I'm trying -- really, I am -- to finish a couple lengthy pieces about the absolutely delectable grift that is Rebel's "Fight the Fines" campaign, as well as the mysterious CRA-registered charity "The Democracy Fund" (conveniently run by long-time buddies of one Ezra Levant) that is currently laundering ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H repurposing donations for that campaign while gleefully promising charitable tax receipts to all and sundry, but an anonymous evil minion makes a minor and amusing observation, and that is how Rebel News has completely burned its bridges in terms of having even the most miniscule journalistic credibility that would attract A-list or B-list or C-list or even D-list personalities and, having already plumbed the bottom of every barrel in sight, are now reduced to lifting up the barrels to see what's underneath.
Having pissed off and alienated even Canada's right-wing federal and provincial parties (the CPC, and the idiot governments running Ontario and Alberta), the poor sots at Rebel are reduced to giving air time to such intellectual luminaries as political rejects Derek Sloan and the truly deranged secessionist parties out west, but the bareness of the cupboard at Rebel can be seen in this single snapshot on the main web page:
This microcosm of alleged "news" tells you everything you need to know about the state of affairs at Der Rebel, when this idiocy is considered trending/breaking information.
There's Oil Patch Barbie Sheila Gunn Reid's groundbreaking interview with ... oh, who the fuck knows who that is, some snuff-chawing, pickup-driving, hat-wearing moron who Gunn Reid hyperventilatingly introduces with:
Danger Cats is an Alberta phenomenon. It is more than just a website or a YouTube channel that mocks everyone from Gen Z, Gen Y, Trudeau, environmentalists, woke scolds and even themselves. It’s a lifestyle ecosystem, replete with merch and podcasts that embraces the hard-living, hard-partying, hard-working stereotypes Alberta’s blue collar workforce is labelled with. Danger Cats takes the snobby criticisms of Albertans and embraces them. “Yeah, we swear and we drive big trucks. So what?”
Yup, that is some Pulitzer-worthy shit, that is. I'm shocked -- SHOCKED, I SAY!! -- that there are Albertans that drive trucks and swear a lot and hate liberals! Who knew?
Then there's the massively untalented Andrew Chapados, regaling us with stories of ... Jesus fucking Christ, but who in the name of Mutt is "Tarl Warwick (StyxHexenHammer666)" ... oh:
Warwick discusses the shortcomings of 'critical race theory' and why it is being pushed by so many institutions and media members. He also explains his long journey as a commentator, from his upbringing as a practicing Christian, to a Satanist (really), all the way through atheism and finally to becoming a general researcher into religions and occultism.
Then there's the perpetually-arrested David "The Menses" Menzies, who thinks we have a desperate need to know about ... oh, who the hell cares?
And hey, did you get the memo? Recently, Canada anointed a new queen to lord over us. Alas, Her Royal Highness Romana Didulo is so much fakery, yet thousands of people are apparently buying into this proclamation. Andrew Chapados will try to make sense of it all.
Yes, please ... do go ahead and make sense of it all. We'll be waiting right here.
WHAT DID I JUST SAY? As if determined to prove my point, yesterday's Ezra Levant shriek-a-thon featured the deranged wackadoodleness of Tom Flanagan, Jack Mintz and Ted Morton:
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What's even funnier is how much time Rebel is devoting to covering lockdowns in Australia, as if people in Western Canada care. I mean, does anyone believe the average Albertan is thinking, "Yeah, the pandemic wiped out my business, and I might lose my house, and the UCP has completely fucked up the economy in the province, and sending my kids to school might kill them, but more than anything, I wonder how things are in New South Wales"?
It's like those jokes about being told to write a 10-page report in high school and thinking, "Well, first I'll double space everything, and I'll bring in the margins a bit, and I'll use the first page for the title, and the second page for the author ..."
It's just painful and meaningless filler.
Flanagan … Flanagan … that name’s vaguely familiar.
Wasn’t he one of Harper’s advisors … until he got caught with his name on the mailing list of an organization that no actual human being should have their name on. (And then tried to defend it?)
You know you're in trouble when someone called "StyxHexenHammer666" looks like less of a douchebag than any of your hosts.
Flanagan is best known in Indigenous circles as the author of "First Nations, Second Thoughts", an appalling piece of personal bigotry masquerading as "scholarship" in which he declares that:
- there was no viable, durable Indigenous culture in North America, just a bunch of marginal, dying "stone age" remnants;
- Métis weren't a "real" people of culture;
- "Oral history" and "traditional knowledge" were fairy tales, not to be taken seriously;
- As an act of kindness, Canada should do what it could to eliminate the remains of the cultures, repudiate the treaties and land claims agreements, and just get on with the job of assimilation.
The work was repudiated by multiple scholars and historians, both Indigenous and mainstream - not only because of its obvious contempt for Indigenous people and cultures, but because of its shocking shoddy scholarship, weak sources, and complete failure to distinguish between research and his own bigoted opinions.
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