Walt is sick

Ed. here. Walt has been violently ill since 1600 EDT on Wednesday. I have put him to bed with a pitcher of Ma Nifkins' jellied gin and am hopeful that he will be able to write again by the beginning of the week.

Derfining "woke"

How are the Habs doing? Are they going to make the playoffs?

While we wait for the shoes -- the Trump tariffs -- to drop, let's talk hockey. 

Last night's game between the Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers and our beloved Montréal Canadiens was a real thriller. With 10 seconds left on the clock, Habs captain Nick Suzuki scored to lift les Glorieux into a 2-2 tie. Then he did it again at 30 second of the OT, et les boyz ont remporté la victoire, 3 à 2. Olé, olé, olé!

At this point we'd turn this space over to Poor Len Canayen, our National Sports (as long ss it's hockey) Editor, but Len is on sabbatical or something like that, so we're taking the liberty of posting a mash-up of Global TV's Brian Wilde's "Call of the Wilde", which says everything that Len would have said, only better. [And with no run-on sentences. Ed.] Thanks, Brian!

With nine games to play and six at home, the Montréal Canadiens have the advantage for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. The opportunity is in front of them, but they have to keep executing. 

Every night is Lane Hutson Night. The assault on the record book continues. He's a point-per-game player since the Four Nations break. Hutson notched an assist on the first goal for the Canadiens on a deflection from Josh Anderson. That line was a handful and the best on the night for Montreal. 

Hutson now has 57 assists in his rookie season. He has moved ahead of Chris Chelios for second in assists all-time for a rookie defender. He trails only Larry Murphy for assists for a rearguard rookie in the history of the National Hockey League. Murphy had 60 assists. Three in eight games for the tie. 

Hutson's 62 points overall is also top-ten in the history of the game for rookie defenders. He could conceivably rise to third overall at his present pace. It must be stressed again that the entire top-15 list is from an era where the average goal total in a contest was 11 or 12; not six or seven goals.

The best this century before Hutson was Quinn Hughes with 53 points on 45 assists. Hutson has obliterated the best numbers in the last 25 years of rookies on the blue line. Hutson is remarkable. They might just scout differently. this kid is so special. 

Smaller players with world-class vision and creativity might not be treated like they will never make the major leagues. What doesn't get enough attention as he makes his meteoric rise to the upper echelon in the history of the game is he is improving tremendously in his own zone as well. 

The Canadiens are in the mix for a playoff spot, and Hutson is, without a doubt, the single biggest change to this roster from last season. Nick Suzuki is having his best campaign. Cole Caufield has had a strong season. Juraj Slafkovsky has had an excellent second half. The Dvorak line is giving the opposition fits these days. Brendan Gallagher is playing the best hockey he has played in years, and Christian Dvorak's best moments as a Canadiens player are right now.

The fourth line had their remarkable run when they were best in the league in goals at one point for a fourth line. On defence, Jayden Struble has improved. Kaiden Guhle is improving still. Alexandre Carrier was a great addition via trade. 

However, all of those reason pale in comparison to the difference Hutson has made to this team in five months. He is just getting started. There are times that it is apparent that he will be even better than this when he sees how much he can actually fool the opposition. They have seen what he can do. They have adapted to him as well as they can. He still is playing chess to their checkers.The rebuild is going just fine, Montréal! 

Your Singhs today (Canadian election edition)

One week into the campaign -- just four left -- and things are not looking good for the pinko NDP (New Democratic Party, which is neither "new" nor "democratic"). Under the leadership of Jagmeet Singh, it has sunk to single digits in the polls -- right down there with the Green Party, the People's Party of Canada (too bad, Max!) and None of the Above. 

To make matters worse, the Knee-Dippers are already out of money. Changes in election financing law some years back put a stop to the cash flow from union checkoffs, and the blue-collar types who used to vote NDP have left it to the Volvo progressives, who drive Volvos because they don't give their money away.

So Jugmeet Singh and his advisors have had to come up with a new fundraising scheme. Here it is.

Sikh mothers across Canada (especially the many in Brampton ON and Surrey BC) are being used to donate at least one of their daughters for the good of the cause. "One girl more or less, makes no difference. Plenty more where they came from!" 

Note from Ed.: Before you run out to report Walt to the Anti-Racism Police, take note of today's date.

What? You don't know how to cook bacon?

Walt is "batching" it, so has started to pay attention to cooking instructions...

...but does know how to cook bacon, having learned by watching this excellent cooking show on SCTV.

Canadian election: Whose side is Trump on?

For our readers who don't live in the People's Republic of Canuckistan, here's a quick guide to what's happening in the general election, set for April 28th.

On the left in the photos below -- but not so hard left as his loony colleagues Steven Guilbeault and Chrystia Freeland -- is Mark Carney, leader of the Gliberal Party of Canada.Unlike the other two, Mr Carnage has never been elected to anything. But was Governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England. He is a banker, and a member of the WEF liberal elite.

On the right -- but not so hard right as his former colleague Maxime Bernier, now leader of the People's Party of Canada -- is Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. Mr Poilievre is a much-elected politician and former member of the cabinet of the much-unloved Steven Harpoon. This is his first test as leader of the Cuckservatives.

M Poilievre dislikes being referred to as "Pipi" (American readers note: it's pronounced "pee-pee".) He enjoyed being called "Canada's Donald Trump"... until recently.

For you see, gentle reader, the vast [or at least half-vast. Ed.] majority of Canucks dislike President Donald J. Trump. Intensely. Their fear and loathing of the Donald [That would make a good book title. If only HST were still alive. Ed.] has intensified since January 20th, owing to Mr Trump's straight-faced suggestions that Canada shoujld become the 51st of the Excited States of Canada, and his nonsensical campaign of tariffs to make it so.

The Liberal propagandists who run the state-owned CB C (Canadian Broadcorping Castration) as well and other lickspittle media (CBC) have put together a surprisingly effective TV commerical in which they juxtapose quotes from President Trump with quotes from Pipi, which shows them to be saying basically the same things. 

They're painting M Poilievre as "just like Trump", and it seems to be working. The Tories have plummeted in the polls while the Liberals have risen, and now lead by around five points. Having a new leader to replace the hated Emperor Trudeau has helped the Grits, but it's the comparison with POTUS that bites the Cuckservatives in the ass.

A few days before the election was called, President Trump made public out his unflattering opinion of M Poilievre, saying he is "not a MAGA guy." Pouncing on the chance to distance himself from Mr Trump, Pipi responded on X, "Mr President, it is true. I am not MAGA. I am for Canada First. Always. Canada has always been America’s best friend & ally. But we will NEVER be the 51st state."

President Trump attacked M Poilievre during a nearly hour-long interview with Ben Domenech, editor-at-large at the British magazine The Spectator. He warned Pipi not to make the mistake of thinking he will "be the tough guy"” and "knock out Trump. They all make that mistake… They end up getting the hell beat out of them."

Will saying that President Trump doesn't like him help the Cuckservative leader at the polls in which Canada's relations with the US of A be the chief issue? Was Mr Trump trying to give M Poilievre a boost by putting daylight between them? Is a puzzlement, especially given his Big Friendly Phone Call with the new Liberal leader yesterday..

Prime Minister Carnage and President Trump held their first-ever conversation on Friday, after which the former announced that they had agreed to comprehensive negotiations... after the upcoming federal election. Presumably if M Poilievre wins all bets are off.

"The spirit of the call was both cordial and focused on making progress," Mr Carney told the assembled lapdogs at a campaign event in  Montréal later in the day. You could almost hear the smirk on his face as he said, "The president respected Canada’s sovereignty today, both in his private and public comments."

Until yesterday, Mr Trump repeatedly trolled former PM Blackie McBlackiface, calling him "Governor Trudeau" of the hypothetical 51st state. But after the call, POTUS repeatedly referred to Mr Carnage as "prime minister".

And there was more (comparative) sweetness and light. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, President Trump said he will "absolutely" follow through on his threat of large-scale tariffs if Canada take actions against the American economy. Yet he also toned down his language toward Canada, who he has previously accused of ripping off and "cheating" the US of A on trade but declined to say so again. 

"I'm not referring to Canada," he said pointedly, "but many other countries have been taking advantage of us... We had a very good talk, the prime minister and myself, and I think things are going to work out very well between Canada and the United States."

What's going on? Why the sudden change of tone? Are yesterday's statements meant to help Mr Carnage by showing that Mr Trump can get along with him? Or to hurt Mr Carnage by showing that Mr Trump can get along with him? How would I know? President Trump's logic is too deep for me. I need my hip-waders.

And what about you? Do you still believe?

Scraped from The Patriot Post. For "NPR", Canadian readers please read "CBC" and British readers please read "BBC".

Created by a member of the Memesters Union, at The Patriot Post.

BOLO for this inappropriately dressed thief

As a public service to residents of the so-called Greater Toronto Area, Walt presents this bulletin from the Toronto Police Service.

The Toronto Police Service is requesting the public’s assistance identifying a suspect wanted in a Robbery Investigation. 

On Wednesday, March 19, 2025, at approximately 9:10 p.m., Police responded to a call for a Robbery in the Dundas Street West and Bay Street area. It is reported that: the suspect entered a store and selected multiple items and left the basket at the front of the store a store employee picked up the basket at which time, the suspect began physically assaulting two employees to get the basket back. The suspect then sprayed the store employees with an unknown substance the suspect then fled the scene on foot with the stolen property. 

The suspect is described as being in her 20s, with a slim build, black straight hair with front bangs. She was wearing a black zip up hoodie, blue and white pajama pants, and white shoes. [The outside temperature was just below the freezing point. Ed.]

Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-5200, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TITS (8477), or at www.222tips.com.

Is Pope Francis compos or non compos?

Did you see the videos of Jorge Bergoglio, the man who calls himself "Pope Francis", appearing on the balcony of Rome's Gemelli Hospital on Sunday? Painful to look at, wasn't it? The photo below makes him look better than he does in the videos. Faithful Catholics are left wondering: just how ill is he, really?

Pope Bergoglio looked frail, to put it mildly. His breathing was laboured, making it difficult for him to speak to the hundreds of people gathered in the square in front of the hospital. "Thank you everyone," he said in a wisp of a voice. Then he said, "I see a woman with yellow flowers. She's good." Then, with a trembling hand, he made the sign of the cross in a blessing, before being wheeled back into the hospital. 

What did you make of that? How did Francis look to you? To me, the feeble wave (note the position of the fingers on his hand, like something out of Star Trek) and the child-like comment about the lady with the flowers, looked like someone who has lapsed into senile dementia.

You don't think so? Have you never seen a retarded mentally challenged person wave at someone? Have you never heard such a person respond to a caregiver's "Look, Timmy! What's that?" I'm not making fun of anyone, just pointing out that, to me, Pope Bergoglio appears to have lost not just his faculties but his mental faculties too. Non compos mentis -- the phrase in the language of the Church for someone who has lost  his mind.

And why should Francis's mental function have not been diminished over the nearly a month that he was receiving "supplemental oxygen" while he was fighting his battle with double pneumonia. Just yesterday, Professor Sergio Alfieri, the lead doctor of the medical staff looking after the pope, told Corriere della Sera that considered stopping his treatment so he could die.

Thehe most critical moment, the good doctor said, came on 28 February, when the pope had a breathing crisis and inhaled his own vomit. "We had to choose whether to stop and let him go or force it and try with all the drugs and therapies possible," the good doctor said, "running the very high risk of damaging other organs. And in the end, we took this path." One of the "other organs" would certainly be the brain.

Was that Francis's choice. Prof. Alfieri said, "The Holy Father always decides. He delegated all kinds of health care choices to Massimiliano Strappetti, his personal health care assistant, who knows perfectly well the Pontiff’s wishes." He reportedly told Prof. Alfieri, "Try everything, we won’t give up. That’s what we all thought too. And no one gave up."

Francis has returned to his residence at Casa Santa Marta, where the Vatican says will receive treatment including mobility and respiratory-related physiotherapy, especially for voice recovery, and engage in personal prayer. Doctors also advised him to have 24-hour medical assistance, including oxygen therapy, and in case of any emergencies.

Let me ask, then, an annocent question. If Francis was (and still is) that sick, and has apparently only limited understand of what's going on around him (as the video suggests), who's writing all these notes, memos and decrees that Francis is allegedly signing? Are they being signed with an autopen? Who's pushing the buttons?

For an answer to that last question, look no further than "'Peter the Roman' ready to take over from Francis", WWW 14/1/18. God save His Holy Church!

Your Singhs today (British Columbia edition)

"Diversity is our strength" is the mantra (read: steaming load of crap) which the former Prime Minister of Canada kept repeating so often and for so long that even the slowest Canuck saw it for the Big Lie that it is.

Mark Carnage, the latest incarnation of the god of woke, won't be using that line in the election campaign which kicked off today. Perhaps it's because examples the unwillingness of diverse peoples to accommodate themselves to the norms and laws of Canadian society are featured on the news every day. 

One of those peoples who've been getting a lot of ink/airtime lately are the members of the Sikh "faith community". For examples, put "Sikhs" or "Singh" in our search window and see what pops up. Here is another one, for which we thank the good folks at Blazing Cat Fur, who got us past the Epoch Times paywall.

BC Court Voids 'Cult' Marriage,

Finding Woman Didn't 'Truly Consent'

A British Columbia judge has annulled the marriage of a woman to a fellow member of an India-based “cult group,” saying she didn’t “truly consent” to the 2023 wedding. The B.C. Supreme Court ruling issued this week says Arshnoor Kaur Jaura claimed she was manipulated and overwhelmed by a “barrage” of overtures from Napinder Singh Jaura and his family that began in October 2022. 

The ruling by Justice Ian Caldwell says the woman was an 18-year-old permanent resident in Canada when she was first contacted by the man, who lived in New Zealand and was around 32. The ruling says she did not wish to marry but the man and his family “persisted,” bringing a “sacred food gift” to her workplace and claiming the union was “blessed” by a priest of the Dera Sacha Sauda religious group. 

The man’s sister warned that refusing the marriage would invite “the wrath” of the religious community. Caldwell’s ruling found the marriage “voidable,” saying the man “pursued, harassed, and perhaps even stalked” the teenager who was under duress when the wedding occurred in Abbotsford, B.C.

The ruling says the woman had finally agreed to marry on April 25, 2023, and was picked up from work the next day by Singh Jaura’s relative. She was driven to a home where a Punjabi wedding suit was waiting for her, and the ceremony happened that day without her family present. 

Kaur Jaura, the judge found, “had clearly told the respondent that she did not wish to get married, and certainly not to him. She expressed this on several occasions. He refused to accept ‘no’ for an answer.”

The woman returned the wedding ring soon after the ceremony, the marriage was never consummated and she didn’t go to New Zealand to live with Singh Jaura, who left Canada the next month. The judge noted that Kaur Jaura claimed she was “overwhelmed, in a state of shock, and unable to fully comprehend what was going on” when the whirlwind wedding occurred. 

“One does not have to look far to be confronted with the realities of other young people, also in their teens, who have taken drastic actions, including suicide, in the face of such challenges and threats to social standing and reputation,” Judge Caldwell ruled. 

The Dera Sacha Sauda group is led by a guru who calls himself Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Ji Insaan, who has been convicted of raping two followers and murdering a journalist. He is serving a life sentence in India.

Victor Davis Hanson: California's collapsing Blue-State Democrat model

Towards the end of last week, in "California pols: Ronald Reagan, Clint Eastwood, and now... Mel Gibson?" Walt marvelled that Hock Ptui is the leading contender to move into the California state house. It's just another sign, IMHO, that the Golden State is beyond redemption -- truly an exemplar of the "failed state".

Today, our old friend Victor Davis Hanson takes up that theme in "California and Its Collapsing Blue-State Democratic Model", on the American Greatness site. Secondary headline: California’s high taxes, crime, and regulations are driving an exodus, shifting political power to red states as the once-prosperous blue-state model collapses under economic and social strain. I've selected a handful of key excerpts but suggest you click on the link to read the entire article for yourself.

While the media and the new Democrat Party grow hysterical over the Trump counter-revolution, they are missing some of the most revolutionary and insidious changes in American society of the last century. Much has been written about the collapse of the old orthodox Democratic Party, along with the growing irrelevance and dysfunction of the legacy media, elite universities, and state and federal agencies. But their growing unattractiveness is all related and was not just the result of top-down development. 

Rather, current Democrat Party radicalism, street theater, and violence were merely reflections of its own preexisting cultural antipathy toward the middle class. The party is now a pyramidal coalition of the very wealthy and professional classes comprising the capstone, resting atop a vast, expanding bottom of the subsidized and working poor, strapped pensioners and retirees, angry indebted students, 30s-something urban wannabees, impoverished immigrants—including perhaps 30 million here illegally—and, increasingly, trapped residents of a dystopian big-city America.

That, in Mr Hanson's words, is what Thomas Franks was saying in Listen, Liberal!, reviewed here earlier this month. Mr Franks predicted the downfall of the new woke Dimocratic Party, which (with a slight pause) played out in just the way Mr Hanson is now analyzing.

We are witnessing the greatest internal migration in U.S. history since the post-Civil War era. Millions are leaving California, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Illinois, and other northern blue states. And they usually head to Florida, Texas, Tennessee, South Carolina, and other red, low- or no-tax states. So large have become the dislocations that conservative red states will in the next decade grab some 10-12 congressional seats away from liberal blue states along with some 10 or so votes in the electoral college.

We also may be witnessing soon the de facto implosion of a once affluent California—its growing poverty already visible in its decaying roads and infrastructure, dangerous and substandard public schools, soaring property crime, overcrowded, dysfunctional, and dangerous health care system, ethnic fragmentation, and the general bankruptcy and medievalism of San Francisco and Los Angeles.

In the current conundrum, we have forgotten completely the old themes of a blue-state Democrat Party. The 1996 Democratic National Convention manifesto that spearheaded Bill Clinton’s successful reelection emphasized secure borders, legal-only immigration, tough crime enforcement and punishment, balanced budgets, fiscal responsibility, and “personal accountability.” 

That agenda today in California would condemn any adherent as a racist, xenophobe, or MAGA fanatic. In its place, the party became more intolerant, narrower in its cultural emphases, and uninterested in existential crises such as housing, secure borders, power generation, infrastructure, and crime. 

Without answers or correctives to the damage it inflicted, it instead focused on what was largely seen as irrelevant to the state’s struggling minority populations—LGBT advocacies, transgendered men competing in women’s sports, racial reparations, DEI-mandated programs, and boutique environmentalism.

In addition, the growing dysfunction and irrelevance of the mainstream media—from network news to the old print conglomerates—of elite universities and of the federal government itself are, in part, due to their location in and symbiosis with the dead-end, blue-state model of culture, economics, and politics. In sum, America is entering a historic reversal. [The emphasis is Walt's.] 

Canuckistan's WEF prime minister sends in the clowns

"Carny", also spelled "carnie" or "carney", is North American slang for a person who works in a carnival, traveling fair, or amusement park. That includes the barkers, the hucksters, and... the clowns. 

Way back in 2012, when Canadian Liberals were beating the bushes for to find a leader to succeed the failures that were Stéphane Dion and Michael Ignatieff, a reporter asked Michael Carney if he were interested in the job. Mr Carney replied, "Why don't I just become a circus clown?!"

Not quite 13 years later, when it began to look as if Prime Minister Blackie McBlackface would lead the Gliberals to electoral disaster, Mr Carney was asked again. This time he put up his hand (as he himself phrased it in a presser today) and said, "YES!" And on March 9th he became both ringmaster of the circus and the star clown... and, coincidentally, the unelected Prime Minister of Canuckistan.

Today, the Right Honourable Mark Carney decided that the time had come to send in... or, more accurately, lead in the clowns. "Send in the clowns" is a theater reference describing what must be done if a show isn't doing well. They do at a rodeo when a rider is in danger of being trampled by a bronco or gored by a bull.

Today, knowing that his party wouldl be defeated in a vote of conference if Parliament were allowed to resume its legislative duties, as was supposed to happen tomorrow, Mr Carney besought the Governor General to call an election. She agreed. Canucks will decide on April 29th whether they can stand another four years of Liberal DEI, ESG, eco-alarmism, wokeism and general ridiculousness.

Mr Carney will run in the Ottawa-area riding of Nepean, represented in the last parliament by Indo-Canadian Chandra Arya, whom readers may remember [or not. Ed.] as the first casualty of the rigged Liberal leadership race (WWW 26/1/25). Mr Arya has been told he is no longer welcome in the circus tent.

Mr Carney wants to be remembered by voters as the mastermind who, as Governor of the Bank of Canada and then the Bank of England, steered those countries through troubled economic waters. He is more likely to be remembered as a certified (and certirfiable) eco-wienie whose record suggests that he will be driven by climate policy, attempting to save the planet from burning to a cinder.

As the United Nations' special envoy on climate action and finance [Wut? Ed.], he founded and co-chaired the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), resigning on 15 January, the day before he threw his hat into the Liberal leadership race. 

Carney the Eco-Warrior. Ah yes, that's it. Mr Carney's mission, as he sees it through pink-tinted glasses, is to reduce global emissions by promoting ESG -- "environmental, social, and governance" -- principles, which he thinks should be used to evaluate companies and their investment decisions. As one of the Boys of Davos, Mr Carney knows that ESG is the best way to save the planet and stay rich at the same time.

His commitment to such principles has raised many eyebrows in the Paranoid States of America, where Mr Carney and one of his GFANZ executives were interviewed for several hours last year the House Financial Services Committee. The committe been actively scrutinizing ESG issues, with Republicans focusing on potential conflicts with shareholder interests and antitrust concerns, while also investigating potential collusion among financial institutions and activists whom the committe called a "climate cartel".

If he gets to keep "the best job in the world" (the words of Trudeau II in a note left on his desk), Mark Carney is likely to be a compleat ESG prime minister. In his speech after winning the Liberal leadership, he said he had, "A plan, a plan, a plan…that makes us an energy superpower in both clean and conventional energy…a plan that creates one Canadian economy, not 13, because in Canada, we are stronger when we are united."

That's the snake oil he's selling, but everything Mr Carney has said and done so far suggests not only that he can't unite Canada's provinces to create an energy super-economy, but that he's not actually interested in doing so, not now, not ever.

His insistence on keeping in place an industrial carbon tax and an emissions cap -- both devised by Junior and his nutty Environment Minister, Steven Guildbeaut (now shuffled into a less visible portfolio) --  doesn't inspire much confidence in his energy superpower plan. Given his longstanding ESG obsessions, all evidence suggests that Prime Minister Mark Carney could be even more dedicated to strangling Canada's resource economy than was Prime Minister Blackie McBlackface. Too bad for Canada!

Biden's last executive orders - the truth revealed!

Scraped from The Patriot Post. I believe President Trump is signing his own EOs, "as seen on TV", but I wonder who's writing them. Nah. Must be him because who else would dare to do some of these things? Oh... Elon Musk? Hmm.

VIDEO: Delta 4819 crash: all signs point to DEI pilot error

Yesterday, Canada's Transportation Safety Board released its preliminary report into the crash (call it "collision with terrain" if you like) of Delta Airlines flight 4819 on landing at Toronto's Pearson International Airport (YYZ). If you missed our initial post on this story, click here to read it and see the video.

The TSB report, boiled down to one sentence, says that the Bombardier CRJ900, experienced a hard "pancake" landing. A warning system on the flight sent an alert indicating a high rate of descent less than three seconds before the plane touched down. Less than a second before touchdown, the plane's rate of descent was 1110 feet per minute.

The flight manual defines a hard landing as a "landing at a vertical descent rate greater than 600 ft/min when the aircraft's gross weight is less than or equal to [maximum landing weight]." Flight 4819 (operated by Delta Air Lines subsidiary Endeavor Air) weighed less than its maximum allowable take-off weight at the time of the crash. 

The report also says that less than a second before landing, the angle of the plane's aircraft, known as the pitch attitude, was 1 degree. The flight operations manual states pitch attitude at touchdown should be between 3 and 8 degrees.

In today's video, Dan Millican -- the same experienced pilot who appears in the earlier video -- analyses the TSB report and draws some inescapable conclusions as to the role played by DEI First Officer who was flying the plane. We've added a summary of the report below the video window.

   

In a news release yesterday, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada said, "It is too early to draw conclusions as to the causes of this accident. A full investigation report, which will include the TSB's analysis into why the accident happened and the Board's findings, will be released in due course.

Delta 4819 took off from Minneapolis (MSP) with 76 passengers, two flight crew members and two cabin crew members. The names of the pilots have been scrubbed from the Internet. in the wake of Delta's denial that they were DEI hires. 

All we know is that the Captain was male, hired by Mesaba Airlines (forerunner of Endeavor Air) in 2007, and that the First Officer was female, hired by Endeavor in 2024. Delta says stories that she had failed training events are false. 

According to the TSB, the FO was in control of the plane when it crashed. At 1400 EST, winds were gusting to 35 knots in the area. After the flight crew received clearance to land at Runway 23 at YYZ, they flew the approach at 149 knots, "given the reported wind gusts."

 Around 2.6 seconds before touchdown, a "sink rate" alert sounded, "indicating a high rate of descent," the report said. The alert came from the plane's enhanced ground proximity warning system. At the time the alert sounded, the plane's airspeed was 136 knots. Less than a second before touchdown, the aircraft's indicated airspeed was 134 knots and its ground speed was 111 knots. 

Around 1412, the right main landing gear touched the runway. The report continues: "At touchdown, the following occurred: the side-stay that is attached to the right [main landing gear] fractured, the landing gear folded into the retracted position, the wing root fractured between the fuselage and the landing gear, and the wing detached from the fuselage, releasing a cloud of jet fuel, which caught fire. The exact sequence of these events is still to be determined by further examination of the fracture surfaces." 

The plane then began to slide along the runway, eventually going off the right side into a snow-covered grass area, coming to rest on Runway 15L, near the intersection with Runway 23. Meanwhile, the right wing became fully detached from the plane and slid around 215 feet further along Runway 23. Once the aircraft came to a stop, an evacuation began. There were 21 people injured among the 80 on board, with two people reported to have serious injuries.

John Gradek, an operations and integrated aviation management professor at McGill University, told the media the plane had "a hard, flat landing", sometimes called a "pancake landing". He said the plane's descent rate was "significantly higher than you would expect to have in a given landing area.... It was, by all classifications, a hard landing. The nose only being up 1 degree is also not typical, he added, and can result in a flat landing that puts stress on the aircraft, he said.

Getting back to the DEI question, here's a photo from the Endeavor Air website.

On the same page, one can read Endeavor Air's Mission Statement, followed by:

"OUR MOST IMPORTANT BEHAVIORS [which include]

Promote diversity and inclusion in all aspects of the airline and our operation."

That's all ye know and all ye need to know.

California pols: Ronald Reagan, Clint Eastwood, and now... Mel Gibson?

Think about American politics in the Age of Woke (now ending, we hope), and the California politicians who have risen to great heights... or sunk to great depths, take your pick. 

Walt tried, but can't help but remember Kamala Harris, who rose from her knees to prominence as the landslide loser in the recent unpleasantness. Hock Ptui is now leading the pack of would-be successors to Gavin Newsom, who rose from being a leader of the Johnny Carson band to the governorship of the Golden State. 

Mr Newsom isn't the first Hollywood showbiz type to go into politics to parlay his popularity into a nice job in a mayoral mansion or statehouse or even the Oval Office. Clint Eastwood became mayor of Carmel. In the same decade, a great American named Ronald Reagan went from being "best friend" in B-movies to the greatest Republican President until... well, you know the story.

Given that the Golden State has, under successive Democratic administrations, been turned into the Shithole State, many voters are thinking that maybe it's time to elect a Republican governor. Someone in the mold of Ronald Reagan, say. A new poll, reported last week in the California Globe, reveals that the most popular Republican candidate for California's highest office is... wait for it... none other than Mel Gibson!

A new Lost Coast Outpost poll places Mr Gibson, well known for his conservative (and traditional Catholic!) views, in third place in as responders' pick for the governorship, with 12% of the vote, and the top Republican candidate.

The leading candidate, according to the poll (a straight straw poll with no demographic data) is former Congresswoman Katie Porter (D-CA), swept aside in the Trump tsunami, chosen by 25% of responders.

The nation's pre-eminent Indo-Jamaican politician, who has led the last several polls with significant margins, fell to 20% in the new poll. She says now that she will decide in the summer whether or not to set herself up for another failure.

Mr Gibson has become a speculative candidate in recent weeks thanks to his opposition to both Governor Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass over their mismanagement of the Los Angeles fires in January. TMZ News reported on Tuseday that he is "flattered" to be considered and to have done so well in the poll, but (the outlet continued), "We're told Mel has never had any political ambitions -- and that isn’t changing now even if voters are digging his criticisms of current Democratic leadership on the state and local level."

So it's probably nothing, then? Walt thinks otherwise. Mr Gibson is known to have a large ego -- very large indeed -- which may be coupled with a Messianic complex. He has not been heard to say, "My kingdom is not of this world." Stay tuned.

Strong entry for the Wally Award for Year's Best Meme

 From the Memesters Union on The Patriot Post. Had me LMAO and ROFL!

To those wondering when Walt is going to write something meaningful, apologies. I'm waiting for one of several "other shoes" to drop. Stay tuned.

Ultimate guide to the government shutdown

Scraped from The Patriot Post. What would we do without them when Walt doesn't feel like writing. Ed.

To all Irish folk... and those who wish they were!

from Walt, Poor Len [and Ed.! Ed.]

Sure and `tis is a good likeness o' himself, too!

Orwell saw this coming

In his all-too-prescient novel 1984, published on 8 June 1949, British author George Orwell predicted a world in which an all-powerful nanny state would watch everyone through surveillance devices called "video screens", watching out for anti-social (and anti-government!) behaviour.

For years now, there have been CCTV cameras outside George Orwell's  home in London. Now a sign has been added warning all and sundry to be of good behaviour... or else!  

Only in No-longer-great Britain, you say? If you live in the USA or Canada... or China... look around you. All that's missing is the sign.

And speaking of English thinkers and writers who had disturbing visions of the future of their sceptered septic isle, check out "'I told you this would happen!': Enoch Powell", WWW 10/8/11.

Can you believe everything you see online?

The Globe and Mail, which likes to think of itself as "Canada's national newspaper" [Wut? It's not the Notional Pest? Ed.], featured this item on its landing page today.

Guess they don't teach geography in Canadian j-schools. American readers who aren't getting this are recommended to review their grade school geography texts... if such things still exist.

Before the tariffs kick in

Walt is out shopping for locally made goods, before the Trump tariffs kick in, making everything which crosses the World's Longest Undefended Border(TM) more expensive. Trouble is, just about everything in the stores at the Olde Forte Mudge Mall is Made in [Communist] China! 

While you're thinking about that -- President Trump doesn't seem to have thought about it -- consider this.

Walt's advice: Buy local...if you can!

Mark Carney, in a nutshell (geddit?)

After reading yesterday's lengthy post of Dr Jordan Peterson's thoughts about the "new, improved, even woker" Prime Minister of Canuckistan, Agent 6 thought we should run a recommendation for further (and easier) reading. So we commend you to "Mark Carney is wrong about everything", by Fraser Myers, Deputy Editor of Sp!ked, 11/3/25. Subheadline: "Canada’s new unelected prime minister is living, breathing proof that technocrats can’t be trusted."

Key excerpt: "The new Canadian PM’s CV reads like a parody of an archetypal Davos man. He has been governor of the Bank of Canada, governor of the Bank of England and a United Nations special envoy on climate action and finance. Before he entered the public eye, he worked for Goldman Sachs – in London, Tokyo, New York and Toronto. He has degrees from Harvard and Oxford. Yet he has never once held any form of elected political office. He does not even currently hold a seat in Canada’s House of Commons."

 

Walt's advice to long-suffering Canucks: Don't let TDS delude you into voting for this puppet of George Soros, Klaus Schwab and the WEF elites. He didn't come back to Canada for you!

Canada's "new" WEF-backed Prime Minister

Walt was in Canada over the weekend for the coronation of Mark Canada as successor to Blackie McBlackface as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, and therefore as Prime Minister of Canada. 

That's the way the parliamentary system works. If you lead the government party, you're the Prime Minister, regardless of the fact that you've never been elected to anything. A safe seat in the House of Commons can be opened up for you later. Worked (twice!) for William Lyon Mackenzie King, who "loved his mother like anything / kept her tied up with a piece of string" (very old skipping rhyme).

The Canadian Broadcorping Castration, the state-owned broadcaster, wasted nearly three hours of listeners' (Sid & Doris Bonkers, of Dildo NL) time with a series of talking heads trying unsuccessfully to create an air of suspense, followed by a 45-minute history of Canada recited by former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, who was there for most of it. 

Then the final result of the leadership "contest" was announced. Mr Carney garnered a mere 85% of the votes cast by the party faithful. He promised to do better next time, his goal being to get 99%, as they do in socialist democracies. It wasn't a surprise. Everyone knew that the former Governor of the Bank of Canada and Bank of England (successively) had the puck nailed to his stick by his friends in the global elite.

Mr Carney then attempted to deliver a "fighting speech", without revealing when the fight would start. His oration, part of which was delivered in halting French, consisted of platitudes and hockey metaphors -- "Elbows up!" -- but was devoid of any substance, such as a plan to get Canada out of the trade war.

There was no indication that Mr Carney intends to do anything other than stay the course with the globalist-environmentalist agenda outlined in his (?) book, Value(s) [sic], published in 2021, which has been praised by liberal, one-world eco-wienies across Canada and the European Disunion. One of them is seen here driving Mr Carney (in an EV, no doubt) to a meeting of the rulers of the New World Order.

One contrarian is terrified, not thrilled, by Mr Carney's agenda for Canada. That would be Dr Jordan Peterson, who, the day before the coronation, wrote "Mark Carney doesn't value a prosperous Canada", National Post, 8/3/25. Subtitle: "This would-be planetary saviour has no respect for free markets." It's a long article, worth reading in its entirety, but these excerpts will give you the gist of it. Dr Peterson's words are in purple, and those of Mr Carney (quotes from his book) are in bright Democrat blue. Any emphasis is Walt's.

It is most definitely the case — and this is a fundamental conservative or even classic liberal conviction — that free societies and markets operate within a broader framework of values. In the West, for better or worse (and certainly for comparative better) that framework is Judeo-Christian, religious and cultural in its essence — a framework that has established the principles of "self-evidence" referred to so famously by the authors and signatories of the American Declaration of Independence.

These include the propositions that all people have intrinsic worth, made as they are in the image of God; that each person owes all others the due that such worth necessitates, including the responsibility to trade in goods, ideas, cooperation and competition, honestly and fairly, and with an eye to mutual success; and that all of us, our leaders included (and perhaps first and foremost) must pay obeisance to what is truly transcendent and divine.

This is the framework that Carney purports to replace, even though it is not clear that he understands this, or that he has developed any understanding whatsoever of the culture he wants to reshape from first principles.

What are his suggestions, regarding such replacement? This is where the rubber hits the road or, more accurately, where the train flies off the track ... Carney betrays his alliance with the worst particularized ideas of the last twenty or thirty years, and the even worse generally radical intellectual presumptions of the last century.

“Our goal has been to put in place the information, tools and markets so that every financial decision takes climate change into account — to create a financial system in which a company’s contributions to climate change and climate solution are fundamental determinants of its value. So that value reflects values. 

"At COP26 in Glasgow, we delivered twenty-four major reforms to transform the information, tools and markets at the heart of finance. These include climate stress testing, net-zero transition plans and clear, comparable and decision-useful climate disclosure so that financial markets can manage risks and seize opportunities in the climate transition."

The consortium has stated that there "must be an average 28 per cent reduction in the number of flights across C40 cities." How might that be enforced? No more flights for the ordinary person (an overstatement: the C40 nature-worshippers will allow the peasants one short-haul flight every three years). They also mention "reducing and eventually nearly eliminating the need for car ownership." 

Ever wonder where the electricity for your soon-to-be mandatory electric car will come from, given the woeful inadequacy in that regard of the current grid, and the impossibility of rectifying that, before gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles are banned? No matter! There is no reason to presume, as you have so far, that you are entitled to a vehicle of your very own. Problem solved! 

And even if you are one of the fortunate few with a car — serious limitations will be imposed on the number of miles your peasant hide is allowed to travel, with equally serious restraints on velocity and road access.

Make no mistake about it, people. Those who promise, like Carney, to save the planet, while waving evidence of its forthcoming demise over your heads like the sword of Damocles, will use the purported seriousness of the crisis to rule over every conceivable aspect of your life — for the moral reasons of “value” that cannot be properly computed, in Carney’s estimation, by the flawed free market system. 

 A radical decrease in the availability of meat and dairy — preferably a complete turn to a plant and even perhaps insect-based diet, as mused by the WEF. Three new articles of clothing a year, maximum.

There is virtually no bad idea recently promoted by the top-down globalists (as alluded to earlier) that Carney has not championed — worse; not merely championed, as an acolyte or ally, as in the case of the hapless narcissist he is attempting to replace, our very own Justin Trudeau.

Trudeau was little more than a globalist shill, shiny and attractive though he may have been. Carney is no such mean thing; no mere WEF infiltrator. He is instead a veritable globalist author, master-planner and leader, as he says (insists upon) himself:

Value(s) is, in truth, one of the shallowest books I have ever read, and I have read many, both shallow and deep. It contains no original ideas whatsoever, while the ideas it does contain, however few in number they may admittedly be, are literally the worst that have been formulated by the worst of thinkers in the last few generations; even in the last century or two.

Mark Carney has failed, therefore — and dismally; spectacularly — in his attempts as a thinker, as well as an international leader. His practical multinational ventures have been recently revealed as the empty vessels they most truly are. 

In closing, a warning to Canadians, hoodwinked into believing that Carney’s much-vaunted international experience makes him capable; makes him someone able, even less convincingly, to stand up to our erratic American compatriots to the south. Mark Carney, formerly of the Bank of England, has the patina of foreign-bestowed competence. In truth, however, he is a man with all the flaws of Trudeau, and that’s saying something. 

However, in his admitted networking, managerial and administrative prowess he presents far more danger. Our hapless previous Dear Leader was at least hamstrung in his pretension by his incompetence. Carney is as addled in his values as his predecessor, but much more efficient and unwavering in his implementation.

If you don’t want Canada to be a self-immolating martyr-state, subject to the whims of an economic order increasingly dominated by the coal-burning titans of India, China and the rest of the BRICS; if you don’t want your every move and every decision evaluated by the top-down tyrants of the new global order — then you bloody well better think twice about who you are going to vote for when push comes to shove for Canadians in the next six months. 

Whatever Canada’s values might be, they best not be the shibboleths of false virtue, intellectual pretension, and well-camouflaged oh-so-virtuous totalizing tyranny put forth by the newly coronated dear leader of the appalling Liberal party.

Why people vote for leftist parties

Is economic suicide President Trump's wish for the US of A?

Apparently Walt is not the only one who thinks that President Trump is sailing the USS America into waters which are not only uncharted but downright dangerous. As I wrote earlier today (scroll down to previous post), picking fights with your friends -- with whom you have a free trade agreement, remember -- is certainly not a proven way to make your country better, let alone great.

Recommended reading: "You Can’t Make America Great Again With Tariffs", by Ian Haworth, The Patriot Post, 5/3/25. Key excerpts:

"...for some unfathomable reason, Trump is risking his own legacy by pushing through an entirely unnecessary and counterproductive strategy that hinges on tariffs, sparking a tariff trade war with multiple countries — including our ally, Canada — and causing stock markets to plummet.

"...what we need is for Donald Trump to find a way to pull us back from the brink of yet another round of voluntary economic mutilation and focus on the principles that have dragged more people out of poverty than any other political ideology in human history: free trade capitalism."

Wise words. Will the Donald listen to anyone other than Elon Musk?

VIDEO: Joe's baaaaaack!

Walt hopes President Trump sees this. Donald, please don't mistake Trudeau and the residents of the "Greater Toronto Area" for real Canadians. You're making a big mistake picking fights with these guys.

Further reading: "Trump's Canadian Tariffs Expected To Have Devastating Impact On The Curling Broom Industry", on the Babylon Bee (where else?), 4/3/25.

Your Singhs today ("Greater" Toronto edition)

The Region of Peel (called Peel County until 1973) is a huge bedroom on the western border of Toronto, Canada. Its population, according to the 2021 census, was just under 1.5 million. Included in that total were some 1.4 million Sikhs. [Ed., please check that figure. Do the Canucks keep track of people's race and religion?]

At least, that's the way it seems, judging by reports of crimes and misdemeanors in which the perps accused so often have "Singh" as a middle name or surname. Some recent reports of the nefarious activities of assorted Singhs may be found by entering "Singh" in the search window above. Here's a new one, posted by the Peel Regional Police earlier today. We've added a few comments.

The Peelers [Will non-Brits get that? Ed.] announced the break-up of a "prolific" theft ring targeting Liquor Control Board of Ontario (a government agency) stores across the so-called Greater Toronto Area. Between August of 2024 and this past February, a gang of Singhs (and one guy who might be a Hindu) made off with nearly C$240,000 worth of dat ole debbil gin and related products. 

The group allegedly targeted as many as 50 LCBO locations during that time and used co-ordinated techniques to steal a total of C$237,738.95 in alcohol. Investigators say that on many occasions multiple suspects arrived at the stores together and distracted employees before accomplices entered restricted access points. Images provided by police appear to show the suspects carrying large quantities of liquor from the stores in boxes and push carts. Five individuals have been arrested and charged. Here are their mug shots.

Here are their rap sheets. Charged with Theft over $5000 are:

Anuj Kumar, 25, no fixed address

Simarpeet Singh, 29, no fixed address 

Sharndeep Singh, 25, no fixed address, also charged with Breach of Release Order, meaning he was already out on bail

Simranjeet Singh, 24, no fixed address, also charged with Break and Enter with Intent to Commit Indictable Offence, and

Prabhpreet Singh, 29, of Caledon (the northern part of Peel Region), also charged with Conspiracy to Commit Indictable Offence 

All five arrested individuals were held for a bail hearing at the Ontario Court of Justice in Brampton. The outcome of the bail hearings has not been made public, but Walt's local agent speculates that the four of no fixed address have likely been released after promising not go anywhere near Toronto Airport, located just a few miles to the east, from which there are daily flights to India and Pakistan.

Two additional suspects are "outstanding", as the cops say, and may already have left on one of those planes. They are identified by police as 28-year-old Jagshir Singh and 25-year-old Punit Sehjra, likewise of no fixed address.

Peel Regional Police Deputy Chief Marc Andrews told the meeja,"The work of our Criminal Investigation Bureau has been nothing short of exceptional in dismantling this prolific organized crime group. We will leave no 18-wheeler unsearched until we have located the remaining Singhs."

He said nothing about how all these Singhs got into Canada, nor their present status. It may be that they are all on student visas, pursuing a higher education at the infamous Singh School of Truck Driving. (See WWW, passim.)

Walt notes that the presser was given by the very white Deputy Chief Marc Andrews. No doubt the Chief was otherwise engaged. His name is Nishan Duraiappah. He began his career with Halton Police after immigrating in December 1995, and has served in a variety of assignments including front line policing, specialized investigations and "Diversity and Community Relations" [sic].

Reading the thoughts of Zelenskyy at the White House

Today, at 0001 EST, Canada and Mexico got Zelenskyed. Worse is to come, for all concerned. Lifetime pct .987.

UPDATED: "Allahu akbar!" in Germany, again?

Walt had no sooner posted "Fasching season cancelled in Munich for fear of another Muslim attack" (see below), when the mojo wire spat out news of... wait for it... another Muslim attack!

In Mannheim, in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, die Polizei have arrested a man, so far unidentified, who "allegedly" [as they always say. Ed.] drove a black SUV into a crowd of people this morning, seriously injuring many, including one who was possibly killed.

Police have ordered the public to keep away from the area shown in the picture above, near Mannheim's city centre. A local newspaper spoke of a "rampage" by the alleged driver and of at least one fatality. The Stuttgarter Zeitung reports that "debris was visible at the scene and at least one person was lying covered under a tarpaulin."

Die Rheinpfalz notes that officers "confirm rampage" and that one person has died. No further information has been made public yet, but Bild states police sources say the death toll has risen to two, and that 25 are injured. Frankfurter Runschau states University Hospital Mannheim has been activated, with trauma teams set up to deal with a "mass event".

Police have yet to make any comment on the cause of this incident or whether there is any known motive. Readers will forgive us, I think, for jumping to the usual conclusion. As I said in the previous post, the driving of vehicles at high speeds into crowds is something that has become all too familiar in German cities recently. There's no denying that adherents of "the Religion of Peace" are engaging in jihad -- a holy war against us "infidels"!

UPDATE added 4/3/25: According to media reports, the perpetrator of the Mannheim atrocity is Alexander S. from Ludwigshafen. He only posted dog videos and a video of a street artist painting over swastikas. 

He did not share any political content on his Facebook page, so it's difficult to attribute any ideology to him. One can't say that he's a jihadi. So also, one can't he isn't a jihadi. Perhaps we'll learn more if he faces trial, instead of being confined to a mental institution to avoid embarrassment of the authorities. Stay tuned.

Fasching season cancelled in Munich for fear of another Muslim attack

Tomorrow is Shrove Tuesday, the day before Lent, the Christian season of fasting and penance in preparation for Easter. In many nominally Christian countries, people mark the day before a season of sobriety with carnivals and other events of gaiety, costumes, bibulousness, fun and frolic. 

There's the famous carnival in Brazil and, of course, Mardi Gras down in the Big Easy. Pre-Lenten carnival celebrations are traditional in Germany too, where the carnival season goes by different names: Karneval, Fasching, and Fastnacht. While all three stem from the same pre-Lenten tradition, each region in Germany has its own customs.

Alas, there will be no Karneval, Fasching or Fastnacht in Munich, Germany, this year. Authorities have cancelled the traditional carnival celebrations following the Islamic terror attack on a demonstration in the city that left two dead and 39 injured. 

Officials in the Bavarian capital announced on 19 February that neither the "Nonsense Thursday" event, which was to be held on February 27th, nor the Shrove Tuesday celebration will take place this year. A third carnival event in the city's central pedestrian zone has also been cancelled. 

Need we tell you why? In a statement released six days after the horrific attack on a crowd of innocent people, city officials said they had not taken the decision lightly but "as a city family it is unimaginable for us to light-heartedly celebrate carnival after the attack and especially after the deaths of our colleague and her daughter." 

So the cancellation was an act of mourning, then? Noooo. Security concerns were the true reason. In recent months, Germany has seen an unprecedented spate of terrorist attacks by Muslim immigrants, "refugees" and asylum-seekers. 

On 23 August 2024, a Syrian immigrant allegedly killed three people and injured eight in a stabbing attack on a "Festival for Diversity" [sic] in Solingen, for which Islamic State claimed responsibility. 

On 20 December 2024, a Syrian immigrant rammed a vehicle into a Christmas market in Magdeburg, leaving six people dead and 300 injured.

This past January 22nd, an Afghan asylum-seeker stabbed a two-year-old child and a 41-year-old man to death in Aschaffenburg, where carnival parades have also been put on hold. 

The German people have noticed, as witness the spectacular rise of the Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD) in February's election. Commenting on the decision to cancel the Munich events, columnist Julian Reichelt pointed out the irony of a standard phrase uttered almost daily by German politicians over the past few years: "We will not let Islamists change our way of life."

To Angela Merkel, Fred Merz and the others who keep saying there's no problem with mass immigration, Walt says: Ist Ihnen nicht aufgefallen, dass sich Ihr Lebensstil bereits verändert hat? Und nicht zum Besseren.

Book Review: "Listen. Liberal!" by Thomas Franks

"Modern liberalism in action: an unregulated virtue-exchange in which representative of one class of humanity [the elites] ritually forgive the sins of another class [the rest of us], all of it conened and facilitated by a vast army of well-graduated American professionals, their reassuring expertised propped up by bogus social science, while the unfortunately object of their high and noble compassion sink slowloy back into a preindustrial state." 

Except for Walt's interpolations, that was written in "Listen, Liberal!" by Thomas Franks, a certified liberal who used to write for The Wall Street Journal and Harper's. After almost eight year's of the Obama presidensity, Mr Franks gave up on the Prez's "politics of hope".

He discovered that the US of A was being run, not by classical liberals fighting for the betterment of the common man, but by a class of progessional elites and technocratic experts, who have what Mr Franks calls "social authority". 

"Although we [the 'common' people] are the subjects are the subjects of ptheir[ diagnoses and prescriptions," he writes, "the group to which professionals ultimately answer is not the public but their peers.... They listen mainly to one another. The professions are autonomous; they are not required to heed voices from below their circle of expertise."

Mr Franks points out that the Democrats have done little to advance traditional liberal goals. They occupied the White house for 16 of the 24 years (to 2015, the date of his writing), and yet the decline of the middle class has only accelerated. Corpoorate and cultural elitism eclipsed the Democrats' supposed middle-class commitment. 

That's why, in "Listen, Liberal!", he calls the Democrats back to their historic goals, and predicts that unless they returned to the politics of the man in the street, they would lose the 2016 election. Which they did. And because they learned no lessons from their defeat, they would have lost the 2020 election had it not been rigged in the greatest political theft in American history.

But the Dimocrats didn't learn anything from their stolen victory. If anything, their policies got worse under the Prez's hand-picked and ill-fated successor. Elitism morphed into wokeism, leaving ordinary Americans in last place behind not just the elites but all the special interest groups the Dims pandered to in the name of diversity, equity and inclusion, hoping that the DEI types would keep them in power. 

The party of Mr and Mrs Clintons, Mr and Mrs Obama, Mr and "Dr" Biden, and Ms Harris and some white man, is now agonizing over its dim (geddit?) prospects for the future. Those who take helm of the presently rudderless ship would do well to read "Listen, Liberal!"... twice! And repeat if necessary.

Note to Canadian Liberals: The same happened to the Liberal Party of Canada, in spades, under the leadership of Blackie McBlackface, the heroic advocate of wokeism who is due to resign this month to avoid having the imprint of a big real Canadian boot etched permanently on his derrière. 

Only a fool... or a Trudeau Liberal... could fail to see the parallels with the fate of Obama, who, by the way, publicly endorsed Trudeau in the greatest liberal bromance of recent years.

Walt's one-and-only copy of this excellent book, gently used, autographed on request, is available on eBid.