From the Feb. 2 edition of “Today in History,” by The Associated Press: “In 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed, officially ending the Mexican-American War.”
I guess nobody told the Dingaling Bros-Barnum & Beelzebozo Circus. Los siento mucho. Incoming!
Mad Blog Media 
The mood in Canada is we’ll freeze in the dark before we give one inch to that orange cocksucker.
Well, they don’t go into effect until Tuesday. So, the leaders of our top three trading partners can still kiss the orange diapered ass and pledge their loyalty. I think they will drop his drawers and service the account.
Looks like you folks and the Mexicans are teeing up responses. Well done indeed. Even the Wall Street Journal thinks Beelzebozo is a putz for this shit.
The Canadians are talking about targeting red states in their response.
Beauty, eh?
Hoser’s gonna hose.
OTTAWA — U.S.-made booze, tobacco, poultry, shampoos, toothpastes, motorcycles, firearms, furniture, ketchup, spices and even chocolate are about to jump in price as the Canadian government unveiled a first list of American items to be hit with 25 per cent retaliatory tariffs as of Tuesday.
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Ketchup is on there just to see who’s paying attention.
https://www.nhl.com/news/heinz-pokes-fun-at-connor-mcdavid-ketchup-fear
Being in the Mitten State, I have more than a little embarrassment over any US attempts at bullying or extortion with Canada. Many of us will side with any efforts by Canada to stick a fork in the Rethuglicans as they “negotiate “ in the future. Over the past several years I’ve chosen to spend vacation dollars in Canada versus feeding the Florida/Alabama economy. Yes, for political reasons. And hell, it’s closer to home and the people are truly friendly.
Yesterday, at a hockey game in Vancouver, fans booed during the Star Spangled Banner. Had I been there….I would have joined them.
Thanks Herb. It means a lot.
Goddamn right. As a proud resident of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (1959-62) I say “Fork the GOP and all who sail in her.”
Side note: When we got transferred to Randolph AFB, Texas, the school there took a look at what I’d learned through grade 2 in Ottawa and said, “Oh, goodness, this lad is far too well schooled to get dumped into the glorified kindergarten we call ‘third grade’ here. We shall promote him to fourth grade.”
Meanwhile, Herself and I are drawing up a list of corporations with which we will no longer do business. It’s a short document, since we’ve had an extensive Shit List for the better part of quite some time.
And I just filled out the application for my first-ever passport — at age 70 going on 71 — in case Fucknuts decides to pull up the drawbridge. It’s been a while, but I bet I can still swim across the moat.
As the days get more distressing, I look at my passport and say, glad I have it since 1985 plus, looking at my maternal grandfather’s death certificate, I noticed he was born in Slovenia when it was still part of Austria. Looking at the Slovenia website, I see I can still get citizenship as I am only 2nd generation when this birthright citizenship BS starts. Good god, this country is fucked up, I don’t think we can salvage it, my father and uncle, both WWII vets, are probably spinning in whatever afterlife there is.
Embarrassment indeed. I was born and raised a stone’s throw from the Peace Bridge, took many vacations in Canada (canoeing lake to lake up in the middle of nowhere in what my Ontario immigrant best friend called “The Kipawa” and in Algonquin Provincial Park, vacations in Ottawa and Calgary come to mind) so considered Canada “the folks next door”. I wish the GOP and all the nitwits would stop trashing Canada or acting like we are doing it a favor by bullying it. Fuck these GOP and nationalist morons and the five neurons they have between the lot of them.
And now I have to have a passport to cross that border, which was never the case when I was a young man. Hopefully, they won’t close it.
And like the old hoors they are, Congress just rolls over and takes it.
Boos during the anthem at Raptors and Canucks games.
Also, “In 1943, the remainder of Nazi forces from the Battle of Stalingrad surrendered in a major victory for the Soviets in World War II.”
Of about 91,000 survivors of the Sixth Army who were marched to Siberia, only about 5,000 lived to make it back to Germany.
Maybe I should have moved to Canada in 1969? I didn’t have the money to get a heel spur letter. I think Ottawa would have been nicer than Buttons.
Unless you like the tropics that much.
I gotta think everything he says for the next four years was whispered to him the night before by Musk, and Musk’s sole objective is to buy or short stock accordingly, depending on the ripples his turd makes in the punch bowl.
We are no longer a Nation of Laws. We’re a reality show in the middle of a writers’ strike.
“It’s time for ‘Let’s Make a Deal,’ with your host, Carrot Top!” (“Applause” sign lights up)
Here’s the fucked up part. Harris largely lost cuz they pinned inflation on Biden, even though inflation was 100% the result of COVID and T***p’s mismanagement.
And the Achilles’ heel of all tariffs is they lead to inflation. It’s Econ 101. If I tell Djina they got a $100 tariff, I also just signaled to Spacely Sprockets that they have $99 in wiggle room.
And yet no one at the DNC can make this clear to the mouth breathing, knuckle dragging 49% of the country.
Just once I’d like to hear a “how” question aimed in his general direction. Dude has never had to explain anything. And we know he can’t drive a car, walk a dog, or close an umbrella
We are so beyond fucked.
And AOC has a good response, when she compares musk compromising of the entire nations personal data and federal accounts payable to a five alarm fire. But, where does she post it? On twitter, owned by musk. How stupid is that?