They’re trying to turn US into Russia. Criminals and corrupt dictators are uncomfortable around law abiding democracies. Unfortunately, trump is a corrupt criminal so the Putin model works better for him than the previous US model. Sorry US, it’s not likely to get better under MAGA!!!!
Carney is formidable. He has emerged as a man for his time and it is possible that we are going to be watching Canada emerge as a world leader. He clearly sees Canada, with its raw materials that are so relevant for our time, as fossil fuels were the raw materials for the last century, providing an opportunity for a major turning point that brings a new world order that sees Canada emerging as the leading democratic state in the Americas.
ah, here it is, i had to look around my desk for it but here's the line i was reminded of, it's hunter s. thompson: "America . . . just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anyone else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable." . . . jvl as diogenes . . .
Trump goes to watch golf at his own property where he takes profits from foreign investors while the world economy is starting to unravel. He takes pride in the fact that our government is starting to crumble, because it has been something that he has wrought. It may all go really bad, or maybe not so much, but just look at what he can do. Bring him his fiddle!
The unwillingness to accept that voters were and are ok with economic pain as long as it's worse for the "other" is odd to me. This is exactly where we are.
In the coming Mad Max hellscape that will be America under Trump, there will far fewer boats, for lack of water in a global warming-based planet-wide drought, and lack of gas to power boats because Hesgeth, anticipating that Trump would want him to, has bombed both Iraq and Iran, incapacitating their oil fields and spiking gas prices. So, very few boat parades. But there will be zombies! Created by access to defunct laboratories and their various infected animals.
Andrew and JVL, bless you both for your clear eyed analysis, and may God have mercy on us all. Well, at least on those of us who actually want to do the right thing.
Fortunately, it appears that the American people have a really clear understanding that the horrible economic problems are being caused by the tariffs and that Criminal Trump is 100% responsible for them. Let's see if that holds next November at the ballot box.
This trade war and the realignment of the global order is not going to go the way that Trump thinks it will. And he is going to have one mother of a temper tantrum. He will be capable of ANYTHING at that point with no one to stop him. Greenland, it is ours. Canada, it is ours. If you want to fight for it, we will send in our army. Oh and Russia is joining forces with us. Look at what happens when malignant narcissists don't get their way. As negative financial data starts to creep in on Trump, and other countries don't behave like Paul Weiss, he is going to get more and more dangerous.
First, the party that out of power generally does well in the midterms.
There was a blue tsunami in 2018 and Dems held on in 2020. We certainly weren't crushed in 2024 and we gained seats in states. So not sure why the doom and gloom here that hopefully, fingers crossed, maybe if we squint the Dems might pull something out in 2026.
Dems are beginning to get their act together and hopefully it is just the beginning. You know what I would love to see? The GOP leader who isn't Adam Kinzinger or Liz Cheney stand up and say "enough." Just because we know they are cowards doesn't mean we should stop demanding they do something.
And where are our former presidents? I don't blame BIden. He certainly tried to warn us, even though too many people have amnesia. But where are the rest of them? It's not the norm for a former president to speak out. But we demolished norms years ago. Isn't the nation the led worth the fight?
Today 4/4/2025 America just put the for sale sign on a financial casino that we've been running since Bretton Woods. I hope the next owners are a little more responsible.
They’re trying to turn US into Russia. Criminals and corrupt dictators are uncomfortable around law abiding democracies. Unfortunately, trump is a corrupt criminal so the Putin model works better for him than the previous US model. Sorry US, it’s not likely to get better under MAGA!!!!
Some of the American people, not all of us....sigh
Carney is formidable. He has emerged as a man for his time and it is possible that we are going to be watching Canada emerge as a world leader. He clearly sees Canada, with its raw materials that are so relevant for our time, as fossil fuels were the raw materials for the last century, providing an opportunity for a major turning point that brings a new world order that sees Canada emerging as the leading democratic state in the Americas.
ah, here it is, i had to look around my desk for it but here's the line i was reminded of, it's hunter s. thompson: "America . . . just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anyone else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable." . . . jvl as diogenes . . .
thanks. i do appreciate the sincerity of your hopelessness. keep it pure. i feel it.
In today's parlance GTFOH, Trump and MAGA.
The rest of the world has known we're just a bunch of redneck grubbers since Trump got elected the first time
Trump goes to watch golf at his own property where he takes profits from foreign investors while the world economy is starting to unravel. He takes pride in the fact that our government is starting to crumble, because it has been something that he has wrought. It may all go really bad, or maybe not so much, but just look at what he can do. Bring him his fiddle!
The unwillingness to accept that voters were and are ok with economic pain as long as it's worse for the "other" is odd to me. This is exactly where we are.
Hunger Games is our name.
It's Jim Crow philosophy
Will this at least lead to less boat parades?
In the coming Mad Max hellscape that will be America under Trump, there will far fewer boats, for lack of water in a global warming-based planet-wide drought, and lack of gas to power boats because Hesgeth, anticipating that Trump would want him to, has bombed both Iraq and Iran, incapacitating their oil fields and spiking gas prices. So, very few boat parades. But there will be zombies! Created by access to defunct laboratories and their various infected animals.
Andrew and JVL, bless you both for your clear eyed analysis, and may God have mercy on us all. Well, at least on those of us who actually want to do the right thing.
Fortunately, it appears that the American people have a really clear understanding that the horrible economic problems are being caused by the tariffs and that Criminal Trump is 100% responsible for them. Let's see if that holds next November at the ballot box.
This trade war and the realignment of the global order is not going to go the way that Trump thinks it will. And he is going to have one mother of a temper tantrum. He will be capable of ANYTHING at that point with no one to stop him. Greenland, it is ours. Canada, it is ours. If you want to fight for it, we will send in our army. Oh and Russia is joining forces with us. Look at what happens when malignant narcissists don't get their way. As negative financial data starts to creep in on Trump, and other countries don't behave like Paul Weiss, he is going to get more and more dangerous.
First, the party that out of power generally does well in the midterms.
There was a blue tsunami in 2018 and Dems held on in 2020. We certainly weren't crushed in 2024 and we gained seats in states. So not sure why the doom and gloom here that hopefully, fingers crossed, maybe if we squint the Dems might pull something out in 2026.
Dems are beginning to get their act together and hopefully it is just the beginning. You know what I would love to see? The GOP leader who isn't Adam Kinzinger or Liz Cheney stand up and say "enough." Just because we know they are cowards doesn't mean we should stop demanding they do something.
And where are our former presidents? I don't blame BIden. He certainly tried to warn us, even though too many people have amnesia. But where are the rest of them? It's not the norm for a former president to speak out. But we demolished norms years ago. Isn't the nation the led worth the fight?
Do any of our former presidents have enough credibility with enough people to be effective messengers?
Hmm. Maybe Laura Bush and Michelle Obama. I'll bet they are more popular than their husbands.
Today 4/4/2025 America just put the for sale sign on a financial casino that we've been running since Bretton Woods. I hope the next owners are a little more responsible.
Thank you both