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PostPosted: Sun Jan 01, 2017 1:09 pm
 


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Elites will be hit even harder in 2017


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If the elites of the world thought 2016 was rough on them, they ain’t seen nothing yet. The year to come is going to hit the establishment even harder.

It’s been incredibly tedious reading all the year-in-review pieces calling 2016 the worst year ever, bidding it an eager farewell and hoping nothing like it will ever happen again.

This hand-wringing is almost entirely in reference to the electoral victory of Donald Trump. There’s never been a more concerted effort by establishment-minded individuals than their attempts to deny Trump the presidency. Yet they failed. And few events have outraged them more than the feat of strength that was Trump pulling it off against the odds.

The best part of Trump’s win, as I wrote the night of the election, was seeing how he wiped the smirk off all their faces. But there are still many smirks out there that stand to be wiped clean. The smug elites out there should brace themselves for what’s to come.

In recent years, we’ve been living amidst something like a calm before a storm. Debt and deficits have grown, followed by increases in taxes and user fees. The entitlement state has expanded. Moral relativism is on the rise. Political correctness is in full blown bonkers mode. Regulations are a mess. And lord help you if you find yourself caught up in those labyrinths that are the legal system and tax court.

This phenomenon is what Harvard historian Niall Ferguson labels “the great degeneration” – the combined erosion of our finances, institutions and civil society. We live in a delicate balance. The modern way of life in the West is something of a paradox. There’s never been a better time or place in human history to live than right here, right now. Yet our way of life has increasingly become a house of cards that could, people are realizing more and more, collapse any day now.

And regular folks don’t like it. Not one bit. So they’re taking a stand, issue by issue, in their own little ways, regardless of how politically incorrect it gets.

They’re opposing the big ticket items: Like how they’re now speaking out against climate crusaders who want to re-engineer their lives. But they’re also tackling the smaller ones: Like standing up for Professor Jordan Peterson at the University of Toronto who’s facing censure for simply stating he won’t call students by gender neutral pronouns like ‘zhir’ and ‘zhe’.

It's these sorts of things that are fueling the broader tone to the whole “2016 was terrible” theme the elites are peddling. It’s not so much that they’re angry at Trump specifically. Or at the fact Brexit prevailed. Or that the politically correct mob has lost their shaming power. No, the elites are upset that regular people are taking back control.

It'll be hard for the establishment to turn this around, as much as they'll try. That's because thanks to social media and the open source movement – which, to their credit, the left was the original champion for – average people can gather information and talk amongst themselves without traditional media and other power brokers acting as intermediaries.

A few days before Christmas a reader forwarded me a notice an Alberta trucking company sent to their clients informing them that they’d be passing on the costs of the province’s new carbon tax in all of their bills. It struck me as a sign of things to come.

Climate evangelism was for the longest time just an ivory tower issue that only that one sector discussed. Yet now they’re bringing in measures, first in Alberta and Ontario but soon nationwide, that’ll impact everyone. And not for the better. Do you think the people are going to put up with it? Hell no. They’re already protesting against these new measures and it’s only going to heat up.

It's not the only issue regular people will be challenging the status quo on either. The establishment better buckle up for 2017. They’re in for a bumpy ride


http://www.torontosun.com/2016/12/31/el ... er-in-2017


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A few days before Christmas a reader forwarded me a notice an Alberta trucking company sent to their clients informing them that they’d be passing on the costs of the province’s new carbon tax in all of their bills.

Well, duh. Since when don't companies pass increased costs on? And WTF do carbon taxes have to do with "elites"? Has that become another meaningless rightie newspeak like 'liberals', a general term for anyone they disagree with?


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PostPosted: Sun Jan 01, 2017 1:33 pm
 


I "feel" for the elites. :(





Now where the f**k is my sarcasm smilie? :evil:


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PostPosted: Sun Jan 01, 2017 1:49 pm
 


herbie herbie:
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A few days before Christmas a reader forwarded me a notice an Alberta trucking company sent to their clients informing them that they’d be passing on the costs of the province’s new carbon tax in all of their bills.

Well, duh. Since when don't companies pass increased costs on? And WTF do carbon taxes have to do with "elites"? Has that become another meaningless rightie newspeak like 'liberals', a general term for anyone they disagree with?


Wow, you're well-trained.

You don't even need to see "lies of omission" in the article anymore. Apparently the trained brain does edits automatically now.

OK, click off again, for a sec, I'm going to remind the unprogrammed what you omitted there.

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It struck me as a sign of things to come.

Climate evangelism was for the longest time just an ivory tower issue that only that one sector discussed. Yet now they’re bringing in measures, first in Alberta and Ontario but soon nationwide, that’ll impact everyone. And not for the better. Do you think the people are going to put up with it? Hell no. They’re already protesting against these new measures and it’s only going to heat up.

It's not the only issue regular people will be challenging the status quo on either. The establishment better buckle up for 2017. They’re in for a bumpy ride


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PostPosted: Sun Jan 01, 2017 6:51 pm
 


More like "the moneyed elites will hit the rest of us even harder in 2017 than they usually do". Gotta love the cognitive dissonance when some silver-spoon little boy like Trump is turned into the hero of the peasants against those villains who want to do evil things like keep the air and water clean. Ah, fuck it, we're all doomed anyway. :lol:


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PostPosted: Sun Jan 01, 2017 7:21 pm
 


So now anyone currently involved in politics is a member of 'the elites' and 'the establishment'?
Prefer and 'honest' one who'd just tell you "All right you illiterate morons, we need your money and you'd shit bricks if we raised income tax so we're calling it something else"?
BTW the coal mines in Tumbler Ridge are re-opening this year. The evil job killing carbon tax, and fucking coal mines are restarting. You should apply for a job.


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I think if you were to ask the leading voices in movements like Black Lives Matter or the people at Standing Rock, they'd be pretty surprised that they were considered part of the "elite".

I can't post the full article here until it runs in my local paper on Saturday, but I find it odd that you have people both on the left and on the right who define themselves as fighting the "elite".

Some people call the elite patriarchal and racist, others call it authoritarian for social engineering. Funny how the same alleged group of people can be accused of being something one day, and then the exact same thing the next.


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In those cases it's probably not the protesters themselves but the celebrity support they get, as well as the funding from the likes of Soros or the Kennedy's that qualify as "the elite". That kind of big money on the left is pretty much identical to what happens on the right courtesy of the Koch brothers or Sheldon Adelson. A rich self-righteous jerk-off telling everyone else below them on the economic scale how they need to live their lives is pretty much identically arrogant on both sides of the divide.


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PostPosted: Sun Jan 01, 2017 9:53 pm
 


I think it's a hard term to adapt for Canadians. Maybe Mulroney, Paul Martin, Conrad Black - those that sit on boards. Can barely consider JT an elite, may be a flash in the pan celeb w a middling nfamily ame but I personally know half a dozen with people more money.As for celebs, who? Shall we class Suzuki as an elite cuz he doesn't shuffle about in sandals and live in a tent but holds views disagreeable to some of us?
FFS this whole carbon tax thing has been in BC for 8 years and the 'backlash' wasn't worth a fart in a hurricane.


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PostPosted: Sun Jan 01, 2017 9:58 pm
 


Chretien & Martin's best friend forever in Maurice Strong definitely would have qualified.


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There seems to be some confusion here as to what the OP is saying.

Very well. Here is, what I will call, a companion piece. It advises those of us not under the control of the elite on how to deal with those who are - or at least appear to be.

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2016 was a great year for most of us – but just because we’ve gained the beachhead doesn’t mean we’re going to win the war.

With Brexit and Donald Trump, we’ve done the equivalent of capturing everywhere from Pointe Du Hoc to Pegasus Bridge. But just like with D-Day, the worst of the fighting is yet to come. Our enemy is fanatical, determined, well organised. Plus, they still hold most of the key positions: the big banks, the corporations, the top law firms, the civil service, local government, the universities, the schools, the mainstream media, Hollywood… Give those bastards half the chance and they’ll drive us back into the sea – which, in contemporary terms, means nixing Brexit (or giving us “soft Brexit”, which is basically the same thing) and frustrating all the things President Trump will try to do to Make America Great Again.

I use the war analogy first because World War II analogies never fail, but second because this really is a war that we’re fighting. The bad news is that wars are hard, costly and ugly. The good news is that we’re on the right side and we’re going to win. Here’s how:

We will never underestimate the wickedness of the enemy

The liberal-left loves to portray us as the bad guys. But that’s just projection. From Mao’s China to Stalin’s Soviet Union, from Cuba to North Korea, history is littered with the wreckage of failed left wing schemes to make the world a better, fairer place.

As the great, now sadly-retired Thomas Sowell says, “Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.” Its malign influence is still with us today. Innocent boys being accused of rape on college campuses; genuine rapes committed by gangs of Muslim taxi drivers in northern England and by gangs of Muslim immigrants in German cities like Cologne; hundreds of thousands driven into fuel poverty, landscapes ravaged, avian fauna sliced and diced as a result of crazy renewable energy policies; a Nobel-prize-winning scientist driven out of his job because a feminist loser misreported something he said about women at a conference; generations of kids denied a rigorous, disciplined, useful education; the needless violence and tension engendered by #blacklivesmatter: we should never concede the moral high ground to the kind of people who make all this sort of stuff possible, no matter how many times they tell us how evil and selfish and uncaring we are.

We will always remember that we are better than them

I’ll give you an example: the dumbass lecturer at Drexel who tweeted that what he wanted for Christmas was “white genocide”. Should we be demanding that the university authorities sack him at once? Of course we shouldn’t.

The man has performed an invaluable public service: he has provided the perfect example of how ingrained the values of the left are in academe; he has shown prospective applicants to the Politics and Global Studies course at Drexel University in Philadelphia that unless they want to be indoctrinated with hard-left lunacy they might want to reconsider; he has further shown alumni of Drexel University who believe in old fashioned stuff like free markets that maybe they shouldn’t include their alma mater in their million dollar bequests, after all.

Sure, we should jeer and crow when we catch idiots like this man expressing reprehensible opinions. But the idea that someone should actually lose their job for something they said on Twitter ought to be anathema to those of us on the right side of the argument. One of the most thoroughly hateful things about the left is the way it tries to constrain free expression. If we play the same game, we are no better than they are. And face it: we just are.

We will take the fight to the enemy, not cower in No Man’s Land

One of the best things about 2016 for me was the way it gave the lie to the weaselish and wet aphorism – so often repeated by so many of our impeccably reasonable, sensible and balanced TV and newspaper pundits – that elections are “won in the centre ground.”

This was the Belial philosophy that gave us, in the U.S., that hideous continuum from the Bushes and the Clintons to Obama; and in Britain, the grotesque and malign Third Way squishery that took us from Tony Blair through to his (self-admitted heir) David Cameron and beyond. (It’s also the mindset which invented the disgraceful, sell-out concept of “soft Brexit”.)

No wonder so many of us had become so fed up with politics: no matter which party you voted for, whether the notionally left-wing one or the notionally right-wing one you still seemed to end up up with the same old vested interests, the same old liberal Establishment elite.

Of course we should always despise the liberal-left because their philosophy is morally bankrupt, dangerous and wrong. But I sometimes think that the people we should despise most of all are the squishes who pretend to be on our side of the argument but forever betray our cause. Sometimes they do this by throwing the more outspoken among us to the wolves in order to signal how tolerant and virtuous they are; sometimes they do this by endorsing some fatuous liberal position in order to show their willingness to compromise.

I call the latter approach the “dogshit yogurt fallacy.”

If conservatives like fruit or honey in their yogurt and liberals prefer to eat it with dogshit, it is NOT a sensible accommodation – much as our centrist conservative columnists might wish it so – to say: “All right. How about we eat our yogurt with a little bit of both?” We need to understand, very clearly, that there are such things as right and wrong; and that, furthermore, it is always worth fighting to the bitter end for the right thing rather than accepting second best because a bunch of lawyers and politicians and hairdressers from Brazil and squishy newspaper columnists and other members of the liberal elite have told us that second best is the best we can hope for.

On Brexit, for example, I’m with Her Majesty the Queen: “‘I don’t see why we can’t just get out? What’s the problem?’

We will never apologise, never explain, never surrender

See those scalped corpses, littering the plains? These are the guys – and it is, invariably, men – who thought that if only they showed contrition for their confected crimes the enemy would leave them alone. Sir Tim Hunt apologised, the guy from Saatchi apologised, the guy on the Rosetta space programme who wore the “sexist” shirt apologised. A fat lot of good it did them. The vengeful liberal-left doesn’t just want humiliation – it wants total annihilation.

Giving even an inch of ground to an enemy so implacable and vile is not only futile – but it also badly lets the side down by granting them a power that they do not deserve. The most recent sorry example of this was Steve Martin who actually deleted a tweet praising his late friend Carrie Fisher as a “beautiful creature” because a bunch of feminazis on Twitter complained that this was sexist objectification.


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Rules for Righties — a War-Winning Manifesto for 2017

Oh and don't let them baffle you with their BS. Corporatism is something they themselves are fond of. Don't let them do this to you

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while they insinuate your slavery to a fantasy plutocracy. The stuff they pull out their collective butthole of imagined horrors is only dangerous if you can be intimidated into believing it exists.


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PostPosted: Mon Jan 02, 2017 2:34 pm
 


To blatantly steal from John Cooper Clarke, in the year we all finally stop pretending about what we really are,

Trump and Mnuchin will lie
And some babies will die,
that weren't born on Easy Street


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PostPosted: Mon Jan 02, 2017 5:16 pm
 


How far up their own ass does someone's head have to be to consider Trump "the end of elites"??? A billionaire president, with the wealthiest cabinet in history, made up of millionaire and billionaires - some of whom like Mr. Munchkin were directly involved in the wholesale destruction of the working class

Trump is not the end of elite rule he is its climax. His will be the reign of terror of elites.

An elite is not some scientist who wants to keep your drinking water drinkable or reduce pollution. An elite is the billionaire oligarch who spends his money to convince the most gullible people that their interests are better served with more pollution, lower pay, less job security, fewer legal protections and no social safety net.

Like how dumb do you have to be to think the members of the Trump administration aren't elites? I would have said that Republicans will disown Trump faster than they disowned both Bushes given there's no way he's going to live up to even a fraction of his anti-elite tirades. But we've already seen his supporters flip flop and contort themselves numerous times so even if Trump does the exact opposite of everything the rightie voters are hoping for, I won't be surprised if instead of turning on him, they'll just pretend that's what they wanted the whole time.

"The great degeneration" most aptly describes the Deplorables summoned by Trump, many of whom proudly claim to be degenerates and wear their vulgarity as a badge of honour.


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PostPosted: Mon Jan 02, 2017 5:30 pm
 


Yeah, and he'll bring jobs back to America....well except for the sweat shops that produce his shit, because he doesn't want to mess with his profits.

He and his cabal express the worst of the American economic system and many of those who support him express the worst of American society.


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There's probably no way to accurately gauge to complete collapse of faith in national and world institutions. I really don't need to hear any more Dems say stupid things like "the unemployment rate is half what it was in 2008 and the stock market has more than doubled since Obama was first elected!". Those are completely misleading because the good jobs that were destroyed from 2001 to 2008 were replaced by lower paying ones with zero-to-no employee benefits. And the stock market means bupkus to the untermensch because what causes it to grow isn't the same thing anymore that used to give these people jobs; when it's just some sleazy motherfuckers causing prices to rise through currency speculation or bubbles like the mortgage one (which when they explode are rigged only to affect the poors, not the gilded class) it means nothing to the part of the economy the non-wealthy have to sink or swim in.


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