IPSOS: A Parallel Universe.

My God, what a pathetic joke: do I ever feel sorry for my candidate, Jean Charest and our supporters. Most Canadians expect Poilievre to win with Charest not even dominating in our home province among CPC members and supporters.

Granted I'm biased but from where I'm sitting, I can't imagine Pierre beating Trudeau. Not on your life. Even Charest would have an uphill battle. I think Team Charest already know it's over for all practical purposes -- there's no way in hell that we'll sell more memberships than Pierre, period.

I repeatedly urged my team to wrap up a deal with Leslyn but I don't see any signs of that happening. So...unless a deal is reached and Leslyn can swing at least 85% of her people behind Jean, then just forget it.

I've seen this movie before with both O'Toole and before him Scheer winning the popular vote. Big fucking deal...and with Poilievre running second in Ontario, just imagine how he'll likely do in that province in the general.

Somewhere, our pathetic excuse for a prime minister is at least smirking and has reason to be. Talk about a parallel political universe leading us once again back on to the opposition benches.

John Kirby: Just Gave It Away.

John Kirby represents your average American and let's face it, most Americans down in their hearts and souls are just like Kirby, quintessential Americans.

They'll fight like hell when it comes to politics but down at marrow level, they're pretty much all decent Americans who love their country and want to do what's right and honorable. That's why the bonds that bind may bend right into a pretzel but they'll never, ever, really break. 

America may not always be Reagan's shining city on a hill but the United States is always a beacon of light for what good represents.

That's why Kirby unintentionally gave it away by breaking down over Ukraine. He showed the world what the American fabric is truly all about. Americans on their worst day are the greatest humanists and humanitarians on this planet bar none.

There's a reason why they call it the Free World, namely, America against her own initial impulses is rising to the occasion in the face of a demon seed and pure evil. The United States did it in WWI and WWII and so it shall this time. They will save democracy worldwide, just like they did twice before. And why? Because they are Americans, that's why.

Kirby gave it away, probably without realizing it. His was the reaction of the average American and sooner or later, Biden will no longer be able to take it anymore and America will finally have at it. And Thank God for that. 

May God Bless the United States of America and her people who will inevitably do her proud, because...they're Americans.

Come On Little Man.

I'm quaking. Nuke us. I dare you. Can you say Virginia-Class? Pray to the devil that you worship that you never find out because it'll be Bye, bye, Russia time.

Charest.

I can't help wondering how well we're doing in signing up memberships. Not my cup of tea. Anyway, are we seriously closing the gap with Team Pierre? 

And then there's the attack strategy still coming out of both camps. What does that say about memberships already sold? Hope we've sold more than Brown has.

It's no news to anyone that I'm all in for the Wynne strategy: so, who logically bends into whose wind and what's the political price if and when we form government? E-X-A-C-T-L-Y.

I'm already giving my two cents to those who care to hear it.

The Fed: Damned If They Do AND If They Don't.

On my best day, I'm at the very least a Federal Reserve blood enemy: how I positively loathe their persistent lack of political accountability, not to mention successive presidents and congressional leadership who go out of their way to let them be.

These serial incompetents have done what The Fed has mostly always done: destroyed an otherwise healthy American economy. In this instance, via the economic insanity of QE, that mother of all inflation creation machines. They're quite literally hollowing out the middle class, not to mention decimating the poor.

Meanwhile, these paragons of sound economics and monetary policy profit continuously by being in the market that they themselves quite deliberately inflated via QE. Beyond despicable while the bought and paid for in DC ever conveniently look the other way.

So human abject misery begins with them as their digital money creating machine sends inflation spiraling out of control. It ain't at a bullshit 9%, it's more like at 15 to 20%.

This is where Fed damnation begins: they can panic and hike rates with a series of at least 75 basis point rises, or they can start and then suddenly chicken out and reverse course. You know, those upcoming midterms.

Option One throws an already fragile economy into official recession with the 10 year yield spiking up precipitously.  That means above 3% at minimum. Not good. Guess what, it'll sink the bond market and then down goes the rest.

Contrast that with chickening out, which they'll do, again for political reasons. You know, those midterms.

Breaking the back of inflation always means raising rates above the inflation rate. That's why Volcker went to 18%. There's no way Powell and company will do that here. No fucking way.

So, inflation is on-board for the duration as it continues to steadily rise. When it finally naturally begins to abate, not anytime soon, in will come a  deflationary bust that'll make 1929 look like a pleasant walk in the park.

In short, they goosed markets to make themselves a lot richer while destroying pretty much everyone else. Damned if they do and if they don't. Put another way, there's no possible good outcomes thanks to the collective incompetence of those chaletans at The Fed. After all, faking it till they don't make it is their only stock in trade...

 

Ukraine: Mass Graves And Dead Russian Oligarchs.

Our political cowards need to wake up and smell the coffee: we in the West and NATO can fight Russia now, which I'm calling for, or inevitably fight Putin later. Because make no mistake, Putin will stop at nothing and that means directly attacking any country he chooses -- NATO member or not. 

WWIII with Putin's Russia should come sooner rather than further down the road. And all of us who happen to be sentient know who will win and that country's name will never, ever, be Russia.

How Much More Does Ukraine Have To Take Before NATO And The West Finally Say Uncle?

My God, watching this horror on our screens, day in and day out is almost more than I can take. One wonders what our politicians are made of. Human decency is crying out for direct military intervention from at least NATO and yet our cowardly politicians dither as ever increasing numbers of civilians die, men, women and children.

So, like I've said before, I'm for WWIII and I want it yesterday. In my book, I'd rather we all get blown to hell on this planet in the service of good and what is driven by humanism than to apply a collective policy of partial appeasement, because make no mistake, that's exactly what we're doing.

Anyone with functional brain cells knows that we're going to be all in in the end. Better that it come quickly on our terms than on Putin's.

It will be a great day for humanity when Putin is ultimately held accountable in The Hague. He'll swing and have absolutely no one else to blame other than himself. He quite deliberately chose to act like a sociopath and so, may he live with the appropriate legal and political consequences. Putin is the next Hussein and he already knows it.