118 Replies to “January 19, 2025: Reader Tips”

  1. It will be the most ostentatious over the top inauguration ever witnessed.

    Will Bannon write the speech like he did in ’17?

  2. Trump Unveils “Official” MemeCoin Late Friday;
    … Trump showed the world what an outsized role crypto, and certainly memecoins, will have in his administration.

    After nearly a year of frenzied speculation which of the dozens of Trump-linked memecoins the 47th president will pick as his own, just before 10pm ET on Friday night – and just two days before his inauguration as the 47th president of the United States – Trump stunned the world when he unveiled on his Truth Social and X accounts, his “official” meme coin, TRUMP…
    … which in the 12 hours since its unveiling has surged to a $30 billion market capitalization, roughly three times bigger than Trump’s other momentum chasing venture, DJT (whose market cap is $8.7 billion and has roughly the same amount of revenue or cash flow as the meme coin) as part of an exponential move that has seen its market cap rise (and occasionally fall) by a billion dollars every few minutes.
    “My NEW Official Trump Meme is HERE! It’s time to celebrate everything we stand for: WINNING! Join my very special Trump Community. GET YOUR $TRUMP NOW,” Trump wrote on his social media platform.
    The token started trading at an opening price of $0.1824, but within 12 hours had jumped over 15,000%, trading at roughly $30 as of 10:00am ET, 12 hours after its launch. Its market cap stood at ~$30 billion at the time…..
    https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/trump-unveils-official-memecoin-late-friday-12-hours-later-it-16000-30-billion

    1. It’s true Canadians are happy to pay a premium for milk.

      The vile dairy industry has their horse in the LPC leadership race Karina Gould. Trump has indicated dairy is on the table when trade negotiations commence. We can only hope he brings an end to the bullshit marketing boards.

      Canadians are held hostage by the marketing boards

      1. “Canadians are held hostage by the marketing boards”

        Yes. If only we had a conservative party that would oppose them…

        1. Indeed.

          The only way it can happen will be if the government is forced through trade. Something like, “do you want an auto industry or dairy?”

          No political party in Canada will have the balls to touch the dairy marketing board. Think quebekkie .

        1. Joe – The powerful Irving family in the Maritimes gets direct provincial subsides so that small wood lot owners and producers can’t compete making it easier for them to keep a stranglehold on their monopoly. A different type of marketing board.

      3. I don’t think Canadians are happy about that at all (at least outside of Quebec). I think this is one of many ancient fossilized left-wing prerogatives whose support is far more brittle and puny (outside of Quebec) than is assumed by pretty much everyone. It would be a winning election issue for those canning it if we had a competent political right.

    3. Canadian imports of dairy $1362 million
      Canadian exports of dairy $505 million
      2022 data.

      https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/sector/animal-industry/canadian-dairy-information-centre/dairy-industry

      Of the 2022 exports, $242 million went to the US.
      Of the 2022 imports $718 million came from the U.S.
      A $476 million trade surplus in favour of the U.S.

      According to Trump, a trade imbalance is bad. In fact, Trump calls it a subsidy.

      According to Trump, Canada is subsidizing in US in dairy.

        1. It’s complicated. For example…

          “Canada places additional restrictions on dairy imports that block foreign access to the Canadian market. The country says that it allows 64,500 metric tons of fluid milk into the country under the lower tariff rate, but it assumes that the amount is filled by cross-border shoppers who buy milk in American stores and then bring it back to Canada – meaning that commercial fluid milk imports to be consumed in Canada are subject to a 241 percent tariff. Canada allows 484 metric tons of ice cream imported at the lower tariff level, but only allows ice cream imported in retail-size containers.”

          https://checkyourfact.com/2018/06/11/fact-check-canada-270-percent-tariff-dairy/#google_vignette

          1. Last time Trump tariffed Canadian aluminum and steel. He did the same for the Europeans. He had to back off. I look for more of the same.

          2. Trump backed off when he had some sane people around him. Now he’s lost whatever cognitive function he had and is surrounded by lunatic butt kissers.

      1. True, as the reporter writes:
        “It is Russian President Vladimir Putin who decided to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but the ground for this conflict was prepared by US securocrats in the 1990s.”
        and
        “This is not about absolving Putin’s government from accountability for the crime of aggression as well as war crimes committed by Russian troops. It is about removing conditions which caused Russia’s transformation into a militarised dictatorship and ending a conflict which will keep propping up Putin’s regime for as long as it lasts.”

      3. “Russia didn’t need to invade Ukraine.

        They had other options.”

        While ethnic Russians were being deliberately, methodically exterminated? Name them.

        1. Community note: ethnic Russians were not being exterminated anymore than Palestinians are being exterminated.

        2. Nobody was exterminating ethnic russians which coincidently is why russians discovered exactly zero mass graves of those alleged exterminated russians in the regions they occupied. No evidence at all, zip, zilch, nada, bupkis.

          Having said that, Ukrainains had every right to send any russian supporter back to russia and shoot them on the spot if they resist. They didn’t do that, but had every right to do. Russians are nothing but homicidal vermin.

      4. I dunno, Joe. When NATO comes knocking at your door, how many options did Putin really have?
        Mind you, I agree with you that Russia didn’t need to invade Ukraine, but I can also relate with what Russia has perceived to be a threat to it’s national security, much like America saw Russian missiles stationed in Cuba which nearly started a nuclear holocaust.

        The moral of the story is “don’t poke the Russian bear!”

        1. fc

          By the same rational, i.e. knocking on the door, should the US invade Cuba?

          Before you answer consider Karen Bass et al.

          Instead of invading, Russia could have shut off all oil and gas to all of Europe, until the got what they publicly said they wanted.

          Now, after a three day special military operation, designed to show the might of the Russian armed forces, Russia’s weapons such as tanks, IFVs, etc. are shown to be ineffective.

          And the vaunted Russian air defence systems, supposedly the world’s best, are having trouble shooting down light aircraft which fly at under 200 mph.

          Not to forget the tremendous casualties suffered by Russia.

          1. “Instead of invading, Russia could have shut off all oil and gas to all of Europe, until the got what they publicly said they wanted. ”

            While how many people died in the meantime?

            “Now, after a three day special military operation, designed to show the might of the Russian armed forces, Russia’s weapons such as tanks, IFVs, etc. are shown to be ineffective. ”

            Russia has a well-documented habit of entering wars unprepared and unorganized, and with incompetent generals. They also have a history of figuring it out quickly…firing those generals and getting back on track.

            “Not to forget the tremendous casualties suffered by Russia.”

            Or Ukraine. The difference is, Ukraine can’t sustain such losses for much longer…Russia can.

            I want this war to end as much as the next guy, but reality doesn’t care about our feelings and won’t be denied.

          2. “I want this war to end with Ukrainians exterminated and in gulags like it already happened in areas occupied by orcs”

            FTFY subhuman.

          3. Russia’s economy is being consumed by the war. They are crushing themselves and haven’t even taken back Kursk.

          4. “Instead of invading, Russia could have shut off all oil and gas to all of Europe, until the got what they publicly said they wanted. ”

            Yeah.
            Much better if western European civilians die than soldiers belonging to the actual belligerents, right fc?

        2. Putin has made very clear this had nothing to do with NATO and everything to do with his emotional need for an empire and his disbelief in Ukrainian national validity: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68247956

          In any event, NATO expansion happened because Russia is a threat to the countries who want into NATO, not the other way around.

          1. For the life of me, I can’t figure what glitch occurred that you have found yourself on the right side of this argument so consistently and accurately.

            You go girl!

        3. “When NATO comes knocking at your door, how many options did Putin really have?”

          NATO did not come knocking at russian door. Just stop this bullshit. Everyone that could run from russia and joined NATO because they did not want to be invaded and subjugated by the subhuman Siberian horde. And they all were better off for running from russia. Those that did not run now have russian occupation forces on their land (Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova).

          Stop treating Central Europe as NPCs.

          There are objective truths, like that a good russian is a dead russian. Simple as that.

      5. They had tried them all. Three separate treaties between Russia and the West were ignored by the West; two coup d’etat were instigated by the West in Ukraine – elected governments overthrown.

    2. The 2014 Soros/CIA coup in the Ukraine is what led to the current contretemps.
      I knew it was fishy when I saw every single western leader, left or right, jump all over themselves to declare the new gov’t as legit.

        1. Samantha Power and her CIA/USAID efforts would applaud useful idiots like you.

          Regime change IS their MO.

          1. Not really but it should be.

            The Ukrainian people glorious ousted their thug government and began a long difficult road to freedom.

          1. You understand my ideology as much as you understand yours or the Ukraine conflict: not at all.

            This is the latest hilarious demonstration that you people have always been socialists all along.

          2. Yes really absolutely no coup. Ukrainian people removed a russian puppet. The interim government was formed only to call a fair election. Ukrainians elected a new president. That president in turn, was replaced at the end of his term by the current president. That is about as democratic as you can get.

      1. Russian troops looted all the Russian houses in Kursk after civilians left. Russia kills their own and North Korea’s wounded so they don’t have to treat and pension them. The Soviets killed a whole wack of permanently crippled soldiers after WWII.

        Sounds like Putin’s toady has a serious case of projection.

        1. Looks like I like to read what both sides (and others) have to say about important matters.
          After all, I just read your comment, assertions without proof, but keep trying anyway.
          BTW, you keep spelling scag wrong.

          1. Bitch please, you can be bombarded with proofs and you do your best impression of a ostrich on concrete and keep demanding more proofs and cough up thoughtless one liners denying the proof. FOAD subhuman.

    4. So just so everyone is aware, everything Fred posted is a lie or an exaggeration. Every source he’s using is built from crooked timber.

      2. “So just so everyone is aware, everything Fred posted is a lie or an exaggeration.”

        The irony of that assertion coming from you is totally lost on you, isn’t it? Awesome…:)

        1. Well everything you posted is a lie or an exaggeration, or a mangled out of context half truth. Also 1 Freddie is a basic IQ unit. The scale starts at one you.

    6. Well, the muskrats are making an effort today, but frankly, they’re not showing the old fire. Maybe a little extra amphetamine in the coffee tomorrow, guys?

  8. Today is my birthday, but it feels like the world begins anew tomorrow.

    I know, melodramatic. We still need to handle our issues here in Canada, but there is some hope now.

      1. No one ‘suffers’ from TDS, it’s a basic result of being even slightly sane and decent. You can’t and won’t actually riposte anything he says, so you retreat into the verbal safe space that is stammering out ‘TDS’.

  12. Unless Canada is prepared to shut in oil & gas, electricity exports and maybe softwood lumber our protestations will have only a minor effect on the US economy. Applying tariffs to Kentucky burbon FL orange juice etc while symbolic won’t amount to a hill of beans. We just don’t have the economic clout to go toe to toe for very long in an outright trade war.

    China is taped up ready to go. They are preparing for a trade war with the US.

    1. America’s own tariffs are what will have a major (as in very negative) effect on the US economy. They are going to suffer so much. Absolute carnage ahead.

      Barring the real one-hit win that is unilateral free trade, I think it’s time for Canada and Mexico to make a NAFTA with China.

      1. You do realize that the first two letters in the acronym NAFTA represents “North American,” or are you going to deny that as well, UnReal?
        You see, the last time I checked my high school geography text books, something is separating North America and China. It’s called Europe, or, if you want to go the other way, the Pacific Ocean.
        As for the tariffs, I suspect that Trump is playing 4D chess, and you’re playing with checkers.

        1. Are you in an Olympic team for obtuseness? Yes, the acronym would be changed.

          ” I suspect that Trump is playing 4D chess”

          You’ve been suspecting this all through his multitude of failures and will to your last breath, real life events notwithstanding. But hey on the other hand he claimed credit for Bibi’s surrender to Hamas so I guess that counts?

        2. Come now. “NAFTA” stands for “Not Available For Timely Access”. It was named after the healthcare system.

      2. “I think it’s time for Canada and Mexico to make a NAFTA with China.”

        Utter insanity, which would result in the complete destruction of our own economy.

        (…but then, as your posting history here suggests, that’s what you really want, isn’t it?)

  13. Mostly excellent article about the disastrous governance of Canadian Universities. Not stated here but it also affects American colleges.

    https://nationalpost.com/opinion/canadian-universities-are-rotten-to-the-core

    “Board meetings at many universities are also open to the public. This effectively stifles meaningful debate, which might reconcile the conflicting interests of students, staff and management. Areas like pedagogy and staffing are typically run by intra-university committees and kept beyond board oversight, while management screens the flow of information to the board. This is a recipe for dysfunction.”

    I’ve seen what comes of The Faculty running The Faculty and it’s worse than dysfunction.

  14. The next time someone tells you Canada should try Modern Monetary Theory tell him we are, since 1968. The money supply has increased at an average annual rate of 8.5% since then which represents a doubling of the money supply every 8 years or so. Your money is worth about 7% of what it was back then, compliments of the printing press. A $3,000 car from 1970 would cost about $43,000 today.

  15. I friend of mine in Ontario posted a mild video stating that Ottawa should start treating Alberta with respect. The number of replies, mostly from Ontarians, basically calling “eastern politicians” “immature teenage grifters” who are “leeching off of Alberta” was quite surprising for me. I thought I was one of the only easterners who thought that way.

    No real point to this post, I’m just happy to know that I’m not as nearly alone as I thought I was.

    1. I’m an easterner and I also feel Alberta is getting screwed. Same with Saskatchewan and Manitoba. I believe that a stronger Alberta means a stronger Canada. Lot of communists in Edmonton though. Hard to get over that. They will vote NDP until all the oil is gone and then they’ll move.

  16. 2 librano ‘stars’ have launched their campaigns to replace the Bong.

    Chrystia Freeland stepped up on the riser and was promptly shouted down ha. Get ready for a lot more of that Chrystia. People haven’t forgotten the damage you’ve done.

    Wonder how many cabinet ministers or even lowly caucus members are backing her bid? The mean gurls in the librano cabinet certainly aren’t.

    Speaking of mean gurls Big Mel is backing the laurentien elite candidate Mark Carney. His ‘launch’ fizzled on the launch pad. He is a less inspired speaker than was the moribund Michael Ignatieff. Total inertia. He talks in the monotone drone of a corporate banker which I guess is no surprise.

    Bringing up the rear of ‘names’ is the politically ambitious Karina Gould. Yeah I know nobody has ever heard of her but unless the two dullard front runners implode and Gould comes up the middle she probably has little chance but she is undoubtedly positioning herself for next time.

    So there you have it. Now everybody back to sleep.

  17. CARNEY is one thing: A WEF CLIMATE NAZI PIG
    One who frolicked with Epstein, Ghislain Maxwell and Tom Hanks.

    This filthy POS will finish what the TURD started…if he is given the chance:
    Digital ID
    Censorship on Steroids
    10 min Cities
    Social Credit
    Triple the CO2 Tax

    I am heartened that there will be a Court Challenge to Trudeaus prorogation coming in early Feb…!! Should said challenge be accepted – Means Trudeau REMAINS PM, Liberal Party Leadership race would dissolve & would most likely suffer a defeat of his Govt via Non Confidence – And have his party obliterated in the election that would soon follow.

    One can pray this goes as noted – if not, this country is DONE & the only hope we would have, be the 82nd & 101st Airborne Take OTTAWA & summarily Charge the entire Liberal Party with TREASON
    I would have ZERO issue with that at all.

    1. She is in for a rude awakening. She wont be shielded from the unwashed in the leadership campaign like she is when she makes announcements as a cabinet minister or when she’s on the Vaseline Kapelos show.

      She’s a big part of the Bong legacy. Completely out of touch. Everyone of them was out of their element. She brought nothing of substance to the game. We won’t have to put up with your schtick for very much longer Chrystia – your on a fast train leaving town. Good riddance!

  36. Plus you get to r@pe white girls with the protection of the government and police! 🙁
    I think I will pass on the cultural “enrichment”…

    Orlando Imam Abu Usama At-Thahabi: Islam Is Stronger In The UK Than In The US – Women Wear Niqabs, There Are Mosques Everywhere, Some Places Look Like An Islamic Country
    https://www.memri.org/tv/orlando-imam-usama-thahabi-compares-islam-usa-uk-niqab-mosques-freedom-of-speech

    .
    And I suspect in his spare time he sells for Amway…
    Dearborn Heights, Michigan Shi’ite Scholar Ahmad Qazwini: It Is Impossible To Lose To A Zionist On The Battlefield – Either You Kill Him And He Goes To Hell, Or He Kills You And You Go To Paradise; It’s A Win-Win Situation
    https://www.memri.org/tv/dearborn-heights-shiite-scholar-qazwini-impossible-lose-zionist-battlefield-win-heaven-hell

  37. Plus you get to r@pe white girls with the protection of the government and police! 🙁
    I think I will pass on the cultural “enrichment”…

    Orlando Imam Abu Usama At-Thahabi: Islam Is Stronger In The UK Than In The US – Women Wear Niqabs, There Are Mosques Everywhere, Some Places Look Like An Islamic Country
    https://www.memri.org/tv/orlando-imam-usama-thahabi-compares-islam-usa-uk-niqab-mosques-freedom-of-speech

    .
    And I suspect in his spare time he sells for Amway…
    Dearborn Heights, Michigan Shi’ite Scholar Ahmad Qazwini: It Is Impossible To Lose To A Zionist On The Battlefield – Either You Kill Him And He Goes To Hell, Or He Kills You And You Go To Paradise; It’s A Win-Win Situation
    https://www.memri.org/tv/dearborn-heights-shiite-scholar-qazwini-impossible-lose-zionist-battlefield-win-heaven-hell

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