Mid-Week Post

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Smug racist promises that there will be no coalition.

He does what his Chinese financiers tell him to.

One wouldn't want these items to disappear down the memory-hole of Kim Trudeau's glorious regime.

There are several factors in what should be the stunning loss of the Tories on Monday. It's easy to blame the inconceivable stupidity of Canadians, the state-funded CBC and its little piggies that line up at the trough, the Laurentian elite or even the lack of any real alternative to the cringing, mincing little coward who wore blackface and belts around women.

The truth is people settled for the next-best candidate years ago. As long as he promised to lower taxes or fix the economy or the usual commitment (lacking in clear details, of course), people were fine with it. It didn't matter if he truly held the beliefs some people did. Even when he didn't deliver these things, people voted for him anyway.

Politicians got wise to this. They lowered the bar and people were happy about it.

So why should Scheer resign for losing an election he could have handily won? If his ideas did not reflect those of Bernier's decimated PPC, why would it even matter? You can't pull in the reins and demand excellence when you agreed to mediocrity and even failure (oh, hi, Justin):

Scheer had Trudeau at his weakest and couldn’t beat him. This was a PM found guilty of breaking the ethics laws twice, a man who was exposed during the campaign as a fan of wearing blackface and who had faced scandal after scandal over the past two years.

That Scheer couldn’t beat Trudeau this time is a problem.

Whether Scheer stays or goes will be up to party members and the leadership review that the party constitution calls for.  In the meantime, the best I can do is offer some friendly advice for Scheer, or another leader come the next campaign.

Give up on the myth that a more moderate leader is the path to success. I’m not saying that the leader of the Conservative Party has to be a fire-breathing dragon from the far right, but this idea that the party just needs to elect a moderate to easily win simply is not true. Ontario Premier Doug Ford is not a social conservative in the least; Ford isn’t actually all that conservative, period.

Yet for having the PC name attached to him, the media and his opponents regularly portray Ford as something he’s not.

Scheer's resigning would be self-reflective and proper.

Canadians don't want politicians like that and the politicians will never change.




Talk is cheap.

All the West needs to do is show the East how much it would suffer without it.

Cut the b@$#@rds off:

Moe made three clear demands:

1. Scrap the federal carbon tax.
2. Make the equalization formula fair for Saskatchewan and Alberta.
3. Commit to a plan that ensures Saskatchewan & Alberta can get their exports to international markets. Adding, “that means pipelines.”

 
Equalisation payments are welfare. End them.

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I rehearse this fragment of background just to hint at the consequences of last night’s vote. Things were hot before Monday. Now they are molten. There will not be a single major Western figure in whatever cobbled together coalition comes into being. No Western voice at all. Ontario and Quebec have once again determined who holds the levers of power, and who is left standing in line, or out in the cold altogether. ...

The juvenile and reckless policies of the amateur Trudeau government — a government of butterflies in its early yoga and selfies days — has brought the country to a terrible pass, where the only elements that really count in a nation — its cohesion, its sense of common endeavour, of all its parts and regions acting on the great issues in concert, as one — these elements are shattered.

Also - when people like these people lose their jobs and leave Canada for greener pastures, who will the East fleece for "free stuff"?:

“Hundreds of workers at Husky Energy Inc. are believed to be affected by a round of layoffs at the Canadian energy giant, according to employees at the company.

Of course Justin can change the narrative. He's the re-installed dictator:

ISIS sympathizer Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, a convert to radical Islam, said in a video  “Lord accept from me and peace be upon you and upon the Mujahedin. May Allah curse you,” and “Canada’s officially become one of our enemies by fighting and bombing us and creating a lot of terror in our countries and killing us and killing our innocents” and “so, just aiming to hit some soldiers just to show that you’re not even safe in your own land, and you gotta be careful.​“

Vincent was run down by a convert to radical Islam named Martin (Ahmad) Couture-Rouleau who on social media wrote terrorist screeds, including “Allah has promised the hypocrite men and hypocrite women and the disbelievers the fire of hell . . . Allah has cursed them, and for them is an enduring punishment.”

Not routine attacks. Acts of war.

Trudeau was not the only leader to water it all down. Many did similar.

But Premier Doug Ford whose tweet captured the spirit of what transpired Oct. 20 and 22nd, 2014:  “@fordnation: We will never forget Cpl Nathan Cirillo and WO Patrice Vincent, who were killed 5 years ago, targeted for serving our country in uniform. We are forever grateful to our brave men and women who sacrifice every day to protect our way of life.”

The truth. Fallen soldiers Vincent and Cirillo were murdered in sneak ambushes by enemy combatants in a holy war against Canada fighting against the Islamic state in Afghanistan and Syria.

Why did it take so long?:

At the time, Husam Al Soufi said his son had taken part in demonstrations “trying to support marginalized people” and had made mistakes, for which he learned his lesson “the hard way.”

No, your @$$hole son threatened an elderly woman:

If you were any kind of man, Mr. Al Soufi, you would beat your son for what he did.

That you are excusing him explains why he is a cowardly bully.




Hong Kong formally withdraws its controversial extradition bill:

Hong Kong authorities on Wednesday withdrew an unpopular extradition bill that sparked months of chaotic protests that have since morphed into a campaign for greater democratic change.

Secretary for Security John Lee told the semi-autonomous Chinese city’s legislature that the government had suspended the bill because it had resulted in “conflicts in society.”

In order to clearly spell out the government’s position, “I formally announce the withdrawal of the bill,” Lee told lawmakers. Pro-democracy lawmakers immediately tried to question him but he refused to respond.

If other countries put sanctions (and enforced them) on Justin's hair conditioner as they do with Kim Jong-Un, would he capitulate?:

It’s a mountain resort with a difference. Visitors to North Korea’s Mount Kumgang can revel in the beauty of scenic valleys, waterfalls and temples just a few miles from the heavily militarized border that divides the Korean Peninsula.

At least, that’s how the thinking went. Opened in 1999 and envisioned by North Korea as a destination for foreign tourists, especially South Koreans, the resort became a symbol of cross-border engagement amid often-fraught relations.

Families separated by the Korean War held reunions there. South Korean firms invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the project. But since the South pulled out in 2008, after one of its citizens was killed by a North Korean soldier, the resort has languished as a virtual ghost town.

On Wednesday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un instructed officials to remove “shabby” and “unpleasant-looking” South Korean facilities from Mount Kumgang, state media reported.

He bemoaned the “very backward” South Korean architecture that resembled “makeshift tents in a disaster-stricken area.” North Korea should take the lead in developing the area according to “our own way,” Kim said, while stressing that South Koreans were still welcome to visit.

Security analysts said Kim’s move signalled his frustration at the lack of progress in proposed economic projects between North and South Korea, which are blocked by sanctions amid a deadlock in nuclear talks with Washington.

They could also add that he is an emotionally stunted communist.