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I'm a small business owner and business prof. I try to channel my mother's ethos and teach to empower individuals. An unrepentant liberal [d]emocrat with an unremitting contempt for authoritarianism, I enjoy art, reading, photography, and cycling.
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Do these individuals have the faintest idea how offensive this is? #Canada is proudly uninterested in being the 51st state. This administration's gaslighting and BS complaints about others loses all credibility given the #US is pinch-hitting for Colonial #Russia, a leader among parasitic countries.

Dear #POTUS, when you turn off the people of #Canada this badly, you're screwing up on your job! You don't have anyone around with the spine to tell you that, so hear it from us. We all think your 51st state idea is #dumb. Even worse, you come across like #Putin's follower and a lesser man than he.

FAIL! #US support for a war criminal, #Putin, an unrepentant and unreformed pro-USSR dictator, who has led an invasion of a country that he and his ilk dismiss as "kho***ls", their N-word for #Ukrainians. Make no mistake, this is the US heading in the wrong direction. All #Americans need to care.

Can someone near President #Trump, VP #JDVance, and DefSec #Hegseth advise them that the guy they're trying to appease is a HUGE fan of #Stalin. And here's what #Lenin, of all people, had to say about Stalin:

#JoeRogan, rein it in, dude! A lot of mindless f'ing in there. Is that a 'communistic' observation? Do you *know*, *talk with* any #Canadians? #Trudeau is unpopular within this healthy and capitalist democracy for economic reasons. Most of us think your sense of impending communistic doom is nuts!

Just so we are all aware, this is how #China bungled its way into the disastrous #OneChild policy. It was poor demographic management, yes, we know that now. The real underlying driver, though, was junk population data! #India, beware!

This new #Trump administration is full of people who are either drunk on power or have a very sinister and closet plan. #Canadian annexation a MAGA priority! I hope the #CPC (not #CCP! 😏) is as clumsy as we hope. This administration is handing the world to #China, and their Putin worship is bizarre.

A deeper dive on the issue of the economics of language. #LinkedIn #economics #trump #DEI #politics www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-l...

If you're not aware of this flowchart, be so now. This reflects censorship on par with the #Communist Party of #China (note, I use the #CPC, not #CCP, Chinese Communist Party, name). Yup, that's a big thing with the CPC. This work in progress will drag the #US down that way. You DON'T have to join!

Perfect #Trump. Indeed, a good decision, one that is long overdue, given the unfettered abuse of that policy. However, it is 'inflation', hardest on lower income working-class people, yet very good for #bilionaire Jeff #Bezos. Not telling the #truth has consequences. (Image courtesy of PC Magazine)

In case anyone is wondering why the guy who said #NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) was a disaster, and needing fixing via his #USMCA (US-Mexico-Canada Agreement) in #Trump 1.0, now decides, in Trump 2.0 to violate his own agreement with a senseless #tariff war, read this article snippet.

Hope these people are not receiving Federal government funds or Karoline #Leavitt will be on them like The Paper Ripper on #DEI! #science #education #politics

A typical Canadian, 'Sorry, No,' to you #Economist. The Liberal successor does NOT 'hinge' on handling #Trump. That's a job expectation, not a requirement, and they may not even be the next PM. Our persistent lagging national productivity will not be resolved by even a happy Trump. #Canada #Politics

Ummmm, not to be the antisocial one, but I say wrong decision to agree to this. I would have made the specific wording of his announcement part of my agreement. #Giuliani #Georgia #elections #elections2020

This problem is not new! We have cheap tech to detect freakin' mice, plus gobs of scary #tech to detect and kill humans in war. How hard can it be for plane manufacturers to put motion detectors in wheel wells? Think of the ultimate cost to #airports (taxpayers) and #airlines (passengers) for this!

Sorry #Atlantic, you are wrong here. This is insidious enablement; a two-thumbs up to every #criminal. Some #rules are only malleable when we *choose* to make them so. We learn social norms in our youth. A critical one: obey the #law! And spare me, 'the law is an ass,' nonsense.

Everyone mocked them when they were known as #CBS All Access, but it seems they took the mockery seriously. I now trust Walter #Kronkite's network to entertain me more than inform me, objectively. This is a stellar collection of shows!

(1/2)Such stories make me mad! #Bloomberg presents this as 'new,' whereas these issues have been at play, worldwide, for decades. I worked in #Brazil 20+ years ago, and this was a favourite technique of the #favela drug kings: information mules within banks who identify #HNI individuals. Guess why?

@fordnation, Premier, this is a bad idea, the unfortunate reality of #DonaldTrump in office. We must be sensible AND firm. Mutual tarrifing into #inflation and eventual #recession is good for no one. We are dealing with an ego. Go for creative and badass statesmanship over retaliatory policy.

A rather curious test emerges: Vladmir #Putin has spent almost 3-years and squandered untold #Russian wealth and lives trying to dig himself out of a colossal '3-day/3-week' hole that he stupidly dug for himself. Now, he seeks to make that predicament someone else's problem...

Ummmm, who's OK with this? Just curious to know. Well, I'm sure ONE person is, but who else? #Trump #Gibson #Guitars

Just checking @elonmusk, you're Mr. EV who just gave up on making an affordable EV, right? Now you're a #stealth jet expert? Are we chasing #taxpayer dollars for #Elon drones? Also curious: what's your advice to Vladmir #Putin and Comrade #Xi about the Su-57 Felon and J-35, respectively?

How can you call this good service, #Amazon? One foot closer to the door, or on the mat, and I would have a dry box!

Gentlemen, pleeaase! We're NOT, NOT, NOT going to populate #Mars. @elonmusk has a pretty good reason, one his favourite words: physics! We in the West are consuming resources at a rate that requires 3, 4, 5 or more planet Earths. How in the heck do we do that on Mars? This pursuit is not unlike...

President-elect #Trump, #Canadian here. I'd like to add to this discussion about who is at fault. Downstream drives the supply chain: i.e. Consumption! On #immigration, yes, but, US employers' role? And are you also just looking to replace foreign #drug suppliers with US ones?

Sorry #JoeRogan, you are on the wrong side of history. Quick recap, 13 AND 3 years old: one country repeatedly INVADED another. So, who is trying to start WWIII? Just out of curiosity, why aren't #Ukranians entitled to the same rights and freedoms as #Americans. Joe #USSR Rogan. Yikes!

Dear #NewYorkTimes, this is NOT thought-provoking coverage. It is precisely the type of coverage that #Vladmir #Putin wants. We need to stiffen our collective spines in defence of democracy. Tip #1: stop feeding the ego of a criminal autocrat who will NEVER have #America's…

I joined #BlueSky back on Feb 24 and #Mastodon before that on April 23, when after a year of paying for #X Premium subscribership, I decided it was not worth it. Heads up! From my experience, X can get *a lot worse* when you stop paying....