If you haven't seen this...you owe it to yourself to watch. Fuentes was a HUGE Trump supporter and dined with him at Mar-a-Lago. Trump's ship is sinking.
If you haven't seen this...you owe it to yourself to watch. Fuentes was a HUGE Trump supporter and dined with him at Mar-a-Lago. Trump's ship is sinking.
The only person gambling with World War III is dementia Donny.
🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️
One of the foreign students studying at Harvard is Cleo Carney, the eldest daughter of Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney. How will Donald Trump handle this? She is in Cambridge now, instructed by Harvard faculty/staff to stay. This situation is taking place at this same time trade talks. Yikes!
KARL: Is a trade deficit subsidizing Canada? RAND PAUL: No. They're really not related at all. What happens if we trade with another country because they have less expensive goods is we become richer. You also have more money you can spend.
If Canada’s Tariffs Were So Devastating To Us Why Didn’t We Notice? youtu.be/6igV96FgQuU?...
But will Putin (have to) pay?
The Janet Gretzky remarks were attributed to her on her Instagram site. And her ‘insights’ have since been deleted. So if that missive was a PR/publicist stunt, it was a failed attempt at repositioning ‘The Great One’. My point: He should have spoke for himself if he cared about ruffled feathers.
Exactly! His beliefs are his … or those of his wife. But having his wife speak to his supposed shock and awe regarding his actions on Feb 20th in Boston was lame. He should have manned up. Should have spoken for himself.
How does such a move benefit US citizens at large? Sounds more like an illegal Trump family/personal land grab!!
We need new markets, reliable ones, to sell goods we produce and alternative markets from whom we buy. And we need to stop discounting the crude oil we sell American customers. An ungrateful US administration needs to learn the facts regarding trade balances. And it can pay more for OPEC crude oil.
After weaknesses in the US supply chain were revealed by COVID, adjustments were put in place to address product sectors with ‘made at home’ deficiencies. Canada thanks President Trump for the wake up call. Our country over time has gotten too comfortable in its trade dealings with the USA. 1/2
Besides his immense wealth, it is also why DJT has coddled up to Elon Musk. He admires Musk’s intellect and his success. And hopes that Musk will carry him, get him magically through these four years.
DJT is really attempting to substitute deception for reality … his fundamental modus operandi. He’s in search of magic pills and solutions because, respectfully, he lacks the vision if not the competence to be in charge. And to cover up his human foibles, he lashes out and bullies. Sad really.
Donald Trump spews so much fiction he should have been a fiction novelist. But he’d have to get beyond a storyline concept. His attack on Canada with his untruths reveals he’s largely full of fiction. His claim to his MAGA base that USA vs Canada trade favours Canada by $250B is 6-fold exaggeration.
An accurate assessment. Why would Canadians want to regress their quality of life like that? Greedy billionaires are greedy everywhere … but American billionaire greed is off the rails. It underlies the high costs of US healthcare and firearms’ deaths.
Deep blue … for ever!
Canada will not bend the knee. Canada will engage in fact-based discussion. And serious negotiations must be underpinned by truth. To be relevant. And fruitful to both sides. That’s the real art of a deal. Not bravado. Not bluster. Not bullshit! 4/4
And if US-based entities stopped buying Canadian crude oil (remember his “drill, baby, drill” promise), the USA would be in a trade surplus position. So get crude oil elsewhere. Canada could/would sell its crude elsewhere. Business is business. 3/4
His number is in error and so is his reference to it as a ‘subsidy’. Facts show the US is in a trade deficit position … estimated to land at about $45B for 2024, and was $40.6B in 2023. This is based on a total trade of approximately $1 trillion dollars. So 4.5% currently in Canada’s favour. 2/4
Donald Trump has a strange deal-making/negotiation approach regarding imposition of tariffs on Canadian commodities. It’s not a fact-based strategy. Appears it’s an approach based on bluster. His stated rationale (aka gross exaggeration) is that the USA is subsiding Canada in excess of $200B. 1/4
Just a thought. Canada’s current inflation rate is at 1.8%, one of the lowest in the world. Perhaps Trump’s lust for Canada is related to his lack of confidence in being able to lower US inflation … currently at 2.9% and likely on an upward trajectory in light of his lack of economic savy.
Says if we bend the knee, he’ll not impose his TARIFFS. So he’ll seemingly take control of our resources. And will we have no say as he pillages … things like lumber, cars, food products, oil, natural gas, minerals, aluminum … things he claims the US doesn’t really need from us. No thanks!
And he’s offering better healthcare coverage. Better than the universal healthcare coverage that we now have!! Wow! That’s one hell of a promise! Problem is I don’t believe him. And I would not trust him, even if he put that in writing. Seems he has a credibility problem. 2/3
“I would love to see Canada be the 51st state. Canadian citizens would get a very big tax cut. They’d have much better health coverage.” Words today (Jan 24/25) espoused by Donald J Trump. I’m laughing! Tax cut! The one US billionaires are getting? Or the one middle class will really get? 1/2
Beyond that, the more radically right Poilievre appears in the pending spring of 2024 election, his opportunity to win will decline. Canada typically prefers its politics to be centrist. His most likely opponent will be a new face for the Liberal Party, Mark Carney, a career banker with credibility.
Whether or not the Canadian electorate votes in its right-leaning party currently under the stewardship of Pierre Poilievre, universal healthcare is safe, sound and far less expensive than the insane approach to healthcare in the USA. Even Poilievre wouldn’t risk political suicide. /1
This Gill fellow just might be living proof of one of three things: 1. He’s never travelled very far in his life to date 2. The education system failed him. 3. He got cheated when God handed out brains. ‘Honoured?’
@adamkinzinger.bsky.social Adam: Interested in your current beliefs regarding economic policy. Which is more effective for growing the US economy — a trickle-down approach with tax policies benefiting the wealthy, or tax policies targeted at lowering taxes of middle and lower class Americans? Why?
Just a thought. Perhaps defendant Trump should only receive a suspended sentence if he fully and completely, without any future denial, admits under oath that he is guilty as charged and as found via a jury of American citizens. Not to do so, or to deny in the future, would result in incarceration.
open.substack.com/pub/robertre... All people, regardless of the country in which you live personally, who favour democracy over autocracy, should read this perspective posted by Robert Reich. It wasn’t written by him, rather by someone who has already lived this reality. It is highly enlightening.
Being a politics junkie and Canadian, I followed ebb and flow of the lead-up to the 2024 US election. Biden was excellent at this State of the Union address. But I was shocked by his incredibly weak debate performance. Who wasn’t? If that performance was a one-off, his staff failed him post-debate.
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Me too!!! X as well.
I left X as well as stopped watching any shows on MSNBC and CNN two days after the US election. I reply to others’ posts far more than separately post my thoughts. As X evolved, I posted and replied less and less. I’ve only been here for a couple of weeks, but positive so far. Only blocked 1 ahole.
Canada has an estimated 32.1 million voting age adults. So that would be about 25+ million votes potentially against the current GOP …. enough to stop another ‘MAGA’ win as well as enough to reclaim control over Congress, House and Senate.
Hmmm … why the f??k would Canada ever consider that? Canada shares a continent, but philosophically, our mindsets don’t align. Neither do our interpretations of democracy.
Canada has been ‘bird flu’ testing its retailed milk since the spring of 2024. No issue to date. Our supply management system works!! Rather than disparage our approach, perhaps the Trump administration should consider emulating it … rather than the Wild West factory-farm approach being pursued.
I, too, have stopped. Also unsubscribed from X.
From afar, it seems to me that #47 promised both her and Kennedy positions to get them drop out of the field. Doubt he cares much if either is confirmed. By nominating both, he’s fulfilled his promise to them.
Watching Twitter burn is like watching your childhood neighborhood become a crime riddled cesspool. It’s terrible to see, but you’re glad you moved out so your kids can have a better life.
MAGA wants you to know they have to destroy Medicare and Social Security or we’ll end up like one of those terrible European countries.
Yikes!
Won’t have that problem fortunately.