Not even president yet and already fucking up

 Joe Biden*, who on Wednesday will be inaugurated as president of the United States, decided not to wait to take office to fuck up. In fact, he is going for a two-fer. He will be harming our energy independence and pissing off one of our closest allies, all at the same time:

U.S. president-elect Joe Biden has indicated plans to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline permit via executive action on his first day in office, sources confirmed to CBC News on Sunday.

A purported briefing note from the Biden transition team mentioning the plan was widely circulated over the weekend after being shared by the incoming president's team with U.S. stakeholders.

The words "Rescind Keystone XL pipeline permit" appear on a list of executive actions supposedly scheduled for Day 1 of Biden's presidency. 

The list shown to stakeholders is a lengthier version of a list already reported in the media based on a memo released publicly over the weekend by Biden's chief of staff Ronald Klain. That publicly reported memo from Klain did not mention Keystone XL, but cautioned that the memo was not a complete list of planned actions.

Canadian officials already are asking the Biden team not to do this. He talks big about rebuilding our relationships with allies, but I don't think we're going to like the "allies" he wants to rebuild relationships with. (Hint: Iran.) He clearly doesn't give a fuck about Canada if he does this.

OK, Romania is getting out of hand

A few days ago, I noted that Romania had logged more than 800 visits in one day, knocking the lackadaisical Swedes out of 10th place on the all time list by several hundred visits. Before that, I was pretty sure the United Kingdom -- with a little urging -- could pass Sweden and get back in the top 10. Unfortunately -- for the United Kingdom, at least -- Romania  soared about 400 visits past Sweden, putting 10th place even farther out of reach for the UK. Well, good news -- Romania, for reasons known only to about 700 Romanians or Romanian porn-seeking internet bots, has now zoomed past Canada into ninth place, bumping Canada to No. 10. That means that the UK now has 400 fewer visits to log in order to become No. 10. Who cares? Hell, I don't know. I just wonder what the fuck is going on in Romania.

Denmark to Canada: Mama said knock you out

Tiny Denmark surpassed mighty Canada on the all-time visitors' list just a few minutes ago. The land of Hamlet and marauding Vikings is now No. 4. Thanks to all the Danes who keep coming by. Keep it up! Next up: No. 3 Germany (that one could take a while). In the meantime, congratulations to Denmark.

Gotta do what Mama says.

Just a boring traffic post

Probably the biggest traffic milestone ever for Eff You is coming up in the next day or two -- sometime this week, I will get my 100,000th visitor. Send all your friends by so I can mark the event sooner rather than later. Of less blog-wide significance but at least as important to our Danish readers, Denmark is six visits away from passing Canada for No. 4 on the all-time list.

The Vikings are descending on Canada

Canada's once-insurmountable lead over Denmark on the all-time visitors list -- I mean seriously insurmountable, like 600 or 700 visits -- has dwindled to 20. While it is clear that Denmark will surpass Canada soon, what is not clear is whether they will salt the Canadians' fields, sell their children into slavery and take the Canadians' women for their own. I'm not sure how well that stuff floats in the modern world. Also, I think Canada and Denmark are otherwise on pretty good terms. Not sure how bad they want to mix it up over their relative positions on the Eff You all-time visitors list. Anyway, looks like Denmark is about to become No. 4. No. 3 Germany claims not to be nervous. Study your history, people. Denmark is rising once again.

BOOM! Denmark kicks Sweden's ass. Canada next.

Today Denmark surged past Sweden to move into fifth place on the all-time Eff You visitors list, and is rapidly closing in on Canada to claim fourth place. Eff You's readership in Denmark apparently is very loyal. Sweden, which used to be in second place behind the U.S. in the early days of this blog, seems to have lost interest once the Swedes figured out that, despite the profligate use on this blog of terms such as "porn," "pr0n" and "fuck," there is no actual porn on Eff You. Sure, I've posted some pictures of scantily clad hot babes now and then, but there was always a greater purpose behind those posts. Never was I merely trolling for traffic. Except when I was. Anyway, congratulations to Denmark on passing Sweden. Look out, Canada! There's a bunch of Vikings on your ass!

This doesn't happen very often -- like, ever

For quite some time in the early days of this blog, Canada simply refused to come by. Eventually, somebody from Canada visited, and the floodgates opened. Canada now is a top-five point of origin for visitors to Eff You. Thanks, eh?

But the really amazing thing today is that Canada is the leading visitor to Eff You by a 2-to-1 margin over the U.S., which always is the leading source of Eff You visitors. Not sure why Canada has surged so today, but there it is. Just thought I would comment on it. Not suggesting you should care and, in fact, if you don't care, please refer to the title of the blog. And thank you for dropping by. Perhaps you'll care about the next post. Maybe not. But you won't know if you don't come back by, now will you, hmmmmm?

And still no Canadians

Welcome, Comrades! We have a page view from Russia! Also, the Netherlands has joined the Eff You family (not as big as the federal family, but we're trying), so bring it, Hans Brinker! Alas, still no hits from our neighbor to the north, so fuck Canada.