VIDEO: Is wokeness really dead?

Is the voting public finally losing patience with progressive politics? How real is the anti-woke backlash? Brendan O'Neill, the chief political writer at Spiked (or Sp!ked, if you like) is the author of a new book which tackles these questions.

In, Vibe Shift: The Revolt Against Wokeness, Greenism, and Technocracy, Mr O'Neill.makes the case that across western countries in both North America and Europe, the tide is turning against so-called “wokeism” and that the pendulum is swinging hard the other way. But, he warns, the hydra-headed monster isn't dead yet.

In this video, Mr O'Neill is interviewed by Spiked editor Tom Slater. They discuss how the elites' crazy ideologies are colliding with reality, common sense and public fury. If you can handle the English accents, you'll hear why he believes the common sense of the ordinary people is prevailing over woke politics, but that the left lunacy, although receding, is far from dead. 

 

There's a free speech issue here... indeed, freedom of thought... particularly in Canuckistan, where the Minister of Justice (so-called) announced on Tuesday that the Liberal government of Marx Carnage are ready to limit debate on their bill banning hate symbols, which also removes the religious exemption to some hate speech laws. 

Leftist ideology is inherently authoritarian. When moral certainty is paired with institutional power (universities, HR departments, media, professional bodies), dissenting views are treated as not mere disagreement but heresy.

As our old friend Dr Jordan Peterson learned, there are social and/or professional penalties for expressing unpopular views. The consequences of speaking out are such that academics and professionals find that discretion is the better part of value and start censoring themselves.

Disagreement from the prevailing orthodoxy is treated aas a moral defect. Framing complex social issues in binary moral terms -- you're either right (like us) or wrong -- reduces tolerance for ambiguity and gives people kudos for virtue signalling rather than the seeking of pragmatic solutions to problems.

Instead of being treated as individuals, people are now treated as members of identity categories. That's  how we find people "identifying as" a group of initials: L, G, B, T, 2S, POC, and so forth. This actually encourages divisions in society rather than the tolerant multiculturalism which is the stated goal of the ideologues. "Let's all form a circle, hold hands and sing 'Kumbaya'." Not any longer!

VIDEO: "The American Revolution" - Ken Burns' new, woke version

For the last couple of nights, I've been watching bits and pieces [There was hockey on the other channel. Ed.] of The American Revolution, the latest offering from revisionist historian cum film-maker Ken Burns. It's streaming (also avaible over the air) on PBS, the soi-disant Public Broadcasting System, which is like so-called National Public Radio (NPR), only with pictures.

The fact that this new series is on PBS should tell you what to expect, which is not exactly what they tell you in the introductory summary...

"Thirteen American colonies unite in rebellion, win an eight-year war to secure their independence, and establish a new form of government that would inspire democratic movements at home and around the globe. What begins as a political clash between colonists and the British government grows into a bloody struggle that will engage more than two dozen nations and forever change the world.'

...or in the official trailer.

 

Do you see any warning signs there? No? Let me give you one. The narrator chosen by Mr Burns is one Peter Coyote (born Peter Robert Cohon).an American actor, director, screenwriter, author... and political activist. In "The Theater of Protest", Mr Coyote explains his approach to effective, nonviolent protest, which he developed while teaching a class at Harvard. He emphasizes that protests are ceremonies, an invitation to a better world. He says protests should be led by wimmin, for "inclusivity", and that "monitors with whistles" stop violence. Get the idea?

Other commentators, who I'd never heard of but are presented as historians and writers, include a good DEI mix of Jewish women (one of whom seems to have a slight palsy), black men (including one with blonde dreadlocks), and other mild-mannered, instantly forgettable liberals academics. No Shelby Foote here! 

I was not surprised, then, to learn that the American Revolution was not so much about freeing Great Britain's American colonies from the tyranny and taxation of King George III, as about partnering with Indians Native Indigenous Americans and strong, independent wimmin to obtain justice for the oppressed Negro African-American slaves. As Johnny Carson would have said, "I did not know that!"

The series suffers, in comparison with Ken Burns' The Civil War, in not having photographs to work with, so the visuals are mostly oil paintings of the principal actors involved -- politicians, soldiers, statesmen and the like -- all "marble men". 

We hear, occasionally, the words of common white people, taken from their letters, but we learn little about them. You'd almost think that the only common people of any consequence were the slaves who are quoted and talked about out of all proportion to the numbers of such people in America at the time. Even George Washington's black man-servant gets his 15 seconds of fame, plus a heroic image on his black self at Washington's side going into battle.

This is only a preliminary comment. If the rest of the series is like the first two episodes, I won't be writing about The American Revolution again. But I'm not going to say "Don't watch it." The accounts of the battles are pretty good, so you can just zap through the woke bullshit and still learn parts of the nantion's history that the too many Americans have forgotten.

VIDEO: Canada needs a politician with balls

Being fundamentally anti-social, Walt doesn't do Facebook, so misses the tiny bit of gold that's posted somewhere in the huge pile of dross. Thanks and a tip o' the toque to Agent 6 who picked up this gem from Tajana Cekic, who, in just a couple of minutes, presents her plan for fixing Canada. 

Wow, eh!!! I'll vote for her if I get the chance!

BTW, if you want to see what the libtard who's just been elected mayor of Edmonton AB looks like -- Tajana says he looks like "a circumcised penis" -- Google "Andrew Knack". That's his name. No kidding. I predict he'll be known as "the Knacker" until the next election at which he'll be defeated.

Probably just a coincidence

In the wake of the shooting at the Annunciation Catholic Church School in Minneapolis on Wednesday, we’re confronted with an uncomfortable but inevitable question: Is there some sort of correlation between transgenderism and mass school shootings?

This is, after all, the second time a transgender shooter has claimed lives at a Christian institution in about two years. This time, Robin Westman — born Robert — killed two and injured 17 more before killing himself. In 2023, in the Covenant School shooting, Audrey Elizabeth Hale — who identified as Aiden Hale — killed six and injured two.

Source: The Western Journal, 30/8/25. Thanks and h/t to Blazing Cat Fur.

What the WJ article does not mention is that both schools were faith-based schools, Catholic and evangelical Protestant respectively. The shootings may represent, in the minds of the queer shooters, revenge on churches which still consider homosexuality and related woke queerness, a sin which cries out to heaven for vengeance. 

Michael Matt, editor of The Remnant newspaper, has more to say about this in his latest video on this weekend's gay invasion of St. Peter's, which we'll repost here tomorrow.

UPDATED: Latest example of "Get woke, go broke!"

Remember Bud Light? Apparently not. Some brilliant executives can't or won't learn a simple lesson (see headline). 

Further reading: "CEO Plotted Woke Annihilation of Cracker Barrel for Over a Year", by John Nolte, Breitbart News, 25/8/25.

UPDATE ADDED 26/8/25 @ 1750: The wokester-in-charge cracked! (Geddit?) "Cracker Barrel scraps new logo after social media backlash", Bloomberg News, 26/8/25.

More on "the end of woke"

Further to "What does 'the end of woke' look like?", WWW 11/2/25, we have more good news to report. [Notice he didn't say "share". Ed.] The Executive Orders are coming so fast that it's hard to keep up.

First of all, President Trump has announced that it's OK for people to use plastic drinking straws again. "We’re going back to plastic straws," he told the meeja at the White House as he signed the order. "Paper straws don't work. They break," he said, adding, "I don’t think plastic is going to affect a shark very much, as they're munching their way through the ocean." More common sense, not to mention trees saved.

Even more important are indications that Google has given up trying to toe the politically correct line. Their online and mobile calendars no longer include references to the first day of Black History Month or Pride Month, among other events. The company previously had those days marked at the start of February and June, but they reportedly don’t appear for 2025. 

In "Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’", a site called TheVerge first reported the removals on February 7th. In an e-mail to the outlet, a Google spokesthingy wrote, "Some years ago, the Calendar team started manually adding a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries around the world.

"We got feedback that some other events and countries were missing, and maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally wasn’t scalable or sustainable. So in mid-2024 we returned to showing only public holidays and national observances from timeanddate.com globally, while allowing users to manually add other important moments."

The company, which has also removed the first day of Women’s History Month in March and Indigenous Peoples Month in June, has stepped back from its diversity, equity and inclusion goals after President Trump signed an executive order to dismantle federal DEI programs. The EO was titled "Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing."

Has the President got the wokesters' attention yet? Looks like it, but there's lots more to come. Stay tuned...and give thanks!

What does "the end of woke" look like?

Yes, seriously. This is the reality of the new Golden Age of America. What?! You do not believe?! Consider this...

A memo from defense secretary Pete Hegseth, filed in court yestereday, says that  the US military will no longer allow trannies transgender individuals to join the armed forces and will stop performing or facilitating :procedures associated with gender transition" for service members.

The memo comes after President Trump signed an executive order in January that took aim at transgender troops in a personal way, saying that a man identifying as a woman was "not consistent with the humility and selflessness required of a service member."

In his memo, Secretary Hegseth cited the President's EO, thus: "As the president clearly stated, expressing a false 'gender identity' divergent from an individual's sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service."

Therefore, "All unscheduled, scheduled, or planned medical procedures associated with affirming or facilitating a gender transition for service members are paused.... 

"The department must ensure it is building 'one force' without subgroups defined by anything other than ability or mission adherence. Efforts to split our troops along lines of identity weaken our force and make us vulnerable. Such efforts must not be tolerated or accommodated."

VIDEO: Senator John Kennedy tells why Americans support DOGE

"Common sense is illegal in Washington DC!" So says Senator John Kennedy (R-LA), in this speech, which every American taxpayer should listen to.

The solon  is talking about Elon Musk and the mandate of his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to audit the spending of US government departments and agencies to find out what they've been doing with the trillions of taxpayer dollars which seems to vanish down rabbit holes every year.

Senator Kennedy's particular target, in this speech, is USAid, which Mr Musk has discovered is sending to organizations promoting the LGBTQ agenda, gender ideology, Islamic terrorism, and other woke causes, not around the world. (USAid = foreign aid, remember.) His catalogue of how your money was spent is shocking, just shocking. Listen up.

 

As DOGE starts digging into education and other departments, there will be more... and worse... Stay tuned. As Senator Kennedy says, Mr Musk should get a medal!

Celine Dion sings "L’hymne à l’amour" at Queer Olympics opening

A commentator on Small Dead Animals asks why a planet-wide celebration of athleticism and uncommon sporting prowess is being introduced with yet another tedious display of cross-dressing, oddly selective sacrilege, and self-satisfied obesity? For "normies" like Walt, yesterday's opening ceremony was a truly emetic episode of wokeness triumphant.

There was, however, a moment of blessed relief, as Canadian singing star Celine Dion overcame chronic medical issues to sing "L’hymne à l’amour" from the first level of la Tour Eiffel. Rejoice, dear hearts, that real, straight people can still perform real, musical music. Enjoy.

 

Further reading: "Paris Olympics: a smug spectacle of wokeness The self-consciously ‘queer’ opening ceremony was offensively drab", by Brendan O'Neill, on Spiked, 27/7/24. Everything's getting "queered" nowadays -- e.g. the "queering of Palestine" -- and Mr O'Neill is getting tired of it. Aren't we all....

Business News: Trouble at Boeing Boeing

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What Covenant House doesn't talk about in its fundraising pitch

Agent 3 reports that  Covenant House Toronto has recently flighted a massive repeat of its successful fundraising video ad, which opens with a long shot of a poor waif, sitting, cold and hungry, in the doorway of a downtown building, as a strange man (possibly a "chicken hawk") approaches.

"Amazing Grace" (of course) plays softly as we go to the voiceover which suggests Covenant House saves little white "barely legals" like this from a fate worse than death. The ad would melt the heart of a Scrooge, which is the intention of course.

If that one doesn't get to you, perhaps you'll be persuaded by this snippet scraped from the Covenant House Toronto website.

Even Ayn Rand couldn't refuse to help a sweet little girl like that "find a path forward", dontcha think? Sadly, young women like her are in the minority [the visible minority? Ed.] of Covenant House's "clients". The majority, in Toronto at least, include:

* "international students", getting into Canada by the back door -- a student visa to study at the likes of the Singh School of Truck Driving,

* drug addicts who won't get treatment, seeking only need a place to crash, and

* bogus refugees, asylum-seekers and other illegal immigrants (read: benefits shoppers) avoiding deportation, not that deportation is just as much a threat in Canada as it is in the US of A.

Jasmine Ramze Rezaee, the Director of Advocacy & Communications for YWCA Toronto, which undertakes similar work, told an interviewer that for those who are new to Canada, students included, housing challenges can sometimes be magnified. "I do think that refugees and people with precarious immigration status and even folks who have not yet obtained their refugee status, deal with a lot of compounding challenges and vulnerabilities because they can't oftentimes access even the minimum level of support that our society provides. And it's not uncommon for them to end up in the shelter system."

For a more accurate picture of the kind of marginalized yoofs the charity protects from the realities of life, check out "Rising above hate to build a better life", on their website. I suppose that it would be churlish to suggest that poor Nathaniel would have been better of had he stayed in his own country and straightened out his personal life. But don't let them guilt you into feeling like an ogre for suggesting that "how he is" is his own choice, and it's somehow our duty to shield him from the consequences.

On its website and in its literature, Covenant House Toronto says "We are part of an international network. Covenant House is an internationally recognized child care agency with 'houses' in 34 cities in Canada (Toronto and Vancouver), the U.S. and Latin America."

For some reason, Covenant House downplays the fact that it is, in theory at least, a Catholic charity. The mother organization was founded by Franciscan Father Bruce Ritter to provide shelters for homeless teenagers. Father Ritter was forced to resign a few years ago over accusations of financial and sexual misdeeds. (Source: Toronto Star, 3/3/16) I beg your forgiveness for wondering in the, errr, misdeeds involved Lolitas like the one in the TV ad.

Well, no matter. Covenent House Toronto has been a high-profile Catholic charity in Toronto for the past several years now. Although their "Impact Report 2023" (a model of wokeness and DEI) says they receive only 2% of their funding from Catholic Charities and the Archdiocese of Toronto's annual ShareLife appeal, the executive director of ShareLife Toronto, told an interviewer that $1 million a year comes from Toronto’s ShareLife, and $1.5 million dollars comes from Covenant House, New York. The balance of the over $3 million yearly budget is supplied from provincial and municipal funds.

Funny, then, that according to an article in The Interim, Covenant House Toronto -- "set up to help street kids rehabilitate themselves" -- hands out condoms and does abortion referrals! While condom distribution is a matter of public record and is sanctioned by the Archdiocese of Toronto, abortion referrals are made quietly and depend on which worker a girl seeks at the House. Both practices have been publicly justified by several Canadian theologians on the grounds of "the lesser of two evils."

A director of ShareLife Toronto defended the practice of giving out condoms to high-risk street kids. He described many of them as homosexuals who were possibly AIDS carriers, and claimed this provided some measure of protection from them. He said the policy had been approved by the Catholic board of Covenant House after extensive consultations with moral theologians whom he would not name. 

I am not telling you not to respond to Covenant House's insistent appeals. I believe in "Judge not, that ye be not judged." Unlike the perpetrators of the Help Kids Canada scam, the people running Covenant House are trying to do something to help the marginalized and less fortunate. God knows their intentions and will surely forgive them if, in their zeal, they do or advocate things that are morally questionable. But that doesn't mean that it's racist or homophobic or uncharitable or un-Christian to disagree with what they're doing. To give or not to give, the choice is yours.

VIDEO: Dr Jordan Peterson faces Oppenheimer-style persecution

Earlier this morning we posted "'OPPENHEIMER', a cautionary tale", a review of the movie which revealed the travesty of justice which was the 1954 hearing of the US Atomic Energy Commission, which revoked the security clearance of Dr J. Robert Oppenheimer, "the father of the atomic bomb", because (the AEC found) he was, if not a Communist, then at least a fellow-traveller and comsymp.

After watching the movie, Mrs Walt likened the persecution of Dr Oppenheimer to the poresent-day string of indictments and politically motivated prosecutions launched against President Donald Trump, for the purpose of keeping him off the ballot in the 2024 presidential election. Canadians may smugly say that kind of thing could only happen in the Paranoid States of America. They would be wrong. The same thing is happening today, in the Great No-longer-white North, to Dr Jordan Peterson. 

Last wednesday, Ontario's Divisional Court upheld a ruling ordering the eminent but controversial psychologist to undergo "social media training" or risk losing his licence, following complaints about his controversial online posts and statements.

The court said it was undeterred by Dr Peterson's claims that his public statements were "off-the-clock" activities -- not part of his practice as a psychologist. Even if that were so, they declared, Dr. Peterson is a psychologist, and his activities were therefore "harmful to the public and damaging to the profession of psychology" and his statements "threatened to erode public trust."

The court dismissed Peterson's appeal against the College of Psychologists' order,  and directed him to pay C$25,000 (over $18,000 in real money), noting that the training "is not disciplinary and does not prevent Dr. Peterson from expressing himself on controversial topics." 

In the video below, Dr Peterson says that's ridiculous! If he hadn't expressed himeself in the so-called social media, why would he have been hailed before the College and the courts? He became famous in 2016 after criticizing Bill C-16, claiming that the bill would enforce speech codes and harm free speech. This earned him a reputation for being "transphobic"/

He came under court scrutiny again last year as a result of complaints filed against him for his online commentary on issues like climate change, gender transitioning, and Covid policy, and against key members of the Canadian government like Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who he called the worst prime minister Canada ever had. [Just stating the obvious. Walt]

It was statements like that, made and reposted on multiple Twitter accounts, that were submitted to the College and later the court, not by any of his patients, but by "progressive" wokesters who felt and said that saying (or even thinking!) such things is "unacceptable". What they really meant is that Dr Peterson must be silenced, cast into outer darkness. Just like President Trump.

Here, then, is Dr Peterson's analysis of and response to the court's decision. Note his promise to take the matter all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada. But there's more. He promises (or threatens, the lefties would say) to make the "retraining" (if it happens!) public, so the world can see the "retraining" for the woke brainwashing that it really is. "If you think that you have a right to free speech in Canada, you're delusional. I will make every aspect of this public and we will see what happens when utter transparency is the rule. Bring it on."

 

Further viewing: "Ontario College of Psychologists Have Asked Me to Re-Educate Jordan Peterson!". Psychologist Gad Saad reviews the 16 points which Dr Peterson is supposed to embrace in order to keep his licence. I had to listen very carefully to be sure Dr Saad wasn't serious about the "re-education lobotomy". Highly recommended!

Canada's CTV: All the news that fits... the liberal agenda

Here is the news. On August 15th, in the rather sketchy Moss Park area of downtown Toronto, a 54-year-old white man named Douglas James Macdonald, got into a fight with another man on the sidewalk near the corner of Sherbourne Street and Queen Street East. 

Mr Macdonald tried to run away, but was chased by the man into the middle of the street, where he fell to the ground. The suspect allegedly continued attacking him while he was down. Police said the suspect fled the scene on a bicycle, leaving Mr Macdonald, who appeared to have been incapacitated, lying in the middle of the street. 

A short time later, a car travelling north hit Mr Macdonald, but did not stop. Emergency crews later arrived on the scene and pronounced the 54-year-old dead. 

CTV is Canada's largest privately-owned (by Ma Bell) TV network. The largest overall is the CBC (Canadian Broadcorping Castration), owned by the Canada's Liberal government (Just In Trudeau, Prop.) The CBC epitomizes progressivism, political correctness and general wokeism. 

Because CTV would like to be in first place, they try hard to out-liberal the CBC. As witness their coverage of yesterday's announcement by Toronto's Finest (TM) that they had made an arrest in the case. It wasn't the hit-and-run driver, who is considered only a witness, but the 19-year-old man who did the stompin'. Wenzile Ndlangamandla was taken into custody yesterday and charged with second-degree murder. He is scheduled to appear in court Sunday morning.

The name of the accused was published on the CTV News website. There was no mug shot or other picture, and it was the Toronto Sun which identified Mr Ndlangamandla as a "Toronto man". For some reason -- time limitations, perhaps -- CTV's televised version of the same story made no mention of the name.

Also omitted was the fact that Mr Ndlangamandla, is from the Dark Continent, and likely one of the 1000s of bogus refugees/asylum-seekers who crossed over the welcome mat thrown out by M Trudeau and is now being housed, clothed and fed by Canadian taxpayers. One may suppose CTV left this out not because the newsreaders can't pronounce his name, but because they don't want to stoke the flames of anti-immigrant backlash, already roaring through the Great No-longer-white North.

VIDEO: Wokeness is as old as the Bible itself; so is the remedy

This homily was given by Father David Wilton, C.P.M. of the Fathers of Mercy at the Chapel of Divine Mercy in Auburn KY. on 24 July 2022.

Walt's strategic withdrawal

Ed. here. I've advised our fearless leader that no new content = no readers. He says that he is switching to hermit mode, withdrawing from the world as much as possible. Foir 13 years he has coped with the crisis of heresy and apostasy in Holy Mother Church, the fads of LGBTQ, BLM, MeToo and other leftist nonsense, and the persecution of the politcally incorrect. But the triumph of wokeism and transnaziism in particular is more than his blood pressure can stand. 

It appears (he writes) that there is no relief in sight for another 15 months, minimum. So farewell to all that. And (he adds)

From the rest of us here at WWW, i.e. Poor Len Canayen and yr obdt servant: Hang by your thumbs, and write if you get work.

Sad tales from the Heart of Wokeness

In "Fearless predictions for 2023" (WWW 10/1/23), Walt predicted that at least one of the three following heads of government would be out of office by Christmas, as a result of resignation, revolution or death: "Pope" Francis,  Demented Joe Biden, and  Justin "F*ck" Trudeau. Lifetime pct .989.

My batting average would be higher had I foreseen the pleasant surprises of the resignations of not one but three authorities of the wokest kind, all of which have occurred in the last month. A big Nelson Muntz HA-ha has already gone out to New Zealand's Queen of the Lockdowns, Jacinda "Karen" Ardern. Today we add two "leaders" from the wokest country on earth, Canuckistan.  

The first is Brenda Lucki, Commissioner (top cop) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, whose retirement was announced yesterday. HA-ha!

Ms Unlucki was appointed by Prime Minister Blackie McBlackface, the well-known "male feminist", because she's a woman. Oh, and she also happens to be married to Ray Gauthie, a relative of former finance minister Bill Morneau. That could explain why M Trudeau was never arrested for violating ethics laws in the SNC-Lavalin or numberous other affairs.

In a statement announcing what she called a "personal decision", Ms Unlucki said she has decided to retire ahead of reaching five years in the role. Her last day will be March 17th.

We are assured that the timing of her resignation has nothing to do with the impending (tomorrow!) release of the report of the Whitewash Rouleau Commission into the brutal repression of the Freedom Convoy, one year ago.

Brenda has been criticized for not speaking up in the cabinet meeting at which Mr Socks invoked the Emergencies Act to quash all dissent, although emails from Ms Lucki show that she thought there were other alternatives. This prompted Alberta's justice minister to call for her resignation, to which Ms Lucki responded by asserting she remained "fully committed to leading the RCMP."

March will see the release of the final report of the Nova Scotia Mass Casualty Commission. They have been looking into how the RCMP handled the 2020 killing rampage in Nova Scotia that involved a gunman using a replica RCMP vehicle. Ms Unlucki has on several occasions denied accusations of political interference in the case. 

But wait, there's more. In 2020, amid conversations around the woke hobby horse of defunding the police, Ms Lucki faced calls to resign after saying that she struggled with "five or six" definitions of systemic racism. She then quickly acknowledged what she called the national police service's "history of racial discrimination."

Looks from here as if Ms Unlucki has decided to fall on her sword to save PM McBlackface from the embarrassment of having to fire here. Further reading: "Hiring based on gender/workeness rather than merit: not a good idea", WWW 23/1/21.

We turn now to news from Toronto, aka The Wormy Apple -- a "world-class city" in the sense that it has world-class problems of crime, homelessness, crumbling infrastructure, and did I mention crime? 

John Tory -- Tory by name, "progressive" by inclination -- ran for re-election in October on the "politics of hope", taken whole and unadulterated from the teachings of The Prez. He won in a landslide. Because Toronto.

This week, surprise surprise, he resigned in the wake of the revelation by the Toronto Red Star of his affair with a former staffer. HA-ha!

This is like Lori Lightfoot winning re-election on February 28th [Ya think? Ed.] and then resigning because she's been sleeping with Hunter Biden!

According to Hizzoner, the relationship began during the Covid-19 Dempanic, when he and his long-time wife were spending "lengthy periods apart." Honesty John, has always made much of his reputation for integrity, said he was stepping down so he can "reflect on my mistakes" and "do the work of rebuilding the trust of my family."

That's all? Errr, no. Mr Tory also said the relationship "ended by mutual consent" earlier this year, adding that the former staffer had also decided to pursue employment outside of city hall. The word on Bay Street is that she landed in the executive offices of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, with which, by virtue of being a trustee of the Rogers family trust, the now-ex-mayor has some connection. 

The shadow of #MeToo looms in the background. Further reading: "Canada's top general latest victim of 'Me Too'", WWW 4/2/21.

VIDEO: Tulsi Gabbard... say wut?

Tulsi Gabbard is an American politician, United States Army Reserve officer and political commentator who served as the Congressthingy for Hawaii's 2nd District from 2013 to 2021. Gabbard was the first Hindu member of Congress and also the first Samoan-American voting member of Congress.

In 2020, Ms Gabbard proved the danger of over-estimating yourself. She chose not to run for re-election to Congress -- a contest she could have won easily -- but to throw her had into the ring for the Democratic nomination for the presidensity. That March, seeing her folly, she ended her presidential candidacy and endorsed Demented Joe.

Since then, although still describing herself as a Democrat, Ms Gabbard has taken conservative positions on social issues, including abortion and transgender rights. She endorsed Florida's Parental Rights in Education Act, and was a featured speaker at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

Yesterday, Tulsi Gabbard resigned from the so-called Democratic Party, officially rejecting all its pomps, works and empty promises. Here is the video of her auto-da-fé.

    

In case you're having trouble believing your ears, here's the transcript:

 

I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue and stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms, are hostile to people of faith and spirituality, demonize the police and protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans, believe in open borders, weaponize the national security state to go after political opponents, and above all, dragging us ever closer to nuclear war.

I believe in a government that is of, by, and for the people. Unfortunately, today’s Democratic Party does not. Instead, it stands for a government of, by, and for the powerful elite. I’m calling on my fellow common sense independent-minded Democrats to join me in leaving the Democratic Party. If you can no longer stomach the direction that so-called woke Democratic Party ideologues are taking our country, I invite you to join me. 

We forgive you, Tulsi, and welcome you to the fight to Make America Great Again.

Further reading: "Hillary Clinton Accidentally Posts Condolences For Tulsi Gabbard's Suicide One Day Early", Babylon Bee (natch), 23/10/19. How can the Bee be so prescient?

Further viewing: The Fox News "Outnumbered" panel discusses former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s decision to leave the Democratic Party.

VIDEO: Canuck MP tells Trudeau: "Enough with the woke shit!"

Canadians generally are reputed to be mild-mannered, inoffensive, slow to anger, and quick to apologize. "Sorry" is the second-most common word in the Canuck vocabulary, after "eh". 

For this reason, debates in Canada's Parliament, although sometimes raucous, are subject to rules of parliamentary order, which include the prohibition of "unparliamentary language". Words which may not be uttered in the House of Commons or Senate include the nine Anglo-Saxon monosyllables, plus "Justinflation" and "Chief Walking Goose" (a reference to the Prime Minister being so full of shit that he can't walk.) 

Yesterday, the Hon. Michelle Rempel Garner, the Conservative Member of Parliament for the Alberta riding of Calgary Nose Hill [Seriously? Ed.] couldn't stand the Liberal bullshit any more, and said so during the House of Commons Question Period. Listen up.

  

Being a good Canadian, Ms Rempel Garner apologized immediately. Many Canucks feel the apology was unnecessary. Me too! Tell it straight, Michelle, and tell it again!

Ratings death awaits new woke Family Guy

You read it here first. Walt predicts Family Guy will be cancelled at the end of the current season. Now I'll tell you why.

I watched the latest episode last night. The plot was this. Lois sees the Browns having a family fun day, and decides the Griffins need to do that. They try card games and a make-your-own-pizza party. No fun. So they decide to have a movie night, with videos from Blockbuster. But the last remaining Blockbuster in the USA is in Bend OR, so the family goes on a road trip. 

That, right there, is your cue to start the death watch for Family Guy. It's turned into a wholesome Norman Lear sitcom! No-one, with the possible exception of Blockbuster [Do they still exist? Ed.] could be offended. And no-one laughs either.   

Think about it, fans. It's 2022 in Brandon's America. Humor is forbidden. Nothing's funny anymore, because nothing is allowed to be funny. Consider this list of Family Guy characters we used to laugh at (or laugh with), who have disappeared or been reduced to minor roles, all in the name of political correctness.

Stewie Griffin - Once a precocious but malicious baby who was a central part of most shows, he has now become snarky but cute and loveable. He used to be best friends with Brian, the dog, the only one who understood him, and they had many excellent adventures together. Now Stewie only gets one or two one-liners per show, when he appears at all. 

Brian Griffin - Once so popular that an attempt to kill him off flopped, and he had to be brought back from the dead. Like Stewie, Brian is no longer a central character. Maybe it's because we don't make fun of alcoholics. More likely, it's because he was a parody of progressive pseudo-intellectuals, who are people we must now take seriously.

Brian has a cousin, Jasper, who we no longer see or hear about, because Jasper is as gay as 18 balloons. The choices people make as to their gender identity are not to be mocked any more.

Glenn Quagmire - A resolutely heterosexual sex fiend and chicken-hawk, who is not an appropriate role model for middle-aged men. No more "Giggidy giggidy goo!"

Joe Swanson - Also playing a much-reduced role. How could anyone stoop so low as to make fun of persons who are differently-abled?! For the same reason, we no longer see or hear Angela, Peter's deaf co-worker at the brewery. Ditto Opie, who is not deaf but... errr... [you can't use the R-word! Ed.]

Then there are the gay characters, who only make cameos now that it's normal to be gay, like Bruce Straight (pictured, since some of you may not recognize his name). Bruce is a caricature of the sad, middle-aged homo who should be loved, not shunned, for his contributions to the community. You may know someone like him in your community, perhaps a Boy Scout leader or a priest.

John Herbert is a 90-year-old pederast, profiled on WWW almost eight years ago.  He used to be the Griffins' neighbour. I never heard that he'd moved, but somehow we no longer see him. Perhaps that's because pedophilia isn't funny. Indeed, some progressive thinkers argue that there's nothing wrong with it.

Other faces on the cutting-room floor are those of the (((Goldmans))). Muriel, the wife of pharmacist Mort Goldman, died a couple of years back, but Mort still had his drugstore, and his son Neil, was still trying to get a date with Meg, or anybody at Adam West High School. But we must now recognize that anti-Semitism is a lingering and serious problem in our society, so Jewish stereotypes are no longer permissible.

Speaking of stereotypes, Walt wonders what became of Consuela, pictured at top. It was never clear whether or not Consuela was a legal immigrant or an "undocument migrant". Notice I didn't say "illegal alien", let alone "wetback". There are no such people any more, so we can't make fun of them.

Seth MacFarlane and his colleagues seem not to have figured out what to do with the Browns, who weren't quite a stereotypical African-American family, in that Cleveland Brown, the father was still present, working to support his wife and children. The Browns live in a neighbour hood which would apparently be all-white, except for them, so they're still regulars.

Jerome is another black stereotype, but a good one. The new owner of the Drunken Clam, he's the successful businessman that we know all black dudes could be if they weren't the victims of slavery, racism and injustice. Even so, we don't see much of him because he's a little too... errr... Black, as we learned in the episode where it was revealed that he once dated Lois.

I could go on [No, you can't. Ed.] OK, let me conclude by observing that with the cancellation of all these characters, what we're left with is the basic Griffin family -- stupid father, smarter mother, and two kids suffering from teenage angst. In other words, a typical American TV family in the Age of Woke. Hence my prediction. Lifetime pct .980.

Get woke, go broke! Ron MacLean cancelled!

Our National Sports (As Long As It's Hockey) Editor, Poor Len Canayen, has some excellent breaking news! 

Canadian hockey fans are rejoicing today at the announcement by Sportsnet that they will see less of Ron MacLean next season. Hometown Hockey, the much-unloved show featuring the biggest woke3st pussy in sportscasting, has been cancelled!

For those who never saw the show, it was what marketers called a line extension of the popular "Coach's Corner" segment of Hockey Night in Canada, which featured MacLean as straight man to Don Cherry, the real star of the little between-periods show. For eight seasons, Hometown Hockey travelled to a different part of Canada each week. It originally aired on Sundays but was eventually moved to the graveyard of Monday night, where it died.

The official reason given for the cancellation is that the weekly production was "an expensive line on the corporate ledger" and became tough to justify in a time where the sports media industry is undergoing change and cuts. Yah, shure.

What really happened was that Canuck hockey-lovers were incensed by MacLean's betrayal of Don Cherry after he (Cherry) got busted by the PC police for calling out, just before Remembrance Day of 2019, "you people" who ought to be wearing poppies to honour those who gave their lives for freedom, but aren't doing so. Click here to see the video.

The snowflakes, SJW's and pro-immigration lobby dropped the shithammer, and the CBC (the propaganda arm of Canada's Liberal government) put pressure on Sportsnet to get rid of Cherry. Which they did. On Remembrance Day itself. See: "The Hockey Guy comments on Don Cherry's firing" (includes video), WWW 11/11/19. 

MacLean's grovelling apology -- "I should have caught that sooner" -- the following Saturday was enough to gag a maggot. But what followed in the 2 1/2 years since was even worse. 

"Coach's Corner" was cancelled, of course, since it was impossible to find anyone (not even the perpetually over-refreshed Brian Burke), who could call BS when he saw it as could Don Cherry. Ron MacLean now hosts a between-periods panel, as well as the rest of the show, and devotes himself assiduously to promoting inclusivity, diversity, women's hockey, the contribution to the sport of those wonderful BIPOCs, etc etc. 

HNIC is just as woke as all get out, and that same wokeness pervaded Hometown Hockey, where there were no real hockey guys like Kelly Hrudey or Kevin Bieksa to tell MacLean how full of politically correct shit he is. 

So Hometown Hokey [misspelling intentional. Ed.] is gone. Get woke, go broke! But the malady lingers on. MacLean will still be a fixture on Saturday nights, at Hockey Night in Canada. He says a new contract has not been finalized but has been agreed to "in principal". 

Yah, shure! Don't stay tuned.I predict that, as sponsors wake up to the fact that more and more viewers take a 15-minute beer-and-bathroom break during the intermissions, they'll start putting pressure on Sportsnet to "revamp" HNIC PDQ. As Sam Goldwyn said, "If you want to send a message, go to Western Union."