“The society has become so incredibly conformist,” Carlson continued. “I see it in my kids and their friends. My kids don’t agree with a lot of this crap, but the spirit of the age is, ‘Well, I don’t really want to step outside the herd.’ We don’t celebrate mavericks at all. … It’s such a Soviet society now. What we celebrate is team joiners. ‘Oh, look, this guy got the vaccine. He’s a hero. He took his medicine.’ It’s insane!”
Holding an election during a pandemic is unfair to Canadians in remote communities. With Canada entering the fourth wave of COVID-19 thanks to the Delta variant and vaccinations plateauing, this election will not only be risky, but will diminish the voices of those who do not have the luxury of voting in person.
The Biden administration admitted on Tuesday that the Taliban had captured a significant amount of U.S. military equipment originally supplied to Afghan security forces during the militants’ blitzkrieg on Kabul in recent weeks — and the U.S. doesn’t know exactly how much American gear they’ve lost to terrorist hands.
The unmitigated disaster, and tragedy, that the American withdrawal from Afghanistan has turned into will likely soon fade out of the news cycle. But the consequences of the disaster are likely to be long reaching, and spell trouble for Canada. An increasingly unreliable and inward looking America is a dangerous reality we need to quickly adjust to.
The collective madness that ensued from the pandemic, the quarantine, the self-induced recession, the George Floyd killing and subsequent months of exempted riots, the election year, and the resurgence of variants of the Chinese-engineered coronavirus, all ignited the fuse of formerly inert socialist dynamite. And the ensuing explosion of revolutionary fervor in just a few months has made America almost unrecognizable.
The refugees will include “particularly vulnerable” Afghans still in the country or who’ve already fled to neighboring states, which in addition to female leaders and government employees also comprises human rights defenders, persecuted minorities and journalists.
The university imposed mandatory vaccination for students and staff returning to on-campus learning. In an email sent to students, school leadership stated that approximately 600 students have yet to fulfill the vaccination mandates, or at least they have yet to upload a copy of their COVID-19 vaccination record.
The survey asked respondents if they “are very satisfied, somewhat satisfied, somewhat dissatisfied, or very dissatisfied with the Canadian government led by Justin Trudeau.” 51% expressed dissatisfaction.
In a shocking political upset, the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia has won a 31 seat majority in the legislature of the Maritime province, in an election that the Nova Scotia Liberal Party was supposed to walk away with when the campaigning period started.
Trudeau is great at saying the right words to generate the image of a ‘caring’ leader. His actions show instead that he only cares about his own political fortunes to the exclusion of all else.
The Mad Max Freedom Tour has begun and the People’s Party of Canada leader said Canadians will vote for his party because “the other options suck.”
Maxime Bernier is in Etobicoke Tuesday for the “Unmask the Children Rally” as the populist leader hopes to tap into anger over health measures, vaccine passports, immigration, lockdowns and other issues.
“It’s the Mad Max Freedom Tour because I’m mad. I’m mad at the situation right now. I don’t recognize our country. We need to change that… I’m mad because of all the loss of freedom,” he said in an interview with CTV News.
Allow me to dawn my magician cap for a second. Relax, close your eyes (well actually maybe keep one eye open unless you want to call me up and I’ll read the rest of this to you). Allow me to take you to a faraway land- a land of sunshine and rainbows- where people still respected each other enough to live in reality. Diversity of opinion was celebrated. Debate encouraged. You didn’t always get along but the veracity of statements were measured on their merits as opposed to purely off of who was saying them.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement after the Trump Administration announced that it would withdraw nearly half of America’s military presence in Afghanistan and significantly reduce troops in Iraq, reportedly against the recommendation of the military chain of command.
Rather, in America today, “Diversity is our strength” is a commanding ethos: It governs the minds of the Joint Chiefs, it informs the decisions of our top policymakers, it drives the campaigns of the political left, it animates the activities of the activist left, and it’s scribbled on the chalkboards of our children’s schools.
The terrorist dirtbags of the Taliban, having had the entire nation of Afghanistan handed to them by Joe Biden, are now having a grand old time mocking the media world the Democrats have created. They’re gibing at Democrat-endorsed social media censorship, making Joe Biden and his fawning press a figure of fun, and using their own access to social media to consolidate power. Grotesquely enough, they know where the U.S. vulnerabilities are, given the house the Democrats have built.
Twitter keeps emphasizing its feminism. Its Trust and Safety Council includes Feminist Frequency, a group associated with Anita Sarkeesian: a notorious troll who claims to be a feminist. During the last Hamas campaign against Israel, Sarkeesian went out of her way to bash Israel and Jews
The Taliban view themselves as the humble servant of God on Earth. Their name literally means “students,” in this case, “students” of medieval-era extremist teachings under the Sunni-Hanafi Islamic school. But where terrorist allies of the Taliban such as al Qaeda are centered in Salafi-jihadi narratives, the Taliban are more complicated. They also have roots in Pashtun tribal politics, a dynamic that has given the group enduring influence in southern and eastern Afghanistan.
Dark age returned to #Afghanistan.
The Taliban are punishing the journalist that worked with foreign media in Jalalabad.#Kabul. pic.twitter.com/hzND30Zhgj
— Hizbullah Khan (@HizbkKhan) August 18, 2021
h/t Canuklehead
“I’ve been clear,” President Joe Biden told the American people on Monday, “that human rights must be the centre of our foreign policy, not the periphery. But the way to do it is not through endless military deployments. It’s with our diplomacy, our economic tools, and rallying the world to join us.”
As I listened to those words, I found myself admiring the political skill of Biden’s speechwriters — and despising their utter callousness. I wanted to shout at the TV: But what about the 19 million women now sentenced by American foreign policy to a life of darkness under the Taliban? Surely they deserve human rights, too?
Former President Donald Trump is blasting the Biden administration for not prosecuting Hunter Biden amid a recently revealed video clip showing the naked first son talking with a woman about how one of his computers was stolen by a drug dealer and could be used for blackmail.
“They use their prosecutors to get people … and yet the son doesn’t get prosecuted. You take a look at what he’s done. How about the tape? The tape is the scandal. … The tape that came out on Hunter is a national scandal and extremely illegal and nobody’s doing anything about it,” Trump said on Fox Business on Wednesday.
A U.S. agency spent 13 years documenting our government’s failure to stabilize or rebuild the country.
As the humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan continues to brutally unfold, there are not a few “we told you so” lecturers out there. But nobody has earned their stripes more than the office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). Created by Congress in 2008, SIGAR’s job is to serve as independent oversight over the more than $140 billion dollars appropriated for the country’s reconstruction efforts.
A military judge has found a Canadian soldier guilty of drugging her comrades with cannabis cupcakes during a live-fire training exercise, calling her actions “shockingly unacceptable.”
Bombardier Chelsea Cogswell was found guilty Wednesday on nine charges, including eight charges of administering a noxious substance and one charge of behaving in a disgraceful manner, in the first trial of its kind for the Canadian military.
