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Damian Penny

@damianpenny.bsky.social

“Carbon Tax Carney” is soooooo 2024: the Tories have to adapt their messaging for the world of Trump. #cdnpoli

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“Carbon Tax Carney” is soooooo 2024

The messaging that worked for Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives last year might not fly in the Trump era.

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March 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM

Damian Penny

@damianpenny.bsky.social

Mutual Eh-sured Destruction: should Canada consider a nuclear deterrent of its own? open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

Mutual Eh-sured Destruction

If it’s not too late (and it probably is) Canada should consider building its own nuclear deterrent.

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March 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM

Damian Penny

@damianpenny.bsky.social

No, we can't revoke Elon Musk's citizenship by online petition: open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

No, we can't revoke Elon Musk's citizenship by online petition

And that's a good thing, because it's a terrible, authoritarian idea.

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February 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM

Damian Penny

@damianpenny.bsky.social

Were you waiting anxiously for my analysis of the German election?

Well, too bad, because here it is anyway:

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Das German Election Roundup

(The German Election Roundup)

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February 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM

Damian Penny

@damianpenny.bsky.social

The AfD vs. everyone else: Germany's far-right party won't win this weekend's election, but if the other parties don't get it together they could win the next one. open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

The AfD vs. everyone else

Germany's far-right party won't win this weekend's election, but if the other parties don't get it together they could win the next one.

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February 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM

Damian Penny

@damianpenny.bsky.social

Donald Trump is the new Neville Chamberlain? I wish: open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

February 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM

Damian Penny

@damianpenny.bsky.social

Anyone investing in Trump's America is taking a big risk: open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

The Art of (Breaking) The Deal

Anyone investing in Trump's America is taking a giant risk.

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February 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM

Damian Penny

@damianpenny.bsky.social

How Trump's threats against Canada are boosting Justin Trudeau's party: open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

Making the Liberal Party Great Again

Trump's threats against Canada are boosting Justin Trudeau's party.

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February 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM

Damian Penny

@damianpenny.bsky.social

Why violence works: open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

Why violence works

Because it's easier for governments to ignore it and co-opt it than to fight it.

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February 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM

Damian Penny

@damianpenny.bsky.social

Trump effed around, American consumers will find out: open.substack.com/pub/damianpe...

Trump effed around, American consumers will find out

A President elected partly because of "inflation" is about to make everything more expensive.

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January 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM

Damian Penny

@damianpenny.bsky.social

Chris Rufo proves it's not just left-wingers who become even more extreme, paranoid and hysterical when their side is winning:

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March of DEIms Syndrome

Chris Rufo proves it's not just left-wingers who become even more extreme, paranoid and hysterical when their side is winning.

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January 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM

Damian Penny

@damianpenny.bsky.social

Why does #DougFord think Ontario needs an election right now? And, why won't China's "revolutionary" #Deepseek AI program talk about anything that might make China look bad?

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Not now, Donald, we're busy

Why does Doug Ford think *this* is the time for an election?

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January 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM

Damian Penny

@damianpenny.bsky.social

A modest proposal for Canada to buy off President Trump:

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We have nine days to buy a President

A modest proposal for staving off the Trump tariffs.

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January 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM

Damian Penny

@damianpenny.bsky.social

Nothing "normalizes" Trump like copying him, even if it's for a "good" cause.

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We're all Trumpists now

Nothing "normalizes" Trump like copying him, even if it's for a "good" cause.

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January 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM

Damian Penny

@damianpenny.bsky.social

Left-wingers have long searched for utopia overseas, and now right-wingers are joining them. With pretty much the same results:

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The grass is rarely greener

Left-wingers have long searched for utopia overseas, and now right-wingers are joining them. With pretty much the same results.

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January 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM

Damian Penny

@damianpenny.bsky.social

Americans will be collateral damage in Trump's trade war:
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An economic murder-suicide

Americans will be collateral damage in Trump's trade war.

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January 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM

Damian Penny

@damianpenny.bsky.social

#AndrewTate's political party is called “BRUV,” for “Britain Restoring Underlying Values,” but I’d suggest as a more fitting party name, “Rational Aggressive Patriotic Englishmen.”

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I do not think that word means what you you think it means

Good luck to Jennifer Rubin's new Substack newsletter, but I don't expect it to live up to its name.

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January 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM