I never thought that Melania Trump would appear in public again, after she was caught in flagrante delicto plagiarizing Michelle Obama at the Republican convention.But Donald Trump is desperate to try to win back some of the hordes of Republican women who have fled his clutches, so he forced her to make another campaign
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Montreal Simon: Hillary Clinton and the Republican War on Women
When I watched Hillary Clinton campaigning yesterday, I was impressed by the angry defiant look on her face. And by the fact that she's still standing. For it has been a brutal week.She has been stabbed not once but twice in the back by the FBI. A rise in Obamacare premiums has
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Return of the Daisy Girl
As we all know, Donald Trump is a threat to everything decent in America. From its women and girls, who he would grope like a beast, to its democracy he would defile and degrade. He would plunge the world into the greatest recession since the Great Depression.But the greatest threat he poses is to
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trumpkin and the Scariest Halloween Ever
Well one thing's for sure, this is going to be the scariest Halloween ever. What with the monstrous Trumpkin scaring the bejesus out of kids and adults alike.But sadly, I don't think I'll be joining in the festivities.Because for starters it seems I don't have the right costume…Read more »
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Larry Beinhart argues that aside from the gross unfairness and economic harm from growing inequality, there’s a basic problem trusting the uber-rich to make reasonable decisions with massive amounts of wealth. And George Monbiot makes the case that even as he pretends
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Brian Jean goes full Trump for the Wildrose masses: Total disaster! We need to Make Alberta Great Again! Believe me!
PHOTOS: I tell you, it’s a total disaster! Believe me! Brian Jean speaks with members after his Trump-like Friday evening speech at the Wildrose Party’s 2016 AGM in Red Deer (CBC photo). Below: Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, whose former speech-writers may soon be able to find productive work
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why the FBI’s E-Mail Scandal Won’t Make Trump President
OK. Now it really is a horror show, and a living nightmare, just as I predicted.With only ten days to go before the American election, and Donald Trump closing in on Hillary Clinton.Clinton gets mugged by the FBI, dragged into another episode of her never ending e-mail scandal.And yes, it doesn't get any
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Zombie Revolution
I must admit I'm not quite sure how this zombie horror show is going to end. But I'm pretty sure that the final episode of this nightmare season is going to be one of the scariest nights of our lives.Because forget the new season of The Walking Dead, this is terrifying. Not because I
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Michael Moore gets Trump supporters
This is the canny Moore’s assessment of The Donald’s appeal to so many millions of American voters: MICHAEL MOORE: I know a lot of people in Michigan that are planning to vote for Trump and they don’t necessarily like him that much, and they don’t necessarily agree with him. They’re
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Day Donald Trump Revealed His Inner Demons
As we all know, it's sometimes hard to tell whether Donald Trump is an extreme narcissist, or a clinical psychopath, or a sexual predator, or a raging maniac.Or all of the above. But now we find out that on a rare occasion when Trump revealed his inner demons, they turned out to
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and Les Deplorables
I love the musical Les Miserables. I love the songs, and the way the characters celebrate revolution.Even if it ends badly.Because I believe that only a revolution can save us and the world we live in.But Donald Trump has a version of Les Miserables called Les Deplorables… Read more »
Continue readingAlberta Politics: This shouldn’t be a surprise: Trudeaumania 2.0 fails to deliver in Medicine Hat
PHOTOS: Trudeaumania 1.0, the real thing, in 1968. Below: Trudeaumania 2.0, not nearly as effective, in Medicine Hat, Alberta, on Oct. 13, 2016. Below: Conservative by-election winner Glen Motz, Rudyard Kipling, poet of empire and saviour of the Hat part of the Hat, and unsuccessful Liberal challenger Stan Sakamoto. Well,
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Women Who Brought Him Down
With only fifteen days to go before the U.S. election, if we were on a plane this would be about the time when the pilot announces "we're now on final approach."Or if you're on the Trump plane the pilot screams "Mayday!! Mayday!! Only God can save us!!!! Hillary Clinton has vaulted to a
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Ten Things We Learned from Trump’s Presidential Campaign
Barring a catastrophe Donald Trump will not become the 45th president of the United States. At the risk of tempting fate Ms Soapbox would like to present a top 10 list of things we learned from Trump’s doomed presidential campaign. The Top 10 List TEN: The Republican Party is in
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump, the Anti-Lincoln, and the Nightmarish Election
There are now only sixteen days to go before the U.S. election, but they promise to be some of the scariest days of our lives. For Donald Trump and his Trumplings are still a nightmare in progress.And there was Trump yesterday, on what he called the "hollowed ground" of Gettysburg.Where the great
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Lost Democratic Traditions of America
As we all know, Hillary Clinton had Donald Trump for dinner at their final debate Wednesday night.But not before he had called her a "nasty woman" and threatened not to accept the election result.For as we also know, Trump is a bad loser. But at least yesterday he made it clear what the decent people
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Michael Moore–Is Trump Purposely Sabotaging His Campaign?
By Michael Moore Friends, Donald Trump never actually wanted to be President of the United States. I know this for a fact. I’m not going to say how I know it. I’m not Read more…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Night Hillary Clinton Demolished Donald Trump
For a sickening moment during last night's debate, I thought Donald Trump was going to give Hillary Clinton a hard time, score some badly needed points. And maybe even win the debate, after losing the two others. For he started out looking reasonably under control, he wasn't sniffling or snuffling, and he was talking
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Alberta right now: The state of the province, its parties, and its oil after 1 year without Stephen Harper
PHOTOS: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley addresses supporters for her “state of the province” speech in Calgary’s Jack Singer Concert Hall yesterday. (Photo from the Premier of Alberta’s Flickr account.) Below: Would-be Progressive Conservative leader Jason Kenney and current Wildrose Party Leader Brian Jean. It was so busy in political Alberta
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and the WikiLeak’s E-Mails
They will face each other for the last time in Las Vegas tonight, and for Donald Trump it will be his last chance to try to stop Hilary Clinton from becoming the first female president of the United States.And burying him in a landslide. It’s now or never for Donald Trump.Trump now
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