Charlie, I don’t doubt most R voters still support Trump, as you said, but where’s the evidence - polls - that show this? You’ve got mucho polls on specific issues.
I have days where I see a lighthearted video and I get frustrated because some of us can see what is going on and yet these people can’t? Or do they and this is how they cope? I guess so. I get it and yet - I don’t get how they be so happy when the world is crumbling around us.
It's good to be in the fight for Democracy together...Canada has many allies as we have have been for the most part a Peaceful and Peace Giving Nation...but we've only been able to do that because we've been aligned with nations who have more Military Might than ours...and I'm talking specifically of the NATO PACT which has always had America as a champion in this regard...followed by Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Poland and Australia, NZ to name a few.
Poland and the Baltic States have definitely stepped up to support Ukraine. Canada has stepped up in this regard also with Military Training in the Baltics for Ukrainians and just to note, we have received thousands of Ukrainian Patriots~Refugees who have sought stay in Canada until the war ends. Canada has around 1.36M people of Ukrainian origin or 4% of our population so we are well invested in their livelihood...and are proud to stand by them. I wonder how many people of Ukrainian origin live in the states...that your President is unaware of!?
Canada believes in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion as we see it as a strength, it in fact unites us as one...we are not afraid...we stand as one. Sure we have people of intolerance but this is simply ignorance and a lack of proximity and education...and yes there's racism here to but we don't stand for it as a nation or in the workplace or in the community at large.
Just know most Canadians believe in DEI...because we're all immigrants here except for our First Nations People...and believe me we have a lot to account for as we move through Re-Conciliation. We also have much to learn from the First Nation People and Elders on how to see the world through their lens...to understand how to treat the people and the land.
For a bit of inspiration...listen to Blackie and the Rodeo Kings [Youtube- Live at Shrewsbury For Festival, England -2022]. Tom Wilson from the band is First Nations Mohawk...and they're all solo singers...but when they come together there's a synergy...and it's powerful. There's also a First Nations singer/songwriter named William Prince from Selkirk, Manitoba...[Youtube Live at Massey Hall, Toronto, CBC-2024] that speaks to rebirth and reconciliation.
From a Democracy standpoint...there is synergy currently rising in America also. The Power of the People are Standing Up to Speak Truth to Power!! The POWER is being seized by THE PEOPLE...as DEMOCRACY WILL PREVAIL...WE ARE ON THE RIGHT PATH!!
I saw your headline “slouching toward 100 days “ and I thought you meant some of his latest pictures like the one with President Zelenskyy at the Vatican plus the other one at the funeral itself where he’s pictured putting gum in his mouth and leaning forward texting on his phone at the Pope’s funeral then another picture where he’s slumped over probably falling asleep. Poor Melania, it’s no wonder why she wore a veil. (after all most women stopped wearing veils to Catholic Masses back in the 1960’s. I know because even my mother gave hers up and it’s usually only the widow who would wear a veil at a funeral)
I realize that writers on Substack need to eat, but many of us are suffering under the neoliberal austerity that Congress has been practicing for 40 years or more, and which is now likely to get worse with DOGE and Musk threatening to defund Social Security and Disability. Also, wages have stagnated since the 1970s. Congress is more interested in funding the military industry, because they get kickbacks from them, than putting money into the economy to support the American people. We need to eat, too.
Real Progressives explains how the US monetary system works and why spending into the economy is important.
I do support a few of the writers that I can. There are many more that I would like to support but can't.
The regime is simultaneously increasing fragility and stoking instability. Every administration experiences crises, either natural or man made. The president is disabled, the chief of staff is MIA, the vp is a sycophantic ideologue, and the spokesperson is a semi-pro propagandist who does not engender trust. With the exception of Bessent, the cabinet is unsupervised with each secretary doing whatever they feel like, playing musk off trump. On the face of it, it is a doomed management structure. God help us when the storm hits; and it always does.
I thought Patel's post was troubling because it came across he was crowing like they had just arrested someone from the 10 most wanted list. Then AG Bondi informed us they had.
Have used this quote many times. Similarly, the Stockdale Paradox says that you must believe that you will prevail but be brutally honest about your situation.
I am glad to see slippage in the polls, and if I am not mistaken 45/47’s base is at 36%.
Charlie, I don’t doubt most R voters still support Trump, as you said, but where’s the evidence - polls - that show this? You’ve got mucho polls on specific issues.
I have days where I see a lighthearted video and I get frustrated because some of us can see what is going on and yet these people can’t? Or do they and this is how they cope? I guess so. I get it and yet - I don’t get how they be so happy when the world is crumbling around us.
It's good to be in the fight for Democracy together...Canada has many allies as we have have been for the most part a Peaceful and Peace Giving Nation...but we've only been able to do that because we've been aligned with nations who have more Military Might than ours...and I'm talking specifically of the NATO PACT which has always had America as a champion in this regard...followed by Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Poland and Australia, NZ to name a few.
Poland and the Baltic States have definitely stepped up to support Ukraine. Canada has stepped up in this regard also with Military Training in the Baltics for Ukrainians and just to note, we have received thousands of Ukrainian Patriots~Refugees who have sought stay in Canada until the war ends. Canada has around 1.36M people of Ukrainian origin or 4% of our population so we are well invested in their livelihood...and are proud to stand by them. I wonder how many people of Ukrainian origin live in the states...that your President is unaware of!?
Canada believes in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion as we see it as a strength, it in fact unites us as one...we are not afraid...we stand as one. Sure we have people of intolerance but this is simply ignorance and a lack of proximity and education...and yes there's racism here to but we don't stand for it as a nation or in the workplace or in the community at large.
Just know most Canadians believe in DEI...because we're all immigrants here except for our First Nations People...and believe me we have a lot to account for as we move through Re-Conciliation. We also have much to learn from the First Nation People and Elders on how to see the world through their lens...to understand how to treat the people and the land.
For a bit of inspiration...listen to Blackie and the Rodeo Kings [Youtube- Live at Shrewsbury For Festival, England -2022]. Tom Wilson from the band is First Nations Mohawk...and they're all solo singers...but when they come together there's a synergy...and it's powerful. There's also a First Nations singer/songwriter named William Prince from Selkirk, Manitoba...[Youtube Live at Massey Hall, Toronto, CBC-2024] that speaks to rebirth and reconciliation.
From a Democracy standpoint...there is synergy currently rising in America also. The Power of the People are Standing Up to Speak Truth to Power!! The POWER is being seized by THE PEOPLE...as DEMOCRACY WILL PREVAIL...WE ARE ON THE RIGHT PATH!!
ELBOWS UP!!
I saw your headline “slouching toward 100 days “ and I thought you meant some of his latest pictures like the one with President Zelenskyy at the Vatican plus the other one at the funeral itself where he’s pictured putting gum in his mouth and leaning forward texting on his phone at the Pope’s funeral then another picture where he’s slumped over probably falling asleep. Poor Melania, it’s no wonder why she wore a veil. (after all most women stopped wearing veils to Catholic Masses back in the 1960’s. I know because even my mother gave hers up and it’s usually only the widow who would wear a veil at a funeral)
Dum Spiro Spero.
There is nothing on the McDonald's breakfast meat menu that those boys couldn't inhale in one bite.
I realize that writers on Substack need to eat, but many of us are suffering under the neoliberal austerity that Congress has been practicing for 40 years or more, and which is now likely to get worse with DOGE and Musk threatening to defund Social Security and Disability. Also, wages have stagnated since the 1970s. Congress is more interested in funding the military industry, because they get kickbacks from them, than putting money into the economy to support the American people. We need to eat, too.
Real Progressives explains how the US monetary system works and why spending into the economy is important.
I do support a few of the writers that I can. There are many more that I would like to support but can't.
According to a politico/Focaldata poll Trump is -61 among Canadians. I love Canada. And that isn't just because I'm from Mn. !
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But none of this matters because Biff gets away with everything. I think that orange stuff is Teflon.
Biff is the perfect alter ego. From now on he is Biff Krasnov for me.
It's my understanding that Steven Spielburg wrote that part specifically by observing Trump.
I think it was Robert Zemeckis (not Spielberg) but, yes, for Back to the Future II they apparently based Biff at least partly on Trump.
The regime is simultaneously increasing fragility and stoking instability. Every administration experiences crises, either natural or man made. The president is disabled, the chief of staff is MIA, the vp is a sycophantic ideologue, and the spokesperson is a semi-pro propagandist who does not engender trust. With the exception of Bessent, the cabinet is unsupervised with each secretary doing whatever they feel like, playing musk off trump. On the face of it, it is a doomed management structure. God help us when the storm hits; and it always does.
I woke up with a certainty that all the deporting,
disappearing, the coming of bare shelves, no more dollar shops, no more affordable Christmas presents, no careful ways of getting by are fading out.
And no Due Process.
These unnecessary actions are hitting Republicans too.
Republicans don't approve of these new methods
for control and increasing lack.
Trump and his favorites are trying to blot out all our
futures, our kids' futures.
The future will be barren for all Americans, if
Trump stays in office.
Republicans can see what's happening and they don't
like it anymore than the Democrats.
It had to get this bad for all of us to wake up.
Other countries wonder if we've lost our minds.
No,we have not.
Power without responsibility is always dangerous.
Regaining our freedom will not be easy. But we are all fighting for our children's futures and we will never
stop until our kids are safe and all have a good future.
We can save America. Together. We all can.
I thought Patel's post was troubling because it came across he was crowing like they had just arrested someone from the 10 most wanted list. Then AG Bondi informed us they had.
Have used this quote many times. Similarly, the Stockdale Paradox says that you must believe that you will prevail but be brutally honest about your situation.
Who am I and why am I here?
But at least his Cabinet is quick to loudly and vocally offer saint-worthy praise.
like Kim Jung Un
Exactly like Kim … Saddam?