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#theamericanfascist

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Top story at the CBC:
“Canadian university teachers warned against travelling to the United States”

"The association says academics who are from countries that have tense diplomatic relations with the United States, or who have themselves expressed negative views about the Trump administration, should be particularly cautious about attempting to cross the border."

#TheAmericanFascist #Universities #Canada #USA #canPoli #CdnPoli #USPoli

cbc.ca/news/canada/travel-warn

CBCCanadian university teachers warned against travelling to the United States | CBC NewsThe Canadian Association of University Teachers says it released updated travel advice today due to the "political landscape" created by the Trump administration and reports of some Canadians encountering difficulties while crossing the border.

Found myself on the Holocaust Encyclopedia reading about Drancy, a project-style government housing neighbourhood outside Paris that was turned into a prison and transit hub shipping 64,000 Jews to extermination camps elsewhere.

"Some of the Jews deported from Drancy were French citizens. The majority were foreign-born Jews who had immigrated to France in the 1920s and 1930s, primarily from Poland, Germany, and, after 1938, Austria. Many distinguished French Jewish intellectuals and artists were held in Drancy, including the poet Max Jacob, the choreographer René Blum, and the playwright Tristan Bernard."

What DC or Boston project will be the USAs Drancy?

I don't believe I am being hyperbolic here...
#TheAmericanFascist #Nazi #Fascism
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content

encyclopedia.ushmm.orgDrancyThe Germans established an internment camp at Drancy in August 1941. The following summer, Drancy became the main transit camp for deportations of Jews from France.

Don’t leave and try to re-enter the USA. Just don’t do it. Example elventy million:
““There were so many people in this room. A heavy percentage of them were from South America. I met a girl from Berlin. There were a bunch of people from Canada. There were two Brits.””

#TheAmericanFascist #canpoli #cdnpoli #Australia #UK #iCE
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

The Guardian · Australian with working visa detained and deported on returning to US from sister’s memorialBy Daisy Dumas
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@ErikJonker you know, I was kind of ready for one of the two branches to fail at checking Trump’s goose-stepping the country down the road to fascism. I didn’t expect them both to pretty much completely fail simultaneously.

Apparently US democracy was sitting on a house of cards called “norms” all this time, and #theAmericanFascist has been pulling out one card at a time time since he first rode down that gold escalator.

#TheAmericanFascist uttered this morning.

“I’m proud to be the President for the workers, not the outsourcers; the President who stands up for Main Street, not Wall Street; who protects the middle class, not the political class; and who defends America, not trade cheaters all over the globe.”

The left wing social democratic forces of the world (including the #Liberals and #NDP in Canada) have been so neutered and brow beaten into incrementalism and neo-Liberal corporate capture, that a right wing, billionaire-wannabe, near-Nazi fascist, and politicians who want to be like him (Pierre Poillievre) have stolen the rallying cries of working men and women (but mostly men).

These were the warnings working people and socialist forces screamed when Free Trade and privatization was born by Reagan and Mulroney, Thatcher and Chirac. The de-unionization of western economies, the decimation of public infrastructure for private “partnerships”…

Now here we are, it all got so bad that the regular person, struggling to put inflated food on the table, or put their children through inflated college, are so fed up that they submit to the regressive, racist, anti-human, bloviations of populist tyrants.

A pox on you, “Liberals” and “Democrats” of the world.

You chose corporations while you placated people with false promises and false hopes.

You enabled the worst of the human condition through complacency and greed.

Your limp, unconvincing defence of Liberalism and Democratic values destroyed both.

What will you do to win back the podium to speak for working people? Perhaps you don’t deserve to.

It is quite a discordant echo, 1917 to 2025.

World War I 1914-1917: The British Empire (including Canada) and France defend in a horrible war of attrition against German Imperial forces.

April 6, 1917: Congress declares war on Germany after Americans are outraged when an intercepted communiqué between Germany and Mexico suggests Germany help Mexico retake American states lost decades earlier and Germany sinks American shipping.

April 9-12: Canada fights its first massive battle as a unified fighting force, 97,000 strong, at Vimy Ridge, and wins at supreme cost, 10,000 casualties.

…….

April 6 2025: After two months of increasingly authoritarian actions, wild tariff policy and threats to destroy or absorb the economies or nations of Panama, Greenland or Canada, President Trump’s advisors make it clear the world will face tariffs not seen in decades, the markets plunge in anticipation, world leaders scramble, and non citizens in the USA are targeted for detention and deportation.

April 9 2025 - The United States launches a trade war. Ending the era of multilateralism, trade and cooperation that Woodrow Wilson started when he brought the USA into World War I and FDR continued in World War II.

The USA Giveth and Taketh Away.

this is speaking to me tonight..... in solidarity with good Americans. 🤘 ✊ 🔥 #resist

"some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses.... some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses.... some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses"

"____ u I won't do what u tell me.... ____ u i won't do what u tell me.... ___ u I won't do what u tell me."

#TheAmericanFascist
music.apple.com/ca/album/killi

Killing In The Name by Rage Against the Machine on Apple Music
Apple Music - Web PlayerKilling In The Name by Rage Against the Machine on Apple MusicSong · 1992 · Duration 5:13

currently waiting for this Apple to drop...

“Trump believes that Apple can make iPhones in the United States, the White House said today, as the administration pushes Apple to move device production to U.S. shores in response to Trump’s tariffs.”

Hey Tim? You Listening? lol
#Apple #TheAmericanFascist #TradeWar #TrumpTariffs
cnbc.com/2025/04/08/trump-tari

CNBCTrump tariffs: Elon Musk calls Peter Navarro 'dumber than a sack of bricks'President Donald Trump's tariffs are driving a wedge between his White House advisers, with just hours before massive new import duties come into force.

We're now in a world trade war and the USA is the bad guy.

So here’s the proposal:

Through a UN resolution, the rules-based world launches a coordinated, economic strike against the USA with all countries simultaneously putting 100% tariffs on the USA while lifting all tariffs between participating countries, until the USA backs off and returns to the WTO process.

Nonsense?

Possible?

I don't know how any of this works frankly. But I don’t think anyone does.

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Omg. This story about the British 28yr old comic book artist and backpacker, staying at workaways and living her best life only to be detained at ICE jail when she tried to go to Canada. Guys SHE DREW PICTURES OF HER CELLMATES. 😢 this is a movie script.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

and the unexpected, complicit, villain?

The Canada Border Services Agents!! 😡 😤

Why the hell are we turning these obvious tourists back into the hands of ICE!?

As a Canadian I am embarrassed and infuriated. A directive must be put out to Canadian border guards to show leniency!!
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