20 months is incredibly lenient, given the givens. And it’s with time served. AND there’s a possibility of him serving some of that time here in Canada. The kid’s been treated with kid gloves.

“I’m sure it’s going to affect me, but I don’t really know how. I’ll have to do some research,” said Richard Malone

Next week someone’s gonna post google trending terms and we’ll find out every second search was “what’s a woke Canada tariff?”

Maybe they’ll have the best dysentery? That’s not nothin.

Meanwhile, our ACTUAL PM is saying things like:

“The most important thing right now — more important than anything else — is for Canadians to remain united. This is a time for us to pull together.”

and

Tariffs are the USA’s plan to “see a complete collapse of the Canadian economy. Because that will make it easier to annex us, is the second part of his thought. That is never going to happen. Canada will never be the 51st state”

But that doesn’t make good accelerationist bluster for headlines, so all the Yankee media will ignore it in favour of Canadaman Dougie.

His faithful MAGAts are probably waiting for him to tell other elected world leaders that they’re fired. Just because it’ll be funny to hear him say his catchphrase in his weird little voice. And that’s as seriously as they’ll take it until the lights go out and it’s blighted poultry rations for dinner again.

Rotten state of things.

Alternate source: Ford doubles down on threat to cut off energy to U.S. amid spectre of trade war

When Ford triggered the election in late January, he appealed to voters for the “largest mandate in Ontario’s history” to help his government navigate four years of the Trump administration.

The PCs picked up 80 seats — a sizeable majority of 17, but only one more than at dissolution and three fewer than they won in 2022.

Despite the result and costly price tag, Ford said Monday the election was “100 per cent” worth it.

Well… yeah. He got a Superbowl ad for himself during an international crisis. He got to be CanadaMan on the world stage. Ontario having to shell out for our second provincial election in 3 years is a small price to pay.

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This right here is lovely, and I know I’m not gonna be the only person scrolling by who needed to read it. ty.

Damn. Found my new favourite folk song. ty

A dragon slayer and a rogue fair maiden meet in the halls of justice. The beginning of a merry band of adventurers!

Fucking house arrest. This filth wore a white supremacist sweatshirt to his own court hearing and gets 3 months of house arrest. And food bank or men’s shelter volunteers have to put up with his court-mandated help. jfc…

If anyone was still unsure what these Pasty Patriots are really all about.

Q. What would Trump have to do. Like, what line would he have to cross to get more Republicans to oppose him? [my note: K already spoke about how DJT is the Democratic party’s failure and said he believes the only effective opposition to Trump so far has been “those disaffected Republicans like myself”]

Kinzinger: Y’know I wish I could answer that because uh in all honesty, I would’ve told you that he’s crossed about a dozen lines already that I thought would have launched opposition to him. What I worry about is that there is no more line. Because. Y’know, he’s been in our lives unfortunately for about 10 years, uh, the people that were willing to stand against him have either changed that willingness and and just completely gone along with him. Or they been kicked out of the party or not elected or whatever. Um. I, I, I, I would’ve thought that y’know uh, Health and Human Services Secretary who denies vaccines, or y’know, uhuhuhuh, a lady that’s shown some proclivity to Russia and and y’know and Bashar al-Assad is head of intelligence? I would’ve thought THOSE woulda been red lines but unfortunately they aren’t, so I’m not sure if that exists anymore? It’s gonna be up to ah just raw political power from the Democrats and the sane right and the centre to push back against this.

80 years old! That homecoming party is going to be absolutely epic.
op, ty for the good news today.

Peltier, an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in North Dakota, was active in the American Indian Movement, which beginning in the 1960s fought for Native American treaty rights and tribal self-determination.

The group grabbed headlines in 1969 when activists occupied the former prison island of Alcatraz in the San Francisco Bay, and again in 1972, when they presented presidential candidates with a list of demands including the restoration of tribal land. After they were ignored, they seized the headquarters of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

From then on, the group was subject to FBI surveillance and harassment under a covert program that sought to disrupt activism and was exposed in 1975.

Peltier’s conviction stemmed from a confrontation that year on the Oglala Sioux Indian Reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, in which FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams were killed. According to the FBI, the agents were there to serve arrest warrants for robbery and assault with a dangerous weapon.

Prosecutors maintained at trial that Peltier shot both agents in the head at point-blank range. Peltier acknowledged being present and firing a gun at a distance, but he said he fired in self-defense. A woman who claimed to have seen Peltier shoot the agents later recanted her testimony, saying it had been coerced.

He was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and given two consecutive life sentences.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/native-american-activist-leonard-peltier-leaves-prison-after-biden-commuted-his-life-sentence

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“And [White House Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair] told us point blank, take the president seriously. Don’t dismiss it as humour.”

“That is a chilling comment coming from the president of the United States, the leader of our closest ally, our biggest trading partner,” he also said.

…

When asked whether he has any insight into Trump’s motivations for wanting to take over Canada after his conversations in Washington, Furey said he “didn’t do enough psychiatry in medical school to pretend to understand what motivates the president of the United States at this particular moment,” and called the latter an “erratic actor.”

She’s incisive af, which is refreshing.

“Banality of evil” is hers as well, which fits that messed up “changing of the guard” moment in Madawaska imo. Those holy rollers so charged up after church they can’t even share space at a frigging Tims? Can you imagine having to work there?

“We’ve been good neighbors, but they haven’t paid their fair share,” [Bob] Campagna said. “They need our products, and we need theirs, but not as much.”

“I personally like that [Trump’s] stirring the pot and making stuff happen,” [Mike Beaulieu] said. “The tariffs might last for just a little bit. But he might settle some stuff.”

“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.” -Hannah Arendt

This’ll sound like a whole bag of extra-salted nuts, but he’s not running to be Premier. He already has that job (for another whole year, right?). He doesn’t need a “stronger mandate” to take more of our shit for his buddies or deal with Trump - he’s doing that right now. There’s no reason to call a snap election in the middle of an international crisis during the coldest month of the year (unless you don’t want people to show up).

We’re having an election so he can take over for Skippy Poilievere and be governor of the 51st state. Check out his Superbowl ad (8 mill, btw) where he’s in the driver’s seat for Canada.

Fucked in the head, but it’s the only thing that makes sense.

(OP, ty for the link. great read. Walrus is goat)

Ford’s media team creating narratives. One headline at a time. It’s too easy.

Working for the common good is such a foreign concept, Skippy has to put out a survey to see what contrarian haters want him to harp on about instead of Canada Is Broken.

Probably questions like, What is the most Canadian thing to do about Trump?
a) Trudeau is a woke dictator who hates your freedom
b) the oil and gas lobby are cool and nice
c) humanizing picture with a kitten and my wife

Creating Caucasians/Aryans remains the stupidest science. Bunch of hateful twits obsessed with bullshit like where Noah’s Arc was and measuring their own heads. Filthy rotten fuckers, every one of them. Paved the way for shit like

A 2016 survey revealed that of 222 white American medical students and residents, nearly 60% thought Black people’s skin is thicker than white peoples, and 12% thought Black people’s nerve endings were less sensitive than those of white people.

jfc…