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Proprietor of the RIGID THINKING Substack at damianpenny.substack.com.
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Mutual Eh-sured Destruction: should Canada consider a nuclear deterrent of its own? open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

No, we can't revoke Elon Musk's citizenship by online petition: open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

Were you waiting anxiously for my analysis of the German election? Well, too bad, because here it is anyway: open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

The AfD vs. everyone else: Germany's far-right party won't win this weekend's election, but if the other parties don't get it together they could win the next one. open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

Donald Trump is the new Neville Chamberlain? I wish: open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

Anyone investing in Trump's America is taking a big risk: open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

How Trump's threats against Canada are boosting Justin Trudeau's party: open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

Why violence works: open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

Trump effed around, American consumers will find out: open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

Chris Rufo proves it's not just left-wingers who become even more extreme, paranoid and hysterical when their side is winning: open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

Why does #DougFord think Ontario needs an election right now? And, why won't China's "revolutionary" #Deepseek AI program talk about anything that might make China look bad? open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

A modest proposal for Canada to buy off President Trump: open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

Nothing "normalizes" Trump like copying him, even if it's for a "good" cause. open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

Left-wingers have long searched for utopia overseas, and now right-wingers are joining them. With pretty much the same results: open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

Americans will be collateral damage in Trump's trade war: open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

#AndrewTate's political party is called “BRUV,” for “Britain Restoring Underlying Values,” but I’d suggest as a more fitting party name, “Rational Aggressive Patriotic Englishmen.” open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

Trump doesn't want more territory. He wants more tariffs. open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

When we wished Americans would start paying attention to Canada, we never meant it this way: open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

The significance, if any, of Justin Trudeau reportedly announcing his resignation on January 6: open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

You can't beat Trump in a lying contest: open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

On the #NewOrleans attack, and a new form of terrorism: open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

NFL fans outraged by lack of #Netflix technical problems for awful Ravens-Texans game: open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

There *was* a time when allegations like the ones against #MattGaetz would destroy your political career. open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

How a story - and my planned Substack post - involving #ElonMusk, the #AfD, and the #Magdeburg attack evolved rapidly in just 24 hours:

While Donald Trump trolls about annexing Canada and threatening tariffs, the Trudeau government is in complete meltdown. #cdnpoli open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

@jessesingal.com: Jesse Singal: Bluesky Has a Death Threat Problem It was supposed to be a gentler, left-wing alternative to X. My grim experience proves that just isn’t the case. www.thefp.com/p/jesse-sing...

My advice to #ChrystiaFreeland: run far, far away from this looming disaster and set yourself up as the savior in a few year's time. #cdnpoli open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

If some punk kid stalked and shot the director of the VA, Medicare and Medicaid, or the U.K.’s National Healthy System in the back, would we hear the same, “Murder is wrong but … ” garbage? I very much doubt it, writes Jonah Goldberg:

On the idea that murdering insurance executives will fix the US health care system: open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

Once you open the door to extreme anti-social acts, anti-social actors widen the definition of the targeted class to include more and more people, until you realize why we had an anti-violence principle in the first place. Better to just stick with the principle than rediscover it the hard way.

It's (hopefully) morning in #Syria: open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

Josh Allen has thrown for 3 touchdowns and run for 3 touchdowns. And his team is *losing*. Football, man.