Cynical Optimist

The world is all that is the case - Ludwig Wittgenstein.
I'm interested in the world.

[Cynical Optimist @H6692016]

@ashebytes Your new look and background gives you a gravitas that was missing before.✌️

[Cynical Optimist @H6692016]

Grok on the flood event in Nepal last week: "The current assessment from geologists and geomorphologists analyzing satellite imagery is that a large section of bedrock on the north face of Langtang Lirung (in the same Langtang area as Yala Glacier) failed, taking a substantial mass of glacier ice with it... “the rock that the glacier was sitting on collapsed” and “the glacier was only part of what failed.” The ice then had no support and sheared away with the rock, producing a high-speed ice-rock avalanche that registered as a magnitude 5.2 seismic event generated by the collapse itself..."
Iow, NOT climate change.

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@EFischberger At some point X will have to address the Qatari question.
I don't hate Qataris, but some of them - some of them - have dual loyalties.

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@aubreystrobel Bon chic, bon genre✨

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@avidseries Online pet peeve of mine is a**holes who presume you are lying when you tell a story that doesn't fit their world view.

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@KatieMiller 1) She's a nice person who doesn't want to spread her germs.
2) She's a Branch Covidian

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@0ldmanGlen @eeners @Polymarket Almost all construction work is a 'one time thing'.

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@JdJessed32 @kikisknees Old school👍

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@jamesdavisqwert @ProofofMaro This will set your initiation back years.

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@AFpost Judge Boasberg, do something!!
😆

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“Cognitive justice”, “Epistemology of the south”
🤡

[Colin Brazier @ColinBrazierTV]

The best single encapsulation of why the Jason Arday scandal damages us all.

[Melanie In Saskatchewan @saskatchewan_in]

I’m supposed to perform the obligatory little ritual now and pretend both versions of this trade debacle deserve equal credibility.

I don’t... I believe the Americans.

Not because they’re American. Not because politicians suddenly became trustworthy. And certainly not because Donald Trump has been canonized.

I believe them because the American account increasingly makes more sense.

Greer, Lutnick and Bessent have spoken openly and specifically about what happened. Their accounts have been remarkably consistent. They can discuss the negotiations like people who were actually involved in them, without appearing terrified that an unsupervised adjective might escape and without a teleprompter.

Meanwhile, what do Canadians get from our own government?

Carefully sterilized language. Vague explanations. Missing specifics. Scripted talking points. Every sentence apparently passed through enough communications people and lawyers to remove any detectable trace of information.

We’re being kept in the dark like bloody mushrooms while learning more about Canada’s own trade negotiations from American officials and American media than from the Canadian government supposedly representing us.

And somehow we’re not supposed to notice how politically convenient the Canadian version is.

We got:
👉🏻 Trump was unreasonable.
👉🏻 Trump changed the deal.
👉🏻 Trump threatened our sovereignty.
👉🏻 Trump forced Canada to walk away.

Trump. Trump. Trump.

Just keep Canadians sufficiently pissed off at Donald Trump and perhaps nobody asks the considerably more inconvenient question:

❓️ What exactly did Mark Carney walk away from, and why?

Because after the Gordie Howe Bridge fiasco, I’m fresh out of complimentary benefit of the doubt.

And here’s the part that absolutely reeks, discrediting any appearance of truth told by the liar in chief #MarkCarney...

If Carney possesses documentary evidence proving Trump suddenly dumped outrageous, unacceptable demands onto Canada at the eleventh hour, where the hell is it?

Seriously.

Think about what that evidence would be worth politically.

IF Carney had a piece of paper proving Donald Trump screwed Canada, blindsided our negotiators and forced our heroic prime minister to stand up, pound the table and walk away, the Liberal machine wouldn’t quietly tuck that document into a filing cabinet.

Are you kidding me?

▪︎ They’d wallpaper Ottawa with the damn thing.

▪︎ They’d hold press conferences about it.

▪︎ They’d wave it around in Parliament.

▪︎ They’d quote it in fundraising emails.

▪︎ They’d buy ads with it.

Every friendly pundit in the country would have a laminated copy by breakfast. CBC would probably commission a twelve-part documentary and an interpretive dance.

It would be political rocket fuel.
Carney could point directly at the evidence and say, See? I stood up to Trump.

And considering how desperately this government wants Canadians angry at Trump, they would squeeze every last political drop out of it.

Instead, we get:

- Words.
- Trust us.
- Trump did it.
- Don't worry about the details.
- Just keep your elbows up and direct your anger toward the orange man south of the border.

How extraordinarily convenient.

And while Canada spends years shrieking about foreign interference, demanding security clearances for opposition leaders and warning us about other countries trying to influence Canadian politics, Canadian politicians seem remarkably comfortable inserting themselves into American partisan politics.

Apparently foreign political influence is a mortal threat to democracy when it crosses the border heading north.

Heading south?
Nothing to see here, carry on.
So enough of the carefully packaged Liberal bullshit.

Release the negotiating documents.

• Show Canadians the American demands.
• Show us Canada's demands.
• Show us what changed.
• Show us when it changed.
• Show us exactly what was sitting on that table when Canada walked away.

Because if those documents prove Carney's story, his government has every political incentive imaginable to release them, and its quite odd that they haven't.

Their continued absence doesn't prove he's lying, but it sure does suggest it!

And considering the Americans are providing details while our own government feeds us verbal oatmeal, it sure as hell gives Canadians a reason to stop swallowing everything we're spoon-fed.

Mark Carney isn't an oracle. He isn't our father. And Canadians aren't intellectually deficient children who need the PMO to decide which facts we're mature enough to see.

Stop telling us whom to hate.
Show us what happened.
Then we'll decide for ourselves who is full of shit.

#cdnpoli

[Cynical Optimist @H6692016]

@ApoStructura Make it so.

[Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson]

Five years ago today, at the insistence of the Biden White House and Pfizer, Twitter banned me for this post.

Yes, the gov't made a social media company silence me for telling the truth about mRNA shots.

And the legacy media still won't report it.

You don't hate them enough.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

Hillary Clinton: "Obama never put kids in cages."

Here's a 2014 clip from when the AP was allowed a rare look inside some of Obama's detention facilities.

Notice all the kids in cages.

No big organized protests about it. No celebrities crying about it. No politicians trying to break into the facilities to rescue the kids.

Democrats/MSM didn't care back then, just like they didn't care when migrants were dying at historically high rates during the Biden years. Democrats didn't say one word about the epic pain and suffering being caused by Biden's policies. Not a word about it for four years.

The outrage now is all an act and they only perform it when they think it will help them get back power.

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Definitely

[Chaz Wargnier ♨️ @DataChaz]

Best use of AI I've seen this year

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@mazemoore @peterboghossian Sure it wasn't a Baby Ruth?😅

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@AlejandraJMillo Big if true.

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@venturetwins Old enough to remember Angela Merkel being Person of the Year, followed by two covers in 2016 saying Trump’s campaign was in meltdown.