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Trump does something good for a change

Jul 8th, 2026
by Craig.
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Wow, I can’t believe I’m doing this, but I suppose when even the worst person you know in the modern world does something good, ya gotta recognise them for it. Of course, with trump this could change in five minutes when another lonely thought materialises in his grey matter, so check back tomorrow.

But today trump said that he would allow the Ukrainians to build their own Patriot Missiles. I don’t know how this would work, given Russia can rain fire and fury on any square centimetre of Ukraine, but I would imagine that Ukraine will build their missiles in a third country. And I believe they will start quicker than anyone realises, and they will churn them out 24/7, faster than even Rayethon churns them out from the safety of American soil. That’s not a criticism of Rayethon, just a recognition of the fact that when your country is in an existential crisis, it’s amazing what you can do.

So I don’t know how many weeks or months it will take for Ukraine to start churning out “made in Ukraine” missiles, but the day they do, Russia better watch their back (and their front) because there will be no excuse for Ukraine any more. They will be able to slice through Russia’s clear manpower advantage in ways that will make the Russians afraid to step into the meat machine that they have created.

Canada buys European subs

I’m delighted to see that Carney has chosen to buy European-made subs. They’re not a panacea for all ills, but they are a panacea for all things American. I hope he makes the choice to buy Swedish Gripen fighter jets as well instead of the American F-35s. Everything I’ve read about the F-35s is that they’re a great piece of kit, but getting into bed with the Americans in a bad long-term move as we’ve found out.

Americans aren’t bad people, they’re just poorly led

I’ve also read (speaking of things trump can’t do) that we should be nicer to Americans. Why? I don’t think we should attack them today — one doesn’t have to attack a new neighbour — but they’re not being nice to us, so why should we be nice to them? The majority of their population voted for him, and that says a lot. So let America have a hissy fit for four years, and then see where they are when they’re done with trump in 2029. If their new leader in 2029 comes to their senses and starts being nice to us again, then we’re 90% of the way to being there to pick up where we left off. But we won’t make the same mistake we made in the past, where we thought we were inseparable friends. Nope, been there, done that, not doing it again.

We have a majority government in Canada

Apr 14th, 2026
by Craig.
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As you know if you’ve read me for a while, I’m a big fan of minority governments (i.e., hung parliaments). In the so-called democracy in which we live, it’s about the only check on a government’s power that we have in between elections. I know it hasn’t worked well for all countries at all times — I am reminded of the Italians in the 1970s and what a joke they appeared to be to us uneducated youngsters at the time — but they are not universally and undeniably bad at all times.

Here in North America — currently about 4.5% of the World’s population — we’re subject to the hegemony of two national parties, the Liberals and Conservatives in Canada, and the Democrats and the Republicans in the US. Yes, here in Canada we’re “treated” to a third “major” party (the NDP [New Democratic Party]) that lost official party status in the 2025 general federal election because they couldn’t elect enough MPs to maintain what they had. But in the US, that bastion of democracy, “third” parties are a joke and never amount to anything; at least here in Canada, the “third party” (the NDP) has actually had enough support to have become the “second party”, the Official Opposition. There is now even a fourth party, the Bloc Québécois, who run candidates in only one province, and I feel should be barred from election for that very reason.

However, I wasn’t happy about the Liberals getting a minority government last year (2025), because we needed to fight back against trump, and I felt that the only federal Canadian politician with enough gravitas and experience (and balls) to do that well, was the (then) new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Mark Carney. As a former Conservative voter, it pains me to say that Pierre Poilievre is an absolute joke and shouldn’t even be allowed within 100 metres of the prime minister’s office. Even moreso, now that four of his MPs have crossed the floor to the Liberal Party!

But now that we’ve just had three by-elections — which were all swept by the Liberal party, now that Canadians have had a good chance to test-drive Mark Carney as our Prime Minister and seen what a joke and embarassment Pierre Poilievre has been — the Liberal Party of Canada now has a majority government. Thank god! I don’t feel that governing parties — probably especially the Liberals — should feel they have the right to run roughshod over the Opposition, but in this case, today, dealing with the piece of shit trump, the Government of Canada needs the freedom of a majority government to have the ability to get the damn work done to put trump and the Americans in their place.

So congratulations to Mark Carney and the Liberal Party of Canada! MCGA!

Thank god Pierre Poilievre is not our prime minister!

Jan 21st, 2026
by Craig.
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After watching Mark Carney’s speech yesterday in Davos, I am so thankful that PP is not our prime minister! There is no way he has the intellectual capacity to play on the world’s big stage with the big boys he’d have to deal with. Not a hope in hell! He’d just embarrass us and himself, and we’d be the 51st state by the weekend, or a weekend sometime last year.