Comedy of Terrors

Quite a while ago now I purchased some cannabis gel capsules and beer (0 % alcohol) but it wasn't until yesterday I actually tried the beer.

I had half and my blond companion had the other half.

It was super fizzy and tasted beer-like so a great product if you like beer, don't drink alcohol, and want to get a cannabis buzz on, but I found I didn't like the cannabis buzz part anymore. At all. Not even a bit. No, no, no. Don't mess with success, said my vagus nerve to my brain, you enjoy the straight and narrow.

I've come a long way, baby.

Our neighbours are temporary foreign workers and recently our other neighbour (who has a Conservative sign on his lawn even though they're not even remotely political people, and I don't think she can even vote, as she's American, so I guess they were taken with the Conservative candidate going door-to-door the other day) added a bathroom and bedroom to the basement, and now I can smell cigarette smoke in our house at all hours.

I'll try to make it to spring when we can open windows. I've already asked them to keep down the noise, which was coming from a tv at full volume with nothing else in the living room to soak it up, so I don't want to come across as... difficult.

I really deserve a single detached home. I have the ears of a bat and the nose of a hound.

I was initially concerned I'd be responsible for their welfare, but it's not been an issue. I've met the owner of their unit, who is also,their boss. He's okay and his wife is very nice but still, I feel a certain responsibility anyway. The workplace is in the neighbourhood and I've been there a couple of times and everybody seems into it so yay.

On the flip side, it's certainly a good case for eliminating the Temporary Foreign Workers program.

Total. Absolute. Bullshit.

The other night I couldn't sleep, I was so worried about the possibility of the Conservatives winning the upcoming federal election. The next morning, though, I felt more rational about it. I have an ego that can trick my brain into thinking saving democracy from fascism is all up to me. It's a control issue with catastrophizing on top. Madness. Absolute madness. But I catch myself at it now and use the technique of staring at a picture (I've invested in a bit of art) to change the channel on my brain.

I recognize reading that back I sound as deluded as Bill Maher re his "book report" on his dinner with the Orange Goon - haha "My Dinner with Orangé" - in which he describes him as a gracious host by way of blaming Democrats for the fact he's MAGA now.

We know this because he insists, twice, he isn't.

He should watch his podcast. He's not MAGA like Lindsay Graham's not gay.

Another trick is to just face down the worst case scenario. So a Conservative majority government. Will it kill me? No. It'll be intolerable, having that odious little shit, Pierre Poilievre, strutting about, being Prime Minister, but he'll destroy CBC, so I won't have to watch or listen to him.

And what do I know anyway? I thought Mark Carney would be terrible at politics but he seems to be better at it than the pros he's running against. A young person recently commented to me she likes how he's kind of prickly and hopes he doesn't go achangin' to please critics of his prickliness. I hadn't realized it until she said it but I like it too. He's smart. People are stupid or he wouldn't be running against an odious little shit like Pierre Poilievre to be Prime Minister of Canada.

Rob Anders we hardly knew ye.

Carney's prickliness is reflecting how a lot of us feel, I think. There's so much "gotcha" bullshit out there. He's basically doing us the favour of a lifetime.

Would you want to run against an odious little shit like Pierre Poilievre to be Prime Minister of Canada so you can save an ungrateful nation from its corrupt and/or treasonous Conservative premiers and invasion by the Orange Goon Gang south of the world's longest unprotected border?

I have friends who are currently expressing their outrage Carney doesn't refer to Israel's ongoing slaughter of Palestinian civilians as a genocide, insisting it'll cost him when they vote NDP.

Of course those same people blame Democrats for Americans electing Republicans. I mean 80 million Americans voted for the Orange Goon, a well documented rapist, racist and traitor. How the fuck is that the fault of Kamala Harris? Joe Biden left a record behind some say rivals FDR's. I agree he got it wrong on Israel but that's not why 80 million Americans voted for the Orange Goon, who wants to turn Gaza into his own personal resort devoid of Palestinians.

I know what they think they mean, but it's no less a denial of reality than Bill Maher believing he's not MAGA when he went to dinner with the Orange Goon, at the invitation of his friend, Kid Rock, and who knew Bill Maher was friends with Kid Rock, and then blamed it on the Democrats for wanting civil and human rights for trans people, that he enjoyed himself more than he would if, say, Obama had asked him to dinner.

I mean, ffs, Republicans are disappearing people off the streets of the United States of America and their Canadian Conservative cousins are running to be the government here so can we all just agree we shouldn't elect them to government just because Mark Carney shies away from using the word genocide on the campaign trail?

He's an internationally recognized financial wizard who has long advised businesses and governments of the need for policies to mitigate the effects of climate change, is well known for keeping his cool in a crisis and being able to work with all sorts of lesser beings, AND he's a parent to a transperson, AND he's taking a significant pay cut for what he refers to as the privilege of running for election to public office.

FFS WHAT THE HELL ELSE DO CANADIANS WANT IN A PRIME MINISTER?!