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The Star’s Fainting Couch Is Occupied

Elon Musk has Donald Trump’s ear and a new-found interest in Canada. How much should we worry?

OTTAWA — Donald Trump’s return to the White House on Monday has already proven to be a thorn in the side of Canadian officials, but his second presidency brings additional baggage for Canada: Elon Musk.

The close adviser to Trump, owner of the social media platform X and richest man on Earth has a new-found interest in Canada, a ratio of five X followers for every Canadian and the stamina to post dozens of times a day. And he’s not afraid to dish out his political opinions online.

All of these TDS Patriots were silent as Trudeau flooded Canada with incompatible cultures causing irreparable harm to society.

by Blazingcatfur•January 18, 2025January 18, 2025•0•"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Trump Derangement Syndrome, USA

Trump illegal migrant raids to start on day one, US media report

Raids to detain and deport migrants living in the US without permission are set to begin on the first full day of the new Trump administration, US media report.

The operations – threatened by Donald Trump’s “border tsar” Tom Homan – could begin in Chicago, a city with a large migrant population, as early as Tuesday, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal say.

Trump has said he will oversee the largest deportation programme in US history.

In an interview with Fox News this week, Homan promised a “big raid” across the country. He has previously said Chicago will be “ground zero” for the mass deportations.

Tom Homan torched a deranged AOC, who tried to appear smart by defining deportation policy right to his face.pic.twitter.com/FruZzXupcs

— The Raging Patriot (@theraginpatriot) January 17, 2025

by Blazingcatfur•January 18, 2025January 18, 2025•0•Camp Of The Saints, USA

Team Canada mates no more: How tariff threat put Ford and Smith on divergent tracks

As Albertans will testify after experiencing the Tory dynasty and the last couple of UCP premiers, conservatives are not all built the same.

Jason Kenney took Alberta in directions past Progressive Conservative leaders never dared to, while Danielle Smith rose to leadership by repudiating Kenney’s COVID management — and he did his share of rebuking her Sovereignty Act idea.

by Blazingcatfur•January 18, 2025January 17, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Class in a classless society

RFK, Jr. has an enlightening story about needing to get to Palm Beach in a hurry but not being able to find a flight. His mother, Ethel Kennedy, suggested he ask Donald Trump if he could bum a ride on his plane, but RFK protested that, since he was suing Trump at the time, that would be an unlikely solution. But Trump said yes, they flew to Florida together, and RFK had a pleasant, enjoyable trip on Trump’s plane.

After complimenting Trump on his gracious hospitality despite his being sued by Kennedy, Trump replied that if he shunned everyone who was suing him, he’d have no one to talk to.

by Blazingcatfur•January 18, 2025January 17, 2025•0•USA

The Imam on Trump’s Inauguration Program

“The time may be soon to go back home,” Imam Husham Al-Husainy told CBS News. The year was 2003 and Al-Husainy, along with the other Iraqi Shiite ‘refugees’ filling Dearborn’s Muslim community, had gotten their fondest wish when the United States removed Saddam Hussein.

Imam Husham Al-Husainy never did “go back home” to his native Iraq. Instead, alongside urging his congregants to vote in Iraq’s elections, spent the next 20 years interfering in ours, exploiting faked hate crimes to call for Sharia law, and moving back and forth between parties.

by Blazingcatfur•January 18, 2025January 17, 2025•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Trump Ready to Bypass Congress on Border and Tariffs

WASHINGTON—Days before his inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump made clear in a two-hour private meeting with Senate Republicans that he wouldn’t wait on them to start implementing his biggest policy priorities: overhauling the immigration system and dramatically reshaping the country’s relationship with its economic allies and adversaries.

With the experience of governing and a better knowledge of the levers of power, Trump has drafted expansive plans for tariffs and border restrictions, the centerpieces of his 2024 campaign. He has already prepared roughly 100 executive orders, Trump told lawmakers in the meeting, and said he would press the limits of his presidential authority at times to go it alone on those issues, according to people who attended.

Trump’s emphasis on immigration and trade reforms—the North Stars of his “America First” worldview—catapulted him to the presidency in 2016 and drove his historic return to the White House in the latest election. It sustained his fervent base of supporters over the past four years after he was defeated by President Biden in 2020 and admonished by many in his party over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

by Blazingcatfur•January 18, 2025January 17, 2025•0•Canada, USA

What I learnt on the front line of America’s civil war games

I’m trapped in the damp, dark stairwell of a nuclear power plant with the forces of the old US government when I begin to suspect that I’ve chosen the wrong side in America’s civil war.

A few hours earlier, I joined US Special Operations forces from the East Coast as they launched an assault to reclaim the building from renegade plant workers who had formed a militia to divert energy to their local community.

Now the two sides have teamed up against a shadowy group of foreign mercenaries, but it’s an uneasy coalition, and soon the guns are drawn on us.

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2025January 17, 2025•0•USA

Poll shows 43% of young Canadians would take American citizenship

A recent poll shows a staggering 43% of Canadians aged 18 to 34 would vote to be American if they were guaranteed citizenship and had their assets converted to US dollars.

Across all age groups, 30% of Canadians would consider voting to join the US with the same caveats.

I have to ask – Which Canadians? Trudeau’s migrants? Whoever I can’t blame them.

h/t Mauser

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2025January 17, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Canada preparing retaliatory tariffs to unveil as soon as Trump’s inauguration day

The Trudeau government is planning a first round of counter-tariffs that could be unveiled as soon as incoming U.S. president Donald Trump is sworn in on Monday, Radio-Canada has confirmed.

The counter-tariffs would apply to $37 billion in goods that would be less harmful to the Canadian economy.

Trump has threatened to levy a 25 per cent across-the-board tariff on Canadian goods. Experts and lawmakers have warned such a move would be devastating for the Canadian economy.

The Canadian government is also preparing additional retaliatory tariffs that would cover up to $110 billion, depending on the Trump administration’s actions. Those could potentially be more damaging to the Canadian economy.

Joly threatens a trade war on CNN. At this point one has to assume our Government is sabotaging us on purpose. pic.twitter.com/v4WKuJoeQt

— Ryan Gerritsen (@ryangerritsen) January 17, 2025

Food for thought … Good thread

Premier Danielle Smith just met with Donald Trump.

And I can't remember a time when a Canadian Premier met with a U.S. President.

Something's happening behind the scenes that we aren't seeing.

Here's what's really going on… pic.twitter.com/sYeJUeKCcw

— Shaun Newman Podcast (@SNewmanPodcast) January 16, 2025

h/t Mauser and XC

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2025January 17, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Alberta should contemplate joining the US

In a wide-ranging column covering Danielle Smith’s visit to president-elect Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, Alberta oil exports, Trump’s tariff threats, and more, Calgary-based writer Gillian Steward, a contributor to the Toronto Star, an official propaganda rag of the Liberal Party of Canada, suggested Alberta should contemplate becoming the 51st state of the USA.

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2025January 16, 2025•0•Alberta, USA

Chris Selley: Why did it take Trump to get us to take border security seriously?

Because Donald Trump is brandishing his 7-wood at us about fentanyl and illegal migration, Canada is leasing two Black Hawk helicopters for the RCMP and putting them on border patrol, and also bolstering the fleet of border-patrolling drones. That’s an accurate assessment of what we’re doing and why we’re doing it, and that’s more or less how media reported it: “Canada sending Black Hawks, drones to border as the clock to pacify Trump ticks down,” was one apropos headline.

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2025January 16, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Trump can’t end Mexico’s cartel war

Drug networks are too complex

Most residents in the town of Jerécuaro in Central Mexico were asleep when the car bomb exploded in the plaza at 5.10 am on 24 October, blowing out the windows of stores and scattering debris. But when a second car bomb went off over an hour later in the city of Acámbaro, 30 kilometres away, many residents were heading to work and school. The explosive device blew up outside a police station and injured three officers. Mexico’s recently sworn-in security minister, Omar García Harfuch, blamed the car bombs on the drug cartels fighting a turf war.

Car bombs are one of the many terrifying weapons in the arsenal of Mexico’s cartels as they battle over territory, not only to traffic and sell drugs, but to steal oil from pipelines, smuggle migrants over the US border, and extort businesses, among other crimes. They also wield weaponised drones that drop makeshift bombs unleashing shrapnel and nails. They lay landmines that kill soldiers in their Humvees as well as farmers. And they build fighting vehicles known as “monsters” that look like they are out of Mad Max, with walls of bullet-proof steel and battering rams.

by Blazingcatfur•January 17, 2025January 16, 2025•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State, President Trump, USA

Poilievre pledges to roll back capital gains tax hike, retaliate against Trump tariffs

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will soon lay out his own strategy to confront U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to Canada as part of a broader economic agenda that, if he becomes prime minister, will include a promise to roll back the capital-gains tax increase.

Mr. Poilievre told The Globe and Mail in an interview that he believes Canada must respond with tariffs of its own to counter Mr. Trump’s promise that he’ll levy 25-per-cent tariffs on Canadian goods.

by Blazingcatfur•January 16, 2025January 16, 2025•0•Canada, USA

Trump’s tariffs are the price Canada must pay for freeriding on defence

Canadian political leaders have reacted to Donald Trump’s tariff threat with a stubborn lack of understanding about why the U.S. president-elect keeps targeting his country’s friendly neighbour.

They still seem genuinely perplexed by Mr. Trump’s seemingly anachronistic concept of international trade, which they see as rooted in 19th-century mercantilism.

This helps explain why most of them are still expounding on the win-win virtues of Canada-U.S. free trade, despite Mr. Trump’s endless protestations to the contrary. They still seem to think that he is simply misinformed or has a shaky grasp of economics.

by Blazingcatfur•January 16, 2025January 16, 2025•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada, NATO, USA