surely only his powdered koolaid snorting base would be bamboozled by this, right? right?!

if by “taking” you mean shoving a lightbulb up the ass, then yes.

Guy’s a Guinness Book ASll-Time Record Jerk.

absolutely. he’s a chaos machine. and if the pushback/ resistance is not painful enough for america, he will continue doing it.

part of me thinks this is being done to normalize the economic shock - he’s already doing it socially. pull this crap often enough and the markets stop reacting violently.

he also gets to claim that the victims are the aggressors, ukraine style.

sorry, boss - aws is having… “issues”. had to spin up the local load balancers. no need to thank me. we should be good for a week or so.

how do you know we are not living in the dregs of what science should have been?

All provinces, except P.E.I. and Newfoundland and Labrador, have agreed to remove the obstacles preventing their alcohol from being sold in other jurisdictions.

with typical american ignorance, I ask… what is the reasoning here?

edit: thanks for the information everyone. TIL!

…at the bottom of the hamberder trough.

just gonna say - so many posts here are perfect ammunition for handouts at protests.

thank you for keeping the info flowing.

sings in american… " O Canada!"

👍 tenderizing is a time honored culinary technique.

a desire to inflict his psychosis on the world? chaos in a system offers the best opportunity to “win bigley” with the commensurate loss borne by the non-billionaire class.

crazy on a ship of fools.

most of us have the memory of a goldfish; its a surpise every time.

everything you said, plus…

• the economic impact of these layoffs that will not be picked up by private enterprise
• the loss of social support services for people laid off (including folks like him) while looking for work

its like these people have been hit with the stupid stick for the past 40 years. then I think of the likes of rush limbaugh and I guess they really have.

hey, thanks for the info! I had not intended to create a visible hashtag, but seeing as you poked me, why not?!

would be nice to apply this to protests here at home. about to head out now to one at my city’s Town Hall. no floats, but (hopefully) lots of people.

nice rant on markdown, btw. :-)

USian here. ikr?! at the moment we all look the same. I am so fucking sorry.

edit: Ugly American (Pejorative) for those who may not have known.

#floatsthatgohard

David Nicholas, a Republican voter in Port St. Lucie, Fla., expressed sympathy for those federal workers, but said he still backs the DOGE effort.

“I’ve been laid off before different times over the years, and nobody really [cared] about my feelings or anything like that,” said the poll respondent, who is not a government worker

/facepalm

the CBS Poll linked in the featured article is pretty interesting.

/me starts handing out “/s” shaped molotov cocktails

“Tariffs are easy, they’re fast, they’re efficient, and they bring fairness,” Trump said. He described the levies as a “a powerful weapon” that other presidents had not used because “they were dishonest, stupid or paid off in some other form”.

so. much. projection.