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Impeachment is right there in the Constitution.
We need to start demanding it.
re: "It would be a waste of time and energy."
um... what do you think they so urgently need to be doing with their time and energy, that's more important than fighting like hell to stop a totalitarian fascist tyrant from consolidating power?
Calling out and condemning Nazis is as American as mom’s apple pie.
It’s Trump, Musk and their cult who are unAmerican and on the wrong side of American values.
What is this new Canadian patriotism? | Front Burner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTQC34Fu1Go #Canada #Nationalism #Patriotism
»#China embeds #DeepSeek AI in #everything from cars to police work: Chinese companies, as a signal of #patriotism, are racing to build services on top of the #homegrown #AImodel.« https://restofworld.org/2025/china-embeds-deepseek-ai-in-everything/?eicker.news #tech #media
Friday thoughts.
1) Canada was historically divided until Trump started making invady-noises.
2) We are now experiencing a rally around the flag like nothing for generations. We have found a common enemy.
3) America is incredibly divided to the point where opposition to Trump seems paralyzed.
4) Is the solution: for Canada to invade Point Roberts by force*
This is an unserious Friday thought. You're welcome.
#tradewar #patriotism #trump #canPoli #cdnpoli
*force of Moose 
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde
@grammasaurus @gregggonsalves they're called "quacks." Have the unpleasant experience of dealing with just one of those, it can throw your faith in medicine completely out of whack. Some will never trust it again and others will become even more grateful for real Doctors. That's where the split between the educated blaming the system and the uninformed blaming medicine takes place, opening the door for politics. Why? Capitalism? A healthy nation is a strong nation, right? Seems like a nobrainer, what the current #POTUS would call, "common sense."
I am loathe to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1861-03-04), Inaugural Address, Washington, D. C. (final paragraph)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/7465…
US Senator Carl #Schurz of Utah once said, in a speech before the Senate,
My country, right or wrong; when right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be set right.That is #patriotism.
When you stand up and declare, "Nothing my country does can be wrong, and nothing I do in the name of my country can be wrong," that is no longer patriotism. That is #jingoism.
Learn the difference.
The Orange Regime is a grave National Security Threat. It must be impeached and removed from office. Nothing else matters. If you love your country call your reps in DC and demand immediate impeachment.
When I see flags sprouting on official lapels, I think of the time in China when I saw Mao’s Little Red Book on every official’s desk, omnipresent and unread.
Bill Moyers (b. 1934) American journalist and public commentator
Essay (2003-02-28), “Patriotism and the Flag,” NOW with Bill Moyers (PBS)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/moyers-bill/75297/
I remember when I was a kid they taught us the neutered version of This Land is Your Land in music class, minus the more explicitly socialist verses that are the best damn part. And I guess their way of "balancing" it politically if parents in our conservative district complained by also teaching us Lee Greenwood's shit-awful God Bless the USA which I hated back then before I even realized all the ways it sucked.
You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one’s country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, ch. 13 “Freemen!” (1889)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/twain-mark/69176/
The rise of nationalism in Canada deeply disturbs me. Canada is built upon genocide. It profits on the effects of genocide, and racism is systemic in its power structure. How many Canadians have bothered to read the calls to action in the findings of the Truth and Reconciliation commission? #patriotism #fascism #genocide #racism #nationalism #colonialism #TruthAndReconciliation #Canada
Zelenskyy says he would ‘quit for peace’ as he refuses US demand for Ukraine minerals
Ukrainian president says US military aid was a ‘grant’ rather than a debt but adds that he wants Trump to be ‘on our side’