Not trying to victim blame here, but Canada’s mistake was thinking these tariffs had anything to do with fentanyl or border security. These tariffs are literally just an ego thing for Trump. Outside of building a giant golden Trump monument and gifting it to the US like the Statue of Liberty, I don’t think there’s much they could have done.

Either that or take a note from Putin and find some kompromat.

Several Republicans in the Senate admitted they had concerns about Dr Lector’s suitability for the job but approved the nomination anyway because the President promised not to publicly call them thunderous dickheads.

The president went on to publicly call them thunderous dickheads.

“There’s probably a lesson to be learnt here,” said moderate Republican Simon Williams.

“Not really sure what that is though.”

This is too real. But might be a stretch for a Republican senator to have even a millisecond of doubt.

Honestly it sounds like you made the right decision. As long as the guy wasn’t causing you much harm, sounds like nothing lost other than a bit of pride. Had you escalated it, who knows what would have happened.

…we found that in the event of an actual violent altercation, most adult men would almost certainly injure themselves far worse than any assailant

Yup, that tracks.