I’m sorry to say,
So charmingly Canadian!
Don’t be sorry, we Muricans call him an asshole pretty much every day.
Anyway, congratulations on your sane choice of governance! 
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A number of reps and senators have been doing that. And going to El Salvador, protesting outside federal agencies that DOGE has been shutting down, or even defending the departments directly. Working to get fired federal workers their jobs back.
I have to say that the whole “Dems are complacent” shtick REALLY annoys me. They aren’t - people are just watching the wrong Dems and for some reason claiming that’s the whole party. It’s not; it’s not even the majority of them.
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Canadians have about 57 different ways to say “sorry”, ranging from genuine contrition (“I am so sorry I backed over your favourite curling broom”), to an acknowledgement that something unfortunate-but-minor has happened but nobody has to take blame (bump into a Canadian at the supermarket and listen for that one), to regret about the situation while emphasizing that it’s someone else’s mess (used in this video).
And then there’s also the sarcastic sorry, the hard-of-hearing sorry, or the leave-now-before-I-call-security sorry, usually pronounced something like “sorry, I can’t help you any further”. And so many more besides!
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“Good Morning!" said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under long bushy eyebrows that stuck out further than the brim of his shady hat.
“What do you mean?” he said. “Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
“All of them at once,” said Bilbo. "And a very fine morning for a pipe of tobacco out of doors, into the bargain.
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“Good morning!” he said at last. “We don’t want any adventures here, thank you! You might try over The Hill or across The Water.” By this he meant that the conversation was at an end.
“What a lot of things you do use Good morning for!” said Gandalf. "Now you mean that you want to get rid of me, and that it won’t be good till I move off.”
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‘Pro bono’ FFS!?!?
Goons and thugs, then. (Oh, wait - yeah, you did say ‘brownshirts’ - same thing)
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Reminds me of an article I read over the weekend about people relying on phones/GPS on mountains and the rates of mountain rescue call-outs doubling as a result.
Compass and paper map are needed for when those things don’t work. Same here. Charts and compass are imperative. Removing buoys is an act of vandalism and will result in more rescues being required from people who do not know where they are or think they are somewhere else.
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Why is is not working here in the US?
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I think there already have been recent elections in the US where the Dem candidate did far better than in the previous election. It is working in the US
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Orwellian (of course), given that what’s actually discriminatory is the logo, not the efforts to get rid of it.
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