Ruminations on Justin Trudeau
Our Founders set up our republic in a certain way because they were students of history, and also because they were extremely thoughtful and smart. They had studied the history of governmental rise and decline and fall, tried to learn the lessons it conveyed, and were going to make a valiant effort to create something different and better. They anticipated as many pitfalls as they could, although they also realized that such problems could not all be avoided over time. The Founders understood that this republic might not last forever, but they wanted to build in all the safeguards they could think of in order to help it last as long as possible and protect liberty as much as possible while avoiding anarchy.
The majority of them therefore wished to limit the power of government and of the federal government in particular. That wasn’t just because they were curmudgeons who didn’t want government to do all sorts of wonderful things for people. It was because they knew that such power inevitably would be abused and liberty would die. Power is simply too tempting.
Which brings us to Justin Trudeau. He has yielded to such temptation, and although he’s certainly not the only one, he’s especially visible right now in a way that Canadian prime ministers usually aren’t.
Does Trudeau not realize that history tells us that thwarting a huge populist movement and insulting its participants might not be a good move? But what does Trudeau know about history, anyway?
That’s a real question, not a rhetorical one.
I realize, of course, that Trudeau is a leftist, and as such he may believe that he’s exempt from the lessons and errors of the past even if he knows about them. But I wonder if he does know them. For example, did Trudeau ever study history in any depth? Looking at his Wiki profile, I see no evidence of any such study, except for whatever might have been required in grade school and college. His college major was literature and then he got another degree in education. He went on to teach math and French, and later to study engineering and environmental geography without getting degrees. He entered politics instead.
Of course, one needn’t study history formally to be interested in it and read a great deal about it. But I see no indication of that, although I can’t say I’m expert on what Trudeau does in his spare time.
But perhaps even more importantly, Justin Trudeau had a most usual upbringing, having been born when his father, Pierre Trudeau, was the prime minister of Canada. Until shortly before his eighth birthday, he resided in the prime minister’s official residence with his father (his parents divorced when he was five). Less than a year after his father’s brief time out of office, his father was re-elected and they moved back into that residence for another four years.
It would not have been surprising if Justin Trudeau had considered the prime minister’s residence his childhood home, and even that it was his birthright to live in it once again. After all – and this is a very odd detail indeed:
On April 14, 1972 [when Justin was only about 10 months old], Trudeau’s father and mother hosted a gala at the National Arts Centre, at which visiting U.S. president Richard Nixon said, “I’d like to toast the future prime minister of Canada, to Justin Pierre Trudeau” to which Pierre Elliott Trudeau responded that should his son ever assume the role, he hoped he would have “the grace and skill of the president”. Earlier that same day U.S. first lady Pat Nixon had come to see him in his nursery to deliver a gift, a stuffed toy Snoopy. Nixon’s White House audio tapes later revealed Nixon referred to that visit as “wasting three days up there. That trip we needed like a hole in the head.”
I realize that Justin was way too young at the time to have known what Nixon said about him. But he probably heard the story later on, plus many more in the same vein. So did he consider himself the heir apparent? The prince ascending to the throne?
[NOTE: In related news, the Ontario government tries to stop the truckers’ GoFundMe replacement, GiveSendGo, from helping the truckers:
BREAKING: The Ontario government says it has effectively frozen all donations made to the trucker convoy through GiveSendGo. It is now a criminal offence to have any "dealing" with money from donations through this platform. pic.twitter.com/EhWWqe1V6J
— Andrew Lawton (@AndrewLawton) February 10, 2022
However, GiveSendGo – which is an American company – reminds them that America is not a colony of Canada.]
“America is not a colony of Canada” — Biden is sure to remedy that oversight.
When I think about Justin Trudeau I recall all the inept off springs of political dynasty’s – the Kennedys, Rockefellers, Bushs, Daleys, Cuomos – and going back to Old Europe the Stuarts, Bourbons etc.
He is similar in many ways to Newsom, and they are close in age and equally incompetent. Both are handsome and telegenic, completely vacuous without being unintelligent, utterly incapable of any utterance at odds with conventional left-of-center boilerplate, and seemingly having no concern whatsoever with actually improving the lives of those unfortunate citizens under their leadership. The only interesting thing which might be said of Trudeau, who perfectly exemplifies the “kakistocracy” afflicting North America as well as Europe, is that he is perhaps Fidel’s illegitimate son, although the rumor is very unlikely to be true.
I agree with j e above. What I have seen in a few Parliament debates I have watched is a very shallow person speaking in cliches. This reminds me of the Kennedy story in which they named Caroline’s pony “Macaroni” in the mistaken idea that the nursery rhyme referred to a pony or horse. In fact, it was a slang term for foppish dressed young men in 18th century London.
Ted Sorenson wrote Jack Kennedy’s famous book and Kennedy was shipped off to the South Pacific to get him away from a female German agent he was sleeping with.
Trudeau is like thousands of other poorly educated “elites” here and in Europe. I have done some reading about life in England in the 19th century. Oxford was distinguished for rich idlers. To find a doctor or engineer, you had to go to Scotland, then in the midst of the “Scottish Enlightenment.”
A Harvard education, even the law school, is not what it was 50 years ago.
But did Richard Nixon predict Justin would be the first Canadian Dictator?
More on why a Harvard education is not what it was 50 years ago.
A quintessential soy boy.
I know this is a serious blog, but a little gross levity now about Castreu (as we call him). Seems to be a well known “secret” he was Fidel’s son. Super well-known in the Cuban community that Pierre and Margaret were in Cuba in April 1971. Justin born in December. Dad would be proud of him. There have been attempts to debunk this gossip, but they have been GIGO.
https://medium.com/@leibowitt/of-course-fidel-castro-is-justin-trudeaus-dad-nobody-has-debunked-anything-4db6fc8a9042
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8wa3I4UAHrw/maxresdefault.jpg
Nothing like Pierre: https://miro.medium.com/max/700/1*4b0twzdaMZHQL1fpHwLlcA.jpeg
Somebody should tell these clowns that their writ doesn’t run here.
Frankly, although I often comment on the amusing sight of libtards being hoisted on petards of their own devising, or the prospect of their being immolated in conflagrations of their own igniting, it’s not as if I ever actually feel any anger; just a kind of amusement or anticipatory satisfaction. There, it is as if you are watching a reductio argument and its consequences played out in real life.
This is one of the few times – with some Canadian collectivist pretending authority over Americans – that I actually feel a bit of what my ancestors in the Revolution, or the War of 1812 must have felt when some officious twerp in red wool and a powdered wig started issuing proclamations. This is not a fight you fear you must undertake, but one you cannot wait to get into … physically, with full pummeling force, and no mercy.
It’s stupefying actually. Reminds me a bit of a little kid I met in class in grammar school as a child in 4th grade. His name was Ian. He somehow landed there straight from England. He actually sat next to me in class, to my left. And apart from a vague memory that my mother was kind to him on a class trip, what I mostly remember is what he wore, and one event. What he wore to school – at least initially – was short pants, heavy socks, and big, brown, lace up shoes. The other thing I remember is his trying to arrest me and take me to the notice of “teacher” because I was engaged in some prohibited schoolyard roughhousing and refused to turn myself in. I was so shocked by him tugging at my sleeve and saying “come along”, I was not even mad. I just sent him on his way.
That, was back then.
Again, Liberal Party sachems, Liberal Party members, and a critical mass of the Canadian electorate accepted this man. That he was and is inadequate is perfectly plain. They’re satisfied with inadequacy.
The Navy wanted to feed JFK to the otters for losing the 109, but Joe called on FDR, and somehow got the court martial turned into a Navy and Marine Corps Medal.
@Super well-known in the Cuban community that Pierre and Margaret were in Cuba in April 1971.
Then the newspapers published at the time have their itinerary and Fidel Castro’s badly wrong. Definitely could see how Justin might not be Pierre’s son but honestly can’t see how he could be Castro’s without teleportation or a time machine.
Curious what secret evidence there could be; nothing in the links are contemporaneous evidence. Ottawa Journal in April 1971 had them in Barbados, Trinidad, and Tobago, St Vincent and other places literally a thousand miles away, where they met people publicly. Castro gave speeches in Cuba in April, again publicly. Hard to see how to close a thousand mile gap, and they would have had to be planning it for weeks at minimum.
If Castro left Cuba to join the Trudeaus, how did he get there and who saw him there? If the Trudeaus made a thousand mile detour, what plane and who flew it and how long were they there? Surely that plane was followed on radar by our military if no one else’s.
At the moment, the weight of contemporaneous evidence is that Castro and Trudeau never came within a thousand miles of each other when Justin Trudeau was conceived. If new contemporaneous evidence comes to light which contradicts it: they can say what plane it was and when it landed in Havana, and how on earth they were able to arrange a tryst for however long they were laid over, something like that, then I’d change my mind on this.
One of the few good things about a parliamentary system is that if enough MPs have the guts, they can get rid of an idiot Prime Minister.
Mike K.,
I’m no fan of the Kennedy family, especially the patriarch, Joseph. However, John was well read, especially in history. Actually, the family knock against him was that he was weak and bookish, due to the long periods of time he was bedridden in his youth from illness.
I make no claim to knowing the authorship of “Profiles in Courage,” but I have no doubt John would have known the history it contains.
Also, the younger Joe was certainly no foppish coward.
@Frederick-read the article, it is interesting to speculate. I don’t have any genetic evidence, just gossip. Certainly the Canadian government has denied it. Lol, they got in the fray to squelch this rumor-funny! But to paraphrase Groucho Marx, my lyin’ eyes sure tell me there is a strong resemblance between him and El Comandante…Pierre, not so much.
This video of the Mayor of Boston’s livestream where she deigns to answer the concerns of the unwashed whom she leads is wonderful!
They are all Nicolae Ceau?escu.
https://twitter.com/ElectionWiz/status/1492144808529473543
@Tina:-read the article, it is interesting to speculate.
I did, but from what’s cited there, it seems much more likely that the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago had more opportunity to sire Justin Trudeau than Fidel Castro had. Of all the billions on Earth at the time, millions had more opportunity than Castro.
Rufus T: agree. Neither John nor Joe Jr. lacked courage.
A scorcher of a video from a Canadian military officer, in uniform. A direct front and center reaction to the subject of this posting.
From an occasional commenter on this blog, and a true American, Gerard Van der Leun:
https://americandigest.org/honor/
Gerald states, “This is this gentleman’s point of view and in no way breaks any of YouTube’s guidelines. If this video is removed it is a clear indication of dictatorship.”
actually he called james forrestal, who shared some of joe kennedy’s sentiments and he carried out the transfer,
yes as lloyd billingsley pointed out his leftist pedigree is from both sides of the family
Neo says, “Does Trudeau not realize that history tells us that thwarting a huge populist movement and insulting its participants might not be a good move?”
The Prime Sinister, as Small Dead Animals calls him, is doubling down: Money quote: “If you join the protest because you’re tired of COVID, you now need to understand you’re breaking the law.” Minute-long excerpt from Justin’s harangue here: https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/02/11/the-prime-sinister/
The entire speech (about 40 minutes long) can be found on the lapdog Canadian media YouTube channels: Global News, CTV News, CPAC– and Reuters.
I make no claim to knowing the authorship of “Profiles in Courage,” but I have no doubt John would have known the history it contains.
It has been known for 40 years or more that it was compiled by Kennedy’s Senate staff. Kennedy had a meeting in 1955 with a suspicious journalist and persuaded him through his general familiarity with the details in the book that he’d written it, which he hadn’t.
Why England Slept? was an adaptation of Kennedy’s senior thesis at Harvard. Kennedy had written a jumbled mess of material not fit for submission, so papa hires Arthur Krock to make it presentable. Krock then adapts it so it can be published as a trade book. Agents of papa hoover up copies for sale at retail establishments The Times monitors, which puts it on the bestseller list.
JFK had a certain amount of physical courage, a remarkable verbal fluency and style, and a genuine patriotism. (He also had an uncanny ability to spot the attractive woman in a room willing to take her clothes off for a married stranger). He was, in general a man of bad character. The one good man in that nexus was Sergeant Shriver.
The Prime Sinister, as Small Dead Animals calls him, is doubling down
It would be agreeable at this point if a critical mass of his caucus told him “we’re done, tootsie; back down or we’re crossing the floor”. The Tories and about 1/4 of the other caucuses would be sufficient to send him packing.
No disrespect to the ‘gentler sex,’ but the only reason this living, breathing, drooling moron was elected was because he is “cute.” It’s just sad, really…
“…the Kennedy story in which they named Caroline’s pony “Macaroni” in the mistaken idea that the nursery rhyme referred to a pony or horse”
That’s a funny story. Yankee Doodle still amuses me with the absurd-sounding “He stuck a feather in his hat/And called it macaroni”
Without cheese?!
32.62% of Canadian’s voted for Trudeau in the 2021 election.
Reportedly, Trudeau was one of the first two graduates of the Global Economic Forum’s young new leaders program. The same group of global elite involved in the “Great Reset”.
All guilty of crimes against humanity.
I strongly recommend clicking on Roll-aid’s link above to a very impressive speech.
Wesson –
Yankee Doodle should sound funny. It was originally sung by the British to mock the American colonist rubes.
“Macaroni” was the word for an Englishman who went overboard on Italian fashions. Yankee Doodle is a bumpkin and thinks you can get the macaroni look by putting a feather in his hat. If the song were composed today you could maybe put “Versace” instead “Macaroni” (though it wouldn’t scan so well).
The idea is you have someone so low-class he is trying and failing to ape something he thinks is high-class but is actually ridiculous. I’m sure you could easily think of parallels today.
Yeah, The Brits thought Yankee Doodle was funny. Then the colonists got hold of it. “Here, laugh at this.”
A Canadian trucker interviewed on the Laura Ingraham show said, “We’re representing the people. A job Trudeau and our politicians refuse to do.” Just so.
Methinks there will be some changes in the next elections. The people of Canada are not amused.
The same is true here.
J.J.,
Why wait for an election? Can’t the Canadian Parliament hold a no confidence vote and dissolve the incumbent government?
junior, Frederick and Richard,
Thanks for the Yankee Doodle info!
Comments on Trudeau apply surprisingly accurately to New Zealand’s Ardern. Not too bright, struggles when off script, can’t remember facts but not too hard on the eye. That is what got her elected.
In his own words:
https://pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2016/11/26/statement-prime-minister-canada-death-former-cuban-president-fidel
Very damming words for the Prime Minister of a western democracy. It is more than clear from where his little tyrant springs.
Is the Canadian Parliament as full of bought traitors as our Congress?
The House of Loonies? Is their Parliament buycameral?
Missing from the discussion of financial support of the Trucker Convoy is the pernicious actions of banks. Today TD Bank gave the remaining money in GoFundMe Trucker Convoy account to the Canadian government. Clearly illegal, but what party is going to bring them to account?
Rufus T.: “Why wait for an election? Can’t the Canadian Parliament hold a no confidence vote and dissolve the incumbent government?”
Yep! Do the members of Parliament have the guts? We’ll see.
Love your comments opening this post. The founders looked at the past through wise eyes as they planned our future through their unprecedented, exceptional design of our government and its effect on our society. The success of the United States didn’t just “happen”. It wasn’t an accident, fate or fluke of nature. It was designed in and a direct outcome of our governance. Remember that, and how far we’ve strayed from the founders’ design through amendments, activist courts, the administrative state- Chevron deference and the vast expansion of federal powers over citizens and their local, state governments when you consider the outcomes we are currently suffering through. This situation isn’t a fluke either.
The founders created a triad of governance as the true “balance of powers”. It wasn’t the courts, as they were simply to apply existing law- the Constitution, and not make it. The executive (President’s administration) ran & made decisions in execution of the laws.
The House of Representatives was to represent the people of the U.S. by geographical districts. Districts were much smaller than most states so that citizens would have more access and be more directly represented… the “People’s House”.
The Senate was to represent the sovereign state governments, democratically elected by citizens of that state to govern then, in the passing of federal laws and in overseeing the federal executive in their execution. In this scheme the populous of a large or urban state wouldn’t be allowed to dominate a majority other states in the union. Senators (the states they represented) were partners with the executive in choosing personnel for important positions (confirmation votes for judges, cabinet and military officers). States also vote for our President and Vice President, through the Electoral College, and individually determine the nature and manner of that vote. States are the voters because it’s a union of states. The Senate, early on, created the filibuster to prevent a few, more populous states from dominating a majority of less populous states in voting laws and controlling policies. The senators could negotiate & work out differences BEFORE the passage of divisive, often unnecessary federal laws. It has gotten us to where we are today, with the feds intruding into governance they were never meant to control, best done at a local level- like education, health, environment, welfare, occupational safety, you name it.
Those used to be all state issues. Since the 17th Amendment in 1914 made Senators popularly elected, just like a congressional representative, and no longer obligated to represent their state governments, democratically elected to govern the people of the state. Senators are no longer loyal to the government of their states, they are free agents, beholden only to their large donors, corporate & media sponsors who help them to get elected. Or worse, to their family’s financial interests if they are self-funded. Our very own “House of Lords.”
There have been no good outcomes from this. The only representation of the state governments at the federal govt (which THEY created & chartered) are the lobbyists they hire. THAT’S why they are always in court suing the feds AFTER the unconstitutional policies are made. Their views used to be considered by senate vote. Now the feds take trillions of our taxes (constraining the ability of states to tax themselves and only allowing states to get access to those tax monies by hewing the line of rules, conditions and governance of the topic at hand made at the FEDERAL level, with no state representation.) This is straight-up corruption of of the founders’ design.
With senators no longer being beholden to the state government, political parties have become dominant as the means to gain and hold power, by pushing through federal legislation that affects the entire nation at the behest of whoever their real sponsors are. Meanwhile, their state’s government, more closely representing the people of the state, goes completely unrepresented in the making of federal laws. The only representation of the state governments in the federal government (which THEY created and chartered) are the lobbyists they hire. THAT’S why they are always in court suing the feds AFTER the unconstitutional policies are made. The 17th was the beginning of consolidation of power at the national govt level by taking it from our local, state governments.
We are at each other’s throats and are able to be divided because what should be local questions of communities, towns and states have become national questions through the unconstitutional growth of federal government and regulation.
It’s a GOOD thing to be able to leave a place for another you feel more reflects your values and ambitions, and still be in America. It’s how the West was settled, how our country was made. The fifty different states, with their different governance to match different geographies, climates and cultures was called “the laboratory of democracy.” We are sooo far from that now, because of federal over-reach.
Sorry for the length & edit of my post. A long-term pet peeve has been the lack of knowledge of the founders’s design of our government and how it worked by the very same people who change the pieces and don’t follow the rest. Too long to edit well in the small creation window.
Doug Martin:
No need at all to apologize. I appreciated your post.
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Neo, the first 2 paragraphs of this post should be chiseled in stone on the Washington DC Mall somewhere, maybe next to the Washington Monument.
Doug Martin, excellent comment, very clarifying, especially “Our very own “House of Lords.” ” Passage of the 17th Amendment, driven by the Progressive’s desire for increased “democracy”, has instead led us to, or closer to, the mob rule the Founders feared and understood so well.
Well, looks like Tricky Dick screwed up on that one.
Bosh. Some people have a conception of late 18th century gentry politicians that resembles more the issue of Isaac Asimov’s imagination (see Foundation) than it does politicians at work (even politicians with an unusual quantum of liberal education). The actual constitution of 1787 (as amended in 1791) had features which never worked properly, poorly phrased passages, and provisions which addressed concerns which proved to be topical.
A more salient complaint about the Senate today is that (1) it accomplishes very little and (2) its members care about donors, not constituents.
has instead led us to, or closer to, the mob rule the Founders feared and understood so well.
Yeah, Mitch McConnell, exemplar of mob rule.
Yep. Art Deco has just proved my point. Knew it was coming. Got his dates right though. Congrats!