i got my forms from the court house today, free of charge.
i'll have to make some calls in the morning. except...
...there's something very wrong going on with my gmail right now. i can't call out, and i'm getting a network error when i try to log in. are the cops trying to shut my phone down, or what?
it seems childish, frankly. but, i know i'm not dealing with the best or the brightest, here.
anyways. i tracked the initial issue down to something to do with my sound card, and was able to fix it by creating a new firefox profile. further, i can get into gmail using a deprecated browser, so this may be easier to fix than i think.
but, i've been through these kinds of things before - shadow bans on youtube, for example. somebody clearly wants to shut me down, and i don't know the exact reason why...
Thursday, March 28, 2019
it's not just what trudeau said, it was the reaction by the party elite.
the best word to use is deplorable.
the best word to use is deplorable.
at
19:28
again: the overwhelmingly bourgeois nature of this government is on full display.
it's like that meme with the republicans laughing, "and then we told you it would trickle down.". but, what it really is is tory - this is the liberal party actually becoming the progressive conservative party, it is justin trudeau turning into brian mulroney.
liberals don't win elections because people really believe in them to the absolute core, they win elections because there's a careful calculation by the masses that, as bad as they may be, they're not as bad as the conservatives.
it's becoming harder and harder to make that argument.
i've been uncomfortable for some time about the government falling on a corruption scandal. but, a caucus revolt on the basis of the leader being far too bourgeois would be welcome.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2019/03/28/justin-trudeau-made-a-smug-remark-to-a-protester-its-hard-to-recover-from-that.html
it's like that meme with the republicans laughing, "and then we told you it would trickle down.". but, what it really is is tory - this is the liberal party actually becoming the progressive conservative party, it is justin trudeau turning into brian mulroney.
liberals don't win elections because people really believe in them to the absolute core, they win elections because there's a careful calculation by the masses that, as bad as they may be, they're not as bad as the conservatives.
it's becoming harder and harder to make that argument.
i've been uncomfortable for some time about the government falling on a corruption scandal. but, a caucus revolt on the basis of the leader being far too bourgeois would be welcome.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2019/03/28/justin-trudeau-made-a-smug-remark-to-a-protester-its-hard-to-recover-from-that.html
at
19:26
i am not a politician, i don't care much about public opinion and i have no interest in running for office.
at
08:45
this is horribly wasteful and unnecessary and should be outright banned.
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/travel-porter-airlines-now-offers-flights-from-toronto-to-muskoka-cottage-country-summer-billy-bishop
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/travel-porter-airlines-now-offers-flights-from-toronto-to-muskoka-cottage-country-summer-billy-bishop
at
08:23
a few words about the russia report...
i actually really don't know the details, as i interpreted the thing as a distraction from the start and haven't bothered with it. and, it's not even the kind of drama i'd be interested in following for the fun of it; frankly, i find the whole thing terribly boring.
but, it must follow that i couldn't possibly think the findings of the commission are meaningful, given that i don't think the commission itself was genuine; if they had found him guilty, i wouldn't have taken it very seriously, either.
i was actually expecting a finding of guilt, given that my analysis of the situation is that it was intended as a cover-up. i have been pointing out since mid-2016 that i think that the american deep state stole the election for trump, but that it was less about being pro-trump and more about being anti-clinton. so, i immediately wrote off the russia thing as a way to cover that up. it made sense to me that the next step would be to remove trump and put pence in.
it might be that my entire analysis was wrong - although it sure looks predictive, in hindsight. why didn't they find him guilty, then? well, they may have changed their minds. they may have decided that trump is actually a useful puppet. they may be anxious about the democratic field. they may have questions about the electability of mike pence. they may have just punted until after the election. i don't know. and, it may become obvious over time, or it may be obscured forever.
i am surprised by the results of the report, though - not because i think there was actually collusion, but because the purpose of the investigation was clearly to take him down.
i actually really don't know the details, as i interpreted the thing as a distraction from the start and haven't bothered with it. and, it's not even the kind of drama i'd be interested in following for the fun of it; frankly, i find the whole thing terribly boring.
but, it must follow that i couldn't possibly think the findings of the commission are meaningful, given that i don't think the commission itself was genuine; if they had found him guilty, i wouldn't have taken it very seriously, either.
i was actually expecting a finding of guilt, given that my analysis of the situation is that it was intended as a cover-up. i have been pointing out since mid-2016 that i think that the american deep state stole the election for trump, but that it was less about being pro-trump and more about being anti-clinton. so, i immediately wrote off the russia thing as a way to cover that up. it made sense to me that the next step would be to remove trump and put pence in.
it might be that my entire analysis was wrong - although it sure looks predictive, in hindsight. why didn't they find him guilty, then? well, they may have changed their minds. they may have decided that trump is actually a useful puppet. they may be anxious about the democratic field. they may have questions about the electability of mike pence. they may have just punted until after the election. i don't know. and, it may become obvious over time, or it may be obscured forever.
i am surprised by the results of the report, though - not because i think there was actually collusion, but because the purpose of the investigation was clearly to take him down.
at
07:00
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