Looks like anti-Trump has become anti-Ford. Dont matter the country or state/province, the lefts temper-tantrums are the same.

https://torontosun.com/news...imed-at-premier-ford

So, someone or some group that you would be likely to describe as "liberal" conjured up a protest against the premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, and his government. And the protesters brought a prop. A mockup of a bloody guillotine. A beheading in effigy of Doug Ford, or at least, of Doug Ford's government.

You like Doug Ford and the PCs (Progressive Conservatives) more than you dislike them. Doug Ford and the PCs have at least a 51 percent MEM approval rating; perhaps even higher. So you are not enthused about these protesters.

But at the same time, you have seldom (if ever) used this forum to talk up or promote the goodness of any particular "speed limits" on the exercise of freedom of speech. You have seldom (if ever) put any of your forum "chips" on the game square that calls for any particular moderation in the pursuit of freedom.

Are you experiencing some cognitive dissonance about this protest and the use of a mock guillotine as a stage prop in the exercise of political theater?


Whatever.



"Some liberals never stop crying. Some never stop crying about liberals."

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mock·ing

/ˈmäkiNG/

adjective

making fun of someone or something in a cruel way; derisive.
"the mocking hostility in his voice made her wince"

A note of interest: Alice Cooper turned to James "The Amazing" Randi to develop the guillotine stunt and Randi was on stage as the executioner during the original 1973 tour.

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Alice Cooper... that's a cultural connection with "mock guillotine" that I could not have imagined. Part of what is literally a universe of PC (Pop Culture) that escaped my notice as I navigated the Highway of Life.

MEM in particular, but all others who come here as well, should realize that this is just my own version of the now famous--as a consequence of the Mueller investigation---Russia-based "IRA" or Internet Research Agency. This is my Interference Campaign to disrupt and subvert Canadian politics from the U.S. side of that international boundary. And THIS is how I feel about it, as conveyed by this very brief YouTube video:

--> National Car Rental ad "Best Ball"
https://youtu.be/rYzCJ24qJj4

"I prefer to think of myself as a Control Enthusiast ..."

You have never bought a rock and roll record in your life, have you? And no, Pat Boone does not count.

When I remember (at this moment) all the way back to my earlier formative years--high school and even before that.

"My Girl" by the Temptations. I wasn't really into that, myself, but I remember it from that time. As if I was hearing it being played on someone else's pocket-sized transistor radio at high school. I even remember the someone. That's the first one that comes to my mind.

And before that, Liberace.

I guess this could be described as a cupboard that is mostly bare (barren).

I'd have to say that assertion is factual. That I never bought a recording from the Rock and Roll genre in my entire life. A revelation that is no longer redacted. Segue to "It's no longer Classified [information] ..." Dialogue and movie scene from "Apocalypse Now."

https://youtu.be/8ZSgYhqBeCA

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quote Originally posted by rinselberg: ..... escaped my notice as I navigated the Highway of Life.

Because you've made that journey driving backwards in a fluorescent pink "clown car" while furiously licking the windows and occasionally shouting TRUMP!

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Rinsey, I've got one for you. It fits PERFECTLY.