How much longer (until we have our star back...) #FBPE
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Fiercely British once upon a time, still European. UK needs PR to save us FOREVER from the tories.
Fiercely British once upon a time, still European. UK needs PR to save us FOREVER from the tories.
![“We keep the lights on for 1.5 million homes and manufacturing in New York, in Michigan, and in Minnesota,” Ford told NBC News. “If [Trump] wants to destroy our economy and our families, I will shut down the electricity going down to the U.S. And I’m telling you, we will do it.”
“With a smile on my face,” he added in a speech on Monday: “They need to feel pain.”
One other possible mode of retaliation, unimaginable just a few weeks ago: intellectual property. A think tank based in Waterloo has advocated suspending U.S. patent rights. An Albertan pundit argued on Monday that by instigating a tariff war, Trump broke “the free trade agreement he signed during his first term, and we should move forward as if the agreement does not exist.” Among other things, she writes, this “frees up a lot of space in intellectual and technological property rights.” Further, “We can also disregard registered trademarks.”
In the minds of many Canadians, extreme measures like this are legitimate because, as one commentator puts it, “this isn’t really a trade war—it’s a shakedown.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dfdqaxn7gxlvl5gaqykklvz2/bafkreiacr7wbl3zyymmf3lkt7pxo2h4clkq4nqmjcfy6mk7xhe3plwyqgy)
![Donald Trump Junior recently told an interviewer he didn’t want people in the new administration “who [think] they know more than my father”. Hiring sentient human beings with less knowledge than the “stupendously ignorant” Trump might have presented a few difficulties, but it appears his transition team may have succeeded.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dfdqaxn7gxlvl5gaqykklvz2/bafkreig47vgv4tttretwewkccurgliwwxugk2ayfme3tu6nys7xft6qpm4)
