* For all intents and purposes, Canadians chose Kim Kardashian as prime minister. Further proof that women shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
* That boxing match and the video of Trudeau doing some Indian dancing are enough to make me believe that Canada has reached idiocracy ahead of the US, but then I remember that Barack Obama gave us his March Madness bracket and I’m reassured.
Trudeau insisted on having a cabinet that was 50/50 male/female. When asked why his entirely sensible response was “because it’s 2015.”
He’s a clown. If he ran a real country that would be of more consequence. Since Canada is a country of no significance they’re free to remind us of that fact by electing imbeciles like Justin Trudeau.
* As a plaid-shirted, redneck Canadian nationalist, I should take umbrage at your cruel words and challenge you to a bake-off or a snow-angel contest in no-holds-barred Canuck fashion but, unfortunately, what you say is true. Our very own Sunny Boy Trudeau, he of the red shorts, declared to the world a few months back that Canada is now officially a “post-national state with no core values”, whatever that Orwellian concoction is. BC now stands for Becoming Chinese and there is even a prof at UBC who teaches that English is a white supremacist language and the Chinese are one of the founding people of our nation, make that post-nation. Ironically, any hope we have of salvaging our pre-post-nation may lie in the Quebec separatist movement and a revival and re-legitimization of ethnic nationalist sentiment. Quebeckers have traditionally not been as PC-whipped as Anglos but, unfortunately once again, even they are being swamped by French-speaking immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean. And I suppose that if ever the shit hits the fan in your low-boil three-way race war in the US, we’ll pick up all the Blacks and Hispanics who feel unloved down there and figure that the welfare and other government programs more than compensate for the cold and the snow. Toronto is already a self-declared sanctuary city and Vancouver is itching to become one, though I imagine they’ll only be unmulticulturally interested in Asian refugees. Oh Canada.
* Peter Brimelow wrote a wonderful book about Canada called The Tangled Skein(?). He wrote about Pierre (whom he loathed), saying this: “Pierre Elliot Trudeau was not a great Prime Minister of Canada. Indeed, he was not even a good Prime Minister of Canada. But he was a great man. Unquestionably the greatest man who has ever been Prime Minister of Canada.”
He then went on to write in open admiration of the man’s sheer physical courage.
Item: He’s 70. A trucker walks into a bar and starts giving him the gears. Pierre throws down, says, “Let’s go right fucking now.” Trucker backs off. Lots of other incidents. Sheer physical courage.
Item: (my favourite): Pierre’s on a stage with Quebec Liberal pols in the 60s, an angry ugly time in Quebec. A group of radical separatists charge the stage, throwing material at the pols. What material? Tomatoes? Rotten eggs? Uh-uh. Slabs of concrete. Bottles.
The pols flee, instantly. Except one. Guess who? Pierre, of course! He’s sitting in a folding chair, rock and stone and glass exploding all over the stage…and he doesn’t budge. He adopts the Cicero pose, musing, Rodin’s thinker, but with a sneer of contempt for his assaulters…and sits there, not moving an inch. There’s a pic out there if you want to find it.
Courage. Sheer physical courage. I knew his son had the same quality, and the parasitical (Native) thug Brazeau (a corruptoid kinda-Indian who is living the life today to which he was born) with his martial arts training and his bullshit rodomontade, didn’t stand a chance.
Justin’s his father’s son. Combative chip off the old fearless block.
* Steve, How can you ignore Trump? Why won’t you seriously write about him? What is your deal with him? You make a tangential reference to him now and then but overall you’re ignoring the most important candidate vis-a-vis your views to ever come along. It’s absurd and you’re letting your readers down.
* This is ironic, as disgraced Canadian radio host Jian Ghomeshi was just on trial here for allegedly punching his lovers in the head. It’s been everywhere in the news.
Ghomeshi was known for being uber-progressive, so the lefties in the Canadian media have been in a quite a tizzy, especially when all three of the complainants basically collapsed on the witness stand, most of them being caught in blatant lies.
* I heard Rush Limbaugh talking about the Trump yesterday; his analysis was very apt.
Rush says that Trump is appealing to blue collar whites not just with his policies but with his speech patterns and brash boisterous in-your-face Noo Yawk persona. By talking and behaving like a working glass joe sixpack white guy Trump is signalling that he is one of them or at least understands their concerns. The recent debate performance yelling and calling other candidates liars being prime examples of this. Rush says that since this group still represents some 40% of the population this can be a winning strategy.
Made me realize that underneath the folksy nice guy manner Rush is a actually a very intelligent guy and that perhaps he’s been reading some of iSteve’s material.
* How did the Bushes become such a dynasty? I once saw them described as the WASP Corleones. They’re more extended-family-oriented than is normal among northern Europeans.
How did the old European royal families become established? By someone conquering a lot of land? Wrong. That’s not enough. Northern Europeans are nuclear-family-oriented, but politics is a team sport. The larger and more disciplined your team is, the more chances you have. Most of the conqueror types did not found lasting dynasties because they lacked the desire or the ability control who their kids married and what they did with their time. But, as with any trait, some are going to be more willing and able to do this than others.
The Bushes aren’t much smarter than most people of their background. But they’re much more familial. That’s probably the key.
* Richard Ben Cramer’s big book on the 1988 Presidential candidates makes the point that the Bush-Walker clan was super-competitive internally, with constant sports and games waged among cousins at a very high level of intensity. But it eventually emerged as clear within the extended family that George H.W. Bush was The Guy, the member of that generation who could go the furthest, so the clan’s resources coalesced behind him.
* Jeb’s voice is excellent, deep and warm, and should be a huge asset for him — but somehow it’s not; he alternates between sounding halting and petulant. And his physical presence should also be an advantage, because he’s a tall man who’s also quite well-proportioned.
You’d also think, as a younger son in his family, he’d have grown up quite scrappy and confident, after a childhood of trying to keep up with and compete against his older brother, but it doesn’t seem to have turned out that way.
Jeb strikes me as a big man who was a big kid who was likely clumsy and self-conscious about it, and who’s been trying to diminish himself his whole life in order to fit in better.
I’m two inches taller than Jeb, and went through much of my adolescence wishing I were more ‘normal’. Later on, though, I started to enjoy being tall and saw how it could be a positive. That feeling never seems to have kicked in for Jeb.
* You take this alpha beta stuff way too seriously. That’s a very omega thing to do. Look, as far as ideology vs blood goes, we can look at libertarians. They’re ideological as hell. What good has that done them? All their ideologies have been turned against them. 99.99% of libertarians are white males and they support open border and free trade policies that dispossess and weaken the only segment of the population from which future libertarians can come. They have to choose between common sense and liberty above all else, and they choose liberty because they are in an ideological straight jacket. How could they still call themselves libertarians if they allowed sanity to triumph over sanity? The only thing that matters is blood, faith and soil. Trump knows that and you need to figure it out quick.
