If the past month has been any indication of the next 47 of them, Canada might want to start negotiating long-term trade deals with Europe and China while also significantly cutting back on trade with the United States.

1. Trump has suggested he wants to use economic pressure against Canada.

2. Trump has “joked” about Canada becoming the 51st state.

3. Like with blackmailers, once you give into the first demand of someone using threats as a bargaining chip, they come back asking for even more.

Canada seems to have something we need (oil, natural resources). They’re well within their rights to treat us as a hostile nation and show the assholes in power that they need to play nicely in global politics more than they think they do. With the way things are going, the average US citizen is probably fucked either way, so it’s not like it’s going to harm anybody but the oligarchs in the long run.

Well said, and I wish our northern neighbors well. It can’t be easy sharing a border with a government actively ignoring and dismantling its systems of checks and balances, while its new leader is simultaneously make “jokes” about taking over neutral or allied countries.

What really annoys me is the self-righteousness, self-importance, and proselytizing of our low-information conservative members. Most of the world has either thrived or at least existed fine enough with socialism or politics designed to benefit its average citizen, and ever step of the way these chucklefucks are screaming “communism” and denigrating the very things that would have helped them live better lives. And then they try and force those views on other countries which have better standards of living than we do! It’s infuriating.

I made the mistake of reading the comments.

So many right-wing Americans talking down on Canada’s public healthcare and left-leaning politics, praising Trump’s “fixes,” and acting like an authority on everything Canada. God, can we please fix our own problems before trying to ruin everything else with regressive changes?

The people who are either reveling in the changes, the ones who don’t care because it doesn’t effect them, or the ones living paycheck to paycheck that can’t afford to get a criminal record for protesting and lose their job?

A critical mass of people won’t do anything until it becomes an imminent matter of their own life and death, and this ain’t it.

Democrats in Congress are pushing legislation to curb his access to federal systems and slowing Trump’s executive confirmations.

Legislation? Musk doesn’t give a single shit about legislation unless it benefits himself, and Trump has openly stated he “might” ignore judges’ orders. That’s a great whole lot of nothing you’re proposing there, guys.

“Totally, tremendously real. Trust me, I know real. I can, 100%, totally confirm that her hair—like my tremendously great hair—is real. No doubts. Everyone else saying it’s fake—they’re fake. Fake news. Don’t believe what the Democrats are saying. It’s Hillary’s fault. With all this AI, nobody can tell. They think it’s fake. They think everything is fake. I’ll tell you. Her hair, my hair. It’s real. All real. True American hair. Didn’t even need a hair dresser. Just wake up with great hair. All day. Every day.”

I have no idea how the execution of such an order would play out.

It wouldn’t. The order would get appealed, the appeal would be slow walked so it wouldn’t be executed in a timely manner, and eventually, it would find its way to the supreme kangaroo court and be deemed unconstitutional to seize the assets of the acting president for life.

Slight correction: to beyond the full extent of the law.

My takeaway from this is that the entire thing was performative.

The racist shit keeps unfettered access to government information without a security clearance (and the 25 year old, too), Trump and Co spin a narrative of “the past is the past, ‘mistakes’ should be forgiven and forgotten,” and nobody is held accountable for anything. Sounds about right.

There is always some sort of fucking child throwing a tantrum about some shit. Has it always been the case?

Petty much. The big difference this time is that there’s a common enemy (Rust) instead of relatively isolated petty crap.

If you’re going to get fired anyway, you might as well throw it off the roof. A bit more effective of a delay than the 30 seconds it would take for someone to plug the power cable back in.