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Kim Von Berg
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Andrew Coyne, a highly respected Canadian columnist with the Globe and Mail, pulls no punches on the incoming US administration:
“Nothing mattered, in the end. Not the probable dementia, the unfathomable ignorance, the emotional incontinence; not, certainly, the shambling, hate-filled campaign, or the ludicrously unworkable anti-policies.
The candidate out on bail in four jurisdictions, the convicted fraud artist, the adjudicated rapist and serial sexual predator, the habitual bankrupt, the stooge of Vladimir Putin, the man who tried to overturn the last election and all of his creepy retinue of crooks, ideologues and lunatics: Americans took a long look at all this and said, yes please.
There is no sense in understating the depth of the disaster. This is a crisis like no other in our lifetimes. The government of the United States has been delivered into the hands of a gangster, whose sole purpose in running, besides staying out of jail, is to seek revenge on his enemies. The damage Donald Trump and his nihilist cronies can do – to America, but also to its democratic allies, and to the peace and security of the world – is incalculable. We are living in the time of Nero.
The first six months will be a time of maximum peril. NATO must from this moment be considered effectively obsolete, without the American security guarantee that has always been its bedrock. We may see new incursions by Russia into Europe – the poor Ukrainians are probably done for, but now it is the Baltics and the Poles who must worry – before the Europeans have time to organize an alternative. China may also accelerate its Taiwanese ambitions.
At home, Mr. Trump will be moving swiftly to consolidate his power. Some of this will be institutional – the replacement of tens of thousands of career civil servants with Trumpian loyalists. But some of it will be … atmospheric.
At some point someone – a company whose chief executive has displeased him, a media critic who has gotten under his skin – will find themselves the subject of unwanted attention from the Trump administration. It might not be so crude as a police arrest. It might just be a little regulatory matter, a tax audit, something like that. They will seek the protection of the courts, and find it is not there.
The judges are also Trump loyalists, perhaps, or too scared to confront him. Or they might issue a ruling, and find it has no effect – that the administration has called the basic bluff of liberal democracy: the idea that, in the crunch, people in power agree to be bound by the law, and by its instruments the courts, the same as everyone else. Then everyone will take their cue. Executives will line up to court him. Media organizations, the large ones anyway, will find reasons to be cheerful.
Of course, in reality things will start to fall apart fairly quickly. The huge across-the-board tariffs he imposes will tank the world economy. The massive deficits, fueled by his ill-judged tax policies – he won’t replace the income tax, as he promised, but will fill it with holes – and monetized, at his direction, by the Federal Reserve, will ignite a new round of inflation.
Most of all, the insane project of deporting 12 million undocumented immigrants – finding them, rounding them up and detaining them in hundreds of internment camps around the country, probably for years, before doing so – will consume his administration. But by then it will be too late.
We should not count upon the majority of Americans coming to their senses in any event. They were not able to see Mr. Trump for what he was before: why should that change? Would they not, rather, be further coarsened by the experience of seeing their neighbours dragged off by the police, or the military, further steeled to the necessity of doing “tough things” to “restore order?”
Some won’t, of course. But they will find in time that the democratic levers they might once have pulled to demand change are no longer attached to anything. There are still elections, but the rules have been altered: there are certain obstacles, certain disadvantages if you are not with the party of power. It will seem easier at first to try to change things from within. Then it will be easier not to change things.
All of this will wash over Canada in various ways – some predictable, like the flood of refugees seeking escape from the camps; some less so, like the coarsening of our own politics, the debasement of morals and norms by politicians who have discovered there is no political price to be paid for it. And who will have the backing of their patron in Washington.
All my life I have been an admirer of the United States and its people. But I am frightened of it now, and I am even more frightened of them.”
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/…/article-trumps…
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Police union that endorsed Trump blasts Jan. 6 pardons:
President Trump’s near-total pardon of Jan. 6 rioters was denounced by the Fraternal Order of Police, the largest police union in the U.S., and the International Association of Chiefs of Police on Tuesday.
New Word: FOTUS:
Progress amid backlash: corporate America’s commitment to LGBTQ+ rights
Amid mounting conservative backlash against diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, a new report from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) highlights a surprising trend: many U.S. companies are doubling down on their commitment to LGBTQ+ equality in the workplace.
How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days
AND THE RESISTANCE BEGINS:
hero Bishop lectures Dear Leader, and Republicans lose their shit
Watch for even longer clips on YT to appear, TV news carried more of it with Trump squirming while she talked about how we need love, not hate, that a true leader does not belittle…
Trump’s response: “not too exciting, was it. I didn’t think it was a good service. no…they can do much better.” Donny expected to have his ass kissed — to be told that he was God’s Own Avatar of Retribution on Earth
it’s perfectly okay for some mega-church evangelical to tell his flock to vote for Donny because Democrats are demons from hell — somehow, that’s not “bringing politics into the church” — but asking Dear Leader to follow the lessons of the Bible? that makes you a ‘radical left hard line Trump hater.’
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Trump’s Immigration Plans Are Already Wrecking the Food Industry. People aren’t going to work, and kids aren’t going to school. Yesterday, about 25 percent of the workforce, today 75 percent didn’t show up.
If this is the new long-term norm, you are talking about a recession-level event; the end result of Trump’s policies will be felt in the grocery store checkout lines across America.
Bakersfield makes up a small portion of California’s Central Valley, which produces approximately a quarter of the nation’s food…largely off the backs of undocumented laborers, who are estimated to comprise more than half of the county’s workforce
https://newrepublic.com/post/190555/donald-trump-immigration-deportations-farm-workers

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Henry R. Greenfield from quora.com
MBA in Finance & History, Thunderbird School of Global Management (Graduated 1972)Sat
We are at the end of Biden’s sole term, a 4-year masterpiece that stabilized and changed the world to make it a much better place than when he entered office on January 21, 2021. They say that the victors write history; Biden does not leave office as a victor—quite the contrary.
He indeed failed to stop the comeback of Trump when if he had indeed done ‘lawfare’ as Trump has alleged, Trump would be in jail by now.
The world is now turning to the right—all of the programs and investments that Biden did notwithstanding. Trump will take what has happened and turn it to his advantage and excess.
As for this question, I am answering it because it feeds into the narrative that somehow there was a conspiracy to keep Biden upright. Watching something with your eyes, ears, and presence is no longer considered ‘the truth’. Instead, what you have is the infamous Kellyanne Conway statement.
What this means is facts are malleable. Lies are acceptable; rewritten history happens in the blink of an eye.
Including Biden’s competence or alleged incompetence.
No longer is it seen as the ‘truth’ that Biden’s fantastic list of accomplishments meant anything, nor did they even happen in some cases. With the economy roaring and the US leading the world under Biden, the narrative now has switched to it was never the economy. Biden was somehow not in touch with the everyday men and women.
Biden, in short, was seen as too old, and no one wanted to listen to all the jobs he created. Even if they were happening to themselves. The list is endless, Lordstown has a multi million gleaming facility created by Biden to replace the defunct GM plant. Who did they vote for? Trump.
It is the same in Georgia, the so-called solar capital of America, which complements Biden. Who did they vote for? Overwhelmingly Trump.
Biden sucked as a communicator and his ‘joy’ partner who was herself by the way, Harris was just happy to be there, absolutely don’t get it. Joe never got it as he was a career politician who wanted to be President because he thought he could do a better job for everyone.
And he did. Everyone repeats everyone benefited from Biden. No one lost. It was never over the price of eggs, it was Trump tells a story a narrative people want to hear.
Trump makes people feel better. Biden does not. No one wants to hear a Biden speech. Stiff, wooden, stuttering, and a few questions are allowed. Biden focuses on his job and his job only because his energy levels are all put into that. Doing his career and he is a lousy speaker at most times.
Trump is all about the show, and the media loves the show. Thus, the question is stupid, asinine, and utterly dumb off the wall, as the press hated Biden. They couldn’t stand Biden, and everyone, including his supporters, mocked him. No one cared about his long list of accomplishments, not enough clicks. MSNBC? Wasted its time and money on conspiracies like what could have happened in Georgia if Harris had won the state when she was utterly outclassed in campaigning by the criminal Trump.
Today, some fool was screaming at Blinken’s last press conference on the ceasefire between Israel/Hamas brokered by the USA. The only question from the press the day before was whether Trump should get credit for the deal. For Blinken, it was an attack by someone in the audience attacking Biden for supporting Israel.
Biden cannot win. Blinken cannot carry the media ball, Harris is a total loser, and Biden is an old man.
The reality is no longer the reality. Instead of going down in history as one of the most positively consequential in US history, Biden’s incredibly successful single term may be just a footnote between Trump’s terms.
Quora and a thousand forums will pound it over and over about Biden’s alleged ‘cognitive issues’ when, in fact, he was incredibly productive right to the very last day of his presidency.
I could list dozens of Biden’s accomplishments since November 5, 2024. It wouldn’t matter as the narrative is set.
Remember what Biden did and that he is leaving Trump with an outstanding position, economy, politically, and strategically, and he beat COVID, not Trump. In short, far, far better than Trump left to Biden.
3 days before the end of his Presidency, Biden got a ceasefire deal done. Not Trump, no one else than Biden and his team, namely Sec of State Blinken.
History will be rewritten, remember Biden was standing, still standing, not with a raised fist but with a deal that will save thousands of lives.
That is Presidential, that’s how it is done. Thanks again Joe to the very end our amazing outstanding President Joe Biden.









