Trudeau dances at Taylor Swift concert while Montreal burns.
Pro-Hamas demonstrators ran amok in Montreal Friday night, attacking police, burning cars, breaking windows, and in general displaying their profound understanding of Allah’s command to “strike terror in the enemies of Allah” (Qur’an 8:60). The demonstrators, secure in the certainty of their own righteousness even as they sowed chaos and destruction in the once-charming Canadian city, burned Benjamin Netanyahu in effigy and threw what Fox News described as “small explosive devices and metal items” at police. And where was Justin Trudeau amid all this? He was boogieing the night away at a Taylor Swift concert. Yes, really.
Nero had more class. Contrary to legend, he didn’t exactly fiddle when Rome burned. When the notorious fire broke out in his capital city in 64 AD, the Roman emperor who has become famous for his indifference to his people’s suffering was in Antium, a coastal city 32 miles away. Reality is usually more prosaic and less interesting than myth, and so it is in this case: far from shrugging off the fire and practicing his instrument, Nero hurried back to Rome and immediately threw himself into efforts to bring relief to the people of Rome. The city was full of people whose homes had been destroyed, and Nero offered them refuge in his private gardens and the city’s public buildings. He compelled the towns around Rome to donate grain to feed the refugees.
None of that is remembered. All people today know, if they’ve heard of Nero at all, is that he was a callous autocrat who was cavalier in the face of a catastrophe befalling his people. This claim, which may have some truth to it, goes almost all the way back to the time of Nero himself. The first-century historian Tacitus, who was around eight years old at the time of the fire, wrote much later that Nero’s “measures, popular as their character might be, failed of their effect; for the report had spread that, at the very moment when Rome was aflame, he had mounted his private stage, and, typifying the ills of the present by the calamities of the past, had sung the Destruction of Troy.”
One of Tacitus’ contemporaries, Suetonius, wrote that Nero “viewing the conflagration from the tower of Maecenas,” which wasn’t true, as Nero had not been in Rome at all during the fire. Suetonius added that the emperor “sang the whole of the Sack of Ilion in his regular stage costume.”
Those two accounts are the seeds of the Nero-fiddled-while-Rome-burned legend. It is not at all certain that Nero really did sing about the destruction of cities during the fire in Rome, and Suetonius in particular casts doubt on the entire claim by inaccurately placing Nero in Rome during the fire. Nonetheless, even if Nero was callous and indifferent to his people, he had nothing on Justin Trudeau.
While Montreal burned Friday night, Trudeau was not calling in extra police, or the military, or whatever force that might have been warranted to quell the rioting in the quickest and most efficient manner possible. In fact, he wasn’t even on the job at all. Instead, Trudeau was caught on video attending a Taylor Swift concert in Toronto at the same time that the riots were going on in Montreal. The videos show Trudeau waving his arms and swaying to the music with joyous abandon, and even singing along, as he stands in a crowd of girls who generally appear to be about thirty years younger than he is.
Trudeau hadn’t gone to boogie among his fellow Swifties after quelling the riots in Montreal. He hadn’t done anything about the riots in Montreal at all. Nero was a better ruler, as he is on record making efforts to alleviate the suffering of his people. And if the claims of Tacitus and Suetonius were true, Nero’s sin was singing classical epic poetry about the destruction of earlier cities during the fire. At least Nero’s desire to indulge his artistic bent during a time of tragedy remained on-point. Trudeau, by contrast, was bizarrely indulging his love for bubblegum pop music manufactured and marketed for girls half his age while pro-jihad thugs ran wild in the city that was once the jewel of his nation.
Canada could use a Nero. At least he made efforts to show he cared when his people suffered. That’s not a priority for Justin Trudeau, however, and why should it be? Since when have leftist authoritarians ever cared if their people suffer? Making their people suffer is Job One for them.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Interesting insight into historical myths. Another one I learned years ago was that it was not Marie Antoinette who said the infamous, “Let them eat cake” when confronted w/ officials who told her that some people couldn’t eat bread. It happened to be a Duchess of Tuscany, and that too from a different era, who said something similar. No idea of whether she too met w/ the same fate as the French queen
Evan McMullin says
You’ve got it all wrong, Robert! Those girls are a third of Trudeau’s age.
rick says
Nero a more humane leader than Trudeau! Rome burned without Nero present and Montreal burned somewhat with Trudeau present. Nero rushed back to Rome and offered assistance to the vicitms while Trudeau kept on dancing. But Trudeau later issued a press release saying how behavior by the Muslim lawbreakers cannot be allowed but it was!
Fake Press releases are the new “moral and political alibis” for horrible behavior by absent politicians. Words by today’s politicians mean less than they ever did.
Devon Fremd says
While trashing Justin Trudeau you should take note that he is Canada’s only safeguard against a vain, self-serving, carping, sniping, demagogue named Pierre Poilievre – whose idea of governing Canada would be making everyone in the country suffer in order to benefit its wealthiest sector – from becoming head of state.
Trudeau’s popularity has plummeted and he’s made a lot of mistakes, as does every son of Adam, but anyone in possession of an ounce of sense would vote for him without limit if it would keep Poilievre out of the Prime Minister’s chair.
Mike says
Devon: bullshit. From what I’ve seen of Canada’s Parliamentary debates on youtube, Poilievre at least gives straight answers to any question posed of him, unlike Trudeau.
Poilievre is also honest about being pro-choice on abortion, though he knows it may cost him the support of some socially-conservative Canadians. I don’t know where he stands on same-sex marriage, however.
Trudeau has so many improprieties along with ethics and corruption scandals that it’s not even funny anymore. The racist blackface and brownface
scandal alone is a good enough reason for Canadians to vote against him.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I personally prefer the Canadian People’s Party of Maxine Bernier. I’ve seen some Canadian commentators like Daniel Bordman who are critical of Bernier, but regardless of Bernier’s shortcomings, Canada does need a real Conservative party, and not Poilievre’s milque-toast conservatism, which translated to US, would seem more like Bush than Trump
somehistory says
It seems that politicians, and others, have been smeared with half-truths, rumors and out-right lies from times long past.
Film, photos, video, and other means of daily recording make the Truth easier to come by. As long as no one is using ai to falsify what actually happens.
In the photo, even jt’s jeans look dirty.
somehistory says
The web says he was hatched in ’71, which means he is 53. The girls would have to be 23 for him to be only 30 years older.
The girl with the big bow in her hair, even from the back, looks more like a kid who may be close to entering her teens…10-`12 years. Of course, she could be years younger.
ROBERT MCMILLAN says
Nero may or may not have truly cared about the people of Rome, but there is no doubt that he blamed Roman Christians for the fire sparking a mass persecution resulting in the murder of many thousands of innocent Christians. So yeah Nero was worse than Trudeau.
memi says
Superb synopsis of what ails the northern neighbour! Trudeau’s days, thank God, are numbered but, unfortunately, he leads with the help of the terrorist-separatist Singh, a Sikh who adores terrorists and their anti-Semitic slogans!
Trudeau allows Jewish Girls’ Schools in Toronto and Synagogues in Montreal to be shot at and desecrated with not a care in the world. He is the least popular of all Canadian “leaders” ever.
Canadians can’t wait to have Polievre the Conservative next Prime Minister!
Yes, Nero was a most effective and intelligent “leader” than Trudeau will ever be. He has supported terrorist “human rightists extremists” parading with guns and terrorist flags in universities and Hospitals and schools and people are fed up with this idiot who forgets that there are half a million Jewish voters in Canada–and that without them there have been no Canada. They’ve worked hard, like all other European immigrants to build a country based on English & French laws–not Sharia Law that he is imposing on everyone.
A Pakistani 20-year-old back in July 2018 shot openly with ISIS gunman’s precision at 2 girls, one 10-year-old girl in Greektown, Toronto, her father and killed several women. He had a history of “studying” in Pakistani Madrasses.
But the Muslim community soon distributed a letter to media that the young terrorist was “mentally disturbed”. Faisal Hussein was shot by the police but shortly before this terrorist attack on Canadian women enjoying dinner at restaurants in Toronto, this monster let another man go untouched….because he was not “white” and was a man. This is Sharia Law terrorism that Trudeau does not even understand let alone fight against before Canada becomes a Sharia law-only Bangladesh/Ankara Village