Which Western politician will flee their sinking ship next?
By: Rachel Marsden
The German chancellor and the Canadian finance minister have taken the emergency exits. Will Prime Minister Trudeau follow?
I have a confession to make. I really suck at cooking. I have no idea what
I’m doing in the kitchen. And my best efforts usually end with a trip to the
ready-made meal section of the local grocery store. But that said, I know my
limits. You won’t catch me trying to get a job at in Parisian fine dining, for
example, or even at a local diner.
But the people currently cooking up the Western establishment’s shared agenda?
They’ll just burn down the whole kitchen, and then eject out. Or at least some
of them will do the latter. Not nearly enough of them yet. But it seems to be a
promising new trend in light of their inability to just stay out to begin with.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called for a no-confidence vote against himself on
Monday, officially asking the parliamentarians of the Bundestag whether they
might wish to do him the honor of taking a foot to his arsch. It’s basically a
case of political suicide-by-cop. Scholz wanted them to put his current mandate
out of its misery because he’s totally impotent, politically speaking. Why?
Because the yellow light centrists of his traffic light coalition bailed on him
and he no longer has the majority needed to ram things through parliament.
All this came about because Scholz’s finance minister, Christian Lindner, from
the centrist Free Democratic Party, decided back in November that he wasn’t
interested in a career as a magician attempting to work miracles with Scholz’s
spending priorities. Germany virtue-signaled itself right into economic
devastation following along with EU sanctions to impress their girlfriend
Vladimir Zelensky. Then Scholz told his finance minister to just lift his foot
up off the debt brake a bit so he can go on another €15 billion ($15.7 billion)
spending joyride for Ukraine. And Lindner was like, nope, how about you just
dust off some of those long-range Taurus missiles in the closet and give those
to your girlfriend instead? Yeah, they’re dangerous, but they’re also just
sitting there like an apartment exercise bike with laundry hanging off it, so
it’s a win-win – well, except for that World War III risk.
Scholz didn’t want to do that because it would mean babysitting Kiev so it
didn’t start a third world war against Russia. It would also mean sending German
troops to Ukraine so Zelensky could sit on their lap and pretend to drive the
Tauruses. And it’s never the toddler who gets blamed for those accidents.
So Scholz and Lindner had a falling out over a month ago that ultimately led to
a breakup, with Lindner and his yellow light centrists walking away from
Scholz’s coalition table like a teenaged clique in the school cafeteria.
German lawmakers welcomed the opportunity to kick Scholz in the lederhosen and
out of the Biergarten. One down, one more to go. Because next up (probably) is
Christian Democrat leader Friedrich Merz, currently topping the polls ahead of
an expected February election. He seems keen on giving Washington and Brussels
even more power over German decision-making. Yeah, maybe Washington can advise
Berlin on nail placement for its economic coffin, too? As if that’s really
Germany’s big issue right now – that it wasn’t sycophantic enough under Scholz,
with Merz saying how it was “embarrassing how Scholz acted in the European
Union.” Scholz shrugged off Nord Stream being blown up, putting the German
economy at the mercy of pricy American gas, and Merz doesn’t think Scholz was
enough of a team player?
Scholz apparently just wanted to keep feeding more taxpayer cash into the German
military industrial complex under the pretext of helping Ukraine, but doesn’t
seem too keen on actual war. But Merz isn’t even capable of understanding how
that grift works, apparently. Sounds promising.
Meanwhile, across the pond in Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s finance
minister, Chrystia Freeland, bailed right out of the job, just hours before she
was set to deliver the latest budget statement. That’s always a good sign. Kind
of like calling in sick before a big test that you know you’re about to fail.
The $62 billion deficit that was set to be announced – $22 billion more than
Freeland’s projected target – might have had something to do with it.
She says that she was pushed out first, though, writing in her resignation
letter to Trudeau, “On Friday, you told me you no longer want me to serve as
your Finance Minister and offered me another position in the cabinet.” Freeland
says that she rejected “costly political gimmicks” like sales tax holidays and
onetime cash handouts, presumably, which she herself had spent months
relentlessly promoting. She makes it sound like she was a sudden voice of
reason, and referred to “strenuous efforts this fall to manage our spending in
ways that will give us the flexibility we will need to meet the serious
challenges presented by the United States.”
The first five people to descend at any random transit stop in Canada are about
as qualified as Freeland to manage the country’s finances. Which would explain
why inflation, cost of living, and unemployment have skyrocketed on her watch.
But it’s really just a “vibecession,” she recently suggested. Damn Canadians
just need to shift their mindset and stop pretending that her economy sucks.
Canadians are always the problem for Freeland, particularly when they stand in
the way of whatever agenda this World Economic Forum protégée and trustee is
trying to force feed them. When they pushed back against Covid jab mandates
through the Freedom Convoy trucker movement, she ordered their bank accounts
blocked.
Freeland’s expertise seems to come from the financial journalism that she
did, from Ukraine, where her grandfather once ran a World War II-era Nazi
newspaper. Maybe she could just go be the finance minister there now, since the
Ukrainian Canadian Congress just issued a statement calling her “one of the key
leaders in the G7 and international community in developing the plan to use
frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine, she ensured continued and predictable
support for Ukraine’s defense of the freedom of Europe.”
Ukrainians sounds about as well-off now as a result of Freeland’s efforts as
Europeans are “free,” so she’s clearly done a bang-up job on both fronts. Just
like she has in Canada.
Next up to pop the escape hatch: Trudeau himself. Maybe. He’s reportedly
considering his options. Ziplining into oblivion behind Freeland sounds like a
good one. If all these globalists could please just form an orderly line for a
permanent express checkout, they’d be doing their citizens and the entire
Western world so much more of a service than their presence ever has.
COPYRIGHT 2024 RACHEL MARSDEN