https://i.imgur.com/O4wJ3nP.jpg

They shouldn’t share anything with us. He did it last time, and he was already seen bringing boxes of stuff to MaL, where people are paying $5,000,000 to have private meetings with him. There are absolutely people asking for info he has access to, and he will absolutely give it to them.

Putin holds the US responsible for the collapse of the Soviet Union, and wants to see the US collapse. How would you collapse the US? You’d divide the country against each other so neither side (red/blue, both politicians and civilians] trusted the other. You’d alienate all their allies. You’d make the people distrustful of experts, of science, of news media. You’d sow distrust of the government, then make the government unstable. You’d destabilize the financial market. It should take a lot of subtle effort at the start, but once there’s momentum it gets a lot easier.

If you look at things from the point of view that Trump is a Russian asset, it makes a lot more sense.

Unfortunately, I suspect we’re in the incubation phase of a likely superspreader event (the contagious kid who spent time in crowded college areas, two weeks before (a) symptoms appear and (b) one of those colleges goes on spring break).

I’m betting that, of the hundreds of people exposed and the couple dozen people who probably caught it, at least some of them will go on spring break, and infect other spring breakers who will then bring it home to their colleges. It’ll have a couple months to spread there, then some of them will bring it home for the summer.

It sure would’ve been nice if we’d had politicians who were actually both sane and foresightful … :(

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Or, y’know, he could hire 50% more programmers / contractors, instead of overworking his current staff

Goddammit! Imma sic the spirit of Bobby Clarke on that hat!

Heck, if I’m banned from Canada anyway, I’ll just go be a Flyers fan, lol !

I am confused by this article.

The headline says they want to change the borders, but I didn’t see any details in the article about redrawing the border. They say they’re interested in doing so, but there aren’t any details. They say that Trump wants control of the Keystone XL pipeline, but the details they give simply say that he wants it built. It’s like they shoved all the Canada-US relations stuff into one article, but didn’t bother editing it or making it coherent.

On another note, Trump himself is confused:

"We protect Canada, but it’s not fair. It’s not fair that they’re not paying their way, and if they had to pay their way they couldn’t exist,” he told reporters.

Uh, no, Canada has protected our northern border. If we’d had to protect that on our own, we’d be a much more closed, paranoid and militaristic place. [Isn’t that a scary thought!]

Can I negotiate? I’m more of a Maple Leafs person.

Uh, no. When he was president, Bush junior had to get special permission from the Canadian government to enter Canada, because he’d had a DUI conviction like 30 years earlier. Diplomatic passports / diplomatic immunity have to be granted by the nation being visited.

If you’re unsure of your vaccination status, and Americans born after 1957 and who got their vaccination before 1967, should consider getting a booster shot.

Also, someone who was infectious spent eight hours touring college campuses, six hours in bars and restaurants, and three hours in crowded tourist attractions last weekend. Measles is one of the most contagious diseases known: in a group with no immunity, every person will infect an average of 14 other people. I’m mentioning the campus visitor because they exposed an awful lot of people,a fairly high percentage of whom are likely college students.

The bad news is that the rash that usually lets you know you have measles takes about 14 days to develope - and 14 days from the date of the campus visitor, at least one of the universities starts their spring break. Depending on who got infected and where they go for spring break, this could spread fairly quickly.

Afaik, he can’t get into Canada anyway, having been convicted of 34 felonies.

Russian Asset says what?

If you’re unsure of your vaccination status, and Americans born after 1957 and who got their vaccination before 1967, should consider getting a booster shot.

Also, someone who was infectious spent eight hours touring college campuses, six hours in bars and restaurants, and three hours in crowded tourist attractions last weekend. Measles is one of the most contagious diseases known: in a group with no immunity, every person will infect an average of 14 other people. I’m mentioning the campus visitor because they exposed an awful lot of people,a fairly high percentage of whom are likely college students.

The bad news is that the rash that usually lets you know you have measles takes about 14 days to develope - and 14 days from the date of the campus visitor, at least one of the universities starts their spring break. Depending on who got infected and where they go for spring break, this could spread fairly quickly.

I found the state chart here: https://www.epi.org/blog/the-house-republicans-plan-to-cut-medicaid-to-pay-for-tax-cuts-for-the-rich-would-slash-incomes-for-the-bottom-40-see-impact-by-state/

I don’t understand why they put limits on these: must have been diagnosed before age 16, must have been diagnosed before age 46. GenX didn’t get their issues diagnosed or treated, they were just told to suck it up and get on with it, and I know several who had to drop out of the workforce because of it.

Oh, good. Three hours in crowded tourist attractions on a Saturday afternoon, and six hours in bars and restaurants on Friday and Saturday nights. Plus eight hours touring campuses just a couple weeks before spring “super-spreader” break - with a disease who’s characteristic rash turns up around Day 14. This can only end well …

It’s not an unreasonable concern, no. But I’d rather the community be active and growing than address something that’s not currently an issue.

That - that interpretation never even occurred to me …

2024: Us: They’re going to do Project 2025! Them: What? Us: Project 2025! Them: What’s that? Us: Here! thump Them: tl:dr lol. Us: sigh. makes simple charts Them: Oh, he’d never do that! Him: I don’t know what you’re talking about! Them: See! You people are always taking things out of context and over-reacting! Us: Is it worth the risk? Them: Fucking libtard doomscrollers, tryin’ to let everyone have things for free. votes [R]

2025: Them: Oh. … Oh! … Wait, no!