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Trump's speech. By meagain March 4, 2025 7:24 pm Category: Politics (0.0 from 0 votes) Rules of the Post Write A New Article How To Post Here

I imagine you are all watching it now. I listened for about five minutes and switched off. It was the raving of a lunatic. The stock market is in free fall. It is expected that in less than 2 weeks, the auto industry in both Canada and America will have to shut down. Prices will go through the roof in a month or so when tariffs and retaliatory tariffs work through.

And almost all major countries: the whole EU, Canada, and the UK have lower tariffs that the US has. Both are almost beglible.

China has today imposed a 20% tariff on agricultural products from the US that will be disastrous for American farmers.

And Republicans are clapping and cheering very wild, insane statement.

The world will be in a recession within a few months, perhaps worse. Millions of
Americans will lose their jobs.

And the two knuckleheads here cheer him on.

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by Curt_Anderson on March 4, 2025 7:35 pm Meagain, I lasted about five minutes of his BS too. by ROB3RT on March 4, 2025 7:53 pm Fortunately, I had a colonoscopy appointment scheduled for the same time so I wasn't able to watch the speech. by Curt_Anderson on March 4, 2025 9:00 pm Robert, Propothol would have helped if a person was obliged to watch the entire speech. by HatetheSwamp on March 5, 2025 2:53 am "And Republicans are clapping and cheering very wild, insane statement." A year ago, when Ds were rocked and rolled over hyped up phrase the Flatulent Fool finished, you were elated. It's what the speech has become. My wife noted that the Dem side looked like a Catholic church service and the GOPs looked like Pentecostals. by HatetheSwamp on March 5, 2025 3:29 am I vividly recall watching the Doddering Old Fool's juiced-up rant, a year ago, through the last word. All you'll know about the speech is what is spoon-fed to you by Curt's Holy Trinity and po's metaphorical Rachel. Go for it! It seems to me that the reason that our SS members of the woke Swampcult are as uninformed as they are, compared to OD and pb, is that you ignore and pretend away the parts of truth that you don't want to be true. We don't. by Ponderer on March 5, 2025 7:35 am I watched the who0le thing start to finish. I wanted to see for myself just how far his lies would go, and I wasn't disappointed. Nothing but bullshit and using individual stories to tell the fake reality that he wanted told. Nothing about HOW he was going to lower prices for average Americans or anything about HOW he was going to help us through the hell he is unleashing upon us. by HatetheSwamp on March 5, 2025 8:19 am All of us bring our preferences and prejudices to every moment of our lives. Some of you are prisoners of them. Some of us attempt to free ourselves from them. by meagain on March 5, 2025 9:42 am On the question of tariffs that he claims are imposed on America by others. All countries have some tariffs to protect vital industries or some factor that is vital to their economy or society. However, they are almost non-existent in total. Just from my memory of the last time I researched it. Here are the percentages by weighted average of the major economies that are "unfair" to America. The 27 Members of the EU - 1.39 Britain. - .86 Canada - .9 USA - 1.46 South Korea is the terrible burden of 4.? Less than 5 but Idon't recall exactly. by oldedude on March 5, 2025 10:14 am You needed to look at france and germany. To buy a run of the mill ford is as expensive as a Benz in germany. For crappy french wine is pretty much the same thing. by oldedude on March 5, 2025 2:35 pm I'm not surprised the left on the site didn't "approve" of the speech. To me, it looked like the end of American Communism. A place where hatred no longer mimics "good for the people." The party of "Hopey changey" and "Strength Through Joy" is an epic failure. Instead, it's the party of gaslighting, fear mongering, deception, and lawfare. These are exactly along the lines of Lenin and Stalinism. "The government knows better than you do." "Those not with us are stupid and don't know what they need." Those who disagree with us are no better than Nazie." (yet their entire tenure was fraught with "Joe's okay" and Joe's doing fine," then all of a sudden, it was like he didn't have a place at the Worker's Day Parade. They did nothing but look stupid in front of the world. by HatetheSwamp on March 5, 2025 3:00 pm They did look stupid... and heartless... and joyless. by Ponderer on March 6, 2025 8:21 am Using a child who survived cancer as a prop after cutting funds for cancer research that saved his life is nauseating. MAGA Hats are the most disgusting excuses for human beings imaginable. . by Curt_Anderson on March 6, 2025 8:44 am Trump Makes 13-Year-Old Child With Cancer Secret Service Agent If that isn’t DEI I don’t know what is! 😠 by HatetheSwamp on March 6, 2025 8:49 am If it is as you say, his dad could have declined this opportunity. I caught the literal Rachel going bonkers on it. I, among millions of others, was profoundly touched. I hope Ds continue your bizarre behavior. It doesn't play well with moderate and independent common sense voters, almost all of whom voted for Trump in 024... as we well know. Bahahahahahahahahahaha haha haha ha, ahhh! by meagain on March 6, 2025 8:52 am I believe that I posted about an old friend of mine who was a writer in Hollywood during the McCarthy years when I was here a number of years ago. You sound like his supporters did, OD. Wild, ignorant boneheads. Bill used to wonder at the sheer stupidity of the average person and wrote about it. Included it in a TV show he wrote for Screen Gems and that ran for 4 years in Canada with Bill as its presenter. Some call him the original Dr. Phil, although it was nothing like that quack. Bill wrote about the witch hunts and Reagan as Agent T9 - an FBI informant. That mindset is happening again, and your attitude signifies it. He, himself, had to commute from Vancouver to Hollywood or risk arrest. This administration is as Fascist as the driving force led by McCarthy. by oldedude on March 6, 2025 9:31 am I find it pretty funny that the libs won't pick on pedojoe (or any other lib) for doing the exact same thing the conservatives do. Maybe it's just viewing how two-faced they are. I heard yesterday, the kid had gone through, like 13 surgeries, and was declared "cancer free" for the time. Ronald McDonald house does this at least a couple times a month? And yet they couldn't acknowledge that "DEI" moment. I guess the kid should have been transitioning to a woman for them to acknowledge him🙄. I guess no other human being is worth their concern. All the poster children or their families can refuse. That's a given. THEY CHOSE to be there and be acknowledged. The woman whose daughter was beaten, raped, and murdered was really, really, hurt the dims couldn't find it in their souls to at least acknowledge the murder and rape of her daughter. She called them "inhumane." I agree. And yet we see it all the time on this site. So I shouldn't be surprised. I thought the complete indifference or dislike of Lakin Reilly was astounding. Again, ZERO EMPATHY, and the excuses, justifications, and excusing it away to me was astounding. by meagain on March 6, 2025 11:59 am If the Republicans were not preventing America from having a universal single payer Healthcare system,,that 13-year-old would have been treated by the system and not have to rely on the Ronald McDonald House. by HatetheSwamp on March 6, 2025 12:13 pm Uh, meagain. He's living with an obvious decent quality of life six years after he was told he had five MONTHS. by meagain on March 6, 2025 3:14 pm "Uh, meagain. He's living with an obvious decent quality of life six years after he was told he had five MONTHS." How does that change anything? You don't have affordable healthcare, and he would have died if a private charity had not covered the cost. by HatetheSwamp on March 6, 2025 3:30 pm Really? We can easily afford ours. by oldedude on March 6, 2025 3:53 pm And other than the VA, the government doesn't have to approve what my doctors, so my grandkids aren't dying and can't get healthcare, or they're trying to get vets to commit suicide. Which your country is known for... Your media has been running stories about it for a few years now (this broke in 2022). My bet is there will be a lot more when this gets done with RCMP. I guess that's easier than putting your vets on a secret wait list to die. Canadian veterans were offered assisted suicide in five instances, committee hears OTTAWA — As many as five Canadian Armed Forces veterans were offered medically assisted death by a now-suspended Veterans Affairs Canada caseworker, the minister responsible for the department has testified. That number, MacAulay confirmed, does not include the case first reported by the National Post on Thursday, where an active-service CAF member calling himself “Bruce” told Tango Romeo podcast host Mark Meincke he was offered MAID out of the blue by a caseworker last November. MacAulay said his office had just learned of the case via media reports, and urged the veteran — who is afraid of repercussions of coming forward — to contact him personally. The first case made public over the summer occurred on July 21, where the caseworker repeatedly suggested MAID to an unnamed veteran who had called seeking help with PTSD and other injuries — telling him that Veterans Affairs had helped other veterans end their lives, and that it was a better alternative to “blowing your brains out.” nationalpost.com by meagain on March 6, 2025 7:14 pm "We can easily afford ours. The number of Americans that go bankrupt each year of the "affordable healthcare is around 500,000. The number of Canadians is None. The numbers in every country that has universal single-payer Healthcare is also None. by oldedude on March 6, 2025 7:40 pm Well, you're killing your veterans to save money, so that's one thing. by meagain on March 7, 2025 7:52 am "There were 47,891 suicides in 2022 among all U.S. adults in 2022, on average 131.2 per day. These included on average 17.6 Veteran suicides per day, of which 7.0 per day were among Veterans who received VHA care in 2021 or 2022 and 10.5 were among other Veterans." That is a much higher rate than in Canada, where the rate among veterans is a little less than double the rate in the general population. There is a fuss about in Canada because we care. It appears that Americans don't since so many receive no help. by oldedude on March 7, 2025 8:07 am You are deflecting. These are people that don't want to commit suicide, and the government is asking them to. Whole different issue. So it's either making their cases easier for the "government welfare medical care" to handle their cases, or it's just a money issue. Either way. The system doesn't have the will or the knowledge to handle them. So they're just sending them to the "showers." ARBEIT MACHT FREI as they say. by meagain on March 7, 2025 8:28 am You are unbelievable, OD. You wrote of the shameful veteran suicide rate in Canada. I show you that the American rate is much higher, and you try to bluster your way out of it with a foolish reply. You say that is deflecting! Neither the Canadians nor the Americans "want" to commit suicide. There is no difference there. The difference is that Canadian veterans get much better support. Not enough, but far better than the American system. Go To Top

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