The week in whoppers: Justin Trudeau’s low blow, AOC’s idiocy and more

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau claimed that Conservative Get together members in his nation have been standing with individuals who wave swastika flags.
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Diary of disturbing disinformation and harmful delusions

This assertion:

“Conservative Get together members . . . stand with individuals who wave swastikas.”

— Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, responding to Jewish Holocaust-survivor descendant MP Melissa Lantsman’s criticism about his criticisms of protesters in Ottowa, Feb. 16.

We are saying: Video of the protesters persistently reveals them waving Canadian flags, not swastikas, however Trudeau clearly isn’t above attempting to smear those that disagree with him. One Canadian journalist referred to as Trudeau’s remark “beneath him,” however coming from a man who dismissed truckers as racists (but as soon as wore blackface himself), was Trudeau’s comment actually so out of character?

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This evaluation:

A CNN column referred to as Joe Rogan’s previous use of the N-word a “January 6 second.”

We are saying: Oh, please. Jan. 6 wasn’t even a “January 6 second.” CNN’s John Blake contends that Joe Rogan’s use of the n-word years in the past “is arguably simply as harmful as what a mob did once they stormed the US Capitol on January 6.” Positive, to the left, the 2021 Capitol riot was just about the worst occasion in US historical past. (Suppose: 9/11, Dec. 7, 1941, Black Thursday, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln, JFK.) And, OK, it was ugly. However at backside, the Capitol riot amounted to a couple hundred nutcases trespassing in a demented bid to cease Joe Biden from changing into president. A podcaster’s use of the n-word a number of years in the past doesn’t even come near that. No surprise CNN later modified the story’s headline (although it left up the remainder of its “evaluation”).

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This declare:

“The final 22 years now rank because the driest . . .  interval [in southwestern North America] since at the least 800 AD, with human emissions of greenhouse gases accounting for about 42% of the drought’s severity.”

— Axios, Feb. 14

We are saying: There’s simply no finish to local weather alarmism. Sure, greenhouse gases are suspected as a key reason for rising international temps, which can gas droughts. However Axios’ story — and the examine in Nature Local weather Change it’s primarily based on — deal with solely one a part of the Earth, theorize about simply 1,200 years of local weather historical past (for a planet that’s 4.5 billion years previous) and rely upon pc fashions in charge 42% of the “drought’s severity” on man-made causes. They don't have any actual “management,” i.e., no “duplicate Earth” that lacks greenhouse gases to make use of for comparability. So how on the planet can anybody make sure of the extent of these gases’ impression on rainfall?  

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This assertion:

“The kid-tax credit score simply ran out on Dec. 31, and now individuals are stealing child components.”

— Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in The New Yorker, Feb. 14

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed that individuals are stealing child components as a result of the kid tax credit score expired.

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We are saying: AOC simply by no means runs out of idiotic issues to say. As The Publish reported, baby-formula theft turned a nationwide scourge years in the past, lengthy earlier than the child-tax credit score was expanded in the course of the pandemic. And the rise in crime goes properly past baby-formula theft: Murders within the metropolis final yr have been up 53% over 2019. A minimum of AOC lastly sees crime as an issue; in June, she dismissed it as mere “hysteria.”

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This story:

A CBC article suggests the truck-convoy protesters’ requires freedom is a way to reject equality.

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“[The] idea of freedom can be utilized to reject equality.”

— A Canadian Broadcasting Company story about protesting truckers and right-wing teams utilizing the phrase “freedom” as a rallying cry, Feb. 13

We are saying: Because the Trudeau authorities cracks down on protests, the CBC is bizarrely suggesting the protesters’ cry for freedom is basically some form of right-wing code phrase for racism: “On the far proper, [individual freedom] is usually translated into any individual who refuses to be certain by norms of equality, treating all folks equally or norms to treatment inequality, whether or not that’s attempting to treatment racial discrimination or gender discrimination,” one “knowledgeable” is quoted. The place on earth do they give you these concepts?

— Compiled by The Publish Editorial Board