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And again, if this could be done without the innocents suffering, watching ICE try (and fail) to take Manhattan would be glorious theatre.

But that’s not possible so it’s just both saddening and enraging.

Minus the bodycount and the human suffering, this would be terribly funny.

Saw the high-point of the core 4, their final game last May. (Solo seat on my own.)

Such a frustrating era of hockey.

I was also at the high-point of this club since 1967, Game 7 of the 1993 Campbell Conference Final, with my late father.

I ask, why do we do this to ourselves? 1993 was fun tho.

+1

Only Trump gets to lie like that, his minions do not have his superpowers.

If Someone Tried To Burn My Village, I'd Be Like, 'Fuck You' I was reading some story the other day about this African guy whose village was burned to the ground, and it blew me away. I couldn’t believe that some army could march into a town, terrorize everyone...

Someone is usually agree with politically shared this on Twitter as an example of how the American left thinks (in more normal times it’s how the American right thought too), but I think Minneapolis kind of just lived it?

theonion.com/if-someone-t...

If Someone Tried To Burn My Village, I'd Be Like, 'Fuck You' I was reading some story the other day about this African guy whose village was burned to the ground, and it blew me away. I couldn’t believe that some army could march into a town, terrorize everyone...

Someone shared this on Twitter as an example of how the American left thinks (in normal times it’s how the American right thought too), but I think Minneapolis kind of just lived it?

theonion.com/if-someone-t...

Blocking doomers is sensible.

See too, this.

Functionally, that is how abolishing ICE (and DHS) should/would work.

Same as how the Royal Ulster Constabulary was abolished for the Police Service of Northern Ireland, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Security Service was abolished for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.

Reminded of that by this.

Tho I now wish we could know who the smol bean was and what the bad idea was.

Every now and then I’ll make a not-great take, or push a minor point past where it should be pushed.

When that happens I’ll probably just delete and retreat in ignominy, possibly mentioning it or possibly not. I will under no circumstances attempt to portray myself as just a smol bean online.

I expect Carney was careful in his language but was very solicitous.

Same as how he was very solicitous to the ChiComs in public the other week.

Yeah I mean fine take a few hours or a day to secure the situation but then obviously name the persons.

Ended at eighteen.

No idea where this thread is going but have been reading it since it was five skeets long, now it’s at sixteen and meandering.

Prime Minister Carney announces new measures to make groceries and other essentials more affordable for Canadians Our plan is moving Canada’s economy from reliance to resilience, though some of the biggest long-term payoffs of this transformation will take time to be felt.

My political friends (primarily on Team Blue) think this means a spring election.

If so, I wonder if there’ll be a contrived fall of the government or simply a Fordian declaration that Carney needs a stable mandate and majority to take strong measures to fight Trump.

www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...

I remain with the @radiofreetom.bsky.social distinction — it’s a government of fascists with a state apparatus that is not fascist (yet).

Enough levers remain in others’ hands.

But I’m getting nervous…

The World If | Know Your Meme The World If is a series of image macros in which an illustration of a futuristic utopia is captioned with a variation of the phrasal template "The world i

That was my attempt at finding an animated gif for “the world if…” meme.

knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-wo...

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9 in 10 Canadians Say 'No' to US Annexation as Trump’s Threats Intensify | the deep dive A new Angus Reid Institute poll reveals that approximately 90% of Canadians would vote against joining the United States if faced with a referendum on the issue, despite escalating trade tensions and ...

FWIW, Alberta polled 90-10 against US annexation last year, same as the country at large.

thedeepdive.ca/9-in-10-cana...

Oh, we noticed.

I even know the fellows trying to do it out there.

They’re playing with fire.

So I’m thinking Pete’s fixing to get himself banned from his hometown and home state.

He knows the proper terms, and has used them before.

He wants to annex Canada, that’s all.

Worth listening to the latest episode of The Line.

Well, if there’s a referendum, someone should cut an ad along those lines.

There’s video at the Star-Tribune link of the shooting.

I personally think people should watch it, to see what the government is doing, but I obviously don’t want random people to watch it involuntarily.

The video looked pretty grim.