Sunday Funday: TrumpWorld is falling apart, Canada is OK, Winter is coming, Random funny stuff, TrumpWatch, and Animal Crackers

Here is my usual Sunday collection of random pieces plus some funny stuff. Enjoy!

TrumpWorld is falling apart
Rogan and Musk decide Trump's "assassination attempt" in Butler PA in July was staged:

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America is running away from Trump and the world is running away from America:
Alaen

The Quiet Global Retreat from America
The world’s former gravitational center is discovering what happens when its influence quietly weakens.
For decades, the United States was the world’s natural hub. Influence, investment, and travelers flowed toward it without effort. America did not need to chase global interest; the interest simply arrived. Today, something different is happening. Countries that once depended on the U.S. for stability are choosing distance. They are not making loud statements or grand political speeches. They are simply changing their behavior. They are booking fewer flights, canceling business trips, redirecting students, and shifting investments. This change signals a historic reversal of influence in the modern era.
What started as political tough talk has grown into something much bigger. It looks and feels like a silent, worldwide retreat from the United States....
...The country’s once reliable travel trade surplus has flipped into a massive deficit. While America struggles with shrinking inbound traffic, countries in Europe and Asia are breaking tourism records. Travelers who once saved for a dream trip to America are choosing destinations that feel easier, safer, more affordable, and, most importantly, more welcoming. The world is starting to see the U.S. as unpredictable, expensive, politically tense, and emotionally exhausting.
No global leader announced a boycott. No anti-US pact was formed. Instead, a powerful trend of quiet separation is changing everything. This shift is a reflection of a deeper issue that every powerful nation eventually faces. When confidence turns into complacency and leadership turns into isolation, influence fades. Global trust is not something any nation can demand. It is something that must be earned, sustained, and protected every single day.
The real question is whether the United States truly understands why it lost its magnetic global pull in the first place.

Trump just posted a rant about how he no longer supports MTG and then goes on to list dozens of his so-called achievements, all lies, but the biggest lie was this: "…being RESPECTED by every country in the world (as opposed to being the laughingstock that we were just 12 months ago!)…" As an Aussie, I can 100% confirm that Donald Trump is a laughingstock here.

- Joe Thomas

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Anecdotal data is what the US has now:

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And Epstein-Gate isn't ever going away:

Trump does not take questions from reporters as he boards Air Force One to head to another weekend getaway at his private club in Florida

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) November 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM

What's the Mar-a-Lardo party theme this weekend? Lolita?

 

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Worth remembering:

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— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) November 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM

Daniel Barkhuff

We Deserve To Know
If our President is a pedophile
...Whatever emerges about Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is going to be far worse than the public’s current imagination.
That’s not a prediction of guilt — that’s a prediction of scale.
Because we already know the surface-level facts:
Trump socialized with Epstein for years.
He was photographed with him, repeatedly.
He acknowledged knowing him well enough to call him “a terrific guy” who “likes beautiful women… on the younger side.”
He was listed in Epstein’s contact books.
He flew on Epstein’s plane once, according to flight records.
Epstein emailed people saying Trump knew about the girls, and on at least one occasion, had spent hours with one of them, alone.
And here’s the thing I’ve learned the hard way:
When it comes to men with immense power and a demonstrated disregard for normal social boundaries, the first report is not the worst report. It’s the softest one anyone is willing to say out loud.
Whatever sealed records, depositions, transcripts, or unredacted documents eventually come into public view — whether through lawsuits, releases, or political warfare — are going to detonate through the culture with a level of depravity and rot people are not emotionally ready for.
Not because of speculation.
But because this is how sex crimes unfold.
This is the rhythm of revelation.
This is the architecture of hidden harm....

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— George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 (@gtconway.bsky.social) November 13, 2025 at 1:23 AM

PSA: If you find yourself explaining why the President being on a list of PDFiles is “not that bad, actually,” please reevaluate your life before speaking further. Thank you.

— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) November 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM

Martin Longman

Do Your Friends Want to Know What the Epstein Furor is All About?
.... the president was supposed to be the QAnon hero who exposes a global elite pedophilia ring. But, as Jonathan Lemire of The Atlantic writes, “Trump was always an unlikely champion for those on the right who believed in the Epstein conspiracy theories.” Instead, he appears to be right at the heart of the conspiracy, which is very real.
Of course, as Charlie Warzel writes in The Atlantic, the Epstein estate files show that “the wealthy and powerful” elites behind the conspiracy “appear not as master operators but as bumbling sycophants, eager to cozy up to influence no matter how villainous or depraved.”
I think that pretty well describes the entire Trump administration and Republican Party at this point, and if the Epstein saga has the potential to do any good, it’s in finally penetrating the thick skulls of the people in Trump’s cult that their hero is a zero.

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

— Tyler, from the Internet (@tylerfromtheinternet.com) November 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM

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But Canada is OK:

Brittlestar: #TrueNorthStrongAndFree

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— Andreas 🇨🇦 Fella 💙 (@andreasor.bsky.social) November 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM

Personal freedom and body automony are powerful attractions. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

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— Bon Hanson (@bonhanson.bsky.social) November 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM

Canada announces a $1.7 billion program to recruit top H1B visa holders from America 🎥 Credit: Mint / Youtube ❤️🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦❤️ ❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️

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— 🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 (@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social) November 14, 2025 at 9:35 AM

I think Fun Tom has a point-

🔴 I have looked at this and looked at this, and RESEARCHED and pondered deeply, for many months. 🤔 📚 And I have come to an unassailable conclusion... Taking into fair account, his character, his history, his baggage, and his leadership fitness ... I see only TWO possible options for Pierre Poilievre to ever become Prime Minister of Canada: 1. Never. 2. Never ever.

- Fun Tom

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All the talk is about whether Carney will win the budget vote or not:

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I think Carney will get the budget passed, in spite of NDP posturing. 

One thing I heard in last week's At Issue panel was some comments that Carney was doing nothing in particular to make his budget more palatable to the NDP or the Greens. Yes and I think, Good! 

I think Carney isn't just a politician, he is trying to build something new, and he is basically saying, "Here's my budget. If you vote for it, fine. If you don't, also fine, and we'll ask the Canadian people what they think. But I'm not turning myself inside out to make deals."

Here's an interesting take:
Evan Scrimshaw / Scrimshaw Unscripted

Carney’s Implicit Grand Bargain
On The Big Question
...The dirty little secret is no matter how polite and kind the Feds ever are to the Premiers, they’ll use Ottawa as a boogeyman forever and ever. Ford was never nice to Trudeau unless it was in his interests, and he would routinely trash him even as Trudeau and Sean Fraser’s Housing Ministry would be nice to Dougie out of a (misguided) sense of decorum. That has to end. The obligations of this relationship go both ways, and the fact that the provinces need the Feds means that you can be firm with them and not ruin any effort at collaboration where needed. At the end of the day, Tony Wakeham might be pissed if the Feds try and meddle with their divine right to be morons about Churchill Falls, but he’s going to need to come to Ottawa to beg for more money to get hospitals built and roads repaved that he promised in the election. And that truth means we have them over a barrel. It’s time to start acting like it.
Until Ottawa starts to understand the leverage this crisis has created, we will have a fraying confederation of people who think they can leverage the Feds. They can’t, and they won’t, but they’ll think they can because until now they have been able to. That has to end if Carney is to handle the double of economic and unity crises Justin Trudeau handed over to him. If the Feds set a precedence that they can be bent over, they will be. If they make clear that there can be collaboration, but collaboration will not constitute dictation by the provinces, then the Feds will succeed beyond any wildest dreams of recent governments. Don’t fuck this up.

Here's a great bit about the Canada-US economy and the impact of tariffs, from 

Professor Galloway:

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And with the news yesterday that Trump is dropping some tariffs, enjoy this:

“The US is harming themselves with these tariffs, okay? I have seen this movie before. I know exactly what's gonna happen.” — Mark Carney Prime Minister of Canada 🇨🇦 That aged like fine wine 🍷😁 www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/11/... ❤️🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦❤️ ❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️

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— 🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 (@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social) November 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM

And this:

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- Kier Atkinson 🇨🇦

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Winter is coming:

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Random funny stuff:

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If you recall, the TV show Law and Order uses a "ding-dong" sound for scene changes:

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In Cali, an artist gave the flip book treatment to a bridge crossing. So rad!

- Jonathan Small

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Sweet

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And this is absolutely impressive:

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TrumpWatch - posts about the world's most desired event:

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Tom Ellison / McSweeney's Internet Tendency

When It Happens
It’s been so long, you sometimes forget that eventually, IT will HAPPEN.
It’s impossible to say when IT will HAPPEN. But it can’t be too long until IT HAPPENS. Looking at the data (age, high-stress job, cardiac history), it is statistically plausible that IT will HAPPEN in the next thirty-six months
Eighteen, if you factor in hamburger consumption and all the weird bruising.
...But you imagine where you might be, eventually, when you learn IT has HAPPENED.
Maybe you will wake up, anxious and scared and angry (i.e., normal).
Walk past the armed men and the protesters and the destitute.
Then, out of nowhere, the push notification from THE NEWS: “Breaking: IT Has HAPPENED.”
What will you feel like? When IT HAPPENS?
When IT HAPPENS, it will probably be FEELING. Just a huge, overwhelming sense of FEELING, the kind where you didn’t even realize how starved you were for FEELING. Punctuated with alternating waves of SECOND FEELING, as well as SENSATION.
Plus, a sudden absence of THIRD FEELING, which makes you realize the toll of A CONSTANT BASELINE OF LOW-GRADE THIRD FEELING for ten goddamn TIME PERIODS straight, even though you were still plenty aware of THIRD FEELING, trust me....
And of course, you will have to tread carefully around RELATIVES, who will probably throw an absolute REACTION when IT HAPPENS. But WE can be MAGNANIMOUS in this new, post–IT HAPPENING world.
Still, you wonder what you’ll do, right after IT HAPPENS. Perhaps you will clutch your loved ones and watch TV, as the news anchors ACT APPROPRIATELY.
Perhaps you will SCREAM, out of OTHER FEELING.
Perhaps you will pop open a SPECIFIC BEVERAGE.
Perhaps you will scroll post after post....
Perhaps you will think of the countless people whose lives might have been DIFFERENT, if IT had HAPPENED sooner.
The important thing to remember, though, is that IT will HAPPEN.

Animal Crackers: 

Good morning and happy Sunday 🐴 🥰

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— Norah 🦋 Mami’s Small But She is Mighty 🔥 (@thenoraheffect.bsky.social) November 9, 2025 at 7:18 AM

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