Rusty Idols

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Canadian former Journalist, former union activist and lobbyist. He/Him.

Pierre Poilievre is meeting with an unambiguous hate group in Winnipeg today.

It's roughly equivalent to a Republican candidate for President being Grand Marshall at a Klan march.

What we are seeing from Republicans and the world wide conservative movement right now is panic.

Pure, unadulterated, staring down a generational abyss, panic.

To conservative Christians the paltry few mentions of homosexuality in the bible are iron clad definites. Literal requirements. But the many far more extensive and vehement passages of the bible attacking wealth and privilege and calling on believers to sacrifice and relinquish their wealth and privilege and warning being rich is an almost guaranteed barricade to getting into Heaven? Those are just metaphors. Pay no attention to those.

As it is the last day of 2022, Oliver sat down with me to give me my performance review.

I apparently need improvement at providing treats on demand. Hopefully I will do better in in 2023
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He does, in fact, have that right.

@Pegcitynerd @gemelliz

You do understand that no matter how many doors into the healthcare system there is still the same number of doctors, nurses and operating rooms behind them?

Letting those with money cut ahead of those without would inevitably degrade the public system.

If the rich have to use the same system as the rest of us they have a stake in keeping it functioning. If they don't, THEY DON'T.

@Pegcitynerd @gemelliz

Particularly as Canada is signatory to ill-advised trade agreements with the world's largest private healthcare market right next door.

There are no 'experiments' with private care as a result of these agreements, only irreversible changes. Once we allow it at any level we can be forced by international trade courts to NEVER go back.

It's one of those twice a day moments when a stopped clock is right. Donald Trump warns Republicans that threatening to kill social security or ban abortion with no exceptions for rape, incest or the life of the mother will always cost them elections.

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-2659039792/

Trump channels his inner liberal as he warns of 'Democrat traps' in Breitbart interview

Donald Trump says he’d never cut Social Security and would protect “the three exceptions” for abortion were he to get into the White House again, according to an interview released this week at Breitbart.com.Trump predictably used the interview to attack Republican foes and failed candidates, but he...

Raw Story - Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism

How come whenever actual arrests for voter and electoral fraud are made it always turns out to be Republicans committing it?

https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/Rensselaer-County-s-Republican-elections-17438122.php

Rensselaer County GOP elections commissioner arrested by FBI

Jason T. Schofield, the Republican Rensselaer County Board of Elections commissioner, was...

Times Union