’One Chord To Another,’ the classic Juno-winning album from Halifax indie kings Sloan, came out 30 years ago today 💿

When a "leftist" argues in favour of gun ownership and use as protection from armed fascists, I just hear "the best way to stay safe from fascists is to become one".

Slaves and poverty-wage workers built the US while crooked creeps like Donald Trump stole the fruits of their labour.

The mariachi horns when Mexico scores go so hard

"We Herd For You"

Once you liberate yourself from any misconception that right-wingers are ever not lying or wrong, you'll wonder how you ever lived without the freedom.

The Charlie Kirk Merk was the vibe shift. I'm not sayin', but I am sayin'.

This is a very dark and dare I say evil thing to be saying on television and I don't want to diminish that but also stating that all the Shankill Road Unionist gangs want is to be Irish is one of the funniest things to come out of the MAGA Dome of Ignorance in this era. Just classic, unparodiable.

Uh the moral of The Boy Who Cried Wolf is "If you lie all the time, people will not believe you when you're tell the truth" which is not heeded *at all* in conservative politics at the moment.

Anyone slightly amused by this dynamic should read Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess, whose protagonist is a gay writer whose brother-in-law becomes Pope. It's one of the best novels I've ever read.

Watching a CBC doc on Michelle Remembers and the origins of the Satanic Panic of the 1980s in dowdy Victoria, BC and the comments are wild.

Spielberg joints I haven't seen: War Horse The Terminal Amistad Always Empire of the Sun The Color Purple 1941 Sugarland Express Duel (Not sure how much of his early stuff counts in his filmography but not seen anything before Jaws)

Hmm, yeah, that's quite a problem you've got there. As a potential solution, have you considered possibly *not* being stupid liars? Couldn't hurt, might help.

The Boy Who Cried Wolf Problem again.

Do we know if Donald Trump even *likes* basketball? Is all of this rigamarole over a game he's not even going to enjoy? He's like some kind of quantum singularity of human misery. Causes it wherever he goes but also cannot escape it for himself.

The only true New Yorkers are like 20 Dutch fokkers who died 350 years ago, everyone else is an arriviste, a Jan-y-komen-lately.

It's becoming ever more clear how a pro-separatist result will be engineered.

I've posted this before but they're in this weird no man's land where Trump is the party and the party is Trump so they have to wheel him out to do his thing on TV constantly and also he wouldn't have it any other way but also he's clearly very fucked up so they should really be hiding him away.

What's going on, why was Tintin assassinated?

*whispers* Mormonism is heretical and was founded by a pedophilic polygamist con artist fraud. Also Mike Lee's great-grandfather slaughtered women and children and hung for it.

There's a lot of reasons why the Right's conspiratorial obsession with fixed elections is dubious and should be dismissed as unserious nonsense, but the prime reason is that they never question elections that *they* win. Sure, the devious libs just *forgot* about those ones, huh?

It was so funny a few months ago when “Based” Mike Lee, who normally doesn’t care who he offends with his edgy posts, had a conniption when someone pointed out his great-grandfather was tried and executed for leading the Mountain Meadows Massacre (over 100 settlers killed in Utah)

If Knick fans Ghaddafi him for daring to show his melting mug and ruining their party, we'll unfortunately have to hand it to them forever so I could not say what outcome I am rooting for here.

I saw a looping video ad for the World Cup in a Sport Chek display window with star players doing stereotypically American things: Lamine Yamal with a cowboy hat riding a mechanical bull, Messi kicking strikes in a bowling alley, a Mexican player in a race car. But then there's Florian Wirtz...

"The anti-ICE protests in the Twin Cities and the national anti-racism protests following the murder of George Floyd were violent and unjustified while the organized terrorist assault on the Capitol on January 6th was peaceful and just" are things you have to believe now as a conservative.

Hey remember when the US invaded Iraq and overthrew its government then fouled up the reconstruction leading to the brink of civil war and the rise of ISIS? All of that was Iraqis' fault so they have to pay the price for it if they try to enter the States.

Everyone needs a hobby, some people need one desperately, vitally, on a practically existential level.

That guy is dumb in ways previous not thought possible.

It's "illiberal" to effect socioeconomic change through electoral victories and government policies, but not billionaire donor class dictating terms through political demagogues who force their prefered policies on the populace. That's The Economist Brain.

A great artist. Persepolis, graphic novel and movie, is great and essential. Damn. Rest in power.

"I'm Erika Kirk." "I'm Alex Jones." "I'm the entire bullpen of the Los Angeles Dodgers." "And I'm the banjo guy who got kicked out of Mumford & Sons. All this, and a box full of screeching weasels, tonight on 60 Minutes."

Everybody's posting this but it's very fun. My best so far was a 79-3 team with peak Wilt Chamberlain and peak LeBron on it.

As with Dubya Bush, there are a lot of unintentionally funny Trump quotes to choose from. But this is my vote for the era-defining one, the "Fool me twice... nevergetfooledagain" of the Trump Reich.

Racist bigots like to claim that diversity weakens societies but it's much more clear that this kind of bigotry does so.

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"Inner City" as inaccurate urban-geographical racist dogwhistle alert!

Aha, yes, all of those exciting and innovative young conservative artists like... um... well... there's... uh. Yeah.

There's a lot to say about this fable but the first thing and also probably the last thing is that the frog absolutely did not hesitate. He said, "Hop on, let's go sting some libs."

I don't disagree, and my country needs one too with the way conservative premiers are cheating the system and its norms. But oh, ratification would be fuuuunnnn.

shut up you ugly fuck

Between this and replying to Stephen Miller "shut up you ugly fuck", good day for Dem dunks, did the consultants run a focus group that concluded "fuck these MAGA scum"?

The Canadian equivalent of this lineup would be April Wine, Snow, Maestro Fresh Wes, Bachmann-Turner Overdrive (no Randy Bachmann), Alannah Myles, Len, and a Tragically Hip tribute band.

When I said I would do anything for my family and my country I only meant stuff I already like doing, like shooting guns for instance. If I have to do something annoying like conserve resources then obviously I'm not willing to do that

The fact that the adored god-emperor of the global Right is on TV every day spouting racist generalizations like this means that I have no qualms about similar general statements about conservatives. All conservatives love crime. See? That one is even true in like 6 different ways.

It should be legal for a large crowd like this to pick up these cars and deposit them wherever they choose.

Conservatives spend A LOT of time complaining about homeless people and i just don't want to hear another word of it. Homelessness is a predictable if not inevitable outcome of the inequitable social and economic order that conservatives favour. You're getting what you want and this is the result!

h/t @patrickhwillems.bsky.social

One big thing about Trump's health is that it's wrapped up in the whole general Boy Who Cried Wolf situation around him. Look at all the other stuff they're lying about. Why wouldn't they lie about the President's health?

Why Am I Like This? - The Simpsons Golden Age - MST3K - Monty Python reruns on A&E - War & Peace - Late 80s sitcoms