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I wonder if there might be a mutiny among officers and enlisted soldiers if they were ordered to go to war against Canada to acquire it as a 51st state.. It's obvious that it would violate international law. They could consider it an illegal order. I doubt that they would have much appetite for it.

No. I don't know whether you are confused or just plain ignorant about this issue. What's below comes from the Marxist-Leninists at Fox News Trump budget bill extending first-term tax cuts survives House vote "An amendment negotiated by House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, and conservatives on his panel would also force lawmakers to make $2 trillion in cuts, or else risk the $4.5 trillion for Trump's tax cuts getting reduced by the difference. " "Several fiscal conservatives had demanded more assurances from House GOP leadership that Republicans would seek deep spending cuts to offset the cost of Trump's priorities." https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-budget-bill-extending-first-term-tax-cuts-survives-house-vote

And to judge from Trumpists' behavior, previously irrational people remain "frothy mouthed tantrum throwing toddlers".

Funny. Actually your post seems destined to create more animosity and ill-will among posters. Irony much?

Well, hotsun said it was free because of his health insurance. Does that mean that the health insurance only applies to that gym? I guess we'll have to await his clarification. But thanks for pointing out the possibility that I may have gotten it wrong.

No the topic is not CNN. The topic is "CNN is Loving Trumps Poll Numbers" Which raises this question: Do you read what you write? Trump is explicitly mentioned in your headline. You're not trying to revive that grammatical explanation again, are you?

Well, I may be exaggerating the sweetness a bit for effect. But it's there. Compared to the New York-style bagel—a bulbous bread monster—these are smaller, less chewy, and sweeter, thanks to some honey or malt syrup. The bagels are hand-rolled then bathe in sweetened boiling water, and finally baked in a big wood-fired oven. https://www.seriouseats.com/what-are-montreal-bagels-the-best-fairmount-vs-st-viateur-rivalry-canada

I've got a problem with their bagels, though. They're actually sweet. Like donut wannabes.

Montreal and Quebec City are brilliant destinations. Lots of great architecture. Also great ashkenazi Jewish food in Montreal including smoked meat which is similar to pastrami.

Israel provided the US with critical intelligence from an on-the-ground source in Yemen that was later leaked as part of the SignalGate scandal, according to a report. In the Signal messages, national security adviser Mike Waltz told top Trump administration officials that intelligence had a “positive ID” of the Houthis’ “top missile guy” entering a building that was hit in the US airstrikes. https://nypost.com/2025/03/27/us-news/israel-complains-about-signalgate-leak-after-giving-us-key-intelligence-used-in-houthi-strike-report/

The "soothing magnetic anomalies of Western propaganda"? What does this mean?

There's a branch of statistics called Bayesian. It starts with making certain assumptions and then testing how those assumptions fare when compared to the data. Those assumptions are called priors. In this case, your priors fail to note what happens when the NY Times and other mainstream media get it wrong. What happens is the conservative news media jump all over them. They love it when they get a gotcha. And that's a good thing. The media should check up on each other. So, you got any gotchas to offer in this case? Does the absence of them suggest anything to you?

Here is the government's own website: https://www.epa.gov/stationary-sources-air-pollution/clean-air-act-section-112-presidential-exemption-information And this is just one of the links that is offered on that website to the coke industry and toxic substances that has been subject to strict controls. https://www.epa.gov/stationary-sources-air-pollution/coke-ovens-pushing-quenching-and-battery-stacks-national-emission "The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized amendments to update and strengthen emission standards for hazardous air pollutants (HAP) such as benzene, mercury, lead and arsenic that are emitted by coke oven facilities."

"The agency listed nine rules currently under review subject to the exemption request including limits on toxic chemicals, such as mercury and arsenic, and ethylene oxide, a carcinogen, and provided instructions for how company’s could apply including what to put in the email’s subject line." https://archive.ph/A3VjY#selection-1829.0-1829.291

Maybe he'll get his evangelical christian supporters to offer their prayers?

I assumed that since the member mentioned he had health insurance, it was relevant to the conversation. And the only way I can see it being relevant is if health insurance covered at least some of the cost.

Actually it's you who is obfuscating. Like virtually all the Trumpists here who make a lot of noise about cutting debt, you simply don't engage when it comes to tax cuts.

President Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. was going to help with the response to Southeast Asia’s deadly earthquake. But the effects of his administration’s deep cuts in foreign assistance through the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department will likely be tested in any response to the first big natural disaster of his second term. Sarah Charles, a former senior USAID official who oversaw disaster-response teams and overall humanitarian work under the Biden administration, said the system was now “in shambles,” without the people or resources to move quickly to pull out survivors from collapsed buildings and otherwise save lives. https://apnews.com/article/trump-earthquake-usaid-disaster-asia-myanmar-001e305f0233611c0702629803e6239b

Apparently, you believe that a big tax cut is what is needed to reduce the debt.

Simply false. I have already pointed you to the link to the VOA website to make it easy for you to find this "ludicrous propaganda. That you haven't done so only proves how false your claim is. Once again. Here's the link: https://www.voanews.com/

What questions have I avoided? I was just trying to coax you into actually understanding what was very clear prose in the article. In that attempt, I failed. Well, as the saying goes, blame the teacher not the student. Although that seems like a lefty sentiment to me. 'Anyway, the article clearly states that they are asking for "exemptions from requirements". Not exemptions from some requirements. And the section in question is 112 of the Clean Air Act. Clean Air Act Section 112 Presidential Exemption Information To advance President Trump’s Executive Orders and Power the Great American Comeback, EPA has set up an electronic mailbox to allow the regulated community to request a Presidential Exemption under section 112(i)(4) of the Clean Air Act. You may submit a request for a Presidential Exemption to this email address: [email protected] by March 31, 2025. https://www.epa.gov/stationary-sources-air-pollution/clean-air-act-section-112-presidential-exemption-information "Section 112 of the Clean Air Act addresses emissions of hazardous air pollutants. Prior to 1990, CAA established a risk-based program under which only a few standards were developed. The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments revised Section 112 to first require issuance of technology-based standards for major sources and certain area sources. "Major sources" are defined as a stationary source or group of stationary sources that emit or have the potential to emit 10 tons per year or more of a hazardous air pollutant or 25 tons per year or more of a combination of hazardous air pollutants. https://www.epa.gov/laws-regulations/summary-clean-air-act *removed*

There are early signs that some European companies and governments are souring on their use of American cloud services provided by the three so-called hyperscalers. Between them, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) host vast swathes of the internet and keep thousands of businesses running. However, some organizations appear to be reconsidering their use of these companies’ cloud services—including servers, storage, and databases—citing uncertainties around privacy and data access fears under the Trump administration. https://www.wired.com/story/trump-us-cloud-services-europe/

And what if what he's doing, apart from the tax cuts, are actually going to make things worse?

One of the things Trump is doing is pushing for a big tax cut. Why don't you have a problem with that?

If you were the sole object of my attentions, you might have a point. In other words, get over yourself.