Taco Tuesday

Again! Who coulda seen that coming? Trump really got an unholy ruckus going over Easter Weekend. It started off on a happy enough narrative trail. Mafia Don and Pistol Pete revealed the most complex downed-pilot extraction ever known in all of military history. The world has never seen anything like it, etc. etc... Our dear Lord in heaven gave us an Easter Miracle! Within 24 hours there was ample alt-media spotlight highlighting the fact that the Easter Miracle narrative was in actuality a massive coverup of a critical mission failure. The war that Donald allowed his Zionist minders to talk him into is starting to hurt. Half a billion worth of the best US war toys was scattered across the Iranian desert in this great triumph. The realization that his rep as a military tactician had just gone for a shit caused the Commander in Chief to pen an extra-pissy post on his Truth Social. That only got Tucker Carlson and his gazillions of followers pulling their hair out over Trump dropping f-bombs on Easter Sunday! You can see where things are only going from bad to worse to badder and worser for Trump. That must be around the time he decided to threaten to erase Persian civilization. Yup, yet another Trump ultimatum! He gave Iran 48 hours to capitulate, and then, OH MY GOD AMERICA WOULD UNLEASH HELL LIKE THE WORLD HAS NEVER SEEN BEFORE!!! Ya right... as if this five thousand year old civilization is impressed by a real estate hustler from NYC. But it did convince a large percentage of the undecided that Dear Donald is seriously fucked in the head. But who knows. Well before his deadline, he announced a two-week ceasefire. Taco time again! Persian civilization gets a two-week reprieve! So far I'm not seeing any evidence Iran agreed to that two-week ceasefire. My guess is Trump is keen on this ceasefire because both US and IDF are running out of ammo, and apparently the totally obliterated (at least three or four times over by now) Iranians are not.

$100 billion here and a hundred billion there, pretty soon we're looking at serious money

And not too long after that, we'll be looking at bankruptcy. I gotta say I'm not impressed by Carney. For a supposed financial savant, he's committing Canada to long term spending at levels totally beyond our capacity to pay. This is happening with little or no consultation with the public. All the while, mainstream media do their best to limit discussion. We can debate whether Korean or German subs might best suit our needs, but there's no discussion at all about whether these legacy manned combat systems have any role to play in 21st century warfare. Same goes for warships and fighter jets. What the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East are proving right now is that war ain't what it used to be. Big warships make big targets. The Ukrainian navy has pretty much kept Russia's Black Sea Fleet in drydock for the past four years using cheap unmanned drones. In Israel, and in USA's Gulf bases, Iran has destroyed the most sophisticated air defence systems in the world using cheap unmanned drones. Mark Carney is loading us up with at least $500 billions in obsolete technology that wouldn't survive a one month war with Iran, let alone Russia or China. On the other hand, even while our new armoury becomes a smoking ruin, we'll (or our children and theirs) continue to pay for all this foolishness for at least the next fifty years. That will require massive tax hikes, equally massive spending cuts, or some combination of both. It is high time we had a public debate on what kind of a society we want, and prioritize our spending accordingly.

Trump so far up Bibi's butt we've lost sight of his shoes!

I just watched Trump's speech, which was a mash-up of Likud talking points. The President of the USA proclaimed in public that American forces were prepared to lay down their lives for... Israel? That ain't gonna fly with the America First wing of the Maga crowd. In fact, I don't see it flying even amongst most Dems. This Iran disaster that has consumed America is entirely the work of AIPAC and their minions in DC. It was Team Bibi that convinced their patsy Donny J that the Iran caper was a slam-dunk! And here we are.

Jesus is spinning in His grave

Metaphorically speaking, of course. We all know that in real life JC arose from the grave after a mere three days, and skedaddled back to Heaven to sit at Daddy's side. The reason I am entertaining this line of thought is some recent public appearances of the US Defense Sec Hegseth. This guy is a far-gone religious nutter. He belongs in a hillside outpost on the West Bank, not in the White House. I saw him today offering up some Old Testament prayer beseeching Jehova to smite the enemies of Israel! WHAT? THE? FUCK? This guy is the Sec Def, or Sec War if you prefer, in what for the moment remains the most lethal military in the history of war crimes. I'd previously thought perpetual war-monger and Bible-thumping CIA boss Pompeo was the worst possible ambassador for the Christian faith. Enter Pistol Pete. The Devil himself could not have imagined an American leader proclaiming himself Christian even as he shits all over the teachings Jesus of Nazareth gifted history in His brief adult life. America is long overdue for a course correction.

Whack Jobs and Crazy Stuff

To be sure, there's no shortage of whack jobs in the present moment. Anybody writing about the glorious triumph of "Western Values" is an obvious whack job. Right next to "Western Values" we've got the ever-present denial of what's been going on for the past two and a half years in Gaza. What's whacked and crazy is there's still major media platforms wanting to convince you starving Palestinian children to death is a legitimate exercise of Israel's right to defend itself. How is such a thing even remotely possible, given the commitment of the Nations of Virtue to human rights and all that happy talk?

Kyiv Bentley dealership honoured for outstanding bravery during wartime

Just kidding! It wasn't for outstanding bravery; it was for outstanding sales and marketing! Yup, at the recent get-together of the European Bentley Dealers Association, held in Marbella, the Kyiv Bentley store was showered with honours. Not only has it survived four years of brutal non-stop Russian aggression, it is now number 3 in sales across all 61 European Bentley dealerships! Such a thing could never have been imagined before the Russian invasion! What a testament to the resilience of the Ukrainian people!

A few words out of Trump can move global markets by $100s of billions

We saw that this morning. The markets had baked in the moderate risk that Mafia Don might make good on his threat to destroy the Tehran electrical grid. Brent was bid up to 118 this morning... until Trump declared a five day waiver on his previous ultimatum. Benchmark Brent crude dropped hard. In the derivative markets, fortunes were made or lost in moments. Watching that unfold in real time got me thinking. Trump has become famous for making completely unexpected decisions. Time after time you hear, who coulda seen that coming? Time after time, these way-out-there Trump edicts result in serious jolts to the financial markets. Here's the thing. The astute and/or lucky player can profit equally from an uptick or a collapse. Trump's words have caused huge swings in global markets on a regular basis. Anybody with any insights into what Trump's next words might be is well placed to trouser a few billions as a result of insider derivatives trading. Thank God everybody in Donald's orbit has the moral fibre to resist such temptation!... Ya, I know... who do we think we're foolin' here?