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MikeL_TO

@mikeintoronto.bsky.social

Music lover, retired speechwriter, former journalist, meditator, liberal, anti-Maple MAGA

created December 7, 2023

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The worm is spreading!

1/9/2025, 5:05:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Or is this covering for Trump's lack of political ability? Of course, that leads to appointing people like Witkoff

29/8/2025, 3:26:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How fucking stupid can this guy be?

26/8/2025, 8:28:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Even without the files, we know Trump is a disgusting degenerate pig

22/8/2025, 11:52:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And she'll get one when the time is "right." Meanwhile, cushier digs

22/8/2025, 11:48:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump realizing Kamala was right - he's merely Putin's lunch

21/8/2025, 7:32:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She can't win anything; she needs a participation trophy

19/8/2025, 4:05:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She should be very concerned

19/8/2025, 3:57:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He kept it going in the hope that Trump would get in and carry his water. It worked.

19/8/2025, 3:42:05 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MikeL_TO (@mikeintoronto.bsky.social) reply parent

Why would he while Trump is carrying his water?

18/8/2025, 10:52:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And one way it becomes less safe is when the US betrays good neighbors and allies

17/8/2025, 4:54:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yup - the closest to an adult in the room 🤣

17/8/2025, 4:51:16 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Iconic photo

15/8/2025, 2:37:28 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She was phenomenal

12/8/2025, 3:40:12 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You're getting your wish!

7/8/2025, 3:05:51 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Great win - she is tough!

7/8/2025, 1:08:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MikeL_TO (@mikeintoronto.bsky.social) reply parent

And they got the Soviets to recruit Trump in 1987. Krasnov means hoax in Russian

6/8/2025, 10:54:10 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MikeL_TO (@mikeintoronto.bsky.social) reply parent

True if the edits don't change the meaning, but these ones do. I'd argue that the original is more impactful.

3/8/2025, 2:19:57 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Or he just pulls numbers out of his ass

28/7/2025, 5:19:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And Chamberlain didn't crush on Hitler

27/7/2025, 9:12:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He's a bigger appeaser than Chamberlain.

27/7/2025, 8:03:43 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Absolutely

27/7/2025, 4:12:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I bet there are going to be some shitty movies made

27/7/2025, 4:09:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I would agree, except it's horrible for her victims

25/7/2025, 7:14:49 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Reality TV

24/7/2025, 4:17:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A terrible role model for young people and helped pave the way for the regime for which he shilled

24/7/2025, 4:04:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He has a remarkable commitment to being an asshole every single day without let-up

20/7/2025, 8:37:53 PM | 48 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Garland was Obama's idea in the first place; Obama's heart may have been in the right place, but his balls weren't

17/7/2025, 3:35:52 PM | 83 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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His recent words about Putin are just Susan Collinsing. He's allowed to say certain things to relieve some pressure, but ultimately he will do what he's told

15/7/2025, 6:46:34 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It will give an off-ramp for some of the base, but others will figure, "At least we've still got Alligator Alcatraz."

14/7/2025, 7:01:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Iconic photo

11/7/2025, 8:36:39 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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'Weird' worked better. If you have to keep saying 'joy,' it seems contrived. Just embody it! It rubbed those who weren't feeling it the wrong way.

9/7/2025, 2:19:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well, it is now run by an enemy regime

8/7/2025, 5:37:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He was a poet and author who was associated with writing in all lower case. (He didn't always stick to that, though.)

8/7/2025, 2:34:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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ee cummings was very low energy

8/7/2025, 1:56:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What in the fuck does anyone think he even remotely deserves the Nobel for?

7/7/2025, 11:55:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sure thing, birdbrain

7/7/2025, 10:59:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If you have a functioning heart and brain, you're fine

7/7/2025, 10:14:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Apparently not healthy, either

7/7/2025, 10:12:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's our business if your president wages an unprovoked trade war and talks about annexing Canada.

7/7/2025, 10:02:29 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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ICEstapo

7/7/2025, 7:50:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And if it was staged - I don't know, but some people are saying - the LEAST God could have done would have been to save the life of the poor guy who did get shot

6/7/2025, 10:59:18 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Musk is unqualified; he's never hosted a tacky reality show.

6/7/2025, 5:30:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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ICEstapo

5/7/2025, 4:01:11 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I've always heard it's a gateway sauce

4/7/2025, 11:39:35 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Badly Built Bullshit Bill

3/7/2025, 11:25:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Badly Built Bullshit Bill

2/7/2025, 11:37:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But it didn't cost him his DOGE job - it's what made him ideally suited for gutting services that people depend upon.

1/7/2025, 6:24:56 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's going above and beyond - serious ear infections are hell!

30/6/2025, 1:34:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MikeL_TO (@mikeintoronto.bsky.social) reply parent

Is he fucking kidding? CNN spent all yesterday breathlessly touting Trump's so-called ceasefire....all based on his word with no verification. They wanted a Trump win so badly that it was embarrassing.

25/6/2025, 9:42:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sure, he did, Gramps

25/6/2025, 9:05:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is a bit misleading. Apparently, it's for trans people only...and is not 24/7

19/6/2025, 2:31:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Two weeks....

19/6/2025, 1:56:30 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Understatement

18/6/2025, 11:13:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think she was exposed to truth

17/6/2025, 9:59:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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TACO

17/6/2025, 5:54:20 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Russia was already gone when Trudeau became PM

16/6/2025, 3:47:45 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And blaming Trudeau, who became PM in 2015

16/6/2025, 3:43:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She would have resented a boy, always suspecting he'd become a female athlete

15/6/2025, 5:25:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Will the leading scorer in every game be Canadian?

12/6/2025, 3:21:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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трамп всегда трусит

5/6/2025, 4:26:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hardly surprising, considering these people think JFK Jr is alive and Keith Richards is JFK

2/6/2025, 11:12:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Highlight of the season!

1/6/2025, 2:59:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump complaining about a country breaking a trade agreement??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂

30/5/2025, 1:36:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In a nation of laws, you would be able to hold those truths as self-evident.

29/5/2025, 8:34:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They should give Trump a case of Diet Coke and throw in a pacifier

29/5/2025, 11:46:21 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MikeL_TO (@mikeintoronto.bsky.social) reply parent

Heartening to see, isn't it?

27/5/2025, 6:53:25 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He's going Susan Collins!

25/5/2025, 11:05:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What a gullible fool. Nothing "happened" to Putin. This is how he operates.

25/5/2025, 11:04:34 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Deeply disturbing? Let's not Susan Collins this - it should be disqualifying. Noem is a stupid idiot.

22/5/2025, 12:01:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They're not sending their best...

16/5/2025, 1:49:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Aka #CUSMA

6/5/2025, 7:16:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I suspect it was intentional...to send a message and test limits to power

15/4/2025, 12:14:42 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think it was intentional. They're sending a message and seeing what they can get away with.

15/4/2025, 1:12:08 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So Trump pays El Salvador to receive these people .... and the deal doesn't include being able to fix a mistake???

14/4/2025, 10:10:25 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Arising from evil intent, ignorance and incompetence

13/4/2025, 10:38:46 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not April Fool's?

8/4/2025, 2:41:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Disgraceful that Coates is calling him Mr. Wonderful. When, in reality, he's a traitorous a-hole who is despised by the vast majority of Canadians.

5/4/2025, 3:30:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MikeL_TO (@mikeintoronto.bsky.social) reply parent

Doesn't Benny Johnson get paid by Russia to spread its propaganda?

4/4/2025, 9:52:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MikeL_TO (@mikeintoronto.bsky.social) reply parent

You do trade with Russia and, by Trump's imbecilic reasoning, subsidize it to the tune of $2,5 billion/yr 🤣

3/4/2025, 5:00:46 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sen. Cory Booker (@booker.senate.gov) reposted

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

31/3/2025, 11:00:29 PM | 51667 10682 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MikeL_TO (@mikeintoronto.bsky.social) reply parent

He's gotten permission to say this, in the same way Susan Collins et al are allowed to criticise Trump from time to time

30/3/2025, 7:01:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Whether they want it or not....

28/3/2025, 1:00:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Like working with Russians on cyber-security

27/3/2025, 4:16:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Except the "easy to feel sorry for Poilievre" part...'cause it really isn't

27/3/2025, 4:15:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MikeL_TO (@mikeintoronto.bsky.social) reply parent

Went to dinner with two ex-pats the other night. One is dual and the other is a US citizen who - at 81 - is getting Canadian citizenship and renouncing his US citizenship. Both have canceled planned trips to the US this year.

27/3/2025, 3:47:50 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We tend not to visit enemy regimes.

27/3/2025, 3:42:12 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think there are some Republicans who have permission to complain from time to time, as long as they vote in line when necessary

27/3/2025, 1:31:53 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MikeL_TO (@mikeintoronto.bsky.social) reply parent

Joining Bluesky and deleting Twitter is twice as effective as just doing the former. Why stay on a Musk-owned, operated and moderated forum? Every little bit helps in driving down the value of his enterprises.

24/3/2025, 1:24:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Reagan was right around the corner

22/3/2025, 4:12:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cruelty

19/3/2025, 10:40:30 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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True, we don't share their military fetish

19/3/2025, 8:23:03 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What explains the last ten years is not a black hole, but an asshole

19/3/2025, 8:17:44 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The vast majority of Canadians sure do.

18/3/2025, 1:28:05 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Does he ever say thank you?

13/3/2025, 3:19:53 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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David Plouffe, one of Harris's key advisors, says that the campaign's internal polling never showed her in the lead.

13/3/2025, 3:15:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MikeL_TO (@mikeintoronto.bsky.social) reply parent

One thing that will happen is that just about all of us - young and old - will take up arms. Anything would be preferable to living under that regime

12/3/2025, 10:03:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fuck Navarro

12/3/2025, 7:30:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The idea is a complete non-starter here - to put it mildly - but Trump seems to think he can squeeze us to the point we'll have no choice.

12/3/2025, 2:41:29 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is all assuming that Canadians would even get equal representation.

11/3/2025, 10:32:04 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view