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The eerie strip I published at the end of 2019, just before the pandemic. pic.twitter.com/uqbgCxQEpa
— Stephan Pastis (@stephanpastis) December 29, 2024
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Blog, blog against the dying of the light"
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The eerie strip I published at the end of 2019, just before the pandemic. pic.twitter.com/uqbgCxQEpa
— Stephan Pastis (@stephanpastis) December 29, 2024
Some information about Canada for Americans:https://t.co/EnI8CrF4cB
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) December 26, 2024
I’m still going to maintain Trudeau is right to not engage with the 51st State stuff, and as much as it would make us happy to issue a capital-T Takedown of Trump it’s pretty clear Trump’s trying to bait a reaction and it’s driving him nutty Trudeau isn’t biting
— Evan Scrimshaw (@EScrimshaw) December 25, 2024
"People think that boxing is all about how hard you can hit your opponent. It's not. Boxing is about how hard you can take a hit and keep going. "
— Bill Rice 🦋 (@2muchfun4me) December 27, 2024
-Justin Trudeau #goingthedistance pic.twitter.com/UEEUbsC9Mr
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But maybe he's not just babbling, maybe there is reason for this craziness.Trump thinks he can buy Greenland, annex Canada, and is picking a fight with Panama. I can’t believe so many people decided they weren’t embarrassed enough the first time and wanted this fucking moron to be president again. 🤦♂️
— 😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 (@aintscarylarry) December 23, 2024
oh look, Elderly Golfer is a geopolitical madmanPanama, Greenland, Canada and Mexico are all on Donny’s shopping list...well, shove over, George, and make room — there’s a new worst president ever in townDonny Convict is also being advised to achieve dominance by fucking shit up on a global scale — but he’s not listening to the neocons, who at least had some level of experience in foreign policy.no, Donny has surrounded himself with a fucktangle of vainglorious lunatics who have no idea what they’re talking about, and no earthly clue how to achieve their batshit goals....on Saturday, Donny threatened to invade Panama and take back the Canal. we all had fun mocking the shit out Donny’s bluster, but he didn’t come up with the idea all by his lonesome.this clusterfuck-to-come has the ketamine-addled cortex of President-Elect Elon Musk all over it — because you know who depends on global shipping lanes, don’t you?...last night, Donny took to his failing app to announce that Ken Howery was to be his pick for Ambassador to Denmark — and deep down in the post was an ominous threat. “For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.”so now Donny’s not just asking Denmark to sell us Greenland — he’s demanding it. that’s nice.this time around, there’s a reason for Donny’s northern land-grab: eventually, climate change is going to make all the Arctic ice go fuckity-bye, opening up new shipping routes at the top of the world. controlling Greenland would put the United States right in the thick of this new profit center....so when Donny “jokes” about annexing Canada, you have to wonder — is he really joking? because Canada is also going to be jockeying for primacy as new Arctic shipping lanes open....here where we stand today: a demented megalomaniac who will soon have access to a nuclear arsenal — and who would love nothing more than to crown himself King of the World — is being manipulated by one or more greedy plutocrats who have their own business interests at heart.what could possibly go wrong?our saving grace, once again, will be that the Sewer Cons are delusional clownfuckers with a track record of failure after failure, and have no idea what they’re doing.
Can we just start using WTYS for “We told you so” to save character space over the next 4 years?
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) December 19, 2024
They thought they were voting for cheaper bacon and they got new conflicts with the EU, Mexico, Canada and Panama.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) December 21, 2024 at 8:07 PM
The Chaos Monkeys Have Already Taken Over the ZooThe peddlers of misinformation are high on their own supply...antics like the potential shutdown will do much more damage to the Musk/Trump administration than they realize. (There’s also this other guy — JV Dance or something? — but he clearly doesn’t matter.)First, since the election financial markets have clearly been betting that Trump will do very little of what he promised during the campaign — that we won’t really have a trade war, just some minor trade skirmishes, that we’ll have symbolic deportations rather than a mass roundup of immigrants, and so on. Markets have, in effect, discounted the disastrous consequences that would follow if Trump honored his own promises.But a government shutdown in response to completely false claims about what’s in an innocuous short-term funding measure suggests that the peddlers of misinformation are high on their own supply. Trump may really believe that foreigners will pay tariffs, that U.S. trade deficits subsidize the rest of the world, that there’s a reserve army of American workers available to fill the gaps deportation would create. I don’t want to put too much weight on the latest market fluctuations, but it is starting to look as if investors are questioning their own complacencySecond, many, probably most people who voted for Trump believed that he really is the character he played on The Apprentice — a highly competent manager. ...Trump’s edge depended entirely on support from voters who don’t pay much attention to politicsHow will these voters react if, as seems all too likely, the second Trump administration is instead marked by rolling chaos?Anyway, it’s pretty remarkable. Inauguration Day is still a month away, yet the chaos monkeys have already taken over.
Here's some good news -- the Trudeau GST cuts appear to be working to give the economy a boost:Good job. Now carry on fighting the good fight at least until we see where we’re at with the Trump/Musk situation by Inauguration Day and have the foreign interference report in hand at the end of January. No resignation! #IStandWithTrudeau2025
— Charles Prepolec (@sherlockeditor) December 20, 2024
I work in a restaurant ~ everyone is talking about the tax break.
— Jenny-P 🇨🇦 🌻 (@Jenn_Pastrak) December 20, 2024
It is a definite boost for restaurants and the first policy move that I’ve seen truly break through to average people in a long time.
Oliver Willis / Daily KosBillionaires lead GOP revolt against critical spending bill...Led by billionaires who have been appointed by Donald Trump to wield massive influence over his incoming administration, Republican members of Congress are rejecting a last-ditch spending bill just days before a possible government shutdown.House Speaker Mike Johnson has had to reach across the aisle for Democratic assistance to pass the continuing resolution legislation ahead of Friday, the last day before funding dries up. But hard-line Republicans in his own party have voiced their opposition to the bill, which contains economic aid for those hit by recent hurricanes and some relief for farmers.It looks like they’re taking their cues from the likes of failed presidential candidate and billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy, who Trump appointed to lead the advisory (and completely unofficial) Department of Government Efficiency alongside multibillionaire Elon Musk. The obscenely wealthy duo wants the bill killed.
In Canada, Trudeau seems to be going from bad to worse. Grenier gives an excellent summary of the slide in Liberal fortunes since July 2023:It appears Trump is suffering from CDS, Canadian Deragement Syndrome.
— J Hunter🍁 (@MrJoKeR604) December 18, 2024
I know you want us, but we're just not that into you.
Weekly Writ 12/18: After a tough 18 months, will this week end Trudeau?How the cycle of bad polling and unforced errors has brought the Liberals where they are today....[Trudeau]seems to have three options available to him, none of them good: he can try to hold on, call an election or resign. The least-bad option for him and his party would seem to be a resignation. A competitive leadership race that names a new prime minister early next year would give the Liberals a fighting (if still long-shot) chance in the next election. By comparison, sacrificing himself on the electoral altar in a snap vote would do little good for the Liberal Party and trying to hold on as prime minister for as long as possible would likely do even more harm.Whether or not an election now is the right call for the country as a whole is another matter entirely. Depending on how one views what the Conservatives would do once in office, one could debate that Trudeau giving a successor a chance in the next election later is better than handing over the reins of power to Pierre Poilievre now, but it is increasingly untenable for Trudeau to believe that staying on in his weakened state is the better option for Canada, especially in the context of the looming tariff threat south of the border.Of course, this week’s bombshell didn’t occur in isolation. It’s the culmination of a cycle of series of decisions and events spanning Trudeau’s time in office since 2015 that has been accelerated by the Liberals’ more recent slide in the polls. Attempts to halt that slide resulted in unforced errors, further driving the cycle of bad polls, unforced errors and caucus (and, now, cabinet) unrest.While the catalyst for the slide might not have explicitly been the cabinet shuffle of July 26, 2023, it certainly seems to have been an inflection point for the government. It was presented as a reset for the Liberals but seemed to many voters to have simply been more of the same.
Rough math, Canada’s deficit is at like 2.1% of gdp….. A little context: The U.S is at like 6%, The EU guardrail is 3%. The sky is in fact; not falling #Cdnpoli
— booth4scartown.bsky.social (@booth4scartown.bsky.social) December 16, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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Correct, don't let anyone tell you $61B is a terrible deficit. Canada has a larger population and much higher GDP than when Harper was PM. There are reasons for Trudeau to step down. The budget isn't one of them. #cdnpoli #bcpoli #onpoli
— elcanaco.bsky.social (@elcanaco.bsky.social) December 16, 2024 at 7:59 PM
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...last year’s deficit was larger than expected because the government booked a bunch of legal settlements—primarily for the Indigenous communities—onto last year’s books (which is probably also why the Public Accounts have been delayed). These were one-time costs, so that means the deficit can continue to decline in the future, and economist Armine Yalnizyan noted that this was essentially a gift to the next government because it’s off their books, and they can make it look like they were more prudent managers when that’s not necessarily the case. Nevertheless, the government didn’t try to tease or hint that this was coming, which really makes you wonder about whoever is trying to decide on their communications strategy.
The only chaos is in the frenzie spewing from MSM. Two Ministers left - one left to be with family (but is staying with the Liberal party) & the other was pulled off the file for incompetence. This is called attrition, not chaos. Get. A. Life. PMJT’s not going anywhere. Cope.🇨🇦 pic.twitter.com/lC41UiGse7
— BKBelton (@bk_belton) December 17, 2024
I passed it too, did you? pic.twitter.com/98U7kI62Ob
— Jerseygirl #FBR 🟧 (@gggirl924) December 4, 2024
— Eric Alper 🎧 (@ThatEricAlper) December 3, 2024
So how does one prepare for a dictatorship?
— Rocket’s Bitch (@Cheezydork74) December 11, 2024
This gentleman is spot-fucking-on. The assassination of United Healthcare's CEO by a highly intelligent Ivy League graduate dealing with chronic pain is a watershed moment in our history and an example of the Republican deregulation machine attacking itself. 🎯🎯🎯👇 pic.twitter.com/BhOx5bzHCC
— Bill Madden (@maddenifico) December 11, 2024
Just saying’ if a US health insurance company can deny coverage, you don’t, in fact, have insurance. You have a lottery ticket.
— Stephen Best (@BestStephenD) December 5, 2024
In Defence Of Trudeau's Trump StrategyStop Asking For Them To Overreact...There’s really no way to talk about this honestly without just being blunt - those people who want us to scream that ”#Actually We Are Independent And Won’t Be Trampled With” at every provocation of the Trump Transition have some of the most truly pathetic small dick energy we’ve ever seen. It’s a hot dog hollering.....What the government is doing is what people who actually have the asset or attributes that are under discussion do - they don’t focus on winning the public debate, they focus on achieving outcomes....Let’s say Trudeau comes out today flanked by whoever you like - all the Premiers, all the party leaders, a group of esteemed Canadians, or even all of the above. He stares down the camera, puts on his best serious voice, and says that Canada has won a war of southern aggression once before and that if need be they will fight one again. He says that Canadians may respect America, but the fundamental glory of Canada is in its learnings both from American success but also American failure. He says that we will not subjugate Canadians to any nonsense from a wannabe authoritarian. What happens the minute he’s done giving that speech?I’m sure a bunch of idiots would feel better about themselves,... But it would get a reaction from Washington, including from the famously volatile President-elect who is known for having enemies. It would do no good except in making some of us feel better.I don’t know this, but it does seem likely to me that Trump’s continuing with this line of provocation in large part because it’s not getting a response from us. Annexing Canada isn’t happening, and a serious or credible attempt at it isn’t either. There is no universe in which an admin with the active crises it faces in Ukraine, Israel/Gaza, and Syria, plus the cold but important conflict-in-all-but-name with China, would ever muster the theoretical capacity to plan such a strike, let alone the actual capacity to attack. You have Elon and Vivek agreeing with Bernie Sanders that military spending cuts are on the table in their fake Not-A-Department, but they’re gonna invade and annex Canada. Sure....What the Trudeau government is doing is playing a very bad hand about as well as they can. They have certain assets, but we are a smaller, economically reliant country that relies on American goodwill as a replacement for genuinely innovative economic policy. We can fight about what extent the fault lies with Pierre Trudeau or Brian Mulroney or Doug Ford or Mike Harris or Chretien or whoever the fuck another time. Right now we have to play the cards we have well. And what so many seem to want is counterproductive claptrap. If someone can articulate an actual path from Trudeau forcefully condemning these comments to a good outcome for Canadians I’ll listen to the case. But it doesn’t exist....