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.