Trump Attacks Iran

 

Despite his bluster, Trump was sensing that his moment had passed.  The Supreme Court struck down his tariffs.  His raping of adolescent girls was going to come back to haunt him.  Whatever he thought would be the results of his economic policies, the reality is that the people are worse off than they were before.  And this includes those who believed he'd bring prices down soon after his inauguration.  He doesn't know what to do about the Russia-Ukraine war because he's delusional and stupid.  He genuinely believes the garbage about Russia's having suffered over a million dead from wasteful "human wave" assaults for which there is no photographic evidence.  Therefore he thought that Putin was desperate for peace at any price. At the same time, Trump very much wanted to exploit and humiliate Ukraine.  So he pursued a contradictory policy of insulting both parties in the war and has consequently achieved nothing.  He has successfully created a racist gestapo in ICE (while the pathetic Democrats have done nothing to restrain them other than to request they wear body-cams to record their criminal behaviour) but he has been disappointed that the bulk of the US-American people don't share his racist glee at the abuse of brown people.  In his ignorance and stupidity he didn't anticipate the cratering of support for him from Latinos as they all find themselves targets for racist abuse from ICE agents (some of whom are Latinos themselves, because racists are uniformly stupid people).

Ford Orders Province's Workers Back To Offices But Has No Spaces For Them

 

Corrupt, gluttonous Doug Ford just didn't like the idea of many of the province's workers continuing to do their jobs remotely, from home.  Just because it didn't negatively impact productivity and some reports said it was more efficient as well as better for the workers' mental health was no reason to carry on with the policy (first adopted in response to the COVID pandemic).  No.  "Work" is performed in a "workplace" under the direct supervision of a BOSS.  That's just the way that things are.  So back to the office they had to go.

Except, fat, lazy, stupid, corrupt Doug Ford didn't bother to rent the space for his workers to go to:

Will the Orange Degenerate Attack Iran?

 

 

Trump's massive military build-up in the Middle East is continuing.  As are the "negotiations" in Geneva, mediated by Oman, between Iran and Trump's envoys.  Israel wants an attack, which means the Democratic Party will be okay with it.  Trump admits to being a willing hireling to the zionists.  But Trump must be hearing information from military people that attacking Iran could lead to a very destructive, long-term struggle.  Destructive to Iran, but also destructive to the USA and Israel.  Trump is being pushed into conflict by zionism and imperialism and his own hubris, and pulled from conflict by his self-interest and cowardice.

How did we get here?

How is it that we live in a world where an imbecile and a degenerate like Trump is President?  How does it seem even halfway normal for Trump to be threatening war with Iran at the behest of the genocidal state of Israel, instead of being hounded from office for the revelations from the Epstein files and the fact that half of said files are illegally being withheld? 

Mark Carney and the "Rules-Based International Order"

 

One example of the flexibility and falsehood of international law that Carney admitted to at Davos would be his own theft of $2 billion in Venezuelan gold reserves held in the vaults of the Bank of England.  He was the bank's governor at the time and the UK was (and remains) united in destroying the Bolivarian Revolution that wanted to use Venezuela's oil wealth for the general population rather than local and foreign elites.  Carney's "argument" was that the US puppet/douchebag Juan Guano was Venezuela's legitimate ruler and not Maduro who had only been elected in an election.

Thoughts

 

With the lawless, murderous, racist, sexist, fascist ramapaging of the Trump regime in Minnesota, and the way that the regime's supporters not only defend it, but celebrate it, ... the sickening reality of how debased the world has become is evident for all to see.

Trump represents the evil I said would follow harper's assaults on Parliament

 

If you go back through the pages of this blog to the years when stephen harper was desecrating all of the customs and conventions and the very letter of the law of our parliamentary system, you will see that I was constantly "harping" about how dangerous and disgusting his behaviour was.  I also expressed my dismay at the lack of push-back against harper; both from the super-radicals who believe that the real world is a waste of time and that if only everything magically changed, their little Marxist grouplet or "anarchist" collective would sweep away all before them and so to hell with worrying about something as ridiculous as Parliament and the semi-quasi-democracy it represents  - AND - from the "respectable" left and center who thought shouting "SHAME!!" [leftists] or "Tsk-tsk!" [centrists] was the extent of their responsibilities.

I'm not saying that Canadians' incapacity at resisting harper produced the rise of Donald Trump in the United States.  I'm saying that progressives and leftists failures to counteract the fascist turn of decaying capitalism has produced [in the USA] a fascist movement, united under a grifter, who has, in the real world, with real resources, created an army of lawless goons, inspired by racist ideology, targeting scapegoats and anyone who wants to resist them.

As economic conditions deteriorate, more people become insular, reactionary, "conservative."  We had certain rights under our system of government.  We could have built upon them.  We should be outraged when ... ahh, I've too much to say and no time really to say it.

Remember when harper stymied investigations into human rights abuses in Afghanistan? Remember when he stole an election?  Remember when he refused to provide Parliament with cost estimates of his policies?  Remember when the falsified expert advice to justify cutting funding for KAIROS?  Remember when he used his stolen majority to ram through gigantic omnibus bills?  Remember when Elections Canada refused to seriously investigate his election fraud and selectively granted legal immunity to different sets of witnesses?

As a people, we should be passionate about defending the rights we have.  Instead, the far-left smirks and shrugs their shoulders and says something eloquent about "bourgeois liberties" while the progressives mouth whatever platitudes their own hypocritical leadership in Liberal, NDP, Green, Democratic, whatever parties tell them to say.  (And then hope they forget those platitudes and what they were supposed to represent whenever one of those centrist parties gain power.)  And, of course, the vast majority of people, incapable of lifting their eyes from their own immediate concerns, simply ignore it all as a farce.

We see the results of this massive human-societal failure in the murderous, illegal, unconstitutional behaviour of Trump's ICE.

Iran

 

As I understand it, there are some legitimate economic grievances that many Iranians have against their government.  This was also the case in the early days in the protests against Assad in Syria.  But as with Syria, so too with Iran.  USA and Israeli spies soon attached themselves to these protests and used them as a pretext to violently attack the government.  And if you don't think the US government would start killing dozens of protesters if US-Americans started murdering police officers, just look at that country today, when police there go ape-shit when US-Americans peacefully protest police violence.