This CBC report informs us that, at a recent NHL Ottawa Senators home game against the Minnesota Wild, the American national anthem was met with scattered boos when it was played before the home crowd, in reaction to the ridiculous tariffs by Bronzer Beelzebub (I think this also happened at a Toronto Raptors basketball game)...good job by one of the commentators to recall how far back our alliance goes, particularly in the wake of 9/11 and how Canada joined in fighting Afghanistan in accordance with Article 5 of our NATO agreement (an attack against one member country is an attack against all)...as far as I’m concerned with #47, all roads lead back to Putin; the goal of our ruling regime is to undermine this country every way possible and create chaos, which is exactly what the “Moscow munchkin” wants (and this is one of the best columns I've seen yet on our current mess from Timothy Snyder)...
...and Brian Tyler Cohen informs us that, gee, whaddaya know? It looks like Canada had already figured out how to apply their own retaliatory tariffs against red states in the event that #47 started his beyond stoo-pid tariff war, which of course he did...Mexico also followed suit because they’re not idiots, including President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo (great job by still-Canadian PM Justin Trudeau in particular to recall the JFK quote)...
Update 1: And by the way, according to this (but mainly this), I just want to try and understand the sequence of events:
Have I got this about right?Trump does something typically dumb (in this case, antagonize our biggest trade partners with his idiotic tariffs)...also, Goldman Sachs informs us of a lot of “short” stock market transactions betting against our performance (Dow goes down about 700 points). Mexico, one of those partners, agrees to some token gesture to get their tariff lifted (in this case, a promise to send 10,000 troops to the border apparently). Trump lifts the Mexico tariffs and the market rebounds after everybody who “shorted” their U.S. market holdings has made their money. Trump takes a victory lap ad nauseum for the next few news cycles.
Update 2: Oh, so our bulbous orange demogogue got a promise from Canada to reduce fentanyl (here)?
...and Kyle Kulinski brings us a video of a woman breaking down when she learned that Our Ochre Abomination cut off her benefits (and no, apparently she wasn’t a MAGA supporter)...and yeah, as Kyle says, the “wet dream” of wingnuts is indeed to destroy the social safety net, which is relied on by millions regardless of political affiliation...on a wholly other matter, I think Salem is one cute cat (NSFW/H)...
...and Lawrence O’Donnell discusses the effort of Caroline Kennedy to oppose her cousin “Brain Worms” RFK Jr., nominated to head HHS, with the former bravely speaking out against her cousin...and good job by Lawrence to take the WH press corps to task for treating Trumpette spokes-liar Karoline Leavitt like she was a piece of porcelain, as opposed to Steve Douchebag of Fix Noise yelling and propagandizing at Biden spokespeople...
...and Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report starts this clip by talking about pals of Elon Musk facing reprisals for the Nazi salute, including Laura Smith of our beloved commonwealth of PA, along with Michigan priest Calvin Robinson (and yes, I know that was once called the Bellamy Salute prior to WWII and was included with the Pledge of Allegiance, but I would say that the horrific events of that world crisis have changed the context at the very least)...Figueredo takes this in the direction of defending gay/trans people and other marginalized groups, which is apropos unfortunately since Musk and his cohorts are giving cover for those attacks by embracing Nazi symbolism and actual practice...Figueredo is also right about late-stage capitalism, though I wish he wasn’t...I also agree with Figueredo’s assessment that blaming “otherized” groups used to be more subtle in the past, but now you’ve got Marjorie Traitor Greene and her ilk flaunting it all over the place...and I would vote against RFK Jr. just to spite this Nicole Shanahan b*tch, though there are plenty of other reasons to oppose him also, as noted in the prior video from O’Donnell...NSFW/H...
...and I would say that this newer tune offers some food for thought - hope you agree.
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