Further to yesterday's post...

This is not going to be easy or pleasant...

It's less than a week until Mid-Term Election Day. The pollsters, as usual, are projecting a "blue wave" -- huge gains for the Dimocrats, the Republicans losing control of both the House and the Senate, a day of reckoning for the Donald, yada yada yada. A few are hedging their bets by saying it's going to be close, but mostly the pack "thinking" is that the result is a foregone conclusion. What they really want is for those of us who are MAGA-minded to feel the cause is lost and stay home!

Walt sez... don't do it! Get out and vote! Even if you have to hold your nose, go to the only polls that count, and vote for what you know is right!

Let's be clear here. The mid-term elections are not a referendum on President Trump. This is  not a recall vote. You may be suffering from terminal TDS, but you can't vote to recall him. Senator Schiff (D-CA) can threaten the President with a third impeachment if his party wins control of Congress, but, as the senator should remember, impeachment does not automatically lead to removal from office. DJT will still be in the White House on November 4th, likely until January of 2029.

Make no mistake. This is not an endorsement of President Trump or his policies. Walt is deeply disappointed in what he has done... and not done... since being re-elected a short two years ago. [Seems like much longer, doesn't it? Ed.]

Walt approves of the arrest and "remigration" of illegal and undesirable aliens, especially those who are trying to kill us and destroy our Western(ish) society. We call for more ICE, and believe the Republicans will continue working on that.

Walt condemns President Trump's betrayal of Ukraine and cosying-up to the dictator Putin. We haven't heard the Dimocrats, who are apparently preoccupied with the Iran war to the exclusion of all else, promise to join with the EU and Canada to give Ukraine the support and arms it needs to repel the Russian invaders and put an end to this illegal and unjust war.

President Trump told us there would be no more foreign wars. Now the US of A is embroiled in yet another war in the Mid-East, and DJT seems unable to decide whether to fish [with dynamite! Ed.] or cut bait. The Dimocrats, led by anti-Semites, want to make it all about Israel. Do you really trust them to get America out of that mess?

And how about the Donald's war... trade war... on Canada? How delusional, how insane is that? [Almost as crazy as threatening to invade Greenland! Ed.] But do the Dims, historically the party of protectionism, have any plan for re-establishing free(r) trade with Canada and/or Mexico, without losing control of America's borders?

That last one... the unnecessary trade wars and other fights with our allies and friends... is the one that's costing American taxpayers money. Are you paying too much for gas? Canada has lots of it that they'll sell cheap. All that's needed is more and bigger  pipelines, which the Democrats oppose. Who killed the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office? Comatose Joe Biden, with the stroke of an autopen. Who revived it, four years later? President Trump!

Do you need more potash-based fertilizer to make your corn grow? Who would you rather buy it from, Canada or... who else is there? Does the Trump tariff make sense? And what about a nice shot of Crown Royal? Oh, not available in the US any more. 

This just in! [Sorry to interrupt. Ed.] On Friday, President Trump added tariffs to 100 more Canadian goods, including municipal waste, meaning garbage from households and businesses. MI Senate hopeful Mike Rogers applauded the move, saying Canada’s "trash trucks" have been "a huge problem" for his state. That's a bit rich coming from someone who also says in a campaign video, "Here in Michigan, we know that Canada is not our enemy. We need to end this tariff war now."

The Dimocrats can't promise to fix the tariffs or anything else if they regain control of Congress. What they can do, however, is put pressure on President Trump to reverse or at least modify his disastrous foreign and economic policies. 

But, do you trust the party of AOC, Ilhan Omar, Sen. Schiff and the Prez to genuinely try to fix things? Or do you suspect, as Walt does, that the next Congress will be all about getting even with the Donald for all the wrongs, real and imagined, he's done over the past two years. 

Walt foresees an endless cycle of Democratic bills and Trump vetos, more and more lawsuits over the Constitution crawling their way up to SCOTUS, and the machineries of government grinding to a halt. Don't vote for that! Hold your nose and vote Republican. The alternative is even worse.

Further reading (added 29/10/26): "Newsom Touts California As The Only State Where You Can See A Homeless Man Defecating On A Beach And On A Mountain In The Same Day", from the Babylon Bee (of course),

Real Conservatives alive and WINNING in Canada's la-la-land

The province of British Columbia is to Canada what California is to the US of A. The Sunset Coast is where you'll find retirees from TROC, aged-out hippies (particularly on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, as Walt learned last month), an enclave of "Khalistan" still known by its colonial name, Surrey, and small but whiny minorities of Coast Indians First Nations. 

Coastal BC is, like coastal California (as opposed to the interior), the sort of place where loony liberal ideas originate and spread eastward, and where conservatives are few on the ground. In Canadian federal elections, BC voters can be counted on to send Liberal and NDP members to Parliament, and even one tired and emotional Green Party nut, the inevitable Elizabeth May.

Provincial elections are much the same, with Liberals and socialist Knee-Dippers vying for powers and Conservatives gnashing their teeth far from the Speaker's throne. In the mid-20th century there was a party called Social Credit, which was a populist conservative group not unlike the Tea Party or the MAGA movement in the US of A, which held power in the `50s and `60s but vanished in the early manifestations of liberal wokeism.

Late this summer, the crypto-socialist NDP, led by Premier David Eby, were in power provincially with a slim majority in the Legislature. In the name of "reconciliation", they had caved to First Nations demands for the return of "unceded territory" and (of course) money (and lots of it) as reparations for the evils of colonialism, residential schools, yada yada yada. Moreover, faithful to their anti-business, anti-oil credo, the lefties had declared that they would block any attempt to build new oil/gas pipelines through BC to the tidewaters. 

The Conservative opposition was in disarray. Their latest leader, an inexperienced Karen type named Kerry-Lynne Findlay [Why are so many middle-aged female politicians the angry blonde wokester type? Ed.] had done more to divide her party than to unite it, and was on her way out the door, propelled by the feet of half a dozen Conservative MLAs.

What better time, Premier Eby must have thought, to call a snap election and consolidate his grip on power. That's what he did, and when Walt got to BC in late September the campaign was in full swing and Mr Eby's pretext for going to the well before time was being called "suicidal", which was just how it turned out.

To the surprise of no-one (except perhaps Mr Eby), the British Columbia Conservatives, led perforce by their interim leader Lorne Doerkson, toppled the incumbents to win what can fairly be called a landslide majority. At 0150 PDT, the Conservatives were elected or leading in 64 of the Legislature's 93 ridings. The NDP had 27 and the BC Green Party 2. The Conservatives will not form the provincial government for the first time since 1928!  

The Conservative victory will be talked more than most because of what it portends for the politics of Canuckistan as a hole. As mentioned above, Kerry-Lynne Findlay's resignation left the BC Conservatives in disarray. Some of the MLAs elected under their banner had fled to the fledgling CentreBC party. Lorne Doerkson was vacationing in Africa. Today, Mr Doerkson is the incoming premier, and the New Democrats will have their smallest caucus since the election of 2001.

The decision by the Conservatives to quickly coalesce around Mr Doerkson and pivot their message to focus on the economy and protection of existing land rights will be studied and debated for years. But the bigger focus will be on David Eby’s decision to follow through with a snap election even after Ms Findlay’s resignation. 

The Canadian right badly needed this win. After the 2025 federal election, many Conservatives remain haunted by their unexpected defeat at the hands of the Natural Governing Liberal Party of Canada, led by the Rt.Hon. Marx Carnage. This came after they had already been denied the chance to deliver Justin Trudeau a well-deserved reckoning after he stepped down before facing voters a fourth time. 

At provincial, as well as federal levels, Conservative activists, staffers and volunteers must have wondered whether their efforts would ever be rewarded. There was always another week of knocking on doors, manufacturing hope for a favourable poll and coming up with explanations to cope with the latest setbacks. People can only take so many defeats before it all becomes too much. Not this time, however. 

Experienced organizers -- some of them disgruntled Liberals -- and frustrated federal Tories converged on BC. Former federal Conservative staffers and local veterans helped unite the right. By the end of the campaign, the NDP seemed determined to make enemies wherever they could, rather than campaigning on their record. It paid off in spades for the Conservatives, including a generation that came of age in the post-Stephen Harper decade, an especially bleak period for the right. 

Now, conservatives can walk with true swagger, having decisively defeated a powerful "progressive" government outside the traditional conservative heartland in the prairie provinces. They have learned which quarrels can wait, how a coalition recovers and what happens when the desire to govern finally outranks the desire to police each other.  One hopes this campaign and its excellent result have set an example for true conservatives across Canada... and perhaps even south of the border.

Remember this!

Edmund Burke, the Irish philosopher and statesmen, supposedly said, "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." 

Some say that's Bartlett's paraphrase, but it's still a good aphorism to keep in mind. The evil guys are out there doing their damndest to overturn our Church, our governments, our entire Western society. What have you done today to resist them?

Please! Not "back to the future"!

VIDEO: Great Replacement riots spread across Europe: Victor Davis Hanson warns America's next!

Yesterday, in "German chancellor admits that unfettered immigration caused chaos...", Walt says (in effect) "What'd I tell ya?!" Yes, Walt (and scores of other commentators going back to Hilaire Belloc) has been saying for decades that importing millions of aliens from the Middle East and Africa who are inimical to Western culture and Christian values can only result in disaster -- the Great Replacement predicted by (among others), Charles DeGaulle. See"Les mots prescients du Général de Gaulle", WWW 31/3/21.

German Chancellor Fred Merz made his admission with a straight face while failing to acknowledge that mass immigration exacerbated many of the issues he listed, while studies have consistently found that increased diversity is not a strength but a recipe for civilizational suicide. 

How much longer Hewrr Merz and other western politicians can pretend there is no connection is anybody's guess. When I say "western politicians", I include the liberal wokesters of all the AABC countries. Do they not recognize that what's happening in Europe today is bound to happen in their lands tomorrow? That's what Victor David Hanson talks about in his latest Daily Brief, "What's Happening in Europe Is Coming to America".

In this video, Mr Hanson warns that the unrest sweeping parts of Europe offers a troubling glimpse of America's future. He talks about what he believes the Western nations are getting wrong, from immigration and violent crime to political leadership and the growing divide between Europe and the United States.

With Jack Fowler, Mr Hanson also discusses Sen. Elissa Slotkin's comments about pursuing legal cases against Trump administration officials, President Trump's strategy (if any) for ending the Russia-Ukraine war, and the growing pressure on NATO allies to take responsibility for European security.

They also examine unrest in France, debates over immigration and criminal justice in Germany, and the consequences of policies Mr Hanson argues have weakened Western societies. Finally, he responds to President 0's recent criticism of Israel, revisiting the Iran nuclear deal, the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the broader political struggle over the Middle East.

Seen on the Babylon Bee

OK, here's the link.