I recently read a transcript of one of Donald’s latest speeches, or more accurately, rants against – well – everything.
The man is incoherent, lacking normal clarity or intelligibility in speech or thought
Okay, I admit I have always had a difficult time following what he was saying, possibly because I was trying to get to the basis of his reasoning, his thought processes in formulating what he was saying – trying to say. Maybe. This recording was so jumbled, rambling, and unconnected, that at the end of his spiel, I had no idea what point, if any, he was trying to make. His followers cheered.
On another channel, Uncle Joe was holding forth on his good deeds, but his delivery has become so fast that the mumbled words cling together as in fright that someone will know what he is talking about. State secrets are safe with him. They were likely safe at Mar-a-Lago too, as they were likely incoherent to the Donald.
We ought to be concerned that one of these two may become the spokesperson for a leading country of the free world. However, we should be just as concerned about the coherency of our own leaders. One of our potential leaders keeps yelling, at every opportunity, to ‘axe the tax’.
Those are very simple words, but do we understand exactly what the implications are of following that dictum? Does he? So far, Pete has been unwilling to expand the explanation in coherent words. In either language.
Further demonstrating a lack of coherent communication within the PMO, Telford (she should have left after SNC-Lavalin too) said the head fellow at CSIS gave her an incoherent briefing on foreign interference. After a period of cooling down, he replied, very politely, that she was full of that stuff we spread on our flower beds this time of year. These are two of our important civil servants and they cannot understand each other?
Maybe I am being too hard on Ms Telford, after all, she does work in an environment that is full of bull roar, misinformation, false promises, insults, prevarications, and downright lies. Take for instance, the Deputy Prime Minister of our Home on Native Land calling out the leader of the loyal opposition for wearing more makeup than she does. What the hey was that? There goes her chance of ever becoming PM. Now, I admit I could understand the context of her clearly enunciated rant, but did it make any sense? No.
And we are still waiting for Justin’s coherent explanation to the people who drive the economy in this land about why an increased capital gains tax is good for them. Please don’t leave for a better tax haven just because the PM is incoherent about this and many other promises he makes and breaks.
Coherency and plain speaking were quite evident in the letter we received from the American senators about our NATO commitment. It reinforced what the head honcho from NATO had said a few weeks ago, but the responses by Bill Blair and Justin Trudeau used the same blarney we have been dishing out for years – an incoherent jumble of figures legerdemain that even Ms Telford could not explain to the DND – or to us, the taxpayers. The solution is so simple: move a portion of the Housing budget, the Health budget, and the Solicitor General’s budget to the Defense Budget because that’s where it should be apportioned: 2% - just like that.
Here in Ontario, the Premier was very coherent in getting booze into the corner stores. He did drop the ‘buck a beer’ promise because of inflationary pressures. Opponents of this largess to the Beer Store Corporation and public intoxication obviously did not make a coherent protest to their MPPs. Oh, wait – they do as they are told, just as the MPs do in Ottawa.
You can see that I am struggling here to understand why we are having so many communication problems in this age of information technology. Recent news articles about hunters and fishers not understanding limits and rules; speedsters and drinkers on our highways not understanding the Highway Traffic Act or even listening to common sense from their friends; university students protesting about unethical investments by their universities who fund their programs by earning money on the stock markets; and people ignoring repeated warnings about computer scams – why are we not communicating better?
At least the City of North Bay foresaw this problem a couple of years ago and hired an information officer. Look how much better we now all understand the inner workings of city hall. The Mayor and the Chief are actually sitting with people and talking to them; the Hospital Foundation held an information session; BayToday recognized community leaders at a brunch; The Battalion released their plans for next season; the school boards are working on releasing a communications announcement any day now. Soon.
Now if I could just explain, coherently, why the carbon tax will reduce the number of hurricanes forecast for this year, and why food prices have gone up 6% when Galen says he is working on a 4% margin, my brother would stop bugging me about my lack of understanding of the political messes around the world, and tell me to elucidate clearly my communications about inflationary pressures on the Bank of Canada and its interest rates.
Just saying.
