From the Foreign Desk: John A. MacDonald

Emergency Powers

Canada, Citizen of Canuckstan- Trudeau hasn’t brought in the military. Yet. He is instructing banks to freeze the accounts of anyone “associated” with the protesters. I think we will find that “associated” has a very broad definition. I expect to see many people who supported the trucker protests having their bank accounts frozen. And possibly seized by the government. Why not? Trudeau cannot back down, he must crush the truckers’ protest in such a way that it is clear that he is in charge and the rest of us are just his servants. Trudeau has gone from the supposed leader of Canada to the ruler of Canada. But nothing will change the fact that he fled the capital when the truckers arrived. This will not end well.

But if he does crush them, what next? Does he truly believe that everyone will just go home, go back to work and pretend this never happened? Of course not. Protesters and their leaders, regardless of whether Trudeau stays in power or not, will have their lives destroyed. This is the price of standing up for freedom and holding a peaceful protest. I have seen no murders, no assaults, no broken windows, no looting. Unlike virtually every protest in North America in the last decade Yet more and more pressure has been placed on the protesters, and less and less leeway is given to them. The protesters will likely spend time in prison, to make it clear that you do not cross Trudeau. He is in charge, and you are not

I don’t think it will end here, even if the police remove the entire protest group from Ottawa. I expect to see work slowdowns, further protests and pressure on Trudeau to repeal the Emergency Act and step down. I fear Trudeau will do neither.

From the Foreign Desk: John A. MacDonald

CANADA, Citizen of Canuckstan -Real grass roots protests are rare. This makes the Trucker’s protests a once in a generation, possibly once in a lifetime, event. But they’ve been ignored and smeared by all levels of government in Canada. Why?

I think this is a problem of class. Once you’ve seen enough protests, you start to recognize the regulars. And the Trucker protest has none of them. Not the regular thing you see. Trucker protests won’t get them nice write ups in the local newspaper or jobs with left wing groups. I believe that the class problem goes deeper than that.

I have a University education. While I was going to University, we had a few regular protesters attending as well. They were always off at a protest about something, but they also met a lot of people while doing that. People in positions of power, people in government, people in the police. They all had University education in common and they often kept in touch.

The Truckers have none of that. Most of them didn’t go to University and never met “future leaders” or people who would work in important positions. I think this is why Trudeau and the rest of the government and police forces have reacted so strongly against them. They don’t know any of these truckers and they don’t want to. The truckers are all, in Trudeau’s circle, rubes and rednecks. Nobody that they have to talk to or respect.

But now they are unavoidable. Trudeau and the rest of the bureaucracy don’t know how to talk to them or treat them as anything but lesser beings to their exalted status. Now the truckers have the power to shut down the country, the government has smeared them all and doesn’t know how to back down.

To put this in a bit of perspective, last night truckers shut down the Ambassador bridge from Windsor to Detroit. Along with the Bluewater bridge in Sarnia it is one of two absolutely critical supply chain arteries between Canada and the United States. Shut both of them down and the auto industry in Canada and the Northeastern United States will die within days. I am not sure how much it costs to keep auto factories running, but I have heard estimates in the thousands to tens of thousands of dollars each minute.

The truckers can shut down North America, and the US and Canadian governments are helpless to prevent it. All because they view blue collar workers as “less than they are”. 

From the Foreign Desk: Sir John A. MacDonald

CANADA, Citizen of Canuckstan - “Silence is Violence” was the mantra of the Black Lives Matter protesters last year. For the BLM protest in Ottawa, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came out and took a knee to show his support. When churches were being burned across Canada to protest a “recently found mass grave” on the grounds of a former residential school, Trudeau called the church burnings “understandable”. We have since learned that there may be no mass grave at all.

Trudeau instituted a vaccine mandate for all truckers crossing the US border into Canada. He has further said that he will impose a vaccine mandate for any truckers crossing provincial borders. Now, the truckers have come to Ottawa to protest. Trudeau tarred them as racists, white supremacists and every other left wing boogeyman you can think of, and refused to meet with them. So they have stayed for almost two weeks. Trudeau has fled the capital. The Ottawa police have admitted that the protesters are calling the shots. A raid to try and move them out Sunday night has pretty much failed. Ottawa city council wants to put together a class action lawsuit against the trucker protesters. Tow truck companies are refusing to tow the protesters vehicles. GoFundMe tried to seize their funds.

And this is spreading. Coutts, Alberta, a major crossing on the US-Canada border is blocked. The police have been unable to move them and people have breached police lines to join them. There have been trucker protests in Vancouver (the mayor has told them to protest and get out), Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Winnipeg, Toronto, Sarnia, London (Ontario), Quebec City and Halifax. And those are only the places there have been some reports about. Farmers are joining.

I don’t think Trudeau will back down. He’s been made to look weak. This is a Prime Minister who simply cannot handle anyone disagreeing with him. It’s the way he’s been raised. So I think this will spread further. So far, it’s been largely peaceful. Air horns and honking are annoying but most protests are loud anyway. At this point the military is sitting things out and considering how far this has spread, it’s unlikely they could stop it anyway. 67 000 troops in the entire military, counting the Air Force and Navy. What will they do, try to put the protesters under the guns of HMCS Charlottetown? I’m not sure they could get it up the Ottawa river. There have been 4 arrests in Ottawa and apparently 2 of them were Ottawa citizens threatening the protesters. Compare that to Occupy Wall Street or the CHOP zone.

I hope this will spread the to the US. Get your convoy together sooner rather than later. Remind your neighbours that while silence is violence, air horns are anarchy.

Whoopi Goldberg is not Jewish...

...and her real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson.

Whoopi you stupid, arrogant, conceited, dummy.  'I just know I am Jewish. I practice nothing. I don’t go to temple, but I do remember the holidays,' she once said. That's not how it works, ignoramus. There's a joke in here some place, 'A black woman walks into a schul...' Fucking imbecile. 

Interestingly we're Jewish but have never felt Jewish. We've always felt Protestant. Which makes sense as we come from Reform Judaism, the Protestantism of the Jewish World. We always wanted to be Irish Catholic. We checked and one cannot, in fact, convert to Irish.

Segway...we've read reports that Joe and the Iranians are close to a deal. This blog is not surprised. We saw this morning that the Israelis are going to sell Iron Dome to the UAE, which is at once remarkable and hilarious. When reached for comment, the late Shimon Peres said, 'Boy is it hot down here...we're selling weapons to Arabs now? Holy crap!'

There will be war in the Middle East. 

 

We allow ourselves a bit of fun and optimism about the Canadian Freedom Truckers but remain pessimistic as to the ultimate outcome. Stroock's Books' man on the ground in Canada says Justin isn't used to being challenged and has no idea how to handle it. Justin may be in real trouble, our man thinks.* He also points out that if Truckers really want to shut things down they can just go on strike. We have no idea how things will play out. But we will note that oftentimes things happen slowly then all at once.

Roll Canada. Roll Maple Leafs.**

As the Justin's standoff with the Freedom Truckers continues The National Post reports, 'Conservative Leader [and wuss] Erin O’Toole is facing a direct challenge to his leadership that could oust him from the top job as early as Wednesday.' Stroock's Books enthusiastically endorses MP Pierre Pollievre for CPC leader. Click and behold. Coulda' had Max, as Small Dead Animals likes to say. Follow them for the latest on the Freedom Truckers.  

Ladies and gentlemen, the Prime Minister of Canada:

*Justin's real dad is Fidel Castro. Not kidding. Look it up.

**Reference.

In Which Will looks at his Watch

Greetings from the Jersey Shore. The weather should be splendid today but we're slated to get the remnants of Hurricane Ida on Thursday. We may also have a ton of rain Wednesday. There is talk, just talk mind you, of heading home Wednesday and returning Thursday night. The drive is only an hour and half. We'll see.

Well look at this, one of our articles was translated into French:  'Lors d’une conférence de presse la semaine dernière, le président Biden a déclaré qu’il n’avait pas été critiqué par les alliés américains et a affirmé qu’Al-Qaida n’était plus en Afghanistan. Selon ses termes, Al-Qaida avait « disparu ». Ces deux déclarations sont manifestement fausses. En juin dernier, l’ONU a publié un rapport détaillant la présence d’Al-Qaïda en Afghanistan. Le propre département de la défense de Biden est d’accord. Le porte-parole du Pentagone, John Kirby, a déclaré à la presse : « Nous savons qu’Al-Qaïda est présent, ainsi qu’ISIS, en Afghanistan et nous en parlons depuis un certain temps ».' Hmmm....maybe our aborted quest to learn French wasn't so futile, as we can tell what that says.

Speaking of the French...or Cubans* anyway, Hot Air reports that Justin is in real trouble. We remain skeptical as the Conservative Party leader, whom we won't bother to name, is a moose eating version of Jeb Bush with even lower testosterone. Our man on the ground in the nation with the world's largest beaver dam agrees. This blog urges all of our Canadian readership to vote for Maxime Bernier's People's Party. This blog predicts Canada will have more Prime Minister Man-Child. However, in California, Gavin Newsom is also in trouble (don't get excited, they're just gonna steal it). Exit question, if Brexit then Trump; if Newsome then Justin?

So, we're out of Afghanistan. Stop laughing. Seriously, yo. Stop laughing. We're going back, you realize that don't you? We probably should. This blog has always stood with Tucker, Steyn, et al about forever wars. But the last few weeks should give one pause. Is this blog wavering? Just a bit. We had 2,500 troops in the country and hadn't suffered a single death in 18 months. 

And by the way, the poo flinging monkeys who planned the withdrawal and are trying to spin this disaster into the Berlin Airlift and Dunkirk rolled into one, are telling us the war is over. Which should give everyone pause. The enemy** gets a vote too, idiots. So no, the war is not over. 

*Justin's real dad is Fidel Castro. Not joking. Google it. 

**For any State Department loose-stools reading this, that's the Taliban.

Friday Flag

Justin 'Trudeau' goes on a two week bender in Belize, grows a beard, comes back and blames Trump for the 63 Canadians killed when Iran shot down an airliner. Oh Shiny Pony, as Ezra would say.

Ironically we are getting ready to write the scene where Granma spirits Fidel* away to Ortega's waiting arms in Nicaragua. 

'First Fidel now Manuel!', will be the Nicaraguan Freedom Fighter's battle cry in World War 1990: The Managua Campaign.

*Justin's real dad. Not kidding.

Justin Trudeau Back Home in Latin America

Unshaven in a week, post-marijuana munchies, loading up on booze. You know, Trudeau’s a disgrace and an embarrassment, but having him far away from any decision-making and any foreign dignitaries — well, it’s been the best two weeks of Canadian government since 2015. pic.twitter.com/D3Jf4aqEs6

— Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) January 2, 2020

Ezra says Justin is unshaven for a week, but given his real father is Fidel Castro (not kidding) this may only be a few day's growth. 

Canada: Blacked

Justin won 157 seats and will get to form a minority government. 

The Liberals won the battle for the Toronto suburbs.

Interestingly Scheer and his Conservatives won a greater percentage of the popular vote. We guess this means he should form the next government, right lefties?

Check out the Red/Blue divide. This is very, very ominous.

Stroock's Law did not apply, nor did it in 2015.

Decision North

It's election day in Canada.

Polls indicate the conservatives will win a majority of seats. But will they win enough? 

In the last few days Justin has been running Operation Fear, warning about scary conservatives like Ontario premier Doug Ford and....Donald Trump. Remember Canadian Lib-Progs resent and envies the United States.

We had expressed fears that this was a repeat of Barry's 2012 election strategy of turning out every last Lena Dunham loving vomit breathed skank to vote for him. That strategy worked. But after consulting with our man on the ground in Canada, we now believe that this is a last ditch, flailing attempt by Justin to save his job.

We think that the election will return a narrow majority for the conservatives or a minority government, which will open a whole can of warms. Remember, a leftist will never accept defeat and go quietly and Justin's fellatio experts in the CBC are already laying the groundwork for him to stay if the cons win a minority.

We shall see if Stroock's Law about conservatives being underestimated in polls still holds up north. If it does, then Justin will have time to visit his biological father's grave in Cuba.

Canada won't go Back. Stays Black

Anyone else paying attention to Canada's looming election?

 

Polls show Andrew Scheer and the Conservatives will win between 30-35 percent of the vote against Prime Minister Black Face's 28-30 percent. Personally we think Andrew Scheer is a hoser and would much prefer the Cons had picked populist firebrand Maxime Bernier.

Oh well.

We have a man on the ground in Canada who thinks Scheer will win a minority government. However rumors abound that should the Cons fail to win an outright majority, Justin will refuse to leave and try to form a minority government with the lefty NDP*.

This seems like the most likely scenario to us. After all, when in the last three years has a liberal, anywhere,  admitted defeat? The left's refusal to lose gracefully has produced electoral deadlock in Britain and America. There's no reason to think the same thing won't happen in Canada. 

Justin, give up his hereditary right to rule? Surely you jest.

There's always hope that Stroock's law will kick in and conservatives are being under polled.

But don't count on it. 

A better man:

*We find their leader quite likable, actually.

Wither Robert Francis O'Rourke

We haven't said much about Robert Francis O'Rourke here of late becuase it's just too damn easy.* Also bashing Bobby is no fun. Bashing Elizabeth Warren (I, Trail of Tears), now that's fun. When one questions Warren's [fake] Cherokee ancestry, it really sets her out on the warpath.

Hotair makes a great point about the O'Rourke thing:

Out: Robert O’Rourke will lead Democrats to electoral success in Texas! In: Beto’s “authentically cool” value “transcends politics“! The media mythologizing of the three-term Congressman in over his head in a Texas Senate race continues apace today with this NBC hagiography masquerading as news. So what exactly does O’Rourke do that isn’t about elections and politics?

We're still doing this, Dems? We're still looking for someone who is Kennedyesque? We thought you already got that with failed president Barrack Hussein Obama.

We've always believed half the reason Jean Francois Kerry (S, France) got the Dem nomination in 2004 was because his initials are JFK and he rode around Vietnam in a small boat. Did you know he was in Vietnam? Kerry was the biggest asshole to run for president in our lifetime.

Your bicoastal elites can't get enough of these wirey, 'with it' cultural phenomenon types, can they? 

Young Millennial Democrats have no memory of JFK, or even W. They're not trying to recreate Barry so much as they're looking jealously north. Why can't they have their own Pierre Justin 'Trudeau'?**

So wither Robert Francis O'Rourke. Despite the media tongue bath (see CNN last night), he'll soon go the way of Texas Abortion Barbie. Heh, remember her?

*This week we learned that he tried to join the Democrat Hispanic Caucus. Get me a DNA test. I can't even...

**Pierre Trudeau was a great man, but Justin's real father is Fidel Castro.

***Mrs. Trudeau is a total babe. Check out that rack...

In Which life Imitates Israel Strikes: War of the Red Sea

Via Breitbart (PBUH) we learn the new Saudi king is on some sort of reform kick:

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on Saturday removed a prominent prince who headed the National Guard, replaced the economy minister and announced the creation of a new anti-corruption committee.
The Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya news channel also reported late Saturday that 11 princes and dozens of former ministers were detained in a new anti-corruption probe headed by the kingdom’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who was also named to oversee the new committee.
(Update: Also arrested was Trump Critic and billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal, a prominent investor in US companies including Twitter and Citigroup, the New York Times reported.)

Of course we'd like to lock up all critics of the Quesach Trumperach (we're jesting).

[No you ain't-Ed]

Anyway, in Israel Strikes: War of the Red Sea the new Saudi King, self-installed via coup, goes on a reform spree. Funnily [if you think so, mate, Ed] the new king is patterned after Justin 'Trudeau'.

[Why the quote marks-Ed]

We include quote marks because Justin's real dad is Fidel Castro. We kid thee not.

[No, you're not kidding us, just yourself-Ed]

Anyway, if the reader is interested in Saudi intrigue, well: