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[spacemunky]

2 hours ago, Jattdogg said:

We will never be yanks. 

 

Interesting results. Expected a liberal minority but preferred a conservative slight minority myself. Poilievre and Singh both lost their own seats. Only Singh resigned (well he really had no choice given his party no longer had party status). Poilievre needs to go now IMO.

 

Now time to move on and support our government as they fight tariffs.

 

 

 

Was a bit surprised that my riding(Hamilton East/Stoney Creek) went to the Conservatives.

[st albans fox]

Trump govt not happy that Amazon are going to list the tariff increased prices separately on their listings 

[Dahnsouff]

5 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

Trump govt not happy that Amazon are going to list the tariff increased prices separately on their listings 

Find it hilarious.....    But also, boo Amazon, boo 

[Sampson]

I do wonder whether the tech bro billionaires like Bezos are regretting getting behind Trump yet. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

3 hours ago, FoxesDeb said:

Finally all is back to normal. Electicity went off at 12:30 yesterday but we still had a phone signal and data so could keep up with the news, and my husband rigged something up to charge our phones from a solar panel.

 

Lost our signal at around 9pm so we were literally in the dark about what was going on  

 

We cooked on the BBQ for dinner, thankfully my wine was still cold, and the weather was mercifully about as good as it could be here to have no power.

 

Electricity came back on at 06:30 this morning but still no wifi, that came back on at around 11:30 this morning, and phone signal reappeared at about 1pm.

 

Solar lights that we were able to bring indoors when it got dark, the gas bbq and a half charged power bank made things easier, as did the solar panel we retrieved from the garage and my husband's skill at making a charger with an old battery.

 

It was a bit scary if I'm honest, we are used to the occasional power cut over here, but obviously nothing like on this scale before, and even when the electricity goes out we still have our data. We were obviously much luckier than some others, especially those people travelling, the only casualty was work, goodness knows how much this will have cost businesses.

 

Make you you are ready for something similar people, you never know!

Is your husband MacGyver?

[Md9]

The most transparent government ever don’t actually like it when you show people what’s happening 😂

[Trav Le Bleu]

Just now, Md9 said:

The most transparent government ever don’t actually like it when you show people what’s happening 😂

Of course it's a hostile and political act, cos it's a free country, for the time being.

[FoxesDeb]

11 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Is your husband MacGyver?

I was pretty impressed when he did it, but even more so that we actually had all this stuff in our garage  

[slymunn]

1 hour ago, Sampson said:

I do wonder whether the tech bro billionaires like Bezos are regretting getting behind Trump yet. 

You would think they are mates looking at this.

 

10 March 2025

Amazon Prime will start streaming 'The Apprentice,' the reality show that made Donald Trump a household name and earned him millions of dollars.

It is the latest deal the Jeff Bezos-owned company made with the Trump family after purchasing Melania Trump's forthcoming documentary for a reported $40 million. 

Amazon also donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration. Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post, attended Trump's swearing-in ceremony.

[Md9]

So sounds like amazon already gone back on what they said because trump called them. They s*** the bed with in a few hours . Should have told trump to do one 

Edited Tuesday at 19:21 by Md9

[st albans fox]

17 minutes ago, Md9 said:

So sounds like amazing already gone back on what they said because trump called them. They s*** the bed with in a few hours . Should have told trump to do one 

You mean like every govt across the world apart from china has ? 

[Md9]

10 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

You mean like every govt across the world apart from china has ? 

I think they should have lasted longer than a few hours just to let people see what stuff really would cost them and what the cost is for. Say they are being transparent with everything but as soon as it’s something they don’t like they go all defensive and claim all sorts of nonsense 

[st albans fox]

1 minute ago, Md9 said:

I think they should have lasted longer than a few hours just to let people see what stuff really would cost them and what the cost is for. Say they are being transparent with everything but as soon as it’s something they don’t like they go all defensive and claim all sorts of nonsense 

Basic business sense not to pick a fight with a trump govt (irrespective of morals/ right-wrong etc) 

Edited Tuesday at 19:31 by st albans fox

[Md9]

Just now, st albans fox said:

Basic business sense not to pick a fight with a trump govt (irrespective of morals/ right-wrong etc) 

Just don’t get why you would attempt it just to go straight back on it knowing what was going to happen anyway 😂

[leicsmac]

8 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

Basic business sense not to pick a fight with a trump govt (irrespective of morals/ right-wrong etc) 

 

6 minutes ago, Md9 said:

Just don’t get why you would attempt it just to go straight back on it knowing what was going to happen anyway 😂

Better to not do it at all than do it and then flake out immediately, yes.

 

And I wonder how many terrible regimes would still be ruling their countries if other countries followed the bolded axiom to the letter? Apartheid South Africa? Pinochet's Chile? Even worse ones than those two?

Edited Tuesday at 19:39 by leicsmac

[st albans fox]

1 hour ago, leicsmac said:

And I wonder how many terrible regimes would still be ruling their countries if other countries followed the bolded axiom to the letter? Apartheid South Africa? Pinochet's Chile? Even worse ones than those two?

I was speaking about business’ 

and the USA is a different animal to those countries you mentioned 

 

[leicsmac]

Just now, st albans fox said:

I was speaking about business’ 

and the USA is a different animal to those countries you mentioned 

 

So was I (economic pressure played a big part in bringing down the apartheid regime), and I'm not sure how long that difference spoken of here (in social terms anyway) will last, figuratively if not practically.

 

Pardon me for being a mite leery of applying realpolitik to the biggest bully in the playground when he's being extra loathsome, even though he's the biggest bully and the path of least resistance would be to do so.

[st albans fox]

1 minute ago, leicsmac said:

So was I (economic pressure played a big part in bringing down the apartheid regime), and I'm not sure how long that difference spoken of here (in social terms anyway) will last, figuratively if not practically.

 

Pardon me for being a mite leery of applying realpolitik to the biggest bully in the playground when he's being extra loathsome, even though he's the biggest bully and the path of least resistance would be to do so.

If it wasn’t for the military angle of our relationship, it would be interesting to see if Europe had the stomach for a fight against him. 

[leicsmac]

Just now, st albans fox said:

If it wasn’t for the military angle of our relationship, it would be interesting to see if Europe had the stomach for a fight against him. 

I would hope it would end up being Europe and quite a few of the Commonwealth nations together, to be honest.

 

The values he's trying to push have no place in modern civilisation and the other developed nations should be doing all they can to make that abundantly clear. The contest is ideological, it is happening in a lot of places, and it is real. And the stakes could not be higher.

[leicsmac]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98gv43pjjno

 

So... what's everyone's take on the first 100 days, then?

[Dr The Singh]

4 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98gv43pjjno

 

So... what's everyone's take on the first 100 days, then?

Nearly as good as my first 100 days of marriage.

[leicsmac]

2 minutes ago, Dr The Singh said:

Nearly as good as my first 100 days of marriage.

That good, huh?

[Matt_Lcfc]

I was relieved to see that Carney won, even if it is a minority government. Interestingly enough, in January, Poilevre was projected to win the largest majority in every G7 country. Obviously, Trudeau resigning had a big impact, but I think the self-destruction going on south of the border was more important. Trump has literally threatened the sovereignty of a proud, successful and independent country. Prior to Trump being elected, it felt that Canada would turn blue, and I say this as somebody who lives in a Liberal stronghold. Carney was a sensible nominee for the Liberal Party, he is a welcome break from the mould of career politicians. He successfully guided Canada during the 2008 Financial Crisis, and in my view, he did a decent job in the UK (in a challenging set of circumstances). I support his stance towards the US, and I hope that Canada and the UK can build an even stronger relationship over the next four years. As I touched on above, it will be interesting to see how the Trump term will impact populist parties across the west.

[wurmer]

Watching the crying fectrards on X complaining about how TEMU are "screwing them over" with import duties is comedy gold.

 

Highly recommended viewing.

 

They are so thick.

Edited Wednesday at 07:30 by wurmer

[st albans fox]

18 minutes ago, wurmer said:

Watching the crying fectrards on X complaining about how TEMU are "screwing them over" with import duties is comedy gold.

 

Highly recommended viewing.

 

They are so thick.

When you exist in an echo chamber ….

unfortunately, SM algorithms accentuate the problem