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@mark-dingman.bsky.social

Liberal democracy & the rule of law, science, clean energy. Reformed hard rock exploration geologist. Canadian living in Blighty & elsewhere.

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Americans love ugly, vulgar ostentatiousness. It is the very essence of American.

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15.02.2026 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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WestJet Cuts 11 US Routes In Major Network Shake-Up [Full List] Find out all the routes that no longer exist, including some that won't now have flights on any carrier.

Great news for CDN passport holders: somewhere MAGA free to travel to now that Trumpland-visit-and-get-free-trip-to-El Salvador is off the itinerary.

simpleflying.com/westjet-cuts...

15.02.2026 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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South Korea’s quest for nuclear weapons South Korea remains firm in its pursuit of nuclearisation amidst growing tensions with the US and unpredictability surrounding regional nuclear security

Not just Europe: Canada, S.Korea and others as well. It would be the absolute height of irresponsibility to not develop and deploy indigenous nuclear weapons.

Taiwan next I would assume.

#MAGA

www.orfonline.org/expert-speak...

14.02.2026 12:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy Valentine’s Day indeed!

14.02.2026 12:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Secretary Rubio delivers remarks to the Munich Security Conference - 3:00 AM
YouTube video by U.S. Department of State Secretary Rubio delivers remarks to the Munich Security Conference - 3:00 AM

Not all all.

Rubio’s speech was incoherent babble.

Any applause from the audience was due to the relief that li’l Marco didn’t announce US hostilities against Denmark.

Listen yourself:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=nJPW...

14.02.2026 10:53 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Incoherent babble.

I hadn’t realised just how tone deaf β€œlil Marco” is.

Presumably because Rubio is incoherent and obnoxious the Republican Party must think him a worthy candidate for higher office.

14.02.2026 08:56 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It is important to remember that US voters voted for this.

US voters knew the character of Trump from his first term.

Trump is what the US electorate wants.

#MAGA

13.02.2026 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Is that so?

Biden shackled people who were assembling a battery factory in Trumpland?

I’m absolutely certain that Korean businesses and staff are 100% desperate to come to Trumpland. Let’s face it: Trumpland is the greatest, the best, Trumpland rules!

#MAGA #shithole #morons

13.02.2026 20:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

#MAGA #shithole

13.02.2026 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Excellent!

Now Trumpland needs to try it against Canada, against Greenland or China.

The US is heading for a fall. A fall that all will applaud.

#MAGA

13.02.2026 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Davos 2026: Special address by Mark Carney, PM of Canada Canadian PM Mark Carney stressed the end of the rules-based international order and urged middle powers to act together to counter the great power rivalry.

β€œToday I will talk about a rupture in the world order, the end of a pleasant fiction and the beginning of a harsh reality, where geopolitics, where the large, main power, geopolitics, is submitted to no limits, no constraints.”

www.weforum.org/stories/2026...

13.02.2026 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Exactly so.

13.02.2026 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And between the US and Canada.

As a Canadian I recognise that not all Americans subscribe to MAGA but in a practical way why should I care? Did Americans worry about this in Iraq? In Afghanistan? In Vietnam?

13.02.2026 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The UK opposed the creation of Israel?

The Balfour Declaration isn’t real?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour...

13.02.2026 05:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Do you have a link? I can’t seem to find a source…

12.02.2026 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

#MAGA

12.02.2026 20:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Try using a search engine.

12.02.2026 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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These South Korean workers came to the US to build an EV battery plant. They left in shackles. They still want to know why ICE agents raided, arrested workers at a Georgia battery factory in September.

Ok: Hyundai-LG Energy Solution factory in southeastern Georgia

abcnews.com/US/south-kor...

12.02.2026 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 61    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œTeam of Rivals” must be one of the greatest books on leadership even though it is a biography.

How America needs the level of leadership of Lincoln and his cabinet today.

12.02.2026 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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False.

The DJIA is calculated by summing the stock prices of its 30 components and dividing by a divisor, which adjusts for stock splits and other changes.

12.02.2026 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpu5...

12.02.2026 13:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dow Jones Stock | Dow Jones Companies | Dow Jones Value | Markets Insider Get a complete List of all Dow Jones stocks. The values of Dow Jones companies consists live prices and previous close price, as well as daily, 3-, 6- and 1-year performance, charts and many more info...

No.

The DJIA value is the sum of share price of 1 share in each of the DJIA component companies. It is a $ value.

markets.businessinsider.com/index/compon...

12.02.2026 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Buck House should do better than

β€œin a such a…”

12.02.2026 05:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#shithole #failedstate

11.02.2026 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A good fit with other US moves like continued focus on ICE vehicles.

It will be interesting to visit the US in 20 years, it will be a little like visiting Havana to see all the interesting old cars.

11.02.2026 08:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And what? 30 to 40% of voters are totally cool with this?

What gives?

10.02.2026 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sometimes he does, but mostly he just reacts and says / writes stupid shit.

There is an abundance of evidence that Trump is not a clever strategist or tactician. Trump is a childlike fool.

10.02.2026 18:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This β€œstyle” of negotiations from Trumpland screams used car dealer: bluster and BS.

Greer’s own statement to Congress undercuts his bellicose language.

ustr.gov/sites/defaul...

10.02.2026 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Great news!!!!

10.02.2026 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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In happier Canadian news:

10.02.2026 10:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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