Donald Trump has been busy recently, lowering, then raising, then lowering the American flag over the White House. President Trump, under enormous public and private pressure, finally issued a proclamation of praise for Mr. McCain on Monday afternoon, two days after the senator’s death, and ordered the flag to be flown
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Accidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Emma Paling discusses how the security of a basic income provides the opportunity to escape an abusive relationship. And Jim Stanford collects four views of a basic income from Australia, including this (PDF) from Ben Spies-Butcher: There are two broad ways that
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why Is Donald Trump Trying To Sound Like A Gangster?
As I said in a recent post, this is the kind of place I'd like to see Donald Trump end up in one day.Just slightly smaller, and without those hot pinups of Putin.So I was amazed to hear that Trump has started to talk like a gangster, as if he
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Exploring electoral ennui in America.
The one overriding perception of the 2016 American presidential election was that people were angry. Their disgust with Democrat and Republican party politics was visceral. A wise host and hostess tried to avoid discussions of politics among their guests. There was the common feeling that politics in America was not
Continue readingAlberta Politics: The Day We Burned Ole DC Down? It was today, actually … 204 years ago
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Day We Burned Ole DC Down? It was today, actually. But if this was big news 204 years ago, when the fire was actually lit by the Royal Marines and sundry British Army regiments – revenge for the Americans burning down York, now part of Toronto,
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Is Trump really the king of Twits?
No, we do not shun social media. I have tried a few of them and I simply find them wanting. It came as a surprise that when I decided they were a terrible waste of time, I could not get rid of them. It is insidious but I guess it
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Time Magazine And The Many Covers of Donald Trump
Over the last two years Time Magazine has had many good covers of Donald Trump.Covers that reflect the different chapters of his depraved reign.With some real.Read more »
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Conservatives defend racist heckler who tried to sandbag the prime minister … so how’s that working out for them?
Hmmmmmmm … Andrew Scheer’s Conservatives appear to have picked defending a racist heckler who tried to sandbag Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with a string of tendentious questions about immigration as the hill they want to die on! I wonder how this will work out for them? Not well, I imagine.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Could This Be Donald Trump’s Worst Day Ever?
Donald Trump is holding a rally in coal country West Virginia, and I think I can imagine what he's going to say."Pray for me bubbas, I'm having a really bad day."And who can blame him?Read more »
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: The troubled trials of Trudeau and Trump.
It’s embarrassing. Our prime minister cannot handle Donald Trump. We might as well admit it. It is doing less and less good to keep hoping Justin Trudeau will grow into the job. He does not have the gonads of his father. He lacks the wit and gumption to put the
Continue readingAlberta Politics: U.S. and Canadian right-wing politicians march in lockstep as they dismiss facts as conspiracy, disagreement as criminality
Apparently infected by the decline of political discourse in the United States, the Canadian right is increasingly moving toward defining the use of facts that run counter to its narrative as conspiracy and policy disagreement criminality. If you doubt this, consider recent Tweets by the likes of Calgary Conservative MP
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Day The Media Struck Back At Donald Trump
As we all know Donald Trump is growing more unhinged with every passing day. And has been stepping up his deranged attacks on the media.Like this one he tweeted or excreted early this morning. In his never ending attempt to try to get the media to give him the coverage he
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Will Mother Nature Be The One To Destroy Donald Trump?
Ever since he came to power, Donald Trump has waged an all out war on the planet.He has called climate change a "con job" and a "hoax," ripped up regulations, expanded the production of oil, gas, and coal, and walked away from the Paris climate accord.He has mocked the very
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Ainslie Cruickshank reports on Grand Chief Stewart Phillip’s call to prevent catastrophic climate change rather than devoting public money toward fossil fuel subsidies. And Eric Holthaus points out that the recent “hothouse Earth” report includes the recognition that it’s not yet too late
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your week. – David Moscrop makes the case for a long-overdue inheritance tax in Canada: Over time, if left unchecked, capitalism facilitates the pooling of wealth — cash, property, business ownership, investments — among a select few. This is as true in Canada as anywhere else.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Is Donald Trump Encouraging The Saudis To Attack Canada?
It's now been four days since the clown prince of Saudi Arabia launched a deranged assault against Canada. Trying to damage our economy, our schools, and our hospitals.But still the grubby Con Andrew Scheer is remaining silent and refusing to defend our country.But while his motives are only too obvious, Michael
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Trump trumpets truth?
Every time you see president Trump at one of his campaign rallies, the people around him are all too busy with their cell phones to pay any attention to him. It makes you wonder what the point is of these rallies. Oh sure, it feeds his ego and serves to
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Will Saudi Arabia’s diplomatic tantrum provoke a moment of cognitive dissonance for Canada’s ‘ethical oil’ crowd?
Saudi Arabia has given the Canadian ambassador 24 hours to pack his bags and go home because, the Saudi Foreign Ministry complains, Canada is meddling in the internal affairs of the oil-soaked feudal theocracy by expressing concern in Tweets about its arrests of human rights activists, clerics and journalists. Last
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Lana Payne writes that there’s no reason to turn Donald Trump’s giveaway to the rich into an excuse for similarly destructive policies in Canada: If tax policy levers need adjusting, there is a more effective and sophisticated approach that can be taken,
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the QAnon Conspiracy Cult
He's on his Great MAGA tour of America, holding one large rally after the other. He lives for those moments.But even the screams of his fanatical followers can't mask the fact the Donald Trump is slowly cracking up.His speeches and tweets are becoming even wilder, and even more deranged.He knows that
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