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How in the world did a man like Carney win?
Ahnaf Ibn Qais has insightful reflections on Canada's energetic populism and the recent disappointing election results. One of the world's most dangerous and authoritarian globalists won.
"The rebellion was real. The grievances were raw.
But populism offered only noise, not structure.
It demolished consensus, but failed to build a replacement.
It is now clear: what populism mistook for revolt was merely ritual.
What it saw as revolution was therapy.
The populists screamed; the system listened — & then promptly resumed.
The populist moment left no monuments.
No institutions. No ideology. No personnel.
Only memes, martyrs, & market shocks.
Their legacy was not transformation, but catharsis.
Their language was one of negation.
Their tactic: disruption without direction.
When the emotion faded, the vacuum returned.
& into that vacuum stepped Carney.
He is not loved, but he is accepted.
Not visionary, but competent.
He does not promise a better world — only a smoother one.
His election marks not a triumph of ideas, but of institutional inertia.
He is the immune system made flesh — absorbing threats, neutralizing risk, restoring order.
No need to crush the populists. They exhausted themselves.
The system didn’t win. It simply waited.
Populism’s fatal flaw wasn’t rage — it was emptiness.
Behind the slogans were no structures.
Behind the heroes, no administrators.
Carney didn’t defeat populism — he outlasted it.
He is not the future. He is the end of a sentence.
He stands not atop a new epoch, but amidst the ash of a failed revolt.
No flags. No manifestos. No exit plan.
Just risk-managed politics for a demoralized population.
He is the undertaker. And the West, embalmed in its own regulations, politely lowers itself into the ground."
--James 2:12
GK Chesterton on adultery:
"The revolt against vows has been carried in our day even to the extent of a revolt against the typical vow of marriage. It is most amusing to listen to the opponents of marriage on this subject. They appear to imagine that the ideal of constancy was a yoke mysteriously imposed on mankind by the devil, instead of being, as it is, a yoke consistently imposed by all lovers on themselves. They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - ‘free-love' - as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free.
"It is the nature of love to bind itself, and the institution of marriage merely paid the average man the compliment of taking him at his word. Modern sages offer to the lover, with an ill-favored grin, the largest liberties and the fullest irresponsibility; but they do not respect him as the old Church respected him; they do not write his oath upon the heavens, as the record of his highest moment. ...
Opinion by Lau Vegys:
America's problems aren't fixable with patriotic sentiment. They're mathematical realities that don't care about your flag-waving.
The national debt recently hit $37 trillion. By 2033—the same year Social Security's trust fund runs dry—we're looking at debt exceeding $50 trillion. Interest payments alone will consume nearly half of all tax revenue.
At that point, the Federal Reserve will have no choice but to print tens of trillions of dollars to bail out the Treasury. The resulting inflation will make the early 1980s look like a picnic.
And of course, as I mentioned in a recent piece, whether it's $37 trillion now or $50 trillion in about eight years, the headline number is just the tip of the iceberg.
Add it all up—Medicare, Social Security, federal pensions, and other off-the-books promises—and the real financial hole the U.S. government faces is closer to $150 trillion. That’s nearly $1 million per taxpayer.
The Guardian reports that 15,000 Afghans were relocated to the UK in a secret scheme, while Breitbart reported that nearly 24,000 Afghans were brought in, with the British government earmarking £7 billion to secretly house and import them.
The UK taxpayer has no choice but to pay up, while government transparency was lacking.
Whether all these Afghans were vetted remains unknown. Given the reputation of the UK along with many Western countries, the vetting process for migrants is nearly nonexistent, and highly questionable in this case in particular.
Also, in the spring of 2023, while Rishi Sunak was prime minister and many UK military families had no heat or hot water, the government continued to host illegal migrants in plush hotels, at the cost to taxpayers of $8.5 million USD a day and rising. And while homelessness was up over 27% in Britain, illegal, mostly Muslim migrants from the Middle East and Africa, were royally served in those plush hotels. Now it comes to light that in...
