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Step 1: Talk with Canada’s Prime Minister.

Step 2: ?

Step 3: Reach a deal with the UK?

Newton’s 47th Law: Every economic Trump-outburst has an equal and opposite Lutnick-outburst.

Musk, Trump and the rest of the Republican leaders have been trying their very best to sink the ship of America.

Wow… just wow…

It’s heartbreaking and enraging.

We’re essentially at the point where the Israeli government could justify the Holocaust as long as the Nazis said “Hamas officers hiding among them” before killing people. The genocide is not only cruel but a callous waste of life, hope and talent.

There will be no corrective steps.

Okay, noted, thanks. There will never be any corrective steps as long we avoid thinking of any.

From a layperson’s POV, this will seem to require years of untangling the law to properly give LGBTQ+ people their due rights under the law that is in theory afforded to everyone. This is a setback for immediate protections, but my view is that this isn’t necessarily bad in the long term, so long as corrective steps are taken to address the root issue.

UK law has been written and interpreted over hundreds of years with various historical understandings of personhood throughout that time. At one point basically only men were people, so laws were only referring to them. After the affirmation of women’s rights and suffrage, should we have just said: women are “men” for every intent and purpose, and just not bothered to update the law and keep using “men” everywhere thereafter? It seems similar to me that tacking trans people’s rights on by making the definitions more ambiguous is fine early on, but at some point should be codified better in law, to give equal right to trans men, trans women and non-binary folks as to cisgender folks. Ignoring the difference of gender vs. sex under the law entirely, would leave gaps in serving trans and nonbinary people’s unmet needs as well. None of this will happen on its own, so allies of LGBTQ+ people ought to contact their MP to make it happen.

I’m not oblivious to the harm to both women and transgender people that this ruling will bring upon the UK, but it should spur on actually solving the issues on codifying gender and sex under the law, rather than relying on half-solutions or temporary solutions.

I’d happily be educated on this topic.

We talking about Inmate P01135809?

Howard Lutnick’s iPhone little screw assembly plant plans in shambles rn 😔

The thing about Europe is its economy is permanently stuck in the doldrums, a global cautionary tale. And no wonder. Europeans enjoy August off, retire in their prime and spend more time eating and socialising with their families than inhabitants of any other region. Oddly, surveys show people in countries both rich and poor value such leisure time; somehow Europeans managed to squeeze their employers into giving them more of it. Even as they were depressing GDP by wasting time playing with their kids, the denizens of Europe also managed to keep inequality relatively low while it ballooned elsewhere in the past 20 years. Nobody in Europe has spent the past week looking at their stock portfolio, wondering if they could still afford to send their kids to university. Europeans have no idea what “medical bankruptcy” is. Oh, and no EU leader has ever launched their own cryptocurrency.

This whole paragraph had me on edge, a little unsure of whether The Economist, (edit for clarity: from presumably) an American publication (wing), legitimately thought these were good things or not.

Trump doesn’t want deals, he doesn’t want American success. He wants ass-kissing which he is ostensibly getting a lot of right now. So if tariffs are a huge success in this regard, why take them away?

what’s Ron Vara’s take on this?

I mean it’s still quite impressive that the stupid actions of a President on the opposite side of the world can elicit a protest in the thousands.

Yes, but we have to move past the “it can’t be that bad for my business” and the “don’t blame me, I didn’t vote for Trump” excuses. Blue state residents have to actually stand up for their state and fellow residents against this administration. I’ve been impressed by some of the protests in LA in support of Mexico, but Sacramento, Olympia, Albany, Salem have a lot of legwork to do to protect itself from the Trump admin. Canadian actions are meant to spur individual Americans to action as well.

I get that there are many Americans and American companies that do great things. Hell, I still have a Costco membership because they treat their workers and customers really well for a large chain, and have demonstrably rejected the “anti-woke” movement.

But understand that if this keeps going on I’m not renewing it this year. This is because every dollar that goes to Washington DC through US federal taxes is metaphorical ammunition for Trump, to illegally threaten to withhold funding for refusing to go along with his demands.

The results are expected, but it’s the fact that the US President is stupid enough to hurt his own country having the entire country’s resources at his own disposal to know better, is a bit shocking. It’s like stepping on a rake while pointing and looking at it.

“That’s the kind of disruption we would never expect,” said Hung. “I never heard of this happening until now. It’s definitely quite a bit of headwinds."

This is exactly the reason we have to affect blue states like CA/WA/NY/MA just like red states with our dollar. So many people and companies still have their head in the sand and don’t realize the Trump rhetoric is a real threat to Canada and more than just trolling. They don’t really become aware of it until it actually affects them and that’s not limited to Republicans.

He can demand the world from Denmark and France, yet he can’t demand anything about the guy his admin wrongly deported to El Salvador?

I dunno I heard some American with a spray tan say that they didn’t need Europe or Canada…

Friends don’t let friends support fascism.

Nope… we’re going to have the biggest gates, the best gates, a tremendous amount of gates, to levels nobody has seen before.

So far from off the top of my head:

• Nazisalutegate
• Tariffgate
• Ukrainebaitandswitchgate
• Ericadamsgate
• El Salvadorgate
• Guantanamobaygate
• Whoopsiefiringgate
• USAIDgate
• Mahmoudkahlilgate
• Lawfirmgate
• Electionproofofcitizenshipgate

And too many more to list…