Posted on 09/19/2026 5:54:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Bon voyage and bonne chance, poor, misguided snow socialists.
On Wednesday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen gave an American-style “State of the Union” address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. During her speech, she proposed that Canada be admitted as an “associate member” of the ostensibly European Union. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney sat in the front row as an honored guest before delivering a speech of his own to the parliament the next day. Taken together, the Leyen-Carney parade of oratorical self-puffery exuded a nauseating bouquet of arrogance, foolishness, incompetence, and stale entitlement.
E.C. President (some say “Queen”) Ursula speaks as if she rules Europe (regularly invoking “our values” when describing a continent of distinct nations, dissimilar cultures, and over two hundred native languages), but European citizens never voted for her. P.M. Carney is the former head of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, and his globalist cronies installed him in Canada’s highest political office just last year. While the central banker and the queen prattle on about “democracy,” neither ascended to the peaks of power in a democratic fashion. They are “elites” chosen by “elites” to represent the interests of “elites.”
Since the Second World War, the United States has heavily subsidized the economies of Canada and Europe, providing for the West’s collective security while permitting one-way tariffs against American producers. This eighty-year arrangement has endured long beyond its immediate post-war necessity, when European manufacturers were desperate to rebuild amid general ruin and the United States worried about losing more of the continent to the Soviet Union’s billowing Iron Curtain.
Unfortunately, this part of Western history does not get an honest treatment in children’s textbooks, so Europeans and Canadians grow up believing that their economies succeed despite the United States
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Boomer Canucks will keep Carney and the globalists in power. The huge run up in house prices put them in a good position and they want nothing to change.
Exactly this !
Not only house prices. The TSE has actually outperformed the S&P over the last couple of years. Boomer-leafs think it is great, and want more indian immigration and more conflict with Trump.
Alberta looks like it won’t make it out this time, but once a secession movement gets to 30% they tend to get there in the long run.
Lets get it over with.
US Marines occupy Ottawa! !
Canada Liberated from Fascist Liberal Government.
Wayne Gretsky named special Envoy to Canada while it is re-organized as a Republic.
No Question about it...The NWO wants a continued war between Russia and Ukraine.....they are coining it !
THey are scared to deahn Trump will bring peace.
Hello,
no slight intended: but what about Frederick II., the king of Prussia from 1740-86, to name but one?🙂
His highest ambition was always to improve the lot of his subjects. Apart from that, he was a notable musician and composer, as well as a philosopher.
His reputation as a philosopher-king - and a friend of the newly-independent America, with whom he established diplomatic relations and signed a contract of friendship in 1784 - was so strong that even a town in Pennsylvania was named after him.
His motto was: „I am the first servant of the state“.
Not „I am the state“, as the Sun King in France had called himself a century earlier 🙂
In my opinion, he was more modest than some of our democratically elected politicians, who have assumed an air of royalty, like some leaders in the EU and its member countries.
This, sadly, didn’t make them royal in any way, if you ask me. Rather, it turned them into a royal pain in the behind…
If you ask me, there are countries which are better off with a Republic than a monarchy, yes, but in other cases a monarchy might be better.
Take Germany, for instance: the abolition of the ancient monarchy in 1918, which had been more than eleven centuries old (Charlemagne crowned in 800 A.D.), turned out to be an unmitigated disaster…1933 anyone? 😔
And Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander in post-war Japan, recognised the critical role of the monarchy for the Japanese nation- and let it continue.
He was a great and wise man indeed👍🏻🙂, who was very farsighted as well. I cannot praise him enough.
Thanks for an interesting speculation. Indeed, you hit a nail on the head, when one thinks of the "niederer Adel" class which still loves "von" and "von und zu" in names.
One thinks of Ursula Albrecht. Well, I do. Mostly the "von der Leyen" married name is known. It's amusing because she was born a commoner to German citizens in Belgium, Got married to a minor "title" from her husband's Hanover clan. I mention her, that fumbling Minister of Defense under Merkel, because you mention Prussia's Frederick II. One should consider, before "philsopher-king," his military campaigns like the invasion of Austria-ruled Silesia. And then Bohemia, and then there was that first partition of Poland. All in all, there were lives lost courtesy of old number II. Ever visited the Sans Souci when in Berlin?
While wishing you well, I note for this thread that the Freeper who posted "A kingdom is a good form of government IF you have a good king" did not respond his his choice for that "good king."
It was a heck of good question, and I'd hoped to hear more from those who would reply with an example of a "good king."
I chuckled by your observation that "he [ Frederick II ] was more modest than some of our democratically elected politicians, who have assumed an air of royalty, like some leaders in the EU and its member countries." We are so-o-o on the same page about this.
Takes me back to George Carlin's observation: "It's a big club and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club. By the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table is tilted, folks."
Bleib gesund und wohlauf. Alles Gute.
Alles Gute auch Dir 😀
P.S.: Yes, Frederick had to fight three wars to get control over the wealthy territory of Silesia, to which he had a legal claim, due to the death of the last male ruler there, Emperor Charles VI.
The duchy of Silesia had, iirc, agnatic succession, i.e. the Emperor’s daughter, Mary Theresa, would have to be skipped in the line of succession. Furthermore, Lower Silesia was strictly Protestant, so the Protestant King was preferable as ruler of the land to the Catholic Empress. Actually, in Lower Silesia, the population hailed him as a liberator from Popish suppression.
It was not only the clash of two legal claims, but also of two powers within the Old Reich: Austria vs. Prussia. After all, every German prince had been allowed his own foreign policy since 1648, though de facto they often cooperated against the Ottoman and French threats. It worked all right, as long as Prussia remained poor and small. But it grew, thanks to its thrift, its excellent administration, its Protestant work ethic and several serendipitous gains of territory (through inheritance).
Now, however, the competition between the two strongest powers within the Old Reich had become too much…ultimately, the Old Reich was unable to withstand the onslaught of the old enemy in the West, who was trying to export his revolution by the force of arms: revolutionary France, whose army was not only powered by revolutionary fervor, but was also led by a military genius named Napoleon…😀
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