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That certainly didn’t age well Justine. Were you lying then or are you lying now?
Mind you, we are talking about the Canadian Prime Minister of little brain who thought this a good idea:
Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time in Canada’s history, allowing the federal government to freeze assets, suspend the insurance of the Freedom Convoy protesters, and target crowdfunding platforms and cryptocurrency transactions under “terrorist financing” rules.
All that simply because a bunch of protestors peacefully parked their trucks and honked their horns in the general direction of Parliament. While that may sound like the very definition of “peaceful protest” to the rest of us, to Castrudeau it sounded like an insurrection mounted by a batch of fringe-group racists and misogynists, all of which required the invocation of wartime-like emergency powers.
Had anyone been paying attention this would have come as no surprise. Check out this video from 2013 that Breitbart has resurfaced in which Trudeau expresses envy and admiration of China’s autocratic methods.
“There’s a level of admiration I actually have for China,” Trudeau responded. “Because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and saying ‘We need to go greenest fastest, we need to start, you know, investing in solar.‘”
As we all know, the end always justifies the means to Leftists. Justin should get together with like-minded Tom Friedman; together they could take their love for communist autocracy act on the road. You do remember Friedman’s likewise wistful yearning that the U.S. could be more like China’s autocracy don’t you? In 2009 he wrote in his New York Times column:
One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages. That one party can just impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward in the 21st century.
At least Tom acknowledged there were “drawbacks” to repressive authoritarian government.
This is the most monumentally stupid, monumentally arrogant, and monumentally misguided decision by a prime minister since 1867…
When Black Lives Matter flooded the streets, Trudeau not only met with them, he went into the streets and joined in on the their American-inspired protest. He gave them a knee and bowed his head. But he would not meet with the truckers. He would not talk to their representatives. There was certainly no kneeling.
He rhetorically abused the citizens in the protest. He suggested they were racists and misogynists and that they hold “unacceptable views.”…
The most egregious, polarizing agent in this entire protest has been the leader of the country. – National Post
As someone pointed out at Instapundit:
“Justin Trudeau is doing to Canada what Barack Obama did to America: stoke the flames of dissent and cultural attacks on citizens.”
The Chinese prefer us divided and with our institutions weakened and discredited. It’s just a shame we have so many among us who are happy to deliver that result.
Truth. But we have far too many citizens who wish to ignore the truth which is right there in front of their faces and choose to believe China is just a cute, harmless little Teddy bear.
And speaking of harmless little Teddy bears reminds me that today marks the first anniversary of Rush Limbaugh’s passing.
Our favorite harmless, loveable little fuzz-ball.
Like Andrew Breitbart he is fondly remembered and sorely missed.
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