Chai Tetrapak

Awake since 2015. Do the math.

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Don’t worry.

Not everyone is suffering.

[govt.exe is corrupt @govt_corrupt]

Liberals have been in power for over 10y, spent more than $4 trillion, & expanded the public sector by 40%.

Housing & food prices more than doubled while the economy stagnated.

This isn't a technical recession. It’s an inflationary recession, and the liberals are 100% to blame.

[Chai Tetrapak @FuzzLiteyear]

@Michaelfiore You did the right thing and in doing so gained a significant amount of positive advertising.

Your integrity is welcome and sadly rare.

[Eithan Haim MD @EithanDHaimMD]

Canadian doc meets a 45yo Crohn’s patient one time outside a coffee shop, decides to euthanize him.

One of the reasons - "didn’t have an active social network."

Drives the guy to an industrial funeral prep facility and murders him.

Family wasn’t told, couldn't even say goodbye. Yet, the only consequence is a verbal reprimand and 6 months supervision.

When the State imposes such a high burden of inhuman indignity on its citizens, those citizens have an obligation to repay that imposition with one of their own - the cost can be nothing less than the life of a petty tyrant.

[Chai Tetrapak @FuzzLiteyear]

Where Miss Marmalade poses in the doghouse

[Chai Tetrapak @FuzzLiteyear]

@FP_Champagne You may want to retire that phrase.

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Interest payments on federal debt are now more than we spend on healthcare.

[Chai Tetrapak @FuzzLiteyear]

They're getting worse ...

[Chai Tetrapak @FuzzLiteyear]

Quite a few of these in the sky over Edmonton today

[Chai Tetrapak @FuzzLiteyear]

I just don't remember contrails looking lime this in the 70's and 80's

[Aaron Gunn @AaronGunn]

Wow. This is horrible news for all Canadians.

The federal Liberal government has just announced that debt servicing charges are expected to increase by more than 30% to $80 billion PER YEAR by 2030.

That's $80 billion in taxpayer money (your money) that can’t go toward hospitals, schools or roads - but is instead being wasted on interest payments to Bay Street.

This comes as the government is planning to add another $60 billion to the debt this year, and has no plans to reduce borrowing in the years ahead.

If we keep wasting such an insane amount of money on interest payments, soon there won't be any money left to provide for the important and essential government programs on which we all rely!

[Chai Tetrapak @FuzzLiteyear]

Beyond parody.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

From day one, we’ve been focused on making your life more affordable.

[Yukon Strong 🫎 @YukonStrong]

Canadians under Carney boo the American Anthem
Americans under Trump sing the Canadian anthem

The elbows up crowd can learn from Trump's America

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

“Reducing carbon emissions and fighting climate change matter to me, they matter to Canadians, and they matter to the world.”
~ Justin Trudeau - a fraud.

[Chai Tetrapak @FuzzLiteyear]

Honcho enjoying "spring" in Edmonton

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Prime Minister Carney has doubled the previous Liberal deficit. Outside of COVID, this is the biggest deficit in our history.

Canadians cannot afford Mark Carney's Liberal credit card budgets.

We must stop wasteful spending and bring down these deficits to lower debt, taxes, and inflation.

That's how we will give Canadians an affordable budget so they can live affordable lives.

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Justin Trudeau: The wealthy of the world needs to "step up" and limit their wealth intake.

He charges $100k for speaking.

[John Carter @martianwyrdlord]

16.7 million migrants entering Canada in 18 years is nuts.

[Cards of History @GodPlaysCards]

My father took us to see Starship Troopers when I was 10. Back then, Dutch cinemas left it to parents to decide whether their kids were ready, my father decided we were.

Verhoeven intended it as satire. I didn't get that memo and it changed the course of my life.

Here's how.

For the uninitiated: the film is based on Robert Heinlein's 1959 novel. It's set in a future where humanity is locked in a savage interstellar war against a race of giant alien bugs, and where the only path to citizenship is military service.

I've only finished reading it recently and it is one of the first time in my life that I say, the movie is actually better than the book.

It could be because I saw the movie first, and the child's mind is highly influential, especially at age 10 when you slowly become a teenager.

The heroes were beautiful and brave, (Denise Richards was my first crush). The villains were literal monsters. The society rewarded sacrifice and punished weakness. Everyone knew their role, everyone pulled their weight, and citizenship was something you earned.

You served, you sacrificed, you belonged. It was that simple. As the meme goes, it activated an ancient blood memory.

It looked like exactly the kind of world history had always promised but never delivered. A meritocracy with teeth and honor made into law.

Years later, in high school, someone made a presentation on its dangerous ideologies and why Verhoeven decided to make a satire linking it to the tyrannical regimes of the 20th century.

She got a A+ for the talk. I understood the rational behind it, but instinctively it didn't make sense for me.

Luckily I can give voice to that instinct now. The movie significantly changed my trajectory in life. I wanted to become part of something bigger, get the girl, be all I can be.

Did I fall for its propaganda? Yes, hook line and sinker, and in hindsight, that was a great thing to happened to me.

Sure we can break down why some (but not all) of the political ideologies the books are flawed (yawn), but that is not the point. The point is that the underlying archetypes and societal models can be tremendously inspiring.

Because at 10 years old, I didn't need a political science lecture. I needed a picture of what a man could be. Someone who showed up to the call of duty, who didn't quit, who earned his place instead of inheriting it.

The noble visions of sacrifice and comradery were literally awe inspiring.

So yes, the propaganda worked on me, but what it produced wasn't blind obedience. It produced ambition. A hunger to be worth something. Johnny Rico was the perfect role model. The movie was a perfect key in to the lock of a 10 year old mind.

Not every child gets handed that image. I got mine from a fellow Dutchman (Verhoeven) making fun of fascism.

I can still feel that evening. The cold air outside the cinema, the three of us spilling onto the pavement, me, my younger brother, my older one, heads still full of bugs and battle and beautiful soldiers dying for each other.

Something had shifted. I didn't have the words for it then. I just knew I wanted more of whatever that was.

My father gave us that. I don't think he knew what he was handing us.