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Nothingburger
The USMCA was up for an automatic renewal yesterday. The US declined to automatically renew the agreement.
Here we are on July 2 and the sky has not fallen and life continues, the way it did on June 30.
Donald Trump along with the leaders of Canada and Mexico signed up on the USMCA, back in 2020. At the time, Donald Trump called it a fantastic agreement. He’s not so happy about it anymore.
When the agreement was signed, it was signed for a 16 year period, set to terminate in 2036. If all three parties, the US, Mexico and Canada had agreed to renew the agreement yesterday, the agreement would’ve been renewed automatically until 2042. Donald Trump decided not to renew the agreement.
All this means is that there has to be an automatic review of the agreement on an annual basis. Donald Trump could’ve chosen the option of notifying that he wanted the agreement to end within six months time. He chose not to do that. With the midterm election coming up in November, he knew that this would have spelled disaster for the Republican Party. . So he backed down and just chose not to automatically extend the agreement for another six years beyond 2036.
That is all that happened, nothing more. In a sense, Donald Trump pulled off another TACO (Trump always chickens out).
That’s all I have for today.
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Nobody At The Fair
America turns 250 years old this weekend. Donald Trump is president. Donald Trump wants a legacy. He wants this to be the biggest, bestest most beautiful birthday celebration ever. He decided to hold the Great American Fair, including exhibits from all 50 states. This would be an event to remember.
Sorry, Donald, not turning out that way. First, you were going to have big name performers at the fair all week. Once these performers found out how politicized you were making it they backed out. I think you still have vanilla ice don’t you? You said well screw the performers, you’re gonna give a speech yourself. You did that last weekend and hardly anybody showed up. And this is really pissing you off.
You’ve got Fox News with a backdrop of the fair with nobody there, saying how great it is and how crowded it is. They’re saying this despite how empty the fairgrounds are, in the background
Security is tight. So nobody is allowed onto the fairgrounds with food and drink. They have food tents where water is going for five bucks a bottle. There’s hardly any shade. This week the temperatures are going to be near 100°F. Kind of a stroke of bad luck there isn’t it. Talking about heat stroke.
Another legacy boondoggle like the ballroom and the reflecting pool.
You know what is going to be the most talked about event this weekend, Donald, on the 250th anniversary? It’s not going to be your fair. That’s for sure.
Yep. America’s sweetheart is going to get married to an American football hero. Taylor and Kelce are getting married, with the celebrations being held at the centre of the universe, that being Madison Square Garden.
Donald, you remember Madison Square Garden. That’s where you showed up to watch the Knicks play in the finals, and you got booed big time.
You’ll be lucky if you get any airplay at all this weekend, Donald. Your great American fair will turn into the great American flop.
That’s all I have for today.
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Alone Again, Naturally
Danielle, have not chatted with you for a while, given all the stuff your friend Donald has been doing south of the border. I guess you have this proposal you have to submit by Canada Day to qualify for Ottawa’s Major project list under the Building Canada Act. This would give you a number of streamlining powers and potential federal funding to undertake a major project. Your proposal would be a West Coast pipeline, which would be operational by 2033. It would give Alberta oil access to Asian markets, and for Canada it would diversify away from the United States. So it’s all good in theory.
When you undertook this a few months ago, you said that substantial funding would be provided by private investors. Well as I chirp this, Canada Day is tomorrow. The private investors you were boasting about, have not come forward. So now you are stating that you’re gonna go alone with this. That’s one problem and it’s a big problem. BC First Nations are not happy with the idea nor is the BC government who want a cut of this if you’re going to dig through their province.
Now, why would private industries not be lining up? Let’s see. What else is happening in Alberta right now? Of course. The whole separation thingy.
Did you study history in school, Danielle? In particular, Canadian history? Quebec did the separation thingy a couple of times. Each time it went to referendum, companies left Montreal in droves. Something about instability of the market and all that stuff. You’ve heard the phrase history repeating itself haven’t you? Well if you haven’t, you’re sure finding out about it now.
That’s all I have for today.
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Beware The Bot
A trend that is occurring throughout social media is the flooding of bots on social media, pages such as Twitter and Facebook. It is estimated that up to 20% of all posts are done by bots, which are nothing more than AI creations,
I am on a number of political pages on Facebook. The purpose of these bots are to spread misinformation and basically outright lies. The goal of the existence of these bots are to create divisiveness amongst people with different opinions. These bots are so good that if you make a post, they will attack your post using elements of your post.
There is one Facebook page, that I will not name, that I’m sure the page itself is run by a bot.. There are familiar patterns. The bot at the end of its post will refer you to a link where more detailed misinformation is provided. The profile of a bot will show a limited number of posts and from a specific location, such as California city, California or Texas city Texas. If you look through a number of posts, you’ll have different identified, posters, with the same number of posts, two or three at most and from the same location.
These bots, came to my radar during the 2016 election where Trump got elected. There would be rumours of Hillary Clinton being quite ill and so on, spread by these bots.
Many suspect, the majority of these bots are from Russia and China. The owners of the social media sites have been warned constantly over the increasing number of bots on their sites. The problem with them is it’s so difficult to regulate. I am not apologizing for them. I’m just stating a fact. But they better get their act together because it is going to get worse.
That’s all I have for today.
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Jeffrey Epstein‘s Ghost
Donald, do you remember when MTG asked you why you weren’t in full pursuit of releasing the Epstein files? You said because your friends would be getting in trouble.
I know you’ve been trying to divert the whole world from the Epstein files with all this other stuff, such as attacking Iran.. That’s not really working too well for you is it?
Well, Jeffrey’s ghost is coming back to haunt you. You know how you got your AG Pam Bondi to redact a bunch of names, that were in the files. Well, a judge, last Thursday ordered that names be unreacted for eight specific emails that dealt with girls being tortured and girls who were minors. That’s gonna hurt. Who knows, even your name could be one of the redacted names in those emails. That would be a hoot, wouldn’t it?
Then there is one of your billionaire, friends, Leon Black, who walked out of a closed door congressional committee meeting, last week, when member started asking questions that he did not like. It was all these pesky questions about NDA agreements that he had signed with a bunch of women.
The Republican chairman, James Comer, got so fed up with Black that Comer subpoenaed him to provide the NDA documents.
“We want to know, was Jeffrey Epstein involved in the NDAs?”
“Was he involved in writing? Was he involved in awarding funds to the women for the NDAs? What was the reason for the NDA? We want to know everything about the NDAs.”
So are you going to try to distract us again, Donald? Are you going to launch a major offensive against Iran this week? Maybe you might invade Cuba. That should be simple, but then again who knows with Pete Hegseth leading the way?
The circus continues.
That’s all I have for today.
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Alberta Separation Blues
Recent polling numbers are showing a decreasing trend in the desire of Albertans to separate from Canada. An Ipsos poll conducted in the beginning of June showed that 72% of Albertans want to stay in Canada, while only 19% want to separate. There have been a number of polls conducted by various organizations with the numbers being quite similar to that of the Ipsos polling.
This decrease in the desire to separate can be attributed to a number of reasons. There’s more information coming out as to what would happen if Alberta were to separate. An analysis commissioned by the Calgary Chamber of Commerce shows that Alberta GDP would shrink by 6%, 175,000 jobs would be lost and the economy would shrink by $62 billion annually. Danielle Smith herself has said that Alberta would incur startup costs of $400 billion if it were to separate
Thomas Lucaszuk, leading voice of the forever Canadian campaign, has been touring throughout Alberta with his unity bus, conducting town halls and handing out forever Canadian lawn signs.
Just going through my neighbourhood I am noticing an increase in Canadian flags being hung up at residences. We are approaching July 1, but there’s a noticeable increase even compared to past July 1 as to the number of Canadian flags being hung up
The October 19 referendum to have a referendum is still four months away. But there’s a definite trend away from separation. There is one concern though. The vitriol by the separatists on social media is increasing as they see their separation dream slipping away. Hopefully, cooler heads will prevail. Time will tell.
That’s all I have for today.
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Countrywide Insanity
Regime Change is a best seller that came out a couple of days ago and is flying off the shelves. I got it in audiobook form on Tuesday and I have already finished it.
The book covers the first year of Donald Trump’s second term presidency. The book reminded me of all the shocking things that happened in the first year, leaving me, the impression that the US and perhaps the whole world is suffering from Trump inflicted PTSD. Here is just a short list of the things we all went through in the first 14 months of his term
Guard rails gone. For cabinet position he did not choose the best. He chose the most loyal to him. Tulsi Gabbard, Democrat nut job, turned Republican chosen as the director of national intelligence. Since resigned. Trump‘s first choice for Attorney General was accused sex predator Matt Gaetz.
Laura Loomer, Trump fan girl, getting national security staff fired for the most insane reasons.
Renee Goode and Alex Pritty, both white, both American citizens, shot dead in Minneapolis during the ICE crack down.
National Guard troop sent to Los Angeles and to Washington.
Jim Comey indicted with the indictment failing. Trump wanted him arrested for posting seashells on a beach that formed the number 8647
Trump wanting everyone who crossed him arrested such as Comey, Leticia James and Adam Schiff. Trump frustrated and none of them got charged.
$400 million gift airplane for his presidential library
Using his influence as president to make millions of dollars for his family
The FIFA peace prize.
Lowering the flag to half staff when Charlie Kirk was assassinated, but not doing the same when Melissa Hartman was shot down in her home.
Saving the two biggest for last. The Epstein files and the disaster with Iran.
The book is a great book. But it does bring back a lot of bad memories. We have three more years of this crap coming too. We will all need therapy.
One last thing I forgot about. As a Canadian I don’t know how I could’ve done this. The tariffs.
That’s all I have for today.
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Rats Leaving Sinking Ship
Donald, I know you have a lot going on, with Iran, inflation over 4% and the whole reflecting pool thingy, but I guess a couple of your previous major supporters are deserting you
First, there’s Tucker Carlson, who was at one time you’re number one fan and had the top show on Fox News.
“I have been a consistent defender for 35 years of the Republican Party. If I’m out, then I think a lot of other people are out.”
Tucker did not stop there
“It’s not enough to say, Well, I changed my mind — or like, Oh, this is bad, I’m out. It’s a moment to wrestle with our own consciences, and I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people.”
Harsh. Tucker feels that you betrayed him, Donald. You promised no more wars. Then you got into Iran. I guess that was the final straw for him.
Then there’s Marjorie. Talk about a woman scorned.
“Tucker is not the only one who is done supporting the Republican Party. There is A LOT of us that are absolutely fed up and will not support a party that betrays its voters and country.”
That’s pretty harsh. But it gets even worse.
“If I am cast aside by MAGA Inc and replaced by Neocons, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Military Industrial War Complex, foreign leaders, and the elite donor class that can’t even relate to real Americans, then many common Americans have been cast aside and replaced as well.”
It is not just the two of them leaving Donald, they are threatening to take a whole lot of people with them.
I know you’re getting desperate Donald. This was quite apparent when you refused to sign the bipartisan housing bill yesterday. You said you wouldn’t sign it until Congress passed the Save America Act. This is the act which is going to restrict a whole lot of voters from voting. Even your Republican senators say that it never will pass because there’s not enough support for it. It is a bridge too far.
Sucks to be you, Donald.
That’s all I have for today. 
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He Fought The Algae But The Algae Won
Algae are a diverse group of aquatic, photosynthetic organisms that produce oxygen but lack the complex roots, stems, and leaves of true plants. They range from microscopic single cells to massive seaweeds and produce up to half of Earth’s oxygen.
I got this from Wikipedia.
Donald, you’re getting beaten by a one cell organism. How’s that going for you? Back in May when you started off with this $14 million boondoggle, you said that the way the reflecting pool would be reconstructed nothing could cut into it. Now you’re saying that vandals made a 200, oops you changed that to 250 oops, you changed that to 300, a 300 foot slice to the bottom of the reflecting pool. You even have a video by your interior department supposedly showing people cutting the pool. Fox News showed this last night and even Fox News are saying that this is what allegedly happened. Allegedly Donald. What is even more scary than you getting beaten by a one cell organism is that a lot of your MAGA supporters are buying into it. And they say that MAGA is not a cult.
You are turning into a laughing stock, Donald. The White House, physically is the mess. You got a big bald spot on the front lawn where you had your UFC thingy. Half the White House looks like a disaster area after you tore down the east wing. How is that ballroom thing going for Donald? it is still probably going to look like that after you get impeached.
They finally took your name off the Kennedy centre. But you’re such a petulant child that you’re keeping that covered. Whatever.
That’s all I have for today.
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TACO Will Back Down
Donald, will you just stop with your BS about not renewing CUSMA. It is just not going to happen and you know it. No one takes you seriously anymore.
First of all your own, Congress does not want this, not in an election year. Industries in your country, such as the auto industry, definitely do not want this because they know what kind of nightmare this will turn into. Now, Canada and Mexico are getting together, strengthening their partnership and they won’t back down to whatever bullying you’re gonna try.
So stop with this BS and move on. You have enough issues as it is because of your BS? You have a dead duck in your reflecting pool. A dead duck! And now you’re coming out with this BS story about a vandalcutting a 300 foot slit in the pool bottom. Like holy BS Batman! To paraphrase Steve Martin from an old SNL skit you are one wild and crazy dude man
That’s all I have for today.
Bird's Chirp
So I don't have to put it on Facebook anymore….