Posted on 10/29/2025 11:04:47 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Oh, this is funny….
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Think big picture. Think strategically, like Donald Trump. He’s trying to push Canada into a desperation play where they strike trade deals with China, knowing he’s holding a USA deal with Chairman Xi in his back pocket that will undercut Canada completely. Watch.
The Free Trade Agreements being made for the USA all over Southeast and Central Asia are stunning. After over $500 billion in deals made in Japan, President Trump and team now head to South Korea.
Last country to do a deal with US will get the worst deal.
Hopefully Trump can pull out all the Canadian auto export business and replace with US plants before any deal.
Holy carp.
😳
Carnie is Trump’s cuckhold.
the 2 guys behind Mark Carney
The look on their faces
Isaiah 3:9 NIV
Carney holds one card, the joker
Wow.
That verse is right on the mark.
[Wow.
That verse is right on the mark.]
Yes. It couldn’t possibly be more accurate.
And quite descriptive of our current day.
Isaiah 3:9
New International Version
9 The look on their faces testifies against them;
they parade their sin like Sodom;
they do not hide it.
Woe to them!
They have brought disaster upon themselves
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%203%3A9&version=NIV
I’m no longer really out n society much anymore (stress of so many tragedies has reignited the agoraphobia that’s been gone for decades) but I find myself utterly incapable of looking at them kindly or even passively.
My facial expression seems to be running its own show now.
The best I can manage is a disgusted scowl.
They’re offensive to my spirit.
/not sorry
It’s getting weirder out there
Canada doesn’t know the customer is always right.
I’m blessed to live somewhere it’s not really common.
Multi colored hair, yes but the rest, not really much of it.
Well it’s quite true, in some ways Canada is sleepwalking to a moral disaster and opens itself up to the wrath of an offended God, in other ways, 99% of the country is very similar to your country and these phenomena in a few of the big cities do not extend to all corners of the land.
I live in a relatively small town and life seems quite normal here, when I go to the U.S. on my travels I stick to outlying areas of the inland west and I don’t encounter that many people anyway but from what little I do see in small towns along the way, you wouldn’t know there was even a border, except for the flags it all looks much the same and the people act the same.
Odd isn’t it that globalism has taken over our cities but left our rural areas and smaller towns almost untouched. Every small town has a few uber-liberals too, they are more to be ignored than feared, and they have limited impact.
Carney is an opportunist, he would go to any photo op that he thought might advance his political fortunes. At the same time, he has brought a certain amount of common sense to the position that Justin Trudeau lacked. He’s a smarter fox in other words. But I don’t understand our national strategy in this trade war, it would be easy enough to swallow the impacts of dropping protective tariffs in a few areas where we have them, and support anyone put out of work as a result, rather than absorbing hit after hit to our trade. It seems to be a matter of stubborn pride.
If you haven’t figured this out, I will make it explicit — I am a resident and citizen of Canada more by accident than by choice, and I’ve been completely ostracized and blacklisted here. So I am not really any spokesman for Canada nor an apologist. I was against all these things before any of you ever heard about them. We’ve been fighting globalism here since the 1990s and it hasn’t gone well, the foundation of Canadian politics is our national identity which by force of gravity has to be “we are not the United States” yet in fact our society is virtually identical in many ways, so it’s a bit of a comic opera trying to maintain this illusion of being vastly different. Nor is there much point in trying to build a myth of superiority when your country is 10% the size of a culturally similar neighbor and so at best you can only boast 10% of the total accomplishments.
If it were up to me, I would recommend total merger except that it would weaken your cause so I don’t bother to do that, besides which only a handful of people in Canada would want it. I could see how, in a theoretical way, an even greater nation could emerge from such a thing, as Donald Trump says ... but he is preaching to deaf ears in Canada and might as well move on to more productive endeavors than trying to merge our two countries. Canadians will go down fighting such a thing because they fear the egalitarian nature of the republic in contrast to the entitled class-oriented approach of our kind of social structure. Not that such things are unknown or absent down there, I’ve found New England and the northeast to be quite similar in many ways.
I’m not sure what the end result of all this is going to be, if the Kingdom were to begin then it would probably be a total embarrassment for Canada and also for the liberal portion of American society. They are almost one entity. I have a theory that Trump got wind of some taped conversations Canadian Liberals must have had about him in his first term and is looking to avenge those. Those conversations were probably insulting in tone and would certainly reflect the opinion of a large majority in Canada.
Probably I should just get out but I have family ties and a reasonably comfortable life situation where I don’t need to mingle very much with Canadians (not that they would want my company anyway). I am pretty much a nation of one person but that nation is an ally of the United States in its current incarnation, not so much the ones seen 2009-16 and 2021-24.
I love to visit Utah and northern Arizona in particular and would feel very much at peace living there, but I get enough of a spiritual renewal from an annual visit. I’m a desert man for sure, and we don’t have deserts — not so much of a rainforest denizen. Sort of like a Soviet dissident with no hope of getting out (no economic justification, and I am not so desperately unhappy with it that I would plead for asylum, anyway knowing my luck, I would get eight years of Newsom or AOC for my troubles).
This is the background on my commentary on things up here, certainly not a patriot or apologist, more like a hostage maybe.
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