Month: July 2025

Court Painter

Court Painter recommends this video conversation to any thoughtful viewer interested in a profoundly insightful analysis of the past,current and future state of U.S. democracy, grounded and informed by history and lived experience.

Heather Cox Richardson, historian and author of Letters from an American, joins Scott Galloway , academic, author and entrepreneur to explore how authoritarianism takes hold – not through coups, but within democratic systems. They discuss how the Republican Party masterfully rebranded itself as the party of patriotism, masculinity, and individualism, while Democrats failed to counter the narrative. Plus, they touch on national service, economic inequality, and the role of “love” in rebuilding a fractured America.

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Court Painter & portrait of Scott Galloway

Court Painter & portrait of Heather Cox Richardson

Definition of detestable : as in vile : not following or in accordance with standards of honor and decency

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• despicable 
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• dishonorable 
• ignoble 
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When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at the White House Monday for dinner, he came bearing what has become the ultimate host gift for President Donald Trump: a letter nominating him for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Before the meal was served, however, Netanyahu was quick to burnish Trump’s peace-making abilities, even as negotiators were still finalizing details of a ceasefire deal.

“He’s forging peace, as we speak, in one country, in one region after the other,” Netanyahu said as he reached over the table to present Trump with his document. “So, I want to present to you, Mr. President, the letter I sent to the Nobel Prize Committee; it’s nominating you for the Peace Prize, which is well deserved, and you should get it.”

“Thank you very much. This I didn’t know. Wow,” Trump responded, seemingly touched. “Coming from you, in particular, this is very meaningful. Thank you very much, Bibi.”

Text Source CNN june 7/25

The Pipeliners Triptych

Prime Minister Carney says it’s ‘highly likely’ an oil pipeline will make Ottawa’s major project list

Ontario Premier Doug Ford and  Alberta Premier Danielle Smith unveiled two memoranda of understanding, aimed at more closely connecting the Canadian economy through fresh pipelines and railways.

On the horizon: a predicted peak oil global decrease in demand for fossil fuels & Alberta oil sands bitumen; the absence of a proponent with a costed business plan for pipelines; the vulnerability of public tax dollars tied to such investments; alternative, such as rail, to ship bitumen to northern tidewater could become more viable ; falling oil prices driven by Saudi Arabia; increased global electrification overtaking fossil fuels—particularly in the Global South—led by China. The existing Trans Mountain pipeline from Alberta to British Columbia tidewater presently is operating at under capacity. Also the existing jurisdictional legal,indiginous,and environmental permissions process remains in question.

Court Painter & Portrait of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith

Court Painter & Portrait of Ontario Premier Doug Ford

Court Painter & Portrait of Prime Minister Mark Carney

Updated from June 20,2018 CP post

The less discerning of you might consider this post rather silly ; however, it must be noted that the tale it recounts was a harbinger of The Donald’s infatuation with tariffs related to the Great Dominion !

A Tariff Tale of the Smuggler & The Snitch

“There was a story two days ago in a major newspaper talking about people living in Canada coming into the United States and smuggling things back into Canada because the tariffs are so massive. The tariffs to get common items back into Canada are so high that they have to smuggle ’em in. They buy shoes and they wear them,” he said. They scuff ’em up, they make ’em sound old or look old. No, we’re treated horribly.”

From DJT remarks of June 19.2018:

Donald the Snitch, just blew the whistle on Court Painter’s secret side hustle—smuggling freshly purchased varieties of brand spanking new shoes of all kinds in Sweetgrass Montana,which before loading in his conveyances he “pre scuffed’ real good to assure an undetected smooth passage through the Coutts Alberta customs .

Thanks to Donald the Snitch, Court Painter the Smuggler is now out of the shoe business,shoeless and barefoot back in the studio!

Court Painter seen at the height of his tariff avoiding petty criminal career!

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‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost

‘I’m not giving up on the immediate years, but the focus on politics, economics, and law are all destined to fail because they are based around humans. They’re designed to guide humans, but we’ve left out the foundation of our existence, which is nature, clean air, pure water, rich soil, food, and sunlight. That’s the foundation of the way we live and, when we construct legal, economic and political systems, they have to be built around protecting those very things, but they’re not.’

‘Economic growth, which is the driving force of politics and business, is what determines our fate.’