Maybe the impoverishment is about separating the poor

and the lower middle class, both struggling, from smartphones and the internet. Why else would they try and slow broadband, disallow price controls of it and reduce expendable income? Why are prices increasing every year while minimum wages stay the same? Is this so voters can't get to independent media as traditional media is captured by the right more and more?

https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&client=ms-android-bell-ca-rvc3&source=android-browser&q=trump+broadband#lfId=ChxjMe

Strong people meme (how to redefine who should be admired in these political times):

BE KIND NOT WEAK!!

— #KingResist🤴🔥✨️ #Fbarmy✨️#KindKingResist🤴‼️✨️#BlueToTheCore✨️#1Family (@realkingresist.bsky.social) 2026-05-16T19:02:03.597Z

It is a GOP wedge so they like to keep it as a live wire.

They keep sending juice to trans issue.

I hate these memes that have a duel message

depending who you are. It is an attack for those of us who believe in equality and owns the libs that while it would reinforce those aleady vulnerable to believe in a misogynistic world.

There are tons of memes on Facebook in Canada that start out with a negative phrase and then say something positive about Mark Carney. Things like "no matter what you think of him, Carney is a strong leader". It is along the lines of "I don't care what everybody says about you, you are a good pal". Those messages about Carney are everywhere on Facebook forcing one to agree to the first thing is they want to heart or thumbs up the second. It is like a manufactured fault line.

I thought Facebook said Facebook in Canada was to be apolitical since they didn't want to have to pay for news content?

Making an ad of all the GOP tying themselves into pretzels

trying not to answer that question (did Biden win the 2020 election) would be good. Back to back to back.

Toon: the public always losses on tariffs

— William "Chip" Nagel (@cto1usn.bsky.social) 2026-05-02T15:52:48.512Z

Yes we consume a lot of American news. But our

policies on healthcare and college funding and minimum wages are way different. Why Trump didn't make any inroads with his talk of annexing us... who would give up good public schools and good healthcare? We see you struggling under Republicans when they rule and how you don't get to have 'nice things'. You are showing the world what the danger of illiberal rule is and, at the same time, showing us in the rest of the world how to fight back. I have been so impressed with DUers over the years and don't know why the MAGA base is so unimformed relative to you guys. How does that happen in the same country? But the world is wise to the fascists thanks to your suffering and how you share it, your intellects and knowledge of the world shine through but most of what I see on the DU every day is the compassion you have for people. I bet a Brexit would not happen again the way it did.... and even the far right parties in Europe are separating themselves from Trump. I'm just so sorry you are going through what you are going through and had to spend last year cutting and cutting your loses. Better times ahead this year I think. (((HUGS)))

I wonder if Lindsay Graham's request for $400 milliion

from Congress for that ballroom last week was so Trump could keep the private money: his bitcoin business and truthsocial are not doing well and probably have his net worth going way down.

Republicans Fear a Big Mistake on Reconciliation

Republicans Fear a Big Mistake on Reconciliation

April 20, 2026 at 9:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 17 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2026/04/20/republicans-fear-a-big-mistake-on-reconciliation/

And I wondered too if the pee scandal, Trump was

accused of in a Moscow hotel as a reason for why Trump was so compliant to Putin, was a false rumour Putin send out to Europe to explain away Trump behaviour. That is much less damaging than Trump being the Manchurian Candidate he has been for Putin... sent out to destroy democracy around the world.