Sunday, May 11, 2025

Weekend Stuff: More laughing at Poilievre, More in Elbows Up!, Other funny moments, More about Pope Leo, and Animal Crackers

First up, laughing at Poilievre never gets old





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Next, here's more in Elbows Up! 

Compare Poilievre's histrionics with what Carney is doing:

I totally agree!!

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Some great news for Canadians! 🇨🇦 Statistics Canada reports exports to the US are down but they are up substantially internationally to many other countries. Canada is winning and doing a great job diversifying and this will improve under PM Carney’s leadership! #CanadaStrong #USDemocracy

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— Marie 🇨🇦 (@pawbaby2.bsky.social) May 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Next, a random grouping of other funny moments:

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— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) May 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM


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Long before American Idol ever existed, there was this moment in The Carol Burnett Show:
Next, here's more about Pope Leo and what his election means in a world dealing with Trump. 
This comment is, I think, true:
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And you know he can't stand it. I wonder if he noticed the crowd size in St. Peter's square? #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory #PopeLeoXIV

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— TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 (@tommasinaresist.bsky.social) May 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Here is a great discussion of the papal election:
Michelangelo Signorile / The Signorile Report
The politics of the election of Pope Leo XIV
This was clearly very well thought out--including the selection of an American--as the world is in a very precarious place because of the dangerous leadership in the U.S.
...The Catholic church is a global institution with huge cultural impact. As a nation state, The Vatican, with embassies and diplomats all over the world, and a presence at the U.N., has a head of state who has outsized power. The pope has a massive political platform. Certainly Francis sought to influence public policy, in the U.S. and in countries around the world.
And, as I noted last week, Francis was a smart politician....
It’s clear that Francis knew—or certainly tried to ensure—that Prevost would be the next pope, desiring to have someone who would continue his direction for the church, away from the conservative American church’s ideologies and emphasis. .... I believe Francis understood the need for a pope who is from this culture, who speaks English fluently, who spars in his own voice on social media, and who could sit down with American television interviewers and lay out the case against harsh policies and attacks on the marginalized.
... Francis had to see—as many of us have—that right now Trump is an existential threat to everything in the world that is held sacred, including the Catholic church itself. The Vatican is smack dab in the middle of the European Union, under attack by Trump’s trade war and by the U.S.’s encouragement of Vladimir Putin’s encroachment on Europe. And the Vatican is surely impacted by any weakening of NATO.
But it’s, of course, beyond self-preservation. The causes that Francis promoted—supporting migrants, helping the poor and marginalized, saving the planet—are under assault.
...there is no going back now to the archconservatives. Francis’s legacy lives on. And there is now a voice in the Vatican who is both a citizen of Peru and the U.S., someone whose maternal grandparents were Creole people of color from Louisiana. And he is someone with an enormous platform, who looks like he will be an outspoken home-grown counterpoint for all Americans—and the world—to the brutality of the Trump era.
Moving on, some wonderful photos of the Vatican museums. I will never see this in person, but I can appreciate their beauty through these posts:
Finally, here's a few Animal Crackers:
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I guess this was done as a commercial -- its hilarious:
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The incompetent Andrew Scheer and the competent Erin O'Toole both won their seats and polled better yet the CPC still support smarmy lil PP because they've found their Prince of Hate who hates the people they hate. Liberal strategists have to be looking to see which of the current CPC MPs who aren't completely in the cult and disgruntled with their leadership who might defect. The Liberals are now two seats from a majority and those might be never PPers in the CPC. Then the heat will really be on PP. Well, they could always choose Pat King to be their next leader.

mr perfect

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Cathie from Canada said...

Thanks, Mr. Perfect! Yes, I don't understand why the CPC are so bound and determined to keep Poilievre as their leader -- he got into stupid fights with winning Conservative provincial premiers, he lost a 20-point poll lead because he can't adapt his slogans to a new reality, and then he acted so churlish that the party didn't even dare mention him in its late ads.

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