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It’s a “block party”! </dadjoke>

I’ll show myself out.

This is the one I found closest to my mothers. She herself doesn’t ever write down HER particular measurements.

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Nope. It retains enough salt to add to the unique taste. It just has to be dried and preserved in salt that then has to be removed. It gives the cod it’s ability to break apart into the casserole.

Ah. My bad. Got overexcited and skipped to the end. Sorry about that.

New Orleans is Sinking by The Tragically Hip

I live in a different city and often find myself wishing for my mother’s Portuguese Salted Cod Casserole. It was out typical sunday family dinner when I still lived in the same city as them. Not a cultural tradition, just because it was my favourite dish.

But the nature of it ensures that I’ll never ever ever have the patience to do it myself, considering that step one is soaking the dried salted cod in cold water that you repeatedly replace for up to 48 hours in order to get the salt out.

The US and Canada will never be the same again

As a Canadian I think, if we can weather the storm without Cheetolini going full “annex” mode, we’ll come out the other end better; more diversified and secure in trade relationships, and stronger on the world stage.

It is indeed dangerous to rely on any one country for too much

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It’s a very complex subject that is difficult to solve

In a sane world, I agree with you. But we’re dealing with a man who himself doesn’t realise its complexity and only understands strategies that are “blunt and absurd”.

We can use as nuanced and soft-toed strategies all we want and he’ll never get it through his orange head.

God I’m exhausted.

At this point, we just need to cut it all off completely. Oil shipments, electricity, lumber, aluminum. All of it.

I know that that’s a hard ask for those industries that are affected, and if it means the federal goverment has to temporarily raise the deficit in order to subsidize those industries it’ll be crazy expensive and inflation will shoot up. But I’m convinced that that would be only a short amount of time that that would actually be needed.

Let the United States go one week without our stuff. 100%…fuck 'em. They’ll last one week. Maybe two. And when they quit their bullshit, make it clear that we are diversifying our business partners making it easier to pull it from them again anytime they let Trump open is fucking mouth.

Hold our resources hostage against them.

At this point in Muskrat’s meddling, it’s reached the point of treason.

You don’t negotiate with traitors. You don’t reason with traitors. When all is said and done, you reach the point where the only thing that is done with traitors is to put them against the wall in front of a firing squad. If that’s the side your “friend” wants to pick, it’s on him.

Can I be nit-picky here for a second?

If you’re genetically modifying an elephant for cold tolerance and fur growth, you’re not “bring a mammoth back from extinction”, you’re creating a furry elephant. It may look somewhat like a mammoth, but genetically it’s not a mammoth at all.

It’s like saying you can genetically modify a homo-sapien to have a pronounced brow ridge and a hairier back and say that you’ve brought the neandertal back from extinction. No you haven’t, you’ve just designed a human who looks different.

As someone who grew up on the Prairies, I always found it a little weird that Co-ops were just a thing in the west.

Seriously…they send a percentage of what you spend with them back to you each year as a dividend…who wouldn’t want a co-op?

I’ve always just gone to my local Co-op. You still have to check specific products, but at least the general organization is as local as it can get.

I was raised on a parade of chili and soups packed and frozen in poor-man’s tupperware (reused margarine and yogurt containers).

I always assumed hate against him was like Canadian Fox News stuff.

It mostly is, yes. The Conservative Party leader is very much a Maple Maga fanboy, and (like all Conservatives before him) he appeals to the Prairie provinces; the oil workers, farmers, truckers, etc… Your basic Fox news crowd. His father was also very disliked by the same crowd, and so his last name itself triggers them like you wouldn’t believe. (Think “Canadian Clintons”)

But a large part of it (I initially thought), was also typical Canadian political trends. We tend to put the Liberals in power and then keep re-electing them long enough for them to inevitably become the villain (usually about a decade), and then over-correct and do the same thing with the Conservatives. Like clockwork, and it was coming up to about that time.

Now, though, with Trudeau stepping down, and the promise of a new leader…combined with the general hatred of Pierre Poppinfresh, the Liberals fortunes have turned around 180 degrees. So it’s going to be an interesting federal election rather than the landslide that the Maple Maga fuckwits were expecting.

It was Benito Mussolini’s headquarters in Rome during WW2

So…America…you guys really are about a step-and-a-half away from this?

Get your shit together. Christ.

The U.S. is like any other country; it has its share of assholes. But I generally avoid painting everyone of however many million people with the same broad brush.

There is a somewhat obnoxious level of patriotism to Americans in general that comes from simply being the biggest economy and a net cultural exporter to the rest of the world; think blue jeans and coca-cola, metaphorically. (I’m sorry, Americans, but it’s true. Put on your big boy pants and deal with the criticism like adults, please.)

But it only rises to the level of arrogance in those people who think that the rest of the world only exists because of them and should behave as some sort of client state to American hegemony.

That’s not all Americans. Heck, I’d say it’s not even most Americans. But they’re just really really loud and drown out everything else.

I’d hate to be the custom’s agent posted there.