Posted by By now, you probably have heard or read about how our pretty-boy Prime Minister, “himbo” Trudeau Jr. managed to shove both his feet in his mouth again with his off the cuff reply to a woman who used the word “mankind.” “We like to say peoplekind, not necessarily mankind. It’s more inclusive.” It went viral around the world but our Canadian Brainwashing Corporation still tried to spin it as at attack by right-wing media on their beloved GQ Prime Minister. “U.S. right seizes on ‘peoplekind’ comment ahead of Trudeau’s trip to sell NAFTA” is what the CBC wants us to think is the truth in its very partisanly titled headline.
I have bad news for the CBC, it’s not just the right-wing media. The Washington Post (which I doubt anyone realistically would categorise as right-wing by any stretch) headline reads, “Forget ‘peoplekind.’ There’s a lot else wrong with Justin Trudeau.” In the article, the author calles Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, “Philippine dictator”, ignoring the fact that he was democratically elected and has not seized power so this is no right-wing partisan who is slagging Trudeau. Heck even the Toronto Star, a publication which thinks Huffington Post is too right-wing, has had enough as one can surmise from its headline, “For the sake of peoplekind, Justin Trudeau needs to shut his mouth.”
Forget climate change, terrorism, potential war or a volatile stock market. The biggest threat to Canada right now? It is our leader’s mouth. Indeed, as peoplekind turned into peoplekind-gate on Wednesday, Trudeau blamed the brouhaha on bad comedy genes. He said peoplekind was just a “dumb joke.”
But whether it was a botched punchline or a window into how the unicorns in his brain run wild, Trudeau should be deeply disturbed by how most of the international media now assume it was the latter.
It wasn’t just conservative outlets that had a field day. Peoplekind spread like a virus, infecting Europe, Asia and South America with bouts of laughter. Trudeau didn’t get a pass on peoplekind because, at this point, his mouth has chewed up any benefit of the doubt. How can peoplekind be a dumb joke when it’s so damn believable?
Trapped by their own stupidity and betrayed by their left-wing brethren around the world, the CBC continued to double down with their fawning excuses for Trudeau. “Trudeau writes off peoplekind quip as ‘dumb joke‘”, in other words, he isn’t a complete politically-correct moron, he just has a tone-deaf sense of humour and is misunderstood. “Justin Trudeau not the 1st person to say ‘peoplekind,’ word expert says,” runs another pathetic CBC article trying to justify their poster-boy PM’s incompetence. And people wonder why I think the CBC should be defunded.
Readers know I am not a fan of Trudeau Junior. Although I despised his father, Pierre, and his politics and policies; I can respect that he was a deeply intelligent man, a political genius, and charismatic leader. Junior is just a handsome but vacuous shadow of his father. I’ve said it for a long time, here, here, here, and here. It’s taken the media a long time to come to the same conclusion, but like King Canute, even the left-biased press cannot hold back the tide of reality forever.