A couple of Tesla Takedown events in the lower mainland this weekend. The first one is today at noon at the Tesla Dealership in Vancouver. March 16, there is another event at noon, 12021 104th Avenue, Surrey.
Tesla/Musk takedown time
Trump: “Canada should not exist”
In 2019, Anthony Scaramucci, Trump’s former White House communications director, warned us that the current American President “may not have early stage dementia, but he has full-blown early stage fascism.” We have seen recent evidence of both dementia and fascism.
Just because the corruption plays out in public doesn’t mean it’s not corruption
A week ago, Senator Chris Murphy said the Trump White House was “on its way to being the most corrupt in the history of the country.” That statement is wrong. The White House is not on its way; it has already arrived. Today’s car show at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is additional evidence. White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino livestreamed the event on X, the social media app owned by Musk. The Tesla share price increased more than 7% today, so the stunt added $55 billion to the company’s market capitalization. Members of the Trump crime family who knew about the car show likely profited immensely.
The rule of law matters
Chris Murphy is the junior United States Senator for Connecticut. In 2024, The Guardian newspaper named him one of the Democratic Party’s rising stars, active in several policy areas, particularly healthcare, foreign policy and gun safety legislation. He delivered a scathing speech in the U.S. Senate about unprecedented corruption in the current administration. Canadians should pay attention to Senator Murphy. Trump has no desire for the continued independence of Canada. He views this country as a home for hewers of wood and drawers of water. It doesn’t matter that the phrase became outdated about 70 years ago. Canada has its own plutocrats waiting to steal from the common people. They may be inspired by the easy success of the Trump/Musk crime family.
Patrimonialism
Jonathan Rauch, senior fellow at Brooking’s Center for Effective Public Managment wrote in the Atlantic about the USA’s regime change. Rauch says that even those who expected the worst from Trump’s reelection expected more rationality. Instead, they got an administration that operates like a crime family, “divvying up the spoils, sometimes quarreling, but helping each other when needed.”
Canada’s strange response in the USA’s trade war
IN-SIGHTS reader, environmentalist, and businessman Pat McCutcheon believes Justin Trudeau has tied one hand behind his back while responding against the country that aims to destroy Canada:
Outrageous Trump news
It is clear that rich American plutocrats are willing to punish poor people and America’s best neighbours, but intend to leave programs untouched if those schemes put more money into the pockets of wealthy Americans…
JFK: “We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought”
John F. Kennedy gave the commencement address at Yale University in 1962. Words Kennedy spoke more than 60 years ago are meaningful today…
All politics is about real estate
All politics is about real estate. Postmodern politics is essentially a matter of land grabs, on a local as well as a global scale. Whether you think of the question of Palestine, the settlements and the camps, or of the politics of raw materials and extraction; whether you think of ecology (and the rainforests) or the problems of federalism, citizenship, and immigration, or whether it is a question of gentrification in the great cities as well as in the shanty towns and the townships and of course the movement of the landless today everything is about land…
John Rustad: Trump is the victim
When Paul Willcocks writes commentary, I pay attention. The Tyee’s Senior Editor recently asked, “Which Side Is John Rustad On? Following are a few of the points made in The Tyee article…
“It was more like an extortion”
U.S. Representative Jasmine Crockett and Canadian comedian and actor, writer and producer Dave Foley will join as guests on this week’s episode of CNN’s Have I Got News For You, the American version of the long-running UK comedy series.
Trump “metastasizing, mutating, rapidly worsening”
A brilliant essay in The Globe and Mail. Andrew Coyne has spent decades observing and writing about Canada. He has interacted with politicians of all sorts, but none like the Russian agent in the White House. Coyne sees that democracy in North America is threatened and he presents a powerful warning…
Unqualified, conflicted governance
Even without his massive conflicts, Is Elon Musk qualified to restructure programs created by elected representatives of the people?
The current world situation
This is a guest post by Chris Merrick, a school friend who has serious concerns with the state of the world. Most of us can say that in our lifetimes, Canada has never experienced such a direct threat to its continued existence. It is vital to build country-to-country relationships in other parts of the world. The U.S. President is not our only problem because a large number of American politicians and plutocrats are Trump’s fellow travellers.
Terrifying descent into authoritarianism, racism, and cruelty
Rather than speaking truth to power, legacy media have become stenographers with amnesia, hiding the truth through the use of anodyne adjectives, convoluted phrasing and buried leads. In some cases, they have been explicitly muzzled by media owners.
“You won’t have to vote anymore”
Dan Rather was a star of the news business for years before he left CBS. From the 1980s to the mid-2000s, Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw, and Dan Rather were the “Big Three” of TV news in the USA. At the peak, about one in five Americans watched them. Today, about one in twenty Americans see flagship news shows of the legacy networks…
Despicable bedfellows
Professor Robert Reich is a public affairs commentator published in a broad range of forums. His Substack platform is always worth reading. A recent entry argues that that under Elon Musk, Twitter has fully embraced the political right. As evidence, Reich offers the robber baron’s lovefest with book-banning culture warrior Ron DeSantis.
Scraping the barrel bottom
The Trump campaign suggested journalists to be considered as moderators in 2020 Presidential debates. Jonathan Swan and Chris Wallace were not on the list. These people were…
You have no choice; you have owners.
George Carlin: “It’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
Words to die by
This comes from a person who got it from a person who got it from a place unknown. Apologies to the original creator but I think it’s worth a look.
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