No doubt Charlie Kirk’s death will be mobilized by both sides in their appeals for the loyalty of the military should a civil war break out in the U.S. Perhaps it will again be dodged. But wiggle room is fast disappearing. Get your generals in a row. MSNBC’s Jen Psaki has declared Trump’s tribute to Kirk “an escalation" Says legal expert Jonathan Turley, “We are already at political assassinations, so I am not sure how much more room for escalation there may be for Psaki or MSNBC.”

The West’s privileged elites— particularly in Canada— refuse to acknowledge reality, preferring the dewey dawn of the Clinton or Obama presidencies. They toss around terms like tyrant to distract from the cliff they’ve built.  They pose. They primp. As security expert Mike Benz notes, “The vast majority of stock leftists are not true believers, they have strong beliefs, loosely held.” How loosely we are about to find out.

Perhaps the best example of bureaucratic waste is tucked into the line “Applications are encouraged from members of groups that are historically disadvantaged and underrepresented.” (*Translation: DEI) And “as a member of the Senior Management Team (SMT), you are expected to promote an inclusive leadership style that values equity, diversity, inclusion, and ensures psychological and physical safety.” IOW you are urged to promote inclusion while the vast majority of taxpaying white male citizens are excluded from consideration.

It doesn’t take a genius to see that the security blanket Western progressives count on to save them is, as Yeats said, “a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick”. An equation based on keeping their hands clean while others die. Only luck will determine if they must finally make a commitment or keep skating by with mere contributions. 

General society is now one big wrestling scam with no one believing the plot lines. Instead they revel in heel turns, outlandish characters and fake blood. Authenticity is dead.

Such is the Elbows Up trance in Canada that few have any idea of Carney’s true agenda, because it’s not what his paid wordsmiths in the media are pitching. For them it’s all fighting Trump, all the time. (Aided by his Robin, Doug Ford.) But here are three major policies we will talk about five years from now, saying “Wha’ happened?”

Across the nation far-left big-city mayors— elected by vote splitting in many cases— are now protected by anti-hate speech laws that translate public criticism into hate crime. The people who called cops “pigs” in the past generation  are now content to use cops to suppress their perceived enemies. 

The problem was that Greg Gutfeld, Colbert’s competition on FOX News, was getting 3.289 M a night. But this is still a business, and Colbert’s act was getting tired with advertisers as DEI, CRT and ESG hurt the bottom line. When Colbert ripped CBS last week for settling a libel suit with Trump it was over-and-out for Colbert. 

Like all people addicted, CDN Boomers don't want the truth. They want performance theatre, T-shirts and hockey games. They blame Trump for their predicament, caught between grim realities. Will they take the 12 steps? Or will their kids have to tell them the facts as they escort them to the home?” 

Rick Mercer. Don Cherry. Both brilliant masters of the craft of holding eyeballs. But they represented polar opposites. Mercer was the glib political voice of This Hour Has 22 Minutes. There was never any doubt in CBC’s upper reaches about whose side he was on in the culture war. Cherry was the unpredictable voice of Hockey Night in Canada. Who scared CBC/ Rogers to death.

Mercer was worshipped by the folks in the C suite.

Both these leaders, for better or worse, changed politics irrevocably. Trump’s audacity and pitiless style— thought to be political poison— have re-written the book on what works. Politics will never ever be the same down south. The same can be said for the style of Justin Trudeau. He defined a style of politics for Boomer Canada, long on Woke platitudes, short on concrete policy. It worked. Three times.

Canadians dozed when Trump made clear in his election campaign that the American economy is the greatest in the world. If you want to fish in that pond it’s not going to be free. That means tariffs. Now they’re shocked.

Nowhere is victimhood more bizarre— and dangerous— than the Hamas infatuation. “Terrorists, criminals, psychopaths, and fantasists from every part of the globe have grafted themselves on to the Palestinian cause,” writes Lee Smith in Tablet. “(It) gives hope to each of these groups—hope that their own nihilistic and murderous ambitions could win world favour as well. And they have.” 

The contradictions between Carney’s promises and reality will soon pile up. His Euro-based climate and social media policies will tell on a jaded public. His housing minister— who has promised to stabilize house prices— produced 170 percent jump in home prices while mayor of Vancouver. 
Which will give Danielle Smith all she needs to introduce plans, if not for separation, then for a new decentralized Canada.

For those Canadians in media who regularly make fun of Americans’ bravado and bluster there has been no awareness of how Canadians had been played like a cheap violin. Nice work if you can get it. Mark Carney got it, and now his Boomers can swallow deep.

Nice work if you can get it. Mark Carney got it, and Boomers swallowed deep.

Canadians who blissfully voted for Carney should realize that cozying up to Europe means doubling down on the climate extremes of carbon taxes and failed new tech that currently hobble the EU.  As Ireland has learned, in exchange for its money the EU wants you to also accept its politics.

it’s highly likely that this was the final Canadian election fought by the old rules where the have-nots (Atlantic Canada) the haves-but-outraged (Quebec) and the indolent (Ontario) control the math for making government. The money pump (Alberta, Saskatchewan) will seek to attract eastern BC and southern Manitoba to their crew. In the worst case Carney may be the nation’s final PM of ten provinces plus territories.

With scant days left in the campaign the problem for Conservatives is not that the Liberal base believes Carney and their heroes. They know he’s a fraud. But their #TDS will never let them admit to backing a lying, losing hype train. That would be like death to them. So they’re closing their eyes and hoping it will all be over soon and they can go back to Mr. Dressup.

The Liberal Party “Team Canada” propaganda war— featuring longtime U.S. emigrés Mike Myers and Neil Young ripping Trump’s tariffs on Canada-- is just the latest in a cultural war against America. That conflict has its roots in the estimated 50-100 thousand draft resisters who came to Canada and turned its politics leftward. It persists today.