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Matthew Whelan's avatar

There's only one good reason to type out the word "Poilievre", and that is because it almost immediately became a verb after Canada Tells Trump Where to Go And It's Not Canada day. One of my college friends who has lived in Australia for many years appeared to take some glee in announcing on faceplace after the latest election down under that Peter Dutton "got Poilievre'd"

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Pixeloid's avatar

Are Albertans actually Canadian? They seem to really love Trump, MAGA, and the idea of joining the US.

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nora noneofyourdamnbusines's avatar

Ewwwww…

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What A Debacle's avatar

I will cut them a little slack... they need money just like you and me. I'm sure that sales of their recent catalog isn't buying them a lot of moose jerky.

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RefillingThorsBeer's avatar

And Doucheapalooza was right there for the taking!

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2Cats2Furious's avatar

This is Bob the Cat. I’m having a major pain crisis right now love all y’all.

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Biff52 Lost Canadian's avatar

Take care, please

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2Cats2Furious's avatar

I’m breathing like a mother fucker, but it only goes so far.

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thephantomcheese's avatar

So liberals hate first responders now? I missec that memo...

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Fifth Dentist's avatar

Remember how the Demomcrats refused to fund care for the first responders and workers at ground zero after 9-11?

s/

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Howlin Wolfe's avatar

“The Great Once” - what a difference a ‘c’ makes!

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Shocktreatment's avatar

Lonnie Schmuck's street crew of hijackers wants in at Social Security, but isn't going to touch anyone's Medicare Plus grift...

Are you stuck with healthcare giant UnitedHealth Group ("We work with governments, employers, partners and providers to care for 151 million people and share a vision of a value-based system...")?

This might be useful: 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗔𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗿

https://www.economicliberties.us/data-tools/unitedhealth-group-abuse-tracker/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

The UnitedHealth Group subsidiary 𝘖𝘱𝘵𝘶𝘮 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩 is now the largest employer of physicians in the country...

The "...largest healthcare conglomerate in the country, with over 2,300 different companies. Its business lines include health insurance, pharmacies, pharmacy benefits, surgery centers, primary care clinics, hospice agencies, mental health providers, and home health agencies..."

This was accomplished "Through hundreds of acquisitions in recent years..." Nearly all would have failed the "restraint of trade" criteria that applied before bought-and-sold politicians thought that the accumulation of wealth at the public's expense would be great for c̶a̶m̶p̶a̶i̶g̶n̶ ̶c̶o̶f̶f̶e̶r̶s̶ ̶ "efficiencies of scale"

EDIT: because yeah, auto incorrect decides that 𝘤𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘴 was what I meant, 𝘤𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘴 just wasn't the word.

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Matthew Whelan's avatar

In related news, the worms find Ronald Reagan's corpse to be cardboardy and a little rancid, but still nibble away.

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Crip Dyke's avatar

Morgan, I e-mailed again.

Thanks again for all your work.

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WasX's avatar

Thank you. No, thank you, more. Angels.

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The Wanderer's avatar

TABZ!

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Daniel's avatar

Good news, everyone!

https://bsky.app/profile/juliusgoat.bsky.social/post/3lpjeb3bms22k

ICE is very upset people keep comparing them to the Gestapo. They are, apparently, facing a 413% increase in assaults.

They are very mardy about this.

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Bel-Ami's avatar

Don't want to be compared to the Gestapo? Don't act like the Gestapo!

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Fog of Jen's avatar

awww is it tough for them to act like the Gestapo? Maybe they should stop doing that.

Somehow I bet that number is bullshit.

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Daniel's avatar

Why would you doubt 413%? What could possibly make you doubt such a specific sounding number? Do you really think that 413% is an implausibly specific amount for something as vague as “assaults”? For shame!

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Fog of Jen's avatar

yes.

The Lying Administration lies. Ergo, can't trust a thing they say

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

I'm pretty sure the commission mentioned in the article has been DOGE'd. Not that it would make any difference ...

𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴, 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵-𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘶𝘴𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 2020 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵, 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘥. 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱, 𝘪𝘯 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦, 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘴 “𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺.”

𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘁𝘀. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆’𝘃𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗮 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

https://apnews.com/article/trump-elections-executive-order-qr-codes-eaa28de62e54463dff116f09e09f7686

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tek's avatar

𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑔𝑎𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑡𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑄𝑅 𝑐𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑣𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠.

That "install malware" is not what the 'computer scientist' (J. Alex Halderman) testified at all.

He testified that the use of 𝘜𝘚𝘉 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 to program the machines could install malware, nothing to do with barcode or QR codes.

Goddamn 'journalists'

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Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

I'll be watching this story!

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Fog of Jen's avatar

𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴, 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵-𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘵s

oh those silly dems. And some scientists.

*looks around for something to hurl*

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Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

By the way, everyone, Smells Like Teen Spirit showed up on the oldies radio station officially thos week. Not the rock station, which plays a good deal of classic rock as Nirvana is, but the ACTUAL oldies station. Journey followed, not played on the piano by that orange bag of shit. I thought the song would be too hard rocking for the oldies station, but times, they are a-changing. No Nickleback on either station that I know off.

Also, I heard from the 12 year old that many of the genzs who wear Nirvana tshirts mistakenly think it's a BRAND. ARE the kids alright?

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TerseNurse's avatar

When I see a young wearing a Dead Kennedys t-shirt, my immediate thought is "Invent your own damn punk rock kid!!"

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Fog of Jen's avatar

ooo I am all yay! Keeping it going another generation!

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Fog of Jen's avatar

Going to Kansas city,

I found it hard, it's hard to find

Ooh well, whatever, nevermind

Hello, hello, hello, how low

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Teen Laqueefa's avatar

My 25 YO nephew was wearing a classic Zep shirt and when I asked him what songs/albums he liked he looked slightly confused and admitted he had just bought the shirt.

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Fifth Dentist's avatar

I've seen I don't know how many young black people wearing AC/DC "Back in Black" T-shirts who had no idea who AC/DC is.

I was pleasantly surprised last year when a kid wearing an AC/DC shirt actually was into them.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

Least my spawn know the bands they wear. Much of that has to do with hubby, all credit to him, I am not good with names.

Youngest has a Floyd prism, eldest has the Beatles walking across the street. Eldest also has one that just says "Sea Shanties"

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Diane's Less Hostile Username's avatar

SMDH. Don't tell me he loves Greta Van Fleet.

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‪DanaKay‬

‪@malketchupstain.bsky.social

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The ever changing story of Republicans.

It was Antifa.

No, it was BLM.

No, it was the Feds.

No, it was tourists.

No, it was legitimate political discourse.

Blame Democrats!

It's Biden's economy!

It's amazing they can walk straight, with all the spinning Republicans do.

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jamesHatt the Magnificent's avatar

They’re not Republicans, nor Conservatives.

They are something far worse.

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Matthew Whelan's avatar

They're Republicans for sure.

Extremely distant from being republicans, however.

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The Wanderer's avatar

Fascisti.

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Stupid? Racist? Misogynistic? Ignorant?

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jamesHatt the Magnificent's avatar

Wanderer knows

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