President Donald Trump’s administration continues to provoke right-wing extremists who want members of a Canadian province to secede from their nation, continuing a trend that has persisted since the start of the Republican’s second term.
“The separatists have good reason to think the Trump administration could be an ally,” reported Politico's Mickey Djuric on Sunday. “In January, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called Alberta a ‘natural partner for the U.S.’ while referencing the province’s ‘great resources.’
According to Djuric, Bessent told conservative podcaster Jack Posobiec that “people are talking. People want sovereignty. They want what the U.S. has got.”
Even though only 30 percent of Albertans want to secede from Canada, Djuric reported experts are worried they might succeed simply because the pro-union Albertans could stay home out of an excess of confidence that they will pull off secession during the October referendum. One such Albertan is Keith Walker, who lives in a small farming community in southern Alberta and supported Trump’s trade war against Canada by describing Prime Minister Mark Carney’s administration as communism. He compared Trump’s tariffs against Canada to his military campaigns against Cuba, Iran and Venezuela, confidently telling Politico that “that’s why that’s happening.”
Another secessionist told Djuric that “Trump is the only one that can save us,” while the Politico journalist reported that “people have wrapped themselves in Alberta’s flag, wave ‘we’re done’ banners and wear ‘Trump 2024’ and MAGA — Make Alberta Great Again — ball caps. This is an ‘Albertans’ Day’ gathering at the Whistle Stop Cafe, which gained notoriety for bucking pandemic-era rules and which former Alberta premier Jason Kenney calls ‘ground zero’ for the province’s fast-growing separatist movement.”
Djuric added that while “resentment toward the federal government in Ottawa is longstanding in Alberta,” the movement has been “supercharged” by “Trump and the increasingly toxic U.S.-Canada relationship. The separatists are furious about Carney’s friction with Trump and the fraying ties to their southern neighbor. Some even hope the Trump administration might help their cause.”
He also pointed out that “many separatists believe Trump’s presidency makes Alberta’s independence possible, with the United States a ready customer for its oil and gas should they split from Canada. One group, the Alberta Prosperity Project, is trying to seek a C$500-billion U.S. government loan to fund the province’s ‘seamless departure’ from Canada.” Meanwhile Casey Phillips from Edmonton, Alberta declared that “I like freedom and less taxes,” arguing that this justifies Alberta trying to leave the Canadian union.
In February a former senior State Department official warned NBC News that Trump’s cultivation of Albertan separatists is “irresponsible as hell,” continuing that “it’s really irresponsible for the United States to be engaging with these kinds of people, because it just encourages behavior that cannot be in the U.S. national interest.” By contrast, in January Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent argued that "I think we should let them come down into the U.S. and Alberta's a natural partner for the U.S. They have great resources. The Albertans are very independent people... [There is a] rumor that they may have a referendum on whether they want to stay in Canada or not."
"Yep, that’s what you get from a guy who nicknames himself “Dallas” (why is this a thing?)."
When Tigger was dumped at a shelter by the assholes who owned him before my family adopted him, he had to have his name changed because the assholes, well known to both animal control and child protective services, always proudly gave their animals extremely racist, sexist, or various phobic names. His was very racist, but not the one that rhymes with Tigger. So he was renamed "Dallas", for the hometown of one of the shelter workers' father. We renamed him because when he was younger his coat was a nice brindle, before aging into his rich brown coat, and he never walked if he could jump and bounce.
I'm sure he would have been an excellent Dallas, but Tigger fits him better.
OT: Holy shit. Asshole who started the fires on WA has a connection to my current city:
"Farinacci shot and killed his adoptive father, Jeffrey Farinacci, at their home in Mesa, Ariz., in October 2010 after an argument over dishes, the Associated Press reported, citing records. Court documents say he took a .22-caliber pistol from a closet and fired twice as his father came through a bedroom door. He then ran from the house and shot himself in the chest."
ETA: And now I want to HULK SMASH everything. Commenters claiming that the evacuation orders weren't "legit" and they are hiding something. CAN WE HAVE ONE FUCKING THING WHERE CONSPIRACY THEORIES DON'T START?
KNOCK THE FUCK OUT OF A DUMB ASS PERSON TODAY! DO THE WORLD A FAVOR!
OT but I was thinking back to your comment about the VT childcare contribution. I make NotALot at day jerb but the real point is over a two week pay period, my contribution was $1.64.
I do not have kids but we live on the same planet and this is SO WORTH IT.
I don't get this thing where you let the toddler or kid in your house control everything. My sister-in-law did/does that with my youngest niece and they still won't get on an airplane b/c the kid just refuses.
smgdh So, b/c of that, they effectively can't travel by plane.
I don't understand why a Black guy would want to "star" in a movie whose basic premise is, "The evil brown men are coming after our white, blond, young women."
The Daily Wire is a project started by* and staffed with people who never managed to get what they wanted from life and who chose to blame an amorphous "left" for that rather than to look at their own mediocrity (or outright lack of skill) and try to improve.
Ben Shapiro always wanted to be a screenwriter. He has written an airport thriller that is impossibly bad and, as a plot point, tries to argue in defence of the murder of Tamir Rice. The book is dreadfully written and rife with cliches, because this is how Shapiro thinks stories work (he criticised Glass Onion for misleading him- it's a fucking murder mystery).
The Daily Wire is currently in some problems, following the massive expenditures of its former CEO Jeremy Boreing, a man who also had dreams of being a director and actor, and who failed at both. However, the drab, uncharismatic, unimaginative and utterly uncreative would-be writers, directors, actors and comedians at the Daily Wire were given the chance to live their dreams, to make the films they said they wanted to and to prove that they were good at it.
It's interesting timing that this is coming up here at the same time as Ricky Gervais's new animated comedy is out and being discussed, as both things relied on the same dynamic. Both rely primarily on being shocking, on "saying things they won't let you say", and that's basically all there is to it. What that means, though, is that when you reach your own personal limit of outrageous, bigoted shit, as Ben has, you can't go any further and your audience starts to find you boring. Then they look to people who will transgress further, people like Nick Fuentes, and then you start losing your influence.
If person supports a bigoted performative stunt over real people's lives, that is all I need to know about that person. R. White has been served a something like 50 year protective that protects his ex wife and child. He's deeply concerned about women's safety.
Ben Shapiro may not know how to produce a successful film, but he was pretty good in "Children of the Corn".
https://substack.com/@alternativedog/note/c-69960192?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2kpbm7
President Donald Trump’s administration continues to provoke right-wing extremists who want members of a Canadian province to secede from their nation, continuing a trend that has persisted since the start of the Republican’s second term.
“The separatists have good reason to think the Trump administration could be an ally,” reported Politico's Mickey Djuric on Sunday. “In January, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called Alberta a ‘natural partner for the U.S.’ while referencing the province’s ‘great resources.’
According to Djuric, Bessent told conservative podcaster Jack Posobiec that “people are talking. People want sovereignty. They want what the U.S. has got.”
Even though only 30 percent of Albertans want to secede from Canada, Djuric reported experts are worried they might succeed simply because the pro-union Albertans could stay home out of an excess of confidence that they will pull off secession during the October referendum. One such Albertan is Keith Walker, who lives in a small farming community in southern Alberta and supported Trump’s trade war against Canada by describing Prime Minister Mark Carney’s administration as communism. He compared Trump’s tariffs against Canada to his military campaigns against Cuba, Iran and Venezuela, confidently telling Politico that “that’s why that’s happening.”
Another secessionist told Djuric that “Trump is the only one that can save us,” while the Politico journalist reported that “people have wrapped themselves in Alberta’s flag, wave ‘we’re done’ banners and wear ‘Trump 2024’ and MAGA — Make Alberta Great Again — ball caps. This is an ‘Albertans’ Day’ gathering at the Whistle Stop Cafe, which gained notoriety for bucking pandemic-era rules and which former Alberta premier Jason Kenney calls ‘ground zero’ for the province’s fast-growing separatist movement.”
Djuric added that while “resentment toward the federal government in Ottawa is longstanding in Alberta,” the movement has been “supercharged” by “Trump and the increasingly toxic U.S.-Canada relationship. The separatists are furious about Carney’s friction with Trump and the fraying ties to their southern neighbor. Some even hope the Trump administration might help their cause.”
He also pointed out that “many separatists believe Trump’s presidency makes Alberta’s independence possible, with the United States a ready customer for its oil and gas should they split from Canada. One group, the Alberta Prosperity Project, is trying to seek a C$500-billion U.S. government loan to fund the province’s ‘seamless departure’ from Canada.” Meanwhile Casey Phillips from Edmonton, Alberta declared that “I like freedom and less taxes,” arguing that this justifies Alberta trying to leave the Canadian union.
In February a former senior State Department official warned NBC News that Trump’s cultivation of Albertan separatists is “irresponsible as hell,” continuing that “it’s really irresponsible for the United States to be engaging with these kinds of people, because it just encourages behavior that cannot be in the U.S. national interest.” By contrast, in January Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent argued that "I think we should let them come down into the U.S. and Alberta's a natural partner for the U.S. They have great resources. The Albertans are very independent people... [There is a] rumor that they may have a referendum on whether they want to stay in Canada or not."
https://www.alternet.org/trump-alberta/
"Yep, that’s what you get from a guy who nicknames himself “Dallas” (why is this a thing?)."
When Tigger was dumped at a shelter by the assholes who owned him before my family adopted him, he had to have his name changed because the assholes, well known to both animal control and child protective services, always proudly gave their animals extremely racist, sexist, or various phobic names. His was very racist, but not the one that rhymes with Tigger. So he was renamed "Dallas", for the hometown of one of the shelter workers' father. We renamed him because when he was younger his coat was a nice brindle, before aging into his rich brown coat, and he never walked if he could jump and bounce.
I'm sure he would have been an excellent Dallas, but Tigger fits him better.
OT: Holy shit. Asshole who started the fires on WA has a connection to my current city:
"Farinacci shot and killed his adoptive father, Jeffrey Farinacci, at their home in Mesa, Ariz., in October 2010 after an argument over dishes, the Associated Press reported, citing records. Court documents say he took a .22-caliber pistol from a closet and fired twice as his father came through a bedroom door. He then ran from the house and shot himself in the chest."
ETA: And now I want to HULK SMASH everything. Commenters claiming that the evacuation orders weren't "legit" and they are hiding something. CAN WE HAVE ONE FUCKING THING WHERE CONSPIRACY THEORIES DON'T START?
KNOCK THE FUCK OUT OF A DUMB ASS PERSON TODAY! DO THE WORLD A FAVOR!
Farinacci sounds more than a little 'troubled'.
Yep. Should have been in a mental hospital.
over dishes?
It was apparently abuse. The father had been abusive toward him, allegedly.
ETA: The dishes being what sounds like a "last straw" type thing from abuse and whatever else was wrong with that guy.
As one does.
I smell ISIS candy, Hmm.
Who's that white girl in my chair? Hmm?
When does John Majors show in my direction?
Mama, It surely is a farce.
This could only happen in America!
Because all the weapons used are legal here.
Yeah and the Tiny Penis Club, er, NRA always utters the bullshit about the tree of liberty needing fresh blood to be fed...
That's the kind of thing a death cult would say.
BRENNAN: You are confident Blanche will uphold the Constitution with the upcoming elections?
CASSIDY: Of course there's always existential anxiety. But I am ... as confident as you can be about the future you are. I cannot predict the future
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3msnsvamdtb25
Whole lotta bullshit coming from you CASSHOLE!
So, come January, Cassidy is already got his next sweet brib...er gig set up, doesn't he?
Pathetic.
The only "existential anxiety" I have is that the Republican Party is trying to destroy the United States.
he gave us Brainworm, he gave us Blanche, if I was mortally ill and he was the last doctor on earth I would not go to him
About as "existential" as a camel's butt.
"Of course there's always existential anxiety."
What?
Must have been on his "word of the day" supremist calendar that month.
"I am ... as confident as you can be about the future you are. I cannot predict the future"
>that's reassuring
But you CAN deal with the present. And that felon's personal lawyer should never, ever be confirmed as the U.S. AG.
Also any fucking with elections will benefit his party.
Does make one ponder how long they maintain the pretense before just becoming the murderous dictatorship they yearn to be.
OT but I was thinking back to your comment about the VT childcare contribution. I make NotALot at day jerb but the real point is over a two week pay period, my contribution was $1.64.
I do not have kids but we live on the same planet and this is SO WORTH IT.
You folded like an umbrella that your dear leader doesn't actually know how to fold. Brave man.
How to say "I sold out" without saying "I sold out."
BRENNAN: You are confident Blanche will uphold the Constitution with the upcoming elections?
CASSIDY: Holy Guacamole!! Look over there behind you, a winged victory of Samothrace!!
Also Cassidy: "I NEVER would have signed that contract had I read it first!"
"Are you one of the Republicans who voted for this bullshit because you're afraid you'll be killed? Or are you naturally a shit weasel?"
Who caused the “existential anxiety,” Bill?
"my general policy of just not discriminating against or bombing anyone"
Robyn is a better person than I. On occasion if I notice some real nasty conservative behavior in public, I will crop dust them!
With FARTS! I mean, votes!
WNB?
Deploy the bioagent!
I've been threatening random people with this Ak47 all movie, and boy are my arms tired.
Makes sense as the script is pretty tired as well.
They made this movie in 1984. It was titled "Red Dawn" back then.
wait, wut?
𝐴 𝑓𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑇ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑎 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑 𝑜𝑛𝑏𝑜𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑎 𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑡.
𝐼𝑛 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑑𝑎, 𝑎 𝑃𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝐴𝑖𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑙𝑒𝑓𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑤 𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑠𝑎𝑤 𝑎 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑑𝑙𝑒𝑟 “𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑡,” 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑃𝐸𝑂𝑃𝐿𝐸.
“𝐴𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑓𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑢𝑛𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒, 𝑎 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑡. 𝐴𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑡𝑠 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑤 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑓𝑢𝑙,” 𝑎 𝑃𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝐴𝑖𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑.
“𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑠𝑎𝑓𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑠𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑤 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑎𝑟𝑘.”
Why didn't they just kick that family off? Jesus. We are now going to let a toddler ruin a flight for an entire planeful of people?
Naw. Take them back and kick *just them* off.
Or just the toddler, you know, teach 'em a lesson.
LMMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't get this thing where you let the toddler or kid in your house control everything. My sister-in-law did/does that with my youngest niece and they still won't get on an airplane b/c the kid just refuses.
smgdh So, b/c of that, they effectively can't travel by plane.
Well, you know...[points at White House]
Let them get their own go-gurt for a change!
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't understand why a Black guy would want to "star" in a movie whose basic premise is, "The evil brown men are coming after our white, blond, young women."
He's broke
see also, Clarence Thomas, who is starring in a remarkably similar movie. Or reality TV show. Or whatever the fuck that shitshow is.
Uncle Tom. Self-loathing, brainwashed by rightwing filth.
Uncle Ruckus
The Daily Wire is a project started by* and staffed with people who never managed to get what they wanted from life and who chose to blame an amorphous "left" for that rather than to look at their own mediocrity (or outright lack of skill) and try to improve.
Ben Shapiro always wanted to be a screenwriter. He has written an airport thriller that is impossibly bad and, as a plot point, tries to argue in defence of the murder of Tamir Rice. The book is dreadfully written and rife with cliches, because this is how Shapiro thinks stories work (he criticised Glass Onion for misleading him- it's a fucking murder mystery).
The Daily Wire is currently in some problems, following the massive expenditures of its former CEO Jeremy Boreing, a man who also had dreams of being a director and actor, and who failed at both. However, the drab, uncharismatic, unimaginative and utterly uncreative would-be writers, directors, actors and comedians at the Daily Wire were given the chance to live their dreams, to make the films they said they wanted to and to prove that they were good at it.
They have never managed this.
And that's the fault of the woke left.
*though not necessarily funded by
Ben has mostly been funded by fossil fuel money, but it sounds like that's drying up, because he's not particularly useful anymore.
He has a talent for making things dry up.
It's interesting timing that this is coming up here at the same time as Ricky Gervais's new animated comedy is out and being discussed, as both things relied on the same dynamic. Both rely primarily on being shocking, on "saying things they won't let you say", and that's basically all there is to it. What that means, though, is that when you reach your own personal limit of outrageous, bigoted shit, as Ben has, you can't go any further and your audience starts to find you boring. Then they look to people who will transgress further, people like Nick Fuentes, and then you start losing your influence.
These disingenuous assholes are up to this now:
https://bsky.app/profile/rvbdrm.com/post/3mslmfbxchs2k
If person supports a bigoted performative stunt over real people's lives, that is all I need to know about that person. R. White has been served a something like 50 year protective that protects his ex wife and child. He's deeply concerned about women's safety.
Angel Studio (Q) rejects.
"starring former Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boreing"
Heh.
I'll bet he's like "It's pronounced Bor-eenge" or something.
He's not. He pronounces it "boring". The thing is, he thinks he's a fucking wit.
"Boo-ring"
It needz moar A1!
Yet they got a real ISIS flag. Makes you kinda wonder, huh?
The movie trailer seems like comedy.
This remake of Idiocracy SUCKS