“… who are an often vain, cynical, and short-sighted class of people, who seem incapable of realizing they’re the Buchanans from Gatsby. They break, take, and inflate, while acting as if they’re innocent and above it all.” Exquisite and no better description exists.
This is a breath of fresh air. I used to go to The Line with Jen and Matt for reaction to things like this but lately I couldn't give 6 to 5 whether they would be agreeing with you... or the Laurentians. Sad. Congrats you won a Founding Level subscriber.
On your story; excellently well written and an accurate review. I have family close to the area (really close, like 30 miles of Caribbean close) and they are delighted because they have seen the damage Maduro (and Chavez before him) have done to a beautiful rich country. I happen to like Trump, warts and all - you comments on the aging of regime change is enough for a column itself if you ever want it written - because he will get things done. I'd love to be in Wisconsin with a mountain of popcorn to watch Minnesota play out.
I am glad to see you calling out the Laurentians and the Lib-Dip Boomers for their faux hand wringing and kvetching (love that you actually used that word!) that truly cares nothing for our country and is entirely driven by a threat to their bread line funded by those of us that still have to actually work for a living. Most of them (teachers, academics and assorted government-of-all-levels sponsored toadies) are now in retirement actually contributing taxes for the first time. Their "who cares" leadership might actually have to care now. The cash pipeline out of Alberta is threatened and thus their fun money might be reduced or cut. Good. Welcome Quebec, Ottawa, and the east to OUR lives. Sub represented and abused by Ottawa, rural Ontario and all points west should be smiling at this one.
With every move Donald Trump makes we hear the Liberals & their heavily subsidized media howling Orange Man bad. Every day they isolate themselves more and more from the realities of the world and especially being a neighbour of US. The truth is the ground owned by independent media & it's numerous excellent writers must be supported financially by readers otherwise Canada will backslide further into the crevice of left wing authoritarianism, no better example than Venezuela. Canadians are forced to pay for left wing legacy media even though fewer and fewer of us watch and read it, so make sure you do support independent media that is trying to save us.
So the Canadian left is now concerned about the Oil sector. If that is really the case ,there is simple solution Build the west coast pipeline now . It will take years to get the Venezuela oil fields back in business .
But they will just whine about Trump and do nothing to fix Canadas problem.
“… who are an often vain, cynical, and short-sighted class of people, who seem incapable of realizing they’re the Buchanans from Gatsby. They break, take, and inflate, while acting as if they’re innocent and above it all.” Exquisite and no better description exists.
This is a breath of fresh air. I used to go to The Line with Jen and Matt for reaction to things like this but lately I couldn't give 6 to 5 whether they would be agreeing with you... or the Laurentians. Sad. Congrats you won a Founding Level subscriber.
On your story; excellently well written and an accurate review. I have family close to the area (really close, like 30 miles of Caribbean close) and they are delighted because they have seen the damage Maduro (and Chavez before him) have done to a beautiful rich country. I happen to like Trump, warts and all - you comments on the aging of regime change is enough for a column itself if you ever want it written - because he will get things done. I'd love to be in Wisconsin with a mountain of popcorn to watch Minnesota play out.
I am glad to see you calling out the Laurentians and the Lib-Dip Boomers for their faux hand wringing and kvetching (love that you actually used that word!) that truly cares nothing for our country and is entirely driven by a threat to their bread line funded by those of us that still have to actually work for a living. Most of them (teachers, academics and assorted government-of-all-levels sponsored toadies) are now in retirement actually contributing taxes for the first time. Their "who cares" leadership might actually have to care now. The cash pipeline out of Alberta is threatened and thus their fun money might be reduced or cut. Good. Welcome Quebec, Ottawa, and the east to OUR lives. Sub represented and abused by Ottawa, rural Ontario and all points west should be smiling at this one.
An excellent story. I'm looking forward to more.
With every move Donald Trump makes we hear the Liberals & their heavily subsidized media howling Orange Man bad. Every day they isolate themselves more and more from the realities of the world and especially being a neighbour of US. The truth is the ground owned by independent media & it's numerous excellent writers must be supported financially by readers otherwise Canada will backslide further into the crevice of left wing authoritarianism, no better example than Venezuela. Canadians are forced to pay for left wing legacy media even though fewer and fewer of us watch and read it, so make sure you do support independent media that is trying to save us.
So the Canadian left is now concerned about the Oil sector. If that is really the case ,there is simple solution Build the west coast pipeline now . It will take years to get the Venezuela oil fields back in business .
But they will just whine about Trump and do nothing to fix Canadas problem.
I genuinely hope the Liberal Party doubles down on their position.
This is a great issue over which we can label the Liberals as supporters of unacceptable dictatorships.
Iran and Cuba are directly next in line.