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Trump Admin Lawlessness Begins
CdnFox replied to godzilla's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
When did I say it was illegal? I said they weaponized the courts and legal system to go after a political opponent. If you want to discuss their illegal activities then we'll have to go over what the FBI did. Whatever it takes to get your political opponent behind bars while appearing to operate within the law is how it has worked for the democrats. You let me remind you, the courts have ruled that the president isn't breaking the law when he's acting in his role as president. So ignoring the courts is perfectly legal. Happy now? Pratt's behaved in such a way that it eroded the respect for the law tremendously both in the public and in the opposition parties. That has consequences. These are probably just the very very first and most minor of consequences. I suspect it gets worse -
I don't doubt at all that there is an element to his thinking which basically is if you shake the tree hard enough maybe some fruit (or nuts) will fall out to pick up. I'm quite sure he thought if I make enough of a fuss and pretend it's about the border then they'll come and offer me something and whatever they offer is something I got for free. But I do believe that there are a handful of things that he wants. It was never happy hat he only got a little bit of an increase in the amount of dairy and such he could sell in canada during the last free trade deal. Obviously wants that to be much higher or better yet no restrictions. He specifically mentioned banking but I think there's a few other things he wants as well that are currently limited. I think he also wanted to send a message to American companies that you might want to be careful about putting your manufacturing in other countries because you never know when a trade war will break out and then your bankrupt. (car industry..... staaaaaaaaaaarre) But I do believe that you're correct in that he does see chaos as having value all on its own.
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Trump Admin Lawlessness Begins
CdnFox replied to godzilla's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Faking crimes is. Only applying them to political opponents is. Waiting 4 years to do it right before an election is. Transferring a lawyer from your party to the prosecution specifically to go after him is. etc etc. But considering it wasn't that long ago i had to explain what a subpoena was to you i guess it's to be expected you wouldn't know all that. -
Trump Admin Lawlessness Begins
CdnFox replied to godzilla's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Well that's the challenge when one side weaponizes the law. It's inevitable that both the public and the other side are going to completely lose respect with the law as a result. I mean the left was warned about this. Tons of people including myself said again and again there will be serious ramifications if you just blatantly ignore the laws or weaponize the courts to take advantage of the laws inappropriately. Honestly if this is as bad as it gets the left can count itself as damned lucky, but i doubt it will be. Considering what the democrats did with the courts and the FBI etc I would imagine this is the tip of the iceberg Ye reap what Ye sow, And it's pretty hard to put that Genie back in the bottle once it's open -
And that was his intent. Like I said his primary negotiating tactics seems to be kicking over all the tables and creating confusion to put people off their game and be uncomfortable when they sit down to negotiate. And remember we still have the threat of tariffs over our head, this is the 30-day pause Good luck with that
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I don't think he's even started to get what he wanted. I think he looks at what he's gotten as a free bonus. I don't think he really cares about it at all. I think you and others are grossly grossly overestimating how much he cared about the border. Especially the Canadian border. I don't think he gave a Flying Fig about it. This was all theater and positioning to create a favorable environment for him to get what he really wants In what way, Trudeau has behaved exactly as trump wanted him to from all appearances. He's never thought well of Trudeau in the slightest That is a direct result of the choices the voters made in the last election. By that time every single person in Canada should have known that Trudeau was a failure and a terrible leader. But despite the fact that more people voted for conservatives than the liberals the liberals got enough support and key areas to take power. Then the NDP decided to keep them alive at all costs until sing got his pension And this is the result. It's literally what people voted for. You wanted corrupted incompetent? Well you got it Vote woke go broke. People need to learn.
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Yes, he got a little something although it wasn't that much.. SO FAR. I've said since the beginning whatever trump is claiming his big problem is never is the case. He always wants something else. People are acting like this is over. Like this is done and yesterday's news. He has announced that his people will be meeting with Mexico and Canada and in both cases the vastly larger number of people he named are trade people not drug enforcement people. Over the next 30 days he's going to be going after what he really wants. And that wasn't some cheesy concessions for the border and naming someone The fentanyl czar. But now everyone's breathing a sigh of relief and the relaxed after the tensions so now if he says well we're going to go ahead with the tariffs it was only a 30-day pause it will throw everyone into panic again. That will make his negotiations much easier. People are declaring victory while trump is still doing this warm-ups. He never cared about the Canadian border
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Canada Victory in Trump Tariff War!
CdnFox replied to godzilla's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
There's no side to be had there. Those ar just simple facts. It's your own hatred and bigotry that causes you to think that if someone says a fact that doesn't agree with your ideology they must be on the other side. This is the same weak thinking that we see when the left insists that we follow the science when it supports them and then utterly demands that the science be ignored and refuses to speak on it when it doesn't support them. These are simple facts. Trump frequently uses this tactic for negotiations. He never intended to apply tariffs, he wanted to see if he could shake loose a few extra benefits for the border and then tackle his real issues which is trade and he wanted to create an environment that he believes is beneficial for that. I'll leave it to you to argue whether that is a good thing or a bad thing or if we should be pro trump or anti trump, but regardless of any of that that fact remains that that's what happened. I don't appreciate people using terms like woketard overly much, I don't feel a contributes to the debate, but it would really be great if you could stop acting in a way that makes that term pop into everybody's head right off the bat -
This is it. Countless other cultures have suffered far far worse and yet bounced back to make good lives for themselves often within a generation. I'm half Irish and heard all about some of the trials and tribulations that my family faced on that side. The other half was ukrainian Mennonite and that family fled the great Revolution with half the family dead and the clothes on their backs to start life anew in a country where they didn't even speak the language. And their children were hugely economically successful despite the trauma. By the way. a LOT of immigrant parents raised a fuss about their kids being forced to attend 'english cathoilic' school against the parent's will. But for some reason the first nations are crippled until the end of time as a race and a nation because they were forced to go to school.
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Of course. Every former prime minister either does or does lecture tours for insane amounts of money or both. Even when you're doing things perfectly legally and on the up and up there's lots of money to be made from having been the prime minister. And he was prime minister for 10 years However, harper wasn't doing business with any of those people before he became prime minister. And nothing he did as prime minister would have particularly helped them. Carney however Will be in a direct position to benefit people he's already working with and making deals with tremendously. The rewards he'll be able to reap Would be exponentially larger. You can make good money working the system honestly that you can make insane money if you are corrupt like Trudeau was and like carney would be But hey, if you can't trust a multi-millionaire international banker with three different citizenships, who can you trust? You going to still pretend you care anything at all about government corruption?
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I don't know that he wants everything. But as far as Canada goes I think he had some very specific targets in mind. He wants an end to supply management so his chickens and eggs and milk can be sold here, he wants access to other restricted industries like banking and telecoms and cell phones etc, he wants car manufacturing to come back to the states more. Maybe a few other things.
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No. But my point wasn't that he didn't get anything at all out of this, it was that he didn't get anything new between "tarrifs go into affect tuesday" and "we're pausing them". He already had pretty much all the commitments that trudeau made before then. The rest is just reannouncing stuff he'd already committed to or things we're already doing. The only truely new thing is a "fentanyl czar". Like, when you call it a czar you're pretty much admitting out of the gate they're just a showpiece Otherwise it would be a minister. in other words, i go back to my original assessment when this all started 3 months ago and say he never intended to apply tarrifs, this was a negotiating tactic and a bluff to gain extra concessions from mexico and canada and create a favorable environment for his economic negotiations. And maybe biatch slap trudeau a little. I'm sure he would have pulled the trigger if something happened to force him but it's pretty obvious that was not his intent.
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Canada's $52B EV gamble didn't pay off, observers say
CdnFox replied to CdnFox's topic in Federal Politics in Canada
Absolutely true. In fact Justin won the election partly based on that. Remember when he said we must throw our doors open and accept vastly more refugees? And that picture of that kid washing up on the beach showed up and everybody got emotional and Trudeau said the only reason we don't double or triple our refugees and increase immigration is the will to do so? Remember all that? Pepperidge farm does During harper's time virtually everyone said the immigration policies were fantastic, including immigrants both current and former. Even the opposition grudgingly admitted it. Trudeau took one of the best immigration systems in the world, flooded it and broke it. He has now turned one of the most pro immigration countries in the world against immigration. But sure, lets pretend it had nothing to do with him -
Neither did i actually. But his attitude of entitlement in demanding others give to him what he felt he had coming absolutely did. And yes, his tax policy played a role. He brought in the first sales tax, he reduced taxes on 'special interest groups' and put that burden on the successful romans, etc. That and he demanded reforms that others were opposed to but he forced it on them regardless. Do not kid yourself. The senators would not have acted on their own without encouragement and support from others. It turns out when you push your will on others and demand they give you what YOU want like that people rebel one way or another, and it rarely ends well. That socialist sense of entitlement (what's yours is actually mine, render it) inevitably leads to rebellion.
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He got the 1.5 billion out of the whole mess. And I don't think he's taking much of a victory lap. As I keep mentioning there's been a delay of 30 days, he hasn't said he won't tariff us. Now we're sitting down to a negotiate the important stuff on his terms. I don't think he thinks of this is an end game or a victory or a loss or anything like that. I think for him this was just a warm-up to set the stage for what really matters to him Sure, I don't see a problem with any of that. Even if he never does put tariffs on the fact that he would threaten shows we can't really trust the Americans and we have to develop our own markets and our own companies. And it isn't over yet, god knows what he might ask for next
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No we didn't. He didn't give him anything new, other than to promise to appoint a fentanyl czar. Otherwise nothing really changed and certainly there was no promise to Secure the border Trump did better with Mexico but trump hasn't even yet begun to fight for what he wants. That's what happens now. He's going to spend the next month negotiating like hell to get a better trade agreement with Canada and access to things like our banking our telecommunications our food and poultry industries that are currently shut off on other areas where we severely limit how much the Americans can do. Sounds like he's also going to be putting pressure on the American car manufacturers to start bringing jobs back home
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I never pretended that it wasn't the only two hated him. When did I say that? Someone said that he must render under Caesar what is Caesar's and I say how did that work out for him and somehow you are making that be about Elites and Natalie's and public opinion? Kid, you have the attention span of a goldfish
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Canada Victory in Trump Tariff War!
CdnFox replied to godzilla's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Again, how is having a temper tantrum and saying any bullshit that comes to mind to freak people out a sophisticated 3D chess move? This is simple. He talks about it in his books he has always done this and if you'll recall I mentioned that this is how this was going to play out back when all of this started and I said it was just a negotiating tactic to set the stage for economic discussions. Now I'm right you're coming up with some sort of bullshit about it being a 4D move. This is what I said 3 months ago. This is how trump operates. He creates confusion and panic and says all kinds of crazy things and threatens and intimitdates and in the end when everybody's in a kefuffle he'll walk in put down his demands on the table and you see what he really wants and he hopes that the pot has been stirred so badly that you'll agree to what he says just to get back to peace. But what I love is that I say this is how something is going to happen then it happens then you turn around and make some sort of weird claim about it being a conspiracy theory just because what I said was going to happen happened. Maybe you should start listening to what I say and you'll wind up looking less uninformed later -
How did he cave exactly? He got a crap ton of soldiers out of Mexico and he got 1.5 billion out of Trudeau for border security, he still has the tariffs he hasn't said he wouldn't use them he's just said he's pushed pause for a month, he's had everybody afraid and panicking and he has set the tone and finally come out and said what he's looking for for the next 30 days of negotiation if he doesn't get what he wants we might still have tariffs so people are nervous and panicky about it. What exactly did he lose? How did he cave