As IF Times

Source: Democratic congressman introduces “Stable Genius Act”

The longevity of the rancor and derangement of the anti Trump crowd is amazing to behold. You’d think that after a full year since the election, people would go back to their lives. It’s as if entire swaths of the American population have stopped working and are focused only on exposing the latest Trump insult to their sensibilities.  When you think about it, Trump’s ascendency has probably been the best thing for many leftist businesses, since there is an endless supply of grist for their news cycle mills.

Twitter would probably be bankrupt if not for the enormous traffic that The Donald generates. Without the most recent outrage du jour to distribute on Facebook feeds, it would just be a site for posting cat photos and vacation selfies.  And without Trump’s frequent inelegant utterances, the mean girls at MSNBC, CNN etc., would only have tales of  LGBT woes, stories of racism, as well as the latest Kardashian accomplishments to fill their long days.

Unwilling to acknowledge that Americans voted to install someone in the White House that is more action than talk, unlike the previous occupant,  the cacophonous lunatic fringe insist on a do over of some kind.  The on going protest takes the form of Russia, Russia, Russia,  the questioning of his sanity, his supposed lack of literacy, his intemperate views of minorities, his diet of fast foods and of course his hair.

But instead of revealing weaknesses in the President, the nutters instead expose just how far out the flimsy limb of sanity they’ve all moved.  Robert DeNiro is a prima facie example of the unhinged rage  that has consumed otherwise normal people.  Shocked that the public rejected their choices of champions for  their cause which included, a career politico with trainloads of questionable baggage, a septuagenarian self avowed communist and a person claiming native Indian ancestry by virtue of high cheekbones, the left are attempting to try a new tack.  They feel that Oprah Winfrey should be anointed to lead them.  Oprah.

This idea reveals the main flaw that afflicts all leftists.  They don’t have a reality filter. Their beliefs are rooted in the world of ifs and shoulds.  Granted, an Oprah presidency would bring with it all kinds of benefits, not the least of which is the possibility of a new car for everyone.  When dealing with despots of hostile nations, we can rely on the technique of collective weeping as persuasion.  Handkerchief companies will soar.

The other big benefit of an Oprah ticket is the rich pool of capable people from which to create a cabinet. We could use Doogie Howser and Dr. Mcdreamy as heads of the Health department, since they were so effective on their TV shows.  The Rock, Dwayne Johnson would be the Secretary of Defense, since, well, he’s never lost a battle… we wouldn’t even need an army.  For Secretary of Education, we nominate the aforementioned articulate Robert DeNiro .  They could use Perry Mason as attorney general.  He may be dead, but law cases take so long to resolve, no one will know the difference.

As fanciful as these ideas are, none of this is any more preposterous than the Democratic incumbents today. As long as they continue to live in their fantasy world, the general public will be safe in theirs.

Source: Stephen LeDrew, CP24 part ways after suspension, Bell Media confirms | Toronto Star

Yet again, in the ‘you can’t make this up’ category, we have this little news item that appeared recently.

The background story is that  Stephen LeDrew was a guest on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson show to talk about the adoption of a new policy on the part of the Canadian Federal government with regard to inclusiveness. As the article points out, LeDrew is not just some random person offering his own opinion.  He was once the president of the Liberal Party of Canada, widely proclaimed as the font of  political inclusiveness and correctness of all kinds.    Some levity was made of the lengthy acronym for the community affected, which may as well have been entered by monkeys pressing a keyboard randomly.

When LeDrew was pressed to list the people represented by the string of letters, he could not identify them beyond the well known LGBT part, but insisted that it was all about inclusivity.  Then, in the classic condescending Canadian fashion, he reminded his host that unlike Americans, Canadians were much more tolerant of differences of thought and opinion.  Uh huh.

Despite this defense of Canada’s tolerant society, days later, LeDrew was dismissed from his position at Bell Media, not for his opinion, but for the fact that he dared to appear on FOX NEWS! 

Even LeDrew was bemused by the experience.  This would be like Oprah being denied access to a Weight Watchers meeting for being too heavy. Welcome to the world of Canadian news, where there may be 3 major news outlets, but they are comparable to ice cream stores that claim to offer all flavors…as long as it’s vanilla.  It’s  reminiscent of a scene from the 1983 film Yellowbeard in which a blind man begs for some chicken from a Pirate and is instead given a loaf of bread.  The blind man is profusely joyful at receiving the ‘chicken’ and scurries away happily.

The Canadian media landscape is vastly different from the American one.  Dissenting voices from mainstream thought are not only small, they are disparagingly marginalized by the large outlets, run essentially by a very small cabal of owners.  We have yet to benefit from the renaissance in news dissemination that the Americans have experienced over the last 20 years.  Stephen LeDrew can now crow about how inclusive Canadian society is…but not including him.