The world’s biggest welfare system? The US defence budget. It shovels taxpayers money to corporate profits in an enormous wealth transfer grift.

The 4 scariest words in Toronto: shuttle buses are running

A key to Trump's rage at Comey et. al. is because he knows he had to lie cheat and steal to get ahead and thinks everyone else does the same. It infuriates him that he gets charged and they don't. He knows they are guilty because he knows he is guilty.

Another day where this morning's commentaries on youtube are all out of date.

There was an important shift in US politics in the last 2 weeks. Trans people used to salt for the red meat. Now they are the meat.

The biggest winner so far in Trump 2.0? Richard Nixon's reputation.

Trump is moving much faster than most dictators to consolidate power. He's has to be in complete control before the economy tanks, the mid-terms, and everything about Epstein gets leaked.

Besides Trump's coup, the Supreme Court is doing the same thing. "Reasons? We don't need no stinking reasons." Lower courts don't ask questions about the shadow docket, they simply obey it.

Its appalling how many people on Bluesky are victim blaming and indulging in whattaboutism. Political violence helps Trump and provides him opportunities.

The worst thing that could happen from the Kirk murder is a tit for tat cycle of political violence. That almost guarantees a dictatorship.

I sure hope Charlie Kirk isn't Trump's Reichstag fire. And political violence is always wrong. It can't help anything.

One reason the Americans are so insistent about Europe spending more on defense is the belief it will have to be spent on American weapons. A wealth transfer via defense contracting.

Uh oh! The 4th circuit exposed as dangerous terrorist agents of the deep state. Probably transgender too.

Soon tariffs will be a dirty word in the USA. Trump will call them a Biden conspiracy to wreck the economy and spoil Trump's golden moment.

If I had a billion dollars laying around, I'd bribe the Nobel Prize committee to give Obama the peace prize again.

I have one question for about Trump’s takeover of DC. Could you please release the Epstein files?

Absolute power's handmaiden is absolute corruption.

This redistricting is bad. Changing the system to get what you want is the kind of ingle interest thinking that wrecks countries.

The Wall Street Jounal suit is insane. What's going to happen when they start discovery? Spoiler: the smoke is coming from fire.

Right now it feels tantalizingly close to that moment when Trump's political instinct and political reality part ways. Like the rolling pebbles before a landslide. I've been hopeful before, but this seems like he's right on the brink of being seen as the old, unhealthy asshole he really is.

I'm willing to bet the Grand Jury transcripts allowed little or no reference to 3rd parties. The first thing he gives away will be worthless.

I've always despised the Wall Street Journal's editorial board since the days of Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War. But their news division is amazing. Very trustworthy reporting. If they say Trump wrote a letter, he did. And they can prove it in any court 12 times over.

Not into conspiracy theories, but it was a mystery where Epstein's money really came from. I expected it would eventually come out. Hopefully that's where we are. I have no theories, just questions.

Hopefully, Trump's lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal is one lawsuit too far. Like Oscar Wilde's, a fatal mistake.

Did Boston change their name to the Green Socks this season? Cause that’s what it looks like. Are they trying to look like the big green monsters? Because all they look like to me is confused. #redsox

Trump will decide to bomb Iran in 2 weeks? He wants to be a strongman dictator but he's not up to the job. Decisions are always 2 weeks away.

Its hilarious listening to a Wall Street Journal rip Trump to shreds over the tariffs.

Trump folded in front of the bond markets, exposing America's Achilles Heel. Want to destroy or destabilize America? Attack the bond market. He's invented the economic equivalent of a nuke. Should guarantee him the Peace Prize.

Donald Trump made a bid for global economic supremacy. He was defeated by the bond market. Pure capitalism cares only about money, swayed only by risk.

A lot of people are forgetting that the US is still in an all out trade war with its 3 biggest trading partners.

Kamala might have been for they/them, but Donald is for he/him.

Did Donald Trump go to the Liz Truss school of Economics?

It turns out the math behind Trump's tariffs are as stupid as the tariffs themselves.

Russia won't invade Europe. The entire Russian army can't take the Donbass let alone Poland.

Trump lawyers will hilariously have 2 cases in front of the same judge and will claim in one that rendition flights are top secret, and in the other that flights of warplanes are not.

Trump is completely overplaying his hand internationally. He's gambling everyone around the world needs the US market so much they will bow to his will. He's wrong. Some will, many will realize they don't need the US as much as they thought.

I always thought this would come down to Trump vs Roberts, that Roberts would protect his institution, and Trump would lose. Here’s hoping.

Trump is clearly a graduate of the Liz Truss school of economics.

35 years after America won the Cold War, Trump has decided to surrender.

Trump says Canada doesn’t contribute enough to defence. How many $Trillion has the USA saved by not having to defend its northern border for the last 200 years?

Canadian politics have completely changed in six weeks. We all woke up to the idea the US might be a threat. The fury is palpable. And on brand, its a cold fury.

Trump thinks he's the closest thing to a world emperor, and is acting like it.

Welcome to the broligarchy!

The happiest guy in Canada? Bill Morneau.

Artwork at the Vancouver Art Gallery, 2018

Blue door Santorini 2019.

Window Stripes, Bay St. Toronto #photography #abstract #artistic #white

Ripples at Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. #photography #abstract #artphotography #water

Netanyahu is a graduate of the Ariel Sharon School of Statesmanship which Haaretz described as: If violence fails, the next best option is more violence.

If John Gotti had decided to go mostly non-criminal and become a property developer, he would look an awful lot like Donald Trump.