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Idiots abound and Abroad

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Two things in the news are bothering me.
Only two?
Well only two to speak of today… and a bonus fact at the end.

First, Trump went to China and was not met by the leader by his vice. No one said anything and the visit occurred normally. When Obama arrived, the mobile ladder was “broken.” So, Obama had to leave the plane by the back door. Neither President understood exactly what happened. The western press does not understand the Chinese culture so they said nothing. And the Chinese Press did not have to say anything, as everyone understood this loss of “Face.” It’s a form of prestige or cultural currency. In both cases, both Presidents were treated as lesser being, humiliated by Ji and made to look like fools to the people of China by this diminishment of their positions. And best of all, being clueless they smiled and walked right on in.

Trump, for all his idiocy has one goal in mind. To leave a lasting mark on the USA to say for future generations he was there. And I am here to tell you, he already has. He has destroyed American trade, American respect and the world order all for his own vanity and senility. The USA has lost the world order and no matter who they elect to replace Trump, that is never coming back. From Canadian trade diversification, to Europe boldly saying “no” to all companies American. To wit, or twit as we speak of what Trump has done. Using his power on over reach, he had Mastercard and Visa block the credit cards of all members of the world court. Though they deny this, I tend to believe the guy who has to carry cash and letter from the court Justices. EU has ordered that a new system based in Europe be created to avoid Visa or Mastercard.

They froze the world courts documents and emails by revoking their licenses. This trapping all data inside the American web. So Europe is switching to software created from Linux and wholly owned by Europe. This means a loss at minimum in the billions of dollars for Silicon Valley. The American made Tesla was called the worst car to own after only 4 years with its failure rate higher at 4 years then every other brand at 10 years. No wonder sales are down 45% across the board for Elon.

The war in Iran, long overdue. Trump has been working his way to have the courage to invade. He tore up the Obama deal just because it had the name Obama on it. He bombed Iran just cause the Israelis wanted him to. So now they are shutting down oil production. The result? Worldwide switch to alternative energy. Even in the USA there are more people employed in alternative energy then in oil and coal. Cuba under the oil block aid from the USA is undergoing the fastest conversion ever seen anywhere in the world going from fossil energy to Sun and wind energy. As they have no other choice in the matter, the ships are brining in as much as they can carry to set up Geo-thermic, Wind and Solar powered arrays to power the country. Think of all those birds Trump is killing. For someone doing his best to push fossil fuel, he is single-handedly the biggest pusher to go green. One of the biggest benefits is in Canada. For example Aluminum. Ours, made in Quebec with good old Hydro electricity is called green and by buying it from us, It passes European taxes to make things greener. Sure it may cost more for purchase but with the lower taxes for being green, it makes things cheaper.


With the high tariffs, so many contracts were cancelled, so new contracts with Europe popped up. Now American companies want to get back a semblance of normal but those contract they tore up? Sorry Charlie, get in line. Oil? Segway to our next topic, can now be shipped east. Asia used to get oil from the Persian Gulf, has had to look East for supplies. They are wandering around with cash in hand to buy anything we will sell them, and they are paying market rate. Not the discounts we were selling to the Americans before but market rates. Alberta is going to have a banner year of surplus as everyone wants their oil, as much or all of it as they can get. Trump can tariff all the Canadian oil he wants to. Americans, ordinary people, pay that. Asian will pay more for it anyway, and they will even come and get it. All in all, Trump will certainly go down as the worst President in history. And that is a fitting tribute to his legacy!

Next, speaking oil riches, let talk Alberta. The separatist movement was just kicked out of the running by the court. Premier Danielle Smith said she would use the “Notwithstanding” clause to reverse the court. But this “card” is the “UNO reverse” for all things legal. Tell me you don’t know what you are talking about without telling me you don’t know what you are talking about. The Notwithstanding clause? It applies to a limited number of rights like the right to freely practice religion or sexual orientation. It does not apply to every legal ruling. Likewise, it does not override Treaties or obligations. And those were not considered in this whole separatist project. Not only that, but it does not make a magic wand and change all the bad things those nasty radical judge do like upholding the law. But being clueless on the public stage is one of her gifts to the world. How embarrassing to be a citizen in Alberta.

But not to be out done, hold my beer. The separatists have taken the electoral list for the entire province and put the entire thing on the dark web. That means every single adult who is eligible to vote in Alberta will for the rest of their lives have the worry of ID fraud. All the necessary information use to validate their voting eligibility is on the dark web and that can be used to scam banks, or any other company out of millions, or billions. And the hits will keep on coming for generations.

But wait! The leader of one the fringe groups is refusing to hand over basic information like donor lists and how much money he has gotten from whom to fund his separatist drive. Seems he does not want to name the unnamed billionaire who has been paying him to do this. The same billionaire paying people in the Netherlands to make ads, videos twitter postings etc advocating for separation. The only line drawn so far was to give the local idiot a 500 billion dollar credit line. See if he had asked for something small say 50 million, he might have gotten it and been able to take out millions before they noticed the scam.
Oh, and rumour is this local guy won’t be around much longer. He got his Green card so he is off to the USA.

As one author said on net, if he were to have written any of this, no one would have bought his books as this it just too beyond the fringe.

And lastly, the bonus fact. The polling for the liberals has Carney however near the 50% range. Including 7 seats in Alberta. Imagine that.

State of Canadian Elections to come this year

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I think the key here is to look at the news

Trudeau in Ukraine today

Trudeau to chair G7

Trudeau stands up to Trump

If he had not already said he would step down, I think he would run again.

All of these headlines and what do we hear from Pierre Poutine? He gets glowing reviews on right wing blogs, Jordan Peterson, thinks he is great. Trump loves the man. In other words he is talking to the choir not the  Canadian public.

Next in the news, NDP is falling in the polls. They may not even be ready to fight a snap election in March, and we are going to the polls in April or early May. Jagmeet is even lower in the polls then his party, rip up agreements and see what it gets you…  I like the man but his politics suck. As the liberals head to more centrist positions, the NDP should rush to fill the gap only they are getting no bounce.  People who normally support the NDP are going bipolar, either to the right and the conservatives or to the liberals. Those that go right will fall back to the liberals anyway. Note that the poll was straight numbers and did not include the hidden Liberal advantage. They normally get higher returns when people actually vote then what people will say they will vote for. To an alarming degree this could amount to 3-4 percent of the vote total. So, a tie in the poll, would in fact, say the liberals are leading with Carney as the head.

As much as I like Jagmeet and equally as much as I dislike Poilievre, I would still vote liberal today. The NDP has never missed a chance to miss their chance. The Jack Layton, orange wave was not something anyone said was coming. It just happened.  Pierre Poutine is a slimy person. He comes off as used car salesman only one, used car salesmen know give them a bad name. Have you listened to his interviews with creepy right wing news outlets? He get Trump like fawning with Trump-like questions. Yet tell them how unreliable mainstream journalists are?  I think that is a good way to win the vote. Going to the extreme right wing and telling them talking points they only dream about but have no traction in the middle of the road might work in American politics, but will it work in Canada? We are better educated and better informed then an average American. Talking to the right-wing media leaves a bad taste in my mouth and people who are not ideologically bound to his type of smarm. Now that the election is coming due people who normally do not follow politics, start to watch. With the threats from Trump, people are concerned to see what is happening. They see a clear difference between Trudeau and Mr. Poutine. That usually shows up in the polls at first then in the vote count later. 

The NDP is dropping

The Conservatives peaked too soon and are now in free fall in the polls. They dropped 10 points just on Trudeau stepping down. And another 10 with Trump’s threats. It is all fun and games to vote in the right wing lunatic to “own” the libs. But when it is your @$$ on the line, with Trump’s many threats. The people think first about protecting what is theirs and leave “ownings” to another  day.

Canada is not for sale? Or is it?

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Donald Trump wants Canada to be the 51st state. When told Canada is not for sale, he persists. Everything is for sale at the right price. Reminding me of an Aslin joke during the NAFTA free trade debate years ago. You see MacDonald protecting a female Canada conservatively dressed, saying “Canada is not for sale!” The middle panel is Laurier protecting another female personification of Canada saying the same thing. The third and last panel, you see Brian Mulroney dressed as a pimp, slappy the girls’ ass, dressed in a mini skirt and heavy makeup. Saying to her, “get busy!”
Or perhaps this joke would explain the matter, a man says to a woman if she will sleep with him for $10.
“Certainly not.”
“Well would you sleep with me for a million dollars?”
“I might,” she agrees.
“Well, what about for $50?”
“What kind of girl do you think I am sir?”
“We have already determined that, we are merely haggling over the price…”

So The Donald want to secure a legacy for posterity. He wants to add his name to the largest territorial grab in US history by acquiring Canada. So, since everything is for sale, in his mind, we are just arguing the price.

Fine. Let’s argue the price.
1) Canada is 10 provinces and 3 territories. All of which would need to be states. As well, the national capital region around Ottawa, (So far from Heaven so close to Hull.) would need to make a newly minted American State! And since it would be unfair for Ottawa to get it without Washington DC, the Donald would need to add 15 stars on his flag.
2) Since we have universal Health care up here, we would need that to be added to their bill of rights that Health care is a right and must be paid for by the state. All 65 states.
3) Since we regulate fire arms very heavily up here, they would need to rewrite their 2nd amendment to remove that right to wife beating “bare arms” (sic)
That would be the changes required before we can even start to negotiate.
Once you put this out to The Donald, you sit back and wait. Every time he makes reference to Canada becoming the 51 state, simply say 51-65 state! So we can send 30 new Democratic Senators and near tell 56 House members to Washington! Since even the most Canadian right-winger have more in common with Democrats then Republicans, the House, and Senate would swing to the Dems like forever.
Or you can reply to his so-called “Offer”, that is good he has agreed to begin the repeal of the 2nd amendment.
Make the price too high and hold out for him to pony up. We have left room for further price increases if he ever could meet just those 3 demands to START negotiations with him.
See, Donald Trump is a bully. He has shown the American experiment to have failed. The rules for law and order do not work there. The rules of impeachment or having a high court, to begin with, are clearly not working. So merely saying “no,” is not sufficient. However, let’s not forget the cheap sycophantic response by Danielle Smith to rush to kneel before him. Or the opportunistic “call an election to deal with this threat” Doug Ford.
At the end of the say, just make the price too high. The Donald, despite advanced senility, understands the concept of the price being too high.

And on that subject, Donald Trump thinks people in other countries pay his tariff and not his own people. That inflation will rise uncontrollable and the economic issues that would arise with a 25% tariff! Yet, for all that. He keeps saying it. Why? Because he does not understand a single word you are saying. The price of eggs goes up? When do you think he went to buy eggs? Ever? His new byte coin had over 33 billion dollars invested in it, virtually overnight? How many eggs can you buy with a billion here and a billion there? How much inflation will erode the spending power of 33 billion? When you work out the answers to those questions, then you will see just how corrupt he is and how trying to appeal to his reason won’t work.

The Donald Won Again

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So, The Donald won again. What are we to make of this? There is a surprising among of things to unpack from this. Let’s start with the good news.

In 4 more years, no matter what happens, we will never have to listen to him run for office, any office again. Next, quoting no less than Karl Marx’s, History repeats itself, the first time as a tragedy and the second as a farce. Here comes the farce. The last thing, as his federal charges will be stemmed, his state charges will go on. So the thought that in 4 years he will leave office and play a new roll, state inmate; from President to prisoner all in one afternoon, coming soon.

So how did he win in the first place? If you listen closely, all the reasons are based on the democratic performance or their policy or lack there of. They should have pushed more on housing and less on abortion. They should have more ads on the economy and less on the January insurrection. That sort of thing. And while all those arguments are well articulated and well researched and argued, they are trying to explain the wrong event. DJT did not win because intellectuals jump ship to support him. He won because he got the male vote. White, black and Hispanics, all sided with him. Women failed to come out to support their own rights or Harris. In the end the Trump coalition was not made up of any group. Just a lot of low information, low engaged and lower intelligence people casting their vote for who is going to be the guy in charge.

So, the funny thing is, no matter what Trump does over the next 4 years, at any time, statistically speaking, 51% of his victims, are people who voted for him to do just that. In other words, you cannot rape the willing. And Trump would never rape anyone…
What?
Found civilly liable several times for rape? Accused, more so, of other vile acts?
And now he all he does is talk about penis envy for some golfer?

But it gets better. So the Arab associations, angered at Biden told their members to vote for Trump. Fair enough. Trump, whose sole plan for peace is to provide Israel with everything it wants in order to get the job done. Fine by me. But when Israel is bombing the Middle East to ruins, please don’t complain. You voted for this policy. You told people to support Donald Trump and did so knowing this was his policy.

Even Nancy Pelosi has no one to blame but herself. She engineered the downfall of Biden. Yes she did. So the result? Is her doing. Good job Nancy.

So in the end, just how did Donald J. Trump get re-elected? He has faced the ballot three times, won twice and lost once. The three people who opposed him, had for the most part the same policies, same rhetoric. All three would have made better Presidents then Trump. A;; three are better qualified and all three do not show signs of dementia that he has done so increasingly over the last few years. So was there anything different between the elections? I think there is one thing. It’s a sexist idea but it also fits. Low information voters are not voting on policy. They are voting with their gut. Which is them women do not belong in the White House. I know, so misogynistic to say. But it is the only answer that accounts for all the males running to Trump. All the uninformed people did not suddenly decide to read reams of policy documents. They took a look at who was running and said, nah to the female and pulled the lever for Trump.

In the end, I would rather think America is a sexist place then think they are inherently fascist. YMMV