King, Queen, Canada

Posted on May 27, 2025 | Leave a comment

For our Amerikan readers, a bit of explainer. Canada is a Constitutional Monarchy. Laws are passed in the name of the monarch. In our case, that’s now King Charles. Charles has a representative in Canada, the Governor-General, Mary Simon, who acts on his behalf as the ‘signer’ of the laws as needed. Parliament, actually promulgates the laws and the Senate, a chamber of frequently sober second thought, reviews them, in full, transparent democracy of majority rules in keeping with our Constitution.

In reality, the British Monarchy has as much to do with laws in Canada as the Grand Marshall of the Rose Bowl Parade has on Czech Republic Fiscal Policy. It is more a tradition, but one the majority of Canadians like. Yes, I have met Charles, back when he was Prince Charles and yes, I did meet his Mom, during the Canada 125 celebrations on Parliament Hill.

King Charles, who lives over the store and took over the family business when his Mom, Queen Elizabeth passed away, is going to be addressing the opening of Parliament this afternoon. Most of us want him to start with “Glad to be here, Elbows Up and Fuck You Diaper Donny! So let’s go get a beer and some lunch…” Unfortunately this might not happen quite that way.

For certain Felon 47 will have his Depends in a twist over King Charles flying in and adding the Pomp and Circumstance to our government as a real Monarch. Not some incoherent cognitive failure Wannabe king, convicted felon, sexual abuser and serial bankrupt with a son who couldn’t get into Harvard. As evidence,

I present the actual text from Diaper Don, on Fox News and I am merely transcribing it. Fox News asked Felon 47 what he’d do differently from Biden on Ukraine: Well, what I would do, is I would, we would, we have tremendous military capability and what we can do without planes, to be honest with you, without 44-year old jets, what we can do is enormous, and we should be doing it and we should be helping them to survive and they’re doing an amazing job.” Source is Snopes and is correctly attributed

I do know a little bit about how Royal Speeches are created, which is a long story, but back in my history as a speechwriter in the 90’s. These things are not impromptu chatty meanderings, there is much vetting of everything including how the under-medicated might interpret the words or phrases. There is dilligence, intelligence and clarity throughout. Here’s the full text of King Charles III remarks:

Honourable Senators, members of the House of Commons,

It is with a sense of deep pride and pleasure that my wife and I join you here today, as we witness Canadians coming together in a renewed sense of national pride, unity, and hope.

I would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg people. This land acknowledgement is a recognition of shared history as a nation. While continuing to deepen my own understanding, it is my great hope that in each of your communities, and collectively as a country, a path is found toward truth and reconciliation, in both word and deed.

This is my 20th visit to Canada, spread over the course of more than half a century, and my first as Sovereign. As I have said before, “Every time I come to Canada a little more of Canada seeps into my bloodstream – and from there straight to my heart.”

I have always had the greatest admiration for Canada’s unique identity, which is recognized across the world for bravery and sacrifice in defence of national values, and for the diversity and kindness of Canadians.

To the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples – you have welcomed my family and myself to your traditional lands with great warmth and hospitality, for which I am humbly grateful.

This year, we mark the 80th anniversary of V-E Day and V-J Day. On Juno Beach, at Dieppe, on the Somme, at Beaumont-Hamel, at Ypres, and on Vimy Ridge. At those places, and many others, forever etched into our memories, Canadians fought and died alongside our closest allies.

Today, I see representatives from every part of Canada – from St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, to Victoria, British Columbia, and Arviat, Nunavut. I see the guardians of the fundamental rights and freedoms guaranteed in the Canadian Charter and, as King, I thank you for your service to your fellow Canadians, across the length and breadth of this vast and great nation.

You speak for your communities, representing an incredible richness of cultures, languages, and perspectives. We owe it to this generation, and those who succeed us, to think and act for the greater good of all. While the world faces unprecedented challenges, generating uncertainties across the continents with regards to peace and stability, economics, and climate change, your communities have the skills and determination to bring a wealth of solutions.

By fostering collaboration and engaging in respectful, constructive debates, you will ensure this Government is capable of bold and fair action to support Canadians.

It has been nearly 70 years since the Sovereign first opened Parliament. In the time since, Canada has dramatically changed: repatriating its Constitution, achieving full independence, and witnessing immense growth. Canada has embraced its British, French, and Indigenous roots, and become a bold, ambitious, innovative country that is bilingual, truly multicultural, and committed to reconciliation.

The Crown has for so long been a symbol of unity for Canada. It also represents stability and continuity from the past to the present. As it should, it stands proudly as a symbol of Canada today, in all her richness and dynamism.

Opening

When my dear late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, opened a new Canadian Parliament in 1957, the Second World War remained a fresh, painful memory. The Cold War was intensifying. Freedom and democracy were under threat. Canada was emerging as a growing economic power and a force for peace in the world. In the decades since, history has been punctuated by epoch-making events: the Vietnam War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the start of the War on Terror. Today, Canada faces another critical moment.

Democracy, pluralism, the rule of law, self-determination, and freedom are values which Canadians hold dear, and ones which the Government is determined to protect.

The system of open global trade that, while not perfect, has helped to deliver prosperity for Canadians for decades, is changing. Canada’s relationships with partners are also changing.

We must be clear-eyed: the world is a more dangerous and uncertain place than at any point since the Second World War. Canada is facing challenges that are unprecedented in our lifetimes.

Many Canadians are feeling anxious and worried about the drastically changing world around them.

Fundamental change is always unsettling. Yet this moment is also an incredible opportunity. An opportunity for renewal. An opportunity to think big and to act bigger. An opportunity for Canada to embark on the largest transformation of its economy since the Second World War. A confident Canada, which has welcomed new Canadians, including from some of the most tragic global conflict zones, can seize this opportunity by recognising that all Canadians can give themselves far more than any foreign power on any continent can ever take away. And that by staying true to Canadian values, Canada can build new alliances and a new economy that serves all Canadians.

Building new relationships with the United States and the world

The Prime Minister and the President of the United States, for example, have begun defining a new economic and security relationship between Canada and the U.S., rooted in mutual respect and founded on common interests, to deliver transformational benefits for both sovereign nations.

In parallel, the Government is working to strengthen its relationships with reliable trading partners and allies around the world, recognizing that Canada has what the world needs and the values the world respects.

Canada is ready to build a coalition of like-minded countries that share its values, that believe in international co-operation and the free and open exchange of goods, services, and ideas.

In this new, fast-evolving world, Canada is ready to lead. This will be demonstrated in June, when Canada convenes the G7 Summit.

Building a more affordable Canada

The Government is guided by its conviction that the economy is only truly strong when it serves everyone.

Many Canadians are struggling to get ahead. The Government is responding, reducing middle-class taxes

and saving two-income families up to $840 a year. It will cut the GST on homes at or under $1 million for first-time homebuyers, delivering savings of up to $50,000. And it will lower the GST on homes between $1 million and $1.5 million.

The Government will protect the programs that are already saving families thousands of dollars every year. These include child care and pharmacare. In addition to these, the Government has recently expanded the Canadian Dental Care Plan to cover about eight million Canadians, saving the average person more than $800 per year.

Building a stronger Canada

The Government’s overarching goal – its core mission – is to build the strongest economy in the G7. That starts with creating one Canadian economy out of thirteen. Internal barriers to trade and labour mobility cost Canada as much as $200 billion each year. The Government will introduce legislation to remove all remaining federal barriers to internal trade and labour mobility by Canada Day.

Numerous premiers have already taken vital steps to break down provincial and territorial barriers to trade. Together, we will build on that progress to deliver free trade across the nation by Canada Day. This is critical to unlocking Canada’s full economic potential, but it’s not enough.

To build Canada strong, the Government is working closely with provinces, territories, and Indigenous Peoples to identify and catalyse projects of national significance. Projects that will connect Canada, that will deepen Canada’s ties with the world, and that will create high-paying jobs for generations.

Given the pace of change and the scale of opportunities, speed is of the essence. Through the creation of a new Major Federal Project Office, the time needed to approve a project will be reduced from five years to two; all while upholding Canada’s world-leading environmental standards and its constitutional obligations to Indigenous Peoples.

The Government will also strike co-operation agreements with every interested province and territory within six months to realize its goal of “one project, one review.”

When Canadians come together, Canada builds things that last.

By removing these barriers that have held back our economy, we will unleash a new era of growth that will ensure we don’t just survive ongoing trade wars, but emerge from them stronger than ever. It will enable Canada to become the world’s leading energy superpower in both clean and conventional energy. To build an industrial strategy that will make Canada more globally competitive, while fighting climate change. To build hundreds of thousands of good careers in the skilled trades. And to

build Canada into the world’s leading hub for science and innovation.

Critically, the Government will undertake a series of measures to help double the rate of home building while creating an entirely new housing industry – using Canadian technology, Canadian skilled workers, and Canadian lumber.

The Government will introduce measures to deliver affordable homes by creating Build Canada Homes. This mission-driven organization will act to accelerate the development of new affordable housing. It will invest in the growth of the prefabricated and modular housing industry.

And it will provide significant financing to affordable home builders. The Government will make the housing market work better, including by cutting municipal development charges in half for all multi-unit housing. The Government will drive supply up to bring housing costs down.

Building a safer and more secure Canada

To be truly strong, Canada must be secure. To that end, the Government will introduce legislation to enhance security at Canada’s borders. Law enforcement and intelligence agencies will have new tools to stop the flow of fentanyl and its precursors. The Canada Border Services Agency will be given new powers to examine goods destined for export, to prevent the transport of illegal and stolen products,

including cars.

The Government will protect Canada’s sovereignty by rebuilding, rearming, and reinvesting in the Canadian Armed Forces. It will boost Canada’s defence industry by joining ReArm Europe, to invest in transatlantic security with Canada’s European partners. And it will invest to strengthen its presence in the North, which is an integral part of Canada, as this region faces new threats.

The Government will discharge its duty to protect Canadians and their sovereign rights, from wherever

challenges may come at home or abroad. To keep communities safe, the Government will hire 1,000 more

RCMP personnel. It will change firearms licensing and strengthen enforcement of yellow and red flag laws.

Weapons licences for those convicted of intimate partner violence and those subject to protection orders will be revoked. Through the deployment of scanners, drones and helicopters, additional personnel, and K-9 teams, the Government will stem the tide of illegal guns and drugs across the border.

It will take these steps while protecting the rights of lawabiding gun owners and Indigenous Peoples’ longstanding hunting traditions.

The Government will bring a renewed focus on car theft and home invasions by toughening the Criminal Code to make bail harder to get for repeat offenders charged with committing these crimes, along with human trafficking and drug smuggling.Britain’s Queen Camilla looks on as Britain’s King Charles III delivers the Speech from the Throne during the opening the first session of the 45th Parliament of Canada at the Senate of Canada in Ottawa on May 27, 2025.© VICTORIA JONES

Building a united Canada

During this time of great change, Canadians are uniting behind what makes Canada unique. The French language and the Quebec culture are at the heart of the Canadian identity. They define the country that Canadians and I love so much. Canada is a country that respects and celebrates its official languages and Indigenous languages. The Government is determined to protect the institutions that bring these cultures and this identity to the world, like CBC/Radio-Canada. It will protect the people who give us access to fresh, healthy, and quality food: agricultural producers. And it will protect supply management.

Nature is core to Canada’s identity. In 2022, Canada convened COP15 in Montréal, which concluded with

196 countries striking a historic agreement to protect 30 percent of their lands and 30 percent of waters by 2030. To this end, the Government will protect more of Canada’s nature than ever before through the creation of new national parks, national urban parks, marine protected areas, and other conservation initiatives.

The Government will always protect the rights and freedoms that the Charter guarantees for every Canadian.

The Government will be a reliable partner to Indigenous Peoples, upholding its fundamental commitment to advancing reconciliation. Central to this commitment is the creation of long-term wealth and prosperity with Indigenous Peoples. For that reason, the Government will double the Indigenous Loan Guarantee Program from $5 billion to $10 billion – enabling more Indigenous communities to become owners of major projects. As Canada moves forward with nation-building projects, the Government will always be firmly guided by the principle of free, prior, and informed consent.

Canada’s immigration system has long been a source of pride for Canadians and of dynamism for the economy. The Government is dedicated to rebuilding the trust of Canadians in immigration by restoring balance to the system.

The Government will cap the total number of temporary foreign workers and international students to less than five percent of Canada’s population by 2027. By doing this, the Government will attract the best talent in the world to build our economy, while sending a clear message to Canadians working abroad that there is no better time to come home.

Building Canada Strong by spending less and investing more

In all of its actions, the Government will be guided by a new fiscal discipline: spend less so Canadians can invest more.

Day-to-day government spending – the government’s operating budget – has been growing by nine percent every year. The Government will introduce measures to bring it below two percent.

Transfers to provinces, territories, or individuals will be maintained. The Government will balance its operating budget over the next three years by cutting waste, capping the public service, ending duplication, and deploying technology to improve public sector productivity.

In parallel, the Government will take a series of measures to catalyse new investment to create better jobs and higher incomes for Canadians. The scale of the Government’s initiative will match the challenges of our times and the ambitions of Canadians.

Conclusion

Honourable Senators, Members of the House of Commons,

When my dear late mother addressed your predecessors seven decades ago, she said that in that age, and against the backdrop of international affairs, no nation could live unto itself. It is a source of great pride that, in the following decades, Canada has continued to set an example to the world in her conduct and values, as a force for good.

I wish to express to you and to the people of Canada my heartfelt gratitude, and that of my wife, for the warmth of the welcome which we have received.

As the anthem reminds us: The True North is indeed strong and free!

Members of the House of Commons, you will be asked Conclusion to appropriate the funds to carry out the services and expenditures authorized by Parliament.

May you honour the profound trust bestowed upon you by Canadians, and may God bless and guide you in all your duties.

Tell me, which text is by a person who has full command of their mental faculties, or which text is from a cognitively disabled idiot.

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Golden Dome Dumb Donny

Posted on May 27, 2025 | Leave a comment

A couple of days ago a certain Amerikan President as well as convicted felon, sexual assaulter, serial bankrupt and lying sack of shit, named Donny decided to hold a presser. He was touting plans for a big beautiful Air Defense dome over Amerika to prevent anyone from messin with the joint. Fair enough, he even committed $175 Billion to build whatever the hell it is going to be. Felon 47 has said it will be like Israel’s Iron Dome Air Defence, but bigger and more beautiful as part of his money laundering scheme, know as his One Big Beautiful Bill Budget. Oh and Canada wants to be a part of it.

We will explain. Canada has been part of the North American Air Defense plan since the very beginnings of the Cold War. The DEW line, was a line of radar stations across our north, looking as far over the curvature of the Earth as possible for the incoming nuclear bombers of the Godless Soviets. With that Early Warning, we, meaning Amerika, could shoot them down before they bombed Amerika back to the stone age. DEW was the third iteration of some kind of early detection, the previous being Pinetree and Mid-Canada Lines. DEW was far, far North, generally up around 69th parallel. Construction started in 1954 and they went like hell planting the technology, DEW going operational on April 15, 1957. That was about 2 years and 8 months from “Da Fuck??” to “Here’s the keys to 60-some joints” It was a massive undertaking on both sides of border.

It has evolved over the years as technology has evolved. Now, Felon 47 wants to re-invent the wheel in 2025, but this time to look as butch and manly as Bebe Netanyahu in Israel. Nothing has been negotiated, talked about, or even analyzed by grown ups. It is just the Adderall twitches in Felon 47’s brain of some kind of shiny thing to distract everyone from his pitiful failures with Ukraine and negotiations/surrender with China on trade. Felon 47 hasn’t even asked if we want a piece of his hallucination.

Guesstimates on cost are up around 40 TRILLION dollars. The Israeli Iron Dome covers an area about the size of New Jersey and still costs a metric shit ton of money to build, service and run 24/7 in the high-threat environment of Israel. Across the whole top of North America? Shit ton times near-infinity is the likely total. Just another shiny thing that caught his limited attention span.

Golden Dome is an expected distraction from Diaper Don gong to battle with Harvard University. There are unconfirmed rumours that his invisible son Barron applied to Harvard and was told to go look for a a trade school, or a beauty school to take cosmetology and Felon 47 was deeply offended, to the point of revoking Harvard’s Foreign Student permissions and going after any grants or subsidies from the Feds, ostensibly because of their DEI postures. Harvard’s response? “See ya in court asshole!”

This also tries to cover the $12 Billion drop on tourism to the US as the rest of the world opts to go anywhere else. BTW, they’re coming here, to Canada with their money and the US is sucking air. For that, we’re sorry/not sorry in our typical Canadian Way.

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Flood The Zone-Lack of Media Response

Posted on May 20, 2025 | Leave a comment

In the previous post, Flood the Zone, we explained some of the ways the Republican Reptiles are overloading the mainstream media with a near-continuous firehosing of bullshit and distractions to hide the truly nefarious goings on. It isn’t difficult to see how it works and it isn’t new. Being fooled by it is new-ish.

In the past few decades, politicians behaving badly usually resulted in the politician being charged and convicted (George Santos) or resigning (Gary Hart) or suddenly being ignored by the media (Joe Clark, Erin O’Toole, Dubya 1 and 2, Rudy Giuliani) with media essentially saying “You’re dead to us”

The difficulty with news media is that they have an obligation to stay somewhere near truthfulness. Truth, accuracy and objectivity are the hallmarks of actual reporting, be it electronic, social media or print.

It is also one of those damn hard things to do in the realm of actual journalism.

Historically the Washington Post wouldn’t break the Watergate story unil Woodward and Bernstein came up with a second corroborating source that the break-in at the Watergate Hotel into the Democratic National Headquarters was controlled by the White House. That source was Mark Felt, codename ‘Deep Throat” who knew all the details and connected the dots for the WaPo. The rest of the explosion can be read here, the real core starting point being the sources that provided confirmation sufficient to allow the then-publisher Katherine Graham to greenlight the reporting and risk the wrath of the Nixonian White House.

Here’s why Flood The Zone works: It forces media to skip fact-checking and only report what talking point was regurgitated. Fact-checking takes time. Fact-checking takes knowledge. Fact-checking needs corroberating sources that are sometimes impenatrable in their jargon. Fact-checking takes memory longer than the last hour. Fact-checking also takes a certain amount of fearlessness.

With all the media cutbacks in the last two decades, there are very few editors, assistant editors, sourcing desks or even low-level asssistants left employed to perform even the most cursory of examination of expostulated ‘facts’ in a political puke point.

For instance, a story of last week: Qatar offers to gift a 747-800 with an “Imperial Interior” to US President Donnie the Felon. Obvious story hook, grift, bribery, sleazy shit by Diaper Don, same same.

Here are some underreported facts that media has not covered as best we can tell: The aircraft was one of two bought by the Qatari Amiri Fleet as VIP transports. The Qatari Royal Family bought them two at a time in 2012, then had them fitted out with the appropriate plush interiors. One was gifted to Turkey, tail number VQ-BSK that entered fleet service in 2015, repainted all-white and has a ludicrously low number of hours and cycles on the airframe. For the non-aviation minded, that is 7/10ths of 1% of Fuck All use. It hasn’t even scuffed the molding nubs off the tires.

The one that Donny has a semi-hard-on for is A7-HBJ. Again, full plush interior, has barely 1,000 hours and 279 cycles and has been in storage for five years. Donny got to feel the rugs in February and asked if he could have it, which was not commonly known. Qatar didn’t just up and offer it to Felon 47 out of the goodness of their hearts and try to cobble together some boondoggle to get it for free. forever. Felon 47 wanted it. Qatar gets to have a $400 million IOU with the US President and Diaper Don gets to pretend he’s a Grand Poobah of Excellence in Every Way Possible. And keep the plane!

By comparison, Jimmy Carter, who had a working, prosperous, peanut farm when he was elected Prez, was forced to put it into a blind trust that he did not control, before he could take office. Trumpp hasn’t even released his personal taxes from Trump 1.0, let alone Dumpster Fire 2.0.

So why no fact-checking or sourcing? For me, a regular guy, it took close to two hours to dig up verifiable facts on the aircraft and their history. Media doesn’t have that kind of time, or people with expertise available to gather even the most rudimentary facts about one tiny piece of the story.

Media and I mean all of them, electronic, social and print, do not care about the facts in the story and the nuance of the story. From my research, again about two hours real time, Trump will get a gift of an older, full-luxe 747-800 that does not have any of the Department of Defence modifications (still to be added including air-to-air refuelling and highly secure comms) with very few airframe hours and doesn’t even have enough seats to handle the usual Presidential transport duties and he gets to keep it after he leaves office. (2)

What Media cares about is the outrage, which is at best a days’ coverage by talking heads or a few column inches. It might even run a week of the public attention. Then a further outrage (Don Jr. saying Dr. Jill Biden was so stupid she couldn’t spot fourth stage prostate cancer in her husband (1) and she hid it from everyone, if she did) Or that Wal-Mart will be passing on the tariff price increases to consumers, while Felon 47 says Wal-Mart shoppers would react harshly if Wal-Mart did not eat the cost of the very tariffs Felon 47 put in place.

There was an old newroom apocryphal quote from back in day that said “If it bleeds, it leads”, meaning death, dismemberment, gore, outrage or manufactured fear and hate these days, is always the lead story to garner the most eyeballs, likes or comments. The quote goes back to the 1890’s with William Randolph Hearst and the Hearst paper empire, but it still rings true. The only reason George Floyd’s killing made the news was because they had footage, tape or images. Rodney King’s beating, same thing. If we’ve got tape then that’s the story. The actual facts behind it, well, we ain’t got time for that right now.

This is not new. Two things have changed, first is the speed that media pushes the new lead and second, the complete abscence of the slightest fact checking to give you, the viewer, some kind of context for what the actual fuck did I just see? Christ I am pissed OFF! Which is what the media wants: Anger responses are very strong, as are Flight or Fight responses.

Why do you think US TV Stations in Tornado Alley spend tons of money on the best radar equipment money can buy? If they can have a meat puppet in front of a green screen pointing out a marching red line image that indicates possible tornadic activity and the breathless, over-caffeinated tones of the reporter urging all citizens to hide, shelter or kiss your ass goodbye. Follow that up with shots of uprooted trees, upturned cars and trucks and some white trash trailer park whore tearfully, sobbing hat she can’t find her kitty cat named Punkin when the winds blew away her trailer. You get to punch the audience with all kinds of emotions. Did I just describe any news clip from the past 20 years from Tornado Alley during tornado season?

Now you see why Flood the Zone works. It plays off our fears and anger, then leverages the simple fact that media has not got the resources to check the facts and has the bias inherent in pushing raw emotions at us for nothing more than ratings and money. This is us, the public, getting the media we deserve.

The number of people I personally know and have talked with, that have completely removed any news media from their personal space is remarkable in a very bad way. An informed, rational citizenry is the cornerstone of Democracy. Having said that, I do understand why people opt out with the whipsawing and the outrage. Your thoughts?

(1) Dr. Jill Biden is not a medical doctor, her doctorate is in Education.

(2) CNN is only now (Tues May 20th, 1500 hrs EDT) breaking the story that the whole Qatari aircraft gift story is a complete load of shit. Felon 47 saw the shiny thing and wanted it

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How ‘Flood The Zone” works

Posted on May 19, 2025 | Leave a comment

If it seems like your media is smacking you repeatedly, every day, every hour, with some kind of news or outrage from the Amerikan President or his bootlickers and turd polishers, you are completely correct. You might even react by tuning out all media because you feel the firehouse of shit is too much to try and follow.

It is a deliberate strategy, originally put forward by Steve Bannon, but now adopted by the Orange Twat’s Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller. Yes, that one, with the dead eyes and his left arm all the way up Orange Twat, using him as a meat puppet to pontificate on whatever page Project 2025 is on this afternoon.

Here’s how it works, with a quote from Bannon, who looks like your alcoholic hobo uncle you only see, uncomfortably and odiferously, at Thanksgiving.

“The media can only—because they’re dumb and they’re lazy—they can only focus on one thing at a time. And all we have to do is flood the zone,” Bannon said. “Every day we hit them with three things, they’ll bite on one, and we’ll get all of our stuff done. Bang, bang, bang. These guys will never—will never be able to recover. But we’ve got to start with muzzle velocity. So it’s got to start, and it’s got to hammer,” he continued before being cut off. (1)

To see it in action just watch your news sources for the distraction: Trump publishes AI image of him as the New Pope” That was cover for Stephen Miller asking for a suspension of the legal cornerstone of Habeas Corpus and Due Process for anyone the administration deemed an illegal. Outrage or stupidity as cover for democratic disassembly of fundamental rights.

Ty Cobb, a member of the White House legal team during the first Trump administration, told The Washington Post: “It’s a naked power grab consistent with what Trump’s advisers have persuaded him to do, which is to flood the zone with as much unconstitutional activity as possible, with the hope that they get away with some or all of it.” (1)

Last week, the grift of a $400 million 747-800 with an “Imperial decor” to the “Defense Department” for use as the new Presidential transport (2) for the Orange Twat. That created waves of outrage at the shameless grift and implied bribery of Felon 47. That gave cover to the multi-million dollar “investments” by the Saudi Investment organization in a Jared Kushner proposed Trump-branded Hotel and in the Trump crypto coin grift. Donny said, essentially, I’d be stupid to turn down a free airplane. The deal means he gets to keep it after he leaves office, technically by it being a gift to the Donald J Trump Presidential Library Foundation, not to Felon 47 directly. The gag is that the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library had a fire last week. Both books burned and Donny hadn’t finished colouring one of them.

At the same time Felon 47 was all but getting on his knees with the Saudi Royal Family to thank them for buying more arms, negotiated last year and not leaning on Felon 47 to get involved in more Middle East politics, or putting the arm on Israel. The other outrages, aside from the photo of Donny napping during the welcome ceremony, was Felon 47 returning the salute of Saudi military war criminals and doing a photo op with a former Al-Qaeda who had a $10 Mllion US bounty on his head. Today it’s demanding public military tribunals for Obama and Biden, or reTruthing a Q-Anon death cult post. Which might explain why Moody’s Bond Rating is no longer AAA, but downgraded to AA for the United States of Amerika: It’s being driven into the ground with asinine foreign policy, this hours’ tariff statements, or surrenders because he’s a pussy, but claims it’s a big win.

This deranged behavior also covers the DOGE cutbacks at NOAA and the deaths of tornado victims who got zero-warning of the tornadoes yesterday in Kentucky. FEMA support? Oh, um, we’ll get back to you, as we have no money and no staff right now, everyone was let go as part of DOGE.

Even in the last few days, Diaper Don calling Bruce Springsteen a wrinkled has-been and Taylor Swift as past it, as the Daily Outrage. This was to cover up the billions grifted by Trump and his sons from Saudi Arabia and Qatar and the bigger Trump loss, 7 of 9 Supreme Court Justices told Felon 47’s White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller in no uncertain terms, that “The Fifth Amendment entitles aliens to due process of law”. (3)

This is in direct response to Miller’s assertion that due process doesn’t really apply to immigrants, particularly immigrants that may be here without status. Or to simplify, a majority of the Supreme Court, stacked by Trump 1.0 have told Steverino Millah to get fucked. Big Loss to a Bigger LOSER. Typography courtesy Truth Social and innumerable posts by Felon 47.

Now you have a partial understanding of “Flood The Zone” Next up, how media reacts to getting flooded.

Sources: Yes, I do source. Links are valid at the time of writing, but after that? Who knows…

(1)Source Newsweek online from 2019 PBS Frontline interview Steve Bannon’s ‘Flood the Zone’ Strategy Explained Amid Trump Policy Blitz – Newsweek)

(2) Air Force One is an air traffic radio call sign when the US president is aboard. VC-25A is the military designation, and often uses SAM, Special Air Mission 28000 or 29000 as a call sign when the President is not on board. The aircraft are highly modified, secure, 747-200’s that are as similar to a regular airline 747 as your car is to a Formula 1 race car)

(3) Supreme Court ‘directly communicated’ profane response to Stephen Miller: lawyer

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Going Canadian

Posted on May 18, 2025 | 4 comments

Since that Orange Twat has repeatedly tried to bully Canada into being absorbed into the Ignorant Horde, Canadians have gone Elbows Up in response with our rallying cry: “I’m Sorry, but Fuck You!”

Tourism to the US is down somewhere around 40%, Air Canada and WestJet have dropped a few hundred flights to US destinations, cross-border shopping is into the toilet, to the point where US border towns are offering deals, acccepting Canadian $ at par and so on. Thank you, but we’re sorry, we’re voting with our wallets and Amerika doesn’t get any.

Which brings us to the trope of See Canada First. The point of the post is to let people share destinations here at home, stories perhaps, or just observations and recommendations of destinations that you like and others might like. Since Roaddave is based in Ottawa, Ontario, many of the initial ones might be in this half of the map, but as others voices add their bits, it will probably widen out.

I’ll kick it off: The Rideau Canal, which runs from Ottawa to Kingston, on Lake Ontario. Opened in 1832 for commercial shipping, but now pleasuring boating, is a 202km long canal and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Drive along it, or boat it and find literally thousands of beautiful lakes, streams, vistas and towns. With friends, we’ve done the length a few times in various sized cruisers. Even just driving the byways and highways along it, is almost magical. Stop in Jones Falls, Portland, or Westport, all about midway along. Tons of B&B’s, some very nice hotels and utility accomondation.

Halfway between Montreal and Toronto just off the 401 highway (translation for Amerikans, it’s like a big interstate) is Prince Edward County, which is a wine country area, with several dozen wineries within a half-hour drive. Do designate a driver, as the legs and brain go a little soft about mid-afternoon if you are touring wineries. There are some eye-wateringly expensive hotels and some modest and quaint B&B’s nearby. Oddly enough, in season, there are fields of lavender all over.

We could go on for weeks abou things in Canada’s Capital, Ottawa, Pagentry, Pomp, Ceremony, History and that kind of shit that you can look up online. If you can swing it, watch the sunsets over Britannia Bay in the West End. Cross the bridge to Gatineau and find Pataterie Chez Bob (Bob’s Patate) which serves, arguably the very best Poutine in the area. This is not the’Poutine’ you get a McD’s or BK. This is the real stuff. Order a small, as a large is only for people with a parasite that needs hourly feeding at the plus 1200 calories level.

The St. Lawrence Seaway is one of the largest freshwater working ship canals in the world. It’s about a 45 minute drive from Ottawa following highway 401, more or less. Ship watching, parks, recreation areas and, near Morrisburg, the Lost Villages area. When the Seaway was built and flooded, several villages were moved above the flood zone, but not everything was shifted. Scuba divers can lead you to the areas where you can still see some of the Lost Villages.

So there’s the start of Going Canadian. Your comments and suggestions will build out a broader, more comprehensive and personal list. We welcome your comments.

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Returning to Roaddave

Posted on May 12, 2025 | Leave a comment

Considering it has been seven plus years since I stopped creating on Roaddave and still people are reading the content, I did some reflection. Why not get back to it? The trolls, bots and under-medicaated still exist, but my resilience to them has changed for the good.

Which means, we’re back baby! Expect the same level of writing, the same insistence on honesty and transparency, the same demand for logic and reason and the same expectation that stupidity, perfidy, grift, lying, cheating, fudging numbers and fucking with tangible reality will be called out.

Loudly.

In large-font headlines.

By name.

With sources and attribution so you can trace it back if you want.

And, where applicable, with copious use of the words that one would not normally use in polite company. If that fucking offends you, go jamb your head up your unwashed ass and fall off a cliff. I do not care.

In point of fact, if your comment is particularly stupid, moronic or asinine, I will likely use it in a post deccrying your inability to spell, think, discern reality, or to adjust your medication within commonly accepted parameters. With full attribution and quotations, likely with your username not obscured.

So if you want to challenge a post, bring the receipts, proper quotations and attributions, or prepare to have me figuratively cut off your head and shit down your neck. I always bring the sources, usually two or three, from real media sources who fact-check. Where it is opinion, it will say Opinion, but the same standards of attribution and factual reliability still stand.

Care to hop back on the pony with me?

Dave.

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Why RoadDave is not updated

Posted on August 7, 2023 | 2 comments

I’ve been asked by a few followers why RoadDave is not updated and it is time to give you the answer. The audience is the answer: Bots, trolls, the medically unwell and the under-medicated. Political monomaniacs who can’t discuss anything, or even acknowledge that there are other realities outside their own tiny echo chamber. The comments I’ve received over the years have been mostly ok, but so many are vicious, vindictive, violent and objectionable beyond any possible redemption. So, to simplify, fuck it. I don’t need, want or warrant that kind of hysterical abuse in my life. I’ll keep the site up, but that’s it for content. To those who enjoyed it, thank you. For the haters? Bye! I win, you lose.

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Three Magic Words for 2018

Posted on December 31, 2017 | 1 comment

Yes, this year is almost over.  And, of course, we have to reflect upon it, as that is the mental trope that society insists we must roll around in the muck in order to learn from our past to prevent it becoming our future.

Yes, people got married, had kids, ate well, did good works for all and generally made the wheels of society roll along.  Yes, thousands died in unspeakable horrors, from gas attacks, cruise missiles, gunfire and crazed violence for no better reason than they were at the wrong map reference at the wrong time.  It was a mix, as most years are.  Ghastly, heart-breaking horrors with tears of joy as us humans didn’t manage to blow ourselves up once again.

Wherever you are, we ask one thing:  Do your part to make this next year a nicer one with small, personal gifts of yourself.  Hold the door for someone.  Look up from your phone and see the other inhabitants around you.  Reach out, if only to say hello and acknowledge their part of your planet.  I like to occasionally stop the local firefighters when they’re at the grocery store, shake their hand, say thank you and hope they are bored to tears on this shift.  Same with cops, or paramedics.  It is a little thing.

Will a hundred thousand little things add up to anything that matters?  I don’t know, but I do know that we’ve become isolated from each other to the point of emotional immobility.

I have a label on my workstation desk.  It has the magic words that we see every day all around us, but out of context, bringing some gravitas to the words.  Here’s they are:

You are here.

All we can ask is that you live that way.  Be present.  Be kind.  Be brave when you need to and be humble if honoured.

Wishing you a present, pleasant 2018.

David

 

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Mueller Show Volume II

Posted on December 2, 2017 | Leave a comment

The Robert Mueller Show is now in Volume II with a guilty plea bargain from former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.  Yes, the twenty-five day wonder from Donny John’s campaign who was either pushed or jumped from Cabinet for telling fibs to VP Pence regarding his dealings with the Godless Communists in Russia.

The plea is a guilty on Lying To The FBI, Like The Cheap Fuck You Are (the formal term) which doesn’t necessarily mean jail time, unlike some of the other charges that could have seen Flynn spending time in the system.  There have been a lot of media meatpuppets trying read the between the lines on what a plea deal might mean, with speculation running rampant.

In Mob terms, copping a plea means you are as guilty as all hell, but if you give us the head of your crew with sworn testimony in a court of law, we’ll let the the other more serious charges go by the wayside.  Don’t cooperate and then all the other bad stuff comes back.  Copping a plea also means you’re likely to testify about the heinous high crimes and misdemeanors your boss got up to at various dates, times and places, with names, addresses and phone numbers.

In Mob terms it also means you are now dead. Fortunately, contract killings are frowned upon in North American politics, so Flynn’s estate won’t have to deal with pictures of him splayed out over a bowl of pasta with two gunshot holes in the back of his head.  Even Nixon wouldn’t go that far.

Mueller already has folks down the food chain pointing up at Flynn from extensive interviews with Paul Manafort, his business partner Rick Green and George Papadopoulous, a “low-level volunteer” in the campaign who managed to sit at the big table with the candidate and other notables.

Of course in the Daily Press Conference, Sarah Huckabee Saunders is declaring that War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery and Love is Hate, in keeping with the Trump Script from 1984  Sometimes she includes a Two-Minutes Hate of Hilary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, CNN or anyone who doubts her pie-making skills.  Why?  Because Donny John said so.

The real problem is that there is no diffuse management and layers of responsibilities between #Lyin45 and his underlings that would allow Donny John to weasel out of his responsibilities.  He is at least, according to himself, the best manager in the world, with a finger on every decision, in between rounds of golf, vacations in Florida and 6 am tweetstorms while he takes his morning dump shitting out a partly chewed filet that has been cooked well-done and covered with ketchup.

At least Nixon’s crew of savages tried to create a story line of “plausible deniability” to protect the President.  Donny John ain’t that smart.

We await Volume III

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Muller Show Volume 1

Posted on October 31, 2017 | Leave a comment

So Monday, Special Prosecutor Robert Muller dropped two indictments on the former Campaign chair of Donny John the Fucktard’s campaign, Paul Manafort and his business partner Rick Gates.  The indictments?  Money Laundering, Bullshitting the Feds and General Assholery.  Donny John the Fucktard’s reaction was as expected “Not us, we’re not colluding, nope, must be Hilary, not on our watch”  Which rings about as true as a two dollar bell.

For those of us with a historical background we think back to the Watergate scandal that took two years to shitcan Richard Nixon.  The first smoking gun that showed Nixon and his whole reelection campaign was crooked was a revelation that there was a tape recording system in the White House by Alexander Butterfield, a lowish level aide to Nixon.  The second smoking gun came from John Dean who told the Senate Committee that he had (as Presidential Counsel) lied his ass off under oath to “protect the President”

The parallels to today are striking.  Muller’s investigation has been slow, thorough and is only now starting to bring charges that will stick.  Adviser George Papadopoulos has cut a plea deal of guilty for his role in Russian meddling in the 2016 election.  The first reaction out of the White House was, as expected “He was a volunteer with no real responsibility” per Sarah Huckabee Saunders.  Just like the Watergate break-in was “a third rate burglary attempt” per Ron Zigler, Nixon’s mouthpiece at the time.

The nice part of the initial charges is that Mueller already has turned at least one Trump operative.  Anyone associated with Donny John the Fucktard now must know that anything they say, under oath, will be scrutinized, including Donny John Two who was either in the room when the Russians came a callin’, or was deeply involved in trying to get his mitts on anything the Russians might have offered regarding the Democrats email hacks.

What is happening is exactly what we predicted a few months ago.  News outlets are tracking the money.  Find the money and you find the guilty.

Mueller is also doing exactly what Sen. Sam Ervin did in Watergate:  Let them lie to us, then slam their balls in a drawer with the threat of serious Federal charges for not just fibbing, but straight up Federal Perjury.  Then let them tell the real story, under oath on live TV:  See John Dean and his three days of blowing the lid off the whole Committee to Re-elect the President book of dirty tricks.  America was glued to the hearings on CBS, who gleefully ran them uninterrupted.

Right now, anyone associated with Donny John The Fucktard’s campaign had best be making sure they have the story straight.  Mueller, if he doesn’t already have all the goods, has enough of the goods to catch’em by the cullions.  If not for tax fraud (reminder, that is was took out Al Capone, not racketeering) but for something more unpleasant, which is Federal Perjury.

It took Watergate two years to play out, Nixon wriggling every minute of every day, trying to distract and derail the Senate Committee, reporters, the AG, and eventually as far as the US Supreme Court.  One of my favourite Hunter S. Thompson pieces is a fanciful quote of wanting to see Judge John Sirica signing a No-Knock warrant for 1600 Pennsylvania Ave with the admonishment to “Get those goddamn tapes”

We predict we will see Donny John fire his inner circle, blame Steve Bannon, replace most of his media monkeys, then try to use North Korea as an excuse to keep on keepin’ on, just like Nixon tried with Vietnam.  Everyone who testifies will be #SAD and #FAIL, right up to his son-in-law and his own kid.  We also predict Donny John the Fucktard with either have a medical condition (Bone spurs? It worked before…) or do a Nixon and claim phlebitis as a dangerous, possibly fatal, medical reason to go easy on him.

He might even line up Mike Pence to give him a full and complete pardon after the fact, assuming Pence doesn’t go down with Donny John the Fucktard in a shitmist of Guilt By Association.  We can only hope.  At least Donny John doesn’t refer to himself in the third-person as Nixon did, muttering into a tape recorder to preserve every moment of the Nixon Presidency for all time.

Donny John the Fuckard’s inner circle of jerks are about to find out what happens when you are led by an uneducated fascist – pathological liar – serial bankrupt with ADHD.  George Papadopoulos is only the first one to be turned.  Watch the rats getting off the ship with exceptional speed.  Bannon may well have been the first and we wonder if John Kelly is going to be second, not wanting to be a party to the lowlife manipulations of #Lyin45.

If Hunter were alive he’d be calling for a 5 am No-Knock Warrant for 1600 Pensy Ave and the admonition to “Get his goddamn phone!”  That’s probably where the biggest smoking gun resides.

We await the heavenly scene of #Lyin45 getting on a Marine helicopter and going back to Mar-A-Lago.

 

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