Ugh. That episode hits hard this week
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As a slow cyclist, I'd totally wear this.
This is the real danger of Trump: that countries the world over will bend the knee to other autocrats in the absence of American soft power.
Having seen Poillievre, I don't think he will do this.
If he just shuts up about "the woke" and just talks about the price of milk, he'd have this in the bag, but he can't shut up about "the woke" because the kind of people who vote in CPC conventions talk about "woke" all the goddamn time, and he knows that if doesn't go on about "the woke" some opportunistic usurper will shiv him.
I sorely wish the CPC party members had voted for Chong or kept O'Toole. I'd be annoyed about austerity spending, but not worried about fascism.
Considering he's in power purely as a result of catering to the whackjob right that thought O'Toole was too sane, I would not put faith in his ability to keep the whackjobs under control.
It's the old "What's the problem with riding a tiger? You can't get off without getting eaten." problem that comes from courting populism.
Ohio just voted for a convicted rapist and felon who ran the worst campaign in modern history.
I don't have any faith in America at all and the US "heartland" specifically. If Trump told them to cut their own genitals off, they'd do it.
Because Ford needs you angry about bike lanes while he does his 413 land grab.
That's why bike lanes are in this bill: Ford doesn't care about them, they're just a hail-mary to distract for the other measures in the bill meant to get his highway-to-nowhere built and his developer buddies their ROI.
When you realize that a huge amount of the small- and medium-size right-wing media ecosphere is funded by herbal boner pills, you'll understand why this is a thing.
He's doing this to keep eyes off of the 413.
The more "bike lanes!!" ragebait he stirs up, the less people pay attention to the clauses in the act about eminent domain, skipping environmental assessments or skipping the civil engineers that are on strike.
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Make Polio Great Again
We used to have progressive income taxes that did this.
Reagan, Thatcher and their ilk pulled them because "trickle down, a rising tide lifts all boats, thousand points of light, blah blah blah"
Representives Omar and Tlaib would disprove that point.