So, let me guess...Alberta is where the oil fields are? That would be the only reason Bessent is interested. Makes sense after the past few months down here in the US, which seem like years!
Long time listener, first time caller (I've always wanted to say that, thanks for indulging me, it was my favorite sentence to hear back when i was moonlighting as a Minneapolis midnight talk radio jock in what now seems like the Btonze Age.)
Anyway Mr. Kessler, from the belly of the beast, THANK YOU for this!
Best thing I've read on this and did i mention...i'm in Minneapolis, born and bred with a sabbatical back East (no jive a bout the quality of your thoughts and writing; I haven't written a single comment to any comments forum anywhere since this......shit......started.... ALSO, it feels like in the Bronze Age, a month or two months ago, whatever, no hyperbole, I no longer know how to measure or make sense of time.
Sorry for the seeming gibberish herein, everything feels so.....fraught and emotional in the twin cities, even writing a comment on a substack written far away.
Trump started a cult a decade ago. And cult followers are programmed to doubt their own eyes in deference to the cult leader. Some religious organizations rely upon the same human foible to keep all the converts in line. Don't trust your own senses. Believe in our dogma and recite it whenever you feel tempted to stray. I don't think it's any coincidence that Project 2025 is religious in nature or that Stephen Miller exhibits a religious zeal for his white nationalist fever dream (apparently birthed while reading Jean Raspail's "The Camp of the Saints.") The United States is a lot more religious than other Western nations. I can't help but feel we never really grew out of our witch burning hysteria. Instead, our nation has transferred that superstitious paranoia to first one and then the next imagined enemy. Meanwhile, facts, data and science have been thrown to the curb in favor of mass delusions.
Glenn, "liking" your article while projectile vomiting is a challenge. At the risk of a "Pinocchio" (outdated, I know), I have to ask, where the fuck is Congress?
Never in my life would I believe that lying could become so prevalent and an everyday form of speech among people in power. As an English major, I explored the idea of doing my Master’s thesis about “Truth” with its roots in Old and Middle English literature. In days of another time, giving your word or “pledging one’s troth“ was based on truth and a person was judged by this act of honest. Now we deal with gaslighting, bullshitting and the like. So much for an advanced species.
Long time listener, first time caller (I've always wanted to say that, thanks for indulging me, it was my favorite sentence to hear back when i was moonlighting as a Minneapolis midnight talk radio jock in what now seems like the Btonze Age.)
Anyway Mr. Kessler, from the belly of the beast, THANK YOU for this!
Best thing I've read on this and did i mention...i'm in Minneapolis, born and bred with a sabbatical back East (no jive a bout the quality of your thoughts and writing; I haven't written a single comment to any comments forum anywhere since this......shit......started.... ALSO, it feels like ,in the Bronze Age, only a month or two months ago, whatever, no hyperbole, I no longer know how to measure or make sense of time.
Sorry for the seeming gibberish herein, everything feels so.....fraught and emotional in the twin cities, even writing a comment on a substack written far away.
Watching horrified from Canada and wishing you and your readers all the best. Trump is a true horror show.
His regime is also fanning the flames of Alberta separatism. We’ve had Quebec separatism for decades, although it seems to have died down lately.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/23/scott-bessent-canada-alberta-independence-00743947
So, let me guess...Alberta is where the oil fields are? That would be the only reason Bessent is interested. Makes sense after the past few months down here in the US, which seem like years!
Good point! Don’t know why I didn’t think of that!
Long time listener, first time caller (I've always wanted to say that, thanks for indulging me, it was my favorite sentence to hear back when i was moonlighting as a Minneapolis midnight talk radio jock in what now seems like the Btonze Age.)
Anyway Mr. Kessler, from the belly of the beast, THANK YOU for this!
Best thing I've read on this and did i mention...i'm in Minneapolis, born and bred with a sabbatical back East (no jive a bout the quality of your thoughts and writing; I haven't written a single comment to any comments forum anywhere since this......shit......started.... ALSO, it feels like in the Bronze Age, a month or two months ago, whatever, no hyperbole, I no longer know how to measure or make sense of time.
Sorry for the seeming gibberish herein, everything feels so.....fraught and emotional in the twin cities, even writing a comment on a substack written far away.
And did I say THANK YOU? Neal Karlen
Trump started a cult a decade ago. And cult followers are programmed to doubt their own eyes in deference to the cult leader. Some religious organizations rely upon the same human foible to keep all the converts in line. Don't trust your own senses. Believe in our dogma and recite it whenever you feel tempted to stray. I don't think it's any coincidence that Project 2025 is religious in nature or that Stephen Miller exhibits a religious zeal for his white nationalist fever dream (apparently birthed while reading Jean Raspail's "The Camp of the Saints.") The United States is a lot more religious than other Western nations. I can't help but feel we never really grew out of our witch burning hysteria. Instead, our nation has transferred that superstitious paranoia to first one and then the next imagined enemy. Meanwhile, facts, data and science have been thrown to the curb in favor of mass delusions.
Glenn, "liking" your article while projectile vomiting is a challenge. At the risk of a "Pinocchio" (outdated, I know), I have to ask, where the fuck is Congress?
Never in my life would I believe that lying could become so prevalent and an everyday form of speech among people in power. As an English major, I explored the idea of doing my Master’s thesis about “Truth” with its roots in Old and Middle English literature. In days of another time, giving your word or “pledging one’s troth“ was based on truth and a person was judged by this act of honest. Now we deal with gaslighting, bullshitting and the like. So much for an advanced species.
Long time listener, first time caller (I've always wanted to say that, thanks for indulging me, it was my favorite sentence to hear back when i was moonlighting as a Minneapolis midnight talk radio jock in what now seems like the Btonze Age.)
Anyway Mr. Kessler, from the belly of the beast, THANK YOU for this!
Best thing I've read on this and did i mention...i'm in Minneapolis, born and bred with a sabbatical back East (no jive a bout the quality of your thoughts and writing; I haven't written a single comment to any comments forum anywhere since this......shit......started.... ALSO, it feels like ,in the Bronze Age, only a month or two months ago, whatever, no hyperbole, I no longer know how to measure or make sense of time.
Sorry for the seeming gibberish herein, everything feels so.....fraught and emotional in the twin cities, even writing a comment on a substack written far away.
And did I say THANK YOU? Neal Perkins