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Dial Twister · July 29, 2025 9:47 am

RA, probably because, although some of those names are funny, the damage this extremely sick individual is doing to America and the Western Alliance is far, far beyond humour.

He's undoing 80 years of mutual advancement, and he's enjoying every minute of the tRump-induced pain. He is one sick bastard.

TomTV · July 29, 2025 3:11 pm

I did it. I planted Trump's name in the Epstein Files. But only because Obama asked me to.

67GreenRambler · July 29, 2025 5:04 pm

Under every cloud ..

cash · July 31, 2025 11:40 pm

As expected this Liberal government is as incompetent as the previous one. There's only one thing they should be dealing with and it's not Gaza.

mace · August 1, 2025 8:46 am

cash wrote:
As expected this Liberal government is as incompetent as the previous one. There's only one thing they should be dealing with and it's not Gaza.

Agreed. I wonder if PP would have had better success in dealing with Mr.Trump. Unfortunately, we won't get a chance to find out any time soon.

Saul · August 1, 2025 9:12 am

mace wrote:
cash wrote:
As expected this Liberal government is as incompetent as the previous one. There's only one thing they should be dealing with and it's not Gaza.
Agreed. I wonder if PP would have had better success in dealing with Mr.Trump. Unfortunately, we won't get a chance to find out any time soon.

How, exactly? I'm not necessarily in disagreement. Just wondering HOW you see this govt as incompetent... I think there's a lot to unravel...

TomTV · August 1, 2025 10:42 am

I don't think people understand that running any government is a multi-faceted job, and I'm more than happy to see Carney dealing with a butcher like Netanyahu by taking a stand alongside the other world leaders against what's happening in Gaza. It also puts pressure on the regime to expand the paltry food shipments to the region before any more starvation has occurred. Do I need to post photos of the skeletal remains of some of the children for folks to get that? Pipe up and I will.

The US hates that we've announced this, and that's also another point in our favor for negotiations.

And quite frankly, PP would've gotten us a deal alright, a bad one for the ages. Folks have forgotten that the Conservatives, both federal and provincial, have been the strongest MAGA supporters in the country up until Trump basically turned against every trading partner and ally, and embraced Russia. We don't need that apple-munching moron leading this country, the guy did nothing for his constituents for 20 (30?) years and finally got booted out of his own riding. If the PCs ever wanted any hope of being considered as a serious party, they should find a new leader who doesn't embrace Trump-style election theatrics and stoke hate, to take over as leader. While O'Toole was not exactly a favorite of mine, but he was miles ahead of PeePee.

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cash · August 1, 2025 11:08 am

Saul wrote:
mace wrote:
cash wrote:
As expected this Liberal government is as incompetent as the previous one. There's only one thing they should be dealing with and it's not Gaza.
Agreed. I wonder if PP would have had better success in dealing with Mr.Trump. Unfortunately, we won't get a chance to find out any time soon.
How, exactly? I'm not necessarily in disagreement. Just wondering HOW you see this govt as incompetent... I think there's a lot to unravel...

Mexico got an extension. Canada didn't. Mexico didn't make some Palestine announcement two days before August 1st. I will never understand why the left is so obsessed with Palestine. I think I know why.

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Saul · August 1, 2025 11:48 am

cash wrote:
Saul wrote:
mace wrote:

Agreed. I wonder if PP would have had better success in dealing with Mr.Trump. Unfortunately, we won't get a chance to find out any time soon.
How, exactly? I'm not necessarily in disagreement. Just wondering HOW you see this govt as incompetent... I think there's a lot to unravel...
Mexico got an extension. Canada didn't. Mexico didn't make some Palestine announcement two days before August 1st. I will never understand why the left is so obsessed with Palestine. I think I know why.

Actually, that's one thing Carney's got right. It lays the groundwork for a two-state solution. Which is arguably the best short-term outcome in that region. Furthermore, we simply can't allow Trump or any other foreign leader dictating our foreign policy. If that means no trade deal, so be it. Where the Libs worry me is actual or promises of military cooperation with the US. Golden Dome missile defence, jets, ... this is absolutely the wrong time to be striking these kinds of deals with the US. For so many reasons (for instance, Trump is as leaky as ship as there has ever been in the upper echelons of the US). It galls me to the core that Canadians are prodded to boycott US consumer goods even while our govt is negotiating military deals. Cdns are being gamed...

Shorty Wave · August 2, 2025 7:55 am

mace wrote:
cash wrote:
As expected this Liberal government is as incompetent as the previous one. There's only one thing they should be dealing with and it's not Gaza.
Agreed. I wonder if PP would have had better success in dealing with Mr.Trump. Unfortunately, we won't get a chance to find out any time soon.

Trump would have had a dozen insulting nicknames for PP by now. PP might have had some success but Trump was badmouthing him even before our elections, not a good sign.

I really think Canadians had Hobson’s choice last elections and the fact that Poilievre lost in his own riding speaks volumes. I’m trying to move on, 35% tariffs is not good, but it’s better than 50%, which is what we should be slapping on that orange anus, for openers.

paterson1 · August 2, 2025 9:51 am

What I don't understand about Mr. Trump is the reaction when he outright lies and nobody including media don't seem to go after him and make him explain and prove his claim. Trump will just say it's a terrible question or the reporter is being nasty and then that is the end of it.

Yesterday he fired the head of the Bureau Of Labor Statistics because he didn't like the numbers for job growth last month. The numbers showed that job growth was way down and Trump claimed that the person in charge, Erika McEntarfer, was either lying or had manipulated the numbers. And he offered NO EVIDENCE or proof of her doing this. He just didn't like her report. What!!?

This was a big story for about six hours and now it is already fading from the media and Democrats focus. This story is huge. He is actually accussing the head of the governments Bureau of Statistics of manipulating or lying about key economic numbers, then fires her, and it seems few question him.

Same with how Canada has been treated by the Trump government. To impose tariffs on us he has to show an outside threat to the US from another country. Canada's threat is fentanyl getting across the border and illegals coming in from north of the border. It has been proven, that Canada is not the source of either.

Only 1% of fentanyl coming into the US is from Canada, and we have never been the source of the millions of illegal people gathering at the border and entering America. Canada has spent over a billion to beef up security against fentanyl and any illegals entering the US. So far Trump has not acknowledged this. Doing so would make it almost impossible to continue with tariffs since the "threat" that never was, is now gone.

The Weed · August 2, 2025 1:56 pm

What's the point of questioning someone who either ignores the question, shouts fake news, lies an answer or hurls an insult at the questioner? I understand that would expose the non-answerer as dodging the question, but any sane person already knows and the cult just worships.

Saul · August 2, 2025 2:12 pm

The Weed wrote:
What's the point of questioning someone who either ignores the question, shouts fake news, lies an answer or hurls an insult at the questioner? I understand that would expose the non-answerer as dodging the question, but any sane person already knows and the cult just worships.

And online some of the assholes are Assbots...

paterson1 · August 2, 2025 3:09 pm

The Weed wrote:
What's the point of questioning someone who either ignores the question, shouts fake news, lies an answer or hurls an insult at the questioner? I understand that would expose the non-answerer as dodging the question, but any sane person already knows and the cult just worships.

The Democrats, press and those that know his claims are lies can't just give up. That would be the worst thing to do. You keep on exposing the lie and how the presidents "facts" don't add up. You are also exposing his government for what they are. The fact that the president has no answers when he is challenged, just confirms the misinformation and lies. Trump got a lot of soft votes in the last election. These are the people who could move their votes from the Republicans next time. However, the Democrats really need to get their act together and not just complain and disagree about everything Trump does. Pick and choose your battles, and focus on the lies and misleading information from Trump and his government.

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Dial Twister · August 2, 2025 3:17 pm

Here we are trying to understand what a demented sociopath is doing on a daily basis.

He's an extremely dangerous, spoiled-rotten lunatic with absolutely no filters.

"If tRump is gone before I wake,
I pray the Lord the news ain't fake."
😔 🙏

TomTV · August 2, 2025 3:18 pm

The Weed wrote:
What's the point of questioning someone who either ignores the question, shouts fake news, lies an answer or hurls an insult at the questioner? I understand that would expose the non-answerer as dodging the question, but any sane person already knows and the cult just worships.

The key thing is the constant threat by Trump's handlers that if you say something to make Trump look stupid or bad as president, your entire news organization will lose access to the president (as we've already seen them do just recently to the WSJ). The spinelessness of these media companies, and what's left of the Republican party, is something that history isn't going to forget.

The left-wing governments have always done a superior (but definitely NOT perfect) job of policing their own, including their leaders. The right-wing? Here and in the US? Don't even make me laugh. The Democrats forced out Al Franken for what I thought was very stupid but not exactly criminal conduct, whereas at this point Trump could murder a child live on the news and FOX would find a way to blame Biden.

Carney has an impossible task: negotiating with a senile pedophile liar who won't adhere to his own legal obligations. As the news has already pointed out, better that we get no deal at all than agree to a shit one where we are expected to adhere to our side of the contract while the other side can just change their minds at any fucking time.

In other news: the recruiting for Trump's brownshirts paramilitary continues with some of the best compensation a redneck, poorly educated, white supremacist can possibly hope for just as the US economy slowly tanks due to Trump's own idiotic policies:

Are you a student who can't afford to continue your college education because the GOP just made qualifying for loans next to impossible unless you come from a wealthy family? Join ICE!

Dial Twister · August 2, 2025 3:52 pm

Watters is a classic example of someone who will suspend all logic and flat-out lie, all to defend Fat Nixon, and to keep his high-priced gig. Even his own mother shamed him during a call-in.

As long as the cheques clear, he'll happily sell his country down the river.

May the day soon come when all these empty vessels face their Waterloo.

As outraged as many Canadians are, imagine how sane Americans are feeling. Actually, I know how dismayed they are. I'm regularly in touch with several in different states and they cannot believe what has happened to their country.

Buzzy Krumhunger · August 2, 2025 6:45 pm

"If tRump is gone before I wake,
I pray the Lord the news ain't fake."
😔 🙏

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbS2KSRUVHo

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RadioActive · August 3, 2025 9:16 am

RadioActive wrote:
Leave it to South Park to sum everything up.

Donald Trump dealt humiliating blow in brutal Satan South Park scene

A new/old player has emerged to match South Park. The British classic "Spitting Image" is about to have a field day with you-know-who.

RadioActive · August 3, 2025 4:36 pm

Trump has picked a fight with yet another well known radio host. And the beat goes on...

Trump attacks Charlamagne Tha God after radio host criticizes his presidency

TomTV · August 4, 2025 12:45 am

Per CTV Noon News July 31st:

Trump has written a letter to the various CEOs of pharma companies demanding that they lower prices for drugs in the US, wanting favored nation pricing. If they don't commit to lowering prices, he will use tariffs and other means to punish them. Healthcare stocks tumbled on the news.

He wants these companies to increase drug prices in OTHER countries (including Canada) and use that revenue to lower prices for Americans

This could lead to Canadians going south to the US to buy their drugs instead of the other way around right now where Americans are buying their drugs from Canada since drugs are much cheaper here.

paterson1 · August 4, 2025 8:09 am

El Presidente was talking to the press yesterday about the great discounts that US consumers will be getting. He said not 40% or 50% less on drug prices. No, he claimed that prices for drugs would come down 1200%, 1300%, even 1500%. Since prices can't be discounted more than 100% (free) I guess he plans that the drug companies will be paying consumers to use their products. He mentioned these discounts various times, and nobody in the press scrum questioned him on his math. Sad...

Shorty Wave · August 4, 2025 8:26 am

paterson1 wrote:
El Presidente was talking to the press yesterday about the great discounts that US consumers will be getting. He said not 40% or 50% less on drug prices. No, he claimed that prices for drugs would come down 1200%, 1300%, even 1500%. Since prices can't be discounted more than 100% (free) I guess he plans that the drug companies will be paying consumers to use their products. He mentioned these discounts various times, and nobody in the press scrum questioned him on his math. Sad...

No wonder he has failed with his business efforts. Seriously, a 1500% price cut? What a toolbox who thinks he should have the Nobel Prize for economics. I seriously hope that big pharma stands up to him, there’s a lot of people on meds in the US, so pharma holds the cards here.

TomTV · August 4, 2025 5:30 pm

Also another news story that came out this past week but which really didn't get the attention it deserved:

Donald Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), on August 1, 2025, shortly after the release of a monthly jobs report that showed lower-than-expected job growth for July and significant downward revisions for May and June. Trump publicly accused McEntarfer, a Biden appointee, of manipulating or "rigging" the jobs figures for political reasons, claiming they made him and the Republican Party look bad. He stated on social media that the jobs report was "rigged" and directed his team to fire McEntarfer immediately, insisting that "important numbers like this must be fair and accurate" and "can't be manipulated for political purposes".

White House officials defended the move by saying the administration wanted a "fresh set of eyes" at the Bureau and stressed concerns about unusually large revisions to recent jobs reports. However, economic experts and former BLS officials widely criticized the firing, pointing out that data revisions are a routine and well-documented part of employment statistics, not evidence of political bias or manipulation. Critics warned that Trump's action risks undermining trust in the independence and integrity of official government data.

In short, the economic numbers made Trump's presidential term so far look awful and contradicted his ongoing claims that everything is fine, prices are going down(!) for everyday items like gas and eggs, America is "hot" again, etc. so he fired her. We can all safely assume that her replacement will be a loyalist that will report numbers that only make Trump's economic sabotage appear successful (how else is he going to get that Nobel Prize for Economics?)

Experts are right: revisions are a common thing, here's why:
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/bls-data-explainer-what-to-know-rcna222570
[Jobs data revisions are common. Here's how the process works.]

As someone online put it, "Trump fired his labor statistics boss hours after the release of his latest weak jobs report - which means these are the last real stats you will see for his presidency."

A very dangerous move because government policy relies on good data to decide where to allocate money. Pretending "everything is fine" while the house is burning down doesn't stop the house from burning down. Come August 7th, Trump's tariffs on foreign goods being sold in the US will take effect, and companies have already said that they will have no choice to pass on those price increases to the consumer. Result: inflation.

This may offer one reason why the US stock markets and gold and crypto have been surging upwards since April: inflation means you lose purchasing power, $1 no longer buys what $1 used to buy only 6 months ago. People, especially the ultra-rich, don't want to see that purchasing power diminish, so they rush to invest it in assets that will go up alongside inflation (gold is the most traditional hedge, but stocks can also do the same thing - the Venezuela stock market is way overpriced but the people put their money into it because it keeps going up in step with inflation in the country, which keeps their life savings from losing their purchasing strength).

Still, the stock markets are mostly for the rich not the everyday joe. 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, more than 1 in 3 Americans have zero retirement savings, these folks can't afford to put anything into stocks. Even if one had the money to invest, it's questionable if it's not already too late anyway, US stocks went up by 30% in just a few months this year. Historically, a steep run up usually comes with a correction of about 8% and after that, investors will no longer get reliable US economic statistics because Trump will have installed a loyalist to report only good jobs data...

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TomTV · August 6, 2025 12:17 am

Climate change is happening, it's backed up by science. What does a climate change denying president do? Make it impossible to collect any more evidence:

https://x.com/MilesTaylorUSA/status/1952835869003665523 @MilesTaylorUSA

REPORT: White House orders NASA to destroy satellite used for monitoring climate change, according to NPR The censorship campaign goes to space.

I guess if you can’t SEE the climate changing, then it ISN’T changing. The stupidity is exquisite.

From Grok AI:
"the OCO-2 and OCO-3 satellites primarily measure atmospheric CO2 for climate monitoring but also track plant growth. This data aids farmers in crop yield forecasting and drought monitoring, supports national security by predicting migration from crop failures, and assists oil/gas industries in emissions tracking. Sources: NPR, NASA reviews.

The OCO program's annual cost is ~$15M, or about 0.06% of NASA's $25.4B FY2025 budget—negligible, yet the data's value for agriculture, security, and emissions tracking is immense. Cutting it seems shortsighted. Sources: NASA budget docs."

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Shorty Wave · August 6, 2025 7:51 am

If you can’t see the climate change, then It isn’t changing, if you don’t show COVID deaths, then no one died, if you can’t see the Epstein files, then they don’t exist. Hey, nothing to see here!

Easily Amused · August 6, 2025 8:03 am

Shorty Wave wrote:
If you can’t see the climate change, then It isn’t changing, if you don’t show COVID deaths, then no one died, if you can’t see the Epstein files, then they don’t exist. Hey, nothing to see here!

Agreed.

🙈🙉🙊

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Dial Twister · August 6, 2025 8:22 am

Easily Amused wrote:
Shorty Wave wrote:
If you can’t see the climate change, then It isn’t changing, if you don’t show COVID deaths, then no one died, if you can’t see the Epstein files, then they don’t exist. Hey, nothing to see here!
Agreed.

🙈🙉🙊

Western society brought down by a grifter and his cling-ons.

Dial Twister · August 6, 2025 2:32 pm

That moron is the president of the United States of America. God help us all.

TomTV · August 6, 2025 8:54 pm

Just announced... this idiot is trying to destroy the US economy, I'm pretty convinced of it.

Trump Announces 100% Tariff on Semiconductor Imports

President Donald Trump announced a 100% tariff on all semiconductor imports into the United States on August 6, 2025. The policy includes exemptions for companies committing to build manufacturing facilities domestically, aiming to boost U.S. production amid national security and economic concerns. This measure targets foreign-made chips essential for various industries, encouraging firms like Apple to invest in American operations.

I believe this will also raise the cost of the Apple iPhone for Canadians as well.

UPDATE: from https://x.com/Stocktwits/status/1953212054405284321

Trump confirms nVidia and Apple won’t face the 100% chip tariff—citing their commitment to expanding manufacturing in the U.S

One has to wonder if this is yet another attempt to tempoarily sink the stock market just as he did a few months ago so his rich friends (who likely were already told to sell their tech stocks yesterday), can buy in again at a low, before Trump then rescinds the tax and the stock markets shoot back up in relief.

If it goes ahead, it would hit the auto sector pretty hard, since modern cars obviously use a lot of semiconductor chips.

Trump wants a 100% tariff on all semiconductors entering the U.S. But the U.S. only makes 12% of its own chips. We’d be taxing the 88% we depend on for phones, cars, AI, even defense.

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