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@MrWhiplash_ Who can deal with someone unable to honor his own signature?

[Jane of the North @JaneotN]

A couple of Canadian kids created a Maga Monopoly game and called it "American Dictator." The cards include "Quiet Piggy" (only you can speak), and a redacted card (no one knows what it says).

You can buy a Supreme Court Justice.

They donate proceeds to local food banks.

🇨🇦❤️‍

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Exactly

[CalmCanuck 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇬🇷 🇺🇸 🇺🇦🇪🇺 @colinabwallace]

Do any Canadians, other than me, feel like we've gotten out of an abusive relationship and started dating our long time crush? I feel like the sky is brighter, the air is fresher and the future is an actual future.

[@blacasse.bsky.social @blackhouse4]

@Mel__Gibson01 Good joke! You should be in the street asking for his impeachment before he finishes killing your democracy. Try anything else than church and Fox news, you will maybe see the light.

[Sigurdur Nordal @essenviews]

Is she right?

[Oh Canaduh @CanaduhOh]

Canada 🤝 EU

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Wab Kinew: "Release the Epstein files. Donald Trump is Jeffrey Epstein's best friend. The reason why we're at war in Iran and everyone's paying higher gas prices is because of the Epstein files."

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

According to the Epstein files, it’s children.

[ℂ𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ. 𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕔𝕠𝕥𝕖 @crispmarcote]

Periodistas despedidos del histórico The Washington Post por Jeff Bezos, han creado un nuevo periódico para luchar contra la desinformación y los bulos de la era Trump.

La era donde las élites millonarias quieren controlar el mundo. No hay que rendirse.

[A Palsson 🇦🇺 🇮🇸 @ampalsson]

** I lifted this off Facebook. It is a great post by Mick Doyle **
I keep hearing Americans say:
“I’m not responsible for Trump. I didn’t vote for him.”
Okay.
But let me tell you how this looks from outside the United States.
I live in a major border town. I see American licence plates every day. Lots of them.
And here's the uncomfortable truth:
I don't stop to wonder whether the person behind the wheel voted for Trump.
I don't know them. I don't know their politics. I don't know whether they despise Trump or worship him.
I see the American plate.
And whether it's fair or not, I automatically associate them with the country whose government is doing these things.
That's what national identity does.
That's how the rest of the world sees you.
When the United States invades a country, threatens another, imposes economic warfare, supplies weapons for a war, or attacks the sovereignty of another nation, the world doesn't have the luxury of separating every individual American from the actions of the American state.
The United States invaded Venezuela.
The United States is waging economic war against Canada.
The United States has seriously contemplated military action against Mexico, a sovereign country.
The United States has repeatedly threatened the sovereignty of Greenland.
The United States is supplying Israel with weapons and military support while Gaza is being devastated.
The United States continues its decades-long economic strangulation of Cuba.
And then comes:
“But that's Trump. I'm not responsible. I didn't vote for him.”
Maybe you didn't.
But here's the problem:
The rest of the world sees the American flag.
We don't see your ballot.
We don't know how you voted.
We see your government.
And if you genuinely oppose what your government is doing, then don't simply ask the rest of the world to distinguish you from it.
Make the distinction visible.
Protest.
Organize.
March.
Speak out.
Put pressure on your representatives.
Make your opposition impossible to ignore.
Because the midterms are still up in the air. There is no guaranteed deliverance from this menace waiting around the corner.
Trump could lose. He could win. Congress could change. It could remain divided.
Nobody knows.
And while everyone waits for an election to potentially save them, American power continues to be exercised around the world.
So no, I don't believe every American is a Trump supporter.
But I also don't believe Americans can simply wash their hands of what the United States does by saying:
“That's Trump, not me.”
Because whether you like it or not, national actions create national reputations.
I live with that reality every day when I see those American plates.
And so does the rest of the world.
You may not be Trump.
But the world sees the American flag.
Full stop.

[Natalka @NatalkaKyiv]

I had a great conversation with Hitler. He wants to make a deal. Hard to believe Churchill hates him. Let’s hope Churchill is willing to surrender so I can brag about how great I am at making deals.

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

BREAKING: 80-year-old pedophile with a phone, a god complex and absolutely no connection to reality, posts fantasy map showing he’s annexed three countries.

This man is fucking insane - and millions of Americans are pretending this is normal. JFC make it stop.

[Nicolas Tenzer @NTenzer]

Putin loves this map.
Same project, same ideology, same contempt for international law.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

You don’t say. As I’ve often asked, if Trump were a Kremlin agent, what would he do differently?

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

We are dealing with some seriously twisted people.

From a Canadian perspective, I have to say: this is not normal.

Look at what is being put out through official U.S. government channels. One picture was posted by the White House. Another came from the U.S. Department of the Interior press. These aren’t random people on the internet. These are official institutions of the United States government, speaking to the world on behalf of the American state.

And as a Canadian, I find that deeply disturbing. Because the whole world is watching this. Not just Canadians. Not just Americans.

All of us.

People around the world are watching how the United States chooses to use its enormous political power, its influence, and its institutions.

I don’t believe I’ve ever seen another country engage in this kind of openly vindictive rhetoric in quite this way. Not Russia. Not China. Not even North Korea.

For generations, Canadians have looked to the United States as our closest neighbour, our largest trading partner, and one of the world’s most influential democracies. We may disagree with American governments, and Canadians certainly have plenty of opinions about American politics, but there has always been an expectation that, beneath the political battles, there was a certain standard of conduct.

This feels like something different.

There is a difference between defending your country and taking pleasure in humiliating someone. There is a difference between strong rhetoric and rhetoric that appears designed specifically to hurt, provoke, and degrade.

There is a difference between protecting your own country and wanting to tear down another for no reason.

It wasn’t enough to drive in the knife; they had to twist it too.

And from outside the United States, it is difficult to watch this and understand how anyone can consider it appropriate for a government to behave this way. This isn’t about being Canadian versus American. It isn’t about left versus right. It isn’t even about whether you agree with the person being targeted.

It’s about standards.

If a foreign government behaved this way, many of the same people would be outraged. They would call it cruel, undignified, or authoritarian, and rightfully so.

Canada and the United States have had disagreements for generations. We have argued over trade, foreign policy, borders, energy, defence, and countless other issues. But disagreement between neighbours does not require contempt for one another.

In fact, precisely because Canada and the United States are so closely connected, what happens there matters enormously to us.

Anybody who thinks this is acceptable behaviour simply because it is coming from “their side” has lost the plot.

Because governments are supposed to represent more than anger, vengeance, and political tribalism.They are supposed to represent their people.

And I would hope that Americans, regardless of their political beliefs, can still recognize the difference between strength and cruelty.

The whole world is watching.

And what they are seeing is not strength.

It’s something much uglier.

Source: Canadian United

[@blacasse.bsky.social @blackhouse4]

@Google Google has become a bitch

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: Maj. Jason Watson has just been charged under the Uniform Code of Military Justice for three violations of Article 88 for “contemptuous” remarks about Trump.

Yes, you heard that right. He was just charged for calling for Trump’s impeachment.

A president who has service members arrested for speaking out against the president, isn’t a president. They are a dictator.

[Michael MacKay @mhmck]

From now on, Canadians will refer to the United States as Epstein Island.