“Dave! Where are all the political rants……???”

Well, of course, I am practically bursting with bile over Trump and ‘Merica…..(who isn’t?) and, to be honest, I get similar feelings about Danielle Smith and Maple Maga (who doesn’t) but…….the ‘same ol’, same ol’ factor eventually kicks in, ya know? It isn’t that each new outrage by another idiot-in-power’ doesn’t deserve a vitriolic rebuke but, well, what is the point of saying the same ol’ stuff over the same ol’ evil? Every day? One gets to a point….ya know? I mean…it is not like Smith or Trump ever call me and say, “Hey, Dave, how’m I doing?” My rants mean nothing to anyone.

So, I will spare you 90% of what you are likely already hearing from a number of other places.

But here’s one that you might not have heard: I used to listen to all the ‘talking heads’ that spewed out much the same old ‘outrage’ stuff but, after awhile, I got to thinking: “These peeps are just making money ranting about anything Trumpian. They’re ‘MONETIZING TRUMP!!” ‘Mericans can monetize anything! Unbelievable!! David Packman (who is good, does his research, has sources, breaks the odd bit of news) can hardly express a full paragraph without taking out time to shill his book, promote his merch or beg for a like and a sub. Brian Tyler Cohen, too. Parkrose just whines. Most of the TRUMP ‘critic’s’ have made it into a business!!

I don’t like that. In fact, I do not even like Charlie Angus doing it in a very mild and Canadian way (by joining the Meidas Network). Being anti-Trump should NOT make money!

I might have to take down my own books on this page.

Anyway, Trump has destroyed so much of so much but, to be fair, he created a lot of ‘talkin’ heads’ jobs based on hating him. He kinda resurrected the flagging main stream media that was losing it’s audience to social media. They made money selling train wreckage every day! In fact, Trump might also have just given CANADA a shot-in-the-economic-arm in general (not in the short term, tho). Ninety percent of us here hate him, too. We all feel more Canadian, to be sure. I won’t buy American or travel there or even stop there in a lay-over anymore (and neither will a lot of Canucks).

But it is not all a negative knee-jerk patriotic lesson. We also discovered Chapman’s ice cream because of that Orange bastard and the Canadian backlash. Who knew Canada made better ice cream and less expensively? We’ve discovered a few things like that. We actually might get Swedish made-in-Canada Gripen fighter jets that, by all accounts that I have read, are way better for Canada than the ‘Merican F-35’s. Cheaper, too. And Carney has been flyin’ around making new deals with new trading partners all over the world since he got in. Given that we have been petty-cheated by the USA for decades, it feels good to at least try another route. Put another way, I’d prefer to be cheated by the Swedes than the ‘Mericans right now.

I have to say that more than half of all the average ‘Mericans hate Trump as much as I do and so when I say ‘anti-American’, I really mean: anti-current-‘Merican government with extra venom for the administration, ICE and Border Control. I am not so keen on all the MAGA freaks either. Despise Lutnick. But it ain’t the peeps so much as it is the ‘Merican way of seeing the world. Money, money, money. Sell, sell, sell. Corruption and greed lie at the heart of the ‘Merican way. It’s disgusting. It really is.

But no one wants to read a rant against greed.

So, I am curtailing my Trumpian hate-rants until the ‘Merican midterms at least. If ‘Mericans clean their house of the GOP infestation and then disinfect it and burn out the nest of vermin and vipers, then I will still NOT visit or buy anything ‘Merican but I will stand off and watch how it all turns out without screaming and ranting. Not too much anyway.

Mind you, if the vipers and vermin stay strong, I will likely stand off and watch that, too, so nothing changes really. But I will do a lot more screaming and ranting.