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Trump’s Threats Against Canada Upend Conservative’s Playbook

A darling of the American right, Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, is facing an electorate worried about Trump’s vow to annex Canada.
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But that support now risks becoming a liability as Canada confronts a once unimaginable threat: the president of the United States, Canada’s closest ally, repeatedly questioning Canada’s viability as a nation, threatening to annex it through economic force and denigrating its prime minister as a “governor.”

As patriotic feelings have surged in Canada, Mr. Poilievre’s lead has narrowed significantly in several polls. Until a month ago, Mr. Poilievre, 45, appeared to be a shoo-in to become Canada’s next leader after having built a double-digit lead in the polls by channeling national frustration and anger at the deeply unpopular prime minister, Justin Trudeau.

Mr. Trudeau is expected to step down next month as prime minister after his Liberal Party selects a successor, who will automatically become prime minister. A general election is then likely to be held a couple of months later.

“For Poilievre, the biggest challenge is that for the last two years the villain in his story was Justin Trudeau,” said David Coletto, the founder of Abacus Data, a polling firm. “But that villain is now leaving, and there’s a new, bigger, badder villain that is coming from outside the country — and that’s Donald Trump.”

“What Canadians are now trying to figure out is who’s the hero in that story, who’s going to save them and protect them against that threat,” Mr. Coletto added. “And the conclusion that more people are going to choose Pierre Poilievre is now up in the air.”
 
superrific said:
You have no idea what they can and can't do. Here we go with your usual argumentative strategy:

1. Of course Israel can do that. Duh. Do you really think differently?
2. No, I don't have any evidence for that. Where's your evidence that they can't.
3. No, I don't have any relevant experience or knowledge.
4. Of course Israel can do that. You haven't proven me wrong beyond the shadow of a doubt. Thus I remain correct.
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Israel, depending on where you look, has around the 15-17th most powerful military in the world, out of about 150 countries. Gaza/Palestine has fans bolted on to giant kites.

Stop kidding yourself.
 
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ZenMode said:
Isreal, depending on where you look, has around the 15-17th most powerful military in the world, out of about 150 countries. Gaza/Palestine has fans bolted on to giant kites.

Stop kidding yourself.
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I'm not kidding myself about anything. I have no idea what Israel can or can't do. I'm not a military expert. In fact, I know almost nothing about anything relevant to making that determination. Hence, I don't pretend as though I have any knowledge.
 
altmin said:
www.nytimes.com

Trump’s Threats Against Canada Upend Conservative’s Playbook

A darling of the American right, Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, is facing an electorate worried about Trump’s vow to annex Canada.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com

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But that support now risks becoming a liability as Canada confronts a once unimaginable threat: the president of the United States, Canada’s closest ally, repeatedly questioning Canada’s viability as a nation, threatening to annex it through economic force and denigrating its prime minister as a “governor.”

As patriotic feelings have surged in Canada, Mr. Poilievre’s lead has narrowed significantly in several polls. Until a month ago, Mr. Poilievre, 45, appeared to be a shoo-in to become Canada’s next leader after having built a double-digit lead in the polls by channeling national frustration and anger at the deeply unpopular prime minister, Justin Trudeau.

Mr. Trudeau is expected to step down next month as prime minister after his Liberal Party selects a successor, who will automatically become prime minister. A general election is then likely to be held a couple of months later.

“For Poilievre, the biggest challenge is that for the last two years the villain in his story was Justin Trudeau,” said David Coletto, the founder of Abacus Data, a polling firm. “But that villain is now leaving, and there’s a new, bigger, badder villain that is coming from outside the country — and that’s Donald Trump.”

“What Canadians are now trying to figure out is who’s the hero in that story, who’s going to save them and protect them against that threat,” Mr. Coletto added. “And the conclusion that more people are going to choose Pierre Poilievre is now up in the air.”
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Trump is living in the Gulf of Dementia.
 
I have a feeling that the Supreme Court will be inclined to hand Trump some minor defeats. First, they want to look independent. Second, they know they unleashed this fucking monster, and bear primary responsibility. We'll see contrition in the form of denying the appeal of a TRO, which ultimately has zero effect. That will clear their consciences for the next major thing coming down the road.
 
heelslegup said:
DOGE just announced they have "discovered" 4.7 trillion in untraced Treasury assets. An interesting number. Where have I seen that 4.7 trillion before? Hmmm wajhat a coincidence. 4.7 trillion was mentioned a few days ago as the cost of the tax cuts they Rs want to do,
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You have to be fucking kidding me. That's what they are trying to do? They are trying to steal 4.7T? Or offset the costs of their tax cuts? Where is this money coming from? Pulled out of people's bank accounts?

Edit: it seems as though they are just filling in a code in a database. They aren't saying it's untraced; they are saying it can't be linked to budget items. Watch this story, but it might be nothing more than a shitpost.
 
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Fallout From National Park Service Firings Spreading

Crushed dreams, search-and-rescue teams reportedly asking for volunteers, and outraged community leaders are just some of the fallout in the wake of the Trump administration's firing of 1,000 National Park Service employees and thousands more from the U.S. Forest Service.
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Angela Moxley, a botanist and biological technician, was ten days shy from ending her probationary period with the Park Service when she got her termination notice.

"I received an email on my work computer that I was being 'separated from federal service' because I have 'failed to demonstrate fitness or qualification for continued employment,'" she wrote Saturday on her LinkedIn account. "I had been waiting for the email, because six of my colleagues had already received theirs. I had earned a high performance rating at my annual evaluation, I was recently asked to serve on a subject matter expert hiring panel, and my supervisor disagrees with the decision and didn't have anything to do with it."

At Zion National Park, staff reportedly alerted professional SAR responders who assist the park's rangers on rescues to say "SAR is currently volunteer only for non-NPS employees. Administratively determined hiring is currently on hold. Callout requests will proceed as normal, and all members are encouraged to respond to callout requests on a volunteer basis when available."

That directive could delay response times, particularly if some of the park's SAR rangers are on vacation.

"I have done 12+ hour SARs," one community responder told the Traveler. "There were times that it was a struggle to find enough people and this will only make it worse."

A call Saturday to the park's public affairs staff was not immediately returned, nor was an email to Zion Superintendent Jeff Bradybaugh.

Meanwhile, communities affiliated with The Mountain Pact, an organization that works with local elected officials in more than 100 mountain communities across the West, sent out a blistering release urging Interior Secretary Doug Burgum "to stop playing politics with America’s public lands and reverse these irresponsible and short-sighted actions.”

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Brian Gibbs was a ranger at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa who educated visitors on the history of the Native American burial mounds there.

"Without any type of formal notice my position was ripped out from under my feet at 4 p.m. on Friday," he wrote in an essay posted elsewhere. "Before I could fully print off my government records, I was locked out of my email and unable to access my personal and professional records."

Along with citing his myiad roles — "I am the toilet scrubber and soap dispenser, I am the open trail hiked by people from all walks of life, I am the highlight of your child's school day, I am the Band-aid for a skinned knee, I am the lesson that showed your children that we live in a worl of gifts -- not commodities, that gratitude and reciprocity are the doorway to true abundance, not power, money, or fear I am the one who taught your kid the thrush's song and the hawk's cry" — Gibbs added that, "I am gone from the office, I am the resistance, but mostly I'm just tired.

"I am tired from weeks of being bullied and censored by billionaires. I am tired of waking up every morning at 2 a.m. wondering how I cam going to provide for my family if I lose my job. I am tired of wiping away my wife's tears and reassuring her that things will be okay for our growing family.

"Things are not okay. I am not okay."
 
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