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Mystery solved: So this is how newspapers are staying alive… #OperationChimpOut

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From Foggytrucker;

Those of us who are friends of Canada are sad. When Trump was first talking about tariffs Canada reacted with outrage, and a lot of us didn’t blame them. We had supposedly a USMCA – but then we found out about the dairy subsidies, a Vermonter told me that’s a contributing reason that a lot of dairy farms in northwest Vermont have turned into McMansions. But then Canadian liberals started to preen and say we couldn’t do anything without Canada.

So Trump, with his usual grating braggadocio, pointed out that economically Canada does not produce as much as California, and I think one other state as well. He was pointing out that Canada is not indispensable, that economically you count as much as one of our 50 states. He WAS NOT threatening Canada – ask the Iranians what he says when he’s fixing to attack a country. You could say he was pointing out that if a European company had to choose between angering a country that is economically smaller than California, or angering a country of which California is merely a large part, the small money will lose. Math doesn’t care that Canada is a really nice place.

And yes, as an old MoPar man the fact that Chrysler is now Stellantis is sad too. Hollowing out our Rust Belt was almost as stupid as letting the Left run education – or getting in a urinating contest with Canada. Many wish Trump was more diplomatic – but we couldn’t stay on our old path.

We in the United States above all are sick and tired of being taken. We’re sick of paying for the UN, paying for NATO, and sacrificing our farmers so that Canadians can continue to milk cows in French. Please stop using us for a political football – whether it’s the libs screaming about being indispensable or your head banker raising his elbows at us, whatever that means. (I know it’s somehow from hockey, Americans outside Minnesota or northern New England do not have a clue.) We wish we didn’t have Trump, but no other politician is willing to stand up to being called a racist and a National Socialist, and we are sick of politicians who hide when the Left gets nasty. Both sides of the border have to deal with Trump, let’s talk. There are millions of Americans who would like to see Canada succeed. It is not our wish to see the Republic of Alberta succeed, although we will help it and wish it well if it comes to that.

BTW – keep pushing Trump and you’re likely to hear him say “Vive le Quebec libre”. Don’t think he doesn’t know.

If Women Ran The World

The Great Feminization thesis: Everything you think of as “wokeness” is simply an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization.

In 2019, I read an article about Larry Summers and Harvard that changed the way I look at the world. The author, writing under the pseudonym “J. Stone,” argued that the day Larry Summers resigned as president of Harvard University marked a turning point in our culture. The entire “woke” era could be extrapolated from that moment, from the details of how Summers was cancelled and, most of all, who did the cancelling: women.

The basic facts of the Summers case were familiar to me. On January 14, 2005, at a conference on “Diversifying the Science and Engineering Workforce,” Larry Summers gave a talk that was supposed to be off the record. In it, he said that female underrepresentation in hard sciences was partly due to “different availability of aptitude at the high end” as well as taste differences between men and women “not attributable to socialization.” Some female professors in attendance were offended and sent his remarks to a reporter, in defiance of the off-the-record rule. The ensuing scandal led to a no-confidence vote by the Harvard faculty and, eventually, Summers’s resignation.

The essay argued that it wasn’t just that women had cancelled the president of Harvard; it was that they’d cancelled him in a very feminine way. They made emotional appeals rather than logical arguments. “When he started talking about innate differences in aptitude between men and women, I just couldn’t breathe because this kind of bias makes me physically ill,” said Nancy Hopkins, a biologist at MIT. Summers made a public statement clarifying his remarks, and then another, and then a third, with the apology more insistent each time. Experts chimed in to declare that everything Summers had said about sex differences was within the scientific mainstream. These rational appeals had no effect on the mob hysteria.

Via Instapundit, grab a coffee.

Heads Up, Saskies

If you receive an email purportedly from the SaskParty with a survey invitation, be aware that it links to a fake SaskTel login page. (https://saskmailktel.netlify.app/)

From Grok:

– The page claims to be a “SaskTel Email” login portal with a title like “Login – Webmail 7.0” and a welcome message: “This is where you can log in and use your SaskTel email account.”
– However, it lacks any actual login form, interactive elements, or security features (e.g., HTTPS certificate from SaskTel, official logos, or contact details). This incomplete or “stub” page is a red flag—phishers often use placeholders like this to test or lure users before adding malicious forms that steal credentials.
– No redirects, urgent warnings, or grammar issues were immediately visible, but the absence of functionality combined with the fake domain suggests it’s a setup for credential harvesting.

It’s fake, delete it.

Saturday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America:   Victor Davis Hanson – Gavin Newsom’s power grab.  No kings.

Mohammad Carney’s Canada:  Arresting the Prime Minister of Israel.   Blackie 2.0 – Climate Carney burns jet fuel.

Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC:  Surrendering to the vandals.   Paul Joseph Watson – Midwit thinks he’s smart.  Is Tolkien racist?   The Vatican goes fluffy again

Your morning meme.     A cartoon.

UN Carbon Tax: Dead In The Water

John Ʌ Konrad V;

I can’t share the details on how @michaelgwaltz & @SecRubio have, in just a few days, organized the greatest opposition to UN policy since the Cold War and blocked this UN Carbon Tax.

I can say it was a knife fight to the end.

“I’ve been in this industry for 30 years and I’ve never seen anything like it,” one shipping executive told me today. “You just don’t say NO to these guys. It’s unheard of.”

It’s unclear who “these guys” are, but I suspect the European families with shipping investments and net wealth that far exceeds Elon’s.

Absolutely none of the maritime experts I interviewed early this week thought the US could pull this off. Zero. Massive amounts of money, NGO influence, diplomatic threat and media manipulation were behind this… and the American media (except @gCaptain and Fox News) was dead silent.

And yet Trump did it.

“That Trump Truth Social post sent shockwaves through the building,” one UN delegate in London told me. “NOBODY expected it. The Secretary General @IMOSecGen looked like a deer in the headlights this morning.”

Incredible. Simply incredible work by team Trump and a massive blow to the European deep state who planned to use this tax as a slush fund to plug holes in US Aid funding for globalist NGOs.

Promises made. Promises kept!

Inside Trump’s Pressure Campaign to Derail Global Shipping Emissions Tax

Where Did All of the Money Go, Gavin?

Absolutely disgusting news out of California:

Gavin Newsom gave his close family friends $500,000 from the Pacific Palisades fire aid relief money.

  • Getty family members donated over $500,000 to Newsom’s campaigns from his 1990s San Francisco supervisor run through his 2018 gubernatorial victory (e.g., bundled contributions via family trusts). This does not include the public J. Paul Getty Trust
  • The Getty family’s support has extended to Newsom’s political rise, with shared social circles including figures like Nancy Pelosi and Jerry Brown
  • Gordon Getty invested in all 11 of Newsom’s early ventures, holding lead stakes
  • A Getty family trust paid Newsom directly for investment consulting in the early 1990s
  • Gordon and Ann Getty provided undocumented gifts and low-interest loans for Newsom’s home purchases, including real estate in San Francisco

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