Saturday, November 26, 2022

Inflation fighting cheques???


"Quebec's rollout of inflation-fighting cheques begins in December" says the title in The Gazette. What exactly is fighting inflation? The cheques?? Can't be. So, we go in and find out: "... [distributed to] 6.5 million Quebecers to fight the effects of inflation". Oh, ok, to fight the EFFECTS of inflation. Not inflation itself. Who cares about inflation? What's important is to give voters the illusion that things are not that bad. As Pierre Poilievre says "where is the money coming from?" Most likely freshly printed by the feds, causing more inflation, causing another set of cheques to fight its effects, backed by freshly printed money, causing...

Tuesday, November 22, 2022

DailyWire+ will make Atlas Shrugged series

DailyWire+ has acquired exclusive film and television rights to Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged,” and will develop a series based on the groundbreaking 1957 novel. Great 🙂. However, DailyWire+ is Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro and other religious conservatives. It will be interesting to see how they will manage to deal with Ayn Rand's militant atheism. Either they'll distort the characters and present them as being religious and make it a lie, or they'll just reduce them to advocates of the free market and make it boring. Either way, just remember: Objectivism is atheist and is not libertarian.