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OTD, my grandfather led his trench mortar battery at Vimy Ridge. 2nd Canadian Divisional Trench Mortars Y Battery. Below are pages from his pocket diary from that week. "Went over the bags with Johnny about 20 minutes after it had started." Good god. @sommecourt.bsky.social

Constitutional lawyer here. I don't think it would violate the Constitution for the VP/Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, but the intended constitutional remedy for this behavior is impeachment & removal. The fact that that remedy is politically impossible is a scandal and a crisis.

To be fair it’s going to be very funny when these clowns invent AGI and the super intelligent machine tells everyone to get offline, avoid processed food, stroll in the woods, seek community, eschew racism, pay high marginal rates of tax and ignore the ravings of deranged billionaires.

The cenotaph in Chester, Nova Scotia, Canada. I am always shaken by the war lists of those killed in WW1. All of these small Canadian coastal villages who contributed so many men to the CEF, and who never returned. @sommecourt.bsky.social

The Cenotaph in Trinity, Newfoundland, Canada. A moving tribute to those lost while serving with the Royal Navy and in the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. @sommecourt.bsky.social

Well, this should not surprise anyone. The kleptocrocy is in plain sight, and no one will be held to account. It is only just beginning. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

"There is nothing that recommends a police officer to the favourable notice of the public so much as kindness to the poor, to the helpless and to children." Inspector General John R McGowen Newfoundland Constabulary 1871 - 1908. Monument, St. John's Newfoundland, Canada @thehistoryguy.bsky.social

@fightingonfilm.bsky.social @sommecourt.bsky.social I remember watching Pink Floyd's The Wall when it was first released. One quick image at the beginning of the film rang a bell. The original image is of Canadian casualties in WW1. I saw this image in a book of Canadian war photographs.

Very Trump to push the North American economy into depression to change the subject from his national security team's carelessness and lies.

If it walks like a duck.... Trump may not be a 'madman,' b... www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

I am wondering the same thing, and then I think of all the American idiots I have met in the past, and it all makes sense.

No doubt

Cowards. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...

In my lifetime, I have never seen so many undone by one person's folly and juvenile grudges. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/u...

Polish Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Wałęsa and 38 other former political prisoners of Poland's communist regime have condemned Donald Trump's treatment of Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, which they said reminded them of communist interrogation techniques

That’s right. 🇺🇦

Russia’s entire history is one of endless, desperate battles for survival against apparently unstoppable conquerors; of stunning defensive grit and unlikely victories. That they and their lackeys are calling Ukraine’s resistance ‘futile’ is a joke in the nation of Nevsky, Donskoy, Kutuzov & Zhukov

You first.

As of February 20, 2025, the U.S. national debt was $36.22 trillion. These tariffs and have more to do with USA miss management than border issues. The citizens want tax cuts, new cars and trips to Disney Land. And they want the rest of the world to pay for it. Good luck in your next war neighbor.

Canada seems to be the only country, or people for that matter, that have the courage to stand up to this person. But Canada has always stood up to bullies. Proud of you boys. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Can we also keep in mind that while Zelenskyy like Churchill 1940-45 postponed elections, Trump in peacetime tried to overturn by violence an election he lost - and has since pardoned all the co-conspirators in his attempted coup?

We are living in a period of rich, selfish, gutless cowards. They are going to sell out a country, and it's people for the sake of a real-estate deal, and so oligarchs can get back to spending money on 5th Ave. I don't know what to say to my kids. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump will say he will aid Putin if Ukraine doesn’t roll over. That’s all he’s got. Dealmaking at its most sophisticated level. (Sarcasm)

Zelensky says the only Russian he’ll meet for peace talks is Putin Exactly right. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

Well, he's done.....next? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...

Quebec newspapers always say it best.

For a "fighter," he certainly did not put up much of a fight. It was all political theater. He lost like the loser that he is.

“Trump is behaving like a man who has lost the appetite for aggressive tariffs—if he ever had it in the first place,” Rogé Karma writes:

This is my mood today!

I’ve made this article free to read. It explores all the parallels between Trump and Wilhelm II in terms of rhetoric. And obviously things turned out great with the latter. achurchill.substack.com/p/article-fo...