@danpjsheehan:
After 2+ years of genocide and turbocharged annexation, there have been no repercussions for the Israeli gov, the IDF, the people of Israel or the US Congress (the vast majority of whom supported this horror).
And we’re still policing the language of illegal land sale protestors
ut enough checks for Israel and you’ll become what you have bankrolled.
Canada too, yes, even under Carney who sleazily hides the weapons we send by diverting them through Nazi USA to claim publicly Canada isn’t sending any.
@isaiah_bb:
The government smearing an American as a “domestic terrorist” after agents of the state murdered her, is stomach churning in a way I can’t really describe.
@RBReich:
The struggle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right.
The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship.
Everyone must choose which side they’re on.
Is Canada morally leaderless? by Emmett Macfarlane, Jan 12, 2026, Defending Canadian Democracy
For anyone born in the 70s or 80s, it is abundantly clear we’re living in the most perilous period of our lifetimes. The most powerful country in the world has fallen from a functional democracy to an unabashedly fascist regime.
Oh, some political scientists will still nuance the current American context with terms like ‘flawed democracy’ or ‘competitive authoritarianism’ – after all, the US still has elections! (Well, we’ll see). I wrote in this space 10 months ago about how the US is no longer a true democracy, with a brief outline of the many reasons why. But the time for careful parsing is over. The President of the United States has a personal army invading cities and murdering citizens. The rule of law lies dead next to them. Trump’s is a fascist regime.
In Canada, the current government won an election in no small part due to a promise that the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, seemed to recognize the stakes. We were inundated with ads blazoned with the Elbows Up mantra, Carney gave speeches recognizing the existential nature of Trump’s 51st state rhetoric and explaining that the old partnership was over.
Ever since the election, however, there have been deepening signs that it’s now Elbows Down, Thumb in Mouth. Our government treads lightly on, even downplays, the most outrageous attacks on the international rules-based order. The government’s messaging on the Canada-US relationship oscillates from skepticism to naive optimism and even talk of deepening or strengthening the relationship.
Critics are assured by the government’s most ardent defenders that all of this is wise. After all, why antagonize the madman in the White House? We’re vulnerable, and Carney is wise to try to placate the monster while – we assure you – he is quietly going about remaking our economy and shifting us away from American dependency. They talk as if it’s rational to pursue a new trade deal with a man who can’t possibly be trusted to uphold it for a day, let alone years.
Most concerning, they reject the idea that speaking in defense of basic democratic norms is worth the time.
It’s a strategy essentially designed to ensure democracy remains undefended. First, it’s important to realize that Trump is not the only audience. He’s not even the most important audience. Not remotely. When our leaders fail to speak in defense of democratic norms or the rule of law, it is signal to the rest of America, and indeed to all Canadians, that these are normal times, that everything is fine. But things are not okay. We are frogs boiling in a pot, and it should frighten you, dear reader, that our political class is going about their business as if it’s still 2015.
Which is why we should be watching for the most basic of litmus tests. If the Government of Canada can’t be bothered to do the easy things, to preserve the most basic sense of principle and dignity in the face of glaring red line offenses, then we can’t possibly trust it with the more difficult and complex issues. (And yes, I pause here to recognize that Pierre Poilievre, a man who took time last week to praise Trump’s illegal actions against Venezuela, is even worseya, but Pee Pee’s really stupid with no experience other than hating and lying, while Carney’s intelligent and experienced. I doubt Pee Pee would be causing as much harm and damages as Carney is).
And this is why what has happened to X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, and the government’s nakedly blasé attitude towards a forum whose system – not only its users, but its ‘AI’ – is propagating child sex abuse material and whose owner is an unabashed white supremacist should prompt some very careful thought.
Because if our elected representatives, government ministries and agencies, and other major institutions and organizations not only refuse to act against Xbut can’t even be bothered to stop using the site it represents a microcosm of our bigger problem: this country is morally leaderless.Or perhaps Carney and Solomon are also kid rapists, and have powerful friends that are kid rapists. Carney’s catholic, a religion that rapes kids and refuses to heed court orders to pay victims, instead doing the bankruptcy hanky panky to greedily keep the church’s riches – mightily unchristian of them. Carney might be on orders from the raping church to protect pedophilia and kid rapists, or on orders from Trump to do so. Carney in my view, seems all too eager to give Trump what ever he demands
A mere two-and-a-half months ago a bunch of politicians and commentators lost their collective shit when the Supreme Court of Canada struck down mandatory minimum sentences relating to child pornography offences (while misrepresenting the impact of the Court’s ruling, by the way).
Have any of those righteous op-ed writers or politicians deleted their X accounts or even criticized the platform in the face of its AI producing gigabytes of sexualized images of children?
How can we expect a government with this appalling attitude to properly regulate the powerful, destructive interests at the heart of democracy’s decline? How can we expect a feckless, cowardly ‘Minister of AI’ to ensure a proper balance between innovation and regulation in the context of a technology that presents so many risks and dangers? How do we trust people who fail so basic a test of moral principle?Hanky Panky creepy Solomon already publicly stated he will not regulate AI, to keep the kid and woman abusing billionaires fucking happy.
It has always been the case that we live in a dangerous, uncertain world. But never in our lifetimes has Canada’s prosperity, its safety, and its democracy faced this much risk. If we don’t start demanding better from our governments, our institutions, our ‘leaders’, then like the frogs in the boiling pot, we are soon going to find out just how bad things can get.
Christian Giles:
Agree on X – I don’t get why its still being used by, well, anyone sane. The other key litmus test for me will be the pending F35 decision. At this point, it should ba an easy “We’ll take the 16 we are contractually obligated to, but we’re going with the Swedes for the rest.” Its also time for Carney to level with us in that its increasingly unlikely CUSMA will be renewed. And why should we bother anyway?
Simi:
I agree on the X issue. Canada should just ban it and our politicians should not have accounts on that platform. While I didn’t vote for Carney he was clearly, and still is, the better choice than PP. Nobody in the Conservative party is a safe choice; they are all maple maga traitors.
I do think Carney, or the defence minister, should be rallying Canadians and getting us prepared to defend our Nation. I keep looking for information around the citizen militia and nothing so far. We should already be organizing local militias.
It’s always easy to criticize a sitting government. I think Carney should be doing things differently regarding preparing our nation for self defence but I also think he is honestHonest? All I’ve heard out of Carney are lies. And he is much worse than Pee Pee and doing what he thinks is best for the Country.it’s clear to me that Carney’s serving Nazi USA and the tech and oil and gas billionaires (most of them AmeriKKKan), not Canadians I can work with someone like that. If the Conservatives were in power we’d be in far more danger globally than we are now…PP would be abandoning NATO as well.Pee Pee is so stupid and disorganized, he’d have done nowhere near the harms that Carney has done, eg Bills C5, C2, etc.
Elizabeth:
Thank you Emmett. I’m just aghast at the complacency and oblivion and total moral failure of our government and really appreciate you laying the stakes out so clearly.
Apart from writing to our MPs to demand better and attempting to raise awareness in our social circles, do you have any concrete suggestions for what ordinary Canadians can do? Action always seems like the best antidote to despair.
Greg Millard:
Great point on X. It’s as though everyone still thinks it’s Twitter.
One of the biggest problems the US hasis the cowardly acquiescence and complicity of political, media, corporate, university, and other elites in the face of neo-fascism. Same in Canada. Cowardice and greed is what humans do. Homo naziensThis is especially enervating coming from, say, news outlets or ‘conservatives’ who have long sanctimoniously praised themselves as these great defenders of liberty. Yet the minute they actually face a tyrant, they cave for fear of lawsuits, or political costs, etc.The things I find most challenging to cope with living among humans, is human cowardice, selfishness, greed, lousy memory and how many are rapists.
I don’t for a minute think our elites are any different. Indeed, our corporate class seems to be exactly as George Grant described it 60 years ago. Pining for renewed access to the USA, quite indifferent to Canadian survival.
I disagree, though, with the view that the Canadian government should be unmindful of the perils of provoking Trump. ya, but, bending over ass up the way Carney does, much more dangerous than provoking Trump. Appeasement never works with Nazis, and Carney’s only done appeasement so far.We are indeed gravely vulnerable. This means using careful discernment about which hills to fight on. The rule of law in the international order was always a shaky thing – past US governments routinely committed the sort of outrages that Trump committed against Venezuela – and largely (though not entirely) separable from the defence of democracy. Carney has been careful not to endorse the invasion; I’d call this judicious. And note that we have been much firmer, rhetorically, regarding Greenland. That makes sense to me.
Carney seems to have the right idea. Build up our defences, diversify our economy, and do it as fast as possible. If he can succeed in this, we will be in a somewhat less vulnerable position and our margin of manoeuvre will widen. For now, great care and judgement need to be exercised.
Darryl:
Yes, I’m getting tired me too!of the seemingly widespread belief that Carney is playing some kind of 3D chess that’s going to hamstring Trump and save Canada. He’s been far too tepid and ass-kissing and accommodating. And cozying up to China is absolutely NOT what we need right now. Has he forgotten the election interference? Even Trudeau seemed to realize, after the kidnapping of the Michaels, that the PRC is not our ally. Carney is acting as though that whole incident never happened.I think Carney’s a happy dictator/authoritarian, and likes them in other countries – because such evil leaders make more money for the rich.
Andrew McMurry:
Dual citizen here, equally appalled with the quality of political resistance in both countries. It’s as if Carney has erected a double-sided Potemkin village right on the border. The Trump-facing side is amiable and polite, open for deals. The Canada facade is meant to shield us from seeing the fascist menace poised at the edge of our democracy. Double-sided and doubly useless.
John Miller:
I’m not buying what you are selling Emmet. Sorry. Raising rhetorical questions doesn’t add anything to a conversation. Ad hominem attacks on individuals doesn’t prove anything, just echoes an anger that might be rattling around in a select few reader’s heads. As a reader, I can’t see a basis for your opinions. If your voice has credibility, please show us something about why your opinion matters in our noisy, polluted information swamp. Keep trying.
Emmett Macfarlane:
I don’t need to “show you why my opinion matters”. If you can’t see the problems for what they are, then you’re as morally hapless as the people you’re defending.
John Miller:
Ok, another ad hominem attack without evidence instead of engaging with ideas and facts. Why bring that to Substack? Leave it on X or Facebook and argue with the trolls and bots. Oh… and check your grammar in the title of your post. Bye
Emmett Macfarlane:
My Post: “The Government of Canada shouldn’t support white supremacy and child porn.”
You: “Oh yeah, prove it!”
Buddy, go fuck yourself.
John Miller:
Now you are putting words in my mouth and swearing. All I have been saying is: you can do better.
Jane Flemming:
You really do need to look up ad hominem.
André Darmanin, MPA:
I agree with John Miller here. Your article comes across as reactionary bluster that is short sighted and appeases to that same social media crowd you look to. Carney is building relationships and trying to strike deals to move away from the US. We don’t know what strategies are happening behind closed doors and he shouldn’t be responding to everyone because social media says so. Your supporters clearly are in the same boat. We built a relationship over centuries with the US because it was convenient and cordial. Change doesn’t happen overnight.
The only issue I agree with your article on is that Trump is running a fascist regime.
Jonathan Hoskins:
Actions not words. Carney is working across the board to create new alliances with democratic countries. Working to protect NATO and the UN. To put Canada in the forefront of leadership, which is being recognized throughout the world. His actions speak louder than starting pissing matches on X. But he is speaking out about Venezuela, Greenland
Right now Canada’s democracy is in pretty hood shape. I do think his government is tracking China,Russia and USA interference in our politics and will move quickly if it crosses the line. I do question the articles intention to sew doubt about Carney…especially in the dace of foriegn interference.
Thomas Rowles:
I share your feelings of horror watching the daily undoing of World order. The cause is obvious to anyone . How do we respond?
What helpful thing could any government do? Provoking an unstable maniac with the ability to completely tank our economy does not seem constructive.
I think quietly preparing for the worst, focusing where we are vulnerable is the governments’ task. Canadians in general need to lead and are expressing themselves quite effectively; ‘buy Canadian, boycott the USA ‘ sentiment is strong and measurable. The push back is on all of us, and it’s happening. Elbows up is everyone’s responsibility, not just political leaders.
David Krieger:
A delicate balance between self destruction and maintaining some relationship with the USA is required. Carney is playing the game with Trump.
Trump will self destruct. We will see this November.Palantir Couch Fucker JD Vance is much more evil and harmful than Trump could ever be, which is why the douche fucking tech rich had Trump name him as his running mate
It’s particularly difficult when 2 provincial governments are after separation and Smith in Alberta is following Trump’s plan on gaslighting Albertans, consolidating power in the Premiers office, getting her Alberta police force ready to arrest critics, and having a limited minority promoting separation and joining the UsA. And all about money and imaginary slights.
Any Media or Substack author has completely ignored the Poilievre Project by Martin Lukacs and quotes by PP himself to radical changes he proposes for Canada, including cancelled all social benefits.
Wake up folks. AMERICANS fell asleep and The Heritage Foundation took 45 years to get control. Poilievre, Harper, Manning, Flanagan and Boessenkool have been plugging along since 2995, 30 years now and we dodged a bullet in 2025.
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@tiberiusfiles:
It feels like there’s a minimum threshold for collective empathy, below which societies collapse, and it feels like the United States has broken through that floor
Don’t get me twisted: the US government is not and has never been in any way ‘good’ or ‘empathetic’
I’m talking about the level of basic emotional intelligence among the population, as a direct consequence of US propaganda and conditioning
@QuentinOcama:
ICE just smashed a car on Snelling and 94, dragged a woman out, and left. This is law and order?
@tiberiusfiles:
When we let our leaders do genocide unchecked, they’re not going to think twice about killing any of us, kidnapping world leaders, starting more wars, or literally anything else
Welcome to the future, brought to you by Western impunity and media complicity
@hippyygoat:
ITS ALL CONNECTED…
OVER 200 EX-IDF SOLDIERS ARE CURRENTLY SERVING IN THE CHICAGO ICE DEPARTMENT.
@aletheia327:
Insane to see “feminists need a good fuck” extended like this to write off any political activism whatsoever by women as sexual frustration, there’s definitely a rape fantasy lurking in here about how leftist women need to be ‘fixed’ by conservative men and their masculinity.
@WUTangKids:
Wait so Kristi Noem’s podium at DHS is just a straight up Nazi slogan now?
“One of ours, all of yours” was a Nazi policy made when an SS officer was killed in a Czech Village and then the Nazis killed every single resident of that village in response…..but don’t you dare call them Nazis!
ICE and the Nazi History of “One of Ours, All of Yours”, The assassination of Reinhard Heydrich and the reprisals that followed by James Fell, Jan 12, 2026, Sweary History with James Fell
After the murder of Renee Good, this puppy-killing and plasticized bag of fascism gave a press conference saying the Good shooting was a good shoot. Botox Barbi proclaimed Renee a domestic terrorist. It really is like Orwell’s 1984, where “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.” We saw that ICE agent Jonathan Ross wasn’t even remotely in danger, and we heard Good’s calm and friendly final words. We saw Ross execute her, and we heard him call her a “Fucking bitch” after doing so.
But what about that slogan underneath the micro-needled Noem Nazi, “One of Ours, All of Yours”? It is not a direct quote from Nazi Germany, but it certainly embodies the spirit of how they acted when a Nazi was killed by the resistance. One example was the massacre of the Czech village of Lidice.
Several movies have been made about the killing of a top Nazi in occupied Czechoslovakia that led to the massacre. In 2016 there was Anthropoid, and in 2017 was Killing Heydrich. The two films examined Operation Anthropoid by the Czechoslovak resistance to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, one of the primary architects of the Holocaust. On May 27, 1942, Czechoslovak Army soldiers Jozef Gabcík and Jan Kubiš attacked Heydrich as he was on his daily commute to Prague Castle. They were trained by British spies to conduct the operation, which was authorized by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile.
Anyone who isn’t currently making excuses for the murder of Renee Good knows that Nazis are bad. Reinhard Heydrich made the typical Nazi look tame by comparison. Even fucking Hitler referred to him as “The man with the iron heart.” He was one murderous motherfucker, and he absolutely deserved to die.
As Heydrich’s car slowed at a curve, Gabcík attempted to shoot the fucking Nazi, but his gun jammed. Kubiš then threw a grenade at the vehicle, which severely wounded Heydrich. The Nazi leader and his driver pursued the partisans, but they escaped. The resistance fighters thought their attack had failed, but the shrapnel from the explosion had done extensive damage to Heydrich’s body and he died eight days later in hospital.
Hitler, of course, misplaced his excrement at one of his favorite Nazis having been assassinated. His mentality was that “one of ours” had been killed, so we’re gonna murder “all of yours.” A wave of reprisals followed, including exterminating the village of Lidice.
Across Czechoslovakia as many as 5,000 people were killed in reprisal. Thousands more were arrested and tortured. The fucking Nazis wrongly believed the assassins had come from Lidice, and so its population was to be wiped from the face of the earth. On June 9, 1942, five days after Heydrich died of his wounds, Nazis began a round up in the village. The next day, the killing began. Some two hundred men and boys as young as fifteen were immediately executed. Another two hundred women were sent to concentration camps, many of whom would die while incarcerated. Eighty-two children, fourteen of them under a year old, were sent to an extermination camp and gassed. Nine children were determined to be “racially pure” and given to German families to be raised as good little Germans. Usually, the fucking Nazis tried to hide such crimes, but the Lidice massacre was one they proudly crowed.
A week after the Lidice massacre, Gabcík and Kubiš were killed in a six-hour-long shootout with hundreds of Waffen-SS. Heydrich’s two assassins and the other few resistance fighters holed up with them in a Cathedral managed to kill fourteen Nazis in the battle.
The events in Czechoslovakia in 1942 are but one example of how the fucking Nazis reacted with extermination of “all of yours” when “one of ours” was killed. This is the mentality that ICE and the DHS is threatening to adopt should people dare to resist the American Gestapo.
NOTE: This piece was researched and written by a human, not some bullshit “ai” plagiarism software.
Those who cannot remember the past need a history teacher who says “fuck” a lot. Get both volumes of ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY SH!T WENT DOWN.
Melanie Edgecombe:
Where are our leaders! I’m pissed that they have abandoned us. It is truly frightening living here. The possibility of losing our country to a military takeover becomes more of a reality every day. We are at a tipping point. I still can’t get my mind around it though we see evidence of it everyday. Our only remedy is the vote and let me tell you, it’s little comfort in these fraught times. I thank you James for your continued support and shining light on these dark times with your knowledge of historical events.