Weekly Updates
Far Right Week In Review, April 5 To April 11
Friday, April 5
One of Pierre Poilievre’s biggest boosters is none other than Alex Jones. https://x.com/atRachelGilmore/status/1776237332204544066
Seriously. No kidding. But it remains to be seen whether endorsement by a guy who supported an attempted coup in the US and who denounced parents of murdered schoolchildren as “crisis actors” will actually be a plus for Pierre. Probably not.
Jones still owes millions to Sandy Hook families. Hasn’t paid them. No effect on his rather lavish lifestyle, either. https://www.tmz.com/2024/04/05/alex-jones-hawaii-sandy-hook-money-families-billion-bankruptcy/
Ontario transphobes want to abolish school boards altogether.
“School board trustee elections are disproportionality influenced by teacher's unions that push far-left politics. Boards routinely ignore any evidence that contradicts their narrow simplistic worldview.”
There may be serious trouble on the horizon for the Peoples Party of Canada. “Evidence tabled at the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference this week revealed that a special Global Affairs Canada unit tasked with monitoring foreign disinformation assessed that “Russian-friendly accounts” were actively promoting PPC content during the 2021 federal election.” https://pressprogress.ca/peoples-party-disputes-claims-that-russian-interference-helped-sink-erin-otooles-conservatives-in-2021-election/
Steroids and MAGA are a really problematic mix. https://x.com/merry123459/status/1776404799883293075
Saturday, April 6
Day #2 of Pierre Poilievre not denouncing Alex Jones’ endorsement.
Q. Who said this? -- “We’re going to end the woke culture and we’re going to bring back a warrior culture.”
A) Alex Jones
B) Mr. Freedom
C) Adolph Hitler
D) Osama Bin Laden
RFK Jr’s strategy is to defeat Biden and get Trump elected. His New York campaign director just made that clear. https://x.com/cwebbonline/status/1777021184737194221
Here’s the BC Freedom Party’s Kanwaljit Singh out enjoying the spring sunshine with his trusty SKS.
Yes, you wonder. The antivaxx movement is just rolling in money. Where does it all come from? https://x.com/marcdez55/status/1776543169481503017
Makes you wonder too why Take Back Alberta’s David Parker is fighting Elections Alberta’s demand that he disclose his donors list.
Marjorie Taylor Greene – “That earthquake was God’s sign telling us to repent!” https://x.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/1776316264077537651
God – “Yes, that’s why it was at Trump’s golf course.” https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1776320629920219577
B) Pierre Poilievre (in an April 5 interview with Comox Valley Record)
Sunday, April 7
Day #3 of Pierre Poilievre not disavowing that endorsement from Alex Jones.
Thirty years ago today, the Rwandan genocide started, in which 800,000 Tutsi were murdered. And let’s not forget that a Democrat president fought tooth and nail to prevent it being called a genocide and played a decisive role in pushing for the withdrawal of UN peacekeeping troops.
In 1994 it was the French Air Force that imported the thousands of machetes used in that genocide. Now it’s another Democrat president furnishing the bombs being used to carry out this one. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/10/rwanada-genocide-lessons-gaza-israe
Tracking down a fascist. (It’s harder than you think sometimes.) https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/03/27/fugitive-us-militant-ammon-bundy-geolocated-to-utah/
The anti-Orban movement in Hungary is alive and well. Tens of thousands out in the streets of Budapest. https://twitter.com/punkvakond/status/1776599935476961745/photo/1
Shocking news – Ex-Walmart director working hard to get Trump elected. https://x.com/Vancouverismism/status/1776950528041509372
That Axe The Tax demo in Alberta is still ongoing a week after it started.
They’re still doing their typical class act. https://x.com/skyriders1/status/1777053911397826886
The carbon tax only seems to be a pretext... https://twitter.com/belle_levesque/status/1777017577841295819/photo/1
“Fighting For Canada” is Maple-MAGAese for seceding and joining Trump’s USA. https://twitter.com/sisuvanhell/status/1776985377145749649/photo/2
No blockades, though. Might have something to do with the heavy RCMP presence. Learned some lessons from the Ottawa experience, have they? https://x.com/3rdtimewalter/status/1776964871201980679
“A 35-year-old man has been federally charged in the arson that damaged Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Burlington office on Friday..... Several staff members were inside the office and the fire briefly blocked their exit, “endangering their lives,” Burlington police have previously said. Sanders was not at the office at the time of the fire.” https://vtdigger.org/2024/04/07/suspect-arrested-in-arson-at-sen-bernie-sanders-burlington-office/
Monday, April 8
Day #4 of that Alex Jones endorsement being allowed to stand by Pierre Poilievre.
“Unconvinced by thousands of years of scientific inquiry, as well as driven by a general sense of apocalyptic bloodlust, many on the right are trading conspiracy theories about the upcoming eclipse, ranging from the belief that it signals the End Times to the idea that the Biden administration is using it as an opportunity to shut down cellphone service or bring in the National Guard in an effort to make beautiful blond children who play sports transgender....
This latest onslaught of misinformation began, as it often does, with InfoWars host (and PeePee fanclub president) Alex Jones, who has spent the past few weeks ranting on X about the upcoming eclipse. Last week, he posted a clip with the caption: “Major Events Surrounding The April 8th Solar Eclipse[.] Masonic rituals planned worldwide to usher in New World Order.” https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/solar-eclipse-conspiracy-theories-far-right-1234998475/
Lauren Southern is a B.C.-based white supremacist who made her bones in the Mediterranean, working to obstruct rescuers who were trying to save drowning migrants. Now she’s pimping for the LNG industry by attacking Wet’suwet’en activists. She’s put out a feature length film. But where did the money come from?
And why is the film being boosted by Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms lawyer Eva Chipiuk?
Political infighting is funny sometimes. The antivaxx Canadian Society for Science and Ethics in Medicine has been a savage critic of Action4Canada’s extremely dubious financial shenanigans. But when CSSEM held its fundraiser last weekend and drummed up $12,000 to cover their legal bills, the co-organizer was none other than Action4Canada’s North Vancouver chapter leader, Danielle Kinchella-Pistilli. Go figure.
If you hate the World Health Organization, boy does Stand United have a deal for you. No need to write a letter of protest any longer! Just send one they’ve written for you!! If you’re angry, they have one for you. And another if you’re very concerned. And another if you are disturbed. Yet another if you’re deeply troubled. They have letters for you to cover every emotion. No need to think, just download the PDF.
VPD breaks the law. Into little bitty pieces. https://x.com/step_harrison/status/1777491909927469477
Tuesday, April 9
Day #5, and not a peep from PP.
Whenever you hear residential schools being referred to as “a narrative”, you can be pretty sure the narrator actually has their own narrative – denial. https://x.com/DougaldLamont/status/1777093293198971308
Here’s the definitive word on how the “mass grave hoax” narrative was crafted, sometimes by shoddy journalists (talking to you, Terry Glavin). https://theconversation.com/we-fact-checked-residential-school-denialists-and-debunked-their-mass-grave-hoax-theory-213435
And sometimes simply fabricated (that would be you, Lauren Southern).
National Post = gutter press. https://x.com/ZoeDodd/status/1777571518349770951
The BC Freedom Party is now organizing kids (presumably homeschooled) to walk into schoolyards chanting “stop SOGI 123” and waving Canadian flags.
April 9 – Happy Confederate surrender day. 159 years ago today.
Wednesday, April 10
Continuing silence from PP, six days running, but the National Post has weighed in.
“Canada’s political left attempted to link the two public figures as a means of scoring cheap points and cutting into the Conservative leader’s significant lead in the polls.”
Actually, it was Jones who made the link when he endorsed Poilievre, and Poilievre who strengthened the bond when he refused to disavow it.
The Arizona Supreme Court ruled 4-2 to uphold an 1864 law banning abortion in virtually every circumstance which imposes two to five years imprisonment for anyone performing the procedure or helping a woman to obtain one. Arizona’s attorney general promptly announces she will not be enforcing the law. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/arizona-supreme-court-ruling-abortion-ban-rcna146915
Here’s the guy who drafted the 1864 law, William Claude Jones. Antichoice. Confederate. Pedophile. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Claude_Jones
Just before the court’s decision was announced, state senator Anthony Kern held a prayer session on the floor of the Senate, praying in tongues. Kern was one of Trump’s fake electors in Arizona and is currently under investigation by the federal Justice Department. Why are these people always insurrectionists?And Arizona house Republicans followed up by unanimously voting to keep the law in force.
Fox News host Jesse Watters sez “McDonalds workers are crazy overpaid.” https://x.com/RightWingCope/status/1777862012703252683
Watters earns $16 million a year from Fox and has a net worth of over $100 million.
“If at first, you don’t succeed in overthrowing the government, try, try again. That appears to be the thinking behind the carbon tax protests that popped up across the country on April 1, which involved many of the same people who wanted the federal government replaced over its COVID-19 measures in 2022. Alas, the organizers behind this latest iteration of the convoy still haven’t learned how our country and its democracy actually works.” https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/04/10/opinion/carbon-tax-convoy-hasnt-learned-thing
Honky (n.) 1) a reactionary, racist Caucasian; 2) a follower of Dana Metcalfe or Ron Clark, Freedom Advocate. https://twitter.com/sisuvanhell/status/1778056339706507276/photo/1
Thursday, April 11
B.C. to ban demos outside schools. “New legislation will help keep kids safe and focused on their education by preventing disruptive behaviour including aggressive protests, on school grounds.
“While everyone has a right to freedom of expression, disrupting or scaring kids while they’re learning in schools should be, and soon will be, illegal,” said Premier David Eby. https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2024PREM0018-000526
Amrit’s response? “We are coming to save children from indoctrination that you are shoving down their throats! Children need Freedom from You! You are Fired with Cause!”
Quote of the week – "Women are going to punish Trump.
https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1777788051856441599
The Long Read – Meet Chaya Raichik. founder of Libs of TikTok. https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/chaya-raichik
The Short Read – Chaya Raichik’s followers. Raichik targeted Planet Fitness, and 28 bomb threats followed. https://x.com/AriDrennen/status/1777364911393571092
No Space For Hate – A very comprehensive and helpful handbook for keeping Nazis out of your venue. https://www.antihate.ca/bad_actors_don_t_get_stages_an_anti_hate_guide_for_venues
Speaking of which --https://x.com/Vancouverismism/status/1777700799369375846
Coming events
April 13 – Stand United is having a demo against pretty well everything.
Interestingly, there will be an Axe The Tax convoy from Langley to Jack Poole Plaza at the exact same time. Two competing events always suggests serious dissension in the ranks, doesn’t it?
April 21 – Jair Bolsonaro has called on his supporters to converge on Rio de Janeiro. Coup attempt #2? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/08/elon-musk-brazil-x-jair-bolsonaro
July 19 – Diagolon’s cross-country “Rage Tour” slated to hit Vancouver.
