We wish you...

ALL OF GOD'S BLESSINGS FOR 

A HAPPY, HEALTHY AND PEACEFUL NEW YEAR!

ВСІХ БОЖИХ БЛАГОСЛОВЕНЬ ДЛЯ ЩАСЛИВОГО,

ЗДОРОВОГО ТА МИРНОГО НОВОГО РОКУ!

The illustration "Carollers" is by Olena Radomska

VIDEO: Deep State persecution of Babylon Bee begins in earnest

The Democrats, the Deep State, the gliberals, the wokesters, the secular humanists and the lickspittle media all dislike The Babylon Bee - your trusted source of Christian satire. In some cases, it's more than dislike, more like HATE, although we know that only conservatives and right-wingers can be "haters".

It's noto hard to figure out why. The Bee is now one of the leading publishers of articles goring sacred cows and uncovering steaming piles of bullshit. For example: "God Sends Giant Waves To Wash Away California Sidewalk Poop" (30/12/23) and "The Biden Administration's Top 10 Accomplishments Of 2023" (30/12/23) -- the latter a must-read. 

And that's just part of yesterday's output. It's all Walt can do to manage one really good article (as opposed to videos and filler) every week. Of course the Bee's staff is considerably larger than ours. [Glad you understand. Ed.]

Anyway, it's no wonder that contributors to the Bee are walking around with targets on their backs. And now that the re-election of President Trump is less 11 months away, the gloves (or the left globe at least) are coming off. 

The Bee's Siaka Massaquoi was recently separated by the FBI from his pregnant wife, who arrested him at an airport over charges related to January 6th. In this video he tells what really happened on January 6th and what he was doing at the Capitol Building on that fateful day. . 

 

If  you agree that Mr Massaquoi is being unjustly persecuted by the weaponized FBI, and would like to help, click here to contribute to his legal defence fund. And keep reading the Bee!

The day of reckoning has arrived

Yes, campers, it's time to see how good a prognosticator Walt really is. [If you didn't prognosticate in public, you wouldn't get caught near so easily. Do it in the bathroom with the door closed, likely everybody else! Ed.]

On 10 January 2023, Walt wrote: I see a bad year ahead. 

The woke AABC countries and western Europe are one gigantic insane asylum, and the craziest inmates are in charge. Things will get worse unless one of the following predictions comes true. 

I predict that at least one of the three following heads of government will be out of office by Christmas, as a result of resignation, revolution or death. 

"Pope" Francis 

Demented Joe Biden Justin 

"F*ck" Trudeau 

The ousting of any one of them would not necessarily make things better in their domains. In fact it would be followed by a period of instability verging on civil war, from which a better church or country might emerge.

Let's see how we did. 

Francis's Church of the One World Religion, the Paranoid States of America and the Great No-longer-white North are still in business, although arguably going downhill (or down the toilet) fast.

The only thing that will save any of those institutions is a dramatic change of leadership, followed by cataclysmic changes of policy. Or, in the case of what was once the Catholic Church, a reversion to the 2000-year-old Faith of our fathers.

As for their "leaders"...

As of this morniong, Francis the Talking Pope is still in the Vatican, dreaming up new novelties [That's a redundancy. Ed.] to distract his followers from any thoughts of guilt, repentance and salvation.

Corrupt Joe Biden is hiding -- Biden is hidin' LOL -- in his basement in Delaware, trying to keep the walls constructed by The Boy from closing in and crushing him. As of this morning he is not in the Oval Office.

Justin "Fuck" Trudeau is on holiday in Jamaica, having burned tons of avgas to get there, and so contributed more to "global warming" than yer average frostback. Before he left, he emitted a substantial amount of CO2 telling the lickspittle media that everything's OK in Canada and he will never, ever quit. Never. Ever. Today, at any rate he is not in his office on Parliament Hill.

So Walt's score is 2 out of office out of 3 predicted. 2 for 3 = .667 on this one. Lifetime pct .977.

About that last post...

The ink was barely dry (so to speak) on "Way too many black kids, way too many crime guns", my post about the shootings in Pinellas County, when I received a complaint from another useful idiot that I put too much emphasis on the blackitude of the perps and their victims. Why did I keep pointing that out, they cried. Why couldn't I have been like Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, and used the word "black" (or "Black", as the wokesters write it now) only once?

Let's try that. Suppose I'd deleted the mugshots of the Coley Bros, and bleeped out the "black" in Sheriff Bob's speech. No, that wouldn't be enough. I'd couldn't repost the video at all because it included images of the miscreants.

So suppose I just posted a transcript of Sheriff Bob's remarks, with the word "black" deleted. You'd still have known, wouldn't you, that the Coley Bros were black, the minute you read their names -- Darcus and Damarcus. 

Even if I had deleted their names -- called them "Defendant 1" and "Defendant 2" perhaps -- you'd still have guessed, from the mindless violence of shooting members of one's own family over a quarrel about who got dissed in the giving of Christmas gifts, that this could only have happened in the "Black community".

That's my point. The real problem which this story illustrates is not insufficient gun control, or the lack of help for those with mental "issues", or even the laxity of the liberal system of justice. It's ghetto culture. And yes, I do mean the black ghetto. You don't get stories like this out of Martha's Vineyard, or the Hamptons, or the `hoods of Crown Point and Bora Park, New York.

Not that there are no family squabbles -- even violent ones -- in those non-black ghettos. But there, the families are complete. Did you notice that in this story there's no mention of fathers being involved, or even present? Just a single mama and kids. 

The problem of the single parent (i.e. mother) family has been discussed (and swept under the politically correct carpet) for decades, at least as far back as The Negro Family: The Case For National Action, commonly known as the Moynihan Report, published during the 1965 race riots.

In this controversial work, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, an American scholar serving as Assistant Secretary of Labor under President Lyndon B. Johnson -- later to become a US Senator -- argued that the rise in black single-mother families was caused not by a lack of jobs, but by a destructive vein in ghetto culture. 

The Moynihan Report was published in 1965. LBJ's "Great Society" was supposed to fix all that. How are things in the great liberal democracy (LOL) of America 58 years later? The black ghettos are bigger and meaner than ever. If you doubt me, try strolling through one of them. 

Maybe you'd better drive, like the Griswolds in National Lampoon's Vacation. That movie appeared in 1983 -- 18 years after the Moynihan Report, and 40 years before the present day. Today you don't have to go into the `hood to risk getting shot. In every big Democrat-controlled (Canadians read: Liberal-cntrolled) city, you hardly dare ride the subway or go shopping in a mall, without taking your life in your hands.

That's how it is in Biden's Woke America. Black culture and the kind of lowlife scum it produces -- Hello George Floyd, wherever you are! -- are held up by the liberals for commiseration, even adoration, while their (mostly black) victims and other innocents can only keep their heads down and hope that some (probably white) cop or well-intentioned civilian will protect them.

VIDEO: "Way too many black kids, way too many crime guns"

Here's a nice little "once upon a time in America" story from Pinellas County FL. 

"Dis is de story of two lil bros, Darcus and Damarcus, who got busted by de po-leece, even dough dey din' do nuffin much. 

"Dey was good bwoyz, tryin' to turn deir lives around. One wanted to be a DJ and de other wanted to be a basketball player. Now dem white supremacist pigs makin' dem out to be poster chil'ren fo gun control. Huh!"

We'll let Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri tell you why Darcus and Damarcus are "known to police". It begins with a Christmas shopping expedition...

 

Did you catch the play? At yesterday's presser, Sheriff Bob said that the two boys carried guns all the time, according to interviews with their relatives, and they had both previously been booked for car burglaries and other crimes. “The problem is," he said, "you got way too many kids out there with way too many guns."

He added, "They’re not old enough to understand and have the right coping mechanisms to deal with this stuff when they are upset." That's PC speak for: we have to make allowance for them because they're disadvantaged, and society hasn't given them help understanding the difference between right and wrong. Oh, hahahahaha.

Then we come to the real problem. "In the last 30 days, we’ve taken reports where seventeen guns have been stolen from unlocked cars." So the problem is that people aren't locking their car doors, right? There oughta be a law against that!

Noooooooo, Karen. The real problem is that there are "young thugs" (Sheriff Gualtieri's words -- he missed the adjective "black") -- who are wandering around looking fo9r un locked cars from which they can steal.

Although they're still teens, both Damarcus and Darcus have records as long as their arms for that sort of thing. They have been in the "justice" system since they were PRE-teens. The police keep charging them with various crimes, often violent, and liberal prosecutors and liberal judges let them out on bail, putting them on probation, giving them slaps on the wrist.

Why? Because the aforementioned minions of the justice system suffer from terminal white liberal guilt combined with state-mandated political correctness. "Kids" like Darcus and Damarcus don't steal guns and sahoot people because they're bad. They do it because they are disadvantaged yoofs, which gives them a deck of get-out-of-jail-free cards. 

So they walk through the revolving doors of the courthouse and commit another crime after another and another. And innocent people get injured and killed. As Sheriff Gualtieri said, "it's ridiculous."

VIDEO: Христос раждається! Christ is born!

Kolyada with +Father Roman Galadza: Part 1, The Trombone. 

Коляда з отцем Романом: Тромбонні сеанси. 

A Christmas gift from Father Roman, filmed in 2020, and found only recently on his mobile device. Carol together. May the joy of the Nativity be yours! 

Різдвяний подарунок від отця Романа, знайдено на його мобільному пристрої. Знято в 2020 році. Колядуйте разом. Нехай вам буде радість Різдва Христового!

  

Filmed at St. Elias Church (Ukrainian Catholic), Brampton, ON Canada.

NOTE: All Ukrainians, even in the old country, are now celebrating Christmas according to the western (Gregorian) calendar, to show that we are not Russians.

Слава Україні! Героям слава!

Christmas greetings!

Glory to God in the highest, 

and on earth peace 

to men of good will. 

St. Luke 2:14 

Walt, Poor Len [and Ed.]wish all our readers a Happy and Holy Christmas, 

and in the New Year, peace and prosperity.

Another EV horror story

In November Walt shared the less-than-positive experience of one of our assiduous readers driving a Chevy Bolt through south central Ontario. See "'The Bolt Adventure' - a true tale from the world of EVs", WWW 4/11/23. 

Now, thanks to a lead from Agent 6, we present a a horror story from the US side of the World's Longest Open Border, featuring the Ford F150 Lightning.

"Our Last Ford F-150 Lightning EV Pickup Road Trip Was a Nightmare" appeared in MotorTrend just yesterday. Ed. hasn't had time to request permission to repost the entire article, so (spoiler alert!) we'll just quote the conclusion. 

"There are undoubtedly some inherent limitations in EVs when it comes to getting places with urgency, and neither Electrify America nor Ford made things any better. The former's abhorrent reputation has chased nearly every automaker into the arms of the rival Tesla Supercharger network. The latter could've done much to mitigate Electrify America's issues with smarter software programing, but it's a year into our electric pickup's stay, and Ford hasn't yet. 

"We'll eventually get to the point where traveling with an EV is as easy as it is with a gas-powered vehicle, but trips like this are reminders that huge growing pains remain, largely with the state of the infrastructure still incapable of supporting the growing EV marketplace."

Walt will take that bet. As long as country folks like us, living in an area where working charging stations are few and far between... very far... we'll stick with our ICEs and a jerry can of gas, just in case.

VIDEO: 10 warning signs that you might be a MAGA, far right, extremist

Full disclosure: This is actually a promo piece for Mike Lindell's line of MyPillow products. Here's what the folks at the Babylon Bee have to say about this video.

 

As the country slowly increases in racism and right-wing bigotry, it’s important to ensure you don’t get caught up in their evil MAGA ways. Here are some early warning signs to look out for that will help you nip any potential extremism in the bud.

 

Things couldn't be worse... or could they???

Colorado is safe for democracy again!

Guess we don't have to tell you where this is from. Click here to read the article from the Babylon Bee, 19/12/23.

Further reading: "Formerly 'Demented Joe', now 'DESPERATE Joe'", WWW 11/12/23. The lengths the Dumbocrats are going to to pull Joe's nuts out of the fire were amusing, at first, but weaponizing Democrat-run courts and Democrat-appointed judges is waaaaay over the top. Resist!!!

Hyuge Vatican flip-flop: "Pope" Francis okays blessing of "gay unions"

As Michael Matt, editor of The Remnant newspaper, predicted in "For God's Sake" earlier this month, Jorge Bergoglio, the man who calls himself "Pope" Francis, has finally confirmed that homosexuality is not, per se, sinful. Therefore, the Vatican has now reversed its position banning the blessing of homosexual couples, asserting that a blessing can now be "offered to all without requiring anything" (such as repentance and a vow to turn away from a disordered lifestyle).

In a text released today with the express approval of the "Pope", the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (formerly the "Congregation" and, before that, the "Holy Office", in the days when that meant something) stated, that blessings require both “the right intention of those who participate” and “that what is blessed be objectively and positively ordered to receive and express grace, according to the designs of God inscribed in creation.” 

It seems the "Church of Accompaniment" has come along way since March of 2021, when CDF issued a statement declaring that the Church has no authority to bless homosexual unions, noting that God Himself  "does not and cannot bless sin. For this reason, it is not licit to impart a blessing on relationships, or partnerships, even stable, that involve sexual activity outside of marriage, as is the case of the unions between persons of the same sex."

What should we faithful Christians believe, Here's what the Bible has to say.

Isaias 5:20–21 (DRV): 

Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. 

Woe to you that are wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own conceits.

Wonder if Francis has ever read that. Here's another one.

Malachias 3:16-18 (DRV): Then they that feared the Lord spoke every one with his neighbour: and the Lord gave ear, and heard it: and a book of remembrance was written before him  for them that fear the Lord, and think on his name.  

And they shall be my special possessions, saith the Lord of hosts, in the say that I do judgment: and I will spare them, as a man spareth his son that serveth him.  

And you shall return, and shall see the difference between the just and the wicked: and between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.

Who, let us ask, does Francis serve?

Further reading: "Homosexuality condemned in the Word of God", WWW 9/7/09 (one of Walt's very first posts). 

The perfect Christmas gift for the EV owner's kids

Recommended reading (if you think this is funny): "'The Bolt Adventure' - a true tale from the world of EVs", WWW 4/11/23.

Pray this is a joke!

Pope Francis Excommunicates Apostle Paul Over Outdated Views On Women, Marriage 

If you think that's unlikely, consider this latest video from Remnant TV. Michael Matt says that the Church may finally have reached the point of self-destruction by declaring that there is no more sin. If the Church no longer believes in hell, that renders the Incarnation and Resurrection pointless, and the existence of the Church irrelevant. 

Let us pray. 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, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits, who prowl through the world seeking the ruin of souls.

Formerly "Demented Joe", now "DESPERATE Joe"

President Brandon must be desperately trying to stave off the electoral disaster into which he's leading (?) his party. Could there be any other reason for enlisting election denier Hillary Clinton  to build infrastructure, raise money, and mobilize voters for his election campaign?

Breitbart News calls Hellery "a twice-failed presidential candidate [and] a longtime election denier:" Why do they say that?

* 2016: Claimed the Supreme Court “took away a presidency” in Bush v. Gore. 

* 2017: Alleged she would not “rule out” questioning the legitimacy of the 2016 election. 

* 2020: Claimed the 2016 presidential election was not conducted legitimately, saying, “We still don’t really know what happened.” 

* 2020: Claimed Stacey Abrams “would have won” Georgia’s gubernatorial race “if she had a fair election” and that Stacey Abrams “should be governor” but was “deprived of the votes [she] otherwise would have gotten.”

They quote NBCs as saying "People close to Hillary Clinton anticipate she’ll be a tireless campaigner for the Biden campaign, rallying Democratic voters by laying out the stakes and explaining why a Trump victory could subvert America’s democratic norms. [Seriously? Walt]

"She is also well positioned to caution voters that if they support a third-party candidate, they may cut into Biden’s margin and flip the election to Trump, Democratic strategists said. Clinton’s role is only expected to grow in the new year, but for now, she is filling a space that at a later point in the campaign season former President Barack Obama will join." [SERIOUSLY? Walt]

FiveThirtyEight polling shows Crooked Joe is the least popular president in modern US history, with a -18 approval rating. No wonder many Democrats asked him not to run for re-election. But he says he has to do it. Why? Because if he doesn't, the Democratic candidate for president is likely to be... wait for it... Mrs Bill Clinton. Yikes!

Who's the REAL authoritarian dictator?

Further reading: "Democrats Are Right to Be Scared of Trump’s Vengeance", by Kurt Schlichter, in Townhall, 11/12/23. Key point: "I don’t understand why the supporters of the party of Hamas and failure are giving Donald Trump an in-kind campaign contribution in the form of their girlish, fussy cries of 'He’s an authoritarian!' but okay. That the Trump 2.0 administration would ruthlessly use all the powers at its disposal should Trump win in 2024 to punish his enemies is about the best argument there is for giving him the Grover Cleveland nod."

VIDEO: Attn Americans: Canada's housing hell

I always LMAO when I hear Hollywood celebs like Cher, Barbra Streisand and Robber Reiner threaten to move to Canada when -- notice, "when", not "if" -- President Trump is re-elected. I'd like to see them try it!

Suppose one of them has a house valued at a million dollars in Malibu and is tired of having illegal alien migrants sleep and shitting on the beach in front of them. Xe has a house worth a million dollars. That should be about 1.35 million beaverbucks, right? That should get you a decent house in Canada, right? Wrong! That's about the average price of a modest single-family house in Toronto, such as this.

I'm exaggerating a bit. You wouldn't get that much land with the bungalow in Toronto. Maybe out in Dundalk ON, but not in Toronto, where 30-foot lots are the norm and "laneway houses" are starting to appear. Yeah, you might get a laneway house for $1,000,000.

The fact is, as Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre explains in this video, that affordable housing is beyond the reach of the vast majority of the subjects of Justin Trudeau, Emperor of All Canuckistan. Young Canucks starting out today have abandoned all hope of ever owning a house, and a great many can't even afford to rent, so they wind up couch-surfing or living with mom and dad. Canada really is "housing hell".

  

 

Tom Mulcair, the former leader of Canada's socialist NDP, now a talking head for the liberal CTV network, calls this video "just about the best piece of political communication Canadians have ever been treated to, and...devastating for Trudeau." 

As I explained in yesterday's post, it may be years yet before hapless Canucks get the chance to turf out the master narcissist. But our American readers are less than year away from their opportunity to give the boot to Demented Joe Biden, whose "Bidenomics" are having the same effect on the US of A. If you don't believe me, just take a walk (if you dare) around any American city. You won't have to go far to see "homeless encampments" -- remember "Hoovervilles"? -- even worse than than those in Trudeau's Canada.

Both the USA and Canada are broken. The lot of the average Canadian or American is worse than at any time since the Great Depression. The blame lies squarely at the doors of the liberal governments of Corrupt Joe Brandon and Blackie McBlackface. Resist them in any and every way you can!

Further viewing: "Advice on moving to Canada (if Trump wins)", VIDEO by Gavin McInnes, WWW 27/4/16. Poor Len Canayen and Walt himself approve Gavin's toque!

VIDEO: Carolyn Burjoski - Canuck anti-woke heroine

Walt's nominee for Canadian hero of the year is Carolyn Burjoski, then a teacher in the Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB), who was silenced in 2022 after expressing to the board her concerns about library books with content supporting gender transitions (read: sex change operations) for young people.

Board Chair Scott Piatkowski halted Ms Burjoski's presentation at a WRDSB meeting for comments she rnade which he alleged violated the Ontario Human Rights Code. He later described the teacher's comments as "transphobic" and "questioning trans people's right to exist."

Ms Burjoski fought back -- a shining example of the kind of "resistance" which is Walt's theme today. In May 2022, she filed a defamation lawsuit against the WRDSB and Chairman Scott. The board responded by bringing a motion to have the suit thrown out. In this short video, Ms Burjoski speaks about what happened.

    

On November 23rd of this year, Mr Justice James Ramsay of the Ontario Superior Court dismissed the WRDSB's motion, and ordered the Board to pay Ms Burjoski's costs in the amount of C$30,000 (nearly $22,000 in real money). 

Judge Ramsay ruled that Ms Burjoski's lawsuit against the school board should be allowed to proceed, and... yes, there's more... called the comments made against her "defamatory." Said the judge, "They accused her of breaching the Human Rights Code, questioning the right of trans persons to exist and engaging in speech that included hate. She did not do any of those things. 

"The chairman of the board acted with malice or at least, with a reckless disregard for the truth. He had made an embarrassingly erroneous and arbitrary decision to silence a legitimate expression of opinion and he was widely criticized for it. It is not a stretch to infer that, realizing that, he tried to justiff himself with the public by assassinating the plaintiff s character." 

Furthermore, the judge said, human rights legislation "does not prohibit public discussion of anything," and "what happened here should not happen in a democratic society." 

Ms Burjoski's legal victory shows that parents who want to speak up at school board meetings to voice their concerns need not fear being silenced. After this excellent start to her ongoing legal battle to hold the WRDSB accountable, Ms Burjoski will now continue with her defamation suit. But she will need your help. 

In legal affairs such as this, the process is the punishment. The stress of the litigation forced her to go on leave from her teaching position, and the money she's supposed to get from the Board doesn't even cover her actual costs so far. Ms Burjoski.

But Ms Burjoski believes she must press on. Her victory (so far) shows that parents who want to speak up at school board meetings to voice their concerns need not fear being silenced. Click here to visit her website, and please lend whatever support you can. And tell her Walt sent ya!

Canadians! Sign this petition for a snap federal election!

Earlier today Walt posted Michael Matt's latest video in which he calls on us right-thinking people (geddit?) to keep up the fight against the liberals, wokesters, and all who would destroy our society. We need to stand up to them, to resist them to their faces!

One whose smug, self-satisfied face begs for resistance (or worse) is Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister (and Emperor wannabe) of Canuckistan. Recent polls show that the majority of Canucks -- of every region, race, creed, and gender -- can't stand him! According to the Angust Reid Institute, his approval rating as of October 2023 is a mere 33%, right down there with Demented Joe Biden's.

What is needed, most Canadians say, is an election. Sadly, because the pinko New Democratic Party is pledged to support Trudeau's Liberals come hell or high water, no election need be held until 2025. Unless... unless... enough Members of Parliament can see the handwriting on the wall to support a non-confidence motion in the House of Commons.

That's why Michelle Ferreri, the Conservative MP for Peterborough-Kawartha, is supporting an online petition, e-4701, now on the Commons website, waiting for your signature!

On 30 November, Ms Ferreri wrote on Facebook, "Misery is a powerful motivator and clearly this petition is elevating the voices of Canadians who are sick of the Trudeau-imposed misery and want a leader and a government they can trust."

The petition was originally put forward by Peterborough resident Melissa Outwater, who runs a Facebook page highly critical of Trudeau. Freedom Through Unity Peterborough/Kawartha includes posts from people mistrustful of Covid-19 policies and government in general. 

"The policies of this government aren't aligning with the crisis Canada is facing: housing costs, infringement of civil liberties, highest inflation in history, unbalanced immigration policies, taxation to the point of poverty, weakening of our economy by importing natural resources that Canada already has and under-utilizes," the petition states. "Based on the past eight years of this Prime Minister, Canadians do not have confidence in this Prime Minister, after five ethics investigations and Canada’s reputation being tarnished on a global scale under his leadership." 

Since it was started on 24 November, the petition has garnered some 175,000 signatures from across the Great No-longer-white North. The Peterborough Examiner reports that Ontario leads the tally with 65,244, followed by Alberta at 44,576 and Nunavut last on the list with 44 signatures. 

No matter how many signatures the petition attracts, it is unlikely to succeed, because the MPs of not just the Liberals but all the other parties are so shit-scared of losing their jobs and their pensions in the Tory tsunami that will result from a snap election. All the same, if you're Canadian and you agree with the millions of Canucks who think it's time for Trudeau to go, you should sign the petition! Doing so is your personal act of resistance!

VIDEO: Hold the line! We ARE winning!

Many years ago, when I was eking out my tuition by playing piano in a [Shame on you if you thought  "brothel". In fact it was a Baptist church! Ed.] I learned a gospel song which began like this:

Ho, my comrades, see the signal, flashing through the sky,

Reinforcements now appearing, victory is nigh!

Hold the fort, for I am coming... etc

These lyrics flashed through my mind as I watched the latest episode of The Remnant Underground featuring Michael Matt, editor of The Remnant newspaper. Mr Matt talks about:

* the sacking of Raymond Cardinal Burke by Francis, the "Pope of Mercy", which has parked outrage from news networks all over the world. 

* Jewish economist, Jeffrey Sachs' about-face on Dr Fauci's Covid lies, denunciation of the Democrat Party, and allegations that Israel is committing war crimes. 

* The travails of Team Francis. Apparently the minions who arranged the Pope’s Abu Dhabi dialogue with the Grand Imam of al-Azhar didn't know the latter is an enthusiastic supporter of... wait for it... Hamas!

But wait (as Vince Offer used to say), there's more!

Late night comedians are openly mocking Greta Thunberg

Elon Musk says George Soros fundamentally hates humanity, and 

Klaus Schwab says he’s going to turn the freeways of the world into parks!

Mr Matt says all this is part of Globalism's mad dash to LaLa Land. Listen and marvel.

To return to my opening paragraph, Mr Matt says (and yr obdt servant agrees!) that all this is good news, for thes latest acts in the comedy of errors and nonsense portends the demise of the New World Order and New World Religion (the "Church of Francis") being promoted by Messrs Soros, Schwab and Bergoglio. 

These are the last acts of desperate (and desperately misguided) men, facing the decline and fall of their Brave New World. They've overstayed their welcome and overplayed their hand. All that is needed to consign them to the ash-heap of history is for us -- lovers of tradition, freedom, and Christian civilzation -- keep resisting the secular humanist overlords to their faces. 

As Tamara Lich, one of the organizers of the Freedom Convoy, says: Hold the line! As Michael Matt says: Don't lose hope; we are winning! Victory is nigh!  

Sikhs wanted in Brampton, Ontario

The following message is presented as a public service.

Surrey BC and Brampton ON have the largest proportion of Sikhs of any cities in Canada. The Peel Region Police Department, whose jurisdiction includes Brampton, would like your help in locating the four Sikhs pictured above, wanted on charges of aggravated assault. Police have not disclosed what weapons were used in the assault, but may have been cricket bats.

They are: 22-year-old Aftaab Singh Gill, of no fixed address; 22-year-old Harmandeep Singh, of Brampton; 25-year-old Jatinder Singh, of Brampton; and 30-year-old Satnam Singh, of Brampton. Some or all of them may be in Canada on student visas, pursing their studies at the Singh School of Truck Driving.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of these four Sikhs is asked to contact PRPS 22 Division at 905-453-2121, ext. 2233, or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).

Saint Greta has spoken!

"Me want skool!" is good enough for the Toronto District School Board

The Toronto District School Board (hereinafter "TDSB") is the wokest in the fairyland of Canuckistan. And in a country which includes such hotbeds of wokeism as the Waterloo Region District School Board which forbids any discussion of gender ideology, pronouns or sex change operations * [Isn't there a more PC name for that? Ed.], that's really saying something.

The TDSB is not only the wokest in the land, but the biggest. Its catchment area encompasses numerous "ethnic" neighbourhoods, including Little India, the notorious Jane-Finch `hood, and a part of Scarborough which, to look at it, is majority Chinese... and so it is.

The ultra-progressive TDSB is all in favour of DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) of course. As Mr Socks sez, "Diversity is our strength!" (Cue guffaws from most Canadians. See "Shocking news: Majority of Canucks think diversity is causing problems!", WWW 25/11/23. To serve various diverse sections of the community, the Board has established several dozen Central Student Interest Programmes (CSIP), both at the secondary (opens in a new tab)and elementary (opens in a new tab)level, including those specializing in arts, athletics, science, math and many others. 

But it seems some groups need a little more equity than others. According to the TDSB website, 20% per cent of the spaces in CSIP are reserved for students who are Black, Indigenous, Latin American and Middle Eastern, while 50% cent of the spaces in math, science and technology programmes are for students self-identifying as female.

That doesn't sit well with the Chinese community (or the south Asians, for that matter), who, along with the "old stock Canadians" (read: palefaces), are regarded as "privileged", thus not deserving of extra help. Trustee Weidong Pei of Ward 12, Willowdale, told CTV News Toronto the policy doesn't address the socio-economic barriers standing in the way of enriched education, but instead creates more division in schools and waters down talent. 

What to do? The performance-based process of entry, which had been criticized for "favouring students from wealthier families" (read: racist!) had to go. So, in 2022, the Board trustees voted to move away from a model that only accepts those with demonstrated strength and/or ability, by removing all tests, exams, auditions and grade-entry requirements from CSIP applications.

In came the new, woker, "interest-based model", which is now "under review". Trustee James Li of Ward 13, Don Valley North,  told CTV, "When we implemented the program in 2023, we didn't ask the students to prove or demonstrate anything. We only asked the students to write their name down, which was disappointing." Now, he continued, "We expect them to demonstrate that they're interested in [an enriched programme] to the point where they want to go above and beyond the curriculum, and they're ready and willing to work towards it.”

Mr Pei calls the expression of interest requirement "meaningless". "The formal expression of interest is not being evaluated. An entry consisting of 'Me want skool' is given the same weight as a student filming themselves playing 'Flight of the Bumblebee' on the tuba!

"Everybody I know, including me, is concerned about socio-economic barriers, but the policies don’t adjust for socio-economics, they use self-identified race as a proxy for socio-economics. The average Asian family's income at TDSB is below the overall average of TDSB families, and South Asians' incomes are even lower. Yet Asian families are considered a privileged group."

Ah so... but Messrs Pei and Li should know that in Emperor Justin's Canada, affirmative action (read: reverse racism) is the New Equity. So let it be preached. So let it be done.

* See "Court victory for teacher silenced for transgender-book criticism", National Post, 25/11/23. 

Shocking news: Majority of Canucks think diversity is causing problems!

Here's something we were surprised to see in one of Canada's "legacy" (read" state-supported) newspapers. Still, at least the National Post's Tristin Hopper had the cojones to touch it. You wouldn't find it in the Toronto Red Star or the Groan and Wail.

[What IS it?! Ed.] OK, OK.... Blackie McBlackface, Prime Minister of All Canuckistan, has been repeating for over a decade the mantra that "Diversity is our strength!" Canadians are sick, sore and tired of being told that by Mr Socks and his lickspittle media. What's more, the majority of them don't believe it.

What's more, the Hamas-Israel war has fuelled a growing anti-immigrant backlash. Not all immigrants, you understand. Just those who bring with them the sectarian wars of the Middle East and Africa. According to a Leger-Postmedia poll, cited in this NatPo article, there has been a significant increase in the number who believe non-permanent residents who express hate towards minorities or support for terrorist groups should be deported from Canada

The poll finds that the majority of Canadians, both white and "other", call BS on "Diversity is our strength!", and believe that diversity can bring “problems” as well as benefits. Look at this.

The poll found a majority of respondents also endorsed the notion that newcomers should be encouraged to embrace Canada's values and traditions, and discard whatever cultural identity is incompatible with that.

51% of responders agreed with the statement that Canadian authorities "should do more to ensure newcomers accept Canadian values." An even higher proportion (55%) endorsed the notion that Canada's immigration policy should be premised on "encouraging newcomers to embrace broad mainstream values and traditions," and leaving behind any beliefs "that may be incompatible with that."

For starters, Walt recommends encouraging businesses and the media to stop using the phrase "Happy Holidays", and encouraging newcomers to exchange "Merry Christmas" wishes with old stock Canadians. I could go on. [Next time. Ed.] 

How was YOUR Thanksgiving?

 No, this is not a photo of Walt. Ed.

UPDATED: Congrats to Geert Wilders on stunning election victory

The usual gang of One-Worlders, ComSymps and other loonie leftists are crying in their Heineken, Amstel and Oranjeboom (look it up) tonight as the final count in yesterday's parliamentary elections in the Netherlands confirms a hyuge victory for the "far-right", "anti-Islam", "neoNazi", yada yada yada Geert Wilders and his PPV (Party for Freedom).

In one of the biggest political upsets in Dutch politics since World War II, Dhr Wilders' Freedom Party beat all expectations, winning 37 seats out of 150. That's more than double the number the PVV in the last election. A joint Labour/Green (read: leftist) ticket got 25 seats, just one more than the conservative People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) of outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte. 

Dhr Wilders will now have to form a coalition, which is normal in Dutch politics with its multiplicity of competing parties. Talks on who will be included are expected to take months, since the sore losers on the left declared well in advance of the election that they would never co-operate in any way with the man they call "the Dutch Trump".

Dhr Wilders' win came as a shock warning to mainstream parties across Europe ahead of European Parliament elections due next June. The issues in at least the western part of Europe are the same as those which were fought out in the Dutch election: immigration, the high cost of living, the so-called "climate crisis" - "Kill all the cows to save the Earth from global warming" -- and did we mention immigration and what to do with all the Muslims.

The Dutch election result is another sign of the resurgence of the Right across the continent. Most recently there was the election of Giorgia Meloni as prime minister of Italy. Now Dhr Wilders is set to become the first-ever rightist prime minister of the Netherlands. Then we await 2027 and the inevitable election of Marine Le Pen as the first female président of France. Lifetime pct .980.

Further reading (posted 25/11/23): "Did Israel-Palestine protests propel Geert Wilders to victory?" by Freddy Gray, Deputy Editor of The Spectator, 24/11/23. Key takeaway: "...anti-immigration politics is the most potent force in twenty-first century western democracies."

Quote of the week: "The average person doesn’t want to close all doors to refugees and immigrants, but they also don’t want to divert large quantities of public resources to newcomers who disproportionately erode the safety and security of everyone else while soaking up undeserved social benefits." (Jamie Sarkonak, in "Fed up with climate zealotry and immigration, the Dutch lurch to the right", National Post, 26/11/23.)

Wut?

Let me get this straight. While Trudeau's minions on the pretty side of the Niagara River were operating under the assumption that yesterday's vehicle explosion (my emphasis) at the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls was "terror-related", their counterparts in the Paranoid States of America, directed by NY Governor Kathy Hochul (D) are now saying there is "no indication of a terrorist attack" at this time.

In a statement released late yesterday, FBI Buffalo said, [it] "has concluded our investigation at the scene of the Rainbow Bridge incident. A search of the scene revealed no explosive materials, and no terrorism nexus was identified. The matter has been turned over to the Niagara Falls Police Department as a traffic investigation."

Wur? A "traffic investigation"? Really?!

Walt's crack incident reconstruction team [meaning me. Ed.] has sifted through the multiplicity of eyewitness statements, police statements, CBP statements, FBI statements, yada yada yada, to compile this timeline.

A "Western New York man" -- so far unnamed -- and his wife cross the Rainbow Bridge yesterday morning to attend the KISS concert scheduled for Toronto in the evening. Apparently they were unaware that the Tuesday night concert in Ottawa had been cancelled, owing to the illness (from "flu") of singer-guitarist Paul Stanley, and the Toronto concert was also scrubbed.

So, the disgruntled American couple went back across the bridge in a huff [a minute and a huff? Ed.] or perhaps it was a Bentley, always a great concert-going car. Then, perhaps maddened by having to pay the toll for nothing, they drive home -- location so far unrevealed -- load up the Bentley with enough explosives to blow up... errr... something large*, and tear back through beautiful downtown Niagara Falls (NY) at speeds of 100 mph. Those who know the alleged city will tell you that, in itself, is a pretty good trick.

Then, instead of turning into the Rainbow Bridge entry lanes, where the only checkpoint or obstruction to entering Canada is the toll-booth, they aim the vehicle at the United States CBP facility on the southerly side of the plaza. 

The 13 or 14 booths referred to by Ms Hochul (see yesterday's post) are there to intercept travellers coming into the USA. Someone trying to get into Canada from that side would encounter a forest of "wrong way" signs, fences and other barriers. Of course if you were flying through the air, you'd miss them... or most of them.

The vehicle hit one of the booths and exploded in a rather large ball of flame -- much too large to have been caused by a malfunctioning EV battery, or even a tankful of cheap American gas. Initial reports said the car was "packed with explosives", but nothing has been said about that since the FBI took over the investigation.

Meanwhile, the Rainbow Bridge remains closed. (The other three bridges across the Niagara River have been reopened.) After all, it was only a traffic accident... right? Is there anythiing else about which your Democratic government can reassure you today?

* Further reading: "Activist darling of the leftist media arrested for allegedly trying to ‘firebomb’ an Israeli company in New Jersey", American Thinker, 22/11/23 (same day as the Rainbow Bridge "traffic accident")

VIDEO: "Allahu akbar!" at Niagara Falls??? Questions arise

One of Walt's agents says that nothing ever happens in Niagara Falls NY. All the action, he claims, is on the pretty side of the river. Today was different. For those who missed it, we have some video from security cameras at the US side of The World's Longest Undefended Border (TM) crossing, timestamped about 1120 EST today.

What, dear reader, was your initial reaction to that video. Did you think it was probably just an accident? No biggie! Nothing here to see, folks!

That's the official party line [the Liberal Party and the Democratic Party. Ed.], which was rushed into print and onto the Web within a couple of hours of the "serious incident". The Powers That Be had to start the gaslighting PDQ because "right-wing" media had already starting using the T-word -- T as in Terrorism.

The T-word has been scrubbed from all the early reports in the lickspittle media, because in recent years people in Europe and North America have, for some strange reason, come to associate terrorism with the Religion of Peace (TM), Muslim jihadis, and, since last October 7th, Hamas. 

In Canada, the bought-and-paid-for media have been enjoined (by Bill M-106) from saying or writing anything that would stoke the fires of Islamophobia. See "If Canadians are Islamophobic, perhaps there's a reason", WWW 27/7/21. Most of the American media are no better.

But I digress. Here's what is known [admitted? Ed.] about what happened. The vehicle came from U.S. side of the border, travelled along Main Street at speeds estimated at 100 MPH, then became airborne and crashed into a US Customs and Border Patrol booth before bursting into flames. 

Two people in the vehicle that exploded were declared dead at the scene, and officials have said a third person believed to be a border employee was injured and taken to hospital, but has since been released. One of the occupants of the vehicle has been identified (but not named) as "a resident of western New York." 

Karen Kathy Hochul, the Democratic Governor of the Empire State, had this to say about that, "At this time there is no indication of a terrorist involved attack here at the Rainbow Bridge in Western New York." (My emphasis. Walt)

Later, Governor Hochul amplified her analysis. "If you can imagine this vehicle basically incinerated. Nothing is left but the engine. The pieces are scattered over 13, 14 booths. So it is a large scene, and it's going to take a lot of time… to be able to piece together the real story... It has not been determined to be an accident. You don't know whether the driver was intentional in how they drove… All I know is there was a horrific incident. A crash, an explosion, loss of life, but at this time, no known terrorist connection." 

I have some questions I'd like to ask.

* If the car wasn't "packed" with explosives" (as a law enforcement officer said before being silenced), what caused it to burst into flame? Even an EV wouldn't do that.

* How did police identify the "resident of western New York" whose body parts were "scattered over 13, 14 booths" by the force of the blast? And if his identity is known, why hasn't his name [not "Mohammed", surely! Ed.] and other information been released? 

* First reports said the vehicle was trying to get into the USA. It's clear from the videos that the opposite is true. So, if the occupants of the vehicle were trying to get out of the USA, why was that? 

* Were they on the run? From what? Or were they trying to get into Canada, to terrorize its famously Islamophile prime minister?

* Is it possible the deceased weren't Muslims, but Jews? (Just kidding.)

That's enough questions for today. Fortunately for Governor Hochul and all the other Authorities, whose ability to secure the World's Longest Etc border now seem even more suspect, the promised investigation will now have to wait until after the holiday weekend. Happy Thanksgiving, everone!

True Facts about the first American Thanksgiving

Today Walt can reveal that what you were taught about pilgrims, pumpkins and Plymouth was fake news! Historian Rodney Kite Powell of the Tampa Bay History Center gives the credit for the first Thanksgiving celebration to Spanish soldiers and missionaries who, along with Native Americans, thanked God for His mercies, especially safe travel and arrival. 

This was on 8 September 1565, in... wait for it... St. Augustine, Florida! Yes, we have a picture... well, a painting, actually.

Those involved were all part of the expedition to the New World of Dom Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. There were around 800 crew members. and a variety of people -- not just Spaniards, but people from from all over Europe -- who were trying to create a settlement in Florida, and whose efforts were ultimately crowned with success. To celebrate, a Roman Catholic Mass and Te Deum were celebrated on the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Don Pedro came ashore amid the sounding of trumpets, artillery salutes, and the firing of cannons to claim the land for King Philip II and Spain. The ship's chaplain, Fr. Francisco Lopez de Mendoza Grajales, chanted the Te Deum, the Church's great hymn of Thanksgiving, traditionally attributed to St. Ambrose of Milan, and presented a crucifix which Don Pedro ceremoniously kissed.

After that, 500 soldiers, 200 sailors and 100 families and artisans, along with the Timucuan Indians who inhabited the region, celebrated the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in gratitude to God, after which a thanksgiving feast was shared by the Indians and the Spaniards.

The second American Thanksgiving occurred on April 30, 1598, when Spanish explorer Don Juan de Onate requested the Franciscan friars to offer a Mass of Thanksgiving, after which he formally proclaimed "La Toma" (The Capture), claiming the land north of the Rio Grande for the King of Spain. The men feasted on duck, goose, and fish from the river. Some of the Spaniards dressed in costume and presented a play.

Even at Plymouth Rock in the Massachusetts Colony, where the Pilgrims later landed in 1620, Squanto, the Indian who organized their first Thanksgiving, was a Catholic. He had been enslaved by the English, but was freed by Spanish Franciscans and subsequently received the Catholic Sacrament of Baptism.

Catholics and all Americans should remember that the word "Thanksgiving" is also Catholic, from the Greek "Eucharistia", referring not to turkey with all the trimmings, but to the Heavenly Bread, the Catholic Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist.

Any experts on iconography or symbolism out there?

Ed. here. Walt is making me crazy! We need some help identifying this symbol.

The design consists of two crossed scythes (?) surrounded by a laurel wreath. The small circle at top might represent the sun.

It appears to be a political symbol, a simplified coat of arms, or a government logo of some kind, and was seen in a repeated pattern on a cement wall, painted in blue on a lighter blue background. But where? Walt's guess is somewhere, possibly a Communist or formerly Communist country, in eastern Europe or central Asia.

A thorough search on Google and even Bing turns up a couple of remotely similar images, but nothing exact. If anyone can shed more light on it, please do so using the comment window which appears when you click on the headline.

By the way, before I forget: The answer to the trivia question in our previous post is: Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood. 

"Pull the strings! Pull the strings!"

Trivia quiz: Who uttered the headline in a movie about a famous film-maker? Answer later... if I remember.

VIDEO: Latest news and views from Michael Matt at Remnant TV

It's been a while since we reposted a video featuring Michael Matt, the editor of The Remnant newspaper. The recently concluded Synod on Synodality (which we thought would be the Synod of Sin) turned out to be something of a damp squib, just a continuation of the "church of accompaniment" nonsense dreamed up by Jorge Bergoglio, the man who calls himself "Pope Francis". 

There wasn't a whole lot there to talk about, so in this week's video Mr Matt talks about a potpourri of other things, notably Francis' dismissal from office of Most Rev. Joseph Strickland, now the former Bishop of Tyler TX.

But there's much more. Listen as Dr Jordan Peterson (!) talks about the power of the Rosary. As Mr Matt says, "Looks like God’s coming back, and he’s bringing hell with him." Here's the video.

Even if you're not Catholic, you need to be concerned about the crisis in the Church. Ever since the "progressives" started their campaign to weaken and ultimately destroy Holy Mother of Church, the entire Western world has fallen into a state of decay. 

The war on the Church is a war on our entire society! We must resist Francis and all the enemies of Holy Mother Church, both without and within! Join us in this prayer: 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 seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

As I was saying...

...in "Who's really behind the Great Replacement" (WWW, 15/11/23)...

Dear readers, the Great Replacement is all part of the Soros/WEF/Schwab plan to usher in the New World Order. It began long ago, but this latest phase is far from the end. Who's going to stop it before it's too late?! The only person the conspirators are afraid of is... wait for it... President Donald J. Trump!

A taxpayer responds to the Canada Revenue Agency*

* the Canadian version of the rapacious and totally unacceptable IRS. Ed.

The CRA sent a Canadian taxpayer's return back to him because of his answer to one of the questions.

In response to the question "Do you have anyone dependent on you?" the impoverished Canuck wrote, "2.1 million illegal immigrants, 1.1 million crack heads who get their drugs from a government "safe supply" depot, 4.4 million unemployable scroungers -- many of whom "work" at the CRA -- and 80,000 convicted criminals in over 85,000 prisons.

"But wait, there's more -- 450 idiots in Parliament, an entire group that call themselves "senators", plus thousands of "politicians at four or five levels of government, and tens of thousands of "consultants" and "administrators".

The CRA replied that the taxpayer's response was "unacceptable", to which he replied, "Who did I leave out?"

Thanks and a tip o' the toque to Agent 9. Lang may yer lum reek!

Scene at the APEC summit

I saw the clip on the toob yesterday of Brandon and Winnie Ille Pu (that's Latin, folks) staring at each other (sort of) across a Very Big Table. Senile Joe wasn't actually look at Xi, since he (Joe) was reading  his little speech from a laptop. Xi didn't look impressed.

Who's really behind the Great Replacement

While you go out and about today, take a look around you. No matter where in North America you live, even in more remote areas like Greater Ford Mudge, you will see more and more people who are not like you. Go ahead. See for yourself. Try your local foodbanks and homeless shelters. Yes, dear reader, the Great Replacement is not a theory. It's a fact!

The latest phase of the WEF/Soros/Schwab plan to fill Europe and America with Arabs, Africans and other unassimilable minorities, misfits and leftist revolutionaries is the propaganda campaign to shame the West into taking in millions of refugees from the Hamas-Israel war. They are not wanted in Israel (obviously) or Egypt (the only country with a land border with Gaza) or Saudi Arabia or any of the other Islamic statelets in the region. So where should they go? Why, to the West, of course!

Who says so?! None other than Israeli Finance Minister (((Bezalel Smotrich))), who yesterday called on Palestinians to "voluntarily emigrate" to Western countries. Mr Smotrich was responding to an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal written by Likud MKs (Members of the Israeli Knesset) (((Danny Danon))) and (((Yesh Atid))) callin on Western countries to accept Gazan refugees.

In "Israeli minister calls for widespread Palestinian emigration to West" (Jerusalem Post, 14/11/23), Mr Smotrich is quoted thus:

"I welcome the initiative of voluntary relocation of Gazan Arabs to countries worldwide. This is the right humanitarian solution for the residents of Gaza and the whole area after 75 years of being poor refugees. 

"The majority of Gaza is fourth and fifth generations to 1948 refugees who, instead of being rehabilitated long ago like hundreds of millions of refugees around the world, were held hostage in Gaza in poverty and overcrowding and were a symbol of the desire to destroy the State of Israel and of the refugees' return to Jaffa, Haifa, Acre, and Tiberias." 

He went on to say this has bred the hatred for Israel and Jews "upon which the population in Gaza is raised and educated" and led them to believe that the only solution is the destruction of Israel. 

"The small area of the Gaza Strip, which doesn't have any natural resources or independent sources of income, has no chance of independent, economic, and diplomatic existence in such high density long-term. Therefore, the only solution to end the suffering and the pain of Jews and Arabs alike is for countries around the world who truly want what's good for the refugees to accept them along with support and economic aid from the international community, including the State of Israel."

Readers who are slapping their foreheads and exclaiming, "By Yahweh, he's right!" are invited to share their views with their representatives in Congress/Parliament/whatever. Don't just write or email. Get your traditional keffiyeh headscarf (available on Etsy for 30 pieces of silver) and join your comrades in the streets as they chant "From the river to the sea, you're welcome to our country!"

Less than a year away from disaster, what will the Democrats do?

I guess by now you've all seen the video of President Brandon appearing to get lost while laying a wreath at a Veterans Day ceremony on Friday. If not, you can see it, along with some comment from Sky News Australia's "The Sunday Showdown", here.

The Democrats have a problem -- an incumbent President who is eligible for a second term, potentially even worse than the first.

Still, Senile Joe insists that's he's going to seek re-election, notwithstanding that every poll and virtually every pundit predicts that he'll get thrashed.

The Democrats who are not Dumbocrats know this. Behind close doors, even those who are in thrall to the Deep State, expressing their confidence in Senile Joe's ability (and sanity), are wracking their alleged brains to find a way to dump him, while there's still time to nominate someone with a chance, however slim, of pulling their nuts out of the fire... so to speak.

Further reading: "Lefties beg Brandon 'Don't run, Joe!'", WWW 13/7/22. And yes, they've been casting about for alternatives since before the could've-been-worse results of  the mid-terms. The pleas to leave are much louder now, for it's certain that when Brandon drowns in the Trump tsunami, he'll take others -- Denocratic governors, Democratic senators, and Democratic Congresspersons -- with him. Walt predicts that the 2024 elections could result in a Republican double majority which would last for at least eight years. (Lifetime pct .988.)

What to do, then? How about if Brandon retires now "to spend more time with his family" (possibly in a federal facility of the barred kind)? 

That would give the lovely and fragrant Kamala Harris -- America's first almost-black female vice-president -- almost a year to climb out of the deep hole in the approval ratings into which she's dug herself. If you don't recall how she managed it, check out the VIDEO in "If Brandon dies, this woman would become President", WWW 2/5/23.

Maybe not such a good idea when it comes to electability. Some people still feel sorry for Poor Old Joe, and believe the mess he's in was made by the Boy. But when it comes to Ms Harris, people just laugh.

But hang on! Walt thought of a solution, the latest in a long line of brilliant but under-appreciated ideas. See "How Brandon can get rid of the Three Witches", WWW 18/8/23. In a nutshell [? Ed.], Senator Dianne Feinstein (the eldest witch) would retire, then Camela would resign and Gavin Newsom would appoint her to serve out the rest of Not-so-Feinstein's term.

Are you still with me? Ms Harris's resignation would leave the Veep position open, so Crooked Joe could appoint Crooked Hellery Clinton to the position, which would be a springboard to a third try for the presidensity after Brandon steps down at the end of this year, as predicted by my goodself last January. 

It was a fine plan, IMHO, which Gavin Newsom screwed up by appointing Laphonza Butler as the new senator from California after Ms Feinstein obligingly died. The Fonz's only qualifications for office seem to be that she is (a) black, (b) a woman, (c) a Democrat and (d) President of EMILY's List, a fundraising juggernaut that works to elect Democratic women who support abortion rights. How California is that!

Why would Governor Newsom make an appointment which offers no support whatever to the Democrats' 2024 campaign? Surely it has nothing to do with Mr Newsom's own presidential ambitions. His name was mentioned when the Dumbocrats were beating the bullrushes for a candidate in 2020, but he chickened out. My guess is he intends to sit idly by while the Dems implode, in order to present himself after a decent interval as the right man to lead the Party as it "builds back better". Dream on, Gavin, dream  on.