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I don’t know. Trump quite possibly just wrecked the economy and definitely made everyone poorer. Even if you don’t own stocks or have a 401(k), you’ll be poorer from the inflation and possibly unemployed. I could see Congressional Republicans being more worried about causing a depression and getting crushed in the next several elections than whether they have a primary opponent in 2026 or threats from a President with an approval rating in the tank. It’s already low but it might be 20% once the effects of his dumbfuck policies are impossible to ignore.

After the Smoot-Hawley Act exacerbated the Great Depression with idiotic tariffs, Democrats won every election and controlled the House, Senate, and White House from 1933 to 1947. In the 1936 presidential election, the Republican candidate got 8 electoral votes and FDR got 523.

When we rebuild the global order, I hope I can play a role. I’m old enough to have been taught by the Greatest Generation but not that old.

Not that the Greatest Generation was good at everything. Youth sports coaches in my day had all fought in wars and didn’t care about strategy so much as us listening to orders and being assigned roles based on height and haircuts. It took decades and Kevin Durant before tall people were allowed to be ball handlers and short people could play defense.

I could have gotten a humanities degree and spent 4 years reading amazing books and studying art. Instead, I did math and now know our president is a fucking moron.

I can’t believe I spent 4 years getting a degree in economics and have to live through this headassery.

He keeps calling on France to do stuff when France is the country least likely to do said stuff.

I appreciate you proving you’re Canadian by starting with “sorry.” My apologies for my country being full of asshats.

Ok, fine. I went to high school with one of the heirs and he was a dipshit. He sold the worst weed imaginable but in bulk. You got a lot of awful weed.

It’s hard to replace CostCo in full but at least the founder threatened to murder the CEO if he ever raised the price on hot dogs. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/costco-founder-kill-hotdogs/

Canadian Tire can probably take care of most of your CostCo needs. I don’t know if they sell hot dogs for CAD $1.50 but one assumes hot dogs aren’t all that important in the context of global trade.

You can still buy Tabasco if you want. Louisiana is a red state but one of the McIlhenny heirs was a good dude. The peppers are grown in South and Central America and Avery Island (where the sauce is made) is mostly a wildlife refuge now. He only introduced one invasive species, which is pretty good for a rich guy in the 1800’s.

https://www.doi.gov/ethics/special-government-employees

That’s a Department of Interior site but it’s true for every agency.

He’s not allowed to, legally. Special government employees are allowed to work 130 days a year. If he becomes a permanent employee, he has to disclose financial data and get drug tested and stuff. Trump may not care about that law either but it’s an easy out for both of them.

I would like my retirement savings to be in an S&P 499 where Tesla is excluded. I don’t want to manage my 401k every day but I have zero confidence in the stock and humanoid robots is not making me feel any better. I want robots shaped like the task they intend to accomplish. I don’t give a rat’s ass if my dishwasher is a cube. If anything, I’d prefer it not walk around and ask me questions.

I live in Louisiana. The police don’t come for a few hours even if you call 911. If someone swats me, it might take 5 days before someone gets around to it. And I have a nice machete so they’ll probably just file it under “suspect had left the scene” and enjoy some overtime pay.

There’s an episode of King of the Hill where everyone finds our Hank has a narrow urethra. And his dad says, “I ain’t got a narrow ureetee. Mine’s so damn wide I could pass the child myself if I had to.”

Or something to that effect.

No one will ever know my Cajun ass ancestors are from France and that I have the gene where you’re urethra is so damn wide, you can pass the child yourself if you had to.

I encourage hostile governments (including my own) to study my DNA. It’ll ruin morale. Balls so big, they have a tenuous atmosphere and a measurable time dilation effect.

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/wisconsin-supreme-court-crawford-schimel.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8k4.-Dt4.yJjPB0QbgpFy

Remember that time Elon Musk spent millions of dollars and lost? It was today and it was really funny. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/wisconsin-supreme-court-crawford-schimel.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/wisconsin-supreme-court-crawford-schimel.html

Update: Eat can eat 1,001 dicks.

I will accept passive aggression. A lot of people don’t bother with the passive.

I don’t know what our reputation is globally but I live in a tourist city (New Orleans). A lot of people don’t even bother with the passive part. Most “tier 1” conference cities are huge but we’re a relatively small city. We have a population of about 350,000 (compared to over 8 million in New York City) but enough hotel space and a conference center, stadium, whatever able to host a global event. The Super Bowl was just here and Taylor Swift had three shows. Those were known events but there will be weekends where you go downtown and meet 20 exterminators or something before you realize the exterminator convention is in town. (This actually happened to me. There are so many more exterminators than you could ever imagine.)

We host a lot of events and, as a result, even people who can’t afford travel meet people from everywhere. My high school friend is a bartender and he’ll have random hatred of places and professions because they’re obnoxious or don’t tip or whatever. To this day, he loves Hawaii residents because they had a football game here once and everyone was chill and nice.

Anyway, I say all that to say: Canadians are more than welcome to be passive aggressive here. South Louisiana in general is more aggressive than passive.

https://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2007/10/08/edsbs-road-trip-baton-rouge