#politics

It would seem that Republicans no longer see courts as venues for enforcing existing laws against people who break them; instead, they see them as tools by which their political enemies can be punished. The existence of a real law and a violation of it is irrelevant; some general claim that something objectionable was done can always be advanced, but one can always invent laws. What's really important isn't the law but the fact that someone challenged their hegemony.

@DJNoneYa I want them to do it because the lower prices get pushed the better.

I also don’t know if Tesla can pull it off. And if they are doing a lot of sourcing from China I see that backfiring as most other NA auto makers will be doing almost everything within the US, Canada and Mexico and anti-China sentiment could very well hurt them.

I don’t really care if Tesla is successful or not. Once they make a nearly affordable car their job is done.

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/killer-tornado/

- This is a #climatechange
story that fossil fuel billionaires and their GOP lackeys would rather you didn’t know. -

- As more and more people are killed by extraordinarily severe weather in places where it used to be unusual it’s going to get harder and harder to keep Red State citizens from finding out how badly they’ve been screwed by the unholy alliance between Republicans and oil barons. -

Drivers who leave 15 feet in front of them while in the drive through line are the worst.

I found this handy site for any Americans here who only want to give their business to unionized Starbucks. It seems to be updated on a fairly regular basis as well.

I don’t see a similar resource for Canada (in part because there aren’t that many unionized Starbucks yet). I will post one if I come across one (or get the time to do one up myself).

https://everyunionstarbucks.com/

@Cdn_Skeptic_Wm and there is an easy solution. Tax the rich. The 2023 budget covered rising deficits by specifically taxing the rich and large corporations. So it is, even if it’s starting off slow, being done.

Canada is also a growing country in the early/days of an economic transition. The cost of running a country will naturally rise.

I don’t really like the Liberals, but their ‘numbers’ are completely fine

This is our Second recorded tornado, the first one was in 1983.

Happy Gotcha-day, my little lovebug.
#SmushyLife

☕️Gifted Article from WaPo https://wapo.st/40Cnsqo

Happy Birthday Angus Young

AC/DC - Thunderstruck
https://youtu.be/S55ozleWZ0w
#cosomusic

I congratulated Trump on Twitter for being number one

The Original Engrumpled Curmudgeon 🇺🇦 🦍
@TheEngrumpled

Hey @realDonaldTrump you're number one. That is, the very first former American president to be indicted. Soon you will be the first one sent to prison.

Just a reminder that the whole QAnon movement existed to tell right-wing fanatics that Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and everybody else they don't like was going to be indicted Any Moment Now and Q was dropping the secret sauce breadcrumbs that would lead the Qballs to the Awakening, which is Q slang for fascist dictatorship.

Their targets: Not indicted.

Them: Quite frequently indicted. Or even "indicated."

Two nights in #SLOCAL

It's been a grueling operation but "Mission Accomplished". While the AO was a pastoral dreamscape, there were no foreign agents, just cows with attitudes @DevinCow, and the normal operational WTFs.

As I sit here eating a gas station burrito, my body bruised from the fight, I feel more like Jack Ryan than James Bond. So, now to reconsider rewarding myself with local grapes, or a martini...shaken not stirred.

Companies say Elon Musk's plan to charge $1,000 for month for Twitter checkmarks is 'outlandish' and makes them 'meaningless' https://www.businessinsider.com/companies-say-elon-musk-plan-charge-twitter-checkmark-outlandish-2023-3

One of Wall Street's favorite politicians is trying to kick the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau off the FDIC board and replace them with a former bank employee.

Wall Street doesn't want anyone to protect you from corporations.

https://perfectunion.us/republican-bill-would-kick-consumer-advocate-off-fdic-board/