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Trying to make sense of things. No DMs please.

[haliday @michaelhaliday]

@AlexEpstein Our victorious enemies will tell the cautionary tale of how our sclerotic empire was undone by stupidity, hubris and a bizarre religious obsession that caused us to sacrifice ourselves to avoid an imaginary apocalypse.

[haliday @michaelhaliday]

@SamoBurja Similarly, you can have no idea how much people matter to you until they are gone.

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

I'd say most Canadians are not aware that ...

A. The government forcibly rations healthcare and LIMITS the number of doctors being trained.
B. We are the ONLY Western country to do this. France, Australia the UK; all of them have a private system coexisting with a public system.

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

Stop limiting the amount of doctors that medical schools can train. And step one of that is ending the Canadian health care monopsony, a system that exists literally nowhere else outside of Cuba or North Korea.

[Gray Connolly @GrayConnolly]

Across the Anglosphere: all that political establishments had to do was limit immigration, control borders & ensure the next generation had at least the same opportunities to own housing & advance as their parents. That was too hard, apparently. Well enjoy what comes next

[Andrew Scheidl 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @AndrewScheidl]

Again, it's never a good idea to allow your country to appear as an under-governed space that projects threats into the United States.

[haliday @michaelhaliday]

@GreensAU2 You’re describing Canada under the Liberals.

[haliday @michaelhaliday]

@TristinHopper 💯

[haliday @michaelhaliday]

@TheNotoriousMMA 🙏🏻

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️Elite universities have become legitimacy factories for a ruling class that no longer recognizes itself as ideological.

That is the deepest point.

The professors are not merely “left wing.”

They occupy the upstream layer that defines which beliefs count as informed, humane, serious, safe, modern, expert, and employable.

Once one ideological bloc dominates that layer, it does not need to win every public argument. It can shape the language, credentials, hiring filters, professional norms, and moral assumptions through which the argument is processed.

That is far more powerful than ordinary partisan politics.

A political party governs for a term.

A credentialing system governs the categories of thought.

The machine works through selection. Similar people hire similar people. Graduate students learn the boundaries. Dissenters self-censor, leave, or stop applying. Research questions drift toward approved premises. Peer review rewards familiar assumptions. Administrators institutionalize the moral vocabulary. After enough cycles, the population becomes so homogeneous that ideology is experienced internally as neutral competence.

That is the moment capture becomes invisible to the captured.

They stop thinking, “our institution has a political orientation.”

They start thinking, “educated people understand reality this way.”

That sentence is the lock.

Once the lock is in place, disagreement becomes evidence of ignorance, malice, backwardness, or psychological defect. The dissenter no longer presents a competing model. The dissenter becomes a problem to be classified.

That destroys correction.

Every institution needs internal enemies, rival frameworks, and people willing to say the sacred premise is wrong. Without that friction, intelligence turns inward and starts defending status. Consensus thickens. Language becomes ritualized. Failed ideas survive because too many careers depend on them. Reality keeps sending contradiction, and the institution converts contradiction into moral explanation.

That is how elite stupidity forms.

The downstream effect is enormous because universities do not stay on campus. They produce journalists, lawyers, judges, civil servants, policy staff, nonprofit executives, tech leaders, HR departments, teachers, doctors, consultants, and cultural gatekeepers. The worldview travels inside people, then hardens into systems.

A hiring rubric.

A moderation policy.

A newsroom frame.

A legal theory.

A corporate training.

A grant condition.

A curriculum.

A risk score.

A professional code.

Ideology becomes infrastructure.

The strongest hidden consequence is that the university monoculture helped create a regime where the public increasingly distrusts expertise itself.

Once expertise becomes visibly fused with one political class, every expert claim inherits the suspicion attached to that class.

Genuine science, real competence, and serious scholarship all get contaminated by association.

[Vesper @vesperdigital]

Canada is getting poorer per person for the first time since the Great Depression, and the Liberals doing it are trying to borrow their way out of the mess they made.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆'𝘀 𝟭𝟭 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱:

🔴 11 straight years without a balanced federal budget. Not one!
(Finance Canada)

🔴 The 2025-26 deficit: $67 billion. The biggest deficit in dollar terms Canada has ever run outside COVID.
(Spring Economic Update 2026)

🔴 Interest on the debt cost $55.6 billion this fiscal year, more than the $54.7 billion Ottawa sent the provinces for health care. We paid bondholders more than we paid for hospitals.
(Finance Canada, FY 2025-26)

🔴 Every child born in Canada today inherits over $33,000 in federal debt before their first breath.
(PBO)

🔴 GDP per person fell 2% from 2020 to 2024, the deepest five-year drop since the Great Depression. The headline economy "grew" only because population growth papered over the shrinking.
(Statistics Canada)

🔴 Federal debt per Canadian is heading from $32,138 today to $38,943 by 2031, on the government's own projections.
(PBO, June 2026)

🔴 The federal debt-to-GDP ratio keeps rising until the early 2030s. Their own plan says so.
(Spring Economic Update 2026)

🔴 The Parliamentary Budget Officer puts the odds of the government keeping its own promise of a declining deficit every year at less than 1%.
(PBO, June 2026)

🔴 Households owe $1.77 for every dollar of take-home pay. Highest household debt in the G7. $3.2 trillion total.
(Statistics Canada, Q4 2025)

🔴 A national survey found 43% of Canadians within $200 a month of not covering their bills.
(MNP Consumer Debt Index)

🔴 Insolvencies are at their highest level since 2009. (Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy)

🔴 Roughly 1.15 million families renew their mortgages this year at payment jumps of 15 to 20%.
(CMHC, Bank of Canada)

🔴 Grocery bills are up around 30% in four years. Wages grew 2% last year while food inflation ran 4.1%. (Statistics Canada)

🔴 Shelter now eats more than half of median household income in major cities.
(Statistics Canada, OECD)

🔴 Canada's banking regulator named mortgage risk the number one threat to the financial system and expects defaults to rise for the next two years.
(OSFI Annual Risk Outlook 2026)

🔴 Households, corporations and government owe 377% of GDP combined. We are the fourth most indebted country in the OECD.
(OECD)

🔴 An $11.7 billion rebranded GST credit, borrowed money to cover the cost of living their own economic record created.
(Finance Canada, January 2026)

𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝘀?

Elbows up Liberals, you're literally guaranteeing your kids are going to be poor. Great job!

Vesper

[haliday @michaelhaliday]

@JamesBlunt 😂 Brilliant!!

[haliday @michaelhaliday]

@KingBobIIV 🙏🏻

[haliday @michaelhaliday]

@Martyupnorth That is beyond creepy.

[haliday @michaelhaliday]

@boriquagato The people who make and enforce the rules taxing capital gains all have salaries and pensions indexed to inflation.

[Keith Wilson @ikwilson]

Annually, Alberta moves $30B of oil west through B.C.

B.C. moves $55B of B.C.’s goods east through Alberta.

If Ottawa accepts the idea that B.C. should be paid for Alberta’s access to tidewater, it creates the obvious precedent: Alberta can charge for B.C.’s access to eastern markets.

https://t.co/KkXP6lQmhl

[haliday @michaelhaliday]

@russellcrowe My son turns 20 in two days. A blessing beyond measure.🙏🏻

[haliday @michaelhaliday]

@japan_nobunaga 🙏🏻

[haliday @michaelhaliday]

@Cernovich 🙏🏻

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

Spot-on thread by @andrewmichta

Europe: 9% of world population, 63% of global welfare spending. Gutted its own defense to the point Russia is now an existential threat. Smug Euro-elites lecture America on “democracy” and “racism” while free-riding on the U.S. security umbrella that delivered 80 years of peace and made their welfare states possible in the first place

Now Carney is accelerating Canada’s “European tilt” — calling us “the most European of non-European countries,” joining EU defense procurement, and folding us deeper into the European model

All of it already applies here: generous welfare state, chronically underfunded military, elite smug superiority (often aimed at the U.S.), and ultimate protection by the United States

We should be learning from Europe’s mistakes — not racing to copy them 👇

[Elliot Daigneault @hrh_elliot]

Canada in 2026:

🇨🇭Swiss prices
🇲🇽Mexican salaries
🇸🇪Scandinavian taxes
🇭🇹Haitian services
🇷🇺Soviet infrastructures

🇫🇷French Arrogance