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  1. Let’s just recap that Trump said the birthday letter was a lie and fake news when it fact it was real and TRUMP was ONCE AGAIN not proven to be the liar but caught attacking the truth teller. The fact that his cult followers refuse to acknowledge this is proof that they’re a cult.
  2. Yea everybody already knows that. What does that have to do with anything There’s some debunked Batshit
  3. Oh look a random stranger who may not even be a real person posted something on social media, it must all be true. Pretty cryptic. Sure sounds like there’s a sexual secret there.
  4. I don’t know about either of these systems specifically but my first thought is that are intended to operate under the guidance a crewed “mothership” of some (whether sub, ship or aircraft” that can switch kill mode on or off and designate those targets in the first place Unless there’s some outright war with a free-fire zone where subs can simply sink ships at will (unheard of nowadays) there usually needs to be a human in the kill chain authorizing a ship to be sunk.
  5. Major US Brands Sound Alarm Over Rising Anti-American Sentiment A number of companies, including many of the country's most quintessentially American brands, have warned that growing anti-Americanism as a result of President Donald Trump's tariffs could end up hurting their success overseas. Experts believe that the trend, if it translates into a broad-based shift in consumer behavior, could prove to be a significant headwind for the companies while taking a significant toll on the broader U.S. economy. Why It Matters Anti-Americanism has been on the rise globally, driven largely by the trade policies of the current administration that impacted countries' views as a critical threat to their exports and international trade more generally. Calls to boycott the American economy have gained traction in Canada since early this year—also sparked by Trump's "51st state" remarks—and have already impacted tourism to the U.S. and the sale of American products. These have recently spread to India as a result of the 50 percent duties placed on its goods, with lawmakers and activists urging less dependence on American multinationals and a greater emphasis on economic self-sufficiency. What To Know According to business intelligence firm Morning Consult, Trump's tariff announcements in early April coincided with a "staggering upswing" in global anti-American sentiment, which it said had already resulted in "steep drops in purchasing consideration" for some U.S. companies overseas, "suggesting that worsening views of America are rapidly taking a toll on some brands' health." In July, ahead of the reimposition of Trump's "reciprocal" tariffs, it said that "anti-Americanism" could pose a significant risk to brands given the combination of potential price impacts and "sharply negative sentiment toward the United States" on consumer shopping habits. A number of companies have noted this trend. David Gibbs, CEO of KFC and Taco Bell parent Yum Brands, told analysts in late April that the company was closely monitoring the issue and its impact on consumer behavior, but added that there had not been an observable impact on its sales. However, California-based Beyond Meat, known for its plant-based meat substitutes, said in March that it had concerns over a shift in global consumer behavior as a result of growing opposition to the U.S. In an annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company listed this as one of the "risk factors" it would be monitoring going forward. "There is no assurance that we would be able to pass on any cost increases, in full or at all, to our customers, and/or we could lose customers in countries such as Canada due to anti-American sentiment, any of which could materially affect our revenue, gross margin and results of operations," the filing read. In May, McDonald's similarly noted an increase in "anti-American sentiment" but said that there had been no change in global perceptions of the company's brand or its sales as a result. "What we have seen in our survey work is that there has been an increase in people in various markets saying that they are going to be cutting back their purchase of American brands," CEO Chris Kempczinski said. "And we've seen an uptick in anti-American sentiment—call it 8- to 10-point increase in anti-American sentiment—most pronounced in Northern Europe and Canada." This week, Kempczinski again warned that global consumers appear to be increasingly avoiding American brands as a result of negative perceptions of the country. "The aura around America has dimmed a bit," he told CNBC, adding that the company would be leaning more into its local appeal—"our locality"—rather than its "Americanness." Brown-Forman, the parent company of Jack Daniel's, recently reported a 62 percent year-over-year decline in Canadian sales in its first quarter. During a subsequent earnings call, executives blamed it on the trade dispute between Canada and the U.S., as well as the ongoing moratorium on American spirit sales across several Canadian provinces. In a regulatory filing last week, denim brand Levi's listed "rising anti-Americanism as a consequence of the Trump tariffs and governmental policies" among the risks it was facing this year. The company added that this could result in consumers "possibly shifting away from U.S. products and brands." Jill Klein, a professor of marketing at Melbourne Business School, told Newsweek that her research into "international animosity" and its effects on consumer behavior suggests that the growing tide of anti-American sentiment is "likely to have a substantial impact on U.S. companies." Usha Haley, W. Frank Barton distinguished chair in international business at Wichita State University, said that the risk was highest in "identity categories." "Brands that signal Americanness such as jeans, whiskey and tech are most exposed to substitution toward local and European options when anti-U.S. sentiment spikes," she said. What People Are Saying Alan Bradshaw, professor of marketing at Royal Holloway, University of London, told Newsweek: "Perhaps one thing that we can expect is that those brands who have heavily leveraged their American identity—think Hershey's, Coca-Cola, Levi's, Hummer, Budweiser, Nike—are now particularly exposed and we may start to see these brands move towards a different type of imagery. However, these are huge brands with well established 'Customer Based Brand Equity.' This means that they have invested huge amounts in building brand iconicity based on Americana over the decades and changing course would be very costly and not necessarily a good idea." Usha Haley of Wichita State University told Newsweek: "Consumers' backlash tends to harden into non-market barriers—such as retaliatory tariffs, local-content rules, public-procurement preferences, labeling, standards friction, data-localization and targeted inspections. "Heavily regulated, tariff-sensitive products are especially vulnerable when sentiment and policy move together." Steve H. Hanke, professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University and former senior economist on President Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, told Newsweek: "It is very hard to make a sweeping statement about the bottom-line impact of rising anti-Americanism on American brands. What we do know is that for some specific American brands, the impact will be nontrivial." Takeshi Niinami, chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings, whose brands include Jim Beam and Maker's Mark, told Bloomberg TV in April that the current tariff situation had reduced countries' "appetite" to invest in the U.S. "If this continues, I don't think [the U.S. economy will be] very attractive. So we have to find other places, other countries like India, Indonesia. So we have to have a bigger portfolio of investment." https://www.newsweek.com/us-bands-warn-anti-american-sentiment-hurting-sales-2125050?utm_source=Flipboard&utm_medium=App&utm_campaign=Partnerships
  6. By that definition there has never been a crisis and crises don’t exist, because humans always cope with anything that happens. Can you name one thing in history that meets your definition of a crisis because people couldn’t “cope” with it? The natural disasters are more and they’re more severe and accelerating. Some places will be so subjected to droughts fires floods etc that it will no longer be practical to live there. Hoax was the consensus at the time. Conservative opinion has shifted in the face of reality even they can’t deny. No it was not “thoroughly debunked” nor was it banned from being used for education. The court case you’re referring to found that the central claims of the documentary were “broadly accurate” even if a few of the example details Gore provided overreached. For example if you say drinking bleach is bad because it will kill you instantly when the fact is you will die in a hospital several days later and some people even managed to survive, it doesn’t mean you’re a liar and your claim that drinking bleach is deadly has been “debunked.” Furthermore the court agreed the film should still be used in education albeit with clarification where gore’s specific examples don’t align with mainstream scientific consensus. The main claims of the film were all upheld, specifically (per chatgpt): Global temperatures are rising. The court accepted Gore’s evidence that average global surface temperatures had increased over the 20th century. Human activity is the primary driver. The film’s claim that rising greenhouse gases, especially CO₂ from fossil fuels, are responsible for most of the observed warming was upheld as accurate. Melting of Arctic sea ice and glaciers. The court agreed these were well-documented phenomena linked to global warming. Sea level rise is real (though not 20 feet imminently). While Gore’s timescale was off, the court accepted that sea levels were rising and would continue to rise due to climate change. More extreme weather events are expected. The IPCC had already linked warming to an increased risk of extreme events, even if attributing specific storms (like Katrina) was not settled science. Spread of diseases and health impacts. The court accepted that climate change could contribute to the spread of infectious diseases and create public health challenges. General warnings about risk. The judge said Gore’s advocacy message — that unchecked climate change could cause severe global impacts — was not inconsistent with the consensus, though some details needed qualifying. How does one “scientifically” prove something is a crisis???? Seriously it begs the question. The science that climate change is real, human caused, and results in rapidly escalating deadly disasters is settled science. And it’s hilarious that you would even suggest “not a drop of science” is typical of the left when the left is the only side who actually believes in science while the right is constantly attacking science and making one baseless claim after another on any range of topics from anti-vax batshit to bogus claims of election fraud and fentanyl to certain forum members making absurd claims like Nazis being socialists and indigenous people dying off from European diseases having nothing to do with the arrival of Europeans, to saying Carney was photographed with Epstein and admittied to being his acquaintance …. the right always makes up bogus crap without offering any evidence for their nonsense because there is none. . I mean look who is Trump’s Health Secretary is. As I mentioned earlier, by this definition there is no such thing as a crisis because humans can adapt to anything. But let me ask you this: who is going to pay for all that adaptation? Upgrading and replacing all our infrastructure is going to mean spending billions and billions of tax dollars and you people don’t like that. It means new laws and regulations around things like water use and outdoor burning and building codes so on, you people don’t like that kind of thing either. And people in the countries that aren’t able to do those things are going to mass migrate here and you people won’t like that either. Your insurance premiums will go through the roof and nobody likes that. Your belief that somehow the problem will solve itself so we should all just stop paying attention to it and pretend it doesn’t exist is pretty silly. That’s a silly argument. The only way to have a p1ssfree hot tub is for all bathers to stop pissing. Your argument is you saying you’re going to keep pissing because your p1ss alone makes up only a small percentage of the total p1ss and you’re encouraging all the other pissers to have the same mentality, effectively it’s a pact for all the pissers to keep on pissing.. Instead of leading by example and encouraging others to do the same you want to follow the lowest common denominator and denying a problem exists. We live in a democracy and our politicians are not immune to political pressure, they do not have dictator powers. The carbon tax was never supposed to “solve all our problems” and didn’t “do zero” either those are totally false claims. As someone who gets all worked up when perceiving even the tiniest inconsistencies in any statements from ”the left” as horrendous lies, you shouldn’t take such liberties with the facts That’s not true at all, that debate got settled in favour of nukes being the lesser of 2 evils a decade or 2 ago. It’s been a REALLY LONG TIME since I’ve seen any anti-nuke stuff coming from any environmentalists.
  7. He’s said that about every world leader he meets including Xi and Putin. And Carney is a likeable guy who is known and liked by leaders around the world. But Trump certainly never said he “loved” him as you claimed. And would you prefer it if he hated him? I mean you didn’t like that he hated Trudeau. Dropping all our counter-tariffs, Dropping Supply Management, Changing Softwood lumber practices, they even reportedly complained about GST and something about “opening” our banking system but not sure there was an actual demand there. As I keep reminding you, the “strategic sector” tariffs on steel, aluminium, etc with more apparently to come are against the entire world, not Canada specifically and the other countries aren’t retaliating We are matching the tariffs levied specifically at Canada Well these are rarely made public so who knows. carney also has Harper advising him and Poillievre playing the part of Jaghmeet Singh and propping up the Liberal government in parliament so it’s strange times. Like what are you trying to claim that Carney is a far right extremist after all? That would be a pretty absurd statement. Who knows why he is not attending but in reference to your statement don’t think it’s bad when an extremist doesn’t want to associate with people he considers his political enemies.
  8. 1) It wasn’t Pierre’s idea, the auto industry has been asking for this for a long time, which is where PP got it from 2)PP wanted to SCRAP, not pause the mandate 3) The whole “Carney is copying PP” claim is a load of BS. In fact PP’s campaign platform which he released AFTER Carney was full of last-minute ripoffs from Carney after he finally accepted at the 11th hour his “just like Justin” campaign was a total flop.
  9. Unmanned drones will be a supplement rather than a replacement for a lot of manned vehicles but especially submarines. The ability to communicate with submerged submarines is very limited so data links needed for proper oversight I can’t see us allowing aan AI powered sub just sail wherever it feels like sailing and kill whoever it feels like killing Especially when talking about subs with ballistic and cruise missile launch capabilities.
  10. Multiple news outlets reported receiving the exact same official statement from the White House. It’s not an anonymous leak.
  11. No anonymous source, you dummy. That was an official statement from the White House. The full quote is; “Helping Thomas Massie and Liberal Democrats with their attention-seeking, while the DOJ is fully supporting a more comprehensive file release effort from the Oversight Committee, would be viewed as a very hostile act to the administration” And MTG is saying the White House tried to bully her also Greene says she got ‘a lot’ of pushback from White House over Epstein discharge petition Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said she got “a lot” of pushback from the White House over supporting a discharge petition aiming to force the administration to release all of the documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “Oh, I got a lot of pushback. I got phone call after phone call last night. They didn’t want me to sign the discharge petition. They want to focus on the Oversight [Committee] investigation. They hate Thomas Massie more than they can hate any Democrat, which makes no sense to me. ….. https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5485249-greene-pushback-white-house-epstein-discharge-petition/amp/ And as a side note you conspiracy kooks should know that the mainstream media doesn’t fake stories from anonymous sources. You guys are just so ignorant of how the world works you can be fooled into believing any kind of crazy conspiracy.
  12. House Nears Vote on Epstein Files as White House Calls Effort ‘Hostile Act’ A bipartisan group of House lawmakers is pushing to force a vote on releasing all federal files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, despite fierce opposition from the Trump administration and GOP leadership. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., filed a discharge petition Tuesday that would compel the Justice Department to release all unclassified Epstein investigation materials within 30 days. The rare procedural move allows lawmakers to bypass House leadership and force a floor vote if they secure 218 signatures. …The White House warned Tuesday that supporting the petition would be viewed as “a very hostile act to the administration,” while House Speaker Mike Johnson called Massie’s efforts “meaningless.” https://thedeepdive.ca/house-nears-vote-on-epstein-files-as-white-house-calls-effort-hostile-act/
  13. That’s how it’s done. The submarine contenders were narrowed down to 2 finalists and they’ll be visiting the Korean facilities soon. No, you’re just so extremely biased you can’t discern reality. Lets just recap that they’ve held numerous full court press conferences on the international stage to unveil these military spending initiatives, announced by the PM himself while standing beside foreign leaders and citing very specific measures and hard numbers, and have reinforced and repeated those statements in virtually every public appearance. Sure, Governments don’t always keep all of their promises but most people understand that they sure wouldn’t ever make such a public commitment to the public and to other heads of state central to their entire agenda if they had no intention of following through. Most people understand the promises they walk away from are the ones that are vague, brief, distanced from the PM and senior cabinet members, and rarely mentioned in public But if you’re someone who believes every single member of the liberal party and anyone who’s voted for them boils and eats babies while raping their own grandmother then there’s no convincing you.
  14. So you have insults with no rebuttal, typical. Read the OP in this thread for fuks sake for more examples and stop being such a clueless ignorant dropout
  15. Meanwhile in places with sensible gun laws and sane people, school shootings and armed right wing white supremacists plotting massacres aren’t even a regular thing.
  16. This is what passes for good news in USA. A white supremacist extremist tried to shoot up a school full of black kids but got caught just in time “We finally caught one!”
  17. Another empty troll post. When you first showed up on this forum you used to at least try to say something intelligent. Now all you do is post insults and troll. Something must’ve happened in your life recently. Like you lost your job or your wife left you or something, you’re just a miserable old fuk now.
  18. Same ways they got in when Republicans were in charge That’s not true and not what sanctuary city means. For starters cities don’t run prisons for “convicted criminals” and aren’t in charge of handling convicts when they’re released from prison you clueless dumfuk. Why don’t you learn how to think before spouting your BS Give an example Remember, you said convicted criminals It’s not only those people though, you’re either lying or extremely stupid if unaware that most of the thousands of people swept up have no criminal history. One Turkish PHD student was snatched up and deported simply because 2 years ago she co-authored an article in the student newspaper critical of Israel’s policies. Many are law abiding and upstanding members of their community who have technical/paperwork issues or an old misdemeanour from decades ago or just happened to encounter the wrong border officer who’s a closet fascist.
  19. You’re clearly wrong. They literally just returned from touring a German submarine factory and extending their commitment in Latvia meanwhile Joly just finished hosting a Canadian defence industry summit. Before that Joly was in Sweden touring Saab defence facilities. We’ve signed on to ReArm Europe which is a pay-to-play program. There was just a massive pay raise and bonus announcement. They’ve made massive increases to defence a prominent centrepiece of their economic and foreign policy. Of course there is going to be massive spending increases. There have been many many public statements announcing increases to meet the NATO 2% this year and 5% in the next few years.
  20. LNG Developer Announces $15B Project Off Newfoundland, Says Carney Policy Changes Made It Happen St. John’s-based Fermeuse Energy Ltd. has unveiled plans for a new $15-billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) project off the coast of Newfoundland, and the company’s CEO says the announcement would never have happened without policy changes introduced by Prime Minister Mark Carney. “Without that, we would not be having a conversation today,” Swapan Kataria, CEO of both Fermeuse Energy and its project partner, London, UK-based Crown LNG, told The Energy Mix Tuesday. “Prime Minister Carney has now started a momentum, started a movement, almost, to build a country,” Kataria added. “I hope he sticks to it, because there are a lot of people like us who committing to put their life and energy and money into building projects in Canada.” The Fermeuse Energy development would include a 380-kilometre pipeline to carry gas from the Jeanne d’Arc Basin east of St. John’s to a liquefaction facility in Fermeuse, about 90 kilometres south of the city, the Globe and Mail reports. The project will use advanced LNG technology to get at an estimated 9.7 trillion cubic feet of offshore gas, about three times the initial estimate for Nova Scotia’s Sable Island development, Fermeuse Energy said in a release. Kataria said the project will take advantage of the new Fermeuse Marine Base, a facility developed to support Newfoundland and Labrador’s offshore sector, while “evolving” it into a gas liquefaction hub. With the site already approved as a marine supply base, Kataria said the LNG project would save 12 to 18 months of development time on environmental approvals that are already in place. So Fermeuse Energy and Crown LNG are planning on 18 to 24 months of regulatory approvals, followed by four years of construction. “Give or take, 54 to 60 months, we should be able to export if we do not get delayed with the regulatory process,” he said. … https://www.theenergymix.com/lng-developer-announces-15b-project-off-newfoundland-says-carney-policy-changes-made-it-happen/
  21. It’s in the works The wallet is being opened you will soon see, fall budget is coming soon
  22. False False Not all of them just the same ones Trump already took off. Don’t omit the facts For the purpose of insights on Trump’s agenda. Which I will admit is pointless since Trump is unstable and not a rational actor And he’s been disinvited now.
  23. Well then by your definition MAGAs are not sane because they made this very partisan from the day Epstein was arrested. . And in the article here both parties are MAGAs whose side are you on? Are you admitting Project Veritas is lying garbage?
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