Like Sovereign Citizen, but woke

Also: Trump sells watches now because why not; and the Superman movie with a scene scarier than anything Wes Craven could have dreamed up.

Provincial law societies: “The ‘sovereign citizen’ aka ‘freeman on the land’ movement, whose adherents believe they are not subject to any laws to which they didn’t explicitly consent, is a growing danger to Canadian society. It would render the country completely ungovernable. Whatever you do, don’t do anything, even so much as notarizing a document, which gives these radicals any semblance of legitimacy.”

The Government of Canada: “Yeah, you can totally symbolically opt out of accepting the very existence of Alberta now, it’s fine.”

You’re all thinking the same thing, aren’t you?

I’ve seen it argued that, because Canada was founded through the dispossession and genocide of First Nations people, sanctified through legal concepts such as “doctrine of discovery” and terra nullius which are no longer recognized, the country’s very existence and the validity of its laws is effectively “fruit of a poisoned tree” and are therefore null and void.

I can’t say I’m surprised to see Justin Trudeau’s government adopting that line of reasoning, exactly, but it’s still startling to see it in writing.

And, yes, it is real, at least as of this writing. Either that or someone hacked the website, which honestly probably isn’t hard for a site run by this government. All the passwords are probably 1234. (President Skroob might have been just marginally intelligent enough to have a five-digit password, but I grant no such courtesy to the current Prime Minister.)

For now, this is just nonsense an academic added to make him- or herself feel more smug than usual, and has no legal validity.

We’ll check back in twenty years.

Who knows? Maybe by then I’ll be able to legally declare myself a Bahamanian instead of a Canadian and pay their income tax rate instead of the Canadian one.

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Moving on to the politician who makes me look back at Trudeau and think, “yep, I guess it could be worse,” I want to meet the man who pays $100,000.00 for a Donald J. Trump “premium” watch.

Because I bet I could pull the Simpsons “wallet inspector” scam¹ on him and walk away with his wallet. (“Wait a minute…it’s full of ‘Trump bucks!’”)

Donald Trump is now hawking a new line of watches, some with an eye popping six-figure price tag – the latest example of the former president cashing in on his name like no presidential candidate ever has.

The GOP nominee announced his latest branded merchandise, Trump Watches, on social media Thursday – 40 days before the election and on a day when he did not appear on the campaign trail. He told his supporters the watches would make good Christmas gifts and then directed them to a link where they could be purchased.

The watches retail for $499 but one series – Tourbillon – is priced at $100,000. They come in three different colors and are limited in number to 147.

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“These watches are truly special—you’re going to love them,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, the same social media site where he shares political messages with his supporters.

A disclaimer on the website discloses that neither Trump nor his company designed, manufactured, distributed or sold the watches. Rather, a company named “TheBestWatchesOnEarth LLC” licensed the Trump name to sell the line of wrist watches.

Now, I’m not a watch guy like JVL (yep, he knows) so I think it’s a pretty nice looking watch. A bit flashy for my tastes, and it might give me gangrene, but not bad. With the money I make from faithful premium subscribers