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Mark Carney was “elected” as Prime Minister through a clever
combination of gerrymandering, ballot harvesting, and voting
system manipulation backed up by controlled-media
propaganda. The same ridiculous combination we’ve seen
across elections in the so-called democratic West.
We see it in every European election, no matter what the people
want. Why would we expect a different result in Canada?
In Romania, George Simion lost in a “surprise, late surge in the
final 24 hours” because France and the UK have plans for a
forever war in Ukraine, and their expansion of the air base
outside of Bucharest cannot be stopped by something as pesky
as “democracy.”
It is now only a matter of when, not if, Albertans will break
off from the rest of Canada. Secession of one form or another is
in the air all around the West. And what Dexter and I both
noted was how mentally prepared Canadians outside of the
Greater Toronto Area are for change.
Tom Luongo
This is Tom’s Monthly Blockbuster . Paywalled in a PDF
I’ll try to post it all in the comments
DONE
Prelude
“The Canadian elections have left a lot of people north of the
49th parallel feeling like people without a country. The same
can be said for people all across Europe as Davos plays their
final cards to maintain political control over their rapidly
shrinking empire.
America faced a similar, stark moment in 2024 and only a
combination of massive popular support and behind-the-scenes
political will allowed us to turn the corner, providing a bulwark
against the tyranny of globalism.
Now, the rest of the West is facing very difficult choices and how they play their cards
will determine their fate when the dust settles in this war for humanity’s future. How
you leave your old illusions behind is as important as making the decision to do so.
This month’s issue focuses on how those changes fuel tomorrow’s choices and what
America is doing to lead the way forward under President Trump”
In the summer of 2023, I made my second trip outside of
the US in my life. The first one was two weeks in Mexico
around Christmas after Davos stole the 2020 election and I
briefly considered not coming back to the US.
For all my criticisms of my home over the years, I never felt
worse about its future than I did back then. Gold, Goats ‘n Guns
was growing, but deplatforming was a real worry. Sitting on
the balcony of our suite in Puerto Vallarta, re-reading Frank
Herbert’s Dune, and smoking too many cigars, there was a real
sense of dread.
Had I finally achieved some semblance of comfort and success,
whatever the hell that is, only to have it ripped away by the
Biden Junta?
This was before Elon Musk threatened to buy Twitter and the
emergence of my “Five basis points that changed the world”
insight into there being light in the darkness.
COVID-19 aftershocks were still happening. Stimulus checks
flowed, nothing worked properly, and only Florida Governor
Ron DeSantis seemed to have a spine capable of holding his
head steady enough to use his brain.
Then came January 6th, the vaccine rollout, Omicron, and
Biden’s daily flirtations with lucidity.
This was the beginning of a four-year struggle session designed
to rob Americans, and, by extension, the world of its hope.
That trip to Canada, to Lloydminster, three hours east of the
end of the world (Edmonton), was just a few months after the
single most important political protest of the 21st century, when
Canada’s truckers shook Ottawa, London, Washington, and
Davos to their core.
It was a privilege to have dinner with Chris Barber that night,
one of the heroes of that protest. Shaking that guy’s hand for
the first time, I realized I only LARP’d as a fighter. This was the
real deal. I fantasized about being important enough to
deplatform, this guy had been…and more.
It was truly a “zero fucks given” kinda moment.
That whole trip was my first meeting with Alberta’s spirit in
meat space. It wasn’t just some idea I saw reflected in those
boys from Red Deer and Sarnia I’d seen patrolling blue lines on
TV over the years.
Northern Alberta may be flat, but it’s the furthest thing from
the flat-land I experience the world through online.
This year, my 3rd trip to Alberta has been nothing short of
overwhelming. The passion, understanding, and resolve of
Albertans had matured into something truly inspiring.
To be told over and over that GGnG had a small part in that
reinforced for me just how important it is for us to stay on top
of our game, to see things more clearly, and serve the
community cultivated that much more.
Spending an extra week in and around Calgary this year,
traveling the mountains, eating the food, and admiring the
rugged architecture lay in stark contrast to my trips to farther
north.
I live in an area of Florida that feels about as left behind as
Lloydminster.
Lake City, Florida is on nobody’s travel plans. It’s a pass
through on the way to more famous cities in every direction.
Towns like it are roughly the same as they were in the wake of
the 2008 financial crisis. There are parts of it with buildings
now a generation vacant.
But these have been my people for over twenty years now. The
crappy roads, the tenuous infrastructure, the tenacity of people
living with what Dexter calls, “the hottest summer on Earth,” is
what our enemies hate. They can take everything from us and
yet, we cling, like barnacles to our homes and history and
refuse to be budged.
Coming into Lloydminster that first time I joked that I’d
traveled 5,000 miles just to go to Lake City. But the best
comedy is truth plus pain. I love Lake City. And I immediately
loved Lloydminster because it felt like home. Everyone knows
a “Lloyd” or Lake City. That they aren’t unique is what needs to
change.
Davos and their lieutenants in Ottawa can sneer at those folks
all they want. They can manipulate their money, steal their
wealth, write stupid rules supporting even stupider ideas, but
without the people in Lloydminster and Lake City getting up
every day to grow their food, they rule over nothing but
warring ant piles of ever-shrinking pies
Blue in the Face
Alberta is reaching its “Braveheart” moment, when a tortured
and gutted Mel Gibson screams, “Freedom!” as his final act of
defiance. I felt it everywhere I went.
And it is now only a matter of when, not if, Albertans will break
off from the rest of Canada. Secession of one form or another is
in the air all around the West. And what Dexter and I both
noted was how mentally prepared Canadians outside of the
Greater Toronto Area are for change.
They know their system is unsalvageable. They know their
government is irretrievably rotten. And they believe they can’t
trust anyone in power to represent their interests.
Mark Carney was “elected” as Prime Minister through a clever
combination of gerrymandering, ballot harvesting, and voting
system manipulation backed up by controlled-media
propaganda. The same ridiculous combination we’ve seen
across elections in the so-called democratic West.
We see it in every European election, no matter what the people
want. Why would we expect a different result in Canada?
In Romania, George Simion lost in a “surprise, late surge in the
final 24 hours” because France and the UK have plans for a
forever war in Ukraine, and their expansion of the air base
outside of Bucharest cannot be stopped by something as pesky
as “democracy.”
Not that that deterred Simion in the least, challenging the
results to no avail as the same court that nullified the first time
Romania voted wrong threw
his challenge out without
even hearing it. Romania’s
political situation will only
degrade further.
In Canada, Carney is
maneuvering events into a
similar situation. No one in
Alberta believes the election results. Torontonians, Hongcouver
residents, and even a few Quebecers I’ve spoken with were of
the same mind, “Where should I go now? This place is done.”
Carney will force Albertans into a no-win scenario, designed to
inflame separatist sentiment while sowing division locally as to
the best way to deal with Ottawa’s stupidity.
I’ve already seen it during my time here. The worries about
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith are honest. Is she really a
separatist building a political foundation for the future or is she
a corrupted pied piper leading Albertans to a failed bid for
freedom?
It’s a fair question to ask. Since Trump survived Butler, PA the
MAGA right has been the target of endless divide and rule
attacks designed to slice off bits of Trump’s support, sow doubt,
and ultimately carve him up into mincemeat.
The same tactics were used against Italian Prime Minister
Giorgia Meloni when she first came to power. Meloni was
forced to swallow some tough pills on immigration, play nice
with France’s Macron over war materiel to Ukraine, etc.
And many people, too cynical to be truly hopeful, called her a
sell-out for it. Many in the alternative political commentary
space are hanging themselves still on this petard.
The hardest part of geopolitical analysis is realizing only the
final goal matters. Sometimes your leaders must go left to go
right, as it were. How they proceed towards that goal can, will
and probably should confound both their supporters and their
enemies.
Meloni survived to fight until Trump’s return. That, itself, is the
victory. This is more than can be said of Lega’s Matteo Salvini,
though he lurks in the background. Is he finally ready to reseize his opportunity or was he the pied piper of Italian
populism?
Notice how Trump and company are upgrading Meloni to
statesman status above EU Commission President Ursula Von
der Satan.
Struggle sessions aren’t just for anti-Communists anymore.
Trump seems to perform one every time someone visits the
Oval Office he doesn’t like.
The seeming lack of focus and return of something approaching
mature negotiation is something so alien to us, especially from
US foreign policy officials, it makes it difficult for many to
assess things in real time.
Meloni didn’t change her positions upon getting into power.
She, like Trump the first time, had to learn on the job how to
deal with the realities of power politics in the swamps of D.C.
and Rome.
And it’s not like either of them have any friends in their
respective media.
I think Smith in Alberta is in a similar situation. From my
cheap seat, it looks like Albertans have to create a political
milieu where she has no option but to do the right thing.
That means giving her the
maneuvering room she needs
to move the ball forward in
her sphere, while the people
build an unstoppable political
movement for freedom on the
ground.
Today, what I see happening
in Alberta is analogous to what happened in the early days of
Alternative for Germany (AfD) coming onto the scene in Berlin.
What started as an anti-Merkel party didn’t capitalize initially
on their success to become the pro-Germany alternative to the
entrenched SPD and CDU. They lost years trying to fortify their
organization, purge the radicals/infiltrators, and make the case
that AfD could govern effectively with broad support.
Alberta has the same problem now. Smith and the separatists
face a tough decision. They can focus on the grievances with
Ottawa and likely lose the center who fear change. These folks
will convince themselves that staying is better than leaving.
Or will they do the hard work to rebrand Alberta as the home
of the real Canada to unite Canadians to make the sacrifices
necessary to win the day for everyone.
It is on this fulcrum that Alberta’s future rests.
The Judicial Over-Step
South of the 49th parallel Donald Trump is facing the same
problems. As Dexter pointed out in Issue #90 of this
newsletter, we are facing a constitutional crisis centered around
a judiciary weaponized to destroy the separation of powers.
The recent spate of Supreme Court rulings look worse than they
are. The strategy is to flood the zone with lower court
usurpation of the Executive’s Article II powers.
This, in my view, has only one purpose; to radicalize enough
people against Trump for exercising those powers and provoke
an over-reaction, if not civil war.
Davos and their quislings in both the DNC and GOP are setting
the stage for Trump to follow Abraham Lincoln’s path,
suspending habeas corpus, to defend the nation from very real
threats both foreign and domestic. Their goal is eroding
Americans’ faith in the Constitution by denying the President
his authority under it because Nah-tsis!
This situation is not unique to the US, of course. But the US’s
struggles are the most important because if we fail to secure
our future, what hope do places like Canada, Italy, and Hungary
have?
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson gave the strategy
away recently, saying that lower court universal injunctions are
desirable to facilitate the SCOTUS determining the executive’s
Article 2 powers. This opinion is a green light to activists to
clog up the lower courts with distractions to stymie Trump from
executing his Article 2
powers. Such a clear
reversal of how the
Constitution functions from
a member of the SCOTUS
should be grounds for
impeachment at least.
Hundreds of members of
Congress, the Biden Junta,
Obama’s administration, as
well as Trump’s are clearly
implicated in past
malfeasance deeply enough
to warrant indictment if not
prosecution. However, they
roam free to spew bile and
morally preen in media
outlets clearly even more
compromised than they are
themselves.
They pursue this because
they know immigration
reform and deportation of
illegals is the end of their
political influence for
generations. This is the hill they have no real choice but to die
on. Everything now is about media perception and the ability to
sell a narrative not only domestically but internationally.
In fact, at this point, I’d argue that recent events at an ICE
detention center in New Jersey were staged more for global
consumption than domestic.
“OMG, didn’t you hear?! Trump’s a fascist!” Just make sure
you use your best Imperial Empire accent before spitting like a
Frenchman.
It’s one thing to be Canadian or British and not understand the
American legal system and our Separation of Powers, it’s quite
another to be a sitting member of Congress or a lowinformation US citizen who takes the word of an activist judge
or Instagram influencer as gospel truth.
But that is exactly what Trump’s opposition is betting its
strategy on, the optics of tyranny. But the abject terror of
politicians ending up with a shitshow on the Six O’Clock News
doesn’t have the same juice it once did, unless we allow
ourselves to be gaslit by it. Davos’ main problem now is that
the tight control over the information space no longer exists in
the US.
There is a clear counter-narrative media campaign being waged
by those loyal to the US, not necessarily to Trump. And that
war is going to have a lot of casualties, both in traditional and
alternative media.
The civil war angle is Davos’ only play here because the Trump
administration is slowly unraveling the decade-long coverup of
moves to silence him. But Trump is just another episode in the
long-running show to marginalize populism in any form
anywhere.
Their problems in 2025 are legion because it’s obvious that
while Russiagate was the start of this, the Biden Junta’s psyop
that Sleepy Joe was actually running the country is the end of
it. Biden’s health problems were plainly obvious to anyone
with a functional brain but now that we’ve gotten a taste of his
interview with Special Investigator Robert Hur they are in full
damage-control mode.
Strategically, “The Hur Tape”
release wasn’t a warning
shot, it was part of a larger
move to justify Trump’s
attacks on Biden’s use of the
“Autopen” to sign legislation
and de-legitimize his entire
presidency on legal grounds.
As a gambit, I have to say it
worked perfectly, provoking
a panicked response to elicit
sympathy by announcing
that ol’ Joe had prostate
cancer so advanced it has
metastasized to the bone, in
effect a death sentence.
This only digs the hole for
everyone in the
administration that much
deeper. Because it implies
they knew he was sick when
they ran him in 2020, no
less when they tried to run
him again last year.
The Real Target
What should be clear now is that Trump and his team are
moving from venue to venue, keeping the operational tempo
high across multiple arenas forcing his not-to-bright opposition
into unforced errors like the Biden cancer thing.
But watching Trump move from one geopolitical hotspot to
another has been nothing short of impressive. His recent trip to
the Middle East should only be seen as an unqualified success.
I’ve written for years that the entire world is tired of this Davos/
City of London control over their futures. And that all it would
take would be for the US to lead in a different direction rather
than reinforce the existing paradigm to get them to sign on.
This is exactly what Trump just did. He lifted sanctions on
Syria, pulled troops out of the country. He blessed Turkey’s
blocking Israel’s greater ambitions there while cutting deals
with the major Gulf states on new energy projects while
simultaneously pressuring Iran to come in from the cold and
join the new global architecture.
He wants to bring Russia into this as well, he’s as much said so,
but he won’t roll over and play dead to assuage the feelings of
those that want revenge for the past century. Trump’s not here
to apologize, just to make things right going forward. Those
that want to follow the US will be welcome, but those that
want to go their own way should be equally welcome, even
though, at first blush, this may look hostile to the US.
Putin and his staff understand these distinctions. And, as such,
will pursue their own goals through winning territory on the
ground. This is how you get a better deal, even if Trump rages
publicly about the death toll. Because it also means Trump can
and will just wash his hands of each situation.
But both Trump and Putin know that settling Ukraine in their
favor furthers the larger goal of cutting off Europe from ever
attacking Russia again for the next hundred years. This was the
point of the “minerals deal” he forced Zelensky sign. It’s why
he forced UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to sign a bilateral
trade agreement with the US.
Trump is slicing off bits of Europe’s influence in their backyard
while they try to shore up Canada, while also slicing off the US
libertarian right that he knew he couldn’t count on past election
day.
Every one of his deals reinforces the analysis that to end the
existent conflicts cutting off the instigators of chaos, Davos,
from pricing the collateral for global finance, e.g. oil and gas, is
the most likely path to a durable peace.
This is nothing less than offering everyone a partnership in the
new world, one that leaves the old world of Europe behind.
Springtime for Humanity
Trump’s speech in Riyadh after a king’s welcome was an open
declaration of war against the Neocons at home and the moral
interventionists of Europe.
Neither of those groups of people give a single, solitary thought
about the prosperity of people of the Middle East, Africa,
Canada or anywhere else. They are power-mad vampires
wrapping themselves in high-minded ideals with the morality of
locusts.
And Trump’s Middle East tour just made the Gulf States into his
partners to control the flow of energy from the region. Now,
New York, Moscow, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi can truly replace
London, Hong Kong, and Zurich in the global energy trade.
At the same time, Trump has deftly worked with Italian Prime
Minister Giorgia Meloni to elevate her, preparing Italy for its
independence from the EU. This went on during the late stages
of the 2024 campaign and has accelerated into this year. The
recent meeting in Rome is the biggest tell yet. Vice-President
JD Vance and Meloni forced the EU’s Von der Leyen to come to
them rather than the other way around.
In diplomatic terms this was a summons by the controlling
party. He who travels is not in charge. So, the EU is being told
by the US that they are there supporting Italy’s position rather
than the EU’s. This comes a week after the first American Pope,
Leo XVI, is elected. Coincidence? Too early to tell what the
outcome there is.
In the end, all of these negotiations, deals, moves and
countermoves are happening as everyone makes the rational
decision to defend their homes from outside forces. Divide and
rule is a game everyone can play, if they are willing. And when
things have been pushed to their breaking point, when people
have nothing left to lose, that’s when real change happens.
Russians and Ukrainians are paying with blood in the Donbass.
Americans have paid through their wallets at the cost of their
families and their communities. Canadians have been forced to
question their identity, while Europeans have come face to face
with the realization that the post-WWII peace they’ve enjoyed is
a lie.
Since my trip to Alberta last year, before Trump survived Butler,
and things looked very bleak, and we kept thinking the worst
was still over the horizon. This year I’m looking ahead in awe
of just how far we’ve come and how much more we have to do.