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One is a Genius, The Other is Insane
What have I learned since January 20th of this year? Well, I know I have to “take it down a notch”, as my mom used to say when I lost my cool about things. So, let’s take it down a notch.
But how can we take a step back, or take it down a notch, when the world seems to be going to hell in a handbasket? I don’t know about you, but when I was a Grade Nine kid we learned the “Scientific Method” to deal with scientific problems. For the most part, it might be a good template for dealing with the trauma and shock of having an out-of-control neighbour to the south of us. We could start by formulating a question. In the case of “Canadians living above the US crack house” the question could go something like, “What the actual H E Double Hockey Sticks is President Trump thinking?” Step two is the gathering of information and resources. This to me could be a combination of all of the schmutz you and your semiinformed and hysterical sister/brother/friend has amassed by watching Reels, TikTok videos, YouTube and Fox “News”. And, let’s face it, this is still an era where personal opinions, whims, algorithms and judgemental culture is dished-up to the scrolling public on massive media platforms. This is the “share” era. So, invite your besties to that potluck meal, skip the chitchat about the weather, the grandkids and your travel plans. Just dive right into the onion dip and fill the silence with your take on what’s happening in the US of A. Then let the hungry crowd offer you their tasty platter of pseudo-facts and fantasy according to whichever so-called pundit/expert they’ve been following on the socials. You could probably skip the hypothesis exploration, because your potluck guests’ assumptions will, indeed, be factual.
As far as testing the hypothesis goes, we all know there’s going to be an argument that no one will win—except in their own mind. Someone will most definitely grab their crockpot and leave in a huff. And while they’re frantically looking for their keys, the kids and the door, the rest of the group can continue to analyze the data and wonder if anyone brought dessert. Absolutely everyone who has been on a social media site or watched broadcast news has a take on what’s happening in the USA with Presidents Trump and Musk in the Oval Office. You know we do. And absolutely everyone will interpret what they see, hear and read to suit their own needs. Regardless, we have a problem. The whole world has a problem. Yes, we’ve got big problem, the likes of which we’ve either seen before or have read about in our high school history books. I briefly believed the dilemma, which is the USA, isn’t localized. This morning we woke to hear how DJT is looking at getting rid of the American one cent coin. It worked for us, didn’t it? However, DJT went a couple of steps further, suggesting it cost more to produce each coin than the is the face value of those coins. Well, that’s probably true, but I’m not in the business of minting. What’s next and where’s he going with this? I can see the next suggestion would be to get rid of all forms of hard currency and switch the whole country to cryptocurrency, which smells a bit Musk-y to me.
All y’all remember Pinky and The Brain and their nightly plans to take over the world? Should we be concerned about what looks like a lot of Pinky and The Brain moves? In every episode The Brain has a plan for “world domination” with Pinky’s inept, bumbling assistance. Skip the Scientific Method and cue Tom Reugger’s animated sitcom. Watch the feeble-minded, bumbling “Pinky” struggle alongside the intelligent, self-centred and scheming, overly confident “Brain”. There seems to be a couple of cartoon characters trying to ruin a Country that is already great.
Yeah, I apologize. Let’s skip the Scientific Method and head straight to the cartoon laboratory Pinky and The Brain live in for all I need to know with regard to “What the actual H E Double Hockey Sticks is President Trump thinking?” NARF!
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