Posted on 01/07/2025 11:00:02 AM PST by MtnClimber
Today Trudeau announced his resignation, effective upon the choosing of a new leader: [video at link].
From CNN:
“I intend to resign as party leader, as prime minister, after the party selects its new leader,” the 53-year-old leader told reporters at a news conference in Ottawa on Monday.
Canada’s parliament will be suspended until March 24 while a new Liberal Party leader is chosen, he also said.
It is another of the big dominoes to fall as the long-awaited collapse of the Western order predictably accelerates. Betting tables have it for Pierre Poilievre next:
Recall, Poilievre is the whip-smart ‘populist’ who once casually unpantsed a shill reporter in a virally amusing interview: [video at link].
This Atlantic Council apparatchik prophetically summarized the mood best last month:
There are many more impending as the seams come undone:
It simply cannot be swept under the rug or sugar-coated any longer: the Western order is in literal crisis. The people have had enough, and the avalanche is picking up inertia because the process is a self-reinforcing feedback loop: the more wanton elites fall, the more that citizens are energized to rise up against them. And when that happens, the elites are forced to clamp and double down on their lies, hypocrisy, and repressions in a futile attempt to stem the flow; this leads to even more ill-will, resentment, and revolt against their destructive policies.
Alex Krainer picks up on this today with the news that Croatia too is fortifying itself in the resistance sphere, with globalist candidate Dragan Primorac losing to the incumbent he accused of being ‘immoderate’ and ‘politically incorrect’—code words for not toeing the establishment line:
On Sunday, 29 December 2024, Croatia held presidential elections. The incumbent President Zoran Milanović won the first round in a landslide against the pro-globalist challenger Dragan Primorac. Primorac was strongly backed by the ruling party, the Croatian Democratic Union, led by the Prime Minister Andrej Plenković who has been a loyal supporter of NATO, US, UK and EU policies. In winning the Presidency, the ruling party would have captured all of Croatia's key institutions of government.
It’s interesting that as proof of ‘gathering countercurrents’ Krainer brings up Milan’s recent staging of the Russian Nutcracker ballet, three years after Europe imposed a cynical de facto ban on Russian culture, even inviting Russian conductor Valery Ovsyanikov to direct the orchestra and televising the whole spectacle on national Italian TV broadcast.
The reason that caught my eye was because just last week, Russian culture made a sudden resurgence in Western publications like The Guardian below, which puzzled over an old Dostoevsky story called White Nights going majorly viral amongst Western teens on TikTok for its depiction of voguish lovelorn angst, solitude, and other homey themes for modern Gen-Zers:
Especially now that Trump has won, and the culture war against ‘Wokeness’ has taken a 180 turn, we see more and more reversals of this sort on a daily basis. The mask is falling, the pressure is slowly letting off.
Krainer concludes:
It may be that in spite of the loud banging of the war-drums in mainstream media, and among our political class, very different currents are gathering below the surface. These currents might continue to gain strength; it’s what our ruling establishments like to label as Russia's malign influence. More likely, the truth is that ordinary people got tired of the lies, hatred, hostility and the wars, as well as the intellectual and cultural junk food that's become the pervasive staple among Western nations. This is a hopeful sign, because escalating the wars could prove difficult for the imperial establishment. What if peace starts to break out all over the place in 2025? It’s a worthwhile idea to pray for and struggle for.
For all his faults, we must admit what Elon Musk has been doing on social media of late is a brilliant and revolutionary sally against globalist forces in this vein. For those in the dark, Musk has been on an absolute tear on his X platform against all the establishment figureheads of Europe—namely Starmer in the UK and Scholz in Germany.....SNIP
I think the left pushed wokeness until people were sick of the craziness. It is slow motion suicide.
Conservative Pierre Poilivier is great.
They’ll try to replace him with someone worse.
There is nothing at all “Autocratic” about Trump or Polliver. They are re-establishing the rule of law after a complete contempt for rule of law under Alt Leftist fake “Liberals” like Trudeau and Biden
Our so called “intellectuals” are screaming children who confuse their emotion based hysterics for facts.
A new wind is sweeping the world—a right wing wind that will end the Left wing experimentation put in my overage Hippies. The romantic ideas just didn’t work. France is next to fall, then England and Germany. The left is now seen as what it was—greedy businessmen only, with high sounding sayings.
“Conservative Pierre Poilivier is great.”
Is he an European conservative?
Let’s hope and pray so.
Pierre Poilivier is Canadian.
I know. Their conservative isn’t our conservative. But he was born in Alberta and that’s better than Quebec by a long shot.
Plus their installed failing institutional systems that have given rise to GENX through GENZ. However, it was not the Boomers who started the downfall, it was the "Greatest Generation" with their new opportunities and success after WWII, buy letting their children run wild (60's Boomers) was the first step into the abyss.
Robert Bork's book, "Sliding Into Gomorrah", is very informative how it all began. It's an older book so only gets to about GENX, IIRC.
He said in a interview he wants to replace Canadian government with common sense, instead of the current madhouse.
That’s Fidelito.
I believe the actual title is “Slouching Towards Gomorrah”.
It won’t matter. Whoever they pick will get slaughtered in the next election regardless. Joe or Kamala or anyone else the dims were going to lose. Same deal here.
Yes, it is. My Mistake.
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