The Blanche Report

First, a heartfelt thank you to you, our dear readers. On Friday, we reached a milestone: 1,500 subscribers.

We are deeply grateful for your unwavering support.

For reading, sharing, debating, and encouraging us along the way. Each one of you helps make this community vibrant and engaged.

This milestone isn’t just about numbers.

As we were painfully reminded last week with the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the need has never been greater to build spaces where ideas can be shared without fear, where news can be challenged, and where voices remain sharp, thoughtful, and unafraid.

And we couldn’t do it without your support. Here’s to the next chapter together.

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Finally, the media said something we were thinking from the instant we heard of Kirk's assassination. For those who remember, this moment reminded us of when JFK and RFK were assassinated. That same gutted feeling. That same thought: Why does G-d take the best ones first?

There is no doubt that Kirk was on a trajectory to become president in about 10-15 years. He was charismatic, quick on his feet, street smart, a great orator and was able to capture the hearts and minds of the youth.

Now he's gone.

We remember when Robert Kennedy was assassinated in the kitchen of the hotel where he was leaving via the back door after speaking. It was the same hollow feeling.

In Judaism, especially if one learns kabbalah, we are taught not to ask why. That is a fruitless path and there is never an answer.

The question to ask is what can we do?

For now, there isn’t much we can do but wait until the dust settles and hope another voice emerges. It won’t be Charlie Kirk, but perhaps someone - a man or a woman - will rise with at least one of his defining qualities: the ability to bring a measure of dignity back to social media.

As for those on the left celebrating his death, they are a pathetic lot.

They have sadly lost all sense of moral compass and any shred of what it means to be a human being. So consumed by their endless loop of hate, they have forfeited even the most basic capacity for compassion.

Ilhan Omar is one such person. AOC another. Rashida Tlaib another. Aside from watching their shrieking mouths wide open, they offer nothing to the youth nor to people who have religious values.

Omar in particular was raked over the coals for her truly insensitive remarks immediately after Kirk was murdered, which caused her to suddenly discover remorse. Only then did she backtrack and claim she was 'very sorry' for his wife and children. Really now.

It took public outrage and being called out for her cold, callous indifference before she could muster even a shred of humanity.

AOC cancelled her public events becasue she is scared the same thing might happen to her. Fear not Madam Cortez. Nobody is going to take a shot at you. While you may get into the White House one day, never in a million years will get close to the Oval Office and everybody knows it.

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We watched as Fox news interviewed Trump on Friday. While he does sometimes ramble, he also says things that many other people are thinking.

The person who assassinated Charlie Kirk should not wait five years for a trial then sit on death row for 50 years going through appeal after appeal with the public paying to keep him incarcerated. Nope.

Trump wants the trial starts in a month and whatever the outcome it happens immediately. And Utah has the death penalty.

A final note on this piece:

Going forward, we are no longer going to apologize for supporting Donald Trump. We stand firm, without hesitation and without regret. Period.

As for our Prime Minister and his absolute blindness when it comes to Israel, continuously pushing a 'two state solution', believe it or not Montreal Jews have an ally by the name of Elias Makos. He is the only one at CJAD who is not an uber liberal.

All the rest of the announcers slyly line up with the under-the-radar crowd pushing the “Israel is committing genocide” narrative. Makos however, responded perfectly to Mark Carney’s foolish post after Israel’s strike on Qatar.

Canada condemns Israel’s strikes in Qatar — an intolerable expansion of violence and an affront to Qatar’s sovereignty.   Regardless of their objectives, such attacks pose a grave risk of escalating conflict throughout the region, and directly imperil efforts to advance peace & security, secure the release of all hostages, and achieve a lasting ceasefire — efforts in which Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani plays a highly constructive role.

And this is what Makos posted in response:

Dude, there's no one left in hamas to thank you. Give it a rest.

Carney is bemoaning the fact that Israel went after those responsible for October 7 who were hiding like dogs in Qatar? That's who he is crying for? What a fool.

And if you really want to lose your cookies, read this next piece.

Manitoba's Families Minister Nahanni Fontaine shared a message from a U.S.-based indigenous activist. For several hours on this post was on her page: She criticized Kirk as a "racist, xenophobic, transphobic, Islamophobic" individual who "stood for nothing but hate."

The premier of Manitoba, Wab Kinew, Fontaine’s boss, correctly called Kirk's killing “deeply disturbing” and offered condolences to Kirk’s wife and children.

He then very wisely and very strongly suggested that Fontaine issue an apology. Which, of course, she did — not out of remorse, but because she wanted to keep her job.

And her party? The NDP.

Who keeps electing these losers to run our country? Other losers? People who don't know who to choose when they go into the voting booth so they close their eyes and wherever the x falls, that's who they vote for?

Boggles the mind.

So while Kinew himself may be a decent guy, his party is littered with loudmouths who are not just antisemitic, but morally bankrupt to the core.

We'll talk...