Trump to be sentenced on Jan. 10 on 34 charges, before his Jan. 20 inauguration

WyattEarp

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How many years would it take for that favorable effect to take place though? Weakening your closest ally doesn't make any sense to me. Once Justin is finito for good there is no need force Canada to bend the knee. Trump needs to embrace Canada not push it away.
I can't tell you exactly what the end game is. I suspect things will be much better if Poilievre takes over. However if I speculated that Canada will accelerate reaching it's 2% NATO commitment, would that surprise anyone?
 

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I can't tell you exactly what the end game is. I suspect things will be much better if Poilievre takes over. However if I speculated that Canada will accelerate reaching it's 2% NATO commitment, would that surprise anyone?
Yes reaching the 2% commitment will be the barter position. I agree. I was thinking about that earlier today.

There we decided it..
 

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How about Justin shutting his yap and not purposely trying to get him going.
Why are you dodging my question? Even your love interest Daniel Smith has said after rushing to Maro Lago to kiss the ring that the tariffs are coming so please answer the question.

How many years would it take for that favorable effect to take place though? Weakening your closest ally doesn't make any sense to me. Once Justin is finito for good there is no need force Canada to bend the knee. Trump needs to embrace Canada not push it away.
Based on this reply to Wyatt, I can see you do not approve of the tariffs, but would you have if Justin was still sitting in the seat? Then it would be fine for Trump to force Canada to bend the knee. It's just a follow-up question.

Yes reaching the 2% commitment will be the barter position. I agree. I was thinking about that earlier today.

There we decided it..
Ah, so it's not about the border, which is nonsense to begin with, but it's about the 2%, which now Trumputin is claiming should be 5%. I'm just curious how Pee Pee is going to absorb this exactly. Just to be fair to Trumputin he's never mentioned the 2% being tied to the tariffs. It started with the border then moved on to using economic force to force us to accept being the 51st state. Annexing Canada through an economic war, then using force if necessary on Denmark and Panama, the so-called anti-war president.
 
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I suppose when you have an over $800 billion dollar trade deficits year after year you're willing to shake up the world trade order that favors mercantilist countries. There will certainly be American multinationals that are unhappy with this policy, but this will have the the effect of favoring American production and the American worker.
That's not how it works. If prostitutes raied their rates by 15% your wife is not going to get better looking and become better in bed. Similiarily Trump can't just snap his little fingers and have the infrastructure set up that has taken decades to build in Canada and Mexico. As for the trade surplus, if you take out natural resources then there is no trade surplus. Trump would not be so foolish as to tax Canadian oil and minerals - the American public would call for his head. His foolish tariffs the first time around did not produce any more American steel or aluminum but it did increase costs to Americans and Canadians substantially which helped drive inflation.
 
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Okay Ross, we're on a break. ;)

Pauses, reviews, permitting.......no clever politician uses an absolute word like ban. These are ways to slow down and hinder the exporting of Natural Gas. (The U.S. has more than enough for its own consumption.) If every time a Democratic Administration takes power and the bureaucracy uses these tactics, it discourages the large, long-term investments needed in energy production and distribution.

This is what Biden said about the pause. “This pause on new LNG approvals sees the climate crisis for what it is: the existential threat of our time..”
So the man is telling you himself that the pause and reviews are not intended to be benign process policies, but rather a direct effort to discourage U.S. LNG exports.
But it's not a ban.
The current contracts are being honored.
It's the new ones being stopped.
It hasn't stopped the usual suspects from deliberately confusing the issue.

If you want to live in a democracy you need to have accurate info. This applies to everyone whatever their politics.
It's just as bad when right wingers make up shit as when left wingers make up shit.
I have a hard time hearing all the right wing shit that get pumped nonstop here. But similarly, I also call out the useless and counterproductive diversity training programs on the left.
It's how democracies fail.
 
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I don't think Trump has ever singled out a world leader like he has Trudeau in the past few months. Trump can be an asshole, but I don't think he went looking for this fight. Knowing Trump never backs away from a fight, I would say Trudeau was pretty damn stupid to criticize Trump directly or indirectly.

Since we've been on the subject of TDS a bit, TDS could be manifested when you champion your leader criticizing the future leader of the economic behemoth on your border.
You guys are hilarious, first you complain that Trudeau doesn't stand up for Canada, then you complain he stands up for Canada.
 

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Spoken like a true groomer. Is that the line you use on prepubescent boys in the library washroom ? asking for a friend who happens to be a cop
Spoken like someone who's been groomed. Point to where the bad man touched you. 🤣 🤣 🤣 On a side note my parents said you haven't been by in a while. My guess is seasonal depression has made your dick more flaccid than usual. You know they make pills for that right?🤣🤣🤣 All kidding aside I think it's adorable that you're white knighting for squeegee. I think you guys would make a cute couple. 🤣🤣🤣 I wonder who would top and who would bottom?:unsure:🤣🤣🤣
 

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I suppose when you have an over $800 billion dollar trade deficits year after year you're willing to shake up the world trade order that favors mercantilist countries. There will certainly be American multinationals that are unhappy with this policy, but this will have the the effect of favoring American production and the American worker.
800 billion deficits? Where do you take those numbers? It was 55 billions in 2022.
 

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But it's not a ban.
The current contracts are being honored.
It's the new ones being stopped.
It hasn't stopped the usual suspects from deliberately confusing the issue.

If you want to live in a democracy you need to have accurate info. This applies to everyone whatever their politics.
It's just as bad when right wingers make up shit as when left wingers make up shit.
I have a hard time hearing all the right wing shit that get pumped nonstop here. But similarly, I also call out the useless and counterproductive diversity training programs on the left.
It's how democracies fail.
There's several LNG export projects in development.

It's very simple. Listen to what Biden tells you about liquid natural gas and how it relates to climate.

In a democracy, we're all very used to politicians and the media trying to gaslight us. They don't like LNG development. Why can't it just be left at that.
 

WyattEarp

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800 billion deficits? Where do you take those numbers? It was 55 billions in 2022.
You likely saw data that was a monthly figure.
 

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Mark Carney will be the next PM.

Or are you picking the career politician over the career banker?
You relied on a drama teacher to run the country for 9 years...I don't trust your judgement when it comes to picking who should run the country....
 
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