Sunday Funday: Comments on the passing scene, plus funny-odd and funny-ha ha, and of course Trump Watch and Animal Crackers

Well, our times are officially "interesting" now aren't they, so we really need a Funday. (And does everyone get the joke in the wombat cartoon?)

I still have to start with a few comments on the passing scene, because its getting crazier by the day. But I'm also sharing the funny-odd and funny-haha posts I've found over the last couple of weeks. 

Comments on the passing scene:

I appreciate America trying to make me feel at home, but heavily armed men in masks demanding papers is going a bit too far!

- Garry Kasparov

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Just as the killing of George Floyd woke up Americans to the reality of police violence, so the killing of Renee Good is waking up everyone to the reality of the Trump administration and their ICE Gestapo:

Ice is the Gestapo. Trump is insane. Elon’s Grok is publishing child porn. Stephen Miller is a white supremacist. JD Vance is making shit up. Somebody release the Epstein Files.

— Mark Ruffalo (@markruffalo.bsky.social) January 8, 2026 at 3:12 PM

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— George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 (@gtconway.bsky.social) January 10, 2026 at 1:56 PM

The United States is no longer a country worthy of respect, it's a shithole full of hatred human beings fueled by a demented madman as President. I'm so disgusted and angry right now.

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— ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 (@rebelb1ue.bsky.social) January 9, 2026 at 11:35 PM

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— JeffTrnka (@jefftrnka.bsky.social) January 8, 2026 at 2:02 PM

Americans are laughing at ICE whenever they can - here's how we know these guys have never walked on an icy sidewalk before:

Welcome to Minnesota, fuckers. Also this is super disturbing because the ICE agent's assault rifle appears to fire as he falls down. This was filmed by a friend near Chicago and Lake last night.

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— Eric Holthaus (@ericholthaus.com) January 9, 2026 at 5:09 PM

It not that they fell on ice, that can happen to anyone, but they just don't know enough to figure out that they need to walk in the snow on the side instead. Dorks!

And many Americans are stepping up:

“I have asked the clergy of the diocese to make sure their affairs are in order and they have written their wills.,not the time for statements. It is time to put our bodies between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable”. Rob Hirschfeld, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire

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— Claire Nevin-Field (@clairenf.bsky.social) January 10, 2026 at 9:31 AM

If you’re watching us from outside the United States, it’s pretty much as bad as it looks.

— John Collins (@logicallyjc.bsky.social) January 10, 2026 at 1:46 PM

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look- they can attempt martial law, but there are 400 million guns in America. By their own fucking doing combined with the geographic size of the us, they have made it impossible for their ever to be successful martial law. They can try, but I mean good luck.

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— Cake or Death (@johngcole.bsky.social) January 10, 2026 at 1:36 PM

The head of this shitshow, Greg Bovino, just got into a shoving match with a 20 something lady the other day, fell in the snow, and it took 8 ice agents to arrest one woman of normal build. They don't have the people or the brains for martial law. So they will try to scare you into compliance.

— Cake or Death (@johngcole.bsky.social) January 10, 2026 at 1:37 PM

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Yet its still just business as usual, for some:

all my life I was told that America had the greatest system of government ever — but all I can see is one party high-fiving itself over the state-sponsored murder of its citizens, and the other party impotently writing strongly-worded letters about it. WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK

— Jeff Tiedrich (@jefftiedrich.bsky.social) January 10, 2026 at 2:08 PM

I actually heard a Democratic politician talking today about how important it would be to "reform ICE" someday. Jesus wept!

Canadian here looking over the fence. Watching the US waiting politely for midterms while norms are being fed into a wood chipper is not a strategy, it’s denial with a calendar. History is pretty blunt on this point. Authoritarian regimes do not pause for elections out of courtesy. They entrench, they capture institutions, they rewrite the rules, and then they hold “elections” the way casinos offer free drinks. If Americans still have legal, civic, economic, and institutional leverage right now, then now is when it gets used. It means mass pressure, coordinated action, strikes, lawsuits, state resistance, corporate accountability, and relentless visibility. It means acting like democracy is something you defend in the present tense, not something you RSVP to every four years. From the outside looking in, the frustration comes from seeing a house on fire and hearing people argue about what color to paint the house next year. The moment is now. History does not hand out extensions.

- Glen Lancaster 🇨🇦

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Remembering the words of Thomas Paine:

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

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— Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) January 10, 2026 at 3:09 PM

And Greenland is still at risk:

Germany knows the danger of rising fascism. And who would have guessed they would arm Greenland to safeguard it from American Fascists?

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— Jillian Hurley (@jillianmhurley.bsky.social) January 10, 2026 at 6:40 PM

There's no coherent argument for invading or buying Greenland, and when Trump tried to say one to NYTimes it came out as gibberish from a condo salesman about the pride of ownership. It's basically the same as declaring war on Germany to "own" Ramstein Air Base. No upside, immense downside.

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— Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) January 10, 2026 at 10:52 PM

His entire career is about stealing from others, slapping his name on the thing, claiming exclusive credit. It's what he's doing to Venezeula and Greenland. It's what he did to the Kennedy Center. NAFTA and VA Choice. His Trump Org business model of licensing his name to shit others build. Now this.

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— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca.bsky.social) January 10, 2026 at 9:03 AM

Because this is really nuts: apparently Trump was so mad at Machado winning the Nobel Peace Prize that he wouldn't support her party to be leader of Venezuela so now she is scurrying to Washington to give him her Nobel medal. He will undoubtedly pretend he won it -- the stupid, it burns:

Bad news for the Malignant Narcissist.

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— Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) January 10, 2026 at 9:42 AM

Funny-odd and Funny-ha ha

I now call him President Kazoo:

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🔴 This "22 minutes" clip made my day. Hilarious! 😄

- Fun Tom

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About Canada:

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Here's some actual good news:

Canada had the #1 performing stock market in 2025 of the 10 largest markets 🧐 Another reason Canadians voted for the Banker and not the wanker. ❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️ ❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️

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— 🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 (@teamcanada

In December 2025, Statistics Canada unveiled a dataset that quietly overturned decades of economic orthodoxy. The report, titled Powering Progress, mapped an unfamiliar territory: a Canada where the green economy is not a sideline but the structural core of national productivity. The study introduced a Green Intensity Index, a first of its kind. Instead of tracking only solar panels or wind turbines, researchers overlaid thousands of data points—from the adoption of clean technologies to the proportion of green tasks within the workforce—to assign every industry in the country a score. When the map was complete, its contours rewrote the story of Canadian growth. The highest concentrations of “green intensity” appeared not on distant wind farms but in engineering firms, utilities, construction sites, and design offices. Even oil and gas operations showed pockets of green adaptation, measured through remediation and emissions technology. Then came the productivity overlay. From 2016 to 2022, industries with high green intensity generated labor productivity between fifty and sixty percent higher than those with low intensity, a gap that persisted through trade shifts, policy changes, and the COVID-19 crash. During that downturn, the green-intensive sectors contracted least, buoyed by firms that had already rebuilt around efficient capital and adaptive workforces. The findings lend empirical weight to a once-contested theory: that environmental regulation can fuel innovation rather than hinder it. For policymakers, the implication is clear. Canada’s path to prosperity may no longer run between growth and green objectives but along their shared route.

- Hansard Files

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forever.bsky.social) January 6, 2026 at 12:52 PM

In December 2025, Statistics Canada unveiled a dataset that quietly overturned decades of economic orthodoxy. The report, titled Powering Progress, mapped an unfamiliar territory: a Canada where the green economy is not a sideline but the structural core of national productivity. The study introduced a Green Intensity Index, a first of its kind. Instead of tracking only solar panels or wind turbines, researchers overlaid thousands of data points—from the adoption of clean technologies to the proportion of green tasks within the workforce—to assign every industry in the country a score. When the map was complete, its contours rewrote the story of Canadian growth. The highest concentrations of “green intensity” appeared not on distant wind farms but in engineering firms, utilities, construction sites, and design offices. Even oil and gas operations showed pockets of green adaptation, measured through remediation and emissions technology. Then came the productivity overlay. From 2016 to 2022, industries with high green intensity generated labor productivity between fifty and sixty percent higher than those with low intensity, a gap that persisted through trade shifts, policy changes, and the COVID-19 crash. During that downturn, the green-intensive sectors contracted least, buoyed by firms that had already rebuilt around efficient capital and adaptive workforces. The findings lend empirical weight to a once-contested theory: that environmental regulation can fuel innovation rather than hinder it. For policymakers, the implication is clear. Canada’s path to prosperity may no longer run between growth and green objectives but along their shared route.

- Hansard Files

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America has ICE Gestapo, but Canada has NICE

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Getting old(er):

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Great stuff here:

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Anyone who thinks Rage Against the Machine has changed and gone woke doesn't know what the fuck woke means. They've always been this way. Check out the song, "Know Your Enemy," from the first album, if you want to know what I mean. But DAMN, Howard's comment was money. 😆

- The Mouthy Renegade Writer

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I don't know where this is on, but its good:

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This whole thread is worth clicking through to see:

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— Eric Alper (@thatericalper.com) December 31, 2025 at 9:30 PM

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Trump Watch - posts about the world's most anticipated event

This is the year it happens. I promise.

— God (@thegodpodcast.com) January 1, 2026 at 11:56 AM

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Animal Crackers

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If you're wondering a police report is in my Animal Crackers section, you will soon find out:

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It’s been a bad 24 hours for Bears

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— Classics & Virtues (@classicvirtues.bsky.social) January 10, 2026 at 8:39 PM

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