The Gathering Storm in the West

"Few are listening anymore to the clueless Justin Trudeaus and bumbling Joe Bidens and all the toxic hypocrisies they embody."

"The truckers remind Western audiences that modern progressivism equates muscular labor and hourly wage compensation with a sort of Neanderthalism. ". . .

Victor Davis Hanson  "Canada is now governed by absurdism, and it is symptomatic of an ailing Western elite.

"Liberal Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last week invoked martial law to arrest and financially destroy truckers on the charge that their largely peaceful protests are “dismantling the Canadian economy” that had already been dismantled for two years under some of the most draconian lockdowns in the world. The trucker “sect,” Trudeau added, is guilty of felonious “unacceptable views.” But his rhetoric still cannot square the circle of demonizing vital workers while conceding he cannot run his country without them. 

"He has invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time in the law’s 34-year history, even as the highly infectious Omicron variant wanes after spreading natural immunity and yet proving relatively mild in its effects. Trudeau has neither science nor good governance on his side, especially given how civil the protests have been. The truckers, who more or less work in solitary cabs, are better informed about the “science” and are themselves mostly vaccinated.  

"Whether by accident or intent, the truckers have now become iconic of far larger issues. Their resistance to government vaccination mandates transcends them. And so, they are playing the role of the proverbial straw that may break the back of a once compliant Canadian citizenry, burdened by over two years of masks, lockdowns, and vaccination mandates. ". . .

Truckers, please continue to remain better than these people:

The absurd ‘Russiagate’ Pulitzer of the NY Times and Washington Post

NY Post  “For deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest,” the citation from the Pulitzer Prize board begins, “that dramatically furthered the nation’s understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign, the president-elect’s transition team and his eventual administration.”

"Except the journalism that the Pulitzers honored — a 2018 National Reporting prize shared by the Washington Post and the New York Times for reporting on Russiagate — did no such thing.

"It led to a dramatic misunderstanding, suggesting that Donald Trump colluded with Vladimir Putin to help sway the 2016 election — a grand conspiracy that we now know never existed.

"Oh, it was “deeply sourced,” in that deep-state Democratic bureaucrats, furious that Trump had won the White House, were falling over themselves to talk anonymously to reporters.

"And it was “relentlessly reported,” or at least just relentless, as the newspapers were obsessed with taking down the Trump administration.

"Yet reading these pieces four years later, one is struck not only by how irrelevant they are, but how shlocky — tinged with a McCarthyist alarmism of a red under every bed. Two major newspapers that hold themselves up as the pinnacle of press freedom, the “truth dies in darkness” brigade and all that, pushed a conspiracy theory.

"As a lesson in mass delusion, it’s worth going through the 20 stories that make up the Post and the Times’ award-winning series to show just how damaging they were: to the truth, to the newspapers’ reputations — and to America itself." . . .  Full article here...

Recall it was the NY Times that gave us the vaunted  Walter Duranty Award for obfuscating controlled-media propaganda journalism ) 

Pulitzer prizes have become a sick joke - American Thinker   "New York Times correspondent Walter Duranty, as Andrea Widburg notes here, got a Pulitzer prize for lying about the massive crimes of communism in what was then the Ukraine.  It's supposedly an embarrassment.". . .

If this doesn't discredit the Pulitzer committee, what will?  An old-school Timesman, Tom Kuntz, recently wrote a RealClearInvestigation piece worrying that stuff like this would happen, warning that the Times had lost its integrity and it's likely he didn't want to see the Pulitzer committee go downhill with the paper.  Well, it did.

 "At the bottom is Walter Duranty, one of Stalin’s useful idiots, who was the greatest journalist liar of his generation, the model of journalistic mendacity."

Washington and Lincoln Call the American People to Reclaim their Rights from Government

 

AfterMath - Home (terrellaftermath.com)

American Thinker   "With the shock and awakening of Americans that the freedoms, rights and opportunities they had taken for granted for generations have been brazenly stripped away in the last few years, this President’s Day 2022 may well be one of our most significant holidays. Presidents Day is unique among American holidays in providing the opportunity to appreciate why George Washington and Abraham Lincoln -- whose birthdays fall in February -- were the two greatest U.S. presidents. 

"While Washington was the founding father of the United States, becoming the first President in 1789 after final success in the War of Independence, Lincoln would save the nation from division and collapse -- bringing an end to the Civil War and the scourge of slavery as the sixteenth President in 1865.  In short, Lincoln saved the republic that Washington made possible.  And two remarkable men they were, whose wisdom, judgment and foresight are more relevant today than they were in their times.       

"In both Washington and Lincoln, we are confronted with flawed men who made mistakes, but whose remarkable qualities of character were so formidable that they became part of the essence of what we call “American exceptionalism.”  Both presidents readily admitted that it was not their own abilities that made the difference but rather their faith, trust and reliance on God that gave them their strength and opened the way for ultimate success. 

"What is particularly striking for people today is that both Washington and Lincoln agreed that America’s greatest threat to its national survival would not come from military invasion from a foreign power. Rather, America’s downfall would come from within.". . .

Fires in liberal democracies - American Thinker   "What if there were a fire in a liberal democracy scorching human rights and civil liberties?  What if that fire was in several liberal democracies and spreading fast?  The people are loudly screaming "fire!," but their leaders are curiously silent.". . .

Not Going to Be a ‘Punching Bag’ for the Police: Freedom Convoy Spokesman Announces Peaceful Withdrawal From Ottawa (theepochtimes.com)    . . ."Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has continued to refuse to meet with the organizers of the trucker convoy, which arrived in Ottawa on Jan. 28 and 29.

"The convoy began as a protest by truck drivers opposed to the federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate for their cross-border travel. It turned into a much larger movement after many Canadians from across the country began joining in or voicing their support for ending the various COVID-19 mandates and restrictions.

"Prior to the convoy’s arrival in Ottawa, at a press conference on Jan. 26 Trudeau dismissed the protesters as a “small fringe minority … who are holding unacceptable views.' ”. . .

Babylon Bee’s satirical post about trans woman Jeopardy! champ has been yanked by Facebook for violating ‘Community Standards on hate speech

 Twitchy  "Last month, Amy Schneider’s impressive 40-game “Jeopardy!” winning streak came to an end. Schneider’s achievement was all the more impressive because she is a trans woman.

"While she was still enjoying her lucrative run on the game show, The Babylon Bee paid tribute to her stunning achievement:". . .

Trans Woman Breaks Jeopardy Record, Proving Once And For All That Men Are Smarter Than Women https://t.co/HuJQB7nzV1

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 2, 2022

. . ."The Babylon Bee also shared their post on Facebook. But if you go to their Facebook page today, you won’t find it.

"Because it’s been taken down for violating Facebook’s Community Standards on hate speech:  . . . 

Joel Berry

@JoelWBerry

Replying to @JoelWBerry and @TheBabylonBee

Pretty proud of this. It's not often we manage to get transphobia and misogyny into one headline

Crackdown Sparks Even More Massive Protests Across Canada, Crisis for Trudeau

So far the crowds have been classier than Antifa and BLM.

 RedState

"The protesters in Ottawa are hoping to make it through the weekend until the Senate convenes. They want to make it to Monday because the Emergencies Act has to be approved by the Parliament within seven days of it being called for, which was on February 14. So it has to be approved by tomorrow. They are hoping that the legislators will not approve it, the police will back off, and the Parliament will address their concerns.

"There were still hundreds of protesters out Saturday in Ottawa, more even than there were earlier when there was a lot of police action against them. And some of them may even be the people who were “arrested” earlier.". . .

Eric Bolling on the crime spike from coast to coast