John Warwick

I’m going to say something that some people in the MAGA movement and Republican circles are not going to like. You can support President Trump and still question things - that’s fine. But some of the opposition to Operation Epic Fury is completely missing the bigger picture. I keep hearing: “No more wars.” “Focus only on America.” “Not our problem.” That sounds good emotionally, but geopolitics does not work like that. If Iran gets nuclear weapons, this is no longer a Middle East problem. That becomes a global power problem overnight. Shipping lanes, oil, the Strait of Hormuz, global energy prices, terrorism, regional nuclear arms race - all of that hits the United States economically and strategically whether people like it or not. Then there’s something most people don’t even think about: the Petro Dollar. If the U.S. loses control of global oil trade influence and the dollar stops being the world’s reserve currency tied to energy markets, America doesn’t just have a foreign policy problem - you now have an economic survival problem. Inflation, debt, interest rates, cost of living - everything changes. Some people are acting like President Trump just woke up and wanted a war. Presidents don’t approve major military operations for fun. They do it because they believe the long-term threat is bigger than the short-term political damage. You don’t have to like war. Nobody should. But pretending the world is not dangerous and that America can just ignore nuclear ambitions, global trade routes, and energy markets is not how superpowers survive. Sometimes the decision isn’t between war and peace. Sometimes the decision is between acting now or dealing with something much worse later. You're an American, act and talk like one who understands this important aspect of your country's survival as a super power or become like the UK.

Alberta has sent $653 billion more to Ottawa than we got back. We've built this country’s infrastructure, jobs, and prosperity. And in return? We're vilified, our industries targeted, and our voices silenced. Enough is enough. #AlbertaIndependence

The missing F-15E weapons systems officer has been recovered alive from inside Iran. There was a massive firefight at the recovery site. American special operators fought their way into Iran, found their pilot, and pulled him out alive. Well done America. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

Unpopular opinion: there shouldn’t be tax rates, there should be tax amounts. If you split only federal spending evenly, it’s about $27,000 per adult per year, with roughly $3,700 of that just paying interest on past spending. That’s the actual price tag. The reason it’s hidden behind rates and brackets is simple: amounts create accountability. If every adult saw a bill for $27K, the question wouldn’t be “who should pay more,” it would be “why does this cost this much, and what am I actually getting for it?” Right now the system blurs that. Costs are diffused, benefits are emphasized, and the bill is partially pushed into the future. Amounts would force a different conversation. Not about redistribution, but about value. And that’s the part the current framing avoids.

No I'd allow the Left to take complete control of our country, sterilize kids, allow millions to flood over the border, censor the internet. Sounds like a plan!

Kinder Morgan would have built TMX with zero cost to taxpayers. But Trudeau and BC blocked it, then used $34 billion of OUR MONEY to buy it. You're either a fool or delusional or just stupid. I don't know which.

The state of Canada right now, with governments pretending they don't know where the problem is coming from

@waderarmstrong @DahliaKurtz $1m USD *per person* prices a lot of people out.

@DahliaKurtz Can’t you just buy one of the gold cards from the apprentice and get the fuck out of here? Pretty sure you can.

As a Canadian, I would PAY for American citizenship. 🇨🇦 < 🇺🇸

Trump Derangement Syndrome: The Real Insurrection A businessman from New York who had never held office, never served in government, never been part of the machine, ran for president in 2016. The Clinton campaign wanted him to. An internal DNC memo from April 2015 called it the "Pied Piper" strategy: elevate Trump, Cruz, Carson. "Tell the press to take them seriously." They wanted him because they thought he'd be the easiest to destroy. 63 million Americans didn't get the memo. They voted for the guy who wasn't a politician. Wasn't groomed by donors. Wasn't part of the DC corruption machine. 306 electoral votes. 30 states. And the people who rigged the game to get the opponent they wanted couldn't accept the result when they lost to him. Five Senate Democrats drafted impeachment frameworks in December 2016. Six weeks before inauguration. Before he signed anything. They had the conclusion before he took the oath. They just needed the evidence. Not on January 6th. Starting January 20th, 2017. Everyone wants to talk about insurrection. Nobody wants to talk about the one that ran for four years. They manufactured the evidence. The Steele Dossier. Funded by the Clinton campaign. Laundered through a law firm, an opposition research shop, a former British spy, and a Russian national named Igor Danchenko who told the FBI his information was "rumor and speculation." FBI lead investigator Peter Strzok wrote internally they were "unaware of ANY Trump advisors engaging in conversations with Russian intelligence officials." Same guy who texted a colleague about Trump winning: "No. No he won't. We'll stop it." Offered Steele a million dollars to verify a single claim. He couldn't. Durham concluded the FBI could not corroborate a single substantive allegation. Mueller: three years, $30 million, no collusion. Intelligence reports later assessed that key parts of Steele's material were themselves RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION. The people screaming about Russian interference spent three years amplifying Russian disinformation to destroy a sitting president. They used the fake evidence to spy on Americans. The FBI took that unverified dossier funded by one campaign and used it to get FISA surveillance warrants on Carter Page, a member of the opposing campaign. Secret court. Secret warrant. Opposition research treated as intelligence. The Inspector General found 17 significant errors and omissions in the warrant applications. Danchenko, the primary source, had been flagged by the FBI's own counterintelligence division. Subject of a full investigation into his Russian intelligence contacts. The FBI's response: put him on their payroll from 2017 to 2020. While the country went to war with itself over a story he made up. The press didn't just cover the lie. They built it. And they fanned the flames of insurrection. FBI Director Comey personally briefed Trump on the dossier. The meeting was immediately leaked to BuzzFeed, who published it in full. The New York Times published: "Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence." The FBI's own Strzok had already flagged the claim internally as inaccurate. The headline stood. The coverage accelerated. The Washington Post and New York Times won Pulitzer Prizes for their Russia coverage. For reporting built on a dossier the FBI couldn't verify. No retractions. No corrections. No Pulitzers returned. The Russia coverage built the machine. They used it on everything. They told you he called neo-Nazis "very fine people." He didn't. The full quote, on camera: "I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists because they should be condemned totally." Snopes confirmed it in 2024. Didn't matter. Biden launched his entire 2020 campaign on the lie. The BBC spliced two clips from his January 6th speech, filmed 50 minutes apart, into one quote. Cut "peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard." Replaced it with "fight like hell." Made it sound like a direct call for violence. Their director-general resigned. Their head of news resigned. Days before the 2024 election. The press built the permission. Congress used it. They tried to remove him before, during, and after. Democrat Al Green introduced impeachment articles in 2017. Before Mueller concluded anything. Then said it on camera: "I'm concerned that if we don't impeach this president, he will get re-elected." Rashida Tlaib, day one in Congress: "We're going to impeach the motherf***er." First impeachment: a phone call with Ukraine. Purely partisan. 230 to 197. Zero Republicans. Second impeachment: seven days. No committee hearings. No formal investigation. Fastest impeachment in American history. Against a president who had already lost and was leaving office in a week. Jerry Nadler, 1998, arguing against Clinton's impeachment: "Impeachment is an undoing of a national election." Twenty years later the same man led the charge to impeach Trump. Same seat. Opposite position. Only thing that changed was the name on the door. The data proves none of it was about principle. Oxford studied four administrations. Bush. Obama. Trump. Biden. Support for violating democratic norms tracked one variable. Not values. Not ideology. The jersey. Democracy Fund: 24% of Americans changed their position on congressional oversight between 2019 and 2022. Of those who flipped, 83% moved in whichever direction served their party. They elevated him because they thought he'd lose. He won because 63 million people were tired of being managed. Fabricated evidence. Secret surveillance. A weaponized press. Two impeachments. All dressed up as patriotism. They couldn't buy him. So they tried to bury him. When that didn't work they tried to remove him. When that didn't work they doctored the footage. Question an election and you're a threat to democracy. Fabricate evidence to overturn one and you're defending it. That's the deal they sold you. And half the country bought it without reading the receipts. TDS was never a syndrome. It was a permission structure. It told you the threat was so big the rules didn't apply anymore. And you believed it. The rules always apply. That's the whole point of having them. Stop being an NPC. I hope you understand what's at stake.

Earlier today, I explained that what we see from Tucker Carlson, et al., is ultimately Critical America Theory, which many people found clarifying. To add some depth, I want to explain that at the heart of every critical theory is a lunatic totalist conspiracy mentality. We can start where we started earlier, with Max Horkheimer's characterization of his Critical Theory. He invented Critical Theory in 1937, adapting it from the Marxist tradition of ruthless critique. He described it this way (paraphrasing): "We [neo-Marxists] developed the Critical Theory when we realized that it is not possible to describe the good or the ideal society on the terms of the existing society, but we can criticize those elements of the existing society that we wish to change." This characterization is very important because it reveals the ultimate character of all critical theories: looking for "problematics" in society that don't live up to some imagined ideal society that likely cannot even exist but can still be used as a reference point against which to complain about reality, often senselessly. Briefly, how? How can you use something that isn't real as a reference point? By believing things like "we don't know what an ideal America would look like, but it wouldn't have racism." Then you send people out looking for anything they can consider racist and get them to "problematize" it because the ideal society wouldn't have that happening. That's how. The thing is, Horkheimer's characterization also reveals the true structure of all critical theories: they're conspiracy theories. The belief in the Critical Theory is that the whole of society in every regard is so captured by the ruling classes and powerful interests that you don't even have the tools you'd need to describe an alternative. That is, powerful interests control everything, and they do so in a way where people don't realize it. In fact, they don't even have the conceptual tools to imagine an alternative. And the ruling classes benefit from that situation, so they like it that way, and they keep it that way, sometimes on purpose. The two sides of this mentality are "critical consciousness" for the people who are "Woke" to the Critical Theory and "false consciousness" for the people who aren't. The conspiracy the powerful interests in society run is alleged to be so complete that people literally misunderstand their reality. Give that a second to sink in. That's the totalist part of the lunatic conspiracy theory. The belief that Critical Theory is based on is that the powerful are so in control of society that: (1) nobody at all has the conceptual tools to imagine or articulate an alternative vision; (2) nobody BUT THEM even know this is happening. That's really important because what it means is that everyone is a dupe except the Critical Theorists. That means nobody is actually capable of understanding, much less managing, their own lives and circumstances except the Critical Theorists. Depending on the critical theory in question, different powerful interests allegedly control society (again, to such a degree that nobody except the critical theorists themselves even know it, and such that nobody can articulate an alternative). (Critical) radical feminists, for example, believe that society is totally structured by a male-dominated force called "patriarchy" that benefits men. It is enforced, they say, by another force they call "misogyny," which means hating women. Critical Race Theorists believe society is totally structured by a white-dominated force called "white supremacy" that benefits white people. It is enforced, they say, by another force they call "systemic racism," which they alone can detect (in literally everything). (Critical) Queer Theorists believe society is totally controlled and structured around people who deem themselves "normal" to the exclusion of everyone "queer." This is enforced by a wide variety of structural forces called "normativities," such as "heteronormativity," the completely made-up "cisnormativity," and "thinnormativity," which ultimately hold that there are norms and that's at least sometimes good. Critical America Theory, which I discussed earlier, has two main modes, which we could call "Left" and "Right." The "Left" mode believes that America is controlled by a conglomerate of powered interests including capitalists, nationalists (whom they call "Fascists"), and all of the "privileged" groups in the whole Intersectional pantheon of victimized identities (called "minoritized groups"). The "Right" mode believes that American is controlled by a conglomerate of powered interests including the Leftists and their Intersectional victimhood paradigm and its beneficiaries, globalists (the "managerial elite"), Jews, and, well, capitalists. Both of these modes hold out that the powerful interests completely control the social, economic, and political lives of Americans, and that Americans simply don't know it because it's not possible to talk about it because, allegedly, the powerful interests will shut you down or ruin/"cancel" you if you do. Even though they all do all the time pretty much exclusively while screaming that they can't. These two models are more or less completely diametrically opposed on all issues except Jews and capitalism. The "Left" mode is pro-Intersectional while the "Right" mode is reverse-Intersectional (same model, but privilege is good now). The "Left" mode is pro-globalist while the "Right" mode is nativist-nationalist. Both modes believe capitalism enables the whole problem and that Jews are participants in the problem (though in different ways). "Left" Critical America Theory believes capitalism restrains people in the name of making money (puts money over people) and that Jews are part of the oppressor category that allegedly harms poor Intersectional victims, including the imaginary people known as "Palestinians." Most of this blame is displaced onto Israel, not Jews directly, which is blamed for "genocide" and such, narratives that can be traced at least in part to Soviet propaganda efforts and Islamist agendas. "Right" Critical America Theory believes capitalism is too licentious in the name of making money (puts money over people) and that Jews form a shadowy cabal of powerful and all-controlling hidden interests (that advance their own "Jewish" (national) interests over those of their "host" nations). Most of this blame is displaced onto Israel, not Jews directly, which is blamed for "genocide" and such, narratives that can be traced at least in part to Soviet propaganda efforts and Islamist agendas (with plenty of Nazism mixed in). The point is that these are totalizing conspiracy theories, so in addition to everything that obviously implies, it also means that they cannot be refuted. Any attempt to refute them is merely to reassert the theory of capture and to defend the system of power that prevents people from knowing the "truth" (believing the critical theory). For instance, refuting a feminist is just another way of asserting patriarchal control and attacking women. Refuting a Critical Race Theorist is having White Fragility which is a kind of covert racism they uncovered in you. Refuting a Queer Theorist is forcing norms upon them that cause them harm and make them s-word-icidal. Refuting a "Left" Critical America Theorist is having sold out to capitalist interests or defending one's own privileged status in the system (or "supporting genocide"). Refuting a "Right" Critical America Theorist is believing making money is more important than people, being a shill, or having been bought off, captured, or blackmailed by Jews, Israel, the Jewish lobby, or the allegedly powerful interests that are controlled by these (or "supporting genocide"). I'm sure you're familiar with all this crap, but you might not have known that it's a direct consequence of the structure of the Critical Theory itself. Once Horkheimer laid out that the raison d'etre for the Critical Theory in the first place is that the "very terms of the existing society" are captured by powerful interests and ruling classes, that means that all refutation of the Critical Theory itself is just further proof that the Critical Theory is right that the whole system of sense-making permitted by the ruling classes is captured. Guys, this is idiocy. It isn't just idiocy, though; it's also evil idiocy. Very evil idiocy. Destructive idiocy. It's also easily replicable by people who are just playing in the incentive structure of the cynical logic of the Critical Theory mindset, so while some of the participants pushing us in this direction know exactly what they're doing, most either don't or, at the very least, don't have to. What should you do? Learn to recognize it. Mark it. And avoid it. And help others to do the same.

A lot of people, including some so-called conservatives, act like Trump is the reason things are the way they are, but that is completely backwards. Iran has been a terrorist state since 1979, illegal immigration has been a persistent problem for decades, the media has been corrupt and fraudulent since time immemorial, NATO has been freeloading on U.S. security guarantees since 1949, Europe’s energy problems started long before 2016, Ukraine and Russia have been at war since 2014, Xi has been running the CCP since 2012, and the list goes on. Trump did not create any of this, he just pointed it out, forced everyone to see it, and has been trying to confront it head on.

Apparently the Liberal Cabinet Minister responsible for imposing the costly industrial carbon tax does not understand basic economics. The Liberal carbon tax hits farmers at every step. It raises the cost of fertilizer (made from natural gas), diesel (for tractors), crop protection products, and transportation. Those costs don’t disappear. They are passed on to the farmer. For farmers, margins shrink. For consumers, food prices rise. And on global markets, Canadian farmers become less competitive against countries without these added costs. These carbon tax impacts are real. They affect every farmer and every Canadian who eats. #AlbertaIndependence

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Today in British Columbia, we are seeing the repercussions of the Trudeau government's adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) into our legislation. Private property rights are undermined. We must withdraw from this treaty.

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"Listen, honey, we're going broke. We're spending way more than we take in. We're accumulating debt rapidly. We have to cut back and re-adjust." "LET'S BUY A NEW SPORTS CAR!" This post is actually about the government's plan for high speed rail. 😅