Thank You Olga... Another Very Good Post... Pray that the Ceasefire Holds... I still don't see the Benefit to the USA of aiding, and abetting Netanyahu's Wars...
Bring signage to make your message and numbers passively visible to events you attend, such as 4th of July concerts, parades, bar-b-ques, and fireworks.
Wear T-Shirts with your own messaging written on them. Use a permanent black marker on white, yellow, orange, or pink material if you have to.
Don't give Trump the legal means to deploy troops through an excuse that there were riots.
Show the courts Trump is full of BS.
🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
NEXT MAJOR NATION WIDE PROTEST IS: GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON
Republican Senator Murkowski just made a deal for a new clause in Trump's Big Beautiful Bill to increase Medicaid spending only for Alaska and Hawaii in exchange for her vote to support H.R.1.
This breaks Senate rules around favouritism. Because of this, H.R.1 has lost special protections, and now needs 60 votes to pass instead of 51.
Your pressure and demonstrations have raised awareness and ensured people like parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough do their jobs.
I don't think anyone wants to be involved with Trump's America.
His entire regime has to step down, including some judges that are blatantly violating and dismantling the checks and balances encoded into the National and State Constitutions, designed to stop abuses of power by American government and its agencies.
This has to happen before any nation will even remotely think of having something to do with Americans again.
Trump has rubber stamped America's brand with his own reputation, cruelty, criminality, and stupidity. The bottom line is Americans and their individual states have let him, and, continue to do so as evidenced by Robert's recent ruling which blatantly nullifies civilian constitutional rights.
Canada will never capitulate to Trump despite what some pundits say:
U.S. commerce secretary thanks Canada for removing 'deal breaker' digital tax
Trump can't make deals anymore because he has blown through his credibility. He can't be trusted to keep them, anymore than Hitler.
Here is my take on this latest thing. This isn’t insider information. It’s based on what’s already public knowledge.
Under the previous Liberal government, Canada’s Digital Services Tax (DST) was designed as a fallback plan while Trudeau worked to join the OECD digital enforcement framework. That wasn’t likely to happen - so the DST was created as a safety net.
But since Mark Carney aligned Canada more closely with Europe and signaled deeper integration with international digital trade frameworks, the picture has changed.
Now, instead of relying on a Canada-only DST, the smarter, and potentially much tougher, option is to finalize enforcement through the OECD and key allies like the EU.
The question is: how would Canada even collect the tax if the DST kicked in today? And if there’s typically a 30-day grace period for payment, what happens if the OECD-based framework starts in three weeks?
You’d have mailed out DST statements today, allocated staff, and burned programming resources, only to cancel it all on day 21.
This feels less like a surrender to Trump and more like a case of awkward timing. The DST wasn’t Carney’s idea - it was Trudeau’s backup plan. And it was in the way.
Why wasn’t it shut down sooner? Because just weeks ago, Canada was still in talks about aligning with the EU. You don’t kill your backup plan when you’re not sure if the main one will close.
It could easily take three weeks to reconfigure Canada's systems to integrate with OECD protocols. That’s a standard window for mirroring digital infrastructure around the globe.
And Carney, as Canada’s chief negotiator, can’t publicly broadcast every move in those talks. If allies think their early positions will be leaked or misinterpreted, they stop talking freely.
Here’s the key thing: Trump gave Carney 30 days. So why is Carney pushing for 21?
It’s not backtracking. It looks more like a recalibration. A shift away from a local tax toward a global enforcement strategy that’s harder to dodge, tougher to game, and far more enduring.
It's not surprising that Trump (aka Putin's tool in the Oval Office) mimics Putin's disdain for a free press and impartial intelligence estimates. It's standard for fascist autocrats to operate in this manner, as neither criticism nor acknowledgement of mistakes is permitted.
Anyone who has observed Trump over the past decade (and truth be told, his whole adult life) can see that he is incapable of learning, and frankly incapable of comprehending complex information.
That he is surrounded by a squadron of equally moronic, incompetent (and in a few cases, outright delusional) flatterers and scam artists makes the current geopolitical situation dangerous for the entire world, only compounded by the fact that Trump and his family are wholly owned by Putin, and have been installed to do Putin's bidding above all else.
My question is about Putin- is he able to learn from the catastrophic intelligence failures that have brought the Russian military to the verge of collapse, from the toppling of Assad in Syria, and as a practical matter, the greatly reduced leverage with China (begging North Korea for troop replacements can't be a good look)?
If the Revolutionary Council of Iran is weakened regionally, Russia might in effect lose its remaining principal ally in the Middle East. (This is not an argument to engage in military action against Iran, regardless of claims made by hawks in the US and Israel).
I'm asking this: Is Putin able to recognize that his management style- leadership by insisting on reports that stroke his ego, and imprisoning or murdering one's own military and intelligence officials on a routine basis- has been counterproductive to his aims? Does he even care? If he is unable to learn from past failure, and doesn't care, does that make him (owner of a nuclear arsenal and a brigade of assassination squads) *more dangerous* to the rest of the world?
Thank You Olga... Another Very Good Post... Pray that the Ceasefire Holds... I still don't see the Benefit to the USA of aiding, and abetting Netanyahu's Wars...
Intelligence and the Trump administration is an oxymoron.
If anyone from the t regime stopped lying their coup would be over immediately.
🍁 Elbows UP! 🏒
Most people will be celebrating Independence Day this long weekend, so there will be a lot of drinking.
Booze and protests are a volatile mix. There aren't a lot of protests scheduled on America's birthday for this reason.
Instead, the next major nationwide protest is being planned for mid July.
There are still some less confrontational protests planned for the 4th.
Free America Weekend
https://action.womensmarch.com/calendars/free-america-weekend
No Kings Day 2.0
Friday July 4th 2025
https://www.mobilize.us/freedomoverfascism/event/806059/
https://www.mobilize.us/freedomoverfascism/?accessible_only=true&date=2025-07-04T04%3A00%3A00.000Z
Bring signage to make your message and numbers passively visible to events you attend, such as 4th of July concerts, parades, bar-b-ques, and fireworks.
Wear T-Shirts with your own messaging written on them. Use a permanent black marker on white, yellow, orange, or pink material if you have to.
Don't give Trump the legal means to deploy troops through an excuse that there were riots.
Show the courts Trump is full of BS.
🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
NEXT MAJOR NATION WIDE PROTEST IS: GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON
No Kings, What's Next?
https://www.nokings.org/next
Good Trouble Lives On
Thursday July 17th 2025
https://goodtroubleliveson.org/
🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
Republican Senator Murkowski just made a deal for a new clause in Trump's Big Beautiful Bill to increase Medicaid spending only for Alaska and Hawaii in exchange for her vote to support H.R.1.
This breaks Senate rules around favouritism. Because of this, H.R.1 has lost special protections, and now needs 60 votes to pass instead of 51.
Your pressure and demonstrations have raised awareness and ensured people like parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough do their jobs.
Parliamentarian of the United States Senate
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentarian_of_the_United_States_Senate
She saved the rest of us from a fast-tracked fiscal disaster.
Barry Gander explains in more detail in his substack article:
https://open.substack.com/pub/barrygander/p/gop-greed-might-kill-its-own-bill
Vocal Spectrum - Good Vibrations (Beach Boys cover)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uU578PBfaHg
Good Vibrations Guitar Chords Lesson - The Beach Boys
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=is2ysld8aeU&pp=0gcJCfwAo7VqN5tD
I don't think anyone wants to be involved with Trump's America.
His entire regime has to step down, including some judges that are blatantly violating and dismantling the checks and balances encoded into the National and State Constitutions, designed to stop abuses of power by American government and its agencies.
This has to happen before any nation will even remotely think of having something to do with Americans again.
Trump has rubber stamped America's brand with his own reputation, cruelty, criminality, and stupidity. The bottom line is Americans and their individual states have let him, and, continue to do so as evidenced by Robert's recent ruling which blatantly nullifies civilian constitutional rights.
Canada will never capitulate to Trump despite what some pundits say:
U.S. commerce secretary thanks Canada for removing 'deal breaker' digital tax
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bbPZPPBn5yY
Trump can't make deals anymore because he has blown through his credibility. He can't be trusted to keep them, anymore than Hitler.
Here is my take on this latest thing. This isn’t insider information. It’s based on what’s already public knowledge.
Under the previous Liberal government, Canada’s Digital Services Tax (DST) was designed as a fallback plan while Trudeau worked to join the OECD digital enforcement framework. That wasn’t likely to happen - so the DST was created as a safety net.
But since Mark Carney aligned Canada more closely with Europe and signaled deeper integration with international digital trade frameworks, the picture has changed.
Now, instead of relying on a Canada-only DST, the smarter, and potentially much tougher, option is to finalize enforcement through the OECD and key allies like the EU.
The question is: how would Canada even collect the tax if the DST kicked in today? And if there’s typically a 30-day grace period for payment, what happens if the OECD-based framework starts in three weeks?
You’d have mailed out DST statements today, allocated staff, and burned programming resources, only to cancel it all on day 21.
This feels less like a surrender to Trump and more like a case of awkward timing. The DST wasn’t Carney’s idea - it was Trudeau’s backup plan. And it was in the way.
Why wasn’t it shut down sooner? Because just weeks ago, Canada was still in talks about aligning with the EU. You don’t kill your backup plan when you’re not sure if the main one will close.
It could easily take three weeks to reconfigure Canada's systems to integrate with OECD protocols. That’s a standard window for mirroring digital infrastructure around the globe.
And Carney, as Canada’s chief negotiator, can’t publicly broadcast every move in those talks. If allies think their early positions will be leaked or misinterpreted, they stop talking freely.
Here’s the key thing: Trump gave Carney 30 days. So why is Carney pushing for 21?
It’s not backtracking. It looks more like a recalibration. A shift away from a local tax toward a global enforcement strategy that’s harder to dodge, tougher to game, and far more enduring.
Rather than face facts, T pushed lies, doctored footage, and silenced critics. This isn’t leadership—it’s dangerous propaganda.
When truth is sacrificed, security and democracy are the real casualties.
Excellent summary!
It's not surprising that Trump (aka Putin's tool in the Oval Office) mimics Putin's disdain for a free press and impartial intelligence estimates. It's standard for fascist autocrats to operate in this manner, as neither criticism nor acknowledgement of mistakes is permitted.
Anyone who has observed Trump over the past decade (and truth be told, his whole adult life) can see that he is incapable of learning, and frankly incapable of comprehending complex information.
That he is surrounded by a squadron of equally moronic, incompetent (and in a few cases, outright delusional) flatterers and scam artists makes the current geopolitical situation dangerous for the entire world, only compounded by the fact that Trump and his family are wholly owned by Putin, and have been installed to do Putin's bidding above all else.
My question is about Putin- is he able to learn from the catastrophic intelligence failures that have brought the Russian military to the verge of collapse, from the toppling of Assad in Syria, and as a practical matter, the greatly reduced leverage with China (begging North Korea for troop replacements can't be a good look)?
If the Revolutionary Council of Iran is weakened regionally, Russia might in effect lose its remaining principal ally in the Middle East. (This is not an argument to engage in military action against Iran, regardless of claims made by hawks in the US and Israel).
I'm asking this: Is Putin able to recognize that his management style- leadership by insisting on reports that stroke his ego, and imprisoning or murdering one's own military and intelligence officials on a routine basis- has been counterproductive to his aims? Does he even care? If he is unable to learn from past failure, and doesn't care, does that make him (owner of a nuclear arsenal and a brigade of assassination squads) *more dangerous* to the rest of the world?