Excited Delirium

O Cannabis!
You caved to our demands!
We wanted pot – without the reprimand.
We’re growing buds; our bloodshot eyes,

The True North sells us weed!
From far and wide,
O Cannabis, we stand on guard for Tweed.
O Cannabis, now it’s called Canopy.
O Cannabis, we stand on guard for Tweed.
O Cannabis, now it’s called Canopy.

Seriously folks … remember that cannabis is legal today, but don’t do anything stupid, please. It’s still a controlled substance and it’s still illegal to be under the influence (in most cases) when driving, working and more.

Be responsible, OK?

The most important legal decision in the last 50 years is going to be made in the United States this week.

Brett Kavanaugh may be appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States.

This is a life-time position.

We all know this though … we’ve been glued to whatever media format watching the testimony of Dr. Christine Blaset Ford.

This has been very difficult to watch for so many reasons.

All I can beg is … #BelieveHer.

Decisions made by the emotional and erratic and certainly partial defendant and candidate Brett Kavanaugh will affect multiple generations of women in the United States and may help spur misogynistic responses across the globe.

It will empower an attack on women everywhere.

Dr. Christine Ford has risked everything – her job, her family, friends and maybe even her career – so that she could bravely present a situation and expose the attitude of this candidate and how he is unfit to shape the legal destiny of the planet.

Please, #BelieveHer.

#BelieveALLOfThem.

Let’s be clear about this: we all know Donald Trump really knows nothing about Canada’s dairy board program.

Also, this small slice of economic activity is worth about $2-$3 billion dollars per year compared to the nearly $600 BILLION PER YEAR in trade between the two countries.

More than 70%of American states have ‘Canada’ as their first trading partner.

So why does dairy matter and why would the President of the US risk destroying this deal?

Oil.

Let’s face it: things haven’t gone well for the Liberals since they bought out the Kinder-Morgan pipeline.

But that’s precisely the way Stephen Harper wanted things to evolve.

He’s playing the long game. The Trudeau Liberals are still reacting.

We know that Harper has been in discussions with Trump and his economic team and we know that Harper has a history of despising the various control boards in Canada, to the point where he was 100% ok with selling off the Wheat Board to a Saudi Arabian investor as opposed to keeping control in Canada.

Last fall, he accused the Liberal government of ‘napping on NAFTA’, giving the Trump regime all the ammunition they need to come out on top with negotiations on NAFTA.

But why?

I had an epiphany the other day and it all comes back to the simple idea that Stephen Harper was defeated in the last election but he hasn’t conceded and thinks he’s still in charge.

In fact, I believe he’s trying to lay the groundwork for a Conservative victory in 2019.

On a broad level, the failure to close a deal with the US will surely shake the confidence of the Liberal party and break the support that their base might have.

But IF the Liberals are able to manage their way through the mines laid by Stephen Harper as they advance towards the NAFTA finish line, the deal breaker will be the control boards, which we all know, Stephen Harper loathes.

If the Liberals give in on the pressure to remove or reduce the influence of the dairy board, they will surely lose any support they might have gained in the last election in RURAL ridings.

There are easily enough rural ridings to tip the scales in the federal election. In the previous election, the Liberals won roughly 1/3rd of all rural ridings. Numbers vary in terms of estimating the actual number of rural ridings, but this could translate to as many as 40 to 50 seats.

In 2015, it may not have been enough to rattle the cages of the Trudeau, Part II, but it could be devastating to the party in 2019 as they scramble to recover from their failure to secure a deal OR failure to act on behalf of Canadian farmers and dairy producers.

Either way, Harper has set things up so the Trudeau government will be f*cked in the 2019 election.

Again, why?

I don’t think it has anything to do with NAFTA, but I do believe it has everything to do with returning Canadian policy to an ‘oil friendly political landscape’.

Again, it’s all about the oil.

I can’t imagine being so obsessed with something so much that you’d sell out your own country.

There is no such thing in Canada.

The term ‘Progressive’ when applied to Conservatives is an oxymoron. Unless you’re trying to suggest that they’re trying to progress towards being even more Conservative.

Whether it’s Doug Ford ramming his chubby fist down the throat of democracy and threatening qualified judges or Andrew Scheer siding with Ford and jumping on the anti-Constitution bandwagon, the term ‘progressive’ is NOT applicable to these people.

So WHY does the media insist on using the phrase ‘Progressive Conservatives’ when talking about Canada’s alt-right, which is, let’s face it, what these people really represent.

Recent happenings in Ontario disgust me and I hear on the radio how Ford is just doing what he promised and how he’s reducing government.

No. He’s killing democracy.

First Toronto, then the rest of Ontario.

Stand aside and he’ll come after you next.

The Capitol of the United States is on fire with gossip and speculation about who wrote ‘the letter’ to the New York Times this week.

My prediction: no one (important) did it.

In fact, I’d go so far as to suggest the whole thing has been conveniently staged in time to massively discredit the New York Times and similar media institutions.

Why?

To shame them as the US enters the mid-term election season.

There’s no better way to win a race than to shape the discussion on your own terms.

MORE FAKE NEWS!!! (Declares Trumbo from the shitter)

If the audience and peripheral potential audience of voters are even modestly doubtful about the credibility of mainstream media, Trump’s version of the story will win out.

It’s been their strategy from day one: discredit the media.

It worked in 2016 and it continues to work.

And when they lift the lid on this piece, it’ll crush mainstream media and shame them into nothingness, giving Trump and all Republicans carte blanche to say, do and act on what they want.

It’s a well crafted manipulation designed to give Trump the upper hand.

The trap was set, the New York Times jumped in with both feet and they’ll be ruined for it.

Just like the early days of the Hitler regime, the media and – more importantly, TRUTH – will be the first casualty in a long series of battles designed to win the war against humanity for a handful of old, privileged white men.