Jim Douglas 🇨🇦
jimsdouglas.bsky.social
Jim Douglas 🇨🇦
@jimsdouglas.bsky.social
Vancouver 🇨🇦

I write Java & JavaScript code for an Albuquerque software company, working from home in Vancouver.
You would naturally assume that this FBI official lying to Congress is a typical Trump appointee, but he actually joined the FBI in 2001 after serving in the USMC. A few years ago the FBI correctly described right wing extremism as the most serious domestic threat.

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GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing

BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?

GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now

THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 13, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Me too. The current proposals are for visa waiver countries, basically Western Europe plus a handful of other rich countries, but not Canada. If they’re stupid enough to enact this insanity, travel to the U.S. from all countries will crater like it has from Canada.

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Visa Waiver Program
travel.state.gov
December 13, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Trump only hires people who lie as easily as he does. Imagine insisting that Trump is improving tourism while the actual statistics tell the opposite story.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Canadian boycott of U.S. hitting border states hard: Congressional report | CBC News
The drop in Canadian tourism to the United States in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s actions is hurting American businesses in several border states, a new report by a congressional committe...
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December 13, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I dunno. Ultimately Paramount is a public corporation that can’t tolerate Bari running CBS News into the ground indefinitely. Her only idea is to turn CBS News into Fox News, which is doomed to failure. Anyone who would be inclined to watch that sort of propaganda is already a loyal Fox News viewer.
December 13, 2025 at 3:47 AM
But he’s definitely perfected his Sgt Schultz act.

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Sgt Schultz - I Know Nothing
YouTube video by spike012002
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December 13, 2025 at 2:23 AM
It says people are buying the existing stockpiles of inventory from when the provinces stopped selling it. Liquor has a shelf life, so instead of pouring it down the drain, they’re selling it and donating the money to charity. They're not buying more to replace it.
December 13, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Of course. The only interesting question is whether he'll try to preemptively pardon himself or trust in the super duper immunity the Supreme Court gifted him.
December 13, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Oh, sure, although I've wondered a few times about the point of some corporate meetings. For my actual job (software development, documentation, and responding to customer questions), I really have nothing to complain about, sitting at a desk at home listening to the traffic report on the radio.
December 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Did you see Riki Lindhome's Sound of Music video?

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So Long Farewell (A Breakup Anthem for Baroness Schraeder) by Riki Lindhome
YouTube video by Riki Lindhome
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December 12, 2025 at 5:01 AM
It blows my mind that it’s not self published. Multiple layers of editors at Simon & Schuster read and listened to this train wreck and signed off on publishing it.
December 12, 2025 at 4:58 AM