can we stop pretending that the white house is in any way serious in it's demands now?

the tariffs are a way for the treasury to raise money, and trump is dumb enough that he thinks it will get america out of debt and let him cut taxes for the ultra rich even further. trump doesn't think rich individuals should pay taxes at all, he thinks that government revenue should be generated by taxing imports.

there is consequently nothing we can do to change the policy except wait for americans to understand it and react to it.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/trump-to-double-steel-and-aluminum-tariffs-on-canada-white-house-press-secretary

i want you to make this youtube video for me.

- find a high class asian chef. not specifically chinese - maybe thai or vietnamese.

- find a bourgeois french chef.

- get them together, and ask them to make soup together

- but tell the asian guy he's making hot and sour soup and the french guy he's make french onion soup

- have them fight over the ingredients, and how to make the soup

for my amusement solely, the asian guy should be dressed like commander kor from the original star trek series and the french guy should be dressed like the swedish chef from the muppet show. make no attempt to explain why if they ask, and immediately replace them if they resist.

porn stars have sex for money.

i don't know where the intellectual disconnect is.

alexander may have conquered the world in the name of the hellenes, but he was no hellene himself!

food bank lunch:

- stale little ceasars (in case you needed proof that they don't make their pizza on demand. there was a stack of them that came in around noon. must have been a slow day yesterday.)

- peanut butter for dipping sauce (i never eat peanut butter)

- two tim horton's donuts (because it's still canada)

- with an energy drink

i used to volunteer at food not bombs and while they would not have take this stuff because it's not vegan they would have been happy that it got donated rather than thrown out. let's have a round of applause for little ceasars (for once. this is south detroit.) and for tim horton's for getting their stale products eaten rather than destroyed.

no onions today, but some more cucumbers, so i need to eat up that yogurt in round two.

i don't normally eat this time of day, but the pizza couldn't sit, so i might not eat again until tomorrow night.

the narrative on the qatar plane is really not correct.

there's really nothing wrong with the president taking gifts, but he's obligated to take those gifts on behalf of the office. it would be unheard of and incorrect and a breakdown in the rule of law if trump is allowed to take this plane with him. the plane has to become property of the white house, for use by the next president.

that's not negotiable.

i expect that will be actually happens.

these changes work something like this.

- cops break law

- court refuses to enforce law

- precedent is set

- government is informed of change in precedent

- law is written to reflect change of precedent

yes, it's supposed to work the other way around. it never does.

it's not surprising that the liberals are using the fentanyl nonsense as an excuse to clamp down on civil liberties, as though trump gives a fuck. where did that come from?

the answer is the rcmp, and the military, and the courts. you have to understand that these kinds of things work backwards, in real life - the enforcement agencies change the laws first, often via legal precedent, and then the parliament legislates existing precedent.

the reality is that our courts our exceedingly powerful in canada, and that was fine when the judges were picked properly, but judicial nominations since about 2006 in this country have been broken and in recent years it's really made a difference, in the form of terrible precedent leading to horrible law.

this will generate a backlash, but most of the backlash doesn't get it. it already happened, and nobody told us. now, they're updating the law, formally, as an afterthought.

canadian border guards need to more aggressively enforce stricter penalties on people bringing guns into canada, and i don't see that in the bill.

john is donald trump's middle name.

that's what they call him, donald 'john' trump.

obviously, the truth is that trump is a robot clone. that's why you can shoot at him without killing him, and why his wife is mia.

mia? no, i never slept with mia. promise.

i mean, like there's some mystery about why melania's pissed off. he was convicted of soliciting (does the case use a different word?) a porn star when she was fucking pregnant. the only mystery is why she's still around at all.