Allow me to revel in this, the official post election gloating period.
To add something I only just realized while I was making lunch :
The best thing about this election is that in order for the Conservatives to have any power whatsoever, they will have to work with the Liberals and compromise.
And we all know they are way too emotionally immature for that. Toddlers that they are, they will demand to have everything their way or they’ll pitch a fit.
Well go ahead. Pitch a fit. Hell, slap that shit onto pay-per-view. I’d pay good money to watch you little burnt butt bitches wail because you’re not getting everything you want.
Carney knows that Jagmeet Singh will be a whole lot more reasonable.
So thanks, Dumb Donnie. By threatening Canada, you insured that Canada will have a thoroughly left wing government for the foreseeable future.
Go ahead, keeping talking that “51st state” crap.
We’ll be a socialist democracy by Christmas.
On the CBC they said people were saying that Carney has “big daddy energy” and they are not wrong.
He seems like exactly the sort of serious, stable, no-nonsense, principled guy I want to be dealing with that tempestuous toddler Trump.
I’m betting he knows that the only way to deal with brats is to tackle them firmly and not let up until they behave. Make it clear that this is not an argument or a negotiation, no matter what they say or do. The only way out is to do what you want them to do.
Be as solid and unyielding as a mountainside.
But the moment they behave, be as warm as a sunbeam. Make the difference between you when they misbehave and you when they behave as stark and plain as possible.
You’d be surprised at how well behaved your little hellion can be when that’s the only way they can get the sun to come out.
And Canada has an advantage in that kind of situation because we don’t actually wish the USA any harm. Even though we’re pretty upset with their government right now, we definitely don’t blame the American people for what it’s doing and saying.
So we can take the “this is for your own good” position with a clear conscience.
One fear I have is that the one thing the Liberals and the Conservatives will be able to agree on is “fuck the NDP” and so Jagmeet Singh won’t matter at all.
I hope that won’t prove to be the case. And I have faith that the basic babyishness of the current crop of so called Conservatives will keep that from happening.
But as a hardcore leftist, I will wait and see how the Carney government actually acts. If they turn out to be a bunch of cowardly corporate centrists uninterested in making any serious changes to the status quo, I will be deeply disappointed.
And pretty pissed off.
And the worst part is that they’ll still be able to say, “Well, we’re better than the alternative, right?” and they’ll be right because that is how god damn low the bar set bu the Conservatives has gotten.
As long as you are a marginally competent adult who can regulate their own emotions and resist the urge to soil yourself, you are light years ahead of them.
And that leads to very, very underwhelming liberals like Chuck Schumer. The entire boomer “old guard” of Democrats are proving to be entirely unable to meet the challenge of our times.
Except for Bernie, of course. He’s been training for his whole life for this!
Time to clear out the DINO-saurs.
More after the break.
Meanwhile, back at me
I am doing OK.
But there are things that are beginning to worry me.
For example, I have this rash on the outside of both upper legs. On my hips, more or less, and just below them.
It’s quite extensive and looks pretty bad. I thought it was just wounds from the jagged metal spikes that jut up from the surface of my bed (and you know they’re real because I’m not a fakir) but then I realized they are a) evenly spaced b) itchy and c) on both sides, though more on the left than the right, and that suggested it was a rash.
From what or where, I dunno.
And it’s been there for more than a month, with me, and my childlike attitude towards life. ignoring them because they don’t hurt and they don’t get in the way of my life and so to my dumb numb self they aren’t a problem.
But um, I should probably get that looked at.
Skin anomalies of all kinds are a red flag in diabetes.
Also, I have started to worry about just how much “clicking” my joints do. The number of times a day I have to jerk-flex a joint that’s gone stiff so it will go click and loosen up again seems to be getting higher.
And it’s affecting more joints, too.
It makes me feel like I’m the Tin Man and my joints keep rusting in place so that I have to “work” them to get them moving again.
That’s probably an age related thing but that doesn’t mean it’s not a medical issue.
Should probably talk to someone about that, too.
Which means I should probably make an appointment to talk to my GP, Doctor Chao, about these things. They’re neither an emergency nor urgent, so I would not take them to the ER or UC. Ergo, GP.
I should try to arrange a Zoom type meeting so I can show the doc the rash.
I know it won’t be an in person appointment because those take forever to get. I don’t think he even sees people in his office every work day.
Covid was just the excuse doctors needed to get even lazier.
But as a person with an undiagnosed condition crippling his legs, I might be biased.
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.