BREAKING: The BBC has turned Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against them into a January 6 trial against Trump
The BBC is arguing that to win his defamation case, Trump has to prove he did not foment or incite the riot.
They exported the ideology of the free market to the world with guns and structural adjustment programs and IMF conditions.
Liberalize. Privatize. Cut the public sector. Let the market determine outcomes. Trust the mechanism.
Meanwhile at home, the banks failed in 2008 and received $700 billion in public money within weeks.
The free market for thee.
Socialism for the institutions that own the political class.
The people who lost their homes in 2008, amid 10 million foreclosures in the United States, did not receive a bailout.
The people who created the instruments that caused the crisis, who collected bonuses in the years they were building it, and who collected bonuses again in the years after the public absorbed the loss:
Not one of them went to prison.
Not one.
The ideology of personal responsibility, applied with perfect consistency, would have produced criminal trials and institutional collapse for the people at the top.
Instead it produced: austerity for everyone else, lectures about dependency culture, and a return to bonuses within eighteen months.
This is not corruption in the sense of individual bad actors.
This is corruption as architecture.
The building is designed this way.
The people inside it are not breaking the rules.
They wrote the rules.
James Robison
What Joyce Carol Oates wrote to Elon Musk on Twitter. I am told it rattled him. I love it.
“So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates – scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend’s or relative’s accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the ‘most wealthy person in the world.’”
“Pierre Poilievre’s inner circle includes right-wing activists and lobbyists for Meta, X Corp., Enbridge, Pathways Alliance and Koch Industries. This is not a coincidence — the techno-fascists’ goal is to install Poilievre as their useful idiot in Canada.”https://t.co/bVE065wnwV
Fuck, this guy is such a whiny, clueless, cosplaying bitch.
Maybe you should have read Canada's tax code or had your fucking accountant explain it to you like a child.
Capital gains, shell companies, and all are subject to an exit tax. Have been for generations. Canada's biggest victim, @GadSaad, will use any aspect of his own stupidity to make himself the victim of every story he tells. Like the dollar store version of Jordan Peterson.
As a long-time Canadian newspaper journalist, I reject the notion that ‘outside experts’ should vet CBC News. The CBC is Canada’s public broadcaster, a bulwark against foreign disinformation & corporate news organizations that often tilt in favour of big money. Hands off CBC!
The Opposition really believes that @MarkJCarney should have stayed home from the G7 meetings to answer their questions in QP.
The Prime Minister is working for Canada every day, around the globe.
The Opposition is just obstructing for public attention.
That's not leadership.
Financial Times columnist Gillian Tett: I remember back when it was starting on the tariff war with Canada, one of the [Trump] administration officials told me that they were going after Canada for sport, just to show who's in charge.