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.