A Sucker Punch From Your Neighbour/Friend? (US/Canada Trade War)

[LE BARON]

After watching that ... only one reaction is relevant ... ... she's just as demented as her # 1 client

Did you watch the side clip at the bottom. Its even worst.
That is who DJT wants around him. It almost makes him look sane. LOL

 

[LE BARON]

Very good hockey game. Very respectful among the players themselves.
That puts our record I believe against the Team USA at 14/4/1 . Speaks for itself. Of course our Tasteless Leader had to poke the Beast again. Certainly could have been more diplomatic.

The beast needs to be poked. Its the only thing he has a chance of comprehending. Might piss him off but no one is standing up to him. Not the so called GOP nor the DNC. So he is just steamrollering ahead as people run around waving their hands in the air wondering how this can be happening.
The DNC is counting on the judiciary to stop him. Well he, and his lackeys, has already said that the judiciary should not be able to counter the president. At present he hasn't quite seeded the judiciary with enough of his "yes" men but that won't necessarily stop him. That is what Hitler did.

 

[LE BARON]

Now, on the lighter side... How about Team Canada and their victory.

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[Rruuff Day]

Have you been watching Arnold in The Terminator Rruuff? LOL
As I mentioned someplace above, I think P has something on DJT that would be a big embarrassment to him (rumours of Yellow shower). DJT sides with P over the CIA and now is almost saying Ukraine invaded Russia.

Don't laugh. Be afraid, be very afraid. Interestingly enough, that post i wrote last night was pretty much mirrored (in more detail) this morning an hour ago. I almost wondered if this journalist owns a Vette and is a member here... lol.. It's a bit of a long read but sure held my interest. Here it is, less some of the ads and fillers.


Opinion by Thom Hartmann

Former Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger asks a question no current Republican politician appears willing to say out loud for fear that Musk, Trump, or other rightwing billionaires will use the corrupt Citizens United decision to blow them out of the water politically with a multimillion-dollar primary challenge:

“[A]s I watch the behavior of our political leaders, the comments of an ever-increasingly unhinged Trump, and the growing indifference of many Americans toward our role in the world, I have to ask a painful question: Are we now the bad guys?”

It’s a helluva question.

Our nation’s Founders overthrew a king in 1776, and paid a huge price for it. Altogether, seventeen of the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence were wiped out by the war they declared.

The signers wrote in the Declaration, “we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor,” and it was a simple statement of fact. The day they signed that document, each legally became a traitor and was sentenced to death for treason by the ruler who controlled their lands and their homes.

They were all willing to fight and die for the idea of democracy in America. Every one of them.

And now, after 236 years of existence — as Donald Trump bows to Putin and tweets a picture of himself cosplaying king in a gold crown — America is on the verge of becoming an entirely different type of nation.

We’ve always (or nearly always) been on the side of democracies. We fought against fascists in World War II and defeated them. We helped create democratic alliances in Europe and Asia; we led the fight to create the United Nations.

And now we’re joining Russia. This century’s dictatorial, imperial power.

Monday will be the third anniversary of Putin’s brutal invasion and rape of Ukraine. When he was a US Senator, Marco Rubiosaid:

“Vladimir Putin is an authoritarian thug who is accountable to no one. … I don’t think what Vladimir Putin exhibits is leadership: I think what he exhibits is thuggery … and we should be clear-eyed about that. … At the end of the day, Hillary Clinton was part of the single biggest blunder ever when it came to Vladimir Putin, and that’s the reset with Russia.”

Today, Lil’ Marco is talking about “incredible [investment] opportunities” for American billionaires and US corporations who want to do business with Russia.

Just five months ago, Republican Senator Lindsay Graham stood with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy in Washington, DC and said, “You’re the best kind of ally. You fight the Russians so we don’t have to.”

Today, Graham — like every other Republican senator and House member except Thom Tillis — has been cowed into a terrified impotence, unwilling to do anything to stop or block America’s new dictator-friendly democracy-hostile foreign policy.

Our military is being purged along hard-right ideological lines, as was the Department of Justice; the FBI is next on the firing line, although reports suggest that purge began weeks ago.

Virtually every major government agency is under attack by the DOGE hackers, as the America government is being crippled; Putin is no doubt delighted.

Even our defense budget is scheduled to be cut with a chainsaw, just as the threat from Russia and China is at the highest point in our lifetimes.

They shut down children’s cancer research, Alzheimer’s research, and food and drugs for the world’s poorest people. They are laying off FAA employees at the same time planes are falling out of the sky. They’re gutting the staff that processes your Social Security, tax, and Medicare payments.

Trump and his MAGA crowd are tearing our government apart, apparently with the goal of replacing it with something quite different than America has ever experienced before.

An entirely new America. A royal America. An America of, by, and for the morbidly rich.

One that resembles the vision petrobillionaire David Koch laid out in 1980 when he ran for Vice President on a platform calling for the destruction of nearly every federal agency except the Pentagon and the end of all income taxes on billionaires.

A country that will bear little resemblance to that grand idea our Founders fought and died for.

And they’re doing it as fast as they can — dismantling our country, our democracy, and realigning our foreign policy — because they know once Americans catch on we will rise up and try to stop them.

America’s media and our free speech rights are under ideological attack, with every major television network having been sued for millions; one has already capitulated. A Substack newsletter writer was sued for millions by the new FBI Director. Trump even sued a small Iowa newspaper and their pollster because they offended him.

Both Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer and Congressman Robert Garcia have been threatened with investigation and imprisonment by a US attorney for their comments about abortion and politics, despite the Constitution protecting members of Congress from such intimidation. Schumer apologized on the floor of the Senate for saying of SCOTUS justices’ anti-abortion Dobbs decision, “You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price”; Garcia is defiant.

Republicans could stop this, if they will just find their spine. Every soldier in the American military is willing to die for their country on a moment’s notice, every single one, but elected Republicans — who are supposed to have the courage to make decisions about war and peace — won’t even raise their hands or lift their voices.

History will not treat this GOP well.

And to add insult to injury, this week Trump took down the agency that protects our elections from foreign interference. The same sort of influence that may well have put Trump into the White House in the first place.

As The New York Times noted in an article titled “Trump Dismantles Government Fight Against Foreign Influence Operations”:

“Experts are alarmed that the cuts could leave the United States defenseless against covert foreign influence operations and embolden foreign adversaries seeking to disrupt democratic governments.”

Putin’s been playing Trump for a sucker since, apparently, 2017. That was when Trump’s then-National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster said the president had a secret, private meeting with Putin. McMaster tried to warn Trump about Putin but, he wrote in his memoir:

“Putin, a ruthless former KGB operator, played to Trump’s ego and insecurities with flattery. …

“I told Trump how Putin had duped Bush and Obama. ‘Mr President, he is the best liar in the world.’ I suggested that Putin was confident he could ‘play’ Trump and get what he wanted, sanctions relief and the US out of Syria and Afghanistan on the cheap, by manipulating Trump with ambiguous promises of a ‘better relationship’. He would offer cooperation on counterterrorism, cybersecurity and arms control.

“I could tell that Trump was getting impatient with my ‘negative vibe’. I said what I needed to say. If he was going to be contrary, I hoped he would be contrary to the Russian dictator, not to me.”

Yet here we are today, with Trump realigning America toward Putin and away from the democratic republic of Ukraine and the rest of democratic Europe.

As a result, Russia’s next step is to wait until Ukraine runs out of American air defense systems and then just start bombing the crap out of Ukrainian cities. Millions could die and it could lead to World War III, but that seems just fine with Trump.

And, apparently, that’s just fine with every Republican Senator and Congress member except Tillis. America is on the verge of becoming the world’s newest thug nation ruled by fabulously wealthy oligarchs and a man who would be king.

Thus, sadly, the answer to Congressman Kinzinger’s question is clear: Yes, we are now the bad guys, at least for the moment. We are now on the side of the royal ideology of absolute power held by that one man, the King, whose soldiers imprisoned, tortured, and murdered so many of our nation’s Founders.

When Rhode Island’s Stephen Hopkins signed the Declaration of Independence, he remarked to his friend William Ellery that, “My hand trembles, but my heart does not.” But Virginia’s Benjamin Harrison, who weighed nearly 300 pounds, commented to Massachusetts’ Elbridge Gerry, a short, thin man, “With me it [the hanging] will all be over in a minute, but you will be dancing on air an hour after I am gone.”

Will any Republican in today’s House or Senate — the bodies those men created — find even a fraction of the courage of those who founded this nation?

The people of America — and the world — are holding their breath, waiting for the answer.

 

[Murray20c8]

How about Gretzky? Should he get a hall pass? Seems to me he's more a USA'n then a Canadian these days.
Personally I dislike anyone who gives Trump the time of day.

 

[Vettenut]

Did you watch the side clip at the bottom. Its even worst.
That is who DJT wants around him. It almost makes him look sane. LOL

Yea just unbelievable .... she compliments him perfectly ... delusional

And not far off is his press secretary .... as soon as her flame fizzles out... she'll be hired by Fox news ...

If you ever listen to her she gets pissed at reporters if they dont tow the Nazi agenda and bag lick Trump like all the little demons around him

 

[Murray20c8]

Yea just unbelievable .... she compliments him perfectly ... delusional

And not far off is his press secretary .... as soon as her flame fizzles out... she'll be hired by Fox news ...

If you ever listen to her she gets pissed at reporters if they dont tow the Nazi agenda and bag lick Trump like all the little demons around him


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What "side clip"? I didn't / don't see anything. Who is she?

 

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Are you belittling Mr. Ed?

Certainly not ! Mr. Ed for President ! Far superior choice and I think Trump copied his hair style. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

 

[Rruuff Day]

How about Gretzky? Should he get a hall pass? Seems to me he's more a USA'n then a Canadian these days.
Personally I dislike anyone who gives Trump the time of day.

Agree.... It's a shame that Walter (his dad) isn't still alive or he would be kicking his son's ass right now. He's a trump supporter. Obviously doesn't give two $hits about Canada anymore anyway. Took him 14 years to actually accept the Order of Canada we bestowed upon him. The 'great one' has turned into no more than a Trump turd eater. JMO....

 

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Agree.... It's a shame that Walter (his dad) isn't still alive or he would be kicking his son's ass right now. He's a trump supporter. Obviously doesn't give two $hits about Canada anymore anyway. Took him 14 years to actually accept the Order of Canada we bestowed upon him. The 'great one' has turned into no more than a Trump turd eater. JMO....

Makes me think of the crocodile tears when he announced he was leaving the Oilers . He’s been an American for a long time now. Some people……

 

[LE BARON]

Don't laugh. Be afraid, be very afraid. Interestingly enough, that post i wrote last night was pretty much mirrored (in more detail) this morning an hour ago. I almost wondered if this journalist owns a Vette and is a member here... lol.. It's a bit of a long read but sure held my interest. Here it is, less some of the ads and fillers.


Opinion by Thom Hartmann

Former Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger asks a question no current Republican politician appears willing to say out loud for fear that Musk, Trump, or other rightwing billionaires will use the corrupt Citizens United decision to blow them out of the water politically with a multimillion-dollar primary challenge:

“[A]s I watch the behavior of our political leaders, the comments of an ever-increasingly unhinged Trump, and the growing indifference of many Americans toward our role in the world, I have to ask a painful question: Are we now the bad guys?”

It’s a helluva question.

Our nation’s Founders overthrew a king in 1776, and paid a huge price for it. Altogether, seventeen of the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence were wiped out by the war they declared.

The signers wrote in the Declaration, “we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor,” and it was a simple statement of fact. The day they signed that document, each legally became a traitor and was sentenced to death for treason by the ruler who controlled their lands and their homes.

They were all willing to fight and die for the idea of democracy in America. Every one of them.

And now, after 236 years of existence — as Donald Trump bows to Putin and tweets a picture of himself cosplaying king in a gold crown — America is on the verge of becoming an entirely different type of nation.

We’ve always (or nearly always) been on the side of democracies. We fought against fascists in World War II and defeated them. We helped create democratic alliances in Europe and Asia; we led the fight to create the United Nations.

And now we’re joining Russia. This century’s dictatorial, imperial power.

Monday will be the third anniversary of Putin’s brutal invasion and rape of Ukraine. When he was a US Senator, Marco Rubiosaid:

“Vladimir Putin is an authoritarian thug who is accountable to no one. … I don’t think what Vladimir Putin exhibits is leadership: I think what he exhibits is thuggery … and we should be clear-eyed about that. … At the end of the day, Hillary Clinton was part of the single biggest blunder ever when it came to Vladimir Putin, and that’s the reset with Russia.”

Today, Lil’ Marco is talking about “incredible [investment] opportunities” for American billionaires and US corporations who want to do business with Russia.

Just five months ago, Republican Senator Lindsay Graham stood with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy in Washington, DC and said, “You’re the best kind of ally. You fight the Russians so we don’t have to.”

Today, Graham — like every other Republican senator and House member except Thom Tillis — has been cowed into a terrified impotence, unwilling to do anything to stop or block America’s new dictator-friendly democracy-hostile foreign policy.

Our military is being purged along hard-right ideological lines, as was the Department of Justice; the FBI is next on the firing line, although reports suggest that purge began weeks ago.

Virtually every major government agency is under attack by the DOGE hackers, as the America government is being crippled; Putin is no doubt delighted.

Even our defense budget is scheduled to be cut with a chainsaw, just as the threat from Russia and China is at the highest point in our lifetimes.

They shut down children’s cancer research, Alzheimer’s research, and food and drugs for the world’s poorest people. They are laying off FAA employees at the same time planes are falling out of the sky. They’re gutting the staff that processes your Social Security, tax, and Medicare payments.

Trump and his MAGA crowd are tearing our government apart, apparently with the goal of replacing it with something quite different than America has ever experienced before.

An entirely new America. A royal America. An America of, by, and for the morbidly rich.

One that resembles the vision petrobillionaire David Koch laid out in 1980 when he ran for Vice President on a platform calling for the destruction of nearly every federal agency except the Pentagon and the end of all income taxes on billionaires.

A country that will bear little resemblance to that grand idea our Founders fought and died for.

And they’re doing it as fast as they can — dismantling our country, our democracy, and realigning our foreign policy — because they know once Americans catch on we will rise up and try to stop them.

America’s media and our free speech rights are under ideological attack, with every major television network having been sued for millions; one has already capitulated. A Substack newsletter writer was sued for millions by the new FBI Director. Trump even sued a small Iowa newspaper and their pollster because they offended him.

Both Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer and Congressman Robert Garcia have been threatened with investigation and imprisonment by a US attorney for their comments about abortion and politics, despite the Constitution protecting members of Congress from such intimidation. Schumer apologized on the floor of the Senate for saying of SCOTUS justices’ anti-abortion Dobbs decision, “You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price”; Garcia is defiant.

Republicans could stop this, if they will just find their spine. Every soldier in the American military is willing to die for their country on a moment’s notice, every single one, but elected Republicans — who are supposed to have the courage to make decisions about war and peace — won’t even raise their hands or lift their voices.

History will not treat this GOP well.

And to add insult to injury, this week Trump took down the agency that protects our elections from foreign interference. The same sort of influence that may well have put Trump into the White House in the first place.

As The New York Times noted in an article titled “Trump Dismantles Government Fight Against Foreign Influence Operations”:

“Experts are alarmed that the cuts could leave the United States defenseless against covert foreign influence operations and embolden foreign adversaries seeking to disrupt democratic governments.”

Putin’s been playing Trump for a sucker since, apparently, 2017. That was when Trump’s then-National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster said the president had a secret, private meeting with Putin. McMaster tried to warn Trump about Putin but, he wrote in his memoir:

“Putin, a ruthless former KGB operator, played to Trump’s ego and insecurities with flattery. …

“I told Trump how Putin had duped Bush and Obama. ‘Mr President, he is the best liar in the world.’ I suggested that Putin was confident he could ‘play’ Trump and get what he wanted, sanctions relief and the US out of Syria and Afghanistan on the cheap, by manipulating Trump with ambiguous promises of a ‘better relationship’. He would offer cooperation on counterterrorism, cybersecurity and arms control.

“I could tell that Trump was getting impatient with my ‘negative vibe’. I said what I needed to say. If he was going to be contrary, I hoped he would be contrary to the Russian dictator, not to me.”

Yet here we are today, with Trump realigning America toward Putin and away from the democratic republic of Ukraine and the rest of democratic Europe.

As a result, Russia’s next step is to wait until Ukraine runs out of American air defense systems and then just start bombing the crap out of Ukrainian cities. Millions could die and it could lead to World War III, but that seems just fine with Trump.

And, apparently, that’s just fine with every Republican Senator and Congress member except Tillis. America is on the verge of becoming the world’s newest thug nation ruled by fabulously wealthy oligarchs and a man who would be king.

Thus, sadly, the answer to Congressman Kinzinger’s question is clear: Yes, we are now the bad guys, at least for the moment. We are now on the side of the royal ideology of absolute power held by that one man, the King, whose soldiers imprisoned, tortured, and murdered so many of our nation’s Founders.

When Rhode Island’s Stephen Hopkins signed the Declaration of Independence, he remarked to his friend William Ellery that, “My hand trembles, but my heart does not.” But Virginia’s Benjamin Harrison, who weighed nearly 300 pounds, commented to Massachusetts’ Elbridge Gerry, a short, thin man, “With me it [the hanging] will all be over in a minute, but you will be dancing on air an hour after I am gone.”

Will any Republican in today’s House or Senate — the bodies those men created — find even a fraction of the courage of those who founded this nation?

The people of America — and the world — are holding their breath, waiting for the answer.

I read that the day before. Sometimes I wonder how long the US people will let them get away with the crimes they are committing.

 

[Murray20c8]

I read that the day before. Sometimes I wonder how long the US people will let them get away with the crimes they are committing.

Some are not. The federal workers union are going to challenge most of the firings in court. Such waste.

 

[Murray20c8]

And lets strip Musk of his Canadian citizenship!

 

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[Rruuff Day]

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Awwww..... That's a sign of a true patriot. A 3 legged beaver doing his part too....

 

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I read that the day before. Sometimes I wonder how long the US people will let them get away with the crimes they are committing.

Hopefully these numbers will drop even more before the midterms….interesting that Clinton has the highest average approval rating here considering all of the scandals during his tenure. Trump ha the lowest average of all listed .
Donald Trump’s approval ratings can be compared to other U.S. presidents to highlight his standing. Here are some key points of comparison:
• Donald Trump:
• Highest approval: 49%
• Lowest approval: 34%
• Average approval during his presidency: 41%.
• Joe Biden:
• Highest approval: 57%
• Lowest approval: 36%
• Average approval (as of early 2025): 42%.
• Barack Obama:
• Highest approval: 69%
• Lowest approval: 38%
• Average approval: 48%.
• George W. Bush:
• Highest approval: 90%
• Lowest approval: 25%
• Average approval: 49%.
• Bill Clinton:
• Highest approval: 73%
• Lowest approval: 37%
• Average approval: 55%.

 

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Thank god it’s not Donna Trump…..