One of the things I’ve struggled to wrap my head around when it comes to politics is trying to figure out how come people like Justin Trudeau can’t see their hypocrisy. Well, I’ve given up on it. I think they know full well how hypocritical they are and I think they know the rest of us can see it, but they don’t care whether or not ‘what I say and what I do’ happen to be complete opposites. I mean, if you haven’t jumped off the Trudeau train by now, will you ever? Is there anything he could do that would make you change your mind? Let’s look at the Canada Summer Jobs Program, which saw a massive spike in applications denied from 200 last year to over 1600 this year because many groups refused to check the Liberals’ attestation box that requires you to swear your support for female reproductive rights. Meanwhile, the government had no problem giving money to Dogwood, a British Columbia, advocacy group that has a core intention of ‘stopping the Kinder Morgan pipeline tanker project’. This is a project, the federal government has approved. Now, they are funding groups that want to stop it. If that’s not bad enough, Trudeau explains why it’s okay by saying, “We believe in free speech and advocacy.” Oh really. What happened to free speech when it comes to female reproductive rights? Trudeau doesn’t stop there. “We will not remove funding from advocacy organizations because we, as a government, happen to disagree with them.” It’s funny if it wasn’t so tragic. An Alberta group called Mustard Seed Street Ministry, which is dedicated to helping the homeless, didn’t qualify for funding this year because, even though their work has nothing to do with opposing abortion, the personal beliefs of those in charge of the organization don’t align with the attestation box. It doesn’t mean they are going to cause problems for people seeking an abortion, they just don’t agree with it. Yet, the Liberals disqualify this particular charity and give money to another group (Dogwood) that is hell bent on killing jobs and stopping a government approved project. Hypocrisy at its finest and Trudeau has to know this. He just doesn’t care because his supporters will always be his supporters no matter what.
In Ontario, media is working overtime to try and get the NDP voted into provincial power. The latest was a fake poll that had the party up by 10% over the Doug Ford Conservatives. After a day and a half, the poll was revealed to be fake. What is also fake is the character sketch of Ford that has him as a Donald Trump clone. Nothing could be further from the truth, yet there are many who buy it because if the media says so, it must be true. I did see a hilarious meme on the NDP the other day that said they have a new McDonald’s Value Meal. It goes like this, ‘Order whatever you want and the guy behind you has to pay for it’. There was another one that had a picture of half a sign for NDP leader Andrea Horvath. The entire right hand side of the sign had been ripped off with a note that sad, ‘I took half of your sign because you had one and I didn’t. I know you will understand.’ We laugh, but there’s a scary amount of people who think this is okay or they wouldn’t support political parties such as this.
In the United States, a 30-year-old man is suing his parents for the right to continue to live in their basement. You read that right. The story was talked about on Tucker Carlson’s show while he was interviewing Mike Rowe, a television personality who says it’s getting harder and harder to give away scholarship money because not as many students want to work in order to achieve the reward. Rowe also made quite a statement when it comes to safety. He says it’s no coincidence that most of the pedestrian accidents occur at intersections where there are all kinds of signs indicating that it’s alright to proceed and walk. We’ve lost the ability to think for ourselves, we just obey the sign because ‘safety first’. Rowe says safety shouldn’t be the priority. When you say ‘safety first’, you are assuming someone else cares more about your well being than you do. The unintended consequence is not safety at all. He closed the interview by saying that when you get on an airplane, he’d like to hear the pilot get on the loud speaker and say, “Sit back and relax because I love my own life and I’m going to get myself home in one piece, so don’t worry. You are in good hands.”
Nice person mentions this week: Chris Wentzell, Josh Garbutt, Dave Esslinger, Darren Wandy, Jesse Barfield, Steve Rogers, Dana Rathgeber, and Darlene Rutten.
