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🚨 WOW! Alberta, Canada secessionists say they’ve SUBMITTED enough signatures to trigger a vote to leave Canada It must now be approved to come to a final vote THIS IS HUGE! These patriots deserve to be liberated from the leftists 🇺🇸🇨🇦 Alberta is the MOST conservative province. I wouldn’t mind them becoming the 51st or 52nd state after this 🔥

She was very important in my development as a sensitive young boy

Oil industry leaders are now saying plainly what the Alberta-Ottawa MOU ignores: the economics do not work. Cenovus CEO Jon McKenzie says the industrial carbon tax makes Canada uncompetitive and must be reformed or removed to attract capital and grow production. Tamarack’s Brian Schmidt says customers are not paying more for lower-carbon barrels. Strathcona’s Adam Waterous says there is “no evidence anywhere” that the market will pay a premium for decarbonized oil. That matters because without new production commitments, there are no shipper commitments. Without shipper commitments, there is no Pacific pipeline. The MOU is colliding with commercial reality.

Hongkong I don’t like till now, seems like hell for me so far. Tonight I may change mind.

> be Spencer Pratt > grow up in LA > go to USC > become Brody Jenner’s menace friend on MTV > get cast on The Hills > steal Lauren Conrad’s friend > marry beautiful midwestern mid angel Heidi Montag > become the most hated man on TV > blow millions on fame, crystals and elite delusion > disappear for a decade > come back as a hummingbird conservative dad > LA turns into tents, crime and $22 matcha > everyone who hated you now looks insane > chad > run for mayor > somehow become the most normal guy in the race

Don’t comply. This time, just don’t.

The Liberal government is going to pass some version of online censorship legislation within the next eighteen months, and the conservative movement is going to lose the fight against it. This will be a strange defeat, because the movement has actually been winning this fight for nearly a decade. Ottawa has drafted the legislation and retreated from it, drafted and retreated, each time seeing the political coalition required to pass it dissolve before the vote. That repeated retreat has been the one sustained conservative victory of the Trudeau and Carney years. It is about to end. And the people ending it are not the Liberals. They are a loose network of Albertan YouTubers who believe they are fighting the regime and have not yet realized they have become its best argument. The annexation content produced by this movement is, from the regulator's perspective, almost perfect. Canadian citizens, broadcasting to Canadian audiences, arguing that Canadian sovereignty should be dissolved and portions of the country handed to a foreign power. Every view is a data point. Every subscriber is a constituency. Every comment section is a confirmation that the content is spreading. If the Liberal government had to invent a justification for online harms legislation from scratch, it could not have produced better material than what these men are producing voluntarily, daily, at their own expense. The conservative movement, which has spent a decade defending free speech in the abstract, is now being asked to defend this. And it cannot. Not because the free speech principle is wrong, but because the principle cannot carry the weight of the material it is being asked to defend. Worse, the movement has spent five years demanding that the Canadian state take foreign interference seriously. Khalistani organizing in Surrey, Chinese influence operations in Vancouver, Iranian regime activity in Toronto. The movement was right to demand this. The state was wrong to ignore it. But having committed to the foreign interference frame when the foreign power was India or China, the movement cannot coherently reject the frame when the foreign power is the United States. Either foreign subversion is a legitimate target of state action or it is not. The separatists have forced the question. And the Liberals, who have been waiting a decade for the right question to be forced, are going to give an answer the conservative movement has no reply to. This is a story about demoralization, about Harper's wasted decade, about the fairy tale the Laurentian managerial class has told the provinces it rules, about Aristotle's natural slaves, and about why a serious Canadian nationalism has to accept the principle of a policed public square while rejecting the people currently proposing to police it. I wrote the full essay here. If you want to know how the most sustained conservative victory of the last decade is about to turn into its most consequential defeat, it will be worth your time. (Link in comments)

I’ve talked a ton of shit about China over the years and was allowed to travel to China to celebrate New Year’s Eve this year. No problem at all. But the United Kingdom won’t allow me to travel to their country because I have criticisms of the way they run their borders. So, we’ve officially reached the point where the UK is banning US citizens for “speech” violations but China isn’t. Truly and absolutely unbelievable stuff.