the Cons have essentially stopped the HoC from functioning for over 2 months.

Yet far too many people seem to think voting for the cons would be better than any of the other options.

I fear for the outcome of the next election.

This isn’t a logical statement.

That can be assumed of any statement that Trump makes.

did the product description indicate the internet connection was required?

That’s an important question.

That said, we were recently appliance shopping and none of them said that it was required, but a couple of the negative reviews mentioned it.

We ended up choosing one of the very few that didn’t list wifi or an app as a feature. Hopefully there isn’t a stealth modem hidden in there somewhere. I guess we’ll find out next week when it’s delivered…

She’s been doing this for 4-5 years already.

That shouldbe easy since Canada Post owns a courier company…

Aggressive and escalating.

The longer you leave a residential property vacant, the higher the tax rate becomes.

Speculating on residential housing needs to become costly - more expensive than making it livable and available for people to live there.

Of course he isn’t.

But there have to be some saner self-interested people in his orbit that realize how much a trade war will fuck up their profits.

Before we get to that point, it’s a better idea for government and business leaders to communicate with their American partners to have them put pressure on Trump and his advisors to avoid those tariffs in the first place.

And the Canadian government is already doing that. They’ve been planning contingencies since (at least) the US primaries.

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Of course, they’re not going to send out a press release detailing those plans - it would be stupid to alert the very people you’ll be negotiating with to the details of all your plans.

everyone wants to have a Christmas

Sure, but what’s more important if you have limited money available? A tree or a meal (hopefully with leftovers)?

Is he smoking crack?

It’s a family tradition

open up diplomacy

In the same way that Neville Chamberlain did?

Despite its claims of being grassroots, the campaign has links to the largest fossil fuel industry advocacy group in the country,

To the surprise of nobody who has been paying attention.

Unfortunately far too many people don’t seem to care to think a bit critically.

Christmas trees are $60-$80

If you’re struggling to make ends meet, that’s not a very reasonable item to be looking at the cost of.

I’m not buying a seasonal decoration if i cant afford to feed my kids.

The biggest impediment to increasing trade with countries that aren’t 50km away is the cost and logistics of shipping.

Given their proximity, the US is always going to be looked at as the easiest place to trade with.

Of course, having a chaotic baboon running the place does change that calculation somewhat, but the fact that they’re just “across the stereet” still tilts that balance.

Anyone who has been paying attention understands that trumps idea of negotiation is to get everything and give nothing.

He doesn’t operate on the idea of mutually beneficial outcomes. The only way he understands him winning is to make everyone else lose.

Among the ones not going fascist north Korea, Russia, Eritrea, China, Syria, Iran…

They’re not going, because they’re already there.

Does extreme vetting come with knee pads, or do candidates have to bring their own?

Is this draining the swamp?

Draining it directly into the white house.

That sounds like a you problem, Rudy…

Leaving it open ended and subjective is setting up for failure.

Having a specific list always misses something, and bad actors will find ways to abuse the gaps in that list.