I hope everyone feels safer now, and finds their eggs more affordable. Good old small government and freedom.

You show me yours and I’ll show you mine, Elon.

The centerpiece of the GMCW/NSO performance was to be an original choral composition based on author Tyler Curry-McGrath’s 2015 children’s book A Peacock Among Pigeons.

“The book is an anti-bullying book,” Curry-McGrath told Advocate. “It’s ironic that a story about embracing who you are is now being bullied out of the Kennedy Center by the president of the United States.”

It was a pro-LGBTQ+, anti-bullying performance. No wonder the fascist bully Trump got it cancelled. But I guess it isn’t cancel culture if the people you’re cancelling aren’t straight white fascist men.

NordVPN is based in Panama (and its parent company is a Lithuanian), also claims no logs, and often has very cheap deals. People get irritated with their adverts but the service itself seems good. Of course, you can’t know for sure who is trustworthy but Nord looks OK.

Though if Trump invades Panama it might be time to look for another VPN provider.

The main thing they look for in an asset, apart from access and connections, is leverage. You want someone who can be easily manipulated - for example through flattery, someone indebted who can be made desperate, someone venal who can be bribed, someone unscrupulous who can be made to compromise themselves, someone with sexual or other secrets they need to keep secret. Trump would absolutely be the ideal candidate.

Released in April 2024; killed in February 2025.

Yes, they have a particular narrow cleverness about how to abuse people and systems for their own gain. Since fascists only care about power, pointing out that they are dumb, hypocritical or inconsistent doesn’t achieve anything. All they see is that you’re keeping yourself busy talking while they load their guns and prepare the camps. The only way to fight fascism is to actually fight it.

Don’t they also brick your printer if you don’t subscribe to their ink service?

Ok, it’s Raster Operations Pipeline for anyone who doesn’t want to read that far.

Edit: In this context it is probably Raster Output Processor, as sp3ctr4l points out.

As a Canadian, this looks worryingly like he’s lining up the military leadership who will be prepared to invade Canada - not to mention Gaza, Greenland, Panama, and any parts of Europe Putin doesn’t want yet.

To secure US networks, start by kicking Musk out of government systems.

The leopard they fed is getting uncomfortably close to their faces.

Not to mention that once Russia is done with Ukraine they’re not going to stop. Defending Ukraine is defending Europe.

They’re threatening daily to take Canada by whatever means necessary. That’s not an ally, that’s a threat. Canada needs to protect itself, and the British people are quite right to back Ukraine. Trump is working with Putin to hand Ukraine to Russia. Russia will not stop its ambitions there and it is a threat to all of Europe.

Yesterday Trump threatened to pull US troops out of Europe if the EU did not agree to his and Putin’s plan for Ukraine. It’s a very clear threat: give Ukraine to Russia or we give you to Russia. Of course the USA in its current state would not defend Europe anyway. To me it looks like the plan is for Trump to seize Canada, Greenland, Panama, etc., while Putin grabs as much of Europe as he can.

Under these conditions what is NATO? Trump is deliberately destroying it.

So the UK, Canada and Europe need to stand firm against the alliance of the USA, Russia and those European countries that have gone over to fascism. The very existence of our countries is at stake.

And watch out for the far right at home, in the UK, Canada and Europe. Their loyalties do not lie with their countries, and they’re being bankrolled and supported by powerful people internationally.

Expecting them to defend the USA from Trump is also stupid. They couldn’t even be bothered to vote.

The other four of the Five Eyes should be having a rethink. Maybe there are worse things than losing an eye.

Hard to say, but their description of methodology indicates that they are trying and taking active steps to achieve that.

We’ve still got plenty to fight for, as long as our country isn’t under the control of actual Nazis like the USA is. Europe before WW2 had problems, but it was still very much worse for everyone once the Nazis rolled in. Let’s not let that happen, and at least buy ourselves the possibility of improving life in Canada.

I think he’s a “loyal and unquestioning asskisser to Dear Leader” hire.

Even if this were a legitimate government department and not a bunch of arrogant kids led by an unelected Nazi billionaire, it would be crazy security to give them access to everything like this.