don't be surprised if the actual way the americans keep oil prices down is to increase saudi imports at the expense of canadian ones.

in fact, that might even be the actual point - to slap a tariff on gay ass canada so trump can help his friends in the saudi monarchy recapture the american market.

the canadian oil industry - and this has been parroted by our government - has for many years argued that the americans are better off buying oil from us than, say, saudi arabia. who would argue that?

i watched part of the davos speech by accident tonight; it came up on autoplay after i rebooted on a computer that i don't log into.

canada is going to have to take a step back from it's previous argument, at least for the next four years, because it is abundantly  clear, and doubled down by his statements at davos, that donald trump thinks that canada is a morally inferior culture to saudi arabia, and the saudis are the more ethical choice. donald trump does not like trudeau, but he's very good friend with the saudi royals.

some substantive non-zero subset of the very conservative united states agrees with him.

she's come off as incredibly bored before, like they have to pump her full of fentanyl in exchange for having her do this shit job, or like she was out all night partying and slept walked into work.

this is something like what i was trying to say and like what danielle smith is also trying to say. it might be good politics to want to go toe-to-toe with the yankees, and just react by eating more spinach, but it's not a very smart approach.

carney has been annoyingly quiet. he should be a better source of answers right now.

we might have to do this but we should do everything possible to avoid it and we don't want to be excited about it.

google actually couldn't find me a picture of gretzky in a covid mask, so maybe all of the bitching actually got to him, subconsciously. you'd think somebody snapped something somewhere, right? apparently not. i found one of his daughter, but that doesn't count.

i wish i could find one, because i would then have to ask trump to go off on gretzky for wearing a surgical mask in public. it would be required.

actually, i think she's on to something with the comment about donald trump complaining about whiners; is donald trump really just america's don cherry? we understand don cherry, right? trump can't be that hard. he just needs to blow off elon musk and get a ron maclean, clearly.

and tell gretzky to get rid of the fucking face mask. it's european or muslim or something.