Category: American Politics

The world needs a booming voice from on-high that can look down on pitiful humans such as Donald Trump in America and Vladimir Putin of Russia and tell them they have been found wanting. We will have to start with Donald Trump. He is the miscreant that courts can get their hands on. He has only the American Secret Service to protect him and they cannot protect him from being brought to justice in America. And there are those, in the U.S. and beyond, who think a trial is becoming a pleasant possibility.

Most of the credit for this belief is the hard work of the House of Representatives January 6 Committee. The star of that committee is republican representative Liz Cheney. She will never be elected again in Wyoming but she will certainly be remembered. All she hopes to achieve, she has been quoted as saying, is to ensure that the former president never again gets anywhere near the Oval Office.

While the House committee cannot legally try Mr. Trump, they are laying a trail for the Department of Justice in the U.S. to follow. The Biden Administration Attorney General has given no indication of what he might do about the House investigation. It is likely though that the Department will face considerable pressure—especially with the carefully orchestrated public hearings that are being broadcast on all the major American television channels, except Fox News.

Regrettably, we might miss Trump’s lawyer, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, he will probably be disbarred before any trial of Trump. It was Giuliani who first advised Donald Trump to declare the last presidential election a ‘fraud.’

Across the U.S. lawyers are arguing whether there is a case against Trump or not. Sometimes it might be as simple as which is a democrat and which is a republican. The diehard republicans will carry-on regardless but the honest truth is that there is a case against Trump. The House committee has made that clear.

The committee has followed the trail through seven irrefutable steps and it will be a sad day for American justice if the Department of Justice does not act.

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“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.” Watching that hard-luck hypocrite, the governor of Texas blathering about the events in Uvalde, Texas, I thought of William Shakespeare’s Henry V. The only difference is that Shakespeare understood honour. Honour is what the State of Texas lacks.

And why must American states keep killing their children to prove their fealty to the gun nuts? Must the enemies that they imagine take precedence over their real enemies? And must American President Joe Biden only ask: “Why”?

In a nation reputed to have more guns than citizens, the National Rifle Association (NRA) rules. Is a second civil war in the offing to decide the issue?

And, yes, you can take guns away from the crazies. How difficult can it be when your enemy champions its leader, the liar Donald Trump? Does the liar lead his troops to battle? Or will the followers of Trump continue to be but a rump, sacrificing their innocent children to the gods of war?

Is Biden afraid of angering these fools? Is he but an old rooster scratching and seeking seeds of approval from the hen house? Is Congress so trapped in left and right ideology that no compromise or compassion is possible. Can they not agree, at least, to saving the children?

And cannot Americans live in harmony, with peace between the shades of black and white, white and brown, brown and yellow, yellow and red?

And will the racists continue to rampage? If you kill your brother, it is fratricide, if you kill your mother, it is matricide. And do you know what they call people who kill children? The word is ‘coward.’ Children must be the only ones who don’t shoot back.

But any place where people gather is vulnerable. When they gather in church, synagogue or temple. Who takes a gun there? Or how about going grocery shopping? That is even dangerous in Buffalo, New York. Is no one safe from this butchery?

And one final comment: That despicable governor of Texas can aid and abet murderers with the easiest gun laws in America. America has only the court of public opinion to try that fool.

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Are we so desperate to help Ukraine that we have to ask Donald Trump for help? It seems obvious that the Russian generals have been lying to Vladimir Putin. The only person Putin still trusts is probably his friend Trump. He is the friend of despots around the world.

If Putin figures it out for himself, he is just going to strike out wildly. There is no telling what he might do. The Ukrainians were supposed to welcome the Russian soldiers with flowers for helping to save their country from the dangers of democracy. He might command his army to invade Moldova or even start nuking the Ukrainians. That will teach them to shoot his soldiers. Not that Putin would give much of a damn about the lost soldiers. There are lots more Russians that can be conscripted.

Poor Putin thought his army could conquer Ukraine in about a week. A month later, he is starting to wonder. The difference is that the Ukrainians are fighting to keep their country. The Russian conscripts who do not know why they are invading Ukraine are just so much cannon fodder. And Russian tanks were supposed to be invincible. Russian tanks and trucks run on fuel and as the supply lines lengthen, the lines become easier to cut.

Anyway, with Donald Trump being declared as a special ambassador, extraordinary and plenipotentiary, of course, we can maybe resolve matters. The simplest way is to be sure Trump is in the Kremlin presenting his ambassadorial credentials to Putin—and then nuke the Kremlin.

It is not that we are particularly blood thirsty today but it is not often that you have an opportunity to rid the world of two of its least desirable citizens.

And it would obviously be an excellent present for the Russian people. They hardly deserve the economic sanctions against Putin and his oligarchs but they are the ones suffering. After all, if you cannot buy a Big Mac or a Tim’s coffee in Moscow, what is this world coming to?

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Canadians should be very concerned about talk of a divided America. There is nothing friendly about dividing up a country. The antipathy and rancor exist long after the deed is done. Americans tend to forget, that the American Civil War killed more Americans than any other conflict in which the country has been involved. And to try to divide America along the current red and blue state lines is ridiculous.

There is no north-south division to be made these days. And America would not exist as a bunch of banana republics either. California, New York and Texas could be viable countries by themselves, despite some ongoing ruction between cities and rural areas. While the blue states on the east and west coasts would do nicely, thank you, there is a lot of red state territory in between. In fact, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin would survive the breakup best by asking to join with friendly Canada.

But Canada would hardly benefit immediately from the American states having a falling out. You could kiss the free trade agreement goodbye with the red states. Even with a Trump-type dictatorship, trade agreements would be extremely difficult to arrange.

The long-term benefit to Canada could be in the dramatic migration of population around North America. The stability of Canada would attract an educated flow of immigrants with valuable skills.

The response to a fractured America would also give rise to the aspirations of world trading blocks. The Chinese, for example, would want to strengthen their trade position with South Asia. The Russians would be even less charming as they tried to return to their former dominance of Eastern Europe. The Middle East, Africa and South America would find they now have new friends. And I, for one, can see the Brits begging to get back into the European Union.

No doubt many scholarly tomes will be written about the possibilities of a shattered America. Let us hope it does not happen and we have time left to save our planet.

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If wife Melanie doesn’t poison his late-night cheeseburgers first, Donald Trump is planning his return to the U.S. presidency in 2024. He already has a large chunk of U.S. voters convinced that he was cheated in 2020 and that the Biden presidency is not legal. And republican politicians in red states are preparing the way for his triumphant return.

In a corrupted political system, such as exists in America, it is easy for the Trump lackies to prepare to strew rose petals in his path. They are passing laws, in republican-controlled states, to control who votes and how they will be allowed to vote and whether their votes will be counted. They have gone well beyond gerrymandering. Their motto seems to be “We can steal better.”

It will not necessarily be a stealth campaign. You can expect Trump to be more open in his campaign for a white, racially pure America. (You thought “Make America Great Again” meant something else?)

And the ultimate recourse is violence. Trump showed his followers what could be accomplished last January 6—Trump’s Day of Infamy. And can you imagine the result if they had all brought along their trusty assault rifles?

The red states are once again emboldened to challenge Roe v Wade, the bedrock of liberalized abortion. It is not so much as they all give a damn about the rights of the fetus. They are exercising their right to expect a Trump-appointed Supreme Court to bend to their wishes.

At the same time, Trump has his search and destroy list of untrusted and weak-kneed republicans. He is cleaning house before putting himself before a republican nominating convention. This convention is only for those who make the Trump Pledge of Allegiance.

No, it is not likely that Trump could garner a majority of votes for president but it might not matter. We should never forget that the Nazi party won the last contested vote in the Wiemar Republic (Germany) in 1933 with just less than 45 per cent of the popular votes and winning only a third of the seats in the Reichstag.

And, in case you where not aware, Trump has launched his own Internet showcase and will have all the popular social media singing from his song sheets for 2024. It might be the last open election in America for many years.

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It’s basic bigotry. The other day a U.S. House of Representatives member addressed the House on why some countries fail. Republican Glenn Grothman from Wisconsin was talking about Canada. He said that Canada fails because of its language barriers within the country. It was Representative Grothman’s own version of the Sermon on the Mount. He was decrying the mote in the eye of other countries, while ignoring the beam in the eyes of Americans.

Being from Wisconsin, he might not know that about 40 million Americans have Spanish as their first language. And yet he was saying that this type of diversity is reason for failure.

What he needs to realize is that diversity can be a strength. It is like the multiple languages of Switzerland has helped make it one of the most stable countries in the world. Very conservative, but stable none the less.

And yet it has been people such as Grothman that hold America back. It was watching all those Halloween characters attacking the Capitol building in Washington last January 6, that showed where America had gone wrong. It was not so much as Trump had lead America down a pathway to failure, it was Americans’ who searched out and encouraged that despicable leadership.

It is division not diversity that holds back America. It is black versus white, northerner versus southerner, born-agains versus Catholics, Muslims and Jews, democrat versus republican, gun lover versus gun hater, Americans versus Mexicans, rich versus poor and any other difference is reason for distrust. It makes America difficult to govern, impedes justice, can nullify progress, fills prisons and makes city streets dangerous.

It seems strange that a country with so many heroes, can wallow in its divisions. From Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett to Ronald Regan and Martin Luther King Jr., Americans have built monuments and sung songs about politicians, warriors, parsons, actors, academics, scientists, hoodlums and baseball players. It seems that we all need to spend more time bringing people together instead of driving them apart.

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