Canadian government needs to buck up and reinstate the Digital Services Tax, which they scrapped to curry favor with trump in hopes of getting him to lower tariffs. By now they should have learned--capitulating to the bully doesn't work. You have to punch right back and harder.
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Stop enforcing DMCA and DRM protections and create an industry around circumventing US companies digital markets
This is the way. It wouldn't harm a single regular US citizen, instead it would target multi-billion dollar corporations. I'm all for this plan of action
I have an aunt who was under the impression that Trump was found innocent of his crimes. I explained to her that he was convicted on 34 counts and only stayed out of prison because he was elected. She refuses to believe it.
And there were multiple other trials pending that were only abandoned because he was elected.
I realize it probably won't matter, but you can send her this link: NY Court Records: People vs Donald J. Trump
If she thinks it isn't a real site, have her search for something like "new york court records".
Custard has a thicker skin than Trump.
Too bad that thin skin doesn’t make him bleed out
Haha never thought of that!
MAGA voters refused to vote for a woman because she would "be too emotional to lead"
The pedophile in charge gets angry when the weather changes and he thinks he's being sabotaged.
Men can be astonishingly emotional and irrational, too.
And Trump? Trump doesn't have a microgram of rationality or logic or respect for science and facts in his mind. He never did.
I worked with someone who generally had this view, considered himself a constitutionalist. When we were talking about stuff like socialized healthcare, he would get agitated and combative, and if we said something like no need to get angry/emotional were just having a discussion he'd loudly say he wasn't angry/emotional, he was being logical. They redefined their emotions and feelings as logic so they could always be right.
More proof that he belongs in a nursing home and not in the now Soiled House.
If this man can't get democrats to realize the stakes and unite and apathetic voters to realize their error and become active, well, I don't know how to finish that sentence because I have 0 faith either will happen.
I'm just angry that my Country hasn't gotten strategic deterrents to our neighbors who refuse to take their lithium, because this is clearly not going to stay within their borders.
I'm so infuriated by the people who even now still play the "both sides" games because they're the people who are truly in the "center" of American politics, cashing the cheques that marginalized people are now paying being actively discriminated against and being disappeared off the streets.
Their fucking idealism led them to market for the fascists.
As for the fascists, they're a lost cause which is why I didn't even bother addressing them. Time spent addressing them is time spent not reaching out to the reachable.
We're just going to keep seeing crazy headlines as America spirals and at some point the American media might stop posting the crazy headlines, at which point we'll know the right wing billionaires will have won.
Dont worry though, somewhere, somehow, a pretend leftist will be grinning like "see, if you just did exactly what I wanted..." as any last semblance of freedom leaves the USA for decades if not centuries to come.
We are so far gone people aren't even remembering that a president is not supposed to be able to arbitrarily set tarrifs.
They're supposed to be slow to enact for a reason. They're not effective used for petty revenge or rather are foot guns that shoot all of our feet when used this way.
I'm just so God damn angry at so many people who should have known better, and so anxious as I watch this massive train derailing that will eventually hit my house on the side of the rail tracks.
You could use that to explain most of the current timeline.
The deranged and racist old Faux "News" viewer got mad at TV during Obama presidency, ran for office on a campaign of hating Blacks, immigrants, etc...and now we have the likes of Stephen Miller and Hegseth trying to completely revamp everything, including the culture.
The problem is that he is galvanizing a huge part of the country who think exactly the same as him. And though they only really represent around a third of the total voting populace, they are bolstered by the die hard republicans who robotically vote R on every ticket every time they are at the ballot box.
TVocracy.
Perhaps if people would stop capitulating. Seriously. Fuck that guy. He's a moron and a pedophile and a rapist. Treat him like the idiot waste of space that he is. If all world leaders would look at him openly with disdain and not just do what he wants, then maybe he'd catch a clue.
