@SleepyLeftist @andromeda_1948 I am not going off on that rant today.
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Jasper Lee
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Jasper Lee
@JasperQLee
New Englander, Democrat, and Chair of Democrats Abroad Australia. Opinions are my own.
Canberra and Massachusetts Katılım Kasım 2019
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Considering that @andromeda_1948 requested this, and that my oomfs have also been following the trend, which profile picture should I adopt for now?
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@JakeLandauTO They're hoping young nationalists will be fueled by idealism while old voters will vote for the pocketbook.
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Québec nationalism has degenerated to the point where the only thing the Bloquistes and Péquistes think a government should do is cut taxes on the rich and give boomers more money.
Max Harrold@MHarroldCTV
PQ leader says independent Quebec may offer lower taxes, higher pensions ctvnews.ca/montreal/artic…
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@LPC_Hack I wouldn't be shocked if it happened in Canada too, the home of Chris the Buildboard.
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frankly im more shocked this hasn’t happened in America
Crazy Ass Moments in LatAm Politics@AssLatam
Fabiana Bolsonaro, Brazilian State MP, did blackface during a speech against transgender people in the State Assembly of São Paulo.
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@JesseKNL That's about the only thing they've conquered in however many decades.
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@Vq2IegymgGOO5Cc I can't speak for anyone else, but at least for me, you're right. I unfortunately cannot understand Japanese and Takaichi does not speak English very often, so generally, I read what she says and see her conduct seperately. My typical reaction to her is: "What is she doing?!?"
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こちらはあるツイートへのリプライなんだけど、大元のツイートも含めて、高市氏は(本人や支持者達がどう思っていようが)世界からはこのように見られていると言う事なんだね。
Jasper Lee@JasperQLee
@mrjeffu I mean, Takaichi makes a lot of movements I find odd. Even her official portrait for the campaign, which they could've picked any pose imaginable, has a confusing hand motion. Her gestures are just always like that.
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@JakeLandauTO @canuck5551 In an ideal world, yes, but look at Carney's budget and imagine what a conservative budget might look like. Do we really want years long periods where no medical research happens and even the opposition doesn't make it a priority because it doesn't bring immediate feeling help?
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Drug patents are bad, and all drugs should be genericized. If we're worried about funding research, surely government funding for university labs would be better than allowing capital to monopolize cures to diseases.
shraddha@shraddhaha
novo nordisk's semaglutide went off patent today... weight loss drugs that cost $100/month can now, when produced generically, cost $3 a month per patient (insane)
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I'm working hard on learning Japanese, and I have nothing but respect for Japanese kids who grow up memorizing all of these individual kanji. I can only fit in so much studying every day!
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@LPC_Hack In your opinion, is it more or less weird than doing it in the basement laundry room of an apartment building?
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Somehow not the weirdest campaign headquarters I’ve ever seen.
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@axiochrono @anon_opin Was fine when he was the newly elected Labour leader or when it was clear he was gonna become PM and non-British people started learning about him, but it's been years. Keir like Hardie.
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@anon_opin Same goes for people saying "Kier" Starmer. How hard can it be.
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Regardless of your views on the matter, FFS learn how to spell Israel. I can't take you seriously otherwise. The a and the e go in alphabetical order. It's really not that hard.
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I can say with fairly strong belief that this is not happening.
Cheri DiNovo@CheriDiNovo
Scuttle on Parliament Hill is that Poilievre is about to resign!
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@ScottishBevan @SolCuthbertson We've got Reclaim, Reform, Advance, and Restore. Maybe she can start up Rebuild UK?
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@SolCuthbertson Something tells me she'll be going in a similar direction as Habib and Lowe
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One has to wonder why her Chief of Staff goes into a complete panic...
ITVPolitics@ITVNewsPolitics
'I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn't allowed' 'On day lets do one of these events not livestreamed. We'll do all the naughty stuff' Sarah Pochin says she wants to wear a tartan burka at Reform's Scottish Election launch
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@tomas_s242 I don't blame the Bernie-types, but Fetterman promised to be a "different kind of Democrat" (still on his campaign website) and he has been just that. Lamb would have been a reliable, perhaps somewhat moderate, Democratic vote on pretty much everything. He had a voting record.
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when people complain about bernie and progs supporting fetterman in 2022 it makes no sense because how tf were they supposed to know that THIS guy would turn into trumps favorite democrat in four years
John Fetterman@JohnFetterman
I am running to be the 51st 🔵 vote on transformative policies. Not to sell out Pennsylvanians or be petty. If you trust me with your vote in this Primary, I can promise you that.
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@JakeLandauTO Seriously! Some of these people don't seem to understand that the issue isn't that we don't think we'll be able to afford a house at 21 or 22, it's that we'll barely be able to afford rent and will not be able to afford a house at 50.
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This is the average Liberal voter, a rich boomer who thinks we can't afford rent because of avocado toast
Vicki Campbell🇨🇦@merry123459
You also don’t walk out of college or university expecting to buy a new 4 bedroom house, two cars, boats, skidoos, etc. The reason you struggle is because you aren’t willing to wait and make do like we did. Your entitlement is causing you to struggle.
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@FarhanKhanCA Can YOU come up with 20,000 three word slogans though? Extra points if each of the words have only three letters in them.
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I think i see the problem now, many people think they need to hear from Poilievre because he is smarter than them and has something to offer them
I do not
Farhan Khan@FarhanKhanCA
i've never watched Rogan in my life, not about to start now
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@PritzkerForPrez Well, and it's Illinois. Even if he were just some farmer with a charming accent who just wanted to make life easier for Illinois families, his opponent is Pritzker, we're at the most politically polarized point in decades, and he's running in Illinois.
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@JasperQLee He's striking a more "winning" tone and message, and no one doubts his baseline charm--the problem is that he has a long history of really far right-wing statements that he can't rhetoric away at this point. Voters know him by now.
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Regrettably, I must revise my plans to turn Darren Bailey in a loveable, inoffensive Curtis Sliwa-style figure, upon the realization that this would align with his campaign strategy.
Darren, maybe start wearing a signature hat first, and we can revisit the discussion.
Darren Bailey@DarrenBaileyIL
Chicago, you’ve got a new fan. 😅
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@mrjeffu I mean, Takaichi makes a lot of movements I find odd. Even her official portrait for the campaign, which they could've picked any pose imaginable, has a confusing hand motion. Her gestures are just always like that.
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I've seen some users asking whether this is AI-generated. Since it is a clip from a video shared by the White House, I think it is real. Takaichi's gestures seem odd, but it would be even odder if the White House used AI to fake this scene. x.com/WhiteHouse/sta…
The White House@WhiteHouse
Welcoming the Prime Minister of Japan to the White House. 🇺🇸🇯🇵 Two nations. One powerful alliance.
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Prime Minister Takaichi visited the White House's wall of portraits, where Donald Trump replaced the official photo of Biden with an autopen.
Takaichi reacted positively, seeming to laugh at the image mocking Joe Biden.
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@LPC_Hack It's not just influencers. It's his own caucus too!
Pierre did a nice job at the Press Gallery Dinner coming across as funny, charming, and ditching his overly-partisan image. Then, Michelle Rempel Garner responds to this by reacting like a total partisan lunatic!
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I love how the Conservative influencers somehow always make Poilievre’s limited success and reframe it like this turning it into a failure.
Jasmin Laine@JasminLaine_
With Pierre Poilievre’s recent trips/speeches/interviews, I think this is the first time (perhaps in our history) that the opposition leader has been more relevant, impactful and meaningful, than our elected government. I’ve never heard Prime Minister Carney relate to the every day person, or industry leaders/diplomats at a level like this. Sure, he uses big words, and says things that make you feel virtuous and morally superior… but there’s no substance to it—reflective in our data. It’s no wonder the establishment works so tireless to shame and vilify conservatives in this nation 🤷♀️ Canadians may have elected Carney on a false promise to get a deal with our largest trading partner… though, fate may have it that the only person who actually cared about our quality of life and economy, was the man they tried so hard to silence so they could cling onto power—without results—just a little bit longer before we realize that the only crises was their policies. The only danger was them not reversing them. And the only division, has been the names they call everyone who questions them. Canada needs a real leader. Not a world economic forum keynote speaker.
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@ScottishBevan @lukeakehurst I mean the Labor factions in Australia mean much less ideologically than they do with Labour in the UK, despite their names.
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@lukeakehurst Fun fact, in some Australian Labor state chapters the hard-left governs with the Labor Right in coalitions against the soft-left.
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I'm bemused as to why the soft left think it helps their cause - particularly in an NEC ballot that is STV not FPTP - to formally ally with the toxic and discredited rump of the Corbyn era Hard Left.
Faye Brown@FayeBrownSky
EXC: Labour's left wing factions issue fresh challenge to Keir Starmer day after Angela Rayner's intervention. The move brings together Mainstream, Momentum & a broad group of MPs under new banner of "Reset the Labour Party" warning Labour will "only survive if it chooses a different path". news.sky.com/story/labours-…
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