Failure to (soft) launch

A Liberal leadership bid combusts during pre-flight testing.

Honestly, who sits like this?

On January 27th, 1967, a fire ripped through the Apollo 1 command module during launch rehearsal proceedings, forever altering the fate of the American space program with the loss of Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chafee.

That, of course, was a terrible launch-pad-related tragedy. (One that was powerfully depicted in 2018’s terrific First Man.)

Then there’s the case of Canada’s deliberate disaster of a foreign affairs minister, Melanie Joly.

In a New York Times ‘global profile’ titled, Tapped by Trudeau to Steer Foreign Affairs, She’s Now His Possible Successor — the kind of profile that doesn’t get written by accident or without the help of 12 staffers, 3 interns, and a whole host of shared terrible political beliefs — today, evidently, was the day that Joly wished to enter the fray (along with Anita Anand and Dominic Leblanc), to hold the honour of losing to Pierre Poilievre a second time, anywhere between 2027 and 2029.

Some, like liberal CBC commentator and Star columnist Chantal Hebert suggest today’s puff piece was in response to Joly’s disastrous performance at the Halifax International Security Forum, where allies were left shaking their heads over more missed commitments, and Joly’s Trudeau-esque, word salad-laden excuses for Canada’s continued self-abasement on the world stage.

Hebert is wrong, of course. Talk to anyone in Ottawa, and Joly is exactly where she’s supposed to be; where she’s expected to be.

In the terminal stages of the Trudeau Party’s experiment in running a country on behalf of interests not our own, Joly, as handsome and vacuous as the 52-year-old boy wonder, is there for maximum damage — to NATO, Jewish Canadians, Israel, our global standing, you name it.

After all, this is the woman who happily announced that the 7000+ capital-A Arabs in her Montreal riding all but DRIVE CANADA’S FOREIGN POLICY.

For a group this detached, this uninterested in keeping your Canada alive, the soft-launching of a future failed leadership bid in The New York Times, for the Catherine Tait crowd in the Upper West Side, is *incredibly* on brand for the party that disappeared the middle class and radicalized an entire generation forced to swim in the post-national after birth. (Editor’s note: the amount of staffers and politicians who have privately liked this tweet has been deeply amusing. By now, we all know the score.)

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How fitting that in a 24-hour period when four more criminal fake students from Punjab were rolled up in a home invasion drag net, another white-collar criminal for a federal minister gets busted with Taylor Swift tickets on the taxpayer dime, and multiple innocent victims are stabbed and cling to life following a random interaction with a Liberal-NDP criminal on his umpteenth round of bail, that this is seemingly the best the Liberals have to offer.

It’s not as if we’re here because of the weather. Take away housing, healthcare, rule of law, functioning immigration, shared community and values, and what’s really left?

For the pretty people who play pretend, who have played with your livelihood, your safety, your public square, they’ve saddled us with nothing that resembles Canada. The least we can do in return is to hold them in the same contempt as they’ve held us.

The Liberals and their friends in orthodox media can invent a so-called “top contender” all they like, enough well-meaning, ethical adults, with wants and needs greater than renting 500 sq. feet, living in a Globo Slum, and taking an annual stabbing from a government heroin addict have joined the course-correction back toward reality — and reality can be harsh.

Melanie Joly’s time in office has been defined by her proximity to the manlet who ran Canada into the ground, her allowance for the hatred of Canadian Jews, and the disappearance of our role as even a middle power.

If ever a candidacy deserved to blow up on the launch pad, it was this one.