I Didn't Say It ...

Mark Carney, newly elected Liberal Prime Minister of Canada:

“As I’ve been warned, America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country. But these are not idle threats. [The Felon] is trying to break us so that America can own us. That will never, that will never ever happen [but] we are once again at one of those hinge moments of history. Our old relationship with the United States, a relationship based on steadily increasing integration, is over. The system of open global trade anchored by the United States, a system that Canada has relied on since the Second World War, a system that, while not perfect, has helped deliver prosperity for a country for decades, is over. But it’s also our new reality. We are over the shock of the American betrayal, but we should never forget the lessons. We have to look out for ourselves and above all we have to take care of each other … We will chart a new path forward because this is Canada and we decide what happens here … we can give ourselves far more than the Americans can ever take away. But even given that, I want to be clear, the coming days and months will be challenging, and they will call for some sacrifices. But we will share those sacrifices by supporting our workers and our businesses … We do things because they’re right, not because they’re easy and we see kindness as a virtue, not as a weakness. Most importantly, we know that our strength lies in our resolve to work together as a country … We are supporting our friends and neighbors in the crosshairs of [The Felon] through a crisis that we did not create … We will fight back with everything we have to get the best deal for Canada. We will protect our workers and businesses, and above all, we will build an independent future for our great country. A future that makes the greatest country on earth even better. Together, we will build a Canada worthy of our values. We will build Canada strong, Canada free, Canada forever. Vive la Canada.”

Nice to hear a leader talk of unity and kindness and progress.

We could have had that here, too …

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Cory Booker, New Jersey Democrat Senator, :

“Do you think we got the right to vote for women because a bunch on men on the House floor got together and said, ‘On the count of three, women get the right to vote.’ That’s not how it happened. Change doesn’t come from Washington; change comes to Washington.”

Change comes from the streets and the parks and the plazas where Americans gather to protest an unhinged president and his sycophants planting their lips to his ass.

Resist.

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Andrew Napolitano, a former judge and judicial analyst for the far-right Newsmax network, condemns The Felon’s arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan for allegedly impeding ICE's arrest of an undocumented migrant:

"An administrative warrant is not an arrest warrant. No judge would recognize an administrative warrant. So [Dugan]'s on the bench, there's a commotion in the hallway involving ... the defendant who's in front of her, for some sort of a low-level assault and battery. She goes out to see what the commotion is and they say, 'We're here to arrest this guy' and she basically says 'Well you're not going to interrupt with my proceeding. We don't permit arrests in the courtroom. You can wait in the hallway or you can wait for him outside. Let me see your arrest warrant.' 'We don't have one.' They have this administrative warrant, which is basically one ICE agent authorizing another ICE agent to detain someone. So I don't think there's a crime here. I think she has immunity. She can decide how a person leaves her courtroom. On the other hand, I can understand how the feds want to make a big deal out of this. They don't like anyone, least of all judges, interfering with the orderly process of arresting people. I just think this was the wrong one for them to do and then they showed pictures of her in handcuffs and all of that kind of stuff which is a violation of several regulations. I think they overreached by arresting her. If there's an issue in a white collar case with a public official like there was here in New York with Mayor Adams, you don't stop him on the street and put handcuffs on him, you say to his lawyer 'We need to talk to you about whether or not you will voluntarily surrender because we're about to charge you with a crime but because they're on a bit of a jihad against judges, they decided to make an example out of this. I think this is the wrong case out of which to make an example. I think she has immunity. She can decide where a person leaves her courtroom from and what she says to that person, and she can't be prosecuted for it."

Napolitano is right, by the rule of law; this arrest has nothing to do with upholding the law and everything to do with intimidating the judicial branch on behalf of [The Felon]'s fascist agenda.

Judge Dugan should be released immediately.

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Rachel Maddow, out MSNBC correspondent, on The Felon’s first 100 days and his failures:

“There has never been a president who has botched the first 100 days of his presidency more than [The Felon] has. “You don’t have to take that as a subjective view. It’s the view shown in scientific polling of the American public. The public is deeply, deeply, deeply against what [The Felon]  is doing. He’s been very radical in his first hundred days and I think we knew that would be true, but I don’t think we knew he would turn the American public, including a large portion of his own base, against him so quickly, that the public would be willing again and again and again to go protest and say no and rise up against him, that he would fare so uniformly disastrously in court. He’s just been clobbered in the courts in dozens and dozens and dozens of cases already. He’s really flailed. All of this stuff that they have done and then undone, does reflect the radicalism and their ability and willingness to just destroy but they haven’t done a lot of it on purpose. They’ve done a lot of it despite themselves. They’re failure has created wreckage in the U.S. government … They’re [just] not that good at doing what they’re actually trying to do. That momentum is going to be the story of the second 100 days and beyond. Their incompetence, their inability to defend what they’re doing and the American people in a louder and louder and more intense way, just telling them, ‘Nope you’re not doing it.'”

Maddow does not believe The Felon has been any more efficient in his second term than he was in his first and pointed out the administration’s “litany of mistakes” it has had to walk back on, like accidentally firing and scrambling to rehire people in charge of crucial initiatives, like bird flu prevention and nuclear weapons management.

It’s like the insane are running the asylum.

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JB Pritzker, Illinois Democrat governor,  telling Democrats in New Hampshire that the party needs to step up:

“Fellow Democrats, for far too long we’ve been guilty of listening to a bunch of do-nothing political types who would tell us that America’s house is not on fire, even as the flames are licking their faces. Today, as the blaze reaches the rafters, the pundits and politicians—whose simpering timidity served as kindle for the arsonists—urge us now not to reach for a hose. Meanwhile, if we took care to listen to the voices of real people, we would hear our neighbors and friends standing on the street outside screaming for a response, one big enough for a five-alarmer. Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption. But I am now. These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace. They must understand that we will fight their cruelty with every megaphone and microphone that we have. We must castigate them on the soap box … and then punish them at the ballot box. Today, it’s an immigrant with a tattoo. Tomorrow, it’s a citizen with a Facebook post that annoys [The Felon]. Time to stop apologizing when we were not wrong. Time to stop surrendering when we need to fight. You are standing up for all the people [The Felon] has attacked. We must abandon the culture of incrementalism that has led us to swallow their cruelty and their callousness with barely a cowardly croak.”

The cult is already claiming Pritzker is threatening violence against them which is funny coming from a group of Nazis who stormed the capitol.

Stand up, speak up, be heard, resist!

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