Court Painter has listened to the people’s clamouring and once again unleashed the poetic resources of Chatterly Gaseous Parsimonious Thunderclap (Chat GPT) to pen a contemporary Elon Musk tale in the Style of a Chaucer Ode. AHM was brought in at the last moment to wield editorial discipline.
Whan fair Philadelphia, so wyde and free, Didst see unfold a tale of high degree, Of Lord Musk, yclept of iron steedes so proude, And of his courts celestial, yond the cloude. He, lord of stars and crafty, distant skies, Came under earthly law’s most piercing eyes.
For he, in haste, a wondrous game did frame, One million coins a day, in golden flame, To they that swore with fealty full trewe, To vote for Sir Trump and his followers newe. But natheless was the game set in such gise That only those of heart for constitution’s prize, And of thilk election’s noble pride, Might take the wealth from coffers set asyde.
Now, gretely it happed that Lady Harris bold Sought for herself that crown of jewl’d gold, A rival fierce to Lord Musk’s chosen knight, For Sir Trump, her foe, did seek the selfsame might. Thus stakes were high, and tempers rose apace, For each of them would gain th’ election’s grace.
The judge of Philadelphia, gravely stern, Did order Lord Musk to court, his fate to learn, On one fair Thursday morn, as tale is told— But Lord Musk was gone, in clouds and stars enfold. O noble folk did whisper of his scorn, Of judge’s rule and town and sacred morn, And spake of how he mocked the summons grave, And thought he stood above the courtly wave.
His scribes by candlelight did seek that night To shift the tale from commonwealth to fighte Of federal realm, where mightier hands reside, And where, they thought, their master’s will might bide. “Yon judge’s law,” they cried, “but serves his ends, A politicke game that ever downward wends.”
But then arose, of Philadelphia’s hall, Sir Larry Krasner, feared by folk and all, Who cried, “No scheme nor plan nor sweepstake’s game Shall thwart the law or bring it into shame! Forsooth, the people’s voice must guarded be, Free from Lord Musk’s gifts or golden treachery.”
Law learned men did argue, wise and shrewd, If Lord Musk’s bright games and fortunes might be lewd— For gifts of gold, in voting’s sacred field, Might cause a heart to waver or to yeild. Thus stands the tale, for Lord Musk has kept his distain, And where he’ll stand, the court shall seek his ass to stain,
But soon, the judge’s patience shall wax thin, And then, like wind upon October’s sin, The wrath of court may rise with vengeful gale, And cast Lord Musk’s riches as a darker fail.
A spokesperson for the Philadelphia district attorney, Larry Krasner, said on Thursday the initial hearing at city hall was still scheduled. In the original suit, Krasner argued that Elon Musk’s petition and associated contest were “indisputably violating” specific Pennsylvania laws against illegal lotteries. Musk’s attorneys said he was engaging in legally protected political speech and spending.
Editor’s note: The images are from the Court Painter archives and meant to please the eye while discouraging direct comment on the poetic headlines.
Court Painter insisted that resident studio poet Chatterley Gussie Paragon Thunderbuns (ChatGPT) compose in flowery Shakespere style the Great Dominion headlines for October 30,2024.With editing help from AHM, this is the poetic result!
The Prime Minister doth labor, intent and keen, To gift Poilievre the Tory names unseen— Those souls, entangled in foreign snare, With secrets abroad, bound unaware.
For NATO’s bold pledge, Canada’s called with haste, That coffers of war be no longer waste; A doubling sum by thirty-two’s light, Else nations look on with scorn and slight.
In Ontario’s treasury, a deficit vast, Six billion’s lament, yet cheques are cast; Two hundred coins to citizens dear, A balm, however small, in fiscal gear.
The Liberals, stirred to partisan like zeal, Prepare their banners, with ardent appeal, Against Poilievre’s ascent so high, Their ads to rouse, and his rise to defy.
Yet Tory voices, though scarce aligned, To housing aid were loosely twined; Poilievre’s vow to cut, they fear to face, While Grits’ campaign chief takes up the chase.
In double-digits, the Tories soar, While jobs and coin top concerns galore; With fierce contention loyalty doth sway, As Trudeau’s base holds defeat at bay.
Court Painter, ever the mench, shows up to support an up and coming literary talent.
Here is a reenactment of what should have happened at the Trump rally if Court Painter had accepted the commission that AHM had negotiated with the Trump team, however Court Painter threw a snit and refused to appear claiming political asylum or sanity or something…
A little known substitute Staten Island painter was brought in and did a terrible job! He even used his hands to smear paint on the canvas, can you imagine!?
Court Painter would not be caught dead smearing paint since he is a virtuoso brush handler.
So, painter Scott Lobaido created a painting and vinyl image of Trump, live before President Donald J. Trump spoke at a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Sunday, October 27, 2024.
Scott Lobaido’s introductory remarks made it clear he proudly proclaims a love of God, Girls and Guns!
Court Painter offers an honorable portrait of Hannah Arendt.
Also five portraits of current influential technologybillionaires who should be viewed as subjects of caution in the context of her analysis contained in The Human Condition.(1958)
Hannah Arendt (born October 14, 1906, Hannover, Germany—died December 4, 1975,New York, New York, U.S.) was a German-born American political scientist and philosopher known for her critical writing on Jewish affairs and her study of totalitarianism.
What You Can Learn from Just Seven Pages by Hannah Arendt
She wrote this book in the 1950s, but it’s frighteningly relevant right now
Today I turn my attention to an extraordinary analysis from Hannah Arendt’s book The Human Condition (1958). It’s so accurate, it’s almost scary.
Arendt is a constant source of inspiration for me. In this book, she warns us about technologists who are dangerous because they are so completely out-of-touch with their humanity. She wrote this book in the mid-1950s, but you might think she was living in Silicon Valley today.
Here’s what she says about these dangerous individuals in the opening pages of her 1958 book:
On page one she says that people who are disconnected with the human condition are obsessed with outer space and want to “escape man’s imprisonment to the earth.”
On page two, she says that these people are “directed towards making life artificial”—sort of like virtual reality.
On page three, she claims that they will eventually want to create “artificial machines to do our thinking and speaking….we would become the helpless slaves…at the mercy of every gadget which is technically possible, no matter how murderous it is.”
On page four, she warns us that scientists have already shown (with the development of the atomic bomb) that they create dangerous things but are “the last to be consulted about their use.” So any prediction a scientist makes about the use of new tech is totally worthless—politicians and tyrants will decide how it is used.
On page five, she explains that in this kind of society, freedom becomes almost worthless, because people are deprived of the “higher and more meaningful activities for the sake of which this freedom would deserve to be won.”
On page six, she says that the people pursuing this escape from the human condition are thus creating “modern world alienation.”
On page seven, she says that they inhabit “an ‘artificial’ world of things distinctly different from all natural surroundings”—so that their tech innovations will lead to an inevitable degradation of the environment, and a detachment from the real world.
Court Painter with rare flattering portrait of shattered anti CBC PP
Please Note: It is rumoured that Conservative Leader Pierre PoiLIEvre, in addition to refusing to get security clearance also refuses to read this survey!
Pierre “Broken record” PoiLIEvre
‘I can’t wait to defund the CBC’: Pierre Poilievre doubles down on plan to axe CBC contrary to Canadians Wanting to Reform and Grow the CBC — Not Cut It, National Survey Finds
National Survey: How Do Canadians Really Feel About the CBC?
Canadians Want to Reform and Grow the CBC — Not Cut It, National Survey Finds
Oct. 23, 2024
The future of CBC/Radio Canada has become a fixture of political debate, but to what extent does the partisan discourse match public sentiment? As the CBC/Radio-Canada undergoes its first formal mandate review since the 1990s, we asked Canadians how they feel about the CBC. Do Canadians really want to “defund the CBC?” A new national survey, Do We Need the CBC? examines how people feel about the current media landscape, and where Canada’s national public broadcaster fits within it.
The survey’s biggest insight: a majority of Canadians want to preserve the CBC/Radio-Canada.
Court Painter makes a bold prediction that Justin Trudeau leaves with his gloves in the air after the Wednesday meeting dust up! Any bets?
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 22, 2024.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his leadership of the Liberal party is not in danger, even as members of his caucus prepare to confront him Wednesday in the hopes of convincing him to step down.
He brushed off those concerns as he headed into his regular Tuesday meeting with cabinet ministers.
One by one, those ministers expressed their support for Trudeau as they spoke to reporters on their way into the meeting.
“Anybody who has ever bet against Justin Trudeau is sorry they made that bet the next day,” said Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault.
But while members of the cabinet have defended Trudeau staying on as leader, a number of Liberal MPs have signed onto a letter that aims to convince him to step aside before the next election.
It’s not clear how many members of Trudeau’s team of MPs plan to confront him, or exactly what their message will be. There is no way for the Liberal caucus to force Trudeau out, the decision about whether to stay or go will ultimately be up to the prime minister.
So far, Charlottetown MP Sean Casey is the only Liberal to publicly say that he has signed the letter.
Immigration Minister Marc Miller, who is also Trudeau’s personal friend, spoke out against MPs who hope to oust the leader.
‘After nine years in power, and polling 20 points behind the Conservatives for more than a year, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing a serious challenge to his leadership from within his own caucus, and MPs and political insiders are predicting a showdown between a “motivated group” of more than 20 MPs pushing for a new leader before the next election, versus the prime minister and his supporters.
“It’s going to be a fight, an ugly fight,” said one Liberal MP, who is a Trudeau supporter and did not want to be identified, in an interview with The Hill Times. “You are going to see some people who will do what they said they’re going to do which is to say that he [Trudeau] should go, and you’re going to see a bunch of people fight back and say, ‘Look, even if we agree with you about the boss going, your approach has made it impossible to support you, and it’s a shame that you decide to take everybody down along with you guys.’ ”
Source: The Hill Times/Oct 18/24
Should he go or should he stay?
Meanwhile, Trudeau is deep in consultation with time proven methods to guide his decision
The Israeli military on Wednesday conducted airstrikes in Beirut, despite calls from the US for Israel to reduce the scale of its attacks on Hezbollah in the Lebanese capital.
This is part of a broader trend over the past year amid Israel’s fighting against Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. The US has repeatedly urged Israel to tone things down and show greater care for civilians, but Israel has frequently gone in the opposite direction and effectively ignored its top ally’s concerns.
From the IDF’s offensive in Rafah to its more recent invasion in Lebanon, there have been myriad examples of Israel taking escalatory steps that Washington has vocally opposed. Meanwhile, the Biden administration has continued to affirm its “ironclad” support and supply Israel with arms, reflecting no major changes in US policy. \
Earlier this week, the Pentagon announced the US was sending an advanced missile defense system to Israel and deploying 100 US troops to operate it.
What will it take? The US on Tuesday warned Israel that military aid could be impacted if it does not take steps to improve the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza within 30 days. Israel says it intends to address Washington’s concerns and is taking them “seriously.” But this isn’t the first time that the US has issued such warnings over the past year, and Israel’s tactics have largely remained unchanged.
On September 7, 2023 the Government of Canada established the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions. Justice Marie-Josée Hogue, a judge of the Quebec Court of Appeal, was appointed Commissioner.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggested Wednesday October 16/24 that Canadian intelligence agencies have information that multiple Conservative politicians are “engaged” or at high risk from foreign interference schemes.
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‘In shocking testimony at the foreign interference commission Wednesday morning, Trudeau took aim at Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre for refusing top secret briefings on a national security threat that allegedly has penetrated his own party.
“Because I am prime minister and privy to all these informations, I have the names of a number of parliamentarians, former parliamentarians and/or candidates in the Conservative Party of Canada who are engaged or are at high risk of or for whom there is clear intelligence around foreign interference,” Trudeau told the commission’s lawyers.
“And I have directed CSIS and others to try and inform the Conservative Party leader to be warned and armed to be able to make decisions that protect the integrity of that party and its members from attempts at foreign activities around foreign interference.”
“The decision byPierre Poilievre the leader of the Conservative Party to not get those classified briefings means that nobody in his party, not him, and nobody in a position of power knows the names of these individuals and can take appropriate action,” Trudeau added.
Trudeau called it “bewildering” that Poilievre has so far refused to accept the briefings from Canada’s national security agencies.
SOURCE: Global News Posted October 16, 2024 8:51 am
Poilievre has argued that accepting the top-secret briefings would prevent him from asking questions about foreign interference in the House of Commons – something that has not prevented NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh or Green Party Leader Elizabeth May from receiving the information.’
Excerpt from film essay The Great Dictator by Jeffrey Vance
‘Probably the most famous sequence of “The Great Dictator”(1940) is the five-minute speech that concludes the film. Here Chaplin drops his comic mask and speaks directly to the world, conveying his view that people must rise up against dictators and unite in peace. The most enduring aspects of the final speech are its aspirational quality and tone and its underlying faith in humanity. Chaplin sketches a hopeful future in broad strokes and leaves the implementation of his vision to others, despite the fact that the more unsavory aspects of human nature may prevent mankind ever reaching his promised utopia. Although some may find Chaplin’s message cliché, and even frustrating, one cannot help but be moved by the prescience of his words and the appeal of his powerful indictment of all who seek to take power unto themselves to the detriment of everyone else. The final speech of “The Great Dictator” remains relevant and valuable in the twenty-first century and likely will remain so as long as conflict corrupts human interaction and despots endure.’
Court Painter has included images of an aspiring dictator…the US election, Tuesday, November 5, 2024, will determine whether he gets his wish!
