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[Cricri @margot1205]

@krassenstein Honnêtement…. Crissss d’épais!

[A Palsson 🇦🇺 🇮🇸 @ampalsson]

** I lifted this off Facebook. It is a great post by Mick Doyle **
I keep hearing Americans say:
“I’m not responsible for Trump. I didn’t vote for him.”
Okay.
But let me tell you how this looks from outside the United States.
I live in a major border town. I see American licence plates every day. Lots of them.
And here's the uncomfortable truth:
I don't stop to wonder whether the person behind the wheel voted for Trump.
I don't know them. I don't know their politics. I don't know whether they despise Trump or worship him.
I see the American plate.
And whether it's fair or not, I automatically associate them with the country whose government is doing these things.
That's what national identity does.
That's how the rest of the world sees you.
When the United States invades a country, threatens another, imposes economic warfare, supplies weapons for a war, or attacks the sovereignty of another nation, the world doesn't have the luxury of separating every individual American from the actions of the American state.
The United States invaded Venezuela.
The United States is waging economic war against Canada.
The United States has seriously contemplated military action against Mexico, a sovereign country.
The United States has repeatedly threatened the sovereignty of Greenland.
The United States is supplying Israel with weapons and military support while Gaza is being devastated.
The United States continues its decades-long economic strangulation of Cuba.
And then comes:
“But that's Trump. I'm not responsible. I didn't vote for him.”
Maybe you didn't.
But here's the problem:
The rest of the world sees the American flag.
We don't see your ballot.
We don't know how you voted.
We see your government.
And if you genuinely oppose what your government is doing, then don't simply ask the rest of the world to distinguish you from it.
Make the distinction visible.
Protest.
Organize.
March.
Speak out.
Put pressure on your representatives.
Make your opposition impossible to ignore.
Because the midterms are still up in the air. There is no guaranteed deliverance from this menace waiting around the corner.
Trump could lose. He could win. Congress could change. It could remain divided.
Nobody knows.
And while everyone waits for an election to potentially save them, American power continues to be exercised around the world.
So no, I don't believe every American is a Trump supporter.
But I also don't believe Americans can simply wash their hands of what the United States does by saying:
“That's Trump, not me.”
Because whether you like it or not, national actions create national reputations.
I live with that reality every day when I see those American plates.
And so does the rest of the world.
You may not be Trump.
But the world sees the American flag.
Full stop.

[Cricri @margot1205]

@Michaelmog7546 @krassenstein Au Québec, oui.

[Dimitris Soudas 🇨🇦⚜️🇬🇷☦️ 13.12.1943 @DimitrisSoudas]

Don’t be fooled by the headline.

Trump added new tariffs — but he also removed tariffs on a significant amount of Canadian goods.

The net effect is roughly $1 billion CAD, while another $1.4 billion in goods that had already faced 50% tariffs are now subject to an import ban.

In other words: a lot of reshuffling, a lot of posturing — and plenty of politics ahead of the midterms.

The most interesting part? Some of the products newly exempted, including road salt and cement, are exactly the products Republican Senator Susan Collins had been pushing the White House to exempt because the tariffs were hurting Maine.

Collins has openly acknowledged that the Canada trade war makes her reelection harder.

So Trump talks tough nationally, then quietly adjusts where the political pain is becoming dangerous for Republicans.

Mr. TACO strikes again.

Big headline. Smaller net economic impact. Very calculated midterm politics.

[Cricri @margot1205]

@Elizabeth71729 Donc il avoue que trump et ses proches (famille, amis et collaborateurs) font des crimes, étant donné qu'ils font des crimes et qu'ils seront accusés

[Cricri @margot1205]

@alleria_eh NO./

[Cricri @margot1205]

@EdKrassen « Pete Exiseth »

[Cricri @margot1205]

@FromWhiteRock @OJoelsen Non. Si c’est le président des usa 🇺🇸 il doit agir comme un adulte.

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

Netanyahu brags to an Israeli audience on how he manipulated Trump:

'It took a long time to get the US to come to its senses...but I finally got it to attack Iran due to my influence over its leaders...'

[Cricri @margot1205]

@ColinTheLefty @AZ_Brittney 👍👍👍👍

[Cricri @margot1205]

@svdate Tout à fait!!

[Cricri @margot1205]

@Curbhunteruxko @RodKahx Moins stupides que les trumpistes. Vous êtes refermés sur vous mêmes.

[Cricri @margot1205]

@Curbhunteruxko @RodKahx Plus de temps à perdre, bonne suite…

[Cricri @margot1205]

@Curbhunteruxko @RodKahx Quand je regarde l’image, je pense que c’est Trump!!!

[Cricri @margot1205]

@glenn_tunes

[Cricri @margot1205]

@Curbhunteruxko @RodKahx

[Cricri @margot1205]

@Curbhunteruxko @RodKahx And you said 2 days and it's over in Iran! 🤣🤣

[Cricri @margot1205]

@BTC89551276 @gator_gum Why do you think your clown is so angry with Canada. We slammed the door for our sovereignty!

[Cricri @margot1205]

@BTC89551276 @gator_gum NO!

[Gator⚡Gum @gator_gum]

Oh, look Trump telling Mexico who they can and can't trade with....

But we were told it's Carney who is causing all the trade strife?