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miterstomp.bsky.social @miterstomp.bsky.social · 21h

While Canadians talk about dropping tariffs on Chinese EVs in exchange for agri-food market access, I'm just going to leave this post from automotive expert Michael Dunne here

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miterstomp.bsky.social @miterstomp.bsky.social · 1d

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Deny Sullivan: Halifax bridge toll blunder: Houston’s election gimmick worsens gridlock

The promise to save drivers time is backfiring. The reason? Simple economics.

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miterstomp.bsky.social @miterstomp.bsky.social · 1d

And what’s the “ends” they’re after?

miterstomp.bsky.social @miterstomp.bsky.social · 1d

"If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all"
Thumper, 1942

Trump’s presidency lays bare that we’re living in a society of sycophants

Sucking up is nothing new. But with Trump back in the White House, sycophancy is having its moment as world leaders try to stay on the President’s better side

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miterstomp.bsky.social @miterstomp.bsky.social · 2d

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We need to talk about Russia

So, yes, that means we also need to talk about Nigel Farage

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miterstomp.bsky.social @miterstomp.bsky.social · 2d

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SugarRhi~ (@sugarrhi)

If demons are real, then these MAGAts are their physical embodiment. 🤬

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Ecology Action Centre @ecologyaction.bsky.social · 2d

Fairy Creek is touring around NS with at the end of October!

When forestry workers oppose blockaders and police begin arresting protestors, tensions rise on this record-breaking climate frontline.

Fairy Creek Tours Across Nova Scotia This Fall - Cinema Politica

Join Cinema Politica this fall as Fairy Creek tours across Nova Scotia—powerful stories of Indigenous land defense, resistance, and solidarity on screen.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 3d

My version of this is that Vought, Yarvin etc represent a kind of braindead right-Gramscianism, which leaves out all the interesting subtleties and treats civil society _only_ as a realm of indoctrination, where one ideological master-narrative can readily be substituted for another.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 4d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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miterstomp.bsky.social @miterstomp.bsky.social · 3d

So the ends justify the means? "It is an inversion of epic proportions: the corrupt succeeding where the (supposedly) virtuous failed...None of this absolves Kushner or the cast of characters around him of their broader behaviour...Trump’s team never mistook virtue-signalling for strategy"

Jared Kushner—the world’s most underrated diplomat?

He is, objectively, the most successful diplomat of the post-war era

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miterstomp.bsky.social @miterstomp.bsky.social · 4d

“The goal was the same: Weaponize American grief, deepen domestic division and weaken Western alliances.”

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Opinion | How foreign powers are gaslighting Americans

Russia, China and Iran pay no price for spreading false claims about the U.S.

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miterstomp.bsky.social @miterstomp.bsky.social · 5d

"Trump said many people would be losing their jobs, and that the firings would be focused on Democrat-oriented areas, though he didn’t explain exactly what that meant."

The more Trump thinks he's succeeding, the bolder he's becoming in making really bad decisions!

Tipping point at hand!

Firings of federal workers begin as White House seeks to pressure Democrats in government shutdown

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have started, an attempt by President Donald Trump's administration to exert more pressure on Democrati...

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miterstomp.bsky.social @miterstomp.bsky.social · 5d

I think "nutbar" is the noun I'm looking for!

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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miterstomp.bsky.social @miterstomp.bsky.social · 7d

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The Generals - What really happened

Its not what you have been told

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miterstomp.bsky.social @miterstomp.bsky.social · 12d

Soliciting foreign influence, treasonous!

“Jeff Rath, Mitch Sylvestre and Dennis Modry, the cofounder, CEO, and chairman of the Alberta Prosperity Project (APP), respectively, visited the Capitol on Monday for their second round of talks with American leaders about Albertan independence.”

Alberta separatists boast cabinet-level meeting with Trump administration

The Alberta Prosperity Project says they met with U.S. cabinet-level officials in Washington to seek support for an independent Alberta.

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miterstomp.bsky.social @miterstomp.bsky.social · 14d

‘The fact that Canada is mentioned is not good,’ analyst says of Trump’s latest 51st state jab

miterstomp.bsky.social @miterstomp.bsky.social · 15d

....“He claimed the military needs to ‘return to the male standard’ in combat jobs (of 1990!), but here’s the truth: there has never been a separate male and female standard” she wrote on Instagram...."

miterstomp.bsky.social @miterstomp.bsky.social · 15d

"...“I thought it was insulting,” Pittard said of the address, rejecting Hegseth’s assertion that senior officers of color – like himself – had benefitted from a non-existent quota system for promotions. ..."
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Veterans react to Hegseth’s ‘insulting’ address to generals and admirals

Defense secretary’s speech touching on physical fitness and doctrine of lethality was seen as ‘egotistical’ and ‘dangerous’

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miterstomp.bsky.social @miterstomp.bsky.social · 15d

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Stephen Marche @stephenmarche.bsky.social · 15d

Like, you mean, A Next Civil War?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"

miterstomp.bsky.social @miterstomp.bsky.social · 15d

Does Trump want his own Ukraine?

miterstomp.bsky.social @miterstomp.bsky.social · 15d

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Canada vs The United States - Are we strong enough? Stephen Marche gets into it

YouTube video by The Strombo Show / House of Strombo

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miterstomp.bsky.social @miterstomp.bsky.social · 15d

We need to accelerate expansion of Canada’s defence capabilities and preparedness, so as to make ourselves more prickly in the shortest possible time - talking weeks not months!

miterstomp.bsky.social @miterstomp.bsky.social · 15d

Quick and relative easy first steps would be to dramatically increase the size of Canada’s Army light infantry reserves, by building out existing structures so as to have fully formed regiments with basic equipment and transport.

miterstomp.bsky.social @miterstomp.bsky.social · 15d

Secondly, dramatically increase Army regular and reserve air defence capabilities initially focusing on both short and long range systems.

miterstomp.bsky.social @miterstomp.bsky.social · 15d

Trump returns to ’51st state’ rhetoric in speech to U.S. military officials

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Trump returns to ’51st state’ rhetoric in speech to U.S. military officials

U.S. President Donald Trump returned to his talk of annexing Canada during an unprecedented speech to top military leaders on Tuesday.

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miterstomp.bsky.social @miterstomp.bsky.social · 16d

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C Leonard (@karmageddon54)

Women, friends, we need to be dragging THIS into the light, WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?

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