Everything happened at once, Part 2

Pierre Poilievre, the new Conservative (?) leader

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This week, everything happened at once, Part 1

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

Farewell Liz. We hardly knew ye.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Agent 3 writes about mass murder in Saskatchewan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Aha! THAT explains it!

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

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

UPDATED: DOJ attack foiled by Cannonade

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Remember the opening of Al Capone's safe?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* 17 documents marked "secret"

* 7 documents marked "top secret"

* 43 empty folders with "classified" banners

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Repeats "democracy" 31 times while demonizing Americans

* Repeatedly stokes fears of "violent, extremist" MAGA

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

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

        divisive speech

* WH desperately tries to spin speech

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

        Democracy is in danger

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

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

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

        about Trump

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

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

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

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

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

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

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