OCTOBER CRINGE PIC

 

[READOUT OF MEETING BETWEEN PRESIDENT BIDEN AND UKRAINE PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY, SEPTEMBER 26/2024.] 

 

B: "Hello. Hello! Is this thing on. Let's get cracking, daddy-o, I've got to take a dump. Ready? Is the camera ready?Sunshine? Thumbs up? Okay. Let me see here. [reading] On behalf of the United States I want to welcome you, Voldemort Zelensky to the White House where we will discuss your future. We stand by you and blahblanblah, ecterta, zippy-do-da! Let's cut to the chase: "Why are you such a loser Voldemort? I took you in when no one wanted you, gave you everything you needed. I even  gave you the car keys and the first time you go on a joy ride you crash the thing! Jeeze Louise!"  

 

 Z: “Opa, I thought…”

 

B: “That’s the problem, Voldy, you never think!”

 

Z: “But…”

 

B: “No butts! No more ass-wipes. Christ! I hate them. They wipe me down all the time, these days. Don’t they know I’m President of the United States, the most powerful country the world...in the history of the world!”

 

Z: “Mister President, Opa, why can’t I have more missiles? I….”

 

B: “Gimmie, gimmie never gets, Voldy. You’re as bad as that other one, whats-his-name? Chas? Chuck? Hunter something. Lazy good-for-nothing…. What was I saying?  Oh, yeah. You can’t get everything handed to you on a silver…flat thing--a tray I mean. Tray! You need to earn it, Voldemort.”

 

Z: “It's Volodymyr, Mister President. But, I try, Opa, every day, but that Putin, he.…”

 

B: “Don’t ‘Putin’ me! Speakie Englisie, Voldymutt. You’re in the USA now, the most powerful country in the world, in the history of the world! I'm tired and I need a crap. Listen up, fats: When I agreed to take you on, I had my reservations, and not at my favourite restaurant, either! Ha-ha! But, enough laughs. Funny-boy, you need to listen for a change.”

 

Z: “I will, sir. I am listening and I will listen, but if you could just…”

 

B: “Butbutbut! You haven’t heard a thing I say, have you? An…and those damn flowers! Yellow and blue. Where do they get them from? Every time you drop by there's always those damn flowers. Did you bring them? They don’t even smell [sniffing flowers] huh.”

 

Z: “No, Opa. They were here already. I did not bring them.”

 

B: "So, listen. Listen, while I read this card: No more missiles until you clean up your act and get something done, and before the elections. Otherwise, it’s sayonara, as the Japs say.” Look, I gotta go. There's a new intern I want to take a gander at.

 

Z: “I will try, Opa, Mister President, sir.”

 

B: “Well, try harder, Moldymort! Get the job done! Zippity-do-dah-day. [President Biden stands.] I'm outta here! Hey, you, Cornpop! Where’s my ice cream? Chop-chop!”

[END OF TRANSCRIPT]

 

QUOTES: SERGEY LAVROV

 

"A second opinion never hurts, not only in medicine, but also in politics."

 

—Sergey Lavrov (Russian Federation Foreign Minister)

RANT: CRITIC SILENCED IN PARLIAMENT

 

JUST A SHORT NOTE to fulfill my CanCon obligations: Last week, during Question Period, Green Party leader Elizabeth May had her mike turned off as she criticized Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu for the widening conflict in the Middle East: “…[a]nd we know who the enemy of peace is—unfortunately—he has a name; his name is Benjamin Netanyahu and he has put his political career and…”

And at that point she was drowned out by catcalls and applause from a majority of parliamentarians. House Speaker Greg Fergus (who’s a bit of a cuck) stood and called for order and began to speak to May when a parliamentary staffer caught his attention and spoke privately with him for a few moments. [I’d be interested to know what was said between Fergus and the staffer in their brief confab. Ed.] The Speaker then allowed May to continue* for the “ten seconds” she had left on the clock. May continued her criticism of Netanyahu for not seeking a ceasefire, and for allowing “his ego and personal political career to come ahead of rescuing Israeli hostages” and she goes on to state that he does not “care about innocent civilians whether in Gaza….” at which point derisive applause and catcalls again drowned her words as her mike was cut off, and her time was up.

It seems that to criticize Israel or its PM, is something most politicians are afraid to do lest they be accused of being anti-Semitic by the Israeli lobbies. Trudeau responded to May’s question with the usual talking points: “The violence in the Middle East needs to stop” (Duh! But who’s committing most of the violence?) He said the hostages need to be released and Hamas must lay down its arms,  adding, “we need a ceasefire” (Then perhaps he should call on Israel  to stop the killing).

 

HE CONCLUDES with the pro forma aspirational: “We need to get back on the path to a two-state solution” and fails to criticize Netanyahu, nor call-out Israel’s ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the West Bank which the International Court of Justice calls a genocide.

May and the Green Party have been critical of Israel in the past, perhaps more so than other parties, but this tepid to-and-fro between her and Trudeau is typical of what most Western politicians engage in, with automatic support for Israel their default positions. AND MY BASIC BUGABOO here is censorship and the muzzling of dissent in parliament and in Canadian society in general. When politicians are silenced and shamed for speaking their minds, we should all be worried. [More on this in future posts. Ed.]  

IF, MONTHS AGO,  Israel had agreed to a ceasefire, taken its troops out of Gaza, exchanged prisoners, and allowed relief aid and reconstruction to begin in the all-but-destroyed Palestinian enclave, then Hezbollah (and the Houthis of Yemen) would have ceased their missile and drone attacks. There would have been peace in the region, at least for now, and room for diplomatic solutions to this shameful, decades-long  injustice. Instead, Israel chose a darker path, and we have yet to see where all this will take us.

 

Cheers. Jake.

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* And as often happens in Question Period, which is when opposition parliamentarians get to question the government, May never gets around to asking her question before he time allotment was used up. Most questions in Question Period are more like political speeches critiquing government policy, with a question mark added in somewhere.