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Swalwell
Predator, narcissist, adulterer, self-centered. No, I’m not talking about Donald Trump. Well actually, those descriptions does fit Trump. But it is also applicable to Eric Swalwell.
Just a week ago, he was riding high. He was running for governor of California. In some circles, he was favoured to win. He had Nancy Pelosi backing him. He was a star in the House of Representatives. He had it all.
Now, he’s dropped out of the race for governor, and he has been forced to resign from Congress. All in a matter of a few days.
They say that power corrupts. Swalwell is a married father of three. Though how long he will remain married is between him and his wife. It is not the affairs that brought him down because affairs I guess are common in the seats of power, but it is the accusations of rape from multiple women. I know that an accused person is innocent until proven guilty, but it does not look good for Eric Swalwell.
It is just a bloody shame, all the way around. A career ruined, hearts, broken, and possibly even jail time in play. It is also a bloody shame that the ‘ grab em by the pussy’ guy remains in power. The entire thing is sad.
That’s all I have for today.
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With A Friend Like This
Donald, do you remember the good times, when leaders and countries would fall over themselves complimenting you, praising you, trying to get into your good graces? I guess those days are done aren’t they Donald? You did this to yourself.
NATO is just shunning you on this whole Iran thing. You started this without consulting them and now they are taking the approach, ‘ you started this it is your mess to fix’
This is what happens when you keep insulting people. You went after the Pope and now the Italian leader, a right winger, like yourself, with 40 million Catholics in her country had to defend him and go against you. How did you respond to that?
“I’m shocked by her. I thought she had courage. I was wrong. She is the one who is unacceptable, because she does not care whether Iran has a nuclear weapon and would blow Italy up in two minutes if it had the chance.”
You were best buddies with Hungarian right wing leader, Viktor Orban. He had an election a couple days ago. You even sent JD Vance over there to prop up his election bid. He lost terribly. Mainly because of you.
Pierre Poilievre, the conservative leader, here, in Canada, had a 20 point lead three months away from our own election last April. Then you went nuts on the tariff thing. He didn’t bother attacking you. Mark Carney, the liberal leader, did. Now, Mark Carney has a majority government in Canada
You’re just bad news, Donald. Even your own apologists, in your own country, such as Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones are abandoning you. Megyn Kelly, she of the bleeding orifices put it bluntly. ‘ she is sick of your shit.’
Donald, you’re not gonna change we know that. But the rest of the world is. They’re sick and tired of putting up with your crap and they’re not gonna take it anymore.
That’s all I have for today.
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Pierre, Stay Or Go
Pierre, buddy, time to call it a day. It was just 15 months ago, that your party had a 20 point lead in the polls. You were three months away from a overwhelming election majority. Then Donald Trump came in and it all went to crap.
Him and his stupid tariffs, huh Pierre? You even had Daniel Smith go down and ask Donald to hold off on the tariffs until after the election and Trump did not.
Yesterday, three terrible losses. In one Toronto riding your party skirted around 25% of the vote. In the other Toronto riding it was under 20%. In the Quebec riding, it was far worse, not even 5%
You did not help yourself after the results came out. Nope you came out whining.
“The Carney Liberals did not win a majority government through a general election or today’s by-elections. Instead, it was won through backroom deals with politicians who betrayed the people who voted for them.”
Come on Pierre, you sounded like a sore whining loser. Not a good look at all for you.
To make it even worse, Pierre, Mark Carney announced this morning that he is suspending the federal excise tax on gas, for the next five months, which will result of a price reduction of $.10 per litre, at the pumps.
I guess your only saving grace is that there’s no one really in the wings to take your place. But still, your party is a mess right now and a lot of it is on you.
That’s all I have for today.
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Of Course
Waking up early Monday morning, wondering what fresh hell awaits. Trump’s blockade starts in a couple of hours. Eric Swalwell is giving up his run for governor of California. Democrats are tough on their own, not like MAGA.
Then I see the image above. Please let it be a parody account. In all that is holy, let it be a parody account. But, no, Donald Trump did post this.
It seems that he is now at war with Pope Leo. He is at war with the head of the Catholic Church. At war with the head of billions of Catholics around the world and 53 million Catholics in the US , including his current wife, Melania, JD, Vance, and Marco Rubio
“We don’t like a pope that’s going to say that it’s OK to have a nuclear weapon. … He’s a man that doesn’t think that we should be toying with a country that wants a nuclear weapon so they can blow up the world. I’m not a fan of Pope Leo.”
The problem for Donald is that this pope, this American pope, is no shrieking violet. Leo struck back.
“I have no fear of the Trump administration or speaking out loudly of the message of the Gospel, which is what I believe I am here to do, what the church is here to do.”
The pope also struck back at Pete Hegseth who is claiming, in his press conferences, that God supports this war on Iran
“Jesus is the king of peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war but rejects them.”
Well, Donald, you have pissed off the Muslims and now the Catholics. I would not be surprised if a Jehovah’s Witness comes to your door, asking if you are happy with the current government.
That’s all I have for today.
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Boxed In
Iran has been around in its various forms for 2800 years. The US has only been around about 400 years. Iran has been playing this game a whole lot longer and it is showing.
Just a week ago, on Easter Sunday, Trump demanded that Iran open ‘the fuckin strait’ or the Iranian civilization would be destroyed.
Here we are a week later, negotiations have failed and the Strait of Hormuz is still closed and Iran is still around. No offramp for Donald.
So now, Donald is saying that he will enforce a blockade on the strait so that no ships go through
“Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz.”
Donald does not stop there though
I have also instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran. No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas.”
Let’s think this through a minute. There are some countries who have been willing to pay the toll. So these countries will no longer get oil. So instead of Iran, being the bad guy, the US is the bad guy.
But there’s even a far more frightening consideration to take into account. . Some of those ships that are going through the strait are Chinese and Russian ships. If Trump blocks those ships, this will be a direct confrontation between world powers.
For the longest of time, the US and China have been having their own Cold War using proxies. This time it’s face-to-face. Can anyone say World War III? And what happens with Russian ships? What happens if Trump lets those ships through? It will make him more look like a Putin puppet.
The next few days, the ante has been raised big time. Sooner or later adults will prevail, hopefully. But until then….
All I have for today.
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Let’s Make A Deal
Negotiators from the US, led by JD Vance, and Iran, were to meet in Pakistan on Saturday. As I chirp this, while it is still early Saturday morning, where I am it is late Saturday afternoon in Pakistan. The negotiators are just starting to meet now. Both sides, earlier in the day met with the Pakistani Prime Minister. But it is only now that they are face-to-face, late in the day.
The US is facing an uphill struggle here. Just yesterday, the Pakistani defence minister said the following.
“While peace talks are underway in Islamabad, genocide is being committed in Lebanon. Innocent citizens are being killed by Israel, first Gaza, then Iran and now Lebanon, bloodletting continues unabated. I hope and pray people who created this cancerous state on Palestinians land to get rid of European jews burn in hell.”
Not a good start. That post has since been deleted.
The question is, who wants this worse? Iran, for all the missiles that have been launched against them still have enough military hardware to keep the Strait of Hormuz closed. Iran believes that it can withstand any attack by the US and still maintain the upper hand. Some ships are going through, but they are mainly Chinese, an Iranian ally, in origin. US intelligence is now indicating that China isplanning to send military hardware to Iran, which only ups the stakes even more.
Donald Trump had his ‘destroy the Iranian civilization’ threat on Tuesday. He pulled another TACO and backed down. He claimed victory, but the Strait is still closed. He has backed himself into an almost no win situation.
Not much is going to be achieved in a couple hours that the two sides will meet today. Tomorrow is going to be another bad day for Donald Trump and for the rest of us.
That’s all I have for today.
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Oil Be Back
During one of Donald Trump‘s election campaigns, Trump said that we would be winning so much that his supporters would be begging him to not win so much. He has said that he has won the war with Iran. Frankly, we have won this war. He then threatened to destroy the Iranian civilization before backing down again into this so-called ceasefire.
So what has America won so far? Inflation jumped up by almost one percent in only one month. It has jumped up to 3.4% for the year.
Asian countries are so desperate for oil that they are now buying oil from Russia, at over $100 a barrel. This is a windfall for Russia in their invasion efforts of Ukraine.
China is better able than most countries to handle this oil crisis because they have diversified into energy alternative sources like wind and solar.
The Strait of Hormuz it’s still closed. Countries, including European countries, are making deals with Iran to have their shipments go through at a toll price of course.
Iran has boosted its export of oil and where before they were selling at $45 a barrel now they’re selling at $100 a barrel. This is over and above the toll revenues they are receiving.
Did I mention that the Strait of Hormuz it’s still closed?
What a crap show.
That’s all I have.
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Time To Party
The liberal party, led by Mark Carney, will be holding theirconvention in Montreal this weekend. The liberals are riding on an unbelievable hot streak right now. A fifth MP, four of them being conservative, have crossed over to the liberals. As of right now, with three vacant seats the liberals hold a majority. There will be three by elections next Monday and the liberals need only one to keep that majority
Mark Carney, as liberal leader, has an approval rating of anywhere between 63 and 68%. The liberal party is a whole has a lead of around 15% over the conservatives. This is at a time when the economic outlook is not all that rosy.
How is this happening? David Coletto, CEO of the polling firm, Abacus Data, explains
“ people still overwhelmingly believe that the cause of the pain is not Mark Carney or not the decisions that the liberal government are making – it’s Donald Trump”
There you have it. It was only 16 months ago that Pierre Poilievre and the conservatives had a 20 point lead over the liberals. Just 16 months ago. A couple of months later Mark Carney was chosen to lead the liberal party. Two months after that the liberals won the election. Mark Carney focussed on what Trump was doing and the damage that Trump was doing not only to Canada, but the world. He still keeps the spotlight on Trump as evidenced by his speech, in Switzerland, a couple of months ago. Poilievre, did not focus on Trump during the election campaign and still, to this day, avoids talking about Donald Trump. As a result, the conservative party is haemorrhaging and Poilievre’s approval rating is tanking
Remember that he did get an 87% approval rating a couple months back at his leadership review. But that approval rating was given by only 3000 members who showed up at the review and who had to pay $1000 for the privilege of attending the review
For now, the liberals are riding highand the conservatives and most likely Poilievre himself are doing a lot of soul-searching.
The liberals have to remember, though, it took only two months for the conservative lead, prior to the election, to evaporate. The liberals themselves cannot rest on their laurels.
That’s all I have for today.
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Cease What?
A couple of hours before the 8 PM deadline, it was announced that a two week ceasefire had been agreed to between Iran and the US. That is good news, no matter how you put it. The price of oil has plummeted down and the Dow Jones rose over 1000 in response to this announcement.
But, and there’s always a but, there is complete confusion as to the elements of the ceasefire. Both sides claimed they have won complete victories with the other side backing down. The US claims that Iran’ naval and air forces are completely destroyed. This is true. However, the naval and air force basically consisted of military hardware given to Iran by the US over 50 years ago. So in that sense, the US was successful in destroying destroying their own military hardware.
US is saying that the Iran has brought into much of the 15 point US peace plan. Donald Trump is saying that the Iranian 10 point piece plan is something that US could work with. I find that hard to believe considering that the Iranian peace plan calls for total withdrawal of US forces from bases in the Middle East, reparations for damage inflicted on Iran and for Israel to stop its attacks on Lebanon. Israel says that Lebanon is not part of the ceasefire and they will continue attacking Hezbollah forces within Lebanon.
When does war started, the Strait of Hormuz was open. Now it appears to be under Iranian control and Iran may continue collecting tolls of up to $2 million per vessel.
Iran still has their enriched uranium. The US says that Iran will get rid of this uranium. Iran has said nothing about this. Oh, and by the way, Israel is still sending missiles into Iran and Iran is still sending missiles into Israel and other Middle Eastern countries.
So if you think this whole soap opera is over, it’s not. Not even close.
That’s all I have for today.
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Just Wow
This is not a parody. The supposed leader of the free world posted this on his true social account.
Donald, you are completely deranged. This is on you and all your yes people in your administration and in Congress. If you go through with this insanity, you will be remembered right up there with Stalin and Mussolini. Depending on how this goes, you might also be compared to Hitler. Who knows
Iran has been a civilization, on its various forms for almost 2800 years. Your post says you’re going to wipe it out tonight. That is something not really to be proud of.
Almost 6 weeks ago, Iran was regarded as the bad guy, the evil empire. You have done, what no other person has done in the last 47 years with regard to Iran. You have turned the regime into a sympathetic figure who are being admired for their bravery against tyrannical US. Only you could’ve managed that.
If you go through with your threat tonight, you will be committing war crimes, even greater than those committed by Putin in his war against Ukraine. You will become Russia many times over. This will be your legacy.
No one knows what fresh hell you will cause if you go through with your threat tonight. But, we will soon find out cause we’ll be stuck on the ride with you.
That’s all I have.
Bird's Chirp
So I don't have to put it on Facebook anymore….