Can the president unilaterally change the names of anything he wants?

Maybe for things inside his own country. Though the affected local governments may object.

But for bodies of water that contain international waters, and that border other countries? Fuck no he doesn’t.

There is no legal mechanism to compel private companies to use the new name.

There is also no legal mechanism to require any other country on the planet to pay attention to Trump’s stupid and pointless attempt at renaming it.

Both Israelis and Palestinians claim to have a “God given right” to that very same piece of sand.

I suspect that’s a large part of why this conflict has been ongoing for longer than most of the combatants have been alive.

Hasn’t this been an issue with EPC under the last several councils (or iterations of EPC)?

Maybe we could get away with the app store

As a first step, we could strengthen any of our our data protection and consumer protection laws that are lower then the EU laws/regulations to bring them up to the higher standard.

Agreed.

Doctrow’s suggestion is a good long term approach and definitely something we should have started when Trump first tried to attack our economy.

But in the short term we also need to react swiftly and in kind. And to focus that response disproportionately on the people and industries that most strongly enable Trump and his supporters.

Working against expanding our markets and suppliers is geography, though. It takes much longer and costs much more to move goods between Canada and Europe/Asia/South America than it does to the US.

Trump thinks that by making his citizen pay 25% more for aluminium, wood, etc,

Don’t forget Smith’s precious oil.

Problem is, bullshit like this also kills people outside the US borders - people who didn’t get a vote in this but will be negatively impacted.

Thank you. This isn’t a generation problem. There’s plenty of young Republicans out there too.

if Donny’s date with Putin doesn’t result in Putin fucking off

Does anyone realistically think Trump being elected would do anything but further play into Putin’s hands?

but we are all being boiled together.

Including those of us in other countries who didn’t get a vote in your elections, but who are about to be absolutely fucked by the results.

Sorry to the people who voted against this, but the other 2/3 of your fellow citizens doomed you to the global distrust and anger that your country has earned.

How many other examples would you like?

He has been asked in interviews several times.

As you may have noticed, he continues to not run for office.

But the Canadian government insisted that no nuclear weapons existed on Canadian soil. This

So the sign at the outskirts declaring Regina to be a “nuclear weapons free zone”, while technically correct, is more than a bit disingenuous?

Panama was one of the things he ranted about in his speech today.

is brevity no longer the soul of wit??

Maybe, if that’s your only goal.

Trying to make any sort of nuanced or subtle point about anything important is pretty much impossible in such an artificially limited format, though.

Sure, simple political memes can be done in a compact frame, but actually discussing the framework surrounding that meme, or trying to correct a bit of misinformation is not really possible to do under those same limitations of time or character count.

I’m constantly surprised that those fools haven’t run out of money yet.

Stupider, yes, but they seem to have learned one thing - fire all the competent people and replace them with lackeys who won’t try to interfere with implementing your intrusive thoughts simply because they’re illegal or pointless or impossible to do.

At my former job, I saved a ridiculous number of email chains that showed my objections and the management reply to just do it in a folder I creatively named “CYA”.

For our non-American friends, subzero in Fahrenheit is actually cold.

Is it?

I’m looking out the window at my thermometer telling me that it’s -27C right now.