Paul Jenkins
@canuckinpanama.bsky.social
Retired economist, former Canadian Department of Finance and IMF, living at the beach in Panama with my 3 beautiful dogs. No patience for pearl clutchers in the fight against fascism.
FWIW in Canada the likes of Charlie Kirk would probably be in prison for a rather long sentence under our laws against hate speech.
From an Atlantic editor.
I cannot get over how the entire centrist hivemind is attempting to wish into existence a person, and a movement, that does not exist. You are journalists, you are supposed to describe things as they are, not how you want them to be!
I cannot get over how the entire centrist hivemind is attempting to wish into existence a person, and a movement, that does not exist. You are journalists, you are supposed to describe things as they are, not how you want them to be!
September 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
FWIW in Canada the likes of Charlie Kirk would probably be in prison for a rather long sentence under our laws against hate speech.
Apropos of almost nothing, but there is no prospect that the gun that was used would ever be banned or meaningfully controlled. It was a bolt-action hunting rifle -- the farthest removed possible from the semi-automatic "assault rifles" that gun control advocates wish to have banned.
September 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Apropos of almost nothing, but there is no prospect that the gun that was used would ever be banned or meaningfully controlled. It was a bolt-action hunting rifle -- the farthest removed possible from the semi-automatic "assault rifles" that gun control advocates wish to have banned.
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I think a genuine issue is a lot of elites genuinely do hold the election of Trump proves that there was a populist mandate to overturn ths social progress of 2016-2024.
A lot of people who were panic mongering about a woke cultural revolution are conspicuously quiet about a youth activist denouncing a professor for wrong think and that professor being fired as part of a campaign of public shaming by political leaders.
Update on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president
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September 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I think a genuine issue is a lot of elites genuinely do hold the election of Trump proves that there was a populist mandate to overturn ths social progress of 2016-2024.
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The United States is broken.
September 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The United States is broken.
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i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence
September 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence
It is logical, in the sense that it is consistent with their self-interest, for politicians to attempt to maintain a taboo against political violence.
"political violence is never acceptable," is a phrase you don't hear politicians say after cops beat the shit out of peaceful demonstrators
September 12, 2025 at 12:57 AM
It is logical, in the sense that it is consistent with their self-interest, for politicians to attempt to maintain a taboo against political violence.
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Fascist Russia is at war with the West.
Deterrence through "strategic patience" is a failed doctrine which escalated Russia's invasion of Ukraine into a global war.
Retaliation with overwhelming armed force is the strategy the West must adopt to defeat Russia and end the war.
Deterrence through "strategic patience" is a failed doctrine which escalated Russia's invasion of Ukraine into a global war.
Retaliation with overwhelming armed force is the strategy the West must adopt to defeat Russia and end the war.
September 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Fascist Russia is at war with the West.
Deterrence through "strategic patience" is a failed doctrine which escalated Russia's invasion of Ukraine into a global war.
Retaliation with overwhelming armed force is the strategy the West must adopt to defeat Russia and end the war.
Deterrence through "strategic patience" is a failed doctrine which escalated Russia's invasion of Ukraine into a global war.
Retaliation with overwhelming armed force is the strategy the West must adopt to defeat Russia and end the war.
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Other, more serious countries, etc. etc.
Brazil’s Supreme Court reached a majority to convict the right-wing leader Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a coup to overturn the 2022 presidential election.
Brazil Supreme Court Majority Votes to Convict Bolsonaro for Alleged Coup Attempt
Jair Bolsonaro faces life behind bars after Supreme Court majority finds right-wing firebrand guilty of 2022 coup attempt.
on.wsj.com
September 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Other, more serious countries, etc. etc.
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Apparently we are all now to stop denigrating MAGA and to eulogise Charlie Kirk but, unfortunately, MAGA are a bunch of fascists and Charlie Kirk was a nasty little shit, so no.
September 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Apparently we are all now to stop denigrating MAGA and to eulogise Charlie Kirk but, unfortunately, MAGA are a bunch of fascists and Charlie Kirk was a nasty little shit, so no.
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This.
Exactly this.
Exactly this.
September 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
This.
Exactly this.
Exactly this.
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My parents took me out of a country where this was the norm and where it led to the execution and imprisonment of millions of innocent people. They brought me here, to America, believing that it would not happen here. And yet here we are.
September 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
My parents took me out of a country where this was the norm and where it led to the execution and imprisonment of millions of innocent people. They brought me here, to America, believing that it would not happen here. And yet here we are.
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No, that is definitely not what you have snipers for.
IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”
The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich
Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
No, that is definitely not what you have snipers for.
Absolutely. I met McNamara in 1993. I have a story about his terrible judgment.
Irony about Rumsfeld is that Americans made the same mistake with him that they made with McNamara and later, with Trump: We are convinced that people who were in business can run the government like a business.
It's a stupid, stupid belief but millions of Americans are wedded to it.
It's a stupid, stupid belief but millions of Americans are wedded to it.
September 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Absolutely. I met McNamara in 1993. I have a story about his terrible judgment.
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One begins to suspect that very rich people are constantly and openly committing unspeakable crimes together, recreationally.
September 9, 2025 at 5:41 AM
One begins to suspect that very rich people are constantly and openly committing unspeakable crimes together, recreationally.
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We condemn the Supreme Court’s decision to allow federal agents to profile people based on how we look, the language we speak, and the type of work we do. This is a dangerous attack on workers’ freedoms in Los Angeles and across the country, and our solidarity will not waver!
September 8, 2025 at 11:31 PM
We condemn the Supreme Court’s decision to allow federal agents to profile people based on how we look, the language we speak, and the type of work we do. This is a dangerous attack on workers’ freedoms in Los Angeles and across the country, and our solidarity will not waver!
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I've been pretty tepid about radical solutions for SCOTUS because it will probably destroy it for a generation or so, but when you have a majority that refuses to write opinions or sign their names to decisions that endorse using race and ethnicity to detain people, what are we trying to save
September 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I've been pretty tepid about radical solutions for SCOTUS because it will probably destroy it for a generation or so, but when you have a majority that refuses to write opinions or sign their names to decisions that endorse using race and ethnicity to detain people, what are we trying to save
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Please, the U.S. Open asked us not to share any video of the president being booed heavily by an entire stadium, please respect their wishes, please
Trump gets booed at the US Open today.
September 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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It is fine to keep hammering away at "release the files" but there is a real danger here of underplaying how much this is itself already a smoking gun.
September 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
It is fine to keep hammering away at "release the files" but there is a real danger here of underplaying how much this is itself already a smoking gun.
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To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people.
Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.
Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.
This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:
September 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people.
Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.
Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.
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On this day in 1966, Star Trek first beamed into living rooms across America. None of us could have imagined then the journey it would set us on. And not just the cast and crew, but the millions of fans who would find hope, inspiration, and community in its vision of the future.
September 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
On this day in 1966, Star Trek first beamed into living rooms across America. None of us could have imagined then the journey it would set us on. And not just the cast and crew, but the millions of fans who would find hope, inspiration, and community in its vision of the future.
For non-Americans: do not visit the U.S. It is a dangerous police state.
The Supreme Court has just allowed the Gestapo to arrest anyone in America on a whim. By saying that it can detain persons based on their appearance or lawful presence in public, we are all in danger.
September 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
For non-Americans: do not visit the U.S. It is a dangerous police state.
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the answer to "why has the supreme court gone insane" is the same as the answer to "why has elon musk gone insane" is the same as the answer to "why has my uncle gone insane" which is that people mostly mirror the prevailing beliefs in their social environment and they're immersed in nazi media
September 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
the answer to "why has the supreme court gone insane" is the same as the answer to "why has elon musk gone insane" is the same as the answer to "why has my uncle gone insane" which is that people mostly mirror the prevailing beliefs in their social environment and they're immersed in nazi media
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Six SCOTUS 'justices' are blatantly racist and they want you to know it.
September 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Six SCOTUS 'justices' are blatantly racist and they want you to know it.
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The US constitution does not allow US citizens to be rounded up on the basis of apparent race or ethnicity and require them to carry papers to prove their citizenship. Any supreme court that claims it does is illegitimate.
September 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The US constitution does not allow US citizens to be rounded up on the basis of apparent race or ethnicity and require them to carry papers to prove their citizenship. Any supreme court that claims it does is illegitimate.