ROOKE: Trump Helps Shiv Canada’s Justin Trudeau Before He Even Takes Office
'His public flogging by Trump was merely the end of a long year'
Will Justin Trudeau RESIGN because of Trump’s tariff threat?
Is Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s reign over, or will he run again and be elected to a fourth term?
Whatever the answer may be, Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” and Rebel News founder Ezra Levant believe Trudeau’s time should be up.
“Trudeau loves the sizzle of being prime minister. He loves the adulation,” Levant tells Glenn. “For example, he went to the recent Taylor Swift concert, and he exchanged friendship bracelets with teenage girls. That’s his market these days. Everyone else shouts at him.”
“Canadians can hardly wait to get rid of Trudeau. I don’t want to sound overconfident, but the conservative opposition leader, his name is Pierre Poilievre, he’s excellent. He’s way out ahead in the polls,” he continues.
There are about five parties in Canadian Parliament, and the conservative party is polling at 43%.
“I know that might sound low in an American two-party system, but when you’ve got five parties, 43% means you’re going to have a massive victory,” Levant explains. “And last night, after Chrystia Freeland detonated Trudeau and quit, there was a pollster named Abacus Data that went into the field immediately.”
“His results have just been posted. Only 11% of Canadians approve of Trudeau. 11%; it’s going to be a massacre,” he continues. “Glenn, I’ve got to tell you, people of every background, according to the pollsters, men and women, young and old and minorities, they all want Trudeau gone.”
“Canadians are finally done with him. We just need that moment where we get to go to vote,” he adds.
“How much of a role did the election of Donald Trump play in this?” Glenn asks, curious.
“I don’t know if you remember, but about a month ago, Trump tweeted, ‘25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada if they don’t seal their borders. Stop the illegal drugs, stop illegal immigrants,’” Levant explains.
“What if Trump actually implements the tariff on Canada? It hurts our economy, so now Trudeau can say, ‘This terrible economy, it’s not my fault, it’s Trump’s fault. Vote for me if you want to stand up to Trump, vote for me if you don’t like Trump,’” he continues.
“I think Trudeau is willing to sacrifice Canada’s economy for this desperate chance to run and win again. That’s my theory,” he adds.
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'A man is a man': Backlash erupts online after British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks the obvious truth about sex
While delivering a speech at the Conservative Party conference, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak noted the obvious truth that men are men and women are women.
"And we shouldn't get bullied into believing that people can be any sex they want to be. They can't. A man is a man. And a woman is a woman. That's just common sense," Sunak declared, earning hearty applause from the audience.
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But people on social media pounced on the prime minister's reality-based assertion.
"2023 in Britain is not a safe place to be trans. I am furious, I am tired and I am scared. Solidarity and love with all trans people," one person wrote on X.
"This makes me so angry. I am scared. As a member of the LGBTQIA+ community and the mother of a trans/nb child, I am scared," someone else wrote.
"And the country becomes increasingly more terrifying. I honestly don't know what to say at this point, I'm full of fear and anxiety for my daughters future and her safety. Hate seems to be winning," another account posted, "and I feel sick to my stomach that we live in this country."
During his speech, the prime minister touched upon issues that are also topics of debate over in the U.S., including illegal immigration and support for Ukraine.
"It is non-negotiable that you, the British people, decide who comes here, and not criminal gangs," Sunak said on the topic of illegal immigration.
The British official also touted his nation's support for Ukraine.
"We were the first country to send Western battle tanks to Kyiv. Now more than 10 others have followed. We were the first country to send long-range weapons to Kyiv. Now France and the United States have followed. We were the first country to agree to train Ukrainian pilots. Now more than a dozen others have followed," he said. "I say this to our allies: If we give President Zelenskyy the tools, the Ukrainians will finish the job. Slava Ukraini!" Sunak declared.
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New Zealand’s Prime Minister Is The First Covid Tyrant To Fall, But She Won’t Be The Last
Authoritarians want us to forget the suffering we endured in the last three years and move on. But many people demand a Covid reckoning.New Zealand elites claim that Jacinda Ardern, who embraced a 'two-tier society,' was chased out by 'excessive polarisation'
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, 42, announced her resignation on Thursday, noting that after over five years in office, she could no longer hack it.
While Ardern, former participant in the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders program, was clear about her reasons for quitting, a number of Kiwi politicians and activists have jumped to another conclusion: that the prime minister was forced out by "excessive polarisation" and "vilification," in part by those critical of her excessive polarization of New Zealand during the pandemic and her government's vilification of those wary about receiving COVID-19 vaccinations.
The resignation
"I am human. Politicians are human. We give all we can for as long as we can, and then it's time. And for me, it's time," Ardern said tearfully on Thursday.
Ardern took power on Oct. 26, 2017, at the age of 37. Her resignation takes effect Feb. 7.
"I believe that leading a country is the most privileged job anyone could ever have, but also one of the more challenging," she said. "You cannot and should not do it unless you have a full tank plus a bit in reserve for those unexpected challenges."
The prime minister stressed that her party's underperformance in the polls ahead of the upcoming election was not the reason for her calling it quits and clarified that "the adversity you face in politics ... was not the basis of my decision."
\u201c"I am human. Politicians are human," Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand said as she announced her resignation. "We give all that we can for as long as we can, and then it's time." https://t.co/rLg6z9alAH\u201d— The New York Times (@The New York Times) 1674134405
The actual reason, according to the prime minister, was simple: "I know that I no longer have enough in the tank to do [this job] justice."
Ardern underscored: "I am not leaving because it was hard. Had that been the case, I probably would have departed two months into the job."
Perceived victimization
The Guardian reported that speculation is mounting that "abuse and threats" drove Ardern to throw in the towel, even though she made clear that was not the case.
"It is a sad day for politics where an outstanding leader has been driven from office for constant personalisation and vilification," said Māori party co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer. "Her [family] have withstood the ugliest attacks over the last two years with what we believe to be the most demeaning form of politics we have ever seen."
New Zealand's first woman prime minister, Helen Clark, said, "The pressures on prime ministers are always great, but in this era of social media, clickbait, and 24/7 media cycles, Jacinda has faced a level of hatred and vitriol which in my experience is unprecedented in our country."
"Our society could now usefully reflect on whether it wants to continue to tolerate the excessive polarisation which is making politics an increasingly unattractive calling," Clark added.
Kate Hannah, director of the so-called Disinformation Project, told the Guardian, "The scope of what we’ve observed over the last three years is such that there’s no way it could not have been a contributing factor – for any person," adding, "What we see now is absolutely normative, extremely vulgar and violent slurs … incredibly violent use of imagery around death threats."
Richard Shaw, a politics professor at Massey University in New Zealand, told the New York Times that Ardern "became the personification of a particular response to the pandemic, which people in the far-flung margins of the internet and the not-so-far-flung margins used against her."
Ardern's two-tier society
The suggestions that Ardern was subjected to unprecedented abuse, polarization, and vulgarity appear to be provided in a vacuum of context.
TheBlaze previously reported that in 2021, a reporter said to Ardern, "You've basically said, and you probably don't see it like this, but two different classes of people if you're vaccinated or unvaccinated. If you're vaccinated you have all these rights."
Ardern replied gleefully, "That is what is, yep, yep," thereby confirming, to borrow a turn of phrase from Clark, that the state intentionally mandated "excessive polarisation."
Accordingly, citizens of the purportedly free nation were not allowed to exercise their mobility rights until 90% of the country was fully vaccinated.
Ardern's government implemented a "traffic-light" pandemic regime whereby those who were vaccinated were allowed to travel around and use services freely, whereas those who refused the mRNA vaccines had their freedoms of assembly and mobility all but eliminated.
The unvaccinated were not permitted to eat in restaurants, work out in gyms, or drink in bars.
The prime minister, whom Ngarewa-Packer suggested was forced out by "the most demeaning form of politics," told citizens, "If you are still unvaccinated, not only will you be more at risk of catching Covid-19, but many of the freedoms others enjoy will be out of reach."
Ardern went on to erroneously suggest that the virus was majoritively spread by and between unvaccinated persons.
In August 2021, Ardern forced her entire country into lockdown after a 58-year-old man tested positive for COVID-19. Schools were closed. All gatherings were canceled. Citizens were confined to quarters. Residents were allegedly prohibited from removing their face masks to drink outdoors.
In February 2022, Ardern said that anti-mandate protests in Wellington, which she characterized as intimidating, "cannot be tolerated," reported the Associated Press
Extra to vilifying protesters and citizens struggling to exercise their bodily autonomy, Ardern compared free speech online with "weapons of war" during a September speech at the United Nations.
The New York Post reported that Ardern said that "mis- and disinformation online" constitute challenges "that we must as leaders address," adding, "We have the means; we just need the collective will."
Ardern adopted militant language, intimating that dissenting views on climate change and "dangerous rhetoric" should be crushed.
Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald was taken aback by Ardern's comments, writing, "This is the face of authoritarianism – even though it looks different than you were taught to expect. And it’s the mindset of tyrants everywhere."
"This is someone so inebriated by her sense of righteousness and superiority that she views dissent as an evil too dangerous to allow," said Greenwald.
During the pandemic, Ardern intimated that government disseminated information was the only true information, saying, "You can trust us as the source of that information. You can also trust the director general of health and the Ministry of Health. For that information, do feel free to visit at any time to clarify any rumor you may hear: covid19.govt.nz. Otherwise, dismiss anything else. We will continue to be your single source of truth."
\u201cMany of the people who deeply believed in Jacinda Ardern call those who question our institutions crackpots.\n\nWhen I heard her say the words \u201cYour single source of truth.\u201d I lost any ability to even understand who she was or what she believed. Seemed mad.\n\nhttps://t.co/M8ExPgpkZq\u201d— Eric Weinstein (@Eric Weinstein) 1674197876
Ardern's curbs on Kiwis' freedoms were not all speech- or pandemic-related, however. In 2021, she announced a plan to ban smoking and put nearly all of the country's tobacconists out of business. A year later, the country implemented the world's first annually rising legal smoking age, with the intent of coercively phasing out the addictive pastime.
As she moves on from helming New Zealand's apparent "single source of truth," Jacinda said she wants to be remembered "as someone who always tried to be kind."
Ardern raised some eyebrows in December after calling the opposition leader David Seymour an "arrogant p****" in Parliament.
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With Shinzo Abe’s Death, Japan And Taiwan Have Lost A Strong Advocate
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated Friday. With his death, the region's peace and security face more uncertainty.Today's top stories
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PM Netanyahu and Mark Levin talk war, Hamas, and the Iranian war machine
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is leading a country with the only military — to Mark Levin’s knowledge — that is trained not to kill civilians.
But the “corrupt, pathetic American media” isn’t going to tell you that. Which is why Levin is sitting down with Netanyahu himself.
“How is the war progressing, and is Israel winning?” Levin asks Netanyahu.
“The war is progressing well, and we’re going to win. We have no other choice,” he tells Levin. “Coincidentally,” he adds, “there are fewer civilian casualties because we called on the civilian population in Gaza to leave.”
While Netanyahu is trying to save the civilians of Gaza, Hamas has attempted to stop them from leaving at gunpoint.
According to Netanyahu, Hamas is “actually using gunfire to prevent them from leaving the zones of battle.”
Despite Hamas’ best efforts, those civilians still left.
“And so the number of civilians is actually, those that are killed, is going down. The number of terrorists is going up,” Netanyahu explains.
“This is a battle of the forces of civilization against the forces of barbarism, and if barbarism wins in our part of the world, Europe will be next and America will be next,” he warns.
Netanyahu calls this barbaric force “the axis of terror,” which includes Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, and “other minions.”
“Israel is fighting our war, but it’s also fighting America’s war. It’s fighting your war, and our victory will be your victory,” he continues.
Netanyahu notes that if the people of America had been concerned about civilian casualties in areas where Allies were fighting Nazis during World War II, we wouldn’t have seen the victory we did.
“History would have been catastrophic if we didn’t keep our eye focused on who’s to blame,” he says. “We have to get the simple things straight. While Israel is doing everything in its power to keep civilians out of harm's way, Hamas is doing everything in its power to keep civilians in harm’s way.”
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