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Like, I'm sure a lot of construction workers and loggers and truck drivers also died in accidents in the last week but none of them get lauded as heroes killed in the line of duty to protect our way of life? The default hero-worship is just crazy

Watch this. I've never seen John Oliver this angry in all the years I've watched him. The same money you're paying for the agents to do your vibe coding is going to companies that are destroying families and building data centers. But not in your backyard, so who cares, right?

This is fucking insane.

Doug Ford did it first

Profiles in Israeli courage: “this is horrendous and we said ‘never again’, but I don’t want to upset these particular Nazis bc they’re like me. Genocide must continue, unfortunately”

My @thestar.com column this week salutes some real heroes on the streets: crossing guards. Drivers in Ontario are emboldened & dangerous. The guards are precariously employed, disrespected, threatened & a pedestrian’s thin line of defence. It’s absurd we need them yet they’re essential.

You can’t call insurance CEO’s “murderers”, okay? They don’t murder people. Instead they merely prop up and administer a complex rube Goldberg structure that grinds living human beings into a fine slurry. They do this for financial profit. That’s not murder. That’s not murder.

Makes perfect sense - the man is only interested in governing 10% of the province www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It’s only shocking if you’ve chosen not to pay attention for decades. What’s actually shocking is that they’re still getting away with it with explicit support from our government.

He didn’t bother for 2 reasons: first, he doesn’t have a case and knows it. Second, if the public didn’t get really mad about it, the media would continue covering for him.

Fact check: Ford presides over the largest and most expensive Premier's Office in Ontario or Canadian history. www.ontario.ca/page/expendi...

This is epically stupid. “I have no idea about the quality of my work or whether it’s any good, but man look how fast I did it!”

The oligarch from Etobicoke. Time to send him packing.

Ontario takes over Billy Bishop Airport, promises to build it out for jets despite total lack of business case. Barely a month later, Ontario buys jet for Doug Ford. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

The current state of the CPC is on MacKay’s shoulders. He was the leader that sold out the progressive to the hard right. If he had even an ounce of shame, he’d just go away.

We have to raise our political expectations.

The United States and Israel

Iran: We will blockade the straits of Hormuz if you attack us. Donald: No, WE will blockade the straits of Hormuz unless you surrender to us. Iran: Ok. That might save us some trouble tbh.

World class fraud

In fairness, Trudeau significantly increased health spending, and the provinces just stole it while the media stayed quiet.

It’s time to introduce a new term to our lexicon: the Israeli ceasefire - where one side has to stop, but the other side doesn’t

It’s important to understand that the Democrats like what MAGA is doing, just now how they’re going about doing it.

This ‘centrist’ refused to interview the centrist candidate in the last election, but did expend a lot of energy on MAGA. Perhaps he’s just full of it bc he’s embarrassed?

Chuck Schumer: ‘The American People Deserve A President Who Can More Credibly Justify War With Iran’ https://theonion.com/chuck-schumer-the-american-people-deserve-a-president-1835697625/

Whatever ends up happening to Israel, just know that it was their choice.

I keep coming back to this.

After yesterday, we know exactly how far Republicans will go to stay silent. All the way to the brink of nuclear apocalypse.

Thank god. If I know Israel they'll definitely stop killing people for 30 seconds.

“Please stop” is the Democrats version of “thoughts and prayers”

The ‘American empire’ has already fallen. Only delusion keeps them from understanding this.

Sorry, America, but as a democracy we own the actions of our leader. We may despise Trump. But his actions are on us, will be associated with us by history and the world. Our democratic and institutional failures have put a genocidal monster on the world stage.

Trump is saying "Were ending a civilization" and we got assholes out here acting like it's just "Manny being Manny" and waving it off. Wild times

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

A reminder for Ontarians: Ford is “100% with Trump”, except for the anti-Canada stuff

This is a supervillain monlogue. I will never understand how anyone can watch this man say things like “a whole civilization will die tonight” and fail to recognize evil when they see it.

Americans pretending there will be accountability for the heinous acts their government commits in their names (often with their support) used to be amusing. These days it’s just infuriating. Delusion didn’t save you in 2020, and it won’t save you now.

if Trump nukes Iran it will be because no one powerful in america has ever been seriously punished for anything

Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.

Americans did this. Americans are responsible.

Counterpoint: there will be no future accountability. Only escalation. Americans are cowards.

They oversaw a very important social media influence operation for the Kremlin, got caught, fled. And now they're not just back, they're guests at Donald & Melania Trump's Easter Egg Roll at the White House.

They don’t have a war opposition because they don’t oppose the war.

Journalists accept and roll with this. They are worse than the demented pedophile because of it.

Trump: “I’m going to murder millions of people you’d better fuckin believe it” Democrats: “This is not normal.”

Tapper just can’t help himself here - had to end it by justifying war crimes to provide cover for his overlord

Too busy planning to commit war crimes on behalf of Americans