I would like to re-post this in honor of our Canadian brothers and sisters:
The Men Who Wanted to Be Left Alone
“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over. The moment the Men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these Men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. True terror will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy… but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”
Brilliant and seen all through out history - the French Revolution, the killing of Ceausescu, the US revolution ( look at Shays rebellion) many Indian rebellions against British rule as just a very few examples.
Remember Pluto is now in Aquarius for 20 years( transformation of the collective)- The US revolution/creation happened the last time Pluto was in Aquarius💕☀️
THANK YOU for including this clear statement of the “silent majority” who are being awakened and forced to face a monstrous cadre of evil thinkers and doers whose dark aspirations to disturb, harass, cull, enslave and manage and who will lay aside their lives, so precious and once free to become the enemy to the cowards in charge that is beyond their ability to conceive of or to begin to contend with.
A terrific characterization of the strength of the Canadian people. I would replace the word 'passive' with either 'quiet' or perhaps better 'stoic'. One has to be stoic to conquer the numerous natural threats faced to carve out not only livelihoods but whole communities. The strongest people tend to just get the job done without much complaining. They tend to be independent contributors, self-reliant, never asking for handouts but always contributing to society as a whole and taking quiet pride in doing so. Such people take much abuse before they reach a level feeling over-imposed that finally leads to action. Being independently-minded it takes a significant threat for these individuals to band together as the truckers did.
Self-organizing is a weaklings' approach. The type of weaklings one finds in government to scam taxpayers claiming they are dong the 'good of the people' when all they are doing is raising their own wealth. It does take a while for those used to operating independently busy making their own contributions to wake up and act in concert with others to counter those encroaching on their rights.
I believe a silent majority exists. If pushed too far, they self-activate.
As another of my favourite writers Tom Luongo says we are “ comfortable wolves” wakening comfortable wolves. The Truckers protest showed what happens when you wake a comfortable wolf. Trudeau ran and hid when they came out to say enough- imagine when we become uncomfortable wolves. ❤️
60% of the population are sheep. They are herded by whoever wants to herd them. Only 20% have the capacity to think critically and logically. We are the hope humanity is relying on. Continue the good fight
I think it took a minute for people to figure things out. I took 2 jabs mostly feeling hesitant - asked my doctor and was suspicious but remember - it was grim to start, emerging viruses tend to kill their hosts until the virus mutates to a form that is conducive to allowing it to spread better. Mass graves on the island near nyc, people dying in their cars outside hospitals in india.
I'd say more like eighty to ninety percent of Americans are sheep who baa in one place while the evil shepherd sheers all our freedoms for themselves while we are left out in the pasture freezing and boiling to death.
Hey, Thomas, you're a registered pharmacist. Can you provide what no other pharmacist seems able to do, a reason why some ADD drugs, which are used for conditions other than ADD, too, have been hard - to - impossible to get for over a year?
I realize that I am posing this question in a comments section which will tend to be frequented by people who think that ADD is non - existent and that we are a people zombiefied by drugs. I won't quarrel with the latter part of that, but I'm fairly certain ADD exists. In any event, I take such meds for a different neurological condition.
Not an expert on these drugs. The drug manufacturers need to tell the DEA how much they will produce each year if it is a Schedule II and if demand goes up they can't produce more until the new year starts. If you want to learn about these drugs. Google Dr. Breggin. He is the #1 expert. ADD exists. Unfortunately, they should rule out nutrient deficiencies first, but go right to prescribing drugs. Overdosing causes issues and chemical dependency.
Yeah about that outage by At&t: it didn't just affect Houston, it affected pretty much everywhere in the lower 48. My brother said he couldn't use his phone because it went into SOS mode and his Internet was barely workable. We had problems here too where we had to restart everything electronic thing we had because our router controls everything and when it goes out, everything goes out with it.
Yes. To be considered is that Canada, as with other northern countries, engages in an annual war of sorts, as winter is visited upon its peoples - up to five months of battling snow, sleet, hail, ice, whiteouts, car scraping, driveway cleaning, cold, more cold, not to mention shorter days = less sunlight. Did I mention cold? Winter is physical and mental stealth warfare. We sigh and put up with it because there is nothing else we can do, but it does take its toll on the soul (and the back).
Perhaps our passivity is in part due to this annual white war. We Canucks scratch our heads and wonder why people with year-round clement weather could be at each others' throats. Really??!! Wasting that good weather, warmth, sunshine? Are you nuts? Embrace it. Rejoice. Gardening, greenery, flowers, birds and bees. All those joys that bring peace to the soul. My kingdom right now for a hint of colour in my backyard. Instead, I am wrapped round my wood stove counting the days to the first crocus peeking its purple head in my garden.
Thank you, from a Canadian, who has read and appreciated all your Absurdistan stacks, and your books. Since you have lived out of Canada so much of your life, you have U.S. insight, which some of us lack. I would though appreciate more about Canada. Trudeau 2 is certainly doing all that he can to prevent rational dialogue through censorship bills. At least C-36 died in the Senate when Trudeau 2 called the last election and has not (yet) been reserected.
Talking is sooo hard. Everywhere I go I find the death of reason, of thoughtuf conversation.
Nice to see your readership growing.
A couple 'a questions.
1. Who is Jamie? Your partner, I'm guessing?
2. You mentioned Uni and Trudeau, so I'm guessing that was the first Trudeau, and not the second?
Trudeau 2: Ideology fomented from his mouth is a horror and I wish more Canadians would see through it. He visited Calgary recently, seemingly not for any reason but to call out the Premier, talk about how she is creating division. For us Canadians, having a leader who is incapable of looking in the mirror, who does not grasp the concept of projection is so utterly disingenous, so dangerous as our society crumbles, really so few words to fully describe his own brainwashing, his thoughless speaking, his forked tongue.
Good insights! .... from a Canadian who has lived outside the country now 30 years, I feel your pain, frustration and somewhat disbelief at a majority of your "blind and seemingly dumb" citizens. I live in Switzerland. I have been thoroughly baffled since early 2021, if not before. Sadness does not cover all of my feelings, especially knowing that most of my family still lives there, and seem blissfully unaware of what has been happening all around them. I have always been the outlier, and still am...I wear my black sheep label proudly! I was hopeful that premier Smith would change things, at least in Alberta, but until that evil blight on your country is removed, name Trudeau, I don't see things really improving. I was so happy to see the Trucker Convoy in 2022 and once again assert my pride at being Canadian; alas, it was short-lived. Glad to see that a judge of yours with integrity finally called that traitor, and his cronies, out. I pray every day that my family will stay healthy, but the current reality is telling me otherwise with the explosion of sudden deaths and illnesses sweeping the world. Man, Canadians need to wake up....and how!
I do not understand flooding the country, be it Canada or the US with populations that are culturally incompatible with the Country and it's values? We are importing mass corruption. Not to say, these people are bad, and are not looking for better lives, but they come from Corrupt and often badly run Countries. These people do not understand law and order as we understand it in our Western Sense. Criminal underground economies is what they are used to. They have no interest in assimilation, or learning English. They take over neighborhoods, put up signs in their own languages, and form their own colonies and fly the flag of the Country they supposedly ran from.
With all that, how do the Governing Elites pushing this agenda, see themselves ruling anything? This is past governing the ungovernable.
Oh, don’t worry - the WEF has an app for that…it’s called Martial Law (or Emergency Measures Act), for when the natives get too restless.
(Notice it took two years to make any headway on the use of the Act, and of course, the elite and corrupt ‘legal’ system will drag the results out long past the old age of the participants in the protest.)
Thanks for the well-wish!; I’m hoping something intelligent I might have thought at one time got nudged into one of the black holes, or even the rabbit holes, that I seem to have more of as I age! LOL
Thank you also for the links, sending them off this morning, your handle attached, jsyk.👍🏻
The globalists thought they could sell and set up a world gov't only if the West, esp US, is in terminal collapse & no longer is 'the shining city on the hill'. Then the world would accept a world gov't as chaos and economic depression spreads.
They are only here to replace the western civilization. When that has been accomplished they will then be turned onto each other until they self destruct and render the landscape unfit for humans.
No assumptions. It's fact. If their Countries were ran without the grift and corruption, they wouldn't be running from them.
The third world is a third world for a reason and for some reason the leaders in the West feel its a good idea to import it. I guess this is equity on a global scale.
"I soothed her and finally said, “well, stop eating,” and she did. Then she stopped drinking water, or taking more than a teaspoon of applesauce with morphine in it, and within days she was gone, gently, easily. I heard her die, heard a slight gasp of surprise."
My mo-in-law went literally the same way; the last gasp after nine days was in my wife's arms. It was magical. Dementia sucks, but both her and my mother took charge of their destiny's.
My Dad left in much the same way on his 98th birthday. We'd been told that he might wait to be alone to make to transition, and yes, I left the bedroom to pee and he was gone when I got back.
What wonderful witnesses to natural death. Thank you, Elizabeth and Danimal28. Thank you, Elizabeth, for all your shared expertise. We are so blessed.
Those of us Canadians who have fought MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) since its inception have watched in horror as the slippery slope we predicted has become an icy avalanche.
I listen to people cavalierly talking about the MAiD death of Grandma as if it were a common, happy, natural process, like attending a birthday party: "It was SO-OOO peaceful. Everyone was there. We held hands and sang Sweet Caroline, G'ma's favourite song."
Driving this shiznitshow is a prevailing fallacy. When I talk to those middle-aged or older, I hear a refrain: "I don't want to be in unrelenting pain near the end. If I am in pain like that, then bring in the MAiD team. Why should I suffer?" The reality is that unrelenting pain should be controlled - and can be. Good palliative care will ensure that. There are Canadian studies going back five decades indicating the efficacy of narcotic cocktails. I spoke with a hospital nurse who had been in palliative care for three decades. I was told that proper medication should leave the person able to communicate but with adequate pain control. If the patient is not experiencing this, then the family needs to insist on better med evaluation. Yet, somehow the concept is active that pain cannot be adequately controlled and that many will go unnecessarily screaming into the darkness.
There are so many aspects to MAiD that are never discussed:
- Those infirm who do not want to get MAiDed may begin to consider themselves a burden to the family - and thus feel forced to make that choice. Heaven forbid that Grandma die while all are vacationing in an All-inclusive in Cancun. Don't want to spoil that vacation.
- Those doctors who refuse to refer or recommend are not protected by provincial governing boards. This is unconscionable. How many good ones leave the profession?
- Family members may feel forced to attend the MAiD ceremony, guilted by other family members: "But Mom will be so upset you are not there. You'll ruin it." (Huh?) Can one imagine the potential longterm fallout from this in families?
- Grandchildren witness this and will consider it normal. What sort of trauma is this visited on children?
- MAiD purveyors, whilst handsomely paid, are, in 'struth, paid hitmen (hitpersons? hitfolks? hitnongenderspecificpeople?). They actively choose to kill others under the guise of compassion. That is on their souls. Might we consider that those who hire them so they can be suicided have involved another human being in their personal choice to end their lives? Something that must be considered.
Yes, Elizabeth's description of her mom passing is beautiful beyond words, it's how we are supposed to care for others and deal with death. She shows the contrast of a compassionate shared acceptance of death vs gov't coercing people into MAiD.
I had a lively discussion with some foreign born now US citizens (I think) who claimed we needed socialized medicine like Canada. I was shocked. When I asked whether they wanted to maintain control over the medical decisions of their children should they fall ill, or terminally ill, as death panels decide who lives and dies in these scenarios - they asked if I was Pro life. When I said yes, they said so you are saying the government shouldn’t make medical decisions yet you want to force a woman to have a baby when she doesn’t want to. The conflating of these two sacred issues - both relating to the right to protect LIFE - was downright terrifying to me. Zero understanding. And yet they thought they were so smart, smug. I was reminded, yet again, that for many people there is unfortunately, literally, no hope.
Those are the fully indoctrinated, reciting the feminist cant. I wonder if in the structure of heaven the cast out demons (and demons are real, if you believe one word of the Bible you must believe this) are feminized, neutered men or simply over powered women. Toxic compassion when practiced tickles places in the brain and that tells us it is mental illness.
When the founder of Dubai was asked about the future of his country. He replied...
“My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I ride a Mercedes. My son will ride a Land Rover, my grandson will ride a Land Rover, but my great-grandson will have to ride a camel again.”
When asked why...?
He said, “Hard times create strong men, strong men create easy times, easy times create weak men, and weak men create difficult times.”
Many will not understand this, but we need to create warriors, not parasites.
Absolutely love your writings, so truthful and on the money about what is going on. Yes, the farmers convoys traversing Europe were indeed inspired by our heroic truckers, and farmers, and just ordinary people sick and tired of COVID communisim. But Trudeau made sure he crushed them and made examples of them to remind like minded Canadians to never do that again. Don't do it or we will freeze your banks accounts and financially destroy you, steal all the funds you raise for your cause, threaten to steal your pets and your children, and then once it was all said and done, again cripple you financially with lawfare --- trumped up charges, endless trials, appeals of aquittals -- oh and let's not forget making a few political prisoners like the Coutts Four. Lessons learned don't cross or embarrass this authoritarian regime or you pay the price.
We must not ignore the place of abortion in this. In the late 1980s,, the late Francis Schaeffer and C. Edward Koop (surgeon general of the US) identified euthanasia as the logical outcome to abortion on demand, and here we are.
Neither can we ignore the demographic results of abortion. The US aborted about 65,000,000 people since 1973, and Canada's numbers are similar per capita. How could we think we could not create such a vacuum and keep it from being filled?
The first great sin of Canada is idolatry, the elevation of governments to god-status. Life and death are in this god's hands, and we have forgotten Christ. The second great sin is human sacrifice, millions of children sacrificed to convenience, education, career, finances, etc.
God is doing this to us because He hates what we have done, what we have become.
Deuteronomy 28:43–45 (ESV)
43 The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. 44 He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail. 45 “All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you.
I have always been confounded by people who are opposed to vaccine tyranny and are also in favor of socialized medicine. I argue for a complete separation of vaccines and state. And ideally, a complete separation of medicine and state.
If you want the State to pay the bills, it will define what constitutes "health care" and the circumstances under which you can (or need to) consume it.
My sole comment to your otherwise excellent analysis is that - this really isn't a country. Never has been since "CONfederation". My only bona fides is that I was born in the Maritimes, lived in Quebec, Ontario, BC and Alberta and can only harvest eight decades of experience and observations.
Maritimers are not Laurentian Elites, who are not Albertans, etc. It's solely focused on Upper and Lower Canada, 24/7. Canada consists of the Golden Triangle of Toronto - Ottawa - Montreal wherein a revolving cadre of legal, media, political and financial elites hop on and off the Suck and Blow Express, as it makes its way around the Triangle, while they busily burnish their resumes and stuff themselves with taxpayer funds. Deep State, indeed. Think bilingual elites populating the Uniparty, the McKinseys, Deloittes, endless law firms, NGOs, green enviro-locusts, shrill academics from all the Marxist U.s, senior bureaucrats, Indigenous scammers, etc. And we pay them forever through the Canadian Equalization Program, to perform their bullshit jobs and then collect their pensions funded by the incessant printing and resultant debasement of our fiat scrip. Meanwhile Son of Castro gets to state openly about Alberta without any irony, on his fully funded and captured propaganda arm (CBC), "Nous ne sommes pas comme eux." (We're not like them.) It's almost laughable. It's entirely shameful. However Elizabeth, as you know well - they hate us and hold us in contempt. Always have and always will. They take our money while doing a happy dance as they try so hard to shut us down.
Only place where I really felt at home in Canada was in Halifax....( formerly a Saskatchewan girl) ....the east coast people are the finest in Canada in my mind!
Fabulous comment! I left Canada in 1993, and feel fortunate not to have felt the need to ever return....Trudeau has dug the grave that has been there for a long time, even deeper. But at the moment, no place feels like home in this crazy, upside down world...even here in Europe. The insanity will stop soon, but it can't be soon enough for me!
Wow, kind of sounds like the State of Illinois where I live. Recent proposals for laws include assisted dying, defining an abused/neglected child as one whose parent denies her/his minor child abortion or "gender-affirming care," adopting CA's zero emission mandates, and on.
Gas hook ups are outlawed in the suburb of Oak Park and on the table in Chicago, a state tax subsidized CCP battery plant is being built in downstate IL against the will of the people, there's a ban on book "banning," and on. Oh, not to mention an ill-educated, low skilled, arguably criminal migrant population given housing, meals and healthcare, at taxpayer expense. For a while I naively thought Europe and Canada were the canary in the coal mine for the US, only to realize my state is already there.
I left Illinois (the Fox Valley) over 7 years ago because I could see where it was headed. Unfortunately, I’m looking for another place to move my family...constantly chasing freedom. There isn’t anywhere left to go. It’s time for all of us to stand and fight for our freedoms. I struggle everyday to not let the disgust I feel for those who would rather keep their heads buried so far up their asses than face this reality. Our biggest advantage is our numbers but with the constant distraction and division it seems impossible some days.
I have the same question dragging me down almost every day....where the hell to go? The world is just crazy, and sadly, all over. I am in Europe, and try to find pockets of sanity and beauty often....only thing that gives me hope. That, and being there for my young adult children. I feel for the future generations the most...at the very least we have some beautiful memories of our youth to hold onto...praying that God helps lead you on the right path. Things are changing, albeit slowly....but I am livid that there is little accountability for the crimes against humanity. I am glad I left Canada decades ago....like you, I could see where it was headed, and it was not good. Now it is crumbling before my eyes...gladly, I am seeing it from afar. My family is still there, and they have become lost to me in any case.....they fell for all of the lies and false narratives. It is next to impossible to reach even one of them. Only have contact with my mother....24 family members, and only 3 of us were rational/critical thinkers the last four years. ...myself and my two children. I feel like I live in the Twilight Zone. How do others deal with this crazy reality?
I would like to re-post this in honor of our Canadian brothers and sisters:
The Men Who Wanted to Be Left Alone
“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over. The moment the Men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these Men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. True terror will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy… but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”
– Author Unknown
Brilliant and seen all through out history - the French Revolution, the killing of Ceausescu, the US revolution ( look at Shays rebellion) many Indian rebellions against British rule as just a very few examples.
Remember Pluto is now in Aquarius for 20 years( transformation of the collective)- The US revolution/creation happened the last time Pluto was in Aquarius💕☀️
THANK YOU for including this clear statement of the “silent majority” who are being awakened and forced to face a monstrous cadre of evil thinkers and doers whose dark aspirations to disturb, harass, cull, enslave and manage and who will lay aside their lives, so precious and once free to become the enemy to the cowards in charge that is beyond their ability to conceive of or to begin to contend with.
A terrific characterization of the strength of the Canadian people. I would replace the word 'passive' with either 'quiet' or perhaps better 'stoic'. One has to be stoic to conquer the numerous natural threats faced to carve out not only livelihoods but whole communities. The strongest people tend to just get the job done without much complaining. They tend to be independent contributors, self-reliant, never asking for handouts but always contributing to society as a whole and taking quiet pride in doing so. Such people take much abuse before they reach a level feeling over-imposed that finally leads to action. Being independently-minded it takes a significant threat for these individuals to band together as the truckers did.
Self-organizing is a weaklings' approach. The type of weaklings one finds in government to scam taxpayers claiming they are dong the 'good of the people' when all they are doing is raising their own wealth. It does take a while for those used to operating independently busy making their own contributions to wake up and act in concert with others to counter those encroaching on their rights.
I believe a silent majority exists. If pushed too far, they self-activate.
As another of my favourite writers Tom Luongo says we are “ comfortable wolves” wakening comfortable wolves. The Truckers protest showed what happens when you wake a comfortable wolf. Trudeau ran and hid when they came out to say enough- imagine when we become uncomfortable wolves. ❤️
It will take a major crisis in the United States for the sheep to wake up! The gaslighting has been going on too long!
We just went through a major crisis and the majority didn't wake up
Deniel Deniel Deniel. Don't want to admit they were conned!
No. They are just being "stoic." /s
60% of the population are sheep. They are herded by whoever wants to herd them. Only 20% have the capacity to think critically and logically. We are the hope humanity is relying on. Continue the good fight
Read somewhere that only 5% of people over 65 declined the jab.
I think it took a minute for people to figure things out. I took 2 jabs mostly feeling hesitant - asked my doctor and was suspicious but remember - it was grim to start, emerging viruses tend to kill their hosts until the virus mutates to a form that is conducive to allowing it to spread better. Mass graves on the island near nyc, people dying in their cars outside hospitals in india.
Well I guess I’m in the 5%. Sp maybe the 20% is high
Brent: I think the truly active and capable remnant is more like 3%.
20% is all we need.
I'd say more like eighty to ninety percent of Americans are sheep who baa in one place while the evil shepherd sheers all our freedoms for themselves while we are left out in the pasture freezing and boiling to death.
You might be right
And the persecution of Trump and J6ers is meant to show just how brutal the Democrats can be, even against innocent American patriots.
Hard to contain my anger!
Hey, Thomas, you're a registered pharmacist. Can you provide what no other pharmacist seems able to do, a reason why some ADD drugs, which are used for conditions other than ADD, too, have been hard - to - impossible to get for over a year?
I realize that I am posing this question in a comments section which will tend to be frequented by people who think that ADD is non - existent and that we are a people zombiefied by drugs. I won't quarrel with the latter part of that, but I'm fairly certain ADD exists. In any event, I take such meds for a different neurological condition.
Can you tell me anything about this?
Not an expert on these drugs. The drug manufacturers need to tell the DEA how much they will produce each year if it is a Schedule II and if demand goes up they can't produce more until the new year starts. If you want to learn about these drugs. Google Dr. Breggin. He is the #1 expert. ADD exists. Unfortunately, they should rule out nutrient deficiencies first, but go right to prescribing drugs. Overdosing causes issues and chemical dependency.
The supply chain 👀? Empty shelves in the EU have awakened some. How about that ATT outage 📵? They are testing us.
Yeah about that outage by At&t: it didn't just affect Houston, it affected pretty much everywhere in the lower 48. My brother said he couldn't use his phone because it went into SOS mode and his Internet was barely workable. We had problems here too where we had to restart everything electronic thing we had because our router controls everything and when it goes out, everything goes out with it.
Silent way too long in my opinion. That is how the Left took over. Speak up and speak out!
Let's hope so for all our sakes.
Yes. To be considered is that Canada, as with other northern countries, engages in an annual war of sorts, as winter is visited upon its peoples - up to five months of battling snow, sleet, hail, ice, whiteouts, car scraping, driveway cleaning, cold, more cold, not to mention shorter days = less sunlight. Did I mention cold? Winter is physical and mental stealth warfare. We sigh and put up with it because there is nothing else we can do, but it does take its toll on the soul (and the back).
Perhaps our passivity is in part due to this annual white war. We Canucks scratch our heads and wonder why people with year-round clement weather could be at each others' throats. Really??!! Wasting that good weather, warmth, sunshine? Are you nuts? Embrace it. Rejoice. Gardening, greenery, flowers, birds and bees. All those joys that bring peace to the soul. My kingdom right now for a hint of colour in my backyard. Instead, I am wrapped round my wood stove counting the days to the first crocus peeking its purple head in my garden.
Thank you, from a Canadian, who has read and appreciated all your Absurdistan stacks, and your books. Since you have lived out of Canada so much of your life, you have U.S. insight, which some of us lack. I would though appreciate more about Canada. Trudeau 2 is certainly doing all that he can to prevent rational dialogue through censorship bills. At least C-36 died in the Senate when Trudeau 2 called the last election and has not (yet) been reserected.
Talking is sooo hard. Everywhere I go I find the death of reason, of thoughtuf conversation.
Nice to see your readership growing.
A couple 'a questions.
1. Who is Jamie? Your partner, I'm guessing?
2. You mentioned Uni and Trudeau, so I'm guessing that was the first Trudeau, and not the second?
Trudeau 2: Ideology fomented from his mouth is a horror and I wish more Canadians would see through it. He visited Calgary recently, seemingly not for any reason but to call out the Premier, talk about how she is creating division. For us Canadians, having a leader who is incapable of looking in the mirror, who does not grasp the concept of projection is so utterly disingenous, so dangerous as our society crumbles, really so few words to fully describe his own brainwashing, his thoughless speaking, his forked tongue.
Good insights! .... from a Canadian who has lived outside the country now 30 years, I feel your pain, frustration and somewhat disbelief at a majority of your "blind and seemingly dumb" citizens. I live in Switzerland. I have been thoroughly baffled since early 2021, if not before. Sadness does not cover all of my feelings, especially knowing that most of my family still lives there, and seem blissfully unaware of what has been happening all around them. I have always been the outlier, and still am...I wear my black sheep label proudly! I was hopeful that premier Smith would change things, at least in Alberta, but until that evil blight on your country is removed, name Trudeau, I don't see things really improving. I was so happy to see the Trucker Convoy in 2022 and once again assert my pride at being Canadian; alas, it was short-lived. Glad to see that a judge of yours with integrity finally called that traitor, and his cronies, out. I pray every day that my family will stay healthy, but the current reality is telling me otherwise with the explosion of sudden deaths and illnesses sweeping the world. Man, Canadians need to wake up....and how!
Trudeau 2…..Twodeau?
If the conservatives win… fire all the bureaucrats. Like the president of Argentina is doing.
I do not understand flooding the country, be it Canada or the US with populations that are culturally incompatible with the Country and it's values? We are importing mass corruption. Not to say, these people are bad, and are not looking for better lives, but they come from Corrupt and often badly run Countries. These people do not understand law and order as we understand it in our Western Sense. Criminal underground economies is what they are used to. They have no interest in assimilation, or learning English. They take over neighborhoods, put up signs in their own languages, and form their own colonies and fly the flag of the Country they supposedly ran from.
With all that, how do the Governing Elites pushing this agenda, see themselves ruling anything? This is past governing the ungovernable.
Oh, don’t worry - the WEF has an app for that…it’s called Martial Law (or Emergency Measures Act), for when the natives get too restless.
(Notice it took two years to make any headway on the use of the Act, and of course, the elite and corrupt ‘legal’ system will drag the results out long past the old age of the participants in the protest.)
I was slightly aware of the story, not keeping as close an eye as I could have…thank you for the link.
I took a hard fall and literally fell on my head on ice yesterday so will have to save it for later reading.
I did send it off to a publisher friend in Europe who may be able to use it.
Thanks!
Thanks for the well-wish!; I’m hoping something intelligent I might have thought at one time got nudged into one of the black holes, or even the rabbit holes, that I seem to have more of as I age! LOL
Thank you also for the links, sending them off this morning, your handle attached, jsyk.👍🏻
The dumbing down of America continues.
That’s Vancouver you’re describing.
The globalists thought they could sell and set up a world gov't only if the West, esp US, is in terminal collapse & no longer is 'the shining city on the hill'. Then the world would accept a world gov't as chaos and economic depression spreads.
They are only here to replace the western civilization. When that has been accomplished they will then be turned onto each other until they self destruct and render the landscape unfit for humans.
Why do we always assume it is those from outside of us that are corrupt?
No assumptions. It's fact. If their Countries were ran without the grift and corruption, they wouldn't be running from them.
The third world is a third world for a reason and for some reason the leaders in the West feel its a good idea to import it. I guess this is equity on a global scale.
"I soothed her and finally said, “well, stop eating,” and she did. Then she stopped drinking water, or taking more than a teaspoon of applesauce with morphine in it, and within days she was gone, gently, easily. I heard her die, heard a slight gasp of surprise."
My mo-in-law went literally the same way; the last gasp after nine days was in my wife's arms. It was magical. Dementia sucks, but both her and my mother took charge of their destiny's.
God bless you all.
My mother died the same way-in her home, quietly.
My Dad left in much the same way on his 98th birthday. We'd been told that he might wait to be alone to make to transition, and yes, I left the bedroom to pee and he was gone when I got back.
What wonderful witnesses to natural death. Thank you, Elizabeth and Danimal28. Thank you, Elizabeth, for all your shared expertise. We are so blessed.
Those of us Canadians who have fought MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) since its inception have watched in horror as the slippery slope we predicted has become an icy avalanche.
I listen to people cavalierly talking about the MAiD death of Grandma as if it were a common, happy, natural process, like attending a birthday party: "It was SO-OOO peaceful. Everyone was there. We held hands and sang Sweet Caroline, G'ma's favourite song."
Driving this shiznitshow is a prevailing fallacy. When I talk to those middle-aged or older, I hear a refrain: "I don't want to be in unrelenting pain near the end. If I am in pain like that, then bring in the MAiD team. Why should I suffer?" The reality is that unrelenting pain should be controlled - and can be. Good palliative care will ensure that. There are Canadian studies going back five decades indicating the efficacy of narcotic cocktails. I spoke with a hospital nurse who had been in palliative care for three decades. I was told that proper medication should leave the person able to communicate but with adequate pain control. If the patient is not experiencing this, then the family needs to insist on better med evaluation. Yet, somehow the concept is active that pain cannot be adequately controlled and that many will go unnecessarily screaming into the darkness.
There are so many aspects to MAiD that are never discussed:
- Those infirm who do not want to get MAiDed may begin to consider themselves a burden to the family - and thus feel forced to make that choice. Heaven forbid that Grandma die while all are vacationing in an All-inclusive in Cancun. Don't want to spoil that vacation.
- Those doctors who refuse to refer or recommend are not protected by provincial governing boards. This is unconscionable. How many good ones leave the profession?
- Family members may feel forced to attend the MAiD ceremony, guilted by other family members: "But Mom will be so upset you are not there. You'll ruin it." (Huh?) Can one imagine the potential longterm fallout from this in families?
- Grandchildren witness this and will consider it normal. What sort of trauma is this visited on children?
- MAiD purveyors, whilst handsomely paid, are, in 'struth, paid hitmen (hitpersons? hitfolks? hitnongenderspecificpeople?). They actively choose to kill others under the guise of compassion. That is on their souls. Might we consider that those who hire them so they can be suicided have involved another human being in their personal choice to end their lives? Something that must be considered.
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Yes, Elizabeth's description of her mom passing is beautiful beyond words, it's how we are supposed to care for others and deal with death. She shows the contrast of a compassionate shared acceptance of death vs gov't coercing people into MAiD.
I had a lively discussion with some foreign born now US citizens (I think) who claimed we needed socialized medicine like Canada. I was shocked. When I asked whether they wanted to maintain control over the medical decisions of their children should they fall ill, or terminally ill, as death panels decide who lives and dies in these scenarios - they asked if I was Pro life. When I said yes, they said so you are saying the government shouldn’t make medical decisions yet you want to force a woman to have a baby when she doesn’t want to. The conflating of these two sacred issues - both relating to the right to protect LIFE - was downright terrifying to me. Zero understanding. And yet they thought they were so smart, smug. I was reminded, yet again, that for many people there is unfortunately, literally, no hope.
Those are the fully indoctrinated, reciting the feminist cant. I wonder if in the structure of heaven the cast out demons (and demons are real, if you believe one word of the Bible you must believe this) are feminized, neutered men or simply over powered women. Toxic compassion when practiced tickles places in the brain and that tells us it is mental illness.
Demons being cast out are, indeed, all over Biblical passages.
Trucker blood is still there! Fly flags! Stand tall. I am a WASP and proud of it. I have a culture and a history as valid as anyone.
sad we have to say this, but here we are.
When the founder of Dubai was asked about the future of his country. He replied...
“My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I ride a Mercedes. My son will ride a Land Rover, my grandson will ride a Land Rover, but my great-grandson will have to ride a camel again.”
When asked why...?
He said, “Hard times create strong men, strong men create easy times, easy times create weak men, and weak men create difficult times.”
Many will not understand this, but we need to create warriors, not parasites.
The days of warriors are done. Gender confusion has made sure of that. No fear of God in the land means the reign of death.
Yes, you are right!!
Absolutely love your writings, so truthful and on the money about what is going on. Yes, the farmers convoys traversing Europe were indeed inspired by our heroic truckers, and farmers, and just ordinary people sick and tired of COVID communisim. But Trudeau made sure he crushed them and made examples of them to remind like minded Canadians to never do that again. Don't do it or we will freeze your banks accounts and financially destroy you, steal all the funds you raise for your cause, threaten to steal your pets and your children, and then once it was all said and done, again cripple you financially with lawfare --- trumped up charges, endless trials, appeals of aquittals -- oh and let's not forget making a few political prisoners like the Coutts Four. Lessons learned don't cross or embarrass this authoritarian regime or you pay the price.
We must not ignore the place of abortion in this. In the late 1980s,, the late Francis Schaeffer and C. Edward Koop (surgeon general of the US) identified euthanasia as the logical outcome to abortion on demand, and here we are.
Neither can we ignore the demographic results of abortion. The US aborted about 65,000,000 people since 1973, and Canada's numbers are similar per capita. How could we think we could not create such a vacuum and keep it from being filled?
The first great sin of Canada is idolatry, the elevation of governments to god-status. Life and death are in this god's hands, and we have forgotten Christ. The second great sin is human sacrifice, millions of children sacrificed to convenience, education, career, finances, etc.
God is doing this to us because He hates what we have done, what we have become.
Deuteronomy 28:43–45 (ESV)
43 The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. 44 He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail. 45 “All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you.
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The replacement theory is no longer a theory.
Sad but important story.
I have always been confounded by people who are opposed to vaccine tyranny and are also in favor of socialized medicine. I argue for a complete separation of vaccines and state. And ideally, a complete separation of medicine and state.
He who pays the piper calls the tune.
If you want the State to pay the bills, it will define what constitutes "health care" and the circumstances under which you can (or need to) consume it.
My sole comment to your otherwise excellent analysis is that - this really isn't a country. Never has been since "CONfederation". My only bona fides is that I was born in the Maritimes, lived in Quebec, Ontario, BC and Alberta and can only harvest eight decades of experience and observations.
Maritimers are not Laurentian Elites, who are not Albertans, etc. It's solely focused on Upper and Lower Canada, 24/7. Canada consists of the Golden Triangle of Toronto - Ottawa - Montreal wherein a revolving cadre of legal, media, political and financial elites hop on and off the Suck and Blow Express, as it makes its way around the Triangle, while they busily burnish their resumes and stuff themselves with taxpayer funds. Deep State, indeed. Think bilingual elites populating the Uniparty, the McKinseys, Deloittes, endless law firms, NGOs, green enviro-locusts, shrill academics from all the Marxist U.s, senior bureaucrats, Indigenous scammers, etc. And we pay them forever through the Canadian Equalization Program, to perform their bullshit jobs and then collect their pensions funded by the incessant printing and resultant debasement of our fiat scrip. Meanwhile Son of Castro gets to state openly about Alberta without any irony, on his fully funded and captured propaganda arm (CBC), "Nous ne sommes pas comme eux." (We're not like them.) It's almost laughable. It's entirely shameful. However Elizabeth, as you know well - they hate us and hold us in contempt. Always have and always will. They take our money while doing a happy dance as they try so hard to shut us down.
If I could love this twice, I would. You’ve nailed it.
Only place where I really felt at home in Canada was in Halifax....( formerly a Saskatchewan girl) ....the east coast people are the finest in Canada in my mind!
Fabulous comment! I left Canada in 1993, and feel fortunate not to have felt the need to ever return....Trudeau has dug the grave that has been there for a long time, even deeper. But at the moment, no place feels like home in this crazy, upside down world...even here in Europe. The insanity will stop soon, but it can't be soon enough for me!
Same throughout the Western world
Well said.
Wow, kind of sounds like the State of Illinois where I live. Recent proposals for laws include assisted dying, defining an abused/neglected child as one whose parent denies her/his minor child abortion or "gender-affirming care," adopting CA's zero emission mandates, and on.
Gas hook ups are outlawed in the suburb of Oak Park and on the table in Chicago, a state tax subsidized CCP battery plant is being built in downstate IL against the will of the people, there's a ban on book "banning," and on. Oh, not to mention an ill-educated, low skilled, arguably criminal migrant population given housing, meals and healthcare, at taxpayer expense. For a while I naively thought Europe and Canada were the canary in the coal mine for the US, only to realize my state is already there.
I left Illinois (the Fox Valley) over 7 years ago because I could see where it was headed. Unfortunately, I’m looking for another place to move my family...constantly chasing freedom. There isn’t anywhere left to go. It’s time for all of us to stand and fight for our freedoms. I struggle everyday to not let the disgust I feel for those who would rather keep their heads buried so far up their asses than face this reality. Our biggest advantage is our numbers but with the constant distraction and division it seems impossible some days.
I have the same question dragging me down almost every day....where the hell to go? The world is just crazy, and sadly, all over. I am in Europe, and try to find pockets of sanity and beauty often....only thing that gives me hope. That, and being there for my young adult children. I feel for the future generations the most...at the very least we have some beautiful memories of our youth to hold onto...praying that God helps lead you on the right path. Things are changing, albeit slowly....but I am livid that there is little accountability for the crimes against humanity. I am glad I left Canada decades ago....like you, I could see where it was headed, and it was not good. Now it is crumbling before my eyes...gladly, I am seeing it from afar. My family is still there, and they have become lost to me in any case.....they fell for all of the lies and false narratives. It is next to impossible to reach even one of them. Only have contact with my mother....24 family members, and only 3 of us were rational/critical thinkers the last four years. ...myself and my two children. I feel like I live in the Twilight Zone. How do others deal with this crazy reality?
We left central Illinois in '13 - for Maryland, like leaving the pan for the fire - I miss the friends, but not the Chicago-driven politics.
And in a civil war the illegals will fight on the side of free shit! I would bet the governments will hand them weapons.
That thought scares me too!