A French friend calls me from Paris. “Seen from here, we find you very docile, Quebecers. A chance that the truckers are turning up! »
– Waiting for the end of their party horns in Ottawa, I would tell you that the shelves at the grocery store looked strangely Soviet today; no more soy milk, shelves of gloomy fruits and vegetables. I settled on the pickle chips and the cucumber tonic. We do in the cucurbitaceae. Don’t worry, Rambo is coming. Quebec will also tremble.
— It’s the people speaking! People are not idiots! They are fed up with !
“Okay, then tell me. Here, they don’t wear yellow vests to identify themselves. Do the people ride a bicycle or 10 wheels? Do people get information on TikTok and don’t vote, or do they watch Josée Turmel’s videos on Facebook and vote for Maxime Bernier? Not to mention that the price of the grocery basket will still climb. And it is the working poor who will eat Kraft Dinner from Dollarama. You have no idea what it tastes like, not even cheese, more like neon orange. So, the people, they have a wide back at the moment. Everyone claims it, but it’s more believable if you’re tattooed (and if you like poutine).
Just before Christmas.
The customer points to her choices in front of the cheese counter, with her 7-8 year old son waddling beside her. “I would like 300 grams of Gruyère de Grotte and 500 grams of brie with truffles! Charles-Henri is in his truffle phase right now…”
Charles-Henri smiled. Charles-Henri is no longer in his Kraft Dinner phase.
The far-right fachosphere eats manly food, it’s well known. I really liked this text The world of January 29 (and you have to watch the video): “Meat, digestive and extreme right: welcome to the “mangeosphere””.
“When two far-right YouTubers find themselves in front of a piece of beef, it’s less to talk about cooking than politics. “It’s not a steak that votes green or LFI [La France insoumise], it’s a steak that votes eternal France. If we send him to Indoch’, he wins”, laughs Papacito, big dark glasses, shaved head, visible tattoos. It’s November 2020, and this figure of the fachosphere 2.0, who became known for his provocative videos in which he notably simulated shooting a mannequin representing a voter of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, is the guest of “Repas de Lord”. » bit.ly/34z3eFS youtube.com/watch?v=65W_ly5X0nU
Follow Léa Stréliski on Twitter and find her brave to respond to the people.
“#LaVieDeCamionneur – Wake up 05:15 – Lunch – Analysis of route maps – 10 minute walk to wake up the guy. – 06:00 security check – Ready for departure! Have a good day everyone !
Lea Stréliski
@LeaStreliski
Replying to @KenHeldevo
(Are you ever afraid to fall asleep at the wheel?)”
“Day 31. If you would like to start a GofundMe for my daughter whose hair I occasionally have to detangle, she would appreciate it. buymeacoffee.com/LeaStreliski/j… »
This girl may not have balls, but she has room to put them.
Speaking of balls, I read that the word “testicle” comes from testis, “witness” in Latin. It looks like the books of the dead around me. They are witnesses and mute. To pay homage to them, I opened Thoughts based on bullshit, of San-Antonio, an assortment of thoughts on idiots; the others, of course. One for the road boys ? “We live in a time when annoying jerks are given a standing ovation by the jerks they pissed off. »
Today, the 175 works (at the very least) not at all woke of Sana would not be published, or else not without trigger warning, or “hot-string warning”. It’s a shame, because to quote him: “It’s with intelligent people that we mess around the best. »
A psychiatrist friend (I have several) is upset: “The media ask me for less gloomy subjects. The media wants hope. But being human isn’t just rose-colored glasses…especially right now. »
Dangerous idiots are those who exploit your bullshit to impose theirs on you
And afterwards, the media is surprised that there are so many suicides (it was my minute for Suicide Prevention Week, “Talking about suicide saves lives”). bit.ly/3ujDMPj
It’s bitterly cold behind the deserted Atwater Market. Sunday morning, 8:30 a.m., two employees dressed in almost white aprons are smoking a cigarette. An old Algerian and a young Quebecer are chatting, sitting on a bench. “Me, in the morning when I wake up, it’s a coffee and a cigarette,” said the Algerian, pulling on his cigarette. The Quebecer nods, is fed up with winter and wearing boots. They leave shortly after, with a slow step, and the oldest launches into his memories: “At home, in Algeria…”
The people’s cigarette, union break, an acquired right, a puff of nicotine drowned in oxygen and white mist, a puff of hope in the cold. The cigarette of the convict, of the cowboy — you have to see how the one from the excellent film by Jane Campion, Phil, rolls with one hand, on horseback, in The Power of the Dog —, a universal bond between the oppressed who yearn for better.
I don’t know if it was the suspicious people or a vigilant doctor – or both – who sent me this recent editorial of the highly respected British Medical Journal, to which my father’s doctor once subscribed in hard copy. Today, he would consult it online and see that it is the first article read for two weeks: Covid-19 vaccines and treatments: we must have raw data, now “. He would send it to me saying: “You will read that, my owl!” »
The three authors have a respectable track record, a pulmonologist friend told me. (M. Peter Doshi, associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Fiona Godlee, former BMJ editor, and Kamran Abbasi, current editor).
My news feed is about the world pointing to the Nazis, Gilles Vigneault and Neil Young. What year are we in?
” The BMJ supports vaccination policies based on solid evidence. As the global rollout of the vaccine continues, it cannot be justifiable or in the interests of patients and the public that we are forced to simply trust “the system”, with the distant hope that the underlying data may become available for independent review at some point in the future. The same goes for treatments for COVID-19. Transparency is key to building trust and an important avenue for answering people’s legitimate questions about the effectiveness and safety of vaccines and treatments and the clinical and public health policies established for their use. (Google Translate)
The last part is scathing about Big Pharma. bit.ly/3Gnlxuw
While reading To take part, professors of philosophy David Robichaud and Patrick Turmel, from the University of Ottawa and Laval University, I came across a chapter entitled “What is the people the name of? “.
The authors recall this sentence of Reagan: Trust, but verify. The philosophers explain to us what are the populists and the politicians who speak to the “real world”. “In other words, to be populist, you have to maintain that there is something like a united and homogeneous people. That there is the real world, and the others: welfare recipients, immigrants, globalists, minorities, union members, capitalists, academics, or any other group that it is good to blame for all the evils. »
We’ll tell each other: January was a rotten year
“Whenever it is a question of the people or of collective decision in the singular, the democratic ideal forces us to recognize the difference between the people and the individuals who compose it, driven by values, interests and opinions that are often incompatible. » bit.ly/3ofnrHF
My ex (the Anglo, the one and only) liked to repeat: “It is hope that kills. I half understood. Now I understand a revolution late. He died of a tiny clot. But he had a big heart.
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