For the first time since 1980, the U.S. men’s hockey team has defeated our chief communist adversary in front of the entire world at the Winter Olympics. If you watched the gold-medal game, and you’re an American, you were probably enjoying yourself the entire time. I certainly was. It was a close game. It went to overtime. Our goalie looked like this:
He’s got the American flag and a largemouth bass on his headgear, which is pretty hard to beat. And on top of that, he stopped something like 40 shots during the game. It was incredible to watch, even if you aren’t usually interested in hockey, which I’m not. Meanwhile, Jack Hughes took a high stick to the face, lost a tooth, scored the game-winning goal, and then gave a patriotic post-game interview that NBC briefly removed from social media. Watch:
Jack Hughes processing the emotions of the CLUTCH overtime goal for GOLD! 👏 pic.twitter.com/TAX9U76pbK
— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) February 22, 2026
Holy smokes. This might be the most American thing I’ve ever seen.
Congrats to these guys 🇺🇸pic.twitter.com/HCwbAcjXvM
— Jack (@jackunheard) February 22, 2026
This was the spirit that most Americans shared as we watched this game. We wanted our team to win because we’re proud to be Americans. And then when they won, we celebrated for the same reason.
Canadians, on the other hand, aren’t actually proud of their country. That’s because, as Justin Trudeau famously announced a decade ago, Canada isn’t a country at all. It’s a post-national, colonialist, white supremacist blob. So really, Canadians “hate-watch” games like this. They aren’t rooting for Canada so much as they’re rooting for America to lose.
And if you’re Canadian, this is basically all you have, at this point. The Winter Olympics are your last stand. Canada’s economy is in free fall. Canadians were just caught, on-camera, cheating at curling — yes, curling. And on top of that, hockey is the only sport Canadians play. If they lost to the United States, where hockey is basically a niche interest, then reasonable Canadians would have to ask: “What are we doing here? Other than burning churches and killing our own citizens — including children and the elderly — what exactly do we excel at?”
But Americans don’t need to ask that question because our country is exceptional. We excel at everything. We’re capable of dominating foreign countries in sports they *invented* and play all the time. Canadians obsess over hockey. We barely think about it, and we still beat them. For our next trick, we should assemble the greatest cricket team of all time and then go win the Cricket World Series, or whatever it’s called. I want to see hundreds of drunk Americans tailgating outside of the stadium, being as obnoxious as possible, about a sport none of us have watched or understand.
For me personally, this historic victory came at a fortuitous time. I’ve been taking a lot of flak from leftists, especially leftists in Canada, for briefly making the argument last week that the United States would be morally justified in invading and conquering Canada. At the very least, we would be just as, if not much more, morally justified in invading Canada as we would be in invading literally any other country on the planet, including Iran. Now that we have conquered Canada on the ice, I think it’s a good time to add insult to injury and lay out this case in detail. I’m not necessarily saying that we should invade. But I am saying that a very reasonable case can be made for it.
In a moment, I’ll outline that case — from a moral, geopolitical, and strategic perspective. But before I do so, I need to address the inevitable counter-argument, which is that “it’ll never happen” or “it’s crazy.” These aren’t arguments against invading Canada. They’re simply statements about what’s likely to occur. But they aren’t persuasive, especially after the United States took out Maduro in Venezuela. There are many, many similarities between Venezuela and Canada. Like Venezuela, Canada is a poor country that has badly mismanaged its vast natural resources — resources that, in a functioning state, would produce immense wealth. Like Venezuela, Canada does not respect the freedom of speech. They’re a gross human rights violator. Dissidents are routinely punished, and their lives are destroyed, for the crime of offending the government. Like Venezuela, Canada has signaled its allegiance to China, which poses an obvious threat to the security of this hemisphere. And like Venezuela, Canada essentially has no military. All we’d have to do is swoop in, activate the “Discombobulator,” and deport Mark Carney to someplace like London or New York — where he’s spent most of his life. It would be a casualty-free, one-night “war.” And many Canadians — particularly the ones living in Alberta — would welcome us as liberators. We could put them in charge, just like we replaced Maduro. It’s not like the Left-wing Canadians would fight back; They don’t even have guns. We did basically the same exact operation, just a few weeks ago.
An argument could be made that a similar operation — one that targets Ottawa — is necessary, for all the same reasons and more. We’ll start with the fact that Canada is squandering its vast natural resources, which is a grave injustice that affects millions of lives. Canada has almost unparalleled access to some of the most valuable, God-given resources on the planet, and they’re simply not using them. And people are suffering in large numbers as a result. Under the “Don-Roe doctrine,” which our president has clearly laid out, this is a major problem that needs to be rectified.
By most estimates, Canada has around $800,000 in “natural resource wealth per capita.” That’s more than six times the resource wealth in the United States, per capita. In other words, given their small population, there’s no reason why every Canadian shouldn’t be well-off. Every single one of them should have immediate access to high-quality healthcare, a home, and a stable income. On a per-person basis, the typical Canadian should have more wealth than the typical American — especially since the demographics of Canada, historically speaking, have been relatively homogenous.
What’s happened, instead, is that Canada has squandered this wealth. They’ve passed environmental regulations that make it difficult, if not impossible, to build new pipelines, dams, and mines. Before anything can get done, they have “gender equity reviews” to conduct, emissions standards to meet, high taxes to pay, and “indigenous elders” to consult. Canadians appear to believe that it’s important to sabotage their own economy for ideological reasons. But whatever their reasoning, they’re making themselves poor on purpose. And many Canadians don’t appear to realize it.
That’s why there was mass hysteria among Canadians the other day, when the Canadian paper “Globe and Mail” ran a story about just how poor Canadians are. This was the title of the article: “Out of nowhere, Canada became poorer than Alabama. How is that possible?”
It’s a great headline for a couple of reasons. First of all, Canada didn’t become poor “out of nowhere.”
For ten years, as you can see here, Canada’s GDP per capita — which is a useful way to measure quality of life — has been going down, while ours has been going up. That means Americans have the benefit of a much stronger economy, which means more jobs and higher wages. We began surging when Trump, in his first term, lowered the tax rate for businesses.
On the other hand, Canada’s entire economy stalled the moment the liberals took over the government, raised taxes, increased regulations, and began flooding the country with foreigners, mostly from South Asia. This has been a very slow and very noticeable decline.
To be more accurate, as you can see there, the percentage of foreign-born Canadians has been increasing for decades — and it’s accelerated even more in the past decade. So there’s nothing about Canada’s economic situation that should catch anyone by surprise, or come “out of nowhere.”
Also, of course, the headline is amusing because they’re acting like Alabama is a third-world hellscape. They have some kind of South Park cartoon understanding of the world. In reality, Alabama is a hub for the aerospace industry, as well as biotech, defense, cars, and so on. But every time this topic comes up, Canadian politicians act like Alabama is on another planet. Watch:
It’s obvious this guy — like most Canadians — has never been anywhere near Alabama. But to their credit, the “Globe and Mail” did venture out to the Deep South. Here’s what they wrote in their now-viral story. And I promise, this is real:
For an ego check, The Globe and Mail travelled to the Deep South to understand how this happened [meaning, how Canada became poor]. Immediately, it was obvious Alabama is misunderstood. In Huntsville, there are as many Subaru Outbacks as there are pickup trucks. … Its economy is booming. … The state’s unemployment rate is now just 2.7 per cent, versus 6.5 per cent in Canada. … In 2024, Alabama made nearly as many vehicles as Ontario. … The U.S. simply pays more for many senior white-collar jobs, and top personal tax rates in Alabama can be around 40 per cent. Today, they’re 53.5 per cent in Ontario.
So the Canadian journalists were shocked — positively stunned — to see a lot of Subaru Outbacks in Alabama. They were expecting that everyone would be driving a pickup truck, in their wife beaters, with bottles of Jack Daniels strewn all over the place. And what did they discover? They discovered that almost everyone has a job, real estate is cheap, salaries are high, and people don’t have to wait a year to get an MRI. And more to the point, people have *real jobs* in Alabama. They aren’t all working for the government, or for government-funded nonprofits, which is the norm in Canada.
And there’s something else that Alabama has — freedom of speech. That brings us to the second major reason why Canada’s regime deserves to be overthrown. They’re committing flagrant human rights abuses on our doorstep. In fact, Canada has now fallen to the point that citizens are being fined nearly a million dollars for telling the truth about human biology. I’m going to spend some time on this case because it is representative of the greater problem in Canada. This story is from the CBC, which is Canada’s state-run propaganda outlet:
The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has ordered former school trustee Barry Neufeld to pay $750,000 for violating the Human Rights Code by publishing hate speech and discriminatory content against 2SLGBTQ+ people. Neufeld’s publications included Facebook posts, a speech at a gathering, a widely-circulated email, and comments at a school board meeting and in the media. The tribunal found six of his publications were likely to expose trans, gay and lesbian people to hatred or contempt based on their gender identity or sexual orientation.
The $750,000 will cover payments to “teachers’ association members who identify as LGBTQ between October 2017 through 2022 for injury to their dignity, feelings and self-respect.”
Yes, in Canada, according to the law, if you hurt the “feelings” of a “2SLBGTQ” person, then the government will destroy your life. That’s what this decision means. And no mainstream Canadian politician seems to care, as far as I can tell. There certainly hasn’t been any massive outrage in Canada over this decision.
Even before we look at the content of the allegedly “offending posts,” this decision is — when accurately viewed not as an aberration but as a symptom of the overarching communist tyranny in Canada — a free-standing justification to invade and depose the Canadian regime. The right to freedom of speech is the single most important right in the Western World. It’s why it’s the First Amendment to our Constitution. And no matter how offensive your “speech” may be, and no matter whose “feelings” you might hurt, it doesn’t matter. Once you lose the freedom of speech, you become a rogue, tyrannical state. This is worse than North Korea, in many ways. At least North Korea is nowhere near our border.
Now you might say, well, maybe this guy was threatening someone, or saying things that were truly dangerous. Let’s open the tribunal’s decision and see.
On October 23, 2017, Mr. Neufeld posted a long, public statement on Facebook, describing [teaching about sexual orientation and gender identity] as a “weapon of propaganda,” which instructs children about the “absurd theory” that “gender is not biologically determined, but a social construct.” He said “allowing” children to “change gender” was child abuse. Mr. Neufeld ended the post saying he belonged in a country like Russia or Paraguay, “which recently had the guts to stand up to these radical cultural nihilists.”
In a separate post, “He calls “[t]ransgenderism … a way of coping and surviving horrendous physical and sexual abuse as children” and says that the most “at-risk children” are “disturbed and mentally ill children — especially autistic, obsessive/compulsive, sexual abuse survivors and post-traumatic Stress syndrome kids.”
Everything in these posts is unquestionably true. As always, what’s happening here is that the censors realize they can’t win an actual argument. They know that their ideology doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. So instead of allowing debate, they’re going to force everyone to comply. And the more you read this decision, the more obvious that becomes. Here’s easily the most Orwellian passage to ever appear in a legal decision in memory. It’s truly deranged.
Transpeople are, by definition, people “whose gender identity does not align with the sex assigned to them at birth.” If a person elects not to “believe” that gender identity is separate from sex assigned at birth, then they do not “believe” in transpeople. This is a form of existential denial. …It is not, as Mr. Neufeld argues, akin to religious beliefs. A person does not need to believe in Christianity to accept that another person is Christian. However, to accept that a person is transgender, one must accept that their gender identity is different than their sex assigned at birth.
As this Tribunal has recognized, “the question of whether transgender people exist and are entitled to dignity in this province is as valuable to ongoing public debate as whether one race is superior to another” …
Calling transness “gender ideology” allows anti-trans activists to hide behind a veneer of reasonableness. It allows them to say, as Mr. Neufeld did in his statements, that they are not attacking human beings. They are simply opposing a set of ideas. But behind this insidious veneer is the proposition that transness is not real. Such phrasing can make it easier to ignore that trans people are human beings.”
It’s just an extraordinary passage, for so many reasons. First of all, even if he was denying the actual existence of trans people as human beings, he should be free to do that. If someone says I don’t exist, they aren’t harming me in any way. They could only harm me with that claim if I’m so mentally unstable that they might manage to persuade me of my own non-existence. But in any case, he is not denying the existence of people who call themselves trans. He is denying the validity of the claim they’re making about themselves. And if you don’t have the right to do that, then you don’t have any rights at all.
The Canadian tribunal says it’s not “valuable” to have this conversation. Which, again, even if that were true, only a communist dystopian hellhole would have a tribunal that legally declares what conversations are valuable or not. And that’s what Canada has become. The tribunal draws a comparison between this and race, saying it’s not valuable to debate whether members of one race can be different from another, on average, in ways that are positive or negative. Clearly, they don’t think it’s “valuable” to talk about race, because they don’t think it serves any purpose, other than emboldening racists or whatever.
But in the same breath, these *same people* will mandate anti-white racial discrimination and relentless affirmative action, on the theory that *all racial disparities between whites and non-whites* are the result of systemic discrimination and white supremacy. And that theory would fall apart completely if someone could point to an alternative explanation for racial disparities. So really, it’s not that the tribunal thinks the debate on race isn’t “valuable” or relevant. It’s that, if you allow debate on the issue, then people might start to question some core tenets of leftism. And the “Human Rights Tribunal” can’t allow that. Along the same lines, this tribunal says, it’s simply not “valuable” to debate the issue of whether a 10-year-old boy can instantly transform into a girl. It’s transparently an effort to shut down a debate that they know they’re losing.
The decision is the codification of trans insanity into law, which will have enormous consequences for children in Canada. It will ruin thousands of lives. The decision also amounts to the formal suspension of the freedom of speech in Canada, which will be the death knell of the entire country. It’s the position of the Canadian government that, if you hold the wrong opinions, then your property is forfeit. You don’t actually own anything. You’ll have to hand over your life savings.
This has been coming for a long time. As we’ve talked about, Canadian courts have already started informing homeowners that the “Indigenous tribes” actually own their land. So even though Canadians paid for their homes, they don’t really own them. It’s similar to what we saw during the trucker convoy, when peaceful protesters discovered that their bank accounts had been seized. Canada is a perfect expression of the World Economic Forum’s goal, which is that in the future, people will own nothing. Before this ideology spreads any further, we need to stop it.
And that’s not even getting into the Canadian government’s deliberate and ongoing effort to murder its own citizens. The outlet “Right to Life News” took a look at an official report from the government of Canada on this topic. Here’s what it found, per RightToLife.
An official report by the Chief Coroner of Ontario’s Medical Assistance in Dying Death Review Committee (MDRC) highlighted that, in 2023, 65 people in Ontario had their lives ended by Canada’s assisted suicide and euthanasia programme on the same day that they made their requests to do so. A further 154 people had their lives ended the day after their request was made.
One of those cases involved a woman named Mrs. B, who was in her 80s. She had heart surgery and was suffering complications, so she chose to receive palliative care. When her spouse requested a euthanasia assessment, Mrs B. indicated that she wanted to withdraw that request “citing personal and religious values and beliefs,” preferring instead to pursue “in-patient palliative care/hospice care.” But hospice care was denied, so her spouse again requested a euthanasia assessment. That time, Mrs. B apparently relented — even though one of her assessors “held concerns regarding the necessity for ‘urgency’ and … the seemingly drastic change in perspective of end-of-life goals, and the possibility of coercion or undue influence (i.e. due to caregiver burnout).”
These stories are very common, which is why so-called “medical assistance in dying” is now the fifth-leading cause of death in Canada. Again, the MAID program on its own — the widespread systematic killing of the sick and the vulnerable — would easily be a valid moral justification for invading the country and deposing the regime. This is happening right over our border. Right in our backyard. Any regime that engages in outright eugenics, executing people who are deemed undesirable, no longer has any moral claim to legitimacy. In Canada, they have “free healthcare” — but the healthcare is a lethal injection. We also talked about the story of the 26-year-old man who was murdered because he had “seasonal depression,” in addition to diabetes and blindness. In short, Canada has begun killing its own citizens because its healthcare system is overrun with foreigners — and also because they’re running out of organs. So they’re trying to kill two birds with one stone here. They want to reduce the population to ease the burden on the healthcare system, and they also want more organs that the healthcare system can use.
And by the way, the people who are getting put to death are *not* the foreigners. It’s overwhelmingly white Canadians who are being put down. Something like 95% of so-called “MAID Recipients” are white. So the replacement is occurring on both ends. They’re importing foreigners, and they’re killing the white people.
There are many more human rights abuses in Canada that we could talk about, from the mutilation and castration of children in the name of gender ideology, to the church burnings based on a false narrative intended to demonize Christians, to the state-funded murder of children — including partial birth abortions. There are no federal laws restricting abortion at all in Canada. That means it is legal to execute a fully developed infant while the child is being born. That’s what a partial birth abortion is — it’s just straight up infanticide, killing an infant who is in the middle of being delivered anyway. That is legal in Canada. And it is, again, all by itself, just as evil as anything that the North Korean or Iranian regime has ever done. Period.
We have deposed many governments for less. And in this case, there’s yet another reason to invade Canada, which is that a lot of people in Canada want us to do it. And the Canadians who would oppose us, as I mentioned, have already been disarmed. They’re completely powerless. The Trump administration seems to be aware of all of this, which is why the Treasury secretary just suggested that high-level talks with Alberta officials are currently underway. Watch:
WATCH: U.S. Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent blatantly pushing for Alberta separatism:
“The Albertans are very independent people. There are rumours that they may have a referendum on whether they want to stay in Canada or not. People are saying, people are talking. People want… pic.twitter.com/2LLTdKyHrG
— Harrison Faulkner (@Harry__Faulkner) January 23, 2026
If you live in Alberta — the economic engine of Canada, and the province where most of my Canadian listeners live — then this is very good news. You have an “off ramp,” as Canada continues its slide into total decay and dysfunction. Alberta has seen what’s happened to Toronto and Vancouver. Alberta understands how unrecognizable these places have become. And all along, with their tax dollars, Alberta has been funding the collapse of these provinces. That doesn’t need to continue any longer. In about 48 hours, the U.S. military can put an end to it.
Yes, at the moment, an attack on Iran appears to be imminent. America may be on the verge of another large-scale military commitment in a region of the world thousands of miles away. But Canada is right here. It is very easy to argue that not only do we have a greater moral responsibility to respond to atrocities in Canada because it’s right here, on our continent, right next door, but also (and more importantly) that Canada’s slide into a communist dystopia overrun with third-world foreigners presents a clear and present danger to our country and our wellbeing. It is not readily apparent how an evil regime in Iran presents any real threat to the United States. It is, however, very readily apparent how an evil regime seated 60 miles from our own border does present a real threat to us. We already beat them in hockey. The funny thing is that conquering the entire country would actually be considerably easier and less bloody than that hockey game. Does that mean we should do it? Well, I think there’s a very respectable argument, which I have just laid out. And today, as we celebrate our gold medal, it’s something worth considering.
