I’d sure love to see how this will improve the cost of living in the US…

Who am I kidding? It’s not like Trump has a track record of lying and taking people what they want to hear to get them to support him, then immediately stab them in the back.

What we should do imho, as a country, is launch a massive marketing campaign on all major networks in the US and tell people that the financial pain they’re now feeling is all the fault of DC and get them to pursue their representatives to get Trump to undo this madness. It’ll prove far more effective than retaliatory tariffs, because most folks in the US simply aren’t aware of what the government is doing.

Sometimes I wonder what the alternative universe where JT inherited his dad’s spine would look like.

I refuse to believe that tweet is real on principal, but it’s just tone deaf enough to have me question whether this might have actually been shat out by a corporate marketing team as part of some greenwashing effort.

If this is someone memeing however: Kudos, this one is very convincing despite being wildly ridiculous.

“Would you like your evil done in the traditional overt bombs-dropped-on-children fashion, or the new we’ll-sell-your-entire-life-to-the-highest-bidder-while-feeding-you-non-stop-lies-to-establish-a-fascist-regime style, sir?”

This guy: Bomb some kids, at least it’s a spectacle.

(Edit for clarification: I think both are bad, and one has a strong causal relationship with the other but I am not sure I would pick Raytheon personally. It’s a bit too overtly evil for my tastes)

In the “Beaverton headlines I wish were real” category, I present the January 2025 winner.

When there was bird flu in it less than a month ago?

The most surprising thing in this whole saga is that Gretzky is apparently fine with Canada being a US state? Like what?

Exactly why I commented that. :-)

I am begging for a change to our voting system at this point almost as much as I am begging for people to actually read the election programmes. Look past the face on the TV, learn what they actually stand for folks!

It’s funny how Edge got lambasted for it when they introduced that feature, but it’s legitimately super helpful and non-invasive.

Yeah, I’m gonna go and suggest the GST vacation is probably a “costly political gimmick”. Honestly, I’m with her on not signing off on that.

I never expected to feel old on a comment about Michael Jackson, but here we are. Man, I can’t believe it has honestly been that long.

“Trump just finished the first episode of Fallout on Prime, confuses it for a strategy” - better headline. Serously, if it weren’t for the fact that this clown is president-elect, we would have collectively ignored him a long time ago.

This would’ve been a better joke if you changed “lockdown lunacy” to “a restriction not imposed by the government they were protesting” or just “a wild array of conspiracies mostly regurgitated to them by social media”.

My biggest concern is that the UCP get a new boogeyman out of that, like how they are treating Notley.

Alberta gonna 'berta I guess.

Seriously though, the UCP needs to get an urgent divorce from US Republican extremists before they crash the whole province (and then proceed to blame it on Ottawa. Again.)

As someone who moved here from Scandinavia (Sweden) we’re hardly immune to extremist right-wing philosophies and political movements. Case in point: the former Nazi party won the last general elections in Sweden and is making a right old mess of the country as we speak.

And while it’s not Norway, our closest neighbors haven’t been insulated from the right wing populist tide either, judging by the news.

And here we see the actual problem - Danielle isn’t the crazy lady holding the party hostage (like Kenny’s comment about the “inmates running the asylum” suggested), the whole party has gone off the deep end.

I don’t see how this has any chance of being fixed, unless the UCP suffers multiple crushing electoral defeats over the next decade or so.

I recently mused that it has got to be hard for the Onion to come up with something these days given how reality keeps catching up to satire, but this headline proves it’s not just hard, it’s downright impossible to satirize Trump.

I was already in favor of Trudeau stepping aside to let someone else run, but this has convinced me even more that this is the right direction for the Liberals. It would instantly invalidate the years worth of vitriol the conservatives have fomented towards Trudeau personally (see the “fuck Trudeau” merch) and send them scrambling to drum up the same amount of baseless hate towards whoever runs in his place. Personally, I think this is the best play the Liberals have, and a masterful way to make the Cons look like they have no platform other than outrage.