Old fashioned❗ no idea whether this'd still be possible if paperless environment is the norm.
But in my time I'd would have found out the desk that last step is on right now. Find out the person who occupies this desk right now. Make her/him feel important interesting overworked aka find out where s/he is needy and moan in company. Make her/him feel more in need of help than the ppl s/he has to take care of by her job
Alternatively pester her/him until s/he gives up just to get some peace
But get at the low down clerk who probably has found a way to avoid work w/o getting found out or punished
After all the spite might be aimed at a superior and the family just a satisfying surrogate 💪🙏
Shoe is kind of a common-sense social democrat and usually focuses on culture war follies in dating and entertainment, this was an atypical excursion for her.
Then, "Bentham's Bulldog", a rising young philosopher affiliated with effective altruism and new metaphysics, decided to rebut her:
Interesting, thank you for sharing. But I don't know how you can call Shoe common sense after reading through that exchange. She seems far more interested in spreading unsubstantiated propaganda.
When the Canadian Prime Minister of the day welcomed anyone to Canada who had the means to show up at the borders he created an incredible backlog of cases that needed scrutiny so cases like this are likely not that rare. Perhaps he could have warned the civil service beforehand. This backlog will take years to address. Canadians have been largely pro-immigration but there has to be some semblance of order involved with the process. A lightweight leader who always excelled at making promises on the world stage that had little hope of sustained success. He will be not be missed.
In all the dark chapters of American governance, few administrations have matched the sheer vileness of Donald Trump's. It is a vileness not of accident, but of design — proudly worn, aggressively sold, and methodically implemented. Nowhere is this clearer than in the administration’s systematic attack on the vulnerable, both abroad and at home.
The cuts to USAID represent more than just another budgetary footnote. They are a slow-motion demolition of the very instruments that once made America respected across continents: food aid, disaster relief, education initiatives, and public health support. These programs were not acts of charity; they were investments in human dignity and global stability, paying dividends in goodwill and influence. Slashing them is a self-inflicted wound, a public burning of the American brand for the cheap applause of a few isolationist ideologues.
But the cruelty does not end at the water’s edge. The Trump administration’s war on the poor, the sick, and the marginalized at home is just as savage. Cuts to Medicaid, rollbacks of nutritional aid, assaults on civil rights protections — these are not policy errors. They are policy goals. The administration’s America First agenda has always meant America’s Most Vulnerable Last.
Among the rising chorus of Trumpian apologists, few embody the grotesque spirit of this movement more purely than Karoline Leavitt. Leavitt, a former press staffer now reborn as a public face of MAGA grievance, operates less as a political figure and more as a caricature — the AI-generated avatar of grievance politics. Her style is a mixture of self-righteous ignorance and militant disinformation, reciting propaganda with the zeal of a 21st-century fascist-in-training. If one were to design a junior spokesperson for authoritarianism, it would look and sound very much like her.
Have you tried reaching out to David Frum at all (about the family I mean)? He’s Canadian American as you probably know, and his mother was a pretty prominent media figure in Canada for many years. So it might be possible he may know a few people in high places over there.
What does this unnecessary cruelty, this evil achieve? I‘m truly horrified and anxious for the family to reach their safe heaven and that they can build a future in Canada.
Old fashioned❗ no idea whether this'd still be possible if paperless environment is the norm.
But in my time I'd would have found out the desk that last step is on right now. Find out the person who occupies this desk right now. Make her/him feel important interesting overworked aka find out where s/he is needy and moan in company. Make her/him feel more in need of help than the ppl s/he has to take care of by her job
Alternatively pester her/him until s/he gives up just to get some peace
But get at the low down clerk who probably has found a way to avoid work w/o getting found out or punished
After all the spite might be aimed at a superior and the family just a satisfying surrogate 💪🙏
God help the S. family! I will feel gutted if anything bad happens to them.
An exchange pertaining to USAID that I saw recently.
First, popular Youtuber Shoe0nHead gave a basic leftist, anti-imperialist take on USAID:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUOwPcfc1MM
Shoe is kind of a common-sense social democrat and usually focuses on culture war follies in dating and entertainment, this was an atypical excursion for her.
Then, "Bentham's Bulldog", a rising young philosopher affiliated with effective altruism and new metaphysics, decided to rebut her:
https://benthams.substack.com/p/shoeonheads-insane-falsehoods-about
https://benthams.substack.com/p/shoeonhead-doubles-down-after-lying
It was an unexpected crossover because I separately keep an eye on both of them.
Interesting, thank you for sharing. But I don't know how you can call Shoe common sense after reading through that exchange. She seems far more interested in spreading unsubstantiated propaganda.
I was referring to her usual fare - see her other videos.
When the Canadian Prime Minister of the day welcomed anyone to Canada who had the means to show up at the borders he created an incredible backlog of cases that needed scrutiny so cases like this are likely not that rare. Perhaps he could have warned the civil service beforehand. This backlog will take years to address. Canadians have been largely pro-immigration but there has to be some semblance of order involved with the process. A lightweight leader who always excelled at making promises on the world stage that had little hope of sustained success. He will be not be missed.
In all the dark chapters of American governance, few administrations have matched the sheer vileness of Donald Trump's. It is a vileness not of accident, but of design — proudly worn, aggressively sold, and methodically implemented. Nowhere is this clearer than in the administration’s systematic attack on the vulnerable, both abroad and at home.
The cuts to USAID represent more than just another budgetary footnote. They are a slow-motion demolition of the very instruments that once made America respected across continents: food aid, disaster relief, education initiatives, and public health support. These programs were not acts of charity; they were investments in human dignity and global stability, paying dividends in goodwill and influence. Slashing them is a self-inflicted wound, a public burning of the American brand for the cheap applause of a few isolationist ideologues.
But the cruelty does not end at the water’s edge. The Trump administration’s war on the poor, the sick, and the marginalized at home is just as savage. Cuts to Medicaid, rollbacks of nutritional aid, assaults on civil rights protections — these are not policy errors. They are policy goals. The administration’s America First agenda has always meant America’s Most Vulnerable Last.
Among the rising chorus of Trumpian apologists, few embody the grotesque spirit of this movement more purely than Karoline Leavitt. Leavitt, a former press staffer now reborn as a public face of MAGA grievance, operates less as a political figure and more as a caricature — the AI-generated avatar of grievance politics. Her style is a mixture of self-righteous ignorance and militant disinformation, reciting propaganda with the zeal of a 21st-century fascist-in-training. If one were to design a junior spokesperson for authoritarianism, it would look and sound very much like her.
I would say that no administration has come anywhere *near* this one in vileness. Can you think of one that has? This is unmatched.
Karoline Leavitt calls to mind Ann Coulter's description of Katie Couric--"the affable Eva Braun of daytime television." Only in this case, it's apt.
Have you tried reaching out to David Frum at all (about the family I mean)? He’s Canadian American as you probably know, and his mother was a pretty prominent media figure in Canada for many years. So it might be possible he may know a few people in high places over there.
What does this unnecessary cruelty, this evil achieve? I‘m truly horrified and anxious for the family to reach their safe heaven and that they can build a future in Canada.
It achieves nothing. DOGE will cost us far more than the savings incurred.
You posted this twice - maybe delete one before discussion gets divided in two places -
Substack is glitchy today. I couldn't post it at all, then it posted twice ...