Munich Clown Show: Rubio promises to make EU and NATO great again

Marco Rubio spent half an hour trying to convince the Euro-elites that 500 years of Western domination, so rudely interupted by the post-WW2 anti-colonialism movements, need not be over! Nosirree! Europe and America, united by our commmon Christian heritage, can prevail over the dark forces of communism and Islamofascism. Together, we can ride the glory train of Empire for another 500 years! The Europeans greeted Lil Marco's insights with a standing ovation! This does not bode well for Mark Carney's quest to find "like-minded Liberal democracies" with whom we can form an alliance independent of the US. Looks to me like Stormer, Micron, and Schmertz would like nothing more than to turn back the clock to a time when they found safety huddled under Uncle Sam's nuclear umbrella. Who needs a defence budget when America does 99% of the heavy lifting? Trump's demand that the vassals bump defence spending to 5% of GDP is seen, now, as a small price to pay to keep NATO alive. Whatever "like-minded democracies" Carney thought he saw in Europe are revealing themselves to be nothing more than abject boot-lickers. The leaders of the E3, each of them struggling with single-digit approval ratings, would happily enough trade all their tomorrows for just a little more yesterday, to paraphrase an old Janis Joplin tune. Speaking of Janis, did you know she's in the Epstein files? Yup, Jeffrey was all of nine years old when Janis was born! Also in those files is the bitter old hag who was once expected, at least by the cool kids, to smash the glass ceiling and be the first woman elected president of the world's greatest democracy. Lesser nations have had female PMs and presidents and chancellors for decades, but it remains a bridge too far in America... maybe in the next 500 years! Unlike Janis, Hillary's cadaver was actually on stage in Munich to reveal her plan to force Putin's capitulation by saturating Russian airspace with Tomahawk cruise missiles. That's the kind of fresh new thinking that's guaranteed to get the next 500 years of Western Exceptionalism off to a rip-roaring start!

In both Ukraine and Gaza, US-led peace negotiations are a hoax

From the BBC to CNN to CBC to Fox News, our free press agree the main obstacle to peace in Ukraine is Putin. Everybody else wants peace, and Bad Vlad won’t even negotiate! Didn’t he hear Marco Rubio? Peace requires compromise. I’m not so sure. What compromises did Canadian General Charlie Foulkes offer the Germans when they surrendered to him in the Netherlands? None that I’m aware of, yet peace ensued. In war, compromises are made by the losers, not the winners. The pique over Putin’s refusal to negotiate is because Western elites can’t bring themselves to admit defeat. Instead, they float ever more desperate fantasies about NATO boots on the ground to keep the peace that Trump is so tantalizingly close to achieving - if only his good buddy Putin would cooperate. Generally speaking, any legitimate peace negotiations require a neutral mediator. How does anyone imagine the Americans to be a neutral mediator in the Russsia- Ukraine conflict? NATO and the USA are parties to the war, not impartial observers. The entire “Trump is trying to broker a deal” charade is an insult to our intelligence. If that’s a ridiculous farce, America’s pretend efforts to “broker a deal” in Gaza is absurdist tragedy. Supporting Israel’s genocide is a genuine bipartisan project in Washington. Even as American officials profess their “hearts are breaking” at the wanton slaughter of women and children, they continue to veto one UN ceasefire proposal after another. All the Americans need to do is stop the flow of money and weapons to Israel, and you’d see a ceasefire within hours.

Koch millions not enough to revive moribund Walker campaign

The moron from Madison has succumbed to the Trump tsunami and pulled the plug on his run for the White House. That's another way of saying the Koch boys didn't see the point in throwing good money after bad to keep this stiff afloat. Politics is just business, after all, and they were well into the land of diminishing returns on the Walker file.

That leaves four Koch-owned horses in the race. According to the most recent polls, fourth place Rubio is now the top Kochette, polling at 11%, while Jeb is in fifth place with 9%. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul are consistently trending downhill and will most likely have thrown in their respective towels by Thanksgiving.

Jeb and Marco combined are trailing Trump by four points.

But, it's early days in the greatest show on earth...

Anything could happen. The think tank here at Falling Downs has been tracking unconfirmed rumours that former President Camacho is considering tossing his beanie into the ring. Just imagine a Trump v Camacho death match for the GOP ticket!

Wouldn't that be a great day for democracy!