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02-04-2025, 10:03 AM
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Doesn't even need to be a big Congressional loss, just need to distract him with some other shiny toy for him to fixate on. China? Ukraine? DEI shit? He seems to be the type to shift focus on things that gets the most sound bites.
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02-04-2025, 10:07 AM
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All this boycotting US stuff goes down a rabbit hole lol.
What good is taking American alcohol off the shelves that’s already imported going to do? Meanwhile everyone working drives a Tesla/American car to work/liquor store or uses an iPhone/Google to check inventory levels of the store lol. SMH it’s all hypocritical. Yes we’ll show them! I’m not a pro Trump guy, just trying to use logic.
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02-04-2025, 10:21 AM
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Don't let perfection get in the way of progress. We can return a lot of the inventory, and you can just not buy your next 'x' from the US.
My big worry (tin foil hat on) is that this is a smoke screen for what ever is going on with Musk. The CDC is having thousands of papers taken down, USaid is getting shut down (richest guy in the world says no to helping the poor...), I heard there was issue with US Census data recently, Musk has all sorts of data on from the US federal payment system, he's fucking with the IRS and how people can report there. Probably quite a lot more we don't see yet.
Is he setting himself up as ruler after the cheeto shrivels up and dies?
I am seriously worried for the American public right now. Am I just getting carried away? Probably. I hope so.
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02-04-2025, 11:14 AM
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#8104 | | Willing to sell a family member for a few minutes on RS
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Originally Posted by RevYouUp  All this boycotting US stuff goes down a rabbit hole lol.
What good is taking American alcohol off the shelves that’s already imported going to do? Meanwhile everyone working drives a Tesla/American car to work/liquor store or uses an iPhone/Google to check inventory levels of the store lol. SMH it’s all hypocritical. Yes we’ll show them! I’m not a pro Trump guy, just trying to use logic. | Why stop drinking when you've been an alcoholic for 20 years?
Why start working out if you're already fat?
We've already done it so why change? It's such a nonsensical argument. It's not logic.
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Originally Posted by boostfever Westopher is correct. | Quote:
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02-04-2025, 11:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Dbone Don't let perfection get in the way of progress. We can return a lot of the inventory, and you can just not buy your next 'x' from the US.
My big worry (tin foil hat on) is that this is a smoke screen for what ever is going on with Musk. The CDC is having thousands of papers taken down, USaid is getting shut down (richest guy in the world says no to helping the poor...), I heard there was issue with US Census data recently, Musk has all sorts of data on from the US federal payment system, he's fucking with the IRS and how people can report there. Probably quite a lot more we don't see yet.
Is he setting himself up as ruler after the cheeto shrivels up and dies?
I am seriously worried for the American public right now. Am I just getting carried away? Probably. I hope so. |
100 percent. Musk is very bad news for the American people. Why does this employee get "special status" and get such high security clearance to so many US government departments? Why does he have access to so much information about Americans?
Musk even knows where money is going and where payments are going, out of the US Treasury Department.
Where are the rules to ensure protection of private information? Information security. The dude is breaking rules every day.
What sinister plans does he have? My gut feeling is that Musk's plans are much more than improving "government efficiency". https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/polit...aos/index.html
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02-04-2025, 12:01 PM
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#8106 | | I Wanna Go Fast!
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Originally Posted by westopher While I agree with you in a way, I have to say I've appreciated the response of Canadian politicians to stand up for Canadians in whatever way possible. [.....] wanting to stand up for our country as opposed to all the fucking spineless Liberal and New Democrat MP's either falling in line or just keeping their mouths shut. | Yes, but let's not act like the bolded edit hasn't been true for the last few years. Easy to have a spine now knowing they're not being reelected and are responsible for Canada being so weak that we're in this position in the first place.
Either way, Trump has done some real damage to Canadian / American relations with this stunt. Small examples are the booing of the national anthem, and a friend of mine at NASA who was approached and berated in Houston for wearing a shirt that had both flags on it. Sad.
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02-04-2025, 12:14 PM
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I think all the boycott US products talk, plus the act of actually taking US products off our shelves sent a loud and clear message to the front line US businesses and state gov that we really meant business this time, and that we weren't easily going to back down. Those in the US who have something to lose from a prolonged tariff war realized this, and they went to lobby the respective gov bodies to get the message across to Trump. Quote:
Originally Posted by RevYouUp All this boycotting US stuff goes down a rabbit hole lol.
What good is taking American alcohol off the shelves that’s already imported going to do? Meanwhile everyone working drives a Tesla/American car to work/liquor store or uses an iPhone/Google to check inventory levels of the store lol. SMH it’s all hypocritical. Yes we’ll show them! I’m not a pro Trump guy, just trying to use logic. |
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Originally Posted by westopher The whole world has gone down a road no one can recover from, and it's nothing to do with governments, it's because so much of the general public is so fucking stupid. | | |
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02-04-2025, 12:56 PM
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#8108 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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Originally Posted by pastarocket 100 percent. Musk is very bad news for the American people. Why does this employee get "special status" and get such high security clearance to so many US government departments? Why does he have access to so much information about Americans?
Musk even knows where money is going and where payments are going, out of the US Treasury Department.
Where are the rules to ensure protection of private information? Information security. The dude is breaking rules every day.
What sinister plans does he have? My gut feeling is that Musk's plans are much more than improving "government efficiency". https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/polit...aos/index.html | Musk wants all federal regulations removed! https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...eral-regulati/
Treating the US government like another one of his startups...
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02-04-2025, 04:04 PM
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#8109 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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Decent read in Maclean's about the prospects for the American annexation of Canada and reminder that annexation has been an American objective even before Canada became a country: https://macleans.ca/society/canada-51st-state-america/
A podcast from the NY Times with Steve Bannon. Lots of insight into the struggles within the inner circle of the administration: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/o...-populism.html | |
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02-04-2025, 04:18 PM
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America first = Ethnically cleanse the Gaza strip apparently. https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...netanyahu-gaza Quote:
Trump says US will 'take over' the Gaza Strip and 'level' it
Trump once again says Gaza is a “demolition site” that is “very dangerous and very precarious”.
He says the Palestinians in Gaza should be moved to a “beautiful area with homes and safety …. so that they can live out their lives in peace and harmony”.
“The US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,” Trump says.
| Oh.. and they just pulled out of the UN Human Rights Council. So good luck poors.. and non-whites.. and women.
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02-04-2025, 04:50 PM
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#8111 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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^wow. trump's such a fucking piece of shit. These guys have fought and died for that strip of land for decades and he comes in and decides to align with the jews and cleanse the entire strip?!??!?!?
How much do you wanna bet there's gonna be some nutjob arab guy whos gonna try and off him now.
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02-04-2025, 04:54 PM
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#8112 | | y'all better put some respeck on my name
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There's enough far right MAGA supporters who hate Jews more than Muslims hate Jews. This will be interesting.
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02-04-2025, 04:58 PM
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MAGA hates Jews but loves zionists. It's the most incredible form of mental gymnastics. Or maybe it's not. "I hate Jews unless they are killing brown people" seems like the easiest way for them to get there.
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02-04-2025, 04:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Harvey Specter There's enough far right MAGA supporters who hate Jews more than Muslims hate Jews. This will be interesting. | Trump the great uniter, who would have thought.
First he unites Canada, now he unites MAGA and Muslims.
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02-04-2025, 05:06 PM
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#8115 | | Hacked RS to become a mod
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Remember how many libtards refused to vote Dem because of their lack of support for Gaza
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02-04-2025, 05:08 PM
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#8116 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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Somebody unban CharlesInCharge and let him loose into Fight Club
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02-04-2025, 05:10 PM
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#8117 | | Hacked RS to become a mod
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Originally Posted by sonick Somebody unban CharlesInCharge and let him loose into Fight Club | He's free to post there whenever he wants
His last few attempts failed to garner attention so I think he gave up
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02-04-2025, 05:11 PM
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#8118 | | I Will not Admit my Addiction to RS
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Originally Posted by westopher MAGA hates Jews but loves zionists. It's the most incredible form of mental gymnastics. Or maybe it's not. "I hate Jews unless they are killing brown people" seems like the easiest way for them to get there. | Actually, it's because one of the conditions for the rapture is that the Jews have be in Israel (I think even control of a certain temple but I forget the details).
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02-04-2025, 06:18 PM
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#8119 | | y'all better put some respeck on my name
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The Democrats lost Michigan because the Arab vote in Dearborn voted for Trump thinking he would save the Palestinians.
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02-04-2025, 06:31 PM
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I like that he wants to turn it into a French Riviera destination......... yah more like Atlantic City with him in charge. Quote:
Originally Posted by Harvey Specter The Democrats lost Michigan because the Arab vote in Dearborn voted for Trump thinking he would save the Palestinians. | Someone needs to find the idiot who formed that group and ask him what he thinks now lol
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02-04-2025, 07:04 PM
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Originally Posted by 68style I like that he wants to turn it into a French Riviera destination......... yah more like Atlantic City with him in charge.
Someone needs to find the idiot who formed that group and ask him what he thinks now lol | That guy should be in the Leopards Ate My Face Hall of Fame
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02-04-2025, 08:10 PM
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#8122 | | y'all better put some respeck on my name
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Here's another one:
Venezuelans fight back against TPS termination, battling for right to stay in the U.S. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/loc...#storylink=cpy
The vice mayor, who's Venezuelan herself, has pictures of Trump plastered all over her IG profile but was crying and begging the President not to deport these people. Imagine getting protection and then voting for the party that openly said they were going to mass deport Latinos.
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02-04-2025, 10:18 PM
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Originally Posted by westopher Why stop drinking when you've been an alcoholic for 20 years?
Why start working out if you're already fat?
We've already done it so why change? It's such a nonsensical argument. It's not logic. | This is not logic either, those things are irrelevant to what I was trying to say.
I’m just saying it’s hypocritical to boycott the US when so much of our daily routine is revolved around their products/services. If you boycott US products, boycott everything not just things you choose to lol. It’s like those religious folks that say they’re religious and get run through by a train.
Ya we can cut out US cold turkey, but to what extent? Lol it’s a just a rabbit hole. This forum is probably hosted by a US company. There’s only so many things we can cut out. The US doesn’t care if we don’t buy from them. Even though I agree we should support local Canadian corporations, the regular consumer looks at price and doesn’t care about where things are made.
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02-04-2025, 10:53 PM
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#8125 | | Performance Moderator
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Originally Posted by RevYouUp This is not logic either, those things are irrelevant to what I was trying to say.
I’m just saying it’s hypocritical to boycott the US when so much of our daily routine is revolved around their products/services. If you boycott US products, boycott everything not just things you choose to lol. It’s like those religious folks that say they’re religious and get run through by a train.
Ya we can cut out US cold turkey, but to what extent? Lol it’s a just a rabbit hole. This forum is probably hosted by a US company. There’s only so many things we can cut out. The US doesn’t care if we don’t buy from them. Even though I agree we should support local Canadian corporations, the regular consumer looks at price and doesn’t care about where things are made. | Trying SO HARD to keep being contrarian...
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