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The Trump Tariffs, to be announced today after stock markets close will be the undeniable display of Trump’s sheer incompetence and dishonesty as well as the inability of any of the few sane adults in the room to point out that the Mad King has no clothes. By Trump’s own (totally made up) numbers, the tariffs will impose a $6 trillion sales tax on the American people, the largest tax increase in American history by far. The half-hearted and explanations Trump apologists have barely even attempted to offer range from forehead-slapping stupidity (“tariffs actually a tax cut”) to outright shameless (tariffs are paid by the export country, Canadian fentanyl, misrepresentation of various alleged trade grievances etc). Their attempts at explanation have been weak because they know they don’t have to explain themselves to their mindless unquestioning supporters and they couldn’t come up with anything remotely plausible if they tried. American prices will increase. American jobs will be lost. The Stock market will continue to tank. All because of the stunning stupidity of one man and the shameless sycophancy of his administration officials. Remember Trump said everything would get better on DAY ONE of his administration not that he was going to destroy the economy then build back better from the ruins. For the American Trump supporters out there, as you watch your country spiral into a completely self-inflicted economic crisis caused by ONE MAN ALONE, just remember: elections have consequences.

This will be a confusing time for the Republican base, who don't seem to know anything of politics aside from the price of eggs and gas. They don't know or care about the unprecedented attacks on civil liberties, private business, the environment, education, human rights etc., but they are all consumers. We are 3.5 months into this unmitigated disaster, but most of them aren't aware. They will notice this though.

Name one other democracy who deports law abiding residents in the country legally for free speech “contrary to the nation’s values”. In fact name one other US President who has done that. And who gets to decree what the country’s values are anyways? This just YET ANOTHER example that all the Republican talk about free speech and ending cancel culture is just total BS. Republicans are some of the worst cancellers out there.

The profits could have been much more had all those oil and gas energy projects not been cancelled because of Liberal hostility to that sector. Energy East, Northern Gateway and on and on.

These are the same people for whom George Soros was the boogeyman for decades because he supported liberal organizations financially. Too much influence! And now we have Musk nakedly offering cash for signatures, support and realistically for votes. Everyone knows that this is not how democracy is supposed to work, but his ideological allies are willing to overlook it because they believe in the MAGA dogma far more than they believe in democratic values. We're just a quick jump away from auctioning off political positions to the highest bidder. Extreme income inequality bleeding into electoral inequality.

You think she can READ?1?!

They were in the country legally and had broken no laws. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/yale-fascism-expert-on-fleeing-to-canada-1.7499515 Which one of these is not happening in the US?

Yes. Such an important "federal" issue. Were you aware that out of 500,000 total college student athletes, fewer than 10 are transgender. 500,000...... So, of course donald made this important "federal" issue one of the first things he corrected. So important, in fact, that he addressed it before addressing high prices accross the board. As a matter of fact, donalds actions have only caused prices to surge. The exact opposite of what he promised to handle on "day one". Now, I do not agree that trans women should be allowed to compete against cis women in many instances. But, what you and all your dimwitted maga buddies are failing to recognize, is this culture war circus of the right wing is designed to keep you looking at the "shining" object over here ( trans), while donald and his billionaire cronies are attempting to slide their tiny, flaccid members into the back door of the heartland of America.

LOL...boy are you ever thick.

Like what? You are the perpetual giver of meaningless statements.

Didn't you hear Trumpy Boy whining yesterday? If he does run again it will really be for a fourth term as the 2020 election was stolen from him. He's still spouting the same bullshit, and they're still gobbling it up like it's candy. It's not just postings this morning, these people are April Fools their entire adult lives.

really hate to tell YOU so but carney isn't really getting rid of the tax, just the consumer part, and he didn't do it correcty he just did it as a political stunt. So of course it's not going to have the impact we wanted to see. You can ALWAYS trust the liberals to even screw up something like NOT taxing the bejeezuz out of people

$Billions only buys you so much. Strategic error of handing $M checks to buy votes.

Many of us have been saying this all along, but usually ignored by the Liberals and left. Canada is in a crisis with the average person unable to afford a home or the high rents, tent cities and homeless people in every town and city, failing health care system, increasing numbers of people relying on food banks, and a soft-on-crime justice system that almost all the time catches and releases dangerous offenders who then go out to stab someone. "For nine years, Canada has been on the wrong track. We’ve pushed away investment through excessive regulation, long approval timelines, and an unpredictable policy environment. We’ve discouraged risk-takers and entrepreneurs. We’ve punished the industries that built our economy — energy, mining, agriculture, and manufacturing — under the banner of climate virtue and political optics." KLEIN: We’ve got bigger problems than Donald Trump So why are some former conservative campaign advisers talking about changing the focus of the campaign to Trump? What is there to say about Trump? Most politicians know what we have to do. Counter tariffs where sensible and build our economy back. The disastrous past nine years is still the main problem in Canada. It appears Liberals and media are using Trump for talking points. That's all it is. Carney just said resource projects can only proceed if they have free and informed consent of FNs. There is the same old problem. No federal leadership. Rather bending over to a small handful of radical FNs, environmentalists, and leftists who oppose the progress and prosperity of Canada. This proves nothing would change under Carney.

https://www.cnn.com/election/2025 Both races in Florida are called for the Republicans. Guess there isn't a lot of buyer's remorse. This is after the democrats poured tons of money into both races. Way to waste that money Dems.

Again? Sigh. We are both. They are not exclusive. As long as we the people are electing our leaders, it's democracy in action.

That is not buying an election, it is no different than asking why someone spent their time going door to door or standing on the street corner or having a rally... all of those things are time and money spent to support candidates and causes. That is speech.

So why did Musk spend over 20 million on the election including giving million dollar cheques to two supporters? Because he is just a nice guy? This is fun. You make every excuse in the world for it but just can't say you support it. Keep on squirming.

Link “When we saw these numbers, we’re like, ‘What is this?’ In 2021, you see 270,000 people; it goes all the way to 2.1 million in 2024. These are noncitizens getting Social Security numbers. This literally blew us away—like, we went there to find fraud, and we found this by accident,” he added. “So what happens then?” he continued. “Once you’re in the country and you’ve got asylum … you can apply for a work document. You file a 765; it’s the work form. You get this form called the 766 — that’s the authorization — and then the Social Security Administration automatically sends you your Social Security number in the mail. No interview, no ID.” Musk then piped up to share his belief that this handing out of millions of Social Security numbers to illegal aliens was done purposefully. “People sometimes think under the Biden administration, he was simply asleep at the switch,” Musk began. “He wasn’t asleep; they weren’t asleep at the switch. It was a massive, large-scale program to import as many illegals as possible, ultimately to change the entire voting map of the United States and disenfranchise the American people and make it a permanent deep blue one-party state from which there would be no escape.” ****************************** I wanted to type that it is amazing the fraud the left has been committing. But it isn't. What's amazing is that we are finding the proof.

The more blatant the abuse the harder they defend it. It's in the MAGA handbook.

Yes, you are insane since you have the audacity to believe your unsubstantiated BULLSHIT means something. You MAGA CULT have your irreplaceable leader named Trump and that's what makes yours a CULT. Democrats have NO irreplaceable leaders, and that's why Biden was promptly replaced.

The carbon tax was unpopular. The only "idea' Poilievre had was to campaign against it, and it was good fodder for him. Now that Trudeau is gone and Carney has walked away from the carbon tax, PP is just punching at air, and that's what you're probably more upset about than anything. Now he has to come up with something better than a low-brow 3-word slogan. To say it's "stealing" to abandon bad policy is really weird logic.

I can still recall mom leaving an ashtray out for the doctor's house calls.

I'm clearly an uncommon one. Remember how many times I've said Trudeau should have faced criminal charges? I must have said it a dozen times but it always just whistles right by you doesn't it? Do you people actually close your eyes stick your fingers in your ears and sing la la la? You have the typical pig headed stubbornness of a chud.

I heard a rumour that Pierre Poilievre isn't actually a biological male, and that he goes to furry conventions. It might not be true, but we should definitely talk about that too. 🤡

I guess. Did PP have a patent on it or something? Maybe you're talking it to personally.

That might not not be not untrue maybe -Typical Mike answer.

He suggested participating in the murder of a political rival. That's not a joke. the left insists people should be jailed for 'misgendering' someone even as a joke. Encouraging people to capture and turn someone in to be murdered is a hell of a lot worse than that

Finally, something useful. Thank you.

LOL, thats what I figured. You got owned and have nothing to say.

I can see you are having reading comprehension issues. I never used the words "no big deal". You did. What i said was, it's all part of the "bread and Circus" guise designed to keep people looking the other way as he and his billionaire cronies f___ the planet up the arse. What a toddler you are.

Agreed. I've pointed that out myself a number of times here. I call it the 'why are we even talking about this" defense. LIke whenever there's a topic MIke Hardner doesn't like or can't refute he immediately posts "why are we even talking about this?" and then whines about it for a bit. And we see it quite a bit from the left. "WE MUST BAN OFFENSIVE DR SEUSS BOOKS!!!!" Ok, so you're supporting book bans now. Why do you want to ban those books? "EER.... WHY ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT THIS, ARE DR SEUSS BOOKS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN YOUR LIFE?!?!"

If it's not important then why talk about it? Just agree that men will play with men and women with women and be done with it. I mean... why do you think it's SUCH and important federal issue?

You can be free as long as you don't break the law. That's because they're not citizens. Only citizens have the right to speak out. Everyone else needs to shut the f*ck up and respect their host country.

https://michaelhardner.blogspot.com/2019/12/human-caused-climate-change-hardners.html?m=1 Didn't make huh?

And academics and intellectuals have started fleeing the country for Canada as Trump continues to abuse political power and the legal system to crack down on free thought and free speech.

Yeah. When the CPC hears about that kind of behavior it doesn't hesitate. They don't let them stay on and run like Carney does

Sigh. Ok so show us the science and lets take a look at whether it's a crisis or anything to worry about at all. Lots of things exist, including your derranged paranoia. But that doesn't mean they're worth time worrying about. So.. lets see the science. No? No? Anyone? Buller? ANyway it can't exist, i paid my carbon tax for years so it's gone now right? Otherwise why would the liberals kill the tax.

I also agree... shooting this series as 4 long continuous shots was a bit painful. Extremely painful when it came to the van ride to the hardware store. I get they were going for a certain bit of artistry, but I think they could have gotten that with just one continuous shoot of the therapy session with the boy. That one made the most sense.

1. He is governing by executive order and using emergency legislation intended for wars to justify breaking trade agreements he signed. 2. Yet you complain whenever courts point this out to Trump You only believe in the laws Trump doesn't decide to break.

We just laugh when you bring these up. We just don't think the 1% should run the government or be anywhere near as close and influential as it is to public policy makers.

You have to admit, forcefully conquering a friendly country just because you want it is pretty fascist. They’re not even pretending to have any other plans..

Dogma of the left is that gov't should run everything Then they get mad when you bring up venezuela or cuba.

The brainwashing is complete when people actually believe only 'the left' oppose blatat imperialism. And constantly deny and get triggered by accusations of fascism all the while being unable to differentiate what they want from the very definition of it.

Check the calendar. What day is it tomorrow?

If you come from a major position in the private sector you’re likely to have some potential conflicts of interest, not bizarre Trumpy ones where you’re clearly trying to rip the whole country off but as a natural consequence of your previous work. If we want such people in politics we need to give them some leeway on this. Somebody even mentioned the use of tax havens. To this I would say, if something is legal and you don’t like it, campaign to get the law changed.

Umm... muslims WERE the people saying god hates fags. Those are your heros remember

I read ^this and found NO ILLUMINATION. Try again. Meanwhile, Gabbard's claim about Brennan and Schiff: IS NONSENSE when they had NO ROLE in surveillance of ANY KIND, let alone "KGB-style." LMAO

Brennan and Schiff were not part of the intel community and had nothing to do with running surveillance in 2021. AKA ^just BULLSHIT.