Don Jensen

[Don Jensen @jetsen1962]

Make America Go Away!!!

[Daina Janitis @DJanitis]

Our former Prime Minister, Jean Chrétien, turned 91 today. This is HIS "post":

"A gift to Canada from Jean Chrétien on his 91st birthday. LOVE this guy!!!
"Jean Chretien is 91 today and he gave himself a birthday present. He told Donald J. Trump to piss off in the The Globe and Mail. Here's his column:
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Today is my 91st birthday.
It’s an opportunity to celebrate with family and friends. To look back on the life I’ve had the privilege to lead. And to reflect on how much this country we all love so much has grown and changed over the course of the nine decades I’ve been on this Earth.
This year, I’ve also decided to give myself a birthday present. I’m going to do something in this article that I don’t do very often anymore, and sound off on a big issue affecting the state of the nation and profoundly bothering me and so many other Canadians: The totally unacceptable insults and unprecedented threats to our very sovereignty from U.S. president-elect Donald Trump.
I have two very clear and simple messages.
To Donald Trump, from one old guy to another: Give your head a shake! What could make you think that Canadians would ever give up the best country in the world – and make no mistake, that is what we are – to join the United States?
I can tell you Canadians prize our independence. We love our country. We have built something here that is the envy of the world – when it comes to compassion, understanding, tolerance and finding a way for people of different backgrounds and faiths to live together in harmony.
We’ve also built a strong social safety net – especially with public health care – that we are very proud of. It’s not perfect, but it’s based on the principle that the most vulnerable among us should be protected.
This may not be the “American Way” or “the Trump Way.” But it is the reality I have witnessed and lived my whole long life.
If you think that threatening and insulting us is going to win us over, you really don’t know a thing about us. You don’t know that when it came to fighting in two world wars for freedom, we signed up – both times – years before your country did. We fought and we sacrificed well beyond our numbers.
We also had the guts to say no to your country when it tried to drag us into a completely unjustified and destabilizing war in Iraq.
We built a nation across the most rugged, challenging geography imaginable. And we did it against the odds.
We may look easy-going. Mild-mannered. But make no mistake, we have spine and toughness.
And that leads me to my second message, to all our leaders, federal and provincial, as well as those who are aspiring to lead our country: Start showing that spine and toughness. That’s what Canadians want to see – what they need to see. It’s called leadership. You need to lead. Canadians are ready to follow.
I know the spirit is there. Ever since Mr. Trump’s attacks, every political party is speaking out in favour of Canada. In fact, it is to my great satisfaction that even the Bloc Québécois is defending Canada.
But you don’t win a hockey game by only playing defence. We all know that even when we satisfy one demand, Mr. Trump will come back with another, bigger demand. That’s not diplomacy; it’s blackmail.
We need another approach – one that will break this cycle.
Mr. Trump has accomplished one thing: He has unified Canadians more than we have been ever before! All leaders across our country have united in resolve to defend Canadian interests.
When I came into office as prime minister, Canada faced a national unity crisis. The threat of Quebec separation was very real. We took action to deal with this existential threat in a manner that made Canadians, including Quebeckers, stronger, more united and even prouder of Canadian values.
Now there is another existential threat. And we once again need to reduce our vulnerability. That is the challenge for this generation of political leaders.
And you won’t accomplish it by using the same old approaches. Just like we did 30 years ago, we need a Plan B for 2025.
Yes, telling the Americans we are their best friends and closest trading partner is good. So is lobbying hard in Washington and the state capitals, pointing out that tariffs will hurt the American economy too. So are retaliatory tariffs – when you are attacked, you have to defend yourself.
But we also have to play offence. Let’s tell Mr. Trump that we too have border issues with the United States. Canada has tough gun control legislation, but illegal guns are pouring in from the U.S. We need to tell him that we expect the United States to act to reduce the number of guns crossing into Canada.
We also want to protect the Arctic. But the United States refuses to recognize the Northwest Passage, insisting that it is an international waterway, even though it flows through the Canadian Arctic as Canadian waters. We need the United States to recognize the Northwest Passage as being Canadian waters.
We also need to reduce Canada’s vulnerability in the first place. We need to be stronger. There are more trade barriers between provinces than between Canada and the United States. Let’s launch a national project to get rid of those barriers! And let’s strengthen the ties that bind this vast nation together through projects such as real national energy grid.
We also have to understand that Mr. Trump isn’t just threatening us; he’s also targeting a growing list of other countries, as well as the European Union itself, and he is just getting started. Canada should quickly convene a meeting of the leaders of Denmark, Panama, Mexico, as well as with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, to formulate a plan for fighting back these threats.
Every time that Mr. Trump opens his mouth, he creates new allies for all of us. So let’s get organized! To fight back against a big, powerful bully, you need strength in numbers.
The whole point is not to wait in dread for Donald Trump’s next blow. It’s to build a country and an international community that can withstand those blows.
Canadians know me. They know I am an optimist. That I am practical. And that I always speak my mind. I made my share of mistakes over a long career, but I never for a moment doubted the decency of my fellow Canadians – or of my political opponents.
The current and future generations of political leaders should remember they are not each other’s enemies – they are opponents. Nobody ever loved the cut-and-thrust of politics more than me, but I always understood that each of us was trying to make a positive contribution to make our community or country a better place.
That spirit is more important now than ever, as we address this new challenge. Our leaders should keep that in mind.
I am 91 today and blessed with good health. I am ready at the ramparts to help defend the independence of our country as I have done all my life.
Vive le Canada!
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[Don Jensen @jetsen1962]

Can someone PLEASE turn off or reset The United States of America??

[Don Jensen @jetsen1962]

@JoJoFromJerz Yep, he is

[Mike Angelle ⬛⬜⬛⬜⬛⬜ @trainofangels00]

The world is witnessing a breakdown in American leadership, and as Canadians, many of us have reached our absolute limit.

It is complete nonsense that Pete Hoekstra must repeatedly reassure us that Trump is "serious" about tariff threats over wildfire smoke.

Come on, bud..

If a president needs a secondary backup to prove he isn't joking, nobody takes his word seriously anyway.

For nearly two years, this administration has delivered nothing but bluster and media-manipulating gimmicks, turning a once respected nation into a global laughingstock.

Canadians wonder if the president even understands basic wind patterns or the jet stream at all.

Threatening penalties over weather is like trying to tariff the very air we breathe.

Beyond this daily circus. show, this White House has made massive international blunders that shattered global stability...

We all know, internationally, that this president is deeply unpopular, and the American electorate will not forget the damage done to their country's global standing.

And as for us? ...

Canadians are seriously sick of waking up to the temper tantrums of a volatile man baby who sees himself as a leader.

These hollow threats are just empty promises meant to feed an insecure ego.

This toxic behavior is deeply exasperating for Canada and the international community.

While the planet tries to tackle real global crises, these childish, headline-seeking stunts stall progress for everyone.

- The world does not see a strong leader putting "America First"—it sees an insecure toddler desperately crying to be the biggest guy in the room.

For Canadians, and for most people around the world, November cannot come soon enough.

Just my opinion.

M.

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[Don Jensen @jetsen1962]

lol

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You guys are too much! 🤣

[Kara @UTDKarra]

Repost if you think Gianni Infantino is the worst FIFA president ever.

[Don Jensen @jetsen1962]

Perfect

[Don Jensen @jetsen1962]

Perfect

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

By David Abbruzzes:

This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."

Very well stated.

[Don Jensen @jetsen1962]

@Jared_Carrabis They would have traded him for a bag of balls anyways!

[Garrett Mashburn @G_Mashburn]

You don’t see this every day

[Dean Blundell🇨🇦 @ItsDeanBlundell]

Canada. 🇨🇦

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

Listen up Fuckface: The bridge exists, your facts don’t, and “ice hockey” will still be here long after you’re dead. Plus you’re a rapist & a pedophile and we all hate your fucking guts up here.

So, in closing, go fuck yourself you senile sack of shit.

[🎙️Not Another Sox Podcast🎙️ @NASPpodcast]

Tim Wakefield should have his #49 retired by the Red Sox

[Don Jensen @jetsen1962]

MAGA - Make America Go Away!!

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

Today is the tipping point.

[Don Jensen @jetsen1962]

@kaitlancollins Great. There are plenty of other places to spend a billion dollars. Thanks Prime Minister Trump.

[Don Jensen @jetsen1962]

What an A-Hole.

[Harrison Faulkner @Harry__Faulkner]

Donald Trump with the Florida Panthers: “You denied Canada the Stanley Cup for the 32nd straight year.”

“We have a little competition with Canada. No, they're great people, though. We’re doing much better than Canada, but that's okay, right?

Almost half the Panthers' roster is from Canada.

[Don Jensen @jetsen1962]

@TolleEnthusiast Sounds like a good deal to me.