I've been warning for a long time that the monstrous demagogue Donald Trump could end up setting his own country on fire.
Whether he wins or when he loses.
And sure enough while Trump complains about Hillary Clinton calling some of his supporters a "basket of deplorables."
Here's what the governor of Kentucky, a Trump supporter and rabid anti-gay bigot, had to say about what might happen if those deplorables are defeated:
There are now 100 days to go before the American election, and we find out whether we will be condemned to live in Donald Trump's nightmare world.
Or whether Hillary Clinton and her progressive army, will be able to bring down the man some of his crazed followers are now calling the God Emperor.
For it is as the Globe says, a choice between sanity and insanity.
The 2016 U.S. presidential race is not like elections past. It is not just a choice between right and left. The old borders are being redrawn by the parties, and by a restless, cranky electorate. No, the cleavage this year is different, and deeper. The line of demarcation is stark. It is no exaggeration to say that the choice in November is between sanity and insanity.
And that dangerous demagogue has never sounded so deranged.
Once upon a time Donald Trump's passionate bromance with Vladimir Putin had its comic qualities.
But not any longer. Not after this.
And what Trump said yesterday was not only dangerous and crazy.
In my last post I looked at Stephen Harper's Great War on Canada.
And because it's such a vast subject and such a long nightmare, it raised a lot of disturbing questions.
Like is he the Axis or the Essence of Evil? Or is he just CRAZY?
So I'm really grateful that when it comes to his Great War on Science, it's a lot simpler.
It is totally insane.
When I saw Stephen Harper delivering his deranged speech on terrorism at a campaign-style event in a Toronto suburb yesterday, at first I almost felt sorry for him.
Because that's not the face of a well man. That's the face of desperate leader cracking up before our eyes.
But my sympathy didn't last long. Because this is INSANITY.
I always knew he was dangerous. And that madness ran in his family.
I knew the first Harper to arrive in Canada had to removed from office for "violent and oppressive measures vindictive beyond all reason."
I knew one of his grandfathers committed suicide, and that he was prone to violent rages, and frightening bouts of depression.
But today Stephen Harper finally went over the deep end.
In his fragile mental state it must have seemed like a natural transition. The beast within him must have howled.
For three days he'd play Mother Theresa or Mother Harper at the Maternal Health Summit.
The friend of cute starving children, and the butcher of women who need a safe abortion.
But last night he'd be Margaret Thatcher !!!
I never can decide which famous story Harperland reminds me of the most.
The Emperor's New Clothes or Lord of the Flies.
Or answer the questions historians will ask.
Did he really think he could get away with it? Why were so many so silent for so long? Or fail to understand the nature of the monster?
But I'm glad to see that even Andrew Coyne now understands that maybe the Unfair Elections Act is just CRAZY.
Sometimes when I look at the beauty of Canada, even in winter, I think it was our downfall.
Because it can be so beautiful, nobody thought it could happen here. But it did.
And now when I look at the horror of Harperland, I can't help thinking of that famous quote from Longfellow's poem the Masque of Pandora.
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
For what else can explain Stephen Harper's bizarre behaviour?
It's one of the scariest places in Canada eh? The dark heart of the Con conspiracy. The home of the Big Lie.
And now Paul Wells has given us a glimpse of the horror that lies within. And of the weird leader in his inner sanctum.
And although I'm sure that Wells didn't intend it that way, the picture that emerges is truly frightening.
It will be about a week before we know whether Obama will get to fire his missiles at Syria.
But what already painfully obvious is that just his threat to launch them is causing havoc in the ranks of his own supporters.
Because by now I think I've heard all of these arguments for or against.
Just from my own friends. And the one that scares me the most is this one:
OK. I hope you're sitting down eh? Because I wasn't when I heard the news, and I practically collapsed.
So great was my shock, and my outrage.
For it seems that Great Ugly Leader has stopped comparing himself to Stalin, or Napoleon.
And now believes he's Lincoln.
Before Christmas, Prime Minister Stephen Harper took along a large number of Conservative caucus members to see Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, now nominated for 12 Academy Awards. Afterward, there apparently was a discussion about the film, led by Mr. Harper.
I'm sure you know how I feel about guns and gun violence. And how I feel about those who hurt children.
So you can imagine how I feel about this horror.
A heavily armed man opened fire inside a Connecticut elementary school Friday leaving 27 dead — including 20 children — and forcing students to cower in classrooms and then flee with the help of teachers and police.
But for hours I wasn't able to write anything about it. I had to write about something else. Not because I was sad, although I was. But because I was so angry.
It couldn't be more horrible. Or more familiar.
Bombs raining down again on a tiny enclave where more than half of its residents are children.
Or more grotesque.
The Hamas fanatics playing into the hands of the fanatical Netanyahu regime, by firing off rockets, with or without warheads.
The Netanyahu regime with its "surgical strikes," claiming the lives of more innocent victims.
When I watched the news tonight I felt like running down to the beach in my pyjamas, climbing the tallest sand dune, and screaming at the crescent moon.
No...no...NOOOOO!!!!! Not that violence, not that horror, not Gaza. Again.
Israel's aerial bombardment of Gaza has intensified after it authorised the call-up of 30,000 army reservists, amid reports of a possible ground offensive... At least 18 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed in Israeli airstrikes, including children, and three Israelis have been killed by Palestinian rocket fire into southern Israel.
Not more rockets and bombs, not more dead children...
I didn't think it was possible for anything to be as scary and as ridiculous as the sight of Benjamin Netanyahu at the U.N. today.
Looking like a maniac, warning that the whole world was in danger unless Iran's nuclear program was stopped.
“At stake is the future of the world,” Netanyahu said. “Nothing could imperil our future more than an Iran armed with nuclear weapons.”
While drawing a red line on a Road Runner bomb.
The more I think about it, the more bizarre and outrageous it seems.
Stephen Harper going after Tom Mulcair, accusing him of promoting an invisible carbon tax.
Like Clint Eastwood went after an invisible Obama in the empty chair.
For let's face it, this is MADNESS.
What with Christian extremists spreading hatred, and Muslim extremists on a rampage.
I was horrified to see that a Hindu extremist was trying to stir up trouble in Toronto.
And delighted to see that his plan to insult Muslims by parading dogs outside a mosque failed miserably.
The other night I accused Stephen Harper of timing his decision to sever ties with Iran in order to ratchet up tensions, just before Benjamin Netanyahu went ballistic.
Why is he doing this?
My guess is that he's saying what he's saying because he knows he can't attack, especially before the U.S. election, barring a yellow light from Obama, which he's not getting. Sheer frustration at what he sees as Obama's obtuseness is causing these undiplomatic outbursts.
By trying to create the sense that the crisis was reaching a critical point, that Israel could strike at any time, which could only put more pressure on Obama to surrender to Netanyahu's demands for a so-called red line. And give Mitt Romney fodder to claim that even Canada was doing more than Obama to contain the Iranian Threat.
They don't call Jean Charest the Mad Emperor of Quebec for nothing eh?
For this is madness.
Four days of negotiations ended in an impasse on Thursday when Premier Jean Charest’s government refused to budge on its plan to increase tuition fees.
It was likely the last chance for an immediate resolution to the social crisis that has gripped the province for almost four months.
This is delusional.
