Is this just hot air to distract us while his cronies shock doctrine the US public sector?
Seems so. And it’s shocking that the media, libs the dems are so easy to distract. Here are some threads I started today…
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Treasury Secretary Bessent, tapped to run CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) - orders staff to halt work.
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Republicans move to repeal lead limits imposed by Biden-era rules. US government would be prohibited from ever mandating lead pipe replacement or lowering lead limits in water.
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EPA Tells More Than 1,000 They Could Be Fired “immediately”. An EPA spokeswoman said the goal was to create an “effective and efficient” federal work force.
I really hate to say it but Steve Bannon was 100% right. Flooding the zone with shit works like a charm.
Republicans move to repeal lead limits imposed by Biden-era rules. US government would be prohibited from ever mandating lead pipe replacement or lowering lead limits in water.
This is just so…pointlessly evil. What is even the point of doing this beyond trying to make people suffer?
Private companies are on the hook for it in places where parts of the water system are privatized.
Ah ok, so it’s going to make sure that private companies can charge whatever they want to fix this problem with 0 oversight from the government. That sounds like standard procedure for them.
Yep, there was the momentary threat of the hint of liability for them in Oct.
For me, my pipes were tested at over 300× the new EPA limit but only was only tested because of Bidens updates despite almost 6 months of the city stalling previous to that.
Damn. I hope you have access to an RO machine. That’s horrible.
Lol no our landlord nulled our lease and I’m unhoused now.
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Going to war with Canada seems like the fucking most wild thing he could do. It’s a nation of mostly white, mostly English speaking people right next door to us. I don’t think you can manufacture consent for a war against people so culturally similar to you they’re basically indistinguishable. I mean fuck how many families in both countries have mixed US/Canadian citizenship? I don’t think even the biggest Minnesota CHUD is suddenly going to support invading his Alberta wife’s home county.
Trump doesn’t want Canada to actually be a 51st state. He is just running cover for the incoming Canadian government to destroy what’s left of their single payer healthcare and anything else slightly good about the place
The propaganda will be less “war” and more “Anschluss”. It will be paternalistic in nature and posture republicans as safeguarding “Canadian culture” from mass migration and chynah. It can be done.
I don’t think you can manufacture consent for a war against people so culturally similar to you they’re basically indistinguishable.
That’s what everyone thought about a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine a long time ago. Turns out a dictator just does things.
Well,like the Ukrainians,the Canadians have a shitload of nazis too,many of them Ukrainian ironically enough
Problem is,the US can’t draw on its historical memory of killing nazis like the remnants of the greatest fascist killing machine,the Soviet Union,can
I think the long history of animosity between Russia and Ukraine makes things a little different there.
long history of animosity? seriously?
There was a long struggle between Great Russian and the “Little Russian” that stems from the post-Napoleonic rise of nationalism. Thats why Lenin made the Ukrainian SSR so big in the first place, he wanted to reverse the cultural politics by the Tsar. Modern Ukrainian nationalism which radiated outwards from former Austrian-controlled Galicia is different kind of beast though.
I mean, I don’t think you can deny post the collapse of the USSR, at lot of Ukrainians have embraced anti-Russian attitudes. Sure a lot of that is manufactured by the west, but it’s still there. And yes there is some anti-Ukrainian sentiment amongst Russians as well, even if you can argue some of that is justified by Ukrainian Nazi collaboration.
sure, but i wouldnt call that a long history
Fair.
Regardless I don’t think that dynamic exists between Canada and the US.
What’s his wife doing coming all the way from Alberta to Minnesota? She should stick to Montana like the rest of em.
She was too ashamed to admit she is actually from Saskatchewan.
Idk where anything in Canada is. I just know there’s a bunch of moose up there.
I can’t tell what the tone/intent of this is.
I’m just joking, I’m actually quite fond of Canada, my bff is Canadian.
Me in CKII
DonnieIncoherent map-painting at every opportunity
Same religion, same culture group, both under the North American Empire level title, - this is way more coherent than my usual CK2 shenanigans - where I end up with Ireland, Morocco and Perm or some similar disjointed nonsense for no good reason.
At least two non contiguous Perms.
I shall be dead in the cold ground before I recognise West Perm!
You know, in my future fiction project, Americans find out that Canadians actually know how guns work, and they find it out the hard way.
We’ve got so many gun clips for our assault rifle fifteens, you have no idea how powerful we are!
Sound like a great deal. Canada as a single state could completely shake up the electoral status quo, as they would be basically taking a single rep from just about every state, and we would have a new California that gives something like 50 electoral votes to a single new state with a population and GDP similar to California.
Though once the GOP maths it out, either they’ll increase how many states Canada is broken into, Gerrymander it, to give conservative victories for the next two generations at least. Tons of states with a population of like 2 conservative men who all get three electoral votes per state. While Vancouver is going to have like six votes for a population of 1 million people.
or they could just not give canadians voting rights
Sounds like an awesome idea, ngl. Absolutely Acceleration Pilled.
Puerto Rico of the North
In my future fiction project, Canada was parted into six states and three territories. The differences from the current ten provinces were
- British Columbia renamed to just Columbia (having “British” in the name is unpatriotic)
- Saskatchewan split exactly 50-50 between Alberta and Manitoba
- State of Atlantica formed out of the Atlantic provinces (Newfoundland & Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island)
At the same time, the following changes were made to the Lower 48:
- North Texas, South Texas, East Texas, West Texas split from Texas (see Texas divisionism)
- State of Lincoln formed from Eastern Washington and the Idaho panhandle
- State of Jefferson formed from Northern California and Southern Oregon
- Eastern Oregon ceded to Idaho (see Greater Idaho)
As a whole, 12 new states were formed in connection with the annexation of Canada, 6 north and 6 south of the old border. Thus the Lower 48 came to be known as the Lower 54. This strategy of matching the newly annexed states with carving new states from preexisting ones was favored since it couldn’t easily be predicted how many conservative Canadians actually would vote GOP, thus splitting off regions already known to consistently vote Republican would, worst case scenario, keep the balance between Republicans and Democrats, and best case scenario give Republicans the electoral upper hand.
Saskatchewan split exactly 50-50 between Alberta and Manitoba
Is this like that King Solomon fable where the province that isn’t willing to kill the dozen people there gets them?
No.
You know, in my future fiction project, the annexation of Canada into the USA was going to be a careful, gradual and deliberate process over the course of many years… But I guess I was forgetting that the USA’s political system isn’t exactly built to encourage that type of long-term thinking, and this type of crude, kneejerk, ill-conceived attempt at coersion was really the whole time the muuuuch more likely route the USA would take if it were to try to annex Canada.
We are in an insane timeline. Trump could…
- Invade and grab Greenland
- Invade and grab the Panama Canal
- Have troops (or the DEA or whatever) violate Mexico’s sovereignty, cross the border, and target “the cartel assets” and due to incredibly imbecilic fuck ups - they destroy random villages and slaughter innocent people.
- [When it comes to Canada - I don’t know what’s plausible]
And we are only on the 14th day of Trump’s presidency. If Netanyahu figures out the right things to say to Trump - the US could end up going to war with Iran because Trump is a delusional moron with little connection to reality.
It obviously would all be really bad, but you have to admit Trump knows how to give us a good new season of the USA. (Take notes, Biden)
Are you not entertained?
I’ve never enjoyed roller coasters, frankly.
is America still going up the rickety ramp or has it already begun the full plummet
we’re still in the line, watching promotional footage of the ride on the monitors. someone has farted, park security is randomly pulling people out of line for not seeming white enough, and some of us are talking about what to get for lunch.
God, don’t even make me think about it.
We are going to have a Donnie Darko-style season finale and go back to the real timeline, where the bullet didn’t miss, right?
Right?
Why else would you be wearing that stupid bunny suit?
Jesus titty-yiffing Christ…
How did you know I was wearing a bunny suit?!
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Sorry, I’d rather not to be called “dude”.
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if someone asks you not to call them something you respect it
Around the same time as this JasonDJ person got defensive about misgendering me, someone on Lemmygrad got defensive about misgendering someone else, after I called them out on it. Why do cis people feel so entitled? They get told they’re being disrespectful or hurtful or that they’re making people uncomfortable, and they just immediately, reflexively have to make up some sophistry for why they actually Don’t have to respect trans people’s wishes, needs and boundaries After All!
i love these types because there is nothing at all subtle about them but they always think they’re being slick with their deflections. like no, sorry, i fundamentally do not believe that they are out there dying on the hill of calling their office buddy jim “jimbo”. it’s not happening. but the instant a trans person has an opinion on how they’d like to be referred to it’s “b-b-but i’ve been calling people dude since i was first incarnated in ancient sumeria! it’s literally my culture, this is genocide!!!”
unlimited bullying on incistent cissies. make them beg for the
I’m a dude, he’s a dude, she’s a dude, we’re all dudes, hey.
I wish whenever anyone talked about absorbing a country into the USA they had already gamed out how many extra states that added eg 10 for Canada, 6 Australia, 2 New Zealand, Greenland as territory not state etc. Like I don’t want these to happen but I want some homework done.
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