Oh, and certainly don't forget Canada. My first week in Calgary I remember a lot of handbills advertising a white nationalist march.

I'll reiterate that I hope that the tourism industry completely collapses and people lose their businesses and livelihoods because of this. It's not personal, but there has to be a "FO" in this FAFO.

Two things have turned me off AI as being any kind of reliable partner. The first is when a coworker tried to create a project plan using ChatGPT. The results didn't make a lick of sense, but he charged ahead with it anyway because he did not have the expertise to understand why it was wrong.

“Foreign exporters absorbed only 4% of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%. “Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans.” www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

This is why I don't trust Democrats, period.

Republicans will be lucky if the California government doesn't start drawing up plans like that next year.

I'm just sick to death of even seeing an imitation of this a-hole. Just tend to skip the cold opens now.

I can't get behind a party that counts this guy and Newsom as frontrunners to be their leader.

To be blunt, Canada's dirty secret is that it has a lot of the same issues as the US, but specific historical, structural, and social differences that look more progressive from the outside.

You have a moderate faction in the party that invokes Reagan, sees common cause with Never Trump conservatives, and dithered on Mamdani. I do not trust for a second that they could even begin to take the necessary actions to deal with any of these areas for fear of being labelled "communists".

It's a blatant disrespect for the rule of law. If they cannot be clear that the rights of their political opponents will be respected, there is no reason to respect them or follow their leadership.

Every day should be punch a nazi day — especially when one looks just like baby Elon.

I'd go further and say that pointing out how conservatives are joyless weirdoes has been a winning strategy, but not from Democrats that seem like they're hanging out in a junior high school teachers' breakroom.

I'm really trying to figure out how to address my own lock-in with SaaS subscription packages like Creative Cloud, Office, and ArcGIS. The big flaw with their strategy is while $10-15/month may not seem like a lot, people trimming their budgets just won't use your software at all.

This is absolutely unforgivable.

Another byproduct of this chaos is that we're not going to be able to reliably send certain people to prison for longer than a year or two. If we've reached the point where rich people can just buy a pardon, they'll just steer campaign money so they avoid any consequences.

This is necessary, but highly regrettable.

I need to apologize for something I did. The @bostonherald.com is right, there is no place for profanities in politics.

The dangerous and stupid part here is that there will be a complete lack of continuity of government. A government where things may be legal or illegal, defunded or over funded in four years cannot support long-term investment or planning.

People need to be very serious about not legitimizing anything like this, brutally cancelling anyone that tries, and providing alternative messaging to counteract the propaganda.

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Looking forward to the blowtorch and swinging iron

Where do you think he's going to go if Dems fire all the ICE agents?

If you told the president to go fuck himself after he insulted you it would sink your employer, send your career into the stratosphere for the left, and make you a target from death threats on the right.

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There are real needs to revisit institutions. Academia in particular desperately needs a refresh and a rethink regarding how and what we teach students, what roles professors should play, and how it should relate to other members of society. Not doing that with bad-faith right-wing lunatics though.

Literally the only reason why the US hasn't collapsed into a dystopian post-capitalist nightmare is that there are people that are willing to be in an underpaid and underappreciated job so they can serve the people around them.

I think what's apparent is that as many people need to make these people's lives as shitty as possible. Why be civil if they'll just shoot you in the face given the opportunity?

Every representative from these places should not vote for a budget that defunds their constituents. Burn the whole thing to the ground before submitting to these thugs.

The effect of this is that a lot of armed freaks are going to be eager for Republicans to win so they can get paid, and they'll do anything to get that money. That includes breaking the democratic process out of their own self-interest.

Invading Greenland or Canada should trigger secession of blue states, period. It's what started talk of New England secession in the past, and it seems like a tradition to continue.

I feel like the entire Democratic Party should clean house with their PR and strategy consultants if they thought this would make sense

All those people that said "defund the police" was a bad idea don't seem to understand how bad the rot is with these organizations.

This type of dialogue regarding the infrastructure issues in Calgary seems to miss the boat in terms of both the magnitude of the issue and the fact that entitled property owners complaining about taxes are a huge problem. www.readtheline.ca/p/rob-breake...

We're now apparently regressing even further into the Renaissance, where investment in science is at the whims of wealthy patrons. This is absolutely awful.

I cannot stress enough - these people do not simply disappear even if ICE were dismantled tomorrow.

Nothing like Democrats to wuss out and not rise to the occasion. Pathetic.

It's frustrating because you can discuss the history of Denmark's control over Greenland and the issues and tensions involved, but American imperial control would be far worse.

I don't know how we get out of this without the radical kind of reinvention of governance, policing, and education that takes the hard work that no one seems willing to do right now.

It continues to be profoundly disturbing (and black-pilling) to me that there are literally zero political leaders proposing justice radical enough to actually meet the moment we are quickly headed toward.

This is why I'm passionately against a radical expansion of armed guards in schools by federal and state governments. Potential hires need to come from somewhere and qualified applicants have different options. Once you burn through talent you're left with a lot of bad options.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

All the other Democrats need to come to a reckoning about how much we hate these "some Democrats".

The Chancellor's operation targeting Sudetenland can advance German interests—but it's unclear whether it actually will.

It's going to be simultaneously hilarious and depressing to see this in the term papers AI is writing for students

This could be done with the 8 in Seattle

And yet affordable housing and healthcare are too expensive

I'll contribute to a GoFundMe for anyone that gives someone that wears these in public a clear message.

For all of those conservatives claiming that "facts don't care about your feelings", their public health policies seem to be based more on feelings than facts.

If senior Dems were in charge of the Titanic they'd be looking for more icebergs to hit