I have various thoughts about this video and thread. What say you?
Officer Farhan of @TorontoPolice calls out our wording of Hamas rallies, despite each rally we watch & analyze there being full imagery or references to Hamas or designated terrorist entities.
— Leviathan (@l3v1at4an) March 10, 2025
This infamous comedy skit is apropos for Americans to take a hard look at wha the Deep State of their government has been doing for at least 35 years. This interview with Jeffrey Sachs is well worth a watch.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford thinks that playing the tough guy will be good for his political career. He may soon find out something very different.
Update: Ford is interviewed here.
Op-Ed: Aleana Young: Prairie Powerbroker: Energy Sovereignty and Economic Security for Saskatchewan.
Note: count how many times coal is mentioned.
In World War One, the elites (politicians & generals) sent wave after wave of soldiers out of the trenches, only to be slaughtered minutes/seconds later.
Now, a little over 100 years later, Keir Starmer & Emmanuel Macron are proposing to have their own brave soldiers slaughtered on the Ukrainian front, as well as suckering President Trump into a direct war with Russia.
This is absolute globalist warmonger insanity!
Toronto Raptors fans BOO a 15 year old girl singing the US national anthem
Throughout the plot lines of many James Bond movies was an evil crime organization called SPECTRE = “Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion”. Some are now asking if USAID is the real-life version of SPECTRE. Are they wrong?
Related: Jonathan Keeperman and Christopher Rufo have a candid talk about DOGE.
True North’s Rachel Parker discusses the recent tariff drama with the popular Canadian vlogger, David Freiheit. Based on what I’m seeing from my many Canadian friends, TDS and anti-American hatred is definitely at an eleven! It’s a reminder of how easy it is to get sheeple to do whatever the elites want them to.
Forgive me for this being a rather personal post, but hopefully you’ll quickly understand why I’m making it. Twitter and Facebook have been on fire this past evening. As a Canadian, who spent most of my life living across Canada, but the last 11 years living across America, I think I have a rather fortuitous vantage point to observe, listen, and comment on viewpoints from a wide cross section of people. As this earlier post suggests, and posts from many Canadian friends confirms, it seems that almost all Canadian normies are only capable of first-stage thinking when it comes to anything related to Trump. While he is playing 4D chess, they’re playing checkers.
A Canadian woman married to an American was complaining in a Facebook post that her American in-laws were “making really mean comments about Canada”. I thought about this for awhile and then shared the following with her:
We each are the sum of our own experiences, right? I was born & raised in Vancouver, but lived 2 years in Northern Manitoba, 5 years in Northern Ontario (visiting Toronto often), and 16 months in Montréal. I’ve now lived 11 years in America, the first 6 in San Francisco and the last 4 across the country in all 48 contiguous states.
While in America, of course I get the usual jokes:
But, I’ve generally been well received by 99.9% of all Americans I’ve met (actually 100% but I’m leaving open the possibility of some idiot one day). If anything, there are more concerns about my California license plate and the arrogance that too frequently comes with that.
But throughout my life in Canada, and now upon my visits back there, wayyyy too many Canadians don’t hold back with THE NASTIEST, most passive-aggressive comments I’ve ever heard. I didn’t think the anti-American comments of Europeans could be topped but a whole lot of my fellow Canadians have done so without fail.
I fully accept and respect that the experiences of others may be different. I’m just sharing my truth.
Dear SDA commenters, what have been your experiences of Canadians talking about Americans and vice-versa?
Interesting interview. If you have limited time, be sure to watch about 5 minutes starting here, to better understand how President Joe Biden was manipulated into doing things that he was not even aware of.
Candace Malcolm interviews Diane Francis about what might happen with Canada in the future. It’s very interesting. Ms. Francis, who has done a ton of research on the topic, shares many facts. One of them, which I was not aware of, is that Canada has British & French roots, whereas America has predominately German roots.
A simple litmus test that I, as a Canadian, like is a simple question to every Canadian I meet: “Tell me what it means to be a Canadian, but don’t mention America, American, or Trump in your answer.” Most people I’ve spoken to cannot provide a reasonable answer.
Update: From 10 years ago, here is Diane Francis talking about her book, on which the above interview was based.
This is a very interesting discussion between Ashley Frawley and Emily Jashinsky. In brief, Frawley is very skeptical of any politicians deviating away from the “liberal world order”. I share her skepticism.
I think there is no better example of this than the “Conservative” and Labour governments in the UK. The vast majority of Britons do not want the policies of either party but both groups of politicians refuse to do what the majority of people want.
As a Canadian, I’m hopefully that Pierre Poilievre will do the right things but I, and many others I know, are very skeptical that he’ll be much different than Trudeau in substance. For example, if he doesn’t completely defund the CBC in his party’s first 100 days, then Canadians will know that he’s full of hot air.
As for Trump, I have several friends who, while they celebrated his victory, are very concerned that he and his government will not fulfill any of the big promises. My response to this is simple: “I hope you’re wrong but if Trump doesn’t do what he promised, there will be a massive pushback from Team MAGA.” The first 100 days of his presidency should reveal much.
Yesterday, a video by comedian Sam Hyde went viral. Much like one of Donald Trumps’s weaves, it goes back & forth between comedy & seriousness, but there is an underlying sincere message about what American should be and what it shouldn’t be.
The Great Fake H1-B Controversy
Sigmund Freud had a term for it—the “narcissism of small differences”.
In this case, Wikipedia explains it well: “… the more a relationship or community shares commonalities, the more likely the people in it are to engage in interpersonal feuds and ridicule because of hypersensitivity to minor differences.”
We all recognize this pattern that manifests in various ways from the bickering of married couples to successful rock bands breaking up. The most minor disputes explode into major ones that no one wanted in the first place with sometimes disastrous results.
This fits the internal MAGA dispute over H1-B visas to the proverbial T. The only ones who profit from this kerfuffle, or whatever it is, are the left and their fading media allies, desperate for something to latch onto about MAGA and create dissension.
Do we want to give them that privilege at this point? Frankly, I think it’s stupid, especially for a disagreement that would likely work itself out almost automatically and favorably for almost all concerned anyway.
An SDA regular shared this article with me. It’s well worth a read.
Further to the whole debate about H1B visas, I think this video from Viva Frei and this one from Katie Hopkins are well worth a watch. There is also excellent insight here and even more here.
The very best analysis I’ve read so far is from Robby Starbuck.
Whenever I see people screaming that Elon Musk should be deported … simply because he disagrees with someone about immigration policy, I immediately get very suspicious about such folks, thinking they’re somewhere between immature and a Democrat / Deep State plant. Aren’t such instantaneous 0 – 11 bursts of anger reserved for the Left? Apparently not, it seems.
An entertaining thread.
What are some of your Festivus traditions? Tell us in the replies! I tried to get feats of strength on the Senate floor as a tradition, but since everyone else is over 80, there weren't many takers.
— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2024
More on the Festivus Report on wasteful spending.
Berlin-based Canadian academic, Brian Poole, professes his love for Chrystia Freeland:
First the obvious accolades. She’s the smartest and most experienced person in Canadian politics. But also the least visible until now. Canadians will vaguely recall her role as Minister of Foreign Affairs (2017), as Deputy Prime Minister (2019), and as Finance Minister (2020) in Justin Trudeau’s government. A poor reflection of her actual intellectual stature.
The Prime Minister kept her on a short leash. He feared her acumen and her eloquence. Which means that we usually saw her standing politely behind him. Even when Trudeau visited Zelensky in Kyiv, Freeland was kept in the background, despite the fact that she speaks Zelensky’s mother tongue (Russian) fluently and his adopted language (Ukrainian) perfectly. It was painful to watch.
Update: Commenter ‘Shawn’ posted this: “Sure as hell, this appears nothing more than a WEF bait and switch. Both Freeland and Turd are both in on it playing out their parts to fool the public.” Which inspired this AI image:
