Mitchel Claypool

Retired Canadian Armed Forces Combat Engineer and EOD operator - Business Owner

[Pascal Anglehart @DemosKratosCA]

Friendly reminder to all Canadian owners of Eryx missile launcher systems that you are running out of time to register under the Assault-Style Firearm Buyback Program.

The government will give you $2,700 for your US$75,000 weapon system that most NATO countries can't even afford.

Truly inspiring.
https://t.co/20TE9GBmgH

[Lee Humphrey @tleehumphrey]

There’s still a lot of CDN’s who just don’t believe that the gov could be this stupid but seriously how after 11 years of doing stupid shit can you have any doubts when it comes to the @liberal_party gov doing stupid self harming shit.

Go against the RCAF recommendations, no problem, go against the Fighter Jet replacement competition board which was composed of experts from Indy Canada, Procurement Canada & DND who unanimously recommended the F35, go against the Trudeau gov appointed team of bureaucrats who negotiated with Lockheed Martin for almost an additional year & then signed a contract to purchase 88 F35A’s.

Ignore the additional costs & strains on the RCAF associated with operating 2 types of fighters, after 44 years of only operating 1 type.

Ignore the costs associated with not fulfilling the contract with LM, ignore the loss of the industrial benefits that have generated more than $3 billion in revenue for hundreds of CDN companies for the promise of potential benefits despite the history of Saabs failure to deliver on the thousands of jobs promised to Brazilians.

Ignore the potential trade ramifications by ditching a contract with a US company during the CUSMA negotiations with an admin who makes no secret of their willingness to punish countries economically.

This makes absolutely no strategic, tactical or industrial sense but it makes perfect political sense.

During election campaign 1993, Chrétien promised to cancel the EH101 helicopter contract. He said the EH101 was a Cadillac but the CAF only needed a Chevy. He won, he cancelled the contract & paid $1 billion dollars in compensation, wasted another $500 million that the CAF had already spent preparing for the delivery of the EH101 helicopters, lost the industrial benefits (BC was where the manufacturer would establish its global engine repair facility that would service & rebuild the global fleet’s engines) & forced RCAF pilots & aircrew to operate already long in the tooth & dangerous Sea King for another decade +

In the end few CDN’s noticed that a stripped down version of the EH101 was eventually selected to replace half the helicopter fleet at a higher cost, with less capability & no industrial benefits.

20 years later the RCAF is now operating 2 helicopters & neither is as capable as the original EH101 & is now looking for 1 helicopter to replace these 2, but Chretien won 3 majority gov’s so who cares right?

In this case the F35 purchase has turned into an anti-Trump stance & that is politically popular. Ignore all those those other sole source contacts with US arms manufacturers that are equally reliant on US manufacturing, access to software updates & access to US military satellites to operate effectively & that add up to almost the same amount of money as the F35 purchase.

We’ve seen this dumb assed show before & it’s why the CAF despite tons of money being poured into it still struggles greatly to fulfill its missions & to be seen as a serious combat capable ally within NORAD & NATO.

Every purchase, every decision isn’t focused on how to make the CAF more lethal or combat effective, it’s how will it play politically & that’s just wrong!

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

WOW! CTV give full Poilievre rebuttal video uncut, unedited. Kudos. Watch

"...no one has any idea of Mr. Carney's plan to save the over 2 million Canadian jobs that rely on trade with the U.S. these workers cannot eat speeches or videos or announcements."

There was no cheerleading Conservative pundit like CTV did after Carney's with Scott Reid
@PierrePoilievre

[TheGunBlog.ca @TheGunBlog]

ANTI-GUN REGIME COLLAPSE

Before
- Many gun users said: "Canada has pretty good gun laws." (False, but that's what they'd say.)
- Others disliked the anti-gun regime, but complied.

Today
- Open hostility
- Mass non-compliance

Why
- Liberal+RCMP anti-gun extremists went too far.

[Calibre @Calibremag]

Best.

Thumbnail.

Ever.

[Satire Squad HQ @SatireSquadHQ]

Many Canadian Voters ask:

“How can anyone vote for a Government that keeps destroying the country?”

“What world are they living in?”

Well….

Millions of public sector employees sit inside guaranteed, inflation indexed, taxpayer backed pension systems averaging roughly $600,000+ per member.

Private sector Canadians? Around $120,000 in retirement savings. Market risk. No guarantees.

What happens when the safest way to become wealthy is to work for the government?

What happens when millions of voters depend on state-guaranteed income, inflation-indexed pensions, and political decisions that protect those benefits?

History has an answer.

When the state becomes the largest employer, the largest asset manager, and the guarantor of elite retirement wealth, you don’t have free market capitalism anymore.

You have a political class.

And political classes protect themselves.

That is how countries slide toward soft authoritarianism.

Not with soldiers in the streets.
With incentives.

When a protected government class votes to expand government power because their wealth depends on it, the system stops serving citizens and starts serving itself.

That is not capitalism.
That is not healthy democracy.

That is how state-centric systems evolve.

And once that structure is entrenched, it does not shrink peacefully.

The real question is not whether Canada is communist.

The real question is this:

At what point does a democracy become a self-preserving state machine?

[Mitchel Claypool @Mitchelclaypool]

I was struggling with sleep and I bought a whoop strap a couple years ago and every time I had a single drink my recovery based on my heart rate variability would crash I basically stopped drinking because I could visually see the damage it was causing and ruining what little time I had off. Now I might drink once every 3-6 months

[Mitchel Claypool @Mitchelclaypool]

Might as well just keep our ancient f-18 for an another 50 years, buying old tech is suicidal which the gripens are. We might not like trumps tone but we really won’t like it when our entire Airforce is eliminated in the first 24 hours of a major conflict because they don’t have stealth tech.

[Mitchel Claypool @Mitchelclaypool]

@ClintonDesveaux Until they are all shot down by gen 5/6 fighters

[Calibre @Calibremag]

"Let's replace our fighter jets from the 80s with fighter jets from the 90s because we don't like the US president who has three years left in his term."

- Utter morons

[Mitchel Claypool @Mitchelclaypool]

@TerryGlavin Every one of them would be shot down in the first 10 minutes of a real war

[Mitchel Claypool @Mitchelclaypool]

@kinsellawarren @grok what is the average approval / disapproval of canadian conservative leaders for past 40 years?

[Mitchel Claypool @Mitchelclaypool]

@KatKanada_TM I basically will have a drink once or twice a year at this point I just asked myself do I want to pay money to feel sick tomorrow and wreck my day and the answer is always no

[Mitchel Claypool @Mitchelclaypool]

@govt_corrupt That’s what the liberals want the conservatives in a perpetual leadership race…

[Mitchel Claypool @Mitchelclaypool]

@HoCStaffer @TheBabylonBee

[Mitchel Claypool @Mitchelclaypool]

@brianlilley It is if you want a complete communist police state

[Mitchel Claypool @Mitchelclaypool]

@Martyupnorth_2 Never read the comments haha

[Jasmin Laine @JasminLaine_]

Ever notice how the media throws around “hard-right” and “far-right” every time they disagree… but search “far-left” and it’s crickets?

Meanwhile, we’ve got:

• UNDRIP overriding property rights
• Central-planned economy
• C-11/C-18/Online Harms censorship
• Parental rights undermined in schools
• MAID for mental illness + poverty
• Border amnesty + mass asylum
• DEI institutional takeover
• Unelected bureaucracy expanding
• Dissent labelled “extremist”
• Net-zero social engineering

If that isn’t far-left, what is?
Time to start calling it what it is.
Let’s make this go viral.

[Mitchel Claypool @Mitchelclaypool]

I’m a veteran, I lost 5 friends overseas if they told me I couldn’t wear a poppy at work I would tell my boss to kick rocks and If they fired me for it I would live with the consequences of it. The poppy is the one canadian symbol even the bloc agree on wearing. Every aspect of society is impacted when a war happens. I’m disappointed in Canada and my fallen friends would be too.

[Mitchel Claypool @Mitchelclaypool]

@cosminDZS 💯 so many of these people