Sanewashing Donald and the Technate of America
The Canadian’s are angry, and scared. No wonder. Donald Trump is doubling down on his extraordinary attack on his northern neighbours, seemingly wanting to re-draw the border and repeatedly threatening them. In released jaw-dropping revelations in The New York Times on the most recent Trudeau-Trump calls he said that he did not believe that the treaty that demarcates the border between the two countries was valid and that he wants to rivise the boundary. He offered no further explanation.
In the Calgary Herald they’re discussing what would happen if America invaded Canada. A military move by President Donald Trump could eventually destroy America’s worldwide power, says Dr. Aisha Ahmad, an associate professor at the University of Toronto.
Andrew Coyne of the Toronto Globe and Mail has written the following:
“Nothing mattered, in the end. Not the probable dementia, the unfathomable ignorance, the emotional incontinence; not, certainly, the shambling, hate-filled campaign, or the ludicrously unworkable anti-policies.”
“The candidate out on bail in four jurisdictions, the convicted fraud artist, the adjudicated rapist and serial sexual predator, the habitual bankrupt, the stooge of Vladimir Putin, the man who tried to overturn the last election and all of his creepy retinue of crooks, ideologues and lunatics: Americans took a long look at all this and said, yes please.”
Elon Musk’s Nazi grandfather was a Canadian leader of the pro-Hitler movement “Technocracy Inc” which wanted to take control of society and give it to “technocrats”. One of their goals was a North American “Technate” stretching from Greenland to Colombia. This is the map they envisaged and this is the template they are working towards.
You need to keep reminding yourself: yes this really is happening, yes this is the world we are in. This is what connects his threats to Greenland, talk of ‘liberating Canada’, ‘reclaiming the Panama Canal’, and renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America”.
No, this isn’t a joke.
Spurred on by the ramblings of Curtis Yarvin (here rolled soft-ball questions by the childlike fan-boy Angus Colwell) and Steve Bannon and the ketamine-fuelled idiocy of Musk, this regime has no controls, no boundaries, no safety net. US Liberal Democracy has fallen, is a joke and is nowhere to be seen as all this unfolds. We’re still definitely in the phase of shifting between sanewashing Donald, churning out satire and denialism about what’s actually going on here.
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It’s the politics of desperation, says economist Richard Wolfe to Marc Lamont Hill, as the USAmerican Empire flickers out:
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/upfront/2025/3/7/the-american-empire-is-over-economist-richard-wolff
An Empire which is bankrupt and a regime flailing.
So I had never heard of this. Turns out there is a Wiki entry on it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement
Remarkably, the movement back in the 1930s did recognise that an economy is based on energy, not money, and that capitalsim is deliberate scarcity in an era of abundance, but that is its only saving grace.
But it does explain a lot of what is currently going on in the Trump/Musk cartel. Hmmm
Interestingly it has support within Canada:
https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/politics-law/the-last-utopians
On a related theme, analysis here showing how neo-liberalism allied with far right eugenicists:
https://the-climate-laundry.ghost.io/your-planet-our-choice/
Ah certainly am
looking forward
tae the big bang,
the blinding licht,
being incinerated,
burnt tae a crisp,
deep doun ah wid say,
it is abdy’s greatest wish.
Canada has more economic leverage to stand up to USA than UK has. The lack of support shown by UK government to Canadian government in order not to offend Trump is spineless and has not gone unnoticed in Canada.
The inability of those in power in UK to realise how quickly international relations are changing is obvious but not surprising.
These people have lived all their life with the myth of the special relationship between Uk & USA and this is also demonstrated in UK government’s policy towards current Israeli governments actions in Gaza. The ludicrousness of this myth is being demonstrated on a daily basis but still they cling to the USA.
@John, so what do you think is the function of our shared head of state here, and what should the Commander in Chief of the Canadian Armed Forces be doing in response to USAmerican aggression?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander-in-Chief_of_the_Canadian_Armed_Forces
SD – I believe Justin Trudeau pointed out to Charles last weekend that Trump was trying to replace him as Head of State last weekend.
I am a republican but am aware that it would have been Keir Starmer not Charles who was behind invite to Trump. I wonder if he even considered how this would be perceived by Canadians or if Charles bothered to highlight this issue to him?
I think to call it a myth is untrue. It has been exaggerated and now under Trump is virtually non-existent. Though I hated it, did not Reagan and Thatcher at the very least play up to it, employ it for political ends?
As for Starmer time will tell I suspect but there is a role for a broker, arguably a very important one given Trump’s capacity to change what he says every five minutes – it is what diplomacy is about, though I would agree that this state visit by Trump was a mistake (though invited before his duffing up of Zelenskyy and hard to rescind even if Starmer wanted to).
Niemand – Keir Starmer invited Trump for a state visit in full knowledge that Trump had already stated his aim to make Canada the 51st state of USA and therefore replace Charles as Canada’s Head of State. I know this has gone down very badly in Canada which is fully understandable. Trump will not like the visit being cancelled but the visit will be very unpopular with UK population so Starmer has created a problem he didn’t need to by his wish to ‘suck up’ to Trump.
Starmer is still calling the USA our closest ally when it is self evident through UN voting, action against Ukraine, threats and tariffs against our allies Canada & EU, Vance saying our values are different, Musk supporting AFD etc that they are at best now an unreliable ally and possibly lining up with our perceived enemies.
Starmer may be trying to ride two horses but events are moving quickly and he is in danger of looking like he is appeasing a bully if he continues sitting on fence. (apologies for mixed metaphors)
Re the special relationship this was always far more a UK perception than a USA one. UK government is acting like the person whose partner has left but will not accept this reality and continues to chase after them.
But at the same time plenty of EU leaders are glad of his and Macron’s stance with Trump. They need leaders like them to deal with the beast whilst they can pile on the negative rhetoric / pressure. The basic point is you cannot simply slag off then ignore Trump and the US as if they will just go away, and Trump’s instability does need to be kind of ‘managed’. I know that sounds mad but it is all mad isn’t it? Normal international diplomacy rules do not apply (and also one person’s ‘sucking up’ is another’s acting in the best interests of the UK and indeed potentially all Europe and even Ukraine – we are dealing with a Trump man-child here).
I was happy with Starmer meeting and greeting Zelenskyy and other European leaders at Lancaster House last weekend.
I agree that leaders need to use diplomacy when dealing with other leaders for the benefit of their own country but obsequiousness is not only personally demeaning but demeans the country they represent. It is a fine tightrope that Starmer is treading though I was dismayed to hear that Healey not only insists USA is UK greatest ally but also wants to build deeper bonds.
I am also concerned by Starmer’s equivocation around Trump’s often repeated desire to annex Canada not only a close ally but a member of the Commonwealth.
Putin is a KGB officer, Zelenski is a comedian, and Trump is a criminal. What’s not to like?
My suggestion is that Trump buys Methil – it would be a whole lot cheaper than Greenland or the Panama canal.