westofnancy

Lateblooming political animal.

[westofnancy @westofnancy]

@CraigBaird Thanks for bringing us along with you and Berton. I’ve enjoyed the journey.🤗

[westofnancy @westofnancy]

@CraigBaird When Ontario ran the program under Katherine Wynn it was remarkably successful. Alas Doug and his thugs cut the program immediately after gaining power, even though he promised to retain it during the campaign. Years of Conservative policy has garnered the expected results.😡

[westofnancy @westofnancy]

@davelevinthal @PabloReports Where are their friends and loved ones!😅

[westofnancy @westofnancy]

@GaelAmadan Loving the bird song!

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@LucifersTweetz @R_JonAnderson This was my opinion when Trump ran in 2016. Nothing about American politics surprises me anymore.

[westofnancy @westofnancy]

@guyfelicella Can’t think of a better description for him.

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Happy 420 Day.

As always, we celebrate the 53rd anniversary of when Gail & Dale sang "One Toke Over the Line,” on Lawrence Welk.

Neither knew what the song was about. Welk thought the song was a “modern spiritual.”

[westofnancy @westofnancy]

@WendyCoutu2 @ame_todd @JulieCGD @jbeggs252 The vilification of Kathleen Wynne was so disheartening at the time.

[ꜱᴇᴄʀᴇᴛᴄᴀʀᴅʀɪᴠʀᴇ @secretcardrivre]

@allenanalysis

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016, and then again in 2024, given how emotionally toxic and depraved he is.
I don’t wonder anymore. I think he won for that exact reason. Because he carried at least one broken shard to reflect the broken shards in millions of others.
If you’re a racist, you found your guy. If you’re a misogynist, you found your guy. If money is your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart is armored shut, you found your guy. If you mock the disabled, you found your guy. If intelligence makes you insecure, you found your guy. If you’re a sexual predator, you found your guy. If you trade in humiliation and conspiracy and filth, you found your guy.
If you’ve never done a single hour of emotional inventory, you found your guy. If you cheat, stiff contractors, bankrupt your obligations, and call it savvy, you found your guy. If you lie as easily as you breathe, you found your guy. If cruelty feels like strength, you found your guy. If white grievance is your comfort food, you found your guy. If your ego is a black hole no title can fill, you found your guy. If warmongering fuels your ego, you found your guy, If empathy feels like weakness and dominance feels like oxygen, you found your guy.
If he’d only carried one or two of these pathologies, he might have been dismissed as just another loud, damaged man. But he carried a buffet of them. That was the appeal. Millions could locate themselves somewhere in the wreckage. They didn’t have to agree with all of it. They just had to recognize a piece of themselves in it.
It was never really about him. It was about the validation. The absolution. The permission. He didn’t invent the resentment; he amplified it. He didn’t create the cruelty; he normalized it. He gave millions the intoxicating relief of hearing their ugliest impulses echoed back at rally volume.
Trump is a symptom. The deeper illness is collective. If there’s one sentence that defines his power, it’s this: “He says the things I’m thinking.”
And that’s the part that should chill us.
Because what does it say about us that so many were thinking those things? That tens of millions of Americans harbored resentments so deep, so seething, that they were simply waiting for a demagogue to baptize them as virtue? That after decades of supposed progress on race, gender, and equality, so many white men felt so threatened, so displaced, so furious, that cruelty became a political platform?
Maybe we were living in a fool’s paradise, mistaking silence for healing, politeness for progress.
Now the mask is off. Now we know.
And knowing is a far more dangerous place to stand.
– Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.

[westofnancy @westofnancy]

@sciencegirl Bully

[Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya د.حسام أبو صفية @HussamAbuSafiya]

A year has passed since the detention of my father,
In this white coat, he walked alone amidst death, destruction, and in front of tanks—not because he was fearless, but because his oath and his humanity were greater than any fear. He refused to abandon the children and the wounded at Hospital , and for that, he was detained.
This image is a testament to the courage of the man who was the last line of defense for life, and it is the very same scene that ended with his unjust arrest.
A full year of injustice has passed. Today, we ask for nothing but his freedom. Please share his story to keep his voice alive.

[breadloaf 🛤️ @taxspendlib]

A great man was born on this day. A man who was revered by the people and then hated by them. A man who in his last moments gave up everything so that we could all live. His name is Justin Trudeau

[westofnancy @westofnancy]

@lesstenny I live an hours drive from the border and went multiple times a year. I haven’t been since 2016.

[westofnancy @westofnancy]

@Mrbigbudz420 @Mpolymer You’re

[westofnancy @westofnancy]

@gggirl924 My family was four girls in the early sixties (A fifth daughter born in 1965) My Mom made us all neon coloured dresses for Christmas one year. Whenever we went shopping, the favourite line was…”I can make that for half the price!”

[MaggieMay 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇮🇪 @CailinasEirinn]

@atrupar That’s how a Canadian insults you.

He didn’t describe what type of transformation.

[Gator⚡Gum @gator_gum]

Today, Poilievre used a foodbank as a backdrop for his misinformation presser.

Remember when he told us "Axing The Tax" would make groceries affordable?

Remember when he blamed Trudeau for global inflation, supply chain issues, a pandemic,reduced growing seasons, and corporate greed?

Remember when he voted time and time again directly against actions to help struggling Canadians?

Watching RW Twitter mock and belittle struggling Canadians constantly only to weaponize them and use them for a photo-ops and political swipes is reprehensible.

[westofnancy @westofnancy]

@roulinski It’s obscene!