Shitface von Clownstick’s bold move
Putting your family in charge of your businesses is the very definition of conflict of interest, you moron. #uspoli @realDonaldTrump
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 30, 2016
Putting your family in charge of your businesses is the very definition of conflict of interest, you moron. #uspoli @realDonaldTrump
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 30, 2016
There’s this take on pipelines, as related by the Ventures:
And there’s this take which I would have related on CP24 if they hadn’t cancelled to talk about the Ontario Auditor-General’s report instead:
Does that mean every proposed pipeline should be approved? Of course not. Trudeau appropriately turned down Northern Gateway, just as the Dakota Access Pipeline should be (but won’t be, by a racist president-to-be).
Oil is being transported via rail right through Toronto neighbourhoods, including two blocks from my house, several times a day. I’d like that to stop, thanks.
Oh, and good luck in getting the Ventures lick out of your head. It’s a keeper.
A dishonest non-entity who is running for the Conservative Party leadership has a strategy: to yank every fire alarm she comes across. Her latest stunt? Kill the CBC.
She’s lying, of course. She was previously in power for many years, and did nothing – absolutely nothing – about the CBC. In fact, she made certain to appear on CBC as often as possible – more than most of her colleagues. She’s lying.
So, I won’t even dignify her, or her proposal, by using her name. But I give her credit: she’s got the mouth-breathing types braying and screeching about the CBC. Again.
Now, back when Sun News Network was around, I used to go on there all the time to say how much I loved the CBC. My objective was to give my pal Brian Lilley the vapours, and I think I succeeded.
But, like it or not, the “whither the CBC” debate is upon us, again. So, I thought I’d stake out my own position. Here, then, is my ten-point list about why I adore the CBC. Clip and save.
Now, various assholes will say I’m saying all this stuff because I’m a writer for CBC. Well, I’m not. (I did one thing for them, and I don’t presently plan to again – among other things, I get more than 3.5 million visitors on this wee web site every year, inter alia.)
Anyway. The CBC is here to stay, dishonest CPC leadership candidates notwithstanding. Because, basically, there’s more of us than there are of her.
From InFocus at York University:
Neo Nazi Publication “Your Ward News” appears at York University; Administration Promises Action
Society has become more understanding of mental illness. But what if the mentally ill person is about to become #POTUS? What then?
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 29, 2016
Grateful, relieved, happy.
That’s what not a few of us felt when Donald Trump “won.”
(I put “won” in flying quotes because, as various experts have now noted, there’s an excellent chance that the bilious billionaire actually lost the presidential race, but “won” because industrious Russian hackers nudged 100,000 votes in three states towards him. In that way, Trump – who is now more than TWO MILLION VOTES behind Hillary Clinton nationally – “won” the state-by-state Electoral College. But we digress.)
Nobody who is sane was in any way grateful, relieved or happy when Trump “won,” naturally. Anyone with the slightest stake in the present was variously outraged, mystified and/or scared shitless. We still are, on a global scale.
But, nationally, at least, I suspect most Canadians were happy. Because (a) we live in Canada, and (b) because Justin Trudeau is Prime Minister.
If you live in Canada, you are generally always happier than our American friends. We have a better quality of life, we have free health care, we have better public schools, we have safer streets, we have better regulation of banks and industries, we have much better relationships with our fellow citizens – whatever their race, religion or sexual orientation. Up here, everything is just way better – hockey now regretfully excluded. Every Canadian knows that.
But, in the past three weeks, we have been made better by Justin Trudeau running things, too. It’s the truth.
It is also true that I have not always been wildly enthusiastic about the way the newly-minted Prime Minister does things. Having had the privilege and honour of working for the Rt. Hon. Jean Chrétien for quite a few years, I learned the value of the following things:
• always undersell and over-perform
• always be in the papers as little as possible
• always treat taxpayer dollars like they are precious things, because they are
The Trudeau guys have a different way of doing things. The selfies, the media focus, the tendency to be slightly-less-than-parsimonious, the frequent use of adjectives when describing what they were elected to do. I’m not used to that style of governing, at all, and I don’t particularly like that style of governing. I have often said so, Liberal Party membership card notwithstanding.
But now? Now, after Trump? Now, when the world is about to become decidedly more nasty, more brutish, more short?
In Trump World, I now feel like kissing the ground upon which Justin Trudeau walks. I feel like giving voice to heavenly hosannas and hallelujahs. I feel like dancing, to quote Leo Sayer, circa 1976.
Trudeau, whatever his shortcomings, is a giant on the world stage when compared to the sausage-fingered, sphincter-mouthed, combed-over, racist/sexist/arguably fascist Human Cheeto to the South.
Justin Trudeau is everything Donald Trump is not: Likeable. Sane. Decent. Smart. Democratically elected (see: industrious Russian hackers perverting democracy in three states, above).
Will we Canucks be safer in the coming Dark Times? Probably not. Trump is the best recruitment tool ISIS has ever had. Will we benefit economically? Don’t be ridiculous: Trump’s trade policy is more protectionist than North Korea’s. Things are about to get way worse, and everyone will feel it.
But Canada, as several Americans recently told me, is a much better place to be until Trump is indicted. During the campaign in which she would get TWO MILLION VOTES more than her vile opponent, my wife and I volunteered for Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, Maine and at her Brooklyn headquarters. Over and over, our fellow Team Clinton members would say to us: “If Trump wins, can we move into your basement? Oh, and PS: Justin Trudeau is awesome.”
Well, folks, we can reveal that there are now several million American refugees down in our basement, stacked like cordwood. All clutching Team Trudeau campaign buttons.
They are grateful, relieved and happy that Justin Trudeau and Canada both still exist.
Like I am. And like you should be, too.
…that’s the working title of my next book. It’s the sequel to Web of Hate. And my sense is that I’m going to have no shortage of source material.
Steve Bannon on excluding African Americans from voting:
"Maybe that's not such a bad thing."https://t.co/L4zbY8X2rN pic.twitter.com/4yTpY8hK8e
— Tim Hogan (@timjhogan) November 28, 2016
So, Tip O'Neill's truism comes to mind: never get introduced to the crowd at sporting events. #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/Ry9N2l6c4D
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 28, 2016
Right. Two word response: Donald Trump. This is the new era. A politician can say anything, now. We have a national memory of five minutes. https://t.co/0tkwA2IiA4
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 27, 2016
So:
It won’t. Nothing does, anymore. We tender as evidence: Donald J. Trump.
Trump is a racist, sexist crook with fascist inclinations. But he also understands the popular consciousness better than anyone who has ever lived.
He knows we have a national memory of five minutes, and he knows that every new outrage – no matter how outrageous – will be forgotten by tomorrow.
Gone. Poof. It’s a memory. Overtaken by Kanye being led away to a padded room, or a video of a kitten sitting on a Roomba. Gone.
He also knows that people have a really low opinion of politicians. So, when a politician does something stupid – like, say, praising a dictator who murdered and repressed his own people (Trudeau on Castro, Thatcher/Reagan on Botha) – well, no one cares nearly as much as the chattering classes do.
Regular folks already think politicians are stupid and/or corrupt, and they aren’t therefore surprised when a politician says or does something that is stupid and/or corrupt.
Welcome to the new era. Every chord has been played before, everyone knows it, and no one will stop humming the tune.