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CNN has gone full infomercial. I’d rather buy a knife set.
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Lots of every day tourists in Canada are literally afraid to visit the USA now -worried they will be mistakenly detained and then sent God knows where. This kind of talk confirms our worst fears.
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Fain is still hallucinating that workers won’t get burned by Trump. Wait until he destroys the unions. No one gets out alive in Trumpworld.
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We’ve forgotten who these old people are- the grannies who marched for woman’s rights and abortion, the old guy who was a freedom rider for civil rights or the grey haired couple who staged sit-ins and stopped the Vietnam war.They may be “cringe “ but they know how to change the world.
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Perhaps the CBC has forgotten its purpose. Like the publically funded railway, the CBC was founded specifically to link us from coast to coast as a country, strengthening our national identity in the face of the natural north/south pull of American culture.
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If our national, tax-payer-funded broadcaster won’t try to hold this country together in the face of an imminent national threat then I have to question- why do they exist?
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Done!
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The American rebels didn’t have “military protection” either. Underestimate Canadians at your peril.
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Looks like you have a couple of hours to get that done.
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You better hurry!
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Next they’ll say the move “complicates” the future for Palestinians.
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Sorry- didn’t mean to sound combative. You said “White women are about to be the latest to learn that when you support fascists….” vs “white women who voted for Trump are about to be the latest….” Just wanted to point out that huge numbers of white women didn’t want this.
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A slight majority of white women voted for Trump (53%) but 47% did not- hardly a Trump landslide. Facts show that many millions of white women knew exactly what would happen and voted accordingly. If not preemptively written off, they could be allies in a broad and robust anti-Trump coalition.
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Can’t imagine how much work it takes to create “replacement” terms for plain English, all day, everyday. Almost feel sorry for person(?) team(?) toiling away on this.
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The Times will soon find out that a self-preserving strategy of cowering while democracy crumbles results in nothing but utter irrelevance.
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Polls could change after a winter fighting Northern Manitobans in the snow.
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Sounds like saving democracy would have been “hard”.Totally understand.
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Only good if they can fight with customer service bots! I’d buy that.
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Agree. I should have said Dems.
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Of course not! I’m talking about a long-term trend where workers have lost so much economic power- a trend which included de-industrialization and union bashing caused by free-trade. A trend that has been dismissed by many in the left and has contributed to the recent election loss.
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Statements like these is why the Dems lost the election. Those factory jobs provided living wages, pensions and dignity as opposed to today’s race to the bottom work opportunities.
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Doesn’t he know that U.S. companies don’t need to “trade” with us? We let them set up shop right here. Hello Costco, Walmart, Nestle, Pepsico, etc. etc. We have lost so many Canadian brands to U.S. takeovers.
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It’s crucial to distinguish between left wing economic policies that genuinely help people versus the current dems who cater to corporations and billionaires while smugly preaching identity politics. Nobody likes a know-at-all who refuses to lend a hand.
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After buying your maple syrup, I’d forget Tim Horton’s and instead pick up some cheap gas since 24% of the oil you refine is Canadian. And don’t forget to bring back some steel and lumber for your housing industry and all manner of natural resources because those too are going to cost you.
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I think we are getting the current Dem’s echo chamber (listening to and parroting each other) confused with the Republican’s bullhorn, which effectively and repeatedly distilled real voter concerns into unified, powerful, (if vile) messages.
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After such a consequential failure, I hope that the democratic base plans to spend far more time listening in general. There’s clear-headed insight in those autopsies and much to learn. I’d frankly be sceptical of post-evaluations from anyone who presided over this defeat.