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You sure about that? On May 1, 2024, the long-delayed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion officially begun operations after 12 years and C$34 billion in costs. The project nearly tripled oil pipeline capacity from Alberta to Canada's Pacific coast to 890,000 barrels per day, enabling better access to global markets and boosting crude prices. It's a good thing for the Canadians that Trump didn't get his way and the the second Keystone pipeline was never laid down. .They're now sending their oil to the West Coast. Canadians should be feeling very grateful to Joe Biden and environmentalists. I remember when right wingers were screaming bloody murder about how American jobs were being lost. Now, apparently, according to you, it's no big deal.

And yet one of Trump's first official acts is to impose tariffs on it? Reporting from an alternative universe much?

Sure. That's why various right wing news sources have rushed in to correct the Times article. Oh wait a minute... And both sources I cited are not behind a paywall. At least for me. Which one do you claim is behind a paywall?

What don't you understand about the obvious fact that a personal attack in this forum is by its very nature a deflection? The discussions are supposed to be about issues, not about members.

Typical personal attack.

what question do you believe remains unanswered?

It gets even better. It turns out that the water ordered to be released by Trump didn't even benefit the farmers it was destined for. At this time of year they didn't need it. It actually threatened agricultural interests because the snowpack is way down due to the prolonged drought. So the water that was released from the reservoirs could have gone to supplying farmers when they needed it. Farmers actually had to contact the Army Corp of Engineers to lower the amount of water to be released because of the fear of being flooded. https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-climate/2025/01/31/trumps-water-deliveries-are-too-fast-00201910

First off, you haven't answered the question about how are the revenues lost from taxing corporation to be made up? Santa Claus? Because I'm talking about the status quo, and you are talking about changing it. But you do have a point., In fact , McDonald's has sued the major meatpackers in America for conspiring to raise the price of beef. This is what happens when antitrust laws aren't enforced. But what also happens when labor costs rise is the corporation use that as an excuse to raise prices.

Ya think Trump and company want to make those people U.S. citizens?

First off, who is going to make up for the lost revenue from corporations? Santa Claus? Why not the reverse? Eliminate taxes on individuals and impose them all on businesses? In addition you make the implicit assumption that corporations will lower prices in accordance with how much tax relief corporations are granted. The fact is that there's a lot less competition in American than there used to be thanks to lax enforcement of antitrust.

Provided the farmer can find workers. Field labor is backbreaking work. Dairy farming requires very long days of labor in isolated circumstances.

And increased costs for consumers? Or do you agree with Trump that it will be the exporting nation that pays?

That "tweaker Freeland" called Trump's bluff. The revised agreement offered only miniscule changes as regards cross border trades. Trump has never forgiven her for that.

It only matters to people who don't understand why the rate goes up when tariffs are imposed. And it has nothing to do with economic health.

You've still got nothing.

If you can even find workers to replace them. More likely is that imports will have to increase to accommodate demand.

Trump administration officials began releasing significant amounts of water from two dams in California’s Central Valley on Friday in a move that seemed intended to make a political point as President Trump continued to falsely blame the Los Angeles wildfires on water policies in the Democratic-run state. The releases, as ordered, have sent water toward low-lying land in the Central Valley, and none of it will reach Southern California, water experts said. Nonetheless, President Trump said on Friday that the same action would have prevented the Los Angeles wildfires on the other side of mountain ranges over which the water has no way of traveling. https://archive.ph/hKNJw#selection-1041.0-1045.348 “Today, 1.6 billion gallons and, in 3 days, it will be 5.2 billion gallons. Everybody should be happy about this long fought Victory! I only wish they listened to me six years ago — There would have been no fire!” he said in a post on his social media site. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/31/trump-california-water-00201909 It's a pity he doesn't have access to sources who could set him straight. It's not like he's the President of the United States.. oh wait a minute...

Not really. If it was a company, you would also be including assets.

It was you who made the personal comment. An empty allegation of what I would do. I called you out on that. Not surprising that instead of accepting the deserved reproach, you call it nastiness.

Right. It was a great time to raise the question. Nothing like smearing the dead. As for what you are sure about what I would do, confine your personal comments to yourself. You've got nothing.

Government personnel received a strange request from the Trump administration in their inboxes just before 8:30 p.m. Thursday... “We encourage you to find a job in the private sector as soon as you would like to do so,” stated the email sent by the Office of Personnel Management, The New York Times reported. “The way to greater American prosperity is encouraging people to move from lower productivity jobs in the public sector to higher productivity jobs in the private sector.” https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-admin-emails-air-traffic-controllers-quit-your-jobs/ar-AA1ycz7X?ocid=widgetonlockscreen&cvid=dcad3820b2164c42e24d53f82e7a56c3&ei=6 Well, that's one way to address the issue of the shortage of air traffic controllers. In oppositeworld.

Actually, it was Trump throwing the hissy fit. Based on no evidence, he hysterically lays the blame on DEI.

Historically, the kmt wanted one country one system with it at the head of it. Nowadays, in response to the political reality that most Taiwanese don't desire reunification, it's placed a new emphasis on defense. If the kmt seriously supported a path leading toreunification, it would cease to exist as a serious political party in Taiwan https://www.brookings.edu/articles/from-dove-to-hawk-kmts-transformation-and-the-quest-for-new-guardrails-in-cross-strait-relations/

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And you claimed that Thailand has long been on the watchlist. And you failed to note that there are automatic criteria for being put on the watchlist that don't necessarily indicate anything suspect is going on.