meese is a word in canadianese.

are the americans considering invading canada?

we're bigger than they are.

it would serve no purpose and give the russians an excuse to invade canada at the same time. we don't want a canadian molotov-ribbentrop.

there's a section in their constitution about this. it's not crazy; they always intended to, but they never did.

what if they just invaded ontario, quebec, alberta and bc and said "fuck the rest, let 'em sleep with the meese"?

well, they'd better start patrolling the north, but i don't think canadians would tolerate it, and they'd have to deal with canadian militias forever.

it's a better idea to just try to be nice to us, which is why every president for decades has done that.

there's no genius master plan lurking behind the tariffs to crack and find some sneaky solution to.

trump is just really fucking dumb and he's apparently actually going to do this really fucking dumbass thing.

 "It's going to make us rich" - donald trump, who is the president of the most wealthy country in the history of the world, explaining why he for reals wants to implement tariffs.

i think we all forgot something.

trump is dumb.

the price tag on the border policy looks high, and it might have some ideas that will never get implemented, but we need to increase security to keep the americans out. that's correct.

i wouldn't expect it to stop the tariffs from happening, but we have to do it anyways.

it is clear that chrystia freeland wants to run for prime minister and is trying to build support in the party.

this woman is extraordinarily unpopular and has no chance whatsoever of winning an election.

i would like to call on her to resign her seat and move on. she had no qualifications whatsoever, and is the perfect example of an affirmative action hire that had no business in the job she was in. her protector has abandoned her. game over.

i'm concerned that she's going to take the party down with her. trudeau's in trouble, but he will likely retain core support; if they run freeland, the base walks and it's going to be a bloodbath. 

to be clear: freeland has no support in the core of the liberal voting base. that's a big difference when the party is collapsing. somebody like freeland could potentially coast to an election win if the party is popular, but when the party is not popular, she threatens to alienate the base.

maybe she can write an essay about her experiences and have it published in the globe and mail.

i'm building a genesis mega-discography on the other site, because it came up in the 'g' part of the listening sequence, and i was perturbed that i had holes in my genesis cd collection. i really wanted to listen to it all from the start to the end, and i got carried away. so, genesis now his eight core members, including anthony phillips, daryl stuermer (and his work with jean-luc ponty) and chester thompson (and his work with zappa and others). i'm also tracking key records produced by john anthony, david hentschell and hugh padgham. it's going to be a massive list.

like many people my age, i have an admiration for phil collins due to it being something that was a part of my childhood. that makes me very not gen x, which is unusual; i am usually overwhelmingly gen x, but gen x hated phil collins, and my interaction with phil collins records is very millenial, which is atypical for me, even if my preference is towards what collins did in the 70s and very early 80s rather than his work in the late 80s and early 90s. i of course knew that collins was massively unpopular. however, i started to realize some time in the early '10s that my phil collins posts on social media (which were always posted with a disclaimer, like a trigger warning - WARNING - PHIL COLLINS POST) were met more with a tolerant level of astonished giggliness rather than legitimate revile, as though i was sharing some kind of dark secret that said something unexpected about me, and was a dirty fetish that they, too, shared. you too, jessica? i never knew. after all, i shouldn't have been a phil collins. i was posting all of this cool, abstract underground music. and then....phil collins?

well, yeah. that's the thing; phil was involved in a lot of the most creative and substantive music of his era. phil wasn't a pin-up boy. phil was a great drummer and a great producer with perfect pitch that converted a series of 60s motown hits into something that was relevant in the 80s. his records sold because he was a very good pop musician, not because he was sexy. it is precisely phil's musical ability that makes him compelling and worth taking note of and that makes him of interest to anybody interested in substantive music of any type. as a music historian of serious music, i'd be making a tremendous mistake by ignoring phil collins.

so, i knew there was a secret cult following, a quiet phil underground that knew.

i was not aware of anything mentioned in this article:

https://www.city.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2021/05/how-phil-collins-became-cool-no-really

the mega super giant overwhelmingly genesis discography is being worked through and will come up on the np: page on the side within a few more days.

if you're a grocery store ceo or upper executive, i want you to get it through your skull that i don't "substitute" when you don't have an item i want, i go to another store to get it there instead.

this concept of "substitution" that you're aggressively pushing does not exist in real life or in the real life habits of consumers, it is a marketing construction that nobody wants. further, i don't remotely understand what the fuck you're even trying to say when you use ridiculous language like "store loyalty". what the fuck does that mean? that i'm going to overpay for something because i'm "loyal"? what? i think that what you're trying to actually say is that you think i'm fucking retarded.

drop the issue. if you don't have an item in stock, take it off your website. it's false advertising, you should be held accountable for that and somebody is going to do it if you don't stop with the bullshit of selling people something specific and then trying to deliver something else to them by using the bullshit orwellian excuse of "substitution".