29 Replies to “A Socialist Rally For Conman Carney”

  1. Could someone please explain what exactly the meaning of “Elbows Up” is! It sounds like a drinking game.

    2. A thinly disguised reference to all time hockey great and Canadian Gordie Howe (“Mr.Hockey) who had a reputation for his elbow play especially in the corners.
      It also needs to be noted – Gordie spent most of his years on and off the ice in the U.S.
      So the search for a bona fide Canadian who made it in Canada and still lives in Canada goes on. Red Green is on the short list.

      2. Meh, Carney was goalie. He had a whole team to protect his ass and the only time he had his elbows up was to take a drink from a water bottle.

    3. It’s all fed employees voting Liberal coz Cons started the Phoenix pay system under Harperman, salary errors that continue 10 years after the Libs took over.

  2. Of course – OF COURSE – all this “elbows up” bulls*t is a politically-motivated, curated and directed Liberal Party of Canada psy-op/campaign trick.

    AN INCUMBENT PARTY RUNS ON ITS RECORD. The federal Liberals cannot possibly run on their record, so they are running against the USA – i.e., “Trump’s America”, are capitalizing on the Canadian center-left’s how-shall-I-say “ambivalent” feeling towards the US and are smearing anyone who disagrees with them as anathematic, traitorous, Trump-fellating lackeys.

    Too many Canadians – (i) complement, trusting, conventional, (ii) deferential to even the faintest manifestation of established authority, and (iii) steeped in vestigial British/United Empire Loyalist-tinged anti-Americanism (coming out of remission – the cancer allusion is intentional – and now manifesting itself as Trump Derangement Syndrome) – seem to be blindly buying into this nakedly-transparent Liberal Party Narrative.

    What a ridiculous little people. A ridiculous inconsequential little people.

    1. Corollary: when I say “ambivalent”, I mean obsessive, white-hot, ressentiment-addled* Oedipal rage. Some have compared Canada’s, particularly the Canadian Left’s, attitude towards Canada-US sociocultural relations to the Harvard-Cornell rivalry, which Cornell apparently OBSESSES upon, and which Harvard does not know exists.

      (The right-leaning Strauss supports a more muscular, expansive, pro-free-speech, pro-free-market, pro-small business, pro-national security, pro-Western, pro-American version of Canada wholly absent of this sort of bullsh*t but hey, none of the federal parties have asked for my opinion,)

      *“ressentiment” NOT “resentment. There is a difference, and the Nietzsche allusion is intentional.

      From Wikipedia: “In philosophy, RESSENTIMENT is one of the forms of resentment or hostility. The concept was of particular interest to some 19th-century thinkers, most notably Friedrich Nietzsche. According to their use, ressentiment is a sense of hostility directed toward an object that one identifies as the cause of one’s frustration, that is, an assignment of blame for one’s frustration. The sense of weakness or inferiority complex and perhaps even jealousy in the face of the “cause” generates a rejecting/justifying value system, or morality, which attacks or denies the perceived source of one’s frustration. This value system is then used as a means of justifying one’s own weaknesses by identifying the source of envy as objectively inferior, serving as a defense mechanism that prevents the resentful individual from addressing and overcoming their insecurities and flaws.”

    3. Well put.
      Elbows up is an embarrassment.
      The people wrapping themselves in the flag today are the very same people who supported Trudeau invoking the Emergencies Act to crush a legal protest of real Canadian Patriots.
      Their hypocrisy is unbelievable.
      It’s also unbelievable how easily these clowns are manipulated and they are not smart enough to realize it. Worrisome too.

      1. Bob Day, agreed re “unbelievable how easily these clowns are manipulated” and perhaps you’ve seen this, but if not Nzube Olisaebuka Udezue, aka Zuby, is a UK rapper, author, and podcaster. Zuby posted a now-famous Twitter thread that you might apprecite entitled “20 Things I Have Learned (Or Had Confirmed) About Humanity During The Pandemic.”

        1. Most people would rather be in the majority, than be right.

        2. At least 20% of the population has strong authoritarian tendencies, which will emerge under the right conditions.

        3. Fear of death is only rivaled by the fear of social disapproval…the latter could be stronger.

        4. Propaganda is just as effective in the modern day as it was 100 years ago. Access to limitless information has not made the average person any wiser.

        5. Anything and everything can and will be politicized by the media, government, and those who trust them.

        6. Many politicians and large corporations will gladly sacrifice human lives if it is conducive to their political and financial aspirations.

        7. Most people believe the government acts in the best interests of the people. Even many who are vocal critics of the government.

        8. Once they have made up their mind, most people would rather commit to being wrong, than admit they were wrong.

        9. Humans can be trained and conditioned quickly and relatively easily to significantly alter their behaviors – for better or worse.

        10. When sufficiently frightened, most people will not only accept authoritarianism, but demand it.

        11. People who are dismissed as “conspiracy theorists” are often well researched and simply ahead of the mainstream narrative.

        12. Most people value safety and security more than freedom and liberty even if said safety is merely an illusion.

        13. Hedonic adaptation occurs in both directions, and once inertia sets in it is difficult to get people back to normal.

        14. A significant percentage of people thoroughly enjoy being subjugated.

        15. “The Science” has evolved into a secular pseudo-religion for millions of people in the West. This religion has little to do with Science itself.

        16. Most people care more about looking like they are doing the right thing, rather than actually doing the right thing.

        17. Politics, the media, science, and the healthcare industries are all corrupt, to varying degrees. Scientists and doctors can be bought as easily as politicians.

        18. If you make people comfortable enough, they will not revolt. You can keep millions docile as you strip their rights, by giving them money, food, and entertainment.

        19. Modern people are overly complacent and lack vigilance when it comes to defending their own freedoms from government overreach.

        20. It’s easier to fool a person than to convince them that they have been fooled.

        Bonus Thought: Most people are fairly compassionate and have good intentions (this is good!). As a result, most people deeply struggle to understand that some people – including our “leaders” – CAN have malicious or perverse intentions (this is bad!)

        1. Agreed. Now, how to present this without having people think they’ve been told they’re stupid. In todays comfortable ‘civilization’, most people priortise their initial emotions over their intelligence on most things.

      2. “The people wrapping themselves in the flag today are the very same people who supported Trudeau invoking the Emergencies Act to crush a legal protest of real Canadian Patriots.”

        True….and it seems that almost every Canadian business from groceries to car parts to jewellery stores is jumping on this bandwagon every time I turn on my car radio.

  3. Absolutely it is a Liberal campaign ploy, aided and abetted by the fact that Canada has an almost unlimited supply of useful idiots.

  4. Is it a Liberal party, rally the troops for Carney ploy? Yup, no doubt in my mind.
    The sheer stupidity and juvenility of it all was my first clue.

    1. As a catchphrase the whole “Elbows up” thing is stupid on its own too, just seems dumb.

  5. Yes, it’s textbook Orwell’s 1984, 2-minutes-of-hate vibe.
    Socialists’ shtick since Marx came up with his crap-philosophy: It’s much easier and effective to unite and rally-up gullible using hate stuff. “It’s someone else’s fault, not us”. So let’s all hate together that someone else.
    In this case, it’s Trump’s fault. I bet Carnage&co will blame now everything from Blackie’s 10 years on Trump.

  6. I don’t think it was a liberal party scam to begin with, but they’ve embraced it and it’s working.

  7. Sounds like the NDP crowd are going to vote for Carbon.
    In a sane world, Charlie Angus would be locked up.

  8. Makes me laugh. What percentage of all the squigglers hissing “elbows up: have ever fought for a puck in a corner?

    2. “Elbows up”. The first time I heard that drivel I thought what a load of infantile crap. To me it is analogous to the local over 60 rec team skating by the bench of the 72-73 Philadelphia Flyers making foolish threats of impending violence. I’m sure that the likes of Dave Schultz and Moose Dupont would be quaking in their skates.

  9. Your comment reminded me of this 17 year old kid whose father I knew. The kid had silver skates and could handle a puck like no one’s business.
    He was headed for greatness…until the scouting report came out: “Doesn’t like the corners” which is the kiss of death in the NHL.
    I think he’s still selling cars.

  10. Will never repeat that childish phrase. The Libs have left us with our “pants down” after a decade of mass third world immigration and destructive regulatory and taxation policies. Couple the lib’s good fortune in having a dolt like Singh that effectively undercut any reason anyone would support his party. Like many I suspect actively looking at my options to go Stateside if Carney gets a chance to finish off a once great nation.

  11. The “elbows up protesters” are the same ones who cheered for the TPS mounted unit in Ottawa.

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