Yesterday we read Kinsella’s post about a white power, Alt.Right handbill posted in his neighbourhood. Today we have an account from CBC Ottawa of a woman, Anna Maranta, a rabbi no less, who awakened in the early hours of Tuesday morning to find a swastika and the word “kike” spray
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The Disaffected Lib: Stiglitz Throws Down the Gauntlet to America’s President-Elect
Donald Trump has promised to “make America great again.” That was his whole schtick and he rode it to an upset win over the odds-on favourite, Hillary Clinton. Unfortunately Trump was feeding his Gullibillies a diet rich in horseshit. Now that they’re used to the taste he has to deliver.
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Trumpism in Canada, Part 1: Ontario
You might be shocked to hear this, but Donald J. Trump is not popular politically in Canada. In fact, according to any poll he isn’t popular almost anywhere, including within the country he’ll now lead. Yet the man convincingly won an election through the Electoral College – the question is,
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Trumpism in Canada, Part 1: Ontario
You might be shocked to hear this, but Donald J. Trump is not popular politically in Canada. In fact, according to any poll he isn’t popular almost anywhere, including within the country he’ll now lead. Yet the man convincingly won an election through the Electoral College – the question is,
Continue readingAgainst the Grain: A few Canadian candids captured during the results of the US Election
I was tuned in to CBC while the results were rolling in and shortly before Clinton’s campaign manager came onto the stage to send everyone home, Mark Critch (right hand side) popped up on the TV screen wearing this expression: Screencap from CBC There’s not much to laugh at regarding this
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Let’s Not Be Under any Illusions. Alt.Right Lives and It Will Have a Voice in Trump’s White House.
I’ve been using the word “AmeriKa” to refer to Trumpland. Now it seems I might be infringing on somebody else’s intellectual property rights. Kinsella found this handbill plastered on what appears to be a light post near his neighbourhood. I was a bit surprised to see the URL for america.org.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Neoliberal Racket
George Monbiot traces the origins of neoliberalism and how to seized control of political and economic thought in the West eventually leading to the election of Donald Trump. At a meeting a few months after Margaret Thatcher became leader of the Conservative party, one of her colleagues, or so the
Continue readingAgainst the Grain: Million-Woman March on Trump’s Inauguration
Washington, DC residents and folks who can get there, take note: There are some murmurings of a march on Trump’s inauguration in support of women’s rights, which the Republican platform is set to erode. According to preliminary plans posted on Facebook, the march will take place on Saturday, January 21,
Continue readingAgainst the Grain: I’ll just leave this here for the Trumpkins
Thanks The Recovering Conservative for bringing this to my attention. -Shiv
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Gwynne Dyer at University of Regina
I’ve been to two other Gwynne Dyer lectures at the U of R, and each time they are very interesting presentations of what has happened in the world. There is also a little predicting going on, so if you’re curious what could happen, settle in, and listen to it all.
Continue readingAgainst the Grain: What happens in the US doesn’t stay in the US
The question of what America’s progressives are going to do next is a complex one. There are many US analysts attempting to dissect the bloated carcass of the 2016 election and for my part I’m probably going to take a while to really take stock in terms of action in
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: A Picture Worth a Thousand Words –
He’ll have a hard time backpedaling on his promise to kick start AmeriKa’s coal mines back into production. That probably begins by eviscerating the Environmental Protection Agency, perhaps getting rid of it altogether. There are plenty of industries that would like that. Climate scientists look at AmeriKa’s president-elect and what
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Are Establishment Republicans Cowering in Their Cellars?
Once he’s sworn into office, could Trump unleash his very own, Republican Reichsmordwoche or “night of the long knives”? That was the week when Adolph Hitler purged his movement of potential threats, such as SA head Ernst Rhom. The number murdered by the SS and Gestapo is unknown. 85 prominent
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Has Trump Committed Treason?
The National Observer’s Sandy Garrosino, journalist, entrepreneur and former Crown Attorney, certainly thinks so. America, you have been plunged into crisis, and so has the entire world. Do not normalize this outrage by parsing voter data and internecine partisan recriminations. Unite, resist, stand against it, and defend your precious democracy.
Continue readingWe Pivot: Who Is Canada’s Bernie Sanders?
As we pivot to a new world, of course, we’ll have to contend with the election of Trump as president. But it’s not an absolute road block. Yesterday I wrote about how Trump won because he appealed to various populations of disenfranchised people who have been screwed by the political
Continue readingMichal Rozworski: Don’t mourn, organize! Sarah Jaffe on organizing before and after Trump
You could almost hear the whole world hold its breath as the night of November 8th dragged on and Donald Trump’s march towards the presidency became clearer. While it may be trite, Joe Hill’s famous dictum “Don’t mourn; organize!” rings true today. My guest, journalist and author Sarah Jaffe, is
Continue readingWe Pivot: What Political Scientists and Pollsters Don’t Know
Clearly a great deal. Polling is broken. Random sampling is gone. People lie. People self-select. People self-deselect. Pollsters try to adjust for demographics, but they fail. Political scientists? Most of us do not have enough of a sense of the breadth of the populace to have been able to expect
Continue readingWe Pivot: Healing America Begins Now; Let’s Join Them!
It’s not Trump. It’s a country that makes Trump possible. It’s not Clinton vs. Sanders. It’s about building the world we want and making our leaders follow us. You know how much they love the polls. It’s about hope, optimism and pivoting: finding our pivot foot in the areas of
Continue readingTrashy's World: An election that Rod Serling would be frightened by…
Seriously. This past year or so has been something out of the Twilight Zone. So surreal and way beyond the bounds of imagination. So today is the day, my dear neighbours to the south. For the sane ones – don’t drop the ball on this one. get off your chesterfields
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The View from Germany. Drumpf Is For Losers.
The message from the photo in Der Spiegel couldn’t be any clearer. In Donald Trump’s America even the flag is in for a grope. They find that Trump is the messenger announcing that democracy in the US is at a dead-end. The real story is that of the last 35 years.
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