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Mainly through FB groups I belong to!

Leonardo Da Vinci And Mona Lisa 1504. Photographed by Keith Richards

PR Strategist Melissa Nathan’s Role in Smearing Heard & Lively

This is very true where I live. I am deep in the rich heartland of a Conservative district, a Liberal or, heaven forbid, an NDP or Green, candidate will never be elected here. However this is not a poor area. As you note in your post this is an area where there are a lot of small business owners, the "pulled myself up by the bootstraps" type and a lot of them have the Musk mentality - there is no such thing as homelessness, just mentally ill or drugged out people who are scum of the earth.

I know there are people genuinely struggling this year. But that said I keep seeing articles about how this Christmas is breaking travel records and the stores are packed. This cartoon sums up my feelings about the way a lot of people are bitching about prices but they aren't really doing any belt tightening.

What I found funny back on The Day of Insurrection was how angry Trump was that the people being filmed looked about as trailer trash as you can get. Stupid costumes being the least of it. Trump knows he appeals to the mentally ill and the gullible but somehow he seemed surprised that they were the ones showing up - not the Ivy League boys in three piece suits.

Agreed. And more basically anyone who got huffy about Hilary using the word deplorable and decided she was talking about them was astronomically unlikely to have voted for her in the first place.

Do you think having Gaetz out of the picture might help a bit? I know he wasn't the only one who went after Kevin McCarthy but he led the charge.

Did he really threaten to do that? Not that this surprises me.

So much this! On a bright note in this regard in Ottawa the woman who was the face of Ottawa Public Health during the Covid pandemic - and who dealt with an absolute crapload of grief from those who figured they were so much smarter than she was, grief that included death threats, was recently appointed as the new CEO of the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario. So sometimes good people doing a hard job get rewarded. I'm still waiting though for the day people like Trump get their comeuppance. Dammit, I want a comeuppance!

In a rally this past summer Trump, taking a leaf right out of the Nazi playbook, called migrants "animals" and "not human". But sure I guess us calling out his supporters and using less than immaculate language is the real problem facing the US right now.