jd vance is emerging as the fascist trump replacement, and the potential point where trumpism gets seriously dangerous. his rhetoric about the jewish media is right out of mein kampf.

right now, trumpism is just a 21st century update to the idiocracy of the robber baron era. hitler was broadly seen as a dunce rather than a genocidal maniac; the scary one was supposed to be mussolini. i've repeatedly argued that trump is not a real nazi, he just plays one on tv, and that he's ultimately not smart enough to be scary. trump may cause a lot of problems before he's done away with, but he's not a serious threat to democracy. vance is emerging as the more serious threat and the more dangerous successor.

rubio is emerging as the counter-revolutionary. if rubio follows trump, the republicans will likely do a lot of backtracking. that might be the preferable option.

the canadian government has cut taxes so dramatically that, instead of providing disaster relief using it's own resources, it has to import third world missionary groups, that will terrorize the local population with their extremist religious beliefs. we're like venezuela, or cuba, or haiti, at this point. it's not acceptable.

flood relief should be done by local government and paid for by taxing canadians. it's not charity work. it's a basic public service that citizens have a right to access. we have enough wealth in this society that we can tax our people to provide services; we don't need to rely on american missionary groups because we're too poor to pay for it ourselves. 

it's embarrassing.

i'm increasingly left with the question: why, exactly, do canadians pay taxes at all? our government doesn't do anything anymore. it outsources everything.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/disaster-relief-group-s-anti-2slgbtq-views-draw-pushback-in-ottawa-9.7272735

canadians and ontarians have made choices over the last several electoral cycles to abandon attempts to reduce carbon emissions, and to cut taxes instead of spend money on climate change mitigation.

those choices have consequences.

meanwhile, the federal government is trying to convince people that building dirty natural gas plants - which ontario was in the process of completely getting rid of as vicious pollution generating machines until recently - is building "clean electricity".

that is complete nonsense. it's maliciously dishonest. it's contemptibly evil.

mark carney's government is in fact abandoning clean energy in favour of a return to 20th century technology, namely gas power plants, and that policy will further deteriorate our air quality and the air quality of our neighbours. his attempts to deflect are dishonest lies. he's a part of the problem, not a part of the solution.

ontarians have made poor electoral decisions over the last decade and thrice elected a government that does not care about the environment, but repeatedly campaigned on reversing environmental regulations in order to reduce public spending. we are left to choke on our own filth, as a result. 

we got what we deserve for our anti-social voting choices.

its time to wake up and throw these losers out of office and replace them with a government that will recover some of the environmental policies that it destroyed.

this government has also all but put an end to recycling in this province and replaced it with burning garbage, which is going to make our air quality - and the air quality of our neighbours - dramatically worse. this disastrous waste management approach needs to be aggressively reversed by the next government, which needs to view recycling as a public service and not a market service and move to create a publicly funded recycling model that is run by government employees and paid for with tax dollars, at a loss. ontarians need to accept that recycling is neither free nor profitable, but is a necessary public service that the state has a health mandate to enforce, at a justified cost to taxpayers.

as is often the case in canada, it is the indigenous inhabitants of northwestern ontario feeling the brunt of and taking the hit from these conservative party budget cuts to forest fire prevention, at a time when any basic analysis should have predicted the need for large increases in funding. this is incompetence. this is mismanagement. and the government should correctly get reamed for it.

this is what happens when a society slashes tax rates for decades on end, it starts to become unable to provide basic services to it's own people. without a sufficient tax base, a society begins to fall apart.

the government of ontario should be heavily criticized for it's funding cuts and forest fire mismanagement, which are dominantly responsible for the wildfire situation. that is correct. as global warming accelerates and intensifies, governments should be increasing funding to fight forest fires, not just in ontario but everywhere. in a show of incompetence and mismanagement, the ford government has instead slashed funding for forest fire prevention. we see the consequences of that mismanagement.

i would rather charge him with multiple counts of murder and try him for it than deport him.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11966601/iran-former-deputy-interior-minister-tries-to-stop-deportation-from-canada/