Sunday Funday: Zingers about the Midterms, Interesting Posts, Funny Posts, Getting Old(er), Carney Hat-Trick, TrumpWatch, Animal Crackers

Good zingers about the Midterms and what's happened since

So here's what happened Saturday - which is, by the way, the anniversary of the Four Seasons Total Landscaping fiasco.
Trump sent out a post announcing his new press secretary, Dana White, the CEO of the UFC plus outriders, and they were all supposed to be big tough guys who would beat up the traitor press. 

BREAKING: Trump says he has offered UFC CEO Dana White the job of White House press secretary: “Dana will be a Press Secretary like none other. Dana, please take the job!”

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— Republicans Against Trumpism (@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social) November 7, 2026 at 2:16 PM

What? Of course, he had never actually talked to Dana White at all. 

I suspect Trump jumped the gun because he wanted desperately to distract the Sunday shows from talking about the Midterms and Stephen Miller. 

Anyhoo, White immediately turned him down. 

But wait, there's more.

Turns out, there actually IS a Dana White already in Washington - Dana W. White was with the Heritage Society and Fox News before she was press secretary at the Pentagon.

He said Dana White UFC fighter for press secretary which was insane BUT folks are saying it could be the WRONG DANA WHITE and I’m dying

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— Heba Gowayed هبة جويد (@hebagowayed.bsky.social) November 7, 2026 at 8:56 PM

Now the internet suspects that THIS is the Dana White who was supposed to be asked to be Trump's press secretary. I guess he never met her either.
Nobody has 'fessed up to making a grotesque error, and apparently this Dana W. doesn't want the job either. But its too embarrassing now to even ask her.

Nicki Minaj it is then - UFC CEO Dana White declines Trump’s offer to become press secretary, source says edition.cnn.com/2026/11/07/p...

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— Eliot Higgins (@eliothiggins.bsky.social) November 7, 2026 at 4:07 PM

One might ask, who is actually presidenting the United States today? Well, I suspect probably Natalie...

 

Reactions Roundup: to Carney's budget, to the Mid-Terms, and to Stephen Fucking Miller

Just a collection of some good reactions to this week's events.

First, I think Canada appreciates Carney's budget
I don't think the negativity and catcalling from Poilievre and the trashtalking from Lewis will land with Canadians. Yes, there's corporate stuff in the budget, lots of it, but I believe that Canada needs economic development to support our social progress. and this budget represents both.
Evan Scrimshaw writes

...Carney’s budget was always going to be about boosting the growth, and finding new and better ways to do so. Some of them are re-announcements of commitments from the investor summits, some are changes to the tax consequences for the owners of successful new companies to not hoard their wealth in assets and actually pay any amount of cap gains taxes, instead of holding it all in shares that they never cash. But what matters from this budget is not any of that, at least for me - it’s the fact that Carney is using the proceeds of better than expected growth and the war in Iran to do a lot of good and progressive things that will help the people of Canada. And frankly, this is the best Canadian budget in many, many decades because of it.
...The anti-homelessness effort is government at its best, a real effort with a real goal to achieve a real outcome. The scale of the ambition is important, and a clear and discernible goal makes it likelier that even if the whole thing doesn’t happen, serious progress is made. The government obviously hasn’t met its target for eliminating all boil water advisories, but the promise being “eliminate all of them in 5 years” spurred a lot more action than a vague commitment to action at some point on some timeline.
Will the government eliminate it? Who knows, but even failing to achieve full elimination would result in the lives of thousands of Canadians getting better, and that is a worthy aspiration. The problem with Canada is that we’re often too focused on the specifics of a pledge, and too worried about the downside of failing to meet it, and forget to think about all the good we could do. This ambition is something that will help a lot of people, and that’s a good thing.
The Indigenous infrastructure announcement is big money at an important cause too. The problem with the boil water advisories is that successive governments have allowed First Nations communities to become decrepit wastelands, exacerbating all kinds of societal harm and sometimes even being completely unreachable for months at a time. Building the infrastructure to get to these communities, and building the infrastructure in these communities, will enable job creation and better health care and education. Imagine what will happen to Indigenous life expectancy when you can get something resembling 21st Century health care on reserve, or even at least get off reserve to get to a decent hospital.
And then there’s my personal favourite announcement, the $4B cultural fund announced and the tax break for artists. I joked on Twitter about whether the tax break applied to Professional Assholes with Substacks, but in reality Canada should be a country that takes our cultural sector seriously. We’ve spawned one of the biggest cultural hits of the year, we have authors and musicians and actors who routinely break through internationally, and using a small amount of money in the grand scheme of our budget for culture and art is a good thing....

Hey, Carney intends to end homelessness! A Worthwhile Canadian Initiative in our budget

Timothy Schmalz' Homeless Jesus statue 

About 40 years ago, the New Republic had a World's Most Boring Headline contest and the headline that won was "Worthwhile Canadian Initiative".

Hard to beat that, really.
So yes, I know, stories about today's Canadian Budget can look pretty dull.
But while most of the coverage is about what our taxes will be, it's more important to look at what the government will do with that money. 

And setting a goal to end homelessness in ten years is outstanding - life-changing, humane, and easily monitored to make sure Carney is succeeding. 

On CBC's At Issue, the panel talked about trade negotiations and the budget, mentioning the homelessness initiative. Althea Raj speculated that Carney's interest in homelessness may have been sparked by seeing the tents along Wellington Street as he drives to work.

Yes, but so what if it was? Have we reached such a point of blasé indifference that the sight of people huddled in doorways and tents lining the fences near so many Canadian city streets shouldn't affect us anymore? 

If Houston and Denver can do it, so can Canada.

Here we go! Some comments about what happens next

First, a few good comments about the US Mid-Terms results - we spent the last two years appalled and terrified, and today we saw the sun came out.

For one thing, the two largest cities in North America now have Democratic Socialist mayors - Zoltan in New York and Nithya in Los Angeles. And they're both great.

I can’t believe Los Angeles will finally have a mayor that knows what the inside of a bus/train looks like that’s not for a photo op 😭😭😭

— bottomfishers for Nithya Raman (@cahsrslut.bsky.social) November 4, 2026 at 7:07 PM

I don't think it succeeds anymore to use pejorative labels to undermine charismatic candidates, particularly with younger voters now. Socialist? What's that and who cares anyway?

🚨🚨 leftists born in the 1980s are now running Los Angeles and New York City 😭😭😭😭😭😭

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— Molly Knight (@mollyknight.bsky.social) November 4, 2026 at 7:05 PM

"Lawyer Up!" and enjoy the schadenfreude

America sent the Republicans a message:

Official statement from incoming chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform @robertgarcia.house.gov:

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— Oversight Dems (@oversightdemocrats.bsky.social) November 3, 2026 at 9:25 PM

Of course Trump solemnly told the New York Times that he would respect the election results, which means the whole gang in the Patel FBI and the Blanche DOJ will be flying all over the country trying to get the courts to overturn elections all over the country, between now and January 3.
As well, I fully expect that choosing a new Speaker and a new Senate Majority Leader will be a shitshow, because Hakeem Jefferies and Chuck Schumer will be following their usual script telling everyone just calm down and ease off and reconsider and reach across the aisle and think about the long-term interests of the party and all their usual BS.  A good percentage of the incoming House and Senate will just tell them "fuck that!"

So there is going to be a big fight about what the Dems will do.

But in the meantime, let's enjoy Tuesday night's schadenfreude.

Today's News: America decides the Midterms, and Canada decides between Europe and Trump

Waiting for the Midterm Results

If you think Trump hates America now, just wait till Nov 4th.

— Tea Pain (@teapainusa.bsky.social) November 2, 2026 at 4:26 PM

Scott Reid: "What Canada needs from these midterms is an absolute, complete drumming of the idea that you can go to economic war with Canada and have it work out well. We need that to be permanently politically radioactive."

- Scott Robertson

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Sunday Funday: Thriller + More Halloween, Interesting Posts, Funny Posts, Laughing about Politics, Carney Hat Trick, TrumpWatch, Animal Crackers

Thriller! 

In honour of Halloween, I have to post the Thriller videos I found.

First, the one and only original


Next, a group of 12-14-year-old dancers at Betsy Ross Arts and Design Academy in New Haven, Connecticut

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Happy (mostly) Halloween!

I have collected quite a batch of Halloween cartoons so I thought I would post them tonight instead of waiting for my Sunday Funday column.  Enjoy!

"It just goes to show you, it's always something — if it’s not one thing, it's another."

(I made this cartoon using ChatGPT)

I really have to feel for our Prime Minister Mark Carney these days.
Canada had one hell of a summer didn't we, with a thousand wild-fires, and those Trump threats and tariffs, and US trade negotiations blowing up.
(On a side note, doesn't it feel like the World Cup and the Olympics were in the ancient past?)
So here we are finally in October.
And Carney finally gets Danielle Smith and her stupid referendum out of the way. Whew!
But now he finds he has to deal with egotistical temper tantrums from the new Quebec premier Paul St-Pierre Plamondon. Plus he must be worried that those white supremascists and residential school denialists in the new BC premier Lorne Doerkson's party will screw up economic development for BC First Nations.
And we all still have to listen to opposition leader Poilievre confuse painfully-dated Seinfeld references for sparkling repartee in Question Period.
Lord, give Carney strength!
Our Prime Minister must be starting to wonder if Canadian politics are always going to be like this.
The short answer is, likely yes!
Because it just goes to show you, it's always something — if it’s not one thing, it's another, as Roseanne Roseannadanna used to say.
But Carney isn't letting it get him down.

 

Today's Good Cartoons, plus Signs of the Apocalypse, Trade War Update, and Hooray for the Brewers!

Wednesday News: Stelco update, some thoughts about likeable politicians, and "Shove that ballroom up your fat ass!"

Stelco Update
The news of the day was when Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves told CBC's David Cochrane that he had actually bought Hamilton's Stelco Steel two years ago to stop it from competing with his US steel businesses.
Oops!

He's basically daring governments to expropriate at this point.

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— John Michael McGrath (@jm-mcgrath.bsky.social) October 27, 2026 at 4:32 PM

Catching up with the news: Signs of the Apocalypse, Trade War Update, and some World Series comments

Turned out to be a busy weekend, didn't it.

Flavio Bolsonaro has been ordered to surrender his passport. Russia no longer has an ally in Serbia. The Milwaukee Brewers might win the World Series. Maybe the Universe is trying to turn itself rightside up again. BUT there's work to be done. Get some rest. Gnight, little Earth.

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— Spike Page🌋 (@spikepage.wsocial.eu) October 26, 2026 at 10:33 PM

Signs of the Apocalypse - a regular round-up of the crazy stuff happening down south
The closer the Mid-Terms get, the nuttier Trump is getting.
He wrote a 1,300 word post on Sunday about Bill Maher, FFS. 

Now he's furious about Obama calling his White House decor a Cheesecake Factory. 

Way to stick to the point, guy.

Sunday Funday: BC Gloom, US Election Funnies, Interesting Posts, Funny Posts, Getting Old(er), Trumpwatch, and Animal Crackers

BC Doom and Gloom

I guess BC premier David Eby got his wish for a majority government.
Unfortunately, its Conservative.
Basically, I think Eby took his voters for granted, and they punished that disrespect. 

What will happen now? Lots of performative bullshit, I expect, along with some poor economic and social policies, and some cruel and unnecessary conflicts with First Nations.

Dear BC Voters… I know you were angry at the NDP, but voting for the Shoot-BC-in-the-Foot Party is as unforgivably stupid as @davidebybc.bsky.social calling the election in the first place. Enjoy your reduced services, higher instance, and racist, Trump-friendly government, you brainless assholes.

— CrankyCanucksFan 🇨🇦🏒 (@crankycanucksfan.bsky.social) October 24, 2026 at 10:43 PM

Wow, what a map. I took this screenshot at about 11 pm BC time.

 

And with 91% of the vote now in

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— Polling Canada (@canadianpolling.bsky.social) October 24, 2026 at 11:33 PM

Holding the cards

It's beem 18 months since I first saw this great Dave Whamond cartoon.

At that time, when Trump talked about how Canada "didn't have the cards", defying him felt sort of like whistling past the graveyard - we hated him but we didn't know what would happen to us.

But now, Canada is more confident. We know what we're doing, we have a leader who keeps calm and carries on, and we can't be intimidated anymore.

So when I heard Trump say again on Friday that Canada didn't have the cards, I just thought "Wrong!" and changed the channel.

But now that I have listened to it again, it struck me how scared Trump really is.

Trump: "Canada is working very hard to make a deal with us, and I hate to say this, but we have all the cards. We have all the cards, just like I told Zelenskyy, we have all the cards."

- Scott Robertson

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Look who blinked first. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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— Andrew Kurjata (@akurjata.ca) October 23, 2026 at 7:40 PM

TACO indeed:

TACO Tuesday comes early. He's terrified. www.youtube.com/shorts/NDTKa...

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— Cbaboween (@cbab.bsky.social) October 23, 2026 at 11:33 PM

Comments on the passing scene: Staying together, Ending homelessness, Hating Canada because it works, That Notwithstanding clause, Trump rallies, Selling winter

Taking a step back to catch up on some interesting comments and views that have been flying under the radar lately, if my metaphors aren't getting too mixed up. 

We're all in this together

First, cartoonist Graeme MacKay makes a valid point:

Tariffs Don’t Stop at Provincial Borders Ontario has clearly felt the brunt of Trump’s attacks, especially in auto and steel. Alberta has its own legitimate grievances and hasn’t been untouched by tariffs, but it has had the nation’s attention for weeks and remains one of Canada’s wealthiest provinces. Meanwhile, other regions are taking serious economic hits too. So it’s hard to read comments dismissing support for Ontario’s workers as “corporate welfare,” especially when the western oil sector has also benefited from major public support, including subsidies and pipeline deals. We can debate how governments help industries, but let’s apply the same standard everywhere and not leave Ontario’s auto and steel sectors to fend for themselves. This isn’t a regional contest. Alberta’s concerns deserve a hearing, and so do the workers and communities facing the brunt of Trump’s trade war elsewhere. At a time when Canada’s sovereignty and economic security are under pressure, we need less scorekeeping and more solidarity. My rough sketch for the Oct 23 edition of The Hamilton Spectator:

- The Graeme Gallery

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