Stop Calling Antisemitic Morons Protesters...Everybody can Take a Chill Pill. The New CEO of AC Speaks French...The Insanity of California...Suck it Up Buttercup...

There was a yearly event in Montreal yesterday which was was abruptly stopped by one of the most antisemitic losers around. We won't mention his name as we will not give him a second of notoriety on social media. He is one of those who thrives on an unproductive, useless life.

Shopify hosts a two-day event called startupfest. It functions like a music festival for entrepreneurs, featuring immersive experiences like the "Startupfest Shop," where emerging brands can showcase and sell their products to thousands of attendees.

It offers millions in investment prizes, bringing founders directly in front of active venture capitalists and industry mentors. This is the chance intelligent, hardworking, productive men and women get to move ahead with whatever they are doing.

At yesterday's Startupfest, a lazy and clearly uneducated man got into the room and began yelling ridiculous, offensive and untrue antisemitic slurs at Harley Finkelstein, president of Shopify.

Harley is a proud, loud Jew. Period. He is one of the Jewish world's biggest assets. He cowers in front of no one, in particular antisemites who get their information from the gaza health ministry or unwra or some UN ngo, all who spout lie upon lie.

We also take offense to the media calling that moron a protester. He is not a protester. This has nothing to do protesting anything and everything to do with a targeted verbal hit on a Jew.

While governments in Canada are not openly sanctioning antisemitism, their silence is viewed by these people as a green light to continue going after Jews. Why should they stop if nothing happens to them?

We will say this until things change: First they go after the Jews, then they go after everyone else.

If french Canadians or Mark Carney or Olivia Chow think that they are immune to the muslim edict that sharia law should be followed worldwide, they are living in lala land. They are just as much the infidel as the Jews. We sincerely hope they wake up much sooner than later to this fact.

Phew. We can sleep tonight. The new CEO of Air Canada, Mr. Anko Van der Werff speaks fluent in Dutch and Spanish, and can communicate in French, English, Italian, and Swedish. Someone please pass this message onto hysterical french Canadians who had a complete meltdown that the last Air Canada CEO spoke not a word of French.

Clearly Mr. Anko Van der Werff is a very smart man and when you look at him, can tell that he's in very good shape.

Before taking the AC position, Van der Werff served as chief executive of Avianca, a leading Latin American airline. His CV also includes stints as chief commercial officer at Aeromexico and senior leadership positions at Qatar Airways, in addition to various management roles at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

Now all the hand-wringing french Canadians can take a deep breath and rest easy. Mr. Van der Werff will be able to hold their hand in at least four languages.

San Francisco was so bad during covid that many people wondered whether if the city would ever recover.

Crime was rampant... property crime, car break-ins, open-air drug use, and homelessness received widespread media attention. While violent crime remained lower in other large U.S. cities, the visible disorder in San Francisco severely damaged the city's reputation.

People stopped going downtown and as such, office buildings lost enormous value, and some sold for a fraction of what they had been worth just a few years earlier.

Because nobody went downtown there was a ripple effect and restaurants, cafés, pharmacies, and retailers that depended on office workers lost customers. Many shut down permanently.

Today San Francisco has gone from a sluggish post-pandemic housing market to a fierce home-buying frenzy because of the artificial intelligence boom. So it's still nuts there, but in a different way.

AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, located in the San Francisco area, are creating enormous wealth, even before going public.Employees are cashing out stock through private sales and using that money to buy expensive homes. Junior employees are purchasing homes worth $10 million.

Other buyers fear that once these AI companies eventually go public (IPOs), home prices will soar even higher. They're trying to buy now before they get priced out.

While the US is fun to visit, the frenzy of how they live in many big American cities makes us very happy that we live in boring Canada.

And then there's Seattle. If you think San Francisco is bad, wait till you read this next piece. Just be very happy you don't live in California.

Because red states such as Texas, Florida, Tennessee, Kansas, and Idaho have enacted anti-trans legislation like no trans men playing sports against women nor going into their locker rooms, the trans community is flocking to Seattle.

Hundreds of thousands of two-Spirit, transgender, nonbinary, gender-diverse, and gender-nonconforming (trans+) people are running to Seattle. As such, the Seattle 2SLGBTQIA + community is formally recommending that City leaders declare a civil emergency that ensures an effective and empathetic response to protecting these internally displaced persons (IDPs) at a time of urgent crisis for their community.

No dearies, this is not a joke. This is for real. In uber liberal states like California, this is what goes on. People have clearly lost sight of all reality.

It will be very interesting to see if the city caves to these demands.

A final note about our dismal roads and the unceasing construction, de-construction, re-construction with no one monitoring what is closed, what is open, what has been coned off for weeks with no work being done.

Things were supposed to change under the new mayor. Alas, the same bureaucrats are in place, which means the same morons, who could not find their way out of a Corn Flake box, are not managing the 'fixing' of the roads in Montreal.

Except.

To prepare for the ICU (International Cycling Union), cycling event the city will be closing Camillien-Houde Way (the road connecting east and west Montreal) for two weeks for repairs so that elite cyclists from around the world will have a smooth surface.

If that is not a huge middle finger to the rest of the city, we will eat our hat. When the world is watching, the roads have to be pristine. For the taxpayers? Suck it up buttercup.

Gross.

Good Shabbos

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