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Blame Canada \u2014 Or maybe it\u2019s Canadian Bacon<\/h1>\n
By Zepp<\/a> <\/span> on Sunday, June 10, 2018<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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June 10th<\/sup> 2018<\/i><\/p>\n

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) just defined the term \u201ccustard head\u201d by agreeing that if the summit between Pissmop and Little Rocket Man blow up, it\u2019s all Canada\u2019s fault. The only reason he won\u2019t replace \u201ccustard head\u201d in the dictionary is because it\u2019s much easier to spell and pronounce than is Krishnamoorthi. Still, his constituents, in a deep blue district, need to peer closely at their Congressman and ask themselves if the man is secretly an idiot, or maybe just had one too many that morning.<\/p>\n

You expect this sort of lunacy from the Trump administration, and most of the Republicans in Congress, who are so busy trying to conclude their coup against the United States that they basically don\u2019t give a wet shit how crazy Donald is, so long as they can finish off the New Deal and those pesky Civil Rights that they hate so much.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to dismiss Krishnamoorthi as a custard head. It\u2019s kind of the default state of Trump supporters these days. There\u2019s also the crooks and the traitors, but they tend to be a subset. Most Trump supporters are fools. Either they know what he is and don\u2019t care, or they don\u2019t know what he is. Either state requires a heroic amount of stupidity.<\/p>\n

\u201cKrishnamoorthi was cuing off shameless Trumpenflak Peter Navarro, who actually said out lout, \u201cThere\u2019s a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad faith diplomacy with President Donald J. Trump and then tries to stab him in the back on the way out the door, and that\u2019s what bad faith Justin Trudeau did with that stunt press conference\u2026That\u2019s what weak, dishonest Justin Trudeau did, and that comes right from Air Force One.\u201d<\/p>\n

OK, I immediately thought of the song, \u201cBlame Canada\u201d from the animated movie \u201cSouth Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.\u201d<\/p>\n

But I also thought of Michael Moore\u2019s foray into fictional satire, the movie, \u201cCanadian Bacon.\u201d In it, a US president (Alan Alda) is tricked into a near-nuclear war with Canada by a lunatic businessman (GD Spradlin) whose business failure he blames on Canadian tariffs. As the crisis mushrooms (so to speak) Alda\u2019s character tries to phony up a new cold war with the Russian president, a fellow named Vladimir, and when that fails, proposes an international war on terrorism, a concept his cabinet dismisses as too absurd for words. He doesn\u2019t want a war with Canada; he is educated, and knows what happened whenever the US tried messing with Canada. It never went well.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s depressing how sane and intelligent the characters, even Spradlin\u2019s, are, compared to what we have in reality now.<\/p>\n

Michael Moore made that movie 23 years ago. Obviously this is all his fault.<\/p>\n

OK, so if Trump screws up in his meeting with Kim Jung Un, it\u2019s Trudeau\u2019s fault. He made Trump look weak, foolish and brittle, qualities nobody had ever suspected of Trump before the all-powerful Trudeau destroyed him.<\/p>\n

I suspect that Trudeau, who is widely viewed in Canada as a kitten with some housebreaking issues, is Trump\u2019s go-to foil, someone he can blame for if the talks are so catastrophic that even Trump can\u2019t put lipstick on it. Trudeau is a lightweight who is a bit too cozy with oil and some other vested interests. He does great photo op, and has a knack for crowd-pleasing moves. Machiavellian and possessed of great personal power he is not. If his last name was \u201cSmith\u201d he would probably be in the Civil Service, in charge of teaching French in Newfoundland and Labrador. Yes, Canada has a province called \u201cNewfoundland and Labrador.\u201d It used to be just \u201cNewfoundland\u201d but someone decided a mouthful like that needed four more syllables. It\u2019s not quite as goofy as \u201cThe Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim\u201d, but it is in the same league. Oh, wait. No, it\u2019s in the Canadian League. But I digress.<\/p>\n

I spent some time trying to think of historical parallels to this. I\u2019m sure there are some, since many leaders in history have been childish, bratty, and incapable of normal human relationships. Most of them have been (wisely) forgotten by history. A fellow named Dr. Robert Sternberg wrote a book called Why Smart People Can Be So Foolish<\/a>, and identified five fallacies associated with bad or unwise leadership. These fallacies were, in order given: Unrealistic Optimism; Ego-Centrism; Omniscience; Omnipotence; and Invulnerability. All involve large amounts of self-deception, slopping over into delusion.<\/p>\n

Hmm. Looks like Trump is what the baseball scouts call \u201ca five-tool player\u201d. He makes Louie Gohmert look sane. That\u2019s terrifying. He makes Krishnamoorthi look smart, even as he makes him sound stupid. That\u2019s pretty scary, too.<\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019ve said in the past that I never expected this summit to take place. I figured someone in the Trump administration would figure out a way to put the brakes on this diplomatic disaster. But I keep underestimated the Republican capacity for servility and cowardice when it comes to Trump. They really are pathetic.<\/p>\n

Trump, barring a massive political insult even he can\u2019t ignore, will come back, gloating over his great victory. He will have convinced North Korea to destroy its nuclear arsenal, and in return, all America will have to do is destroy its own nuclear arsenal, cede Hawaii to North Korea, and become a province of Russia. Hawaii, because volcanoes and it will annoy the shit out of Barack Obama, and Russia because\u2026well, that had nothing to do with Korea. He was going to do that anyway.<\/p>\n

Chuck Schumer, a bit of a kitten himself, tweeted, \u201cAre we executing Putin\u2019s diplomatic and national security strategy or AMERICA\u2019s diplomatic and national security strategy? After the last few days, it\u2019s hard to tell.\u201d No, actually, it\u2019s all too easy to tell. Trump is a fool, a crook, and a traitor.<\/p>\n

Now, Kim might greet Trump by telling him \u201cI like Trudeau because he makes you look weak and stupid.\u201d And during negotiations, speak to his aides (well, his sister) in Korea, with the only English word in clear being \u201cMueller\u201d interspersed with giggles.<\/p>\n

At which point, Trump will declare war on Canada, and then attack Mexico because someone handed him the map upside down.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blame Canada \u2014 Or maybe it\u2019s Canadian Bacon By Zepp on Sunday, June 10, 2018 June 10th 2018 Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) just defined the term \u201ccustard head\u201d by agreeing that if the summit between Pissmop and Little Rocket Man blow up, it\u2019s all Canada\u2019s fault. The only reason he won\u2019t replace \u201ccustard head\u201d in … <\/p>\n

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