Jason Applebaum

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Cute theory, let's play it out.

A monkey hoards a trillion bananas. The troop, enraged, beats him to death. They gather around the pile to feast at last.

But... oh wait, there is no pile.

It turns out the "bananas" were shares in a banana-launching company the dead monkey founded.

The shares were worth a trillion because he was alive to run it.

Now he is dead and the stock is worth $0.

The retarded monkeys have clubbed their way into a recession.

But it gets worse.

Half the "bananas" were tied up in a rocket that supplies bananas to monkeys on the far mountain who had no bananas at all.

Another chunk was tied up in a little satellite dish that beamed banana coordinates to the troop after a flood took out their trees.

So now they realized they beat to death the only monkey who knew how the dish worked.

So the monkeys sit there.

No bananas.
No rockets.
No coordinates to get more banananas.

Just a dead body and a powerful sense of fairness as they all now became infinitely poorer.

OH

And somewhere a smaller monkey watches the whole thing and quietly decides he will never build anything in front of these animals again.

[Scarlett Grace @ScarlettGrace92]

My tax dollars are going towards terrorism and I’m not okay with it.

[Vivian Bercovici @VivianBercovici]

This police officer was murdered by an Islamist terrorist who you choose to pretend is just some random misguided young man. When you say “Globalize the aintifada” @MayorOliviaChow , this is what you endorse.
And this is just the beginning.

This is your doing.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Je vais partir du principe que tu es de bonne foi, parce que ton raisonnement est intuitif et que 90% des gens le partagent. Mais il repose sur trois erreurs factuelles, et ça vaut le coup de les regarder calmement.

Erreur 1 : la fortune d'Elon n'est pas un tas d'argent. C'est de la propriété d'usines, de fusées et de satellites. "Prendre la moitié de sa tune", concrètement, ça veut dire forcer la vente de la moitié de SpaceX et Tesla. L'argent ne sort pas d'un coffre, il sort des entreprises elles-mêmes, qui passent sous contrôle de fonds étrangers ou d'États. Tu ne redistribues pas du cash, tu démantèles un outil de production. C'est la différence entre récolter des pommes et découper le pommier.

Erreur 2 : "ça résout énormément de problèmes dans le monde". Cette expérience a déjà été tentée, en vrai. En 2021, le directeur du Programme Alimentaire Mondial de l'ONU a affirmé que 6 milliards de Musk pouvaient "résoudre la faim dans le monde". Réponse d'Elon : décrivez-moi exactement comment, comptabilité publique à l'appui, et je vends mes actions Tesla immédiatement. Le PAM a publié son plan. Verdict : ce n'était pas "résoudre la faim", c'était nourrir 42 millions de personnes pendant un an. Un an. Puis il faut re-payer, pour toujours. Le PAM avait d'ailleurs levé 8,4 milliards l'année précédente, et la faim était toujours là. Les ONG traitent les symptômes en boucle, jamais les causes, parce que leur financement dépend de l'existence du problème.

Erreur 3, la plus importante : tu cherches ce qui sort vraiment les gens de la pauvreté. Bonne nouvelle, on a la réponse, et elle est massive. En 1990, 36% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Plus d'un milliard de personnes sorties de la misère en 30 ans. Par quoi ? Pas par la charité ni par l'aide internationale (plus de 1 000 milliards versés à l'Afrique en 60 ans pour un résultat à peu près nul). Par l'ouverture des marchés, l'industrialisation, le commerce. La Chine seule a sorti 800 millions de personnes de la pauvreté en abandonnant le collectivisme, pas en taxant ses entrepreneurs.

Donc fais le calcul complet. Option A : tu confisques 500 milliards, tu finances quelques années de programmes, l'argent est consommé, et tu as détruit la machine qui produisait les fusées, les voitures électriques et l'internet des zones rurales. Option B : tu laisses le meilleur allocateur de capital de sa génération réinvestir 100% de sa fortune dans des industries qui baissent les coûts pour tout le monde et emploient des centaines de milliers de personnes. L'option A soulage ta morale pendant 18 mois. L'option B sort des populations entières de la pauvreté pour toujours.

La pauvreté ne se redistribue pas. Elle se résout par la création. C'est contre-intuitif, c'est frustrant, mais c'est ce que disent 200 ans de données.

[dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ @DahliaKurtz]

60,000+ Jews and allies marched in Toronto's Walk with Israel event.

Not one member of Mark Carney's Clouncil to combat Jew-hate took part.

[Tafsik Organization @Tafsikorg]

Hello, Windsor, Ontario.

This is Rasha Zaid, a candidate running for Councillor in Windsor.

Today, she chose to attend the Walk for Israel in Toronto, an event attended by thousands of families, children, and community members.

Her appearance and conduct at the event is totally nuts!!

She displayed extraordinarily poor judgment and a level of political recklessness that should concern every voter.

Public office requires maturity, responsibility, and the ability to bring people together.

Instead, this was a deliberate choice to inject hostility and controversy into a family-oriented public gathering.

Who behaves like this, especially while seeking office?

Voters should seriously ask themselves how she would represent Windsor at City Hall.

Leadership is about serving the public, not provoking division.

Windsor deserves sanity and not whatever the hell this is.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Watch how the peacefully colonized green area is being bullied by the Zionist red dot. The red dot is clearly winning the expansionist land grab.

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

It requires a very advanced level of antisemitism to find a way to blame Jews for the fact that Palestinians rape children.

[Adin - عدین - עדין @AdinHaykin1]

Palestinians are so weird,

An 18-year-old Hamas operative is a child but a 9-year-old girl is old enough for marriage

[Beverley Metler https://calendly.com/beverleym @DazzlingNiagara]

I just sent this letter to the PM, I think it would be helpful if his office recieved millions of these letters!

RE: Deep Disgust with the Appointment of Omar Alghabra to the Anti-Hate Council

Dear Prime Minister,

I am writing to you today to express my profound disgust and utter exhaustion with your government’s recent decision to appoint Omar Alghabra to the newly formed council tasked with combatting hate, specifically within the context of rising antisemitism in Canada.

To say this appointment is tone-deaf is a massive understatement. It is an insult to the intelligence of everyday Canadians who see right through the optics. Mr. Alghabra’s past history, including his leadership tenure with organizations that actively lobbied against the terrorist designation of groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, makes his inclusion on a committee meant to protect the Jewish community a complete farce.

For months, Jewish Canadians have watched their schools and synagogues shot at, their businesses targeted, and their neighborhoods subjected to aggressive, hate-filled demonstrations. They do not need another bloated government committee, another assembly, or another round of empty rhetoric. They need the rule of law enforced. They need to be safe in their own country.

Enough is enough. Your government’s constant strategy of trying to pander to every single interest group at the expense of national security, social cohesion, and basic common sense has broken the public’s trust. Decisions like this make it incredibly difficult for hardworking, law-abiding citizens to feel proud of what Canada is becoming under your leadership.

Stop treating Canadians like we are too blind to notice the hypocrisy. We do not want more committees; we want real, decisive action to stop the hate on our streets and protect our communities.

I look forward to your response—one that addresses these concrete concerns rather than relying on a boilerplate public relations statement.

Sincerely,

[Your Signature] [Your Printed Name] ***

[Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 @ezralevant]

On the right is Firas Al-Najim, a terrorist supporter who regularly pickets outside Jewish synagogues, schools and seniors homes.

He’s an Iranian agent in Canada.

On the left is Omar Alghabra, appointed to Mark Carney’s new combatting antisemitism committee.

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

Pierre Poilievre "I remember Mr. Alghabra lobbying me before he was in politics to keep Hezbollah legal, so I'm not sure that he's the right guy to combat anti Semitism." @PierrePoilievre

[Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 @ezralevant]

Mark Carney appointed a committee to fight antisemitism that includes:
* a Muslim extremist who lobbied to legalize Hamas & Hezbollah and who celebrated a Holocaust denier
* a terrorist supporter who sued the U of Alberta to keep the Hamas encampment open, to humiliate Jews

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

In 2005, Israel gave Palestinians exactly what the world demanded: “Land for Peace.”

They unilaterally withdrew from the entire Gaza Strip, but got no peace.

The IDF forcibly removed every last Jew — even digging up Jewish graves. Gaza was made completely Jew-free, exactly as Palestinians demanded.

Israel handed over thriving communities, farms, and hundreds of millions in infrastructure — including productive greenhouses that could have become an economic engine for a Palestinian state.

What did the Palestinians do with this gift?

They destroyed it.

Mobs looted and burned the greenhouses. They ransacked and demolished synagogues. They celebrated with Hamas flags and gunfire.

Then, in January 2006, they voted Hamas — a genocidal terrorist organization whose charter calls for the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews — into power.

By 2007, Hamas completed a bloody coup, threw Fatah members off rooftops, and seized total control of Gaza.

The result?

- Tens of thousands of rockets fired at Israeli civilians

- More than 500 miles of underground terror tunnels

- Billions in international aid stolen for war, not welfare

- Gaza transformed into a fortified Islamic terror enclave

Land for peace was tried — and violently rejected.

Everything Israel gave away in 2005 became the launchpad for the October 7 Massacre.

This is the ultimate proof: the Palestinian movement has never wanted a state living next to Israel. Its goal has always been the destruction of the Jewish state — in any part of the Land.

Important note: The blockade only came after Hamas seized power in 2007 and turned Gaza into a launchpad for war. And when that happened, Egypt joined it too.

Disengagement didn’t bring peace.
It brought the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

[L C Eff @TheReturnOfLCF]

Police: We're going to have cameras to look inside your car to check you aren't using a mobile phone fuck your privacy nothing to hide nothing to fear

Public: It seems you were laughing and let a young man die. We would like the footage

Police: That would be inappropriate

[Danielle Lieberman @delieberman]

Bullshit @MayorOliviaChow. You didn’t mention Esti while she was missing. We see you and know who you are. You truly hate the Jews. We will never forget that.

[dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ @DahliaKurtz]

My water bottle at Toronto Airport? Interrogated. ❌

But a mob of keffiyehs having a meltdown for a terror movement marching around Terminal 1? Escorted.✅

[Zineb Riboua @zriboua]

The Arab Word is Watching a Different War:

Three reasons why it has been difficult to understand the Arab position:

The first is the Arab relationship with Iran. From the vantage point of Brussels or London, Iran presents itself as a resistance movement with a grievance against American hegemony and Israeli occupation, and this presentation maps comfortably onto familiar Western anticolonial frameworks.
What it does not map onto is the lived experience of Arab populations in Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, and across the Gulf. In those countries, Iran's presence meant Hezbollah holding the Lebanese state hostage to Tehran's decisions, thirty-five armed factions in Iraq drawing salaries from Iranian funds channeled through the Iraqi national treasury, and Houthi commanders answering to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps while firing on Arab civilians from Yemeni soil. Freedom is not the word any serious Arab observer would use for what Iran brought.
Indeed, the Arab world's quarrel with Iran runs far deeper than American bases or Israeli airstrikes. What drives it is the systematic subversion of Arab sovereignty by a foreign power that uses the language of Islamic solidarity as cover for an imperial project conducted through proxies.
The second dimension is the proxy question itself, where Western analysis fails most comprehensively. Iran goes far beyond supporting armed groups. Parallel state structures get built inside Arab countries, financial systems get captured, and political figures get installed who owe their existence and survival entirely to Tehran.
The Iranians who have administered this project understand it as the export of a revolution, but what Arab populations have experienced is closer to a colonial occupation conducted through intermediaries, and as of now, they’re not mourning the Islamic Republic.
When Westerners treat these proxy networks as instruments of legitimate resistance rather than as mechanisms of subjugation, they endorse an imperial project while believing themselves to be opposing one, and as a matter of fact, make themselves the legitimizing force behind Iran’s war against the Arab world.
The third dimension is the most counterintuitive for a Western audience, and it is the one most consequential for how the current war is understood and misunderstood. For Arab nationalists, including secular nationalists and even those with deep reservations about Israeli policy, Iran represents a greater and more immediate threat than Israel does.
This is a position that Western media are structurally ill-equipped to render intelligible, because Western discourse on the Middle East has been organized for decades around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the primary axis of regional injustice.
The result is that when Western governments and Western publics take strong positions against Israel’s actions against Iran’s operations, they believe themselves to be standing with the Arab world. In reality, they are advancing a position that the Arab world does not share and has not asked for, while ignoring the threat that Arab governments and Arab populations actually live with.
The rhetorical use of Israel as a perpetual alibi for Iranian aggression has been one of the Islamic Republic’s most durable tools, and Western opinion has served as the unwitting amplifier of that tool across the entire duration of the Islamic Republic’s existence.

https://t.co/32dwric9G6

[Dan Mazier @DanMazierMP]

JAW-DROPPING

Liberal Immigration Minister Lena Diab says taxpayer-funded physiotherapy, counselling, and home care for REJECTED asylum claimants are “essential services.”

If they are essential, why don’t Canadian taxpayers get these luxury health benefits?

[Rich Toronto @rich_toronto]

Not a SINGLE post while she was missing.

You are by far the worse mayor this city has ever had.

And one of our previous mayors smoked crack.