Malcolm French

Exactly.

Their fingers in the wind wouldn’t be quite so bad if they were ever right. They mistake the hot air of bloviating campaign hacks for the cold win of actual voters actual opinions.

Gotta say, I can’t recall a centrist Democrat admit to a mistake in the past . . . heck, has it ever happened before?

According to centrist Dems the failed presidential campaigns of 2016 & 2024 are the fault of anyone and everyone *except* the centrist Dems who ran them into the ditch.

They sidelined Walz and his “weird” messaging (which was working), and redirected the campaign yet again to the oft failed strategy of chasing “moderate Republican” unicorns.

After all, if it didn’t work the first two times surely it will work the third.

The fairness doctrine did not require journalists to leave false statements unchallenged.

A Victoria Cross, the highest award in the British and Commonwealth honours system “for valour in the face of the enemy.”

I was confused by “VC.” Now I see it meant “video choreographer.”

I was pretty sure neither of these keyboard warriors had earned a Victoria Cross.

If A says it’s raining and B says it’s sunny, the job of a *real* journalist is not to report what each of them said, but to LOOK OUT THE DAMNED WINDOW.

This begins with the Reagan administration ending the fairness doctrine, and was moved forward by Karl Rove’s post-truth approach to politics.

If A says it’s raining and B says it’s sunny, the job of a *real* journalist is not to report what each of them said, but to LOOK OUT THE DAMNED WINDOW.

This begins with the Reagan administration ending the fairness doctrine, and was moved forward by Karl Rove’s post-truth approach to politics.

The Super Bowl was always a bit of a joke as a sporting championship.

But the half time entertainment is a Puerto Rican rapper, the pregame includes Lift Every Voice and Sing (aka the Black national anthem), and both teams are based in blue states.

It’s like a big NFL middle finger to Trump.

a man with dreadlocks and a beard is wearing a bandana on his head ALT: a man with dreadlocks and a beard is wearing a bandana on his head

The NFL is always terrible football.

Sadly, the CFL commissioner wants to destroy Canadian football by making it more likely yours.

#FireTheCFLCommissioner
@cfl.ca

Canadians have done a good job. We’ve shuttered a bourbon distillery in Kentucky.

Our government? Notwithstanding a nice speech at Davos, not so much. We’re still pussy-footing around.

We also need to block the sale of 20 Ontario built armoured vehicles to ICE. We should not be arming fascists.

Has the National Guard been ordered to protect Minnesotans from the ICE terrorists?

Have they been given sufficiently robust ROE and LOF?

Sadly, the Dem leadership make Neville Chamberlain look like a hardliner.

Is this just in Minnesota? Nation wide?

Every ICE officer who has broken the law should be arrested, tried, and imprisoned for their crimes.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

12/12

As the song says:

“When tyrants tremble sick with fear
and hear their death knell ringing,
then friends rejoice, both far and near.
How can I keep from singing?”

#Minnesota #AbolishICE #ArrestTrump

11/?

Tyrants always lose in the end. The struggle may be long and it will not be easy, but it will, in the end, be successful. Tyrants always lose.

Those of us who oppose tyranny must therefore continue to hope through the struggle until the tyrants fall.

#Minnesota #AbolishICE #ArrestTrump

10/?

The tens and hundreds of thousands of ordinary Minnesotans, and hundreds of thousands of other folk across the United States and around the free world are a proclamation of hope.

#Minnesota #AbolishICE #ArrestTrump

9/?

When the Lord told Elijah there there were 7,000 more who had not bent the knee to Baal, it was not a rebuke. It was a reassurance. “Elijah, you are not alone.”

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8/?

Elijah had not lost faith. He had not bent the knee to Jezebel’s false god. But he had lost hope because he believed the lie - the lie that sustains all tyrants - that he was alone and there was no hope to be had.

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7/7

Tyrants like Jezebel, like Hitler, like Stalin, like Trump don’t attain power by persuasion but by coercion. They retain power by convincing people there is no hope of anything better.

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6/?

“The greatest danger we face right now is not the very real threat to our safety. It’s not even the erosion of democracy. The greatest threat we face as a nation is the assault being waged on hope.”

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5/?

In a statement today, the Episcopal Bishop of Minnesota, Craig Loya, reminded Minnesotans and others of all faiths and none about the gravest danger in the present moment.

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4/4
Looking at today’s general strike in Minnesota, where much of the state has braved temperatures around -30°C to protest the sustained terrorist attack conducted by their own federal government, I have been forced to reassess my harsh judgement of the prophet.

#Minnesota #AbolishICE #ArrestTrump

3/?

I took God’s assurance that there were 7,000 who had not “bent the knee” to the pagan god as a rebuke. “Get over yourself Elijah; you’re not that special.

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2/?

Exhausted and in flight from Jezebel and the prophets of Baal, Elijah describes his plight to the Lord and claims that “I alone am left” as a faithful follower of the God of Israel.

My take was none too charitable about Elijah.

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