Wow! Where to begin? I do think that they will share the tolls. I do think that Iran has the ‘moral’ high ground here. They declared that as a demand, the US be required to pay for all damage.
This is an illegal war. Trump neither declared war to Iran, nor did he seek support from your government. He just ordered the troops in.
It galls me when he speaks of the effrontery exhibited by Iran in closing the Strait. He has now blockaded it. He has also blockaded oil from reaching Cuba. No potable water, no electricity, no hospitals, food rotting due to lack of refrigeration, raw sewage covering the streets. He has stolen the Venezuelan oil. Motive? Money. He doesn’t care about anything else.
He doesn’t care about the US. He hates it. He always has.
Why Iran? Because he could. He stated from the get he aspired to be a war time president. This was his war. I think it excited him every time he received a report of the devastation his bombs had wrought. He is amoral, immoral, and a coward.
There is nothing to celebrate once he has passed by. In Canada we are fully expecting him to invade our north so he can retrieve the rare earth and minerals to be had there. He will want access to the North West Passage as do China and Russia. It’s going to get nasty.
You must have seen the crude illustration he posted - Trump as Christ. Then, after the negative furor he claims he thought it depicted him as a doctor working alongside a Red Cross worker. Honestly, if he thinks that those figures resemble medical staff, he actually needs to go for a check up. I’m glad he can identify a hippopotamus on a cognitive test, but he doesn’t see a nurse?
You are so deep thinking. I’m sorry to be so lacking in my notion of what he has done and what motivated him. But this is my bottom line. He is lurching through life trampling without a moment’s hesitation on anything he could easily step over or go around. This world is his to use for momentary satisfaction. Punch a little girl in the face, abuse as yet uncounted women and young girls and boys, attack an unpopular country in tandem with Netanyahu, kidnap the leader of another country and his wife, throw paper towels into hungry, thirsty, terrified people - his people- after a hurricane had reduced their country to ruin. And, blockade another country denying it drinking water, electricity and sanitation.
He has chosen the most inept citizens to surround him and fired them when they just aren’t foolish enough to improve his strongman image. Advisors are generally staff that can offer useful information not total boors.
He is just a cad. Not bright. And despite his advanced age, he is grasping at money. Money from any source and at any cost.
Of course he will exact payment from the proposed tolls. But it won’t go into American coffers. What the heck does he want with all of this cash? He can’t eat it, or wear it, or carpet a golf course with it. He just wants it. That is his motivation…money.
He wants his name on US currency. Why? I think he knows that Mark Carney’s name appears on Canadian bills. He was our Treasurer! Someone needed to sign those bills. It’s always our Treasurer.
He is despicable. Bloated and gloating in the ruins of the White House. Jealous of anyone admired by the people he rules. Don’t let him go near The Kennedy Centre. He has lumbered and lurched his way across this planet leaving only devastation behind.
Furthermore - I just don’t like him.
I truly admired your summation. I am simply not a deep thinker. I become irrational when I need to think of that creep for longer than two minutes.
Thank you for your very thoughtful reply. I couldn’t agree more. Except perhaps only the IRGC having any sort of moral high ground. I’m not sure there’s a context I could conceive of to place those monsters up there.
I’d perhaps propose a compromise that they are two abjectly immoral parties occupying the deepest possible immoral ditch and we’ll all be lucky if they don’t drag the rest of us down with them. Otherwise I’d say you’ve hit all of the important nails squarely on the head.
PS - You are a wonderful writer and I hope you will write some commentary of your own on Substack. I’m certain a great many people would enjoy it.
PPS - I realize this may not count for much right now, but I would be remiss not to say it every chance I get: some 93% of Americans still love Canada very much and we still see you all as our closest ally alongside Britain and we are all deeply ashamed of our President’s conduct toward you. Even the ones who support his madness or find it amusing cannot abide that. It simply isn’t who we are or how we see you. We’re very grateful indeed and lucky to have you as our neighbors. Hopefully time can heal those wounds.
In any event, thank you again for reading and engaging with it. I hope you have a wonderful and peaceful evening.
Your reply could not have reached me at a better time. After I had sent my response to you, someone forwarded a video of Tucker Carlson to me. I sat agape. I’ve not heard so many inaccurate observations spewed out before. Bang. Bang. Bang. It was demoralizing, and perhaps even worse were the subsequent threats and the angry hatred espoused by his audience in their retorts. Then I happened upon your reply to my note. Thank you. Thank you so very much.
You are so correct. Re the ‘moral high ground’. And yes. It is a convergence of immorality. This political arena is new for me. I hoe you won’t mind if I add you to my roster of must read writers. I love the vocabulary of those I follow : From the Writer’s Cabin (Jeff Newton), Kathy, Defiance til Death (Robert Arnold) and now I have added you. I will still look for Penny the talking cat, and Nate the Cat Lady because they just delight me. But, you are the writers I will sit down armed with a cuppa to turn my brain on. Thank you for being so kind last night. Debbie. ♥️Still Canadian♥️
I’m honored. And a great admirer too of Ms. Gannon’s work - all throughout her career. Just discovered the writers cabin too! So much great stuff on Substack these days. Makes me wonder why I bother with the newspapers anymore. They fired all their journalists and the ones who they keep are seemingly leaving to come here of their own accord! Can’t say I blame them either.
In any event, thank you again for the kind words and the graciousness. Never a particular surprise coming from a Canadian, but it’s appreciated all the same :)
Wow! Where to begin? I do think that they will share the tolls. I do think that Iran has the ‘moral’ high ground here. They declared that as a demand, the US be required to pay for all damage.
This is an illegal war. Trump neither declared war to Iran, nor did he seek support from your government. He just ordered the troops in.
It galls me when he speaks of the effrontery exhibited by Iran in closing the Strait. He has now blockaded it. He has also blockaded oil from reaching Cuba. No potable water, no electricity, no hospitals, food rotting due to lack of refrigeration, raw sewage covering the streets. He has stolen the Venezuelan oil. Motive? Money. He doesn’t care about anything else.
He doesn’t care about the US. He hates it. He always has.
Why Iran? Because he could. He stated from the get he aspired to be a war time president. This was his war. I think it excited him every time he received a report of the devastation his bombs had wrought. He is amoral, immoral, and a coward.
There is nothing to celebrate once he has passed by. In Canada we are fully expecting him to invade our north so he can retrieve the rare earth and minerals to be had there. He will want access to the North West Passage as do China and Russia. It’s going to get nasty.
You must have seen the crude illustration he posted - Trump as Christ. Then, after the negative furor he claims he thought it depicted him as a doctor working alongside a Red Cross worker. Honestly, if he thinks that those figures resemble medical staff, he actually needs to go for a check up. I’m glad he can identify a hippopotamus on a cognitive test, but he doesn’t see a nurse?
You are so deep thinking. I’m sorry to be so lacking in my notion of what he has done and what motivated him. But this is my bottom line. He is lurching through life trampling without a moment’s hesitation on anything he could easily step over or go around. This world is his to use for momentary satisfaction. Punch a little girl in the face, abuse as yet uncounted women and young girls and boys, attack an unpopular country in tandem with Netanyahu, kidnap the leader of another country and his wife, throw paper towels into hungry, thirsty, terrified people - his people- after a hurricane had reduced their country to ruin. And, blockade another country denying it drinking water, electricity and sanitation.
He has chosen the most inept citizens to surround him and fired them when they just aren’t foolish enough to improve his strongman image. Advisors are generally staff that can offer useful information not total boors.
He is just a cad. Not bright. And despite his advanced age, he is grasping at money. Money from any source and at any cost.
Of course he will exact payment from the proposed tolls. But it won’t go into American coffers. What the heck does he want with all of this cash? He can’t eat it, or wear it, or carpet a golf course with it. He just wants it. That is his motivation…money.
He wants his name on US currency. Why? I think he knows that Mark Carney’s name appears on Canadian bills. He was our Treasurer! Someone needed to sign those bills. It’s always our Treasurer.
He is despicable. Bloated and gloating in the ruins of the White House. Jealous of anyone admired by the people he rules. Don’t let him go near The Kennedy Centre. He has lumbered and lurched his way across this planet leaving only devastation behind.
Furthermore - I just don’t like him.
I truly admired your summation. I am simply not a deep thinker. I become irrational when I need to think of that creep for longer than two minutes.
Thank you for your very thoughtful reply. I couldn’t agree more. Except perhaps only the IRGC having any sort of moral high ground. I’m not sure there’s a context I could conceive of to place those monsters up there.
I’d perhaps propose a compromise that they are two abjectly immoral parties occupying the deepest possible immoral ditch and we’ll all be lucky if they don’t drag the rest of us down with them. Otherwise I’d say you’ve hit all of the important nails squarely on the head.
PS - You are a wonderful writer and I hope you will write some commentary of your own on Substack. I’m certain a great many people would enjoy it.
PPS - I realize this may not count for much right now, but I would be remiss not to say it every chance I get: some 93% of Americans still love Canada very much and we still see you all as our closest ally alongside Britain and we are all deeply ashamed of our President’s conduct toward you. Even the ones who support his madness or find it amusing cannot abide that. It simply isn’t who we are or how we see you. We’re very grateful indeed and lucky to have you as our neighbors. Hopefully time can heal those wounds.
In any event, thank you again for reading and engaging with it. I hope you have a wonderful and peaceful evening.
Your reply could not have reached me at a better time. After I had sent my response to you, someone forwarded a video of Tucker Carlson to me. I sat agape. I’ve not heard so many inaccurate observations spewed out before. Bang. Bang. Bang. It was demoralizing, and perhaps even worse were the subsequent threats and the angry hatred espoused by his audience in their retorts. Then I happened upon your reply to my note. Thank you. Thank you so very much.
You are so correct. Re the ‘moral high ground’. And yes. It is a convergence of immorality. This political arena is new for me. I hoe you won’t mind if I add you to my roster of must read writers. I love the vocabulary of those I follow : From the Writer’s Cabin (Jeff Newton), Kathy, Defiance til Death (Robert Arnold) and now I have added you. I will still look for Penny the talking cat, and Nate the Cat Lady because they just delight me. But, you are the writers I will sit down armed with a cuppa to turn my brain on. Thank you for being so kind last night. Debbie. ♥️Still Canadian♥️
I’m honored. And a great admirer too of Ms. Gannon’s work - all throughout her career. Just discovered the writers cabin too! So much great stuff on Substack these days. Makes me wonder why I bother with the newspapers anymore. They fired all their journalists and the ones who they keep are seemingly leaving to come here of their own accord! Can’t say I blame them either.
In any event, thank you again for the kind words and the graciousness. Never a particular surprise coming from a Canadian, but it’s appreciated all the same :)
This piece has really stuck in my head. Thanks
Thank you, sir. I appreciate you reading and joining me on the thought exercise.
Losers whine and whiners lose.
Often true.