with the public personality of year old Melba toast

I disagree with this part

My issue is with the expressed idea of Trump realizing his mistake and rolling back.

It’s not a mistake. And they don’t want to go back. This is intentional and directed behaviour, we think it’s crazy or weird just because it’s so stupid.

I do realize I’m being an annoying pedant about it. But because I feel it’s so important to underscore this as it informs what our response needs to be.

The system of bonds and the USDs unique place in the world economy that you (accurately) described needs to be replaced. We shouldn’t try to save it or implement workarounds except as a temporary measure to disentangle ourselves in an orderly fashion.

It would be extremely foolish to expect that the US will be a reliable partner going forward.

Convincing the US to reverse policies that are harming us makes sense only to give us time to transition our economy to less dependence them. It’s important to underscore this, and not hold out hope that somehow a return to the old ways is possible.

Fully agreed on all parts.

My response was over-focused on the section you mentioned in the edit, but the specific example in the article is unacceptable and you’re right to focus that out because I didn’t. Thanks.

Initial reaction to him staying on as leader: “What? Is he insane?”

The immediate followup reaction: “Oh right yes, we knew that about him already.”

I’m happy to be proven wrong but I don’t believe there are provisions for delaying just some polling stations in our current electoral system. So just wait for the storm to pass would be functionally the same as what happened here.

I haven’t read the details just the faq, it seems like the provisions for delay are at the level of entire ridings.

However I believe this experience proves we have work to do ensuring that outlying areas can participate in our democracy properly.

Unforeseen severe weather conditions seems like a legit reason to close, but it seems like provisions should be made for this circumstance so that ballots can be verified and tallied later.

Just… closing with no recourse seems super bad.

Given how the CPC turnout was well above expected nationally, it seems more likely this was a result of the hard work Fanjoy’ team put in there and PP’s natural anti-charisma.

Not just defence but so many aspects of the modern world primarily disproportionately benefit the US.

The rest of the world at-least-vaguely recognized this for a while, but inertia made this an impossible proposition. America had an incredibly good thing going for them, but thanks to greed and ignorance it still wasn’t enough.

Their loss is our gain, as the inertia is broken and we now have impetus to make the changes we’ve needed to do for quite some time. We will sever dependence on the US for defence and finance and trade, and be better off for it.

The gift worked, thanks for sharing