Mark Carney taking on Trump

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Fighting talk from Mark Carney today. He will win the trade war with America. Blames Trump entirely for this trade war.

He will apply from today 25% surcharge on energy to the 3 US states they supply. Means around 100 dollars per month per family in those states.

Trump is a buffoon as well as a bully and people will not tolerate his actions.

Does Trump have dementia?

Or is he thick as shite?

YABU he's just thick

YANBU he has dementia

Sadly I think neither is true. I think his explicit purpose is to sow confusion and create chaos, so that he can never be pinned down as responsible for the bad things that will happen down the line. His ultimate aim is power and wealth - his own. It won't be long before he is angling for a third term, perhaps on the basis that the constitution needs to be amended to allow for an 'emergency', which he will of course have created himself by his divisive chaotic rule.

Imo Trump is lacking in intellect and has some age related cognitive decline.
I feel very encouraged by Mark Carney's speach!

He's not unelected, he's just been elected as per Canada's rules for electing prime ministers.

And you sound like you think it's somehow unfair or out of order for Canada to respond to Trump, simply because Trump was elected? Canada didn't elect him, they don't just have to shrug and say "well he was elected. There's literally nothing we can do". Shall Denmark do that when Trump demands Greenland "well he was democratically elected, so better not take him on".

100 Canadian so about $70 USD

No way, she despises him, she wont be agreeing to have sex with that rancid old goblin.

My husband works for some thoroughly decent Americans, lovely people, I feel so sorry for them having this loony throwing his weight around.

How many countries would vote for a convicted rapist as their leader for one of the most powerful countries in the world. He is as thick as shite, his vocabulary is limited, and appears to be mentally unstable, perhaps insane or dementia, definitely a narcissist. He’s a vile bully, I did chuckle watching Jimmy Kimmel saying Trump wears a diaper, hilarious 😆

I bet she spends most of her time in NY.

He was elected only by so called "Liberal" party membership, he has never won the popular vote from the public and he's not even an MP.

It's just another WEF power play, he's merely replacing the previous WEF'er
https://www.weforum.org/people/justin-trudeau/

Remember it was the so called "Liberal" party who were freezing peoples bank accounts for protesting or donating to protesters a few years ago.

I doubt he can still get it up without industrial quantities of Viagra.

A few of the people your DH works for are likely to have voted for Trump unless they were Black or Jewish, which are the only two groups who voted against him in any big way.

Sure.

Last article I saw on EU agriculture was Eu farmers in Brussels burning tyres and bringing the entire city to a standstill making tractor barricades because they weren't happy.

Bring a large new more efficient agricultural nation into the mix and it's going to get so much better for them.

Isn't the Trump administration now clamping down on protest? While also protecting freedom of expression? So confusing.

Carney probably won't be in power in Canada for long anyway looking at the polls - which means he doesn't need to worry about the medium term impact of what he's doing. Things go well for Canada - he can take credit. Things go badly - he can blame the incoming government.

For perspective, and a reminder (as if we needed it!) that consumers are always the losers when it comes to tariffs and trade wars:

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/12/18/analysis/energy-us-ontario-Trump-Trudeau-tarriffs-electricity

From the above article:

"For Ford to even suggest that Canada might disrupt cross-border energy supplies was foolhardy. But it says something about how some of us may have a totally unrealistic view of how much leverage we have in this situation. Yes, Canada is energy rich. But Ontario has become very dependent on U.S. supply, even using U.S. territory to access Canadian supplies. How we allowed ourselves to become so dependent on a foreign country is a whole other topic."

Here's to hoping that cooler heads prevail and that the willy-waving gives way to negotiations that benefit consumers.

What products from Canada are you able to buy living here? I was trying to support the BuyCanadian movement but so far have only got maple syrup and McCain's chips. There's strong flour and whiskey but I don't use either of those.

Harrasing Jewish students, blocking them from campus for refusing to renounce their faith and openly supporting Hamas isn't really a "protest" now is it.

Polls can change. I imagine Carney will have a positive impact on the Liberals’ support.

People moaning about the WEF re usually using it as code for "The Jews."

I think he is both thick and demented. And spoilt.

So either the plucky leader standing up to the nasty bully, or the cynical politician rolling the dice with peoples livelyhoods in the hope of harnessing a goundswell in support in order to get re elected ?

You decide the narrative...

According to his nephew, he's showing all the same signs that his Grandfather (Trump's Father) had, and he suffered from dementia, so I think it's highly likely he has it.

AND

He's thick!

I've just had a lie down and feel.much better (and it wasn't with Trump, promise).

He needs to threaten to take over Viagra then and keep his dirty hands off Greenland, Canada, Gaza and Ukraine

I was shocked to hear that an American friend voted for Trump, but he explained that he lives in one of the states on the border, and voted for him as he said he would put a stop to all the immigrants, which were a REAL problem, apparently he's done this, so at this point my friend is happy, BUT he also doesn't agree with Trump on Ukraine.

Carney was a poor BoE Governor. All his ‘forward guidance’ nonsense caused so much confusion - remember the ‘unreliable boyfriend’ headlines? I was quite pleased when he went back to Canada.