— Feature, Musings —10.01.2023 09:41 AM
— Feature, Musings —10.01.2023 09:41 AM
The Arrivals track a banger. Extremely busy bass and drums.
Warren,
Let’s get down to brass tacks: much of the immigration apparatus in both Canada and the United States was rife with antisemites in the 1930s, 40s and 50s. The MS St. Louis is a textbook example of that. Denied entry into Cuba, the United States and Canada, the ship was forced to return to Europe. And our politicians turned a deliberate blind eye. That is rather telling as to the level of antisemitism in those days. My Mom’s Dad and many of her uncles and aunts in Scotland were antisemites. (Not my Mom, her Mom or my Mom’s brothers and sisters.) Let’s just say we weren’t the only family in Canada with members who held those views. I’ll leave it at that.
From what I understand from historians, this specific problem of people who served in Nazi outfits like the Waffen SS also has a lot to do with the politics and strategic mindset of the Cold War. There are all kinds of examples circa roughly 1945 to, say, 1970 of Western governments treating Nazis or Nazi-adjacent types with kid gloves because of the prevailing sentiment that WW2 was history but the conflict with the Soviets was the order of the day.
The most high-profile and best-known example was the Nazi scientists and weapons experts. The fate of Hunka and a bunch of his colleagues and the decision to permit them into Canada was all part of that general sentiment and approach.
When the war ended the allies were more interested in intelligence and science, than punishment. The cold war started as soon as WWII ended.
A nameless Tru-anon twitter bot is responding to everyone who posts about Hunka’s inconvenient presence is that it is Mulroney’s fault. The only thing more ridiculous would be if it blamed Harper. But it’s early.
Yes, that’s pretty funny — and absurd — given the fact that Brian Mulroney was 12 years old when Hunka immigrated to Canada.
It actually hit me this morning that my dad met my mom in North Bay the year Hunka arrived. So, yes, ancient history.
Buffoonery at levels unimaginable.
Oh Needles/Pins and Best Coast tracks great too. For E in case you two aren’t familiar. You might even like it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FshX3HvThs
With all the Nazi stuff and defense budget cuts, I guess just no time to discuss Marc Miller’s dumbass tweet about Pierre and T and R. And the CRTC’s equally dumbass ruling and Trudeau’s latest attempt to control free speech.
https://www.canada.ca/en/radio-television-telecommunications/news/2023/09/crtc-takes-major-step-forward-to-modernize-canadas-broadcasting-framework.html
I had big problems with the CRTC even before I got that politically engaged. Stay the fuck away from my music. Read this ruling if you want your head to spin:
https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/1985/db85-922.htm
So given these articles, maybe the above topics might get discussed next Sunday but it is still VERY early in the week.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/marc-miller-shows-how-low-trudeau-liberals-will-sink-to-attack
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/kinsella-trudeau-governments-plan-gives-angry-little-men-a-way-to-silence-you-online
The issue of Mr Hunka is well covered on my second favourite podcast:
https://www.racket.news/p/america-this-week-september-29-2023?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=p01yh#details
Wow! Sharing. Everyone needs to listen to that. And will add that to what I listen to. Thanks for that. Tiabbi great. Did some very funny writing for RS and always good on Bill Maher. Hadn’t watched Rota since watching his inconvenient call out a week ago Friday and seeing his ridiculous grin again just makes you shake you head.
Tons of great quotes in there and these are just a few.
“It’s profound ignorance.”
“This is the sound of people applauding their own virtue”
“Unstoppable in their admiration in themselves”
“Who are these illiterates”
“They are trained seals”
“Very stupid people”
“They were all idiots”
“They were absolutely puppets on a string”
“His first draft apology”-referring to Justin
“I don’t think he knows what’s going on”-again referring to Justin’s first apology
“The CBC continues to not cover itself in glory”-referring to the coverage.
“Are they Nazis or Bolsheviks.”
“What kind of zoo is the Canadian parliament to have this stricken from the record”-Goold’s(sic) effort to go 1984 on what happened
Some pretty good comments on the convoy that will make the tru-anons’ heads explode.
“The totalitarian, smug, insular, moronic nature of these regimes”
“They have neither the moral, intellectual or political authority to do what they are doing”
On his second apology-sounded like something Chatgpt could have written.
From a liberal who wrote Walter-I just think that Canada is just a testing ground for creepy policy
“It looked like a Nazi rally”
The Hunka mess started at the top. Team Justin has inculcated the Liberal Party with ignoring facts, casual disinterest in the truth, normalizing blatant dishonesty, disingenuous virtue signaling, skipping homework, blind appeal to authority, fakety fake fake fakeroo every day on every issue imaginable…. and then we get this. Clapping for a Nazi in parliament. We might all be appalled… but are we really surprised at this point? Not really. The only question is what heretofore unimaginably mortifying embarrassments await Canada tomorrow, the next day, next week, next month….