Dan Beaton 🇨🇦 🇺🇦
@danbeaton.bsky.social
Canadian 🇨🇦 in Vancouver BC. Progressive.
I stand with the marginalized and abused, against the abusers and harassers.
Just here for the news and brilliant opinions.
And to vent the odd dumb snark.
Sorry not interested in DMs.
I stand with the marginalized and abused, against the abusers and harassers.
Just here for the news and brilliant opinions.
And to vent the odd dumb snark.
Sorry not interested in DMs.
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Dan Beaton 🇨🇦 🇺🇦
@danbeaton.bsky.social
· Sep 18
Speak up
While you still can
While you still can
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No one respects the Trump-represented US 🇺🇸 in the venerable admirable respected sense of the word
Trump simply isn’t respectable. People who say or think they respect Trump are either delusional, profoundly misguided, or dangerously disturbed and unhealthy. Like groups that don’t need to be named
Trump simply isn’t respectable. People who say or think they respect Trump are either delusional, profoundly misguided, or dangerously disturbed and unhealthy. Like groups that don’t need to be named
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
No one respects the Trump-represented US 🇺🇸 in the venerable admirable respected sense of the word
Trump simply isn’t respectable. People who say or think they respect Trump are either delusional, profoundly misguided, or dangerously disturbed and unhealthy. Like groups that don’t need to be named
Trump simply isn’t respectable. People who say or think they respect Trump are either delusional, profoundly misguided, or dangerously disturbed and unhealthy. Like groups that don’t need to be named
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Canada 🇨🇦 has angrily and indignantly, correctly, issued an official withdrawal of every last bit of its support for the UK 🇬🇧 in WW 1 and WW II.
November 7, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Canada 🇨🇦 has angrily and indignantly, correctly, issued an official withdrawal of every last bit of its support for the UK 🇬🇧 in WW 1 and WW II.
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That Watson was this type of an asshole isn’t in the least a surprise
In that era UK 🇬🇧, like comparable countries & societies, including the US 🇺🇸 & Canada 🇨🇦, was a notorious hotbed of violent misogyny, sexism, class arrogance, and racism.
All problems that remain, only somewhat less, to this day
In that era UK 🇬🇧, like comparable countries & societies, including the US 🇺🇸 & Canada 🇨🇦, was a notorious hotbed of violent misogyny, sexism, class arrogance, and racism.
All problems that remain, only somewhat less, to this day
November 7, 2025 at 10:52 PM
That Watson was this type of an asshole isn’t in the least a surprise
In that era UK 🇬🇧, like comparable countries & societies, including the US 🇺🇸 & Canada 🇨🇦, was a notorious hotbed of violent misogyny, sexism, class arrogance, and racism.
All problems that remain, only somewhat less, to this day
In that era UK 🇬🇧, like comparable countries & societies, including the US 🇺🇸 & Canada 🇨🇦, was a notorious hotbed of violent misogyny, sexism, class arrogance, and racism.
All problems that remain, only somewhat less, to this day
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Me : “ If anyone suggests the tattered starving and homeless should get dropped a scrap, they call it socialism”
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Me : “ If anyone suggests the tattered starving and homeless should get dropped a scrap, they call it socialism”
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Happy 82nd birthday to Joni Mitchell!
Celebrate the occasion by checking out the legendary singer-songwriter's 50 greatest songs.
🎂 www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Celebrate the occasion by checking out the legendary singer-songwriter's 50 greatest songs.
🎂 www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
November 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Happy 82nd birthday to Joni Mitchell!
Celebrate the occasion by checking out the legendary singer-songwriter's 50 greatest songs.
🎂 www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Celebrate the occasion by checking out the legendary singer-songwriter's 50 greatest songs.
🎂 www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Thanks to Angelina.
Shows she cares. 🇺🇦
It’s important. Very.
Shows she cares. 🇺🇦
It’s important. Very.
November 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Thanks to Angelina.
Shows she cares. 🇺🇦
It’s important. Very.
Shows she cares. 🇺🇦
It’s important. Very.
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Angelina Jolie is a good person who cares about the heinous suffering of an unfairly persecuted and evilly besieged, group of magnificent people 🇺🇦
Unlike the gross US 🇺🇸 President, who obviously couldn’t care less.
Unlike the gross US 🇺🇸 President, who obviously couldn’t care less.
November 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Angelina Jolie is a good person who cares about the heinous suffering of an unfairly persecuted and evilly besieged, group of magnificent people 🇺🇦
Unlike the gross US 🇺🇸 President, who obviously couldn’t care less.
Unlike the gross US 🇺🇸 President, who obviously couldn’t care less.
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Fat Fascist Orban and Fat Fascist Gross Trump : A high-level meeting of the Butcher-Rapist Putin Fan Club.
Both the violent sadists both love all the butchering and raping Putin is doing.
Orban would fit right in at the highest levels of the Radical Fascist Trump Administration.
Both the violent sadists both love all the butchering and raping Putin is doing.
Orban would fit right in at the highest levels of the Radical Fascist Trump Administration.
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Fat Fascist Orban and Fat Fascist Gross Trump : A high-level meeting of the Butcher-Rapist Putin Fan Club.
Both the violent sadists both love all the butchering and raping Putin is doing.
Orban would fit right in at the highest levels of the Radical Fascist Trump Administration.
Both the violent sadists both love all the butchering and raping Putin is doing.
Orban would fit right in at the highest levels of the Radical Fascist Trump Administration.
This was on (odious) X, so many of you might have missed it.
Diane Ladd’s words struck me as profoundly beautiful and extraordinarily wise, particularly in these extremely fraught times in your country :
Diane Ladd’s words struck me as profoundly beautiful and extraordinarily wise, particularly in these extremely fraught times in your country :
November 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This was on (odious) X, so many of you might have missed it.
Diane Ladd’s words struck me as profoundly beautiful and extraordinarily wise, particularly in these extremely fraught times in your country :
Diane Ladd’s words struck me as profoundly beautiful and extraordinarily wise, particularly in these extremely fraught times in your country :
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Any parades, except for the Nazi etc parades they regularly have in the US 🇺🇸 , are good.
Any parades, except for the Nazi etc parades they regularly have in the US 🇺🇸 , are good.
November 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Any parades, except for the Nazi etc parades they regularly have in the US 🇺🇸 , are good.
Any parades, except for the Nazi etc parades they regularly have in the US 🇺🇸 , are good.
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I don’t think Trump understands that at all.
There’s absolutely no evidence anywhere that the unhinged outre-far-right lunatic has any real respect for the US 🇺🇸 Constitution, or for the rule of law, or that he thinks any Constitutional laws or proscriptions apply to him.
There’s absolutely no evidence anywhere that the unhinged outre-far-right lunatic has any real respect for the US 🇺🇸 Constitution, or for the rule of law, or that he thinks any Constitutional laws or proscriptions apply to him.
October 30, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I don’t think Trump understands that at all.
There’s absolutely no evidence anywhere that the unhinged outre-far-right lunatic has any real respect for the US 🇺🇸 Constitution, or for the rule of law, or that he thinks any Constitutional laws or proscriptions apply to him.
There’s absolutely no evidence anywhere that the unhinged outre-far-right lunatic has any real respect for the US 🇺🇸 Constitution, or for the rule of law, or that he thinks any Constitutional laws or proscriptions apply to him.
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I sincerely used to think that if you still thought unhinged Far-Right lunatic Donald Trump was fit to hold the office of the Presidency, after what he did on Jan 6, that there was something very wrong with you
I changed my mind
I now think you’re just an essentially worthless piece of shit.
I changed my mind
I now think you’re just an essentially worthless piece of shit.
October 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I sincerely used to think that if you still thought unhinged Far-Right lunatic Donald Trump was fit to hold the office of the Presidency, after what he did on Jan 6, that there was something very wrong with you
I changed my mind
I now think you’re just an essentially worthless piece of shit.
I changed my mind
I now think you’re just an essentially worthless piece of shit.
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Not to mention that everything in Trump’s post regarding Ontario’s ham handed obviously useless “Reagan” ad, is, to be kind : delusional and inaccurate.
Stupid buffoonish lies from a very sick, vicious, power-drunk, head case, is a very fair description of Trump’s shameful ravings.
Stupid buffoonish lies from a very sick, vicious, power-drunk, head case, is a very fair description of Trump’s shameful ravings.
October 26, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Not to mention that everything in Trump’s post regarding Ontario’s ham handed obviously useless “Reagan” ad, is, to be kind : delusional and inaccurate.
Stupid buffoonish lies from a very sick, vicious, power-drunk, head case, is a very fair description of Trump’s shameful ravings.
Stupid buffoonish lies from a very sick, vicious, power-drunk, head case, is a very fair description of Trump’s shameful ravings.
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President Reagan's Remarks at Briefing on the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement on November 4, 1987 #cdnpoli
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHgl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHgl...
President Reagan's Remarks at Briefing on the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement on November 4, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
www.youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
President Reagan's Remarks at Briefing on the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement on November 4, 1987 #cdnpoli
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHgl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHgl...
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I never cease to be amazed at the ignorance of American reporters. Canada (a national government) did not place this commercial. Ontario (a provincial government) did.
Trump is pissed about an ad that Canada recently ran in the U.S. showing Ronald Reagan talking about tariffs in 1987.
“Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED.”
“Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED.”
October 24, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I never cease to be amazed at the ignorance of American reporters. Canada (a national government) did not place this commercial. Ontario (a provincial government) did.
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Also, that was an ad produced by the Govt of the Province of Ontario ! , not by the Federal Govt of Canada 🇨🇦 !
Even morons know the difference, and the important crucial significance of the difference.
God Lord have mercy.
Even morons know the difference, and the important crucial significance of the difference.
God Lord have mercy.
October 24, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Also, that was an ad produced by the Govt of the Province of Ontario ! , not by the Federal Govt of Canada 🇨🇦 !
Even morons know the difference, and the important crucial significance of the difference.
God Lord have mercy.
Even morons know the difference, and the important crucial significance of the difference.
God Lord have mercy.
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Also it was an effing ONTARIO! Ad !
Not a Canadian 🇨🇦 ad.
Even Trump would agree that Newsom as Governor of California doesn’t ultimately speak for all of the US 🇺🇸
This is an ultimate brain dead reaction by Trump.
Not a Canadian 🇨🇦 ad.
Even Trump would agree that Newsom as Governor of California doesn’t ultimately speak for all of the US 🇺🇸
This is an ultimate brain dead reaction by Trump.
October 24, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Also it was an effing ONTARIO! Ad !
Not a Canadian 🇨🇦 ad.
Even Trump would agree that Newsom as Governor of California doesn’t ultimately speak for all of the US 🇺🇸
This is an ultimate brain dead reaction by Trump.
Not a Canadian 🇨🇦 ad.
Even Trump would agree that Newsom as Governor of California doesn’t ultimately speak for all of the US 🇺🇸
This is an ultimate brain dead reaction by Trump.
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The ad Trump refers to is an ad produced by the Govt of Ontario
Ontario is the most populous Canadian 🇨🇦 Province, but it 100% does NOT represent the Federal Govt of Canada 🇨🇦, or its policies, or the rest of the other Provinces & Territories of Canada 🇨🇦
Simple gross ignorance to assume it does
Ontario is the most populous Canadian 🇨🇦 Province, but it 100% does NOT represent the Federal Govt of Canada 🇨🇦, or its policies, or the rest of the other Provinces & Territories of Canada 🇨🇦
Simple gross ignorance to assume it does
October 24, 2025 at 5:11 AM
The ad Trump refers to is an ad produced by the Govt of Ontario
Ontario is the most populous Canadian 🇨🇦 Province, but it 100% does NOT represent the Federal Govt of Canada 🇨🇦, or its policies, or the rest of the other Provinces & Territories of Canada 🇨🇦
Simple gross ignorance to assume it does
Ontario is the most populous Canadian 🇨🇦 Province, but it 100% does NOT represent the Federal Govt of Canada 🇨🇦, or its policies, or the rest of the other Provinces & Territories of Canada 🇨🇦
Simple gross ignorance to assume it does
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Ronald Reagan did speak negatively about tariffs. He rightly didn’t generally view tariffs as a net positive in trade.
This isn’t seriously disputed, and is also accepted by virtually all respected economists.
Begs the question : is there something wrong health-wise with the US 🇺🇸 President ?
This isn’t seriously disputed, and is also accepted by virtually all respected economists.
Begs the question : is there something wrong health-wise with the US 🇺🇸 President ?
October 24, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Ronald Reagan did speak negatively about tariffs. He rightly didn’t generally view tariffs as a net positive in trade.
This isn’t seriously disputed, and is also accepted by virtually all respected economists.
Begs the question : is there something wrong health-wise with the US 🇺🇸 President ?
This isn’t seriously disputed, and is also accepted by virtually all respected economists.
Begs the question : is there something wrong health-wise with the US 🇺🇸 President ?
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Reagan was a well-known free trader & anti-protectionist
He rightly saw protectionism as ripe for abuse & inefficiency-that too often was just used to prop up weak special interest enterprises that can’t compete without unfair subsidies
It’s not untrue that Reagan was generally opposed to tariffs
He rightly saw protectionism as ripe for abuse & inefficiency-that too often was just used to prop up weak special interest enterprises that can’t compete without unfair subsidies
It’s not untrue that Reagan was generally opposed to tariffs
October 24, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Reagan was a well-known free trader & anti-protectionist
He rightly saw protectionism as ripe for abuse & inefficiency-that too often was just used to prop up weak special interest enterprises that can’t compete without unfair subsidies
It’s not untrue that Reagan was generally opposed to tariffs
He rightly saw protectionism as ripe for abuse & inefficiency-that too often was just used to prop up weak special interest enterprises that can’t compete without unfair subsidies
It’s not untrue that Reagan was generally opposed to tariffs
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However, only rich obsequious ass-kissing MAGA welcome, no Democrats or dirty smelly snaggle-toothed hillbillies allowed.
October 23, 2025 at 12:11 AM
However, only rich obsequious ass-kissing MAGA welcome, no Democrats or dirty smelly snaggle-toothed hillbillies allowed.
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Trump needs a Hitler-esque size personal cathedral to allow the little people to gather to praise him, worship him, and tell him how great he is.
October 23, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Trump needs a Hitler-esque size personal cathedral to allow the little people to gather to praise him, worship him, and tell him how great he is.
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That’s why Trump is doing it.
The fat ugly vile pig has to have a large ornate area to celebrate himself.
A lurid garish place his toadies and goons can gather to worship him and tell him how great he is.
The fat ugly vile pig has to have a large ornate area to celebrate himself.
A lurid garish place his toadies and goons can gather to worship him and tell him how great he is.
October 22, 2025 at 4:50 AM
That’s why Trump is doing it.
The fat ugly vile pig has to have a large ornate area to celebrate himself.
A lurid garish place his toadies and goons can gather to worship him and tell him how great he is.
The fat ugly vile pig has to have a large ornate area to celebrate himself.
A lurid garish place his toadies and goons can gather to worship him and tell him how great he is.
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Kasparov’s warning: All signs indicate Trump will not give up power voluntarily www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...
Kasparov’s warning: All signs indicate Trump will not give up power voluntarily
Former Soviet dissident Garry Kasparov says everything about the Trump administration’s behavior suggests it has no intention of giving up power voluntarily. He starkly warns of “free but not fair” mi...
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October 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Kasparov’s warning: All signs indicate Trump will not give up power voluntarily www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...