Binson Echorec wrote:

TomTV wrote:

US ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, reminds us why Doug Ford is an idiot and the cause of the stalled federal trade negotiations with the US:

Putting aside Douglas Ford Jr's smarts for a sec, I'm baffled that no Canadian has replied to Hoekstra's tirades with, "What did you expect? You started it."
They kicked a hornet's nest and are blaming the hornets. Typical of politicians, really.

The responses on social media whenever Hoekstra's comments about Canada or trade arise effectively mirror what you said. There are few, if any, Canadians who will shrug their shoulders and agree with his points. Like I said, the Republicans are arrogant right now because the US is the economic center of the planet and have the clout to screw other countries however which way they want, until the rest of us get our act together and learn to bypass these sods altogether.

 

Not shown on Thursday's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade broadcast...

RadioActive wrote:

Not shown on Thursday's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade broadcast...

 
Just seeing this now, too funny RA!

I was never a fan of Wayne Gretzky as a kid, primarily because he really didn't seem to have any issue with ditching Canada for the US  so long as whichever team he played for nabbed him the Stanley Cup. To me he was always more about his own fame than loyalty to his home country, he's no Mike Myers that's for sure.





Yup, when right-wing Republicans vote against bills for mental health, to lower drug costs, to establish universal health care for the poor, lunch programs for school kids in low income neighbourhoods... the excuse every time is "We don't have the money!"   Maybe if they golfed a little less.

The Trump family themselves certainly have enough money, courtesy of the crypto rubes that have paid up for the latest Trump cypto coins:


I doubt Trump has any fans who'd buy his crypto junk in New York. His reputation there during his real estate magnate days was of the guy who would never pay his bills, he'd pay you half and tell you to sue him for the rest. Some of the contractors who worked for him ultimately ended up going bankrupt when Trump didn't pay what he owed. It was well-established that if you were going to work for Trump, you'd have to demand at least half the money up front and take your chances on getting the rest after the work was completed.

Even when he was on trial during Biden's term, many law firms refused to represent him unless Trump paid out a huge retainer up front, knowing that reputation.





 

Last edited by TomTV (December 1, 2025 4:35 pm)

It's almost the end of the year and Trump has been making a LOT of claims about the greatness of his presidency. Let's start with how well respected he is:



The rest of his exaggerated proclamations have been debunked in this post be Daniel Dae:

https://x.com/ddale8/status/1995947467821478012

Here's a fact check of 13 of the false claims President Trump made at his Cabinet meeting today:

- He claimed he's secured more than $18 trillion in investment commitments since he returned to office. That fictional figure is nearly double the $9.6 trillion figure the White House uses on its website, and a detailed review shows even the smaller WH figure is wildly inflated

- He claimed grocery prices are down. They're up: 2.7% year-over-year as of September, 1.4% since January

- He claimed he is cutting prescription drug prices by 500% to 900%. These numbers make no mathematical sense; they'd mean people would get paid to acquire their medications
 
- He claimed every military attack on a (purported) drug-smuggling boat saves an average of 25,000 lives. Experts say this number also makes no sense, even aside from the fact the administration hasn’t publicly proven what was on the boats; the US had a reported total of 82,000 overdose deaths last year
 
- He claimed he has "stopped inflation in its tracks" since January. The September year-over-year inflation rate, 3.0%, was the exact same as the rate in January (actually a tiny bit higher if you go to more decimal places) - and September was the fifth consecutive months the year-over-year rate had increased
 
- He claimed he inherited the worst inflation of all time. He didn't; he inherited 3% inflation, same as the most recent rate, and even the Biden-era peak, 9.1% in June 2022, wasn't close to an all-time high
 
- He claimed he ended eight wars. Among other issues, his list includes two supposed wars that did not actually exist during his presidency, Egypt-Ethiopia and Serbia-Kosovo, and a war in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that has not actually ended
 
- He claimed China “doesn’t have gasoline.” It’s true China doesn’t produce enough oil to meet domestic demand, but China has domestic oil and refines oil into gasoline

- He claimed that, under Biden, “By 2030, everybody had to own an electric car.” Biden’s push for EVs did not include a requirement for anybody to buy an electric car or abandon their gas-powered car; Biden tailpipe rules sought to have EVs make up 56% of new passenger vehicles sold in 2032
 
- He claimed the US gave $350 billion in wartime aid to Ukraine. Not even close. A US government inspector general says $187 billion was appropriated for the war response through June...including billions spent in the US and broader Europe
 
- He claimed Washington, DC now has "no murders," which wasn't true even before the deadly attack on National Guard troops last week
 
- He claimed the 2020 election was a fake election. It wasn’t, he lost, this is a lie

- He claimed his big domestic policy bill included “no tax on Social Security.” It didn’t eliminate tax on Social Security; it temporarily increased the standard deduction for people age 65+, which means some people 65+ (and beneficiaries under 65) continue to pay tax on their benefits

He's such a needy, sad little fat man. Living with himself must be a constant battle between self-hatred and self-pity. No wonder he doesn't sleep.

His health is running out fast. Thank you McDonalds! Please hurry up. He's got an appointment with the Devil.

P.S. when he gets there, no doubt he'll declare himself the King of Hell. If I were the Devil, I'd be worried.

Last edited by Dial Twister (December 6, 2025 8:09 am)

Dial Twister wrote:

He's such a needy, sad little fat man. Living with himself must be a constant battle between self-hatred and self-pity. No wonder he doesn't sleep.

He also repeated the same "joke" about renaming the Kennedy Center after himself the other day. Usually the pattern is that he repeats something that he wants (Nobel Peace Prize, renaming some building after himself or his wife) over and over again during press tours or White House briefings, until one of his Republican allies then makes a motion to make it happen.

Thankfully the only renaming that I'm aware of that happened this year was the U.S. Institute of Peace headquarters in Washington, which added his name to the front of the building.  I'm amazed that he wasn't championing for the Gulf of Mexico to be renamed to the Gulf of Trump instead of Gulf of America.

There is certainly a desperation on the part of the right-wing wealthy to try and garner accolades for unearned work. Elon Musk suffered one of the most embarrassing moments of his life earlier this year when it was revealed that he had been secretly paying a pro videogamer to play Diablo 4 and Path of Exile 2 under Musk's account, in order to make Elon appear to be one of the top players in the world. I believe there was some kind of falling out with that top gamer who then came out and revealed the truth. Elon then tried to recover by live-streaming himself playing PoE2, a basic game tutorial, and he couldn't even beat the boss character. It was a TUTORIAL boss character, for pete's sake.




People like Trump and Musk rely on very naive, very gullible young men to worship them. They need that ego boost, because apparently stealing billions of dollars and rigging elections to win insane amounts of political power, isn't good enough to salve their fragile egos. The problem is that once you are exposed as a hypocrite and liar, those same young men turn against you pretty hard just as I have against the right-wingers, as Musk found out when someone hacked his livestream and humiliated him in front of millions of his followers.





There's an old saying that I've adapted as my personal mantra when it comes to these kinds of people: "If you meet the Buddha in your travels, kill him." And no it doesn't mean literally kill him. But when someone appears before you, usually in the political arena, and claim to be a messiah, the one that will solve all the problems, the one and only one, that can save society and make it great again, and asks you to idolize them, just remember that they usually will turn out to be a Trump or Elon Musk.


 

Last edited by TomTV (December 6, 2025 1:35 pm)

Watching the 6pm newscast today, I saw the press briefing with Trump declaring that he wanted to tax potash from Canada. Now, the reason this statement caught me off guard is because he had tried this sort of thing before with our potash and got an earful from the US farmers (his most loyal base) and the Republicans governors that get yelled at by those farmers. He backtracked quickly.

So why bring it up again? Taxing potash from Canada would only inflate American food prices even more than they are right now (if you think we have it bad up here...) and Trump is already facing intense anger over soaring inflation despite his insistence that food prices are down (which he may actually believe is true, who knows what lies his caretakers feed him to keep him placated and under control. And Trump certainly doesn't shop at the local grocery store, so I doubt he knows the day-to-day cost of any food).

As usual, the internet provided the most logical answer:



Trump is either beholden to Putin or being blackmailed by him. Either way, Russia needs money badly to keep its disastrous war going long enough until Ukraine runs out of financial support from its allies or they can assassinate President Zelenskyy (which they actually tried to do using drones just a few days ago).

So, if Trump puts tariffs on Canadian potash so that Russian potash suddenly becomes cheaper by comparison... guess which country gets a new, badly needed revenue stream while Canada's financial fortunes sink into the ground?  It kills two birds with one stone: 1) helps Putin continue the war, and 2) pushes Canada closer to financial ruin, making it easier for us to become the 51st state (just elect a Reform Party Conservative to be Prime Minister in a few years and see how fast we roll over to become that 51st state).

Of course, right-wing supporters in the Trump camp have tried to (falsely) tell the American people that Trump has HELPED the farmers, only to get corrected very quickly:



For anyone who was watching 60 Minutes this past Sunday, the news programme actually interviewed the loud-mouthed Marjorie Taylor-Greene about her exit from the MAGA camp. I watched most of it, before her unbearable grating personality finally took its toll on my mental health and I turned it off.

Nonetheless, the orange lizard clearly must have watched the entire interview and came out swinging on Truth Social:


"...your favorite President, ME!"

Okay grandpa, time to go back to sleep and pretend that everyone loves you... Also, his habit of just capitalizing the first letter of a random word that isn't at the beginning of a sentence, would drive any english school teacher to suicide. Imagine if Joe Biden had become president. Even with cognitive difficulties in finding the right words, he would never write something as man-childish as the drivel coming from this administration.

The final cap to tonight: the internet has not stopped its ridicule of the make-believe "Peace Prize" awarded to him a few days ago, it continues:




 

Remember that sad, old "Sleepy Joe" whom tRump had such great fun ridiculing? Yeah, I remember too.

Well, here's MAGA's super-human man-god, sent from on high to "save America".

Shorty Wave wrote:

Please never wake up!

Yup, no one really minds if Sleepy Don takes his naps, what they mind is that he always wakes up.

And now for this week's Trump spotlight: the wrecking of America continues:

A bad week for the Republicans is a good week for the rest of the world:

First the Republican chairman warns that they're certain to lose next year's mid-terms:


Trump held a rally a few nights ago, attended by only 200 people, and attempted to lie about how well things are going in the USA:


As Dan Rather puts it, Trump can get away with other lies and his gullible right-wing voters will swallow it up, but when his MAGA base can feel their own

poverty then you can't spin it to them as easily:


Indeed, his biggest supporters are far from "getting rich" as Trump claimed:








The tariffs have devastated businesses that have been operation for almost 100 years:





Kristi Noem also attempted to lie and testified that no US veterans have been deported so far by ICE, but those questioning her knew she'd lie and had a veteran who got deported ready on stand by on a Zoom call:


The myth that right-wing governments are somehow better at managing taxpayer money?


Democrats have also released thousands of photos related to the Epstein case:


None of the people seen here should be a shock. Bill Gates was rumored to have ruined his marriage because he had fooled around and I have a friend who worked at Microsoft who confirmed to me that it was an open secret that Gates would hit on the female Microsoft employees (while married at the time).

And finally, the White House continues to act like some kind of juvenile high school student:


So while Canada has suffered under Trump's tariffs, take some comfort in knowing that his supporters are getting it just as bad.
 

More failures for the Trump admin, reported by BonkDaCarnivore:

https://x.com/BonkDaCarnivore/status/1999642328097775971

So to recap MAGA's last 24 hours:

- Indiana refused to gerrymander any more than it is
- The military told him to stop threatening Mark Kelly
- He pardoned Tina Peters - and Colorado laughed at him
- His favorite illegal alien (Kilmar Garcia) got released from holding and Trump was told to leave him alone
- They failed to indict Letitia James...again
- New Epstein photos that are leading to a big to-the-surprise-of-nobody reveal that Trump is a pedophile

No wonder they're so mad today.

A reminder that Mark Kelly got into trouble simply for participating in a Democrat video telling the US military that they don't have obey an illegal order given by the president. That's it. Republicans called him a traitor and have been trying to persecute him ever since.

Kilmar Garcia was languishing in an El Salvador concentration camp under heinous conditions, sent there by the US government without due process.

I'm glad to at least see Indiana isn't cooperating with the Republicans' attempt to cheat their way to victory for next year's mid-terms. This is a huge win, considering it is a stronghold for the right-wing and if they aren't willing to accept outright cheating, maybe other red states will too (once their constituents have been burned by the tariffs enough).

In regards to the Netflix vs Paramount war to gain control of Warner Bros, I'm going to side with Netflix. There are good reasons to be fearful if the Ellison family were to get control of yet another news media outlet:







Both the US and Canada are already awash in right-wing propaganda as it is from both traditional news media, podcasts, social media... I'm just as tired of hearing the words "inclusion" and "diversity" as the next guy (and I'm a non-white dude so what does that tell you) but young audiences don't have the critical thinking skills or life experience to discern propaganda from truth. And right-wing pundits are, to my chagrin, notoriously good at charming and entrancing their audiences with "common sense" arguments. I'd rather Netflix prices go up a few dollars a month than cede control of the belief systems of the next generation of youth to a gang of right-wing nutjobs who want to remake America and Canada into a far-right ultra-Christian nationalist state.










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Last edited by TomTV (December 14, 2025 4:09 pm)

What a piece of filth. No respect for the dead whatsoever. He can expect the same treatment when he hopefully dies soon of a stroke.



When even Marjorie Taylor Greene is able to show compassion for someone from the opposite side of the political spectrum...






 

Last edited by TomTV (December 15, 2025 2:59 pm)

Trump was asked by the press today about his comments regarding Rob Reiner and he is still unrelenting:

The video:
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/17ripViBWH/

I will transcribe for those who are not on Facebook:

R: A number of Republicans have denounced your statement on Truth Social after the murder of Rob Reiner. Do you stand by that post?

T: Well I wasn't a fan of his at all, he was a DERANGED person as far as Trump is concerned. He said I was a friend of Russia, controlled by Russia, the Russia hoax, he was one of the people behind it. I think he hurt himself career-wise, so  he became like a deranged person. Trump Derangement Syndrome. So I was not a fan of Rob Reiner in any way shape or form, I thought he was very bad for our country.

Yes he did refer to himself in the third person. Do you know what kind of people do that? Deranged narcissists, that's who.

Here's what Reiner had to say about Trump back in 2023:

Rob Reiner        @robreiner

The difference between Joe Biden and Donald Trump is: Joe Biden is a decent law abiding person, and Donald Trump is a pathologically lying criminal.

BONUS: here's what Samuel L Jackson (Mace Windu) said about Trump and his right-wing friends:

https://twitter.com/RollingStone/status/1671186146796109825
@RollingStone

Samuel L. Jackson talks to Rolling Stone about Donald Trump.

"When I see Trump, I see the same rednecks I saw when I was growing up who called me “n*****” and tried to keep me in my place. That’s what the Republican Party is to me."

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/samuel-l-jackson-interview-marvel-secret-invasion-brie-larson-trump-racists-fbi-threat-tarantino-1234774278/

Jimmy Kimmel interviewing Michelle Obama and she mentions that she and her husband were supposed to be seeing the Reiners that same night of their deaths:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DST_9YtkYQ5/

Actress Jamie Lee Curtis reposted a New Yorker article about Trump's gross behavior:








and others are moving away from any institution supporting the deranged orange loser:


And, Jimmy Kimmel's reaction (courtesy of brobible)

During his opening monologue on Monday night, Kimmel slammed Trump’s response as being so insensitive that he didn’t even think he was capable of saying such a thing and thought it was fake.

- “It’s so hateful and vile, when I first saw it, I thought it was fake,” Kimmel said. “My wife showed it to me this morning, and I was like, even for him, that seemed like too much. Just when you think he can’t go any lower, he somehow finds a way to do that,” Kimmel said.

“[Trump’s] description of what happened, of course, is not at all what happened,” he added. “And this is exactly what I’ve spoken about before, this rush to pin the tail on the donkey in pursuit of the Trump-friendly narrative.”

“I know from my personal interactions with Rob Reiner that he would want us to keep pointing out the loathsome atrocities that continue to ooze out of this sick and irresponsible man’s mouth, and so we’re going to do that over and over again until the rest of us wake up.”

Kimmel also had former First Lady Michelle Obama as a guest on Monday night, who revealed that she and her husband, former President Barack Obama, had dinner plans with Rob and Michele Reiner on Sunday, December 14 — the day they were found murdered.

Last edited by TomTV (December 17, 2025 1:14 pm)

The United States of America has a mentally-ill, dangerous individual in the Oval Office.

I didn't bother to watch tonight's "special" presidential address because it was either going to be him bragging about his fake accomplishments or declaring war on Canada / Venezuela / Greenland, I knew either way I'd hear about it on social media within a few minutes, and it looks like it was the former.















Obviously he was fact-checked right away:






If you're wondering why he bothered to do this, it's because the Epstein Files come out on Friday from what I understand.