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He wears the hat. The reason he wears the hat is to portray himself as "the every man". His theatre is "I am one of you." It's a facade and the unobservant eat it up. Do you think my argument is weak? Did Donald Trump ever wear a ball cap to close a real estate deal?

It's an old game. A politician wears a business suit when he's in a room speaking to the chamber of commerce. He wears jeans and shirt (with his sleeves rolled up) while speaking at the tradesman union hall.

C'mon man -- you know it's true. If you're a comedian, play to the frigging room. Yeah well, I like comedy:

... and this is horse shit.

But here's the question -- and it's right there in this photograph. You wear the "every man" hat of separation, but at the same time, you wear a poppy -- which exploits the conservative trope "support our troops".

How do you "support our troops" while wearing an emblem in remembrance of people that died for a country -- you want to separate from?

Yeah, it's a little thing, but you need to get your story straight. You're a lawyer. You're not a God-damned cowboy. And by the way Jeffie: guys that wear cowboy hats (for real) don't wear an undershirt and they definitely don't button up their suit jackets.

Buddy, I don't think you've ever stepped in the horse shit you fling.

Sadly, most of the dumb bells this huckster is manipulating will never notice it.

Edit: Just a little language fun fact: Do you know what the Dutch word is for business suit? It's pronounced just like you'd think:

"Kostuum".

You know... like a rodeo clown.

I do not believe in coincidences.

Trump meets with Xi in China and leaves. Putin arrives in China 2 hours ago, 4 days later. Xi is playing interlocutor to Russia after meeting with Trump.

China wants Taiwan. Russia wants Ukraine. Trump wants out of his Iran mess.

Prediction: Prepare for Taiwan to be thrown under the bus. Prepare for Ukraine to further go under the bus. In return, Trump needs to get out of the Iran mess he created.

If there ever was a time for Alberta to get on a plane to Taiwan, this is it. TSMC owns a 53% world market share of semiconductors, totaling Taiwan's 67% of world market share.

Alberta should be over there like a stinky shirt, on a plane right now, to get the Taiwanese to invest in building a semiconductor manufacturing plant in Alberta, immediately... with Alberta's support.

Again, it's no coincidence Putin has arrived in China 2 hours ago, 4 days after Xi's meeting with Trump. There are some dirty tricks afoot, to be sure. Time to make that "Alberta Advantage" bullshit slogan actually mean something.

Edit: I would like to welcome our American friends lurking around this discussion. I can see you're in here reading it (5 percent so far in the last hour), along with my other post I made over the weekend :) Thank-you for your interest in Alberta's "business comings and goings". You accounted for 2 percent of 20,000 views of my post on Saturday. I didn't think we were that interesting to you... but apparently we are

wink wink :)

And I wonder if the "other" 2% of 20,000 are the Chinese. Would that surprise you?

I understand conservative-leaning people are upset. At what point do they begin to look at their leadership?

They have had three federal leaders. Each have failed to win an election.

When do the excuses and "blame the other guy" stop? Is one person going to stand up in the room and say "Our campaign tactics are not working. This 3/8ths inch bolt is not going to screw in to that 1/4 inch nut... EVER."

Will this take much longer?

Edit: go ahead and down-vote my post. You're only proving my point. It's a FACT: they're losing over and over again. I will create another metaphor: You ran the same tired old mare in the horse race, then blamed the winning horse when you lost... again. Now you're complaining you're being treated unfairly.

I am going to ask a question I already know the answer to. Don't you just love that? :)

My intellijel just shuts itself off. When I plug a cable in to the gate input, gone. Just turns itself off. It needs to be repaired. Apparently it's a ground bus issue, common with this module.

The cre8 function junction is on sale. It does WAY more than the dual adsr intellijel. Once I pay to ship and have the intellijel repaired, it will probably cost me 3/4 of the new cre8 function junction.

This is a no-brainer, right? The added bonus is: many are of the opinion that it is the direct competitor for Maths... and Maths is double the price. Literally - double - the price. Intellijel Tangrams is also nearly double the price.

Edit: I have the Captain Big-O oscillator (Cre8 /Pittsburgh modular). For the price, that oscillator is bloody outstanding. I feel confident the function junction is equal in performance.

On top of that, the FJ is going to be in an Intellijel case with an O&C, the Intellijel VCA and reverb/delay, the XPO, QPAS and DXG.

Why is spraying the be-all and end-all of painting? I don't think it is that "skilled" at all.

When it comes to doors and frames, spraying is the texture of no texture. What is "skillful" about that? I absolutely HATE the look of sprayed MDF or metal. It looks like a piece of plastic and I won't have it in my house. It actually looks like you bought Chinese prefab from Amazon, then installed it in to the space. There's nothing intrinsically "decorative" about it. It's just "blah".

I offer four finishes of frames to my clients.

Another example: if the school board inspectors catch you spraying frames (in a school), the inspectors will make you strip them down to the bare metal. Then they will come back and inspect it again, to see you've actually done it. Then they will make you do one coat, then inspect it again, then do a second coat and inspect it again. They demand a brushed frame... and they want it brushed to their specification.

You actually have to know skill with a brush -- and the physics of fluid dynamics. (Thermal, kinetic, gravity and viscosity).

I have a love / hate relationship with history. I am not a professional historian but I really love to study.

I studied the Weimar Republik a few years ago. It was truly one of the most terrifying times in history I can think of. I can tick off all the things about that time (that are coming back) like checking boxes on a list.

Inflation: check. It was a better financial choice to burn piles of currency to heat your home rather than fire wood. The wood cost more than the currency. So did a loaf of bread.

Are we at that point right now? NO. Is that getting worse right now? Yes, and It's going to get a lot worse. Gasoline in my city is up 60-80% right now. It is affecting food and housing costs but that's only the beginning.

The Weimar Republik printed currency in to worthlessness. Do we print currency throughout the entire western world these days?

Sexual debauchery: Check. In 1925 in Berlin, there were more prostitutes (and "special night clubs") than anywhere else in Europe. Think of the most sexually perverted thing to pick up for a trick. You could get that. And I do mean "anything".

Can you think of anything in the news right now that might be considered "sexual debauchery"? Can you think of an Island that might be loosely called a "Special night club"?

The book burnings: "The Blacklist / Die Schwarze Liste". We have a special anniversary in seven days. May 10, 1933. Paraphrasing Goebbels: "Works unrepresentative of German family values." You might think books by Jewish authours and academics were number one on that list. They weren't. Hitler HATED Communists. They were number one, the Jewish-authoured books were number two. Did you know there was a number three? There was: books referencing the medical science of gender transformation and "alternative lifestyles". You know, stuff Gobbels would not have considered in keeping with "German family values."

In the last 10 years, has there ever been discussion of these sorts of things? How often do really crooked people use the word "Communist" to describe anything bad? It's like we could consider pundits on television as a really crappy watered-down version of the "Beer hall putsch." The uneducated wouldn't know the difference. "Harumpf! Commies!"... because a wealthy person told me that on TV.

Did Hitler attack the Soviet Union? Did Hitler ever invoke the word "Lebensraum" (living space)? Is anyone presently looking for more "living space"? What about Anschluss? The idea of an Anschluss -- a united Austria and Germany that would form a "Greater Germany".

Attacking other countries to increase their... "living space". Is anyone doing that these days?

I could keep going on this list (because it is incomplete) but I would strongly advise you to study this period of history. It will scare the sh!t out of you.

PS: Trump is not Hitler. Hitler was a fantastic orator. Trump is an illiterate moron.

The Students’ Prioritized List of “Un‑German” Book Categories (1933)

Historians generally agree the DSt’s internal guidance placed the categories in this order:

1. Marxist, Communist, Socialist, and Anarchist literature
   • This was Category #1 because the Nazi movement defined itself primarily as an anti‑Marxist crusade.
   • Hitler repeatedly framed Marxism as the existential enemy of Germany.
2. Books by Jewish authors
   • This was Category #2 in the students’ own lists.
   • The Nazi student leadership explicitly linked “Jewish intellectualism” to Marxism, which is why it followed immediately after.
3. Pacifist and anti‑war literature
   • Works criticizing militarism or glorifying peace were condemned as weakening the German Volk.
   • Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front was a prime target.
4. Liberal, democratic, or republican writings
   • Anything associated with the Weimar Republic, pluralism, or parliamentary democracy.
5. Works promoting internationalism or cosmopolitanism
   • The students framed these as undermining national unity and cultural purity.
6. Sexology, psychology, and works on gender/sexual reform
   • Especially those associated with Magnus Hirschfeld and the Institute for Sexual Science.
7. Modernist, avant‑garde, or “degenerate” literature
   • Kafka, Brecht, Mann, and others were targeted for stylistic and ideological “decadence.”
8. Foreign authors whose ideas contradicted Nazi ideology
   • Including American, French, and British writers seen as “culturally corrosive.”

From the historical sources, the targeted categories included:

• Books by Jewish authors Considered inherently “un‑German” under Nazi racial ideology. Examples: Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Stefan Zweig.
• Marxist, communist, socialist, and anarchist literature Any work promoting left‑wing political thought was banned. Examples: Karl Marx, Karl Kautsky, Rosa Luxemburg.
• Pacifist and anti‑war literature Works criticizing war or militarism were condemned. Examples: Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front).
• Liberal, democratic, or republican writings Anything supporting Weimar democracy or political pluralism.
• Works promoting internationalism or cosmopolitanism The students framed these as weakening German national identity.
• Sexology, psychology, and works on gender/sexual reform Especially those associated with Magnus Hirschfeld and the Institute for Sexual Science.
• Modernist, avant‑garde, or “degenerate” literature Anything stylistically or ideologically outside Nazi cultural norms. Examples: Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, Thomas Mann.
• Foreign authors whose ideas contradicted Nazi ideology Examples: Helen Keller, Ernest Hemingway, André Gide.