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ELBOWS UP! 🇨🇦

created January 26, 2025

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And here in Canada too, in Alberta.

2/9/2025, 3:31:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump has one of the lowest approval ratings. A recent poll says 38%. From here in Canada, 38% seems huge considering his actions since January

1/9/2025, 2:38:57 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Exactly. This won’t end with his death. It will change but not end

1/9/2025, 2:25:54 AM | 9 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted

AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid.”

27/8/2025, 7:41:11 PM | 26414 7733 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wow! Finally more and more true opposition from politicians, governors.

26/8/2025, 12:16:55 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Beaverton (@thebeaverton.com) reposted

Danielle Smith says Canada has some of the lowest living standards in the world thanks to her hard work www.thebeaverton.com/2025/08/dani...

24/8/2025, 10:41:21 PM | 595 143 | View on Bluesky | view

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Indeed. This is something I hear often—and a concern for those who are on a fixed income. One of the system imperfections, for sure.

21/8/2025, 6:09:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Our system here in Canada is imperfect. But nobody goes into bankruptcy to fund a medical procedure

21/8/2025, 4:23:08 PM | 5 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

20/8/2025, 7:33:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That was so painful. Poor Zelenskyy—and tough. He really kept it together. Not sure if I could.

20/8/2025, 4:30:43 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

Did the Washington Post really do this? Or is she lying (again)?

19/8/2025, 7:14:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

Please don’t use the Gulf of Mexico for that image and message. Have some respect.

14/8/2025, 9:33:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

FAFO, fuckers!

14/8/2025, 5:14:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley have both said tough things about Trump. That made Kiss an odd choice for me.

14/8/2025, 2:04:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

From one rapist to another

12/8/2025, 10:53:34 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted

"Let me be crystal clear: crime in DC is ending and ending today."

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11/8/2025, 5:38:42 PM | 22849 8000 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

Let’s not make something out of nothing. We all have only so much bandwidth. This is just distracting noise.

10/8/2025, 3:34:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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😂

9/8/2025, 6:46:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

Bienvenue! Welcome to Canada!

9/8/2025, 6:45:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I fear the base isn’t going to be moved by any of the real evidence

28/7/2025, 5:28:40 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

Odd. Oprah went to the Bezos wedding. Is very “pick me”.

27/7/2025, 2:46:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The thing is, deer is not tasty enough without the addition of pork!

27/7/2025, 2:36:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

And Tulsi Gabbard is talking about Hilary Clinton in a press briefing. Insane!

24/7/2025, 5:29:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

When was this?

22/7/2025, 4:16:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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😂

20/7/2025, 2:44:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

So 0.5% of the population. And 5th highest in the world.

17/7/2025, 7:52:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

The U.S. has high incarceration. But this meme is bullshit. Left lying is just as bad as right lying. Stop lying.

17/7/2025, 5:07:42 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

Hello! It’s over!

16/7/2025, 12:50:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🤣🤣🤣

11/7/2025, 5:18:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I hated her for using the word “deplorables”. It was elitist and didn’t recognize the fear and despair of white, working class America. With that said, it sure seems now that there are many who are working hard to live up (down?) to that label!

7/7/2025, 3:57:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

Canuck here (married to an American) and I can tell you that this is truly an American story. This is YOU (too) and it’s been easy to forget amidst the MAGA nightmare of the last few months.

7/7/2025, 3:54:10 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe, but probably not.

7/7/2025, 3:47:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

You’re telling me the parents of the girls at the Christian camp voted Harris? 🧐

7/7/2025, 3:01:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes! Accountable/culpable.

7/7/2025, 2:55:07 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

Not justified. But their parents could be seen as culpable.

7/7/2025, 2:53:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

Alas I think it’s wishful thinking too. I don’t see a path out of the current situation.

6/7/2025, 3:33:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

Wow!

6/7/2025, 12:43:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We certainly don’t want him back in Canada

6/7/2025, 12:41:34 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Throws a tantrum, throws money at it, then burns whatever he bought into the ground. Rinse and repeat. God save the USA.

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5/7/2025, 11:49:58 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A celebration. A reckoning. The Great 4th of July Smackening! Una piñata. Muchos golpes.

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5/7/2025, 3:14:15 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

They are not Christians. You can’t stand for oppression and be a Christ follower.

5/7/2025, 3:08:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

Ugh. But good on you!

4/7/2025, 2:31:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

I visited a local Mexican woman who makes piñatas.

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4/7/2025, 2:29:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

I visited a local Mexican woman who makes piñatas.

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4/7/2025, 2:25:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social)

My husband & daughters are 🇺🇸 (also now 🇨🇦). I always arrange a 4th of July BBQ with all the Americana fixings, a gift to celebrate them & their homeland. Not much for celebrating this year until I visited a local Mexican piñata maker. Now filled with CDN, MXN, GER, ITA & SUI treats. ¡Fiesta mañana!

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4/7/2025, 2:24:20 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, you stated it so well, never perfect and many faults, despite the mythology. But now, 🤯… it’s just over

3/7/2025, 10:15:44 PM | 16 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

But now known as Mar-a-Lago face

2/7/2025, 1:48:43 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

Happy Canada Day! Oh we make mistakes but have the capacity to recognize them and make amends. I love that about us!

2/7/2025, 1:16:11 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

But 2/3 of Americans are accountable for this. And some suffering is going to be necessary to trigger sustained, meaningful resistance, and also break the MAGA cult hold

2/7/2025, 12:27:06 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you! I’m married to an American. And we’ll do our traditional 4th celebration, a hot dog cookout, here in Canada, but shhhhh a surprise for him: I went to a local Mexican piñata maker and we’ll have a Trump piñata! 💥

2/7/2025, 12:11:17 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

I know this is going to sound cruel, but the only way there is going to be any mean, sustained resistance is if the 2/3 hurt (those who voted for Trump, and those who can’t bother voting and saying they just don’t bother with politics).

2/7/2025, 12:09:04 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I won’t be vacationing in your country anymore. Not until your president stops attacking us and your own people

1/7/2025, 11:52:44 PM | 42 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So many of these posts are written from the POV that you’re going to come back from this, that you will magically turn the tide and these people will be on the wrong side of history. I don’t see any evidence of this happening

1/7/2025, 9:19:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

Eva Longoria! Who made a video crying about all going on. What a horrible hypocrite!

29/6/2025, 4:26:30 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Did Katie Couric really write that? I’m a Canuck and have lost track of her over the years. Wow! I love that she called that out. So many in MSM are treating this as a fun, Hollywood event, instead of the vulgarity that it is. Oprah is there! So is

29/6/2025, 4:25:53 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

Ooooo but you’re a swing state and we already have Alberta to deal with.

29/6/2025, 1:39:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

I still feel grief but I am moving on. No U.S. travel, no U.S. products from the grocery store, no delusions that they are a friend or ally.

29/6/2025, 1:38:57 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I feel so similarly. Right now, I have US family visiting. I’m one of two Canadians out of 10 people in my home. The Americans seem fine. I am the one suffering!

29/6/2025, 1:36:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Welcome 🇨🇦 Bienvenue 🇨🇦

25/6/2025, 5:13:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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22/6/2025, 6:58:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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YES!!! Fuckers! And if you do, don’t post about it on social media. Do it on the down low, with the shame it deserves!

18/6/2025, 10:36:46 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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People from the U.S. have been doing this since the 70s.

17/6/2025, 1:22:37 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

What are we seeing here?

17/6/2025, 1:21:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

These seeds began to be sowed by Reagan. There is no absolution for Republicans.

17/6/2025, 1:08:49 AM | 8 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

10? Well, I’m Canadian and I’m not particularly left. But as a man who has observed your country and is married to an American: Trump wouldn’t have happened without Reagan. George W. was also quite the liar too.

17/6/2025, 1:07:05 AM | 10 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

Awww thank you. Slow on the uptake this evening

16/6/2025, 2:58:12 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

Huh?

16/6/2025, 2:51:44 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MDP (@matthewdp.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m just wondering when and how Jews, Miller, Horowitz, Kushner, became so white.

16/6/2025, 2:45:42 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Really? It’s still full of horrible style mistakes, etc.

16/6/2025, 2:35:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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15/6/2025, 5:02:58 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes it was! I was so happy to see it. My husband and daughters are USAmericans, and it gave me hope.

15/6/2025, 4:24:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Beautiful!

15/6/2025, 4:23:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Beautiful!

15/6/2025, 4:19:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Beautiful!

15/6/2025, 4:19:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Beautiful!

15/6/2025, 4:18:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wonderful!

15/6/2025, 4:15:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes! But we call it No Tyrants. Living in a constitutional monarchy, we love our king. 🇨🇦 🇬🇧

13/6/2025, 11:05:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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12/6/2025, 4:18:04 AM | 5 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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🤣

12/6/2025, 2:31:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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O’Toole is a decent man.

8/6/2025, 3:39:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Skippy! 😂

8/6/2025, 3:38:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The pope needs to excommunicate JD Vance and Karoline Leavitt.

8/6/2025, 3:36:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Don’t be all high and mighty and then use the word Indian in this context. D’oh!

7/6/2025, 3:31:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I didn’t know he was Canadian

7/6/2025, 2:13:29 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🤣🤣🤣 What a shit show!

6/6/2025, 7:27:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes!!! Mutual destruction!!!

6/6/2025, 1:22:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Musk is doing this to revive a positive image. No grace for Musk. I am hoping for mutual destruction. It’s what they deserve

6/6/2025, 12:41:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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😂

5/6/2025, 9:15:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I love this!

5/6/2025, 9:10:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes! Musk doesn’t deserve a pass just because he is now turning on Trump!!!

5/6/2025, 9:09:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Canadian here who feels this is on all of you for letting it happen. Twice.

5/6/2025, 4:08:22 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Exactly. I lobby our leaders here in Canada to separate us from you as quickly as possible. We need new friends and trusted partners for trade, cultural exchanges and security. Fuck the USA. Oh wait, you already did.

5/6/2025, 1:16:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We aren’t laughing. In fact, many of us are very angry and angry at all of you for letting this happen.

5/6/2025, 1:14:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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God bless the protestors!!!

5/6/2025, 1:13:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And ironically enough, there would be no Donald Trump had there not been a Ronald Reagan. Trump is Reagan’s legacy.

2/6/2025, 4:10:32 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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C>nterrific!

1/6/2025, 5:18:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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MAGA is just MAGA, taking from the right and left, whatever suits them

1/6/2025, 5:16:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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oMG! She is absolutely c

1/6/2025, 12:36:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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OMG, she is absolutely c>ntastic!

1/6/2025, 12:35:44 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Agree! It was a nothing finale. I didn’t expect a happy ending and everything wrapped up, but it just meandered

30/5/2025, 3:50:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view