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But a lot of Canadians ARE that dumb. I see them all over social media, blithely saying screw the Americans, and let's stop selling them oil and uranium and electricity and the like and just find other trading partners. As if you can just look up 'other trading partners' online. None of them seem to have a clue what sort of economic turmoil will happen here if Trump decides to apply higher tariffs. But they're quite sure it won't be a big deal and Mr. Economist will be able to just slap it away and carry on as if nothing had happened. Of course, Mr. Economist is way more concerned with fighting climate change, and is likely to just keep spending and spending and borrowing and spending and jacking up carbon taxes because he's said repeatedly that he doesn't much care if that harms the economy. "Western society is morally rotten, and it has been corrupted by capitalism. This requires rigid controls of personal freedoms, industry and corporate funding. This is not a promise to make the lives of ordinary people better but temporarily worse. This will be a world of severely constrained choice, less flying, less meat, more inconvenience and temporarily more poverty. Assets will be stranded. Gasoline cars will be unsellable and inefficient properties will be un-rentable “ Mark Carney in his his book “ Values : Building a better world for all “
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So... the Conservatives shouldn't worry themselves over budget deficits or try to protect our borders or lower immigration or fight against Chinese influence or want lower taxes and smaller government because Orange man feels the same way? If that's the feeling of Canadians, they deserve what they will get. And they WILL get it. Hey, I'm okay. I have no debt to speak of, a paid off mortgage, a guaranteed pension, and a seven figure investment portfolio. I'm not going to have to turn down the heat when Carney jacks up carbon taxes. I'm not going to worry about being able to afford meat, or gas for my car, and I don't need to worry about not finding work, or being repeatedly bumped back from promotions because of DEI. Younger people need to worry about that, not me. I still do, of course, but on behalf of others. What they seem to want these days is mommy to take care of them. They want the government to be mommy, and to smile and pat them on the head and wipe their nose and do absolutely everything for them. That's what the left-wing parties promise. Whatever the problem in your lives, they will try to address it for you. The Conservatives instead worry about a deteriorating economy, lower GDP per person, and ballooning deficits. But a lot of Canadians don't care about that stuff. That's for tomorrow, and why should anyone care about what will happen tomorrow? The Liberal party motto is "Give them free stuff. Borrow the money for it. And chalk up another victory." The NDP is pretty much the same. Maybe the conservatives actually care about the future, about this country's economic prospects, about it's deteriorating wealth and growing ethnic, religious, racial and geographical divisions and want to do something about it.
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I can name a number of heartbroken parents who are forced to relieve their childrens' deaths every few years as their killer comes up for another parole hearing. Including the parents of Kristen French and Karla Mahaffy. Why don't you tell me why you feel Paul Bernardo deserves parole hearings? Not a chance. He is loathed in the West, for one thing. He has no French to speak of. And his success in Ontario is based largely on the coalition of ethnic groups around Toronto his brother put together (Ford nation) and which he took advantage of to take leadership of the PC party.
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The notwithstanding clause is IN the Charter. If you don't accept it, then you don't respect the Charter. If he was going to ignore the SC he wouldn't need to use the notwithstanding clause. Doug Ford is the best example we've seen in years of a politician who stands for nothing, has accomplished nothing, has no vision, no ideas and no interest in doing anything. He exists to be premier. Now that he's premier, he has no further ambitions other than to continue. He's a weathervane. Whatever will get votes, he's for. This is why people call him a liberal.
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Poilievre is at the same level of support as Harper had when he won a majority government. The difference is BQ, Green and NDP support has evaporated and gone to the Liberals out of terror that the orange man will take over. And the strange and ridiculous belief that because the Conservatives share some policies that the Trumpers do they would immediately bow, kiss Trump's feet, and hand over Canada with a smile on their faces has taken control among the Left. Woke is not why he's losing. The Left's raw, visceral hatred of conservatism is why he's losing. And they hated and feared O'Toole, Scheer, and Harper, too. It doesn't matter how soft spoken a conservative leader is or how mild his policies are. The Left loathes conservatives. Every year more people come out of the schools and universities we've allowed to be turned into leftist indoctrination centres with more hate of conservatism and more love for big government that will do everything for them. This might surprise you, but Canadians mostly don't like mass murderers. They don't have any issue with them spending the rest of their lives in prison.
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. - CS Lewis
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You mean how he and his party are pro-choice, in favour of immigration, believe in international law and want to cooperate with allies? Isn't Trumpism the opposite of that? Has he demonized minorities or immigrants? Has he spoken of how great Putin is? Has he claimed elections are stolen? Explain this 'trumpism' to me. Woke is an American concept. The people who can be described as woke follow American ideology and American policies. it's all pumped across the border and then put into law by the Liberals and other left wing governments. There isn't a single homegrown belief among them. From Canada being 'illegitimate' to BLM to drag queens reading to kiddies, to transgenderism, to colleges and universities full of professors completely caught up in critical race theory, intersectionality, and cultural relativism. Why shouldn't Canadians want that removed? It's all foreign to our country. It's all very, very American. That's a natural response from all small-c conservatives who want to preserve the existing values, traditions, and order and not make changes unless proven to be better for our society. And, in fact, Poilievre has hardly mentioned it since becoming the opposition leader. He mentions it in passing, but his focus has been on economic and fiscal issues, as well as affordability, crime, and foreign interference. And what has really harmed him is not people turning away from him but people turning away from the NDP. At least ten points of Liberal support came from the NDP supporters terrified that Trump is coming for their wine spritzers and macadamia butter.
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The religion of protest and prayer
I am Groot replied to I am Groot's topic in This is Islam's Topics
More pro-Hamas demonstrators occupy a building at the University of Ottawa. https://x.com/l3v1at4an/status/1912156601617731850 -
A priest warns of what Islam is and how they have operated for 1400 years. https://x.com/UpdateNews724/status/1912177403528708279
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The religion of protest and prayer
I am Groot replied to I am Groot's topic in This is Islam's Topics
Muslim scholar promises Muslims in Europe they will soon come to rule over the infidels. https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/1911908225298919471 8 year old child bride dies on her wedding night after 60 year old husband insists on his husband rights. No charges laid. https://x.com/mark_slapinski/status/1912106126004641947 -
The religion of protest and prayer
I am Groot replied to I am Groot's topic in This is Islam's Topics
Let me explain to you how Islamic Jihad is using the very principles of Western civilization against itself: Western civilization is built on two pillars, democracy and liberalism. Democracy ensures that the majority rules. But what if that majority turns against minorities? History has seen that play out, and the West had to find a fix. Liberalism became that fix. It protects individual rights from the tyranny of the majority. Your freedom ends where another person’s freedom begins. You are free to believe, practice, and speak, so long as you don’t infringe on others. When democracy and liberalism work together, you get a just system: the majority governs, but minorities are protected. This is what makes the West different from every civilization before it. This is what made it successful. What happens when minorities weaponize liberalism against the majority? What happens when people who don’t believe in these values use those same values to tear them down? That’s exactly what Muslims in the West are doing today. They demand protection under liberalism while actively working to dismantle it. They scream for "religious freedom" but reject it for others. They push for Sharia courts, demand blasphemy laws, and silence criticism under the banner of "Islamophobia." They flood the streets, demanding Western societies change to accommodate them, not the other way around. And here’s the kicker: it’s all perfectly legal. The system is handing them the tools to undo itself. Islam isn’t a religion that coexists, it is a political system masquerading as a faith. Islamic Jihad isn't interested in being just another group among many. Their goal is domination. And they know that time is on their side. They don’t need to win debates. They don’t need to fight wars. They just need to outbreed, outvote, and outmaneuver the West, using the West’s own rules. They demand their “right” to build mosques that preach against Western values. They demand the “right” to implement their own legal system (Sharia) under the guise of religious freedom. They demand the “right” to silence critics, using hate speech laws as a weapon. And what does the West do? It folds. Again and again. Out of guilt. Out of cowardice. Out of fear. Islamic Jihad doesn’t need bombs when they have ballots. They don’t need swords when they have speech laws. They don’t need conquest when they have immigration. The West is being dismantled from within, not by force, but by the very system designed to protect freedom. https://x.com/DanBurmawy/status/1912215603101774033 -
AFAIK his idea of increasing our wealth and improving our economy is to take the bureaucratic chains off our national resource industry, and in fact, off all industries and businesses so they can get more business and foreign investment, and generate wealth, taxes, and jobs. Diversification? Ah yes, something Canadian governments have been pursuing for about fifty years now to no avail. But don't worry, that'll change under Carney! With more regulations and more taxes we'll definitely get more business and foreign investment coming here. Yessiree!
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Since you say you're not making anything up you can provide us with the cite where he actually says the stuff in quotes, right? I mean, you're not making anything up here, right? Right? Your posts do seem to be made up mostly of that, yes. Hmm, should we destroy Quebec, or kiss their ass? Kowtow? There isn't any third alternative after all. I vote we destroy Quebec. What say you, August?
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Oh look, more Conservative Party campaign signs trashed, this time in another riding. https://x.com/Douga536/status/1911832442857566294 Oh look, more Conservative Party campaign signs trashed, this time in another riding. https://x.com/Douga536/status/1911832442857566294 Oh look, more Conservative Party campaign signs trashed, this time in another riding. https://x.com/Douga536/status/1911832442857566294
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Here's a story (I won't name the person who told me this) that illustrates where we are in modern Britain. Someone who was a Labour Party agent in a town in Britain with a sizeable Muslim population was asked to meet a 'community leader' to discuss the next election. He went and sat down at a table. The person threatened to withhold the votes of the hundreds of postal votes he controlled because the Labour candidate had not satisfied him on a particular issue. To illustrate that this was not an idle threat, he brought in shoeboxes full of postal votes from the last election, all filled in for Labour but unposted. 'This will happen again unless you do as I say' was what he pretty much explicitly said. This agent (a decent person who is no longer in Labour) just left & refused to have anything to do with it. I'm afraid that not all Lab agents etc who find themselves in a similar position react similarly. Sometimes the threat isn't made as blatantly, it's more implicit. But we have imported the corrupt sectarian politics of clientelism into this country & then let it fester. It stinks I also spent years canvassing for Labour. One road in my ward had a lot of Muslim voters. Hundreds of times this is what happened. A woman in a veil opened the door. She spoke no more than a few words of English. When I managed to get across to her that it was an election, she would say 'Ask my husband' or 'My husband is not in'. Once I got a woman who spoke reasonable English. She was quite explicit and said 'My husband tells me how to vote, I obey him as a good Muslim'. The idea she would be allowed a political opinion of her own was outlandish This wasn't just one or two. This was the default. Occasionally you might get a younger Muslim woman who appeared to defy this. But 98% of the time this was the reality. I am sorry, it's not on. We shouldn't accept this as ok. This is Britain, not rural Pakistan. So you can see why, when I see Labour politicians blithering on about Islamophobia and how we need to restrict free speech to 'tackle' it, I see red. They are ignoring reality and putting on an act to curry favour with corrupt Islamic vote-harvesters. It is rotten. If thinking that all of this is not ok, if thinking that Muslims should either adapt to our basic social and political norms (e.g. not being corrupt, not being misogynists) or not be here, makes me an 'Islamophobe' or whatever, so be it. I don't care. The hour is late. Wake upAlso, the silence of most 'feminists' on these issues is shameful. There are lots of women right under your noses who are oppressed. But because they wear hijabs & you're too cowardly to criticise Islam, you ignore it & blither on about 'tampon poverty' or whatever instead https://x.com/CapelLofft/status/1910624178295779648
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🔴 When you report on Islam, the warnings start almost immediately: “Be careful.” “Watch your back.” “Get protection.” These warnings aren’t coming from online trolls. They’re coming from law enforcement officers, intelligence experts, and national security veterans—people who know exactly what happens when you pull back the curtain on Islam’s political agenda. I can name countless friends in Europe who now live under 24-hour armed protection, bouncing between undisclosed safe houses. Others were murdered—for writing, drawing, teaching, or simply refusing to lie. And when violence fails, the next weapon is lawfare—lawsuits meant to bankrupt, silence, and intimidate critics using our own legal system as a bludgeon. So here’s the question no one in the mainstream media will dare ask: If Islam is really “peaceful,” why does exposing it require armed guards, safe houses, bulletproof vests—and a legal defense team? Just look at the names. Read their stories. They weren’t the threat. They held up a mirror to it. And that’s what made them dangerous—to those who needed the truth buried. These are just a few of the hunted. Charlie Hebdo staff (France)– massacred in their Paris office for drawing Muhammad. Samuel Paty (France) – beheaded for showing those cartoons in a classroom lesson on free speech. Salman Rushdie – stabbed on stage in NY, nearly blinded, decades after Iran’s fatwa over The Satanic Verses. Theo van Gogh (Netherlands)– murdered for directing a film about Islam’s abuse of women. Ayaan Hirsi Ali – fled the Netherlands, now lives under protection in the U.S. Lars Vilks (Sweden) – killed in a car crash while under 24/7 police escort after years of death threats. Geert Wilders (Netherlands) – lives under constant armed protection for opposing Islamic immigration. Pamela Geller (USA)– targeted in a beheading plot by ISIS supporters in the U.S. Bosch Fawstin (USA) – continually threatened for drawing Muhammad and winning the Garland cartoon contest. Rasmus Paludan (Denmark) – lives in safe houses, under armed guard for burning Qur’ans and warning about Islamization. Robert Spencer (USA) – poisoned in Iceland, caught on video after criticizing Islam publicly. Masih Alinejad (USA)– targeted in Iranian plots to kidnap or assassinate her for leading the anti-hijab movement. Vipul Amrutlal Shah – faced threats and bans for producing The Kerala Story, which exposed ISIS recruitment and Love Jihad in India. Nupur Sharma (India)– received global death threats for quoting Hadiths about Aisha. Mila (France) – under permanent police protection since age 16 for criticizing Islam on Instagram. Laurence Marchand-Taillade – under 24/7 police protection for exposing Muslim Brotherhood networks in France. Éric Zemmour (France) – follows armed bodyguards daily, relentlessly targeted for criticizing Islam and immigration. Michel Houellebecq (France)– under gendarmerie protection for writing Submission. Robert Redeker (France) – forced into hiding, his life shattered after one article in Le Figaro. Mohammed Sifaoui (France) – branded a murtad, under police protection for infiltrating Islamist cells. Frédéric Haziza, Philippe Val, Zineb El Rhazoui, Imam Hassen Chalghoumi – all under heavy protection in France for defending secularism and exposing Islamic extremism. Father Jacques Hamel (France)– slaughtered at the altar by ISIS terrorists during Mass in Normandy. Avijit Roy – butchered in the street in Bangladesh for writing a secular blog. Saman Abbas – murdered by her family in Italy for embracing Western life. Mahsa Amini – beaten to death in Iran for wearing her hijab “incorrectly.” Ahmad Abu Marhia – beheaded in the West Bank for being gay. Sarah Halimi, Lola, Luna – victims of Islamist rage and brutal violence in France. Salwan Momika – killed in Sweden after burning the Qur’an—while awaiting trial for “blasphemy.” Saïd Djabelkhir (Algeria) – sentenced to 3 years in prison for calling for Islamic reform. Asif Mohiuddin (Bangladesh/Germany) – survived assassination, now in exile for secular activism. Farag Foda (Egypt) – assassinated for advocating separation of mosque and state. Fatima Naoot (Egypt) – imprisoned for criticizing Eid animal sacrifice. Ahmad Al Shamri (Saudi Arabia) – sentenced to death for expressing atheism online. Mashal Khan (Pakistan) – lynched by a mob over false blasphemy claims. Basuki Tjahaja Purnama “Ahok” (Indonesia) – imprisoned for “blasphemy” after quoting the Qur’an. Asia Bibi (Pakistan) – spent 8 years on death row for false accusations, forced to flee the country. Farkhunda Malikzada (Afghanistan) – beaten to death by a mob after false accusations of burning the Qur’an. Hatun Tash (UK) – stabbed and targeted for death after publicly criticizing Islam at Speakers’ Corner. Lives under heightened security. Tommy Robinson (UK) – constantly threatened and forced into hiding for exposing Islamic extremism and "grooming gangs." Jyllands-Posten Staff (Denmark) – journalists and editors under threat after publishing Muhammad cartoons in 2005; continue to face security concerns. Imran Firasat (Spain) – lost asylum status and faced arrest after producing anti-Islam films; targeted with death threats and legal action for his criticism of Islam. Kurt Westergaard (Denmark) – The Danish cartoonist who drew the controversial Muhammad cartoon in 2005. He survived an assassination attempt in 2010 and lived under police protection until his death in 2021. 🔻 The Verdict Not one of these individuals committed violence. Their only “crime” was using their voice—through words, art, protest, or belief. They questioned. They criticized. They told the truth as they saw it. And for that, they were harassed, sued, hunted, stabbed, exiled, poisoned, and killed. If Islam is truly “peaceful,” why does exposing it come at the cost of one’s safety, freedom, or life? Why are so many forced to live behind security gates, rotate through safe houses, or rely on legal teams just to survive? And these are only some of the names I’ve listed. How many more have been silenced before they could speak? How many are being intimidated into silence in their own communities? How many live in fear—unseen, unheard—knowing that one wrong word could end everything? Cost them their job? Their safety? Their future? This is no longer just about free speech. It’s about civilizational survival. Because if we can no longer name the danger— If we can no longer protect our own citizens from violence and intimidation, If we allow fear to dictate truth, and submission to replace courage— Then freedom is already gone. Speech will die first. But our countries will follow. The names on this list are not just victims. They are warnings. And unless we force our political leaders to act now, many more will follow. History has made that pattern painfully clear. https://x.com/AmyMek/status/1911356572972065174