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Wednesday, January 22, 2020
The Spirit of a Python
Director, author and Python, Terry Jones, has died, aged 77.
While he is and will remain best known for his work in comedy, especially Monty Python, I will remember him for his final film, "Boom, Bust, Boom," available on NetFlix. Here's the trailer:
Some people seemed to see what was happening but my understanding is that most of them were leftards. Stephen Harper seems to have evolved into one of them now.
Harper would say that his position on a given issue had "evolved" whenever inconsistencies or outright hypocrisy in his current and past pronouncements were pointed out. Mr. Rational-Self-Interest now says shit like this:
"We've had a generation - a couple of generations in the US in particular - … where you've had on the conservative side supply-side economics coming out of the Reagan era, which I think were appropriate policies for the 1970s and 1980s; but an exclusive focus on those policies, which really are kind of business and investor centric, I think doesn't necessarily serve the interests of people today or the kinds of problems the economy faces." (2 Apr 2019)
And don't forget that any slight attention to issues of human rights that might put a damper on a bragging session over dozens of boutique transnational commerce deals with money launderers or a Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement used to be a "front for protectionism". Listen to him talking about China now. He's more sickening than ever and he gets away with it. He's never sat down with an interviewer who knows how to handle the dreck that spills out of his contemptuous cakehole.
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Some people seemed to see what was happening but my understanding is that most of them were leftards. Stephen Harper seems to have evolved into one of them now.
In what way(s) has Harper 'evolved', John?
Harper has evolved?! Wouldn't he first have to believe that evolution was possible?
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Harper would say that his position on a given issue had "evolved" whenever inconsistencies or outright hypocrisy in his current and past pronouncements were pointed out. Mr. Rational-Self-Interest now says shit like this:
"We've had a generation - a couple of generations in the US in particular - … where you've had on the conservative side supply-side economics coming out of the Reagan era, which I think were appropriate policies for the 1970s and 1980s; but an exclusive focus on those policies, which really are kind of business and investor centric, I think doesn't necessarily serve the interests of people today or the kinds of problems the economy faces." (2 Apr 2019)
And don't forget that any slight attention to issues of human rights that might put a damper on a bragging session over dozens of boutique transnational commerce deals with money launderers or a Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement used to be a "front for protectionism". Listen to him talking about China now. He's more sickening than ever and he gets away with it. He's never sat down with an interviewer who knows how to handle the dreck that spills out of his contemptuous cakehole.
I have your point, John. That can appear evolutionary but it's really more akin to a talented chameleon.
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