Trump's Second Term

CBC news reporting that Howard Lutnick called Ontario Premier Doug Ford today and asked him not to retaliate to the tariffs. Ford told him a flat "NO"
Admittedly I am really curious how exactly that conversation would have went.

"Even though our president started the trade war you have to sit back and accept it"?
 
Can Melania even make a facial expression at this point? She looks like a sphinx.
She's gonna make a great big one when Donnie Diapers kicks it. As will I.
I think Melanie will not really be very happy when Stubby McBonespurs dies.

Not necessarily because she has any real attachment to her. She will just be very upset because instead of inheriting a bunch of wealth she will be stuck with billions in debt.
 
I think Melanie will not really be very happy when Stubby McBonespurs dies.

Not necessarily because she has any real attachment to her. She will just be very upset because instead of inheriting a bunch of wealth she will be stuck with billions in debt.
If she's failed to secure herself a nice separate nest egg then she's a failure at her profession.
 
Today, the fivethirtyeight poll has flipped, and more people now disapprove of Trump than approve.

 
I think Melanie will not really be very happy when Stubby McBonespurs dies.

Not necessarily because she has any real attachment to her. She will just be very upset because instead of inheriting a bunch of wealth she will be stuck with billions in debt.
Not to mention the cat fight as various members of the "all American loving family" claw and tear at each other for a piece of what is left of the rotting carcass.
 
Trudeau to Donald: "Now I want to speak directly to one specific American. Donald ... it's not in my habit to agree with the Wall Street Journal, but Donald, they point out that even though you're a very smart guy, this is a very dumb thing to do. We two friends fighting is exactly what our opponents around the world want to see."
The WSJ is wrong about Trampy being smart.
 
eta: also now they are doing RIFs instead of just firings. Firings is "these individuals no longer have jobs here". RIFS are "this division of the agency has ceased to exist, and therefore it has no employees anymore".
That's happened to me in normal industry. Company got sold and the type of engineering I did (mechanical, shock isolation) was no longer part of the corporate structure. Was a very small company, after the sale, and in that 'corporate structure' (nepotism abounded) I didn't really want to be a part of, too much skullduggery. Relatives (plus hangers on from the purchaser) that didn't know crap about the industry or their jobs. The new owner had been fired from the major corporation (as head of this division years before) that owned this division before. As I said at the time 'vengeance and nepotism, bad business model'. I still miss designing things though, but love that I own a house now from what I've made moving on.

So, to whom has the USA (being made great again, again) been sold to....
 
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Smith on Fox - Trudeau comments: I don't know anybody that watched that saw somebody who is approaching this discussion respectfully. I think we saw this with Zelenskyy in the oval office and you don't think this is a guy coming in in a strong way to negotiate with President Trump.
What the hell does this guy think "respectfully" is? "Thank you Mr. Trump, can I please have some more?"
 
What the hell does this guy think "respectfully" is? "Thank you Mr. Trump, can I please have some more?"
Please see guidance on asking for more in Oliver Twist (Dickens, O, 1838). Asking for more does not end well.

I perceive little difference between Mr Bumble and Mr Trump.
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As of the close of the day on March 4, my positive/negative score on the Trump administration stands at -218.

4 March 2025
-1: Trump imposes 15% tariffs on imports from Canada
-1: Trump imposes 15% tariffs on imports from Mexico
-1: Trump threatens to suspend federal funding for educational intrusions that allow "illegal protests" [60]
-1: Headline: Pentagon moves to gut operations focused on reducing civilian harm (Washington Post)
-1: Musk suggests Zelenskyy be exiled from Ukraine in order to make the country a democracy again. [61]
-1: Marjorie Taylor Green echoes Trump's lie that fentanyl coming from Canada is a major problem for Americans [62]
-1: Attorney-General Bondi says the FBI and DOJ will fire anyone not loyal to President Trump [63]
-1: Trump again insults Trudeau by referring to him as "Governor" [64]
-1: Reported: Back in January, Kristi Noem insulted Canada at a library that straddles the Quebec-Vermont border [65]

3 March 2025
-1: JD Vance insults Britain as "a random country that hasn't fought a war in thirty or forty years"
-1: Trump claims uproars at Republican town halls over Musk's indiscriminate firings are due to Democrat "troublemakers"

2 March 2025
-1: Trump cuts all military aid to Ukraine following the shouting match in the Oval office
-1: Treasury suspends enforcement of Corporate Transparency Act’s Beneficial Ownership Interest Rule

References:

60. Trump, on Truth Social: "All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter." (From the guy who planned the January 6 insurrection and then pardoned everyone who participated.)

61. Elon Musk: "As distasteful as it is, Zelensky should be offered some kind of amnesty in a neutral country in exchange for a peaceful transition back to democracy in Ukraine."

62. Marjorie Taylor Green: "Today, the United States will implement 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada, under President Trump, in order to pressure both countries to stop the cartels from murdering Americans through cartel manufactured and trafficked fentanyl into America. It is absolutely absurd that our neighboring countries, Mexico and Canada, allow cartels to flourish and kill Americans EVERYDAY!! Under Biden and Democrats, our borders were wide open to murderers, rapists, terrorists, child predators, and the cartel’s massive billion dollar human and drug trafficking international operations and America suffered! No more, it’s time it ends! I fully support and thank President Trump for taking the necessary steps to defend and protect our great country and people!!"

63: Attorney-General Bondi: "There are a lot of people in the FBI and also in the DOJ who despise Donald Trump, despise us, don't want to be there. We will find them. Because you have to believe in transparency, you have to believe in honesty, you have to do the right thing. We're gonna root them out and they will no longer be employed."

64. Trump: "Please explain to Governor Trudeau, of Canada, that when he puts on a Retaliatory Tariff on the U.S., our Reciprocal Tariff will immediately increase by a like amount!"

65: The Boston Globe: On a trip to Vermont following the fatal shooting of a US Border Patrol agent, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem visited the Haskell, where she stepped up to the electrical tape and, with a grin, parroted Trump’s taunts while standing on the Canadian side of the line, according to Converse and Deborah Bishop, the library’s executive director. “She stood on the American side and said, ‘USA No. 1.’ Then she crossed the line and said, ‘The 51st state,’” Bishop said. “She did it at least three times and was very clear in saying, ‘USA No. 1,’ and didn’t even say ‘Canada.’ Just, ‘The 51st state.’”
 
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