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Trump administration 2024-2028

Remius said:
Looks like Tariffs will be happening one way or another. I guess it will depend on how long and what is negotiated after they are place.

www.ctvnews.ca

Canadian team told Trump's tariffs unavoidable right now, but solutions on the table in surprise Mar-a-Lago meeting

During a surprise dinner at Mar-a-Lago, representatives of the federal government were told U.S. tariffs from the incoming Donald Trump administration cannot be avoided in the immediate term, two government sources tell CTV News.
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standing by for “this 25% worked so well, so 30% or 35% would work better!”

Meanwhile, every economist:

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Remius said:
Looks like Tariffs will be happening one way or another. I guess it will depend on how long and what is negotiated after they are place.

www.ctvnews.ca

Canadian team told Trump's tariffs unavoidable right now, but solutions on the table in surprise Mar-a-Lago meeting

During a surprise dinner at Mar-a-Lago, representatives of the federal government were told U.S. tariffs from the incoming Donald Trump administration cannot be avoided in the immediate term, two government sources tell CTV News.
www.ctvnews.ca www.ctvnews.ca
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Bold move for an incoming administration admitting before they even start that they can’t even control their own borders :)

Kidding aside, sounds more adult & positive than it could have gone. Let’s see what happens.
 
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Trump Says He Will Replace F.B.I. Director With Kash Patel

President-elect Donald J. Trump appointed Christopher A. Wray to the post in 2017 after firing his predecessor, James B. Comey, but their relationship soured.
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President-elect Donald J. Trump said on Saturday that he wants to replace Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director, with Kash Patel, a hard-line critic of the bureau who has called for shutting down the agency’s Washington headquarters, firing its leadership and bringing the nation’s law enforcement agencies “to heel.”
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That is an…interesting pick.

Mr. Trump’s planned nomination of Mr. Patel has echoes of his failed attempt to place another partisan firebrand, Matt Gaetz, atop the Justice Department as attorney general. It could run into hurdles in the Senate, which will be called on to confirm him, and is sure to send shock waves through the F.B.I., which Mr. Trump and his allies have come to view as part of a “deep state” conspiracy against him.
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Remius said:
I would qualify him a celebrity turned politician. Apparently celebrity status is something of a value measure there.
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I guess that one handy thing about the flexible principles of Justin Trudeau is that they are, well, flexible.
 
Jarnhamar said:
Funny eh?

Trump's a laughing stock but our Prime Minister is rushing to meet with him 2 months before he's even sworn in. Has a world leader ever met with a US president-elect prior to getting sworn in in the past?
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Remius said:
No clue.

Has a PM who is a laughing stock ever been able to get an audience with a President Elect before any other world leader?
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When he’s told to GTF down here to “be told” in person, he hops his ass on a jet and gets down to Mar-A-Lago, lest he not be able to plan for what it is he’s going to have to start doing after 7 January…
 
Good2Golf said:
When he’s told to GTF down here to “be told” in person, he hops his ass on a jet and gets down to Mar-A-Lago, lest he not be able to plan for what it is he’s going to have to start doing after 7 January…
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Is that the going story?
 
Remius said:
Is that the going story?
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Not officially of course, many say he was invited down because he’s a celebrity…


I’m waiting to the 3% NATO target, E-7 Wedgetails and a couple more SPY-7s to be announced.
 
Good2Golf said:
Not officially of course, many say he was invited down because he’s a celebrity…


I’m waiting to the 3% NATO target, E-7 Wedgetails and a couple more SPY-7s to be announced.
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Ah ok. I thought there was something different than what was being reported.

“The meeting, the government source said, came after Canada started quietly asking Trump’s team for a meeting following the U.S. presidential election. Initially, the prime minister’s office was told no meetings would take place before inauguration but the source said they kept pushing.

Then, on Monday night, Trudeau and Trump connected and the prime minister suggested meeting in person. The president-elect invited Trudeau to travel to Florida for dinner on Friday, the source said.”
globalnews.ca

Trudeau promises border helicopters at ‘very productive’ Trump meeting: source - National | Globalnews.ca

On Friday evening, Trudeau landed in Florida and travelled to Trump's Mar-a-Lago club for a hastily arranged dinner and discussion with president-elect.
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Remius said:
“The meeting, the government source said, came after Canada started quietly asking Trump’s team for a meeting following the U.S. presidential election. Initially, the prime minister’s office was told no meetings would take place before inauguration but the source said they kept pushing.
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Lemme guess, speaking on the condition of anonymity as they weren’t authorized to speak officially…?

Sure…Canada clearly driving the agenda with Trump…sure…
 
Good2Golf said:
Lemme guess, speaking on the condition of anonymity as they weren’t authorized to speak officially…?

Sure…Canada clearly driving the agenda with Trump…sure…
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Not quite what was said. Meeting request was asked for and meeting request was granted with an invite. Far cry from being “summoned”. No one saying the agenda is being driven by Canada either. It’s pretty clear who is drinking the agenda.
 
daftandbarmy said:
Walk hard....

https://twitter.com/x/status/1863009545858998512
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I don't even know what this means. If a company in India is selling something to China, and they want to do the contract in whatever currency, what does that have to do with the US, and how would they even know to regulate anything?

In another news, he's appointed an anti-vaxxer doctor as head of the CDC, which is awesome news as vaccine preventable diseases like measles are making a come back.
 
Navy_Pete said:
I don't even know what this means. If a company in India is selling something to China, and they want to do the contract in whatever currency, what does that have to do with the US, and how would they even know to regulate anything?

In another news, he's appointed an anti-vaxxer doctor as head of the CDC, which is awesome news as vaccine preventable diseases like measles are making a come back.
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Likely a shot across the bow. BRICS in theory wants to reduce dependency on the US dollar.

BRICS has pretty much failed at what it wanted to do financially but that doesn’t mean they won’t keep trying.
 
Remius said:
Likely a shot across the bow. BRICS in theory wants to reduce dependency on the US dollar.

BRICS has pretty much failed at what it wanted to do financially but that doesn’t mean they won’t keep trying.
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Don’t worry, Putin and Xi will have a “productive dinner” at Mar-a-Lago and it’ll all be well :ROFLMAO:
 
Remius said:
Likely a shot across the bow. BRICS in theory wants to reduce dependency on the US dollar.

BRICS has pretty much failed at what it wanted to do financially but that doesn’t mean they won’t keep trying.
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I think I just don't know enough about banking to understand how the currency used in electronic international transactions matter. At the end of the day, we could agree on the value in gold benchmark and do the transaction in local currencies, but thought it's really just the bank taking their cuts when the convert whatever is needed from end to end.
 
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