dougb1.bsky.social
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I had to remove the National Post infestation of my Microsoft news feed. Its editorial page is joined at the hip with the Fraser Institute, a collection of assholes and hacks that would fit better south of the border.
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I think it’s time to replace all of the journalists current interviewing on cable and the networks. They do an absolutely miserable job - don’t ask the right questions, don’t frame questions appropriately, and rarely if ever follow up on the nonsense they receive in response from Republicans.
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Why would the interviewer even pose the question like that? Is it fair to say? What is the point of that question?
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if the Democrats ever get back into the Executive Office one of the first order of business should be to round up every goddamned member of this Administration and throw them in a cell. With Rubio they should simply fly him to Cuba and dump him there like a piece of garbage.
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Gavin Newsom is a disgrace and his taunting of Trump won’t some close to making up for his throwing Trans people to the wolves. Just another vile politician who will throw progressives and their policies to the wolves when he thinks it will serve his purpose in seeking more power.
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I’m guessing that a 6 year old doesn’t soil itself as readily as this appalling human being.
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The Federalist Society, and all of their adherents, needs to be removed from the body politic. Akin to the de-Nazification efforts in Germany after the Second World War. None of them should be in a position to have any influence on political or judicial decision making.
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Rubio should be tied to a raft and floated back in the direction of Cuba.
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O’Leary is an absolute piece of shit. And he’s a Canadian piece of shit so we own that sadly.
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An absolutely morally repugnant position but hardly surprising coming from Third Way. There’s no compromise position but to ensure that Trans people are afforded their full rights as human beings. To argue otherwise is to belong in the ranks of the most odious movements in history.
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Third Way should just fuck right off. Sick and tired of these fucking ‘both sides’ imbeciles that are infecting the body politic.
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Ah Third Way Think Tank founder. Anyone writing under that moniker, and espousing those policies, should just be renamed Fucker. Because at the end of the day that will fit perfectly. He should be responded to with nothing but howls of derision.
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The sole skill of the DNC appears to be grifting.
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We’re not considering the offer.
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Yes indeed! But there’s something very wrong with the body politic in a lot of western democratic countries and I don’t know what the answer is. Leaving things like vaccine policy to people like Larry down the street, who listens to AM talk radio all day, seems less than optimal.
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I like the rallying cry of “let’s have a world-wide campaign to tax billionaires out of existence”.
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On the other hand I take a glance at the elected head of state immediately to the south of us and a King, who can’t do any harm to our country, seems not so bad.
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I think the Federalist Society needs to be harassed out of existence by any future Democratic Administration and/or Democratic controlled Congress.
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They are doing this, showing us that they are incomprehensibly awful people, and they literally don’t give a shit. At some point there will need to be a process to hold these people to account for the harm they are doing to these kids, their families, and the rest of society in general.
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Ah that must be that peer reviewed paper relied on by Democratic Party consultants. You know the one that was published in that respected academic journal Axios.
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Politicians who apparently aren’t able to do politics - or public policy, ethics, being a decent human being etc. It’s a shame we cannot sue Democratic politicians and Labour politicians for negligent performance of their duties to their purported core supporters.
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Democratic Party Consultants - why are they still employed?
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Republicans can all fuck off. Tell you what, we’ll be friends again with the United States after you carry out a de-Republicanization campaign analogous to the de-Nazification campaign after world war 2. I don’t want to see a Republican or Trump supporter in any position other than unemployment.
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I suppose there are three possibilities - those opinion writers aren’t very intelligent, those opinion writers do not argue in good faith, or those opinion writers are both not very intelligent and do not argue in good faith. I’m leaning towards the latter possibility. They are reprehensible.
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Do Federal Marshalls swear an oath to uphold the Constitution?
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There are several states launching campaigns to try and lure Canadians back as tourists and the answer universally has been “fuck off”. Trump and MAGA are turning the United States into a literal shit hole. It’s very sad and I hope that progressives can wrestle control from them at some point.
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it would be nice if a law firm, say one of those who is fighting being targeted by the
Trump Administration, would offer pro bono to launch a lawsuit against ICE for this individual for something in the range of 10’s of millions of dollars.
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On free speech, at this point in time in particular, no other country and learn anything from the United States other than what not to do.
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I’m sure the tech companies would have no issue with ending any patent protection for AI companies - their IP should just become public domain. After all it would be consistent with their attitude to the intellectual property rights of others. But I’m guessing they would object to that.
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Time for a restraining order against this action and a class action lawsuit against the Trump Administration, including for punitive damages. I would think the conduct of the Administration in this case is so egregious as to warrant the awarding of significant punitive damages.
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Jesus Christ she is an absolute malicious moron. It’s just amazing how the entire Administration is populated by people who wouldn’t be trusted to get anything done right behind the counter of a McDonald’s, nor to be left alone with a cash register in a mom and pop store, let alone public office.
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The NYT was a problem going back at least as far as the Press’ war on Clinton and that scandalous coverage.
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you took the time at least, even if the results were not what you were looking for or hoped for.
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Any politician who goes with the line “it hasn’t been definitely ruled genocide yet”, as an excuse for inaction, is not fit to serve in public office. Sadly I know that’s a very large list of politicians.
I think we’re all very tired of politicians offering platitudes and stock phrases.
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It should be reasonably simple, given the absolutely appalling atrocities that are being committed on a daily basis by Netanyahu and Israel, to implement measures akin to those implemented against South Africa during Apartheid - no trade and no sport or cultural links until their policy changes.
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Rho Khanna owes us an explanation as to why he’s so fucking useless, and why anyone should support him ever again as a candidate for any office.
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In the United States the far-left label appears to be applied to pretty much any policy that’s progressive, that aims to address the needs to the poor and middle class, or that aims to deal with the mendacity and maliciousness of the extremely wealthy and powerful.
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An utter scumbag, criminal, and liar. Of course even if he’s eventually forced to step down, Trump would just select someone equally odious or worse to replace him. A government of criminals and liars - that’s what the United States government has become.
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Imagine being an individual who objects to fighting discrimination and injustice, and who thinks that equity and inclusion are not laudatory principles. And for those who argue that such principles will interfere with that of a meritocracy, I ask whenever has the principle of meritocracy ruled?
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So might have been an engine failure and then the tide takes it under the bridge. Makes more sense than reversing under the bridge to be sure - that is one heck of a tidal flow.
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Going backwards instead of forwards under the bridge - quite a bit of this really doesn’t make a lot of sense.
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Terrific article by Samer in Defector. I highly recommend anyone here continuing to have a NYT subscription cancel it and subscribe to Defector and a whole host of independent journalists and smaller news orgs who actually practice journalism.
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She’s an absolute disgrace in her position but that’s sadly virtually a universal characteristic of both her leader and the rest of her cabinet colleagues.
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At this point we’re long past the point where the writers were simply phoning it in.
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She didn’t wade into the Gaza debate - there really cannot be a debate that it’s wrong to kill, maim, and starve children. She is being smeared by the right wing and a purported liberal newspaper that is anything but liberal. The New York Times should be burned down for journalistic malpractice.
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Yes, it really should not be difficult at all for Democrats to message policies like this. And repeat it over and over for each policy on all the communication platforms. I they continue to stick with their ‘Kitchen table’ message idiocy they should be done in with a fork.
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I sure hope so.