r-floman.bsky.social
“Yes Prime Minister” aficionado. Canadian of Italian and American birthright, Economics and Political Science graduate. Former business owner, now Enrolled in graduate immigration law program at Queens University. Future Canadian Immigration consultant.
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Don’t think that will happen anymore than the German Generals Trump admires so much were able to reign in Hitler.
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Great tourist advertising, America. The Trump Administration, giving marketing companies heartburn since 2024.
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Claudia Scheinbaum must be cringing at having that attention directed at her nation. She is having enough fun trying to stick handle Trump’s tariffs on Mexico. Getting dragged by association into a potential civil explosion in California is the last bit of attention Mexico needs right now.
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The difference is the Democrats see the law as a shield, Republicans use it as a cudgel to smash opposition.
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The Fort Sumter moment the last time was in South Carolina, will we be saying it was Los Angeles or Santa Monica this time? Decisions tend to take on a momentum of their own of cascading consequences, like the reactions to the assassination of the Arch-Duke Ferdinand in Bosnia in 1914
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The no Kings march on June 14th may be the spark. Trump might invoke the Insurrection Act that day. After all he has the army in the streets of Washington already that day
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“You go bankrupt slowly at first, then all at once.” Seems to be a fine description of America these days.
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I put more stock in the revisions of prior months, than the first read. In the hospitality sector, the foreign tourist strike effect hasn’t shown up yet, by July if it persists, the yearly gains will likely be replaced by wholesale job losses as the tourist strike bites hard on manpower needs.
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I am a conservative voter in Canada, what one would call a Red Tory. ( Here the liberals are red and conservatives blue, go figure). I like to say I am a fiscal conservative but a social centrist. That is what I believe you have evolved into. Funny how our views change in life .
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Just a thought on Russian Strategic thinking. This is not the 1980’s when each side had 10,000 warheads and thousands of delivery vehicles to go with it. This strike will leave strategic targets uncovered and may have unintended strategic force consequences. What say you? @radiofreetom.bsky.social
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Why would Ukraine give advanced notice to a known Opsec threat. Trump would have called Putin immediately to warn him.
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Just being culturally humorous, we reflexively apologize if we bump into someone or something. True, Canadians don’t gloat and parade our battlefield accomplishments, we just go about warfare with a can do attitude and single minded determination. That is the true hallmark of Canadians at war.
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Unlike the Ukrainian attack, a similar Canadian drone would be programmed to broadcast an apology as it strikes a target.
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Businesses, central banks, and citizens will instead sell their US stock, debt and capital in America to avoid the taxes. Driving down the US dollar, raising interest rates much higher and destroying trillions in capital market value, and wealth. It will also lead to a backlash on US capital abroad.
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Section 899 of the bill is worse, it will make it so that no foreign nationals invest capital in the US or buy her debt. Punitive taxation of foreign investment in America in order to try to dictate another nation’s domestic tax policy will blow up spectacularly in the face of policymakers .
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We could buy a lot of Israeli Arrow 3 ABM and put up our own shield protecting Canada for that kind of coin. A lot cheaper than the US THAAD and GMD systems. Plus not at the whim of a mercurial president.
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Maybe Tim Snyder will be teaching all his Yale students at U of T in the fall semester because a lot of them won’t be allowed back in America. A good opportunity for Canadian universities to attract a lot of renowned professors and exceptional international students from America.
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After reading the book, I thought of you the second I saw it.
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@radiofreetom.bsky.social would love this. A major point of the death of expertise enunciated clearly for all to see.
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GOP plan to cancel the Democrat talking point that red states always take more from the federal government than they contribute is to cut off what the federal government sends them. Then the Democrats cannot use that argument anymore. Genius move, again owning the libs.
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People think it is just the right that engages in the “I do my own research or I am just putting it out there.” The whole political spectrum is prone to it, because it seems society has lost faith in institutions and expertise. It is now, accepting any fact is based on purely tribal affiliation.
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Perhaps “Jonathon Pie” from the UK would be a good politics copy editor candidate for the NYT
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Don’t forget the Marines ditched their M-1 tanks a couple of years ago to refocus on island warfare. Now what kind of parade in front of El Jefe, could they give without big macho tanks rumbling by? As for the Navy, a fleet review cannot have a big adoring crowd to supply narcissistic energy.
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Pretty soon at this rate, nobody will want to go to America for any reason, business, vacations, immigrate. Nada. America’s new ad campaign. “Come to America and win a tour of the shining ICE detention facility on the hill”
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As a scholar, just imagine him as one of your History students and you will feel exactly how the fine educators at Wharton Business School feel knowing that the Lunatic wrecking world trade is one of their economics graduates. Must make them so proud, he doesn’t even understand Economics 101.
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Meloni and Orban are definitely not going to be happy with Trump. This is not Columbia he is dealing with, this bloc has 300+ million people and a GDP of almost as large as America’s. And Trump is driving then right init China’s arms.
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🔥🔥🔥🔥
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The one absolute prerequisite for any post in the Trump administration is fealty to the Orange tinted King’s word. One must believe it is law, and to find a way to abide by it and make it happen. Some may not believe that , but all adhere to it. Sad really!!!
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In finance, the saying is bankruptcy happens slowly at first and then all at once. No nation running a budget deficit of 7%+ of GDP at full employment can sustain it for any period. It is what bankrupts all empires. Ferguson’s law if your debt payments are larger than the defence budget, it’s over.
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I think Naill Ferguson had it right about the fiscal problems in the US, they are a declining global power. Not because of technology, or lack of military prowess, but thru decades of reckless fiscal policies, unfunded spending without proper revenue thru taxation. The bond market is flashing red.
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I guess the AA credit ratings was still too high. Congress seems determined to drive the credit rating into Junk Bond Territory, by reducing taxes and bigger deficits . They are gonna force the Fed to raise rates, because the government is drowning in a sea of red ink, that no foreigners will want.
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Exhibit A, why she is nicknamed ICE Barbie. Every sexist joke or slur I remember hearing about unintelligent attractive woman being tagged as a Barbie or Bimbo in the 70’s and 80’s , is encapsulated in her. Is it an act, done on purpose to draw attention to herself, or is it genuine stupidity?
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Honey I was just auditioning Stormy Daniels for The Apprentice, really. It had nothing to do with me, it was for the audience.
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A grand jury will indict a ham sandwich when given any evidence by a prosecutor.
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A line from Yes Prime Minister comes to mind by Sir Humphrey Appleby ““Open government, Prime Minister. Freedom of information. We should always tell the press freely and frankly anything that they could easily find out some other way."
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If you do it out in the open and often enough, corruption becomes almost normal accepted behaviour. At least until a Democrat attempts it, at which point the Republicans will bring out the pitchforks again.
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Those temps remind me of Northern Ontario mornings in May.
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Bending the knee for fear of harm from your own voters if you try to follow the constitution, and don’t kiss the ring. What a way to run a circus.
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It probably involved some Chinese and Russian diplomacy, since Russia and India are pretty close and China and Pakistan are similarly close. Neither of those two want conflict in the neighbourhood, especially China which also has issues with India.
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Because they are so proud of their work?
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That is something Canada should consider too.
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Authoritarian leaders don’t like liberal democracies. Did you think they would send Trudeau love letters like Kim Jung Un sent Trump. Psyops is what one would expect from such adversary nations. Canada sucks at dealing with it, both political parties have skimped on national security for decades.
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Trudeau was totally tone deaf, to deny that is crazy. He would have wiped out the Liberal Party for a generation or more had he stayed. It was not propaganda that destroyed him, it was his style of governing. I am not at all sad to see him go. Minority government will keep PM Carney in the centre
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I don’t think the framers fully envisioned only two political parties in government. They counted on the idea of legislative politics remaining strictly local or regional and coalition building. Or of the primary style of Presidential contenders, with a vocal minority able to hijack picks.
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Jefferson, Hamilton, and all the founding fathers of the American revolution are aghast watching this clown show unfold on their beloved republic.
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Who could have imagined such a series of events, a British commonwealth government neighbour ruled by a monarch celebrating democracy with the monarch, and the republican style government ruled by the people celebrating the subjugation of democracy by a parade in honour of a wannabe monarch.
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And King Charles III of Canada is coming to open our next parliament by reading the government’s speech from the throne. Meanwhile in the US, government is planning a May Day parade on Trump’s birthday in June similar to the old Royal Navy Coronation Fleet Reviews of 1937 or 1953. Irony is dead.