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🍁 A True North View 🍁

@atruenorthview.bsky.social

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How things look through my Canadian eyes. My view today may change tomorrow as I listen, talk, learn, and the world moves along. I'm open minded that way. Beliefs and facts are different things, and I never mistake the former for the latter.

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🍁 A True North View 🍁 @atruenorthview.bsky.social · Dec 3

Climate & Post Truth loom. Life's too short not to live it as a Canadian, but we face storms on our horizon-many from strong south winds. Those south in their tempest don't peep over the walls often to see the globe & their gale's impact. The world's in tumult. I'll share my takes & listen to yours.

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🍁 A True North View 🍁 @atruenorthview.bsky.social · 2d

The 2025 lesson for Canadians cannot EVER be forgotten: The word of the US must NEVER be trusted again.

The trade economics ignorant US isolationist regime is betraying 65 yrs of cooperative free trade evolution that consistently grew productivity & profits for both US & Canadian business.

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Toronto Star Headline 8 Oct 2025

Photograph: US Secretary of Commerce Howard Nutlick lurking behind the Mad King of the US who is seated at his desk next to a photo of himself on an easel.

Headline: Canada must come "second" to U.S. in auto sector, Nutlick warns behind closed doors

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🍁 A True North View 🍁 @atruenorthview.bsky.social · 2d

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🍁 A True North View 🍁 @atruenorthview.bsky.social · 6d

Precisely - US People schedule their protests for days when their Mad King is off golfing instead of disrupting things from functioning until there is a change. Lots of examples US People can learn from. When will US People get serious? The time when it will be too late is fast approaching.

Photograph of a huge protest in the city of Paris.

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Just had a conversation with a nice French couple who said the problem with US protests is that they schedule them one by one instead of showing up every night until the change happens.

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🍁 A True North View 🍁 @atruenorthview.bsky.social · 8d

The longer US People keep lying down for everything their Mad King does, the farther he's going to exert his authority.

🍁 A True North View 🍁 @atruenorthview.bsky.social · 9d

You can really see how Diversity, Equity & Inclusion has skewed the face of the US Military's senior leadership. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

Maga cultists will believe whatever Mad King FICUS & his Secretary of Warp Hegseth dog whistle to them without bothering to consider the reality right in front of their faces.

Photo of US Military Senior Leadership in the audience for a meeting in Quantico Virginia on 30 Sep 2025. The overwhelming majority of Generals & Sergeants Major are Caucasian and male.

🍁 A True North View 🍁 @atruenorthview.bsky.social · 16d

United States' "Exceptionalism" was never anything but a jingoistic delusion & an ignorant insult.

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🍁 A True North View 🍁 @atruenorthview.bsky.social · 17d

He's shifting focus/blame to Europe so he doesn't have to act more on India & China (either raise his tariffs even more or impose sanctions) who are the biggest consumers of oil from the land east of Ukraine. He's already destroyed the relationship with India built over decades of US diplomacy.

🍁 A True North View 🍁 @atruenorthview.bsky.social · 18d

US People are easily lured to focus on what their US-bubble news pays most attention. For 2 weeks their posts are absorbed with assassination, a late night show & now Tylenol.

What should really terrify them & occupy thought is US military following illegal orders to commit extrajudicial murder.

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🍁 A True North View 🍁 @atruenorthview.bsky.social · 21d

Oooo a vote. My my.

You should be charging US military leaders for following illegal orders & murdering civilians for alleged crimes that would not carry a death penalty in their nation nor the US.

Time to take bold action instead of lying down for everything as your nation disintegrates.

🍁 A True North View 🍁 @atruenorthview.bsky.social · 21d

Your Mad King has your military conducting extrajudicial murder of human beings for alleged crimes that carry no death penalty in the US or their nation even IF guilty. Sure, cancellation of a late nite show is disturbing, but look outside your US bubble at what the world is seeing from your nation.

🍁 A True North View 🍁 @atruenorthview.bsky.social · 21d

2...Now Mad King FICUS turns his attention to tearing down the rest of rule of law. Oaths to a failed constitution mean nothing. Action counts now & there is no action from US People or their military brass, aside from both lying down for everything as the dismantling of their nation accelerates.

🍁 A True North View 🍁 @atruenorthview.bsky.social · 21d

Too late. The US constitution is a failed document as of 31 Jan 2020 (Impeachment 1) when a partisan senate voted not to hear witnesses. There is no provision in the US constitution to compel the "checks & balances" to carry out their role responsibly aside from goodwill. .../2

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🍁 A True North View 🍁 @atruenorthview.bsky.social · 21d

🍁 A True North View 🍁 @atruenorthview.bsky.social · 22d

I get US People worry over muzzling free speech & they're not much interested in humanity outside their US bubble, but it seems there isn't enough attention on their Mad King's extrajudicial murder of 3 boatloads of alleged drug smuggling people. Guilty or not, there's no death penalty for that.

🍁 A True North View 🍁 @atruenorthview.bsky.social · 21d

The US is a failed state.

Brazil put Bolsonaro in jail.

The US put the Mad King back on his throne.

🍁 A True North View 🍁 @atruenorthview.bsky.social · 21d

I think you mean the US, though thanks for the compliment to America. The US has not always embodied something precious, or it would not have attacked it's closest ally, putting thousands out of work, Canadian businesses closing & families without income. Stop talking & do something.

🍁 A True North View 🍁 @atruenorthview.bsky.social · 21d

1. Poilievre has to go & the Conservatives stop the Bannon/Trump playbook rage-farming.

2. What's most astounding is US People are just deer in headlights, lying down for everything, as it accelerates.

3. Their constitution has failed, nothing compels the checks & balances to check & balance.

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🍁 A True North View 🍁 @atruenorthview.bsky.social · 21d

The Mad King has people (presumably of another nation) murdered illegally VS the Mad King has a late night TV show taken off the air VS making a pedophile trafficker's client list public. Which one is most concerning to the world & the US' place in it? Hint: the one where human lives were taken.

🍁 A True North View 🍁 @atruenorthview.bsky.social · 22d

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🍁 A True North View 🍁 @atruenorthview.bsky.social · 22d

Perhaps try "CBC Gem", "CBC Listen" & "CBC News" apps w a VPN. CBC Listen is CBC Radio 1, Music & Podcasts.

CBC Radio 1 is superb.

On Power & Politics (a CBC News Network show) yesterday they said CBC Gem usage is up 30% since FICUS started threatening Canada. CTV & Global TV have apps also.

🍁 A True North View 🍁 @atruenorthview.bsky.social · 22d

With all the money they're collecting from tariffs, you'd think they could afford to buy a clue.

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🍁 A True North View 🍁 @atruenorthview.bsky.social · 23d

Yes, expressing what politically conscious US people, Canadians, Americans from all over our American hemisphere & the rest of the world are thinking.

In the vein of your thoughts, you may find this article from Wired yesterday interesting.

Inside Trumpworld’s Reality Distortion Field

In the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk's killing, Donald Trump's advisors were sure who was to blame. That law enforcement says they were wrong didn't, and doesn't, much seem to matter.

www.wired.com

🍁 A True North View 🍁 @atruenorthview.bsky.social · 23d

4... I understand your thought. But it's not time to be defeatist & thinking of how ideas may fail. That is the opposite of what 🇨🇦 ppl are doing since Jan in face of our greatest fear being realized. Be courageous, think boldly, come north, join a free nation of new ideas & ambition for success. ;)

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🍁 A True North View 🍁 @atruenorthview.bsky.social · 23d

3... action as individuals, & those actions are adding up to a response with an economic impact.

So, these shows may not be done the same way, or funded the same way or look the same. But they could exist in a new, different, free place with a new model that may work in the new 🇨🇦 emerging. ...4

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🍁 A True North View 🍁 @atruenorthview.bsky.social · 23d

2... change in response to the US' betrayal, threats to our sovereignty, insults, & the economic attacks. What 🇨🇦 is doing will not be easy, will take time, but things will be very different in 5 & 10 years. But... 🇨🇦 ppl are not lying down for the Mad King like US ppl are. 🇨🇦ppl are taking.../3