Joe Ferguson forever

This is true. It's also true that the vast majority want a dollar for dollar trade war response and a robust defense of Canada's sovereignty. Read the rest of the story here. It's bleak and I don't understand the joy you find in inflicting pain on our friendly neighbor. Just another mean spirited maga. https://kpmg.com/ca/en/home/media/press-releases/2025/01/fight-tariffs-with-tariffs-kpmg-business-survey.html

how does this exchange rate help you?

how's $800/yr per household extra from tariffs sound to you? Cost of living was a big issue to you while Biden was prez. Who is going to profit from the tariffs?

We all think we're right, until we're proven wrong. There are plenty of posters here getting more dopamine shots than me (you're not far off) and they supposedly go to work as well.

it's on the internet so it's virtual. but I think you meant virtue. i thought you'd forgotten the meaning, rendering you incapable of honest political debate. oh, a NASCAR reference, cool!

ya know that theory about putin's pawn? I'm sure he's thrilled, what with the end of the Ukrainian war on day 1 and all.

yup. good summary of you entire political ideology. are you happy yet?

What's an extra 30 cents per gallon for gas? I'm sure all the maga's complaining about inflation under Biden will be thrilled! Can you imagine their reaction if that happened under Biden (with no tangible benefits directly to them)? But I hope he keeps it up. In 2 years, will get congress back. Energy products from Canada will have only a 10% duty, but Mexican energy imports will be charged the full 25%, the officials told reporters. Trump had initially planned a 25% tariff on all goods from Canada and Mexico but cut the Canadian oil tariff in an effort to ease the impact on energy prices, the officials said. The developments are set to upend a symbiotic oil trade between the U.S. and its neighbors: Many U.S. refineries are geared to churn the type of heavy and medium crude oil grades Canada produces, for example, and Canada’s oil output exceeds its current demand. “Someone is going to get kind of hurt here,” Wells Fargo Investment Institute’s John LaForge told Reuters. “The oil in Alberta doesn’t have much of an option where it goes, and the refiners in the Midwest don’t have much of an option on where they get the feedstock,” he said. The U.S. imports some 4 million barrels per day of Canadian oil, 70% of which is processed by refiners in the Midwest. It also imports over 450,000 bpd of Mexican oil, mainly for refiners concentrated around the U.S. Gulf Coast.

how bout you summarize it in words the average maga high school dropout voter can understand...

yeah, that's not the scenario I proposed. Do the gifted lazy kids outperform the grinding, dumb ones? based on posts here, I think they do believe it and like it. very much. And therefore the pre election rhetoric was window dressing, even for the rank and file. Unsure if they fully expected it but they certainly don't seem angry.

Well said. Stick around and help make this place more sane. The only thing I don't fully agree on is the brainwashed part. I think it's less that than stupidity and wishful, magical thinking. That's how fascist states have usually arisen.

good. So you know that retirement income can be highly taxed. so why take offense with this: ""not for the "working man". we told you so. "This is redistribution of wealth and not towards the "working class". Your extra $800/yr costs thru these taxes will pay for my tax breaks""? Do you care about the working class? Do you care that that $800 will be recouped by us but not them? Do you feel that promising to financially improve their lives was honest? we're seeing active redistribution of wealth purposefully amed at taking wealth from them and giving to what tommy eyerolls calls "the investor class". you good with that? more winning for you personally. does it make you feel virile? richer? macho?

no, do not agree. read what I wrote.

there sure seemed to be some posters complaining about the plight of the working class before the election. I don't agree with the conclusions about capital gains taxes here but the premises are correct. You'd think someone as highly placed as you would appreciate the benefits of lower capital gains taxes...also, there are taxable required distributions of assets in retirement. Limiting taxes on these distributions is major function of financial advisors in retirement. perhaps you should avail yourself of one. https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2025/01/23/president-trump-cut-the-capital-gains-tax/

yes, agreed. and therefore we can agree that trump's comments shortly after the event was totally inappropriate.

i think nurture and nature vary in influence especially at the extremes. People with exceptional genetics for certain talents are less reliant on nurture. people with far below average inherited skills are much more dependent on nurture. but overall, people with exceptional genetics achieve better outcomes, in part because their parents also did and are also better able to afford top nurturing programs, especially schools.

so you're ok with either? you considered this possibility before voting and accepted it?

ya think this clergy women lives in a penthouse with gold toilet seats and gauche furniture? ya think she's going to benefit from trumps tax breaks paid for by inflation on your food and fuel? nah, that's for the dirty buggers who have fooled y'all into thinking you'll gain something from trump. This. Except for the part about respect.

wow. that makes it a big win for you and yours!

not for the "working man". we told you so. This is redistribution of wealth and not towards the "working class". Your extra $800/yr costs thru these taxes will pay for my tax breaks. and you'll be happy about it cuz trump did it. morons. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5121390-trump-says-potential-pain-caused-by-tariffs-worth-the-price-that-must-be-paid/ Experts have repeatedly warned that tariffs could lead to higher costs that companies will pass onto consumers. The Tax Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank, estimated Trump’s tariffs announced Saturday would result in what amounts to an average tax increase of $830 per household in the U.S. Democratic lawmakers have decried Trump’s decision as one that will increase prices despite his campaign pledge to bring down inflation. Business groups, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, have also criticized the tariffs.

So I guess we still are the policeman of the world...

nope. you're not up to it.

Not meaningless but not nearly as meaningful as you implied. The limitations are very well defined by the site that provides the data. some great examples here https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2022/what-vaers-is-and-isnt For example, by January 10, 2021, VAERS logged 1,266 reports of adverse events following the Moderna vaccine. The CDC and FDA flagged 108 of those cases for further review. Ultimately, 10 of those cases turned out to be anaphylaxis, a severe allergic reaction, with nine of the affected people having a history of allergic reactions or allergies—including five of those nine with a history of anaphylaxis specifically. This screening allowed doctors to advise vaccination sites to continue following CDC guidance for administering vaccines as they had been.

Here's another pilot's opinion. Ya know what they say about opinions... https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/31/politics/video/trump-press-conference-plane-collision-les-abend-digvid

it was for fraud, not "malpractice". They illegally promoted the drugs for off label use. It actually is pretty common but at the time was systematically done by Pfizer drug reps under direction of management. Of course, we should not take pharma's word as gospel. And we don't. That's why they were found guilty and fined billions in these 2 cases. Additionally, there are checks and balances from regulatory bodies such as the FDA and for vaccines, the aforementioned VAER program and others mentioned in the piece I reproduced here. Finally, physicians who prescribe the products act as watchdogs by reporting adverse reactions. Vioxx and Phen-fen were pulled from the market for just this reason. The FDA is not perfect but is generally more conservative about approving drugs than European regulatory bodies. My big complaint with Big Pharma is drug costs. We should have a national formulary with negotiated prices for all Medicare patients and eventually all patients under single payor. Biden started the ball rolling for Medicare. I don't have much faith in trump continuing it.