The Friday Follies

Over at Steyn, in-house Jew and fellow Canadian Laura Rosen Cohen lovingly eulogizes her friend Kathy Shaidle, Dreidelbaum. Our heart breaks for you.

Speaking of Canadians, it looks like they're gonna have another election up in the land of the moose. The last Conservative leader, Andy Scheer, was a Canadian Paul Ryan, so naturally he lost and most pleasurably so. He liked it, oh, he so did like it. The current guy, Erin O'Toole is mostly absent, as the great Rex Murphy points out. There was a third option, a Quebecois conservative bomb thrower named Maxime Bernier, kind of a Canadian Nigel Farage. But Scheer and the establishment knifed him. 'Coulda had Max,' as Kathy used to say. We have a man on the ground in Canada and we'll consult with him, but due to Tory general girly-ness, these people really get off on losing, we suspect Justin will form a third government.  

Moving on to American losers, Liz Cheney should be held upside down and shaken till her father's brain falls out of her head. The Wyoming GOP has already disavowed the war-profiteer's daughter. Is Liz Cheney done? She is a Cheney in Wyoming so it's hard to say. She'll have a fight, that's for sure. Maybe we should ask our cousins. Ambassador Thomas F. Stroock didn't lift a finger to help us get a job in the Bush White House. Which is fine. With our luck we would have ended up working for Scooter Libby.

More Jews. The Times of Israel reports that Bibi expects to win and win big: "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he believes his Likud party will rise to Knesset 40 seats or more in the coming election, up from 36 in the March 2020 vote, helping him secure a majority in the 120-seat Knesset, form a coalition and remain prime minister as head of a government that does exactly as he says." That would be the biggest Likud win of our lifetime. Bibi's prediction strikes us as unlikely. The Israelis have already vaxed something like 2 million people and are dropping the age limit to 45. This certainly speaks well of his government. Israel is about the size of New Jersey, so they don't have the logistical problems of space that we do here. Between that and the Abraham Accord, Bibi has a pretty strong case, no? Alas our dream tough on the palis tough on the Haredi center secular party is not to be. Gantz, you moron.

Less Jews. Thankfully 2021 is Sandinista Mayor Bill de Blasio's last year ruining New York City. Or maybe not thankfully, if you're inclined to see the city spiral further into the depths. Nuke it from orbit is this blog's official stance on NYC. Heh. 2020 was NYC's worst year since 9/11. Our grandfather loved New York, and we're glad he's not around to see what's happened. We always said conservatives would miss Bloomberg's technocratic competence. Sure he was annoying but he wouldn't let rioters and the homeless take over the streets. Former Democrat presidential candidate Andrew Yang is running for mayor. We're intrigued. We think NYC could use a man like Yang and so could the Dems. Maybe. We must dwell on this.