Links - 15th October 2026 (Canadian Politics [including Eby in BC])

Meme - *Huge ball rolling down hill. 10 years of NDP. Property Rights. Crime. Healthcare. Infrastructure. Jobs*
Eby running: "It's Trump's fault!"
*Running men identically dressed in suits with yellow ties*
*"Vote NDP again!" sign*

Meme - "BC NDP premier David Eby is a far-left lunatic who has brought nothing to his province aside from debt, drugs, tent cities, corruption and poverty. SHARE IF YOU'RE EXCITED FOR BRITISH COLUMBIANS TO FIRE HIM"

Adam Pankratz: David Eby's new big idea — food shortages | National Post - "David Eby has looked at his election campaign struggling to find its feet and decided that while socialism is good, even more socialism would be better. And so, last week, British Columbia’s stumbling premier announced a cap on corporate grocery profits on milk, eggs, butter, cheese, chicken and turkey. How this will actually address the affordability crisis that has flourished under Eby’s watch is unclear. What is, however, clear is that under Eby no private business will be permitted to move or operate without government restrictions, involvement or extra taxes. At his news conference Eby did not spell out exactly what capping profits entailed, but one must assume it means price controls... Welcome to Soviet British Columbia. Price controls have widely been shown by economists to have significant negative effects on an economy as well as the people they are purported to benefit. The reason is straightforward: by artificially capping prices, transactions which would otherwise occur at the higher, market price are not realized. Without a clear price signal (and thus profit incentive) the market will not produce the correct amount of the price-controlled product. As a result, the market will be undersupplied for the products it would otherwise purchase. True demand, in other words, will not be met. This has consequences, and they are not good. What Eby’s grocery store folly would mean in practice for British Columbians is that grocery stores will shift away from selling the correct, market demanded amount of milk, eggs, butter, cheese, chicken and turkey, and focus on selling other products at likely higher prices to make up for their profit shortfall in the price-controlled areas. The result is terrible for consumers and families. Those who can quickly get the products they want before the stores run out may have lower prices, but families who aren’t as fast won’t get anything because the product doesn’t exist in sufficient quantities to meet market demand. Lower prices resulting in empty shelves isn’t a solution to anything. David Eby’s economics are both further ludicrous and insulting. Ludicrous because Canadian grocery store profits are extremely low already. In 2025, Loblaws, for example, noted that margins in the sector average three to four per cent. This is not indicative of an industry which is gouging consumers, but rather one which operates extremely efficiently in a competitive, price sensitive market. The insult comes from Eby choosing to aim his fire at Save-On-Foods, locally owned by B.C. billionaire Jimmy Pattison. Pattison is rich, yes, but also extremely philanthropic. He has donated over $200 million to hospitals and health care facilities, including a $75 million dollar donation to Vancouver’s St Paul’s hospital in 2017. That donation is a Canadian record. Eby doesn’t care because Pattison is rich and therefore by definition evil. This default move to restrict the open market and despise the successful is a hallmark of what David Eby’s NDP is all about. To address the Vancouver housing crisis, Eby has proposed taxing newly built, unsold condo units. He has claimed developers are “hoarding” the apartments. As with the grocery stores, he says that he is “standing up to developers.” In reality this is just more economic lunacy. Developers aren’t “hoarding” condos. They can’t sell them because the economic conditions of the province Eby and the NDP have presided over for nine years is so bad there are no buyers. Just as capping grocery profits doesn’t solve the affordability crisis and can create artificial market shortages, all taxing new developments achieves is to create a disincentive for developers to continue building, knowing that any empty units could be subject to Eby’s unsold condo tax. The result is fewer new units coming on the market and an even worse housing crisis in the future. David Eby’s anti-Trump campaign message for his unnecessary election has fallen flat with British Columbians. In response he is flailing around in a desperate attempt to find something that might stick. So far, all Eby has found to offer British Columbians is more taxes and Soviet-inspired price controls. None of these policies address the real problems British Columbians are facing and only shine a spotlight on how Eby’s government is completely out of ideas."
If BC voters haven't had enough of disastrous left wing policies, they deserve what's coming to them

Eby takes aim at Jim Pattison, one of B.C.'s few captains of industry | National Post - "Being a wildly successful, humble philanthropist isn’t as easy as it used to be. While society used to laud those who created jobs and wealth, today such activities are viewed with suspicion and even liable to land you in the cross-hairs of jealous politicians with an axe to grind. And so it was that, on Friday, B.C. NDP Leader David Eby stood in front of a Save-On-Foods supermarket in Kelowna to take cheap, gratuitous shots at the province’s homegrown billionaire, Jim Pattison. While taking such under-the-table shots is par for the course for Eby, it’s hard to think of someone less deserving of such treatment than Pattison. An observant person driving around the Lower Mainland will notice the names of B.C.’s great philanthropists on public buildings. That same person would also notice that one name is seen more often and in larger print than any other: Jim Pattison. He’s respected throughout the province not only for his incredible business success but because of how he has poured money into charitable gifts, notably in health care. For the new St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, Pattison donated $75 million. That’s a Canadian record for a private citizen. St. Paul’s is not, however, the only beneficiary of Pattison’s philanthropy. In 1999, the Vancouver General Hospital received $20 million. Lions Gate Hospital got $5 million in 2008. Surrey Memorial Hospital received $5 million in 2011. Burnaby Hospital recently got $5 million. And in 2022, New Westminster’s Royal Columbian Hospital received $30 million to fund its redevelopment. That’s literally tens of millions of dollars given away to help British Columbians and their health-care needs. The scale of his charity ought to prevent venal politicians from slagging Pattison for the “crime” of being a billionaire, but those are not his only contributions to B.C. He also creates huge numbers of jobs. The Jim Pattison Group employs 57,000 people worldwide and has $20 billion in annual revenues. Around 45,000 of those employees are in British Columbia, which makes Pattison Group the province’s largest private employer. In an election campaign in which Eby has encouraged all and sundry to “Buy B.C.” and “Build B.C.,” it’s hard to think of anyone who has done more of that than Pattison. Moreover, from 2001 to 2022, the president and CEO of the Jim Pattison Group was former NDP premier Glen Clark. Indeed, most B.C. politicians have managed to recognize that, whether or not they agreed with everything Pattison did, he is certainly a net good for the province, as both a creator of jobs and wealth, and as a generous philanthropist. In today’s pathetically polarized world, however, characters like Eby can’t see past their own ideological noses to recognize someone who has made the province better. The fact that Eby chose the Pattison-owned Save-On-Foods rather than, say, Walmart, as the back drop for his cap on food prices announcement is as insulting as it is revelatory of a party that hates anything that might smell of private enterprise doing well. There’s no denying that Pattison has personally benefited from his business acumen and track record of success. Why this is a problem in the eyes of people like Eby is the real mystery. Pressed on his unwarranted attack on Pattison, Eby dug in his heels, saying he would not apologize for standing up for families by lowering grocery prices. It’s unbecoming and juvenile. Dumping on billionaires is fashionable in some circles, and there are instances where opprobrium for their behaviour is well warranted. Jim Pattison isn’t one of those cases and any responsible politician would recognize that fact and celebrate that he’s one of our own."
Left wingers won't be happy till the rich are no longer rich

Eby's campaign goes from bad to worse with daycare fiasco | National Post - "The B.C. NDP election campaign took another turn towards oblivion over the weekend when it emerged that Leader David Eby’s family took a spot in one of the province’s $10-a-day daycare facilities. Following Eby’s bizarre attacks last week on local philanthropist Jim Pattison for the crime of being successful, this latest episode raises the question of who Eby has more disdain for: billionaires or single mothers trying to access his government’s hard-to-find $10 daycare spaces. Brought in under former NDP premier John Horgan, the $10-a-day daycare program was planned to be universal, but currently only 10 per cent of the province’s daycare spots fall into that category and B.C. cities have the highest daycare fees in the country... we do know that as premier, Eby earns $227,000 a year, and his wife is a doctor. That means a family income likely approaching $500,000, if not more — not exactly the people the limited $10 daycare spots are supposed to benefit. No one should begrudge Eby and his family for their financial success, but voters are more than entitled to raise their eyebrows at a premier who talks of defending the interests of those less fortunate, while filching daycare spots designed for the working mothers and families he loves to crow about on the campaign trail. Once again, Eby’s hypocrisy is on full display. In response to another campaign misstep, Eby has been quick to point out that his family made a donation to the daycare in question as they “felt that we did not need that discount.” Fair enough. But what would Eby say to the person in need who never got access to that spot? This latest faux-pas is one of many during a campaign that, from Day 1, has been poorly planned and executed. Eby sought to take advantage of a B.C. Conservative party in disarray with serious leadership issues. However, his early and unnecessary election call coalesced the Conservatives behind their new leader, Lorne Doerkson, as they jettisoned the people that were causing the issues: namely, former leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay and the more fringe elements of the party. As a result, the initial NDP campaign plan of running against U.S. President Donald Trump and Findlay — Trump’s “regional manager,” as Eby called her — fell flat from the start. It hasn’t recovered. Polls show that British Columbians have been unimpressed by what they see as a totally unnecessary election call. They are also wise to the fact that having been suddenly unable to run against Trump, Eby and the NDP can’t run on their record. A darkly comic example of this occurred about a week ago, as Eby stood at a campaign stop and announced that hospital wait times in B.C. are “totally unacceptable.” Practically any British Columbian will tell you that’s true. But those same British Columbians also know that the NDP has been in government for nine years and are responsible for the mess. With no one but themselves to blame, the NDP are flailing and lost."

David Eby's pledge to make BC the highest taxed jurisdiction on earth | National Post - "B.C. NDP Leader David Eby proposed a new tax policy that would give his province one of the highest marginal tax rates on earth. If implemented, the top marginal tax rate in B.C. would hit 57.5 per cent, meaning that 57.5 cents out of every dollar earned above a certain threshold in B.C. would be collected as tax. It wouldn’t just make B.C. the highest tax jurisdiction in Canada, but it would place British Columbians in a higher tax bracket than even some of the most notoriously high tax corners of Europe. According to the most recent figures from the OECD, top-earning British Columbians would be paying a higher tax on income than their well-paid peers in France (55.4 per cent), Japan (55.9 per cent), Sweden (52.4 per cent) and the U.K. (45 per cent). In fact, they’d likely be paying more of their income in tax than any other jurisdiction save Denmark. Although Denmark’s top rate comes in at 55.9 per cent in OECD data, in practice, the Danish rate can rise as high as 60.5 per cent, according to a June analysis by PricewaterhouseCoopers. B.C.’s top tax rate would also push well ahead of California, the single most high-tax jurisdiction in the United States. According to the U.S.-based Tax Foundation, Californians pay a top income tax rate of 13.3 per cent. Which, when combined with a federal top rate of 37 per cent, comes to 50.3. The new tax rate was pitched by Eby on Sunday as a “millionaire’s tax,” as the new top rate of 24.5 per cent or more only applies to annual incomes of $1 million or more... Nevertheless, Eby would also be raising taxes for non-millionaires. Any income above $190,405 would be taxed at 18.8 per cent instead of 16.8 per cent, and any income above $265,545 would be taxed at 22.5 per cent instead of 20.5 per cent. As such, any British Columbian earning more than $266,000 would already be experiencing a combined rate of income tax (55.5 per cent) higher than almost anywhere else on earth. In a Monday social media post, University of Calgary economist said the new rates “would raise BC to the highest income tax rate since 1981, and make the province (by a decent margin) the highest tax rate jurisdiction in Canada.”... as noted by B.C. journalist Bob Mackin, the threshold for the new taxes also just so happens to kick in right above the annual salaries paid to B.C. cabinet ministers, which top out around $183,000 per year. The B.C. Conservatives, meanwhile, have dubbed the new tax scheme a “doctor’s tax,” as it will kick in right around the annual salaries earned by physicians, which Eby’s government has simultaneously been attempting to attract to B.C."

Canada Proud on X - "#REPORT: Carney Liberal heritage minister Marc Miller held secret meetings with the Labour Party in the UK on a proposal to promote "social cohesion" by cracking down on "digital grifters" and "politicians of grievance.""
Kurt Holman MP on X - "Calling your political opponents “politicians of grievance” while discussing ways to crack down on them is one hell of a way to say the quiet part out loud.  Are we still doing democracy?"

Dan Knight on X - "Marc Miller flew to the UK on a junket to study Labour’s “social cohesion” plan. The same plan that literally targets “digital grifters” and “politicians of grievance.” The same minister who told committee that CBC’s job is to promote social cohesion… and then got asked why that language sounds like something out of Beijing.  They’re not even hiding it anymore.  Define the “shared values.” Label the dissenters. Call it cohesion.  You can’t make this up.  Via Blacklock’s Reporter: https:// blacklocks.ca/study-social-c"

Mario Zelaya on X - "I don’t care anymore.   I’m just gonna say it.   This never sat well with me.   The Liberal MP resigned, over an accident on the way to Ottawa (classifies as work),   A YEAR AGO,   that was so bad, that no one knew about it until yesterday.   And the accident was so bad that he could still work for almost a full year before resigning?  And now I’m finding out from @RealAndyLeeShow  that he went to China?   But can’t travel to Ottawa?  And he’s LIKELY eligible for 70% of his MP pay for the next 20 years (retirement or until he “recovers”) through the long term disability benefit MPs get via their PSMIP?  The media doesn’t question it.   At all?   And yet, when a Conservative MP resigns, immediately MSM finds a way to attack Pierre?  Meanwhile Carney has had 2 MINISTERS QUIT, and others leave with ZERO backup prospects or job lined up?  HOW IS NO ONE INVESTIGATING OR QUESTIONING THIS?
🚨 INSANE  It just keeps getting worse.   HE WAS ON A TRADE DELEGATION 2 WEEKS AGO.   IN CHINA.  How was he able to be hurt so badly, LAST YEAR, that no one knew about it, BUT HE COULD GO TO CHINA ON A DELEGATION?  2 WEEKS AGO!"

Mario Zelaya on X - "BREAKING: new reports indicate that Shaun Chen, the Liberal MP that resigned due to his "inability to travel to Ottawa" may have voted electronically on Canada's Surveillance Bill from China.   A newly found video on WeChat, found by Andy Lee, place him in Guangdong, China when the vote took place in late March.   Standing Order 45(12) allows MPs to cast votes for bills remotely, but they must be physically be in Canada.  In addition, publicly available MP expenses show that Shaun Chen expensed flights from Toronto to Ottawa during the same period the WeChat video places him in China."

Kyle Seeback: It's not Trumpian to hold the Liberals to account | National Post - "In the last few years, some Canadians have assumed that to be a conservative in Canada is to admire Trump or to see his movement as the model for our own. That assumption is wrong. It misunderstands our history, our institutions and the very principles that define Canadian conservatism... Expressing anger is not Trumpism. Demanding accountability is not Trumpism. Speaking directly about the failures of government is not Trumpism"
The US pursues strong economic growth, therefore Canadians who pursue economic growth are Maple MAGA and must be condemned

Official Bilingualism Has Failed Canada - "On April 26, 2025, 11 people were killed when a deranged man plowed his SUV through a crowd at Vancouver’s Lapu-Lapu Day festival. The next morning, Prime Minister Carney spoke movingly of the tragedy, characterizing it not just as an attack on individuals, but the Filipino community itself. Yet his words of grief came not in Tagalog, the language most Filipino-Canadians speak, but English.  And French... Most Filipino-Canadians know English, like 87 per cent of Canadians overall. Linguistic minorities in the country, whether their first language is Khmer, Polish or Xitsonga, have long accepted English as a necessary tool of communication in a diverse country—the bridge language that the vast majority of Canadians, regardless of personal background, will use in most public contexts for reasons of efficiency and expediency. It is only French-Canadians, however, who are understood to possess a unique right, endorsed by the constitution and defended by a phalanx of politicians, journalists, activists and intellectuals, to be addressed by the state (and increasingly the private sector) in the language they prefer. Some Canadian, somewhere, might have preferred to hear Carney mourn the Lapu-Lapu Day tragedy in French. So the Prime Minister obliged. Why exactly only one linguistic minority in a country as large and multicultural as Canada enjoys a right to things in their preferred language is difficult to answer using liberal or utilitarian logic. Official bilingualism nevertheless remains venerated by all manner of Canadian elites as a taboo in the truest sense; a sort of folk religion that’s upheld more than defended. Evidence continues to accumulate that state-mandated bilingualism conflicts with Canada’s self-image as a fair and merit-based democracy, and the worst may be yet to come. It’s a faith worth revisiting... “Founding peoples” refers to the idea that Canada was settled and built by individuals from particular ethnocultural groups. But why do only two types of Canadian get to be founding peoples? It certainly doesn’t seem tied to any coherent theory of history. Ontario and Quebec were carved from the former colony of New France and claim to be its legal successors. But even New France was not simply a society of French settlers and the Englishmen who eventually conquered them; Indigenous peoples, enslaved Africans and migrants from other parts of Europe were there as well. When Canada annexed the northwestern half of North America in the 19th century, waves of immigrants made the country even more diverse, with new provinces and territories built and settled by peoples from Eastern Europe, Asia and elsewhere, in addition to migrants from Canada’s east. Canada’s postwar growth into a country of 40 million has been driven by even more varied sources... When Thomas Cromwell retired from the Supreme Court in 2016, Prime Minister Trudeau was reported to have wanted to select a female bilingual judge of colour from the Maritimes to replace him—only to learn no such person existed. More than 50 years after the passage of the Official Languages Act and 40 years after the Charter, official bilingualism has not failed as a policy as much as it’s failed Canada. And the cost has been tremendous—not just the literal cost of things like building Toronto a $126-million French-language university with just 25 students—but the opportunity cost of excluding so many of the country’s best and brightest from consequential careers in public or even private service... in its own way, Quebec’s language policies remain more grounded in the real world than Ottawa’s. The province rationally provides most public services exclusively in French because that’s the language the majority of people in the province speak. Indeed, the central paradox of Canadian bilingualism has always been that the province it was primarily intended to appease doesn’t accept it as a sensible policy within its own borders. "
This is a good way to get Quebec to secede, and a good way to ignore political history by proclaiming it incoherent. Of course, good luck if you say that the treaties with "indigenous" people were signed ages ago and should be ignored today, or that "indigenous" people are a smaller portion of the population than Quebec and so shouldn't have any special rights. The practical implications are better explained, though

Marc Nixon on X - "What happens if Russia invades Canada through the Arctic tomorrow?  Does the “Elbows Up” crowd suddenly remember who our most important military ally is?  Canada cannot even defend 25% of its population from food insecurity.  Anti-American chest-thumping is easy when you assume America will still be there when things get ugly.  That’s the wake-up call."

Andrew Scheer on X - "Remember when Mark Carney's energy minister claimed the Liberal government was actively driving an urgent increase in oil exports to protect global energy supply?  Three months later, Conservatives FORCED HIM to admit (in writing!) that they actually did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.  Only Conservatives will axe the tax and clear the red tape that is blocking oil & gas production."

Bronson on X - "Trump thinks he can bully Canada and push us around. He's wrong. The only groups capable of that are: Indiginous tribes greater than 10 people, the CRA, Sikhs, public sector unions, dairy + cheese farmers, Muslims, climate alarmists, public health units, trans and 🏳️‍🌈 people."

Marit Stiles on X - "Private investors don't take over airports out of generosity. They do it to maximize profit for their shareholders. You pay, in fees on every ticket, while thousands of good jobs hit the chopping block.   Premier Ford needs to come clean about where he stands: does he want Ontarians to pay more for their travel or does he want to actually strengthen our province for the people?"
Left wingers only share the graphic about federal, provincial and municipal responsibilities when they want to cover for left wing parties (despite them wanting to butt into areas beyond their jurisdiction)
Profit is evil so we need to nationalise the economy then blame capitalism when we starve

Canada’s Booze Boycott Is About to Backfire - "President Donald Trump’s ban on Canadian alcoholic beverages is set to take effect on September 29. It covers a broad range of beer, wine and spirits. For Canadian producers, this is no small matter: in the 2024–25 fiscal year, we exported $1.4 billion in alcoholic beverages to the United States. That is a lot of business to put at risk.  Canada started this particular fight in March 2025, when most provinces pulled American alcohol from their shelves. Alberta and Saskatchewan later resumed purchases, but elsewhere the restrictions remained. Canadians overwhelmingly liked the idea. Taking bourbon and California wine off the shelf felt like a way to stand up to Trump. And yes, it hurt some American companies... But did we seriously damage the American alcohol industry? The broader export numbers suggest a different story.  Compare the first six months of 2026 with the first six months of 2025. U.S. wine exports to Canada fell by more than 45%, beer by more than 90%, and spirits by about 3%. Yet U.S. beer exports to the world rose 12.7%, and spirits exports rose 25.9%. Wine exports fell 14.4%. Canada mattered, especially to particular producers, but growth elsewhere helped cushion the blow for beer and spirits. Wine is a different story. Its global decline is real, although we should be careful about blaming it all on Canada. Other forces are at work.  That brings us to an uncomfortable question: who has more room to absorb an alcohol ban? American producers have a vast domestic market and customers around the world. Canadian brewers, wineries and distillers facing a closed U.S. border have far fewer options.  Standing up to Trump may feel good. But if this ban takes effect on September 29, Canadian producers could pay a much higher price than the American industry has paid for our boycott. We should at least be honest about that before declaring victory."
Time to accuse the US of attacking Canada again, because they're not allowed to retaliate or they're even more evil than they are already accused of being. But left wing Canadians think destroying Canada is a price worth paying to spite the US and Trump

Kim Dobranski on X - "I've looked at this photo 10 times, and I'm still trying to figure out what Pete Hegseth did that was supposedly so horrible that it caused this firestorm.  All he did was repost an actual photo that had already been posted online by the Canadian cadet program and added three words, "This is real."  He didn't slander anybody. He didn't disparage anyone. He didn't openly mock the individuals in the photo. He simply reposted a photo that was already publicly available.  It was a picture that our own Cadet program put on line as a promotional image. An image that is supposed to somehow reflect the excellence of our programs?   Yet somehow, we've turned it into a national controversy.  I think the reason there's such a firestorm is because Canadians, deep down, know how pathetic we've become, and we absolutely hate it when someone else points it out.  We'd rather live in this fantasy where we're still this strong, respected, serious country, as long as nobody outside Canada notices what's actually happening.  But the moment someone does notice, we get our panties in a knot.  Not necessarily because they're wrong, but because we don't like being criticized.  Instead of asking why this photograph struck such a nerve, we're attacking the person who reposted it.  Maybe the outrage itself says more than the post ever did.  What it comes down to is we have massive insecurity about who we are, and when someone calls it out, instead of reflecting, we lash out. At scale.   People who are strong and secure, don't care what other people say and they don't care what other people do.   Only weak people that lack self-esteem react so poorly.   We are no longer a serious country."
The lady doth protest too much, methinks

Meme - "Canada: 11 Years Apart
Conservative Party of Canada (2015)
1.9 B surplus
Debt-per-capita: $16,559
AAA credit rating
Violent crime: 1,070/100k
#5 Happiest country on earth
GDP growth beating most of the planet
Liberal Party of Canada (2026)
$48.3B deficit
Debt-per-capita: $29,923
Downgraded to AA+
Violent crime: 1,428/100k (up 33%)
#15 Happiest (down 10 points)
Dead-last in OECD growth
SAME COUNTRY. DIFFERENT RESULTS. THE NUMBERS DON'T LIE."

Crisis is coming, and voters may give the federal NDP another look - The Globe and Mail - "The NDP... is at historic lows in popular opinion, reduced to half a dozen seats in the House of Commons and facing the threat of bankruptcy: the sort of party that is ripe for the plucking. The 30,000 or so members the Lewis campaign is credited with signing up are about half the size of the pre-race membership.  The party was already down to its hard core, the truest of the true believers. The Lewis influx will reinforce that. This is a radical party, now, unrecognizable to many of its former members.  It is hard to see how it could be otherwise. Those pining for the old labour-farmer coalition have to reckon with a Canadian society that looks nothing like what it was in the NDP’s glory days. In 1935, when the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (the NDP’s forerunner) was founded, 30 per cent of Canada’s work force was agricultural, while another 15 per cent was unionized.  By 1961, when the NDP came into being, the proportions had been reversed: 11 per cent agricultural, 32 per cent organized labour. Still, nearly half the working population, combined. But today? Farm workers make up about 1 per cent of the work force; unionized workers, still about 30 per cent – but most of those are white-collar, public-sector workers now, not the horny-handed sons of toil of old.  Still, the provincial New Democrats seem to have managed the transition. For all of the federal party’s travails, the NDP’s provincial cousins are in robust good health, governing two provinces and forming the official opposition in four others. The efforts by the provincial parties in Alberta and Saskatchewan to distance themselves from the new federal leader, striking both for their speed and brutality, are therefore an ominous sign. But again, how could it be otherwise: for a party in a resource-based province, any association with a party so overtly hostile to resource extraction is a death knell.  To add to the party’s difficulties, it remains a non-factor in Quebec, with a leader whose French is serviceable at best. Most of all, it faces the same dilemma that did in its previous leader: how to occupy space in a political landscape dominated by the baleful figure of Donald Trump, at a time when national survival has supplanted more everyday concerns...  It has been decades since any government tried the policies the Lewis NDP now advocates. The reasons that led governments to abandon them are forgotten; the very passage of time means they can now be presented as fresh approaches.  As for the party Mr. Lewis now leads, it is impossible to discount the importance of feeling good about yourself. The policies of the Lewis NDP may be bad policies; they may be losing policies; but they are authentically their policies, things they actually believe in. You’d be surprised how much that matters to people."
Surely, it will work this time...

André Pratte | National Post - "According to Statistics Canada’s latest projections, in 2050 (a brief 24 years from now), Quebecers will count for less than 20 per cent of Canada’s population (between 18.1 per cent and 19.1 per cent, to be precise). Alberta’s population will be inexorably catching up, with between 13.5 per cent and 16.1 per cent of the total population in 2050... Demographics is not the only reason Quebec’s influence in Canada is and will be diminishing, unless the province’s politics undergo a substantive change. Quebecers have not voted to separate from Canada in a referendum, but they have separated in some of their attitudes... Quebec political leaders invest little time in engaging with their counterparts in Ottawa and in provincial capitals, except when specific files require it. The result is that very few politicians across the country have a deep understanding of Quebec’s part in Canada’s diversity. Additionally, recruiting highly qualified French-speaking Quebecers to work in the federal government is a challenge often lamented in Ottawa.  Justin Trudeau appointed a Governor General who does not speak French, a choice that, in earlier decades, would have been criticized not only in Quebec. There is pressure, for instance from the Alberta Premier, to appoint Supreme Court justices who cannot speak one of our country’s two official languages (guess which language it is?). Because of this lack of leadership at the national level, and as a result of French Canada’s relative decline, fewer Canadians value official bilingualism as a plus for our nation. A 2024 Léger poll showed that bilingualism was seen as positive by 70 per cent of Quebecers but only 35 per cent of Canadians outside Quebec. The Prime Minister’s rosy reimagining of Canadian history has no effect on today’s worrisome reality. The demographic trends at play in Quebec will not only diminish its political weight. Population stagnation and aging threaten the province’s economic growth and fiscal situation. According to the economists at Desjardins, “the sustainability of Quebec’s welfare state model could be challenged.” Quebec’s leaders and population will face serious challenges in the coming years; their contribution to the federation will be the least of their concerns."

Randall Denley: The Ford government makes its college-funding scandal worse - "Grants sent to students at seven private career colleges in 2024-25 totalled $385 million, according to reporting by The Canadian Press. That’s the same amount that went to students in the entire public college system... The government blamed an unsustainable increase in demand for student aid when it cut grants from 85 per cent of support to 25 per cent . In 2024–25, student grant spending jumped by $465 million, but the rise was driven largely by the career college problem. The Ford government’s new grant percentage is still in the middle of the pack nationally, but it would be natural for Ontario students to think they are paying the price for a career college problem the government should have fixed."
Left wing logic: you can never cut free money, even if the post-cut numbers still look reasonable in perspective

As usual, when left wingers talk about Defending Democracy, they mean railroading through what left wing elites have decreed. It's only oligarchy to go against the popular will if the popular will pushes the left wing agenda.

mike bski on X

THE DEMOCRATS KILLED DEMOCRACY: And Had the Audacity to Do It While Screaming About Saving It

Picture the most devoted Democrat voter you know.

Your neighbor with the yard signs. Your coworker who cannot get through lunch without mentioning January 6th. The family member who mutes you at Thanksgiving. That person who genuinely, deeply believes the Democratic Party stands for the working class, the poor, the vulnerable — and above all, for democracy itself.

Now ask one question: does their party actually represent what THEY believe?

Not what MSNBC told them to feel this morning. Not what arrived in their DNC fundraising email. What do the actual human beings who vote Democrat actually want from their government?

I teach science. I deal in evidence. And the evidence here is not ambiguous. It is humiliating — not for the voters, but for the machine that has been harvesting those votes while openly, measurably, provably ignoring everything those voters care about.

So let us go through it.

— THE VOCABULARY PROBLEM NOBODY WANTS TO TOUCH —

Before anything else, the word.

America is a constitutional REPUBLIC. Not a democracy. "Democracy" does not appear in the Constitution a single time. Article IV, Section 4 guarantees every state a "Republican Form of Government." That is the actual text. Madison warned in Federalist No. 10 that pure democracies "have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention... as short in their lives as violent in their deaths." Hamilton celebrated "legislative balances and checks" in Federalist No. 9 as the specific safeguard against tyranny — from kings, aristocrats, or unchecked majorities. All three equally.

The Electoral College, the Senate structure, judicial review — those are not bugs. They are FEATURES. Built deliberately so that mob rule cannot function, because the Founders understood that mob rule is just tyranny with a friendlier presentation.

Here is the thing about "democracy." It gets taught wrong in school. Your teacher learned it wrong, believed it sincerely, and passed it along to you. Same way people taught that blood is blue until it hits air. Or that humans only use 10% of their brains. Repeated confidently. Still wrong. And the correction is worth making because the entire Democratic argument — the one @RepJeffries deploys at the podium multiple times a week — rests entirely on a word that does not mean what he says it means. When he says "saving democracy," what he means is "getting the outcome we wanted." When the constitutional guardrails prevent that, the guardrails become threats to democracy.

That is not protecting democracy. That is dismantling the republic they cannot stop mispronouncing.

— THE DATA THAT SHOULD EMBARRASS THEIR OWN PARTY —

The Manhattan Institute surveyed Democratic voters — not Republicans, not independents, THEIR OWN VOTERS — on the actual policy positions their elected officials vote on every day.

The results were not close.

Only 13% of Democratic voters believe Israel is a colonial apartheid state that should be dismantled. Thirteen. Yet @RepJayapal — Washington's 7th Congressional District, Seattle — and the progressive caucus sprint to the nearest camera to validate exactly that fringe framing every chance they find. The 87% of Democrat voters who disagree? Functionally unrepresented by the people cashing their party's fundraising checks.

Only 11% of Democratic voters think the country should avoid focusing on deporting illegal immigrants. Eleven percent support what their politicians are fighting for on immigration. The other 89% — the overwhelming majority of actual Democrat voters — want enforcement. Their representatives are busy comparing ICE agents to the Gestapo.

Only 21% of Democratic voters support gender transition medical procedures for minors. One in five. Four out of five of their own voters are skeptical or opposed to a policy their politicians treat as settled doctrine. @RepJamaalBowman, New York's 16th District, voted against every measure placing any restriction on those procedures. Who exactly is he representing?

Seventy percent of ALL Americans — not just Republicans, everyone — said in October 2025 polling that the Democratic Party is "out of touch." That number came from a center-left polling outfit. Their overall approval cratered to a 35-year low: only 33% of registered voters viewed the party favorably, per the Wall Street Journal in July 2025. Net favorability hit NEGATIVE 32 — worst for either party since at least 1996, per CNBC. Quinnipiac dropped them below 20%.

@RepJeffries holds his weekly democracy press conference. America watches. The numbers keep falling. Someone should tell him.

— WHAT THEY DID TO THEIR OWN VOTERS FIRST —

The Democratic primary system has superdelegates — party insiders, lobbyists, DNC officials — whose votes count above the expressed preferences of actual party members. They are the institutional veto, the emergency brake for when regular voters pick "wrong."

1. Hillary Clinton had 400+ superdelegates committed before a single primary vote was cast anywhere in the country. The media reported her delegate lead as mathematically insurmountable from day one of the race. Democratic voters went to polls in early states knowing the outcome was being managed around them. Then the DNC's own internal emails leaked. Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned. Donna Brazile — a CNN contributor serving simultaneously as a DNC official — admitted she fed debate questions to Clinton's campaign in advance. The party absorbed the scandal, made minor reforms to quiet the noise, and moved on.
2. Bernie Sanders built real momentum. Then, in roughly 72 hours before Super Tuesday, Buttigieg dropped out. Klobuchar dropped out. Beto O'Rourke materialized to endorse Biden, who had just lost badly in multiple early states. The moderate lane cleared in unison at a speed that defies coincidence. Nobody explained the coordination. Nobody had to.
3. This one is in a different category entirely.

Kamala Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee without receiving a single presidential primary vote. Zero. Biden withdrew. Harris was coronated immediately — no competitive process, no debates between candidates, nothing resembling a democratic selection of a nominee. The party simply announced it.

This is the party that schedules weekly press conferences about protecting democracy.

Harris had dropped out of the 2020 primary BEFORE IOWA — before a single vote anywhere — because she could not generate support from her own party's voters. She returned in 2024 as the automatic pick because the party decided the demographic calculation was right. Not because voters chose her. @SenBernieSanders, whatever one thinks of his politics, watched the party machinery roll over him twice. His voters got processed and discarded. And @SenatorSchumer stepped to the microphone and announced Harris with the energy of a man confirming a decision made at a table he was not invited to.

They called it democracy. With a straight face.

— FOURTEEN TIMES. LET THAT NUMBER SIT. —

The 2025 government shutdown. This went down the memory hole so fast it should offend everyone.

Democrats voted FOURTEEN TIMES to reject clean Continuing Resolutions that would have reopened the government. During those fourteen votes:

42 million SNAP recipients had their benefits in limbo. Active duty military were in paycheck uncertainty during an active military operation. Air traffic controllers — the people responsible for whether your aircraft lands on a runway — worked without pay. TSA agents, federal employees of every description, all of it on hold.

@RepJeffries, Minority Leader, Brooklyn and Queens — voted no. Repeatedly.

@SenatorSchumer, Senate Minority Leader, New York — voted no fourteen times. The same man who voted FOR clean CRs twenty-nine consecutive times before this shutdown. First time in his entire Senate career he voted against one. And in 2018, on record, Schumer described Republicans during a budget fight as someone who "won't even come to the table to negotiate a bipartisan CR." Pelosi 2018: "We're not hostages to your wall. Reopen the government." Obama 2013: "You don't get to demand a ransom for doing your job."

Every standard they applied to Republicans for a decade dissolved the instant they were the ones holding the lever.

Their stated reason: COVID-era ACA subsidies were expiring. Premiums would rise. People would suffer.

Here is the part that needs to be read slowly.

Those COVID subsidies were written as TEMPORARY provisions in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Not one Republican voted for that bill. Democrats extended the temporary subsidies through 2025 in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. Not one Republican voted for that one either. Democrats designed the expiration. Democrats set the clock. Democrats programmed the timer. And when it hit zero exactly on schedule — @SenatorSchumer, @SenatorWarnock, @RepJeffries, and @SenAlexPadilla walked to their cameras and told their constituents Republicans did this to them.

@SenatorWarnock — the Reverend Senator from Georgia — repeatedly posted that Republicans voted to "double premiums." In committee hearings. On social media. To constituents. This is a documented, verifiable falsehood. No Republican wrote those subsidies. No Republican extended them. No Republican scheduled the expiration date. He knows the voting record. His staff reads legislation. When a Reverend tells his congregation something he knows is not true, there is a word for it in both legal and theological traditions, and neither is flattering.

But the thing that actually floors me — the accidental confession buried inside their entire argument — is this.

By insisting that ending the COVID subsidies would make the ACA unaffordable, Democrats publicly admitted something they have never acknowledged in fifteen years of defending the program.

The Affordable Care Act is not, in fact, affordable.

They named it the Affordable Care Act. Promised it would lower family premiums by $2,500 per year. Premiums doubled between 2013 and 2017. The seven largest health insurance companies tripled their revenues from $511 billion to $1.5 TRILLION between 2014 and 2024. The plan enriched the very corporations it claimed to regulate, while making coverage more expensive for the people it claimed to help.

And here is where it gets genuinely surreal.

These same people lionized Luigi Mangione — the 26-year-old who murdered a health insurance CEO — as a folk hero, a symbol of righteous rage against corporate health care greed. They made him a cultural icon.

Then they shut down the government demanding that American taxpayers permanently subsidize those same insurance corporations.

I have a whiteboard. I am waiting for someone to explain the consistency.

If you went to your boss and said "last month you gave me a $1,000 Christmas bonus, and this month you did not, so you cut my pay" — your boss would explain those are different things. One was a one-time bonus. The other is your salary. Demanding a temporary bonus become permanent compensation is not a pay cut. It is an expectation that was never reasonable.

That analogy is exactly what happened. And they blamed the people who never wrote the bonus in the first place.

— THE 80% THEY VOTED AGAINST UNANIMOUSLY —

The SAVE Act. H.R. 22. H.R. 7296. All it requires is proof of United States citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. A passport. A REAL ID. A military identification card. Documents the average adult carries for routine purposes like boarding a commercial flight or opening a checking account.

National polling: 80% support. Including a majority of registered Democratic voters. Their own voters. The humans they claim to represent want this. Eighty percent.

Every Senate Democrat voted no.

@SenatorSchumer — no. @SenAlexPadilla — no. @SenatorWarnock — no. @SenatorWarren — no. Unanimous opposition to a bill supported by four out of five Americans, including their own base.

Then they returned to their cameras to discuss protecting voters.

Quinn's Law #22: liberals love democracy unless it does not go their way.

There is exactly one coherent argument for opposing citizenship verification in federal elections. None of them are going to say it into a microphone. But it is there, and it explains the vote.

— THEY TRIED TO REMOVE HIM FROM THE BALLOT. THE ENTIRE SUPREME COURT SAID NO. —

When the ballot box looked uncertain in 2024, Democrats attempted something that had never been done in the 156-year history of the 14th Amendment — using it to remove a presidential candidate from state ballots. Colorado. Maine. Illinois. Others.

If a foreign government attempted that, every network would call it election interference without hesitation or qualification.

The Supreme Court rejected it unanimously. Nine justices. Across the full ideological range. Zero to nine. The entire court, looking at what Democrats were attempting, said no.

They put him in a courtroom for the campaign trail instead. The trial judge — Justice Merchan — had donated to "Stop Republicans PAC" and to Biden's 2020 campaign. His daughter ran a Democratic political consulting firm generating millions from anti-Trump advertising during the trial itself. Four Supreme Court Justices dissented from allowing the proceedings to continue on immunity grounds. The jury was permitted to convict without unanimously agreeing on which crime had actually been committed.

Then came the democracy speeches.

— THE QUESTION NOBODY ASKS THEM —

A direct question for @RepJeffries, @RepJayapal of Washington's 7th District, @RepTedLieu of California's 36th, @RepAOC of New York's 14th, and @IlhanOmar of Minnesota's 5th:

What have you accomplished for your constituents that did not involve taking money from someone else and handing it over?

Not symbolically. Not rhetorically. What measurable improvement in the actual lives of the people in your actual district can any of you point to?

The poorest, most economically distressed urban congressional districts in this country have been represented by Democrats — often the same family of machine politicians — for 40, 50, 60 consecutive years. Some of these districts have been Democratic strongholds since the Eisenhower administration. The poverty rates in many of them are HIGHER today than in 1980.

@RepJeffries represents parts of Brooklyn and Queens where generational poverty has not shifted across decades of his party's stewardship. @IlhanOmar represents Minneapolis — Democratic governance for generations. What has improved?

The answer to that question is not a coincidence. A constituency that builds real economic independence tends to stop needing the party that managed their dependency. The incentive structure runs exactly backward, and it has for six decades.

In January 1963, Congressman A.S. Herlong Jr. read into the Congressional Record a list of 45 Communist Goals for America. Goal #15: capture one or both of the U.S. political parties. I am not presenting that as conspiracy. I am noting that when observed outcomes match stated objectives with this precision across six decades, intellectual honesty requires at minimum that we notice.

— THE TALLY —

Here is what "protecting democracy" has meant in practice.

Presidential nominees selected without primary votes — twice now.

Fourteen votes to withhold pay from military, air traffic controllers, and 42 million SNAP recipients over subsidies Democrats wrote as temporary and then blamed Republicans for letting expire on schedule.

Unanimous opposition to an 80% voter-supported election integrity bill — including opposition from their own voters.

An attempt to remove a presidential candidate from state ballots, rejected 9-0 by the Supreme Court.

A health care law that tripled insurance corporate revenues while making coverage less affordable — championed by the same movement that made a folk hero of a man who murdered an insurance CEO.

A party with 20% approval and negative 32 net favorability holding press conferences about representing the will of the people.

Quinn's Law #2: if you want to know what liberals are up to, pay attention to what they accuse conservatives of doing.

They accuse us of threatening democracy.

Look at what they have done to their own.

The word they keep using. It does not mean what they think it means.

Or maybe it does — and they know exactly what they are doing.

That second possibility should unsettle you more than the first.

Madison built this republic deliberately because he did not trust unchecked majorities. He wrote Federalist No. 10 specifically to explain why mob rule is indistinguishable from tyranny regardless of which mob is running it. He did not anticipate that the people dismantling his guardrails would do it from inside a major political party while announcing themselves as democracy's last line of defense.

But that is where we are.

But what do I know — I am only a science teacher who reads the Federalist Papers, checks the actual voting records, and cannot locate a single senator or representative at 20% approval who has standing to lecture the remaining 80% on what democracy is supposed to look like.

Links - 13th October 2026 (French Migrant Riots)

Why the French school riots are a taste of the chaos to come - spiked - "The level of violence has been exceptional, even by French standards. Comparisons can be made with the riots of 2005 and 2023, but these were in response to supposed incidents of police brutality and drew in disaffected youth from banlieues all over France. This is the first time that school protests have turned so nasty. The French government was in no way prepared... The protesters and their supporters claimed the violence had been started by law enforcement... Apart from bricks and other heavy projectiles, the weapon of choice is the firework launched from a tube. These fireworks have been turned not only on the police but also on firemen who attempted to put out blazes. Another favourite tactic of rioters is to throw aerosol cans into fires and watch them explode. Among other weapons seized by the police were knives, hammers, baseball bats, Molotov cocktails and bottles of hydrochloric acid.   The recourse to violence was clearly anticipated and prepared for by certain protesters. In the mêlée, it was understandably difficult for police to calibrate the proportionality of their response and to distinguish between the aggressive protesters and the rest.  What cause is all this violence meant to serve? In the beginning, pupils, with union prompting, were protesting against the paucity of teachers, the decaying state of school buildings, the complexity and stress of the university application system and, finally, overwork. It is true that during Emmanuel Macron’s two terms, there has been a desultory succession of education ministers with very different approaches. The government was recently humiliated by the publication of the PISA results, which showed an alarming decline in standards.  However, although it is evident that the educational system needs more investment, everyone knows that the French state is stony broke, with record levels of debt and borrowing costs. More money is already spent on education in poorer areas, like the Seine-Saint-Denis district north of Paris, where much of the protests and riots began, than elsewhere.   Was it really to call for building improvements that so much school property was destroyed? The bill for the damage done so far has been calculated in the tens of millions of euros. The already cash-strapped authorities will have to pay for the repairs. As often happens in this situation, there is much talk among politicians of making the parents of vandals pay, but the difficulty of identifying the culprits and of extracting money from the families means that this will, as usual, go nowhere. What happened over the past week is what always happens when school pupils protest: the movement gets hijacked by extremists of various stripes. Already, the main union behind the protests, the Union syndicale lycéenne, is a far-left organisation. Unsurprisingly, far-left tropes were apparent in the banners and slogans of those protesting – from anti-racism and the supposed need to decolonise education to the plight of Gaza and the usual ‘anti-Zionism’, which swiftly descended into anti-Semitism. The theme of police brutality was quickly placed front and centre, even as the police were deliberately attacked by those who were the real instigators of the violence; namely, the ‘casseurs’ (from ‘casser’, to break) – quasi-professional rioters wearing masks who damage property and clash with police. As always happens, their politically motivated actions drew in non-political hoodlums from the banlieues who are simply eager to engage in violence and mayhem. No doubt hotheads among the genuine school pupils joined in, too.    Equally worrying has been the involvement of politicians from the far-left party La France Insoumise (LFI). On Tuesday, 40 of its elected representatives joined protests outside schools, calling for the movement to spread and blaming any violence on ‘police savagery’. A trio consisting of LFI founder and presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, former chair of the Union syndicale lycéenne Louis Boyard and mayor of the Seine-Saint-Denis district Bally Bagayoko were photographed smiling and giving the thumbs up sign amid a crowd of school pupils.  Bagayoko, of Malian ancestry and elected mayor in March this year, has shot to superstardom among far-left politicians. He was greeted by exultant school protesters on Monday when he turned up to show his support. Videos have widely circulated showing him dancing next to a burning wheelie bin and apparently attempting to pull a burning settee away from some school gates. The president of the Paris region has announced she will be sending him a bill for €100,000 to pay for damages to school property. A policewoman has lodged a complaint against him for allegedly helping to vandalise her car. The Paris prefect of police has accused Bagayoko of incitement to commit acts of violence. All this only enhances his status as an icon of left-wing revolt.   On Tuesday, Mélenchon himself made a predictable statement about police brutality, accompanied by a sinister warning that there would be ‘no forgetting or forgiving’, presumably aimed at any officers accused of heavy-handedness. He even went so far as to call on LFI activists to ‘interpose themselves’ between the police and the school protesters in order to protect the latter. Although this tactic may sound Gandhi-like, it is well known that LFI has proxies among Antifa combatants, as was shown by the murder of right-wing militant Quentin Deranque in February this year. The next day, Mélenchon seemed to take a more moderate stance, declaring that only ‘non-violent methods’ should be used. Such strategic ambiguity is typical of LFI, at one moment apparently encouraging anti-democratic behaviour, the next denying any such intention.  All this would be bad enough, but in the present context of the run-up to the presidential election in April and May next year, it has an especially menacing side. The election has two rounds, but in France, the metaphor of a ‘third round’ is habitually used to describe any movement of protests and strikes that inevitably follow an election result the left does not approve of. At present, the polls predict a clear victory for Marine Le Pen. Will LFI and its troops accept the result? In February, Mathilde Panot, leader of the LFI parliamentary group, declared darkly: ‘We will never accept fascism taking power, even legally by the democratic process, as Marine Le Pen wants to do.’ In May, Bagayoko told a podcast audience that if Le Pen were elected, the consequence would be a ‘popular insurrection’.  In this light, Mélenchon and LFI’s involvement in this wave of violence looks very much like a dress rehearsal for what will happen if Marine Le Pen is elected. In the meantime, it is also a way for Mélenchon to consolidate his hold on the youth vote"

Police fire teargas as French school protests cause 'heaviest toll in decades' - "Police fired tear gas at protesters outside French high schools on Tuesday as students, teachers and parents took to the streets on the biggest day of what Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu described as the most violent school protests in decades... Lecornu told lawmakers at least 215 teenagers and 85 school staff had so far been injured in clashes, "the heaviest toll in decades paid by the school system". His office said more than 700 police officers were also hurt."
Left wingers are still pretending that this is normal for France

Ivanka Trump RV 🇺🇲 on X - "This is surreal. Paris has been conquered. The cops are sitting back and watching it happen because being taken over by an immigrant invasion is better than being called a racist. Unbelievable."

Michael Shellenberger on X - "Students are rioting because the French government spends too little to educate the children of migrants, say the media. But France spends between two and 200 times more per student than the nations from which its migrants come. The media refuses to report basic facts."

Thread by @shellenberger on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Students are protesting in France because schools don’t have enough money, say mainstream journalists. In truth, they have more money than ever. What’s really behind the riots is a decades-old Left-Islamist political alliance that much of the media supports.
A lack of school funding and a shortage of teachers are behind the protests and riots at French high schools, say the news media.  “Complaints from students about deteriorating schools, teacher shortages and heavy class schedules have become the latest cause embraced by some presidential hopefuls,” wrote the AP.  Students are protesting long school hours, overheated classrooms, dilapidated buildings and staff absences, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).  Le Monde editorialized that the government is to blame for not listening to the students. Of the French public surveyed, 62% said students were justified in their protests. Protests have now reached more than 1,000 of France’s 3,700 high schools, called lycées.  But French schools have more money per pupil today than at any earlier time.  Primary school classes averaged close to 30 pupils in the 1960s, nursery classes close to 40, and public primary school classes will average 21 this year, the lowest on record.  In 1970, 20% of a generation earned the baccalauréat, the lycée diploma, whereas nearly 80% earn it today. Spending per pupil has risen 1.6% a year in constant euros since 1980.  While the French government spends 4.5% of gross domestic product on educational institutions, Germany spends 3.7%...
.@TheEconomist says the bond markets are behind the riots"

Mark Dubowitz on X - "Heard this today from a smart European: Europe has subcontracted security to America. Its economy to China. Energy to Russia and its labor force to the Islamists. This model now has completely collapsed."

Christina Aguayo News | Facebook - "#new France, which recognized a Palestinian state, is now being destroyed by the very M*slims that they tried to acknowledge, according to experts in France #france  "True to my country’s historic commitment in the Middle East, for peace between the Israeli people and the Palestinian people, I declare that France today recognizes the State of Palestine.”  That was Emmanuel Macron a year ago in New York.  #muslim  Hamas viewed this as a victory.  Now Paris is on fire and conservatives are pointing out that the riots, destruction and school fires are what mass immigration looks like a generation later.  #paris  Jordan Bardella, president of the National Rally saying "France is sliding into riot and urban violence.” “What France has become after decades of laxity and mass immigration.” The CGT union said two-thirds of high schools in Seine-Saint-Denis joined the riots on Thursday. From there it spread to Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Nantes, Lille, Rennes, Toulouse, Strasbourg, and La Ciotat in the Bouches-du-Rhône. Education Minister Édouard Geffray said,
🔵400 to 500 high schools will be fully or partly closed on Monday,
🔵24 have been burned or ransacked,
🔵78 education staff have been injured, and
🔵170 students have been hurt.
Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin said 735 of France’s 3,700 high schools have been hit one way or another.  That is about 20%. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said about 5,000 people have been arrested since Monday, most of them minors, and that France is  “sliding into riot and urban violence.” A police spokesperson put officer injuries above 600.
🔴On  Friday, Oct. 2, physics teacher Thierry Laurent, 59, was doused with diesel while putting out a fire students had set on a tree.
🔴A 16-year-old pupil at that school was arrested Sunday in Marseille. Prosecutors opened a case for violence against a public employee, face concealed, with a weapon.
🔴A policewoman was chased and beaten on the ground in Paris while someone shouted “Wallah, kill her.”
🔴Critics called it barbarism and asked how long France will “let our country sink without reacting.”
Paris police chief Patrice Faure said Saturday the riots are “out of control.”  White Lives Matter wrote,  "This is sickening and everyone White American who hails from Europe as the motherland should be disgusted at this vile image! This is the death of your culture"  Do you agree?"

Gad Saad on X - "When referencing Muslim thuggery in France, the French media refers to them as "Les Jeunes."  The youth.  But the youth are not Vietnamese youth; they are not Japanese youth; they are not Hasidic Jews youth.  They are Muslims but it is mean and Islamophobic to call them by their actual identity.  In Britain, the Pakistani child rapists are called "Asian men."  Now the mayhem in France is apparently not due to Muslim youth but to "high school protesters."  ANYTHING is better than to be accused of Islamophobia.  Give up your children, your women, your heritage, your society, your religion, your culture, your civilization but don't you dare be Islamophobic."

French school protester arrested after ‘flamethrower’ attack on woman - "The assault occurred on Friday in Marseille, one of several cities roiled by violent protests that forced the closure of hundreds of schools and led to clashes with police, teachers and firefighters. In one of the most shocking pieces of footage to emerge from the riots, a person wearing a hood uses an aerosol can and a lighter to launch a burst of flame at a woman calling for an end to the vandalism... Protests spread last month from impoverished French suburbs where students complained of overcrowded classrooms, poor facilities and absent teachers. But much of the sympathy for the protesters has evaporated after chaotic scenes were caught on camera, including a police officer being beaten while unconscious and teachers being assaulted outside school gates.  In further footage, a young person wearing a hood runs up to a teacher attempting to put out a tree fire and douses him with petrol... Intelligence agencies reportedly told a crisis meeting on Thursday that the movement had been initiated by La France Insoumise (LFI), a hard-Left party led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who is running for president in 2027... Bally Bagayoko, the LFI mayor of Saint-Denis, was carried on the shoulders of a crowd of jubilant student protesters outside the gates of the Paul Éluard high school in the suburbs of Paris.  Earlier, he had said that “violence can be legitimate”, before adding that “every time we can avoid it, it’s better”.  Mr Bagayoko was filmed attempting to pull a burning rubbish bin away from the gates of the school before high-fiving and clasping hands with the students."
Proof that they are well-integrated!
Damn far right violence!

The nihilistic far-Left is pushing France to the brink - "What began as a normal demonstration in a democracy has morphed with lightning speed into violent riots all over the country. And it is unlikely to die down anytime soon.  Spurred on from the very first day by far-Left MPs from Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party La France Insoumise (France Unbowed), the movement spread rapidly. Watching Mélenchon’s lieutenants draped in their tricolour sashes, visiting blockaded lycées and haranguing the young with the words “violence can be legitimate” marked a new low point in French tolerance for political violence. After all, the word “terror” and “terrorism” were born in the streets of Paris in 1793 during the final spasms of the French Revolution under Robespierre. Mélenchon added even more fuel to an already dangerous situation, with eyes bulging and tongue dripping with rage, and said: “We are proud to be at the high school gates to defend our kids. Mobilise yourselves to intervene against police savagery.”  Savagery? When police are being shot at from close range with firework mortars and sprayed with highly corrosive hydrochloric acid, it would be surprising if they did not try to retaliate. Infiltrated by professional thugs and older radicalised provocateurs, lycéens (pupils) often do not realise the danger they are in and get injured in the fray. French public opinion is not blind. A poll for Le Figaro showed that while 62 per cent of the French support the demands of lycéens, 78 per cent disapprove of the far-Left involvement in the violence.  In seven months’ time, the French will choose their next president, and Mélenchon is doing two things. First, he has already begun campaigning, galvanised by early polls showing that he could make it through to the second round to face the far-Right’s Marine Le Pen. Secondly, Mélenchon is preparing the insurrection he hopes will follow if Le Pen is elected. He knows the country is fragile and will use every lever at his disposal to fracture it further and sow chaos. Politically, he doesn’t mind appearing violent – quite the opposite. According to an exhaustive study by Fondapol, a centre-Right French think tank headed by political scientist Dominique Reynié, Mélenchon is overrepresented among two groups with higher levels of abstention than the population as a whole: French Muslims and the young... if education in France has failed, it is not because of systemic inequality but because high standards have been replaced by a generalised, naive benevolence. As the economist Pierre Bentata recently put it: “in schools, conviviality has replaced authority” and “the vertical hierarchy of knowledge has given way to a horizontalisation of opinions.”  In primary schools, there are no marks but coloured dots to shield pupils from disappointment. In the end, 90 per cent of an age group obtains the baccalaureate which makes it almost worthless. “In our eagerness not to frustrate, we have ceased to educate,” Bentata concludes. Hence today’s savagery."

LeeKuanYewRespecter on X - "The ABC has covered the French riots as simply students rallying for better classroom conditions. No mention of the radical left, despite literal Antifa and communist flags appearing in frame.  Also telling is the uncritical acceptance of the claims. A simple check shows that French schools are not underfunded. France is in the top quartile of OECD nations for upper-secondary spending and is the only European country other than Germany spending more than 25% of GDP per capita per upper-secondary student each year.  Are they lying to us or themselves?"
Yuri Bezmenov's Ghost on X - "Demoralized media here, trying to convince the public that they are not at war, that nobody is trying to abolish their civilization, and that they only want “equality.” It is a classic motte-and-bailey.  The trick works because “equality” can mean two very different things while sounding like the same claim. To a normie, equality means equal rights, fair treatment, and protection from discrimination. That’s the safe, non-activist meaning. It asks for changes within the existing order without challenging the order itself.  In the revolutionary grammar, “equality” means activism. It is a mandate to find inequality, identify the structures said to produce it, and act against them. Unequal outcomes, inherited institutions, traditional roles, social hierarchies, cultural norms, and other distinctions become evidence that domination still exists. Carried to its endpoint, the project is to sublate Western civilization itself: dismantle its inherited forms while preserving and reappropriating the achievements worth carrying into a higher social order. Equality becomes the standard by which the existing order is judged, dissolved, and rebuilt.  Thats why equality can function as a solvent. The argument begins with an obvious injustice most people agree should be corrected, then moves outward. First a rule is unequal, then an institution, then the surrounding culture, and eventually the civilization that produced them becomes the deeper problem.  The motte-and-bailey works by sliding between those meanings. When challenged, it retreats to the safe version: we only mean equal treatment, equal rights, basic fairness. Who could object to that? Once the challenge passes, the broader meaning returns, and “equality” again becomes a reason to dismantle inherited distinctions and institutions.  So the public hears equality as a promise to make the existing order fairer. The revolutionary can use the same word as a mandate to put the existing order itself on trial.  That double meaning is what makes the deception work. The moderate meaning reassures the public that nothing fundamental is happening. The radical meaning allows a much more fundamental transformation to proceed under the same word."

Defiant L’s on X - "Student during Paris riots and clashes with police: “There are only ten of them. In the name of Allah, we can kill them all!” https://x.com/visegrad24/sta tus/2107127083734552874/video/1   They have welcomed them in, now they're reaping the consequences.   If the police can't deal with high schoolers how are they going to deal with the thousands of military aged men that they just accepted in the country"

John Daniel Davidson on X - "The problem looming over these riots is that France has a large population of young people who are immigrants or the children/grandchildren of immigrants that are simply not employable. They will not work and employers will not risk hiring them.  They are not citizens in any meaningful sense, but an unassimilated third world horde, unemployable and ultimately ungovernable."

ᴸᴬᵁᴿᴬ on X - "🇫🇷 France has for decades been importing and breeding generations of people who, in practice, are good for nothing except freeloading, making noise, and aggression. The young Blacks from the banlieues are not “troubled youth” or “victims of the system.” They are a product that simply does not work in European society. Company bosses have been saying it for years behind closed doors: they are unemployable. Not because anyone discriminates against them. Because the moment they show up at a workplace, the circus begins. Zero discipline, constant entitlement, contempt for Whites, no basic respect, intellectual emptiness, and readiness for conflict at the slightest pretext.  Bosses, French entrepreneurs, say it straight behind closed doors: the second they open their mouths or set foot on company premises, you already know there will be a problem. Aggression, zero work culture, zero discipline, zero respect, zero basic social skills. The team refuses to work with them. Interns? They won’t even take them for a week because it’s a risk. The only ones they still hire are the children of their own employees. This is not about “poor neighborhoods” or “inadequate education.” This is a cultural product: an environment dominated by street culture, contempt for work, contempt for the French, a cult of violence, and a permanent sense of entitlement. The state piles on top of that lifelong welfare and a multicultural ideology that forbids naming the problem for what it is.  Look at the photos from France currently flooding X. A pack of young Blacks with middle fingers up, twisted faces, hoodies, acting like a half-wild herd that has just claimed territory. This is not an accident. This is their natural way of being. Street culture, cult of violence, contempt for work, the eternal feeling that the world owes them something. For decades the French state has been feeding this with benefits, ideology, and an absolute ban on telling the truth. The result is exactly what you see: masses of people who cannot and will not function according to the rules of the civilization that took them in.  There used to be methods that worked. Hard, brutal, effective. Disciplinary quarters, the Foreign Legion, real hierarchy and real consequences. From similar material they turned out people capable of at least minimal discipline. It worked because no one played at “understanding” and “empathy.” There was only the will to break the bad upbringing. Today that will is gone. In its place we have cowardly politicians, judges, and media who prefer to watch their own cities turn into zones where a White man is a stranger rather than admit that the mass import of a population with diametrically lower average predispositions and a diametrically different culture leads to irreversible catastrophe. Do they have IQ under 50?  This is not a question of “integration.” Integration with something that by itself produces aggression, entitlement, and intellectual mediocrity on a mass scale is an illusion. The more of them arrive, the more French society has to retreat, pretend, and pay. Companies avoid them like the plague. Normal people from the same backgrounds get hit with the same stereotype because the majority simply does not work. And the entire layer of power, instead of solving the problem, is busy protecting the lie. Either the hard hand, selection, and removal of this Black waste that is unfit returns, or France will continue to sink under the weight of monkey-people who will never be able to function at its level. And there is no tragedy in that. There is only consequence. And that consequence is the extinction of the White race. A matter of time.
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Left wing worker protection doesn't help their employment too

Henry von Blumenthal on X - "Riots are not only taking place in France. They are happening in Spain and Belgium too, which rather undermines the claim that this is about underfunding in the French educational system."

Eva Vlaardingerbroek on X - "This is Liège (Luik), Belgium. Note how the French migrant “school riots” are spreading. Of course they are. Because they are not about the school system. They are ethnoculturally motivated attacks against Europe and its native peoples."

Visegrád 24 on X - "BREAKING: The riots are spreading from France to Belgium. Young second and third-generation migrants have joined forces with Antifa near the central station and are clashing with riot police."
Dr. Sydney Watson on X - "It's sort of funny how you can be shown a crowd like this, from anywhere in the West, and know exactly who is doing it, what their politics are and what they look like."

Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: Thousands of Islamists are now rioting in Belgium. Attacking Belgians, destroying buildings, and accosting police."
Sean Fitzgerald (Actual Justice Warrior) on X - "I can't believe the French government is underfunding Belgium schools"
Leo Kearse - see me on tour! Links in bio on X - ""They're just worried about school funding!" has to be one of the most spectacular gaslights ever"

Visegrád 24 on X  - "BREAKING:  Moroccan wedding guests have attacked the Member of the Flemish Parliament Filip Dewinter @FDW_VB  in Antwerp city hall in Belgium.  The anti-migration politician is also a Councilman of the Antwerp City Council and arrived in city hall for a council meeting  together with fellow Vlaams Belang councillor Anke Van Dermeersch.  A large group of Moroccans who had gathered in front of city hall for wedding pictures recognized the politician, called him a racist and quickly attacked him.  Dewinter was grabbed by the throat by a large man, pushed inside city hall, punched and kicked by several people.   He came away with a bleeding eyebrow and a black eye, and has filed a complaint for assault and battery.  European politicians are now attacked at their work place for opposing mass-immigration.  Meanwhile, mainstream media stays silent about the attacks or downplays them and the threat they pose to democracy."
Clearly, it's his fault for being racist, Islamophobic and xenophobic. This is proof we need to lock up the "far right" to prevent violence

Fox News on X - "What looks like a student protest in Paris is becoming something much bigger.  A Fox News Digital investigation identifies 50 organizations connected to France's protests, but only 15 are student or youth groups.  The other 35 include communist and socialist organizations, labor unions, political parties and activist networks, raising questions about who's helping drive the movement beyond its original demands over school conditions.  The investigation also traces international connections and efforts to amplify the unrest, including tactics seen in the United States. | @foxnewspolitics    See who's behind the 50 organizations: https://foxnews.com/world/behind-f"
Left wingers are still lying that the riots are about school funding

Clash Report on X - "French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon: A world is coming to an end. That world is the one that has ruled for 40 years: neoliberalism, which spread across the entire planet after using Pinochet's dictatorship as its laboratory."
Christian Heiens 🏛 on X - "It's absolutely insane for this guy to blame his country's ills on "neoliberalism" when French government spending as a percentage of the economy is currently higher than it was in the Soviet Union right before it collapsed.   France is currently running a 5% deficit to GDP, the nation's debt to GDP stands at nearly 120%, the country has one of the most generous welfare and entitlement systems in the world, and French Boomers living off taxpayer-funded pensions earn more than working adults.  Is the "neoliberalism" in the room right now?  Communists like Melenchon just throw around the word "neoliberalism" to mean "thing that I don't like", as if that's a sufficient distraction from the fact that the last 40 years have been ruled by their ideology."

Mor Edge Insight on X - "There isn’t really any other way to see it. This man is praising a violent riot that injured 48 police officers in a series of riots that have injured hundreds. He says that throwing large paving stones and furniture that could instantly kill somebody is “beautiful”  It opens up so many questions that it’s hard to know where to even begin. How is a politician vying for the leadership of the country next year openly inciting violence and an insurrection, with no consequence? How is Macron simply standing by watching and doing or saying nothing?  And I think most importantly, how are the French people, and the same question goes for all Europeans, simply watching it and doing absolutely nothing?   There is no fight left in any of them except those who are rioting and burning down the streets. And these same countries want to convince the world that they’re somehow going to stand up to Putin and take on Russia.   Ukrainians are fighting for their lives and their spirit is incredible, strong, courageous. They e truly stood up and shown what fighting back means. But European countries are the opposite. And it’s painful to watch. No leadership. No courage. No patriotism to be seen anywhere.   This isn’t going to end well. It doesn’t even matter if it’s Russia or China or Iran pushing these riots. The point is that not a single European country is fighting back. Not one. And while their cities are destroyed and burning in flames with skyrocketing crime and rape and chaos, the only thing they find time and courage to do is lecture and condemn the few countries who do have the courage to fight back.   This man Melenchon should be executed for treason. But instead you can almost see him winning the election next year. Because if he doesn’t, then all he has to do is set his attack dogs on the country and burn it all down and then just take the country nobody seems to care to fight for.   Europe truly has fallen."
Weird. We're told the far left just want free healthcare and equal rights, not destroy society

Lara Logan on X - "ACAB is the Antifa slogan for “All Cops Are Bastards”. Same thing they wrote on the walls & monuments in Portland & Minneapolis & here they are writing it in France. Same ideology, same network of terror. Remember when CNN compared these a**holes to the Allies/heroes landing on the beaches of Normandy to fight the fascists? Now the whole world can see them for what they are: a violent foreign terrorist network of Marxists & Nazis allied with political Islam and funded/directed by their globalist puppet masters."

How much does France spend on education compared with the rest of Europe? - "Among European countries, Sweden spends the largest share of its GDP on education at 7.3 percent in 2024, followed by Iceland (7 percent) and Belgium, Estonia and Finland (6.3 percent each), according to Eurostat.  The lowest spenders are Ireland (2.7 percent), Greece (3.9 percent), Romania and Italy (4 percent each), and the United Kingdom and Spain (4.1 percent each).  At 5.1 percent, France is joint 13th, level with the Netherlands and Slovakia, and above the EU average of 4.8 percent."
Clearly, as long as they don't spend infinity on education, both France and Belgium are underfunding education and deserved to be destroyed by "student 'protests'"

Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "Rioters at French high school in Beaugency chant lyrics to Boro700’s MRH - a rap song which glorifies the ISIS terrorist attack on the Bataclan as well as a jihadist terrorist who executed an 8 year old French Jewish girl by shooting her in the head.
Lyrics: “Bataclan, they played dead, lie down, I’m gonna shoot one in the eye.”
“Like Mohamed Merah, dodging the cameras  at the Bataclan, I shot him with my eyes, manhunt, Salah Abdeslam.”
Mohammed Merah executed three French Jewish children aged 3, 5 and 8 years old. He chased the 8 year old French Jewish girl and grabbed her by the hair, paused to reload, then shot her in the head.  Salah Abdeslam meanwhile was the only surviving member of the 10-man ISIS cell that carried out the November 2015 Paris attacks including the massacre at the Bataclan. Murdered 130 people, injured more than 490."
Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "It’s absolutely fucking insane that the mainstream media are hiding the truth of the French riots. The students will literally scream “we love ISIS and want to execute Jewish children” and the mainstream media will say they want more investment in education"