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HAPPY WINTER SOLSTICE AND MERRY YULE!!
All the best to you and yours; here is to a happy, healthy and fulfilled year ahead!!
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The Fall of the American Empire in One Easy Step.
Elect a Convicted Felon, Child Abuser on the Edge of Full Dementia.
Just for the hell of it, I asked AI whether or not the U.S. will ever recover from Trump and his MagaT traitors. Here is what I received:
Will the U.S. ever recover from Trump?
As of late 2025, whether the U.S. will “recover” from Donald Trump’s presidency remains a subject of intense debate among political scientists, economists, and historians. Some believe the nation’s institutions are resilient enough to bounce back, while others argue that structural and international damage may be permanent.
Perspectives on Domestic Recovery
- Optimistic View: Some analysts argue that American democracy has survived severe tests before—including the 1960s civil unrest and the Great Depression—and that the current polarization may lead to a necessary reinforcement of democratic guardrails.
- Institutional Damage: Critics point to long-term changes, such as a conservative-leaning Supreme Court and the potential politicization of federal agencies like the FBI or ICE, which could take decades or new constitutional reforms to address.
- Social Polarization: Many believe that the deep cultural and political divides exacerbated during the Trump years may persist for at least a generation, requiring sustained efforts to rebuild trust in civic institutions.
Economic and Global Impact
- International Standing: There are significant concerns that the U.S. has permanently lost its role as the “leader of the free world.” Allied nations in Europe and the Pacific have begun adjusting to a less reliable U.S. partner, potentially leading to a long-term decline in American global prestige.
- Market and Trade: The imposition of broad tariffs and the resulting retaliatory measures have led some economists to fear a permanent hit to U.S. economic dynamism, even after the current administration leaves office.
Recent Developments (2025)
- Economic Strain: In late 2025, voters have expressed growing concerns about a “deteriorating U.S. economy” and persistent high prices, which have negatively impacted public approval of the current administration’s policies.
- Midterm Outlook: As the 2026 midterms approach, some data suggests a potential shift in support among key demographics (young adults, independents), which could lead to a legislative counter-balance if Democrats or dissident Republicans gain ground.
Personally, I don’t think a recovery is possible; definitely not in my lifetime. We watched a proud nation or rather what the propaganda machine wanted the world to believe, was a proud nation, brought to shame, brought to global ridicule in less than a year. The country, its voters and that demented idiot, his assorted minions have managed to turn the U.S. into a joke. The rotten underbelly has been exposed, the racism, the grift, the fake marching under a Christian banner and perhaps, most disturbing to anyone with a shred of morality, is the apparent acceptance of pedophilia.
Its over. Americans were under the mistaken impression that the U.S. was admired; nope. The rest of the world kept their smirks to themselves but there really cannot be any hiding the derision anymore. The American propaganda machine was pretty good, I have to admit it but the U.S. is not a financial juggernaut. Their debt load is the highest in the world. Don’t let the sleight of hand, the fake media lights and sparkle fool you. They are just not-all-that. The world knows it, its time the U.S. citizens learned the truth.
** To the “AMURICAN Patriots” and their attempts at obscenity riddled comments? No, the world doesn’t need you and please, take a few minutes, look around your house and see how many products are actually manufactured in the U.S. I dare say the vast majority of your clothing, your household items and the parts used in the manufacturing process are Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese. Sit down before the oxygen hits your brain and you can indulge in the, obviously, painful process (for you) of having a coherent thought. **
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Is He Dead Yet?
Very sad that no one needs to be told to whom this is referencing.
Been a minute since I posted; the flu invaded our home. Otherwise strong individual within our home, ended up, in an ambulance. Ignore the anti-vaxx morons and get that shot. It may not address this particular virulent strain; influenza A, known as H3N2 but can lessen the symptoms. Emergency rooms, both pediatric and general are flooded with this form of flu. It can progress to pneumonia in a freaking nanosecond, even in the hardiest of folks. So yeah, that was my little P.S.A.
Now, to addressing the Pooh and piglet meme. No one has to ask who these two favourite kiddie characters are talking about. That alone, is telling. Had the internet and memes been a thing during Hitler’s reign, Stalin’s domination of the U.S.S.R. – the corresponding memes would have been the same.
A collection of Epstein photos have been released and I am not surprised,
- Noam Chomsky (Okay, this one shocked me.)
- Trump
- Bill Gates.
- Bill Clinton.
- Steve Bannon.
- Dershowitz.
- Woody Allen
Women were right, you know. The Patriarchy. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. We’ve been saying this for eons. I think what really enrages me are the women who protect and support these slime balls. The desperate “Pick me” women. The ones with no identity, no courage, no self-respect.
It is time to pull them all down. Time to kick their pedestals out from under them. History has a “How-To” guide; from medieval to modern times, tips and tricks abound.
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STAY OUT OF THE U.S.
It is getting more and more like dealing with extreme paranoid personalities….😲😲 Stay safe and avoid the U.S, at all costs.
Traveling to the U.S? Well, be prepared to have your privacy removed and your rights trampled.
“Under the current system, applicants from countries in the visa waiver program must provide a home address, phone number, email address and emergency contact information, along with a $40 fee.
With the proposed changes, applicants will be asked to also submit all personal and business telephone numbers used in the past five years; personal and business email addresses used in the last decade; and the names, dates of birth, places of birth and addresses of immediate family members.
Yes, you have read that correctly. 5 years of contacts. Stay home. Cancel any planned trips/business meetings (Zoom is available for a reason). Here is a list of the Visa Waiver countries:
You must be a citizen or national of the following countries* to be eligible to travel to the United States under the VWP.
- Andorra
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Brunei
- Chile
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Monaco
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Qatar
- San Marino
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Taiwan*
- United Kingdom**
Don’t get smug Canadians – they’ll be after us as well.
Stay home – don’t visit the U.S; this is a huge violation of personal rights and freedoms.
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Alpha Male? Jig is up.
Your Time is Done Bro…
So your advertising campaign is up. You had a good run…for millennia but its over. Meh, it happens. This is an E.L.E. for you. Either you evolve or you enter extinction.
You see, women are aware that a single life is preferable to submitting to anyone. You use the “threat” 🤣🤣 of growing old alone and being surrounded by cats as something to be feared. Wow. Really do drag your knuckles, don’t you? Living alone in a freaking studio apartment would be preferable to having to endure a single minute with some sort of fantasy-living alpha male dipshit.
I live with a partner. He is a partner. We share everything. We always have, from household chores, to raising kids, to working outside the home, everything was/is shared.
Somewhere along the line, this “advertising” campaign targeted young men into thinking they were a superior being. They lied. Now they’re pushing a “Male Loneliness” epidemic ad campaign, blaming women. I tell you, you can’t make this shit up. The only loneliness is the segment of the male species that has failed to thrive in a modern environment. Too bad, so sad. You and your “Alpha male bros” are doomed. It is you who will be old and alone, even cats won’t have you.
Women are not the enemy, the podcast Neanderthals’ and dating coaches are your enemy. They’re in it for your wallet and nothing else. Divorce rate up? Baby making rate down? Can’t find a good woman? Oh my dear bros…it isn’t women who are the authors of your demise. It is you. Women are human beings, and they, unlike you, have evolved. Men are not required for a happy, fulfilling life. Read that again, MEN ARE NOT REQUIRED. You need to progress. You need to learn how to adapt to a world where all genders are equal otherwise…you may end up like the Bog Man, a mummified relic from a forgotten age.
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Esoteric Jaunt
Tarot – to charge or not to charge…
Not delving into politics…have the flu, I feel sick enough. NyQuil is your friend.
For some reason, my Tarot cards have been on mind, a LOT, lately. I even dream about them. Yeah, yeah, a sign that I should pull them out. I don’t wanna. I haven’t done a serious reading since 2013. Some information just doesn’t need to be “had”, you know?
I started with Tarot in the early 80’s; like most, I started with Rider-Waite, for about 5 years and then, jumped into the deep end with no life preserver, moved to Thoth. The deck was a gift from someone and I just felt electrified by it. It was my deck from that point forward.
One of the larger controversial points in my practice was charging for readings. I don’t. It just goes against my own beliefs. You charge? Fine. Whatever you wish to do. And the blowback? Holy crap on a cracker! You’d think I was kicking puppies or something. My practice, my choice.
Why don’t I charge? Well, it was something I was taught, decades ago; you don’t charge for Craft and Tarot readings fall into that purview for me. I see it as a gift of sorts and my ethics (not better than yours, just mine), do not allow me to charge for a gift.
Gives (gave) me a lot of freedom as to who I read for and who I didn’t feel I wanted to read for. I learned relatively early on, not to read for family, I WON’T read for my kids or immediate family, for example. A couple of reasons, the readings could be tainted by my intimate knowledge of them and their psychology, another reason is learning too much, perhaps…bad news or huge struggle on its way. Selfish on my part? Probably.
I used to hold Tarot classes, didn’t charge those those either. What people did with what they gleaned from those classes/workshops was up to them.
Why am I writing about this? I guess I am just working out, whether or not I should pull the cards out.
Okay, well – if you stuck around? Thanks for reading. I am off to open a new box of tissue and dose up on DayQuil.
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Speaking About Creepy Crawlies; Trump & Bondi et al.
Garbage pick up in Washington and Mar-A-Lago
This pic would almost be funny if it wasn’t so ironic.
So the Dumpster-Fire-In-Chief called a female reporter “Piggy”. Completely unsurprising considering his long, long, long history of misogyny and disgusting sexual assaults, both verbal and physical, against women. I have no questions regarding Yam-Tits comment, it is on-brand for him. I do, however, have questions for the testicle bearing reporters; where was your outrage? Where was your defense of a fellow member of the press? We will remember you. Your credibility is shot. Mind you, that fact that you all sit there and allow him to lie, without challenge is, pretty much, on brand for you lot as well. Journalism is dead, apparently.
And then there is this one – welcoming and kissing the ass of a malicious dictator, of a country with a horrendous human rights record. A country that suppresses anyone who speaks up about the atrocities. A country that arranged the murder, on foreign soil, of a journalist. Where are the male voices, calling him out?
The Fourth Estate has been bought and paid for by a salacious piece of shit and his cronies. Is that invitation to Mar-A-Lago worth your reputation? Rhetorical. Obviously, it is.
Just as Stalin, Hitler and Pol-Pot have never been forgotten, nor will this “clown show” of an administration be forgotten. The family names, for good or ill, are/will be ruined. The people who supported this administration will never be forgotten. The reporters who stood by and did not challenge the veracity of statements by the Mango-Moron likewise, will never be forgotten for their role in aiding and abetting the destruction of the United States.
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Online Abuse; the Creepy Crawlies Online
Block, Ignore and Report; it is criminal!
Definition from Castle website;
The different categories of online abuse
Account Integrity
Account integrity abuses encompass activities where bad actors manipulate or misuse identities, attempting to operate behind a facade through fabricated or stolen data. Such deceptions include;
- Fake Accounts – creating false accounts to troll or harass other users.
- Account Sharing – sharing a single use subscription to a video streaming service
- Multi Accounting – users create multiple accounts to upvote their own posts
- Identity Theft – using someone else’s personal information to create a new account
I’ve been on “social media” since the BBS days of yore and online abuse has always been an issu; threats, identity theft, dick pics… Unfortunately, it is become worse, it has become dangerous and it is, now, criminal.
I’ve been the target (I am no one’s “victim”) of abuse, of account spamming by hated filled knotheads. It can be upsetting, particularly when doxxing is employed.
Doxing is the intentional online exposure of an individual’s identity, private information or personal details without their consent. It is slimy, heinous and deserves a jail cell, I.M.O.
I’m seeing this, currently, on TikTok. This is an abuse of the system and is so very common on that social media platform. I believe in freedom of speech but there has to be a very firm line. When the personal privacy and safety of individuals are involved? The platform and the law should be obligated to step in.
If you are the target of such disgusting behaviour? BLOCK, I know the temptation to reply/watch is strong but don’t do it. These are folks with underdeveloped psyches and the more attention, the worse the behaviours, as protection is spotty and minimal from the platforms; protect yourself. Gather the evidence you have on hand, videos, messages etc. and save to a flash-drive; send a message and screenshot that message with the date/time appearing, informing said piece of shit that you are requesting that the behaviour cease, immediately, then, you have to block.
I used to refer to the internet as a double-edged sword…it is and both sides are razor sharp. Protect yourself out there…
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Minimization of Crime and Violence By Hockey Canada; Oshawa Generals
18 years of age is not a “very young player”.
https://www.hockeyfeed.com/videos/calls-for-lifetime-ban-after-vicious-attack-on-young-hockey-player
It is disturbing although totally unsurprising to see the hockey world circling their wagons after a brutal and potentially life impacting illegal hit on another “very young player”.
18 is not “very young” for any intent or purpose. This player, 18 year-old Luke Dragusica, assaulted and delivered a deliberate slash, from behind, to the back and side of 17-year-old Brady Blaseg’s head. According to the reports of the incident, Dragusica was taken to the boards by the defenseman Blaseg. Balseg had skated away to return to play when Dragusica rose and intentionally sought out Blaseg who had checked him, then delivered the hit, from behind while Blaseg was in play.
Yes, hockey is a fast-paced and extremely physical game; emotions run high with the adrenaline rushes, men/boys/women and girls included. It is exactly for those reasons that unacceptable unsportsmanlike behaviours cannot be tolerated. The dirty hit by Dragusica was a vicious assault, it was not a legal check, it was not even “spur of the moment” per se; it was thought out and intentional. At 18 years old, at the level of hockey played by the Juniors, particularly the level of the Generals, this is a sign of someone who does not have the capacity or, dare I say, character to be playing with an elite team. The attack, from behind, could be career ending and at 18 years old, as an elite? Dragusica would be aware of that.
Is it a criminal assault? Tough call because of the nature of hockey but yes, I would say it was and should be punished, severely. I don’t think, following the viciousness of this attack, that Dragusica is emotionally ready for elite hockey. Whether or not he should be criminally charged should be up to Baseg and his parents. Lifetime ban? I don’t know; depends on Dragusica’s past record in the game. Is he a talented goon? Demote him. Is he a usually exemplary player? Then the hockey admins need to climb down off their self-constructed pedestals and consult with the parents of Baseg as well as the two players involved, as to whether a lifetime ban is the correct call.
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Public Service Announcement…*&#( 🤬
H3N2 is a subtype of influenza A that can cause severe flu seasons, particularly among older adults, young children, and people with chronic health conditions, and recent data indicates Canada may face a challenging flu season due to an evolving form of H3N2.
H3N2
The virus mutates frequently, which can lead to changes in severity and potential mismatches with seasonal vaccines
Symptoms and Complications
Infection with H3N2 typically lasts 5–7 days, though a severe cough may persist for up to three weeks. Common symptoms include:
- Fever and chills
- Body aches and headaches
- Sore throat and cough
- Exhaustion
- Minor nasal congestion
- Vomiting and diarrhea, more common in children
Serious complications can occur, even in otherwise healthy individuals, and include pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, sepsis, meningitis, and myocarditis
Risk Factors
People at higher risk of severe outcomes from H3N2 infection include:
- Children under 5 years
- Adults 65 years and older
- Pregnant individuals
- People with chronic conditions such as asthma, diabetes, heart disease, immunosuppression, or neurological conditions
Diagnosis and Treatment
H3N2 influenza is diagnosed by a healthcare provider using symptom assessment, physical examination, and sometimes rapid flu tests from nasal or throat swabs. Antiviral medications, such as Tamiflu or Relenza, are most effective if administered within the first 48 hours of symptom onset
Supportive care, including rest, hydration, and over-the-counter symptom relief, is crucial, while antibiotics are only necessary in the case of secondary bacterial infections.
Prevention
Preventive measures include:
- Receiving the annual flu vaccine, which reduces severity and mortality
- Practicing good respiratory hygiene: covering mouth and nose when coughing or sneezing, frequent handwashing, and avoiding touching the face
- Avoiding close contact with infected individuals and staying home when sick
- Using protective equipment and hygiene when in contact with pigs, as certain H3N2 variants originate in swine
Vaccines for influenza cannot cause the flu because they contain only protein components of the virus
Current Situation in Canada
Flu cases are rising in Canada, and experts warn that the 2025 – 2026 season could be particularly severe due to a mutated H3N2 strain, which may have structural changes making it partially mismatched with the current vaccine. Early indicators from the Southern Hemisphere and parts of Europe and Asia suggest potential record high case counts. In Canada, older adults and school-aged children are at higher risk for severe infection
Public health authorities advise Canadians, especially seniors, to get vaccinated and consider combining flu shots with other seasonal vaccines such as COVID-19 or RSV vaccines where eligible. Although vaccine coverage may not perfectly match the circulating H3N2 variant, vaccination can still reduce illness severity, complications, and deaths
In summary, H3N2 is a significant seasonal flu subtype with potential for severe illness, and proactive measures—including vaccination and hygiene—are essential as Canada heads into the flu season.
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Wicked Emerald - Live From The Montérégie 