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While Trump fails, Carney outsmarts him once again
Canada is a huge source of oil for the US, in the middle of summer when Texas cranks the AC and California battles wildfires, it's Canadian Hydro dams keeping US cities from going dark, your city is wired into Ottawa's Mercy. Here's the part nobody wants to talk about, Canada has proved it can shut it all down oil, electricity, and trade anytime, and not with bombs, not with armies, with just a single political decision. The most important part is that most Americans will have no idea about this until the lights go out. This is a brilliant political ambush that Mark Carney wages against Trump. While Trump was raging with his juvenile tweets, Carney was online with Mexico's president to make an offer the United States could not match. Reliability within 48 Hours. Canada and Mexico shocked the world, they unveiled the Northern Corridor, a trade Super Highway designed to treat America not as a partner but it has an obstacle, to ship around. Carney's exact words "when one door closes, we will find a better door". That wasn't a diplomacy, that was a declaration of economic independence. What Washington doesn't understand is that in 2025 it's not about who screams the loudest, it's about who the world can't function without. Canada has built themselves into the one country American can't cut out regardless of how reckless Trump behaves. They have total infrastructure integration, your iPhone uses Canadian hydroelectric power, your home is built with superior Canadian lumber, your car runs on Canadian oil, you can't replace all of that overnight. In February a lumber mill in Illinois closed. Because Canadian lumber suddenly became too expensive, after Trump's tariff terrors. This wasn't a failing mill, this was a mill that had been running for 60 years, employing 300 families. It didn't die from Canadian competition, Trump killed it. It died from bad American policy. There is no surge capacity to replace Canadian imports, even analysts on Fox Business admitted it could take a decade to rebuild domestic production. So instead of protecting American jobs tariffs will do the opposite, they will lumber unaffordable in the middle of a housing crisis, and while America is having a political meltdown, Canada was having a strategy meeting. Trump expected the usual script, retaliation, angry press conferences, maybe a new round of tariffs. Instead Canada did something no one saw coming, no shouting, no threats, no photo ops with fingerpointing, politicians stepped up to a podium and announced a 1 billion dollar support program for Canadian lumber companies. Every company taking the money had to commit to Canada's new 25 billion dollar domestic housing program, in other words America just gave us our own lumber back and we're going to use it to fuel a big housing bill. Thanks for the favor Trump! Because of silly political grand standing a kitchen renovation that cost $30,000 in January now costs $35,000. Not because there wasn't enough wood or steel but because of political theater in Washington. Multiply that by millions throughout America. Trump promised to fix the housing crisis, but instead he's destroying it. If Canada, America's closest ally with the longest undefended border could openly defy US pressure, then the question becames avoidable for the rest of the world. What's stopping us from doing the same? Maybe we don't need American approval, China took notice, the EU took notice, so did Mexico. Many other countries did too. Trump is too dim to understand that Canada has infrastructure indispensability, you can't sanction a country when you run on their oil, you can't bully a partner when you run in their electricity. Canada won't beat America by force, they'll beat America with integration. America's grid was built using cheap Canadian electricity and America just proved it's willing to hurt its own people to make up a political point. American can no longer be counted upon for reliability and that's not a trade war, that is a trade crisis. America has a superpower credibility crisis, there's a moment every empire is history when the mirror doesn't recognize the face staring back. August 1st was America's mirror moment, Trump thought he was teaching a lesson, instead Canada gave America a master class in independence. While America was busy building walls Canada was busy building bridges to Mexico, to Europe, and to Asia. America barked demand for loyalty, Canada quietly earned reliability. Every new home or skyscraper you see, you're looking at Canadian lumber. Here's what the next decade looks like if nothing changes. America drifts into self-imposed isolation as one partner after another quietly diversifies away from US dependence, Canada and China step into the vacuum, as the predictable hub of trade, dealing with whoever treats them fairly and the US continues its March into irrelevance. The guiding principle that Trump not only ignores but has a complete lack of understanding about is that America became the greatest economy on the planet due to a lack of tariffs, due to very low import taxes. You don't tax your way out of a deficit, the deficit is there for a reason, ignoring the reason for that deficit and simply focusing on the symptoms is a recipe for disaster. We'll have to call it the Trump economy, we will have to call it the Trump depression, and we will have to call Trump the worst president America has ever seen. -
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America's best idea
You are for high corporate income taxes, but against tariffs, yes? -
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Crime Drunk Brit Attacks Bar Worker, Hurt by American Customer
The American pushed him a little? He THREW him with a lot of force !!! If I were the Brit (first of all, I would not have hit the lady...), I would file a complaint against this American and ask for paying costs of Hospital and lost vacation days -
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America's best idea
Again, I visited a National Park today, and it was great. Why would you expect there would be as many employees now, as there would be before computers and whatnot? There are more government employees now than there was five years ago -
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Crime Drunk Brit Attacks Bar Worker, Hurt by American Customer
Nah, that’s wrong! The lady walked away, so the fight was over. (And even if it hadn’t been, the American could’ve just restrained the Brit—he looked strong enough to do that.) But instead, the American guy started a new fight and threw the Brit onto the road. He escalated the situation instead of de-escalating it! If anyone knows this Brit, tell him to file a complaint at the police station and let the authorities press the American to cover the hospital costs and compensate for the lost vacation days.
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