends, this new guy Mark Carney guy is merely a placeholder prime minister in Canada until the next election, when a real leader (seen in the video below), Pierre Poilievre wins and actually leads the country in the right direction.

Democrat disadvantage grows

Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire is not going to see another term. Good news for Republicans' senate prospects.

More on the Trump trolling of Canada

This is the best analysis yet, courtesy of Victor Davis Hanson. Other thoughts can be found here, here, here, and here.

Canada needs this guy

As much as America needs Trump, Canada needs Pierre Poilievre:

Tik Tok change coming

Tik Tok may still end up in American hands.

Canada (kinda) has a new leader

The governing Liberal party has elected a successor to Justin Trudeau; it's Mark Carney. Mark Carney does not have a seat in parliament. So technically....

It's also worth noting that the Liberal Party disqualified two thirds of the ballots cast during their leadership race. I know it's not quite the same as the Democratic Party in the U.S. that disqualified every vote from their 2024 primaries, but you have to factor in the exchange rate.

So who is Mark Carney? Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre put it best in this video:

Ben Shapiro stands up for Canada

I think Trump is going to quietly back off on this with respect to Canada. The unintended consequences have already started, even though the tariffs haven't fully yet.

Sunday verse

 

I'm less optimistic about this

In Canada, there's a looming post-Trudeau election. But I'm less optimistic that it will happen before the October deadline. The socialist NDP party leader Jagmeet Singh has indicated he would continue to support the Liberal party's new leader (likely Justin Trudeau policy clone, Mark Carney). Why? He has his pension locked in now. Well, his party has collapsed in the polls as a Liberal alternative now that the party has ditched Trudeau and someone else is taking his place (once again, likely Justin Trudeau policy clone, Mark Carney). He won't be so eager to tank his party or his legacy given that circumstance. And given that, it's looks like they'll just run out the clock.  The irony of that, is that it's more likely to help the Liberal party than the NDP.

Nevertheless, there are those who think the election will be in April.  I'm less optimistic than this:

The Democrats' intra-party civil war

Democrats were wrecked in the last election, even though many on the Left don't even recognize that fact yet. Then again, some have:

This is part of the root of why there's an intra-party civil war brewing within the Democratic Party. Self-awareness.

This version of the Democratic Party, which featured the progenitor of wokeism, Obama himself, as the leading presidential campaign trail surrogate for Harris, was thoroughly rejected in November by the American people. It turns out that voters didn't really know what they were signing up for when they embarked on an extended political journey of "hope" and "change." They weren't interested -- and aren't interested -- in legitimizing the juvenile genital mutilation and chemical castration that has been euphemistically sold as "gender-affirming care." They weren't interested -- and aren't interested -- in assenting to wide-scale importation and resettlement of foreigners whose cultures and customs are antithetical to our own.

Some leading Democrats do finally seem to get the memo. Former Clinton strategist James Carville, for instance, has called for Democrats to distance themselves from the excesses of woke civilizational arson. But many others disagree. There is no indication at all, for instance, that the ladies of "The View" have done any introspection: Shortly after November's electoral shellacking, cohost Sunny Hostin attributed Harris' loss to Donald Trump to "racism" and "misogyny." Surveying the left-of-center punditocracy scene, it often seems that there are far more Hostin-like voices of escalation than there are Carville-like voices of sobriety.

The battle for the heart of the Democrat party is not going to be a minor skirmish. a lot of the radicalism is now embedded in the party:

In order to recover their standing and regain lasting relevance as an electorally feasible national political party, Democrats are going to have to repudiate the entirety of their post-2008/post-Obama cultural legacy. That is the simple truth. The American people want a stable pocketbook, a stable border and a stable world stage. They're not interested in the Obama-Biden-Harris Democratic Party's idiosyncratic conception of waging a culture war.

Are Democrats up to such a challenge? The intraparty civil war is on -- but I certainly have my doubts. Unless and until they do repudiate their cultural militance, however, Democrats will continue to flounder about in irrelevance. Perhaps they'll need to get their clocks cleaned at the ballot box a few more times. That wouldn't be the worst thing.

While the civil war on the left is good news for conservatives, it does come with it's own set of risks. For example, Gavin Newsom has moved from a woke governor to suddenly rejecting wokeism in favor of a more centrist approach. Here's the problem, those who supposedly want to move back to the center were fully on board with the insanity just a few months ago. They are either being disingenuous now, or they were being disingenuous them then.  Either way they are merely opportunists and clearly not interested in, or respectful of, voters. These people are at this point, more dangerous than the woke  far left, who have no clue how out of touch they have become. They have destined themselves to a rump afterthought for at least a long time to come.

Trump Russia Ukraine situation seems to be on track

Trade need not be a war

I honestly believe Trump is wrong blanketing Canada in with Mexico and China in his tariffs.  I'm a Canadian but have been a staunch Trump supporter. Attacking a primary trade partner is a mutually assured destruction scenario. Canadians have been burdened with the stupidity of Justin Trudeau and are sick of him. He has caused untold suffering on Canadians. But this is causing Canadians to rally around him. It's causing former Trump allies within Canada to taking a more combative stance. 

Pierre Poilievre is taken from the mold of Donald Trump; even he's no longer thinking the way he was two months ago.  Trump has torpedoed trade, torpedoed a friendly partner, torpedoed inflation fighting in both countries, he has torpedoed goodwill, he has torpedoed international markets, he has torpedoed conservatism in Canada that was on the rise. It's tarnished America's reputation in many, many countries. 

There are going to be unintended consequences that come out of this, guaranteed. They won't be small, and they could have a long lasting negative impact on all involved.

I get what Trump is trying to do, I do. I still support his agenda. But what he is doing with Canada, he is not going about in the most productive way.

Starmer is a harmer

The U.K. prime minister, seems to want to keep the war going.

For fun, what if...

What if only married voted in 2024? An interesting outcome:

Obstruction is a crime

This won't get far:

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Ontario's status quo has implications for president Trump

A snap election in Canada's most populous province of Ontario results in the status quo.

At the end of a four-week election snap election campaign, votes have been cast and counted resulting in a legislature that is a near carbon copy of the one dissolved at the end of January.

On Jan. 28, Premier Doug Ford triggered an election campaign more than a year ahead of schedule saying he needed a larger mandate from the electorate to inject tens of billions into the economy if U.S. President Donald Trump imposed tariffs.

By the end of the election night on Thursday, however, it was almost like the campaign hadn’t happened. The Progressive Conservatives were elected and leading in 80 seats compared to the 79 they had at dissolution, while the NDP was official opposition with 27 seats compared to 28 they held a month earlier.

The Liberals saw the biggest gains of the night moving from nine seats to 14 — mainly absorbing seats previously held by independents. The Greens kept the two ridings they had at the end of January and independent Bobbi Ann Brady was also re-elected.

The only major upset of the night was Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie who failed to win a seat in Mississauga, the city where she was mayor for almost a decade. No cabinet ministers were unseated and none of the other party leaders lost.

There is one thing that has changed, Ontario's premier has turned on Trump. Trump has made enemies of a few former friends in and Doug Ford is one of them. American's might say well, that's a fair-weather friend, but it is in response to tariffs being imposed by Trump. I get Trump not being able to stomach Justin Trudeau but in going after Canada instead of just Justin Trudeau, he's throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Canada despises Trudeau as well. Canada is trending heavily conservative and an election is imminent. There will soon be a prime minister who, if things do not escalate, will be a willing and great partner for president Trump who will work hand in hand to benefit both countries. 

Not all geopolitical relationships are comprised of zero sum game. One country can only benefit at the expense of another. Most things in life, and certainly in capitalism (not crony capitalism) are in fact not zero sum game situations.  The relationship between the U.S. and Canada is most definitely NOT a zero sum game. It is more typified by the idea of "a rising tide lifts all boats." Trade can be mutually beneficial, and it should be so. 

As a Canadian who has vociferously supported Trump since 2016, even I am irked. That's not to say that I have stopped supporting him. I remain optimistic about what he will do for America, and as a spillover effect it will help Canada. But I have gone from robustly optimistic to merely cautiously optimistic. I hope Trump's America first does not result in making a bunch of enemies for the United States. America first does not need to result in America only.

Back to optimism; I don't believe it will. Trade can be mutually beneficial, and it should be so. Trump certainly knows this. I believe Trump is playing poker with Canada, with NATO, with Russia and the Ukraine, and even with Gaza. Or more accurately, he's staking out a position from which to start to bargaining. That's brilliant if that's the case, and I do think that IS the case. I'm irked but that is merely due to the short term implications, longer term I'm sure it will pass. Trump I'm sure is thinking long term. I'm also sure that there will be some unintended consequences. Let's hope those are kept to a minimum.

Keystone XL pipeline vs. Trump's tariffs

The Keystone XL Pipeline was a big priority for president Trump in his first term. In 2025, he's imposing tariffs that would impact the pipeline. These two positions are at odds with each other.

Epstein drop vs. FBI

Tim Pool summary of the Epstein files and what's going on at the FBI.

Lies, Lies, Lies...yeah

Chrystia Freeland may be the perfect replacement for tinpot dictator Justin Trudeau, she's as crazy and deceitful as he is. She lies. She's incompetent. She might be Canada's next prime minister, but it won't be for very long.

Birthright Citizenship contitutionality

Let's see how this plays out (when it eventually reaches the Supreme Court):

Asmongold's reaction to Joy Reid's tears

Asmongold is a popular YouTuber who may have just absorbed the red pill by slow osmosis due to the far left's insanity.  Here he gives an honest reaction to Joy Reid's firing and subsequent tears.

German election summed up

Paul Joseph Watson sizes up the result.

Don Lemon proves he's worse than I thought (language warning)

Note to self: Stand aside and let this man sink himself.

Quote of the week

This week there are two great quotes tied for the Quote of the Week (which does not pop up here on a weekly basis to be fair).  Bothe quotes come from Victor Davis Hanson, and from the same article. They are both in reference to Trump's approach to the Ukraine-Russia war.

The first quote is to assuage the left's gleeful panic over Trump's not appearing to recognize that Russia did indeed start the war. Hanson points the truth out very early in the article:

Putin did start the war. Trump’s trolling aside, he knows that because he correctly pointed out that Putin invaded his neighbors in three of the last four administrations—but not his own, given Trump’s deterrence.

The second quote concludes the article with Hanson's presumption about Trump's recent tactics on the matter, which I share - it's about negotiating without giving up your position, and indeed, even more than that:

For all the media screaming and left-wing accusations, Trump’s recent antics have at least accomplished the following: the NATO nations, Ukraine, and Russia are all confused about what Trump is saying, and so now all the more want him to stop the war.

Truth. 

Ilhan Omar thinks you're stupid

 She outright says it:

Ilhan Omar mocks "stupid" Americans pic.twitter.com/jGITli2swg

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 23, 2025

If you need a refresher on who she is, here is a smattering of examples.

This and this. 

This.

And here, the AP, trying to justify her ridiculousness. And even with the fact checking, she still comes across as a looney toon.

Finally for now, this.

This woman should not be in congress, and arguably, America.

DOGE transparency

I finally had a bit of time to head over to DOGE tracker. This is the opposite of what previous administrations have done and it's worth keeping an eye on. I've included the link, go check it out.

And finally, exit Joy Reid

A few years too late, but I'll take it. That said, don't expect MSNBC to improve, not unless Elon Musk actually does decide to buy it on the cheap.

Germany shifting right

The question is, how far?  Generally a good news election though.

Pope Francis health update

Things are not looking good for the Pope.

Sunday verse

 

Horrible state of DOJ

Recently confirmed AG, Pam Bondi was shocked by the deep bad state of the DOJ:

Woke is boring

It's hard to disagree with most of this assessment, your woke story is applicable pretty much just to you. Sorry, not sorry.

Leo Terrell, Trump DOJ appointee goes off on Democrats

This delivery may be incendiary, but he's not wrong:

Democrat slush funds coming to light

This time via the EPA:

Meanwhile in Canada (again)

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has surged back into a commanding lead after a brief period where left leaning voters were flirting with going back to support an eventual Justin Trudeau replacement (think of it as a a 'joyous' post-Let's-Go-Brandon honeymoon with Kamala Harris, but in this case it's an anybody-but-Trudeau honeymoon).  In any case, that period appears to be over:

Twitter-gate, what you missed

Thanks to the mainstream media, many people are not up to speed on what the Twitter files have revealed.

Here you go:

Kash Patel confirmed!

Kash Patel has been confirmed as the FBI director. Despite stupid antics from Susan Collins. By my count that's another win for president Trump and a big loss for Susan Collins.