CdnCurmudgeon

CdnCurmudgeon, 5 months ago to random

#NeverVoteConservative...

CdnCurmudgeon, 7 months ago to random

New Zealand's new PM is a creationist, an ultra-conservative, ultra-right Christian who believes the world is 6000 years old.

Another WFT is wrong with people? moment...

CdnCurmudgeon, 7 months ago to random

BREAKING: Donald Trump suffers a devastating loss as a federal judge hands a sweeping victory to former Trump campaign aide Jessica Denson and voids the Trump 2016 campaign's nondisclosure agreement(NDA) for being overly restrictive — freeing an additional 422 employees to speak as well.

This is devastating for Trump, because there is no telling how many new scandals and corruption allegations will come when 422 former employees are now free to speak freely about the crimes that that witnessed.

CdnCurmudgeon, 5 months ago to random

https://albertawilderness.ca/news-release-four-big-oil-companies-used-200-billion-litres-of-albertas-freshwater-last-year/

Four Big Oil Companies Used 200 Billion Litres of Alberta’s Freshwater Last Year, enough to drain Calgary’s Glenmore Reservoir roughly 11 times.
Keep in mind they did not just use this water but polluted so it can never be used again.

CdnCurmudgeon, 8 months ago to random

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/26/eu-warns-elon-musk-that-twitter-x-must-comply-with-fake-news-laws

The EU has issued a warning to Elon Musk to comply with sweeping new laws on fake news and Russian propaganda, after X – formerly known as Twitter – was found to have the highest ratio of disinformation posts of all large social media platforms.

CdnCurmudgeon, 1 month ago to random

No, it isn't Trudeau's fault. PoiLIEvre is lying to you. It's capitalist and corporate greed that's making things too expensive. Change the system, rein in the CEO pay and bonuses, pay workers fairly, and tax the f*cking rich properly.

CdnCurmudgeon, 5 months ago to random

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/america-ultra-wealthy-trillions-untaxed-profits-2022-1234940717/

Billionaires Are Hoarding Trillions in Untaxed Wealth. They Want the Supreme Court to Keep It That Way
A new report from Americans for Tax Fairness found that America’s richest families accumulated $8.5 trillion in untaxed capital gains in 2022.
The report comes as the Supreme Court gears up to decide a case that could preemptively block any efforts to tax the wealth of billionaires.

CdnCurmudgeon, 3 months ago to random

https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/why-is-ontario-embracing-private-health-care-the-scandinavian-experience-shows-it-hurts-both-the/article_a6042152-ca95-11ee-8a09-1ff6ab24257e.html

In Norway, the term bendelormøkonomi, coined to describe the profitization of care, has a certain ring to it, but its English translation is downright genius: the tapeworm economy.

A tapeworm economy emerges when governments finance profit-seeking corporations in systems of publicly funded care as they create chains, often backed by private equity. It is just like introducing a parasite that slowly robs the body of nutrients and destroys its organs.

CdnCurmudgeon, 4 months ago to random

Elon Musk bought Twitter and changed the algorithm to promote his own right-wing views and suppress links from independent publishers.

Venture capitalist Peter Theil is pouring money into Rumble, a right-wing alternative to YouTube, and providing the technology for Truth Social.

Right-wing mogul David D. Smith bought the Baltimore Sun, the largest newspaper in Maryland. Smith has a history of using media outlets to push an ideological agenda.

CdnCurmudgeon, 4 months ago to random

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-conservative-mp-leslyn-lewis-says-canada-needs-to-leave-the-united/

Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis supports petition calling for Canada’s withdrawal from the United Nations

Mohammad Hussain, a press secretary for the Prime Minister, said Ms. Lewis’s endorsement raises some questions.

“Make no mistake, when someone posts a petition it’s because they agree with it. What is it about the UN that Conservatives don’t like? Is it the work they do for children around the world, is it their programs to support women’s rights and human rights

CdnCurmudgeon, 4 months ago to random

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/tucker-carlson-putin-orban-propaganda/675380/
The American Face of Authoritarian Propaganda
For Viktor Orbán and Vladimir Putin, Tucker Carlson fulfills a need.
When Carlson speaks on behalf of Viktor Orbán or Vladimir Putin, his words are repeated in Hungary and Russia, where they do have resonance: Look, a prominent American journalist supports us.

CdnCurmudgeon, 8 months ago to random

How quickly we forgot the CPC's corruption: the robocalls scandal, the 17 Elections Act violations, the F35 scandal, the Fair Election Act debacle, the contempt of parliament, the hush money scandal, and more...
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2015/08/10/Harper-Abuses-of-Power-Final/

CdnCurmudgeon, 3 months ago to random

https://nathanbransford.com/blog/2024/01/46-of-americans-didnt-read-a-book-in-2023-this-week-in-books/
46% of Americans didn’t read a book in 2023

A full 46% of Americans did not finish a book last year and 5% more read just one, so if you read two books you’re in the top half of American readers. If you read more than fifty, congrats you’re a book one per-center! Meanwhile, 42% read on paper, 22% digital, and 19% audiobooks, with e-books attracting the heaviest readers.

No wonder Repugnicans can ban books so easily: they don't read!

CdnCurmudgeon, 3 months ago to random

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ukraine-russia-putin-zelenskyy-1.7111172

We have been warned — over and over again lately — that Russia's invasion of Ukraine is an inflection point in history.

In Canada, meanwhile, the Angus Reid Institute released a survey this week that suggested Canadians' support for aiding Ukraine's war effort is weakening — especially among treasonous pro-Putin CONservatives.

CdnCurmudgeon, 7 months ago to random

https://crier.co/if-pierre-poilievre-is-interested-in-canadas-national-security-why-is-he-refusing-his-national-security-background-check/
The leaders of EVERY major federal party and their spouses/relatives must undergo a detailed national security background check to be invloved in those briefings on threats to Canada’s security. They also have to swear an oath to “Obey and uphold the laws of Canada.”

Something Poilievere, his family and extended family have refused.

CdnCurmudgeon, 15 days ago to random

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2BANk3zpoQ
It’s time to talk about the real threat to free speech these days: the “vengeful dipshit billionaires,” as the Onion CEO put it. Because their lawsuits — no matter how frivolous — can silence the reporters who hold them accountable. The Media Matters for America staff deserved better.

CdnCurmudgeon, 2 months ago to random

The oddities of English...

CdnCurmudgeon, 4 months ago to random

https://london.ctvnews.ca/1-199-emergency-room-closures-in-ontario-this-year-report-1.6674204

More than 1,000 times this year, an Ontario hospital emergency department or urgent care centre closed its doors because there weren’t enough nurses to fill shifts.

As Sylvia Jones was funding private healthcare, Ford government spent $20.8 million taxpayer dollars on advertising trying to convince you they were improving publc healthcare as Doug Ford and Sylvia Jones closed 1,199 emergency rooms in Ontario.

#NeverVoteConservative

CdnCurmudgeon, 2 months ago to random

https://pressprogress.ca/intelligence-report-says-bots-and-fake-accounts-linked-to-indias-governing-party-are-harassing-canadians/
Intelligence Report Says Bots and Fake Accounts Linked to India’s Governing Party are Harassing Canadians
‘Pro-BJP’ accounts target Canadian activists, journalists and politicians, new documents tabled in foreign interference inquiry reveal.

Surpised?
Me, either.

CdnCurmudgeon, 1 month ago to random

https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/why-the-fuck-is-an-88-count-indicted
why the fuck is an 88-count indicted criminal being allowed to sabotage US foreign policy
it’s just another maddening day here in the United States of Have We All Gone Fucking Insane.

CdnCurmudgeon, 1 month ago to random

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1LT4Zlz0Mk
It’s unbelievable how much Microsoft Flight Simulator has evolved from 1982 to 2022, this is the Evolution of Microsoft Flight Simulator! ✈️

CdnCurmudgeon, 1 month ago to random

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_Rd6UO0Mv8
Pierre Poilievre lied 81 times during Question Period on May 8, 2024. EIGHTY-ONE times!
#NeverVoteConservative

CdnCurmudgeon, 29 days ago to random

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9RweR9EUSg
The film the Trump Organization tried to suppress | You've Been Trumped Too (2020) | Full Film.
Investigative journalist Anthony Baxter travels between the US Presidential race and the Scottish countryside to chronicle the troubling confrontation between Donald Trump and a feisty 92-year-old widow, Molly Forbes, as she refuses to make way for his golf course. A David and goliath battle of the disconnect between political rhetoric and the lives of ordinary people.

CdnCurmudgeon, 15 days ago to random

When you are sick, waiting over 24 hours in an Emergency Room to see a doctor... Remember Doug Ford stole $600 MILLION out of Healthcare so you can buy beer at the gas station!
(from Xitter... where the outrage over @fordnation's latest scammy insult to public intelligence is loud and vociferous)

CdnCurmudgeon, 27 days ago to random

From Harlan Crow, Clarence Thomas accepted 38 vacations, 26 private jet flights, a dozen VIP passes to sporting events, rooms at luxury resorts and his nephew's tuition payments. Crow then bought the property Clarence's mother lived on. Clarence reported NONE of it.

Clarence stated this week that he's the target of lies?
Nobody is lying except Clarence.

#RemoveClarenceThomas