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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 7h

Charlie Pierce absolutely nailed the description calling him a man with a head filled wth rancid pudding in place of a brain, pudding that is slowly leaking out of his ears.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 7h

Crime and Squalor? Well that fits the White House with it current occupant.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 8h

You are in a war for the soul of your country against the absolute evil of the Republican Party. They have to be wiped out of the body politic in a campaign that will be as difficult as de-Nazification of Germany after the Second World War. But that is absolutely the task that awaits you.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 8h

That’s the typical milquetoast Democratic response that absolutely no one is looking for. The Republican Party, and Trump, are enemies of your country. Get off your asses and start treating them as such.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 13h

I thought maybe it was a Russian Bot but then recalled that there are sadly a lotof shitty dull-witted people who reside on this platform.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

And time for the west to start making the United States pay for its rogue regime. Start dumping all the intelligence on Trump’s criminality - there’s got to be quite a bit in the hands of the various intelligence services. Start leaking it to the media.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Just fucking pathetic. The election of Donald Trump for a first and then second Presidential term - now that’s an indelible stain that will never be removed. And the entire world will remember.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yes and it should have been clear to them that he was entirely unsuited and inappropriate for the position - just as the rest of Trump’s nominations, without a single exception, have been.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’d like to see international arrest warrants issued by the court for Trump, Rubio, and other members of the administration involved in this.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What you’re noting is needed is essentially analogous to the de-nazification campaign that was implemented in Germany after the Second World War. I think that is precisely what is needed.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The way his cabinet members and supporters talk about him is like something straight out of North Korea. Trump is an absolutely appalling individual but the people who truly lack any self-respect at all are his cabinet members, officials, and Republican politicians.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well written and well argued. For myself I am sick and tired of mediocre white men continually given hands up the ladder to positions that they repeatedly do not deserve on the merits.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

2 absolute pieces of shit in that picture.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We’re always told that sport builds character. Rarely is it admitted just what type of character sport often builds.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Well they’d all be members of House Frey that’s for sure.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hold the WH in contempt, expedite punishment of the Department of Justice lawyers and any personnel in the White House who acted in deliberate non-compliance.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

They really need to add terrorism charges to that.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ah Suella Braverman. Not only is she malicious and dumb as a fence post, but a beautification project in the area she lives would be advanced most quickly by preventing her from going out in public.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Is it not long past time that the Department of Justice lawyers filing these be taken to the woodshed from the start - An absolute failure in a duty of candor as an officer of the court should lead to immediate reporting to the bar. At some point DOJ needs to be dissuaded from filing such nonsense

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think of them less as refugees and more as people who may have substantial skills and education and who would, even without those particular attributes, contribute tremendously to our country. But it’s certainly fair to point out that there would need to be considerable work to accommodate.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

what’s frustrating is that it’s a Liberal government that’s bringing this in - and this is consistent with their policy of campaigning from the left while governing from the right. This is their DNA, and the only time things really get better is when there’s a political threat from the NDP.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Canada still has an agreement in place which treats the United States as a safe third country for refugee claimants - which given the Trump Administrations current policies and actions (terror) is an absolute moral stain on Canada. So I’m not overly optimistic.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Is such a danger to publicly funded healthcare even though it’s held out as a means to reduce waiting times for procedures by shifting some (more affluent) people to a ‘parallel system’.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yes it’s also the argument for why universality is such an important component of policies like social assistance and healthcare. As we’ve learned in Canada the strategy to rolling back social programs and social progress often starts with eliminating universality. It’s why for-profit healthcare

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Weakening federal protections so that more damned money can be shoveled into the pockets of large corporations and hedge funds is a disastrous strategy - one that a diversity of animal species as well as human beings will end up paying for in a variety of of non-monetary ways.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It is true - The Ford government, and I suspect most provincial governments, continually override environmental protections in order to promote whatever development they’re in favor of (or being paid to be in favor of). 413 is just one in a long line of examples - Ring of fire is another one.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Unfortunately in Ontario the EA process is no longer worth the paper it’s written on.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The biggest advancement in Democratic Party political prospects could be achieved by turning flamethrowers on their political consultants and big financial backers.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Problem is that the Canada Energy Regulator will weigh projects on only the narrowest of technical grounds - impact on the climate and the environment will only play the most minimal role in their reviews. They won’t consider about increased oil shipping impacts on the whale population.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Marcy Kaptur is an absolute disgrace. She should be hounded from public life for taking such positions. Better Democratic politicians and candidates are desperately needed. I can certainly understand why transgender individuals and their supporters would not go out to vote for that candidate.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Has a kind of Monty Python women’s group does their reenactment of the Battle of Pearl Harbor, except that in this case it would be the reenactment of the Toronto Blue Jays attempt to get a playoff spot.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Everybody in the entire chain of command that participated in that atrocity, whether they were involved in the intelligence, planning, authorization, or actually planning - should be held liable and criminally charged with committing a war crime. From top to bottom.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Is there a journalist who could bother to ask Republican politicians, repeatedly and at any of their press events, why they think it’s reasonable for McConnell to be paid while off on medical leave while ordinary Americans aren’t?

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Bari Weiss is white mediocrity personified. Check that - she’d actually have to significantly up her performance to be merely mediocre.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Probably because that consultant industry is mainly focused on stuffing dollars into their own pockets, and they have never been held to account.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Obama mobilized a large mass of people for his campaign and those people and that infrastructure could have continued to have been utilized and even strengthened during his administration. Instead it was just rolled up after his election and a powerful, progressive asset was eliminated.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Well now I can truthfully use that line from Haley Joel Osment. I see dead people.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Opening up to private investment = being stripped bare by hedge fund assholes.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There are no Presidential pardons for violations of state law. State Attorney Generals should look to charge these individuals, there superiors, and Trump with criminal offenses.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If only he and his father-in-law and the rest of the Cabinet members of the Administration could simply be handed over to the Iranians, for the Iranians to do as they please with them. On the other hand the Iranians would probably hand them right back.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Nice to see a club at or near the top of the Premiership, even temporarily, that isn’t completely flush with cash and seemingly able to buy every damn good player on the planet - many of whom just sit on the bloody bench.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Seriously in an even moderately sensible and more country the Republican Party would be wiped out - not a single elected office holder from that Party would remain after the next few elections. It is an absolutely witless party with not an ounce of self-respect, integrity, or intellectual ability

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Rice, Rumsfeld, Bush, Cheney - Just an inexcusable collection of evil and stupidity which set the path to this current regime.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This! Republicans are a disaster from a national security and economic standpoint. They are the worst. And of course the mainstream press never calls them on it.

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dougb1.bsky.social @dougb1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Well I think given how much the United States has lost from its various adventures in the region that it likely was has been the success he wanted - albeit in quite a different manner than he would have predicted.

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