Sunday, February 16, 2025

Weekend funny stuff: The ridiculous weather: Our ridiculous politics; and Animal Crackers

Our weather here on the Prairies has been generally awful this winter -- cold cold and more cold, week after week since November.
Well, its going to be a little more springlike next week, apparently.


Next up -- politics!
It sounds like our premiers just made themselves look ridiculous in their much-publicized visit to Washington:
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Roundup: Paying $85,000 for the privilege of being humiliated
As if that “big” meeting the premiers had with those mid-level White House officials who ended up trolling and humiliating them couldn’t get any worse, well, it did. It turns out, they paid a lobbyist connected with Don Jr. $85,000 to arrange said meeting, where they didn’t get properly briefed, and froze out the Canadian ambassador (who had a meeting in the White House with actual senior officials earlier that day) ...
I’m not sure that I can stress this enough—premiers have absolutely no business trying to conduct foreign negotiations. The federal government not only has been handling the situation, but they have told the premiers not to constantly react to everything coming from the Trump administration because it’s chaotic and incoherent, and then they went and tried to get their own meetings? ...
I’m also going to point a finger at the media for emboldening these premiers because they keep saying things like “there’s a vacuum of leadership” at the federal level and so on, which is not the case. Trudeau is still on the job, even if he’s on his way out. Ministers are still doing their jobs. We have an ambassador in Washington doing her job. They have explicitly told the media that they are not going to react to everything for very good reason. There is no actual need for the premiers to step in and start freelancing. Doug Ford’s “Captain Canada” shtick was him positioning himself before an election, and thanks to uncritical media coverage, waaaaaaaay too many people fell for it. But the media needs people to light their hair on fire at every utterance, and the premiers have been only too happy to step in and fill that role...
And isn't this the truth:
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Finally, some Animal crackers:
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And  I've been waiting for a chance to share this one:





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Danneau said...

Thanks. A little levity is not out of place under current circumstances.

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