Today’s men are not afraid to dress for self-expression and delight in McDonald’s Happy Meal toys. pic.twitter.com/Piy2aRzqQ6
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) December 25, 2024
The Houellebecq Prophecies
The French writer’s novels have foretold coming catastrophes with uncanny prescience—and his ambivalence toward modernity has much to teach us.
Michel Houellebecq is a writer of the after—after history, after God, after politics, after romance, and after happiness. He chronicles a world in which we watch ourselves live, poisoned by irony, oscillating between nihilism and hedonism, until the difference between the two becomes imperceptible. Houellebecq captures this post-world without adornment. His characters are lonely, sexless, and impotent. They seek something higher and seldom find it. They try to escape from their condition but cannot. For Houellebecq, the impossibility of escape is the defining feature of our age. As he puts it in Platform (2001), “everything can happen in life, most of all nothing.” It’s not merely that nothing happens, but that nothing will happen. As a civilization, we may have done things in the past. But our present precludes the future tense.
Report: Elon Musk‘s Tesla Replaced Laid Off Americans with Foreign Workers on H-1B Visas
In the wake of Elon Musk’s fiery defense of H-1B visas, it has come to light that Tesla has replaced U.S. employees laid off earlier this year with foreign workers holding the very H-1B visas that Musk lashed out at conservatives for not supporting.
What’s really behind Donald Trump’s tariff threats and ’51st state’ posts about Canada
Donald Trump’s threat of whopping tariffs on Canadian exports and his trolling of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are key tactics in a negotiating strategy to extract the best trade terms for the U.S., according to people who have worked with or closely observed him over the years.
Trump is promising to slap a 25 per cent tariff on all goods entering the U.S. from Canada and Mexico on Jan. 20, his first day in office, unless the countries curb the flow of drugs and migrants across their borders.
The president-elect has since followed up that threat by taunting Trudeau by calling him “governor” and referring to Canada as the “51st state” in a succession of social media posts.
NGOs Driving Antisemitism in Europe, Part II: The UK
European authorities, as usual, refuse to fight the violence running rampant in their streets. Most recently, Amsterdam’s mayor, Femke Halsema, banned a rally against antisemitism at the central Dam Square; she said out of concern for Jewish citizens.
BC Hospice Society Offers ‘Do Not Euthanize’ Kit as Unprompted Offers of MAID Grow
Amid news that some Canadians have been asked, unprompted, if they wish to seek euthanasia, a B.C. group has developed a “defence kit” for people to ensure they don’t get pressured into receiving medical assistance in dying (MAID).
The Delta Hospice Society (DHS) has designed a Do Not Euthanize (DNE) Defence Kit, legally vetted and distinct for each province and territory.
The Canonization of Jimmy Carter Has Officially Gotten Ridiculous
The Regime Media are stepping over each other to see who can offer the most sycophantic coverage of the legacy of the 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, who passed away yesterday at the age of 100. It appears that a frontrunner has emerged.
Watch as CBS’s Major Garrett, in for outgoing anchor Norah O’Donnell, finds a new way to burnish Carter’s “legacy”
Canadians say cost of living was the top news story of 2024: poll
The cost of living remained top of mind for many Canadians this year, even though inflation dropped in 2024 and the Bank of Canada lowered its key interest rate several times.
That issue was considered the top domestic news story in Canada by 71 per cent of Canadians, according to new Ipsos polling conducted exclusively for Global News on what people considered the biggest stories of this year.
Wanna Know the Downside of Diversity? Look at the Prison System.
Disgraced Illinois governor-turned-felon Rod Blagojevich recently appeared on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” detailing his experience behind bars. It’s a fascinating interview. But this clip in particular is especially worth your time …
Trudeau Liberals hit Canadians with a slew of tax increases in 2025
OTTAWA — Even though Santa has come and gone, Canadians can still expect stockings full of coal in 2025.
A year-end report published by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation says Canadians will get hit with a slew of tax increases.
WTF?
BREAKING:
Police officers wounded and attacker shot to death after ”excavator rampage” in Heilbronn, Germany.
The attacker was attacking people and vehicles at random. pic.twitter.com/Qp8qjt6WNk
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) December 31, 2024
h/t Mauser
WTF?
This has to be one of the wildest car wrecks I’ve ever seen where—miraculously—no one was injured.
Hopefully that last part makes it ok to admit that I died laughing when she’s seen waving out her window pic.twitter.com/PqZsLmyGfw
— TeasLindsay™ (@TexasLindsay_) December 31, 2024
h/t Mauser
How TDSB embraced ‘anti-Palestinian racism’ policies — and sparked debate about antisemitism
The Toronto District School Board controversially embraced “anti-Palestinian racism” policies in 2024, a move that Jewish activists say puts the country’s largest school board on a collision course with its own antisemitism policy — and offers a case study of a broader, divisive discussion unfolding across Canada.
The TDSB has long been a shithole.
Berlin police arrest Muslim after knife attack injures 2
The Berliner Morgenpost newspaper reported that the attack began inside a supermarket on the corner of Quedlinburger Strasse and Sömmeringstrasse. Police said the knifeman then moved outside to the sidewalk close to a nearby hotel.
The suspect, a Syrian national who lives in Sweden, is said to have stabbed his victims with a knife he stole from the supermarket, police said in a statement.
h/t Mauser