I don't have time to read everything here, so I'll just ask, Has anyone here been talking about Musk's and his six young computer tech who now have access and control over all of our data and the money that is dispensed by the government. This is called a Coup. Is everyone here aware that this has happened? If not, look it up.
it's insane
It's what everyone in America should be most concerned about right now. Freaking out about, actually. While Trump distracts everyone with the drama of ridiculous tariff threats (creating enemies along the way), DOGE is busy building the foundations of an honest to God fascist regime.
That’s a really good point, all that anyone is talking about are the tariffs while Elon takes over. Crazy times where an unelected, South African has full control of the United States.
Trump imposes tariffs for a bullshit reasons Mexico and Canada retaliate. Markets drop, not surprisingly. Trump talks to Mexico and Canada. Trump then announces he won. Nothing changes. Tariffs dropped.
Advantage: Mexico lol
Trump has gone 0-2 with these tariffs. Job.....done.
I don't have time to read everything here, so I'll just ask, Has anyone here been talking about Musk's and his six young computer tech who now have access and control over all of our data and the money that is dispensed by the government. This is called a Coup. Is everyone here aware that this has happened? If not, look it up.
it's insane
It's what everyone in America should be most concerned about right now. Freaking out about, actually. While Trump distracts everyone with the drama of ridiculous tariff threats (creating enemies along the way), DOGE is busy building the foundations of an honest to God fascist regime.
That’s a really good point, all that anyone is talking about are the tariffs while Elon takes over. Crazy times where an unelected, South African has full control of the United States.
I wouldn't go that far. It's not like every American is receiving their income stream from the federal gov't.
This is only a couple weeks in. These are the exact kinds of things that snowball into unbelievable upheaval.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
I don't have time to read everything here, so I'll just ask, Has anyone here been talking about Musk's and his six young computer tech who now have access and control over all of our data and the money that is dispensed by the government. This is called a Coup. Is everyone here aware that this has happened? If not, look it up.
it's insane
It's what everyone in America should be most concerned about right now. Freaking out about, actually. While Trump distracts everyone with the drama of ridiculous tariff threats (creating enemies along the way), DOGE is busy building the foundations of an honest to God fascist regime.
That’s a really good point, all that anyone is talking about are the tariffs while Elon takes over. Crazy times where an unelected, South African has full control of the United States.
I wouldn't go that far. It's not like every American is receiving their income stream from the federal gov't.
This is only a couple weeks in. These are the exact kinds of things that snowball into unbelievable upheaval.
Just pointing out, this is more dramatic nonsense. Please save it for canada politics.
Brilliant brilliance in all its brilliancy. How do you like them eggs Benny? Speaking of which, have we moved on from egg prices?
Opinion: Farewell to my American friends. It's over.
Pete McMartin: Where there was once admiration, there is now a firm and angry resolve. Schoolyard bullies don’t want to be buddies. They want your lunch. Read more.
Goodbye New York, and your Jewish delicatessens with corned beef sandwiches stacked as high as your skyline.
Goodbye Detroit, my boyhood neighbour, and so long to Tiger Stadium, the Detroit Institute of Arts and Motown.
Goodbye Bellingham, Seattle and Portland — how I’ll miss my Cascadian cousins with our shared Pacific sensibilities. And while I’m at it, goodbye to the cheap gas and shoreline cottages of Point Roberts, America’s appendix dangling just below the border not a mile from me. What was once so close has never been so far.
Goodbye Stag Leap’s Pinot Noir, Maker’s Mark bourbon, and Hebrew National hotdogs. My tastebuds mourn.
Goodbye to the cowards on both sides of the border who have demonstrated that whatever fidelity to democratic ideals they profess to have extends only so far as their self-interest. They should get a real job, say, in a chain gang.
Goodbye to anyone, again on both sides of the border, who bends the knee to Trump, rather than standing up to him, as any self-respecting person would and should, and telling him to piss off. Goodbye to a culture that demands we bend the knee.
Goodbye languid vacations in Maui and Palm Springs. My next winter vacation will be in a sunny climate other than any America can offer, and preferably in a country the U.S. has treated as disdainfully as mine. I’ll have more than a few to pick from.
Most painful of all, goodbye to my American friends, some of whom I have known all my life, and some of whom I’ve collected along the way. I can cross your border but no longer wish to: Your Narcissist-in-Chief has decreed that my countrymen and I have the choice of becoming destitute, vassals or enemies. I’m choosing the latter.
Meanwhile, your silence and the silence of all Americans in response to this aggression leaves me disheartened. That silence speaks volumes. I — we — have heard you loud and clear how little our friendship as a country means to you.
Goodbye to the image of America I once held dear — the America of Miles Davis and Cannonball Adderley and James Brown, of George Gershwin and Aaron Copeland, of Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut and Mark Twain, of Martin Luther King and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Goodbye to what I envied as the country that prided itself on encouraging unparalleled innovation in science, art and business. Any good that remains of it has been overshadowed by rapacity, cheap commercialism and egotism.
Goodbye to that ever-present sense of inferiority I once had when considering the relationship between Canada and America. What doubt I had of our own greatness is gone, and in its place is a certitude that Canada is superior to the U.S. in all the ways that matter. I look across the border now and see a violent, burgeoning autocracy now ever on the edge of civil war, and a population that is either cheering on this new brutalism or quaking in fear from it.
Goodbye to tepid patriotism. If Trump has done us any favour, it is awakening us to the fact that we can no longer take Canada’s existence for granted, that the bad actors in the world have begun to look covetously upon our improbably vast land that is laden with riches, that they want those riches and that niceness as a national character is not enough to dissuade them from taking them. Schoolyard bullies don’t want to be buddies. They want your lunch.
And after a long era of living a geopolitical life of convenient economic and military subservience, we’ve awakened to the fact that we are going to have to relearn our independence and fight any way we can to keep it.
Goodbye to living under the American nuclear umbrella, or any form of American hegemony. Goodbye to negotiation, wheedling, genuflecting or feel-good hands-across-the-border fairy tales. The American government has shown that established alliances mean nothing to it now, and so cannot be trusted. In Trump’s new world order, all the old verities are off the table, so let us make new ones.
Do levy tariffs, as we have promised to do, and do grit our way through the inevitable economic pain that will come. Re-arm as if we were on a war footing, because we are on a war footing. Conduct the mother of all public relation campaigns that let Americans know how badly they are perceived in the world, that they’ve gone from the shining city on the hill to just another empire with the same tired territorial ambitions as Russia or China. Do anything to impress upon Americans that their government is without real friends or allies, and that they, in essence, are alone.
So, goodbye America, it’s been nice knowing you, but I don’t know you anymore. I’ve reached that point in our relationship where any admiration I have had for you has been replaced by a new, angry resolve, which is: I won’t consort with the enemy.
Brilliant brilliance in all its brilliancy. How do you like them eggs Benny? Speaking of which, have we moved on from egg prices?
Opinion: Farewell to my American friends. It's over.
Pete McMartin: Where there was once admiration, there is now a firm and angry resolve. Schoolyard bullies don’t want to be buddies. They want your lunch. Read more.
Goodbye New York, and your Jewish delicatessens with corned beef sandwiches stacked as high as your skyline.
Goodbye Detroit, my boyhood neighbour, and so long to Tiger Stadium, the Detroit Institute of Arts and Motown.
Goodbye Bellingham, Seattle and Portland — how I’ll miss my Cascadian cousins with our shared Pacific sensibilities. And while I’m at it, goodbye to the cheap gas and shoreline cottages of Point Roberts, America’s appendix dangling just below the border not a mile from me. What was once so close has never been so far.
Goodbye Stag Leap’s Pinot Noir, Maker’s Mark bourbon, and Hebrew National hotdogs. My tastebuds mourn.
Goodbye to the cowards on both sides of the border who have demonstrated that whatever fidelity to democratic ideals they profess to have extends only so far as their self-interest. They should get a real job, say, in a chain gang.
Goodbye to anyone, again on both sides of the border, who bends the knee to Trump, rather than standing up to him, as any self-respecting person would and should, and telling him to piss off. Goodbye to a culture that demands we bend the knee.
Goodbye languid vacations in Maui and Palm Springs. My next winter vacation will be in a sunny climate other than any America can offer, and preferably in a country the U.S. has treated as disdainfully as mine. I’ll have more than a few to pick from.
Most painful of all, goodbye to my American friends, some of whom I have known all my life, and some of whom I’ve collected along the way. I can cross your border but no longer wish to: Your Narcissist-in-Chief has decreed that my countrymen and I have the choice of becoming destitute, vassals or enemies. I’m choosing the latter.
Meanwhile, your silence and the silence of all Americans in response to this aggression leaves me disheartened. That silence speaks volumes. I — we — have heard you loud and clear how little our friendship as a country means to you.
Goodbye to the image of America I once held dear — the America of Miles Davis and Cannonball Adderley and James Brown, of George Gershwin and Aaron Copeland, of Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut and Mark Twain, of Martin Luther King and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Goodbye to what I envied as the country that prided itself on encouraging unparalleled innovation in science, art and business. Any good that remains of it has been overshadowed by rapacity, cheap commercialism and egotism.
Goodbye to that ever-present sense of inferiority I once had when considering the relationship between Canada and America. What doubt I had of our own greatness is gone, and in its place is a certitude that Canada is superior to the U.S. in all the ways that matter. I look across the border now and see a violent, burgeoning autocracy now ever on the edge of civil war, and a population that is either cheering on this new brutalism or quaking in fear from it.
Goodbye to tepid patriotism. If Trump has done us any favour, it is awakening us to the fact that we can no longer take Canada’s existence for granted, that the bad actors in the world have begun to look covetously upon our improbably vast land that is laden with riches, that they want those riches and that niceness as a national character is not enough to dissuade them from taking them. Schoolyard bullies don’t want to be buddies. They want your lunch.
And after a long era of living a geopolitical life of convenient economic and military subservience, we’ve awakened to the fact that we are going to have to relearn our independence and fight any way we can to keep it.
Goodbye to living under the American nuclear umbrella, or any form of American hegemony. Goodbye to negotiation, wheedling, genuflecting or feel-good hands-across-the-border fairy tales. The American government has shown that established alliances mean nothing to it now, and so cannot be trusted. In Trump’s new world order, all the old verities are off the table, so let us make new ones.
Do levy tariffs, as we have promised to do, and do grit our way through the inevitable economic pain that will come. Re-arm as if we were on a war footing, because we are on a war footing. Conduct the mother of all public relation campaigns that let Americans know how badly they are perceived in the world, that they’ve gone from the shining city on the hill to just another empire with the same tired territorial ambitions as Russia or China. Do anything to impress upon Americans that their government is without real friends or allies, and that they, in essence, are alone.
So, goodbye America, it’s been nice knowing you, but I don’t know you anymore. I’ve reached that point in our relationship where any admiration I have had for you has been replaced by a new, angry resolve, which is: I won’t consort with the enemy.
Canadians cancel trips, ban American booze after Trump's tariffs
Summary
Trump tariffs spur Canadians to shun American products
Provincial liquor stores ban American alcohol
Booing heard at hockey, basketball game
Canadians have canceled trips south of the border, boycotted U.S. alcohol and other products and even booed at sporting events after U.S. President Donald Trump announced 25% tariffs on most of Canada's goods on Saturday.
Though Trump had pledged to put tariffs on Canada and Mexico before taking office, the perceived act of economic warfare on a country that is so close to the United States culturally and geographically still came as a shock to many Canadians.
"It feels like Trump wants to restructure the world order," Drew Dilkens, mayor of the Canadian border city of Windsor, said in an interview. "He's willing to start with his closest ally… If he's willing to do this to Canada, what's he willing to do to everybody else?"
Dilkens said about C$400 million ($272 million) in trade crosses the Ambassador Bridge linking Detroit and Windsor every day. For his 240,000-person community, the fallout from Trump's tariffs will be immediate. He hopes residents will support local wineries and distilleries.
Calgary resident Ken Lima-Coelho said the tariff news spurred a surge of Canadian pride in his household. His 19-year-old son is now making plans to sew a small Canadian flag to his backpack for an upcoming trip to Europe, while his daughter spent Saturday night making an inventory of Canadian food products in the family's kitchen.
"There's nothing I can do about this quagmire that we now find ourselves in politically with the regime next door," Lima-Coelho said. "But I can change which toothpaste I buy... and that gives us something to do while hopefully our political and business leaders sort this out."
Trump slapped a 25% import tariff on all Canadian goods, except energy products, which will carry a levy of 10% while entering the United States.
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau immediately announced retaliatory tariffs on C$155 billion ($107 billion) of U.S. goods. Those on C$30 billion will take effect on Tuesday, the same day as most of Trump's tariffs, and duties on the remaining C$125 billion in 21 days, Trudeau said.
Trudeau also encouraged Canadians to buy local and vacation in Canada, a sentiment echoed by many local officials.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford ordered American-made liquor to be off the shelves of the provincially controlled Liquor Control Board of Ontario, the only alcohol wholesaler in Canada's most populous province, by Tuesday.
"Every year, LCBO sells nearly $1 billion worth of American wine, beer, spirits and seltzers. Not anymore," Ford wrote on X.
After attending church in Winnipeg, Loraine MacKenzie Shepherd said her grocery shopping habits will change, and she hoped to support Mexican products as well as Canadian.
"There will be job losses in this country... we know that's going to happen," she said. "We need to find ways to be in solidarity with others who will be suffering the brunt of some irrational ire."
In Ottawa on Saturday night, Canadians reacted more angrily at a hockey game: booing the U.S. national anthem before the Ottawa Senators played the Minnesota Wild. TV footage showed basketball fans booing the anthem again on Sunday before the Toronto Raptors played the LA Clippers.
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew urged calm.
"I think we have to recognize our quarrel is not with the American people... for many of our families, our relatives on the other side of the 49th parallel are still our friends and relatives," he told a news conference. "We still share a history of our veterans fighting shoulder to shoulder . . . We defeated fascism together."
But British Columbia resident Mike Davies, 64, has been angry since Trump started posting comments on social media about absorbing Canada as the 51st state.
"To have Americans insult Canada has got my back up. … I think every Canadian is just disgusted, right? I just think (the tariffs are) treachery,” said Davies, a resident of White Rock, near the U.S. border.
Davies started a Facebook group encouraging people to boycott American goods. He cancelled Netflix and is trying not to use Amazon.
He also ditched plans to visit a friend in North Carolina.
I don't have time to read everything here, so I'll just ask, Has anyone here been talking about Musk's and his six young computer tech who now have access and control over all of our data and the money that is dispensed by the government. This is called a Coup. Is everyone here aware that this has happened? If not, look it up.
it's insane
It's what everyone in America should be most concerned about right now. Freaking out about, actually. While Trump distracts everyone with the drama of ridiculous tariff threats (creating enemies along the way), DOGE is busy building the foundations of an honest to God fascist regime.
I don't have time to read everything here, so I'll just ask, Has anyone here been talking about Musk's and his six young computer tech who now have access and control over all of our data and the money that is dispensed by the government. This is called a Coup. Is everyone here aware that this has happened? If not, look it up.
it's insane
It's what everyone in America should be most concerned about right now. Freaking out about, actually. While Trump distracts everyone with the drama of ridiculous tariff threats (creating enemies along the way), DOGE is busy building the foundations of an honest to God fascist regime.
That’s a really good point, all that anyone is talking about are the tariffs while Elon takes over. Crazy times where an unelected, South African has full control of the United States.
YES time two. It's amazing to me how Musk's coup is not the BIGGEST thing on anyone's mind right now. And even the more progressive news outlets like The Guardian (save for one of their op-ed people) are not very focused on this. It's the largest data breach in human history. It's a fucking coup, for crying out loud! Why is this not the main focus? Baffling!
"Don't give in to the lies. Don't give in to the fear. Hold on to the truth. And to hope."
I don't have time to read everything here, so I'll just ask, Has anyone here been talking about Musk's and his six young computer tech who now have access and control over all of our data and the money that is dispensed by the government. This is called a Coup. Is everyone here aware that this has happened? If not, look it up.
it's insane
It's what everyone in America should be most concerned about right now. Freaking out about, actually. While Trump distracts everyone with the drama of ridiculous tariff threats (creating enemies along the way), DOGE is busy building the foundations of an honest to God fascist regime.
That’s a really good point, all that anyone is talking about are the tariffs while Elon takes over. Crazy times where an unelected, South African has full control of the United States.
I wouldn't go that far. It's not like every American is receiving their income stream from the federal gov't.
No, but every ‘Murican with a job files taxes, if they’re honest, and pays or receives a payment to/from the IRS. A $6 trillion payroll, transfer payment system will touch a large % of ‘Muricans. What % are you comfortable with? I’m not comfortable with any % above 0.
More concerning are the devices utilized to access these systems. Where did they come from? Where were they manufactured? What are their standards? The gubmint used to have standards regarding electronic devices and what and how they could be connected to government systems. If you find a random thumb drive at Starbucks, do you stick it in the side of your laptop? Because that’s basically what has happened. Government systems tend to talk to one another so spyware, virus, etc, inserted in Treasury might just be gleaning data from NORAD or the Pentagon or CIA. We may never know until there’s an after action report or we’re all speaking Russian or Chinese.
If anyone still thinks these fuckers have the average ‘Muricans interest at heart, you deserve everything that’s coming.
I don't have time to read everything here, so I'll just ask, Has anyone here been talking about Musk's and his six young computer tech who now have access and control over all of our data and the money that is dispensed by the government. This is called a Coup. Is everyone here aware that this has happened? If not, look it up.
it's insane
It's what everyone in America should be most concerned about right now. Freaking out about, actually. While Trump distracts everyone with the drama of ridiculous tariff threats (creating enemies along the way), DOGE is busy building the foundations of an honest to God fascist regime.
That’s a really good point, all that anyone is talking about are the tariffs while Elon takes over. Crazy times where an unelected, South African has full control of the United States.
I wouldn't go that far. It's not like every American is receiving their income stream from the federal gov't.
No, but every ‘Murican with a job files taxes, if they’re honest, and pays or receives a payment to/from the IRS. A $6 trillion payroll, transfer payment system will touch a large % of ‘Muricans. What % are you comfortable with? I’m not comfortable with any % above 0.
More concerning are the devices utilized to access these systems. Where did they come from? Where were they manufactured? What are their standards? The gubmint used to have standards regarding electronic devices and what and how they could be connected to government systems. If you find a random thumb drive at Starbucks, do you stick it in the side of your laptop? Because that’s basically what has happened. Government systems tend to talk to one another so spyware, virus, etc, inserted in Treasury might just be gleaning data from NORAD or the Pentagon or CIA. We may never know until there’s an after action report or we’re all speaking Russian or Chinese.
If anyone still thinks these fuckers have the average ‘Muricans interest at heart, you deserve everything that’s coming.
All you have to do is not think about it and this is not really happening. Everything is fine.
I don't have time to read everything here, so I'll just ask, Has anyone here been talking about Musk's and his six young computer tech who now have access and control over all of our data and the money that is dispensed by the government. This is called a Coup. Is everyone here aware that this has happened? If not, look it up.
it's insane
It's what everyone in America should be most concerned about right now. Freaking out about, actually. While Trump distracts everyone with the drama of ridiculous tariff threats (creating enemies along the way), DOGE is busy building the foundations of an honest to God fascist regime.
That’s a really good point, all that anyone is talking about are the tariffs while Elon takes over. Crazy times where an unelected, South African has full control of the United States.
I wouldn't go that far. It's not like every American is receiving their income stream from the federal gov't.
No, but every ‘Murican with a job files taxes, if they’re honest, and pays or receives a payment to/from the IRS. A $6 trillion payroll, transfer payment system will touch a large % of ‘Muricans. What % are you comfortable with? I’m not comfortable with any % above 0.
More concerning are the devices utilized to access these systems. Where did they come from? Where were they manufactured? What are their standards? The gubmint used to have standards regarding electronic devices and what and how they could be connected to government systems. If you find a random thumb drive at Starbucks, do you stick it in the side of your laptop? Because that’s basically what has happened. Government systems tend to talk to one another so spyware, virus, etc, inserted in Treasury might just be gleaning data from NORAD or the Pentagon or CIA. We may never know until there’s an after action report or we’re all speaking Russian or Chinese.
If anyone still thinks these fuckers have the average ‘Muricans interest at heart, you deserve everything that’s coming.
All you have to do is not think about it and this is not really happening. Everything is fine.
I don't have time to read everything here, so I'll just ask, Has anyone here been talking about Musk's and his six young computer tech who now have access and control over all of our data and the money that is dispensed by the government. This is called a Coup. Is everyone here aware that this has happened? If not, look it up.
it's insane
It's what everyone in America should be most concerned about right now. Freaking out about, actually. While Trump distracts everyone with the drama of ridiculous tariff threats (creating enemies along the way), DOGE is busy building the foundations of an honest to God fascist regime.
That’s a really good point, all that anyone is talking about are the tariffs while Elon takes over. Crazy times where an unelected, South African has full control of the United States.
I wouldn't go that far. It's not like every American is receiving their income stream from the federal gov't.
No, but every ‘Murican with a job files taxes, if they’re honest, and pays or receives a payment to/from the IRS. A $6 trillion payroll, transfer payment system will touch a large % of ‘Muricans. What % are you comfortable with? I’m not comfortable with any % above 0.
More concerning are the devices utilized to access these systems. Where did they come from? Where were they manufactured? What are their standards? The gubmint used to have standards regarding electronic devices and what and how they could be connected to government systems. If you find a random thumb drive at Starbucks, do you stick it in the side of your laptop? Because that’s basically what has happened. Government systems tend to talk to one another so spyware, virus, etc, inserted in Treasury might just be gleaning data from NORAD or the Pentagon or CIA. We may never know until there’s an after action report or we’re all speaking Russian or Chinese.
If anyone still thinks these fuckers have the average ‘Muricans interest at heart, you deserve everything that’s coming.
All you have to do is not think about it and this is not really happening. Everything is fine.
Like Project 2025, right?
Yeah. Just ignore it all. Then when everything looks the same when you look out your window, you'll think America is still the same country it was. Easy!
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Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Unfortunately most trump supporters are too stupid to be outraged at the attacks on the Dept of Education.
Or that sycophant of state Rubio just brokered a deal that would allow US citizens to be deported to El Salvador prisons, but don't worry, only the most violent criminals. Why even make such a deal that has huge human rights violations. What's the goal? I mean, I'm pretty sure I know the answer to that, but holy shit, how fucked up that this is where we're at. I'm surprised they haven't explored reopening Alcatraz.
Unfortunately most trump supporters are too stupid to be outraged at the attacks on the Dept of Education.
Or that sycophant of state Rubio just brokered a deal that would allow US citizens to be deported to El Salvador prisons, but don't worry, only the most violent criminals. Why even make such a deal that has huge human rights violations. What's the goal? I mean, I'm pretty sure I know the answer to that, but holy shit, how fucked up that this is where we're at. I'm surprised they haven't explored reopening Alcatraz.
or public executions...
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Unfortunately most trump supporters are too stupid to be outraged at the attacks on the Dept of Education.
Or that sycophant of state Rubio just brokered a deal that would allow US citizens to be deported to El Salvador prisons, but don't worry, only the most violent criminals. Why even make such a deal that has huge human rights violations. What's the goal? I mean, I'm pretty sure I know the answer to that, but holy shit, how fucked up that this is where we're at. I'm surprised they haven't explored reopening Alcatraz.
That can’t be right. It has to be a violation of equal protection clause and cruel and unusual punishment. Where did you read this?
Unfortunately most trump supporters are too stupid to be outraged at the attacks on the Dept of Education.
Or that sycophant of state Rubio just brokered a deal that would allow US citizens to be deported to El Salvador prisons, but don't worry, only the most violent criminals. Why even make such a deal that has huge human rights violations. What's the goal? I mean, I'm pretty sure I know the answer to that, but holy shit, how fucked up that this is where we're at. I'm surprised they haven't explored reopening Alcatraz.
That can’t be right. It has to be a violation of equal protection clause and cruel and unusual punishment. Where did you read this?
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio left El Salvador on Tuesday with an agreement from that country’s president to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality, including violent American criminals now imprisoned in the United States.
President Nayib Bukele “has agreed to the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world,” Rubio said after meeting with Bukele at his lakeside country house outside San Salvador for several hours late Monday.
“We can send them, and he will put them in his jails,” Rubio said of migrants of all nationalities detained in the United States. “And, he’s also offered to do the same for dangerous criminals currently in custody and serving their sentences in the United States even though they’re U.S. citizens or legal residents.”
They are charging a fee of course...but cheaper than we pay now. muriKKKa!
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Unfortunately most trump supporters are too stupid to be outraged at the attacks on the Dept of Education.
Or that sycophant of state Rubio just brokered a deal that would allow US citizens to be deported to El Salvador prisons, but don't worry, only the most violent criminals. Why even make such a deal that has huge human rights violations. What's the goal? I mean, I'm pretty sure I know the answer to that, but holy shit, how fucked up that this is where we're at. I'm surprised they haven't explored reopening Alcatraz.
That can’t be right. It has to be a violation of equal protection clause and cruel and unusual punishment. Where did you read this?
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio left El Salvador on Tuesday with an agreement from that country’s president to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality, including violent American criminals now imprisoned in the United States.
President Nayib Bukele “has agreed to the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world,” Rubio said after meeting with Bukele at his lakeside country house outside San Salvador for several hours late Monday.
“We can send them, and he will put them in his jails,” Rubio said of migrants of all nationalities detained in the United States. “And, he’s also offered to do the same for dangerous criminals currently in custody and serving their sentences in the United States even though they’re U.S. citizens or legal residents.”
They are charging a fee of course...but cheaper than we pay now. muriKKKa!
sooosoooo fucksticks claims of objecting to countries exporting their violent criminals were bullshit and actually a projection of desire.
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This is only a couple weeks in. These are the exact kinds of things that snowball into unbelievable upheaval.
Opinion: Farewell to my American friends. It's over.
Pete McMartin: Where there was once admiration, there is now a firm and angry resolve. Schoolyard bullies don’t want to be buddies. They want your lunch. Read more.
Goodbye, America.
It’s been nice knowing you.
Goodbye New York, and your Jewish delicatessens with corned beef sandwiches stacked as high as your skyline.
Goodbye Detroit, my boyhood neighbour, and so long to Tiger Stadium, the Detroit Institute of Arts and Motown.
Goodbye Bellingham, Seattle and Portland — how I’ll miss my Cascadian cousins with our shared Pacific sensibilities. And while I’m at it, goodbye to the cheap gas and shoreline cottages of Point Roberts, America’s appendix dangling just below the border not a mile from me. What was once so close has never been so far.
Goodbye Stag Leap’s Pinot Noir, Maker’s Mark bourbon, and Hebrew National hotdogs. My tastebuds mourn.
Goodbye to the cowards on both sides of the border who have demonstrated that whatever fidelity to democratic ideals they profess to have extends only so far as their self-interest. They should get a real job, say, in a chain gang.
Goodbye to anyone, again on both sides of the border, who bends the knee to Trump, rather than standing up to him, as any self-respecting person would and should, and telling him to piss off. Goodbye to a culture that demands we bend the knee.
Goodbye languid vacations in Maui and Palm Springs. My next winter vacation will be in a sunny climate other than any America can offer, and preferably in a country the U.S. has treated as disdainfully as mine. I’ll have more than a few to pick from.
Most painful of all, goodbye to my American friends, some of whom I have known all my life, and some of whom I’ve collected along the way. I can cross your border but no longer wish to: Your Narcissist-in-Chief has decreed that my countrymen and I have the choice of becoming destitute, vassals or enemies. I’m choosing the latter.
Meanwhile, your silence and the silence of all Americans in response to this aggression leaves me disheartened. That silence speaks volumes. I — we — have heard you loud and clear how little our friendship as a country means to you.
Goodbye to the image of America I once held dear — the America of Miles Davis and Cannonball Adderley and James Brown, of George Gershwin and Aaron Copeland, of Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut and Mark Twain, of Martin Luther King and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Goodbye to what I envied as the country that prided itself on encouraging unparalleled innovation in science, art and business. Any good that remains of it has been overshadowed by rapacity, cheap commercialism and egotism.
Goodbye to that ever-present sense of inferiority I once had when considering the relationship between Canada and America. What doubt I had of our own greatness is gone, and in its place is a certitude that Canada is superior to the U.S. in all the ways that matter. I look across the border now and see a violent, burgeoning autocracy now ever on the edge of civil war, and a population that is either cheering on this new brutalism or quaking in fear from it.
Goodbye to tepid patriotism. If Trump has done us any favour, it is awakening us to the fact that we can no longer take Canada’s existence for granted, that the bad actors in the world have begun to look covetously upon our improbably vast land that is laden with riches, that they want those riches and that niceness as a national character is not enough to dissuade them from taking them. Schoolyard bullies don’t want to be buddies. They want your lunch.
And after a long era of living a geopolitical life of convenient economic and military subservience, we’ve awakened to the fact that we are going to have to relearn our independence and fight any way we can to keep it.
Goodbye to living under the American nuclear umbrella, or any form of American hegemony. Goodbye to negotiation, wheedling, genuflecting or feel-good hands-across-the-border fairy tales. The American government has shown that established alliances mean nothing to it now, and so cannot be trusted. In Trump’s new world order, all the old verities are off the table, so let us make new ones.
Do levy tariffs, as we have promised to do, and do grit our way through the inevitable economic pain that will come. Re-arm as if we were on a war footing, because we are on a war footing. Conduct the mother of all public relation campaigns that let Americans know how badly they are perceived in the world, that they’ve gone from the shining city on the hill to just another empire with the same tired territorial ambitions as Russia or China. Do anything to impress upon Americans that their government is without real friends or allies, and that they, in essence, are alone.
So, goodbye America, it’s been nice knowing you, but I don’t know you anymore. I’ve reached that point in our relationship where any admiration I have had for you has been replaced by a new, angry resolve, which is: I won’t consort with the enemy.
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Canadians cancel trips, ban American booze after Trump's tariffs
Summary
Trump tariffs spur Canadians to shun American products
Provincial liquor stores ban American alcohol
Booing heard at hockey, basketball game
Canadians have canceled trips south of the border, boycotted U.S. alcohol and other products and even booed at sporting events after U.S. President Donald Trump announced 25% tariffs on most of Canada's goods on Saturday.
Though Trump had pledged to put tariffs on Canada and Mexico before taking office, the perceived act of economic warfare on a country that is so close to the United States culturally and geographically still came as a shock to many Canadians.
"It feels like Trump wants to restructure the world order," Drew Dilkens, mayor of the Canadian border city of Windsor, said in an interview. "He's willing to start with his closest ally… If he's willing to do this to Canada, what's he willing to do to everybody else?"
Dilkens said about C$400 million ($272 million) in trade crosses the Ambassador Bridge linking Detroit and Windsor every day. For his 240,000-person community, the fallout from Trump's tariffs will be immediate. He hopes residents will support local wineries and distilleries.
Calgary resident Ken Lima-Coelho said the tariff news spurred a surge of Canadian pride in his household. His 19-year-old son is now making plans to sew a small Canadian flag to his backpack for an upcoming trip to Europe, while his daughter spent Saturday night making an inventory of Canadian food products in the family's kitchen.
"There's nothing I can do about this quagmire that we now find ourselves in politically with the regime next door," Lima-Coelho said. "But I can change which toothpaste I buy... and that gives us something to do while hopefully our political and business leaders sort this out."
Trump slapped a 25% import tariff on all Canadian goods, except energy products, which will carry a levy of 10% while entering the United States.
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau immediately announced retaliatory tariffs on C$155 billion ($107 billion) of U.S. goods. Those on C$30 billion will take effect on Tuesday, the same day as most of Trump's tariffs, and duties on the remaining C$125 billion in 21 days, Trudeau said.
Trudeau also encouraged Canadians to buy local and vacation in Canada, a sentiment echoed by many local officials.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford ordered American-made liquor to be off the shelves of the provincially controlled Liquor Control Board of Ontario, the only alcohol wholesaler in Canada's most populous province, by Tuesday.
"Every year, LCBO sells nearly $1 billion worth of American wine, beer, spirits and seltzers. Not anymore," Ford wrote on X.
After attending church in Winnipeg, Loraine MacKenzie Shepherd said her grocery shopping habits will change, and she hoped to support Mexican products as well as Canadian.
"There will be job losses in this country... we know that's going to happen," she said. "We need to find ways to be in solidarity with others who will be suffering the brunt of some irrational ire."
In Ottawa on Saturday night, Canadians reacted more angrily at a hockey game: booing the U.S. national anthem before the Ottawa Senators played the Minnesota Wild. TV footage showed basketball fans booing the anthem again on Sunday before the Toronto Raptors played the LA Clippers.
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew urged calm.
"I think we have to recognize our quarrel is not with the American people... for many of our families, our relatives on the other side of the 49th parallel are still our friends and relatives," he told a news conference. "We still share a history of our veterans fighting shoulder to shoulder . . . We defeated fascism together."
But British Columbia resident Mike Davies, 64, has been angry since Trump started posting comments on social media about absorbing Canada as the 51st state.
"To have Americans insult Canada has got my back up. … I think every Canadian is just disgusted, right? I just think (the tariffs are) treachery,” said Davies, a resident of White Rock, near the U.S. border.
Davies started a Facebook group encouraging people to boycott American goods. He cancelled Netflix and is trying not to use Amazon.
He also ditched plans to visit a friend in North Carolina.
"We're not going to America at all," he said.
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YES time two. It's amazing to me how Musk's coup is not the BIGGEST thing on anyone's mind right now. And even the more progressive news outlets like The Guardian (save for one of their op-ed people) are not very focused on this. It's the largest data breach in human history. It's a fucking coup, for crying out loud! Why is this not the main focus? Baffling!
More concerning are the devices utilized to access these systems. Where did they come from? Where were they manufactured? What are their standards? The gubmint used to have standards regarding electronic devices and what and how they could be connected to government systems. If you find a random thumb drive at Starbucks, do you stick it in the side of your laptop? Because that’s basically what has happened. Government systems tend to talk to one another so spyware, virus, etc, inserted in Treasury might just be gleaning data from NORAD or the Pentagon or CIA. We may never know until there’s an after action report or we’re all speaking Russian or Chinese.
If anyone still thinks these fuckers have the average ‘Muricans interest at heart, you deserve everything that’s coming.
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another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
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The Golden Age is 2 months away. And guess what….. you’re gonna love it! (teskeinc 11.19.24)
1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
2013: London ON, Wrigley; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana; 2025: Pitt1, Pitt2
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio left El Salvador on Tuesday with an agreement from that country’s president to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality, including violent American criminals now imprisoned in the United States.
President Nayib Bukele “has agreed to the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world,” Rubio said after meeting with Bukele at his lakeside country house outside San Salvador for several hours late Monday.
“We can send them, and he will put them in his jails,” Rubio said of migrants of all nationalities detained in the United States. “And, he’s also offered to do the same for dangerous criminals currently in custody and serving their sentences in the United States even though they’re U.S. citizens or legal residents.”
They are charging a fee of course...but cheaper than we pay now. muriKKKa!
The Golden Age is 2 months away. And guess what….. you’re gonna love it! (teskeinc 11.19.24)
1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
2013: London ON, Wrigley; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana; 2025: Pitt1, Pitt2
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you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
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The Golden Age is 2 months away. And guess what….. you’re gonna love it! (teskeinc 11.19.24)
1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
2013: London ON, Wrigley; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana; 2025: Pitt1, Pitt2