Tuesday, February 25, 2020
NRA! NRA! NRA!
Hey I just want to point out to all you Mueller naysayers out there in Naysayerville that the NRA, the most powerful lobby in all of American politics ever, has been very quiet for some time now.
Saturday, February 22, 2020
Bernie's Moscow Honeymoon
Hey, I just figured out why Bernie Sanders voted against the Magnitsky Act.
There's video of his honeymoon in Moscow.
Jesus I'm smart.
There's video of his honeymoon in Moscow.
Jesus I'm smart.
Comedians in Climate Destroying Cars
So I realized today that this gloom and doom environmentalism I subject myself to on a daily basis - hello social media - is really quite sexist. Indeed, it came to me in a flash today that, at its core, the environmental movement is yelling at girls and young women that it's wrong for them to want to bring children into this dying world.
Well the world has been dying since forever. Social media just amplifies its death throes.
I remember how much I wanted children once I wanted them. I also remember having a couple of guilt trips laid on me for my selfishness, as if I wasn't aware of the state of the world, as if it didn't sadden me that the big mammals were threatened with extinction everywhere.
So I tried cloth diapers for the first week while my nipples were cracked and bleeding from breastfeeding. Then I wrote a letter to Michelle Landsberg, who had a column at the time in the Toronto Star, about how sexist cloth diapers were. My point was how hard it already was in a society that expected too much of us. We didn't need to be blamed for Toronto's landfill problem, too.
She got it, too, and referenced part of my argument in a later column, even taking my side.
Anyway, now those children I had are young women (and a young man) and they're surrounded by guilt trip layers and it irks me that they are. So I'm going to tell them and all the other young women I meet hither and yon to close their ears to the gloom and doomers and do whatever the fuck they want.
Even if I don't actually do it I know that it's the only way to live this life - do whatever the fuck you want.
By the say, full disclosure, I'm pretty sure this realization came to me today from watching Comedians in Cars earlier with my eldest. Jerry Seinfeld is awful but it's my kind of awful, an awful I find incredibly life affirming. Jerry Seinfeld doesn't even pretend to give a shit about anything except what he does give a shit about.
So refreshing.
Well the world has been dying since forever. Social media just amplifies its death throes.
I remember how much I wanted children once I wanted them. I also remember having a couple of guilt trips laid on me for my selfishness, as if I wasn't aware of the state of the world, as if it didn't sadden me that the big mammals were threatened with extinction everywhere.
So I tried cloth diapers for the first week while my nipples were cracked and bleeding from breastfeeding. Then I wrote a letter to Michelle Landsberg, who had a column at the time in the Toronto Star, about how sexist cloth diapers were. My point was how hard it already was in a society that expected too much of us. We didn't need to be blamed for Toronto's landfill problem, too.
She got it, too, and referenced part of my argument in a later column, even taking my side.
Anyway, now those children I had are young women (and a young man) and they're surrounded by guilt trip layers and it irks me that they are. So I'm going to tell them and all the other young women I meet hither and yon to close their ears to the gloom and doomers and do whatever the fuck they want.
Even if I don't actually do it I know that it's the only way to live this life - do whatever the fuck you want.
By the say, full disclosure, I'm pretty sure this realization came to me today from watching Comedians in Cars earlier with my eldest. Jerry Seinfeld is awful but it's my kind of awful, an awful I find incredibly life affirming. Jerry Seinfeld doesn't even pretend to give a shit about anything except what he does give a shit about.
So refreshing.
Friday, February 21, 2020
The Republic of Albertastan
From the old stock Boomers to the middle stock GenXers, it looks like it's deja vu all over again at Conservative Party of Canada Inc.
Indeed, Stephen Harper's Firewall Letter has been updated to Michelle Rempel's Buffalo Declaration.
Cripes, 4 million people and I can't think of any Canadians outside of Quebec (double the size at 8.5) who've had this much attention from a federal government ever.
PMJT bought us Canadians a pipeline whether we wanted one or not, ffs.
Hey, that makes me wonder - Stephen Harper's CPC Inc. maybe doesn't like that Canadians own the TransCanada pipeline instead of a foreign multinational corporation, eh?
Just a thought.
Also, Conservative politicians, especially Michelle Rempel, seem to hate Justin Trudeau for reasons that have nothing to do with the economy, but whatever.
Indeed, Stephen Harper's Firewall Letter has been updated to Michelle Rempel's Buffalo Declaration.
Cripes, 4 million people and I can't think of any Canadians outside of Quebec (double the size at 8.5) who've had this much attention from a federal government ever.
PMJT bought us Canadians a pipeline whether we wanted one or not, ffs.
Hey, that makes me wonder - Stephen Harper's CPC Inc. maybe doesn't like that Canadians own the TransCanada pipeline instead of a foreign multinational corporation, eh?
Just a thought.
Also, Conservative politicians, especially Michelle Rempel, seem to hate Justin Trudeau for reasons that have nothing to do with the economy, but whatever.
Monday, February 17, 2020
Disability Matters
Looks like Doug Ford has decided to shake down Ontarians on disability.
Imagine being hounded by a collections type agency with all the powers of government behind it and having to prove over and over and over again that you need money to pay for rent and food because you're unable to find and keep paid work due to your physical and/or mental health challenges.
People will suffer and die due to this ill-conceived contracting out of our social services so I hope the media names all the names of the profiteers who will be paid bonuses for doing this devil's work.
Imagine being hounded by a collections type agency with all the powers of government behind it and having to prove over and over and over again that you need money to pay for rent and food because you're unable to find and keep paid work due to your physical and/or mental health challenges.
People will suffer and die due to this ill-conceived contracting out of our social services so I hope the media names all the names of the profiteers who will be paid bonuses for doing this devil's work.
Thursday, February 13, 2020
Aaaannd It's Rantin' Gramps for the Win
There was a guy this morning yelling at people on their way to work, "Quit yer fucking jobs! We gotta crash the economy!"
I figure he was a Bernie Bro wandered north of the border.
But seriously I think this strategy of Bernie Bros behaving like 'roidal dicks is paying off in spades. Americans are attracted to winners and Bernie's acting like he's already won this shit show.
And Geez Louise but stick a fork in his competition already.
Rantin' Gramps for President it is.
I figure he was a Bernie Bro wandered north of the border.
But seriously I think this strategy of Bernie Bros behaving like 'roidal dicks is paying off in spades. Americans are attracted to winners and Bernie's acting like he's already won this shit show.
And Geez Louise but stick a fork in his competition already.
Rantin' Gramps for President it is.
Sunday, February 9, 2020
Holy Mitt, Batman
I'm not a Bernie Sanders fan because I worked for socialist men back in the 80s and they turned me Liberal - but - I do concede that he could well win this Democratic Party shit show.
But it confuses me why Canadian socialists think the broader American public will elect a socialist - excuse me, democratic socialist - President, when Canadians won't even elect a New Democrat Prime Minister.
And Jesus Christ but if I had thought in 2015, 16, 17, 18, and 19 that I'd still be arguing about Bernie vs Hillary vs Trump in 2020, I'd have hacked a hole in the ice of the Ottawa River and jumped in.
I do like this new Hillary, though, who's finally figured out that it doesn't matter what she says or does, men on the left and men on the right and no doubt men in the middle, too, hate her. And they hate her more than they could ever hate a man, even Donald Trump.
Anyway, that's not what this entry is about because this entry is about a move I see coming from the dark side, which is that the Republican Party is waiting to see if the Democratic Party is incompetent enough to nominate a geriatric Che Guevara, before dumping Trump and nominating Mitt Romney.
But it confuses me why Canadian socialists think the broader American public will elect a socialist - excuse me, democratic socialist - President, when Canadians won't even elect a New Democrat Prime Minister.
And Jesus Christ but if I had thought in 2015, 16, 17, 18, and 19 that I'd still be arguing about Bernie vs Hillary vs Trump in 2020, I'd have hacked a hole in the ice of the Ottawa River and jumped in.
I do like this new Hillary, though, who's finally figured out that it doesn't matter what she says or does, men on the left and men on the right and no doubt men in the middle, too, hate her. And they hate her more than they could ever hate a man, even Donald Trump.
Anyway, that's not what this entry is about because this entry is about a move I see coming from the dark side, which is that the Republican Party is waiting to see if the Democratic Party is incompetent enough to nominate a geriatric Che Guevara, before dumping Trump and nominating Mitt Romney.
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