Henry Andrew

Grateful to have received this and some other items recently. "Yea, ere my hot youth pass, I speak to my people and say: Ye shall be foolish as I; ye shall scatter, not save; Ye shall venture your all, lest ye lose what is more than all; Ye shall call for a miracle, taking Christ at his word. And for this I will answer, O people, answer here and hereafter, O people that I have loved, shall we not answer together?"

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Appreciate your commentary and analysis. I continue to think your analysis is plausible, and the administration is doing what it can to maintain strategic ambiguity for as long as possible. One reason I think this is that there are some people around the President who understand that there is no good long term alternative to what they are trying to do.

So far no stipulations on China. Going to assume I’m probably wrong unless we get indications later indicating otherwise. Too early for a full mea culpa but in my mind the probability of a decoupling has gone down drastically. Personally, my probabilities have gone down from 65% to 15%. I’m well aware most people are nowhere close to me. We’ll find out soon if there ever was a plan and they capitulated or they just stumbled into all this…. It’s fully over after JP/SK.

I guess there is a window, the size of which is dependent on geopolitics and our own political choices, where it will be possible to make a deal that preserves a sovereign Canada (we would become a lot more sovereign in the process). The window is probably closing, ever since our government did not immediately respond to the President's demand to end the fentanyl industry with an enthusiastic "we agree, we will fucking get it done, brother."

Let's say that is the President's intention. It is unlikely that the idea will have the support of a majority of the Canadian people (which the preferable path) without conditions in Canada getting much worse, relative to the United States. What is the best path that you can see from A to B?

Canada can avoid the tariffs by becoming the 51st State. Don't get mad at me, that's Trump's proposal. I don't think Canada can win a trade war against the US. I also think we should become 4 or 5 States based on population, geography, economics, culture, language, etc. 🤷‍♂️

What makes them bullshit weekly accomplishment narratives is that everyone above them in the whole bureaucratic structure is invested in keeping the bullshit circulating, keeping the whole structure of sinecures afloat. Okay, maybe not everyone. It's different when you try to deploy a bullshit narrative in a no bullshit environment -- there will be many who don't even understand that there is a world without bullshit coming into being.

M*sk's demand for federal employees to explain their achievements is actually the definition of bullshit work. In bureaucracies, the pencil-pushers who thrive are actually the ones who are best at crafting bullshit weekly accomplishment narratives.

@sentdefender A not unreasonable exercise. And honestly, someone who cannot produce a reasonable response does not deserve to have a job supported by a lot of other people who have to work really, really hard jobs.

An email was sent out tonight to all federal employees, even those not under the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) or Executive Branch, by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), demanding that they reply to the email with “5 bullets of what you accomplished last week” or face forced resignation. Several agencies and departments, including a number in the Department of Defense, have already instructed their employees not to respond to the email, as they are not under DOGE’s purview or the OPM.

@gaulicsmith Just found your account with this thread, sir. Of course you are right about all of this. Have you posted somewhere the list of what you would want to have yourself, on a desert island, to educate your own family?

STEMcels are wrong about the humanities. I believe their rejection of the humanities is either a rejection of the liberalism that persists in the humanities, or it’s driven by a fundamental misanthropy. Nonetheless, the humanities are more important than STEM, and here’s why:

@martianwyrdlord Fantastic stuff sir, look forward to discovering your writing.

This is such a stupid debate and it's one of many reasons it's so hard to take these clowns seriously. On the one side, you have people who believe in some nebulous worldsoul, in grand forces of history, in vast impersonal systems of physics, climate, geography, biology, psychology, and social dynamics that orchestrate events. On the other, you have people who acknowledge all of that, but point out that the individual human will is decisive, that it is the choices made by humans that are ultimately of consequence in shaping history. They don't deny the grand forces - history's drama is largely composed of men surfing those waves, harmonizing with those forces, or setting themselves against them. But their picture is more complete, because they do not limit their understanding to just the contextual systems. One side says that it is only those grand forces that matter. This is ultimately a mechanical view of reality - humans as automotons, possessing no agency in any meaningful sense. The other believes in free will - that humans can make choices, that those choices matter. Yes, there are grand forces ... But this is merely weather and landscape, not the navigation of that landscape. We must understand the land in which the voyage took place to understand the voyage, but the map is not the captain's log. It is no accident that the System Maximalists who deny free will also tend to be marxoids. Their whole philosophy demands that man and all of nature be a machine, that every event be wholly externally determined. What's ironic is that it is precisely these marxoid machine-brains who are the most tiresome moralizers, condemning every era or personality that fails to live up to the sensibilities of modern academics. You'd think if they didn't believe in free will, didn't believe human choice mattered, that everything was predetermined by systemic forces, that they would be more understanding. After all, were not the slavers, colonizers, conquerers and the rest driven by impersonal forces? How then can they be blamed? The answer is that these people are wholly lacking in basic human empathy. Their mechanical world view leaves them psychologically impoverished. Rather than seeking to peer through the veil of time into the souls of the Great Men who shaped it, and glimpsing thereby something of the spiritual grandeur they channeled through their characters and into their actions, they busy themselves by collecting little facts about transaction ledgers in the 15th century spice trade, and so see nothing but empty numbers. They make no effort to understand the minds of the people who made history, and so those parts of their brains that handle empathic reasoning - that model the minds of others in sufficient detail to understand the world from their point of view - are atrophied and flabby. They are half-men, thinking with half a brain, unable even to conceive what it is to be whole, and it is the ruthless suppression of their full cognition, this careful lobotomy of the fully human, that these humanities majors call an "education".

Depending on how things unfold, this may happen organically, although perhaps in some coordinated fashion. Then we would have the interesting phenomenon of the Canadian government jailing young men on the charge of having traveled abroad to participate in terrorist training by networks loyal to the country that provides the nuclear deterrent and much else that keeps Canada "strong and free."

@martianwyrdlord x.com/NoahRevoy/stat…

As Stalin is reputed to have said, one man’s death is a tragedy; a million deaths are a statistic. Raw numbers do not communicate raw horror. Statistics leave the heart unmoved. When you think of communism, don’t think of bread lines, famines, anemic economic growth, clunky consumer goods, or ugly buildings built with substandard concrete. Don’t think of fucking statistics. Think of Pitești. barsoom.substack.com/p/to-shatter-m…

I appreciate your analysis, sir. I have had much the same reflections about the events that are unfolding now and how things could escalate. The next Canadian election (if there is one) will be a choice between accommodating the demands of the United States, even if they are unreasonable, in the interest of supporting our powerful neighbour as it defends us all from whatever the globalists have in mind. My hope (and prayer) is that there will be some democratic event in which the Canadian people has an opportunity to express its will, one way or the other, before an irrevocable choice is made. Other scenarios are not inconceivable, of course. I challenge anyone to say that he truly knows the mind of the President, or possesses a crystal ball in which he sees the course of events to come. No question the President is a flawed instrument, but the changes he is making in America, as we see when we read his executive orders, is something I would have voted for, rather than the alternative. A lot of us would have. I hope that he is an instrument of God, in the same way that the ancient Persians were, sent in spite of himself to bring about peace on earth and bring humanity closer to the kingdom of heaven. Depends what kind of eschatology rings most true for you. If what he truly wants is to dominate and enslave us, which I think a lot of us would attempt to resist, then I guess it will become apparent sooner or later. Short of that, we should be able to make a deal. No question that Canada will have to change a lot in the process.

Trump has a problem: Canada is becoming a security threat. Trump also has an opportunity: Canada has never been more defenceless, disillusioned, and demoralized. The Canadian ruling class is playing fast and loose with Monroe Doctrine, and in doing so opens way for Trump to complete America’s Manifest Destiny. Here’s how the New Colossus of a North-American superstate can be created by conquering Canada with a colour revolution. barsoom.substack.com/p/maple-maidan

Remarkable communication from the Governor of Texas to the Prime Minister of Canada.

@truckdriverpleb Thank you for bringing this candidacy to my attention. After viewing his interview on Power and Politics I am also inspired to join the Liberal party.

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@BillboardChris Congratulations. This is due in part to your own tireless efforts, which have shown so compellingly how a lone, determined, persistent and truthful voice will give courage to others and, in time, overcome a whole infrastructure of lies.

President Trump just nuked gender ideology. Here is the full Executive Order. Very important! The President rightly uses the word ‘sex.’ Not ‘gender.’ There are two sexes, zero genders, and infinite personalities. 🧵

@rightblend Exactly right. x.com/HenryAndrewCDA…

I hope everyone can see what Trudeau, Doug and their friends are doing. They're trying to start a trade war to boost their poll numbers instead of simply securing the border. Why do so many people keep falling for these childish wedge issues?

@jaycurrie @PierrePoilievre Exactly right.

It makes total sense for @PierrePoilievre to demand the recall of Parliament. But why did he have to toss in "retaliatory tariffs"? Does he want an unwinnable trade war with Trump? This is the sort of nonsense which convinces me that the CPC are simply Liberals in blue ties. x.com/Ryan_r_William…

Insightful commentary as always, and I agree with your analysis of how the threat of tariffs or their actual imposition would play in Canadian politics. I initially concluded, when there was no mention of the subject in the President's inauguration and post-inauguration speeches, that he had decided to pause implementation while Canada had an election, rather than give the Liberals the opportunity to run on the narrative of fighting back against the evil American regime. It seems they have seized that opportunity quite happily, taking the country even further down a dangerous path strategically, including by doing their best to frame the issue in terms of unjustified trade measures that will harm consumers, and not a demand for radical re-alignment of Canadian approaches to migration and national security. After the President's impromptu comments about tariffs yesterday afternoon, it seems more likely that he just does not think about Canadian politics very much, if at all. His team has probably already considered the costs of tariffs and potential Canadian retaliation to the U.S. economy and determined that those costs would be worth paying, if necessary, especially as their impact will be, over time, greater domestic investment and economic independence for the U.S. However, I think the administration's preference would be to have a more cooperative northern neighbour, with whom to explore the full potential of developing our shared strategic space, rather than engage in a trade war. Not clear to me that Poilievre will have the courage to state clearly that the President, actually, is right about migration and fentanyl and quite a few other things, and embrace deeper cooperation with the United States. Canadians might respond well, especially if he and people like @shuvmajumdar can articulate the larger geopolitical context in compelling terms. Otherwise, Poilievre will be trapped in a political box where his platform is to fight back against Trump, just like the Liberals, but not quite as hard. That could be a losing platform, even with the strongly negative sentiment that most Canadians have about the Liberals (but especially about Trudeau). Otherwise, the longer term beneficiary of these dynamics will be @MaximeBernier, but perhaps not until we are on the other side of a pretty miserable time economically, not to mention a national unity crisis.

While the Trump Inauguration was great fun and Trump administration got off to a great start my most basic reaction was relief. Finally there was a chance to defeat the blob, stop the progressive ooze. 1/

@RossMcKitrick Excellent analysis sir -- happy to have discovered your voice in this important national conversation. I trust you are contributing to thinking about how a new government could adapt rapidly to the new context.

Everyone is focused on the US withdrawal from Paris and the tariff threat, but several other Executive Orders yesterday will have even more radical impacts and will require Canada to rethink all our energy and climate policies in response. /...

Where is the landing zone here? Canadians support the very things that have been demanded of us. Tariffs will be damaging to both countries. If you believe that tariffs will drive voters to the Conservative party and that not much more damage can be done before they have an opportunity to elect a new government -- well, I hope you are right.

@jamiljivani @JDVance @realDonaldTrump I guess you have already concluded that there is no alternative to pushing as hard and as far as necessary to achieve that goal. Maybe you are even surprised at how much resistance there is to not unreasonable demands.

Trudeau quit because Conservatives have been prosecuting the case against Liberals, knocking on doors to talk to our neighbours, and voting in by-elections to send Liberals a message. We will finish the job we started and bring change to Canada in the next election. Let's go.