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Just to show you how great of a businessman Trump is, he decided to put tariffs on a country we had free trade with. What's better than free? He decided that Americans should pay more for the products we get from Canada.
More recently, here in Michigan (Detroit). Canada built an expansion bridge from Canada to America. It's called the Gordie Howe Bridge. Howe was a Canadian and Detroit Red Wing hockey player who played for Detroit for 25 years. He was a 21 time all-star, a Hall of Famer and brought 4 Stanley Cups to Detroit.
Canada built the bridge at a cost of $4 billion dollars. Not one cent was paid for by the United States. Yet, Canada is splitting bridge revenue 50/50 with the United States. Trump keeps delaying the opening of the bridge, saying he is trying to negotiate a better deal for the U.S. What's better than free money?
Can you now understand the six bankruptcies and that he's never been a great businessman?
We are supposedly at war to stop Iran from enriching the uranium we “obliterated” over a year ago.
Yesterday we signed a deal to help Saudi Arabia enrich uranium.
The first time the United States has ever helped another country enrich uranium on foreign soil.
The Saudis refused the inspection protocol 140 other countries accept. Too intrusive, they said.
Trump agreed. He signed a national security waiver to get around the rule.
The Saudis paid Kushner $100 million. They put $2 billion into his firm. They put another $6 billion into LIV Golf, which pays Trump properties to host its tournaments. They signed ten billion dollars in Trump-branded real estate deals in Jeddah and Riyadh. All in just the last few years.
But sure. My paintings.
A reporter asked Lamine Yamal how he handles the pressure of carrying Spain at 18. His answer: my mother had me when she was 16, that's real pressure. My father picked things off the street to bring food home, that's pressure. All I have to do is play football.
That's the whole story of who he is, and most fans only know the surface of it.
Before he was born, his teenage parents fell behind on rent. Two neighbors named Lamine and Yamal covered them, and his father vowed his son would carry both names forever. His legal name is a permanent record of a debt his family couldn't repay in money. In Arabic, the names mean "the trustworthy" and "beauty."
His parents split when he was around 5. His mother raised him in Granollers on a fast food wage. And here's the detail almost nobody knows: that job is the reason he became a footballer. Through work she met the daughter of the youth coordinator at CF La Torreta, his first club. When she worried she couldn't cover the fees, he told her that if the boy wants to play, money will never be the reason he can't.
As a kid, Lamine told his parents: if you're counting on me getting a normal job, we're in trouble. But if I become a footballer, you'll never have to worry again.
He signed with Barcelona at 7. He was right by 15.
Every goal, he flashes 304 with his fingers. The end of 08304, the postal code of Rocafonda, the neighborhood where strangers paid his family's rent before he existed. It gets credited on every goal since.
Today, at 19, he plays for the World Cup. And if he scores tonight, somewhere in the biggest broadcast on Earth, two neighbors will hear their names, and a postal code will flash on 2 billion screens.
Every Republican politician should go home…look their family members in the eye, and say, “I have failed as a human being. I sold my soul. I am corrupt…inside and out. There is nothing honest about me. Because I have enabled Donald Trump, I am an accomplice to more felonies than I can count. At the end of the day, I am…a coward.”
SCARBOROUGH TO SPINELESS @SpeakerJohnson: “I’m not gonna mock you, Mike, I’m just gonna call you a liar. Because that’s what you are. You know EXACTLY what happened in Maine.” #AbolishICE
The same "Never Comply" crowd that won't change their thermostat, wear a mask, or use a paper straw turns into "comply or die" the second masked federal agents start gunning down people on American streets.
Don't let them gaslight you into thinking they stand for liberty.
Actually, he is only getting 50% of the next profits...after Canada gets it's operational costs, carrying costs and building costs($6.4B) for it's bridge. There will be very little net profit for the first 50yrs of this bridge's existence.
Trump wants to charge a 20% toll for all cargo passing thru Strait of Hormuz, he just reneged on a deal with Canada and is taking 50% of tolls on a bridge. He shook down most of Europe & Asia with tariffs last year, how long is the world gonna let this greasy mook play mob boss?
They shot him, dragged his lifeless body onto the pavement, and handcuffed his corpse while his 3-year old daughter wearing Bluey pajamas watched in horror. If you say you voted for this you are an empty soulless vessel.
Ok hear me out: instead of all of us having to become extremely knowledgeable on a new infectious disease every 3-6 months, what if we got a large group of experts together and just put them in charge of giving us easy to understand health recommendations. They could also do things like track outbreaks and predict future concerns.
Sam Neill (2025): “It’s not a happy place, America, and I wasn’t happy there. I’m interested in the condition of America now. It beggars belief what’s happening there now. When you hear a slogan like Make America Great Again, it makes a sort of weird sense because America could be great again, but at community level. Not with sort of strange billionaires making weird decisions”
Canada went further at the World Cup than Germany, the Netherlands and Croatia — and made it just as far as Brazil, Portugal, Mexico and the United States.
For context, here are the approximate annual budgets of those national soccer federations, in USD:
Germany: $510 million
Brazil: $500 million
USA: $260 million
Portugal: $184 million
Netherlands: $164 million
Mexico: $140 million
Croatia: $60 million
Canada: $40 million
One country is clearly punching above its weight.
Proud of this team. 🇨🇦
As someone who has worked for American companies but lived in Canada, I can say un-catagorically, it is not the most free country on earth, and certainly not the greatest.
@Acyn Spoiled, ungrateful, ignorant Americans who have no idea what it's like to not have freedom. Who don't understand that people have come here in droves to ESCAPE Socialism and Communism. Despite our flaws, this is still the greatest, most free country on earth. 🇺🇸
I am officially nominating Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) for the Nobel Peace Prize.
No President in History has ended the same war so many times.
Our Dear Leader has ended the war with Iran at least 38 times by CNN’s count.
No President has ever done this before.
And he is nowhere near finished ending it.
It’s a record worthy of the Nobel committee’s recognition. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
@atrupar fentanyl, unfair dairy tariffs, you owe us for half the Gordie Howe bridge, we don’t need anything from Canada, now it’s North Koreans, add it to the list, it’s like living above a fuckin asylum