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Was this through email or an actual letter? How and why do they have a citizen's contact info?

Lol. Imagine bringing out *Scheer* to try to save your campaign. And then using him like this! Genuinely embarrassing for EVERYONE involved in this...

You don't understand, Casey, we aren't going to be bound by any laws. You think we're trying to come to a mutually beneficial agreement here, but you're wrong. This is extortion, Casey, it goes through way faster than compromise

Remember Trump is using emergency legislation for the tariffs. So the measures that were urgent and necessary to meet that emergency have now suddenly become non-urgent and unnecessary. If US congress and courts properly held president to account for misuse of emergency powers, this would matter.

So is it a pause, or is it 10%?

How dare countries sell cheap things to the United States, it's so damn rude!

Holy fuck!

I remember thinking (but ultimately rejecting), when that Presidential Immunity ruling came out, that Biden should do something blatantly unconstitutional to prompt SOME sort of limits on presidential power being articulated. But oh well. It's the era of the stupid mad king instead.

Oh yeah, baby! #ElbowsUp

I'm sorry, is that last point "Send the US Treasury checks," or am I having a stroke? Holy, I knew he wanted to run the US like the mob, but this bald extortion is actually a million times crazier than I could have imagined!

Tl;dr: "How dare these unruly inferiors not thank us and ask for more when we whip them?" [Do these guys think we live in some sort of fetish scene where the US is the dom and the rest subs who should be grateful of force? How the hell is the world, in his mind, the one doing the dismantling here?]

Even as they are trying to defend this stuff, they can't help but highlight the absurdity of the premise: If the US is buying Australian beef, that suggests they eat more beef than they produce. Why would they want to further reduce their own supply by selling it to Australia?

The Lemkin Institute — named after the man who coined genocide — has issued a statement condemning Israel, the U.S., Canada, and Europe for perpetrating genocide in Gaza.

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

Oh, fuck! How are these guys THIS stupid? I'm just old enough to remember floppy disks, but even though we were already using cloud storage when I was in university, we DEFINITELY learned about the difference between that and archival storage.

When you realize you now need to work until you’re dead you want being dead to happen as quickly as possible

New detail: *Canadian* border guards turned her back on her way into Canada, saying she should have a work visa. We handed her over to be shackled & held in detention. #cdnpoli

I explained it to several young teens today: imagine we wanted you to become more self-sufficient in the kitchen, so we decided to charge you $20 every time you got takeout. But also we have no food in the house, we won't let you go to the store, and also you don't know how to cook.

Aww... you almost have to pity them. They're like a baby animal, too silly to climb things or play fight properly. (And then you remember they voted for this, and rage takes over).

So their argument is basically that human trafficking by the US government as a way of sidestepping the US judiciary is ok...

Wow, the Russification of the United States is really being speedrun, huh? Stay away from windows and tea, fam.

I wasn’t thrilled with Harris for a lot of reasons and I am so angry about much regarding her campaign, but one utterly ludicrous quibble would be the idea that she didn’t tell us about what’s happening now She definitely fucking told people, I remember, I was there

Wait, are you serious? I don't even live in the United States and not only did I know that, I know Kamala Harris said it. Did you ignore her talking about Project 2025? The speed at which he's going at the destruction may be beyond anyone's expectations, but holy crap, US voters were warned

Does anyone actually believe this? Yes, extortion probably works (short-term) as a negotiating tactic, but I would think it only works when you aren't using it against everyone at the same time. And long-term? Who wants to depend on an extortionist long-term?

Sucks for Lululemon, a Canadian brand, to have incorporated in Delaware and apparently have convinced everyone it's as American as Nike.

Revealed preferences theory suggests that Wall Street executives value their ability to call their subordinates gay at approximately 8 trillion dollars

Leaping out the window? 🧐

As the day has passed, I've become more convinced that a better analogy for this would be: suggesting your maid, the line cook at Taco Bell, and the power company are cheating you by selling you things you've chosen to buy (without buying the exact same amount from you).

based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens

We heard anecdotally that Canadians weren’t visiting the states, now we have the data. A massive, shocking drop.

Maybe the issue is that we all failed to notice there was a silent D in MAGA - Make America Great [Depression] again

He's been telling the whole world this is just vibes / to not make a move in case the predator jumps, and he STILL freezes when asked if this is all dependent on the mad king's moods?

The nihilistic side of me actually thought: "hey! Maybe we just got lucky that there was no once-in-a-generation economic crisis in 2014"