Your choice of who won the American vice-presidential debate in Utah last night tells more about you than the antagonists. Supporters of either were not disappointed. We knew that vice-president Mike Pence is not a dynamic speaker. He knows his party’s line and right or wrong, he will defend it.
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Alberta Politics: With coronavirus chaos south of the line, brace yourself for some of it to come to our way in Canada
U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s incompetent and ideologically driven response to the international coronavirus crisis poses a serious national security threat to Canada. Can we do anything about it? Say, closing the border to non-Canadian travellers from the United States, as Russia sealed its border with China in the first
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Day Justin Trudeau Lectured Mike Pence On Women’s Rights
Earlier today I wrote about how Andrew Scheer and his Cons had shown their contempt for the rights of women.By failing to support a motion affirming a woman's right to control her own body. With reproductive rights under assault south of the border, members of the Canadian House of Commons rose
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Mike Pence’s Very Bad Day
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, Vice- President Mike Pence quickly realized that things were not going as planned. The rest of the world can, I hope, rejoice at the strong message he receives in the following: Speaking to a security conference in Munich, Pence tells his audience
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Ellen Page Takes On The Anti-Gay Bigots
It's hard to believe that it has been four years already, since the Canadian actress and producer Ellen Page came out at a gay right's conference in Las Vegas. And delivered a powerful anti-bullying message.Because for people like me who had to fight bullies before I fought Cons, it was
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Meet My New Favourite Candidate For U.S. President
I'm afraid it's just too nice today to think of blogging instead of sailing. Or whatever.But now that Hurricane Irma has finally come ashore in Florida, before CNN blew up from all that huffing and puffing.And now that I can at least hope that Hurricane Mueller might take down Donald Trump
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Who Would Be Worse Donald Trump or Mike Pence?
He can often be seen looking on at Donald Trump's grotesque travelling circus with a strange smile on his face.When asked to say something about his boss, Mike Pence sounds as loyal as a butler, or as giddy as a college cheerleader.But appearances can be deceiving.For it seems that should
Continue readingIn This Corner: The Return of Stuff Happens, week 20: RIP, USA
Donald Trump, the Leader of the Free World crown, officially relinquished the title on Thursday when he announced that the U.S. – the second-biggest polluter in the world –would withdraw from the Paris Climate Change Accord. In stepping aside from the Leadership of the Free World position, the U.S. has
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the American Taliban
It will be left to future historians to try to explain how a grotesque sexual predator with no discernible morals like Donald Trump, could be embraced by the religious right. But they are his most loyal supporters. He has already thrown them a bloody bone by ordering that the U.S. not support
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Horror of Trump and the Amazing Rise of the Resistance
I must say I really enjoyed what happened to Mike Pence, the sinister man from GLAD or MAGA, when went to the theatre the other night to take in a performance of the Broadway musical Hamilton.And got a stirring message from the cast, urging him to restrain his bigot instincts and respect the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Road to Damnation
Well he may look like the man from Glad. But Mike Pence, Donald Trump's choice for vice president, is actually the man from God.He defines himself as “a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order.” And he's really bad news …
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