BeaverFever

Yep It’s not a coincidence that Trump had such affinity for Bolsonaro. Just like the right’s endless affection for Orban, another authoritarian Putin acolyte who has effectively become dictator of Hungary and the model which the right continues to praise.

So you were saying Trump and Trudeau couldn’t work at McDonalds? That’s more acceptable

Do we? Canada probably has an even bigger problem with bad actors entering Canada from the US. All those guns and drugs don’t smuggle themselves The President is not king. The author is suggesting to stall to let pressure from within the US such as states, congress and lobbyists etc take its toll. And after a couple of years if not sooner he will be a lame duck president anyway Not dumb at all. Strength in numbers. Being on the sam page as like-minded allies in congress and state capitals and provinces, coordinating message and activities is an obvious no-brainer. What would be dumb would be if they WEREN’T cooperating and coordinating with each other even though they all have same goal. Not at all. Although it’s not really helpful advice in terms of how to prevent his disastrous policy it’s just advice how not to damage your own image and reputation while doing it.

In other words as usual Republicans propagandists have ZERO evidence to support their made-up claims. I could just as easily say Trump himself is smuggling drugs into Canada and just hasn’t been caught LMAO Trump is objectively not intellectually gifted. In fact as numerous people from his first administration have attested, and as clearly evident from hearing him speak for 2 minutes, his intellect is well below anyone operating at his level of leadership and is more at the level of someone with a high school education at best. The Mexican President was a career scientist by profession (as were both of her parentsa biologist and a chemical engineer). She has degrees in physics and engineering including a Masters and PhD. Talk about a REAL self-made success story. She is orders of magnitude more intellectually gifted than dumbass Trump whose only talent was being born rich. But I suspect that like most right wing bullshitters you didn’t know a single fact about her before deciding to make up false accusations about her.

This is how Canada should deal with Donald Trump, irrational actor ANDREW COYNE PUBLISHED 29 MINUTES Good to see no one is panicking. The president-elect of the United States, in a late-night social-media outburst, has declared he would impose a 25-per-cent tariff on all imports from Canada and Mexico – on his first day in office, yet. He does not necessarily have that authority – constitutionally, tariffs are Congress’s responsibility – but would have to rely on untested emergency powers, exposing him to legal challenges. If implemented, the tariffs would cause immense havoc, not least for Americans, raising prices for consumers and blowing up integrated continental supply chains, exposing him to political blowback. They are also, needless to say, explicitly prohibited under the trilateral free trade agreement to which he is a signatory. The whole idea is so insane that everyone assumes it must be a negotiating tactic – that when Donald Trump ties the tariffs to the two countries’ alleged failure to stem the flow of fentanyl and illegal aliens into the United States, he means he would lift the tariffs if they somehow achieved this. Or if they did something else, or something in addition. But no one knows. He also likes tariffs for their own sake. For that matter, he likes issuing threats for their own sake. And he’s not even president yet. Nevertheless, hardly had the post left his fingertips when prominent voices in this country were heard demanding – well, demanding all sorts of things, none of them sensible. Even in advance of Mr. Trump’s latest threat, the Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, had called for Mexico to be thrown out of NAFTA. Now he wants to blow up bilateral trade, demanding that Canada retaliate against Mr. Trump’s insane and self-destructive tariffs with insane and self-destructive tariffs of its own. Other voices urged a more – what shall we call it? – conciliatory line. Or perhaps “servile” would be better: what the historian and political theorist Timothy Snyder has called “anticipatory obedience.” The Premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith, not content with urging the Canadian government to negotiate at the point of a metaphoric gun, actively took Mr. Trump’s side, noting his “valid concerns” about “illegal activities at our shared border.” The Premier of Saskatchewan, Scott Moe, agreed, noting “we can all benefit from additional border security stopping the flow of illegal drugs and migrants across our borders.” The Premier of Quebec, François Legault, took to social media to fret about the “enormous risk” to Quebec’s economy from Mr. Trump’s tariff threat and demand that “everything possible” be done to avoid it. He offered Justin Trudeau “the full co-operation of the Quebec government” in this regard, by which he meant, as he later clarified, that Quebec must have a place at the negotiating table. As for the federal opposition leaders, they ranged from belligerent (Jagmeet Singh wants a “war room” to “fight like hell”) to irrelevant (Pierre Poilievre says the tariffs are an occasion to axe the carbon tax, as if this had anything to do with anything). Various others could be heard insisting that the Trump tariff threat was proof that it was now time to do whatever they had always advocated doing. All of which is not to endorse the Trudeau government’s approach, so far as it has one. But if the government seems uncertain about how to proceed, it is at least not taking out a billboard to advertise how panicked and compliant it is. It has at least not seized the opportunity, in the early days of what looks to be a lengthy crisis, to say something provably stupid, or appallingly self-serving. It has at least not turned its guns inward, or deserted the country in the face of the enemy. Let’s all take a deep breath, shall we? And after we have, let us agree that there is no practical benefit in attempting to meet Mr. Trump’s demands: because it is wrong to appease a bully, for starters; because to do so can only invite further demands, and further threats; because his “concerns” are not, in fact, “valid” – the amount of fentanyl entering the U.S. from Canada is trivial (U.S. customs agents seized a grand total of 43 pounds of it in the last fiscal year), the number of illegal migrants scarcely less so (U.S. border patrol officers stopped fewer than 24,000 people last year, compared to more than 1.5 million crossing from Mexico); because it is each country’s responsibility to control its own borders, that is, to police the entry of people and goods, not to demand that others police their exit; because if it were such an “easily solvable” matter as Mr. Trump, in his endless devotion to easy solutions, pretends, it would have been done long ago. There is not, in short, a great deal we can do to satisfy Mr. Trump, and if there were, we would have no assurance that he would remain satisfied for long. There is no point in negotiating with terrorists. As Trump threatens tariffs, here are five things we know so far (It’s not even a negotiation. A negotiation is when each side comes to the table, not only with demands, but with something to offer in return. Just threatening to do something horrible if your demands are not met is not negotiating. It’s blackmail. It’s the difference between offering to write a story in exchange for money and threatening to.) More than that, it represents a fundamental misunderstanding of Mr. Trump – a trap that those of us in the reality-based world continue to fall into, which is to attribute to him a rationality he does not possess. It is irrational enough to threaten to impose 25-per-cent tariffs on your nearest neighbours and major trading partners, for problems they did not cause. It is doubly irrational as a response to problems that are, in fact, subsiding: The number of unauthorized crossings on the Mexican border is falling, not rising (monthly encounters in September, at 54,000, were down 75 per cent from the year previous; for the entire fiscal year, they were down 14 per cent), as are the number of fentanyl deaths (off 10 per cent this year). Nevertheless, there is at least in this a notional rationality, a potential for rationality, a theoretical connection between putative cause and putative effect, if not in this world then in some world it is possible to imagine. The idea, often expressed, that Mr. Trump is essentially “transactional” – that he may not be guided by the usual principles of statecraft, let alone any of the higher ideals, but is at least intelligible in purely “what’s in it for me” terms – is based on attributing to him a kind of grubby rationality, as if he were merely a debased version of ourselves. Except there’s no evidence that that’s how he actually thinks. He is not rational, and does not think far enough ahead to connect cause and effect in the usual ways. He is a narcissistic psychopath – a Neroist, as I have called him. His primary motive is not self-interest, as we might understand it, but self-aggrandizement, the constant nourishing and enlargement of his vision of himself, which in his case can only be achieved by destroying everything else. In every situation, then, he will do, not merely the wrong thing, but the worst possible thing; the worse it is, and the more damage it causes, the more the people he despises object, and the greater his feeling of triumph. How else to explain, for example, his choices for cabinet: an apparent Russian asset for Director of National Intelligence, a prophet of civil war for Defence Secretary, a vaccine-denier for Health Secretary, an alleged statutory rapist for Attorney-General and so on. I think we have to look at the current crisis, then, not through the lens of trade or diplomacy or even extortion, but through the psychology of a deeply disturbed man. Grovelling before him, for example, as some of our Premiers seem inclined to do, is unlikely to assuage him: It’s the sort of thing he lives for. Caving to his demands, likewise, is futile: not because he will rationally conclude that our willingness to accept a first demand suggests we might concede to others, but because the dopamine high he experiences from dominating others will take control of him, demanding to be supplied with further hits. What should we do instead? 1. Play for time. Whatever he might imagine, Mr. Trump was elected with the thinnest of mandates. He is, what is more, a lame duck: The clock began ticking on his presidency from the day he was elected, as it is ticking on his mental and physical health. His thirst for dictatorship is real, but is in competition with his emotional instability and sheer incompetence. The longer time goes on, the more mistakes he is likely to make, and the weaker he is likely to become, politically and otherwise. 2. Prey upon his weaknesses. Probe his psyche. Figure out his break points. Do not be afraid to annoy him. Most people do stupid things when they’re angry; multiply by 100 in the case of Mr. Trump. Tempt him to give into his demons; lead him onto the rocks of his own intemperance. His mistakes are your opportunities. 3. Stand together. Work with allies, in Canada – yes, that means getting the Premiers onside, if only to shut them up – in Washington and state capitals, around the world. We are dealing with a dangerous lunatic. That is inescapable, at least for the foreseeable future. As with the Soviet Union, we cannot defeat him. But we can contain him. 4. Stand up straight. Ultimately we can’t control what Mr. Trump does. We can, however, control what we do. Maybe we can’t prevent him from wrecking the North American economy, or whatever else he decides to do to us. But we can at least maintain our dignity, our composure and our self-respect. That’s not the only thing that matters, but it’s something. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-this-is-how-canada-should-deal-with-donald-trump-irrational-actor/?login=true

The “Brazilian Trump” and one-time darling of the right, former President Jair Bolsonaro plotted a coup when he lost re-election. Shocker. Birds of a feather Bolsonaro allies nearly launched military coup in 2022, police report says Senior Brazil military figures backed plot to seize power after Bolsonaro’s election defeat, federal documents allege Brazil came within a whisker of a far-right military coup and the assassination of a supreme court judge just days before President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took power in January 2023, a federal police report has claimed. The report about the alleged plot to help the rightwing populist Jair Bolsonaro cling to power was made public on Tuesday, and paints a chilling portrait of how close one of the world’s largest democracies came to being plunged back into authoritarian rule. The 884-page document describes a complex, three-year conspiracy that investigators believe was designed to pave the way for a military power grab by using social media to disseminate false claims of electoral fraud that plotters hoped would justify such an intervention in the public eye. … The federal police report – which the Guardian has reviewed – claims the only reason Bolsonaro did not sign that decree blocking the transfer of power was because the plotters had failed to secure sufficient support from Brazil’s military top brass. “The evidence [gathered] … shows that the commander of the navy, Adm Almir Garnier [Santos], and the defence minister, [Gen] Paulo Sérgio [Nogueira de Oliveira], adhered to the coup attempt. However, the [army] commander [Marco Antônio] Freire Gomes and [Carlos de Almeida] Baptista Júnior of the air force positioned themselves against any kind of measure that would cause an institutional rupture in the country,” the report alleges. Federal police said the only thing that prevented the coup attempt taking place was “the unequivocal stance” of Freire Gomes, Baptista Junior and the majority of the army high command. It claimed those people “remained faithful to the values that govern the democratic rule of law state and did not cave in to coup-mongering pressure”. Bolsonaro was last week formally accused of being one of 37 people involved in criminal conspiracy designed to obliterate Brazil’s democratic system through a rightwing coup d’état. … https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/26/brazil-almost-suffered-far-right-military-coup-police-report-claims

Of course Trump doesn’t respond to facts or logic and has limited ability to process them so unfortunately Senora Sheinbaum hasn’t done much except waste some paper. She would have been effective if she instead told him what a handsome and stable genius he is, that she can tell he’s the best in bed of any man in the world, offer to put $2Bn in Jared’s zero-return investment scam, have all Mexican state officials stay at Trump resorts, and offer her intelligence agencies to help him steal the 2028 election. Oh and also make a lot of cheap ugly made-in-Mexico Trump sneakers, watches, bibles and other crap that Trump can sell to his gullible supporters for dozens of times more than they are worth.

Remember who PAYS the tariff money: American consumers, not foreigners. So you’re celebrating Trump increasing taxes on Americans. And even if hypothetically Trump somehow returned the exact same amount in tax cuts (remember conservative doubts about carbon rebates returning carbon taxes to citizens) there is no way for to ensure that every person who spends money and paid tariffs is going to get the exact same amount back in tax cuts. Especially not with republicans preference for giving tax cut primarily to the rich and corporations. I agree he is is definitely posturing for concessions and there is no way American business industry which is import dependent is going to go along with this crazy scheme, which is based on random numbers Trump completely pulled out of his ass.

Its not a silly thing to say. When a highly decorated female with 4-decades as combat arms officer is told that no women can properly serve in the combat arms he is effectively calling her a fraud and belittling her career of service and her contributions. If a person can meet the standards their gender shouldn’t matter. And it doesn’t matter to anyone except these ass-backward conservatives. Since the 90s in Canada and since 2015 in USA. That’s long enough to judge the results for themselves. Which “left leaning ones”? NOBODY said the AVERAGE woman. Notice there’s no conservatives trying to ban 150 lb men. There are plenty of small men in the military. If a person can meet the standards their gender shouldn’t matter. They don’t fight with swords and axes. Im sure the infantry corps around the world are full of men who wouldn’t last 20 seconds if they had to fight hand to hand and survive on upper body strength alone. Im not saying strength is irrelevant but strength requirements are well within the range of what the females body can achieve. If a person can meet the standards their gender shouldn’t matter. The thing is when you go to war you’re not doing pushups and deadlifts on the battlefield so saying to be an effective soldier you need to x number of reps of certain exercises is totally arbitrary. Is a soldier who can do more sit-ups than you necessarily going to be more effective in combat? I don’t think so. I guarantee you that in the middle of a firefight you will do zero sit-ups. The standard should be being able to do the tasks required for the job. If they can’t complete a field march or carry their weapon and normal load, or the other regular everyday tasks expected of them, that’s what matters If a person can meet the standards their gender shouldn’t matter.

Nothing so-called about it. Otherwise this is the only statement in your post I agree with. Most of us couldn’t care less about the crown.

Canada, Australia jointly pledge $474M to research hypersonic missile defense tech The announcement was made at the start of the annual Halifax International Security Forum, Canada's premiere defense event. HALIFAX, CANADA — Australia and Canada have inked a new agreement to jointly work on technology to counter the ever-growing threat of missiles, especially hypersonic weapons, Canada’s Minister of National Defence Bill Blair announced today. “I’m very pleased to announce that Canada and Australia have today signed an agreement to work together on researching emerging missile threats,” Blair told an audience during the kickoff of the Halifax International Security Forum. “We’re going to focus on countering hypersonic weapon systems and under this new agreement… [we will be] very closely tied in all of our efforts collectively together.” In total, the duo plan to spend up to $474 million over the next five years developing a “range of solutions,” he added. While Blair didn’t drill down into the specific capabilities on the development table, a subsequent press release noted that the Defence Research and Development Canada and the Australian Defence Science and Technology Group will work together researching the emerging missile threats, to develop detection, monitoring, targeting and counter-measure technologies. Defense and political leaders from around the globe are gathered in Nova Scotia this weekend for the annual Halifax International Security Forum, Canada’s premiere defense event. Among the main themes: Discussing the wars in Ukraine and in the Middle East, along with potential changes to NATO as president-elect Donald Trump prepares for his return to the White House. During Trump’s first turn in office, he publicly bashed NATO countries not meeting the 2 percent GDP defense spending goal — a mark Canada does not currently hit. RELATED: America needs to keep pushing Canada on defense spending Blair used his opening speech today to praise Canada’s close relationship with its neighbor to the south and vowed to eventually meet that threshold. “We have always depended upon that relationship [with the US] with an unparalleled alliance, especially illustrated through NORAD [North American Aerospace Defense Command], which is our binational military command that keeps a vigilant eye on North American airspace,” Blair said. “NORAD defends our countries against threats in the air domain, that’s why we are working in partnership with the United States to invest quite significantly in order modernization, we’re making a generational investment,” he later added. Taking the stage just after Blair, two US Senators — James Risch, R-Idaho and Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire — called on Canada to get to that 2 percent spending target as quickly as possible. https://breakingdefense.com/2024/11/canada-australia-jointly-pledge-474m-to-research-hypersonic-missile-defense-tech/

I don’t see that being a lie, she is saying excluding them from combat arms limits and ignores their contribution And it’s not a legit concern anywhere except in the regressive conservative mind. Even in the USA women have been in combat arms for a decade now. And at any rate size and strength don’t matter as much in modern war as they once did especially artillery or armour which is where republicans troglodytes also want to ban women. Small size can actually be an advantage in many situations including armour where space is limited. Plus Women often meet or exceed men in physical endurance and pain tolerance. BTW if size and strength matter then you would just exclude any male or female who doesn’t meet the size and strength requirements rather than banning 50% of the population based on gender even if they meet the size and strength requirements. Western armies already have recruiting challenges and shortfalls it would be moronic to ban women from the most important trades and purge the thousands already there.

Canada isn’t a failed state or without national interests. However we still do dumb shit like have official songs that are about how great some other country is.

Canada's top general takes on U.S. senator in defending womens' role in combat units Canada's top general firmly rejected the notion of dropping women from combat roles — a position promoted by president-elect Donald Trump's nominee for defense secretary — at a security forum underway in Halifax on Saturday. Gen. Jennie Carignan, chief of defence staff, was responding to Republican Senator James Risch's comments on Friday at the Halifax International Security Forum about Peter Hegseth's opposition to women in fighting units. Asked about Hegseth's views, the Idaho senator told the roughly 300 delegates the "jury is still out" on how to deal with the "unique situations" that having women in combat creates. He added it was ultimately up to the U.S. military to decide on the issue. Carignan took a few minutes to address the comments at the beginning of a panel on how western militaries are reacting to the challenge from China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. Her audience included a number of women in uniform. "I wouldn't want anyone to leave this forum with this idea that women are a distraction to defence and national security," the general said. "After 39 years of career as a combat arms officer and risking my life in many operations around the world I can't believe that in 2024 we still have to justify the contribution of women ... in the service of their country," she said to a standing ovation. … https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canada-s-top-general-takes-on-u-s-senator-in-defending-womens-role-in-combat-units-1.7121091

Canada’s donation of new air defence system arrives in Ukraine The Honourable Bill Blair, Minister of National Defence, has announced that Canada’s donation of a National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS) has arrived in Ukraine. This donation will help Ukraine strengthen its air defence systems against destructive air attacks on military sites, civilian critical infrastructure, and population centres. Canada has also donated more than 300 air defence missiles from Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) inventory since February 2022. In addition to Operation UNIFIER, Canada’s current training mission to Ukraine, this donation builds on previous deliveries of armoured vehicles, artillery, drone cameras, winter clothing, and ongoing efforts by the Royal Canadian Air Force to transport Ukraine-bound military aid donated by Canada, Allies, and partners. Canada remains committed to providing Ukraine with the military aid that it needs to defend itself from Russia’s illegal and unjustifiable attacks, including intensifying Russian air raids. ADDITIONAL INFO A NASAMS is a short to medium range ground-based air defence system that protects against drone, missile, and aircraft attack, with a high success rate. This high-priority donation was purchased by Canada from the United States and is a new build from Raytheon in partnership with Kongsberg. This donation, valued at approximately $406 million, comes from the $500 million in military aid to Ukraine that Prime Minister Trudeau announced on November 14, 2022. Since February 2022, Canada has committed $4.5 billion in total military assistance to Ukraine. The Prime Minister announced an additional $500 million at the NATO Summit in July 2024. Since late March 2022, the RCAF has been transporting Ukraine-bound military aid donated by Canada, Allies, and partners. To date, the RCAF has transported over 22 million pounds of military donations. Currently, over 350 CAF members are supporting ongoing training missions in the United Kingdom, Poland and Latvia while facilitating the delivery of military donations to Ukraine. Since the launch of Operation UNIFIER, the CAF has trained more than 43,000 members of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Canada extended this mission until March 2026. https://canadiandefencereview.com/canadas-donation-of-new-air-defence-system-arrives-in-ukraine/

Ah well it’s not great lyrics anyway. Woke ideology aside I am tired of all the British ass-kissing infused into everything and would have sounded the gong just for that. Canada is its own country now we’re not a British colony anymore The Canadian version was already politically altered from the original British version anyways There were several superficial grammatical changes in the Canadian version but the most substantive is this: Original: We never see the French but we wish them to stay, Canadian: We ne'er see our foes, but we wish them to stay

Is deplorable worse than “leftard” or “snowflake” which is what you call 50% of the voting population? And what else do Republicans say about democrats? Communists. Marxists. Secretly plotting to enslave society by making them dependent upon government. Secretly control government through the “deep state”. Secretly controlling the mainstream media…somehow. Deliberately emptying third world insane asylums and prisons to smuggle them into the country to cause havoc. Secretly wanting to destroy first world countries. You say People who vote for them are “Sheeple”. You say black people are too gullible and stupid to understand their own interests and as an entire race they have been tricked by democrats. Can you point to the last time any prominent republican respectfully disagreed with a Democrat or simply said he thought democrats were well-intentioned but foolisj misguided? It’s been a generation now since the. Demonization has always been a conservative hallmark: the left isn’t just wrongheaded, they’re actually EVIL. They’re wrong and they know they’re wrong but they’re doing it anyways for sinister motives. The rhetoric of mainstream republican politicians and pundits FAR exceeds that of mainstream democrat politicians and pundits both in terms of how extreme the language and accusations are and in the frequency in which these things are said. “Deplorable” is not even close to being the worst thing you can call someone and Hillary only said it one time. Trump has made hateful personal attacks, name-calling, and viscous lies his trademark which he repeats at every rally and his acolytes in the republican party and propaganda outlets imitate him.

Trump didn’t just fire some people. He lost A LOT of people many of whom quit in protest while others were forced to resign in disgrace for being crooks, wife-beaters and/or Russian stooges Some were fired because they wouldn’t violate their ethics by kissing his ring and offering a pledge of loyalty to him personally 1) Not the same as cabinet members hand-picked to run the country at its highest level 2) None came out to berate Kamala and become outspoken “anti-Kamala” critics the way so many of Trump’s former staff publicly turned on him 3) Kamala didn’t publicly berate, abuse and blame them on Twitter whenever she wanted to deflect criticism from herself 4) the reasons given for leaving Harris were: a) The lack of prominence given to the VP office in the Biden administration and promising opportunities elsewhere in DC and the private sector b) Harris managed her office “like a prosecutor” as reported “which included pointed questions about footnotes in their reports or the reasons behind why certain items had been added to her schedule. “It’s stressful to brief her, because she’s read all the materials, has annotated it and is prepared to talk through it,” said one former aide. “You can’t come to the vice president and just ask her to do something,” said another staffer. “You need to have a why.” So in other words, she was the opposite of Trump who knew nothing, read nothing, spouted off random half-baked non-sequitur nonsense and staff would get their recommendations approved by flattery and tricking him into thinking it was his great idea 5) Its noted that more than 20 of the people who left her VP staff came back to work on her presidential campaign 6) Unlike Trump’s chaotic administration, Kamala’s staff eventually stabilized after they recruited people more accustomed to her “demanding” management style. No sorry. Don’t try to normalize what is extremely abnormal. NO president has had so many ex-staffers come out to denounce them or has been denounced so extensively, if they had any denounce them at all. And these ex-staffers didn’t simply share their views because they”CNN shoved a microphone in their face”. They made the special effort to seek out the media and speak publicly to denounce trump. Trump is absolutely unique, not only for the extreme level of criticism that his ex-staff have for him but also in the sheer number of staff to come out with it. For any other president the number of staff who become critics is usually between 0 and 1 , most of whom keep their opinions to themselves and maintain an appearance of civility. MeanwhileTrump has dozens of critics who go out of their way to tell the world what an awful human being and terrible president he was. Both the degree to which he is despised and the number of staffers who so despise him is absolutely without any historical precedent. Sorry Republican political rhetoric has been hateful for years But of course you’re biased you think it’s not hateful to call Obama a n*gger or Hillary a c*nt but it’s hateful to call someone “deplorable” You don’t think it’s hateful when Republicans heckled Obama and Biden during their SOTU speeches but you think it’s hateful if anyone dares publicly criticize a Republican.

What are you talking about? During his first administration so many of his top people he selected quit or got fired it was a joke. He couldn’t keep anyone in office. No US administration has had so many people come and go in a single term That sure doesn’t sound like he’s amazing at hiring too talent And Most of the senior people Trump selected for his first administration absolutely despise him and say he is a disaster No president has had so many of his own staff hate him on every level A 2-term president might be at polite odds with 2 or 3 former staffers. But Trump is unique in having dozens who just loathe him and personally attest to hi incompetence: “unfit to be president” “ a despicable human being” a “fascist to the core” “prefers the dictator approach to government” “hasn’t got the brains” “pretty undisciplined – doesn’t like to read, doesn’t read briefing reports” “His understanding of global events [and] his understanding of US history was really limited.” “should never be president again.” Those are just a small sample of direct quotes from those advisors you say he chose “very well”

Cmon don’t be so naive. When you’re that rich you have an entire entourage of lawyers, accountants, consultants, advisors, assistants and various lackeys to tell you everything you need to know and who do all the leg work for you. The skill you mention is mostly if not entirely theirs. You don’t so much make decisions as you choose from a shortlist of options that have been narrowed down, summarized and pre-digested for you. Also there’s an entire industry where people get rich by intentionally bankrupting businesses Step 1: transfer business assets to yourself Step 2: transfer your debts that you no longer feel like paying to the business Step 3: declare business bankrupt Step 4: laugh all the way to the bank You can also do i in reverse where you transfer your assets to a business you control or have unlimited access to and declare yourself bankrupt while you continue to live in luxury For the ultra rich, bankruptcy is just another game that they play The new investors he attracted were Putin oligarchs and how exactly did he attract them? And I’m not saying Trump is an evil genius. He’s an incompetent businessman who got into bed with Russian money to bail out his failing businesses, undoubtedly his consultants, lawyers, lackeys etc shepherded him through the process and took care of all the details

Annnnd the massively unqualified pervert Gaetz withdraws as Trump’s AG. Good riddance! Who will be the next despicable human being to enter or exit the Trump Deplorable clown car?

No you do which is why you voted for Trump the fascist in chief Supreme Court decision was not woke, had nothing to do with woke ideology, and did jot at all say anything about what members of the public can or can’t legally do. As you usual you have no clue. Don’t you get tired of being such an uneducated dumbass?

No once you have the level of wealth he inherited from his father you’re always rich for life even if on paper you’re bankrupt.. It’s just a big paper game. It’s not like Trump was living in a motel or something and then rebuilt his fortune from scratch. Even when he was at his most insolvent he was still living in mansions and flying around in his private jet with his decades-long good buddy Jeffrey Epstein and living the life of a billionaire elite His business ventures were simply bankrupt until they got juiced by Kremlin cronies and became a Putin puppet.

It’s like not only is picking unqualified people he’s purposely choosing the least qualified people possible. Just to troll the libs. He wants total control and obedience from his appointees so he doesn’t even want people with ties to the Republican Party. And by choosing unqualified people who would otherwise have absolutely no hope of ever holding such a position of authority without his favour means they will be obedient and servile. Or so he hopes.

I didn’t lie and your ridiculous diatribe proves me right. You think the most powerful jobs in the country require no formal skills or qualifications and so any old boob off the street can do it as ling as they “measure results” like they’re a scorekeeper at a beer league hockey game? Your ignorance is astounding. These people will be responsible for running massive departments that are larger than most corporations and setting policies that affect millions of people’s everyday lives. LOL Trump supporters will never hold Trump accountable for anything. No matter how bad he does you’ll make excuses for him and claim that its not something a president can control, or that the Dems did it worse, or that somehow its a delayed reaction to something Biden dis before he left office and so on. No that’s what Trump did in 2016 when Obama was president, falsely claiming that the very positive numbers on economy and crime were bad when in fact they were quite good then as soon as he took office he took credit for the very same numbers. And let’s be clear the US economic figures right now are pretty good even though Trump says otherwise. Unemployment is low, inflation is within the target range,US economy has seen strong growth, significantly outpacing all peer nations. As soon as Trump takes office he will start crowing about those exact same numbers he inherited from Biden and he will claim that he caused them.