Monday, September 21, 2026

Is It OK to Hate Canada Now?


Blame Canada! Blame Canada! You know that everything’s gone wrong since Canada came along! — South Park, The Movie 

On September 16, 2026, the Ontario Superior Court Justice Ann Molloy convicted a Christian activist named Bill Whatcott of “willful promotion of hatred.”

What did Bill do that was so hateful? With five fellow Christians, he dressed up as a gay zombie, complete with a green skin suit and tutu, then he passed out gospel tracts disguised as condom packages to the 2016 Toronto Pride parade attendees: a silly practical joke to share the Good News. For 10 years, the Canadian government has pursued and persecuted Whatcott, believing that his little evangelical escapade was a greater affront to Canadian society than, say, homeless vagrants defecating on major city streets, the destructive spread of fentanyl, or the rise of other serious crimes. In 2024, the Toronto Police Chief advised residents to leave their car keys on their front porches to avoid harm or death in the face of the city’s epidemic of car theft.

In Canada, passing out Gospel tracts is the heinous crime that must be stamped out. Yes, you can go to jail for so-called “hate speech” in Canada, too. They don’t have freedom of speech in the Great White North, despite all their supposed claims and celebrations about a Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Those mere parchment guarantees guarantee nothing for the average Canadian citizen. For Christians, even less. Even Holocaust deniershave gone to jail in Canada, as well as critics of Islam. A Saskatchewan man went to jail for willful promotion of hatred against an unidentified identity group! No matter how vile or disconcerting someone’s speech may be, the proper remedy is more speech. For Canada, the answer is a jail cell, a complete violation of natural law and natural right.

The conviction of a Christian in a purported Western country, especially one outside of Europe (which has sadly maintained its own poor record on freedom of speech), is a travesty. It sickens me, and it should infuriate all of us.

My animus with Canada originates with the ongoing persecution of Mr. Whatcott, which I have written about before, but there is more reason for the rest of us to despise our northern neighbor. In 2021, Whatcott was actually declared “not guilty” of these thought-crimes! Unfortunately, unlike other Commonwealth nations, Canada permits double jeopardy. The Crown can appeal an acquittal and demand a retrial. This is insane. With such kangaroo (or bull moose?) justice, can any Canadian hope for justice if the government can keep appealing your acquittal? In theory, the government can persecute a suspect with vexatious litigation until the citizen calls it quits and goes to jail.

That is not justice.

Injustice reigns in Canada in other ways, as well.

There is no Second Amendment, so gun ownership is tenuous at best. The Justin Trudeau government issued a blanket gun confiscation scheme, and current prime minister Mark Carney has expanded on this tyranny. To their credit, some provincial governments have started pushing back, but by and large the country remains gun-shy. Despite the aversion to firearms, Canada has witnessed a disturbing increase in gun-related crimes. No kidding, eh?!

Every provincial government across the nation has also established Human Rights Tribunals, before which aggrieved citizens can drag their counterparts and demand compensation for offending them. The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal ordered Whatcott to pay $55,000 to a confused man wearing a dress because he called him a “he.” The same provincial tribunal finedMcDonald’s for firing an employee because she had failed to wash his hands properly. One Human Rights case dragged on for 23 years! Only recently, a former chairman of one of these tribunals has begun sounding the alarm on their abuses. Too little, too late.

Their healthcare system is not just abysmal; it’s evil. Instead of care, you get a waitlist, or the option to end your life. The testimony of Donovan James and his wife Kristin, who is surviving and thriving despite Stage Four ovarian cancer, should chill and outrage all of us. The Canadian system told Donovan’s wife to choose MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) instead of providing her adequate healthcare. The couple gave their government the middle finger and fled to America to live. Many Canadians do that, in fact, and there are plenty of reasons why. The wait times for a surgeon or a specialist are much longer in Canada than in the U.S. Michigan-born American commentator Steve Crowder’s expose of the rampant incompetence of the horrible healthcare system in Canada is entertaining if it weren’t so devastating.

Canada has been the most intransigent opponent of the United States. Last month, Vice President JD Vance remarked on the ongoing frustrations our leaders have faced just trying to work out a better trade deal with our northern neighbors. They won’t budge one bit toward better trade. They won’t negotiate in good faith with us, and they insist on keeping their Dairy Cartel and other heightened tariffs to protect their industries while shutting out our country’s goods.

Canada and its leaders have been growing closer to China, too, and even allowed their military to conduct training exercises! Canada is supposed to be our ally. Instead, they lock up Christians; they tell their citizens to tolerate crime; they offer death instead of healthcare; they fight us on trade while resisting our own national interests and reject cooperation.

Canada, a Frozen Banana Republic, and the voters are proud of this increasing hostility to the United States. After ten years of woke tyranny under Justin Trudeau, Carney repeated “Orange Man Bad” and bashed Trump, and Canadians went along with it. They have no problem voting to their own harm, just as long as they can retaliate against the United States.

The West is dying from wokeness, the progressive leftist madness that insists on seeing disparities of any kind as discrimination, which treats absolute equality as the end goal of society, not the protection of citizens’ natural rights or even public safety. Canada is in the terminal stages of this morally bankrupt mind virus, and the citizens are proud of it! Canada officially sucks. Pardon my invective, but this wannabe runt cousin of the United States is just plain horrible. South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone were onto something, after all!

I never thought I would have such an abiding disdain for a nation. Mexico deserves our opprobrium for the border controversies, but that country is a better trade partner that President Trump has knuckled under to our advantage. China is the United States’ most militant adversary, yet that country does not pretend to be free or enlightened. The European Union and its member states have their own share of issues, but a rising populist, nationalist conservative movement is making headway across the continent, and even the more liberal interests across Europe are willing to work with Trump, since Europe needs our money and military aid.

There is no such thing as “Canada Nice.” There is no “nice” in its government, and it’s time for Western countries that care about the rule of law, individual liberty, and citizen sovereignty to stop being so nice to its leaders.


Podcast thread for Sept 21

 


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The Last Stand of Rove, Cornyn, and the Establishment Frauds


Twenty years ago, people would’ve thought you were crazy if you told them that Karl Rove would be welcomed onto the pages of the regime media to announce that his powerful principles require him to vote for a Democrat who believes you should carve up little boys and girls to conform to the trendy gender delusions of their Munchausen mommies. But in 2026, when he did that, nobody was surprised. Nobody was shocked. After all, betrayal is the old Republican establishment’s brand.

Rove and his ilk claim that taking sides against us is mandated by their principles. What principles? We understand what the principles of our alleged betters in the conservative (sic) movement really are. They’re not a set of rigid standards that must be adhered to at all costs and hazards; they’re a joke, a ploy to manipulate the rubes, moral Calvinball for people who demand our respect and obedience yet hold us in utter contempt.

But of course, Karl Rove isn’t alone. The doddering has-been is just emblematic of a particularly pernicious political type that those of us who actually believe in something beyond our own prosperity, prestige, and power have been trying to exile from the GOP for decades. All this stuff about the gentlemen of the Republican Party, the compassionate conservatives, the sensible adults in the room, has been revealed to be a lie, but it was always a lie. It was always a scam. When they speak of principles, they’re talking about arbitrary and amorphous guidelines that they impose from on high to control you. But those principles never apply to them. Why, the idea that they should be bound by any guardrails is profoundly insulting to them. They are beyond such common limitations. You, however, are absolutely bound to them, like a serf to his master’s fields.

And here’s the not-so-surprising part. Those principles they always talk about? Somehow, those principles always end up reinforcing the power of the failed GOP establishment at the expense of the GOP base. And those principles always require that we give up our interests, our rights, and our prosperity. Pretty convenient, huh? Tell me one establishment GOP principle that helps us in the base at the expense of those at the peak of the pyramid, and I’ll show you a unicorn.

There’s no such thing as a unicorn.

Why are they taking this opportunity to ostentatiously demonstrate to the people who hate them that they are dissociating themselves from us at the same time the Republican Party faces a very tough midterm? After all, all that’s on the line are the myriad conservative achievements of the Trump administration. It’s no biggie. And what was the catastrophic outrage of outrages that forced them, almost against their will, to take sides against their own party in this time of crisis? Well, an obscure Republican candidate for an obscure Texas political office sent an inartful tweet referencing the anxiety of many Americans about the demographic change in the country that they were never consulted about. That earth-shaking political tsunami of a tweet, according to their principles, requires them to help the Democrats destroy everything we’ve done to save this country. You know, because of Muh Principles.

Uh, no. This was just a convenient excuse for them to do what they wanted to do anyway, which is to slap back at the people who dared not to genuflect to them anymore. Do you think Karl Rove would be doing this if anyone at the White House took his calls? Their phony outrage is a convenient excuse. The issue isn’t whether it was a nice tweet or not; the issue is that they didn’t have to trash their own party, but they chose to do it anyway. You can choose what you’re outraged about. And moreover, this is an opportunity for them to tell you you’re not allowed to talk about the issue of demographic change. They think they should define what is acceptable discourse. One of the big reasons they hate Trump is that Trump started talking about immigration, and they didn’t like that. They had decreed you’re not allowed to talk about it, and then this guy did. How dare he! But Trump spoke for us when no one else in the GOP would. They didn’t want our input because our input wasn’t going to be what they wanted. Guys like Karl Rove and his boss, George Religion of Peace Bush, decided that what America needed to do was change, and what they didn’t need to do was ask us about it. They just did it without asking, just like they sent our jobs overseas, because they knew better. Because they were smarter. More moral. Our betters. 

The Tea Party and Donald Trump were largely a reaction to these guys, and we’ve been fighting and largely winning that war ever since. We were once an insurgency; now we are in power. There are far fewer of these throwbacks than there used to be. But the fight continues. They are still out there, popping their little weasel heads up out of their holes to bitterly nip at our ankles.

Oh, it’s not just Karl Rove. Senator John Cornyn (“R”-Nowhere) is part of this imbroglio too. He is big mad that Texas voters rejected him. He must be pretty humiliated right now, which is good, because he deserves it. He wouldn’t be in this situation if he didn’t have such profound contempt for his own voters. For five years of his Senate terms, he would be back in Washington, DC, clinking glasses at the Palm and helping Democrats with things like gun control and amnesty. And in the sixth year, he would come back to Texas, throw on a cowboy hat for the benefit of the yokels, and pretend he was a conservative interested in conserving something other than his own sinecure. But Ken Paxton, whom the allies of Cornyn, Rove, and Bush tried to frame in a bogus impeachment, ran on a platform of actually doing what the people of Texas wanted. And the Texas GOP drop-kicked Cornyn through the goalposts of failure.

It’s not surprising that the tofu crew is now actively pushing Democrats. They haven’t come right out and endorsed that blasphemous communist imp, James Talarico, but everyone knows they want Pete Buttigieg’s Mini-Me to win. We must be punished for our uppity defiance. The old establishment doesn’t care about the Republicans or this country. It cares about itself. The last few weeks have proven that so conclusively that a Lindsay Clancy juror would vote guilty.

These guys are exactly who we thought they were. Hell, they’re actually worse. At least the snobs and stiffs of a century ago had some sort of sense of noblesse oblige. George H.W. Bush may have been so remote from real people that he didn’t understand a supermarket scanner, but at 19 years old, he jumped in a plane in the Pacific to fight for his country. You don’t see that anymore among our GOP ruling class. His loser son’s Air National Guard service that kept him out of Vietnam required us to come to his defense when Dan Rather presented that infamous fake memo. We had his back even when he wouldn’t defend himself because he was too much of a gentleman to respond to them calling him Chimpy McBu$hitlerburton. And he returned the favor by sticking a knife in our collective back when we chose Donald Trump over his fat brother. We were told to please clap as he palled around with his new buddies, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton; standing up for the icky GOP voters who stood up for him would’ve made for uncomfortable conversations at the country club.

And we were equally stunned the other day when news broke that George Will was likewise promoting the Democrat candidate in South Carolina. Of course, what stunned us the most was that George Will still exists. His decline to bitter establishmentarianism started long ago, which is when we stopped listening. It’s hard to understand how influential he was decades ago, although George Will was always like Peggy Noonan without the testosterone. People used to actually think of him as the touchstone of conservatism, but time has made clear that the performative Republicanism of these guys was just that – a performance. It was an act, a mask, a brand.

So it’s not surprising that their principles were, ironically, totally bereft of any principles. Consistency, patriotism, loyalty – oh, they evoked these concepts endlessly, but only when they’re haranguing us to obey. We were told we had to vote for the incumbent Republican no matter what, swallow whatever they gave us, take whatever they chose to give. Vote for someone who actually wants to do the things we wanted to do? No, that was too dangerous. We might lose in the general if we run a candidate who actually believes in something! No, we had to have the back of Senator Stickuphisrear even though the guy, given the chance, was going to vote with the Democrats to import the entire Third World, disarm us, and give a free hand to their crony capitalist corporate donors. Principles require us to compromise. But principles never required them to do anything.

After decades of dealing with these losers, it’s clear that it was never about us. We poor slobs in the Republican base were all just a means to an end. And the end was them being able to be called “Senator.” It was never about the conservative policies they promised us at election time. They knew it was a lie, and when we figured out it was a lie and picked people who actually do what we wanted done, well, we had to be punished.

Do you think Karl Rove or John Cornyn gives a damn what some rando GOP candidate in the Lone Star State thinks about the demographic composition of the UT-Austin Longhorns cheering section? It’s a pretty safe bet that both of them live in neighborhoods that make a Romney family reunion look like the United Nations General Assembly. Their newfound diversity principles are as fake as everything else about them. They’re not supporting the Democrats because of some moral imperative. They’re doing it to hurt us because we rejected them, because we withheld the respect they believe is their due from their lessers. This latest old GOP establishment treachery isn’t about principles. This is about being pissed off at the people who told them to talk to the hand. And now, as far as we’re concerned, they can talk to the finger.


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Nvidia CEO Discusses Current Status of AI


Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang appears on CBS Face the Nation to discuss AI development and point out that messaging is “quite frankly too much drama, irresponsible. It is not grounded in facts.”  There is the short segment that was broadcast on Sunday morning and also the full video below.



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22 States Sue Trump Admin Over Green Cards for Likely Welfare Recipients

Twenty-two Democrat states have sued President Donald Trump’s administration over its policy to avoid giving green cards to non-citizens who will likely rely on taxpayer-funded welfare. 

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has joined 21 other states and the District of Columbia in suing to halt the Trump administration's new public charge rule.

The new Department of Homeland Security policy would give immigration officers broad discretion to deny green cards based on use of public benefits. 

The states have asked the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York  to declare this rule unlawful.

A “public charge” means a person who is likely to become primarily dependent on the government for long-term subsistence. In 2022, the federal government issued a rule limiting public charge determinations to cash assistance for income maintenance or long-term institutionalization at government expense. 

The Trump administration’s new rule, taking effect September 18, would let immigration officers count nearly any means-tested public benefit, used for any length of time, against an applicant. 

The rule also allows immigration officers to consider some benefits legally used by family members whom the applicant is legally obligated to support.

DHS estimates that disenrollment or forgone enrollment resulting from the new rule could reduce federal Medicaid and CHIP transfer payments to the states by about  $4.05 billion annually and federal SNAP transfer payments by about $1.02 billion annually.

Attorney General Nessel and the coalition argue that the new rule violates the Administrative Procedure Act. 

The attorneys general are asking a federal judge to declare the 2026 public charge rule unlawful and vacate it, protecting states and their residents from its unlawful harms.

Joining Attorney General Nessel in filing this lawsuit are the attorneys general of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawai’i, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and the Governor of Pennsylvania. The lawsuit was filed alongside a coalition of cities and counties led by the City of New York.


Trump Says He’s Turning DC Arch Into a Sniper-Armed Military Complex and the Left Is Not Okay

President Trump on Sunday announced that the long-planned triumphal arch near Arlington Memorial Bridge will serve a far less ceremonial purpose. It will differ from other arches in that it will become a state-of-the-art "military complex," which he describes, of course, as "the greatest of them all."

In a Truth Social post, the President said he has agreed to a request by the United States Military to convert the arch into a dual-purpose monument for "National Security" reasons.

"At the strong request of the United States Military, and for National Security purposes, I have agreed to convert the magnificent Triumphal Arch ... into a top-grade Military Complex/Triumphal Arch, to house, store, and have the rapid ability to use large numbers of drones, plus Snipers, on both the roof and plaza areas," he wrote.

It will "additionally have and hold large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage," he added.

"There will be no facility like this anywhere in the World."

Trump initially viewed the project as a monument that would rival a similar one in Paris.

"We're doing one that will be more magnificent and larger than the Arc de Triomphe in Paris," he told NBC News in February. "It's incredible. We're going to do one that's going to top it."

This one will certainly top it. Liberals were already fuming over it being a massive decorative project. 

"The project has already drawn sharp criticism from preservationists, lawmakers, and veterans who argue it could disrupt views of the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery," Fox News reports. "Opponents have also questioned whether the project requires congressional approval under federal law."

I mean, he could declare he's placing a rock on the ground to honor all of humanity, and the left would demand congressional approval, tie it to fascism, and a judge would put a stay on the project. So there's that.

Let's check in on some liberal responses now that they know it'll be a military complex defending the nation's capital. They'll no doubt be measured and reserved.

Leftist influencer Brian Krassenstein called Trump's post an 84-word run-on sentence and shared some details with his followers. He said that it is “not a normal feature of a ceremonial monument” and asked why a president would want a fortified structure like that in the capital.

The implication, of course, is that he's a dictator.

Embedded tweet continues: 

... why a president would want a heavily fortified structure like that in the capital, especially one designed with weapons and sniper positions built into it.

"Trump is a total loon - he wants a triumphal arch in Washington with snipers on the roof and stuffed full of sniper ammunition," one follower wrote. "He needs to be led away by a nurse."

"Why would Trump’s triumphal arch need snipers? Are the fallen soldiers at Arlington going to rise from the dead and march on the White House?" one person sneered.

"He's going to kill us," another chimed in.

As journalist Salena Zito once wrote of Trump, “The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally."

Zito’s line still fits. His critics are taking the snipers and ammo literally. His supporters are taking the arch seriously. Whether every turret gets built is a later story. Regardless, the freakout is just beginning.


ICE Agent Reportedly Shoots, Wounds Person in North Austin, Officials Say

[Editor's note: This article contains video of a shooting.]

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent appears to have shot someone in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, according to multiple reports on social media.

The person shot was reportedly taken to a hospital. That person's identity isn't known. 

Video shows a damaged blue Toyota Corolla.