April 1st, 2025 | Grant Johnson

Raising A Glass Of Jack Daniels To Canadian Dissidents

Tariffs don't make sense and buying Canadian is dumb.

The tariff response in Canada is exactly like the Covid response five years ago. Irrational. Dumb. Ineffective. Incompetent. Completely without self-awareness. People are now bragging about buying “Made-in-Canada” ketchup the same way they bragged about wearing surgical masks. It shows the world that they are a GOOD PERSON. These Canadian sheep are now all ready to vote Liberal after a brief contagion of “Trudeau Must Go”. Never mind that they replaced him with a guy who is Trudeau, but extra, times five. They’re satisfied with "giving him a chance" because Canadians love punishment under the guise of virtue-signaling about the latest thing.

Getting back to tariffs… it’s amazing to see all these “experts” go on and on analyzing the situation and talking about how tariffs don’t work. ”Haven’t Republicans heard of Smoot-Hawley?” or talking about how Trump really just wants us to step up border patrols and take fentanyl seriously. (He doesn’t). They fail to miss the grander picture and it’s that Trump is positioning the United States of America to lead the 21st Century and beyond.

Covid showed us that the United States is vulnerable to supply chain issues. Outsourcing everything for slave labour in China leads to roundabout disadvantages that cheap junk at Wal-Mart can’t offset when serious issues arise. The de-industrialization of the United States will lead to decline and collapse. This combined with a global reserve currency… completely fiat… and a national debt that is growing by almost two trillion dollars a year in a rapidly aging nation (and world) and you’ve got a recipe for destruction.

And yet all the progressives and globalists are dumbfounded as to why Trump is doing this? “He’s crazy!” they all think. No. He is not crazy. He and the people around him, most notably Elon Musk, recognize that these numbers and this situation CANNOT CONTINUE. Woke insanity and the people wallowing in it were harbingers of decadent decline that normal people recognized as a threat. Trump is dealing with the threat using extremely bold maneuvers and the fancy class turns up their noses in disdain. 

Trump is planting seeds to grow prosperity for the future. He is making the hard moves that should have been made ten or twenty, or honestly thirty-three years ago (with a tip of the hat to Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot). He’s doing it now and the establishment… the regime… the blob is freaking out.

Now back to Canada.

I grew up in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This was an era before free trade was even a thing. This was the Pierre Trudeau era. It was a great time to be a kid actually (it always is though), but I have to tell our readers that Canada in the time before Free Trade was much different from what we think of as normal today. 

Thinking back, one of the biggest differences was that Canada felt much more behind the times than it does today. The United States always seemed like the future. Products and technology and cultural movements always came first in the U.S. and we’d see things on television that would only show up much later in Canada. 

I grew up in Regina, Saskatchewan and we used to take end-of-summer trips to Minot, North Dakota. To an American’s eyes, Minot, North Dakota is pretty much nowhere, but to our eyes, it was the edge of empire and it boasted of amazing things that we couldn’t get in Canada. Franchises like Applebee’s, Hardee’s, Wal-Mart, K-Mart and Target. These all seemed much better and newer and cooler than the Sears and Zellers back home.

Product variety was also notable. I remember my parents buying flats of 24 cans of Diet Coke or Cherry Coke and taking them home in the trunk. We were always amazed because you couldn’t get individual aluminum cans of soda in Canada at that time. Pringles in a can were another huge novelty. I remember buying the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Nintendo game in Minot because it wasn’t yet available in Canada, or in Regina at least. It sounds almost Soviet to think that shopping trips to Minot were magical and we were dazzled by the products, but that was how life was.

Prices were also better in the United States. More people and competition with a big internal market always seemed to find prices driven down… even with a Canadian dollar purchasing power. This is partly due to the American entrepreneur mindset. If someone is selling something and making a ten-cent profit off of it, you can be sure that there will be someone else copying them and selling the same thing for a nickel. In Canada, we just eat the extra cost and complain about it. 

After Free Trade, things got better. 

We slowly over the years integrated more and more with the United States and took advantage of our relationship with them to the utmost. This led to a laziness and entitlement that unfortunately has now backfired. 

Instead of maximizing our position and becoming the best version of ourselves we could be, using the available opportunities, we decided instead to just go all in on weed and wokeness and fearful group-thinking retardation. In so many ways, we’ve gotten weaker and weaker and the fancy classes don’t know, or care, or believe it. 

And now here we are.  

One of the first things Premiers across the country decided to do when the tariff situation was announced, was to make a big trade war flex against American alcohol. Why? Who the hell knows. Probably because it’s easy and theatrical and ultimately less catastrophic than doing something more dangerous, like banning American cars from being imported. 

Canadian tards cheered on the empty shelves. Nice one comrades!

I thought living in Alberta would inoculate me from this type of knee-jerk Doug Ford-style nonsense. Instead, Danielle Smith decided to board the retard bandwagon. She isn’t letting any more American liquor come into the province, so naturally I decided to head to Costco to get a bottle of my favourite whiskey…Jack Daniels, but it was sold out. Apparently, people came in and bought cases and cases of it with the idea of selling it for a profit in the future.

I drove over to No Frills liquor store…the Loblaws liquor outlet. The American shelves were bare. I asked the clerk why and she said the higher-up management folks decided to clear the shelves and stop selling it even though they had stock. So I drove to Sobey’s liquor near a Safeway and this one still had all the bourbons on the shelf. I dropped a lot of cash and bought two of the 1.75-litre bottles of Jack (the last big ones left on the shelf) and also picked up a couple of Honey Jack and a Wild Turkey for good measure. I am now storehousing bourbon liquor in my basement like a Soviet dissident.

I can hear the NPC critics now: ”Oh muffin…can’t have your favourite booze? Poor you! Life’s really tough isn’t it? Why don’t you just buy the rye? Just buy the rye bro and stop complaining. Wear the mask too bro. Take the shot. Quit being the problem bro! Buy the rye, wear the mask, take the shot, pay the tax, turn in the guns, freeze the bank account, eat the bugs, live in the pod, I mean, what’s there to complain about dude? Why can’t a man be a woman? Why do you even care?!”

This “anything goes” type of tyranny we are witnessing explicitly since Covid is completely out of hand. People think the government has the right to do anything in the name of anything now and, even worse, they cheer it on.

The real solution to Trump’s tariffs is to not retaliate at all. Australia is choosing resilience not retaliation and in the long run, this will prove more effective. Export-heavy countries like Canada and Australia need trade more than countries with big internal markets like the U.S. and China. The ideology of free trade encourages innovation and playing to strengths and better material living for ordinary people. Free trade isn’t absolute, but it is better to have more and freer trade than not. 

Instead, our grotesque ruling class is now going to cause extra hardship for Canadians everywhere. Not only will our economy suffer massively for being uncompetitive with the United States in our exports, but we will all now be paying 25% more for anything we get imported from them as well. All that extra tax revenue will certainly benefit gender awareness overseas programs or whatever money laundering, corrupt or ideological horror show our ruling class decides to indulge in. Improved health care for Canadians perhaps? LOL…just kidding! We know that’s not a priority.

Oh well, maybe this upcoming election will fix everything! LOL… just kidding X 2! Good luck PP!

In the meantime, I’ll raise a glass of Jack Daniels while saluting my fellow Canadian dissidents everywhere. We may be a small minority, but we’ve got reality on our side and that gives us an upper hand for the upcoming decline. Cheers everyone!