Friday, April 28, 2017

Friday Post

Just in time for the week-end ...



It's probably because Trudeau is a lying sack of sh -- :

Trudeau’s disapproval (47%) now exceeds his approval (42%), a net favourable score (approve minus disapprove) of -5, which a stark contrast from six months ago when his score was positively in double digits. (10%) say they don’t know whether they approve or disapprove.

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Trudeau’s disapproval (47%) now exceeds his approval (42%), a net favourable score (approve minus disapprove) of -5, which a stark contrast from six months ago when his score was positively in double digits. (10%) say they don’t know whether they approve or disapprove.

(Sidebar: but Liberal voters don't disapprove. Ever.)

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This ouija board made an afterlife call to Justin's dad.


Trump should start taking his election promises seriously.


PM Hair-Boy did:

The — let us say — originality of the Trumpian approach to foreign and trade relations is already well-noted. What is perhaps less appreciated is how deeply contingent Canadian politics and Canadian policy are on America’s. How many of the Trudeau government’s goals and endeavours — from carbon taxes to social policy to pot legislation, from taxation to defence — can withstand a radically divergent approach and substance from the administration to the South?

Trudeau's handlers must have told him what would happen if Trump scrapped NAFTA (as he promised he would).

Selfies can buy only so much electoral good will.




Europeans have rested far too long on the laurels of their past and extolled the virtues of socialism while the rest of the West didn't.

The chickens have come home to roost:

It is one of the ironies of modern international politics that the French, one of the most avaricious, individualistic and imaginative peoples in the world, have been so seduced by a hopeless, inert, desiccated socialism. When Richelieu, otherwise one of the greatest statesmen in European history, imposed an absolute and centralized government in the 17th century, he almost aborted democracy and doomed France to a struggle ever since between an over-mighty state and revolutionary libertarianism.


 
North Korea has test-fired yet another missile:

North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile early on Saturday from a region north of its capital, Pyongyang, Yonhap news agency reported citing South Korea's military.


There were no immediate details about the missile or its flight, Yonhap said.
 


I keep saying this: China not only helped keep North Korea divided, it benefited from it. Its interest in North Korea is as a buffer zone. It will do the bare minimum of calming North Korea's third dynastic dictator before returning to the status quo - one of letting that totalitarian state continue black-mailing the world and threaten its neighbours.

Squeeze China. Hold it accountable for propping up North Korea. That, or leave it alone and watch as North Korea crumbles from within and China, which everyone thinks has such altruistic designs on Korea, riddles starving North Koran refugees with bullets.

Don't think that the Chinese bear their Korean neighbours any affection.

The United States and China offered starkly different strategies Friday for addressing North Korea’s escalating nuclear threat as President Donald Trump’s top diplomat demanded full enforcement of economic sanctions on Pyongyang and urged new penalties. Stepping back from suggestions of U.S. military action, he even offered aid to North Korea if it ends its nuclear weapons program.

The range of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s suggestions, which over a span of 24 hours also included restarting negotiations, reflected America’s failure to halt North Korea’s nuclear advances despite decades of U.S.-led sanctions, military threats and stop-and-go rounds of diplomatic engagement. As the North approaches the capability to hit the U.S. mainland with a nuclear-tipped missile, the Trump administration feels it is running out of time.



Pope Francis readies to celebrate Mass in Cairo where, hopefully, he will call out the plight of Egyptian Christians:

Pope Francis celebrates a Mass in a military stadium on Saturday, the last of a two-day visit to Cairo where he has called for leaders of all faiths to reject religious violence and denounce intolerance.



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