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If Congress weren't totally useless they might question the lack of urgency in dealing with the "emergency" Trump used as the basis for the tariffs.

What's supposed to happen and what will happen are not necessarily the same thing, especially with this administration.

For those unclear whether the "Criminal Trade Advisor" is a criminal and a trade advisor, or an advisor on criminal trade:

Navarro, Trump’s senior counselor for trade and manufacturing who was jailed for contempt of Congress last year after refusing to testify about the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, was speaking about U.S. tariffs on our northern neighbor with Fox News’ Bret Baier on Wednesday evening.

As for the loser's claims, American guns are a much bigger problem in Canada than Mexican cartels.

Sounds like a way for Trump to cancel the tariffs without saying he's canceling the tariffs. Such a coward.

Booze is the headline but that's not all that's going on:

The federal, provincial and territorial governments are also working toward recognizing certified professionals no matter where they received their credentials in Canada.

Following a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday, the first ministers directed the committee on Internal Trade — which is responsible for implementing the Canada Free Trade Agreement (CFTA) — to develop a Canada-wide credential recognition plan by June 1.

Along with recognizing labour credentials, the premiers are launching negotiations to allow goods certified in one province to be bought or sold in another without additional red tape, excluding food.

You don't get to be a Republican's chief of staff by having a conscience.

Part of the agreement allows for a review next year and his complaints could have been addressed them, but apparently negotiated such a lousy deal he can't wait that long.

My father is retired and still needs to use PowerPoint. He is very bad at retirement.

“She is evil, chosen solely because she checked identity politics boxes,” Cernovich wrote. “Another DEI hire. It always ends badly.”

She was DEI hired by your guy, motherfucker.

The tariffs were already delayed by 30 days. A competent person would have the details worked out by now.

If Vance were president Republican spines would start to grow back. Trump's hold over Republicans is a major part of the problem.

The article doesn't offer any real evidence of the "love" side of this supposed "love-hate relationship". The nearest thing I could find was this bit at the end, which isn't super loving:

“I love Canada, I love the people of Canada,” Mr. Trump said at a cabinet meeting at the White House. “It’s not fair for us to be supporting Canada — If we don’t support them, they don’t subsist as a nation.”

I guess that explains why the iOS Mail app asked me to sign into my Outlook.com account again. I switched away from the Outlook app last week and I was thinking the Mail app must only be able to stay logged in for a few days at a time.

The answer to the suit question should have been like, "Russia destroyed my suit and Ukraine's tailors are too busy sewing up wounds to spend time making a new one."

Just to be clear, the "diplomatic meltdown" was mainly by Trump and Vance, not Zelenskyy, right?

Asked whether the U.S. had itself gone back on its commitments by demanding compensation for aid that was freely given, Baumgartner was unequivocal.

“Be that as it may, (Ukraine has) now twice been ready to sign an agreement and twice backed out at the last second,” Baumgartner said. “And then you had this bizarre descent into public grievance, an argument in the White House in front of the American public, that’s not advantageous to either side.”

Baumgartner doesn't even deny that the US is "demanding compensation for aid that was freely given" but he's upset that Zelenskyy isn't jumping to pay up.

¿Dónde está la biblioteca?

Musk appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last week. I assume there were a decent number of people there (but maybe not a number of decent people).

President DonaldTrump and Elon Musk are getting along well so far, but their first meeting at the Oval Office five years ago in 2020 was not as friendly. A source who was at the meetingshared the details with Politico on Tuesday.

This wasn't a recent thing, just something that was reported recently.

Did they even give her a heads up that she was getting the job?

When travellers experience issues such as cancelled or delayed flights, or lost bags, and feel the airlines don’t respond appropriately, they can take their complaint to the federal government’s Canadian Transportation Agency.

However, when their hearing ends, they are required to keep the ruling confidential.

Now the agency is proposing to fine people for going public about their decisions.

It doesn't seem crazy for there to be consequences for violating a confidentiality requirement. Having a confidentiality requirement is the part the should maybe be questioned.