From the Foreign Desk: John A. MacDonald

The Last Days of Disco

Canada, Citizen of Canucksan - Any province in Canada that has a Conservative (or even a leaning Conservative) government is dropping mask restrictions and vaccine passport requirements. It’s a similar story in the US. Most states seem to be dropping them. The Covid party is over, it’s just the hard core believers in the “science” haven’t realized that yet.

Meanwhile, the Government of Canada (read, the Liberals and NDP) are frantically casting about for a justification, any justification for the 72 hour long Emergency Act. The Governor General has claimed, without evidence, that many of the truckers wanted to “overthrow the government”. Protesters demanding the Prime Minister resign are not overthrowing the government, just removing the person occupying the Prime Minister’s office. The Public Safety Minister claimed the truckers were “rapists”. With no evidence whatsoever and with several MPs calling him on his lack of justification. Perhaps, like the Supreme Court hearings in the US, several Ottawa citizens will suddenly “remember” being raped by the protesters.

There has been talk of runs on the big 5 Canadian banks causing Trudeau to back down on the Emergency Act. It’s clear that it has happened and continues to happen in certain parts of the country. I think it’s also more likely that Trudeau realized he did not have the votes in the Senate to pass the Emergency Act, so rather than face a humiliating climb down (Trudeau can’t separate his ego from his duties) he decided to claim that the “emergency” was over.

What does this have to do with disco? For those of us old enough to remember, disco often defined the 70s. It was something that was seen as here to stay. Yet, one day, the bottom fell out of the record sales and people said that they never liked it in the first place. It quickly died, and no one has mourned it.

I think the same thing is happening here. The truckers, like the January 6 protesters, will be vilified and dragged through the courts, sentenced to the longest prison terms courts can reasonably justify and many more supporters will have their lives destroyed. It’s still happening. Yet the support for Covid restrictions has vanished, if it ever really existed. Two months ago, vaccine passports and mask mandates were seen as here to stay. Today, they’re being dropped as fast as possible. My own prediction is that in a few months, maybe a year, we will be seeing news reports about the last country/province/state/county/city to drop their Covid restrictions, with comments about how the “world has moved on without them”.

I also think that the legal challenges to the short lived Emergency Act will be causing some serious problems for Trudeau down the line. I hope that the media here will look into it and be more skeptical, but I doubt it. This will be a story that appears on Rebel News and Conservative blogs.

But it is clear to me that the restrictions are dropping because people are fed up. Yes, Theresa Tam  (Canada’s Fauci) is warning that restrictions may come back in the fall, but I don’t think they’ll get the same cooperation even if they do appear. Tam is part of the hard core believers and will have to be shown that people don’t want to put up with this Covid nonsense any longer.

The bottom has dropped out of the Covid support. It’s time for leaders to realize that it’s just not a concern for regular people anymore. The disco party is over. It’s past time to head for the exits.

From the Foreign Desk: Sir John A MacDonald

What's the Plan

Canada, Citizen of Canuckstan: I was a fan of the early 21st century Battlestar Galactica series for a while. I always enjoyed the opening titles where they said that the Cylons “have a plan”. Except, as time when on, it became clear that the writers had no plan whatsoever and plot holes in the series were papered over and handwaved as fast as the writers could come up with the next line of BS.

I see a lot of similarities in the present political situation in Canada. First, when we started hearing about this new virus from China (and it is from China), Trudeau said that there was nothing for Canadians to worry about as it simply wouldn’t affect us. The frightening part is that many government workers, including ones responsible for emergency management, believed this line and never prepared for anything.

Then, Canadians were told to stay home for two weeks to “flatten the curve”, so that the virus would not overwhelm our health care system. Oddly, making the health care system more robust is not a priority now and has not been a priority for the last 2 years. Funny, that.

Next came the lockdowns, mask mandates, more lockdowns and promises that things would “get back to normal”. Take the vaccine and we all go back to our regular lives. Then the goal posts moved and EVERYONE had to take the vaccine for that to happen. Blame the unvaccinated, it’s a pandemic of the unvaccinated and it’s their fault. Numbers started showing that it was the vaccinated and triple vaccinated who were the most likely to be infected and the whole “pandemic of the unvaccinated” was dropped, but not before provincial health agencies started hiding their infection numbers.

Through it all, we’ve been told over and over again to “follow the science”, yet for some strange reason the “science” has always said that the solution was more government power. Are you picking up on a theme here? I think the Canadian government and Trudeau in particular simply has no plan (or tossed the one they had out the window) and does nothing but react. Like a single-cell organism, all they have is stimulus and response.

Which brings us to the trucker protest and the Emergency Act (which passed Parliament). Trudeau dismissed the truckers as holding “unacceptable views”, fled the capital and did his best to ignore them and their desires to see an end to all the lockdowns and mandates. He had no plan to deal with them. And they stayed. Border crossings blocked. Bouncy castles in the streets. All Trudeau does is escalate, so the Emergency Act was the next step, because now Trudeau’s pride is hurt, he feels threatened and does not know what to do.

And still there is no plan to end the federal mandates. I expect them to last as long as Trudeau thinks he can get away with them, as I expect the Emergency Act to be extended as long as possible. None of the parties want an election and the vote on the Emergency Act is a confidence vote. If Trudeau lost, there is another election. One that I don’t think he thinks he can win. But also one the other parties are not ready to fight. So, silence from the opposition benches, since they have no plan either. The Conservatives don’t even have a leader right now, and no timeline to elect one.

All because Canadians were led to believe that there is a plan, when in fact there is none. What’s next? Jail time for dissent. Bank accounts not just frozen but seized, as the government needs the money to make up for everything they’ve spent. Canada is going down a dark path. With no endgame other than Trudeau exerting greater and greater control over Canadians’ lives and opinions, I fear where stimulus-response may lead.

If it's Monday, Its Metal et al

Lots of posts yesterday. It happens.

The Olympics are over, thank God. What a travesty. Stupid masks, power plant cooling tower backgrounds, an unprecedented figure skating catastrophe, some genocide.

The Queen has Covid, but only 'mild' symptoms so far. Thoughts and prayers. This blog wants to avoid a King Charles rein at all costs. 

Our latest bit of collusion is up this morning: 'Just a few weeks ago, this observer predicted the Kansas City Chiefs would defeat the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl LVI. Instead, Tens of thousands of Los Angelenos watched their hometown Rams defeat the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20. Almost everyone in Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium was maskless, including Mayor Eric Garcetti and California Governor Gavin Newsom, both of whom have maintained some of the strictest lockdown rules in the nation. Last summer Newsom was caught dining sans mask at the swanky French Laundry restaurant in California’s wine country...' You know the drill.

This week we'll be reading a printout of The Great Salvation of 1976. This process will be slow as we're line and content editing. That is, we're looking for places to make the story better. We already found one with a Tennessee/Chattanooga chapter. This is the largest surviving city east of the Mississippi and the Rockefeller Administration is establishing the Federal Reserve there. This gives us a chance to describe the overall situation in that region. 

We feel the ju-ju for getting back to and finishing up World War 1990: The Weser. 

Putin Watch: Someone found a video of Putin walking through the Kremlin (which we're finding extremally useful, btw) and overdubbed Staying Alive. Click on through. [You're man-crushing -Ed] He's an interesting guy. Reminder, when Soviet Russian tanks cross the border, we stop writing for Russia.

Reading Russia Today, Sputnik, Elint News, invasion looks imminent. 

For Monday Metal, we continue our 30-year nostalgia trip with Queen's Headlong. We still love this song (it's great treadmill fodder) and when we hear it, for just a second, we're back in our '86 Toyota Celica. At 3:10-3:20 we'd floor the accelerator. That car had a lot of kick. 

Frozen Rubles in Occupied Canada

Back to the gym yesterday for real. We worked the machines, something we haven't done in months, and feel great. 

Every time we're about to finish book production we ask ourselves if we really need to read the hardcopy. Every time we read the hardcopy we are reminded why we need to read the hardcopy. This morning we found a major continuity problem in The Great Nuclear War of 1975. Major, but easily fixed with just a few words. That's why we read the hardcopy. [It never ceases to amaze me how little you listen to me, knobhead -Ed.]

This blog is seeing increased traffic from Canada. Wonder why? Thank you, Citizen of Canuckstan. We may have another Canuck ready to contribute to Stroock's Books. Who he is and where he is from we cannot reveal. Let's just say English may not be his first language. [Is he QuebecAnnon?-Ed] alright, busted. Get ready for the Montcalm beat. We're also working an Italian and Irish angle, or shall we say, Cavour and de Valeria

We've been working our contacts in Canada. These include sources within the Canadian Resistance, CanadaAnon and QubecAnon. The Canadian Resistance's long term strategy is two pronged. They'll be first and foremost a political entity, running candidates for office, getting spokesperson's on television, and staging anti-government protests. But the Canadian Resistance will also have a military wing which will work closely with the political infrastructure.

As we write this, our contacts within the Canadian Resistance tell us rebel command is setting up bases on the US side of the border. These will be staging areas for cross-border attacks into occupied Canada. Interestingly rebel command, from their stronghold deep within the Maine wilderness, isn't planning attacks into Ontario, they say. Rebel Command feel's the Maritime provinces would be the best place to begin. They're calling the effort Operation Newfie. 

One may wonder how the Canadian Resistance is paying for all of this. All we can say is that the Canadian Dollar conversion rate is very favorable to the Ruble right now...comrades. 

From the Foreign Desk: John A. MacDonald

Having too much fun

CANADA, Citizen of Canuckstan - The problem with using fear and intimidation is it becomes a habit. People were told first to be afraid of the virus, afraid of what it would do to our health care system and how it would be overwhelmed (it wasn’t). Then we were told to be afraid of anyone not wearing a mask, followed by anyone who isn’t vaccinated. Now the protesters are the ones we are supposed to be afraid of. Fear, fear, fear.

But as I’ve watched the trucker protests, I’ve noticed something fundamentally different. The truckers and the other protesters are....having fun. Not the cruel, mocking fun most leftists use today but genuine fun. Dance parties in the streets. Bouncy castles. Popcorn makers. And the latest one, a hot tub in the middle of the street. Kids and families with pets are seen everywhere. Yet politicians and media condemn them constantly. Children’s aid has threatened to take away the truckers’ children for....being at a protest. The elite are acting in a strange way. Or maybe they are simply weak and can’t figure out how to deal with these protesters.

Compare this with Antifa, Occupy Wall Street and CHOP. Violence was everywhere. Hundreds of police were injured and many killed. Billions of dollars of property damage. Rapes and assaults by the dozens. Yet the elite called the violence of left wing and anarchist groups “understandable” and they had to be given “room to protest”. The truckers receive no such room.

I think the media and the “powers that be” need the truckers to be violent. If they are largely peaceful, they can be ticketed, but it is hard to justify harsher methods. Especially with so many private journalists or just vloggers walking around the protest freely and filming pretty much anything. Antifa would never allow such a thing. Once the protesters are shown to be violent, then a radical and brutal crackdown can be justified. The problem is, other than some blindingly obvious false flag operations, there hasn’t been violence. We’ve heard that “healthcare workers have been threatened” but with no video – and everyone has a cell phone with video capabilities these days – it seems hard to credit.

What’s the next step? The powers that be still refuse to meet. I think there is a danger of a serious manufactured incident. The question is will the police really move in? The rank and file of the Ottawa police don’t seem inclined. The next few weeks will tell one way or the other.