Kiko Acero

I wish I was in Taiwan right now.

She's end of term though

They need her voice, but we're really too nice on this side of the aisle.

Completely needless deaths. This is going to hit home in other ways.

boomshakalaka

They're never going to, and they're going to claim we're misogynists for ever expecting that to happen.

The perfect Calvin & Hobbes panel for this moment

Such a Manchurian candidate. Next thing is Trump and Xi supporting Putin, because empires dividing up the world.

Sales taxes, too. It’s going to be really, really painful for people of the USA.

Part of me wonders if Trump has torpedoed the right wing in Canada with those tariffs or if he is going to promise the elimination of tariffs if Canada elects a similarly minded fascist.

Canada provides power to 30 US states. Some of them are very red. Imagine if there are retaliatory taxes on top of the tariffs on the electricity they provide. Guess who pays for that.

Right after Anthony Davis demands that the Lakers trade for a center, no less.

Tim McMahon is saying something about conditioning.

I'm sure they're going to find a DEI hire to blame, even if the entire org is MAGA.

Oh I was thinking the natural gas pipeline to Alberta was in place already. Guess that's out now.

That tar sands oil, though. That's assuming there isn't a retaliatory tax on it going out; I'm sure there will be.

Not in Alaska, though. Cue another Exxon Valdez, where the big issue won't be the effect of the oil spill, but the amount of fuel lost.

No one ever accuses someone in the thrall of a con of being rational, logical, or intelligent. Even less so someone hurting.

There's a reason snake oil still sells.

You can't make this up. Someone won an election because they counted on people, including the candidate, not knowing what things mean and how things work.

So I was doing the math. Let's say Canada applies defensive tariffs as well. This means oil traveling through the Alaskan pipeline will get a 25% tariff as it moves from Alaska to Canada, and another 25% tariff as it moves from Canada back to the United States.

Fun times. Guess who pays for this.

Hey. That 25% tariff also applies to Canadian oil, right? Pump prices should go up in the United States, then, for no other reason than one lunatic going apeshit.

Best of luck to you.

Not is going. Is losing. Present progressive.

There's a power vacuum now and no one knows who's going to fill it.

I can write extensively on how much Trump has damaged the USA's foreign relations by souring any goodwill with all of its allies, so yeah.

Give him more time.

I don't see myself going to the USA for the next four years. It's not safe to travel there by air.

Ah yes, cousin once removed. Didn't we give her the biznez tho. LOL.

I'm so pissed I'm just paying attention to LA sports. The Lakers and the Dodgers are just the vibe right now.

Her daughter is the cousin, generation-wise. She's technically an aunt. The cousin is also MAGA, and I think she's about to find out. The cousins who are HERE are also kind of MAGA. Not woke at all.

I mean, it hasn't been even a month. Such dumpster fire.

Also, welcome to the face-eating leopard show! The schadenfreude is real.

Japan looks so nice right now.

Which cousin? They're all finding out LOL. BTW, a lot of them were surprised our side is very liberal elite, well, because we are.

So many friends—a lot of them former colleagues in the human rights space—receiving the swift blow of stop work orders the past few days. Truly disheartening but/and also a deep reflection of how our lives in the Global South remain captive to arbitrary, subjugating forms of power.

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Hooray for more rice

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