Carney's bold adventure

That’s quite the corner PM Carney has managed to box himself into. On the one hand, he was all “elbows up” back in the early days of the Trump regime. We didn’t need those damned obnoxious Yankees anyway, especially not those vulgar Trumpists. So fuck ‘em! We’ll go make some tighter alliances with our allies! Within a month of that declaration, Carney witnessed all those allies arrayed in front of Daddy Trump like errant schoolboys in front of the headmaster. Oh well; on to plan B, I reckon… kissing Trump’s ass! So there he was yesterday in the Oval Office, or maybe that was just the press office, with his posse, seated across from Trump’s crew, exchanging witticisms with Donny J, althogether the picture of bonhomie. There was absolutely no indication that Trump was prepared to offer up anything other than a photo-op. Nevertheless, Carney claimed the meeting a success. He is all in for stroking Daddy Trump. He is flirting, and I suspect we may be into the heavy-breathing phase, with committing Canada to many $hundreds of billions in spending in order to meet the NATO spending targets dictated by none other than Donald Trump! There is still time to stop this impending fiscal disaster in its tracks. Canada does not need a multi-billion submarine program. Canada does not need a multi-billion frigate program. Canada does not need a multi-billion dollar fighter jet program! Bullshit, bullshit, and bullshit! If we go down the road of rampant militarization to appease Mafia Don, in the hopes he will cut us some slack in the tariff war, we can kiss goodbye any hope of bringing our health care, schools, and infrastructure up to 21st century standards. On the other hand, I have a hunch Mr Trump doesn’t give much thought to Carney’s dilema, having to chose between guns and butter, as it were. Donny J got bigger fish to fry! Way bigger! There’s the upcoming Venezuela war, to liberate the Maduro-oppressed oil-fields once and for all. And of course the next sneak attack on Iran, which nobody knows is coming, wink wink! Last but not least, Donald’s gotta keep up the pressure on the Nobel Committee for that Nobel Peace Prize! Suck on that, Canada!