Jerry

[Jerry @jerrywalker95]

America has long helped Canada and will keep helping when it really counts.

Tim, let me put this in terms you deal with every day in Minnesota.

When people are actually in danger from wildfires, disasters, medical emergencies or security threats, neighbors show up. Canada got those YMCA campers out of their own park in Ontario. That was standard emergency response on Canadian ground, the same way Minnesota teams would handle something on our side. The U.S. has done the exact same for Canada plenty of times through NORAD, shared border work, disaster aid and military cooperation. That kind of mutual help on life and death situations keeps going no matter what is happening with trade. America will still answer if Canadians need it, just like they would for us.

Trade is a different thing. It is not an emergency rescue. It is ongoing business between two countries. When one side feels the deal has turned one sided with auto rules, steel, farm barriers or other imbalances, tariffs are a way to push back. They are not a permanent end to the friendship. It works the same way you handle fraudsters and squatters. You do not keep writing blank checks or looking the other way while people take advantage of the system, drain resources or occupy space they have no right to. You set consequences, enforce the rules and demand fairness so the whole relationship stays workable. Ignoring the imbalance does not make you a better neighbor. It just invites more of the same problem.

Helping in a real crisis and insisting on balanced trade are not opposites. They are two separate jobs. The United States will keep showing up for genuine emergencies with Canada. At the same time it will push back on trade terms that look like a permanent free ride. That is not abandonment. It is basic reciprocity.

[Jerry @jerrywalker95]

Yeah I get where you’re coming from. That temporary 90 day move to let in 300k tons of ground beef without the extra tariffs isn’t sitting right with a lot of ranchers, including plenty who voted for Trump. The midterm timing is pretty obvious and it risks undercutting the prices they’ve finally been getting after years of struggle.

At the same time it’s only ground beef, not the good cuts, and the whole point is to try and ease the pain at the grocery store while the herd recovers. Ground beef’s been close to $7 a pound because we’re sitting on the smallest cattle inventory in like 75 years.

How we got here is mostly drought. Years of dry conditions across Texas, Oklahoma, the Plains and the West wiped out pastures and water, forcing ranchers to sell off breeding cows they never wanted to lose. High feed costs made it worse. Rebuilding takes forever, a calf needs almost two years, and the recent screwworm mess closing the Mexican border didn’t help either.

People still need affordable beef though, so this is also a way to give consumers some relief before the midterms. It’s messy whichever way you go. Short-term help for shoppers ends up hurting the ranchers who need support to grow the herd back, but doing nothing leaves prices high for everyone. No clean answer here.

[Jerry @jerrywalker95]

@Five0GT15 @NYCMayor Can you elaborate on what i defended Trump on. I like things that improve America

[Jerry @jerrywalker95]

@GovernorVA Why are you not blaming Canada for walking away from a deal? You can play politics for domestic policy. When it comes to foreign policy imagine Americas power if we all stay together and deal in unity. Your weakness is Canadas strength, that is what they are counting on.

[Jerry @jerrywalker95]

How is he only my leader? He is the American president, elected by the people of a democratic country. If you are American, he is as much your leader as he is mine. If Trump is making progress i would support him, if he does something stupid i would criticize him. I want America to win.

[Jerry @jerrywalker95]

@IREStev0 @NYCMayor There is a plan to plan a fix, that has been going for the last 20 years. There is so much resistance from local communities, so i hope it works out.

[Jerry @jerrywalker95]

@guffiferous @NYCMayor I hope you are right and he fixes it. I Just want America to do better.

[Jerry @jerrywalker95]

@TalhaSekerci @NYCMayor I can say what i want and you can say what you want, that's what makes America what it is. It would make the conversation nicer if you don't start with asking me to shut up.

[Jerry @jerrywalker95]

Socialism wins on feelings, not facts.

It makes capitalists look like the greedy bad guys who take all the money while regular people struggle. Hating them feels good and right. Hard questions like how stuff actually gets made, or how you get people to work hard and invent new things, get turned into a simple good guys vs bad guys story.

Most replies just say “that doesn’t work.” That never beats the short-term moral high of promising free housing, free healthcare, free everything, and looking like the caring side. Followers only see the quick benefits they might get. Almost nobody is thinking long term.

But when working harder or inventing something new doesn’t get you much extra reward, people stop trying as hard. New ideas slow down. Fewer people take risks. Over time there is less of the free stuff everyone was promised.

We need a better approach on X. Every time someone posts about taxing the rich and spending taxpayer money on more benefits, influential accounts should reply with clear facts about incentives and long-term results instead of just “it will never work.” Just saying no never competes with that short-term moral high. Clear explanations might.

@elonmusk @joerogan @usanewshq

[Jerry @jerrywalker95]

Not right away, but I’ve noticed that just listening without reacting in the moment tends to make the next conversations better. It gives you space to understand their thought process and figure out a better way to navigate it. I find the real progress happens when you can get people thinking critically instead of just defending which political side they lean toward.

[Jerry @jerrywalker95]

@michelletandler Michelle, Cuba reminds me of another example in Kerala, India. The Left governed there for a long time and delivered real gains in literacy and health. At the same time the business climate stayed difficult because of strong unions and resistance to private investment. The result was limited industry, high unemployment among educated people, and a steady stream of folks leaving to find work elsewhere. They’re out of power now after the latest election, but those decades still illustrate the trade-off pretty clearly.

We are seeing groups like the DSA advancing similar ideas of heavier state control and more free programs. A big reason it resonates is the immediate moral satisfaction of offering people free things. It feels caring and generous right away, especially to younger people and some older ones, while the longer-term effects on incentives and actual production are easier to set aside.

I’m curious how you’d approach pushing back on that feel-good side without it coming across as lecturing. How do you get people focused more on results and on where the wealth actually has to come from?

[Jerry @jerrywalker95]

China runs industrial-scale TikTok/Douyin dance farms and content mills. Serious US robotics kids mostly only appear on camera for demos or funding asks. Still, you can’t define Chinese children by a handful of top prodigies any more than you define American ones by random influencers. Empty vessels always make the most noise.

[Jerry @jerrywalker95]

@SenWarren Pretty sure it's free for basic filers and below the limit on turbo tax, the tax system is complicated for the average person so they are making a product which simplifies it for the average person and is going to be cheaper than going to a CPA or agent.

[Jerry @jerrywalker95]

You’re still not answering the actual point. Plenty of people (including many self-described socialists historically) have used the terms socialism and communism in overlapping ways. The regimes that produced mass poverty, famines, secret police, and economic collapse called themselves both. Pointing out the semantic difference doesn’t erase the track record.If your version of socialism is different, explain specifically what mechanisms would prevent the same incentive and power problems. Otherwise the insults just look like a way to avoid the evidence.

[Jerry @jerrywalker95]

@Milajoy Make him press secretary.

[Jerry @jerrywalker95]

@LeftYimby @michelletandler If "you're retarded" is your best answer to communism's documented failures, that says more about your argument than mine.

[Jerry @jerrywalker95]

@LeftYimby @michelletandler When you see in person what actual communism does to a place, you will understand.

[Jerry @jerrywalker95]

@rgbrown81 @GovernorVA I am still confused on why they are not able to understand the difference between rule abiding and non rule abiding people. They keep restricting the rule followers while letting criminals go free

[Jerry @jerrywalker95]

@policytensor They started this messaging by saying Canada is at war with the US economically.