#Kenney You won't read a bushel of bromides from me about Kenney's contributions to Cdn democracy. Our democracy is in dire need of good human beings in positions of authority. 3 years ago on my show, I gave him an hour to pass the Human Being Test.
He was flailing . So I gave several chances to self correct. In the end I even gave him the easiest test for redemption. Asked him to apologize for his evil behavior in San Francisco, working to deny dying Gay men in hospice care, the chance to receive visits with their partners.
Decades had passed. I thought he had grown. I was wrong. Couldn't even winch himself out of the ditch to say I'm sorry. Canadians were stunned by the cold clumsy callousness - a Wizard of Oz moment. Nothing behind the curtain. The big man reduced himself to a blithering buffoon.
This social conservative, who always portrayed himself as a moral man, was, in the end, a hollow man. That night, many took a second look & saw nothing. Tonight the King of Nothing, after getting another Fail, resigned. Goodnight Jason Kenney and Good bye.
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On this thread a from 7yr old clip. A VP Joe Biden, stating the obvious. Immigration flows to the US eventually makes a Whites a minority by 2017. Biden calls it a source of the country's strength. Now it should require no imagination to see how this feeds the RW Ecosystem that
promotes #WhiteReplacementTheory They have said for years now that that immigration policy isn't about growing the economy. It's about growing votes for the Democrats. Ted Cruz likes to say that those who illegally cross the southern border aren't undocumented immigrants.
Texas Senator Cruz calls them "undocumented Democrats" No Canadian need to get smug about this. This exact same argument will grow in Canada in the coming years. Many on the Right will argue that Liberal governments use immigration to reduce the percentage of Whites in Canada.
Let's be 100% clear. Something is happening in Ottawa & Coutts, AB, that many Cdns have seen in other parts of the world - the beginnings of an uprising. Uprisings don't need majority support. They need some of what the Convoy has, as the occupation of downtown Ottawa continues.
We can focus on the ugly banners and the desecration of monuments & institutions. They assault the Cdn heart-difficult to watch. But they are pathetic side shows. Canada's police services & possibly our military need to end the occupation of the core area of the nation's capital.
If Cdn authority looks weak & helpless for much longer, this could spread beyond Ottawa & Coutts,AB (U.S.border) No matter how many videos #PierrePoilievre chooses to record, surrounding himself w bubbly Canadians, partying while residents & businesses suffer, this is no party.
"The main reason why large parts of the country, including Ontario and Quebec, are repeatedly being put into severe lockdowns compared to other comparable, developed countries is due to
the chronic lack of surge capacity in our hospitals, due to a combination of decades or provincial & federal gov't underfunding and administrative incompetence." Nobody I know inside the system denies Lorrie Goldstein's observation. It's not some ideological twit's talking point.
I'm not big on vaccine hesitancy, refusal or resistance. Nothing in my record shows me faking respect for the decision not to get vaxxed, unless a serious doctor is advising their patient against it because of health issues. But let's tell the whole truth.
I thought, based on my experience of Polio #Vaccines in the early 60s, that ultimately this is what the world would do to protect everyone. Never occurred to me that I had a right to carry a virus that can hurt you & your family. That's a very big burden I don't want to carry.
We live in a strange world. Really smart people are saying We will just have to live with Covid for the rest of our lives. And so we will just have to live with public health rules/issues (a) masking (b)distancing (c) regular booster shots (d) extremely long waits for surgeries.
So we are told just accept it, deal with it, surrender to it. Why? Well because we can never ensure that enough of the population is vaccinated. Why? Well because we certainly can't mandate vaccinations? Why. Well because of vigorous push back from the anti science crowd.
#BreakingNews: New rules for travel into the U-S may shut down many travel plans during the Christmas/Holiday Season. From the @washingtonpost "The Biden admin is preparing stricter testing requirements for all travelers entering the U-S, including returning Americans,
to curb the spread of the potentially dangerous omicron variant, according to three federal health officials. As part of an enhanced winter covid strategy Biden plans to announce on Thursday, U.S. officials will require everyone entering the country to be tested
one day before boarding flights, regardless of their vaccination status or country of departure. Administration officials are also considering a requirement that all travelers get retested within three to five days of arrival.
Reading over the wknd that in one of the most highly educated nations on earth, Austria, only 65% of the people are fully vaccinated. Seems far right politics is effective at disseminating the same disinformation that contaminates too many Canadians.
If the far right can stop millions from saving their own lives w vaccines, what can't they stop? And if the majorities in our many educated societies don't take disinformation campaigns seriously, what has to happen to make them understand how much this threatens democracy?
We shouldn't need an international summit to teach us that the fastest way to destroy democracy is to continue to believe that we need to respect all who express an opinion. Why offer respect to those who have wittingly or unwittingly been recruited by the disinformation army?