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Chris Trottier
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Putting the sauce in awesome

I’m going grocery shopping today.

And believe me, I’m looking at all the labels. If I see Made in the USA, I ain’t buying.

Mexico, you’re cool. So is everyone else. But USA, you don’t get a cent.

https://globalnews.ca/news/10995583/buy-canadian-donald-trump-tariffs/

Bye bye, Elon. 👋

You played with fire, so it’s time you got burnt.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y7626l610o

Who’s already benefiting from Trump’s tariffs?

Europe.

All that aluminum Canada makes is now being sent to Europe instead of the USA. Europeans now get resources at a cheaper price while the USA pays more.

https://globalnews.ca/news/10995839/canafa-aluminum-europe-trump-tariffs/

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Trump is trying to walk it all back.

Let me be blunt: this isn’t a misinterpretation. Tariffs are a trade war. They can’t be seen as anything except a trade war.

And if the USA wants to go to war against Canada, then war it is. Don’t mistake politeness for subservience. We don’t bark, but we certainly bite.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/white-house-mexico-is-serious-canada-appears-have-misunderstood-trumps-executive-2025-02-03/

The leader of AfD, the German far right party, is a lesbian in a relationship with a South Asian immigrant.

Identity politics don’t mean much, do they?

All the people she appeals to see her as a useful fool.

Some solid Chinese food to power me after a workout.

Fitness update.

I’m about to bench press 225 lbs, 3 sets of 8 reps.

Sometimes I get on my case for not doing more. However, the fact is I’m about to left 225 lbs—something I didn’t imagine doing two years ago.

Trying this Eat More. I’ve never had it before.

The #Fediverse now has 12,281,466 users.

Within the past month, it grew by 1.5M accounts.

This represents the biggest month of growth since November 2022.

https://fedidb.org/

Rumour has it that Ontario will cut power to the USA during the Super Bowl.

I hope this happens. It will be a wake up call to all the Americans who are too focused on bread and circuses to care about these tariffs.

Nowadays, Larian Studios is mostly known for Baldur’s Gate 3.

But I know them from their previous games, the Divinity series, which deserves to be every bit as famous as Baldur’s Gate.

Not a Trudeau fan, but this is one hell of a stirring speech. Definitely lights a fire in me.

If this is his final big hurrah as Prime Minister, good for him!

https://youtu.be/xiaACQpFUfE

Just finished I, Libertine by Frederick R. Ewing. Spellbinding work.

What do you all think?

Just learned about Kabbadi.

It’s an Indian contact sport that’s kind of like American football—but without the ball.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabaddi

Don’t think there’s many (hetero) romance novels where the female main character has a butchy and gruff personality.

So, this morning, I wrote an outline about a lone wolf farmer tomboy who, after years of closing herself to the world, unexpectedly feels a spark.

Sometimes I really do feel like a dinosaur.

The capital gains tax was generally a bad idea, and ill-considered—it wouldn’t surprise me if the government of Canada gets rid of the increase entirely.

Listen, Canada needs to be on the defensive. A capital gains tax just sends capital to the USA, which is not what we want.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/capital-gains-reversal-1.7446522

Everything you need to know about American politics can be explained by pro wrestling.