Category: Baiting the Right

Lindsay Shepherd is Interviewed by a Left-wing Podcast

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Douglas Lain is a self-proclaimed man of the Left. He’s a writer and the publisher of Zero Books. Besides CBC News, his podcast is the first one of a left-wing bent that has invited Lindsay Shepherd to speak publicly.
You can listen to the interview here. It’s well worth listening to in full. Also check out the comments to witness a very different reality, such as this “brilliance” from ‘daniel’:

I love the fact that right wingers have appropriated the free speech position… As Marx gains in popularity, it will test their position and may prevent neo-McCarthyism… I went to a Marxist talk at Ryerson, and trump supporters (in Canada I know it’s weird) pulled the fire alarm to try and end the talk… this really wasn’t something of great interest to the media.



The Party Is Being Run By Stupid People

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CTV;

A Toronto man who spent $550 building a set of stairs in his community park says he has no regrets, despite the city’s insistence that he should have waited for a $65,000 city project to handle the problem. The city is now threatening to tear down the stairs because they were not built to regulation standards.

“Conservative” Mayor John Tory…

Mayor John Tory acknowledged that the city estimate sounds “completely out of whack with reality” on Wednesday. However, he says that still doesn’t justify allowing private citizens to bypass city bylaws to build public structures themselves.
“I think everyone will understand that it will be more than $550,” he said on Wednesday. “We just can’t have people decide to go out to Home Depot and build a staircase in a park because that’s what they would like to have.”

He actually said that.
He actually said that.
Pay attention, conservative politicians who wish to be re-elected. This is what a conservative politician is supposed to say under such circumstances;

“The city will send an engineer to certify these stairs, and if they are determined to be sound, will compensate Mr. Astl for his materials and time.
After which, I’ll be launching an internal investigation into how this small building project came to generate a $65,000 estimate, and terminate the employment and/or contracts of those responsible for the fiasco.”

You’re welcome.

A Playbook for 2017

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James Delingpole urges right thinking people to not rest on their laurels, comparing what happened in 2016 to merely the first few hours of the D-Day invasion. He argues that anyone who thinks the Leftist elite and their SJW stormtroopers are merely going to lie down and allow anything to be changed are in great denial.

As the great, now sadly-retired Thomas Sowell says, “Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.” Its malign influence is still with us today. Innocent boys being accused of rape on college campuses; genuine rapes committed by gangs of Muslim taxi drivers in northern England and by gangs of Muslim immigrants in German cities like Cologne; hundreds of thousands driven into fuel poverty, landscapes ravaged, avian fauna sliced and diced as a result of crazy renewable energy policies; a Nobel-prize-winning scientist driven out of his job because a feminist loser misreported something he said about women at a conference; generations of kids denied a rigorous, disciplined, useful education; the needless violence and tension engendered by #blacklivesmatter: we should never concede the moral high ground to the kind of people who make all this sort of stuff possible, no matter how many times they tell us how evil and selfish and uncaring we are.

The Foreign Media’s Love Affair with The Shiny Pony

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Britain’s left-wing Guardian newspaper has posted a luvvy-duvvy “article” on Justin Trudeau. Any snippet from it would likely make most SDA regulars vomit so instead, here’s an apropos comment:

Really, the Guardian’s editorial board passed this nonsense with no one wondering about the doublespeak? Mr. Trudeau is the climate fighter passing pipelines? We help refugees by allowing a few of the masses in need? We create jobs for the future by investing in industries of the past? I think Mr. Trudeau is portraying himself as all things to all people; but, he is a neoliberal with a neoliberal agenda, and he doesn’t like to be criticized. He’s a good looking dude whose only difference from the previous PM is the hair; in Canada, we tend to be consistently governed by neoliberals which means really nothing ever changes. CETA was advocated by both conservative and liberal governments, the TPP was pushed, the fear of Mr. Trump and the destruction of NAFTA; it’s not so much the harm to the little guy, it is the fact big corporations (the executives) want to be in charge and with the populism, they are no longer, The world is against globalization, Canada sticks out because we are still a nice people; no, we are an obedient one which isn’t quite the same thing.

Owner Builder Exams: Good Governance or Government Overreach?

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A regular SDA reader, who wishes to remain anonymous, has drawn my attention to a new Owner Builder Exam in British Columbia.

“There’s some really troubling building legislation that was brought into effect this past summer in BC, whereby a person wanting to build on their own property must pass an exam before proceeding. It’s such an incredible overreach on the part of the government overlords that more people should know about it. My son began building when the permit only required a fee and filling out a form, but since the exam is now required, until he has a good chunk of time to study building codes and WCB law, he can’t possibly pull off the 70 percent required to pass. Furthermore, his friend who helped with the framing, has been a contractor for 40 years, is not allowed to build another home until he is HPO certified. The process for him requires an investment of $20,000 to become certified (the owner builder application is $400). Since he will be retiring soon, he does not feel an HPO certification is a good investment for him. Out of the 48 established contractors in our town, only 16 have been able to certify under the new legislation. The others are now only permitted to do renovations and if they are caught doing new builds, the penalty is $30,000. It’s so crazy!”

Speaking of Fake News

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Something any regular SDA reader has learned over the years is that the MSM appears to move in lockstep together, especially when it comes to portraying non-Leftists in the most despicable light. So appears to be the case with how the Western media outlets have portrayed Vladimir Putin and Russia. Professor Stephen F. Cohen outlines five false narratives about Putin and Russia.
Here’s a podcast discussing the same.

Are Democrats Capable of Dropping their Identity Silos and Treating Everyone Equally?

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A Columbia University Humanities Professor, Mark Lilla, has written a very interesting column called The End of Identity Liberalism. Ignore the obvious shots at Trump & Republicans, remembering what audience he is primarily trying to reach. To Leftists, who have been deeply indoctrinated in the propaganda of Identity Politics for many decades now – younger ones know nothing else – Lilla makes a compelling argument about why this must come to an abrupt halt if the Democrats have any hope of rising from the ashes.

One of the many lessons of the recent presidential election campaign and its repugnant outcome is that the age of identity liberalism must be brought to an end. Hillary Clinton was at her best and most uplifting when she spoke about American interests in world affairs and how they relate to our understanding of democracy. But when it came to life at home, she tended on the campaign trail to lose that large vision and slip into the rhetoric of diversity, calling out explicitly to African-American, Latino, L.G.B.T. and women voters at every stop. This was a strategic mistake. If you are going to mention groups in America, you had better mention all of them. If you don’t, those left out will notice and feel excluded. Which, as the data show, was exactly what happened with the white working class and those with strong religious convictions. Fully two-thirds of white voters without college degrees voted for Donald Trump, as did over 80 percent of white evangelicals.

While some of the commenters are too far gone to grasp the author’s message, many did. Here are some examples:

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Victor Davis Hanson: Why Trump Won

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In his usual understated way, the Hoover Institution’s Victor Davis Hanson explains why Donald Trump won the presidential election:

… the more Clinton Inc. talked about the Latino vote, the black vote, the gay vote, the woman vote, the more Americans tired of the same old identity politics pandering. What if minority bloc voters who had turned out for Obama might not be as sympathetic to a middle-aged, multimillionaire white woman? And what if the working white classes might flock to the politically incorrect populist Trump in a way that they would not to a leftist elitist like Hillary Clinton? In other words, the more Clinton played the identity politics card, the more she earned fewer returns for herself and more voters for Trump.
The old blue-collar middle class was bewildered by the leftwing social agenda in which gay marriage, women in combat units, and transgendered restrooms went from possible to mandatory party positions in an eye blink. In a party in which “white privilege” was pro forma disparagement, those who were both white and without it grew furious that the elites with such privilege massaged the allegation to provide cover for their own entitlement.

The big question is, will ANYONE on the Left or in the Elitist Right Hierarchy pay any attention to what the American people are telling them?
h/t Gord Tulk

Who Killed Conservativism?

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Fundamentally, conservatism is a cultural perspective. It’s a philosophical outlook rooted in ones traditions and heritage. Managerialism is the obliteration of culture and tradition, in favor of sterile technocratic governance. Once the Official Right surrendered to this it ceased to be conservative. No conservative ends can ever be achieved at gun point. Political liberty, after all, is the minimization of the use of coercion by the state in its essential role of preventing one person’s freedom from intruding upon another’s.
That’s why Buckley Conservatism is dying. The challenges of this age are all cultural. Globalism marshals the monopoly of force of each state against the local communities trying to hold onto their traditional way of life. Mass migration disrupts the demographic balance that makes for social stability. You can’t address these forces, much less oppose them, with programs that promise to expand the role of the state in the affairs of the citizens.
The Contract with America promised to eliminate 95 specific government programs. None of those programs were eliminated. Welfare reform was passed and offered the first substantive alterations of these programs in a generation. Even so, the budget for these 95 programs during Gingrich’s time as Speaker grew by 13%. That’s the story of post-Cold War conservatism. Lots of Five Year Plans and artfully labeled agendas, but the result has been a 25 year run of expanding government and retreating liberty.

h/t Me No Dhimmi

Vancouver Real Estate: The Games People Play

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“Fun & Games” continue unabated in Vancouver’s real estate market, as illustrated here and here and here. This comment from one of the articles accurately describes the situation:

The offshore elite have nothing to worry about in these trivial rezoning nuisances for their projects. They are fully aware and cognizant of the fact that Canadians have an international reputation of being the most gullible and easily manipulated naive clowns in the world. They would sell their children’s future, environment and literally the land from under their feet for some measly laundered loose change. Simply greasing the appropriate palm, like they do back home, is all that is needed.

Now that housing in Vancouver is unaffordable by most Canadians, now that there are endless streets with empty homes and empty condominiums (50+ weeks of the year), might it be long overdue for the residents of Vancouver to have an honest conversation about what has happened to their city? Nope, because anyone who dares question any of it is immediately deemed a R-A-C-I-S-T!
Last year Premier Christy Clark gave a firm ‘No’ to an offshore investors tax. But the pressure is mounting for her to change her mind.

A Pair of English Lads Discuss All Things Trump

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In his latest podcast, James Delingpole talks with Milo Yiannopoulos about Donald Trump and the American Presidential election campaign. The latter has a very interesting perspective about why Trump is so popular with average Americans, especially why many this time around don’t care that he’s not a real conservative. More here.
The strongest counterpoint to a Trump presidential bid comes from National Review.
Should Trump face Bill Clinton’s wife, it’ll be most interesting to see whether his supporters have been talking to themselves in an echo chamber. Should Trump face Sanders, 2016 will likely be one of the craziest years in modern American history.

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