It's not just that Trump is surrounded by "yes men" It's that Trump is surrounded by "oh my god, oh yes! Oh god YES! OHHHHHH YESSSSSSS!" people.

How would I know, but I have long had the idea that the US and several other "western" nations used the leverage and byproducts of the Jeffrey Epsteins of the world to achieve "things." Many of those things probably felt like national security priorities. It's time to 'walk away from Omelas'

Sometimes, during a moment of silence, I discreetly scan the crowd. Not going to lie, some of them sum-bitches should just keep on staying silent. I hope my facial expressions don't give me away.

I don't think government of the cronies, by the cronies, for the cronies is what Lincoln had in mind?

If you are bored and want a laugh try a version of this Ai experiment. Go to "Llama Ai" and cue up an older model Ai (a Deepseek for example) ask it to evaluate the events around DOGE and their data operations, do some back and forth then get it to summarize. Feed that summary into Claude or gpt

Nothing is truly a crisis until major donors start calling the office, apparently.

There's a likelihood that each of the capitulation caucus received a personal benefit from their vote. Who's going to investigate, DOJ? 😅🤣😂 It doesn't make strategic sense, or political sense. It is what compromised insiders would do. Yada yada yada, shutdown bad, but it was last week too, sooooo

40 billion for an Argentine dance party, or fund the SNAP program domestically, ugh, so hard to decide.

I'm torn between the belief that this administration is actively pursuing a eugenics agenda that includes starving or otherwise allowing millions of "undesirables" to die, OR they're setting up the conditions for a "Running Man" inspired 'Bakersfield food riot' scenario. Either way...

I assume a lot of you are dealing with that one friend or relative that has a new conspiracy related villain pretty much weekly. I start to feel like I'm dealing with the Ambassador Lysenko character from Hunt for Red October. "You've discovered ANOTHER cabal of nefarious globalists?"

That dopey look on Trump's face? That panicked "let me out of here!" look on RFK's face? Yeah, that's the extent of the response you are going to see when reality begins to catch up with this "administration." Governments kill people even when they care and are trying to do something, these guys?

Is the F-35 Block 4 program a bit too much like Tesla's full self-driving, or am I getting too cynical?

I can absolutely confirm there are millions of Canadians right now who have had the thought: "Well, maybe I will win the 50/50"

Can you help me with an experiment? I had a fascinating conversation with an AI using a thought experiment as an analytical lens. Paste this prompt into your favorite AI and share what it finds: 🧵

Saturday thoughts: The cat universe abhors a vacuum. And. We Gen Xers are clearly to blame for many ills of these times, we allowed people to tell us "that is a red onion." We told our children: that is a red onion. We order red onions. The f@#king onion is purple, it's always been purple.

The people who benefit from your children and grandchildren being ignorant and disposable try to convince you public education is bad The people who have secured access to the best medical care and technology try to convince you that you don't deserve it, or that gimmicks replace the need for it

The everyday people who were happy to burn it all down really should not have taken advice from the ones eager to rule over ashes.

Whenever the US is serious again about trade negotiations, a good opening move would be to replace the US ambassador to Canada. Yes, I realize this will likely be after the audience of one has left the building.

Look, I don't want to make a big deal about this, but: The World Series will either be won by the team from Canada, or, it will be won by the team from California. The California team has many non-citizens and its star players don't speak English. I'm declaring this a win-win

I'm probably alone in this, but, I think Charlize Theron's character in Fury Road should have used the line: "Yippe-Ki-Yay mother truckers"

Autopen nonsense is just to give future cover to the corrupt mass pardons that a current demented president is likely to give Probably to some sitting senators who are complaining about Biden pardons. Don't like signature? Too bad Dont like pres? Too bad Think he should've been 25th'd? Too bad

Anyone else pointed out that the US Justice Department is now the Just-Ice Department?

Cue Dinesh D'lusional op ed in the Post claiming Reagan was actually in favor of tariffs and mispoke (checks notes) hundreds of times while pushing free trade agreements. No, no, actually, Reagan was setting everything up so his apprentice Donald could sweep in and re-impose regressive trade policy.

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

The 1987 speech excerpt is accurate. The 1987 speech is relevant. I remember 1987. I remember the speech believe it or not (I don't care either way 😉) I remember the discussions around it, Canadians were being asked to sacrifice and take risks because we could trust America. Reagan is dead.

You DO need to explain that, apparently. Also, yet another extraconstitutional subversion of congress's budgetary authority. But more so the private army thing.

Goodwin may have been a schill for big nazi Just sayin.

I'm struggling to see the difference between (reported) private funds being used for military salaries and the whole "raising a private army" thing that's always been a little "frowned upon" (Frowned upon=batshit dangerously illegal, in the old days)

@joshtpm.bsky.social Bozel's back?! Gorka, Bozel, Von Spakovsky. Mein Gott! Ze band is having a reunion tour. This and the @talkingpointsmemo.com website retro look has me feeling nostalgic!

Every grievance fueled revenge drama involving Donald John Trump should be framed as a complaint from a spurned/jilted lover Every Single One That's how he acts.

News flash fellow Canadians: Trump's tariff scheme is 60% ego and shakedown, 40% national sales tax. His current bravado is 50% ego/dementia and 50% pitting one group of Canadians against another. Autos/steel= Ontarians Aluminum=Quebec Softwood=BC Oil/gas/fertilizer=prairies

Remove public funding for healthcare from Senators and congress members. Remove it. Add that to the list of reforms.

The "Tomahawk" Ukraine needs, apparently, is a complete exfiltrated set of Epstein files. This Tomahawk is the best Tomahawk of 2025 Tomahawks

I'm going to try and heal a community. Dear Facebook Marketplace users, "Is this still available?" Is the top default response when people open a buyer inquiry. It's not a personal insult or troll Half of the people who send that message do so with an accidental click Chill the F#$K. You're welcome

Policy decision by TicToc. Who needs 3 letter agencies when you can just do a policy vibe check on TicToc?

Last time my grandkids were here for dinner we served peas as a side vegetable. They were not impressed. I said:"All we are saying, is give peas a chance..." Then I made zoom zoom sounds as I spoon fed them. Where the f@#k is MY Nobel? Well?

People are going to misunderstand this, but: I never really thought the Obama Nobel was warranted. It seemed, given the timing that it was an attempt to influence him going forward (also a sentimentality?) Trump is not Obama, promise it to him if he leaves office peacefully, otherwise

This should be in big lettering on a big beautiful Times Square billboard thingy 🙂

Trump's photo op with @mark-carney.bsky.social was preceded and followed by greatly increased noise from the usual channels, coordinated with the leader of the opposition and his deputies. Watching the chattering unfold it's kind of obvious. They are attempting to poison the public sphere.

Any engagement on X results in a flood of content from anyone tangentially related to the posts/posters This is industrialized doom piling It is also a shaped reality mechanism. Call something out? Here are 20 posts from worse people, how's that calling out working for you? It's not just engagement

Canadian liberation is going to take 2yrs to see results, 5yrs to be truly enacted. There are several paid and ideological co-conspirators in this country. Some of them are elected officials Some of them are useful idiots of the hoser variety Keep boycotting Keep standing on guard Keep being 🇨🇦

This point has been discussed a bit over the last few days, also by @garrykasparov.bsky.social It is a vital concept to get your head around.

@whitehouse.senate.gov The attorney general made it sound like she was referencing some kind of compiled source of Epstein associates when she tried to smear you. Sine kind of, what's the word, "LIST?" An Epstein-related list, that also doesn't exist, but might have a donor on it...

@radiofreetom.bsky.social a very good segment with @nicollewallace.bsky.social Hopefully, people actually listen/watch it before commenting, but it should be put on loop, imho. Call it out folks, loudly and constantly.

Hey Bluesky, happy Monday 😊

Our grandkids, and generations after that are going to live in a world where they have less opportunities, less freedom, and less individual security. This is happening because we do not have the same clarity, character, and sense of shared purpose that our grandparents had.

I'm going to warn you about the stupid joke I'm compelled to make in a second. I curate my feeds a moderate amount here, and a lot over in the hellhole sight. Even with this, I feel like my feed frequently devolves into:

"Don't fall off that ladder and kill yourself, you don't have enough insurance..." Is the kind of amazing humor you hear during gutter cleaning season when you have been married 40 years.

Mike Johnson is Project 2025's complaint department. He's not going to do anything, he has no power, but he is immune to the negative effects of listening to people bitch at him all day. Inside his mind:

Cool kids have been doing just that for awhile... @talkingpointsmemo.com I dropped cable and picked up a few more independents because, well