If you have to face forward for cameras but need to breathe out of one side of your nose due to noxious fumes on your other side, look as far to the side as you can and that’s the nostril that will do the breathing.
Trump thinks he’s striking a masculine pose – my balls are so big I have to spread – but he looks like a mindless frog sitting on a rock.
https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1ighdit/cant_make_it_but_want_to_show_supportsolidarity/
Not me, but I’m in the same situation.
I haven’t heard anything about Canada cancelling anything at this point, although Doug Ford says he’s tearing up the Ontario contract with Starlink, but that’s Elon, specifically. I don’t know about provinces removing American booze from stores.
If only there was some kind of warning that this would happen…
*smashes head into wall*
This is pretty accurate. Trump has a hissy fit and acts like a big bully in an attempt to look tough. Other side makes “concessions” that are more or less maintaining the status quo. Trump looks like some sort of masterful negotiator to the know-nothings. I fucking hate it.
Same here. However, you can’t honestly threaten to pull your vote or support. I see no reason you need to be honest in these situations, however.
There’s a whole white supremacist conspiracy theory of “white genocide” that they claim is going on in South Africa. The story is that Black people are killing white farmers and taking their land, with the support of the government. The “Radical Left Media” doesn’t talk about it because… it’s not actually happening. It’s one of these crazy white supremacist fantasies that have increasingly moved into “mainstream” American right-wing media - Tucker Carlson was talking about this a while ago. All the neo-Nazi shit that was on The Daily Stormer and the like 10 years ago ends up eventually being spouted by Trump…
There’s an awful lot of overlap between the two groups, as it turns out. (Though it doesn’t mean there aren’t divisions, even among groups that exist in that overlap - witness the Musk/Bannon infighting.)
The whole thing is stupid beyond belief, but… “sovereign”?
How does that work? (Shit, how does any of that work?) Trump is just openly copying Saudi Arabia at this point and assuming that no one will notice.
As someone put it, the way to outmaneuver Trump is to realize he has no idea what the reality is. With Mexico, he demanded they have “10,000 troops” at the border. Mexico currently has 15k. Uh, yeah, okay, done! They’re not even having to maintain the status quo - they can send 5,000 troops home! Trump really is the stupidest fucker.
“Sovereign” as an adjective means “of a nation, subject to no power or authority but its own”.
The US Congress is (or, was) the sovereign authority over the United States. The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is not sovereign, because it is subject to the direct authority of the US government.
Entering into agreements and pacts is not a breach of sovereignty, despite the squealings of the isolationists and black helicopter nutcases, because they are entered into voluntarily and have as much power over the nation as that nation allows them to have. Nobody’s going to invade you if you don’t enter the Paris Accords.
Similarly, there’s an economic concept of “Sovereign Risk”, which doesn’t have to mean “the King is mad”, it means “the government of a nation can do whatever it wants in that nation, and all you’ve got as a creditor to that nation is a pinky promise that they won’t fuck you over just because, and sometimes you can trust that promise, and sometimes you can’t.” The current state of the US practically defines Sovereign Risk. (For another historical example of a more literal Sovereign Risk, the Jews were expelled from England in 1290 because Edward I owed them money.)
In this context, it doesn’t have to have anything at all to do with an actual king. A Sovereign Wealth Fund is a technical term for a separate bucket of money that a government uses purely for investment with a goal to increase the money. Norway has one, Australia has one, China has one. They’re not necessarily that weird of themselves.
Huh. I had no idea that French’s made ketchup, much less that it was made in Canada. Because the company is very American. New Jersey, to be specific.
Of course. Some trillion dollar fund that he can direct to invest in companies of his friends. Friends that cut off a slice for him.
Holy shit. Sending U.S. citizens to El Salvador.
Umm. What?
“He’s also offered to do the same for dangerous criminals currently in custody and serving their sentence in the United States even though they’re U.S. citizens or legal residents,” Rubio said.
