Good news Canada! We can work with...

…John Bolton!

Yup, Trump might be a lost cause, but John Bolton is a stand-up guy Canada can work with! That’s according to Michael Byers in yesterday’s Globe and Mail. And why not? He’s smart, organized, tenacious, ambitious, and has been relentlessly advocating for war on Iran ever since the Mullahs threw over the Shah’s liberal democracy back in ’79. That’s our kinda guy!

Elsewhere in the countdown to Trumpageddon, I see where The Guardian’s bed-wetter-at-large Simon Tisdall has figured out that Trump is in Putin’s pocket, and is bent on “undermining the post-Salisbury western consensus.”

What? That’s a thing?… there’s a post-Salisbury consensus? I think the general consensus outside the big-media echo-chamber is that the entire Skripal charade was stage managed by British spook agencies in a lame attempt to throw shade on Putin’s party at the World Cup, but whatever. As for the imminent demise of NATO, Uncle Sam’s me-too club, that can’t come soon enough for anyone pining for a more peaceful world. And look on the bright side; it’ll get those allies off the hook from buying all that over-priced American military hardware that’s constantly being foisted on them in the name of “interoperability.”

Hard to see a downside. I guess the sparkly new $1.5 billion NATO HQ will be sitting vacant, but maybe Brussels can convert it to housing for some of those migrants who have been fleeing the NATO success stories in Libya and Afghanistan in their millions.

Finally, it looks like Trump’s plan to make coal great again isn’t going that great. Apparently there’s a coal-fired generating plant closing every fifteen days on average since Putin put Trump in the Oval Office. This too is a good thing!

Just goes to show you should judge politicians by their results, not by their rhetoric.