Category: Cronies

Birds Of A Feather

Canada’s Bolsheviks Cronies New Governor 10 Comments

So Dougie is off to sell his pal Carney on the need to lower taxes. I’d prefer if he’d lobby for spending cuts instead, but he obviously thinks that out of control borrowing is somehow stimulative.

Ford says he’ll travel to Ottawa for what he calls a “heart-to-heart” meeting with Carney, who he says is doing a good job.

At end of the day, however, apparently there’s no ill that can’t be fixed with zero percent interest.

Speaking at an unrelated announcement today in Windsor, Ont., Ford also urged the Bank of Canada to lower interest rates.

Let That Sink In

Cronies Media New Rules 5 Comments

New York Times;

Media Matters, a nonprofit group that has played a key role in liberal politics, is struggling to withstand months of legal assaults by President Trump’s allies, offering a glimpse of what might be in store for even well-funded targets of his retribution campaigns.

The organization, which is funded by some of the Democratic Party’s biggest donors, has racked up about $15 million in legal fees over the past 20 months to defend itself against lawsuits by Elon Musk, in addition to investigations by Mr. Trump’s Federal Trade Commission and Republican state attorneys general.

The group has slashed the size of its staff and scrambled to raise more cash from skittish donors, according to documents and interviews with 11 people familiar with the organization’s fight to survive.

That might not be enough. Media Matters tried to settle with Mr. Musk by offering concessions, but the sides were far apart and talks fizzled. Even when the group has triumphed in court, Mr. Musk has appealed or filed new cases elsewhere. As a last resort, it has considered shuttering, according to interviews and an internal document.

Publicly, the group has said that it has no plans to close, and that it is committed to defending itself as a matter of principle.

They should have read the new rules.

Primacy of Consciousness

2025 Federal Election Cronies Gradually Then Suddenly It's Probably Nothing 18 Comments

If you imagine an event will happen, is that a guarantee that it will? That certainly seems to encapsulate Doug Ford’s view of our current trade negotiations with the US.

I’ll take “bloviating sanctimonious blowhard” for $100, Alex….

“We have to negotiate through strength,” Ford responds, “and we really have to flex our muscles and make sure President Trump hears us.”

“(Americans) are going to feel the pressure,” Ford says. “They’re going to feel the pressure when Americans start losing their jobs because we’re going to start on-shoring everything, and once that happens, I told Lutnick, it’s hard to turn that tap off.”

Cartel Clout

Canada’s Bolsheviks Cronies nannystate 16 Comments

If anyone wonders why Canada’s trade negotiations aren’t moving as quickly as hoped, the reason will become obvious before too long.

While Blanchet and his Bloc colleagues have remained focused on currying favour with Quebec dairy farmers, there has been a sea change in the geopolitical context, most notably a dramatic deterioration in the Canada-U.S. relationship, with Trump targeting dairy import restrictions among the many trade assaults he’s been directing at Canada. For Parliament to raise this protectionist fence higher is downright foolish — as was emphasized by experts over and over again during the debate on C-282 — and would seriously jeopardize our relations with the U.S. at this very sensitive juncture.

The Pigs Are Hungry

Cronies Gradually Then Suddenly It's Probably Nothing 15 Comments

Massive cost overruns on yet another defense procurement contract? If Canada ever found itself in a war, it would likely be over before we got the first plane in the air.

The estimated cost of Canada’s incoming fleet of advanced stealth fighters exploded by nearly 50 per cent in just a few years, auditor general Karen Hogan said Tuesday in a new report.

National Defence said in 2022 the base price for the F-35s would be $19 billion. Just two years later, the number has climbed to $27.7 billion. That estimate does not include figures for infrastructure upgrades or weapons.

Canada, Home of Cheap Talk

Climate Cult Cronies We Are All Treaty People 20 Comments

As if any projects like these would ever get greenlit.

Prime Minister Mark Carney, seeking to reduce Canada’s economic ties to the United States, on Monday met the heads of the 10 provinces as part of a push to slash the time needed to approve mining and energy projects.

Several Indigenous groups – who have a major say over natural resource development on their lands – say they will oppose any attempt to trim the approval process if it infringes on their rights.

 

Captive Audience

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Opening up the Canadian telecom industry to foreign competitors is well overdue, particularly when the CEOs of our politically favored service providers start to openly take their customers for granted.

The company said the drop was due to customers signing up for base rate plans with lower prices “in response to more intense marketing and promotional price competition targeting both new and existing customers,” along with a decline in overage and roaming revenues.

“We have to change the psychology within the industry as it relates to marketing and sales. We have a wireless industry where we have to have price competition parity and I, for one, don’t understand that,” said Entwistle.

 

It’s Probably Nothing

Chinada Cronies It's Probably Nothing 16 Comments

The Bureau- Brookfield’s Deep Ties to Chinese Land, Loans, and Green Deals

A review of corporate documents reveals that Brookfield—the influential $900 billion Canadian investment fund from which Liberal Prime Minister-to-be Mark Carney stepped away from in order to replace Justin Trudeau as Canada’s leader—maintains over $3 billion in politically sensitive investments with Chinese state-linked real estate and energy companies, along with a substantial offshore banking presence. One of its major real estate ventures, a $750 million entry into high-end Shanghai commercial property in 2013, involved a Hong Kong tycoon affiliated with the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)—which the CIA labels a central “united front” entity of Beijing.

“it’s like we’re on the Titanic and we’re throwing gold bars off the edge.”

Climate Cult Cronies Drain The Swamp Green Police 10 Comments

Armstrong Economics- EPA Threw Away BILLIONS Ahead of Trump Presidency

The Biden Administration effectively permitted this agency to “throw gold bars” off the edge of the Titanic and needlessly spend public funds. All of these investigations lead to the same conclusion. The government provides nonprofits with a large sum and those agencies then funnel the money to smaller agencies, whether its related to climate change or funding terrorism. This is precisely why Trump attempted to freeze all federal funds upon taking office.

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Suicide Nation

Cronies Gradually Then Suddenly I, Napoleon It's Probably Nothing 133 Comments

It’s official. Stephen Harper has completely lost his mind. What’s worse is that his prescription for the deliberate impoverishment of Canada is being uncritically accepted by large numbers of Canadians. Would 50% unemployment and food riots be an acceptable “level of damage”? I, for one, don’t want to find out.

The snippet is from a recent Toronto Star article that is still behind a paywall.

Added by Kate, a paywall bypass.

You’re Fired

47 Cronies Drain The Swamp 20 Comments

Martin Armstrong- Trump vs Federal Unions

This is the famous cartoon on the Spoils System in politics by Thomas Nast with a statue of Andrew Jackson on a pig, which is over “fraud”, “bribery”, and “spoils”, eating “plunder”. This appeared in Harper’s Weekly on April 28, 1877, p. 325. The Spoils System has been a practice in politics whereby after winning an election, the victor gives government jobs to their supporters, friends /cronies, and relatives/nepotism as a reward for helping in their victory. As the saying that emerged with Jackson as he sought to drain the SWAMP of the establishment of the old Federalists entrenched in the North, “to the victor belong the spoils.”

Water Carriers

Cronies Democrats Embrace Hollywood 8 Comments

I doubt that you could get a more sycophantic opinion piece than this, but Vanity Fair should at least have the decency to stop pretending that they’re engaging in journalism.

Hollywood went into panic mode over Joe Biden’s candidacy after the presidential debate. Most of that anxiety has now morphed into “unabashed excitement and energy unlike anything I’ve ever seen,” according to Jordan C. Brown, a Hollywood political strategist who served on the Biden campaign’s Entertainment Advisory Council and worked on events for Harris during her Senate and presidential runs. “I think people didn’t realize how worried and hopeless they were until she had this opportunity, and the party united behind her. I’ve just never seen anything like it.”

Even DreamWorks cofounder Jeffrey Katzenberg, a major force in Hollywood political fundraising who stood by Biden in recent weeks, has jumped onboard the USS Kamala. He is now a cochair of Harris’s campaign. “Again and again, she has been underestimated. Again and again, she has triumphed,” Katzenberg wrote of the vice president in a New York Times op-ed. “I couldn’t be more confident that this November will be no different.”

Supply Mismanagement

Canada’s Bolsheviks Cronies nannystate 24 Comments

It used to be said that the beauty of the dairy quota system was that taxpayers would never be on the hook for financial aid to dairy farmers. Leaving aside the obvious contradiction that tariffs on imported goods are actually a tax, it seems that tariff barriers just won’t do it anymore for milk producers.

Dairy Farmers of Canada will be receiving up to $5,000,000 over 5 years to advance sustainability and public trust in the dairy industry, leveraging the proAction quality assurance program. The proAction program ensures Canadian dairy farms maintain high standards in terms of environmental impact, food safety, animal care, and more.

DFC will also be receiving up to $3,572,786 over five years to build on their existing tools and strengthen DairyTrace to help protect and enhance animal health, public trust, and sustainability.

Unlimited Demands

Chief Big Screen TV Cronies We Are All Treaty People 21 Comments

Sorry, but having to work within the confines of a budget is not part of a plot set up by evil colonialists to destroy you. Whoever came up with this number probably assessed the progress so far and decided that it was time to get back to reality. Proper investigation would entail forensic excavation and the affected parties seem to be doing everything to avoid exactly that.

David Monias, chief of Pimicikamak Cree Nation in Manitoba, was on the Zoom call.

“I am profoundly dismayed by the Canadian government’s decision to impose a cap of $500,000 per year on funds allocated for unmarked residential school burials,” he said.

“This reduction is not only inadequate but reflects a troubling denialism regarding the true scale and significance of this issue. It is essential to recognize that these burial sites are crime scenes, and as such, they must be protected, preserved, and properly investigated.”

Rewriting History

Chief Big Screen TV Cronies We Are All Treaty People 14 Comments

It’s anyone’s guess as to what this latest apology entails, but I’m sure it includes large monetary payments. What’s more bizarre is that the recipients didn’t originate in Canada, but in the United States.

As detailed in this more balanced article, the Sioux and Lakota were properly considered refugees, not original inhabitants.

The government appears to have granted these refugee-American-Indians full rights under Section 35, meaning that multi-billion-dollar land claims and reparation demands are imminent. Many Indigenous speakers at the press conference stated that the Dakota/Lakota and other tribes were already on their traditional lands when they escaped into Canada, a fact disputed by the foregoing evidence from the official North West Mounted Police history.

Reversing The Onus

Cronies I, Napoleon Ukraine 44 Comments

Offering up yet another example of his incredible arrogance, Volodymyr Zelenskyy demands to know how Donald Trump would end the war if he becomes President again. I’ve got a better question: how does Zelenskyy propose to win it?

“If Trump knows how to finish this war, he should tell us today,” Zelenskyy said in a Bloomberg Television interview in Kyiv on Wednesday.

“It’s not a deadlock, it’s a problematic situation,” he said. “A deadlock means there’s no way out. But a problem can be solved if one has the will and has the tools. We do have the will, and the tools – they haven’t arrived yet.”

 

 

Independence is Overrated

Cronies Media Sleeping With The Enemy 17 Comments

Sun- Ford gov’t supports Ontario-based news publishers with $25M in advertising

“This is important. Everyone understands the value of journalism and a free press and its criticality to Canada and to democracy,” said Andrew MacLeod, Postmedia’s president and chief executive officer.

“I’m certainly extremely grateful to the leadership of Premier (Doug) Ford and his team. My hope is this will serve as an example, a North Star, not just for other provincial governments, but for the federal government and for major corporations.”

MacLeod said the initiative is something the publishing industry has been lobbying for with the Ontario government and other governments in Canada, including the federal government, and that it “didn’t make sense” that advertising dollars, paid for by taxpayers, were going to Google and Facebook.

No Payments, No Interest, Forever

Chief Big Screen TV Cronies entitlement generation We Are All Treaty People 16 Comments

You don’t have to dig far into the details to find out that this “loan” is really just a giveaway, or, in modern parlance, a “special-purpose vehicle”.

The government sent a letter to First Nations groups last year proposing a special-purpose vehicle that would hold a stake in the pipeline, and individual groups would be able to choose whether to opt in. For those that want a piece of the action, the government intends to provide risk-free access to capital, the letter said, without providing details such as how big of a stake it would sell.

 

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