Joe Rogan wades in…


Joe Rogan Says Court Painter Could Have the ‘Best Portrait Studio Ever’ If He Could Manage to ‘Loosen Up’

Joe Rogan offered free advice to Court Painter on his art studio enterprise during a recent discussion with the photogenic Jordan Peterson.

At one point during the discussion, he began talking about the best damn paint handler west of the Mason Dixon Line and the Manitoba/ Ontario border.

He commented that Court Painter was the greatest hard scrabble political and celebrity portraitist the Great Dominion ever produced in our lifetime because “he just did the artistic job that he was asked to do by destiny and his inner workings and outer shell.”

“He tried a podcast to expand his thoughts about all things art but swallowed the pod and thank god for the Great Dominion’s universal health care retrevial system . He wanted to do a podcast with his arch nemesis and competitor CC (name available upon request) and it just wasn’t good. It just — it just wasn’t good because he swallowed the pod ,” Rogan said emphatically.

“Well, it’s not that he couldn’t be good at anything he set his mind to…” Rogan continued. “It’s just that he’s this — he’s bigger than everything, you know, he’s the greatest hard scrabble portraitist of pulchritude and pomposity ever. When he goes and does a painting, he can’t just have a whiskey and talk poo. You know, but if he did, it would be gosh darn amazing and good to boot.”

“You mean that he’s restrained,” Jordan Peterson stated quizzingly, after joining the conversation.

“Yes. You would think he’s achieved escape velocity where he could express himself. I mean, he’s done hundreds of masterworks. He can’t be president of The Royal Canadian Academy. So he’s free of that expectation,” Rogan said emphasizing expectation.

“I remember he was talking about people once about how messy and mean people are, you know, that just — things people say about the rigidity of his celebrity portraits, things they don’t necessarily mean but just blurt out in a paroxysm of honesty… And the way he said that, I’m like, I’ve never heard a person of stature like him say that and whimper unapoligeticaly like he did. And I wish he did more of that. You know? I wish someone could talk to him and get him to loosen up and not be so tight and hard scrabble with the rendering of the physiognomy and his hard boiled feelings,” Rogan added.

He concluded, “I think he’s capable of being foot loose & fancy free. I think he could run the best portrait studio ever. I just don’t know what restrains, I mean, it’s, I guess the expectations … what he represents to people that love his rigid hard scrabble, abrasive and gruff manner ways. It’s like, it’s too much. It should be easy for an art star like Court Painter to just be open to his soft vulnerable self when his body-man and Press Attache AHM keep him protected from the moral guardians and immoral groupies that surround his studio on a daily basis.”

Press Attache AHM seen guarding the CP studio’s petty cash

This article was edited for brevity ,spelling, obscenities and comprehension.

Blame Game…

Poilievre Blamed Climate Taxes While Big Oil Guzzled Profits

As gas prices pinched, the Conservative front-runner followed the right-wing script by ignoring ‘sky high’ billions for oilsands firms.

A cavalcade of right-wing pundits and think tanks echoed this attack on federal climate policy. But the idea that carbon prices were the primary driver behind record-high gas prices is incorrect, according to experts like University of Calgary economics professor Trevor Tombe, who told CBC that “it’s really about global oil prices, and that’s really driven by things far beyond the Government of Canada’s control.”

Reported in The Tyee August 16,2022

Canadian oil and gas companies, along with their shareholders, were doing fantastic. That’s the story contained in recent earnings reports from the top four oilsands producers, which together announced combined profits of over $12 billion for the second quarter of this year

“Overall, the first half of 2022 delivered solid results, and we’re positioned for an even stronger second half of the year,” gushed Alex Pourbaix, president and CEO of oilsands producer Cenovus, as his company announced $2.4 billion in earnings for the second quarter of this year. 

“In the second quarter of 2022, Suncor reported the highest quarterly adjusted funds from operations in its history,” interim president and CEO Kris Smith said during an August earnings call as the company reported nearly $4 billion in net earnings. “And we returned record adjusted fund flow right back to our shareholders.”

Imperial Oil meanwhile reported net earnings of $2.4 billion, and CNRL reported $3.5 billion —

Reported from DW Deutsche Welle Germany’s international broadcaster

Double, double toil and trouble…

“When enough Americans decide that a cult of personality matters more than a commitment to democracy, we risk becoming a lawless autocracy. This is why we must continue to demand that Trump and his enablers face the consequences of their actions: To cave in the face of threats means the end of democracy. And it would not, in any event, mollify those among our fellow citizens who have chosen to discard the Constitution so that they can keep mainlining jolts of drama from morning ’til night.”

We are going to be living in this era of political violence for the foreseeable future. All any of us can do is continue, among our friends and family and neighbors, to say and defend what is right in the face of lies and delusions.”

Tom Nichols Excerpted from Atlantic Daily article A Deepening Void by Tom Nichols August 15,2022

Court Painter looks to the heavens for extraterrestrial confirmation of wonder!

“Ever since Donald Trump became president, the Canadian commentariat has often blamed unpalatable aspects of our own political discourse on Trumpism. Kellie Leitch proposing a Canadian values test? Trumpism! Quebec passing laws to ban religious garb? Trumpism! Doug Ford becoming premier of Ontario in 2018? Trumpism! And, well, you get the point.

Those takes are lazy and prevent us from looking inward and examining how our own politicians and media ecosystem have contributed to the decline in our political discourse. Additionally, it often leads us to downplay our own domestic issues of extremism, like the problem of white supremacists in the Canadian Armed Forces, or how we tend to punch above our weight when it comes to producing disinformation influencers.”

Excerpted from Canadas’ National Observer article Trumpism 2.0 and what it means for Canada by Supriya Dwivedi | August 15th 2022

Salman Rushdie…

“Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes, disrespects sacred cows or other such entities. It can be shocking, or ugly, or, to use the catch-all term so beloved of the tabloid press, controversial. And if we believe in liberty, if we want the air we breathe to remain plentiful and breathable, this is the art whose right to exist we must not only defend, but celebrate. Art is not entertainment. At its very best, it’s a revolution.” —Salman Rushdie, “On Censorship” 

Famed author Salman Rushdie, who has endured death threats from extremists for decades, was stabbed Friday before a scheduled lecture in western New York, according to state police.

A man stormed the stage at the Chautauqua Institution, about 70 miles south of Buffalo, at about 11 a.m. Friday August 12/22 and attacked the 75-year-old Rushdie and an interviewer.

Mr. Rushdie was taken by helicopter to a local hospital, the state police said in a statement. His condition is not yet known. His agent, Andrew Wylie, said in an email Friday afternoon that Mr. Rushdie was undergoing surgery.

Uh oh…

Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Home Raided by the FBI

“Taken together, this is one of the most significant, sensitive, and politically explosive actions the US Justice Department and FBI has ever taken — one of a tiny handful of times it’s ever investigated a president. Bottom line: The FBI & DOJ must’ve known they had the goods.”,tweeted journalist and historian Garrett Graff.

Trump supporters gather in front of Mar a Lago

Court Painter captures the moment!

Watch & Wait…

The reason the gulls ride the thermals and circle overhead is so they can conserve energy while they watch and wait.

Former President Donald Trump gull spotting!

Court Painter seen with his portrait of US Attorney General Garland who is rumoured to be on the verge of rocking the gull spotters world big time!

Court Painter cannot be held responsible for rumours however remains hopeful the watching and waiting is about to end.