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I know what I’m going to get my college-age niece for Christmas.

Che Is A Douche Shirt

[Update a couple minutes later]

Fidel Castro dies, Justin Troudeau hardest hit:

And so, from far-off Antananarivo, Madagascar, where he was attending the 80-government gathering of La Francophonie, Trudeau’s lament for the last of the Cold War dictators ended up confirming every wicked caricature of his own vacuity and every lampoon of the Trudeau government’s foreign-policy lack of seriousness.

Twitter lit up with hilarious mockeries under the hashtag #trudeaueulogies. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio wanted to know whether Trudeau’s statement came from a parody account. The impeccably liberal Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine, called Trudeau’s praise of Castro “a sad statement for the leader of a democracy to make.”

Whether or not Trudeau saw any of this coming, he didn’t appear to notice that he was delivering a speech to La Francophonie delegates in Madagascar that emphasized justice for lesbian, gay and transgender people, while from the other side of his mouth he was praising the legacy of a caudillo who spent the first decade of his rule rounding up gay people for “re-education” in labour camps. Homosexuals were irredeemably bourgeois maricones and agents of imperialism, Castro once explained.

To be perfectly fair, Trudeau did allow that Castro was a “controversial figure,” and nothing in his remarks was as explicit as the minor classic in the genre of dictator-worship that his brother Alexandre composed for the Toronto Star 10 years ago. Alexandre described Castro as “something of a superman. . . an expert on genetics, on automobile combustion engines, on stock markets. On everything.” As for the Cuban people: “They do occasionally complain, often as an adolescent might complain about a too strict and demanding father.”

This kind of Disco Generation stupidity about Castro has been commonplace in establishment circles in Canada since Pierre’s time, and neither Alexandre’s gringo-splaining nor Justin’s aptitude for eulogy are sufficient to gloss over the many things Cubans have every right to complain about.

….For all the parochial Canadian susceptibility to the propaganda myth that pits a shabby-bearded rebel in olive fatigues against the imperialist American hegemon, by the time he died on Friday night Castro was one of the richest men in Latin America. Ten years ago, when he was handing the presidency to Raúl, Forbes magazine calculated that Fidel’s personal wealth was already nearly a billion dollars.

In his twilight years, Castro was enjoying himself at his gaudy 30-hectare Punto Cero estate in Havana’s suburban Jaimanitas district, or occasionally retreating to his private yacht, or to his beachside house in Cayo Piedra, or to his house at La Caleta del Rosario with its private marina, or to his duck-hunting chalet at La Deseada.

Fidel Castro was not merely the “controversial figure” of Justin Trudeau’s encomium. He was first and foremost a traitor to the Cuban revolution. On that count alone, Castro’s death should not be mourned. It should be celebrated, loudly and happily.

Indeed. I’ve found the Trudeau worship even more ridiculous than the adulation of the God Obama. I’d be profoundly embarrassed to be a Canadian.

14 thoughts on “Che”

    1. Ken: why yes, yes it is.

      Rand, I didn’t realize you were also a Canadian.

      As a Toronto area resident, I have been profoundly embarrassed by the celebrity status seeking of our selfie PM. He’s a silver spoon twit, with his father’s looks and mother’s brains.

      I much preferred the frankly boring but competent Harper. He wasn’t perfect, but he also didn’t embarrass me!

        1. I do have better reading comprehension most days. ?

          See what the Dauphin has done to the school system in just over a year in office!

          Well, it was announced yesterday that he would allow 2 of 3 pipelines to go through. His puppet masters are not complete idiots. They just need to make sure he can’t tweet his real thoughts without supervision.

  2. I’d be profoundly embarrassed to be a Canadian.

    Don’t rub it in. Ezra Levant had him pegged years ago – the “shiny pony” of Canadian politics. All those blonde jokes apply – he’s got the Walkman with the “breathe in, breathe out” message on repeat.

    Unfortunately people in Quebec wanted his dad as a king and they’re still infatuated with the idea of their own royalty. People in Ontario cities are just stupid, as you’d expect in American cities, and they outvote the rural population. Between these two provinces they pretty much outvote the rest of us. Too bad we don’t have an electoral college here.

      1. You should read some history. The French lost a war to the English (see Plains of Abraham), but the English let them keep their culture. Big mistake. To this day the Québécois have a huge chip on their collective shoulders.

  3. I’m not embarrassed to be Canadian, I’m embarrassed for my fellow Canadians who voted for the loser. I just hope we can build a wall across Manitoba before Ontario goes bankrupt and the Liberal Horde come West looking for another viable economy to destroy.

    But maybe even the left will be too embarrassed to vote for him next time. And, if Trump kills NAFTA, no-one’s going to want Liberals in charge of the economy.

  4. “I’d be profoundly embarrassed to be a Canadian.”

    Yet another reason this Libertarian should move to the USA.

  5. I’ve been waiting for our regular useful idiot (not Jim, this time) to check in here and defend Che from the charge of douche-baggery.

      1. I often wonder how many people do Fidel, Che, Ho and other heroes of the Left have to kill and imprison before the Useful Idiots finally realize they’ve been lionizing the wrong people. Take Pete Seeger, a Communist Party member and then a fellow traveler, who only admitted in the last years of his life that maybe that Stalin guy was pretty evil after all. What on earth was the ton of bricks that finally fell on Seeger’s head?

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