Disneyland is facing a strict deadline set by a powerful California environmental regulatory agency to axe current gas-powered engines at a popular automobile-themed ride inside the amusement park, according to multiple reports. If Disneyland fails to overhaul the ride, the amusement park faces the risk of the iconic attraction being shut down.

The California Air Resources Board — the state’s clean-air regulator – ordered the amusement park to retire the current gas‑powered engines used at the long-standing Autopia ride, which has been entertaining park guests for over 70 years.

‘As the industry moves toward alternative fuel sources, we have developed a road map to electrify this attraction and are evaluating technology that will enable us to convert from gas engines in the next few years.’

According to the official Disneyland website, thrill-seekers can “cruise the scenic winding roads of this classic attraction in a souped-up coupe” on the Autopia ride.

“Featuring a working gas pedal and steering wheel, each classy chassis seats 2 adults or 3 children and navigates curves and inclines just like the real thing,” the site stated.

Disney noted, “Autopia is the only existing Tomorrowland attraction dating back to Disneyland Park’s opening day in 1955. When the cars first took to the road, they captured America’s fascination with the latest transportation innovation, the ‘freeway.'”

Despite the iconic attraction being based on traditional combustion engines, Disneyland is being compelled to swap them out for an all-electric fleet.

The California Air Resources Board is the state’s regulatory agency with legal authority to set emissions rules.

The Orange County Register reported that Disneyland disclosed to the California Air Resources Board that the gas-powered engines “had been modified in a way that violated state regulations for small off-road engines.”

In April 2024, Disneyland initially announced plans to convert Autopia’s gas-powered engines to electric by fall 2026, according to the Orange County Register.

Disneyland also agreed to a settlement with the California Air Resources Board.

The California Air Resources Board released a statement regarding a $56,250 settlement with Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S. in August 2024 that read:

To settle the case, Disney agreed to the penalty of $450 per unit of noncompliant SORE equipment for a total penalty of $56,250. Disney elected to provide $28,125 to a Supplemental Environmental Project (SEP) entitled Cleaner Air Greener Schools. The funds will be used to install indoor air quality sensors, air purifiers, and outdoor air quality sensors in 10 schools in Southern California.

The civil penalty amount of $28,125 will be deposited into CARB’s Air Pollution Control Fund, which provides funding for projects and research to improve California’s air quality. Disney fully cooperated with CARB to resolve this matter and agrees to comply with all regulatory requirements.

The engines in the go-karts are built by Honda, which has sponsored the Autopia ride since 2016.

A corporate compliance plan from the California Air Resources Board stated that Honda “failed to certify the Disneyland-specific modified engines” because of an “administrative error,” KTLA-TV reported.

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Climate-Colored Glasses, a climate Substack, reported that the Autopia attraction must be in compliance by Feb. 1, 2027, or be shut down.

Disneyland spokesperson Jessica Good told the Los Angeles Times in April 2024:

Since opening with Disneyland park in 1955, Autopia has remained a guest favorite, most popular with young kids experiencing driving for the first time. As the industry moves toward alternative fuel sources, we have developed a road map to electrify this attraction and are evaluating technology that will enable us to convert from gas engines in the next few years.

This May, a spokesperson provided an update to People that the Autopia ride would retire combustion engines by early 2027.

“Work is under way on the design, engineering, and testing of a fully electric vehicle prototype, and we look forward to sharing more details soon,” the spokesperson said.

Disney fan website MousePlanet reported that Honda’s corporate sponsorship of Autopia is slated to end at the end of 2026.

D23, the self-described website for “daily home of the ultimate Disney fan,” noted that Chevron was the sponsor before Honda between 2000 and 2012. The now-defunct Richfield Oil Corporation was Autopia’s sponsor from 1955 until 1970, according to D23.

According to Disney fan site WDW News Today, there are similar versions of the Autopia car ride at Florida’s Magic Kingdom and Disneyland Paris.

Disneyland did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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When Prime Minister Mark Carney recently accepted a civic scroll from the Mayo County Council in Ireland, he softened up the crowd with an anecdote about getting a gift from “another great leader.”

The impression that followed was accurate enough that he never needed to utter the leader’s name — Donald Trump — to score big laughs.

‘It’s a cap,’ Carney told Trump. ‘A hard line. I thought you’d actually like that.’

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. This lighthearted aside underscored a broader reality confronting the Canadian prime minister: Campaigning against Donald Trump is one thing; governing alongside him is another.

That tension has become a recurring theme of Carney’s first year in office.

Canada strong

During the 2025 federal election, Carney embraced an “elbows up” message that portrayed resistance to Trump as both a political necessity and a point of national pride. In one speech, he argued that “many of our former strengths, based on our close ties to America, have become our weaknesses.”

More recently, however, Carney struck a markedly different tone before the Economic Club of New York, declaring that “Canada Strong will help Make America Great Again” and emphasizing the importance of North American cooperation in energy, critical minerals, manufacturing, and artificial intelligence.

The shift has not gone unnoticed by the opposition. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre recently posted the two statements side by side on social media under the caption: “Elbows Up Carney or MAGA Carney? Which one will we get next?”

The comparison makes for an effective political attack, but it may also reflect the realities of governing.

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Get along to go along

Canada sends roughly three-quarters of its exports to the United States, and the future of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement remains critical to the country’s economy. Whatever slogans may have resonated on the campaign trail, any Canadian prime minister ultimately has strong incentives to maintain a productive working relationship with Washington.

Carney has had to face this reality often since assuming office.

Seven months after taking office, Carney visited the White House and described Trump as “a transformative president.” At the G7 summit, a hot microphone captured the two leaders discussing Canada’s cap on Chinese electric vehicle imports in what appeared to be a friendly exchange.

“It’s a cap,” Carney told Trump. “A hard line. … I thought you’d actually like that.”

“That’s good,” Trump replied. “I like it.”

‘Worth it’

Carney’s response to the Iran conflict followed a similar pattern. While expressing concern that the initial military action appeared inconsistent with international law and noting that Canada had not been consulted, he later welcomed the resulting peace agreement and argued that preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon was “worth it.”

Yet Carney’s more conciliatory approach has not always produced visible diplomatic dividends. At the G7 summit, he departed without securing a formal bilateral meeting with Trump, a notable omission given the stakes surrounding trade negotiations and the future of USMCA. Carney brushed aside suggestions that he had been snubbed, emphasizing that the two leaders had spoken several times during the gathering.

Trump has also continued to revive his suggestion that Canada should become America’s “51st state” while maintaining pressure on trade and other bilateral issues.

The Ireland impression, then, is less significant than the political evolution it symbolizes. Carney campaigned as Trump’s foil, but governing has required him to cultivate a functional relationship with the American president.

Whether Canadians view that evolution as prudent statesmanship or an abandonment of the posture that helped elect him is ultimately a political judgment. But it illustrates a lesson many leaders discover after taking office: Running against a neighboring superpower is easier than running a country that depends on it.

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The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Tuesday that border officials do not need “clear and convincing evidence” that a lawful permanent resident committed a disqualifying crime before treating that person as an applicant for admission rather than someone already admitted to the United States.

The decision was split along ideological lines.

‘Border officers did not have the burden to establish by clear and convincing evidence that Lau had committed a crime involving moral turpitude.’

The case involved Muk Choi Lau, a Chinese national and green card holder who was charged in 2012 with selling counterfeit clothing. After briefly traveling to China while the charge was pending, Lau was paroled into the U.S. rather than admitted when he returned. He later pleaded guilty to trademark counterfeiting.

During oral arguments in April, the government argued that the Immigration and Nationality Act does not require immigration officers at the border to possess clear and convincing evidence that a lawful permanent resident committed a crime involving moral turpitude — an act driven by dishonesty or immorality. Instead, government attorney Sopan Joshi argued that any burden is satisfied later during the individual’s removal hearings.

Writing for the majority, Justice Clarence Thomas agreed. The court held that the INA allows the government to regard a lawful permanent resident as seeking admission if he has committed a qualifying offense and that nothing in the statute imposes a requirement of clear and convincing evidence on border officers making “quick judgments on the spot.”

“Border officers did not have the burden to establish by clear and convincing evidence that Lau had committed a crime involving moral turpitude,” Thomas wrote.

The ruling reverses the Second Circuit’s decision, which had sided with Lau and held that immigration officials needed clear and convincing evidence that he had actually committed the crime before treating him as an applicant for entry rather than a person already admitted.

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, dissented, arguing that the government must determine whether an exception applies under the INA before stripping a green card holder of admitted status. She warned that the majority’s approach gives the government broad authority to parole lawful permanent residents and justify the decision later.

“But today the Court allows the Government to deem an LPR to be ‘seeking an admission’ first and justify the applicability of an exception later — undermining the statutory scheme as well as the benefits and security that come with having a green card,” Jackson asserted.

The court did not decide whether Lau’s trademark counterfeiting conviction qualifies as a crime involving moral turpitude, sending the case back to the Second Circuit for further proceedings.

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The left has exposed just how out of touch it truly is with Americans after putting on a completely unhinged musical protest called the Rise Up, Sing Out concert, featuring Hollywood elites like Bette Midler.

Midler took the stage to sing an off-key anthem about Trump, rewriting the World War II-era song “All You Fascists.” The original song was released in 1940 as a protest of the poll tax and Jim Crow.

Now, Midler’s 2026 revamp targets Trump policies and features lyrics like, “We’ll battle ICE together / Until they cut and run / Just like in Minneapolis / And when the midterms come,” and “You’re bound to lose / You fascists, bound to lose.”

“Trying to distract us from the Epstein files / You gas and beat and murder us, protecting pedophiles / Let’s turn the screws / You pervs are bound to lose,” another lyric reads.

“What?” BlazeTV host Pat Gray says in disbelief.

“How do they show themselves in public after that?” he asks. “So embarrassing.”

While leftists are revealing that they’re out of touch with most of America, Gray points out that at least they’re allowed to be out of touch.

“We allow that … because of free speech,” Gray says, adding, “You can sing really stupid songs in a really nasty, hideous, off-key way, and we don’t put you in jail for it.”

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Liberals hold the reins of the Democratic Party, but their grasp is slipping — and it appears that those radical leftists who’ve long been jockeying for control of the party may soon be in the coachman’s seat.

Earlier this year, democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani took control of America’s biggest city. Earlier this month, Democratic Socialists of America member Nithya Raman advanced in the Los Angeles mayoral race to a November runoff against incumbent Mayor Karen Bass. Last week, DSA candidate Janeese Lewis George won the Democratic nomination for mayor of Washington, D.C.

‘Capitalism has absolutely fallen through the floor.’

On the heels of these and other signs of democratic socialists’ ascendancy within the broader Democratic camp, CNN’s chief data analyst, Harry Enten, noted, “The democratic socialists seem to be doing considerably better than they used to be — and they have the chance to knock off, in fact, Democratic incumbents in Congress.”

Enten suggested that part of what is driving the socialists’ success is their growing favorability among Democrats.

“Net favorability among Dems, Democratic Socialists of America — look at that, a plus-17-point net favorability rating among Democrats,” said Enten.

“That is better than how congressional Democrats are viewed by Democrats. It just lost four points. So no wonder that democratic socialists have such a good chance, because simply put, they are a better brand at this point than Democrats in Congress.”

According to a national Marquette Law School poll conducted in April, 41% of Democrats have a favorable opinion of the DSA. Among those Democrats who view the DSA favorably, 43% described themselves as “very liberal” and 25% referred to themselves as “moderate.”

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Democratic Socialists of America-hosted rally in the Bronx. Jason Alpert-Wisnia/Hans Lucas/AFP/Getty Images.

Enten highlighted that democratic socialism’s rise within the Democratic Party comes amid declining support for capitalism.

Gallup polling showed in September that 54% of Americans had a positive image of capitalism, down from 61% in 2010. Thirty-nine percent of respondents said that they had a positive image of socialism, up from 36% in 2010.

When broken down by party affiliation, the pollsters found that Republicans’ perception of capitalism had improved — from 71% in 2010 to 74% last year. For Democrats, the positive perception of capitalism declined from 51% in 2010 to 42% in 2025.

While only 14% of Republicans said they viewed socialism in a positive light last year, 66% of Democrats signaled a positive perception of the ruinous economic and political philosophy — up from 50% in 2010.

“Capitalism has absolutely fallen through the floor,” Enten said in reference to this data.

“Socialism, on the other hand, up like a rocket.”

Enten said of the Democratic Party’s embrace of socialism, “This to me is one of the more stunning trends … that I have seen in covering politics over the last 15, 16 years. And if you believe the prediction markets, it’s not going to just stop suddenly.”

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board has similarly highlighted the DSA’s ascendancy, concluding that regardless of whether socialist candidates succeed in New York’s Democratic congressional primary on Tuesday, “the DSA agenda is gaining among Democrats.”

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Every year on Father’s Day, I’m reminded of how grateful I am for my family. I’m also reminded of what helps me to remain grateful: that little oasis of tranquility just down the basement stairs — my home office.

I love my office. I also need it.

I try to get my wife to take advantage of the office. I tell her she can use it whenever she likes, but she never takes me up on it.

It’s very simple. If I can’t get my work done, I go crazy. I can’t get any work done without an office. Therefore, in order to remain sane, I need an office.

Mobile threat

I tried not having one about six years ago when it was just my wife, my son, and me in a little ranch we rented one block over. I had my desk set up in the corner of the living room. I had two computer displays, which, kind of I guess, created a little barrier or faux-wall separating myself from the couch and the television on the other side of the room. It worked, barely, but it was better than nothing.

Then, our firstborn starting walking. And talking.

Fortunately, we moved around the same time. The first thing I did in the new house was to make an office.

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Notes from underground

The new house is small too, with the same layout as the old one: three bedrooms and one bath on one floor. But the new house also has a basement that is about 50% finished. On the east end of this basement, there is a separate room, complete with its own bathroom and a solid door you can actually close.

The floor had been painted red probably 25 years ago. When we moved in, it was chipping and ugly. The walls were covered with equally old wallpaper that ended halfway to the ceiling. People did that in the ’80s and ’90s a lot. I remember because my mom did it with one of our walls when we were growing up. The bathroom was just as bad. Same red paint, same flowery wallpaper, same ’80s horror vibe. But the walls were drywall, and there was a ceiling too — drop in the bathroom, drywall in the main room.

As soon as we finished moving the last box into our new place, I got to work rehabilitating the ’80s horror show downstairs.

I ripped the wallpaper down over the course of a few days. I repaired the holes with putty. I painted the walls and ceiling bright white and the floor dark gray. I hung a big mirror in the bathroom, bought a shower curtain, and set two imitation stained glass pieces of plastic film over the small windows. These fake stained glass inlays are pretty cheeseball and not ideal, but it’s better than looking at the weeds through the window up near the ceiling.

I laid a big rug down in the main room and smaller ornate ones around on the still-exposed concrete. I installed a dimmer on the light switch, replaced the old door knobs with new ones, moved in my desk, tables, bookshelves, lamps with warm bulbs, stereo and speakers, microphones, cameras, and everything else that I use for work.

Hole for one

That was six years ago, and since then, I have spent too many hours to count down in my little subterranean sanctuary. Every year, I make it a little nicer. I hang some more photos, organize a little better, buy some more lamps, and try to keep my desk cleaner.

My most recent improvement came in the form of some Oasis lamps, which are advertised as providing warm ambient light. I’ve got four in my office set on “candle mode,” and I can confirm the light is both ambient and warm. It feels nice and light in here despite it being in the corner of a cold basement.

I try to get my wife to take advantage of the office. I tell her she can use it whenever she likes, but she never takes me up on it. I don’t think she likes the basement that much. I understand. The rest of it is kind of a hellhole. The kids play down there a lot, and more often than not, I find myself stumbling over toys and puzzles on my way to my hallowed little haunt of soft lighting and soft music.

A quiet place

We’ve got a small house and three homeschooled kids who use their imaginations instead of iPads. It’s a chaotic environment to say the least. I hear the yells outside the bathroom window, which is near the deck, and I hear the running across the floor of the living room from my desk directly below.

I think what gets to us as parents is the slow grinding down of our patience over the course of the day. It’s also that our stuff is always going missing or something is always being broken. It’s the constant questions and it’s the feeling like we have no space to ourselves anymore.

This is why dads have notoriously taken so long in the restroom and probably why moms take so long when they go to the grocery store by themselves. They are just trying to get some peace and quiet.

That is why I need an office. And while my workspace in the basement isn’t much, it has come a long way since 2020, and it’s more than enough. It’s a little peace and quiet.

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Major League Baseball says it was wrong to issue warnings to San Francisco Giants players who wrote Bible verses on their caps.

Specifically, Giants pitchers Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker, and Ryan Walker were threatened with discipline after writing different forms of Genesis 9:12-16 on team caps that support transgenderism and other sexualities, with the league citing violations of its uniform policy.

‘The players were neither fined nor disciplined, nor will they ever be.’

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) had sent a letter to the MLB on June 16 calling out the league for promoting Black Lives Matter in 2020 and becoming a “billboard” for political messaging, yet still issuing a warning to the Giants pitchers last week.

MLB Commissioner Robert Manfred responded to Hawley on Monday, who posted the letter online for all to see. In the text, Manfred revealed that the Giants’ communication with players was “inadequate and not clear” regarding their option to wear Pride hats. He claimed that some players did not understand they had the option to wear the normal Giants cap instead.

The commissioner’s office said “unfortunately” it issued a “routine oral warning” before it became aware of the Giants’ “lapse in communication.”

Players “should not be compelled to participate in a celebratory event … if such participation would violate their sincere religious beliefs or values,” Manfred told Hawley.

The MLB boss later confirmed, “The players were neither fined nor disciplined, nor will they ever be.”

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In the same letter, Manfred revealed that only two teams are permitted to wear special gay-themed hats in games: the Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Despite the league saying in 2023 that it would not permit clubs to utilize unauthorized hats, the clubs submitted special requests to have their Pride hats grandfathered in, and their requests were granted.

These “Pride Night” hats were justified by Manfred, who claimed it was because the cities have “some of the largest LGBTQ communities in the United States.”

However, players are not required to wear them, as he previously stated.

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The commissioner cited other “faith/religious-related games” and nights that “celebrate different ethnicities or nationalities” at MLB ballparks and said that the league “does not regulate these events, but also does not permit Clubs or players to utilize special uniforms/equipment for such games, or alter the uniform or equipment.”

However, for 12 league-wide events, MLB teams are mandated by the head office to alter their uniforms. Those days are:

Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Armed Forces Weekend, Play Ball Weekend, Memorial Day, Lou Gehrig Day, Independence Day, Hall of Fame Weekend, Childhood Cancer Awareness Day, September 11th, Jackie Robinson Day, and Roberto Clemente Day.

Manfred said the league has had “no significant complaints from fans or players for those days.”

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Despite notable criticism from European media and politicians regarding the United States’ hosting much of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, one German fan is cutting through the noise.

An X account by the name of Freddy has racked up millions of likes and views for posting his route through the U.S., enthusiastically praising friendly locals, American culture, and everyday spots like Waffle House, Buc-ee’s, Taco Bell, and Bass Pro Shops, among others.

Freddy’s posts have been wildly popular because they debunk the left-wing narrative that America is an unwelcoming, culturally empty place that is unsafe for foreign fans due to immigration enforcement.

On a recent episode of the “Steve Deace Show,” Deace and the team speak with conservative commentator and friend of the show Jill Savage about how the joy of one European fan is uniting America.

“Freddy is the feel-good story of the summer,” says Jill.

“I am obsessed with Freddy. He is bringing people together left and right. The war is over. We have Freddy traveling America. … He’s the joy of the summer,” she laughs, noting that she feels this way despite having zero interest in soccer or the World Cup.

What Freddy has accidentally done, she explains, is silence the narrative that “America sucks; [Americans] are the terrible people; [America] should be more like Europe.”

In return for his infectious enthusiasm, Americans are showering Freddy with love. From shout-outs by celebrities like J.J. Watt and an invitation to tour the White House to emergency flight help from American Airlines to get him to games on time, an invite from country star Ella Langley to attend her show and meet her backstage, and countless other gestures of hospitality, Freddy has quickly become America’s new hero.

“Jill just admitted live on air that the sport of soccer and a German national are bringing the country together more than college football and baseball,” says co-host Todd Erzen.

“Listen, we thought we were going to have white-boy summer. It’s Euro summer,” Deace quips.

To hear more, watch the episode above.

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A police officer and a civilian are dead after a long-haired gunman opened fire in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood around 11:30 a.m. ET on Monday.

Some liberal media outfits have narrowly characterized the ideology espoused within the manifesto allegedly left behind by the gunman as “incel” — involuntary celibate — in nature.

‘The essential political conditions of a society in which capitalism/liberalism, and thereby, hypergamy itself, are not part of the established order of things, have mostly already been laid out by Marx, Engels, and others.’

The document is brimming with resentment over perceived dynamics between the sexes in contemporary society and for so-called “hypergamy,” or women partnering with men of greater perceived mating value. However, it is unmistakably leftist in nature — offering a Marxist rationalization of women’s disinterest in undesirable men coupled with a defense of communism and a demand for a violent uprising against the capitalist West.

Despite the defense of and calls for leftist “revolutionary terror” in the document, authorities told reporters that Monday’s attack did not constitute an act of terrorism.

The shooting

Footage of the monstrous attack shows fatally wounded Constable Mohamed Lamine Benredouane crawl behind a white Porsche to cover while a female officer crouches behind a cement planter and exchanges fire with the suspect.

Moments later, a civilian, Michael Mizrahi, can be seen falling as gunshots ring out.

It’s unclear — and authorities have yet to clarify — whether Mizrahi was fatally shot by the female officer or the gunman. The Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes, or BEI, Quebec’s police watchdog, has launched an investigation into the events that took place during the police intervention.

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The gunman, who was dressed in “military-type attire” and armed with an apparent semi-automatic rifle, can be seen charging the position of the female officer where he is ultimately neutralized.

While Constable Benredouane succumbed to his wounds, the second officer, though seriously injured, is in stable condition.

When asked about whether the shooting was an ambush targeting police, Montreal Police Chief Fady Dagher indicated that police received a 911 call from an individual telling them that somebody was “shooting from a specific place” — a higher floor — but when police arrived, the gunman was at the street level.

Dagher expressed uncertainty whether the shooter belonged to a larger network but indicated that no other suspect was being sought in relation to the Côte-des-Neiges shooting.

Ian Lafrenière, Quebec’s minister of domestic security, told reporters that the shooting “was not considered as a possible terrorism attack but everything has been put in place to make sure it was not linked to something else,” reported state media.

The determination that the shooting was not a terror attack reportedly came after Quebec authorities consulted with multiple agencies including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

The manifesto

Radio-Canada confirmed that the shooter left behind a “violent incel manifesto targeting women.”

State media acknowledged that the manifesto called for a violent revolution, but it — like other media outfits — neglected to note the leftist orientation of the proposed revolution.

The alleged 104-page manifesto published by Rebel News certainly espouses an incel ideology; however, it identifies a totalitarian communist state as the ultimate remedy for all of the West’s perceived social and moral ills.

The document:

draws heavily from the writings of Karl Marx, noting that “the essential political conditions of a society in which capitalism/liberalism, and thereby, hypergamy itself, are not part of the established order of things, have mostly already been laid out by Marx, Engels, and others in works such as The Communist Manifesto”;repeatedly criticizes capitalism and its supporters; calls for the abolition of private property, the centralization of credit in the hands of the state, and the establishment of state control over the means of communication and transportation;characterizes the freedoms now enjoyed by men and women in the West as “mass-enslavement”;identifies, applying a Marxist critique, “dispossessed proletarian males of all ethnicities collectively” as “the most voiceless, exploited, marginalized, forgotten, despised, abandoned, and oppressed group within western society”;defends “revolutionary terror” as both moral and effective;calls for the “total liquidation of the hypergamy state, down to its most hidden foundations”;notes that “women, though their behavior can be very hurtful, are generally not at fault for things” nor are “favored male[s],” and that powerful and influential people should instead be targeted;describes optimal ways to assassinate elite bankers, powerful CEOs, billionaires, influential politicians — liberal and conservatives alike — and “the most crucial employees of the more virulent and filthy facets of the capitalist economy”;identifies the “headquarters of all corporations with ties to Zionism,” the CEOs of private health insurance companies in the U.S., pornographic industry conferences, porn stars, advocates of pornography, real estate brokerage headquarters, cryptocurrency conferences, and leading military officials as “fair game” for terrorist attacks; and concludes with “KILL THEM ALL!”

Canadian authorities have urged the public not to speculate on a motive.

Quebec Premier Christine Fréchette wrote, “As the police operation and investigation are still ongoing, it is important to let the authorities do their work and to avoid any speculation.”

Quebec Domestic Security Minister Ian Lafrenière said that the suspect’s motives are under investigation by the BEI.

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