Canadian Exceptionalism

When the Liberal backroom boys start to admit that the rest of the world couldn’t care less about Canada, you just know that your chances of “sticking it” to Trump are somewhere between slim and zero.

Clow said that while the world should have stuck together 18 months ago, it would be the wrong approach for Canada to unilaterally retaliate now.

“The ship has kind of sailed here,” he said. “For Canada to now move on its own and implement a whole bunch of retaliatory tariffs, I think, would leave us even more exposed to further escalation and further pain from the Trump administration.”

“The DNC is flat broke.”

The cash-strapped Democratic National Committee is in full-blown meltdown, according to a New York Times report, with its chair, Ken Martin, descending into fear and “a growing sense of paranoia” about his job security.

Facing a cash crunch, the Democratic National Committee has asked vendors to hold off on sending bills until after the midterms, The Times reported — an unusual move exposing the party’s financial struggles with just a few months left before the November election.

The comparative financial status of the two parties is stark: President Trump has a $400 million war chest — and the RNC has another $130 million available — and the DNC is reportedly about $2 million in debt, according to The Times.

Martin is reportedly growing increasingly anxious about the DNC’s financial woes and whether or not he will be able to keep his job. The chairman, responsible for fundraising, party operations, and campaign infrastructure, is “relying on a vanishingly small circle of people he trusts,” The Times reported Sunday.

It’s almost as though the tap to an invisible flow of money was quietly squeezed shut.

Corpus Derelicti

Jamie Sarkonak;

Heller’s saga began when he spoke up about the wording in the Indigenous competency course mandated for all lawyers by the B.C. Law Society. As things stood back then, all members of the profession had to read through materials endorsed by their professional overseers to maintain the ability to practice — only, the course materials were objectively false. The thousands of professionals gatekeeping everything from real estate deals to criminal sentencing — professionals from which the next generation of B.C.’s judges would be drawn — were being told to internalize the unproven claim that the bodies of children were found at the Kamloops residential school grounds.

In The Mail

One of SDA’s regulars sent me the following message today:

What follows is a news letter from the People’s Party. They have raised a valid point that none of our Political Parties have touched: once truth is prohibited, a nation can no longer be considered a democracy.

“You’ve probably heard about the Assembly of First Nations passing an emergency resolution demanding that the government make residential school “denialism” a criminal offence.
Grand Chief Garrison Settee believes that demanding evidence of unmarked graves should be considered “residential school denialism” and made into a hate crime.

But here’s the problem: at sites like the one in Kamloops, ground-penetrating radar flagged anomalies that the tribe itself said it “suspects” are unmarked graves.

No excavations have been done. No bodies have been found. And yet, asking for proof could soon land you in prison.
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Photoblogging

I visited Chicago this past weekend to photograph an annual event I strive to attend every year. The Obama Center was not on my Top 100 list of places I wanted to visit, but my friends wanted to go, so I joined them. When it comes to photography, I’m completely agnostic. Here are a few photos of this “unusual” structure:

“They Would Rather Die, Than Admit They Were Wrong”

Here’s an insightful video from Asmongold about the recent tragedy in Germany. This is a textbook example of Gad Saad’s Suicidal Empathy. Here’s more from Vincent Dao.

Uncomfortable truth [for the German authorities] :

Ballout was known to security services. He had a history of criminal offenses, radicalization, and ties to Berlin’s Islamist scene. In 2025 he traveled toward Syria intending to join the Islamic State (ISIS), was arrested in Lebanon (serving a short sentence there), returned to Germany, and received a suspended sentence related to preparing a serious violent act and sharing ISIS propaganda. He was subject to monitoring and had been ordered into a deradicalization program.

New Ideological Hemlines Announced

Please update your files and lifestyles accordingly:

The role of status-seeking in political opinionating, whereby a person’s professed beliefs function as a kind of social jewellery, the latest must-have, has cropped up here quite frequently over the years. Along with the inadvertent social gaffes that can arise if you’re not particularly interested in whether your views are perceived as suitably modish and high-status.

And you wouldn’t want to be seen wearing last season’s opinions.

One Flu Out Of The Wuhan Nest

As Jim Geraghty writes, “For the entirety of 2020 and long after, the ‘it started in a wet market’ view was the respectable one. Believing that somebody at the Wuhan Institute of Virology hadn’t been careful one day and had gotten accidentally infected with a virus that had gained a function or two during its time in the lab made you a crazy conspiracy theorist. In fact, the lab leak theory was evidence of your racism. And now — in July 2026! — we learn that Fauci himself had dismissed the wet market as a potential source at the end of January 2020.”

And much more.

What kind of doctor wants to work for government? Biggest mistake [Trump] ever made was letting the federal government do its job re covid. We’re only now starting to plumb the depths of what the federal government’s job was.

Tony’s Diary.

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