What the .... slogan?

 Pierre Poilievre has repeatedly said Carney has nothing but slogans. Really PP? You want to go that route? 

Here are some of the slogans PP has used and is using:

Canada Is Broken (This was his key phrase before switching to Canada First.)

Canada First (A slogan that has been adopted by a Proud Boys group. And sounds eerily like Trump's America First slogan. )

Axe The Tax (He was still spouting this slogan AFTER Carney axed the consumer side of the carbon tax.)

Build The Homes

Fix The Budget

Stop the Crime

Bring It Home

Stop The Drugs (Which was his response to Trump's BS about fentanyl going into the US from Canada.)

You get the idea. If Carney has nothing but slogans what does PP and the Conservative Party of Canada have? PP is slow to adapt to the changing political environment which is not a good thing. A lot of slogans, and not much else to show for it. 

Holy Shit Rogan!

 There is nothing I can say in light of current events that Kyle Kulinski has not said. Take your head out of your ass Joe Rogan, listen to this podcast, and do what is right.

Maple Maga

 Why is Pierre Poilievre often called Maple Maga or Trump Lite? A lot of what he says mirrors, if not directly parrots, shit Trump says and does.

Now PP and the CPC uses the "Canada First" slogan. Before that he went on about how broken Canada is. Sound familiar? America First?

When Donald started his BS with Canada, calling us the 51st State and disparaging our PM by calling him Governor, PP was fairly quiet. Mind you he did use Trumpian slogans at his rallies. While Trump was using the fake excuse of drugs coming into the US from Canada the slogan in front of the podium every time PP spoke was "Stop The Drugs".  While everyone else in Canada (except the twit in Alberta) was preparing to deal with Trump, PP was still focusing on other things, using Trumpian slogans.

He uses "woke" as an all-purpose pejorative and says he is on the side of "common sense." 

He is not a fan of the media. The CBC is a huge target of his and he wants to defund them. Even when dealing with the press at rallies and events he restricts them. Only approved media are allowed. Only 4 reporters can ask questions, and they only have 1 they can ask with no follow up. The questions are submitted beforehand. 

He embraced the so called "Freedom Convoy" morons who occupied Ottawa. PP showed up with coffee and donuts for them and marched in solidarity with them.

He uses "woke" as an all-purpose pejorative and says he is on the side of "common sense."

He has vowed to defeat the "gatekeepers" who are apparently standing in the way of Canadians prospering. 

Instead of making laws that would pass Constitutional muster he has vowed to invoke the notwithstanding clause to override judicial rulings against his attempts to impose harsher sentences on those convicted of committing crimes. Who needs Due Process and oversight?

He previously promised to withhold federal funding from universities that do not adequately uphold freedom of speech. HIS definition of freedom of speech.

PP talked about his big beautiful income tax cuts during a rally the other day. Trump has his big beautiful bill he wants to pass to make his tax cuts permanent. Tax cuts for the wealthy.

I don't know about you but I do see more than a little Trump and MAGA in Poilievre.

Pierre Poilievre's Voting Record

 I have been remiss in talking about Canadian politics. The insanity south of the border takes the spotlight more often than not. When I see what Pierre Poilievre says and does I can see reflections of Trump and MAGA in him, and the Conservative Party of Canada. PP's voting record alone should give a person pause when wondering if they should support him. 

Poilievre:

Voted against raising the minimum wage 

Voted against the First Home Savings Account program

Voted against $10-a-day childcare

Voted against children’s food programs at school 

Voted against the child benefit

Voted against dental care for kids

Voted against Covid relief

Voted against middle-class tax cuts

Voted against the Old Age Security Supplement 

Voted against the Guaranteed Income Supplement 

Voted to ban abortions

Voted against housing initiatives 

Voted to raise the retirement age

Voted for scabs

The ONLY Bill Poilievre has ever introduced to Parliament (1 of 7 in 20 years as an MP) that passed was called The Fair Elections Act.  The title alone has me hearing Morgan Freeman's voice saying "It wasn't that fair." It exempted fundraising expenses from campaign spending limits, disenfranchised voters and increased partisanship by allowing incumbents control of the nominations for polling supervisors. A lot of what it did was undone when the Harper Government was ousted. 

Looking at his record it isn't that surprising he is often called Maple Mage.

What the ... really Joe?

 NOW Joe Rogan is talking about Due Process. Talking about how lumping people into groups is bad. Holy shit Joe, this IS HAPPENING and people have been talking about it while you have been coddling Trumps ball sack. You are part of the problem Joe. 

You voted for Trump and encouraged him even though if you had a bit of common sense you would seen where he was headed. You gave air time, and coddled the sacks, of him, his VP, Elon, and the Oligarchs, even though you SHOULD have been able to see where they were headed. Where was Jamie?

You used to be against the assholes like Trump, Vance, Musk and all their ilk. I don't know what happened to you, but damn you sold out. Did covid really break your brain? 

Trump and his regime have been trampling on due process since he was elected. Yet you  just started noticing it? They have trampled on peoples rights and sent them to fucking concentration camps in El Salvador. And you JUST started noticing it? Innocent people are in fucking concentrations camps and Trump and his cronies are LYING about it and you JUST started to notice? Seriously? Fuck you Joe.

Part of me hopes this is a return of the Old Joe. However, based on who he has become I have my doubts. It seems more like a ploy to try and get his audience back since he has lost his Number 1 Podcast status. His railing against the Trump government over Due Process seems a tad contrived considering things he said since the deportation's and sending people to a concentration camp started. Rogan helped Trump get elected. He could pick up his fucking phone and actually talk to Donald. Like I said, his railing against this now seems contrived.

I used to LOVE Joe Rogan's podcasts. He introduced me to comedians, writers, and artists I would never had heard of. Since covid he has become a bizarre, bitter, asshole. One that propagates the bizarre despite reality. I still watch some of his old podcasts because they were good and informative. Not the batshit he has promoted the last few years.

I guess what I am saying is ... Joe, you disappoint me and have for a while. I used to expect better from you. I don't anymore. It is hard to say if I ever will. 

What the ... label?!?!?

    I used to hesitate to call Trump and MAGA Nazi's. I always found that too often people label someone or something they don't like as Hitler or Nazi's. However, the more you see of what Trump is saying and doing, as well as his sycophants, the comparison is obvious. One would actually be doing a disservice not pointing it out.

Blackmail and bullying:

   Whether it was willing or forced, German companies paid tribute to the Nazi's, which helped fund them. Many would also benefit from forced/slave labour.

   Billionaires are willingly funding Trump now to gain benefits from him. Just look at Elon Musk and the contracts his companies have been awarded since Trump took over. One of them was already approved for another company but taken away and given to Starlink. He is also bullying others, such as the law firms he has issues with, to do free work for him. Those firms who don't agree are punished. He actually tried banning them and their employees from ALL federal buildings. 

Vilifying minorities:

   A common tactic of fascists is to vilify minorities and immigrants. They turn their followers against them and use them to justify their actions. The Nazi's took it to new levels of horror.

   Trump has been doing that for a long time and MAGA has just gotten worse. They will tell blatant lies, such as the LEGAL Haitian immigrants being illegal and eating peoples pet cats and dogs. He has actually made public comments stating that immigrants have bad genes that make them criminals. 

   They paint all immigrants as illegal, even the legal ones, and use BS like this as justification to pull their status and deport them.

   Where do you even start on Trump and women? "Grab them by the pussy!" "She was bleeding form everywhere." Being convicted of defamation and CONTINUING to defame the person even today. Convicted for sexual assault. If a strong woman stands against him she is "nasty".

ICE and Homeland Security Roundups:

   Tied to other categories are the mass roundups of immigrants AND US citizens. They are then shuttled across the US to other states to be locked up with little to no recourse. Many of them are LEGAL immigrants, and citizens, whose only crime is not to be white. Even with evidence to people being US citizens ICE and DHS do not want to let them go, and in many cases were able to hold on to them longer. Like the case of Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a US born citizen.  A University student who co-authored an article critical of the US government was pretty much kidnapped by undercover ICE operatives and is in detention now. The US Government REMOVED her immigration status because she helped write an article critical of them. 

Concentration camps:

   Everyone in this day and age should know about the Nazi concentration and death camps. Of course there are those morons who deny their existence. The Nazi's rounded up undesirables, minorities, and sent them off to the camps. Some would be forced to do slave labour for the government and German companies, while others would be experimented on or put to death.

   Trump is shipping what he considers undesirables to what is basically a concentration camp in El Salvador. It is known to be a slave labour and death camp. People were shipped there with no due process. People who were not affiliated with the gangs Trump and his ass kissers claim they are and have never been convicted of a crime. Some of them were LEGAL immigrants to the US who had done nothing wrong.

    The US courts, including the Supreme Court, have ordered the government to get some of them back. Trump and his cronies LIE about the Supreme Court decision while openly ignoring and scorning the courts decisions. Trump even said openly that he wants El Salvador to build more camps and they will send American Citizens who are criminals there. They continue to lie and paint the innocent people they have victimized as criminals and terrorists.

Due Process and protection of the law:

   The Nazi's would twist or change the laws when they got into power to target the minorities they were vilifying. These tactics were used to justify, legally, stripping people of their property, freedom, and lives

   As mentioned when talking about vilifying minorities and concentration camps, Trump and his ass kissers are doing the same thing now. They are stripping people of their constitutionally protected right of Due Process. He is using Presidential Orders to justify attacking his perceived enemies and doing anything else he wants.

The Media:

   If Trump can't control the media he disparages it and attacks it. He actually labeled the media as the enemy of the people. Partisan hacks like Fox coddle Trumps ball sack and spin the hell out of stuff to make MAGA look good and everyone else bad. Meanwhile Trump attacks reporters and media companies and even mocked a reporter with a disability.

Lebensraum:

   Listening to Trump talk about annexing Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal immediately reminded me of Hitler. He talked about lebensraum. How Nazi Germany needed to expand into any territory they deemed necessary for the country to survive and grow. Which is pretty much Trump's reasoning for want to annex Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal.

Propaganda and lies:

   This also touches on some of the other areas I mentioned, the blatant lies and propaganda from the Trump Regime would make Joseph Goebbels smile. You can see it in the pre-election lies like the ones about Haitians eating cats and dogs that was aimed at promoting their anti-immigrant propaganda. You can see it in the current lies about the US Supreme Court Decision about Abrego Garcia. The regime's mouth pieces are actively twisting reality to fit their narrative and outright lying to make Garcia look like a criminal. 

   The piece of shit White House Press Secretary actually said the man's wife and children are better off with him in El Salvador! Their MAGA base laps this BS up as gospel and pushes their narrative. 

   It was announced the other day that the US Secretary of Defense Hegsworth is having any books he considers DEI pulled from the shelves of military libraries, such as those at the military Academies. The works of Maya Angelou as well as anything on the holocaust were deemed bad. Yet somehow Mein Kampf by Adolph Hitler is ok to stay.

   Goebbels was the master of The Big Lie and Trump and his ilk are following his example to promote their agenda.

Shit that just makes you shake your head: 

   The insanity that is the Religious Right and Trump. They call him their savior. They refer to him as the Messiah and God's anointed. They twist reality so that a serial adulterer, liar, and thief is the ONE that God sent to save humanity. They will ignore reality and twist it to support their narrative. It just boggles the mind.

   House Republicans have introduced a bill to rename Dulles Washington International Airport ... drum roll please ... Trump Airport. 

   In a homage to dictators like the Kim family of North Korea Trump's sycophants are wearing golden pins of Trump's face.

   One GOP MAGAT wants to put Trump's image on the $100 bill while another wants to create a $250 bill with trump on it.

   A congresswoman introduced a bill to add Trump's face to Mount Rushmore. Another one introduced a bill to make Trump's birthday a national holiday.

   Which of course is a perfect segue to Trump wanting to spend $100 million to have a military parade that would take place ... on his birthday.

One thing that really stuck in my mind was the bag licking  session that was called cabinet meeting. Where every cabinet member started their diatribe off by polishing Donald's knob with praise. 

   I watched a documentary years ago about Doctors Without Borders going to North Korea to perform eye surgery on people for free. At the end of the documentary was the big reveal. The patients had their bandages taken off and could see again. ALL of them prostrated themselves before pictures of the Great Leader and the Dear Leader thanking them for giving them their vision back. Praising them for everything they did for the people of North Korea. Vowing to work harder than any one else and be productive. They slobbered all over the Kim's knob. Mind you, if they hadn't, if they had actually thanked the doctors, they would most likely had been killed or sent to a gulag along with their families. This is what the TELEVISED portion of the cabinet meeting made think of. Which begs the question what did they do to and for Trump when the camera was off?

   The constant grifting he does. Trump Bibles. Trump NFTs. Trump bitcoin. Pleas to donate to help get him elected or defend against his enemies. Trump and his people are constantly coming up with new schemes to separate his morons, I mean supporters, from their money. And they fall for it every time.. How about the violations of the emoluments clause that Trump flouts?

   Sadly I could go on and on about shit like this. While it won't matter to the MAGATs it should matter to Americans. But I digress.

Conclusions:

   The Trump regime is doing a whole lot of goose stepping over the US Constitution and people's rights. If you can't look at what Trump and his cronies have been doing and saying and NOT see the direct comparisons to Nazi's and fascism you are either being willfully ignorant, a blind MAGA supporter/apologist, or just a moron.

A possible future path.

 I have heard and read a lot about forming a proper Canada Australia New Zealand United Kingdom (CANZUK) alliance. It is much more probable than Canada joining the EU, which some people have espoused. The basis for it is already there as well. We are all Commonwealth Members with similar beliefs. An economic and military alliance between the countries would be good. It would be a good step towards separating our economy and military from the US. 

Trump has made the USA untrustworthy as an ally. It is time to accept that and move on. Find new trading partners and work towards a future without depending on the USA . Even if/when things "go back to normal" we can't afford to tie ourselves so closely to the US. Their are enough Americans stupid enough that this could happen again and again. 

What the ... conundrum?!?!?

 The whole shitstorm that came out of Donald taking the Presidency ... what 2 months ago? it feels like a lot longer ... happened while I was reading a lot about the fall of the Roman Republic. I am kind of torn on whether what is happening now is the fall of the Roman republic or the rise of the Nazis. There are parallels to both.

The fall of the Roman republic happened over time. Decades. It saw a split between the average citizen and the ruling class. A kind of civil war happened and it still left things unstable. You had dictators, Sulla, have a reign of terror, that ended with Julius Caesar becoming the dictator. Then the upper class decided they couldn't have that ... and the fall was solidified. (I know this is simplistic but I don't want to drone on too much)

I can see where what is happening today can be tied to things from decades ago. A lot of the people that have contributed to what is happening now cut their teeth with Ronald Reagan. The Bush 2 presidency saw them become more of an influence, and a bigger rift develop between the "ruling class" and the common person. The rise of the Tea Party has led directly to MAGA.

Then you have the rise of the Nazis. It happened pretty fast. Fascism and racism were an integral part of their rise. You can see a lot of Nazism in the MAGA movement today. From the sheep blindly bleating, to those willing to toss out the US constitution and everything else so they keep power.

I think it is a lot of both things that I see. The Fall of the Republic and how far America has fallen over the years, and especially in the last 2 months. Then the rise of fascism and how quickly it has happened. We definitely live in interesting times. Sadly that isn't always a good thing.

What the .... unstable genius?!?!?!?

 Ok, I give up. Just when you think Donald can't get any stupider he finds a way to shock you. The Orange Menace actually said that the Nazi's showed kindness to the Jews, and other prisoners. He actually suggested that the Nazis were known for their generosity. What the fuck? 

This is the delusional piece of shit that runs America now. Is he a narcissist? A sociopath? Both? definitely a delusional asshole. The USA is fucked.

I will never assume that Donald can't get more delusional or say stupider things. Not to even mention the morons at FOX and the Republican party that make excuses for him. 

What the ... calculation?!?!?

 A friend sent me an article about Trump's tariff formula. It makes even less sense than him putting a tariff on islands only occupied by penguins, or Diego Garcia which is only occupied by British and US soldiers.

CBC's Andrew Chang explained it best in a video. 

The USA is being run by morons. 

What the ... conflict of interest?!?!?!?

 So the Toronto Sun posted a video on their YouTube Channel titled "Watch: Conservatives call out Carney's hidden assets". 

The Toronto Sun ... which may not be owned by the new Soviet Union but  is owned by the MAGA propagandists in the USA and is promoting their BS. PP seems to be just Maple Maga, with MAGA media supporting him.