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Rick Jemmett

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🇨🇦 retired clinician-researcher. The First Principles of liberal democracy could save everything: Human rights for all, always; Rule of law; Separation of church & state; Freedom of expression; Evidence based policy. Fuck America.

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Rick Jemmett @rickjemmett.bsky.social · Nov 21

I’m 63. I suspect those born in western democracies within several years of me (+/-) have experienced the best years of human existence. I credit FDRs New Deal for much of this - the ND laid the foundation for the creation of a ‘middle class’, the 1st time in history that a majority of citizens 1/?

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23h

THESE PAGAN LIBTARD WAR DANCES CAN ONLY PRESAGE CALAMITY!!

MEIN LEADER PRÄSIDENT TRUMP, HERR REICHSCOUCHVUCKER VON VANCE, HERR VERRÜCKTPSYCHO STEPHANMÜLLER, DER VOLK DEMAND YOU DEPLOY DIE PANZERBRIGADEN NOW!!!

Vielen Damk für your attention to this matter

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Rick Jemmett @rickjemmett.bsky.social · 1h

Important study re the neuro-organic, rather than psychosomatic, basis of Long Covid cognitive impairment…

Dr. Jen Irwin @drjenirwin.bsky.social · 1h

Here’s the study discussed in the newspaper article: academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...

Systemic increase of AMPA receptors associated with cognitive impairment of long COVID

Fujimoto et al. report that the patients with cognitive impairments after SARS-CoV-2 infection showed significant AMPA receptors upregulation across their

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Rick Jemmett @rickjemmett.bsky.social · 8h

Excellent article.

Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 10h

The fight about the BC ostrich farm is not really about the ostriches. It’s about far more important things than that. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Bruce Arthur: The B.C. ostrich affair is not about the birds

This isn’t really about the ostriches, but rather it's about basic biosecurity in the age of viruses, and whether a government can make and enforce laws and policy.

www.thestar.com

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Rick Jemmett @rickjemmett.bsky.social · 9h

predicted Project 2025 and its attacks on civil society.

Rick Jemmett @rickjemmett.bsky.social · 9h

for as long as there have been such programs, certainly since FDR’s New Deal took massive taxes from the wealthiest Americans & created a middle class. The Koch & Mercer families began taking over the GOP in the early 80s; anyone paying attention to the evolution of this movement could have easily…

Rick Jemmett @rickjemmett.bsky.social · 9h

At the core of this admin are strident libertarians, the ideologues who’ve been buying & proxying the GOP since 1980. Their fundamental belief is that taxation, regulation & redistribution of wealth is vile. Libertarians have been seeking the end of public education, & other social good programs,…

Rick Jemmett @rickjemmett.bsky.social · 10h

Yes!

Rick Jemmett @rickjemmett.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks but I think I’ll walk.

Rick Jemmett @rickjemmett.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant strategy. We’re trying to avoid being taken over by an adversary orders of magnitude more powerful than us, economically & militarily, and currently run by a sadistic dementia riddled psychopath. So ya, let’s do everything possible to piss them off. Shall we bring up his rape history too?

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 1d

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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Rick Jemmett @rickjemmett.bsky.social · 1d

before Canadians, most of the world in fact, ever trust you clowns again.

Whether or not you voted for this shitshow, your fed gov is threatening to annex Canada. We see this as a declaration of war. Very few of you seem to appreciate this.

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Rick Jemmett @rickjemmett.bsky.social · 1d

You still don’t understand this. Project 2025 & DFT are the culmination of a 45 yr effort by your libertarian class to proxy the GOP. Y’all missed it bc y’all were too busy being impressed with your alleged ‘exceptionalism’. So yeah, every 🇺🇸 over the age of 30 owns this. It’ll be a long time…

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Rick Jemmett @rickjemmett.bsky.social · 1d

Very interesting comments from DFT. Easily interpreted as pushing back at any criticism PP would put forward re Carney’s performance thus far…

Rick Jemmett @rickjemmett.bsky.social · 1d

Good luck not crying! 😂

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Rick Jemmett @rickjemmett.bsky.social · 1d

Highly therapeutic:)

Rick Jemmett @rickjemmett.bsky.social · 1d

In his first OO meeting with DFT, Carney managed to get only a single ‘trans’ in. Today was a multi-trans day. Well done sir.

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Rick Jemmett @rickjemmett.bsky.social · 1d

BS. They are home grown terrorists who sought to bring down the government. Garbage decision.

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Rick Jemmett @rickjemmett.bsky.social · 2d

Swap out Miller for Rubio & Vought for RFK Jr and I’m in…

Rick Jemmett @rickjemmett.bsky.social · 3d

The Harm Principle is the foundation of civil society & is antithetical to the libertarian drift we’re witnessing as our sociopolitics shift to something resembling a survival of the fittest, law of the jungle dystopia. This is the unraveling of civilization.

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Rick Jemmett @rickjemmett.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you. It’s great to be able to consider the American data alongside Tara Moriarty’s projections for Canada.

Rick Jemmett @rickjemmett.bsky.social · 3d

Attaboy. Duck responsibility for your own decisions. 🇨🇦 has faced similar political interference from the same countries - we didn’t bite. The situation 🇺🇸 finds itself in has been developing in plain sight for 45 yrs. Y’all were too busy being enthralled with your own ‘exceptionalism’ to notice.

Rick Jemmett @rickjemmett.bsky.social · 3d

concern to me is what this means for my country. The ‘Harm Principle’ underpins virtually all laws & norms of civil society. As per this principle America has the right to choose its own destiny; it has no right to dictate the destiny of other sovereign nations.

Rick Jemmett @rickjemmett.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, much of Canada is v aware of what’s happening in America. As we usually are. I feel sick with what’s happening to the US, but I also understand that the events that have led to this were happening in plain sight for 45 yrs. Ultimately Americans have brought this hell on themselves. Of greater …

Rick Jemmett @rickjemmett.bsky.social · 3d

He has openly declared his intention to annex Canada, answering a reporter’s question in early January’25 by saying he would use military force to take Greenland, & economic force to take Canada. He continues his ‘51st state’ BS this week in his moronic yammering at 800 military leaders.

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Rick Jemmett @rickjemmett.bsky.social · 3d

Watched this last night, it was brilliant:)

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