Martha Stewart would like a word with you…

To be clear, there really is no such thing as a “Sovereign Citizen” except in their own brain.

They believe that there is some hidden loophole that only “smart” people understand that allows them to reap the benefits of being a part of a society without having to be subject to any of its rules; and that that cheat code is accessed via some combination of paperwork that the government keeps hidden from the public.

Essentially, to them, the social contract (ie. citizens voluntary give up certain rights like the right to speed through red lights, the right to murder, etc… and subject themselves to laws of the state in exchange for that state providing them with roads, infrastructure, stability, prosperity and the right certain inalienable freedoms) is just for suckers who don’t know the correct forms to fill out.

It’s absolute mind-numbing stupidity of the highest order.

I firmly firmly believe that she will be Prime Minister one day.

Phil Hartman has honestly been gone for so long now I’ve forgotten him. But yeah, you are correct.

As for Bill Hader. He’s the best of a bad bunch, and he’s okay, but being one of the better SNL alums is a very very low bar to cross.

And I mean, yeah…I should definitely clarify that I’m not talking about classic SNL (Eddie Murphy, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, etc…) That generation made great films after their careers at SNL ended.

• Adam Sandler

• Jennifer Lopez

• “Insert ex-Saturday Night Live actor here”

• Leonardo DiCaprio (I know it’s an unpopular opinion, but I’ve believed he was a shit actor forever and there’s a reason it took him so long to get an oscar…and it wasn’t because of “snubbing”…he was just routinely shit up until the Revenant.)

• John Travolta

• Jennifer Lawrence (Up until recently, she was literally the female DiCaprio. Everything I said about him applied to her. Unlike DiCaprio, she got far far better rather quickly and my issue with her nowadays is mostly her choice of movies just aren’t my jam.)

• Tom Cruise

Automation controlled by AI

Elysium; the Matt Damon movie where the rich live on a space station and leave the rest of us to rot.

I’m not saying it’s what’s going on right this moment, but it’s the end-goal of everything that Musk, Bezos, etc… are doing.

If this goes through, it’s going to fuck up a lot of those “other companies” that Parkland owns

I work for M&M Food Market, and we are owned by Parkland. If they get bought by Sunoco, our “Proudly Canadian” legacy goes tits up immediately.

The mistake is attributing modern social norms onto people from thousands of years ago.

We are all products of the conventions of our times.

less than 100 years ago, certain people were grossed out by sharing a diner counter with an African American. 300 years before that, some people thought that bathing was the cause of disease since it unclogged your pores and made you susceptible.

Just because you (and I…let’s be clear) think it’s gross today, doesn’t mean we would have back then.

Source?

I don’t mean that in an “I don’t believe you” way.

I literally mean that in an “I majored in Archaeology and would be interested in reading that since it’s been more than 20 years since my knowledge was up to date.”

Trump threatening Canadian sovereignty

While I agree that that was definitely a big part of it.

I’ll have to disagree when you say that PP’s similarity to Trump didn’t factor in. It most certainly did. In fact it’s the primary reason that PP wanted DESPERATELY to get an election done before Trump’s inauguration. because even before that he had been getting comparisons between his brand of populist rhetoric and Trumps.

He badly needed an election before the idea of a Trump presidency became the reality of a Trump presidency. And he knew it. He knew Trump’s stink on him would sink him, and he was right.

Yeah. I get what you’re saying now. Sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you were saying that the only reason Liberals won was because of foreign interference on their behalf.

Yes, I know very well how pervasive right wing misinformation is. I live in a part of Canada that is surrounded by it. (Saskatchewan).

The CPC deeds to de-reform itself and go back to pre-Preston Manning/Stephen Harper days. Until then, they’re all complicit, regardless of who leads them.

Much like MAGA took over the Republican Party, The Reform Part (later the Canadian Alliance) essentially took over the narrative after first breaking off from and then later rejoining the Progressive Conservatives.

if not for foreign interference

I guess that really depends on your definition of interference. Conservatives lost because Canadians took one look at the reality of Trump and decided “fuck that…we don’t want a politician who acts like him, even in any small way.”

Poppingfresh was leading only because the only person we were more sick off than him was Trudeau. Once Trudeau was out of the picture, voters basically said “Oh thank Christ…we don’t have to vote for Maple Maga.”

Trump being an ass doesn’t count as interference. And it’s ultimately Poppinfresh’s fault that he refused to pivot away from Trump-style rhetoric and polemics when even his own advisors were telling him it was a losing strategy.

Hey! Not all Khajit!

Agreed.

At this point it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if there’s a Vault-Tec or two getting ready for it.

Thankfully I suspect that it’s far too late to regain any credibility for him.

He can completely remove himself from public life and go into hiding and his very image will still be toxic as fuck to any business he is associated with. He’s nuked his own ability to run any business and I suspect people will never forget what he’s done regardless of how far he “pulls back”

No…it doesn’t point to a *deterioration in people’s faith in institutions" like the article surmises.

It points to the fact that Right Wingers especially are so enshrined in the cult of Maple Maga that they’ve adopted the “Anything I don’t agree with is rigged.” Saying that it’s about “faith in institutions” is disingenuous because they know damn well there was no rigging, but they learned from Trump that if you cry loud enough, people believe you.

No…you can’t.

Everytime you try, the government writes an executive order about it. The GOP pass a law preventing people from stopping it. The Judges who try to block it get arrested. And the Democrats let it happen.

Stop pretending civility is going to get you anywhere.

I’m currently training a new employee who comes from the “My school handed out Chromebooks” generation, and hol…eee…shit… Its frustrating as hell.

Literally every single instruction gets followed up with “no…double click”

FML