{"id":29254,"date":"2025-03-25T23:32:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T23:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=29254"},"modified":"2025-03-25T23:35:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T23:35:44","slug":"breaking-bard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=29254","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Bard&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Court-Painter-Thespian-role.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11340\" style=\"width:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Court-Painter-Thespian-role.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Court-Painter-Thespian-role-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Court-Painter-Thespian-role-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-90cb8ad0efa1811098626e233fc17919\" style=\"color:#fe8105\">Court Painter roused the resident studio scribe, Chatterley Geraldine Persnickety Twitterstorm (ChatGPT),and in-studio editor AHM to take up the headlines from&nbsp;<em>National Newswatch Election News<\/em>, March 25, 2025, and poetically render the day&#8217;s events in a flowery, Bardian, rhyming couplet style, as the news lay broken before our eyes or is it at our feet..?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-37af314311e69d3ab19faf666ff3a24c\" style=\"color:#847306\"><strong>Court Painter also introduces a few of the political thespians on the electorial stage.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-18c99b8393ba36fd12e00c4687129aa0\" style=\"color:#2305f2\">Carney doth call for talks both true and grave,<br>Lest trade wars drag us to a darkened cave.<br>With tariffs poised, he seeks a measured course,<br>Not theatre false nor rhetoric&#8217;s brute force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Carney.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Carney.jpg 630w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Carney-252x300.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He vows to strengthen arms by sea and land,<br>With steel-clad ships and warriors at hand.<br>Let submarines and icebreakers be made,<br>And soldiers\u2019 serve with richer coin be paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-bright-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e1be00d798080127ce43bfc408f9e063\">McKelvie now doth seek a loftier seat,<br>From council halls to where the nations meet.<br>With Ajax&#8217; trust, she strides into the fray,<br>To aid her banner in election\u2019s play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carney strikes Poilievre with sharp disdain,<br>For laxity in threats from foreign reign.<br>&#8220;Thy folly leaves our land exposed!&#8221; he cries,<br>As dark whisperings from India arise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Poilievre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Poilievre.jpg 630w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Poilievre-252x300.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-cb50d8122acc3c96eb3420bc1c97158f\" style=\"color:#0002cc\">Fraser, who once did hint he\u2019d bid adieu,<br>Now seeks again the people\u2019s trust anew.<br>No parting bow, no exit from the stage,<br>He takes his stand to turn another page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The clash of wits in debates fierce arise,<br>Yet Carney\u2019s French absence stirs the people&#8217;s cries.<br>With TVA&#8217;s lost duel, he doth offend,<br>Whilst crowds and tongues shape fates that do depend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-721d067b014055fe2c8b93645c7bc265\" style=\"color:#0033cc\">Alberta\u2019s name doth echo through the fight,<br>With Smith\u2019s bold tongue now casting greater light.<br>As Trump\u2019s spectre once again haunts centre stage,<br>In Danielle&#8217;s western hands now the battle doth wage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some whisper low, \u201cThe Liberals hold the field,<br>Unless to fate and folly they do yield.\u201d<br>Yet fickle winds may turn with sudden might,<br>And what seems sure may vanish out of sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-34b029cd507b0c8f853c0576c15b86b6\" style=\"color:#0025cc\">Poilievre doth promise homes at lesser cost,<br>And lift the toll that Island folk must cross.<br>Let GST on shelters meet its doom,<br>So buyers\u2019 hopes may once again find room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bernier calls for purse-strings to be tight,<br>No aid abroad, mean coffers kept in sight.<br>A smaller throne, a leaner rule he craves,<br>No coin for kings beyond our northern waves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Singh.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Singh.jpg 630w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Singh-252x300.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-46a28cc696901201ef9a688ed0b94d91\" style=\"color:#0010cc\">The NDP, with housing as its plea,<br>Would open lands to shape affordability.<br>To raise the roofs where homeless hearts may dwell,<br>And break the chains where costly burdens swell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hour is nigh, the banners are unfurled,<br>Each advocate poses to shape a nation\u2019s world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Thespian-Trump-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29273\" style=\"width:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Thespian-Trump-.jpg 1000w, 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couplet style, as the news lay broken before our eyes or is it at our feet..? Court &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=29254\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Breaking Bard&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29254"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29277,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29254\/revisions\/29277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}