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Could America get any crazier? 🤣
Yes, it could. The J6 insurrectionists Trump pardoned now want compensation.
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You are correct, sir. One thing we can all count on. tRump will do his best to ladle more crazy on us all every single day. And to think that a few very troubled Canadians want to join the mass insanity. Thank god it's a tiny minority.
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When it happens, this should be the first song out of the gate.
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Apparently they can't handle the truth. You mean the 'tax-taker' states have a much higher crime rate than the 'tax-giver' states? Well, shut my mouth!
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Another reason to stay away from Florida, as if we needed another one.
Florida will descend into a cesspool of unnecessary, easily-avoidable disease under these idiots. Truly, this stupidity would fit 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' perfectly.
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Let's make smallpox great again!
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Epstein survivors just announced they will release their own list of names. “We know who abused us. We saw who came and went. This list will be survivor-led — for survivors.” The government failed. So the victims are stepping up.
It's interesting to watch the online comments to see a number of people warn that these survivors should have the names sent to multiple trustworthy sources so that in the event of their deaths i.e. they are murdered, or commit "suicide" that the names will still come out.
AND: courtesy of Occupy Democrats on Facebook:
Massive bombshell drops in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal as newly released footage destroys Attorney General Pam Bondi's lie about the missing prison footage — and reveals guards in the vicinity.This just blew the White House's entire narrative apart...
Originally, Bondi's MAGA Justice Department and the FBI released roughly 11 hours of footage from the prison where Epstein was being held when he died. Bizarrely, there was a one-minute gap in the footage of the area outside of Epstein's cell in the hours before his death.
Desperate to quash the quickly spreading accusations of a coverup, Bondi absurdly claimed that the security cameras in the facility automatically delete one minute each night as part of a regular reset. The explanation was deeply unconvincing to all but the most diehard MAGA supporters. What prison would allow such a glaring security vulnerability in its system? More suspicious still, forensic analysis of the video revealed that it had been repeatedly edited.
The newly released footage was part of a large release on Tuesday and it shows the missing minute. In it, a group of guards can be seen in the area around Epstein's cell. It's unclear exactly what they're doing, but it's certainly not the blank gap that the Trump administration had led us to believe.
The footage also shows Epstein at being escorted through the prison to make a phone call at one point.
Bondi must immediately come forward and explain why she claimed that the missing minute was recorded over when that was not the case. Either she is woefully incompetent, in which case she should resign, or she is actively lying, in which case she should resign.
She's both!
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Another example of the reach of non-traditional media.
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Another reason to stay away from Florida, as if we needed another one.
Florida will descend into a cesspool of unnecessary, easily-avoidable disease under these idiots. Truly, this stupidity would fit 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' perfectly.
“Who am I to tell you what your child should put in their body?” Dr. Ladapo, a vocal denigrator of vaccines, said to applause during an event on Wednesday in Valrico, Fla., near Tampa. “Your body is a gift from God.
”He added that the administration would be “working to end” all vaccine mandates. “Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery,” Dr. Ladapo said.
I saw Dr. Joseph Ladapo speaking on CityPulse News today (yes, I still call it CityPulse, CityNews is a dumb lazy name)... when you combine this religious nutjob's ideology with RFK Jr being in charge of the nation's health policies, the end of many US food inspections due to a combination of cutting staff (thanks DOGE!)Â and cutting regulations... there are so many reasons not to buy American food beyond just boycotting this right-wing regime of morons, you're risking your own health and your family's health going forward with untrustworthy food products.
The only bright spot:
We may finally get to hear the names of the perpetrators... and yes, aside from Trump, I do expect to see Bill Gates and Bill Clinton being named.
A Trump DOJ official was caught on hidden camera saying the FBI intentionally redacted Republican names from the Epstein files—while leaving Democrats exposed. He also admits Ghislaine Maxwell was moved to “keep her mouth shut.” This is criminal witness tampering.
Go to the twitter link to see the video. Meanwhile... he's going to start a war just to find a distraction big enough to stop everyone from talking about him being a pedophile, isn't he?
Nothing says “Nobel Peace prize” quite like the changing the name of the Department of Defense to the “Department of War.”
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After a week of rumors swirling over his impending death, Trump does what the ultimate con man does... he tries to trick his gullible moron followers into giving him $15 so he can get into Heaven! As reported here:
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Like a 1980s televangelist, Trump is now asking his supporters to send him $15 to help him get to Heaven.
Abbreviated version of the message:
It's going to take a lot more than $15 from each of his remaining 200 followers to get past the pearly gates.
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It definitely is a cult, when the leader refers to their followers as their flock, it's a flock of sheep: mindless, dumb animals that need to be taken care of by an all-wise unquestionable leader.
Speaking of sheep - the latest MAGA to find out that they couldn't trust a right-wing politician to help the little guy, are the farmers:
I made a prediction about this months ago that Trump's economic policies are all about crashing the US economy (along with hyping up the crypto bubble until that bursts and leaves the suckers with an intangible worthless asset in place of real dollars) so that he and his family and other rich insiders can buy up America's real estate for very cheap.
This is also why you'll notice he keeps attacking the Federal Reserve chief Jerome Powell for not lowering US interest rates, citing that he wants the American home owner to pay less on their mortgages. Right.... The real reason is that if you want to buy up most of America once the economy hits a massive recession, you need a LOT of cash, and that means Trump and kids have to borrow that money from the banks. Ideally at the lowest rates possible, like 1% if you can get it. Trump isn't interested in seeing Elon Musk be a trillionaire, HE wants to be the richest man alive and own as much of America as he can before he loses the office (if he somehow loses it).
Leverage is how people get rich, and leverage is accomplished by borrowing a huge amount of money to make a bet (real estate is that bet). Leverage can also make you destitute and homeless if you bet wrong, but when you're the president of the country, you set the rules and you are the House.
1) use tariffs and make tourist visits to the US a living nightmare, so that as many US businesses go bankrupt as possible. Â
2) borrow as much money as humanly possible and buy up everything: land, big offices and properties, maybe even corporations (e.g. see Intel, which the Trump admin now has a 10% stake in).
3) restore the economy (to some degree) near the end of your 4-year term and the value of that land and offices and businesses go back to their true value. Claim that you've made America GREAT again! Some of his remaining red state rubes will even believe it.
You're rich! And you own most of America.
Note the Twitter comment about JD Vance investing in a business that deals with FARM AUCTIONS. JD Vance is no different from Trump. No Republican is. The right-wing politicians, especially in America, are in it for themselves, not to serve the people.
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Te pasas. There isn't enough factory capacity that would effectively titrate the condition manifest here.
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Te pasas. There isn't enough factory capacity that would effectively titrate the condition manifest here.
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Speaking of Trump's crypto bubble, courtesy of NPR:
How Trump's latest crypto launch enriches his family
Even by Donald Trump's well-established track record of making money off the presidency, he's had a banner week.On Monday, President Trump's family earned some $5 billion — at least on paper — as their latest cryptocurrency venture launched. Now a "token" from World Liberty Financial, the crypto business co-founded last year by Trump and his sons, is trading publicly.This launch highlights the extraordinary degree to which Trump and his family are using the Oval Office to personally profit, especially through his close ties to the crypto industry.
The president reported income of more than $630 million last year, including $57 million from cryptocurrency sales, before launching a"meme coin" earlier this year. (He has also licensed his name to sell sneakers, watches, guitars, and Bibles.)
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I do feel sorry for those Arkansas farmers mentioned in my earlier post, I've said before that propaganda works extremely well, even on those who know about it, mostly because of repetition. Repeating the same message over and over again will get past the most hardened naysayer (subconsciously). A steady diet of FOX News, Joe Rogan, Charlie Kirk, Truth Social, and your church leader urging you to believe that Trump is the second Coming, will trick anyone into voting against their own best interests.
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I don't think political affiliation matters, no politician is in it to serve the people.
I don't think that's true. I do believe most left-leaning politicians get into politics out of a genuine desire to do good for the common man and serve their city/province/country. Being a former supporter of right-wing politics in my early days, I voted for our beloved crack mayor, Rob Ford, out of a genuine belief there was a gravy train that needed to be derailed. Turns out there wasn't much of one, and Ford was a mess of a human being (though I read a Toronto Life article that did point out he did do a number of good things for Toronto as mayor). I actually still like Rob, but his brother Doug is another matter.
There's always something about the right-wing politicians that they have another agenda beyond just serving the people e.g. Ford and Danielle Smith, easily the two most corrupt pieces of crap I've seen in decades. Both far-right in their ideology, both hypocrites... I focus more on Ford since I'm in Ontario:
1) liar: caught telling real estate developers that he would open up the Green Belt once he was in power, while at the same time telling the voting base he wouldn't touch it. Earlier this year on Global News Toronto, they aired a video of a voter asking one of Ford's cronies about that hidden video that caught Ford talking to those developers and the guy tried to dismiss it as an AI-generated fake video. Here's a hint from someone who does AI-generated stuff daily... Ford's man was a fucking liar. AI video couldn't have generated something like that at the time, it wasn't even possible back then. But then that's what I expect from his corrupt government.
2) underfunding public services (primarily health and education) so that public service appears poor and low quality, so that talented staff quit in droves because of things like Bill 124 which force low wages onto public sector staff (after a pandemic, you'd think one would raise wages to get burned out nurses and doctors to come back). Conveniently enough, Bill 124 didn't touch one sector: policing. Because Ford's two son-in-laws are both cops... Â
It's a well-known tactic of right-wing politicians that they underfund these two public sectors because this creates the crisis and negative public impression of such services that they can later justify privatizing it, citing the "efficiency" that private health care and education offers -- which happens to enrich their donors and insider business friends. You know who can't afford private health and schooling? The working poor. Do we want to move towards a USA-style model of health? Where people lose their homes because they can't afford their medical bills?
Ford's fake promise that "you'll always pay with your OHIP card, not your credit card" is a lie. My father needed cataracts and got his surgery for $250 total. This is before Ford took over Ontario. My mother recently paid $7000 for her cataract surgery because she was talked into upgrading into every possible option and even hinted that she'd have to wait longer to get her surgery if she chose the basic OHIP-covered surgery. This is under Ford's Ontario. Life always seems far more expensive under a right-wing politician (they distract you by promising lower taxes, which actually helps the rich moreso than the working poor, while they gut social programs, put an end to rent controls, and waste taxpayer money building $10-billion-dollar underground highways that are only going to get flooded and take decades to finish).
3) closing down sources of revenue that normally would prop up the government coffers by billions. Opening up beer and liquor sales to retail chains and supermarkets being pitched as making it more "convenient" for the public to get their booze, when in reality it's actually about shifting money that would go to the LCBO over to other big chains e.g. Loblaws. And worse, Ford paying over $250 million of taxpayer money to break that Beer Store contract 1 year early (why? Maybe it has something to do with Stephen Harper working for Circle-K which stands to benefit from being able to sell booze?)
4) hypocrisy: Ford cutting Toronto city council in half citing the cost of paying for all those unnecessary politicians, constantly ranting about all the bloat. Meanwhile his government now has the most bloated and expensive staff in Ontario's history, doubling the staff on the Sunshine list from 20 to 48 that make more than $100,000/year. Just prior to the election, there was talk that he was hiring friends and buddies to come work for him and they were being paid 6-figure salaries. Now he's got Calandra who is on a mission to get rid of all the schoolboard trustees under the so-called excuse of financial mismanagement to install a single overseer (who will be apparently be paid over $350,000/year in taxpayer money). This removes any outside oversight as Ford undoubtedly moves to privatize schools too.
There's more, but I don't see left-wing politicians acting anywhere close to the self-serving, cash-for-access, quid-pro-quo, authoritarianism approach of the modern right-wing politicians. Not even close. I was never a big fan of Brian Mulroney but during his time as PM, I never got the impression that the policies he pushed, were for his own personal gain (I could be wrong though) and that he was truly trying to serve the best interests of Canada. I would say the same for former mayor Tory, who I was concerned about becoming mayor due to his ties to Rogers, but I ended up defending his time as mayor to my brother (who hated Tory for whatever reason) and then of course, that was months before we all learned he was banging one of his subordinates, had to resign in disgrace and cost the city I believe $1 million to hold another election.
There's always something about right-wing politicians: corrupt, incompetent, immoral behavior, rage baiting, lying, hypocrisy... I watch both sides and I don't find that it exists in the same quantity or severity as it does on the left. Especially with American right-wing politicians (Trump being the most obvious, excessive case that encompasses every single thing in one politician). You want Canada to become more like the USA as it is right now? Farmers committing suicide or losing everything? Mass shootings every few days? Poorly educated voters (a constant in the red states) with low literacy rates and poor critical thinking skills? Unbridled racism? Vote right. I would love to believe that both sides of the political spectrum are the same (as in, they both truly want to serve the good of the people) but that's not what my own observations over decades has shown. Not saying lefties are perfect either, Clinton is definitely going to be on that Epstein list, I'm just saying that one side seems to be far, far worse than the other. And the suffering going on in the US right now only exemplifies that.
Speaking of immoral behavior and lying:
Sorry for the length, but I hate any attempt to wash away what's happening now with the "both sides are bad" defense.
EDIT: more about the Arkansas farmers praying for socialism in this thread, including video:
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I am not as cynical. I think all parties have people that run and volunteer for the right reasons. However the Conservatives, Liberals and NDP federally and provincially have had leaders that were incompetent, with no people skills, and not cut out for politics. All have found that making change is much harder and slower than they thought. In some cases the change can't and won't be made in four or five years as planned.Â
The public (or maybe more correct media) expect immediate change or results and then love to tear down the individual and party when it doesn't happen. They are branded as liars that only look out for their friends or have a secret agenda.  Not saying this doesn't happen, but it is not all politicians from only some parties.Â
Some irresponsible media on both the left and right tend to magnify and exaggerate mistakes or situations and try to make the issue more important than it really is. And other media make excuses and cover for some parties because they align with their or owners beliefs. To me purposely doing this is about as bad as politicians that do the same. People and political parties go in and out of power. Media is always present, so it is important that they also do their jobs for all the right reasons. Â
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Given SOWNY's raison d'etre, let's take a look at how American media is covering the Epstein fiasco. If you're expecting a surprise, you came to the wrong discussion.
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I am not as cynical. I think all parties have people that run and volunteer for the right reasons. However the Conservatives, Liberals and NDP federally and provincially have had leaders that were incompetent, with no people skills, and not cut out for politics. Â
Yes, I'm not trying to condemn ALL right-wing politicians in that very long explanation, indeed I have voted for Rob Ford and John Tory, and really in the end I had high hopes for both, especially Tory who in particular I started out being against mayor but felt he worked extremely hard at the job and seemed to keep his ties to Rogers out of the way. His moral failing (the affair) was crushing and I had to eat crow when I talked to my brother about that scandal.
But when I speak out against the right-wing politics these days, it is more aimed at how the Reform Party Conservatives and the provincial Conservatives are using the same Trump-style brainwashing techniques on Canadians (hi Mike Roman) which include repeating lies, hate mongering, anti-immigration rhetoric, "freedom" convoys, anti-vax misinformation, etc. to get themselves elected. And as I've gone on about, I do not in any way trust their intentions once they are in power to do the right thing for this country.
Brian Mulroney was a true right-wing politician. The likes of Poilievre, Scheer, Danielle Smith, Ford, Calandra, etc. all reek of far-right wing stink, the same as Trump. They will NOT take this country in a positive direction, and I thank the maker that Carney won. You want the same Christo-fascist morons running this country the same way the Heritage Foundation is running the USA right now? Vote Conservative. As with those farmers, by the time you realize how wrong you were, you'll be too busy getting a second mortgage to pay off your medical bills and it'll be a mountain to climb to get rid of them. Just like with Ford installing his own loyalists into our health and education institutions, answerable only to him, they will consolidate their power and make sure that they don't get booted out quietly.
Oh, and I will point out that during Rob Ford's chaotic decline as a politician, I actually thought to myself many times, "His brother, Doug Ford, seems to be the sensible one out of the two, he seems to have his head on straight. Maybe that guy should've been mayor instead." So I don't pretend that I'm prescient about who will turn out to be a good political leader and it is a difficult job I agree, but it has now reached the point where I can't ignore that the right-wing in Canada have strayed straight into nutbar territory (ex: Danielle Smith wanting to move all of Albertans' retirement money out of the CPP and into her own slush fund? One that is going to likely wind up in the pockets of oil and gas executives?)
These people specifically are NOT acting in Canadians' best interests -- that's my gut feeling. They were pro-Trump, both Ford and Smith, prior to the tariffs (hell, Smith STILL reeks of being pro-Trump), because they think just like him. It's not public service they are using their positions for, but personal service and personal enrichment.
Being a left-centre supporter is a fairly glum place to be these days: I feel it has become an uphill battle to get left-leaning politicians elected. The right-wing are better funded (by the wealthy who have a vested interest), better organized across the globe (see: Stephen Harper's IDU which is an organization featuring a laundry list of the worst leaders around the globe), and they own almost all the communications platforms (the TV news, social media, newspapers). I remember during the Ontario provincial election, Ford was running voice ads over the P.A. system at Dollarama(!) every time I was shopping in their stores, that's how much money they've got backing them. And they don't hesitate to threaten and intimidate news stations with either lawsuits or withholding buying ads on their channel if they feel slighted (see: CTV firing those two junior editors for supposedly painting their candidate negatively).
Finally, authoritarian and far-right wing governments around the world don't like left-leaning political leaders and as Wendy Mesley once pointed out on CBC National, they set up online troll farms where their agents go online and deliberately spread hate, misinformation and outright lies about those politicians to trick the populace into hating that politician (Trudeau being the most obvious example, he supported Ukraine in resisting the Russian invasion, so Russia paid right-wing podcasters here in Canada to spew lies about Trudeau non-stop to ensure that the Liberals would lose the next federal election. That's already been covered by Canadian news media and confirmed by CSIS, but it should've gotten way more attention than it has).
We are absolutely INUNDATED with right-wing messaging and repetition in Canada, not as bad as the US maybe, but for the average person who just thinks "news is news is news" without any regard to WHO is trying to take control of their belief system, that is going to steer us into the same type of government down below. The one that seems to be on the verge of declaring war with Venezuela.
Let's not help the rich get any richer.
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Meanwhile, down south, this cowardly appeasement nonsense has gone way too far.
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Proving, once again, that tRump is great at 'projection' on things that he's guilty of...and that's a very, very long list.
What is shocking, however, is the number of Canadians who should know better, but fall down the same rabbit hole, time after time...
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Thanks for the detailed answer Tom TV. I don't know, I still have a problem seeing Doug Ford as being anything like Trump or the Republican party. His party is the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. It appears that he gets along much better with Mark Carney, than Pierre Poilievre. Same with Justin Trudeau, he and Ford seemed to get along fine. Mark Carney so far has often acted more like a PC than Liberal. He appears to be moving the Liberals to the centre in the spirit of Jean Chretien and Paul Martin. Â
Ford didn't act at all like a Republican during COVID. We had the most strict conditions and for the longest time than any jurisdiction in North America. When Republican governors were pounding the drum of "freedom" and no COVID restrictions, the Conservative government in Ontario was going the other way. Like it or not, Ford was right and Ontario had significantly fewer COVID deaths and cases per capita than most US states. Could he have done better, yes, but the Ontario, federal and municipal governments in this province generally handled the pandemic well. To say otherwise is ignoring the facts.Â
I don't agree with everything the Ford government has done but draw the line with comparisons with Trump or the Republican party. That assessment doesn't fly, and I guess most Ontarians see it that way since the latest poll indicates that the Conservatives have actually increased in popularity since the recent provincial election..
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Is it simply a 'troll' or are some SOWNY members really this gullible?Â
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All these decades later, and yet Barbara Walters had him figured out in 1990.
"No they're not!", said Barbara. 🤣
And just look at the expression on his face. Nothing's changed inside that messed-up skull. Still lying. Still grossly exaggerating. Still disgusting. Still no friends. The last close friend he had was Epstein.
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Brent Molnar is a former Psychology Professor and Mental Health Consultant for the Ontario Ministry of Health.Â
See what you think of his professional assessment of Donald Trump.
The Man-Child in Chief: Why Donald Trump’s Behavior Isn’t Just Alarming—It’s Clinical
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Brent Molnar is a former Psychology Professor and Mental Health Consultant for the Ontario Ministry of Health.Â
See what you think of his professional assessment of Donald Trump.
The Man-Child in Chief: Why Donald Trump’s Behavior Isn’t Just Alarming—It’s Clinical
Excellent link, RA. One would hope that those among us, spouting MAGA's "tRump Derangement Syndrome" nonsense, would turn off Fox News long enough to read logical, thoughtful pieces, such as your link, and wake up to the madness this sociopath is inflicting on America, Canada and our Western Allies.
Does he have to rape young girls on national television for some to finally clue in, or is the extreme cruelty part of the attraction?
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Thank you for the confirmation.
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Meanwhile, down south, this cowardly appeasement nonsense has gone way too far.
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Nice to see ABC did not cave to this outrageous request. CBS probably would have.Â
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Meanwhile, down south, this cowardly appeasement nonsense has gone way too far.
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U.S. Open Orders Broadcasters to Censor Reactions to TrumpNice to see ABC did not cave to this outrageous request. CBS probably would have.Â
Boos of Donald Trump heard on ABC's broadcast of US Open
The King is a fink!
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