This was generated entirely by A.I. Whatever you think of the Epstein story, this is quite remarkable. Wow.
 

We have to remember that cognitive dissonance is a real thing - the longer someone has been fooled by a con, the more difficult it is to admit to yourself that you've been played for a sucker. It's only when the pain has become so unbearable, that they have no choice but to admit they were wrong.

Earlier this year during a TVO special, Margaret Atwood was asked what it would take for MAGA to give up their blind loyalty to their cult leader and she said she doesn't think it's a question of making them understand, "Fuck Around and Find Out" is her solution:

"People often don't believe things unless they are personally and directly impacted by them. There is no climate change until the hurricane wipes out your town, Trump is amazing until everybody in town loses their job. The job of the media is to just track what is happening. It would be a fallacy to believe that everything that Trump does is bad, we don't know yet what he's going to do and we don't know how it's going to work out. It's a question of what the things he does with his power are net positive or net negative."

If you have the time, I recommend that you watch the TVO episode here on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hij5MbcICm4
Margaret Atwood: Democracy Under Her Eye

Whether your politics lean left or right, going too far to the extreme on either side will lead to tyranny. Your best option is to stay near the center: center-left or center-right, avoiding the chaos that comes at the extremes of political viewpoints.

Atwood: "Once you get enough chaos, people will vote for a strong man because he will say, only I can fix it, or I can make the trains run on time." And the people will say, let him give it a go, "and there's then a path all the way up to the top to Tyranny from there, which is why extremes on the right and the left are always trying to create more chaos. Because the worst things are, the more likely their shot is at getting control of the whole she-bang."

And Trump has often been called a chaos agent by the news, because that's exactly what he likes to do.
I don't think it's going to work this time though, all of his latest chaotic distractions haven't moved the needle from his own MAGA supporters wanting to know who is in the Epstein files. When you promise to expose the seedy pedophile ring and that's why the right-wing conspiracy nutjobs voted for you and you don't deliver...

Here are some people who are learning Atwood's lesson about FAFO:








Once you've lost Roseanne Barr... you've lost the farm.
 

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Leave it to South Park to sum everything up. 

Donald Trump dealt humiliating blow in brutal Satan South Park scene

Buzzy Krumhunger wrote:

Colbert and Stewart and likely all the others yelling eff you?  Not so much.

Have you heard what your hero screams to and about people for the last 10 years?

^I guess wherever he goes, he's going as one now.

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I wouldn't worry about the South Park gang, they'll be just fine. They have what Trump wants...


 

RA, probably because, although some of those names are funny, the damage this extremely sick individual is doing to America and the Western Alliance is far, far beyond humour.

He's undoing 80 years of mutual advancement, and he's enjoying every minute of the tRump-induced pain. He is one sick bastard.

Under every cloud ..

cash wrote:

As expected this Liberal government is as incompetent as the previous one. There's only one thing they should be dealing with and it's not Gaza. 

Agreed. I wonder if PP would have had better success in dealing with Mr.Trump. Unfortunately, we won't get a chance to find out any time soon.

I don't think people understand that running any government is a multi-faceted job, and I'm more than happy to see Carney dealing with a butcher like Netanyahu by taking a stand alongside the other world leaders against what's happening in Gaza. It also puts pressure on the regime to expand the paltry food shipments to the region before any more starvation has occurred.  Do I need to post photos of the skeletal remains of some of the children for folks to get that?   Pipe up and I will.

The US hates that we've announced this, and that's also another point in our favor for negotiations.

And quite frankly, PP would've gotten us a deal alright, a bad one for the ages. Folks have forgotten that the Conservatives, both federal and provincial, have been the strongest MAGA supporters in the country up until Trump basically turned against every trading partner and ally, and embraced Russia. We don't need that apple-munching moron leading this country, the guy did nothing for his constituents for 20 (30?) years and finally got booted out of his own riding. If the PCs ever wanted any hope of being considered as a serious party, they should find a new leader who doesn't embrace Trump-style election theatrics and stoke hate, to take over as leader. While O'Toole was not exactly a favorite of mine, but he was miles ahead of PeePee.



 

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cash wrote:

Saul wrote:

mace wrote:

Agreed. I wonder if PP would have had better success in dealing with Mr.Trump. Unfortunately, we won't get a chance to find out any time soon.

How, exactly? I'm not necessarily in disagreement. Just wondering HOW you see this govt as incompetent... I think there's a lot to unravel...

Mexico got an extension. Canada didn't. Mexico didn't make some Palestine announcement two days before August 1st. I will never understand why the left is so obsessed with Palestine. I think I know why. 

Actually, that's one thing Carney's got right. It lays the groundwork for a two-state solution. Which is arguably the best short-term outcome in that region. Furthermore, we simply can't allow Trump or any other foreign leader dictating our foreign policy. If that means no trade deal, so be it. Where the Libs worry me is actual or promises of military cooperation with the US. Golden Dome missile defence, jets, ... this is absolutely the wrong time to be striking these kinds of deals with the US. For so many reasons (for instance, Trump is as leaky as ship as there has ever been in the upper echelons of the US). It galls me to the core that Canadians are prodded to boycott US consumer goods even while our govt is negotiating military deals. Cdns are being gamed...

What I don't understand about Mr. Trump is the reaction when he outright lies and nobody including media don't seem to go after him and make him explain and prove his claim.  Trump will just say it's a terrible question or the reporter is being nasty and then that is the end of it.  

Yesterday he fired the head of the Bureau Of Labor Statistics because he didn't like the numbers for job growth last month.  The numbers showed that job growth was way down and Trump claimed that the person in charge, Erika McEntarfer, was either lying or had manipulated the numbers.  And he offered NO EVIDENCE or proof of her doing this.  He just didn't like her report.  What!!?

This was a big story for about six hours and now it is already fading from the media and Democrats focus.  This story is huge.  He is actually accussing the head of the governments Bureau of Statistics of manipulating or lying about key economic numbers, then fires her, and it seems few question him.  

Same with how Canada has been treated by the Trump government.  To impose tariffs on us he has to show an outside threat to the US from another country.  Canada's threat is fentanyl getting across the border and illegals coming in from north of the border. It has been proven, that Canada is not the source of either. 
 
Only 1% of fentanyl coming into the US is from Canada, and we have never been the source of the millions of illegal people gathering at the border and entering America.  Canada has spent over a billion to beef up security against fentanyl and any illegals entering the US.  So far Trump has not acknowledged this. Doing so would make it almost impossible to continue with tariffs since the "threat" that never was, is now gone. 

The Weed wrote:

What's the point of questioning someone who either ignores the question, shouts fake news, lies an answer or hurls an insult at the questioner? I understand that would expose the non-answerer as dodging the question, but any sane person already knows and the cult just worships.

And online some of the assholes are Assbots...
 

Here we are trying to understand what a demented sociopath is doing on a daily basis.

He's an extremely dangerous, spoiled-rotten lunatic with absolutely no filters.

"If tRump is gone before I wake,
I pray the Lord the news ain't fake."
😔 🙏

Watters is a classic example of someone who will suspend all logic and flat-out lie, all to defend Fat Nixon, and to keep his high-priced gig. Even his own mother shamed him during a call-in.

As long as the cheques clear, he'll happily sell his country down the river.

May the day soon come when all these empty vessels face their Waterloo.

As outraged as many Canadians are, imagine how sane Americans are feeling. Actually, I know how dismayed they are. I'm regularly in touch with several in different states and they cannot believe what has happened to their country.