Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 09:18:40 -0500
From: riverain <none@no.org>
Subject: Re: Voting Con?
Newsgroups: can.politics
On 12/20/24 01:43, Dhu on Gate wrote:
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/19/trudeau-trump-canada-tariff
"....when Trudeauâs team announced a $1.3bn plan to shore up border
security and surveillance, the president-elect portrayed the move as a
personal victory."
In my youth we had an almost totally open border requiring mutual
visitors to barely slow down at the checkpoint and the looney was at
times worth 1.25us (yes! even though officially it never got above
1.07). Whatever has gone for a shit has to be related to that former
relationship. Patrolling a 4000km border is a wet dream (just ask the
Greeks), the solution is to not host in the first place what ruffles
feathers stateside.
Although the world is run by power and power-relationships (51st states
beware!) Trump was not elected by the people but by the Clintons, Biden,
and Harris; ditto for Poilievre IF he ever gets in, Trudeau will have
assured that eventual victory. I keep telling people to stop
bad-mouthing Trump (a 2-watt half-life second only to Bush jr. and
compared to whom Putin the KGB thug is an intellectual monument) because
in the above and uncircumventable context that only sinks the democrats
even lower. We are about to taste a very similar dish in Canada :-(
--
Chrystia Freeland for PM!