The Yugest of 2020 Predictions According to a top live betting odds website, Mr Trump’s 2020 election odds improved after being impeached. As of 19 Dec 2019, betting markets shifted his reelection odds from around +100 (even money) to -125. Compare this to his odds before the 2016 election: 500/1 (+50000) when he first announced…
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We Will Not Go Back We now know that chanting Send her back! will earn you the title of incredible patriot from the “Leader of the Free World”. While I’ve already written off my homeland as beyond repair, the response of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez offers some light in the darkness for people stuck in the shithole country ironically…
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Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay in The Hamilton Spectator (28 July 2018) Doug, the second-most elite person in Canada If you picture an elite Canadian in your mind’s eye, most logically you’ll see a wealthy white businessman (this hasn’t changed much since July 1, 1867). Yet beyond simply holding those classic North American Elite…
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Freedom Gas Have you heard? Under the rule of Wall Man, the “United” States is the laughing stock of the world these days. The latest international joke was told onstage by the finest example of a Trump kakocrat, Energy Secretary Rick Perry. (Reminder: Perry once called for abolishing the agency he now runs, despite not…
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Fake News stokes anti-immigrant panic Seriously, what is wrong with people? A fake news website published a story on April 13 titled Canada’s Prime Minister begs Nigeria President for one million immigrants, and people ate it up. The most insidious aspect of the website’s clickbait post isn’t the headline itself—it’s how much of the information…
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Photo of the Vancouver Art Gallery by Duane Storey Xenophobic ecologists in Canada? My introduction to xenophobia in Canada occurred in the summer of 1992. The steps and lawn of the Vancouver Art Gallery were a waypoint for wanderers, street kids, and other counterculturalists in the years before the city became a sterile playground for…
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Exasperation in Canada Even the Canadians, known for their politeness, have lost their patience with the alternate reality of BLOTUS. Bad are the reckless taunts [tweets] directed at the Supreme Leader of Iran and at Kim Jong-un (before Donald and Jong-un became fast friends), but exponentially more dangerous is his utter and willful ignorance of governance, history, contemporary…
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Historic political turmoil in the USA: Bet on it in 2019. You think the past two years in Murican politics were turbulent? Buckle up, because the next two years will be the true stress test for determining if the “exceptional” presidential constitutional republic was designed to withstand an aspiring plutocrat in the Oval Office who…
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A list of warning signs not to ignore. Does he… Declare the press an enemy of the people Cripple federal institutions with kakocracy Reward obsequiousness and engage in nepotism Pad the courts to mitigate repercussions and remove legal obstacles Create disinformation campaigns to promote Orwellian “alternative facts” Threaten opposition with being put down by the…
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Nationalism: The herpes of politics If you’d like to learn about the true nature of nationalism in less than 10 minutes, go ahead and check out this surprisingly well-conceived piece in the financial journal TheStreet.com. If you don’t have that long, maybe just examine the cartoon below for a reminder of why the resurgence of nationalism…
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