... because those penguins may have fooled him once, but they won't be doing so again.

The strategy seems to be similar to the Covid strategy: Pretend that the problem does not exist, so the high cost of living can be attributed, completely, to local decisions and the Liberals can be blamed for all of it.

Thank you. I confess that I'm still a tad confused but will wait for more public information. This sounds like it can be wildly spun, when reported - if the media pays any further attention to it, at all.

... and then the Premier of Ontario suspended measures, and it was off again. However, Canada will evidently be announcing counter-tariffs of $29.8B worth of goods later today (reported this morning by CBC News), so one might - possibly - expect another public temper tantrum, with tariffs restored.

The article is behind a paywall and I'm confused. What happens, without this, if Congress remained silent? Would Trump's "emergency" tariffs stay in place? After 15 calendar day passes, would tariffs be otherwise set until the President changed them? Does this extend Congress's time to intervene?

This point has probably been made, anyway. It seems unlikely that he would be a Russian agent. After all: Why would they spend a penny on him, give him a handler, and so on... when they can already flatter and trick him into doing whatever they want, at no expense?

Yes... but what would happen next? Would the sock seek out its mate? Go into business? Run for political office? Who are you imagining starring in the movie?

Fun to read, but Politifact denied the truth of this in 2019.

Quite a few of us are concerned that he is being positioned to become Canada's "Neville Chamberlain".

Explanation: On those platforms one can only see something that appears to be from Canadian media, these days, if it is a fraudulent "paid advertisement" from a source that is not easily identified, probably from off shore, and that promotes cybercrime.