So listen. You into hard boiled, tough guy shit built around strong, complex characters who drive the plot rather than the plot driving them? Me too. If I've done this right, that's what's here.

@JMeanypants They already are, in the saner parts of the discussion.

@EllenBarkin @RossKneeDeep In 1967 dollars though. Imagine that now!

@JustTheBeans @AmoneyResists I took that to be a MAGA comeback but I looked at your feed. So whatever you mean, it's not what I thought.

@Holdsie1 @jen_keesmaat I'd assume those would decide what side they were on. I mean committing Canadian forces to one side or another. Presumably the governing side would have the right to invoke Article 4, how ever the rest of NATO would feel about it.

@winter_canada @JohnFraserOS @plain_me9 He wants it both ways. Capt. Canada till it's time to score some cheap partisan shots. OMG, the feds took a WEEK to appoint someone to a post that never existed before, whose powers are up in the air, whose mandate is undecided. Dougie would have filled it by now, but with whom?

@leesaturnbull @JohnFraserOS I am so tired of that question. Even if the answer is yes (and it's not in my case, though that isn't really on Dougie either) what does it say about a society that that's the be-all-and-end-all question? Heretical as it may seem in 2025, it's not all about ME!

@416warner @jen_keesmaat Mr C, does that stand for Crypto? Or Clown? Either way, bye bye.

@robcreaser @jen_keesmaat No. We're taking it back from those clowns. And fuck them sideways.

@Holdsie1 @jen_keesmaat I was thinking last night. If the (real) USA and MAGA had a civil war, could Canada lend a hand, or would that trigger Article 4?

@jen_keesmaat Which country doing which to whom? Sweden attacks Denmark? Maybe. The US attacks us? I hope the Dutch are feeling nostalgic. But they'd probably be better off not to.

@GoulderMatt @JonathanPieNews Yeah, he probably calls him X for short. Maybe he even named this place after him. But he's still whoring his kid out as a prop in his bullshit.

@Mollyploofkins Or the day/week/month after that.

@mima34733643 @susan_tidrick @highbrow_nobrow @atrupar I can entirely understand that.

@SignorRivarez Except they're both still around, spouting bullshit.

@SteveMacDonal12 Even the short-hand used in discussions--the US "buys" from Canada, Canada "buys" from the US--ignores the fact it's Canadian and US companies buying from each other. And presumably everybody makes a profit and pays taxes on that profit or they wouldn't do it.

@StewartGreen81 @TorontoStar This is known. But there are elements of his base that probably eat this shit up. Scared people, desperate to make other people as afraid as they are in the hopes that they'll feel "safe"

@Kreeped @neiltyson A deep, dark sports secret: It's not talent, not practice, it's not dedication. It's about how fervently your fans pray. It's always all over before the first play is made. But where's the fun in that?

@UROCKlive1 He's not promising them shit anyway. He's out in the open shilling for Putin. Ukrainians aren't dumb or blind.

@mima34733643 @susan_tidrick @highbrow_nobrow @atrupar Ah! All the Way from China is a Leonard Cohen reference, and the novella is a murder mystery/spy thriller/love story. But I lay no claim on knowing much about China. How did your family like it?