To the Americans:
I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.
And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:
You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.
This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.
Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.
This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.
But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.
This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.
And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:
Thank God for the United States.
Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.
Long may your admirable country dominate the world.
Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.
May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.
Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.
Thank God for the USA.
Happy 250th.
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
Not parody: Meet our new Minister of Misinformation.
She will be the in charge of state surveillance & the punishment of speech.
We are becoming the UK:
The government is the accuser.
The government is the judge.
The government is the executor.
The government decides what speech is allowed.
The Liberals purposely redacted what tools they plan to use.
And there will be no threshold for what triggers legal action.
Nor will there be independent oversight of the accuracy of what THEY call misinformation.
They want to use your tax dollars, so they can sue you.
Using government lawyers, for what you post online.
TWO WEEKS AGO CARNEY PASSED BILL C22, GIVING CABINET SECRET ACCESS TO YOUR DATA.
THIS WEEK JOLY TELLS YOU WHAT THEY PLAN TO DO WITH IT.
We were called conspiracy theorists.
They lied about crime, about attempted arson, about disrespecting the War Memorial, about desecrating the Terry Fox statue, about truckers being rapists, about Russian interference, about foreign funding, about middle class Canadians being right wing terrorists, they lied about invoking the Emergencies Act, and the former Finance Minister/Deputy PM giggled like a school girl when she announced she was freezing bank accounts and canceling insurance without due process, parliamentary oversight, or an order from a judge.
Now you know what happens next if Democrats manage to force ICE agents to unmask:
Their Chinese Communist Party-funded street shock troops will threaten to kill them and their entire families.
Who knows what happens after that.