On June 6th, 1944, 79 years after D-Day, the Allies invaded Normandy, France and liberated the beaches of France from Nazi Germany. In this episode of The Crusty Nellie Rant, I take a look back at the events that took place on that day in history.
00:01:09.100This is the first episode of what I'm going to call the Tuesday Rants, where I rant and rave and rage and bitch and moan about life as we see it in this country.
00:01:17.880Anyhow, I've got no fancy limericks or articles or points of view other than my own for this show.
00:02:02.440Allies invaded Normandy, France to take away the German stronghold to win the tides of a nasty and fucking unjust war.
00:02:11.560But let's take a look at society at that time, too, ladies and gentlemen.
00:02:15.100Now, I've seen enough Twitter feeds on there to last me a lifetime about how some of our politicians have praised those individuals and praised the men that stormed those beaches and the casualties on all sides.
00:02:28.520Casualties in Canada, casualties of the British, casualties of the Australians, the New Zealanders, the Dutch that resisted, the French that resisted, and our American friends that died in the thousands.
00:02:40.120Now, when I look back at that history, that's something to be proud of.
00:02:42.700That's part of a history that I wasn't part of.
00:02:47.600But I've had grandparents that were there.
00:02:49.160I had a grandfather that fought with the Essex Scottish and got as far as Holland, where he got wounded.
00:02:54.320I also have a few people that I know personally that took the time to speak to us when we were high school kids to tell us some of the horrors and some of the valor and some of the dangerous things they had to go through and witness while they were kicking Nazi Germany's ass.
00:03:09.680I've also had the honor of talking to veterans that served in Korea.
00:03:13.740And the past couple of years, I've had the honor of talking to some Canadians, discreetly, mind you, who served in the United States Marines and the United States Army during the Vietnam War.
00:03:24.200So, perspectives are different in every phase of combat.
00:03:30.280My perspective was different when I saw combat in Afghanistan.
00:03:34.940Now, mind you, I was only there for a couple of tours.
00:03:37.840The last one being the tough one because we lost a couple of fellas and there were tough days.
00:03:45.660But needless to say, my experience has given me quite the insight when it comes to today's society.
00:03:53.540Now, when I look at today's society in regards to equality and inclusivity, I'm sure we have it.
00:04:02.340Now, I wasn't raised in a household where I look at somebody on the color of their skin or their gender or their sexual preference.
00:04:09.480I look at somebody because they have what it takes.
00:04:12.000That's just the ethic I was taught as a child.
00:04:14.140Now, my childhood wasn't perfect and neither was yours, ladies and gentlemen.
00:04:18.220But when I see a lot of these kids on their Twitter feeds, and I will call them kids.
00:04:23.620It's just the mentality that tries to back up their claim.
00:04:28.360They'll sit there and they'll make fun of the convoy for standing up for freedom and to stop these mandates.
00:04:33.040But they won't make fun of politicians that have incurred these mandates, who have taken money literally out of their pockets in the name of safety and comfort.
00:04:40.920So when I look at the men and women of the decade who fought in D-Day, they had more balls, more cojones, and more common sense than what we have running the shots in Canada as we speak.
00:04:55.660They have more, or they had more drive and determination, not all of them are around anymore.
00:05:06.540But this is a generation of people that survived the Great Depression, who came from a generation of people who didn't have social programs, who didn't have welfare, who didn't have EI, didn't have cell phones, didn't have the internet.
00:05:18.620But they wanted to communicate, they wrote letters, they made phone calls, or they'd actually walk to their neighbor's place to say, hey, Bill, how you doing?
00:05:28.880Neighborhood, community, sense of community, meaning a community where you're helping each other get ahead and get along, rather than trying to promote the so-called proletariat we're seeing today in our schools and our colleges, and of course, in some of our workplaces, especially workplaces that promote the ESG.
00:05:44.660So when I look at the victory of D-Day, I look at it as really conquering evil.
00:05:50.080But when I see these SJWs sitting around and talking about how, oh, oh, well, they fought Nazis, and just like we're fighting Nazis, too.
00:05:58.800Name some of the Nazis you're fighting.
00:06:22.280They're fighting for the sake of it, because someone's feelings are hurt, or because someone's not getting what they want when they want it.
00:06:29.060They forget the basic principle is getting out there and hustling and working for something.
00:06:43.700What I care about is that you live in a country where you can do that, and you have the right to sit and bitch about it, just like everybody else does.
00:06:52.820But when you sit there and you point fingers at people and call them Nazis and fascists and, oh, my God, you're such a tyrant, look at the people that you're catering to.
00:07:05.420You're supposed to ask your professor the tough questions.
00:07:08.160You're supposed to ask your employer the tough questions.
00:07:10.780You're supposed to ask your MPP and MP and MLAs and representatives, municipal, provincial, and federal alike, the tough questions.
00:07:19.260That's what those men and women fought and died for.
00:07:21.660So you have the ability to have that democracy and thrive.
00:07:26.780Now, we're sitting on the cusp of something that can be just devastating as a Normandy invasion.
00:07:36.920We don't know what's going to happen with Russia and Ukraine.
00:07:39.240We don't know what's going to happen with the Chinese United States.
00:07:41.200We live in a country right now where we have a government that rather praises an individual based on their color and gender and sexual preference rather than their actual body of work.
00:07:52.800We live in a country where politicians are making decisions based on race and gender and identity rather than actual merit rather than promoting the welfare of somebody because she has what it takes or because he has what it takes or because they have what it takes.
00:08:09.200We live in a country right now where we have grown-ass men who are wearing suggestive clothing who are more than willing to dance in front of little kids.
00:08:22.120And there are guardians and parents and bureaucrats out there alike who think, oh, that's so brave.
00:08:31.520Bravery is sitting in a landing craft, puking your guts up, shit in your pants, getting off said landing craft and being shot at with machine gun fire.
00:13:00.820Nothing wrong with collecting garbage.
00:13:02.380Nothing wrong with any man or woman that wants to go out there and work to better their lives.
00:13:06.720But when you hire people, i.e. elect people, to look after the important things like inflation, the economy, defense, intelligence, and all around safety and security, they should look after that.
00:14:05.600Probably because he's a special friend of the Trudeau family who became a special rapporteur, a rapp, rapp, rapp, rapp, rapporteur, to say, nothing to see here, folks.
00:14:30.800It was self-explanatory when Justin mentioned it a few months back that, oh, I'm going to have a special rapporteur and it's going to be David Johnson.
00:14:36.680Oh, an ex-governor general who has some kind of relation to the Trudeau Foundation and a family friend.
00:14:44.320Why couldn't you hire Peter Mansbridge?
00:14:47.620Why couldn't you hire an ex-Supreme Court justice?
00:14:50.600Why couldn't you hire an ex-politician from, let's say, 20 years ago that made a difference?
00:14:58.340Why couldn't you hire a proper investigative journalist that's not afraid to ask the tough fucking questions?
00:15:04.120And they're still there, ladies and gentlemen.
00:15:06.300Hell, you should have put Rex Murphy on that.
00:15:08.500He would have done a fine fucking job.
00:16:12.900When I look at the guys in D-Day, they fought for democracy and freedom, freedom of expression, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom to be and do what you want to do.
00:16:24.160Now, if those gentlemen were still alive today, what do you think they would have to say about it?
00:16:29.080If my grandparents were alive today, what would they have to say about what's going on?
00:16:34.720What would my fallen comrades back in Afghanistan have to say about what's going on?
00:16:46.060Something to think about, ladies and gentlemen.
00:16:47.740Now, I've dealt with a few people on Twitter and a few other people on social sites talking about how, well, my great uncle did this and my grandfather did that and my dad went over here and did this.
00:17:39.960Or did your grandfather and your uncle provide a good education for you so you can go to school and graduate and become a doctor or a lawyer or a scientist or an engineer?
00:17:52.800And live a good life in the 1980s as a yuppie.
00:17:57.460You know, protest and fight the good fight.
00:17:59.520But God, you love your fucking money, don't you?
00:18:01.900Because we all know how the 80s worked out for a lot of people.
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00:20:40.500Thank you very much for your kind words.
00:20:44.760But like I said, June 6th is a day in history we should all celebrate.
00:20:50.280And remember, just like we remember November 11th, to my American friends, I don't like saying Happy Memorial Day.
00:21:00.400I know I posted that on my Facebook, but we honor and respect you guys too because we fought side by side, you know, brothers in arms against a known enemy.
00:21:09.840And regardless of what people are saying right now, what is fascism and what is totalitarianism, a lot of those yahoos are gaslighting and they're promoting it themselves by what to say in school,
00:21:22.260what to be taught in school, what you can read, what you can't read, what to put in your body, what you can't put in your body.
00:21:26.800Yet these are the same individuals that sit there and say, oh, abortions, everyone's right.
00:21:31.300Well, I'm not seeing anyone against abortion.
00:21:34.240There's a lot of people that I know who don't agree with it.
00:21:36.300But if you're not going to force a woman or if you're going to try to force a woman to have an abortion, then why are you going to force us with more jabs?
00:22:09.880And those individuals that are a bit older that are calling the shots are the old hippies and the old protesters who fought the good fight that are telling us not to fight and not to question.