Your Daily Dose of Snarklets

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I decided that these mini-snippets of snark should be called ‘snarklets’, and today I have limited time, but a number of these little snarklets bouncing about in my head.

A nice little vacation?

Well, as you all know, Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned under duress yesterday morning after taking only 45 days to practically destroy the economy of the UK.  So now comes the big question:  who will replace Ms. Truss?  From what I’m reading, there are three main possibilities and guess who heads the list?  Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson who has only been out of office for the same 45 days that Ms. Truss occupied it.  So … what this looks like to me is Boris, not-so-affectionately known as BoJo, wanted a little vacation, so the Tories hired Ms. Truss to fill in for him so he could have a month-and-a-half to spend cruising about the Caribbean, catching some rays, eating good food and drinking fine wine.  Must be nice.  And if they think Boris will be any better leader after his little vacation … think again.

Bye Steve!

Well, it looks like a small bit of justice has been handed down and Steve Bannon is actually going to prison for defying a subpoena to appear before the January 6th committee.  He was convicted back in July on two charges of Contempt of Congress – one for failing to appear for a deposition and the other for refusing to provide documents requested by the committee.  This morning, Judge Carl Nichols handed down a four-month prison sentence – about four years less than he deserves, but at least it’s something.  Or is it?  The judge ‘paused’ the sentence until Bannon’s appeal can be heard.  Welcome to another episode of “Drag Our Feet”, for Bannon will likely be long dead before he sees the inside of a prison cell.

Boomerang LePage

Some politicians, usually the worst of the worst, just won’t go away … they keep coming back like a boomerang or more aptly, a bad penny.  Just one example is former Maine governor Paul LePage, a blatant racist who was voted out in 2016.  You can read some of LePage’s lunacy in my two 2016 posts about him:  Another Unsavory Politician … LePage  and Time For A Change In The Governor’s Mansion!.  Suffice it to say that the man is one brick short of a dozen, is a cruel and bigoted excuse for a man, and yet he has the unmitigated gall to run for his old position yet again?  Fortunately, it doesn’t look like he’s doing too well against incumbent Janet Mills.  Which of these two people would you want for governor …

Okay, folks, that’s all the snarking I’ve got time for today but you know there’ll be more soon!  Have a great weekend ahead!

28 thoughts on “Your Daily Dose of Snarklets”

  2. Here’s the latest, as it were:
    Richi Sunak appears to have the required 100+ MPs who have put their names forward as ready to support him.
    Johnson’s wagon claims he has a 100, but only 50+ have come forward.
    Neither have officially said they are in the race.
    Mourdant has but she only has 29 backers and not getting anyone.
    That leaves half not officially decided.
    The fact that Johnson thinks he can do the job and folk are willing to back him says a lot more about him and his backers than it does about the voting public of the UK and the Reality of the situation.
    This chaos is normally the preserve of Labour, and a number of folk are starting to look back to the Brexit mistake of 2016 as when things started to go very wrong for the Conservatives.
    Since both major parties have now indulged in this farcical fratricide it also shows how there are far too many opportunistic dreamers and egotists than there are pragmatic long-vision grown-ups in UK politics.
    Ah well, let’s watch it all unravel, as it often does. I pity the folk suffering financially.

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    • Ay ay ay!!! Mi cabeza!!! It does seem that there are some parallels between you guys and us, and not in any good sense. What would it take to call for a general election, and do you think that’s what is needed?

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      • At the risk of repeating my earlier thoughts….
        Considering the overall uncertainty of these times an election is possible. However as of today, the chances seem simple. If by tomorrow (closing day) support for Johnson springs out of the mire like fungus, then the chances increase.
        Of course I would say an election is needed. The out-of-touch wing of the Left are currently muted, Stammer is making a reasonable job in Opposition, the Liberal Democrats are doing not so bad in many Conservative seats and the Conservative Party is fractured; its Right Wing currently discredited in many eyes.
        That said, as you know Jill, we don’t often get what we want.
        Again, as of today, I suspect the Conservatives might rally to a sense of self-preservation, try and steer the leaky ship out of the storm and navigate to (for them hopefully better climes of 2025. )
        Ask me again tomorrow.

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        • What a mess. Yeah, sounds to me like you need a new election, but … that can be dangerous, too, as we’re seeing over on this side of the pond. But then, overall I think you Brits have more common sense than … well … then again, there was Brexit … 🤔

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          • Brexit was one of those UK aberrations.
            And truth be told, though folk won’t like it would not have happened without:
            1. A racist undercurrent
            2. The help of that wing of the Labour Party who always suspected the EU was a capitalistic plot (looking at you Corbyn & Co).
            We are now suffering for that break with Reality.
            If Sunak does get the coronation this afternoon then as I mentioned before they might be able to drift on until 2025.
            An election now would be interesting as:
            1. In Scotland we have the SNP
            2. Wales: Plaid Cymru
            3. England: The Liberal Democrats picking up unhappy conservative voters.
            So if Labour did get the bigger slice of the votes it might still have to consider a coalition or coalitions of sorts
            And then there in Northern Ireland, which has to be dealt with carefully and with respect to their ways of doing things.
            It would be interesting.

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            • Yes, I’ve long said that immigration as a result of refugees fleeing the Middle East as a result of the Arab Spring was one of the bases for Brexit. That and, if David is to be believed, the shape of bananas! It sounds to me like an election now would be mass chaos, so I guess I should hope for Sunak to be able to hold the reins peacefully and without rocking the boat too much until 2025, eh? I wonder, though, if things will be any better in 3 years?

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              • Will they be better in three years time?
                We’ve been drifting since the financial crash of 2008, with Brexit the crew and most of the passengers opted for throwing out the charts, casting dice for the right direction and ignoring all those ‘project free’ weather forecasts.
                And our ship blown by storms of war, plague and mismanagement is so near the rocks.
                It will need a strong captain, not afraid to call some mutineers and lock them up (allegorically)

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  3. Too many, stand-ins, who are now, running these, separate, countries, into, the GROUND, and, people are still, letting them, ruin the, countries that they are, living in, and, the voters still have, their, blindfolds, on, too tight…

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  4. Jill, the fact that Boris Johnson is even being considered shows how far the Tories have fallen. I am actually embarrassed for them, as they waited too long to get rid of him in the first place and should have never put such a self-promoting individual in the PM’s seat. The clamoring for a general election should not be ignored in my view as this party has earned that scrutiny.

    As for Steve Bannon, it will be well-deserved to find his smug attitude behind bars. He is one Machiavellian acting individual. Along these same lines, I saw where Senator Lindsey Graham
    thinks he is above the law, now asking the Supreme Court to give him a hall pass on testifying in the Trump Georgia election meddling trial. No one is the above the law, not a Senator or a president. As a military attorney, Graham knows this.

    As for LePage, he needs to just stay away from elected office just like the former president. Both people dishonored their office and neither should be allowed to serve again . Full stop.

    Keith

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    • Indeed … I keep asking our UK friends to say it ain’t so!!! Surely Boris cannot just waltz back in! Their next scheduled election isn’t until 2025, so I do hope they call for one before then, especially if the Tories make Johnson their leader yet again.

      I think Bannon will find a way to drag his appeals out endlessly, but I hope that at some point … sooner than later … the appeals run out and he actually has to be fitted for an orange jumpsuit! He disgusts me. Yes, I saw that Lindsey had petitioned the Supreme Court to put the skids on him having to testify. I hope the Court has better sense to even get involved in that one. If they don’t, if they give in to Lindsey, we will know without a doubt that the Court has become a very partisan branch of government, in direct defiance of the Constitution.

      LePage is unlikely to win, being 10 points behind in the polls, but just the fact that anyone would consider voting for him is … it’s beyond my ability to understand. The man is EVIL! Sigh.

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  5. Appearance wise, I’ll take Mills. Any other-wise, I’ll still take Mills.
    As for Truss, the Brits can have our new Premier, Danielle Smih. At least England doesn’t have any coal mines left to open, or oil wells left to drill. And no one buys her apology for suggesting Ukraine roll over and let Putin take over. In 10 days she has made a laughingstock of Alberta in the eyes of the world! Can someone invent a disease that only attacks people with MAGAt brains? Please!

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    • Mills has been a good governor, is a woman with compassion and intellect. LePage is a blustering, bigoted fool who even threatened to kill someone … a reporter, I think it was. I think there are still some coal mines, at least in Wales, but I might be wrong. David or Roger could answer that one better. But, they are fracking and there has been great controversy over that. What??? Did you finally get rid of Kenney? I thought you’d be pleased if he were finally gone. I haven’t been keeping up … I’ll have to read up on Ms. Smith. Just can’t win, can you? Sigh.

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      • Finally got rid of Kenney as Premier on Oct. 11, though he still retains his seat in the Legislature. But his replacement is worse. You would think the UCP would have learned most Albertans don’t want a MAGAt, at the helm, but they went for a bigger extremist than Kenney. They have no sense, and no heart.

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        • Almost sounds like a replica of the UK … replacing one terrible one with another even more terrible! And now, the Tories in the UK seem to be leaning toward bringing Boris back! Yeah, you would think they would have learned that you guys don’t need a trumpian figure at the head in Alberta. Sheesh … this maga virus is spreading far and wide!

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