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Blackie’s Star: Only Crazy People Disagree With Us

Surging angry, dangerous Canadians have no arguments, so they can’t be argued away

Anger stalks the land, and Canada is finally talking about it. You could blame the pandemic, but as with just about everything, the pandemic exacerbated existing conditions. The seeds were already in the ground.

But we need to remember something: a great deal of the current anger in this country is based on grievances that aren’t real. We can glaze over the use of “conspiracy theories” or “misinformation” as a catch-all descriptor, but we’re talking about people being angry over largely imaginary problems. A lot of it isn’t based in the real world at all.

It’s all in your head!

Trudeau Approval Polling:

Disapprove: 54%
Approve: 38%
Net: -16%

Morning Consult / September 8, 2022 / Online

— Polling Canada (@CanadianPolling) September 8, 2022

The Star Says Be Afraid! Pierre Poilievre’s callous courting of Canada’s ‘deplorables’

Back in 2016 when she was running for the U.S. presidency, Hillary Clinton made a shocking — and unwise — comment about “deplorables” who were among Donald Trump’s supporters.

In what she called a “basket of deplorables,” Clinton cited some Trump backers as “racists, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and Islamophobic.”

Clinton insisted she was speaking about only a small percentage of Trump’s followers, but the damage to her campaign was done, with analysts denouncing the comment and Trump fans soon proudly sporting hats and T-shirts labelling themselves as deplorable.

by Blazingcatfur•September 8, 2022September 8, 2022•0•Conservative Party, The F$CKING Toronto Star

Poilievre the Dwarf and supporters likely to burn Canada down says panicked Star

Can Pierre Poilievre contain the populist beast he has unleashed?

The polarizing Conservative leadership front-runner “caught a tiger by the tail and he may not be able to control what he has created.”

Having just watched the first episode of the hyped-up “Rings of Power” streaming series, it got me thinking about the upcoming Sept. 10 coronation of Pierre Poilievre and the path the new leader of the federal Conservative party will choose as the ring-bearer of the Official Opposition.

Like the dwarves who dug too deep for riches in the mines of Moria, Poilievre has plumbed the depths of social media for conspiracy theories and grievance rhetoric, coming up with campaign gold by embracing the freedom convoy and anti-vaxxers. It has earned him a ton cash for party coffers and a record number of new memberships.

The question now is whether Poilievre can contain the populist beast he has unleashed by channelling his inner Stephen Harper, or whether he’d rather hop on its back, ring firmly embedded, and burn the place down.

by Blazingcatfur•September 4, 2022September 4, 2022•0•Conservative Party, The F$CKING Toronto Star, WTF?

Death threats. Racist taunts. Vows of violence. Inside the increasingly personal attacks targeting Canadian female journalists

The Taliban in Pakistan wanted Saba Eitizaz dead.

It was 2014, and the militants had issued an edict that Eitizaz and fellow colleagues working for BBC in that country were to be shot on sight. They received messages warning they were living on borrowed time.

Eitizaz fled to Canada as a refugee, she found work with CBC and then the Toronto Star, and the dread faded. But new threats have landed in her inbox — this time, targeting her for being a journalist in Canada.

Because Canada is just like the Taliban!

by Blazingcatfur•September 4, 2022September 4, 2022•0•The F$CKING Toronto Star

Star Rage Index Published

What makes you angry? Inflation, gas prices and the ‘Freedom Convoy’ top Canada’s ‘rage index’

Rage is all the rage, a new poll suggests.

Pollara Strategic Insights has launched a new monthly “rage index” to gauge public opinion on Canadians’ views about government, the economy, and current events.
In its inaugural survey, the firm found 83 per cent of respondents “feel angry” about the inflation rate and 79 per cent about gas prices.

by Blazingcatfur•August 29, 2022August 29, 2022•0•The F$CKING Toronto Star

Hysteria At The Star: Which Poilievre will show up? The polarizing figure who has debased civilized political discourse? Or a leader with a plan

The path to choosing the next leader of the federal Conservative party has been a long, often strange journey.

It has featured the sacking of a challenger by the party brass, a candidate who refused to debate unless she was asked questions she wanted to answer, another debate which featured a sad trombone and a former leader and top contender playing The Newlywed Game with his spouse of 42 years.

Debased political discourse? This from the toady media that daily fellates Trudeau.

by Blazingcatfur•August 25, 2022August 25, 2022•0•Conservative Party, The F$CKING Toronto Star

Pierre Poilievre is Canada’s most dangerous, appalling politician

The Conservative leadership front-runner either truly believes in the crazy ideas he spouts, or he just shamelessly promotes nonsense to gain support. (That would make him Justin Trudeau.)

Pierre Poilievre has always appalled me.

But as Canada Day approached and Ottawa braces for more “freedom” protests on Parliament Hill that Poilievre unreservedly supports, I grow even more appalled.

That’s because the Conservative leadership race front-runner either somehow truly believes in the crazy ideas and causes that he spouts, or he’s a dishonest non-believer who just shamelessly promotes such nonsense in order to gain support from angry, disaffected Canadians in his bid to become party leader.

by Blazingcatfur•June 29, 2022June 29, 2022•0•Conservative Party, The F$CKING Toronto Star

The Star offers up yet another racist screed condemning the Trucker protest

‘Freedom’ protests are white supremacy in all its glory

Where the hell have these Freedom Convoy protesters been all this time if this is really about equality and human rights for all?

It was a whirlwind of a weekend for most following the Freedom Convoy storming into the capital to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates. It drew widespread support from droves of Canadians fed up with donning masks in enclosed public places and restrictions on accessing services, such as dining out without being vaccinated. Although the convoy listed its initial cause as opposing the federal government’s mandate on vaccinations for cross-border truckers, it turned into a freedom-for-all rallying cry.

Thousands converged on Parliament Hill and provincial legislature grounds Saturday wielding signs depicting violence against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, yelling slurs against journalists, (some of whom received death threats), others were spat on and verbally and physically harassed. Footage of protesters dancing to techno party music, drinking beer and urinating at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier flooded my social media timelines.

“This is about our human rights! It’s for everyone’s human rights!” was the rhetoric I heard repeatedly from protesters, who to me, came off like a bunch of spoiled, disrespectful kids out on a party bender.

Because if you don’t support human rights for Transgender ISIS Terrorist Pedophiles you’re a white supremacist. Oh and you have to believe in residential school hate crime hoaxes, those tree roots need reparations now!

The media mouthpieces of the Liberal-Left are very afraid. Good.

by Blazingcatfur•February 1, 2022February 1, 2022•0•Batshit Crazy Grievance Mongers, Batshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Batshit Crazy Progressive Hypocrites, Batshit Crazy Progressive Racists, The F$CKING Toronto Star, The Horror! The Horror!, The Media Lies

Students, parents disturbed after TDSB teacher in Parkdale wore blackface to class … but Blackie McBlackFace Still AOK!

A teacher at Parkdale Collegiate Institute is under investigation after he came to class Friday wearing blackface as part of a Halloween costume.

In a letter sent Saturday night to parents and students of Parkdale Collegiate Institute — and shared with the Star — principal Julie Ardell called the incident “racist and dehumanizing.”

“As you know, many staff and students were dressed up for Halloween, but late in the morning, a number of students alerted the Vice Principal that a white staff member was in ‘Blackface,’” she wrote.

by Blazingcatfur•October 31, 2021October 31, 2021•0•"Cancel Culture", The F$CKING Toronto Star, WTF?

Star’s Resident Chavez Fan-Girl Urges We Be Nice To Communist China

Retaliation against China is exactly what the world doesn’t need

Call me faint-hearted but it strikes me as a bad idea to deliberately stir up trouble against a country armed with nuclear weapons.

So it’s ominous to hear the rattling of sabres by Canadians trying to push Ottawa towards punitive action against China for its detention of two Canadians called Michael.

China is an authoritarian, repressive country and its long detentions of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were cruel and wrong; it’s wonderful the two men are finally free.

But the animus being stirred up against it is reckless and dangerous, and seems aimed at backing U.S. efforts by both the Trump and Biden administrations to isolate China and push back against its rising economic and technological power and the challenge this poses to U.S. hegemony.

by Blazingcatfur•October 21, 2021October 21, 2021•0•Batshit Crazy Socialist Commies, The F$CKING Toronto Star, WTF?

Black like Blackie? Conservative party a bastion of white male supremacy says paper that endorsed Blackie

Only at the Star – Erin O’Toole promised to remake the Conservative party. So why are his MPs so white and male?

OTTAWA—Efforts by Erin O’Toole to show voters he is not running their grandfather’s Conservatives appear to have nonetheless resulted in a party that looks almost exactly as it has for generations.

Despite fielding what the Conservatives said was the most diverse slate of candidates in their party’s history, only one new MP from a racialized community was elected, and preliminary results suggest five racialized incumbents went down to defeat.

That leaves the Conservative caucus overwhelmingly white and overwhelmingly male.

And that’s also leaving many in the party absolutely furious.

I bet.

by Blazingcatfur•September 24, 2021September 24, 2021•0•Batshit Crazy Progressive Hypocrites, The F$CKING Toronto Star

The Star wants to know why we don’t have diplomatic relations with a Terrorist State that just elected a mass murderer as its President

It’s been nine years since Canada severed diplomatic ties with Iran. How long can this go on?

Today marks nine years since Canada severed all diplomatic ties with Iran. The freeze in relations has persisted, despite the 2015 nuclear deal, the global battle against Islamic State group militants in Syria and Iraq, and even last year’s tragic downing of Flight 752. Although it plays host to the second-largest community of Iranians outside the country, Canada remains among the few states with no diplomatic links with Tehran. How long can this go on?

EBRAHIM RAISI, A MASS MURDERER

by Blazingcatfur•September 7, 2021September 7, 2021•0•Iran, The F$CKING Toronto Star, WTF?

That’s some apology

Toronto Star front-page design exacerbated division between readers. Greater care should have been taken

In trying to give profile to an article about public attitudes to those who are not vaccinated, the Star stumbled badly in a front-page display, prompting a fierce response from readers, more than 4,000 messages and counting as of Saturday afternoon.

The Aug. 26 article itself tackled a topic that is in the public interest. With a fourth wave pushing COVID cases higher, there are tensions between those who are vaccinated and those who are not. The article explored that theme.

h/t SDMatt