Bambi’s heart goes to Ms. Copeland. She will allow herself to send her a virtual hug, if she may (her heart also goes to Isaac’s dad and larger family).
Is anyone from the Lebanese corrupt, useless, or criminal politicians reading the Guardian today, by any chance?
Ms. Copeland and all the 204 families of the Beirut victims’ are still waiting for the truth and for justice. Same for the 6000+ injured citizens, including kids (as a reminder, Lexou, a Lebanese-Canadian, toddler lost her life, like Isaac… other children lost their eyes. Indeed, Bambi will always remember this young Syrian refugee kid she heard on the news). Bambi forgot the count of those still homeless (perhaps 300,000 families or even more?) or jobless.
For Isaac and for all those affected by this surrealistic Beirut port explosion that destroyed a large part of the city and people’s lives, once again, where is the truth? And where is the accountability?
At least, where is the evidence that lessons have been truly learned from this tragedy?
Are the United States of America in a form of civil war?
If not, why are their tech giants (Apple, Twitter, FB, Instagram) as well as their mainstream media censoring a US President like that… even if his name is Mr. Trump? Bambi is asking because they closed his Twitter account again, and this time it seems to be permanent.
Is it normal to corner and cancel a President in a democracy? Not any President of any country? We are talking about the President of the United States of America, one of the most powerful countries in the world (up until now, at least).
If they can shut their President up, what will they do to regular (non-connected) citizens?
Indeed, it seems that big American tech companies have already censored MANY citizens, not just the President. From far, it looks like a purge, even if the term seems exaggerated. Some citizens report being put on no-fly lists by the authorities, including at least one legitimate journalist. Bambi listened to the Rubin Report this evening (before Mr. Dave Rubin gets silenced too, she told herself). This is how she learned about this journalist who was cancelled upon his return from Washington and about thousands of citizens already banned from social media for their views.
Why can’t people have the right to have whichever political opinion they wish to have? Citizens are normally free to think what they want. They have all the right to doubt that systemic electoral issues or even frauds truly happened, if they wish. Why not? Who is Apple to tell them what opinion they should have? Even if the results are final now and it is time to come together and hopefully reconcile to move forward, as a country.
Plus, if it is a just a few individuals who criminally entered the Capitol, why are we demoralizing half of the country like that?
Don’t the winners want to govern the whole country?
Or, in reality at least for now, they don’t seem to care about the other half of their population.
Many may have not voted for the winners. Some citizens may have voted for Mr. Trump without being fans, in order not to vote for them. Some may have voted for Mr. Trump because his policies are better than his character. Others may even have not voted at all as the two Presidential options suck, for different reasons.
Most importantly, once again, why aren’t we addressing the initial problem that may have led to all this in the first place?
Something is clearly not working well in this country and it has been the case for a long while now (years maybe). Will their politicians one day have the wisdom to stop, ask why, debate the questions, and try to find solutions?
She does not know about you, and again Bambi has never ever been a Trump supporter. However, in those scary times of censorship like that , she wonders if we may even regret one day Mr. Trump. You may laugh to this latter comment. You may be even triggered, who knows? You may think that Bambi lost her mind. Well, she is saying so, because in a sense, with ALL his craziness, Mr. Trump acted as an obstacle to the collective insanity (including all the violent excesses since this summer, culminating with the horrible scenes in the Capitol and the loss of lives).
When the United States of America starts to look more like China or Iran (or sadly Beirut, even if Lebanon’s citizens still push back their own fascism…), it is not good news for our neighbours. It is surely not good news for all of us, in Canada and the (free) world. Indeed, it is sad and worrisome.
To conclude this post, Bambi hopes that those powerful entities will come to their senses before destroying the most precious value in their country: freedom.
For the record, they were talking about Mr. Trump… No, not about Iran :).
To conclude this post, it is sad to see the United States of America diving lower and lower into civilization self-destruction. In the meantime, Iran, Nasrallah, China, likely North Korea, and perhaps even Venezuela (although Bambi did not double-check for the latter) are already making much fun of America.
Bambi is sadly observing what is unfolding in the United States and recognizing all the ingredients that could dangerously result in a journey toward civil unrest and surely self-destruction, especially without the utmost wisdom of their political leaders in those critical times.
First, once again, without being or having been a Trump supporter, here were the last (wisest) tweets of Mr. Trump before he was cancelled from social media last evening (note that he has been already cancelled from the media a long while ago):
Second, and in contrast, here is the pinned tweet of Ms. Kamala Harris, posted about five hours ago only:
She seems to be creating a false reality once again about those summer riots that were nothing but peaceful.
Indeed, one of Bambi’s American acquaintances has a good friend who began by having sympathy for those so-called “peaceful demonstrators“… well, up until they destroyed his store in the downtown area of his city. Thankfully he was not injured in the process. However, you can understand that he lost his sympathy for those peaceful demonstrators. Bambi is almost certain that he would be deeply sad to read the tweet of Ms. Harris who seems to be rubbing in the face of millions of her fellow citizens the word PEACEFUL once again.
Ms. Harris’ lack of wisdom at this critical time for her country is sad and scary, to say the least. Indeed, instead of uniting her country, she seems to be dividing the Americans even further.
It is troubling to see the United States of America so divided.
Is is normal for American citizens to receive such messages from YouTube?
Is it also normal for Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram to silence a President for an undetermined period of time? It is odd, especially that he tweeted twice wisely asking for the following:
Is this Iran or China? Or are we still in the United States of America?
Bambi is asking all this and she is not a Trump supporter. She is not even American.
She just has respect for all voters and thus for democracy.
So, if no cheating has occurred, why this excessive behaviour by those companies? What are they trying to hide or prevent? Or build political alliance with?
They say it is because of the violence of yesterday. Fine, we get it. It was indeed ugly and sad to watch! Violence is ALWAYS sad and unacceptable. However, who died and made these companies tech kings and queens censoring citizens like that?
As a reminder, one young woman lost her life (Bambi heard possibly others as well). For what? For whom? For Mr. Trump or Mr. Biden? Is is worth it? No politician in our world deserves that innocent citizens die for him/her. Surely not for Mr. Trump. Surely, neither for Mr. Biden, nor Ms. Harris. Surely for none of our own Canadian politicians… and definitely NONE of the Lebanese politicians!
Plus, it is ironic to see the same American politicians who were almost cheering for the politically-correct violence this summer now expressing how much they are offended by yesterday’s violence. Why can’t someone see the whole picture altogether and denounce all violence? Indeed, violence is always bad news. It is so when it targets innocent business owners as much as when it storms a federal building.
Mr. Trump may be individually odd and/or crazy. However, collectively, the other side (the ruling class in 13-14 days) does not seem to be that wiser, at least in Bambi’s eyes. Indeed, both sides seem to be fighting for power to the point of forgetting what should matters the most here: Their country. Bambi is saying so with all due respect. Congrats again to Mr. Biden and his new administration.
To conclude this post, Bambi has seen many crazy politicians in her life thus far. Citizens should never ever think that one leader or one party is their Messiah (that has perhaps been the mistake of Lebanese people during their civil war). No political leader is a Messiah or a Saint. In the end, politicians come and go, but countries stay. At times, countries can sadly get into civil war, struggling to continue to exist.
Once again, please do not Lebanonize the USA. This beautiful country deserves better days than a fate of self-destruction. We also deserve it to remain strong… because if the United States of America falls, we all fall with it.
All the violence that has been unfolding in the United States since the summer is sad to watch.
First, BLM-protests (BLM Antifa, etc.) burning and breaking into businesses. The media called them “peaceful protests“. Some Democrats were even paying to bail them out of jail, Bambi read today.
Tonight, we saw horrible images of Trump supporters breaking into the US Capitol. Sadly, one young woman lost her life.
Some are even wondering if some Antifa members were among this group. Why? Because some videos showed us police officers allowing them into the building whereas one hero inside tried to push them down the stairs.
Why did the police allow them in?
Why are the politicians using this incident as an excuse not to consider dealing with the so-called fraud?
Who is the President still, Mr. Trump or Mr. Twitter?
Why did they censor him (Twitter, Facebook)?
At least, they left one if his wisest comments ever (see below).
To conclude this post, regardless of Mr. Biden’s win (congrats again to him), will we ever know if there has been cheating yes or no, as per this letter below? Bambi remains curious.
In her mind, if there has been cheating, Mr. Trump’s reaction would make sense.
If there was no cheating, he would be truly a sore loser.
Which one is it? Bambi is asking and she is not even a Trump supporter.
Americans are going nuts, regardless of the outcomes of today or these elections or the next ones.
Perhaps their craziness is still larger than ours here in Canada… Thankfully to us, we may wish to candidly think. However, let’s not fool ourselves. We are following them slowly but surely… Soon the pace will increase, Bambi is afraid.
Why is Bambi saying so? Take a look at this video below. This is a Minster (= Reverend = Priest) who is an American politician too. He does not know the meaning of the word “Amen” :).
Should we laugh or cry to this level of stupidity, with all due respect to this politician and religious man (with whom Bambi shares the Christian faith, in addition to being a female deer). She also shares his humanity, yet she finds him ridiculous.
To sound “woke” (or a good disciple of the the Diversity, Inclusion, Equity doctrine… or whatever they call it), he is adding after the word “Amen“, the terms ” A-woman” :). No, this is not a joke! If you do not believe Bambi, watch the video below.
By the way, this politician is a Democrat (if Bambi understands well).
Democrats seem to be “infested” by a movement of silly ideologies. Same for perhaps some of the Republicans who want to also virtue signal silliness in public, who knows?
If some of the Republicans have been hardcore religious folks, well now they have a new competitor to their traditional religiosity: The woke movement. It is a form of secular religiosity. In Bambi’s mind, it can be as if not more dangerous than the traditional religiosity (which pushed to extreme levels can oppress and even kill… ironically in the name of God).
OK, this being said, let’s come back to grammar now. Ask anyone from the Middle East, Jewish or Christian or Muslim, Druze, Bahai or an Atheist, he will tell you that Amen means “Be it or it is so” or “truly” (first used in Hebrew and also in Aramaic/Syriac, and Greek). It is simply an agreement with God’s truth (it can have a sense of “Hopefully” in common Arabic or to express strong agreement with what was said, at least as used in Lebanon). Likely the exact same in English or French prayers, etc.
This politician, whomever he is, is a supposedly Christian religious man. How can he be so ignorant of not just grammar, but also his own ideology (or faith)?
Please, politicians and intellectuals of the USA (and of the world), give us a break from stupidity for at least a day… at least on this Epiphany day (or Christmas Day for Armenian Orthodox Christians).
Regardless of whomever is going to lead your country, affecting Bambi’s Canada… and especially tiny birth country!), please think before endorsing silly ideologies. Do it, even and especially if your intentions are meant to be noble.
To conclude this post, why are we praying at a political meeting? Does that make any sense? Why don’t those who wish to pray discretely do it in their hearts?
OK, we have already established a while ago that for Mr. Trudeau, money grows on trees. Now, we learned that for our federal government, and to cite Mr. Mathieu Bock-Côté, money grows efficiently on palm trees ?!
Yes, you will likely be able to cross the border into
Canada (e.g., after a Holiday vacation abroad, despite the advice of Mr.
Trudeau himself not to travel) and receive a generous cheque from him upon your
return, worth $1000!! Not $100, Not $500…. Yes, $1000. The idea is to compensate
you for your quarantine upon your return from your travels (which was not recommended
to begin with).
Please see below, if you do not believe Bambi!
As a reminder, it is this same Mr. Trudeau who was TOO slow to close our borders at the beginning of the pandemic, which likely increased the Covid-19 cases and made the management of the health crisis by the provinces/territories more complicated. Some provincial officials in Québec (i.e., Montreal) and Nova Scotia (i.e., Halifax) went to the airport in person to put some order into the chaos. We are talking about the Mayor of Montreal (sharing the globalist and perhaps even postmodernist vision of Canada of Mr. Trudeau). She worked hand in hand with her provincial government officials at that time. Of note, we are talking about a Liberal government in Nova Scotia and they had to do what they did.
As a reminder, there was also CERB (or the Canada Emergency Response Benefit program) that was of course much needed. It helped many Canadian families. For that, thanks to our government!
However, in as much needed, CERB was a joke too. Many citizens took advantage of it. It was generous and badly managed, to the point of having people preferring to lie down on their couch and get CERB than going to work, earning less money and perhaps risking getting the virus (can you blame them? Of course not, Bambi would have also chosen the highest income possible). Anyhow, Bambi laughed a lot to the “Bye-Bye 2020” TV show on New Year eve (see the song in French below, and thanks Fadia for sharing it). It is about citizens thanking the government and Trudeau for all what they were able to get with CERB, from summer vacation items to a dog, etc. ?).
Plus, as a reminder, over the summer, students were paid by our government… to simply stay at home. Yes, employers had trouble recruiting youth for either jobs or volunteering work. If anyone still recalls, the Québec government wanted to encourage youth to volunteer and compensate them with a normal amount of money, but Mr. Trudeau was faster and of course… more generous with our own tax money. Funds that our own children (OK not Bambi’s ?!) will be paying for in the next years/decades.
Anyhow, Bambi will stop her blahblahblah (she will spare you a reminder about the WE Charity, even if you have likely forgotten about it). Here is Mr. Fortin’s article in French (Journal de Montréal):
“The majority of Québeckers [and likely all Canadians, Bambi adds] spent their holiday season playing board games like the famous Monopoly with the members of their bubble.
In this game, when you pass the “GO” box, you get $ 200. Yesterday, we found out it was $1,000 when you come back home.
Yes, yes, you read that right. The federal government is going to give a nice $1000 to Canadians who must do their quarantine after having made a trip despite all the many requests made by governments not to travel at this time.
Too generous
Another creation of Justin Trudeau and his team is the Canada Recovery Sickness Benefit (CRSB) program.
This benefit is normally “financial assistance to employees and self-employed workers who are unable to work because they are ill, have to self-isolate due to COVID-19 or have a health problem under which puts them at greater risk of contracting COVID-19”.
We can see that it is absurd that those returning from a trip should have access to this program.
Quick, some consistency please!
On December 23, outside his residence at Rideau Hall, Justin Trudeau mentioned that “now is not the right time for a vacation abroad.”
Seconds later, he added: “We already have extremely strong measures in place with the quarantine measures. This is a much stronger measure than most of our allies. “
Without wanting to, without a doubt, Mr. Trudeau told Canadians that if you go down south and do quarantine, when you come back, everything is fine.
This message is even stronger now that we know that a traveler is paid on their return, for two weeks, to do their quarantine.
If we want to get through this crisis together, it will take more consistency from our governments in 2021. Otherwise, the winter will be very, very long.”
