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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

So… supply creates demand, now? Did anyone on Squawk Box challenge him?

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Trump understands- he’s just following his orders from the Kremlin…

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Wasn’t the Kennedy Center renovated just six years ago for $250 million?

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Would the transfer of shares to pay the wealth tax be a taxable event resulting in recognition of the gains accrued on the transferred shares? (I.e., so the act of paying the wealth tax would also result in triggering capital gains tax too?)

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

But not quite. In fact, it’s one of the few places on Earth where one can actually see the curvature of the Earth.

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Call me crazy but, employing renewable energy sources to conserve a valuable but exhaustible materials resource for future generations… wouldn’t that be the more conservative thing to do?

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

What happened to the America of Grantland Rice? When did it turn from “it matters not if you won or lost, it’s how you played the game” to venerating “greed is good” and “kick butt” as credos and values?

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

The US’ much vaunted “checks and balances” are wholly based on a presumption that the legislative, executive and judicial branches, and the free press, would be populated in the majority with people of courage and character. No provision was made for the possibility that presumption could fail.

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Why’s this an issue now, when it was a complete non-issue for the first 60 of my 77 years on earth? Maybe 1 in a thousand is transgender and I’m sure that 1’s been comfortably using and continues to use their gender’s restroom without incident or anyone even noticing, let alone raising a fuss.

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Forgive me, I thought you were defending the bombing against Kinzinger’s implied criticism thereof.

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Has it not occurred to you that this US bombing could accelerate their acquiring nukes “for their own protection”, either by their own means or by getting them from their allies, like N. Korea, China or… Russia?

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

It’s interesting how, once the four of them have you helplessly pinned to the ground, they always find it necessary to beat your head in.

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

What message was the Army sending to Trump, yesterday? Obviously, the officer corps (the General Staff?) had to be in on this obvious snub. Were they telling him that the US Army can’t be used by him for his own unConstitutional ends? Let’s hope so.

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

If we’re talking about putting Man on the Moon, NASA recruited dozens of Canadian engineers specifically to work on the Apollo Space program, including the guy who headed up NASA’s Space Task Group, the lunar lander chief engineer, the guy who developed the Apollo 11 heat shield, etc., etc.

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Well you can start by stop using euphemisms like “tone deaf”. She’s not “tone deaf”. She’s uncaring, negligent and doesn’t give a sh*t about anyone other than herself.

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Ah, but how to distinguish the disinterested act from the corrupt? The inability for anyone to conclusively draw that distinction is why politicians and judges must avoid both the impropriety itself and any appearance of impropriety, too. And why there’s an emoluments clause in the Constitution.

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Is it illegal in Chicago to be both a Cubs fan and a White Sox fan?

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

And that password is "password".

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Sadly, it’s not coming “in” to the US. Whatever the actual amount is, it’s being paid by American consumers to the US treasury. Not a dime is coming from outside the US.

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Someone (i.e., an importer) has to take it to Court and then the Trump administration has to agree to follow the Courts’ decision when, 6 to 10 years from now and after all his rights to appeal are exhausted, he ultimately loses…

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

What does this mean in practice — that, if he were to become PM, he wouldn’t be allowed to see classified material, or that he’d be allowed to see classified material without having been cleared to see it? And what is he currently permitted to see as Leader of the Opposition, btw?

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Correction Senator, he and everyone else on the chat s/b impeached.

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Trump will claim every vote for the Conservatives is a vote for the US “annexing” Canada. Canada needs all the symbolic rejection of those ambitions it can muster and, thus, like him or not, PP & the CPC must “take one for the Gipper” and get clobbered this time.

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

As the Canadian party most closely identified with Trump, Trump will claim every vote for the CPC is a vote for the US “annexing” Canada. Thus, Canada needs all the symbolic rejection of those ambitions that it can muster and, like him or not, PP must “take one for the Gipper” this time.

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Q: will New York or EJC ever be able to collect those judgements from DJT?

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The Board (which he obviously owns, too) should have fired him (and the Cybertruck) long before now, for the sake of the brand. Now it’s too late and the brand’s likely tainted forever.

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

He's not an agent. "Agent" suggests the possibility of having some agency of one's own. Rather, he's "owned" lock stock and barrel by Russia in general and by Putin in particular. There's no other way to explain his actions - the dismantling of US institutions and alliances - to date.

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

It didn’t surrender, it defected to the invader’s side.

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

He would have - Trump needed full aqueducts that he could photograph to show as proof that he ordered it...

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

When are American politicians, journalists and pundits going to start clearly articulating what's been patently obvious throughout Trump's presidencies - that he's deeply compromised (due to debt or other kompromat?) & under Putin's control and that EVERYTHING he does is for the benefit of Russia.

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

… were the Presidents and congressmen who robbed the Soc/Sec trust because they didn’t have the guts to raise taxes to pay for the other stuff they wanted/needed to do to stay in office…

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Musk and the current GOP don’t understand that there was no money in the pot when Soc Sec started and, thus, has always had to be a ‘pay as you go’ pension arrangement in which we paid pensions to our parents against the promise our children would pay a pension to us. The only ‘Ponzi’… (1/2)

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Trump’s ”position on Ukraine” is driven by one factor only: doing exactly whatever Putin tells him to do.

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Can we just make the word itself illegal and start using, say, “sympathetic”, or “empathetic” (so that GOPers would have to say they are against government that is “sensitive to people’s needs”) instead?

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Oh aren’t you fun.. so nice talking to you, too!

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

You see no difference between trying to effect a “grey area” order to benefit millions and mandating minority discrimination that is expressly prohibited by both federal and state law? And which state governor did Biden seek to publicly humiliate in relation to the student loan forgiveness?

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Biden didn’t try to use Executive Orders to supplant federal and state law. He knew that existing federal or state law must prevail over an Executive Order in conflict with said law and did not seek to publicly humiliate state governors who must ignore that Order in order to comply with said law.

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Hiring additional tax auditors is always a deficit reduction money maker, typically yielding additional government revenues in the range of $1.50 to $2 for every $1 spent on additional salaries and related costs. That return ratio gets even better, the higher the income under audit.

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Two tiny corrections: (1) it’s not the US that has insulted and betrayed us, rather it’s just your Russian agent president who’s done so, and (2) rather than destabilize us, he has united Canadians, and our democratic allies, as very few others ever have before.

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Sorry, that ship has long since sailed.

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

But is it? Fox News’ nonstop dissemination of lies to incite hatred and rage has been the political equivalent of yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theatre and is largely responsible for bringing us to the perilous, and for some lethal, position we’re in today.

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Can there be any clearer evidence that Trump has been badly compromised and is abjectly under Putin’s control? Ironic that, while one needs a security clearance for a plethora of menial government jobs, none can be required as a condition of running for President. American exceptionalism, indeed.

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Ah, but only if (a) the judges are inclined to block said actions and (b) have some means of enforcing their rulings. Remind me again, by what means, exactly, can a federal court enforce a ruling against a President who doesn't wish to follow that ruling?

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

One thing for sure: however the dust ultimately settles, and regardless of MAGA’s ultimate fate, future relations between our two countries will never again attain the levels of trust and loyalty had been gained in the 150+ year relationship that Trump irretrievably brought to an end on Saturday.

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Please tell me this past week’s just been a big SNL skit?

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

How long would the tariffs last, I wonder, if retailers were to break out their tariff costs (like they do with their other sales taxes) as separate line items on their cash register receipts?

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Based on my small sample of one(1) ex-Wehrmacht foot soldier I worked with in the late 1960s, the only thing they got “wrong”, in his view, was that they lost the war. Had they won, everything would have been hunky-dory.

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Is your $17 in 2024 dollars? My recollection is that in 1969 I was getting $3.84 an hour at a relatively high paying Canadian union job and I’d have guessed that the starting rate at GM in 1970 would have been in the range of $4 to $5 ph, (including benefits). 🤷🏼

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Tom Falconer @tfalx.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Ah, but that’s not TDE. TDE is hokum anti-taxers use to rationalize NOT taxing banana man, I.e., by saying he’ll use his tax savings to hire even more people, etc, and thereby eliminate the need for social support programs that government could have otherwise paid for by taxing his banana profits.

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