When everyone is a neo-Nazi, no one is a neo-Nazi
Gerald used to get that. He apparently doesn’t anymore.
I have been writing about the far Right for decades. Calling a mainstream political opponent “alt-Right” is appallingly stupid – it creates a false equivalency between mainstream political actors and actual neo-Nazis. It is dangerous and despicable. #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/YCrtbgVXzl
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 20, 2018
Ouch.
One of the smart young people who works with me said: “@MooreNpd should say: I stepped aside and submitted to an investigation of alleged sexual misconduct. I was cleared. Why won’t @JustinTrudeau do likewise?” #cdnpoli
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 19, 2018
Meet the new boss, he’s always been the same boss
This is a hate crime
It is also an attempted murder on a man because he is a Muslim. It needs to be condemned by all, and pursued by police with a vengeance.
Mohammed Abu Marzouk, 39, was just about to head home from a picnic he was attending with his family near the Mississauga Valley Community Centre on Sunday night when two men passing on foot behind his car started shouting at the family, “f–king Arab people! Terrorists,” his wife, Diana Attar, said in an exclusive interview with CBC News.
“Please don’t touch him, please don’t hurt my husband. I have two little girls, please don’t hurt my husband,” Attar remembers pleading.
Nearby, she spotted a police car and ran to ask for help. When she returned, her husband had fallen to the ground, blood spilling from his ear and pooling around his head. Moments later, he lost consciousness and Attar began reciting prayers that Abu Marzouk would survive.
The father of two was rushed to a Toronto trauma centre with what his family says were multiple fractures to the face along with brain hemorrhaging. Almost immediately, he was taken into surgery where Attar says they “removed a part of his skull” to stop the bleeding and put on a breathing tube.
All the while, Attar says, her four-and six-year-old daughters were asking her if their dad had died and if they would ever see him again.
It’s a craaaazy old world
Come see us, you cheap bastards
Just ten clams. Nineteen and over. Open until 4 a.m.
What Kathleen Wynne is owed
Steve Paikin is a nicer guy than me. As seen here, he is urging people to forgive Kathleen Wynne’s disappearance from the legislature.
I am not so forgiving.
The Ontario Liberal Party was my political home. I was proud to run its winning war rooms in 2003, 2007 and 2011, and to serve under Dalton McGuinty and Don Guy. I was equally proud to work with great people like Chris Morley, Laura Miller and Brendan McGuinty.
Kathleen Wynne – and her Wizard and her Board, the ones who pushed out dissenters and made themselves a fortune in contracts from both the party and the government – have destroyed the Ontario Liberal Party, perhaps for good.
This is Kathleen Wynne’s legacy:
• The loss of party status, and all that goes with that.
• A double-digit debt, one that will be impossible to pay off for years to come.
• The worst election performance in Ontario political history.
• A party that is reviled and despised, and with no sense of what it stands for anymore.
When the microphones and cameras were pointed her way, Kathleen Wynne was charming and exuded warmth. When they weren’t, Kathleen Wynne was just another politician: a ruthless operator, one who was willing to say and do anything to hold onto power. One who believed it was all about her.
To my friend Steve Paikin, then, I respectfully dissent. I say, instead, that this is all that Kathleen Wynne and her loathsome wrecking crew are owed:
Nothing.
The new world disorder
This morning, Putin again viewed a map of the five places he plans to annex next: Eastern Ukraine, Transnistria and Gagauzia in Moldova, Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Georgia. To do so, he needs Republicans to match their rhetoric with action.
They won’t. #uspolitics
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 17, 2018