Open Letter from Canadian to Maga and Maple Leaf Maga

This is an open letter from Jim Elliot who is a news reporter, I think he is in the Yukon:

Dear 77,301,997 Trump-Loving, Conspiracy-Huffing, Rage-Addicted Americans (And the Canadian Dumbfucks Who Worship Them)
Oh, hey there. Sit down. Read this. Try not to cry.

Listen, I get it. You think we’re just a bunch of polite, snow-loving, maple syrup-chugging pushovers up here in Canada. You’ve been misled. We’re polite, sure. But only until we get pissed off. And you, dear MAGA cultists, are testing our fucking patience.

Let’s clear up a few things about who we actually are, because you seem to be confused. We’re a country that gives a shit about our elders, our kids, and our most vulnerable. We actually value education instead of treating it like some left-wing brainwashing experiment. We don’t get all horny over billionaires hoarding wealth while our neighbours die in poverty. We don’t fantasize about returning to the 1940s, and we sure as hell don’t think the most corrupt sack of shit on the planet was personally chosen by God.

Who does that? Oh right—you.

But let’s go deeper.
We’ve Always Been Your Best Fucking Neighbour—So What the Hell Happened?
Time and time again, Canada has been there when the U.S. needed us.

World War I? We were in the trenches before you even showed up. World War II? We were storming the beaches of Normandy while you were still debating whether or not to help. Korea, Afghanistan, peacekeeping missions—you name it, we’ve had your back. We sent our firefighters to help when California burned. When Katrina wiped out New Orleans, we were there. And on 9/11? We fucking welcomed thousands of stranded Americans into our homes, because that’s what decent people do.

And what did we ask for in return? Nothing. We didn’t demand grovelling gratitude or threaten to “never help again” if you didn’t kiss our ass. That’s your toxic, transactional bullshit—not ours.

Enter Your Mango-Coloured Messiah: A Convicted Criminal With a Cult

So after all that, what do we get? Your country elects a spray-tanned sociopath with a vocabulary of a Grade 3 dropout, and suddenly we’re the bad guys? You’ve got a convicted fraudster leading your country—a man who insults war heroes, mocks the disabled, and jerks off to the thought of authoritarian rule—and we’re the problem? You’ve got a party foaming at the mouth to gut democracy, roll back civil rights, and turn the U.S. into a theocratic shithole, but we’re the ones who should shut up?
Nah. Fuck that.

And to the Canadian Trump Bootlickers—Sit the Fuck Down
I can already hear the Canadian MAGA muppets shrieking, “Mind your own broken country!” Oh, sweetheart. If Canada were actually broken, it would be because of dumbass conservatives like you who take marching orders from a foreign conman.

Is Canada perfect? Of course not. But unlike you bootlicking clowns, we don’t rally behind leaders who openly admire fascists and flirt with the idea of rounding up immigrants. We don’t foam at the mouth over the idea of a “war on woke” while pretending climate change isn’t real. And we certainly don’t suck off billionaires while pretending trickle-down economics isn’t a scam.

You morons scream about freedom, but what you really mean is the freedom to be an ignorant, unvaccinated, gun-hoarding dipshit. The moment someone else—be it a woman, an immigrant, or a person of colour—wants the same freedom you enjoy? Oh no, suddenly that’s tyranny. Fuck off with that hypocrisy.

Canada Isn’t Broken—You Just Can’t Handle Reality

What do we actually have in Canada? Universal health care. Sensible gun laws. A social safety net that, while imperfect, at least tries to keep people from starving in the streets.

Meanwhile, in your MAGA utopia, you can literally go bankrupt because you got cancer. You send kids to school in bulletproof backpacks because you refuse to do anything about mass shootings. You’re so brainwashed by billionaires that you think raising the minimum wage is worse than cutting taxes for a corporation that made $100 billion last quarter.

And you have the fucking gall to call us broken?

Mind My Own Business? I Fucking Wish

Oh, I’d love to. Really, I would. But here’s the problem—when you share a border with a country of over 300 million people, and that country elects a conspiracy-loving, anti-science lunatic to power, it becomes my business.
When your president guts economic, military, and trade alliances that help keep the world stable? That’s my business. When your leader openly muses about invading sovereign countries—including ours? That’s definitely my business.
And when a bunch of dumbfuck Canadians start acting like America’s the blueprint for success, despite all evidence to the contrary? That’s all of our business.

We’re Watching, and We’re Not Impressed

So, dear Trump cultists, both American and Canadian: we’re onto you. We see your bullshit, your hypocrisy, your complete detachment from reality. And we’re not buying a single second of it.

We’re your neighbours, your allies, your friends—but we’re not your doormats. We’re polite, but we’re not fucking stupid. And right now? We’re watching. Closely.

Warmest regards,
A Canadian Who’s Had Enough of Your Bullshit

Just heard on BBC that EU has now set counter tariffs

On US. I heard earlier the UK did not, what the hell is wrong with them? And so the world war of tariffs heats up.

Doug Ford has already backed off his 25% surcharge on electricity to have a meeting with Lutnick.

for a meeting. What a weenie, keep them on until the meeting, which is supposed to happen on Thursday. When do we learn, do not trust this admin in any way.

There is an app to find events and protests that works with indivisible and other organizations.

It is called Mobilize.US

You can apparently look by zip code or town or city name.
I haven't looked at it because I am Canadian but read it on a comment on Rick Wilson's substack.

I hope it works for you all!

The Lincoln Project is out with their new closing ad for Kamala Harris

with the voices of those from the series West Wing. A very solid closing.

Help get the word out to Hurricane ravaged states with billboards telling them the truth.

I received this email today and I thought I would pass it on to those who can to donate to raise billboards to tell the citizens the truth about who is helping them and Trump's record of not helping people during disasters. I am copying the full text and people can donate through Act Blue.

Billboards to Expose Trump (via MoveOn)
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Dear MoveOn member,

As Hurricanes Helene and Milton ravaged the Southeast over the past month, Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans spread rampant disinformation about the federal government's response—which slowed disaster relief and led to death threats against Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) staff and even meteorologists.1

As unconscionable as it is, politicizing disaster relief, including when lives hang in the balance, is not new for Trump. As president, he cut $155 million from FEMA.2 $155 million! And multiple high-level officials who served in his administration say he also deliberately denied disaster relief funds to states that did not vote for him.3

As early voting gets underway and the Southeast states recover from the devastating hurricanes, MoveOn is putting up billboards in Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina—critical battleground states—spotlighting Trump's decision to cut $155 million from disaster relief funds during his presidency. The billboards serve as a stark reminder of Trump's priorities and the way his policies harm communities. We're putting them up in places with the highest concentration of left-leaning "surge voters"—largely young people and people in other marginalized groups who do not consistently vote. These are the very same voters we're focused on turning out through our data-driven, large-scale get-out-the-vote program.

The billboards launch tomorrow in Raleigh, Charlotte, Savannah, and West Palm Beach and will run through Election Day. But if we raise the money, we can put the billboard up in other highly strategic locations in the battleground states. Will you start a weekly donation through Election Day to help us get the truth to more voters as millions cast their votes?

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Former Trump administration officials have come forward to share that, when he was in the White House, Trump severely restricted emergency relief to Puerto Rico in the wake of the devastating Hurricane Maria in 2017, initially refused to release federal disaster aid for wildfires in California in 2018, and withheld wildfire assistance for Washington state in 2020, because voters in those places didn't vote for him in sufficient numbers.4

Kevin Carroll, former senior counselor to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly during Trump's term, told The Guardian, "It was clear that Trump was entirely self-interested and vengeful towards those he perceived didn't vote for him. He even wanted to pull the navy out of Hawaii because they didn't vote for him. We were appalled – these are American civilians the government is meant to provide for. The idea of withholding aid is antithetical to everything you want from a leader."5

Trump approved disaster aid to California in the wake of the devastating wildfires in 2018 only after his aides provided him data showing that Orange County, which was hard hit by the wildfires, has large numbers of Republican voters, according to Olivia Troye, a former Homeland Security adviser during the Trump administration.
Left-leaning infrequent voters in Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina deserve to know the truth about Trump's record slashing FEMA funds and denying disaster relief to communities in dire need. Will you start a weekly donation through Election Day to help us put up more of these billboards in areas with high concentrations of these surge voters?


We're down to the wire in the closest presidential race in modern history.

Everything we do in the next 14 days matters. MoveOn is reaching out to left-leaning infrequent voters in battleground states personally through their friends and family as well as via text, phone, ads, social media influencers, and now billboards.

We're in this together through Election Day—and after, regardless of the outcome. But right now, please join us in doing everything we can through Election Day to elect Vice President Harris, send Trump to the dustbin of history, and deal a major blow to MAGA.

Thanks for all you do.

–Toni, Cheryl, Chris, Aliya, and the rest of the team

P.S. Don't miss out on the fun! MoveOn members are connecting with voters in battleground states daily, asking them to remind their friends and family to vote, which is proven to increase turnout by 8.3%! RSVP for a few election phone banks now so we can celebrate together after November 5 when we elect Kamala Harris and Tim Walz!

P.P.S. Here's the billboard:

Sources:

1. "'Vengeful' Trump withheld disaster aid and will do so again, ex-officials warn," The Guardian, October 13, 2024
https://act.moveon.org/go/198509?t=23&akid=412001%2E55655883%2EzyImvh

2. "Trump falsely claims Biden used FEMA funds for migrants -- something Trump did himself," ABC News, October 7, 2024
https://act.moveon.org/go/198498?t=25&akid=412001%2E55655883%2EzyImvh

3. "'Vengeful' Trump withheld disaster aid and will do so again, ex-officials warn," The Guardian, October 13, 2024
https://act.moveon.org/go/198509?t=27&akid=412001%2E55655883%2EzyImvh

4. Ibid.

5. Ibid.

6. Ibid.


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Trump's reply to Smith in Chutkan's court just dropped, I am just reading now

but seems to be the same old argument about information coming out before the election, which Chutkan has already dismissed that defence previously. Here it is to read

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149.248.0.pdf

For those who think Frank Luntz has any credibility as a pollster

I just saw an interview with him on BBC and this is what he said (paraphrased):

VP Harris is judged on how she looks and presents herself, Trump is judged on his policies.

That statement is not from a sane pollster.

"Could be one of those black jobs"

ProPublica has published the training videos from Project 25, for government appointees.

I have not had time to watch them all but have put them aside to watch later today.