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Thanks for posting this! I just set up a recurring monthly donation 😊

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Thank you so much for your love and support!

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Us sane countries do have to stick together, now more than ever!! Hope this will mean Canada won’t vote Poilievre, and we will kick out our godawful Tory govt after one term in Aotearoa next year 🤞🤞🤞

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A Pierre minority government may not be likely if Carney can handle the campaign and situation competently. Otherwise we get another PM for Trump to push around.

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Seriously rooting for you guys to do the right thing & stand strong against that horror show at (both) your borders 💪

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Maybe CANZUK or the Commonwealth is an alternative, but Canada lacked initiative until the US under Trump lost their minds. We had at least 4 years to prepare for this and Justin Trudeau and his Cabinet did not even think of a Plan B for such a scenario.

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Crazy eh!? It’s like the Democrats in the first month of the depraved Mango Muskolini spectacle which saw 40% of the Project 2025 playbook (which they rightly decried during the campaign but clearly didn’t prepare a response to?) rolled out exactly as it was written. Believe them. Their sociopathy knows no bounds, and will cost millions of lives 😭

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Democrats largely acting like controlled opposition at this point. They may not even make it to their 2026 midterm elections at the rate things are going.

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No matter how this all plays out, Canada is going to experience things we haven’t even thought of yet.

Like Canada uniting under threat, the rest of the world is seeing what they are all facing. i’m not sure what they were looking at this whole time though.

I do wish the European leaders would stop going to see trump and doing photo ops. They know what they’re up against so stop pretending they can say anything that changes the course we’re on. Start preparing

Japan soldiers out by signing big compromises and huge investment into the new kingdom

Let him tariff the whole world. that means everything the wasteful American consumer buys will cost more.

With the huge percentage of people in the US who don’t want to live under King Donald, he is far away from inheriting any country that he sees in a dream.

With the whole world boycotting American products, and them purposely raising prices on everything they import, I think the fantasy of the Trump empire is just that.

There is definitely going to be civil conflict in the US, and the good thing about that, is the NRA supplied weapons to everybody, even democrats.

So, I’m more apt to think that we are going to watch the self implosion of the US, instead of spreading their wings wherever their sick minds decide to.

And it’s gonna be hard to not want to put our foot on their throats when they’re down

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Yes we live in sad times

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I always liked the idea of CANZUK and/or a reinvigorated Commonwealth, but after Starmer threw Canada under the bus at his meeting in the oval office and King Charles seemingly unaware of the problem, I question the efficacy of those relations. Australia and New Zealand have the Chinese fleet off their shores, I doubt they can do much to help Canada. The EU might be promising, but again the real ongoing war in Ukraine is a much higher priority than vague threats against Canada. I think our best potential ally will be newly elected Congress members in the midterm elections in the US.

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Folks. I’m early sharing what I wrote after Zelensky got ambushed today. Not about today, but a reminder on how we got here. It will be in my FREE weekly newsletter that drops Sunday. I’d love you to join. Yes, politics, but some pop culture stuff too.

https://mdavis19881.substack.com/p/polirant-trump-is-still-putins-bitch

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Ukraine needs more support. Now more than ever

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I’m from the USA and am outraged by what is happening. There’s a large portion of our population that stand with Ukraine, Canada, Mexico and the EU. I hold hope that we are going to make a correction, many are fighting diligently.

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I’m 😭 hurt words cannot express how I’m feeling 🥹😔

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It is much worse for Ukrainians right now.

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Yes 😞

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We the are under attack from within by an authoritarian fool. We need our NATO allies to come to our defense and help us overthrow the Trump administration before it's too late. I think it is Article 5 of the NATO Agreement. Thoughts 🤷🏿‍♀️

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An opposition government needs to be formed and armed unrest would get Article 5 and maybe UN intervention going. I'd rather not see the movie "Civil War" play out in real life.

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Ugh!!!😑 ikr!😞

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Check it out!

Our US Anthem Re-dux

ST*R-SP*NGLED SPL*TTERS

Our Veterans do die

for Our Independence

such brave Angels of war :

let not their deaths be in vain

lest We also forget

a gun shots’ swift distance

as We wade through the blood

of the Unrightfully Slain

Shooting Victims this day

watch Gun Laws ricochet

which doth bring to light

KGB - NRA

o say do those Star-Spangled Splatters not stain

the Ideals of Our Flag and the blood of Our veins

so disheartening

witnessing Black Folks’ deaths

at the whim of Police

firing shots with no feeling

innocent Football Stars

in adversities depths

on tv we have watched

Them go gallantly kneeling

as our Heroes Protest

Their intent made grotesque

which doth bring to light

some are slow to Progress

o say does that Starred and Barred Bannerol fly

in the jaundiced sight of big brothers’ anxious eye

Voting restrictions

partisan supreme court

while white nationalists

swell the flood of hate jargon

there are some who doth use

Our flag as a shrewd sword

to wrest Rights from The Meek

‘tis this Country’s worst burden

as the dark money flows

the disparity grows

which doth bring to light

Politic’s hell hath froze

o say does that Stripe-Spangled Ensign now wave

for the hands of the rich the elite and “the saved”

o hark, have you heard

of those chosen peoples

who’re rapturing themselves

in christian superstition

for they are reluctant

to open their steeples

to the less fortunate

and Jesus’s true vision

congregations do laud

Global Warming a fraud

which doth bring to light

if there’s really a “ God ”

o what if that Stripe-Ribboned Pennon could Pray

precious psalms with which to persuade your dear Lord’S sway

so now We can’t see

through these Justice-less nights

which Hist’ry may deem

Our Democracy’s gloaming

those broad stripes and bright stars

inverted in Our sights

all this time We have watched

dim malfeasance roaming

let the flaming flags flare

the ash waft through the air

which doth bring to light

Society’s shared err

o say does that Star-Spangled Banner yet burn

as a pyre for Equal Rights and Liberties spurned

o if we could seer

all unwritten Futures

and peer un-penned writs

from the next Generations

what will quell It’s hate

what will be It’s sutures

what will ease It’s tautness

what will heal this Great Nation

political Karma

the end of an Era

which doth bring to light

o que será será

Time trickles on and Our colors may not run

yet like all else shall someday erode in the Sun

Happy Inauguration Day, Elon!

excerpt from the liminalist manuscript: AUTONOMICMACHINEG U N

image: © (2010) lyrics: © dual continuum (2020), © liminalist (2024) ASCAP

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We live in sad times.

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Truth.

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Please share, and this is an unintended follow-up from an earlier piece about what happens if Ukraine is allowed to fall - https://canadianreturnee.substack.com/p/betrayal-and-consequences?r=7loc6

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