Dispatches from the Maple Gulag Insane Asylum

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Andrew Coyne has completely lost it…

By now it should be clear that the subjection of the United States to the dictatorship of Donald Trump is no longer a theoretical possibility or even a distant probability. It is an imminent reality.

It is not here, quite – critics of the President remain at large, the courts are still attempting to enforce the rule of law, the results of the 2026 and 2028 elections have not yet been determined – but the pieces are being put in place at astonishing speed.

To call what is happening a “slide” into authoritarianism, as if it were something anarchic and uncontrolled, would not be apt. It is more like a cementing. Having slipped back into power by the narrowest of margins, Mr. Trump and his acolytes have been steadily expanding from that beachhead, each new power serving as the means to acquire still more.

Often these powers have been acquired illegally, in brazen defiance of the Constitution. But so long as no one holds them to account for it, and so long as the administration refuses to be held to account, they become ratified by convention, or practice, or sheer nerve, the de facto rapidly congealing into the de jure.

…or maybe Andrew is bitter because Conservatives fired his father…

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46 Replies to “Dispatches from the Maple Gulag Insane Asylum”

  3. Coyne’s father was a central banker? That actually does explain a whole lot.
    ‘Princes of the Yen’ and the power of the central banks. Richard Werner’s documentary is like the
    cheat sheet to today’s geopolitics. It’s 1:47:45, BUT it’s a long week-end.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbXcKpxhXZE

  5. This stinks of the feds trying to rally up anti trump rhetoric before the next assembly of parliament to me.

  6. No surprise here….Coyne has always been a Liberal masquerading as a ‘progressive’ conservative.

    1. No such thing as a ”Progressive Conservatives
      That is like a ”Ford Chevy”
      They do not exist! They are one or the other.

      1. Exactly, CRB. Coyne’s been a joke for years; why doesn’t he just step out of the closet and admit he’s a liberal?

        mhb23re

  10. The further liberal lunatics descend into the imaginary world they have created in their minds, the better the chances that common sense conservatism will endure.
    It is amazing how many lies Coyne includes in one essay.

  11. Mr. Trump’s behaviour has grown steadily more outlandish throughout, trashing norms and stepping over boundaries previously considered inviolable even by him. How much more outlandish is it likely to get between now and 2028 …

    “Norms”
    “Boundaries”

    Dude … that’s the best (worst) charge you can come up with!? Because Trump keeps WINNING in appellate and Supreme Court rulings … you can’t call his actions actually “illegal”. “Norms” and “Boundaries”? You mean like Obama and HIS third term, Biden’s Autopen turning the US Military into a DEI disgrace? Was that a “Norm” or a “Boundary”? And which one was dismantling our borders and allowing utterly unvetted miscreants to walk into America? A “Norm” or a … oops … can’t call that a “Boundary” can you.

    And what was that utter disgrace of a Transgender Day of celebration held on Good Friday on the White House lawn where some creep flopped out his fake breasts for all to see? Was that a new “Norm”?

    Who is this fool? What a mental midget.

        1. Swingin!! I remember the mini skirt … and those mini-mini-mini skirts in that video. Mmmmm mmmm mmmmmm !!

          The only thing about Sly Stone … other than the fact I LOVE his voice and his singling style … is that he never beat his wife … that I can recall.

          1. When Sly fell on hard times he was living in his conversion van and driving a 1963 Studebaker….when they came to reposses one of the vehicles he let them take the van….he loved his Studebaker

  12. Every accusation by a Progressive is confession.
    What they would do if they could escape consequences.
    And Andrew has been crying wolf ,screaming his TDS , for way too long.
    Must be tough,trying to pretend to be what Liberals see as a “Conservative”.
    Can Ahh Duhs finest.
    I notice no comparing the Absolute Tyranny exercised by our Prime Minister and Idiot Premiers.but “Orange Man Bad”.
    No notice that Americans are correcting the abuses against their constitution by former government personnel..Compared to Can Ahh Duh doubling down on silencing,criminalizing and using deliberate abuse of State power against the tax payer..

    As A Canadian ,Mr Cohen long ago told me his position..
    He is my enemy.
    For he knows he is so much smarter than us peons who actually build things.
    He must be allowed to tell us how to live..
    For our own good,of course.

  13. “or maybe Andrew is bitter because Conservatives fired his father…” – He was also strangely proud of the fact that his young cousin get herself knocked up by Pierre Trudeau – like he was now part of a royal family or something. At the time I wondered how many young men sacrificed themselves to Pierre so he could keep his libido up enough to get a woman pregnant.

  14. Coyne’s has always been an insufferable loon…Everything was going swimmingly well till Trump hit the scene and ruined everything for Coyne and his ilk, and by ilk I mean the Laurentian elite…Power Corp…. Bronfman kids…Thomson twins…Westons etc. etc. (Hey! Did I tell you the Thomson bros are worth $98Billion???) and anyone else who thought they could carve Canada like a turkey to enrich themselves while us working class mutts paid high prices to the Liberal party designated cartel for virtually everything.

    Dean Skorejko has a picture of Coyne and Jon Kay at the Rosedale club…back in the day when they’d play dress up in suit and tie…smoke cigars and sip Scotch along with Steve Paikin’s idiot kid while discussing and solving the world’s problems. Yeah, the masters of geopolitics those two.
    Kay looks like he’s three sheets to the wind with his arm draped around Coyne like a desperate kid wanting to be with the cool kids in the media cafeteria. Poor guy…no one had the heart to tell him that it’d take more than his mother to make it to the bigs.

    The internet is forever, Kay.

  15. it was said dief the chief could be a petty and spiteful man.
    l was too young to consider the opinion, but studied his doings when l got my poli sci degree. l blame him for the avro rrow thing. the fact is it proved to be a fast fighter and with the usual 20 years upgrades and economies of scale we could have sold them.
    buuuuuuuut werent allowed by dief the chief to keep even one for the museum, cause ya know uhuh uhuh uhuh cant hab dem rooshins in on the trade secrets.
    ?
    well if thats the case if its good enough to interest them, why is it all getting purged from existence?
    because dief the chief was a petty man thats why. and indecisive.

    1. It was before my time, but I asked my parents about it. My dad said that the Avro program was your typical government boondoggle. Insane amounts of money wasted, budget overruns, likely never to be completed. So this to me sounds very familiar. I’d say it may have been possible to produce that fighter, but it’s also just as likely that it would have bankrupted the country in the process.

      1. fair enough, scoop it all up and sell the blueprints, models, prototype, spare parts, machines, e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g to an ally let them do it. but no, it all had to be cut up, shredded and expunged from existence.
        and what nation with a sizeable air force doesnt spend buckets? USA, brits, french, lsrael, deutchland, swedes, japong, etc. it was said the engineers went stateside and signed up with NASA or whatever the name was at the time.

    2. Ah again The Arrow. Duefenbaker made the only possible choice. Remember not only was it state of the art, it was horrendously expensive. The only way to pay for this plane would be to mass produce and sell it. But to whom? The US has its own and aviation industry and, of course, would protect it. Not a customer. Europe? Probably similar but the US dominated NATO. Can you see them buying the Arrow? Or being allowed to? Certainly the US is not about to sit back and let Canada supply its enemies with the world’s best fighter jet, The Arrow was doomed from the start. Truthfully, nobody wanted it.

      1. Within two months of its inaugural flight the F4 Phantom had its first flight. The US didn’t need a large fast interceptor that took a small country to turn around in – they had one but unfortunately theirs was upgradeable and adaptable to many roles becoming one of the greatest aircraft in the world. The Arrow could not compete. Never mentioned is that the Arrow attempted a new airframe, new engines, new avionics and new weapon systems all homegrown, all at the same time and costing a quarter of the RCAF’s budget. Also I read that Dief did not order the destruction of the Arrow airframes, tools and plans but the President of Avro Canada did. Incidentally he never got another job in aviation – the market spoke.
        It was a Canadian icon but also a warning.

      2. The US had the century series fighters, with the F101,F102, F100 in 1954, the F104 in 1958, The F105 in 1957, the F-106 in 1956.

        The XF-108 was similar to the Arrow, with a close to mach 3 cruising speed, and radar guided missiles with a 100 mile range against bombers. It was also cancelled in 1959.

  18. Can someone do a wellness check on Mr. Coyne? He sounds like a 1970’s TASS columnist after a long lunch with Mr. Brezhnev.

  20. Let’s do a crowd-fund to get him a soother, a night-light, and a rubber bed sheet.

  21. Point on the doll where orange man hurt you. Coyne is the poster child for the typical Canadian sissy man. Chantal Hebert had bigger balls than him.

    1. As a matter of record this made me laugh.
      I see these things, (visual humor) play them out. Unsolicited my mind goes to the scene.. the psychologist, the doll, another taking notes.
      The adult child simpering… in a second, and then I laugh because it’s very funny. Monty Python fractured my cerebral hymen in ’72.

  22. So is he a dictator or is he becoming one? Wish they’d make up their minds. Hitler or not Hitler?
    If the former, he’s the most inept dictator ever. He had four years to use his iron fist but what did he do? Allowed an election and even let his opponent steal the thing! If he’s Hitler, why are these people ‘s tongues still flapping?

  24. It’s pretty clear, Trump is a Constitutionalist.
    That’s the centrepiece of the MAGA movement.
    Let’s not forget, it’s the Demarxists who beat up, abuse and ignore the Constitution whenever it suits their purposes. Covid anybody?
    Trump trolls idiots like Coyne “maybe I’ll run in 2028” just to drive them crazy.
    It’s a successful strategy.
    TDS makes even the smartest people act like 3 year olds that have lost their binky. And Trump is successful at driving them crazy.

    1. “TDS makes even the smartest people act like 3 year olds that have lost their binky. ”

      I’m going to use that one… 🙂

    2. Trump sets traps for them that they keep stumbling into … nay … they run into them. Sprint into them. Push and shove to get into FIRST!

  25. The CBC way back when added Andrew Coyne to the At Issues panel to provide a conservative balance to the panel. It’s as if Mr. Smith came to Washington and became Washington. Coyne has become the CBC.

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