— Feature, Musings —08.04.2024 10:36 AM
— Feature, Musings —08.04.2024 10:36 AM
Always informative! Wish more Canadians would tune in but they busy trying to pay the mortgage, rent and groceries while taxes keep climbing.
The FIDLAR track was great. Paused the podcast to do a bit of a deep dive on the group. One memo that went out to the Tru-anons about the “weird” talking point they swiped from the Dems was to boost a high school year book pic of Pierre where he says “What is truly horrific is the existing welfare state”. Don’t know if the pic is real but that is basically what Daniel Patrick Monyihan was saying at the time. Good for him because Monyihan was right. These folks should read a book. And they all remind me of the people who thought they were the “cool kids” like Biff in Back To The Future picking on the nerds with an actual brain. Most of them are now their bosses while they are reliving old high school football games and posting god knows what on X.
Warren,
Trump is a fucking moron. He goes out of his way to make Harris president, and he WILL.
If he musters enough support from his fellow morons, he’ll be president. That’s the sad truth, and something we should all have come to grips with. Recent political events indicate that we have far more morons than we ever understood.
Warren,
Sadly, the Democrats are the predictable party of conventional wisdom, meaning Harris goes with the flow and that means Shapiro. (It should be Pete.)
I doubt Shapiro because of Michigan. I think Pete is a non starter. Kelly makes the most sense.
Ronald,
A double-double says it’ll be Shapiro.
He’ll deliver Pennsylvania.
Douglas,
Warren said it best about Pennsylvania’s electoral votes. Far more than Michigan, Wisconsin or Arizona.
None of us got it right.
As for white men…most of them are too far gone, having not ejaculated in twenty years. A state they blame on women generally and Democrats in particular! Real MAGA types!
John,
And then there’s this: you know Biden’s hostage deal and ceasefire proposal, the ones that Netanyahu in his heart of hearts likely opposes? Well, what’s the easiest way to derail those talks and make sure no one on Hamas’ side has the capacity to resurrect those two so-called deals? Well, voilà.
I will go further: does Bibi even want to bring the hostages home? Is it among his two top priorities? Nope, not at all. Priority Number One is to keep Netanyahu in power, come what may. Priority Number Two is to go to war to any extent to keep Netanyahu in power. It’s like a broken record.
Agreed on all fronts. The timing of the NATO/Russian prisoner swap is highly suspect – with the Turks, who play both sides of the Bosphorus – as the agency of effect. Weird week indeed. As to Russia: they already functionally control Moldova. And maybe a chunk of Estonia. But I don’t believe that they will try to cross nuclear lines. So not Poland or any member state of NATO. I guess I sure hope I’m right. Peace.
They conveniently forgot two. That can only mean Putin is doing more hard non-time sensitive bargaining for some other mini-Ivan the Terrible.
This is neither here nor there but kind of surprised he let Medvedev live. Not normally his style. He must be slipping.
The problem with sociopaths is that they generally are quite predictable but never in a good way. The West has interests. Sociopaths have only paranoia and totally delusional psychotic obsessions. Just ask Trump. But I digress.
Ronald,
Bibi wants military escalation.
The IDF does not.
IDF is stretched thin in Gaza, with no end game in sight. And no exit strategy.
In south Lebanon, Hezbollah has been raining rockets across the border, forcing more than 60,000 Israelis (and as many as 100,000) to flee to central Israel.
The Houthis in Yemen are a menace; and then there’s roaming militias in Syria.
Bibi is putting all Israelis at massive risk, and he simply does not care.
Horrible human being.
Douglas,
The IDF and Shin Bet can do nothing. But the war cabinet can but it won’t..
I think, even in the face of all my worldly cynicism, we are STILL underestimating how depraved Bibi’s lust for power goes. It’s not just the IDF that suffers. He is well aware that he has more support among Americans than he does Israelis. He’s going to escalate every conflict on the gamble that Americans want to devote untold resources and human lives to Israel’s defense, under threat of being labeled antisemites and turncoats if they fail to produce. I doubt actual Israeli people are even a part of his calculus anymore, let alone hostages. To that end, what’s worse – that it’ll probably work for a while, or that it will absolutely destroy international support for Israel within a generation, after Bibi is no longer around to deal with the aftermath?
John,
Yes, that is the directional drift of the wind, towards an armistice and an unfortunate ceasefire. But the real question is what will the sociopath in the Kremlin do after that? First Chechnya, then Georgia, then Ukraine. What’s next on Putin’s agenda? Moldova, The Baltics, Poland, etc. Ah, whiffs of WWIII, coming to a theatre near you…
Putin’s next move?
Sit back and watch the U.S. further unravel.
The next BRICS summit is October 3rd.
On the table, a common currency for trade and investment between Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
Most likely, Iran will be joining the club, soon.
America continues to get pinned down in regional wars while the rest of the world considers plans to get more prosperous.
Brilliant.
Simply brilliant.
Douglas,
The U. S. is at full bore with active decoupling underway. They will eventually succeed with India and perhaps others. Iran would be a kiss of death as to its economic credibility. One country recently backed out. Don’t remember who.
Warren,
Trudeau Liberals. Already politically dead. They just don’t know it yet.
Ronald, looks like maybe your buddy Pablo might have figured it out!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/pablo-rodriguez-quebec-liberal-leadership-1.7285228
Ronald,
Somebody needs to tell them.
As an aside, it’s looking like Pablo Rodríguez is going to jump ship to the provincial Liberals.
Another one bites the dust.
Warren,
Trump never laid a glove on Obama, and he won’t on Harris either.
Ronald,
Somebody needs to tell them.
As an aside, it’s looking like Pablo Rodríguez is going to jump ship to the provincial Liberals.
Another one bites the dust.
Warren,
LaSalle—Émard—Verdun: Liberals hold, barely. Bloc second, NDP third. Problem for the opposition: the vote does not coalesce behind BQ or NDP, so Liberals keep the seat.
Ronald,
Agreed: LaSalle—Émard—Verdun remains Liberal, by a couple hundred votes, at best.
But why set the date for September 16th?
So much can go wrong between now and then for the Liberals.
Don’t get it.
Well, he legally couldn’t have shortened that date too much. Even so, I don’t think Liberals have much to be concerned about in either by-election. The Quebec riding will remain Liberal as there is zero appetite for anything resembling right wing policies or nationalism in that riding, and the Manitoba riding of Elmwood-Transcona is a riding that will never vote Liberal under any circumstances.
Douglas,
There’s no Duceppe or Layton here. Don’t see much further downside for the Trudeau Liberals. As for us, our vote percentage will rise but only in respectable terms.
Warren,
Hum. Harris is going to Philadelphia, first. LOL.
Nixon used Agnew as his attack dog.
Martin,
It’s an ego trip. Nothing more. The Quebec Liberals are no longer a credible political party in the eyes of a majority of francophone québécois. That won’t change with Pablo in the race. He’s insufficiently nationalistic. And such a prospect is unlikely to go down well at home either…so Rodriguez better make a wise choice unless he wants to become the next Trudeau and not in a good way.
But he is rocking the nice hair and we have seen that is often enough for the Liberals so there’s that.
Coderre has the exact same problem. At least Pablo is not a bull in a china shop.
And Yes, in a manner of speaking, I already have skin in this game. LOL.
Warren thinks Wolz is a mistake.
He does. Not an existential one, but the wrong choice. Kelly or Shapiro were mine.