With the erudite and brilliant Chad Rogers, the charming and brilliant Kathleen Monk, and some guy brought in to refresh their water glasses.
On one point we all agreed: the outcome of the next Ontario election remains elusive. (When cabinet ministers do stuff like this, you understand why.)
Chad Rogers, Kathleen Monk, some guy who walked in off the street, Val from OREA.
…is complaining about a comedy show being mean to him. Seriously.
I’d love to be able to joke about him having access to the nuclear codes, but I just can’t. This is precisely what Hillary warned everyone about (although not nearly enough, which is a subject for another day). If the Doomsday Clock isn’t fully at midnight by the end of January 2017, I will be amazed.
My take, in today’s Hill Times:
Warren Kinsella, a former assistant to Mr. Chrétien and now a Hill Times columnist, said sexism played a role in both Ms. Clinton’s and Ms. Chow’s defeats, and that the campaigns of Mr. Martin and Mr. Prentice were simply “badly run.” However, he said it’s always a number of factors that lead to these star candidates losing rather than just one thing.
He said with all the noted situations of favoured candidates losing, there was a longing for change among the electorate, and they weren’t seen as the ones who were going to bring that change.
“When people want change, you’d better not be seen as the candidate of the status quo,” Mr. Kinsella said in an email. “Voters will embrace the change candidate every time, even if it’s radical change, as in the case of the shockingTrump win.”
Trump Virus spreads: now at the University of Manitoba this week. Spotted by Prof. Helmust-Harry Loewen.
If @realDonaldTrump asks @JustinTrudeau to welcome him in Canada, Trudeau should:
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 20, 2016
We’ve been getting many messages from very upset people, from Niagara to Whitby, telling us that the Your Ward News pro-Nazi filth is landing in their mailboxes again.
We know the federal government and Judy Foote did their part. So, where is the provincial government? Municipal governments? NGOs, who are supposed to care, like CIJA? The police?
Nowhere. Meanwhile, the Trump Web of Hate spreads.
And, in the US, those who voted for Trump richly deserve the chaos and misery they are about to get.
Richmond, to be precise. From a regular reader.
I haven’t written a book about the racist Right for 15 years, but that’s about to change. Stay tuned.
So, yes, I despair. Trump, the explosion in hate, all of it. So I turn to Joe and the boys, as always, for solace and salvation. The best song ever, the song that changed my life. Truncated, but truer now than ever before. Last part, especially.
Midnight to six man
For the first time from Jamaica
Dillinger and Leroy Smart
Delroy Wilson, your cool operator
Ken Boothe for UK pop reggae
With backing bands sound systems
And if they’ve got anything to say
There’s many black kids here to listen
But it was Four Tops all night, with encores from stage right
Charging from the bass lines to the treble
But our place ain’t got no roots rock rebels
Our place ain’t got no…roots, rock, rebels
Dress back, jump back, this is a bluebeat attack
’cause it won’t get you anywhere
Fooling with your guns
The British Army is waiting out there
An’ it weighs fifteen hundred tons
White youth, black youth
Better find another solution
Why not phone up Robin Hood
And ask him for some wealth distribution
Punk rockers in the UK
They won’t notice anyway
They’re all too busy fighting
For a good place under the lighting
The new groups are not concerned
With what there is to be learned
They got Burton suits, ha! You think it’s funny
Turning rebellion into money
All over people changing their votes
Along with their overcoats
If Adolf Hitler was here today
They’d send a limousine anyway
