J.C.MacSwell

Good luck with your golf tournament Donald. Everyone is cheering for you to win yet again. Huge crowds coming out in many cities chanting support. I'm assuming that's what it's about because I know you're playing and while it's hard to tell exactly what's said with crowds so huge I keep hearing your name.

There's the minimum 10% though, applied even when trade is in surplus territory. No explanation why Russia and North Korea managed to avoid it.

Cleanly in one ear and out the other, avoiding even a flesh wound. All RFK Jr. could do is watch in awe and pick his nose. One can debate the relative risks to the brain cells of either. One could also imagine Elon Musk giving himself a much needed chainsaw lobotomy in the background just off camera...but that would perhaps be getting carried away

The plan is to rename it Mar-a-Lego...

...never ever realize I've been fooled...Trump fan

Pros: He can keep a straight face while being an exceptionally good friend... “I think the president is a good man,” Musk said. “I think he is an honest man, and I have yet to see him do anything mean or anything that is wrong, that I would say morally wrong. Not even once.” https://www.yahoo.com/news/lying-gaslighting-elon-musk-torched-034126750.html

@INow Literally LOL. That almost put my coffee through my nose!

Some of the details they exposed to potential enemies seemed relatively accurate considering what we've come to expect from that group. Anyone who doesn't find that at least somewhat heartening isn't really being fair...poisoned by the media no doubt.

Nothing to see here folks. Maybe the Kremlin was following the chat but it's unlikely any Ukrainians, Canadians, Greenlanders or even Europeans were following it in real time.

Oligarchs gotta oligarch. Does the Trump regime not come up with anything outside the Putin playbook?

AHOTUS works for me

Win-lose transactional positions are not very effective. Short term thinking at best, and even then especially unlikely when "broadcast" to customers.

I'm dying to get some respect here!

Trump Claims he'd "rather work with a Liberal than a Conservative" and Poilieivre "is no friend of mine". https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/trump-says-he-would-rather-deal-with-a-liberal-than-a-conservative-calls-poilievre-no-friend-of-mine/ The guy loves the Putin playbook (Putin claimed he'd rather Biden as POTUS than Trump)...but unlike his MAGA supporters Canadians know that what comes out of his mouth is more likely to be false than truthful.

There seems to be a notable rise in "accusation in a mirror" speech, accusing others of what one is doing or planning, by the current administration. Something Putin has been adept at for years...so it must be a good idea... Much of their "defence" of free speech is along these lines. It seems more systematic than ad hoc, though with Trump himself it can be hard to tell, not so much whether he's lying but whether he planned it or just came up with it and blurted it out.