You could start taxing them. Especially the rich ones.

You know that's an option, right?

Literally or figuratively?

The media is desperate for balance. They're not able to say "this man is a deranged fascist who's harmful to the country and the world". They're fighting decades of professional inertia.

They just can't do it; their training doesn't let them. It's kind of like asking a scientist if they're certain that burning fossil fuels causes global warming: their training practically insists that they say "there's strong evidence that it does" instead of "yes, of course it does".

If they came out and said it, they wouldn't be "balanced". When you realize that the media cares more about balance than truth, it helps explain a lot of why we are where we are.

Yes. Because as we've seen, sunlight is not a good disinfectant for this kind of thing. Because "sunlight" results in these ideas can get visibility and by association, traction.

Naziism needs to be stomped on whenever, wherever and however it sleazes out from the sewer. Karl Popper made this very clear.

To be fair, that's a British style of writing. It's a loaded word in North American journalism, but neutral in the UK.

"My Sharona" by The Knack is literally this.

This should tell you what absolute garbage most American administrations were for the working class.

FDR was the last president who was really afraid of Marxism at home, while Nixon was probably the last president even slightly afraid of the people.

Have they tried lowering prices? Crazy, I know...

In seriousness, this is the problem: capital won't take a haircut because line must go up, and labour is absolutely tapped out. There's no more easy debt to leverage, and thanks to inflation, and more thanks to rampant profiteering and an immigration policy designed to suppress wages and strip-mine new Canadians, no new wealth generated.

The game of musical chairs that is the real estate market was always going to stop, it was only a question of who was going to be left standing at the end. What will be interesting is, is this the first domino in the chain, as the dearth of condo-to-home buyers in the pipeline blows up everything else?

My hope is that this whipsaws through the economy and hurts so many people so badly that a) we learn to never let it happen again, and b) that it emboldens governments to finally tax the shit out of the rich.

If you're worried about having done a Milosevic, you probably did.

It's amazing how, even ten years ago, even one of the things Trump did would have killed another candidate's political career, if not toppled an entire government.

I thought that shit Bush II's people got a pass on was bad, but this is next-level banana Republic, Silvio Berlusconi "Hey, I thought she was 18" level stuff.

You know who threatens lawmakers the most? Who sends the most death and rape threats? Who it is that's out for blood if an official deviates from orthodoxy?

Trump supporters.

Ted should just come out and say it. He's afraid of his boss' rabid proto-fascist fan base.

Yes. That's the plan.

He says he was wrong, the centrist media says "Well, that's all fine and good then, he's certainly prime minister material and no mistake!".

Meanwhile, the fascist dogwhistle was already blown.