I don’t like the CEO comments but that’s a huge stretch of an assertion.

I’m hoping we soon hear several new trade announcements coming from NATO partners that will help us collectively reduce our reliance on authoritative governments of all stripes.

He’s hoping he’ll hurt us (Canada) enough that suddenly his offer to “save” us by becoming a US territory is appealing. Any sort of fentanyl or national security reasoning is just an excuse.

Go hard and target US corporations by invalidating US trade laws and allowing affected Canadian manufacturing to make lower cost tech products without the greed monopoly margins.

Cory Doctorow link

Good luck with those gas prices, pals. A bunch of people with unnecessarily large pickup trucks are about to get hosed.

The person who proposed shutting off electricity was Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario who could in fact follow through. It would definitely be the nuclear option but it would disrupt the power grid of several norther states we border.

I don’t think it will come to that. I think the orange idiot just wants some politicians to grovel and pay his tithe at the last minute so he can feel powerful. He’s “warned” of tariffs too many times to make me think he’s serious.

I’m in a pickle. Got proton and my own domain for email so I would be able to make an easy switch… but now I have masked emails for dozens if not hundreds of account logins.

Twonies feels wrong somehow. Like I want to pronounce it so it rhymes with “ponies”

“We demand greater border security to keep out undesirables!”

“No… not like that!”

Why is anybody taking anything coming out of the White House with any degree of certainty? Tariffs or not there’s no trusting the source. We’ll know if it happens when it happens.

I mean if you want to pay my hourly rate, sure.

Business as usual for a system that allows Senators without term limits. Until we get them this keeps happening on all sides.

Fair assumption. In this fictional scenario I think there would for sure be a Q-Anon style contingent who would believe the world leaders colluded with some kind of audio deep fake.

I believe most republicans crave power at all costs and they want their team to keep winning. They will tolerate a cheater and a criminal that gets results but they will not abide a pathetic loser that makes them all look small by association.

Secretly record the back channel phone calls where he begs world leaders to let him do what he wants to save face, then release it with no deal.

He’ll be furious but when there are like 6-10 phone calls on record not even his diehard followers will respect him. Blood in the water at that point.

You keep your $1,300 insulin. I like my access to vaccines and $0 hospital stays.

“Mr. Trump, fuck off” will be the universal response of the western world before March.

I’m down with that. I love Canada but I’d Euro it up to avoid seeing Charles on my currency.

Please let this be the trigger for free trade with Europe and all that lovely meat and cheese.

Stern uncomfortable eye contact, then.

I dream of this outcome. We’re more politically compatible with Western Europe than we are to the US.

Obligatory “Well, except Alberta” which you can literally derail any good idea with.

Unimaginable human misery on the horizon and your response is to pull a “sorry your response must take a form of a question.”