Ontario premier says he's 'ripping up' $100m contract with Musk's Starlink in response to US tariffs

[floofloof@lemmy.ca]

I support pulling all the US liquor from Ontario stores. It's a luxury that can very easily be replaced by Canadian products.

[floofloof@lemmy.ca]

Rob Ford died in 2016.

[peregrin5@lemm.ee]

Incoming: Trump backpedaling furiously under intense pressure from Elmo.

[nuxcom_90percent@lemmy.zip]

Ah, but you see, he was a genius who was saving the world through EVs and space travel.

I do think a lot of it was based on sock puppets on social media. But I also think it is just an inherent side effect of all of us defaulting to being in content bubbles and many people going farther to outright block "political" content.

And then you just have the ongoing, and successful, efforts to vilify journalism and news media.

[datavoid@lemmy.ml]

I still don't understand why there is a Ford in power. Do people not remember his brother?

[datavoid@lemmy.ml]

At least he's dead?

[flyingsquid@lemmy.world]

In space, no one can hear you...

[banana@sh.itjust.works]

The odd Doug Ford win

Finding myself agreeing with him despite myself is an odd feeling because generally I fuckin dislike him and what he stands for.

[banana@sh.itjust.works]

And his brother was the one that was addicted to crack!

[thisphuckinguy@lemmy.world]

Fuck red states

[voroxpete@sh.itjust.works]

Yeah, he's an absolute piece of shit and it's really weird to see him on the right side of this one.

Ford honestly scares me, because he's the kind of right wing asshole who knows how to pick his battles. He's smart enough to see a losing cause and stay the fuck away from it. He'll probably be prime minister some day, especially if PP manages to flame out at the next election.

[voroxpete@sh.itjust.works]

Forget his brother, the shit Dougie has done since getting in is so much worse. But Ontario voters are fucking morons.

[hubertmanne@moist.catsweat.com]

smart. go after trumps boss.

[dogslayeggs@lemmy.world]

The people in the blue states already do speak up and rally against Trump. It hasn't helped in the past and won't help in the future, partly because they don't have any power under the Electoral College, partly because it makes Trump voters double down, and partly because red states see it as a good thing to be doing something that makes blue states angry. They will happily harm themselves if it also harms liberals.

Your last point is true, though. There are more Trump voters in CA than there are in some large number of red states combined.

[protoknuckles@lemmy.world]

Wait, really? I thought he was addicted to crack.

[shalafi@lemmy.world]

Done and done.

“As part of Ontario’s response strategy to the imposed U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods, the government of Ontario has directed (the) LCBO to indefinitely stop all sales of U.S. alcohol products in our stores and online and to stop wholesale sales of U.S. products to restaurants, bars, grocery and other retailers no later than Feb. 4, 2025,” a spokesperson from the LCBO confirmed to national broadcaster CTV News.

[banana@sh.itjust.works]

No that was Rob and he's dead

[bo7a@lemmy.ca]

almost all voters are fucking morons.

More accurate.

[truestorybob@lemmy.world]

All the insane suburban Toronto politicians can be addicted to crack... just a little, as a treat.

[truestorybob@lemmy.world]

He's still a piece of shit, but he's not a dummy.

Politicians often are experts at feeling where the wind blows.