Socialist Fantasyland (ft. David Moscrop)

04/08/22 • 85 min

If you read the latest IPCC report, you know it's time for the latest episode of Big Shiny Takes. This week, the Big Shiny Takes Institute is joined by columnist and writer David Moscrop to read an insufferably bad column from Conrad Black. Yes, we are aware that doesn't narrow it down.
This temper tantrum is directed at the federal NDP and Liberal parties for unparliamentary behaviour (acting like parties in a parliamentary system). Thankfully, Conrad breaks up the monotony by expressing dismay at Canada's slide towards socialist oblivion with promises of means-tested dental care and clean jobs training centres. He also manages to jam in some genocide denial and transphobia because, believe it or not, the Lord of Crossharbour is not a good person.
Plugs and Recs
The Jakarta Method - Vincent Bevins
Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars - James Wilt
Just Watch Us: RCMP Surveillance of the Women's Liberation Movement in Cold War Canada - Christabelle Sethna and Steve Hewitt
The NDP is run by a consultant class geared toward capitulation - Martin Lukacs
Justin Trudeau's F-35 Fighter Jet Acquisition is a Miserable Circus - David Moscrop
Formula 1 - Drive to Survive

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Previous Episode

Trudeau? More like LIE-deau (ft. Mitchell Thompson)

Good news everyone, the pandemic is over because the government said so! Everything is great! Of course, like all responsible adults, we know better than to let ourselves get tired of winning so much so we are punishing ourselves with another insipid Jon Kay column. This one was published in the Wall Street Journal.
In this latest instalment of Canadian pundits explaining Canadian politics poorly to an uninterested audience, Dog Shampoo Boy writes about Justin Trudeau being a "Woke Donald Trump". It's stupid and our lives are worse for having read it.
We're joined this week by the great Mitchell Thompson of PressProgress, who has subjugated himself to reading a lot of Quillette. For those who don't know, Quillette is an awful website that pays Jon Kay to write for them. Quillette has a habit of talking about race science, and Jon has written about wokeness and frisbee golf for them.
Plugs and Recs
Science for the People Pierre Poilievre - Harper but with fangs bared - by Mitchell Thompson
Why John Mearsheimer Blames the US for the Crisis in Ukraine
When Prophecy Fails
Imperial News
The Hoser Presents - Short Circuit
Join the Discord (but be nice there)

Jeen-Yuhs (Kanye doc)
Elden Ring

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