Arthur Klassen
haikujester.bsky.social
Arthur Klassen
@haikujester.bsky.social
<under construction, migrating from Xwitter>
I post in Haikus
except when providing links
to other stuff seen. ... 俳句

We live for the one; we die for the one; we will not kill for the one. (Anla'shok, Anabaptist section)

Also jest by mis-quotation
40 years ago, Brian Mulroney applied the wrong fix to a real problem and just as in the US and Britain, the inequality we have today was born.
December 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
@thejuicemedia.com telling it like it is again: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt6H...

Hey hey @rickglumacbc.bsky.social, @zoeroyer.bsky.social -- we can do better than this. This isn't what people voted for you to get.
Honest Government Ad | Watch out, Canada
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:18 AM
@gregolear.bsky.social ... this morning's update on YouTube, www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9yc... was an absolute banger. Questions must be asked. Thanks for staying at your post.
EPSTEIN: Why Did 17-Year Old Ivanka Trump Ask Donald to Promise not to Date Anyone Younger than Her?
YouTube video by The Five 8
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 AM
You know that old saying of Ben Franklin's that "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."? How about this one... 1/4
November 7, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Today is always
A good day to advocate
For elect'ral reform... 俳句

ansak.blogspot.com/2025/05/lett...
Letter to the Liberal Party of Canada
I'll do anything moral, anything legal, to promote electoral reform in Canada from First Past the Post to some variety of Proportional Repre...
ansak.blogspot.com
May 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
hey @roadtonow.bsky.social , @bendsawyer.bsky.social -- I think your comments about this guy have become manifestly undeniable. Вот торговец мусором!
OMG! 😝😝😝

Hey, Jord!.. don’t forget to pick up your balls on the way out!
Absolutely priceless seeing Jordan “Traitor” Peterson having his a$$ handed to him. This is hysterical 😅😂

#Canada #CanadaStrong #Elbowsup #TeamCanada #CanadaUnited #Alberta #never51state #tariffs #tradewar #maplemaga #cdnpoli
May 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Grow up folks! If your kid is not immuno-compromised, get 'em the jab. If you didn't get the jab before get it now. Losing "measles eradicated" status is bad. Really bad. Kids will die, go deaf, go blind because of this. Measles doesn't care about your disinfo-fueled delusion.
Canada is reporting over 1800 cases of measles since January. Most provinces are now affected, and many are seeing community spread (meaning they are not related to known cases). This is alarming. At this rhythm, Canada will lose its eradication of measles status by the fall. /1
May 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Judge.
gets arrested.
Educating the undocumented about their Bill-of-Rights rights is... arrestible? on schedule, I guess.
I'm with Jägerstätter, still "pfui Hitler!" (see elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/... and movie, "A Hidden Life")
April 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
@xkcd.bsky.social
-- thanks for using your power appropriately: xkcd.com/3081/
(there, if I hadn't already done so, I've made it still more risky for me to visit my American friends at home -- Whatcom County, WA, I miss you...) Shut down the Department of Jingoistic Paranoia now.
PhD Timeline
xkcd.com
April 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
My Three-word slogans

Do the work.
Take no shortcuts.
Leave nobody behind.

Conceived while hanging Proportional Representation door hangers during a Canadian Election.

#cdnpoli attn: @fairvote.ca
April 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
@gregolear.bsky.social -- one typo in that BANGER of a letter to LL this morning ... a reference to NPR turned PR into RP. But wow. That was a good read. I wish it could result in something...
March 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
@gregolear.bsky.social ... bringing back @theclaudiablack.bsky.social on Prevail today was ABSOLUTELY timely. Thanks.

(not on @thefive8.bsky.social today ... off to see Bruce Cockburn live in Vancouver tonight)
March 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Just how much more traitourous does this get?
Canadian premier + in-the-US -- in DeSantis' FL -- with Ben Shapiro -- sponsored by Prager U. <jaw plows deep furrow>
Why is Danielle Smith participating in a PragerU event with Ben Shapiro?

I sure hope Alberta taxpayers aren't footing the bill to fly her down to Florida.
/1
#ableg #abpoli
donate.prageru.com/event/east-c...
March 9, 2025 at 1:05 AM
It was great once: youtube.com/watch?v=WiUm... (even as a simple beer ad)
And it's greater still today: youtube.com/watch?v=_Ozb...

W E A R E C A N A D I A N !

Lines provided [with some notes] 1/8
We Are Canadian
YouTube video by Jeff Douglas
youtube.com
March 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
@joyannreid.bsky.social -- I'm not one of your core supporters but on your firing: YOU ARE NOT TO BLAME. This Canadian white church-dude always loved what you did and YOUR VOICE WILL BE MISSED. MSNBC is being run by racist, sexist excrement dispensers (RSEDs). YOU HAVE NOTHING TO APOLOGIZE FOR.
February 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM
@velshi.bsky.social -- Hey Ali, you African-born immigrant from my home-and-native. LOVED your piece, www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyyQ..., reminded me of the cold-open of "The Trojan Horse" (v=zchhVQjRdiw) -- not quite 10 states but the stars-and-stripes flying from the Peace Tower? Still a nightmare.
Just two senators? If Trump wants Canada to join the U.S., it’s going take a lot more
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
February 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Tell me what democracy looks like ...
This is what democracy looks like.
here’s the longer video you will want to hear what he said
February 21, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Paint can version:
Conservatism: the cruelty is the point. Pitting the deprived against the miserable to the amusement of the idle rich.
mini-Lecture version ... Sadopopulism
February 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Petter's first take on CRJ-900 at YYZ: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzTo...

on a "Fox 9" there was an ex F-18 pilot who took one look at that landing and said, "Carrier landing!" only a CRJ-900's struts aren't the equal of an F-18's.

This is as thorough an account as you'll find anywhere.
EVERYTHING We Know About the Toronto Plane Crash!
YouTube video by Mentour Now!
www.youtube.com
February 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Not an American, so some American, please explain to me how it is not the case that EVERY act of ANY kind of voter suppression isn't a structural contravention Article 4, Section 4, Clause 1. Is there precedent that prevents actions along those lines?
February 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
when long friendships break
the causes must be reversed
if't'all possible ... 俳句
February 3, 2025 at 5:48 AM
billmckibben.substack.com/p/we-interru...

Again and again
Bill's columns shed hope on world
seemingly gone mad. ... 俳句

subscribe to @billmckibben.bsky.social's substack and do your mental/emotional health a favour.
Third-Act-Canada anyone?
We Interrupt the Ongoing Crisis for a Smidgen of Good News
DeepSeek Shakes the Stupidity of the Tech-Industrial Complex
billmckibben.substack.com
January 29, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Finding some new friends
with Nick's help. Thanks for the links
and the follow-backs. ... 俳句
January 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I didn't realize how much I was missing fresh material from Prevail. Great Friday Morning listen...
We.
Shall.
Prevail.
January 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Here's how a leader
Gives back to Drumpf as he gives,
with full attitude ... 俳句

Hey California! Washington! Oregon! Maine! Vermont! New Hampshire! Vermont! Maybe Massachusetts even... ya wanna become the next provinces? (just as serious as your new guy)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQu5...
Green Party Leader Elizabeth May discusses Canada–U.S. relations strategy – January 3, 2025
YouTube video by cpac
www.youtube.com
January 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM