I get the feeling somebody decided to take the Freddy Hayek thing about animal instincts out to the logical extreme - where there's no need for honor or ethics, because it's just totally amoral - nothing matters but getting what you want.
You are nine kinds of fucked up right now, America.
Normally, I'd say make your best case, let's see how it pans out, and then we can work on the reconciliation and cooperation.
Not this time.
The richest people on the planet who have have been funding the project are bent on tearing down the small-d democratic way of doing things in order to replace it with a corporate plutocracy.
This is not a game. There's no reasonable expectation of sportsmanship. And we don't owe these MAGA chuds anything. The organizations pushing so hard to completely dismantle our government have to be stomped on until there's nothing left but a big greasy spot on the rug.
The default is to have a little grace. Treat people with some respect. But paraphrasing Dalton from Roadhouse, "Be nice - until it's time to not be nice."
Doug Ford is said to have aired this in some US markets, and it apparently put a knot in Trump's Underoos, so of course, he threw one of his little tantrums and cut off all trade talks with the Canadians.
Trump's knee jerk tweet:
The message in the ad was indeed edited, but the editing didn't change the gist of Reagan's remarks.
Trade barriers always end up being bad for everybody - especially when they're imposed with no real thought by a petty vindictive numbskull like Trump.
When you say stupid, hateful, truly misogynistic things about a woman in a position of some power, she doesn't hear you. But your sister does - your wife does - your aunts and nieces do - your daughter does.
We don't always model the kind of exemplary behavior we want our kids to emulate. Lord knows I haven't. There have been many mistakes, and many regrets for not doing and being better.
Of course, we can't always be at our best when it comes to doing anything, let alone when we're trying to raise kids to be good and decent people, and it's all we can do just to get them through homework, and supper, and bath time, and bedtime one more night without murdering the little darlings.
But we can try. We can maybe hold back a little on our oh-so-clever, sharp-as-a-razor rhetorical wit, and remember 'little pitchers have big ears'. We can make some small effort to be more aware of the example we're setting.
