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Good article.
I wonder how Harper would have coped with wokeness as Prime Minister though. He was feckless with general leftism from 2011 to 2015. I suspect wokeness would’ve crushed his government.
I think it did, it just wasn’t called that at the time. I still see the “STOP HARPER” stickers around town and am sickened all over again by the malice and depravity of his opponents.
If Harper hadn’t existed, Prinz Dummkopf, et. al., would have had to invent him, using him as a way of hiding their inherent corruption and incompetence.
Oh, they don’t even hide their incompetence and corruption anymore.
Maybe a more accurate expression would have been “excusing their inherent corruption and incompetence”.
Not even that, Rupertslander.
People just accept this sh– now.
Oh, you mean an Emmanuel Goldstein. Different times require a different name, of course, as Trudie Jr. is besties with Stephen Bronfman.
Have I mentioned that MOST CANADIANS are very stupid.
And most of them are Very Old White Guys!
No, sorry Dipshit, VOWG was talking bout BrainDead NPC’s…just like You..?
Hint
PP is sarcasm……
Hint, bullshit.
Rex was written off by the left some years ago. Probably why he left CBC, or more likely was pushed out.
Fools who make quips without foundation, totally misinterpreting why anyone would leave the CBC, should be written off.
That was Harper’s point, which you missed entirely – woke bigots claiming moral superiority over their betters.
Wtf are you on about? I like Rex and still read his stuff. All I’m saying is that the blog headline is a bit off in a this case. The left no longer listens to anything Rex has to say, and haven’t done so for years.
Fine, don’t include yourself in “the left” whatever that is. So you’re just a surrender monkey.
No difference; imho, an enabler of the left ruling is worse than the left itself trying to rule, whatever “the left’ is.
Whatever. This country is lost, tough guy. It isn’t even ever going back to what Harper left us. It’s Trudeaupia, now and forever, because that is what 65+% of the populace want (give or take regional variance). And that number only goes higher every year, not lower.
Act accordingly.
“Rex was written off by the left some years ago. Probably why he left CBC, or more likely was pushed out.”
On the National Newswatch aggregator (aka Liberal Newswatch) he hasn’t had a single story featured for years now.
“If it plays out, our societies fail … the adolescent egos of the woke university crowd is not an alternative governing philosophy for any society.” says it all.
Unfortunately, the “woke” don’t care what Rex or Harper have to say.
They don’t even hear it, as it’s not on TikTok or whatever stupid social media site they all use to display their colossal ignorance of anything serious and responsible, preferring instead to talk about their orifices, orientations, and other obnoxious banalities.
Harper had his chance and he blew it. Want to sit here and venerate him as a grand old statesman from some bygone years for shit he didn’t do…knock yourself out.
Yeah, I like him but that’s where it ends.
I like Harper on a personal level and think he’s a decent man, but yes, he squandered his opportunity, hiding behind the idea of “incrementalism” to delay some very important and needed reforms in government.
You will notice that virtually the day the Libs re-took the government, they went ape-shit on establishing their programs and priorities, and incrementalism be damned. They would simply drag the electorate, kicking and screaming if necessary, into their Glorious World of Next Tuesday™. We could learn from that, but we won’t, and the Overton Window will continue to move left.
My view is that Harper was just a normal person from a normal background. Unlike almost all of his predecessors, he was not a natural psychopath, nor had he sold his soul to the predator oligarchic class. He was a mild-mannered fellow put into an extraordinary position. Even Deb Gray said Harper was not a natural politician. (She meant that as a defect in his personality). In the election campaign that resulted in Harper’s first minority, some elite deep-stater wrote an editorial in one of the “national” newspapers in which he asserted that because Harper wasn’t a lawyer, or a bureaucrat, or a “real” academic, (i.e. PhD from U Big Smoke), he had no right to be PM. This was a “serious” editorial above the fold and in big ink. You remember Harper said, perhaps foolishly, even if he had a secret agenda, the country was full of establishment institutions (e.g. Supreme Court) which would stop him. It was a non-politic statement, but we all knew it was true. Harper was not a revolutionary. Never was. You remember on his election night victory he was rushed to hospital with breathing problems. To turn this s-show around you’d need a bloody-minded revolutionary. Harper was just a normal fella surrounded by establishment elites who have no qualms about destroying their enemies. Sending Harper to Ottawa was like taking a sling-shot to a gun party. His best contribution to the cause was as Manning’s political brain in the Reform Opposition. Hardly good enough, but probably the best you will ever see in Trudopia ever again.
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Postscript: I was disappointed when Colin Powell’s email to Peter Mackay revealed that Harper was attending the secret rituals of the Bohemian Grove. “It was the faggiest thing I’d ever experienced”, according the R. M. Nixon.
Bilderberg Meeting. Once Harper attended, I knew he was just Globalist Scum.
Maybe he was just there to see what they were up to. I don’t think Harper is a regular participant. Some one in his caucus called him a straight shooter. What you see is what you get. And what you see is a very smart and deep thinking person who is also an introvert.
I voted for Harper once and it was a waste of time. Turdhole and his corrupt cronies stacking the Senate reminds me of why I don’t think alot of Mr. Harpers time in the PMO.
Harper and the Cons didn’t want to beat Turdhole and they ran a terrible campaign illustrating that desire to lose.
The Cons under Harper and the Cons of today are fake Conservatives, but if they wanted to win an election and save Canada they would have to fight back against their number one enemy, the enemy of the people, the goddamned Globalist Corporate Media and the State Media.
The fact the Cons still don’t understand that the number one enemy to them and Canada is the Media tells the story of who Cons really are ( cowards and liberals) and what they really believe ( Globalism ). Harper, meh.
Agreed as regards Harper’s last campaign, and his stupid “decision” not to appoint Senators. I can only guess at what really goes on in the corridors of power, (more accurately the Star Chamber I expect), but it’s likely Harper threw the election. Either he was offered a certain metal, (i.e. gold or lead), or he was just sick of the job. I don’t think he ever really wanted the responsibility, nor did he really expect to ever get it. In the election campaigns against Martin, Harper always made foolish statements, (foolish politically), just in the last stretch when the polls showed him leading the Libs. The Chretien/Martin civil war exposing the corruption of the Natural Governing Party was the only reason Harper was ever given “power”.
Traitors are worse than the enemy. Harper was and is a traitor.
“Harper and the Cons didn’t want to beat Turdhole and they ran a terrible campaign illustrating that desire to lose.”
I have to wonder about that myself. I mean…the Barbaric Cultural Practices tip line? Seriously? I thought at the time…”it’s like he actually WANTS to lose”.
Strange, isn’t it Fred… Harpers campaign against Turdhole was so low key it was almost like a travelling funeral, full of sad faces without hope working up the courage to carry on. They offered the public nothing, just more of the same. The Cons let the corrupt serpents of the Media dictate the mood and theme of their campaign without even trying to fight back, truly a pathetic spectacle.
I can remember the toilet floater commies of the Media continually and collectively spewing the narrative that “Harper had been around way too long” and “it was time for someone new”, the Media screamed that narrative before the campaign even began, planting the seed for change in the voters mind, and there was never any push back from the Cons.
Funny how we never hear anyone in the Media even suggest its time for a change in Government now, or that Turdhole has been around for far too long or that someone else needs to take over the leadership. No, that narrative has been shot in the back of the head and carefully buried in a shallow grave behind Gerald Butts taxpayer funded mansion, buried there by our Corporate and State run ( Liberal run ) Globalist Media comrades.
It would be be futile to add anything to comments made by Sean M et al regarding Harper’s lack of intestinal fortitude . The left have no qualms what so ever in sticking their agenda up the electorate’s collective asses . They play by their own sordid rules and Conservatives have had years to figure it out but can’t or won’t deal with it . Screw Canada …I’m done .
Harper is the thing the woke crowd despises the most, an adult.
I like the Goldstein reference as it came to my small mind as well. Its been said many times, 1984 was one of many training manuals that helped them put together their playbook.
And the Liberals have a lot of plays in their playbook. When you’re corrupt and, let’s face it, evil, you put alot of effort into getting and maintaining, if not growing, power.
I’m not religious but I swear the Liberals are Satanists.
Trudeau voters need to be treated like they’re plague Zombies.
I think the gist of the article is how the left is triggered by the mere mention of the name Stephen Harper.
Rex made a particular point about how he currently resides in the sock monkeys head rent free and how it drives him to distraction.
May I suggest that his name be invoked whenever one is engaged in a debate with the left
I like it.
Harper’s biggest mistake – the one that would be the major contributer to his ousting – was the appointment of Duffy to the Senate.
And he was a disappointment because he didn’t dismantle the CBC, the dairy mafia, or the climate change horseshit.
Having said that, he was the only PM in the last 50 years who made me a bit proud of this Sadsack Country; he stood up for Israel and he called out Putin … in a very public way.
Calling out Putin is meaningless. Harper, to his credit, put more money into arctic sovereignty by strengthening our bases there, a wee bit. You, like most, give more credit to rhetoric than actions; Obama gave more money to Israel than Harper ever did.
“Calling out Putin is meaningless.”
Like hell it was. It took balls. And balls count
“.You, like most, give more credit to rhetoric than actions;”
Says the guy who has never led a protest in his life.
Like Biden’s balls, who called Putin a killer?
Gimme a break.
Rhetoric is rhetoric, if you fall for it, more fool you.
Go buy some ism.
“Like Biden’s balls, who called Putin a killer?”
Sure. Said it to his face, eh?
Harper dissed Putin to his face?
Link please.
Duffy was not a bad choice at the time. Duffy was framed as an oblique way to get at Harper. Duffy may have been an egotist, but he did nothing wrong. I think he also was a good rep for PEI.
Mention of Harper’s unfortunate servility towards the Jewish mafia state in Palestine reminds me of that Canadian Air Farce skit about “Mossad (I think) Krispies” which came with a “free Canadian passport in every box.”
There never was a country called Palestine.
Remember all the gun rights, carry rights, private property rights, privacy rights, etc, that Harper implemented? The way he bulldozed a conservative/libertarian agenda through parliament when he had a majority, like the left does even with a minority?
Yeah, me neither.
He’s just another globalist, but he was a better study of Machiavelli’s “The Prince.”, as opposed to the libs, who chose “1984”, but all on the same side in the end.
YW
No arguing that whatsoever. AGREED.
THEcons have had 70 years to get their shit together, instead the fed ourselves at the same trough as the Libs while kissing said Libs Ass in the bath house….bought n paid for – the entire stinking lot…something that aught to be painfully fucking obvious to even the most obtuse among us.
Harper had a Majority and literally PISSED IT AWAY..on near every level…the current crop ALL on the same level of depravity kissing ChiCom/Globalist ASS for a few shekels.
Treasonous garbage not worth the time to listen or acknowledge their constant bleating & verbal dihareah. Sloan – Hillier notwithstanding.
Never again will I WASTE MY VOTE on any supposed “conservative” in this country. Hear me loud assholes…
If a conservative (not a red tory liberal seat warming version) government ever gains power again in Canada it should be clear that the job isn’t to attempt the impossible task of managing a hostile, overbearing, and morally and functionally redundant bureaucracy. Its job would be to drastically reduce and eliminate most functions of the federal government, making the job of PM and cabinet as unattractive, uninfluential, and banal as possible. Lacking in a constitution that has no constraints on leviathan growth, that will never happen (nor endure if it did) short of sovereign default when foreign creditors call the shots. A constitutional ban on deficits in peacetime would go a long way in constraint, but the Spawn’s father wrote it as one would expect a conniving statist would.
Harper had the chance. He decided not to. Ergo, he wasn’t a conservative. If he’s even close to the best we can field, we’re screwed.
He wouldn’t have had a hope of changing the constitution and anything he could do but didn’t could be reversed just as it was when they were defeated. The CBC could have been revived with twice as many assholes as before. On the last point, I agree.
He could’ve pushed through bills faster than the turd does now, but he chose not to.
This is a pipe dream for the sole reason that this country was not federated out of a need to protect the welfare of its citizens, it was created to preserve the government out of fear.
That fear was based on the US making an offer to the British to purchase a good chunk of territory north of the 49.
The only recourse was to get the BNA passed in Westminster before the US got to the Exchequer.
You can’t save it because the way it was created is not sustainable.
Let the turd keep going the way he has and soon the whole thing will implode and the US gets to buy up what it wants in a deal they would be crazy to let pass.
The only silver lining however is that the name Trudeau will forever be linked to the demise of this country.
Thought-provoking.
Today Blackie announced six billion dollars for baby sitting services in Quebec, with no strings attached. Other provinces will have strings attached to their babysitting money. Nothing to do with the election of course.
Looks like Quebec knows how to handle the feds, and nobody else does, Quebec could hold her own a a State of the USA, TROC couldn’t.
For anything good I can say about Stephen Harper, there are two not good things that would follow. Does his critique of the Liberal Party include their recent legislative plans to censor internet free speech?
I don’t think Harper was ever much of a fan of free speech, it disrupted his managerial style by bringing attention to actual conservative principles, which he felt he had some exclusive right to define as leader of the party. If we could ever find a real conservative with political skills, oh right, we did, they Dominioned him out of the leadership.
Of course he looks better than Trudeau in the rear view mirror, in the same way that the Czar must have appeared relatively good to some in Lenin’s time. And you have to wonder, who’s the Stalin in this analogy?
what did harper do wrong, not what did he fail to do, as compared to what atrocities zoolander is allowed to get away with, look at the likes of scheer or o’toole or bernier, they are just canadian bacon,
What he did wrong is fail to undo the indignities to freedom of the past 50 years, while the libs focus on the indignities of the last 100, even if they have to fake them.
The libs talk louder than their game, and Harper backed down.
did he have enough of reform party majority, in order to do that, comandante yeah, because you see what pitiful arepas you see in leadership, the other ford brother was probably made of stronger stuff,
Seems mention of Harper “triggers” more than lefties.
Harper,whom I like,is just a man,a mostly decent man who appeared to believe that our progressive comrades also had the countries best interests at heart.
Damn was he wrong.
However back when Reform was a real movement,I too believed Canadians were basically decent people who loved this country and that if enough could be reached we could Reform our declining government,reset the civil service and civic institutions to working for the citizen rather than feeding off of us..
Damn was I wrong.
In hindsight we tend to see the masses we have never met as extentions of ourselves,so if we are fairly decent persons we believe most other people are too.
Tragic mistake when dealing with Progressives.
We must learn to deal with them as they see the world.
Without mercy or reason.
The abuse heaped on Steven Harper was disgusting,every idiot indulging themselves in it demonstrated their basic level of decency and ethics,most especially those hounding his young children.
And most of us did not say Boo.
Now we have the government the “Stop Harper” Idiots deserve.
As an aside Harper derangement syndrome was the dry run for TDS.
We will never see a single person ,who will save us all.
That attitude left Harper and the few Reform MPs unsupported before a hysterical and massed enemy mob.
If we do not chose to act,then no one can save us.
As an advocate of Western Separation,which I believe is unstoppable,I remain curious to hear the case for Canada.
Can Confederation be saved?
Does anyone want to?
Right now I am cheering for Emperor Justine and His Children’s Crusade of a parliament,for if they are not actively driving the West to separate,I am hard pressed to guess what they might have done differently since 2015.
They hate us,despise and fear us.
With us ,the West gone from confederation,the Fourth Riec..I mean the Progressive Liberals will rule the remains of Canada with total majorities to the very end.
Which I see as 5 or less years after Buffalos Re-emergence.
And they taught us in school,that Louis Real was mad,which always begged the question;”What about the rest of the Rebels?’
For if we fail to prepare for our declaration of Independence from the Confederated Kleptocracy,our elected leaders will get the same treatment,used as foils to cover smears and lies.
A bandit understands only superior force,politeness,reason,appeals to decency are sounds of weakness to a Gimmee Dat I wants it.
I voted for Stephen Harper however he has shown his anti trump colours and that’s enough for me. Same as Conrad Black who endorsed Juthin! Pfft
As the Trump meme goes: “They’re not after ME, they’re after YOU, I’m just in the way!”
Harper never stood in their way.
All politicians are, or become, scum.
Period.
We all complain and prove it to be the case.
Try to stay as free as you can.
Good luck.
@ Fred from BC : I always take issue with people complaining about the “Tip line” (in fact a help line), viciously and deliberately misconstrued as a “snitch line.” It was a good initiative, and included things like funding for groups in Africa to fight Boko Haram, which continues to terrorize women and communities, One immigrant woman ( Canadian, but from India) said their immigrant women’s group had asking for this for 15 years. But our “media” no doubt in cahoots with Liberals decided to smear the initiative, rather than looking into it. “We have laws against such things as honour killings and forced marriages,” they said, overlooking the fact that most immigrants are not keen to call the cops on their families. What was needed was a help line through which tense family situations could possibly be defused. But the idea was ridiculed and killed, and now all those honor killings in Toronto are just called suicides and swept under the carpet. All you need to think about is the Rotherham sexual exploitation scandal to realize the claim “We already have laws against that” is dismissing the problem, — not solving it. Calling the tip line a ” snitch line” in order to discredit the initiative is one of the more callous things the media has done in their misguided zeal to attack Harper.
Rakes More-fay (sorry, just like to poke fun at the Maritime accents) is a Canadian treasure. You’ll miss him sorely when he’s gone. They don’t make them like that anymore.