Will We Never Be Rid Of These Fine Folks?

TheKloutKlubRidesAgain

KindaSortaMaybeVille


It looks like the dregs of the Soccer Party, led by the fine fellow who first helped put Kevin Falcon in charge of the provincial version of the party and who later made Mr. Sim the Mayor of Lotusland, now wants to put the band back together with the old name from the back in the GordCo days.

Postmedia's Cheryl Chan has the story, such as it is, here: (web archive link):

Kareem Allam, a longtime political strategist who helped propel ABC Vancouver to power, is launching the city’s newest political party with a goal of unseating Ken Sim, the mayor he once served as chief of staff.

Allam — ABC’s former campaign manager and more recently, its most outspoken critic — has publicly mused in recent weeks of running for office and had set up committees made up of mostly former B.C. Liberals to gauge the level of support he’d have in 

a run.

On Thursday, the Vancouver Liberals was officially registered with Elections B.C... 

Gosh.

If you've been paying attention lo these many years you just might think that the folks who have their thumbs affixed to the media wurlitzer 'round here have a vested interest in forever suckering the local citizenry into this so called big, beautiful faux centrist tent.

Or some such thing.

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The Survivor In Mr. Norquist's Bathtub.

TheLongGame

RevisitedVille

Grover Norquist, pictured above, on the right, with fellow travellers Ronald Reagan and Jack Abramoff way back in 1981 has been out to end the US'ian government in the name of a mythical taxpayer for a long, long time:

"I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub..."

Grover Norquist, 2001.

And, with the final passage of a certain omnibus bill of a very large size in congress today, Mr. Norquist has gotten his wish.

Except for one twisted sister that has separated itself from the writhing, gasping mass that has magically grown gills and vanished down the drain into the sewer where it is mutating as you read this so that it can grow exponentially before it bursts through the grates, masked, to terrorize increasing numbers and segments of the non-citizenry and citizenry alike:

...The Senate’s version of the bill steers an astonishing $130 billion into immigration enforcement, detention, and border security, according to the American Immigration Council’s tally, which includes funding for Trump’s border wall. In the buildup to passage in the Senate, this funding became the central MAGA sales pitch. “Everything else” — including the bill’s staggering cuts to the social safety net — “is immaterial compared to the ICE money and immigration enforcement provisions,” Vice President J.D. Vance posted on X Monday night, Vance’s post preceded, by hours, his casting the tie-breaking vote in the Senate...

Oh boy.

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A Podcast For Canada Day.

NewFranceWasNotNew
InnuAlgonquinHuronVille

The podcast is about the early days of Canuckistanian colonization by the French and how Indigenous peoples turned the tables on them in real time and real world terms.

It's by the 'Empire' folks, and I must say that I enjoyed listening to a couple of Brits, Anita Anand (not our Minister of Foreign Affairs) and William Dalrymple, come to terms with the fact that their lot were quite far behind in this endeavour.

Empire: Colonizing Canada: Why Does Quebec Speak French.


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They also get into the life and times of Étienne Brûlé...quite fascinating.

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