William Munny From Out of Missouri

 

Just putting out my speculation about the imaginary past of the imaginary character in Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven."  William Munny was a man with a violently intemperant disposition.  As a young man he was frequently drunk and he shot and killed several men.  I believe that he deliberately pursued acts of robbery and one time he blew up a train or a bank and unintentionally killed women and children.  And it was THAT that made him change his ways.  Somehow he found a good woman who helped him become a sober, peaceful man.  And then she died.  And then the movie started.

Canadian Patriotism

 

Trump's boorish and deranged statements about taking over Canada (as well as Greenland, Panama, Gaza, etc.,) have sent shock waves across this country.  One response has been mindless flag-waving and chest-thumping about resistance to the USA's bullying.  People who yawned at stephen harper's disembowelment of all the traditions of our parliamentary pseudo-democracy, and at Canadian troops being complicit in torture in Afghanistan, and Canada's support for Israel's genocide of the Palestinians, are now falling all over themselves expressing their devotion to whatever vague notion the word "Canada" has to them.

Trump and Israel

 

Donald Trump is an idiot.  But he's not the idiot that the lame-stream media present him to be.  He's a talented grifter who shamelessly plays the game.  He also knows how to bully people.  But he's also got something of a messiah complex.  Whatever the case, his ego and his narcissism would not allow him to accept the persecution he endured from the "intelligence" agencies and the FBI with that whole "Russia-gate" nonsense; nor would they allow him to accept electoral defeat.  I think his first election victory surprised him and he was willing to "play nice" with the "Deep State" because he hadn't really thought about actually challenging them.  And for his troubles he got subjected to the Russiagate witch-hunt that some progressives still stupidly insist was about something real.

Doug Ford's Victory and other stupid stuff

 

So Doug Ford and the Ontario Progressive Conservatives have won a third majority.  How did this happen?  I remember CP24 was playing in the cafeteria and they were discussing the results of the leaders' debate.  The blowhard paid to offer his conventional wisdom said "Nobody made a mistake."

But Ford's entire term of office has been a mistake.  The debt has almost quadrupled under him. And what have we gotten for it?  He promised to end "hallway medicine" in our public hospitals.  It's gotten worse.  Homelessness is a crisis.  Colleges and universities are in crisis.  Schools and hospitals are facing staffing shortages.  And the fat fuck's gigantic corruption problem is, well, gigantic.

Did Naziyahoo Blink?

 

After posting (not too long ago) about the chances for renewed conflagration in the Middle East by Saturday, I read Caitlin Johnstone's [then] latest post.  

Wondering What Saturday Will Bring

 

Trump and Naziyahoo are going to break the ceasefire they've been violating since it came into effect, because Hamas has declared that Israel's serial, BRAZEN, violations of their obligations, and Trump's open admission of his desire for ethnic cleansing, has rendered the ceasefire null and void.

Librocons Momentarily Grasp the Value of Principles

 

In a sick, depressing sort of way it's funny to watch the Trudeau Liberals and the Poilievre Conservatives squirm and sputter in the face of Trump's threats of massive tariffs as well as outright annexation.  Considering both of these parties' support for Israeli annexation of Palestine (including the mass slaughter being used to implement it) their shock and fear over Trump's madness is a trifle pathetic.  At least Trump hasn't stated any desire to expel us from our homes once he conquers us.  Typing these words, I'm also reminded of Canada's gleeful participation in various [illegal] US sanction regimes against targeted countries like Venezuela, as our leaders panic about Trump's sanctions.

Canada could have teamed-up with Mexico in crafting a response to Trump's bullying.  Alas, Canada has spent past decades slighting Mexico (and the rest of Latin America) and trying to cozy-up to the USA as the only other Anglo-American entity in the Western Hemisphere.  Plus, our governments serve noxious Canadian mining companies who have the abuse of Mexicans (and the rest of Latin America) as part of their business model.

This sad state is the end result of unprincipled politics.  If either of these gangs of shit-heads ever develop the brains and the morality to realize that slaughtering hundreds of thousands of innocent people is wrong (EVEN when allies do it), that abusing people to steal their resources is wrong, that poisoning people to save money is wrong ... well, ... all of that stuff would mean they wouldn't be Liberals or Conservatives anymore.

Who know what's going to happen?  Trump is an idiot with a short attention span.  He is not the sort of idiot described by the idiots in the USA liberal-centrist media.  Poilievre might be working with advisors to help craft the surrender terms that see him become a US senator.  Iran, Yemen, Hezbollah and Hamas (and Russia) might be preparing some surprises if Trump openly allows Pestilence Naziyahooo to get his genocidal freak on again.