Thursday Afternoon Canadian-Themed Links

by | Feb 17, 2022 | Daily Links | 218 comments

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FORESEEABLE CONSEQUENCES ARE NOT UNINTENDED: Five major Canadian banks were hit by an hours-long outage on Wednesday, convincing some that a bank run might be occurring.

 

A PROPER DRESSING-DOWN: Mad respect for Canadian MP Melissa Lantsman for her brief floor speech in parliament. Come for the delicious calling-out of Trudeau for his hypocrisy, stay for his whiny rebuttal, enjoy the complimentary mint of MP Pierre Poilievre’s tweet.

 

 

GORD UPDATE: Our friend Gordilocks may have been banned from Twitter, an honor, really, but is alive and well on Gettr, and still fighting the good fight. Give ’em hell, Gord.

 

 

POINT/COUNTERPOINT: Leading off is Taylor Dysart, a PhD candidate in the department of history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania, where her research examines the intertwined worlds of healing, science, indigeneity and settler colonialism in the Amazon. As WaPo commenter 20thCenturyLtd succinctly put it: I am truly tired of some historians (or, perhaps, their WP editors) taking any pretext to shove their pet lesson down my throat. Based on what I read here, the story of public health towards the Canadian First Nations is, at best, tangential to the headlined theme, and the author herself doesn’t trouble to touch upon it until para 3.

 

 

POINT/COUNTERPOINT: Following up is James Antle, who states the obvious but misses the opportunity to remind the left that this may someday be used against them.

 

 

About The Author

Tonio

Tonio

Tonio is a Glibs shitposter, linkstar (Thursday PM, yo), author, and editor. He is also a GlibZoom personality and prankster. Tonio is a big fan of pic-a-nic baskets. His hobbies include salmon fishing, territorial displays, dumpster diving, and posing for wildlife photographers.

218 Comments

  1. db

    Yo!

    • SDF-7

      MTV Raps? Because I rather doubt it still does….

      • slumbrew

        Fab 5 Freddy told me everybody’s fly.

  2. Scruffy Nerfherder

    I am truly tired of some historians (or, perhaps, their WP editors) taking any pretext to shove their pet lesson down my throat.

    As the Critical Drinker might say, you cannot avoid THE MESSAGE.

      • The Other Kevin

        White and liberal?
        :clicks link:
        Yep.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The primarily White supporters of the Freedom Convoy argue that pandemic mandates infringe upon their constitutional rights to freedom. The notion of “freedom” was historically and remains intertwined with Whiteness, as historian Tyler Stovall has argued. The belief that one’s entitlement to freedom is a key component of White supremacy. This explains why the Freedom Convoy members see themselves as entitled to freedom, no matter the public health consequences to those around them.

      I can only conclude that Ms. Dysart does not approve of freedom.

      Perhaps they should have called it the Equity Convoy.

      • SDF-7

        You know — when you take into account that by “whiteness” what they really mean is “what we used to call Western Civilization”, that’s rather a ringing endorsement *for* it.

        Or is she seriously trying to say that “The notion of servitude is the historic lot of all non-whites”. Because I don’t think that’s really what you want to be trotting out when you’re calling the other side racist….

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        She’s utterly unserious. Her conclusions are pre-formed and everything is attributable to them.

        I’m reminded of an anecdote from Gad Saad:

        A PhD candidate at Hebrew University forms a thesis: IDF forces regularly rape Palestinian women.

        She sets out to prove the thesis but cannot find a single instance.

        Conclusion: IDF Forces do not rape Palestinian women because the IDF Forces are racist and will not touch what they consider to be unclean.

      • ron73440

        Conclusion: IDF Forces do not rape Palestinian women because the IDF Forces are racist and will not touch what they consider to be unclean.

        Prove it wrong.

        You can’t

        Checkmate

      • Mad Scientist

        The belief that one’s entitlement to freedom is a key component of White supremacy.

        So Whiteness equals entitlement to freedom, implying Blackness equals entitlement to slavery, I suppose.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I doubt she’s even gotten that far in her analysis.

        Contemporary programs put more emphasis on form, usage of the correct words, and assumptions than they do on analysis. She may as well be a priest uttering mangled Latin phrases while the laity genuflect every time they hear a word they think they understand.

      • Count Potato

        Even her word usage sounds wrong. Shouldn’t that be “The belief that one is entitled to freedom is a key component of White supremacy” ?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Nice catch. About as edited as one of my shitposts.

      • Mad Scientist

        Hell, it SHOULD be a complete sentence.

      • The Other Kevin

        Black people historically aren’t really into freedom, it’s more of a white thing. SMDH.

      • Lackadaisical

        Slaves hardest hit.

        Guessing most were pretty interested in freedom.

  3. WTF

    FORESEEABLE CONSEQUENCES ARE NOT UNINTENDED: Five major Canadian banks were hit by an hours-long outage on Wednesday, convincing some that a bank run might be occurring

    Gee, when they show you that they can seize money in your bank account on a whim, it makes sense to take it out of the bank.

    • SDF-7

      Ha! Shows what they know — my bills do that already!

      Oh… wait….

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Is it time for the guillotines yet?

      • WTF

        Way past.

      • Drake

        “These people want you broke, dead, your children brainwashed and raped, and they think it’s funny”

        – Samuel Hyde

    • Ghostpatzer

      Dark days.

    • Tonio

      It is time to wreck their economy. There is more than one way to destabilize a third-world country, eh, Sloper?

    • Compelled Speechless

      The word gets overused and hyperbolized to death, but this is pure fucking fascism. This is what it looks like. “You can’t buy food unless sit down, shut up and do whatever we tell you.” Literally theft with no recourse and the banks gleefully smile along as it happens. Instead of the United States being laboratories for “democracy” the global elite has turned the entire Western world into laboratories of tyranny.

  4. db

    Regarding Animal’s post of the Winchester 52B in the prior thread…

    I remember shooting those in collegiate indoor smallbore competition. Our club team had a rack full of those for those of us that didn’t have our own competition rifles.

    • db

      No scope though.

    • Animal

      I’d really rather have one of the rather rare Model 52 Sporters, but if you can find them, they command some fancy prices.

      I mean a real Winchester one, not one of the knockoffs Browning brought out of Mikoru a few years ago. Those were OK rifles but I want an original.

    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      I have one of the main competitors to the Winchester, a Mossberg 144. No scope, of course, it’s diopter irons all the way.

  5. Fourscore

    All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party Mao

    • Fourscore

      It’s all about who has the guns…

  6. Mustang

    If there’s a run on the banks and Canada causes a global depression, I can finally blame them for something!

    • Sean

      Canada causes a global depression

      That’s just loonie.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Sore-y

      • The Other Kevin

        I’m sure it will be done syruptitiously.

      • ron73440

        They maple the money out before the government steals it

      • Tres Cool

        Gonna drain that tree.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      We need a run on the banks in Canada. It would dissuade the pols at least partially.

  7. The Other Kevin

    So far we have “Jewish people stand with a swastika”, and “Only white people like freedom”. There is some crazy shit out there today.

    • Count Potato

      Today?

      • ron73440

        Today?

        That was my first thought also.

        Are you new here TOK?

      • The Other Kevin

        Just seems a bit more blatant these days.

  8. Tres Cool

    I truly do like the way the Canucks have the English system, and can directly address whoever in Parliament. And the PM is there.
    Id love to see Joe stumble into the house or senate, and have to defend himself.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The constant push-up contests would get boring.

      • Tres Cool

        “Look, fat- Im not here to do all that, OK? When I was a lifeguard colored kids rubbed my legs. Cause the hair- I had blonde hair that stood up. And they’d never seen that. And I out-push-up corn pop. He was a bad dude.”

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Could Joe Biden do 1?

      • Fourscore

        Joe shows up with a pool chain

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        We definitely need more of that.

    • Tonio

      We have floor speeches, too, but they are often to a (mostly) empty chamber. Having the PM there is one of the best things about the parliamentary system. The speaker’s wig is a close second.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I can’t see those things without wondering if they bring them to the swingers’ parties.

  9. Fourscore

    When we were fishing Ontario the outfitter only took US cash for payment, no checks, no credit cards. Not sure why. Sounds suspicious.

    • Swiss Servator

      “We put Hate Birds on our money…would you trust it?!”

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      Heh.

      When I was a kid and my dad took us fishing at various lodges in northwestern Ontario (around the Kenora area), the native guides there were also insistent on U.S. cash. In hindsight, I figured they were making runs across the border to stock up on cheap liquor, cigarettes, etc. Woulda made sense at that place and time.

      • Surly Knott

        Ever stay at Portage Bay? My family went pretty much every year of my childhood. Kendra was a well-kept town back in the day.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        The only place near Kenora (“Kendra”? Someone on your mind? ;-) ) that I remember was “Ernie Ball’s Eagle Lake Lodge” or somesuch, around a hundred klicks east of Kenora. Had to fly in by floatplane, although as we discovered later, there was actually a hidden road through a forest cut that went back to Kenora (nowadays, Google Maps shows a road all the way there). This was back in the mid-to-late 60s. Ernie caught Hell from some of the guests when they figured out that his story that “everything had to be flown in by floatplane” was puffery designed to justify the incredibly high prices for everything at the lodge. It was the last time my dad went there.

        As I recall, the fishing was good — walleye, northern pike, muskie, etc. Walleye’s one of the few fresh-water fish that I actually enjoy.

      • Surly Knott

        Sigh. Autocorrect strikes again.
        Portage Bay was inaccessible except by boat or plane. Boat out of Kenora was the usual approach, but some came in from War Road. IIRC it was 30 miles by boat from Kenora.
        My high school English teacher and her husband stayed at Devil’s Gap.
        This all late 50s to mid 60s or so.

  10. Count Potato

    I’m as intellectual as an uneven pile of bricks, but a “PhD candidate in the department of history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania, where her research examines the intertwined worlds of healing, science, indigeneity and settler colonialism in the Amazon” sounds like a cunt.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      sociology of science

      Somebody is going to have to explain that one to me because it sure sounds like a bunch of bullshit.

      • Chafed

        Psssst. It is bullshit.

    • The Other Kevin

      Sounds more like a barista to me.

      • Count Potato

        That would require actual work.

    • Tonio

      “indigeneity” was my favorite part. Word for the day!

    • Animal

      You’d let her get behind you?

  11. ron73440

    Got the chest put away, now to start transferring tools from the old box.

    • Sean

      *points to avatar*

      • ron73440

        I should get one for my wife.

        In the last two years, she has been rear ended, hit a deer, ran over a bucket, and last week a large rock bounced into the headlight.

        All in her Corolla and always when she is by herself.

        She doesn’t work, so she’s not on the roads half as much as I am.

      • slumbrew

        Perfect birthday present for her.

      • ron73440

        Tempting, but she was a little defensive when I was teasing her the other day.

        She had no idea that an oriental woman being a bad driver was a thing.

        To be fair, all of the above incidences were not her fault.

      • slumbrew

        You can assure her we think Asian dudes are bad drivers too.

      • Gustave Lytton ????

        I was surprised you didn’t go with that one the first time…

      • Sensei

        I was thinking more the “beginner mechanic”.

    • ron73440

      I guess some of Imgur’s regular users found my post.

      I got 3 comments:

      quietwalker
      •18m ago via Web
      Not just a place for your tools, but a place of a tool (not pictured).
      6
      BodhisattvaDog
      •20m ago via iPhone
      Nice insurrectionist flag dumdum
      4
      Clockworkdancerobot
      •5m ago via Web
      Wow, rarely you see a terrorist out themselves.

      I hate people.

      • slumbrew

        I suppose it technically is an insurrectionist flag. They say that like it’s a bad thing.

      • slumbrew

        I’ve been using imgbb.com for sharing such pics, since imgur is a filled with assholes.

      • ron73440

        Maybe I’ll do that, I don’t post many except for what I put on here.

      • ron73440

        Oh no, I got a fourth comment:

        graehall
        •2m ago via Web
        So much economic anxiety, I can see why you just had to become a white supremacist neo-nazi. And you focused the shot on your dumb flags.

      • Animal

        Can you disable comments?

      • ron73440

        I don’t see how, don’t really care.

        I am down to a -15 on the like scale.

        Hope I can recover from this.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        ^^THIS. They’re not your audience — you don’t owe them a feedback mechanism.

      • ron73440

        I can make it hidden, but it’s funnier this way.

        Note to self: In the future, stay off Imgur.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Yup always post private. Hell, I got hecklers one time on a picture of chicken on my grill. Imgur is a cesspool.

      • rhywun

        Ignorant morons pounce!

      • Sean

        LOL

      • kbolino

        They’re meat-bots, no soul, no brain, just pattern recognition and recycled scripts

      • Tonio

        “dumdum”

        Heh.

  12. Drake

    The Canadian Emergency Measures Regulations only apply to white people.

    Exemption

    (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to

    (a) a person registered as an Indian under the Indian Act;
    (b) a person who has been recognized as a Convention refugee or a person in similar circumstances to those of a Convention refugee within the meaning of subsection 146(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations who is issued a permanent resident visa under subsection 139(1) of those regulations;
    (c) a person who has been issued a temporary resident permit within the meaning of subsection 24(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and who seeks to enter Canada as a protected temporary resident under subsection 151.1(2) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations;
    (d) a person who seeks to enter Canada for the purpose of making a claim for refugee protection;
    (e) a protected person;
    (f) a person or any person in a class of persons whose presence in Canada, as determined by the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration or the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, is in the national interest.

    • ron73440

      Is (e) a protected person a non-white?

      I’ve seen several darker skin tones in the protest.

      I’m sure the Twink of the North will make up a way around that.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Black and brown faces of white-supremacy excepted of course.

    • ron73440

      Funny because it’s true.

  13. grrizzly

    Mahmoud Ahmadinejad:

    The Violent crackdown on #FreedomConvoy2022 has nothing to do with freedom of speech and human rights. How coercion could be related to liberty & freedom of choice?
    #TruckersForFreedom

    • slumbrew

      That’s some quality shit-posting.

      • grrizzly

        Canada fully deserves it. Soviet dissidents were never banned from having an account with Sberkassa, the only financial institution in the Soviet Union to store the savings of the population.

      • slumbrew

        I’m not saying they don’t. It’s some banana-republic shit they’re doing.

      • rhywun

        We’re not far behind.

      • Sensei

        US firearm and gun related business say “hi”!

      • Drake

        Our leaders will get over it eventually.

    • Ownbestenemy

      For the lulz and to get on another list I retweeted it and followed him. I am sure the FedGov will love that

    • Chafed

      I hate to say it but he isn’t wrong.

  14. Count Potato

    “What AOC Learned From Trump

    The divide in the Democratic Party is less about ideology than state of mind…

    The lesson many Democrats have learned from watching two previous Republican presidents — Donald Trump and George W. Bush, both of whom took office under disputed circumstances with a minority of the popular vote — is that political realities can be shaped by self-confident proclamation. Power can be seized by equally self-confident assertion. They did it on behalf of what the left saw as a benighted agenda that favored racists and the wealthy. No reason progressives can’t do it on behalf of an enlightened agenda — and awaken a robust majority that would be there if only people were presented sharp choices rather than blurry ones.

    Meanwhile, these same people see the last two Democratic presidents — Obama and Bill Clinton — squandering their opportunities and disappointing natural supporters through constant calibration and by pretending that it is still the 1970s, and that the political game as the establishment plays it is still somehow on the level.

    The Bush-Trump model is based on mobilization of natural allies. The Clinton-Obama model is based on a forlorn effort at persuasion of a dwindling group of people attracted by cautious, middle-of-the-road politics. That is why AOC in the New Yorker urged Biden to forget about congressional approval and simply cancel student loan debt by executive order. (She didn’t pause after this passing aside to defend why such an action is “entirely within his power legally” or why this policy is genuinely progressive, since recipients of higher education usually command higher lifetime incomes than the average taxpayer.)

    Such details are almost beside the point. The persuasion versus mobilization fault line is likely the most consequential remaining divide in both parties — Republicans no less than Democrats.”

    https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/17/what-aoc-learned-from-trump-00009700

    • slumbrew

      The Clinton-Obama model is based on a forlorn effort at persuasion…

      That’s the stupidest thing I’ve read all day.

      “I won – elections have consequences”

      “I have a pen and a phone”

      • kbolino

        Don’t forget the classic, “I’ll have more flexibility after the election”, said to *checks notes* the President of Russia.

    • rhywun

      I’m all for AOC making an ass out of herself by demanding radical, illegal actions that nobody but her elite base wants.

    • B.P.

      “We aren’t progging hard enough” is always the answer.

    • kbolino

      Trump got a larger share of the popular vote in 2016 than Clinton did in 1992, but I guess the Electoral College is okay sometimes.

  15. Raven Nation

    That Lantsman take-down is pretty good and she does it without shouting.

    I think it’s a reasonable sign that one side is winning the rhetorical war when their opponents don’t refute their arguments but start calling them names (see also New Zealand and Australia).

    Kind of like when many of the people opposing the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s gave up on any merits to their position and called their opponents communists.

    • kbolino

      Kind of like when many of the people opposing the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s gave up on any merits to their position and called their opponents communists.

      Spoiler alert: they were right

    • Chafed

      You’re right.

  16. Ownbestenemy

    Beginning to look like the previous chief of Ottawa was pushed out so Castro Jr could put in a strong man…but history wouldn’t repeat right?

    • Sean

      My shocked faced. ?

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      The replacement for the Chief of Police that was tagged a couple of days ago actually resigned today, before he’d even arrived in Ottawa. Probably saw the shit-show that’s been going on the last 48 hours or so and noped right outta that. Smart move.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        If that’s from today, it’s some other d00d, probably temping from somewhere further down the seniority ladder. No idea who he is, though.

        The shit-show continues.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Someone who is willing to go along for a nice seat in the high council and a set of chest medals.

      • Chafed

        That’s incredible. Has Canadian news covered it? Link?

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        I assume that, since the YouTwitFace account is that of a CBC reporter, it might be found on CBC somewhere, but really, I couldn’t give a shit.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        This Diane Deans?? LMAO

  17. Count Potato

    “Attention animal owners at demonstration

    If you are unable to care for your animal as a result of enforcement actions, your animal will placed into protective care for 8 days, at your cost. After 8 days, if arrangements are not made, your animal will be considered relinquished.”

    https://twitter.com/OttawaBylaw/status/1494306645274509316

    Let’s kill their dogs, eh?

    • Ownbestenemy

      They tried threatening the children but are thinking the dogs would be easier to use as a pretense. I don’t think they thought this through.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      That’s one of the things I’ve noticed about animal bylaw control officers; none of them that I’ve ever encountered anywhere in Canada appear to actually like animals.  ?

  18. Count Potato

    After reading Libs of Tik Tok, I’ve decided I’m in favor of school shootings if they only shoot the teachers.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Go for the schools of education first

      • kbolino

        Statistics you will never find published by a major university: the average SAT/ACT/GRE scores (which are IQ tests in all but name) for education students vs. the school as a whole.

      • C. Anacreon

        The late PJ O’Rourke once wrote “anyone who doesn’t understand the failure of modern American public education never dated an El-Ed major in college.”

      • Count Potato

        Good idea — more target-rich environment.

  19. hayeksplosives

    Just for grins, I visited cnn.com, Fox News.com, nbc, etc.

    Not a stitch of coverage on the Canada convoy and crackdown.

    You could live in an entirely separate reality than your neighbor across the street if you didn’t actively seek out news coverage other than MSM.

    Trudeau has revealed himself as pure evil, but he’ll probably get re-elected because nobody’s paying attention.

    • Gustave Lytton ????

      And it’s a parliamentary system so only his own riding directly elects him.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Yeah, the riding of Papineau (urban Montréal) loves them some Trudeau DNA.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      Trudeau has revealed himself as pure evil, but he’ll probably get re-elected because nobody’s paying attention.

      It wouldn’t surprise me if Canada’s election system is just as rigged as ours.

      I saw your post earlier and am sorry you went through that. Are you feeling better?

  20. Tulip

    Babs is home and miserable in her cone. I feel like the worst owner ever.

    • Ownbestenemy

      At least she is home! Babs pictured

    • ron73440

      It sucks when they don’t understand.

      How long is recovery?

      • Tulip

        Cone 24/7 for TWO weeks.

      • Tulip

        Unfortunately, won’t work because we are protecting her eye.

      • ron73440

        My dog beat the hell out of our legs with that damn cone after we got him fixed.

        When he would run to see you, it was scary.

      • Tulip

        When they brought her out she was shaky but ambulatory and tried to run to me – sorta stumbling. Also her blood pressure went up (according to vet) and she started bleeding a little. It stopped quickly, but …scary. Oscar is very jealous of the attention Babs is getting. I finally got Babs settled and he is demanding to be on my lap.

      • ron73440

        Jealous dogs are fun.

        My Australian Shepard wants picked up every time I hug my wife.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      You aren’t. Give her reassurance as much as possible, along with whatever treats it’s safe to give her.

    • Gustave Lytton ????

      Huzzah! And you’re not. Babs will forgive you long before you forgive yourself.

      • Gustave Lytton ????

        Not that there’s anything to forgive really. Give her a ear rub for me.

    • Ghostpatzer

      I feel like the worst owner ever.

      No way! You did her a solid even if she doesn’t realize it. Wishing her a speedy recovery.

    • Tulip

      The drive home was terrifying as she went from calm to panicked just as I hit 495. During rush hour.

    • The Last American Hero

      We found the sleeve worked better than the cone. Looks like a baby onesie. Dog didn’t mind wearing it as much.

      • Tulip

        Wouldn’t stop her rubbing her face and eye on stuff. Problem is protecting her eye.

  21. wdalasio

    The belief that one’s entitlement to freedom is a key component of White supremacy.

    She’s saying out loud what the rest of the woke brigade is more careful about leaving unsaid. They often will couch discussions of rights as “privilege” to be “checked”. For sane people, rights are universal. A discrepancy between white people’s rights being recognized and black people’s rights or Native Americans’ rights being recognized isn’t necessarily the discrepancy, per se. It’s that those other people’s rights aren’t being fully recognized. Being black or Native American or whatever doesn’t bar you from having those rights and violating those rights is immoral for anyone. But, the woke will tell you that white people having those rights is an example of “privilege”. And they’ll actively evade the notion of extending them universally in favor of negating them universally, that because other people’s rights are ignored, so should white peoples’. Well, no. The only moral answer is to recognize everyone’s rights.

    • Mad Scientist

      They’re not looking for a moral answer. They’re looking for a rationalization for their authoritarian ambitions.

      • kbolino

        ^

        Note that complaints about past injustices become louder and more shrill over time, when one would reasonably assume that the more time between awful events and the present would diminish the emotional impact. The creation and elevation of this caricature is intentional, though; every contour of it is designed so that an inverse version of it can be justified later.

      • Mad Scientist

        I’m not sure they have a design when it comes to specific instances like this. They’re just slowly adopting the absurd logical conclusions of their fucked up premises, and rationalizing them. It will end in the same place it always does.

      • kbolino

        The design evolves through revenge fantasy and wish fulfillment rather than intelligent architecture, but I think it’s designed all the same.

    • slumbrew

      The fact that we think all people are entitled to freedom, regardless of their phenotypical traits, means we’re racist. I think; it’s hard to keep up.

      • Mad Scientist

        Haven’t you heard? Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Some of them, yes.

      That chick is just dull.

      • B.P.

        And trying to seem like a leading-edge thinker by employing a shop-worn, carefully curated cant, which, once sifted through, is just a pile of nonsense.

  22. Ownbestenemy

    What worries me is as Canada continues to crack down on what by all means is peaceful protests, eventually some of them will feel “Im going to prison anyway, might as well go for something I deserve to go for”

    • Gustave Lytton ????

      Yep. Which will be used for further spiraling escalation.

      • Gustave Lytton ????

        And those pencil dick Stasi might start feel some actual fear that they won’t go home safely that night.

      • Animal

        And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat.

        Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He saw it happen.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        It’s already spiraling. Seizing bank accounts, pets, and children. These are redlines worth killing and dying over.

      • Ownbestenemy

        And now the organizers are all getting round up on sight.

      • Tonio

        They’re spraying herbicide on them?

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      What worries me is as Canada continues to crack down on what by all means is peaceful protests, eventually some of them will feel “Im going to prison anyway, might as well go for something I deserve to go for”

      I’m worried about the opposite…. that they won’t resist if rounded up. That’s the time… it’s too late afterwards and it’s clear Trudea means to destroy them. If they aren’t rounded up, then by all means stay peaceful.

      Here’s a couple more Solzhenitsyn quotes that have really stuck with me:

      Resistance! Why didn’t you resist? Today those who have continued to live on in comfort scold those who suffered.
      Yes, resistance should have begun right there, at the moment of the arrest itself.
      But it did not begin

      At what exact point, then, should one resist? When one’s belt is taken away? When one is ordered to face into a corner? When one crosses the threshold of one’s home? An arrest consists of a series of incidental irrelevancies, of a multitude of things that do not matter, and there seems no point in arguing about any of them individually- especially at a time when the thoughts of the person arrested are wrapped tightly around the big question: “What for?”- and yet all of these incidental irrelevancies taken together implacably constitute the arrest.

      • ron73440

        Scary quotes from a scary book.

        Did you read The First Circle?

        It’s fiction, but all too realistic.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I haven’t but it looks interesting. Will add to the book list, thanks.

  23. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    Posted earlier but no one noticed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK4I1peWAMU

    Live from the heart of the Ottawa convoy, in a makeshift shed with a generator and Starlink internet

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Thems some tough people, it’s bloody cold right now,
      Rise!

    • creech

      I can’t think of any way to help out our Canadian brothers other than each of us send an e-mail to the ” “Ontario Visitors bureau” saying we are cancelling any plans to vacation in Canada because of the totalitarian measures that have been taken against peaceful protestors.

      • B.P.

        If you chip in a little to one of the crowdfunding accounts, the Washington Post will call you to get your take on the situation. That might help get the message out.

  24. B.P.

    I’m a member of a local chapter of an international philanthropic organization. I just got the international organization magazine in the mail. There’s an article about a beach clean-up effort in Taiwan, and the article refers to “China Taiwan” throughout. I’ve never seen that formulation before. I assume it’s an effort to placate the Chinese government.

    • creech

      That international org can read the tea leaves as well as anyone, given who is in the WH.

    • rhywun

      The sports world (FIFA, IOC, etc.) has called it “Chinese Taipei” for a few years. It’s pretty damn sickening.

      • Gustave Lytton ????

        Chinese Taipei is name used by Taiwan to participe in international sports. There was a referendum to change the name in 2018 but was defeated.

  25. Tulip

    Belated thank you to Tonio for illustrating my post earlier today.

  26. Brochettaward

    I ordered chicken wings through Ubereats.

    They will be delivered by a black driver named Hitler.

    • B.P.

      My dad was right: Your actions reflect on your family. The Hitler family will never get over that one guy from 80 years ago.

      • Raven Nation

        Which is unfair: the Schicklgrubers got away scot free.

    • hayeksplosives

      My all-time favorite Uber message I received was “Jesus is arriving in 12 minutes.”

  27. Brochettaward

    If you had told 20 years ago that the left would be the ones using the terrorism laws passed in the wake of 9/11 to crack down on political opponents/dissidents, I would have found that….entirely believable. Because progressives have always basically just been squishy fascists even in the best of times.

  28. hayeksplosives

    Canadian civil war is the weirdest civil war.

    That pet confiscation thing is gonna bring out the John Wick in somebody…

    • Ownbestenemy

      Dr. Fork up top provided us with a visual of that. Also they are pressuring now regarding the children that are there. That to me only means one thing…they don’t want the optics of a Waco reenactment when they come in heavy.

    • Drake

      I was thinking some bankers might become room temperature if they steal the wrong guy’s money.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Im waiting for them to find the one Ukranian or Russian immigrant that is now a Canadian citizen that dontated to trot out as proof it was all backed by the Rooooshans

  29. commodious spittoon

    Putin is Jules. Denys Shmyhal is Pumpkin.

    Biden is Honey Bunny.

    • hayeksplosives

      I’m kinda glad I have no idea what you’re talking about.

      • Brochettaward

        9/11. AIDS.

        IT’S ALL CONNECTED. TWINE ON THE BOARD LEADS TO OTHER PIECES OF TWINE ON THE BOARD FORMING A WEB OF DECEIT.

      • commodious spittoon

        Diner scene from Pulp Fiction.

        Not sure who Vincent is.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I am sure the woman in red would break my dick off, hollow it out and then use it as the new conch.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Head hunter?

    • B.P.

      Holy shit.

  30. C. Anacreon

    I want Gordilocks to publish his greatest Tweets as “Gord’s Gold”.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I second this motion

    • The Hyperbole

      It’s like you read my mind.

  31. Ownbestenemy

    Heh. My wife asked “How do you know all the words to the Canadian national anthem?”

    You would not be a true fan of hockey if you didn’t otherwise.

    • rhywun

      I’m still pissed they wokified it.

      • Ownbestenemy

        We watch the games and mute if the commentary gets off track from the game. We noticed that if the game is slow, they fill it with the bullshit. Otherwise its play by play.

      • rhywun

        I meant the anthem.

    • B.P.

      There’s a theory about that the Dems’ internal polling is shit due to continued COVID hysteria and the State of the Union address is Biden’s opportunity to declare victory over the dreaded disease and lift mandates. Perhaps at the speech all the Dems will be sitting six feet apart in hazmat suits, Biden will declare victory, and they will all rip off their PPE and run into each others’ arms. A coronavirus VE Day.