71 Replies to “February 23, 2025: Reader Tips”

    1. Ester Reiter, a professor emeritus at York University, was one of the founding faculty at the university’s school of gender and sexuality.
      The program not only focuses on women’s issues, “but is a wonderful interdisciplinary program that really gave a voice to minorities, African-Canadians, Indigenous people, refugee women [and] working people,”

      Admitting that working people are in the minority in Canada. Freudian slip?

          1. Shows Russia made gains, Ukraine lost territory, ergo Russia winning.

            You keep linking to stuff that you think bolsters your narrative when they do no such thing.

          2. C, show us on the doll where the bot hurt you.

            ……

            No, not on the Ken doll, on the Barbie doll.

          3. > Shows Russia made gains, Ukraine lost territory, ergo Russia winning.
            But do you see “the front is collapsing”, as Greenwald claimed?

          4. Surfer, you and C both make claims, some correct, some wrong; what of it.

            Greenwald is a smart man who knows a lot about a lot of things and goes astray on others, but the C likes to besmirch him, along with Sundance, The Gateway Pundit and Zerohedge. It’s called an inferiority complex.

      1. You have been wrong since day 1. Pushing your Reddit bs.
        Ukraine never had a chance then or now.
        They will never recover the land lost.
        They will not be in NATO.

        1. At the rate of conquest over the last year, Russia should have the occupation of Ukraine wrapped up in about 1,000 years. Impressive conquest. 95% plus of Russian gains came in the first couple months of the war followed by big losses in the Kiev, the Kharkiv, and the Kherson Regions with the 1,000 year march ever since. From its maximum extent about 2.5 years ago, Russia occupies considerably less territory. Only 997 years to go.

          1. “At the rate of conquest over the last year, Russia should have the occupation of Ukraine wrapped up in about 1,000 years.”

            Making the left’s strident claims that “He’s trying to rebuild the Soviet Union!” and “He’s going to take over all of Europe if we don’t stop him now!” even more hilarious.

          1. allan unME, doesn’t think, as he has NO such capacity. He/she/it is smart like Jessica the colon.

    1. Typical manipulative if not outright lying piece of Ruϟϟischeschweinen Propaganden best illustrated by the paragraph below.

      “As for Zelensky being a “dictator,” it’s not like he outlawed political opposition, shut down places of worship that had traditional ties to Russia, forced the closure of media outlets critical of his administration, and indefinitely suspended elections to keep himself in power. Wait, let me re-check my notes. Never mind. He did do all of that in a process known in permanent Washington as “democracy and freedom.””

      If they think that in order not to be a dictator Zelensky had to allow pro-Russian political parties to exist (out of many who opposed Zelensky, they were the only ones outlawed), do nothing about the Pootin-worshipping religious sect directly controlled by Moscow and hold elections in the state of war in his country, thereby violating the Ukrainian Constitution (which stipulates that no elections are held in the state of war), then in the times of war the president of Ukraine can either be a dictator or an overt enemy agent, no other choice possible.

      1. Zelensky is definitely not a dictator. He is a piano-playing-penis-puppet, but he’s not a dictator. Sad days ahead for Ukraine as Russia will walk away with all the prizes. But many predicted this moment when the US grows tired of supporting a war in another country.

        I’m still on the fence as to why Trump wants Ukraine’s critical minerals. Is it another negotiating round with other countries allowing him to declare that he has options, or is this a way for the USA to put assets on the ground in Ukraine and not soldiers?

          1. Only for someone as deranged as old Poo capturing a swath of devastated depopulated land is worth hundreds of thousands of your own dead, hundreds of thosands fleeing your own country, hyper-massive loss of profits for the economy, de-facto subjugation to a foreign power (China, which is now taking over the former Soviet republics in Asia and Russia itself), etc., etc.

          2. I will let you list the prizes Ukraine will walk away with (not including Zelensky’s haul) and then I will offer up a list for Russia. Let’s play whose is longer.

          3. Just saw this article today on the “prizes won by Russia”: Russia’s Gazprom is of shadow of its influential self after losing Europe [And will not get their European market back after the war, not in the foreseeable future, anyway]
            https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/23/russia-gazprom-war-ukraine-economy/

            “The loss of European markets, which made up three-quarters of its gas revenue in 2022, forced the Gazprom Group to undergo a transformation from a geopolitical and financial powerhouse into a more diminished role of domestically focused utility provider, burdened by foreign sanctions, state-imposed wartime taxes and structural inefficiencies, struggling to compensate for lost business.”

          4. Absolutely. Armata in particular, but also Kinzhal and other “analogovnets”. It’s not without a reason that their arms sales dropped so much (they are now on par with France).

    1. Hmm
      I’m thinking of penning a letter to the US state department objecting to the Trump labelling Canada as the 51st state.
      If he wants to be truthful we are a confederation.
      That and “Canada” is actually that strip of land along the St Lawrence river terminating at the territory encompassed by the Great Lakes. So Canada (or the Canada’s) are only a small part of a bigger territory within North America.
      Therefore going forward he should refer to it as the Confederation of American Provinces or CAP.
      In the vernacular it could also be called …. wait for it ….
      The Confederacy.

      The head explosions would be glorious if he did

      1. It’s an object lesson about things that should be illegal. She knows as much about energy as does Hunter Biden.

    1. David Cochrane, the pro-Liberal host of CBC Power and Politics, seems upset at Ms. Dhalla’s uppity ways. I’m no fan of Dhalla, but at least she’s stirring the pot during Prime Minister Elect’s coronation. That’s something.

  1. Matt Taibbi has launched “an interactive library where readers can find hard copies of primary source materials at the center of emerging news controversies.”

    https://www.racket.news/p/note-on-timelines?utm_source=substack&publication_id=1042&post_id=157677823&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=1v5u0a&triedRedirect=true

    Here’s him explaining one set up for a specific topic:

    https://www.racket.news/p/the-library-timeline-of-foreign-censorship

    1. Donato suffers from extreme TDS. So he is saying it’s going into storage. Quite a few Sun Media types outed themselves as libratds even before the Post Media takeover. Cartoonists Dewar and Dooligan are also severely afflicted with TDS.

      1. MikeT, well aware of their TDS/Lib/NDP bias and mental health issues.

        Just thought it would be fun to poke them on the possibility that the cartoon could be understood in either way.

        Me, I see Lady Justice being freed from storage and being returned to glory.

        1. I was just going with what Donato was claiming. In truth, I totally agree with you that the abused lady is free again.

          Another one; Clemente, a Post Media/National Post cartoonist, must still be crying himself to sleep every night because he has yet to go 69ing with the Turd.

  2. Trump wants 50% of the revenue from Ukraine’s rare earth minerals mines.

    https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/02/23/parliament-speaker-ukraine-to-start-work-on-finalising-us-minerals-deal-on-monday

    “Washington is asking for a 50% cut of all revenues generated from Ukraine’s mineral and natural resources in what US officials are calling payment for previous military support.”

    This would accomplish several things. It would give America access to rare earth minerals because it isn’t interested in mining them in its own country. It would allow America to benefit from an investment into Ukraine and it would give them a legitimate (non-military) footprint in the country. It could also be seen as non-partisan as a future Democrat administration would have a hard time dismantling this relationship, forcing the US to return to its dependence on Chinese rare earth minerals.

    And the Europeans will hate this which I’m sure Trump will love.

  3. The daily insult-fight, concerning the Ukraine-Russia War, is extremely long today. So I thought SDAers might be interested in this BBC article, discussing the death of a Russian soldier. I haven’t commented on the war over the past three years, given all the immature rants and name-calling. But my view is this. I support Trump’s decisive intervention to stop the war, for, as he says, to stop the never-ending killing, maiming and destruction. I do oppose his statements playing nice to Putin in all of this.

    Here is the BBC piece:
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgkm7lly61do

    The comments on the SDA boards, like the stale discussion in the corporate media, dwell on international power politics, withou any reflection of the human costs. So I thought the BBC article would be a change. I’m old enough to remember the Vietnam war, where to much of the debate revolved around geopolitical issues, with little thought about the 200-250 Americans dying each week. Trump instinctively understands the human costs.

    1. So it is never right to fight against an invasion? Are you confirming that Hitler was right? If I was 50 years younger and bullet proof I’d be slitting Russian throats and laughing my ass off.

  4. The Ukrainian Gasbagging is pretty tedious.
    Seems the guilty parties have forgotten all their promises to our Hostess,which was entirely predictable.

    Just ran across a CTV News article on a 51st State Billboard put up in Alberta.
    The comments are pricelessly funny,in a sad demented little way.
    Check them out.

    My father was right,speaking of his 5 years active duty in WW2,he came to the conclusion these were 5 wasted years and he and his comrades “Were shooting the wrong people”.
    A thing I could not see until Dread Covid Theatre swept this land.
    All our home grown monsters proudly stepped forward.
    And 2 standing ovations for an unrepentant NAZI by our elected representatives.

    Canada is too ignorant to survive.

  5. Breaking:
    CDU – 29.0% (+4.9)
    AfD – 19.5% (+9.1)
    SPD – 16% (-9.7)
    Greens – 13.5% (-1.2)
    The Left – 8.5% (+3.6)
    BSW – 4.7% (+4.7)

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