Thread by @jenstilmanydots

18 tweet rant - because it's important:

China imports ~4% of their crude from Venezuela.

I suspect most have zero clue what China owns in Canada, and I'm astonished and angered by the naivety of my fellow countrymen.

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I'm not putting my elbows up - we deserve what we'll be getting.

Why?

Because we've been wilfully ignorant and complacency has consequences.

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When life seems good and govt takes care of your basic needs, things like pronouns and land acknowledgements seem like critical issues.

Hypocritical, parasitic politicians have controlled our country for over a decade - and we've been fine with that.

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Now groceries are unaffordable, many younger Canadians are discovering they'll probably never own a home, and - as Policy Horizons stated - "downward social mobility is becoming the norm”, perhaps people will start paying attention - though all too late. cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

Do you care what the IMF's SDRs are? Do you care that billions of 🇨🇦 taxpayer dollars are funnelled there annually?

Do you care where the money actually went, when the government was *supposedly* funding programs like this?

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If you've never taken the time to review govt spending in detail, never cared about the deficit, and you voted in these corrupt clowns for yet another term - because "Carney was a banker, he knows how to fix the economy", what lies ahead is on YOU - not 🇺🇸. telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/1…

Have you read any of the documents I've posted in this thread?

America's National Security Strategy?
The US's plan to address the illegal flow of drugs across their Northern border?

No? More important things to do?

How about this one?🤔

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Why bother, right? If it hasn't impacted you personally (yet), then who cares - as long as 'racists' like Don Cherry get fired for suggesting 'newcomers' wear a poppy, and we take care of important details - like changing "in all thy sons command" to "in all of us command"...

Since the early 2000's, Mark Carney has been calling for this.

'BoE Gov Carney took aim at the US dollar's "destabilizing" role in the world economy and said central banks might need to join together to create their own replacement reserve currency.'

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His papers and speeches are full of it - for over two decades - he's made repeated calls to take down the United States as the world's global superpower. And he has called for China to replace them.
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"Efforts to secure the stability of one country are now collectively reducing the stability of the system...Using SDRs appeals to a sense of fairness, in that no one country would enjoy the exorbitant privilege of reserve currency status."
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"The new Canadian government places high importance on its relations with China. Canada and China share similar views on international affairs. The two sides need to enhance coordination and jointly practice multilateralism, uphold free trade, and advance the reform of the international economic order."

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Is it any wonder our southern neighbour now sees us as a threat? At least we banned Hauwei in 2022. Oh wait...
Looks like that got put on the back burner when parliament took an extended vacation - oops, I meant "was prorogued".

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Ever wonder why it was "American law enforcement officials, not those in Canada, to last year punish the white-collar criminals inside U.S. branches of the Canada-based TD Bank?"
That darn Trump, elbows up peeps!
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If you lived in a quiet, peaceful neighbourhood, and then one day someone moved in and opened a brothel next door - would you bury your hand in the sand, because ignorance is always bliss? No prostitutes and pimps are knocking on your door, so who cares...

What about when the customers start playing loud music at midnight, tossing cigarette butts and garbage on your lawn? Maybe they steal your car.

Would you have a right to complain and call in law enforcement?

There were dramatic border changes following WWI & WWII. Empires collapsed, new nations were created. This can - and will - happen again.

Post WWII, two dominant ideologies emerged:

Capitalist Democracy and Communist Socialism.
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History doesn't repeat but it definitely rhymes.

I know which side I'll be choosing - do you?
That's probably something worth thinking about...

/RANT OVER
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