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I'm sure this was repackaged by FOX as "radical leftist supports open borders".

I think there should be a deportation enforcement process, but the way that is happening in the USA right now is insane.

YouTube video by The Elephant Graveyard How Comedy Was Destroyed by an Anti-Reality Doomsday Cult

This video is an absolute fucking masterpiece. Humorous yet sad. Insightful yet parody.

The fallout from Trump’s Iran strikes is political, too Will the biggest foreign-policy gamble of his presidency pay off?

'I came, I bombed Iran' has got to be one of the cleverest titles I've seen.

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This never would have happened if Trump was president.

This made me think of the scene in Jaws 1 where Chief Brody chugs a big glass of red wine before cutting open the shark to look for the kid's body.

Just saw a comedian say "If vaccines caused autism then America would have trains" and I almost spit out my drink.

The difference is Gretchen Whitmer has values and shame.

Poilievre slams alleged Carney conflicts, pledges new ethics law Prime ministers should be required to sell all assets, says Tory leader

It's cute how Canadian politics is concerned with the PM's conflicts of interest in light of what is going on down South.

(It's not a bad thing, just cute).

Hormones and antibiotics are bad but should not be compared to GMOs. GM labels are dumb. All food is genetically modified by centuries of artificial selection.

Even competent people make mistakes. That's why we have protocols to avoid them ... like using classified government communications.

The American decline meme became a self-fulfilling prophecy. Looming American decline justified the election of a radical presidency, who will hasten the decline.

There is precedent for that. Remember how Ford got the job from Patrick Brown? All that's needed is a scandal, and the lack of security clearance is getting weirder with each passing day...

Russia may accept this 30-day ceasefire, but if they do, they will break it immediately. The trick for Ukraine will be to ensure that Trump sees that Russia broke it.

I don't support Pierre, but this
take is a bad one.

You dislike Pierre because of his policies if he wins, but if he loses, he won't lie about it and rally a mob to interfere with the transfer of power. Trump is against law and democracy and thus deserving of a different level of contempt.

Here’s How Much Aid the United States Has Sent Ukraine Ten charts illustrate the extraordinary level of support the United States has provided Ukraine in its war against Russian invaders.

US aid to Ukraine since Feb 2022 totals $128 billion, mostly older weapons, not cash.

The crypto industry is seeking a bailout of $100 billion from the US Treasury. That is cash.

Remember that when crypto CEOs accuse anyone else of "grifting."

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This trade war is the best argument for supply management of Canadian agriculture. Why would we ever trust the Americans for agricultural imports? Food self-sufficiency is essential in times of crisis.

Efficiencey means achieving a task while minimizing input. Closing hospitals in your example is not achieving a task. It's not efficiency; it's failure.

Right now, services in Ontario/Canada are so inefficient they are failing. Claiming that the government should ignore efficiency is bananas.

My fellow Canadians. There is only one way we will 'win' a trade war in the short term. We must withstand more pain than our opponent. We must channel what our predecessors did,we must survive. No one can suffer more than us.

He advocates for making government more efficient and applying a tech (ie private sector) mindset. These goals do not necessarily include everything that is malign about Musk (the rampant lying, the indiscriminate nature of the cuts, etc).

Surely you can distinguish between a laudable goal (efficiency) and everything else that is malign with Trump.

It reminds me of "Mussolini made the trains run on time". I don't know if he did, and Mussolini was very bad, but the trains running on time is still a good goal for any government.

I hope not. Because I am a fiscally minded small-c conservative and I vehemently oppose Musk and Trump. Surely we can both oppose authoritarianism and disagree on making government more efficient?

I believe that you can be a fiscally minded conservative without supporting Musk and Trump ... and that the authoritarian new right will thrive if we cannot find common ground with these members of the conservative old guard.

Of course, but Sean Speer is not advocating for that.

Government efficiency is still a laudable goal regardless of Musk and Trump.

Crypto prices rally after Trump backs 'crypto reserve' Trump named five cryptocurrencies he wanted in a potential national reserve so the US could become "the Crypto Capital of the World".

A subsidy for the crypto market.

For a suggestion, I like dzygaspaw.com

I also think that Trump's motivation to betray Ukraine stems from his naricissm. He promised to end the war. If it keeps going, he looks powerless, and it's easier to force Ukraine to capitulate than force Russia to stop invading.

If Zelensky wanted to surrender he could go to Moscow.

That's the charitable view.

The other view is Trump doesn't have a geopolitical strategy and is just attracted to mafia-type kleptocrats. Vance then intelectualizes Trump's instincts.

If you can, donate to organizations that support Ukraine's war effort. There is no better way to slow the spread of fascism. They need it now. 🇺🇦