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Trade War

It's time to start imposing export restrictions and/or export tariffs in those items the US has deemed as "essential". Not by a little, by a lot. Canadians have to recognize the fact that we may have to completely cut all ties with the US, a new iron curtain. It's our national survival at stake.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

Just got the... "Hi, I'm Doug Ford!" text. Instant blocklist

Respect the Polygon Environment Canada's updated t... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Who ever did Mitch McConnell's taxidermy deserves a Nobel Prize.

Tropical Storm Bertha may cause a lot of infrastructure damage. Traditionally several hundred line crews from utilities across Canada come to the rescue to restore power. That relationship is in tatters, help in doubt. FEMA is gutted. You may be on your own this time around.

In this photo there is a Princeton University graduate and a Harvard Law School graduate. Michelle Obama is both.

Erie County (NY) M.E. ruled the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam a homicide. US Border Partrol left him at a closed Tim Hortons in the Riverside area of Buffalo. His body was found 5 days later. The Erie County D.A. is investigating. NY A.G. is also reviewing. www.wkbw.com/news/local-n...

Something to brighten a dark day. youtu.be/0RLbXvUBzaY

How did America feel, watching 9/11 unfold on their TV screens? Shock, grief, then anger. America felt a rage that carried them through two decades, a generation of war. Iranians are at the rage stage, it will fuel them for a generation or more. Thanks America.

How many countries have "surrendered" or fallen by an air campaign alone? Anyone? Anyone?

1/11 Trump’s operation in Iran is not just reshaping the Middle East. It is dramatically altering the geopolitical calculus for Ukraine. For Kyiv, this new conflict is a massive double-edged sword. Here is a breakdown of the very real upsides and downsides 🧵

The cost of war is paid in blood. Iran's bill is due. The slaughter of 36,000 protesters over the past two months, and countless purges over 47 years. US's will come due: 300,000 to 400,000 per year with the ending of USAID. The blood of genocides from First Nations to complicity with Gaza.

Here's a good explanation of when a bad GDP number is nuanced. The StatsCan report is here: www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...

The correct response to this non-deal, should be to string the morons along. FTA, NAFTA, CUSMA are free trade deals. Imposing tariffs breaks the deal. Best thing: kill the 16 year review go annually until CUSMA dies in another 16 years or USA becomes reasonable. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Paradigm Shift: The New-American Civil War is ongoing and most Americans don't realize it. The first shot, the Fort Sumter moment, was the January 6, 2021 insurrection. The rebels took the White House four years later after a shadow war. This war isn't in the shadows anymore.

Do Not Go To The US. Detained because she violated her tourist visa by working. She "packed her husband's suitcase". ICE officers get a bonus for each detention. $2000 fee (bribe?) to ICE to self-deport. No hearing, no rights. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Remember the whole "Russian Hoax" claim? It's now appearing that this wasn't a hoax at all. It was a the tip of a corrupt international child sex-trafficking network, involving some of the richest, most powerful people on the planet. With Trump as a willing partner. A Putin KGB honeypot.

The cockroaches have to hide their dirty deeds from public view. They'll sell Canada to the US without a second thought, if the price is high enough. Ontario PCs bar reporters from... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Bishop Bob Hirschfeld (Episcopalian Church New Hampshire), has told clergy to "get their affairs in order", it may be "no longer the time for statements" and "with our bodies, to stand between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable." apnews.com/article/bish...

So Trump is having another tantrum. My answer is: Make America Go Away Trump threatens 100% tariffs o... www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

In the eyes of the world: Trump is the distillation of all that comprises the cliché, stereotypical American. He is America's representation on the world stage. He is you, America, whether you voted for him or not

In the dark days following 9/11 the Republicans led a rush to put security over freedom. Most focused on the Patriot Act, and its surveillance state. Some voice concern that DHS wad setting up as some sort of secret police turned on Americans. Two decades later: it's not secret and it's worse.

This explains so much. People with psychopathic traits and low cognitive ability are over-represented in online political activity. If someone is being cruel, obnoxious and ridiculous, don't try to reason with them. Chances are you won't get anywhere. Just block. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

All this, everything the US has, or is going to do, is trying to distract from the glaring evidence that Trump isn't just in the Epstein files, he's a core conspirator, willing participant, and fellow frafficker. Trump is quite willing to start WW3 to do this.

Better headline... White House unable to get its lies straight.

ICE protests have hit a new level. youtube.com/shorts/rVJ4L...

I guess all these Trumpy trade officials saying that CUSMA/USMCA/T-MEC is not dead, are confirming the opposite. Since when has any of them told the truth or bargained in good faith? Free trade with the US . IS . DEAD . Good riddance.

To be or not to be, That is the question. Emphasis. youtu.be/RJXiep-yGBw

This needs to be seen, again and again and again. From 1940 - echoes strongly today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GY...

I am challenging myself to post and reply using where possible a single sentence that does not run on yet still retains grammatical correctness and subject cohesion inspired by and in homage to Charles Dickens and his excellent mastery of the English language.

I say we start from a position of "No deal". We would be shackled to a corpse anyway. Canada to launch CUSMA consult... www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Trump has declared Antifa a terrorist organization. This was obviously predictable. Prediction: this is a pretext to a "reveal" that Antifa is widespread and everywhere. To counter this "national security emergency" DHS will widen ICE's role to national security, usurping or paralleling FBI.

Charlie Kirk was murdered. Strip away the political, ideological, moral, and philosophical justifications. Remove heated emotion. His life was ended in violence. It is wrong. The murderer must be delt with fairly, in accordance with law. Otherwise this will end in unimaginable bloodletting.

In the 1930's The Nazis also told the Jews to "self-deport." Many had nowhere else to. They ended up in concentration camps. Until the Final Solution, when they were exterminated. This IS where the USA is headed.

AI psychosis - the dellusion that AI is conscious it's keeping Microsoft's AI head awake at night. Current AI is a dead end. Scientists are discovering that our brains seem to use room temperature quantum processes. No data centre can do that. It can't model it. www.bbc.com/news/article...

WTF? Ford is hiring American firm to build a Canadian hospital? What about all his outrage at Trump? He talks tough in the media about fighting back on tariffs then rewards USA? I’m so sick of his duplicity. Can’t wait for the OShow Scandal Panel tomorrow 😡 #Ontario #Onpoli #CndPoli #CanadaSky

A lot of fraudulent electronic pan-handlers lately purporting to be from Gaza. Giving them money supports criminal enterprises. It's best to stick with registered charities that are financially transparent. Anything else is technically illegal.

The pro-DST crowd are foaming at the mouth about losing $2-billion annual revemue. Do the math. The first round of US Surtax is 25% on $30-billion in trade, $7.5-billion yearly. There are two more surtax orders, a TRQ on top of that and Surtax on $100-billion+ still pending. We're way ahead.

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. - Yeats - The Second Coming.

The final nail in US democracy's coffin is in place. Elected officials delaying an election. This will be challenged all the way to a far-right SCOTUS. If it stands, a legal pathway exists to perpetually delay elections. It ends not with a bang but a whimper. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/c...

Ceasefire? Really? From a few minutes ago. (They go up quick and come down just as quickly.) www.tzevaadom.co.il/en/

I would have thought Trump's Reichstag excuse would consist more than five Waymos, several dumpsters, and the occasional innocent shrubbery set on fire.

Mend fences? No fences to mend, just a big huge f%@#ing chasm. While 51st State talk continues America is not a friend, it is an enemy. A regime change won't fix this either. It took over 50-100 years to heal the rift the last time. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...