Our PM said no deal is better than a bad deal. There was no free trade deals between the US and Canada before the 80s, we'll just go back to that. Should we sign a bad deal, the Liberals wouldn't survive it politically the same way the 80s Conservatives under Brian Mulroney were virtually wiped off the map. Strange strategy from the US...all they are doing is encouraging trade outside the USD and when it's no longer the reserve currency...Americans are in for a shock
The Jamestown Foundation https://jamestown.org › program › chinas-encroachment-on-americas-backyard CHINA'S ENCROACHMENT ON AMERICA'S BACKYARD - Jamestown Hu Jintao's first trip to Latin America as president is emblematic of the fact that China's power projection has reached the furthest corners of the world - including Latin America, the United States' largely neglected backyard. EurAsian Times https://www.eurasiantimes.com › china-projects-itself-as-defender-of-multilateral-order China Encroaches Into U.S. Backyard At Scary Pace; Beijing Blames ... 15 mei 2025As the US-China rivalry heats up, Beijing has made yet another attempt to woo countries in the US backyard by projecting itself as the defender of the multilateral order, and unveiling a US$9.2 billion credit line and infrastructure investment fund for Latin American and Caribbean countries.
It seems Canada is saying that and Europe has become hip to this. They seem to be placating him while set up the systems to be independent of the US and say ******** off.
It's not happening. We (I; mine) aren't going to recover, ever, as our history has been scrubbed. Education is stupidly a state function. YOU may recover, and if that's the only thing you care about, all may turn up okay. Grab a bowl of Grape Nuts (or Life if you think it's happening sooner than I do) and wait for it all to crash in perhaps the ugliest and yet most beautiful scene in this play.
Education is a state function. This ship has sailed. Johnson isn't a compliant bitch. He's GOP- a little bitch getting everything his bitch-made heart desires. EDIT: repped because unlike me, you actually love this country, and I kinda sorta understand the loss you must be feeling right now
No. I remember Brooks (Sumner). I remember Andrew Johnson. I remember McCarthy. I remember Nixon. I remember Reagan. None of those sons of unmelanated whores were classy. There's nothing classy about saying the quiet parts quietly.
I mean, sure there was Shirley Chisholm, Elijah Cummings, John Lewis, Barack Obama, Edward Brooke, Maxine Waters, Jasmine Crockett, Rashida Tlaib, Cory Booker, and a handful of others whose names I don't recall at the moment, but tje majority culture has produced precious few classy people in any line of work.
What has America become? A fascist state. It is becoming increasingly bizarre the number of people still in denial about this.
When this all started, someone made the comment that the U.S. was uniquely robust in that they could get away with this hubris for a while in a way that would be impossible for nearly every other nation. The key words in that sentence being "for a while". I believe it might have been Tom Nichols. Regardless of who it might have been, there are still too many U.S. citizens who seem to deem this as a minor blip that no one will remember five years from now and will definitely have no impact on the nation's long-term well-being and wealth.
There were rumblings that he was going to rug pull his latest EU deal within a week after agreeing to it. He is a crazy person. Pretending otherwise is another thing that is unhelpful. He was almost certainly already this cuckoo even in 2016-2020 but then you still had a handful of grown-ups and semi grown-ups in the room who would at least try to throw their bodies in front of the most insane ideas. Now it's wall to wall sycophants.
We've been a fascist Whiteocracy for most of our existence. Always some sort of freedom given and then an almost immediate backlash. Trumpism is just the latest one.
I was speaking to some Dublin real estate agents today. They commented on how they are seeing a massive increase in the number of Americans wanting to buy in Ireland.
It will be harder. Bush understood the value of working with other countries and other government. Yes, he also had daddy issues, but at least he understood and cared politics and perception. Trump is eroding trust in every facet of the government, domestically and internationally. It's going to take a decade to recover what Trump did.
Not crazy. That is a disservice to those who actually have mental illness. He has dementia to some degree. He is clearly worse than he was in 2020, and even worse than he was at the debate v. Harris.
I should have said "at least a decade." And I was also thinking from 2028, assuming a non-Trumpian wins the White House. That way we have 2 full Presidential terms, plus a third to show consistency.
Mmm, it didnot take that long after hitler.... You had to kill the majority of those supporting him though mmm...doesnot sound that bad