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You lock a thread title of mine from 2 weeks ago, before even making any kind of announcement? And then s**t on me in DM? Meanwhile, a loon like @gatomontes99 creates 200 garbage threads spamming the forum. No wonder this is a haven for fascism. If one is not MAGA, they are not welcome. I'm gone. F**k you, Greg!

Interesting...

When times are tough, you turn to NyQuil. To each his own, I guess..

One has to admire the way Scott stands by his convictions, no matter how incorrect they may be..

Shoving a carrot up your ass, to show dedication to Trump? That is impressive. Disgusting, yet impressive.

Settle down, soldier. Maybe talk to a therapist.

Scorecard: Biden (4 years): one plane crash Trump (3 weeks): 4 plane crashes. Trump's gutting of the FAA is going to make planes literally crash in mid air. It's only going to get worse from here...

I thought you were going to have me arrested by the FBI, for my Luigi thread? I guess the FBI realised that you were some clown in the Midwest, and never followed up on it.

Trump just announced that his most loyal supporters, are now shoving carrots up their asses. I think you may want to go to the grocery store, and buy some.

Another plane crash in America. This makes 4 incidents in 3 weeks, under the Trump Administration. This one occurring in Arizona. Trump has made air travel dangerous.

Liberals are really closing the gap. PP is the most unlikable leader in Canadian history.

I hope China is easier to deal with than Trump. At the very least, Trump is not threatening to annex us.

I have great respect for veterans. I just do not have any for you. No offence.

Scott is a fool. Nobody on this forum takes him seriously.

How is it moronic? People have been battling for land everywhere. In North America, the Indigenous people rules the land for centuries, until Europeans came, and conquered it.

The only positive thing Trump has ever done for Canada, is expose PP for the worthless piece of garbage that he is. At this point, I would not be the least surprised If behind the scenes the Conservative Party is in full-fledged panic mode. It may even be beneficial to outright fire Poilievre, and replace him with someone more in touch with the current political situation. This is the worst collapse of any Canadian political party in Canadian history,

By the end of February, I am predicting Carney and the Liberal will be leading in the polls. Carney will stand up to Trump, and fight fire with fire, while PP will bend the knee to his Orange God. Canadians are catching on to this, and the Conservative lead, which at one time was over 26 points, has pretty much evaporated.

On every topic related to the LGBTQ community, especially Transgenders, you go apeshit. Which leads me to believe that you may be hiding something. Do you by any chance, pick up She-males on the local street corner. Did you get a disease who engaged in sexual intercourse with one? Did a shemale rip you off? Were you a "top" or "bottom" while engaged with your lover? AlI I know is you are completely obsessed with Transgender people. I assume you are in the closet.

After all is said and done, and the Canadian public see you for who you are- a Quisling, I will personally volunteer to walk up to you in any given town square, and rip off whatever military badges you may have attached to your uniform, while others pelt you with eggs, or worse. Canadians don't take too kindly to collaborators. At the end of the day, nobody will remember you for whatever you did in relative safety, during your tenure . The public will rightfully brand you as a coward, for siding with the enemy, and your children and Grandchildren will live in shame.

Using Tariffs to Try to Turn Canada into American State Backfired in the Past President Donald Trump has spent much of the interregnum, and now his first weeks back in office, threatening American allies in one way or another, with Canada among the countries taking the most fire. His weapon of choice is the tariff, which the president calls the “most beautiful word.” On Saturday, he slapped a punitive 25% tariff on Canadian goods to address a perceived trade imbalance. Following a flurry of last-minute negotiations, however, Trump has placed a 30-day pause on the tariffs. However, Trump's tariff threat remains clear and present, especially given that Trump has promised to deploy “economic force” if Canada proves unwilling to agree to annexation and becoming the U.S.’s 51st state. While Trump’s protectionism and imperial designs are a sharp break with the recent past, they aren’t new. In fact, they’re part of a very old GOP playbook that dates to a period Trump regularly lionizes: the late 19th century. He sees it as a golden era in American history. Yet, the history of the 1890s actually exposes the dangers of the U.S. trying to force Canada into American hands. Like Trump, Republicans in the late 19th century wanted to annex Canada—which was then still a British colony. The push to make Canada part of the U.S. reached a fever pitch following passage of the highly protectionist McKinley Tariff in 1890, which raised average tariff rates to around 50%. To pressure Canada into joining the U.S., the McKinley tariff explicitly declined to make an exception for Canadian products. Republicans hoped that Canadians, who were becoming ever more reliant on the U.S. market, would be eager to become the 45th state to avoid the punishing tariffs. Secretary of State James G. Blaine saw annexation as a way to eliminate continued and contentious competition over fish and timber. Blaine, who co-authored the McKinley Tariff, publicly stated that he hoped for “a grander and nobler brotherly love, that may unite in the end” the United States and Canada “in one perfect union.” Blaine declared himself “teetotally opposed to giving the Canadians the sentimental satisfaction of waving the British Flag. . . and enjoying the actual remuneration of American markets.” Privately, he admitted to President Benjamin Harrison that by denying reciprocity, Canada would “ultimately, I believe, seek admission to the Union.” Officials and free trade advocates in both Britain and Canada also understood the implications of the McKinley Tariff. Members of the Cobden Club, a prominent and influential London-based free-trade organization, called it an “outrage on civilization”—one that promised “to lead to the [American] annexation of Canada.” British Liberal Lyon Playfair warned that the law looked like “a covert attack on Canada.” If the tariff act’s objective “really be (as the Canadian Prime Minister, Sir John Macdonald, thinks) to force the United States lion and the Canadian lamb to lie down together, this can only be accomplished by the lamb being inside the lion,” he warned. Yet, though both sides were convinced that the tariff would drive Canada into the arms of the U.S., it actually had the opposite effect. Nationalistic Canadians argued that the tariff was “a heavy blow struck alike at our home industries and at the prosperity and independence of the Dominion of Canada — an unprovoked aggression, an attempt at conquest by fiscal war.” Rather than compelling Canadians to seek annexation, the tariff stirred “love for Queen, flag, and country,” according to George T. Denison, president of the British Empire League in Canada. The majority of Canadians saw the McKinley tariff as part of “a conspiracy” to “betray this country into annexation.” They were having none of it. Their cultural and political ties with the British Empire, as well as their anger over the attempted coercion, proved stronger. [/b] Canada’s Conservative Prime Minister John Macdonald wanted to react forcefully to send a message to the U.S. He proposed retaliating with high tariffs on American goods, as well as increased trade with Britain. [b]He also recognized a political weapon when he was handed one. He adroitly turned the 1891 Canadian elections into a broader referendum concerning Canadian-American relations. He portrayed the Liberal opposition as being in bed with the Republican annexationists. According to him, they were involved in “a deliberate conspiracy, by force, by fraud, or by both, to force Canada into the American union.” After playing “the ‘Loyalty’ cry for all it was worth,” Macdonald scored a narrow victory over those favoring friendlier and more open relations with the U.S. The U.S.’s loss was Britain’s gain. Within two years of the McKinley Tariff’s passage, Canadian agricultural exports to Britain jumped from $3.5 million to $15 million, and produce and animal exports grew from $16 million to $24 million. Beginning in 1897, Canadians began granting preferential market access to British imports. And U.S. manufacturers continued to move production to Canada to bypass its tariff walls. Canadian Minister of Trade and Commerce Mackenzie Bowell happily informed his colleagues in the Canadian Senate that “the McKinley Bill, instead of destroying the trade of this country, has only diverted it from the United States to England." He continued, "Our neighbors are cutting off their own noses to spite us.” This episode ought to serve as a warning for Trump. Far from enabling the U.S. to annex Canada, the McKinley Tariff that Trump so admires drove the U.S.’s neighbor to the North into the arms of its main economic rival, the British. Once again, an American president is on the brink of imposing tariffs against Canada and pushing for annexation. The two issues will undoubtedly be central in the 2025 Canadian elections. Trump’s threats could easily backfire as the McKinley Tariff did—leading to the election of Canadian politicians who promise to stand up to him, respond tit-for-tat to any tariffs he enacts, and seek other trade partners instead. The result would be U.S. consumers paying the price at checkout lines. U.S. manufacturers might also decide to relocate to Canada. And the tariff spat could spark further conflicts with Canada down the road. In other words, “Tariff Man” Trump would once again be cutting off his country’s nose to spite Canada. source; https://time.com/7212675/tariffs-canada-american-state-backfired/ ----- History repeats itself. This is the best example, in respect for standing up to America,and fighting back. Appeasement did not work in 1890, and it will not work now, with our economies far more intertwined.

Well the Eagles destroyed the Chiefs. A very disappointing game. Even the halftime show was bad. I call this the @User of all Super Bowls, since it was dull and a letdown.

I would be careful about buying anything that Trump may perceive as a threat to the US. I would increase military spending, but do so in a way it appears from the outside we are living up to our end of the bargain. However, we should really be emphasising Guerrilla war techniques, and combat battle in the Rocky Mountains, and the northern wilderness. I think the best outcome, will be to lay low, and wait. Trump is going to implode the United States, and the Pentagon. their intelligence community will be gutted, and the military, as great as the weapons they possess, will be of limited use, if they have a bunch of inexperienced dolts running things, considering Trump is purging general he believes will be disloyal to him, in favor of inferior leaders who proclaim 100% loyalty to the Trump administration. I keep thinking of how Stalin purged his military, and went to battle Finland, a country they outnumbered 50:1, and still took an absolute bloodbath against the disciplined Finns. A 3 day "special military operation" turned into a 3 1/2 full battle, with 350,000 Russian casualties.

Just as I had envisioned. Canadians are seeing PP and the Conservatives are appeasers, and not very patriotic. People can say what they want about Canada "being broken" but it will antagonise most Canadians when they are staring down the threat of Trump, and his weird fixation about making us the 51st state. There are major scandals in regards to Danielle Smith, that could possibly see her doing jail time, especially with contracts with Turkish pharmaceutical companies. Also she has done some very sketchy things in regards to the health care system.

This is nothing new. IN Trump's first term, when he called African nations "shithole countries," he openly questioned why there are not many Scandinavians immigrating to America. I do not think he understands that Scandinavian countries are habitually ranked as the best nations to live in terms of quality of life, and standard of living. It's not like the 1870's when my mothers side came over from Iceland, due to a famine..