Trump farts, world swoons

Monday evening, after a day of eating junk food and washing it down with Diet Coke, Trump was lounging about down in Mar-a-Lago when he came up with a thought. Tariffs! I’ll scare the panties off that Sheinbaum commie… tell her I’m gonna nail Mexico till they stop with the refugee convoys bringing in all the fentanyl. Come to think of it, I should tariff Canada too. Not that they have much to do with fentanyl or migrants - I just can’t stand that slippery little turd Trudeau. Trump tilts back his gold-plated La-Z-Boy and fires off a text on his Truth Social. Trudeau was apparently on the phone within minutes. Who would have thought he follows Truth Social? Claudia Sheinbaum fired off a snippy letter threatening repercussions. Trump’s tariff threats have been the top story in Canada all day. In Mexico too. Global news sites that rarely mention Canada talked about us today. I say, calm down folks! The man is still two months from office… that’s plenty of time for him to have multiple brain farts that will make you forget all about this one. Let’s wait and see what happens.

Uncle Sam's got Fluffy by the balls

Justin Trudeau is a lame duck PM. Trailing the charmless weasel Pierre Poilievre by 20 points in the latest polls. Facing down an uprising among his own caucus. Why doesn’t he just go away? While Justin didn’t inherit his dear daddy’s charisma, brains, or political savvy, he did get a generous dollop of the famous Trudeau arrogance. That’s what keeps him from making the smart decision, both for himself and the country. In late 2023, in response to a steady stream of leaks out of CSIS about election interference by China (remember those Chinese police stations in major Canadian cities!), he struck the Foreign Interference Commission to get to the bottom of things, or at least make it look like he cared. Meanwhile, our esteemed ally the USA, has developed a major hate for India, the world’s most populous democracy. Why? Because when Uncle Sam told the Free World to sanction Russia to death in February 2022, India’s PM Modi blew him off. Modi needs to be taught a lesson. So right in the middle of those foreign interference hearings, which were going nowhere fast, our US allies leaked some nasty intel to CSIS about how Modi’s agents were deep into harassing and murdering Canadians! The “Canadians” they were harassing and murdering were the militant Sikh separatists who murdered PM Indira Ghandi and blew up that Air India flight back in 1985. India understandably labels them terrorists. Overnight, the inquiry into Chinese election interference became all about India! In the big picture, Sikhs are less than two percent of India’s population, so not a serious threat to Modi. But in Canada they represent a good chunk of our ethnic vote, enough that our politicians find it worthwhile to pander to them. Canada is home to the largest Sikh population outside India. There are ten times as many Sikhs in Canada than the US. The DC brain-trust figured they can use Canada to antagonize India… and here we are! Canada has for years been routinely cast as a NATO free rider for not meeting our military spending obligations. Desperate to curry favour in Washington, Justin saw turning on India as his least bad option. Hell of a jam to be in, but totally predictable when you refuse to pursue an independent foreign policy and instead commit to vassalage to Washington.

F*ck Trudeau

If you live anywhere in Canada, you’ve seen those F*ck Trudeau flags everywhere. The asterisk is replaced by a maple leaf, but everybody knows nobody’s talking about fick, fack, or feck. Nope, they’re saying Fuck Fluffy! And why do so many Canadians have such strong feelings about our esteemed PM? Because the Canadians who fly those flags were grievously insulted when their Prime Minister declared they had unacceptable opinions. Yes, it’s a free country with free speech and all that good stuff, but when your government gifts you freedom of speech, you gotta know there’s some responsibilities that go along with that freedom. Responsibility #1 is never bite the hand that feeds you. Disparaging, mocking, or even questioning Dear Leader is strictly verboten. That’s why PM Fluffy invoked the War Measures Act. The name has been changed, but the purpose remains the same; impose war-time powers to stifle dissent and punish dissenters. And, clearly, Canada was deep into an existential war in early 2022. Dozens of big rigs had illegally parked in downtown Ottawa. Sometimes they tooted their horns at night, which caused extreme trauma to the work-from-home civil servants who were desperately hoping their next Zoom meeting wouldn’t be interrupted by a random truck toot. So, just like his Daddy invoked the War Measures Act, back in the day when FLQ terrorists were murdering foreign diplomats, to save our democracy, Justin was forced to impose the Emergency Act to spare those lap-top warriors the inconvenience of interrupted sleep. Thankfully, that egregious bit of over-reach raised enough eyebrows that eventually a public inquiry was held. Here are some of the headlines that ensued. From the CBC; Ottawa's use of Emergencies Act violated Charter. From the National Post; Invoking Emergencies Act ruled unconstitutional. From the Globe & Mail; Invoking Emergencies Act wasn't justified and violated Charter rights, court rules. Even foreign news sites picked up on Fluffy’s dictatorial impulses. Here’s the Guardian; Judge rebukes Trudeau for use of Emergency Act. Do you detect a pattern in the reportage? This is some serious shit we’re dealing with. Violating the Charter? Unconstitutional? Those are the signs a democracy is slipping into fascism. Here’s my question. All those headlines came out in January of 2023. In the year and a half since, how much discussion have you seen in any of those media platforms about Canada’s drift towards totalitarianism? None whatsoever! But here’s a guy who’s still newsworthy; Pat King! Yup, the alleged mastermind in this plot to undermine Fluffy is still going through the court system. Let that be a lesson to any other wise guys who want to disagree with PM Fluffy! Violating the Charter of Rights is small potatoes compared to encouraging illegal parking. Many of us disagree. That’s why you see those F*ck Trudeau flags clear across the land.

Court rules Trudeau's use of Emergency Act on Freedom Convoy violated Charter of Rights

I’m guessing there’s a whole lotta irritable bowel syndrome going around PM Fluffy’s inner circle tonight. The Emergency Act is Canada’s version of martial law. It suspends your civil rights. It essentially puts democracy on pause for temporary tyranny. That’s why the bar must be very high indeed. Otherwise, some feckless weenie, like, oh… a self confessed admirer of Mao and Fidel, might find himself tempted to invoke it against a bunch of smelly working-class folks with unacceptable opinions. Which is exactly what happened. The court found the inconvenience suffered by civil servants living in Ottawa, working from home on their laptops, did not rise to the level of a national emergency. That strikes me as an all-too-rare case of the court making a sensible decision, which is why Fluffy’s gang immediately announced an appeal! These idiots are determined to give Poilievre the next election. The reason that convoy happened when it did doesn’t get much attention in media. By early 2022 it was widely believed the pandemic was winding down. Things were opening up all over. That’s when Trudeau’s government mandated vaccinations for people who cross the border, like the tens of thousands of truckers who crossed that border every day long before there was a vaccine. They literally risked their lives to make sure our grocery stores could keep selling food. For a brief moment in time, our front-line workers were heroes! That was indeed a brief moment, and an aberration. Politicians went insane with empathy. Doug Ford promised sick days for PSWs, if such a thing can be imagined! But that was then, and this is now. All those goodies that were promised are long forgotten. PSWs still stitch together a poverty wage by working 4 hr shifts in multiple retirement homes. All those homes were getting hvac upgrades! Everybody was gonna have paid sick days! Here’s a thought from the late JFK; “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.” I don’t see anything “revolutionary” about the Freedom Convoy or its organizers. The fact that Trudeau found their protests so threatening that he invoked martial law, puts him firmly on the side of those who make violent revolution inevitable.

Canada's reputation has gone for a shit since PM Justin "Fluffy" Trudeau took power

I admit I was a victim of Trudeaumania 2.0 and voted for Fluffy in 2015. It was the Sunny Daze craze, and I was swept along by the zeitgeist. I am ever so sorry. The Great White Hope in black-face has worked non-stop to embarrass himself, and since he's Canada's face to the world, he embarrasses us all with every pratfall. The latest brouha-ha erupted when Fluffy took it upon himself to lecture The Greatest Leader since Moses on the matter of killing babies. It's simply untoward that a little pipsqueak non-entity of a country like Canada, given its own genocidal legacy, deems itself qualified to pass judgement on Israel's genocide in Gaza. We used to care about relations with Israel, but things have changed. Justin has also managed to put India-Canada relations in the deep freeze, for no reason any reasonable analyst has sniffed out. He heard a rumour through the "Five Eyes" rumour reification network and decided on that basis to accuse India of being behind the assassination of a Sikh activist in Canada. Big whoop, you might say, but Modi's sensibilities were offended. We used to care about relations with India, but things have changed. For many, many years Canada worked hard at cultivating relations with China. Canada's China policy under Trudeau the elder paved the way for the Nixon era raprochment between the USA and Chinese communists. We had political capital in China's goodwill bank since the Bethune era. That's all been flushed down the bidet in Fluffy's make-up room. Then China kidnapped the Two Micheals for no reason what-so-ever and you know how that ended... Or maybe you don't. The Globe and Mail revealed on the weekend that the official "Two Micheals" narrative was PR bullshit all along. Ya, apparently there was spying going on, and the Trudeau regime was lying to your face every time they denied it. We used to care about relations with China, but things have changed. What's changed is that there's nobody in the wheelhouse in Ottawa willing to speak out against the idiocy coming from the Mother Ship in Washington.

Why Canada's "inadequate" defence spending won't get it kicked out of NATO

The CBC has a scary story on view about how our NATO allies may soon tire of Canada’s reluctance to ramp up military spending to 2% of GDP. As Donald Trump pointed out a few years ago, neither Canada nor many other NATO members reach the 2% threshold. It’s big news across our media that, according to recent leaks, PM Fluffy has allegedly told allies Canada will never meet its funding obligations. That’s led to much tut-tutting from defence industry funded think tanks like the Council of Defence Associations. Unsurprisingly, they’re gung-ho for more military spending! Why? Well, apparently we’re not standing close enough to our allies in the fight for human rights and democracy playing out in Ukraine. They expect more from us. They do? According to NATO, in 2022, only seven of 30 member states met the 2% target. That’s 3/4ths of the entire club that didn't! Canada is in good company. In fact, the freeloaders make a robust majority! When three-quarters of your club are outcasts, you’ve got a problem! Trump’s problem, shared by CBC and Globe & Mail “journalists” today, is that USA is paying twice as much to secure freedom and democracy as the rest of NATO combined. Given that NATO has been reduced to an arm of US foreign policy, I think the Americans should pay 100% of the costs. The vassal states are doing their part by giving NATO a gloss of multilateralism. Why should they pay cash on top of giving up their sovereignty?

We'll "stand with Ukraine" till we don't

Remember when then PM Big Steve Harper used to remind the world on a regular basis that “Canadians are not the sort to cut and run” from war? That was after our top army boss had boasted about how we were going to run the Taliban, those murdering scumbags, out of Afghanistan. Canada cut and ran, and the murdering scumbags now run the place. I’m sure the rest of the world, to say nothing of the Afghans, remember the value of our promises. It's not just Canada. Bloomberg has a story up about the behind-the-scenes bickering in the EU. If Putin can drag this war out another six months, both EU and NATO will be riven with discord. That's good news for Putin. Not so good for the imbeciles in Washington who still believe that God's master plan requires them to be masters of the planet. Full scale dominance, here we come! Maybe it's time for a reality check.

Multiple hit squads gunning for Zelensky

Zelensky became president of Ukraine for the same reason Trump became president of USA; brand recognition thanks to their TV careers. Both of them found out in short order that being "president" didn't actually mean you wielded power. 

Zelensky, and Ukraine in general, has been used as bear bait by its masters in the West. Now that the bear has charged, Zelensky is expendable. So is Ukraine, for that matter.

No matter how things end up on the ground, years of prodding the Ukrainian puppets to goad Putin has finally paid off. NATO was desperate to maintain some semblance of relevance in the post-Cold War era. The allies weren't really buying in anymore. Hardly anyone was pulling their 2% of GDP weight. Without NATO the American Empire is basically the US, plus Canada and the Marshall Islands. 

The Germans in particular were getting way too big for their lederhosen. Being the industrial powerhouse of the EU, they thought they were the Big Dog. They bought Putin's authoritarian gas by the pipeline. They even built him a new pipeline!

Obviously, to keep the Germans in the tent, they'd need to be taught a lesson. 

Desperate measures were in order.

Enter Putin.

More specifically, Putin's military entered Ukraine on Thursday. By Sunday, Chancellor Olaf had sholtzed his trousers, and announced an immediate doubling of the defence budget. Not only that, but he also cancelled the new pipeline he had built for Putin's gas!

Those Germans have long memories! When the bear is at the door, cling tight to Uncle Sam.

NATO is Saved!

The American Empire is saved!

Alas, there will be blowback. Not only on Sholtz. There will be festering resentment towards the comedian who allowed himself to be so manipulated by his American masters.

When Zelensky goes to his reward, a German hit squad is a distinct possibility. But they are certainly not the only suspects.

On Feb. 4 the Globe & Mail reported that both PM Fluffy and his brain, Chrystia Freeland, had made phone calls to Zelensky, suggesting it wouldn't be in his interests if he were to follow through on his threat to arrest former president Poroshenko when he returned to Ukraine in mid January. 

Those calls were egregious interference in Ukraine's internal affairs, but Canada has the largest Ukrainian diaspora in the world, and they tack hard right. Their lobby group in Ottawa arguably has more schlep than the Jewish lobby. Not only that, but the Deputy PM is part of that lobby.

Why would they want to save Poroshenko's ass?

Zelensky was a TV star who won an election. Poroshenko is a serious guy, a player, a man who knows the deep state in numerous countries. A man on a first-name basis with all the other corrupt oligarchs in Ukraine and beyond.

In short, a man who can get things done. But before he can do that, Zelensky needs to be done, it you catch my drift.

Zelensky is a marked man. 

Hopefully this brief essay will help point the investigators in the right direction.

Justin saves democracy!

I'll leave it to posterity to determine if PM Fluffy jumped the shark with that Emergencies Act nonsense. Strikes me as a pretty big cannon to unleash just so you can charge the terrorist masterminds behind three weeks of Ottawa gridlock with... "counselling to commit mischief?"

Seriously?

Found a succinct essay at Dissident Voice that enumerates at least half a dozen times when the Emergencies Act, or its precursor, The War Measures Act, were NOT invoked when the country faced much greater peril, from the Winnipeg General Strike to the Mercier Bridge closure in 1990.

Then again, none of the PMs in those earlier emergencies were nick-named Fluffy. Apparently this pasty-faced clown (at least when he hasn't given himself that facial with the black shoe-polish he so loves) has something to prove.

Mussolini made the trains run on time.

Justin made the air horns stop their infernal terroristic tooting.

I'm not Fluffy, dammit, I'm tough as nails!

Justin lays an egg

It is by now apparent that PM Trudeau's invocation of the Emergencies Act has failed to elicit the rapturous applause he may have been anticipating. Even his indefatigable cheerleaders at CBC are having second thoughts. The tone there this morning has shifted from "do something about those horn-tooting terrorists" to "that's a pretty big stick to beat up on a bunch of bouncy-castle-packing grampas." 

The first casualty of Justin's ill-advised and self-inflicted "emergency" is Ottawa police chief Peter Sloly. It was Trudeau, not Sloly, who baited the protesters with every vile slur imaginable. It's Trudeau who insists on babbling about how we must continue to inoculate our way out of the pandemic with those "safe and effective vaccines" even as province after province is providing timetables for eliminating provincial mandates.

Almost three weeks ago the organizers of the Ottawa protest said they're not leaving until they have a timetable for the removal of federal mandates. Trudeau responded with weeks of derisive name-calling: terrorists, insurgents, occupiers, racists, misogynists, ant-vaxxers, science-deniers, etc.  You'd almost think those "F*ck Trudeau" flags got under his thin skin!

Hey Fluffy! A "leader" needs to be made of sterner stuff than that!

The name-calling didn't work. Time for plan B - drop the (rebranded) War Measures Act on the impudent low-lifes. Last time we went there was to battle an actual terrorist group that planted bombs and murdered politicians. This time it's to clear some trucks inconveniencing commuters in Ottawa.

And here we are... 

Remember when a terrorist was a fanatic who detonated a suicide vest in a pizzeria?

Or maybe hijacked airplanes and flew them into buildings?

Or exploded busses and subways and attacked music venues with multiple suicide jihadists...?

That was the golden era of terror. 

Like journalism, terrorism isn't what it used to be.

Today, all you have to do to get your official terrorist badge, is toot your horn!

That's right!

Toot your horn in the wrong place at the wrong time, and you're right up there with the worst jihadi-al queda-ISIS-towel-head 'o terror pizzeria shoe-bombers of all time!

At least in Canada.

Will 5000 Freightliners parked in downtown Ottawa get PM Fluffy's attention?

I was talking to a (very) recently retired trucker who plans to join the protest parade to Ottawa. He's taking his grandchildren. 

That protest hasn’t got much attention in the national propaganda organ yet, and what we’ve seen has been desultory and dismissive.

But it seems to be a happening thing.

The guy had been crossing the border several times a week throughout the pandemic. At this stage of the game, claiming he shouldn’t do that anymore unless he gets the “safe and effective” vaccine seems silly. Are we still flattening the curve, two years on?

He also says it’s about a lot more than vaccine mandates. People, at least actual people who do real work that can’t be done at home, are tired of being talked down to. They’ve been going backwards economically all their lives. Their kids are priced out of higher education and priced out of the housing market. Their dreams are massively circumscribed compared to past generations of working class people.

The CBC will do everything they can to portray them as anti-science morons, and most probably domestic terrorists to boot. There’s a lot of Asians drive truck, and hopefully they’re well represented among the protesters. After all, the Sikh-led farmer protests in India managed to force Modi to a climb-down, and he’s way tougher than Trudeau.

Alas, Jagmeet, leader of our putative “workers party,” has already denounced the protest.

A few thousand tractor-trailers parked in downtown Ottawa and Toronto for a week should get Justin’s attention.

Canada has ordered 400 million doses of vaccine for a population of 35 million

Why? Because PM Fluffy is a belt-and-suspenders kinda guy.

That's how we roll, up here in the Great White North. Sure, that makes a mockery of our commitment to the Covax initiative we're very vocally supportive of, where the rich countries shared the vaccines with the poor countries.

As far as I know, Canada, a proud member of the G7 "richest states" club, has taken more out of Covax than it has put in.

How does that square with Fluffy's "feminist foreign policy?"

Canada stands with Trump and Pompeo

The Two Michaels rule the front page of The Globe and Mail again today, but there is a hopeful sign the paper is easing its censorship of an obvious counter-narrative to the "rule of law" idiocy PM Trudeau's office has steadfastly put forward for the last year and a half.

"Ottawa can free Meng now, Arbour says," reads the top headline. Louise Arbour is one of the most widely respected international jurists Canada has ever produced.

The Globe and Mail could have splashed that headline across any of its 450+ front pages it has published since Kovrig and Spavor were apprehended, because it's not "news" that the government has had the authority to legally and with all due respect for "rule of law" send Meng  home since the day we foolishly took her into custody.

Our first and wisest choice would have been to decline the US extradition request in the first place. What is it to Canada if a Chinese company ignores arbitrary and unilateral sanctions America has imposed on Iran?

Instead, we've been presented a steady stream of drivel about how our refusing to toady to the Americans would violate "the rule of law," whereas the sanctions themselves, having utterly no basis in any kind of law, are treated as some sort of self-evident act of moral virtue.

Uncle Sam good, Ayatollahs bad, and that's all any good Canadian needs to know.


By sucking up to the likes of Trump and Pompeo, Canada is further squandering whatever credibility she may once have enjoyed as an independent actor on the world stage.

Justin Trudeau's bulletproof PR stunt

We've been warned for months that unspecified entities are looking to disrupt our democracy.

Could be Putinist trolls sowing doubt about the democratic process...

Could be Putinist trolls riling up your deplorables to commit whatever deplorable things those people have up their sleeves.

Could be Putinist trolls turning French against English, Indians against settlers, vegans against carnivores, gay against straight. When diversity is your strength, you unfortunately give the enemy (Putin and his massed troll armies) many more loose threads with which to pull apart the very fabric of our democracy!

So after being repeatedly warned by many experts across all media, no one can feign surprise that it's finally happened; Trudeau now campaigning in bulletproof vest.

That's right! Not only that, but "uniformed tactical officers wearing heavy backpacks surrounded Trudeau as he addressed the crowd."

Oh my! Right here in Canada!


 

Wait a minute... do those guys with the heavy backpacks look like an RCMP tactical squad? Or do they look like a central casting version of same? What do you suppose could be in those heavy backpacks? Their heavy weapons?

When the bullets start to fly, they're gonna take off their backpacks, fish out and assemble their weapons, and return fire?

Does Justin look worried?



I smell PR stunt!

Canadian political establishment alarmed by Trudeau incompetence

Interesting front pager in the Globe today about Jean Chretien inserting himself into the China file. There seems to be deep bipartisan support for someone, anyone, to get this thing unstuck.

What was new to me was that our justice minister has the authority to overrule the extradition process. I don't recall reading that in previous stories about our Huawei adventure. What I heard instead was a lot of gibberish about "rule of law" etc. What I see is feckless toadying to the Trump gang.

Bearing in mind that Meng Wanzhou's original sin was violating America's unilateral and illegal Iran sanctions, her arrest was an outrage from the beginning. If the justice minister has had the authority to free her, why hasn't it happened? These are reasonable questions for anyone remotely capable of standing up to US bully tactics.

Instead, we've had six months of slipping and sliding and dodging the issue on the part of our PM and his laughably inept Foreign Minister. They do great work grandstanding in the media, orchestrating photo-ops, and spewing platitudes.


But what's getting done?

Justin sells out his father's Cuba legacy

When you see stories like this you get a sense of which direction the winds 'o change are blowin' in.

Ever to the right, that's where.

Liberal Justin is staking out turf well to the right of Conservative Brian Mulroney, who made his mark in political history by being well to the right of Trudeau the Elder.

But that was just normal. Conservatives are by definition required to be to the right of Liberals.

To see a Lib PM so far right in foreign policy as Justin Trudeau is unprecedented.


This rotten apple fell far from the tree.


Then again, I think the entire spectrum has swung to the right. I read a Scheer speech the other day wherein he promised us tighter coordination with the US military, and by the way, we'll recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Huh?

As I said; ever to the right...

Too big to fail and too big for #MeToo

I see where Roger Waters is taking some flack for his stand on the faux "benefit concert" Richard Branson is putting on for the benefit of the coup plotters in Venezuela.

What's astonishing is how the apologists for Branson are claiming he's a totally apolitical guy motivated only by his concerns for the long-suffering people of Venezuela...

Would that be this Richard Branson?



Oh lookie! It's Branson and Barry just goofing around!

And here's Ricky with Hillsie...



... and RB with the FIRST black president...



And just so you know, Sir Richard is totally bipartisan!



Sir Richard even makes time for some of the wannabees!



Justin: I love your hair man!

Sir RB: You're looking very fine as well, my good man!

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For a guy who is totally apolitical, Sir Richard sure sucks a lot of political ass!

So this is how it ends...

2018, that is.

The Farm Manager and our one kid who couldn't come up with a better plan for New Years Eve are watching a doc about the life of Polish artist and all-round wack job Stanislaw Szukalski.

I'm on the internet, boat shopping.

Almost bought one this year. A '92 Doral with under 500 hours on the Merc big block. I was pumped till I figured out it was gonna run five hundred bucks to fill the gas tank. No matter how good the deal appears to be, that's not something I can justify when I've got kids paying off student loans.

Maybe 2019 will be the year of the boat.

Around the home hearth it was a good year. Aside from our dear Lucy, everyone came through with good health. In fact, the fourteen year old dog and the twenty year old cat are perkier than they were a year ago. Amazing what they're doing in vet medicine!

And thanks to an Arab immigrant and our lovely public health care system, I can see like I've never seen before!

Hope it was a good year for you too.

The outside world is a little fucked, though. Mainstream media throughout the Western World has become a 24/7 Trump reality show. If they hate the guy as much as they claim to, why do they keep on with the free publicity? As near as I can tell, this president has one accomplishment to his credit. He gave America's one percenters a nice tax break.

Here in Canada we're celebrating the legalization of the weed 'o wisdom... and what a shit-show that's been. PM Fluffy managed to hand the entire industry to the Bay Street greedbags instead of the folks who have been successfully cultivating the stuff forever. Nice job, Justin!

How sadly ironic that guys like former Toronto police boss Bill Blair have jumped into the business, when guys he put behind bars are still... behind bars, and in some cases will be for years to come.

It's a fucked up world...


Anyway, my reminiscences were interrupted by a call from my old pal Kipling. Like me, he's at once pleased and befuddled by the fact that guys like us are still here, guys once voted as most likely to die before 30 in the high school yearbook. He's spending the New Years Eve working on his VW van out in his shop. It's a mere ninety thousand clicks shy of turning three million kilometres on the odometer. You need to spend a lot of time in your shop to make that happen.

We're gonna have breakfast at the Teviotdale Truck Stop next year. Like on Wednesday.

Continuity is good...

Jeffrey Sachs reads this blog!

Well, I have no actual proof of that; it just seems mighty suspicious that the esteemed Professor is out there parroting the talking points that the think tank here at Falling Downs has elaborated on.

It seems obvious to us, it seems obvious to Professor Sachs, it seems obvious to thinking people far and wide that the Freeland-Trudeau combine is playing waterboy for Team Trump while simultaneously virtue-signalling their staunch anti-Trumpism.


But the obvious seems to elude the editorial committee at Canada's national newspaper of record.


No less an observer of the human condition than the Orange Ogre himself had PM Fluffy pegged six months ago.


Dishonest and weak.