Martin Lurther King Jr. Day was signed into law in 1983, and first observed three years later on January 20, 1986. It continues to be celebrated each year in the USA on January 20th.
In March 1968, Martin Luther King Jr.brought together a group of more than 50 leaders representing Black Belt sharecroppers, Appalachian coal miners, Chicano farmworkers, and American Indians, among others, to join the Poor People’s Campaign. The poor, “both white and Negro, live in a cruelly unjust society,” he said. “If they can be helped to take action together, they will do so with a freedom and a power that will be a new and unsettling force in our complacent national life.”
On January 20/2025 Donald J Trump was inaugurated as the US 47th President. Convicted felon Donald J Trump brought together a group of supporting tech billionaires, millionaires, election denying Republican lawmakers, grifters of all stripes and numerous merchants of Trump merch. The President’s wife Melania in celebration of the event launched her own cryptocurrency Sunday on the eve of her husband’s presidential inauguration, just a day after his own cryptocurrency was launched. Ethics be damned!
A star supporter of the new president , the morbidly richest man in the world Elon Musk exemplified the spirit of the event with his enthusiastic remarks and straight arm salute very reminiscent of a Seig Heil.
Court Painter with portrait of journalist Justin Ling
JAN 17, 2025
Excerpted from article:
The Need for Sincerity
‘I don’t know what four more years of Trump means. I have to suspect that it will not mean the annexation of Canada or Greenland. I believe it will mean cruelty to migrants whose only crime was trying to chase the American dream, trans people who just want basic respect, and a host of others who don’t fit into the reactionary vision Trump represents and who are easy targets for his high-velocity online propaganda machine.
And I know that the hollow patronizing from his liberal critics isn’t going to be an effective check on his power nor a popular alternative.’
Trump demonstrating an interest in geography!
‘For years, liberals have remained fundamentally stuck in their ways — while the left and non-reactionary right have only tried to emulate their tactics. They have lectured their critics to stop whining, insisted that things are better than they may seem, and defended their half-measures as sufficient, all the while insisting: We hear you.
Yet when Trump comes along, fundamentally in charge of the pervasive frustration present in Western society, he forces them to do more in a few days that they’ve done in years.
Trump demonstrating an interest in geography.
Now is the time to dismantle this rigid, inflexible, and paternalistic liberalism of self-fashioning, and figure out what an actual democratic, participatory politics would look like. It’s not enough for our politicians to become the symbol they think we want, it’s time they actually start speaking to people in real terms — offline, whenever possible — and leave the absurd conventions behind.
Now would be an ideal time for Carney, or one of his competitors, to model good behavior, drop the vacuousness of this modern liberalism, and show everyone what better can look like.
We don’t have five or ten years to figure this out. It needs to happen today.’
Court Painter was dragged out of his studio to explain ‘what the hell is going on?‘
He mumbled something to the affect that “we don’t know’.
Those in attendance thought that was a well considered and accurate accessment of …well…everything..
. A Hardon MacKay Court Painter’s Press Attache and Sales Manager thought this an opportune time to roll out inventory of previous Court Painter unsold gems to underscore Court Painter ‘s prescient words.
Court Painter with portrait of the upcoming”leader of the free world”.
Court Painter with portrait of the recent version of Capt Canada
Court Painter’s depiction of Alberta Premier Smith during her recent vacation trip to Mar a Lago
Court Painter with portrait of Robert Kennedy Jr. holding his symbol of health
Court Painter with portrait of Truth to Power Charlie Angus NDP MP
Court Painter with recent wartime deadly combination
Court Painter with candid portrait of Kevin Wonderpants O’Leary bearing his soul.
Court Painter with munching portrait of aspiring prime minister Pierre Poilievre
Court Painter with recent portait of leading contributing figure in civilizations race to the bottom: Mark Zuckerberg.
Court Painter went on a random painting spree in Mar A Lago ,capturing in memorable revelatory works some of the latest diehard Right leaning newsmakers and griftersduring their ring kissing mission.
So many to choose from so little space!
The friends you keep!
Kevin Wonderpants O’Leary seen with Alberta Premier Smith and Jordan Rotter Peterson
Alberta Premier Smith seen with Mara A Lago regular Donald Trump
Albera Premier Smith seen with autograph hunters Don & Kevin
Court Painter seen with painting The RIGHT Stuff
Poster commissioned to be part of the inauguration ceremony for President Donald J Trumpwho modestly insisted on being in the background.
Court Painter proudly displays a recent The RIGHT Stuff painting
Poster commissioned to mark the Donald J Trump Presidental Inauguration 2025
Prime Minister Trudeau seen with a Sunny Ways painting in 2016
Court Painter during height of his studio’s Sunny Ways production.
The Court Painter has reluctantly decided to conduct a Fire(d) Sale and release inventory of the Sunny Ways series of paintings from the archive. These works, crafted in 2015/16 during a hopeful rush of anticipated success and sales, once radiated painterly optimism and the pregnant promise of plump progress.
Yet now as 2024/25 rolled in, the passage of time has left the paintings dull, weary, their brilliance faded to a frown and quite frankly the sunny ways don’t rise and shine no more.
Everything must go!
No reasonable offer refused. All sales final!
An original painting in 2016 and it’s present state in 2025. So sad…
Justin Trudeau seen putting up his dukes
Court Painter ever the sales-guy tries to unload a painting to potential customer.
Court Painter seen moving old inventory at the ByWard Market, Ottawa
In an inspired Canuck Trade & Diplomatic Initiative(CTDI) ,PM Justin Trudeau dispatched 3 teams of the Great Dominion’s reportedly best Team Canuck Canada negoiators.
Canada pulled out all the stops and sent in their freshly appointed diplomatic heavyweights to defuse the recent tariff threat by President elect Trump.
The Great Dominon trade and diplomatic teams include Bob & Doug MacKenzie, The Trailer Park Boys and Marg Delahunty batting clean up!
Epic trade related encounters with Trump & this inspired Canuck TDI is already being reported from the halls of power.
Bob & Doug MacKenzie & The Donald
The Trailer Park Boys & The Donald
Marg Delahunty getting on The Donald’s nerves
Marg Delahunty has The Donald looking for devine intervention
Marg Delahunty has reportedly proven to be Trump’s nemesis
Despondent Donald
Court Painter captured Desponent Donald in a slouch as he not anticipated the bench strength of this Team Canuck Canada.
Arguably the Great Dominion’s next prime minister, Pierre Rotter Poilievre says Canadians are too obsessed with race because of “wokeism”(actually the Right is obsessed with “wokeism”) and agrees with Jordan Rotter Peterson that Canada essentially had to invent and import racism because it didn’t exist here before recent decades.
Rotter: a worthless, unpleasant, or despicable person
Pierre Poilievre says Canadians are too obsessed with race because of “wokeism” and agrees with Jordan Peterson that Canada essentially had to invent and import racism because it didn’t exist here before recent decades.
Court Painter and his trusty Press Attache A Hardon MacKay polled politicians, journalists, pundits, political strategists, pollsters, lobbyists , partisans, academics, policy wonks ,content creators, creatives, grifters, AI platforms and anti matter experts; for their 2025 predictions .
All participants were offered the choice of a crystal ball or an 8 Ball to aid in the process of predictive pundit prognosis.
As much as this helped to expose the prescience of a few of those who responded : some chose to spread misinformation, disinformation, harassment , general nastiness and private mockery including snap judgments, hot takes, outrage, condemnation, doomsaying and disagreement sprinkled with a few real good guesses on the Leafs chances in 2025.
Fortuneteller and his crystal ball
Court Painter predicted he would not conduct this exercise again in future in that it elevates the most extreme predictions, offers ample opportunity for bad-faith actors ,short sighted public officials, non visionary’s of all types and is a terrible proxy for measuring the veracity of predictability in the public square, private land, gated communities, space stations or out on the 7 Seas.
“What the hell are we going to do if we don’t know what is going to happen,” rising as one, the people screamed into the howling wind!
Court Painter has asked the resident studio scribe Chatterley Gargantuan Prompt Thundershower (ChatGPT) to compose a series of Bardian rhyming couplets on the theme of “Twas a dark December” based on the headlines from the National Newswatch of December 30/24.
You may wish to read and study carefully the lenghy verbiage or go directly to the Court Painter images which have been especially rendered monochromatically to suit the mood.
Trudeau’s ledger stands amidst the fray, An uncertain dawn breaks o’er 2025’s day.
Progressives, heed: the wrath of folk is near, The politics of joy yields now to fear.
The feminist façade of Trudeau wanes, No women left to gild for hollow gains.
The Liberals now ponder, not “if” but “how,” To bid their leader take his final bow.
The CBC, its corpse interred anon, Its time hath passed; Poilievre’s slur, Begone!
To NATO’s purse, a quickened step we take, The two percent a worthy vow to make.
Diversity doth falter in the West, Yet Canada will survive and do its best.
A weaker North gives strength to southern peers, Both Trump and Québecois doth find to cheer.
The GG stands firm, Poilievre denied, Yet Parliament’s recall could be implied.
When Trudeau’s tale is told, who fills the breach? The Liberals ponder whom the crown might seek.
Without Trudeau as foe, the UCP may stand lost, Their battles gone, their purpose tempest-tossed.
A holiday enshrouded thick in fog, As politics doth churn in yonder bog.
Poilievre ascends; the lead grows vast, What gilding hides his shadows of past?
Freeland revealed, her visage plain to see, Her truth doth challenge falsity & hypocrisy.
Misinformation fuels a fiery lie, Shall Canada be deluged as tempests fly.
Scarcity and stability in contention, A nation ponders its path of attention.
Ontario’s MPs sound the fateful chime, The hour hath come; ‘tis Trudeau’s twilight time.
Trudeau believes the crown is not amiss, Yet multitudes speak of fractures in this bliss.
Ministers shuffled, such fine garments displayed, While Trudeau ponders political fate in the uncertain shade.
Singh dangles to Trudeau , a stay most uncertain, As pundits urge a fall of the curtain.
While Trudeau flounders, Poilievre grows in might, Assured, steadfast, a rotter in the fight.
Trudeau’s darkest hour looms upon parliament’s stage, The waining of his power wounds this once sunny blade.
History’s quill shall mark him harshly yet, As chaos doth sow a spiralling legacy met.
Thus, fretting Liberals seek a hopeful heir, Carney or LeBlanc whispered to bear the laurel fair.
Freeland stands strong, as Trudeau flails in vain, Whilst autocrats grow bold to stake their gain.
A country feuds beneath the holiday’s gleam, As AI plots it’s accelerated scheme.
Ah..Remember the days when Chrystia Freeland was the GO TO Minister of all Things in need of attention by the Prime Minister.
Nobel Prize winner and ‘Godfather of AI ‘(artificial intelligence) Geoffrey Hinton says there is 10% to 20% chance AI will lead to human extinction in three decades, as change moves fast. Hinton said the pace of development was “very, very fast, much faster than I expected” and called for government regulation of the technology.
“My worry is that the invisible hand is not going to keep us safe. So just leaving it to the profit motive of large companies is not going to be sufficient to make sure they develop it safely,” he said. “The only thing that canforce those big companies to do more research onsafety is government regulation.”
Prof. Geoffrey Hinton
Portrait of Sam Altman,an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the chief executive officer of OpenAI .Net worth estimated at 1.1 billion USD
OpenAI said it needs “more capital than we’d imagined” as the Sam Altman-led artificial intelligence pioneer outlined plans for revamping into a for-profit company.
Court Painter with AI painting
Court Painter’s resident studio researcher Chatterley Gunner Polyglot Thunderoll (ChatGPT) responded to Prof. Hinton’s warning as follows:
The statement by Professor Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel laureate and a pivotal figure in AI development, carries significant weight and merits serious consideration. His warning that there is a “10% to 20%” chance of AI leading to human extinction within three decades should act as a wake-up call to scientists, policymakers, and the public.
Hinton’s statement is not a prophecy but a warning. It highlights the dual nature of AI: a tool of immense promise and a potential harbinger of peril. To reduce the probability of catastrophic outcomes, the global community must prioritize AI alignment, transparency, and ethics in development. His message should galvanize efforts to steer AI toward being a force for good rather than a source of existential risk.
Court Painter with another AI painting
Key Points to Consider:
Credibility of the Source: Hinton’s unparalleled expertise in AI and his deep involvement in its development give his statement substantial credibility. If such a prominent figure in the field expresses concern, it underscores the need for immediate attention to AI safety and ethics.
Magnitude of the Risk: While 10% to 20% might seem like a moderate probability, the stakes—human extinction—are catastrophic. This makes the risk unacceptable from any reasonable perspective, necessitating urgent measures to mitigate it.
AI Development Pace: AI technology is advancing rapidly, and its implications are not fully understood. As systems become more powerful, they could act in ways that are unpredictable or misaligned with human values, potentially leading to unintended consequences.
Call for Regulation: Hinton’s warning could be seen as a call for stronger global oversight and regulation of AI development. Current frameworks may be insufficient to address the challenges posed by advanced AI, especially in scenarios where profit-driven motives overshadow ethical considerations.
Global Collaboration is Crucial: Addressing such risks requires international cooperation. Nations must work together to set standards, share best practices, and ensure that AI is developed in a way that prioritizes humanity’s collective well-being.
Balanced Perspective: While the risks are severe, it’s also important not to succumb to fatalism. AI offers immense potential for solving global challenges like climate change, healthcare, and poverty—provided it is developed and deployed responsibly.
Court Painter relaxing in his studio with latest portrait.
