Previewing the Canadiens' 2022-23 season

Ed. here. Canada's team, the Montréal Canadiens, open their 2022-23 National Hockey League season on October 12th, against the Toronto Maple Leafs. We've had to ask our National Sports (as long as its hockey) Editor, Poor Len Canayen, three times for a prognostication. Here it is.

Tank youse, Hed. Da truth, and da hole truth, is dat I've watched the Habs in three pre-season games this week, and can't find anything positive to say, so I was hoping you wouldn't call on me. The outlook isn't brilliant. Or good. It's grim.

Here's the record. On Tuesday, the Habs lost to New Jersey, 2-1. On Wednesday, the Maple Laffs shut them out, 3-0. Last night, Winnipeg scored with 18 seconds left in regulation time for a 4-3 win -- third loss in three nights for the Bleu, Blanc et Rouge.

It must be said that the teams on the ice were a  quick mix of one or two veterans and (mostly) AHL players and rookies who are unlikely to be with the big team after the final selection is made. From front to back, here's why the Canadiens will struggle to stay out of the NHL cellar.

Forwards: The Habs were outshot in all three games, and held scoreless in the second. Three of their four goals came from superstar-to-be Cole Caufield (2) and old pro Brendan Gallagher. Kayden Guhle [Who he? Ed.] scored the fourth. Jonathon Drouin didn't play, nor did Nick Suzuki.

Rookies Juraj Slafkovsky (first draft pick in June) and Filip Mesar played but we didn't see enough of them to make any predictions. Management would be smart to let Slafkovsky get some experience in Laval before rushing him into the breach.

Gallagher will have to stay healthy (let us pray) and Drouin will have to get healthy, physically and mentally, for the team to have any real scoring punch. That wouldn't matter if the Habs had a solid defence.

Defence: What keeps de cows in de field? De fence! What don't de Habs got? De fence! With Shea Weber retired, Joel Edmundson, who played only a few games towards the end of last season, was expected to anchor the blue line. Alas, his back is bothering him again and he could wind up on the LTIR. 

The alleged defencemen who played this week are hasbeens (Denis Savard), rookies destined for the AHL, or some who belong in the AHL (maybe) but played with the big team last year, faut de mieux. That wouldn't matter if the Habs had reliable goaltending.

Goaltenders: Jake Allen looked good, allowing just one goal in two partial games, with a save pct of about .925. But remember, when the Canadiens brought him over from St. Louis, he was expected to be the backup goaltender, to relieve Carey Price. Things turned out differently. Price is on the LTIR and I predict he won't play at all this year. Which makes Allen the started. Can he go 50 or 60 games? If not, then what?

For two seasons now, management has been saying [hoping. Ed.] that Cayden Primeau was the heir apparent, the next hot French-Canadian goalie, the future Patrick Roy. He hasn't lived up to expectations, allowing the winning goals in both Tuesday and Thursday's games. 

Last year's backup, Samuel Montembeault, of whom nothing was expected, is showing signs of progress, if you don't count letting one go through the five-hole on the first shot he faced on Wednesday. He'll be OK as a backup to Allen this year, but they both still need a decent defence in front of them.

Let me close with a word of encouragement to young Kevin Poulin -- three out of four goalies are francophones -- who allowed two goals in Wednesday's game, both of which were caused by the inability of the defence to handle the penalty kill. If Allen or Montembeault falters, Poulin, not Primeau, would be the man to be called up.

All in all... what can I say. I predict the Canadiens will miss the playoffs for the second straight season. Lifetime pct .980. 

VIDEO: National Be-nice-to-an-Indian Day

That's a joke, son. The actual name of this Very Special Day, as celebrated in Canada, the wokest country on earth, is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 2022. The holiday (only for federal civil servants who vote Liberal) was instituted last year by Blackie McBlackface, Prime Minister of All Canuckistan.

It is a day on which White Canadians are supposed to reflect on, and do penance for) all the evils which the racist colonialists perpetrated on their Little Red Brothers, including one of my favourite characters from the history of the settlement of the West -- Low, the Poor Indian.

The creation of a new woke holiday was prompted by the "discovery" in 2021 of a "mass grave" of more than 200 Indian First Nations (indigenous) children allegedly detected at the Kamloops Residential School in British Columbia. The school was run by a Roman Catholic order, the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, under an agreement with the Canadian government.

"We had a knowing in our community that we were able to verify. To our knowledge, these missing children are undocumented deaths," said Rosanne Casimir, chief of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc. The band called the discovery, "Le Estcwicwéy̓", meaning "the missing."

In an article headed "The biggest fake news story in Canada", the New York Post said: What’s still missing, however, according to a number of Canadian academics, is proof of the remains in the ground. Since last year’s announcement, there have been no excavations at Kamloops nor any dates set for any such work to commence. Nothing has been taken out of the ground so far, according to a Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc spokesman.

It doesn't matter. All right-thinking, progressive (and White) Canucks -- and Americans too -- know that the indigenous peoples of North America were treated badly by the settlers who came across the big waters in their big canoes. Mistakes were made. Apologies have been tendered again and again. All that's needed now is... errr... reparations. 

Nor is the drive to right the wrongs of the past anything new. We've been told for three decades now to stop referring to indigenous peoples are "Indians" and "Eskimos". Sports teams may no longer be called "Redskins" or "Braves", let alone "Indians". And lovable mascots like Chief Wahoo have been "disappeared", replaced with mere letters.

Political correctness has triumphed. Even the way we talk about and talk to indigenous people has changed, as witness this 1993 episode of Seinfeld, titled "The Cigar Store Indian". 

     

Got it? Now go out and find an... errr... find somebody to apologize to. 

Footnote: Since I know all our male readers are wondering, the good-looking POC "Winona" was played by Kimberly Norris Guerrero, who is, in fact, an... errrr....

VIDEO: Giorgina Meloni defends families, family values, and God!

On Monday, in "EU-elites panic as rightist coalitions win Italian and Swedish elections", I reported with pleasure the stunning victory of Giorgia Meloni's Fratelli d'Italia party in the weekend's Italian election. And, I noted, the polls had not even closed before the leftist politicians and lickspittle media started pissing and moaning about "the death of democracy" (which had just proven itself very much alive) and "the new fascism". 

The alarm of the anti-Western, secular humanists was made manifest when YewTube removed this video, recorded at the 2019 World Congress of Families in Verona, in which Ms Meloni makes a passionate defence of national identity, family values, and -- dare we say the word? -- God! If you want to know why Italians voted for her, just listen to this!

   

Where the video used to be, there is only a notice: "This video has been removed for violating YouTube’s Community Guidelines." If YouToob is against the values of which Ms Meloni speaks, what are they for? 

Walt thanks our friend Arnie at Blazing Cat Fur for posting a copy of the video that the cancellers at YouTube missed. We've put it on Rumble where the First Amendment is still in force.

EU-elites panic as rightist coalitions win Italian and Swedish elections

As predicted (or hoped for) here last Bastille Day, the center-right coalition led by Giorgia Meloni won a parliamentary majority in Italy's general elections, held yesterday. Her Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy) party received about 26% of the votes counted so far. 

Matteo Salvini's far-right League and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right Forza Italia, allied with the FDI, now control both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, with around 44% of the vote. Ms Meloni should thus become Italy's first female prime minister, heading the country's most right-wing government since WWII. 

Italian and European politicians are already crying foul. Shortly after conceding defeat, a senior memeber of the Democratic Party told the meeja "This is a sad evening for the country," adding that "[The right] has the majority in parliament, but not in the country." That seems a rather strange statement considering the result, but is consistent with the alarms raised by the Euro-weenies during the run-up to the election, when Ms Meloni was called the "new Mussolini", and worse.

Speaking early this morning, Ms Meloni said Italians had sent "a clear message" in backing her alliance. "If we are called upon to govern this nation, we will do so for all Italians, with the aim of uniting the people, of exalting what unites them rather than what divides them," she told reporters. "We will not betray your trust."  

In the 2018 election, the FdI garnered just over 4% of the vote. The party's rise to first place in the polls, at 26%, is attributable to Ms Meloni's clear and unapologetic stand in favour of conservative, pro-Western/anti-NWO principles, outlined in a barn-burner of a speech to Spain's far-right Vox party. 

"Yes to the natural family, no to the LGBT lobby, yes to sexual identity, no to gender ideology... no to Islamist violence, yes to secure borders, no to mass migration... no to big international finance... no to the bureaucrats of Brussels!" No wonder the lefties and one-worlders are afraid. 

Earlier this month, the people of Sweden, always held up as a shining example by the progressive one-worlders, throw out the Social Democrats, who had been in power forever, in national elections on September 11th. 

A right-wing group of parties, led by the centre-right Moderates, will have a go at forming the country's next government after the leftist Social Democrats failed to achieve a majority in the Riksdag.

Among the so-called "blue block" is the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, once shunned by the liberal political establishment, who recorded their best-ever election result with 20.5% of the vote, and thus will have great influence over the policies of the new coalition government. They campaigned on law-and-order issues following a rise in gun violence, and vowed to bring in longer prison sentences and reduce immigration. 

The election results in Sweden and Italy show the power of the resurgent right to harness the disaffection and Weltschmerz of the people of Europe. The chief reason for the victories of rightist parties is anti-immigration backlash. 

Europeans -- white Europeans, Christian Europans -- are sick, sore and tired of seeing their countries overrun by hordes of immigrants (especially "refugees" and asylum-seekers) who not only refuse to be assimilated into Western society, but are undermining Christian civilization to achieve the victory of Islam.

And they are fed up with the constant pandering to minorities by liberal politicians and churchmen (Hello, Francis!) intent on leading us into an anti-national, anti-Christian, New World Order, in which we will be dictated to by the World Economic Forum and the United Nations. "One nation under God" will be replaced by "One world under _______ (fill in the blank for yourself". 

Walt congratulates the Sweden Democrats and Fratelli d'Italia on their victories, and hopes they prove to be turning points for Italy and Sweden, as well as portents of things to come for the UK, Germany, France, and -- dare we say it -- America and Canada!

Why the story about the big-breasted tranny teacher matters

This is a follow-up to "Who's teaching YOUR kids?" (WWW, 21/9/22). Many of you will have been amused [perhaps even titillated, Ed.] by the video of the self-described transgendered teacher trying to keep her/his/its gynormous boobs our of the bandsaw. But the truth is there's not something but everything wrong with that picture. 

You may think such nonsense could only happen in Just In Trudeau's Canada, the wokest country on earth. Wrong. Such things happen all the time in the Progressive States of America. If you haven't seen photos like the one at left in your local news media, you haven't been watching.

The students of Oakville Trafalgar High School know that having such a whack-job teaching them is wrong. Not normal. They and their parents demonstrated in front of the school yesterday demanding that the teacher be fired. Yet their rulers -- the school board, the provincial government, the federal government, even the United Nations -- tell them the poor persecuted tranny has rights too.

Apparently the right to be queer trumps the right to not have propaganda for pro-queer wokeism shoved down their throats (or other orifices) in schools in which they are supposed to be learning how to live as normal people in a normal society. The trouble is that there is no normal society any more. Western society and its values have been turned upside down. 

David Brooks wrote about the diabolical disorientation of modern times in Bobos in Paradise, Simon & Schuster, 2000. Although leavened with loads of humour and peppered with scores of guffaw-inducing examples, Bobos in Paradise is actually a work of profound social criticism. Here are two excerpts, even more pertinent now than they were two decades ago. 

(p. 196) By the 1970s...people no longer knew where to draw the line between decency and indecency or whether there should be a line at all. The forces of emancipation recorded triumph after triumph. In some places children were encouraged to explore their sexuality as a means of self-discovery. 

Old taboos were falling. Old family structures began to seem passé. Old systems of etiquette seemed positively Neanderthal. Reticence seemed like hypocrisy. Sexual freedom, at least in the realm of public discourse, was on the march. 

In 1995 George Gilder wrote, "Bohemian values have come to prevail over bourgeois virtue in sexual morals and family roles, arts and letters, bureaucracies and universities, popular culture and public life. As a result, culture and family life are widely in chaos, cities seethe with venereal plagues, schools and colleges fall to obscurantism and propaganda, the courts are a carnival of pettifoggery.

In 1996 Robert Bork's bestseller, Slouching Towards Gomorrah, argued that the forces of the sixties have spread cultural rot across mainstream America. In 1999 William Bennett argued, "Our culture celebrates self-gratification, the crossing of all moral barriers, and now the breaking of all social taboos."

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(p. 227) If you look around at the educated class today, you see a recognition that freedom and choice aren't everything. Free spirituality can lead to lazy spirituality, religiosity masquerading as religion, and finally to the narcissism of the New Age movement. The toppling of old authorities has not led to a glorious new dawn but instead to an alarming loss of faith in institutions and to spiritual confusion and social breakdown.

David Brooks wrote that in Y2K. He was still mildly optimistic, then, that educated Americans -- the "bobos" (bohemian bourgeoisie) to whom the title refers -- would pull back from the brink of madness, and use the new enlightenment and new freedoms to build a better society. I wonder what he thinks now. 

Further reading: The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America, by Philip K. Howard. Warner Books, 1994. Available in like new condition from our sponsor.

VIDEO: Why Republicans need to be in control of Congress

To whom it may concern (and you know who you are...) You can't seriously want this senile old man -- more accurately, his Deep State handlers -- to control the fate of the United States (not to mention the free world) for another two years, with a complaisant Congress passing whatever bunny-brained bills he sends it. Do you? Seriously?!

Francis silent as ChiComms put Cardinal Zen on trial

Walt is saddened, not not shocked, to report that Joseph Cardinal Zen, a longtime foe of the Chinese Communists, is the defendant in a show trial set to begin today in Hong Kong. You might think that the man who calls himself Pope Francis would spring to the defence of the retired Archbishop of Hong Kong, but you would be wrong.

The prelate is being tried alongside Margaret Ng, a prominent former legislator; scholar Hui Po-keung; Cyd Ho, a former legislator; Sze Ching-wee, secretary of the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund secretary; and Denise Ho, a popular singer and gay-rights activist.

The 612 fund was set up to help pay legal costs for those arrested in the 2019-20 pro-democracy demonstrations. Prosecutors claim the fund wasn’t registered properly under Hong Kong's Societies Ordinance -- a law frequently used against triads, or secret societies. 

If convicted, the defendants could be fined about $1300. But in Cardinal Zen's case, the Communists may not be satisfied with a mere fine. The defendants were originally arrested for "collusion with foreign forces", for which they could be jailed for life!

The timing of the trial is bad for the NWR (New World Religion) forces at the Vatican, coming as it does when the Vatican Holy See's 2018 sellout to the Communists is up for renewal. Although he had retired from his position as Archbishop of Hong Kong, he was vocal in his condemnation of the deal by which Beijing's schismatic Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association took control all Catholics in China, including those in the "underground church" which remained loyal to Rome.

Further reading: "Vatican-China agreement 'terrible, terrible, terrible': Cardinal Zen", WWW 4/12/19, and "Cardinal Zen decries/Vatican defends sell-out of Chinese Catholics", WWW 3/3/20. 

Just two years ago, Cardinal Zen flew to Rome in a desperate attempt to get Pope Bergoglio to reconsider his China deal. But a pope who always seems to have time for private audiences with celebrities -- including heretics, apostates and non-believers -- refused to meet a cardinal with long firsthand experience of the persecution of Christians by the Chinese Communists.

The architect of the still-secret deal with Beijing, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro "Peter the Roman" Parolin, professed his "closeness" to his fellow prelate, but then revealed his true priorities, saying, "The most concrete hope is that initiatives such as this one will not complicate the already complex and not simple path of dialogue."

Cardinal Gerhard Müller noted that no senior Vatican official had offered an expression of solidarity or a prayer initiative for Cardinal Zen at last month's gathering of cardinals in Rome. On a return flight from Kazakhstan last Thursday, Francis suggested this is no accident. When a reporter asked about Cardinal Zen, the pope offered not a word of support, noting only that the cardinal "says what he feels" despite knowing there are "limitations".

The Pachamamma pope wouldn't even go so far as to call China "undemocratic". One wonders what it would take for the Vatican to admit that the deal with the Commies was a mistake? (Don't ever expect to hear words like "sellout" or "betrayal".)  If a show trial for a prince of the Church isn't enough, what would be? After his arrest, Cardinal Zen said, "Martyrdom is normal in our church. We may not have to do that, but we may have to bear some pain and steel ourselves for our loyalty to our faith."

Since His Church is doing nothing, let us pray that God will protect His faithful priest, and deliver all Chinese Christians from Communist oppression and persecution. 

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil; May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; And do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all evil spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls. Amen.

VIDEO: Who's teaching YOUR kids?

Agent 3 has submitted a video for Walt's True Facts section. In this case, truth (pictured at right) is stranger than fiction (at left).

The  fictional teacher is Diane Choksondick, one of the many characters who was erased from South Park when it got woke. The one at the right is a "tech teacher" (read: teaches shop) at Oakville Trafalgar High School in Oakville ON. 

The teacher is reported to be a transgender individual who previously went by a different name. In some photos shared by students on Snapchat and later recirculated on Twitter, the teacher's name can be seen written on the blackboard as "Ms. Lemieux." However, the Halton District School Board, which is responsible for the school, refuses to name "her". 

The teacher's current and pre-transition names are both listed as tech teachers on the high school's online faculty directory, but if you follow the link you will see that the directory is no longer published. In a statement to Postmedia last week, HDSB Chairthingy Margo Shuttleworth said the teacher portrayed in the images is an industrial arts instructor who began identifying as female last year.

Yes, we have a video clip of the Unknown Teacher hard at work, showing students how to avoid industrial accidents.

 

  

It is apparent in this clip, and in many photos, based simply on human physiology (and in some cases sheer clothing), that the teacher is wearing a prosthetic chest piece of some kind. In a recent letter to parents, the school confirmed the video's authenticity, but implied that it's illegal to even suggest that the garb may be inappropriate, equating the teacher's decision to wear the gynormous titties -- each one bigger than "her" head -- with the right to identify as transgender.

The HDSB told the meeja that it "recognizes the rights of students, staff, parents/guardians and community members to equitable treatment without discrimination based upon gender identity and gender expression.... Gender identity and gender expression are protected grounds under the Ontario Human Rights Code."

Nothing was said about the rights of students to not have the liberal pro-queer agenda pushed on them, or parents' rights to have their kids protected from LGBTQetc indoctrination and grooming. We close with a student's take on the latest example of a society in which morals or even social norms mean nothing.

First ever Wally Award for Egregious Hypocrisy goes to...

Earlier today I complained... OK, I remarked... that things had been quiet on the political front. Too quiet! Although this November's mid-term elections could be the most important in decades, the Excited States of America seems to be slouching towards the voting polls.

There was, however, one story which made the lamestream press sit up and take notice, because it cut too close to the bone to suit the propagandists for President Brandon's Dumbocrats. They've been trying hard to toe the party line that there is no crisis at the southern border. Sure, a few [thousand] "folks" are entering the USA without proper immigrant status. It's OK (they say) because America needs immigrants. And they will be welcome in the "sanctuary cities" where liberal, right-thinking Americans -- unlike those racist Republicans -- will be glad to look after them.

This week, Florida governor Ron DeSantis (R) put that claim to the test by shipping 50 (count `em, 50) illegals to the very Democratic island of Martha's Vineyard, the playground of the rich and famous, notably former President Barack Hussein Obama II. The residents were not amused, nor were they compassionate. 

The undocumented migrants (to use the PC term) were shipped by bus and ferry to Cape Cod last Friday morning. It should have been easy to find places to put them up. According to the National Association of Realtors, about 55.5% of the homes on Martha's Vineyard are vacation homes, mostly vacant now that summer's over. 

According to the New York Post, one local resident even urged former President Barack Obama to offer up his $12 million Vineyard vacation manse for shelter. The Post didn't say if the resident had  his tongue in his cheek when he said that.

Apparently none of the vacation homeowners were willing to step up to the plate. Instead, they labelled the arrival of the unexpected visitorsus a "humanitarian crisis", providing care and shelter for them for two (count `em, 2) nights before putting them on a ferry back to the mainland, where they will now be looked after by... wait for it.... the Massachusetts National Guard.  

They were transferred to Joint Base Cape Cod, a former Air Force base known locally as Otis Air Base. Plans call for Governor Charlie Baker (D) to "activate up to 125 members of the Massachusetts National Guard as part of this relief effort." According to a statement from the governor, "The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) is coordinating efforts among state and local officials to ensure access to food, shelter and essential services for these men, women and children."

Walt is pleased indeed to award the residents of Dukes Country, which encompasses all six municipalities on Martha's Vineyard, our first ever Wally Award for Egregious Hypocrisy. Other "sanctuary cities" will surely follow your precedent as they plan their own compassionate response to the humanitarian crisis caused by [We regret that limitations of space do not allow us to publish the end of this sentence. Ed.]

Mid-terms: Why is it so quiet out there?

I can't figure it out. Here we are just six weeks (give or take) from the mid-term elections, the importance of which to the US of A can't be overemphasized, and one would think nothing special is going on. It's as if the nation is holding its breath.

On September 1st, President Brandon made a speech exhorting his followers (Sid and Doris Bonkers, of Loudon County VA) to do whatever it takes to defeat -- he put it more strongly than that -- "MAGA Republicans", who he called a threat to the United.States.

Picking up on that theme, Rep. Tim Ryan, who the Dumbocrats hope will beat J.D. Vance for the Ohio Senate seat, said the United States needs to "kill and confront" what he says is "extremism in the Republican Party. 

While admitting that Democrats "aren’t right on everything," Ryan stated during an interview Tuesday on MSNBC (who else) that he is willing to talk with others on how the USA can move "out of this age of stupidity."

Mr Ryan's comments come less than two weeks after his opponent was very critical of Hunter's dad's speech, claiming the president broke his campaign promise of uniting the country.

A Suffolk University survey conducted with 500 Ohio voters over two days in early September found that if the election were held immediately instead of in November, 46.6% of respondents said they would lean toward or vote for Mr Ryan, while 45.6% said the same for Mr Vance -- a statistical tie.

Last Thursday, in what might be perceived as an effort to increase his tiny lead, Mr Ryan attempted to distance himself from President Brandon, suggesting that the president shouldn't seek re-election in 2024. Many Americans would agree.

The utterances of Messrs Biden and Ryan aren't getting a lot of play in the lickspittle press, who seem to fear that their exhortations to do violence to Republicans can only have the effect of stiffening their resolve to turn turn the Dems out of office wherever possible, in November. Why wait for 2024 to excise the cancer that is killing America?

According to pollsters, an unintended side-effect of the "kill the Republicans" rhetoric has been to make it harder to identify Republican voters.  Call it the "shy Trumper syndrome". Why would anyone admit to a pollster or other nosy parker that they intended to vote GOP, at the risk of being doxxed and having protesters or possibly the FBI show up at your home? Just sayin'...

Another happening that has been under-reported in the mainstream media was the release of My Son Hunter, the feature film which reveals how Hunter Biden, the spoiled son of Sleepy Joe, has used his connections with the Man in the Oval Office to enrich himself and others. [Who? Ed.] The lickspittle media are ignoring -- "Nothing to see here, folks" -- what they and the White House can't deny.

The only story getting any serious play this past week was the bussing [or "busing" -- I can't decide. Ed.] of 1000s of illegal aliens from Texas, Arizona and Florida to "sanctuary cities" such as Chicago, New York, Sacramento, and Washington DC, whose mayor wants the National Guard to turn them away. Oh yeah, that happened in Martha's Vineyard too. I'll come back to this story later today.

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Whither the People's Party of Canada?

As reported here last Sunday, the self-styled Conservative Party of Canada, having failed under two "moderate" leaders -- Andrew Scheep and Erin O'Tool -- to distinguish itself from the ruling Liberals, has now chosen a new and (they hope) better leader, Pierre Poilievre.

The lickspittle media long ago labelled M Poilievre as a "right wing populist" and "the Canuck version of to Donald Trump". Hardly. Populist he may be, but, as I told you way back in April in "The problem with Poilievre", he is no social conservative, let alone a turn-back-the-clock right-winger. He reminds me not so much of The Donald as of a nasty, bilingual version of Ronald Reagan.

Earlier this week, the new Tory leader [Canadians have stopped using that word. Ed.] announced his new leadership team on Tuesday. Left on the outside looking in was Leslyn Lewis, MP, seen here at the Freedom Rally in Ottawa last February.

Dr Lewis, who has a perfect rating on issues pertaining to life and family. Despite presenting a strong pro-life, pro-faith message, she finished third in the CPC leadership race. 

But there's no room in Pierre Poilievre's coterie for such as she. The press release included an image of "My inflation-busting leadership team", standing together in front of those same Parliament buildings.

One of PP's team is Melissa Lantsman, a proud lesbian Member of Parliament. Another is Ontario MP Eric Duncan, an openly homosexual man, who was appointed to party-caucus liaison,

Another notable absent from the team was former party leader Erin O'Tool, who was ousted quickly after he took a squishy stance on February's Freedom Convoy. M Poilievre's choice of MPs with anti-life and pro-LGBT voting records are not surprising, considering he himself has been given a failing grade by Campaign Life Coalition due to his pro-abortion voting record.

Where will the Conservative Party's more traditionalist and libertarian members, like Andrew Scheer, go now? Will they sit on the back bench, behind PP (on the left, wearing the pink tie) or will they join Canada's only truly conservative party, the People's Party of Canada, led by Maxime Bernier, on the right. (Geddit?)

The choice will be difficult, if not impossible, even for Dr Lewis, for the simple reason that the PPC seems destined for the ashheap of Canadian political history. They have been languishing at 4-5 per cent in public opinion polls, which is remarkable for a party founded only recently. 

But they have no seats in Parliament -- "Mad Max" failed for the second time to win his own riding of Beauce -- and are in grave danger of being crushed by the stampede of conservatives hurrying to get aboard the CPC bandwagon, since M Poilievre looks certain to beat the socks of Just In Trudeau whenever the latter dares to call an election.

Walt's headline question, then, might better be: Wither the People's Party of Canada? It's sad.

Worth watching: "Individuality and Autonomy: Maxime Bernier and the PPC", recorded by Dr Jordan B. Peterson on The JBP Podcast, exactly a year ago.

Further reading (added 17/9/22): "The Trudeau factor in Pierre Poilievre's big win", by good ole Rex Murphy in the National Post. Subhead: "Conservative chief's leadership campaign was greatly helped by the Liberals' increasingly embarrassing feats of incompetence"

Russians losing war in Ukraine?

On 9/11, while Walt was thinking about other things (see three previous posts), the Telegraph reported that Ukrainian armed succeeded in retaking from the invading Russians over 2500 sq km of their country.

They punched a hole through thinly-guarded Russian front lines east of Kharkiv, and severing the Russian lines of logistics, forcing the withdrawal of large contingents of Russian soldiers from multiple locations, about as much territory as they gained since April. 

Most important, the Ukrainians retook the cities of Izyum and Kupyansk. Without them, Russia can no longer supply its forces in the north-east or east of Ukraine, so further collapses, withdrawals and surrenders of Russian forces are to be expected. 

The Telegraph predicts that the Ukrainians will keep control of what they have gained. The Russians are finding it hard to defend, let alone counterattack. They simply don't have the troops or the logistics. Worse (for them) their morale - that intangible essential in warfare - has hit a new rock bottom. 

Today we learn that frustration with Russia’s staggering losses in Ukraine has spilled over into the tightly controlled state media. Viewers have been warned by a war commentator that Vladimir Putin has been misled by advisers, and said Ukraine cannot be defeated. Amazing! Like watching one of CNN's never-Trumpers admit that the Democrats are going to get thrashed in the mid-terms!

Boris Nadezhdin, who for years played the token liberal on state television, appeared last weekend for the first time in months, calling for peace talks. "We're now at the point where we have to understand – it's absolutely impossible to defeat Ukraine, using the resources and colonial war methods that Russia is using to win this war."

It's not yet time to break out the best vodka, but the signs are encouraging.

Слава Україні! Героям слава!

Everything happened at once, Part 3

21 years ago today

Yes, I am well aware that this is the 21st anniversary of 9/11. And I know the topic of who dunnit and what happened after that has been done to death. But I think it's worth revisiting as Americans ask themselves which is the right party to entrust with national security in these ever more troubled times.

Recommended reading: The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina, by New York Times columnist Frank Rich, Penguin Press, 2006. As you would expect, considering who Mr Rich worked for, the book is an attack on President George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and the Republican Party. 

But... in revealing how the American people were suckered into supporting an unprovoked war on Iraq (and later Afghanistan), Mr Rich reveals how Deep State, which is non-partisan, co-opted his newspaper and the rest of the lickspittle media. 21 years later, the same mass media are conspiring, at the behest of Deep State and the WTF giants who fund them, to gull you into believing that you should overlook the disastrous failures of the Biden administration and leave them in control of Congress. "Don't worry folks, everything's gonna be OK. Trust us (again)!"

When the Islamic extremists -- the jihadis -- attacked the US of A on 9/11, Americans almost unanimously rallied behind its new, untested president. The papers, notably but not only the NYT and WAPO, and the TV networks, particularly CNN, organized the cheerleading, which went on 24/7 until years after the resolution authorizing the invasion of Iraq had been passed.

That there was no basis whatever for the claims that the Iraqis had, or were about to have weapons of mass destruction (WMD), or that Saddam Hussein was in cahoots with Al-Qaeda, was ignored or suppressed, just as all those stories about the nefarious dealings of Son Hunter are being suppressed today. 

One is reminded of the story of the famous American painter, Frederic Remington, who was sent by William Randolph Hearst, the master of yellow journalism, to cover the incipient Spanish-American war. When he reported from Havana that there was nothing going on, Mr Hearst allegedly replied, "You furnish the pictures. I'll furnish the war."

So it was after 9/11. The priority of the Deep State behind Dubya was not to vanquish Al-Qaeda but to consolidate its own power at any cost. It was a mission that could be accomplished only by a propaganda presidency in which reality was steadily replaced by a scenario of the White House's own invention. Thus it was that America was led for a second time to intervene in the Muslim civil wars, and attack a small and impotent country which had never attacked it.

The Republicans and the lickspittle media intimidated the Democrats into incoherence and impotence, and turned the presidential election of 2004 into an irrelevant referendum on macho imagery and same-sex marriage. Mr Rich's book shows, with a day-by-day timeline, how the institutions that should have exposed these fictions -- the mainstream news media -- were too often left powerless by the administration's relentless attack machine and their own unquestioning political correctness. 

Nothing has changed. If anything, the situation has worsened. The Biden administration controls the media. Deep State controls the administration. Are Americans going to be fooled again?!

One final thought. Among the political leaders who rallied behind the Bush War effor was none other than Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.  During the run-up to the last election campaign, Demented Joe claimed that despite voting to authorize military force against Iraq in 2002, he opposed the Iraq war from "the moment" it began. That's a lie. Read "Biden's Record on Iraq War", FactCheck.org (a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center), 10/9/19. What follows are excerpted from the article.

Biden never outright opposed military action in Iraq in the immediate days after the start of the invasion, as he claimed. He now admits his recent comments went too far. During the second Democratic primary debate on July 31, Biden said his “bad judgment” in voting to authorize President George W. Bush to use military force against Iraq in 2002 was “trusting the president saying he was only doing this to get inspectors in and get the U.N. to agree to put inspectors in.” 

In a speech days before the 2002 vote, Bush did say approving the resolution “does not mean that military action is imminent or unavoidable,” but he also laid out in detail why military action “may” be needed. And on the day the war broke out, Biden acknowledged, “We voted to give him the authority to wage that war. We should step back and be supportive.” 

It wasn’t until Nov. 27, 2005, that Biden acknowledged on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that his 2002 vote authorizing force in Iraq was “a mistake.” “It was a mistake,” Biden said. “It was a mistake to assume the president would use the authority we gave him properly. … We gave the president the authority to unite the world to isolate Saddam. And the fact of the matter is, we went too soon. We went without sufficient force. And we went without a plan.”

Right now, the Democrats and their propaganda machine are manufacturing -- just as in 2001 -- "threats to national security", which they are trying to lay at the feet of President Trump. Don't listen to them. Listen to me! The greatest threat to the safety, security and well-being of America and Americans does not come from within Mar-a-Lago, but from within the White House. Keep that in mind when you vote in November.

Everything happened at once, Part 2

Pierre Poilievre, the new Conservative (?) leader

Over four months ago, I told you that Pierre Poilievre, was the front-runner in the race to become the third leader of the so-called Conservative Party of Canada since the defeat of Steve Harpoon in 2015.

Last night, in the greatest non-event shown on Canadian TV since the Toronto Maple Leafs bowed out of the first round of last spring's Stanley Cup playoffs, M Poilievre won the leadership on the first ballot, garnering 68% of the points available. Jean Charest, the ex-Liberal still-liberal candidate, finished a distant second, with 16%.

 M Poilievre urged Canucks to Ètake back control of your life!" Now that he has won the party, and has a good chance of winning the country, M Charest's supporters, the liberals, the leftists and the lickspittle media of Canuckistan are quaking in their boots that he will do what he promised.

The meme above was published during the leadership campaign and was (I supposed) meant to scare people into voting for a "less extreme" candidate. If I had been voting, I would have taken the likening of Pierre Poilievre to Dr Jordan Peterson as a ringing endorsement. 

After two leaders who apparently stood for nothing, Canada's Conservatives desperately need a leader who espouses and will fight for conservative values. Alas, I told you in "The problem with Poilievre" (WWW 30/4/22), M Poilievre is not that man. He is pro-abortion, pro-immigration, and pro-queer. The real conservative candidate was Leslyn Lewis, who finished third.  

So when the inevitable Rosie Tuchhus, covering the proceedings on CBC-TV, said Lucky Pierre would have to move to the centre and adopt a more moderate, conciliatory tone, in order to win the country, she was wrong. The attack dog won't change, because he doesn't need to.

M Poilievre has identified and tapped into the anger most Canadians feel about inflation, the lack of affordable housing, and the endless "mandates" (e.g. the ArriveCAN app) which take away their freedom. Thus he has created a populist groundswell similar to that which propelled President Trump into the Oval Office, all without straying from the path of political correctness on the issues which count for true conservatives.

He preaches classic conservatism -- smaller government; getting natural resources to market; less government interference in people's personal and professional lives; ending the Liberals' efforts to censor the Internet; defunding the CBC and ending media bailouts; and fiscal restraint, after a long period without it. 

All those policies find favour not just with hard-right conservatives, but the average Canuck. The chattering classes spent hours trying to figure out M Poilievre's appeal to young Canadians, who turned out in 1000s at his rallies. It wasn't hard to understand. They are looking, hoping... and will be voting... for at least a partial return to the lifestyle their parents and grandparents enjoyed. Or just some help paying the bills. Or just to be left alone. 

That's why Pierre Poilievre will knock the socks off Blackie McBlackface in the next election, whenever it comes. You read it here first!

This week, everything happened at once, Part 1

Finding topics for WWW is like waiting for the streetcar. [They have streetcards in Fort Mudge? Ed.] You wait for hours, then three of them come along at once. In August there was nothing, but in this first week of September I couldn't keep up with reading, let alone writing.

Farewell Liz. We hardly knew ye.

On Thursday, Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, Northern Ireland, and all her other realms and territories, "passed". It's a symptom of the sickness of our society, of our fear of death and the afterlife, that we no longer say someone "passed away", let alone "died". People just "pass", like ships in the night.

It's hard to be snarky about Elizabeth. I am old enough to remember the death of her father, King George VI, and her coronation in 1953. Since then, she was just... there.

She was a rock, keeping calm and carrying on, with that British stiff upper lip, in spite of the turmoil caused by her dysfunctional children and grandchildren, and the problems of not-so-great Britain and the moribund Commonwealth.

The leftist press in the UK and Canada have trotted out a rainbow parade of oppressed indigenous peoples -- Jamaicans in Britain, First Nations in Canada -- to complain of the evils of slavery and colonialism. Never mind that slavery was abolished in the British empire before Queen Victoria (Elizabeth's grandmother) ascended to the throne, or that most of the colonies became more or less independent at least six decades ago. The POCs are still victims, demanding compensation for the abuse of their ancestors.

The one colony which has yet to gain its independence, whose people are still suffering under the yoke of the British, is Northern Ireland. Irish patriots killed Elizabeth's uncle, Lord Louis Mountbatten, but the stubborn English persist in trying to prevent the reunion of Ulster with the Republic. Sinn Féin say they will "work with" the new king, Charles III, to resolve the impasse, but I say, don't stay tuned.

Footnote: The Queen's last official act, on Tuesday, was to swear in Liz (no relation) Truss as the new prime minister of the Disunited Kingdom. By all accounts, Ms Truss is as woke as they come, a champion of diversity, inclusion, the European Union and the New World Order. She will get along very well with Charles, king of the tree-huggers, who is actually a member of the WEF and a regular attender at Davos. Don't looks for either of them to try to Make Britain Great Again. 

Worth viewing: "Africa is not poor because of colonization" - Dr. Jordan B Peterson and Magatte Wade discuss how economic freedom dictates the success potential of countries, and how Africa's fixation on colonialism, rather than incompetence and corruption, being the cause of their modern day struggles, locks the continent into abject poverty.

Agent 3 writes about mass murder in Saskatchewan

Ed. here. Agent 3, who worked for a short while in northeastern Saskatchewan, where, last Sunday, 11 people were stabbed to death (and another 19 wounded) by one man, shares a few thoughts.

In 2017, on the occasion of Canada's sesiquicentennial, the Liberal government declared that "First Nations" -- the people who used to be called "Indians" -- were the rightful owners of the land, and much better people than the white colonialists who built the country up from nothing to one of the top five in the United Nations Human Development Index.

The fact that many of the First Nations lived in poverty on "reserves" in rural areas, rife with unemployment and alcoholism was, the Liberals told us, the fault of us racist white supremacists. We were guilty, guilty, guilty, they told us, of taking Indian children away from their homes, putting them in prison-like residential schools, and trying to make them into white men and women.

So the First Nations became permanent "flavours of the month", forever victims, about whom nothing negative could ever be said, and whose entitlement to the land (and every sort of benefit) was to be proclaimed at the start of every public meeting or ceremony, including hockey games.

Just over 40 years ago I lived and worked for a short time -- it seemed much longer -- amongst the Indians (that word was OK then, so I'll just keep using it) in northeastern Saskatchewan, trying to reconcile their culture with white man's law -- a very difficult task. In those days, life on the "rez" (reserve) was nasty, brutish and short. Seems like it hasn't changed a lot since then.

I refer, in particular, to the James Smith Cree Nation, northeast of Prince Albert, where, last Sunday, a 30-year-old man named Myles Sanderson ran amok, repeatedly stabbing some 30 people, 11 of whom died. They were all Indians, except for one elderly white man who was killed in the village of Weldon, about 20 miles from the rez. 

One of those slain was Damien Sanderson, on the left in the pictures displayed by the Mounties. Damien was Myles' brother, and was initially believed to be his accomplice in a folie à deux.

Exactly what transpired between Myles and Damien Sanderson will never be known, because Myles  died of unknown causes while he was in police custody shortly after being arrested near Rosthern yesterday afternoon. The Mounties had rammed the stolen pickup truck which Myles was driving, pushing it into a ditch, but witnesses said Myles appeared to be alive when loaded onto a stretcher.

Police investigations continue but of course there will be no trial. Many people are saying, even now, that Myles Sanderson got what he deserved, even if the "justice" was administered by the cops rather than the courts. After all, he had already been "dealt with according to the law" many times before. 

He had been in prison -- the Saskatchwan pen is conveniently located at Prince Albert -- more than once. He was once sent to a "healing lodge", to get straightened out in the Indian way. And then back to prison. At the time when Myles went on the rampage, he was on statutory release, meaning he'd done his time and they had to let him go.

Yet the woke politicians and liberal media are already trying to portray Myles Sanderson as the victim! After all, he was an Indian, so whatever he did, whatever happened to him, had to be the fault of white society!

Like many of his peers, he was a hopeless alcoholic and drug addict. That's the white man's fault because drugs and booze were brought to the Indians by white men centuries ago. Although he was never sent to a residential school, just as American blacks are still suffering because their ancestors were slaves, everyone knows that the adverse effects on the psyche can be handed down through the generations.

The Liberal party line is that we white folks have a duty to make things right with the Indians. If they're going to heal, we have to heal them! How? By making life on the rez better -- building houses for them, paving the roads, and (of course) giving still more money for "community projects" and other types of welfare.

My question is: how do you help those who can't or won't help themselves? If getting educated, working hard, and striving to improve your lot in life are "white virtues", then I would suggest that the residential schools were not wrong to try to inculcate those virtues into the children placed in their care. I could go on, but political correctness forbids.... 

Aha! THAT explains it!

Seen today on the Yahoo landing page. Submitted to "True Headlines" by Agent 3.

Surely you didn't think we were going to give you the URL! We note, though, that stories about Hellery are beginning to appear more frequently, as if she might be ready to supplant Demented Joe when his time comes. Hmmm.

UPDATED: DOJ attack foiled by Cannonade

Yesterday Walt opined that, if anything at all has come out of the FBI invasion of President Trump's Mar-a-Lago home,  it's that the Donald, like most of us, doesn't stay on top of his filing! 

That, and only that. You would think that if Biden's Department of Injustice had anything more -- a smoking gun, a "threat to national ssecurity", anything at all -- to prove that they were right to violate the Fourth Amendment, they would be happy to show us. Right? 

Errr, no. They have fought every step of the way to keep everything -- the search warrant, the affidavit on which it was bassed, the details of what was seized -- under wraps.

Today, the DOJ lost another round. Judge Aileen Cannon granted President Trump's request that a Special Master -- an officer of the court -- review the documents to weed out from the rest of the investigation any that might be protected by claims of attorney-client privilege or executive privilege.

Judge Cannon's order came despite the strenuous objections of the Justice Department, which said an outside legal expert was not necessary in part because officials had already completed their review of potentially privileged documents! In other words, "We've already looked at them, so you can't make us forget what we've seen."

In a clear win for President Trump's legal team, the judge said (in effect) "Oh yes, I can!" She temporarily halted the DOJ's use of the records for "investigative" (read: frame-up) purposes. Some of those records may ultimately be returned to Mr Trump, but Judge Cannon put off ruling on that question.

Meanwhile, we get closer and closer to the 2022 mid-term elections. When the Jan 6 Circus failed to sink the Trump Republicans in the polls, the Dumbocrats resported to the police state-style raid on Mar-a-Lago, hoping the FBI could do what the Congressional committee couldn't. As Nelson Muntz sez, HA-ha!

Further reading: "FBI Says The Documents In Trump’s Possession Were So Classified They Were Printed With Invisible Ink On Invisible Paper", Babylon Bee (natch!), 4/9/22. 

UPDATE ADDED 8/9/22: In desperate damage control mode, the DOJ first tried planting a "leak" in WAPO (where else?) saying that amongst the seized documents there was one (1) detailing sensitive information about "an ally's" military capabilities.

That didn't work, so today the DOJ filed an appeal of Judge Cannon's ruling, asking her to let them continue fishing in the same pond -- about 100 classified documents -- because, they say, Mr Trump’s team "may not have returned all the classified records removed from the White House at the end of his presidency." 

The prosecutors also asked the judge not to allow the Special Master to review the classified materials seized from the Trump home. Walt wonders, wasn't the whole purpose of the middle-of-the-night raid on Mar-a-Lago to recover the documents that allegedly were not returned? Does this appeal mean the DOJ admits that they might have missed some? Or does it mean that they didn't succeed in planting anything incriminating in the dozens of boxes they took away? 

President Trump, in a posting on his Truth Social platform, described the request as a waste of money. Taxpayers, that's your money he's talking about! Keep that in mind in November.

Remember the opening of Al Capone's safe?

A non-news event on Friday reminded me of the big foofaraw on 21 April 1986 when Al Capone's vault, walled off for decades in the old Lexington Hotel in Chicago, was opened live on national TV. Remember that?

Millions of viewers watched as Geraldo Rivera (who else?) pioneered the "no-news news" format. Instead of reporting on news, he devoted entire programs to possible and hypothetical news. News channels like CNN (who else?) speculated on what would be found inside the safe. When the big day came, it turned out to be empty except for debris.

The Friday non-news event which reminded me of Geraldo's spectacular misfire was the FBI's forced disclosure of what they seized in their midnight raid on Mar-a-Lago, the Florida residence of President Donald Trump.

American presidents are required, on leaving office, to transfer all of their documents and emails to the National Archives. In an effort to keep the Dumbocrats from getting thrased in the 2022 mid-term elections, the Department of Justice is searching desperately for evidence that Mr Trump improperly handled records by taking them from the White House to Mar-a-Lago. 

As nearly as we can infer -- the document was so heavily reacted that we can only guess -- the affidavit on the basis of which the raid was authorized by an Obama-appointed judge alleged that Mr Trump and his lawyers failed to provide relevant documents voluntarily, and "likely concealed or removed" records as part of an effort to obstruct the investigation.

On Friday, the FBI filed a list of what they found in the 33 boxes of papers etc -- note the "etc" -- they took away. They seized more than 11,000 government documents in total, including:

* 3 (count `em, three) documents marked "confidential"

* 17 documents marked "secret"

* 7 documents marked "top secret"

* 43 empty folders with "classified" banners

* 28 empty folders labelled "Return to staff secretary/military aide" 

The court filing also confirms previous reports that many records were mixed with personal effects, including clothes -- Melania's underwear? -- books and newspapers. 

A spokesman for President Trump, said the unsealed document showed the government's actions were "not some surgical, confined search and retrieval" but "a smash and grab." IMHO, if anything has been proven, it's just that the Donald, like most of us, doesn't stay on top of his filing!

Further reading: "After Using FBI To Suppress Son’s Crimes And Raid Political Rival’s Home, Biden Warns Democracy In Danger", in the Babylon Bee (where else?), 3/9/22. I can't resist sharing this excerpt:

President Biden went on to call for the expulsion from democratic society anyone who questioned the integrity of an American election. "If you question an election's fairness because our intel communities told media companies to bury damaging stories about me, or because COVID was used as an excuse to illegally change voting practices without legislative input, or because the FBI spied on Trump's campaign after Democrats gave them a bogus dossier - then you have no place in civil society," said Biden. "In fact, while we are at it, if you don't support abortion through nine months, or the genital mutilation of children, you are an enemy of the state. And we will foment violent protests and assassination attempts to intimidate you - to save democracy."

BN summarizes President Brandon's "non-political" speech

Apparently Hunter's Dad gave what White House flaks called a "non-political" speech near Independende Hall in Philthydelphia yesterday. I didn't watch it. It was only carried by CNN and MSNBC which tells you all ye need to know right there.

That his "non-political" speech, supposedly on the topic of voting rights, took place right before Labour Day, the traditional kickoff time for political campaign season, also reveals Joe's real motive for coming out of his holiday home. The Democrats are shit-scared of losing control of Congress in November's midterm election, so clearly it was time to start stoking the fires of fear of a return of the Orange Man.

I'm grateful to Breitbart News for providing, on this morning's landing page, a summary of what Senile Joe's "non-political" speech was all about. Here are the headlines, with links.

* Dangerous: Joe calls on Americans to "stop" MAGA Republicans

* Repeats "democracy" 31 times while demonizing Americans

* Repeatedly stokes fears of "violent, extremist" MAGA

* Fact check: Biden claims Republican leaders "all but calling" for violence

* Even corporate media blast Biden for having military behind him during

        divisive speech

* WH desperately tries to spin speech

* Presidential historian admits advising Biden, compares moment to Civil War, WWII:

        Democracy is in danger

* CNN's Collins: Biden's speech very political, "full frontal attack on Trump Republicans

* Jeh Johnson: Biden had obligation to call out MAGA Republicans

* ABC’S Bruce: Biden didn't talk about issues key to voters, wants to make 2022

        about Trump

* WH: Pro-life movement is "semi-fascist" and "extremist"

* McCarthy: Biden should apologize for slandering millions of Americans as "fascists"

So much for Brandon's "non-political" speech. I can hardly wait for his political speech! 

As a further comment, I can't recall -- and my recollection stretches back to the Eisenhower days -- a sitting President ever slandering his predecessor in the way Mr Biden has slandered Mr Trump. The latter never excoriated the Prez (who richly deserved it) as he has been excoriated by Demented Joe, who I believe is suffering not just from incipient Alzheimer's, but from TDS.

During his speech, delivered from behind bullet-proof glass, President Brandon was continually hounded by protesters chanting "Let's go, Brandon" and "Fuck Joe Biden!" Siren noises, shouts and someone yelling on a bullhorn were audible in the background throughout the 25-minute rant.

The next couple of months should be interesting. Stay tuned.

Note from Ed.: Credit where credit is due. The image above was scraped from the Babylon Bee.