tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post3985989224089149934..comments2024-03-03T17:01:57.876-05:00Comments on Montreal Simon: Who Would Be Worse Donald Trump or Mike Pence?Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-12017983941555423022017-08-09T08:32:55.854-04:002017-08-09T08:32:55.854-04:00hi David...Daniel Dale deserves to get some big pr...hi David...Daniel Dale deserves to get some big prize for chronicling Trump's record of deceit. He's a MSM journalist I truly respect, for if it wasn't for people like him we would be buried alive by Trump's lies. Who could ever have predicted that we would be living in a time when that kind of behaviour was being normalized?Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-77191257906039718312017-08-09T08:29:53.681-04:002017-08-09T08:29:53.681-04:00hi RT...yes, this North Korea situation is deeply ...hi RT...yes, this North Korea situation is deeply disturbing. At this point only a war can save Trump from Mueller and his own incompetence. It will also make it harder for the generals to contain him. Like you I can't see this situation ending well one way or the other. All I can hope is that enough Americans will realize that Trump is playing with fire, and choose a safer alternative next time...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-33622690793225280672017-08-09T08:25:25.374-04:002017-08-09T08:25:25.374-04:00hi anon 9:59...I sympathize with you and believe i...hi anon 9:59...I sympathize with you and believe it's unfair to tar all progressives with the same brush. Mistakes were made, and far too many progressives spent more time fighting each other instead of the real enemy. But I remain confident that most progressives will learn from those mistakes, and that out of the horror that you are now living in will come something good. There are many many good and decent Americans and they will prevail over the forces of darkness. Of course if I'm wrong I will go work in one of those refugee camps so I can welcome you with open arms, and eat crow every day of the year... ;)Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-85293342717701817862017-08-09T08:19:12.493-04:002017-08-09T08:19:12.493-04:00hi anon 8:18...I admit that your argument has been...hi anon 8:18...I admit that your argument has been bolstered by the North Korea situation, but it still comes down to a very difficult choice between two real evils...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-39827616967901000532017-08-09T08:18:28.480-04:002017-08-09T08:18:28.480-04:00That is why I choose Pence, mere survivalThat is why I choose Pence, mere survivalAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-29239952236443077352017-08-09T08:17:03.477-04:002017-08-09T08:17:03.477-04:00hi anon 10:32...thanks for correcting the record. ...hi anon 10:32...thanks for correcting the record. What I would also say to anon 4:50 pm is that the Republican attempts to suppress the vote are a real scandal, and one that needs to be exposed and corrected before the next election...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-73741270199132193392017-08-09T08:13:17.071-04:002017-08-09T08:13:17.071-04:00hi anon...you make a very good point. Pence is bet...hi anon...you make a very good point. Pence is better as posing as a "normal" leader and after Trump could truly be made to look like a "saviour." As the Washington Post story said, Trump is a menace, but his rough and insane policies are rendered less harmful by his staggering incompetence. It's still a dreadful situation, and as long as that hideous regime is in office we are all in great danger. What progressives need to be doing now is developing the leaders we will require to defeat the Republican in 2018 and 2020...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-39860599848695106002017-08-09T08:06:51.611-04:002017-08-09T08:06:51.611-04:00hi anon...I have no idea what you are talking abou...hi anon...I have no idea what you are talking about. I admit I could have been clearer, but my final judgement is that both Trump and Pence are unfit to be president. And if Trump is brought down, Pence should follow him into retirement...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-45468072774313354122017-08-09T08:04:20.278-04:002017-08-09T08:04:20.278-04:00hi Steve...I agree, his religious views are those ...hi Steve...I agree, his religious views are those of a true fanatic. Every time I see him on TV he reminds me of a sinister version of the man from Glad, or a KGB hitman. However, his Christofascist views may be easier to contain than Trump's views that are all over the map, and when it comes to things like climate change and war could be really catastrophic...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-13091278245550968372017-08-09T08:00:56.911-04:002017-08-09T08:00:56.911-04:00hi jrkrideau...as I mentioned above, although I ha...hi jrkrideau...as I mentioned above, although I had a very hard time choosing between Pence and Trump, I did give a slight nod to Pence because I think he's slightly saner and not as likely to get us into a nuclear war. Trump on the other hand is clearly trying to set up a confrontation with Iran and is a clear and present danger to us all...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-36479507923659188852017-08-09T07:57:42.056-04:002017-08-09T07:57:42.056-04:00hi anon...relax I haven't bought into any argu...hi anon...relax I haven't bought into any argument, and I don't think I'm losing my mind. What I did lose when transferring my post to my desktop fro my i-pad was a paragraph where I talked about Trump not being able to be trusted with nuclear. Which considering what happened a few hours later was more than unfortunate. So let me make my position clear: I still think Trump and Pence are for different reasons the worst leaders in U.S. history. But if I had to choose between Trump and Pence I would probably hold my nose and choose Pence, if only because he's slightly saner, and not as likely to blow up the world...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-16872971144950531072017-08-09T06:59:56.641-04:002017-08-09T06:59:56.641-04:00Your apathetic political culture broke this.
And ...Your apathetic political culture broke this. <br />And fuck Bernie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-2552364702018875572017-08-09T06:57:42.749-04:002017-08-09T06:57:42.749-04:00@ Anonymous 9:59 PM
unless Canada opens up refuge...@ Anonymous 9:59 PM<br /><br /><i>unless Canada opens up refugee camps and declares the USA a hostile foreign power!</i><br /><br />We already are opening/have opened refugee shelters in Winnipeg and Montreal, camps is too strong a word. Not sure about what is happening in other provinces but Québec is receiving roughly 200 refugees a day.<br /><br />No thought of declaring the USA a hostile foreign power. More the cousin who needs to keep taking their medicine.jrkrideauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04869979887929067657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-77422574003043196552017-08-09T03:30:14.188-04:002017-08-09T03:30:14.188-04:00500 false statements Trump has said in his first 2...500 false statements Trump has said in his first 200 days in office (updated Aug. 8/17)<br />https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/08/08/daniel-dales-donald-trump-fact-check-updates.html<br /><br />https://www.thestar.com/news/donald-trump-fact-check.html<br /><br />Many Politicians Lie. But Trump Has Elevated the Art of Fabrication (Aug. 7, 2017)<br />https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/us/politics/lies-trump-obama-mislead.html<br />Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09630890163958807048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-45956365900879088992017-08-08T22:49:30.537-04:002017-08-08T22:49:30.537-04:00Show and tell time seems to be rapidly approaching...Show and tell time seems to be rapidly approaching. Initially thought that there would be some sort of false flag event to justify the carnage but seems that ego mania is enough. Precise surgical removal and Trump is a hero, failure and it won't matter. Hopefully there is a better plan.<br />RtAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-9240330760666783382017-08-08T22:32:37.156-04:002017-08-08T22:32:37.156-04:00Rubbish propaganda amplified by Russian bots.The R...Rubbish propaganda amplified by Russian bots.The Repub-lie-Con investigators summed the active voter list with the inactive list to obtain a surplus of voters compared to census. There are additional verification procedures if you are on the inactive list and are still eligible to vote. Reportedly only a dozen voters on the inactive list cast ballots during the last election all were properly verified.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-55961923929614463412017-08-08T21:59:35.228-04:002017-08-08T21:59:35.228-04:00Um, I'm an American and I didn't "bre...Um, I'm an American and I didn't "break it" or vote for him. You do realize that 40 years of gerrymandering, a nationwide domestic psyop starting with Reagan's end to the Fairness Doctrine that paved the way for Fox News, AM hate radio, Fox News, and now the uncontrollable cancer that is the Internet, and now, the low point to end all low points, collusion with Russia not only by the GOP but <i>even by third-party candidates</i> like Jill Stein, also led to this perfect-Stormfront disaster waiting to happen? <br /><br />At least Canadians understood "strategic voting," while the purity ponies who didn't get Bernie's unrealistic Scandinavian utopia overnight stayed home or threw their votes away. The Electoral College proved a failure in 2000 too. Everything hinged on Florida, and W's complicit brother was governor who had authorized the purge of literally thousands upon thousands of "ineligible voters" who'd either been convicted of petty crimes or had minor discrepancies in their registration -- like forgetting to update their married surnames. All of this goes back to the stolen election by W and his father's Reaganite cronies, who'd just spent 8 years trying to destroy the Clintons for interrupting the sacrosanct Reagan Reformation. The GOP is like the cons in Canada who can't win unless they cheat.<br /><br />I didn't break this. I didn't really care who was at the top of the ticket, because I'm a Blue Dog who wouldn't vote Republican if someone put a gun to my head and threatened to shoot me on Fifth Avenue (or anywhere else for that matter). Neither did 60M+ other people, many of whom are in far more precarious positions than I am on the domestic front due to their ethnic makeup and/or sexual/gender identity. Why should I own something that I didn't break? We civilized Americans are fuddle-duddled bigly, unless Canada opens up refugee camps and declares the USA a hostile foreign power!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-51874590668657114212017-08-08T20:18:24.386-04:002017-08-08T20:18:24.386-04:00I hope after today y'all realize that we are b...I hope after today y'all realize that we are better off taking our chances with Pence. Yes, he will be horrible domestically for America, but they broke it, they own it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-23932124273535426802017-08-08T18:30:27.207-04:002017-08-08T18:30:27.207-04:00WEEKND VS TRUMP
https://www.facebook.com/Aeon999/...WEEKND VS TRUMP <br />https://www.facebook.com/Aeon999/photos/a.163268977156717.38176.163265400490408/915874081896199/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-12209928455282586322017-08-08T16:50:22.461-04:002017-08-08T16:50:22.461-04:00https://www.rt.com/usa/398955-california-voter-fra...https://www.rt.com/usa/398955-california-voter-fraud-report/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-137779908783223732017-08-08T15:44:17.979-04:002017-08-08T15:44:17.979-04:00It is a "heads they win, tails we lose" ...It is a "heads they win, tails we lose" situation. Trump is certifiable and would probably tweet us into a nuclear war, but Pence has the right temperament to strike just the right balance between the billionaire donor class and the arch-conservative religious hate wing. We'd still have a fascist coup, but a soft and far less noticeable one in a sort of frog-in-the-boiling-water way. The press might even breathe a sigh of relief and not hold Pence accountable simply because he's considered more "presidential" than Twitler. <br /><br />I mean, look at how quickly W got rehabilitated as just a harmless dope who paints pictures of puppies and kittens -- and of the soldiers that his oil wars maimed beyond recognition! He goes on Ellen's show to talk about how awful Trump is, promote his "art," and now even his CIA-spook father is depicted as a sweet old man in a wheelchair who wears cute Trudeau socks, instead of the continuation of the Reagan De-Evolution and one of the principal architects of the PNAC agenda that kicked this hornet's nest in the first place. Nope nope nope. You can't Trudeauize anyone named Bush. Period. Please clap.<br /><br />Posthumously, Reagan and even Nixon have been normalized as "better Republicans" too, because none of them are Trump. No one is Trump. So the man who gave us Watergate, and the incompetent B-grade celebrity who armed Bin Laden, turned his back on the AIDS crisis, and deregulated the banks, both get absolved of their sins for being "not as bad."<br /><br />I almost think this was the plan all along: to have such an atrocious candidate cause the nation to hit rock bottom, but then be "redeemed" or "born again" by embracing someone who's emotionally "steadier," and who cares about his platform or ideology or the scary fact that he and the unstoppable GOP <i>would actually be able to govern.</i> Just like a recovering addict who suddenly becomes an obnoxious evangelical teetotaler and seeks to "smite" everyone else as "penance." (Take out the A and the second N from that word and you get Pence.)<br /><br />Naomi Klein, another great Canadian, calls this the Shock Doctrine in her book of same name. Shock-and-Awe. The GOP and their dark-money founders are so obsessed with total control, shaping the world in their vision, and crushing the untermenschen once and for all, that they sold out to Russia and <i>regime-changed the United States.</i><br /><br />I'm wondering if maybe WW3 and total planetary annihilation might be better than a slow drip into a real-life Gilead. Hopefully it gets over with soon, because life under a theocracy of dunces would be a fate worse than death. It'd be hell on earth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-72404455203302204452017-08-08T09:51:22.031-04:002017-08-08T09:51:22.031-04:00LOL your lack of self awareness is hilarious. You ...LOL your lack of self awareness is hilarious. You remind me of a child in a sense. Then we take Pence? Then what? No really, then what?<br /><br />You're an idealist I'll give you that. But totally detached from reality.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-6300572916454926812017-08-08T09:24:28.640-04:002017-08-08T09:24:28.640-04:00Pence is the face of the American TalibanPence is the face of the American TalibanStevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14162783936999869984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-77739861324833933312017-08-08T09:02:41.300-04:002017-08-08T09:02:41.300-04:00It's a tossup. Crump is an incompetent loose c...It's a tossup. Crump is an incompetent loose cannon seemingly intend on starting one or two wars and Pence is a right-wing religious fundamentalist. <br /><br />From a Canadian point of view Pence is probably better as he is apparently fairly rational and less likely to start wars but I could be wrong. Who knows just how bad his internal polices would be?<br /><br />We had better start setting up more refugee camps in either case.<br /><br />Trump reportedly has already violated the agreement with Iran and it could get worse as he fought against certifying that Iran was in compliance and it reportedly took a full day of argument to get him to sign the certification. Then he said he was not going to sign the next one in 90 days.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />jrkrideauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04869979887929067657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-64732519659371277382017-08-08T09:01:11.869-04:002017-08-08T09:01:11.869-04:00Simon, I am shocked that you feel this way. Mike P...Simon, I am shocked that you feel this way. Mike Pence is a steaming pile of religious nut job shit but he is a massive step up from trump. The State department has been gutted, the DOJ (including the FBI) has been politicized, and we have a man tweeting us into a nuclear war over North Korea. I myself will breathe a HUGE sigh of relief when the orange shit is no longer President even if it means President Pence. I seriously can't believe you have bought into this talking point pushed by insane trumpkins and fools on the left who believe that keeping trump in power will cause the "revolution" they are so desperate for. Bring on President Pence, bring on some good night's sleeps.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com