The BQ would change their slogan to “nous autres, on l’a l’affaire!”

I get it now, 10000 Mexican troops on the US border with Mexico, 1000 times more fentanyl seized along the Southern border, so that means ten Canadians deployed along the Northern border. Easy!

Yes

Interpretation of reality is individual

Reality itself is relative

But if it didn’t exist we wouldn’t be chatting about it right now

That’s my reality anyway

What’s yours?

I don’t think he’s a fascist necessarily, although he is a far-right, authoritarian ultranationalist. So that makes him… oh.

And the angel of the lord came unto me Snatching me up from my place of slumber And took me on high and higher still Until we moved to the spaces betwixt the air itself And he brought me into a vast farmlands of our own Midwest And as we descended cries of impending doom rose from the soil One thousand nay a million voices full of fear And terror possessed me then And I begged Angel of the Lord what are these tortured screams? And the angel said unto me These are the cries of the carrots, the cries of the carrots! You see, Reverend Maynard Tomorrow is harvest day and to them it is the holocaust And I sprang from my slumber drenched in sweat Like the tears of one million terrified brothers and roared "Hear me now, I have seen the light! They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers!

Honest question, in the pre-Trump days people rightly pointed out that the "ruling class " (Koch brothers, Adelsons, Soros, Bloomberg, etc. etc.) would try to buy influence in their preferred party but also donated to the “other side”.

Those people were called oligarchs.

Now that Trump has taken the reins, the term has turned toward him. If you look at the donors in 2024, the top six or so donated to the Republican party (Elon tops that list) but it’s not THAT far off from previous years.

Aside from the obvious (Trump being a dangerous radical, to put it mildly) has anything changed in the way influence is bought and sold, or is the increased use of “oligarchy” more of a tactic to try and mitigate the damage that Trump can do by calling it out as loudly as possible?

I’m Canadian, and I’ve heard the term oligarchy thrown around in reference to American politics for many years, but never do often nor so forcefully as in the past two months.

Swheat!

You’re probably right

Nice try Zuck

That woooshed me pretty hard :-)

Hate to break it to you, but he died in 1736

Pretty sure Fahrenheit is dead

Wym?

That’s confusing

I took their perspective, and I stand by my comment.

Looking at everything after a decision you regret through the lens of that regret is making a bad situation worse. So, if you want to compound problems by adding a second mistake to a first, you do you, but spare me your dimestore analysis.

I think I’ll ignore this

Honestly, suck it up. It’s a four day cruise, and you’re going to strike the victim pose and mope around?

You accepted this gift, so chin up, make the best of it. If all you can focus on is the negative, then that’s all it’ll be for you.

This guy frets

The airspeed velocity of an unladen spankswallow depends on the skill of the spank and the proximity of the swallow, but on average? 42

Have you tried a spankswallow? Much better and less likely to flee