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We shouldn't recommend it, we should demand it.

Any opposition leader is a potential Prime Minister in Waiting, and they should be in the loop before they reach that point.

Also it gives the parties a chance to weed out the bad ones.

Let him bluster and insult and gaslight, we see through him. He doesn't phase me.

What he does is remind us that Trump has threatened us and sent this guy to tell us how we should roll over for the threat.

What we SHOULD do is demand our media call him out rather than wring their hands about it.

My unpopular opinion on this: don't kick him out, he's perfect.

A perfect embodiment of MAGA, to sit festering in our midst and reminding us to maintain our boycott, hold the line, strengthen Canada. Through the summer when Trump didn't mention annexation at all, this guy kept Canadians on target.

Hope you all had a fabulously devilish Halloween!

And now it's time to roll out ol' Satan Claws.

Ha ha ha. "This is the United Nations General Assembly. It is not a Signal Chat"

This is how you deal with MAGA. Tell them we will not be lied to, we will not be propagandized at. That might fly in your house, but it doesn't fly in ours.

This is how we should respond to the US ambassador to Canada

A hand holds a smartphone showing the Gander app’s welcome screen. The screen displays the Gander logo over a photo of two smiling people looking at a phone together, with drinks on the table. Text on the screen reads: “Better social media, from post to post to post” with options to “Join Gander” or “Sign in.”

Ahem.

We give you Gander. The app. On a phone.

Not public yet… but it’s real, in our hands, and soon in beta.

The timing is a bit nuts… given we just opened investment to all Canadians (at frontfundr.com/gandersocial) but we’re over the moon.

Amazing what can get done with community.

But most of all we want to root for the outcome that will most annoy Donald..

We want our Americans to beat their Americans in baseball, to make up for all the times their Canadians beat our Canadians in hockey.

Ronald Reagan in a Blue Jays jersey

Hey Donald!

Defiant Ford defends ‘most successful ad in history of North America’ | Globalnews.ca A defiant Doug Ford said the commercial his government launched, to the fury of U.S. President Donald Trump, derailing trade talks, has 'achieved' its goal and will now end.

I hate to sorta agree with Ford, but he's not far off. Whatever else you migbt think of it, the Reagan ad has been extremely successful in every import at metric: viewership, viral spread, changing national conversation in two countries...

globalnews.ca/news/1149652...

"Who's been revving a chainsaw *all evening*? Some of us have to work!"

"Whoever was just standing in my back yard in coveralls and a pale mask, that wasn't funny, asshole"

"If they're going to do a Zombie Walk through he neighbourhood, they could at least let us know. My dog is freaking out!"

I admin my neighbourhood FB page, which is just as full of stereotypes as you might expect. Who's cat is this, who's setting off fireworks..

Anyways I was laughing with my wife about what people in horror movies would post on their neighbourhood FB page. I'd love to hear yours.

YouTube video by DRM News FULL REMARKS: Canada PM Carney Roasts U.S. and Unveils $1 Trillion Asia Push at ASEAN Summit | AC1G

This speech really made me feel like Canada really means business about stepping up on the world trade stage.
Carneys been playing his cards close to his chest over the summer, but this and the other speeches this week made me feel better about it.

Ha ha, he's such a dad.

Meanwhile in Canada
Enjoy this beautiful Indigenous Blue Jays logo (made by Kory Parkin/@paintsbyparkin)
#Bluesky #Politics #Canadasky #Canada #cdnpoli#America #𝓢𝓽𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓜𝓲𝓵𝓮𝓼𝓝𝓮𝓽

Nursery rhyme question. Is the fifth piggy singing happily or crying?

I always thought "whee whee whee" sounds like a damned happy piggy.
However I've been informed by randos on the interweb that that piggy is crying.
You know what, who cares what they think. Happy piggie, the end.

Toronto: not an igloo in sight

Population (GTA): 6.4M, 4th largest city in N.A.

Ranked one of the safest cities in N.A. even though it is considered the most multi-cultural city in the world where 160 different languages are spoken.

Tolerance is our superpower.

Let’s Go #BlueJays

#Canada

Reminds me of people I've encountered online who say "woooo when you see a cardinal, it's a deceased loved ie visiting you"

Well yikes, I'm gonna call the Ghostbusters, AND an old priest and a young priest because my back yard is Haunted as Fuck.

Don't worry, I don't think there's some deep meaning or sports prophecy connected to this Blue Jay appearing on our bird cam this morning.

He lives here.

I haven't suddenly ventured down the Woo trail.

On our bird cam this morning.

Just imagine what the tarrifs will be if the Jays win the series!

When I saw this in my news feed, my brain filled in the rest.

-- THE DEPORTATIONS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES --

Carney: Canada is ready to pick up trade talks when US is ready President Trump abruptly ended negotiations over an advert that used Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about tariffs.

As @brittlestar.com said last spring, Canadians have been training for this our whole lives. Snowstorm, spring, winter, spring, snowstorm, tarrifs, spring, no tarrifs, snowstorm, spring, tarrifs, summer, flurries...
Trump walks away from trade talks? We've got our Storm Chips, see you next Tuesday.

This is something that has been on my mind. The people on Venezuelan fishing boats are getting a death sentence with no trial for an alleged crime that doesn't carry the death penalty.
How will Canadians react when its a Canadian fishing boat that the US claims is full of fentanyl with no proof?

My son in cosplay at the Joey Valence concert at Danforth Music Hall

My music tastes are like my politics: A. B. C.

The new AI features on my S24 that I didn't ask for have already failed me.

Country, Sammy? Really? It's like you don't even know me.

Facebook can show me an ad for a car I pointed out to my son in the street 20 minutes earlier, but you've never picked up on my feelings about country?

I'm not sure what former Prime Minister Stephen Harper is ACTUALLY doing in this photo, but it looks a lot like he's kicking Bonhomme Carnivale right in the coolywackers.

When Harper attacks Bonhomme Carnaval, he attacks ALL of us.

"Department of War" Bluesky account immediately trolled after launch The Pentagon has maintained a consistent and active presence on other social media platforms for years.

Sorry the NYT article hasn't been up long enough to generate an Archive link to bypass the firewall, so here's basically the same story from two perspectives on Newsweek www.newsweek.com/department-o...

And Fox
www.foxnews.com/media/white-...

White House and Government Agencies Join Bluesky, Then Attack Democrats

Further to my post the other day about not engaging with the official US government trolls that joined Bluesky en masse on Friday just before the No Kings protest, here's one of several article that confirms they are verified US gov't accounts and they're here to troll.

My first post in this thread reads badly. Radio Free Europe broadcast into the Soviet Union to supply information and encouragement (and western music) to the people there.
Radio Canada International might need to serve the same purpose for Gilead.

Anyways, here's a gift link.