It’s Monday On Turtle Island

Turtle Island 24 Comments

Woke Britain:  Animal Rebellion doesn’t like Gordon Ramsay.  Lies were told, freedoms were taken.  The eco-terrorist hypocrite.

Trudeau’s Canada:  National Film Board is obviously racist.  Trudeau’s gun scam.  The legacy of Justin Trudeau.  Justin had a wonderful time yesterday handing out money.  Today Dear Leader takes the day off. The poor little fella is all tired out, from throwing money around on his world tour.  The federal payroll is now 55 billion.  And Justin discussed seizing bank accounts.

Biden’s America:  The transgender industry.  Third times a charm for Merrick Garland.  Victor Davis Hanson writes about the strange morality of the Bay Area billionaire.  Your morning meme.

Today In Islam:  Muslim outreach in Burkina Faso.  The Islamic caliphate.

Global Warming Scam News:  Andy Warhol is bad for the environment or something.

Go Woke, Go Broke

Embrace Hollywood The Tolerant Left 16 Comments

Shakeup at the Groomer Kingdom.

Bob Iger has replaced Bob Chapek as Disney’s CEO, a shocking turn of events for the world’s largest media company that has been in turmoil ever since Iger stepped down as CEO in February 2020.

The shakeup that caught the entertainment industry and Wall Street mostly by surprise was confirmed by Disney’s board of directors late Sunday. There had been rumblings of a shakeup in the C-suite but the prospect of Iger returning to the CEO job still seemed far-fetched.

“We thank Bob Chapek for his service to Disney over his long career, including navigating the company through the unprecedented challenges of the pandemic,” said Susan Arnold, chairman of Disney’s board of directors. “The Board has concluded that as Disney embarks on an increasingly complex period of industry transformation, Bob Iger is uniquely situated to lead the Company through this pivotal period.”

Chapek’s ouster comes on the heels of a third-quarter earnings report that spooked Wall Street as spending on content and marketing for Disney’s direct-to-consumer platforms hit its projected peak of $1.5 billion in fiscal 2022. Even though the Disney had previously guided Wall Street to losses of that scale, and even as Disney+ posted subscriber growth for the quarter, the river of red-ink still took a toll on Disney’s stock price. Shares fell well below the $100 mark, to $90, on Nov. 9, the day after Disney’s after-market earnings report.

Related.

Hard Truths for the Hypocritical Left

Baiting The Left The Tolerant Left The Urban Bigot 24 Comments

While Giorgia Meloni directs her aim at French President Macron, everyone in France and every member of the Left in the West should feel equally lambasted by her truth bombs but, of course, we all know how conveniently they ignore the end effects of their disastrous policies.

h/t Larry

He Admires Their Basic Dictatorship

Basic Dictatorship Chinada Shiny Pony 21 Comments

Trudeau now claims to have confronted Xi Jinping on the basis of… fake news.

Related: Let me fix that cartoon for you.

Update: Global’s Sam Cooper is calling Trudeau a liar.

Not Waiting For The Asteroid

Media 23 Comments

US newspaper circulation has fallen to its lowest level since 1940, the first year they kept records.

If you feel you can’t get mad at the industry that’s impoverishing you, it’s much easier to get mad at the people who you feel are unjustly succeeding in that industry. Trying to cancel Glenn Greenwald (again) because he criticizes the media harshly? Trying to tarnish Substack’s reputation so that cool, paid-up writer types leave it and the bad types like me get kicked off? That they can maybe do. Confronting their industry’s future with open eyes? Too scary, especially for people who were raised to see success as their birthright and have suddenly found that their degrees and their witheringly dry one-liners do not help them when the rent comes due.

Make Borscht Not War

Ukraine 198 Comments

I’ll be babysitting the comments section on this one. Let’s keep it civil. Flame wars, over the top insults and personal pissing matches will get deleted.

The Daily Sceptic- Ukrainian Public Opinion on the War

On top of all the deaths, Ukraine has seen a massive exodus of refugees, along with catastrophic damage to homes, industry and physical infrastructure. The cost of rebuilding the country has been estimated at several hundred billion dollars – similar to Ukraine’s entire GDP before the war (which may fall by more than a third this year).

Faced with such hardship, do ordinary Ukrainians want to continue fighting? Or do they want to sue for peace? Overwhelmingly, it seems, they want to continue fighting. Though there are a few caveats.

Sunday On Turtle Island

Turtle Island 12 Comments

Woke Britain:  Don’t believe the lies.  Another eco-terrorist.

Biden’s America:  It pays to be a conman.  An examination of Hollywood and Communism.  A permanent prosecution.  And here we go again.

Trudeau’s Canada:  Justin Trudeau makes headlines.  Justin continues his world tour.  Today he throws money at French speaking dictators.

Global Warming Scam News:  Third world dictators are updating their Swiss bank accounts.  COP27 approves reparations fund.  I wonder how much Trudeau and Biden are going to flush down the toilet on this.

Things You’ll Never See On The CBC

CBC The Libranos 28 Comments

Documents obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation;

… show the CBC spent more than $51 million in bonuses and pay raises during the years 2020 and 2021.

In unrelated news, CBC went cap in hand to the government and came back with a 10-gallon hat full of cash.

The federal fiscal update delivered another “$42 million to help CBC recover from the pandemic,” according to the National Post.

In Budget 2021, the Trudeau government gave the CBC an extra $21 million to “ensure its stability during the pandemic.”

This extra money is on top of the annual funding the corporation already gets from government.
Taxpayers pay about $1.2 billion per year for the CBC.

That amount could instead pay the salaries of more than 13,000 nurses. It could cover the grocery bills for 100,000 families. What we pay for the CBC equals the annual income taxes for the population of Nanaimo.

Dean Skoreyko – The bloated government news division: “The CBC has 143 directors. Each of these directors receives an average salary of $130,906, costing the taxpayer $18.7 million per year.”

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