Elizabeth Nickson is a Canadian journalist, author, and blogger who writes the weekly Welcome to Absurdistan newsletter on Substack, focused on politics, threats to individual liberty, and restoring rural economies.
LOL I had to stop and look it up. Per Google AI: Promethean Action are as follows:
Barbara Boyd: There is no publicly confirmed birth year for the Barbara Boyd affiliated with Promethean Action. She is frequently confused in public records with the retired Indianapolis news anchor of the same name who is 96 years old (born April 1929) or an Alabama politician who is 89 years old. The Barbara Boyd at Promethean Action is a longtime political commentator and writer who has been professionally active since at least the early 1970s.
Susan Kokinda: Likely in her early 70s. While her exact birth date is not public, records indicate she has been married for 51 years and has been politically active since at least 1968, when she worked on Robert F. Kennedy’s campaign. She also has over 50 years of experience in the LaRouche movement, having joined in 1971.
I lived in northern Ontario as a teen in the 1970s, in a working class midsize city. One of my good friends from there moved to the US and became a citizen after 9/11 because he couldn't stand "the barely disguised glee" of his fellow Canadians (in Toronto) at the suffering of New Yorkers, if not the entire country.
I now know several middle-aged Canadians--lawyers--who have worked and lived in the US for upwards of 30 years. One of them is a dual citizen. They trash talk the US relentlessly--the people, the culture, the politics, even the darn weather--and in the most blockheaded snobbish tones. When I ask about developments or lack thereof in Canada they change the subject, mostly to how the US is destroying Canada and Trump, Trump, Trump.
Exasperating.
One of them no longer has a job or any visible means of support and complains that "there is nothing keeping me here, I don't know why I stay!" When I asked "what's keeping you from leaving?" she had no answer. Just glum silence.
It must be had to live deep in the dark, brambled, and thorny woods of cognitive dissonance, year after year after year.
This is hilarious. The Jews, the Kazarian‘s, they are the globalist. They are the deep state. They are the ones destroying Europe and America with immigration. And then you say antisemitism ( they’re not even Semites ) is an illness. You guys are funny.
I'm Canadian, and in every interview I heard with Poilievre I never heard a single concrete policy proposal, just empty platitudes. He is NOT the leader Canadian conservatives need.
Marvelous interview. Good to get insights on Canada from a Canadian who has a finger on their pulse politically. Matt Ehret (a Canadian) interviewed a fellow on the resources buried beneath their feet in the Western Provinces - very detailed. As well, talked regarding extraction and the sorely needed rail transport that's been thwarted by Eastern politicians for decades. The Westerners could become a formidable world economy on their own.
Two of my favorite thinkers and writers! Thank you. very much
LOL I had to stop and look it up. Per Google AI: Promethean Action are as follows:
Barbara Boyd: There is no publicly confirmed birth year for the Barbara Boyd affiliated with Promethean Action. She is frequently confused in public records with the retired Indianapolis news anchor of the same name who is 96 years old (born April 1929) or an Alabama politician who is 89 years old. The Barbara Boyd at Promethean Action is a longtime political commentator and writer who has been professionally active since at least the early 1970s.
Susan Kokinda: Likely in her early 70s. While her exact birth date is not public, records indicate she has been married for 51 years and has been politically active since at least 1968, when she worked on Robert F. Kennedy’s campaign. She also has over 50 years of experience in the LaRouche movement, having joined in 1971.
- Michigan Republican Party
- Michigan Republican Party
+5
Yeah, I heard one of them comment on her age on a live.
GREAT interview!
P.S. I’ve been wondering about Promethean Action. These 2 smart women seemed to appear from nowhere. Barbara Boyd is 96? Did I hear that correctly?
Promethean Action is a must watch on X.
Taken from introduction in writing above:
There is no publicly confirmed birth year for the Barbara Boyd affiliated with Promethean Action.
I said she was 96, she is 93.
For whatever it's worth, PA seems to be a continuation of the Lyndon LaRouche group. There stuff was fairly kooky, but interesting.
We think Lyndon LaRoche is kooky because that's what we were told years ago. Like most things we think we know, I doubt that it's true. We will see.
Thank you. Excellent conversation. Wide ranging and fast moving. Highly recommend.
Great insight…….ground zero for understanding what the world has become especially Canada
Another great conversation.
Canadians are lazy because of all the entitlements.
I lived in northern Ontario as a teen in the 1970s, in a working class midsize city. One of my good friends from there moved to the US and became a citizen after 9/11 because he couldn't stand "the barely disguised glee" of his fellow Canadians (in Toronto) at the suffering of New Yorkers, if not the entire country.
I now know several middle-aged Canadians--lawyers--who have worked and lived in the US for upwards of 30 years. One of them is a dual citizen. They trash talk the US relentlessly--the people, the culture, the politics, even the darn weather--and in the most blockheaded snobbish tones. When I ask about developments or lack thereof in Canada they change the subject, mostly to how the US is destroying Canada and Trump, Trump, Trump.
Exasperating.
One of them no longer has a job or any visible means of support and complains that "there is nothing keeping me here, I don't know why I stay!" When I asked "what's keeping you from leaving?" she had no answer. Just glum silence.
It must be had to live deep in the dark, brambled, and thorny woods of cognitive dissonance, year after year after year.
I wish everyone could listen to you & Elizabeth. I subscribe to both, but having you commiserate is even better.
It was a smart, honest & insightful conversation. Please do it again soon.
This is hilarious. The Jews, the Kazarian‘s, they are the globalist. They are the deep state. They are the ones destroying Europe and America with immigration. And then you say antisemitism ( they’re not even Semites ) is an illness. You guys are funny.
primethean Action ROCKS!
i am so sorry about your daughter!
Well said James and guest
I'm Canadian, and in every interview I heard with Poilievre I never heard a single concrete policy proposal, just empty platitudes. He is NOT the leader Canadian conservatives need.
Marvelous interview. Good to get insights on Canada from a Canadian who has a finger on their pulse politically. Matt Ehret (a Canadian) interviewed a fellow on the resources buried beneath their feet in the Western Provinces - very detailed. As well, talked regarding extraction and the sorely needed rail transport that's been thwarted by Eastern politicians for decades. The Westerners could become a formidable world economy on their own.
Love Elizabeth's demeanor.
I laughed aloud when JHK described lefties as having delusional lunacy.