Love this guy. If you’re too stupid to see that Trump is a pathological liar, skip this video. It will just hurt your brain. pic.twitter.com/BvPIUNBurs — Chip Franklin (@chipfranklin) November 11, 2019 Recommend this Post
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Politics and its Discontents: This Is Powerful
And very difficult to watch: This is sickening. Why is there no outrage from the Canadian government? https://t.co/2sCYh4YJ3g — Linda McQuaig (@LindaMcQuaig) November 12, 2019 Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: For The Stupid, This Is Just Another Attack On Their Idol
For the rest of us, the following is not only a summation of Trump’s duplicity over his efforts to extort the Ukrainians for personal political advantage, but also an indictment of his spineless defenders and the willingness of his slavish devotees to entirely suspend disbelief: I want to take a
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: My Gorge Rises – Part 2
Earlier in the week, I posted about Paula White, the evangelical minister who has risen to become Donald Trump’s chief fluffer spiritual adviser. Yet it is interesting, though hardly surprising, to glean some facts about this inin sane lady’s past, a past that is as sordid as one might expect
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: "The Right Side Of History"
That’s how New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern describes her government’s landmark climate legislation, which commits the country to zero carbon emissions by 2050. The bill passed 119 to one: Climate change minister James Shaw said the bill, which commits New Zealand to keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees, provided
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: If You Want Another Reason To Be Pessimistic ….
This is unspeakably depressing. Most Americans — 65 per cent, according to PRRI — may now find Trump’s behaviour undignified and damaging to the presidency, but not white evangelicals. They are, in fact, the only religious group in the survey to disagree. There are only two reasonable explanations for this.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Sophisticated Scam That Almost Ensnared Me
I think we are all familiar with the garden-variety scams that are endemic on today’s Internet. Sometimes it is a Nigerian prince or princess offering to send us millions to safeguard; other times it is an alert from Canada Revenue Agency that we will be arrested immediately for taxes owing
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: My Gorge Rises
May your constitution prove stronger than mine. If God is ever in the mood for smiting someone, I’ve got the perfect candidate: How totally not shocking that Paula White, Trump's official spiritual advisor, is just like him: a lying, narcissistic shakedown charlatan who uses radical, right-wing, fake Christianity to con
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: This Is How It’s Done!
North American ‘leaders’, take heed. Thanks to Alex Himelfarb for retweeting this: Two inspiring minutes https://t.co/9JclWqc5Eu — alex himelfarb (@alexhimelfarb) November 4, 2019 Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: You’ve Been Warned
A Happy Halloween warning from Bringing Integrity To Christian Homemakers: pic.twitter.com/6dQ6hDEpQH — Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) October 31, 2019 Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Facebook Is Not Our Friend
I wrote a blog entry over four years ago about Facebook tolerating hate groups. I won’t repeat the post here, other than to say it became apparent after I lodged a complaint with them and got a wholly unsatisfactory reply that the company must have a very strange set of
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Look To The Skies
Only a simpleton would deny the reality of climate change. Whether we are reading almost daily about wildfires, tornadoes, floods or sea-level rise, we know in our hearts that the future has arrived and will only get worse. Despite that understanding, many of us continue with practices that will only
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Time For Reflection
While the battle for climate-change mitigation will be won or lost by regulating the big polluters, it is all too easy for us to scrutinize them to the exclusion of our own profligate greenhouse-gas-emission practices. The following letter in the print edition of today’s Toronto Star should give us all
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Tis Devoutly To Be Wished
Now This News asks a question: What If Fox News Covered Trump the Way It Covered Obama? Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: As The Dust Settles….
I will offer no analysis of our federal election; I will only say that from my perspective (my disappointment that the Greens did not do better notwithstanding), the fact of a minority government is the best of all outcomes. The question of whether or not Justin can find within himself
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Best Way To Effect Change
H/t Michael De Adder Should you need further encouragement, read the columns by Martin Regg Cohn and Susan Delacourt. Says Cohn: Decide for yourself who to vote for but whatever your decision, do not persuade yourself that your vote doesn’t matter. Nothing is more corrosive than cynicism at a time
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: How To Dispose Of Trump
To paraphrase George Bernard Shaw, “By George, I think Bill Maher’s got it”: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: What About The Common Good?
One of the things that has most disturbed me about this election campaign is the emphasis both the Liberals and the Conservatives have put on so-called cheque-book issues. Whether it is Mr. Trudeau’s constant references to “the middle class and those working hard to join it,” or Andrew Scheer’s promises
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Give Me Your Frightened Masses
Run, children, run, to your polling stations!H/t Theo Moudakis Meanwhile, for those made of sterner stuff, there is an insightful analysis by Larry Kazdan of Vancouver of what should truly frighten all of us: Today’s unemployment rate of 5.5 per cent may be considered “rock bottom,” but unemployment after the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Ain’t It The Truth?
Having resisted the fear-mongering that passes as ‘strategic voting,’ and having already cast my ballot, I offer the following for those still to exercise their franchise next week: Recommend this Post
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