President-Elect Donald Trump had made peace in Europe a key campaign pledge, but several NATO member states are dedicated to total Ukrainian victory and will discuss how to “thwart” him and keep Kyiv in the war even if Washington withdraws support.
My Spidey sense says FAFO imminent.
OTTAWA — When Donald Trump returns to the White House, Canada will stare down the possibility of a 20 percent tariff, an influx of asylum seekers and no end of hassle over its lackluster defense spending.
Justin Trudeau’s response in the days since Trump’s emphatic victory: Everything is fine.
Canada’s prime minister has unleashed a tiger team of texters — top ministers and senior Trudeau aides who appear tighter with their U.S. counterparts than Trudeau is with Trump.
On Tuesday, the night of the U.S. election, David Axelrod, Barack Obama’s chief political strategist through two campaigns, told CNN that the Democrats lost so badly because they had lost touch with ordinary people.
“We approach working-class voters as though we were missionaries. And our message to them is ‘We want to help you become just like us.’”
This week my thoughts travelled back a few decades to a long drink of a man I knew well. Sam was rail thin with a shoe-leather face and big, working hands. The smile lines on his face were deep and gave a hint of a big heart and generous soul.
Sam was from Arkansas. He was a working man his whole life. Of course, he was a Democrat.
For the past year, Justin Trudeau has been foolishly attacking Donald Trump in an attempt to link Trump to Trudeau’s main rival Pierre Poilievre. It’s been a ridiculous campaign that has seen the Liberals invoke MAGA — Make America Great Again — more than 100 times in the last year during their attacks on Poilievre.
OTTAWA — If Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is counting on his Conservative opponent to offer support as the Liberals navigate a second Donald Trump presidency, he shouldn’t.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has spent the days since the president-elect’s win taking aim at how Trudeau handled his last administration. He lambasted policies like the carbon tax as making Canada less competitive, and said Trudeau was too weak to stop the U.S. from reimposing tariffs on softwood lumber, amid anxieties about Trump’s threat to slap a 10 per cent one on global imports.
So many Canadian columnists and journalists and those nonsensical political science academics are blowing a gasket at Donald Trump’s victory that one would think we are about to be overtaken by the Huns and Visigoths, and our comfortable life destroyed.
OTTAWA—Don’t let anyone tell you the re-election of Donald Trump is not a jolt to Canada’s political landscape. Or that we’ve been there, done that.
The fallout is about to overwhelm the Canadian government’s agenda for the next four years.
More random TDS ….Thing is TDS is really the same response by the Liberal-Left to any politician they declare to be right of Pol Pot maybe just a bit more whiny.
So many people suffering from TDSpic.twitter.com/N2g8Zh3UO9
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) November 9, 2024
A senior adviser to president-elect Donald Trump says the incoming administration will focus on achieving peace in the war in Ukraine rather than winning back territory.
Bryan Lanza, a Republican party strategist, told the BBC the Trump administration would ask Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for his version of a “realistic vision for peace”.
“And if President Zelensky comes to the table and says, well we can only have peace if we have Crimea, he shows to us that he’s not serious,” he said.
Trump’s victory didn’t just ruin the celebration plans of Kamala and Doug, but that of the countless illegal aliens headed for the border to celebrate four more years of open borders.
Some illegal aliens are calling off the invasion.
The great novelist Saul Bellow once wrote: “I have developed a certain sympathy with Canada. It’s no easy thing to share a border with the USA. Canada’s chief entertainment — it has no choice — is to watch (from a gorgeous setting) what happens in our country. The disaster is that there is no other show.”
Unfortunately, despite countless hours of American media consumption, many Canadians understand their neighbor surprisingly poorly. The latest program to capture attention here, as elsewhere, was of course the U.S. general election, which Donald Trump won for a second time, much to the consternation of the pundit class in particular.
Random TDS …
She’s triggered by random men smiling now pic.twitter.com/GpHj9cx2mi
— shellshock (@shellshockkk) November 8, 2024
Like a lot of Canadians, I thought I knew quite a bit about the United States.
After all, I lived there for five years. I reported from almost half the states and travelled in most of the others. I was married to an American for 45 years and spent time with her family in Hawaii, California and Colorado. My son is a dual citizen. I even speak their language, more or less.
Obviously, I don’t know as much as I thought I did. I thought Kamala Harris had a good shot at winning on Tuesday. Donald Trump’s take-that victory came as a surprise — not so much that he won, but that the voters’ verdict was so decisive. I’m struggling to figure out why.
Just before Tuesday’s presidential election, the Biden-Harris administration quietly waived mandatory terrorism sanctions on the embattled Palestinian government—even as it determined that the government’s leaders are paying imprisoned terrorists and fomenting violence in breach of U.S. law.
The State Department, in a non-public notice to Congress, determined that the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) are not complying with agreements to curb terrorism against Israel and end the “pay-to-slay” program, which rewards imprisoned terrorists for committing acts of violence.
Did we mess up? pic.twitter.com/U9VqUJ3KHT
— shellshock (@shellshockkk) November 7, 2024
h/t patthedog
Americans woke up Wednesday to the sound of chardonnay being poured over Cheerios as the busybody class cried into its breakfast. It was a natural reaction for the many people not just surprised, but disappointed by Donald Trump’s return to the White House — and the ranks of Republicans riding to victory alongside him. Continuing a theme from the campaign, some on the losing side immediately accused voters of fascism, sexism, racism, and a variety of other very bad isms as the explanation for how they marked their ballots. And therein lies a clue to why this year’s election ended as it did.
Good comments in the X Thread below …
Scrolling through posts, and I can see why Harris lost. The contempt that the left has for anyone who doesn’t toe their line is astounding, and that contempt cost them the election. They laughed off the country’s concerns and went full steam ahead with an agenda that was…
— Diana Alastair ✡️⚢ ❌❌ (@sappholives83) November 7, 2024
Yikes!
They’re resorting to biting and barking now over Trump’s win pic.twitter.com/b86FNkhz0D
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 7, 2024
h/t testsubjectx1
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s sweeping election victory has thrown Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s green energy and climate change policies into chaos, because of the Liberal government’s failure to understand the importance of harmonizing Canada’s energy policies with those of the U.S.
No problem we’re in good hands with Joly on the job.
I can’t for the life of me understand how this woman is in anyway qualified to be the Minister of Foreign Affairs. And why is she smirking through this question? Call an election! pic.twitter.com/iNbIGM9znM
— Ryan Gerritsen (@ryangerritsen) November 7, 2024
