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Socialist historian; author of Humans: The 300,000 Year Struggle for Equality; president, Alberta Labour History Institute

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Yes, the Dems sold out. But when you get beyond the MAGA base, the swing voters who gave Trump the 2024 election include many people who depend on the ACA. He will have lost them. And the folks who depend on food stamps to survive will not be amused that Trump saw their lives as a bargaining chip.

11.11.2025 06:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And is too stupid to have his empty head examined. If a shrink told him he was in the middle stages of dementia, he'd simply respond: "Duh, I'm a stable genius. I don't do anything by middling steps. I'm too advanced for that."

11.11.2025 06:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"The people" in this case means Elon Musk, the guy who owns Twitter and is a Nazi. But Trump does have his own "Truth Social" to spread his lies as well.

11.11.2025 06:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Both. He's a lifelong blockhead who is now experiencing dementia as well.

11.11.2025 06:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The US has a long history of insanity that it must confront if it wants to get rid of Trump and make it unlikely that another dangerous asshole can take power in the future: everything from Puritan beliefs, to slavery, to imperialism, to capitalist greed, must be assessed. Trump embodies all of it.

11.11.2025 06:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When the president of the US can't tell satire from reality, but has access to a button that can destroy the planet, we are in big trouble.

11.11.2025 06:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That's great but most of us Canadians won't set foot in your country until you get rid of the fascist-in-chief, ICE, and all the rest of the fascist garbage that disgusts us and makes non-white Canadians especially feel unsafe visiting your country. Many of you want to change all that. Good luck!

11.11.2025 06:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That's real resistance, not the pretend stuff of the traitor Dems who did a deal with Trump that gains nothing for working people or the poor.

11.11.2025 04:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes, we have universal healthcare in Canada, & it has almost universal support. Our Cons would like to kill it off, but that would kill them. So they chip at it with a certain amount of cutting and contracting out. But it's still the case that you don't pay a cent at a doctor's office or a hospital.

11.11.2025 04:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Even if he did commit to holding such a vote, the lying fuck would probably not have proceeded to do it.

11.11.2025 04:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It now seems no surprise that Trump supported Netanyahu using starvation of 2 million Gazans in his battle with Hamas. Turns out Trump was willing to starve 42 million Americans to own the Dems. and ffs the latter allowed this genocidal criminal to have his way.

11.11.2025 04:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When a moderate Republican is saying that abandoning basic healthcare demands is unjustified, it tells you that some Democrats need to be primaried for betraying their constituents.

10.11.2025 21:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm sure New York won't miss that talentless, fascist, Trump-cock-sucking asshole.

10.11.2025 21:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Trump has a grade 5 vocabulary and Grade 3 ideas comprehension. Everything is solely about him. His one skill is to con people into thinking that as he looks out for his own interests, he is mysteriously looking out for theirs too. But it's smoke and mirrors. He only looks out for his rich cronies.

10.11.2025 21:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes, they got life sentences, including the young women whom Trump fucked because he figures an important guy like him can grab pussy without consent and without regard to the age of his victims. And that monster then gets to control the courts that should be imprisoning him. No justice in this.

10.11.2025 09:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Ghislaine knows the names of all the young women whom Trump fucked. Those in the breadlines or unable to pay for healthcare and housing don't. So they get no special consideration.

10.11.2025 08:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The UCP has drastically cut health, education, and social services to funnel more money to Big Oil while cutting their taxes and royalties. It follows the Trump strategy of conning non-immigrants to believe immigrants, not our shitty gov't of corporate prostitutes, are responsible for poor services.

10.11.2025 08:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

But whoever did knows exactly what Trump thought before his dementia pushed him past the point of being able to write his own garbage. And that person is as immoral as The Donald has been throughout his despicable life.

10.11.2025 05:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I don't think there's anything natural about thug dimwit Trump. But he certainly is a disaster!

10.11.2025 05:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Don't forget "I did my best to starve 1/8 of American households and deprive as many of even the most limited health coverage so I could shovel more money at billionaires like myself."

10.11.2025 05:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They are saying that now along with everyone else. But hey, a current events class teacher could hold a "count the lies" contest. There's at least one in every sentence. What's more ironic here is that most of the charges he lays against Biden are far more apt for himself, including mental decline.

10.11.2025 05:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

At least when he's asleep, he's not sending out decrees to starve the hungry, keep the poor from getting healthcare, and hurting everyone with arbitrary tariffs. Vance would be doing that stuff 24 hours a day.

09.11.2025 17:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Even the idea that the plastic J.D. Vance, is religious, is absurd. He's a damaged, uncompassionate, inauthentic, ambitious guy whose abandonment by his parents has injured for life. He does understand that Trump's hunger policies could kill millions. It doesn't faze him.

09.11.2025 17:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

From fascism to outright genocide on the poor: Trump has ordered state governments not to fully replace food stamps that his genocidal admin is denying to the 1/8 of Americans who depend on them. Actually it shows what a failure US capitalism is that so many people are dependent on food stamps.

09.11.2025 17:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

More incentive for those of us who are not American to never get into a plane that is taking off from or landing in the United States. Gut feelings to replace science? How could anyone have voted for these assholes?

09.11.2025 05:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Trump spilled the beans on private insurance companies, saying they are "money sucking." Yes, he said it because he wants to end Obamacare and leave the poor without insurance. But regardless of his motives, the #1 fascist has publicly agreed with the basic argument for Medicare for All. Repeat it.

09.11.2025 05:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Trump spilled the beans on private insurance companies, saying they are "money sucking." Yes, he said it because he wants to end Obamacare and leave the poor without insurance. But regardless of his motives, the #1 fascist has publicly agreed with the basic argument for Medicare for All. Repeat it.

09.11.2025 05:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

He came from 1 percent support in August to 50.4 in November That took active help from about 100,000 people. For his victory to become the start of a progressive wave, that kind of people power has to to grow. The defeat of fascism won't happen if folks sit home to watch others carry it out on TV.

09.11.2025 05:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It tells the world that another America is possible rather than just a shifting back and forth between Democrats stuck in the 1980s and Republicans stuck in the 1500s.

09.11.2025 05:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

GOP means Genocide Organizers Party. If you aren't a tycoon, to us you aren't a person. We'll keep enough of you alive to meet our needs, but we don't care how many of the poor we murder.

09.11.2025 05:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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