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Callatoroy said:
I'm not knowledgeable about the amount of drugs coming in from Canada. He obviously has some reason for it so what is the story of fentanyl coming through canada and why does trump think canada isn't doing anything to stop it?
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He has the same sorts of reasons that he did for saying people are eating cats and dogs in Springfield: someone said it on the TV shows he watches.
 
@nycfan -- Thanks for 'tagging' me on this. I missed all of this somehow (school work mainly). That "essay" by Petro reads like something that José Martí might write -- it is the kind of thing that would have wide appeal across the region with the working and middle class, intellectuals, and the educated but definitely not, as Judah Grunstein (not a person that I am familiar with) suggests, with the traditional ruling class as well as many in what might amount to a rising business class bent on becoming ruling class. Of course, Petro, being of the Left (like Lula and Lewandoski) isn't a favorite of that crowd anyway. Back to Martí -- being one of the region's heroes, a poetic revolutionary man of the people -- the allusions to Gaitan, Bolivar, and slavery and slavers that Petro makes are classic anti-imperialism (US Brand). I've not seen anything written like that since the late 19th/early 20th century authors from the region.
 
CRHeel94 said:
Eliminating birthright citizenship aims to take away what is attracting immigrants to the US, but it's really not addressing. MAGA likes this because they want to punish the immigrant (and not affect the white man). Thing is the real magnet is jobs. The enforcement on the persons hiring illegals is lax as heck, but that's an inconvenient action for the MAGA crowd.
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CR speaks my mind here.
 
nycfan said:
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Tim Scott must really like the taste of trump's ass. The man has always acted like such a little bitch when it comes to trump. I still recall trump saying how horrible a campaign Scott ran. Tim just smiled because he thought trump was going to give him a cabinet position.
 


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Less than a year later, in June 2019, Kennedy Jr. received an invitation to visit Samoa from Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, who had expressed that he’d previously lost a grandchild “under similar circumstances,” which many understood to mean due to complications relating to vaccines. Edwin Tamasese, a local vaccine skeptic, had told Malielegaoi about Children’s Health Defense, and urged him to invite Kennedy Jr. to speak with him.

Kennedy Jr. knew all about the deaths in Samoa, and Children’s Health Defense had been using it to make misinformation materials and escalate its calls for “vaccine safety science,” despite the fact that the deadly error in the case had been a human one.

It was then that Kennedy Jr. pitched his cruel experiment: to use the drop in vaccination rates as an opportunity to see if vaccines actually work (spoiler alert: They do).

He brought with him Dr. Michael Craven, the Children’s Health Defense’s new chief information officer, who could set up an information system to track the effects of vaccines, or lack thereof.

Ultimately, his pitch wasn’t convincing. “I was not interested in his ideas—he was not a medical doctor,” Malielegaoi told NBC News. “Our medical experts are more credible to me.”

But Kennedy Jr. wasn’t far from done trying to intervene. Months later, when a measles outbreak started to spread through Samoa, Kennedy wrote to Malielegaoi suggesting that there was another reason for the spate of deaths. By the end of the year dozens of children were dead.

That’s when Kennedy reached out to Tamasese, the vaccine skeptic. Tamasese said that Kennedy helped assemble a team of doctors who advised him on the real cure, a vitamin C treatment, to save the kids of Samoa from the spread of measles. Meanwhile, one of the doctors on Kennedy’s team asked Tamasese to secure a vial of the measles vaccine and send it to the U.S. for testing.

Eventually, Samoa instituted a vaccine mandate, and the Covid-19 pandemic diverted Kennedy’s efforts in Samoa. Kennedy continues to claim that the measles were not responsible for the deaths of 82 children. “Nobody died in Samoa from measles,” Kennedy said in August. “They were dying from a bad vaccine.” …”
 


“Momentum is growing among President Trump’s advisers to place 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada as soon as Saturday, bucking conventional wisdom in Washington and on Wall Street that he would back off the threatened levies as he has in the past in exchange for concessions.

Trump has shown a willingness to move swiftly on tariffs in recent days without allowing for drawn-out talks. On Sunday, Trump announced he would impose 25% “emergency” tariffs on Colombia because of its refusal to accept repatriation flightsfrom the U.S. A senior administration official said the decision proves that Trump views tariffs as an “effective negotiating tool” and “effective punishment” for nations that don’t hew to his agenda. …”
 
If you and your significant other celebrate Valentine’s Day, you may want to plan ahead about the flower sitch this year.

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For the record, the sanctions and tariffs are illegal and would likely be enjoined upon a lawsuit from an importers' trade group. So we'll be paying through the nose for roses and nothing will happen down south.
 
superrific said:
For the record, the sanctions and tariffs are illegal and would likely be enjoined upon a lawsuit from an importers' trade group. So we'll be paying through the nose for roses and nothing will happen down south.
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ST please explain your reasoning...
 
In the end, Colombia sent our planes back, Trump threatened a tariff and Colombia agreed to send planes to get the criminals.
 
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