Ronald McDonald has been trying every damn day.

They made their point when they started holding random European tourists for weeks or months without cause. No amount of Disney princess is worth that family trauma potential.

Ford is behaving reasonably. If it was anybody else in the receiving end this would be good news and we could hope for a compromise and resolution.

The best this is going to do is result in another month “pause” until the goalposts get moved again on something else.

Ford finally found a useful way to channel his inner blowhard. And I’m here for it.

This is the kind of thing where I hope we are secretly working on this and are able to make an imminent announcement to make it crystal clear not to test us.

Imagine marching troops in only to retreat after 18 hours of something stupid.

He doesn’t have any ideas beyond selling stuff in the ground to increasingly hostile buyers and in markets on a steady decline in face of renewables.

If we have the social programs to catch those whom tariffs and eventual embargoes affect then the reward is a country full of better quality goods.

Embargo City here we come

There are many other countries worth visiting who contain a lot less people who are voting to walk over me to take my stuff.

It’s a nice gesture but I don’t even think all democrats would vote for this.

It’s tough for me to understand if this is a necessary expenditure or an excessive waste. On the positive, our allies want us to increase our defense budget and this will definitely put that number up.

It does seem prudent to be able to better patrol our northern waters to guard against internet cable cutting b.s.

TimesSquare/Alley was the place to be for gaming news. And webrings were more useful than search engines.

When Discord enshittifies to the point it shows ads in chat, Instagram will be ready to swoop in and capture the market with the same shitty ads.

I’m all for that definition, too. But Israel can’t self-determine that they’re going to commit a genocide on their neighbors because they want to settle on their land.

As the PM facing down the 51st state threats I’d have thought he would want to expand on this statement a bit.

I’m being that annoying guy telling all my close friends and family how I feel so much better on Masto and Pixelfed than the FB and IG accounts I deleted. Can’t hope for much but I do enjoy not seeing ads and I’m generally less annoyed in my day.

“Is that how the US will be treating all of their allies from now on?”

Would have been an important follow up question.

Supplying potash and all other critical minerals should be contingent of removal of all tariffs. This is our country’s future not some a la cart sushi menu.

It’s not an unreasonable request. If the shoe was on the other foot I’d want to be screening every American coming to our border to check if they were active on topics like annexation or shudder cyber truck enthusiasm.

He’ll make a union man out of you!