H.S. Donnelly

H.S. Donnelly

@hsdonnelly.bsky.social

Married. Canadian. Won't follow you back if you have a "show me your tits" profile pic. TRUMP supporters stay away. Astronomy, news, writing, photos (not very serious). Enjoy reading thoughtful posts even if I don't completely agree with 'em.

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#Canada, #USmid-terms Is Canada being set up to be "the fall guy" when the Republicans suffer a humiliating loss in the mid-term elections? A bit rich coming from a White House that met with Alberta Separatists and offered them a 1/2 trillion loan if Alberta voted to separate.

Why would anyone think this 27 yr old knew all that much about finance, crypto, etc? And didn't anyone think it was a bit weird that they had to buy 'crypto currency' to be able to invest in a 'trading platform'? If it is overly complex, be suspicious. Jail time for this hot-shot.

Why do some Americans still support Donald Trump? Answer: Many Americans finish high school barely knowing how to read. Reasons? a) Underfunded (crappy) schools in poor areas. b) 'Christian' charter schools. c) Home-schooling. For b) & c), no state regulations. So they teach what they want.

So you move to the U.S. and have taken out U.S. citizenship. But maybe you aren't REALLY a citizen when the rules change? And if you have children, does that mean they too REALLY aren't citizens either? Or maybe you can remain a citizen if you don't upset the government too much? 😒

One more item in his dementia-ridden speech. And, given that he has a long list of "grieviances" with Canada, do you really think Canada would end up better off if Trump managed to do this?

The Incoherence of Chairman Trump: Trump decides to issue Presidental Pardons to 2 guys who ran a business removing polution controls on vehicles. a) Trivial offense? b) No sign of any contriteness by the pardonees. c) Anyone understand what Trump said here? d) Symptoms of dementia?

What else is new? Trump is handing out Presidental Pardons to a couple of men who removed the air polution controls on trucks. (Heck, who needs that?). Once Presidential Pardons were a serious matter, designed for exemplatory felons who deserved pardons. Now just a cheap campaign gimick. 🤡

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I support removing his name from everything—except history books. He should be written about truthfully in the hopes it won’t happen again.

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Wow, has Danielle Smith finally woke up to the game Alberta Seperatists have been playing? This has been pretty obvious for some time. So what sort of game has she been playing? Myself, if I happened to be living in Alberta, I'd be embarrassed to have had any part in this scheme.

Judges have already been complaining about the behaviour of U.S. Justice Department employees in court. This doesn't look like it is going to help matters. But hey, why bother going to the trouble of hiring competent people if you aren't concerned too much about "following the law"?

Just to get ahead of the nonsense that will spew from the White House: Seperatist PQ party won the election in Quebec yesterday. But they only got 30% of the vote. So only 30-40% or so are likely to vote Yes to seperate from Canada. So no, Canada isn't about to break up.

Canadian Exodus. My grandparents started going down to Florida for the winter once gasoline rationing was lifted after WWII. My parents started going down too in the mid 80's when my father retired. If my mother were still around and still had the condo in FL, she likely would be selling too. 🙄

Trump's war on the Cdn steel industry is paying dividends. Funny, though, how the U.S. Exec can "support Trump" and "the Cdn workers" he is laying off. The other steel maker in Hamilton (Dofasco) was bought by the Belgians and is doing fine.

As usual, Poilievre is advocating 'tax cuts' to solve high diesel prices. And scrap the carbon tax, another bug-a-boo of the right wing. No mention about what the government ought to do to make up for the lost tax revenue. He'll tell us that after he forms the government.

The U.S. had half a million soldiers in South Vietnam to put down the insurgency there and in the end the U.S. Embassy had to be evacuated by helicopter. Canada has 2 1/2 the population and 60 times the area of S. Vietnam. So how many soldiers do you think the U.S. would need?

Fishing for excuses. We've already seen this with Trump rumaging through the law code to find laws that allow him impose tariffs without having to bother going through Congress. Now it's NATIONAL SECURITY concerns to punish the media that "aren't singing from the same songbook".

Another Trump Grift. Trump's board running the Kennedy Center is "de-accessioning outdated or inappropriate artworks". And, of course, people have to pay up $100K to join the council that will select new art artworks. Remind you a lot of the N*ZI's famous "Degenerate Art Exhibit"?

EPA to open the spigots on air pollution in an attempt to keep coal-fired generating plants operational. EPA ==> Decrease Air Polution by Allowing Increased CO2 Emissions. Welcome to Oceana, folks. Freedom is Slavery War is Peace Truth is Lies Praise Big Brother!

Oh my, a greal gold mine today! So Canada is dying to make a trade deal. And Iran is dying to make a peace deal. If you are consistently caught lying, people soon stop paying attention.

CBC article : > MAGA supporter Tina Bentley says she trusts the president's handling of the economy. > "I think he's a smart man. [H]e cares 100 per cent about America," she said. > "God didn't use perfect people to do his work. He used people like Trump to do his work." No thinking required.

Studying "A.I. Consciousness"? Really? We're talking about a bunch of computer programs. Very sophisticated and complicated. But no, A.I. isn't about to wake up and start thinking, "What am I doing here?" Makes as much sense as saying self-driving cars are going to start writing poetry.

More stupidity and prejudice from the Trump Regime? What exactly is a "D.E.I. Bike Path" anyway? Is there some official monitoring the path check that there are enough "diverse cyclists" using the path? If you spent a moment thinking about this, the whole idea is ridiculous. 🙄

The Donald Trump Party continues its policy of carefully curating the media and punishing media organizations that "aren't singing from the same songbook". Didn't a certain Austrian gentleman do the same thing in Germany during the 1930's?

You wonder how fair the U.S. mid-term elections will be when you read these sorts of things. The only certainty is that if the Republicans get thrashed, Donald Trump will claim races where the Democrat won was rigged. But if the Republican wins, the election will have been entirely fair. 🙄

DTJ busy with AI again. The original photo was taken in Hamilton Ont a couple of years ago. In the real photo, the Canada Goose was fighting off the eagle. AI, Original. Draw your own conclusions.

Fri Aug 21. Trade talks have collapsed. We'd have been better off to have a trade deal. But a bad deal isn't worth signing. And hard to get a good deal with someone intent on crushing the Cdn economy. "Reciprocity of Trade or Reciprocity of Tariffs" as they said in the 1930's. [Shrug.]

I'm sure many of us have been put in a situation where you just can't win. So you take your lumps and move on in some fashion or other. The 'buck' sure doesn't stop at the desk of THIS President, does it?

I suspect many of us at one time or another have found themselves in a situation where you just cannot win. Here, the proverbial 'buck' definitely doesn't stop at the Oval Office in the White House.

This is rather amusing. Trump starts a war with Iran. But . . . Well, they've run out of ideas as to "What to do next". i.e. Threatening and bombing Iran hasn't produced the desired results and there is no "Plan B".

Whoa! If you are travelling to the U.S., best be careful about what is on your phone, digital media, etc. Given how the current U.S. Administration is going after people for pretty flimsy reasons (Think: The Reflecting Pool Vandal), there is probably good reason to be careful.