Charlie Angus
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We need to know our history. We need to know our stories. Because our stories are being denied to us by a thug who lives down in Mar-a-Lago who says we don't even have a right to a country. Woo! And his loser friends like Joe Rogan said, well, maybe if Canada had ever had an army. Yeah, Joe, you want to mess with our guys and gals? Any day, Joe, come on. No, but he won't come to Canada anymore.
He says he's going to Russia.
He says he's going to Russia.
He says he's going to Russia.
Because it's conjured up something in us that we let lie dormant. I'll tell you what I was afraid of. What I was afraid of way more than Donald Trump was that we were sleepwalking to disaster. For the last three years, I have lived with this dread of us sleepwalking.
Because it's conjured up something in us that we let lie dormant. I'll tell you what I was afraid of. What I was afraid of way more than Donald Trump was that we were sleepwalking to disaster. For the last three years, I have lived with this dread of us sleepwalking.
Because it's conjured up something in us that we let lie dormant. I'll tell you what I was afraid of. What I was afraid of way more than Donald Trump was that we were sleepwalking to disaster. For the last three years, I have lived with this dread of us sleepwalking.
that we were disconnected from one another, that we came out of COVID and we were cranky, and we heard that relentless beating of the mega maple drum, Canada is broken, Canada is broken, Canada is broken, and I knew we weren't broken. There's a Canada, exactly, but there's a Canada that lives in my mind that I knew that I traveled and I knew communities like this existed.
that we were disconnected from one another, that we came out of COVID and we were cranky, and we heard that relentless beating of the mega maple drum, Canada is broken, Canada is broken, Canada is broken, and I knew we weren't broken. There's a Canada, exactly, but there's a Canada that lives in my mind that I knew that I traveled and I knew communities like this existed.
that we were disconnected from one another, that we came out of COVID and we were cranky, and we heard that relentless beating of the mega maple drum, Canada is broken, Canada is broken, Canada is broken, and I knew we weren't broken. There's a Canada, exactly, but there's a Canada that lives in my mind that I knew that I traveled and I knew communities like this existed.
I remember being here and thinking, but they're good people, we're not broken. but we were sleepwalking. And if Donald Trump did anything, he woke us up. Sucks to be you, Donald, once Canada wakes up. Sucks to be you. Yeah, exactly. And then we began to see something happening. And what's really, really powerful is that the resistance did not come from leaders. It came from you.
I remember being here and thinking, but they're good people, we're not broken. but we were sleepwalking. And if Donald Trump did anything, he woke us up. Sucks to be you, Donald, once Canada wakes up. Sucks to be you. Yeah, exactly. And then we began to see something happening. And what's really, really powerful is that the resistance did not come from leaders. It came from you.
I remember being here and thinking, but they're good people, we're not broken. but we were sleepwalking. And if Donald Trump did anything, he woke us up. Sucks to be you, Donald, once Canada wakes up. Sucks to be you. Yeah, exactly. And then we began to see something happening. And what's really, really powerful is that the resistance did not come from leaders. It came from you.
It came from ordinary people who just were not going to let our democracy be taken away by thugs, who were not going to let fascists like Elon Musk decide what services we had and what services were going to be taken away. And we were never, ever going to give up a country as beautiful as this to gangsters. And it was ordinary people who gave me the determination and the awareness
It came from ordinary people who just were not going to let our democracy be taken away by thugs, who were not going to let fascists like Elon Musk decide what services we had and what services were going to be taken away. And we were never, ever going to give up a country as beautiful as this to gangsters. And it was ordinary people who gave me the determination and the awareness
It came from ordinary people who just were not going to let our democracy be taken away by thugs, who were not going to let fascists like Elon Musk decide what services we had and what services were going to be taken away. And we were never, ever going to give up a country as beautiful as this to gangsters. And it was ordinary people who gave me the determination and the awareness
that we were going to get through this. I'll tell you about my mom. My mom's a coal miner's daughter. So my mom phones me early on in the Trump stuff. She said, going through a snowstorm with her walker. And this woman came up and offered to help my mom. My mom says, oh, don't worry. I got this thing. And then the woman said, do you think we'll get through with Donald Trump?
that we were going to get through this. I'll tell you about my mom. My mom's a coal miner's daughter. So my mom phones me early on in the Trump stuff. She said, going through a snowstorm with her walker. And this woman came up and offered to help my mom. My mom says, oh, don't worry. I got this thing. And then the woman said, do you think we'll get through with Donald Trump?
that we were going to get through this. I'll tell you about my mom. My mom's a coal miner's daughter. So my mom phones me early on in the Trump stuff. She said, going through a snowstorm with her walker. And this woman came up and offered to help my mom. My mom says, oh, don't worry. I got this thing. And then the woman said, do you think we'll get through with Donald Trump?
And my mom said to her, I'll eat root vegetables. I don't need any of their damn asparagus. I'll eat root vegetables. We've been through this before. We'll get through this again. And I get that not just from people like my mom. I get this from all kinds of people. This is the Canadian way. It's the Juneau Beach gene. We don't stop until the job is done.