Donald Trump likes to say that he's really good at numbers. You know, the best.Just like he says he knows more about science than the scientists. But whatever he says about Global WAMING, after the long government shutdown, more and more Americans now believe he either doesn't know what he's saying
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Montreal Simon: Donald Trump, the Joker, and the Toddler Pageant
Donald Trump remember what happened yesterday for a long long time, maybe even forever. For by the time the day was over, he must have felt he was trapped in a bad Batman movie, and they were calling him The Joker and The Toddler.First Robert Mueller arrested his old buddy, the grubby old
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump’s Roger Stone Nightmare
It's not hard to imagine how Donald Trump must be feeling like today. It couldn't be easier.All you have to do is read this hysterical tweet: This is what he is complaining about.Read more »
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: John McCallum is no diplomat.
Canada’s ambassador to China never was a diplomat. He is a politician. Maybe he has always been too much of a neoliberal to my taste but he finally did what Justin Trudeau could not. He told the truth about the situation of chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou of Huawei. And
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Wonderful Humbling of Donald Trump
The U.S. government shutdown has now being going on for more than a month, with no end in sight.Almost a million government workers are struggling to make ends meet, with some forced to resort to food banks to feed their families.The U.S. credit rating is threatened, and planes are threatening
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Wishy-washy on the Wall.
It is beginning to look like there is some daylight between president Donald Trump and a faction of his Republican followers. It happened last Saturday during Trump’s speech to save his wall. He was using people already in the U.S. to trade for the $5.7 billion he needs for the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Penney Kome writes about the importance of treating poverty as a social disease rather than a purely individual circumstance. And Jackie Esmonde and Todd Gordon discuss how Doug Ford is using the social effects of poverty to force workers to put up
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Trump can: You can’t.
Social media are a trap just waiting for the unwary politician. While I have tested some of the major social media apps, I try to stay away from them like the plague. They are not mainstream. They are not only overrated but they are for people who need to get
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Damian Carrington reports on new research showing that it’s possible to stop climate change in its tracks – but only by beginning to phase out fossil fuel infrastructure immediately. And Ryan Cooper comments on the problems in responding to an immediate crisis with
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Blown off by Jason Kenney’s UCP last fall, former Wildrose MLA Rick Strankman heads for the Independent benches
When this blog’s entirely fictional Vegas oddsmaker Jimmy “The Geek” Porcospino celebrated the first birthday of the United Conservative Party last summer by setting the next year’s resignation odds for each of the party’s remaining caucus members, he gave Drumheller-Stettler MLA Rick Strankman only 20-1 odds of heading for the
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Everything you always wanted to know about Rand Paul and the Shouldice Hernia Hospital * but were afraid to ask
I’m sorry to report, Canada, that Rand Paul, the nutty libertarian son of the crazy uncle of the American Right, isn’t the only politician to stumble into a controversy for getting repairs at the Shouldice Hernia Hospital. We’ll get to that in a minute, but first there’s a backstory. According
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Mr. Trump as a savant?
The other day, reading something from a forgettable writer, I started out laughing at the presentation of U.S. president Donald Trump as a savant. Please understand that a savant is someone with debilitating mental problems or deficiencies but also has one or more remarkable skills. In Mr. Trump’s case, I
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Don’t send a boy…
Maybe if they draw pictures for us, we might understand why prime minister Justin Trudeau would ask U.S. president Donald Trump to help with Canada’s current problems in China. Talk about the old adage of never sending a boy to do a man’s job! Why would you ask someone who
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Just as well, no province-wide gender-reveal party to be required for Baby Jean, a girl
There will be no province-wide social media gender reveal party for Brian Jean’s and Kimberly Michelutti’s expected baby. True, this would have given all Albertans the opportunity to continue to take part in the fascinating Jean Family story. But not having a baby-gender-reveal party avoids the risk and disappointment associated
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why Donald Trump Is So Confidently Incompetent
As you may know, I have struggled for years to try to determine what makes Donald Trump tick.And so far my diagnosis includes extreme narcissism with a touch of paranoia, possibly aggravated by early onset dementia.But it seems I may have overlooked a critical psychological factor, the Dunning Kruger effect.Which makes
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: The world’s worst walls.
There are walls to keep people in. There are walls to keep people out. They all ultimately fail. Walls to keep people in are just a challenge to human ingenuity. Walls to keep people out can be subject to siege. The truth is walls do not show strength, they show
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Guest Post by Olav Rokne: America’s Democrats need to saddle up a dark horse
Considering his scandal-ridden administration, a shaky economy, and his disagreeable public presence, it’s easy for progressives to assume that Tovarishch Trump will be a one-term president. But here’s the bad news: There’s a very real chance that Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States, will be re-elected. For
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Not a lot of light between UCP and Alberta Party ‘Ministry of Truth’ schemes, or for that matter the NDP approach
Alberta Party Leader Stephen Mandel got a couple of things right about Jason Kenney’s plan to establish a “war room” in the Ministry of Energy to pump out belligerent propaganda attacking environmentalists, other governments and private citizens who fail to support of Alberta’s wishes for endless oilsands expansion with sufficient
Continue readingMontreal Simon: How Trump Turned The White House Into a Madhouse
Donald Trump has been holed up in the White House for days, in cold grey Washington, when he'd much rather be in sunny Florida playing golf.He's still clinging feverishly to the hope that by shutting down the U.S. government he can force the Democrats to give him billions to build the Great Wall
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Would a gold piano sound tinny?
Most commentators write a recap about the preceding year on New Year’s Eve but I only thought back a week to an ‘oops.’ I realized that this Canadian missed the Monarch’s message to the Commonwealth. It is with fond memories I note that mother used to always insist that her
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