Jeff Burgar
Oh, gosh! Did you hear the president of the United States actually swore on television?
After I heard that news, an imaginary conversation took place in my head. It was one of the brighter points in a mostly uneventful day last week.
I won’t bore you with too many details. It was mostly what I thought the quack-a-berries on that famous (infamous? Notorious? Source of infinite wisdom? Must see show on TV?) show called The View might spout.
For those working at home, or have a satellite feed coming through the headphones while running equipment or servicing machinery, you might tune in once in awhile to get a fix. Sadly, I admit I do. My punishment awaits me.
The permanent ladies on the show suffer from the illness called TDS – Trump Derangement Syndrome. Imagine, if you will, Rachel Maddow on her own show on CNN. The words “Russia Collusion! Russia Collusion! Russia Collusion!” rattled in her head 24 hours per day for eight years.
If that was happening to you, of course you would be half, if not completely crazy.
So, Donald Trump dropped the “F” word on an off-cuff answer to a question.
There are at least 10 million, politicians of similar nature around the world who wish they had the nerve to say such a – gasp! – word in public.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is moving along quite well in that direction. We folks in rural Alberta mostly love her straight-shooting. Media? Especially city media? Not so much. But then, that’s more their problem, is it not?
Outside National Post, most media don’t remind us of Justin Trudeau. You know, the guy who said, “There is no business case for exporting natural gas.” Which so far has left about $150 billion per year in the hands of America, Qatar, and Australia, to name only a few.
Good grief, can you imagine a reporter or talking head on media calling Trudeau an “F word” idiot?
Even Ontario Premier Doug Ford was held in pretty high esteem a few weeks ago. He said Canadian Indigenous “can’t keep road blocking resource development, and then come hat in hand looking for money.”
Quite a few First Nations took offence at this. Probably rightly so. There are lots of Indigenous across Canada working for a living, participating in development, sharing, working on and benefiting from resources. But some are not. There are always folks everywhere who work hard for a living, while some want to protest, complain, and demand more free stuff.
The voices in my head keep going back to Justin Trudeau.
I am sure Trudeau’s has his own voices: “Hey, kneel down and get a great photo of yourself holding a teddy bear.” “Hey JT, keep up the blabbing, Canadian voters are so gullible, and your hair is so cute, they will believe anything you say.” “Hey JT, that Guilbeault in your cabinet is a really smart guy. Use him to keep bashing Alberta like your daddy wanted. Keep those Western uppities in line.”
Rain. Sunshine. Summer is here. Politicians and bubble heads politicking and gabbing.
Life goes on.