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US: “You guys need to be more responsible for your own security.”

Europe: Takes a stronger stance on Ukraine.

US: “No…not like that…”

Pharmacy got robbed with a crossbow back when I was managing a Shoppers Drug Mart in the bad part of town back in the day.

I mean…sure Google. Knock yourself out. But I still prefer Jenga.

That was the first thing I thought watching it. Eerily too close. Makes it a bit more difficult to be entertained by it.

I’m not convinced that someone at the Heritage Foundation didn’t read the book and think EUREKA!!! It’s too on-the-nose for it to be a coincidence.

Or Atwood is a time-traveller and that’s why she has a secret book in a time capsule to be opened in 100 years. On the day of it’s opening, she’ll pop up in a surprise since it’s before she travelled back in time, thereby closing the paradox loop.

None. A very long time before any of this started going down, both my sister and myself informed my parents that neither of us were having children and that this particular line stops here.

Not because of any trauma (that I can remember). But we’ve both seen the state of the world and decided, with our respective partners, that forcing children into this shit-show is unconscionable.

The fastest way to tell if something is the right thing to do is to ask whether or not Orange Julius Caesar opposes it.

Trump thinks literally everyone is supposed to be subordinate to the U.S. because 'murica.

I say Mexico drone strikes the source of it’s gang’s weapons supply; namely the gun manufacturers in the United States.

I feel like even though there were probably instances of it before this, the “Yippee-ki-yay, Mr. Falcon” is kind of the OG, because it’s the first one I remember to become well-known on this new thing called “the internet”.

I don’t disagree. But despite my best efforts, I have friends who insist on sharing crap from there with me and while I used to be able to view in browser without having an account or logging in, they changed it so that to watch something someone shared, it just pops up a “view on the app” message.

TikTok is only bearable if you set it to open muted by default.

I’m sure that’s what his handlers tell him while they’re changing his diaper.

I would argue that he already thinks the rest of the world are vassals and always have been.

When he puts out demands to foreign companies and calls it “an issue of compliance”; it’s clear he’s not thinking of other countries as equals.

He thinks we’re vassals and this is how we all should have been treated all along since WW2.

China can do without United States luxury imports like cars and iPhones for far longer than American consumers can do without coffee makers, microwaves, televisions, blenders, dishes, utensils, clothing, and literally every other consumer good in existence.

Maybe pay some attention instead of just posting a meaningless number. It’s not HOW MUCH trade is done, it’s WHAT is coming to and from each of the countries.

China doesn’t need America’s crap. America most definitely does need China’s.

I often make things like pancakes, or fried eggs with bacon for supper/dinner. My ex wife would look at me like I was crazy.

But I just asked her, what makes a breakfast food a “breakfast” food other than social convention? Eat whatever you want whenever you want. It’s quite literally in the who cares category of let people live their lives.

“Absolute truth no matter what” people are freakin exhausting.

They also don’t exist outside of their own inflated egos.

It’s almost comically easy to catch one of these “I always tell the truth” people in their hypocrisy.

Yes.

Anyone who says otherwise is (ironically) lying.

That’s why privacy laws are so important and why the old “If you haven’t done anything wrong, you shouldn’t care about your data being collected by literally everyone” argument is bullshit. Because it’s not about breaking the law, or lying about some big secret. It’s about presenting to the world the you that you want to present to the world.

The most basic fundamental right is to be seen as we want to be seen.

Everyone…and I mean EVERYONE…has something that, if it were public, would change the way that others look at them. Maybe for the good, maybe for the worse. It doesn’t matter. It could be that you’re into midget porn. It could be that you anonymously donate a quarter of your paycheque to charity and you want it to remain anonymous for whatever reason. The point is, THAT IS YOUR RIGHT to keep that to yourself.

We get to show the world who we want them to see, either good or bad. And we all do it.

So yes, to circle back around. Anyone who says that they don’t actively have any lies is lying.

The Donald Trump effect seems to be the opposite of what Far Right leaders were hoping for.

Every country other than the U.S has seen what Trump is doing and decided “fuck that…let’s nip this shit in the bud before it can spread.”

• Canada’s Pollievre has tanked in popularity.

• France’s LePen guilty of embezzlement.

• Argentina’s Meili blocked by the supreme court.

• Far right, hateful politicians in Germany potentially barred from running for office.

• Connor Macgregor in Ireland being told to fuck off.

• Nigel Farage being treated like slightly more of am embarrasement than he usually is.

Around the world people look at the United States and say “keep that shit away from us by any means necessary”

Yes. But carefully. And with eyes wide open.

Admitting your country has problems is “woke”, though. /s

It’s not the corporations, it’s the billionaires that run them. Every time Trump does something that makes the stock market drop, they get richer by scooping up more for less. Than sell them when Trump says “Just kidding” and the stock market rises again.

Not to mention that all of their companies get to raise prices and blame “tariffs” in order to increase their profit margin.

It’s the entire reason they paid to get him into the white house.