This new strategy of perpetuating hate against seniors wasn’t on my Liberal policy bingo card, but here we are.
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day…”
Teach a man to tax and you’ll feed him for a lifetime.
Related: Now They’re Coming for Your Food
Dispatches From the Maple Gulag Truck Stop
This past week I was a guest on the Shaun Newman podcast to talk trucking with the legend, Kim Wylie, and Shaun’s dad, Steven Newman.
Gord Magill goes after Trudeau in a way that only an expatriot dares. Gord even found time this week to interview Steve Viscelli.
What would a Canadian debt crisis look like?
And just a reminder, 5 years after Kathy Tomlinson published her award winning investigative report, slavery is still legal in Trudeau’s Canada.
Les Deplorables!
You go, girl. (sorry, link fixed)
Marine Le Pen’s National Rally was on track to dominate the first round of France’s legislative election, dealing a major blow to President Emmanuel Macron and setting the stage for a far-right party to control the country’s government for the first time in its modern history.
The National Rally was projected to get between 33% and 34.2% of the vote, according to initial projections from four polling companies on Sunday. The left-wing New Popular Front coalition was set to get between 28.5% and 29.6% and Macron’s centrist alliance between 21.5% and 22.4%.
Even though Macron’s presidency isn’t formally at stake – and he’s said he has no plans to resign – Sunday’s result indicates he’ll likely have to share governing responsibilities with Le Pen’s group, which opposes most of his priorities, from migration and pension reform to strengthening the European Union.
Le Pen said her party “practically wiped out the Macron bloc” when speaking to supporters in her constituencey in Northern France Sunday evening. “The French have shown in a vote without ambiguity their will to turn the page on seven years of corrosive power.”
SCOTUS: Deep State vs Citizenry
The Supreme Court’s third (but not last) decision is SEC v. Jarkesy. By a 6–3 vote, the court holds that when the SEC seeks civil penalties, the defendant is entitled to a jury trial in federal court.
This sounds technical but it’s huge.
SCOTUS’ decision is Jarkesy may well hobble many federal agencies’ ability to bring meaningful enforcement actions against wrongdoers. Not just the SEC. Neither the executive branch nor the judiciary have the time or resources to try all these cases before a jury. Nowhere close.
Today’s decision in Jarkesy could kneecap enforcement by the FCC, the FTC, the NLRB, the Department of Labor, and more—it goes WAY beyond the SEC. This is a massive blow to the federal government’s ability to enforce regulations against lawbreakers.
The ruling is here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-859_1924.pdf
More from Benjamin Weingarten;
Justice Gorsuch — with whom Justice Thomas concurred — details more administrative state tyranny. We’ve been de-sensitized to an unelected, unaccountable, awesomely powerful branch of government that’s, shall we say, hard to square this with the Constitution
And another: The Supreme Court granted applications for a stay, effectively halting the enforcement of the EPA’s “good neighbor” policy. The decision underscores the limits of the EPA’s regulatory authority, emphasizing state sovereignty in managing local environmental issues.
Eff U
In the midst of a nation wide Doctor shortage our federal government has decided to both punish and demonize the ones we have. Brilliant strategy.
Blacklocks- Doctors Have Plenty: Minister
Doctors have “huge advantages under our tax system” and can afford to pay more, Health Minister Mark Holland said yesterday. His remarks followed a warning from the Canadian Medical Association that changes to capital gains tax rates would cost most doctors nationwide.
“A doctor still has huge advantages under our tax system to be able to use incorporation as a tax deferral vehicle,” Minister Holland testified at the Commons health committee. Cabinet has served notice effective June 25 it will tax 66 percent of capital gains from the current 50 percent, an $18 billion increase.
Democracy, Is a Threat To Democracy
The People Are Revolting!
In brown are where the “Far-right” won in France today.
Macron calls snap elections.
France’s finance minister said on Monday that the snap election called by President Emmanuel Macron after a bruising loss to the far right in European Parliament elections would be the most consequential legislative vote in the republic’s history.
Macron’s shock decision amounts to a roll of the dice on his political future. It could hand a great deal of power to Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (RN) after years on the sidelines, and neuter his presidency three years before it is due to end.
The legislative vote will take place on June 30, less than a month before the start of the Paris Olympics, with a second round on July 7.
Bury le bitch.
Fewer Pavilions At Folkfest
The Irish are revolting: Anti-immigration activist Malachy Steenson has been elected in the North Inner City LEA of Dublin City Council.
More results at Irish Times.
Faster Please
Telegraph- The radical new Dutch government is the canary in the EU coal mine
It will scrap many of the net zero policies. It will cut taxes for business. It will put limits on net migration, it will switch to nuclear power, and it will make sure farming receives the support it needs.
Details are still emerging of the programme of the new coalition government assembled by the leader of the Freedom party Geert Wilders following his surprise victory in the elections last year.
One point is already certain, however. Wilders will issue a radical challenge to the ruling orthodoxies of the European Union, and indeed of the big state, high tax policies across most of the developed world.
Telegraph- Europe’s right-wing revolt has begun – only Britain will miss out
The Netherlands is just the most recent example of this kind of movement. The size of the populist upsurge and its spread across most of the EU will almost certainly be confirmed in the European Parliament elections in June. According to polls, Right populist parties will make gains in every country, at the expense of Greens and the Left. They are projected to come first in nine countries (Austria, Belgium, Czechia, France, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, and Slovakia) and come second or third in another nine (Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Portugal, Romania, Spain, and Sweden).
Don’t Mess With Texas
Greg Abbott pardons Daniel Perry.
Perry, a veteran who was driving an Uber at the time, was sentenced to 25 years for defending himself during BLM riots against a protestor who approached his car carrying an AK-47.
Prosecutors pointed to his “racist online comments” and psychological experts testified on how dangerous he was.
The Austin police detective who was the lead investigator on the case later testified that the DA put pressure on them to withhold exculpatory evidence from the grand jury.
They Banned Our Incandescent Bulbs For This
JPMorgan Chase, a bank, calculates that Alphabet, Amazon’s cloud arm (aws), Meta and Microsoft consumed 90 terawatt-hours (twh) of electricity in 2022, as much as Colombia. And that was mostly before Chatgpt touched off the ai revolution in November that year. The ensuing hoopla led the International Energy Agency (iea), an official forecaster, to predict that data centres (including those dedicated to ai and equally energy-hungry cryptocurrencies) will eat up more than 800twh globally in 2026, double the amount in 2022…
“Democracy without free speech is not democracy.”
Enjoy.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
When journalists tell you they hate you, it’s ok to hate them right back.
The Censorship-Industrial Complex
If the woke regime felt that its reign was under threat, and believed itself justified (if not morally obligated) to defend itself, what wouldn’t it do to retain power?
It might seek to break, bankrupt, and jail its political opponents and those who would dare defend them via lawfare; obstruct justice for political “made men;” and delegitimize and destroy any institution that would dare stand in its way. That effort is already afoot.
Another line of attack might be to weaponize every public and private power center against those who would back its political opponents — demoralizing if not terrorizing the electorate into submission, or dividing it so it can more easily be conquered. That effort too has been humming along.
Still another line of attack might be to wage information warfare against the public in a bid to prevent it from fully understanding the nature and extent of, let alone discussing, the ruling regime’s depredations. It would do so not only by propagandizing via de facto regime media but by crippling alternative sources and prohibiting citizens from freely sharing news and views anathema to the ruling regime.
Grab a coffee.
Let Them Eat Taser: 4 Years On
…we were in the “two weeks” that were supposed to flatten the Curve of Covid.
4 years ago you were still a “conspiracy theorist” if you thought it would be anything more than a minor inconvenience that would last less than a month.
Of course if you predicted that this would not last 2 weeks, but over 2 years; that within 2 months anit-lockdown protests would end in storming of state houses and false-flag FBI manufactured kidnapping attempts of Governors; that within 3 riots would burn a dozens of American cities; that the election would be inconclusive; that matters would go before the US Supreme Court, again; that a riot/mass entrapment would take place within the halls of congress… And then that this was just the Beginning…
That Big-Pharma would rush a vaccine which may well have been more dangerous that the virus; that Australia and various countries would build concentration camps for unvaccinated; that nearly all employers would be pressured or mandated to FORCE this vaccine on their employees; that vaccine passports would be implemented to track your biological status; that Canada and several other countries would implement travel restrictions on the unvaccinated and collude with their neighbors to prevent their population escaping; and then that, nearly 2 years from 2weeks to slow the spread, Canadians!? would mount one of the most logistically complex protests in human history, in the dead of winter, besieging Ottawa and blockading the US border to all trade in an apocalyptic showdown to break free of lockdowns…
Well… not even Alex Jones predicted all of that, though he got a remarkable amount of it.
When The Democrats Do It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
And by “Democrat”, we mean Liz Cheney.
House Oversight Committee chairman Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) announced this week that the House may refer members of the partisan January 6 Committee to the Department of Justice for alleged misconduct involving document concealment and destruction.
During his ongoing investigation into the January 6 Committee’s activities, Loudermilk revealed that the Committee had disposed of documents and records despite being warned by then-incoming Speaker of the House Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to preserve all records. This news comes in the wake of a House report that found that the Democrat-led committee withheld exculpatory evidence about Trump from the public.
Make Argentina Great Again
White Rural Rage
Those Deplorables aren’t bad people, they’re just poor and stupid.
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The result — which at some level I still find hard to understand — is that many white rural voters support politicians who tell them lies they want to hear. It helps explain why the MAGA narrative casts relatively safe cities like New York as crime-ridden hellscapes and rural America as the victim not of technology but of illegal immigrants, wokeness and the deep state.
At this point you’re probably expecting a solution to this ugly political situation. Schaller and Waldman do offer some suggestions. But the truth is that while white rural rage is arguably the single greatest threat facing American democracy, I have no good ideas about how to fight it.
Chatter here.
How do they hate you? Let them list the ways.
We Need A Famine
Patience. They’re working on it.