The choice to hold a "town hall" for Trump on CNN means that the corporate Dems are making the same mistake they made in 2016: They believe their best bet for holding the White House with a crappy candidate nobody particularly likes is if Trump is the opponent. Awesome job there, Brain Trust. #Trump #CNN #biden #democrats #Politics
Transparency is sorely lacking in all governments in #canada. Voters need to call these governments to account and election/voting reforms would expedite this.
#cdnpoli #canpoli #Canada
@davidakin
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-the-trudeau-government-was-supposed-to-be-open-by-default-open-at-all/
But... The Liberals never asked.
"Conservatives won't commit to working with Liberals on legislating end to strike"
The media asked the question, and as such, are creating the narrative. Creating the story.
"I'm not really a politician. I'm going to do politics in a different way."--how a politician tells you they are incurious about how things have actually been working up to now, and they're likely going to do things the bog-standard way with new buzzwords. #Politics #BCpoli #canpoli #covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne
Biden is intentionally giving in to rightwing necro politics.
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RT @WaitingOnBiden
Today is Day 1 without the health benefits of the Covid national emergency that Trump put into place and Biden ended.
(Biden has, however, continued to extend Bush's 9/11 national emergency and Clinton's Cuban blockade national emergency.)
https://twitter.com/WaitingOnBiden/status/1645874494609686531
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/05/1168158549/twitter-npr-state-affiliated-media
"Twitter added a "state-affiliated media" tag to NPR's main account on Tuesday, applying the same label to the nonprofit media company that Twitter uses to designate official state mouthpieces and propaganda outlets in countries such as Russia and China."
I don't know how any legitimate news outlets can stay on Twitter. It's run by a propagandist to spread disinformation.
#Twitter
#disinformation
#USpolitics
#USnews
Since Marc Garneau is leaving politics, I can now share how, before his historic first orbital flight in 1984, his assignment to the mission faced hostility from NASA astronauts.
However, his military background and dutiful ways overcame this frosty reception.
In our country, he's known as the first Canadian astronaut. But on that 1st flight, he was a payload specialist, not considered a full-fledged astronaut but a passenger or guest scientist. And that created resentment from the crew.
What. The. Fuck.
We’re sliding FAST.
Okay, here's something that's been bothering me about political narratives lately. Put aside CPC MPs cavorting with actual Nazis, it's this strange idea that the Liberals are a progressive party.
When I hear someone say that Prime Minister Trudeau is the world's most successful progressive leader? He's no progressive, he's decidedly centrist.
Admitting reality does not make one progressive - The federal PC party was open to reality too, and they weren't particularly progressive despite the name. The biggest difference I can see between the PC and CPC is the PCs wanted to handle things differently.
PCs didn't deny problems existed, they just had different approaches and ideas to deal with the reality of things. They privatized a lot, and made life more expensive. One of the things that killed them was they sold too much, damaged revenue, and needed the GST to restore it.
The CPC just pretends anything they don't like isn't real.
Prime Minister Mulroney worked with Ronald Reagan to deal with acid rain.
Today's Republicans and CPC would just swear that rain always melted the paint off of cars and burned your skin, killed crops, you're just stupid or not paying attention.
That's the crux of it. Reality is something to be ignored unless it suits your narrative.
No, I'd say that Prime Minister Trudeau is the world's most progressive successful leader, not the world's most successful progressive leader, that's a problem, because what that means is the most progressive leader is a centrist who leans left and right depending on the issue.
Neither Conservatives, nor Progressives have a viable political party in Canada, the best we can do right now is an admittedly charismatic centrist, flanked by hard right Reformers (the CPC), and an honesty challenged NDP with very confusing leanings.
Admitting Climate Change is real isn't progressive, it's just factual.
Admitting the Covid pandemic is still doing horrific damage to Canada and the world isn't fear mongering, it's the truth - the Liberals aren't saying ANYTHING about it.
Yeah, they gave the provinces countless billions to deal with it, but they didn't say a damned thing when the provinces built highways and threw it all in general revenue. A progressive party would be SCREAMING from the rooftops about this.
A progressive government would have had premiers cutting health care and denying the pandemic arrested and charged with crimes - make no mistake, they WERE crimes against Canadian people.
Our Prime Minister did much more than the official opposition would have, and I'll thank him for that, but to call him a progressive is just a giant pile of horse shit. We have a flaming Nazi in Pierre Poilievre, and a waffling centrist in Trudeau.
Historically, and now, the Liberals most progressive policies and actions have been the result of winning a Minority Parliament, with the NDP holding the balance of power. Tommy Douglas is why we have universal health care, he was NDP, not Liberal.
Sadly, I don't believe for a second Jagmeet Singh is the heir apparent to Tommy Douglas. He plays anger politics, he spreads lies about jurisdiction. Jagmeet is a political gamer, not a progressive, even if some of his intentions are progressive.
- Admitting reality.
- Knowing that a well educated, health population is the key to a strong economy
- Knowing that making sure people have access to housing they can afford and everything they need
- Making sure that nobody falls through the cracks
- Making sure that when people need help, it's there
- Making sure that you can get the things you want, even if you need to save money over time.
- Eliminating poverty. Supporting veterans.
- Keeping education fact based and non partisan.
- Keeping a free media, with strong rules and regulations against partisanship, false information, misleading narratives.
While we're slowly making improvements, it's SLOW
Mental Heath and Addiction services are essential health care
Dental care is essential health care
Vision care is essential health care
Prescription Medications are essential health care
Housing is essential to living in this country, it gets cold. People living in the streets is a failure of our system.
Until everyone has access to all of those, and by everyone, I mean every single person?
We're failing.
One of the points that I wanted to make,” he says, “is yeah, of course the oligarchs run Russia. But guess what? Oligarchs run the United States as well. And it’s not just the United States, it’s not just Russia; Europe, the UK, all over the world, we’re seeing a small number of incredibly wealthy people running things in their favour. A global oligarchy. This is an issue that needs to be talked about.”
Bernie Sanders interview.