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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Roger Kettle on January 20, 2026, 09:40:00 AM
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I'm lost for words.
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I am lost in understanding - I often don't know what is a real news story and what is a meme/parody anymore.
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Um...let me see...nope, still speechless.
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There is a lot more hope since your first post. Things could still go either way, but I see so many people of goodwill coming together and making a stand for humanity and the planet.
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Keep in mind that Americans elected this guy (or allowed him to be elected) twice.
The US has lost its moral high ground, the trust in its institutions, its leadership on the world stage, and the idea that it is a nation governed by laws, not men.
I no longer spend anywhere American (Starbucks, Costa, McDonalds, Morrisons) or on anything American. I also no longer watch American films or programmes.
Our family have had great fun discovering films and television from Canada, Australia, Japan, France, and other European companies.
I never knew just how pervasive and awful American culture was until Trump, so I guess I have him to thank for that.
Boots: owned by Walgreens Boots Alliance (US)
Waterstones: owned by Elliott Management (US hedge fund)
Costa Coffee: owned by The Coca-Cola Company (US)
TK Maxx: owned by TJX Companies (US)
Cadbury: owned by Mondelez International (US)
Walkers Crisps: owned by PepsiCo (US)
Irn-Bru: owned by AG Barr, but AG Barr is now part of Rockstar Energy (US)
Weetabix: owned by Post Holdings (US)
Kellogg’s owned by Kellogg Company (US)
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I never judge a nation by its leader. I have American friends who are absolutely appalled by their president. Likewise, those who visited Russia for the World Cup a few years back have nothing but praise for the Russian people who couldn't have been more friendly and hospitable.
Trump is simply beyond belief.
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I don’t judge the US by the Americans I know (most of whom not only support but encourage a boycott of the US). I judge them by the nation they’ve shaped.
When a nation repeatedly elects a leader who undermines global trust, democracy, and moral standards, it’s hard to separate the people from the consequences of their collective choices. My boycott isn’t about individuals: I am holding a system accountable. If two-thirds of a population enables someone like Trump twice, there has to be a response. I refuse to fund or engage with a culture that, at its core, has lost its way.
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Have a look here for the views of Americans who are still not "absolutely appalled" by their president.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskTrumpSupporters/
I put several of their topics into AI and this is its conclusion.
TRUMP SUPPORTER
A cynical, tribalist, hypocritical voter who prioritizes owning the libs, punishing the vulnerable, and rationalizing corruption, so long as it benefits their in-group, regardless of the cost to democracy, morality, or their own long-term well-being.
ACTUAL QUOTES
"So what?" (on Trump’s admitted dishonesty)
"We stopped caring [about Trump’s lies] 6 years ago." (normalizing corruption through apathy)
"I don’t care if he’s a bullshitter. He delivers for me." (results over morality, no matter how unethical)
"If you don’t like it, blame democracy." (shrugging off manipulation of the ignorant as just "how it is")
"We can go it alone if need be, Iran doesn’t stand a chance." (isolationist arrogance and warmongering in one breath)
"I’d rather copy bullfighting from Europe than healthcare." (mocking life-saving policies out of spite)
"No one can plausibly argue we got duped after a full 4 years." (sunk cost fallacy as a badge of honour)
"It’s not the government’s job to save its citizens from oneself or mother nature." (social Darwinism as governance)
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Mince, my hope is that someone, somewhere leaks the entire Epstein files.
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Also lost for words. So, pictures....
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Superb, as always. Tarqs.
I'm now waiting for Trump to declare St. Johnstone winning the championship as "fake news"...
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:D I witnessed it all with my own eyes! Happy days.
See you at the Tannadicci next season, Roger.
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Look forward to it, mate!
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Today he's after our water.
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Great cartoons Tarqs :-)
I am not so much boycotting American but buying Canadian if available and I would not feel safe going down there on holiday. I want to see New Mexico before I die so I hope they get their act together soon.
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Not just for me seeing New Mexico, for all the misery going on in the world. Thousands of children are going to need artificial limbs, all those homes re-built. Huge amounts of people in the US without food and health care, those god-awful ICE for-profit detention camps. It is going to take a lot for America to get to a good place.
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Heading for Roswell, Diane?
Regarding Trump, it's way past time that his advisers steered him away from social media.
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Yesterday he started with our water, went on to Cuba. Wonder what stress he will put the world under today.
It was that 1994 movie Speechless that it seems wasn't very popular that has always made me think of New Mexico. It was the dessert, the stars and the hot air balloons and two of my favourite actors.
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Thanks, Diane.
I'm just hoping that you have far more years left in you than Trump, and/or that the half of USA that voted him in (twice now!) finally hear the pennies (cents?) drop and the scales falling from their eyes before they get the chance to go and screw the world over at the ballot box again. And hopefully the Democrats will get their act together by then also, because I'm not seeing that from across the Pond yet.
One more (these are what I've come to call Cathartic Cartooning)...
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The stuff of nightmares. Yesterday he was picking on bison in Montana.
A person should have just jotted down briefly what trouble each day he has stirred up in a school exercise book just for the record. Nothing gets addressed because there is always new distractions.
You could sell the cartoon in line drawing and let people colour it in with a fist around a crayon and work in big angry zig zag motions.
I imagine being May 5th he will insult Mexicans today.
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We got some good news in Alberta yesterday, the petition to separate Alberta was squished before it was put on the ballot due to Treat Rights violations. We have a large segment of our population derogatively called "Maple MAGA" right wing christian fascists who are trying to privatize as much as they can and keep health care and education underfunded and all that stuff.
This was a huge win for country and normal people.
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I can't remember the last time I heard some political good news!
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Never mind. Our dingbat premier is going to use the "notwithstanding" clause to put the question on the ballot in October anyway.
AND they just legislated that Pride and Treaty flags can no longer be displayed in classrooms this fall. They reduced payments to disabled people by $200 a month because they thought the benefits were "too generous" (did they give themselves a raise? you bet they did) and took snacks such as ice lollies away from child cancer patients.
So many bad things :-(
I feel like Canada on the whole is doing well in the good news department, Carney is getting so much done with kindness and positivity. There is just a shadow over Alberta, a lot of it cultural.