By Zamboni
This is the anti-tariff TV commercial from Doug Ford's Ontario that got Benedict Donald's knickers in a twist.
Honestly, we never thought we'd post something featuring Ronald Fucking Reagan on our blog. We are Carter partisans, after all. But that's how far the Republican Party has strayed from its collective identity in the last 40 years. Where they used to be virulently anti-Communist and anti-Russian, they now embrace (or tolerate) Vladimir Putin. And where they used to champion free trade, they now kowtow to the farthest-right fringes of their party. We have absolutely no idea why Reagan-era Republicans don't call their party to account on these (or other) issues. Are they all dead — or frightened? Somebody let us know.
It's also not clear why Ontario Premier Doug Ford felt it necessary to air this ad beyond an interest to bolster his own profile. (Do not doubt that Ford, a Conservative, has national ambitions.) Anyway, Trump apparently called off US-Canada trade talks because of it, and Ford pulled the ad — maybe at Prime Minister Mark Carney's request. But the internet is forever. We cats HISS and PURR at the same time.
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