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VJM4democracy
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Naturalized Canadian. Sometimes grumpy.

Living, playing and working as a grateful settler in the unceded territory of the shíshálh people.🇨🇦
Meanwhile there are real nation-building, climate friendly infrastructure projects ready to go.
But no, he had to pander to that whiney selfish premier of the whiny selfish province of Alberta.
November 30, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Yes.
November 30, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Or Stephen Miller's.
November 30, 2025 at 1:01 AM
All the grifted gifts that people gave him that are supposed to be property of US govt.
I'm saying he's gonna take all that gold with him. Assuming he's still alive.
November 29, 2025 at 10:33 PM
They didn’t bribe him.
November 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Bending my mind. In a good way.
I hope kids are being taught the foundational concepts they need to fully understand and build on these ideas.
Kind of how they taught maths when I was in school.
November 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Trouble is, Trump fired all the military legal counsels; the Judge Advocate Generals in Army, Navy and Air Force who were responsible for advising on legality.

Not really an excuse but an explanation of the chaos we are seeing.

www.military.com/daily-news/2...
'People Are Very Scared': Trump Administration Purge of JAG Officers Raises Legal, Ethical Fears
Military lawyers and legal experts told Military.com the administration's firings of the Air Force, Army and Navy's top judge advocates general politicizes and sets an alarming precedent for a crucial...
www.military.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Reposted by VJM4democracy
“Leave no survivors” is an illegal order

Under the Geneva Conventions, you cannot order the killing of:

Surrendering combatants

Shipwrecked sailors

Wounded or incapacitated troops

Anyone who is hors de combat (“out of the fight”)
November 29, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Reposted by VJM4democracy
Sorry to put it so bluntly, but Hegseth gets a hardon from doing this. He's a third rate individual who now gets to point at a screen, and, with a word, make people die. He's drunk on this shit.
November 29, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I had a room mate at university in 1970 whose father was an American oil exec in Caracas. The stories she told...
November 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I had to replace my fridge and stove this year and although they aren't manufactured in Canada, I made sure to purchase from my locally-owned smallish business.

I checked prices and actually they were comparable to Home Depot and the other big US retailers.

All Xmas gifts are local.
November 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Been going on a looooonngg time.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...
United States involvement in regime change in Latin America - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
They were too busy writing gaslighting headers to notice.
November 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
It's a continuation of the long time campaign to create an easily manipulated underclass by suppressing education.

It facilitates crime, fraud etc., by 'strong men'.

A Mafia style culture.
November 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Bless your heart, you're lost!
You're looking for that other place over on the right where the other ignorant bigots hang out.

"it also couldn’t have done so without court approval. Grand jury testimony is secret by design"

#blocked

www.vox.com/politics/421...
Why didn’t Biden release the Epstein Files?
The government has had troves of evidence for years.
www.vox.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM