The President is once again pushing a button to raise our prices and screw over Pennsylvania farmers and businesses.
Canada is our Commonwealth's largest trading partner — and these knee-jerk, reckless tariffs are hurting our economy, jacking up costs for Pennsylvania families, and closing off markets for our businesses.
Eby: "I feel sorry for Americans. If you can't be friends with Canada, then you almost certainly do not have a friend anywhere in the world. And that is a very lonely place to be."
Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’
It’s our duty to know.
In a nutshell why US friends would be wise not to trust America again for a long time. Canada has been a solid friend and neighbor to the USA. It has fought beside the USA. And now the USA is creating legal shams to punish Canada for no purpose than to weaken both countries.
Adorable. The Department of War explaining that access to American weapons is "a privilege, not a right" is rather like a landlord lecturing tenants about loyalty while the roof is on fire and the rent has tripled.
Let's review the privilege. Iran, a sanctioned economy running on drones and spite, just spent weeks exposing the flagship American arsenal as exquisite, eye-wateringly expensive, and built for a war that ended thirty years ago. Meanwhile the F-35, your crown jewel, requires a maintenance entourage of roughly a hundred people per aircraft, a spare parts pipeline with a mood disorder, and a software licence that can be switched off from Washington whenever the president wakes up cross. Ukraine keeps ageing jets flying from motorway strips with a fraction of that. Turns out the privilege was the overhead all along.
And the reliability argument. You cannot threaten to abandon NATO on Monday, tariff your allies on Tuesday, and then present a "strong demand signal" on Wednesday as if nobody kept notes. Europe is not buying less American kit because we're sulking. We're buying less because a weapons system with a political kill switch attached to a four-year mood swing is a subscription service.
You say no one can replicate the American defence industrial base. Quite right. Nobody wants to. Why would anyone copy a factory optimised for the last war? Ukraine has shown Europe what the future actually looks like: cheap, fast, and built next door. Short supply lines, fail fast, and weapons that adapt in weeks rather than decades. While you spend twenty years and two trillion dollars perfecting one aircraft, a workshop outside Kyiv redesigns a drone on Tuesday because the jamming changed on Monday.
The “middle powers strategy” isn’t a distraction, and it isn’t a strategy either. It’s just what happens when the shopkeeper starts insulting the customers, doubling the prices, and musing openly about annexing one of them. Yes, we noticed the Greenland thing. Allies tend to remember when you threaten to take their territory. It’s an odd sales technique, coveting the customer’s house while lecturing him about loyalty.
So do carry on explaining that our engagement with you is a privilege. We’ll be over here, building the cheap fast stuff that actually wins wars, and checking the till twice.
This clip, from Larry David's new show "Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness" is one of his FUNNIEST ever.
Awesome to have Rob Reiner as George Washington in possibly one of his final on-screen performances.
Cameo by Kimmel is chef's kiss.
RIP, Rob Reiner.
Madame Celeste Amarilla,
Vous êtes une femme méprisable et indigne de sa fonction.
Vous ne représentez pas le Paraguay, ce pays qui a transpiré la passion et l’honneur tout au long de la compétition. Par votre inconscience et votre racisme décomplexé, le monde entier a déjà oublié le parcours et l’effort historique que vos joueurs ont réalisés durant cette coupe du monde pour laisser place à une dame incompétente donnant la pire image possible de son pays.
Je ne laisserai jamais aux gens comme elle, la liberté de laisser propager leur haine et leur racisme à travers le monde.
A lot of jokes from King Charles tonight.
“You recently commented, Mr. President, that if it were not for the United States, European countries would be speaking German. Dare I say that if it wasn't for us, you'd be speaking French”
PM Carney on the Americans calling the alcohol ban an irritant: "You know what's an irritant? 50% tariffs on steel. 50% tariffs on aluminum. 25% tariffs on automobiles. All the tariffs on forest products. Those are more than irritants, those are violations of our trade deal."
The insult didn't start in a Canadian liquor store. It started at a podium in Washington.
It is insulting to call one of the oldest allies, a country that sent soldiers to Normandy, Korea, Afghanistan, a state of the Union that should be absorbed.
It is insulting to threaten economic warfare against a neighbour whose economic integration with America runs so deep.
It is insulting to interfere in the internal politics of a sovereign ally - funding preferred candidates, amplifying separatist movements, treating a democratic election as an opportunity for destabilisation.
It is insulting to stop traffic at the Friendship Bridge, a structure Canada literally built and named after the relationship being dismantled by the people now calling it insulting.
It is insulting to charge entry fees to citizens of a country that shares the world's longest undefended border, a border that has been a symbol of peaceful coexistence for two centuries.
It is insulting to revoke Canada's invitation to the Board of Peace for the crime of defending its own sovereignty at Davos.
Canada didn't remove American spirits from shelves unprovoked. It removed them after the US spent eighteen months removing every assumption of mutual respect that made the relationship worth maintaining.
#Canada #Trump
LUTNICK: It is outrageous that Canada will not put US spirits on the shelf. It is insulting and disrespectful to America
SHAHEEN: They won't do it because of the insults from this president and comments like yours
George Washington believed that vaccinating his troops against smallpox was the key to winning the Revolutionary War and our independence. A founding father from 250 years ago had a better understanding of science and military readiness than Pete Hegseth.
EXCLUSIVE @TheAtlantic On multiple occasions Patel’s security detail had difficulty waking him because he was seemingly intoxicated, according to info supplied to DOJ and White House officials. A request for “breaching equipment”was made because Patel had been unreachable behind locked doors. https://t.co/Ater7LRQ2H
July 21 1935: The Führer orders a new reception hall and ballroom to "entertain foreign diplomats" at the Chancellery. Underneath the dance floor is an air raid shelter. A 2nd deeper bunker is built next to this in 1944, where he would spend his last days as the Reich collapsed.
Cardinal Joseph Tobin criticizes the Trump administration's mass deportation campaign.
“When they have to hide their identities to terrify people, when they can actually violate other guarantees of our Constitution and Bill of Rights, well, I think somebody's got to call that out,” he says. https://t.co/lG75zCLoI0