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Joe Rogan mocks Canada for re-electing Liberals, claims Pierre Poilievre turned down podcast offer

Joe Rogan is stupefied by the Liberals’ return to power last month after the party had fallen to historic lows under former prime minister Justin Trudeau.

Hunting podcaster Cameron Hanes brought up the government’s handling of the trucker protest in the nation’s capital back in 2022. The “Freedom Convoy” descended on the city on Jan. 22 to protest against COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Big rigs blocked off major streets and drew thousands of supporters, both in real life and virtually.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

Canada Did Not Make America Great

Smart people who dislike President Trump are capable of saying the stupidest things. Take, for example, Hal Brands, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, whose latest column in Bloomberg is titled “Canada Made America Great.” Even if Brands didn’t pick the title, his article expresses concern that President Trump’s hostility to our northern neighbor will in “military, geostrategic and moral terms … bring a heavy price” to U.S. national security policy. “Trump,” he writes, “is tempting America’s neighbor to seek security by aligning with outside powers,” namely the U.K. and Europe. Brands knows, of course, that Canada is already aligned with the U.K. and much of Europe in NATO. But he implies that a hostile Canada would be a threat to U.S. security.

Really?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Canada’s War on… Canada

Canada is walking down a dangerous path. In a recent episode of “The Winston Marshall Show,” Steve Bannon has warned that “Canada could become ‘the next Ukraine’ if Russia or China presses territorial claims in the Arctic. “There’s no money there to defend anybody,” Bannon said, arguing that the United Kingdom, Canada’s historic security partner, “can’t defend itself.” Bannon suggested that Ottawa has only “two, maybe three years to act before external pressures harden.”

h/t PA Cat

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

U.S. Orders Intelligence Agencies to Step Up Spying on Greenland

Greenland Mask Dance – What are they hiding?

The U.S. is stepping up its intelligence-gathering efforts regarding Greenland, drawing America’s spying apparatus into President Trump’s campaign to take over the island, according to two people familiar with the effort.

Several high-ranking officials under Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard issued a “collection emphasis message” to intelligence-agency heads last week. They were directed to learn more about Greenland’s independence movement and attitudes on American resource extraction on the island.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreenland, USA

Canada’s allies are wondering if they can still shelter under the U.S. nuclear umbrella

Gone, it seems, are the days when the phrase “going nuclear” was meant figuratively.

Since the beginning of the year and the inauguration of the second Trump administration, an increasing number of Washington’s closest allies have begun to throw quiet — and sometimes not so quiet — fits about whether they can still count on the decades-old nuclear deterrent capability of the United States.

Few places feel that uncertainty more keenly than South Korea.

It’s bad to have nuclear weapons. The US has nuclear weapons so the US is bad.

It’s OK if the US promises to defend us with them but we’re just too pure to ever acquire them in Canada’s defense.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

It’s a wonder our reliance on the US lasted so long

After 80 years we can no longer expect America to protect us, and paying for our defence will require brutal honesty

VE Day feels like a good moment to quit wasting breath on abuse of Donald Trump. Let me explain my meaning: of course he and JD Vance are brutes whose tenancy of the White House is a global tragedy. But the rest of us must get down to thinking constructively about what we do next. Which does not include taking a shameful Open to Turnberry.

War commemorations are traditionally occasions at which we reprise twaddle about the special relationship, such as Churchill expounded publicly but never privately. Behind closed doors, he raged at the ruthlessness of American treatment of Britain, especially about money.

TDS and a touch entitled.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Trump trans military ban given green light by Supreme Court

Donald Trump can enforce a ban on transgender people serving in the military, the Supreme Court has ruled.

The high court on Tuesday approved an emergency petition from the administration to stop an injunction that blocked the ban from taking effect while a challenge to the order plays out in the courts.

It means the US can begin implementing the executive order signed by the president in January, which discharges service members who identify as transgender.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny, USA

Michael Higgins: Carney and Trump — friends without benefits

All of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s big talk about standing up to Donald Trump was exposed Tuesday as a bombastic sham.

At a meeting in the White House with the president, Carney smiled happily when Trump talked about winning the election for him. When the topic of Canada becoming the 51st state was raised, Carney declared that would never happen (would any prime minister of Canada have said any less?)

But when the president talked about shutting down the Canadian car industry and refusing to buy our steel and aluminum, the prime minister was silent. No push back. No standing up for Canadian interests.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Mark Carney rebuffs Trump’s marriage proposal

The White House press conference between President Trump and newly-elected Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney shows that every generation gets the summit it deserves. World War Two had Yalta, the 1970s the Camp David Accords. Barack Obama had a beer with the cop who arrested Henry Louis Gates, Jr. And Trump bragged about the new 24-karat White House gold décor and said, about Canada, “I think we have a lot of things in common.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

What’s behind Mark Carney’s aggressive rhetoric toward Donald Trump?

There are many reasons why Mark Carney became the prime minister of Canada — and one of the biggest is Mark Carney himself.

While perhaps initially more a consequence of luck than talent, Donald Trump’s threats towards Canada changed the terms of the election.

Canadians were looking for a leader who could chart the waters of international turmoil and uncertainty. Carney’s skills at managing global crisis, his proven track record of running large organizations and a calm and calculating demeanour could not have been a better fit for the time and circumstances.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Carney, Trump trade barbs, talk tariffs in first face‑to‑face at the White House

Prime Minister Mark Carney and President Donald Trump opened their first in‑person meeting Tuesday with a brisk handshake outside the Oval Office, then shifted to a lively joint press conference that set the tone for a new chapter in Canada-US relations.

Moments earlier, Trump had used Truth Social to accuse Ottawa of taking “$200 billion” a year in US subsidies and enjoying “FREE Military Protection,” adding that America needs “NONE” of Canada’s cars, energy, or lumber.

Read this entire thread

H/T XC

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Canadian film industry calls for domestic support after Trump threatens 100% tariff on movies

I can’t wait for this thrilling “you are there” account of post-op triumph!

The Canadian film industry is calling for domestic support after President Donald Trump said he wants to impose 100-per-cent tariffs on all films produced outside of the United States.

The announcement included no details about how or when levies would be implemented, but Canadian groups warn that any tariffs could bring economic devastation to a sector deeply tied to Hollywood.

“The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday. “Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States.”

I can’t wait – Axel of Green Gables – a transgender love story. Only shit like this gets funding in Canada’s toxic “arts” environment.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, WTF?