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https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/air-canada-halts-some-us-routes-9.7260269
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Do not be so confident the Democratic Party is going to win anything in November. Between backing a clearly unstable and dangerous candidate in Platner, candidates moving further left and alienating a centre-right nation, and successful GOP gerrymandering efforts in key states, it is not looking as though the GOP becoming nothing more than a personality cult — a gaggle of sycophants to Trump — is going to dissuade average voters from leaning Republican, because the alternative is just that much worse to them. I do not personally believe the Democrats are worse — not after ten years of Republicans making fools of themselves, appeasing Trump and his white trash voter base, and adopting neo-fascism as their guiding ideology — but are they any good? They stabbed President Joe Biden in the back, and in doing so allowed Donald Trump to return to office, and these are the consequences of such treachery. The Republicans are clearly aiming toward an eventual one-party state, and the Democrats just keep shooting themselves in the foot. A viable centrist third party should have come along about a decade ago, but it is too late. Into the abyss we go.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cuba-island-wide-power-outage-9.7260307
Look into it, in many areas America is not quite so far ahead of Cuba in infrastructure upkeep, and the ageing grids that power this country are now being expected to take on far more stress with all the data centres opening up everywhere. It varies from region to region, and obviously we are vastly larger than Cuba — but that only means we shall fall harder. In the race to the bottom, we are not as far behind as we would love to believe.
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FIFA's decision to suspend Folarin Balogun's automatic red-card ban after intervention from President Trump hath provoked outrage across the sporting world, with UEFA describing the move as ‘unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable’, whilst Belgian officials have questioned the integrity of the tournament itself.
How can anyone be blamed for being furious?
The issue is no longer whether Balogun deserved the red card. Reasonable people can disagree on that. The problem is the appearance that the host nation's star player was granted relief after the President of the United States personally sought a review from FIFA's leadership. Trump has publicly acknowledged contacting FIFA President Gianni Infantino, and FIFA subsequently lifted the suspension using a rarely-invoked disciplinary provision. Critics across Europe have argued that the decision creates the perception that one nation is playing by a different set of rules from everyone else — and I believe it is more than mere perception.
Should America somehow advance to the World Cup Final and lift the trophy — already unlikely, but even more so without Balogun — this controversy will not simply disappear and their win shall be tainted. An asterisk will forever be attached to that achievement. The Americans would be confronted by a question that no champion should ever have to answer: did they prevail because they were the best team, or because political influence succeeded where sporting merit alone could not? For a nation that once championed the rule of law and equal treatment — however imperfectly — that is a humiliating question even to have to answer.
I believe this country hath a collective humiliation kink now. No other way to explain bringing this corrupt tyrant back to office. One who hath continually humiliated America and its people on the world stage for years, and the people just spread 'em wider for him.
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Entirely shameful, and entirely preventable. Religious freedom should not mean religious supremacy. As was demonstrated very clearly during the COVID pandemic, these anti-vaxxers and assorted types chanting muh freedumb do not believe in the freedom of others to be protected from them and their bloody germs. Liberty to them is the liberty to impose themselves on others. They are the types who blast obnoxious music at all hours of the day, and become offended when asked to stop and shout ‘it’s a free country!’ They have been the types, throughout my thankless life, who have hassled me at every turn when my aching psyche just wants everything around me to slow the hell down and quiet down. Respect for others is tyranny to these people, and all too many of them out there.
Hell, most Americans — and not even merely the anti-vaxxers and Christofascists — could not even handle the simple concept of social distancing. They would be miserable living in Germany, where quiet on Sundays is simply a societal custom that doth not need enforcing by law; it is just respected by nearly all people.
Call me insane, in what we are still told is the most prosperous and educated nation on earth — obviously less and less true with each passing year, but stay with me — for expecting to be able to step outside and be reasonably certain I am not going to contract a deadly disease on any given day. Diagnose me with 'TDS' if some simple civility and respect for others is infringing upon the individual ‘rights’ of lunatics, bullies, religious zealots, and other assorted tyrants of society who make up the Trump/GOP base. Call me a bigot against people of faith — and I do consider myself a Christian, albeit a very poor and not particularly devout one, and my faith is not particularly strong at present — if the right of the general public to be protected against a scourge that was supposed to have been eliminated decades ago is less important than the feelings of bigamists, cultists, and all these assorted and dangerous weirdos who are only growing in number in this most horrific of timelines.
Somebody shoot me, I am so over all of this bulls**t.
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https://www.rawstory.com/abundance-democrats/
Perhaps for the entire history of this nation, it hath always been taken as an article of faith that the American people, whatever their given ideological bent, would forever live and die at the altar of democracy. In 21st century #Murica, however, it turns out democracy is not very popular anymore. To his perverse credit — though I hate using the word ‘credit’ even in a perverse context — Donald Trump saw this before anyone else, and capitalised. A decade later, there is almost no incentive for the GOP to be anything but an illiberal, far-right populist party, whilst at the same time a wave of illiberal hard-leftists stands poised to take over the Democratic Party. So, on both extremes — and the decided majority of Americans have drifted toward the extremes now, just look around — democracy is no longer enjoying great support with the rank-and-file. If somebody had shown me how this would play out twenty-five years ago, when democracy was still held as sacrosanct, I would have been stunned. In retrospect, it all makes sense: no matter how we advance technologically or otherwise, human beings by nature remain tribalistic creatures.
FTA: Lofgren then explained the study found 14 out of 21 participants responded negatively to a fundamental American value. He quoted a Wyoming woman named Sarah as telling researchers, "I don’t like the word democracy.”
"Let that sink in," the Salon writer urged. "It’s what many of us expected, but it’s still surprising to see it in print, given the almost phobic avoidance by major media, academia and think tanks of any discussion of whether Americans actually believe in the nation’s unofficial civic religion of democracy. It may also explain why ordinary, non-elite conservatives are untroubled by Donald Trump’s assertions that he would be “dictator on day one” or that he intended to 'terminate' parts of the Constitution. On the contrary, that’s what they want."
The study, Lofgren argued, found that what such Americans would prefer is protection of the beliefs they perceive as under attack by democracy itself.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/04/trump-speech-dc-evacuation-thunderstorm
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/03/250th-anniversary-readers-reflect
It is all over but the shouting, and the shouting has only just begun. One telling passage, FTA:
“What is there to celebrate? Who still deeply holds allegiance to this country? … We’ve pedestalized the absence of thought or empathy for the last 250 years, and I’m not optimistic enough to expect us to hit 500,” Callisto said. “We look ridiculous, sound inane, and act insane in the global theatre.”
I firmly disagree that we have been completely awful for the entirety of the nation's existence, for Americans have done some incredibly great things in this world over the long haul and have advanced humanity in a myriad of ways. We have also committed great evils, of course. All things considered, I grew up proud to be an American and had no doubt that we were living better than any nation in the world. That was in the 1980s and 1990s.
Today, however, it is obvious that we are no longer especially exceptional in terms of standard of living, and indeed are falling further behind. We are, in many respects, ridiculous, inane, and insane, like a rabid old dog that needs to be put down. Something fundamental began to change after the 9/11 attacks, and we are not the same country or people we were before that day. Nor are we ever getting back what we once had; the world hath changed and moved on.
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If this divide truly is irreparable — and I increasingly believe that it is — then the idea of a ‘national divorce’, typically advanced by the nationalist populists responsible for Trump, ought no longer be dismissed out of hand. At some point, all sides may be forced to confront the possibility that the United States has become less a nation than a collection of mutually hostile peoples sharing the same borders.
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Russia is a highly wounded yet dangerous animal right now, ready to lash out in another direction, and Poland likely is in imminent danger. If the policy goal is to pressure Western governments into ceasing support for Ukraine, at a crucial moment when the Ukrainian forces hold a clear upper hand on the battlefield and Russian troops are dropping like flies, Putin and his puppet Trump are counting on simply launching missile attacks against European cities to achieve their ends. Trump hath made no secret of his desire that the former United States exit NATO. He and Putin are playing this cat-and-mouse game entirely to destroy an alliance that hath kept Mother Russia at bay for eighty years now. As such, NATO remains as vital today as it was during the Cold War. We have a word for what Trump and his collaborators are doing. It begins with the letter 't'. More of us had better start using it openly if any decency remains within this dying empire.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/30/trump-republican-convention-midterms-dallas
Get ready for the mother of all gaslighting campaigns. And it shall work. Guaranteed. I have said it before, and must say it again: it is the Democratic Party, not Trump and the GOP, that is the most hated faction in this nation. Of course, millions hate Trump and millions hate the Republicans, but not anywhere near in number or close in intensity to those who view the Democrats as mortal enemies. Hence, they shall not be satisfied until the enemy is completely wiped out. Then, they shall start turning on each other.
Trump's success has never been solely about Trump. It has always depended upon millions of Americans who either support him enthusiastically or repeatedly excuse conduct that would be unacceptable from anyone else. Abandon all hope, for this is what ‘y’all’ voted for, #Murica.
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https://studyfinds.com/losing-feels-worse-than-winning-feels-good-regret/
The old cliché, "better safe than sorry," doth have some merit. Human beings are often more motivated to avoid loss than to pursue gain, and recent years have given Americans ample reason to be cautious — to put it mildly — about the future. That is not to say the public grasps the scale of the hell that awaits this crumbling nation — not even close — but I do believe the era of phony, Pollyannaish optimism is largely over in the former United States. Apart from intermittent gaslighting by Trump and his followers, of course. One moment they assure everyone that all is well; the next they revert to sky-is-falling rhetoric of their own. Such are the times in which we live.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/33867b19b0c835ee
One visitor was quoted, FTA: “It’s like reading a social studies textbook from the seventh grade. There’s so much vibrancy in the country, and this is unnecessarily vanilla. And there aren’t a lot of people here.”
The fair was marketed as a grand celebration of American history, culture, and achievement, yet the scant few who have bothered to attend describe something oddly lifeless and uninspired. Americans had better start getting it: Donald Trump is a career conman, dedicated to defrauding the general public and enriching himself. He makes grand promises, and then fails to deliver, consistently. Yet, here we are, ten years into this nightmare, and people still act surprised when they are sold a lemon, time and time again.
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They were sheltered to a large degree for a good portion of their nation’s war of aggression upon Ukraine, but ordinary Russians are feeling the effects of the war all around them now; particularly those fleeing Crimea, and Vladimir Putin is offering signs that he is feeling the heat from an increasingly restless public. Ukraine appears more resilient than ever, whilst Russia continues to bear the mounting, horrific costs of its war of aggression (approximately 1.4 million casualties; or about twenty-four to twenty-five times the number America lost in the Vietnam War). Yet the danger remains that a cornered Putin may resort to ever more reckless measures. What that could portend is simply unspeakable: will he take the world down with him?
We continue to pray for Ukraine as we did on the first day of this invasion — 24 February 2022, if we have forgotten how long it hath been now.
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Millions in the former United States say they will not celebrate the Fourth of July as poll reveals deep national pessimism. {The Independent 29 June}
The Reuters poll quoted in the second article reports that about one-in-five Americans do not intend to celebrate the Independence Day holiday this year, while two-in-five say the nation is not going to endure for another 250 years. I have to believe a further portion of those polled are only reluctantly celebrating out of habit and family obligation, are unsure if they are going to ‘celebrate’, or simply will not admit they are not celebrating. People do lie in polls; it is the exact reason why Trump — in each of the three presidential elections in which he hath been the GOP candidate, including his loss in 2020 — always outperformed them by at least a couple of percentage points.
Beyond the political realities, for a lot of people the Fourth of July hath always been an excuse to drink beer, stuff their mouths with hamburgers and hot dogs, and shoot off fireworks (do not even get me started on those). No matter, for the only people who are truly celebrating what this country is becoming under Donald Trump are the third or so of the overall population that worships him as a cult leader. Which is a hell of a lot of people, and the divide between them and the rest of us is growing wider by the hour. I rather resent having to live in these times and bear witness.
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The ‘Big Brother’ regime of Orwell’s 1984 would doubtless be impressed by the surveillance state that now exists throughout most of the world. The former United States is hardly alone in tracking its citizenry, but no other Western governments are run and staffed by Christian nationalist ideologues and other assorted lunatics — individuals openly hostile to institutional restraint, transparency, and dissent — and captained by an elderly, cartoonish megalomaniac who demands complete adoration and fealty from all. Hell, can it even be said that America remains part of the ‘Western’ world when we increasingly conduct our domestic and foreign affairs in a manner more readily associated with Russia or China?
No ambitious tyranny willingly tolerates unlimited scrutiny of itself whilst declining to scrutinise its own citizens. Surveillance, once established, doth not retreat of its own accord. Millions of us are going to face consequences for speaking out in the not too distant future, but not for anything will I ever give my seal of approval to this Satanic regime that invokes Christ, patriotism, and family even as it grossly undermines all of them.
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If this is all true — and what reason hath anyone, other than the deluded who believe he is actually faithful to Melania, to doubt it? — then this woman, Natalie Harp, ought to be charged with sedition. The implications are extraordinarily serious. Deliberately misleading the President of the United States about key economic indicators is not merely unethical, it must be considered a crime against the state, yeah?
Albeit, he wants to be lied to, but it does not matter what he wants, only that which is lawful. Or, at least, that used to be the way, and ought to be once more: the entire purpose of opposing this man, instead of just blindly supporting him as he leads the nation off a proverbial cliff, is to restore law, order, and reason.
FTA: Speaking on The Daily Beast Podcast, host Joanna Coles and executive editor Hugh Dougherty dissected the claims, suggesting Harp's role stretches far beyond that of a typical presidential aide. According to the book, Trump has even turned to Harp to overrule Cabinet officials whenever he wants trade figures that better fit his own views.
Dougherty said, "So, she is fueling his delusions: she is providing him with endless praise that she prints out off random social media, and then it’s all being put out in public, and she is with him ‘round the clock."
The book also alleges Harp left deeply personal letters for the 80-year-old president to discover in his private spaces. In one, she reportedly wrote, "You are all that matters to me." Trump is said to have responded with his own declaration of loyalty, reportedly telling others that Harp, unlike his other aides, "will never leave me."
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https://www.pymnts.com/economy/2026/goldman-sachs-says-ai-will-eliminate-15-million-us-jobs/
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“I’m not crazy, you’re the one that’s crazy!”
Unfortunately for sanity, the truly mad have won the day, and the remaining sane people in the former United States are in serious, serious trouble.The regime is telling us as much. But do enjoy your cheap gas and eggs, #Murica. Oh wait, about that.…
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/iran-united-states-bahrain-drone-attack-9.7251324
If the impossible happened and any degree of lasting peace — say, three months or longer — actually were to occur with Iran, would anybody believe it at this point?
How many times in the past few months hath it been that Trump hath declared that ‘peace’ was achieved, only for the fighting to continue? He is the boy who cried wolf one time too many.
Which doth not appear to bother the large plurality of Americans who have supported him fervently for the past decade, with a passion and intensity unlike anything seen in modern American politics, but very much ought to. Just Google for thyselves the toll this conflict is taking on our military and its capabilities.
In no way, shape, or form is this conflict over, and we in the former United States have yet to experience proper retribution for our sins in elevating this jackass to a dictator (again, after we should have learned our lesson the first time around; bloody arseholes!).
FML.
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The GOP hath unabashedly become a mafia dedicated to shielding Trump from prison; there are no more pretences.
And if such is patently obvious to many of us, and hath been for far too many years, this reality is somehow still going over the heads of the American public at large. Either they have not figured it out, do not care, or are in full agreement with the agenda.
With the Democrats bitterly divided between moderates and the left-wing flamethrowers who are never going to receive majority support in this very right-wing country, I predict that the Republicans will retain control of Congress this fall. And then we are going to see some truly dreadful legislation coming down the pike.
Johnson hath been making noises of late about wanting to gut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other ‘entitlement’ programmes in 2027, and one better believe millions of horribly stupid people are poised to (yet again) vote for their own impoverishment. Never again can one be surprised when folks vote against their own interests, because that is the case more often than not.
If this were a mature country, the people would be coming to terms with the fact that one of its two state-sanctioned political parties is not interested in governing, only in telling people what they want to hear whilst robbing them blind (and worse), and perhaps doing something about it.
A centrist third party would be a great help, but the establishment and citizenry alike will simply never allow it.
Alas, this is no longer a mature nation, so abandon all hope.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/lake-powell-hits-lowest-summer-190043854.html
One of the gravest errors I ever made in life was once entertaining the notion that climate change — or ‘global warming’, as it was generally called in those days — was a ‘hoax’.
Over time, and for a gazillion reasons that begin and end with a certain tangerine-coloured demagogue, I grew disillusioned with the sorts of people who insisted upon such things. More inconveniently still, the evidence kept piling up. One can ignore a fact; one cannot indefinitely ignore ten thousand of them.
Not only was I a sinner for denying what is happening to the planet, I was also a monumental idiot. For whatever reason, I resisted the idea that mankind was responsible for changes in the atmosphere; now, I simply laugh at the notion that somehow humanity is not responsible. Why would we not f**k up the environment, as we do with virtually everything else we touch?
Looking back over a decade and longer, I suspect I was far too eager to curry favour with certain people in my orbit, and consequently accepted a great many notions that simply did not withstand contact with reality. To my credit, however, I had the good sense to head for the lifeboats the moment Trump lumbered into view. Even a fool may occasionally recognise the sound of an approaching avalanche.
In any event, the argument is over. Climate change is real. It is occurring. It is already reshaping the world, and before this century has run its course it will render parts of it scarcely recognisable. Nations will suffer. Peoples will be displaced. Entire ways of life will disappear.
Future generations are unlikely to enjoy the assumptions of comfort and abundance presently taken for granted across much of the developed world. They may find themselves living under conditions rather closer to those endured by their distant ancestors than those imagined by the futurists of the twentieth century.
It is a fait accompli. The apparent price humanity must pay for progress.
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