As for the kidnapping of the narco-terrorist, President Maduro, perhaps someone can make sense of this…

Exhibit A


Exhibit B


Oh, never mind. Of course it doesn't make sense.
 

A compelling message from the editorial board of the New York Times: “We know Mr. Trump’s warmongering violates the law.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/opinion/venezuela-attack-trump-us.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BlA.g2Bl.K8OEW3bnsYZW&smid=tw-share

Dial Twister wrote:

As for the kidnapping of the narco-terrorist, President Maduro, perhaps someone can make sense of this…

Exhibit A


Exhibit B


Oh, never mind. Of course it doesn't make sense.
 

Oh it makes sense...









Another reason why Trump's net worth has skyrocketed in his second term. I'll bet the payoffs are done through crypto to try and hide the money trail.
 

Trump has finally succeded in knocking the Epstein case off the front pages.

Let's go back to talking about the Epstein Files, because it's likely that a big reason why the attack on Venezuela happened is to serve as a distraction from the huge topic that was trending on the internet for several days around Christmas. It had many people disgusted and it's not something I wanted to post about until after we got into the new year since it's better to enjoy your family holiday time and not think about the level of evil some people will stoop to in order to cover up their pedophilia.

This is the Lake Michigan FBI tip which was found in the Epstein Files that were recently released:







Read the redacted FBI file here:




The young woman feared for her life if she reported the rape. Her baby was already dead, which suggests that these were people who likely had no compunctions about killing children.





Now a tip is just that, it doesn't have to be true. It's in the Epstein Files because it was related to Epstein and was sent in, so the FBI have to place it in the files as a matter of procedure. So is it true or made up? The internet of course immediately sought out more facts to try and corroborate this tip with Donald Trump:











There's also a limo driver who had to listen to Trump bragging about his disgusting activities, he has actually come forward and identified himself. I am assuming that this guy IS the driver that the woman talked to, she said "they will kill me" to this driver, as noted above in the screenshot. You can watch his video right here where he talks about being threatened and intimidated but he no longer cares and is coming out:

https://x.com/PatriotSammi/status/2004926903673594344





The possibility that a horny Trump impregnated a 13-year old, who gave birth and then watched her child dumped into the sea, only to be murdered years later, is far more horrific than any of the pedo allegations against the president.





 

Mine says 35...

RadioActive wrote:

Dale Patterson wrote:

Hey RA, so is this the longest thread in SOWNY history? Seventeen pages and counting...

Could be Dale, but only because it's an accommodation for those who are really into this stuff. I tried repeatedly to get it off the site, because it wasn't about radio or TV, but like a bad penny, it kept resurfacing. So I agreed to keep it up on one thread only. That's so those who aren't into this and are offended that it's here at all, can avoid the topic, lengthy as it is. 

Call it something of a 'can't win' compromise. I tried to remove it and got complaints. I let it stay and got complaints.  I personally do find it interesting but inappropriate for the board. But because so many seem to find it of interest, I've agreed to leave it here and let it grow.

If you're into it, click on it. If not, don't. It solves a lot of problems that way and I hope most here find this compromise something they can live with. Until you-know-who is gone from office for good. 

How about we take a poll and decide whether or not this thread stays? That seems like the democratic way.



PJ
 

Is there a way to keep the subject ongoing but start a new post with the same header but slightly different so people can tell which is the current one, maybe do this every couple of months because while the original post , (I've nicknamed it "Washington: Dark, Darker, Darkest?" in my own head) is evergreen, and pertinent and the posts can be interesting, relieve stress and be even funny at times, it's also a pain in the tocas to have to scroll and scroll and scroll down, or hit last post and then scroll back up a bit to read the latest entries.

Keeping it going also serves a purpose, making it much less likely to have the topic spill over into other posts.

I've been rewatching House of Cards and other White House shows and what seemed like hyperbolic plotlines conjured up by wildly imaginative writers rooms only a decade ago now seems rather tame. Ah, the good old days.... Time for a remake of that Stephen King movie about a presidential candidate.

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Saul wrote:

I like this feature. Those who want it can read it, those who don't can skip it. It's easy and it keeps political posts in one space and not bleeding onto the rest of the board.
 

Which was the point of keeping it in the first place. If you want to read it, you know what it is. If you don't, it can easily be skipped. 

Another issue is that this often bleeds into broadcasting, with the cuts to PBS and NPR, the ongoing controversies at CBS and the attacks on the free press in general. So those get a separate thread because they concern radio & TV and thus belong here.

Yes, that's right let's get rid of Carney and elect the MAGA-loving moronic slogan slinger, Poillievre. The man who has only ever had two jobs: paperboy and then 20-years as a politician who passed no bills, did nothing for his constituents so they voted him out finally last year only to watch him scurry in desperation to the safest possible, most PC-friendly region of Canada, to keep his job as party leader while enjoying taxpayer-funded limo, chauffeur, cook, and a mansion.  He fights for the people! From the comfort of his luxury home and limo.



He still won't get his security clearance and has used every excuse in the book to avoid it, because he knows he would fail it. Never mind that he only beat Patrick Brown to be party leader thanks to the foreign interference provided by the right-wing Indian Modi  government (also accused correctly of murdering Canadians on our own soil).





He's also been listed as one of the biggest purveyors of disinformation in Canada and I've watched him literally run away in a panic from reporters when he gets asked questions that he hasn't prepared for.









He's been a wonderful friend to the Free-dumb Convoyers, never mind other nefarious far-right wing groups within Canada.










EDIT: you want MAGA to take control of Canada? By all means, vote for the Reform Party Conservatives. Before it became unpopular to do so, the PCs had no problems whatsoever wearing MAGA caps:


They had no problem using the same identical and sometimes underhanded Trump campaign tactics:



And they love faking their own popularity by paying for bot farms to propagate their messaging, as if it were coming from real human supporters.


Ever since the Harper days (the first of the Reform Party guys to make it into power), they've hated the news media, because just like Trump, they don't like being called out on their policies, nor are they particularly intelligent enough to answer these questions unless they've rehearsed an answer well in advance.





 

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TomTV wrote:

Yes, that's right let's get rid of Carney and elect the MAGA-loving moronic slogan slinger, Poillievre. 



 

Hey boys and girls! Let's build a pipeline!

Just kidding.




PJ

I'm leery & suspicious of the motives, ethics & rational of anyone who tries to divert attention from the shit-show south of the 49th .. 

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g121 wrote:

I'm leery & suspicious of the motives, ethics & rational of anyone who tries to divert attention from the shit-show south of the 49th .. 

 
I live in Canada.

Paul Jeffries wrote:

I guarantee Carney doesn't want a pipeline either, it's just his way of playing both sides of the fence, a tactic that's failing miserably, proven by his sagging numbers in recent polls.

Diehard Liberal supporters are going to keep believing the lies and corruption they're being sold are for their own good, even if it means losing their jobs, their houses and they end up selling pencils out of a cup on a street corner, as long as it keeps "those horrible Conservatives" out of power.

The level of Stockholm Syndrome and denial among Liberal supporters has reached intergalactic levels. It'd be funny if it weren't so damn pathetic and didn't affect the people who chose not to vote these useless and destructive clowns back in for a fourth term.

Well Ontario voted the useless corrupt Conservatives back into power again at the provincial level, so I know how it feels to see voters believing the lies and corruption being fed by a political party that does nothing for the people and happily gives themselves raises, passes millions in taxpayer dollars to their hockey buddies (hi David Piccini!), accept bribes from real estate developers (hello to all of Doug Ford's wedding guests), and so on.  

I'm not even going to bother right now to go deeply into the utter failure that Danielle Smith has turned out to be, but I do keep a periodic eye on Alberta politics to see her latest nutjob plans (removing Albertans' CPP money and putting it into a privately run fund to be managed by a so-called third party i.e. her friends, to do what? Let me guess, bet it all on an oil and gas pipeline. The CPP is one of the best-run government pension funds in the world in case you didn't know.) And I hadn't even heard about her until years ago when two of my friends, both hardcore Conservatives, literally rolled their eyes when they heard Smith had gotten elected and groaned loudly at the prospect of her running things.











During the provincial election, there was nothing more telling about how utterly uninformed the typical Canadian voter has become due to all the right-wing influence in our various news media than seeing the news interviewing an.elderly woman on her way to go vote in the PROVINCIAL Ontario election being asked why she was going to vote, replying "I'm going to vote out Justin Trudeau because of healthcare!!!!"  she raged angrily and kept walking.

Does the typical voter even understand what happens politically in Canada any more? This chart has been posted several times on twitter whenever someone starts blaming the Feds for failing healthcare and education across the country:





The Trudeau gov gave billions of dollars to the provinces during the pandemic specifically for healthcare improvements. Ford didn't spend it, and that's a fact because the Ontario Auditor General specified that billions were missing (not reconciled). This should've been a major ongoing scandal considering the state of the healthcare system in Ontario with various emergency rooms closing down due to lack of funding, but the news dropped it after one day. Same goes for the Albertan government. I'm pretty sure I know where Ford put it, and that was probably into general revenues where he can decide for himself where he wants it to go (you know, like that scandal-ridden skills development fund being used to help out PC donors).

The premiers then had the nerve to go cap in hand back to the Feds for more money, at which point Trudeau rightly told them they'd get more, so long as they were audited first for how they spent the first batch of money and that shut them up very fast.

Vicki Campbell has more credibility than Brian Lilley, Kat Kanada, or any right-wing podcaster that I often see the PC supporters turning to for their counter-arguments. And most of the time, she makes her point by simply reposting what a Conservative has tweeted out themselves. The fact is that those ardent PC supporters have been brainwashed through constant repetition of lies, either from the Reform Party or the Russians themselves, spread through troll farms and bots, never mind the right-wing billionaire hedge fund that owns most of the physical news media throughout Canada. If you want us to end up as a 51st state, by all means, keep believing that propaganda, Putin thanks you because you're making his job a lot easier.

If a foreign power is constantly trying to denigrate the left-wing parties and push for the right-wing political parties to take control, maybe there's a good reason for that, and it's certainly not to your benefit whatsoever.




And let me state unconditionally, I want nothing but the best outcome for Alberta, but pinning your financial future on one big industry is a huge mistake, especially fossil fuels. Do you know who else has all of their financial prosperity heavily focused on fossil fuels? Russia:



And because they've been heavily sanctioned for their invasion of Ukraine, they are selling to China and to India, who gleefully have forced Russia to sell that oil at below-market prices. Well if the US can get Venezuela under their thumb as Trump promises, do you know who else would become a desperate seller of oil?

Yes, Canada... because the US certainly won't need our heavy crude any more and will enjoy watching us squirm. And let's say we did build that pipeline so we can sell to China.  Guess what? They know we're in the same spot as Russia too, with no US customer any longer. Think we won't get squeezed like a pimple on Poillievre's face? That's the risk you take when your province can only fixate on one limited export that has huge geopolitical risks associated with it.

One note of interest: China is a big customer of Venezuelan oil. For the US to take over and reroute that oil to the US is already leading to major legal action from China and that will likely keep Trump and oil prices steady, but not forever. It also has the side effect of possibly delaying China's invasion of Taiwan since a lot of oil would be needed to handle such a large military action.

The right-wing is now more of a cult not a political ideology, which I myself once belonged to (not in any far-right sense, but I voted for Rob Ford on his "stop the gravy train" bullshit, I supported the idea of the US and George W Bush invading Iraq to stop Hussein (not on the fake promise of weapons of mass destruction but based on Hussein's horrific treatment of his own people and needing regime change), even wanted Doug Ford to be mayor because he seemed far more sane than his brother Rob. There are things that you learn because you get suckered by right-wing fueled lies and propaganda as a younger person, and then realize that this is their constant tactic. They cheat and lie to win, they get into power and enrich themselves, continue to blame the other side or a higher or lower government for their failures, etc. I'm not saying that there aren't left-wing cases of it happening too, but compared to the right? It's far far more rare.










Even if you would agree that it's the Republicans who do that, the Reform Party has picked up those same tactics and applied them here in Canada too. Why?

Because it's proven to work on right-wing voters in Canada too. You have a PC right now, doing his best to emulate Charlie Kirk as he tours Canada, alleging that Christians are under attack (when it's Jews and Muslims who still make up a large number of the hate crimes).

If there's a major reason I post so much detail in this thread about Trump and the Republicans, it's to educate people who otherwise would be uninformed how just how a far right-wing government acts in power, at every level. We don't want the Reform Party ever to take power.

I had no problem with Brian Mulroney's Conservatives (though even back then I worried Free Trade would make Canada too dependent on the US, and that fear has now materialized). In those days, while things could get heated, the members on each side could still work things out cordially (reminder: Brian Mulroney and Justin Trudeau were friends), it wasn't the kind of extreme partisan politics it is today (and that's true of the US as well back then). This is in part due to the Russians sowing extremism in the right-wing, but also periodically posing as left-wingers online to attack center-right wing voters too and anger them to push them further to the right. And then there's FOX News...
 

It's always a "highly questionable" source when it's something you disagree with, I'll just say that. But that is what the right-wingers always say isn't it? "Fake news." "Didn't happen. Next question." "You're a liar, you're a bad journalist." "You're a radical lefty." Dismissiveness is part and parcel of that ideology these days (it didn't used to be, again I remember Brian Mulroney not shying away from hard questions asked of him by journalists.)

There's a reason why both the federal and provincial PCs (post Mulroney and starting with Harper) have either silenced the news media, or limited their questions, or literally run away from the reporters (see: Tina Yazdani recently having to chase the Ford team to get them to answer questions).  It's why Trump calls a female reporter "Piggy" or Doug Ford tells (mostly the female politicians) to "stay in their lane".  They can't stand to be shown that they are in the wrong; they can't stand to be called out on their blatant attempts to a) invade a country solely for its oil, b) privatize the entire province's healthcare system so their donors can profit off it, c) pass along taxpayer money to their friends and donors though slush funds, and so on.






They get rich off being in charge and they don't want to be questioned about their own hypocrisy about gravy trains that they railed against when they were the little guy (Doug Ford, Toronto city council), or backroom deals being made (Doug Ford and the Greenbelt scandal), or going on and on about incompetence. Because just like Trump, they need to live in a bubble that preserves their own sense of immaculate perfection. This is called cognitive dissonance, you can google it. It also affects MAGA supporters when they don't want to believe that their chosen leader has been lying to them all along; no one wants to admit that they were conned. They only learn when their dear leader finally betrays them personally (SEE: MAGA farmers of the mid-west US)

And for the record, the biggest loud mouth I've ever seen in my life shouting like an imbecile is Pierre Poillievre. And there's nothing more ridiculous to see than his party members being required to stand up and give him a standing ovation each time he spouts off some rubbish as if he were speaking the word of God. Even for the smallest little snide comment, he snickers at himself and you can see his party following the script that they have to get up and start clapping like seals. That's the kind of thing you see in dictatorships, where the dear leader must always be cheered on. It's also what we see right now with Donald Trump (in fact worse, considering his Republican cultists will wear Trump gold rings and pins inscribed with Trump's name, to show how loyal they are to their insane king).



If those images of Poillievre hanging out with Diagolon, a white supremacist group, or the fact that PP has been caught tagging incels and women-hating misogynists on his Youtube videos (over 50 of his videos) or even the simple fact that he refuses to get his security clearance when every other party leader has, or that India helped him to win the party leadership (not for the most altruistic reasons I'm sure) don't at least make you take a step back and think hard about exactly who you are supporting then congratulations, you know what it feels like to be MAGA. The biggest criticism about MAGA followers is that they are lacking in critical thinking skills (in part this is due to many of them being fundamentalist Christians, which doesn't exactly encourage independent thought).

All those things I just pointed out? All have been reported on the Canadian news networks themselves and you can google for them easily. You don't have to trust me. I didn't switch from right-wing to center-left in my politics because a left-wing podcaster talked me into it, nor was I enchanted by the charisma of Justin Trudeau (quite the opposite, I was extremely mistrustful of his rise to power due to the use of his family name as the selling point). I watched both sides of the political spectrum in Canada and the USA for decades to make sense of what the right- and left-wing ideology stood for, and I chose the side that favors compassion, helping others (not just those in my own religious group or ethnicity) and especially the poor.


Why choose the right-wing?

Let me explain why I chose the right-wing side first when I was in my twenties, to shed light on why I later abandoned it:

1) my parents were extremely poor and non-religious (so no right-wing Christianity influence to bias me); when I got close to voting age, I asked my father which party he voted for. "Liberals, because they help people."  He didn't give me more of an explanation beyond that and it seemed rather generic. I had the assumption that all 3 parties "help people" so there wasn't much of a reason to vote Liberal just on dad's short answer.

2) I liked Ronald Reagan. Yes, I was aware that he's an American, but I knew at that point that there was a link between Republicans with Conservatives, and the Democrats with the Liberals, so by proxy, since I liked Reagan I chose "Republican" by default. That didn't mean I supported the Conservatives though, just that I was going to watch the right-wing Americans to "figure them out". America being the bigger and more powerful country, I expected a more notable contrast between right and left wing political policies than I could see in Canada, where to me, both Liberals and PCs seemed to be very similar.



3) Reagan ended the Cold War: this really cemented the idea I'd chosen the correct "side" of politics. The constant fear of humanity dying out due to a nuclear war was pervasive back then. To me, Reagan's success suggested that the Republicans were competent peacemakers not warmongers (boy, looking back at that belief now...)

NOTE: even then, I questioned "trickle down economics" and the idea that giving tax breaks to the rich would help the poor; I literally asked myself "Why don't they just give the money to the poor directly?" but assumed that maybe there was more to this policy that was beyond me at the time. Ha!



4) I hated Bill Clinton. Not for his policies, but simply for the fact that he had cheated on his wife with Monica Lewinsky. I used to have a friend who I liked quite a bit, but he suffered one major failing: he would have sex with any woman he could find that was willing (ugly or beautiful, so long as they had a vagina). Because he and I were office mates at the time, he would share every single sexual conquest with me on a daily basis; every single detail. Sometimes disturbing details, because it seemed like there wasn't anything he wouldn't do to find a new woman to have sex with. He also had a handful of female friends that he enjoyed periodic "friends with benefits" hook-ups too.

What was clear to me though, from his stories, is that he often got himself into sitcom-level disasters where his pursuit of women got him into trouble or major embarrassment. His final story to me, before we lost touch since he was now working at a new company, was bragging about how he was friends with this male coworker who had a girlfriend (who also worked at this company). He had seduced the man's girlfriend into having regular sex with him, and both he and the girl were having a great time pulling the wool over the male coworker's eyes about their secret affair. It never seemed to occur to my friend that if this coworker ever found out his girl had been cheating on him, that the two people he trusted at work were laughing at him the entire time, that this guy could've gone ballistic and murdered them both in a fit of rage. Murder-suicides happen for just this reason.

That's the point when one realizes that there are some "men" who are guided mostly by their dicks, not by their brains. They never matured and as apparent with the Bill Clinton scandal, you can grow up to be old and still be led around by your dick. Since Clinton was the only Democratic figure I knew of, let's just say that this cemented my opinion of what the other Democrats must be like (whereas in truth, Clinton is more of the rare exception among the Democrats). Obviously Trump also is in this category (if not the Olympic gold champion).

Back in Canada meanwhile, I was voting Liberal to my surprise, because whenever election time came up, I found that their policies more aligned with what I wanted to see in government. So it's strange to find that I was a right-wing Republican who, at home, voted for the left.

Hopefully you can see where I made my mistake though: I selected my politics based on something closer to a "cult of personality" method; the personality of the political leader alone, dictated which side I chose and stayed with. In high school, we were definitely NOT educated well in politics. I doubt even today, that our educational system teaches young people what is right-wing, what is left-wing, or center-right, or center-left. Perhaps it would be too hot of a topic to even consider teaching since someone will inevitably say "You're deliberately painting my side as the bad side!"

But I am absolutely certain that young people today, American or Canadian, go through that same naive, random process of choosing their politics. Some of them won't even know about terms like right- or left-wing until much later in life or understand their ideology. They will make their selection perhaps going by who their parents tell them to vote for (a powerful bias), but just as likely in today's world, on what they learn from social media, especially TikTok and Youtube. And guess who else is on there? Our friends, the Russians! And China! And India! (all of them, right now, interfering in our governing and what better way than at the place where the most naive, least politically savvy voters are spending their time)





NEXT TIME: some great news about Trump's impending death, and my move away from the right-wing (it had to do with Trump but not what you think).