JC

[Financial Times @FT]

US considers sanctions on Brazil judge in new test of diplomatic ties https://t.co/2US71OVk17

[Desiree Rugani @desireerugani]

Não gostar do Bolsonaro é um direito seu. Agora, fingir que Lula não está destruindo o país já não é opinião. É burrice mesmo.

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

.@GovTimWalz claims that deporting Tou Lue Vang, who REPEATEDLY raped a 10-year-old, does not make his state “safer or better.”

The lengths that sanctuary politicians will go to defend sickos like this is truly disgusting.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Make her famous

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

A real headline from a Canadian national newspaper.
Pretty disgusting stuff.

[Kelli_with_an_i @KelliDPowers]

I’ll say it again ….

[JC @jcmattos]

@jameswebb_nasa

[The Washington Times @WashTimes]

Brazil's Senate blocks Lula's Supreme Court nominee, first rejection in 132 years https://t.co/aw1Hj2RbL8

[Mike @midnightriderV2]

The @liberal_party in one short video

[Marc Nixon @MarcNixon24]

Pierre Poilievre just dropped the TRUTH about Canada

We should be the RICHEST country on Earth.

Largest freshwater supply
Most land per capita
3rd largest oil reserves
3rd largest uranium deposits

And yet…

For the FIRST TIME in history…

We can’t even produce enough ELECTRICITY to power our own grid.

Let me get this straight…

We’re sitting on GLOBAL WEALTH
And living in a country in DECLINE?

This didn’t happen by accident.

They BLOCKED energy
They KILLED projects
They TAXED production into the ground

[Juno News @junonewscom]

WATCH

Poilievre calls out the Liberal Party for debating a "$500,000 exit tax" to stop Canadians from working and opening businesses in the U.S.

"Any country that feels it must punish people for fleeing is not a place of hope and optimism."

[Dimitris Soudas 🇨🇦⚜️🇬🇷☦️ 13.12.1943 @DimitrisSoudas]

Let me get this straight.

You’ve been in power for ten years. You’ve doubled the debt. You’ve weakened the economy. And now, your answer is to trap young Canadians?

On stage, the Liberal Party of Canada brings out Patrick Pichette, a former senior executive at Google, who now lives in Europe, to suggest that Canadians who want to pursue opportunities in the United States should face an exit tax of $500,000.

Half a million dollars to leave your own country.

This, from someone who once left Canada himself to build a career in the U.S. and paid virtually nothing to do so.

So let’s be honest about what this is.

It is not economic policy. It is not nation building. It is control.

A government that has mismanaged the economy now wants to limit your ability to seek opportunity elsewhere. Instead of creating reasons to stay, they are looking for ways to make it harder to leave.

You do not grow a country by locking people in. You grow it by giving them a reason to believe in it.

[Tesla Owners of Kentucky @KentuckyToc]

Does anyone know this guy? Location was at Baptist Eastpoint in Louisville. $6,717 worth of damage… @LMPD is working on the case.
WTF is wrong with people?! 🤬

[Tom Quiggin @TomTSEC]

If you burn a flag of Canada, no worries. No one will arrest you.

But if you burn a flag from a terrorist supporting country, you will get arrested in Canada.

Canada has chosen to support foreign extremists over Canadians.

[Bloomberg @business]

Brazil Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes barred a US State Department official from visiting Jair Bolsonaro, the right-wing former president who is serving a 27-year prison sentence in the country’s capital. https://t.co/zMKhrn93nF

[JC @jcmattos]

@EZebroni Why you keep doing turo rentals?!?! Crazy

[JC @jcmattos]

@EZebroni 🍿🍿

[wealthmoose @wealthmoose]

🇨🇦 The Bank of Canada says “expect a lower standard of living.”
Carney says “we must sacrifice.”

Meanwhile Ottawa (source: Global Affairs Canada – International Assistance Report 2023-24):
🇺🇦 $2.1 B → Ukraine
🇿🇦 $165 M → South Africa
🇭🇹 $172 M → Haiti
🇧🇩 $164 M → Bangladesh
🇵🇸 $151 M → West Bank & Gaza
🇵🇰 $104 M → Pakistan
🇬🇭 $115 M → Ghana
🇳🇬 $106 M → Nigeria
🇰🇪 $107 M → Kenya
🌍 Total foreign aid: $12.29 B CAD

That’s enough to fund every Canadian food bank (~5,500) with $2.2 M each.

But sure — Canadians just need to pay taxes, face inflation, lower their standards, and tighten their belts. 😏

#cdnpoli #CostOfLiving #Canada #Economy #ForeignAid

[Strobel@CapitalistaNomade | USA Uruguay Portugal @strobel_gustavo]

Em El Salvador, só se importaram com os direitos humanos quando Bukele decidiu acabar com o crime.

Na Argentina, só se importaram com a inflação e a pobreza quando Milei chegou para acabar com elas.

Na Venezuela, só se importaram com o direito internacional quando capturaram Maduro.

O socialismo é um câncer e uma doença da alma.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

Sentiments of Venezuelans

I’m going to say this once, and I don’t care if it makes people uncomfortable.

If you have never lived in Venezuela
If you did not grow up there
If you did not watch your country collapse in real time
If you did not stand in food lines
If you did not watch your parents lose everything they built
If you did not have to leave your home with nothing

Then shut the fuck up.

You do not have an opinion.
Your opinion does not matter.
And you don’t get to lecture anyone about what’s happening there.

I’m Venezuelan.
I lived there most of my life until my early twenties.
I watched my country go from a functioning democracy to full blown socialism right in front of my eyes.

This is not politics to me.
This is trauma.

Before socialism, Venezuela was not perfect, but it worked.
There was trade.
There was money coming in.
There was investment from the US.
There were jobs.
There was food.
There was medicine.

My family had five businesses.
We had our home
We had investments.
We had a future.

Then the government started nationalizing everything.
Private companies were taken.
Foreign investors were pushed out.
Imports were blocked.
Price controls destroyed production.
Corruption exploded.

And everything died.

Not slowly.
Violently.

People didn’t suddenly become poor because of “capitalism” or “the US” or whatever bullshit slogan people like to repeat online.

They became poor because socialism destroyed incentives, destroyed production, destroyed trust, and destroyed hope.

People today in Venezuela are not debating ideology.
They are trying to survive.

They are trying to find food.
Trying to find medication.
Trying to keep their families alive.

So when I see people in the West posting from comfortable homes, full fridges, stable currencies, and safe streets talking about “imperialism” or “US bad” or “Trump this or that”

No.
It’s not complicated.
You’re just ignorant.

China is not rebuilding Venezuela.
Russia is not rebuilding Venezuela.
Cartels are not rebuilding Venezuela.

They are stealing.
They are extracting.
They are draining what’s left.

If the US comes in and reinvests
If refineries get rebuilt
If infrastructure gets restored
If imports open back up
If food, water, and medicine become accessible again
If people can work and earn with dignity

Then yes.
Let them take all the oil they want.

Because at least something gets built instead of destroyed.

This is something to celebrate.
Not because it’s perfect.
But because for the first time in a long time, there is hope.

Hope that families can eat.
Hope that people don’t have to flee their country.
Hope that Venezuela can function again.

If you’ve never lived through a country collapsing
If you’ve never watched socialism destroy everything around you
If you’ve never had to leave your home because staying meant starvation

Then again
Shut the fuck up.

This isn’t theory.
This isn’t politics.
This is lived experience.

By Stephen Subero