The Reaper Should Have Gone To SpecSavers - Trump Thread #168

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Surely it's time.

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Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5551862-oh-peacemaker-peacemaker-make-me-some-peace-trump-thread-167

Unfortunately, I've watched the interviews with Magats in the very poorest areas, still insisting that Trump will come good for them even as they queue up to be seen by volunteer student doctors.
Turkeys voting for Christmas. Again.

Not for me. I think the English Channel/La Manche, which somehow manges never to be a bone of contention in any large way.

Lake Geneva - Lac Léman also.

St George's Channel/Celtic Sea.

I don't think there has been any blood shed recently over any of those names, has there? By "recently" I mean "in the last couple of centuries".

Nope. All done peacefully.

Oh my! Someone call the men in white coats! From the White House:

Canada has been ripping off the United States for decades — and President Donald J. Trump is done letting them get away with it. Last week, the U.S. offered Canada the most preferential market access of any country on Earth, with deep cuts on steel, aluminum, autos, lumber, and more. Instead of partnership, Canada chose unreasonable demands, walk-backs, and flat-out rejection.
The record of Canadian abuse is clear and deliberate:

• FACT: Canada is joined only by the People’s Republic of China in choosing retaliation over negotiation. Their continued discriminatory treatment of U.S. commerce has burdened American workers, farmers, and businesses.
• FACT: Canada alone imposed discriminatory 25% tariffs and company-specific quotas on U.S. motor vehicles — measures applied to no other country. As a result, U.S. vehicle exports to Canada crashed 22% over the last year.
• FACT: Canada banned American wine, beer, and spirits in nearly every province and territory — while other countries have faced no such restrictions. As a result, U.S. alcohol exports to Canada collapsed 81% in a single year.
• FACT: Canada locks out U.S. dairy with tariff-rate quotas far more restrictive than those given to Europe, plus over-quota tariffs of nearly 300% — rates so extreme they function as a near-total ban and rank among the highest agricultural tariffs in the developed world.
• FACT: Canada has extracted a persistent average annual goods trade deficit of roughly $50 billion from the U.S. over the last decade — while refusing reciprocal access.
• FACT: Canada targeted American aerospace manufacturer Gulfstream for years. They effectively prohibited the sale of its G500, G600, G700, and G800 models while shielding its own competitor — until President Trump intervened.
• FACT: Canada’s protectionist barriers — discriminatory auto quotas, alcohol bans, and dairy lockouts — have hammered American companies. This has cost U.S. producers billions in lost sales, forced layoffs, and driven market share to foreign competitors who face none of the same restrictions.
• FACT: Without the United States, Canada could not survive. Canada sends roughly three-quarters of all its goods exports to America — and the U.S. market is where Canada gets the overwhelming majority of its money and economic oxygen.
• FACT: Canada’s failed trade policies are driving its own manufacturers south. A recent survey found 42% of Canadian manufacturers have already moved or are planning to move production to the U.S.
• FACT: Canada is doubling down on tariffs targeting American workers. Canada just announced an additional $27.6 billion in tariffs on American businesses — including a 50% tariff on American steel and aluminum, a 25% tariff on American fish, and a 25% tariff on American tools.
• FACT: The U.S. economy is approximately 13 times larger than the Canadian economy and home to over eight times as many people. The United States has the clear leverage.

I'm off to buy 🍿and taking everyone's orders for our snack trolley. Drinks trolley fully stocked.

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Did Natalie the human printer have a hand in that announcement?

The last point is hilarious. It’s like, “My Dad’s bigger than your Dad, so there!”.
Pathetic.

A small group casual chat I am in, not really about US politics, we discussed today that he is totally mad as a hatter, unhinged, bonkers, lost the plot.
The thing is, the more usual subject in the group is PRC propaganda, and what wild story are they putting out now. That sort of thing.

Trump just blows all of that out of the water. By miles.

If people in DPRK had access to what he is coming out with, even they would be shaking their heads in amazement.

You can take all of the worlds "revised history" from the last 100 years from all of the dictators, have printer girl collate and PPT it into cartoon format for Trump, and it would still not match the total batshit crap he puts out in 24 hours.

I hate to think where Natalie has her hands.

Meta agrees to settle case that social media platforms harmed children

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has agreed to a multi-billion dollar settlement over claims brought by several US states that its platforms harmed children.

The deal, which is subject to court approval, requires Meta to introduce certain rules for teenage users, including daily limits and night-time blocks.

This is brilliant. Thank you for posting it

OMG, I just saw that announcement about Canada from the White House on FB and I genuinely thought it was a joke/a mad MAGAt making fake news again. But no, you’re telling me it comes from the President’s desk? And every single word is an easily proven lie? This is absolutely beyond ridiculous.

Oh, I think such words as "and", "but", "the", "is", "of", and "with" are probably not proven lies; they may be inaccurate in the context in which the White House uses them, of course.

Meta news is huge.

Link to an article, I'm sure the first of many:

Meta agrees to pay up to $18bn to settle claims its platforms harm children
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy5v0vrlp4xt

A drop in the ocean regarding the payments.

Sorry I can't get the Truth Social header on the attached image, but yes, the President of the United States is boasting about changing lightbulbs in street lights.

Place where I used to live, there was a bit of a standing joke how even national level politicians would campaign about dog poo.

POTUS posting this though, I wonder what planet I am on. Has a time portal opened and sucked me into a multiverse ?

Just on that first thing. 2300 lights fixed. I have so many questions.

What time frame are we talking?

How many lights were broken?

How many lights are usually fixed per usual time frame?

How many lights are still not fixed ?

Did you use low energy bulbs ?

What is the budget for fixing lights ?

How big was the fix ?

Did you get a mate from Mar a Lago with a cherry picker to do it at a $million a pop ?

How many Trumps does it take to change 2300 lightbulbs ?

Have you fixed your pool yet ?

More than a mile of fencing repainted? They've really been busting a gut there, haven't they. (Just call them Tom Sawyer.)

He should be good at painting fences too. What with the Border wall he built. Oh wait, that never happened.

Anyway, I bet it was Mexico paid for his mile of fence painting.

Potholes? I thought that was a British obsession?!

Did you ever drive in Boston, Mass., in the spring? At the end of winter there are potholes in Boston you could lose a VW Beetle down.

But they always do things bigger in the US.

250+ truck loads of debris from the carp pond at constitution gardens.

Oh why not. Some calculating. The pond is 6.5 acres. That's 26304 square meters. A US dump truck holds 30 cubic meters. So that's 250 x 30 = 7500 cubic meters.

That gives us 0.28 m height of debris removed over the area of the pond.

I am just being daft here. I did look up sediment deposition rates in urban ponds, but blocked.

But I did find that the US Clean Water Act Section 404 covers the disposal of such material. And yes, he is going to need a permit for the disposal of that material. He can't just dump it on the municipal golf course he has just taken over. The same course where he has dumped what used to be the WH East wing.

He is a cowboy builder.

Such as replacing Lake Ontario with Lake America.