Ever since November 5, I have been saying welcome to the Amerikkkan Dark Age. And now it appears we are singing about it. Perhaps I will move to Canada if they will let me in and stay there for about four more years.
Steve, you'd better stay in Canada longer than that! I'd go but alas I'm too old and useless. Maybe they could use me for kindling.
I LOVE Eliza's song. Must get her album.
Furthermore, a president once said about the executive orders: "Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Kinda cool." That's not quite accurate, but that's the way lily-livered Congress treats it. Can someone stop it? Nah. They aren't interested in doing their job. Too busy kissing what's-his'name's ass. Sigh.
Me too and my off spring have multiplied so…But I look at it as we shouldn’t give up what the greatest generation fought for, so many dying, just to hand it over to a mad king and a gazillionaire. He will never win another election-if he even last that long. His cabinets are major stupid unqualified idiots bumping around in the dark and Trump can take them with him because one things for sure—Trump will never win another election here!
Not me. This country has given me a great life, has given us all a great life. Many are better off than me, but I actually appreciate living in a free country, and am not going to leave it to the dogs without a fight.
The song is now my rallying cry. Can't wait till my copy comes. I'm going to wear it out.
I feel the same. To many good people have given there lives for America fighting this very thing and we have to fight our best fight. I’m at the tail end of the greatest generation but they left us a good inheritance that Trump and his untrained monkeys can’t take—he will never win another election in America. It might be after I’m gone but America will be normal again. MANA!
We’d have to constantly wear a t shirt that reads, “I didn’t vote for Trump.” When I tried explaining that to one extremely upset Canadian it was still unacceptable and to them we allowed it to happen. Most of the rest of the free world feels the same. It will take a generation to overcome trumps mark on us and the damage he’s already done in a short time. He and his won’t suffer a while as he says. We will.
How is it that all of the Canucks can see things clearly while 40% of Americans cannot?
There are 2 major reasons why. First, Canada did not experience an intentional “dumbing down” and eradication of education in their country. Second, the Canadians are not bombarded with disinformation from Rupert Murdoch’s FAUX News, 24/7/365.
Now I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed....but how in the Holy Lord's name do americans...after witnessing the horror of the first go round believe that D had the economy roaring during 2017-2019. This BS happens every cycle. That was Obamas economy! But cycle after cycle the Dems clean up the freekin mess made by the right, then lose the next election ( like idiots), the right gives rich 2 trillion tax break & ruins economy & loses election...and Dems enter & dutifully clean up the mess, only to lose the next election. Wash, rinse, repeat. And who in God's name would BELIEVE him when he boasted he'd bring down prices? On what basis?
I just read something this morning over on Wonkette that showed I believe it was 69% of white evangelicals say that the ethical standards of Donnie Dipshit's administration are "good" or "excellent". That is delusion on a level I can't even comprehend.
Ethical standards cannot exist in the same universe with Dipshit’s administration! It’s some type of oxymoron that can implode your brain if you think too hard about it!
These "white evangelicals" wear that moniker believing it's protection similar to Harry Potter's invisibility cloak but it's all a fiction and the rest of us know it.
::but how in the Holy Lord's name do americans...after witnessing the horror of the first go round believe that D had the economy roaring during 2017-2019. ::
Because 49.8% of Americans freaked out at the prospect of a Black Woman President? (Assuming that number's legit and not some pretty fucking incredible voter fraud, which Trump keeps accusing everybody BUT himself of...because with him, Every Accusation is a Confession.)
I refuse to believe that nearly half the American Voting Public looked at the alternatives and said, "Nah, I'll take the Senile Bigoted Sociopath over the Career Public Servant Who Happens to be a Black Woman". A third? That I can believe because they won't SHUT THE FUCK UP, sit down, and die out so we can find a use for them as fertilizer....
Jeff said today picking on a group he hates and making himself ridiculous and hateful I didn’t know about that PR stunt but keep digging that hole donny.
Oh, Walt, if only what you've said was true, but sadly it is not. We've squeaked by on this election, just barely, tho' you will hear it described as a resounding win for the Liberals because they came back from so so so far behind. BUT -- while Poilievre lost his seat and the Conservatives are in the minority instead of the massive majority that was predicted back in January, our beloved country suffers from the same ills as yours, and this was a very scary election for many of us. There has been a massive "dumbing down" here, massive cuts in education, a curriculum that no longer teaches history and civics (and in the rabidly conservative-run provinces like Alberta and Ontario, education is being privatised by governmental majorities that favour such things as vouchers). As for our mainstream media -- yes, thank the gods the CBC will now continue to receive public funding, but the large majority of Canadian newspapers and TV "news" is now owned by Postmedia, an American corporation that pushes the conservative agenda. Many of us on the Liberal and Left side have turned to platforms like this one for our news. And don't forget that the MapleMAGAs literally shut Ottawa down for weeks "protesting" vaccine and mask mandates, all full of their F*CK TRUDEAU hatred. All of this contributed massively to the Conservatives being way ahead in the polls for the past two+ years. I am quite certain that the Conservatives would have won this election if Trump hadn't threatened our sovereignty. That threat brought enough of us together to be able to push back -- but please note, the Conservatives won ALMOST as many seats as the Liberals. Like in the US, nearly half of Canadians who voted (and there was a huge turnout) voted Conservative knowing full well what Poilievre stood for. So while your sentiments above are heartfelt, I'm sure, they are incorrect on every point! That said, I am proud (and greatly relieved) that Canada is the first country to say a resounding "NO" to Trumpism! Big Love from the Canadalands!
So appreciate the reality correction from an actual native, and I am abjectly devastated to learn that the mean-stupid-evil virus has jumped the border to infect members of your population. Quelle horreur!!
Because it worked here it was bound to cross borders. The French though sent a conservative candidate to prison. I don’t recall what she did exactly but I remember it wasn’t half of what Trump has done
Not sure that this a correct assessment of our situation. Ontario certainly doesn’t have a voucher system to contend with and certainly in Ontario the province still supports French and French Catholic school boards, as well as English Catholic and English non denomination (public). Private institutions do not receive financial support to the great chagrin of other Canadians whose faiths are not supported by special allotments. As to the Liberal win, you are correct that it was not a resounding win. But when you look at the data prior to Trudeau’s retirement from the party in January, the Party was estimated to win only 49 seats. When you look at yesterday’s data, they won 168 and the Conservatives 144 seats. It was a resounding comeback and a personal victory for Mark Carney. It’s important to note that in Canada, the Prime Minister must first win a seat in the House of Commons and if they do and they’re also the Leader of the Party, they automatically become Prime Minister. We do not elect the Prime Minister directly per se as you do in the 🇺🇸.
Hey CAM -- my comment about school vouchers did not say Ontario (where I live) or Alberta are now using a voucher system, but that the Conservative leaders WANT to bring in school vouchers. Steven Lecce, our recently former Ontario Minister of Education (he's now Minister of Mines, etc) was a very vigourous proponent of school vouchers and privatisation. And don't get me started on what been happening to the privatisation of health care services under Doug Ford!! Personally I do not agree with public funding for the Catholic boards for the very reason you've identified! Cheers.
I appreciate your attempts to clarify your comments, but in re-reading them, I still maintain that your comments are unclear and tend to portray Canada as something, it isn’t. For sure, Premier Ford had none of your purported comments as part of its election platform last June. That being said, the Fraser Institute and the Canadian Taxpayer Federation (both right leaning organizations) are advocating for vouchers and other changes to the educational system and I should emphasize that responsibility for Education in Canada is the responsibility of each province and territories. We’ll just have to disagree on our perceptions of this great country.
I’m so very sorry to hear the 60+ years of republican lies & propaganda has been exported north. It breaks my heart. I’m hoping Canadians will see what’s going on here in the US as a cautionary tale/wake-up call and address these things before a fascist trump-clone dictator (bought and paid for by oligarchs around the world) tries to turn Canada into an American style third-world circus led by mafia sewer rats.
Please, please, PLEASE don’t let that happen to your beautiful country!!! Also- congrats on your election success!! It looks like an excellent start to repel propaganda & fascism!! 💕💙💕
Wondering if you think things will shift if Carney can get some traction over stuff Trudeau was mired in? Do the recent realignments with EU/NATO partners over trade and Ukraine help your libs at all?
Why doesn’t 🇺🇸PRESS go after 🦊 - you know, like they went after Biden?… CLEARLY they can coordinate a relentless attack… that NO ONE can withstand. (Kudos to Rupert for paying the exact right ppl off - sickening)
Sunny, if only the 4th Estate was a viable protector of our democracy, as it was intended to be. When the oligarchs purchased the vast majority of our multimedia organizations (as the Dems snoozed) it set the tone for decades of blatant disinformation to be broadcast nationally. Now we pay the price.
True dat Walt, between the revised Telecommunication Act and the Citizens United ruling by a corrupt SCOTUS, our Constitutional Republic is now under water!!
Thank you, Koch brothers and all of your greedy, small minded corporate buddies. Traditional book banners, curriculum curtailing, faculty restricting, sports arena financing evil assholes.
Marked difference between urban life up there and over in Europe. The Trump effect. Everyone here is mad, angry and hateful. Many, anyway. Just got back from a month in Paris in an Airbnb in the city's center. Over there, in spite of all the Trump chicanery, people are happy, laughing, smiling, passionate about life, etc. They laugh at him and mock him. Sure, they’re worried about how he’s tanking our economy and the potential ripple effect of this, but they are starting to find in all of this a new European identity, and know that in the long run, they will be alright. You don’t sense that over here, in the least.
I think it’s more the disinformation than education. To many powerful wealthy people enabled him and even the “not wealthy” but educated are sticking with him. My husband, a veteran, 60 yrs old just graduated Summa cum laude, and older brother Vietnam vet, degree in business, they both are for or were for Trump. I also know people with no wealth or higher education who believe trumps the idiot we know he is. Although you are right about our education system.
Truck drivers having to speak English is the kind of shit senile old grandpas rant and rave about while sitting in their recliners watching Fox News, not the President. Oh wait…
No doubt, turnabout fair play when Canada requires both English and French fluency; and, Mexico requires Spanish. Of course, for the witless MAGA traveling to France or Germany. Learn the language if you hope to travel.
It's not being allowed into Canada that I'm worried about. It's being detained at the US border coming home that scares me, after all the terrible stuff I've written about Dear Leader.
Just do what I'm planning to do...... when I arrive at the US border to return to the US from my vacation in Canada.
a) I will have large stick-on posters - pasted on both sides of my car - that say, "Liar, Fraud, Con, Scumbag, Criminal, Traitor Trump is America's Disgrace"
I hate that Canada hates us now. Canada rules. Many of my favorite people hail from Canada. Leonard Cohen, Martin Short, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, David Cronenberg. I love Canada. Canada, can I come live with you?
Trump’s obsession with Canada, Panama and Greenland were likely planted in his mushy brain by Putin. What could be better from Putin’s point of view than for America to needlessly alienate its allies and neighbors?
Evidently, in Trump's interview with the Atlantic, he claimed he not only runs the US, he runs the world. So he decides what countries exist and who they belong to. The rest of world is now working to make us irrelevant.
Not only bullshit, but also about as well thought out as his hiring of MusketMan was thought out- with little depth and understanding. He’s a moron in charge of a 342,000,000 populace who doesn’t know his ass from his mouth.
Great to see the Canadians had the good sense to elect the best man for the job. Even Carney's opponent Poilievre didn't want anything to do with mad Emperor Anus Lips which is another example of why everything he touches does die. However, it's still hard to believe that up to 40% of the American voters still support this deranged, shit talking train wreck.
I think the Canadians were concerned that whatever Poilievre said on election day, he would be a lot more open to tying Canada to the US than most Canadians had a taste for. His policies were also more DOGE/MAGA, and Canadians could already see how that's working out.
Same fools who also sorta believe in The Rapture. They think Trump has a secret plan, all the other countries will fold on tariffs, the huge external tax they'll pay at checkout will replace income tax, women will quit the workforce and just lie back and crank out a replacement labor force.
'Winston had a curious feeling that this was not a real human being but some kind of dummy. It was not the man's brain that was speaking, it was his larynx. The stuff that was coming out of him consisted of words, but it was not speech in the true sense: it was a noise uttered in unconsciousness, like the quacking of a duck.
Syme had fallen silent for a moment, and with the handle of his spoon was tracing patterns in the puddle of stew. The voice from the other table quacked rapidly on, easily audible in spite of the surrounding din.
'There is a word in Newspeak,' said Syme, 'I don't know whether you know it: duckspeak, to quack like a duck. It is one of those interesting words that have two contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it is abuse, applied to someone you agree with, it is praise.'
I thought that for a long time election officials made sure there was an air gap between the voting computers and the rest of the Internet. It needs to be that way to avoid on-line hacking.
When did that change? I had always thought that no voting machines or tabulating equipment were allowed to be connected to the Interweb to protect them from being hacked.
Anything with a connection to starlink would most definitely be suspect of manipulation
Skippy the Dipshit needs to be kept far away from our elections !
In the past, the primary rationale for Republican-driven policies that enriched wealthy households was to stimulate growth from the top down, but this strategy has definitely failed. Instead, governments could place much higher taxes on the rich and redistribute income to the rest of society. That would be an uphill battle in the United States and elsewhere, admittedly, but it would bring big benefits, improving consumer demand and strengthening markets both domestically and internationally.
The tax rate in the 50s-70s for rich and corps was 70%. That's when the middle class blossomed. But one day in 1980, Art Laffer designed the Laffer curve on a napkin for Reagans economic team....& thus was born the largest transfer of wealth in human history from the poor/middle class to the rich. And here we are. Ya know that's one of the reasons the rich wanted Reagan's name on every darned bldg, airport, street in america.
Since it's cheaper to buy politicians than to pay the increased taxes, and to convince Americans that someday they'll all be millionaires and not want to pay taxes, it will take revolutionary change to create a fairer system.
I was trying to edit my comment, but then deleted it!) Now he has to go back to his old job… oh wait! he never had another job! Career politician. But I hear he qualifies for a nice government pension. And all his hypocritical “Lower The Taxes” “Lower the Spending” supporters won’t say a thing about that use of their hard-earned tax dollars.
It’s the same thing here. Check out the Former Presidents Act! Pension. Protection. Staff. Office space. Travel. Healthcare. Former First Lady travel funds. THIS ALL COSTS TAXPAYERS MILLIONS!! THESE PEOPLE ARE MILLIONAIRES! WHY ARE AMERICANS SUPPORTING THEM AFTER THEY ARE NO LONGER IN OFFICE!!?
Also: BREAKING: Despite Trump's offer of help for Putin in the 2030 Russian elections (results will be published in 2029), Putin said, "thanks, no thanks".
As a Canuck, this result wasn't exclusively because of Orange Fuckface... Poilievre had been overconfident and with Trudeau stepping down and Carney removing the hated (by the right) carbon tax and installing a tax exemption for capital gains, neatly undercut Poilievre's two biggest grievance talking points.
Now the fact that Orange Fuckface can't shut his pie hole and got Canadians riled up enough to hand the election (minority government, but a win nonetheless) to the Liberals was still a large factor.
And poor Petey Poilievre lost his own riding... my heart is filled with FanJoy:
Holy shit! I love that song, "Dark Ages." Kudos to your very talented friend and thanks for sharing!
Eliza's great. I was a fan long before I was a friend.
Ever since November 5, I have been saying welcome to the Amerikkkan Dark Age. And now it appears we are singing about it. Perhaps I will move to Canada if they will let me in and stay there for about four more years.
Steve, you'd better stay in Canada longer than that! I'd go but alas I'm too old and useless. Maybe they could use me for kindling.
I LOVE Eliza's song. Must get her album.
Furthermore, a president once said about the executive orders: "Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Kinda cool." That's not quite accurate, but that's the way lily-livered Congress treats it. Can someone stop it? Nah. They aren't interested in doing their job. Too busy kissing what's-his'name's ass. Sigh.
Me too and my off spring have multiplied so…But I look at it as we shouldn’t give up what the greatest generation fought for, so many dying, just to hand it over to a mad king and a gazillionaire. He will never win another election-if he even last that long. His cabinets are major stupid unqualified idiots bumping around in the dark and Trump can take them with him because one things for sure—Trump will never win another election here!
That’s if he somehow doesn’t pull off a 3rd term!
Not me. This country has given me a great life, has given us all a great life. Many are better off than me, but I actually appreciate living in a free country, and am not going to leave it to the dogs without a fight.
The song is now my rallying cry. Can't wait till my copy comes. I'm going to wear it out.
Oh, we'll definitely fight! If I have to hit people with my walker if it comes to that.
Now, that's what I'm talking about! Go girl, and we're all there with you!
I feel the same. To many good people have given there lives for America fighting this very thing and we have to fight our best fight. I’m at the tail end of the greatest generation but they left us a good inheritance that Trump and his untrained monkeys can’t take—he will never win another election in America. It might be after I’m gone but America will be normal again. MANA!
👍👍👍
We’d have to constantly wear a t shirt that reads, “I didn’t vote for Trump.” When I tried explaining that to one extremely upset Canadian it was still unacceptable and to them we allowed it to happen. Most of the rest of the free world feels the same. It will take a generation to overcome trumps mark on us and the damage he’s already done in a short time. He and his won’t suffer a while as he says. We will.
It is our responsibility as citizens to see to it that he, and his cabinet full of traitors, suffers. They will.
Awesome song! I'll have to check out the album!!
How is it that all of the Canucks can see things clearly while 40% of Americans cannot?
There are 2 major reasons why. First, Canada did not experience an intentional “dumbing down” and eradication of education in their country. Second, the Canadians are not bombarded with disinformation from Rupert Murdoch’s FAUX News, 24/7/365.
Now I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed....but how in the Holy Lord's name do americans...after witnessing the horror of the first go round believe that D had the economy roaring during 2017-2019. This BS happens every cycle. That was Obamas economy! But cycle after cycle the Dems clean up the freekin mess made by the right, then lose the next election ( like idiots), the right gives rich 2 trillion tax break & ruins economy & loses election...and Dems enter & dutifully clean up the mess, only to lose the next election. Wash, rinse, repeat. And who in God's name would BELIEVE him when he boasted he'd bring down prices? On what basis?
50% of Americans are dumber than a bag of hair. Dumb, gullible, racist, homophobic, and general prickly.
I just read something this morning over on Wonkette that showed I believe it was 69% of white evangelicals say that the ethical standards of Donnie Dipshit's administration are "good" or "excellent". That is delusion on a level I can't even comprehend.
Ethical standards cannot exist in the same universe with Dipshit’s administration! It’s some type of oxymoron that can implode your brain if you think too hard about it!
These "white evangelicals" wear that moniker believing it's protection similar to Harry Potter's invisibility cloak but it's all a fiction and the rest of us know it.
Don’t disparage a bag of hair. At least a bag of hair lived its life in the proximity of a functioning brain.
Imagine how dumb the average person is. Half of the total population are dumber than that guy.
(Paraphrasing George Carlin)
::but how in the Holy Lord's name do americans...after witnessing the horror of the first go round believe that D had the economy roaring during 2017-2019. ::
Because 49.8% of Americans freaked out at the prospect of a Black Woman President? (Assuming that number's legit and not some pretty fucking incredible voter fraud, which Trump keeps accusing everybody BUT himself of...because with him, Every Accusation is a Confession.)
I refuse to believe that nearly half the American Voting Public looked at the alternatives and said, "Nah, I'll take the Senile Bigoted Sociopath over the Career Public Servant Who Happens to be a Black Woman". A third? That I can believe because they won't SHUT THE FUCK UP, sit down, and die out so we can find a use for them as fertilizer....
Douglas, any day now he is going to start telling the truth. 😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Thank you!!! I needed a laugh!!
There are countless suckers born every minute, it seems....
seriously? this is where we are now? because I know of one truck driver who can barely speak English — this guy.
Jeff said today picking on a group he hates and making himself ridiculous and hateful I didn’t know about that PR stunt but keep digging that hole donny.
Thank you for calling it out! Note: only 31.78% of voters voted for 47.
Oh, Walt, if only what you've said was true, but sadly it is not. We've squeaked by on this election, just barely, tho' you will hear it described as a resounding win for the Liberals because they came back from so so so far behind. BUT -- while Poilievre lost his seat and the Conservatives are in the minority instead of the massive majority that was predicted back in January, our beloved country suffers from the same ills as yours, and this was a very scary election for many of us. There has been a massive "dumbing down" here, massive cuts in education, a curriculum that no longer teaches history and civics (and in the rabidly conservative-run provinces like Alberta and Ontario, education is being privatised by governmental majorities that favour such things as vouchers). As for our mainstream media -- yes, thank the gods the CBC will now continue to receive public funding, but the large majority of Canadian newspapers and TV "news" is now owned by Postmedia, an American corporation that pushes the conservative agenda. Many of us on the Liberal and Left side have turned to platforms like this one for our news. And don't forget that the MapleMAGAs literally shut Ottawa down for weeks "protesting" vaccine and mask mandates, all full of their F*CK TRUDEAU hatred. All of this contributed massively to the Conservatives being way ahead in the polls for the past two+ years. I am quite certain that the Conservatives would have won this election if Trump hadn't threatened our sovereignty. That threat brought enough of us together to be able to push back -- but please note, the Conservatives won ALMOST as many seats as the Liberals. Like in the US, nearly half of Canadians who voted (and there was a huge turnout) voted Conservative knowing full well what Poilievre stood for. So while your sentiments above are heartfelt, I'm sure, they are incorrect on every point! That said, I am proud (and greatly relieved) that Canada is the first country to say a resounding "NO" to Trumpism! Big Love from the Canadalands!
So appreciate the reality correction from an actual native, and I am abjectly devastated to learn that the mean-stupid-evil virus has jumped the border to infect members of your population. Quelle horreur!!
we're an echo of the US in many ways, but we want to remain an independent echo (with fewer guns and more healthcare)
Amen!
Because it worked here it was bound to cross borders. The French though sent a conservative candidate to prison. I don’t recall what she did exactly but I remember it wasn’t half of what Trump has done
Not sure that this a correct assessment of our situation. Ontario certainly doesn’t have a voucher system to contend with and certainly in Ontario the province still supports French and French Catholic school boards, as well as English Catholic and English non denomination (public). Private institutions do not receive financial support to the great chagrin of other Canadians whose faiths are not supported by special allotments. As to the Liberal win, you are correct that it was not a resounding win. But when you look at the data prior to Trudeau’s retirement from the party in January, the Party was estimated to win only 49 seats. When you look at yesterday’s data, they won 168 and the Conservatives 144 seats. It was a resounding comeback and a personal victory for Mark Carney. It’s important to note that in Canada, the Prime Minister must first win a seat in the House of Commons and if they do and they’re also the Leader of the Party, they automatically become Prime Minister. We do not elect the Prime Minister directly per se as you do in the 🇺🇸.
At least Canada has a Carney. The US has a stupid fucking Nazi carnival barker.
Hey CAM -- my comment about school vouchers did not say Ontario (where I live) or Alberta are now using a voucher system, but that the Conservative leaders WANT to bring in school vouchers. Steven Lecce, our recently former Ontario Minister of Education (he's now Minister of Mines, etc) was a very vigourous proponent of school vouchers and privatisation. And don't get me started on what been happening to the privatisation of health care services under Doug Ford!! Personally I do not agree with public funding for the Catholic boards for the very reason you've identified! Cheers.
I appreciate your attempts to clarify your comments, but in re-reading them, I still maintain that your comments are unclear and tend to portray Canada as something, it isn’t. For sure, Premier Ford had none of your purported comments as part of its election platform last June. That being said, the Fraser Institute and the Canadian Taxpayer Federation (both right leaning organizations) are advocating for vouchers and other changes to the educational system and I should emphasize that responsibility for Education in Canada is the responsibility of each province and territories. We’ll just have to disagree on our perceptions of this great country.
also, Fox News is available here, and I know people who avail themselves with it
Oh, god, no.
(of it)
To laugh mostly. But we do have our kooks.
I couldn’t suffer five minutes of Fox. I tried once
My understanding is that it is available, but not publicly broadcast.
I’m so very sorry to hear the 60+ years of republican lies & propaganda has been exported north. It breaks my heart. I’m hoping Canadians will see what’s going on here in the US as a cautionary tale/wake-up call and address these things before a fascist trump-clone dictator (bought and paid for by oligarchs around the world) tries to turn Canada into an American style third-world circus led by mafia sewer rats.
Please, please, PLEASE don’t let that happen to your beautiful country!!! Also- congrats on your election success!! It looks like an excellent start to repel propaganda & fascism!! 💕💙💕
Carol, thanks for setting me straight. I’m horrified to read this. Wishful thinking and poor research on my part.
History is key to any education. That’s a major reason people don’t realize what’s happening and why it should be clear.
Wondering if you think things will shift if Carney can get some traction over stuff Trudeau was mired in? Do the recent realignments with EU/NATO partners over trade and Ukraine help your libs at all?
Why doesn’t 🇺🇸PRESS go after 🦊 - you know, like they went after Biden?… CLEARLY they can coordinate a relentless attack… that NO ONE can withstand. (Kudos to Rupert for paying the exact right ppl off - sickening)
Sunny, if only the 4th Estate was a viable protector of our democracy, as it was intended to be. When the oligarchs purchased the vast majority of our multimedia organizations (as the Dems snoozed) it set the tone for decades of blatant disinformation to be broadcast nationally. Now we pay the price.
True dat Walt, between the revised Telecommunication Act and the Citizens United ruling by a corrupt SCOTUS, our Constitutional Republic is now under water!!
They played a masterful long (4 decades) game, and we're screwed as a result.
Thank you, Koch brothers and all of your greedy, small minded corporate buddies. Traditional book banners, curriculum curtailing, faculty restricting, sports arena financing evil assholes.
THIS! THIS! THIS!
Hey! Will Donnie and his sewer clowns really make the shelves bare?
https://kathleenweber.substack.com/p/hurricane-coming-six-to-eight-weeks
Marked difference between urban life up there and over in Europe. The Trump effect. Everyone here is mad, angry and hateful. Many, anyway. Just got back from a month in Paris in an Airbnb in the city's center. Over there, in spite of all the Trump chicanery, people are happy, laughing, smiling, passionate about life, etc. They laugh at him and mock him. Sure, they’re worried about how he’s tanking our economy and the potential ripple effect of this, but they are starting to find in all of this a new European identity, and know that in the long run, they will be alright. You don’t sense that over here, in the least.
Canada has handled this entire business with aplomb.
Canadian here: We watch what happens in your country and say, holy fuck that can't be right.
We also say that down here in Canada's pants.
https://youtube.com/shorts/K1SPOsj6KPI?si=lWruncuo5blPE9JC
HaNNity literally looks upset that Ted Koppel is calling BS…⁉️‼️
https://youtube.com/shorts/K1SPOsj6KPI?si=lWruncuo5blPE9JC
HaNNity literally looks upset that Ted Koppel is calling BS…⁉️‼️
https://youtube.com/shorts/K1SPOsj6KPI?si=lWruncuo5blPE9JC
Yes, Walt, yes!
🎯🎯🎯Walt: Add this notion I call the “cowboy mentality” meaning might makes right & voila!
I think it’s more the disinformation than education. To many powerful wealthy people enabled him and even the “not wealthy” but educated are sticking with him. My husband, a veteran, 60 yrs old just graduated Summa cum laude, and older brother Vietnam vet, degree in business, they both are for or were for Trump. I also know people with no wealth or higher education who believe trumps the idiot we know he is. Although you are right about our education system.
https://youtube.com/shorts/K1SPOsj6KPI?si=lWruncuo5blPE9JC
Hannity literally looks hurt that Ted Koppel is calling BS on 🦊‼️⁉️
Truck drivers having to speak English is the kind of shit senile old grandpas rant and rave about while sitting in their recliners watching Fox News, not the President. Oh wait…
No doubt, turnabout fair play when Canada requires both English and French fluency; and, Mexico requires Spanish. Of course, for the witless MAGA traveling to France or Germany. Learn the language if you hope to travel.
Yea, Dean, yes!
PLEASE DISCONTINUE GOING TO FASCIST-LED, MAGAt-INFESTED Florida for your vacations.
Instead, go to Canada!
Will they allow us in? We might overstay our travel visa.
It's not being allowed into Canada that I'm worried about. It's being detained at the US border coming home that scares me, after all the terrible stuff I've written about Dear Leader.
Just do what I'm planning to do...... when I arrive at the US border to return to the US from my vacation in Canada.
a) I will have large stick-on posters - pasted on both sides of my car - that say, "Liar, Fraud, Con, Scumbag, Criminal, Traitor Trump is America's Disgrace"
b) I will have my US Passport in hand.
:)
With you 💯Betsy — especially because I am a naturalized citizen, not born here
I have 6 first cousins with dual Canadian/USA citizenship. I'm so jealous. I've visted many times.I love Canada & this makes me very sad.
Yeah, but do they feature an Early Bird Special?
Country Kitchen Buffet!
Now I'm wishing I'd moved there back in the 70's when I had a boyfriend in Toronto.
Florida is OUT for me.
Poilievre should have just written: Donald, STOP!
It worked so well for Oránganus.
fair point
Vladimir, Stop!
I hate that Canada hates us now. Canada rules. Many of my favorite people hail from Canada. Leonard Cohen, Martin Short, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, David Cronenberg. I love Canada. Canada, can I come live with you?
We don't hate you... we hate the thin-skinned fascists that infest your government
*hug*
❤️❤️❤️❤️
💖🇨🇦❗
Don't forget Rush, Michael J. Fox, and Rick Moranis! And yes, you can be my neighbor. 😊
And another favorite John Candy!
And the Trailer Park Boys -- we are rewatching the series for the third time. It's LOL!
Mike Myers !
Joni Mitchell and Neil Young!
For the last three decades I have been saying that in my next life I will be Canadian. 🍁
Vacation Visas are pretty simple to obtain, a prolonged stay is now rather difficult Alethia… you’ve got a fabulous name / avatar by the by!!
Why thank you 🙂
I’m sure you know the Greek meaning, oui??
Oui :)
I have first cousins with dual Canadian/USA citizenship. I'm so jealous. I visited many times in life. I love Canada , this makes me very sad.
My son is living there currently. I hope they they don’t hate on him. He’s not particularly American
Trump’s obsession with Canada, Panama and Greenland were likely planted in his mushy brain by Putin. What could be better from Putin’s point of view than for America to needlessly alienate its allies and neighbors?
Exactly, Russian crime syndicate owns his debt, Putins simply pulling the strings Kim!!
Evidently, in Trump's interview with the Atlantic, he claimed he not only runs the US, he runs the world. So he decides what countries exist and who they belong to. The rest of world is now working to make us irrelevant.
Yeah, and if he wasn't a Russian asset/useful idiot, he sure is doing everything that one would.
Mark Carney to Trump - “Fuck your statehood.”
I loved his victory speech… the whole world feels the same betrayal Mike!!
Yep. His whole America first program is bullshit.
Not only bullshit, but also about as well thought out as his hiring of MusketMan was thought out- with little depth and understanding. He’s a moron in charge of a 342,000,000 populace who doesn’t know his ass from his mouth.
Right out of the Nazi playbook Mike!!
NOTHING he comes up with is original.
Congrats to Prime Minister Mark Carney! 🇨🇦 And thank you President Dumbshit for helping it to happen.
Great to see the Canadians had the good sense to elect the best man for the job. Even Carney's opponent Poilievre didn't want anything to do with mad Emperor Anus Lips which is another example of why everything he touches does die. However, it's still hard to believe that up to 40% of the American voters still support this deranged, shit talking train wreck.
I think the Canadians were concerned that whatever Poilievre said on election day, he would be a lot more open to tying Canada to the US than most Canadians had a taste for. His policies were also more DOGE/MAGA, and Canadians could already see how that's working out.
Same fools who also sorta believe in The Rapture. They think Trump has a secret plan, all the other countries will fold on tariffs, the huge external tax they'll pay at checkout will replace income tax, women will quit the workforce and just lie back and crank out a replacement labor force.
Maybe they’ll wake up when they’re living in “a van down by the river.”
Thankfully that number goes down daily and when th effects of his tariffs hit he'll be underwater.
With an IQ of 74 coupled with drug addled, semi literate grey matter oozing out of his mouth every time he speaks, this is unsurprising Susan!!
Well said.
Just wait until Orange Fuckwit signs an executive order demanding we all speak word salad. 🙄
'Winston had a curious feeling that this was not a real human being but some kind of dummy. It was not the man's brain that was speaking, it was his larynx. The stuff that was coming out of him consisted of words, but it was not speech in the true sense: it was a noise uttered in unconsciousness, like the quacking of a duck.
Syme had fallen silent for a moment, and with the handle of his spoon was tracing patterns in the puddle of stew. The voice from the other table quacked rapidly on, easily audible in spite of the surrounding din.
'There is a word in Newspeak,' said Syme, 'I don't know whether you know it: duckspeak, to quack like a duck. It is one of those interesting words that have two contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it is abuse, applied to someone you agree with, it is praise.'
- George Orwell, 1984
Orwell described Musk before Musk was even born.
The most “babbling brook” of all orators, he now seeks to tell the rest of the country how to communicate better. It’s Bizzaro World, Jerry!
Babbling brooks are restful and pleasant. Please do not insult babbling brooks.
I stand corrected. Sorry, Brenda.
Lol
Well played post Kay-EI, you’re always on your game!!
Ha Ha! You win the Interweb today, Kay-El !
Word salad is the new official language ot the US.
Quebec will demand it be slathered in French dressing. 🤭
😂
As long as they don’t connect their voting machines to starlink…
I thought that for a long time election officials made sure there was an air gap between the voting computers and the rest of the Internet. It needs to be that way to avoid on-line hacking.
As we found out with the swing states, it was obvious that there was tampering.
Exactly, Nancy!
When did that change? I had always thought that no voting machines or tabulating equipment were allowed to be connected to the Interweb to protect them from being hacked.
Anything with a connection to starlink would most definitely be suspect of manipulation
Skippy the Dipshit needs to be kept far away from our elections !
referring to Canada? we do paper ballots
Likely they already are barb!!
I can’t believe it! That was always driven home, how there could be no manipulation because there was no connection.
If that protection was done away with this last election then things make a lot more sense.
Like Granpa winning All the swing States.
The U.S. is suffering from stagnation.
One cure to stagnation is redistribution.
In the past, the primary rationale for Republican-driven policies that enriched wealthy households was to stimulate growth from the top down, but this strategy has definitely failed. Instead, governments could place much higher taxes on the rich and redistribute income to the rest of society. That would be an uphill battle in the United States and elsewhere, admittedly, but it would bring big benefits, improving consumer demand and strengthening markets both domestically and internationally.
The tax rate in the 50s-70s for rich and corps was 70%. That's when the middle class blossomed. But one day in 1980, Art Laffer designed the Laffer curve on a napkin for Reagans economic team....& thus was born the largest transfer of wealth in human history from the poor/middle class to the rich. And here we are. Ya know that's one of the reasons the rich wanted Reagan's name on every darned bldg, airport, street in america.
It will always be
Washington’s National Airport to me. Full stop 🛑
Back in the mid 1980's, I remember that our corporation paid 48% for corporate income tax.
Since it's cheaper to buy politicians than to pay the increased taxes, and to convince Americans that someday they'll all be millionaires and not want to pay taxes, it will take revolutionary change to create a fairer system.
Trump is easy to bribe. Just give him the money, he'll give you anything you want.
You don't necessarily have to bribe him. He did what Laura Loomer wanted just because she flattered him. Ok, maybe there was more, IDK.
Not gonna happen without a damn well organized revolution Joel!!
BTW, did you see Polilievre lost his seat?
I was trying to edit my comment, but then deleted it!) Now he has to go back to his old job… oh wait! he never had another job! Career politician. But I hear he qualifies for a nice government pension. And all his hypocritical “Lower The Taxes” “Lower the Spending” supporters won’t say a thing about that use of their hard-earned tax dollars.
It’s the same thing here. Check out the Former Presidents Act! Pension. Protection. Staff. Office space. Travel. Healthcare. Former First Lady travel funds. THIS ALL COSTS TAXPAYERS MILLIONS!! THESE PEOPLE ARE MILLIONAIRES! WHY ARE AMERICANS SUPPORTING THEM AFTER THEY ARE NO LONGER IN OFFICE!!?
The only thing they should get is 10-15years of SS protection(there are wackos out there)- travel & healthcare - NOPE!
I just can’t see it. They’re millionaires. They can afford their own security.
I heard he was once a paper boy. Maybe the Ottawa Citizen has an opening.
Thank you Jeff.
Also: BREAKING: Despite Trump's offer of help for Putin in the 2030 Russian elections (results will be published in 2029), Putin said, "thanks, no thanks".
As a Canuck, this result wasn't exclusively because of Orange Fuckface... Poilievre had been overconfident and with Trudeau stepping down and Carney removing the hated (by the right) carbon tax and installing a tax exemption for capital gains, neatly undercut Poilievre's two biggest grievance talking points.
Now the fact that Orange Fuckface can't shut his pie hole and got Canadians riled up enough to hand the election (minority government, but a win nonetheless) to the Liberals was still a large factor.
And poor Petey Poilievre lost his own riding... my heart is filled with FanJoy:
Party Candidate Votes Share
LIB Bruce Fanjoy 42,374 50.6%
CON Pierre Poilievre* 38,581 46.1%
Through his clueless and insulting fever dream ranting, he helped Canada elude a conservative PM. Good for Canada, inadvertent as it was on his part.
Any good that AnusMouthPantLoad does is always unintentional.
Except for himself. Any benefit to anyone else is purely incidental