Author: Blazingcatfur

Wall Street Journal editorial calls Trump tariffs ‘dumbest trade war in history’

US business leaders are offering a mixed reaction to steep trade tariffs that Donald Trump’s administration has imposed on Canada, Mexico and China, as the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal called it “the dumbest trade war in history”.

Donald Trump hit Canada and Mexico with a 25% tariff on imports, and China with 10%, on Saturday in a move that launched a new era of trade wars between the US and three of its largest trading partners. The tariffs against Canada exclude oil and energy products.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

And very few cuss words was spoken

Whenever I had to assemble furniture Kath would always warn anyone within earshot that “There will be cursing”.

And there usually was. Tonight only a few crossed my lips as I worked on an Ikea cabinet kit. The Great Sort dictated the addition of sensible storage.

Xavier was a danger to us both being simultaneously curious and fearful of the “new stuff” while getting underfoot in hazardous fashion.

Funny thing. My knee has been acting up for the past week or so and I thought I might be pushing it to assemble the cabinet tonight. Oddly all pain disappeared once immersed and only a minor ache persists.

Thank you all for listening to my gibbering and yes assembling Ikea cabinets late on a Sunday evening is a bit odd I suppose.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Trump Moves the Overton Window on Gaza

A new strategy: more land for more peace.

President Donald Trump hasn’t just shifted the Overton Window, the zone of what’s understood to be possible in politics; he’s blown it wide open. It’s now the Overton Vista. As the close Trump ally Marc Andreessen declared on January 25, “The last week has totally reset my conception of what’s possible.” Coming from a tech bro steeped in Schumpeterian disruption, that’s saying something.

Bank on it: If the conventional wisdom thinks one thing, Trump thinks something else. Case in point: Gaza. In the wake of 15 months of carnage, the familiar assumption is that there will be some sort of “peace process,” as diplomats shuttle back and forth, securing a minimally worded agreement, to which the combatants are minimally adhered. Then comes the insertion of United Nations peacekeepers, and an international consortium of foreign-aiders, contractors, and perhaps even nation-builders. 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", President Trump

CEO of Canada’s 2nd biggest company defends Trump’s tariff demands, slams Trudeau for not stopping trade war

The CEO of Canada’s second-largest publicly traded company says Canadians want their government to do all the things that President Trump is demanding — and slammed outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for not preventing the trade war.

Trump, 78, on Saturday, signed an executive order to slap 25% across-the-board tariffs on America’s northern neighbor, citing its failure to meet his demands on helping crack the fentanyl and illegal immigration trade.

Everyone should blame Trudeau. He is the author of this mess.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Donald Trump has ruptured the Canada-U.S. relationship. To what end? And what comes next?

Addressing both Canadians and Americans on Saturday night, at one of the most fraught moments in the history of relations between Canada and the United States, Justin Trudeau reminded listeners of John F. Kennedy’s words when the late American president addressed Parliament in May 1961.

“Geography has made us neighbours. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity has made us allies,” the prime minister said, quoting Kennedy.

Trudeau did not repeat the next sentence in Kennedy’s remarks: “Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder.”

Justin Trudeau is not a Canadian patriot.

He is a stupid man driven by delusions of grandeur who has destroyed the fabric of our nation by his ruinous policies.

Mass Immigration, economic destruction, the degradation of Canada’s heritage, petty tyranny and so much more have very nearly turned us into as Trump has aptly stated “not a viable nation”.

People will lose their jobs on both sides of the border but Trump will not even take Trudeau’s calls and I don’t blame him.

We need an election yesterday.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

About mass deportations

Trump dropped a bombshell.

Was anyone in Israel paying attention?

I noticed some coverage, but then the story dissolved out of sight (excepting Arutz Sheva). For good reason, such as…ain’t never gonna happen.

Not while Israel is moving in the opposite direction…and not while some Israelis stick to fantasies.

So it was only about a week ago when Trump offered Gazans a plan, which is to forget Gaza, vacate the place, for greener pastures. Ditto Palestinian Arabs in general.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", President Trump

JD Vance Knows That Catholic Charities Has Lost Its Soul

The truth is that the border crisis itself has threatened the very fabric of our society. The Catholic Charities and US Bishops should acknowledge this.

Faithful Catholics have been saddened by the allegations — most recently suggested by Vice President JD Vance — that their Church has been complicit in creating the humanitarian crisis at the border. Vance pointed out that the Catholic Church has received over $100 million to help resettle illegal immigrants. Much of that money has been spent on providing transportation and housing for newly arrived illegal immigrants and helping to resettle them from the border to the interior of the country.

This collaboration with the Democratic Party continues today as the federal government pays for most of the activities of Catholic Charities.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Catholic Church, USA

Conrad Black: Let’s De-Escalate Trump’s Tariffs Insofar as Canada Is Concerned

Associating America’s northern neighbor with the conduct of China and Mexico is an outrage.

President Trump has not, as the Wall Street Journal claimed on Saturday, unleashed “the Dumbest Trade War in History;” at least not in respect of Mexico and Communist China. It may, though, be in contention for that honor in respect of Canada. In holding Mexico and China, as the president claims, “accountable to their promises of ending illegal immigration and stopping the flow of deadly fentanyl and other drugs into our country,” the steps he is taking are justifiable.

They have abused Mexico’s status in the tripartite North American Free Trade Agreement, and have effectively facilitated an invasion of destitute people across the southern border of the United States while also being complicit in the illegal entry into America of a large number of dangerous criminals and a horrifying quantity of lethal narcotics. The offenses that Mexico and China have inflicted on the United States are substantially economic and this justifies strong economic counter-measures against Mexico and China.

But …

And now the latest from Andrew Coyne …

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Trump Must Designate the Muslim Brotherhood a Foreign Terrorist Organization, Scale Down US Ties to Qatar

If US President Donald Trump is really serious about making a positive impact on the Middle East, a good place for him to start would be to designate the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood movement as a terrorist organisation and scale down Washington’s ties with the Gulf state of Qatar.

Since he won re-election, there has been much speculation that Trump, architect of the ground-breaking Abraham Accords, intends to use his second term in office to negotiate a wide-ranging peace deal aimed at bringing lasting stability to the Middle East.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMuslim Brotherhood, USA

WTF?

H/T XC

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?