taco

@taco@nfld.me

Official Anticonsul of Quebec to the People of Newfoundland & Labrador / Antifascist Dissident in Exile / Snack Aficionado. Formerly @hurricane_taco on the bird app.

Eighties baby, Master of Reaganomics (School of Hard Knocks). Every day is college.

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taco, to Canada

Jfc…

Highways are not a federal responsibility.

End of goddamn story. Even the TCH is maintained entirely by the provinces.

Do righties even know another song?

taco,

Maybe should consider sales taxes if it can’t afford to maintain its own roads.

Pretty embarrassing, tbh.

taco, to USpolitics

Trump now has 29 days to put up his appeal bond before the whole judgment becomes due.

He has never, as far as I can tell, raised over $27M in a single month.

He isn’t fundraising his way out of this one.

Gigi, to Toronto

Switching to Saturday really boosted numbers, it seems.
And brought out the media.

At Bay and Front about to get going.


video/mp4

taco,

@Gigi guess someone missed the whole chair girl saga.

taco,

@crockett @Gigi I would describe it as a noxious mix of water and bioagents, if I was going to push for charges. I’m assuming she isn’t.

taco, to USpolitics

As Cohen points out: Trump doesn’t actually have many physical assets.

Most of the properties people thinks he owns he doesn’t, and the few that he does are heavily mortgaged, all of those loans can now be called in by lenders seeking to limit their exposure.

Worth also keeping in mind that he leases the ground his crown jewel, 40 Wall Street, is built on. (He bought the lease from A Philippine dictator, iirc)

That lease may be voidable now.

mastodonmigration, to random
@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online avatar

Michael Cohen, who should know, says Trump does not have the assets to cover the fines from the judgements against him. His real estate is insufficient, has mortgages, and any profits would be subject to capital gains. He just doesn't have the money, and no way to raise it.

https://www.rawstory.com/michael-cohen-2667302325/

taco,

@mastodonmigration he doesn’t even have the funds to make the bond necessary for the appeal.

taco, to Canada

It’ll be interesting to see more details on the decision that the challenge against Saskatchewan anti-trans policies can go ahead.

I suspect that the judge sees a violation of common law rights that existed prior to the Charter.

Because that’s how section 33 actually works: it doesn’t cancel out all rights, it simply forces legislation to be interpreted in a pre-Charter context with respect to sections 2, and 7-15, of the Charter.

taco,

If that is the case it’s a deathknell for the usage of sec. 33 in where it is almost exclusively used to override the right to free speech which has always existed in common law.

taco, to Israel

I’m not sure who told zionists that Auschwitz justifies Ktziot, but it doesn’t.

Just like the ovens didn’t justify dropping incendiary munitions on a hospital.

taco, to random

Dear ,

Since you can’t be bothered to do actual journalism I’ve done your jobs for you:

No, the federal government did not seize the convoy’s money.

They temporarily froze the accounts of people who contributed money to the logistical support of the convoy, which would have been fine even w/o the EA given that there is no lawful way to finance ongoing criminality.

The court froze the money pending the class action suit.

That has nothing to do with the federal government whatsoever.

taco,

If your bank subsequently closed your account because they didn’t want to carry the business risk of continuing to offer financial services to someone who’s account was frozen in a national security context, well, that’s between you and them.

And no court is going to fault them.

taco,

Even the court ruling the convoy nutters are celebrating, which will definitely be overturned given the sheer number of factors the Harper-appointed judge ignored, makes very clear that the protest involved substantial ongoing criminality.

taco, to USpolitics

Suozzi was always going to carry Queens, but the fact that he also took a solid majority of the votes in Nassau has to be causing panic among northern suburban GOP incumbents.

He beat a Jewish former IDF soldier on Long Island. That’s not nothing.

taco, to random

The decision upholding Hawaii’s gun laws is definitely worth a peeksy.

A brief summary of the highlights:

  • They quoted The Wire.
  • Upheld firearms licensing requirements by interpreting the law through a Native Hawaiian context, as state law requires.
  • Clearly documented the ways in which firearms regulations are consistent with the historical traditions of the state, which outlawed private arms prior to annexation.

It’s, to put it mildly, a banger.

taco, to Canada

While I’m not thrilled with the rollout, I am, very broadly, in support of MAID.

I think the freedom to choose death over suffering is the ultimate freedom a state can give its citizens and the fact that does that is one of the very few things about this country I’m genuinely proud of.

That being said… slow roll. Death cannot be undone

And we definitely shouldn’t expedite expansion in a province who’s own courts have ruled the CAQ government to have passed openly discriminatory laws

taco, to random

Notice how the story faded quick once righties failed to produce anything other than Israeli insistence as “evidence”?

I’m still seeing sporadic mentions buried deep in articles, but it’s time in the headlines is over.

taco,

@rticks I’ve long given up on expecting better from zionists.

But I know journalists, personally. I do expect better from them.

taco, to Israel

To be clear: isn’t evacuating Rafah.

  1. It isn’t theirs.
  2. They’re “evacuating” it to make it uninhabitable, or move settlers in. Probably a mix of the two, but entirely at their own instigation.

They’re ethnically cleansing it and the media is laundering their reputation by calling it an evacuation.

taco, to Canada

The fact that a substantial number of Canadians don’t understand this to the extent that we have to go to experts is a troubling indictment of the health education programs in our schools.

taco, to Canada

“Puberty blockers shouldn’t be used on children” is the kind of insanely stupid shit only someone who doesn’t understand puberty would say.

Enter Pierre Poilievre.

That’s who goes through puberty, you absolute fucking door knob. Minors.

taco, to random

What if we put in bike lanes that converted to ski lanes in the winter? 🤔

Corner Brook is all slopes and hills lol, I’ve definitely considered buying a crazy carpet to speed up my work commute.

taco, to tesla

It’s weird how fanboys rage at regulators for issuing constant recalls on their vehicles but never get mad at Tesla for failing to do the most very basic of due diligence on their engineering.

It’s almost like you shouldn’t let non-engineers (like… say… Elon) make technical, or even more significantly: safety, decisions.

taco, to Canada

Kids have Charter rights too, and there is, especially in Canada, very clear historical reasons as to why.

taco, to USpolitics

The “parental rights” movement, just like the “victims’ rights” movement before it, is worthless right wing garbage fed to parrots in the suburbs that serves no purpose but to justify and make palatable the restriction of individual liberties.

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