Don't Fall for Exaggerated Claims of Islamophobia

It's not often that the leaders of the three major political parties in Quebec agree on anything and even stranger that I agree with them myself in rejecting the notion of a dedicated day protesting "Islamophobia"
It is utterly shameful that liberals have embraced the notion that somehow Canada and Quebec have a special problem with anti-Muslim sentiment when nothing could be further than the truth.
The self-flagellating rhetoric over perceived Islamophobia echoed and parroted by politicians and liberals is pathetically sad when one considers the facts, those pesky things that get in the way of a good narrative. The Canadian reality is completely different from that which is being foisted upon us by the Muslim pity machine and their useful idiots.
The commemoration over the deaths of six Quebecers in a Quebec city mosque would be a reasonable sign of respect had it not been hijacked and steeped in the political message that Quebec society is deeply Islamophobic and that somehow we are all responsible for what happened.

Muslims demand that we not judge their community by linking them to the daily Islamic terrorist acts that occur at an alarming rate all over the world.
That's a big ask, considering over the last 30 days Islamic terrorists launched 121 attacks in 21 countries, in which 944 people were killed and 1282 injured.

Afghan authorities have raised the death toll from Saturday's suicide bombing in Kabul to 103, as hundreds of people gathered for funerals or awaited word of loved ones outside hospitals and morgues.
The attacker, driving an ambulance filled with explosives, was able to race through a security checkpoint by saying he was transferring a patient to a hospital. The explosion damaged or destroyed dozens of shops and vehicles in the heart of the city, near government buildings.
Interior Minister Wais Ahmad Barmak provided the updated death toll on Sunday, saying another 235 people were wounded in the attack. Link

Now the Canadian Muslim community tells us that these crimes are the actions of a few lunatics within their community and not representative.
Yet when one lunatic Quebecer murders six Muslims in a Quebec city church we are told by the same Muslim community that the crime is somehow linked to our general racism and that we as a society bear a measure of collective guilt.
And so they propose a special day to heap guilt on Quebec and Canadian society, throwing up and manipulating Muslim victims in order to make us feel guilty and somehow blunt criticism.

There seems to be a concerted effort by some in the Muslims community to smear Canadians with the Islamophobic label, so much so that they invent stories of Muslim victimization, like the outrageous story of a Muslim 11-year-old who made up a convincing story about being assaulted over her hijab. Of course, the hand-wringing liberal apologists jumped on the story, aided and abetted by an equally compliant media with nary a thought as to testing the veracity of the charge.
It took police less than a day to debunk the story, something the school and the media should have done themselves, but the story was too delicious and played into the liberal narrative that Canadians have it in for Muslims.
In the aftermath of the affair, everyone was whitewashed and the facts quickly swept under the carpet. Nobody dared ask questions as to which adult was really responsible for this outrage because certainly, it wasn't the eleven years old.
And still leftists apologists persist. The Huffington Post ran this story.
Read: The Girl Who Lied About Hijab Attack Deserves An Apology  .... Argghhh.....

Calling the girl a victim is another sad deflection, a tried and true tactic used by clever spinmeisters to alter the conversation.
And so the pity peddlers and their useful idiots are lecturing Canadians that the fake hate crime incident shouldn't take away from the 'real' bashing that Muslims suffer and that it is unfortunate that we as Canadians will be less likely to believe future claims.
Again it is our fault.

This incident is not unique. An American website, fakehatecrimes.org is devoted to outing these fake hate incidents which occurs much more often than one would believe.

From Statistics Canada;

"Police reported 460 hate crimes targeting religious groups in 2016, 9 fewer than in the previous year. These accounted for one-third of all hate crimes in Canada.
Following a notable increase in hate crimes against the Muslim population in 2015, police reported 20 fewer in 2016 for a total of 139. The decrease in police-reported hate crimes against Muslims was the result of fewer reported incidents in Quebec (-16), Alberta (-8) and Ontario (-6).
Similarly, after an increase in 2015, hate crimes against Catholics also decreased, from 55 to 27 in 2016. Ontario reported 16 fewer incidents, and declines were also seen in Quebec (-7) and the Atlantic provinces (-5).
In contrast, hate crimes against the Jewish population grew from 178 to 221 incidents. Increases were seen in Ontario (+31), Quebec (+11) and Manitoba (+7)." Link

Let me make it simpler. In 2016;
Canada's 1,000,000 Muslims suffered 139 hate crimes or one hate crime per 7,200 Muslims. 
Canada's 800,000 Blacks suffered 214 hate crimes or one hate crime per 3,700 Blacks.
Canada's 400,000 Jews suffered 221 hate crimes or one hate crime per 1,700 Jews.
Source...Statistics Canada. Link

It is a statistical fact that in Canada a Black person is twice as likely to be the victim of a hate crime opposed to a Muslim and a Jew almost four times as likely. In the USA, there are twice as many hate crimes directed towards Jews and Blacks, than directed against Muslims.

"The claim that the relatively small number of hate crimes can be attributed to under-reporting is implausible, given the cultural climate and plethora of media outlets eager to find evidence for Islamophobia."

So do we really need a day to decry Islamophobia when as a community they face less discrimination than other identifiable groups?
As I said, facts are pesky things and it's actually true that hate crimes against all communities in Canada are on the decline, so there's really no need to panic.

And by the way, in commemorating the terrorist deaths of the victims of the Quebec City shooting, are we not forgetting the six other Quebecers murdered by terrorists. Aren't their lives worth remembering as well? The six Quebecers were killed in Burkino Faso by Islamic terrorists while doing humanitarian work. Are their lives less important?

In Canada we are lucky, radical Islam is not a problem and other than a couple of isolated mosques in Toronto and Montreal where hateful, mostly antisemitic rhetoric is spewed, Canada's Muslim community is a pacifistic, law-abiding and a credit to our society.
The isolated anti-Muslim incidents are few and far between and are exaggerated by the media in search of a controversial story.
When a dozen idiots march in opposition to Islam it is front-page news, but by and large Muslims immigrants are lucky to arrive in such a kind and generous nation.

Exaggerated Canadian Islamophobia is an invention by Muslims with a pity agenda and their useful idiots like Justin Trudeau, a man who believes returning ISIS fighters deserve a second chance, while  expelling caucus members from his government at the first hint of sexual impropriety. It is as if calling a female "yummy" in an elevator is worse than killing and beheading in the Middle East.

I'll say it again so that apologists and their useful idiots get the point.`
Blacks and Jews suffer worse indignities in Canada than Muslims.
It is a fact that cannot be denied.

All forms of hate crimes are to be condemned, but hate crimes against Muslims are no more important than the others and we should understand that despite the din, we are being conned.

How Netflix Will Destroy Quebec Culture

There's a scene near the end of the movie Dirty Dancing, where the ageing owner of the fictional Catskill resort, waxes nostalgically about old times and the imminent changes ahead.

You and me, Tito...

It's that it all seems to be ending.
You think kids want to come with their parents
and take fox-trot lessons? 
Trips to Europe, that's what the kids want. 
Twenty-two countries in three days. 
It feels like it's all slipping away.

I can't help feeling that Quebec is undergoing such a transformation, where the old rules of established Francophone culture and conventions are being uprooted, led by, believe it or not,  the likes of streaming services like Netflix.

Anglo Canadiens are mystified at the uproar in Quebec over the Netflix deal which Ottawa made whereby the company would be left to its own devices for a $500 million dollar investment in Canadian film productions.
But in Quebec, the deal is Earth-shattering because it represents a frontal assault on the entrenched establishment of the Quebec francophone entertainment industry controlled by a few players who have a monopoly on delivering what amounts to French culture to a captive audience.

Up to recently, francophone entertainment consumers had a very restricted diet of locally produced francophone content on Radio Canada and TVA, as well as dubbed American programming also provided by these players. The small and moribund Quebec film industry is a disaster with all the excellent Quebec francophone directors following their Canadian anglophone counterparts down to Hollywood where success operates on a different level. In 2017, of all the films rated by the Régie du cinéma du Québec, only 11% were French, while 80% were English. Yikes!

What is true, is that Quebec francophone television and film is as bad as Canadian television and film, but being prisoners of language, most Quebecers are forced to make do, while Anglophones look to American produced movies and TV shows on network and cable television, as well as emerging services like Netflix, Amazon and Hulu.
Checking the ratings a few weeks ago, the top-rated Canadian English drama TV show was the "Indian Detective" which attracted 1.2 million viewers, while on the francophone side "District 31" pulled in 1.4 million viewers.
Considering that there are more than three times as many Anglophones as compared to francophones in Canada, it tells us that francophones are largely trapped by the language barrier, which is why Quebec television shows have ratings that tower over English shows produced in Canada.
And by the way, both the above shows are dreadful.

I laugh when out-of-touch sycophants like Mitch Garber lecture Anglophones that they should embrace francophone culture by listening to fossils like Robert Charlebois, an artist who peaked in the sixties and someone few if any francophones under thirty ever heard of.

“We are poorer for not knowing Martin Matte and Robert Charlebois.” -Mitch Garber

By the way, Charlebois' hit song back in 1968 featured this line;

"Alors chu reparti sur Québecair, Transworld, Northern, Eastern, Western, pis Pan American!

A song about six airlines that don't exist anymore. Is that somehow relevant today?

As for Martin Matte, his humour is very tribal, targetted exclusively for Quebec white, pur laine francophones and a fast talker at that, one that only the most fluent of fluent anglophones could understand.
I'm reminded of a trip to a Las Vegas convention where a few company employees and I went to a show by American Black comedian Jimmy Walker (Dy-no-mite!!!) After the show, we all remarked on how funny it was, all except the one francophone who admitted he couldn't understand a damn thing and I would classify him as being completely bilingual.

Sorry Mister Garber, French TV, which is the major media component and driver of francophone culture, is amateurish at best, but good or bad, francophones have embraced it because they had few options, and like their anglophones counterparts, only an extreme level of bilingualism can afford one the luxury of being entertained in another language.
The effect of this overwhelming exposure to local content is pronounced. Dramas take place locally and storylines reflect modern Quebec life with actors who speak the same dialect and act similarly.
It is a subtle and effective driver and moulder of insular local culture. Francophones don't necessarily watch these shows for the local flavour, but rather because it was the only game in town, but the effect is there.

And so why Netflix so dangerous?

First financially, local players have made a fortune on the backs of viewers and subsidies by Canadian taxpayers which over-contribute to the francophone side, a neat little scam that has made local Quebec production so lucrative. While generally receiving about 40% of federal subsidies for entertainment, you can imagine the rage at the Netflix deal which promises a paltry $25 million in French production against $475 million in English. The entrenched francophone media cartel wanted Netflix to contribute to the Canadian media fund from which they could grab up to 40% for local French productions.
In effect, they are demanding that an English American online content provider subsidize Quebec French productions, something that Netflix scoffed at. So Netflix got exactly what it wanted, Ottawa powerless to put up a real fight.
Quebec is powerless as well because there's not much to threaten Netflix with, short of banning the service by erecting a 'Poutine Wall.'
The manufactured debate over the fact that Netflix doesn't collect the provincial sales tax is but a red herring, meant to whip up opposition in a callous and underhanded manipulative effort to undermine its encroachment on the hitherto protected territory.
And come on, have you ever hear of a consumer lobby group demanding to pay more taxes?
Even if Quebec does impose the provincial sales tax on Netflix, it will be a trifle and I can't imagine 1% of customers cancelling their service in reaction.

But the real threat to Quebec culture is the programming that Netflix provides and this at affordable prices,  providing subscribers with the latest English programming with subtitles and more importantly, Netflix's original program which is dubbed into French. Netflix also provides a French language interface so unilingual francophones can manoeuvre through the myriad choice of programming with ease.
By the way, the dubbing that Netflix provides on its own exclusive programming is far superior to anything done in Quebec with production budgets and standards that dwarf anything Quebec media can muster. Read a fascinating account of the effort Netflix puts into dubbing. How Netflix translated “Stranger Things”
Alas, this dubbing is in Parisien French meant to cater to a worldwide audience, something that infuriates Quebec language militants to no end, exposing Quebecers to a different "French" experience as well as costing dubbing jobs in Quebec.
Aside from all this are the stories themselves, which no longer feature Quebec locales or story lines, and which are, to say the least, more compelling. The vaunted Quebec star system is complety bypassed, another nail in the coffin of Quebec culture.

As the famed Eddie Cantor warned America in a song issued after World War One about returning American soldiers;

"How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm
After they've seen Paree'
How ya gonna keep 'em away from Broadway
Jazzin around and paintin' the town
How ya gonna keep 'em away from harm, that's a mystery
They'll never want to see a rake or plough
And who the deuce can parleyvous a cow?
How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm
After they've seen Paree"

The truth is that Quebec media cannot compete with Netflix where it's original programming is more compelling than local content and which lifts Quebec francophone viewers into the major leagues. The result will transform even those unilingual francophones living in the boonies into becoming more cosmopolitan and worldly, freed from the shackles of insular local content.

For many years Quebec culture and language militants have scoffed at English Canada for being engulfed by the international anglo culture led by America. These people cherished Quebec's cultural individualness but Netflix, for better or worse, will lead francophone Quebec down that same garden path and as Max Kellerman warned us...'it's all slipping away.

Trudeau's Ethics Violation- Much Ado About Nothing

Regular readers will note that I'm not a big Justin Trudeau fan, in fact, I despise his very essence.
A phoney dilettant who lectures us with alt.liberal canned jargon with a smug superior attitude that breathes contempt for anyone who disagrees with his radical beliefs.

Trudeau is a Prime Minister without moral scruples, spending money that he doesn't have by burdening future generations with a debt load they never approved or bargained for.
In this respect, he's a chip off the old block, his father was another big spender who mortgaged Canada's future by spending money the country didn't have.

All this said I cannot hide a certain incredulity over the manufactured brouhaha over his vacation on what has become known as 'billionaire's island' a trip now found in breach of Parliamentary ethical standards.
Nobody seems to take Trudeau to task for raiding your grandchildren's legacy by borrowing billions upon billions and making them the guarantor of that debt, yet a mooched vacation is a big deal.

Usually, defecit spending is explained by a pressing need to end an economic recession or perhaps to finance a war. Such is not the case with young Justin who is borrowing and blowing billions upon billions of dollars just to keep his government popular.
Of course, his supporters tend to explain away or ignore this national theft because it is convenient, but what Trudeau and the Liberals are doing is unconscionable. It is taxation without representation because while we voted for him and his government, the unborn future generations who will be saddled with his debt certainly did not.
Deficit spending is hard for the average Canadian to oppose because the average Canadian is easily bribed with his or her own money and even more excited about being bribed with their grandchildren's money.
Since it is the holiday season let us make a Christmas analogy where we compare two fathers who treat the family finances differently.
Both families are facing a financially tough situation and the first father gathers the family around the dinner table and tells them that they will have to live with a less extravagant Christmas, where every family member will be limited to one modestly-priced present. The father explains that the family finances dictate that prudence be the rule and the future financial well-being of the family demands discipline.
The second father sees things differently and even though his family is as financially strapped as the first, he goes out and blows thousands and thousands of dollars on expensive and lavish Christmas gifts.
The children are thrilled and the father is a hero.
What the children don't know is that the deadbeat dad has taken out loans to pay for his largesse and that those loans were taken in the children's' name, unbeknownst and without their permission. It is they who will have to assume the debt once they grow up and join the workforce.
Justin Trudeau is that deadbeat dad and we should be outraged at his spendthrift behaviour, but alas we are not because we are infatuated with the Trudeau persona which blinds too many of us.

As for his ethics violation or even that of his finance minister, Bill Morneau, these are trifling distractions, small potatoes that the opposition seized upon because idiot Canadians cannot comprehend the real damage that Trudeau and company are wreaking on the finances of this country.

As for Trudeau's vacation on the island of a billionaire Arab benefactor, I couldn't care less. It is a trifle.
And by the way, what's a Prime Minister to do?
There is a Prime Ministerial retreat in Harrington Lake, but it hardly counts as a winter getaway. The Prime Minister cannot book a week at Club Med or a Carnival cruise.
Contrary to popular belief, Trudeau is not a gazillionaire as is his finance minister. The mooched vacation actually saved the government of Canada a considerable amount of money, the Aga Khan picked up most of the expenses.
As for special treatment, the Aga Khan doesn't need Canada's money, he is very rich. Any money given to his charities by Canadians is just that, charity...so what?

The opposition is playing a dirty game because they cannot make a real case against Trudeau, something that they should be able to do without employing cheap distractions.

I've come to conclude that Canadians voters are just as stupid as American voters and issues don't matter, while personality does.

For those of you enraged by Justin's trip to billionaire's island last year, take solace in that the Trudeau clan will no doubt be spending a very cold and local Christmas vacation this year. That's punishment enough for his trivial ethics violation.

Muslims and Jews Targeted Falsely by Quebec Network

Fake news happens when reporters and or news organizations want a story to be true so badly that they throw journalistic standards out the window.

This week saw Quebec's largest independent network TVA, publish quite prominently, two stories that were completely untrue, stories that fed into the latent racism that marks Quebec society.

The first story, is that of a mosque in Côte-des- Neiges in Montreal, that was falsely accused of asking a construction company which was doing work in the street in front of the mosque if it could curtail the presence of women on the job site on Fridays during prayers.
You've probably heard about that fiasco and the network's tepid reaction to the revelation that the story was completely false, a figment of imagination of two construction workers whose word the dimwit TVA reporter took at face value without verification.
The reporter confronted the mosque officials and told them that the contract for the work had a clause banning women from the site, a complete lie that the reporter made up or one that she had been fed. If she was told this by a source,  she should have realized that it couldn't be true because the contract was between the city and the contractor, one which the mosque had nothing to do with, nor any input in its terms.
After the leaders of the mosque denied ever making such a demand, they asked for proof that such a clause actually existed, to which the dummy reporter, Marie-Pier Cloutier, told them she'd be back with the contract which according to her, would show in "black and white" the interdiction on women, which of course never happened. The city later confirmed that no such clause existed. The very idea that the city would include such a clause in a contract is ludicrous and the moron reporter, should have known this.
You'd think editors and bosses back at the ranch would smell a rat, but this story was too good to be true and thus they ran with banner headlines and video splashed across its media empire. Politicians, including our Premier, commented on how wrong this incident was and a militant anti-Muslim group announced a demonstration in front of the mosque to protest.

Credit the CCQ, the Commission overseeing the construction industry which undertook a lightning fast investigation after complaints from the mosque. In short order, the CCQ announced that the whole affair was a complete 100% fabrication.
TVA first defended its reporting but later reluctantly admitted that they were suckered and published what amounted to fake news. That being said, the network issued a 'clarification' buried at the bottom of its web page which wasn't really much of an apology.
And by the way, even after the story was debunked, the planned demonstration against the mosque still went ahead with one protester telling a reporter that the story was probably true, but covered up.

The mosque received the requisite number of threats and was forced to put up a banner proclaiming that it supports women's rights. Police were required to provide security and this Friday's prayers were sparsely attended for good reason.
Sheesh....

And that's not the only fake news coming out of TVA.
Earlier in the week, it reported that an SAQ outlet, (the government-run liquor monopoly) had left its Christmas tree holiday tree, unadorned in one of its locations because it did not want to offend the area's large Hassidic community.
"Pro-active unreasonable accommodations" was the outraged opinions offered by the network which reported the story without checking the sources. Let us remember that TVA is a large network with huge resources.

It turns out the tree wasn't decorated because it was too scrawny and couldn't hold decorations. When a customer asked why the tree wasn't decorated, an annoyed store clerk trolled the complainer by telling her the made up story about offending Jews. The outraged customer contacted TVA to complain and the network shamefully ran the story without ever checking the validity of the claim with the SAQ.
When the network realized that it had published another fake news story, they actually blamed the employee for the fiasco and playfully commented that they had been 'had' with a clever play on words.

 "FAIT PASSER UN SAPIN" is a French phrase which translates as 'getting stuck with a fir (Xmas) tree.' which means having been fooled.

At any rate, all this happens because Quebecers want these stories to be true, in order to validate their prejudice.
Quebec's TVA network suffers from the same disease that has befallen American networks like CNN, ABC and CNBC whose opposition to Donald Trump is so bitter that they publish any negative tidbit they can without applying proper journalistic standards, leading to the same embarrassing retractions as has befallen TVA.

TVA says they are reviewing their journalistic practices in light of the fiascoes, but it probably is just a smokescreen and when the smoke clears it will be business as usual, publishing real and dubious stories that make minorities look bad.
Why?
Because the public loves it. It feeds the xenophobia and anti-English sentiment that rages throughout the province.

For Liberals... The Trump Phenomenon Explained

It amuses me more than just a little to see Liberals throwing their hands up in the air in abject horror, exasperation and utter bewilderment at the ongoing saga of the Donald Trump presidency.
For those Liberals who took a small measure of solace in the misguided hope that Trump would somehow moderate his campaign rhetoric and morph into something more 'presidential' once he attained the office, it is as if their worst fears were realized and to their consternation Trump has perhaps gotten even more arrogant, dishonest and bizarre.
For Liberals, it is not only Trump's policies that have them unnerved, but his personal conduct and reputation that have them blowing smoke out of their ears, utterly confused as to how even staunch conservatives could ever vote for such a repugnant character.

But conservative voters did vote for Trump and most still support him.
This remains the most confusing element for Liberals to understand and most attribute Trump's unlikely and surprising support to the uninformed and simplistic beliefs of the great unwashed.

Just a few days ago Chris Matthews of CNBC displayed the most arrogant Liberal rage against southern evangelicals, typical of the Liberal disdain for those who hold religious views or conservative values.

"Don't think this isn't related to Alabama next week. It is related," Matthews said. "Because it’s the Christian Evangelicals down there with their crazy ideas about Israel which is, I don't know, mythical. They don't understand the situation over there, how tricky it is ethnically and tribally," he added. "They don't care because it's a religious belief. "

According to Liberals, only the deeply religious, the stupid and the naive could possibly support Trump while conceding that unfortunately, America has too many religious, stupid and naive voters.

And so Liberals continue to scratch their heads and wonder how on Earth any thinking person could vote or continue to support Donald Trump. Those on CNN and CNBC pontificate ad nauseum, citing Trump's gaffs and lies in order to attack and denigrate his conservative agenda.

To understand how big the Trump presidential victory was, between the Black, Hispanic and Muslim vote, which accounted for 32% of the electorate, Trump received just 25% support meaning that out of the remaining 68% of the electorate, he had to win 2/3 of their votes to become president.
So I guess that the Liberals are right, there are quite a lot of deeply religious, stupid and naive White Americans.

With pious claims of impartiality, CNN, CNBC and the like, mercilessly trample and denigrate Trump, his associates, his policies and his agenda, all the while its Liberal commentators and Liberal supporters are furious that most of the country pays them no never-mind.

The latest merciless attacks by  CNN on Judge Roy Moore, the Alabama state judge who is the Republican nominee in the upcoming December 12, 2017, Senate special election, has bordered on the hysterical and the obscene.
If  Liberals hate Trump, Moore has values and ideas that make Trump look like a Liberal card-carrying member of the ACLU. There can be no candidate, short of a neo-nazi or KKK member that can generate more Liberal hysteria and hair-pulling.

I watched the latest screed on CNN Sunday morning where the ever-smug ultra-Liberal Michael Smerconish checked off, one by one, the alleged transgressions of the Republican candidate, allegations that happened thirty years ago that purport that Moore had a penchant for dating young and underaged girls, sometimes against their will.
An incredulous Smerconish implored his guest to explain just how on Earth anyone could vote for the judge in the face of such overwhelming evidence of lechery and moral turpitude. Smerconish's obvious pain and exasperation was for me a delicious serving of schadenfreude.

Let me attempt to explain to Smerconish and other Liberals exactly why conservatives vote for Trump and the even less lovable Judge Roy Moore.

Let us return to a mythical high school where a certain freshman named Wally is a poor student who is bullied unmercifully by his peers for his bumpkin ways, his deeply religious affiliation, and his goofy attire and demeanour.  The bullies not only beat him up in the bathroom, dunking his head in the toilet and delivering painful wedgies, they steal his lunch money on a daily basis and make his life generally intolerable. Although he complains to authorities, the system doesn't seem able to cope and finally out of frustration and inner rage he decides to do something himself.
He lets it be known that he's looking to pay a senior to remedy the situation and receives two replies.
The first is from a honours student named Randy who is a champion of the debating team and comes from a great family. His reputation is impeccable and he promises to do right by Wally, explaining that he will confront the bullies and convince them through reason to let up or at least reduce the pain. He promises to do his best but warns Wally to be realistic in his expectations.
Wally is dutifully unimpressed.
The second respondent is Rocco, a nasty thug who has been suspended twice, once for grabbing a girls breasts in class and the second for unleashing a frightful foul-mouthed tirade against a teacher who gave him a failing grade. He was expelled from his last school for beating up a fellow student and for telling damaging lies and denigrating teachers and students who cross him.
He explains to Wally that his methods are simple, he will beat the living daylights out of the leader of the bullies and in the unlikely event that the bullying continues he will escalate the violence.
He promises unequivocably that the bullying will end. Period.

Wally ponders who to hire.
Rocco may be disreputable and he may break a few bones along the way, but his brutish methods sound like a winning formula and so, morals aside, the decision is easy. Wally doesn't care if Rocco is uncouth and violent, or if he is a sexual predator. He doesn't care if Rocco breaks the rules and a few legs along the way and he certainly isn't perturbed by Rocco's nasty reputation. He hires Rocco.

When word gets out that Wally has hired Rocco, the teachers and fellow students implore him to reconsider, citing Rocco's nasty and dangerous reputation.
How can you hire a guy who treats women like that?
How can you hire a guy who resorts to violence?
How can you hire a liar?
How can you put your faith in such an untrustworthy goon?

These entreaties of course fall on  Wally's deaf ears.
Wally cares little about those who complain about Rocco, because they are the ones who have let Wally down in the past. Their opinions are of no importance. In fact the more they howl about how nasty Rocco is and how uncomfortable he makes them, the happier Wally is.

And so well-ensconced and financially secure Liberals need to understand that America is full of Wallys who aren't doing as well and are none too happy about it. Donald Trump is their chosen deliverer and his misdeeds are of no import, his nastiness, lack of morals and dubious character are exactly what they desire in a leader who will defend their interests against the hitherto ruling class that has ignored their interests.

Voters are selfish.
If the choice is between someone of good reputation but who doesn't reflect the platform that voters desire, then the candidate who does, even with a checkered past or dubious reputation will get their vote.
This is the lesson of the 2016 presidential election.

So Smerconish and Mathews and the rest of the Liberal Press corps of CNN and CNBC can trash talk Trump all they want, supporters don't give a flying fig.

Donald Trump may appear rash and stupid, his hyperbole naked and embarrassing, to Liberals, that is.
But his branding of CNN, the New York Times, MSNBC as purveyors of 'fake news' was brilliant and not altogether untrue. These media outlets have been working overtime to bring down his presidency with skewered reporting and false stories rushed to air or print with too little or no editorial oversight.
Read: CNN error extends run of journalistic mishaps
Read: 7 Times CNN Botched The News In 2017

Trump has brilliantly rendered the Liberal media irrelevant to his constituency and as hard as this media tries to bring down his presidency, the people that it needs to convince, that is the Trump supporters, have tuned them out.

And that is why Trump endures.

Liberals may hate Trump's agenda but that is the agenda that America voted for.
This reality enrages Liberals who refuse to accept the results of the presidential election, choosing to believe that the unseen hand of Russia's Vladimir Putin somehow put his thumb on the electoral scale in favour of Trump and thus rigged the election. It is an ongoing fantasy propagated by the Liberal media in order to delegitimize Trump and assuage the very real pain and angst his presidency has inflicted upon the delicate Liberal soul.

And so Trump said he'd recognize Jeruselum as Israel's capital and he did so last week over the howls of disbelief by a Liberal media that actually believe the fiction that Mideast peace negotiations will be affected when the reality is that there are no peace negotiations.
Trump withdrew from the Paris climate accord exactly as he said he would, sending climate activists into a catatonic state. Too bad.
Trump said he'd re-negotiate the NAFTA free trade agreement and despite Canada's contention that the treaty isn't unfair, our Prime Minister is offering untold concessions because he has no choice. If NAFTA survives, the United States will win some impressive concessions. Too bad for Canada, good for the USA.
Trump will build a wall across the Mexican border because he promised he would and the Liberal media's will continue to peddle the fiction that the project is unrealistic and too expensive despite security walls existing in over sixty-five countries, including poor countries like India which has built a 2,500-mile fence across its border with Bangladesh. Read: How 65 countries have erected fences on their borders
The illegal alien situation will begin to be addressed under Trump, despite the Liberal's endorsement of the status quo where illegals work as indentured servants, depressing salaries of lower class Americans and continuing America's fine tradition of slavery.

Too bad for the Liberals.
The meek of America have finally inherited the USA power structure.

In closing, I'd like to comment on the Trump character assassination that pervades the Liberal media.
Trump is certainly no angel, but consider;
In constantly painting Trump as a misogynist and a liar, the Liberal media forget that their presidential idols, Bill Clinton and John F Kennedy were infinitely worse scoundrels. Cheaters who lied to the world about their reckless and serial infidelities and this while serving in the White house, employing secret service assets to hide their sex addiction, counting on the Liberal media to defend them.

Perhaps the nastiest trait that Liberals manifest is their unflinching belief that they have all the answers and that those who offer a different scenario are seriously retarded.
Look to the American colleges and universities that are thrashing free expression because views other than the that offered by the Liberal ruling caste cannot be tolerated.
This attitude continues in the Liberal media which cannot fathom or accept a president who isn't a Liberal and one who ignores their entitled pronouncements and demands.

Their pain is palpable and real. This comeuppance is a continuing gift to those who cannot stomach Liberal arrogance and watching them suffer is a particularly pleasant gift this holiday season.