Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Thanks to Trump
It wasn’t supposed to be this way. When Justin Trudeau resigned at the start of this year, Canada’s Liberals appeared to be heading for the door after almost 10 years in power.
The opposition Conservatives were in a strong position, with a 25 point lead and an easy attack line: that any Liberal candidate would be no different to Trudeau, who had become increasingly unpopular.
But those fortunes changed dramatically in the months leading up to the election and now Mark Carney, former Bank of England governor, has declared victory.
That’s largely down to one phenomenon: the return of Donald Trump as US president.
https://inews.co.uk/news/world/5-things-know-five-minutes-anti-trump-c
andidate-win-canada-election-3665310
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
No, it wasn't suppose to go down that way.
Trump managed to do something that a lot of Canadians haven't seen in their lifetimes. Unite the entire country from coast to coast to coast. Even Quebec was pissed. So, he managed to piss off almost every since Canadian. Guess we should thank him for that maybe.
I have a friend whose daughter is unfortunately one of those idiots who voted Conservative and is now crying in her beer towel.
NEVER 51. CANADA IS NOT FOR SALE
At the end of the day, Canada has just about zero say in the matter.
Once we stop offering military aid to everyone, they're all going to go bankrupt paying for free healthcare and anything else they're looking to fund on top of their own defense budget.
Canada has no leverage at all here, and I suspect there will come a day where Canada is asking us if they can join. I hope at that point the answer is no.
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We will never be apart of America. Just because we share a continent.
NEVER 51. CANADA IS NOT FOR SALE and also ELBOWS UP.
I'm not going to argue with you. I don't really give a hoot one way or another.
But at the end of the day Canada isn't anything on the current world stage other than the kid brother and will continue right on existing as it always has so long as it is allowed to do so.
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I agree with SIX. Canada has been free-riding on the USA, and I suspect that aside from oil, timber, fishing, mining and agriculture (which aren't really industries per se) Canada's biggest manufacturing sector is the auto industry, which the USA exported north of the border under NAFTA.
Be that as it may ... I really don't know anything about Poilievre and what his promises were, but I worry that Canadians just jump into a globalist central banker's tender embrace. Seems like Canadians votes based on USA politics.
You have lots of political parties, BRENDA. Weren't there any other choices?
Speaking of globalism
Alex Krainer, always worth a listen, describes how transnational banks use a nation's natural resources as collateral for loans, and how they use that collateral to blow big speculative bubbles, scooping up assets at fire sale prices when the bubbles burst
And specifically how Canada's oil wealth was used to blow a real estate bubble in the USA.
He also talks about similar, but industrial -scale wealth extraction from Africa, Russia (under Yeltsin) and the hoped-for riches of Ukraine... the EU'S economic suicide, how Germany became the world export leader and why it's going to fail (has nothing to do with natural gas).
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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I agree with SIX. Canada has been free-riding on the USA, and I suspect that aside from oil, timber, fishing, mining and agriculture (which aren't really industries per se) Canada's biggest manufacturing sector is the auto industry, which the USA exported north of the border under NAFTA.
Be that as it may ... I really don't know anything about Poilievre and what his promises were, but I worry that Canadians just jump into a globalist central banker's tender embrace. Seems like Canadians votes based on USA politics.
You have lots of political parties, BRENDA. Weren't there any other choices?
Speaking of globalism
Alex Krainer, always worth a listen, describes how transnational banks use a nation's natural resources as collateral for loans, and how they use that collateral to blow big speculative bubbles, scooping up assets at fire sale prices when the bubbles burst
And specifically how Canada's oil wealth was used to blow a real estate bubble in the USA.
He also talks about similar, but industrial -scale wealth extraction from Africa, Russia (under Yeltsin) and the hoped-for riches of Ukraine... the EU'S economic suicide, how Germany became the world export leader and why it's going to fail (has nothing to do with natural gas).
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
Usually I vote NDP. But they can't break that glass ceiling in Federal politics like they can by province. And no way was I going to vote Conservative.
I like Mr. Singh but I don't know what will happen to the NDP now. They have to find a way to regroup.
Apparently the Liberals didn't get a majority government and since the NDP by the looks of things got wiped off the map. That means they will have to work with the Bloc. Conservatives are the Loyal Opposition.
I haven't seen the official numbers yet.
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Quote:Step 1: Trump withdraws the nuclear umbrella protecting Canada from Russia's threats to nuke Canada over conflict in the Arctic.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ixStringJack, you really should think about what happens when Canada builds H-bombs for self-protection, when Trump says Canada is no longer protected from Russia's ambitions in the Arctic by America's nuclear umbrella.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
At the end of the day, Canada has just about zero say in the matter.
Once we stop offering military aid to everyone, they're all going to go bankrupt paying for free healthcare and anything else they're looking to fund on top of their own defense budget.
Canada has no leverage at all here, and I suspect there will come a day where Canada is asking us if they can join. I hope at that point the answer is no.
You have a point there. If we allow Canada to build nuclear weapons that's probably not a great idea since it will be a Muslim country in 2 generations.
Step 2: Canada starts building its nuclear umbrella, replacing the umbrella Trump controls.
Step 3: Trump invades Canada to stop the nuclear umbrella from being built.
Step 4: Trump gives Russia the Canadian land that Putin wants. Don't say Trump won't. Trump is giving away Ukrainian land that Putin wants. But Ukraine rudely refuses to sign the documents.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The Trump administration has dismissed all of the scientists working on the sixth National Climate Assessment — a major congressionally mandated climate report that details the way the changing climate impacts the U.S.
The move comes as the Trump administration has repeatedly downplayed the impacts of climate change and gone after programs related to the issue.
The report, which is mandated by Congress under the Global Change Research Act of 1990, provides a U.S.-specific assessment that can help communities prepare for climate change.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5273217-trump-administra
tion-national-climate-assessment-cuts/
The Fifth National Climate Assessment 2023
https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Think Trump’s Unpopular Now? Just Wait.
By Alex Shephard | April 29, 2025
https://newrepublic.com/article/194577/trump-unpopular-100-days-approv
al-ratings-falling
Just over a month ago, President Donald Trump was more popular than he was at any point in his first term. This was especially troubling because his administration was proving to be even more incompetent, corrupt, and authoritarian this time around. He was busy gutting the civil service, defying judicial orders, and creating migrant concentration camps abroad—but Americans didn’t seem to mind. Trump’s surprisingly resilient approval ratings had Democrats wondering, after his election gains with people of color and in blue redoubts like New York City and Detroit, whether anything could pull him down.
What a difference a month makes. “Liberation Day,” Trump’s announcement of massive tariffs on pretty much every other nation in the world, may go down as the biggest own goal in American—and perhaps global—political history. Trump is now less popular than any president has been at the 100-day mark in 80 years. In a new NPR survey that asked respondents to grade Trump (like the schoolchild that he is), 45 percent—including more than half of independents—gave him an “F,” while just 23 percent gave him an “A.”
This is a shocking slide, and Trump seems to know it: He mused on Monday about launching criminal prosecutions against pollsters. But Trump’s chances of bouncing back are remarkably slim. That 23 percent of NPR respondents who gave him an “A” may very well represent his floor. If things continue on this trajectory, his approval rating may fall to that number, making him the least popular president in the country’s history.
In the very best scenario—for Trump, at least—“Liberation Day” would be analogous to what the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan was for Joe Biden’s popularity. After that debacle, Biden’s popularity rapidly slid and never recovered. Americans may have wanted to leave Afghanistan, but they clearly had expectations that we would not leave the country in the Taliban’s hands and strand many Afghans who had aided the American occupation. The fallout (and the relentlessly negative media coverage) led to the impression that Biden was weak, infirm, and incapable of leading—a perception that would ultimately doom not only his presidency but the Democrats’ hopes of holding onto the White House.
“Liberation Day” seems to have woken a lot of Americans up to something they had inexplicably forgotten: Trump is the same profoundly incompetent and stupid person who, just a few years ago, they did not like very much. Trump may be counting on his trade war somehow working, but much would have to go right for his popularity to recover. For one, that trade war would have to deliver what Trump promises it will: mass prosperity, an end to the income tax, and the return of well-paying manufacturing jobs—which pretty much everyone, aside from Trump and a handful of slavish loyalists, agrees is impossible. He would also have to somehow turn back time and restore the pre-Covid economy that many Americans remembered so fondly when they voted for him a second time. This is also impossible. He would probably also have to end the war in Ukraine—but in a way that doesn’t give Russia everything it wants, which is Trump’s current, and truly artless, negotiating position—and somehow repair America’s absolutely destroyed global reputation. None of that is going to happen, either.
It’s more likely that everything is going to get a lot worse. Trump’s approval ratings are historically awful right now, even though he has managed to delay the worst effects of his trade war. But he is still stubbornly clinging to tariffs, which inevitably will cause product shortages and rising costs in the near future—not to mention a potential recession, the odds of which are worryingly high.
A lot of other things will likely hurt his popularity too. Trump seems to believe that ending the war in Ukraine will win him a Nobel peace prize, but while Americans may have
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I think I see what Trump is trying to do, but it needs to happen pretty much all at the same time to work:
Drop the value of the dollar, making exports cheaper and imports more expensive. At the same time ...
Reduce the deficit. That should allow the Fed to ...
Drop interest rates. In addition to making capital for investment cheaper, it reduces the amount of $ that adds to the deficit.mm??
Tariff goods from nations that have excessive trade surpluses with the USA. Someone actually figured out where he got his original tariff numbers from: trade surplus with the USA divided by total exports.
Reduce income taxes to stimulate purchases at home, and use tariffs to replace them with.
I get it, but the timing is awfully close.
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AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Step 1: Trump withdraws the nuclear umbrella protecting Canada from Russia's threats to nuke Canada over conflict in the Arctic.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ixStringJack, you really should think about what happens when Canada builds H-bombs for self-protection, when Trump says Canada is no longer protected from Russia's ambitions in the Arctic by America's nuclear umbrella.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
At the end of the day, Canada has just about zero say in the matter.
Once we stop offering military aid to everyone, they're all going to go bankrupt paying for free healthcare and anything else they're looking to fund on top of their own defense budget.
Canada has no leverage at all here, and I suspect there will come a day where Canada is asking us if they can join. I hope at that point the answer is no.
You have a point there. If we allow Canada to build nuclear weapons that's probably not a great idea since it will be a Muslim country in 2 generations.
Step 2: Canada starts building its nuclear umbrella, replacing the umbrella Trump controls.
Step 3: Trump invades Canada to stop the nuclear umbrella from being built.
Step 4: Trump gives Russia the Canadian land that Putin wants. Don't say Trump won't. Trump is giving away Ukrainian land that Putin wants. But Ukraine rudely refuses to sign the documents.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
I fail to see any motive for any of this.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I think I see what Trump is trying to do, but it needs to happen pretty much all at the same time to work:
Drop the value of the dollar, making exports cheaper and imports more expensive. At the same time ...
Reduce the deficit. That should allow the Fed to ...
Drop interest rates. In addition to making capital for investment cheaper, it reduces the amount of $ that adds to the deficit.mm??
Tariff goods from nations that have excessive trade surpluses with the USA. Someone actually figured out where he got his original tariff numbers from: trade surplus with the USA divided by total exports.
Reduce income taxes to stimulate purchases at home, and use tariffs to replace them with.
I get it, but the timing is awfully close.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
I'm not even going to pretend to know like most folk these days seem to. Everybody is an economist in 2025 all of the sudden, right?
I think everyone needs to worry about their own budgets and figuring out how they got themselves into their own record debt and leave money to people who understand how money works.
80% of anybody right now who tells you anything about the economy would struggle to operate a cash register.
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Quote:6ix, do you remember writing this? "Once we stop offering military aid to everyone, they're all going to go bankrupt paying for free healthcare and anything else they're looking to fund on top of their own defense budget." Once Trump folds the nuclear umbrella which is protecting Canada, then Russia can drop a small nuke on Ottawa. What's Canada going to do about it if it doesn't have a way to nuke the Russians? That's why there is a Step 2: Canada starts building its nuclear umbrella, replacing the umbrella Trump controls.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Step 1: Trump withdraws the nuclear umbrella protecting Canada from Russia's threats to nuke Canada over conflict in the Arctic.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:6ixStringJack, you really should think about what happens when Canada builds H-bombs for self-protection, when Trump says Canada is no longer protected from Russia's ambitions in the Arctic by America's nuclear umbrella.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
At the end of the day, Canada has just about zero say in the matter.
Once we stop offering military aid to everyone, they're all going to go bankrupt paying for free healthcare and anything else they're looking to fund on top of their own defense budget.
Canada has no leverage at all here, and I suspect there will come a day where Canada is asking us if they can join. I hope at that point the answer is no.
You have a point there. If we allow Canada to build nuclear weapons that's probably not a great idea since it will be a Muslim country in 2 generations.
Step 2: Canada starts building its nuclear umbrella, replacing the umbrella Trump controls.
Step 3: Trump invades Canada to stop the nuclear umbrella from being built.
Step 4: Trump gives Russia the Canadian land that Putin wants. Don't say Trump won't. Trump is giving away Ukrainian land that Putin wants. But Ukraine rudely refuses to sign the documents.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
I fail to see any motive for any of this.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Russia would never nuke Canada and Canada would not need to build nukes to retaliate against Russia if Trump would leave military relationships the way things were before January 2025. Or Trump can do as he is now doing, which is announcing that the US military isn't protecting anybody any more as long as Trump doesn't feel like doing it, which depends on Trump's fluctuating moods. Canada and Trump don't know how he will feel when Russia nukes Canada. Canada can't depend on Trump to act responsibly, consistently, wisely, or sensibly. Everything is in unknowable flux with Trump around.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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