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August, 2025:

Sad day in Canada

Aug 19th, 2025
by Craig.
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As was to be expected, Albertans left their brains at home when they went to the polling booths in Battle River-Crowfoot, voting, of course, for Pierre Poilievre. It’s hilarious to me that the people on that side of the spectrum who make a big deal about not being “sheep”, blindly follow their sheep herder and just vote for the party rather than for someone local who would actually have been a good representative for them in Ottawa.

This seems to have put paid to any hope that the members of the Conservative Party might treat Poilievre the same way they treated Sheer and O’Toole, booting him from office as leader of the party. The fact that he blew a twenty-somethng percent lead in the general election would spell the death knell for any other party leader, but I don’t think even the Conservatives take themselves seriously any more.

Hey, I used to be a Conservative; it’s not the philosophy I have a problem with, but my problem is with mouthy, yappy, “I’m so tough and shouty” guys like Poilievre who have done nothing for Canadians other than be shouty and yappy! How are those leadership qualities?! How does that make you the best choice to be prime minister of this country?

It doesn’t.

I was hoping that Poilievre would be defeated and then we could stop watching him rant and rave on television, and perhaps someone with a brain might take over the Conservative Party. But is there anyone with a brain left in the party? There doesn’t appear to be.

I just thank the god I don’t believe in every day that we have an adult governing this country, rather than a career politician who couldn’t feed himself if he had to go out and get a real job. He dodged that bullet yesterday.

Dictators meet in Anchorage, Alaska, nothing happens

Aug 16th, 2025
by Craig.
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The world’s press has spent the last few days, and today (Friday here) in particular, trying to make a “nothingburger into filet mignon”, as one commentator said. Anyone with a brain knew well in advance of today that nothing substantive was going to happen without the presence of Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the summit, especially as trump wants so desperately to be seen as a friend of the enormously popular (excuse me while I retch) putin. After absolutely nothing happened except that putin got to ride in The Beast and watched a brief personal airshow, they both jumped in their planes and burnt a few more holes in the atmosphere to fly back to opposite sides of their continents.

All that I really saw was that the world’s most powerful dipshit and wannabe dictator spent the day sucking up to the world’s current biggest war criminal … who, I will point out, was not arrested when he landed, but this is no surprise given that the United States refuses to become a party to the International Criminal Court (ICC), has been aggressive towards the ICC and has hosted other war criminals in the past.

In fact, it was just two dictators getting together for lunch; trump probably asked putin for advice on getting away with sending troops into his capital city!

But maybe we’ll never know what they talked about because, other than admitting utter failure to negotiate a peace deal (certainly not why putin was there), both sides have refused to say anything. So in the absence of any information we’re left to wonder if the world’s two super-dictators have cooked up some sort of deal where they both get richer and the little guy (Ukraine) gets shafted.

It was just a typical “nothingburger”! Nothing else to be said!

I’d like to get away from trump, literally and blog-wise, but … there’s Pete Hoekstra

Aug 15th, 2025
by Craig.
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The latest idiot to raise my ire is his ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, who has pissed me off in at least two ways recently:

  1. As I’ve said before — although I can’t speak for all Canadians, but this certainly applies to this Canadian — I am not boycotting travel to the United States where I regularly used to spend thousands of dollars a day (pardon my extreme exaggeration) because I am “punishing” Americans because I don’t like their choice of president. I am simply covering my ass because I don’t want to be caught up in some dragnet of an ICE raid of the day and dumped in jail in the southern United States because I am a foreigner. I’ve given examples for why I, as a law-abiding person, have a reasonable fear of that happening to me. There’s no way I am crossing the border until 21 January 2029 … under the assumption that trump doesn’t somehow change the constitution to allow himself to run a third time. (God, I hope he doesn’t live to see the end of his second term, never mind run for a third fourth time! [Sorry, fourth term; I forgot that he failed in his second attempt.])
  2. Now he (Hoekstra) is going on about how Canada is the party that has “pulled the rug out” from under the United States as far as tariffs and CUSMA are concerned! Hello! Did you ever watch one of your boss’ campaign speeches, in particular the one where he announced that he had discovered the word “tariff” and what a wonderful word it was/is? Are you aware that he does not know the difference between a “trade deficit” and a “subsidy”? Have you ever heard him refer to Canada as the “51st state”? Have you ever heard him whine about now “nasty” (a word you’ve used in the same vein) Canada and Canadians are? Sure, maybe you can look at that as all in good humour, but if we had the might and started referring to the US as our “cherished” eleventh province, I’m pretty sure you’d lose your sense of humour (humor) pretty quickly. So fuck you. It’s blatantly obvious to any onlooker who started this bullshit.

If you want to whine about where you find yourself because of your boss upending the entire world order, foisting the cost of tariffs on American consumers and turning decades of economic integration between our countries inside out, don’t blame Canada. We’re just spectators in this farce you and your boss have created. Having just scanned your Wikipedia article, you sound like more of a dipshit than a “diplomat” should be, but that doesn’t surprise me.

I’ll have more to say in the very near future about how you’re fucking up Ukraine as well.

Victoria Mboko wins the Canadian Open, wipes the floor with Naomi Osaka

Aug 9th, 2025
by Craig.
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I’m late posting this because of … excuses.

I hadn’t heard of Victoria Mboko until less than a week ago, now she is my heroine. She’s my heroine for two reasons: (a) all the bloody TV commentators who can’t/won’t pronounce her surname properly because they don’t know how to pronounce African names with successive consonants and African words in general, and (b) because she soundly beat Naomi Osaka.

As you will know if you’ve read me for a while, I am no fan of Naomi Osaka. For me she’s the female version of John McEnroe, a whiny crybaby, but the difference is that McEnroe had to have known that he was making a spectacle of himself. Per the article to which I’ve linked above, I feel that so-called professional athletes should learn, not only their sport, but also how to behave under pressure. That means not wimping out when the going gets though (the topic of the post to which I’ve linked), but also losing and winning graciously. Osaka has yet to acquire that skill, and she demonstrated that beautifully on the court with Mboko and off the court afterwards.

Hey, listen, elite athletes are getting younger and younger, which means top athletes are being evicted from their perches younger and younger and sooner and sooner! Accept it, and get over it. You’re not gonna be number one forever. Your pouty and pissed-off faces on the court and not even making an attempt to get to some balls only show how little you deserved the top spot in the first place.

Congratulations Victoria Mboko!