Canada is Petrified

[CANSIAM]

1 hour ago, AgMech Cowboy said:

Goofy gets a big pay check and a bigger, better crowd than the other ditsy, featherbrained, classless talking heads on the other media outlets.

ok Cowboy.........lol

[Lacessit]

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

What a spectacularly lame response. You completely avoided answering any of his points. How typical. How jingoistic. 

The poster you are responding to is on my ignore list.

 

He/she/it reminds me of the Dilbert aphorism " Never argue with an idiot, they'll drag you down to their level, and beat you with experience".

[KhunLA]

3 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

Most expensive in the world: Average price MRI in selected countries 2017 | Statista

There a generic, generalizing MRI pricing stat.  Can't read the details, behind paywall, but does it state what the MRI they compared everything to was taken of; Brain, spine, prostate ?

 

Your 2017 stat states ...

 

 

AI states, now pricing ... 

 

[jvs]

Just have a look at this.

The tariffs are not good for anyone but some people seem to be too stupid to be able to comprehend

it.

Oh yes,he loves the uneducated.

https://www.newsnationnow.com/business/us-import-mexico-china-canada/

[spidermike007]

7 hours ago, Mark989 said:

Speaking of embarrassment:

Donald Trump didn't lower taxes (He deferred them)

He didn't get rid of the ACA as promised. Nine years later he has nothing but “concepts of a plan”, he claims. When pressed he refuse to identify a single component of that conceptual plan.

He did not unite the USA, he divided it much worse than it has ever been in recent memory.

He didn't lower your prescription prices, Biden did.

He did not sign any infrastructure legislation, Biden did, a historic bill with bi-partisan support. 

He didn't end the opioid crisis or the illegal importation of illegal drugs into the USA as promised in 2015 in New Hampshire as promised, repeatedly. Under Biden the deaths are much lower, especially in 2024.

He did not “end the crime and violence that plagues our nation” between Jan. 20, 2017-2021 as promised publicly, July, 2016 at the RNC.

He didn't revive the coal industry as promised, repeatedly.

He did not bring back offshored manufacturing as promised, repeatedly.

He didn't make covid-19 'disappear' in a few days as promised.

He didn't make Mexico pay for the wall as promised, repeatedly. Barely any new wall was built during his administration and what wall was built is scalable by fit people. Some of the new wall was already   scheduled and funded to be repaired  Trump did illegally in the view of some constitutional lawyers reappoint funds designated for other purposes.

He added $2 Billion a month in tariff costs to the American consumer

He had a net-negative jobs creations for his administration though to be fair this is mostly due to the pandemic that he infamously refused to manage well to the point of ignoring the Playbook for Early Response to High-Consequence Emerging Infectious Disease Threats and Biological Incidents playbook with Cabinet member Wilbur Ross falling asleep during the Obama-Trump transition meeting. 

He decreased corporate taxes, passing the tax burden to the workers

He added $ 7.8 Trillion to the deficit - a full 25% of the total

He incited an insurrection against the US government AND IT’S PEOPLE leading to deaths and then promised to pardon many that were convicted of various crimes including assaulting police officers. He is facing 8 civil lawsuits over this and his presidential immunity will not shield him.

He is the only president to never achieve 50% approval.

He didn't put "America first" and he sure didn't "Drain the Swamp...but he did put Putin and Russia first when he refused to accept American and her Allies Intelligence Services assessments of Russian 2016 election interference.

He left office with the worst job numbers of any President since the Great Depression.

 

He is a convicted felon, a convicted sexual abuser (a rapist in the words of the judge), several of his businesses ordered closed due to fraud, objectively a racist, and indicted four times by jurors on state and federal grand juries for some of the most serious crimes possible against a democratic republic.

 

He did pardon many convicted criminals that had not been recommended by the Federal Pardon Review Board and is promising to pardon hundreds more his first days in office.

He did nominate candidates for federal justices who were absolutely unqualified accordig o the professional organizations they belong to some with zero courtroom experience, unfit by nearly any reputable commonly used metric.

 

He did fail to condemn his personal lawyer Mr. L. Lin Wood calling for the hanging death of his Vice President Jan. 5, 2021 on Telegram social media (before deleting the message) due to the expectation Pence was going to perform his duties according to the US Constitution the next day in verifying the 2020 Electoral College votes. The real vote with real electors.

He did cause an unprecedented number of very critical books by former Cabinet and federal agency officials to be written and published.

He did refuse to side with American and her most important Allies intelligence services against Russia’s Putin in accepting objectively accurate facts of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election on his behalf.

He did refuse to attend some daily national security briefings and when he did attend according to those in attendance he did not pay attention and refused to listen to anything critical of Russia.

He did call WW1 Vets “Losers & Suckers” for giving and losing their lives for their country. He did illegally evade the Vietnam War draft board, repeatedly.

He did say he has no respect for American Vets who become POW if they are taken prisoner by the enemy through no fault of their own.

He did discuss the size of his penis during an internationally televised Republican National Presidential Candidates debate in 2016 to the delight of his supporters in the audience who demonstrated their approval by raucous laughter akin to barking seals at a circus.

Thank you. And that does not include this list:

 

17 of his businesses have failed in the past few  decades. Some at huge losses. Trump Steaks, Trump Shuttle Airline ($120 million in losses between 1988 and 1990), GoTrump, Trump Vodka, Trump Mortgage, Trump University, Trump Ice, The New Jersey Generals, Tour de Trump, Trump Network, Trump Magazine, Trumped!. Many businesses that licensed his name went bankrupt, or went out of business. And he had between four and six major bankruptcies (depending on the source), including the Trump Taj Mahal (which he spent $1.2 billion building, and was $3 billion in debt within a year of opening), Trump's Castle, Trump Place Hotel (which was very successful prior to Trump buying it in 1988, and he managed to put it into $550 million in debt by 1992!), Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts ($1.8 billion in debt by 2004, bankrupt in 2009) , and Trump Entertainment Resorts. There are likely others. And this does not take into account the 3,600 lawsuits he was involved in as of the time he took office, the vast majority of which were filed by small contractors against his companies for non payment, or total default. Many of these contractors were crushed. It is part of his M.O. 

 

Promises made but never kept:

Every voter needs to be reminded of Trump's promises last time he was running:

 

There is very little that comes out of Donald's mouth that is the truth.....

 

He promised to unveil a new healthcare plan. It didn't exist.

 

He promised a middle-class tax cut. He cut taxes for the rich. The middle class is paying for it.

 

He said he wouldn't play golf as President. He made 250 visits (way more than Obama) to his own golf clubs. It cost taxpayers $150 million.

 

He said he'd increase economic growth by 4%. Nope. Biden did.

 

He promised an infrastructure plan. He had none. President Biden signed a massive one.

 

He promised to hire "the best people." He fired 3/4 of them and then said they were the worst ever, and they said HE was in fact the worst ever.

 

He promised to bring down the price of prescription drugs. He didn't: Biden did.

 

He promised a Hillary lock-up. Nope. 

 

Promised we'd win the trade war with China. Nope, It cost about 250,000 jobs and hurt Americans, not help them.

 

He promised his corporate tax cuts would help and benefit workers, and corporations would use that money to invest in American workers. They didn't, they used that money to buy back stocks.

 

He promised to revive the coal industry. Never happened: more coal jobs were lost during his presidency.

 

I could go on. 

[Yagoda]

3 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

What a spectacularly lame response. You completely avoided answering any of his points. How typical. How jingoistic. 

Nothing wrong with jingoism

 

We don't want to fight but by Jingo if we do,
We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too,
We've fought the Bear before, and while we're Britons true,
The Russians shall not have Constantinople.

[SunnyinBangrak]

22 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Thank you. And that does not include this list:

 

17 of his businesses have failed in the past few  decades. Some at huge losses. Trump Steaks, Trump Shuttle Airline ($120 million in losses between 1988 and 1990), GoTrump, Trump Vodka, Trump Mortgage, Trump University, Trump Ice, The New Jersey Generals, Tour de Trump, Trump Network, Trump Magazine, Trumped!. Many businesses that licensed his name went bankrupt, or went out of business. And he had between four and six major bankruptcies (depending on the source), including the Trump Taj Mahal (which he spent $1.2 billion building, and was $3 billion in debt within a year of opening), Trump's Castle, Trump Place Hotel (which was very successful prior to Trump buying it in 1988, and he managed to put it into $550 million in debt by 1992!), Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts ($1.8 billion in debt by 2004, bankrupt in 2009) , and Trump Entertainment Resorts. There are likely others. And this does not take into account the 3,600 lawsuits he was involved in as of the time he took office, the vast majority of which were filed by small contractors against his companies for non payment, or total default. Many of these contractors were crushed. It is part of his M.O. 

 

Promises made but never kept:

Every voter needs to be reminded of Trump's promises last time he was running:

 

There is very little that comes out of Donald's mouth that is the truth.....

 

He promised to unveil a new healthcare plan. It didn't exist.

 

He promised a middle-class tax cut. He cut taxes for the rich. The middle class is paying for it.

 

He said he wouldn't play golf as President. He made 250 visits (way more than Obama) to his own golf clubs. It cost taxpayers $150 million.

 

He said he'd increase economic growth by 4%. Nope. Biden did.

 

He promised an infrastructure plan. He had none. President Biden signed a massive one.

 

He promised to hire "the best people." He fired 3/4 of them and then said they were the worst ever, and they said HE was in fact the worst ever.

 

He promised to bring down the price of prescription drugs. He didn't: Biden did.

 

He promised a Hillary lock-up. Nope. 

 

Promised we'd win the trade war with China. Nope, It cost about 250,000 jobs and hurt Americans, not help them.

 

He promised his corporate tax cuts would help and benefit workers, and corporations would use that money to invest in American workers. They didn't, they used that money to buy back stocks.

 

He promised to revive the coal industry. Never happened: more coal jobs were lost during his presidency.

 

I could go on. 

Can't ever remember seeing a bigger list of conspiracies, misleading statements, distortions and outright falsehoods. Pat on the back well deserved.

[spidermike007]

2 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Can't ever remember seeing a bigger list of conspiracies, misleading statements, distortions and outright falsehoods. Pat on the back well deserved.

You are certainly welcome to rebut the claims that I've made, they're all factual and they're all verified. I do realize that his followers do not like hearing this kind of stuff about him, and many seem to be actively engaging in revisionist history, but you just can't change the past. A bum will always be a bum. 

[gamb00ler]

On 12/10/2024 at 10:43 AM, Yagoda said:

Im watching Greg Gutfeld show, as I do ever morning with my coffee.

 

Its the highest rated cable show out there and regularly beats the Jimmy Kimmel types.

 

For the first time, since the old Ontari-ari-ari-ooooooo fishing and canoe commericals, right at the most expensive 10:30pm time comes a gorgeous, beautifully produced commercial touting how important Ontario is as a trade partner, lets develop to the future together.

 

And I, like millions of other Trump voters watching were saying, no problem hosers, just do what you are told.

Nobody like a dyed in the wool Trumper to make the MAGA agenda crystal clear without actually saying it.  Do as we tell you despite what your eyes, ears, brain and common sense tell you.

[farangkinok]

1 hour ago, Yagoda said:

Nothing wrong with jingoism

 

We don't want to fight but by Jingo if we do,
We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too,
We've fought the Bear before, and while we're Britons true,
The Russians shall not have Constantinople.

No, the Turks have it, and it's called Istanbul now.

[Yagoda]

17 minutes ago, gamb00ler said:

Nobody like a dyed in the wool Trumper to make the MAGA agenda crystal clear without actually saying it.  Do as we tell you despite what your eyes, ears, brain and common sense tell you.

We decide what is common sense.

[Yagoda]

Just now, farangkinok said:

No, the Turks have it, and it's called Istanbul now.

We werent jingoist enough

[kwonitoy]

11 hours ago, Hanaguma said:

If you had taken the time, you would have seen some numbers. Latest I have seen is at least 80,000 people.  If the choice is wait 6 months for an MRI, or drive 2 hours and pay a thousand bucks to get it done on Saturday, a lot of people choose the latter option.

 

There are private options in Canada, no need to go to the US

I had an MRI done on my hip in Edmonton, booked on Monday and went in Tuesday afternoon.

Same with hip replacements, knee replacements and cataract surgery.

As much as Canadian value their universal health care, the system is overloaded from what it was set out to do, 

Provide Basic Healthcare.

I for one will welcome more private options, probably because I've lived and worked all around the world and seen different systems, unlike most in this country.

[wombat]

21 hours ago, theshu25 said:

Excatly, As if the orange freak gives a FF about USA. He is only in it to line his own grifting pockets.

That's harsh.

[Srikcir]

On 12/11/2024 at 9:07 AM, Mark989 said:

???

Iceland has been an independent Nation since 1940. From 1814 to 1918, Iceland was part of the Kingdom of Denmark. After 1918, it became a separate kingdom but was still bound to Denmark by law.

Your point?

Don't expect Trump to know or bother to know about foreign country sovereignty. To him the world operates transactionally.  

[thaibeachlovers]

On 12/10/2024 at 4:43 PM, Yagoda said:

Im watching Greg Gutfeld show, as I do ever morning with my coffee.

 

Its the highest rated cable show out there and regularly beats the Jimmy Kimmel types.

Highly rated for the very good reason that it is genuinely funny. I used to watch it all the time but I can't get Fox here.

[thaibeachlovers]

On 12/12/2024 at 12:16 AM, gamb00ler said:

Do as we tell you despite what your eyes, ears, brain and common sense tell you.

My eyes, ears, brain and common sense tell me that Trump was a far, far better choice than Harris, despite any failings he may have.

Rather than whining ad infinitum about how bad Trump is, you lot should be blaming the Dems for putting a loser up as candidate. Seems they picked the only one guaranteed to lose to the "worst man on the planet", when it should have been an easy win for the Dems.

[thaibeachlovers]

On 12/11/2024 at 11:10 PM, SunnyinBangrak said:

Can't ever remember seeing a bigger list of conspiracies, misleading statements, distortions and outright falsehoods. Pat on the back well deserved.

He's still beating that drum, I see. Bit sad really.

I guess he doesn't get that millions of US voters didn't give a monkey's bottom for all that whining BS from the Dems propaganda mill.

[Srikcir]

On 12/11/2024 at 9:07 AM, Mark989 said:

???

Iceland has been an independent Nation since 1940. From 1814 to 1918, Iceland was part of the Kingdom of Denmark. After 1918, it became a separate kingdom but was still bound to Denmark by law.

You think Trump knew any of the history and current status of Iceland? He doesn't nor does he care.

As he says, it's all about real estate regardless of ownership or sovereignty. Real estate is transactional - willing seller and willing buyer.

[Yagoda]

On 12/13/2024 at 3:17 PM, Srikcir said:

You think Trump knew any of the history and current status of Iceland? He doesn't nor does he care.

As he says, it's all about real estate regardless of ownership or sovereignty. Real estate is transactional - willing seller and willing buyer.

And back on topic, the begging, fawning commercials continue and more Canadian government little people come to beg at the feet of President Trump.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/canadian-ministers-head-florida-talks-incoming-trump-administration-report

[Neeranam]

On 12/10/2024 at 12:42 PM, KhunLA said:

Be patriotic and simply 'buy USA' .. then no issue with any tariffs 

 

That is what people want, and why they voted the way they did  

 

Those against tariffs would be the folks buying imported goods, not caring about the America worker, production, jobs, stronger, more independent USA.

Do as Paw piboonsonkhram did in 1932 by inventing Pad Thai, the food of the people. Copying nationalistic policies by his mates in Europe.

stop buying Chinese cars for a start. This is the reason most Americans voted for MAGA .

trump will surprise a lot of his haters

[KhunLA]

12 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

Do as Paw piboonsonkhram did in 1932 by inventing Pad Thai, the food of the people. Copying nationalistic policies by his mates in Europe.

stop buying Chinese cars for a start. This is the reason most Americans voted for MAGA .

trump will surprise a lot of his haters

Actually 'Chinese' branded cars are not sold in the USA, or very few, as I think AI is incorrect.   Although, they do make & sell other brands ...

 

[Neeranam]

6 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Actually 'Chinese' branded cars are not sold in the USA, or very few, as I think AI is incorrect.   Although, they do make & sell other brands ...

 

Oh, no BYD.

 

tesla too

[theshu25]

On 12/10/2024 at 8:38 PM, Yagoda said:

he is funny

He is about as funny as cancer

[Yagoda]

2 hours ago, theshu25 said:

He is about as funny as cancer

Yes that's why his ratings are so low compared to all the others

[KhunLA]

6 hours ago, Neeranam said:

Oh, no BYD.

 

tesla too

No BYD dealers in USA, I think, and Tesla are made in USA.

[jas007]

It's difficult to find consumer products made in the USA.  But there are some.  Benchmark Audio and McIntosh Audio, both made in New York State.. Magnepan speakers, from Minnesota..  Some of the small electronic parts may be sorted internationally.  Those are just a few examples. Where do they make Wrangler jeans? Lee jeans?  I think one of those companies still manufactures in the USA.  Ditto for some of the car tire companies. 

 

Of course, they make some wines in the USA, as well as some hard liquor.  

 

The US still has somewhat of a manufacturing base, especially to supply the auto industry.  For example, I have two cousins who have a manufacturing facility in New York State.  They employ hundreds of people and have customers all over the world.  Mainly in the USA, though.  

[thaibeachlovers]

9 hours ago, Neeranam said:

trump will surprise a lot of his haters

Not hard when they are IMO rather simple minded. One has to be simple minded to think Biden was functioning normally or that Harris was a suitable POTUS.

[thaibeachlovers]

2 hours ago, jas007 said:

It's difficult to find consumer products made in the USA.  But there are some.  Benchmark Audio and McIntosh Audio, both made in New York State.. Magnepan speakers, from Minnesota..  Some of the small electronic parts may be sorted internationally.  Those are just a few examples. Where do they make Wrangler jeans? Lee jeans?  I think one of those companies still manufactures in the USA.  Ditto for some of the car tire companies. 

 

Of course, they make some wines in the USA, as well as some hard liquor.  

 

The US still has somewhat of a manufacturing base, especially to supply the auto industry.  For example, I have two cousins who have a manufacturing facility in New York State.  They employ hundreds of people and have customers all over the world.  Mainly in the USA, though.  

Companies exported jobs to China out of greed using poorly paid exploited workers. If it's more profitable to make stuff in the US they will return. Bad news for workers though, as they will use robots rather than people.

[jas007]

2 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Companies exported jobs to China out of greed using poorly paid exploited workers. If it's more profitable to make stuff in the US they will return. Bad news for workers though, as they will use robots rather than people.

The trend dates back years and was shortsighted, in retrospect, but was just what the Globalists wanted. The big multinational companies cashed in on the cheap overseas labor, and in the process eroded the USA manufacturing base, setting the stage for the borrow and spend binge that has now reached its endpoint.  Enter the authoritarian New World Order where we all eat bugs, own nothing, and will be happy.  Or so they thought.  

 

Fortunately, Trump arrived. With any luck, he can reverse the trend or at least set it back for years.