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Pro-Hamas demonstrators ran amok in Montreal Friday night, attacking police, burning cars, breaking windows, and in general displaying their profound understanding of Allah’s command to “strike terror in the enemies of Allah” (Qur’an 8:60). The demonstrators, secure in the certainty of their own righteousness even as they sowed chaos and destruction in the once-charming Canadian city, burned Benjamin Netanyahu in effigy and threw what Fox News described as “small explosive devices and metal items” at police. And where was Justin Trudeau amid all this? He was boogieing the night away at a Taylor Swift concert. Yes, really.
Nero had more class. Contrary to legend, he didn’t exactly fiddle when Rome burned. When the notorious fire broke out in his capital city in 64 AD, the Roman emperor who has become famous for his indifference to his people’s suffering was in Antium, a coastal city 32 miles away. Reality is usually more prosaic and less interesting than myth, and so it is in this case: far from shrugging off the fire and practicing his instrument, Nero hurried back to Rome and immediately threw himself into efforts to bring relief to the people of Rome. The city was full of people whose homes had been destroyed, and Nero offered them refuge in his private gardens and the city’s public buildings. He compelled the towns around Rome to donate grain to feed the refugees.
None of that is remembered. All people today know, if they’ve heard of Nero at all, is that he was a callous autocrat who was cavalier in the face of a catastrophe befalling his people. This claim, which may have some truth to it, goes almost all the way back to the time of Nero himself. The first-century historian Tacitus, who was around eight years old at the time of the fire, wrote much later that Nero’s “measures, popular as their character might be, failed of their effect; for the report had spread that, at the very moment when Rome was aflame, he had mounted his private stage, and, typifying the ills of the present by the calamities of the past, had sung the Destruction of Troy.”
One of Tacitus’ contemporaries, Suetonius, wrote that Nero “viewing the conflagration from the tower of Maecenas,” which wasn’t true, as Nero had not been in Rome at all during the fire. Suetonius added that the emperor “sang the whole of the Sack of Ilion in his regular stage costume.”
Those two accounts are the seeds of the Nero-fiddled-while-Rome-burned legend. It is not at all certain that Nero really did sing about the destruction of cities during the fire in Rome, and Suetonius in particular casts doubt on the entire claim by inaccurately placing Nero in Rome during the fire. Nonetheless, even if Nero was callous and indifferent to his people, he had nothing on Justin Trudeau.
While Montreal burned Friday night, Trudeau was not calling in extra police, or the military, or whatever force that might have been warranted to quell the rioting in the quickest and most efficient manner possible. In fact, he wasn’t even on the job at all. Instead, Trudeau was caught on video attending a Taylor Swift concert in Toronto at the same time that the riots were going on in Montreal. The videos show Trudeau waving his arms and swaying to the music with joyous abandon, and even singing along, as he stands in a crowd of girls who generally appear to be about thirty years younger than he is.
Trudeau hadn’t gone to boogie among his fellow Swifties after quelling the riots in Montreal. He hadn’t done anything about the riots in Montreal at all. Nero was a better ruler, as he is on record making efforts to alleviate the suffering of his people. And if the claims of Tacitus and Suetonius were true, Nero’s sin was singing classical epic poetry about the destruction of earlier cities during the fire. At least Nero’s desire to indulge his artistic bent during a time of tragedy remained on-point. Trudeau, by contrast, was bizarrely indulging his love for bubblegum pop music manufactured and marketed for girls half his age while pro-jihad thugs ran wild in the city that was once the jewel of his nation.
Canada could use a Nero. At least he made efforts to show he cared when his people suffered. That’s not a priority for Justin Trudeau, however, and why should it be? Since when have leftist authoritarians ever cared if their people suffer? Making their people suffer is Job One for them.
Important to mention that prior to attending the Taylor Swift concert, Trudeau publicly announced that Bibi Netanyahu ever comes to Canada then Trudeau will have him arrested pursuant to the ICC warrants. This undoubtedly by the islamo Nazis who rioted in Montreal as a political triumph, encouraging them to attempt to terrorize montreal, and particularly its Jewish citizens, even further. No matter what lip service he belated the pays to human decency, Trudeau is an implacable enemy of Israel and the Jewish people.
This sounds like a job for the Mossad. Snatch up Trudeau like it did Eichmann. Or Netanyahu could invite lil’ Pierre to Israel for a meeting about Psuedostinian “rights” and then arrest him.
If only.
Trudeau is no more indifferent to the plight of his people and the calamities they inflict on them than any other current western leader. So he’s got that going for him.
E Palestine, Ohio; Lanai, Hawaii, 2 east coast hurricanes in failed corrupt dementia Biden years and he did nothing – all FEMA tax payer money went to illegal aliens – there has never been a worse leader than Quid-Pro-Joe Briben – and his cabinet of of corruption and freaks!
Not unlike Tampon Timmy letting Minneapolis burn during the George Floyd Riots. Trudeau seems to think that letting Hamas and their idiot supporters run wild in Canada will somehow increase his popularity.
Canada appears to be circling the drain, at least in the eastern cities.
Even the liberals I know in Canada, and I’m talking about the brainless lost all ability to think for themselves CBC types, now have a visceral hatred of Trudeau. There is still no spark of intelligence within them, but it’s more like seeing a bunch of maggots in your trash can type of reaction. When I talk to them, we establish and agree on the 2, the plus, and the other 2, but the answer to them is still TDS.
What should one do if they see maggots in their trash can?
Put the lid back on.
Yeah, there seemed to me to be no real there there when I was exposed to some Canadians on a trip across the country in my youth. I put it down to preferring a monarchical way of life, with no fight! and I bless myself that I am fortunate enough to live in a land which at his core will fight for freedom.
Since Canadians put up with it, they deserve it. At least their truckers have balls. Trudeau ran away that time.
What would you have us do? Take to the street with guns blazing? Oh, that’s right, The parasitic Marxists took our means of self-defence away. And that would just make it wrose anyway. This piece of human waste deserves nothing less than a noose for what he is doing to my beloved country. He is a bad actor playing at being a prime minister with appalling ignorance as his playbook. A curse on him and those who support him!
Trudeau does deserve a noose around his neck along with the senior capos in his cabal. At the very least there should be an inquiry or some kind of official examination how Trudeau and his government are responsible for much of the mayhem described in the article and much more, as well as the economic damage wrought by Trudeau and his government. As well, those responsible for enabling these crimes should be charged with financial penalties and suffer incarceration. In a reasonable and just world this would be be expected and executed. Of course, nothing will happen. Those who have followed and suffered under Trudeau’s shallow and harmful 10 years (almost) in power know that the many and profoundly egregious scandals that he and his gov’t committed NO ONE has been held accountable nor had had to resign.
As for self defense, check this out:
https://rcmp.ca/en/firearms/apply-firearms-licence
I lived in Canada during the reign f Trudeau Pér.e If memory serves, he is the lou who imposed all packaging, adverts, etc, across the land MUST be in Froggish.. english optional. this cost industry billions to redesign and use new packaging and destroying all previous packaging, no mater how large a stock was on hand. . Did he care? Not a whit.
This son of his wife (the jury is still deliberating as to whether he is also the son of Trudeau Pére. A simple DNA check would settle the matter but its my belief that check will not be done because the outcome is near certain, and would not play well in national poliics) is far worse than theoldman ever imagined being.
There should be no doubt about paternity here… Look at Justin’s face and look at PET’s pictures – spitting image. And if you’re of my generation, you might also remember PET’s voice… it was passed down to his son. And let’s not forget the strong lean to the left!
We don’t get some American Products in Canada because the Americans do not want to have to pay extra to put the French translation on the packaging.
Taylor Swifty …
“Get Down, Justin!” said Taylor, cluelessly.
I recommend watching the Ancients Behaving Badly episode on Nero
Isn’t it odd that even in Rome, a couple thousand years ago there was this thing called “misinformation”? I suppose it would be more accurate to say that someone, many years later, for some obscure political reason decided history needed to be altered. So Nero became a notorious fiddle playing bluegrass musician.
HA! Guess what? Here in the twentieth century, those with a myriad of personal grievances and a sense of superiority do the same thing with history, except in today’s world it’s flashed around the globe in a nanosecond and attempting to pull it back into reality becomes a monumental task, if not impossible.
Canada has long been notorious for its Jew hating. During the period from 1933-45 four times fewer Jews found refuge in Canada (despite vast size and wealth) than the squalid and overcrowded city of Shanghai. When FDR and Breckinridge Long wanted to feign concern for Jews trapped in Nazi Europe that held the Bermuda Conference on Refugees, which was held on an island that was a well known “restricted” resort where hotels barred Jews (the conference began the same day as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising). Interestingly, that duo of antisemites vetoed Canada as a site for the conference because its inhospitable attitude toward Jews was a little TOO OBVIOUS. So its entirely unsurprising that Canada’s smug, virtue signaling, estrogen saturated Prime Minister, a former part time ski instructor and minstrel show performer ignores a pogrom in Montreal in favor of a Taylor Swift concert. If the ICC actually was concerned with justice it would issue an arrest warrant for the Great White North’s Obama wannabe. He’s a disgrace to “peoplekind”.
As well, arrest warrants would be appropriate for Obama & the Clintons (particularly Obama as he most responsible of those who have helped to bring about this developing dystopian world).
Hopefully, he will soon be out of office. Doesn’t Canada have an election coming up shortly?
E Palestine, Ohio; Lanai, Hawaii, 2 east coast hurricanes in failed corrupt dementia Biden years and he did nothing – all FEMA tax payer money went to illegal aliens – there has never been a worse leader than Quid-Pro-Joe TaliBriben – and his cabinet of of corruption and freaks!
President Trump was not the only one who dodged a bullet 7-13-2024, we all did!
Blatantly evil has our world gone.
In less than 2 months, President Trump is sworn in and day one, heads will roll as umpteen bills are signed into effect.
CBP and ICE will be on the move! CBP that retired in this sick Biden 4 years, or put in for retirement are coming back..
Prices should start falling as the oil drilling ramps up and the supply is getting to the levels greater than the demand then retailers should lower prices because us customers will take our spending to retailers that do lower prices.
Will that Castro DNA have its way? Cough.
Trudeau and his government have outsourced violent rioting to unpeaceful Muslims.
I want to weep for Canada. I was up there about 40 years ago to do Arctic training with the Canadian Army. I made a number of friends up there and can imagine what they are going through. now.. They were afraid of a breakup of Canada even at that time. Hopefully they will get a majority and throw this idiot out!
Between PM Justin Trudeau and President Emmanuel Macron, difficult to say who is the more harebrained, offensive and vulgar. Both never miss an opportunity to shut up or to behave with the dignity their functions require.
Justin supports the IIC. They were not rioting, but celebrating.
Hooray!! At last, Trudeau makes a move to expose himself blatantly for who he is. What a public display!!
The UN/Globalists need to move out
As far as I understand things, the King’s representative in Canada, the Governor General, I think is her title, has the power to dissolve the Canadian parliament and force a general election.
I have not heard anyone report on this woman’s role in all these matters; are we to suppose both QE2 and Chuckles both approved/approve of Justine’s regime?