We get letters
Two things: one, I will almost certainly end up in a casket, although I suspect this guy will be in a casket first.
Secondly, I rather like that epithet. It means that I have warmth, depth and I make people happy.
Candid Carney comment
Mark Carney’s running an effective campaign.
It’s low-bridge, it avoids media, yes, it doesn’t say much. But he’s doing well not just because voters have suddenly started to dislike Poilievre (Poilievre has never been universally loved).
He’s doing well because he’s run a good campaign.
PSA
Got a book coming, a documentary coming and much more – so I will have lots of exclusive content, as they say, on Substack in the coming months. It’s a platform that has really worked for guys like me. Here’s where it’s at.
Kinsellart
My latest: in a dark time
As a starting proposition, I am grateful my parents are not alive to see any of this.
Babies and mothers abducted and murdered, for the sin of being Jewish, and much of the world shrugging. Monsters disguised as men, spraying schools and places of worship with bullets. Swastikas and symbols of death being paraded through places where ordinary people live, with impunity. Science being denied, democracy being denuded, ignorance being celebrated.
And, now, the most powerful man on Earth – in just one month – upending Western civilization, demonizing allies, and forming a Satanic alliance with the fascistic, genocidal Russian regime.
It is a cliché to say that we are living through history. But this? This? This feels like what my parents must have felt, observing the rise of Nazism and Hitler, and wondering if it was ever going to get better. Wondering if it could all be actually happening.
Now, as then, it is probably a waste of time to speculate about the motivations of madmen. Is Donald Trump mentally ill? Is he fashioning a dictatorship? Is Putin blackmailing him with some decade-old footage taken one night at the presidential suite at Moscow’s Ritz Carlton Hotel?
The same sorts of questions were asked about Hitler and his ilk, and no one had the answer. So, then – as now – politicians and pundits sought to defend the indefensible. All of us are familiar with the symptoms of that disease: asserting that Donald Trump is right on borders or fentanyl or dairy products or banking or military spending, or whatever lie he conjures up to justify his psychopathy. As long as he has the right ideology, these Vichy Canadians believe, Trump’s thuggery is justifiable.
Except it isn’t, not ever. Three years ago this week, Russia invaded Ukraine.
[To read more, subscribe here]
We have us a race, folks!
I like this. Why?
1. I like horse races – they’re more fun.
2. It forces Poilievre to be definitive on opposing Trump. He was slippery before. Not now.
My latest: Carney’s silence
With an uneasy ceasefire in place, and some hostages finally being released, it’s likely that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s brain trust figured they could keep doing what they had been doing on Israel.
Which is silence.
And, yes, Prime Minister Carney. On March 9, the Liberal Party will select a new leader. In less than three weeks, the Justin Trudeau era will (blessedly) come to an end, and Carney will become Prime Minister of All Of Canada. By all accounts, he’s far, far ahead in the Liberal leadership race. So he’s the one.
That’s how the system works. The party with the most seats in the House of Commons forms the government, and that party’s leader gets to be Prime Minister. Here, Carney.
He’s run a classic low-bridge campaign since he announced his candidacy on January 16. He’s avoided media, he’s avoided specifics, and – in particular – he’s mostly avoided talking about Israel.
The folks who advise him are entirely comprised of Justin Trudeau’s gang, so it’s no surprise that Carney’s has been AWOL on the Israel-Hamas war. Apart from those occasions where schools for little Jewish kids got shot up in the city he represents, Trudeau usually did the same thing. Thoughts and prayers, enough is enough, this isn’t who we are, etc. etc. Rinse and repeat.
[To read more, subscribe here]
New one. May sell.
Part of proceeds go to Ukrainian Red Cross.
