Ever since Donald Trump went on the war path and started exchanging threats with North Korea, he seems like a new man.And not in a good sense either.For Trump has always seen himself as a Great Warrior Leader, and the idea of distracting Americans from all his scandals and his
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Montreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Doomsday Clock
This is what every American with an IQ greater than a fruit fly should have seen coming.This is why the grubby clown Donald Trump should never have been elected president.He didn't know what he was doing. He was all hot air. And of course, he had no moral compass. So now
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Has Donald Trump Made War Unavoidable?
Well now we know that Donald Trump's verbal blast at North Korea was totally improvised. President Trump’s aides knew he planned to deliver a tough message to North Korea on Tuesday, but they did not expect a threat that rivaled the apocalyptic taunts often used by his target, Kim Jong-un.And now we
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Thank goodness for people like Derek Fildebrandt, without whom the dog days of summer would be dreary indeed!
PHOTOS: Derek Fildebrandt in full rhetorical flight before, obviously, a friendly audience. (Screen shot from … wherever.) There goes the author’s theory that just using an Apple computer makes you a better person! Below: Your blogger’s overused photos of UCP leadership candidates Jason Kenney and Brian Jean, a stock shot
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Road to Armageddon
Almost four years ago Donald Trump tweeted this: And yesterday he did his best to turn that into a self fulfilling prophesy. Read more »
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Diminishing Democracy.
Around the world, from Venezuela to Poland, from Turkey to America, we are watching the destruction of democracy. Those who believe in democracy are routinely arrested, beaten, detained or killed on the streets of once-safe cities. It is a challenge everywhere. There is no safe haven. And Canada is no
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Never mind apologies, it’s time for Canada’s Tories just to admit Jack Layton was right about talking to the Taliban
PHOTOS: Jack Layton in Edmonton in 2011. Below: Forgettable Harper Government foreign minister Lawrence Cannon (Photo: Abigail Veronneau, Wikimedia Commons) and Peter MacKay, who took some of the cheap shots at Mr. Layton in 2006 (Photo: Department of National Defence, via the Wikimedia Commons). Never mind the apologies. That ship
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Who Would Be Worse Donald Trump or Mike Pence?
He can often be seen looking on at Donald Trump's grotesque travelling circus with a strange smile on his face.When asked to say something about his boss, Mike Pence sounds as loyal as a butler, or as giddy as a college cheerleader.But appearances can be deceiving.For it seems that should
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Trump’s dangerous explicit endorsement of police brutality
Addressing a crowd of police officers in Long Island, New York, U.S. President Donald Trump explicitly endorsed police brutality, because “America is once again a nation of laws”. The post Trump’s dangerous explicit endorsement of police brutality appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump: When a Fascist Is a Fascist is a Fascist
For a long time I hesitated to call Donald Trump a fascist. I thought he was just a bloated clown, and I didn't want to devalue the word.But not any longer. Not after the way he is going after transgendered soldiers, or the way he is threatening the media.Or the way
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump Prepares To Declare War On the Media
Donald Trump is relaxing at his favourite golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey. The place where Ivanka was married, the place where he wants to be buried.Still claiming he's not president Lazy Boy.Still insisting it's NOT a vacation. And for the first time in a long time, showing Jeff Sessions,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Crawford Kilian writes that Donald Trump’s presidency is merely a symptom of the wider disease of undue deference to wealth. And Matt Karp comments on the need for progressives to identify the problem rather than soft-peddling class divisions: What distinguished the Bernie Sanders
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Lazy Boy Trump and the Green Monster
It's a brutal cover picture, and I'm sure Donald Trump must hate it. It's a narcissist's nightmare.Trump must be screaming into every golden mirror in the White House, or rolling on the floor and biting the carpet in the Oval Office.But is it fair?I realize he's got almost nothing accomplished
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Mueller Moment of Truth
He is the man Donald Trump fears the most, the man who keeps him awake at night.Robert Mueller, the man investigating the Trump mob. The man who could nail his family, bounce him out of power, and make him look like the biggest loser EVER.And yesterday Trump's nightmare became even more
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Derek Fildebrandt, UCP ‘liberty’ advocate, calls for return to ugly 1940s labour relations, labour studies professor says
PHOTOS: The late Jim Prentice, during his successful 2014 campaign to lead the Progressive Conservative Party, with supporters in Edmonton. Below: Anti-union “liberty conservative” Derek Fildebrandt, NDP Premier Rachel Notley, and Athabasca University Labour Studies Professor Bob Barnetson. It was probably his “math is hard” moment in a televised debate
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Children’s Hour
As you know, the other day Donald Trump was quoted as calling the White House a "real dump." But now that he's at General Kelly's Tough Love School he's denying it. And to prove how much he loves the place he's going to extraordinary lengths.Read more »
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: The Cabal.
Writers search every day for the right words to describe the calamity in the American White House. You can hardly call it an administration. Though there is a school of thought that it might be referred to as a maladministration. It struck me that Mr. Trump might be attempting a
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why Donald Trump Will Almost Certainly End Up Resigning
Donald Trump has been at General John Kelly's School for Bullies and Blowhards for two days now, and it does seem to be restraining his worst instincts.He hasn't had a bout of Twitter diarrhea for almost twenty-four hours, although the strain is showing. And he still managed to send shockwaves
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump: Will Chaos Lead to War?
It was the front page of the New York Post on Friday, which had to be updated in a hurry yesterday… And it's a pro-Trump paper. So you know the situation must be getting desperate.Read more »
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