Despair Deza Debbie

This Donald Trump being president of the United States thing is the worst, eh? So racist and sexist and blatantly in-our-faces corrupt. And all because he's in debt up to his blown out sinuses to Russian mobsters. Oh well. Guess there's nothing for it but to watch while he pays it off by destroying America and maybe the whole world.

Meanwhile, Boss Putin is pretending a dozen nuclear accidents haven't happened in the past couple of weeks - including a nuclear reactor blowing up in the Barents Sea.

That's the problem with mobsters, Russian and otherwise. They're not just tacky money-laundering murderers who act like they come from a parallel universe 80s, they're own-nest-shitter-inners.

Today in: Use Your Words

I came across someone pointing out that ensuring access to abortion services for female citizens and granting marriage licences to gay citizens aren't "social issues", the namby pamby term being used to excuse Andrew Scheer & Co's illiberal views, they're hard won legal human and civil rights and important steps forward in advancing the individual rights and freedoms of ALL Canadians. No one should be running for public office in Canada in 2019 who doesn't recognize this and yet here we are. Again.

She's Baaack

But Susan Sarandon has moved on from accusing the Democrats of rigging their candidate selection process against Bernie Sanders, a socialist and non-member of the Democratic Party, to accusing them of rigging their candidate selection process against Tulsi Gabbard, Putin's Choice.

Split the Alt-Right!

I'm not a REAL political strategist but if I was I'd advise Maxime Bernier to be pro-choice in Quebec and anti-choice everywhere else. That way he'd get Andrew Scheer's Quebec white nationalist Conservatives AND Andrew Scheer's everywhere else white Christian nationalist Conservatives - thereby - splitting the alt-Right vote (both the Conservative Party of Canada and the People's Party of Canada are alt-Right) and electing a majority Liberal Party of Canada government again.

And I'm not even a REAL Liberal, that's how much I don't want to mess with a relatively decent thing when I've finally got it.

Cool

I'm cutting back on my "the world will end if we elect Andrew Scheer" schtick.

Why?

Because the Amazon is burning but the news is all about how the pictures being shared of it burning might be of some other out-of-control wildfire caus.

Fuck it. Toss those modern Liberals and bring back those old-fashioned Conservatives.

Also, Dear G7: Let Russia back in so we can all watch Trump hi-5 Putin because Bolsonaro set the Amazon on fire.

What do Russians think when they read people from countries that at least aren't run by the Russian mob

On a more local note, I finally feel like living in Ottawa is getting closer to living in a cool city.

Why?

Because Ottawa's lightrail system is operational September 14th.

Please, politicians - cool matters. Young people and financially literate people alike want cool.

And for the Amazon to not be burning.

A Reader Writes

Kidding, it's me, I read myself. But I wanted to share with you all a realization I had this morning re why I'm not joining Twitter - it's because I think I'm too good for it.

Imminent System Collapse Inc

I think we'll always be in a recession of sorts now that capital has replaced labour and all this blah blah from the media, corporate and otherwise, about imminent system collapse is just busywork clickbait for use by left and right parties trying to get into government so they can either nationalize or privatize more than Liberal parties do in government.

Myself I like owning a pipeline that gives me a stake in Canada's Energy Sands and I doubt very much that the NDP would have bought me one. For sure the CPC wouldn't have done. So I'm good.

Andrew Scheer Vs Canada 2019

There should be no such thing as a tax free savings account. I know people like them but I don't care. Grow up everybody and pay your taxes.

We live in a country where gay citizens are legally allowed to marry but Andrew Scheer opposes that right because he believes his God is opposed to it. We live in a country where pregnant girls and women have a legal right to abortion services but Andrew Scheer opposes that right because he believes his God is opposed to it. We live in a country where people on death's door have the right to ask for a physician assisted suicide - and it's not nearly enough - but Andrew Scheer even opposes that right because he believes his God is opposed to it.

We have legal weed but Andrew Scheer yadda yadda yadda God is opposed to it.

Ferchrissake, Andrew Scheer believes his God is opposed to people who worship a different God and to people who don't worship a God at all.

I really really really hope the citizens of this stupid country don't elect him Prime Minister.

Christmas Wish List

Just two things, no, three things, universe:

1)  Trump in prison with the whole gang before the end of 2019, because this is starting to look like there are just too many men in power who enjoy sexually assaulting people below the age of legal consent to take them all down and not upset the rotation of earth around the sun;
2)  Trump's big orange stupid face carved on top of the ground down faces of the other presidents on Mount Rushmore;
3)  Justin Trudeau is Prime Minister with a majority government (because fuck one issue parties - Liberals don't criminalize poverty and they don't cancel tree planting programs so go find another reason to be steal votes from Liberals so that Conservatives win and debase our country and everybody living in it again) - but - so embarrassed by all that ammo he handed to liberal Feminist haters on the left AND the right - that - he spends the next four years making it up to us - and then - passes the torch to... <drum roll, please ed.>  - Jody Wilson-Raybould (Raybauld?) and her friend Jane Philpott!

And they all lived happily ever after. The end.

Annnd... It's Team Jody on a TKO from the Sidelines

Holy-o-fuck, eh? I was totally counting her down for the count (on top of her good friend, Jane Philpott), but Jody Wilson-Raybould (Raybauld?) has emerged triumphant from the ring - thanks to a a knock-out punch delivered from the sidelines by a rule stickling government appointee, straight to Justin Trudeau's whopper-telling jaw.

Haha. Expect that guy axed after the next election. No matter who wins - Justin "fire that little shit about the ethics stuff" Trudeau or Stephen "hang that little shit about the ethics stuff" Harper.

I mean, Andrew "hang that little shit's kids about the ethics stuff" Scheer.

Kidding! I kid. Why, I even know a guy who worked for Andrew Scheer, once upon a time. And he didn't say anything ever that would suggest to me there was even the remotest possibility of Andrew Scheer becoming Prime Minister of Canada.

Whatever. Who cares if he does. Fuck that ethics report guy.

Please, New Democrats and Greens, stop playing this game of chicken with the Liberals.

Stephen Harper's job - his fucking job - is to elect as many sexist, racist, homophobic despots in our global village as he can.

So... SCHTAAAP!

Orange Alert

Conservative politicians are starting to terrify me.

Hang 'em High

Oh I say - wonder if this Jeffrey Epstein death while in US federal custody will be used as a bargaining chip by Julian Assange to keep from being extradited to the US from Britain.

Killer Cars

I want to know how it is that manufacturers can make cars that go faster than our speed limit of roughly 100km/hr.

Somebody should sue the bastards.

He Who Pulls the Trigger

When a socially isolated young man falls down an online white male nationalist ideology rabbit hole I doubt it takes very long to radicalize him.

So it's probably a minor miracle given the ease with which young American men can get mass shooting weaponry that there aren't even more deaths caused by white nationalism inspired mass shootings.

In the US it's the insane availability of guns, for sure, but the NRA (which we should all by know now has been laundering Russian mob money into the Republican Party for years) owns a lot of politicians - mostly Republicans, but Democrats, too, so effective gun control is a no go zone.

Heck, the NRA even owns the odd Social Democrat, I suspect.

Cripes, and never mind just American politicians, the NRA probably owns more than a few Conservative Party of Canada leaders. But without knowing who funded Stephen Harper's leadership campaign, that'll just have to be an educated guess.

They sure were keen to destroy our gun registry, though, weren't they, those Alberta Reform turned Conservative Party of Canada governing politicians.

But Toronto just experienced a terrible weekend of black gang violence, too, didn't it. Young black men shooting each other with illegally obtained hand guns. And bystanders have been killed in their supposedly targeted shootings, including toddlers and children on school buses, and are no less dead than the dead in the mass murders committed by young white male nationalists.

They seem to be acting out gangster life as depicted in some popular culture - The Wire? - but that's just what it looks like to me, maybe.

And then there are the men in their andropause years, so late 30s/early 40s, who use guns to murder women in or out of their lives, sometimes their children, too, before turning the gun on themselves.

Young men in Asian gangs, too, lest I forget - they've managed to kill a couple of children in their supposedly targeted shootings of each other, too, haven't they. That's up here in good old Canada, too, with our public healthcare and public education, although sure, gaps galore to fall through that our governments seem reluctant to fill by doing their jobs on behalf of everybody and not just wealthy corporate donors to political campaigns.

It's all terrorism, really, men using easily obtained guns - whether legal or not - to assume life and/or death power over the rest of us. I suppose when we aren't gunned down because of their misogyny or racism or just plain shitty aim/bad eyesight we should count ourselves graced by the universe.

Right, governing politicians?

Dear Stephen Harper

I'm curious, since you now head up a cabal that exists for the express purpose of electing authoritarian nationalist governments, what was the IDU's role in electing Donald Trump POTUS?

Asking for a friend.

Danger, Danger, Will Robinson!

We still don't know who funded Stephen Harper's leadership campaign but we do know that the #1 priority of the Conservative Party of Canada he created was to destroy our gun registry and all its data.

Because that's exactly what Stephen Harper's Conservative Party of Canada did as soon as it was able to cheat its way to a majority government.

How soon we forget the bribery, extortion, robocalling, Pierre Poutine, and silencing of public servants sworn to protect the public interest.

And Rebel Media isn't journalism. It's a bad actor, complicit in causing chaos and inciting white nationalist violence via the dissemination of fake news and white nationalist propaganda. And one of its founders is running the Conservative Party of Canada's campaign.

Other former associates of Rebel Media are intricately involved in the nightmare unfolding south of the border.

I'm reading now in the rabbit hole I fell down that the mass shootings in the US are coordinated, young white men targeted online for radicalization, local law enforcement corrupted by white male nationalist ideology, QAnon just one element of the conspiracy to cause mass casualties and death.

All of it, of course, promoted by Donald Trump 24/7 on Twitter and at his white nationalist rallies across the US.

And why is the supposed President of the United States 24/7 on Twitter and holding white nationalist rallies across the US.

Stephen Harper, the former Prime Minister of our liberal democracy, Canada, currently heads up an outfit promoting cooperation between white nationalist governments.

I think we seriously underestimate here in Canada the danger posed by politicians and their promoters on the Right.

These are not your Grandpa's Conservatives, people. Wake up, please.

Nice Life Ya Got There...

... Shame if somebody should break into your house and...

Donald Trump isn't attacking "Baltimore". He's threatening Elijah Cummings that he can have his house broken into any ol' time he wants and maybe he did just that.

He's a fucking mobster.

Kathryn's Annual August 1st Haiku

The cicada sings
Its dying song of summer
Die quieter please