18 Replies to “Monday On Turtle Island”

    1. The stuff my wife was listening to on TV this am would make you sick if you lived through that time frame and were a sentient adult. I swear they could not possibly been there when Jimma was president.

    2. When the author start using WE when it is him, one loses concertation and moves to other things.
      There are no WE … who, where?

  3. It doesn’t help an article when the headline is directly contradicted by the content. Andrew Ferguson contradicts the claim of ‘America’s worst president’. Can editors not even read their own content?

    The worst president by far was Woodrow Wilson. The world is still trying to recover from the disasters of that idiot.

    1. “The worst president by far was Woodrow Wilson. The world is still trying to recover from the disasters of that idiot.”

      True, but too far removed for most people.

      (how many Americans are still alive who actually experienced (and can remember) his term in office?)

      The left in Canada used to refer to Stephen Harper as “Canada’s worst Prime Minister”, to which I would respond “Why are you bringing Robert Borden into this conversation?” Same thing here: Jimmy Carter is not the worst President ever, just the worst in recent memory.

    2. Agreed. He was, I believe, a prototype that prepped society for all the bad perpetrated by the following bad presidents. I thinks Calvin Coolidge was the best president of the 20th century. He once said, “The nation does not need more federal government, but better local government.”

      1. “Calvin Coolidge was the best president of the 20th century. He once said, “The nation does not need more federal government, but better local government.”

        Sounds like a smart guy. If only there was a realistic way to keep a government smaller and more efficient.

  4. Re: Musk and Germany
    Unherd podcast interview of Wolfgang Munchau on Germany. Munchau disputes the idea that the Add is analogous to Reform UK or MAGA. He warns, “Be careful what you wish for”. He insists that Afd is…. “far right” and that it is far more statist/corporatist ( ie Der Staat Uber Alles), than we realize and that it is not pro free speech or anti regulatory.
    He also proposes that Germany’s problems are structural, hamstrung by their own constitution, and that it is why the German government can’t pivot or react in a timely manner. Also, just as “you are what you eat”, so to “you are what media you follow. Munchau asserts that typical Germans are bewildered that Trump was elected, they believed he would be in prison, they also believed that Harris would easily defeat Trump, because that is what their media reported.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X_slo8Bf1Os&pp=ygUGdW5oZXJk

    I’m agnostic about these claims, I don’t know enough about Germany to weigh in.

    1. “He insists that Afd is…. “far right” and that it is far more statist/corporatist ( ie Der Staat Uber Alles), than we realize and that it is not pro free speech or anti regulatory.”

      I keep looking for information about why the AFd is always referred to as “the far-right AFD”, but the only thing I can find is that they are against mass immigration….most of their other policies seem merely conservative. If that’s all it takes to label someone “far-right”, then count me in.

      It’s probably just related to the fact that most of Europe seems to be run by NDP (hardcore socialist) types, and thus anything the right of the Liberals would be seen as ‘extreme’ to them. Probably. As I’ve mentioned before, the reason I normally don’t vote in Vancouver elections is because I am generally only offered a choice between the left-winger, the other left-winger or the Communist…could be something similar to that.

      1. Yes, the labeling could be relative to the other Euro parties, so meaningless to us. I do not know.
        I’m in the camp that regards the current political shift as a realignment. I don’t know, if the historical definitions and designations, especially as they were used in the 20th century, apply or are useful, whether it’s right/left, Democrat/Republican, or conservative/liberal. In some ways this terminology obfuscates the issues and sends us around in circles.
        Or, as my sister points out, the media follows a pattern of conveniently mislabeling dissenting parties, in the worst possible light.
        Remember the tea party? It emerged as a reaction to middle America being shafted by “,Too Big to Fail” and the ACA. I think it was authentically conservative and Republican, much more so then MAGA. MAGA seems like a hybrid to me. I don’t think it’s surprising, at all, that Trump was able to steal prominent Democrats and part of the Democrat base.
        Anyway, just because an organization is extremely anti immigration, it doesn’t become MAGA.

        1. “Remember the tea party? It emerged as a reaction to middle America being shafted by “,Too Big to Fail” and the ACA. ”

          I remember. Good point…the similarities are there, for sure (as is the MSM reaction).

  5. It is almost impossible to differentiate between the CBC and a parody from, say, The Bee.
    Hard to believe how far gone these people are.

  6. Carter legacy.
    It seems that democrats are in a race to the bottom.
    Each exceeding D-president is trying to be worse than Carter and the next and the next.
    They all seem to be exceeding.
    I shudder to think what comes after China Joe.

  9. CBC article (I only read the intro, which was more than enough):

    “…shines a light on some of this country’s drag heroes.”

    Heroes?!

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