Friday On Turtle Island

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1. So Alberta has a competitive leftist party now. I’ve only set foot in the province once, and that was a very long time ago, but living in the southern United States I have a theory about this. Are people moving to Alberta from places like BC or Ontario? Here we have states that are failing due to the fact that their voters, and thus their governments, have embraced woke policies and destroyed the quality of life in those leftist states. So residents move down here to get away from the crime and filth, and as one can see from North Carolina they bring their stupid guilt and their leftist voting habits with them. North Carolina will probably be ruined within 10 years. If that’s what’s happening to y’all, you have my sympathy.

   People talk about “weaponized government failure” down here. The phrase refers to the fact that woke policies drive the middle class and entrepreneurs out of the woke state – but since those groups tend to vote conservative leftist state governments start regarding driving out the productive as a feature rather than a bug, even as it becomes impossible to find skilled labor such as electricians. On a national level – looks like in both countries – I believe governmental failure such as we see in New York, Illinois, and California also works for the left because way too many of the fleeing middle class refuse to change their voting habits. As Mark Twain said: “it’s easier to fool a man than it is to convince him he’s been fooled.”

   Good luck up there. Thank you for this great blog. A couple of times I’ve found out American news here and been asked “where did you find that?” I answer “Saskatchewan” – which really confuses people, especially those who have never heard the word before. And Kate sure looks good on that bike, if I wasn’t married I’d be tempted to move to Saskatchewan to meet her – but I’d have a heck of a time getting the guns across the border.

   1. All true. Both countries are on a destructive path. So sad.

   2. Foggytrucker:

      Welcome aboard.

      The history of Alberta is pretty straightforward.
      American ranchers (cowboys) followed the grass northward and established the ranching industry in the 1880’s and forward.

      European immigrants came to farm.

      Leduc #1 blewout in ’47 and the game changed. Alberta quickly became a petro state. Americans flooded into the province to develop the oil/gas industry.

      Many Canadians emigrated to fill the jobs created in the patch. In short order Canada became self sufficient in oil and gas.

      Prosperity quickly followed as did population growth. The new Alberta’s brought their politics with them.
      What was once a solid conservative province derived from values the American cowboys and oilmen brought morphed into
      a cesspool of liberals and worse. As the cities grew the public service unions expanded rapidly along with their socialist vote.

      We elected (barely) a libertarian Premier in May. The conservative base in Alberta is very fractured. Wheather she can keep the faith is questionable. There are a lot of knives out for for her (many on this platform). Canadian conservatives would rather win an argument than win an election, so we shall see.

      1. Thank you.

2. Can we cull (Irish) politicians instead, because their carbon footprint in substantially bigger than cows, cows produce less bullshit, and cows turn into products that people want to buy.

   Cow products don’t require mandates, which the government will force upon you at the point of a gun.

3. Hey ‘White Guys’, the United States Supreme Court has finally deemed the Obama policy-making as racist which Trudeau has been following illegally and religiously in Canada. Almost every piece of legislation including his ‘Emergency Powers Order’ has a special privileges for non-whites.

   Our Uni-party governments obviously neglected their responsibility in bringing this crap up and changing Trudeau.

   1. Section 15(2) of the canadian charter basically negates equal protection under the law in canada

4. The rise of the left among younger voters is simply a sign of despair. They see that most people make their income from gubmint scams in canuckistan so the demand for more gubmint is simply a realization that in order to make a decent wage they must get in on one of these scams. Only the stupidest of the stupid actually believe in the climate change narrative.

   1. The same level of stupid required to take a “covid” vax. There are millions of them.

5. Welp. Looks like Twitter is kiboshing me from looking at tweets without an account.
   Oh well, had a good run.

   1. From a commenter at Ace’s:

      Supposedly, the Twitter login restriction instituted this morning is temporary.

      Elon says: “Temporary emergency measure. We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!”

      Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at June 30, 2023 06:26 PM

6. Some comedy from your idiot overloaded Weather Network.
   Home of non stop weather fear porn.

   Headline:

   TOP STORY – Indigenous knowledge is finally being woven into environmental policies, find out more HERE.

   1. Have you ever visited Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump? I did many years ago, and did not come away with the sense that the natives were overly environmentally conscious when it came to harvesting the buffalo. Now I realize that – back before there were horses – it was really rather hazardous to shepherd the buffalo towards the jump, which was the job of young men. Also, it would have been seriously tricky to try to turn some of the herd away once there were enough buffalo over the jump to be fully slaughtered. But the native insistence that the WHOLE HERD had die because a survivor might go back and warn other buffalo to avoid the area rather sticks in my craw. How often did the dead buffalo just be harvested for the “good bits” because there were too many dead buffalo for the natives to process properly? When it comes to “Indigineous knowledge”, I think – as I often do about “white knowledge” – that, to quote Chaucer, “Then is it wisdom, as it thinketh me, to make virtue of necessity”.